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23 You have been reborn-not from seed that eventually dies but from seed that is eternal-through the word of God that lives and endures forever.

#Enjoy companionship with others who have pure hearts full

So love each other deeply (earnestly – at full stretch) from a pure heart. And it turns out that’s the next thing Peter wrote, so that worked out pretty well.Ģ2 Now that you have taken care to purify your souls through your submission to the truth (“obedience to God, which the knowledge of the truth demands”), you can experience real love for each other. I started jotting down some notes, and I quickly realized it was all leading me back to one thing: love. Should there be a holy glow about me that convicts or shames everyone around me?.

Does this mean we create a Christian sub-culture in everything?.Does that mean if the culture does it, I can’t do it?.

#Enjoy companionship with others who have pure hearts skin

It’s one thing to say, “As a child of God, you are holy and set apart now live as those holy and set apart.” It’s another thing to put skin on those bones. We are called to live in God’s design for our holiness to reveal His holiness.Īfter last week’s message about being set apart, I was thinking there needed to be a follow-up sermon on what characterizes this holiness. You can be “grafted in” through the acceptance of the divinity and lordship of Christ and your surrender to Him and His will.įollowers of Jesus are ‘peculiar people’ (1 Peter 2:9) who are set apart to be the way in which God reveals Himself to the world. Paul, in Galatians 6:16, refers to followers of Jesus as the “Israel of God.” The idea is that you don’t have to be born Jewish to be one of God’s holy, chosen people.

"And unto your light, nations shall walk, and kings unto the brightness of your rising" Isaiah 60:3.

"I the LORD have called unto you in righteousness, and have taken hold of your hand, and submitted you as the people's covenant, as a light unto the nations." Isaiah 42:6.

"…I shall submit you as a light unto the nations, to be My salvation until the end of the earth' Isaiah 49:6.

The prophet Isaiah said that the nations would flock to Israel if they lived in God’s design for their holiness: To use last week’s language, He set them apart for His divine purpose so the nations would know what Yahweh was like.

Exodus 19:6 “And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.'.

Deuteronomy 7:6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Exodus 22:31 "You shall be holy men to Me…”.

Jeremiah 2:3 "Israel was holy to the LORD.…’.

God declared Israel ‘holy’ to reveal Himself to the world through them.