WEBVTT 00:00:04.830 --> 00:00:06.953 Welcome to the Lone Star Church podcast. 00:00:06.953 --> 00:00:15.050 Pastors CF and Nicole Rady are here to share the Word of God with you each week, helping you grasp the fullness of God's plan for your life. 00:00:15.050 --> 00:00:17.908 We hope you'll be blessed by this week's message. 00:00:17.908 --> 00:00:24.010 If you live in Northwest Missouri or Southern Iowa, we invite you to join us in person on a Sunday morning. 00:00:24.010 --> 00:00:31.429 For more information about us, visit our website at lonestarchurchorg or find us on Facebook, instagram or YouTube. 00:00:40.125 --> 00:00:42.531 So we're going to talk about Set Apart last week. 00:00:42.531 --> 00:00:44.628 We'll talk about Set Apart today. 00:00:44.628 --> 00:00:48.549 And we sang the song and it's such a good song. 00:00:48.549 --> 00:00:53.692 We want to be holy like he is, even if that means being set apart. 00:00:53.692 --> 00:00:57.170 I know God wants you to be different than the world. 00:00:57.170 --> 00:01:00.006 God didn't call you to be like the world. 00:01:00.006 --> 00:01:07.528 He didn't call you to be like everyone else and everyone on the inside in your flesh. 00:01:07.608 --> 00:01:09.272 Your flesh wants to fit in. 00:01:09.272 --> 00:01:11.966 Do you believe your flesh wants to fit in? 00:01:11.966 --> 00:01:21.591 It's why your kids will come home from school and say I need these shoes or I need these jeans or I need this shirt or I need this You're like well, why do you need those? 00:01:21.591 --> 00:01:22.599 Because everyone's getting it. 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:25.287 I remember sometimes it's like a toy. 00:01:25.287 --> 00:01:26.210 Oh, I've got to have this. 00:01:26.299 --> 00:01:30.846 I remember when cabbage patch dolls were big and my sisters I've got to have a cabbage patch doll. 00:01:30.846 --> 00:01:35.088 Mom ran all over St Joe, kansas City, looking for a cabbage patch doll. 00:01:35.088 --> 00:01:35.611 Why? 00:01:35.611 --> 00:01:40.030 Because you don't want your kid and, as parents, right, you want your kids to not be the odd person. 00:01:40.030 --> 00:01:49.865 So, so you do things. 00:01:49.865 --> 00:01:52.513 It's why I mean think about how much we spend just to fit in. 00:01:52.513 --> 00:01:53.656 You'll do stupid stuff to fit in. 00:01:53.656 --> 00:01:57.403 At some point you draw a line right. 00:01:57.403 --> 00:01:58.706 I remember when I was in college. 00:01:58.706 --> 00:02:10.615 When I was in college, all my friends so I was in a fraternity when I was in college and all my friends were getting our fraternity letters tattooed on their ankles. 00:02:10.615 --> 00:02:11.659 They said you going to do that? 00:02:11.659 --> 00:02:13.522 I said have you met my mother? 00:02:13.644 --> 00:02:14.245 Are you out of? 00:02:14.305 --> 00:02:15.106 your mind. 00:02:15.106 --> 00:02:17.152 I said my mama would kill you. 00:02:17.152 --> 00:02:23.175 I pierced my ear and about got out. 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:25.579 That could come out though, right, the earring could come out. 00:02:25.579 --> 00:02:28.489 They all go and they're like come on, go with us. 00:02:28.489 --> 00:02:30.306 I said I'll drive you, I'll go. 00:02:30.306 --> 00:02:32.864 But they thought, right, I'd go ahead and do it once. 00:02:32.864 --> 00:02:36.052 I got there, mm-mm, I drew a line. 00:02:36.099 --> 00:02:38.449 There's a lot of stupid stuff I did because my friends did it. 00:02:38.449 --> 00:02:40.162 I tell people I grew up in Albany. 00:02:40.162 --> 00:02:42.205 I've jumped off the bridge down Gentryville before. 00:02:42.205 --> 00:02:45.189 Right, you ever heard saying if your friends jumped off a bridge, would you? 00:02:45.189 --> 00:02:47.332 Yes, yes, I would and I did it. 00:02:48.275 --> 00:02:55.953 Right, it is, oh, praise the Lord, I mean just stuff that I'm like, things you do. 00:02:55.953 --> 00:02:56.901 Then you have children. 00:02:56.901 --> 00:03:02.349 You're like oh sweet, jesus, right, don't let my children be like me. 00:03:02.349 --> 00:03:08.888 Sometimes my wife driving crazy when she was young I drove a little crazy too. 00:03:10.480 --> 00:03:11.866 Mystery dents in vehicles. 00:03:11.866 --> 00:03:16.169 We've had a few of those show up at our house, mystery dents. 00:03:16.169 --> 00:03:21.308 But you want to fit in. 00:03:21.308 --> 00:03:25.060 Well, the Bible knows that, amen. 00:03:25.060 --> 00:03:33.675 And so we've got some scriptures that kind of tell us about what we're supposed to do with that. 00:03:34.659 --> 00:03:40.353 Jesus, right in the Gospel of John, jesus says the world is going to hate you. 00:03:40.353 --> 00:03:43.967 He said the world hated me and hates me. 00:03:43.967 --> 00:03:45.031 It's going to hate you. 00:03:45.031 --> 00:03:47.527 And the Bible says we are not right. 00:03:47.527 --> 00:03:57.430 Paul in Romans says don't conform to this world, right, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, don't conform to this worldly system. 00:03:57.430 --> 00:04:01.567 And so so often you hear that and you say, well, where is the line? 00:04:01.567 --> 00:04:05.945 Where's the line, what's the world, what's not? 00:04:05.945 --> 00:04:22.362 Because ultimately, if you want to take that real literal, you'd have to go all the way back to Adam and Eve, just live naked in the woods, because everything that came after that was part of this world. 00:04:22.362 --> 00:04:24.567 But we know that's not true. 00:04:24.567 --> 00:04:32.552 How many know, in Jesus' time they were taking advantage of things that weren't there 900 years before, 700 years before. 00:04:32.552 --> 00:04:39.541 So not conforming to this world doesn't mean you don't have a cell phone, or doesn't mean you don't have a car. 00:04:39.541 --> 00:04:44.968 Doesn't mean you don't live in a house, doesn't mean you don't wear clothes right, all those things right. 00:04:44.968 --> 00:05:01.175 But it means there's this worldly system that the enemy is pushing and we've been called to not be part of that right To be holy. 00:05:01.194 --> 00:05:02.120 So let's go to 1 Peter, 1. 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.125 We're actually going to look at a couple of different scriptures than we looked at first service. 00:05:04.125 --> 00:05:07.211 We'll look at some of the same, but 1 Peter, chapter 1. 00:05:07.211 --> 00:05:17.252 And let's go down to verse 13. 00:05:17.252 --> 00:05:21.166 1 Peter 1.13. 00:05:21.166 --> 00:05:24.180 1 Peter 1.13. 00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:35.646 If we put this up in the New Living Translation, please. 00:05:35.666 --> 00:05:38.297 So here Peter, how many know Peter struggled with fitting in Remember when they arrested Jesus. 00:05:38.297 --> 00:05:43.476 And before Jesus was arrested, right, jesus had basically prophesied that Peter would deny him three times. 00:05:43.476 --> 00:05:50.444 Jesus is arrested and everyone Peter grew up with, they're all like, oh, he's a heretic, he's this, and they're saying all these things. 00:05:50.444 --> 00:05:52.343 And then they ask Peter, do you know him? 00:05:52.343 --> 00:05:53.024 What Peter? 00:05:53.024 --> 00:05:54.226 No, three times. 00:05:54.226 --> 00:05:54.709 He did that. 00:05:54.709 --> 00:05:56.293 What was that? 00:05:56.293 --> 00:05:58.004 It's just like people are like are you a Christian? 00:05:58.004 --> 00:05:58.766 Do you go to church? 00:05:58.766 --> 00:06:09.891 Right, do you go to that church out in the country that's weird and loud and believes in the Holy Ghost and tongues and healing and deliverance? 00:06:09.891 --> 00:06:11.666 No, not that one. 00:06:14.081 --> 00:06:20.093 So Peter here says so, prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. 00:06:20.093 --> 00:06:24.975 If you want to be holy, then you need to understand you're going to have to exercise self-control. 00:06:24.975 --> 00:06:24.973 Why? 00:06:24.973 --> 00:06:25.339 Because your flesh doesn't want to be holy. 00:06:25.339 --> 00:06:26.083 Then you need to understand you're going to have to exercise self-control. 00:06:26.083 --> 00:06:26.721 Why? 00:06:26.721 --> 00:06:28.608 Because your flesh doesn't want to be holy. 00:06:28.608 --> 00:06:33.928 Prepare your minds for action, exercise self-control. 00:06:33.928 --> 00:06:40.028 Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world Verse 14. 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:44.490 So you must live as God's obedient children. 00:06:44.490 --> 00:06:46.689 Holy people do what they live as God's obedient children. 00:06:46.689 --> 00:06:48.629 Holy people, do what they live as God's obedient children. 00:06:48.629 --> 00:06:55.605 Have you ever told your kids you know, if you'll just do what mommy and daddy tell you to do, it'll be easier for you. 00:06:55.605 --> 00:06:57.165 But you know what they want to do. 00:06:57.165 --> 00:07:00.709 They want to test the limits, they want to try that. 00:07:00.709 --> 00:07:05.944 It's just like you ever go to a Mexican restaurant and order fajitas and they tell you, hey, that's hot. 00:07:05.944 --> 00:07:06.987 And then you touch it. 00:07:06.987 --> 00:07:10.038 What are you doing? 00:07:10.038 --> 00:07:10.560 I told you, that's hot. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:11.742 You're like, I just wanted to see how hot. 00:07:11.742 --> 00:07:14.571 You said it was Right. 00:07:14.571 --> 00:07:20.100 I mean, your flesh always wants to test limits, your flesh, right. 00:07:20.100 --> 00:07:22.829 And so when you're young, it's like, hey, be home at 11. 00:07:22.829 --> 00:07:28.514 Not 11.05, not 11.01. 00:07:28.514 --> 00:07:35.259 In fact, you'd be better off at 10.59. 00:07:35.259 --> 00:07:37.766 Bible says no, you need to live as God's obedient children. 00:07:37.766 --> 00:07:38.367 See, there it is. 00:07:38.367 --> 00:07:38.870 I knew it. 00:07:38.870 --> 00:07:42.973 God doesn't want us to have any fun. 00:07:44.139 --> 00:07:44.932 Remember when you were young, be obedient. 00:07:44.932 --> 00:07:45.187 Yeah, you just don't want me having fun. 00:07:45.187 --> 00:07:46.041 Right, remember when you were young, be obedient. 00:07:46.041 --> 00:07:45.877 Yeah, you just don't want to be having fun. 00:07:45.877 --> 00:07:50.086 That used to hit about 14, 15, 16. 00:07:50.086 --> 00:07:51.490 Now it hits about eight or nine. 00:07:51.490 --> 00:07:54.562 You just don't want to have any fun. 00:07:54.562 --> 00:07:55.223 Be obedient. 00:07:55.223 --> 00:07:58.752 No, I'm trying to help you, trying to save you. 00:07:58.752 --> 00:08:01.182 Right, look what it says. 00:08:01.523 --> 00:08:07.434 Don't slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. 00:08:07.434 --> 00:08:11.247 Right, if you're born again, the Bible says old things pass away. 00:08:11.247 --> 00:08:12.310 Behold all things become new. 00:08:12.310 --> 00:08:14.665 You're a new creature in Christ Jesus. 00:08:14.665 --> 00:08:16.471 Well, what does your flesh always? 00:08:16.471 --> 00:08:19.410 Your flesh always wants to slip back into that old way of living. 00:08:19.410 --> 00:08:21.901 Why? 00:08:21.901 --> 00:08:28.122 Because you know what the old way of living is it is comfortable, boy, that old way is just comfortable. 00:08:28.122 --> 00:08:31.331 Don't slip back into that old way. 00:08:31.331 --> 00:08:31.533 Why? 00:08:31.533 --> 00:08:33.639 Because you have been called to be holy. 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:36.044 You've been called to be like god. 00:08:36.044 --> 00:08:38.369 Why? 00:08:38.369 --> 00:08:40.432 Because god has some great things in store for you. 00:08:40.432 --> 00:08:44.589 But if you just keep slipping back into the old things, you won't get there. 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:49.581 Look at what it said. 00:08:49.581 --> 00:08:50.663 You didn't know any better then. 00:08:50.663 --> 00:08:52.408 Before you got born again, you were a heathen. 00:08:52.408 --> 00:08:54.312 Sometimes, nicole and I have discussion about people. 00:08:54.312 --> 00:08:54.960 We're like man. 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:55.663 Look at those people. 00:08:55.663 --> 00:08:57.830 She's like well, they ain't even born again. 00:08:57.830 --> 00:08:58.701 See, they're just heathens. 00:08:58.701 --> 00:09:00.727 Do you know? 00:09:00.727 --> 00:09:07.120 You used to be a heathen, they are. 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:08.543 I mean, why do we expect heathens to act good, like man? 00:09:08.543 --> 00:09:11.331 Look at those people Just cutting in line, just doing that. 00:09:11.331 --> 00:09:15.527 Just heathens. 00:09:15.527 --> 00:09:16.509 I don't use that word enough. 00:09:16.509 --> 00:09:18.880 Heathen. 00:09:18.880 --> 00:09:21.583 But you didn't know any better Before you got born again. 00:09:21.583 --> 00:09:22.605 You just didn't know any better. 00:09:22.605 --> 00:09:24.386 But then you get born again. 00:09:24.386 --> 00:09:25.668 What You're supposed to know any better? 00:09:25.668 --> 00:09:27.529 Before you got born again, you just didn't know any better. 00:09:27.529 --> 00:09:28.250 But then you get born again. 00:09:28.250 --> 00:09:29.451 What You're supposed to know better now. 00:09:29.451 --> 00:09:33.336 That's why you need a pastor to teach you, right, so you can understand those things, why you need parents in life. 00:09:33.336 --> 00:09:34.456 Right, you get born again. 00:09:34.456 --> 00:09:39.160 You're a newborn baby in Christ Jesus. 00:09:39.160 --> 00:09:40.302 Well, if you just had a baby and just left it to its own. 00:09:40.322 --> 00:09:40.965 You hear those stories, right? 00:09:40.965 --> 00:09:43.909 Kids raised by wolves, tarzan, right, raised by apes. 00:09:43.909 --> 00:09:46.514 That dude didn't know any better. 00:09:46.514 --> 00:09:56.115 Just wore loincloth, beat his chest, swung on vines, yelled ah, best friend was a chimp. 00:09:56.115 --> 00:10:00.846 He didn't know enough to name him a monkey name. 00:10:00.846 --> 00:10:01.649 He called him Cheetah. 00:10:01.649 --> 00:10:03.600 Right, you're like no Cheetah's this over here. 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:06.423 You don't even know that Tarzan Didn't know any better. 00:10:06.423 --> 00:10:07.924 Verse 15,. 00:10:08.905 --> 00:10:12.749 But now everybody say now, but now what? 00:10:12.749 --> 00:10:17.753 You must be holy in everything you do, just as God, who chose you, is holy. 00:10:17.753 --> 00:10:19.735 So now God says you need to be holy. 00:10:19.735 --> 00:10:21.976 So here's the interesting thing about this. 00:10:21.976 --> 00:10:26.089 You can read these scriptures Brother Hagin said it this way and it is so true. 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:30.291 There is a ditch on either side of the truth of the word. 00:10:30.291 --> 00:10:37.471 So you can read about mercy and grace and say, pastor, we don't need to be holy, there's mercy and grace. 00:10:37.471 --> 00:10:38.811 We can sin, do whatever we want. 00:10:38.811 --> 00:10:41.606 Right, okay, that's a ditch. 00:10:41.606 --> 00:10:47.908 Or you can read these verses about holiness and say, boy, if you ever make a mistake, you'll never live up to where God wants you to be. 00:10:47.908 --> 00:10:51.788 I know, that's religion, that was what the religion they had, the Jews, had. 00:10:51.788 --> 00:10:56.631 Oh, you got to keep the law and if you ever miss it, you're over, it's done. 00:10:56.631 --> 00:11:04.951 No, god is a God of mercy and grace and love, but he's also a God of law and holiness and righteousness. 00:11:04.951 --> 00:11:08.508 And and grace and love, but he's also a God of law and holiness and righteousness. 00:11:08.508 --> 00:11:12.162 And so we need to say right in the middle we are called to be holy meaning I've got to make choices to not live like the old CF. 00:11:12.162 --> 00:11:25.591 Because the old CF, what Died when, on the cross with Jesus, paul said I have been crucified with Christ, he goes, so I don't live, it's Christ living in me, that's living now. 00:11:25.591 --> 00:11:27.201 Well, what does that mean? 00:11:27.201 --> 00:11:31.703 Does that mean you get born again, you're never going to make another mistake, you're never going to say nope doesn't mean that at all. 00:11:31.703 --> 00:11:34.980 But it also doesn't mean that I shouldn't care what I do. 00:11:34.980 --> 00:11:37.264 Well, what's the matter? 00:11:37.264 --> 00:11:38.465 There's grace and mercy anyway. 00:11:38.465 --> 00:11:39.606 Why even try to be holy? 00:11:39.606 --> 00:11:43.510 Well, we're going to see there are benefits to holy living. 00:11:43.510 --> 00:11:47.395 It's funny. 00:11:50.403 --> 00:11:53.269 You get people that live like the world for a long time. 00:11:53.269 --> 00:11:54.812 They just look different. 00:11:54.812 --> 00:12:04.870 In fact, have you seen those pictures online of people that are drug addicts and they'll have their first mug shot and then they'll have their tenth mug shot and then they'll have their 10th mugshot? 00:12:04.870 --> 00:12:09.059 You're like my gosh Seth, and you'll see it. 00:12:09.059 --> 00:12:11.126 And one of them it was this beautiful young girl. 00:12:11.126 --> 00:12:12.860 Right, she was like 19 when she first got arrested. 00:12:12.860 --> 00:12:14.306 You're like man, she's a beautiful young girl. 00:12:14.306 --> 00:12:15.905 And then you see this picture. 00:12:15.905 --> 00:12:18.168 You're like man, she's still doing that at 60? 00:12:18.168 --> 00:12:18.168 . 00:12:18.168 --> 00:12:19.745 And then they're like she's 28. 00:12:19.745 --> 00:12:29.303 In that picture You're like my gosh, stay away from crack and meth and that stuff. 00:12:29.323 --> 00:12:32.188 I mean honestly, I mean even just people that smoke. 00:12:32.188 --> 00:12:48.389 Right, tobacco smoke affects your skin, right, seinfeld, if you remember Kramer, started smoking cigars and, just like man, you just wrinkle all this stuff Alcohol, ice cream right, anything you do that's bad affects you. 00:12:48.389 --> 00:12:51.844 You're just like man. 00:12:51.844 --> 00:12:55.825 You smoke, you eat ice cream right, you can tell it just affects your look. 00:12:59.182 --> 00:13:02.787 No, we're called to be holy Doesn't mean you'll never make a mistake. 00:13:02.787 --> 00:13:03.510 Right, you're going to make mistakes. 00:13:03.510 --> 00:13:04.174 I mean we're all going a mistake. 00:13:04.174 --> 00:13:05.059 Right, you're going to make mistakes. 00:13:05.059 --> 00:13:08.291 I mean we're all going to make mistakes, we're all going to sin. 00:13:08.291 --> 00:13:13.350 But praise God, the Christian doesn't just take that as a license to sin. 00:13:13.350 --> 00:13:15.178 The fact that there's mercy and grace. 00:13:15.178 --> 00:13:30.306 The Christian says, no, I know I'm going to make a mistake, but my goal is to be holy like God is Because the one who chose me I mean no, god didn't just randomly just you, he chose you. 00:13:30.306 --> 00:13:34.754 He said boy, I want Nicole, I want Chris, I want Andrew, I want Truman. 00:13:34.754 --> 00:13:37.842 Right, I want you to be on my team. 00:13:37.842 --> 00:13:39.725 How many of you like to be chosen? 00:13:39.725 --> 00:13:40.586 Right? 00:13:40.586 --> 00:13:53.207 Right, because of society now and the way that things work now, if you're in PE class and there's teams to be brought up, we number you one, two, one, two, one, two. 00:13:53.750 --> 00:13:56.822 In the old days we picked two captains. 00:13:56.822 --> 00:13:58.904 We said pick your team. 00:13:58.904 --> 00:14:01.849 Anyone remember that? 00:14:01.849 --> 00:14:06.676 I remember elementary school in Albany and sometimes we'd be down there. 00:14:06.676 --> 00:14:11.431 At the end you'd come out and everyone else would be standing against the brick wall. 00:14:11.471 --> 00:14:15.164 There You're choosing up for kickball or something. 00:14:15.164 --> 00:14:17.208 Want him? 00:14:17.208 --> 00:14:19.312 Want him? 00:14:19.312 --> 00:14:20.804 Who gets picked first? 00:14:20.804 --> 00:14:23.919 The big legs get picked first, then the fast kids get picked. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:30.568 If you're like me, you don't have a real big leg, you're not super fast, and you're standing there and you're doing the math in your head. 00:14:30.568 --> 00:14:35.330 You're looking Like okay, I know I'm better than that kid. 00:14:35.330 --> 00:14:45.844 I may not be better than the guy that got picked first, but I'm better than him and I know I'm better than him. 00:14:45.844 --> 00:14:47.452 So I'm not going to be at the very end, because what's the worst thing? 00:14:47.452 --> 00:14:48.580 Being the one where they're like I guess I'll take you. 00:14:48.580 --> 00:14:50.464 No one wants that. 00:14:50.464 --> 00:14:52.509 We've got to get him again. 00:14:52.509 --> 00:14:55.644 Okay, come on, you're kicking last. 00:14:55.644 --> 00:14:58.865 Right, we all want to be chosen. 00:14:58.865 --> 00:15:00.145 We want to be chosen first. 00:15:00.145 --> 00:15:03.547 I don't think I was ever chosen first. 00:15:03.547 --> 00:15:11.802 First, I don't think I was ever chosen first. 00:15:11.802 --> 00:15:13.245 I was a little guy and I was wiry, but I wasn't picked first Right. 00:15:13.466 --> 00:15:18.783 Some of you, if you grew up in a small town, you're like, oh yeah, I know the five or six people I'd pick first Right. 00:15:18.783 --> 00:15:21.389 But God picked you. 00:15:21.389 --> 00:15:23.371 He said I choose you. 00:15:23.371 --> 00:15:24.975 And guess what? 00:15:24.975 --> 00:15:32.121 He chose you, knowing you don't have the biggest leg, you're not the fastest, you're not the best, he said. 00:15:32.121 --> 00:15:35.466 But I see greatness in you and I choose you. 00:15:35.466 --> 00:15:41.567 And because he chose us right and he's holy, he says I want you to be just like me. 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:44.408 Remember as a kid when you want to be just like your parents. 00:15:44.408 --> 00:15:55.073 It's funny, my friends, all my friends that have ever that live in other areas, that have ever been here, they make fun of the fact that I wave at every car that I see. 00:15:55.073 --> 00:15:59.307 In fact, pastor Mark one time sent me a video and he goes hello, cl. 00:15:59.307 --> 00:16:07.230 He goes just thinking about driving, just thinking about you, and he had it back here and he's just waving at every car he saw. 00:16:07.230 --> 00:16:09.105 But you know why I do that? 00:16:09.105 --> 00:16:12.807 Because my dad did that and I want to be just like my dad. 00:16:12.807 --> 00:16:15.804 You know who else does that? 00:16:15.804 --> 00:16:17.543 My kids that drive do that. 00:16:17.543 --> 00:16:21.030 Bo does that Right. 00:16:21.030 --> 00:16:21.993 There's certain things right. 00:16:21.993 --> 00:16:23.586 I want to be like my dad. 00:16:23.586 --> 00:16:24.687 I'd get his hat that he wore to things right. 00:16:24.687 --> 00:16:25.191 I want to be like my dad. 00:16:25.191 --> 00:16:29.649 I'd get his hat that he wore to work, I'd put on his jacket or something it's like why? 00:16:29.649 --> 00:16:31.066 Because I want to be like my dad. 00:16:31.860 --> 00:16:39.226 When God chooses you, he says you know what you should want to be like me, and he is holy, so we're called to be holy. 00:16:39.226 --> 00:16:41.653 Set apart, sanctified Amen. 00:16:41.653 --> 00:16:44.505 Let's go over to 1 Peter 2. 00:16:44.505 --> 00:16:45.327 Thank you, lord. 00:16:45.327 --> 00:16:46.471 In verse 9. 00:16:46.471 --> 00:16:58.624 So Peter continues here and look what it says. 00:16:59.220 --> 00:17:03.272 But you, everybody, say me are what Chosen? 00:17:03.272 --> 00:17:04.866 Again, he says you're chosen. 00:17:04.866 --> 00:17:05.491 You didn't just God's like. 00:17:05.491 --> 00:17:05.815 Are what Chosen? 00:17:05.815 --> 00:17:07.963 Again, he says you're chosen, you didn't just God's like. 00:17:07.963 --> 00:17:12.767 I guess I get Nicole, I guess I guess I'm stuck with CF, whatever. 00:17:12.767 --> 00:17:18.630 No, he says you're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. 00:17:18.630 --> 00:17:22.509 How many know these are people that were chosen to do something important. 00:17:22.509 --> 00:17:25.808 Not just the priesthood, but he said a royal priesthood. 00:17:25.808 --> 00:17:31.700 There are people that will trace back their lineage to someone royal. 00:17:31.700 --> 00:17:32.080 They're like. 00:17:32.080 --> 00:17:40.403 Really, it's not Mr it's Count, it's not Mrs it's Duchess, I'm the Duchess of. 00:17:40.403 --> 00:17:41.288 No, you're not. 00:17:41.288 --> 00:17:47.371 But in God you're royal, you are royal, you're a. 00:17:47.371 --> 00:17:48.279 What, all of a sudden? 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:53.280 Now we see these Notice here, we see in two different passages the same words chosen and holy. 00:17:53.280 --> 00:17:55.164 You're a holy nation. 00:17:55.865 --> 00:17:58.531 King James says here, it says his own special people. 00:17:58.531 --> 00:18:01.022 King James says a peculiar people, different people. 00:18:01.022 --> 00:18:03.428 You're not called to look just like the world looks. 00:18:03.428 --> 00:18:06.574 Peculiar people, different people. 00:18:06.574 --> 00:18:08.817 You're not called to look just like the world looks. 00:18:08.817 --> 00:18:09.680 You're called to look different. 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:18.355 But again, you can take that and go into ditches on either side. 00:18:18.355 --> 00:18:19.478 No, you are called to be different. 00:18:19.478 --> 00:18:20.259 Why? 00:18:20.259 --> 00:18:21.921 Why am I called to be different? 00:18:21.921 --> 00:18:26.788 Because God wants you to proclaim the praise of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 00:18:26.788 --> 00:18:30.532 God has a job for you, amen. 00:18:30.532 --> 00:18:35.365 And so because he has a job for you, you're called to be different. 00:18:35.807 --> 00:18:37.750 Let's go over to 2 Timothy, chapter 2. 00:18:37.750 --> 00:18:38.873 Thank you, lord. 00:18:38.873 --> 00:18:43.046 2 Timothy, chapter 2, and we're going to look at verse 20. 00:18:43.046 --> 00:18:50.691 So it says but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor, some for dishonor Verse 21. 00:18:50.691 --> 00:18:57.374 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, from dishonor, they will be a vessel for honor. 00:18:57.494 --> 00:19:01.430 Sanctified that word, sanctified, right, a good biblical word. 00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:07.003 It means set aside for a holy purpose, a special purpose, useful for the master, prepared for every good work. 00:19:07.003 --> 00:19:11.986 So if you were to ask most Christians do you want to be useful for God to use, prepared for every good work? 00:19:11.986 --> 00:19:15.342 Yes, well, then God says, then you need to do something about it. 00:19:15.342 --> 00:19:17.227 Isn't that interesting. 00:19:17.227 --> 00:19:18.912 He said you need to do something about it. 00:19:18.912 --> 00:19:25.810 If anyone what Cleanses himself from dishonor so many people. 00:19:25.810 --> 00:19:29.085 I just wish God would choose me to do something in his kingdom. 00:19:29.085 --> 00:19:35.026 Well, god says I would love to choose you, but you need to do something about this. 00:19:35.026 --> 00:19:38.096 In verse 20, it talked about their gold and silver, their wood and clay. 00:19:39.298 --> 00:19:48.951 Everyone in your house, if you grew up, did your mom or dad have certain things that you weren't supposed to touch and mess with, certain things that are only used at certain times. 00:19:48.951 --> 00:19:53.905 We had these red crystal Avon dishes that were only used at Christmas. 00:19:53.905 --> 00:19:56.972 We ate them on Christmas Eve and that's it. 00:19:56.972 --> 00:20:04.352 So if you came home and you're making a bologna sandwich and mom saw you had the red plates, you're in trouble. 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:14.763 It's like we had our guest bathroom had special soaps. 00:20:14.763 --> 00:20:16.248 It was in the 70s, early 80s, so just bear with me. 00:20:16.248 --> 00:20:28.233 I mean we had gold shag carpet in our living room but these special round soaps or seashell-shaped soaps man, that's hard to say, but they weren't right. 00:20:28.233 --> 00:20:31.046 If us kids were out playing you could not come in and use the round soap. 00:20:31.046 --> 00:20:44.103 You opened the cabinet, got the dirty ivory bar that was underneath and she would tell you hey, kids, these soaps are not for you, they're for someone special. 00:20:44.103 --> 00:20:49.529 Can I tell you when we moved from that house or when she quit doing those things, those soaps, you know what? 00:20:49.529 --> 00:20:50.662 They had Dust on them. 00:20:50.662 --> 00:20:54.692 No one special enough ever came to our house to use those soaps. 00:20:54.692 --> 00:21:03.205 If you ever came, I apologize, but you weren't special enough to use those soaps, because I think even guests are like well, those look pretty fancy, I'm not touching those. 00:21:04.588 --> 00:21:05.711 But God wants to use you. 00:21:05.711 --> 00:21:07.193 But he says you've got to do something. 00:21:07.193 --> 00:21:08.501 What do you have to do? 00:21:08.501 --> 00:21:11.988 You've got to cleanse yourself from dishonorable things to be used. 00:21:11.988 --> 00:21:14.854 Thank you, lord, we'll get there All right. 00:21:14.854 --> 00:21:22.109 So if we want to be used, then we've got to say okay, god, I'm going to make myself a vessel you can use. 00:21:22.109 --> 00:21:27.544 There are some things I've got to quit doing some things. 00:21:27.544 --> 00:21:30.349 I need to quit saying some, maybe even relationships I need to leave behind. 00:21:30.411 --> 00:21:34.223 Paul talked about in Hebrews 12.1. 00:21:34.223 --> 00:21:35.486 Let's look at that real quick. 00:21:35.486 --> 00:21:37.269 Hebrews 12.1. 00:21:37.269 --> 00:21:40.755 Look at what Paul says here. 00:21:40.755 --> 00:21:41.501 Hebrews 12.1. 00:21:41.501 --> 00:21:52.386 Therefore, we also, since we're surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let's lay aside every weight and sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with the dirt as the race set forth. 00:21:52.386 --> 00:21:53.559 So what has God called me to do? 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:54.365 There's some things. 00:21:54.365 --> 00:21:56.885 If I want to do what God's called me to do, some things I've got to lay aside. 00:21:56.885 --> 00:21:59.542 Now notice this it says lay aside every weight. 00:21:59.542 --> 00:22:03.907 And then it says and the sin which ensnares you? 00:22:03.907 --> 00:22:10.535 So not every weight is sin, not everything that keeps you from going where God wants you to go is sin. 00:22:10.535 --> 00:22:21.567 Sometimes it's just weight Because we want to think well, it's just bad to say no, right, some decisions right, it's not sin. 00:22:21.567 --> 00:22:24.470 But God says if you want to move up, you can't keep doing that. 00:22:24.470 --> 00:22:27.613 You got to lay that aside, you got to give that up. 00:22:28.594 --> 00:22:31.477 I saw a guy yesterday and it blew my mind. 00:22:31.477 --> 00:22:38.701 He had these dots on a screen behind him. 00:22:38.701 --> 00:22:40.143 He was giving a speech and he says these dots represent one month. 00:22:40.143 --> 00:22:44.209 And he goes and this is the number of months that exist if you were to live to 90 years old. 00:22:44.209 --> 00:22:51.482 And it didn't seem that big, I mean there's a lot of dots, but it wasn't. 00:22:51.482 --> 00:23:05.948 And he said let's fill those dots first with the time you'll spend sleeping, time, you'll spend eating time, you'll spend on hygiene, right Showering and doing these things, the time you'll spend in school, the time you'll spend right, things that you will necessarily have to do. 00:23:05.948 --> 00:23:09.039 And then it was just like, boy, there's not a lot of dots. 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:16.134 He goes now let's fill the dots with the time you'll spend looking at a screen. 00:23:16.134 --> 00:23:24.125 And then he's like see these very few, and that's if you live to 90. 00:23:24.125 --> 00:23:27.664 See these dots left, that's what you have to do. 00:23:27.724 --> 00:23:37.388 Other things Got me to think right, I mean, sometimes that's a weight, sometimes just things like that are a weight. 00:23:37.388 --> 00:23:42.442 Paul says if you really want to run anyone I know if you've been in the military you've done this right. 00:23:42.442 --> 00:23:43.665 You've ran with weight on. 00:23:43.665 --> 00:23:46.563 I know Bo has done this workout with Cole. 00:23:46.563 --> 00:23:53.923 They do this crazy workout once a year right when they put these weighted vests on and they do all these pull-ups, they do all these push-ups. 00:23:53.923 --> 00:23:58.028 They do these squats and then they run so far with this weight on. 00:23:58.028 --> 00:24:01.352 I don't know If you've ever ran with weight on. 00:24:01.352 --> 00:24:04.316 How much better is it to run without it? 00:24:04.316 --> 00:24:11.567 You're still running the race, but you're not getting where God wants you to go, when he wants you to get there. 00:24:13.260 --> 00:24:17.946 Those are some things you've got to lay aside, some things you're going to have to get rid of. 00:24:17.946 --> 00:24:22.730 Amen, 2 Corinthians 6 and verse 17. 00:24:22.730 --> 00:24:34.804 2 Corinthians 6, 17 says therefore, come out from among them talking about the world and be separate, says the Lord. 00:24:34.804 --> 00:24:37.612 Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you. 00:24:37.612 --> 00:24:41.026 So there are things we have to set aside. 00:24:41.026 --> 00:24:43.063 Sometimes, again, it's people in our lives. 00:24:43.063 --> 00:24:44.928 God says I need you to come out from the world. 00:24:44.928 --> 00:24:46.845 I need you to not look like the world. 00:24:46.845 --> 00:24:48.451 I need you to look different. 00:24:48.451 --> 00:24:48.673 Why? 00:24:48.673 --> 00:24:50.601 Because I've called you to do something special. 00:24:50.601 --> 00:24:59.203 And if I got a special assignment for you, I need you to be able to be clean enough, holy enough to do what I've called you to do. 00:24:59.203 --> 00:25:03.634 How many of you want to fulfill everything God has for your life? 00:25:03.634 --> 00:25:05.948 That means you've got to make decisions. 00:25:05.948 --> 00:25:11.130 I've told on myself before I was working. 00:25:12.220 --> 00:25:25.712 I used to do environmental work and I traveled when I was young, like in my early 20s, and I was working with a group of guys that were from the East Coast, from Philadelphia area, right, and they all hey yo, hey, yo, right, talk like Ed. 00:25:25.712 --> 00:25:28.683 And they had nicknames like Tommy, one Punch and stuff like Ed. 00:25:28.683 --> 00:25:31.611 I mean it's like out of the movies or something right. 00:25:31.611 --> 00:25:37.150 And the thing I learned about these guys is they grew up in Philadelphia and everything. 00:25:37.150 --> 00:25:39.102 They swore a lot, they cussed a lot. 00:25:39.102 --> 00:25:40.386 Especially there was one particular cuss word they used a lot. 00:25:40.386 --> 00:25:42.855 They cussed a lot, especially there was one particular cuss word they used a lot. 00:25:42.855 --> 00:25:54.382