Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Yesterday we saw how to Honor God in Trials

This am we will see how Peter tell us how to live lives for God in a world that does not.

He gives us two attitudes to have, and then two practical ways to help each other live for God.

Living for God Means You Are All In

So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude he had, and be ready to suffer, too.

For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you have finished with sin. 2 You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God. 3 You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

Explanation:

Have the same “All In” attitude as Christ (He gave us his life!)

Willing to give up your life for living a life honoring God!

They will need it because it will be getting hard to honor God with their lives.

Having this attitude affects the way they deal and look at sin.

To be that all in, means we have place Christ as better than everything

Finding no happiness in sin

They will be so focused on following Jesus that they will ignore sin they used to deal with.

At the end of day they know its not worth it.

Immorality and lust- selfishness and using sex for purposes it was not created for.

feasting and drunkenness and wild parties- so complete weakness and loss of self-control

worship of idols- running to false God to give them hope in all their sin.

Application:

See the Christian life so much about not doing this or that

If we focused on being all in to following Jesus, running from sin would be so much easier

Our lives would be serving and enjoying what Jesus has for us instead of worrying about sin all the time!

Yes you have to be strong in fighting sin, the best way to do that is to fill all your time doing the things Jesus has asked you to do.

Be in his word, be at church and grow, serve others and help them, seek to do good in all situations, look for those who need help, share the good news of Jesus with others

Give yourself little time to even fall into temptation.

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