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*Cruel and Unusual Punishment*
* When we were children, my sister and I used to complain that we were mistreated.
* We always had to pick up toys at other peoples’ homes…
* “You’re not someone else’s kid.
You’re my kid.”
* Eventually, we noticed different treatment b~/c we were our parents’ kids
* Our actions of picking up the toys or cleaning up after ourselves did not /entitle/ us to be our parents’ children.
* What we did or didn’t do did not establish or affect our standing as Bill and Lori’s kids.
* Like it or not, we were already Bill and Lori’s kids.
* Our limited, childlike understanding may have sometimes made us wish we were someone else’s, but that never could have happened.
* All parents can also relate to this: no amount of frustration is going to suddenly make you abandon your child and put him up for sale.
* Likewise—Your actions do not make you /God’s/ either.
* Nothing we can physically do or not do can~/will change our standing as God’s ppl.
* The Bible makes this abundantly clear.
* We already know this.
* One thing defines us as God’s people.
– What is it?
*Faith has always made God’s people God’s people.*
* Abraham
* Gen 12.1-4 –multiple implications for the questions we’ll be asking [w3]
* What matters now is Abraham’s response—“Reckoned as righteousness” Gen 16.6
* Christians today
* Eph 2.8-9 (NIV)
* “Controversy in the Greater Mediterranean Christian Convention”
* Acts 15.10-11 – their answer was theologically consistent
* This would be works-based salvation (and this has never defined God’s people).
* Legalism
* Over-reliance on the Law to accomplish something it was /never/ intended to accomplish
* Define “Law” for practical purposed as “doing, works, etc.”
* Rom 3.20, 21
* Whether we accept~/believe this or not, we still often talk~/think like we don’t.
* “just trying to do enough to get to Heaven”
* “hope I’m good enough”
* “I can never forgive /myself/ for what I’ve done.”
* [We think and view the world as if the grand summary of our actions defines who we are.
But, we already have identity as God’s people.]
*What the Law was /really/ for.*
* The Law did have a purpose.
* So do our actions today.
* They do matter.
* How Israel behaved and how we conduct ourselves has a profound impact on us as people.
* But how?
* Did not make Israel God’s.
* We’ve already covered that.
* Dt 10.12-13 [nasb]
* Who is Moses talking to? –God’s ppl.
* Already called out of Egypt.
* Already delivered from Pharaoh.
* They were already defined as the ones God has plucked and gives special treatment to
* They were already God’s.
* We are already our parents.
* Dt 11.8-9a, 13-15
* MY POINT – Many conditionals (“if~/then”) in Dt.
* Do not link to eternal salvation, but to temporal (immediate, here-and-now, in this life) blessing (i.e.: Dt 11.22-23, 26-28)
* NT
* Jn 15.7-11
 
*This Law—that no one else had—made Israel /different/.*
* While Faith defines who we are, our actions distinguish from everyone else.
* In the /same/ way, our good works and loving actions must make us different.
* Being different is /evidence/ of salvation received.
* Jn 14.21
* Do they really, though?
* How many ppl look at us—the church, Christians—and see the exact same actions they see in themselves?
* We must be different.
(look, smell, feel, etc.)
* Ppl should not be surprised to find out we’re Xns.
* How you act says something about who you belong to and how you feel about that relationship.
* Christ—“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
* For Israel, expectations and requirements were laid out before them.
* This made being different easy—“Do This.
You Will Be Different.
Guaranteed.”
* Moral requirements placed on Israel as they marched into alien territory raised the ethical bar very high.
* Dt 4.5-8
* Peppered throughout Dt are calls to be different.
* Dt 7.6 – “God has chosen /you/.”
* For us today, the expectations are no different.
– Be different.
* Eph 4.17 – 19, v. 20 (/but you…/)
* “live such good lives…” –(1 Peter 2.12)
* Whether we’re reading Moses in Dt 4 or Peter writing millennia later:
* The bar is still just as high b~/c God is just as sovereign
* Not possible to read OT and not see that God expects to be involved in every area of His people’s lives
* NT Xns should never feel that they’re held to a lower standard
* God still works to accomplish /His/ purposes through His people
* So, dream with me for just a minute.
* How do you think the world would really be if believers acted like they believed this stuff?
* If coworkers, neighbors, friends /actually got something different/ from what they were expecting from us?
 
*So, follow God’s commands and do the right thing because of your faith.*
* Behave differently because you are different.
* 2 Sam 7.23-24
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