Fear of God

Passion City Church Podcast

Passion City Church

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor. 1 Peter 2: 11-17 — This week, Pastor Louie Giglio walks with us through one of the important ideas in scripture: all of us who call ourselves Christians are on display, living among the lost, and most of us are the only representation of the Gospel that the people in our worlds will ever see. So how are we living that out? What are we actually putting on display with our lives?

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Passion City Church podcast.
0:06.0	To learn more about Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington,
0:11.0	DC, visit us online at passioncitychurch.com.
0:16.0	Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giglio.
0:21.0	The first Peter is about the tension of being chosen by God and at the same time being in conflict with the culture.
0:31.0	In other words, what Peter is saying is there's a sovereign God who has ordained all the affairs of your life.
0:38.0	He invited you into his story before the world was formed yet.
0:42.0	Now here you are as the people of God, a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who belong to God.
0:50.0	But you're on a planet for the most part that spiritually clueless.
0:55.0	You're on a planet who doesn't get who Jesus is, why came and what the purpose of life is.
1:03.0	And we see that when you look at chapter 2, verse 11 and 12, it's the big story, if you will, of first Peter.
1:11.0	So let's take a look at that together and then we'll read forward into our text for today.
1:18.0	So if you look back, let me get there.
1:23.0	To chapter 2, verse 11, he's coming down to really show us this tension and how it works itself out in our lives.
1:33.0	He says, dear friends, I urge you as aliens and strangers in the world.
1:40.0	Now we've already underlined and highlighted this idea.
1:43.0	But what he's saying by the usage of the language here is you're placed by God, scattered out into the world.
1:51.0	And to put it as clear as he could, he said, you're living next door to people who don't get who Jesus is.
1:58.0	I'm putting you in jobs and in cubicles and in offices and in neighborhoods and in families and in circumstances and situations where you're right next door to people who are lost without Christ.
2:12.0	And you are on display for them in the world.
2:19.0	In other words, you're living among the lost and you're being watched by the lost.
2:23.0	Do you ever feel like your neighbors are kind of looking at you?
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