Setting A Good Example

By Julia on September 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

As Christians we are to be an example of the Lord we serve, and by not following the old life we once lived shows others it is possible to do Gods will and not our own. Although we are told persecutions and ridicule will ensue we do not shy away from the call we have on our life, even if we are misunderstood by those we used to run with(1 Peter 4:1-10). Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;²That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.³For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:⁴Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:⁵Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.⁶For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.⁷But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.⁸And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.⁹Use hospitality one to another without grudging.¹⁰As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Paul’s testimony teaches us how following earthly things more than Christ will sadly lead to certain destruction. Our conversation is to reflect the Lord of which we serve (Philippians 3:13-20).¹³Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,¹⁴I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.¹⁵Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.¹⁶Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.¹⁷Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.¹⁸(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:¹⁹Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)²⁰For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Sodom and Go-mor’-rha have been set forth as an example to us all of what happens to a life lived without God, and that eternal fire does exist!(Jude 7),(Genesis 19:24-29).