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[3420.28 --> 3424.44] and so many of us lived for so long, for generations, for centuries, really, |
[3424.98 --> 3427.10] we could presume belief. |
[3427.40 --> 3432.20] Or at minimum, as Christians, we could presume a sympathy for belief. |
[3433.30 --> 3437.24] And it's out of that context that rises things like the culture wars. |
[3438.20 --> 3438.36] Right? |
[3438.42 --> 3442.56] That rises things like the sexual revolution of the 60s and into the present, |
[3442.66 --> 3445.40] and the purity movement that happens in response. |
[3445.68 --> 3446.56] And let's be honest, right? |
[3446.56 --> 3449.42] When that wasn't enough of a war going on around us, |
[3449.44 --> 3451.86] in the evangelical church, we created our own wars. |
[3451.94 --> 3453.06] We had worship wars. |
[3454.02 --> 3455.30] Of all the things to fight about. |
[3456.76 --> 3461.50] But this is what happens when you take the war against your own sinful desires |
[3461.50 --> 3463.32] out of your heart and out of your head |
[3463.32 --> 3466.26] and project it onto a culture around you, |
[3466.84 --> 3469.88] especially onto the unbelieving parts of that culture. |
[3469.88 --> 3474.32] But our context has changed. |
[3476.32 --> 3479.06] So many of us operate as if it hasn't. |
[3480.94 --> 3482.46] Maybe we lost the culture wars. |
[3483.78 --> 3487.20] Maybe the sexual revolution won in a war of attrition. |
[3488.56 --> 3492.38] But in our post-Christian, 21st century, progressive and liberal world, |
[3492.64 --> 3494.30] the war isn't out there. |
[3494.64 --> 3495.48] It's in here. |
[3496.46 --> 3497.38] And it's in here. |
[3497.38 --> 3504.78] When was the last time that you fought against the sin in your life |
[3504.78 --> 3506.02] like you were at war? |
[3508.80 --> 3512.70] Instead, we sing Simon and Garfunkel, |
[3513.16 --> 3514.80] Hello, darkness, my old friend. |
[3515.80 --> 3518.00] We make friends with our sin. |
[3518.46 --> 3520.16] Now, that reference might be too old for some of you, |
[3520.24 --> 3521.38] so here's another one. |
[3521.42 --> 3522.80] Avi Kaplan, right? |
[3522.90 --> 3524.54] I know darkness and it knows me. |
[3524.66 --> 3526.32] I know my sins and they know me. |
[3526.32 --> 3527.32] Right? |
[3529.08 --> 3534.08] We so easily become complacent in and with our sins. |
[3534.24 --> 3536.78] Or, if not complacent, we become cynical, |
[3537.02 --> 3539.36] believing that there's no way that we can overcome them |
[3539.36 --> 3541.00] or there's no way that they can be overcome |
[3541.00 --> 3543.62] in Jesus or in the power of the Spirit. |
[3545.06 --> 3547.24] Or we could become indifferent, |
[3548.24 --> 3550.52] believing that they're not really that bad, |
[3551.02 --> 3553.92] that it's just okay, it's who I am, |
[3553.92 --> 3556.16] and really, what's wrong with me being who I am? |
[3560.80 --> 3561.94] This is a war |
[3561.94 --> 3564.84] for your identity |
[3564.84 --> 3566.76] and your soul. |
[3568.04 --> 3569.58] And into that context, |
[3569.74 --> 3570.40] Peter says, |
[3570.40 --> 3570.96] instead, |
[3571.96 --> 3574.16] live such good lives |
[3574.16 --> 3575.28] among the pagans |
[3575.28 --> 3577.66] that though they accuse you of doing wrong, |
[3578.24 --> 3579.74] they may see your good deeds |
[3579.74 --> 3582.08] and glorify God on the day he visits. |
[3583.08 --> 3584.86] Live such good lives, |
[3585.56 --> 3586.04] Peter says. |
[3586.58 --> 3586.72] Right? |
[3586.78 --> 3587.10] Peter says, |
[3587.20 --> 3588.10] resist evil |
[3588.10 --> 3589.10] and do good. |
[3589.10 --> 3590.76] Stop doing those things |
[3590.76 --> 3592.74] that define you apart or before Jesus |
[3592.74 --> 3595.18] and start doing or doing more of |
[3595.18 --> 3597.30] the sorts of things that define you |
[3597.30 --> 3598.46] in Jesus. |
[3599.04 --> 3599.14] Right? |
[3599.18 --> 3602.26] They're two sides of the same identity coin, |
[3602.38 --> 3603.84] two sides of being beloved |
[3603.84 --> 3605.78] and foreigners and exiles. |
[3606.56 --> 3607.54] This is what it means |
[3607.54 --> 3609.80] to be born again into a living hope, |
[3609.80 --> 3611.42] and this is how being born again |
[3611.42 --> 3612.26] into a living hope |
[3612.26 --> 3613.74] changes you. |
[3615.32 --> 3616.80] Live such good lives |
[3617.52 --> 3619.24] among the pagans. |
[3620.12 --> 3620.92] Now, really quick, |
[3621.02 --> 3621.44] two things. |
[3622.22 --> 3622.70] Here, first, |
[3623.32 --> 3624.42] pagans is, |
[3624.58 --> 3625.06] again, |
[3625.14 --> 3626.06] it's another Greek word |
[3626.06 --> 3627.72] and it's the Greek word ethnos. |
[3627.92 --> 3630.12] It's from which we get the word ethnicity. |
[3631.50 --> 3631.66] Right? |
[3631.70 --> 3632.26] And it means, |
[3632.34 --> 3632.78] simply, |
[3632.98 --> 3635.22] nations or people of the world. |
[3635.72 --> 3636.44] Now, in the Bible, |
[3636.66 --> 3637.34] when it's used, |
[3637.62 --> 3639.66] it refers to nations or people |
[3639.66 --> 3641.14] who don't believe |
[3641.14 --> 3643.72] in the Judeo-Christian God. |
[3644.78 --> 3645.38] And so here, |
[3645.52 --> 3646.30] in this use, |
[3646.70 --> 3648.26] pagans doesn't have that same |
[3648.26 --> 3650.26] sort of like naturalist, |
[3650.48 --> 3652.02] religious connotations |
[3652.02 --> 3653.06] that it might have |
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