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[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 |
[3653.06 --> 3654.74] for some of us here this morning. |
[3655.30 --> 3656.14] But notice, |
[3657.34 --> 3660.50] it is still a religious term. |
[3660.86 --> 3660.98] Right? |
[3661.00 --> 3662.46] It is about who you believe in |
[3662.46 --> 3663.82] or don't believe in. |
[3664.06 --> 3666.62] The context is life lived, |
[3666.78 --> 3668.68] engaging in and with a society |
[3668.68 --> 3670.16] of all sorts of people, |
[3670.36 --> 3671.72] of all sorts of worldviews, |
[3671.76 --> 3673.08] a society of all sorts of |
[3673.08 --> 3674.54] religious ideas |
[3674.54 --> 3675.62] and identities, |
[3676.08 --> 3676.80] a society |
[3676.80 --> 3679.60] very much like ours. |
[3681.46 --> 3682.30] And then second, |
[3682.50 --> 3683.04] notice this. |
[3684.54 --> 3685.00] Peter says, |
[3685.12 --> 3687.32] to live such good lives |
[3687.32 --> 3688.92] among |
[3688.92 --> 3690.78] the pagans. |
[3690.78 --> 3695.44] the proper Christian expectation |
[3695.44 --> 3697.38] is that you will be |
[3697.38 --> 3698.88] in the world. |
[3699.70 --> 3701.38] We live in the midst |
[3701.38 --> 3702.22] of it all. |
[3702.36 --> 3702.40] Right? |
[3702.40 --> 3703.08] We don't run. |
[3703.22 --> 3703.90] We don't hide. |
[3704.18 --> 3705.04] We don't pull away. |
[3705.14 --> 3706.16] We don't get all sectarian. |
[3706.40 --> 3707.60] We aren't living in secluded |
[3707.60 --> 3708.88] coisters behind walls |
[3708.88 --> 3709.44] of division |
[3709.44 --> 3710.70] and hostility. |
[3711.56 --> 3712.00] Instead, |
[3713.00 --> 3714.82] the model that the Bible |
[3714.82 --> 3715.50] gets us, |
[3715.66 --> 3716.38] the model that Peter |
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