1. We Are to Represent Christ to the World.
2 Corinthians 5:20 Therefore, we are ___________________ for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be __________________ to God.
2. Lift up a Standard for the People.
Isaiah 62:10 Go through, go through the gates, Clear the way for the people; Build up, build up the highway, Remove the stones, lift up a ______________ over the ____________.
3. Love Not the World for It Will Pass Away.
1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world nor the __________ in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the ______________ pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. [17] The world is ____________ away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God _________ ____________.
4. Do Not Be Conformed to the World. Instead, Be Made New by Jesus.
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy ________________, acceptable to God, which is your ________________ service of worship. [2] And do not be ________________ to this world, but be ___________________ by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
5. What Should Be Upper Most in Our Minds?
Philippians 4:7-8 And the peace of God, which surpasses all _______________________, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. [8] Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is ________________, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any __________________ and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
6. How Can We Change?
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face, ________________ as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being ___________________ into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
7. God Is Not Pleased When We Love Violence.
Psalms 11:5 The LORD tests the ________________ and the wicked, And the one who loves ______________ His soul hates.
8. Turn Away From Vanity.
Psalms 119:37 Turn away my eyes from ____________ at vanity, And __________ me in Your ways.
9. Seek to Have the Same Way of Thinking You See in Jesus.
Philippians 2:5 Have this ______________ in __________________ which was also in Christ Jesus,
10. We Should Dress Modestly and Refrain From Ornamentation and Excessive Cost and Display in the Things We Wear.
1 Timothy 2:9-10 Likewise, I want women to adorn __________________ with proper clothing, modestly and __________________, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, [10] but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
11. True Beauty Is Inside Our Hearts.
1 Peter 3:2-5 As they observe your chaste and __________________ behavior. [3] Your adornment must not be merely external -braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; [4] but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the _____________________ quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. [5] For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn __________________, being __________________ to their own ______________;
12. Jacob Leads a Revival and Commands His Household to Get Rid of Their Idols and Jewelry.
Genesis 35:2-4 So Jacob said to his ________________ and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your ______________; [3] and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who ______________ me in the day of my ______________ and has been with me ______________ I have gone." [4] So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near ____________.
13. As the Children of Israel Enter the Promise Land They Remove Their Jewelry.
Exodus 33:3-6 "Go up to a land ____________ with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way." [4] When the people heard this sad word, they went into ______________, and none of them put on his ornaments. [5] For the LORD had said to Moses, "Say to the sons of Israel, 'You are an obstinate people; should I go up in your midst for one __________, I would destroy you. Now ________________, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.' " [6] So the sons of Israel ______________ __________________ of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb __________.
14. God Reveals His Displeasure When People Artificially Adorn Themselves and Lack Character.
Isaiah 3:16-24 Moreover, the LORD said, "Because the daughters of Zion are proud And walk with heads held high and ________________ eyes, And go along with mincing steps And tinkle the bangles on their feet, [17] Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, And the LORD will make their ________________ bare." [18] In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, ________________, crescent ________________, [19] dangling earrings, ________________, veils, [20] ___________________, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets, [21] finger rings, nose rings, [22] festal robes, outer tunics, cloaks, money purses, [23] hand mirrors, _______________________, turbans and veils. [24] Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be _____________________; Instead of a belt, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp; Instead of fine clothes, a donning of ________________; And branding instead of beauty.
15. Jewelry Is Associated with Idolatry and Forgetting God.
Hosea 2:13 "I will punish her for the days of the Baals When she used to offer __________________ to them And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me," ______________ the LORD.
16. The False Church Is Pictured by God As Being Decked Out with Jewels. She Has Left Her True Lover, Jesus Christ.
Revelation 17:1-5 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here, I will show you the ______________ of the great harlot who sits on many waters, [2] with whom the kings of the earth ________________ acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality." [3] And he carried me away in the Spirit into a __________________; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of ___________________ names, having seven heads and ten horns. [4] The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and ______________ stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, [5] and on her ______________ a name was written, a ____________, "____________ THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF ____________ AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
17. Jesus Gives Us True Beauty When We Wear His Robe of Righteousness. What Is More Beautiful Than Happiness Within?
Isaiah 61:10 I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with ______________ of ________________, He has wrapped me with a robe of _______________________, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
18. Jesus Said, "I Do Always Those Things Which Please Him." by God's Grace, We Should Seek to Be Like Jesus.
John 8:29 "And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the __________ that are ______________ to Him."
19. Happiness Comes From Knowing and Doing God's Will.
John 13:17 "If you know these __________, you are ____________ if you do them.
20. I Delight to Do Thy Will, My God.
Psalms 40:8 I delight to do Your _______, O my God; Your Law is within my _________."
Next Bible Study: 39-The Holy Spirit
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