1. We Are to Represent Christ to the World.
2 Corinthians 5:20 We are therefore Christ's ___________________, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be __________________ to God.
2. Lift up a Standard for the People.
Isaiah 62:10 Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the ____________! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the ____________.
3. Love Not the World for It Will Pass Away.
1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or ______________ in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [16] For __________________ in the world--the ______________ of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the ______________ of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world. [17] The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
4. Do Not Be Conformed to the World. Instead, Be Made New by Jesus.
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living __________________, holy and pleasing to God--this is your ________________ act of worship. [2] Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be ___________________ by the ______________ of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.
5. What Should Be Upper Most in Our Minds?
Philippians 4:7-8 And the peace of God, which __________________ all _______________________, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. [8] Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is ________________ or praiseworthy--think about such things.
6. How Can We Change?
2 Corinthians 3:18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being ___________________ into his ______________ with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
7. God Is Not Pleased When We Love Violence.
Psalms 11:5 The LORD examines the ________________, but the wicked and those who love ______________ his soul hates.
8. Turn Away From Vanity.
Psalms 119:37 Turn my eyes away from ________________ things; preserve my life ________________ to your word.
9. Seek to Have the Same Way of Thinking You See in Jesus.
Philippians 2:5 Your ______________ should be the same as that of __________ 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 I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or ________________ clothes, [10] but with good deeds, ___________________ for women who profess to worship God.
11. True Beauty Is Inside Our Hearts.
1 Peter 3:2-5 When they see the purity and ________________ of your lives. [3] Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. [4] Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. [5] For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make __________________ ________________. They were __________________ 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, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. [3] Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who ______________ me in the day of my ______________ and who has been with me ______________ I have gone." [4] So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at ____________.
13. As the Children of Israel Enter the Promise Land They Remove Their Jewelry.
Exodus 33:3-6 Go up to the land ____________ with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way." [4] When the people heard these ___________________ words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments. [5] For the LORD had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a __________, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will __________ what to do with you.' " [6] So the Israelites ______________ off their ornaments at Mount _________.
14. God Reveals His Displeasure When People Artificially Adorn Themselves and Lack Character.
Isaiah 3:16-24 The LORD says, "The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with _____________________ necks, flirting with their eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ________________ jingling on their ankles. [17] Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the LORD will make their scalps bald." [18] In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and ________________ and crescent ________________, [19] the earrings and ________________ and veils, [20] the ___________________ and ankle chains and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms, [21] the signet rings and nose rings, [22] the fine robes and the capes and cloaks, the purses [23] and mirrors, and the linen garments and tiaras and shawls. [24] Instead of ________________ there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, ________________; instead of beauty, ______________.
15. Jewelry Is Associated with Idolatry and Forgetting God.
Hosea 2:13 I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and ____________, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot," ______________ 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 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the __________________ of the great __________________, who sits on many waters. [2] With her the kings of the earth ________________ adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries." [3] Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with ___________________ names and had seven heads and ten horns. [4] The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was __________________ with gold, ______________ stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. [5] This title was written on her ______________: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF ___________________ AND OF THE _____________________ 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 delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with ______________ of ________________ and arrayed me in a robe of _______________________, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, 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 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I __________ do what ____________ him."
19. Happiness Comes From Knowing and Doing God's Will.
John 13:17 Now that you know these __________, you will be ____________ if you do them.
20. I Delight to Do Thy Will, My God.
Psalms 40:8 I desire to do your _______, O my God; your law is within my _________."
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