1. We Are to Represent Christ to the World.
2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then, we are ___________________ for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be __________________ to God.
2. Lift up a Standard for the People.
Isaiah 62:10 Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the ____________! Take out the stones, Lift up 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 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, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. [17] And the world is ____________ away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God __________ ____________.
4. Do Not Be Conformed to the World. Instead, Be Made New by Jesus.
Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your __________________ service. [2] And do not be ________________ to this world, but be ___________________ by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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 minds through Christ Jesus. [8] Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is ______________ praiseworthy--meditate 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 by the Spirit of the Lord.
7. God Is Not Pleased When We Love Violence.
Psalms 11:5 The Lord tests the ________________, But the wicked and the one who loves ______________ His soul hates.
8. Turn Away From Vanity.
Psalms 119:37 Turn away my eyes from ____________ at ________________ things, And revive me in Your way.
9. Seek to Have the Same Way of Thinking You See in Jesus.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in __________ _________,
10. We Should Dress Modestly and Refrain From Ornamentation and Excessive Cost and Display in the Things We Wear.
1 Timothy 2:9-10 In like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and __________________, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, [10] but, which is proper for women __________________ godliness, with good works.
11. True Beauty Is Inside Our Hearts.
1 Peter 3:2-5 When they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. [3] Do not let your ________________ be merely outward--arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel-- [4] rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very ______________ in the sight of God. [5] For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned __________________, 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 And Jacob said to his ________________ and to all who were with him, Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your ______________. [3] Then 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 in the way which I have gone. [4] So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the ______________ which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the ________________ tree which was by Shechem.
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, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people. [4] And when the people heard this bad news, they ____________, and no one put on his ornaments. [5] For the LORD had said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one __________ and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you. [6] So the children of Israel ______________ __________________ of their ornaments by Mount _________.
14. God Reveals His Displeasure When People Artificially Adorn Themselves and Lack Character.
Isaiah 3:16-24 Moreover the Lord says: "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with _____________________ necks And wanton eyes, Walking and mincing as they go, Making a jingling with their feet, [17] Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, And the Lord will uncover their secret parts." [18] In that day the Lord will take away the finery: The jingling anklets, the scarves, and the ________________; [19] The pendants, the ________________, and the veils; [20] The ___________________, the leg ________________, and the ________________; The perfume boxes, the charms, [21] and the rings; The nose jewels, [22] the festal apparel, and the mantles; The outer ______________, the purses, [23] and the mirrors; The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes. [24] And so it shall be: Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench; Instead of a sash, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, ______________; Instead of a rich robe, a girding of ________________; And ______________ 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 to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her ______________ and ____________, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot," says 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 talked with me, saying to me, "Come, I will show you the ______________ of the great harlot who sits on many waters, [2] with whom the kings of the earth ________________ fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication." [3] So he carried me away in the Spirit into the __________________. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of ________________, having seven heads and ten horns. [4] The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and ______________ stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the __________________ of her fornication. [5] And on her ______________ a name was written: MYSTERY, ____________ 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 greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of ________________, He has covered me with the robe of _______________________, As a bridegroom decks himself with ________________, 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. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those __________ that __________ Him."
19. Happiness Comes From Knowing and Doing God's Will.
John 13:17 If you know these __________, ____________ are you if you do them.
20. I Delight to Do Thy Will, My God.
Psalms 40:8 I delight to do Your _______, O my God, And Your law is within my _________."
Next Bible Study: 39-The Holy Spirit
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