A Different Kind of People
A. CHRISTIANS ARE A PECULIAR PEOPLE. FOR GOD’S OWN POSSESSION.
1. “Selected by God from the other nations for his own possession.” - (Thayer).
2. Taken from the world and added to the Kingdom (Col. 1:13).
B. WE MUST THINK AND ACT DIFFERENTLY THAN THOSE WHO ARE OF THE
WORLD (Romans 12:1-2; 1 John 2:15-17).
C. OUR DISPOSITION TOWARD GOOD AND EVIL SETS US APART.
A. Rom. 12:9. WE MUST LEARN TO HATE EVIL.
1. Abhor, “apostugeo” means “to dislike, abhor, have a horror of.” (Thayer).
2. Evil - “poneros” means “bad, of a bad nature or condition; in a physical sense:
diseased or blind; in an ethical sense: evil wicked, bad.” (Thayer).
B. THE BIBLE’S TEACHING THROUGHOUT.
1. Deuteronomy 7:26 5. Amos 5:14-15
2. Psalms 97:10 4. Psalms 119:104
3. Psalms 101:3
C. WHERE DOES EVIL IN THE LIVES OF PEOPLE COME FROM? (Luke 6:45).
What kind of heart do you have?
A. WE MUST LOVE THAT WHICH IS GOOD (Rom. 12:9).
1. Cleave – “kollao” means “to glue, to glue together, cement, fasten together; to join
or fasten firmly together; to join one’s self to, cleave to” (Thayer).
2. Good – “agathos” means “of good constitution or nature useful, good, pleasant,
agreeable, joyful, happy, excellent, distinguished, upright, honorable.” (Thayer).
B. CHRIST LEFT US AN EXAMPLE OF DOING GOOD (Acts 10:38; 1 Peter 2:21).
1. Good is what we are to do to defeat evil (Rom. 12:21).
2. Good is what we should do and walk in (Eph. 2:10).
3. Good is what we are to do for all as we have opportunity (Gal. 6:10; 1 Thess. 5:15).
A. 1 Thess. 5:22. WE ARE TO AVOID EVEN LOOKING LIKE WE ARE EVIL.
1. Abstain – “apechomai” means “to hold one’s self off, refrain” (Thayer).
2. Appearance – “eidos” means “the external or outward appearance, form figure,
shape” (Thayer).
3. Evil – Same as in Point I A.
B. GOOD REASONS FOR AVOIDING ALL THAT MIGHT APPEAR EVIL.
1. Evil is contagious (1 Cor. 15:33; 5:6-7).
2. Evil is deceptive (1 Cor. 10:12).
a. Satan uses devises (2 Cor. 2:11).
b. He wears a disguise (2 Cor. 11:13-15; 2 Tim. 3:13).
c. Satan is called the Deceiver of men (Rom. 12:9; John 8:44)
3. We are to be a GOOD example, not bad one (Matt. 5:14-16).
A. OUR GOOD WORKS OR OUR BAD WORKS WILL BE EXAMINED ON THE
JUDGMENT DAY (2 Cor. 5:10).
B. WHAT WE SOW WE WILL REAP (Gal. 6:7-9).
C. OUR DISPOSITION TOWARD GOOD AND EVIL SETS US APART.
Brian A. Yeager