Living Differently

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2 Peter 2.10 condemns those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

These people Peter was talking about were inside the church but not living the Christian life. In this section of his letter to the church, Peter warns against those who say they are Christians but fail to live the Christian life.

This is the reality in the modern church. Abortion, fornication, pornography and adultery run rampant among those in the church.

Young people who grow up in the church and claim to be Christians are as sexually promiscuous as those who claim no such allegiance to Christ. The same observation can be made among the older Christians and with the other sexual immoralities though the Word of God commands that God’s people not contain even a hint of such behavior.

What has gone wrong?

The second part of Peter’s warning is against those who despise authority. So it is we question God’s authority in the Scripture, we dismiss the Church’s authority over our behavior and we reject the rebuke of our parents and neighbors.

This unwillingness to humble ourselves before God first then one another for accountability explains why many in the church live indistinguishably from their unchurched neighbor.

This duplicitous behavior keeps seekers from finding hope, healing and restoration in Christ because they see no solution from the Church.

Yet the church is the only source for healing for only God can forgive us our sins and give us a new life through the presence of Himself in the Holy Spirit.

If we are truly God’s child we must live in the image of His First Born Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, so that His life can be clearly seen by all those who observe ours.

 

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