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We Must Be Holy in All Our Conduct
1 Peter 1:15 but like the Holy One who called you, become holy
yourselves in all your conduct,
How Will You Respond?
Hebrews 5:7 During his life on earth, Christ offered up
supplications and also petitions, with strong outcries and tears, to
the One who was able to save him out of death, and he was
favorably heard for his godly fear.
Hebrews 5:11-14 We have much to say about him, and it is
difficult to explain, because you have become dull in your
hearing. 12 For although by now you should be teachers, you again
need someone to teach you from the beginning the elementary
things of the sacred pronouncements of God, and you have gone
back to needing milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who continues
to feed on milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for
he is a young child. 14 But solid food belongs to mature people, to
those who through use have their powers of discernment trained to
distinguish both right and wrong.
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READ- 1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, stop being
molded by the desires you formerly had in your ignorance, 15 but
like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all
your conduct, 16 for it is written: “You must be holy, because I am
holy.”
John 10:16 “And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold;
those too I must bring in, and they will listen to my voice, and they
will become one flock, one shepherd.
Beware Of Compromise
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Leviticus 19:18 “‘You must not take vengeance nor hold a
grudge against the sons of your people, and you must love your
fellow man as yourself. I am Jehovah.
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Romans 12:19 Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but yield
place to the wrath; for it is written: “‘Vengeance is mine; I will
repay,’ says Jehovah.”
2 Corinthians 4:1 Therefore, since we have this ministry
through the mercy that was shown us, we do not give up.
2 Corinthians 4:7 However, we have this treasure in earthen
vessels, so that the power beyond what is normal may be God’s
and not from us.
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READ- 1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing you to
stop keeping company with anyone called a brother who is sexually
immoral or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard
or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man.
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1 Peter 4:3, 4 For the time that has passed by is sufficient for
you to have done the will of the nations when you carried on in acts
of brazen conduct, unbridled passions, overdrinking, wild parties,
drinking bouts, and lawless idolatries. 4 They are puzzled that you
do not continue running with them in the same decadent course of
debauchery, so they speak abusively of you.
Uphold Jehovah’s Sovereignty
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Leviticus 8:4, 5 Then Moses did just as Jehovah had
commanded him, and the assembly gathered together at the
entrance of the tent of meeting. 5 Moses now said to the assembly:
“This is what Jehovah has commanded us to do.”
Proverbs 29:25 Trembling at men is a snare, But the one
trusting in Jehovah will be protected.
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Matthew 24:9 “Then people will hand you over to tribulation
and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations on account
of my name.
Romans 13:1-7 Let every person be in subjection to the
superior authorities, for there is no authority except by God; the
existing authorities stand placed in their relative positions by
God. 2 Therefore, whoever opposes the authority has taken a stand
against the arrangement of God; those who have taken a stand
against it will bring judgment against themselves. 3 For those rulers
are an object of fear, not to the good deed, but to the bad. Do you
want to be free of fear of the authority? Keep doing good, and you
will have praise from it; 4 for it is God’s minister to you for your
good. But if you are doing what is bad, be in fear, for it is not
without purpose that it bears the sword. It is God’s minister, an
avenger to express wrath against the one practicing what is
bad. 5 There is therefore compelling reason for you to be in
subjection, not only on account of that wrath but also on account of
your conscience.6 That is why you are also paying taxes; for they
are God’s public servants constantly serving this very
purpose. 7 Render to all their dues: to the one who calls for the tax,
the tax; to the one who calls for the tribute, the tribute; to the one
who calls for fear, such fear; to the one who calls for honor, such
honor.
Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him: “Go away, Satan! For it
is written: ‘It is Jehovah your God you must worship, and it is to him
alone you must render sacred service.’”
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READ- John 15:18-21 If the world hates you, you know that
it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were part of the world,
the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are
no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for this
reason the world hates you. 20 Keep in mind the word I said to you:
A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me,
they will also persecute you; if they have observed my word, they
will also observe yours. 21 But they will do all these things against
you on account of my name, because they do not know the One
who sent me.
READ- Isaiah 2:4 He will render judgment among the nations
And set matters straight respecting many peoples. They will beat
their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning shears.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation, Nor will they learn war
anymore.
Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices pleasing to God are a broken
spirit; A heart broken and crushed, O God, you will not reject.
Offer Jehovah Your Best
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Leviticus 9:1-4 On the eighth day, Moses called Aaron and his
sons and the elders of Israel. 2 He said to Aaron: “Take for yourself
a young calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, sound
ones, and present them before Jehovah. 3 But you will say to the
Israelites, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and a
young ram, each a year old, sound ones, for a burnt offering,4 and a
bull and a ram for communion sacrifices, to sacrifice them before
Jehovah, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today Jehovah will
appear to you.’”
Leviticus 9:15-21 He then presented the offering of the
people and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people
and slaughtered it and made a sin offering with it like the first
one. 16 And he presented the burnt offering and handled it
according to the regular procedure. 17 He next presented the grain
offering, filling his hand with some of it and making it smoke on the
altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning. 18 After that he
slaughtered the bull and the ram of the communion sacrifice that
was for the people. Then Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and
he sprinkled it around on all sides of the altar. 19 As for the pieces of
fat of the bull, the fat tail of the ram, the fat covering the internal
organs, the kidneys, and the appendage of the liver, 20 they placed
all those pieces of fat on the breasts, after which he made the
pieces of fat smoke on the altar. 21 But the breasts and the right leg
Aaron waved back and forth as a wave offering before Jehovah,
just as Moses had commanded.
Leviticus 12:6 When the days of her purification for a son or a
daughter are completed, she will bring a young ram in its first year
for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin
offering to the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest.
Leviticus 12:8 But if she cannot afford a sheep, she must then
take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering
and one for a sin offering, and the priest will make atonement for
her, and she will be clean.’”
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Hebrews 13:15 Through him let us always offer to God a
sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that make public
declaration to his name.
Romans 12:1 Therefore, I appeal to you by the compassions of
God, brothers, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable to God, a sacred service with your power of reason.
2 Timothy 2:15 Do your utmost to present yourself approved
to God, a workman with nothing to be ashamed of, handling the
word of the truth aright.
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Matthew 22:37, 38 He said to him: “‘You must love Jehovah
your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with
your whole mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment.
2 Peter 1:7 to your godly devotion brotherly affection, to your
brotherly affection love.
Our Study Habits And Sacrifices Of Praise
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2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for
teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in
righteousness,
READ- Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you accept my sayings
And treasure up my commandments, 2 By making your ear
attentive to wisdom And inclining your heart to discernment;
3 Moreover, if you call out for understanding And raise your voice
for discernment; 4 If you keep seeking for it as for silver, And you
keep searching for it as for hidden treasures; 5 Then you will
understand the fear of Jehovah, And you will find the knowledge of
God.
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READ- Hebrews 5:7 During his life on earth, Christ offered
up supplications and also petitions, with strong outcries and tears,
to the One who was able to save him out of death, and he was
favorably heard for his godly fear.
READ- Hebrews 5:11-14 We have much to say about him,
and it is difficult to explain, because you have become dull in your
hearing.12 For although by now you should be teachers, you again
need someone to teach you from the beginning the elementary
things of the sacred pronouncements of God, and you have gone
back to needing milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who continues
to feed on milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for
he is a young child. 14 But solid food belongs to mature people, to
those who through use have their powers of discernment trained to
distinguish both right and wrong.
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Matthew 28:19, 20 Go, therefore, and make disciples of
people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all
the things I have commanded you. And look! I am with you all the
days until the conclusion of the system of things.”
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Leviticus 10:1, 2 Later Aaron’s sons Na′dab and A·bi′hu each
took his fire holder and put fire in it and placed incense on it. Then
they began offering before Jehovah unauthorized fire, which he had
not commanded them to do. 2 At this a fire came out from before
Jehovah and consumed them, so that they died before Jehovah.
READ- Leviticus 10:8-11 Then Jehovah said to
Aaron: 9 “Do not drink wine or other alcoholic beverages, you and
your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that
you will not die. It is a permanent statute for your
generations. 10 This is to distinguish between the holy thing and the
profane and between the unclean thing and the clean, 11 and to
teach the Israelites all the regulations that Jehovah has spoken to
them through Moses.”
Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the Law, so that
everyone exercising faith may have righteousness.
Matthew 26:27 And taking a cup, he offered thanks and gave
it to them, saying: “Drink out of it, all of you,
1 Corinthians 6:10 thieves, greedy people, drunkards,
revilers, and extortioners will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
1 Timothy 3:8 Ministerial servants should likewise be serious,
not double-tongued, not indulging in a lot of wine, not greedy of
dishonest gain,
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James 4:8 Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you
indecisive ones.
Psalms 119:18 Open my eyes so that I may see clearly The
wonderful things from your law.
1 Peter 1:15 but like the Holy One who called you, become holy
yourselves in all your conduct,
Romans15:16 for me to be a public servant of Christ Jesus to
the nations. I am engaging in the holy work of the good news of
God, so that these nations might be an acceptable offering,
sanctified with holy spirit.