No Double Standards

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you following double standards?

No. Only 1, standards of truth. John 8:32

John 8:32 (Amplified Bible)

And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that GOD does not want us carrying in ourselves two standards, that we are half-hearted, but dedicate and commit our whole heart, body and soul in serving one GOD.

IV. TEXT:

Deuteronomy 25:13 (Amplified Bible)

You shall not have in your bag true and false weights, a large and a small.

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You are my Sets of Standards, and You alone can set me free.

VI. TITLE:

No double standards

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Name derived from: 2 Greek words: "deuteros" meaning second and "nomos" meaning law.

B. Author: Moses (commonly accepted)

C. Date written: 1407 - 1406 B.C.

D. Purpose: The former generation of Israel had died in the wilderness; hence it was important that the law should be repeated and expounded to the new generation before they entered the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

E. To whom written: The children of Israel, the generation which would enter and conquer the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

F. Main Theme: A rehearsal of the laws proclaimed at Sinai, with a call to obedience, interspersed with a review of the experiences of the old generation.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

G. Key word: Remember

H. Key verses:

Deuteronomy 6:1-4 (Amplified Bible)

6:1 NOW THIS is the instruction, the laws, and the precepts which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it,

6:2 That you may [reverently] fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be watchful to do them, that it may be well with you and that you may increase exceedingly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

6:4 Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord].

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Deuteronomy 25:13 (Amplified Bible)

You shall not have in your bag true and false weights, a large and a small.

Deuteronomy 25:13 (King James Version)

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

A. No true and false standards

"You shall not have in your bag true and false weights,"

Diverse weights or "eben" in Hebrew meaning: to build, a stone. A stone has a weight. There are two standards in this world: (1) good, (2) bad. False balance or weight represents bad standards, while true balance or weight represents good standards. Since time immemorial, there has been a battle for good and evil, and it seems evil is winning, but it's not because the LORD JESUS CHRIST, two thousand years ago was already victorious, and even before the foundation of the world He has already been crucified, because even before the foundation of the world, we are already victorious and champions of righteousness for the LORD.

Ephesians 1:4 (Amplified Bible)

Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.

1 Peter 1:20 (Amplified Bible)

It is true that He was chosen and foreordained (destined and foreknown for it) before the foundation of the world, but He was brought out to public view (made manifest) in these last days (at the end of the times) for the sake of you.

1. False weights or standards : to do evil

Proverbs 11:1 (Amplified Bible)

A FALSE balance and unrighteous dealings are extremely offensive and shamefully sinful to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.

2. True balance or GOD's standards

Proverbs 16:11 (Amplified Bible)

A just balance and scales are the Lord’s; all the weights of the bag are His work [established on His eternal principles].

Job 31:6 (Amplified Bible)

Oh, let me be weighed in a just balance and let Him weigh me, that God may know my integrity!

I'll choose GOD's sets of standards that are found in His WORDS, I have chosen righteousness, I have chosen the yoke of the LORD, it has weight, but it's light.

Deuteronomy 30:19 (Amplified Bible)

I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live