The Love Lifestyle

YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER... WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OTHERS MURDER (OR AS JESUS SAID EVEN GET ANGRY WITH OUR BROTHER) OUR NEIGHBOUR GETS HURT WE ARE FAILING TO LOVE THEM.

YOU SHALL NOT STEAL.... WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE STEAL OUR NEIGHBOUR GETS HURT WE ARE FAILING TO LOVE THEM.

YOU SHALL NOT COVET...... WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE COVET OUR NEIGHBOUR GETS HURT AND WE ARE FAILING TO LOVE THEM.

AND WHAT EVER COMMAND THEIR BE ARE SUMMED UP IN THIS ONE COMMAND “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF”

SO ALL THE COMMANDS ARE SUMMED UP WITH ONE COMMAND TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOUR AS WE LOVE OURSELVES. SO REAL LOVE TOWARDS OTHERS WILL NOT IGNORE, NEGLECT, ABDICATE OR EXCUSE THE LIFESTYLES OF OTHERS AND THEIR OWN. BUT WILL LIVE OUT LIFESTYLES OF LOVE BY FULFILLING THE LAW IN SOCIETY, CHARACTERISED BY RIGHT LIVING IN SOCIETY AT LARGE.

THIS TYPE OF CHRISTIAN WILL NOT BE SEEN BY YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS ONE TO BE AVOIDED, TO BE SEEN AS ODD BUT AS ONE TO BE THE MOST TRUSTED NEIGHBOUR OF ALL.

3) LIFESTYLES WHICH ARE DIFFERENT V11 – 14.

WHEN YOU ARE OUTSIDE OF THIS CHURCH AWAY FROM THE FELLOWSHIP AND OUT IN THE WORLD OR BEHIND YOUR OWN FOUR WALLS DOES YOUR CHARACTER CHANGE? DO YOU CHANGE LIKE THE IGUANA AND BLEND INTO YOUR SURROUNDINGS.

ARE YOU LIKE A THERMOMETER OR A THERMOSTAT ... DO YOU JUST GO ALONG WITH THE TEMPERATURE IN THE ROOM IN A GIVEN SITUATION SO AS THE TEMPERATURE RISES SO DO YOU. OR ARE YOU LIKE A THERMOSTAT ABLE TO CONTROL THE TEMPERATURE IN A ROOM .

WE ARE CALLED TO LIVE LIFESTYLES WHICH ARE DIFFERENT.... DO YOU DAILY ASK YOURSELF (W.W.J.D ) MANY PEOPLE USE THAT STATEMENT IN A WRONG WAY: CONDONING THEIR LIFESTYLE CHOICES IN BEING LIKE THE WORLD. WELL JESUS WOULD PUT HIMSELF IN AWKWARD SITUATIONS HE MIXED WITH SINNERS AND TAX COLLECTORS, BUT YOU AND I NEED TO REMEMBER YOUR NOT JESUS! HE WAS THE PERFECT SON OF GOD WHO NEVER FELL FROM TEMPTATION AND NEVER SINNED, WE DO.

A. LIFESTYLES WHICH ARE WATCHFUL..... V11 -12 JESUS IS COMING AGAIN .... WHAT WILL HE FIND YOU DOING? WE NEED TO AWAKE OUT OF SLUMBER V11 WE ARE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND NOT DARKNESS WE ARE TO PUT ASIDE THOSE THINGS THAT WE ONCE DID AND NOT CONTINUE IN THEM.... UNBELIEVERS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE ASLEEP OBLIVIOUS TO THE TRUTH OF HIS RETURN

V12 ASK YOURSELF WHEN CHRIST RETURNS WHAT WILL HE FIND YOU DOING.....

B. V13 LIFESTYLES WHICH ARE DECENT.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN DOWN IN LEICESTER CITY ON A SATURDAY DAY TIME , PEOPLE GOING ABOUT THEIR SHOPPING BEHAVING DECENTLY AS A WHOLE BUT AS NIGHT FALLS THE CITY CENTRE TAKES ON A NEW FORM . YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE MEN AND WOMEN SCANTILY DRESSED INEBRIATED , THUGS INTENT ON VIOLENCE, INDIVIDUAL MEN AND WOMEN WITH ONE THING ON THEIR MIND SEXUAL IMMORALITY WITH WHOEVER, WEEK AFTER WEEK , ALL TYPES OF DISSENSION AND JEALOUSIES TAKE PLACE FIGHTS BREAK OUT. HERE WE SEE INDIVIDUALS GRATIFYING THEIR SINFUL NATURE PEOPLE WHO DWELL IN DARKNESS, PEOPLE WHO ARE IN SLUMBER.

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE – ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE - IF SO YOU NEED TO TURN AWAY - A CHRISTIAN NEEDS TO BE DIFFERENT NOT LIKE IT.... WE ARE TO BE DECENT LIVING HOLY LIVES THAT IS THE CHRISTIAN LIFESTYLE NOT AN OPTION.