Telling It Like It Is!

I Pet. 3:10-17

Statements that you may hear fromothers…

I MAY NOT BE DOING WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, BUT YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO JUDGE ME. I KNOW THE BIBLE CONDEMNS THAT!

You may have heard someone say: YOU SPEAK OF HAVING TO OBEY

GOD ON THE BASIS OF “COMMANDS, EXAMPLES, AND NECESSARY INFERENCES.” WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT IDEA?

Have you ever heard anyone say that?

DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT “COMMANDMENTS” AND “LAW.” WE ARE NO LONGER UNDER LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE (ROMANS 6:14), AND THEREFORE WE NOW HAVE FREEDOM IN CHRIST (GALATIANS 5:1).

What about this idea that is sometimes advanced!

I REALIZE THAT GOD WAS STRICT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND EVEN STRUCK PEOPLE DEAD, BUT NOW THROUGH CHRIST, GOD IS FAR MORE LENIENT.

What about this idea… I CAN’T BELIEVE GOD IS AS PICKY AS Y

OU MAKE HIM OUT TO BE. IF WE LOVE HIM AND ARE SINCERE IT DOESN’T MATTER IF WE DO EVERYTHING EXACTLY THE WAY THE BIBLE SAYS.

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Telling It Like It Is

10 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

11. Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

12. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

14. But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear

16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falseley accuse your good conversation in Christ.

17 For it is better if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Peter is the writer of thesewords

A prescription is given to Christians if they Want to live a good life and see good days..

Peter tells it like it is!

1. Refrain his tongue from evil And his his lips that they speak no guile… ..Psalms 34 12 What man is he that

desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

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2. Peter, Tell It Is like It is…Let him eschew evil, and do good Let him seek peace, and ensue it. Psalms 34 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and

thy lips from speaking guile. 14 Depart from evil ,and do good; seek peace,

and pursue it. .. Job…1: 1 There was a man in the land of

Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

3. There is a reason why God tells us to do what he desires! Peter, Tell it like it is!

V. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil..

Peter, TELL IT LIKE IT IS!

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and be ready …

When? Always What? To give an answer To whom? Every man that asketh you a

reason WHY? Of the hope that is in you How? With meekness and fear..

Authority.. JESUS. Matt.28:18-20 Col. 3:17

Who will be lost? Tell it like it is!

Rev. 21:8 “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Will Most People be lost? Tell it like it is!.

Matt. 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that

leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which

leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Matt. 25:46 46 And these shall go away into everlasting

punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Cf. John 5:28, Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

What is the condition of an erring Christian? 2 Pet. 2:20-22 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of

the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Tell It Like It Is! A Man’s name was given to warn us!!

2 Tim. 4:10 for Demas hath

forsaken me, having loved this present world

Tell it like it is! Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No

man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

What will happen to those who have ‘forsaken the assemblies’… Heb. 10:25 not forsaking the assembling of

ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

God knows it! Everyone present knows it! If you could have been present, But chose not to, you have done what God said not to do! TELL IT LIKE IT IS

Never been baptized! Tell like it like it is! Acts 22:16 Arise…and he did! Acts 9:18

John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Acts 26:28 “Almost……LOST!

I Pet. 3:21 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism

doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

How can you be saved without that which saves you??????

John 8:1-11 Woman taken in adultery

..John 8: 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn

thee: go, and sin no more.

God will forgive us…but we need to quit sinning!

I John 1:7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

I John 1:9

A little sin will add to your trouble,

substract from your energy, and multiply your

difficulties! - Selected

I John 2:1-2 1 My little children, these things write I unto

you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Tell It as it is!

Good Morning, God! Helen S.Rice You are ushering in another day Untouched and freshly new So here I come to ask you, God If you’ll renew me too. Forgive the many errors That I made yesterday And let me try again, dear God To walk closer in Thy way. But Father, I am well aware I can’t make it on my own So take my hand And hold it tight For I can’t walk alone!

Someone has said:

A weakness of many of us is that we want others to be better than we are willing to be ourselves.

No book but the BIBLE. No creed but the CHRIST. No name but the DIVINE. No plea but the GOSPEL. No aim but to SAVE. In Christ—UNITY In Opinions- LIBERTY In All Things—CHARITY!