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Cross-Living 2. Acts 21-23: In the Kosmos. Cross-Bearing: Brothers and Sisters. Cross-Living: the Fruitful Life. I’m NICE!. I’m not. I’m not. Cross-Living: the Fruitful Life. " Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword .”
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Cross-Living 2 Acts 21-23: In the Kosmos
I’m NICE! I’m not I’m not Cross-Living: the Fruitful Life
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” Matthew 10:34 Cross-Living: the Fruitful Life
Legalists 21:17-32 • Offended by God’s Grace. • Disdain “Dirty Heathens” • “If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.” Romans 12:18 • NOT “Peace at any price” Kosmos Cross-Living
Legalists 21:17-32 • Offended by God’s Grace. • Disdain “Dirty Heathens” • “If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.” Romans 12:18 • NOT “Peace at any price” • Live with it "Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.” Luke 6:26 Kosmos Cross-Living
Confused People 21:33-40 • Don’t Understand Kosmos Cross-Living
Confused People 21:33-40 • Don’t Understand • Win Them! Don’t Fight Them! Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Peter 2:12 Kosmos Cross-Living
Adverse People 22:1-23 • Forgive Boldly Kosmos Cross-Living
Adverse People 22:1-23 • Forgive Boldly Kosmos Cross-Living
Adverse People 22:1-23 • Forgive Boldly • Testify Boldly For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation… Romans 1:16 Kosmos Cross-Living
DANGEROUS People 22:23-23:10 • Don’t strike back! Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord. Romans 12:19 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 Kosmos Cross-Living
DANGEROUS People 22:23-23:10 • Don’t strike back! • Don’t be presumptuous! Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, "Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day." Acts 23:1 Kosmos Cross-Living
DANGEROUS People 22:23-23:10 • Don’t strike back! • Don’t be presumptuous! • Get Outta There! Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Or you will also be like him. Proverbs 26:4 Kosmos Cross-Living
“Take COURAGE!” 23:11 • JC Comes To Our Rescue • Don’t Fall Under Accusation “…the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death. Revelation 12:10-11 for He Himself has said, "I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU," Hebrews 13:5 Kosmos Cross-Living
“Take Courage!” There’s LOTS of… • Legalists • Confused • Adverse • Dangerous Kosmos Cross-Living