Chapter 11: God’s Eternal Character

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“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness.” 1 Peter 2:24 NIV

Die To Sins, Live For Righteousness!

It is God’s eternal character that all of His people should die to sins and live for His righteousness. That is to say you obey His commandments.

Yet in the world there are two groups of people, God’s people and Satan’s people. God’s people are not to behave like the heathens or Satan’s people that surround them. God’s people follow God’s “rules of life.” Did God worry about heathen behavior and what they were doing, wickedness like

murdering one another? I don’t think so. In many respects, God held the wickedness up as an example to us of what we are not suppose to do.

So we have always had a mixed group collectively if you look at the

geography. Good exists next to evil. Same thing exists with abortion. Those who cherish life [good] find themselves alongside those who support abortion [evil]. For those in God’s camp, we are to judge them. However, the Apostle Paul provides a different answer for those not with God. Why?

God has already condemned the world and those in it. If you were to worry about everyone evil around you, you would go nuts. Isn’t that fact evidence that God’s people are only a minority in the United States? Sheer numbers?

“In my letter, I wrote to you that you should have nothing to do with people living immoral lives. I was not including everybody in this present world who is sexually immoral, or everybody who is greedy, or dishonest or worships false

gods [or supports abortion]—that would mean you would have to cut yourselves off completely from the world.”

“In fact what I meant was that you were not to have

anything to do with anyone going by the name of brother [or sister] who is sexually immoral, or is greedy, or worships false gods, or is a slanderer or a drunkard or