Being Different Makes a Difference

BEING DIFFERENT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

4. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,

5. and said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."

6. But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." So Samuel prayed to the LORD.

7. And the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

8. "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day; with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods; so they are doing to you also.

9. "Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them."

Matthew 5:14-16

14 "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

15 "Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

16 "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.Because you have rejected knowledge,I also wil l reject you from being priest for Me;Because you have forgotten the law of your God,I also wil l forget your children.

1 Corinthians 14:34

34. “Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.”

Timothy 2:1212. “And I do not permit a woman to teach or to

have authority over a man, but to be in silence.”

11. “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.”

2. “Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: 'You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.’”

Ex. 19:6

6. “And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

3. “You shall have no other gods before Me.”

13. “And in al l that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.”

Deuteronomy 13:6-9

6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, 7 of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, 8 you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

Exodus 32:4

4.  And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf.

Numbers 25:3 Numbers 25:3

3. So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel.

10 When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose af ter them who did not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for Israel.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness11 Then the children of Israel did evi l in the sight of the

Lord, and served the Baals; 12 and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were al l around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. 14 And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

1 Samuel 8:5

5. "Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations."

1 Samuel 8:7

7. “for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.”

Roman 1:26-27

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

35. "Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!

Matthew 5:14

14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

LUKE 2:47

47. “And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.”

Acts 9:22 Acts 9:22

22. “But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Jesus is the Christ.”

14. “Let all that you do be done with love.”

8.  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were sti l l sinners, Christ died for us.

Phil ippians 2:8

8. “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”

Deuteronomy 5:32

32. “Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.”

5. “As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse; for they are a rebell ious house; yet they wil l know that a prophet has been among them.”