STAY STRANGE

 “There is no better way of taking flies than with honey, and no better way of getting men to Christ than by drawing them to him by a display of the privileges and advantages which belong to a godly life.”“But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself:  PSALM 4:3The ungodly cannot comprehend the godly; they scoff at them, they turn their glory into shame because they themselves love vanity and seek after lying. The godly man is not understood by the people among whom he dwells; God has made him to be a stranger and a foreigner in their midst. They who are born twice have a life which cannot be comprehended by those who are only born once. Those who have received the Spirit of God have a new spirit within them which is so singular that the carnal mind cannot perceive what it is. When a man has become a new creature in Christ Jesus, the old creatures round about him cannot make head or tail of him. They look at him, they see him actuated by motives which they cannot understand, they see that he is kept in check by forces which they do not acknowledge, that he is constrained by energies of which they are not partakers, and that he looks for a something which they do not desire; so the Christian becomes in a measure like to Christ himself. SPURGEON"There is something peculiar about the creatures that are being made to go through the metamorphosis of spiritual life. The changes that have begun are irreversible; the farther we go, the more they are undeniable." (T.Jupp)TEXT: MATTHEW 5:10-16SONGS: GOOD GRACE, HILLSONG UNITEDRE-SURRENDER: HILLSONGI BELIEVE: JOHNATHAN HESSLER