Attitude Adjustment

Attitude Adjustment

1 Peter 4:1-5
Therefore, since Christ suffered physically, you too are to arm yourselves with the same attitude. For whoever has suffered physically is finished with sin,
with the result that he lives the rest of his earthly life no longer controlled by human desires, but by God's will.
For you have spent enough time already living the way the pagans want you to live — in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties and forbidden idol-worship.
They think it strange that you don't plunge with them into the same flood of dissoluteness, and so they heap insults on you.
But they will have to give an account to Him who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

We must be armed with the same Attitude –
As Christ.

What type of attitude did Jesus have?
Well we know that when Jesus
Took a stand on an issue
Like working on the Sabbath
The Religious leaders
Did not like His position
When he took a stance on
How to deal with the woman caught in adultery
The religious leaders didn’t like His position

Today is no different
Pastors are immediately attacked –
if we issue any direction,
or correction.
if we take a stand for something
there is always the “religious ones”
who complain –
and take offense

the reason why great
offense has come to the church
it’s because of
the feminization of Jesus

So if we fail to act in a feminine manor
We are attacked

Love to many people
is the “flower power”
type of love
If you love me
you’ll just leave me alone
to do my own thing.

However, If he is lord
Then He don’t just leave you alone.
Try bowing
Every time to you call Him Lord
That will give you the
Understanding we need
As to who Jesus really is.

The feminization of God
Has caused many churches
to not speak the whole truth

For instance
1 Peter 4:1 – Arm yourself is a military term

Think of the many men
who think church is for women
It was the opposite manner
in the time of the apostles

When people thought of Temple –
It was a male dominated
Jewish synagogue world
Listen, the
Instructions to women
in the New testament
Only shows that women were allowed to be in attendance –
Peter and Paul in their writings
included them

And so
when you try and apply the rules
of New testament living
to today
Your missing something

When the women were getting instructions,
it was on
how to enter a men’s world.

Our culture has no idea –
So when they read the New Testament
They are offended
And think women are not allowed
Or women are to be excluded
But that is not true

The apostles knew
That for women to be powerful
In the gospel
And to be accepted by society
They had to enter the men’s world
And be accepted

Therefore they had to follow certain rules,
So the culture of the time
Would accept the women
And not discard them

So most of what was written then
Was culturally based –
And does not apply to today’s world.

There are certain things that women
Then needed to be told
For instance
They needed to be told
not to shave their heads
Because although the women thought it
A Fashion statement


Those that practiced it
Were prostitutes.

There were temple prostitutes