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Actually, one who participates in the sinful ways of the world makes himself an enemy of God. He is, according to the Bible, an adulteress (see James 4:4). Until the would-be follower of Jesus comes to grip with the reality that he is not of this world, he is relegated to live a life of denial, fear, timidity, and compromise; outside of, and separate from, a right relationship with God.
In fact, this is precisely the process that we can see in the life of Peter. Prior to Pentecost Peter talked a good game. He claimed that he would never deny Chirst (seeMatthew 26:34). Well, talk is cheap. Matthew 26:69-75 exposes Peter as a timid, fearful man, filled with compromise and contradictions. Before the cock crowed Peter had indeed, denied Jesus three times.
But something powerful happened in the life of Peter subsequent to his denials. He came to accept and even embrace his status as someone who was in the world but not of the world. By Acts chapter 4, Peter had been mocked, persecuted, and beaten because of his faith and loyalty to Christ. The association with Jesus that he was once ashamed of, was now counted as a high privilege...
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