Being Different Makes a Difference

1. BEING
DIFFERENT
MAKES A
DIFFERENCE

2. 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."

3. 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.

4.  6 My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest
for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of
your God,
I also will forget your children.

5. 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 2:12
12.“And I do not permit a woman to teach or to
have authority over a man, but to be in silence.”

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

7. 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.’”

8. 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."

9. 3. “You shall have no other gods
before Me.”
13. “And in all 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.”

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Numbers 25:3Numbers 25:3
3. So Israel was
joined to Baal of Peor,
and the anger of the
Lord was aroused
against Israel.

13. 10 When all that generation had been gathered to their
fathers, another generation arose after them who did
not know the Lord nor the work which He had done for
Israel.
Israel’s Unfaithfulness
11 Then the children of Israel did evil 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 all
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.

14. 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."

15. 1 Samuel 8:7
7. “for they have not
rejected you, but they
have rejected Me, that I
should not reign over
them.”

16. 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.

17. 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!

18. Matthew 5:14
14 “You are the light of the
world.A city that is set on a hill
cannot be hidden.

19. LUKE 2:47
47. “And all who heard
Him were astonished
at His understanding
and answers.”

20. Acts 9:22Acts 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.”

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

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

23. Philippians 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.”

24. 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.”

25. 5. “As for them, whether
they hear or whether they
refuse; for they are a
rebellious house; yet they
will know that a prophet
has been among them.”