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Honest Idioms<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nText:<\/strong>\u00a0Proverbs 21:2<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the point?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
There should be a difference between those preparing to depart and those preparing to stay.\u00a0Start packing!\u00a0We are moving not only to a new building but also moving to another world.\u00a0There is a judgment to come and God is looking for a people that will represent him accurately to the world before we depart.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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A.<\/td>\nIdioms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n1.<\/td>\nDefinition of Idiom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/td>\na.<\/td>\nAn expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one’s head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nb.<\/td>\nA\u00a0language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n2.<\/td>\nIdioms of a certain church\u00a0 – We love you, \u201cI\u2019m sure.\u201d\u00a0 It was a local idiom and all the people were used to saying it.\u00a0Sometimes we get so used to the things that we do that it takes a source outside from us, removed from us to bring the natural things that we do to light, so we can really examine them.\u00a0Habits, sins. (Every man is right in his own eyes… Prov. 21:2).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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B.<\/td>\nThe 9th commandment, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. What does that mean?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n1.<\/td>\nOur world is FULL of falsehoods!: Some feel lying is an ART form to be developed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/td>\na.<\/td>\nSurvey about lying.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nb.<\/td>\nFake alibi – article<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nIs it possible that something could become so prevalent that it will become the accepted norm?\u00a0Isn\u2019t that why we go to church and send our children to a Christian school, and choose our friends and associations carefully?\u00a0If we are in the church are we not safe? Ananias and Sapphira were in the church.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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C.<\/td>\nAnanias and Sapphira Acts 5:1-11\u00a0 What did they do? Lying to the HS.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n1.<\/td>\nMen cannot deceive God.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n2.<\/td>\nWhy does God destroy the wicked?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n3.<\/td>\nPretending to be righteous<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n4.<\/td>\nWanting to fit in but unwilling to pay the price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n5.<\/td>\nPracticing deception, with themselves, others and with God.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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D.<\/td>\nWhat God wants from his people<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n1.<\/td>\nIs it possible that God wants Honest Idioms emanating from his people.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1 Peter 2:9-10<\/strong>\u00a0– But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. NKJV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nIsa. 3<\/strong>\u00a0– A\u00a0sweet savior unto God… not a stench.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nProv. 21:2-3<\/strong>\u00a0– Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the hearts.\u00a0To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. NKJV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPs. 51:16-19<\/strong>\u00a0– For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart\u2013 These, O God, You will not despise.\u00a0Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem. Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, NKJV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPhil 2:15<\/strong>\u00a0– that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, NKJV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nLev. 2:14-16<\/strong>\u00a0– ‘If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads. 15 And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain offering. 16 Then the priest shall burn the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD. NKJV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n2.<\/td>\nInfiltrating all that we do?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/td>\na.<\/td>\nBusiness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nb.<\/td>\nFinances<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nc.<\/td>\nDiet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nd.<\/td>\nBy my look and my demeanor?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conclusion:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In this world… but not of this world… not influenced by what others are doing around me.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Your word even to your own hurt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ps. 119:65<\/strong>\u00a0– Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word. KJV<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Submitted by Gary Ford.\u00a0Better Sermons \u00a9 2005-2007. Click here for\u00a0<\/span>usage guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honest Idioms Text:\u00a0Proverbs 21:2 Introduction:\u00a0What is the point? There should be a difference between those preparing to depart and those preparing to stay.\u00a0Start packing!\u00a0We are moving not only to a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}