UPSIDE DOWN KINGDOM Week 18: PANTS ON FIRE - Matthew 5:33-37

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Powell Butte Christian Church

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Life in God’s Upside Down Kingdom comes with a set of principles laid out by the King himself. As we enter into the Kingdom as disciples, we are called to a life marked by attitudes and actions that differ from the Kingdom of this world.In fact it USED to be that the term “Christian” was synonymous with right behavior. Someone might have said a while ago: “That was a Christian thing to do.” Or they’d say “That’s not very Christian of you.” All according to the behavior of the person.But, like a lot of things, that term began to be misused. People started to label things that THEY didn’t approve of as “unchristian” (whether the Bible addressed the issue or not), and eventually everything seemed to fall under the category of “unchristian:” playing cards, movies, dancing, dating… Growing up I didn’t know what to make of my family on my mom’s side, out in Oklahoma; because I knew that they were believers, but … they SMOKED!!! And drank beer occasionally. :)But even though we categorize some things as “unchristian” that don’t deserve that label, the truth remains that there are things that ARE Christian, and there are things that AREN’T. You could simply call these things “right” and “wrong…” BUT there IS a standard that the King of the Upside Down Kingdom has set for those who enter in and conduct their lives in that Kingdom.What we’ve observed over the past decades is a growing number of people who reject that standard. Now what was once called wrong is called a choice. You can’t tell people that they are behaving in the wrong way. But in the Body of Christ, in the Kingdom of God in which believers live, Jesus calls us to a higher standard.