Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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… our Savior. 1 Peter 2, keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of His visitation. We don't want to spend so much time trying not to stick out when sticking out might be the very thing that is the instrument of leading someone to Christ. Now, we don't want to stick out in the easy ways and we all just wear a certain kind of uniform or we all talk in a certain bizarre sort of speech, but people ought to notice something is different about the things that you watch, about the words that you say, about the way you spend your time, your attitude, the way you spend your money, the way you address your kids, the way you think about marriage and family, you adorn the gospel, not as a substitute for speaking the good news of Christ, but as one of the reasons that the gospel then looks attractive and that some people, some people will have as their story. You won't know it. God will hide most of this from us, not to puff us up, but there will will be people who will have their story in heaven that they saw something in the way you lived and it made them rethink Christianity, made them wonder if maybe they could have some of what you have. …
… God will get the glory we end here 1 Peter 2.12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, you might say, but I thought the conduct is honorable. Why would they speak against you? Because it doesn't have to do with you. They may, though by your good works, which they observe, meaning you've got to live in the world, just not be of it, that they would glorify God in the day of visitation. I love this verse. You know, we're all familiar with Matthew 5.16. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. That's awesome. This verse is similar. I mean, Peter takes an adaptation of that and uses and adds this idea of in the day of visitation. What is that? Well, the day of visitation refers to the day that someone will stand before God. and it will be our witness on that day of being both prudent and pure, wise and harmless that will stand the test in time and God will use it to bring even greater glory to himself by our lives. …
… They may be honest misconceptions, and sometimes they're willful misunderstandings. 1 Peter 2.12 tells us, some people will speak against you as evildoers. That's right there in the first century. That's not new. If you're my age or older, you can remember when the apologetics edge about Christianity was really that Christians believed silly things. They believed dumb things. They believed unscientific things. How can you believe in miracles? How can you believe in a flood, how you can believe in the resurrection, and those are still apologetic issues. And yet increasingly for everyone younger than me and even Gen Z and whatever the next gen will be, it's not simply that that message seems unscientific. It's that Christians are bad, evil people, full of hate, bigoted. the things that you believe. And you can try sometimes until you're blue in the face to try to explain and give the caveats and we should be as winsome and wise as we can and yet sometimes people will simply speak against you as evildoers. …