3 Ways to Stand Alone in a Wicked Generation

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There are three people in Scripture who took a great risk to stand alone for righteousness in the midst of a generation filled with wickedness.

Certainly they had no idea that the difficult decision they made would be remembered for all of history; that it would be talked about and held up as an example for millennia of generations.

But for each of them, the decision they made marked history.

Had they chosen differently, history as we know it today would be severely altered.

Dr. F. Dean Hackett shares 3 victorious ways to stand alone in a wicked generation, following the examples of Noah, Joseph, and Esther, without being critical and judgmental.

There are three important areas where Noah, Joseph and Esther serve as examples for us today.

1. They are an example of how to make a choice to now allow negative circumstances to determine our future.

Your past and present circumstances do not have to determine your future or your identity.

 2. They are example of how to make the choice that you will not allow culture and peer pressure to determine the course of your life. 

We don’t have to live by culture and peer pressure. Jesus Christ gives us a new identity.

3. They are an example of how to make the choice that you will stand alone when everyone else is doing that which is wrong.

One of the most challenging things we do as believers is make the choice to stand alone when other Christians are doing it.

When you make the choice to take this kind of a stand, you have to make sure that your heart is free from criticalness, a judgmental spirit, and spiritual arrogance.

Learning to live in a spirit of “others may, I cannot”, will require you to keep a humble, gracious, loving spirit so that you are not being critical and judgmental.

Listen to this entire video on my YouTube channel as a message delivered to my congregation at Living Faith Church in Hermiston, OR. 

 

 

 

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F. Dean Hackett has served in full time Christian ministry since October 1971. He has ministered throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, serving as pastor, conference speaker and mentor.

He has planted four churches, assisted in planting fifteen others, and currently serves as Lead Pastor of Living Faith Church in Hermiston, Oregon.

Dean has been married forty-five years to his wife, Wanda. They have three children serving in full time Christian ministry. Their two daughters are missionaries in Croatia and their son is planting a church in Portland, Oregon. They have nine grandchildren.

Dr. Dean is known for training many leaders who are presently in full time ministry around the world. He has completed a Masters in Ministry, a Masters of Theology and a Ph.D. in practical theological with an emphasis in marriage and family counseling. His enthusiastic and challenging ministry has made him a popular teacher and conference speaker. He has written eight books and is presently writing the third book in a trilogy Freedom Series.

Dr. Hackett founded Spirit Life Ministries International in 2001 to facilitate ministries in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina and to open a training center for workers in those nations.

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