Monday, April 8

I exhort you as aliens and temporary residents to keep abstaining from fleshly desires.
—1 Pet. 2:11.

The Israelites were told that if they obeyed Jehovah, they would become his “special property out
of all other peoples.†(Ex. 19:5)When faithful, Israel differed from all other nations in worship
and way of life. Similarly today,Jehovah has separated for himself a people who are markedly
different from Satan’s world.

We are told: “Repudiate ungodliness and worldly desires and . . . live
with soundness of mind and righteousness and godly devotion . . .while we wait for the happy hope
and glorious manifestation of the great God and of the Savior of us, Christ Jesus,who gave himself
for us that he might deliver us from every sort of lawlessness and cleanse for himself a people peculiarly his own, zealous for fine
works.†(Titus 2:11-14)

This “peopleâ€is made up of anointed Christians
and millions of Jesus’ “other sheep,†who aid and support them.

—John 10:16. w11 11/15 3:15, 16
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