INFLUENCER – Week 2 Behavior
INFLUENCER definition is - one who exerts influence: a person who inspires or guides the actions of others; specifically: a person who can generate interest in something (such as a consumer product) by posting about it on social media. “INFLUENCE” =the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone else! Everyone influences someone. Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted individual will influence 10,000 other people during his or her lifetime.
My great-grand-pa Ben would have turned 121 on the 8th, how culture has changed!
Text: *1 Tim. 4:12-16 – be thou an “EXAMPLE” (too'-pos) = a die as struck or cast! How? - #1 in word, #2 IN CONVERSATION (anastrophe) = behavior! #3 in charity, #4 in spirit, #5 in faith, #6 in purity.
#1 CHANGE
*Read Matt. 24:37 – then Gen.6:1-9 (Matt. 13:24-42 & Dan. 2:43 & 7:25) Just 10 generations spanned the 1656 years between the day God made Adam and the day Noah entered the ark to ride out the great flood.
#2 CHANGED
*Read Gal. 1:13-17 – note V.13 – “wasted = was wasting –(portheo) See Acts 9:21! Note Vs. 16- grace changed Paul to V.17 – “REVEAL” God’s Son to the heathen!
#3 CONDUCT
*Read 1 Pet. 1:18-19, 2:12, 3:1-2& 16- note your “CONVERSATION” preaches by conduct!
Illustration: In the 1840s, John Geddie left the pastorate of a church in Canada to take his wife and two small children to the South Sea Islands to begin a mission work there. After a voyage of more than 20,000 miles, they arrived in the New Hebrides Islands at Aneityum. The island chain was filled with cannibals, and more than twenty crew members of a British ship had been killed and eaten just months before the Geddies arrived on the mission field.
They faced the difficulty of learning a language that had no written form and the constant threat of being killed. Slowly at first, a few converts came, and then soon many more received the Gospel. Geddie continued his ministry faithfully, including translating the entire Bible into the native language and planting twenty-five churches. For many of those years, Geddie labored with little help and little word from home, but God was faithful to His servant. In the pulpit of the church Geddie pastored for so many years stands a plaque in his honor which says: “When he landed in 1848, there were no Christians here, and when he left in 1872 there were no heathen.”.
