Main Passage: Matthew 22-23
Do you remember when we were young, and played different games? Hide and go seek. Remember the song we sung? “Last night and the night before 24 robins knock at the door, I got to let them in, then I hit them in the head with a rollin’ pin are you ready?!” Or this one: “2 pounds of washing powder, 2 pound of soap, all not ready holler billy goat, lol.” Needless to say, I had an interesting childhood. Do you remember stick ball? Or I Know all of you remember Tag, You’re It? When you were it, everybody would run away from you because you were it. Even though we did not know what “it” was, we felt bad and even sometimes would get mad. There was always the kid that would take you to your limit, you know.
My subject today is Tag, Your’re It. Lets look at the word tag.
Tag: a descriptive word or phrase applied to a person, group, organization, etc., as a label or means of identification; epithet. or Hashtag: (on social-networking Web sites) a word or phrase preceded by a hash mark (#), used within a message to identify a keyword or topic of interest and facilitate a search for it:
Have you ever been Tagged as “IT” or have you ever done something that made people associate you with a type of person, group or a kind of behavior? Are they justified? Are some of you carrying a Tag you just can’t shake?
For some of you, that Tag has destroyed your name, reputation, even your life as a Christian.
The Word reads in Mark 8:38Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
I remember when I lived on the farm, I went to a county school where if you got caught doing something wrong you had to sit on a stool in a corner with a dunce pointed hat on your head And you had to sit there that whole period in the corner in front of the class quiet with that dunce hat on you head. Have you been dogged so much in your Christian life that you fill like that kid that sat in that corner? Have you just given up and tried to hide being a Child of God because of what someone said about you or acted towards you?
The Word reads in Galatians 1:10:For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Jesus is saying its time to take the Tag off and live for Him totally by changing who you are to what you should be in Him.
In the Bible reads in Roman 12:2And be not conformed to this world:but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. And always remember2 Corinthians 8:20-21Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.Peter 2:11-12Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 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.Matt. 5:22-23But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
In my conclusion I’ll say this: whatever Tag that has been placed on you from wherever the Bible lets us know in Hebrew 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
You just got to let it go or your bound for a TKO as one song writer wrote.