1 Peter 1:13-21

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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther
Bring Your Mind into Line with the Truth (v. 13)

13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Therefore: Why is Peter able to give this command? Back up to 1 Peter 1:3-7.
Command: Set your hope fully (hope is a feeling)
Bring your mind into line with the truth in 1 Peter 1:3-7
“Biblical thinking serves passionate hoping.” The mind serves emotions. What you know to be true.

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation

Hope what you please; but remember, that hope without truth at the bottom of it, is an anchor without a holdfast. A groundless hope is a mere delusion. Christ’s Incarnation, Page 146
Charles Spurgeon
Bring your Passions into Conformity with the Truth (vv. 14-16)

14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

A true love for God must begin with a delight in his holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
Jonathan Edwards
Spiritual sober-mindedness includes the ideas of steadfastness, self-control, clarity of mind, and moral decisiveness. The sober Christian is correctly in charge of his priorities and not intoxicated with the various allurements of the world.
John F. MacArthur

3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

44 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy.

Also in Lev 18, 19:2; 20:26; 21:8
Fear the Lord (vv. 17-19)

17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Holiness is not something we are called upon to do in order that we may become something; it is something we are to do because of what we already are.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Jesus is the eternal and sole way to God (vv. 20-21)

20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

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