Sermon Tone Analysis

EXPECTATION FOR EACH SUNDAY THIS SEMESTER: That you consider Peter’s words and what it would mean to apply them in your own life.

Ready yourself to consider the text - my work is to help you understand it - the table time is for you to begin processing.

Each week moving forward I want to give you time to consider a response to God’s word, write it down on the sheets in front of you and leave it in the jar at your table.

You will receive this back this week via text, mail, email or in person.

We will try this for the rest of the semester for the purposes of being not merely hearers of the word but doers of the word.

Prayer: God - open my heart to your truth this morning as I seek to understand it and how I should respond

(1) Fix your Hope | (2) Be Holy | (3) Conduct yourself in Fear

Recap from the first two weeks

The past 2 weeks we have looked at verses 1-12 speak about our how our identity is found in the awesome salvation that has come to be ours through Jesus Christ, how our trials are proof of our faith and about we have waiting for us - the completion of our salvation.

Verses 1–12 celebrate what God has done for believers in Jesus Christ, featuring the saving work of the Father, Son, and Spirit (v. 2), emphasizing the certain inheritance of believers (vv.

3–5), focusing on their love for and joy in God (vv.

6–9), and highlighting how privileged they are to live in the days when God’s promises are being fulfilled (vv.

10–12).

Peter now turns to three imperatives (or commands) we have to these truths (indicatives) we spoke about the last 2 weeks.

First you must...

"Verses 1–12 celebrate what God has done for believers in Jesus Christ, featuring the saving work of the Father, Son, and Spirit (v. 2), emphasizing the certain inheritance of believers (vv.

3–5), focusing on their love for and joy in God (vv.

6–9), and highlighting how privileged they are to live in the days when God’s promises are being fulfilled (vv.

10–12).

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(1) Fix Your Hope

read verse 13 ->

Thomas R. Schreiner, 1, 2 Peter, Jude, vol.

37, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2003), 76.

Imperative - fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought you!

Imperative - fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought you!-> fix - attach or position securely; direct or be directed unwaveringly toward

FIX YOUR HOPE ON

Imperative - fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought you!-> fix - attach or position securely; direct or be directed unwaveringly toward

attach or position securely; direct or be directed unwaveringly toward

Secure - your trust "totally" (100%) on the grace to be brought you

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SECURE - your trust "totally" (100%) on the grace to be brought you

GRACE TO BE BROUGHT YOU

Think about this phrase this way…If grace is unmerited favor, How much grace has been given you by your parents from the day you were born until this day?

A lot right!

And of a very specific variety.

Throughout your life you have been given things and shown things that you didn't deserve but that has all become common place.

There was a day with my other children and is still the day with our youngest now that I can give her something of the smallest value that she treasures like she won the lottery.

For our youngest that is a piece of bread | For our middle child that is piece of clothing | For our oldest it’s a pretty expensive toy

For our middle child that is piece of clothing

For our oldest it’s a pretty expensive toy

Our favor to them has developed somewhat of their appetite for how they perceive our love.

(EX) Wedding Day

But there is one day where the grace brought to us on this earth can't be matched.

And it is often the wedding day from the brides perspective because the father of the bride is often giving and paying an enormous price that for once the bride cannot overlook nor will she ever get over it.

On this day the the grace to be brought is overwhelming It is a day that many a little girl has their hope set on - and your wedding day is just a day

(EX) Judgement Day/Wedding Day

Peter is here telling us to fix our "Hope" on the time when all the grace of the universe will come to fruition in the making of our person whole again at the second coming of Jesus.

This settled state will not be the most wonderful day we have ever had it will be the beginning of an eternity with Him.

All the grace that has been granted through the atoning work of the Cross will be manifest and received in a way we will never be able to get over.

Judgement day will be a wedding day for those who are his, because the "grace brought" will so overwhelm the scales in our favor…."

oh what a sinner I am…if only I had a savior

This same scene is conceived in

"if only we had someone worthy to open the scroll and break its seal…and I began to weep loudly for no one was found worthy…but then one of the elders said to me - weep no more - behold the lion of the tribe of Judah has conquered…"

Are we there?

Do we see what it is that we fix our hope on and how amazing that is? -> fix your hope on that!!!!

PREPARE (ready) YOUR MINDS FOR ACTION

-> fix your hope on that!!!!

NOW THE REST OF THE VERSE…

NOW THE REST OF THE VERSE…by preparing your minds for action (Gird up the loins of your mind) - put on the workout clothes of your mind (?)Here is what we need to get about the idea of prepping or being ready

Preparing your minds for action (Lit.

“Gird up the loins of your mind”) - put on the workout clothes of your mind (?)

Here is what we need to get about the idea of prepping or being ready

Luke 12:35 (NASB95)

Our issue is not how to do it - because we know how to prep for some stuff - its this particular object "the mind" that we don't "prep" much and not for the reason of action

Be in Readiness

35 “Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit.

Its not how to do it - because we know how to prep for some stuff - its this particular object "the mind" that we don't "prep" much and not for this reason action

You prepare for all kinds of things = Tests, Presentations, Performances, Going Out, Hurricanes

What about Holiness!

Prepare you minds for action!

What is the action?

Holiness!

being self-controlled.

For What? - Holiness!

BE SOBER IN SPIRIT

being self-controlled or serious.

For What? - Holiness!

I often think of the times when I indicate to my children that if they didn’t understand I was serious in what I was saying before - I mean it now!

“HEY, I AM SERIOUS KNOCK IF OFF”, or “DO WHAT I AM ASKING YOU”

Have you ever imagined God saying, “knock it off, lets get down to business?”

(2) Be Holy

Holy is a descriptive adjective with the force of exerting effort on our part - this is said in a way that leads us to believe that we have at least some say in our holiness.

14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

this is not like someone telling you to be Red, Tall or Invisible - this is something God expects

commands are not wants - they are expectations with consequences

15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;

Holy is a descriptive adjective with the force of exerting effort on our part - this is said in a way that leads us to believe that we have at least some say in our holiness.

(NASB95)

(NASB95)

16 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

1 Peter 1:17

Be HolyHoly is a descriptive adjective with the force of exerting effort on our part - this is said in a way that leads us to believe that we have at least some say in our holiness.

(NASB95)

Be Like ME!

to be pure and holy is to be obedient children and to not is to be disobedient children.

Disobedient children are not like God and would be out are out of correct relationship with the parent and should be fearful of this circumstance, because it

(3) Conduct Yourself in Fear During Your Time on Earth

Conditional Statement aimed at those who consider God their father

3 ‘You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes.

Conditional Statement aimed at those who consider God their father

4 ‘You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the Lord your God.

This person who you claim as your father is also the impartial judge of humanity.