On The Tip of Your Tongue
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Our theme verse for the year is
Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;
Peter writes to the church about the things that they have as believers in Christ.
Things that are spiritual that effect a life that is physical
And he says to the brethren (or the believers) look forward to these things.
Or expect these in your life. and be excited about them
and he finishes by saying and wait and see what they will do in your life. Or in his words, they will enable you to be in peace and pure before your God.
How does that happen? Well ultimately we are going to get to living expectantly of Christ’s return. So as that takes place in your life, you prepare for that to happen.
But as it relates to where we are in the series right now, when we focus on these spiritual traits of life, we begin to live in each and everyone of them exercising them in our daily lives.
So what do we live expectantly in?
Live Expectantly In...
Live Expectantly In...
Our Glorious Inheritance:
Our living hope of that inheritance
It is sure
It is eternal
and it is enduring
Our genuine faith brought about by the one who leaves us the inheritance
A real faith, founded on the real God, which is proven by the fires of a real life.
Our Awesome Salvation
The process of life that ties hope and faith together.
The process of renewal and restoration that changes everything about life and the hereafter. The reason why Peter writes and says, look forward to these things.
We live expectantly in His amazing Grace
Grace that sobers us up toward life.
It matures us spiritually
It causes us to see ourselves in a different light
It wakes us up from the illusions of life and keeps our spiritual eyes wide open
Grace that makes us Holy
no longer chasing after the lusts of this world
no longer unclean because of the sin that we used to be involved in
allowing the Holy Spirt of God to live through us and affect our lives and make us children of God
Grace that makes us children of heaven.
Living under a father who shows no partiality
Experience his everlasting and powerful love every day and in every situation
and Recognizing that we can trust him because of the great price that he paid for us.
Now if we were doing a television commercial, I would say but that’s not all. Act right now and we’ll send you another spiritual gift totally free and all you have to do is pay the postage.
Well the first thing we all know is that God’s gifts are free - Jesus paid for it all and the postage on the Old Rugged Cross.
But there is more.
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Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, because
“All flesh is as grass,
And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
1 Peter 1:
We have been given a Powerful Word
A Word with a Name.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:
In other Words, Jesus is the personification of the Wisdom of Heaven.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He is the personal deliverer of the Word of God into the Flesh. Now because of Him and the Holy Spirit, we don’t just read the Word, but the Word is in us
The Word reads us.
It’s a Word that has a mission
Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
The Word sets us free
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
The Word reveals God to us
He reveals God’s word to us - I only say what I heard the father say
He reveals God’s love to us - I only do what I’ve seen the father do.
We need to live in expectation of what this truth is doing in our lives.
Yes, it sets us free. But that freedom brings so much more into our lives.
The Truth Purifies Your Soul
The Truth Purifies Your Soul
In other words, the truth set you free by dealing with your sin.
We all had a sin problem didn’t we?
The sin problem had no remedy except death. And Jesus came to this earth to die for us.
The Word was put into action.
So live in a way that is excited about being free.
Now as I was preparing this message, I came to this part and froze. I went to prayer and meditation about the sermon and asked God about it.
Our dialogue was short at least from my point. “God I don’t get it. I feel like this is just restating a point over. We all know this. And everyone I’m speaking to would say to me, but I’ve accepted Jesus and his salvation.
But the answer back from Him came as I lay my head upon my pillow one night this week. - Then why aren’t they living in that freedom.
Listen to me church family. Brothers and sisters. I have sat with Christians of all ages who are dealing with stuff.
I deal with stuff.
I’ve sat with men in pornography - they want to be free
I’ve meet with Christians with addictions - nicotine, alcohol, eating, spending
I hear Gods children gossip about another church or people in their own church. We have lunches and prayer meetings or just time together to find out what is going on in every one else’ life.
And you know what I hear - I’m trying to give it up. I feel better and I’m doing a little better, but it’s still there.
And as I prepared this message I head the Holy Spirit of God saying - But they are already free. Tell them that, because I don’t know if they really understand that.
So brothers and sisters, I’m telling you today. Those of us who are struggling to be free, The truth of the Word has already purified our souls
Our souls are that earthly fleshly part of us. Our thinking and our behavior out of those thoughts.
And I know I’m going to step on toes today, but I think I’ll do it as nicely as can be done and still make a point for what God’s Spirit is compelling me to bring out this morning.
In the list that I’ve presented, we all would say pornography is sin - and it is.
But what about Nicotine, what about over spending, over eating what about a little alcohol (after all Paul says a little fermentation does the body good)
I’m not drawing those lines for you today. Because I believe it’s clear in the Word of Truth.
The first thing we see is that sin brings death.
Pornography kills relationships especially the marital relationship
Nicotine will kill at somepoint. How much, and over how long is dependent, it seems, upon the individual and diet and exercise and just earthly life
Alcohol has killed many in its abuse. The Bible says that strong wine is a mocker
Gossiping has killed the life and family unit of many churches.
Overeating is a killer
over spending kills the dreams of people and families
And our list could go on.
Just look at addiction and the heroin epidemic in our country right now.
Is it sin? It brings death. I would say that it was because God’s plan over our lives is to bring us life.
Will it keep us from heaven? If it is sin, it very possibly could. We know that sin cannot enter into the presence of God.
I’m not going to make this call today. You have to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. The problem that I’m getting from the Holy Spirit today is that there isn’t much fear and trembling in serving God in America today.
Here is what I am saying today, I feel, by the very Spirit of God and that is that The Word came in the flesh to die our death of sin
The Word brought the truth of God into the realm of humanity in a way that it could be understood
The Truth of the Word is that Christ died to set us free - and that whom the son has set free is free indeed.
Are you free Indeed today my brothers and sisters?
Or are you still struggling with things that you needn’t be struggling with anymore.
The truth of the Word has purified your souls so live life in expectation of being free.
Let’s do our part in allowing the truth of the Word to free us.
Let’s make sure that in that freedom, we are dead to ourselves and alive to Jesus
Then it won’t be a question anymore of whether this is sin or not, but the answer would be To die is gain and to live is christ.
COMMUNION
A Purified Soul or Heart Gives us A Fervent Love
A Purified Soul or Heart Gives us A Fervent Love
For one another.
But again the question that the Holy Spirit posed to me the other night is if that is the case, than why are my children such a mess in their relationships with one another?
Jesus taught that they (the world) would know that we are his disciples by the way that we love and take care of one another.
When you think of it, the world must laugh at us.
The American church has to look like the most dysfunctional unit around.
We meet every Sunday and during the week, hugging and loving on one another.
We talk about unity and the bonds of love
But as soon as something happens, we cut out and nobody ever hears from us again.
The relationships that we said we had, evidently we didn’t
The unity had to be a facade
Because, there is no possible way that we could walk away from what was supposed to be all important to us
And this is what the World sees
And I hear the Holy Spirit speaking into my heart saying, Tell them that they can live differently.
My brothers and sisters, as Paul would say, this ought not to be.
If you are expecting to move in purified soul then you can also expect to walk in a purified love
A fervent love
And I as your pastor would love to pastor a church full of people who understand (pastor included) that these things we struggle with and the lack of love between us are really substandards to the full and rich life that Jesus died and rose again to give us.
Listen, the truth of God’s word reminds us that we aren’t who we used to be.
We are no longer of corruptible seed - that was our old lives
But we are born now of incorruptible seed - We have been adopted, (fully vested) into the family of God.
Yes, we live on this earth, and yes that means things will come our way, but we are free from those things.
But here is the key.
If we are obeying the truth.
We don’t always like the truth, but we need it.
Jack Nicklause - Truth, you can’t handle the truth
But we can because it comes to us with a whole bunch of love.
So church family, what is it that you have been closing your ears to that the Holy Spirit is trying to speak to you
And if you aren’t hearing anything, than right now invite the Holy Spirit to speak to you
PRAY
When the truth of Gods Word works in your live
Your heart will be purified
And your heart will love again with a love that is far beyond your capacity to love
Peter says, the Word of the Lord endures FOREVER!
PRAY
