God's Enduring Word - 1 Peter 1:23-26

Does it make a difference where you from? If you're from the West Coast to East Coast Southeast Northeast the word of God does not change?

Last three messages, we know that first Peter is framed and situation on historical context. That is troublesome to those who are Christians. Do you remember anything about Christianity and persecution?

Christian Jews of the diaspora as it's called has been spread out. So what's happened now is Christian folk and Jewish Christians are saying to themselves. How can we concentrate on worshipping God when our government is in the business of Annihilator in God and you need to concentrate all these things but yet and still will living in and under or vagene that's about the business of Exterminating us as a people. I'm quite sure that that that it sound like it was some cognitive dissonance there. There's a disconnect because Peter says yes.

You mean? Yes that we should worship God even though they're trying to kill us talk to your sister. Give me we need to concentrate on living a holy life because your dog hasn't changed it. Even though your circumstances are what they are and one day you'll circumstance will change and you're holding lies need to dictate. That you still remember the same God.

Fastest route to change I'll department. Alright tivity. It should only a front. Find me thank you God for this day. We thank you Father for your goodness to us and we pray now Lord that you allow your spirit. The comment I'll Mitch to bring about encouragement father bring about empowerment father. So we as his fluid in the name of your son. Jesus flower stage. The grass was with the word about God endures forever in Jesus name weather today with that said, The question is what is the connective Factor? Because those of us who walk in Hope. End in Holiness charged and challenged to walk also in harmony with one another and so what is the connective Factor? What is the thing that binds us is there's only one thing other than our relation to Jesus and that's God's enduring word Southeast Northeast. The word of God does not change because it does not change. It gives us the same encouragement for those who are suffering under persecution for those of us who are living outside. The prosecution Peterson is this in these three things that God's enduring word should do. The first thing he says he is God's enduring word purifies us the evidence of a person who is God's word is a purely. I want to know something. Is that a perfect life. It's a pure life isn't making any mistakes that you don't have any faults. And for was I just stopped by to tell you that they're reading the wrong but we spell you got the Moses. He murdered somebody you got David he murder somebody commit adultery somebody to kill some other phone. You got all those who shrink back you got every character in the Bible. Watch this who did not live a perfect life.

Eventually, they came around to where God said and so now they have these pure lies. So Peter, he gives us these three things here. The first thing he says in this particular verse here and brush 22 1st Peter chapter 1

1st Peter chapter 1 verse 22

He says seeing he have purified your souls and obedience to the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned. Love of the Brethren see that that is pay attention. You love one another with a pure heart fervently the truth Queen live by doing them Ol Dirty Deeds.

you can't disconnect that from one another one plus one equals one on the words of those flies buzz and when they call these noncontradiction Theory a squared plus b equals c Famous people at all times any point in time? It is illegal aliens no longer true. It's true for me to become a better Christian by practicing Christian principle is also told me that what I'm not doing it. I'm not becoming a better person who believe that you can keep on living the same way even though you got

You got to start out. You got to start out like you can hold out if you got saved by the way, you keep on doing it. He says that what we needed.

rich to continue to do it for secondly it's done and by the power of the spirit don't know where is you don't have to do it alone. The holy spirit is empowering you and I to do this to be nice to be understood as unhypocritical.

You know, they ain't doing stuff because they align I called in the utilitarian Christians. They know one day. Cashier with all the good things I've done. Where you can figure this out is all you got to do is not do something they ask you to do and that's when they remind you were when I did that so-and-so for you. Is that for what you can get?

Peter says Let It Be unseen, let it be uncompromising. Let it be unhypocritical love so much so that it cannot be doubted there in relationships for what they can get. They've already sized you up Lord have mercy

what they can get. They know they can get food. They know they can get money. They know they can get something else. They shouldn't get to Lord have mercy stop right there.

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you got you got to be careful sisters. And Brooke, I know the situation right now. Where a guy has gone off the reservation or something that he should not have gone off the reservation.

So he says he is enjoying word of God is pure files Us by first O'Banion but secondly is done by way of the spirit that is really pounding. But also by fervently loving each other. What does it mean to verbally love a person that makes me go all out. That means not to be halfway to get ahold of people that they love you and they love you when it's always a particular word or something that go with me for I love you, but on it for when one and you don't love me. You got to put another word between it. God didn't said if you do this Outlook. I'm on now before the foundation of the world, even though there was no reason to love us God. In Spite of Ourselves

So he calls on us to love one another the way that he loved that you don't love your neighbor.

Give up something in order to take advantage of paying you need to ask yourself. Am I really loving that person?

That's what you need to ask yourself. And if you feel like you're not giving enough love then the question is what does enough looks like? the first of all God's enduring word purifies, but secondly it brings about a new birth Wicked verse 2324 He says being born again, not of corruptible seed but of Incorruptible by the word of God, which living antibody for us for all grass for All Flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as a flower branch in the grass withereth the flower thereof falleth away, New Life. You know, you heard the story of the sower heading to seeds. But what the part that that's so interesting though is not just a sort of soil.

Good Grant. The sister word of God can go in a person's life, but not manifest for yield because there's so many weeds of the life that's in and around and they're trying to help you out.

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Standing between you and Doc nothing or no one should stand between you and your relation with God nothing and no-one just stand between you and your relationship with nothing and no one else to do.

the stand between them and God that you have all eternity to pay for that.

people They just going to leave for a little while and I still don't have anything that they can really give you what you into the way of God and encourage you to stay on that back. I see it happen all the time, but the men. They're doing fine. I mean they're doing great. Help me out a little bit.

God's vision for you is always Progressive. He's going for the plant that was born in one day. It just decided to go back down to the ground. You have to sit down after the war.

You got folks.

Who played that way sometime? Then you burp gives them the license to participate don't like no it does. Can you burp produces new life and what did all the attendant consequences and things that go along with that?

I don't want you smoking in my house.

I don't want you cussing in my house.

This is not a garbage can and see what you need to hear the new conversation about coming to town. They don't even matter if they go hang out with him. Where you at church know. What what you doing?

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Look what he said she about this. He says the way that it happens is through an Incorruptible seed. The first group are plastic burn Play Born of humanity and that first birth the Bible tells us that somebody guarantees us at least 80 years 380 juice that and he will expire we will. We will kick the bucket.

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The seed of God that is all Birth by way of Jesus will last forever must put on immortality and this corruption must put on incorruption. That's the only way we can continue to experience the new life after this get back into the dark after he had fallen in send. Well that would means he would have to prominently

Adam in a sinful State forever. He will be unredeemable for that to happen all the blood from the from the skin to Denby punching him from his son so he can show that he's been exposed to from the guy was not punitive but rejected in the back is always getting back that which is his gods in the business of giving you a new life. Not an old life. That's why I did it that way. He made sure that Adam was in a position that can be redeemed in right now. God is talking to a lot of you and your friend. God is trying to bring you back to me. So try to bring you back right now because he knows he knows better than any of us ever really know what eternity without him looks like. See folks, they like to say they got a deal they can talk to the judge. I know I know right now Michael Cohen is thinking they're going to share something with you. There's no appeal. Once the verdict has been cashed. It. It is done. It's a wrap.

Aspen also by the Eternal Word the papers 24 It makes a comparison contrast. She says flesh is as grass. Use is there if you will a metaphor, I believe or similar he says he says it all of the glory of man is as a flower of grass who works in the bloom is but a moment for the glory man is just a moment. He says the grass withereth the flower thereof all of the way. for the word of the Lord endures forever. Yes. Yes. Yes. But also finally it never Fades on trash in verse 25. He says but the word of the Lord that he says it is eternal and not temporal. God's word is the only word that was staying at the End of Time released and his word will not stand at the end of time. There's nothing the river Stanley can save for you before God that's going to cause you not to experience the result of your accounts with there's nothing that anybody can say to you other than what God's word has said already it is eternal and not ten-forward. And I finally it's finally is declared and not sounding it. So that's what Peter says. She's me. And this is the word. He's making a good impression that he says this word this each other word. This enduring word is the gospel by which we Proclaim unto you

The Constitution does it free? no man-made document frees us from our obligations to God and none of them fixes it so that we can enter into eternity in a relationship with God without any punishment the only document that does that

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the only one The Eternal Word the one that's inspired by God. That's the one that last forever. And that's the word that we preach from. It's the only thing is the only thing in the church is the only institution designed by God to introduce men and women to Jesus Christ on our way. Number one. demands purification you look like you trying to drink clean water out of a dirty glass.

You got to clean the glass. Before you can have some clean water.

Holy living the man Acacia. My daughter told me to slow down. So I'm going to try to slow down.

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a change life Is evident by how we love one another to the world hates? I believe right now Christians in particular that we do this and that but the reality is this is the only Community to accept everybody where they are from.

We just trying to make sure y'all don't try to make us act like y'all just imitators. Come on.

Number 3 your change will not change because God's word will not change. She wants you accepted Christ your personal to say that that's based soundly on the Eternal Word of God. You can't use your salvation is eternal. There's nothing that can separate you from the love of God found in Christ Jesus because God has the best is it that God does not change and he does not lie. And so it's on the basis of God's word that you and I able to stand flat-footed firm to know that even though the storms of life may come you and I will remain forever because our roots are in the foundation of God's word. Amen.

As you're standing on your feet this morning.

very very poignant words Thank you for joining us today. If you happen to be in the Washington DC area. Feel free to join us at the Mount Olive Baptist Church 11 46th Street Northeast, Washington, DC 20002. Again, thanks for listening. God bless you, richly and have a great week.