Hope In Trouble Times - 1 Peter 1:1,2
And that the idea for knowledge has to do with one of the arms of God. That is the omniscience of God. And what God does is he selects the word they use that actually is the word election and what it means is that God has chosen you. Serverless selected you.
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He shows you despite your race. Despite the city you came from he shows you watch this watch this now. You might have thought that I have failed miserably but God look down and he said despite your failure. He's fat. And he shows you despite your failure.
Things that I think their folks need to understand about God being worthy to make a difference whether you say anything or not in bed yet don't change whether not he's worried. He's worthy. What do you want to buy into that? I'm not what you want to say, Amen or not. What do you want to stand on your feet or not? What do you want to slap your hands and not really want to start no matter what's going on. No matter how you feel we still
Appreciate that. I appreciate that because if we left everything up to public opinion.
You know folk with a voting guide out a long time ago because he didn't do what they wanted him to do. So, I'm so glad that God sucks work. It's not predicated upon human Intuition or influence. I'm so glad that God can be voted in every four years. Somebody say Amen.
I'm so glad you know how it is. And when Trouble Comes that's when either God stock is going up or down when Trouble Comes, you know, cuz when Trouble Comes, you know, we got this thing the trouble trouble, we decide whether or not we really believe
not it's not how good God is when everything is good.
That match what matters is just when things is going back is God good day and I'll just go get your hoe then. When you had asked him for something and you perceive that you deserve it because I've been faithful God. I done showed up the church when there's snow on the ground God. I made my way to the Press God, you know, I gave what I didn't have it to give God, you know, I got out I sang when I didn't feel like saying I got up when I didn't feel like getting up. I'll show it up when I didn't show up. I was sick and I still made it. Are you still something in God is still God whether we feel good or not.
Continue to subscribe to that when we believe it or not. Is it the Bible have a tendency to give us not yet. Not just snapshots. But also if you will full and complete pictures of what it needs to do what we need to look like when stuff is going back when stuff is going south in and watch this year. We just had a situation where there was 7.7 billion people. 321 million screaming 360 1 million people 805 people standing on tiptoe because we had trouble.
Is God still going?
It is he still God With Us? Oh, no.
Is he God when do we vote for is not on or in the White House? Come on talk to me somebody and the folks that that was supposed to go into the Senate on to the House of Representative this show is he still God do we act like God die. Glad to come in and take a look and see if their casket there that says rest in peace for him who sits on because we don't have we walked in the place that we deem necessary. I like to say the day was won who happens to be a saint by the name of Peter who dealt with the same issue? St. Peter was living in a time when Roman persecution had begun to come and go Well people who were of Christian faith. Now the targets of if you will the government when that happened the question on the floor then is do we Embrace God now or do we let him go do we have hope even in the midst of that time? I like to stop by to tell you today that Peter gives us a word from the Lord. Let us pray God we thank you so much for your goodness to us. We pray. Oh God that you is only you can. When Show Yourself Strong today father that you is only you can probably speak to the house of your people and that father and speaking to them Father that they would hear your voice and not mine. That by doing that God they might embrace it father for those who don't know you that I ain't our presence today. We pray father for them Lord that they receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord once and for all in Jesus name, amen the matter at hand so that has the largest imprint and New Testament after Paul. He is writing at this time from a place. He calls Babylon. He calls the place is writing from Babylon because he's in the mouth of the place where people are able to worship everything. But God Soul X is Rex in Rome. So he writes to those folks in Rome and he's basically saying from Rome he saying look. Trouble has hit us as Christians. What does trouble looks like to certain degree? The first one the first thing he does as always is identified himself. He identified himself. He says Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangest scattered throughout pontus. Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and bithynia. I have authority to write you. Okay, watch this I have authority because of who I represent. But also I have the authority because of who I'm writing to okay. I am did you be sick which meant that someone had to have sent him from somewhere and this particular Jesus Christ Jesus Christ sent him the authority to say the things he was saying.
They just somebody came up and Proclaim them already see what happens if the truck is duped by that because he has a big title company says here. He says Peter an apostle and this in the understanding is the word Christ. So my question is today supposed to be from Where'd you get that from who gave you that? Why should I embrace you as an apostle now? I can go into detail about what apostle was back during that time apostle was an individual actually walking during the time of Jesus Christ scripture as we see here in this particular text. So how is it that you have any Authority or if you are a person who shows up and you say that you are police officer, but you didn't have the authority you are in pasta. You get locked up the stuff like that. The church had that kind of going on today. You get locked up for him personating a person who is supposed to be an authority in the church. Lord knows you can get rid of a lot of the era and frustration and foolishness because people who somehow another figured out a way to do until Hoodwink God's people into believing that there's something that they're not Peter says look on I'm an apostle of Jesus Christ and I'm writing to you that are scattered abroad throughout pons uses here is this, where they use here. He says there aliens in some particular text. He says that they are strangers that they are part of the diaspora. If you will. Let is Jews who once were based in Jerusalem who have now scattered abroad because of this thing called persecution.
Coming across the middle passage. We as we begin to come in on the ship called Jesus if you will many of us it end up being dispersed in and around the United States. I'm connected to our original ancestors. In the words of Rome Bennett Jr. We stepped out one day and a cheap two step. One day and next thing you know, he found himself Medical on the places with strange sure. So now he's not able to connect with those with whom he used to know his family members his rank his privileged that I have been connected to his Nation if you will, he's now a strange alien. in this country a country that views Rank and privilege and opportunity different. But you know I find today something strange well with with Christians there so Christians who haven't figured out that you are an alien in this world.
You should be comfortable with everything is going back if you're really comfortable that's asking another question. Is your citizenship really in heaven.
You know, I just don't feel feel at home. You know we talked about sending up my Timber, you know, when you say soon as my feet strike Zion. I'm going to lay down my heavy burdens or music. And then what what are we saying? We're saying that even though we're here on Earth. We recognize that I citizenship. It's not here. And so we two are strangers.
On this Earth, but Paul says Peter says that we can have whole even though we are aliens. What is hope hope is the is what they call the confident and favorable expectation tied to the Future.
Confident inflatable expectation time to the Future. Yes. I still got hope I still got hope we still got hope is built on the temporary then what happens is when the temporary
What are the most confusing thing for me is when I see Chris is just get all up in arms about what?
I mean, I mean, you know what's going on, but don't trip, you know, you connected to the King of Kings.
If you just live in it on for today. Headlines that you believe in can see I understand your frustration. But if you are, just guess what did I just see why you get frustrated?
Because life goes beyond this. Hope it's connected to a favorable and confident future. Not connected to just now. In fact, in fact, the thing that Peter is trying to get to know understand is that even in the midst of difficulty and persecution? Yes, you are still able to have him because he's going to get you through. Trust me here here here anytime you got us being stolen in half. Anytime you got people who are lighting up the gladiatorial arena because they're using Christians to light the way anytime you have Christians who are being persecuted. In fact that it said that one of the things they did was they allow those Christians who renounced Jesus and worship Nero if you will they allow Christ is King in Christ is Lord.
When that will happen. Is already happening an incremental phases in different parts and disconnected ways when preachers was summoned down the Houston to turn in their sermons because they were preaching against a particular lifestyle. That's a part of that. Whitman when you disagree with corporate culture and they say that's Politically Incorrect and all of a sudden you see the red light in the corner and that means your your your job your vocational emergency like it just come home cuz they're finding you a new place to work but went went when you're working in a governmental structure and it doesn't allow you to really express your faith it mutes your
That's when you begin to understand that persecution is Alive and Well in America. And I was really kind of frustrated this week when? I was listening to people defend the right to murder babies after they were born. I just couldn't understand. I couldn't understand. If I took my dog and kicked him before they lock me up. What I can take a baby that's 9 months old and chill it because it's between me and my doctor. How can a doctor whose first oak oak is the Do no harm now be seen as the chief vehicle buying through which murder takes play it ain't abortion is murder.
and if you know anything about Margaret Sanger the woman who was behind Planned Parenthood, you know that she was really about getting rid of all the people that look like you and I
Yes, we have hope. Even though we only but you also say something he says we have hope even though we are scattered and I want you to know he apontus in galatia Cappadocia is Asia and bithynia. These are places where Christians had kind of 1/2. They had found it with his first check this out. At first there was just Jewish Christians that they really kind of embraced a embrace them because you know Jewish Christians threshold was because they already had the word of God. But your child Christians, they didn't so pause, right Smith was for me like some of the first president but what happened was when persecution came they got Christians down there and I got Chris just in all these other places as well. So no matter who you are Christian, we still have hope because we're connected to Jesus.
Seattle Lifeline, it's not I'll pedigree. I like bananas. Education on life line is not on occupation. A Lifeline is that we're connected to The Giver of Life Jesus Christ. You just living to get yours and you just living to have a good time. I'm sorry. I can't I think you're going to be when you disappointed but you living as one who has been saved. sealed until the day of the Deliverance Are you living as a Christian with the idea that I'm living here? But I'm living my life as if I recognized him living before God then guess what you have. Hope you have hope he says we have hope even though we are scattered we have hope even though we are honest, but he also said something we have chosen what I say something. Now if any and you know, I think the trick in dating Brothers is that the sisters are doing the shoes. They just make us think that we doing it.
The most somebody see what it is what it is. You think that's what I figured out who is going to be the candidate. That way the candidate. Is over Heaven is we think that yeah, we watch this.
So what happened was this even before you were thinking about you and you fall into it? Look, look don't feel bad. Cuz I want I did it to me. Hey, man, say out somebody has a word he says of God the Father. The idea for knowledge has to do with one of the arms of God. That is the omniscience of God. And what God does is he selects the word they use that actually is the word that we get the election and what it means is that God has chosen you. Sara Lee selected you those others that despite your background. It shows you despite your race. It shows you despite the city you came from he shows you watch this. Watch this now. You might have thought that I have failed miserably but God look down and he said despite your failure. He's fat. What is a huge shows you despite your failure in shows? You despite all of the negativity that might have surround you despite your prison term diction. and instead
people who make decisions based upon one thing you smell.
What your education background image of pedigree is who you're hanging out with me look it up with people make decisions about people based on the external but what the Bible says that God looks what at the wild park manager, please show you right now it says here that he has enlisted you according to the foreknowledge of God. The father. He knows the actual and the possible. He knows what the bad could be hitting with the worst is and despite all of that. He still shows you and I know I'm so glad I'm so glad I'm so glad about that today in here. We see that says that we have hope because we chose it because according to his where's the one who has specifically I can't do nothing else with him. in motion Play When God said she'd it showed up. But he said man, this is us make man. He got hurt. Took the time to 4 with his own hands man and and fashioned him and didn't breathe in him and it was personal. I was just going to let us just walk away just like that know God is in the business of getting back that which is he
22 is for novelty chosen, but I don't according to the work of the Holy Spirit. Do you say that because he use another word hear through sanctification of the spirit the word sanctification to 50 Cent your own which means to be set apart.
Person was the one standing some sisters. They got these special things going on in the house. You know, they got special dishes for special occasions. They got special rules. My grandmother name has special rules. You didn't do stuff in those special rooms, cuz they were set apart specifically for something else. They only wear these dresses were they going to special places? Como se in Minnesota out somebody and what saying is that this situation is so unique is so unique that it deserves a special education. I got something special for you to do and so what happens is the work of the holy spirit is to get you and shut you watch this some people who got
he's rain and he's roaring. He's got control of their mind. He's got control. She's not controlling insult. The holy spirit is the one that stalking. So they can't just sleep with anybody that come solo.
Bible says what know ye not that your body is the Holy Spirit the Temple of the Holy Spirit when she haven't got a year not yo, you been bought with a price difference glorify God in your body or spirit is God. God says your body is a temple. It's just I'm Sanctified you what I'm saying? Is that in the words of that great Theologian, MC Hammer Can't Touch This
Everybody can get a taste of his head cuz disrespect to come on talk to me.
Lord have mercy yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
In a while cuz they don't have to cuz they know that only a special few.
They just say this is what we say on everybody come by why cuz it's sitting for a particular.
God is saying that the holy spirit is setting you apart because you've been chosen and you chose him by me.
Brother don't want to date no sense that look like Lord have mercy. Looking all crazy. Like you can't be acting all crazy. The Holy Spirit has set you apart.
I have mercy why is it why is it important? holy spirit is such a you need to have that you can hear.
When you open your you married him you and your wife I have what they call a very intense moment of Fellowship.
Y'all having some marital disagreements marital adjustment.
I used to have a saying two brothers when they used to talk about maybe having these melted Emerson brother going to the refrigerator open them just lookin Let's go get you something that you wish that you never said.
I'm helping somebody before you get married. Did you see that sounds and smells it's going to be a
Helping somebody this morning. And got all right.
Because you need to be obedient. to Jesus Liberty says right then. how to spray tan to the abattis and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ What is it that we know about Jesus? Now Peter is writing to Christians who scattered abroad. Does a GS aura? The government is persecuted. The good old government has decided to those people who are the most intelligent. The government employee who happens to be a Christian, but because you won't denounce Lex they say, okay. We got to go ahead and deal with you because you won't Jesus. persecution because of that and now what we going to do on top of that is going to make life significantly difficult. So what are you do? You need the Holy Ghost to help you be obedient to Jesus even during that time. The idea of sprinkling had passed the hit has the idea of you being covered by the blood of Jesus. Sometimes it may see even impossible. Is the blood of Jesus and you comply with him is the thing that's going to help you navigate through those. You want to have hope in trouble X need to understand if you still have hope because you in the mission that you still are an alien, but your alien this is focused on being a citizen of the kingdom of God. You could have hope in trouble times because even though you're scattered, you're still connected to Jesus Christ and you have hope in him and even though things are difficult because you have been chosen by God. That assures you that you're able to navigate through those difficult times. Their people will say that people who say that when we talked about this idea for knowledge that he talks about people will say we're weird stuff.
That he chooses you will get you no. No, he doesn't but she foreknowledge of God is like me understanding how to get to my house so I know to take for it. But guess what? It's my choice to take it. Another way is right. You should write out here. Now. You don't know Jesus from a mile from the hole to Mammoth Cave. You don't know Jesus from a Me from Adam's house cat you. You ain't seen Jesus don't know unless you press the Lord and Savior. So right now you can't even a different kind of world. Because you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus died for you, even though you didn't know him or even want him. He still died for you because he loves you. He married.
He knew what he knew what challenges are going to take place for you. Not only now but what happens after you. Most of us in this life. What we do is we get fire Insurance early on life and we live as if everything is okay and it was a certain degree of relation with Jesus Christ and being saved. That's cool. But the problem is is when we don't connect life after we die. To the life that we live. Now what we do in life as one person said echo in eternity and guess what happens I paid for that one decision watch this or the lack of decision for the rest of Eternity eternity is everyday after today.
But today you have time. You have time to make a decision right now. You have just enough time to say Lord Jesus. You know, I am I am a sinner. I'm not person that is estranged. I'm that person who doesn't know you. But I do want to know you. How to say to you you depressing you saying Lord, you know how I don't know you as well as I need to know you to make a decision. I would say to you get to know him and then guess what happens you spend time with him you get to know him more. Chucky here today as you're standing on your feet.
I would ask you right now.
to consider giving your life to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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.