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Today we continue with our theme of “Living Expectantly”
Peter is reminding the believers to live expectantly of certain things in their lives because they are following Christ.
to live expectantly of these things means to:
seek them out if they aren’t happening in your life.
That’s changing your life to accommodate them and to pray about them, asking God to bring them about.
to live in a way that is marked by them.
Making room for and living life:
Expecting and looking forward to your glorious inheritance.
The future that Jesus died to give you
Daily living in the experience of the joy and acceptance of God’s grace.
Living life under the guidance and power of God’s awesome Word
being lifted up to your spiritual place and position in him
Being changed into the image of Christ.
Becoming more like Him every day.
Experiencing and sharing the wonderful blessings in your life
becoming an outlet for the Glory of God to be seen in your world.
Walking in your victory over the enemy.
Being a person of authority - understanding the authority that God has given to you as his child and living in it
Allowing God’s Spirit to make you submissive to the authority that he has placed over you
Allowing that submission to bring a godly humility to your life.
Having a passion for life that will fill your heart with worship toward Christ in everything that you do.
Trusting God as Peter says in - that he is perfecting you and establishing you while he strengthens you and settles you.
Perfecting - Kat-ar-tid-zo - mending you, fitting you, preparing you and restoring you
Establish - stay-rid-zo - making you steadfast, and stable.
Creating in you a constant spirit that will stand firm in the craziness of life
Strengthen - sthen-ou-oo - to make you able to stand strong in and undergo certain experiences.
Settle - them-el-ee-ou-oo - give you a firm foundation to stand upon and to operate from.
And with that we enter into Peter’s second letter
Because of What Jesus has done, you and I can expect a progression to our spiritual walk.
None of us should get to heaven walking the same way that we did when we first asked Christ into our heart.
God expects that our Spirit will grow and mature.
He expects that his children will grow from infant into adulthood.
But we know from reading Paul’s writings that doesn’ t always happen.
Paul writes a few times about babes in Christ, the milk vs the solid food of the Word and Spiritual maturity.
Count Your Blessings
This is exactly what the whole series has been about up to this point.
Realizing what God has done for us and in us
Living in the things that Christ paid such a high price to give us.
This is one way to grow in Christ.
Just look at the list here:
a precious faith
knowledge of God
a calling of God
a life of godliness.
the ability to live differently than we are living now.
Look at this one in verse 4 - partakers of the divine nature.
My brothers and sisters, we get to take on the divine nature of God.
That’s not becoming a god, but being like God
It’s not being omniscient, but being guided through life and it’s situations and circumstances by the wisdom and knowledge of God
It’s not being omnipresent, but being God in every place that we find ourselves
It’s not being omnipotent, but seeing the power of God released in our lives in our daily living
We get to represent Jesus to the World.
People visiting with us this morning, should enjoy what they see, because we are shining the light of Jesus
People at your workplace should be encouraged whenever you are around, because you are speaking forth and living out the Word of God in front of them
People in your community should be built up, because your heart is full of the love of God and it just flows out of your spirit towards them today
And so much more because the divine nature of God is affecting his children.
( We’ve looked at this one already)
This should be our goal in our walk with Christ.
That we get to a place where it’s not us who are living, but Christ through us.
Do you know what happens around you when that takes place.
Look what Paul says here.
He doesn’t say that I stop living.
but that now the life I live in this flesh is lived by faith in the son of God.
This is possible brothers and sisters.
It’s done by the power of the Holy Spirit and by us making a choice that it’s Christ who gets to live in this flesh
No longer my plans, or my agenda’s or what I want, but I’m allowing Christ to live through me.
I guarantee in each of us today - that looks different than the way that we are living now.
Jesus gives the way for that transformation of living to take place
It’s as we stay connected to him.
It’s as we stay looking to him
WE need to understand that the real power to live life is being connected to the source of life
And that without him, we can do nothing.
Counting our blessings:
So Counting our blessings:
Gives us hope for where we are headed
reminds us of how far we have actually come already
builds up our faith in our God - to be able to trust him for greater things.
We see here that Peter starts with Faith.
Our precious Faith
Next
Put Your Best Foot Forward
walk the walk of grace.
Keep going forward.
If you are not there yet, don’t stop.
Don’t throw in the towel, no matter how bad it gets
Just get walking.
Persevere, Push through
Step in faith.
In verse 5, he says give it all diligence
Start from right where you are.
And what has God given to us through Jesus Christ?
FAITH
Start with faith.
Start stepping out in faith.
Start reading God’s Word, getting a word from God and moving out in it.
And as you move out in your faith, you begin to add to your faith virtue.
The word for virtue here has two meanings.
1st it means moral goodness.
We know that faith without action is dead.
as we walk in faith, we trust God for things in our lives and those around us and we begin to raise our lives up to the bar
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