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Spiritual Discipline and Life Rhythms
Spiritual Discipline and Life Rhythms
We must know WHO we are...
We must know WHO we are...
We need to focus on what we were saved FROM and saved FOR.
We need to focus on what we were saved FROM and saved FOR.
We are RANSOMED SINNERS. (1:17-19)
We are RANSOMED SINNERS. (1:17-19)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 peter 1:3
What a glorious truth. If we have faith in the person and work of Christ we
17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Peter is calling them, and us, to live in light of the
Peter is saying “Don’t forget your heritage, don’t forget where you come from and what Christ has done.”
You came from (or some are still in) “futile ways” (empty lives) you lived before Christ saved you.
The word ransom is a slavery word. If you were an indentured servant who owed money to you master, someone could come an pay off your debt, or to ransom you from your salvary.
That is the image Peter wants us to understand about who we are.
The precious blood of Christ was used to pay off my eternal slavery to sin.
Peter is reminding us of the great price that was paid so that we will be struck anew with how amazing the cross of Christ is.
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
We for some reason struggle believing the implications of that verse.
A Christian is not someone who has gotten themselves fixed up in order that God would accept them.
A Christian is someone loved by God the Father so much that, even while they were sinners, the precious blood of Christ was spilled for them.
A Christian is also not someone who must keep proving themselves to God and others through trying hard to do everything He expects of them.
A Christian is someone who realizes how hopeless they were without Jesus and just how amazing Grace is that EVEN they could be recipients of it.
KNOW WHO YOU ARE… ransomed sinner, loved child of God.
We are LIVING STONES. (2:4-5)
We are LIVING STONES. (2:4-5)
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4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Peter is reminding us of what God’s plan has always been.
To have a people for Himself that will be witnesses to His goodness and glory to the world.
1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
“So that you will be a blessing”
10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. 11 I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no savior. 12 I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.
6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
We were chosen to be is witnesses.
Later there would be a temple BUILT out of STONES!!
With Jesus as our cornerstone, God has saved us to be His witnesses where ever He has sent us.
Everyone with a birthday between January and June stand up.
- Think of this place as your community
- The ones standing are those that have trusted Christ and recieved salvation.
- The ones seated are those that haven’t trusted Christ.
- Though scatters across our community, God’s plan is to use each of us as His witnesses to those who do not yet know Him.
KNOW WHO YOU ARE…A LIVING STONE AND CHOSEN WITNESS.
We are a CHOSEN, ROYAL, HOLY, POSSESSED people. (2:9-10)
We are a CHOSEN, ROYAL, HOLY, POSSESSED people. (2:9-10)
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
God doesn’t just want us to think of ourselves as stones, who are rigid and boring and insignificant.
He wants us to know who we REALLY are.
…and WHY we have been SAVED.
…and WHY we have been SAVED.
What we do always come FROM who we are. Jeff Vanderstelt (via Jesus).
We have been saved to LIVE ORDINARY lives with GOSPEL PURPOSE.
We have been saved to LIVE ORDINARY lives with GOSPEL PURPOSE.
To SHOW Christ through our EVERYDAY LIVING.
To SHOW Christ through our EVERYDAY LIVING.
The second part of the letter, Peter goes through ordinary, everyday life situations, circumstances, and positions, calling us to live our lives out in view of who we are in Christ.
Family, work, school, friendships, hobbies, and all the places we frequent, we are to live as citizens of the Kingdom of God.
This calling on God’s people to attract the world to God through the quality of their life is precisely how Peter goes on to apply his allusions to the Old Testament: “Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he vis- its us” (). Steve Timmis
I heard the story of a man who became a Christian during an evangelistic emphasis in a city in the Pacific Northwest. When he told his boss about it, his employer responded with, “That’s great! I am a Christian and have been praying for you for years!”
But the new believer was crestfallen. “Why didn’t you ever tell me you were a Christian? You were the very reason I have not been interested in the gospel all these years.”
desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he vis- its us” ().
God wants us to see our everyday lives, the Rhythms of our every day lives, with a greater purpose.
“How can that be?” the boss wondered. “I have done my very best to live the Christian life around you.”
He has brought you to the place you work, into the family you have, into the social groups you are around.
“That’s the point,” explained the employee. “You lived such a model life without telling me that it was Christ who made the difference, I convinced myself that if you could live such a good and happy life without Christ, then I could too.”
He wants to use you, your life and your witness to bring His grace and His glory to those around you.
Notice where mission takes place: in the neighborhood, in the workplace, in the home—not in the meetings of the church. We reach a hostile world by living good lives in the context of ordinary life. Everyday mission.
It is not simply that ordinary Christians live good lives that enable them to invite friends to evangelistic events. Our lives are the evangelistic events. Our life together is the apologetic. There is a place for meetings at which the gospel is clearly proclaimed, but let us affirm and celebrate ordinary Christians living ordinary life in Christ’s name. This is the front line of mission. —Steve Timmis, Tim Chester
To PROCLAIM Christ in our EVERYDAY SPEAKING.
To PROCLAIM Christ in our EVERYDAY SPEAKING.
We have been saved, chosen, shown mercy, and all of the above for the purpose of proclaiming the excellencies of HIM who called us out of darkness and into marvelous light.
Peter tells them in chapter 3
15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
1 peter 3:15
Story in “Spiritual Disciplines” book.
I heard the story of a man who became a Christian during an evangelistic emphasis in a city in the Pacific Northwest. When he told his boss about it, his employer responded with, “That’s great! I am a Christian and have been praying for you for years!”
But the new believer was crestfallen. “Why didn’t you ever tell me you were a Christian? You were the very reason I have not been interested in the gospel all these years.”
“How can that be?” the boss wondered. “I have done my very best to live the Christian life around you.”
“That’s the point,” explained the employee. “You lived such a model life without telling me that it was Christ who made the difference, I convinced myself that if you could live such a good and happy life without Christ, then I could too.”
The second part of the letter, Peter goes through ordinary, everyday life situations, circumstances, and positions, calling us to live our lives out in view of who we are in Christ.
We have been saved to PROCLAIM CHRIST to our NEIGHBORS.
We have been saved to PROCLAIM CHRIST to our NEIGHBORS.
Family, work, school, friendships, hobbies, and all the places we frequent, we are to live as citizens of the Kingdom of God.
Story in “Spiritual Disciplines” book.
The last
I heard the story of a man who became a Christian during an evangelistic emphasis in a city in the Pacific Northwest. When he told his boss about it, his employer responded with, “That’s great! I am a Christian and have been praying for you for years!”
We have been saved to LIVE ORDINARY LIVES with GOSPEL PURPOSE.
We have been saved to LIVE ORDINARY LIVES with GOSPEL PURPOSE.
But the new believer was crestfallen. “Why didn’t you ever tell me you were a Christian? You were the very reason I have not been interested in the gospel all these years.”
“How can that be?” the boss wondered. “I have done my very best to live the Christian life around you.”
“That’s the point,” explained the employee. “You lived such a model life without telling me that it was Christ who made the difference, I convinced myself that if you could live such a good and happy life without Christ, then I could too.”