The Christian's Redemption

Children of God live in fear and love

Children of God live in fear (Verse 17)

If you call on him as Father..

Shown in being a child of God, living holy lives.

Our holy lives should be characterized by our obedience to God

We are to live our lives as set apart exiles, living in obedience.

Those who call on God as father will be those who are to be judged by Him on the last day.

Everything that we have done in life will be brought up on Judgment day. Each deed that we have done both before Christ and after Christ.

reminds us that God will render each of us according to our works, God does not show partiality, not just our works and deed will God Judge but also our heart.

We should fear that God, the impartial judge, will one day judge our hearts. The heart is deceitfully wicked above all things. If our heart has not been changed, we will be judged rightly. If our heart has been changed we will be judged rightly.

We fear not only his judgment but also his disciplines.

Our lives should be Characterized by continual heart changed in the pursuit of holiness so at the day of judgment we shall not be found lacking. In our good works there is evidence that God has truly changed a person.

GTY Recognize the presence of sin in your flesh

Do not justify your sin because of your personality or because of a situation that you are in.

If you get angry with a person because they took something from you, see that your anger is sin, and do not justify yourself for it.

Call out like the Psalmist in Search me O God and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me.

Ask God to show you your sinfulness. Seek out this sin so you can destroy it.

Have a heart fixed on God

as we saw above do not be conformed to your former ignorance.

Be like the Psalmist in My heart is fixed, o God, my heart is fixed. Meaning have an undivided devotion to God.

John MacArthur says: “ The only unashamed life is the life of one who is totally fixed on God; everything has been dealt with.

See God as he truly is High and lifted up, Holy, sinless, King of all Lord over all.

Meditate on the word

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly .

Let God’s word form you and in that sin will continue to die, the truth of scripture will continue to change the way you think about God and about the din that you are struggling through.

Saturate yourself in God’s word. Let it consume you.

Cultivate Obedience

Live obedient to God This is what Peter addresses in verses 22-25

Ask questions of yourself

Do i have a zeal for God?

living in obedience?

Do I love God’s word?

All of these will help you fight sin, so that as you are living looking to the hope that you have in Christ you can continue steadfastly.

Judges impartially according to each ones deeds

What is remarkable here is that God’s tenderness and love as Father is mingled with his judgment and the fear that should mark Christians in this world.(115)

Children of God are Characterized by this Godly reverence or aw that causes them to live their lived pursing holiness.

Children of God should love their savior (Verses 18-21)

Ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefather

We inherited sin passed down through man.

For in one man sin entered the world...

This ransoming provided Atonement

What is atonement?

Atonement in the OT is seen in the Law (first 5 books of the bible), mainly in Leviticus.

Atonement refers to reconciliation of two parties.

As we were alienated from God, or at enmity with him, cut off because of our sin, something had to take place to bring us back to God. For us our sin needed to be removed.

We were not able to remove our sin based on works.

In Leviticus, we see atonement is done by the process of sacrifices. In order for sin to be removed, God;s righteous wrath had to be satisfied: death is must be the result of sin. The sacrificial system was the means of that death- the animal died because of the worshipers sin. God’s wrath was satisfied. and the worshiper could be reconciled, brought back to God. There was nothing magical about the animal or process of killing and burning the animal. What mattered was God;s command to atone for sin in that way and the worshipers intent to obey God and to be reconciled to him by the removal of sin. It was a spiritual act the sacrifice was physical by the intent was spiritual. If the worshiper did not present the offering by faith, looking to the invisible God to forgive, then the visible act would mean nothing.

However we see the price of our ransom, it was not from animals that we are able to be reconciled, rather it was the blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

God, the father, in perfect harmony with the son and the spirit, before the foundation of the world knew the price that he would have to pay for our redemption.

unlike gold and silver, which will not purchase atonement, and is perishable, we were bought with the price of the Son’s death, who is nonperishable, undefiled, and unfading.

Through his death we are justified. made right with God.

This causes us to have faith. God has provided the sacrifice and we have faith that this sacrifice was enough, because it was. We have faith and hope knowing that our father showed his glory in this redemption, so we place our faith in him. Now our hope is in a sacrifice that was enough.