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1 Peter 1:13
1 Peter 1:
Introduction
There are so many expectations that we put upon the Christmas season.
Football, food, caroling, family, and many traditions and quirks all make up the ideal picture of the Christmas experience to one form or another.
For some, Christmas will never live up to the ideal again because of something or someone missing from the equation.
“The Way it ‘Ought to be” can sometimes be a vision that is never attainable or fully satisfying.
The Christian story of advent and Christmas surprisingly answers “The Way it ‘Ought to be” in deep meaningful ways through the coming of hope, joy, love, and peace found in Christ.
Advent is an opportunity through this season to anchor ourselves to our faith.
This is a time in preparation for the incarnation.
The birth of a baby, of a king, of the savior of the world.
JD Walt: Advent is designed to wake us up.... “Advent lifts our hearts to a future of unparalleled possibility and beckons us to awaken from the predictable certainty that our lives have become.
Advent rings in a new year, offering Christians once more the chance to begin again.
Let us together set our feet on the path of pilgrimage, the way of purposeful wandering.”
Hope intro....
Over the years I have learned a valuable lesson in my life journey.... To not put any hope in the Cowboys.
Last week there was this decade challenge, where you post a picture of yourself 10 years ago and then again today.
Show meme.
Now, my wife would probably argue by my weekly frustrations I put a little too much hope, still, on the boys.
However, what if I really put life like hope.
Like started to obsess.
Put all my money on them.
Woke up in the morning and read a devotional to them.
Reminisce on the good ol’ days.
Talked about them in every conversation.
You would think I was seriously looney right?!
I dont think many of us struggle in this specific way with hope, but I bet there are some other things that can be taken away pretty quickly that we put all our hope in.
Every week you will see a provocative representation of our “the way it ought to be” for weekly themes of hope, love, joy, peace.
For hope, we clearly chose a money sign.
Come on kingwood stay with me here.... the way it ought to be in your life is some future vision right.
Some level of success, some arrival point, some dream house with wrap around porch and picket fence with a dog and 2.5 children.
The American dream.
Or if it isnt that, then what is the place that shapes and forms you the most.
Think about it, what is hope?
We know it is some emotion.
We know it is positive.
Hope is something good in the future that is not realized, we desire it, anticipate it.
What we are anticipating shapes who we are in the present.
And there are so many things that we give ourselves that are not alive.
So in our first verse he says....
1 Peter
Set your hope on grace brought to you.
Therefore is an indicator that this grace has just been laid out.
We look to the verses before....
Jesus, our Living Hope
In the opening section Peter delivers the goods… He will base everything on this section, appropriately.
And especially our text for the day.
Let’s read it.
There are some guarantees here that Peter is laying out about hope....
Future Hope: Resurrection
First, future hope in the resurrection.
We look forward in advent to the final coming of Christ and that final day.
Inheritance is the thing we look forward to.
Usually the other way around, It is the one inheritance you receive when you pass on.
He is not a relative you are waiting to die, he is the one who defeated death and we have a promise sealed by him.
Not only that but God’s power working even now to shield us as the text puts it.
Paul puts it this way:
2 Cortinthians 4:16-18
Paul: do not lose heart....even in the struggle, fix your eyes on what is unseen....this will be your anchor, this will be your truth, this will be your hope.
Peter: This is our living hope.
Example: Melinda Dodd
Last year I had the opportunity to preach at my seminary’s president retreat at the Billy Graham center in North Carolina.
They invited me as an alumni preacher but also because I was telling some of my mentors about lessons that of hope that I was learning at KUMC.
They knew we had been through so much and as I was sharing all the good news out of the struggles that we faced it was all about hope.
So when hope became the theme for their retreat they asked to come and preach.
I got to tell the story of hope from here.
One of those stories is the one from Melinda Dodd after Harvey and explaining her experience.
In her video testimony, she shares this interaction as they were being boat rescued.
Someone commented about the parts of kingwood that did not flood saying these people are lucky.... and Melinda said, "This is good, this gives me hope.
Not everyone flooded.”
She knew that there was others that could help.
See two things here: 1 the difference in perspective.
One person hopeless in seeing what happened to them.
The other person a perspective of hope because she could see things from the other side.
There are people who did not flood.
Hope is a perspective.
Secondly, as sin, and death, and evil, and brokenness, and suffering is all around us and happening to us....there is one who didn’t flood.
There is one who defeated death, evil, and sin, and he can, has, and will help us rebuild.
His name is Jesus.
Set your eyes on the future hope.
There is hope that reaches back from the resurrection to us.....
It cannot be taken away....
Hope Now: Born Again
There is the future hope of resurrection but that hope is already at work in us....
Again look at verse 3....
Wesley says that the marks of the new birth are faith, hope, and love.
For those that are born again have a belief and trust in God.
Faith: Believing that he took away sins and has begun the process of healing, restoration
Hope: Remember, even looking forward shapes us now.
Fear is driven out, anxiety is met with force
Love: Abounding love for God and love of people.
Finally, it cannot be taken away:
This hope is imperishable
This future hope and this present hope.
The inheritance and the new birth.
Eternal life that has first fruits now…it is imperishable.
Peter says it never spoils or fades.
How many things in our life do we put our hope in that spoils or fades?
So what?
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