2020-02-05 1 Pet 1.13-16
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13 Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
15 But as the one who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct;
16 for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.
I. Your focus dictates your actions.
I. Your focus dictates your actions.
13 Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
A. Gospel belief will always lead to gospel transformation.
A. Gospel belief will always lead to gospel transformation.
13 Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Illus: If you eat nothing but Twinkies, snickers bars, and drink energy drinks you should not be surprised when you live and look like you eat nothing but Twinkies, snickers bars, and energy drinks.
If you consume gossip all the time from those around you, don’t be surprised when you live as a gossip.
If you consume shows with high amounts of sexual content, don’t be surprised when sexual sin becomes normal in your life.
If you spend all day consuming political blogs, news, and tv, don’t be surprised when all you think about and live for is politics.
What you consume, what you believe will transform how you live.
Who you are (what you believe) will determine what you consume (what you watch/read/listen to) which will in turn determine how you live.
Do we genuinely believe the Gospel? If so, it will lead us to consume the things of God. It will lead us to draw close to God. When you believe the things of God and consume the things of God, you will live the things of God.
Do you genuinely believe the gospel is the power of God to salvation? Do you believe the gospel can change the world? Do you believe the gospel actually changes peoples lives? Do you believe the gospel can turn our country back to God?
If you genuinely believe the gospel, your will focus more and more on the gospel, and less and less on the empty things of this world.
What are the words from the old hymn “ Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of his glory and grace.”
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
B. Gospel belief should lead to an all in life.
B. Gospel belief should lead to an all in life.
13 Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Illus: Jesus should transform all of our lives.
It is so much more than praying a prayer or joining a church.
Christians should look like a different race, species of people. We should be so different that Jesus oozes out of ever part of our lives.
No we are not called out of the world, but the gospel should change the way we relate to the world.
The way we interact with our family should be distinctly christian.
The way we do our work should be distinctly christian.
The way we do politics should be distinctly christian.
The way we live every moment should be distinctly christian.
Far to often we claim the name of christ, BUT still interact with the ways of the world.
1 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
6 Because of these, God’s wrath is coming upon the disobedient,
7 and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.
8 But now, put away all the following: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.
9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices
10 and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.
II. Don’t live in the sins you were saved from.
II. Don’t live in the sins you were saved from.
14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
A. Obedience and faith are not in opposition, they are inseparable.
A. Obedience and faith are not in opposition, they are inseparable.
14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
Illus: There is a false idea that the bible teaches against good works . There is this idea that any church that focuses on obedience is legalistic.
Faith and works cannot be seperated.
Calling you to works outside of the gospel of Jesus Christ and power of the spirit is useless. you will fail.
Calling you to faith without out works is to call you to a false faith that is not of Jesus Christ.
Your faith will be seen by your works.
You are not really a christian is you are not transformed by Christ.
You can’t experience the transformation of Christ without being saved.
They are two sides of the same coin.
When you trust christ, he will change you, and you will begin to pursue his way in his power through obedience to his word.
Your obedience is both an act of faith AND evidence of the transformation of Christ.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works.
19 You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe—and they shudder.
20 Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless?
21 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works in offering Isaac his son on the altar?
22 You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was made complete,
23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God’s friend.
24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
25 In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works in receiving the messengers and sending them out by a different route?
26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
B. Why would you go back to what brings your death?
B. Why would you go back to what brings your death?
14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
Illus: Imagine with me you are in your house and see a cup of water on the table. You think it looks good and drink it down.
Unbeknownst to you you just drank a glass full of bleach. Immediately you go the hospital to have your stomach pumped.
They save you! The next day you go back to your kitchen and see the glass you drank bleach out of and think.. I’m thirsty, pick it up and do it all over again.
What foolishness is that.
Lets be clear about going back to the sin you are saved from.
1. Why would you invited death into your life that you were freed from?
2. When you go back to sin, you are placing more suffering on the cross of christ.
Let us not take lightly the providence of God in that he gave us grace and mercy by inviting the very things he suffered for back into your lives.
There is an idea today that Jesus loves us and does not judge us.
Yes and no. Every sin we commit is judged. It is judged on the cross of Christ. Jesus bore the suffering for each sin.
21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.
22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.”
2 pet
1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?
2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
III. Your focus is simple.
III. Your focus is simple.
15 But as the one who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct;
16 for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.
A. Do you pursue holiness?
A. Do you pursue holiness?
Illus: Focus and holiness is a deliberate choice. Holiness by definition is to be set apart.
What does it mean to be set apart? It means that we choose to follow God’s way above the ways of man.
It means we choose to live for the gospel and not the things of man.
It means that you choose to focus and follow the plans of God, often to the determent of other pursuits.
It means choosing to obedience over convenience. Choosing God.
Is your life marked by the things of God, or something else?
2 Pet 3:10-13
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed.
11 Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, it is clear what sort of people you should be in holy conduct and godliness
12 as you wait for the day of God and hasten its coming. Because of that day, the heavens will be dissolved with fire and the elements will melt with heat.
13 But based on his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.