2020-03-04 1 pet 3
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1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
2 Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that you may grow up into your salvation,
3 if you have tasted that the Lord is good.
4 As you come to him, a living stone—rejected by people but chosen and honored by God—
5 you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Pet 2:1-5
I. If you are saved, then you will take sin seriously.
I. If you are saved, then you will take sin seriously.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
1 pet 2:
A. Believers must own up to both their sins and their sin nature.
A. Believers must own up to both their sins and their sin nature.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
Illus: This past week in church I called everybody failures. purposely.
In truth calling ourselves sinners has lost it’s meaning. We are not grieved by being sinners.
In large part we look at sin and say, well yeah everybody is a sinner, what is the big deal?
Instead of calling ourselves sinners, I described one part of being a sinner, completely failing to reach the standard God has set before us.
I love the way Celebrate Recovery states this idea, “Realize I’m not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable.”
The longer I follow Jesus the more I realize I need Jesus. The longer I follow Jesus, the more sinful I realize I was and am.
Deep within us must be a willingness to admit to the roots of our sin… that we are deeply flawed sinful failures who desperately need God’s power to transform us.
22 For in my inner self I delight in God’s law,
23 but I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.
B. Believers should take sin in their lives as seriously as Christ took it on the cross.
B. Believers should take sin in their lives as seriously as Christ took it on the cross.
1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.
Illus: The idea of being a sinner has really lost its sting in modern times.
Perhaps it is because we have embraced a bully free self esteem culture where we shy away from anything that might harm our ego or fell bad about ourselves.
In christ we are not defined by our sin, but we should not ignore it.
In fact, we should purposely seek it out so that we might pursue it’s expulsion.
How many of the New Testament letters are deal with lists of sins that the people of God needed reminding of.
We should have the same hatred for sin that God has. More than that we should have the same hatred for our sin that God has.
God pored out the fullness of his wrath on His son because of our sin.
If God takes our sin that seriously, how can we not?
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?
3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.
II. If you are saved, then you will hunger for God’s word.
II. If you are saved, then you will hunger for God’s word.
2 Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that you may grow up into your salvation,
3 if you have tasted that the Lord is good.
1 pet 2:
A. God’s word is more than an obligation, it should be desired.
A. God’s word is more than an obligation, it should be desired.
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2 Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that you may grow up into your salvation,
3 if you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Illus: As Christians we are really good a living out the have toos and should doos.
A good christian should read the bible.
A good christian should share their faith.
A good christian should go to church.
When I was training for marathons and triathlons i was obsessive about what I ate.
A good christian should pray.
I knew that what I put in my bod
A good christian should confess their sins.
That is not Christianity though.
A real christian will want to read their bible because God speaks through His word.
A real christian will want to share their faith because the message of the gospel is alive int their lives.
A real christian desires to gather with the people of the church regularly.
A real christian desires to talk with God in prayer.
A real christian embraces the confession of sin as they find freedom from it.
The disciplines of God are not should dos as if we do them to make God happy. They are wonderful gifts God has given us to know him and grow in our relationship with him.
1 How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers!
2 Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears its fruit in its season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
B. A regular diet of God’s Word is how we grow up.
B. A regular diet of God’s Word is how we grow up.
2 Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that you may grow up into your salvation,
3 if you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Illus: There are 3 words to describe how God works in your life.
Justification, Sanctification, and glorification.
I think defining these three will help us.
Justification happens when you place your faith in Christ. God forgives your sin, and you are declared righteous. In other words, your eternal punishment is removed because Jesus took it.
Just because you have been justified does not mean that your broken nature disappears. You still have a fallen broken nature. In this God sanctifies you. He places His spirit in your to transform you daily. The whole of life after conversion is the battle of putting to death sin in your life and placing your faith in God being transformed by His Spirit. Sanctification is the lifelong transformation of becoming more like Jesus.
Glorification is what we look forward too. No matter what how Christlike we become, there will always be sin in our live. We look forward to the day when God gives us resurrection. We look forward to the day when God recreates us and makes us perfect. That is glorification.
In this passage it is saying if you have tasted God’s justification, you will pursue sanctification.
If you have tasted God’s forgiveness, you will pursue his righteousness…
but more than that, you will grown in Sanctification. IN other words, you will become more like Jesus as you plant yourself in God’s word.
15 and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,
17 so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
15 Yet still today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts,
16 but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
III. If you are saved, then you serve faithfully in the church.
III. If you are saved, then you serve faithfully in the church.
3 if you have tasted that the Lord is good.
4 As you come to him, a living stone—rejected by people but chosen and honored by God—
5 you yourselves, as living stones, a spiritual house, are being built to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 pet 2:3-
A. We are saved to be a part of a body.
A. We are saved to be a part of a body.
Illus: God does not intend for Christians to stand alone.
1. God has given us fellowship with other believers for our benefit. The reason we often fail in sanctification is because we hide our sins from our fellow believers and do not use each other as a sanctifying body.
2. God desires to display himself through the church, the gathered collection of believers growing to be more like him.
Catch the implications, You are not a christian lone ranger. You are a piece of a greater body from God.
How often do we see church as a secondary thing in our lives, when God intended it as primary means of changing us and displaying himself to the world.
11 And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,
12 equipping the saints for the work of ministry, to build up the body of Christ,
13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into maturity with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness.
14 Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
15 But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head—Christ.
16 From him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.