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*Love For Eternity*
*1 Peter 1 22-25*
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Introduction: Do you remember your literature class in high school?
Lit classes are famous (or maybe infamous) for making students read a certain story or a poem and then telling what it meant to them.
The stories and poems are analyzed with such scrutiny for some hidden meaning.
Some secret interpretation.
The stories are treated as having great wisdom and insight.
What is the theme of the poem, what is its point?
Take for example, a couple of lines from the poem entitled “Each In His Own Tongue,” by William Herbert Carruth.
The lines read:
“A fire-mist and a planet,
A crystal and a cell,
A jell-fish and a saurian
And caves where the cave-men dwell.”
Now, what does that poem mean to you?
I wonder what the theme is, I wonder what he /really /meant?
Ha!!!!
Well, when it comes to the Bible, there is one theme that is hard to miss.
The theme of love.
Scripture is quite clear that Christians are to love each other.
Our big idea this morning is nothing technical, nothing fancy, just the facts:
*Big Idea: True Christians love each other.
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Three Questions
I.
What is a Christian?
II.
What Does a Christian Do?
III.
What is the Motivation?
1 Peter 1:22-25
I.
What is a Christian?
(vs.
22)
A. A Christian has been purified
1.
The Context- 1:18
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They had been ransomed from sin by the costly, valuable, blood of Jesus.
b.
A Christian is one whose life has been cleansed by the blood of Christ
c. Cleansed from what? Sin.
d.
The very soul of the Christian has been washed clean.
Sin no longer has charge of the believers life.
e.
The believer does not have to live under the heavy load of a guilty conscience.
He has been purified.
f.
He is spiritually clean.
g.
People in the world speak of wanting to “clean up there lives.”
There is only one way to clean up your life, and that is by the precious blood of Jesus.
B.
A Christian has obeyed the truth
1.
The truth about Jesus
2. The truth of the gospel.
The acceptance of the good news that Jesus Christ has paid the ransom for our sins.
3.
This is not a works salvation.
This word “obedience” here means merely that they had placed their total trust in what Jesus has done.
4.
Notice that it was the Spirit Who was at work in their purification.
Believers have merely responded to the gift of eternal life.
Point of application: Have you been purified, have your obeyed the truth?
Are you a Christian?
II.
What Does a Christian Do? (vs.
22)
Answer: A genuine Christian loves other Christians.
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Love Comes naturally for the believer.
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Love of the brethren- /Philadelphion /(Show overhead)
a. Brotherly love
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Used in the New Testament, often if not always in conjunction with some form of the word “brother or brethren.”
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The type of love brothers have for one another.
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Based upon the common bond in Christ
Illustration: Have you ever noticed that often total strangers when faced with a common experience will band together.
Maybe their plane crashes or their neighborhood is threatened by a fire and they come together for help.
They have a bond.
They are facing a shared difficulty.
And atleast for a time they experience a commonality.
aa.
Christians share the same Savior
bb.
Christians share the same future
cc.
Christians share the same blessings
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Christians share a family relationship.
We are brothers and sisters.
Isn’t that so true? Look around you right now! Go ahead, do it!
Look at the person on your right.
Now look at the person on your left.
Now look at who’s in front of you.
Now look at who is behind you.
If you have known any of these people for any length of time, you have to admit, there is a certain bond with them.
They feel like family.
You may even feel closer to some of these people than you do some of your more distant relatives.
That is philadelphion- “love of the brethren”
Believers are far ahead of the world in this area.
We have a group of people to whom we belong!
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