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*The Eternal Perspective*
*1 Peter 5:10, 11*
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Introduction: (object lesson)
I’ve brought a pair glasses with me this morning.
They’re just ordinary reading glasses.
Nothing special.
Not very powerful.
As a matter of fact, for me, I think they do more harm than good.
They seemed to work when first got them several years ago.
But they don’t seem to work anymore.
Have you ever noticed how that happens?
The glasses that work now may not work later.
The eyesight seems to always be changing.
What works today, may not work tomorrow.
I think this is also true in the Christian life.
Many, if not most Christians seem to undergo a change in the way they see things as they go through life.
When we are young, we tend to look at life and think of all the things we want to do.
We want to finish high school and college, get a good job of some kind, find our niche in life, get married.
Enjoy the good things of life.
There’s a high motivation for living.
But it’s kind of strange.
Frequently the older Christians get, the more they find themselves wanting to move on from this life to their home in heaven.
They’ve done all they had set out to do and they begin to focus their attention on eternity.
I believe that early New Testament Christians had this eternal perspective.
Life was probably not as easy for many of them as it is for us.
Living in this world merely meant suffering.
Therefore they kept their eyes on the hope of heaven.
It was their guiding motivation.
Whatever our age and perspective in life, we as Christians can have a hopeful outlook as we view this life and the one to come.
I would like to conclude the book of 1 Peter today, between this morning and evening, focusing on Peter’s concluding remarks.
He closes his letter very positively.
This morning he concludes with this one thought.
Big Idea: Hang in there, eternity’s comin’
Three reasons we can be hopeful:
I.
All of life’s difficulties are momentary.
II.
Heaven’s eternal glory awaits each believer.
Read 1 Peter 5:10, 11
I.
All of life’s difficulties are momentary (vs.
10)
The point is this: hard times don’t last forever!
A.
Peter says, “after that ye have suffered a while”
1. Literally- “a little while.”
a. It’s temporary.
b. It’s also indefinite.
We don’t always know how long the troubles will last.
c.
In suffering an minute can seem like a day, an hour can seem like a year.
A month can seem like an eternity.
It’s nice to know positively without a doubt that the difficulties won’t last forever.
2.
They were suffering for a little while, and you remember from last week’s discussion of verses 8 and 9, that this suffering seems to have come to them because of the work of the adversary the devil.
In one form or another he was having an impact on their lives.
He seemed to have a hand in their suffering and difficulty.
3.
And now Peter says, “look, there will be an end to it.”
Sometimes we see the end of certain difficulties while still in this life.
A light at the end of the tunnel.
But other times, that suffering though blunted by years of time, will never completely be erased.
Like an old battle scar, the pain of a trial can flare when we least expect it.
/Those/ kind of hurts will have to wait for eternity before complete deliverance takes place.
So difficulties in this life are temporary.
Along with this, we must always remember that:
B.
Life itself is temporary.
1.
What that means is that we must live it with an eternal perspective.
Aggressively and with eternity in mind.
It will be over before we know it.
2. It also means that there’s one decision we can’t afford to ignore.
That is the choice to place our eternal destinies in the hands of Jesus Christ.
God gives each one of us a set number of days in this life.
Some of us have been given more than others.
No one of us knows just how many days he has on this earth.
But is within the confines of that unknown number of days that we must receive Christ as our personal Savior.
The stage has been set, everything necessary has been done to grant eternal life to each person alive.
Christ has paid the penalty for sins on the cross, He conquered death for us by rising from the dead.
All that’s left is for every person to receive the work of Christ as the payment for his or her sins.
Life is temporary.
The book of James says it’s like a vapor (James 4:11).
You ever seen a vapor?
Maybe steam from a boiling pan on the stove?
It’s there one second, and gone the next.
You can’t even get a hold on it.
That’s the way life is.
Choose well.
So there is an end in view to hard times.
If not in this life, then in the next.
So suffering’s not forever, eternity’s comin.’
II.
Heaven’s eternal glory awaits each believer.
(vs.
10)
A. Remember your ultimate calling
1.
To “eternal glory”
2. As Christians, we need to remember where we are going.
If we remember where we are going in the future, it will affect how we live in the present.
It changed the way people in Bible times lived.
Take Hebrews chapters 11 and 12 for example.
3.
Look at Abraham - Hebrews 11:8-10 (read it)
a. God called Abraham to pick everything up and leave his home
b.
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