Be Holy

We are continuing our series this morning in Trust and Obey. A study through the book of 1 Peter.

So if you have your bible go head and turn to 1 Peter 1:13-21. If you do not have your bible you can follow along on the screen in a few minutes.

As we seek to trust and obey Christ, we will discover that obedience often means suffering and even persecution. Following Peter’s counsel to early believers, this series fuels the journey of sanctification by offering biblical, applicable advice on how to put our faith into action.

last week we looked at how we can Trust God and how we can find hope in Christ to help us through whatever life brings us.

This week we will be looking at what it takes to be holy for Christ.

So before we read today passage I have a question for you. So think for a moment.

What comes to mind when I say be holy?

Does a pair a jean with holes come to our mind.

or a shirt.

or do you think of God and how he is holy. or how Jesus is also holy

what is holiness in the eyes of God.

Holiness is separation from what is unclean.

How do we live a life with holiness when we are through up and down all the time. How can we remain separate from this broken world but still live in this world?

Let read are passage for today and see how we can be holy and what it takes.

Therefore is an important word here. It is referring back to what we talk about last week. Which is, We can have hope with christ and trust that he is looking out for us.

1 Peter 1:13–21 CSB

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. 17 If you appeal to the Father who judges impartially according to each one’s work, you are to conduct yourselves in reverence during your time living as strangers. 18 For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was revealed in these last times for you. 21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

We can learn 4 things from this passage that we should follow as Christ follower.

We have to be ready

Has Christ follower we have to be ready for whatever come our way. In verse 13 it says that we have to be sober mind. Other translation say prepare your minds for action and exercise self-control. We should live in a way that we can service Christ at any moment. You should be ready an anytime to share the hope that you have in Christ.

Has follower of Christ we are set apart of thing of the world. That does not mean that we are better than anyone else. We are set apart because of the hope we found in Christ. We do not need to fall back into thing of the world.

The next thing we learn is in

1 Peter 1:15–16 CSB

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.

We called to be holy

This is were we started this morning when I ask. What comes to mind when I say be holy. Holiness means that we are set apart for the unclean world.

There has only be one person that has very lived that was truly holy and that person was Jesus. To be truly holy you blameless and without sin.

Because of what Jesus did on the cross and rising again on the third day. This now allow us to be Holy in the eyes of God when we believe in that Jesus did on that cross.

It doesn’t just end there. We have also be willing to obey thing that Father God tell us

OT Levittaus

We will face judgement

Judgement will come for every person at some point. We will all face it. Now the question is will you pass judgement or will you not pass. What is this judgement. When we all get to heaven God will chat with us about are life and how we lived it. Did we share with other. Where we mean to other. Did you live a life full of sin.

or did you life a life worth of God. Did you follow him until the end. Did you live the life of holy. If you are a Christ follower you have

You have been redeemed

Jesus has covered you for all the pass thing you have done. He has covered all the sins that you have done.

Back in the OT the Hebrew people would have to sacrifice a unblemished and spotless lamb for their sin. This is what God required for sins in their lives.

He was the spotless lamb that was sacrifed for you and I so we could pass the judgement.

For the price of sin is death. When you accept Jesus and what he did on the cross. You will be redeemed for all the sin in your life.

Our hope is in God the Father

Amid suffering, Peter wants believers to trust Jesus with all things because Jesus has suffered all things for them. Suffering will not last forever. Jesus’s victory through his resurrection is a concrete promise for our future as well. We can trust and obey the one who suffered for us.