1 Peter 1:22-25 - Love like Family

Intro

Twin sisters separated at birth, reunited 35 years later - YouTube

Recap

Peter is building the case for a persecuted church to become a loving family.

As obedient Children

Take out the trash (sober-minded) Set your mind fully on the Grace

Then conduct (behave) in a way that honors the precious blood of Jesus

Not taking advantage

Not seeing yourself as worthless

1 Peter 1:22–25 ESV

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

Having purified your souls by your obedience

Purification through the precious blood of Christ

Purified - past tense

Obedience hyperlinks us back to obedient children and those who call on him as Father

FOR - Reason - Love

How to Love

1 Peter Fourth Exhortation: Love One Another (1:22–25)

The result of obeying the truth was that they were ushered into the realm of brotherly love.

Sincere brotherly love

Philadelphia

Authentic - human love

Love one another earnestly

Agapa - Divine love

“to have a love for someone or something, based on sincere appreciation and high regard.”

Earnestly - Intensely/Seriously/Resolutely - family

from a pure heart

What Jesus made pure with his blood

Who? - anyone who says they love Jesus

Twin Sisters

“I have to love them not like them”

Blended family - reconstructed - complex

Safe people

We are born again into a new family

Living and Abiding word of God

Word

Enduring

Isaiah 40 - ch 40-50 is comfort for God’s exiles

Context of Roman Gov

Exiles are not picky

Conclusion

Follow the logic

Jesus - before the foundations of the earth - SO THAT - your faith and hope are in God

Thus you have already been purified so you can Love

Authentically as humans

Seriously/Resolutely as God said he would love

Family Love is what lasts forever