Sermon Tone Analysis

I remember the day.

I said a state record.

Some of you may recall this state record, I've told a few of you.

And and in anytime I I speak about perseverance this, this day comes to mine.

I was on his high school swim team.

We are at a swim meet.

My coach came to me and said Johnston, need you to swim the 200 M, I was excited, the 200m was like my bread-and-butter that that Sprint, you know, and I know just how you feel good after that swim and then he said in the butterfly,

I will give you an idea.

I am a freestyle swimmer.

Not a butterfly swimmer but he said, Johnston you practice.

And what I need you to do is finish the race.

I got in the water, the gun sounded.

I lunged into the water man with every stroke I was keeping form going through.

50 m.

100 m.

What about this time?

The other teams and all the crowd was cheering for me.

Keep going, keep going.

You got this.

150 m is how I was going through the water.

I look like.

I was drowning.

But finally 200m came in, well be on 6 minutes.

Which to give you an idea of the 200-meter butterfly should not take 6 minutes, okay?

But I finished.

So, when I think about perseverance, I think about that day.

And today, Peter is addressing.

Perseverance For You &.

I in this.

Life. in this Christian walk in this Christian race day today, he's talking about our perseverance, our forward progress,

And some days that forward progress looks better than others, doesn't it?

But he is, he's talking about that movement forward, in spite of opposition, in spite of the tribulations and difficulties that we go through the things that tangle us up.

Continuing to move for.

Dieter approaches are our passage today if you want to turn to.

1st Peter will be there in a little bit.

But Peter is approaching our passage, in a matter of a fact way.

This is not a suggestion.

He is he is bringing.

Presumptive of us that we are going to do this.

That this is what our response will be.

There's no other option.

The fact is Peter is writing this.

It almost seems Preposterous to him to think that there would be any other movement rather than forward.

I want you to have that idea in your mind as as we go through this passage.

But first I want us to look at the definition of perseverance.

Perseverance in.

This is Webster's desk.

Definition is is simply will bring it up on the slides.

There is simply to persist in a state.

continue on at Warren undertaking in spite of

Meaning there will be these things that you're going to move forward.

You're going to persist in spite of counter influences, opposition and discouragement.

That's perseverance.

Now think about the Christian Life, what we go through and and how we exhibit perseverance Paul demonstrated as a race is he is he would share it with Timothy.

I have run the race, I have fought the fight, that's how Paul described it.

Noah back in.

Genesis, we looked at that nor continued to build the ark day after day.

Week after week, year after year decade after decade,

And Peter addresses, the Saints.

This is how you are going to persevere.

First, Peter chapter 4. Beginning and verse 1. Let's read the first 6 vs here.

Therefore Love that word anywhere.

You find it in Scripture.

Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh.

Arm yourselves also with the same purpose.

Because he who has suffered In the Flesh has ceased from sin.

So I have to live the rest of the time in the flesh.

No longer for the rest of men.

For the will of God.

Put a time is already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles.

Having pursued a course of sensuality must drunkenness carousing drinking parties and abdominal Idol trees in all this.

They are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of this dissipation.

and they malign you, but They will give account to him, who is ready to judge the living, and the dead.

For the gospel has for this purpose, been preached even to those who are dead and do, they are judged in the flesh is men.

They live in the spirit according to the will of God.

They charge of perseverance for the Saints.

Any begins with therefore, I love this letter of first first Peter.

He has built a beautiful just argument for how we live.

He is gone through and he is giving an expectation of us now.

with all that I've said to you Church, With all that you have heard from me Saints there for there's something, there's a way that you and I should move forward.

Eddie goes on and he addresses before this our salvation.

All the power, all that is wrapped up in our Salvation in Jesus Christ.

Not only does he address that but he did find various ways for you and I to live our lives and he gives examples and how we can be a testimony.

By the way, we live of this salvation that Jesus Christ is brought

And through all of the examples is example of Christ.

Remains the greatest.

Not only the example of Christ life with the example of his suffering.

Deters.

Basically saying, guys, I have the dress, all of this.

And now say this, we're wrapping up this first letter of of Peter.

Is Hannah coming on the, on the downhill slope here.

He said, I addressed all of this for this purpose since Christ suffered in the flesh.

now, we now you get to live a certain way.

There's an expectation.

God has an expectation for you and me the way we live.

Peter himself his same church.

I have this expectation of you.

There is a forward momentum, that should be occurring in your life.

And you know what church?

It's time to prepare.