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HABORVIEW FELLOWSHIP. Empowering Passionate Disciples. Equipping people to passionately Live like Jesus lived, Do what Jesus did, and Advance His kingdom together. Change Agents of Hope & Life A SECURED POSITION & FUTURE. 1 Peter 1:3-5. Review.
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HABORVIEW FELLOWSHIP Empowering Passionate Disciples Equipping people to passionately Live like Jesus lived, Do what Jesus did, and Advance His kingdom together.
Change Agents of Hope & Life A SECURED POSITION & FUTURE 1 Peter 1:3-5
Review 1 Peter 1:1–2 (NLT) This letter is from Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to God’s chosen people who are living as foreigners in the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. 2 God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and his Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ. May God give you more and more grace and peace.
Review 1:1-2 Author – Peter Recipients – Believers in Asia Minor
Review 1:1-2 Author – Peter Recipients – Believers in Asia Minor Chosen Foreigners • Sovereignly Chosen by the Father; sanctified by the Spirit; purchased by the death of Jesus. • Strangers in a foreign land.
Change Agents of Life & Hope Intro: • Vss. 3-12 is one sentence in NT language • God the Father vss. 3-5; God the Son vss. 6-9; God the Spirit vss. 10-12 • There is only one God—existing in 3 persons. • Jesus is God!
Change Agents of Life & Hope John 1:1–3 (NIV84) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. “Recognizing and believing right about God is foundational to the Christian’s faith and life.”
Change Agents of Life & Hope MESSAGE OF THE HEART What a God we have . . . Bless Him!! • Message from Peter’s heart! • Truth revealed and received changes life . . . Evokes worship. • In context of adversity. • The message . . .
According to God’s Mercy m e r c y God’s initiative toward me to an inheritance to be born again guarded by God to a living hope
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED POSITION God caused us to be born again John 1:13 (NLT) They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.
Change Agents of Life & Hope 1 John 3:9 (ESV) No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. Titus 3:5 (NLT) He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit.
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED POSITION God caused us to be born again (Evidences of being born)
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED POSITION To a Living Hope Romans 15:13 (NLT) I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED POSITION Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Peter 1:21 (NLT) Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And you have placed your faith and hope in God because he raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory.
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED FUTURE
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED FUTURE To an Inheritance • Imperishable • Undefiled • Unfading • Reserved
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED FUTURE To an Inheritance Acts 20:32 (NLT) “And now I entrust you to God and the message of his grace that is able to build you up and give you an inheritance with all those he has set apart for himself. In substance imperishable, in purity undefiled, in beauty unfaded!
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED FUTURE Who by God’s Power Through Faith for a Salvation Ready to be Revealed
Change Agents of Life & Hope THE BELIEVER’S SECURED FUTURE It matters - vss. 6-7!
HABORVIEW FELLOWSHIP Empowering Passionate Disciples Equipping people to passionately Live like Jesus lived, Do what Jesus did, and Advance His kingdom together.