Sermons About 1-peter
Kaleo - A Study in 1 Peter #2 Called to Holiness 1:13 - 2:3
Kaleo - A Study in 1 Peter #2 Called to Holiness
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Answer Me
In our text in 1 Peter today, Peter tells us that the way that we live gives us opportunities to talk about what we really believe. As a follower of Christ, we believe that there is a day coming when Christ will return to this earth and take us to heaven to be with him. Because of that hope, we should be living differently. When the people around us see that we live differently, they make cause problems for us. But they may ask us why we live differently. And when that question comes, we need to be ready to give an answer for our hope. Today, as we look at 1 Peter 3:14--18, think about your own life and the way that you live. Does your life show that you believe something different than those around you believe? If your life doesn’t show that, what do you need to change?
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Blessing Like Jesus Did
Human relationships are part of the workshop of sanctification, the process of learning to live like a Christian. People who can model great Christian virtues when alone can find it very difficult to live like Jesus did when they get around others. It is especially hard if those others are making our lives more difficult. The suffering of Jesus is an example of how we are to live as Christians in a hostile world that does not like our Christianity. God calls on all of us, regardless of our station in life, to dwell peacefully with others, blessing them because he has blessed us through Jesus. By learning to live in peace and refusing to retaliate even against unfair treatment, we can demonstrate to others just how different our life because of our hope in Jesus.
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Marrying Like a Christian by Suffering Like Jesus - Part 2
Today, we follow up last week’s teaching on wives with teaching directed towards husbands. The role of husbands in a biblical marriage is significantly different than what most men (and women) imagine. But it is one that men must take seriously in order to follow Christ. As men, we must expend great energy to be the kind of husbands that God has called us to be. This is important, not just because our marriages depend on it, but because our own relationship with God depends on it. God tells us that he will interrupt our fellowship with him if we are not the right kind of husbands. So men, let us listen carefully to the Word today and commit to being the kind of husband God has called us to be.
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Marrying Like a Christian by Suffering Like Jesus - Part 1
For God, marriage is not a political issue or a social one. It is first and foremost a gospel issue. Marriage for Christians is to be lived with the overwhelming sense of the meaning of the gospel that Jesus came to die for us to make us holy. With that backdrop, Peter writes about marriage in our passage this morning. He writes to tell us how to have a Christian marriage in a non-Christian world. By following the Bible’s teaching, we can have a marriage that honors God and that preaches the gospel to the world around us.
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The Devil and our Pride
"All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." 6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 7Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. 10And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen." 1 Peter 5:5-11
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Suffering Like Jesus
A life of suffering is not something people normally choose, at least on purpose. In fact, most people prefer to avoid it at all costs. Yet suffering is at the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ that the Bible tells us about. It is impossible to understand the gospel apart from the theme of suffering. Today in our teaching from 1 Peter 2, we see once again the theme of suffering, this time played out in the life of Jesus. It is a lesson for us that suffering is a part of following Christ, and that in the midst of suffering, we must follow the example that Christ set for us. Listen today as we learn more about enduring suffering in a fallen world.
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Ultimate Reality
" 7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. 8Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. 11If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 12Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you. 13But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. 14If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. 15If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. 16However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name. 17For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?" 19So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.." 1 Peter 4:7-19
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