Sermon Title: A Longing for the Word
Scripture: 1 Peter 2.1-3 (LSB)
1 Peter 1:22–25 (LSB)
Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a love of the brothers without hypocrisy, fervently love one another from the heart, for you have been born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
For,
“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,
But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
And this is the word which was proclaimed to you as good news.
1 Corinthians 15:55–58 (LSB)
“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
1. Saved people are supposed to be
people.
1 Peter 2:1–3 (LSB)
Therefore, laying aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
Ephesians 4:22–24 (LSB)
to lay aside, in reference to your former conduct, the old man, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and to put on the new man, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Matthew 11:25 (LSB)
At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.
2. Salvation and Growth are both found in the
.
Psalm 34:8 (LSB)
O taste and see that Yahweh is good;
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
Application:
How do we grow our appetite for the Word?
Read the Word