Sermon Title: New Hearts, New Lives, New Loves
Scripture: 1 Peter 1.13-25 (LSB)
Our Identity in Christ - 1 Peter 1.3-12
The Hope of our Salvation - 1 Peter 1.3-5
The Joy of our Salvation - 1 Peter 1. 6 - 9
The witness of or Salvation - 1 Peter 1.10-12
Our New Life in Christ. - 1 Peter 1.13-25
1 Peter 1:13–16 LSB
Therefore, having girded your minds for action, being sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, not being conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your conduct; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
A life of
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1 Peter 1:17–21 LSB
And if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your sojourn, knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your futile conduct inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but appeared in these last times for the sake of you who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
A life of
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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.
A life of
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Application:
A Life of Holiness.
Because the Spirit dwells in us.
Personal Holiness through our conduct
A Life of Reverence.
Worship
Romans 12:1–2 LSB
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice—living, holy, and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may approve what the will of God is, that which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Worship
Ephesians 6:4 LSB
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Worship
Hebrews 10:25 LSB
not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.