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Week 5 | Is Your Faith Genuine?
February 27, 2022

Is Our Faith Genuine?

1 Peter 1:8-9 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1. You Love Him

1 Peter: 8a Though you have not seen Him you love Him…

  • Phileo – Affectionate Love, Brotherly love

  • Eros – Romantic Love

  • Agape – Divine Love

  • Jesus asks, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”

  • Jesus uses the word “Agape”

  • Peter answers, “Yes, you know that I love you.”

  • Peter uses the word “phileo”

  • Jesus says, “If you love me you will keep my commandments.”

2) You Believe in Him

1 Peter 1:8b …though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him

  • Pisteuo – Trusts, Entrusts

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

3) You Rejoice with Joy

1 Peter 1:8c …and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory.

  • Agalliao – to jump for joy
  • Doxazo – to praise, celebrate

Matthew 5:11-12 Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

4) The Salvation of Our Souls

1 Peter 1:9 Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Revelation 21:2-4 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place[a] of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,[b] and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise Him, all creatures here below
Praise Him above the Heavenly host
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Amen