1 PETER 1:1-9 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ: To the temporary residents dispersed in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
1 PETER 1:1-9 3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. 5 You are being protected by God ’ s
1 PETER 1:1-9 power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials 7 so that the genuineness of your faith—more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire— may result in praise, glory, and honor at the
1 PETER 1:1-9 revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 You love Him, though you have not seen Him. though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
DOXOLOGY - Doxa: Glory - Logia: Saying
REASONS TO REJOICE 1. For His Great Mercy
1 PETER 1:3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
THOMAS WATSON "It is God's mercy that sweetens all other attributes... God's holiness without mercy and His justice without mercy were terrible. When the water was bitter and Israel could not drink, Moses cast a tree into the waters and then they were made sweet. How bitter and dreadful were the other attributes of God did not mercies sweeten them?"
GREAT MERCY - “ Great Mercy ” in Greek: - Polys : Great, many multiple, or most - Eleos : Kindness or goodwill towards the miserable and a ffl icted joined with the desire to help
MICAH 7:18 Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
How does God express His mercy?
1 PETER 1:3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
REASONS TO REJOICE 1. For His Great Mercy 2. For the New Birth
REASONS TO REJOICE 1. For His Great Mercy 2. For the New Birth - Expression: New Birth
JOHN 3:1-4 1 There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Him at night and said, “ Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him. ” 3 Jesus replied, “ I assure you: Unless someone is born again,
JOHN 3:1-4 he cannot see the kingdom of God. ” 4 “ But how can anyone be born when he is old? ” Nicodemus asked Him. “ Can he enter his mother ’ s womb a second time and be born? ”
How is someone born again? JOHN 3:14-17 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life. 16 “ For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
1 PETER 1:23 ...since you have been born again—not of perishable seed but of imperishable— through the living and enduring word of God.
- Motive: God ’ s Great Mercy - Expression: New Birth
- Motive: God ’ s Great Mercy - Expression: New Birth - Experience: When You Believe
REASONS TO REJOICE 1. For His Great Mercy 2. For the New Birth 3. Living Hope
1 PETER 1:3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
REASONS TO REJOICE 1. For His Great Mercy 2. For the New Birth 3. Living Hope 4. Our Inheritance
1 PETER 1:3-4 3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
ACTS 13:17-19 17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm. 18 And for about 40 years He put up with them in the wilderness;
ACTS 13:17-19 19 then after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave their land to them as an inheritance.
2 PETER 3:13 But based on His promise, we wait for the new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness will dwell.
DEUTERONOMY 10:8-9 8 At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today.
DEUTERONOMY 10:8-9 9 That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as the Lord your God told them.
LAMENTATIONS 3:22-24 22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. 23 Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. 24 I say to myself, “ The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him! ”
PRACTICAL APPLICATION 1. Be born again 2. Learn to rejoice in what God has done for you
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