Sermon Tone Analysis

*This weeks promise: God promises you incorruption!

\\ \\ **1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

\\ ** \\ The one thing we know about ourselves is how corruptible we are.

But we have this promise from God about our condition now that we are born again.

We do not have to worry about our corrupting it this time because God shows us that we have now been born again by the incorruptible seed of the word of God.

Many people really don’t understand this.

I most certainly didn’t for a very long time.

What this means is easier to understand if we break it down.

When we were born physically, we were born into corruptible bodies with a corruptible nature.

When we are born again however, God Himself gives us a brand new nature that is incorruptible!

That nature cannot die, it cannot be corrupted in any way buy anything or anyone, including our old nature!

That new nature that Lord gives us when we are born again is set in stone so to speak.

Absolutely nothing can change it in any way.

At the very most, all we can do is deny it and not pay attention to it.*

\\ \\ *This is how we can know, absolutely and for certain that nothing at all can ever separate us from God.

Once we are born again, we are born again forever!

That new nature that the Lord gave us CAN NOT die!!!

It has eternal life!

It cannot be removed from us because it IS us!

We can no more walk away from our new nature then we could cut our hearts out of chests and still live physically!

* \\ \\ *Satan doesn’t want us to know that though.

He wants us to believe that that new nature is just kind of sitting there next to the old one and that we can still choose which one is “us”.

It doesn’t work that way though.

The old nature is not “us” any more.

It is still there because it was given us at our physical birth, but it will be gone forever once we either die or are taken in the rapture.*

\\ \\ *In the mean time, Satan causes the things of our old nature to haunt us and bother us to try and get us to believe that it’s still “us”.

However, just as our old nature cannot be gotten rid of in this life, so our new nature can also never be “gotten rid of”.

In order for God to remove our new nature, He would have to be a liar and we know that simply isn’t true.

* \\ \\ *I’d like to share with you what one of my favorite commentaries says about this verse:* \\ \\ *Peter again reminded his readers that they had experienced the new birth (cf.

v. 3): For you have been born again.

This supernatural event made it possible for them to obey the truth, purify themselves, and love the brethren.

This change in their lives would not die, because it took place through God’s Word, which is imperishable (/aphthartou//, /the word in v. 4 that described a believer’s inheritance), living and enduring.

Peter supported his exhortation (v.

22) by quoting Isaiah 40:6-8 ( **1 Peter 1:24-25 ).

All that is born of perishable seed withers and falls, but God’s Word stands forever.

This imperishable Word was the content of Peter’s preaching (cf.

v. 12).

His hearers must be affected by its life-changing power, as indicated in 1 Peter 2:1-3 .

\\ * \\ */The Bible knowledge commentary : An exposition of the scriptures/* \\ \\ *God has given us this promise so that we can have a relationship with Him that is not ruled by doubt and fear of our nature as a human.*

\\ \\ *1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, \\ ** \\ Notice here that we are begotten to a living hope!

Our God is our hope!

It's a living hope because we know that He can't lie and that He won't mislead us.

One day we will have incorruptible bodies to go with our new incorruptible spirits (natures)!

Praise God!!!!*

 

*This week's promise: God promises you incorruption!

\\ \\ **John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.

The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.*

\\ \\ *James 1:17-18 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.*

\\ * \\ To continue from yesterday, please read the above verses carefully.

These confirm for us that it is the Sprit that gives life.

These words in the first verse were spoken by Jesus to us.

He is telling us that the words which He spoke to us at our salvation are life for us.

They gave us our new nature (spirit).

We can know that we have that new nature~/spirit because that is what helps us to understand God’s Word and to obey Him.* \\ \\ *Yes, we still sin and yes, we can still have trouble understanding His Word.

Those things don’t make you “unsaved”.

For the first, that you still sin, the Spirit of God that dwells within us, and our new nature, gives us the ability and the option to choose not to sin, but it’s still a choice.

That requires actively thinking about it.

Prior to becoming saved, sin was our nature and was a “habit”.

It does take conscious work to break that habit and to choose to obey.

We won’t be completely free of that old nature until we either die or are raptured.*

\\ \\ *As for understanding God’s Word, that too requires some work on our part.

You must actually open your bible daily and read it, and you must ask Him to help you to understand and then listen to Him and continue to read and study.

Then you will understand and you will become mature in Christ.*

\\ \\ *James again confirms that we have been born again and that it was done through the Word of Truth which is incorruptible and can never die.

Notice too that James reminds us that the gifts of God are “perfect” and “good” just like He is.

How then can His gift of salvation be anything less then “perfect” and “good”?

It can’t!

His gift of salvation to us is the perfect gift and it is called the “good news” because it’s something that we can’t possibly mess up! \\ \\ **Psalm 13:5-6 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

I will sing to the Lord, for he has been good to me.*

 

 

*This week's promise: God promises you incorruption!

\\ \\ **1 Corinthians 15:51-54 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

\\ \\ **What an awesome and wonderful promise the Lord has given us!

New incorruptible bodies that will never sin or even think about sinning!

No more sickness or death!

(which were brought about by sin) I know that we all yearn for this day.

Have you thought though of how much our Father must yearn for this day?

This is what He wanted when He created Adam!

He's been waiting, planning and helping us all this long time so that we can finally all be with Him in perfection.

How He must love us to go to all this trouble just for us! \\ \\ **Matthew 7:9-11 “Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!* \\ * \\ These verses helped me learn to trust our Father.

My earthly father wasn't someone I could trust, so it was hard for me to trust God.

When I finally saw how much trouble the Lord was going to just to save us, it really touched me.

What human being would do that for anyone?

Even most earthly parents fall short.

Yet time and time again we are shown how the Lord has already gone to such lengths for us, and will continue to until his plan is complete and we have all been made incorruptible.

Yes!

You CAN trust Him! \\ \\ **Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.*

*This week's promise: God promises you incorruption!

\\ \\ **1 Corinthians 15:50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.*

\\ \\ *Galatians 3:26-27 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.*

\\ * \\ We’ve already seen how we now have both a corruptible nature and an incorruptible nature.

The corruptible nature we know will ultimately be shed either when we die or when we go in the rapture.

As the first verse says, this is because our physical bodies and our corruptible natures can’t live in heaven.

This is why the Lord will give us incorruptible bodies to go along with our incorruptible spirits.*

\\ \\ *Think on this for a moment if you will.

If the Lord has already given us incorruptible spirits (natures) which we know He has because his Word says so, if we could lose our salvation, what would happen to those spirits?

Usually the most immediate answer is that they would die, right?

Wrong.

They are incorruptible, therefore they cannot die.

So what would happen to them?