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Reality check….Our Great Salvation
 1 Peter 1: 1-7
Reality check one is called; Our Great Salvation…our great salvation.
And not surprisingly, Peter can’t wait to get the gold on the table so he starts with our great salvation.
3 things I want to do
So I want to do three things with you and then I want to detail it, and then I want to challenge you to demonstrate it and then finally teach us what it means to delight in it…those three tings about our great salvation.
So lets’ start with 1 Peter 1:1…and when you’re ready to go say; go….go…*/1)
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion/*…the dispersion was the scattering of all  the Christians out of Jerusalem across Asia Minor because of persecution.
To escape suffering, the Christians scattered…they were called, “the dispersion”.
He said to those who are elect, exiles of the dispersion.
The idea of exiles there is a little bit difficult to translate.
The NAS calls them aliens…that’s a little weird.
the NIV translates them; strangers…the NKJV calls them pilgrims…it’s the idea that when you come to know Christ, when you experience His great salvation one of the things that happens to you is that you’re just like; I don’t fit here anymore…people think differently than I think, people handle things differently than I do, their whole outlook is different and since I began following Christ, I just don’t see things the way that other people see it anymore.
You know what I’m talking about?
So then you know what he means when he says; to those who are elect; exiles.
Well, there’s the first part of our great salvation, it’s all tied up in that word; elect.
You might make a note of that as we are detailing our great salvation and the first word is election.
Election…he says you are a chosen race….that’s the same word; elect.
That’s a big part of our salvation identity.
*Salvation definition*
Let’s get a definition of salvation on the table…are you good with that?
Salvation is the spiritual state of a convicted sinner who is eternally resting, by faith, in the forgiveness that God freely offers in Christ.
All right.
It’s the state, the spiritual state, of a convicted sinner who is eternally resting, by faith, in the forgiveness, freely offered in Christ.
Salvation is not earned, it’s not merited, it’s not deserved or ultimately even discovered it’s revealed by the grace of God.
This is the idea of being elect, being chosen…the idea that if you’re in Christ today, if you have this great salvation it’s because God chose you.
You say, what are you talking about?
Well, I’m talking about what the Bible says.
Ephesians 1 says; according as he has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world.
You are a chosen race…
 
*1st Part of Great Salvation; Election….chosen
by God (4 parts)*
Peter says; starts off his book…elect…to those who are elect….God chose people.
Now, how many people would agree that if this is true, and it is true, that those who are going to inherit salvation God chose who would get it….how
many people would say that’s a bit cold?
OK; from our human perspective that’s a bit cold but part of the deal there is that we think everyone should get it.
The shocking thing is not that everyone doesn’t get it, the shocking thing is that anybody gets it.
And hearing Peter, we get a little insight into how this election took place.
Notice in verse */2 according to the foreknowledge of God…/*you see; well what does that mean exactly?
Well that means; back, back, back, back, back…before Adam, before Abraham, before Eden, before there was anything, there was God.
And God, who’s not limited by time, in eternity past, He looked forward into future and He knew some things and based on what He knew He chose who would be saved.
And you say, but this doesn’t make sense.
It’s for everyone but only those who are chosen will receive…but…you say well I don’t understand it, well, I don’t either…I just write across that; mysterion.
There are just some things about God that we can’t understand them.
God understands it and listen; He’s not looking for analysis; ok.
All through Church History people who have tried to resolve this tension have ended up into false teaching on one side or the other.
God just wants us to live with it, God just wants us to live with it…He not looking for analysis, He’s looking for adoration.
And God, You are awesome how does this work that we are chosen…man when we’re coming into the kingdom we feel so much like we’re making this choice but looking back we’re like; whoa, he chose me.
I don’t understand it.
One of the great things is that this should cause worship to come forth from our hearts and what you ought to do is not well, what if my brother wasn’t chosen?
*No, no; he’s invited and if he responds he will discover that he was chosen.*
That’s the best I can do.
So let’s just worship this great salvation as we have been elected…we have been chosen by God.
 
*Second part Regeneration (Justification) (Redeemed)*
Here’s the second part of it…look at vs. 3, Regeneration, regeneration….blessed
be…or the NIV says 1 Peter 1:3 */Blessed be /*(The NIV says; Praise be to)*/ the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead/*.
This is the conversion part of salvation, this is the point in time when you turn from your sin and embrace Christ, by faith, by Bible calls it a lot of different terms.
Sometimes the Bible calls it; Justification.
It means to be legally forgiven by God.
Sometimes the Bible calls it redeemed as in lovingly bought from slavery to sin by God.
Sometimes the Bible calls it regeneration; *as in eternally made alive by God.  *
 
*How Great is God’s mercy*
That’s what He does here;*/ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again/*.
What do you think about that; God’s mercy?
It’s really an amazing thing to think about how great God’s mercy is.
I just want you to think about the one most difficult relationship you have, whatever that it, and every time that person does something that you don’t think they should do, man, you want them to get what they deserve.
And, I’m going to make sure they don’t get away with this and you think how much you we feel about one person….mercy is withholding from that person what they deserve.
How hard is that, to withhold from somebody what they deserve, is that hard?
Man, we want to see people get what they deserve and I want you to think for a moment about what it means for the God of the universe, not to withhold from one person in time what He thinks they deserve, but to be willing to withhold from all of us what we truly do deserve, through all time….no
wonder Peter said…*/ /*
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*Born again*
*/According to his great mercy, he, (what) he has caused us to be born again/*.
Born again, born again…what is that born again thing, I hear that all the time.
Well, you have to be born two times because…well why?
Because when you’re born physically your born dead spiritually.
Every bouncing beautiful baby in our nursery in our nursery is dead as a door nail, spiritually.
You say, don’t say that about my kid.
OK, well, God’s Word says that about your kid, ok.
Born physically, that’s just part of it they got to be born spiritually.
Jesus said to Nicodemus; marvel not that unto you, you must be born again…a second time.
I heard this a long time ago and I’ve always remembered it.
Born once, die twice.
Right?
You’re only born one time but you’re going to die twice.
Physically and spiritually…eternally; but if you’re born twice; physically and spiritually…you’re only going to die once; physically.
But you will live forever.
Born once die twice born twice die once.
*A living hope…Jesus must be primary focus*
God, */According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again/*…here it is…*/to a living hope…/*What’s the living hope?
The keyword there; a living hope, notice through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Christianity is first and foremost is a relationship with a person…it’s Jesus Christ, Himself.
Accept no substitutes.
Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, He’s alive and His followers we love Him and believe in Him and we’re living for Him…isn’t that what Christianity is all about?
Isn’t it about Jesus Christ?
Accept no substitutes.
You say, what are you talking about?
Well, here are some substitutes for Jesus Christ and you can find these right here in the church.
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