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Our Purpose
To Glorify God by Enjoying Him Forever.
Enjoy God
Our God and Saviour is Supremely Beautiful and Valuable
When we speak of the supreme beauty and value of God, we are speaking of all that God is for us in Christ.
When I say God, I do not mean the Allah of Islam or the God of Christ-rejecting Israel ().
I mean the God you do not know and do not have if you do not have his Son, because he and his Son are One.
God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him.
Which means that you never have to choose between your greatest joy and his greatest glory.
And it means that you should always pursue your greatest joy-for the glory of God.
Do not be distracted by petty passions.
Yet we run into challenges.
If you have been born again for any amount of time, you know the truth of Paul’s confession here.
Our sin nature, our flesh, will fight against our spirit nature until the day our mortal frames, or as Paul says, our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed.
Today we will look at how Peter encourages us to walk in this tension, this Christian Lifestyle.
Our source text will be , particularly verse 1:13 through 2:3.
Learning this New Lifestyle
Through Obedience
With Purpose
Hoping fully on Grace in Christ
We will see three core instructions on how we are to go about learning this lifestyle, or in other words, maturing in Christ, or growing in holiness.
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
People of the Flesh - Infants in Christ
A new beginning.
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a vacation at the beach.
We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
This is where the new believer begins.
We know much about sin.
Up to this point sin has not merely been the definition of who we are, it was our master.
Every one of us is a subject matter expert on the topic of sin, and no one had to teach it to us.
We came out of the womb sinners and our parent, if they were good parents, began the long and arduous task of training us not to sin.
The majority of parents seem to begin every other sentence with some form of the concept no and don’t.
Typically in response to something the child is attempting do, and occasionally in anticipation of what the child may be tempted to try next.
The majority of the child’s response is why?
This is because the child does not comprehend the instructions.
They know that they passionately desire to, say, run and play in the highway.
They simply can’t understand why their parents, who obviously lied when they said they loved them, would prevent them from enjoying what they passionately desire .. even after explaining that it would lead to their death.
ignorance - lack of information, knowledge, or awareness
foolishness - lack of good sense, judgement, or discretion
In the first instance, the child was ignorant of the consequences of playing in the highway.
But after the consequences were explained, the child could no longer claim ignorance and the child’s actions became foolishness.
The parents then create family laws, or rules, to protect the child.
Do not go near the highway.
An obedient child may be ignorant and/or foolish but as they exercise obedience we expect they eventually mature into a wisdom where the fully understand and no longer need to be told not to play in the highway because they would consider it futile to have ever desired to play in the highway.
A disobedient child will continue pursuing this foolish desire, and runs the risk of dying before they mature enough to comprehend what they are doing, or perhaps being injured in a very significant way.
So we see that both ignorance and foolishness can lead to death, but that laws can be laid down to help prevent that until the ignorance or foolishness is overcome.
The goal of the law is to prevent the consequence before they are realized, such that the individual doesn’t have to experience the consequence to understand.
Everyone knows fire is hot after they get burned.
Experience is the one instructor we all universally respect.
This is all reasoned out with logic, it doesn’t take a wise man of God to comprehend this.
Scripture assumes that you already know this as well.
You see, you and I were once ignorant of holiness, much like the child, and our passions were of the type that would lead us to death.
What sort of passions?
; provides some examples.
1 Peter
sexual immorality
impurity
evil desires
covetousness
idolatry
anger
wrath
malice
slander
obscene talk
lying
The mature child of God knows that these passions are futile and lead only to death.
However, we do not begin as mature believers.
We begin as people of the flesh, infants in Christ
Learning a New Lifestyle
No one likes to admit their own ignorance.
It is a consequence of a prideful and arrogant heart.
Most folks will pretend to know something that they don’t know in order to hide their ignorance and attempt to cause others to believe that they know more than they actually know.
You have probably done this on more than one occasion yourself, I know that I have.
No one likes to admit their own ignorance.
It is a consequence of a prideful and arrogant heart.
Most folks will pretend to know something that they don’t know in order to hide their ignorance and attempt to cause others to believe that they know more than they actually know.
You have probably done this on more than one occasion yourself, I know that I have.
It is dangerous.
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is ignorant; enlighten him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a student; teach him.He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him.
The immature believer is convinced they know everything, or at least everything they want to know.
Proverbs 3:
He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man; follow him.
Scripture doesn’t have anything good to say about that sort of behavior.
As believers we need to understand that we were woefully ignorant prior to our conversion, and that in many ways we remain ignorant after our conversion.
The mature believer knows that there is so much more to learn, and that we haven’t even begun to scratch the surface.
1 Corinthians 2:12
Through Obedience
I believe our text in 1 Peter demonstrates plainly that it is through obedience.
It is very interesting that this verse does not say “As mature parents”.
The wisest, most mature christian is here commanded to be as an obedient child.
Why?
We have already demonstrated that a child who is ignorant and/or foolish can be protected from the consequence of their ignorance or foolishness if they are obedient to the laws laid down.
Whoah!
This means I don’t have to be the wisest or most mature believer at the moment of my salvation, I merely need to be obedient!?
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