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INTRODUCTION:
Watching children grow-up is perhaps one of the most profound changes that we can watch.
ILLUSTRATION:
I have 3 kids.
One is a 6 year old.
One is a 5 year old boy.
and one is an 18 month old boy.
But all three of these entered the world as a naked new born.
- They are cute, fitting fragility in your arms.
- They can’t really see much yet.
- They typically are only responsive to food, cold, and messy diapers.
(You can tickle them all you want, but usually it makes them mad)
- You can tickle them all you want, but usually it makes them mad
- And they do not even move much yet.
A small wiggle out of their blanket is their big motion.
And then they grow up.
Parents of grown children will always tell you, they grow up fast.
My oldest now
is fully able to run and play.
She can read basic books.
She can add and subtract.
She knows how to jump on daddy while he is on the coach.
She knows how to turn her nose up to Salad, but devour Crispy Chicken.
She loves babies and tries to take care of them like a mom.
She is not fully grown, but wow, she has changed.
There is only one other change that is as dramatic as a new child being born.
A New Spiritual child being born again.
This idea was first described .
And the idea of the Word of the Gospel changing us is worked out through out the rest of the book.
Including .
Let’s looks at the kind of change that the New birth should give us.
1 Peter 3:8
We were
Military boot camp changed.
Moses or the transfiguration - faces glowed
This morning, as we began to look at this new paragraph, and we will focus on .
This morning, as we began to look at this new paragraph, we will focus on .
1 Peter 3:8 demands that:
1 Peter 3:8 demands that:
Proposition: The Gospel Changes Believers
TRANSITION: And Peter Gives us 5 characteristics that should be changed.
Understand,
1) The Character of our congregation should be changed.
this text is written to the entire congregation and is a description of what the character of our congregation should be.
The Character of our congregation should be changed.
2) Our Response to Persecution should be changed.
So first,
1) The Character of our congregation should be changed.
It is interesting that Peter discusses:
Our relationship to government.
Our relationship as slaves to slave-owners.
Our Wife and Husband Relationships.
And the final relationship he concludes with is our relationship with other members of the church.
Each of these are to be transformed and changed.
Think about it this way.
If our relationship with potential or even likely unbelievers should be changed;
How much greater should our fellowship be transformed by the Gospel?
If there was a place in which people loved each other as Christ loved, should it not be the church?
After all, didn’t Jesus tell us that we shall be known for our love.
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If we consider Heaven, what will Heaven be like.
Johnathan Edward put it this way:
“The God of love Himself dwells there, and this renders heaven a world of love; for God is the fountain of love, as the sun is the fountain of light.”
(Johnathan Edwards, Sermon: Heaven, a World of Love)
If we in Heaven are to love one another, then should we not love one another here on earth?
In , we are challenged to: “put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.”
This is what our relationships were like before our new Birth through the Gospel.
And isn’t that how we act when we fail to allow the Word of God to guide our thoughts, our tongues, and our choices.
But that is not to be the case.
Instead, we are love the Word like newborn babies allowing to transform us. .
Peter names 5 Characteristics we should have because of the Gospel.
Before the Gospel,
we would have been:
divided, - Every one demanding he have his own way.
unsympathetic, - having no compassion or care for the hurting
haters of one another - having contempt for those we are close too.
with hardened hearts - uncaring about the concerns or suffering of others.
and arrogance.
- boasting in our greatness, whether position, or knowledge, wealth, skill, …
But then God saved us.
He sent his son to die, be buried, and rise with victory of sin and death.
Which meant,
we were born again, just he rose, we rose to new lives transformed by the Word of Christ.
And so the church ought to have changed relationships with one another.
We as the church ought to have these characteristics.
What are these 5 characteristics:
We ought to have
“unity of mind” -
a) “unity of mind”
This means we have like-mindedness.
What does it mean to have unity of mind or like-mindedness?
It could mean we never have disagreements and we all think the same way.
But, if you are in church long enough you will find yourself not agreeing with everyone else and everyone else not agreeing with you.
So does that mean the minute you disagree, you have broken God’s word?
No.
May I say this is a call to have agreement on what’s important.
We are not going to agree on everything.
Most often there are more than one choice.
Sometimes that means we have sinful choice and moral choice.
Sometimes that means we have amoral choice vs another amoral choice.
In other words, it is not a category of sin and not sin, but a wisdom choice.
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