Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Get Ready for Battle

Joel Nadel / General

1 Peter / Obedience; Hope; Sanctification /

“Therefore” = a signal to review what has gone beforeNotice that Peter’s teaching and writing are different

After a review of what God's people face in the world, the Apostle begins to instruct them in how to prepare for all that awaits them, here, and in eternity

Notice that Peter’s teaching and writing are different

Introduction: “Therefore” = a signal to review what has gone beforeNotice that Peter’s teaching and writing are different

i. Paul –line by line, precept by precept, then illustration and exhortation – builds the case.

ii.

Peter – makes his general points, then circles back on specific concepts and precepts.

Less systematic, a bit more emotional.

Peter is by nature a fighter.

Rallying cry to the church.

We are the church militant - the church here on Earth.

Our counterpart in heaven is the church triumphant and we are going to join them one day.

For this assignment, they must be mentally prepared, and able to concentrate.

Very difficult operational environment -We will be persecuted because the world hates us.

Christ told us that they would hate us because they hated Him.

He was perfectly sinless and loving and they hated Him so much that the tortured, mocked and killed Him.

We fall far short of the example He set.

We come from a sinful background, we sin, we are imperfect, we make mistakes.

If they hated Him, as wonderful as He was, how can they not hate us even more, since we fall far short of the example He set.

They hate us because now we represent Him, His truth and His message.

There is nothing you could or should do about that.

They will never like you because you expose their sin.

Don’t be a snowflake - deal with it.

Don't give in.

Dont cave.

Gird up your mind and mentally prepare yourself for the battle, because it will continue.

You need to concentrate, stay focused, and rely completely on the grace, the favor that you have been assured of at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Interrogative: How do we prepare for the mission of glorifying God?

Imperative: We need to let the triune God, sanctify us.

Transition: God needs us to prepare for a difficult mission and we will look at this from that standpoint.

What condition must we be in to participate?

What must we do?

What do we avoid?

First Point: What must we do?

Be Holy.

, : but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”[1]

Explanation:

xplanation:

i. Holy one.

Hagios.

Sanctified from the unclean, sanctified, consecrated.

ii.

But like the Holy one which called you: For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification .

iii. “also” - kai - What does Peter mean by that?

What ways?

Speech

Conduct Walk the talk, talk the walk - Neg Example: Pharisees

iii.

Requirement of ancient Israel.

God calls Israel to holiness three times in Leviticus (13(leprosy), 19 (idolatry), 10 (Abihu and Nadab))

It is a great favour to be called effectually by divine grace out of a state of sin and misery into the possession of all the blessings of the new covenant; and great favours are strong obligations; they enable as well as oblige to be holy.

This is a pre-requisite for any assignment or mission or ministry the Lord assigns.

We must be holy.

How do we do that, given that we inherited a sin tendency and we sin multiple times a day - we still wallow in it?

Why must we be holy?

What happens when we become holy?

This is the way we fight; we fight with our courage and our holiness.

1.

This is a pre-requisite for any assignment or mission or ministry the Lord assigns.

We must be holy.

How do we do that, given that we inherited a sin tendency and we sin multiple times a day - we still wallow in it?

Why must we be holy?

What happens when we become holy?

This is the way we fight; we fight with our courage and our holiness.

Henry, M. (1994).

Matthew Henry’s commentary on the whole Bible: complete and unabridged in one volume (p.

2424).

Peabody: Hendrickson.This is a pre-requisite for any assignment or mission or ministry the Lord assigns.

We must be holy.

How do we do that, given that we inherited a sin tendency and we sin multiple times a day - we still wallow in it?

Why must we be holy?

What happens when we become holy?

This is the way we fight; we fight with our courage and our holiness.

iv.

NASB95 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

1. because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

v. States this three times in , , and 10

Rather than conforming to evil desires, children of obedience will want to be holy.

To be a child of God it is necessary to bear a family resemblance.

God is by nature holy.

The basic meaning of the Greek word is “different” or “separated.”

God is totally separate from sin. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty,” intoned the seraphs in Isaiah’s vision ().

Since God is holy, his children are to be holy in all [they] do (the word translated “conversation” in older versions means “conduct,” “behavior,” “way of life”).

Sanctification is a theological term describing the ethical change that takes place in the life of the believer.

It involves deliverance from the domination of evil and transformation into the likeness of God.

Mounce, R. H. (2005).

A Living Hope: A Commentary on 1 and 2 Peter (p. 19).

Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers.

Illustration:

Holiness is required because it is written in the books of Moses, Be holy, because I am holy (see , ; ; ).

The fundamental basis for holy living is the same in the New Testament as it was in the Old.

The conduct of believers in every age is determined by the nature of God.

A holy God requires holiness in his followers

Mounce, R. H. (2005).

A Living Hope: A Commentary on 1 and 2 Peter (p. 19).

Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers.

Two fold rule of holiness:

Must be holy in all parts of our lives