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Living Hope: Hope on Grace

Discover how to live as aliens on earth embodying hope, grace, and holiness through biblical teachings from 1 Peter and Philippians. Embrace a mindset of preparation, sobriety, and expectation. Learn to love, fear, and walk with God in a fallen world.

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Living Hope: Hope on Grace

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  1. Living Hope: Hope on Grace I Peter 1:13-25

  2. 80% of Americans say they believe in God, but only 56% believe in God as described in the Bible. The Bible doesn't offer us that choice. (Charisma, July 2018) Alien: A stranger, sojourner; not simply one who is passing through, but a foreigner who has settled down, however briefly, next to or among the native people Philippians 3:20 (NASB) 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

  3. How then shall we live as aliens? • 1. Live with Hope on grace 1 Peter 1:13 (NASB) 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

  4. How then shall we live as aliens? • 1. Live with Hope on grace 1 Peter 1:13 (NASB) 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

  5. Hope is the anticipation and expectation of good so that I act with confidence • Grace:God gives us the good we don’t deserve

  6. How then shall we live as aliens? • 1. Live with Hope on grace • 2. Live with Holiness in all my ways 1 Peter 1:14-16 (NASB) 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; 16 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

  7. do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance • Holy:Set apart, sanctified, consecrated/committed 17 If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;

  8. Motivation to live Holy: • Fear: Not fear of judgment, but a fear of disappointing God or sinning against His love Judgement Revelation 20:11-15 (NASB) 11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw

  9. the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

  10. 2 Corinthians 5:9-10 (NASB) 9 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

  11. Motivation to live Holy: • Fear: Not fear of judgment, but a fear of disappointing God or sinning against His love Judgement The Love of God

  12. 1 Peter 1:18-21 (NASB) 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futileway of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. 20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you 21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

  13. 1 Peter 1:18-21 (NASB) 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futileway of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. 20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you 21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

  14. “I didn’t say a word to him about my religion. I wanted him to feel compassion.  I chose to show him empathy.  I felt the best way to honor his victims was for a Jew to prove him wrong. Love.  That’s why I did it.  (MOTIVE!): Love as an action is more powerful than words, and love in the face of evil gives others hope.”

  15. 1 Peter 1:22-25 (NASB) 22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For, “All flesh is like grass,And all its glory like the flower of grass.The grass withers,And the flower falls off,25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word which was preached to you.

  16. How then shall we live as aliens? • 1. Live with Hope on grace • 2. Live with Holiness in all my ways • 3. Live with Harmony in my relationships

  17. 1 Peter 1:22-25 (NASB) 22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For, “All flesh is like grass,And all its glory like the flower of grass.The grass withers,And the flower falls off,25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word which was preached to you.

  18. 1 Peter 1:22-25 (NASB) 22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For, “All flesh is like grass,And all its glory like the flower of grass.The grass withers,And the flower falls off,25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word which was preached to you.

  19. 1 Peter 1:22-25 (NASB) 22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For, “All flesh is like grass,And all its glory like the flower of grass.The grass withers,And the flower falls off,25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word which was preached to you.

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