1 Peter 2.18-25 | STAND FIRM…on the example of Christ
Pastor Jim Fikkert
For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. | […]
1 Peter 2.4-10 | STAND FIRM…on your identity in Christ.
Pastor Jim Fikkert
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. | 1 Peter 2.4-10 Basic summary of […]
1 Peter 1.22-2.3 | STAND FIRM…for holiness
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. | 1 Peter 1.22-23 Peter here isn’t concerned […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE…on God’s justice
Andrew Latulippe
KEY VERSES // And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE… on the return of Jesus
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE… on the assurance of salvation.
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE… on future glory
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // Blessed be 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, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who […]
1 PETER :: SET YOUR HOPE… on God’s grace
Pastor Jim Fikkert
KEY VERSES // Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be […]
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