Washed in the Word

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Work is a central facet of our existence.  Most of us spend about a third of our lives at work.  Work is a good gift from God.  Before sin entered in, Adam worked the garden. But after the fall there is a curse on it all.  Apart from the curse, when you add sinful man into the mix given our proclivity to iniquity, work often feels less than good, especially when our employers are ungracious or unjust. We are midway into our perusal of first Peter & Peter is presently pondering the countercultural, uncomfortable, but entirely biblical call for us all to submit for the Lord’s sake to every human institution so long as obedience to man does not involve disobedience to God.  Disarmingly, we told to allow ourselves to be exploited For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people….For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.  In submitting there will be occasions when our oppressors are won without a word when they see our respectful & pure conduct.  When we live with one another in an understanding way… Honoring everyone. Loving the brotherhood. Fearing God. Even honoring the emperor. Peter has singled out three human institutions in which we are to exercise submission. Last week we looked at submission to unrighteous civil authorities.  Next week we will look at submission to imperfect spouses.This week God zeros in on 
"Submission to Unjust Employers."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Tell me if any of these sound familiar:  “Why do I have to listen to you?”  “Who are you to order me?”  “This state, city, county, or country, is so corrupt why should I pay this tax or toll?”  All of those sentiments pertain to submission to authority or rather, a lack of submission to authority.  1 Peter tackles this subject head on.  The question we want to talk about is this:  As Christians, how should we relate to the State?  What if the state is Sub-Christian?  Unchristian?  Anti-Christian?  The biblical posture for the Christian is not subversion but submission.  Submission in our marriages when exploited by imperfect spouses, submission in our vocations when exploited by ungracious employers & even submission to unrighteous civil authorities.  Why?  Why should we submit to them?  And if our general posture is submission not subversion are there ever biblically legitimate exceptions to this general rule?  Those are excellent questions & God’s Word has excellent answers.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Do you understand God’s plan for your life?  Do you understand your kingdom calling?  Do you understand who you are in Christ & what that means as you seek to live for Christ?  Our text today is the very heart & core of the epistle of First Peter.  Our passage is the fulcrum from which all the teachings of First Peter pivot. Everything before our passage points to it.  Everything after our passage flows from it.   If we used the letter S to suggest a structure for First Peter we see that in chapters 1 & 2 Peter has spoken of our salvation & sanctification.  And later in chapters 3-5 Peter will speak of our submission, suffering, shepherds & sheep, specifically their serving & our self-control.  But all of this centers on the subject of our Scripture today, the status of the Christian.  Now the status of the Christian is based on the status of Christ.  Hence the title of our sermon Christ & the Christian.  Last time we were together we focused on: “Who is Christ?”  Today we will focus on "Because of Christ, Who are we?" Today’s text can be life changing because it is life clarifying.   Today’s text can be soul cleansing because if we really understand & apply it.  It can keep us out of the toxicity that seeks to defile you & me.   Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Today Peter speaks on something so basic you might be tempted to skip past it.  But it is so intrinsic we must imbibe it until we own it.  Until it is rooted in the very fabric of our daily existence.  Today’s topic is "Christ & the Christian."  May I be so bold as to say never let this passage become old because it is pure gold.An argument can be made that our text today is the fulcrum whereby the entire epistle of first Peter hangs together.  Everything before it points to it & everything after it flows from it.  First Peter can be summarized structurally by a series of “S’s”.  In chapters 1 & 2 Peter has spoken of our salvation & sanctification & later in chapters 3 thru 5 Peter will speak of our submission, suffering, shepherds & sheep, specifically their serving & our self-control.  But all of these S’s point to or flow from the S we must address, process, possess, & profess lest we regress & transgress.  For you see, our salvation & sanctification stem from our status in Jesus just as our call to submission, suffering, serving & self-control flow from our status in Jesus.Since this subject is so seminal, central & pivotal we will be investing two sermons to it.  Today is Part I regarding "Christ & the Christian."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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In 1980 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers offered the world a catchy chorus: “You don’t have to live like a refugee.”  Christians find that is not quite the case.  Hebrews 13:14 tells us “this world is not our home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come.”  Peter calls us elect exiles because Christians are temporarily, providentially placed in this world to impact it for Christ, yet this world is constantly trying to squeeze us into its mold.  If we don’t play along, sometimes we find it is hard to get along & the world tells us to move along.  So how do we achieve this tricky balance of being in the world but not of the world?  1 Peter 1:22 offers God’s twin solutions to preventing personal pollution & gospel dilution by "Loving & Longing Biblically."  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Our subject today is one from which folks tend to shy away.  The subject is holiness.  Today we are in 1 Peter 1 & the what of our passage is clear in verses 14-15: "As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct.."  The why of our passage is clear in verses 15-19: 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct…“You shall be holy, for I am holy.” The how of our passage is clear in verse 13 13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, & being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  But the rub of our passage is that holiness in a world of sinfulness is hard.  So as we turn in the Word of the Lord, let’s turn to the Lord of that Word & ask Him to help us move towards holiness in a world of sinfulness.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Sometimes following Christ is hard.  So when our allegiance to Jesus arouses anger from our neighbors God wants us to know three things so we stay the course when the wind & waves are battering our ship of faith.  Today, the Apostle Peter continues his letter to beleaguered believers These saints have endured political, social, & personal persecution.   If you are listening today & following Christ is exacting a heavy price for you too I want to invite you to internalize these three realities.  Let them marinate in your mind & seep into your soul.  Let these three Spirit given “S’s” be a bedrock you return to again & again when the Enemy is pressing in.  Let's explore Scripture, Salvation & Suffering in our time together today.  Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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Salvation is a subject clouded by confusion.  Prosperity preachers promise salvation from pain & paucity.  Concerning salvation Buddhists urge us to pursue nirvana.  The salvation they seek is from suffering by trying to snuff out the fires they claim cause it: attachment, aversion, & illusion.  Hindus seek salvation through moksha which is liberation from the supposed cycle of reincarnation & release from alleged law of karma.  Indeed the difference between all of man’s religions & God’s salvation is this: religion teaches that salvation, at least to a certain extent, resides within us.  We must do "X" to earn God’s acceptance.  For some that is about abstaining.  I don’t drink, smoke or chew & I don’t go with girls that do.  Therefore, I have earned God’s love.  For others salvation is not so much abstaining but attaining.  I do penance & am generous so as to merit God's favor.  For some it is the travail of travel that supposedly opens the door to God’s eternal chapel so they make a pilgrimage to a particular place.   In the midst of all this confusion, it leaves us asking: What are we saved from?  Who saves us & how does it work?  So let’s turn to 1 Peter 1 & let’s peer into the pages of God’s Word for God’s answers "Concerning This Salvation." 

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Back in 1971 Jean Knight released Mr. Big Stuff.  The song has a rousing riff which asks “Who do you think you are?”  That is an excellent question for the Christian.  When the world tries to squeeze us into its mold… When all the cool kids are doing it…When our superiors intimidate us to tow the line or they will take a hard line, putting us on the firing line, what is your bottom line, line in the sand, come what may, here I stand?  Christian, who do you think you are?  This is not a new question.  The first century church faced this question head on.  1st Peter was written to beleaguered believers undergoing unjust suffering for their allegiance to Jesus. With that in mind, grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes once noted: “We have two ears & only one tongue in order that we may hear more & speak less.” Mark Twain observed: “It is better to keep your mouth closed & let people think you are a fool than to open it & remove all doubt.”  What are those?  Those are proverbs about taming our tongues. James says "If anyone considers himself religious & yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself & his religion is worthless."  1 Peter 3:10 declares “Whoever would love life & see good days must keep his tongue from evil & his lips from deceitful speech. In our time together today we will be probing a particularly practical problem.  The challenge of keeping our tongues in check.  There are over ninety verses in the book of Proverbs that touch on taming our tongues. Almost all of these verses are found from chapter ten through to chapter thirty.  That’s about four & half references a chapter for twenty chapters.  Obviously, God knows that we need His wisdom when it comes to taming our tongues so he speaks robustly & repeatedly on this subject.  Grab you Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide & let's get Washed in the Word!

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