Sermon: New Love In The Same Old Place
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Duration: 25:33
Size: 11.6 MB
New Life In The Same Old Place
“New Love In The Same Old Place”
1 Peter 1:22-25
Rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory…I hope that describes your heart this morning.
I. Review: Obedience to the Truth (1:22a)
Because they have obeyed the truth and because they have purified their souls.
So the reality that this predominantly Gentile church is now living in, they have been born again, they have been bought out of slavery.
What he is about to tell them is based on the assumption that they are now “new” because they have believed the “news” about Jesus.
II. Sincerely, Earnestly, Purely (1:22b)
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love…
Love for one another as God’s people is such a fundamental part of what it means to be a Christian.
As a church family, we need to stop, and consider how responsive we’ve been to Jesus’ new commandment to us.
Let your love be set apart, distinct because of the divine work that’s been done in you.
Richmond Community Church, is God honored by the love we have for one another?
III. The Fruit of the Gospel (1:23-25)
Peter can call his readers to a sincere, earnest, and pure love, because he knows that God himself has done a work in them to accomplish this very thing.
You see, the fruit of the gospel is always a changed life. But the cross of Jesus offers us forgiveness for all of our failures.
We have in the gospel, the perfect picture of God’s Son putting the interests of other before His own.
Conclusion
But I also know that God is calling us to go further up and farther in.
He’s also given us a new love in this same old place, a new love for one another, in obedience to a new commandment.
Next Week
“Pure Spiritual Milk”
1 Peter 2:1-3