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Sermon: Milk It Does A Spirit Good
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Duration: 29:33
Size: 13.5 MB
New Life In The Same Old Place
“Milk It Does A Spirit Good”
1 Peter 2:1-3
They were coming to grips with the challenge of living new lives in the same old place they had always lived.
I. The Passage: “Like Newborn Infants” (2:1-3)
“Salvation” is a good Christian-ese word, but what does Peter mean when he uses the term?
Let’s take some time to look at each verse and see what God has for us this morning in regard to “grow[ing] up into salvation”.
II. Changing Our Diet (2:1)
The kinds of sins that Peter mentions in verse 1 are enemies of the love he is calling them to live by:
malice
deceit
hypocrisy
envy
slander
If we think of this in terms of growth, these sins, when allowed to get a foothold in our life, these sins hinder growth.
To “put away” these things is not about never experiencing similar feelings again.
III. What Kind of Milk? (2:2)
Peter uses an appropriate analogy here, that of a baby longing for its mother’s milk.
But again, what is this “pure milk” that we should long for if we desire to “grow up into salvation”?
IV. The Ultimate Taste Test (2:3)
He wants them to long for this milk because they have already tasted who God is.
Peter’s audience has absolutely tasted that Jesus is good. And because they have tasted, they should now long for what only Jesus can give.
V. What Are You Longing For?
I hope it’s clear to you that the main instruction in these verses is expressed in that one verb: long…desire…crave.
What are you longing for this morning in this way? Peter knows that the only “pure milk” is that which nourishes us with Jesus.
Cookies might make me long for the kind of milk you put in a glass, but only the goodness of God in Jesus Christ can make us long for more of the same.
Let us put away the rotten milk of sin and self, and let us long for the pure milk of Christ…frequently, intensely, and singularly.
Next Week
“A Case of Corporate Honor”
1 Peter 2:4-10