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1 Peter 1:17-23 - Born Again and Again
Key Verses: (NCV)
- 17: “You pray to God and call Him Father, and He judges each person's work equally. So while you are here on earth, you should live with respect for God." - We are to live in "reverent fear" (NRSV) of God not for fear of what He might do but because of the love, grace, and mercy He has already provided.
- 18-19: "You know that in the past you were living in a worthless way… But you were saved from that useless life. You were bought, not with something that ruins like gold or silver, 19but with the precious blood of Christ…" - God knows the depths of darkness that resides in our hearts and because of this darkness there was only one way to insure an eternal life with Him - the ultimate sacrifice of the holiest and most pure.
- 21: "Through Christ you believe in God, who raised Christ from the dead and gave Him glory. So your faith and your hope are in God." - Again, Peter stresses the Gospel message that does not end with the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross but with the Resurrection that assured Christ's place in glory and our eternal hope in God.
- 23: "You have been born again, and this new life did not come from something that dies, but from something that cannot die. You were born again through God's living message that continues forever." - Christ's victory over death was not a one-time event. The Resurrection occurs in the hearts of every believer every day of their lives and forever.
- Do you fear God?
Promises of the Gospel:
God has provided us with an amazing gift of Grace. It is a wonder that He has bothered to save wretches like us at all. We can dwell on that gift forever. We can focus on His saving grace and the destroyed lives out of which He has reached in and lifted. We can choose to focus on the rusted out remnants of gold and silver that we use to hold dear. However, Easter has provided us a new perspective. Because Jesus is no longer on the cross and has made a victorious exit from the clutches of death, our lives are remade. We are not to focus on the sins of our past but on the glorious future God has in store. We are born anew, freshly whole and completely clean. Our faith and hope is now in God. With the empty tomb in mind, we are to leave that very personal, even selfish, victory over sin which God has provided in our lives and move out into the world sharing the Good News that Christ is alive. We are reborn for the purpose of bringing His light into the world so that all shall live.
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