SET APART / 1 PETER

Living Holy in a Hostile World

Part 2 – March 2, 2025

 

1 Peter 1:13-14 (NIV) Therefore,

1 Peter 1:1-12

Because we have salvation and suffering

Because we are elect and exiles.

Because we have been chosen.

Because we have a living hope.

Because we have an eternal inheritance.

1 Peter 1:13-14 (NIV) Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober,

 

1 Peter 1:13 (NIV) set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.

 

1 Peter 1:14 (NIV) As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

 

The greatest danger to your faith isn’t just , it’s the temptation to .

Why do we get tempted to turn back?

• Trials make us long for more than .

Exodus 16:3 (NIV) The Israelites said to them, ‘If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.’

• creeps in when we .

Revelation 3:16 (ESV) So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

• We what we’ve been .

2 Peter 1:5-9 (NIV) For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith

2 Peter 1:5-9 (NIV) goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

7 Reasons Why We Should Live Alert and Sober1

1. Your hope is in eternity, not in this world.

1 Peter 1:13,21 (NIV) Set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming…Through him, you believe in God… so your faith and hope are in God.”

Colossians 3:2 (NIV) Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

 

2. leads to .

1 Peter 1:14 (NIV) As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

John 8:34 (NLT) Jesus replied, ‘I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.’

3. Holiness isn’t a suggestion, it’s a calling.

1 Peter 1:15-16 (NIV) But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’

4. God is both our Father and our Judge.

1 Peter 1:17 (NIV) Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.

2 Corinthians 5:10 (NIV) For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

5. The ways of this world are empty.

1 Peter 1:18-19 (NIV) For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors…

6. Your freedom wasn’t free.

1 Peter 1:19-21 (NIV) [You were redeemed] with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world but was revealed in these last times for your sake.

1 Corinthians 6:20 (NIV) You were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

7. Holiness isn’t just personal, it’s relational.

1 Peter 1:22 (NIV) Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.

John 13:35 (NIV) By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

1 Peter 1:23-25 (NIV) For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, ‘All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.’

Don’t live for , live for what .