'From An Empty Life To A New Life.'
1 Peter 1:18-21.
a) 1 Peter 1:18. We should know that God paid a ransom to save us from the empty life that we inherited from our ancestors. We cannot live on an historical experience.
1. Psalm 49:7-8. We cannot redeem ourselves.
2. 1 Corinthians 6:20; 7:23. God bought us with a High Price.
3. Romans 1:21. When people who know God do not simply worship Him as God or even give Him thanks, then they begin to think up foolish ideas of what God is like (cruel daddy or sugar daddy). The result of this is that their minds become dark and confused.
4. 1 Peter 4:3. People living the empty life usually try to fill it with sin.
5. Matthew 15:2. True Believers are often accused by religious traditionalists.
6. Galatians 1:4. Our Ransom, Jesus Christ, died for us just as God our Father planned.
b) 1 Peter 1:18-19. God paid for us with the Precious Life Blood of Christ.
1. 1 Peter 2:24. Jesus Christ personally carried away our sins in His Own Body on the Cross.
2. Matthew 20:28. The Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve others and to give His Life as a Ransom for many people.
3. Matthew 26:28. The Blood of Christ seals the Covenant between God and His People. It is poured out to forgive the sins of many people.
4. Ephesians 1:7; Colossians 1:14. He purchased our freedom through the Blood of His Son.
5. Hebrews 9:12. Christ took His Own Blood into the Most Holy Place and with it He secured our Salvation forever.
c) 1 Peter 1:19. Christ was the spotless and sinless Lamb of God.
1. Isaiah 53:7. He was led as a Lamb to the slaughter.
2. John 1:29 & 36. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the World.
3. 1 Corinthians 5:7. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.
4. Revelation 14:1. Christ is the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion.
d)1 Peter 1:20. God chose Christ for this purpose long before the World began, not at the end of the Old Testament.
1. Romans 16:25. From the beginning of time.
2. Ephesians 1:4; 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 1:2. Long ago, even before He made the World.
3. Ephesians 3:11. This was God's Plan from all Eternity.
e) 1 Peter 1:20. Now Christ has been sent to Earth for us.
1. Colossians 1:26. Now the Message is revealed.
2. 1 John 1:2. The One Who was Life from God was shown to us.
3. 1 John 3:5. Jesus came to take away our sins.
4. 1 John 3:8. The Son of God came to destroy the works of the Devil.
5. 1 John 4:10. God Loved us and sent His Son as a Sacrifice to take away our sins.
f) 1 Peter 1:21. The New Life:-
1. Through Christ we have come to Trust in God.
A. John 5:24. Listen to Christ's Message and Believe in God who sent Him.
B. John 12:44. If we Trust Christ, we are really Trusting God Who sent Him.
C. John 14:6. No one can come to the Father except through Christ.
D. Hebrews
7:25. Christ is able, once and forever, to save everyone who comes to God
through Him.
2. God Raised Christ from the dead.
A. Acts 2:24. Raised Him back to Life again.
B. Acts 2:32; 4:10. Jesus, Whom God Raised from the dead.
C. Acts 3:15. God Raised the Author of Life
to Life.
3. God gave Christ Great Glory.
A. 1 Peter 1:11. The Holy Spirit within the Prophets was talking to them in
advance about Christ's suffering and Great Glory.
B. Matthew 28:18; Ephesians 1:21. Now Christ has been given complete Authority
in Heaven and on Earth.
C. John 5:23. We should Honor the Son just as we Honor the Father.
D. John 13:32. Christ is now in His Glory.
E. John 17:1. Christ in His Glory gives all
the Glory back to the Father.
F. Hebrews 2:9. Jesus is now crowned with Glory and Honor.
4. Our Faith and Hope can now be placed confidently in God - this is New Life!
A. Psalm 42:5; 146:5. Put our Hope in God and Praise Him.
B. Jeremiah 17:7. Blessed are those people: -
i) Who Trust in the Lord.
ii) Who have made the Lord their Hope.
iii) Who have made the Lord their Confidence.
C. Ephesians 1:13. Faith sealed by the Holy Spirit.
D. 1 Timothy 1:11. Christ Jesus our Hope.
(Through this QT I find the pathway From An Empty Life To A New Life)
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Chris
(Copied and Typed by Priscilla)
