Anchoring Our Faith in Christ Amidst Trials
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Peter says that real faith is loving Christ. And you've never seen, but you still know He exists. He changes lives. We see creation. We see trees. We see mountains. We see, we go, He's all around us. Living different in this world means that we must anchor to a timeless faith and a tested faith and a true faith. And we could go on down the road and just go, This is true faith because of this and this and this and this." [26:19]
2. "And what you're going through, the trial, the difficulty, the temptation, the struggle, the hardship, it's temporary. Don't give up. Remain anchored in faith. That's the message of the Old Testament prophets. Peter points out that the true faith is not only tied to the prophets, but it's also tied to the fulfillment of the prophecies." [29:34]
3. "Our faith is to be set in heaven, not in things of this world. That is the only way we know our faith is imperishable. We put our faith into Jesus and the God almighty. We have an imperishable faith. But Peter also says our faith will be uncorrupted. We have an imperishable faith. Or another word is undefiled in another text." [10:52]
4. "A faith in the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus, God's only son, is far more valuable than gold. You say, I have a pile of gold over here, and I have faith in Jesus Christ over here. Which one should we want? Peter would say, desire the faith in Jesus Christ and forget the gold. Because this is so much more valuable to know that my faith is in Jesus, and there's value in that." [21:36]
5. "The time to anchor your hope and your faith in Christ is now. Now before the storms show up. We're going to sing. We're going to worship and I want to invite our prayer teams to be over here at the cross. Your faith's not in Christ. It's in something else. While we sing and worship, we invite you to come to the cross. We'd love to talk with you about a faith that's in Christ." [35:19]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Peter here plays upon a great image of the goldsmith. A goldsmith would melt metal down, have a big old chunk of gold, melt it down to watch the impurities, when it's liquefied, the impurities of gold rises to the top. And they had a tool or a screen where then they would scrape it across the top getting the impurities off and they would take the impurities and knock it into a trash bucket and then it would go back to it again. They would kind of do it again. They would keep doing that over and over. They would let the gold then cool down and go through the whole process again because there's something about when the gold cooled, it would do some more separating, heat it back up, impurities would rise to the top. Again, they would go through that and they'd scrape the top. They would do that over and over and over until they knew they had pure gold. But how do they know when you have pure gold? When no more impurities came to the surface. No more impurities rose up and there was actually a reflection in the melted gold. They knew we've reached the purest gold we can get to. Peter says, that our faith is like gold. As it is tested, it will begin to bring the impurities to the surface." [19:22]
2. "Peter is encouraging the followers of Jesus to be anchored to this timely faith. It's imperishable. It's uncorrupted. It's unfading. Unlike stuff in this life. Unlike stuff in this world. Every single one of us say, yep, that perished. Yep, that faded. Yep, that was corrupted. Every single one of us see failure around us as we just open our eyes and look about, and Peter's like, listen, you put your faith in God Almighty. You put your faith in Jesus Christ. He will not fail you. He won't. So keep your faith there." [17:24]
3. "Peter talks about how we love Christ even though we've not seen Him. We've not seen God. We've never seen Jesus. We've never seen the bones of Jesus. We've never seen the skins of Jesus. We've never had to sit down over a cup of coffee and seen Him face to face. And Hebrew describes this as faith when it says, Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for and proof of what is not seen. I think that's a great definition of faith. It's the essence of faith that does not require sight or proof. Just notice that faith is reality, is what it is. Just because something is not seen does not negate its existence. If it did, we'd all be brainless. What are you talking about? Think about it. Have you ever seen your brain?" [24:58]
4. "Peter literally says, angels desire to look into these things. Now, if you're sitting down and you're reading the text, that should catch your attention and go, what is God talking about? Angels desire to look into these things. Don't the angels already know stuff? I'm like, what does this mean? I had a hard time with that. So did a lot of searching and trying to look at, what does this exactly mean that angels are desiring to look into these things? Can you imagine what it must be like that angels are actually looking and leaning over the edge of heaven, leaning over the rim of heaven and looking down at us in 2024 and saying, what are they doing to live out their faith? How are they living out their faith? They're watching us. They're wondering, how are we doing at carrying the faith forward?" [32:25]
5. "Well, we've also got to know a lot more about one another. And especially as God has changed us, we've grown closer together. As our faith grows more and more deeper with Christ, His nature should be revealed in us. We should become more patient and more loving and more joy-filled and more led of the Spirit, more filled with the Spirit. The end result of the Christ-centered faith is that our lives are more and more shaped and molded by Him. Our faith begins then to reflect a deeper knowledge of Jesus and our lives begin to change. And then what happens is you and I do what Peter's calling us to do in 1 Peter, is that we start to live differently because our faith is growing and those around us start to see the difference. And they go, you're a different person than what I knew five years ago. You're a different person than what I knew a year ago. What's different about you? And quite literally, your life begins to reflect Christ." [23:21]
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1. "Peter says that real faith is loving Christ. And you've never seen, but you still know He exists. He changes lives. We see creation. We see trees. We see mountains. We see, we go, He's all around us. Living different in this world means that we must anchor to a timeless faith and a tested faith and a true faith. And we could go on down the road and just go, This is true faith because of this and this and this and this." [26:19]
2. "And what you're going through, the trial, the difficulty, the temptation, the struggle, the hardship, it's temporary. Don't give up. Remain anchored in faith. That's the message of the Old Testament prophets. Peter points out that the true faith is not only tied to the prophets, but it's also tied to the fulfillment of the prophecies." [29:34]
3. "Our faith is to be set in heaven, not in things of this world. That is the only way we know our faith is imperishable. We put our faith into Jesus and the God almighty. We have an imperishable faith. But Peter also says our faith will be uncorrupted. We have an imperishable faith. Or another word is undefiled in another text." [10:52]
4. "A faith in the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus, God's only son, is far more valuable than gold. You say, I have a pile of gold over here, and I have faith in Jesus Christ over here. Which one should we want? Peter would say, desire the faith in Jesus Christ and forget the gold. Because this is so much more valuable to know that my faith is in Jesus, and there's value in that." [21:36]
5. "The time to anchor your hope and your faith in Christ is now. Now before the storms show up. We're going to sing. We're going to worship and I want to invite our prayer teams to be over here at the cross. Your faith's not in Christ. It's in something else. While we sing and worship, we invite you to come to the cross. We'd love to talk with you about a faith that's in Christ." [35:19]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Peter here plays upon a great image of the goldsmith. A goldsmith would melt metal down, have a big old chunk of gold, melt it down to watch the impurities, when it's liquefied, the impurities of gold rises to the top. And they had a tool or a screen where then they would scrape it across the top getting the impurities off and they would take the impurities and knock it into a trash bucket and then it would go back to it again. They would kind of do it again. They would keep doing that over and over. They would let the gold then cool down and go through the whole process again because there's something about when the gold cooled, it would do some more separating, heat it back up, impurities would rise to the top. Again, they would go through that and they'd scrape the top. They would do that over and over and over until they knew they had pure gold. But how do they know when you have pure gold? When no more impurities came to the surface. No more impurities rose up and there was actually a reflection in the melted gold. They knew we've reached the purest gold we can get to. Peter says, that our faith is like gold. As it is tested, it will begin to bring the impurities to the surface." [19:22]
2. "Peter is encouraging the followers of Jesus to be anchored to this timely faith. It's imperishable. It's uncorrupted. It's unfading. Unlike stuff in this life. Unlike stuff in this world. Every single one of us say, yep, that perished. Yep, that faded. Yep, that was corrupted. Every single one of us see failure around us as we just open our eyes and look about, and Peter's like, listen, you put your faith in God Almighty. You put your faith in Jesus Christ. He will not fail you. He won't. So keep your faith there." [17:24]
3. "Peter talks about how we love Christ even though we've not seen Him. We've not seen God. We've never seen Jesus. We've never seen the bones of Jesus. We've never seen the skins of Jesus. We've never had to sit down over a cup of coffee and seen Him face to face. And Hebrew describes this as faith when it says, Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for and proof of what is not seen. I think that's a great definition of faith. It's the essence of faith that does not require sight or proof. Just notice that faith is reality, is what it is. Just because something is not seen does not negate its existence. If it did, we'd all be brainless. What are you talking about? Think about it. Have you ever seen your brain?" [24:58]
4. "Peter literally says, angels desire to look into these things. Now, if you're sitting down and you're reading the text, that should catch your attention and go, what is God talking about? Angels desire to look into these things. Don't the angels already know stuff? I'm like, what does this mean? I had a hard time with that. So did a lot of searching and trying to look at, what does this exactly mean that angels are desiring to look into these things? Can you imagine what it must be like that angels are actually looking and leaning over the edge of heaven, leaning over the rim of heaven and looking down at us in 2024 and saying, what are they doing to live out their faith? How are they living out their faith? They're watching us. They're wondering, how are we doing at carrying the faith forward?" [32:25]
5. "Well, we've also got to know a lot more about one another. And especially as God has changed us, we've grown closer together. As our faith grows more and more deeper with Christ, His nature should be revealed in us. We should become more patient and more loving and more joy-filled and more led of the Spirit, more filled with the Spirit. The end result of the Christ-centered faith is that our lives are more and more shaped and molded by Him. Our faith begins then to reflect a deeper knowledge of Jesus and our lives begin to change. And then what happens is you and I do what Peter's calling us to do in 1 Peter, is that we start to live differently because our faith is growing and those around us start to see the difference. And they go, you're a different person than what I knew five years ago. You're a different person than what I knew a year ago. What's different about you? And quite literally, your life begins to reflect Christ." [23:21]
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