Embracing Our New Identity in Christ
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1) "And so maybe these just sound like well-intended coincidences to you. And that's fine. I've heard some people refer to these moments as maybe you've heard that before. I don't know if God winks. I don't know if he even has eyes that we could constitute as being able to wink. But I do believe that one, through the conventional means of his word and his church and his people, and also maybe through some more unconventional means through his creation, he's Lord of all things, that God pursues people. He pursues sinners with the purpose of forgiving them and redeeming them. He pursues sinners with the purpose of forgiving them and giving them a new identity, calling them out of their current way of life and into a new one." [03:20] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2) "We are created by God. We are sinners, and yet we are called saints. We are haunted by sin, and yet we are holy, gloriously made. Nothing can separate us from God's love in Christ, yet we cannot approach him without this love. We're only creatures. He's the creator, and yet we are mercifully his creation. So we're to hold these truths in intention. Truths that do not contradict, but rather reflect this, you may have heard it called, the already not yet nature of our salvation, where sin no longer reigns in us, but it remains in us. This half-aliveness of being dead to sin and alive in Christ, declared righteous in Christ, yet still becoming righteous." [06:27] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3) "Therefore, Peter says, in light of this inheritance, how then should we live? He says, by setting our hope fully on the grace that we will receive when Jesus is revealed to us. When Jesus returns, when Jesus fully ushers in his kingdom, not on our present circumstances or relationships or career advancements or five-year plans, though those are all good things, but rather on a future that is both one completely out of our hands, out of our control, and yet has been completely secured for us in Christ." [08:04] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4) "To be sober-minded is to keep your mind, and Peter doesn't just mean your brain, but he means your thoughts. And therefore, your affections and your desires, free of any intoxication. This can absolutely be too much wine or beer or alcohol, but this can just as easily be intoxicating greed or pride or lust, being consumed even by fear or dread, anything that takes a clear-headed, future-oriented hope in Christ and fogs it up and clouds it up and distracts us. And detracts us from that. Peter's calling on us to stay calm, with the expectation that life will not be calm." [11:02] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5) "We shouldn't be in this constant dread of whether or not we're actually saved, but we should recognize how our obedience or lack thereof affects the way that we relate to God, to one another, and how others see God as well. And so this should motivate us to live well for God. Peter writes, be holy in all your ways. And he's right. But how we relate to the word holy is really important. For some people, the word holy has some ick attached to it. It can be a little yucky. It might represent a pompous attitude or an arrogant display of religious piety or a condescending demeanor." [14:04] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6) "If our true home, if our true home is not so much a location or a state or a city or a town or a building or a bedroom, but is a person, then we wait for that person, for Jesus, with longing hope. But until then, I think we live with a divine homesickness. Feeling in this world is truly going to settle our longing hearts, truly going to calm our nerves. When we expect to feel at home on earth, I think that's when we run into disappointment. I think that's when we settle for sin. I think that's where we compromise." [34:38] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7) "And now when Peter, he's referencing Isaiah chapter 40, all flesh is like the, is like grass and all its glory, like the flower of grass, the grass withers, the flower falls, can feel a little depressing, like, gosh, that's, that's it. I'm just grass. I'm just, but, but the context of Isaiah chapter 40, it opens with God saying, comfort my people. It's supposed to be a comfort to us that yes, though all things in this life fade, the word of the Lord remains forever. It's a comfort to us." [29:39] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8) "And when we learn to live with that ache, to not despise it, or try to fill it with things of this world, but to embrace it as a heart that is yearning, the most noble yearning we could have for God himself, that we live with that, with hope. And in the meantime, in the now, because we're still here, and we want to stay here for as long as he has us, in God's grace, we're still here. He makes a home with us. He makes his home with us." [36:05] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2) "We are created by God. We are sinners, and yet we are called saints. We are haunted by sin, and yet we are holy, gloriously made. Nothing can separate us from God's love in Christ, yet we cannot approach him without this love. We're only creatures. He's the creator, and yet we are mercifully his creation. So we're to hold these truths in intention. Truths that do not contradict, but rather reflect this, you may have heard it called, the already not yet nature of our salvation, where sin no longer reigns in us, but it remains in us. This half-aliveness of being dead to sin and alive in Christ, declared righteous in Christ, yet still becoming righteous." [06:27] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3) "Therefore, Peter says, in light of this inheritance, how then should we live? He says, by setting our hope fully on the grace that we will receive when Jesus is revealed to us. When Jesus returns, when Jesus fully ushers in his kingdom, not on our present circumstances or relationships or career advancements or five-year plans, though those are all good things, but rather on a future that is both one completely out of our hands, out of our control, and yet has been completely secured for us in Christ." [08:04] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4) "To be sober-minded is to keep your mind, and Peter doesn't just mean your brain, but he means your thoughts. And therefore, your affections and your desires, free of any intoxication. This can absolutely be too much wine or beer or alcohol, but this can just as easily be intoxicating greed or pride or lust, being consumed even by fear or dread, anything that takes a clear-headed, future-oriented hope in Christ and fogs it up and clouds it up and distracts us. And detracts us from that. Peter's calling on us to stay calm, with the expectation that life will not be calm." [11:02] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5) "We shouldn't be in this constant dread of whether or not we're actually saved, but we should recognize how our obedience or lack thereof affects the way that we relate to God, to one another, and how others see God as well. And so this should motivate us to live well for God. Peter writes, be holy in all your ways. And he's right. But how we relate to the word holy is really important. For some people, the word holy has some ick attached to it. It can be a little yucky. It might represent a pompous attitude or an arrogant display of religious piety or a condescending demeanor." [14:04] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6) "If our true home, if our true home is not so much a location or a state or a city or a town or a building or a bedroom, but is a person, then we wait for that person, for Jesus, with longing hope. But until then, I think we live with a divine homesickness. Feeling in this world is truly going to settle our longing hearts, truly going to calm our nerves. When we expect to feel at home on earth, I think that's when we run into disappointment. I think that's when we settle for sin. I think that's where we compromise." [34:38] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7) "And now when Peter, he's referencing Isaiah chapter 40, all flesh is like the, is like grass and all its glory, like the flower of grass, the grass withers, the flower falls, can feel a little depressing, like, gosh, that's, that's it. I'm just grass. I'm just, but, but the context of Isaiah chapter 40, it opens with God saying, comfort my people. It's supposed to be a comfort to us that yes, though all things in this life fade, the word of the Lord remains forever. It's a comfort to us." [29:39] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8) "And when we learn to live with that ache, to not despise it, or try to fill it with things of this world, but to embrace it as a heart that is yearning, the most noble yearning we could have for God himself, that we live with that, with hope. And in the meantime, in the now, because we're still here, and we want to stay here for as long as he has us, in God's grace, we're still here. He makes a home with us. He makes his home with us." [36:05] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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