Victory in Christ: Embracing Our New Identity
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"Friends, that's exactly what it's like to be in Christ, to be a Christian. We claim a victory that someone else accomplished for us. And in 1 Peter 2, that's exactly what we see by the reality of what it means to be in Christ." [00:08:14]
"Christians have been given an important identity to accomplish a divine purpose. Christians have been given an important identity to accomplish a divine purpose. Let's look at this by learning two lessons. Back to verse four, first lesson. Jesus' identity is your foundation and comfort." [00:12:53]
"Jesus' identity is your foundation and comfort. Look back to verse four. As you come to him, a living stone. Now, what's remarkable here, look at the antecedent. What's antecedent? The previous now being talked about. It's actually verse three. He says, and if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good." [00:13:20]
"Friends, as we saw last week, verse three is clearly a reference. It literally is a copy and paste citation of Psalm 34, verse eight, which says, taste and see that the Lord is good. The Lord, Hebrew understanding Yahweh, God. What's remarkable here is that's the context of Hebrews 34, verse eight." [00:13:47]
"Yahweh in the Old Testament to be seen as Jesus Christ in the New Testament. The use of the Old Testament imagery here is significant because it demonstrates what is the true Yahweh is also true of Jesus Christ. He is God. Look how it identifies him as a living stone." [00:14:29]
"Friends, don't let it be lost on you that someone so divine, so perfect, so sinless was rejected by men. This is important for a number of reasons. Number one, there could be no greater sense of accomplishment as to a person or practice than Jesus. He is the perfect, sinless Son of God." [00:23:46]
"Let us then with confidence, draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. The connection to our text is to realize, friends, you have a sympathetic Savior who doesn't just understand temptation, but unlike us, who says yes to it at times, He has never said yes to temptation, therefore He is the sinless, qualified one, but like us, He also knows like to be rejected." [00:24:52]
"Jesus is the the stone as it says here the the living stone think about even psalm 118 a reference that would come even specifically later in a few verses but psalm 118 verse 22 says the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone peter the same person is writing this earlier in acts chapter 2 i said earlier meaning in history and earlier in the bible he's having a message if you will kind of like i'm doing with you but a crowd much larger than this and he speaking to primarily a jewish crowd and he cites this exact verse from psalm 118 then in that context you can see it for yourself in acts chapter 14 four describing the significance of what it meant the religious leaders rejecting jesus by crucifying him god made him the cornerstone and what's significant in psalm 118 is what jesus says himself in matthew 22 in fact would you do me a favor turn to matthew it's specifically 21 i said matthew 20 to go to matthew 20 and i'm going 21 you're like where is matthew what's not the person seated to your left or right it's a book in the bible named after a guy who's another follower of jesus matthew 21" [00:17:18]
"the first book and what's known as the new testament jesus is teaching different parables different stories to teach lessons specific about the kingdom of god see that in verse 31 the kingdom of god comes up again but follow along oh this is so awesome follow along as i read to you matthew 21 verse 33" [00:18:49]
"peter says all that's changed now you the church are that royal priesthood that holy priesthood reality realistically many of us particularly in the western context tend to individualize the notion of priesthood rather than seeing it on a community a group emphasis in the old testament of the 12 tribes only one of them the levites was qualified to represent the priest but even all all the other tribes were not qualified to represent the priest but even all the other all the other tribes were not qualified to represent the priest but even all the other of the levites were themselves not personally priests what's different though is instead of just picking some as he did with the people of israel so" [00:35:29]
"the 12 tribes god picks all of his people who are in christ to say that you are a holy priesthood all of god's people significance here is to recognize what it means to represent god of what he would say later in verse 9 a chosen race a royal priesthood a holy nation a people for his own possession that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you of darkness and there's marvelous light let's say it differently when you have a conversation with one person as one person about jesus you are engaging in a conversation known as evangelism evangelism is essentially gospelizing a person telling them the good news that's what the word gospel means about jesus like i got bad news i got god i got good news bad news is i can relate to good news is i hope you can relate to if you believe in jesus that is proclaiming in fact the word proclaim here in verse 9 which we'll talk about in the coming weeks is the same word that means preach but the context here speaks about not the individual conversation but the communal conversation that the people are to proclaim so part of how we are functioning as a holy priesthood is how we are together in fact just to be a little bit more specific and less abstract consider this when we have break time or at the end of the service do you understand that that little minute of time those times gathered together we open up our homes later apartments later and we bring people and do you understand that our community has the potential to tell others about jesus and we bring people in do you understand that our community has the potential to tell others about jesus they will initially think the following this is a super extroverted group of people or man this is a really friendly group" [00:36:09]
"Christianity is fundamentally about knowing God who created you and who offers forgiveness and restoration to you by knowing who His Son is. The living stone by which all those who have believed in Him are being built on." [00:40:00]
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"Christians have been given an important identity to accomplish a divine purpose. Christians have been given an important identity to accomplish a divine purpose. Let's look at this by learning two lessons. Back to verse four, first lesson. Jesus' identity is your foundation and comfort." [00:12:53]
"Jesus' identity is your foundation and comfort. Look back to verse four. As you come to him, a living stone. Now, what's remarkable here, look at the antecedent. What's antecedent? The previous now being talked about. It's actually verse three. He says, and if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good." [00:13:20]
"Friends, as we saw last week, verse three is clearly a reference. It literally is a copy and paste citation of Psalm 34, verse eight, which says, taste and see that the Lord is good. The Lord, Hebrew understanding Yahweh, God. What's remarkable here is that's the context of Hebrews 34, verse eight." [00:13:47]
"Yahweh in the Old Testament to be seen as Jesus Christ in the New Testament. The use of the Old Testament imagery here is significant because it demonstrates what is the true Yahweh is also true of Jesus Christ. He is God. Look how it identifies him as a living stone." [00:14:29]
"Friends, don't let it be lost on you that someone so divine, so perfect, so sinless was rejected by men. This is important for a number of reasons. Number one, there could be no greater sense of accomplishment as to a person or practice than Jesus. He is the perfect, sinless Son of God." [00:23:46]
"Let us then with confidence, draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. The connection to our text is to realize, friends, you have a sympathetic Savior who doesn't just understand temptation, but unlike us, who says yes to it at times, He has never said yes to temptation, therefore He is the sinless, qualified one, but like us, He also knows like to be rejected." [00:24:52]
"Jesus is the the stone as it says here the the living stone think about even psalm 118 a reference that would come even specifically later in a few verses but psalm 118 verse 22 says the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone peter the same person is writing this earlier in acts chapter 2 i said earlier meaning in history and earlier in the bible he's having a message if you will kind of like i'm doing with you but a crowd much larger than this and he speaking to primarily a jewish crowd and he cites this exact verse from psalm 118 then in that context you can see it for yourself in acts chapter 14 four describing the significance of what it meant the religious leaders rejecting jesus by crucifying him god made him the cornerstone and what's significant in psalm 118 is what jesus says himself in matthew 22 in fact would you do me a favor turn to matthew it's specifically 21 i said matthew 20 to go to matthew 20 and i'm going 21 you're like where is matthew what's not the person seated to your left or right it's a book in the bible named after a guy who's another follower of jesus matthew 21" [00:17:18]
"the first book and what's known as the new testament jesus is teaching different parables different stories to teach lessons specific about the kingdom of god see that in verse 31 the kingdom of god comes up again but follow along oh this is so awesome follow along as i read to you matthew 21 verse 33" [00:18:49]
"peter says all that's changed now you the church are that royal priesthood that holy priesthood reality realistically many of us particularly in the western context tend to individualize the notion of priesthood rather than seeing it on a community a group emphasis in the old testament of the 12 tribes only one of them the levites was qualified to represent the priest but even all all the other tribes were not qualified to represent the priest but even all the other all the other tribes were not qualified to represent the priest but even all the other of the levites were themselves not personally priests what's different though is instead of just picking some as he did with the people of israel so" [00:35:29]
"the 12 tribes god picks all of his people who are in christ to say that you are a holy priesthood all of god's people significance here is to recognize what it means to represent god of what he would say later in verse 9 a chosen race a royal priesthood a holy nation a people for his own possession that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you of darkness and there's marvelous light let's say it differently when you have a conversation with one person as one person about jesus you are engaging in a conversation known as evangelism evangelism is essentially gospelizing a person telling them the good news that's what the word gospel means about jesus like i got bad news i got god i got good news bad news is i can relate to good news is i hope you can relate to if you believe in jesus that is proclaiming in fact the word proclaim here in verse 9 which we'll talk about in the coming weeks is the same word that means preach but the context here speaks about not the individual conversation but the communal conversation that the people are to proclaim so part of how we are functioning as a holy priesthood is how we are together in fact just to be a little bit more specific and less abstract consider this when we have break time or at the end of the service do you understand that that little minute of time those times gathered together we open up our homes later apartments later and we bring people and do you understand that our community has the potential to tell others about jesus and we bring people in do you understand that our community has the potential to tell others about jesus they will initially think the following this is a super extroverted group of people or man this is a really friendly group" [00:36:09]
"Christianity is fundamentally about knowing God who created you and who offers forgiveness and restoration to you by knowing who His Son is. The living stone by which all those who have believed in Him are being built on." [00:40:00]
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