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1 Peter 3:13
Good morning, and Happy 4th of July weekend.
This morning we started the service with the Star Spangled Banner.
Do you remember the setting for that song?
It was September of 1814.
The British completed their war with France, and now turned their attention to the US and the war that started in 1812.
They soundly defeated the American forces at Bladensburg, entered Washington, and burned the capital building and the White House.
They moved up the Potomac, and captured Alexandria, VA without firing a shot.
Now they were coming to Baltimore.
Francis Scott Key and another lawyer were sent to the British to secure the release of a prominent doctor who had been taken prisoner.
The British were willing to release the doctor, however, since Key was there to hear some of the planning for the attack on Baltimore, he was held until after the battle.
September 13th started a 25 hour bombardment of Fort McHenry.
Can you imagine what it would have been like for Key as the night wore on, hearing the bombardment of the fort?
Seeing the rockets red glare?
It must have been pretty hopeless.
But then… by dawn’s morning light… Hope was reborn.
Today is much like September 13th, 1814.
People around us are seeing their world falling apart.
Terrorism.
Government infighting.
Scandals at the highest levels.
Corruption rampant.
Malware crippling businesses, hospitals and even countries.
Senseless killings.
And if they are able to set those things aside as distant, then all-to-close to home they find: cancer, heart issues, strokes, lymes disease, rising costs, and falling incomes, family feuds, divorce and more.
Just the time they think things are looking-up, all-to-often, something else goes wrong.
People are losing hope.
You see it in their faces.
Why the hopelessness?
They place their hope in the wrong places.
Government - remember the reactions after the election?
How about now?
Good job - people are losing jobs.
Good body - working out.
But sickness and frailty is the human plight.
Good relationships - but fighting comes.
Divorce destroys.
Illustration: Nice home on the hill at Greg’s.
People really are hopeless in this world.
That is not anything new.
Yes, there are times when people put their hope on something, things go well, and they have hope.
However, too often, people get to the point of no hope because circumstances are not good.
I was reading this week of prisoners in the holocaust, and prisoners of war during the Korean War that lost hope.
What happens when someone loses all hope?
They stop getting out of bed.
No matter what happens to them.
They lie there in their own excrement until they die.
That is hopeless.
Why were they hopeless?
Because their circumstances were horrible!
The worst you could imagine.
And, they had nothing in which to place hope.
Peter wrote to remind the believers of his day to remind believers that we do have hope.
Peter says we should use that.
Yes, we suffer trials of all kinds just like the rest of the world around us.
But, we are different.
We have HOPE!
REAL Hope!
And also in , and .
He has promised an inheritance to us!
He has promised to give glory, honor and praise to us for endurance in faith.
We have a living hope.
A hope that is there, no matter the trials we go through.
Jesus, the resurrected savior!
He has conquered the worst of enemies, even death!
He has risen!
He has promised to be with us!
He is preparing a place for us!
He will not abandon us to the grave.
He has promised that we will be with Him in glory forever!
He has promised an inheritance to us!
He has promised to give glory, honor and praise to us for endurance in faith.
Our faith and hope are in Jesus.
Our faith and hope are in God.
And that makes all the difference in the world.
And in the passage today, Peter encourages us to share that REAL Hope.
And in the passage today, Peter encourages us to share that REAL Hope.
Pray.
Read the passage for today.
REAL Hope
Peter started his letter reminding us of our REAL Hope in Christ.
He has exhorted us to Set/Fix our Hope on Christ and the blessings which will be ours at His coming.
He then exhorted the believers that we are being built together as living stones to worship the Lord.
We need each other.
Then, as we have seen over the past weeks, Peter addressed some of the areas of trials we face.
We face trials and opposition: from authorities, in the work place, in our homes, and in our personal relationships, even within the church.
So far, Peter has exhorted us to submit—to play our proper role in each situation, and do what is right.
To be likeminded setting our hope on Christ and things above instead of things on this earth.
To be sympathetic to others, to love one-another, to be compassionate and forgiving to those who sin, and to be humble.
To be like Christ and repay evil with blessing.
Knowing that in doing these things, we will inherit a blessing.
In all of this, Peter keeps coming back to the idea that we need that REAL Hope—setting our hope in Jesus!
Now in this passage, Peter reminds is addressing that again, encouraging us to the REAL Hope in the face of opposition.
What is REAL Hope?
Some would put their hope here.
If I do what is right, good will follow.
Opposition will cease.
Really?
How’s that workin’ for ya?
There is REAL Hope, and there is Worldly Hope.
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