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1 Peter 1:6-9
We have spent the last few weeks exploring different passages on loving God.
We know that the Lord told us in Mark 12:30
So we have tried to look at passages of Scripture that give us a little more insight into this.
We have seen that we need to Love God exclusively, through tangible and active ways: giving, praying, forgiving others, and so on.
We saw that we are to love Him first and foremost, more than our love for things, our family, our comfort, or even our own selves.
Then last week we saw how we need to love God His way.
We can’t love God like he tells us to love him, we don’t have the capacity for that much love.
But when we yield to His Holy Spirit, we learn that we can love Him, His Son, His Children through obedience.
Today I want to look at one more passage of Scripture: 1 Peter 1:6-9
This passage is taken from the introductory remarks of Peter to the Christians who are scattered around the gentile nations.
He says in verse 3
We have this lively hope - the resurrection that we will one day experience, just as Christ raised from the dead.
we will receive our inheritance that will never fade, never corrupt, never be defiled!
Money may be lost, homes decay but our inheritance from God will never go away!
It is reserved for us in heaven!
How?
Verse 5 tells us they are kept by the power of God.
Then beginning in verse number 6 He brings it back to earth and our present day.
He says that there is heaviness through manifold temptations.
In other words the trials of this life can way us down.
Anyone ever experienced that?
I want to look today at three statements about our trials that are true because of our love for God.
Verse 8 tells us whom having not seen, ye love…This is of course talking about our love for God.
We haven’t seen Him, but we love Him through faith!
We will see today, that that love, through the faith we have in God, will enable us to make it through these trials.
First of all, Let’s see that...
I. Trials Should Not Remove Joy
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The verses begins wherein…when you see wherein, or therefore, look to see what has come before.
Our rejoicing ought to be based upon the fact that the trials of this life cannot touch what God, by His power, is reserving for us in heaven!
We rejoice...
A. Because of Our Inheritance
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When the Apostle Paul was speaking before king Agrippa, he told him of his salvation on the road to Damascus.
He told him he was sent to the Gentiles...
We have an inheritance along with all those who are sanctified by faith, all those who believe.
God loved us so much that He even gave us His Holy Spirit as a down payment of our inheritance.
This Holy Spirit helps us, enables us and teaches us as we go through this life of trials.
And He gives us peace that passes understanding
Paul told the church at Philippi, just keep moving forward and doing what you know is right, and he gave them a promise...
So our inheritance, both the down payment of the Holy Spirit, but also future reality that awaits us gives us joy.
But also...
B. Because We Are Protected
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We are kept - This word is phrouroumenous it means to be guarded for safety.
So we are guarded, or protected by the power of God through our faith.
The Bible Says...
We are protected by an almighty, all knowing God!
Does this mean that nothing bad will ever happen to us, of course not!
C. Because We Will See Salvation
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This isn’t just talking about the salvation that happens when we trust in Him.
This is the final salvation that will be revealed in the last time.
We can rejoice because one day the trials of this life will be over!
The Choir sang until then…that third verse said...
This weary world with all its toil and struggle
May take its toll of misery and strife;
The soul of man is like a waiting falcon;
When it's released, it's destined for the skies.
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But until then my heart will go on singing,
Until then with joy I'll carry on,
Until the day my eyes behold the city,
Until the day God calls me home.
One day we will see the final salvation, but until then we keep serving the Lord!
So we see that Trials should not remove our joy…secondly we can rejoice because...
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Trials Brings Purity
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The trial of our faith - our faith is tested and gone through the fire!
Have you experienced this?
Maybe you have said things like, “Lord I don’t know if I can take this anymore!”
We must realize that our faith is first of all being...
A. Tried by Fire
The Bible tells us here that our faith when tried will be more precious than gold.
Our faith is just like gold.
Gold has to be put to the fire in order to clean out all the impurities and dross and to make it pure and clean.
Note what this verse says: we are much more precious than gold.
Gold perishes,
It is stolen,
lost,
degraded,
defiled, but
Believers live forever.
Therefore, if gold has to be put to the fire to be made clean and pure, how much more do we?
The point is striking: God uses the fire of trials and temptations for a good purpose.
He uses them to make us clean and pure and to make us trust Him more and more.
And the result of gold being tried is a beautiful, pure alloy.
For our Faith the...
B. Result in Praise
This is the purpose - that we might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Just stay faithful in the midst of trials!
The Bible says...
Oh the praise we will be able to pour at His feet one day, as we thank Him for His help, His protection and His cleansing!
Until then, just keep the faith!
There is another fact that should be noted as well.
When our faith is tried and proven, when we walk strongly through the trials and temptations of life, the world sees it.
They see the power of Christ in our lives and the rejoicing of our hearts in Him.
Some are attracted and want to know Christ for themselves.
Standing fast through the trials and temptations of life wins people to Christ.
God uses the trials and sufferings of life to pour His strength into us and to attract the lost to want Him in their lives.
Lest we think that God is putting us through these trials just so He can receive our praise, the truth is it goes much farther than that!
It is to witness to this World that life is different when walked with the Lord!
This passage continues and this is the third thing I want to point out, that...
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