OUR VICTORY IN JESUS (14 OF 20)
Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-22
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Our Victory in Jesus (14 of 20)
Series: 1 Peter
Robert Dawson
1 Peter 3:18-22
When you are down and discouraged, what do you want to hear? That it is going to get better. That you are going to be okay. When you are down and discouraged, what do you want to know? That it is going to get better. That you are going to be okay.
When we suffer, we want to know that our suffering is not in vain, that it is does not end in defeat, that it does not last forever, or have the final word. In a nutshell, we want hope.
If we know that our suffering and hardship is not in vain, is part of something bigger, accomplishes something good and is not connected to a lost/losing cause, we are much more likely to persevere in hope and endure with joy.
Peter’s desire is for God’s people to persevere in hope and endure in joy.
To help us, he reminds us that our suffering is not pointless, it is not abnormal, it is not outside of God’s plan, it is not a sign that things have gone completely and irredeemably off the rails or that we are on the losing team.
He does this by pointing us to Jesus. Jesus suffered greatly but His sufferings gave way to great victory, one that we share in and enjoy.
Just as Christ’s sufferings gave way to victory, so will ours.
In this life, no matter how bad things get, no matter how much opposition we face, we will not be defeated. No matter the score, evil cannot and will not win. Jesus is victorious and in it is in this that we hope.
1 Peter 3.18-22 - For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19 in which He also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20 who once were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. 21 Corresponding to that, ...
Series: 1 Peter
Robert Dawson
1 Peter 3:18-22
When you are down and discouraged, what do you want to hear? That it is going to get better. That you are going to be okay. When you are down and discouraged, what do you want to know? That it is going to get better. That you are going to be okay.
When we suffer, we want to know that our suffering is not in vain, that it is does not end in defeat, that it does not last forever, or have the final word. In a nutshell, we want hope.
If we know that our suffering and hardship is not in vain, is part of something bigger, accomplishes something good and is not connected to a lost/losing cause, we are much more likely to persevere in hope and endure with joy.
Peter’s desire is for God’s people to persevere in hope and endure in joy.
To help us, he reminds us that our suffering is not pointless, it is not abnormal, it is not outside of God’s plan, it is not a sign that things have gone completely and irredeemably off the rails or that we are on the losing team.
He does this by pointing us to Jesus. Jesus suffered greatly but His sufferings gave way to great victory, one that we share in and enjoy.
Just as Christ’s sufferings gave way to victory, so will ours.
In this life, no matter how bad things get, no matter how much opposition we face, we will not be defeated. No matter the score, evil cannot and will not win. Jesus is victorious and in it is in this that we hope.
1 Peter 3.18-22 - For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19 in which He also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20 who once were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. 21 Corresponding to that, ...
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