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GOD'S RECIPE TO OVERCOME THE WORLD

by Adrian Rogers

Scripture: I PETER 1:1-9


God's Recipe to Overcome the World
Adrian Rogers
I Peter 1:1-9


I want you to take your Bibles please and open to First Peter chapter one, and the
message this evening, is a continuation of really of our thought this morning. Where we
were talking about the friendly enemy, your enemy, the world. And uh we talked to you
this morning about the world and what the world would do to you. We used as an
illustration, a man named Lot. And we showed you the tragic story of the ruin of a man
named Lot. We showed you how the world courted Lot, and then how the world
conformed him, and then how the world corrupted him, and finally what the world cost
him. And we showed you the tragedy of what some call worldly Christianity.

Tonight, I want to be on a brighter note, huh, a more positive note. And I want to
show you how to teach your children, and how personally to live so that this vile world
would not be able to do to you, in a large measure, or in a small measure, what it did to
the man named Lot. And so we're here in uh First Peter Chapter one, and I want to begin
reading with you in the Scripture, verse one of this wonderful, wonderful Epistle. ''Peter,
an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus
Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Blessed by the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. To an inheritance
incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who
are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last
time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness
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