“The Assurance of Our Salvation” #1 1 Peter 1:3-5

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Date: May 26, 2024 Author: Wayne J. Edwards

Years ago, Oswald Chambers wrote: “Satan’s great aim is to cause us to be devoted to the death to a cause; any enterprise, any type of movement or ministry, other than to the Person of Jesus Christ.” Since Satan realized he couldn’t destroy the church, he did the next best thing – he produced a counterfeit Christianity! Whereas the goal of every authentic Christian is self-discipline, self-denial, and even self-detriment, if necessary to authenticate our witness, the goal of the counterfeit church is self-acceptance, self-achievement, and self-enrichment – in effect, using the name of God to get the same things Satan promised those who worship him. Satan also raised up a new crop of counterfeit preachers who are willing to say whatever the congregation wants to hear as long as they tickle his ears with praise and line his wallet with cash, for they are but hirelings and not true God-called shepherds. Sadly, the pulpits are filled with many of them today. The title of this sermon series is “How Should We Then Live?” Our purpose is to declare what the Scriptures define as an “Authentic Christian” for there are many false professors among the true confessors, and they are giving Christianity a bad name.

Years ago, Oswald Chambers wrote: “Satan’s great aim is to cause us to be devoted to the death to a cause; any enterprise, any type of movement or ministry, other than to the Person of Jesus Christ.” Since Satan realized he couldn’t destroy the church, he did the next best thing – he produced a counterfeit Christianity! Whereas the goal of every authentic Christian is self-discipline, self-denial, and even self-detriment, if necessary to authenticate our witness, the goal of the counterfeit church is self-acceptance, self-achievement, and self-enrichment – in effect, using the name of God to get the same things Satan promised those who worship him.

Satan also raised up a new crop of counterfeit preachers who are willing to say whatever the congregation wants to hear as long as they tickle his ears with praise and line his wallet with cash, for they are but hirelings and not true God-called shepherds. Sadly, the pulpits are filled with many of them today.

The title of this sermon series is “How Should We Then Live?” Our purpose is to declare what the Scriptures define as an “Authentic Christian” for there are many false professors among the true confessors, and they are giving Christianity a bad name.

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Old Testament Reading – 1 Chronicles 29:10-13 New Testament Reading – Jude 17-25

Peter’s letters were to Christians living in the mountains of what was then Asia Minor but what is now, modern-Turkey.

After Peter told these Christians they had been called to endure such suffering, he burst forth into a glorious doxology of praise unto the Lord. 1 Peter 1:3-5

These 1 st Century Christians were suffering persecution from every source.

This “life” is not ours to “keep,” but instead it is ours to “guard” and to “invest” in the advancement of God’s kingdom.

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