
Passage: 1 Peter 1:1-2
- Your own worst enemy
- Exiles
- Elect
- The people are the point

Passage: 1 Peter 1:1-2

Passages: Genesis 3:14-19, Luke 2:1-21
Under siege
The ancient battle
A thrill of hope
Double waiting

Passage: 1 John 2:28 – 3:10; Romans 8:12-17
Identity is Everything
1. Don’t be discouraged: Five confirmations that you are God’s child!
Confirmation 1: you take after your Father
Confirmation 2: you are growing yourself in purity
Confirmation 3: you have a new relationship to sin
Confirmation 4: you have the indwelling Holy Spirit
Confirmation 5: you practise costly love
Implications
2. Don’t be deceived! Three marks of a child of the devil
Mark 1: the practice of sin
Mark 2: the practice of lawlessness
Mark 3: the absence of costly love
Implications…
3. The Son of God appeared…
To take away the guilt of sins
To take away the practice of sins
To destroy the works of the devil
Implications…
Conclusion: The gospel call

Passage: 1 Peter 5
The Leaders in the Journey
The Path for the Journey
The End of the Journey

Passage: Matthew 5:21-26; Numbers 35:21-26
1. Anger and God’s law
2. Anger and God’s judgment
3. Anger and God’s reconciliation

Passage: Isaiah 2:1-5
Speaker: Dan Shih
Mountains as high places
Israel: God’s mountain project
A stone placed in Zion
The Church – Spiritual Zion

Passage: 1 Peter 4
Living for God’s will
Living with purpose
Rejoicing in suffering

Passage: Acts 2:1-13
Speaker: Ian Smith
Event: Covenant Big Day In 2025 (Day 2)
Jeremiah 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah
Ezekiel 37 valley of dry bones
1. What do we mean by “new” when we talk about the new Covenant?
Ezekiel 36:26-27 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
2. What difference does the new covenant make?
Pentecost
Acts 2:4, 8-11 tongues
Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching
Acts 2:42 to the breaking of bread.
Acts 2:39 This promise is to you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.
Gentiles
Children
Baptism
The Lord’s Day
Priesthood
Sacrifice
The People of God