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What's the key to standing firm in the midst of difficulty?

In today's episode, we wrap up this sermon series from the archives, elect exiles from

First Peter.

In this final message, Paul summarizes the epistle and provides three directives for

steadfastness.

Celebrate grace, love one another, and find peace in the gospel.

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Now here's Paul, teaching from 1st Peter.

Well, there's no way that you're going to avoid it. You just don't have that ability.

You just don't have that power. Somehow, some way, trouble will enter your

door. That trouble will come because you do live in a fallen world. This world is a broken

place, and there's nothing in the world that operates the way

it was intended to operate. The family doesn't operate perfectly in case you hadn't realized

that. Your heart doesn't operate the way it was meant to operate. Government doesn't operate

the way it was meant to operate. The church doesn't operate the way it was meant to operate. Government doesn't operate the way it was meant to operate.

The church doesn't operate the way it was meant to operate. Everything somehow has been dented

and broken and marred by the fall, and God has chosen for you to live in this broken world.

That's not a mistake. That's not a mistake.

That's not poor divine scheduling.

That's not a mess up of the plan.

That is the plan.

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