A Living Hope (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 24 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When early believers despaired over the trials they faced, Peter wrote to assure them of the believer’s unique hope. What makes Christian hope different from the wishful thinking of the world? Explore the answer along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do When Christians in the first century began to despair because of the many trials they were facing, |
| 0:32.0 | the Apostle Peter wrote to assure them of the many trials they were facing, the Apostle Peter wrote to assure them of the hope that's unique to believers. |
| 0:37.0 | What makes a Christian's hope different from the wishful thinking of the rest of the world? |
| 0:42.0 | Alistirbegg explores the answer to that. from the wishful thinking of the rest of the world. |
| 0:43.0 | Alistirbegg explores the answer to that today on Truth for Life. |
| 0:47.0 | When we looked last Sunday morning at the opening two verses of this five chapter |
| 0:58.4 | letter we discovered that there are three things which Peter tells us are true of every Christian, |
| 1:04.6 | three things which are true of every genuine believer and there are these you'll |
| 1:09.2 | find them in the second verse that the genuine believer has been chosen by God the Father, |
| 1:16.0 | has been cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus, |
| 1:20.0 | and is sanctified by the power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:25.0 | And it is with this great and overarching theme of the nature of salvation |
| 1:30.0 | that Peter is concerned in these opening verses. |
| 1:34.0 | Indeed, it would be true to say that it is the nature of what it means to be saved. |
| 1:39.0 | That is the consuming passion of Peter's mind as he writes to these individuals, |
| 1:47.0 | lest there should be those to whom he communicates who have got some strange and spurious notion of the nature of faith. |
| 1:58.0 | And so he writes to bring clarity. |
| 2:00.8 | And as he begins, he wants no one to be in any doubt then when it comes to knowing God |
| 2:06.8 | These facts are true that when a person comes to express faith in Jesus and as they look back on that experience from the vantage point of time, |
| 2:17.7 | they're going to be able to say this, God the Father planned it, God the father planned it. |
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