You can be a 15 year old Christian boy or girl, young college student,

and you stand out from this confused crowd because the one thing you know is that you are in Christ, that the Heavenly Father is your

father, that the Spirit is your sanctifier, and that you belong to the Celestial Kingdom and not to this Kingdom.

We live in an age of confusion. Young people in the world really have no idea who they are

and they're told that they can choose who they are, what they want to be.

And like a breath of gospel fresh air... choose who they are, what they want to be.

And like a breath of gospel fresh air,

Peter's first letter helps us see so clearly

the Christian's identity in Christ.

Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind

as we navigate the early portion of First Peter

with Sinclair Ferguson.

Don't forget that you can continue this study

with Dr Ferguson by requesting this brand new teaching series,

Sojourners and Exiles, when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org. So who are we in Christ and how does Peter's

answer to this question inform how we should navigate life in this fallen

world a world which ultimately is not our home. Here's Dr Ferguson with six gospel

principles from First Peter.

Now we're coming to our third study in this great first letter of Peter which we're looking at as I said at the beginning as a

tract for the times. Peter is writing to Christians in a non-Christian world and we are increasingly ourselves Christians

in a non-Christian world.

If you glance over first Peter you'll notice that it's bookended first of all by an opening salutation in chapter 1 verse 1 to 2 and then in chapter 5 verses 12 through 14 a closing greeting very characteristic letter in

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