In recent years, we have become more aware of the adage, we are what we eat. We become more concerned with

nutrition more than ever before. We are more aware of the danger of junk food and things that are not good for us.

We have become more health conscious than any other time, and that's good. I'm told that dieting now has become the subject that replaced the weather as the first line of conversations.

And today, everywhere you go, you're going to meet someone either on a diet or they're going to go on a diet, mostly tomorrow.

Health stores doing a roaring business, diet pills, multi-million dollar business, diet books, a bestseller.

The whole diet industry has become one of the largest industries in America.

Years ago, a friend of mine from the Philippines, this was back in the late 70s, he was visiting America.

And he said, you know, America is the only country where you go from an air-conditioned home to an air-condition car to an air-condition office, and then they spend $50 an hour in a health club to sweat. In the Philippines, we sweat all the time.

And the Apostle Peter knows the importance of nutrition from the spiritual point of view.

And he knows the importance of that injunction that Jesus gave him.

Feed my sheep.

Feed my sheep.

And here he gives us the secret, the absolute secret, to a consistent spiritual diet

that will not only bless your life, but will bless you for all of eternity.

We have begun a series of messages.

We're calling it identity transformation.

And we saw how the Lord Jesus Christ himself patiently, graciously, began to help Peter transform his identity from fishing,

from the Sea of Galilee, from bravery to being identified with Christ alone. The first message from

First Peter, after we looked at his life, he told us that our identity transformation begins

when we experience the seven-fold blessing. First, there is a blessing of election.

Secondly, the blessing of the new birth.

The blessing of the living hope. Fourthly, the blessing of solid inheritance. The blessing of eternal security in Christ. The blessing of suffering for Jesus when the time comes. Seven, the blessing of God's grace.

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