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Harris Creek Baptist Church

The Elect Exiles

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Harris Creek

Religion & Spirituality

4.8523 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When we know who we are before God, we can know how to live before man. As start our new series, Forged, Peter sets up his first book. He lets his readers know who they are in Christ and all the benefits found in Him.


1) In Jesus, we are elect exiles

2) In Jesus, we have an imperishable inheritance

3) In Jesus, we are shielded by God's power


Life Group Questions:


1 . When were some times that you were able to cling to hope in the midst of suffering?

2. Do you face challenges with the perspective of knowing that this is not our eternal home? How have you used this truth to guide others through trials?

3. 1 Peter 1:3 reminds us that through Christ we are given a new life through His death and resurrection. How could you encourage a nonbeliever with the idea that our past sufferings don’t define us?

Transcript

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0:00.0

How about that walkout video? I mean, come on. I'm ready to preach now.

0:05.8

Well, I know you just saw this in the other video that JP show, but I just want to highlight, man,

0:09.7

one of my favorite things that I've got to do in work with JP is just to get to learn so much from him.

0:14.6

And just watching that video, it showcases one of my favorite things that I've gotten to learn from him.

0:19.4

And it's this. I have seen

0:21.0

this exact encounter take place probably hundreds of times. Someone will come up to him and

0:26.4

they'll say, hey, I go to your church, and I really love your church, and he just always stops

0:31.1

them and just says, hey, I just want to make something clear. Not my church. It's Jesus's

0:36.4

church. There we go.

0:38.2

I've also heard him say something else.

0:41.4

Parents, a Baylor students will come up to him and they'll say, hey, my son or my daughter goes to your church and they love your church.

0:47.8

And he just always says, oh, no, I just want you to know, hey, I go to their church.

0:52.5

This is their church just as much as it is my church.

0:56.5

This isn't just my thing.

0:58.6

And I just, I love that about him, that he doesn't see this as his place.

1:02.2

He sees this as Jesus's place.

1:05.0

And if you're new here, that's what we want to make sure that you know,

1:08.1

that our commitment to you is that we're going to do all we possibly can do to help you know, love, and follow that Jesus. Well, to start this morning, I just want to start with a story. I was the college pastor here for years and years and years and years, which meant I spent years and years and years of my life at the Chick-fil-A right next to Baylor's campus. I am shocked that they don't have like a plaque with my face on it when you walk in.

1:30.3

I think I personally have like kept their profits afloat for years now.

1:34.8

And this is an incredibly embarrassing story, and it's an incredibly true story.

1:40.1

But a few years ago, I went there like I did nearly every other day, and I go up to the cash

1:46.1

register, and there's this, like, super over-eager teenage kid working the cash register, just

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