Can I See Some ID

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Can I See Some ID?

• 1 Peter 11-2

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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• Experience of Displacement

By faith Abraham lived as an alien in the land
of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in
tents. - Heb 119
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• Experience of Displacement

All these died in faith, without receiving the
promises, but having seen them and having
welcomed them from a distance, and having
confessed that they were strangers and exiles on
the earth. - Hebrews 1113
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• Experience of Displacement

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry
do not be silent at my tears for I am a stranger
with You, a sojourner like all my fathers.
- Psalm 3912
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• Experience of Displacement

And on that day a great persecution began
against the church in Jerusalem, and they were
all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and
Samaria. - Acts 81
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• Experience of Displacement
• Longing for Heavenly Home

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which
also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ.
- Philippians 320
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• Experience of Displacement
• Longing for Heavenly Home

If you address as Father the One who impartially
judges according to each ones work, conduct
yourselves in fear during the time of your stay
on earth. - 1 Peter 117
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• As Chosen (12)

He chose us in Him before the foundation of the
world In love, he predestined us to adoption as
sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according
to the kind intention of His will, to the praise
of the glory of His grace, which He freely
bestowed on us. - Ephesians 14-6
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• As Chosen (12)

Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by
one man, our father Isaac for though the twins
were not yet born and had not done anything good
or bad, so that Gods purpose according to His
choice would stand, not because of works but
because of Him who calls. - Romans 911-12
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• As Chosen (12)

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the
right to become children of God, even to those
who believe in His name, who were born, not of
blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the
will of man, but of God. - John 112-13
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Our Identity

• As Aliens (11).
• As Chosen (12)

Work out your salvation with fear and trembling
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will
and to work for His good pleasure. - Philippians
212-13
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Our Identity

• Practical Implications
• Comfort/Assurance in Trial

That which we have turned into a puzzle for our
minds was originally intended to be a pillow for
our hearts.
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Our Identity

• Practical Implications
• Comfort/Assurance in Trial

And we know that God causes all things to work
together for good to those who love God, to those
who are called.
- Romans 828
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Our Identity

• Practical Implications
• Comfort/Assurance in Trial

If God is for us, who is against us? Who will
separate us from the love of Christ? Will
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
- Romans 831, 35
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Our Identity

• Practical Implications
• Motivation to Worship in Trial

He predestined us to the praise of the glory
of His grace.
- Ephesians 15-6
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Our Identity

• Practical Implications
• Motivation to Worship in Trial

But we should always give thanks to God for you,
brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has
chosen you from the beginning for salvation.
- 2 Thessalonians 213
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Our Identity

• Practical Implications
• Motivation to Worship in Trial

Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom
and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His
judgments and unfathomable His ways!
- Romans 1133
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Our Identity

• Practical Implications
• Motivation for EV in Trial

I endure all things for the sake of those who
are chosen, so that they also may obtain the
salvation which is in Christ Jesus. - 2 Timothy
210
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Our Identity

• Practical Implications
• Motivation for EV in Trial

For I think God has exhibited us apostles last
of all, as men condemned to death because we
have become a spectacle to the world, both to
angels and to men. - 1 Corinthians 49
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