Why Be Born Again?

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Why Be Born Again?

• Studies in 1st Peter
• 1 Peter 13

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Our Secular Society

• Distracted by technology
• Concerned about rights but not responsibilities
• Victim mentality - not my fault
• Non-judgmental, non-accountable

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A New Birth?Makes little sense to many people

• Why a blessing?
• Why great mercy?
• Why do I need it?
• Why do I need God?
• Im not that bad,
• I just dont see the need

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Why we NEED a new life

• Romans 311-12, 23
• THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO
  SEEKS FOR GOD12. ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER
  THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS THERE IS NONE WHO DOES
  GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE."

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Why we NEED a new life

• We ALL sin, miss the mark, fall short

Worlds viewpoint?
non-judgmental, were only human
an EXCUSE ! Gods viewpoint?
John 15 Isaiah
591-2
Sin means separation, death!
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Romans 623

• For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift
  of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Wages are to be received. Heres whats coming.
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Why we NEED a new life

• Ephesians 21-3
• And you were dead in your trespasses and
  sins,2. in which you formerly walked according to
  the course of this world, according to the prince
  of the power of the air, of the spirit that is
  now working in the sons of disobedience.3. Among
  them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of
  our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and
  of the mind, and were by nature children of
  wrath, even as the rest.

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The world is being led by a king

• Romans 616
• Do you not know that when you present yourselves
  to someone as slaves for obedience, you are
  slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin
  resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in
  righteousness?

The world is being led by their own desires to
separation and to death.
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Galatians 519-21

• Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which
  are immorality, impurity, sensuality,
  20. idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife,
  jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes,
  dissensions, factions, 21. envying, drunkenness,
  carousing, and things like these, of which I
  forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that
  those who practice such things will not inherit
  the kingdom of God.

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What is the result of following the flesh?

• Will not inherit
• Separated
• death

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How can men fix this situation?

• Just do better
• Little motivation to do any better
• Doesnt make up for the past
• Just ignore the situation

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Acts 1730-31

• Therefore having overlooked the times of
  ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all
  people everywhere should repent,31. because He
  has fixed a day in which He will judge the world
  in righteousness through a Man whom He has
  appointed, having furnished proof to all men by
  raising Him from the dead."

Judgment day is coming
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Romans 1410, 12

• But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you
  again, why do you regard your brother with
  contempt? For we will all stand before the
  judgment seat of God.
• 12. So then each one of us will give an account
  of himself to God.

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2 Corinthians 510

• For we must all appear before the judgment seat
  of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed
  for his deeds in the body, according to what he
  has done, whether good or bad.

Recompense is coming
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How can men fix this situation?

• Just do better
• Just ignore the situation
• GET FORGIVENESS

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1 Peter 13

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who according to His great mercy has
  caused us to be born again to a living hope
  through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
  dead,

Get a NEW life with a LIVING hope
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Romans 64, 6
Through the resurrection of Christ

• Therefore we have been buried with Him through
  baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised
  from the dead through the glory of the Father, so
  we too might walk in newness of life.
• 6. knowing this, that our old self was crucified
  with Him, in order that our body of sin might be
  done away with, so that we would no longer be
  slaves to sin

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1 Peter 312

• "FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE TOWARD THE
  RIGHTEOUS, AND HIS EARS ATTEND TO THEIR PRAYER,
  BUT THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST THOSE WHO DO
  EVIL."

We get a spiritual Father who cares.
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1 Peter 14
We get an INHERITANCE

• Imperishable- no devaluation
• Undefiled- unsoiled
• Will not fade away- no mirage
• Reserved- taken care of
• In heaven- therefore NOT on earth

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• Can we see the blessing?
• Can we see the grace?
• Can we see our need?
• Have you been born again?