TO BE ATTACHED TO JESUS

1
(No Transcript)
2
TO BE ATTACHED TO JESUS

• 1 PETER 24-10

3
IN CHAPTER ONE

• They were chosen
• Born again to a living hope
• Protected by faith
• Believing, loving, and rejoicing without seeing
  Him
• Redeemed
• Purified

4
v.4- COME TO HIM

• Strongs
• to approach, visit, assent to

Thayers to attach ones self to Christ to come
to a participation in the the benefits procured
5
WHAT ARE WE ATTACHING TO?

• A LIVING STONE
• A CHOICE STONE, PICKED
• A PRECIOUS STONE
• ONE WHO WAS PERSECUTED

6
BY BEING ATTACHED
These sacrifices are spiritual in nature

• We also are
• Picked
• Precious, and
• Persecuted

7
2 Thessalonians 16-7

• For after all it is only just for God to repay
  with affliction those who afflict you,7. and to
  give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as
  well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from
  heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire,

8
Ephesians 220-22

• having been built on the foundation of the
  apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being
  the corner stone, 21. in whom the whole building,
  being fitted together, is growing into a holy
  temple in the Lord, 22. in whom you also are
  being built together into a dwelling of God in
  the Spirit.

9
MEN ARE GIVEN A CHOICE

• V.6- believers will not be disappointed
• V.7-8- disbeliever stumbles instead of builds

Stumble because they are disobedient.
They have chosen doom, i.e. it is laid out.
10
HOW DOES GOD VIEW THIS ATTCHMENT?

• PICKED
• PRIESTS
• PURE
• PROPERTY

11
Titus 214

• who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every
  lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people
  for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

12
HOW DOES GOD VIEW THIS ATTCHMENT?

• PICKED
• PRIESTS
• PURE
• PROPERTY

• PURPOSED
• PEOPLE OF MERCY

13

• TO CONFESS FAITH IN CHRST AND ACCEPT JESUS IN
  OBEDIENCE IS TO ATTACH ONES SELF TO HIM AND
  BECOME LIKE HIM.