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Jun 14, 2020

Living Faith (Click Here for Resources)

Passage: 1 Peter 1:6-12

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: 1 Peter

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: identity, faith, gospel, suffering, inheritance, temporary, eternal. glory

We all walk through a barrage of attacks in our life, often resulting in our highs and lows of our faith. Knowing our weakness and our need, Jesus our Living Hope endured the worst attacks of all, and came out victorious. He is now holding onto us and our unsteady faith so that, when our faith reaches it’s fruition, it will result in God heaping “praise, glory and honor” onto us.

6.14.20 GBV Online Service from Grace Brevard on Vimeo.

Order of Worship

CALL TO WORSHIP: Hebrews 12:1-3

MUSIC: Come Thou Fount, Reckless Love Medley, I Love You Lord, Far Kingdom

CENTRAL TEXT:  1 Peter 1:6-12

MESSAGE: Living Faith

BENEDICTION: Romans 15:13

ILLUSTRATIONS:

6.14.20 Album 

QUOTES:

  • “The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the work of Christ, that some of us, that any of us who really chooses, shall actually survive that examination, shall find approval, shall please God. To please God…to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness…to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son—it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.”
  • “...it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbour’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit— immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

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