Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church
Love While You Can
1 Peter 1:13-25
Vs 22 Love one another deeply from the heart.
Don't get used to your salvation...it is mind-blowing!
"Therefore"
Whenever you see therefore stop and ask what it's there for.
Because that's true, here's what you do...
They wanted to be coddled they needed to be reminded of their calling.
Grow in your salvation.
Ready. Set. Grow.
4 Places We Should Seek To Grow In:
1. Mentally Strong
Vs 14 - prepare your minds for action, be self-controlled.
You can't live right if you don't think right.
What are you allowing to show up in your mind?
NKJ says - Gird up the loins of your mind.
They were wearing tunics and robes. If you needed to run you'd grab the bottom and tuck it into your belt.
If we're going to have a strong mental game we need to tuck in things so they don't get in the way.
Be aware of your environment.
Behavior we're allowing in our lives.
We're often bringing upon things just by patterns we allow in our lives.
2. We need to choose to be realistically hopeful.
Hope based in reality.
There is so much tension in the Bible.
Inevitably hope points us to heaven.
We understand it's going to hurt, seek to bless other people.
3. Intentionally formed
Heaven is glorification.
Santification is spiritual formation.
TPT vs 14-15
Be holy because I Am holy.
The goals is holiness.
Holiness is happiness not haughtiness.
4. We need to be reverently ambitious.
Reverence is deep respect.
When God really speaks to you, you feel reverence.
What areas should I be ambitious in? LOVE
The challenging people in your life are there for a reason. Sacrificial love.
We can only love while we can.
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." Jim Rohn
"You have a journey to take, a race to run, a warfare to accomplish, and a great work to do." Matthew Henry
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