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Hymn lyrics for the service can be found at the links below:
Hymn: 370 My Hope is Built on Nothing Less
Hymn: 372 Through Jesus Blood and Merit
Hymn: 307 Draw Nigh and Take the Body of the Lord
755 What is This Bread?
Hymn: 315 I Come, O Savior, to Thy Table
Closing Hymn: 425 All Depends on Our Possessing
Thanks to Grace Lutheran in Fridley MN for supplying The Lutheran Hymnal Supplement music downloads.
Due to copy right restrictions and recorded music availability, some hymns from the supplement are not available online or included in the video.
Sermon Text: 1 Peter 1: 17-25
17 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the
time of your stay here in fear; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you 21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. 22 Since you
have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure
heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 because “All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away, 25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.
Theme: “Redemption & Love”
➢ How does the world assess value on a thing?
.. .. And how does the world generally assess the value of a person?
➢ How does God value a person?
➢ People are not “highly evolved animals” they are much more.
.. .. Where is the evidence of that seen?
➢ Why did God pay the terrible price that it took to redeem us?
➢ What does the word “redeem” mean?
➢ Name some of the reasons why it is difficult for us here in time to understand and even appreciate God's love: Peter is encouraging the recipients of his letter to put away the “aimless conduct.” What does he mean by that?
➢ Man is always inventing ways to either please God or the gods or at the very least earn a happy everafter. At the same time those ways of pleasing the powerful beings or gods are not new but rather always the same. What are they and why can they not ever save?
➢ The “blood of Jesus” is pictorial language for what:
➢ None of us appreciates when a person is insincere toward us. That is something that the Apostle Peter said shouldn't be a part of the Christ follower's life. Rather we love and care about all people especially our brothers and sisters in Christ. How does this look: “Fervently” is an athletic term. In what ways does it fit so well with our love exercised towards our fellow believers:
➢ In Romans 5 the Apostle Paul talks about the Lord “pouring” His love into us. How does that enable you to love those difficult people and those people that have hurt you:
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