Can I See Some ID? 1 Peter 1:1-2

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). Experience of Displacement “By faith Abraham lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents.” - Heb 11:9

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). Experience of Displacement “All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.” - Hebrews 11:13

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). Experience of Displacement “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a sojourner like all my fathers.” - Psalm 39:12

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). Experience of Displacement “And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.” - Acts 8:1

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). Experience of Displacement Longing for Heavenly Home “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” - Philippians 3:20

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). Experience of Displacement Longing for Heavenly Home “If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth.” - 1 Peter 1:17

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). … As Chosen (1:2) “He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world … In love, he predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us.” - Ephesians 1:4-6

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). … As Chosen (1:2) “Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac; for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls.” - Romans 9:11-12

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). … As Chosen (1:2) “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” - John 1:12-13

Our Identity … … As Aliens (1:1). … As Chosen (1:2) “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” - Philippians 2:12-13

Our Identity … Practical Implications Comfort/Assurance in Trial “That which we have turned into a puzzle for our minds was originally intended to be a pillow for our hearts.”

Our Identity … Practical Implications Comfort/Assurance in Trial “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called.” - Romans 8:28

Our Identity … Practical Implications Comfort/Assurance in Trial “If God is for us, who is against us? … Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” - Romans 8:31, 35

Our Identity … Practical Implications Motivation to Worship in Trial “He predestined us … to the praise of the glory of His grace.” - Ephesians 1:5-6

Our Identity … Practical Implications Motivation to Worship in Trial “But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation.” - 2 Thessalonians 2:13

Our Identity … Practical Implications Motivation to Worship in Trial “Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!” - Romans 11:33

Our Identity … Practical Implications Motivation for EV in Trial “I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus.” - 2 Timothy 2:10

Our Identity … Practical Implications Motivation for EV in Trial “For I think God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.” - 1 Corinthians 4:9