1. The Good Life: Hope and Holiness
1 Peter 1:13-21
The Good Life: Hope and Holiness

2. Ingredients of the Good Life
Hope (1:13)
Holiness (1:14-21)
Love (1:22-2:3)
Worship (2:4-10)
Witness (2:9-12)
Submission (2:11-3:12)

3. Mindset: Hope Fixed on Christ
Hope: “a confident expectation that God will fulfill His promises”
How?
by preparing your mind for action
“gird the loins of your mind”
Word, prayer, memory, worship, community, creation, good books

4. Mindset: Hope Fixed on Christ
Hope: “a confident expectation that God will fulfill His promises”
How?
by preparing your mind for action
by keeping spiritually alert
What’s the state of your mind?

5. Behavior: Holy like your Father
hagios
translated: holy, sanctified, set apart, saint
basic idea: “set apart, distinct; not ordinary or common”

6. Behavior: Holy like your Father
God’s Holiness:
Exodus 15:11
“Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?”

7. Behavior: Holy like your Father
God’s Holiness:
Revelation 15:3–4
And they sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
“Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations! Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; For all the nations will come and worship before You, For Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

8. Behavior: Holy like your Father
God’s Holiness:
He is absolutely separate, unique, and distinct from all of creation
includes complete separation from sin & evil
but goes further – He is absolute “other”
“He is utterly set apart in a class by himself, unequaled, unrivaled, totally un-derived, absolute in his being and perfection, without beginning or ending or improvement.” John Piper

9. Behavior: Holy like your Father
Our Holiness:
Positional holiness: we are already set apart unto God by the finished work of Jesus (2:9)
Experiential holiness: becoming less and less like the world and more and more like God
Avoids: “conformity to the former lusts”
Pursues: “obedient… in all your behavior”

10. Motivation for Holiness
Because God will judge us (v17)
2 Corinthians 5:9–11
Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord…

11. Motivation for Holiness
Because God will judge us (v17)
Because all else is futile (v18)
Because our freedom was costly (v18-21)

12. Becoming Holy Where are you falling short?
Have you surrendered to sin in any area of your life?
Steps to growth:
confession, dedication, accountability
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