Regardless of race, gender, background, citizenship, political party, or social or financial status, we are His special people.
When we come to Jesus Christ, our sense of identity is bound up in Him. In a fractured world, the Gospel of Jesus Christ offers the ultimate assurance that we belong. Respond: 3 Ways to Live Purposefully in the Last Days 1. With this view of our Christian identity, how do we live it out? Our possessions won’t last only what we send ahead of us will endure as we invest in God’s Kingdom. When we realize this world is not our home, it changes our approach to everything. “Scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation’” (2 Peter 3:3-4).
Like many first-century believers, Peter expected that Christ would return during his lifetime. “Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear” (1 Peter 3:15). He addressed his readers as “sojourners and pilgrims” (1 Peter 2:11) and warned believers to conduct themselves carefully among those who do not yet believe or oppose the spread of Christianity. Writing to a Church racked by persecution, Peter sought to encourage God’s people and remind them of God’s promises.
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