Remember to Give Thanks
1 Peter 1:3-5
John MacArthur says that this passage is “a hymn of worship designed to encourage Christians living in a hostile world to look past their temporal troubles and rejoice in their eternal inheritance.”
1. Remember to Thank God for His Deliverance
A. The mercy of regeneration
John 3:3 – Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 1:13 – Who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Titus 3:5 – “He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.”
B. The means of resurrection
C. The motive of reverence
2. Remember to Thank God for His Inheritance
A. A promised place
B. A perfect place
C. A permanent place
3. Remember to Thank God for His Assurance
A. Where it is stored
B. Why it is secure
C. When it is seen
