Daily Bread

IIT UBF - University Bible Fellowship at IIT

You Have Been Born Again

Date: Jan. 1, 2021

Passage

1 Peter 1:22-2:3

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for

  “All flesh is like grass
    and all its glory like the flower of grass.
  The grass withers,
    and the flower falls,
25   but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

A Living Stone and a Holy People

2:1 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Key Verse: 1 Peter 1:23

since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

1. The word of the Lord (1:22-25)

Love is the command of Jesus for his people. It is the fruit of the word of God. The word of God gives life-new birth-to those who obey the gospel truth. God's life is eternal. The world is perishing, and the glory of the world is fading. But the word of the Lord endures forever. When we receive the word of God that has been preached to us, we live in love. We are born again to eternal life.

2. Like newborn babies (2:1-3)

Being born again means living a new life. It means repenting of the sins of the world, actively ridding ourselves of every kind of godlessness. We are like newborn babies, needing pure spiritual milk. The word of God has power to nourish our spiritual life. By turning from evil and embracing the word, we grow in the salvation we have been called to. We taste the goodness of God in ever increasing measure.

Prayer: Lord, thank you for your lifegiving word. Bless me to grow in hope and crave your goodness today.

One Word: Crave pure spiritual milk

Remember Who God is

Psalm 77:1-20

Key Verse: 77:11

I will remember the deeds of the LORD;
yes, I will remember your wonders of old.

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