Always Be Ready to Give Your Answer - Understanding 1 Peter 3:15
Peter's words emphasize the importance of knowing and defending our faith, providing reasons for our hope based on God's Word. This involves having good reasons rooted in Scripture, being knowledgeable about the Bible, ready to defend our beliefs with confidence and determination, following the examples set by Jesus and the apostles in defending the truth.
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Always Be Ready To Give Your Answer Know what & why you believe
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear 2
Introduction The words of Peter obligates each Christian to know WHAT and WHY we believe what we do Peter s words indict some professed Christians - who will NOT defend their belief This statement includes two very important COMMANDS for us to be aware of and obey 3
Have good reason for our hope We must Faith and hope for the wrong reason is vain Feelings - Jeremiah 17:9 Human traditions - Matthew 15:2, 8-9 Acts 7:51 Consensus of brethren - Acts 15:1 Exodus 32:1-8; 23-24 4
Have good reason for our hope We must Faith and hope must be based on God s Divine word Comes with hearing it - Romans 10:17 Requires diligence - Hebrews 11:6 Seeks His authority - Colossians 3:17 Make s abode in His word - 2 John 9-11 5
Be ready to defend our reason We must With Knowledge We must know the Bible 2 Timothy 2:15; Acts 17:11 Psalms 1:1-2, cf. Hosea 4:6 Acts 3:17 We must know the opposition 2 Corinthians 2:11 2 Timothy 2:25-26; 1 John 2:14-17 6
Be ready to defend our reason We must With Readiness At Any Moment Follow the examples of Jesus Matthew 4:1-11 Matthew 19:1-9; 16-22 Follow the examples of the apostles John - John 1:19-28 Peter - Acts 2:7-38 Paul and Silas - Acts 16:25-34 7
Be ready to defend our reason We must With Determination The apostles defended the truth Philippians 1:17; Jude 3; Acts 6:9-10 Acts 17:1-2; 18:19; 24-28 Jesus defended the truth Matthew 4:1-11; 23 Modern day religionist usually will not openly defend what the believe and teach 8
Be ready to defend our reason We must With meekness and fear Our defense should be Not out of vanity or pride - Proverbs 16:18 Galatians 6:1 To wins souls, not an argument 2 Corinthians 10:5 With the realization that will be judged by the same word Matthew 7:1-2; John 12:48 9
Have good reason for our hope We must Faith and hope for the wrong reason is vain Faith and hope must be based on God s Divine word REVIEW 10
Have FAITH We must For the RIGHT reason Based on God s Divine word CONCLUSION 11
Defend Our Reason With We must Bible Knowledge Readiness For Any Moment Determination Meekness and fear REVIEW 12
Defend BY We must Increasing Your Bible Knowledge Looking For Opportunities Giving A Bible Answer Doing Our Duty To Fear God and Keeping His Commandments CONCLUSION 13
What shall we do? - Acts 2:38 Alien sinners must Hear the Gospel Romans 10:17 Believe it John 8:24 Repent of sin Acts 17:30 Confess Christ as Lord Matthew 10:34 Be baptized to wash away your sin Acts 2:38 An erring child of God must Repent and Pray for Forgiveness 1 John 1:7-9 Endure Trials - be faithful unto death Revelation 2:10 INVITATION 14 14
