“we are strangers and pilgrims in this world and the bible says we should abstain ... from every fleshly lust that can wage war against our spirit against our soul”
A Sunday service focused on prayer as the believer's solution. The preacher outlines five conditions for answered prayer—being saved, exercising faith, obedience, a forgiving spirit, and asking according to God’s will—then leads the congregation through Scripture-based prayer points for deliverance from temptation, spiritual awakening, strength by the Holy Spirit, humility and casting anxieties on God, and corporate enablement for the church.
“You look to the rest of the book of 1st Peter — 1 Peter 2 verse 11 — then on through Hebrews.”
Dr. Matthew McKellar preaches from 1 Peter on living as exiles—temporary residents shaped by a heavenly hope—using five cues (hope, holy, fear, love, long) and urging holiness, reverent fear, obedient love, and an appetite for God's Word; the service also included baptisms, camp reports, ministry announcements, and an invitation to trust Christ.
“Then later on as you go to chapter 2 verse 11 (addressing believers as exiles).”
Dr. Matthew McKellar (preaching at First Baptist Dallas) unfolds 1 Peter's call to live as exiles: because Christians have an imperishable heavenly inheritance, we should live counterculturally now by setting our hope fully on Christ's future grace, pursuing holiness, conducting ourselves with reverent fear, loving one another earnestly, and craving the Word of God. The sermon includes pastoral application, testimonies from children's and student camps, and an invitation to trust Christ.
“I urge you as aliens and strangers in the world — you don't belong here.”
Pastor Allen Jackson teaches that our identity is rooted in God’s redemptive work and calls Christians to embrace the implications of being redeemed: humility, ongoing transformation, righteous living, freedom from condemnation, heavenly citizenship, and awareness of spiritual opposition.
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