Be Ready to Give a Defense - Understanding the Call to Defend Your Faith
Discover the importance of being prepared to defend your faith in response to various questions and challenges. Explore the biblical foundation in 1 Peter 3:15 and the context of sanctification and suffering in 1 Peter. Learn how to give a defense with meekness and fear, addressing questions on diverse topics such as worship practices, beliefs about God, and more. Gain insights from parallel verses in Philippians and be encouraged to stand firm in the face of opposition.
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BE READY TO GIVE A DEFENSE 1 PETER 3:15 1 PETER 3:15
EVERYONE WHO ASKS YOU Why don t you Party, drink socially, dance? Have a piano or a band in your worship? Believe in spiritual gifts? Have women preachers? Accept homosexuality?
EVERYONE WHO ASKS YOU Why do you Believe in a God who wipes out entire nations of people? Believe in a God who allows suffering? Go to church EVERY Sunday? Trust in your own works to save you?
EVERYONE WHO ASKS YOU How do we respond? Are they asking honestly? Many do not see the need to defend the truth Many are unable to defend the truth Many are afraid to defend the truth
The Text But 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. (1Pet.3:15)
The Text In Context Context of Sanctification and Suffering 1Pet.2:1, 11-12, 15, 18-23 1Pet.3:1-22 1Pet.4:1-19
Parallel Verse Philippians 1:17 o but the latter our of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. Context Suffering and sanctification (Phil.1:12-18, 27-30)
Giving a Defense apologia A verbal defense; speech in defense A reasoned statement or argument
Be Ready To Give a Defense Paul was always ready to give a defense Our faith is under attack Context includes ridicule, mocking and resentment (1Pet.3:9,13,16; 4:4) Are you set are you ready ?
S SET ET F FOR D DEFENSE EFENSE OR THE THE Philippians 1:17
Are You Set For the Defense? Set : keimai Of things put or set in place How was Paul set for the defense? Like Joseph as a slave, prisoner and a ruler Like Daniel as a captive slave and a ruler Like Esther as a captive slave turned Queen Where has God set YOU to defend?
Be Ready Always! Is it really YOUR faith and hope? Your hope and faith are defensible! Need to Care Is there not a cause? Need for Prayer Seek / Study / Know! Be Circumspect
Give A Defense Speak the Truth in love (Eph.4:15) With meekness and fear (2Tim.2:24-26) Fight the Good Fight! (2Tim.4:7) Defend it with your life! (Rom.12:2)
BE READY TO GIVE A DEFENSE 1 PETER 3:15 1 PETER 3:15
