Series: Growing in Faith
Title: Tested Faith
Text: ESV
Deu 29:29
1 Peter 1:3
1 Peter 1:6
1 Peter 1:7
3 things we will see today
Tested Faith is Genuine Faith
Tested Faith is More Precious Than Gold
Tested Faith Results in Praise, Glory, and Honor, When Jesus Christ is Revealed.
I. Tested Faith is Genuine Faith
a. 1 Peter 1:7, “so that the tested genuineness of your faith…”
II. Tested Faith is More Precious Than Gold
a. 1 Peter 1:7, “ so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than
gold that perishes…”
b. Quote- Charles Spurgeon, “If you have faith, you don’t need to ask for much
more except that your faith will grow”
c. 1 Peter 1:7, “ so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than
gold that perishes though it is tested by fire…”
III. Tested Faith Results in Praise, Glory, and Honor When Jesus Christ is Revealed.
a. 1 Peter 6-7, “In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you
have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your
faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be
found to result in praise and glory and honor…”
b. Romans 2:29
c. 1 Corinthians 4:5
d. 1 Peter 5:4
e. Charles Wesley, “Witness your new creation, pure and spotless. Let us see your
great salvation, perfect in eternity change from glory into glory. Till in heaven, we
take our place. Till we cast our crowns before you. Lost in wonder and love and
praise.
f. 1 Peter 1:7, “…praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
g. Alan Stibbs, “The revelation of Jesus Christ, is not the coming of someone here
that was absent, but the visible unveiling… of someone who has been all the time
spiritually, and invisibly present.”
