When times get tough, everyone looks for someone who can convince them that it's going to be okay. But how do you really know? This sermon presents three solid reasons from 1 Peter 1:1-12 to help us see that no matter what we're going through, it's going to be okay!

2. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to
Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood:
May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
- 1 Peter 1:1-2
(ESV)

3. How Can I Be SURE It’s Going To Be
Okay? (And Then What Should I DO?)

4. How Can I Be SURE It’s Going To Be
Okay? (And Then What Should I DO?)
1) I Am EXACTLY Where God Wants Me
to Be

5. How Can I Be SURE It’s Going To Be
Okay? (And Then What Should I DO?)
1) I Am EXACTLY Where God Wants Me
to Be
(…So My Job Is To Bring LIFE
Wherever I Can!)

6. “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to
all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from
Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in
them; plant gardens and eat their produce. Take
wives and have sons and daughters; take wives
for your sons, and give your daughters in
marriage,

7. “…that they may bear sons and daughters;
multiply there, and do not decrease. But seek the
welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile,
and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare
you will find your welfare.”
- Jeremiah 29:4-7
(ESV)

8. Say not, “Why were the former days better than
these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
- Ecclesiastes 7:10
(ESV)

9. How Can I Be SURE It’s Going To Be
Okay? (And Then What Should I DO?)
2) I Have A Never-Ending Inheritance
Already Waiting For Me

10. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused
us to be born again to a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and
unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s
power are being guarded through faith for a
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- vv. 3-5

11. “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind
has imagined what God has prepared for those
who love him.”
- 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NLT)

12. How Can I Be SURE It’s Going To Be
Okay? (And Then What Should I DO?)
2) I Have A Never-Ending Inheritance
Already Waiting For Me
(So My Job Is To Be Always
Optimistic)

13. How Can I Be SURE It’s Going To Be
Okay? (And Then What Should I DO?)
3) I Am Living An Epic Legend That Not
Even Angels Fully Understand.

14. Concerning this salvation, the prophets who
prophesied about the grace that was to be yours
searched and inquired carefully, inquiring what
person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was
indicating when he predicted the sufferings of
Christ and the subsequent glories. It was revealed
to them that they were serving not themselves but

15. you, in the things that have now been announced
to you through those who preached the good news
to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things
into which angels long to look.
- vv.10-12

16. How Can I Be SURE It’s Going To Be
Okay? (And Then What Should I DO?)
3) I Am Living An Epic Legend That Not
Even Angels Fully Understand.
(So My Job Is To Heal A Hurting
World)