Unlocked: Discovering Your Future Now | Pastor Jonathan Evans

Main message: The sermon teaches that believers should trust God in present suffering by looking ahead with “spiritual binoculars” to the living hope, secure inheritance, and future glory guaranteed through Jesus Christ’s resurrection. Because salvation is protected by God and culminates in glorification, Christians can rejoice even in trials.

Key points:

• Peter’s doxology in 1 Peter 1 is used to encourage persecuted believers to bless God in hardship.
• “Born again to a living hope” means believers have a new spiritual life grounded in Jesus’ resurrection.
• The believer’s inheritance is imperishable, undefiled, unfading, and reserved in heaven.
• Salvation is secure because believers are protected by God’s power, not their own strength.
• Salvation is described in stages: justification, sanctification, and future glorification.
• Present trials are temporary and should be viewed in light of the certain victory and eternal future ahead.

Scriptures mentioned: 1 Peter 1:3-6, Ephesians 3:20, Ephesians 2:4-9, Matthew 8, Luke 8, Mark 4, John 3:3, Hebrews 1:2, Psalm 2, Romans 8:17, John 17:5, 2 Thessalonians 2:14, Philippians 1:6, 1 Corinthians 1:8