Philip Benstead (Turkey) Sunday 21st August 2011

Philip read from 1Peter Ch 1. He spoke about believers going through suffering and persecution and how our hope is in God. Throughout the chapter there is the recurring theme of the resurrection, if Christ died and rose again we can be sure that we too will rise. Like the believers then we too are exiles in this world, strangers and foreigners. They suffered, Christ also suffered. There is the reminder in the passage of the ransom paid for us through the blood of Jesus, which is incorruptible.