Hope III “Action time” 1Pe 1:13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1Pe 1:14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, * Go back to what conformed you and be set free * Your past doesn’t determine your future 1Pe 1:15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 1Pe 1:16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” * Clean or pure (get the dirt out) 1Pe 1:17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 1Pe 1:18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 1Pe 1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. * There are things handed down to you that need to be addressed * Transformation is a given when we understand what the blood of Jesus did 1Pe 1:20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 1Pe 1:21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. * Leaving the disfunction of hoping in the world and its worth *Life group questions:* Have you identified a weakness? How has it affected you in life? What is the difficulty that we have in searching out the root of our problems? What does our identity in Christ have to do with our weakness? What can we do this week to begin to break chains of our past?