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Pilgrims in Christ – Part 9
What we can learn from the letters of Peter about practice of faith in Christ in times of uncertainty.
1 Peter 2:1-3
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Peter here gave a strong statement about Christian living and the key purpose is “to grow into salvation“. Being born again is only the beginning of our new life in Jesus.
Having been delivered from this world of corrupted behaviors which is subjected to condemnation we need to die to our old self which do not serves the purpose and will of God for righteous living.
This “to grow into salvation” is in our future total and full completeness of restoration to the presence of God in His kingdom. As in the beginning of Genesis when Man was created in the image of God to reflect godliness and righteousness but due to sin we went the path of spiritual darkness.
Just prior to this message we read
1 Peter 1:24-25
24 for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
The world we are living in today will end due to corruption and condemnation but our hope is in the living words of God.
God will bring about a complete new heaven and earth where His chosen and redeem will live in His presence
Revelation 21:1 – Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Our future and hope is in Christ.
David Z
Pilgrims in Christ – Part 8
What we can learn from the letters of Peter about practice of faith in Christ in times of uncertainty.
1 Peter 1:22-25
22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
Peter was quoting from the prophet Isaiah and the same message that highlighted the public ministry of John the Baptist.
Peter was a disciple of John the Baptist before he went to follow Jesus.
Isaiah 40:3-8
3 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. 5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
6 A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Matthew 3:1-3
1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’”
Peter first learned the path of obedience and true repentance under John the Baptist and later with Jesus became preacher of truth and obedience for the LORD.
Our life as disciples of Jesus must in practice of obedience to the truth of God’s words.
The words of God are eternal.
David Z