Post by poetsunshine on Nov 12, 2010 9:50:15 GMT -6
INSPIRED BY ENDURING HOPE
I PETER 1:13...WHEREFORE GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND, BE SOBER AND HOPE TO THE END FOR THE GRACE THAT IS TO BE BROUGHT UNTO YOU AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
(I PETER 1:10-16)
I. PROPHECY FULFILLED. VERSE 10-12
Peter refers to the revelation given to the Old Testament prophets about the salvation that was to come. They made careful searches and inquiries to under stand the prophecies given to them.
They sought to determine the time and circumstances when the Messiah would live on earth, would suffer, be glorified, and therefore bring glorious salvation to humanity. (V. 11).
While the prophets probably did not realize it, it was the Spirit of Christ who revealed the predictions about His coming salvation. This gives witness to the fact that Jesus Christ existed prior to the incarnation.
The prophets had a general understanding of what was to come, but they were not enabled to comprehend the specifics. They realized they were not serving themselves. But those who would live in a future era.
With the coming of Christ and thereafter the sending of the Holy Ghost, those who preached the Gospel to the first-century sojourners were able to fully explain God’s plan of salvation.
It is the same message that is bringing people to salvation today.
Peter says even angels long to stoop down and look into the incredible plan of redemption that God designed for lost humanity.
Today more than ever we need to get the word of God out to a lost and dying world, that there is hope in Jesus Christ. People are being decieved by the millions by a false religion and false god. If we can't do anything else we could get some tracts and leave in rest rooms in restruants, in places where the public is. Remember God loves you enough to giv His only Son so that we can have life eternal, He is the only way to God, we must come in by Him.
Love you all.
I PETER 1:13...WHEREFORE GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND, BE SOBER AND HOPE TO THE END FOR THE GRACE THAT IS TO BE BROUGHT UNTO YOU AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
(I PETER 1:10-16)
I. PROPHECY FULFILLED. VERSE 10-12
Peter refers to the revelation given to the Old Testament prophets about the salvation that was to come. They made careful searches and inquiries to under stand the prophecies given to them.
They sought to determine the time and circumstances when the Messiah would live on earth, would suffer, be glorified, and therefore bring glorious salvation to humanity. (V. 11).
While the prophets probably did not realize it, it was the Spirit of Christ who revealed the predictions about His coming salvation. This gives witness to the fact that Jesus Christ existed prior to the incarnation.
The prophets had a general understanding of what was to come, but they were not enabled to comprehend the specifics. They realized they were not serving themselves. But those who would live in a future era.
With the coming of Christ and thereafter the sending of the Holy Ghost, those who preached the Gospel to the first-century sojourners were able to fully explain God’s plan of salvation.
It is the same message that is bringing people to salvation today.
Peter says even angels long to stoop down and look into the incredible plan of redemption that God designed for lost humanity.
Today more than ever we need to get the word of God out to a lost and dying world, that there is hope in Jesus Christ. People are being decieved by the millions by a false religion and false god. If we can't do anything else we could get some tracts and leave in rest rooms in restruants, in places where the public is. Remember God loves you enough to giv His only Son so that we can have life eternal, He is the only way to God, we must come in by Him.
Love you all.
