{"id":37187,"date":"2022-09-13T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-1-peter-13-5\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:27:56","slug":"please-explain-1-peter-13-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-1-peter-13-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Please explain 1 Peter 1:3-5."},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 Peter 1:3-5 reads, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope<\/strong> through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable<\/strong> and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

There are such beautiful promises in this passage. For whom are these wonderful things promised, and what do they mean?<\/p>\n

WHO IS PROMISED THIS BLESSING?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The greetings of 1 Peter address Christians.1 Peter 1:1,2 read, "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, <\/strong>… who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God<\/strong> the Father, by the sanctifying<\/strong> work of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in fullest measure."<\/p>\n

So, the "us" in verse 3 is referring to those who are chosen according to God's foreknowledge, and are sanctified by the Spirit of God. Romans 8:29, "For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son<\/strong>, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:”<\/p>\n

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Sanctifying Work of the Spirit<\/p>\n

The sanctifying work of the spirit is God's power to change our characters and our actions to become more Christlike<\/strong>. Galatians 5:22,23 say, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."<\/p>\n

WHAT IS THE BLESSING PROMISED TO THESE?<\/strong><\/p>\n

God's great mercy has promised these:<\/p>\n

**To be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.This promise is to be resurrected as Jesus was, with an incorruptible spirit body (see 1 Corinthians 15:44, "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spirit body.”).<\/p>\n

**To obtain a heavenly inheritance which is imperishable -reserved for the saints to be revealed in the last time.<\/p>\n

This inheritance is God's Kingdom, where they will rule as kings and priests for 1000 years, as it says in Revelation 20:4,,"they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years."<\/p>\n

Who are they ruling over?<\/p>\n

As it says in Acts 15:17, "After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the tabernacle of David<\/strong> (the nation of Israel) which has fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it (through God's favor), in order that the rest of mankind<\/strong> may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things known from old."<\/p>\n

All the nations of the earth will be blessed<\/strong>, all who have ever lived will be resurrected, and this is the gospel…the good news!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Peter 1:3-5 reads, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, … Continue reading “Please explain 1 Peter 1:3-5.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}