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Jan 29, 2017 · 2. When Jesus is revealed from heaven, He will deal out eternal punishment to unbelievers. Paul says (2 Thess. 1:6), “For it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you.”. He adds (2 Thess. 1:8-9) that this will involve “dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of ...
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Paul wants us to serve the Lord prayerfully, out of godly...
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2 Corinthians 4:17. NIV For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. CSB For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. NLT For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that ...
The Christian's destiny. 1. (2 Corinthians 5:1) Our existence in the world to come. For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. a. For we know: Paul has just contrasted our light affliction with a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ...
- Believers Praise God Because of God’s Mercy in Our Great Salvation
- Believers Should Praise God For The New Birth in Our Great Salvation
- Believers Should Praise God Because of Our Living Hope in Our Great Salvation
- Believers Should Praise God For The Inheritance We Have in Our Great Salvation
- Believers Should Praise God For The Future Aspects of Our Great Salvation
- Believers Should Praise God For His Protection Over Our Great Salvation
- Conclusion
- Chapter Notes
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth (emphasis mine). 1 Peter 1:3 Here Peter begins to worship God specifically because of God’s great mercy. Mercy focuses on how deplorable the believer’s state was before Christ. This is one of the reasons we often don’t worship God. We have forgott...
In his great mercy he has given us new birth. 1 Peter 1:3 Interpretation Question:Peter worships God for giving believers the new birth. A literal reading of verse 3 says he has “caused us to be born again.” What can we learn from the rendering “caused us to be born again” about our salvation? The next wonderful truth about the believer’s salvation...
In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3 Interpretation Question:What does Paul mean by the “living hope” the believer has in salvation? Another reason the believer should praise God is because God has brought us into a living hope. Scripture would declare ev...
And into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you. 1 Peter 1:4 Interpretation Questions:What is Peter referring to as our inheritance? What are the adjectives referring to this inheritance and what do they mean? The next thing Peter says is that a believer should praise God because of his inheritance in heaven. He ...
Who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time (emphasis mine). 1 Peter 1:5 The final aspect mentioned in this passage that should make the believer rejoice even in suffering, is one’s coming salvation. This may sound strange to some because we are already saved. However...
Who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time (emphasis mine). 1 Peter 1:5 However, not only do we praise God about this future aspect of salvation, but we praise him that we are being protected for it. Look again at what Peter says: “Who through faith are shielded by G...
Restore to me the joy of my salvation. Many of us have lost it. We don’t worship God anymore about it, and maybe part of it is because we have lost our gaze on the benefits of this great salvation. Peter writes to believers who are suffering to help them again have the joy they are meant to have even in the midst of their tribulations. 1. Believers...
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1. (1 Peter 4:1-2) In the last days, Christians should have an attitude of commitment. Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
Jul 12, 2023 · Next, Paul juxtaposes the light and momentary affliction with an “eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.” The word weight signifies the substantiality, significance, and overwhelming nature of the future glory that believers will experience (cf. 1 Corinthians 2:9, 13:12; 1 John 3:2). Hence, it conveys a sense of immeasurable value ...
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Jul 26, 2013 · Colossians 3:9–10: “You have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”. So the clue is the phrase “in knowledge.”. Our inner selves — our new regenerate, Christ-trusting selves — are being renewed “ in knowledge.”.
