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Sep 12, 2024 · The object of our living hope is described in 1 Peter 1:4 as “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you” (CSB). We have an inheritance that will never be touched by death, stained by evil, or faded with time; it is death-proof, sin-proof, and age-proof.
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! ( A ) In his great mercy ( B ) he has given us new birth ( C ) into a living hope ( D ) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ( E ) 4 and into an inheritance ( F ) that can never perish, spoil or fade.
Peter highlights two of them: (1) living hope through the resurrection of Jesus and (2) an inheritance that can never deteriorate. Peter goes on to explain the second of the two blessings, the inheritance, more fully.
- A Sure Hope (1 Pet 1:3) Our hope as Christians begins and ends with our Christian confession. Any hope outside of Christ is superficial and temporary at best.
- An Eternal Hope (1 Pet 1:4) Living hope: If one hopes in this world, then it is a dying hope for this world is perishing! “To obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you” (1 Peter 1:4, NASB).
- An Enduring Hope (1 Pet 1:5) An enduring hope continues through bad times. Satan tempts us; the world lures us, and our flesh battles us, but God's power is stronger.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. (1 Peter 1:3 RSV) Surely no apostle felt the death of Jesus more agonizingly than Peter.
Peter says that God has begotten us again to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you (1 Peter 1:3, 4).
(1) It is the hope of a living man.—A dead man cannot think, cannot wish, cannot hope, neither can a man spiritually dead possess the Christian’s living hope. The carnal man minds earthly things, is more or less absorbed in them; and to be carnally minded is death.
