DISCOURSE: 2379 OFFICES OF THE HOLY TRINITY 1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprink... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2380 REGENERATION CONSIDERED 1 Peter 1:3. _Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that f... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2381 THE END OF AFFLICTION 1 Peter 1:6. _Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unt... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2382 THE CHRISTIAN’S HAPPINESS 1 Peter 1:8. _Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls_. THE world often wonder that Christians do... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2383 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROPHECIES 1 Peter 1:10. _Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2384 THE ANGELS INTERESTED ABOUT THE GOSPEL 1 Peter 1:12. _Which things the angels desire to look into_. THE Gospel comes recommended to us by a great variety of most important considerations. It occupied the mind of God from all eternity. From the beginning of the world it has been reve... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2385 DIRECTIONS HOW TO SEEK HEAVEN WITH SUCCESS 1 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_. THE truths of God deserve our attention on account of their own excellen... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2386 NECESSITY OF HOLINESS 1 Peter 1:15. _As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy_. IT is thought by many, that the Gospel is unfriendly to morality: and it must be confessed, that, when stated in... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2387 THE NECESSITY OF HOLY PEAR 1 Peter 1:17. _If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear_. CHRISTIANS possess many privileges by means of their relation to God; yet it is not their privile... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2388 REDEMPTION FROM A VAIN CONVERSATION 1 Peter 1:18. _Ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2389 THE FATHERS PART IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION 1 Peter 1:20. _Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2390 LOVE TO THE BRETHREN 1 Peter 1:22. _Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently_. AS our Christian _profession_ lays us under peculiar obligations to holines... [ Continue Reading ]