The Word of God Endures Forever!
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· 17 viewsToday, I will continue the sermon series: Living in Darkness with a teaching on 1 Peter 1:22-25. This chapter concludes with Peter's proclamation about the living, abiding, and enduring word of God. Consider this: If God's word is imperishable, living, abiding, and enduring, why do you look elsewhere for truth?
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Introduction
Today, I will continue the sermon series: Living in Darkness with a teaching on 1 Peter 1:22-25. This chapter concludes with Peter's proclamation about the living, abiding, and enduring word of God. Consider this: If God's word is imperishable, living, abiding, and enduring, why do you look elsewhere for truth?
22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
What does God say?
What does God say?
22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,
“purified” is a perfect verb which signifies an action that has already been completed.
“by” is a preposition that be transliterated as “in” or “with”
“obedience to the truth” is not an action of an individual but the result of an action
“genuine brotherly love” is the reason for the purification
“love on another fervently from the heart” means to love one another intensely (extend or stretch out) from heart (thoughts, passions, desires, affections, purposes)
23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
“born again” connects with the idea conveyed about “Having purified your soul” in verse 22.
“not from perishable seed but imperishable” New life comes forth from a seed that cannot be destroyed, corrupted, or ruined.
“through the living and enduring word of God” the seed which we are born again is the word of God which is not only imperishable but living and abiding.
24 for
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
verse 24 is a quotation from Isa 40:6-8
6 A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
In that verse it references the call of Yahweh; however, in verse 25 “the word of the LORD” is used. Although LORD is used interchangeably to identify both God and Jesus. The question is whether or not the phrase is subjective (the word spoken by the Lord) or objective (the word spoken about the Lord). The remainder of the verse will show the “LORD” here is referencing Jesus and that the word spoken is about Him.
“And this word is the good news preached to you” - the word here is the Greek word “rhema” which is used to convey an utterance spoken. It is often used when making public proclamation, specifically the gospel in (Rom 10:17)
17 Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ.
the good news is “euangelion in Greek” or evangelize in English. The good news is not a bunch of saying God makes but about a person which is Jesus Christ (Rom 1:1-5)
1 Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, 2 which he promised previously through his prophets in the holy scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was born a descendant of David according to the flesh, 4 who was declared Son of God in power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name,
What do we do?
What do we do?
The seed that gives us new life is Jesus
The seed is the good news about Jesus
God purified our souls through the blood of Jesus
As a result of the seed, we love one another fervently
