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10.07.2010

1 Peter 1:22-25

22Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For,

"All men are like grass,

and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

25but the word of the Lord stands forever."
And this is the word that was preached to you.
 
Notice the connection between this section (what we do in response to what God has done) and the one we just finished (vv. 17-21 what God has done). As we have seen several times already, 'faith' is both belief/trust AND faithfulness; it is an inner reality that issues in transformed daily living and the two go together. The one enables the other which shows the former to be genuine. Not sure that was very clear at all...the point is that God's love for us shown in Christ must move us toward a love for others shaped by Christ. Outside of this relationship, our lives have the sturdiness of withering grass.
 
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  1. DocOctober 8, 2010 at 11:17 PM

    "faithfulness; it is an inner reality that issues in transformed daily living and the two go together. The one enables the other which shows the former to be genuine."

    Easy to say , not always so easy to do .

    Love this : " The word of the Lord stands forever " . That is so beautiful ! Nothing stands forever , man . Not life , not marriages ,not retirement plans , not praise bands , nothing . But , the word of the Lord stands forever . That's comfort .

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  2. Dave WybleOctober 11, 2010 at 7:29 AM

    I agree Doc. Matt, I don't have much to add except to say that you did a great job of interpretation for us here. I'm not sure I would have ever extracted the summary you did, but re-reading this and yesterday's it make perfect sense. Sometimes I get a little to academic in these circles, mostly over thinking things. Today I will just hold onto this: "Outside of this relationship, our lives have the sturdiness of withering grass."

    Shalom

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