“Revealed” and Spiritual Reality

“…until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.” (1 Peter 1:5)
Often times it seems the church thinks of what is yet to come using terms such as ascending and descending.  Yet, Peter uses the word “revealed.”  The picture is that of the curtain being drawn, and the [...]

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The Living Hope of Resurrection

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.” (1 Peter 1:3-4)
Here the Apostle Peter reminds the early [...]

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Calvin Introducing 1 Peter

John Calvin writes:
 ”The design of Peter in this Epistle is to exhort the faithful to a denial of the world and a contempt of it, so that being freed from carnal affections and all earthly hindrances, they might with their whole soul aspire after the celestial kingdom of Christ, that being elevated by hope, supported [...]

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