Lesson 2209

(Lesson 2209)(12-26-17) 1 Peter 1:17-25
    “And 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: Forasmuch as 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: 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 be in God. 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: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”

   This lesson reminds those of us whom have been saved, by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, that we have been bought, not with earthly things that will eventually decay, but rather with the perfect and eternal blood of that same Jesus Christ. That knowledge assures us that our salvation is eternally gauranteed. “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby YE ARE SEALED UNTO THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.” Just as the word of God will stand throughout eternity, so will the life that comes through belief.~