The Revelation of Our Salvation

Welcome to the end of Friday, July 15 and the entire Bible continue to study in first Peter chapter 1 highlights the incomparable value of the word of God in the beginning Peter identifies himself and addresses who this letter is written to many Raman songs that we have been chosen by God.

We have been born again, and that this new birth, results in a great inheritance which is ours in Christ Jesus, and that we have been protected and are protected by the power of God really says beginning in verse six that right now they were going through a time of tribulation and trial and heartache, distress and various trials, he says, which is going to work out for them, something extremely profitable in their behalf. Then he comes to the 10th diversity says as to this salvation, 10, 11, 12 of this chapter where we are denied as to the salvation which salvation the salvation to begin with God's choice of me as he says them according to his great mercy. His choice of laws. The new birth. He brought about in our life and his protection. He says this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful search and inquiry into this, seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, that is, his readers and to us in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preach the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven things into which angels long to look at you just read that one time you probably might not get it. So I want us to examine the revelation of our salvation. Let me say something in the very beginning here. If somebody says do you believe that one part of the Bible is inspired as the other. Yes, it is and what Peter is doing here in this passage is simply saying this he saying this, this message of salvation that is brought about this dramatic change in your life. This newness of life and now has made you aware of the fact that you have an inheritance imperishable waiting hen in heaven for you. This message of salvation is a message of salvation that the prophets were looking into and proclaiming, though they did not fully understand everything they were proclaiming they were preaching a message not of works but of grace, but they didn't understand it like you and I understand that in understanding in the days of the when Peter was writing here even as you and I understand it today so he says as to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful search and inquiry, he says, seeking to know what person or time now. I want to look into three passages here and first of all, in the let's look in second Peter chapter 1 for a moment. Second Peter chapter 1 animals. The notice two verses here want to clarify something. In verses 20 and 21 Peter says but know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation. No prophecy was ever made by an active human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. Now the Bible the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation is God's. God breathed book 2 men and through men acknowledging their personalities, their makeup, guarding and governing them through the power of the Holy Spirit to write down the message of God to the people and for the people of their day and listen to the people and for the people that day and for all of those who would come thereafter is not a book of errors.

It is an infallible book God has protected the message of the Scriptures down through the years medicine that doesn't mean that these men who were receiving the Revelation always understood what it meant Nyman to show you why just a moment. Trinity will not.

A second Timothy and look if you will in chapter 3 and verse 16 and 17. He says all Scripture is inspired by God breathed, but that is the spirit of God moved in the minds of these men in a protected manner. All Scripture is given by inspiration or is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, that the man or woman of God may be adequate, and fully equipped for every good work that God calls us more and the truth is, if a person does not know the word of God. They are not equipped to do the work of God.

I want you to turn if you will to John chapter 60 is a good example of what we're talking about the Revelation is progressive. Now Jesus has taught these apostles many things but but he's not finished. That is, they haven't learned it all, but he's got to go. There was his schedule did not requires him to send to him and before long, Mr. 16 chapter. This component of our soil. He says I put up a room now giving him though the upper room discourse. He says first trip. I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when he, the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth, but he will not speak on his own initiative, but whatever he hears he will speak and he will disclose to you what is the come. So what we have we have all the rest of the New Testament. All the epistles what's happening what is happening is the Holy Spirit now through the apostle Paul and Peter and James. He is expounding to these godly men who are prophets and apostles of their day. He is expounding to them. Truth and enlightening them to understand things that Jesus said look, the reason I can't tell you this now you wouldn't get it. For example, in a given exam so they would never figured out. Listen how ridiculous this statement would've sounded to them.

I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ lives within me in the life which I now live out of the pipe, the son of God who loved me and gave himself on crucified within that statement would've been mind-boggling because so many things that Jesus said you see the Holy Spirit brought it back to them and then as Revelation progress, can God continue to open their minds and their hearts and their spirits to perceive and understand they grew medicine where the Revelation is complete there is anything else. God needs to tell us and God doesn't ever tell is anything that is not in keeping with the word of God you can mark that down.

That's the final acid test if it violates any principle of the Scripture, God didn't say it now. God revealed to the same men in the upper room.

Wonderful, marvelous truth, but he says you're not ready yet. You know why you not understand some things that God wants us understand the same reason we are not ready yet. Haven't you look back in your life and you said man I wish I understood that Lynn God, what is it take me so long to catch own because of either our spiritual growth. Something in our life. Somewhere along the way. It will not there yet these men in the upper room before the crucifixion were not aware they would be after Pentecost, they could not understand what they could understand. When the apostle Paul came along and began to expound these great proves that God gave to him. You see, God revealed some things in the apostle Paul that nobody had understood before then and what he said he was caught up in the third heaven. God gave him such revelations that in order to keep them from being proud. God gave them a thorn in the side of buffeted by Satan because, listen. The apostle Paul was receiving directly from God, visions and revelations of truth that nobody had ever heard now on. When Paul says Mistry he does not mean something that is mysterious but a means listen a mystery are: the apostle Paul was a divine truth given by God that could not be received any other way. That is no other way to get that is Revelation divine revelation is truth. God hands down to man truth that man could never have reached out no matter what he did he could never in his mind ever have gained that knowledge any other way except that God handed down and look if you will, beginning in chapter 3 of Ephesians verse one.

For this reason, Paul the person of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles, if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace, which was given to me for you Gentiles apostle of the Gentiles, that by revelation.

There was made known to me the mystery. As I wrote before, in brief, and by referring to this.

When you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the spirit so he says now that what I'm telling you he says they didn't understand they didn't know that was revealed to them now. He says to be specific. What is this this mystery to be specific, is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus the Messiah through the gospel of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace. That is what he say now the promises in the Old Testament those profits for that date, God gave them revelations of the Gentiles being able to be say, but Paul says one of the ministries that was not revealed at that time was that both Gentile and Jew will have an equal share in the body of Christ.

God is going to treat Jew and Gentile alike. That is, if you recall visions to he says there was a time when the Gentile body strangers from the cub of the promise, but God open the door, grafted us in and now he says them.

This middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile has been broken down the cross of Jesus Christ shattered that wall so that now both Jew and Gentile come together in the body of Christ and now the body of Christ is made up of all who place their trust in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of their sin. He says this is one of those mysteries that now God has given him the privilege of revealing to them well I can't bypass the one other mystery that I just love the ability.

One of my favorite ones turn the Colossians chapter 1 for a moment let's start with verse 24 pulses now rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of his body, which is the church in filling up that which is lacking in Christ's afflictions of this church listen now of this church, I was made is not talking about a particular church of this church, the body of Christ. I was made a minister, according to the stewardship from God. This was a responsibility God gave him bestowed on me for your benefit that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God. That is, listen the mystery. The mystery on the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations but has now been manifested to his saints. They didn't know it then. Now we know it, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is alleluia Christ in you, your hope of glory. He says that's one of the mysteries. That's why listen you and I can stand up and preaching talk contingency listen. The Bible says that when you save Christ Jesus comes to live in you urine him.

He's in you, wherever he is there.

You are he says that was a mystery that was not revealed in times past, but now it is revealed, he says, for example, that you not sit in the heaven is in Christ Jesus, where he is, we are. He says this is. He says this is a great mystery, to whom God will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory and we proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present every man complete in Christ and for this purpose. Also I labor, striving according to his power, which mightily works within the Alitalia. Paul was a great student of the word of God. He says I strive in labor and study. He kept his life clean because, listen, he knew that it was only in a pure heart that God's great divine revelations would come and listen. This difference Revelation is the truth that God gives that man cannot receive apart from God. God has given us his revelation in the word of God illumination listen. Illumination is what God does to you and me today. That is when we get in the word of God the Holy Spirit does what he opens the truth of the word and that is he takes the top of him and he reveals the truth of it that is illumination.

God isn't handing down anymore great revelations he has given us the ultimate revelation in the word of God. So we get illuminations and we get inspirations about things and we disable God gave me this great revelation if you mean by that. He took the top office not let you looking to get and get the true picture but that's okay. But God is in adding to this book. In fact, the last book of the Bible warns against adding to not think about all these folks these calls that have their Bible that you have just added to this when they got their own Revelation is progressing this so that today we have the final revelation of God in his word and what about in your life. These men felt deeply responsible to speak the truth. Listen deeply responsible to so live that God could speak the truth to them and they would be able to perceive exactly what God was saying because they felt responsible to speak to her then have a Bible like this. All they had scrolls parchments then have all this together. These men diligently studied the truth, and as they started as they saw as they live in is God spoke to them.

He opened the great revelation that you and I have the day of the whole word of God is what I want you to see. You see, when I think about this. I didn't wait till I went to college or seminary to get in this book to ask God, Lord, speak to me and show me how to understand the truth of this book. Anybody can pray that prayer and asking but thanks be to God. I could ever take any credit for God knows I won't even think about the possibility of it, but all of my life as I've gotten the word. I have kept asking God. Lord, I want you to show me the truth not to preach the somebody else.

I want you to show me the truth. I want you to teach me the truth.

I want to know who you are one of the what your ways are, I will know how you operate. Now I have an awful lot to learn and what absolutely amazes me and fascinates me and gets me into the word every week is not to get a sermon to give to you.

You know I'm studying for. I'm starting to find out what I can learn and what you did you just get the overflow, but I'm starting to what I can on God. I want you to speak to me. I want you to show me listen God is willing to expand your understanding of Scripture on the basis of your hunger first and yearning desire to know him not to impress other people and your desire to follow after him. Listen your desire to know him and your desire to follow after him.

It is amazing what God will show you these profits will never satisfy what they learned. They knew there was more. The apostle Paul was never satisfied with what he got. He knew there was more I want to ask you be deadly honest, are you satisfied tonight with what you know about God. If you not satisfy the two requirements number one, a deep hungering thirsting yearning desire to know him. Listen and side-by-side with that a commitment to Jesus Christ will fail fall flat on our phase again and again and again God knows that didn't bother him, but a listen. A deep, sincere, yearning, hungering, thirsting, commitment and desire to own way. What we learn. You put those two together. That is our and the commitment and you'll be amazed what happens to your understanding of the word of God, thank you for listening to the revelation of our salvation. If you'd like to know more about her family or in touch ministries insects.org is not cancer. The presentation of in touch ministries Atlanta, Georgia