So we're starting a book here, 1 Peter 1, and in 1 Peter 1, the name of the sermon is
The Glorified Body.
So the main theme of chapter 1 of 1 Peter is the fact that we're going to get a glorified
body one day, which is going to take place at the rapture.
When we get saved, nothing changes in our flesh, nothing changes in our body, but one
day we will get the glorified body at the rapture.
So that's the main theme.
So let's look at verse number 1, and it says, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the
strangers scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
So there's five different places listed here, and you look at Pontius, and that's a Greek
word which is in the modern day of Turkey is the location.
And Galatia is a Greek word, and the modern location of that is also in Turkey.
And it's the same for Asia, which is referring to Asia Minor, and it's the same for Bithynia
as well in Cappadocia.
So all of these are Greek names, and so obviously we know that the New Testament was written
in Greek.
Okay?
Greek was the language of the world.
Right?
There's even an expression in the US, you know, that's Greek to me, because that used
to be the language of the world.
But there are some people that say, no, the New Testament was written in Hebrew or Aramaic,
but it doesn't make any sense because when you see where these epistles are being written
to, they're written to locations where Greek was their primary language.
You're not going to write a book where nobody speaks the language.
Right?
I mean, if I publish a book in English, I'm not going to, you know, say, well, I'm going
to try to sell it in China.
Right?
Just in English, though.
Not in Mandarin.
It doesn't make any sense.
Right?
So these are Greek names because they were Greek speaking areas.
It is interesting that this is in the present day of Turkey because in today's world, Turkey
is not exactly a hub of Christianity.
It's 99% Muslim.
99 plus percent Muslim.
It's an area where you cannot freely serve God.
And yet during this day, it was primarily a Christian area where there was a lot of
good church in that area.
It's sad, though, that you know what?
It obviously stopped at some point.
Obviously, people have been passing on to the next generation because it no longer is
a Christian area today.
But this is over in present day Turkey, and it was at one time a Christian area 2,000
years ago.
It's not exactly a hub of Christianity.
It's 99% Muslim.
It's an area where you cannot freely serve God.
And yet during this day, it was primarily a Christian area where there was a lot of
good church in that area.
It's sad, though, that you know what?
It obviously stopped at some point.
It's not exactly a hub of Christianity.
Be honest, some of the Indian verses are really famous verses, but I think we've heard them
preached a lot.
When I was studying this, I learned a lot about the earlier verses, so I wanted to focus
on that.
Lesson number 12, onto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us, they
did minister the things which are now reported on you by them that have preached the Gospel
on you, with the Holy Ghost sitting down from heaven, which things the angels desired to
look into. Remember we talked about, we saw the dwelling of the Holy Spirit and these things were revealed
that not unto them, because they were before the time of Jesus Christ, because Jesus said,
except I leave, the comforter is not going to come, which is the Holy Spirit. But they prophesied
what was going to take place for us and our normal world. Verse 13, wherefore,
birthe the wounds of your mind, be sober and hope to the end for the grace that be brought on you
with the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves in the form of
us in your ignorance, as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.
Because it is written, be ye holy, for I am holy. So he's trying to motivate them, he's like, you know what,
God is holy, so we should be holy. Right? Now that's pretty basic, but there are a lot of religions where
the gods they worship are not holy. The root of gods are not holy, the Greek gods weren't holy,
the Hindu gods weren't holy. I mean, they're just like evil people, but what the Bible says is,
we're supposed to be holy because God has given us the example. Be ye holy, cry in the holy. And if there's one
attribute you can find in God's Bible, it's not love, it's holiness. God believed that God is love, the
Bible says that, but that's not the number one thing it says about God. It says he is holy, and here's
the thing, if ye love me, keep my commandments. So look, if you want to make God happy, fear God and keep
his commandments, for this is the holy commandment. That's the secret. Be ye holy, for I am holy. That's the number one thing.
And look, if you want to see God and get close to God and know God, the way we do that is by being holy in the Bible says.
We obey what the Bible says. And doesn't this make sense if you have kids? You just want your kids to obey
what you say. I mean, my kids would never get a spanking unless they disobey what I say.
That's the whole reason why they get spanking. It's the same thing with us. I mean, if we just obey God's
commandments, we wouldn't get punished. But the fact is, we are sinners and we get punished, we'd be wrong.
He says be ye holy, for I am holy. Then it says here in verse 17, and if you call the father
who without a respected person is judged according to every man's work, past is not
the virtue of joining here and here. So we're just so joining here on earth and we should do it in fear.
You say in fear of what? In fear of going to hell? Like if I don't do what's right, I might lose my
salvation or maybe it means I'm not. No, no, no, no. In fear of God. That's what we're talking about.
God the father. We should fear and respect God, okay? That's what the Bible is talking about.
Verse 18, for as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things and silver
and gold from your main conversation, received by tradition from your fathers, but with the
precious blood of Christ as of a land without blemish and without spot. So obviously Jesus was
sinless and we're saved by his blood like he talks about here, who barely was poor day before
the foundation of the world, but was manifesting these last times for you. So verse 20 is indicating
it was always planned that Jesus Christ would come and die and pay for the sins of the world,
okay? He's a lamb slain from the foundation of the world. This was always part of God's plan. God
knew that that man was going to screw it up. This was always going to take place, but he was
made manifest, you know, 2000 years ago. Obviously in the Old Testament we have appearances of the
son of God from time to time because whenever you see God appear in the Old Testament, you know,
talking to someone, that's referring to the son. It's not referring to the father, it's not referring
to the Holy Spirit, but he was made manifest 2000 years ago. God was manifest in the flesh,
referring to Jesus Christ. Verse 21, 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 him purify your souls and obey
the truth to the spirit, on the time you thank the love of your brethren, see that you love one
another with a pure heart broken. Now I haven't necessarily heard verse 22 taken out of context
before, but I can certainly see how somebody could take it out of context, because the Bible talks
about that when you get saved, obviously you become a son or a daughter of God, and it means
that you have brothers and sisters in Christ. In this room we are brothers and sisters in Christ,
and there's a sort of kinship that takes place because we are brothers and sisters in Christ,
and the Bible talks about that there is a love of the brethren if you're saved,
but here's the thing, we can also change that as time goes by. When someone gets saved there's
going to be that kinship, like if somebody gets saved in a Muslim country, they're going to
immediately feel some sort of kinship to other believers on Christ saying, man we believe the
same thing. Imagine being in a country like we talked about Turkey, 99% Muslim, and you're a
believer in Christ and you meet somebody else who's a believer in Christ. There's already going
to be such a connection because it's so rare to meet another believer in Christ, right? You can
look at it in a way where just in our lives if you have similar interests or similar backgrounds to
someone, there's like some sort of kinship because you have similarities to everything that you can
talk about. Now here's the thing, although that doesn't take place, at the same time people can
get backslidden and they can end up getting mad at other believers. I mean King Saul tried to kill
King David, right? So we shouldn't take verse 22 out of context, but we should understand that yes,
if you're saved there is a love inside of you toward your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ,
but if you quench the spirit and backslide then that can kind of change where you line up with
you know the LGBT over God's people. That certainly can take place as well and I think that's why he's
trying to motivate them, see that you love one another with a pure heart permit. He's saying
don't lose this unfeigned life, okay? He's like I want you to keep this love with the breath.
Verse 23, being born again not a corrupt will see but an incorruptible by the word of God
which liveth and abideth forever. Now in the next actually month and a half I'm going to preach
a few sermons on the King James topic and this verse is a big part of it. I don't really want
to go into it too much for sake of time, but we are born again by the word of God, okay? We need
to hear the word of God to be saved and when somebody is saved it's because they heard the
gospel of Jesus Christ from the word of God. Now that could be in English, it could be in Tagalog,
it could be in any number. I quote a lot of verses in Tagalog in my household. I don't quote
most of them in English. I think most of my quote are in Tagalog and it's fine because
the gift of God and it's the same thing, okay? And so but we are born again by the word of God
which means when we go soloing we need to show them what the word of God says, not our personal
testimony. Once again in this chapter your personal testimony literally means nothing
because that's not a proof of your salvation anyway, right? But when somebody gets saved we
need to show them what the word of God says and obviously we have to explain it because they're
not going to get saved by reading it on their own. The proof of that is they're not saved
before you start talking to them and that's why you have to explain it, okay? But it is the
incorruptible word of God which means if you were to show something that calls itself the Bible but
it changes it, it's not the same, right? I mean if you look at a verse like whosoever believeth in him
and in another version it says whosoever obeys God's commandments, well quoting that's not going
to do any good, you know, no matter if they say it's John 3 16 or not because it's teaching them
something different, it's corrupt, okay? So we do believe it's the incorruptible word of God that
gets people saved. Verse 24, for all flesh is this grass and all the glory of man is the flower of
grass, the grass withered and the flower there is all the way, the word of the Lord endureth forever
and this is the word which by the gospel is preached on you. So now the main takeaways from
this chapter is it's really all about the glorified body and you know I think he even
mentioned being born again there at the end with the word of God because here's the thing, when
we're born we spiritually receive eternal life and he's kind of showing the difference between
spiritual eternal life versus the salvation of the body that will take place in the rapture. So I
think that's even why he's talking about being born again there at the end because he's talking
about both the body and the soul kind of you know going back and forth in this. The main focus is
this that we're going to get the glorified body one day but that we should live for heaven now
realizing that this is is only like eternal self. We're going to be here 80 or 90 years and we get
older and you know what we're going to we're going to be gone and the only thing that really lasts
is what we did for Christ. So let's close the door here. Your happy father, I think it would
allow us to be here today and getting to hear your word.