“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God”.
1 Peter 1:23
For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”
And this is the word that was preached to you
1 Peter 1: 24-25
1Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
1 Peter 2:1
2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
1 Peter 2:2-3
“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God”.
1 Peter 1:23
It means
1- A person realizes that he/she is a sinner; and that he is lost, blind and naked before God.
2- He realizes that he can’t save himself by doing good deeds.
3- He believes that Jesus Christ died on the cross as a substitute.
4 -For the first time in his life, he asks for God’s forgiveness.
He has repented before God.
23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
1 Peter 1:23
Jesus declared,“I tell you the truth, no-one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
John 3: 3
24 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”
And this is the word that was preached to you.
1 Peter 1:24-25
What does Peter mean when he says that: All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall.
Peter compares our lives and the futility of it, with the grass.
Our lives are so short and still we loose our lives struggling for money, the recognition of the people, and their respect as well.
But all these things will vanish so fast….!! Just like the grass withers and the flower falls;
problems will come, money will come and go and so will the people and their recognition.
As Peter said: 25 “But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
And this is the word that was preached to you
1 Peter 1: 25
So Peter says to all of us who are born again.
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
1 Peter 2:1
There is something new in our hearts. It is not ours, it is His and that is the imperishable seed that will grow if we allow it to.
What is Peter’s advice?
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
1 Peter 2:1
God plants the imperishable seed in us, but it is us who have to work together with Him to clean the ground of our heart of all kind of evil things.
And so Peter give us this list Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
1 Peter 2:1
Malice: it is not only to do something bad or evil to somebody, it is also to have the desire to do it.
Envy: Is also jealousy. The desire of having Something that is not mine. Or the bad
feeling that appears when I see that somebody has
reached something that I haven’t been able to reach yet.
Remember Peter says, because you are born again;
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
1 Peter 2:1
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
1 Peter 2:3