Sunday, February 21, 2016

What Shall We Then Do With The Love of God?


1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart.

From a consideration of the interconnection of God the Father and Jesus, God the Son, Peter takes us to how then we should act in the knowledge we have of God and the relationship we are to build in God and with each other through our God.

Now that you have purified your souls—Coming into relationship with God, through raising Jesus from the dead, and raising Him to glory, from thence comes the purifying of our souls.

by your obedience to the truth—This is the true measure of how we come into relationship with our Lord for the purification of our souls.

so that you have genuine mutual love,--It is not simply about an individual relationship with God that we do this work, it is for the building of relationship between us.

love one another deeply from the heart.—Thus is the command of how the community shall function.

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