Welcome to "The
Books of the Book."
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The program that
focuses on a deep Bible study
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of the word of God.
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will be taking a
closer look at 1 Peter.
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Bring out your
Bibles, so you can join us
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in this very interesting study.
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And with us is Dr. Tom Shepherd.
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He's a professor at
the theological seminary
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at Andrews university.
Dr. Sheppard, welcome.
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Before we begin our study I
want to ask you this question
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that I've been
willing to ask you.
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What's with the bow ties?
Is there a story behind that?
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I just started
wearing bow ties probably
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about 10 or 15 years ago--
kind of a personal signature
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and sure enough I'm known as
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the professor
who wears bow ties.
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If they say, "Oh, you
have a class with Shepherd?
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Shepherd, who is he?"
"The one that wears bow ties."
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Immediately, they know who I am.
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The bow tie
guy. The bow tie guy.
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Well, what are
we studying today?
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What passage we
would be looking at?
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We'll be looking
at 1 Peter 1:10-12
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We should turn right there
and get into the word of God.
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1 Peter 1:10-12.
This is what it says,
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"Concerning this salvation,
the prophets who prophesied
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about the grace that
was to be yours searched
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and inquired carefully,
inquiring what person or time
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the Spirit of Christ in them
was indicating when he predicted
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the sufferings of Christ
and the subsequent glories.
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It was revealed to them
that they were not serving
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not themselves but you, in
the things that have now been
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announced to you through
those who preached the good news
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to you by the Holy
Spirit sent from heaven,
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things into which
angels long to look."
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Okay. Now how do
these verses link up
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with what we've been
talking about before?
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All right. So we
started our study
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with the first
couple verses and we found
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that the Father,
Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Actually, it says
the Father, the Spirit,
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and the Son are working
for our salvation to draw us
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to God that they have
created a covenant with us.
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That harks back to
the Old Testament covenant
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idea of the
people of God with Him
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at Mount Sinai
that links them up.
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Then He unpacks this through
a description of the blessings
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of rebirth where he
talks about our past
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and then the experience of
the hope and the inheritance
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and salvation that
talks about our future.
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It might be good to see
that link to the Old Testament.
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If we turn to Exodus 24:3-8,
we can see some of that language
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that we've been
talking about all along.
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Exodus 24:3-8.
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I guess, I can read it. Yeah.
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"So Moses came and told
the people all the words
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of the Lord and
all the judgments.
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And all the people answered
with one voice and said,
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"All the words which the
Lord has said we will do."
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And Moses wrote all
the words of the Lord.
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And he rose
early in the morning,
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and built an altar at
the foot of the mountains,
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and twelve pillars according
to the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Then he sent young men
of the children of Israel,
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who offered burnt offerings
and sacrificed peace offerings
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of oxen to the Lord.
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And Moses took half the
blood and put it in basins
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and half the blood he
sprinkled on the altar.
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Then he took the
Book of the Covenant
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and read in the
hearing of the people.
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And they said, "All that
the Lord has said we will do,
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and be obedient."
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And Moses took the blood,
sprinkled it on the people,
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and said, "This is the blood
of the covenant which the Lord
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has made with you
according to all these words.""
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Okay. Now this is
exactly the same kind of idea
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that we have in the Book
of 1 Peter Chapter 1 verse 2
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where it talks
about the foreknowledge
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of God the Father, the
sanctification of the Spirit,
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for obedience to Jesus Christ
and sprinkling with his blood.
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Obedience and sprinkling.
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We think those are mixed
up, that those are backwards.
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But if you go back to
that story in Exodus 24,
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first Moses goes,
God sends him down
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with the words
and the people say,
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"All the Lord has
said, we will do."
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They say they will obey.
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And then they're sprinkled
with the blood of the covenant.
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They have agreed to be God's
covenant people, all right.
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Now, of course, we know
that they failed to obey
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and that actually
broke the covenant
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and then it had to be restored
through God's grace to them.
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So some people
get the idea that,
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"Oh, you got the wrong
idea of obediency or something"
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that this is entering
into a covenant with God,
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a new relationship with God,
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the rebirth
experience now empowers us.
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Okay. So that
brings us to this passage.
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The first passage
talked about God the Father
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'cause he said,
"Blessed be God the Father
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of our Lord Jesus Christ!"
Who has done all these things,
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given us hope and everything.
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And when we came to verse 6
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and onwards he says,
"In this you rejoice."
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And he talks about in verse 8,
"Though you have not seen him."
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You have not seen
Jesus. Okay. "You love him.
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Though you do not now
see him, you believe in him
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and rejoice with joy
that is inexpressible
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and filled with
glory, obtaining the outcome
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of your faith, the
salvation of your souls."
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So he's talked about
God the father and His role.
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He's talked about
Jesus and His role.
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Then he comes to our
passage here where he talks
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about the Holy Spirit
and the role of the Spirit.
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So that's how this passage
fits into and goes before.
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And what is the sanctification
of the Spirit all about?
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Okay. There are
different meanings.
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We've already said some about
this of the word sanctification.
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Some people will
say sanctification
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is the work of a life time.
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That's the
purifying work of God's Spirit
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that works in our
lives, all through life.
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There's another
sentence for sanctification
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is the act of a moment.
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That's where you are set
apart for God to be His people,
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to belong to Him.
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But in Peter, this
idea of sanctification,
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I would say is rather holistic.
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It kind of puts it all together.
It links it all together.
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It cannot separate it out.
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Salvation is not only
the accepting of Christ
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but also the
living for Christ idea,
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looking forward to His return.
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So it's the new
experience of the new birth,
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it's also living for
Him and it's particularly
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looking forward to His return.
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So it's especially focused on
the end, the idea of salvation.
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But this passage here
that we just read 10 through 12
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doesn't seem to talk about
sanctification by the Spirit.
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Why is that? Yeah.
That's really interesting.
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You know, it talks a lot about
the Revelation, doesn't it?
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That they received. And
so you think in your mind,
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"Well, wait a minute,
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I thought this was
all about sanctification.
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Why does it
emphasize so much about
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the giving of the Revelation,
the word of God? Why is that?"
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Well, that's because of
the role that the word of God
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that the Spirit
gives, the role that the word
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of God has in sanctification.
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So there's a
passage that we can look at
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that can help us to
understand this a bit.
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Ephesians 5:25 and 26.
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Ephesians 5:25 and 26.
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I teach students at the seminary
how to read the Bible aloud
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and how to talk
about the scripture.
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I tell them they
should always list
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the reference to the
scripture three times.
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Before they read it? Yep.
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And when you're giving a sermon,
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it's always good to
read it three times.
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Is there a purpose to that?
What? Is there a purpose to
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making a reference?
There is. There definitely
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is a purpose to that.
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That's because you want people
to bring their Bible to church
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and you want them to
open the Bible. Okay.
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So that they not only hear
it but they see the word of God.
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See, and actually if you
watch great evangelists like
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"Mark Finley", he invariably
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will reference it
three times. Really?
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Yep. He'll say quickly twice,
then he'll tell a little story
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or something and then he'll say
it again and then he'll read it.
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So here we go third
time. Ephesians 5:25 and 26.
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"Husbands, love your
wives, just as Christ also loved
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the church and
gave Himself for her,
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that He might
sanctify and cleanse her
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with the washing
of water by the word."
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Okay. Mine says, "The washing
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of water with the word." Okay.
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Now he's talking
about Christian marriage
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but he's also talking about
Christian life in the church.
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Because he said that Christ
is the head of the church.
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His body and He's the
savior that's back in verse 23
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and as the Christ
submits to the church,
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the wife is to
submit to her husband.
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So he talks about this
relationship of husbands
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and wives and he
ties it all to the church.
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And when he comes to
this interesting passage
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where he talks about
husbands that they are
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to love their wives, he says,
"As Christ loved the church
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and gave Himself
for her that he might"
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here is the term,
"sanctify" her. All right.
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Now how does He sanctify her?
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Having cleansed
her by the washing
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of water with the word.
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What does that sound
like to you in Christian life?
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Well, it sounds
of a, I don't know,
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maybe you can help
in better understanding.
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Well, washing with
water. Where do we use water?
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Maybe like taking the shower.
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Yeah, but in the
Christian church,
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we use water for--. Baptism?
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Baptism. Okay.
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Yeah, we use baptism.
And when we baptize somebody,
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we say "I
baptize you in the name
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of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit."
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Those are the
words that are spoken.
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The words of sanctification.
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The words of them now being
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dipped in water
to experience that.
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We can say baptism is their
faith taking physical form.
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It's a public
testimony we say of their faith.
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And here it is, it's the
washing of water with the word.
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When you're baptized,
that's the washing of water.
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It's like your
sins are washed away.
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We did some
evangelistic meetings
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in a little church where I go,
it's the Clare Michigan church,
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and the pastor, we
did a Revelation seminar.
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And we had about 30 to
50 people coming regularly
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to the meetings,
both church members
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and people from the community.
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And we had a baptism
where we baptized someone
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and we have people
who are coming to church.
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It is really exciting, you know,
to see us having so many people
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in the church were involved
in this ministry together.
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And that lady was
just so, you know,
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she was just so happy
on the day of her baptism,
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washing of water
with the word of God.
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So we go back to 1 Peter.
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This is what we see happening
is that there's all kinds
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of reference to
this word, this prophesy,
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these phrases that
are going on, you see,
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concerning the salvation
the prophets who prophesied
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about the grace
but, was to be yours,
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searched and inquired carefully,
inquiring what person or time
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the Spirit of Christ in them
was indicating when he predicted
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the sufferings of Christ
and the subsequent glories.
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So it's a beautiful
expression of this revelation.
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So the revelation
becomes the place,
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the word of God is that which
takes and cleanses our life.
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If you're not reading the
word of God on a daily basis,
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your life just
won't be as clean.
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You won't have the same
kind of, should I say closeness,
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the feel of closeness to God.
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Most people find
the beginning of the day
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as a great time
to read the Bible.
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Others, they'll
do it in the middle
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of the day or
the end of the day.
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Doesn't matter when.
But we have to make sure
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that we have that
experience with the word of God.
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Because it
continues not just in baptism
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that it washes
us, but it continues
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to wash us through
our life experience.
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Every day I open my Bible.
See and the light shines up,
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you know, helps to clean out
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the cobwebs that
too often get in there.
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So reading it,
memorizing it, sharing it,
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this is the
experience of salvation.
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Well, Dr. Shepherd, thank
you for these very insights.
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Why don't we go ahead
and take a moment here?
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Take a brief break and
then we'll be right back
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after these short messages.
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