Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind,
be sober, and hoped to the end for the
Grace that is to be brought unto you
at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
as obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lusts
in your ignorance: but as He which hath
called you is holy, so be ye holy; for I
am holy.
I Peter 1: 13 -- 16
To prepare for my blogs I take time to read the Greek and then to see how the Greek words have been translated and though often they are not in the wrong they don't always give the clear nuances of the Greek word. For instance: the Greek word: "άναζωσάμενοι" is aorist, that means it is something that happened before although we don't know exactly what time it happened, it is a nominative word, plural, and masculine and is a participle in the middle voice, therefore a literal translation is: having girded up, and a translator for the Stéphanus Bible gives this sentence with the word "wherefore" and the King James version says, "therefore, prepare" and either case it is telling the reader that this is something that should have already taken place. How is it that one is to gird up themselves? Peter continues to give us the answer: prepare your minds. How? Be sober, and the Greek uses to be perfectly hoping that you by grace will be brought into the revelation of Jesus Christ. When will this happen? When Jesus returns and is revealed once again as He promised that He would do. Also, you are to be obedient children. How can we be obedient children? You are not the fashion yourselves according to your former lusts, those lust that you had in your ignorance. It was not that you did not know what you were doing, it was because you were ignorant in regards to Jesus Christ and your need for salvation. Furthermore, you are to be holy as is Jesus Christ holy.
Now, since you have come to no longer be ignorant in regards to Jesus Christ and your needed salvation so that if you have called upon the Father you have the sure hope that He has called you, and not according to any of your works, albeit by your faith you do works: i.e., spreading the gospel wherever you go, but he called out of respect a person's and judges every man according to their lives, their works, which was previously outlined for a person to do. Peter adds it this way: "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers: but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope my the in God" (I Peter 1:17 -- 21).as Peter tells us that those things that are corruptible, both traditions, and conversations that are outside of the will of God and outside of the Scripture are not the way for you to be saved from your sins. Salvation is simply by the grace of God who sent into this world His wisdom, which is Jesus Christ, not some created being and some teach, and it is by the blood of Jesus Christ poured out upon the cross, a sinless man without spot and blemish. Therefore as God, and by His blood poured out on the cross, He is able to make intercession for you. God does not work and sequential time as we do, although, we do live in sequential time, therefore it Jesus came at the proper sequential time of our lives. God who is eternal and without time foreordained that he would send His wisdom To be the Son of God, the Only Begotten Son of God. Let's understand the word foreordained: it means to be pre-determined, or a point before hand, in other words to be pre-destined. God does not work by chance. God works by and according to His will.
Peter states that the Father will raise up Jesus Christ and several scriptures state the same thing so one must look at Scripture to see whether or not this means as according to such as Joe Holmes witnesses and Mormons that Jesus is a created being and that he could not have raised himself up to see whether or not they speak the truth. So, let us go to Scripture and hear the words of Jesus Christ:"Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, what sign shewest thou unto us come seeing that thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then set the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple and building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But He spake of the temple of His body" (John 2:18 -- 21). Jesus said that He would raise up Himself and this is exactly what the Greek states for the Greek word: "έγερω̃" means for it is in the first person singular, future, indicative and active. There is no doubt that Jesus said that he That would raise Himself up from the dead. How could this be if he was not God and as God's Wisdom He was of the Godhead. the Godhead is not made up of three separate gods but God singularly and as God has Wisdom and by the Holy Spirit He causes things happen.
Do you believe that Jesus rose from the dead and that He is God And That He as God raised Himself from the dead? If this is true of you then your hope and faith is in God. I am not using proof scriptures to prove some theological doctrine. I am using Scripture as it was written by a man inspired by the Holy Spirit to write the words God willed to be written. To believe anything else is to believe the gospel that is not authentic Gospel. If you do not believe this but it is questionable whether or not you are an Authentic Christian having Authentic Christian Faith. Take the time to examine what you believe according to Scripture. This is the will of God.
This is what the LORD says:
"The dead bodies of men will lie
like refuse and the open field, like
cut grain behind the reaper, with
no one to gather them."
This is what the LORD says:
"Let not the wise man boast of
his wisdom or the strong man boast
of his strength or the rich man
boast of his riches, but let him who boasts
boast about this: that he understands
and knows Me, that I am LORD, who
exercises kindness, just as and
righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,"
declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:23 -- 24
May your faith and hope be in God
Richard L. Crumb
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