S10E47: Living and Enduring (A Living Hope pt. 2)

Sermon #549

How can we know God?  God is revealed to us in the Holy Bible.  As Christians, we believe that the Bible is the word of God, that it is inspired or breathed out by God (2 Timothy 3:16).  So if we are to believe that the Bible is the very verbal, plenary, inerrant and infallible word of God, then we had better hope that the word comes to us accurately.

The Bible is the most verified and documented of any ancient document, by a longshot.  So when Peter describes the word of God as “living and enduring,” he is speaking truth down through the ages.  Perhaps Peter never thought that his epistle would be preserved as Scripture, and yet we have this letter for us two thousand years later.  God has supernaturally preserved this document, because it truly is the very word of God.  And that is what gives us a living hope, because the promises held within are yes and amen.

1 Peter 1:17-23

Recorded at Hudson UMC on April 23, 2023

S.D.G.