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NASB | 1 Peter 2:3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 2:3 if in fact you have [already] tasted the goodness and gracious kindness of the Lord. [Ps 34:8] |
Subject: God's Description of a Christian |
Bible Note: "If I am to live as a son of God, I must be a son, and I must know it. Otherwise my life will be an artificial imitation, a piece of barren mechanism, performing certain excellent movements, but destitute of vital heat and force. Here many fail. They try to live like sons in order to make themselves sons, forgetting God's simple plan for attaining sonship at once, As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God' (John 1:12). "The faith of many among us is, alter all, but an attempt to believe; their repentance but an attempt to repent; and, in so doing, they only use words which they have learned from others. It is not the love of holiness that actuates them, but (at best) the love of the love of holiness. It is not the love of God that fills them, but the love of the love of God. "God's description of a Christian man is clear and well-defined. It has about it so little of the vague and wide that one wonders how any mistake should have arisen on this point, and so many dubious, so many false claims put in. A Christian is one who 'has tasted that the Lord is gracious' (1 Peter 2:3); who has been 'begotten again unto a lively hope' (1 Peter 1:3); who has been 'quickened together with Christ' (Ephesians 2:5); made a partaker of Christ (Hebrews 3:14); a partaker of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4); who 'has been delivered from this present evil world' (Galatians 1:4). "Such is God's description of one who has found his way to the cross, and is warranted in taking to himself the Antiochian name of 'Christian,' or the apostolic name of 'saint.' Of good about himself, previous to his receiving the record of the free forgiveness, he cannot speak. He remembers nothing lovable that could have recommended him to God; nothing fit that could have qualified him for the divine favor, save that he needed life. All that he can say for himself is that he 'has known and believed the love that God hath to us' (1 John 4:16); and, in believing, has found that which makes him not merely a happy, but a holy man. He has discovered the fountainhead of a holy life." --Horatius Bonar (1872) |
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