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Peter 3:10-12 ESV
“Whoever desires to love life
and see good days,
let him keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from speaking deceit;
let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek peace and pursue it.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Why did Jesus Christ die on that cross? Was it just so we
could be forgiven of our sins so that when we die we get to go to heaven? No!
It was so that we might die with him to sin and live to him and to his
righteousness. It was so we might now live for him and no longer for ourselves.
And he shed his blood for us on that cross to buy us back for God (to redeem
us), which means to rescue us out of our lives of sin and to change us so that
we now honor God with our lives and we no longer live for the pleasures of the
flesh.
[1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 5:15; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20;
Romans 6:1-23]
And this is why this says that whoever desires to love life
and see good days, he is to keep his tongue from evil and his lips from
speaking deceit. For Jesus said that if anyone would come after him he must
deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow
(obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self,
we will lose them for eternity. But if for the sake of Jesus we die with him to
sin and live to him and to his righteousness, then we have the hope of eternal
life in him (see Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians
5:16-21).
And it is why this says that we are to turn away from evil
and do good, which is the good that our Lord prepared in advance that we should
walk in, and not our own good deeds of our flesh (See Ephesians 2:8-10). And
the peace that we are to pursue is not world peace where we join in with the
people of the world in one voice and one mind and one heart so that no one
disagrees with anyone else, for that is not of God. For we are to be
like-minded with Christ and with his righteousness, and not with the world. So
this peace is peace with God, and not peace with the world.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and the
righteous are not those who merely make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ.
The righteous are those who are living righteously as God is righteous, and for
whom righteousness is their practice. They are those who are living out their
faith in practice. And those who do evil are those who make a practice of evil,
and they could be some or many who also profess faith in Jesus Christ. For you
can profess faith in Jesus Christ, but if sin is what you practice, then you
are an evildoer, and the face of the Lord is against you, not for you.
So, bottom line in all of this is that Jesus Christ gave his
life up for us on that cross in order that we might die with him to sin and
live to him and to his righteousness. And if righteousness, holiness, and
godliness are not our practice, and if we do not obey our Lord, but if sin is
what we obey and practice, then the Scriptures teach that we will not inherit
eternal life with God, and heaven will not be our eternal home, regardless of
what our lips profess. For lip service only is not going to gain us entry into
God’s heaven.
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Christ the Lord is Risen Today
By Charles Wesley,
1739
Christ the Lord is
ris’n today, Alleluia!
Sons of men and
angels say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and
triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heav’ns,
and earth, reply, Alleluia!
Lives again our
glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is
now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once He died our
souls to save, Alleluia!
Where thy victory, O
grave? Alleluia!
Love’s redeeming
work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight,
the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain
forbids His rise, Alleluia!
Christ hath opened
paradise, Alleluia!
Soar we now where
Christ hath led, Alleluia!
Foll’wing our
exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like Him, like
Him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the
grave, the skies, Alleluia!
Hail the Lord of
earth and heaven, Alleluia!
Praise to Thee by
both be given, Alleluia!
Thee we greet
triumphant now, Alleluia!
Hail the
Resurrection, thou, Alleluia!
King of glory, Soul
of bliss, Alleluia!
Everlasting life is
this, Alleluia!
Thee to know, Thy
pow’r to prove, Alleluia!
Thus to sing, and
thus to love, Alleluia!
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