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Reading: 1Pe1.10-12
Pray
We often find ourselves following in the footsteps of others who have gone before.
ILL: The “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse” fixes
Sometimes fixing the problems of our predecessors makes life much more difficult for us.
We can all point to generational problems, sins that carry on for generations.
But then there are those good things that we can do only because of those who came before us.
ILL: Joseph Lister and antiseptic treatment in surgeries
12 August 1865 - first successful surgery using carbolic acid as antiseptic
Derided by many, including some of the best surgeons and doctors of his day
Ended up saving King Edward VII’s life by advising the surgeon how to sterilize (24 June 1902)
Sometimes we stand on the shoulders of giants, and their work helps us reach new heights.
That’s what Peter wants us to see:
We Are Beneficiaries of the Prophets Who Came Before Us
Think about that for just a moment: we are the beneficiaries of the OT Prophets and NT apostles.
EXP: Beneficiary - one who receives the benefit of another’s work or provision
Minor accounts at the bank
Just as Lister needed the work of Pasteur, in the same way we need the prophetic testimony.
There’s a couple of ways we benefit from those prophets of old:
We Are Enriched by the Grace They Uncovered
The words for the phrase “searched and inquired carefully” are used in Psalm 119:2:
We Are Enlightened to the Christ They Revealed
Pause: Relationship of Suffering to Glory
Quote: Peter H. Davids, The First Epistle of Peter.
NICNT.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1990.
Neither Christ nor his people receive the crown of glory without the crown of thorns.
We Are Enlivened in the Gospel They Proclaimed
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