{"id":281,"date":"2025-03-30T20:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T02:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2025-03-30T20:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T02:21:33","slug":"the-calling-of-a-christian-in-a-memorial-context-in-1-peter-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"The Calling of a Christian in a Memorial Context in 1 Peter 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-Peter-1_15-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-Peter-1_15-1024x571.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-Peter-1_15-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-Peter-1_15-768x428.jpg 768w, http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-Peter-1_15-1536x856.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-Peter-1_15-2048x1142.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>At this season of the year, we want to turn our attention to our Lord\u2019s death and sacrifice.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>We want to see the Passover picture and its concepts throughout the scriptures not only during the Memorial season, but all of the year because we live the reality every day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>1 Peter 1:13\u201321<\/strong><strong> ESV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>13 <\/strong><strong>Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>14 <\/strong><strong>As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>15 <\/strong><strong>but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>16 <\/strong><strong>since it is written, \u201cYou shall be holy, for I am holy.\u201d &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>17 <\/strong><strong>And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one\u2019s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>18 <\/strong><strong>knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>19 <\/strong><strong>but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>20 <\/strong><strong>He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you &nbsp;<\/strong><strong>21 <\/strong><strong>who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>We would like to focus on the phrase, \u201cwithout mark or blemish\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u201cWell you know that it was no perishable stuff, like gold or silver, that brought your freedom from the empty folly of your traditional ways [enabling you to be called]. &nbsp;The price was paid in precious blood, as it were of a lamb without mark or blemish \u2013 the blood of Christ.\u201d&nbsp; (NEB)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Discuss Jesus\u2019s perfect human sacrifice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Why did his human sacrifice have to be perfect?<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>How was his human perfection demonstrated?<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>How precious does the value of his sacrifice make our calling?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Discussion Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Verses 13-21 describe the Christian\u2019s call to holiness by God the Father (verse 15).&nbsp; This call can only happen once a sinner has been reconciled to God.&nbsp; This reconciliation is possible because of the sacrifice of Jesus.&nbsp; He paid the price for us.&nbsp; \u201cThrough him (Jesus)\u2026your faith and hope are in God (the Father). &nbsp;Verse 21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Jesus\u2019 sacrifice was \u201cwithout mark or blemish.\u201d&nbsp; This is referring to the requirement of all the animal sacrifices in the tabernacle and temple.&nbsp; The Israelites were not allowed to bring their old, sick or injured animals to be given to God. (As an example, see Exodus 12:5). These sacrifices were pictures of Jesus\u2019 own sacrificial death.&nbsp; (Hebrews 9:12)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The price of Jesus\u2019 sacrifice was applied against perfect Father Adam\u2019s sin.&nbsp; This price \u201credeemed\u201d or \u201cransomed\u201d or \u201cbought back\u201d Adam and all of his children.&nbsp; (Romans 5:19)&nbsp; All people are in this sinful condition because of Adam and now all can be reconciled to God because of Jesus.&nbsp; (Romans 3:24-26, Philippians 2:8)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>We are told that Jesus committed no sin. (1 Peter 2:22) &nbsp;Consider the following quote:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-annotation has-medium-font-size is-style-text-annotation--1\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Even a scholar as hostile to Christianity as David Strauss, after long meditations on the Gospel, recognized that the harmony of Jesus&#8217; spirit was not the result of an inner crisis, but of the natural unfolding of the powers inherent in him. \u201cAll characters,\u201d wrote Strauss, <\/strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>purified by struggle and strong upheavals, such as Paul, Augustine, Luther, have preserved indelible traces of such struggle, their image breathes something harsh<\/strong><strong> and<\/strong><strong> gloomy. Jesus has nothing of the kind. He appears to us at once as a perfect nature, obeying only his own law, recognizing and establishing himself in his own consciousness, having no need to turn and begin a new life.<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The value of Jesus\u2019 sacrifice is shown by John 3:16, \u201cFor God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son.\u201d&nbsp; The knowledge of the cost should engender in us a life of reverence toward God, \u201cstand in awe of him (God the Father) while you live out your time on earth.\u201d (1 Peter 1:17 NEB).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>We are now called and able to reshape our lives, our characters, our beings (verse 14).&nbsp; \u201cFor you were bought with a price.&nbsp; So glorify God in your body.\u201d (1 Corinthians 6:20)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this season of the year, we want to turn our attention to our Lord\u2019s death and sacrifice.&nbsp; We want to see the Passover picture and its concepts throughout the scriptures not only during the Memorial season, but all of the year because we live the reality every day. 1 Peter 1:13\u201321 ESV 13 Therefore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winnipegbiblestudents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}