If Indeed...
May 28, 2023
“If Indeed…"
Blessings folk!
We have seen that we are to put away all…
- malice
- deceit
- hypocrisy
- envy
- slander
1 Pe 2:1
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
We are to long for pure spiritual milk…as newborn infants long for mother’s milk.
Such will cause us to grow up into salvation.
1 Pe 2:2
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
Did you note the caveat?
1 Pe 2:3
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
If indeed?
If you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Interesting phrase.
There are/will be some that have “tasted” of the Lord…that He is good, yet they do not partake of the Lord.
Yeah, I know - a mystery.
We see it in Hebrews…
Heb 6:4-6
For it is impossible,
in the case of those who have once been enlightened,
who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,
and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,
and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
ESV
They had tasted and then fallen/turned away.
There is no other way of repentance.
Peter is saying that if you have tasted that the Lord is good, then you will put off/put on as the Lord directs.
If you have not tasted, you will not.
What of us?