New Jerusalem Has No Corruption (3)

Our Christian life began with regeneration “unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled and unfading” (1 Peter 1:3-4).New Jerusalem

Our living hope is “Christ in us, the hope of glory” and our ultimate inheritance is New Jerusalem, a city “incorruptible and undefiled and unfading.”

This same promise is in 2 Timothy 1:9-10, God, “who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages but now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who nullified death and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel.”

Second Peter 1:4 is the same: “Through which [His glory and virtue, v. 3] He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.”

Second Peter 1:5-11 urges us to give all diligence to grow in this incorruptible Christian life to receive a rich and bountiful entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior. The consummate development of this kingdom is New Jerusalem in the new creation.

Photo courtesy of NASA.

Posted by Don on September 11, 2024

https://newjerusalem12.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/new-jerusalem-has-no-corruption-3/

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