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Guarded Through Faith

the ones in power of God guarded through faith to the extent a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time (1 Peter 1:5)


We await the fullness of our salvation, the redemption of our bodies. Until then we are being guarded through faith. There is an inseparable connection between faith and the spiritual. Faith comes from the word of God (Jesus being the Word, the author and perfecter of our faith through knowledge of him) and the words of Jesus are Spirit and truth, living and active through the word and Spirit. The Spirit guides us into the truth and teaches us to abide in Jesus who is truth thus these are inseparable. Truth and faith are inseparable, the words of Jesus exist truth. The words of Jesus exist life, living bread, therefore life and truth are inseparable. Faith and love are inseparable also, as faith is energized through love as the love of God is poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who is also the guarantor of our inheritance. Therefore is an inseparable connection between faith and the spiritual. It is an amazing thing that we are being guarded through faith. 

according to God the Father's foreknowing in sanctification spiritually to the extent of obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, grace and peace yours in increasing measure (1 Peter 1:1-2)

Through God's grace and mercy we have been birth into a living hope, through the Spirit the same that raised Jesus from the dead, to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, unfading and kept in heaven for us which in the power of God is being guarded through faith (1 Peter 1:3-5). The promised Holy Spirit was given when we heard the gospel, the word of truth and believed, thus through the Spirit and Word we are saved, and the Spirit is the guarantor of our inheritance until the redemption of His possession (Ephesians 1:13-14). 

... predestining you for adoption as his own through Jesus Christ... (Ephesians 1:5)

God's possession speaks not of slaves but of children, "his own." When we were sealed or marked of the Holy Spirit it was through a new birth, thus the Spirit is one of adoption and testifies we are His own children thus heirs of the inheritance (Romans 8:15-17). We entered the kingdom of God just as Jesus said we needed to in the new covenant, to be born a new not of the flesh but of the Spirit. We have this testimony from God, of Spirit and blood because we have been adopted and cleansed by by the blood of Jesus. We see the inseparable connection between new birth, adoption of the Spirit, and faith, having heard the gospel and believed and sealed.

Now, before faith came, they were guarded under the Law, together locked up, to the extent of the intended faith revealed (Galatians 3:23)

Before faith in Christ, the fleshly children of Israel were under the Mosaic Law. The Law had no power, because it was useless and weak due to the sinful nature of the fleshly man.* The Law and service in the temple made no man mature in regards to reflecting the glory of God.* So they were not held under a school master or teacher, but under a guardian, imprisoned, locked up until the appointed time that faith would come and they would be justified and counted righteous through faith. 

Now, if you are in Christ, then exist descendants of Abraham heirs according to the promise (Galatians 3: 29)

In the new covenant the children of God are those of the promise, not by the Mosaic Law nor fleshly birth as Jews (Galatians 4). Through faith and the Spirit which is the "promised" Holy Spirit, now the means through which we become children of the promise, adoption as his own. Paul explains it this way, "Now, it is not because the word of God failed. For not all the ones from Israel [are actually] Israel... These exist not the children of the flesh, these existing children of God, rather the children of the promise are counted as descendants" (Romans 9:6-8). In the new covenant which Jesus established through his death, we receive the promised Holy Spirit, thus through faith and new birth we become children of the promise in Christ. Thus the sign of our inheritance as heirs is not a circumcision of the flesh, but of the heart by the Spirit (Romans 2:25-29).

now, that faith has come we are no longer under a guardian. For you all are sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:25)

Sons of God guarded through faith in Jesus. Paul speaks of this mystery, being revealed to us in Christ (1 Corinthians 2:7). Before the ages God determined this for our glory (1 Corinthians 15:5). And in the church he has made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he purposed in Christ (Ephesians 1:9; Ephesians 3:3-4; Ephesians 3:9; Colossians 1:26-27; Colossians 2:2; Colossians 4:3; 1 Timothy 3:9; 1 Timothy 3:16). This mystery is spiritual thus can only be revealed in Christ and the Holy Spirit. God has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). Through foreknowledge he predestined and chose us in him before he created the world (Ephesians 1:4-5; Romans 8:29-30). As children of God dearly loved, we are being guarded through faith until the fullness of our salvation and glory is revealed. 

the one in the power of God guarding through faith to the extent salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this we rejoice if at present it is necessary for a short time to be sorrowful in various trials... (1 Peter 1:6-9)

We are being guarded by faith. This mystery the angels longed to look into, now being manifested to us in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven (1 Peter 1:10-12). We can press on and rejoice in our suffering because we are obtaining the goal of our faith, the salvation of our soul (1 Peter 1:7-9). We are being transformed from glory to glory conformed to the image of Christ. A proving by fire so that we are found to the praise and glory and honor in revelation of Jesus Christ. God is working out these things for our good, to those called according to his purpose, so to be conformed to the image of Christ. Oh, to be guarded through faith is a mystery and a profound thing.

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