Pastor teacher and author Adrien Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ and it’s impacted Untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated thanks for joining us for this message here’s Adrien Rogers I want you to take your Bibles and I want you to turn to First Peter chapter 1 you know that we’re preaching through first Peter and the title of the series and the title of the message is this Timeless Truth for tough times Timeless Truth for tough times 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse
22 seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfined love of the Brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever for All Flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away but the word of the Lord endureth forever and by the way this is the phrase that gives us our title Timeless Truth for tough times the word
of the Lord Lord endureth forever and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you now let’s continue to read right on through wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby these are tough times and it seems that one wave after another after another after another seems to be beating upon the beach of human existence and so many are seeing things that they’ve held so dearly just being
washed away and they seem to have nothing solid and nowhere to stand friend in times like these we need a place to stand and something solid to stand on and I want to tell you that is the word of God the word of God The Rock the Jala of God’s word when you stand there you may tremble on the Rock but it will never tremble under you and I want us to learn something about God’s Timeless Truth for these tough times in which we live because Peter was living in tough times he was living at the beginning of an age and those were tough
days we’re living at the end of an age and these are perilous times and yet we have God’s word to see us through I want you to learn with me this morning several things that Peter teaches us about the word of God number one it is the infallible word of God now we’re going to go backward just a few moments and pick up two verses Peter is talking about our wonderful Salvation And he says of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you searching what or what
manner of time now notice this next phrase the spirit of Christ which was in them did signify when it the spirit testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow now what Peter is saying is that centuries ago the Old Testament prophets as they wrote The Holy Scripture looked forward and they saw the sufferings of Christ and the glory of Christ that is they saw his crucifixion they saw his coronation they saw his first coming they saw his second coming they saw the cross and they saw
