It’s All in Your Mind

] @Jwplu.14 giIJ]doi QJau,. Jllind "70~ gin/, up, du IJ,hu ot y,ou,. muul,, 1M. ""1u., and lro,u IJJ.. /Ju.. m.d. ft,,. (JD-IU- (JRLll llurJ. u IJJ. In. bmu.gJu. unJ.o. ,p,a at du ~ 6/- (luLu@Juut.,, 1 Peter 1:13 Peter does not say, "Tighten your belt" He says, "Tighten your head!" Have you ever read this phrase? Have you ever paid attention to this phrase? In slang language, Peter writes that there is no place for loose thinking in the believer's life. Avoid loose thinking! Many times in the Gospels, we read that Peter made some ignorant and stupid remarks and replies to Christ. Many times Peter spoke without thinking. Now we see that Peter has matured. He has become a biblical thinker. God does not demand that you change your mind, but as we have found in these studies, He desires that you have a changed mind. When is the last time, Christian, you put a girdle around your thinking? Peter, by the Holy Spirit, commands that we do this. The wherefore of this verse demands that we look at what precedes and becomes the foundation for this command. Basically, in verses six through nine, Peter tells us of the completed salvation which we as believers have received. In verse ten he speaks of the prophets. The prophets, writing in the Old Testament, inquired and searched diligently the subject of salvation. Peter says that the Old Testament prophets did not just write, but diligently searched and questioned the salvation about which they were writing. Are you aware that the prophets were jealous that they were not a part of the prophecy they were writing? They searched these writings to see if they could find a place for themselves. They knew that they were writing about the Messiah. They knew that they were writing about the Deliverer. They knew that He was to come through the types of the Old Testament sacrifices, and they were literally hoping that these promises could belong to them. If we could have crawled inside their minds, we would have discovered that they were pleading with God to bring to pass the prophecy of the Messiah while they were still alive. Verse eleven says of these prophets, "llllllhhtg, m1ud, o,. wlud mmuu,. o/ timL I.Ju,, 3pi.,a tJ/ @um tn1tMt ™ m lium. did ~ wlun i1 lnli/inl ~ du ~ o/ @Juw., muL du t,Jl.o.,y, tJud Jwu1d ~" The Spirit of Christ and the Holy Spirit are one and the same. Notice that the prophets knew of the First and Second Coming of Christ. They, "wti/ittl ~ flu~ ol @Ju.i.,L,, That is His. first coming. "ol.nd llu. g,/.t,,IJ IJud .Jwuld /t ,11.ou ,.." That is Christ's Second Coming. These prophets 63