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We are studying our way through 1 Peter, in a series I am calling the Gospel for REAL Life.
Peter was addressing believers who were facing trials in life-trials in their marriages, their workplace, their civil setting, their social settings, and with their own personal desires for sinful things.
This is just like us today.
Peter wanted to share Grace, Hope and Peace with those believers.
Good news!
That is the same good news we need today as we face those same settings.
First, Peter focused on the Hope of the Gospel
1 Peter 1:2 - chosen according to the foreknowledge of the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood.
Grace and Peace!
1 Peter 1:3 - New Birth!
Living Hope! Inheritance!
Shielded!
Faith being proven to be genuine!
Praise, glory and honor to be yours when Jesus is revealed!
After focusing on the Hope of the Gospel, Peter focuses on the Call of the Gospel.
The good news of what God has done for us is not just for some future hope.
It is for the here and now.
It should have ramifications in our lives now.
So Peter tells them, 1 Peter 1:13 - Preparing your minds for action and being self-controlled, set your Hope fully on the grace to be given you!
Keep looking at the read goal for life!
And, 1 Peter 1:15-16, Be Holy! Be like your father!
You were given new birth as His children, so be like your Father!
Then, in 1 Peter 1:17, Peter tells them something else...
He has been so encouraging so far, telling them how glorious their Father is, and all He has in store for them.
But now, after telling them to Prepare their Minds and to be Holy, He tells them, ‘Remember, your Father is impartial!
He will judge you correctly, not being partial just because you are His child.
So live your time here as strangers in this world in reverent fear.’
When we started this verse a couple weeks ago, I tried to emphasize that we do need to read this and take it to heart.
God is our Father.
However, He will not be partial to us.
He will judge us.
This should cause us to pause.
This is meant to cause us to consider what we are doing.
It is meant to give us a reverent fear.
But what is reverent fear?
I believe this passage, as we continue it will help us understand exactly what that fear is supposed to be.
Before moving on, however, I first want to look at what two things that people sometimes mistake as the basis of this fear.
We will cover one this Sunday, and the other next week.
Pray
Fear of death, i.e. punishment after death.
The first thing some people think of when reading this verse about living in reverent fear is to Fear Death, or more specifically Fear of Punishment after death.
Is that why we should live in fear?
Fear of what comes after we die?
Fear of God punishing us for things we have done wrong after we die?
I want to take some time to look at it together this morning, both to understand the passage we are working through about living in reverent fear, and to clear up confusion about what happens when we die.
What happens when someone dies?
What is death?
Death is Separation.
Remember that God created man in His image.
He made man to live, not to die.
God created man as a material (physical) and immaterial (spiritual) being.
Genesis 2:7.
He gave man a body, this material shell to house us, but that shell was not living until God breathed into him and he became a living soul.
We, mankind, are both physical, or material beings, and immaterial.
We have this immaterial part to us, referenced in scripture as the soul, the spirit, the mind, the self, the heart, etc.
God warned Adam that if he sinned he would ‘die’.
You may remember, Adam disobeyed God and ate the fruit from that tree.
He did not drop dead physically.
What happened?
Death is separation.
Spiritual Death is Separation from God
Physical Death is Separation of the Soul from the Body
Adam died spiritually.
He was separated from God.
And every one of his descendents have since been dead spiritually, separated from God.
Eventually, Adam also died physically.
Death in the scriptures is not cessation of existence.
It is Separation.
Physical Death is separation of the material and immaterial parts of man.
Or, separation of the spiritual person from the physical shell in which they reside while here on earth.
Where does the Soul go?
So, what happens when someone dies?
What happens when their spiritual person separates from their physical body?
They live on.
But not here on earth.
There are three terms in the scripture with which we need to become familiar.
Three Terms
Sheol (Hebrew)
Hades (Greek)
Gehenna (Greek)
First, let’s deal with Sheol and Hades.
These two words refer to the “Place of the Dead”.
This is where everyone’s spirit would go when they would die.
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew.
The Hebrew word for the place of the dead is Sheol.
Sheol is where everyone who would die would go, at least their immaterial part.
In our English translations, it is often referred to as ‘the Grave’, or ‘the depths’.
Other translations bring out the literal, I will go down to Sheol.
Like the New American Standard.
Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted.
And he said, “Surely I will ago down to Sheol in mourning for my son.”
So his father wept for him.
Notice the direction.
What direction is Sheol?
Sheol is always referred to as down, or in the depths of the earth.
For example, Psalm 139:8.
Other key verses are Numbers 16:30, 33.
From this, we gather that Sheol, or the place of the dead is in the down, in the depths of the earth.
I would picture it this way.
When the Old Testament was translated into Greek by Hebrew scholars, the Greek word they used for Sheol was Hades.
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