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Now here's Dr. Keller with today's teaching.

Thank you. life.com slash lent. Now here's Dr. Keller with today's teaching. First Peter 110. Concerning this salvation, the prophets who spoke of the grace that was to come to you searched intently and with the greatest

care, trying to find out the time and the circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them

was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves

but you when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the

gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven into which things even angels long to look. This is God's word. We're looking this year at this first

epistle, this first letter of Peter, and we've seen that the theme of the book is on suffering and how to handle troubles

and suffering?

The book was written, as we saw, to people who were experiencing troubles and persecution.

And the theme of the book is, just as Jesus Christ's sufferings led to glory, see we read it

right here in this passage already, just as Jesus Christ suffering led to glories that followed,

your suffering and your troubles and your deepest distresses can be, come ways in which you become something great, not crushed,

not small, not split, not broken, but something great.

The sufferings that you go through can be like a furnace that turns your character and your heart into pure gold.

That's what the text is about. You know, we,

we often sing that hymn that goes, I will always be with thee, thy troubles to bless,

and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. Sanctify to thee, thy deepest distress. That's what the book's about.

Now last week, in verse 6, 7, 8, and 9, we actually looked at his first frontal treatment of this

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