Welcome to Gospel and Life.

How can you become the kind of person whose character deepens during hardship?

The Apostle Peter tells us it's a supernatural work of God that reshapes the heart.

Today, Tim Keller shows us how only a reborn, renewed heart can love others well and face suffering with hope,

courage, and joy.

1 Peter chapter 1,13 to 21.

And today we're moving on to the next passage. The next section is printed in your

bulletin. Please read along with me. It's 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 22, reading over to verse 3 of

chapter 2. So 122 to 2. And tonight, we're going to start looking for two weeks, tonight and next week,

at the meaning of this passage as well. Listen to God's word. Now that you have purified yourselves

by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brethren, love one another deeply

from the heart, for you have been born again, not of perishable seed,

but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For all men are like grass,

and all their glory is like the flowers of the field, the grass withers and the flowers fall,

but the word of the Lord stands forever. And this is the word that was preached to you.

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.

Like newborn babies crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.

Now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. This is God's word.

All men are like grass and all their glories like the flowers of the field.

Many women have said that. When I first met my wife, she had been claiming, when we were just dating, she'd been

claiming this great verse where it says, men are a vain hope. That was in a psalm, whatever, but

where is that? Men are all of vain hope. She changed her mind. But the generic, the generic term here is referring to something more

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