they have seen it as observers and they want to see it as observers and they want to look into it

so that they might join in the redemption song and give God glory. And a beautiful thought. What a salvation.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Today John continues his look at God's amazing redemption and a study called Our Great Salvation.

As John has unpacked 1 Peter 1 over the last two weeks, he has encouraged you to focus your

attention on the blessings and the joy of being saved by Christ. So some questions to ask yourself

at this point might be how does your salvation affect the way you're running the race,

living your daily life? In light of God's grace to you, is worship a high priority? More

is it an afterthought? And how should being eternally rescued from sin and death affect the way

you pray or talk to others or raise your family or even spend your time and money?

So grab your Bible if you can and consider those questions as John begins today's message.

Salvation was so marvelous a reality that even the Old Testament prophets spent their time trying

to understand its wonders. That's how great it is. That's how wonderful it is. Of all the things they

might have searched out, this was what they chose to search at. Peter's heart is revealed here

to see the greatness of salvation. Just note how the prophets wanted to understand it. The reality

of salvation, history, and Christ consumed their hearts. They made careful search. That's a very

intense word, exe, preposition always intensifies the verb. They sought it out diligently.

They made inquiry, another compound term, exerunato, to search out diligently intensely

because they didn't fully understand. They couldn't understand. How could they understand?

Christ hadn't come. He hadn't lived. He hadn't taught. He hadn't died. He hadn't risen.

The prophets didn't understand. They didn't understand a lot of things. In Isaiah 6, verse 11, Isaiah says,

then I said, Lord, how long? And in a sense, he's admitting, I wish I understood this.

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