Hello, and welcome back to the podcast on this Wednesday.

Okay, so the passions of the flesh wage war against our souls.

That's 1 Peter 2 verse 11, that's what we looked at in depth last time with Pastor John

in the studio on Monday in APJ 1825, the desires of the flesh draw us away from the all-satisfying

fullness of Christ.

And so what we talked about there is big, I mean, that's a huge point.

And I want to return to that text and to that verse and to the verse after it, because

in them we encounter the two greatest questions faced by the universe.

No joke.

The universe's two greatest questions are answered here in 1 Peter 2 verses 11 and 12.

Peter wrote Beloved, writing the Christians, Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles

to abstain from the passions of the flesh which wage war against your soul.

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable so that when they speak against you as

evil doers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

These two verses answer the two most gigantic issues faced by the universe.

To make the claim and to defend it, here's Pastor John in a 1994 sermon.

In those two verses, two issues are seen to be massively important.

In fact, I would say they are the two most important issues in the world, in the universe.

They are the two issues that the whole Bible deals with throughout.

And one of the ways that we know that we are aliens and exiles and strangers, like verse

11 says, is that the world by and large does not think that they are important issues.

If the world did, the newspaper would look different, television would look different,

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