There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word. Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today. Well, let's get our Bible.

You got your Bible near you.

I want you to find 1 Peter chapter 1 again.

We're going right back to where we were earlier today.

This is the last time I'll get to speak to you.

And I want to leave you with one word. How many of you like to hear a one word sermon? Some of you say, praise God, I've been

waiting on one of those. It's an amazing word, and it's not my word, it's God's word, it's a Bible word.

It's a word we've already been introduced to today, but did you know it's found not once, not twice, not three

times? Did you know it's found four times in Peter's little letter of First Peter? I don't know how

it was at your house growing up at our house. If Mama said it once, we were supposed to listen. And

all God's mother said, amen, right? If she said it twice, we were really supposed to listen. If she had to say it three or four

times, it was too late to listen. How many of you understand what I'm talking about? Like when my mother

said my full name and went up an octave, this was not a good situation. Well, when God uses the same

word repeatedly, it's not because he forgot he said it. It's because there's something there he doesn't

want us to forget he said. So let's back up. You he said it. It's because there's something there he doesn't want us to forget, he said.

So let's back up.

You still got it, 1 Peter chapter 1.

Let's back up to our verse, verse number three.

It's the theme for today.

And mark the first time, when I stop, shout the word,

blessed it be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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