And if that's the way the angels feel this word about your salvation, who aren't part of it, how should you feel about it?

Who are totally dependent on God's grace to be saved?

If the angels marvel over our salvation, how much more should we?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper rejoices over the worth of our salvation

from 1 Peter 1, 10 through 12.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on November 21, 1993.

As to this salvation, referred to in verse 5 and again in verse 9.

As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

made careful search and inquiry seeking to know what person or time the spirit of Christ within them was indicating

as he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

In other words, these prophets were searching, yearning, inquiring, what is this Lord?

This is awesome. What are we saying?

Verse 12, it was revealed to them, however, that they were not serving themselves.

That was a painful thing for Isaiah to hear. We'll come back to him later.

But you, in these things, they're serving you in these things, which now have been announced to you

through those who preach to you the gospel by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven.

These things into which angels long to look, not just prophets, see the connection there,

not just prophets long to look into these things, but angels, the highest order of beings in heaven under God,

yearning long to understand and see and get into the work of salvation in your life and in history.

So the main point of this paragraph is that how much we should be inclined to join Peter in verse 3 saying,

blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, because all the things that were said from verses 3 to 10 and now,

because we learned that prophets, the greatest men of old, yearned to see what we now have and angels in heaven,

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