The Prayers of the Apostles - Booklet Three - 1 Peter 1,3-5

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The Prayers of the Apostles – Booklet Three
A. W. Pink

1 Peter 1:3-5

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” 1 Peter 1:3-5.

Certain schools of the “Dispensationalists” aver and insist that the last seven epistles of the New Testament (Hebrews―Jude) pertain not to those who are members of the mystical body of Christ, but are entirely “Jewish,” penned by the apostles to the Circumcision and meant for them only. Such a wild and wicked assertion is an arbitrary invention of their own, for there is not a word in the Scriptures which substantiates it, but on the contrary, much in those very epistles which clearly repudiates such a view. As well affirm that the epistles of Paul are “not for us” (British and American saints), because they are addressed to companies at Rome, Corinth, Galatia, etc. Whoever the persons entitled “the Hebrews,” that epistle belongs to those who are “partakers of the heavenly calling” (Heb. 3:1)―something which in no wise pertained to the Jewish nation as such. Though the epistle of James be written to “the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad” (Jam. 1:1), yet it was those members of them who were begotten of God (Jam. 1:18). The epistles of John are manifestly the letters of the Father to His dear children (1 John 2:12; 5:21), who had Jesus Christ for their Advocate (1 John 2:1). Jude is also a general one, “to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called” (Jude :1). …