1 Peter 1:3

1 Peter 1:3

“Blessed be The GOD and Father of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, Who according to His abundant Mercy has begotten us again to a Living Hope through the Resurrection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead.” Wow! What a statement.

In Genesis 2:15-17 we see that GOD put Adam in the Garden and told him he could eat the fruit from any tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and if he did eat from that tree in that day he would die. In Genesis 3 we see that Adam and Eve did eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and they died - eternally not physically. GOD drove them from the Garden where they would have lived eternally into the world where their time was limited. This was passed down to all the generations of humanity. “For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so In CHRIST all shall be made aAlive.” “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the Judgment.” 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, Hebrews 9:27

So GOD made man in His Own Image and made him immortal, but Adam sinned and lost that immortality and so did the whole human race. But GOD knew that Adam would sin and had prepared redemption for humanity before He even made the earth. “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in The Book of Life of The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8

“For GOD so Loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting Life. For GOD did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be Saved.” John 3:16-17 JESUS had just told Nicodemus that we must be born again by The SPIRIT and water because that is what He was born as The Son of Man to do, restore us to relationship with our Eternal Father in His Heavenly Kingdom. “He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” 1 Peter 1:20

“JESUS answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly I say to you, unless you are born again you cannot see The Kingdom of GOD…Most assuredly , I say to you, unless one is born of water and The SPIRIT, he cannot enter The Kingdom of GOD.” John 3:3-5 Study John 3:1-21; Romans 5 & 6