May 4 | Evening
5/4/20263 min
❖ This is the devotional for the evening of May 4.
❖ The Scripture for this devotion is 1 Peter 1:23.
❖ This podcast comes from Crossway's new edition of 'Morning and Evening' written by Charles H. Spurgeon and revised by Alistair Begg. This podcast is narrated by Frazer Blaxland.
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[soft music] May 4th, evening. "You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable," 1 Peter 1:23. Peter earnestly exhorted the scattered saints to love each other. Earnestly from a pure heart, verse 22. And he did so not on the basis of the law or human nature or philosophy, but from that high and divine nature that God has implanted in His people. In the same way that a sensible tutor of princes might seek to foster in them a kingly spirit and dignified behavior, finding arguments in their position and pedigree, so looking upon God's people as heirs of glory, princes of royal blood, descendants of the King of kings, Earth's truest and oldest aristocracy. Peter said to them, in essence, "See that you love one another because of your noble birth, being born of imperishable seed because of your pedigree, being descended from God, the creator of all things, and because of your immortal destiny, for you shall never pass away, though the glory of the flesh shall fade and even its existence shall cease."