Set our Hope on the Grace being Brought at the Lord’s Coming and Enjoy Grace today

As believers in Christ, we need to set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ, the salvation of our soul; today we enjoy the Lord as a foretaste, but one day we will receive the full taste when the Lord will be revealed – the salvation of our soul, and this is our hope! Hallelujah!

Praise the Lord for the grace of God, so multifarious, varied, wonderful, and enjoyable!

In the Epistles of Peter, we see many aspects of the grace of God, and Peter starts both of his epistles with, Grace and peace be multiplied to you. He also finishes his epistles with the grace of God.

As we live the Christian life, we need to realize that we can’t do it in ourselves; it is by the grace of God and through the enjoyment of Christ as grace that we can live a Christian life under the government of God.

Therefore, instead of looking at the outward environment or focus on the sufferings caused by the trials and afflictions we go through, we should simply take grace, enjoy grace, live by grace, and allow grace to be everything to us.

What is grace? Is grace merely unmerited favor? Is grace merely God’s blessing for us? Is grace merely God doing this and that for us to keep us healthy, give us a good spouse, give us a good car, help us buy a good house, and have good children?

Grace is much more than this.

According to the divine revelation in God’s word, grace came when the Lord came; the law was given through Moses, but grace came through Jesus Christ.

When Christ came, grace came. Before Christ was incarnated, grace was not there; after Christ came, grace is here.

Grace is the wonderful person of Jesus Christ who is now the life-giving Spirit giving Himself to us for our enjoyment to be our life and life supply.

According to Paul’s writings, grace does everything in us; by grace, we are saved, by grace we stand, by grace we live, by grace we fight, and by grace we labor more abundantly than others. Hallelujah!

We need to know that Christ as the Spirit is grace with our spirit, and we need to enjoy the Lord as grace day by day.

May we keep turning to the Lord Jesus as the Spirit with our spirit to enjoy the daily portion of grace for our Christian life.

May we be those who enjoy grace so much that grace reigns in us unto eternal life.

And may we set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

God’s grace in Christ as the Spirit is so wonderful, amazing, and enjoyable! May the Lord unveil us to see what grace is, enjoy grace, and be filled with grace.

We need to Set our Hope Perfectly on the Grace being Brought to us at the Revelation of Jesus Christ

1 Pet. 1:13 reveals to us a particular aspect of grace; here Peter tells us to set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

May we gird up the loins of our mind and be sober, setting our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

On the one hand, we were saved through faith by grace, and the grace of the Lord Jesus is with our spirit.

On the other hand, there is still grace to come, that is, there’s grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

What is this grace on which we need to set our hope perfectly? This grace is related to the salvation of our soul.

There’s an aspect of grace that is coming at the revelation of Christ, which is the Lord’s second coming.

According to 1 Pet. 1:5, 9-10, the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ refers to the salvation of the soul as the consummation of God’s full salvation.

1 Peter equates grace with salvation; full salvation is grace.

We are being guarded by the power of God through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed at the last time.

In Peter’s view, salvation is not so simple; there are actually three stages of salvation.

First, as Eph. 1:8-9 shows us, we are saved through faith by grace; this is the first stage of salvation.

Second, today we are being saved, for we’re in the process of God’s organic salvation, and we are continually saved in Christ’s life (Rom. 5:10, 17).

Finally, the third stage of God’s salvation will be revealed at the Lord’s coming; we need to set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ, the salvation of our soul. Amen!

The grace given to us in Christ was bestowed on us before the world began (2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 2:11).

God saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages.

This is an inexplicable mystery; we can only say Amen and Praise the Lord when we read this, trusting in the Lord and praising Him for what He has done.

God, who was in the beginning, became flesh in time as grace for us to receive Him, possess Him, and enjoy Him (John 1:1, 14, 16-17).

When Christ came, grace came. Today the processed Triune God, who has been consummated as the all-inclusive, life-giving, and indwelling Spirit, has become the Spirit of grace with our spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17; Heb. 10:29; Gal. 6:18; Phil. 4:23).

The Spirit of grace today is with our spirit! Grace is with our spirit; the Lord Jesus is with our spirit; the Spirit is with our spirit.

Wow, Christ as the Spirit of grace is with our spirit!

We need to enter into this grace and stand in it. How can we enter into this grace? It is by exercising our spirit. How do we stand in grace? By staying in our spirit.

Christ is the Spirit of grace with our spirit, and we can stand in grace. God is the God of all grace; we enjoy the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ; the Spirit is the Spirit of grace.

The entire Triune God is of grace and is grace for our enjoyment in our spirit! Praise the Lord!

Day by day we need to be open vessels to be continual receivers of grace and set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:17; 1 Pet. 1:13).

We set our mind on many things, for there are so many things around us or person related to us that occupy our thinking, our feelings, and our decisions.

May we gird up the loins of our mind and be sober.

May we not allow our mind to be focused on other things, matters, and persons, but Christ Himself, even set our hope perfectly on the grace.

1 Thes. 4:4 tells us that we need to possess our own vessel in sanctification unto honour.

Day by day we need to live our Christian life not in a loose way or according to how we feel it is right but rather, possess our own vessel in sanctification unto honour and set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

May we not take in everything that the world has to offer; may we be sober, girding up the loins of our mind and letting our mind be renewed by the word of God.

And when we make mistakes, when we drift into the world and things of the world occupy our mind and thoughts, may we return to the Lord by exercising our spirit, and may we set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ!

Lord Jesus, we want to gird up the loins of our mind and set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Amen, Lord, we set our mind on You; renew us in our mind. We do not want to let our mind wander around and be occupied with the things in this world. We gird up the loins of our mind by setting our mind on the Lord and on the things above, and we want to be renewed in Your living word! Oh Lord, we set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ! We pray that we will be saved much more in Your life today until grace reigns in us! Keep us in the enjoyment of Christ today until the enjoyment of Christ as grace reigns and rules in our being! We look to You, Lord, and we set our hope on the grace! Hallelujah, when Jesus Christ is revealed, we hope that we will receive the grace of the salvation of our soul! We set our hope on this, Lord, and we want to cooperate with You in Your organic salvation in us today!

Enjoy the Lord Jesus as a Foretaste Today, under a Veil, until we will Enjoy Him in Full at His Coming, the Revelation of Jesus Christ!

1 Pet. 1:13 is a very encouraging verse that requires our cooperation today.

On the one hand, we need to gird up the loins of our mind, not allowing our mind to wander and be occupied with the things in this world or anything else but Christ.

On the other hand, we need to set our hope perfectly on the grace.

Yes, one day the Lord Jesus will be revealed, and we will receive the salvation of our soul; this is our hope, and today we want to cooperate with the Lord to reach this goal.

We need to set our living hope perfectly on the grace that is being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

This grace is not merely an unmerited favour or any outward blessing but the salvation of our soul as the consummation of God’s full salvation.

Today we need to enjoy the Lord Jesus until one day we will enjoy Him in full.

What we enjoy the Lord today is a foretaste and hidden, for today we are under a veil, still living in the flesh.

We believers in Christ are those who love the Lord, the One whom we have not seen, and we are filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory (1 Pet. 1:8).

To those around us, when we tell them that we go to the meetings to enjoy the Lord and that we spend time with the Lord Jesus throughout the day to enjoy Him, it seems crazy, even nonsensical.

How can we enjoy someone we have never seen or heard or touched? It is through the exercise of our spirit.

We exercise our spirit to live one spirit with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17), and we enjoy the grace of the Lord Jesus with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22).

Today we believers in Christ are enjoying the Lord as a foretaste, under a veil, but one day we will have the full enjoyment of Christ openly, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

When the unveiling of Jesus Christ comes, at the revelation of Jesus Christ, we will enjoy Him in full, having a full taste.

At that time Christ will be our full enjoyment, and all those around us will see that we have been enjoying the Lord and now we enter into His joy.

At that time Christ will be seen and marvelled at in His saints (2 Thes. 1:10).

This age is an age of foretaste in a hidden, mysterious way, by the exercise of our spirit; the next age and the eternity will be an age of full taste, openly, for all to see.

What we do today and the way we live today will decide what our destiny will be in the next age and for eternity.

If we today enjoy the Lord and partake of His riches, if we set time to be in His presence and let Him shine on us and deal with many things in us, and if we choose to set our hope perfectly on the grace to be brought to us at the unveiling of Christ, we will enter into the full taste of Christ.

May the Lord enlighten us and show us that the grace of the Lord Jesus is with our spirit.

May we choose to enjoy the Lord today and may we set our hope not on our condition or our situation being improved but on the grace to be brought to us!

And may we not look at those around us in the world, who seem to have a great time even without having dealings, sufferings, and discipline in this age.

Rather, may we allow the Lord’s hand to operate in us, deal with us, discipline us, and on our side, may we enjoy Christ as grace and set our hope perfectly on the grace being brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

As we enjoy the foretaste today, we are filled with hope that one day we will be brought into the full taste, the full enjoyment of Christ! Amen!

Lord Jesus, we love You and we give ourselves to just enjoy You! Hallelujah, the grace of the Lord Jesus is with our spirit! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit today to just enjoy You! Oh, what a privilege it is for us to enjoy Christ, partake of His riches in spirit, and have a foretaste of the all-inclusive Christ! Amen, Lord, though today we’re under a veil and we enjoy You in spirit, not in an outward way, we believe that one day we will have the full taste! We give ourselves to You to enjoy Christ as grace in our spirit. Though we have never seen You, we love You! Though we don’t see You at present, we rejoice with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, for we can have a foretaste of the full taste of Christ! Amen, Lord, we focus not on our situation or our condition but on Christ as the Spirit who is grace with our spirit! We set our hope perfectly on the grace to be brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ, when we will have a full taste of the all-inclusive Christ!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ricky Acosta in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of 1 Peter, msg. 11, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living a Christian Life and Church Life under the Government of God for the Economy of God (2024 Thanksgiving Blending Conference), week 5, Grace in Peter’s Epistles.
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