Through Silvanus, whom I regard as a faithful brother, I have written to you briefly, encouraging you and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account him, I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God: stand ye fast therein.
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… How do I know that? 1 Peter chapter 5 verse 12 mentions that Peter's words came through the writings or the hand, the pen, of his amanuensis, the one he dictated to, which was Silas. So he was very important both to Paul and to Peter. So Paul, Silvanus, Silas, and Timothy. Now Timothy, I told you, was a guy who lived in Lystra. his mother and grandmother were Jewish. His father was a Greek, an unbelieving Greek. Timothy got his strong faith in God from his grandmother and mother, Lois and Eunice. And they got led to Christ by Paul on the first missionary journey. And we presume Timothy as well got led to Christ by Paul on the first missionary journey. when Paul went through Listera and Derby the second time on the second journey, Paul said, hey, Tim, you ought to come with us. I think you'd grow immensely if you went on the road with us, and you went on a mission trip, and you just saw how I do evangelism and how we plant churches. …
one of these letters to think that we just have an assortment, a hodgepodge of material and exhortations to wrap up this letter. All the big doctrinal points are out there. All of the meaty stuff has been communicated. All the soaring passages have been read. When you think of almost any of these epistles, you think about the high mountain point, It's usually not in that last paragraph where he mentions the people and gives the greetings and tells you to kiss each other. That's the part that I'm looking for. It's easy to sort of trail off when we come to these last sections and think of it as less than we should. It's a kind of tidying up. As if your mom were writing you a letter in college. I doubt that very many letters get put into the mail, but that's still a…it's extra special, isn't it? And you get something. It's not an ad. It's not a solicitation. It's not a bill. It's not junk. Someone wrote you a letter. So, whether you write a letter or it's an email, I know no one under the age of 25, or let's kid ourselves, 35, maybe 45, checks emails. …
… conscious of his son, entrusted yourself to a faithful creator. Brothers and sisters, this is the true grace of God for your journey home. The true grace of God is not a sorrow-free, suffering-free journey. The true grace of God is sorrow, pain, opposition, suffering, reviling, and all the while, mindful of God being upheld and kept for the joy set before you like Jesus. And then like Jesus being spectacularly rewarded for it. That's why Peter says at the end of his letter, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it. This is the grace of God. The grace of God for your journey home. In the words of another poet, this one's John Piper. the grace of God for your journey home is not grace to bar what is not bliss nor flight from all distress, but this, the grace that orders our trouble and pain. And then in the darkness is there to sustain. …