The Joy of Our Salvation Pt. 2
1 Peter 1:6-8 · Andrew Molloy · Jun 7, 2026
1 Peter, No. 05
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://www.hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/710261824512692

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

All right, so, now let me get my, here we go. So I'm going to read from verse 3, that's the main, that's the main section of this lesson this morning. It's our main content, 3 through 5, 1 Peter 1, 3 through 5. Peter says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials. That's verse 6, and that's what we covered last week. We got into verse 7 last week, but didn't finish up verse 7.

Here it is. So that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold, which is perishable, even though tested by fire, might be found to praise, to result, to result in praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ. And though you have not seen him, you love him. And though you do not see him now, but believe in him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. So last week a quick review of last week then and I'll just fly through this in interest of time So in this in verse 6 in this you were greatly rejoiced We found that it's the whole concept of God's great and complete salvation we are born again through a through the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ to a living hope and We have this everlasting inheritance, which is kept under God's care, His protection, until we are physically present with Him in glory and are able to finally physically enjoy that salvation.

Some commentators They say that in this, the antecedent to that pronoun refers back to the last time. And that's true. They do match as far as the Greek. They're like both neutered, I think is what Weiss says. So he takes that position. Richeson takes the position that in this you greatly rejoice, is Richardson says we are greatly rejoicing the living hope.

But we're going along with Merriman, and I think Roger, last five years ago when you did this study, you took this position too, along with Merriman, that 1 Peter 3-5 is a complete package complete package of salvation, the pardon from sin, the present sanctifying work of Christ's work on the cross, and our future deliverance from the sin nature, and finally the glorification of our bodies. So that's the package, and I think that in this you greatly rejoice that refers back to that three through five section And that's review from last week verse seven sets it up an analogy with an illustration And he says just as gold needs to be refined by fire to separate out impurities.

So, likewise, faith must be tested to be found true or proven, to be documost. Merriman says that all trials may not result in may or may not result in distress or grievousness or sorrow, that word for distress. The testings bring grief necessarily at times, but grieving is necessary for a little while, he says. The word for that distressed is lupeo.

And this is interesting because Christ, there's a very parallel situation with him in which he was leaving his disciples to go to the cross. And he says in John 16, 16, a little while and you will no longer see me. And again, a little while, you will see me and you will then see me. because I go to the Father, that's why they're not going to see him. And he says, truly, truly, I say unto you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, that's our Lupeo word, but your grief, Lupeo, will be turned to joy. That's John 16, 20.

So you see, it's the same grieving, the same distress, situation that the disciples were going through there, that these Galatian and Cappadocian believers were going through back then with Peter. And you see how The disciples' sorrow, distressed lupeo, turned to joy in the end. And that's the same situation we have with these Jewish Christians up in Upper Galatia. Their suffering was going to turn to joy. Their trials were going to turn to joy. Note how grieving is necessary for a little while, and it is ordained for a time, as in these verses with Christ and his disciples. But the outcome, the purpose, is a future certain joy.

And he says again in John 16.22, So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy. And in verse 33, I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows, very much like the situation in 1 Peter chapter 1, 3 through 9. But take heart, he says, Christ says, I have overcome the world. So what is the object, and I guess I won't be able to hear you guys, but what is the object of the disciples' joy in these John 16 verses? And if you answered Christ himself, I think you're right on, spot on.

Okay, on to seven, on to this last part, this C part that we did not get to last week. And there's some good questions on that C part that I didn't cover last week. So the 7C says, even though tested by fire, the proof of your faith, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. May be found is hirisco, hirisco is the Greek word.

It's an aorist passive subjunctive mood. So it's a, may be found is a point in time fact, aorist tense. It will happen upon one. That's the passive voice. It happens to you. You don't quite make it happen. And the subjunctive mood is a mood or a mode of possibility or potentiality. So it may happen, it may not happen, depending on circumstances. So, may be found is heresco, and that it's passive. So, maybe, maybe not result in the praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And there was a good question after class last week about that phrase and what that means. And I won't tell you what we found out. We kind of left it open. it was a very good question And so I learned that it is, in fact, subjunctive, because the questioner last week after class was saying, well, is this a maybe or maybe not? And she was spot on. So Roger, if you have your bag of gold stars, I want you to reach in that bag and give that questioner, and you know who she is, a gold star for last week's questioning of that. that little phrase that might be found.

So, jirisco is related to the perfect tense word jirica. And what do you think we get our English word for jirica, what that comes out to? And if you guess, I found it, or Eureka, that's it, I found it. So, Jirisco is to find without seeking, or to light upon something, light upon something sort of by surprise, or to find out by search and inquiry. So, either way, either by just happening upon it or by diligent search.

So, this is the revelation. I'm going to skip over to the word revelation of Jesus Christ. It's apocalypsis, His unveiling, His uncovering, His full disclosure. Is it his second coming or his appearing in the air that's in view here? And if you say yes, you're right, you're correct. And if I'm going to take another view this morning, along with kind of Merriman, and I'm going to say it doesn't have to be, because that's future, that's in the future. Zodiotes says yes, it's his appearance at the rapture.

But it can be here in the present, and how do you think we would, how would Jesus Christ reveal himself or appear to us in the present without us being raptured? And if you think of what we're doing this morning, we're studying the Word of God, that's how He would reveal Himself. It would be the same word, apokalupsis, He would reveal Himself to us through His Word.

So is Christ here, and I've always sort of read this way in the past, in a sloppy manner, and I thought, well, it's Christ here praising and honoring and glorying in our in our faith, because it's wonderfully tested and it's approved and it's a good faith. So I always thought this meant, oh, he's at his appearance at the rapture, he's patting us on the back, praising us, giving us glory, honor for our good faith here that's tested by fire. might be found to result in that.

But no, it's not that, and why not? And Peter kind of writes it in a way, in a different way than Paul would write it, I think. So it's not him praising, glorying, and honoring our faith, but what it is, because faith is meritless, correct? Faith has no merit, so why would it be praised, gloried, and honored?

So the best meaning is, at his appearing, unveiling to you and me personally, to those Galatians, those Bithynians that Peter's writing to, what will be the true result. It's you will be, we will be compelled and motivated to praise, glory in, and honor Him. That's the direction of that praise, honor, and glory at his revelation. A proven faith, or a dachymast faith, has the stabilizing, securing, and confidence-building ability to endure a trial, and the sorrow, and to see him as the author and finisher of your proven, tried, confident assurance.

And I put up on the screen here Hebrews 12.2, fixing our eyes upon Jesus, the author and protector or finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and he has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. So he gets all the glory.

So yes, it can, and many, many commentators take the position that this is the future apocalypsis of Jesus Christ in the air when we go to meet him. But, you know, you can also, what about now for these believers that Peter's writing to? They need encouragement now. And can it be in the present? And I say yes.

So this is the proper glorification of Christ in his revealing himself to you and to me. And Merriman has This first seven, it might be found to result in praise and glory and honor. That's in the direction of, unto, a proper honoring of Christ, is how this Greek is phrased out. So the sort of more documost your faith is, as you grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, your praise and honor and glory and honor of Him will grow as well as that, grow with that, with that, with that faith.

Yeah. On top of that, the grammatical structure of that Eurathe is third person singular, that He may be glorified. Oh. It changes to third person singular, so it focuses on the Lord Jesus Christ, rather than us. Good, yeah. Okay, all these testings is for his glory. Yeah. Okay, good.

I'm glad I, because it's in the English, Roy, and I think you would agree with me and the class would agree with me that, or the new, maybe it's a new American standard. It's just not that those little Greek intricacies aren't, they're hard to sort of flush out, aren't they? Yeah, the result though, the focus there is definitely a change in person to the Lord Jesus rather than us. Our trials up to that point result in Him being glorified.

Oh, yeah, see? And that's great, because when I was younger, years ago, I always thought it was the opposite way around. It just reads that way to me, so that's great. So, I kind of took the interlinear and the King James version of this and mashed those a little together to get this phrase, In verse eight here, we're in verse eight.

And though you have not seen him, you love him. And though you do not see him now, but believe in him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory. So that's verse eight. So when I kind of bring up the King James and the interlinear, kind of blended, It reads, whom, not having seen, you love, though now you do not see him, yet believing, yet moreover you exalt with joy inexpressible and filled with glory.

So you see how King James is better because it puts the subject up front, which is Christ Jesus, the object of our exaltation. It begins with Christ, not having seen you love, very clear, though now you do not see him, yet believing, yet moreover you exult with joy inexpressible.

So the Greek has it this way. It's true for the Christian Jews Peter was writing to, as well as us. They, and along with us, did not see him at the point in time when he was on earth, obviously. And that's an aorist, which is interesting. So that's a point in time fact.

You have not seen him. Verse 8a, though you have not seen him, that's aorist. But it goes on to the present tense. They and we keep on loving him now in the present, though we keep on not seeing him now in the present. We don't see him physically. And it's a present ongoing action there. So we, and we keep, we are keep on believing in him.

We're keeping on and believing in him. believing in spite of seeing and that's that's a very good thing uh... you know that uh... I bring up this point of interest. We're studying Mark and John in the two Bible studies we're doing, and the disciples are always failing.

How many times did they fall asleep when Jesus was in the garden? And he was right there. They saw him. They were touching, they were hanging out with him all the time, and yet their faith was failing. So were the disciples better off in seeing him and being with him than we are at this point? We don't see him. And I don't think so, because now we have the full revelation of Scripture, and He reveals Himself to us in His Word, and we have the indwelling Holy Spirit. So, in many ways, we might be better off at this day and age than they were back then.

Oh, and this year I want to just make this point um in 2020 i i I did the presentation on 1 Peter 3-5, the salvation package part, and I took all the future view, the futuristic view, emphasis, which is correct, and everyone takes that view. And this year, in 2026, I'm taking this present tense view of this section. Even even three four and five Because you see in verse eight now. We're in the present tense. So it's three through five is like a future tense, but then it expands out to Eight eight nine. It's it's present. So it's wrapped in a present tense and it's kind of cool and Merriman I'm getting this from Merriman and he he is kind of a Does it takes this tack? in teaching this, and I'm going with that. So this greatly rejoicing Not seeing Him now, but you believe in Him and you're greatly rejoicing.

That's agaleo, which is to exalt or leap for joy, as we learned last week. Leaping and skipping, and Roger, I pulled that from your notes from six years ago, and you had the same thing, leaping and skipping, or estag joy and delight. Merriman says it's exalting based on knowledge, so it's an intelligent exuberance. Contrast that with the charismatic movement, right? They're leaping and skipping and ecstatic with joy in their services, but is that an intelligent, knowledgeable joy that they have? Yeah, I would say not. you're exalting the Lord Jesus Christ, you're rejoicing in Him, and together with inexpressible joy.

And what's that inexpressible joy? And that's without utterance. And it's a glorified joy is what, Roger, you had in your presentation from six years ago. I like that. It's a glorified joy. And here's the little blessing that Christ gives in John 20, 29. He says, because you have seen me, have you believed? I think he's asking Thomas here. Blessed are they who did not see and yet believed. And that's us. So we have a special blessing for that.

Okay, on to verse 9. Verse 9 is, "...obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls." A little tag verse, verse 9, "...obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls. So, the internal linary has obtaining the outcome of the faith of you.

A little different, but that's the tenor of that. So, the obtaining is, some say receiving, but it can be to receive or acquire, and it means to acquire something and then carry it off with you. Komitso is the Greek word. So you're acquiring the salvation and taking that and carrying it off with you and not just receiving it and saying, check received, you know, like we used to stamp things in the office with a red stamp that said received.

So, a cursory reading would seem to be, we are finally saved from condemnation by an approved faith when we finally come to our completion and love the Lord and we are greatly rejoicing in Him. And then we receive the outcome of that faith, that tested faith, and that's the salvation of our souls. phase one salvation but that that's not what it is of course because we are we are saved we were saved in the past we are being saved in the present and we will be saved in the future phase one salvation phase two and phase three past present and future And that comitso, that obtaining, is in the present tense. So that's not quite a future thing, that's in the present, and it's middle voice, so we're very interested in the outcome of this obtaining the salvation. So it leaves us in phase two salvation. It leaves us in this sanctifying salvation. So Merriman maintains that whenever salvation of the soul is in view in scripture, that is present salvation from the power of sin. So could we say that a sanctifying salvation from the...

I'm making the point here that you get a test, a trial, and the old man's route your old man will fall into temptation due to that trial, despair, depression, panic. You'll curse about the trial. You'll be defeated in the trial. So that's kind of failing the trial. But, coming through the trial, approved dokimast would be, and coming through those various trials in verse 6, that necessarily bring grief and sorrow with it.

So you can either break down under the trial, failing to conserve all joy or you can you can be saved through the trial delivered through the trial by your by faith and by by um beholding the glory of the lord jesus christ um let me see oh i don't have my I had one slide, and that slide, let me just tell you what that is, and I'll stop here.

I'll close it up here, but that slide was, it was a good slide too. It was an illustration. Sorry I didn't make it on, but maybe I can get it on for next week or in the in the supplements on the website. But that was, you know, my dad did that illustration of the trials from Romans 5, I think 3, 4, and 5. You're tested and then you are approved, and then your perseverance and hope, and it spirals up and up, that sort of, it's a whirlwind looking thing, to the revelation of Jesus Christ. The image, that's what we're after, is to behold him and to grow into his image. And it was a really great, it was a good illustration, but it didn't make it into the presentation this morning.

So I'll try and get it up for next week. So yeah, that's what I wanted to show you. So that's the goal of all this testing and coming through trials. So, and then I just have a supplement here. If you want to read what Hamilton Smith says about these verses, I think it's really good. I won't read them this morning, I'll just put it up on the presentation on the website. So great, how did we do? I'll just close it up here. A couple, seven minutes past time, but thanks for hanging in there.

So our Father, our Father and our God, we thank you for this study in 1 Peter, and we thank you that we have your power and your staying power in the midst of trials. And we can depend on you to come through the trials and to come out to see more of the glory of Christ through our trials. And we thank you for those things. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.