3:14
We have come to share in Christ. We share in His inheritance, we will share in His glory. He is the firstborn of God’s people. We are raised with Him and will share in His resurrection. However, all these great things are ours only if we continue to follow Him, to believe in Him. Now some people get very upset about this sort of stuff, getting worried about “once saved always saved” and “can I lose my salvation”. This sort of thinking is sign of completely missing the point. We were saved to live, saved to become Christlike. Every book in the New Testament is absolutely clear that how we live matters, and that we need to persist in following Christ. So, however all the details work out, I can absolutely assure you that things will be an awful lot better, both now and in the future, if we persevere in following Christ. Conversely, things will be an awful lot worse, both now and in the future, if we give up. So stop having your silly arguments and let’s get on with following Christ. You know it makes sense!
3:15
The writer repeats the first verse (Ps 95:7) of his quote from Psalm 95. This stresses the seriousness of the matter, it also draws our attention back to what God says. This is not a warning from a mere man, it is a warning direct from God. Peter tells us to preach as if preaching the very words of God (1 Pet 4:11). Our preaching and teaching should always be God focused. We are not preaching or teaching our own ideas or our own words, we are not drawing attention to what we think, but to what God says.
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