Redemption through Christ the ransom is God’s eternal plan. Before creation, God forged a plan to redeem sinners through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Contrary to the common antinomian idea that sin has no consequences for the believer, the true converted person takes to heart the warnings/threats of Scripture and earnestly strives after the holiness of God. We fear God and we are genuinely afraid of sinning against Him.
The redeemed in Christ are children of obedience before God. As converted people, our aim in this life is to reflect God’s holiness. This has always been the purpose of God for His people. Peter appeals to the authority of OT Scripture to point out this serious duty in the sight of our holy God.
We have an exhilarating hope ahead of us. Peter exhorts us “therefore” to fix our hope completely on that hope with a mind that is spiritually clear and free of clutter, sharp and alert.
Salvation of grace was the eternal plan of God which the prophets of old earnestly sought to better understand. It sparkles and shimmers in the eyes of God’s people, but for all else, it is dull flat.
