The God Head in First Peter Chapter 1.?
1) Direct Answer
1 Peter 1 shows one God revealed in threefold work: the Father purposing and foreknowing, the Holy Spirit sanctifying and indwelling, and Jesus Christ manifested in flesh to shed His blood and be raised in glory. It’s not three Gods and not three persons, but one God making Himself known.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- 1 Peter 1:2: “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.” Now notice: Peter doesn’t present three separate divine persons. He shows the one plan of salvation by the one God in three operations—Father (purpose), Spirit (application), Jesus Christ (the manifested sacrifice).
- 1 Peter 1:10–12: The prophets had “the Spirit of Christ” in them, testifying of His sufferings and the glory after. The same passage says the message is now preached “with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.” The Spirit of Christ in the prophets is the Holy Ghost sent down. One Spirit, different titles—so it’s not two Spirits or a second person; it’s the one God’s Spirit.
- 1 Peter 1:19–21: We are redeemed “with the precious blood of Christ… who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you; who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory.” The Son was foreordained and then manifested—Sonship has its manifestation in time. God raised Him and gave Him glory—showing the indwelling Deity (the Father) vindicated the manifested body (the Son).
- 1 Peter 1:3: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” That’s the unseen God above us, the very One who was in Christ reconciling the world. The body is the Son; the indwelling is God.
- 1 Peter 1:23–25 with 1:12: We are born again by the incorruptible Word, through the Spirit who is “sent down.” The same God who spoke by the prophets now indwells the believer.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If there were three co-equal divine persons, Peter would separate three independent beings. Instead, he links:
- Father: foreknowledge and purpose.
- Spirit: sanctification and inspiration.
- Jesus Christ: manifestation, blood, resurrection glory.
- The “Spirit of Christ” (v. 11) is the “Holy Ghost sent down” (v. 12). One Spirit, one God, different manifestations.
- “Foreordained… but manifest” (v. 20) shows the Son’s manifestation in time, not an eternal second person distinct from God. God was manifested in flesh.
4) Reinforcing Statement
That’s the mystery: the one God above us as Father, with us in Jesus Christ, and now in us as the Holy Ghost—working one salvation from foreknowledge to sanctification to the sprinkled blood and the new birth.
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He that is in you
63-1110E §113
And, Lord, we don't know what this third pull, as we have referred to it, will be. I don't know what. But we know one thing, that the first pull was perfection. The second pull, being the five, was Grace. And, God, I pray tonight that You will reveal Yourself to us, that after these things, saying, "He that's in you, ..." And You said, "The works that I do, shall you also," and said You did nothing till the Father showed You. And we seen what You did when You was able to tell Apostle Peter who he was, what his fath...
The unveiling of God
64-0614M §40
Now, when it said here that He emptied Himself, or poured out, now, we'd think like this, that, He "vomit up," the English word of emptied or poured out from Him, see, something went out of Him that was different from Him. But the word "kenos," in the Greek, does not mean that He "vomit up," or some ... his arm went off, or his eye went out, another person. And, that is, He changed Himself, He "poured Himself into,' (Amen!), into another mask, into another form. Not another person went out of Him, called the Holy S...
Godhead explained
61-0119A §64
Now, then while Peter was on the house top one time, at Simon the tanner, he saw a vision. Because Cornelius was a Gentile... There's the Jew, Samaritan, now the Gentile. And Peter was on the house top, taking a little nap before dinner, while they was fixing dinner, and he seen a sheet being lowered down. All kinds of unclean, creeping animals from the earth was on it. And then when he did that, he heard a voice saying, "Rise, Peter, slay and eat." He said, "Nothing's ever come in my mouth unclean." Said, "Don't y...
Show us the Father
63-0606 §49
That eagle knowed what he was doing---he could trust. See, God is in His universe. Don't you believe that? Do you see God in His universe? You can see Him in the birds, you can see Him in the flowers, you... Oh, we could spend all night on it. But do you believe that God's in His universe? All right. Now, we'll see if God's in His Word. Now we'll look at God in His Word. Not only is He in the Word, but He is the Word. That's right. The Bible said in St. John, the first chapter, "In the beginning was the Word, and t...
Christ is the mystery of God revealed
63-0728 §242
then you Catholic people (see?), how can you go under the jurisdiction of a pope now, saying that he is a successor by apostolic succession from Peter; and this pope and this church teaching so contrary to this first Word, which God recognized by signs and wonders to be His church, and to see that same Word being brought forth today in its purity, showing the same resurrection that He had there---God living among His people doing the same things, then you can recognize a headship in Rome? Our headship is in heaven....