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November 11 – Enduring Word Your Hope Is Only as Strong as What It's Anchored To 1 Peter 1:23-25 ESV - Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever." And this word is the good news that was preached to you. Everything built on human effort and the strength of the flesh is as temporary as grass — it flourishes briefly and then withers — which is why a salvation maintained by our own striving would be just as perishable as the effort sustaining it. But Peter points us to an imperishable foundation: we have been born again through the living and abiding Word of God, into a hope that is not corruptible because it does not depend on us but on the finished work of Jesus and the faithfulness of the God who keeps what He has promised. Our inheritance is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading — kept in heaven, out of our hands, and thank God for that, because if we controlled it, we would corrupt it. The Word of God does not need updating, improving, or replacing — it has outlasted every empire and every attempt to silence it, and the gospel it carries will still be standing when everything built on human foundations has long since fallen away.   Read More