3. John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

4. Peter said we are “KEPT” Strong says it means, “to hem in or protect.” Adam Clarke says it points to being “under the continual watchful care of God.” Barnes says it points to a faithful guardianship “to guard against the approach of an enemy.” A military words that means “guarded or shielded.”

5. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (Rom 1:16). Peter said we are “KEPT” A. The Divine Side: We are kept “by the power of God.” A military words that means “guarded or shielded.”

6. 2 Tim. 3:16-17 Tit. 2:11-12 Jas. 1:21 Psa. 119:11, 105 Peter said we are “KEPT” A. The Divine Side: We are kept “by the power of God.” A military words that means “guarded or shielded.”

7. Peter said we are “KEPT” B. The Human Side: We are kept by the power of God “through faith.” A military words that means “guarded or shielded.” We can lose our faith!!! 1 Cor. 15:1-2 2 Cor. 13:5 1 Tim. 4:1 WE LOSE OUR FAITH WHEN WE STOP ABIDING IN THE GOSPEL! NO ONE CAN FORCE US (JONN 10:27-29)

8. Peter tells us that our hope causes us to “GREATLY REJOICE” 'It's a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy which is a thousand times better than any pleasure of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people are the Christians, and I am one of them" ( Moody Bible Institute's, Today In The Word, June, 1988, p. 18)

9. Peter tells us that our hope causes us to “GREATLY REJOICE” We all sometimes sorrow (ver. 6).

10. Peter tells us that our hope causes us to “GREATLY REJOICE” We all sometimes sorrow (ver. 6). Trails have the ability to purify us (ver. 7b). Matt. 5:11-12 Rom. 5:3 Jas. 1:3

11. Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

12. 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

13. 2 Cor 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

14. It’s Value Is Seen By: 1.The Prophets (they searched for it). 2.The Angels (they desired to look into it).