4135 - The Keys by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 22, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 28.

4135 — The Keys

By Editor

Please explain Matt. 16:19. What are the keys He was to give Peter?

A Brother.

Of the conditions of salvation, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, Peter himself, referring to this, says: "Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe." Now Peter preached first to the Jews on Pentecost (Acts 2) the word of the gospel, and many of the Jews believed; and then, according to the 10th chapter of Acts, he preached to the Gentiles; and the Gentiles believed. The key that opened their heart was the key of the gospel of Christ. Every minister has that, but Peter used it first. That is, God showed by Peter just what effect the gospel would have if it were preached. And the binding and the loosing is also by the word. It was not Peter as a man that did that; Peter as a man was a poor, fallible fellow. He was one who denied his Lord, and he was one who dissembled before the Jews. But the mighty message which Peter had and proclaimed was the power that did the cleansing and the loosing, or the binding and the condemning. And God approved it because it was by His word. Even so Jeremiah wrought by the message which God sent through him. Jer. 1:10.

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