“For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth”
With verse 12 we begin a new section dealing with the Christian’s nourishment in the Word of God (1:12-21). The focus turns from the work of God in of individual Christians, to the Word of God as the instrument of nurture.
For this reason
Since Asia Minor Christians possess a faith that sustains godliness, Peter now insists that they live by truth.
Peter reminded his audience three times to retain the contents of this epistle (1:12,13,15; cf. 3:1).
“I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:6-7).
Principle:
Christian leaders (who are sharp) review crucial doctrines regularly for their people.
Application:
We need to be reminded of what we already know to prevent dullness toward it or worse still, our forgetting it.
Evangelicals need stability in doctrine. If Christians are not aware of the peculiar trends of our day, we will become unstable.
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