by T. Austin-Sparks
Conference messages given around 1967-68. Edited and supplied by the Golden Candlestick Trust.
When we come to Peter's letters, we are looking backward rather than forward. We see that work very largely accomplished and as we take up this first letter, we are at once able to recognise what a tremendous change has taken place, what an utterly new position Peter has come to occupy - an entirely new mentality and outlook, because he has come to see everything in a new form and in a new realm. His letters, as you know, are mainly occupied with the Kingdom, but he sees the Kingdom now altogether differently from how he was seeing it in the old days when it was to him an earthly and temporal expectation. It was now a heavenly and a spiritual kingdom.
