Rev.22: 13"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." And if you descend from the sky to the earth, then these words can be translated like this.
The Lord Jesus is not only the gas, but also the brake. And the car is your life and if any of these properties in your life will fail, in what state will your life be?
Topic: While you live on earth: "Be you a human!"
Ecclesiastes 7:2 "for death is the destiny of every man"
"For every man is destined to pass through death"
Considering the above. A person can also use such an option as being baptized and passing death with Christ. In the hope of being raised from the dead at the return of Jesus. This option of course depends on the person's desire. But the first option ( "For every man is destined to pass through death") does not depend on the person's desire.
However, in this topic, I want to talk not about baptism and rebirth to a new life, but to Express my gratitude to one brother in Christ. As he calls himself now Andrey. So the topic that he touched on in my opinion is very important and here's why!
Think about why the first of the Apostles of Christ is considered to be the Apostle Peter. And although the Apostle Paul is one of the greatest Apostles. Why did the Lord choose Peter first?
Ecclesiastes 7:15-17"A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness. Do not be overrighteous neither be overwise - why destroy yourself? Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool - why die before your time?"

Here Ecclesiastes utters some wise sayings that will not be superfluous for a person while he lives on earth.
So why the Apostle Peter?
In my opinion, Peter has many qualities in his character that deserve special attention, but I want to touch on such qualities as weakness and cowardice. These qualities are in every person, but no one brags about them, and a person does not receive praise for these qualities either from God or from people. But it is very easy to get reproaches. And Peter received a reproach first from the Lord
Matthew 26: 33-34 "Peter replied:" Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will" Truly I tell you,Jesus answered, "This very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times" 
And this is a reproach from the Apostle Paul Gal. 2: 11-14 "When Cephaf came to Antioch, I  opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

 When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel,  I said to Cephas in front of them all: "You are a Jew.yet you live like  a Gentile, and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow  Jewish customs?"

Yet in Christ, God transforms human weakness into the Glory of God for the benefit of believers.
And the more a believer strives for righteousness in Christ, the more resistance and temptation he meets. And only those who persist in their righteousness to the end are able to survive this time of trial. A very striking example is the biblical book of Job.
1Peter 4: 18 "And, "If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"
And the Apostle Peter himself, in the moments of greatest resistance and temptation, because of weakness in his character, gave up and stopped resisting. And it was God And the Lord himself who restored him to his positions of divine service.Because it is not safe for a person to be more righteous than God.
Eccl. 7: 16 "Don't be overrighteous, neither be overwise - why destroy yourself?" 
And perhaps in some cases it is better to receive a reproach from the Lord or a believer for his cowardice and weakness than to perish in the stubbornness of his religious righteousness!
And it seems to me that it is for these mostly human weaknesses that the Lord Jesus chose the first of the Apostles, the Apostle Peter. presenting Peter as a guide and helper to every believing person in Christ Jesus our Lord. No matter how many weak human qualities of character there are in a believer. The main thing that a believer would have these qualities is faith and constancy in DEVOTION to God (Daily following Christ). Everything else will be restored by God and the Lord Jesus In due time. This attitude (to be able to forgive) must be maintained by the believer not only in relation to himself, but also in relation to other people, both believers and non-believers in God. Such a disciple of Jesus Christ will be able to fulfill his calling well in Christ for the sake of the gospel And the service of God.

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