Peter Hiett > Quotes

“So if you find yourself hoping against God, and the thought of everyone being saved isn’t good news to you, but bad news to you; if grace burns you like fire – you need to ask yourself why.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“It’s not that Darwinism isn’t describing something real. It’s just not life. It’s death… and Hell.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“But for now, my point is simply that on the seventh day, it appears that there are no losers. So if you need some losers to feel like a winner, you may not like the seventh day.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God’s grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day prove to be empty! ~ Karl Barth, God Here and Now”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Quit trying to manage your fears, and face them. Walk right into them— and realize that your control has been an illusion all along. You need Jesus every second.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now: Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Maybe it's not just a metaphor, and maybe mystery...paradox...wonder...aren't LESS real than this world, but MORE real than this world.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, every one who pierced him; and all tribes of the earth will [mourn] on account of him. Even so, Amen. 'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:7-8).

That word "Almighty"--PANTOKRATOR in Greek--can be translated "omnipotent, all powerful." This isn't some abstract, philosophical concept; it means actual control over everything. The Lord God "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty (v. 8) is a reference to the Hebrew YAHWEH SABAOT--absolute and unrivaled power and control over...all time, all space, all history; for every time, every place, and everyHOW.

He accomplishes all things according to the counsel of His will (Ephesians 1:11). He never loses control; He only surrenders it to Himself, the Son surrendering it to the Father. It is according to plan, and what appears to be His greatest loss--crucified in shame on a Friday--we find out is his greatest victory come Sunday.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Satan took Jesus to the top of the temple and said, "Let's run a little test. Throw yourself down, and we will see if Scripture is true, if Angel's will come and bear you up." And Jesus said, "Thou shalt not put the Lord your God to the test!" (see Luke 4:9-12).

This last century argued that the only things you CAN believe are things you can put to the test. And Satan smiles, for that means we cannot believe in God, who is truth.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“In scripture, names work like mirrors that reflect back the essence of a thing. But more than that, they help CREATE a thing.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“The tribulation and poverty weren't the riches. They EXPOSED the riches: faith, hope, and love. Although this world burns away, writes the apostle Paul, these three will remain.

Faith in Jesus, hope in Jesus, love that IS Jesus--this is treasure.

The jewel exposed by the fire, the gold refined by the furnace, the treasure unearthed by the storm--treasure is found in people, and it is exposed by suffering.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“No matter what data is used, we live in a universe where six days from one standpoint is several billion years from another standpoint. And indeed, all of time is an instant from the standpoint of light, and "God is light.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“The problem with this world is not that God made it good and we messed it up; the problem with this world is simply that it is not yet finished, and neither are you. It's the sixth day and God is still making us in his image and likeness.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“The seventh day is not over; the story is not over. We're still being made in the image of God. ... it appears that we are still living in the sixth day.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“In the Bible we've been given the Gospel according to Matthew, to Mark, to Luke, and to John. But there is also a Gospel according to Jesus: the Revelation. In other Gospels, Jesus was incarnated (in-fleshed) in our space and time, speaking our language. In the Revelation, John is out-carnated (out-fleshed) from our space and time so that Jesus can reveal the eternal gospel in the language of heaven.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Story--plot--gives meaning to each page. If you could number all the pages so that you knew their exact sequence and which page was yours, life would still be meaningless if you didn't know what the book was about.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Guy Chevreau writes: [quote] In biblical Greek there are two words for "time": the first is CHRONOS, from which we get English words such as chronometer and chronology. CHRONOS is clock time, calendar time: 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock; January February, March...all marching right along. The second Greek word, KAIROS, means "special time." [Mothers] know the difference between CHRONOS and KAIROS. About nine months or so into a pregnancy--chronos time--many soon-to-be mothers shake their husband by the shoulder and say..."It's time!" He opens a bleary eye, looks at the clock, and says, "It's 3:17 in the morning; go back to sleep!" She's on KAIROS time, he's talking CHRONOS. So he gets shaken again; "It's time!!" This time he gets it. "IT'S TIME!!!" [end quote]

All reality is now pregnant with "the time," with "eternity." All CHRONOS is pregnant with KAIROS. All times are pregnant with meaning. All reality is pregnant with the Plot, the meaning, the Word, the Logos...Jesus.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“He died and rose from the dead saying, "My Father is your Father." You are not an orphan. You are not an extra. You have His name.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“After day seven, the next verse in Genesis says, "When no plant of the field was yet in the earth...then the Lord God formed man of dust" (Gen. 2:5-7). That's a description of the sixth day, when God formed "man" ... Genesis 2 is not a description of something that happened after the seventh day, but before...”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“A composer is not a note in his symphony, but if you have the capacity to hear the symphony and not just individual notes, the symphony bears testimony to the composer and gives meaning to each note. If you specialize in a note, you may never hear the symphony.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“When I preached through the Gospel of John a couple of years ago, time and time again I was struck by the fact that Jesus does EVERYTHING! He calls people, He chooses people, He saves people, He sanctifies people, He lives His life through people.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Seven is the number of God's manifold fullness. In Revelation 5, the lamb has seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ... the seven spirits of God ARE the seven stars, and the seven stars ARE the seven angels. ... Jesus is writing to His own Spirit resident in each individual church

...the SPIRIT is the Counselor. He is the Advocate.

In 1 John, John says, "If any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous" (1 John 2:1)

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says He is sending another advocate. "You know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you" (14:17)

[Jesus] takes his own rebuke for us and answers His own call IN us.

He not only SAVES us, He also SANCTIFIES us; that is, he does good works IN us;

In these letters we hear our Lord speaking His directions to the Advocate--His Spirit--calling, "Live...live...live!" until "it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the live I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Satan's extortion is powerless without the addiction to a good public name.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“The formless void is transformed by the Meaning of the one who is Good. Confusion and sorrow prepare you for the revelation of grace. The nights you cry alone in the dark allow you to see the light, as God whispers, "Now let there be light." The desperate longing is broken soil prepared for an eternal seed that will bear eternal fruit. Even your disobedience, your aimless wandering, your angry defiance... even the void that is your sin becomes space for the presence of God, who is Mercy. It becomes space for the revelation of you--His child, in His Image: a vessel of Mercy where once there was emptiness and wrath. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new." (2 Cor. 5:17 NKJV)”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method. How could you prove that Truth is true? Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method...let alone Love, Reason, Spirit, or you.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“For the little Lamb who bleeds on the throne is the One who breaks down the doors of hell and conquers everything. “Behold,” He declares, “I make all things new.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now: Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“We are like a patient on an operating table overhearing the Great Physician talk to Himself about our surgery. If that is the case, what should we do?

HOLD STILL.

Surrender, especially whatever is sick or rotten. Don't hide...surrender, trust, hold still, and see the salvation of your God.

Conquering then depends on surrendering deadness and sickness to the Physician.

"Will the Physician conquer? Will the Advocate conquer? Will JESUS conquer?"

The saints conquer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. That word is Jesus.

John wrote in 1 John 5:4, "This is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith."

Jesus said we can do nothing apart from Him.

Overhearing the seven letters makes us call out, "Help! I can't conquer!"

Then THE LAMB conquers.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Jesus said, "Whatever you [all] ask in my name, I'll do it for you" (John 14:13). In my name--and who is He? He's the Plot--the Word of the Author, who is the narrator.”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Things and riches of this world aren't evil in themselves; what is evil is that we USE people to love THINGS instead of using THINGS to love PEOPLE.”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation

“Imagine that I'm God and I hold the Universe in my hands. Picture it as a shoe box--but it's the Universe. OK? All space, all time, all matter is in the box: The Universe. I AM not in the box, but I AM holding the box.

Imagine if I spoke to the people in my box universe: "Hey people! How's it going, eh? Hang in there. Love you guys!"

Well, everything and everyone, everywhere and everywhen, would vibrate with the sound of my words.

"Logos" in Greek means "meaning, logic, reason, wisdom, word." The Word is logic, meaning, reason, truth, life, and light. And Scripture is clear that God does not only create with His Word; He maintains and sustains all things with this Word. The box is upheld by this Word. So God is continually speaking into the box (His creation).

Now, that all sounds rediculous to modern minds, but lately it's all begun to sound rather like science... special relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory: the theory that all particles are like vibrations of meaning on super-strings that exist in at least eleven or twelve dimensions. "Vibrations of meaning"... that's what a word is!”
― Peter Hiett, The History of Time and the Genesis of You

“Jesus said, "The kingdom [of heaven] is like a pearl merchant [not a PEARL, but a pearl MERCHANT], and when he finds the pearl of great price, he gives up everything" (see Matthew 13:44-45). He gives up his kingdom for the pearl.

Jesus gives up His kingdom for His pearl, the church--His inheritance, His riches. A pearl is formed in suffering. It is riches wrapped around a wound. The Church is faith, hope, and love wrapped around the wounded body of Christ.

Lord Jesus, make us rich for you--your pearl of great price, your gold purified by fire, your city decked with jewels, your city in which you dwell.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass. (Revelation 21:21)”
― Peter Hiett, Eternity Now! Encountering the Jesus of Revelation