[[1Pe 1:3]] KJV Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Jesus said you must be born again...Peter after having said we where chosen, sanctified, and consecrated unto God says the same...for we can not experience God living in us without first being born of God.
All of us where born in the image of Adam and as such we had no life in us. Death is not an event but a condition of separation. Adam became a self at his fall and we as his generations where born as selves. The thing about a self is by nature it is separated and hence dead.
When we are born again God breaths his life into us...we take on his life shared with us and with all others who are born of his Spirit. Jesus said as he was one with the Father we would be one with him and the Father.
Jesus calls this experience born again not educated again. When we where born as a self we learned how to walk, talk, eat, and all other things as a self. When we are born again we are not adding God to our life but our life is completely new from him.
So we must learn to speak as he speaks through us, walk as he walks through us, so in all things we must abandon what we learned as a self. Our life is his life in us and we must learn how to do all things as one with him.
Peter calls this a living hope. The word hope has taken on the meaning of the word wish in modern English, but its meaning when it was used in translation of Gods word was a desired expectation. So Peter tells us that our living in Gods life is something our Father teaches us to do; we are to desire and expect this life to be perfected in us for our Father can not fail.
