form or formula, a rite or ritual; nor is it some secret order or password, as the Gnostics claimed. It is to know Jesus Christ as He is revealed to man in the Word of God. This is the secret of life and of Christian living (see John 17:3). Notice how Peter uses the name—“our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” How precious the Lord Jesus had become to this rough, old fisherman! As J. Niebor has well said, “He obeyed Him as Lord, he loved Him as Saviour, he adored Him as the greatest human, Jesus, he