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2. Biblical Studies In 1st & 2nd Peter
A LIVING HOPE...
...A SURE SALVATION
Biblical Studies In 1st & 2nd Peter

3. Outline Of 1st Peter SALVATION: The Attainment Of Believers 1:1 – 2:10
SUBMISSION: The Appeal To Believers :11 – 3:12
SUFFERING: The Attitude & Actions Of Believers 3:13 – 5:14

4. Outline Of 2nd Peter True Knowledge In Which To Grow 1:1-21
False Teachers Who Were To Come 2:1-22
Sure Promise In Which To Hope 3:1-18

5. Outline Of 1st Peter
SALVATION: The Attainment Of Believers :1 – 2:10
SUBMISSION: The Appeal To Believers :11 – 3:12
SUFFERING: The Attitude & Actions Of Believers 3:13 – 5:14 4

6. Believers’ Salvation 1:1 – 2:10
Until they can fully support themselves on their own, children owe everything they are and have to their parents
Parents brought them into this world
Parents provided for every need
Parents nurtured & trained them

7. Believers’ Salvation 1:1 – 2:10
Peter’s opening section of his 1st letter focuses on the blessings & responsibilities we have as God’s children
As heirs of the Father’s inheritance 1:1-25
As newborn babes 2:1-3
As living stones in His house 2:4-10

8. The Elect Of God 1 Pet 1:1 Why An Unconditional Election Is False
Salvation Is Conditional Mt 7:21 Lk 13:3
It portrays God as arbitrary…even “cruel”
It negates human responsibility…man is reduced to nothing more than a “puppet”

9. The Elect Of God 1 Pet 1:1 Why An Unconditional Election Is False
God’s invitations are voided Mt 11:28-30
God becomes a “respecter of persons” 1 Pet 1: Acts 10:34-35

10. The Elect Of God 1 Pet 1:2 True “Election” From This Verse
God the Father chooses based upon His foreknowledge cp. Rom 8:29-30
God the Spirit sanctifies through His work of revelation cp. Jn 17:17

11. The Elect Of God 1 Pet 1:2 True “Election” From This Verse
God the Son sprinkles (cleanses) through His blood & sacrifice cp. Heb 9: : Jn 1:7

12. The Elect Of God 1 Pet 1:2 True “Election” From This Verse
God’s efforts at man’s “election” are intended to produce man’s obedience v. 2
A voluntary response from free will
This is not Calvinistic “election”

13. A “Living Hope” 1 Pet 1:3
The first disciples’ hope had “faded” Lk 24:21
Peter also felt this way Jn 20: :3
Now, he exhorts re: the “living hope” based on the resurrection of Christ

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