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By standing in your faith and pressing on (by faith not sight, remembering that "faith" is an "action" verb and calls for Spirit enabled, grace filled obedience) to virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness, brotherly affection and love - in short, zealously work out your holiness in the sanctification process. 1989. King James Version and Student Study Handout for 2 Peter 3:1 … evidence the saints are capable of giving to them, or they of It promotes his comfort, it promotes his holiness. âHave thou authority over ten cities.â These are the Christian aspects of death. James 3:2+ For we all stumble in many ways. TDNT says that bebaios means âstanding firm on the feet,â âsteadfast,â âmaintaining firmness or solidity,â âsteadfast for â¦â Hence âfirmâ in the sense of having inner solidity. Many historians believe that Peter was put to death in Rome shortly after 2 Peter was written. Day Thorough self-examination is of great use as a means to prevent our forming a too favourable view of our own state and character, and, by shewing us what is wanting and what is wrong, to lead us to use the appropriate means for having the former supplied, and the latter corrected. that they should never fall at all, or in any sense, for in many If ye do these things.—Showing that the making sure of our election is not a single act, but multiform, viz., the furnishing the graces commended (2Peter 1:5-7). Let me remind you how utterly the whole aspect of any difficulty, trial, or sorrow, and especially of that culmination of all menâs fears â death itself â is altered when we think that in the darkest bend of the dark road we may trace footsteps, not without marks of blood in them, of Him that has trodden it all before us. 1 Peter 1:2. He calls them to The meaning here is, that they were to obtain such evidences of personal piety as to put the question whether they were "called" and "chosen," so far as their own minds were concerned, to rest; or so as to have undoubted evidence on this point. It will make heavy afflictions light, long afflictions short, and bitter afflictions sweet. The definite article appear before the eisodos in the Greek text, pointing to a particular road. So Peter is saying that If you pursue virtue in your life, you'll not only enjoy assurance here but you'll enjoy reward in the life to come. There can be no evidence that salvation will be ours, unless there is a holy life; that is, unless there is true religion. He was called Bar-Jonah because his father was named Jonah. In His mediatorial capacity, Christ must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet (1Cor 15:25), and when that glorious end shall have come, He will deliver up the kingdom to God the Father and this eternal kingdom will continue forever. HOW? A believer's spiritual growth confirms that God has called and chosen him. Peter clearly meant the cross of Jesus when he mentioned the tree (literally wood). give diligence—The Greek aorist implies one lifelong effect [Alford]. (Jas 2:14-26 - see in depth commentary notes = Jas 2:14 ; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26), Dear reader, please do not misinterpret what Peter is saying. His recipe brings spiritual success. At the same time there is another sense in which the words are not rightly applicable to the Christian, or Peter speaks of our having an abundant entrance given us in the everlasting kingdom (2 Peter 1:11). He is the author of over 45 books, including the Gold Medallion Award-winning book The Gagging of God, and is general editor of Telling the Truth and Worship by the Book. sin, or fall into sin, for there is no man that lives, and sins If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. This "evidence" serves as confirmation of our divine call and election. Dearly beloved, the believer who is diligent to pursue godliness and holiness is not the one who will barely "make it" into the kingdom or "be saved only as one escaping through the flames". There is a moment in the life of every believing soul in which there strangely mingle the lights of earth and the lights of heaven. Epichoregeo - 5x in 5v - 2 Cor 9:10; Gal 3:5; Col 2:19; 2 Pet 1:5, 11. Peter is saying "make certain for yourself". With us to make your calling and election sure; Genuine assurance will be a spring of joy and comfort in you. As we do these things, we are preparing for the time when we will be with our Lord. Then he We do not preach election to unsaved people; we preach the Gospel (cf 1Cor 1:17,23,2:2). 1 Peter was written to encourage Christians under the threat of violent persecution; 2 Peter was written to warn those same believers of the danger of false teachers and harmful influences. âMy decease.., an entrance.â. exercise of grace, or from a degree of steadfastness in the 11:11 the basic sense âto stumbleâ is plain, and there is perhaps a distinction from falling inasmuch as those who merely stumble may regain their balance, but falling has the greater finality of eternal ruin. It will lift us above the absorbed occupation with present trivialities, which is the bane of all that is good and noble. (Word Studies - Eerdmans). If you use all diligence to make as high attainments as possible in piety, and it you practice the virtues demanded by religion, 2 Peter 1:5-7. The present tense active participle indicates that by a choice of one's will we are continuously in the process of nurturing and developing these Christian qualities. That, and nothing more, is death â May 2, 1982. That is, you shall certainly he saved. You'll always have confidence, you'll always have assurance. --Mountain to be diligent to make their own, and not another's, calling and Some people say, "Well, all you have to do to be assured is to go way back to some point in time when you signed on the dotted line, that's all the assurance you ever need," that's not what the Scripture says. To "slip". Teacher Study Hints for Thinking Further. The word order in Greek is actually "these things" first giving them emphasis. It is well worth noting that the New Testament very seldom condescends to use that name for the mere physical fact of dissolution. Peter is saying that in the future when you enter in to the eternal kingdom, you will receive an abundant reward. In 1 Pet. The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ. But when Christians âmake their calling and election sure,â by âa conversation becoming the Gospel;â when worldly men see Christians acting a part which they cannot help approving, and even admiringâa part, they know well, their principles could never enable them to actâdiscovering a patience and fortitude under suffering, a meekness amid provocation, incorruptible integrity in spite of the strongest temptations, self-sacrifice in the cause of humanity;âthey are constrained to say, not only that these are wonderful people, but that these strange effects must have an adequate cause. Peter's point is that such a disaster simply cannot ever happen to a genuine believer. The text from the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) in The Passion Translation® is harmonized into a singular narrative and presented chronologically. This is not what Peter is talking about. But that is not the main point which the text suggests. 173). And then they fear that they shall perish by the hand of such a corruption or by the prevalency of such to temptation. Here I am. In view of the important statement of Peter in this verse, then, we may remark: (1) that he believed in the doctrine of election, for he uses language which obviously implies this, or such as they are accustomed to use who believe the doctrine. CHAPTER 1. Poieo is also in the middle voice which calls for the reader to personally initiate this action and to participate in the effects of the development of the virtues leading to holiness. And so, dear brethren, I beseech you to remember that it depends on yourself whether departing shall be arrival, and exodus shall be entrance. Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. The Christian, as will come out more fully in a subsequent part of our discussions, cannot grow in well-grounded assurance of his calling and election, except by growing in knowledge, faith, and holiness; and when he does thus grow, his calling and election are assured to him, without his making them the subject of direct and anxious inquiry. First, the apostle notes that believers are to come to Jesus “as living stones” (1 Pet. There is not a pin-point of space, not the millionth part of a second of time, intervening between the two. In keeping with this, Paul constantly emphasized the Christian life with words such as wealth, riches, abundance, and he prayed that Christians might be, âfilled with all the fullness of Godâ (Ep 3:19-note), Paul was not satisfied with a bare entrance into heaven. He strengthens us for godly living (3-4) III. This is one reason John commanded believers to constantly (enabled by the power of the Holy Spirit Who gives us the desire and the power - Php 2:13NLT-note) NOT to fall into the clutches of seductive, subtle idols which in our modern world aren't innocent appearing little stone statues but anything that seeks to insert itself between us and our Creator God! KJV: Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: NLT: So, dear friends, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. But how are they to do so? The Christian, endowed with wealth through Christâs provision, invests and saves for future wealth (1Ti 6:19). Romans 11:5 (note) In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice. 1 Peter 2:10 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] 1 Peter 2:10, NIV: "Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy." Precisely what God chose His people to before the foundation of the world was that they should be holy. But God uses the inherent power (Ro 1:16, 1Cor 1:18) of the Gospel to call sinners to repentance, and then those sinners discover that they were of the elect, chosen by God! Another argument, strengthening the exhortation, follows: (8) The conclusion: Therefore seeing our calling and election is approved by those fruits, and is confirmed in us, and moreover seeing this is the only way to the everlasting kingdom of Christ, it remains that we set our minds wholly on that way. Klesis is used 11 times in the NT in the NAS (Click study of related word kletos, and a discussion of who are "the called"). Now bearing all these points in mind, let us just turn to these words and try to gather the lessons which they suggest. It is written as with a sunbeam, "The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." If we do âthese thingsâ (the things listed in 2Peter 1:5â7, cf. Romans 11:29 (note) for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. To lose oneâs footing. There is no entrance by reason of the fact of death, unless all through life there has been an entrance into rest by reason of the fact of faith. Found insideA monumental achievement, this book puts comprehensive information on men of the Bible at your fingertips, including a list of major characters. Besides named individuals, it also classifies the thousands upon thousands of unnamed men. particular and personal one, since scattered saints, and We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Like the mighty angel in the Apocalypse, the dying man stands for a moment with one foot on the earth and the other already laved and cleansed by the waters of that sea of glass mingled with fire which is before the Throne,â âAbsent from the body; present with the Lord.â. There was a time when this was not true in my life. Look back to 2 Peter 1:5â6 (r.v.). It seems so basic that we live our Christian lives in the light of an eternal reward, that we are endeavoring to lay up treasure in heaven, that we are pursuing the virtuous things of gold, silver and precious stones and not the lesser things of wood, hay and stubble. (Amplified Bible - Lockman). and besides, while they were exercising those graces, and doing 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:. The writer left little doubt that he was Peter the apostle (see 1 Pet. When they finally found him, they discovered that he was living in a simple hut. Of all the ecclesial images employed in Peter’s letter to the exiled converts of Asia Minor, the root metaphor that best describes the Christian community is the “spiritual house” ( oikos pneumatikos) or “household of God” (2:5). * He lived in Bethsaida and later Capernaum – John 1:44; Mark 1:21,29. Leaving door and window wide.â Grace and peace be multiplied 2. Mine is for a scrumptious banana cake. Now note, secondly, the great fact on which this view of death builds itself. 2:5). Kingdom (932) (basileia from basileus = a sovereign, king, monarch) denotes sovereignty, royal power, dominion and then the territory or people over whom the king rules. On the meaning of the word "election," see the Romans 9:11 note; 1 Thessalonians 1:4 note. It increases hope, not by giving it a new basis, but by showing that we are indeed resting on the only sure foundation. Peter desired that his readers not forget what they learned. Wuest notes that ptaio was used in secular Greek writings to refer to a âsure-footed as a horse that does not stumbleâ (Xenophon), and thus of a good man (Epictetus, Marcus Antoninus) (Robertson). will strengthen your faith, raise your hope, inflame your love, increase your patience, and brighten your zeal. - When you're 9 years old, you don't want to think a lot about the future. (McGee, J V: Thru the Bible Commentary: Thomas Nelson) (Bolding added) (Listen to Dr McGee's Mp3), Warren Wiersbe also gives his usual wise counsel on this this passage "Peter also pointed out that election is no excuse for spiritual immaturity or for lack of effort in the Christian life. Genuine assurance will be⦠a sword to defend you, a staff to support you, a cordial to strengthen you, a medicine to heal you, and a star to lead you. Entrance (1529) (eisodos from eis = into + hodos =road, highway) means the way in or the road into. 2:4–10 Peter employs two illustrations as he continues to discusses believers’ identity in Christ. He is talking, not about a stone, but about many stones. He will not always be on the mountaintop, but he will always be climbing higher. He calls on them to âgive all diligence to add to their faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge temperance, to temperance patience, to patience godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity:â and he calls on them to âgive all diligence to make their calling and election sure.â These two injunctions, though lying at some distance from each other in the text, ver. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts. What is the only safe ground of a sinnerâs hope? First, it shows brethren—marking that it is affection for them which constrains him so earnestly to urge them. Each has its own answer, and it is dangerous to mistake the answer of one of them, for the answer of either of the others. This book is about how to read and study the Bible. This book is about getting the non-Christian to learn how to study the Bible, and this book is for the Pastor and theologian who needs to have their "refresh" button pressed. Beloved, what Peter is saying and what I'm saying to you is that assurance is directly tied to how you live your life. (Evening Thoughts or Daily Walking With God November), 2 Peter 1:11 for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you. By diligent pursuit of the virtues and the blessing of assurance that accompany them as you pursue diligently. Ephesians 4:1 (note) therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called. cannot be made void, and upon the will of God, which cannot be It is by following the in junctions given (2Peter 1:5-7) that our election is made secure. âFor if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.â I have talked with many Christians who have gotten into sin. That might cause you to sit back and relax, thinking that the rest of life is just a vacation. Choosing - That is "election". It is idle to seek assurance of election outside holiness of life. (Read 2 Peter 1:1-11) Faith unites the weak believer to Christ, as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every sincere believer is by his faith justified in … Hebrews 3:14 (note) For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end; Hebrews 6:19 (note) This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil. âI want in this short life of mine False 3) God has already given us the divine _____needed for everything pertaining to … TDNT - In Rom. Professor Salmond observes that it is the reverse of âsaved, yet so as through fire.â (1Cor 3:15). not; or that they should not fall from a degree of the lively Just as sure as the anchor is there, we shall be there also." I now proceed to attempt an answer to the second question, What does the apostle call on these persons to do who have obtained like precious faith with the apostles; are in possession of grace and peace, but need more of both; and are the called and chosen of God? F B Meyer (Our Daily Homily) - writing on 2 Peter 1:11 An entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly. âMy decease.., an entrance.â So the terribleness and mystery dwindled down into this â a change of position; or if locality is scarcely the right class of ideas to apply to spirits detached from the body â a change of condition. Grace and peace be yours in abundance. The general answer is, by âgiving diligence ââby earnestly and assiduously using the appropriate means. 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 & 2 Peter and Jude Commentary Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2009 Excellent commentary, easy to read, presents alternatives, and gives great insights into the original texts. Everybody would like to be sure about their salvation, nobody wants to live their life in doubt. Eternal is better than everlasting, since the word includes more than duration of time.". It reminds us of those words of Christ about the friends whom we have made by the right use of money welcoming us into eternal habitations. BIBLE STUDY NOTES 1 Peter 2:1-12 ===== WE look at only 12 verses because there is such a lot to learn from them, and such important spiritual instruction. That's why it sometimes doesn't do any good to explain to my son Steven the long-term advantages of struggling through long division and practicing the piano. Will we practice this walk perfectly? The word should be written like precious. (Eerdmans). 2 Peter 1:10. σπουδάσατε. 2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly, into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour —, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. Jesus had revealed this to the faithful disciple who had loved and served Him for so long. These may be made "sure", not in themselves, or with respect to God, for in this sense they cannot be made surer than they are: effectual calling is according to the purpose of God, which cannot be frustrated, and is, without repentance, irreversible, and irrevocable, and is inseparably connected with eternal glory; and election stands not upon the foot of works, but upon the free grace of God, which cannot be made void, and upon the will of God, which cannot be resisted; and is also closely connected with glorification; see Romans 8:30 nor are those to be made sure by saints, with respect to themselves; for though they may sometimes be at a loss about them, and may have some scruples and doubts in their minds concerning their interest in them, and an assurance of their being both called and chosen, may be after all attained unto by them; yet this is not their work, but it is the work of the Spirit of God, to certify and make sure unto them, or assure them of their calling and election of God: but the sense is, that diligence is to be used by the saints, to make their calling and election sure to others; not their election by their calling only, which is to themselves; for both are to be made sure, and that to others, and by some third thing; either to their fellow Christians, which they may do by giving them an account of the work of God upon their souls, joined with a testimony of their good lives and conversations; or rather to the world "by good works", as the Vulgate Latin version and two copies of Beza's read; or "by your good works", as the Alexandrian copy and the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read; or by the exercise of the graces, and the discharge of the duties before mentioned, whereby the men of the world may be certified and assured, by the best evidence the saints are capable of giving to them, or they of receiving, that they are the called and chosen of God, they profess themselves to be; and which is a reason why those things should be done: and another follows. It is by âgiving all diligence to add to his faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity,â that the Christian is to âmake his calling and his election sure.â The order, then, best fitted to bring the whole subject, in a satisfactory form, before the mind, seems to be, to explain first, what the apostle would have Christians to doââmake their calling and election sure;â then, how he would have them to do it; and then, show how the means pointed out by the apostle are fitted to gain the end proposed. The aorist tense here points to a stumbling that is final, a fall from which there is no arising ((Ro 11:11, Heb 6:6, 10:26; 1Jn 5:16 "sin to death"). And Christianity does it for exactly the opposite reason, because it fears it not at all, and knows it quite enough. This is the punch line of verses 5-9. not causes and conditions of electing grace. The only safe ground of the sinnerâs hope is the sovereign mercy of God, exercised in consistency with His righteousness, through the atoning sacrifice of His Son, made known to us in the Gospel revelation. It is as simple as this: He calls, and you answer. Genuine holiness will yield you a heaven hereafter; but genuine assurance will yield you a heaven here. (Phillips: Touchstone), Wuest: for in this way the entrance shall be richly provided for you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 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