1 Peter 1:17, You were ransomed

11 Friday Sep 2015

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1 Peter 1:13–21 (ESV)

¹³Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, ¹⁵but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” ¹⁷And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, ¹⁸knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, ¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. ²⁰He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you ²¹who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

1 Peter 1:17: How to develop the fear of the Lord

10 Thursday Sep 2015

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1 Peter 1:13–21 (ESV)

1 Peter 1:17, How Doctrine Leads to Life

08 Tuesday Sep 2015

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1 Peter 1:13–21 (ESV)

1 Peter 1:17, The Fear of the Lord, cont’d

07 Monday Sep 2015

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1 Peter 1:13–21 (ESV)

1 Peter 1:17, The Fear of the Lord

06 Sunday Sep 2015

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1 Peter 1:13–21 (ESV)

¹⁰¹⁰¹³Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, ¹⁵but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” ¹⁷And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, ¹⁸knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, ¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. ²⁰He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you ²¹who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

1 Peter 1:17, God our Father, cont’d

05 Saturday Sep 2015

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1 Peter 1:13–21 (ESV)

¹³Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, ¹⁵but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, ¹⁶since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” ¹⁷And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, ¹⁸knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, ¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. ²⁰He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you ²¹who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Two Quotes from Ben Witherington III on 1 Peter 1:17, et seq.

07 Saturday Apr 2012

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God, not society, is their ultimate Judge and indeed also the one who ransomed them. Therefore it is God not society whose approval they should seek and whose wrath they should fear. 100

Christ also did not die so that believers might sin all the more, now having a sure means of forgiveness. ….Christ’s death, if we are to receive its benefits, implies our death to our previous sinful ways. 107

Our Status is Determined by Our Relationship to God

24 Friday Feb 2012

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[In 1 Peter 1:17, Peter is introducing] and he hath thesis the speakers each of the even they are strangers strange land. The first reason is give God, not society, is the ultimate judge and indeed also the one who ransomed them. Therefore it is God, not society, approval they should seek wrath they should fear.

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The audience is not called “resident aliens” in relationship to God. To the contrary, they are God’s ransomed shall. But in relationship to society, we continue to have this resident alien status. Peter suggested that the controlling paradigm for their life and conduct should be the relationship with God, of the relationship society. In other words, mere assimilation is the last thing on his mind, yet since Peter is promoting an event listed faith, he does want the audience to be good neighbors their cities and towns in ways that are compatible with their faith.

Ben Witherington III,

Letters and Homilies for Hellenized Christians

The Inconstancy We Find in Ourselves

24 Friday Feb 2012

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As the evil is great, so the Christian has great reason to fear in regard of his danger of it, considering the multitude, strength, and craft of his enemies, and his own weakness and lack of skill to resist them. And his sad experience in being often foiled, teaches him that it is so; he cannot be ignorant of it; he finds how often his own resolutions and purposes deceive him. Certainly, a godly man is sometimes driven to wonder at his own frailty and inconsistency. What strange differences will be between him and himself! how high and how delightful at some times are his thoughts of God and the glory of the life to come; and yet, how easily at another time base temptations will soil him, or, at the least, molest and vex him! And this keeps him in a continual fear, and that fear in continual vigilance and circumspection. When he looks up to God, and considers the truth of His promises, and the sufficiency of His grace and protection, and the almighty strength of his Redeemer, these things fill his soul with confidence and assurance; but when he turns his eye downward again upon himself, and finds so much remaining corruption within, and so many temptations, and dangers, and adversaries without, this forces him not only to fear, but to despair of himself; and it should do so, that his trust in God may be the purer and more entire. That confidence in God will not make him secure and presumptuous in himself, nor that fear of himself make him diffident of God. This fear is not opposite to faith, but high-mindedness and presumption are. To a natural man, it would seem an odd kind of reasoning that of the Apostle: It is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure: therefore (would he think) you may save labor, you may sit still, and not work, or, if you work, you may work fearlessly, being so sure of His help: but the Apostle is of another mind; his inference is, therefore, work out your own salvation, and work it with fear and trembling.

Robert Leighton, Commentary on 1 Peter 1:17

Robert Leighton on the Nature of the Fear of the Lord

24 Friday Feb 2012

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The fear itself, In fear. But how does this square with the high discourse that went before, of perfect assured hope, of faith, and love, and joy, yea, joy unspeakable and glorious, arising out of these? How have all those excellences fallen, as it were, into a dungeon, when fear is mentioned after them! Doesn’t the Apostle St. John say, that perfect love casts out fear?²⁸⁷ And is it not more clearly opposite to perfect or assured hope, and to faith and joy?

If you understand it correctly, this is such a fear as does not prejudice, but preserves those other graces, and the comfort and joy that arise from them: and they all agree so well with it, that they are naturally helps to each other. It would be superfluous to insist on defining this passion of fear, and the many distinctions of it, either with philosophers or divines. The fear here recommended is, out of question, a holy self-suspicion and fear of offending God, which may not only consist with assured hope of salvation, and with faith, and love, and spiritual joy, but is their inseparable companion; as all divine graces are linked together (as the heathens said of their three graces), and, as they dwell together, they grow or decrease together. The more a Christian believes, and loves, and rejoices in the love of God, certainly the more unwilling he is to displease Him, and if in danger of displeasing Him, the more afraid of it; and, on the other side, this fear being the true principle of a wary and holy conversation, fleeing sin, and the occasions of sin, and temptations to it, and resisting them when they make an assault, is as a watch or guard that keeps out the enemies and disturbers of the soul, and so preserves its inward peace, keeps the assurance of faith and hope unmolested, and the joy that they cause, and the communion and societies of love between the soul and her beloved, uninterrupted; all that are then most in danger when this fear abates and falls to slumbering; for then, some notable sin or other is ready to break in and put all into disorder, and for a time make those graces, and the comfort of them to present feeling, as much to seek as if they were not there at all.

Robert Leighton, Commentary on 1 Peter 1:17