1 Peter (Program #10) -The Full Salvation of the Triune God and Its Issues (8) As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we accept the Bible as truth.  John 17 says specifically, “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.”  And so when we come to verses such as John 3:16 for example, “for […]

1 Peter (Program #9) -The Full Salvation of the Triune God and Its Issues (7) In chapter one of his epistle Peter contrasts our former way of living or literally our manner of life which was vain with our present manner of life, we should be holy. Vain of course means empty, without meaning. Well, […]

1 Peter (Program #7) – Peter’s Well-Speaking Concerning the Triune God The apostle Peter opens his first epistle with a long and truly marvelous blessing of the Triune God.  This blessing occupies ten of the twelves verses and these verses are full of wonderful, spiritual expressions based not on mere praise to God for His […]

1 Peter (Program #6) – The Full Salvation of the Triune God and Its Issues (4) Even though Peter’s entire contribution to the New Testament only comprises eight chapters, the scope of his writing was extremely broad.  In his first epistle he incorporates both the prophecies of the ancient Old Testament prophets and the preaching […]

1 Peter (Program #5) – The Full Salvation of the Triune God and Its Issues (3) In his first epistle, the apostle Peter compared the testing or proving of our faith with the refining process that purifies gold.   Gold, precious and valuable as it is,  is still a perishable commodity.  Yet our faith must stand […]

1 Peter (Program #4) – The Full Salvation of the Triune God and Its Issues (2) In his epistles the apostle Peter frequently mentions the matter of salvation.   but he does so in a context that somewhat different than how most Christians normally think of salvation.  For example  in chapter 1:5 he say “a salvation […]

1 Peter (Program #3) – The Full Salvation of the Triune God and Its Issues (1) In the books of 1 & 2 Peter often a single word can add much richness and meaning to what is being said.  For example, Peter begins his first epistle by pointing  us to the sprinkling of the blood […]

1 Peter (Program #2) – The Operation of the Triune God Upon the Elect for Their Participation in His Full Salvation The story of the Lord’s calling of the apostle Peter as is recorded in the gospel of John includes and intriguing unusual component; he changes his name from Simon to Cephas which literally means […]

1 Peter (Program #1) – An Introductory Word Of all the disciples called by the Lord Jesus in the gospels, probably the one we can most readily identify with is Peter. Simon Barjona as he was known before the Lord changed his name to Peter. In John chapter 1 was as impetuous as he was […]

James (Program #10) – A Life Not Fully According to and for God’s New Testament Economy (1) In Acts chapter 2, the apostle Peter spoke boldly to his Jewish kinsman, “be saved from this crooked generation.”   Some time later, the apostle  Paul reminded the Jewish believers that God had rescued them out of the present […]