Chapter 1<\/p>\n
A call to the elects.<\/p>\n
v. 3-12 Hope and faith confirmed in temporal suffering.<\/p>\n
v.2 A good line for pastoral benediction.<\/p>\n
v.7 Reason for suffering.<\/p>\n
v.8 I think Janet Mefferd is missing this part when she kept implying she couldn't stand this world and can't wait for Christ to come. But in our faith we are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.<\/p>\n
v.8-9 Could be and had been applied in some way to Old Testament saints.<\/p>\n
v.10-12 Another point for a christocentric rather than only christotelic interpretation of the OT. \"...It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you [Christians]...\"<\/p>\n
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v.13-25 Be Holy - Against Antinomianism. Chapter 1 A call to the elects. v. 3-12 Hope and faith confirmed in temporal suffering. v.2 A good line for pastoral benediction. v.7 Reason for suffering. v.8 I think Janet Mefferd is missing this part when she kept implying … Continue reading
\nv.18 Vain futility of life - such is the death of Adam and Eve on the day they ate the fruit.
\nv.20 Yet another case against the Christotelic-only hermeneutics of OT. \"...before the creation of the world...\"
\nv.21 God<\/span> raised Jesus from the dead.
\nv.23 Born again. Of imperishable seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"