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Verse 1 Peter 1:5. _WHO ARE KEPT_] φρουρουμενονς. _Who
are defended as in_ _a fortress_ or _castle_. There is a remarkable
correspondence between the two verbs used in this sentence: the verb
τηρεω,...
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WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD - That is, “kept” or preserved in
the faith and hope of the gospel; who are preserved from apostacy, or
so kept that you will finally obtain salvation. The word which...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE SUFFERING OF BELIEVERS AND
EXHORTATIONS TO HOLY LIVING
CHAPTER 1:1-21
_ 1. The introduction and doxology (1 Peter 1:1)_
2. Suffering and the coming glory (1 Peter...
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The section contains a deep and rich thanksgiving to God for the
certainty of an eternal fellowship with Christ. This no sufferings can
mar, nor death itself break. He is the unseen Friend, and since...
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KEPT. See 2 Corinthians 11:32.
BY. App-104.
POWER. App-172.
THROUGH. App-104. 1 Peter 1:1.
FAITH. App-150.
SALVATION. Compare 1 Thessalonians 5:9
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_who are kept by the power of God through faith_ In the word for
"kept," we have, as in 2 Corinthians 11:32 in its literal, and
Philippians 4:7 in its figurative sense, the idea of being "guarded"
as...
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1 Peter 1:3-13. THE HIGH PRIVILEGES AND DESTINY OF THE CHRISTIAN
_Benediction_
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for by
raising Him from the dead He has begotten us, His othe...
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ἘΝ ΔΥΝΆΜΕΙ ΘΕΟΥ͂ may describe the _fortress in_ which
or the _garrison by_ which the Christian is guarded.
ΔΙᾺ ΠΊΣΤΕΩΣ. Faith in God’s promised deliverance is the
condition by which man must avail hi...
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DISCOURSE: 2380
REGENERATION CONSIDERED
1 Peter 1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a
lively hope by the resu...
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WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD— The word
φρουρουμενους, which we translate _kept,_ is very strong
and expressive: it does not mean being kept after any manner, but with
the most constant and vigilan...
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II. THE GREAT SALVATION 1 PETER 1:3-12
_1. Thanksgiving For it 1:3-5_
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a livin...
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Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready
to be revealed in the last time.
KEPT, [ frouroumenous (G5432)] - 'who are being guarded.' He answers
the objection, Of what use...
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VERSE 5 WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD.
Kept; that is, guarded. God, by his revealed will, has made provisions
by which his elect are kept or guarded or defended against the prince
of evil and all...
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1 Note the contrast between Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. Peter proceeds on the ground of His
present rejection on earth, Paul on His exaltation in heaven.
1...
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1:5 time. (a-21) The article is everywhere left out in the Greek here,
making it all characteristic and descriptive....
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GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ENCOURAGEMENT TO HOPE IN
FAITH AND OBEDIENCE
1, 2. To the strangers scattered throughout.. elect] RV 'to the elect
who are sojourners of the Dispersion in,' e...
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KEPT] RV 'guarded': cp. Galatians 3:23; Philippians 4:7. SALVATION] RV
'a salvation.' The Gk. means 'safety,' 'health,' and is so used in
Acts 27:34;...
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‘Protects’ is a military word that has two meanings. It means to
guard from attack and to prevent escape. Peter wants to encourage
Christians who are suffering for being Christians. God’s power
guards...
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MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD
1 PETER
_HELEN POCOCK_
INTRODUCTION
THE WRITER
Peter wrote this letter. He was one of the 12 *apostles. His name was
Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42). ‘Pe...
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(3-12) PANEGYRIC OF THE GOSPEL FROM A HEBREW POINT OF VIEW. — The
Apostle thanks God for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That fact is
a regeneration of us, and a pledge of future glory, in view of w...
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WHO ARE KEPT. — This explains the word “you:” “those, I mean,
who are under the guardianship of God’s power.” Bengel says, “As
the inheritance hath been preserved, so are the heirs guarded; neither
sh...
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CHAPTER 2
THE HEAVENLY INHERITANCE
1 Peter 1:3
"OUT of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," words true of
all this letter, but of no part more true than of the thanksgiving
with which it...
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_Benediction of the Name_. The mention of God is followed by the
Benediction of the Name as Jewish piety prescribed; the formula _the
Holy One, blessed be He_, being amplified by the Christian
appreci...
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The Christians addressed are to complete the metaphor from other
passages in the Epistle a spiritual house (2 5.), which is besieged by
the devil (1 Peter 1:8) but guarded and garrisoned by God's Powe...
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Blessed be God whom we have come to know as the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ! For He has granted to us the crowning manifestation
of His great mercy. He has raised Jesus Christ from the dea...
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OUR IMPERISHABLE INHERITANCE
1 Peter 1:1
_ Scattered strangers_! The designation is true of us all. Note the
reference to the Trinity involved in the opening sentence. Our
inheritance is prepared and...
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Like the letter of James, the purpose of this was to establish those
who were passing through a period of suffering and testing. In his
introduction the apostle used the name Jesus had given him, "Pet...
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PRAISE GOD!
The word "blessed," which is used in 1 Peter 1:3, is not the word
translated blessed in the beatitudes, which describes an inner
happiness of the spiritual man. Instead, Thayer tells us it...
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(2) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the (d) last time.
(2) Now he shows by what way we come to that glory, that is, through
all types of afflictio...
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively
hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (4) To an
inh...
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The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day,
believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a
considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
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_IN HIS KEEPING_
‘Kept by the power of God.’
1 Peter 1:5
In other words, heaven is kept for God’s people, and they are kept
for heaven. To every true Christian such a thought is full of sweet,
plea...
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5_Who are kept by the power of God _We are to notice the connection
when he says, that we are kept while in the world, and at the same
time our inheritance is reserved in heaven; otherwise this though...
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The First Epistle of Peter is addressed to believers among the
dispersed of Israel found in those provinces of Asia Minor Which are
named in the first Verse; the Second Epistle declares itself to be a...
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WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD,.... This is a description of the
persons for whom the inheritance is reserved in heaven; they are not
only chosen to salvation, and begotten again to an inheritance,...
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Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to
be revealed in the last time.
Ver. 5. _Who are kept_] φρουρουμενοι, as with a guard, or
as in a garrison, that is, well fenced w...
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_Who are kept_ Who, though now surrounded with many apparent dangers,
are not left defenceless, but are _guarded_, kept as in a garrison, as
the word φρουρουμενους signifies; _by the power of God_
Whi...
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IN THE LAST TIME; at the end of the world. Those who believe on Christ
must persevere in holiness in order to be saved; and the manner in
which God keeps them affords the greatest encouragement to do...
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A PRAISE OF GOD FOR HIS MANIFOLD BLESSINGS.
The wonderful gifts of God's grace:...
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WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD THROUGH FAITH UNTO SALVATION, READY
TO BE REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME....
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Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the
dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among
Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives),...
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_ 1 Peter 1:5 “who are protected by the power of God through faith
for. salvation ready to be revealed in the last time'_
“WHO ARE PROTECTED BY THE POWER OF GOD THROUGH FAITH” -1.
‘Protected'-‘a milit...
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1-9 This epistle is addressed to believers in general, who are
strangers in every city or country where they live, and are scattered
through the nations. These are to ascribe their salvation to the
e...
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WHO ARE KEPT: lest it should be objected, that though the inheritance
be safe in heaven, yet the heirs are in danger here upon earth, by
reason of the power and stratagems of enemies, and their own
im...
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1 Peter 1:5 who G3588 kept G5432 (G5746) by G1722 power G1411 God
G2316 through G1223 faith G4102 for...
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THE GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THAT IS THEIRS AS GOD'S ELECT WHICH
EVEN ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO (1 PETER 1:3).
The result of God's foreknowing of us, and of the sanctifying work of
the Spirit is...
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‘Who by the power of God are being guarded through faith unto a
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.'
And all these things are guaranteed to us because we are ‘being
continually closely gu...
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Peter lifts his readers' eyes at once to the future. He speaks first
of their hope, their inheritance, their final salvation, before he
alludes to the burdens and fears of the present. There was that...
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1 Peter 1:5. WHO IN GOD'S POWER ARE BEING GUARDED THROUGH FAITH. A
still better reason why they should lift a thankfully confident eye to
the heavenly inheritance. The possession might be reserved for...
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BY THE POWER OF GOD
(εν δυναμε θεου). No other δυναμις (power) like
this (Colossians 1:3).ARE GUARDED
(φρουρουμενους). Present (continuous process) passive
articular (τους) participle of φρουρεω,...
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1 Peter 1:3
The Heavenly Inheritance.
I. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the great number of
the saved.
II. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the great change
which takes...
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1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,_
It must have been very pleasant to his heart to write those words, not
«Peter, who denied his Master,» not Peter, «full of imperfections
and infirmit...
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1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers
scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
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1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers
scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
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1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers
scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
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1 Peter 1:1. _Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ._ These are his
credentials from him who is Prince of the kings of the earth. _To the
strangers scattered_ abroad, of whose tragic dispersion we have spo...
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WHO THROUGH FAITH ARE KEPT SAFE. See 1 Peter 5:7; 1 John 5:4-5. God's
power is available to the Christian through faith! REVEALED. 1 John
3:1-3....
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_Blessed be the God and Father._
MAN BLESSING GOD
I. Man blesseth God three ways.
1. In his heart, when, refreshed with God’s favour and inflamed with
the joys of His presence, he doth lift up his...
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1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:5 SALVATION in this context is a further
description of the inheritance in v. 1 Peter 1:4 and the hope in v....
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1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:3 Called to Salvation as Exiles. Believers
must praise God for his promised salvation and live out that salvation
daily.
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 Peter 1:3. BLESSED BE.—A characteristic Jewish recognition of
God’s mercy. Compare with 2 Corinthians 1:3; Ephesians 1:3.
ABUNDANT.—πολὺ, much. BEGOTTEN US.—The choic...
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EXPOSITIONS
1 PETER 1:1
PETER. It is the Greek form of the name, which the Lord Jesus himself
had given to the great apostle; first, by anticipation, in the spirit
of prophecy (John 1:42); and again...
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Tonight let's turn to First Peter chapter one. Of the many disciples
that were following Jesus, He chose twelve to be apostles. One of the
twelve that was chosen as an apostle was Simon Peter. Simon P...
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1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Samuel 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:3;...
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Kept [φ ρ ο υ ρ ο υ μ ε ν ο υ ς]. A military term. Lit.,
garrisoned. Rev., guarded. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:32, and the
beautiful metaphorical use of the word at Philippians 4:7, "shall
guard your he...
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JOY UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF GLORY
1 Peter 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
As Peter opens his First Epistle he speaks of the strangers scattered
throughout certain countries, then he goes on to tell us some...
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Who are kept — The inheritance is reserved; the heirs are kept for
it. By the power of God — Which worketh all in all, which guards us
against all our enemies. Through faith — Through which alone
salv...
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Here our apostle seems to pre-occupate and prevent an objection. Some
might say, "Though the saints' inheritance be safe in heaven, yet they
are in danger here on earth:" Be it so, as if our apostle h...