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    Notes on the Epistles by Peter: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
    Notes on the Epistles by Peter: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
    Notes on the Epistles by Peter: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
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    Notes on the Epistles by Peter: New Testament Bible Commentary Series

    By JOHN MILLER

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    Bible teacher explores the two New Testament letters written by the Apostle Peter in this helpful commentary.  Hyperlinked scriptures are provided for all Bible verse references.

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    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781386799627
    Notes on the Epistles by Peter: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
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    JOHN MILLER

    JOHN MILLER (1882-1968) was born at Blackridge, Scotland of humble parents. He was saved in his youth, baptized and added to the assembly then at Blackridge, halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. He joined the service of the North British Railway Co. as a clerk but that occupation did not tax his mental talents. He belonged to a generation which produced many able brethren who had no opportunity of higher education in secular subjects. Their ability was used on the study of the Bible. There were a lot of such men in the Brethren Movement and some found their way into the Churches of God. He was one of them. At 26 years of age he became a full-time servant of the Lord and, at the relatively young age of 29 years, he was writing papers on doctrinal subjects for the overseers' conference. In 1925 when he was 42 years he was recognised as one of the leading brothers of the Churches of God. In the course of his work as a Lord's Servant he visited most parts of the Fellowship except Nigeria. In the U.K. he was known from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Isles, not only by saints in the Churches of God.  He studied the whole scope of Bible teaching and his vision took in the world. As a man, he was a very able man; as a man of God, there were few his equal. He was outstanding in any group of men and at all times a pillar among his fellows. Had he been a politician he would have made his mark among the great ones of the earth. He spoke like an orator as one may hear from a few tapes of his ministry which are available. There are many, many articles in Needed Truth and Bible Studies and Intelligence. His notes of the books of the New Testament can be obtained from Hayes Press.  He married Mary Smith, daughter of a former Lord's Servant, David Smith and they had ten children.

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      Notes on the Epistles by Peter - JOHN MILLER

      COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER 1

      1 Pet.1:1,2

      Peter, James and Paul wrote epistles to the same people, to the saints of the Dispersion (James 1:1; 1 Pet.1:1; 2 Pet.3:15). The Dispersion was the dispersed Jews who lived in Gentile lands. The only epistle of Paul which answers to what Peter said is that of the Hebrews, and we are of the opinion, despite what some modern writers have written to the contrary, that Paul was the writer of the Hebrews. Peter writes as an apostle. Those to whom he writes are the elect in Pontus, Galatia, etc. The elect are viewed as sojourning on earth, a pilgrim people, like the children of Israel in their journey through the wilderness. This is different from the view of election in Eph.1:4, where the saints are viewed as chosen in Christ before there was any earth. He chose us in Him (Christ) before the foundation of the world; and as chosen ones we were blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.

      In Ephesians we are taught to look away from earth to the heavenlies in Christ, the place of our blessings and election, but in 1 Peter we look to the earth and see a chosen people wending their way as pilgrims through a strange and foreign land to their inheritance above. These elect in 1 Peter were sojourners in a double sense, they were Jewish people sojourning among the Gentiles, away from their own land, but they were also sojourners and pilgrims (chapter 2:11) in the higher sense; they were pilgrims on earth going on to their heavenly country. Like Abraham, they desired a better country, that is, a heavenly (Heb.11:16). The five places mentioned, Pontus, etc., were Roman provinces in Asia Minor, which is now called Turkey. In these provinces there were churches of God in various cities, certain of which we know were planted by Paul and his fellow-workers. These elect sojourners were elect according to the foreknowledge of God. Of old, God chose the seed of Abraham, His friend, and we can see how in His foreknowledge He made provision so that His purposes might be fulfilled. We point out but one thing in this connection, the choice of the sons of Joseph, according to God’s foreknowledge of future events, who were given a place among the sons of Jacob as though they had been Jacob’s own sons (Gen.48:5,6).

      This was because the day would come when Levi would be given the place of the firstborn sons of Israel because of the idolatry of the latter in the matter of the golden calf (Ex.32:26-29; Num.3:44-51). In this election of 1 Pet.1 we are to make our calling and election sure (2 Pet.1:10), but in that of Eph.1, which is coupled with foreordination, we cannot make it more sure (Eph.1:5). What is said in Eph.1 is similar to what is recorded in Rom.8:30: whom He foreordained, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified. This foreordination, which is connected with justification and glory, cannot be made more sure, but in service, during the days of our sojourning on earth, we are to make our election sure.

      Election in 1 Peter is unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. This takes us back to Sinai, to the time when Israel became the people of God, to which they had previously been chosen. The sprinkling of the blood of the covenant at Sinai should not be confused with the blood of the Passover which was put upon the portals of the doors of the homes of the Israelites in Egypt. Two very different lessons are to be learned from the blood in each case. It was when Moses took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people, and they said, All that the LORD hath spoken will we do, and be obedient, that Moses took the blood of the covenant, and sprinkled it on the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words (Ex.24:7, 8).

      No obedience, save what was involved in the killing of the Passover, applying the blood, and eating the Passover lamb in preparation for their journey, was required of Israel in Egypt, but it was quite different in regard to the blood of the covenant; the covenant required continual obedience on the part of Israel. It is even so in regard to the obedience and sprinkling of the blood in 1 Pet.1:2: There is a great difference between obedience to the Faith (Acts 6:7), and the obedience of faith (Rom.1:5; 16:26). To the gospel the believing sinner renders the obedience of faith; he is not allowed to do more than believe, and hence he is saved and justified by faith. But when he is justified, then he has to be obedient to the Faith in all its commandments, the Faith being the revealed will of God for His people in this day, as the law was for Israel in the past. In the past the covenant was the law, and the law was the testimony; it was the ten commandments written on the tables of stone which were placed in the ark in the Holy of Holies. Peter salutes this elect, sanctified, obedient, blood-sprinkled people with the words Grace to you and peace be multiplied. Even such as Nebuchadnezzar wrote of peace being multiplied (Dan.4:1), and of Messiah’s kingdom it is written Of the increase of His government and of peace there shall be no end (Isa.9:7).

      1 Pet.1:3,4

      Peter begins this paragraph with an ascription of praise to God the Father, whom He calls the God (this implies the manhood of Christ, who as Man was an obedient worshipper) and Father (this implies the Deity of Christ, who is the only begotten Son of the Father) of our Lord Jesus Christ. He according to His great (not Gk. megas, great, but polus, great in magnitude or quantity, much) mercy begat us again unto a living hope, and that living hope springs from the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The two disciples on the way to Emmaus were in a disconsolate and hopeless state, for to them the Lord was dead. They said, We hoped that it was He which should redeem Israel, but their hope blazed up afresh when He was known of them in the breaking of the bread (Lk.24:35). The Lord is risen indeed is the hope of the believer, and to such a hope he is begotten again.

      The AV/KJV uses the Old English word lively. At times this hope, though it is alive in the believer, is not lively; it is a fact which does not quicken his pulse, brighten his eyes, raise his head. He is more like those who followed the body of the Lord to Joseph’s new tomb, than like those who walked out with Him in resurrection to the slopes of Olivet, when He went back to heaven. We have been begotten again to a hope, not to hopelessness. We have also been begotten again to an inheritance, for since we are children of God with the

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