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Since Salvation v 1-3
Stones that are Alive v. 4-10
Strangers in an Alien Land v. 11-12
Submit to Civil Authority v. 13-17
Servants to the Silently Suffering and Sinless Shepherd
or Our Soul v 18-25
Monday – I Peter 2
Tuesday – Psalms 118
Wednesday – Matthew 21:33- 46
Thursday -- Acts 4:7 – 12
Friday -- Matthew 16:13-20
Here is that qualifying little word “if”. If you have truly found the kindness of God (i.e. salvation), then you will put aside sin and desire the word.
Here is where the critics to Peter’s authorship point when attempting to disqualify Peter as the author of this letter. They question how a fisherman, an unlearned man, could write such a cleaver play on words. Peter, probably with the help of Silas, introduces the “living stones”, “the corner stone” and “rock of offence” all with a mixture of Old Testament Scripture.
Matthew Henry gives us some great inside in his commentary on Psalm 118:22 which Peter was most likely referring too when he spoke of Christ as the “corner stone”
Psalm 118:22-23
22 The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.
23 This was the Lord’s doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes. (NKJV)
This may have some reference to David’s preferment; he was the stone which Saul and his courtiers rejected, but was by the wonderful providence of God advanced to be the headstone of the building. But its principal reference is to Christ; and here we have, 1. His humiliation. He is the stone which the builders refused; he is the stone cut out of the mountain without hands, Dan. 2:34. He is a stone, not only for strength, and firmness, and duration, but for life, in the building of the spiritual temple; and yet a precious stone (1 Pt. 2:6), for the foundation of the gospel-church must be sapphires, Isa. 54:11. This stone was rejected by the builders, by the rulers and people of the Jews (Acts 4:8, 10, 11); they refused to own him as the stone, the Messiah promised; they would not build their faith upon him nor join themselves to him; they would make no use of him, but go on in their building without him; they denied him in the presence of Pilate (Acts 3:13) when they said, We have no king but Caesar. They trampled upon this stone, threw it among the rubbish out of the city; nay, they stumbled at it. This was a disgrace to Christ, but it proved the ruin of those that thus made light of him. Rejecters of Christ are rejected of God. 2. His exaltation. He has become the headstone of the corner; he is advanced to the highest degree both of honour and usefulness, to be above all, and all in all. He is the chief corner-stone in the foundation, in whom Jew and Gentile are united, that they may be built up one holy house. He is the chief top-stone in the corner, in whom the building is completed, and who must in all things have the pre-eminence, as the author and finisher of our faith. Thus highly has God exalted him, because he humbled himself; and we, in compliance with God’s design, must make him the foundation of our hope, the centre of our unity, and the end of our living. To me to live is Christ. 3. The hand of God in all this: This is the Lord’s doing; it is from the Lord; it is with the Lord; it is the product of his counsel; it is his contrivance. Both the humiliation and the exaltation of the Lord Jesus were his work, Acts 2:23; 4:27, 28. He sent him, sealed him; his hand went with him throughout his whole undertaking, and from first to last he did his Father’s will; and this ought to be marvellous in our eyes. Christ’s name is Wonderful; and the redemption he wrought out is the most amazing of all God’s works of wonder; it is what the angels desire to look into, and will be admiring to eternity; much more ought we to admire it, who owe our all to it. Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.
Moving from the picture of babes and milk, the author introduces the figure of a chief corner stone – and living chief corner stone. The participle in the Greek [translated “coming”] is present and carries with it the idea of continually coming to Christ. The Christian does not just come to Christ once, but continues to come to Christ.
It is possible that Peter was thinking of his own name given to him by Jesus. (Peter means Stone or Little Stone).
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