Called and chosen. God’s prognosis. Sanctification unto obedience. All must be subjects. Godliness before brotherly kindness. Calling and election. Remembrance. Speaking evil.
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Welcome to the Weekly Deep Dive podcast on the Add on education network. The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, as you may have guessed, in my basement, not the studio.
Our host Nate the Great Pyfer is not joining us tonight and I owe you a little bit of an apology for this this week.
So we try to stay consistent and put our episodes out every week.
This last weekend when we would have done that, I was at a soccer games with my son in Colorado and did not get home till Monday morning at 04:00 a.m.. So Nate was planning on helping me knock one out Monday night, early Tuesday morning.
But I had a test I needed to take early Tuesday morning and as luck would have it, Monday night I fell ill, quite ill. I was in my bed with the shivers and fever dreams all night and ended up being sick and losing my voice and not able to record for most of this.
So Nate and I could not get together and find a good time, especially with the holiday this week. Just a series of events, I guess a perfect storm that made it so that we had to come a little bit later.
And here I am trying to get you some content from the basement of my home now that my voice has mostly returned and hopefully this is still worth your listen. So thank you for joining, thank you for your patience and for waiting this holiday week. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
And let’s jump into this. This is going to be first and second Peter, and the nice thing about this is it’s Peter. Peter is one of the most talked about people in the New Testament aside from Jesus Christ, and we see a lot of his personality. This is somebody that Nate actually resonates very strongly with and we see his character, but now we actually get to hear Peter speaking for himself. Not someone else talking about Peter or saying what Peter does or what Peter says, but Peter writing a letter and speaking for himself and I like that. I like to hear what he has to say. There’s not a lot of question on the authenticity of the first Epistle of Peter. Most scholars agree that he is the author. There is a little bit of question as to whether or not he wrote the second Epistle.
I’m going to favor that he did. I don’t know. Both Epistles are very nice, they’re interesting, they’re a little bit different. But let’s dive into this and see what we’ve got.
First off, chapter one, verse one peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithania. Verse two elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father.
And I’m going to stop us right there.
[00:03:16] Speaker B: Elect.
[00:03:18] Speaker A: I think this word often gets conflated with the cream of the crop, the best of the best, or being something better than something else. And certainly it can take that meaning. But elect at its root, at its core, really just means chosen. And I want to focus on that. In this case.
This is what it means to be chosen to choose. And that’s where I want to focus on with what elect means here in this verse.
That being said, let’s go back into Peter and take a look at what this is telling us. Verse two again. Elect, according to the foreknowledge of God. And foreknowledge is another word that I want to put some attention on. If I were to tell you and read this word to you in the Greek, I think most of you are going to understand this word immediately.
And it comes from two words, pro from before, and gnosis, which means knowledge. So prognosis and in medical terms, we hear this all the time. It’s a medical word....
