Keith Essex
The Petrine Epistles and Jude

Keith Essex's correlating video lecture(s) from The Master's Seminary:

• Lecture 28: The Petrine Epistles / Jude.

18. The Petrine Epistles and Jude
    1. Introduction [BNTH, 399-410, 421-30]
       1. The History of Interpretation [DTIB, 581-82, 584, 409; ACCSNT, vol. XI]
       2. The Readers: Christians of Northern Asia Minor (1Pe 1:1-2; 2Pe 3:1; Jde 1:17)
       3. Their Circumstances
          1. Suffering (1Pe 5:9) [DLNT, 1135-41]
          2. False Teachers (2Pe 2:1; Jde 1:4) [DLNT, 24-34]
    2. 1 Peter [CCC, 829-40; MSB, 1905-7; ESVSB, 2401-4; NIVZSB, 2535-38; RSB, 2236-41; RFW, 185-8; DLNT, 914-23; CMINT, 638-49; BTINT, 453-69]
       1. Date: ca. AD 60
       2. Themes [CCC, 847-53]
          1. God (39x) [DLNT, 422-24]
          2. Suffering (1Pe 1:11; 2:19, 20, 21, 23; 3:14, 17; 4:1, 13, 15, 19; 5:1, 9, 10)
          3. Hope (1Pe 1:3, 13, 21; 3:5, 15)
          4. Life-style (*1Pe 4:3)
             1. Conduct (1Pe 1:15, 17, 18; 2:12; 3:1, 2, 16)
             2. Doing Good (1Pe 2:12, 14, 15, 18, 20; 3:6, 11, 13, 16, 17, 21; 4:10, 19)
             3. Doing Evil (1Pe 2:1, 12, 14, 16; 3:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17; 4:15)
             4. Submission (1Pe 2:13, 18; 3:1, 5, 22; 5:5)
             5. Obey / Disobey (1Pe 1:2, 14, 22; 2:8; 3:1, 6, 20; 4:17)
             6. Holiness (1Pe 1:2, 12, 15, 16; 2:5, 9; 3:5, 15)
          5. Election (1Pe 1:1; 2:4, 6, 9; 5:13)
             and Salvation (1Pe 1:5, 9, 10; 2:2; 3:10, 21; 4:18) [DLNT, 317-21; 1072-5]
       3. Purpose:
          • Persecuted Christians were called to live a holy life as they remembered their future hope [see CCC, 841]
       4. The Literary Structure: see outline [CCC, 841-47; CMINT, 619-21; DLNT, 1044-5; VOCNT, 63]
          1 PETER

          1. The Prologue (1Pe 1:1-12)
             1. The Salutation (1Pe 1:1-2)
             2. Peter's Praise to God for Salvation (1Pe 1:3-12)
                1. The Reserved Inheritance: The Future Salvation (1Pe 1:3-5)
                2. The Joy of Trials: The Present Purification (1Pe 1:6-9)
                3. The Prophetic Word: The Past Revelation (1Pe 1:10-12)
          2. The Body: Peter Instructed the Believers How to Live a Holy Life while Suffering for Their Faith (1Pe 1:13-1Pe 5:11)
             1. The Salvation of the Believers (1Pe 1:13-1Pe 2:10)
                1. The Practice of the Saved Believer (1Pe 1:13-1Pe 2:3)
                   1. A Fixed Hope (1Pe 1:13)
                   2. A Holy Life (1Pe 1:14-16)
                   3. A Fearful Conduct (1Pe 1:17-21)
                   4. A Fervent Love (1Pe 1:22-25)
                   5. A Longing for the Word (1Pe 2:1-3)
                2. The Position of the Saved Believer: Living Stones (1Pe 2:4-10)
             2. The Submission of the Believer (1Pe 2:11-1Pe 3:12)
                1. The Appeal for Excellent Behavior (1Pe 2:11-12)
                2. The Submission to Human Authority (1Pe 2:13-17)
                3. The Submission of Slaves to Masters (1Pe 2:18-25)
                4. The Submission of Wives to Husbands (1Pe 3:1-6)
                5. The Honoring of Wives by Husbands (1Pe 3:7)
                6. The Giving of Blessing for Evil (1Pe 3:8-12)
             3. The Suffering of the Believer (1Pe 3:13-1Pe 5:11)
                1. The Conduct in Suffering (1Pe 3:13-1Pe 4:19)
                   1. Suffering for the Sake of Righteousness (1Pe 3:3-1Pe 4:6)
                      1. Sanctify Christ at Lord (1Pe 3:13-17)
                      2. The Example of the Suffering of Christ (1Pe 3:18-22)
                      3. Living for the Will of God (1Pe 4:1-6)
                   2. Alertness in View of the End of All Things (1Pe 4:7-12)
                   3. Trusting God in the Midst of Fiery Trials (1Pe 4:13-19)
                2. The Attitudes Needed in the Church (1Pe 5:1-5)
                3. The Resisting of the Devil (1Pe 5:6-11)
          3. The Epilogue (1Pe 5:12-14)
       5. Bibliography
          1. Exegetical:
             • Jobes, 1 Peter (BECNT).
             • Michaels, 1 Peter (WBC).
          2. English Interpretation:
             • *Hiebert, The Epistle of 1 Peter.
             • *Schreiner, 1, 2 Peter, Jude (NAC).
          3. Expositional:
             • Clowney, The Message of I Peter (BST).
             • MacArthur, 1 Peter (MacNTC).
       6. Selected Interpretive Issues: see Greek Exegetical Digest
       7. Preaching 1 Peter

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