Chapter 2

1 Peter: Chapters -1- -2- -3- -4- -5-

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2:1 Since you have set aside all malice, and all deceit, fakery, and spite, and all speaking of evil words, • 2 now, crave logical and pure milk [as good words] like newborn babies so that you may increase inside of [Gospel] word into salvation, 3 if indeed you tasted and experienced that the Lord is good and well-fitted [to you] 4 as you approach to [connect with] Him as a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and valued alongside of God.

• 5 Also, you yourselves, as living stones, are being constructed together as a spiritual house into a devoted priesthood, to offer spiritual offerings welcomed by God through Jesus Christ. 6 Therefore the Scripture contains: “Look and see, I set forth inside of Zion a stone, a chosen and valued cornerstone, and the one who is believing upon Him shall not be put to shame” (Isaiah 28:46). 7 The high value is to you who believe; to those who do not believe, however: “The stone which those building have rejected, this has become into the head of the corner [the joining and completion]” (Psalm 118:22). 8 And, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense” (Isaiah 8:14). They strike against and take offense at the word, refusing to be persuaded, into which refusal they are then established.

• 9 You, however, are a chosen offspring and family, a royal priesthood, a devoted ethnic family, a people into His gain and possession, so that you may publicly declare the goodness and virtue of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. • 10 You were once not a people, but now you are the people of God. You once had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

• 11 Beloved, I encourage you, as strangers and travelers, to hold back from fleshly desires, which war against the soul. 12 Keep your behavior honorable among the ethnic families, so that if they speak against you as evildoers, once they have witnessed your good deeds, they may glorify God inside of the day of inspection.

13 Be in subjection through the Lord to every human institution, whether to the king as being supreme, 14 or to governors, as having been sent by him, then, for justice to evil doers and praise to well-doers. • 15 For this is God’s desire, to put to silence the senseless ignorance of men through your doing good, 16 yet as free, but not “freedom” as a cover-up for evil, but as servants of God. 17 Honor everyone: love the brothers and sisters. Fear God; honor the king.

18 Workers, be subject to your employers in all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the unfair. 19 For this is grace, if anyone suffers pain unjustly, through the consciousness of God. 20 For what sort of credit is it if you endure being struck for making mistakes? But if you endure ill treatment even while doing good, this is grace alongside of God.

• 21 For you have been called into this, because Christ also suffered for you, for your sake, leaving you a pattern, as of word to copy, that you should follow His footsteps [f]: 22 “Who did not commit sin [did not fall short of God], neither was trickery found inside His mouth” (Isaiah 53:9). 23 Who, when He was reviled or abused, did not revile or abuse in return. When He suffered ill treatment, He did not threaten, but gave Himself over to Him who judges justly. • 24 Who Himself carried our sins inside of His body upon the tree so that, having been already fully removed from sins and from all falling short of God, we are free to live in just innocence. By whose wounds you have been healed (Isaiah 53:5). • 25 For you were like sheep wandering away, but now you have returned, and come back to yourself, upon the Shepherd who keeps His eyes upon your souls [g].

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Gospel Word	Notes
• Ruling Verse 5: The cross has already removed from us malice, fakery, and speaking evil words, that is, we rely upon Jesus having come into union with us to remove them utterly. • Covenant: True Gospel Word flowing into us increases us. • The Form for God through Jesus: Jesus fits us, just as He fits the Father. He is shaped to our persons and needs, just as He is to God, that He might connect us together with the Father. Yet by this “fit” He also connects us together as God’s House. • The Form for God through Jesus: Peter is expressing inside his letter the same thing as Ephesians 2:19-22, Ruling Verse 12, which Paul had written a year earlier. He adds this thought, that our service is to the Father, that He might be what He wants as Salvation through us. • Ruling Verse 9: We are priests to God first – for His Desire, and then to others out from God. Our ministry is to be that bridge, just like Jesus. Yet this ministry is something we share together as God’s fitted-together House. • Kingdom: We are one family and kindred with all believers in Jesus across the earth. We have no connection with sons of refusal “next door.” The Church of Jesus Christ is our country and ethnicity; we are loyal to no other. • Covenant: At the core of the Covenant are these words – “And I will be God inside of them, and they will be a people inside of Me,” the thing God desires above all. • Ruling Verse 9: Part of the ministry of setting creation free is to bring to silence all accusation against God and all lying about self. We do this through doing good (see Romans 12:20-21), that is, by presenting the goodness of Jesus. • Ruling Verse 5: “Trying to copy” Jesus is iniquity, just as “trying to keep the law” is lawlessness. Just like Jesus, we can do nothing of ourselves. It is Jesus Himself who, having come into union with us, reveals Himself as He is through our stumbling humanity. Our job is to know that He is our Life. • Definition: Outward word as the law and the outward pattern of Jesus “to copy,” do serve a vital purpose for us. They provide the boundaries for what union with Christ really is. We do not hurt others and call it “Christ as me.” Yet when we do wrong, we give it to Jesus. He alone saves us. • Covenant: Inside the Covenant Jesus is between God and us is the implicit expectation that Jesus makes us to be just like Himself in all ways, but especially in His redemptive footsteps of giving Himself to the Father for others through suffering. • Ruling Verse 5: We are already crucified with Christ; we are already free to live inside of just innocence, inside the knowledge of God through the intimate union of Jesus with us. It is this sharing of soul with Jesus wherein we follow His steps as the One who carries all. • Ruling Verse 9: The thing God wants, that releases Him into our world, is that we follow Jesus in Love for the Church. • Covenant: Jesus “keeping His eyes upon our souls” is another way to say that Jesus within makes us to be just like Himself, our metamorphosis (see 2 Corinthians 3:18), by the transfer of His substance, His propitiation, to us as He shares soul with us. We follow Jesus’ steps in giving ourselves to the Father in Love for a Church restored into Glory.

Gospel Word

Notes

• Ruling Verse 5: The cross has already removed from us malice, fakery, and speaking evil words, that is, we rely upon Jesus having come into union with us to remove them utterly.

• Covenant: True Gospel Word flowing into us increases us.

• The Form for God through Jesus: Jesus fits us, just as He fits the Father. He is shaped to our persons and needs, just as He is to God, that He might connect us together with the Father. Yet by this “fit” He also connects us together as God’s House.

• The Form for God through Jesus: Peter is expressing inside his letter the same thing as Ephesians 2:19-22, Ruling Verse 12, which Paul had written a year earlier. He adds this thought, that our service is to the Father, that He might be what He wants as Salvation through us.

• Ruling Verse 9: We are priests to God first – for His Desire, and then to others out from God. Our ministry is to be that bridge, just like Jesus. Yet this ministry is something we share together as God’s fitted-together House.

• Kingdom: We are one family and kindred with all believers in Jesus across the earth. We have no connection with sons of refusal “next door.” The Church of Jesus Christ is our country and ethnicity; we are loyal to no other.

• Covenant: At the core of the Covenant are these words – “And I will be God inside of them, and they will be a people inside of Me,” the thing God desires above all.

• Ruling Verse 9: Part of the ministry of setting creation free is to bring to silence all accusation against God and all lying about self. We do this through doing good (see Romans 12:20-21), that is, by presenting the goodness of Jesus.

• Ruling Verse 5: “Trying to copy” Jesus is iniquity, just as “trying to keep the law” is lawlessness. Just like Jesus, we can do nothing of ourselves. It is Jesus Himself who, having come into union with us, reveals Himself as He is through our stumbling humanity. Our job is to know that He is our Life.

• Definition: Outward word as the law and the outward pattern of Jesus “to copy,” do serve a vital purpose for us. They provide the boundaries for what union with Christ really is. We do not hurt others and call it “Christ as me.” Yet when we do wrong, we give it to Jesus. He alone saves us.

• Covenant: Inside the Covenant Jesus is between God and us is the implicit expectation that Jesus makes us to be just like Himself in all ways, but especially in His redemptive footsteps of giving Himself to the Father for others through suffering.

• Ruling Verse 5: We are already crucified with Christ; we are already free to live inside of just innocence, inside the knowledge of God through the intimate union of Jesus with us. It is this sharing of soul with Jesus wherein we follow His steps as the One who carries all.

• Ruling Verse 9: The thing God wants, that releases Him into our world, is that we follow Jesus in Love for the Church.

• Covenant: Jesus “keeping His eyes upon our souls” is another way to say that Jesus within makes us to be just like Himself, our metamorphosis (see 2 Corinthians 3:18), by the transfer of His substance, His propitiation, to us as He shares soul with us. We follow Jesus’ steps in giving ourselves to the Father in Love for a Church restored into Glory.