The obvious problem with this view is that Peter linked these people with Noah. We know that in human relations it is not so. These Christian Jews were not sown in the earth. This is precisely what those who contend against the truth of election always feel most: they will allow a sort of body in a general way to be elect, and then that the individuals who compose that body must be brought in, as it were, conditionally, according to their good conduct. It is not merely speaking according to His oracles, which is the usual way in which men interpret the passage, and thence derive their license for speaking as they judge fitting without thinking of God's will. It comes, first, from the sense of creatureliness. And as he is writing in his own little exhortations here, he goes back and he quotes a portion of Psalm 34, about three or four verses out of Psalm 34. From Philippi to Thessalonica Now note the shift back to the third person, which seems to signify that Luke stayed behind in Philippi to minister to the Church there. Why is it that you are not upset over this? It was inevitable that one marriage partner might be won for Christ, while the other remained untouched by the appeal of the gospel and such a situation inevitably had difficulties. 3:17-22 4:1-6 For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be the will of God, than to suffer for doing wrong. The first impulse of a converted man is to do the will of God. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison.

When a man is roused to hate his sins through God's testimony reaching him, and convicting him before God, and not in his own eyes, when a man is ashamed of all that he has been in presence of God's grace, ever so little known and understood, still where a real work goes on in the soul, sanctification of the Spirit is true there.

But this interpretation cannot stand it is indeed inconsistent with the words of the passage, for Peter ascribes salvation only to the family of Noah, and gives over to ruin all who were not within the ark. The intention is just that you recognize that true beauty is inward. So, then, even in suffering the Christian is still blessed.

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