1 Peter 1.1-2 The Elements of Our Living Hope

1) Survey the Context

2) Identify the Theme

3) Analyze the Key Words

Chosen means “pick out for oneself” -suitable for His own purpose and Glory - Picked out particularly for a difficult or glorious duty - God was free to choose, no one forced His hand - no objective criteria

ἐκλεκτός is the adjective where we get 1 of 3 great words that gives us the Doctrine of Election - S. Lewis Johnson

1st Great word is ἐκλεκw - Eph 1. 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.

John 15.16 “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

Speaks of God’s personal interest in Our Election - The Fact of Election

2nd Great word is προορίzw To mark out - highlighting the Goal of Election - Our Adoption(Rom 8.15) Eph 1.5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will

Eph 1.11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

Rom 8.29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

3rd Great Word is πρόγνωσkw Foreknowledge - The Intimacy of Election - Intimacy of the choice

Acts 2.23 πρόγνωσkw speaks of God’s complete knowledge and understanding - His own counsel initiated the plan of Christ’s penal sacrifice on the Cross

Rom 8.29, Rom 11.2, 2 Thess 2.13 , 1 Cor 1.27, Col 3.12, John 6.44, Acts 13.48

4) Survey the Historical Context

5) Establish the Theological Context

6) Consult the Commentaries

7) Identify the Outline

The Elective Elements to Our Living Hope

I. Chosen For The Purpose of God’s Glory

II. Chosen By The Sanctifying Work of The Spirit

III. Chosen For Obtaining Our Great Inheritance