Category: Lectures On the First and Second Epistles of Peter
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Lectures On the Second Epistle of Peter, Chapter 3, By William Lincoln
The second epistles abound with instructions for the last days, giving special guidance and warning to God’s saints as to how they may keep themselves in separation from the apostasy and please God. In Chapter 2 we had the ecclesiastical apostasy with its clerical assumption; here we have the infidel…
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Lectures On the Second Epistle of Peter, Chapter 2, By William Lincoln
Here we have traced in solemn words by the Spirit, the decline and corruption of the professing Church, the means by which it is accomplished, and the doom of those who are the chief agents in this Satanic work. More awful picture than is here given, more fearful tones than…
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Lectures On the Second Epistle of Peter, Chapter 1, By William Lincoln
“Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle.” In the First Epistle he calls himself an apostle only, but here a bond-servant, putting himself alongside of others serving the same Lord amid the apostasy of the last days. There is no clerical assumption here, only a servant getting down to help others (Matthew…
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Lectures On the Second Epistle of Peter, Introduction, By William Lincoln
The Second Epistles have a special bearing on the last days, and give direction to the people and servants of God how they are to act in the midst of ever-increasing apostasy and departure from God and His Word. In the First Epistle we have seen the saints in the…
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Lectures On the First Epistle of Peter, Chapter 5, By William Lincoln
The allusion in the opening words of this chapter is to the threefold charge given to Peter by the Risen Lord, on the shore of the Lake of Galilee. “Lovest thou Me?” then “Feed My lambs,” “Shepherd My young sheep.” “Feed my sheep.” This, for many years he had done,…
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Lectures On the First Epistle of Peter, Chapter 4, By William Lincoln
The opening verses of this chapter are a continuation of the truths taught at the close of chapter 3, the practical application of them to us. Read in this light, their obscurity disappears. “Forasmuch, then, as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh,” is an allusion to chapter 3…
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Lectures On the First Epistle of Peter, Chapter 3, By William Lincoln
Here we get instruction from God on many details of life and conduct. God’s Word is very full not only of great principles, but of practical details, given in order that the man of God may be “throughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3:17). “Wives” are first addressed.…
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Lectures On the First Epistle of Peter, Chapter 2, By William Lincoln
The opening words of this chapter are connected with what has gone before. Verse 1 —“Wherefore, laying aside all malice.” “Seeing ye have purified yourselves” (chapter 1 verse 22), put away these unclean and fleshly things. Being pure, we are to purify ourselves. The former is our position, the latter ought to…
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Lectures On the First Epistle of Peter, Chapter 1, By William Lincoln
Peter addresses the saints as “strangers scattered.” Paul’s word is “no more strangers” (Ephesians 2:19.) Up there in heaven, we are at home; down here, “strangers,” no longer at home in the world. Every true Christian knows this, and the more he is in the Spirit, and living in the…
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Lectures On the First Epistle of Peter, Introduction, By William Lincoln
Peter’s line of things is different from Paul’s. Peter was a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory (see 1 Peter 5:1). Paul was a witness of the glory (Acts 22:14-15), and a partaker of the sufferings (Colossians 1:24: Philippians 3:10). Paul’s theme is the heavenlies:…
Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded 