Daily Bread 3/18/2022

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Daily Bread – March 18, 2022 (The Sixth Day – Genesis 1:24-31) 1 Peter 1:9 – Receiving salvation of your souls, the event of the faith.  This is the first of four times that ‘telos’ is used in 1 Peter. In 1 Peter 3:8 it is translated “finally” and in 4:7 and 4:17 it is translated “end”. The primary meaning of ‘telos’ is “end or complete”. However, in Langenscheidt Classical Greek Dictionary, it is translated “end, term, fulfillment, accomplishment, complete state, result, event; highest state, full power” Salvation of the soul is the result of calling upon the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and being born from above (John 1:12-3, 3:5-8; Acts 2:21; Romans 10:13). Soul salvation is the fulfillment of the faith, and by the usage of ‘telos’, may be understood as the end or completion of the faith. The first time ‘telos’ is used in the New Testament in Matthew 10:22 where it must be translated ‘end’, “…but the one enduring to the end shall be saved”. The event of the faith, then, is the total regeneration of the soul – which takes place at the moment of salvation. Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen