1 Peter Week 2. 1 Peter Themes Our great salvation Our response – Holy lives – Godly relationships – Godly suffering

1 Peter

Week 2

1 Peter

Themes

• Our great salvation

• Our response– Holy lives– Godly relationships– Godly suffering

1 Peter: Holy Living

Review last week: Our great salvation

• Chosen by God

• Future inheritance

• Shielded by God

• Praise, glory, honor when Christ returns

• We are receiving a great salvation

Inexpressible and glorious joy!


Holy Living

(1Pe 1:13-16) Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy.”


Because of our great salvation

• Prepare mind for action– Not sit back passively!

• Be self-controlled– Live disciplined lives!

• Set hope fully on grace we will receive– Not pursuing things of this world!


Obedient children

• Not conformed to former evil desires– Self indulgence

• Be holy!


What does it mean to be Holy?

• Moses stood on holy ground (Acts 7:33)– Had to remove his sandals

• Scriptures are holy (Rom 1:2)– Do not add or subtract (Deut 4:2)


Mount Sinai was holy (Ex 19:23)

• (Exo 19:12-13) Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, 'Be careful that you do not go up the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death. He shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on him. Whether man or animal, he shall not be permitted to live.'

1 Peter: Holy LivingThe Tabernacle

• Holy Place– Exo 28:34-35 The gold bells and the

pomegranates are to alternate around the hem of the robe. Aaron must wear it when he ministers. The sound of the bells will be heard when he enters the Holy Place before the LORD and when he comes out, so that he will not die.


Most Holy Place (Lev 16)Only the High Priest entered

Most Holy PlaceOnly once a yearNever without blood (Heb 9:6-7)

1 Peter: Holy LivingWhen something is holy

• It must be kept from uncleanness

• It must be reserved for holy uses

• If not, there are real consequences!


We are called to be holy!(1Pe 1:15-16) But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." (Heb 12:14) Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.


• (1Pe 1:17-19) Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.


Redeemed through holy things

• Precious blood of Christ!

• Lamb of God

• Without blemish or defect


(1Pe 1:23) For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

• Seed is the word of God

• Eternal – never passes away

• Born again through the word of God

1 Peter: Holy LivingRedeemed through holy things

• Therefore must be holy

• Reverent fear!!!

• (Heb 10:29) How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

• Not just a good idea!


• (1Pe 2:1) Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.


Rid yourselves – it's your responsibility!

• Malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, slander– Selfish, hateful sins!

1 Peter: Holy LivingCrave spiritual milk

• Spiritual = Greek (λογικός, logikos),

• Play on words in Greek

– reference to the Word (λόγος, logos)– KJV sincere milk of the word– So you can grow up in your salvation

• Compare last few verses of chapter 1• “born again through the living and

enduring word of God.”


(1Pe 2:4-5) As you come to him, the living Stone--rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him-- you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

• Spiritual house

• Holy priesthood

• Holy!!


• (1Pe 2:9-10) But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.


• (1Pe 2:11-12) Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.


Abstain from sinful desires

• You are at war!

• Your soul is at stake

Live such good lives

• Pagans can see your good deeds

• As a result, they will be compelled to praise God

1 Peter: Holy Living1Pe 3:10-12 For,

"Whoever would love life

and see good days

must keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from deceitful speech.

He must turn from evil and do good; [Holiness]

he must seek peace and pursue it. [Peace – Heb 12:14]


For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."


To be blessed by God

• Control the tongue

• Turn from evil; do good

• Seek peace; pursue it!

When you do

• God watches over you

• God hears your prayer

God opposes those who do evil!

1 Peter: Holy Living1Pe 5:8-11 Be self-controlled and alert.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.


Satan seeks to devour you

• Resist him

• Side by side with your brothers

• God will make you strong


One message of 1 Peter

• Called to be Holy!– Redeemed by holy things!

• Called to pursue peace!

So

• Abstain from sinful desires

• Get rid of malice, deceit, hypocrisy...

• Feed on spiritual milk!

• Live worthy of the calling!


What will you do differently this week?

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1 Peter Week 2. 1 Peter Themes Our great salvation Our response – Holy lives – Godly relationships – Godly suffering