1 Peter 3 Summary
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We are coming to the end of 1 Peter chapter 3 so this morning we are going to walk through a summary of the chapter considering all that we have learned over the last couple months in this chapter. Before we get to chapter three if you could summarize chapter 1 and 2 in a few sentences how would you do it?
The goal of this study is that when we finish the book of 1 Peter we have a better understanding of the entire letter.
Chapter 1 - Peter unpacks the glorious truths of the gospel so in order to encourage the church to persevere even though they may be grieved by various trials.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Chapter 2 - Peter reminds the church who they are and exhorts them to live out our holy calling through sanctified and submissive lives.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
1 Peter 2:9-12
Now we come to chapter three, what is your summary statement for chapter three. If someone asked you what is 1 Peter chapter three about, how would you answer?
1 Peter Chapter 3 - Peter calls the church to lives of submission and Christlike suffering so that we honor Christ and point to Him as the only way of salvation.
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
1 Peter 3:14-
Let’s consider what I see as the three main points of 1 Peter 3.
I. Submission (1-7)
I. Submission (1-7)
A. Wives submitting in their dress.
A. Wives submitting in their dress.
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
Peter is calling believing wives to place themselves under the headship of their “own” husbands. To allow them to lead them and their families. He is calling them to do so not just in the case of a husband who is a believer, but even if your husband is an unbeliever, Peter exhorts wives to submit or be in subjection to their husbands.
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Why is this? Why does Peter call wives to submit to their husbands both believers and non-believers?
It is the creation order.
It is pictures Christ and His church.
It imitates the headship in the Trinity.
It provides a gospel witness so that unbelieving husbands may come to faith.
What is the first way Peter calls ladies to be in subjection?
With respectful conduct.
With modest clothing.
With a gentle and quiet spirit.
What is the most motivating reason in this verse that should cause ladies to desire godly submission.
The internal beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit is very precious in God’s sight!
B. Wives submitting in their demeanor.
B. Wives submitting in their demeanor.
For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
Next Peter calls for women to imitate the holy women of old.
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By imitating their faith and hope in God.
By imitating their obedience.
By imitating their courage.
Next Peter turns to husbands and reminds us,
C. Husbands submitting by showing honor.
C. Husbands submitting by showing honor.
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Likewise, husbands you are to live lives of submission by understanding the needs of our wives and seeking to fulfill those needs in a God honoring way.
We are to seek to grow in understanding our wives.
We are to seek to honor our wives.
We are to seek to protect our wives.
Since Peter only gives us husbands 1 verse it is that important for us to live with our wives this way?
Peter say’s it is important enough that if we don’t live this way our prayers will be hindered. Meaning it is sinful not to live in this way, meaning it is like going to the alter when we have something against our brother, we must get up and go back and get it right. If we want our relationship with God to be right, then our relationship with our wives must be right.
Anyone have anything they want to share at this point. Has the Lord used this text on our roles and responsibilities to teach, reprove, rebuke, or exhort any of us?
Following Peter’s teaching on submission in chapter 3, he then explains Christian,
II. Suffering (8-17)
II. Suffering (8-17)
A. Suffering without reviling.
A. Suffering without reviling.
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Before we get to the way exiles and sojourners ought to suffer, Peter lays out the general life we ought to lead as believers.
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We are to have unity of mind.
We are to have sympathy.
We are to have a brotherly love for one another.
We are to have a tender heart.
We are to have a humble mind.
After Peter explains what we are to have, he turns to what we are not to do.
Do not repay evil for evil.
Do not revile when reviled against.
Instead bless so that we may obtain a blessing.
Next Peter provides the reason,
For Whoever desires to love life and see good days,
Watch our mouth (keep or lips and tongue from evil).
Watch our walk (turn away from evil and do good).
Watch our relationships (seek peace and pursue it).
Why is this so important?
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
Peter continues speaking about how we should suffer, Peter explains faithful suffering is,
B. Suffering while honoring Christ as holy.
B. Suffering while honoring Christ as holy.
Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
Verse 13 begins with an exhortation to courageous suffering. Who is going to harm you if you are zealous for good? The majority of the time how many times are you threatened for obeying Christ, for doing good that he has called you to do?
1 Peter 3:13
Now there may be times when we suffer for righteousness sake. Can you think of any examples?
Steve Lawson writes this about a Scottish preacher name George Wishart.
“As Wishart’s ministry gained increasing visibility, his strong preaching drew serious threats upon his life. With supreme loyalty, John Knox soon became Wishart’s personal assistant and bodyguard. He protected his spirituall mentor with a two-handed sword, read to defend him to death. By this bold step, Knox’s exceptional courage in standing and fighting for the truth began to emerge.”
Religious tension and persecution reached fever pitch in December 1545, and Wishart was arrested and taken to St Andrews Castle. When Knox attempted to physically defend his mentor, Wishart insisted that he go back to Longniddry. Wishart implored his loyal bodyguard: ‘Return to your bairns (pupils), and God bless you. One is sufficient for one sacrifice.”
Wishart was burned at the stake on March 1, 1546, at St. Andrews Castle, by the nephew of the same archbishop, David Beaton, who had in 1528 martyered Patrick Hamilton, the first reformed preacher in Scotland in this era. As the flames flashed across his body, Wishart cried out:
“I beseech Thee, Father of Heaven, to forgive them that have any ignorance or else of any evil mind, forged any lies upon me. I forgive them with all my heart. I beseech Christ to forgive them that have condemned me to death this day ignorantly.”
How is that for an example of suffering without fear, for righteousness sake, not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling.
C. Suffering for according to God’s will.
C. Suffering for according to God’s will.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
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Peter reminds the church that their suffering should be for doing good, not for doing evil. As he has already written in chapter 2 if you suffer for sin, that is on you.
However if you suffer and endure while doing good that is precious in the sight of God.
If we being to experiencing suffering from persecution, how can we be sure it is not coming out of our own ignorance?
Seek the Scriptures
Seek the Lord in prayer.
Seek counsel from our Pastor’s and fellow believers.
III. Salvation (18-22)
III. Salvation (18-22)
A. Christ suffered for our reconciliation.
A. Christ suffered for our reconciliation.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
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In my humble opinion verse 18 is the central theme, and main point of the entire chapter. Everything else hinges on the work of Christ.
1 Peter 3:19-
If Christ did not die and suffer once for sins, our ability to live lives of submissive obedience is impossible and useless.
If Christ did not die ans suffer once for sins we have no righteous example in suffering. He is the perfect sufferer! The sinless sufferer, the One who not only suffered in our place, but suffered in order that we might follow in His steps.
If Christ did not die once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring us to God there is no victory to proclaim, there is no sinless Savior who died in our place to reign victoriously over sin, Satan, and death.
If I could exhort any of us to remember anything from Chapter 3 it would be verse 18. As Darrel Harrison and Virgil Walker say, it is so nice it is worth saying twice,
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
In remember this verse, these truths we will always have the truth of the gospel hidden in our heart! We can us this verse a starting point for gospel proclamation reminding others of the hope that is in us with gentleness and respect!
B. Christ Preached victoriously following the crucifixion.
B. Christ Preached victoriously following the crucifixion.
in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
C. Christ provides salvation through the resurrection.
C. Christ provides salvation through the resurrection.
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
1 Peter 3: