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Chapter 1

 

 

1  Peter

 

 

Part 1

Introduction: Living As Sojourners

1 Peter 1:1[1]

 

[Slide 18] Today we are beginning a new series.

Our focus will be I Peter.

We’re going to be here for awhile.

We’ll take a couple of short breakaways—one at the end of this month, focusing in on the upcoming election, and then again in December, focusing in on the ‘greatest gift ever given.’

We’re going to go through this letter verse-by-verse so that we can discover what God is saying to us today.

So I encourage you to put your Bible marker at 1 Peter so that you can readily find it in the Sunday’s to come.

This morning we’re going to cover 4 questions:

 

* How to do I get the most from this study?

* Who wrote the book?

* When was it written?

* To whom was it written?

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I.     [Slide 19] How to get the most from this study

As we start our study, let me give a couple of suggestions for getting the most out of this study

 

!! A. Read 1 Peter this week.

It’s short— only five chapters, with a total of 105 verses—and you can easily read it in one sitting.

I would suggest that today or tomorrow that you read the entire Book.

Then starting Tuesday, you read chapter 1, Wednesday, chapter 2, Thursday, chapter 3, Friday chapter 4, and Saturday chapter 5.

If you do that, you’ll get a basic grasp of the message that will help you as we journey through the book together.

!! B. Get excited about your Salvation.

I want you to savor your Salvation like you would savor a chocolate pie.

Put a piece on your tongue and then just let it melt . . .

let your tongue savor the rich delicacy, like this delicacy:

| O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, \\ To every believer the promise of God; \\ The vilest offender who truly believes, \\ That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

\\ \\ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, \\ Let the earth hear His voice!

\\ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, \\ Let the people rejoice!

\\ O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, \\ And give Him the glory, great things He has done.

\\ \\ Great things He has taught us, great things He has done, \\ And great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son; \\ But purer, and higher, and greater will be \\ Our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see.

\\ \\ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, \\ Let the earth hear His voice!

\\ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, \\ Let the people rejoice!

\\ O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, \\ And give Him the glory, great things He has done.

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\\ 1 Peter 1:3 (ESV) 3 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,[2]

 

Can you begin to feel the edge of that truth?

Remember Ephesians 5:18-1(ESV)9?

Paul tells us 18 Do not get drunk with wine. .

., but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, \\ \\

One of the marks of ‘Spirit filling’ is that you will break out in praise , singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart!

So Peter writes: 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

 

You let that sink through your crusty calluses . . .

and you’ll become Spirit Filled and break out singing:

 

[Slides 20-25]

~/~/Bless the Lord, O My Soul

And all that is within me

Bless His holy name\\

~/~/He has done great things\\

Bless His holy name

Bless the Lord

O my soul,

And all that is within me

Bless His holy name

 

 

To God be the glory

Great things He hath done

So loved He the world

That He gave us His Son

Who yielded His life

An atonement for sin

And opened the life gate

That all may go in

 

~/~/Praise the Lord\\

Let the earth hear His voice!

~/~/Praise the Lord\\

Let the people rejoice!

O come to the Father

Thro’ Jesus, the Son,

And give Him the glory

Great things He hath done!

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! II.

| 1 Peter,an apostle of Jesus Christ,  To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are *chosen* §    2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, §    by the sanctifying work of the Spirit,  §   to obey Jesus Christ and §   be sprinkled with His blood:   |

Background

To feel the intensity of this book, we need to answer a few basic questions:

 

!!  A.  [Slide 26] Who wrote this book?

That’s an easy one.

We’re told right up front that it was Peter, the “Big Fisherman” from the north shore of the Sea of Galilee.

!!! 1.      Peter, The ‘Rock’

There is much that can be said about Peter.

Matthew tells us that he was ‘the first’ among the Twelve [Matthew 10:2].

Through out the Gospel he is seen as being bold, “quick-tempered, impulsive, emotional, easily roused by an appeal to adventure, loyal to the end.”[4] and nervy enough to ask questions [cf.

Matthew 18:21; 19:27].

He often spoke for the group . . .

like in Matthew 16:

\\ 13 When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” 14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”[5]

I believe it is here that we get Jesus’ take as to Peter.

It was Jesus who changed his name from Simon Barjona to Peter meaning ‘Rock’ . . .

Jesus’ penetrating gaze cut thru the rough exterior and his failures to his very core . . .

There he saw a rock-like man, dependable, immovable, equal to the emergencies and crises that would confront him."[6]

And as we work are way through 1 Peter, the ‘rock-like-character-trait’ that Jesus identified in Matthew 16 becomes clearly apparent.

Peter has grown up, sort of speak.

He is solid, unwavering . . .

and he exhorts his readers to be the same.

!!! 2.      Peter, The Apostle

Second, note that Peter identifies himself as “an apostle of Jesus Christ,” not “remember me, the guy that denied the Master.”

But “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ.”

Peter’s identifying himself as “an apostle of Jesus Christ” is in keeping with the definition set forth in Acts 1:21-22.