Overview
What was the cultural context for the believers to whom Peter was writing?
Growing hostility
Suffering for their faith
Double points if you can identify the means of our rebirth.
God causes believers to be born again "THROUGH the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."
In 1:13, what are believers to fix their hope completely upon?
"the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ."
also accept
"The return of Christ"
What are Peter's two reasons for believers to fervently love one another from the heart in 1:22-23?
1. "Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren"
2. "for you have been born again....through the living and enduring word of God"
In 2:4, what does Peter use as a illustration for Jesus?
"a living stone"
Pastor Nick gave a macro outline for 1 Peter where he divided the book into 3 sections and titled each section with one word beginning with the letter "S."
What word described the first section of 1 Peter from 1:1-2:12?
Salvation
According to 1:6, why is it unexpected that believers are rejoicing in their salvation?
Because their salvation has brought about various distressing trials in their lives.
"even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,"
1:14 calls believers to be holy. Pastor Nick defined holiness as: Separation from _____ and devotion to _________.
Separation from SIN and devotion to RIGHTEOUSNESS.
According to 2:1, what must be done before one can properly long for the pure milk of the word?
Putting off sin
"putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,"
In 2:5, are believers the stones, the house, or the priesthood?
Yes, All three!
Pastor Nick gave a macro outline for 1 Peter where he divided the book into 3 sections and titled each section with one word beginning with the letter "S."
What word described the second section from 2:13-3:12?
Submission
In 1:7, what does Peter use to illustrate the testing of one's faith in trials?
Gold being tested by fire. Fire tests the genuineness of gold.
Trials proven the genuineness of one's faith.
In 1:17, what is the condition in which believers are to walk in the fear of the Lord?
"If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work,"
If you call God, "Father"
According to 2:2, what causes believers to grow in respect to their salvation?
The word of God
Give at least one example with a verse reference of a spiritual sacrifice that believers offer to God through Christ.
Rom 12:1- Presenting your bodies as living sacrifices
Heb 13:15 - Praise and Thanksgiving
Heb 13:16- Graciously meeting needs in the body
Phil 4:18 - Sacrificial giving to support the advancement of the gospel
Phil 2:17- Voluntary acts of self-dedication
Pastor Nick gave a macro outline for 1 Peter where he divided the book into 3 sections and titled each section with one word beginning with the letter "S."
What word describes the 3rd section from 3:13-5:14?
Suffering
According to 1:4, what are the 4 descriptions of the inheritance that awaits believers?
"imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,"
in 1:18-21, what knowledge are believers to possess that fuels their fear of the Lord?
Knowing the price of your redemption
"knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ."
Peter tells the church to long for the word like a baby longs for milk. What are at least two similarities between a baby's longing for milk and a believers longing for the word?
A baby craves milk desperately, restlessly, urgently, without regard for what you think about them. regularly (every 3 hours)
Exclusively- they do not want a bag of potato chips or a gallon of ice cream
According to 2:8, why do unbelievers stumble over Christ, the Cornerstone?
"for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word"
What are at least two encouragements that Peter gives these believers in the first two verses?
In 1 Peter 1v1-2, Peter provides 6 Encouragements for suffering saints:
According to 1:10-12, which 3 groups does Peter point to in order to demonstrate the value of this salvation?
Prophets, Preachers, and Angels
"the prophets who prophesied"
"those who preached the gospel to you"
"angels long to look"
What are the 5 commands/imperatives that Peter gives to the church in light of their salvation from 1:13-2:3?
1:13 - Fix your hope
1:15 - Be holy
1:17 - Conduct yourselves in fear (Fear the Lord)
1:22 - Fervently love one another
2:2 - Long for the word
In 1:22, What adverb does Peter use to describe how we are to love one another in the church?
"fervently" nasb
"earnestly" ESV
"ἐκτενῶς" GNT
Does 2:8, "and to this they were also appointed," teach that unbelievers were appointed to unbelief or that those who reject Christ are appointed to stumble over Him?
Peter is teaching the inevitable consequence of rejecting Christ, not that people are appointed to unbelief.
Believers are built on Christ, unbelievers will stumble over Him!