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1 Peter: How Born Again Christians Should Act

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 1 Peter 2:1-3 Peter’s point here is that Christians, being born again, must act like it. Keep in mind that this was originally a letter not divided up…

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1 Peter: Love, Being Born Again, and God's Word

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart. 1 Peter 1:22 After reminding Christians that God “ransomed” (ESV) or “redeemed” (NASB) us from sin “with the precious blood of Christ” (1:18-19), Peter points out that Christ “was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times…

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1 Peter: The Holiness of Obedient Children

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 1 Peter 1:14-16 Have you ever considered how often the inspired New Testament writers refer to Christians as “children”?  In today’s text, Peter directs us to be “obedient children”…

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1 Peter: How To Set Our Hope Fully On Grace

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  1 Peter 1:13 Peter’s readers had just been informed that the Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament prophets had been made all those centuries earlier for the specific purpose of serving Christians who are saved through the good…

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1 Peter: How Never Having Seen Jesus Can Produce Joy That Is Inexpressible And Glorious

Though you have not seen him, you love him.  Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.  1 Peter 1:8-9 I confess that I envy Peter and the other apostles sometimes.  They saw Jesus with their own eyes and heard His voice with their own ears.  They saw Him…

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1 Peter: Reasons to Rejoice...And Reasons for Trials

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. 1 Peter 1:6-7 In what were the Christians to whom Peter was writing rejoicing (1:6a)? …

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1 Peter: Christians Are Guarded By The Power of God

(Christians) by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  1 Peter 1:5 Earlier, we studied how God the Father caused Christians to be born again to a living hope because of His great mercy, that hope being an eternal, incorruptible inheritance which is “kept in heaven” for us (1:3-4).  Peter did not stop there, however.  There is another…

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1 Peter: What God The Father Has Done For Us

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. 1 Peter 1:3-5 “Blessed” comes from the Greek term eulogetos, from which we get our terms “eulogy” and “eulogize.” …

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