1 Peter Sermons

JESUS CHRIST (OUR SUPREME EXAMPLE) COMMUNICATES THRU PETER (HIS

TRANSFORMED MESSENGER) TO US (THE ISOLATED ELECT)

BIG IDEA: I. LIVE FOR ETERNITY: (3 LIVING REALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH OUR SALVATION) - FOCUSING ON OUR LIVING HOPE - FEEDING ON THE LIVING WORD - FUNCTIONING AS LIVING...

2. Fiery Trials Focus Our Faith On Jesus Christ — Thus Intensifying

Our Joy Instead of Extinguishing It (:6b-9) Emphasis on Christ

3. Our Guaranteed Future (which we are already experiencing to some

extent) Is Worth Waiting For (:10-12)

4. Live For Eternity (1:13-21) — Since We Have Such a Glorious Living Hope,

Live For Eternity And Escape the Futility of the Human Condition

OVERVIEW:

a. LIVE IN HOPE BECAUSE OUR FOCUS MUST BE ON ETERNITY :13

b. LIVE IN HOLINESS BECAUSE THAT IS THE STANDARD FOR ETERNITY 14-16

c. LIVE IN FEAR BECAUSE ETERNITY MEANS ACCOUNTABILITY :17-21

B. THE LIVING WORD — Living For Eternity Requires Feeding On The Living And Abiding Word of God In Order To Aggressively Love One Another

2. PROPER DIET — Feeding On the Living and Abiding Word of God

Enables Us To Grow In Aggressively Loving Others (2:1-3

C. THE LIVING STONE In Fulfillment of OT Prophecy Elevates The Privileges

and Worship of God’s People in the Church (2:4-10)

COMMENDABLE CONDUCT–ESPECIALLY SUBMISSION TO EVERY APPROPRIATE HUMAN AUTHORITY–IS THE ONLY ANSWER TO PERSECUTION AND THE BEST WAY TO GLORIFY GOD (2:11-3:12)

B. Submission to Civil Authorities is the Only Answer to Persecution and the Best Way to Glorify God

SUBMISSION TO THE BOSS IS :

– THE ONLY WAY TO GLORIFY GOD

– THE ONLY ANSWER TO UNFAIR TREATMENT

– THE ONLY WAY TO FULFILL OUR CALLING TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST

BIG IDEA: SUBMISSION OF WIVES TO HUSBANDS INTRODUCTION: Looking at 2 paragraphs--instructions to wives (especially those with unbelieving husbands) and balancing...

THE WIFE’S PRIVILEGED STATUS ENTITLES HER TO SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FROM HER HUSBAND

F. COMMENDABLE CONDUCT ENABLES US TO ESCAPE THE FUTILITY OF THE HUMAN CONDITION

III. SUFFERING (FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF LIVING FOR ETERNITY AND IN THE CONTEXT OF COMMENDABLE CONDUCT) FULFILS GOD’S WILL AND FINDS VINDICATION AND VICTORY (3:13-4:19)

CHRIST’S DEATH (THE ULTIMATE SUFFERING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF

LIVING FOR ETERNITY AND IN THE CONTEXT OF COMMENDABLE CONDUCT) FULFILLED THE WILL OF GOD AND HIS RESURRECTION SECURED VINDICATION AND VICTORY

THE ACCEPTANCE OF SUFFERING — COMPLETE DEDICATION TO THE WILL OF GOD

ACCEPT SUFFERING AND COMMIT YOURSELF TO THE WILL OF GOD

KNOWING THE END IS IMMINENT

BE PREPARED TO SUFFER INTENSELY AND STAY COMMITTED TO THE WILL OF GOD – LIVING OUT YOUR VICTORY AND VINDICATION

FAITHFUL LEADERS HELP THE PERSECUTED CHURCH TO STAND STRONG IN THE GRACE OF GOD

FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS HELP THE PERSECUTED CHURCH STAND STRONG IN

THE GRACE OF GOD

C. MUTUAL HUMILITY HELPS THE PERSECUTED CHURCH STAND STRONG IN THE GRACE OF GOD

CAREFUL RESISTANCE AGAINST THE ENEMY HELPS THE PERSECUTED

CHURCH TO STAND STRONG IN THE GRACE OF GOD

ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT THE ENEMY?

CLOSING REMARKS — “STAND FIRM IN THE TRUE GRACE OF GOD”

OUR FUTURE GLORY IS GUARANTEED BY THE GOD OF ALL GRACE