1 Peter
The Premise of the Message
Review: The Roadmap
- We've been born again to to a living hope & secure inheritance [1:3]
- so, set your hope fully on the coming grace [1:13]
- and, after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you [5:10]
A Living Hope & Secure Inheritance
The letter starts by establishing who we are as Christians. This is the premise of the rest of the letter.
Specifically:
- so that we can know how to live our lives on this earth,
- we must understand
- who we are
- what our purpose is
Questions
- Read: 1 Peter 1:1-12
- Answer:
- why & how are these people "elect exiles"
- into what have we been born again?
- what is God doing for us while we wait?
- why have you "been grived by various trials"?
- what is true about God's people?
- what took place in the past that led to this?
- challenge: summarize the picture that Peter paints of the status and situation of the elect?