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Introduction
What are ways you have a hard time?
Relationships?
The mind?
Temptation?
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Context
Written by Peter from Rome to the churches in the region of Asia Minor in A.D. 62-63.
They were facing intensifying pressure under state-sanctioned persecution under Nero, which peaked in in A.D. 64.
What were the Christians in Asia Minor going through when Peter wrote to them?
They were facing intensifying pressure under state-sanctioned persecution under Nero, which peaked in in A.D. 64.
This pressure would have taken the form of
abuse from unbelieving family members and employers
ostracism and ridicule by neighbors and associates
hostility from a pagan world that labeled Christians intolerant because of their scriptural beliefs and lifestyles.
Isolated and suffering, the Christian diaspora gathered into churches for worship and encouragement.
In this letter, Peter gives instruction to Christians, like you and me, to remember core truths of the Christian faith so we can stand firm and live for Jesus in the midst of storms.
How does knowing who we are in Christ and what we have through Him help us to cope with our troubles?
Believers must remember our identity is based on who we are in Jesus.
Passage
Remember, Peter was one of the disciples of Jesus Christ.
Peter had some really cool high times.
He and his brother Andrew were the first disciples called.
They were fishermen and Jesus called them to leave that and become fishers of men (-18).
He was a mixture of courage, impulsiveness, foolishness, and faithfulness all wrapped together.
He was the assumed leader of the disciples and this is seen in that he is usually the spokesman for the disciples in the gospels.
He spoke boldly and failed spectacularly
and then...
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Whoa!
But this was nothing in comparison to Peter’s three denials of Jesus after Jesus’ arrest.
Jesus restored him in .
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Peter is a great person to speak to us because he shows us failure does not have to be final.
What does it mean that Peter’s life teaches us that failure does not have to be final?
In the midst of trials and persecution, Peter gives wise counsel on how to bounce back from discouragement and live strongly again for the Lord.
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After Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, the disciples came to be called apostles.
After Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, the disciples came to be called apostles.
Apostle means messenger or sent one; an envoy of Jesus
The letter is to Christians who are called elect.
This term means a group which is chosen or selected by someone in preference to others.
The idea is that those who are Christians are chosen by God.
The main thing to know is that if you are a born-again Christian, you are chosen in God’s eyes.
This is important in Peter’s argument that knowing who you are in God will help you weather the storms.
He wants them to know they are adopted sons and daughters of the Father through faith in Christ.
How does it make you feel to know you are chosen by God?
They are also called exiles.
An exile is someone who has temporary residence in a place which is not their home.
They are aliens and strangers.
This was familiar language to the Jews who were exiles in Egypt and Babylon.
Jesus was an exile for a little.
Remember, as Christians, our home is the kingdom of God in heaven.
This world, as it is, is not our home.
How is an exile different from an immigrant or a tourist?
How does Peter’s description of Christians as exiles encourage us to view this world?
Dispersion refers to the area surrounding home.
For the Jews, the diaspora referred to the Jews living in places other than the Promised Land.
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia are all Roman regions throughout what is today known as Turkey.
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So they are chosen by God.
This is according to God the Father’s foreknowledge of them.
This means that God has set His covenantal favor upon those who are saved (similarly as he did with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, etc.).
It’s not as if they we a sudden rash decision.
Instead, foreknowledge implies God knew these Christians in advance and planned for their redemption.
This speaks to the depth of God’s love for you, and the depth of His knowledge of you.
Have you ever thought of God loving you this much to meticulously arrange for your existence and redemption so you might be with Him forever in His kingdom.
Not only do we have election and redemption by the Father’s pleasure.
We are being reformed by the Holy Spirit.
The word sanctified means in this passage that as the gospel is proclaimed, the Spirit sanctifies (makes clean) some by bringing them to faith, by bringing them into the realm of the holy.
We are being reformed by the Holy Spirit.
The word sanctified means in this passage that as the gospel is proclaimed, the Spirit sanctifies (makes clean) some by bringing them to faith, by bringing them into the realm of the holy.
Upon faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit comes to live in our hearts and makes us holy.
This making us holy goes on into a lifelong process of making us Holy.
We are the broken and tattered house that a renovator purchases outright, secures the deed, and goes to work to “flip”.
The elect are foreknown, sanctified, and obedient.
This is likely referring to the obedience of faith in conversion- the action of believing when the Spirit makes the gospel known to us.
This also refers to Christ’s atonement of our sin by His blood.
The sprinkling of blood is from the OT days of the sacrificial worship.
The background passage for this is probably when Moses ratified the covenant of God with the people by sprinkling blood from a sacrifice on the people.
The new covenant in Christ which is entered into by His blood.
What do the Father, Holy Spirit, and Son do to us when we are saved?
After describing who they are in relation to God, Peter concludes the opening of the letter with a prayerful wish to the Christians whom he knows are suffering.
They are also identified as
He says to them grace- that God would pour out good heavenly things on them in their trials and
peace- that their beings would be whole and well regardless of their circumstances.
Peter goes on to give praise to God the Father and then explain why God is worthy of praise.
The reason God is worthy of worship is that He has demonstrated great (remarkable) mercy (compassion) on the Christians.
Not only are they special to God, they have received good things.
God the Father has caused Christians to be born again (renewed) to a new hope which is living.
This means that God has given us new life in Christ and He places a dream before us.
One that is living and active.
This means that the hope we have affects the way we live.
We live in light of it.
Part of this dream includes resurrection from the dead for you and me.
This is simply that although we may die (really, death is the fear of all people) we will not stay dead.
Rather, because our sin has been taken from us, death cannot legally hold us.
Therefore, we will, in physical bodies, be raised from the dead!
We will have resurrected and restored bodies.
What bolsters our hope in this?
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