1. Sunday Morning in the Word
September 17, 2017

2. Sunday mornings beginning September 17th
In Desperate Times
A Study of 1 Peter
Sunday mornings beginning September 17th

3. Christ gives hope in hurtful times.”
“Painful trials are not the end. God will frustrate his adversaries and bring about a redemptive purpose through these periods of pain. Peter (in his first letter) reminds us of what we can so easily forget:
Chuck Swindoll
Christ gives hope in hurtful times.”

4. Sunday mornings beginning September 17th
In Desperate Times
A Study of 1 Peter
Sunday mornings beginning September 17th

5. Three Key Questions
Who wrote the letter?
To whom was it written?
Why was it written?

6. Three Key Questions Who wrote the letter?
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ:
Clearly Prominent among the Twelve Disciples
(The Gospels)
A Pillar in the Early Church
(Acts 1-12, 15; Galatians 2:9)

7. Who Wrote the Letter?
Matthew 26:33
Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away.
Matthew 26:35
Even if I have to die with you,” Peter told him, “I will never deny you!

8. Three Key Questions
Who wrote the letter?
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ:
Once prominent, then broken. Finally restored as a pillar of the early church!

9. Three Key Questions
To whom was it written?
1 Peter 1:1
To those chosen, living as exiles dispersed abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia . . .

10. Three Key Questions
To whom was it written?
1 Peter 1:1
To those chosen, living as exiles dispersed abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia . . .

11. Three Key Questions
To whom was it written?
1 Peter 1:1
To those chosen, living as exiles dispersed abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia . . .

12. To whom was it written?
“Peter uses two words that turn the world upside down for those inhabitants of Asia Minor, and for us. He calls them the scattered (dispersed) people, and says that they are strangers (exiles), aliens who are transients, temporary residents, travelers headed for their native land.”

13. To whom was it written?
“These terms give us the key to Peter’s whole letter. Peter is writing a travelers’ guide for Christian pilgrims. He reminds them that their hope is anchored in their homeland. They are called to endure alienation as strangers, but they have a heavenly citizenship and destiny.”
(Edmund Clowney)

14. Three Key Questions
To whom was it written?
1 Peter 1:1
To those chosen, living as exiles dispersed abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia . . .

15. Three Key Questions
Why was it written?

16. Three Key Words
1. “suffer” (16 times)
1 Peter 1:6
You rejoice in this, even though now for a short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various trials.

17. Three Key Words
2. “sober” (3 times)
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore, with your minds ready for action, be sober-minded and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

18. Three Key Words
3. “hope” (5 times)
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

19. Three Key Words
3. “hope” (5 times)
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. 

20. Three Key Words (why Peter wrote)
1. “suffering” (16 times)
2. “sober: (3 times)
3. “hope” (5 times)
Peter writes to these suffering Christians in order that they would be calm, sober-minded in the midst of their trials; clearly focusing on the HOPE that was theirs in Christ as they lived in exile on earth!

21. Three Key Sections
Peter begins his letter with instruction on EMBRACING OUR LIVING HOPE! (1:3-2:10)
Then he moves on with a section that is primarily an exhortation to APPLY OUR LIVING HOPE (2:11-4:11)
He wraps up with a final section, COMFORTING them as he encourages them to TRUST OUR LIVING HOPE (4:12-5:11)

22. Embrace your living hope!
The Structure and Flow of 1 Peter
1:1-2
1:3-2:10
2:11-4:11
4:12-5:11
5:12-14
Intro and greeting
Instruction
Exhortation
Encourage-ment
Closing thoughts
Embrace your living hope!
Apply
your living hope!
Trust
Three Key Sections

23. Embrace your living hope!
The Structure and Flow of 1 Peter
1:1-2
1:3-2:10
2:11-4:11
4:12-5:11
5:12-14
Intro and greeting
Instruction
Exhortation
Encourage-ment
Closing thoughts
Embrace your living hope!
Apply
your living hope!
Trust

24. Embrace your living hope!
The Structure and Flow of 1 Peter
1:1-2
1:3-2:10
2:11-4:11
4:12-5:11
5:12-14
Intro and greeting
Instruction
Exhortation
Encourage-ment
Closing thoughts
Embrace your living hope!
Apply
your living hope!
Trust

25. Embrace your living hope!
The Structure and Flow of 1 Peter
1:1-2
1:3-2:10
2:11-4:11
4:12-5:11
5:12-14
Intro and greeting
Instruction
Exhortation
Comfort
Closing thoughts
Embrace your living hope!
Apply
your living hope!
Trust

26. I Peter: Our Living Hope
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those chosen, living as exiles dispersed abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

27. Three Key Realities
1. We are chosen by God the Father
“. . .chosen 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,”

28. Three Key Realities
“This does not merely refer to God’s foreknowing that they would belong to him but also means that he set his covenantal affection upon them in advance, foreordaining that they would belong to him.”

29. (Chosen by God the Father)
Three Key Realities
(Chosen by God the Father)
Acts 2:23
Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.
“‘Foreknowledge’ means that God planned before, not that he observed before.”
(John MacArthur)

30. (Chosen by God the Father)
Three Key Realities
(Chosen by God the Father)
Ephesians 1:5
 He predestined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

31. (Chosen by God the Father)
Three Key Realities
(Chosen by God the Father)
Ephesians 1:11
In him we have also received an inheritance, because we were predestined according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will.

32. (Chosen by God the Father)
Three Key Realities
(Chosen by God the Father)
Romans 9:15-16
For he tells Moses, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 16 So then, it does not depend on human will or effort but on God who shows mercy.

33. Three Key Realities
We are chosen by God the Father
We are sanctified by the Holy Spirit
“through the sanctifying work of the Spirit,” 

34. “to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ.”
Three Key Realities
We are chosen by God the Father
We are sanctified by the Holy Spirit
We are consecrated by the blood of
Jesus Christ!
“to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ.” 

35. Three Key Realities
We are chosen by God the Father
We are sanctified by the Holy Spirit
We are consecrated by the blood of
Jesus Christ!

36. The Father plans our salvation The Son purchases our salvation
Three Key Realities
The Father plans our salvation
The Son purchases our salvation
The Spirit processes our salvation

37. I Peter: Our Living Hope
1 Peter 1:2b
May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

38. I Peter: Our Living Hope
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

39. I Peter: Our Living Hope
Romans 10:9-10
If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.