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Exhortation to live a holy life

• Week 3
• 1 Peter 113-23

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Last week Praise for Salvation (1 Peter 13-12)

• Peter begins the body of the letter by blessing
  God because he has given believers new life and
  guaranteed their future glory (vv. 35).
• Believers rejoice in their sufferings because
  they are designed for their purity (vv. 69).
• Christians are wonderfully blessed, for they know
  the fulfillment of OT prophecies, all of which
  point to Christ (vv. 1012).

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I. A Settled Hope (113-21)

• 1. What are the 4 imperatives (verbs) of this
  section?
• 13c. set your hope fully on the grace that will
  be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus
  Christ.
• 14b. do not be conformed to the passions of your
  former ignorance
• 15b. you also be holy in all your conduct
• 17c. conduct yourselves with fear throughout the
  time of your exile
• ?What is the main imperative of this section?

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• 2. What are 2 distinguishing marks of decided
  hope? (vv.13-15)
• A Healthy Mind (v.13)
• Holy Living (vv.14-15)

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• 3. What are 3 motivations to keep hoping in God?
  (vv.16-19)
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• Gods Character (vv.15-16)
• Gods Judgment (v.17)
• Christs Sacrifice (vv.18-19)

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II. A Sincere Love (122-23)

• 1. What are the 3 imperatives (verbs) of this
  section?
• 22c. love one another earnestly from a pure
  heart
• 21 So put away all malice and all deceit and
  hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
• Ac 2b. long for the pure spiritual milk
• ?What is the main imperative of this section?

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• 2. What are 2 reasons for loving one another
  earnestly (v.23)?
• I.e. what are the grounds for this imperative?
  (In other words, why should we love each other?)
• 22a. Having purified your souls by your obedience
  to the truth
• 23a. since you have been born again

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• 3. How have you been born again? (vv.23-25)
• 23e. But of imperishable seedWhat is the
  imperishable seed? (cf. Luke 811 Gal 66-10)
• 23f. through the living and abiding word of God

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• 4. What does genuine love look like? (21-2)
• Or what are 2 behaviors that express love?
• 21 So put away all malice and all deceit and
  hypocrisy and envy and all slander. All these
  things undo other people they destroy
  relationships.
• 2a. Like newborn infants, long for the pure
  spiritual milk.Familial terms 222 newborn
  infants 13 born again 122
  brothers22c. that by it you may grow up into
  salvation Peter wants us to grow up into Christ
  as members of his family. We should long to be
  mature, adult-like, strong. We should all be
  strivingthrough loveto grow up, for that is
  what God wants from us.

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What is love?
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Purpose of the Church and
Its MInistry, Reflections on the Aims of
Theological Education (New York HarperCollins,
1956), pp.34-36. Quoted in David R. Helm, 1 2
Peter and Jude (Wheaton, IL Crossway, 2008),
pp.69-70. By love we mean at least these
attitudes and actions rejoicing in the presence
of the beloved, gratitude, reverence and loyalty
toward him. Love is rejoicing over the existence
of the beloved one it is the desire that he be
rather than not be it is longing for his
presence when he is absent it is happiness in
the thought of him it is profound satisfaction
over everything that makes him great and glorious.
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Love is gratitude it is thankfulness for the
existence of the beloved it is the happy
acceptance of everything that he gives without
the jealous feeling that the self ought to be
able to do as much it is a gratitude that does
not seek equality it is wonder over the others
gift of himself in companionship. Love is
reverence it keeps its distance even as it draws
near it does not seek to absorb the other in the
self or want to be absorbed by it it rejoices in
the otherness of the other it desires the
beloved to be what he is and does not seek to
refashion him into a replica of the self or to
make him a means to the selfs advancement. As
reverence love is and seeks knowledge of the
other, not by way of curiosity nor for the sake
of gaining power but in rejoicing and in wonder.
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In all such love there is an element of that
holy fear which is not a form of flight but
rather deep respect for the otherness of the
beloved and the profound unwillingness to violate
his integrity. Love is loyalty it is the
willingness to let the self be destroyed rather
than that the other cease to be it is the
commitment of the self by self-binding will to
make the other great.
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Scripture Memory

• Each Week

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1st Peter 24-10

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• Next Week, June 28

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