Kress Biblical Resources :: Part One—The True Grace of God is Given in Your Salvation (1Pe 1:1-2:10)

Detailed Outline of 1 Peter—Part One (1Pe 1:1-2:10)

Standing firm in the true grace of God.

Part One—The True Grace of God is Given in Your Salvation (1Pe 1:1-2:10)

1. The Gift and Greatness of Your Faith and Salvation (1Pe 1:1-1:12)
   1. Take comfort in God’s election/choice (1Pe 1:1-2)
      1. Be encouraged in God’s choice of Peter as the human author (1Pe 1:1a)
      2. Be encouraged in God’s choice of believers as elect aliens (1Pe 1:1-2c)
         1. Chosen homeless according to the foreknowledge of God the Father (1Pe 1:1-2a)
         2. Chosen homeless by the sanctifying work of God the Holy Spirit (1Pe 1:2b)
         3. Chosen homeless for the purpose of obedience and the cleansing of God the Son (1Pe 1:2c)
      3. Be encouraged in God’s choice of greetings in this epistle (1Pe 1:2c)
   2. Praise God for the basis and benefits of your faith and salvation (1Pe 1:3-5)
      1. Praise Him for the basis of your faith and salvation (1Pe 1:3)
         1. His great mercy
         2. His power through resurrection of Jesus Christ
      2. Praise Him for the benefits of your faith and salvation (1Pe 1:3-5)
         1. A living hope (1Pe 1:3)
         2. A lavish and indestructible inheritance (1Pe 1:4)
            1. Imperishable
            2. Undefiled
            3. Unfading
            4. Reserved in heaven
         3. A lasting and powerful protection unto salvation (1Pe 1:5)
   3. Rejoice even in the testing of your faith and salvation (1Pe 1:6-9)
      1. Rejoice in the basis and benefits of your faith and salvation (1Pe 1:6a)
      2. Rejoice in the refining of your faith and salvation (1Pe 1:6-7)
         1. Remember it is only for a little while (1Pe 1:6b)
         2. Remember it is only if God deems it necessary (1Pe 1:6c)
         3. Remember proven faith results in reward (1Pe 1:7)
      3. Rejoice in the Object of your faith, Who is your salvation (1Pe 1:8)
      4. Rejoice in the outcome of your faith: Salvation (1Pe 1:9)
   4. Understand the glory and grandeur of your New Testament faith and salvation (1Pe 1:10-12)
      1. The Old Testament prophets longed to understand what you understand about salvation (1Pe 1:10-12a)
         1. They studied the gospel in an inspired Old Testament [including their own writings] (1Pe 1:10-11)
            1. They sought to understand more clearly the future plan of God’s redeeming grace (1Pe 1:10) [cf. Jhn 1:16-17 “grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ”]
            2. They sought to understand more clearly the sufferings of Messiah [The incarnation and crucifixion of Jesus Christ] (1Pe 1:11a)
            3. They sought to understand the future glories of Messiah [The resurrection, ascension, exaltation and glorious return of Jesus Christ] (1Pe 1:11b)
         2. They saw their predictive ministry as serving primarily New Testament believers (1Pe 1:2a)
      2. The angels long to understand what you understand about salvation (1Pe 1:12b)
2. The Practice and Purpose of Your Faith and Salvation (1Pe 1:13-2:12)
   1. Your salvation calls you to focus your hope (1Pe 1:13)
      1. Purpose once and for all to be prepared mentally [to think biblically about life in light of Christ’s return]
      2. Perpetually [continually] control your thinking
      3. Be pre-occupied with the glory to come
   2. Your salvation calls you to holiness (1Pe 1:14-16)
      1. You must continually wage war against sin in your life (1Pe 1:14)
         1. Remember who you are now—children of obedience (1Pe 1:14a)
         2. Remember who you were—ignorant slaves to sin (1Pe 1:14b)
      2. You must clearly seek to reflect the holy character of God (1Pe 1:15-16)
         1. Remember: God is the standard of holiness (1Pe 1:15a)
         2. Remember: God is concerned with every area of your life (1Pe 1:15b)
         3. Remember: God’s Word commands it (1Pe 1:16)
   3. Your salvation calls you to godly fear [reverence/awe/respect] (1Pe 1:17-21)
      1. Remember who God is [and what He is doing] (1Pe 1:17)
         1. He is Father
         2. He is Judge
      2. Remember what God has done in Christ (1Pe 1:18-21)
         1. He paid an infinitely costly price to redeem you (1Pe 1:18-19)
            1. Not redeemed with human treasure (1Pe 1:18a)
            2. Redeemed from slavery to sin (1Pe 1:18b)
            3. Redeemed by the life-blood of the sinless Christ (1Pe 1:19)
         2. He has given you faith and hope (1Pe 1:20-21)
            1. Based on an eternal plan of redemption (1Pe 1:20a)
            2. Through the incarnation of God for you (1Pe 1:20b)
            3. Because of the resurrection and ascension of Christ (1Pe 1:21)
   4. Your salvation calls you to love the brethren (1Pe 1:22-25)
      1. The prerequisite of love for the brethren: Obedience to the soul-cleansing truth of God’s Word (1Pe 1:22a)
      2. The manner of love for the brethren (1Pe 1:22b)
         1. Unhypocritical, brother-love/affectionate love
         2. Fervent, sacrificial love from the heart
      3. The reasons for love of the brethren (1Pe 1:22-25)
         1. Because we are commanded to (1Pe 1:22)
         2. Because we share the same eternal life-blood/new birth (1Pe 1:23-25)
            1. We have the same life-giving, imperishable seed, which is the source of our new birth (1Pe 1:23a)
            2. We were made alive through the same living and abiding Word of God, which is the means of our new birth (1Pe 1:23-25)
               1. Scripture says that everything else is temporal (1Pe 1:24)
               2. Scripture also says that God’s Word is eternal (1Pe 1:25a)
               3. We heard God’s Word as good news preached to us (1Pe 1:25b)
   5. Your salvation calls you to crave God’s Word (1Pe 2:1-3)
      1. Learn to appreciate the power and abiding value of God’s Word (1Pe 2:1a; “Therefore”)
      2. Lay aside sin, which hinders desire for God’s Word (1Pe 2:1b)
         1. All malice
         2. All deceit
            1. Including hypocrisies
            2. Including envy
         3. All slander
      3. Liken God’s Word to your only source of life (1Pe 2:2a)
      4. Lean on God’s Word as your most essential means of growth (1Pe 2:2b)
      5. Love the One revealed in God’s Word as good and gracious (1Pe 2:3)
   6. Your salvation calls you to a new purpose: The worship of God (1Pe 2:4-10)
      1. Worship Part I: Being built up as a new temple, for new priesthood and new sacrifices (1Pe 2:4-8)
         1. Worship because of who you are in Christ (1Pe 2:4-8)
            1. Those who come to Christ as the only living, God-ordained foundation (1Pe 2:4)
            2. Those who are living stones, in a new temple, with a new priesthood, and new sacrifices (1Pe 2:5)
            3. Those who are believers in Christ as the predicted cornerstone (1Pe 2:6)
            4. Those who are in contrast to disobedient, stumbling, rejecters (1Pe 2:7-8)
         2. Worship because of what God has accomplished for us in Christ (1Pe 2:4-8)
            1. God has made your worship acceptable to Him through Christ (1Pe 2:4-5)
            2. God has guaranteed no shame or disappointment for believers in Christ (1Pe 2:6)
            3. God has given you the only sure foundation to build your life upon (1Pe 2:7)
      2. Worship because God in Christ is supremely worthy (1Pe 2:4-8)
         1. Christ is alive from the dead (1Pe 2:4a)
         2. Christ is elect and precious in God’s sight (1Pe 2:4b)
         3. Christ is able to make your worship acceptable (1Pe 2:5)
         4. Christ is the precious and divine Object of saving faith (1Pe 2:6)
         5. Christ is the sovereign judge of the disobedient (1Pe 2:7-8)
   7. Worship Part II: Proclaiming His excellencies as the new people of God (1Pe 2:9-10)
      1. Because of who we are in Christ
      2. Because of what God has done for us in Christ
      3. Because of who God is in Christ: He is worthy