1 Peter Themes•Suffering is normal for Christians because Christ suffered•Suffering includes submitting our will to others•Suffering reminds us that we don’t

belong here•Suffering reminds us of an eternal perspective•Suffering precedes glory

1 Peter

We Don’t Abandon Love

We love one another because…

We belong to the same family

We Don’t Abandon Love

22 You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart. 23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

1 Peter 1:22 – 2:3 (NET Bible)

24 For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was proclaimed to you. 2:1 So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, 3 if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.

1 Peter 1:22 – 2:3 (NET Bible)

“The love Peter has in view is neither a warm, fuzzy feeling nor friendships around a coffeepot after worship, though love as Peter defines it may involve both. Rather, it refers to righteous relationships with each other that are based on God’s character, which Christian behavior reflects.”

–Karen Jobes

We Don’t Abandon Love

Applications:•This week, demonstrate your love to another believer.

We Don’t Abandon Love

We love one another because…

We belong to the same family

We Don’t Abandon Love

We love one another because…

We belong to the same family

We belong to one building

We Don’t Abandon Love

4 So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God’s sight, 5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it says in scripture, “Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.”

1 Peter 2:4-8 (NET Bible)

7 So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, 8 and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

1 Peter 2:4-8 (NET Bible)

“Praise to God and doing good to others are spiritual sacrifices that please Him.”

-BKC

We Don’t Abandon Love

Applications:•This week, demonstrate your love to another believer.•This week, repair a crack in a relationship with another believer.

We Don’t Abandon Love

We love one another because…

We belong to the same family

We belong to one building

We Don’t Abandon Love

We love one another because…

We belong to the same family

We belong to one building

We belong to a new race

We Don’t Abandon Love

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

1 Peter 2:9-10 (NET Bible)

“Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a race of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.”

–Suetonius

We Don’t Abandon Love

33 “Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?”

Matthew 18:33 (NET Bible)

Applications:•This week, demonstrate your love to another believer.•This week, repair a crack in a relationship with another believer.•This week, show mercy to another believer.

We Don’t Abandon Love