1Peter 1:1-2
Introduction to 1Peter
AUTHOR
Matthew 16:18
And I tell you that you are Peter (pebble), and on this (massive) rock I will build my church,
and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
DATE
GENERAL EPISTLE
Diasporas
Chapters 1-2
Doctrinal
Chapters 3-5
Practical
LETTER RECIPIANTS
(key words)
Elect
Scattered
Acts 8:1-5
And Saul approved of their killing him (Stephen).
On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem,
and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy the church.
Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.
Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there.
The Law of Spiritual Thermal Dynamics
The Triune God involved in our Salvation
Chosen
(1:2, 20, 2:4, 6, 9, 5:13)
Ephesians1:4
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
Obedient
Not to just get us into Heaven, but to get Heaven into us.
Sprinkled with his (Christ’s) blood
Grace
(Getting what we don’t deserve)
Peace
(That surpasses our understanding Phil. 4:7)