1 Peter 2

May 28, 2022

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Reading along with us in 1 Peter? Here’s today’s reading:

1 Peter 2 (NIV)

1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
The Living Stone and a Chosen People
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—............Continue Reading

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  1. When we come to God we are part of His spiritual temple, we are part of His eternal plan. We will no longer be accepted by this world but we still need to live in it so God instructs us to look different in it. We follow the example that Christ gave us when this world tells us we are fools for following and we love, we forgive, and we continue to live a life that brings glory to God.

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  2. Later in chapter 2, Peter has instructions for living a Godly life. The instructions seem to be very similar despite your position in life. Respect and honor God and do right to “silence the talk of foolish people”. This holds for everyone whether foreigner, exile, master, slave, husband or wife. Our example, of course, is Jesus Christ.

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  3. But you are a chosen people a royal priesthood Gods special possession. Is there any better news. Would not trade that for all the riches of the world. The love God has for us is the fuel yo live the life Peter speaks of in this chapter

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    1. I like the part where it says, stay away from sinful desires which wage war against your soul.. Good reminder about how I should nurture my relationship with God..

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  6. “In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
    ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭1:6-7‬ ‭NIV‬‬
    https://bible.com/bible/111/1pe.1.6-7.NIV

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  7. It was interesting that the cornerstone of our faith is either strong and good makes us part of Gods spiritual temple which he is pleased with and the world rejects us now. Then the person with out faith still gets a cornerstone but of weakness and causes people to do wrong and not do what is right in God’s eyes. Is not pleasing.
    Some people use their faith to fool others and get there own way. That is not how God wants us to represent him. We have been brought out of the darkness into the light praise God

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  9. “Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,

    “Behold, I lay in Zion
    A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,
    And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”

    7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient,

    “The stone which the builders rejected
    Has become the chief cornerstone,”

    8 and

    “A stone of stumbling
    And a rock of offense.”

    They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.

    9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.”

    I was thinking of the “generation” that this was written to. Imagine that things have been going on for hundreds of years as they have always been and then Christ comes and changes everything. Any person, Jew or Gentile, could be a living stone by believing in Jesus. Everyone was/is responsible to obey the word: “They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.” Those who were once not God’s people obtained mercy through Jesus, through belief in Him.

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  10. The best defense is a good offense in the first few verses here. The best way to avoid the negatives is to pursue the positive, craving what is good and godly and thereby finding what sin and the world offer to be hollow and destructive. God has certainly provided enough to give us reason to follow His ways: we are living stones being built together to bring glory to Jesus who has shown His worthiness, we are a chosen people and royal priesthood, belonging to God and able to represent ourselves before God through Jesus, we have also received mercy from Him as well as the recognition that the world is dark. As we understand ourselves to receive all that God has given, we are now strangers in the world and therefore should abstain from the sinful desires that the world promotes. It only makes sense that we should do so. The world may accuse us of doing wrong, but our good works should prove otherwise.

    And what are some of those good works? Submitting ourselves to earthly authorities and others as well even when we are treated harshly or unjustly. And just in case we need motivation to do so, it really is exactly what Jesus did. He was mistreated in the harshest way but forgave those who abused Him. He also bore our sins on the cross and paid the penalty for them…an amount of suffering that we can’t even imagine. We could never equal His suffering. And He did it to save us even though we were going astray. How comforting to have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls!

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  11. Jesus is the living Stone and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame. They are called out of darkness into the light and are given mercy. We are urged to abstain from sinful desires, do good and submit to authority. This will silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. When we suffer for doing good it is pleasing to God. Jesus was the perfect example of this when he died for us. Thank you Jesus.

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