Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 3:15b-17
SERMON NOTES
GIVE A GOOD DEFENCE
1 Peter 3:15b-17
– this is part of 1 Peter 3:13-17.
1. Give a defence of your hope with gentleness.
– 3:15b. Has to be read with Luke 12:11-12. They are not to be seen in terms of …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 3:13-15a
SERMON NOTES
HONOURING CHRIST IN PERSECUTION
1 Peter 3:13-15a
In 1 Peter 3:13-17 Peter deals with how a Christian is to respond to suffering brought about by persecution.
1. Christians are often not persecuted.
– 3:13. Has Peter forgotten what had happened in Acts …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 3:10-12
SERMON NOTES
SPEAKING, DOING AND PRAYING
1 Peter 3:10-12
What do we want out of life? 1 Pet.3:10a, citing Psalm 34. Note Deut.30:15-20. Augustine says in his Confessions: ‘All men are united by one purpose, temporal happiness on earth, and all that they …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 3:8-9
SERMON NOTES
UNITY, LOVE, HUMILITY, BLESSING
1 Peter 3:8-9
Peter has been dealing with Christians living as subjects to the civil powers (2:13-17), as slaves (2:18-25), and as wives (3:1-6) and husbands (3:7). When he says ‘finally’ in verse 8, he means that this …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 3:7
SERMON NOTES
THE CHRISTIAN HUSBAND
1 Peter 3:7
– Peter is dealing with a Christian husband married to a Christian wife.
1. Be understanding.
– the ESV and the NKJV have ‘understanding, while the NIV has ‘be considerate’, but the word literally is ‘knowledge’.…
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 3:1-6
SERMON NOTES
HOW TO LIVE WITH AN UNBELIEVER
1 Peter 3:1-6
– 2:11-12. Believers not to marry unbelievers (Deut.7:1-4; 1 Cor.7:39).
Plutarch: ‘it is becoming for a wife to worship and to know only the gods that her husband believes in’.
1. Be faithful …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:24-25
SERMON NOTES
CHRIST OUR SUBSTITUTE
1 Peter 2:24-25
– Christ is our example and our substitute – 1 John 1:7; 2:6 is like 1 Peter 2:21-23, 24-25. Behind all this is Isaiah 53.
1. Christ died for sinners.
– 2:24. As Paul Gerhardt: ‘Mine, …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:21-23
SERMON NOTES
CHRIST OUR EXAMPLE
1 Peter 2:21-23
– Christ is our example (2:21-23) and our substitute (2:24-25).
1. Christ is our example.
– 2:21. That word was used to describe a method by which youngsters were taught the Greek alphabet. Jesus is like …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:18-20
SERMON NOTES
SUFFERING AS A SLAVE
1 Peter 2:18-20
– many Christians were slaves (e.g. 1 Corinthians 7:17-24; Ephesians 6:5-8; Colossians 3:22-25; 1 Tim.6:1-2; Titus 2:9-10; Philemon). Possibly about one-third of the population of the Roman Empire consisted of slaves.
1. The slave was …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:16-17
SERMON NOTES
LIVE AS FREE SERVANTS
1 Peter 2:16-17
– Calvin writes of ‘a free servitude, and a serving freedom’.
1. Live as free servants.
– 2:16. It is crucial that we get this right – John 8:36; 14:15; Gal.5:1, 13. Also 2 Peter …
