Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:13-15
SERMON NOTES
THE CHRISTIAN AND CIVIL AUTHORITY
1 Peter 2:13-15
1. Our general obligation is to submit to all civil authority.
– 2:13-14a. The Christian’s general duty towards those in authority is to submit. Prov.24:21-22; Jer.29:7.
– this is not absolute, and there are …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:11-12
SERMON NOTES
STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS IN THE WORLD
1 Peter 2:11-12
– How is a Christian to live in this world? Work from the general to the particular – that is the right order.
1. Christians are strangers and exiles in the world.
– …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:9-10
SERMON NOTES
NEW ISRAEL PROCLAIMS GOD
1 Peter 2:9-10
– quotes from three parts of the Old Testament – Ex.19:5-6; Isa.43:20-21; and Hosea 2:23.
1. The Church is New Israel.
(a) a chosen people. Edmund Clowney: ‘Israel is a chosen people, but not a …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:4-8
SERMON NOTES
LIVING STONES IN THE NEW TEMPLE
1 Peter 2:4-8
– The temple in the Old Testament was where the glory of God was made known – 1 Kings 8:10; where the sacrifices took place – 1 Kings 8:63. Yet it was hardly …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:1-3
SERMON NOTES
GROWING IN THE WORD
1 Peter 2:1-3
1. We must put off all evil.
– 2:1. Peter begins verse 1 with a ‘So’ (ESV) or ‘Therefore’ (NIV). This is the negative side of 1:22. For put off/put on pattern, see Rom.13:12; Eph.4:22, …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:22-25
SERMON NOTES
THE ABIDING WORD OF GOD
1 Peter 1:22-25
– love comes from holding to the truth – Eph.4:15.
1. What we believe directs what we do.
– 1:22. Robert Leighton says that this verse contains the ‘whole duties and frame of a …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:18-21
SERMON NOTES
REDEEMED FROM FUTILE WAYS
1 Peter 1:18-21
Peter writes of being redeemed or ransomed (ESV).
1. Redeemed from futile ways.
– 1:18a. We usually think, quite rightly, of being redeemed from the penalty for sin (Gal. 3:10 13). But Peter is speaking …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:17
SERMON NOTES
CALLING UPON THE JUDGE IN FEAR
1 Peter 1:17
– Peter has been exhorting his readers to live as holy pilgrims in a hostile world, pointing to a number of motives: grace (1:13); the holiness of God (1:14-16); and the judgment of …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:13-16
SERMON NOTES
A HEAVENLY INHERITANCE, A HOLY LIFE
1 Peter 1:13-16
– on the basis of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Christians have in heaven an imperishable, undefiled and unfading inheritance. How then do we live?
1. Prepare your mind for …
Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 1:10-12
SERMON NOTES
CHRIST AS THE FULFILMENT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
1 Peter 1:10-12
– Luke 24:25-27, 32, 44-45.
1. The Old Testament prophets preached grace.
– 1:10-12. Notice from verse 10 that the Old Testament prophets prophesied grace. John 8:56.
– NIV takes the …
