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BEREAN COMMUNITY CHURCH
1 Peter 2:1-8
Wednesday March 2, 2021
1 Peter 1:22–2:8 (NASB95)
22Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart,
23for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
24For, “All flesh is like grass, And all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, And the flower falls off,
25But the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word which was preached to you.
1Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
2like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,
3if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.
4And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,
5you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6For this is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone, And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”
7This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, “The stone which the builders rejected, This became the very corner stone,”
8and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.
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Group Discussions
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Power and Will of God from Ch. 1
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The Word Who Became Flesh
John 1:9-11,14 (NASB95)
9There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.
10He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
11He came to His own, and those who were His own did
14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Power and Will of God from Ch. 1
The Word Which Was Preached:
1:11 / He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow
1:12 / preached the Gospel to you by the Holy Spirit
1:20 / has appeared in these last times for the sake of you, who through Him are believers in God
1:22 / in obedience to the truth
1:23 / through the living and enduring word of God
1:25 / But the word of the Lord endures forever
1:25 / And this is the word which was preached to you.
Thus… LONG for it… (2:3)… and do not be like those who stumble because they are DISOBEDIENT to it (2:8)
Visual of 2:1-12
Chart of points of emphases in 2:1-8
Visual of 2:1 Questions / Notes / Observations
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The Living Stone
Acts 4:8–12 (NASB95)
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people,
9if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,
10let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health.
11“He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone.
12“And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
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Descriptions
Aliens (1:1; 2:11), Strangers (2:11)
No Longer Straying (2:25)
Ignorant (1:14); Those in Darkness (2:9); Gentiles (2:12)
Still Straying (2:25)
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Two applicational thoughts…
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For Next Bible Study (Wednesday 3/9)
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Group Discussions