“Does Your Life Reflect Your Faith?”

1 Peter 2:11-12 11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul, 12 by keeping your conduct excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good works, as they observe them, glorify God […]

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“Comfort In The Sovereignty Of God”

1 Peter 2:7-10 7 This 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,” 8 and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this stumbling they were […]

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“Identity, Privilege, and Promise”

1 Peter 2:4-6 4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,  5 you 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 […]

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“Desiring The Pure Word Of God”

1 Peter 2:1-3 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.   Scripture References: Philippians 2:12-13 […]

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“Truth, Love, and the Enduring Word of God”

1 Peter 1:22-25 22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a love of the brothers without hypocrisy, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.  24 For, “All […]

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“The Fear Of God & The Blood Of The Lamb”

1 Peter 1:17-21 17 And if you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your sojourn, 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your futile conduct inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious […]

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“Hope & Holiness”

1 Peter 1:13-16 13 Therefore, having girded your minds for action, being sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  14 As obedient children, not being conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,  15 but like the Holy One […]

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“So Great A Salvation!”

1 Peter 1:10-12 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, made careful searches and inquiries,  11 inquiring to know what time or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He was predicting the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.  […]

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