Acts - Unstoppable Church - 1 Peter 1-2

Homiletics                                             Study – Acts & Letter of Apostles

Lesson     9                                             Passage: 1 Peter 1-2

Content (List of Topics or Events)

Peter describes the Inheritance of grace in Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:1-12) a. Peter identifies and greets the addressee of his letter  (1-3) b. Peter praises God for great merch and hope in Jesus (4-5) c. Peter describes the reason to rejoice in trials (6-10) d. Salvation was pointed to by prophets and angels (11-12)

Peter describes the mindset of life lived in hope and grace (1 Peter 1:13-25) a. Set hope on grace revealed in Christ (13) b. Live obedient holy  lives (14-16) c. Live as redeemed foreigners not with perishable things (17-18) d. Jesus was chosen before the creation of the world as our hope in God (19-21) e. Born again in the imperishable living word of God (22-25)

Peter shares life based on Jesus the cornerstone (1 Peter 2) a. Grow up in salvation; God is good (1-2) b.  Coming to the living stone, as living stones built on Jesus our cornerstone (3-6) c. Those who do not believe disobey the message (7-8) d. Believers are God’s special possession receiving mercy (9-10) e. For God’s sake submit to human authority; providing an example (11-20) f. Example is Jesus who is the overseer of your souls (21-25)

Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)

Peter describes Inheritance of grace in Jesus Christ	1 Peter 1:1-13
Peter describes mindset of life lived in hope and grace	1 Peter 1:14-25
Peter shares life based on Jesus the cornerstone	2 Peter

Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)

Peter describes our inheritance, hope, grace in Jesus our cornerstone.

Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)

CTATL that our Christian walk follows Christ our hope and cornerstone of faith.

Specific Application Questions

1	How do you recognized the inheritance given to you in Jesus Christ?
2	What do you think about?  Is it faith based or worldly?  What do you need to turn over to Christ?
3	What do you your base your life decisions?  Is it God-honoring?

Principles to Remember

1	We have an eternal inheritance in Christ.
2	Our thinking should be on eternal things.
3	Our cornerstone of life is in Jesus.

Characteristic of God

Eternal God

Theme

Peter gives life focus looking beyond here and now to all of eternity.

God’s Word  - What’s happening?

God’s Heart – What does God care about?

Today’s World – How does this connect to what is happening in my world today