Study of 1st and 2nd Peter Week 2

Discovering Your Identity in Christ

Week Two

Questions

What do you think are the main ideas in this chapter?

What question do you have about this chapter?

1 Peter 1 (65 AD)

Main Ideas

Questions

1 Peter 2

Main Ideas

Questions

1 Peter 3

Main Ideas

Questions

1 Peter 4

Main Ideas

Questions

1 Peter 5

Main Ideas

Questions

Likert Scale

Discovering My Identity in Christ

1 Peter 1: A Diagnosis

1 Peter 1:1-2

I am God’s representative in my sphere   of influence.

   Strongly disagree

   Disagree

   Undecided

   Agree

I am holy, custom made to help people   who know me see how good God is.

    Strongly disagree

    Disagree

    Undecided

    Agree

My love for God motivates me to honor   God with my words and deeds.

   Strongly disagree

   Disagree

   Undecided

   Agree

I experience God’s power as He helps   me in the challenges and opportunities I have.

   Strongly disagree

   Disagree

   Undecided

   Agree

I am at peace.

   Strongly disagree

   Disagree

   Undecided

   Agree

1 Peter 1:3-4

I am a follower of Jesus Christ.

   Strongly disagree

   Disagree

   Undecided

   Agree

I am anticipating the good future God   has planned for me.

1 Peter 1:6-7

I trust God.

   Strongly disagree

   Disagree

   Undecided

   Agree

 

My life honors God.

   Strongly disagree

   Disagree

   Undecided

   Agree

I am joyful about the things God is   doing in my life and the person He is making me become.

   Strongly disagree

   Disagree

   Undecided

   Agree

Sunday Outline

Introduction: God is here.

  Our goal in this series is to help you clarify your identity in Christ.

Today we will start with an assessment of where you are.

Someone once said, “Being lost is not about knowing where you’re going. It’s about knowing where you are. If you don’t know where you are you can’t find the way to where you need to be.”

So this morning we are going to help you ask, “Who am I?”

Peter is older, likely in his 50’s. The book was written about 64 AD.

1 to 10 What does the scale look like?

· Where are you?

· Where does God want you to be?

· Where do you want to be?

 I am chosen by God. 

NLT

1 This letter is from Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to God’s chosen people who are living as foreigners in the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.    2 God the Father knew you (προγνωσις – 2x’s) long ago and his Spirit has made you holy (αγιάζω). As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.

 GREEK To the hand-picked sojourners (someone passing through, strangers, someone who is from somewhere else living temporarily in…) of the Diaspora; of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia according to the foreknowledge of God by the sanctifyingwork of the Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling in the blood of Jesus. (Modifies ‘dispersion’s chosen’)   May God give you more and more grace and peace. This is about God’s mission. “He causes everyone to live where they are so some might seek and find him.” Acts 17:27. The recipients are living where they do according to the plan of God, the sanctifying work of the Spirit and the cleansing work of Jesus to represent Him by modeling “the Way.” 

· I am chosen by God. God chooses people.   I am chosen by God. I want God to chose me. I don’t think God wants me. I am God’s representative in my sphere of influence.

· I am holy. God is holy.

 I am holy. I want to be holy. I am not holy.   I am holy, custom made to help people who know me see how good God is.

· I obey God.  God is Lord.

 I am learning to obey God. I want to obey God more. I do not obey God.  My love for God motivates me to honor God with my words and deeds.

· I know God’s grace. God is gracious.

 I experience God’s grace. I want God’s grace. I need God’s grace.  I experience God’s power as He helps me in the challenges and opportunities I have.

· I have peace. God gives peace.

 I have peace. I want peace. I don’t have peace.  I am at peace.

All praise (εὐλογητός) to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

· 10,000 Reasons

· What a Beautiful Name

· Raise a Hallelujah

· Good, Good Father

· Or the like.

Pads

 I Have New Life in Christ 

NLT

It is by his great mercythat we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, 4 and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven (in the heavens) for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.

GREEK

The one according to his great mercy having begotten us to a living hope through Jesus’ resurrection from the dead…in an inheritance, imperishable and undefiled and unfading, being reserved in the heavenlies for you…

· I am born again. (Born again=raised from the dead.) God gives us life.

Have a new life in Christ. I want a new life. I do not need a new life.  I am a follower of Jesus Christ.

· I am God’s heir. God guarantees our future.

I have a wonderful future. I would like a different future. I don’t have a future.  I am a follower of Christ anticipating the good future He has planned.

 God is Purifying My Confidence in Him 

NLT

6 So be truly glad.  There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while. 7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. 8 You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy. 9 The reward for trusting him will be the salvation of your souls.

GREEK

[an inheritance] in which you greatly rejoice for a little while at present if it is necessary, having been put to grief by various trials, so that the proven genuineness of your faith, more precious than perishing goldthough being refined by fire, may be discovered to result in praise and gloryand honor in the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom not having seen you love, on whom now not seeing believing, now you exult with joy inexpressible and filled with glory receiving the outcome of your faith, salvation of your souls.

· I am someone who trusts God. God is trustworthy. I trust God. I would like to trust God. I do not trust God.  I am someone who trusts God.

· I am someone who loves Jesus. Jesus is extraordinary.  My life honors God. I want my life to honor God. My life does not honor God.  My life honors God.

· I am receiving the salvation of my entire life. God is Savior.  I am a child of God! I want to be a child of God. I am not a child of God. I am joyful about the things God is doing in my life and the person He is making me become.

 Conclusion 

Next week: I have new life in Christ

This series is designed to help you become competent using questions to open the Bible.

Week One

We have provided familiar and yet powerful questions for the first week:

· What stands out to you?

· What do you think God is saying to you?

Week Two

The second week we encourage you to pursue the questions that arise in your mind as you read each chapter again. Six basic interrogative pronouns are Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why. Space is provided in this guide to give you opportunities to write the questions that come to mind.

Week Three

The third week you could record new awareness, insights, and possibilities that have arisen through the answers you have discovered.

Week Four

The fourth week you will clarify your identity in Christ through what you have learned.

Week Five

The fifth week you will clarify who God has placed in your life so they can seek and find Him and develop a plan to share Jesus with them.

We will pull it all together as we read Second Peter together!

This will be a great adventure!

Resource:

Peter: From Fisherman To Disciple Of Jesus | In Pursuit of Peter: The Apostle (series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFdi65-UF30