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Terms Which Recur
• Diligence (1:10,15 – “endeavor”; 3:14; similar word in 3:12 – “hasting”)
• Knowledge or full knowledge (1:2,3,8; 2:20,21; know or knowledge occurs 16x; grace
only occurs 2x; in 1 Peter grace is 10x and knowledge only once or twice)
• Godliness (1:3,6,7; 3:11)
• Righteousness (1:1; 2:5,21; 3:13; also right/just in 1:13; 2:7,8)
• Reserved (2:4 – angels; 2:9 – the unjust; 2:17 – false prophets; 3:7 – heavens and earth)
• Glory (occurs 3x in ch.1)
• In ch.1 we have multiplication, addition, subtraction and division.
Technique
• In ch.1, Peter will encourage growth and show its profitability.
• In ch.2, he will demonstrate divine government and show its inevitability.
• In ch.3, he will reveal divine glory and show its certainty.
Teaching of the Epistle

• The Rich Provision for Growth (ch.1)
• The Righteous Government of God (ch.2)
• The Radiant Prospect of Glory (ch.3)

• Fruitfulness and Faith in the Word of God (ch.1)
• False Teachers and Fidelity of Saints (ch.2)
• Focus and the Future (ch.3)

• Three Legacies – Given Three Things (ch.1)
• Three Lives: Noah, Lot, Balaam (ch.2)
• Three Looks (ch.3)

All the Way to Bethlehem Continued from p.90

Lord “in holiness and righteousness” 5. Are you, by God’s grace, walking in
(vv74-75)? Christian service is not simply “the way of peace” (v79)? The Lord Jesus
activity for the Lord. It has a moral qual- said to His own, “Peace I leave with you,
ity to it. My peace I give unto you: not as the world
4. Is it your desire, as was that of Zacha- giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart
rias, to serve the Lord “all the days of be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (Joh
[your] life” (v75)? Service for Him is not to 14:27).
be merely intermittent, but is to character- 6. Do you praise God for fulfilling the
ize all of our days. many promises of His Word?

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