Bible Study

Bible study is the 2nd and 3rd Sundays of each month instead of a regular service.

This is when we delve deeper in the scriptures, like the Bereans, to better understand what we are reading. Some people think we should not question God, but there are times when those hard questions nag at you like “why did God let the satan attack Job” or when a hard saying of Jesus like “if you call someone a fool you are liable to the fire of gehenna” just gets in the way of your faith. All over the Bible the Psalmists and prophets were constantly asking God some tough questions when they don’t understand what’s happening to them. And so, we, like them should not shy away from asking too. We might not get all the answers we are looking for, but we come away with a better understanding of the passages we are studying and knowing that our God is a big and does not feel threatened by our questioning.

Week 4 – Our Duty as a Believer

October 11, 2015

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The First Letter of Peter: Holy Living in the Midst of Fiery Trials.

Before we placed our trust in the Lord Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we didn’t know any better and sin was our slave master, but now that we are Believers we are instructed not to slip back into our old ways of living, satisfying our own desires. Since God has chosen us to be holy, we are called to be holy in everything we do. The ransom that God paid to get us back from the hands of Satan is the precious blood of Jesus, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. We are called to love each other, even the unlovable.

Questions

As “obedient children” how are we to live?
What is the ransom God paid to save us from the “empty life” we lived before?
Name one reason for which we have been redeemed?
Since you put your faith in Christ, how has the world tried to pull you back?
Having tasted that the Lord is good, Peter says we should crave what?

Answers

As an obedient child of God, we are to no longer live with the passions and desires of the world because then, we were ignorant. Now we are to be holy – be set apart unto God - and live a life that exudes a pleasing aroma.
We were ransomed by “the precious blood as of a lamb without blemish or defect, the blood of Christ.”
To practice loving one another. It is only through the presence of the Holy Spirit can we truly accomplish this, so we need to practice every day.
This is personal
We should crave the pure spiritual milk of the Word.

Selected Scripture Verses

I Peter 1:14-2:3

(14) As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. (15) But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; (16) for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

(17) Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. (18) For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, (19) but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. (20) He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. (21) Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.

(22) Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. (23) For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. (24) For,

“All people are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
(25) but the word of the Lord endures forever.”
And this is the word that was preached to you.

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(1) Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. (2) Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, (3) now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

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