1 Peter

1 Peter: Chapters -1- -2- -3- -4- -5-

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1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, • 2 personally chosen according to the pro-knowing of God the Father, inside the devotion of the Spirit for the purpose of submission to hearing and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

• 3 We speak well of the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the One who, according to His plenteous mercy, has conceived us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ out from the dead, • 4 into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, that is being kept inside of the heavens entering into you. • 5 You are being guarded, watched over, and kept inside of the power of God and carried through faith into a salvation that is complete and ready to be unveiled [a] inside of the final season of opportunity.

• 6 Inside of this salvation, you greatly rejoice. For a little while at present it is inevitable that you are distressed and grieved in various trials, • 7 so that the proving of your faith, which is more precious than perishing gold being refined through fire, that your faith might be found into praise and glory and honor inside the unveiling [a] of Jesus Christ. • 8 Whom, not having seen, you love, into whom now you believe, though you do not see outwardly; moreover you exult with joy inexpressible and filled with glory, • 9 receiving the full completion of your faith, the salvation and healing of your souls [b).

• 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets searched diligently, having prophesied and called forth grace into you, 11 and, inquiring into who or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ inside of them was making clear, they testified beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and the glories that must follow. • 12 To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves, but you, in words declared to you through those having proclaimed to you the gospel inside the Devoted Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels desire to look.

• 13 Therefore, since you have girded up the loins of your mind and are sober-minded, set your hope fully upon the grace [c], being brought to you and carrying you [d] inside of the unveiling of Jesus Christ. • 14 As children submitting to word, do not design or shape yourselves to your former passionate desires held in ignorance [that is, not knowing God]. • 15 But as the One who called you is devoted, so also be devoted [to God] yourselves in all your manner of life, 16 as it is written, “You will be devoted to Me, because I am devoted to you” (Leviticus 11:44).

• 17 And if you call on Father who judges impartially according to what each one does, so conduct your life inside of fear during the time of your sojourning, 18 knowing that you were redeemed out from the useless way of living you inherited from your ancestors, not by perishable things like silver or gold, • 19 but by the precious and valued blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, • 20 a Lamb PRO-KNOWN before the foundation of the cosmos [e], but that then became visible in these present final times for you, for your sake. • 21 Through Him you believe into God as the One who raised Him up out from the dead and gave Him glory. For this reason your faith and hope are penetrating with purpose into God.

• 22 Since you have purified your souls [the words of your self-stories] inside of a submitted hearing of the truth resulting in sincere brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently. • 23 You have been conceived from above, not out from perishable seed, but out from imperishable Seed, through the living and abiding Word of God. 24 For all flesh is like grass and all of its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower falls away, • 25 but the speaking of the Lord abides, remains, and continues into the age. This, moreover, is the speaking of the gospel proclaimed into you.

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Gospel Word	Notes
• Ruling Verse 7: To receive Jesus, to accept union with Christ already, is to embrace a confidence from God that says, “I am personally chosen of my Father, for I come out from His Pro-knowing, and His Spirit has made me devoted to Himself.” • Speak Christ: We bless and speak well of God our Father. This is a way of living and thinking; it is the Eucharist, the return of Word from us to God. • Ruling Verse 2: The resurrected Christ, in all that He is now, lives inside of your heart through faith. • Definition: We know the heavens, for our spirits are a body of the heavens and we live and walk in the realms of spirit. Because we are heavenly and earthly together, the things of the heavens belonging to us enter into us as life. • Kingdom: God is our inheritance, yet we know God as our Love for one another, making the Church our inheritance. • Definition: The Gospel is defined specifically as the power of God, a power that carries us into Salvation as God means Salvation, we who actively believe that God speaks the Truth. • Ruling Verse 6: “Carried into” is the action of Jesus as the Way, something that has already happened. The Salvation into which Jesus has carried us is the Most Devoted Place, that is, inside of all that is God, who shares our lives with us. • Definition: “The Unveiling” is the Greek apocalupsis – the Apocalypse. It means to remove the cover that prevents what is already True from being seen and known. That cover is the blindness upon our eyes, for when we see Jesus as He is, we know that we are just like Him. • Definition: The proving of our faith is Jesus proven complete as our love for one another. This proving of Jesus in us, in pure hearts fervently, is the Heart of God, the Father’s desire. • Ruling Verse 9: All difficulties we endure, we place entirely into the intercession of God through us, the deep groanings of the Spirit – for the sake of the Church. • Definition: The unveiling of Jesus Christ is Jesus already here, already True, as He fulfills Christian love among us that Father might be known. • Covenant & The Form for Jesus: Through Chapter 1, Peter lays out a simple progression. We are conceived of God, by Word, the Jesus whom we love inside our hearts, the Jesus who carries us into a life devoted to God. Inside such devotion, Jesus makes us to be just like Himself, that we might love one another, that all might see Jesus as He really is. This proving of our faith is more precious than gold, more precious than life itself. • Ruling Verses 2 & 8: The Jesus whom we love lives inside of our hearts, though we “see” Him not. We are so convinced of His real-ness, that we are inside of Him, living and walking inside of Jesus’ own consciousness. We love this One who is our life with joy unspeakable and filled with Glory. We know His beyond-all love for one another. • Definition: Our souls are who and what we are, our center, the part that is “me.” Our souls are a story of words inside of a spirit self-awareness. We learn from John 1, that Jesus as Light becomes, in fact, our human consciousness. Yet our souls are shattered and darkened by our life in this world, even as believers. To be healed in soul is to have our shattered selves woven together, healed and made whole, by the Jesus whom we love becoming complete inside of our acknowledgement as every Gospel Word fulfilled. The salvation of our souls then becomes our love for one another with pure hearts fervently. A “saved” soul is our human consciousness filled with the knowledge of God and overflowing as rivers. • Ruling Verse 3: The Spirit of God flowing through reveals Christ as He is, that of which the entire Old Testament speaks (see John 5:39-40). The Spirit of God searches the deep things of God and then opens our eyes to see the Lord Jesus inside our hearts (see 1 Corinthians 2:9-12). • Speak Christ: Out from that same Spirit, we also prophesy Christ, calling Him forth into the knowledge of all. • Ruling Verse 9: The angels of heaven do not know the Father as we do. They are waiting, with all creation, in deep longing, for believers in Jesus to be made the revelation of Jesus Christ, that they also might be set free into glorious liberty. • Ruling Verse 10: We set our hope upon a Grace that Jesus brings to us, the Grace of a shared life with God as the unveiling of Jesus Christ. This Grace causes us to know that we are inside of Jesus and He inside of us. This Grace that is Jesus then carries us inside Himself into the Father. • Definition: Peter uses the Greek word “pheron” as an adjective of this Grace upon which we set our hope, meaning “carried and sustained.” It means both a Grace carried to us by Jesus and a Grace that carries us all the way inside Himself into the Father, for Jesus is the enabler of that God-Life shared with us. • Covenant: As we submit ourselves to Jesus as Word inside our hearts, so He designs and shapes us to be like Himself according to His Word. – Metamorphosis (see 2 Corinthians 3:18). • Definition: The word “holy” carries the thought of external appearance, whereas the Greek halig means what belongs only for God’s use. The English ‘devotion’ carries the meaning best. • Covenant & Kingdom: Verses 15-16 are a strong “Be just like God” command. We can give back to God only what God has first given, of Himself, to us. Devotion is our return to the Father, giving back to Him the Life He has given to us – through others. We receive the Father’s Devotion to us with “I belong to You. Let it be to me according to Your Word,” and we return devotion to the Father through giving ourselves with Jesus in love for one another. • Ruling Verse 8: The meaning of “the Lamb” is the One who gives Himself for our sakes. – By this we know Love, in that He set forth His soul for us. Now, we know this same Lamb as alive inside our hearts forevermore – giving Himself for others. • Definition: Peter uses the word ‘prognosis,’ that is, Pro-Known, referencing God’s thoughts concerning all things that are part of Himself. The Lamb “pro-known” means that God knows Jesus given for us at the center of every thought He possesses concerning us, out from which we will come. • Ruling Verse 6: The Blood, meaning the Life of Jesus given for us, shapes the Way through which Jesus has already carried us into the Most Devoted Place inside of God. That Blood is the most valuable thing to God, and by that Blood, God values us. This Life given for us is beyond all other value. • Ruling Verse 7: We believe into God. The proving of our faith is that faith which has penetrated with purpose into God, going forth in every next step in the full confidence that God shares all with us – through the Fire – for the sake of others. • Ruling Verses 5 & 8: “Purifying our souls” means to define our self-story as the Lord Jesus having come into union with us, sharing all with us. It means “the salvation of our souls,” Jesus making us to be just like Himself. The immediate result is “loving one another with pure hearts fervently.” The proof of faith, Jesus proven faithful and True, is reciprocal Love among believers inside daily life together. Loving one another is the very Heart of God; it is God among us as He Desires. • Definition: The “Seed of God” is the Lord Jesus Christ written in our hearts as every Word God speaks. God uses both plant seed and human sperm as the metaphor He carefully designed to enable us to know what being “conceived out from imperishable Seed, the living and abiding Word of God” really means. • Life: Life is knowing the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into us as every Word fulfilled (see John 17:3). God is our Father. This does NOT mean that we are “little gods” as the serpent suggests. It means that we love one another. Being conceived of God, then, is the Source of our LIFE. God gives Life to us, through the Jesus whom we Love. We give that same Life back to the Father – through others (see 1 John 5:16). The unveiling of Jesus Christ is the result, God as Love among us made visible to all, the proving of our faith. • Covenant: The Seed of God is Jesus planted in our hearts, our all-Connection with the Father, the Covenant. This Seed by which we are conceived is an imperishable Seed; it is the living and abiding Word of God; it is the speaking of the Lord; it abides into the age, and it is the speaking of Gospel Word flowing into us.

Gospel Word

Notes

• Ruling Verse 7: To receive Jesus, to accept union with Christ already, is to embrace a confidence from God that says, “I am personally chosen of my Father, for I come out from His Pro-knowing, and His Spirit has made me devoted to Himself.”

• Speak Christ: We bless and speak well of God our Father. This is a way of living and thinking; it is the Eucharist, the return of Word from us to God.

• Ruling Verse 2: The resurrected Christ, in all that He is now, lives inside of your heart through faith.

• Definition: We know the heavens, for our spirits are a body of the heavens and we live and walk in the realms of spirit. Because we are heavenly and earthly together, the things of the heavens belonging to us enter into us as life.

• Kingdom: God is our inheritance, yet we know God as our Love for one another, making the Church our inheritance.

• Definition: The Gospel is defined specifically as the power of God, a power that carries us into Salvation as God means Salvation, we who actively believe that God speaks the Truth.

• Ruling Verse 6: “Carried into” is the action of Jesus as the Way, something that has already happened. The Salvation into which Jesus has carried us is the Most Devoted Place, that is, inside of all that is God, who shares our lives with us.

• Definition: “The Unveiling” is the Greek apocalupsis – the Apocalypse. It means to remove the cover that prevents what is already True from being seen and known. That cover is the blindness upon our eyes, for when we see Jesus as He is, we know that we are just like Him.

• Definition: The proving of our faith is Jesus proven complete as our love for one another. This proving of Jesus in us, in pure hearts fervently, is the Heart of God, the Father’s desire.

• Ruling Verse 9: All difficulties we endure, we place entirely into the intercession of God through us, the deep groanings of the Spirit – for the sake of the Church.

• Definition: The unveiling of Jesus Christ is Jesus already here, already True, as He fulfills Christian love among us that Father might be known.

• Covenant & The Form for Jesus: Through Chapter 1, Peter lays out a simple progression. We are conceived of God, by Word, the Jesus whom we love inside our hearts, the Jesus who carries us into a life devoted to God. Inside such devotion, Jesus makes us to be just like Himself, that we might love one another, that all might see Jesus as He really is. This proving of our faith is more precious than gold, more precious than life itself.

• Ruling Verses 2 & 8: The Jesus whom we love lives inside of our hearts, though we “see” Him not. We are so convinced of His real-ness, that we are inside of Him, living and walking inside of Jesus’ own consciousness. We love this One who is our life with joy unspeakable and filled with Glory. We know His beyond-all love for one another.

• Definition: Our souls are who and what we are, our center, the part that is “me.” Our souls are a story of words inside of a spirit self-awareness. We learn from John 1, that Jesus as Light becomes, in fact, our human consciousness. Yet our souls are shattered and darkened by our life in this world, even as believers. To be healed in soul is to have our shattered selves woven together, healed and made whole, by the Jesus whom we love becoming complete inside of our acknowledgement as every Gospel Word fulfilled. The salvation of our souls then becomes our love for one another with pure hearts fervently. A “saved” soul is our human consciousness filled with the knowledge of God and overflowing as rivers.

• Ruling Verse 3: The Spirit of God flowing through reveals Christ as He is, that of which the entire Old Testament speaks (see John 5:39-40). The Spirit of God searches the deep things of God and then opens our eyes to see the Lord Jesus inside our hearts (see 1 Corinthians 2:9-12).

• Speak Christ: Out from that same Spirit, we also prophesy Christ, calling Him forth into the knowledge of all.

• Ruling Verse 9: The angels of heaven do not know the Father as we do. They are waiting, with all creation, in deep longing, for believers in Jesus to be made the revelation of Jesus Christ, that they also might be set free into glorious liberty.

• Ruling Verse 10: We set our hope upon a Grace that Jesus brings to us, the Grace of a shared life with God as the unveiling of Jesus Christ. This Grace causes us to know that we are inside of Jesus and He inside of us. This Grace that is Jesus then carries us inside Himself into the Father.

• Definition: Peter uses the Greek word “pheron” as an adjective of this Grace upon which we set our hope, meaning “carried and sustained.” It means both a Grace carried to us by Jesus and a Grace that carries us all the way inside Himself into the Father, for Jesus is the enabler of that God-Life shared with us.

• Covenant: As we submit ourselves to Jesus as Word inside our hearts, so He designs and shapes us to be like Himself according to His Word. – Metamorphosis (see 2 Corinthians 3:18).

• Definition: The word “holy” carries the thought of external appearance, whereas the Greek halig means what belongs only for God’s use. The English ‘devotion’ carries the meaning best.

• Covenant & Kingdom: Verses 15-16 are a strong “Be just like God” command. We can give back to God only what God has first given, of Himself, to us. Devotion is our return to the Father, giving back to Him the Life He has given to us – through others. We receive the Father’s Devotion to us with “I belong to You. Let it be to me according to Your Word,” and we return devotion to the Father through giving ourselves with Jesus in love for one another.

• Ruling Verse 8: The meaning of “the Lamb” is the One who gives Himself for our sakes. – By this we know Love, in that He set forth His soul for us. Now, we know this same Lamb as alive inside our hearts forevermore – giving Himself for others.

• Definition: Peter uses the word ‘prognosis,’ that is, Pro-Known, referencing God’s thoughts concerning all things that are part of Himself. The Lamb “pro-known” means that God knows Jesus given for us at the center of every thought He possesses concerning us, out from which we will come.

• Ruling Verse 6: The Blood, meaning the Life of Jesus given for us, shapes the Way through which Jesus has already carried us into the Most Devoted Place inside of God. That Blood is the most valuable thing to God, and by that Blood, God values us. This Life given for us is beyond all other value.

• Ruling Verse 7: We believe into God. The proving of our faith is that faith which has penetrated with purpose into God, going forth in every next step in the full confidence that God shares all with us – through the Fire – for the sake of others.

• Ruling Verses 5 & 8: “Purifying our souls” means to define our self-story as the Lord Jesus having come into union with us, sharing all with us. It means “the salvation of our souls,” Jesus making us to be just like Himself. The immediate result is “loving one another with pure hearts fervently.” The proof of faith, Jesus proven faithful and True, is reciprocal Love among believers inside daily life together. Loving one another is the very Heart of God; it is God among us as He Desires.

• Definition: The “Seed of God” is the Lord Jesus Christ written in our hearts as every Word God speaks. God uses both plant seed and human sperm as the metaphor He carefully designed to enable us to know what being “conceived out from imperishable Seed, the living and abiding Word of God” really means.

• Life: Life is knowing the Father through knowing Jesus Sent into us as every Word fulfilled (see John 17:3). God is our Father. This does NOT mean that we are “little gods” as the serpent suggests. It means that we love one another. Being conceived of God, then, is the Source of our LIFE. God gives Life to us, through the Jesus whom we Love. We give that same Life back to the Father – through others (see 1 John 5:16). The unveiling of Jesus Christ is the result, God as Love among us made visible to all, the proving of our faith.

• Covenant: The Seed of God is Jesus planted in our hearts, our all-Connection with the Father, the Covenant. This Seed by which we are conceived is an imperishable Seed; it is the living and abiding Word of God; it is the speaking of the Lord; it abides into the age, and it is the speaking of Gospel Word flowing into us.

Lesson Pages:

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5