STUDIES ON 1 PETER LESSON 5

STUDIES ON 1 PETER


LESSON 5

1 Peter 2:1-3 [New Living Translation (NLT)]

1 So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech. 2 Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, 3 now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.

1 Peter 2:1-3 [King James Version]

1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,

2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

1. GET RID OF THE ‘STUFF’

 KJV is more specific

 Not just ‘evil behavior – malice =” the intention or desire to cause harm or pain to somebody” [Encarta Dictionary]

 Guile: “a cunning, deceitful, or treacherous quality” [Encarta Dictionary]

 Hypocrisies: “the false claim to or pretense of having admirable principles, beliefs or feelings” [Encarta Dictionary]

 Envies: “the resentful or unhappy feeling of wanting somebody else’s success, good fortune, qualities or possessions” [Encarta Dictionary]

 All evil speaking [KJV]; unkind speech [NLT]

2. AS NEWBORN BABIES

 They announce their hunger – loudly!

 Won’t be put off – need it now!

 Can’t reason with them, to them it is life or death

3. HAVE YOU TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GRACIOUS?

 In reference to the sincere milk of the word, does it taste good?

 This is like ‘tasting the Lord’ – “try it you’ll like it!”

THIS IS PREPARATION FOR BECOMING A ‘LIVELY STONE’.