1 Peter 1:10-12
Opener (if needed): What is a story from your family heritage that makes you proud?
Keep it lighthearted and fun.
Read the Scripture: 1 Peter 1:10-12
Reflect on the sermon. Is there anything that stood out to you? How are you encouraged or convicted?
Why is it important for Peter to point to the prophets in his writing? Are there specific texts that you know, which affirm your confidence in Christ as the fulfillment?
1 Peter 1:10, “Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully”
Genesis 3:15, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
Isaiah 53:11-12, “by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.”
Meditate on the idea of “subsequent glories.” What are the glories? How does that change the way we live now?
1 Peter 1:11, “inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.”
The passage talks of grace and the good news — things which angels long to look into. How might the depth and breadth of the grace of God inform your current situation?
1 Peter 1:12, “It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.