Calvary Chapel Carson City
Sunday Morning
May 3, 2026
1 Peter 1:22-2:17
Redeemed by the Precious Blood
Being built up a Spiritual House
The High Price of Redemption calls a high call for godly
living.
Vss. 18-22
Peters encourages Their Faith and Hope and our’s by the
anchored and established Resurrection of Jesus.
Truth and responsibility
Doctrine and response
Action and reaction
Gift of mercy and a reasonable service
Ability and obligation
The
Vss. 1:23-2:3
“therefore, Since you” ability
1 John 4
Romans 12
Born Again through the forever enduring Word of God
Forever Enduring Word
Confiscated It, burn It, outlaw It, try to bury It, next attempt
will be to delete it….YET IT WILL ENDURE FOREVER.1 Peter 2:4
Living as servants of God
Once again: ability brings obligation
“You also”
Living Stones
Are being built up
Spiritual House
A Holy Priesthood
A Chosen Generation
A Royal Priesthood
A Holy Nation
His Own Special People
Called into His Marvelous Light
Now the People of God
Obtainer of MercyExhortations for Christian Living
Romans 12
Necessity and responsibility for love
among believers
Division is the devil‘s domain
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies
of God, that you present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your
reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to
this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that you may prove what is that good and
acceptable and perfect will of God. 3 For I say,
through the grace given to me, to everyone who is
among you, not to think of himself more highly than
he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has
dealt to each one a measure of faith.1 John 4
Love for God and One Another
Doctrine and response
1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether
they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into
the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
3and every spirit that does not confess [a]that Jesus [b]Christ has
come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spiritof the
Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already
in the world.
4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them,
because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
5They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and
the world hears them. 6We are of God. He who knows God hears
us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the
spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Knowing God Through Love
7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and
everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8He who
does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9In this the
love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10In
this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so
loved us, we also ought to love one another.Born again
Peter presents regeneration as a decisive, God–
initiated act that brings sinners out of death and into
life. The apostle’s emphasis on divine agency
safeguards the truth that salvation is by grace from
start to finish.
Occurrences in 1 Peter
• 1 Peter 1:3 – “By His great mercy He has given us
new birth into a living hope through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead”.
• 1 Peter 1:23 – “For you have been born again, not
of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the
living and enduring word of God”.
The first verse anchors regeneration in the
resurrection of Christ, revealing the historical basis
of the believer’s spiritual life. The second verse
identifies the instrument God uses—the living Word
that, like incorruptible seed, produces life that cannot
perish.
