Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for March 9, 2025

A Checklist for Exiles

1 Peter 1:13-25

1. Review/Context

• a living hope and a guaranteed inheritance (1:3-9)
• the message of salvation (1:10-12)
• Considering God’s saving work through Jesus, pursue His agenda for your life.

2. Set Your Hope on Future Grace 13-14

• preparing your minds
• being sober-minded
• not being conformed

3. Be Holy as God is Holy 15-16

• since it is written (Lev. 19:2)

4. Conduct Yourselves with Fear 17-21

• if you call on Him as Father
• throughout the time of your exile
• knowing that you were ransomed
• a responsibility to relish (Luke 12:4-7, Isa. 66:2, Prov. 9:10)

5. Love One Another Fervently 22-25

• having purified your souls
• since you have been born again
• through the living and abiding word of God (Isa. 40:6-8)

6. So What?

• not retreating or assimilating, but blessing
• “Sweetly echo the gospel call, wonderful words of life; offer pardon and peace to all, wonderful words of life; Jesus, only Savior, sanctify forever…” (Bliss, “Wonderful Words of Life”)