Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for March 2, 2025

The Matter of Your Inheritance

1 Peter 1:3-9

Not Home Yet: Insights for Aliens from 1 Peter

1. Introduction

• background/context for 1 Peter:
• distinction between temporary station and eternal destination
• hope: stabilization without stagnation
• analysis of the greeting (1:1-2)
• Because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, you have a guaranteed inheritance.

2. Supernaturally Empowered (3)

• “The resurrection is God’s ‘amen’ to Christ’s statement, ‘It is finished!’” (Johnson)

3. Securely Possessed (4)

• four observations about the believer’s inheritance

4. Superbly Protected (5)

• the constant surveillance of omnipotence

5. Sensitized Perspective (6-7)

• three observations about the believer’s trials

6. Sustained by an Unseen and Incomparable Person (8-9)

• “Let us never live another day as if He were dead.” (Marshall)
• “…He then is all my hope and stay…” (Mote)