5.15.22 Huddle
Intro Question:
- What are one or two things at the top of your bucket list that you hope to accomplish soon?
Lesson Intro
This week Pastor Bret continues our “Hope is Here” series by looking at how Peter reminded people that hope was a future expectation, but it impacts our daily lives now.
Read and Discuss
1 Peter 1: 1-9,13 NIV
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ:
To those chosen, living as exiles dispersed abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ.
May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls… 13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
- Who is Peter writing this letter to?
- Why might they need a reminder about where their hope should come from?
- What is the inheritance that Peter is talking about?
- What words does he use to describe this inheritance?
- How were the people supposed to find and maintain hope, even though there was suffering?
- How can a living hope help us now?
- Who are some people you know that are struggling to find hope now?
- What are some practical ways you can point them to Jesus?
- In what areas are you struggling to find hope?
- Peter says we are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy because of what Jesus has done for us on the cross. Do you feel you experience this? Why or why not?
- What would clearing your mind to make it fully alert and sober do to help you experience hope now?
Challenge Question
Who can you share the hope of Christ with this week?
Memory Verse
1 Peter 1:13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.
Closing prayer
Pray for our country and our leaders. Pray that they might know God, and the hope that He provides. Pray for the people in our country to look for the Lord to find their hope.