It’s a fabulous privilege to be in Christ. Jesus is precious beyond our knowledge.

With that fabulous privilege comes conflict. Peace, joy, righteousness, and war. You have to fight.

Peter talks about the privilege and favour and blessing of being in Christ.

And he begins to give us a foretaste why we need to keep this privilege fresh in our minds, because being in Christ is a disadvantage in this world.There are people who don’t like Christ. They won’t like you, either.

A very common mistake that Christians make is to depend on themselves to follow Jesus. “Jesus saved me, now I have to follow Him. I have to prove myself worthy. I’m on probation.”

The blood of Jesus is precious.

We have a problem imagining that. Why is blood precious?

What are these epistles of Peter here for? What need do they meet? For that I want to look at Proverbs 24:10 If you are slack in the day of distress, your strength is limited.