Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this episode, Paul continues through his Bible study, the gospel one chapter at a time, by taking a look at Peter's letters.

In this first segment, Paul summarizes the book of First Peter, which he entitles

Suffering and True Spirituality.

Here's Paul.

Well, I was thinking that I love First Peter, but I think in this series, I've probably

said that 10 times approaching a new passage.

But there's something particularly helpful

and particularly sweet about First Peter.

I would title First Peter, suffering and true spirituality.

Peter is writing to a now mixed bag of believers.

Gentiles who had lived in this world of worldly pleasure

and Jews who had lived in the Old Testament traditions and the legalism

that came out of that. But now they're together. They're aliens and exiles in a hostile

world.

I think for us, Peter has a very fresh and modern feel.

Because we now exist in a world that's growingly hostile to our faith,

hostile to a biblical worldview, hostile to a biblical morality.

And like the people to whom Peter is writing, we're going to begin to experience the persecution

and the suffering, the misunderstanding,

the rejection, that comes out of that hostility.

It's very interesting.

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