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do you do There are some people who think the Old Testament was rendered obsolete when Jesus

completed his earthly ministry.

Today on Truth for Life,

Alistir Begg continues a study of the

Apostle Peter's first letter to early Christians

and we'll find out why, even today,

it's so important to study not just the New Testament

but the entire Bible.

Well with our Bible's open at 1st Peter what we have essentially in 1st Peter is a

handbook of Christian discipleship. You may never have thought of it in those terms

but I want to assure you that that is essentially what it provides,

written to Christians scattered around the first century world.

Peter covers just about everything that is necessary for someone who is

laying down the foundational blocks of their Christian convictions. And actually

if we were indexing the first nine verses that we've already

looked at together one word stands out above and beyond the rest in actual fact it's

kind of the central theme around which everything else is gathered and it is the word

salvation. The sub-theam I think would be hope so that we would be thinking primarily of

salvation and then subsequently of the hope that comes to us as a result of the nature of saving grace.

And we have discovered that this salvation to which Peter Referrous has been planned by God the Father, has been

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