I Peter 2 verse 1-3

I Peter 2:1-3

Verse 1, Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

I. Laying aside - get rid of.

A. This is a word that is forced upon the flesh.

B. This work is accomplished with the grace of God, not by the sheer will power.

II. The things we are to get rid of:

A. Malice - badness, depravity, malignity, or trouble. naughtiness wickedness.

B. Guile - decoy, a trick, wile, craft, deceit, subtilty.

C. Hypocrisy - acting under a feigned (disguised) part, deceit, dissimulation.

D. Envies - ill-will, jealousy.

E. Evil speakings - backbiting.

Verse 2, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

I. Even a person that has been saved a long time ought to desire to study.

II. We ought to desire the sincere milk of the word, not the meat.

A. Some are always looking for the meat of the word, and choking on it.

B. If we get enough milk, we will be able to "wash down" the meat.

C. I heard some preacher say one time that they got most of their messages while they were out in the woods, not when they were in Bible study. The same fellow said that they knew a preacher that never stopped studying and he was very far ahead of them in Bible knowledge.

Verse 3, If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

I. There is no suggestion that they are not saved.

II. If they are saved, there will be a desire for the milk of the word.

Heb. 6:5, If somebody is saved, and they become lost, it is impossible for them to be saved again.