Tod Kennedy, March 22, 2000

1. 1 Peter 3.1 Principle: Wives, do not nag; think and act graciously; practice authority orientation. This is expression of inner beauty will get your husbands attention and win a hearing for the truth.
2. 1 Peter 3.2 Principle: Wives, your inner beauty—freedom from mental attitude sins, sins of the tongue, and personal sins coupled gracious authority orientation— will produce good results in the thinking of your husbands.
3. 1 Peter 3.3 Principle: Wives, do not emphasize the outer person. That does not affect a man like the inner person does.
4. 1 Peter 3.4 Principle: Wives, inner beauty is the valuable trait—that gentle, humble, gracious, and tranquil inner person.
5. 1 Peter 3.5 Principle: Wives, learn from the faith women of Old Testament. They accepted the headship of their husbands and regularly expressed their personal inner beauty.
6. 1 Peter 3.6 Principle: Wives, become Sarah’s spiritual children by clothing yourselves with inner beauty. Inner beauty results in biblical submission and confidence; it does not result in personal turmoil or terror.
7. 1 Peter 3.1-6 Principle: The wife’s role in marriage is 1. Accept the headship and therefore authority of the husband—submit and obey (Ephesians 5.22-,33). 2. Develop and emphasize inner beauty over outer beauty (1 Pet 3.6). 3. Help, do not hinder the man (Genesis 2.18). 4. Live the Christian way of life together (1 Peter 3.7).
8. 1 Peter 1.7 Principle: Husbands, become knowledgeable about women and about your wife and live according to that knowledge. The wife is the weaker or more vulnerable member and at the same time is equal with you in Christ. Therefore, honor and value her because of her equal position with you in Christ.
9. 1 Peter 1.7 Principle: The husband’s role in marriage is 1. Love the wife with divine love (Ephesians 5.25,28,33). 2. Live with her according to biblical knowledge: she is the weaker or more vulnerable member and at the same time is equal with you in Christ. 3. Do not have mental attitude sins toward her (Colossians 3.19). 4. Live the Christian way of life together (1 Peter 3.7).

1. 1 Peter 1.8-9 Principle: God wants us to bless others not curse them by how we think, talk, and act. Part of our divine calling is that we bless others. This is simply the expression of the character of God through us to those around us.
2. 1 Peter 1.8-9 Principle: God has chosen to reward believers with a production inheritance for blessing we give to others. That is, he wants to reward us for this specific kind of divine good. The rewards include temporal blessing rewards in time and eternal blessing rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
3. 1 Peter 1.10-11 Principle: We all want to love life and experience God’s blessing: This is the good spiritual life, the abundant and overflowing spiritual life, and it is ours for the taking. In order to experience this we must avoid sins of the tongue, shun evil and produce divine good, and pursue spiritual harmony in the church. Look for what God is doing in and through us and for us. This will help us recognize "life and good days.
4. 1 Peter 3.12 Principle: God and his very nature compel us to live the good life and reject the evil life. If we accept evil—live outside of the biblical worldview and the daily plan of God for us—we will miss the highest and the best of blessings because we take ourselves out of the place of blessings; we cut off our potential blessing. Wrong choices will bring God’s discipline on us.

1. 1 Peter 3.13 Principle: When we do God’s good, no eternal harm can come to us.
2. 1 Peter 3.14 Principle: Do not allow those critical of your faith to intimidate or confuse us. We have a privileged happiness when we suffer because of doing God’s will (righteousness) and when we suffer because of our faith.
3. 1 Peter 3.15 Principle: Choose to live under Christ’s lordship and be prepared and always ready to explain from the Bible why you are a Christian and why you think and act they way you do when circumstances are against you. This kind of living is Lordship Christian living.
4. 1 Peter 3.16-18 Principle: When we believers live according to our biblically informed conscience we may be slandered, ridiculed, falsely accused, ignored, and laughed at. People treated Christ the same way and he continued to honor his Father. We can also honor the Father.
5. 1 Peter 3.16 Principle: When we believers live according to our biblically informed conscience we shame our accusers.
6. 1 Peter 3.17 Principle: When we believers live according to our biblically informed conscience the way that we live is valuable to God, to ourselves, and to others.

1. 1 Peter 3.18 Principle: When a believer lives according to his biblically taught conscience he is living like Christ lived.
2. 1 Peter 3.18 Principle: Jesus Christ removed the sin barrier that was between God and man by his death for sins in his human body so that mankind might be brought into relationship with God. While the Father was judging the Son for the sins of the world, the Father and Holy Spirit broke fellowship with the Son. When the penalty for sin had been paid, fellowship with the Father and the Holy Spirit was restored, "made alive in the [human] spirit."
3. 1 Peter 3.18-20 Principle: Jesus Christ not only defeated sin and death, but he also defeated the fallen angelic forces that attempted to prevent his successful redemptive plan. The result is that we are on the side of the victor.
4. 1 Peter 3.19-20 Principle: Jesus Christ announced his victory to the fallen angels who had attempted to intermingle with humanity during Noah’s day. Had the fallen angels been successful they would have destroyed true humanity with the result that there could not have been a true mediator between God and man. Jesus proclaimed to them that he had successfully reconciled God and man; the angels’ judgment stands.
5. 1 Peter 3.19-20 Principle: The plan of God continues despite all the attempts by Satan and fallen angels to stop it.
6. 1 Peter 3.20 Principle: God is patient with mankind: He prevents judgment, lessens judgment, and delivers believers going through judgment. The water separated or saved Noah and his family from the judgment that God brought on the unbelieving world because it lifted and carried the ark in which they lived.
7. 1 Peter 3.21 Principle: Water baptism separates or saves the believer from temporal judgment that God brings on the unbelieving world, because by baptism a believer publicly states and fixes in his own mind that he is identified with Christ, that he has eternal life, and that he is marked as a follower of Christ instead of a follower of the world system. Water baptism is then a believer’s request to God, through ritual, for a good conscience or a clear conscience because the one baptized has obeyed Christ’s command and has publicly declared by this ritual his new relationship. Ritual water baptism has this practical value only because Christ arose from death.
8. 1 Peter 3.22 Principle: Jesus Christ has subjected all angelic and human authority and might to himself through his death and resurrection. His ascension to the place of honor at the right hand of the Father proves his supremacy. Jesus Christ has earned the honor, Lord of all.