Discovering Our Identity and Security in Christ Through 1 Peter

Peter begins 1 Peter with praise, and that matters because good theology is meant to lead us into worship. Jay and Brian walk through the dense, doxology-filled opening where Peter roots everything in God’s mercy: we are born again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus. That hope is not wishful thinking, but confident expectation—secured by God Himself—because our inheritance is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading.

From there, the conversation turns to how believers can rejoice even in grief and various trials, not because suffering is small, but because God uses it to refine what is genuine and burn away what isn’t Christ. Jay and Brian also highlight Peter’s closing emphasis in this section: the prophets searched for what we now see clearly in Jesus, and even angels long to look into the grace we’ve received. The episode closes with a simple invitation: linger over the phrase that makes your heart swell with awe, and let worship shape how you live as God’s people wherever He has placed you.