Sermon Info
Sermon Date: 12/28/25
Series: Word of God
Text: 2 Peter 1:19-21
Title: “Be inspired to read God’s Word by knowing it’s inspired”
Preacher: Pastor Rich Parfrey
Series: Word of God
Text: 2 Peter 1:19-21
Title: “Be inspired to read God’s Word by knowing it’s inspired”
Preacher: Pastor Rich Parfrey
Announcements
After some fellowship, please highlight the information below to your group and have them check the weekly church email for more information/details.
- The church needs volunteers to clean the church and/or wash windows one day a month (on a Saturday or a Sunday). Contact Bryan St John if interested.
- Beloit Road Baptist New Years Eve Prayer meeting and game night. See weekly email for details and what to bring.
- 1689 men's study will be finishing their study on the 1689 In January and will be starting "How to Lead Your Family" by Joel Beeke. Look at the email for more details and we would challenge men to prioritize this meeting and join the pastors in reading this book.
Questions
After some fellowship and prayer, read 2 Peter 1:19-21
This week’s sermon looked at Peter’s epistle stating that even though he had every right to write what he did based on being an eye witness, he was writing led by the inspiration of The Holy Spirit. Knowing the gift we have in the bible not only being a proven historical document that illustrates the amazing supernatural events of our Savior, let’s be a people that cherishes God’s Word by diligently reading it and applying all it says to our lives.
Reference: Old Exodus: bondage → blood → deliverance → inheritance. New Exodus: sin → cross → resurrection → eternal kingdom
How then should we live?
This week, in fact today, make a new plan to work through the entire bible through daily reading this year. Pray about your plan and share it with a loved one for accountability, prayer, and encouragement. Also, be praying for the congregation that others will be doing the same and that we as a people will grow in our love for God inspired by His Word more and more and love others because of Christ’s love for us.
This week’s sermon looked at Peter’s epistle stating that even though he had every right to write what he did based on being an eye witness, he was writing led by the inspiration of The Holy Spirit. Knowing the gift we have in the bible not only being a proven historical document that illustrates the amazing supernatural events of our Savior, let’s be a people that cherishes God’s Word by diligently reading it and applying all it says to our lives.
- In today’s teaching, 1 Peter and 2 Peter were briefly summarized. Share examples of how Peter's encouragement 1 Peter to press on through seasons of suffering is an encouragement to you. Also in 2 Peter where he encourages the believer not to be distracted based on Godless myths or false teaching, teaching that the world might provide, and to trust in the word of God as your foundation.
- There are many facts that support the Bible in being historically correct. What are some of those that were either mentioned in the sermon or that you know that support you trusting the Bible. Are there any ways that you have used this in your witness to others who may not have that same certainty? Explain.
- The Transfiguration, recorded for us in Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–8, and Luke 9:28–36, Speaks to so many truths of the Gospel and of Jesus christ. share either what you know or what was taught on Sunday as to the miracle of the Transfiguration. Think of things that tie in the New Testament to the old, how Jesus is coming relates to Moses and Elijah, or how God commanded us to listen to him as a means of pointing us back to the truth of God's word.
Reference: Old Exodus: bondage → blood → deliverance → inheritance. New Exodus: sin → cross → resurrection → eternal kingdom
- Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 were referenced as examples of the Old Testament prophesying to the coming of Jesus Christ. Read back through them to see it for yourself. What other Old Testament biblical references might you point to?
- In verse 19 of our text, Peter references the Word being as a lamp for us in the dark place. How have you made the word your foundation and how you make decisions in life? Have there ever been any truths in God's word that have been difficult for you to believe and or to obey?
- How does what Peter says in 2 Peter 1:3 inspire you to want to read the word more? How does knowing that the Holy Spirit inspired all of God's word to be given to us in explaining the hope found in Jesus Christ, and to be used as a guidebook for our lives, strengthen you in your walk?
- Are there any ways that you have in the past or currently place your trust in certain experiences rather than in the truth of God's word? Is it ever valid to do that and in what ways?
- How does the hope of the resurrection of the saints bringing glorification in Christ and all of the attributes tied in with that strengthen you in your walk? How about in your evangelism? In your repentance? Or perhaps, in your obedience?
How then should we live?
This week, in fact today, make a new plan to work through the entire bible through daily reading this year. Pray about your plan and share it with a loved one for accountability, prayer, and encouragement. Also, be praying for the congregation that others will be doing the same and that we as a people will grow in our love for God inspired by His Word more and more and love others because of Christ’s love for us.