Compelled by God's Goodness
1 Peter 2:1-3
Gary DeBoard
Part of Between Two Worlds
March 27, 2025

1 Peter 2:1-3
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” (Mere Christianity by CS Lewis)

The 3 I’s of New Life

1. New Life Implications

1 Peter 2:1
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

2. New Life Instructions

1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation.

John 15:4
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

3. New Life Invitations

1 Peter 2:3
if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Peter 2:1-3
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.