3. Newborn Babes
1 Peter 2:1-2

4. Clean Up Work
God is holy and demands His children to be holy (1 Peter 1:14-16)
“Putting aside” (“laying aside,” KJV; “rid your selves” HCSB). Meaning “to put off from oneself” - - like removing a garment (v. 1)

5. All malice (wickedness). Badness in quality
All malice (wickedness). Badness in quality. . . the vicious character generally. Malignity
Guile. Literally “to catch with bait.” To decoy, use craft, deceit, subtlety
Hypocrisies. Feigning to be what we are not; cloaking a wicked purpose under the appearance of piety
Envies. Hatred of others on account of some excellence they have, or something which they possess which we do not
Evil speaking. Speaking against others. Rendered else- where as backbiting. Unkind & slanderous speaking
These actions are to be eliminated. One who is born again puts these away (cf. Eph. 4:22-24; Col. 3:5-10)

6. Spiritual Desire Singular appetite (v. 2) “Pure” = unadulterated
Hunger and thirsting (Matt. 5:6); craving
Babies need little prompting, neither should we!
“Pure” = unadulterated
God’s word is pure (Psa. 12:6-7)
It is man who perverts (distorts) (Gal. 1:7)
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4)

7. How Is It? Is the Lord gracious (v. 3)? Cf. Ephesians 2:7-8)
If something is good, you want it again; the good taste excites the appetite
Romans 6: a gift of grace, a gift involving grace”