[Sung Psalm: 34] At the end of chapter one, Peter said that you have been born again "not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God." "And this word is the good news that was preached to you." So we have the eschatological hope – that's where we're going! We have the Christological core – we are born again in Christ – joined to his life. And we have the kerygmatic means! Kerygma is the Greek word for "preaching." It is through the preaching – it is by means of the proclamation of the word - that we are born again to this living hope. As Paul says, faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ (Rom 10:17) And so because of this – because of the eschatological hope (the goal), because the Christological core – the substance of our faith, and the kerygmatic means of grace in preaching – that Peter opens Chapter 2 telling us to crave pure spiritual milk...