1 Peter 4:12-19
Beloved….Commit your soul
1 Peter 4:1-11 recap
8 End of all things @ Hand Charges:
Be serious
Be watchful
Have Fervent love
Be hospitable: it’s easy till it’s not! Or till it’s a lot! That’s why:
Be hospitable without grumbling
Minister to one another with the ability with God supplies
Be good stewards of the manifold grace of God: Caretakers
If anyone Speaks: speak as the oracles of God. “What He said”
Serve God, in the ability that God supplies, that in all things God my be Glorified through Jesus Christ to Whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. So be it: Amen.
In His service, by His strength, for His glory!
As we are saved by Grace not of ourselves, we serve by Grace not of ourselves. Eph. 2:8-9
1 Peter 4:12-19
Beloved: Agapetos: divinely loved ones, loved by God
Don’t think it’s strange:
Concerning the fiery trial:
As though some strange thing happened to you
But: contrast
Do not think it’s strange but rejoice
Rejoice: it is literally to experience and be conscious for [(-of), for is possession, whereas of is knowledge] God’s Grace.
To the extent:
Deeper suffering, greater joy
That you partake of Christ suffering:
To share anything with Jesus is a good thing
That when: our Hope, our fixed vision
His glory is revealed(revelation): His glorious appearing
You may also:
Be glad with exceeding joy:
In every context it conveys more than an inner feeling; it is an outward, Spirit-borne exultation rooted in God’s saving work and future hope.
New-covenant exultation therefore is not circumstantial; it is anchored in a promised inheritance that remains “undefiled, unfading, kept in heaven”
1 Peter 4:14-15
If you approached for Jesus
Blessed are you
For the Spirit of Glory
And of God
Rests upon you
The Christian witness is a simultaneous contrast
There is a worldview of thinking versus Christian worldview
One blasphemes, the other Glorifies
Not all suffering is of God:
Allowed by God
Brought on by consequences
But: contrast
Let none of you suffer as:
We might, and we will suffer, but…
Look at this list!
Murder, thief, an evildoer, ???busy body!!!
1 Peter 4:16-19
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian:
Christian: disciple of Christ, of Christ – follower, member of the Christ-party
Suffering, persecuted, ridicule for doing good-NO SHAME
The House of God:
Has Christ cleansed the temple
The disappearing Gray. Good/evil.
Cleansing is happening in His houses of Worship now.
