Category: 1 Peter
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Hospitality
1 Peter 4:9 “Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.” You’ve heard the expression, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Well, in reading the passage above this morning I had a parallel thought, i.e., that a few words from God are worth a thousand words of man. You see, our omniscient God never meant…
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Earnest Love
1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” How earnestly do you love? What’s the extent of it? How far does your love stretch before it breaks? What’s its “tensile strength,” if you will? We can get some insight into this from the verse above. In essence…
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The Stretched
1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly” It is noteworthy that the command above was given from Peter to Christians who were being severely persecuted. It’s a surprising message in that during times of extreme stress, our thoughts tend to turn inward, rather than outward. Don’t you agree? Isn’t it true that…
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Look and Live!
1 Peter 4:6 “For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.” Some passages of Scripture are more difficult to understand than others. Peter said as much when he wrote, “Paul…
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A Surprising Life
1 Peter 4:3-5 “For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will…
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The Rest of the Time
1 Peter 4:2 “So . . . live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.” One of my greatest regrets in life as I look back over the years is how I wasted so much time in my youth living not for…
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The Way We Think
1 Peter 4:1 “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.” The Christian life is often referred to in the Bible as a spiritual war. Ephesians 6 calls us to put on the whole armor of God…
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A Proper Mindset
1 Peter 4:7 “The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.” One of the things the Scriptures do for believers is help them view things from a proper perspective. For example, it reminds us that we aren’t going to live on this earth forever. In helps…
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Get in the Ark!
1 Peter 3:20-22 “God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a…
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On the Topic of Tradeoffs
1 Peter 3:18-20 “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience…
