Sermon Tone Analysis

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**Turn to 1 Peter 4:1

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Recap:

1 PETER—HOPE during trials, LIVING as one SET APART/EXILE & SOJOURNER

Last week: SUFFERING of CHRIST & NOAH’S EXAMPLE

SUFFERING on the PATH to GLORY for CHRIST

NOAH’S SALVATION on DAY of JUDGMENT

**We can be CONFIDENT that in the MIDST of the SUFFERING we go through in life that IF we are IN CHRIST... we are ON the ROAD to GLORY...and that ON the DAY of JUDGMENT we will be SAVED.

This KNOWLEDGE should HELP US PERSEVERE during trials.

Read Text & Pray (1 Pet.

4:1-6)

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Intro:

STRUGGLE w/ TIME?...NOT ENOUGH time in day, week, month??.....

Me too.

You have enough time to do the will of God for your life!

(Maybe not all the extra stuff though)

JESUS’ LIFE DEVOTED to FATHER’S WILL, he’s our EXAMPLE!

Need:

We need to PRIORITIZE GOD’S WILL over our own desires & HAVE GRIT…FOLLOWING HIM REGARDLESS of WHAT COMES...

Devoting our lives to Christ’s kingdom work!

Overall trajectory of our lives…

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1 Peter 4:1–6 (ESV)

Thought 1: Ceasing from Sin

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,

2 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.

“SINCE/THEREFORE” FOLLOWING LAST WK. on CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS....

ARM YOURSELF w/ MIND of CHRIST...

“arm yourself” (hapax) and it has the sense of military preparation, to get ready by equipping, to equip or arm yourself (BDAG).

**MENTALLY PREPARING ourselves TO SUFFER.

CHRIST’S MENTALITY: “Not my will, but yours be done”

Tom Schreiner: “The martial language indicates that discipline and grit are needed to live the Christian life, particularly in view of the suffering believers encounter.

PREPARATION…DAY AFTER someone BREAKS IN not best day to buy gun...

Mentality: “I’d rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.”....

HAVE GRIT, mental FORTITUDE & RESOLVE…whether it’s needed or not!

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RESULT of SUFFERING in FLESH: CEASING from SIN!

RUN TO GOD, not sin, during trials!

(Q) You ever treat yourself when having a bad day?…

Milkshake, specialty coffee, eggnog, etc…?

This is fine…but we DON’T TREAT ourselves TO SIN & we should GO to GOD FIRST!

CEASING with SIN = through with it!

NOT sinless PERFECTION (I wish)

I’d take being slandered, ostracized, or even beat up if it would permanently fix battle w/ temptation!

SIGN ME UP!

Instead: when you CHOOSE to SUFFER specifically BECAUSE you’re a CHRISTIAN....RATHER than SINNING to GET OUT of IT....DISPLAYS that SIN’S POWER is BROKEN in your LIFE!

How many of us when we were kids would lie at times to get out of trouble?

How many of you still do this?

(kidding)

TRUTH is EASY WHEN there’s NO CONSEQUENCES!....same way, easy to be Christian on good days when there aren’t consequences

BAD DAYS are NO EXCUSE for SIN or rejecting Christ.

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(V2) Then, PETER says to SPEND REST of our DAYS in PURSUIT of GOD’S WILL!

Human (fleshly) passions/desires & God’s will are opposed!

DOUBLE LIVES DON’T EXIST....

If there’s double, it’s a life sold out to sin.

Human desires:

“An inordinate self-indulgent craving (that displaces proper affections for God)” (LOGOS).

NOT FIRST TIME in PETER:

Don’t be conformed to passions/lusts/desires of former ignorance (1:15)

Desires wage war against our souls!

(2:11)

CAIN- “SIN is crouching at YOUR DOOR, its desire is contrary to you, you must rule over it!”

(Gen.

4:7)

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Peter: SPEND REST of TIME in FLESH (body) in PURSUIT of GOD’S WILL.

DAYS = NUMBERED:

Christ is coming again

If he tarries, we’ll die.

Transition: Now, after introducing this idea of ceasing from sin and turning from human passions towards the will of God, Peter is going to dive deeper into how believers should look different from the rest of the world in their lifestyle.

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Thought 2: The Believer’s Different Lifestyle

3 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.

4 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;

5 but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

What the GENTILES (nonbelievers) WANT to do (v3): CONTRASTS WILL of GOD (v2)

Your PAST SUFFICES for a LIFESTYLE of SIN!— ALL of us HAVE a PAST, because NO ONE was BORN SAVED.

YOU MUST BE BORN-AGAIN.

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NOT ALL lived the SAME GODLESS LIFESTYLE, but ALL NEED SAVED...

NO MATTER AGE, your PAST is SUFFICIENT for SIN.

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YOUNG PEOPLE: Your PAST is SUFFICIENT for SIN…you DON’T NEED to enjoy a GODLESS LIFESTYLE, party it up, whatever this looks like...

NO ONE NEEDS more sin to GET THEIR FILL!

**You aren’t missing out.

Sin’s pleasure is for a season, then comes regret.

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Everyone: DON’T LONG for the THINGS you USED to DO, they’re gone!

Peter’s vice list: (not exhaustive)

Sensuality

No self-restraint, complete self-abandonment

Passions (lusts/desires)

Drunkenness/ debauchery

Orgies/drinking parties, w/ immoral behavior

drinking parties

lawless idolatry (typical of pagans)

**List boils down to ILLICIT PARTY LIFESTYLE... filled w/ DRINKING & NO SELF-CONTROL!

SPECIFIC SINS AREN’T the POINT...., the PRINCIPLE is that the UNRESTRAINED, SINFUL LIFESTYLE is B.C.!

WHATEVER SIN looked like in your life, the PAST is SUFFICIENT.

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(V4) They’re SURPRISED you DON’T JOIN, literally…don’t run with them.

Wayne Grudem: People outside of Christ running in search of things to fill them that are empty…unrestrained sinful lifestyle is empty, not fun!

WHEN you’re SAVED, GOD does a WORK that you should have a NEW STANDARD…EXILES & SOJOURNERS, DON’T FIT IN!

Is there anyone here today that when you got saved you had to change your friend group some??

**When you have a GREATER LOVE = GIVE THINGS UP.

LOVE for SAVIOR- OVERPOWERS.... LOVE for SIN, OLD LIFE, & even WORLDLY FRIENDS....

SOME people STRUGGLE so bad in their FAITH BECAUSE all their FRIENDS are PAGAN & they don’t start fresh!

You might be SLANDERED/maligned when you DON’T do things to FIT IN.