1 Peter 4:7-11

Living on the edge of Rock solid living

Living in the 80’s Bicycle Jump pic …Mom/Tim

1 Peter 4:7-11 ESV

7 The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. 8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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.

The end of all things… therefore… Prayer

1 Peter 4:17-18.. For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 And “If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”

Judgement has begun it begins with us… we are living on the edge..

So are you standing on the rock?

Either punishment or purification.

Living on the edge of Rock solid living means

You are on God’s time.

Romans 13:11-12 ESV Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Living on the edge of Rock solid living means

You must have self control

Spin race .. baseball bat

Sober minded.. your vision and your mind is impaired

you can’t see .. you can’t walk

2 Timothy 3:1.. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

there is war against our souls..

Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion

1 Peter 4:1-6 (ESV) 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. 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. 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.

According a Study by Business Insider, keywords like sex, porn, free porn and porno are searched in huge number by all around the world. The amount of exact match volume for these 4 terms alone is 22,820,000 searches a month. Individually they are

[porn] 11,100,000 [free porn] 7,480,000 [sex] 2,740,000 [porno] 1,500,000

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-ten-topics-searched-on-the-Internet (at bottom of slide)

Living on the edge of Rock solid living means

Pray

For strength

. Jesus said…to his disciples before he was arrested..

Luke 21:36 But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

The realization that God is bringing history to a close should provoke believers to depend on him, and this dependence is manifested in prayer, for in prayer believers recognize that any good that occurs in the world is due to God’s grace.

Mark 14:38 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

.. pray you wont enter into temptation.

Living on the edge of Rock solid living means

To Love All People

Mr Larry Nasar.. dad..arrested

1 Peter 4:8 ESV Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

James 5:20 ESV Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Proverbs 10:12 (ESV). Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Agape love Love others the way God loves you..

John 3:16 For God so loved the world

Love is an action not a feeling…

When love lacks… Satan wins…

Here is how we are called to love

1 Peter 4:9-11 ESV Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies

Hospitality

Serve without complaining

1 Corinthians 13:3-8 ESV If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never ends.

People will let you down they will hurt you.. but God’s love In you never ends

Gifts

Talk

Men’s ministry—Kevin Hill

Serve

Womens ministry---

Living on the edge of Rock solid living means

God gets the glory

1 Peter 4:11 (ESV) in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.