Suffering, Sin And Salvation
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Introduction
Introduction
The Bible Exposition Commentary Chapter Nine: The Rest of Your Time (1 Peter 4:1–11)
Outlook determines outcome, and a believer must have the right attitudes if he is to live a right life.
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
A. The Savior’s Sacrifice - v. 1a
A. The Savior’s Sacrifice - v. 1a
Our Savior suffered due to our sin. Sin is the reason Jesus died on the cross. Peter referenced this in . Therefore, sin becomes an enemy to the believer.
Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!
Therefore, we should identify with our Savior’s sacrifice.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
Identifying with his sacrifice means taking on His attitude towards sin. It means sharing his suffering and death.
Identifying with his sacrifice means taking on His attitude towards sin. It means sharing his suffering and death.
Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
Suffering by itself does nothing to help us break from sin. However, suffering plus Christ living inside of us changes the equation.
Peter’s presentation in verse 1 is the same argument that Paul presents in
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
B. The Saint’s Security - v. 1b
B. The Saint’s Security - v. 1b
Separation from sin.
We arm ourselves with proper attitudes that lead us to victory! Those attitudes are seen in the example of our Savior when He suffered.
The Bible Exposition Commentary Chapter Nine: The Rest of Your Time (1 Peter 4:1–11)
The picture is that of a soldier who puts on his equipment and arms himself for battle. Our attitudes are weapons, and weak or wrong attitudes will lead us to defeat. Outlook determines outcome, and a believer must have the right attitudes if he is to live a right life.
C. The Saint’s Satisfaction - v. 2
C. The Saint’s Satisfaction - v. 2
Believers find satisfaction in the will of God. We count ourselves dead to sin. Also, we live the rest of our lives, satisfied by the Will of God.
That satisfaction is a sign of our growing maturity in Christ.
The Bible Exposition Commentary Chapter Nine: The Rest of Your Time (1 Peter 4:1–11)
The will of God is not a burden that the Father places on us. Rather it is the divine enjoyment and enablement that makes all burdens light.
D. The Squandered Seasons of Sin - v. 3
D. The Squandered Seasons of Sin - v. 3
Notice the contrast between “The will of God” in v. 2 and “the will of the Gentiles” in v. 3. We now should be focused on the will of God. However, Peter is reminding us that we spent precious time in our previous life of sin.
We are not to return to the “will of the unsaved world.” However, we are told to be transformed by a mind renewal, which is a different mindset about sin.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
E. Strange Strife of the Saint - v. 4-5
E. Strange Strife of the Saint - v. 4-5
Former associations don’t understand why we don’t do what we used to do.
2. Though they judge us in our innocence, we will one day judge them in their sin.