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6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper time, 7 casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you.
8 Be sober-minded, be alert.
Your adversary the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.
9 Resist him, firm in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.
10 The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little while.
11 To him be dominion forever.
Amen.
10 The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little while.
11 To him be dominion forever.
Amen.
Introduction: Peter crucified upside down according to church tradition..the way up is down.
Glory comes thru suffering.
Our life here, in terms of actual outside circumstances, will never be our best life now.
It is certainly true that because of our faith in Christ we can have abundant life here, but our best life is yet to come.
Sufferings, sickness, misunderstandings, emotional pain and the like are going to be a part of our human experience.
The question is not will it take place but how will we respond when it does?
True grace at work in our lives operatively as Christians means that God is sustaining us through our sufferings.
We are not just saved by grace, we are sustained by grace thru the power of God.
True grace at work is seen in the power to live for Christ in the midst of suffering and trouble.
gives the believer some exhortations concerning faithfulness in times of suffering and how God’s grace - the true Grace of God works in us to sustain us.
I. Submit to God (v.6-7)
The submission or humility this passage is calling for reaches back to verse 5.
The bible speaks clearly there and states, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Our relationships inside the church and outside of the church in the world require humility.
Without it, it is like trying to run a car engine with no oil.
It just blows up.
It is pride, not humility that causes us to be offended and to cause offense.
Clearly, throughout scripture it is clear that God resists the proud.
Pain Has a Purpose
Verse 6 contains an imperative, a command that is in the passive voice in the greek.
Essentially this means that the subject is being acted upon..in this case, literally what is being said is, “Be humbled” or “suffer yourselves to be humbled.”
The believers to whom Peter is writing were enduring great persecution and suffering.
Peter doesn’t tell them that if they just had more faith their problems and persecution would go away.
He doesn’t chastise them and tell them they just aren’t praying hard enough.
The bible commands them to submit…to allow God’s purpose in suffering to humble them.
The way up is down..we will not enter into heaven floating on beds of ease Peter is saying..Glory is coming, but first suffering.
This goes against the grain of how we are wired to think.
When we are suffering or persecuted, we want to rise up.
We are taught by our culture and by our sinful human nature to assert ourselves, to aggressively pursue our right.
To be tough with circumstances and with people…no one is going to push me around.
, “ 16 Therefore we do not give up.
Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day.
17 For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.
18 So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
, “ 16 Therefore we do not give up.
Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day.
17 For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.
18 So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
In the midst of suffering we need to remember:
God Desires for Us To Trust Him
“casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you.”
“casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you.”
Three types of people here this morning:
Three types of people here this morning:
Those who are having trials.
Those who are just getting over trials.
Those who are getting ready to experience trials.
, “Man that is born of woman is of few days and fill of trouble.”
“Casting” is the proper term here and it is meant to convey the means whereby as believers we are to humble ourselves.
There is a direct connection and relationship in these verses…as we will see with verse 8 as well.
But we humble ourselves by submitting to God’s purpose and then casting our worries or anxieties on God.
When we are overrun by worries and anxiety we are not living humbly, but rather pridefully because we are saying that the only god we trust is self.
Casting these anxieties and worries onto the Lord reveals trust in God and an acknowledgement of his purposes and power.
, “Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.”
We can trust God with it all.
He is able to comfort us in our afflictions.
He is able to remove the trouble as well, but even when his plan does not include the removal of our problem, he provides the peace and strength to endure.
and he will sustain you;
he will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
We can trust God with it all.
He is able to comfort us in our afflictions.
He is able to remove the trouble as well, but even when his plan does not include the removal of our problem, he provides the peace and strength to endure.
Jesus said in , “Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear.
Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26 Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Aren’t you worth more than they?
27 Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying?
28 And why do you worry about clothes?
Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread.
29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.
30 If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you—you of little faith?
31 So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God,o and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
34 Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
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Resist the Enemy (v.8-9)
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Focus on God’s Principles (v.8-9)
Verse 8 begins with, “Be sober minded, be alert.”
The Christian must not walk passively through life.
We must be vigilant because we have a real adversary.. an enemy who desires to destroy our faith.
The word “devil” literally means an accuser or a slanderer.
The Enemies Tactics
“Your adversary the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour.”
The enemy does persecute us.
Physical persecution is clearly what is in view here.
The text is not referring to political situations, job situations or financial situations.
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