It's Going to take a Little While

‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭5:10-11‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.”

“It’s Going to Take a Little While “

1 Peter 5:10-11 (NIV)

Quote: Christians are to live with the understanding that God’s purposes realized in the future require some pain in the present.

Note: as verse 10 attests (cf. 1:6; also 2 Cor. 1:3–7). perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle. These four words speak of strength and resoluteness. God is working through the Christian’s struggles to produce strength of character.

Some of us

Don’t mind going thru somethings

As long as it

Don’t last long

For some of us

It’s not so much

The Pain

But “How Long “ will I have to ENDURE the pain

Peter is telling these Christians

That it’s going to be awhile

But YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE IT

And what Peter is doing here

He’s trying to get these Christians

To ENDURE what God has ALLOWED

Because

It’s in this SEASON of SUFFERING

That God is going

To give you

A Spirit of Stability

Because we have to many Christians

That’s standing still

And going backwards

Instead of growing

In the Grace & Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ

When the Season of Suffering comes

So, Peter is encouraging them

Thru the process

That God is making them BETTER

And how they are going

To be better and handle the process

Is by God’s Grace -- PRAISE THE LORD

In the text

We will see

That God is going to use

Their suffering as a TOOL

But He also

Has a tool

For the suffering

And it’s called Grace

In chapter One

Of 1st Peter

Peter encourages them about their suffering

And that their suffering

Is going to be SEASONAL

1st. It’s Seasonal ( V. 1:6 )

2nd. It’s Strengthening ( V. 1:7A )

3rd. It’s Survivable ( V. 1:7B )

Verse 7 of 1st Peter

Peter says

Their lives was being tried by fire.

That phrase “ tried by fire “

Gives the imagery or thought

Of a potter working with clay

It is a pottery phrase

When Peter talks about

Their lives being tried by fire

He’s liken their lives

To what a potter does to the clay

There’s a process

That the potter has to use

To move the clay

From the shop to the show room

The potter is not investing

All of his time, talent & treasure & resources

To allow the pottery to stay in the shop

But the potter

Is trying to move the clay

from the shop to the show room

But in order for the clay to make that process

There’s several things

That the potter has to do to the clay

1st. The potter has to FIND the clay

2nd. He has FORM the clay

3rd. He has to FRAME the clay

4th. He has to FORTIFY the clay

5th. HE FINISHES the clay

6TH. Then he has to Furnace the clay

1st. FIND the clay — clay has to be found, look for outside in the dirt

2nd. FORM the clay — He has to have an image in his mind how he wants the clay to

look like. ( vase — ashtray — Bowl )

3rd. FRAME the clay — He puts his hand on the clay & start framing

4th. FORTIFY the clay — but the clay is frail so the clay has be strengthen to be able to be

used.

Now after the potter has FOUND — FORM — FRAME — FORTIFY the clay.

Now the potter has to use something

And the only thing at his disposal

That he can make the clay fortified is a furnace.

And now the potter turns on his furnace to 660 degrees - 1500 degrees.

Because the only way

the clay is going to get fortified

is by some fire

The good news is

before the potter puts the clay into the furnace

He put a glaze all over the clay

Because the potter don't want the clay

to look like what it's going INTO

Note: The same thing that the potter does to the clay is the same thing God does to you and I .

Note: God ( Found us — Formed us — Framedus — We was Fragile Fortified us ) —

Put us in the Furnace — God put something on us GRACE )

Note: The only reason we don’t look like what we’ve been through is because God got a glaze on us ( GRACE )

Note: you don’t look like —-> Divorce— Cancer — Layoff — buried mother — buried child — bankruptcy — foreclosure — bad relationship — transplant — depression — sickness etc.

Peter won’t these Christians

To understand that

You’re being “ TRIED BY THE FIRE “

1 Peter 5:1-14: Talks about how the church is to function under suffering: Be Faithful

1 Peter 5:10-14 Talks about the Suffering of the believer: God’s Provision & Power

5:10. Peter had encouraged

his readers to endure suffering

in such a way

that the grace of God

would be made manifest in their lives.

Now in a closing word

of benediction

he committed them to

the God of all grace (cf. 4:10).

The benediction

briefly summarizes

Peter’s message of encouragement

Christians’ suffering

will last only a little while

while their glory in Christ

to which they were called

will be eternal (cf. Rom. 8:17–18; 2 Cor. 4:16–18).

Verse : 11. To Him be the power (kratos, “might”)

forever and ever. Amen

[ There’s several different types of POWER ]

Matthew 28:18

“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.”

”Exousia” [ authorithy ; power ]

Acts 1:8

“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

” dynamis “ [ power – explosive power ]

Ephesians 6:10

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”

” kratos “ [ power; might – demonstrated power ]

Peter won’t these Christians to have

That demonstrated power

While they are going thru

Their suffering

And God is going to

Manifest His grace in their lives

In this benediction

similar to the one in Peter 4:11

Peter praised Christ

who has all power for all times (cf. Rom. 11:36; 1 Tim. 6:16).

Certainly,

He has the power

to strengthen His own

as they undergo persecution

It is likely that Peter

now focused on

God’s strength

as the means

by which believers

obtain their eternal reward.

The one who called believers

by his grace

will also enable them

to persevere until the end.

He begins

by designating God

as “the God of all grace.”

“Grace”

is a favorite word of Peter’s (1:2, 13; 2:19, 20; 3:7; 4:10; 5:5, 12),

and here it means

that God is both

the possessor and giver

of all grace

The sufferings of believers

are intense,

but God’s grace

is stronger in the MIDST

This grace is expressed

particularly

in God’s calling

of believers to eternal glory

Note: Here it should simply be said (see esp. 2:9) that “calling” refers to God’s effective work by which he inducts believers into a saving relationship with himself.

A Spirit of Stability

1 Peter 5:10

There needs to be a spirit of stability, and that stability comes from the grace of God. He is “the God of all grace.” (1 Peter 5:10) And, what will that grace do?

1st God’s Grace will Fit you

1 Peter 5:10

First of all, it says,

“Make you perfect.” (1 Peter 5:10)

Now, that word perfect

does not mean “mature,”

as the other word

for perfect means,

but it actually means

“to mend.”

It was a word

used for the mending of a net

that had been broken,

or it was the word

used for the setting

of a bone

that had been broken.

And, what he’s saying is, here,

that God is going

to make us fit.

Now, many times

we get unfit;

we get out of shape

We do like Simon Peter did,

and the devil gets us.

And, he breaks our bones,

and he tears our nets.

But, the Lord Jesus is there—hallelujah!—

with His grace to restore us,

to mend us,

to make us fit.

Now, there are some of you here today

that He wants to do that for,

and His grace will do that

You’ve gotten bent out of shape?

You’ve gotten away from the Lord?

Sin in your life?

You’ve failed Him?

You’ve gone down?

You’ve disappointed Him?

He’ll mend your net.

He’ll tie up those loose ends.

He’ll set that bone again straight,

and Jesus will heal you today

1st God’s Grace will Fit you

2nd God’s Grace will Firm you

He says, “And stablish you.” (1 Peter 5:10)

You know what that means?

You’re part of the establishment

You’re not going to be blown around

You’re not going to be maneuvered

The devil is not going to shove you around

Aren’t you tired of being shoved around by the devil?

1st God’s Grace will Fit you

2nd God’s Grace will Firm you

3rd God’s Grace will Force you

“strengthen [you].” (1 Peter 5:10)

The emphasis here

however

is on psychological strength

and therefore

it may be more appropriate

in some languages

to render give you … strength as “cause your heart to be strong” or “to cause your thoughts to be strong.”

1st God’s Grace will Fit you

2nd God’s Grace will Firm you

3rd God’s Grace will Force you

4th God’s Grace will Fix you

“settle you.” (1 Peter 5:10)

That word settle means

“to lay a foundation.”

Note: a sure foundation may be rendered in terms of “cause you to always endure” or “cause you not to be moved in your trust in Christ.”

“ It’s Going to take a Little While “

God’s Grace is amazing !!!!!!!!!!

Saving Grace

Eph. 2:8

Sustaining Grace

2nd Corinthians 19:9

Surviving Grace

1st Peter 5:10-11

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