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Living in a Dying World - Part 1
“The end is near.” What sobering words those are, particularly when it’s your family member who is the one in the hospital on life support. The pursuit of comfort and ease is a wise pursuit during these times, to lessen whatever pain the person might be experiencing in their body. Those same words have a very different effect on the student who sees the end of the semester approaching quickly while the lists of assignments is not growing any smaller. In this case, the pursuit of ease and comfort is an unwise pursuit. Instead, hard work, much effort, and some short nights lie in the immediate future. But when we see these words in the Bible, how do they effect us? Do they cause us to seek for comfort and ease, since it will all be over soon anyway? Or do they cause us to work hard since Christ is soon returning? Today, in our teaching from 1 Peter 4:7-11, we see God warning us that the end is near, and giving us some simple instructions for how to live in a dying world. Examine your own life today to see if you are ready for the end.
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It's Time to Change
In this world, those who desire to follow after Christ must choose to embrace suffering because the unbelievers around will not understand why we live like we do, and they will try to make it hard on us for living like Christ. We must remember that, in the end, it will be worth it because those unbelievers will fall under the judgment of God while we will receive his mercy. As followers of Jesus Christ, it is time to change—from the old ways of the world to the new ways of God.
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Better Days Ahead
In the middle of difficult times, it is difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Even the strongest in faith are sometimes given to doubt or disillusion. It can be easy, in the midst of unjust suffering, to think that God has forgotten or that he is not interested in helping us. Yet the story of the gospel—that Jesus suffered unjustly, died, rose again, and now is in heaven—reminds us that unjust suffering is not in vain. Though it might look bleak and hopeless, there are better days ahead. Today, in our teaching from 1 Peter 3:18-22, we see Peter reaching back thousands of years to the time of Noah to remind us that unjust suffering is not in vain. No matter how bleak the present conditions may seem, it will be worth it to follow Jesus in obedience. And if you doubt that, remember that Jesus who suffered is now exalted victorious over all his enemies. Like Jesus, and with Noah, our faith in Christ will ultimately be vindicated. In the midst of unjust suffering, remember the gospel, remember that Jesus wins, and take heart that he will win for you.
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Answer Me
In our text in 1 Peter today, Peter tells us that the way that we live gives us opportunities to talk about what we really believe. As a follower of Christ, we believe that there is a day coming when Christ will return to this earth and take us to heaven to be with him. Because of that hope, we should be living differently. When the people around us see that we live differently, they make cause problems for us. But they may ask us why we live differently. And when that question comes, we need to be ready to give an answer for our hope. Today, as we look at 1 Peter 3:14--18, think about your own life and the way that you live. Does your life show that you believe something different than those around you believe? If your life doesn’t show that, what do you need to change?
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Blessing Like Jesus Did
Human relationships are part of the workshop of sanctification, the process of learning to live like a Christian. People who can model great Christian virtues when alone can find it very difficult to live like Jesus did when they get around others. It is especially hard if those others are making our lives more difficult. The suffering of Jesus is an example of how we are to live as Christians in a hostile world that does not like our Christianity. God calls on all of us, regardless of our station in life, to dwell peacefully with others, blessing them because he has blessed us through Jesus. By learning to live in peace and refusing to retaliate even against unfair treatment, we can demonstrate to others just how different our life because of our hope in Jesus.
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Marrying Like a Christian by Suffering Like Jesus - Part 2
Today, we follow up last week’s teaching on wives with teaching directed towards husbands. The role of husbands in a biblical marriage is significantly different than what most men (and women) imagine. But it is one that men must take seriously in order to follow Christ. As men, we must expend great energy to be the kind of husbands that God has called us to be. This is important, not just because our marriages depend on it, but because our own relationship with God depends on it. God tells us that he will interrupt our fellowship with him if we are not the right kind of husbands. So men, let us listen carefully to the Word today and commit to being the kind of husband God has called us to be.
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Marrying Like a Christian by Suffering Like Jesus - Part 1
For God, marriage is not a political issue or a social one. It is first and foremost a gospel issue. Marriage for Christians is to be lived with the overwhelming sense of the meaning of the gospel that Jesus came to die for us to make us holy. With that backdrop, Peter writes about marriage in our passage this morning. He writes to tell us how to have a Christian marriage in a non-Christian world. By following the Bible’s teaching, we can have a marriage that honors God and that preaches the gospel to the world around us.
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Suffering Like Jesus
A life of suffering is not something people normally choose, at least on purpose. In fact, most people prefer to avoid it at all costs. Yet suffering is at the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ that the Bible tells us about. It is impossible to understand the gospel apart from the theme of suffering. Today in our teaching from 1 Peter 2, we see once again the theme of suffering, this time played out in the life of Jesus. It is a lesson for us that suffering is a part of following Christ, and that in the midst of suffering, we must follow the example that Christ set for us. Listen today as we learn more about enduring suffering in a fallen world.
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Working like Christians by Suffering Like Jesus
Our jobs can be tremendous sources of frustration for us. They can also be tremendous tools of growing in Christ. They are places where we can show forth the glory of Christ and the gospel to a captive audience. Today, in 1 Peter, Peter tells us how to work like a Christian, even when the job is hard. He shows us how to live the gospel in a way that honors our Savior. By suffering like Christ, we can work like Christians and see the fruit of the gospel being grown in our lives.
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Dying for the Return of Christ
Love toward others is an obligation that can never be fully paid. Following the example of Christ, who kept the law for us, we must love others so that we can be what God intended us to be. Paul reminds us that by looking for the return of Christ, we can put on the Lord Jesus Christ and learn to love as he did.
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