The Word Is Alive First Peter

1. The Word Is AliveFirst Peter Chapter Four Narrated by Tony Gillon

2. Chapter Four • 1 Peter 2:13–4:11 – Living as Aliens to Bring Glory to God in a Hostile World • (continues/concludes)

3. Chapter Four • 1 Peter 2:13–4:11 – Living as Aliens to Bring Glory to God in a Hostile World • (continues/concludes) • 1 Peter 3:8–4:11 - Responding to suffering in a godly way (continues/concludes)

4. Living as Aliens • Summary of Chapter Four • The work of a Christian is twofold: • Doing the will of God. • Suffering his good pleasure.

5. Living as Aliens • Summary of Chapter Four • Disciples are called to be self-disciplined and to live Godly lives.

6. Living as Aliens • Summary of Chapter Four • Disciples are called to be self-disciplined and to live Godly lives. • Individuals are encouraged to endure their suffering and reminded of its purpose.

7. Living as Aliens • 1 Peter 4:1-11 - Living for God

8. Living as Aliens • 1 Peter 4:1-11 - Living for God • Believers are to live in full submission and humility before God.

9. Living as Aliens • 1 Peter 4:1-11 - Living for God • Believers are to live in full submission and humility before God. • Peter exhorts them to holy living.

10. Living as Aliens • 1 Peter 4:1-11 - Living for God • Believers are to live in full submission and humility before God. • Peter exhorts them to holy living. • The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full (John 10:10).

11. Living as Aliens • 1Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2 As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

12. Living as Aliens • Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ephesians 5:1-2).

13. Living as Aliens • Therefore, it follows that just as Christ suffered in his body, so too we are called to do likewise, i.e. arm yourselves also with the same attitude.

14. Living as Aliens • It is also reminding us that his suffering was to remove the burden of sin from us, in order to free us to imitate his life of good works and love of neighbour. Again, it alludes to the fact that we are called to do all we can to represent Christ and in doing so to bring glory to God.

15. Living as Aliens • Therefore since Christ suffered. The suffering of Christ again functions as a model and inspiration for the readers. Concerning the phrase he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

16. Living as Aliens • Contrary to the thoughts of some he who has suffered seems too broad and imprecise to be a clear reference to Christ

17. Living as Aliens • Contrary to the thoughts of some he who has suffered seems too broad and imprecise to be a clear reference to Christ • Others have suggested that this is a reference to the believer being dead to the power of sin

18. Living as Aliens • Contrary to the thoughts of some he who has suffered seems too broad and imprecise to be a clear reference to Christ • Others have suggested that this is a reference to the believer being dead to the power of sin • Likely, it means that when believers are willing to suffer, the nerve centre of sin is severed in their lives

19. Living as Aliens • We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check (James 3:2).

20. Living as Aliens • We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check (James 3:2). • If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. • (1 John 1:8), when believers endure suffering for the sake of Christ they show that their purpose in life is not to live for their own pleasures but according to the will of God and for his glory.

21. Living as Aliens • Believers are required to suffer as God had given up his Son in suffering.

22. Living as Aliens • Believers are required to suffer as God had given up his Son in suffering. • But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong”. • (Luke 23:40-41).

23. Living as Aliens • Suffered in his body is often translated flesh to mean not just the physical body but the sinful nature imputed from Adam.

24. Living as Aliens • Suffered in his body is often translated flesh to mean not just the physical body but the sinful nature imputed from Adam. • Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years” (Genesis 6:3).

25. Living as Aliens • And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken” (Isaiah 40:5).

26. Living as Aliens • And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken” (Isaiah 40:5). • After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53:11).

27. Living as Aliens • At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” — which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mark 15:33-34).

28. Living as Aliens • Evil human desires: • When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed (James 1:13-14).

29. Living as Aliens • Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will (Romans 12:1-2).

30. Living as Aliens • Then I said, ‘Here I am — it is written about me in the scroll — I have come to do your will, O God (Hebrews 10:7).

31. Living as Aliens • Those who finally submit to the will of God will come to know true inner peace in their lives.

32. Living as Aliens • Those who finally submit to the will of God will come to know true inner peace in their lives. • You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised (Hebrews 10:36).

33. Living as Aliens • Those who finally submit to the will of God will come to know true inner peace in their lives. • You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised (Hebrews 10:36). • The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. (1 John 2:17).

34. Living as Aliens • 3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do — living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4 They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.

35. Living as Aliens • Living in debauchery, drunkenness, and detestable idolatry: • Believers should have nothing to do with such behaviour, even when their nonparticipation means that others will heap abuse on them.

36. Living as Aliens • Living in debauchery, drunkenness, and detestable idolatry: • Believers should have nothing to do with such behaviour, even when their nonparticipation means that others will heap abuse on them. • Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat (Proverbs 23:20).

37. Living as Aliens • But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. • (1 Corinthians 5:11).

38. Living as Aliens • Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine” (Acts 2:13).

39. Living as Aliens • Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine” (Acts 2:13). • And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. (Continued).

40. Living as Aliens • The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the survivors whom the Lord calls (Joel 2:28-32).

41. Living as Aliens • Whether or believers have participated in the lifestyles identified by Peter or not, does not make them righteous for God does not grade sin.

42. Living as Aliens • Whether or believers have participated in the lifestyles identified by Peter or not, does not make them righteous for God does not grade sin. • How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Luke 6:42).

43. Living as Aliens • Peter names six general categories of lifestyle that are dishonouring to God.

44. Living as Aliens • Peter names six general categories of lifestyle that are dishonouring to God. • Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Luke 6:41).

45. Living as Aliens • 5 But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

46. Living as Aliens • 5 But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. • Unbelievers do not have the last word; for they will have to give account and face God’s judgment on the Last Day.

47. Living as Aliens • Christians are called to set themselves apart from any aspect of worldly living that dishonours God. This often makes them the targets of abusive comments and even ridicule, but this should be of no concern for all will be called to account.

48. Living as Aliens • Judge the living and the dead: • You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. (Continued).

49. Living as Aliens • You know what has happened throughout Judæa, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached — how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him. (Continued).

50. Living as Aliens • “We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. (Continued).