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Big Question: What makes me rejoice?
Second Question: What is the root of my suffering?
What makes me rejoice?
What gets me excited about the day?
What do I rejoice about?
What gets me excited about the day?
What do I rejoice about?
More often than not, I am rejoicing over some little blessing.
I rejoice when things ‘go my way.’
I rejoice when I get what I want.
More often than not, I am rejoicing over some little blessing.
I rejoice when things ‘go my way.’
I rejoice when I get what I want.
But am I missing out on REAL rejoicing?
What is REAL rejoicing?
But am I missing out on REAL rejoicing?
What is REAL rejoicing?
The second question…What is the root of my suffering?
In what ways, in what areas of my life am I suffering?
Why am I suffering?
Typically, I want to blame others around me, or circumstances.
Often, our suffering does come from others, and circumstances… but why are they doing things to me?
Why are those circumstances suffering to me?
Others go through them without suffering the way I do.
Why is that suffering to me?
As I studied 1 Peter this week, I got to thinking of other believers around the world who suffer.
I started to think.. why are they suffering?
Is the root of their suffering different than my suffering?
For example:
John Jowi - partner with Pastor Britto in Kenya: reaching muslims on border of Ethiopia.
Many were being saved.
6 muslim extremists broke into his house and beat him severely.
Neighbors eventually took him to the hospital.
He died 2 days ago, leaving a wife and 3 boys.
Many of our brothers and sisters in Christ in Pakistan, China, Yemen, Eritrea, various other countries in Africa, Iran are being imprisoned, beaten for their faith.
You can find many stories on Voice of the Martyrs website or in the free magazine.
Is the root of their suffering different than my suffering?
I think it is… and it has to do with this passage.
Let’s read the passage together:
Let’s ask God to speak to us as we work our way through this together.
In this passage, Peter is summarizing and returning us to the main point of his letter which he told us about right in the beginning.
There is similar language here in , and in .
Let’s review .
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There is a lot of the same language and concepts in these passages.
Peter introduced the concepts in chapter 1, and after talking about some of the trials (government/society, work, husbands and wives, other relationships) he is coming back to the main points.
Let look at this.
fiery ordeal that has come to test you...
: trials…refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
: trials…so proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Peter uses the same kind of imagery for our trials, our suffering.
Fire
When we are going through some trial, it is hard.
It is like going through fire.
It is not pleasant.
It hurts.
It is often not over in an instant, but an ongoing burning, with much suffering.
And when the burning IS over, the pain is NOT.
These trials, and suffering is truly suffering.
And he also used the same language when he referred to them as trials, or tests.
There is a point to this.
There is a purpose.
It is refining.
It is purifying.
It is removing the dross of our selfishness, and refining us to have the mind of Christ.
That is why Peter then says…
rejoice…so that you may be overjoyed
in all this you greatly rejoice
Peter uses this term for great joy, that expresses leaping for joy!
Peter reminds us that we have the best day ever coming!
It is coming when Christ returns!
That day when we will receive praise, glory, honor and that inheritance He has reserved for us!!
The day when Jesus comes back for us!
What is interesting to me is what Peter is telling us to rejoice in now… Yes we rejoice in all that will be ours when Jesus comes, but Peter wants us to rejoice in something in the here and now… do you see it?
This is what Peter defines as REAL rejoicing...
Rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ.
That word participate is the word, fellowship.
That reminds me of something Paul wrote…
What are Peter and Paul talking about, participating in Christ’s sufferings?
What are Christ’s sufferings?
His suffering was not just his death...
His suffering continues in that He feels our pain now… He told Saul, I am the one you are persecuting...
So,
How can we participate, have fellowship, with Christ in sufferings?
In our suffering, recognize that Jesus suffered in the same ways.
In our suffering, have the mind of Christ -
Fellowship with others who are suffering - Paul spoke of the Philippians participating in his sufferings through their concern for him.
What is REAL rejoicing?
I think Peter defines REAL rejoicing as not just taking joy in the good things God gives us now, but in participating in the sufferings of Christ now.
Finding Joy in our trials and suffering because I can learn to have the mind of Christ.
Finding Joy in participating with other believers in their suffering, and this participating with Christ.
Finding Joy in our REAL hope, Christ’s return, and our eternal home with Him!
But as I considered finding REAL joy in my suffering, and kept reading in 1 Peter, I found that the root of my suffering is an important part in this REAL rejoicing.
What is the root of my suffering?
1 Peter 4:14-
In my current trials, in my suffering, am I suffering because I am a Christian?
What does that mean to suffer as a Christian?
In my current trials, in my suffering, am I suffering because I am a Christian?
What does that mean to suffer as a Christian?
Wouldn’t that mean suffering because people identify me with Jesus?
Or, suffering because of the reasons Jesus did.
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