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Introduction
Our passage is the conclusion of Peter’s section on how to glorify God while living as aliens in a hostile world.
Peter has talked about submitting to authority as modeled by Christ.
He gave instructions to husbands and wives in regards to how they are to conduct themselves within theirs marriages so that God may be glorified.
He has shared how the Christian is to endure suffering through pursuing righteousness.
Now in verses 7 through 11 encourages Christians to glorify Christ and exalt him as Lord because his return is imminent.
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Peter starts off this passage with a reminder that Christ return is at hand.
Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection brought about the last days that are leading up to “the end of all things.”
Peter uses this as a spring board or catalyst for the imperatives that follow.
I want you think about what the end of all things should mean to a Christian and hear what Thomas Schreiner wrote in New American Commentary, “The imminence of the end should function as a stimulus to action in this world.
The knowledge that believers are sojourners and exiles, whose time is short, should galvanize them to make their lives count now.”
For the Christian the imminence of Christ’s return should motivate us to equip ourselves so that we may engage our word not retreat from it.
The end of all things is drawing near; therefore, we must ask the the question what should we be doing?
God’s word says we should be living in such a way that glorified Christ and exalts him as Lord.
The imperatives we are about to look at are the blueprint for living a life that glorifies Christ and exalts him as Lord.
Pursue Clarity
Peter’s command is for people to be self-controlled and sober-minder so that they may pray.
What he is saying is that Christians need to have a clear understanding of what the end times mean for lost people ad how valuable the present day is Some people hear about the end times and go full out dooms day preppers with shipping containers thirty feet below ground encased in concrete with air purifiers to survive the nuclear apocalypse.
That is a wrong understanding of the end times and that is losing your mind not pursuing clarity.
Some Christians read and say that time is now and I want no part of it.
Therefore, they retreat from the world.
I fear this what the church is doing now.
We see unrighteousness exponentially growing in our world and retreat to our church buildings and Christian small groups.
I agree the end is near.
We could use as a check list and check every box multiple times.
If you don’t agree then go watch any network tv show.
Every one of them promotes the acceptance and normalcy of sin at some point in their shows.
Observe and listen to the world around you.
Look at how they act, how they dress, how they talk.
The world is pursuing unrighteousness at an alarming rate.
However, the Christian response to a world that is pursuing unrighteousness and in love with sin should never be to retreat to our churches and small groups so that we can talk about how awful those people, talk about how we can’t believe somebody could be that way, and say that even we weren’t Christians we would never be that way.
If that is your response to the end times then your mind is just as clouded as the dooms day prepper.
Listen, your sin caused Christ just as much pain as their sin.
A person pursuing clarity understands that.
We are pursuing clarity when we understand that Christ’s return means eternal suffering for all who failed to believe and trust in him.
That clear thinking will motivate us to engage the world with the Gospel of Christ rather than retreat.
We also pursue clarity when we understand the value of the present.
Today we are in period of grace.
All people who believe and trust in Jesus as their Lord and Savior are forgiven of their sin and given a relationship with God because Jesus suffered God’s punishment so sin on the cross, died as a sacrifice for sin, and rose again three days later.
The days we have now are a gift from God so that we may glorify him through the sharing of the Gospel and the making of disciples.
When we have this clear thinking we will be motivated to pray that God would use us to engage the lost world with the Gospel of Christ.
We will pray that God would act and move in a miraculous way through us so that we might see lost people who are destined to hell come to faith in Christ before our very eyes.
We will beg God to work through us to bring a person into the family of God through hearing the Gospel from us and placing their faith and trust in Christ alone.
Jesus always had this clarity and we see an example of it on the Mount of Olives where Jesus was praying in , “And he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed, saying “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.
Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.”
We should pursue clarity in our hearts and minds until we can honestly echo Jesus’ words of “not my will, but yours be done.”
Jesus was always self-controlled and sober-minded which resulted in him always having clarity and always glorifying and exalting God.
When we are pursuing clarity through being self-controlled and sober-minded we glorify Christ and exalt him as Lord through our prayers and our actions.
Out of this pursuit of clarity should come the practice of love.
When we are pursuing clarity through being self-controlled and sober-minded we glorify Christ and exalt him as Lord through our prayers and our actions.
Out of this pursuit of clarity should come the practice of love.
Practice Love
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Love is central to the Christian life.
Another Apostle and Disciple of Jesus, John, writes this in say “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
Both passage echo what Jesus said in “And he said to them, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
This is the greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
The practice of Love is an essential mark of someone who has been transformed by the overwhelming love of Christ.
Paul remind us in that “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Peter’s command is to love one another earnestly because love cover s multitude of sins.
In contemplating how we should live our lives in light of Christ’s return, Christians should come to the conclusion that our short time we have should be spent loving God and reciprocating that love to others.
Edwin Blum writes about love in the Expositor’s Bible Commentary that, “Love is capable of being commanded because it is not primarily an emotion but a decision of the will leading to action.”
Loving others is a decision that leads us to action.
In Matthew 24Jesus answered the question the disciples had about signs regards his return and the end of the times and part of Jesus’ answer found in is, “And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.”
A sign that Jesus’ return is drawing near is that love will grow cold meaning it will diminish because lawlessness will increase.
Friends the end is near.
Lawlessness is more prevalent than ever before and true Biblical love is diminishing rapidly.
However, for the Christian that doesn’t mean we retreat to our safe zones and wait.
The truth that love is diminishing from our world means that Christians must determine in our hearts and minds to engage the lawless world around us with the love of Christ and the love found in his Gospel.
We practice love when we engage the world with the Gospel.
Lost people see and engaged in the lawlessness of the world.
What they see often is not love but hate and self-centeredness.
What they feel from Christians is often judgement and apathy.
Lost people are in pursuit of love and acceptance, but because of their sin they go about finding it the wrong way, and often what they receive from us as Christians who have found true love and acceptance in Christ is condemnation and apathy.
We should never be accepting of the sin of people, but we must also remember that Jesus accepted and redeemed us despite our sin.
Our sin didn’t cause Jesus to love us.
The Bible doesn’t say we have to clean ourselves up and love Jesus before he loves us.
No, says, “In this love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.
In this love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
God loved us even when we were pursuing lawlessness; God doesn’t say get right then i’ll accept you.
He says come to Christ, and in Christ you are loved and accepted.
Listen to “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’
And let the one who hears say ‘Come.’
And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.”
Let the one who hears or let anybody who hears say come and be partakers of Christ righteousness.
Let anyone who hears say come.
That is love.
Engaging the lost world with the Gospel is love.
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We practice love when we forgive fellow believers.
One aspect of love that Peter writes about is that love covers a multitude of sin.
The word in Greek that is translated “to cover” means to keep secret or conceal.
I believe this relates to believers forgiving and not making it know when one believer sins against another.
Somebody might say well that is wrong we should expose all sin, but I would then ask you do you want people knowing about every sin you commit towards another person.
Do I want Mandy to tell others when I sin against her, or is it helpful if I share when she sins against me to everybody?
No, the best thing to do is to handle our sin between us.
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