Armed With An Attitude

1 Peter 4.1-6
Armed With An Attitude

Purpose of 1 Peter: 1 Peter 5.12

Part 1: Salvation 1 Peter 1.1-2.10

Part 2: Submission 1 Peter 2.11-3.12

Part 3: Suffering 1 Peter 3.13-4.19

A. CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE [1]

1. Attitude

2. Arm yourselves
   Romans 13.12

2 Corinthians 6.3-7; 10.4-5

Ephesians 6.10-17

3. Because suffering has an advantage

We can ignore pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to.

God whispers to us in our pleasures,
speaks in our conscience,
but shouts in our pains:
it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. [CS Lewis]

B. CHRISTIAN LIFE [2]

1.  Do not live for evil human desires

2.  Live in line with God’s revealed will

C. CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES

1.  You are no longer the person you were  [3-4]

2.  There is no future for those choosing to sin  [5]

3.  You will live, though you die  [6]

John Olson