I Peter 4:8-11
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

If time is short, and Jesus could return at any time, then what should I be doing to please God and bring glory to Jesus?

3 Key One Anothers As We Await His Return

1. Keep loving one another (earnestly)
2. Show hospitality to one another (without grumbling)
3. Serve one another with our spiritual gifts (as stewards of God’s grace)

1. Keep Loving One Another (Earnestly)

1 Peter 4:8
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Ephesians 4:1-3
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1 John 4:7-8
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.

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Matthew 18:21-22
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

James 5:20
let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Do you love your brothers/sisters in Christ? How do you show that love?

1 John 3:18
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

2. Show Hospitality to One Another (Without Grumbling)

1 Peter 4:9
Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.

Romans 12:13
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

Hebrews 13:1-2
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Philippians 2:14-15
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world

When did you last show a fellow Christian genuine hospitality?

3. Serve One Another With Our Spiritual Gifts (As Stewards of God’s Grace)

1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
1 Corinthians 12:7, 11
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

2 categories of gifts
1. Speaking
2. Serving

1 Peter 4:11
whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies-…

3 Common Distractions
1. Technology
2. Worldly priorities
3. Busyness

What’s keeping you from using your speaking and/or serving gifts?

1 Peter 4:11
…in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 10:31
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

What are you doing instead of serving that is bringing glory to God?
What are you doing instead of showing hospitality that is bringing glory to God?
What are you doing instead of loving Christians that is bringing glory to God?

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Psalm 86:12
I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Romans 3:23-25
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith…
1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.