Upon This Rock (Week 14) - Last Days Living (1 Peter 4:7-11)
1 Peter 4:7-11
7 But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. 8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. 10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Acts 2:17
And it shall come to pass in the last days,
1 Corinthians 10:11
the ends of the ages have come
Philippians 4:5
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour
1. Pray
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.
2. Love
1 Peter 4:8-9
8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
Colossians 1:4
since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all the saints;
a. Devoted Love is
1 Peter 4:8
And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”
b. Devoted Love is
1 Peter 4:8
And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife,
But love covers all sins.
Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger,
And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
“Where love abounds in a fellowship of Christians, many small offenses, and even some large ones, are overlooked and forgotten. But where love is lacking, every word is viewed with suspicion, every action is liable to misunderstanding, and conflicts abound” —Wayne Grudem
c. Devoted Love is
1 Peter 4:9
Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
1 Cor 13:13
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
3. Serve
1 Peter 4:10-11
10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
“I never lay my head on the pillow without thinking that, perhaps, before I awake, the final morning may have dawned. I never begin my work without thinking that He may interrupt it to begin His own.” —Dr. G. Campbell Morgan