“How to Safeguard your Integrity and Character”

1 PETER 5
7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. 10 And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

Peter tells us to
1. BE ALERT (watchful, vigilant, attentive)

1. OF SOBER MIND (calm, collected, temperate, dispassionate)
   

2. RESIST OUR ADVERSARY
   

@BethMooreLPM
“Gonna tell y’all something. You better have a plan. If you think you’re gonna make it through this cultural climate unscathed, you’re crazy. Leave your mind unprotected, it’ll be a mudhole. Your heart, hate-infested. You’ll be mad constantly. Foul-mouthed. Unforgiving. Merciless.”

@BethMooreLPM
“People of Jesus must return to Jesus. To the simplicity of wholehearted devotion. To spiritual disciplines of prayer, Bible reading, fasting, giving. To losing our lives in Christ so we can find them. The good life still comes from living the Jesus-life. It’s love & self-giving.”

@BethMooreLPM
“It will never be anything else. There is no new gospel. But make no mistake, there’s nothing this world has ever come up with to match the gospel. I’ve never had less confidence in people including the person in my mirror. But I’ve never had more confidence in Jesus & his gospel.”