1 Peter 4:5 KJV  [5] “who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.”      We cannot escape the fact or deny that we are all headed to a Judgment Seat. If you have accepted Christ as your Savior, you will stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ. You will give an account of your life and service for Christ. If you have served Him with the right motive, you will be rewarded for your service to Him. If you have served Him with any other motive, then your works will be burned …

1 Peter 4:4 KJV [4] “wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:”      The world will never understand why Christians live the way we do. They view the Christian life as a life of drudgery and bondage. They cannot understand why we would want to separate from worldly pleasures and philosophy to live a life dedicated to Christ. It makes no sense to unbelievers because they are still dead in their trespasses and sins. Satan has blinded their minds, and their only hope is to hear the …

1 Peter 4:3 KJV  [3] “For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:”      Peter reminds believers that the way they used to live is in the past. Their old life is over, and their new life in Christ will be completely different than living after the flesh. This is true for us as believers today. The Lord not only saved us from Hell but from sin and ourselves. We have been given new life in Christ, …

1 Peter 4:2 KJV  [2] “that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.”      Our thought on this passage is simple. We are not to live our lives each day yielded to the lust of the flesh. We are to live victoriously by living in the center of God’s will. God has a plan for each one of His children. It is our responsibility to yield to whatever He has planned for us.       The will of God is always plain to those …

1 Peter 4:1 KJV [1] “Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;”      Peter uses the word “hoplizomai” for the phrase “arm yourselves.” This is the only place this word is used in the Scriptures. It describes a Greek soldier preparing for a battle by putting on his armor. If anyone understood the importance of being prepared for spiritual warfare, it was this apostle. He had experienced both victory and defeat in the service of God.       Peter reminds …

1 Peter 3:22 KJV [22] “who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.”      I’m glad that our Bible is not only a historical book but a present and future book. It is the only book that accurately reveals the past, present, and future without error. The Word of God also makes it clear throughout its pages that God is on the throne. He always has been, and He always will be.       The verse before us teaches that God is not only on the throne, …

1 Peter 3:21 KJV  [21] “The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:”      Baptismal regeneration was imported by the Roman Catholic Church. An infant cannot find the answer of a good conscience through baptism because an infant has no conscience. Baptism pictures the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. It is also a picture of what happens to a sinner at the moment of salvation. When we come to Christ, we …

1 Peter 3:20 KJV [20] “which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”      Think about the days Noah lived in before the flood. It was a wicked day when the thoughts of men were evil continually. Noah had no church or pastor to encourage him, but he found grace to live godly in an ungodly day. He heard the preaching of Enoch that the Lord is coming with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment …

1 Peter 3:19 KJV [19] “by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;”      Our verse today is fascinating. Who are these spirits? Why did Jesus go and preach to them? Why are these spirits in prison? These are all hard questions that come to mind when we read this verse. I’m not saying I have all the answers to these questions, but I can assure you that the One who preached to them does.       To begin with, we know that they are not the lost souls of men. Peter does not refer to men as spirits, …

 1 Peter 3:18 KJV [18] “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”      Peter takes us back to the cross in this verse by reminding us that Jesus suffered and died once for the sins of humanity and was the supreme sacrifice for man’s sins. In the Old Testament, the blood of animals was shed regularly, but it could not save man from sin. It would only put the sin debt off for another year. The …