🦒 1 Peter 5 5 7 Commentary

Asour loving Father, He disciplines us to bring us to the place of greater and greater faith in Him ( Heb. 12:5, 6, 7 with verses 14, 15a and 3:7f; 5:11f; 10:24-25). With these propositions in mind, let’s look at 1 Peter 5:6-7. Please think of this passage in three movements: (1) The Responsibility or Command: “Humble yourselves under the Third we should resist Satan (1 Peter 5:9). If Peter had resisted Satan he might not have felt that he had to resist Malchus’ advance in Gethsemane and cut off his ear. "Before we can stand before Satan [1 Peter 5:8-9], we must bow before God [1 Peter 5:6-7]. Peter resisted the Lord and ended up submitting to Satan!" [Note: Wiersbe, 2:433.] Whatdoes 1 Peter 5:1 mean? Peter is about to give specific instructions to the leaders of the Christian churches who will read his letter. He calls them the elders, from presbyterous in the original Greek. The position of elder in the local church is referenced throughout the New Testament (1 Timothy 5:17; Titus 1:5–6). TheGod of all grace works in all His children, humbling the proud and exalting the humble, to make them ripe and sweet. Our task is to take hold of God’s grace to endure our afflictions with patience, without growing weary. In time, He will “perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle” us ( 1 Peter 5:10 - note ). MatthewHenry Bible Commentary (complete) In which the apostle gives particular directions, first to the elders, how to behave themselves towards their flock (v. 1-4); then to the younger, to be obedient and humble, and to cast their care upon God (v. 5-7). He then exhorts all to sobriety, watchfulness against temptations, and stedfastness in Chapter4. The work of a Christian is twofold-doing the will of God and suffering his pleasure. This chapter directs us in both. The duties we are here exhorted to employ ourselves in are the mortification of sin, living to God, sobriety, prayer, charity, hospitality, and the best improvement of our talents, which the apostle presses upon Heexpresses the end of their afflictions and the ground of their joy under them, 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 1:7. The end of good people's afflictions is the trial of their faith. As to the nature of this trial, it is much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire. The effect of the trial is this, it will be found unto 1Peter 5:7 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95) 7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. ldh9Sv5.

1 peter 5 5 7 commentary