(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV]) Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I
command you.
(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV]) Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
All of the studies, book or topical, found here, are done with research with mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history, archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, lexicons, concordances or commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, but they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief. We do not need them. That Word of God written and preserved for us in our own language is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and the New Testament for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc. There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:
(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!
1 Peter Chapter 4:
(1 Peter 4:1 [AKJV/PCE])
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;
The battle is in the mind, so arming ourselves with the mind of Christ is our defense against an invisible enemy and a visible on (the flesh)
The two main parts of the armor of God are the Sword of the Spirit, the written Word of God, and the helmet of salvation, the faith in the gospel you believed carrying you through when things get bad and you suffer
That is the mind of Christ and should be our minds also
If we die to the flesh we will live in the Spirit
(2 Corinthians 5:17 [AKJV/PCE])
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(Galatians 2:20 [AKJV/PCE])
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
(Romans 8:5-6 [AKJV/PCE])
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(Romans 6:19 [AKJV/PCE])
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
(Colossians 3:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
(James 4:1 [AKJV/PCE])
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
(1 Corinthians 2:16 [AKJV/PCE])
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
We know Jesus Christ and can pray to the Father of lights, but His ways are mysterious to us
The implied answer to this question, asked on earth among men here is, "No one"
(2 Corinthians 10:3-5 [AKJV/PCE])
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
(Ephesians 6:17-18 [AKJV/PCE])
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
(Philippians 2:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
(Hebrews 4:15 [AKJV/PCE])
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
(1 Peter 4:2 [AKJV/PCE])
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.
James says that this lust is in us as our own lust; Peter says it is inherent in all of us, common to all, as does the rest of the Word of God
Jesus Christ died so that we no longer have to live, walk in the flesh, to our own lusts, but ceasing from sin and being in the will of God
(James 1:13-14 [AKJV/PCE])
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
(1 Peter 4:3 [AKJV/PCE])
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:
Before we got saved, we were pagans, Gentiles not part of the body of Christ, part of this world, its system
Now we are and should walk as strangers to this world, pilgrims passing through, walking in newness of life
This behavior described above was th ancient Roman way of life, now revived in this country, every last one of these and more
(1 Peter 4:4 [AKJV/PCE])
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
That first century was marked by a lot of paganism, imbibing, revellings, banquetings, gluttony, lust, drunkenness, same as today, so add in doing it riotously through the streets, a bunch of drunk, violent, laughing mobs, crowds
When you get saved, you lose worldly friends and family who never did anything good for you spiritually as it was
They will change their whole outlook on you, call you names, mock, taunt, threaten
Our reward is future, in heaven
Their reward, if they do not get saved, is future, forever separated in the lake of fire from God
(Matthew 10:39 [AKJV/PCE])
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
(Matthew 16:25 [AKJV/PCE])
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
(Mark 8:35 [AKJV/PCE])
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
(Mark 10:29-31 [AKJV/PCE])
And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.
(1 Peter 4:5 [AKJV/PCE])
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
All will give account, all will be judged for their sin
Our sin was judged already on the Cross
(1 Peter 4:6 [AKJV/PCE])
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
This goes for us who were once dead in our sins and those who reject the Gospel, remaining dead in their sins
Their judgment will be on what they did, having no remedy for their sin, since they rejected Christ all of their lives, so the Law will judge them one day, with an accounting of all of their sins, transgressions, violations
(Revelation 20:121-5 [AKJV/PCE])
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
(1 Peter 4:7 [AKJV/PCE])
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
No panicking, no high, inflamed passions, just calmly walking through life
SO'BER, a. [L. sobrius.]
Temperate in the use of spiritous liquors; habitually temperate; as a sober man. Live a sober, righteous and godly life.
Not intoxicated or overpowered by spiritous liquors; not drunken. The sot may at times be sober.
Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary or heated with passion; having the regular exercise of cool dispassionate reason. There was not a sober person to be had; all was tempestuous and blustering. Not sober man would put himself in danger, for the applause of escaping without breaking his neck.
Regular; calm; not under the influence of passion; as sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
Serious; solemn; grave; as the sober livery of autumn. What parts gay France from sober Spain? see her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
SO'BER, v.t. TO make sober; to cure of intoxication. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain and drinking largely sobers us again.
(1 Peter 4:8 [AKJV/PCE])
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Charity means love, not giving. We give because we love; giving is alms, not charity
Love of God, love from God, bringing one to Christ, covering many sins
Fervent means ardent, excited, fiery love
CHARITY, n.
1. In a general sense, love, benevolence, good will; that disposition of heart which inclines men to think favorably of their fellow men to think favorably of their fellow men, and to do them good. In a theological sense, it includes supreme love to God, and universal good will to men.
1 Cor 8. Col 3. 1 Tim 1.
In a more particular sense, love, kindness, affection, tenderness, springing from natural relations; as the charities of father, son and brother.
Liberality to the poor, consisting in almsgiving or benefactions, or in gratuitous services to relieve them in distress.
Alms; whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the poor for their relief.
Liberality in gifts and services to promote public objects of utility, as to found and support bible societies, missionary societies, and others.
Candor; liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to think and judge favorably, and to put the best construction on words and actions
which the case will admit. The highest exercise of charity, is charity towards the uncharitable.
Any act of kindness, or benevolence; as the charities of life.
A charitable institution. Charity-school, is a school maintained by voluntary contributions for educating poor children.
(Proverbs 10:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
(James 5:20 [AKJV/PCE])
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
(1 Peter 4:9 [AKJV/PCE])
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
This is about taking in strangers, guests into the home, the assembly, the congregation
It goes back and forth, not one direction
HOS'PITABLE, a. [L. hospitalis, from hospes, a guest.]
Receiving and entertaining strangers,with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; disposed to treat guests with generous kindness; as a hospitable man.
Proceeding from or indicating kindness to guests; manifesting generosity; as a hospitable table; hospitable rites.
Inviting to strangers; offering kind reception; indicating hospitality. To where yon taper cheers the vale, With hospitable ray.
GRUDGE', v.t. [L. rugio.]
To be discontented at another's enjoyments or advantages; to envy one the possession or happiness which we desire for ourselves. 'Tis not in thee
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train. I have often heard the presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments. It is followed by two objects, but probably by ellipsis; as, grudge us for grudge to us.
To give or take unwillingly. Nor grudge my cold embraces in the grave. They have grudged those contributions, which have set our country at the head of all the governments of Europe.
GRUDGE, v.i. To murmur; to repine; to complain; as, to grudge or complain of injustice.
To be unwilling or reluctant. Not to serve your country.
To be envious. Grudge not one against another. James 5.
To wish in secret. [Not used nor proper.]
To feel compunction; to grieve. [Not in use.]
(1 Peter 4:10 [AKJV/PCE])
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Having a gift to do ministry and not doing it for no other reason than one does not want to, or can't due to oppression, persecution or physical impairment, is wrong
The gifts of God are without repentance, so God will not remove it from us, but it is given to encourage the body
At no time are we ever to use that gift for self aggrandizment, profit
(1 Peter 4:11 [AKJV/PCE])
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
To speaks as the oracles of God means to do it in God's stead, accurately preaching only God's Word, rightly divided and let it be God speaking thoughyou and not you telling God what He said and means, letting the Word of God speak for itself
Our gifts are for the body, for ministering to the body of Christ and the lost not for any other reason, such as gaining fame, fortune
(1 Peter 4:12 [AKJV/PCE])
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
This would have most likely been under emperor Nero, a cruel, evil persecutor of the church
Up to this time, the rulers of the synagogues were the main persecutors; now it switches to Gentiles persecuting Gentiles
Up to this time, the Gospel went forth to the Jew first, then the Gentile, so this is a direct correlation
(1 Peter 4:13 [AKJV/PCE])
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
The word "inasmuch" means the more we suffer, the more joy in the end
(Psalms 126:5-6 [AKJV/PCE])
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
(1 Peter 4:14 [AKJV/PCE])
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
This is hard to be, happy when reproached, but we must do this, because more reproach daily is coming for anyone who stands fo the truth of God
It requires moment by moment submission to the LORD Jesus Christ via the Holy Ghost, to God's will, not ours
(1 Peter 4:15 [AKJV/PCE])
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
As anyone should suffer for being one if these
This is shameful and glorifies the enemy, not God
Notice committing murder, being a thief, being an evildoer, is in the same verse "as a busybody in other men's matters"!
"Christian marriage counseling" is found in no place, not even implied to be used, in God's Word-even if it "works", because God does not ordain things just because
they may "work" for us (like divining rods, magic, etc.); He tells us how to live according to
His Will and Word, and that is all we need. GOD ALONE, not us, is responsible to bless any efforts.
Generally, in America, this all starts with the woman going into a "women's prayer group" where they talk about their husbands, air dirty laundry and only one side is
heard. All of this goes against Scripture and ruins marriages
Saying "God healed that marriage via counseling" means God healed it, not the counselor, not the counsel.
God does not answer against His Word and for sure and for certain will not do so for you and/or your "prayer" group
"Husbands love your wives" is the order of the day, while, "Wives, be submissive unto your husbands" is scorned, mocked, ridiculed ignored, treated as pure, wicked,
evil, "old fashioned", "that was for the first century Christians", UN-AMERICAN, and so not taught in most churches, out of fear of women saying something. Submission
to the Word of God, submitting to one's husband is not evil and wicked, but in America is called so and those who say it is important to submit and follow God first are
called names like "old fashioned", mocked, worse
Women can be teachers, against Scripture, because "that was only for the women in Paul's
day, not for today. Women have more freedom and are not restricted by the shackles of that old 'toxic masculinity', by that old, outdated man/male
testosterone/machismo theology"
Because of these feminist, anti-women, anti-men, anti-marriage and ant-God ideas from the radical leftists in the church today, the husband in America is way more than
blamed for all problems and not the wife, and "it is never because lack of submission" on the part of the wife-oh no. It is the -husband's fault, no matter
what.
Most times SHE ALONE chooses the counselor, because it is in her favor. His choice is not good. All across America.
This is not hardly ever the case in poorer, third and fourth world countries where humility is the typical behavior, marriage is uplifted, even if and when they are not saved, as a tradition and culture
The spouses are wiser than we are and recognize roles, recognize how each needs each other
Genesis chapter three tells us that both parties were at fault, both blamed someone else and not themselves
(1 Peter 4:16 [AKJV/PCE])
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
We can and must glorify God in all things, as hard as some of those things might be
We are suffering as Christians, not criminals, like Jesus suffered for us, like the apostles who were persecuted, the saints down through the ages, martyred, and still are being slaughtered worldwide, like perhaps never before
It is on the way here soon!
(1 Peter 4:17 [AKJV/PCE])
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
This is a sort of humiliation, this suffering, which is needed as some are so full of themselves
The end of them who persecute us is hell, eternal separation from God, if they do not get saved, so leave that to God and preach the Gospel to the lost
SUFFERING AS A CHRISTIAN
(Acts 5:28-32 [AKJV/PCE])
Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. ΒΆ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
(1 Peter 4:18 [AKJV/PCE])
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
We are "scarcely" saved, by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9), plucked from the flames before burning, undeserving of God's salvation, granted it freely, declared by God righteous
Therefore, we have no reason to glory in ourselves, as wicked sinners. We were forgiven, as wicked sinners, bound for hell
Now imagine the future fate of the persecutors, who think they will get away with it!
THE FUTURE
(Hebrews 9:27 [AKJV/PCE])
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
(Hebrews 10:31 [AKJV/PCE])
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
(1 Peter 4:19 [AKJV/PCE])
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
We are not in charge as it is, as strong, as we think we are; we are not God
Our souls are 100% bound for heaven, if we are saved by grace through faith, because God is in charge of them and He is the Creator of those souls, and all souls
