CCLXXII. The Burden of Care.
1 PET. v. 7. "Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you." I. WHAT is care? It is not sorrow, not extreme desolation, not sharpness of anguish.…
CCLXXI. Humility and its Reward.
1 PET. v. 6. "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time." I. THE kind of suffering which the text represents…
CCLXX. Partaking Christ’s Suffering.
1 PET. iv. 13. "But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings." THE Christian faith gives dignity to every kind of suffer- ing. So the apostle says the…
CCLXIX. A Consecrated Thought,
1 Pet. Iii. 15. "Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts." THE age in which we are living is, without question, materialistic and superficial. How shall we meet our diffi-…
CCLXVIII. Suffering.
1 PET. ii. 19. "This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully." ST. PETER is writing here to one particular class of Chris- tians,…
CCLXVII. Servants of God.
1 PET. ii. 16. "As the servants of God." THE title servant or slave of God does not appear for the first time in the New Testament. God Himself speaks…
CCLXVI. True Freedom,
1 PET. ii. 16. "As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God." FREEDOM is one of those words which need…
CCLXV. Blessings at Christ’s Appearing.
1 PET. i. 13. "For the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." GRACE was brought to men when Jesus Christ first came…
CCLXIV. A Living Hope.
1 PET. i. 3. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by…
CCLXIII. The Knowledge of God.
i PET. i. 21. "Who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory: that your faith and hope might be in…