A Note From Evergreen Baptist Church

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UNSHAKABLE - 1 Peter 4:12-5:14

August 31, 2025

The flow of the book we have seen over the last 3 weeks

• We have a living hope /// grace to go on on and through Jesus

-------Do not forget who you are and what he has done

• We have hopeful living /// grace to stand firm in our life

-------Live Coram Deo … living one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God

• We have a firm hope /// so live radically

-------Submissively, humbly, righteously suffering, ready in defense

-------Loving one another!

Peter sums up the letter with reminding us we will suffer, don't be surprised. So rejoice and let God get the glory in it all.

What do we need?

DIRECTION … 1 Peter 4:19 … according to God's will

— 1 Corinthians 11:1, Psalm 119:105

DISCIPLINE … 1 Peter 5:1-6

— 1 Timothy 4:7-8

DISCERNMENT … 1 Peter 5:8

— Proverbs 3:5-6, John 8:32

We have three tools to help keep every thought captive - to live unshakably (2 Cor. 10:5) … note: these are from the new study we are doing on Sunday nights, Tame Your Thought by Max Lucado

PRACTICE PICKY THINKING

... Guard your thoughts

IDENTIFY UFOs

... An Untruth creates a False narrative that leads to an Overreaction

UPROOT AND REPLANT

... Weed out most unhealthy thought patterns and replace them with divine truth

Closing thought - UNSHAKABLE - 1 Peter 5:10 …

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.