Do You Suffer Well?

1 Peter 5:5-7

David Grantham

NOTES:

Live victoriously for the Lord without:

• Losing hope

• Becoming bitter

• Unrighteous anger

• Damaging our witness

Live victoriously for the Lord with:

• Trust in the Lord

• Looking forward to His second coming

Four proper responses to persecution:

1. Expect it

2. Rejoice in it

3. Evaluate its cause

4. Entrust it to God

Obedience produces:

• A calmness in our physical body

• A clarity in our minds

• A peacefulness in our demeanor

• An inner assurance of harmony with God

• A gentleness in our actions

Disobedience:

• Is a stress multiplier

• Compounds our anxieties

• A waste of our life