Listen along as Mike Gaston wraps up our series through 1 Peter.

Notes//Quotes

1 Peter 5:6-14 - Mike G Teaching Slide 1 Big IdeaOur faith in God allows us to navigate challenging times now, as we await better times ahead. Slide 2 Challenging times now (vs 6-9)We are called to humility before GodWe have an adversarySuffering is part of life Slide 3 “You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.”Jonathan Edwards Slide 4 “Peter recognizes that a great barrier to putting others first and thinking of them as more important is the legitimate human concern, ‘But then who will care for me?’ The answer is that God himself will care for our needs. He is able to do so far better than we are (his hand is ‘mighty,’ v. 6), and he wants to do so, for he continually cares for his children. Therefore casting all your anxieties on him is the path to humility, freeing a person from constant concern for himself and enabling him or her to truly be concerned for the needs of others.”Wayne Grudem Slide 5 “… because he cares for you.” Slide 6 “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.” CS Lewis, Preface to The Screwtape Letters Slide 7 “But he gives more grace. Therefore it says ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.”James 4:6-8 “If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.”Isaiah 7:9 Slide 8 Better Times Ahead (vs 10-11)The description of GodThe promises of GodThe timeline Slide 9 God will have the last word! Slide 10 “Mark, my son”