SET APART / 1 PETER

Part 5 – Competing Kingdoms

March 23, 2025

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1 Peter 3:8-12 (NIV) Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

The Kingdom of Hell

1. Repays .
2. Returns .
3. Speaks .
4. Does .

The Kingdom of Heaven

1. of mind.
2. .
3. .
4. .
5. mind.
6. Endure and .
7. Does and others.

5 Things God Promises

1. Help us .
2. See .
3. Enjoy .
4. Answer our .
5. Deal with .

1 Peter 3:13-17 (NIV) Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.” But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

Two Ways You Can Get in Trouble

1. Doing what is .
2. Doing what is .

Two Ways You Can Respond to Trouble

1. controls your heart.
2. controls your heart.

When the Battle Rages

1. Your will be in life’s battles.
2. Connect before you .
3. your faith, then your faith.
4. Let the of Christ be offensive, not the .

1 Peter 3:18-20 (NIV) For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits—to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.

 

Genesis 6:1-2 (NIV) When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

 

Genesis 6:4 (NIV) The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

 

Jude 1:6 (NIV) And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.

 

Colossians 2:15 (NIV) And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Jesus as the

• Enoch  to fallen spirits.
• Jesus  over them after His resurrection.

1 Peter 3:20-21 (NIV) …God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.

• The flood washed away .
• Baptism washes away our .

Romans 6:4 (NIV) We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

1 Peter 3:22 (NIV) Jesus Christ…has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities, and powers in submission to him.

 

Everything is in .

Philippians 2:9-11 (NIV) Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.