Bible Book: 1 Peter

Our Crucified and Ascended Lord

Date: July 31st, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-22  |  Topics: Ascension, Crucifixion, King, Lord, Resurrection

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the fiContinue Reading


God’s Care for the Humble

Date: August 7th, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 5:5-7  |  Topics: Calling, Children, Eli, Samuel, Service

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.


Judgment at the House of God

Date: August 7th, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 4:17-18  |  Topics: Bema, Judgment, Rewards, loss

For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?


Shepherding the Flock of God

Date: September 11th, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 5:1-4  |  Topics: Character, Courage, Death, Pastor, Shepherd

The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.


Humble Yourselves Therefore

Date: September 11th, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 5:5-7  |  Topics: Foot Washing, God's Will, Hands, Humility, Revival

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.


Called to Eternal Glory

Date: September 18th, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 5:10-11  |  Topics: Blood, Foundation, Glory, Heaven, Messengers, Pastor, Perfection, Strength

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


The Power of Satan

Date: September 18th, 1960  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 5:8-14  |  Topics: Adversary, Devil, Resist, Satan, Serpent, Vigilance

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. By Silvanus, a faithful broContinue Reading


The Foundation for the Faith

Date: July 19th, 1964  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 1:25  |  Topics: Foundation, Prophecy, Scarlet Thread, Truth, Word of God

But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.


The Baptists in Russia

Date: September 19th, 1965  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 1:1-19  |  Topics: Backslide, Baptist, Belief, Communism, Grace, Mission, Poor

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 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 the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dContinue Reading


The Big Fisherman

Date: August 12th, 1973  |  Scripture: 1 Peter 1:1-2  |  Topics: Conviction, Discipleship, Failure, New Creation, Simon Peter, Transforming, Victory, fishermen

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.