Application Of The Previous Theme, And Reminder of the Coming Judgment (1 Peter 4:1).

Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory of Jesus Christ through suffering, Peter now applies the ideas directly to his readers. As previously with the world of Noah and the disobedient angels, judgment is hovering on the horizon. Christians are therefore to live in the light both of His sufferings and of the coming judgment. This is first stressed in 1 Peter 4:1, and then expanded on in 1 Peter 4:12, while in between we have the call to His people to live as recognising the urgency of the hour.

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