Rejoice in Trials (1 Peter 1:6-9)

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Trials, Temptations, and the Context of 1 Peter

On this episode of The Wrap Report, I'm going to have a Bible study that I do on 1 Peter, continuing that. This episode will deal with the issue of trials and temptations. This was a Bible study we did.

I hope this will be helpful to you, as we all have to deal with trials and temptations in our life, and having the proper mindset to be able to focus on Christ will help us to be able to get through and deal with any types of trials.

Now, the reality is, as you're going to hear in this Bible study, there's a major difference between joy and happiness, and you're going to want to understand that difference because that difference makes all the difference when it comes to how to deal with trials.

That's coming your way right now on The Wrap Report.

Welcome to The Wrap Report with your host, Andrew Rappaport, where we provide biblical interpretation and application. This is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and the Christian Podcast Community. For more content or to request a speaker for your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.

Actually, I'm going to cheat. I'm going to use the computer because I can make it bigger and read it. So, 1 Peter, and what we'll do is I'll start in chapter 1, verse 1, just so we get the context. I'll read all the way down to verse 10, or verse 9, sorry, just so we have the context.

But 1 Peter 1, starting in verse 1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to those who reside as aliens scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood, may grace and peace be yours to the fullest measure.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith, for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In this, you greatly rejoice, even though now, for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold, which is perishable, even through testing by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And though you have not seen him, you love him. And although you do not see him now, but believe in him, you greatly rejoice, with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.

Scattered Believers, the Trinity, and a Living Hope

Great text that we have for tonight. We're going to look at verses 6 to 9. Hey, how you doing? So we just got started, so you didn't miss a thing. We're going to be looking at 1 Peter. We'll be looking primarily at 1 Peter 1, verses 6 to 9.

But just to give a little bit of review, and I've said this, I'm going to each week try to give a little review, just so we don't lose where we're at. Right? So we talked about the fact that this is Peter who's writing to people who, it says very clearly, they were scattered.

They were aliens. They were people who had to reside in different countries. And so they moved to areas where they're mentioned, Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, some of the places that they were scattered to.

And this is what happens when persecution comes, right? When persecution comes, you know, as it did several times for the Christians in Jerusalem and elsewhere, what did people do? They'd flee. They'd go to other areas.

And what that actually did was spread the gospel. Right? I mean, you know, it's a funny thing to think about. So here you have the Jewish people. And I'm trying to get it so... So when you have the Jewish people, they were given the law.

And they were told that, you know, like this was supposed to impact the whole world. But what did they do? They kept it to themselves. And so here you have the Christians, which early Christians were Jewish, still doing the same thing.

What did they do? They stayed in Jerusalem. Even though they came from other areas, after the death, burial, resurrection of Christ, a lot of the Jewish believers stayed in Jerusalem. They didn't want to go home.

And so God allowed a persecution that did what? It spread everyone all over the place. So some of those people ended up returning to the land that they knew. But others, as that persecution spread, they would go to different areas.

And so it is by tradition, at least, the Apostle Andrew made it almost all the way to India, you know, in sharing the gospel. And so you see it. They went quite a distance. Remember, this was before cars.

You walked those miles, you know. We appreciate cars now, right?

Priscilla and Aquila got as far as Rome, and that's how Paul found them.

Priscilla and Aquila got as far as Rome. I mean, you know, Paul got as far as Rome, too, but he lost his head over it. So we see that this is a scattering. The scattering ended up furthering the gospel.

But he said in this whole book, as we're going to start looking at tonight, is about trials. Dealing with suffering and persecution and trials. And so it's really interesting when you look at the first five verses, how Peter starts this.

He's really, to start them talking about trials, what does he do? He fixes their mind on Christ. I had said when we looked at this several weeks ago, in verse two, you see the Trinity at work. It says, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, and to obey Jesus Christ.

You see all three members of the Trinity right there in one verse. We were down in, as many of you know, we were down in Florida doing a seminar down there. And at the hotel that we were staying at, we ended up running into a guy at the pool.

I see a guy that has a shirt that says salvation. Well, I'm not passing that up, we're going to discuss this. So I said, salvation from what? It was really hard, it was amazing. This guy didn't want to say, he's like, well, I believe salvation in Jesus.

I said, what if I'm a Muslim? Would I be saved? He said, well, I don't want to judge anyone. It was so hard for him to say that anyone else would be wrong. He was like, well, if that's how you get to God, I'm like, but would that actually get me to God?

I mean, there's a difference between what I believe and what's true. I said, what's true? I'm like trying to pull it from him. And so we eventually got to where he said, yes, someone that doesn't believe in Christ would be in hell.

It's hard for him to say, but he eventually got there. And then I noticed he had a book from T .J. Jakes, or T .D. Jakes. And so I sort of said, well, so let's talk about who God is. I said, what do you, you know, describe God?

And I said, you know, so he did the same thing, what I expected him to do, which is a form of modalism, which is what T .D. Jakes believes. And he said, well, he says, well, I believe that God was, you know, in the role of the Father in the Old Testament.

And then he was Jesus Christ. And then he takes on the role of the Holy Spirit. Now, what modalism would teach us is modes, not roles. But it's basically the same thing. We had a great time. We basically kept getting together with this guy.

And it was funny because as Anthony and his wife started talking to him, the guy became more and more orthodox and conservative. You know, and I think what it was, we concluded that he had been trained a certain way and never really dug into it.

And as we're looking at things and this is one of the verses I brought up is here you see all three members of the Trinity and they're separate and distinct and yet all acting at the same time. You know, so that's one of the things here, one of the passages to just remember when we look at the Trinity, because here you see three members.

They're all what makes them God is the work they're doing. Right. They're doing the work that God does. So this is something we would look at and say, well, see, each one of them is God.

Oh, you are. Yeah.

Let Denise, because we were going to go outside. So just open the open the other door. Yeah. Well, no, you see, there's a you get it. So so here's one of the passages. There's a couple of key passages.

This one, the baptism of Jesus is a good one. What do you have at the baptism of Jesus? You have Jesus physically there. You have the voice of the father and the Holy Spirit coming down as a dove. So what you see all three in one place at one time and yet distinct from one another.

So these are some good passages to just keep in mind. So we see here that all three members of the Trinity are active in in the work of salvation here. And so looking at verse three, we ended up seeing that here here becomes the blessing.

Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to what his great mercy. We talked about this, his great mercy that did what it caused us to be born again. So our salvation, our our, you know, us being regenerate is is caused by God.

We can't do that on our own. We can't save ourselves. Right. And those of us who go and evangelize, this is like the number one thing we have to deal with. Because when we ask a person, do you consider yourself to be a good person?

How many people say they're a bad person? Very few. Right. They're all a good person. Some are even a great person. Right. And so the reality is, is we have to help them. I've always said this. It's not hard to get someone saved.

It's hard to get them lost. It's hard to get them to a point where they see a need for a savior because they think they're great. Right. They all compare themselves to Hitler or Mussolini or someone bad.

Right. They never compare themselves to God and say, let me do that as the standard. And so here you end up seeing that this is a work God has to do. So many people think their works are going to are going to save them and their works aren't going to save them.

And so so it's God who who by his mercy, because if he didn't show this mercy, there's we wouldn't have we wouldn't be able to be born again. And so it's his mercy that causes us to be born again. And he describes this as a living hope.

But then he says through what? Basically, the resurrection of Christ from the dead. That's important because when we evangelize, you know, most people do, they leave Jesus in the tomb. He died. He was buried.

People forget to talk about that. He rose. That resurrection is what vindicates everything he said about himself, that he is God. I always say, you know, you know what dead people do? Rock. They don't raise themselves from the dead like he said he would do.

You as a dead man raising yourself from the dead. That's not man. Right. And so the resurrection becomes important. But it's not just that it's in verse four. It was to obtain the inheritance. The fact that we think about this, if you're struggling with persecution trials and you think about the inheritance, we're going to obtain with Christ.

Right. That gives us something to look forward to. If we have if we don't have something, you know, to to keep us fixated on on a future thing, then we end up getting stuck on the here and now. I was just preaching at a Colossians chapter three this past weekend about the fact that Paul was saying that we need to have our minds fixed on the things above, not the things of Earth.

And that's what Peter's trying to do here is to say, think about the inheritance we're going to get. We're going to obtain an inheritance we don't deserve, but we are going to receive that. And so in light of everything we're going to go through on Earth, compare that to the inheritance that's waiting for us in eternity.

That is what gets us through those trials. OK, I said this before, I'll probably say it again. There's with everything that's gone on in 2020 and 2021, a lot of professing believers were seeing their faiths being shipwrecked.

Why? Because their whole focus was on here on Earth. There's a whole lot of people that lost their minds, a whole lot of professing Christians lost their minds when Trump lost. Like their faith was in Trump more than Christ.

That's fixated on the things of Earth. And so we have to have a mind that's that's focused on on eternity. That's what's going to get us through trials. Not only that, but he said in verse five that it's protected.

Protected by who? Our inheritance is protected by God. Anyone know anybody stronger than God? No. Then guess what? It's protected. You're not losing it. Right. And so we and that faith that we have will be revealed at the end times.

Joy, Happiness, and the Meaning of Trials

So now he gets into discussing the main thing of of the issues that we would have, and that is the issues of of trials. So looking at verse six here. And I should like, you know, quiz some of us. Some of you guys are not with us, but there's some of us who are trying to memorize the book of first Peter.

So any of you that want to do it with us, I could give you the link to the app that we use. I think I don't know if it's on Android. I know it's on an iPhone. So what? Yeah, I don't know. I guess we have to find someone who has an Android phone.

I think so because my aunt has one and she has that. She has the app.

OK, so the app is called Versus and I'm creating a what's called a collection for us to go through all of first Peter. And so we can see that Kevin is ahead of everyone. I got far behind. I was two weeks and two weeks in Florida.

I like I noticed all of my rings have disappeared.

I got to back it up. You have to redo it. Yep. One trip. Oh, so you're cheating. If you want to go through it again, it gets hard. Yeah. Like, yeah, I want to remember the old ones. So you don't mess yourself up.

You get back out.

Well, yeah, yeah, it is. There's a way we play games to actually help with it. It's very good. Yeah, it's fun because you spend it. It's like instead of playing time with a game, you're spending that time with memorizing scripture.

And so we're going through that. And so if any of you want, I thought I'd catch up while I was gone for two weeks. The reverse. So in verse six, in this you greatly rejoice. Now, it's really interesting that the idea in the Greek for greatly rejoice is the idea of being overjoyed.

It's an extreme joyfulness. It's not just joy, but it's an extreme joyfulness. It's to be to greatly rejoice. So it's more than just being glad at something. Now, with this, I want to there's an interesting thing that we have in English.

Most people think that joy and happy are the same thing and they're not. To rejoice or to have happiness are not the same. The easy way to remember this is happiness is based on what happens. Happiness is dealing with circumstances.

So if you are if your mind is fixated on the things of Earth, then as long as everything's going well, you're going to be happy. OK, and we have a generation of people that are trying to teach that everything is about happiness.

What makes someone happy? I really don't care about happiness. I care about joy because joy will get us through bad times. See, happiness only lasts as long as everything goes the way we want it to go.

Once things don't go the way we want it to go, we're no longer happy, but we can still have joy. OK, joy is beyond what happens. Where is it based? Well, we saw in verse four in our inheritance, thinking of our inheritance that we have, that would give us joy.

Being that we'll be with Christ, that gives us joy. So we could look forward to what's in the future for us and anything we have to go through on this Earth. Well, OK, we have to go through that waiting for heaven.

OK. Peter's going to say later in this book, in chapter two, that we're aliens in this world. He used aliens in a physical sense. It's the only two times that this word aliens is used. OK, and not space aliens, you know, like legal and illegal aliens.

You know, it's what they were called before immigrants or undocumented workers or different names that we all have. But an alien is just someone that lives in a foreign country. He's going to later use it in chapter two to talk about that.

All of us that are believers, this is not our home. We're aliens here. We're this is just a foreign country for us. Heaven is our home. And so that's what we would look forward to. And throughout this whole book, we're going to see this.

He's going to keep re-hitting this same idea over and over and over again. Why? Because if we're going to have joy in this life, the only way we're going to have joy is to have our mind fixated on eternity.

If we're thinking about Christ, then, yeah, we can go through a lot of trials and temptations. We're going to discuss what those things are, but we can go through those things. If we if we're just looking for a comfortable Christianity, as many Christians have been, they're not happy right now.

And unfortunately, they don't have joy either. So this idea of is a it's a great rejoicing. It's not a it's not just to have joy, but we should have an overwhelming abundance of joy. OK, and if our mind is fixated on Christ, that should happen.

And so he says in this, you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while. And so we think about that, that, you know, he's he's right off the bat. Notice what he did in verse four. He's talking about that eternal inheritance.

And here he's saying before he's getting into this trials that we're going to have, he mentions it's just for a little while. Some will go, yeah, but I've been suffering for 40, 50, 60 years or something.

OK, well, think about it, say, say you live a hundred years and you struggle with with with things on Earth. Take that hundred years, compare it to eternity and how big is the hundred years? Right. All of a sudden, that's really little.

I mean, we think about like I'm sure none of you guys ever thought this way. It was just me. But when when I was a kid and my dad turned 40, man, I thought he was old. We turned 50. I was like, he is ancient.

You know, 60. I was like, man, oh, man. Yeah. Now he's 80. And I'm like, OK. But it was really funny when when I got into my 30s, suddenly 40 didn't seem so old. Now that I'm in my 50s, I'm like, you know, my dad actually was pretty, pretty active when he was 50.

And I thought he was really old. But, you know, I'm still running 50 miles a week.

And, you know, you know, I'm doing all right.

You see how we end up thinking, especially when we're younger, that, you know, 40, 50, 60, 70 years. That seems like such a long time. It all depends what we're comparing it to. Compare it to eternity.

And even even Methuselah living nearly a thousand years is just a drop in the bucket. Right. I mean, you think about it. Methuselah lived almost one sixth of all of the the the Earth's history. Right.

He's he's spent a great amount of that time. Right. And yet what do you have? You end up seeing that that a thousand years, just a just a small blip. Right. And so we have to keep in mind that when we talk about these various trials, they're short lived.

OK. He says in this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while. He says, if necessary, you've been distressed by various trials. So the interesting thing, if necessary, is it always necessary?

Well, James, James says when trials, not if trials. Right. As if we should expect that. Why should why should we expect trials in this life? What do you guys think? It changes us. That's good. It's part of the journey.

It's part of the journey. Sharpens us. Sharpens us. We mean by regenerate. Be changed up to be. It changes. OK. We're living in a fallen state. We're living in a fallen state. So sin. Right. Some of the causes, there's a sinful state.

And then when you consider what you're saying with being regenerate, if the world is lost. Right. If the world is being described as being, you know, being of the world is being like of Satan and being in a lost realm.

And then you put people that are here's all this darkness and you put someone that's light in there. It's at odds, isn't it? So we shouldn't expect it. We're going to get along in this world without trials because.

Trials are going to be something that if we're not going with the flow, we're going to be going against the current.

Especially if you desire to live godly in Christ Jesus. Yeah.

Especially if you want to live godly in Christ Jesus. Yeah. There's a Jonathan Owens, Puritan writer, very hard to read. But fortunately, if you ever want to read his books on mortification of sin and indwelling sin.

There's a gentleman by the name of Chris Lungard who took those two massive works and condensed into a really small book. So it's kind of like the Cliff Notes version and easier to read. But John Owens uses the illustration of if you're in a river.

If any of you have ever been like rafting, like whitewater rafting, you get into a river where there's a strong current. I mean, one of the things you get out of out of the boat, what you should do is train to do is you keep your feet forward.

So if you hit a rock, you can just bounce off it. OK, if you're because you're in a strong current. OK, when you're with that current, you're just going downstream. Not a problem. There's no resistance.

But the moment you decide to plant your feet and try to go upstream, all of a sudden you get to feel exactly how much resistance is in the current. See, as long as you're going with the flow, going with the world, you don't even notice the resistance.

You don't realize what's going on. But when you try to go against the flow, which is what we're called to do, then you get you you feel that pressure. The pressure was there all along. When you're in that river, that current is going, but you don't feel it until you said get regenerate.

Right. When we turn and try to go upstream. And so we have to expect that we're going to have trials. It'd be it'd be foolish of us not to because of just the world. And so but he even he even says here, Peter says that, you know, you've been distressed.

So he recognizes it's for a little while. He says, if necessary, you've been distressed. And this this term distress means to be grieved, to be saddened, to be sorrowful. And trials can do that to us.

Right. Any of us who have suffered with trials have, you know, know what that's like to to have to where it can affect our whole emotional state. You know, you end up getting into when you're having just whether it be physical, financial, emotional.

I mean, you have big decisions to make. It can just drain on you. And he recognizes that. And so he says that these these trials, they can distress us. Now, notice the contrast he started with in this you have great joy, but then he recognizes as well that these trials could distress us.

It shouldn't. And that's the whole thing he wants that he wants to lay down is that we should have joy rather than let these things distress us. OK. And so now we get to the term he uses here, various trials, which the idea of various trials can mean manifold, just the number of just a variety of trials.

And one of the things here that I want to spend a little time on is dealing with the term we call theologically is the title of testing. OK, under a category of testings, we have two other categories.

One would be trials and won't be temptations. And they're not the same thing. They're all testing. Now, when we think about being tested. None of us like being tested. We didn't like tests in school. OK, maybe some of you did.

I never understood that. Jim still has nightmares of being in school. It's the only thing that she ever dreams about where she has a nightmare. She has a bad dream. I'm like, what were you dreaming about?

I was in school and I had to take a test I wasn't ready for. You know, I wish that those were only my nightmare. My nightmares are usually like, you know, one of my kids got kidnapped or died or something like that.

I always think of like the worst things. She's like, I had to take a test I wasn't prepared for. I did. What was it? I tell you, before we went to Florida, I was dreaming that like that I we went there and I wasn't prepared.

They changed the topic on me or something and I had to get up and speak and I hadn't I wasn't prepared for it. And I was running around looking for notes. Crazy dreams. But that was really stressful for me in my dream.

But we end up looking at testings. And when you look at testings, we have to recognize that God does not. He allows us to be tested, but he does not tempt us. And there's going to be a difference here.

God will allow a test much like he did with Job. Right. He said to say, go ahead, test them, because God expected him to pass. OK, God has the advantage of knowing the end. We don't. God knows we're all going to be glorified.

And so in that sense, we can look at this and say, OK, this is something that is is going to be where God's not he's not putting the temptation before us, but he's allowing it for very much. Like you said, it refines us.

OK, it when we go through the fire of of trials and temptations, it refines us. So now the overarching title would be testings. OK, but I said there's two subcategories to a testing.

OK, we're here. There's Trevor here. He likes to be in the front row.

Actually, right here. Yeah, there's a time out here, right here. Yeah. Hey, we're just glad you made it. So so here's. So now what's the differentiation between trials and temptations? Well, here's what it is.

Trials are testings that come from outside of yourself. In other words, you get in a car accident. Now you're without a car. That becomes a trial. You it's not from within you. It's something that happened to you.

OK, temptations are from within. So temptations start from inside of yourself. OK, trials are external. So the difference between external and internal. So when we look at this, when we say he talks about trials, this is more of the idea of a testing.

So this could this could end up including a temptation or what we'd call trials. OK, and so the various trials that Peter's referring to could be whether because the term in the Greek for trials is means of a temptation to entice, to sin, to trap.

So it's more the idea he has here of what we would call temptation. OK, things that are happening from within us. However, he was talking about them being scattered. Well, what is that? They scattered because of persecution.

That's external. And so for that reason, I would say that this includes both of those categories. It could include trials and temptations. So just the broad concept of of testings. All right. And the thing that we end up seeing is that James says that Christ or God does not tempt us.

Right. But he will test us. He will allow something to happen. But he doesn't force us to be tempted. OK, but something external could could come and that could cause us to be tempted with something, you know, like someone bringing donuts and me being a glutton.

You know, is that a temptation or is that a trial? Me, you know, desiring that was probably a temptation from within because I made the excuse. So does a trial prove the genuineness of your faith more than temptation?

I actually think both do. Here's the now. So here's the thing with with temptations different than trials. Because the trial is external, we can't control it. With a temptation, this issue with a temptation is that we can resist a temptation.

OK, temptations, when we have them, will get greater and greater in severity until a point that they just they're gone. Right. When you resist the temptation, you'll feel that desire getting stronger and stronger and stronger.

And then you conquer it when it's just gone. The reality is the more you do that, the easier it is to conquer the next time when the same temptation occurs. OK, now I say that. Now think about this. Jesus Christ tempted like we are.

Without sin. In other words, every time that that something happened, he he would he would have, you know, being at the cross, have a desire not to not to go to the cross. Right. But he suffered that to the fullest extent of it.

Right. He because what happens when we give in to a temptation? So it's over. Right. It's amazing how quick that that desire just gone. The desire for that donut just. No, actually, I'm desiring it because I only tried the jelly and not the chocolate.

That's the problem. You're not helping me here. So so what we end up seeing is. That we end up seeing that when we were tempted, we actually do have some control by the by the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit.

We do have some ability to conquer that temptation. And every time we're tempted, we have a choice. We can resist. We can give it every time we give in. It is easier the next time to give in. Every time we resist to the full weight of it, it is easier the next time to resist it.

OK, and so literally every time we're faced with, you know, a temptation, that's what we have to realize. Am I going to give in or am I just going to, you know, fight it? And sometimes, you know, look, you know, Kenny and I talk about the fact that, you know, like I.

So I have the I had I should say I had more of some of the OCD issues where, you know, I used to drive him crazy. I'd have to check like my lock in my house, like even though I just checked it and made sure it was locked.

I have to check it like seven times a night. I literally went when she would go to bed and the kids would be in bed. I would go through the house like usually like half dozen times or so, checking all the locks in the house.

Nobody's up. Nobody came down. Anyone that came down, I would see them because my office was by the stairs. You know, I'd hear them like, what do I think changed? Right, nothing changed, but it was all in here and it was this compulsion.

I'd have things that I'd have to touch a certain way. And and the thing that you always says is that so she would do the laundry. These are the things when you first get married, you have to learn how to deal with one another.

Right. So she do laundry. And she was like, you know, she just put the clothes in the, you know, just her pants go here. Short sleeved shirts go here. Long sleeved shirts go there. And like, oh, no, no, no.

We can't do that. Like I had to have them color coordinated and by style. So polo shirts by color, you know, short sleeve, you know, the short sleeve business shirts by color, you know. And so she basically was like, well, I'll give you one or two choices.

Do your own laundry or accept the way I do it. And so they're like she would do the laundry. I used to rearrange it, you know, like after I used to go into the closet and be like, OK, I'm just going to adjust this.

And then over time, you know, I just said, you know what? I know that's all up here. I just have to fight this. And now the problem is I don't check the locks enough right now. We're having a fire one night and hours later, he was like, you didn't lock the door.

Oh, see, so I've gone too far the other way now. But but you see, that's that's the thing with a temptation. The temptation can be resisted. OK, and in resisting that temptation, we get stronger to resist it the next time.

And that's the thing we have to to have with that. And where are we going to get the power to resist it? Well, that's the Holy Spirit. It it comes from having a thinking. One of the things that John Owens in his works on sin that he talks about is the fact that we have to understand that the when it comes to temptations.

We have kind of a if you think of it as a fortress, the way he does, it's it's three barriers that we have. The strongest barrier, the outside barrier is our mind, our thinking. Second is our emotions.

And third is the volition. And so what what it means is that to to to resist temptation, the hardest thing to resist. If if if a temptation has gotten past your thinking, past your emotions, you're just going to give in to the will.