Worship Preparation - June 1, 2025
Read the sermon text: 1 Peter 4:1-6
Read the sermon summary: In our passage for this Sunday, we will consider Peter's instructions to "arm yourselves with the same way of thinking" that Christ had. He suffered unjustly to bring us to God. He did it according to the will of God. He was raised from the dead, and now is reigning at the right hand of the throne of God. In the same way, we have been given a new identity in Christ to live not for ourselves but for the will of God. This kind of life, Peter says, will naturally result in the surprise and ire of those who live in the passions of the flesh. In preparation for the sermon, consider the following questions: What do you think it means to "arm yourselves with the same way of thinking"? How does suffering relate to being "done with sin" in verse 1? What contrasts can you identify in the passage?
Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon:
Son Of Suffering
Verse 1
Oh the perfect Son of God
In all His innocence
Here walking in the dirt with you and me
He knows what living is
He’s acquainted with our grief
A man of sorrows Son of suffering
Chorus
Blood and tears how can it be
(That) there’s a God who weeps
There’s a God who bleeds
Oh praise the One
Who would reach for me
Hallelujah to the Son of suffering
Verse 2
Some imagine You are distant and removed
But You chased us down in merciful pursuit
To the sinner You were grace
And the broken You embraced
And in the end the proof is in Your wounds
Yes in the end the proof is in Your wounds
Bridge 1
Your cross my freedom
Your stripes my healing
All praise King Jesus
Glory to God in Heaven
Your blood still speaking
Your love still reaching
All praise King Jesus
Glory to God forever
Tag 1
Glory to God forever
Glory to God forever
Glory to God forever
(Glory to God forever)
Tag 2
Hallelujah to the Son of suffering
Bridge 2
All praise King Jesus
All praise King Jesus
All praise King Jesus
Glory to God forever
All praise King Jesus
All praise King Jesus
All praise King Jesus
Glory to God forever
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