“Methods of Resistance”

           “Methods of Resistance” 

      I Peter 5:5:7 

    Rev. Bruce Brown

I.          Humble Submission (verses 5-6)

II.         Honest Supplication (verses 7-8  

III.       Hopeful Stability (verses 8-9)

The devil is real, and we must be ready for his attacks, but our Lord has confronted him and defeated him once and for all. Therefore, he who is in us is greater than he who prowls around us. The devil is a real foe, but he is a defeated foe. He is a real threat, but he is a limited threat. He is on a leash, and he can only do what God permits him to do. And God has granted us the grace to resist him. So we “resist him, firm in faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by [our] brotherhood throughout the world” (1 Peter 5:9). Alertness and sobriety provoke an active response to the devil. We are constantly to be on the lookout for him, so that we can resist him time and time again. We resist the devil and his deceptions as we remain steadfast in our trust of God and his gospel.  ~ Juan Sanchez