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[2434.96 --> 2439.40] As I said, in just a minute, we are going to read from 1 Peter 4.
[2439.40 --> 2443.64] We're going to start at verse 12, and we'll carry through to the end of that chapter.
[2444.92 --> 2450.52] As you are getting that ready, I'm going to lead us into the text this morning.
[2451.02 --> 2453.22] I had a chance this week.
[2453.30 --> 2457.74] I was talking to someone who's taking some university classes right now,
[2457.80 --> 2460.00] and they had a final last week.
[2460.04 --> 2462.02] And so I started thinking about tests.
[2462.88 --> 2466.28] How many of you take tests in your life on a regular basis?
[2467.14 --> 2469.62] Here's like university or school-aged kids.
[2471.02 --> 2476.82] When I was in high school, I hated tests.
[2477.50 --> 2481.60] Now, I wasn't a very good student, mind you, so that might be part of the reason.
[2482.16 --> 2484.22] And I was also a bit of a...
[2485.22 --> 2488.60] I don't know what the polite company word for it is.
[2489.00 --> 2490.94] I wasn't the kind of student you wanted to have.
[2490.94 --> 2495.38] And so one day, I remember getting a test, sitting down in the class.
[2495.46 --> 2498.14] The teacher walked around and put the test on all of our desks.
[2498.30 --> 2502.12] And I spent about four minutes flipping through the pages, looking at it and going,
[2502.38 --> 2503.58] I don't know any of this stuff.
[2503.62 --> 2504.62] So I wrote my name on it.
[2504.70 --> 2506.02] I walked up to the front of the class.
[2506.10 --> 2507.20] I put it on the teacher's desk.
[2507.52 --> 2509.42] And I said, I don't know any of this.
[2509.64 --> 2511.64] And she said, well, can't you just guess?
[2512.32 --> 2514.70] And I said, can't you be a better teacher?
[2514.70 --> 2520.58] Yeah, I was that kind of kid.
[2524.10 --> 2527.64] Elementary and high school-age kids, that's not the takeaway from today's message.
[2529.30 --> 2530.00] Sorry, Kobe.
[2533.28 --> 2536.42] Now, fast forward a few years, and I go to university.
[2537.92 --> 2542.76] And I would be the first to tell you that I loved tests.
[2542.76 --> 2545.84] In fact, I loved exam season.
[2546.18 --> 2551.72] When exam season came around as a university student, I got excited because it was an awesome
[2551.72 --> 2556.32] opportunity to think back on everything that I had learned and to really engage in that
[2556.32 --> 2563.16] semester-long process of taking in all of this information and having a chance to write
[2563.16 --> 2564.70] out our answers.
[2564.88 --> 2566.46] I remember I wrote one exam.
[2567.10 --> 2568.66] We had a three-hour time slot.
[2568.66 --> 2575.78] I took three and a half hours, and I wrote, I think it was 22 pages front and back of full
[2575.78 --> 2576.42] scat paper.
[2576.54 --> 2580.22] So that's the long exam paper, front and back, 22 sheets.
[2580.40 --> 2582.26] So that's 44 pages.
[2582.92 --> 2585.34] Just wrote and wrote and wrote furiously.
[2585.60 --> 2587.14] And I loved every minute of it.
[2588.30 --> 2589.50] Now, what was the difference?
[2591.14 --> 2592.84] I actually liked what I was doing.
[2592.84 --> 2598.32] Now, sure, I was a little bit more mature and responsible, but I understood the purpose
[2598.32 --> 2600.76] of the test.
[2602.60 --> 2606.04] And so I was able to experience joy in taking it.
[2607.48 --> 2608.62] Your Bibles are open.
[2609.68 --> 2612.64] 1 Peter 4, starting in verse 12.
[2612.64 --> 2622.88] Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come upon you to test you
[2622.88 --> 2626.40] as though something strange were happening to you.
[2627.52 --> 2636.32] But rejoice in as much as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be
[2636.32 --> 2639.42] overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
[2639.42 --> 2645.36] If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed.
[2646.14 --> 2649.40] For the spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
[2650.70 --> 2658.06] If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or a thief or any kind of criminal or even as a meddler.
[2659.32 --> 2667.40] However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.
[2667.40 --> 2672.20] For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household.
[2673.02 --> 2678.60] And if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
[2679.68 --> 2687.94] And if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?
[2687.94 --> 2699.66] So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful creator and continue to do good.
[2700.30 --> 2701.52] This is the word of the Lord.
[2701.52 --> 2711.00] Now, Peter jumps right in in this text, and so we're going to do the same.
[2711.08 --> 2713.34] He jumps right in, and he says,
[2713.46 --> 2717.46] Dear friends, or if you remember last week, we looked a little bit more closely at that word,
[2717.56 --> 2719.34] and it means beloved, right?
[2719.36 --> 2721.52] Or beloved is the old pronunciation.
[2721.86 --> 2723.72] That is God's chosen.
[2724.02 --> 2725.64] You are loved of God.
[2725.64 --> 2734.66] And so those loved of God, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that's come upon you to test you.
[2735.90 --> 2739.90] Now, we're going to spend a moment in that word test, but just quickly,
[2740.24 --> 2748.54] that word surprise, the do not be surprised, is the same word that Peter used back in verse 4 of this chapter.
[2748.54 --> 2750.98] Now, we didn't read that, but Peter says there,
[2751.42 --> 2757.32] They, that is the pagan world around, the people who are not part of the church family of God,
[2757.52 --> 2766.16] they are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless wild living, and they heap abuse on you.
[2767.00 --> 2776.06] So for Peter, by using that word in two places, it is a contrast of expectations, right?
[2776.06 --> 2780.00] They are surprised, and we shouldn't be surprised.
[2780.96 --> 2786.00] They are surprised by what we as Christians do, and the way we as Christians live together,
[2786.50 --> 2792.68] and we as Christians aren't surprised by their reactions to that,
[2792.76 --> 2800.50] and by the trials, the suffering, or the testing that comes as a result of being Christian.
[2800.50 --> 2811.76] And instead of surprise, then, Peter wants us to reframe, or to rightly frame,
[2812.02 --> 2816.92] what those trials are, what those fiery ordeals might be.
[2817.76 --> 2821.86] He says that they come to test you.
[2823.20 --> 2826.70] Now, what is a test for?
[2826.70 --> 2834.08] The word that's used here by Peter in Greek, in the original language that this is written in,
[2834.14 --> 2838.60] is used in a few other places as well, and so we can use those to help us understand.
[2839.46 --> 2842.78] In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches us to pray by saying,
[2843.00 --> 2844.48] Lead us not into temptation.
[2845.36 --> 2847.98] That word, temptation, is the same one that Peter uses.
[2848.62 --> 2850.84] So we could say, lead us not into testing.
[2850.84 --> 2857.62] Or in Luke 8, in the parable of the sower, you remember that story that Jesus tells,
[2859.20 --> 2865.84] the seed that gets cast out in among the weeds, Jesus explains, he says,
[2865.96 --> 2868.64] In the time of testing, they fall away.
[2869.84 --> 2874.26] Or again, in 1 Corinthians 10, Paul there writes,
[2874.26 --> 2879.58] No trial has come to you except that which is common to all.
[2880.20 --> 2882.12] The word trial is the same one.
[2883.02 --> 2885.86] We looked recently in this church in the book of James.
[2886.00 --> 2887.26] James 1.21 says,
[2887.38 --> 2893.58] Consider it pure joy, brothers and sisters, when you face many trials of many kinds.
[2895.64 --> 2899.58] So what is the purpose of a test or of a trial?