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As we get more into 1 Peter, he says don't think it's strange that you're going through fiery trials, because in the physical, there's going to be a challenge by Satan to get us to stop trusting the Lord. Because of our natural human senses that we function in naturally, we have a tendency to judge the Lord and His faithfulness based on the help we receive in our physical circumstances.
And these brothers are turning it around and saying no, the difficult circumstances, and we see this in 1 Peter Chapter 4, that difficulty accompanies salvation because we're talking about two different realms. We're talking about the teaching of scripture that tells us that Satan is the god of this world, the physical realm that we live in. Satan is the spiritual force that's energizing this worlds system and all the physical things around us.
So, once we switch from living according to our fleshly desires, and we surrender our life to Christ, then everything is reversed. We're no longer at war with God. We're now at war with Satan, or else he is with us, because we have said I'm out of your system and I now belong to Christ. But I still physically live in Satan's system. It's just that he does not own me, he does not possess me. But I still have to go out into his system and trust the Lord.
So, everything is reversed once you get saved. What used to be friendly to you in the physical realm, even the people who used to be friendly to you in the physical realm, they will no longer be friendly. And the circumstances will be very difficult, trying to get us to the point where we get discouraged and just quit in our trusting of the Lord because we think trusting the Lord is going to change our physical circumstance. And we get tired of waiting, and sometimes the circumstances get worse. So, we say "Why trust the Lord?"
As we get more into 1 Peter, he says don't think it's strange that you're going through fiery trials, because in the physical, there's going to be a challenge by Satan to get us to stop trusting the Lord. Because of our natural human senses that we function in naturally, we have a tendency to judge the Lord and His faithfulness based on the help we receive in our physical circumstances.
And these brothers are turning it around and saying no, the difficult circumstances, and we see this in 1 Peter Chapter 4, that difficulty accompanies salvation because we're talking about two different realms. We're talking about the teaching of scripture that tells us that Satan is the god of this world, the physical realm that we live in. Satan is the spiritual force that's energizing this worlds system and all the physical things around us.
So, once we switch from living according to our fleshly desires, and we surrender our life to Christ, then everything is reversed. We're no longer at war with God. We're now at war with Satan, or else he is with us, because we have said I'm out of your system and I now belong to Christ. But I still physically live in Satan's system. It's just that he does not own me, he does not possess me. But I still have to go out into his system and trust the Lord.
So, everything is reversed once you get saved. What used to be friendly to you in the physical realm, even the people who used to be friendly to you in the physical realm, they will no longer be friendly. And the circumstances will be very difficult, trying to get us to the point where we get discouraged and just quit in our trusting of the Lord because we think trusting the Lord is going to change our physical circumstance. And we get tired of waiting, and sometimes the circumstances get worse. So, we say "Why trust the Lord?"
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