How to Care for Your Inner Life
I. Understanding Your Inner Life
- A. The hidden man of the heart - 1 Pet. 3:4
- 1. The relationship between the spirit and the heart - Eph. 1:17-18;
3:16-17; 5:18-19
- 2. The hiddenness of our spirit - Rom. 2:29; Col. 3:3-4
- 3. The nature of our spirit
- a) Incorruptible - 1 Pet. 3:4
- b) Of the same disposition as its Indweller - 1 Pet. 3:4; 1 Cor.
4:21; Gal. 6:1 cf. Matt. 10:29; 2 Cor. 10:1
- B. A good conscience - 1 Pet. 3:16, 21; 2:19
- 1. Good conduct in Christ
- C. The removal of the flesh? - 1 Pet. 3:21
- D. Understanding the level of the grace of life - 1 Pet. 3:7
- 1. Put to death in flesh, but made alive in spirit - 1 Pet. 3:18
- 2. The level of the cross - 1 Pet. 3:13-18
- 3. The level of resurrection - 1 Pet. 3:18, 20-21
- 4. The level of ascension - 1 Pet. 3:22
II. Staying Compatible with the Level of Life
- A. Keep yourself returning from your wanderings - 1 Pet. 2:25
- B. Being able to pray with one another - 1 Pet. 3:7b
- C. Grace expressed in submission - 1 Pet. 3:1, 5; 2:13; 18-20; 5:5;
Eph. 5:21ff
- D. Keeping your expectancy in the right place - God -1 Pet. 3:5
- 1. A proper expectancy changes relationships - 1 Pet. 3:5-6
- E. Being sensitive to the level of life
- 1. The disposition of life - 1 Pet. 3:8; Eph. 4:32-5:2
- 2. The reactions of life - 1 Pet. 3:9
- 3. Loving life - 1 Pet. 3:10
- a) Caring for our speaking - 1 Pet. 3:10
- b) Caring for doing good - 1 Pet. 3:11a; 2:14-15, 20; 3:6, 17;
4:19
- c) Caring for peace - 1 Pet. 3:11b; Col. 3:15
- d) Caring for the Lord's presence in prayer - 1 Pet. 3:12
- F. Sanctifying Christ as Lord in our hearts - 1 Pet. 3:15; Eph. 3:16-17;
Col. 3:15
- G. Life and the unrestricted realm of the spirit - 1 Pet. 3:18-22;
Rom. 8:13
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