1 Peter 4:1 (KJV) Arm Yourselves!

1 Peter 4:1 (KJV)
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

I question the armory of today’s Christian. 

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  We may be armed today in the strength of numbers (although the numbers of Christians pales to those of unbelievers).
• We may be armed in the strength of the Constitution (although dynamic interpretation has all but destroyed the power thereof)

The truth of the matter is that Jesus used neither in His ministry. He suffered in the flesh. 

First Peter teaches us that the way to mortify the flesh and live out our earthly life in the will of God, not the lusts of man[1] is to arm ourselves with a mind to suffer in the flesh as Jesus did. There is even a hint in the second verse of an abbreviated life expectancy because of it. The one so armed may not expect to live as long on earth, but he may expect to live it according to the will of God. 

No one wishes to die early. But the one who dies to self may live his life, however long it is, more holy than the one who lives for self. 

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[1] Would that be a fair description of both our government’s response to the virus and the mobs that have been rioting?

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1 Peter 4:1 (KJV) Arm Yourselves!

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