1 Pet. 5:8-9
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Resist him, steadfast in the
faith, knowing that the same
sufferings are experienced by
your brotherhood in the world.”
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
Calmness of mind,
Mental Self Control
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
Watchful
Alert
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
An opponent
Your enemy
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
Makes false charges
Opposed to man
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
Job 1:7 2:2 “to and fro”
Out looking for us
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
Stalks
Intimidate and frighten
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
Persistence
On the prowl
1 Pet.5:8-9
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the devil walks about like
a roaring lion, seeking whom he
may devour”
To gulp down - swallow
To destroy
1 Pet.5:8-9
I. How the Lion Gets His Lunch
Small
Slow
Sickly
1 Pet.5:8-9
I. How the Lion Gets His Lunch
Stragglers
Sleeping
Injured
1 Pet.5:8-9
I. How the Lion Gets His Lunch
New Christians
Small
“Therefore, laying aside all malice, all
deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil
speaking, as newborn babes, desire
the pure milk of the word, that you may
grow thereby”
1 Pet. 2:1-2
1 Pet.5:8-9
I. How the Lion Gets His Lunch
Slow Misled by false doctrine
“by this time you ought to be teachers, you
need someone to teach you again the first
principles of the oracles of God; and you have
come to need milk and not solid food. For
everyone who partakes only of milk is
unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he
is a babe”
Heb. 5:12-13
1 Pet.5:8-9
I. How the Lion Gets His Lunch
Spiritually Weak
Sickly
“if your brother is grieved because
of your food, you are no longer
walking in love. Do not destroy with
your food the one for whom Christ
died”
Rom. 14:15
1 Pet.5:8-9
I. How the Lion Gets His Lunch
Stragglers Wander away
“Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any
trespass, you who are spiritual restore such
a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering
yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one
another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of
Christ.”
Gal. 6:1-2
1 Pet.5:8-9
I. How the Lion Gets His Lunch
Sleepers See no danger in sin
“let him who thinks he stands take
heed lest he fall.”
1 Cor. 10:12
1 Pet.5:8-9
I. How the Lion Gets His Lunch
Sleepers See no danger in sin
“And do this, knowing the time, that
now it is high time to awake out of
sleep; for now our salvation is
nearer than when we first believed.”
Rom. 13:11
1 Pet.5:8-9
II. How to Avoid the Lion’s Mouth
“Resist him, steadfast in the
faith, knowing that the same
sufferings are experienced by
your brotherhood in the world.”
1 Pet.5:8-9
II. How to Avoid the Lion’s Mouth
1. RESIST = stand against withstand “antihistemi”
Jas. 4:7
“Therefore submit to God. Resist
the devil and he will flee from you.”
1 Pet.5:8-9
II. How to Avoid the Lion’s Mouth
2. RESIST STEDFASTLY
 No half hearted resistance
 Satan is strong
 Eph. 6:11 = wiles of devil - craft
 Matt. 26:41
1 Pet.5:8-9
II. How to Avoid the Lion’s Mouth
3. STEDFAST “IN THE FAITH”
 Faith is revealed truth
 Jude 3 “once for all delivered”
 “Thus says the Lord” 2 Tim.3:16
1 Pet.5:8-9
III. TWO EXAMPLES
Job
 Job 1 & 2 “walking to and fro”
 Tried to get Job to sin
 Job 1:22 “sinned not”
 Job 2:10 “Job did not sin”
1 Pet.5:8-9
III. TWO EXAMPLES
Peter
 Luke 22:31 “sift you as wheat”
“sift” = riddled
 Why did Satan want Peter?
 The Devil Failed to get Peter
1 Pet.5:8-9
Why be Concerned ?
We are the Lambs
1 Cor. 10:12 “take heed”
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Hear
Believe
Repent
Confess
Baptized
Faithful
John 12:48
John 8:24
Luke 13:3
Matt. 10:32-33
Mark 16:16
Matt. 24:13