Called to have charity
Rev. Matthew DeBoer expounds on 1 Peter 4:8, calling believers to cultivate fervent charity toward one another as a means of spiritual perseverance in a hostile world. The sermon connects Christ's redemptive work to the believer's sanctification and practical obligation to love, addressing how Christians should respond to worldly persecution and temptation by strengthening one another in faith.
Rev. Matthew DeBoer, pastor of Edgerton Protestant Reformed Church in Edgerton, Minnesota And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. I Peter 4:8 First Peter teaches that Christ is our deliverer. This book addressed mid-first-century Christians scattered throughout Asia Minor. What Peter told believers then applies to us believers today. Chapter 2:24 states, "Who (Christ) his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that...
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