While I encourage you to listen to the entire sermon to get the full meaning and context of 1 Peter 4:1-6, I will tell you that I speak illustratively and directly to the situation with Alistair Begg beginning at the 45 minute mark.
If you fight a good fight in every area except where Satan's battle against God and the souls of men is raging the hottest...you're not fighting a good fight at all! If you sound a full retreat on that battlefield, make a peace treaty with those warring against God, in any way affirm them in their abominable war, and give them gifts to honor and celebrate their perverse war against God and the souls of men...you are a coward and a traitor to Christ, His Law, His Gospel, and mankind. In 1 Peter 4:1 the Lord gives us a command to arm ourselves with the mind of Christ. Are you armed with the mind of Christ in this wicked and perverse generation of rampant apostasy? Is your pastor? Are your favorite conference and radio preachers?
Tragically, Alistair Begg has proven not to be armed for the battle of our day, the battle of Sodom and Gomorrah, the battle of Psalm 2, the battle of Romans 1. In the day of global battle against Satan's soul damning, life ruining, body mutilating, sexually deviant lies, Alistair Begg has compromised and capitulated in the name of not offending the world at war with our God and King. Alistair now serves as a litmus test for the rest of us. Is our armor on?! Will we wield the Sword of the Spirit with strength and clarity, will we merely swing it about in the air against unnamed foes, will we shamefully leave it in its leather sheath altogether.
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