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Peter wrote two letters to encourage churches to stand firm under persecution. The apostle Peter himself was familiar with persecution, as he probably wrote the letters from Rome, awaiting his death. From his own suffering Peter joins in fellowship with “elect exiles of the dispersion” by urging them to “rejoice, though now for a little while … you have been grieved by various trials.” His...

ease. Nevertheless, each of us has a battle, so every now and then we need to ask, “What is churning up that conflict in my soul?” Jesus expressed a rudimentary principle when He asked, “What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36). Jesus was uttering the calculus of economics. He measured the benefits this world offers against the value of the soul. If you were to gain the whole world at the cost of your soul, would it be worth it? He also put it this
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