Judgment Begins at the House of God
1 Peter 4:17-19

I. The SERIOUSNESS of the Sovereign Judgment (Verse 17)
A. The Timing of the Test — “The Time Is Come” v.17
B. The Target of the Trial — “The House of God” v.17
C. The Tension of the Test — “If it first begin at us” v.17

II. The SEVERITY of the Sentence — “What Shall Be of Them That Obey Not the Gospel?” (Verse 17-18)
A. The Seriousness of Obedience — “Obey Not the Gospel”v.17
B. The Sovereignty of Salvation — “Righteous Scarcely Saved”v.18
C. The Stakes of Salvation — “Where Shall the Ungodly and Sinner Appear?” v.18

III. The SOLUTION to the Sovereign Sentence — “Commit the Keeping of Their Souls” (Verse 19)
A. The Act of Assurance —”Commit”v.19
B. The Source of Strength — “To Him in Well Doing” v.19
C. The Sovereign Savior — “As unto a Faithful Creator” v.19

IV. The CALL to Conversion and Continual Commitment
A. For the Condemned — “Come to Christ!”
B. For the Committed — “ontinue in Well Doing”