Pastor teacher and author Adrien Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ and it’s impacted Untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated thanks for joining us for this message here’s Adrien Rogers now I want you to take your Bibles and turn to First Peter chapter 3 uh I want to be talking to you today on this subject good days in tough times 1 Peter chapter 3 three and verse 8 finally be ye all of One mind having compassion one of another love as Brethren be pitiful be
courteous not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing but contrarywise blessing knowing that you are there unto called that ye should inherit a blessing for for he that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile let him isue evil and do good let him seek peace and ensue it for the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil and who is he that will harm you if ye be followers
of that which is good but and if ye suffer for righteousness sake happy are ye and be not afraid of their Terror neither be ye troubled but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that askthe a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear and we’re going to stop reading right at that particular verse now the key is verse 10 look at it he who would love life and see good days now actually this is a quotation from psalm 34 and Psalm 34 was written by King David and King David
lived in tough times now you think you have it tough King David really had it tough but King David learned how to love life and he learned how to see good days and he saw good days in tough times and Peter is quoting him here in First Peter now the interesting thing is that David had a son whose name was Solomon and Solomon did not live primarily in tough times Solomon lived in Easy times but saw bad days and good times as a matter of fact Solomon said in the Book of Ecclesiastes chap 2 and verse 17 I hated
life I hated life now here he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and he hated life here was David a little Shepherd boy who came up the hard way and he said I love life I wondertime we don’t give our children too much somebody says the first generation generates the second generation speculates the Third generation dissipates and it’s gone here was Solomon who had it all and said I hate life here was David who had first had nothing and said I’ve learned how to love life I mean in tough times he loved life but there a lot of people today I
