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Reading: 1 Peter 2:11-17
Pray
Believers in Christ Should Submit to All Divinely-Appointed Authority
Note the use of “sojourners” and “exiles” to describe us - we are not at home but are merely travelers while on this mortal plane.
That must affect how we behave.
ILL - visiting someone else’s home
We belong to heaven, so we are to live like citizens of heaven:
We Submit to Authority by Acting Righteously
Two times in this passage we are told to act in righteousness, or to do “good works”
Our good works are a means of submitting to the authority we live under, both human and divine
Those good works are the means by which we bring God glory - notice also that they glorify God as a result of seeing our good works, and that glory comes on the day of visitation (the return of Christ), not necessarily today
Jesus told us that we would not always be popular, be well-liked, or even have the benefit of a positive image.
Yet the works that he did serve to bring evildoers to judgement - if you keep reading in John 15 you’ll find these words:
The same is true of us - we live according to God’s standards in spite of their hatred and lies, and they will know the error of their ways.
If they repent, wonderful!
They will have live in the same Christ who saved us from our sins!
If not, their rejection of us shows that they are really rejecting the God who sent us, and judgment will be their fate.
That’s why we’re called to submit - because our faithfulness condemns the ungodly because it is one of God’s means of calling them to repentance.
Related to that idea, Peter continues in verse 16:
We Submit to Authority by Serving Freely
Jesus tells us:
Jesus has set us free from our bondage to sin by redeeming us through his sacrifice, and we are truly, fully, completely, eternally free!
But we are not to use freedom as an excuse to do whatever we want.
But we are not to use freedom as an excuse to do whatever we want.6bounds
where there is sin because Christ has made justification possible for all who repent.
Then he says in 6:1-2:
We Submit to Authority by Loving Unconditionally
That love takes different forms based on the nature of each relationship.
Look at verse 17 again:
General love - we love all by honoring them.
That idea of honor comes from the concept of making something weighty.
Even today we speak of “giving weight” to an argument or a “heavy” concept.
This honor is in the “past tense,” as if to say that we’ve already decided to honor no matter what future choices or events may happen.
Love within the body of Christ - we love the brothers the way God loves us
Love for God - we love God by putting him in his rightful place
Love for those in charge - Just as we honor all, we specifically honor those who have been given authority.
Note here that the tense is not past, but present - as if to say that we continue in honoring authority.
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