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  • Standing Firm in Brotherly Love

    Standing Firm in Brotherly Love
    Jul 22 2024
    Christians live as exiles in a world that rejects their message, meaning that they will suffer at times for doing good. In light of this reality, Peter calls us to emulate Christlike virtues at all times – unity of mind; sympathy; brotherly love; tender hearts; humble minds; blessing and not repaying; keeping one’s tongue from evil and deceit; spurning evil for good; honoring Christ the Lord as holy; and being ready to give a defense for our faith in gentleness and respect. As a result of our Christlike demeanor and behavior, opponents who slander, revile, and mistreat us will ultimately be put to shame as their accusations prove groundless.
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  • Standing Firm as Wife and Husband

    Standing Firm as Wife and Husband
    Jul 15 2024
    Peter – who was married himself (Mk 1:30) – turns his attention now to the Christian home itself, particularly to the godly institution of marriage. In Christ, he calls wives to be subject/submissive to their husbands (cf Col 3:18; Titus 2:5). The same word (hupotasso) is used of Jesus to His parents (Lk 2:51); demons to Jesus’ disciples (Lk 10:17, 20); creation to futility (Rom 8:20); all things to Jesus (1 Cor 15:27-28); Christians to each other (Eph 5:21); the church to Christ (Eph 5:24); Christians to God (Ja 4:7); and younger men to elders (1 Pt 5:5). Submission, then, carries the idea of “humble service toward” and “to follow one’s leadership.” Note how Peter’s eye is especially toward wives with unbelieving husbands; in this case, wives should not pressure husbands into believing but let their godly living testify to the gospel truth (v2). Moreover, wives should focus on inner beauty (a gentle and quiet spirit) rather than outward adornment, as faithful women have done before them (v3-5). Likewise, husbands are to live in an understanding way (her needs) and to shower them with honor as “weaker vessels” – never threatening them via physical or verbal abuse – as both are equally heirs of grace and life (v6-7).
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  • Standing Firm Under Earthly Authorities

    Standing Firm Under Earthly Authorities
    Jul 8 2024
    What a time for Peter’s hearers then (scattered under increasingly hostile Roman rule) and now (in the midst of another tense election year) to receive these words of Jesus! As citizens in a land that increasingly rejects our gospel message, Peter gives us a fourfold-calling as citizens under earthly governments. First, he calls us to “be subject” to every civil authority as part of God’s will for us (v13-15). Likewise, God establishes earthly governments to (1) punish those who do evil; and (2) to praise those who do good. In this way, both sides serve and bless the other/the community as a whole. Second, Peter assumes that Christians under any government will naturally be those who are “doing good” and thereby “silencing any ignorant, foolish people.” (v15) Third, we are to use our Christian freedom not as a license to sin but to live as servants of God (v16). Fourth, we are to honor fellow citizens as we honor the emperor; in this way we show our fear of God (v17). In all of this, even if we suffer for doing good, God looks graciously upon us and to this Christ left us an example (v20-21).
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