1 Peter 2:13-17 – Honor Authority 1 Peter 2:13-17 -NCV - 13 For the Lord’s sake, yield to the people who have authority in this world: the king, who is the highest authority, 14 and the leaders who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right. 15 It is God’s desire that by doing good you should stop foolish people from saying stupid things about you. 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as servants of God. 17 Show respect for all people: Love the brothers and sisters of God’s family, respect God, honor the king. Peter’s whole point here is that Followers of Christ should be living in such a way (For the LORD’S sake) that we silence those who criticize Christ… the Gospel… our Faith in Christ and Living for Him! You want to shut the world up? LIVE FOR GOD! Live a Holy life, Be sanctified, or “set apart from the world” and LIVE above the Criticism! Matthew 5:16 – “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Philippians 2:12-15 - 12 Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. 13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.14 Do everything without complaining and arguing, 15 so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. 1 Peter 2:2 – Like newborn infants, long for, crave the pure spiritual milk, (God’s Word – Jesus!) that by it (Reading, Studying, Obeying…) you may grow up into a full experience of salvation… That full experience of Salvation is to be “sanctified”… to be Holy, to be set apart in Christ, for Christ! * IF we belong to Jesus, this world is NOT our home! Let’s back up to Verses 11-12 - 11 Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” (strangers and exiles) to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. 12 Be careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbors. Then even if they accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honorable behavior, and they will give honor to God when he judges the world. Are we so attached to the world, and the things of the world that people can’t see that we’re different! That they don’t see the light of Christ in us?! 1 John 2:15-17 - Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. James 4:4 - You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 2 Corinthians 5:17- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. Galatians 2:20 - I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore—it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me. The greatest way for people to SEE and BELIEVE the Gospel and Jesus Christ is to see the TRANSFORMING power of Jesus Christ in our own life! It’s the greatest form of Evangelism there is… the greatest form of Apologetics there is… (Defending the Faith, the Gospel.) QUESTION: Who and what are we attached to? Does the world see us as one of theirs or are we different? * Although we’re Aliens or Strangers to the world,
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