Sermon Notes: Encouragement in Suffering 1 Peter 2:18-25

I.  Submit to those in authority. 

-Schreiner "They did not believe that overhauling social structures would transform culture. Their concern was the relationship of individuals to God, and they focused on the sin and rebellion of individuals against their Creator. New Testament writers therefore concentrated instead on the godly response of believers to mistreatment." 

     a. We must submit because God commands it. 

-respect = phobos = fear 

     b. We must submit despite their character. 

-MacArthur "The focus on 'rights' in the workplace, whatever the results, is incongruous with the Christian life. Believers are to be concerned instead with obedience and submission to God's will. When they obey and submit to their superiors, as He commands, they prove that their real hope is in the world to come."

-unreasonable = skolios = crooked, perverse 

     c. We must submit because it finds favor with God.

-bears up under = upophero = endure

 

   II.  Christ is the example we follow. 

-example = hupogrammos

-follow = follow after, follow closely, devote oneself to.

-steps = ichnos = footprints 

     a.  Jesus provides the pattern of enduring suffering.

       i.  He suffered though innocent.-Is. 53:9

      ii.  He did not retaliate. 

    b.   Jesus' atontment leads us to live to righteousness. 

-die = apoginomai = get away from, depart, cease to exist

 

   III.  Christ was our perfect substitute.-Is. 53:4, 12

-cross = xulon = tree, wood; Deut. 21:23 

Sermon Notes: 1 Peter - Encouragement in Suffering 1 Peter 2:11-12

I.  Abstain from the desires of the flesh.

   -parakaleo = urge, call, encourage.

   -abstain = apechomai = to hold oneself away from

     a.  Because we are citizens of God's kingdom.

         -aliens = paroikos = person who lives in a foreign country

         -stranger = parepidemos = temporary sojourner

         -Gen. 23:4, Eph. 3:20

        -Peter Davids "The knowledge that they do not belong does not lead to withdrawal, but to their taking their standards of behavior, not from the culture in which they live, but from their 'home' culture of heaven, so that their life always fits the place they are headed to, rather than their temporary lodging in this world."

     b.  Because we have a war to win.

         -wage war = strateuomai = to carry out a military campaign 

         -John 10:10; Gal. 5:16 

II.  Live honorably before the world.

     -excellent = kalos = beautiful in outward form; lovely, fine, winsome,  gracious

    -visitation = episkope = visit (of the presence of God)

What does it mean that they will glorify God on the day of visitation?

         1) Salvation of the persecutors

-KJV Gen. 21:1, Ex. 3:16, 4:31, I Sam. 2:21, NAS Luke 1:68, 7:16

         2) Judgment of the persecutors

-KJV Is. 10:3, Jer, 11:23, 23:12, 46:21, 48:44, 50:27

-NAS Luke 19:44; Is. 45:23-24, Phil 2:10-11, Rev. 6:9-11