Title: How to Live in Harmony (6 of 9)
Series: Finding Your Way
Author: Tony Thomas
Text: 1 Peter 3:8-11
Last Sunday we talked about the importance of mutual submission. This weeks' them is about living in harmony. I'm not sure how many weddings I have officiated in my fifty-plus years of preaching but I've told every one of them to be careful. Before couples marry they only see shared commonalities. The differences, however, always surface later. Before marriage opposites attract; after the wedding opposites attack!
Peter begins this section of his first letter with an admonition to, "Live in harmony." While the world is filled with strife, Christian's are to pursue the way of peace. Jesus said, "They'll know you are my disciples if you love one another" (John 13:35).
In Gethsemane, Jesus prayed for his disciples to be one with the Father. In Acts 4:32, Luke says that the disciples were of, "One heart and one mind." And in Ephesians 4:3, Paul says that we are to, "Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."
Peter suggests some attitudinal characteristics that are worth pursuing. If you mingle with people, you will experience conflict. Let's observe Peter's prescription for living in harmony.
I want us to read these verses in paragraph form, and then we'll divide them up into six smaller bites.
8 Finally, be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble.
9 Do not repay evil with evil, or insult with insult. Repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
10 For, whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech.
11 You must turn from evil and do good; you must seek peace and pursue it.
First, Peter tells us to be sympathetic. Sympathy is the ability to empathize with oth ...
Series: Finding Your Way
Author: Tony Thomas
Text: 1 Peter 3:8-11
Last Sunday we talked about the importance of mutual submission. This weeks' them is about living in harmony. I'm not sure how many weddings I have officiated in my fifty-plus years of preaching but I've told every one of them to be careful. Before couples marry they only see shared commonalities. The differences, however, always surface later. Before marriage opposites attract; after the wedding opposites attack!
Peter begins this section of his first letter with an admonition to, "Live in harmony." While the world is filled with strife, Christian's are to pursue the way of peace. Jesus said, "They'll know you are my disciples if you love one another" (John 13:35).
In Gethsemane, Jesus prayed for his disciples to be one with the Father. In Acts 4:32, Luke says that the disciples were of, "One heart and one mind." And in Ephesians 4:3, Paul says that we are to, "Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."
Peter suggests some attitudinal characteristics that are worth pursuing. If you mingle with people, you will experience conflict. Let's observe Peter's prescription for living in harmony.
I want us to read these verses in paragraph form, and then we'll divide them up into six smaller bites.
8 Finally, be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble.
9 Do not repay evil with evil, or insult with insult. Repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
10 For, whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech.
11 You must turn from evil and do good; you must seek peace and pursue it.
First, Peter tells us to be sympathetic. Sympathy is the ability to empathize with oth ...
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