Title: Don't Miss The Truth (7)
Series: 1 Peter
Author: Jerry Watts
Text: 1 Peter 2:18-25
From time to time I see a speaker snap his/her fingers and say, "Listen Up." The message is "Don't miss this, because it is important." TEXT
When we read our text, it's easy to talk about slaves because of the way it begins. Nothing will be wrong with that, but we might not catch the larger meaning. In context, Barclay offers us some perspective. He tells us that in Rome (Roman Provinces) almost everyone was a slave of some kind, it wasn't just the lowly. Doctors, Nurses, Actors, musicians, and more were slaves. The Roman mindset was "Why do anything, if we can have our slaves to do it?" They didn't even see their slaves as people but as property, as things. There is so much more I can say, but just know that treatment of slaves didn't matter, because the rich owned their slaves.
In this midst of speaking into this culture, the ever pragmatist, Peter, was reminding God's people, US, of the truths we need to embrace for self and His Kingdom. Isn't it interesting that Peter seems to be stuck on the word that we would prefer to forget, submit. It seems to me that everything he speaks of in these verses can be traced to this concept. The deeper meaning is not about the slaves, it's about God's servants. That is, YOU AND ME. Let's see what he's communicating to us.
1) Favor with God, this is our goal - (vs 19-20) - An attitude of submission brings "favor' and then 'when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, it brings 'favor.' The favor of God is something that we don't talk about very much anymore. When times were hard, the desire for God's favor seems more predominantly spoken about. Everyone wants God's favor to ease their situation. Today, things seemingly are so good that we rarely think about it - UNTIL - times get hard. But the favor of God is the desire for the one who is sold out. How do we get, attain, and keep it. I suggest there are three thin ...
Series: 1 Peter
Author: Jerry Watts
Text: 1 Peter 2:18-25
From time to time I see a speaker snap his/her fingers and say, "Listen Up." The message is "Don't miss this, because it is important." TEXT
When we read our text, it's easy to talk about slaves because of the way it begins. Nothing will be wrong with that, but we might not catch the larger meaning. In context, Barclay offers us some perspective. He tells us that in Rome (Roman Provinces) almost everyone was a slave of some kind, it wasn't just the lowly. Doctors, Nurses, Actors, musicians, and more were slaves. The Roman mindset was "Why do anything, if we can have our slaves to do it?" They didn't even see their slaves as people but as property, as things. There is so much more I can say, but just know that treatment of slaves didn't matter, because the rich owned their slaves.
In this midst of speaking into this culture, the ever pragmatist, Peter, was reminding God's people, US, of the truths we need to embrace for self and His Kingdom. Isn't it interesting that Peter seems to be stuck on the word that we would prefer to forget, submit. It seems to me that everything he speaks of in these verses can be traced to this concept. The deeper meaning is not about the slaves, it's about God's servants. That is, YOU AND ME. Let's see what he's communicating to us.
1) Favor with God, this is our goal - (vs 19-20) - An attitude of submission brings "favor' and then 'when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, it brings 'favor.' The favor of God is something that we don't talk about very much anymore. When times were hard, the desire for God's favor seems more predominantly spoken about. Everyone wants God's favor to ease their situation. Today, things seemingly are so good that we rarely think about it - UNTIL - times get hard. But the favor of God is the desire for the one who is sold out. How do we get, attain, and keep it. I suggest there are three thin ...
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