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"Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect,not only to those who are good and gentle, but also those who are unreasonable. For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly. For what credit is...
2"...there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God. For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you,...
3/"...leaving you as an example for you to follow in His steps, 'WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH;' and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges riighteously;
4/ "and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed." 2 Peter 2:18-24
There are so many things that stick out in this passage:
1. The true Christian will be hated for their beliefs.
There are so many things that stick out in this passage:
1. The true Christian will be hated for their beliefs.
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2. The true Christian will suffer in this world, and many times unjustly.
3. Meekness is not weakness, rather it is great power under control. Christ demonstrated this as He obeyed the Father and suffered on the cross when He could have come down and wiped His enemies out.
2. The true Christian will suffer in this world, and many times unjustly.
3. Meekness is not weakness, rather it is great power under control. Christ demonstrated this as He obeyed the Father and suffered on the cross when He could have come down and wiped His enemies out.
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4. The Christian is to obey their earthly masters, even the most godless and unreasonable one's (unless they ask you to do something that violates Scripture).
5. There is a reward in heaven for long suffering injustice against you. In context, your employers...
4. The Christian is to obey their earthly masters, even the most godless and unreasonable one's (unless they ask you to do something that violates Scripture).
5. There is a reward in heaven for long suffering injustice against you. In context, your employers...
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6. There is no credit to you if you repay your employers evil with evil in return.
7. You get no reward for suffering patiently for folly you created in your rebellion.
8. The Christian is called to suffer, and Christ is our example on how to suffer well.
6. There is no credit to you if you repay your employers evil with evil in return.
7. You get no reward for suffering patiently for folly you created in your rebellion.
8. The Christian is called to suffer, and Christ is our example on how to suffer well.
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9. A true Christian trusts that God is sovereign over everything in creation, even the evil that they unjustly suffer.
10. Christ suffered as the believer's substitute for their sin. Either Christ suffered for your sin or you will in Hell.
9. A true Christian trusts that God is sovereign over everything in creation, even the evil that they unjustly suffer.
10. Christ suffered as the believer's substitute for their sin. Either Christ suffered for your sin or you will in Hell.
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11. The true Christian denies themselves just as Christ denied self and went to the cross and willingly died for our sin.
12. Any person regenerated in Christ now has a duty to obey God and no longer live in their former lusts. They must forsake sin and be holy.
11. The true Christian denies themselves just as Christ denied self and went to the cross and willingly died for our sin.
12. Any person regenerated in Christ now has a duty to obey God and no longer live in their former lusts. They must forsake sin and be holy.
