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I Peter 2:18-23
Excerpted from: Government (Part Five)

Before we leave this section, I want us (you and me) to understand that what is commendable here—mentioned in verse 19—is NOT going through the suffering, but the devotion to God is what is commendable. When we couple that with the going through suffering, then that is commendable. But it is really the devotion to God that Peter wants us to focus on. We do this (going through the pain, going through the trouble) because of our respect for God.

Now, think about Jesus again—that He did not revile. Think of the awesome powers of discernment that He had! It says in another place in the scriptures that He knew what was in the heart of men. He undoubtedly (as we would say today) "had the goods on" those people—on those who were reviling Him. But "He opened not His mouth." Instead, He lived within the limits of His human authority.

I Peter 2:13-23
Excerpted from: Self-Government and Responsibility (Part One)

There was His faith; God would vindicate Him. If we go back to verse 13, Peter says, "every ordinance." God does not give us the right to pick and choose which one we are going to submit to and which one we are not. "Oh, I like the traffic laws, but I don't like the IRS." Or "I like the laws regarding littering, but I don't like the laws regarding traffic." We are supposed to submit (hupotasso), make ourselves subject to, control ourselves, control that human nature, and govern ourselves so that it does not go beyond the parameters of what God has said in His Word.

Sermons
Submitting (Part 2)
Gray Areas in Human Reasoning
The Father-Son Relationship (Part Six)
Love Thy Neighbor (Part 1)
Essential Characteristics of Our Calling
Seeing is Submitting
Matthew (Part Seven)
Blessed Are the Meek
Loyalty and Submission (Part 3)
Blessed Are the Meek (2014)
Don't Meddle and Always Be Ready to Answer
Those Who Are Persecuted
Pilgrim's Progress
Following God Through a Spiritual Wilderness

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