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I Peter 2:21-23
Excerpted from: Submitting (Part 2)

Do you see that? There is oppression and abuse all over the world. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. People abuse when they get power—whether it be in the family, whether it be in the community, or whether it be in the nation. There is abuse of authority. And we are moving rapidly toward the time in this country when Christians are going to be abused far worse than they have ever been in the past in this country. We were called to this—to submit to evil out of respect for God, out of faith. I do not mean submit to do evil; I mean submit to God in the face of evil.

There it is! The world will not submit to God and that is why the world is in the state that it is! Rather than submit to God, men seek to gratify—or satisfy—their desires. The pattern began early—when Helel did it! The result was that he went to war with God! Then came Adam and Eve. They did not submit to God. God said, "You may eat of all of the trees (there may have been hundreds of them), but there is that one there of which I do not want you to eat." Instead what they did was to follow their own desire and they took from the very tree of which God said to not eat. And that brought them into conflict with God!

The Christian is called to suppress his lusts. It is not wrong to have desire. But it is wrong to not suppress the lust which can lead one to exceed his own authority and, therefore, bring oneself into a state of disobedience or non-submission to the authority that God permits in this world.

So to this we were called. We are going to be among the first harvest—the size of which I have no idea. But it is going to include all of those people, beginning with righteous Abel, who submitted to God rather than man. These are they who submitted to evil rather than rebelled against it. They did what they did for the same reason that we will do what we will do—we all see God ruling His creation and know that our first priority in life is to submit to Him.

Christ, it says, committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. Christ knew that Pilate was wrong. Christ knew that Ananias was wrong and that all the Sanhedrin was wrong. But He submitted to death and to the authority that was constituted by God in those men. He knew there was going to be a judgment, did He not? Those men are going to be judged for what they did by the very God that Christ, by faith, was submitting to. He would let God make the decision as to whether He did what was right or whether Ananias and Pilate did what was right. He did not resist the government, but allowed them to take His life. The resurrection shows that He was right. And the resurrection shows God's judgment because He vindicated His Son.

I hope we are getting the point because God will vindicate us by a resurrection because we submit to Him and to His way even though we may be caught in the evil of abusive people in positions of power—whether husband or in the community.

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.

I Peter 2:21-23
Excerpted from: Justice and Grace

There is the pattern. There is the model. Jesus Christ committed Himself to the judgment of God, who says He judges without respect of persons.

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Amazing Grace  
Conquering Temptation: Learn from Jesus Christ  
Do We Need the Old Testament?  
From Sheriff to Shepherd: Are We Willing to Be Defrauded?  
Taking Our Lead From God  
The Beatitudes, Part 7: Blessed Are the Peacemakers  
The Fruit of the Spirit: Meekness  
The Fruit of the Spirit: Patience  
The Offerings of Leviticus (Part Two): The Burnt Offering  
The Sixth Commandment  
The Sixth Commandment (Part One) (1997)  
Waxing Cold  
What Did Jesus Do?  
Why Hebrews Was Written (Part Six)  
Why Hebrews Was Written (Part Two)  
Why Should Christians Refuse Jury Duty?  

Bible Studies

Overcoming (Part Two): Self-Justification  
Pagan Holidays  
Self-Control  
The Fourth Commandment  

Essays

Evil Is Real (Part Five)  
Evil Is Real (Part Six)  
Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God (Part One)  
Life Doesn't Work on a Balance Sheet (Part Three)  
Seeds and Seasons (Part One)  
Thanking God for Jesus Christ  

Sermons

Those Who Are Persecuted  
Matthew (Part Seven)  
Our Part in the Sanctification Process (Part Five)  
Wilderness Wanderings (Part Two)  
Burn the Ships  
Those Who Hunger and Thirst  
Blessed Are the Meek  
Gentle and Lowly in Heart  
The Trial of Jesus  
The Meekness and Gentleness of Christ  
Loyalty and Submission (Part 3)  
Trials Are a Gift From God  
Blessed Are the Meek (2014)  
Don't Meddle and Always Be Ready to Answer  
Wilderness Wandering (Part 4)  
Think on These Things  
Pilgrim's Progress  
An Intimate Expanding Relationship  
The Cost of Reconciliation  
God the Father (Part 2)  
Following God Through a Spiritual Wilderness  
Back to Basics  
Approaching God Through Christ (Part 2)  
Control and Self-Control  
John (Part 20)  
Essential Characteristics of Our Calling  
Self-Government: Overcoming  
Delusions of Perfection  
Seeing is Submitting  
The Sovereignty of God (Part 6)  
By This Shall All Men Know You  
The Spiritual Mark of the Beast  
The Reality of Evil  
New Covenant Priesthood (Part 10)  
Gray Areas in Human Reasoning  
John (Part 10)  
Jesus the Door  
The Father-Son Relationship (Part Three)  
The False Christ Deception  
Themes of I Corinthians (Part 6)  
Glorify You Me  
The Sixth Commandment  
Is the United States a Christian Nation? (Part 3)  
Pure Language Restored  
Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part 3)  
Firstfruits to God  
Wilderness Wandering (Part 5)  

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