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Sheep – Do your Job
Last week the primary focus of Peter’s instructions was the Elders in the churches.
This week we find Peter turning to those that the Elders lead.
I normally work on the text paragraph by paragraph.
We ended last week in chapter 5 verse 5 because that was part of the same paragraph despite the fact that Peter changes to the followers of the sheep.
The paragraph change seems odd in its placement.
So, even though we covered verse 5 last week, we are going to being there so that we can see the complete instructions to the Sheep.
So, let's dig into the text.
(ESV)
Peter links the behavior of the followers to that of the leaders.
He kind of uses a play on words here.
He had been talking about elders in the previous verses.
By this time in the church Elder was an office, but the concept and word itself stem from Israel’s tribal system in which the Oldest is the leader.
Peter plays on that concept when he calls on the younger.
If the elder leads the younger follow.
Peter is not specifically speaking of just young people of kids.
I think he is using the play on words to address the membership of the churches.
Peter links the behavior of the followers to that of the leaders.
He kind of uses a play on words here.
He had been talking about elders in the previous verses.
By this time in the church Elder was an office, but the concept and word itself stem from Israel’s tribal system in which the Oldest is the leader.
Peter plays on that concept when he calls on the younger.
If the elder leads the younger follow.
Peter is not specifically speaking of just young people of kids.
I think he is using the play on words to address the membership of the churches.
Peter tells the general membership to subject themselves to the elders of the church.
Not only be subject to the elders but also to be humble with each other.
The word translated “Humility” is a word the literally means “to make low.”
From this, we understand that Peter was telling the people in the churches they are to place their own interests behind the interests of the others in the church.
This is the most genuine form of humility where your own needs and interests are placed behind the others in the congregation.
Peter then quotes when he writes that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
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Even though Peter has started a new paragraph here in verse 6, he continues on the same topic as he began in verse 5, the role and responsibility of the membership in the church.
Peter states that as members of the church, followers in the church, we are responsible for placing the interests of others before our own interests under God’s mighty hand, or in power God gives us.
Placing your interests behind that of others is not a normal or easy thing to do.
In many ways, it can only be done through the power given to us by the Holy Spirit indwelling us.
Even though Peter has started a new paragraph here in verse 6, he continues on the same topic as he began in verse 5, the role and responsibility of the membership in the church.
Peter states that as members of the church, followers in the church, we are responsible for placing the interests of others before our own interests under God’s mighty hand, or in power God gives us.
Placing your interests behind that of others is not a normal or easy thing to do.
In many ways, it can only be done through the power given to us by the Holy Spirit indwelling us.
Peter speaks of the mighty hand of God as a way to remind us that the power of God at work in us is the same power that ultimately resurrects you or translates you at the return of Jesus we call the rapture.
I want you to think about that power a little bit.
Resurrect dead bodies and put all the pieces back together into new glorified bodies or translate the living into new glorified bodies.
That’s more power than any of us have.
The power to resurrect and translate is the same power that provides you the ability to place the interests of others before your own.
But the responsibility of the sheep does not end there.
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We also have the responsibility to cast our cares upon God.
The one with the mighty hand, who will resurrect you also wants to carry your burdens and care for you tenderly.
I am in awe of a God with so much power but yet still cares for me as an individual.
He knows me and knows what I need, and He knows how to comfort me.
We also have the responsibility to cast our cares upon God.
The one with the mighty hand, who will resurrect you also wants to carry your burdens and care for you tenderly.
I am in awe of a God with so much power but yet still cares for me as an individual.
He knows me and knows what I need, and He knows how to comfort me.
Peter writes this in such a way as we are to understand that we throw our anxieties on God in a singular action, a onetime event.
In other words, we give our anxieties over to God and allow Him to deal with them, we don’t take them back and then give Him the same issue.
I know, that’s hard to do, but that is the command that Peter is giving here.
Remember the context though.
The context is the mighty hand of God who will glorify you at the rapture is the one dealing with your issues.
It is in His power that these things are dealt with.
But it still does not end there.
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Peter now moves into a more cautionary tone.
He reminds the sheep they are to be sober-minded.
He is not speaking specifically of not being drunk but is speaking of being clear-headed and alert.
He says to be clear-headed and watchful.
Peter now moves into a more cautionary tone.
He reminds the sheep they are to be sober-minded.
He is not speaking specifically of not being drunk but is speaking of being clear-headed and alert.
He says to be clear-headed and watchful.
It is almost as if Peter had to give the warning because of what he said in verse 7. Cast your cares on Him because He cares for you, might result in a person living the carefree and happy go lucky life.
But Peter is reminding the sheep, and I think the shepherd here that there is still an adversary out there who has his sights set on disrupting the church any way he can.
We have all seen how Satan comes along when we think everything is going great, and the church is doing what it is supposed to do and disrupts and devours all he can.
Peter is reminding us that even though we have cast our care on God, we still need to keep our eyes wide open and alert looking for the devil and his coming attack.
My family knows this because they live with me and see how I am when we go somewhere, but I am always alert when I walk into a room or enter a building.
As I approach the building, I am looking for danger.
I look for avenues of escape, I look for potions of cover.
I never sit with my back to door or window if I can help it.
I am always looking around, scanning for approaching danger.
This was drilled into me in the Police academy more than 35 years ago and has become part of my nature.
But that is exactly what Peter is telling the church they are to do as well.
Eyes wide open looking for the approach of the enemy, the Devil.
The devil is roaming around looking for those he can trouble.
No, that not what Peter says.
Satan does not want to trouble you he wants to destroy you.
Devour is the translation of a word the literally means to drink up or consume.
Satan wants to assimilate you just like the Borg on Star Trek.
However, resistance is not futile, it is commanded.
(ESV)
As Satan attempts to assimilate you, you are to resist him.
We have always heard that we are to flee Satan and resist temptation.
In reality, we are to flee temptation and resist Satan.
So, how do we resist Satan?
Peter gives us a hint.
We resist Satan by showing him hostility and opposing him through affirming our faith.
As we have seen several times in our studies of the New Testament Epistles faith does not always speak of our saving faith.
The word faith is also used to speak of the totality of what we believe.
Faith represents the body of our belief system.
Peter commands us to resist Satan by standing firm, unwavering, without compromise, by trusting in what you believe.
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