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13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,
14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.
15 For asuch is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.
16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
17 Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
18 Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unreasonable.
19 For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.
20 For what credit is 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.
Main Idea
Main Idea: Submit for the Lord’s sake and act like free men!
Submit for the Lord’s sake, act like free men and honor all people.
Introduction
What comes to mind when we hear the word submission?
Some can easily hear subjugation.
Subjugation means to make submissive.
Or the action of bringing someone or something under domination or control.
But that is not what submission means biblically.
Submission biblically is motivated primarily from a love for God.
We submit to one another because of love.
A love for God and a love for one another.
It is the greatest commandment given to us by God.
Love is not forced or coerced.
But love is given willingly because love is true and good.
This is what submission is.
It is an act of God’s love that compels us to submit.
With this love driving us to submit we must not walk as if we are not free.
Submission brings with it a freedom.
When we have turned to God and submitted ourselves to Him we have found freedom from the bondage of sin!
The Christian faith is not about what we can’t do anymore but what we can do now.
We went from a bondage to sin which brings forth death to no longer being bound by sin and being given eternal life.
We went from drugs and alcohol to true joy in Christ.
We went from fornication and adultery to fidelity and faithfulness in marriage
The Christian faith is about what we are no longer bound to.
Which means that it is about what we are free to do!
Free to worship
Free to ask for forgiveness
Free to go to God in prayer
Free to be ourselves even at the feet of God
Free to be broken
The Christian life should look like a celebration of freedom that comes from a submission to God and His word.
This freedom should produce a desire to Honor all people, a love for the brotherhood, a fear of God, and honor for the king.
This is the Christian life.
Even when faced with terrible and hard circumstances in life!
Outline
Outline
1: Submission
2: Act free (according to freedom)
3: Honor
1:Submission
14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.
15 For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Verse 13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority
16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, 14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.
15 For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men.
16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. 17 Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
Submit [ yourselves ] for the Lord’s sake.
The actual translation does not have yourselves.
17 Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
It actually reads, “Submit because of the Lord.”
The NRSV reads,
The call to submission does not begin with the human institution but with God.
Peter begins here to deal with the motivation of our submission to earthly authority.
And the motivation is he writes is “for the Lord’s sake.”
Paul also addressed this in his letter to the Romans.
Question: What is a human institution?
Answer: Human is meant to tell us that this man made.
And institution is meant to communicate an agency that is administrative and governed by humans.
Peter is calling believer’s to submit to agencies that are administrated by men and is meant to govern people and the motivation is the Lord’s sake.
We live in a highly charged political atmosphere.
What is happening more in the church is this question of how to submit given the current environment.
Human institutions have worsened.
Human institutions are showing to be immoral and divisive.
Human institutions are anti Christ and antagonistic to the gospel.
Regardless of the issues in the world and its institutions, we have a command and that command is what motivates us!
The command is not dependent on the human institution but on God.
Question: How does this look like?
Question: What we are asking is what does our citizenship here look like?
Jesus was asked the question about this in .
They asked him in verse 17, “ what do You think?
Is it lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?”
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .
He replied in verse 21, “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”
When engaging with the world we see here an interaction where we give to the human institution what belongs to them.
We pay taxes.
We abide by the laws.
So long as they do not violate God’s law.
We contribute to our society for the betterment of it.
We are citizens who abide by the laws and ordinances of the country we live in.
So yes, we must abide by what the human institution establishes but our true and primary citizenship is in heaven.
Philippians
So our submission to earthly, human institutions is motivated by our citizenship that is in heaven.
Our citizenship here is an extension of our citizenship in heaven.
We do so in hopes to gain praise from those around us.
Not praise in the sense of getting glory from them.
But praise in the sense that they will see God in the way we live.
Verse 13 -14 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.
Here it refers to governors sent by the king “for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.”
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