For the Others and for Love

SUBMISSION AND SUFFERING

1 Peter 3:8-9

8 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

How many of you have seen the Vatican, how about the Taj Mahal, or the pyramids, how about UFOS?

Identity, Memorials, this is what their God and their devotion looks like

Bob Goth, Love does,

When it comes to God, emotion, feeling, but when it comes to others, action, care.

Toward authority (1 Pet 2:11–25)

Toward spouses (1 Pet 3:1–7)

Toward all (1 Pet 3:8–12)

Can I talk about Authority?

All authority is relational and you cannot change what you do not touch,

Authority, to sum up, is accepted not because it has been given by superior authorities, but on the basis of the consent of the subordinates

When I came to Christ, I knew things would change for me. I knew that life would not be about what I want.

I am a man under authority

to arrange under, to subordinate; to subject, put in subjection

Suffering and glory

For the sake of the gospel,

If you want to be great in God’s Kingdom, be the servant of all.

1 Pet 3:8 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

LOVE

A transitive verb

Shawl weighted blanket

The question is really not ‘who’ but rather to ‘what.’

We want our religion to be private, just “me and the Lord.”

Jesus refuses to play that game. After being asked to identify the “greatest” command, He said, “And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:39). We must note that this is a command, not an option, an opinion, a wish, a Facebook “like,” or a good idea. To love one’s neighbor strongly is a key component of the kind of witness Jesus envisioned His people extending to the world.

Ps 34: recited every week

A fugitive from Saul, David went to the Philistine city of Gath but found no refuge there and narrowly escaped. Those events are recorded in 1 Samuel 21:10-22:1. Following that, David went to the cave at Adullam where many desperate men joined him. This joyful and wise psalm seems to have been written from that cave, and sung in the presence of those men.