How to Have Unhindered Prayer: Submission. First Peter 3:1-12
How to Have Unhindered Prayer--Submission
1 Peter 3:1-12.
V1. Likewise, ye wives.
V7. Likewise, ye husbands.
Go to Ephesians 5:22-28, 33.
Submission.
1. Submission to the Lord.
Christ is our pattern. Look at 1 Peter 2:21-25.
2. Submission to each other in marriage.
Matthew 18:19.
3. Submission to each other in church, v. 8.
a. One mind--hom-of’-rone--harmonious,
Rom. 12:16
b. Compassion--sympathēs--suffer with, sympathetic.
c. Love--philadelphus--brotherly love.
d. Pitiful-- eusplagchnos--tender-hearted, sensitive to the needs.
e. Courteous--philophrōn--kind, friendly.
4. Submission to all others.
vv. 9-11.
a. Not seek revenge.
b. Blessings.
c. Hold your tongue.
d. Hate evil.
e. Do good.
f. Seek peace and pursue peace.