Pondering on First Peter

For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  06 - 1 Peter 2:18-25 For the Audio Version on Spotify, click here -  06 - 1 Peter 2:18-25 1 Peter 2:18-20   Servants,  be  submissive to  your  masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.  19  For this  is  commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.  20  For what credit  is it  if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this  is  commendable before God.  After telling his readers to be submissive to the governing authorities above them, Peter then turns his attention to the servants who work for earthly masters, and he tells them to be submissive to them as well. Though he’s referring to servants or slaves, a practice that was prevalent back then, in today’s context we can apply thes...

  For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  05 - 1 Peter 2:9-17 For the Audio Version on Spotify, click here -  05 - 1 Peter 2:9-17 1 Peter 2:9-10 9 But you  are  a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;  10  who once  were  not a people but  are  now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. After telling his readers about the plight of those who reject the Gospel message of Salvation, Peter then compares them with the believers and says, “But you are a ‘chosen generation.’ By the word chosen, he means that God has Himself chosen us to belong to His family. All it took on our part was to believe and trust in His Son Jesus. God called all people to believe in His Son Jesus but only those who responded to the invitation, were chosen to belong to His ...

  For the Audio Version on YouTube, click here -  1 Peter 1:22-2:8 For the Audio Version on Spotify, click here -  1 Peter 1:22-2:8 1 Peter 1:22-25 22  Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,  23  having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,  24  because “All flesh   is   as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, 25  but the word of the   Lord   endures forever.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you. After telling the believers to live their time on earth in fear (reverence / respect) for God, Peter then says that we need to have sincere love one another, and he gives a reason for that. He reminds us that our souls, which we...