Worth It - Resilient - Joe Baker - 1 Peter 2:11-25

Elevate City Church

God’s glory is worth it. Living in obedience to the will of God, is worth it. Living as outcasts in the midst of a world that stands against our convictions, is worth it.

Submitting to leaders that we don’t like or agree with, is worth it.

Living counter-cultural lives, even if it costs us our reputation is worth it.

And that’s where we find ourselves today in 1 Peter chapter 2 verses 11-25…

Asking: How do we live in a world that is not our home, in a place that we don’t belong, submit to authority that we do not prefer, and in all of it follow Jesus, live by this Book, and glorify God???

Resilience describes something that is able to spring back into shape after bending.

It’s the ability for someone to be bent by the pressures of this world but not break.

To go through difficulty, and and pushed and pressed and pulled by circumstance and instead of crumbling, bounce back even stronger than before.

Our whole goal through this series is to be a people who know how to follow Jesus in a world that is falling apart.

Sermon on 1 Peter 2.

1 Peter 2:11-25

11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

13 Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution,[b] whether it be to the emperor[c] as supreme, 14 or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. 15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people. 16 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants[d] of God. 17 Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. 19 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. 21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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