We continue to emphasize the principle of doing the right thing regardless if it’s popular or not returned to me. We have already looked at the statement in Romans 12 that tells us “as much as lieth in us, live peaceably with all men. In this same context, much is said about loving others and…
The reason 1 Peter has some relevance to the topic of healing is his emphasis on suffering. He wants his readers to know that suffering is unusual for a disciple of Christ (1 Peter 4:12). This in no way means that we should create suffering for ourselves or that God takes pleasure in our suffering. …
1 Peter 3:20-21 reads, “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of…
1 Peter 3:15-17 reads, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may…
I’d like to continue to reason with you concerning 1 Peter 5:2. That which is described as being “among him” were souls that were God’s heritage and his responsibility to shepherd. I use to make a big point of using 1 Peter 5:2 where Peter tells the overseers to “feed the flock of God which…
Given the description of the individual responsibility of Shepherds and the saints, there is no violation of local autonomy because there were no local churches in these towns (Remember the ekklesia is always in the singular in each town). But, even though brethren met in a variety of homes and not necessarily all together in…
Consider the following passages. 1. 1 Peter 5:5 reads, Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. In the same vein, Paul tells wives to submit to their husbands in…
Becoming “lords over people’s faith,” is a position that not even the apostle Paul exercised (2 Cor. 1:24, cf. 2 Cor. 10:8). Even though the apostles could speak on behalf of Christ as ambassadors (2 Cor. 5:20), they, still, were not lords. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, was clear about his disapproval of this kind of…