Sermon: Enduring By Entrusting
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Duration: 29:03
Size: 13.2 MB
New Life In The Same Old Place
“Enduring By Entrusting”
1 Peter 2:18-25
I. Power and Persecution
How do you respond in a situation like this? What do you say? What do you do? What would most people do? How would most people react?
II. The Passage: “When…One Endures Sorrows” (2:18-25)
As strangers in a strange world because of their faith in Jesus, Peter is encouraging these Christians to consider how their daily lives can hinder or help them as they attempt to represent Jesus.
In our passage this morning, Peter is continuing that discussion about subjection or submission. But this time, he has a new context he wants to address:
A. God’s Call for Endurance (2:18-20)
This word specifically refers to slaves or servants who are working, not in a field or a shop, but in a household.
Now, since slavery is no longer an institution in our culture, passages like this are typically connected, and rightfully so, to the modern context of the employer/employee relationship.
Endurance is literally, “bearing up under”; it is persevering in the right attitude and actions because your heart and mind are set on God.
But what does it look like to endure? And why should we endure?
B. God’s Example for Endurance (2:21-23)
God has given us a perfect example of this kind of endurance in suffering: Jesus.
To be mindful of God goes hand in hand with entrusting ourselves to God.
How in the world is a normal person supposed to bear up under this kind of unfair treatment and continue being submissive to a person like this?
C. God’s Provision for Endurance (2:24-25)
Why did Christ endure in the face of unjust suffering, because he was bearing our sins in his body on the cross.
We can because through faith in Jesus, we can “die to sin and live to righteousness“.
We can entrust ourselves and our circumstances to God believing that God will make right what is wrong.
III. The Purpose of Our Endurance
Jesus endured for the good of others; for our good. And so we endure for the same purpose.
Our endurance is focused on the good of others and the glory of God.
Next Week
“Being Jesus”
1 Peter 3:1-7