Highlights Living as an example of Jesus among unbelievers. Peter is emphasizing the need for believers to submit themselves, even to unbelievers. Let them see Jesus in you. Even in marriage. Marriage is the first institution/organization God has given...

Highlights Living as an example of Jesus among unbelievers. Some topics have a lot of baggage attached to them. This is one. Problem is we think in terms of opposites, extremes. Bad thinking. Men and women are different. Duh. Not better/worse than,

Highlights Living as an example of Jesus among unbelievers. Some topics have a lot of baggage attached to them. This is one. Problem is we think in terms of opposites, extremes. Bad thinking. Men and women are different. Duh. Not better/worse than,

Highlights Context – living as an example of Jesus among unbelievers 2:13 submit yourselves – imperative, you do it to yourself. Subjugate. put under the authority of another, cooperate, subordinate, yield, obey, assume responsibility, carry a burden.

Highlights sojourners – nomads passing through, not residents pilgrims – like Abraham, made his dwelling in Canaan but was a stranger fleshly lusts – not just the “bad” stuff, anything that… war against the soul – flesh vs. spirit.

Highlights Are you/we coming to Him or are you just around Him? Living stone – lively, active, enduring, not dead, inactive. In this context a building stone, chiseled and shaped. “When I look at the stone I see the finished sculpture.

Highlights Babies innocent and incapable of malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and evil speaking. They long for unadulterated, unmixed (opposite of list above), milk of the word, pure spiritual milk. They grow up.

Highlights Fear not only drives us away from the truth, it drives us away from one another. Truth drives us to faith, hope, and to love one another. When we are in trials and trouble we shouldnʼt go back to the world and especially should not isolate o...

Highlights Not only do we put our hope in the wrong things, we do the same with our fear. We donʼt put any value in things that donʼt have any value. The problem is, we donʼt recognize what has value and what doesnʼt.

Progression – from thinking to doing. Doing flows from thinking. When the pressure is on, donʼt slip into your old patterns when you didnʼt know any better. No longer ignorant. Fear drives us away from truth, and The Truth.