midweek review 7

As we continue to review the messages in the “Living Differently” series in 1 Peter we gain more insight in what it means to follow Jesus genuinely and intentionally in our daily routines.  The text of 1 Peter seems to address our current circumstances in our nation, which direly needs the grace of God, as much as it speaks to the believers the letter was initially written to.  Today I am going to give you a test.  What are the six guidelines that came out of the message on Sunday from 1 Peter 2:11-17?

  1. Living Righteously __________ ___________
  2. Living Righteously ___________ __________ ___________
  3. Living Righteously ___________ ___ ____________
  4. Living Righteously ___ ______ ______
  5. Living Righteously _____________ ___________
  6. Living Righteously ___ ________

Now we’ll find out how much you actually listened to the message last Sunday.  Hopefully a few of them stuck in your mind.  The need for believers to live righteously in our current culture is needed and to do so probably will not be appreciated by many people in the culture who do not know God or have a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ.  But the important thing about living righteously in our walk with Jesus in this world is that we glorify God and testify to His amazing mercy and grace.

Here is a quick review!  To live righteously begins within.  Our commitment to Christ must be demonstrated by abstaining from the fleshly desires, those things that are sinful, because they wage war against our redeemed soul.  Believers must be consecrated to Jesus’ Lordship in their lives.  To live righteously involves right behavior.Believers must live out the conviction of truth that indwells them.  Talk can be very cheap if it is not confirmed by the walk of Biblical principles in the believer’s behavior.  This can also include attitudes we have as go through daily routines.  Jesus should be seen in the believer’s attitudes and behavior.  To live righteously submits to authority.  Believers arrange their lives under earthly human authority to honor God and His ultimate authority.  Believers acknowledge God’s work in placing or allowing human leaders to have such authority for the benefit to the people.  Their responsibility is to punish evil doers and praise those who do good.  Believers do so as long as the human authority does not call for believers to act or do in disobedience to God’ authority. Living righteously is God’s will.  God calls for believers to do what is right and what is good in obedience to His purposes and will.  When believers are obedient, they close the door for ridicule and reviling by people who do not know or understand God’s will. To live righteously understands freedom.  The Bible tells us it is for freedom that Christ has set believers free.  Believers understand that our freedom is by the grace of God and that we have been bought by the blood of Jesus Christ so that we are slaves of God blessed with freedom to do what is right, never using that freedom for evil. Finally, living righteously is right.  It glorifies God when we treat people respectfully, sincerely love our brothers and sisters in Christ, correctly and reverentially fear God, and honor human authority.  Great guidelines for believers to glorify God by living righteously!


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