Day 2374 – OUR LIVING HOPE – PRESSING ON EVEN THOUGH RIPPED OFF 1 PETER 2:13-25

Welcome to Day 2374 of Wisdom-Trek. Thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Day 2374 – OUR LIVING HOPE – PRESSING ON EVEN THOUGH RIPPED OFF 1 PETER 2:13-25 – Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message – 05/05/2024 Our Strange Life – Pressing on Even Though Ripped Off 1 Peter 2:13-25 Last week, we explored how we, as God’s Chosen People, are Becoming Living Stones. This week, we need to understand that we, as Christ followers, will not only be the recipients of unjust treatment at times but that there are benefits in bearing the brunt of that treatment in a message titled, Pressing on Even Though Ripped Off. Today’s passage is 1 Peter 2:13-25, on pages 1888 and 1889 of your Pew Bibles. 13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. 15 For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves. 17 Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor. 18 Slaves, in reverent fear of God submit yourselves to your masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. 19 For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God. 20 But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. 21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 22 “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”[e] 23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 25 For “you were like sheep going astray,”[f] but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. Have you ever bought a used car and realized a few weeks later that you got a lemon? Ever drop $100 on the latest supplement or fade diet>regimen guaranteed to make you healthy, wealthy, and wise? Who hasn't been hoodwinked by a smooth-talking salesman in a striped suit with styled hair and patent leather shoes? And who hasn't been burned by a glitzy political campaign that promised much more than it delivered?