EPISODE · Mar 13, 2024 · 43 MIN
"Meekness, Power & Authority" (1 Peter 2:18, 3:1-7)
from RUF at UNCW · host Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW
Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. For this week's message we're examining the gentleness of Jesus. Gentleness (or meekness) is the aspect of Jesus’ heart that he gives to his people which allows us to make use of power without abusing people. If we want to wisely navigate the power differences in human society and in our family relationships, we need to cultivate the virtue of meekness. “Peter in no way diminishes the worth or capability of wives by comparing their physical strength to that of their husbands with a simple word picture. He is, in fact, guarding them from being treated contemptibly. [Our] emotions are not a sign of weakness – they are a gift from the Lord and can be a great strength. [Men and women] share equal potential for strength or weakness in all things moral, intellectual and emotional - question any teaching that states or implies otherwise.” -Jen Wilkin “Jesus tells us who He is as a person: He is gentle and humble. Too many religious leaders, however, are not gentle nor are they humble. They are controlling and proud. They use people to satisfy their fat egos. But Jesus is refreshingly different. He truly loves people, selflessly serving and giving His life for them. He expects His followers—especially the elders who lead His people—to be humble and gentle like Himself.”- Alexander Strauch “If you are selfish, and make yourself and your own private interests your idol, God will leave you to yourself, and let you promote your own interests as well as you can. But if you do not selfishly seek your own, but do seek the things that are Jesus Christ’s, and the things of your fellow human beings, then God will make your interest and happiness his own charge, and he is infinitely more able to provide for and promote it than you are. The resources of the universe move at his bidding, and he can easily command them all to subserve your welfare.” -Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits https://faculty.wts.edu/posts/the-fifth-commandment-and-the-household/
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Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at how the Spirit of God transforms our relationships. For this week's message we're examining the gentleness of Jesus. Gentleness (or meekness) is the aspect of Jesus’ heart that he gives to his people which allows us to make use of power without abusing people. If we want to wisely navigate the power differences in human society and in our family relationships, we need to cultivate the virtue of meekness. “Peter in no way diminishes the worth or capability of wives by comparing their physical strength to that of their husbands with a simple word picture. He is, in fact, guarding them from being treated contemptibly. [Our] emotions are not a sign of weakness – they are a gift from the Lord and can be a great strength. [Men and women] share equal potential for strength or weakness in all things moral, intellectual and emotional - question any teaching that states or implies otherwise.” -Jen Wilkin “Jesus tells us who He is as a person: He is gentle and humble. Too many religious leaders, however, are not gentle nor are they humble. They are controlling and proud. They use people to satisfy their fat egos. But Jesus is refreshingly different. He truly loves people, selflessly serving and giving His life for them. He expects His followers—especially the elders who lead His people—to be humble and gentle like Himself.”- Alexander Strauch “If you are selfish, and make yourself and your own private interests your idol, God will leave you to yourself, and let you promote your own interests as well as you can. But if you do not selfishly seek your own, but do seek the things that are Jesus Christ’s, and the things of your fellow human beings, then God will make your interest and happiness his own charge, and he is infinitely more able to provide for and promote it than you are. The resources of the universe move at his bidding, and he can easily command them all to subserve your welfare.” -Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits https://faculty.wts.edu/posts/the-fifth-commandment-and-the-household/
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