Who Are We? // Obey The Government [1 Peter 2:11-17] (Dan Pettersen)

This week Dan Pettersen is speaking on "Submission To Government" from 1 Peter chapter 2, continuing our time in 1st Peter. Dan reflects on where we left off a couple of weeks ago with Peter Sun covering the Cornerstone earlier in the chapter, before diving right into our passage for this week. He looks at the first verse for today, explaining a "sojourner" and what that means in this. Dan then moves on to the second half of this verse to look at the battle between "our flesh", "our spirit", and "our mind". He then looks at the follow verse, verse 12, to see why this is so important in showing our Christian conduct. Dan then gets to the crux of his discussion for today in verse 13, "submitting ourselves to every human authority". Dan gives a few "hypothetical" scenarios to challenge what this could actually look like, before discussing what it may have been like for the Christians at this time and the situations they may have faced. He then looks at why Peter says we should submit to human authority. Dan then discusses the limits to this instruction, before wrapping up with the importance of being an example as Christians. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 2nd of April 2023 during the 10:00 am service.