Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town

1Pe 2:12 having your conduct honourable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1Pe 2:13 Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme,

1Pe 2:14 or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.

1Pe 2:15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men—

1Pe 2:16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.

1Pe 2:17 Honour all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

2. God’s Bondmen are pilgrims of faith. Holy aliens in the world settled down alongside a pagan, unsaved people – passing through like pilgrims.

Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Heb 11:14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland.

3. God’s Bondmen practise abstinence. Abstinence from the cravings of the flesh. Fleshly lusts that carry on a military campaign against your soul. To break down your mind, will and emotions is the strategy of the enemy through the flesh. But build up a stronghold of faith.

4. God’s Bondmen display beautiful good works.

The world you do are so beautiful that people will constantly, carefully and attentively watch your life and glorify God. It speaks about the day of visitation – for the world they do not perceive that God’s presence is availed to them now and they wait for the visitation of the Lord. When God manifests from within you, they experience it like their first visitation or manifest presence of God and proof of His existence. Up till that point your life is the only Bible they read. God is