SERIES: GODLY LIVING IN A FOREIGN WORLD

MESSAGE: How to Live Rightly in Your Work World

TEXT: 1 Peter 2:18–21

MESSAGE BY: Pastor Tim Lewis

1. Submit to those that are over you. (V. 18)
- Submit with respect.
- Submit regardless of their character. (Eph. 6:5–9)
2. Instructions and incentives in submission. (Vv. 19–21a
(Matt. 5:16; Phil. 2:14–15)
- Don’t work rebelliously. (V. 20)
- Do work rightly. (V. 20; Matt. 5:11–12)
- Work to please God. (V. 19)
- Experience God’s favor. (Vv. 19–20)
- Understand your calling. (V. 21a)
(2 Tim. 3:12; John 15:20–21; Rom 8:18)
- Trust the Lord’s judgement.
(Rom. 12:14, 17–21)
- Focus on Jesus as your example. (V. 21)

Take-away Questions:

1. What does it mean to submit?
2. Why do we struggle with submission to authority?
3. Why should I respectfully obey?
4. How should I respond to unreasonable employers?
5. What are the incentives to submission?
6. How is Jesus our example?