Here Moses concludes his great exhortation to the people of God based on their history. His emphasis is that nothing has ever happened like the exodus and therefore the people of God must serve him. If this was true for God's people in the OT, how much more is it true after the coming of Christ?

2020 has been a difficult year for everyone, Peter is writing his letter to Christians who are struggling. In this passage, Peter addresses the relationship between Christs exaltation and the Christians suffering in 1st Peter 3:19-22.

Exile and restoration is one of the great themes developed in the Scriptures which Christ fulfills by bringing his people back from exile into God's presence. Here Moses prophesies of such times.

Why is it better to suffer for good than for bad?

It is important that we honor God in how we worship him. You cannot worship an invisible God with visible images.

Godly suffering gives pause to those who see it, and it glorifies Jesus. In these verses Peter shares the reasons and the command to do so.

Just as the people of God came to the mountain the first time, the new people of God have come and heard God tell us that Jesus is His son. May God give us the grace to remember the glory of Christ and so to listen to him.

Peter now summarizes generally how we are to treat both our brothers and sisters in Christ and those that are not, in mind and spirit.

Our lives and behaviors are to be a witness of what He has done for us. For the same reasons that Moses tells the Israelites, we must constantly seek to follow his commandments.

Husbands, would you behave differently if Jesus was your father-in-law? Listen as we explore what God commands of husbands, why he commands these things, and the consequences of defiance.