Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Peter 2:13-25
by: Jasmine Lynch.
As God’s special people, Peter admonished us to submit ourselves to the ordinance of man “for the Lord’s sake” (v.13). It is difficult to submit to some of the laws we have today, but the laws back then were even more cruel and yet were not considered inhumane. God raises up evil men to punish evil doers and in so doing, bring them back to Him. It is not His will that any should perish, so God uses whatever is at His disposal to bring about repentance. In the abolishment of slavery, the proponents of slavery used this passage, but they failed to follow Peter’s argument through. Commit yourself to the righteous judge!
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