Title: Subversive Submission
Description: Who wins? That’s the burning question on everyone’s mind as we are days away from the Presidential Election. The New Testament book of 1 Peter explains that the conflict we need to win isn’t a war for votes but for hearts.
Text: 1 Peter 2:11-17
11 Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and exiles to abstain from sinful desires that wage war against the soul. 12 Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles,[a] so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.
13 Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the emperor[b] as the supreme authority 14 or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good. 15 For it is God’s will that you silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good. 16 Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as God’s slaves. 17 Honor everyone. Love the brothers and sisters. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
Big Idea: Live as subversive sojourners who lead a life of
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