I Peter 2:18-2:25

Thriving Under Authority

Today on Bridging the Gap, we'll turn to First Peter two, and receive helpful instruction for Christian employees. Maybe you dread getting up out of bed and going to work these days? I think you'll find this study encouraging as Pastor Lloyd Pulley urges us to elevate our perspective and use Jesus as our example as we go to work.

  1. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
  2. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
  3. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
  4. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
  5. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
  6. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
  7. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  8. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.