11.25.2014 New Testament: 1Pe 2.13–16

To read the Bible in a year, read First Peter 2 on November 25, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

We are disciples of Jesus Christ, children of our heavenly Father, and our citizenship is in heaven. Do these things mean we can ignore civil government in this world? Listen to the Holy Spirit,

Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men—as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God (1 Peter 2.13–16). 

If you disagree with some of man’s ordinances, submit to them anyway, doing it for the Lord’s sake, for by so doing we will silence the enemies of the church.