How to Live Rightly in Your Work World

SERIES: GODLY LIVING IN A FOREIGN WORLD

MESSAGE: How to Live Rightly in Your Work World

TEXT: 1 Peter 2:18–21     

MESSAGE BY: Pastor Tim Lewis

1. Submit to those that are over you. (V. 18)

   • Submit with respect.

   • Submit regardless of their character. (Eph. 6:5–9)

2. Instructions and incentives in submission. (Vv. 19–21a)
   (Matt. 5:16; Phil. 2:14–15)

   • Don’t work rebelliously. (V. 20)

   • Do work rightly. (V. 20; Matt. 5:11–12)

   • Work to please God. (V. 19)

   • Experience God’s favor. (Vv. 19–20)

   • Understand your calling. (V. 21a)
     (2 Tim. 3:12; John 15:20–21; Rom 8:18)

   • Trust the Lord’s judgement.
     (Rom. 12:14, 17–21)

   • Focus on Jesus as your example. (V. 21)

Take-away Questions:

1. What does it mean to submit?

2. Why do we struggle with submission to authority?

3. Why should I respectfully obey?

4. How should I respond to unreasonable employers?

5. What are the incentives to submission?

6. How is Jesus our example?