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📖Scripture: “For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have been returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.”   – 1 Peter 2:25 🔎 Examination: Peter closes this section with a revelation that demolishes human pride and magnifies divine grace. The Apostle does not say the elect were drifting innocently, wandering aimlessly, or seeking sincerely. He says we were like sheep going astray  — neither victims, nor explorers, but wanton mutineers. Scripture’s testim

📖Scripture: “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. ‘By His stripes you are healed.’”   – 1 Peter 2:24 🔎Examination: Peter’s words are a theological earthquake. They shake and demolish every false gospel, every counterfeit Christ, every attempt to turn Christianity into moral improvement  or spiritual self-help. The Apostle Peter does not say Jesus inspired  us to be better. He does not say Jesus offered a sy

“Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son, and you shall name him Ishmael. He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”   -Genesis 16:11-12 Much More Than a Trend: I recently shared the graphic below (Newborn Child Name Trends in Europe's Major Cities) on a social media platform. It indicates the explosive rise of the name “Muhammad” (and its variants) acros

📖Scripture: “When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.”   – 1 Peter 2:23 🔎Examination: In 1 Corinthians, the Apostle Paul wrote to the church, “ The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? ”  Where did Paul get that crazy idea? From Christ Jesus, the sinless, spotless Lamb of

“…that He might fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Hosea, saying, ‘Out of Egypt I called My Son.’ ” — Matthew 2:15 In today’s cultural climate—where truth is deemed subjective, individuals “self-identify” as nonbinary, transgender, animals, or even sovereign citizens above the law—it is no surprise that the biblical definition of “Christian” has been utterly diluted, or outright jettisoned, to mean whatever the almighty autonomous individual declares it to mean today (all

📖 Scripture: “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”  – 1 Peter 2:22 🔎 Examination:  Peter’s declaration is not poetic embellishment; it is divine revelation. The Apostle writes under the authority of the Holy Spirit, anchoring the Church in the immutable truth that Jesus Christ — the eternal Son, the incarnate WORD, the spotless Lamb — lived a perfectly sinless life. This is not a secondary doctrine or an optional theological add-on. It is the bedrock

📖Scripture:  “For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps.”   - 1 Peter 2:21 🔎Examination: Here is the zenith of Peter’s argument: the call to endure unjust suffering is not abstract ethics; it is Christ-shaped discipleship. “For to this you were called” — not to a comfortable, customized, consumer-minded spirituality, but to a cross-shaped (cruciform) life in union with the crucified an

📖Scripture:  “For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God, this is to be commended.”   - 1 Peter 2:19 🔎Examination:  The world applauds comfort, self-protection, and retaliation. Heaven commends something very different: conscious, God-centered, honorable, and intrinsically good perseverance amid unjust suffering. The Apostle Peter is not talking about enduring the consequences of sin. “How is it to your credit if you are beaten for

📖Scripture:   “Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are crooked.”   - 1 Peter 2:18 🔎Examination:  Peter is not endorsing abusive systems or blindly baptizing every human authority as righteous. He is addressing “household servants” who were considered part of the family structure — and, by extension, saints who now belong to God’s household. The instruction is not blind passivity, but

📖Scripture:   “Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.”  - 1 Peter 2:17 🔎Examination:   The sermon pressed this home: God alone defines human value. Peter’s command is not subjective honor or sentimental niceness; it is theological warfare against a demonic culture of death and a narcissistic culture of self. The Greek term for “honor” carries the idea of fixed, objective value — tee-mah-oh  — intrinsic and fixed worth determined by God, not negotia

📖Scripture:  “ Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”   - Mark 12:29-30 🔎Examination:  This is not the greatest suggestion . It is the greatest commandment . King Jesus is not inviting us into a vague religious sentiment; He is commanding first: LISTEN! Then, upon listening, the call to total, exclusi

📖Scripture:   “Conduct yourselves with such honor among the pagans… that they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.”  – 1 Peter 2:12 🔎Examination:  There’s no way around it; the days are dark, culture is collapsing, and screams of panic and terror echo from every direction. But the WORD of God doesn’t flinch or tremble; it triumphs. The Apostle Peter calls the elect to “conduct yourselves with such honor.”  That’s neither a self-help pep rally, no

📖Scripture: “ For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men. Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God's slaves.”  – 1 Peter 2:15-16 🔎Examination:   Freedom — one of the most misused words in human vocabulary. To the world, freedom  means unrestrained autonomy: no accountability, no authority, no limits. But in Scripture, freedom  is not the absence of restraint — it’s the presence of righteou

📖Scripture:    “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority, or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right. For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.”  – 1 Peter 2:13–15 🔎Examination:  Submission is one of the most misunderstood doctrines in Scripture — and one of the most despised by the flesh. Peter’s comman

📖Scripture: “Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. Conduct yourselves with such honor among the pagans that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.”   – 1 Peter 2:11–12 🔎Examination: The American Church has long been selling counterfeit good. And people have been buying it up because the one they follow, Satan, their father, masq

📖Scripture: “Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand… and great was its collapse.”  – Matthew 7:26-27 🔎Examination: “How’d we get here?” — that’s the question posed at the start of this week's sermon , and it’s the right question. Not geographically , but spiritually.  How did we get to a place where only about 40% of so-called born-again Christians believe Jesus lived a sinless life? Where less

📖Scripture: “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”   — 1 Peter 2:9 🔎Examination: From the moment God delivered Israel from bondage in Egypt, His purpose was explicit: “You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:6). This priestly calling was not a reward for Israel’s merit but a manifestation of

📖Scripture: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one having faith in Him will never be put to shame.”  — 1 Peter 2:6 🔎Examination: In the construction of the ancient temple, every stone had a specific purpose and placement. But one stone—the cornerstone—was the foundation upon which the entire structure depended. Its alignment determined the symmetry, strength, and longevity of the whole house. If that cornerstone was flawed, misplaced, or

The United States is in the midst of a government shutdown. The gridlock isn't driven by mere political or procedural disputes but by the inevitable collision of two incompatible worldviews. One vision embraces limited government, ordered liberty, personal responsibility, fixed borders, and constitutional restraint. The other promotes expansive state authority, collectivist economics, permissive borders, and governance driven by sentiment and majoritarian emotion. Such worldv

📖Scripture: “For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires will surround themselves with a multitude of teachers to tell them exactly what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn away from the truth and will turn aside to fanciful stories.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4 🔎Examination: When Paul warns Timothy about people with “itching ears,” he isn’t describing a harmless curiosity. He’s exposing a heart that craves lies  o