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[4044.86 --> 4046.86] And so let's read it together.
[4050.86 --> 4052.86] Feel all of those tensions.
[4052.86 --> 4056.86] Feel all of that cultural pulling you one way or the other,
[4056.86 --> 4058.86] and hear Peter say,
[4058.86 --> 4067.86] Finally, all of you, be like-minded.
[4067.86 --> 4069.86] Be sympathetic.
[4069.86 --> 4071.86] Love one another.
[4071.86 --> 4074.86] Be compassionate and humble.
[4074.86 --> 4078.86] Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult.
[4078.86 --> 4082.86] On the contrary, repay evil with blessing.
[4082.86 --> 4084.86] Because to this you were called,
[4084.86 --> 4087.86] so that you may inherit a blessing.
[4087.86 --> 4093.86] For whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil,
[4093.86 --> 4095.86] and their lips from deceitful speech.
[4095.86 --> 4098.86] They must turn from evil and do good.
[4098.86 --> 4100.86] They must seek peace and pursue it.
[4100.86 --> 4102.86] For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
[4102.86 --> 4105.86] and his ears are attentive to their prayers.
[4105.86 --> 4109.86] But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
[4109.86 --> 4116.86] Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
[4116.86 --> 4122.86] But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed.
[4122.86 --> 4124.86] Do not be afraid.
[4124.86 --> 4125.86] Do not fear their threats.
[4125.86 --> 4127.86] Do not be frightened.
[4127.86 --> 4133.86] But in your hearts, revere Christ as Lord.
[4133.86 --> 4140.86] Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
[4140.86 --> 4144.86] But do this with gentleness and respect.
[4144.86 --> 4146.86] Keeping a clear conscience,
[4146.86 --> 4152.86] so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
[4152.86 --> 4158.86] For it is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
[4158.86 --> 4165.86] For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.
[4165.86 --> 4169.86] He was put to death in the body, but made alive in the spirit.
[4169.86 --> 4173.86] After being made alive, he went and proclaimed to the imprisoned spirits,
[4173.86 --> 4178.86] to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.
[4178.86 --> 4182.86] In it, only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water.
[4182.86 --> 4186.86] And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also.
[4186.86 --> 4190.86] Not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.
[4190.86 --> 4194.86] It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
[4194.86 --> 4203.86] who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand with angels and authorities and powers in submission to him.
[4203.86 --> 4206.86] This is the word of the Lord.
[4206.86 --> 4214.86] See, Peter understands the tension.
[4214.86 --> 4219.86] He understands the being pulled to the left or to the right.
[4219.86 --> 4223.86] And he says, no, you must go a third way.
[4223.86 --> 4231.86] And then he outlines for us a third way that has two foci, two areas of focus.
[4231.86 --> 4238.86] First, he writes about how believers will relate to one another, how we will relate to each other.
[4238.86 --> 4244.86] And second, he writes about how believers will relate to those outside of the fellowship,
[4244.86 --> 4248.86] to those outside of the church of Jesus Christ, whom he earlier called pagans.
[4248.86 --> 4253.86] Right? The world that doesn't know God or recognize Jesus.
[4253.86 --> 4268.86] Peter says that our church needs to be made up of the kind of people who are like-minded, sympathetic, loving one another, compassionate, and humble.
[4268.86 --> 4275.86] I want to ask you, in all honesty this morning, is that you?
[4275.86 --> 4283.86] Now, before we dig too deeply, I also want to acknowledge that some of you heard me say that,
[4283.86 --> 4287.86] and you immediately started thinking about other people.
[4287.86 --> 4292.86] Right? You started thinking, oh man, I hope that she hears him say humble this morning,
[4292.86 --> 4295.86] because she could learn something about being humble.
[4295.86 --> 4302.86] Right? You heard me say that, and you go, oh, I really hope that whomever, I'll say the name John,
[4302.86 --> 4304.86] because there's like 20 of you here.
[4304.86 --> 4311.86] Right? I really hope that they are listening, because they sure could use a dose of being like-minded and sympathetic.
[4311.86 --> 4320.86] Or maybe you thought about your spouse, maybe you thought about a friend, maybe you thought about anyone that you wish you could change.
[4320.86 --> 4327.86] If that was you, I want you to think about you.
[4327.86 --> 4331.86] Don't worry about them. Don't be responsible for them.
[4331.86 --> 4338.86] Take responsibility for you, for your own heart and your own life.
[4338.86 --> 4341.86] This is you. Or is this you?
[4341.86 --> 4344.86] Peter is calling you to this.
[4344.86 --> 4347.86] Peter says, be like-minded.
[4347.86 --> 4353.86] Now, there's another translation that says, live in harmony.
[4353.86 --> 4359.86] Right? And so the idea here is that in a world divided, we are together.
[4359.86 --> 4365.86] In a time and place that is constantly fractured, we are of one accord.
[4365.86 --> 4378.86] Now, we don't have to agree on everything, but precisely because we agree on the essentials, we can live in harmony on those tertiary things.
[4378.86 --> 4382.86] Peter says, to be sympathetic.
[4382.86 --> 4388.86] Now, that word literally means sharing in the feelings of others.
[4388.86 --> 4390.86] And so there's two questions here.
[4390.86 --> 4396.86] One, do you share your feelings, your hurts and your joys, your struggles and your blessings?
[4396.86 --> 4403.86] And two, do you make room in your life for others to share their feelings, their hurts, their joys, their struggles and their blessings?
[4403.86 --> 4415.86] In a world that looks out for number one, in a world that has a me-first attitude, what can it look like to be a church who puts others first?
[4415.86 --> 4421.86] Peter says, love one another.
[4421.86 --> 4425.86] Again, literally in Greek there, the word is brotherly love.
[4425.86 --> 4426.86] Philadelphoi.
[4426.86 --> 4430.86] Right? Peter is saying, love as brothers and sisters.
[4430.86 --> 4434.86] Right? You are not strangers to each other.
[4434.86 --> 4438.86] You are not mere acquaintances or even distant relatives.
[4438.86 --> 4441.86] And here's the reality, right?
[4441.86 --> 4449.86] You might not even know the name of someone else who is here right now this morning, or someone who is a part of our church and is participating online this morning.
[4449.86 --> 4454.86] We might not have seen them in a couple of years because of COVID and everything that's going on.
[4454.86 --> 4464.86] But even if you don't know their name, because they belong to this church, they are your brothers and sisters.
[4464.86 --> 4469.86] Imagine if we actually treated each other that way.
[4469.86 --> 4473.86] We actually longed for each other in that way.
[4473.86 --> 4477.86] We are close family.
[4477.86 --> 4482.86] Peter says, be compassionate.
[4482.86 --> 4488.86] I want to be clear because sometimes we think about compassion as just another word for sympathy.
[4488.86 --> 4495.86] But in fact, again, in Greek, it's not even a word about conduct, but it's about your insides.
[4495.86 --> 4499.86] Literally, it means your innards, your belly.
[4499.86 --> 4504.86] Right? The literal translation of the Greek word here means feel generous in your belly.
[4504.86 --> 4511.86] Now, in the ancient Near East, the seat of human emotion was rooted in the stomach.
[4511.86 --> 4513.86] Your feelings were in your gut.
[4513.86 --> 4515.86] We kind of carry this over, right?
[4515.86 --> 4518.86] We have that expression, I just have a gut feeling about this.
[4518.86 --> 4520.86] That's the same idea.
[4520.86 --> 4523.86] Now, in our culture, the seat of emotions is the heart.
[4523.86 --> 4529.86] But Peter here, he's not giving us instructions about necessarily what to do, but how to be.
[4529.86 --> 4537.86] He's saying, be generous, be well disposed to each other in your deeps, way down in your gut.