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[4537.86 --> 4538.86] Right?
[4538.86 --> 4545.86] And so here, it's about an authenticity and an integrity all the way through.
[4545.86 --> 4546.86] Right?
[4546.86 --> 4560.86] And so, it's the opposite of hypocrisy that acts tender on the outside, that says nice things on the outside, but on the inside feels right, angry, and jealous, and judging.
[4560.86 --> 4569.86] But Peter is saying all the way down deep, be generous and well disposed to each other.
[4569.86 --> 4573.86] Through and through, be for each other.
[4573.86 --> 4578.86] And Peter says, be humble.
[4578.86 --> 4591.86] Now, C.S. Lewis once said, and this has stuck with me forever, that true humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
[4591.86 --> 4592.86] Right?
[4592.86 --> 4595.86] Humility is putting others first.
[4595.86 --> 4600.86] And so, imagine what you might do if you put the person in front of you first.
[4600.86 --> 4608.86] Imagine what you might do or what your life might look like if you put that guy ahead of yourself.
[4608.86 --> 4611.86] Is my intonation clear enough on what I'm intending there?
[4611.86 --> 4612.86] Right?
[4612.86 --> 4617.86] If you made even her, yeah, her, higher than you.
[4617.86 --> 4624.86] Imagine what our life together would be like if we could do this.
[4624.86 --> 4635.86] Now, notice that these descriptors of how you and I are supposed to be together start with something on the inside.
[4635.86 --> 4640.86] It's a way of seeing each other before it is a way of doing certain things.
[4640.86 --> 4645.86] It's about heart attitudes or gut attitudes to each other.
[4645.86 --> 4658.86] And then second, notice that all of these attitudes, all of these ways of being in the world are supremely exemplified in the life and person of Jesus Christ himself.
[4658.86 --> 4659.86] Right?
[4659.86 --> 4663.86] This is the same point from the previous section because Peter has been building.
[4663.86 --> 4664.86] Right?
[4664.86 --> 4669.86] In this section, Jesus is held up as our example in all of these things.
[4669.86 --> 4670.86] In chapter 2, verse 21,
[4670.86 --> 4679.86] To this you were called because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps.
[4679.86 --> 4680.86] Right?
[4680.86 --> 4684.86] Jesus is the truly harmonious one.
[4684.86 --> 4686.86] He is the true and better sympathizer.
[4686.86 --> 4691.86] He is the true and better brother who loved sacrificially unto death on the cross.
[4691.86 --> 4698.86] Jesus is the true compassionate one whose gut was pierced for our transgressions.
[4698.86 --> 4703.86] Jesus is the one who lived the life I should have lived and died the death that I deserve.
[4703.86 --> 4717.86] Jesus is the one who three days later was raised and who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers in submission to him.
[4717.86 --> 4731.86] Because he has done this, he now by grace through faith in the operation of the Holy Spirit makes you willing and ready from now on to live for him.
[4731.86 --> 4742.86] Because Jesus did that for us, it changes the way that we see and be and interact with each other.
[4742.86 --> 4750.34] And then Peter's second point is that it changes the way we see and be and interact with the pagan world around us.
[4752.60 --> 4756.82] Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
[4757.56 --> 4762.96] But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed.
[4763.90 --> 4765.32] Do not fear their threats.
[4766.38 --> 4767.22] Do not be frightened.
[4767.22 --> 4779.12] And Peter is saying, right, that when you do good, the world should see that and know.
[4780.16 --> 4788.80] But even if they don't, or perhaps exactly when they don't, when it doesn't make sense to them,
[4788.86 --> 4793.40] when it doesn't add up in the way that you want it to and it's supposed to,
[4793.40 --> 4799.44] and they react negatively or they judge you or they accuse you of doing wrong,
[4799.50 --> 4802.08] like he says in chapter 2 verse 11,
[4803.08 --> 4810.70] even when that is your reality, you are blessed.
[4813.68 --> 4816.38] When have you felt like suffering was a blessing?
[4818.68 --> 4820.58] That's what Peter wants to invite you into.
[4820.58 --> 4825.96] When have you felt afraid?
[4827.94 --> 4829.12] Peter's saying, don't be.
[4830.54 --> 4835.58] Because you have Jesus who went before you and is now in this with you.
[4836.88 --> 4839.24] Instead, even when you're being accused of doing wrong,
[4839.40 --> 4840.90] even when you're suffering,
[4841.10 --> 4844.50] even when what you are doing doesn't make sense to the world,
[4845.50 --> 4850.34] in your hearts, revere Christ as Lord.
[4851.40 --> 4855.78] When you are revering Christ as Lord, these things will happen.
[4856.36 --> 4865.00] And as they do, always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
[4866.04 --> 4868.02] Always be prepared.
[4868.02 --> 4872.84] Have a response ready for why do you do this?
[4874.18 --> 4875.22] What is your,
[4875.38 --> 4877.40] because the love of Christ compels me?
[4878.04 --> 4881.58] What is your reason for being here right now?
[4881.58 --> 4886.00] What is your reason for saying no to this event or that event?
[4886.06 --> 4890.56] What is your reason for leaving that group of friends behind as God was getting a hold of your life?
[4890.64 --> 4894.06] What is your reason for saying yes to Jesus?
[4894.06 --> 4900.30] Always be prepared.
[4901.88 --> 4904.80] Always be prepared.
[4905.66 --> 4911.32] But do this with gentleness and respect.
[4911.32 --> 4925.84] Some of us are unsure of how to give an answer or a reason for the hope that we have.
[4925.84 --> 4931.30] And so we give more weight to the fear that we feel in that moment and don't say anything.
[4932.74 --> 4940.06] And some of us, trying to give an answer, haven't quite figured out how to be gentle and respectful.
[4940.06 --> 4953.78] And we become exactly what the culture is trying to make us in one of those two ways in combat with the other.
[4954.66 --> 4959.20] We are offered here a third way.
[4959.20 --> 4971.28] But again, even if you figure out this humility thing, even if you figure out this gentleness and respect thing,
[4971.28 --> 4979.08] it is still possible to suffer for doing good and for doing evil.
[4980.72 --> 4984.32] That suffering may yet still happen.
[4984.32 --> 4990.28] But here, too, Christ is your example.
[4991.86 --> 4996.84] For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.
[4997.14 --> 5001.06] He was put to death in the body but made alive in the spirit.
[5002.08 --> 5005.82] He has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God.
[5005.82 --> 5005.86] God.
[5005.86 --> 5015.12] There is a war of cultural identity going on in the world right now.
[5015.64 --> 5022.68] Whether it's left or right, progressive or conservative, it's in religion, it's in politics, it's local, and it's global.
[5022.84 --> 5025.30] It is in social settings, and it's in families.
[5026.90 --> 5031.94] God's word is telling us that we are something else.
[5032.46 --> 5034.68] We are a third way.
[5034.68 --> 5037.46] You are beloved of God.
[5037.58 --> 5041.14] You are elect exiles, foreigners, and strangers.
[5041.40 --> 5043.70] You are something else.
[5044.24 --> 5047.14] And so, do not be afraid.
[5047.78 --> 5052.20] Go and be something that the pagan world has never seen.
[5054.10 --> 5056.48] Be like Jesus in the world.
[5057.60 --> 5058.62] Do not be afraid.
[5058.62 --> 5066.78] Even if you struggle or suffer because you are beloved of God, do not be afraid.
[5067.80 --> 5069.86] You are his son.
[5070.54 --> 5072.86] You are his daughter.
[5073.52 --> 5076.22] Do not fear.
[5077.00 --> 5078.04] Do not be frightened.
[5078.80 --> 5083.94] But in your hearts, revere Christ as Lord.
[5083.94 --> 5087.36] And everyone said, Amen.