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Begin in verse 1, says in the same way you wives be submissive to your own husband so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.
Your adornment must not be merely external, the braiding of the hair, the wearing of gold jewelry, or putting on dresses, but let it be the hidden person of the heart with imperishable quality of gentle and quiet spirit which is precious in the sight of God.
Or in this way in former times the holy women also who hoped in God also adorned themselves being submissive to their own husbands just as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.
It says and you husbands in the same way live with your wives in an understanding way as with the someone with a weaker vessel since she is a woman and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life so that your prayers will not be hindered.
And to sum it all up, all of you be harmonious, be sympathetic, brotherly, kind-hearted, humble in spirit, not returning evil for evil or insults for insult, but giving a blessing instead for you are called for that very purpose that for that you may inherit a blessing for the one who desires life to love to see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
He must turn away from evil and do good. He must seek peace and pursue it for the eyes of the Lord or toward the righteous and his ears attend to their prayer but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good but even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness you are blessed and do not fear their intimidation and do not be troubled but sanctify Christ as the Lord in your hearts always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks the hope and to give an account for the hope those and then you get with gentleness and do it with reverence and keep a good conscience so that and the thing in which you are slandered those who revile against I'm sorry those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be to their shame or just better if God should will it so that you suffer for doing what is right rather for doing what is wrong.
For Christ also died for sins once for all to just for the unjust so that he might bring us to God having been put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit in which also he went and made proclamation to spirits now in prison who once were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah during the destruction during the construction of the ark in which a few that is eight persons were brought safely through that water corresponding to that of the baptism now saves you not the removal of dirt from the flesh but an appeal to God for good conscience that a resurrection of Jesus Christ who is at the right hand of God having gone into heaven after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to.
Peter is talking about godly living. He's talking about how we should conduct ourselves one another. He begins in chapter 3 of which is a continuation of our having honor to one another and honoring authority that's over us.
Because if you go back to chapter 2 it talks about be submissive to the institutions that are above you meaning the authority of government. And then it talks about servants you should be submissive to your own masters whether they be good or whether they be evil.
And gives an example of who Christ was and how he submitted himself to the Lord. I have submitted himself to God and even when people talked bad about him raised reviles against him Jesus did not speak any deceit against them.
And then when he gets to chapter 3 he gives a admonition to the wife to be submissive to their husbands. And then he gives one also to the men to live with their wives understanding way. And if I remember correctly Lee can correct me if I'm wrong.
But when I first came here I think Lee preached a passage on that when I first came was it Sunday school. Yeah I remember that I thought it was behind the pulpit but it was one. It was a I had just started coming here and you preached a passage on that.
So what we're gonna do is we get to. He gives these instructions of women being submissive to their husbands because it's the ordinance of God and for husbands to live with their wives in an understanding way.
One because they're the weaker vessel and the other is hey if we don't men if we don't want our prayers to be cut off you better live with your wife in an understanding way. And it's interesting that God gives us a no instructions on how to live with these un-understandable people at times in an understanding way.
And then we get to verse 8 which is what we're going to focus on now I know we have been primarily it's been dealing with the word the reciprocal word of alalas. And it is the Greek word for one another's.
And in the Greek vernacular that word is not in this passage. I don't know if any does anybody else's passage say anything different than what mine did. This gives a list because the the Greek word for one another's is not in there but it is implied.
And that's why we're going to look at because you have. Does anybody else's translation have something other than harmonious. Yes ma 'am anything. What's the first word. Sam the first one. Okay I after it says to sum it all up all of you.
Was it what you're saying. Unity. Anybody else. That's really a translation. Actually all right. What's the when you get after harmonious. The next one sympathetic. Is that where yours is actually says compassion.
Okay there is hang on. The first one was one line there. It is okay. We're getting there hold on after sympathetic. Where we. Because actually there's a lot of different ways it has been translated. So I want us to look at why.
The.
Differences. It's not their sympathy said brotherly love in the ESV that is almost.
To the key. Anybody else had anything else for sympathetic. You said yours is compassionate. Yeah. Let me move this one to a different spot. And what was the last one. And they're in that little. Oh I got that and that's it.
Yeah. Yours is humble mine. Oh wow. My king James. Guy. What you're saying. Each one of these harmonious. Well it's a. It says we all have one line. Okay. Compassion I compassion. Didn't. Then it says I love his brother.
Okay.
Be full of pity. Be courteous. King James guy. King James. Yeah I can't pick on my.
King one in every crowd. Yeah between a kind-hearted and a sympathetic. We're up there. I may have to move these around. The reason why we're using this is because these are things by which we do to one another.
Although it's implied in the text harmonious the Greek word here is homo. From this is interesting how each per each translation saying it differently. But it's it's trying to convey the one thing what does harmonious mean.
How are we to live one in harmonious with one another. It is being just never causing a rift never having a conversation. That maybe you're fixing. Everyone agree with us. Yeah that's right. But we don't always.
So what does it mean that for us to live.
Harmonious I think the one mind really describes the harmonious don't it the.
It can but we can't have one if we're if we're not of one mind you're right. We won't be harmonious we won't live together in harmony. But if you follow the progression that we've been teaching and he taught submitting to one as we submit to one another.
We're not submitting to one another as in having authority over as it said here as the government having it exercise its authority over us or as the husband exercising his authority over the wife or the or the husband and the wife being father and mother to exercise an authority over the children it means submitting to.
We went through that submitting to one another's need. Yes ma 'am having their harmonious have harmony. Because you know the drum doesn't say we're working together for God for the good of the body. That's how we do remember anything we were submitting to one another.
Not just because Lee tells me to take the trash out. Okay I grabbed a trash. Although I would do that if you told me to because he is my elder. So anyway we submit to one another's needs. Okay putting them first.
But being in of one mind has to do with this. Here we're working to serve God and to honor. And what's our chief goal. What's the chief goal of man. What. Love God. Love God. Right. Love God. And what's the next one.
Love your neighbor. Love God love your neighbor. So that's how we're going to live in unity with one another. One mind all has to do with loving God first loving our neighbor. What does it mean to be sympathetic.
And this actually when it was translated into the sympathetic is happy sympathetic that's the Greek word. So it actually is almost transliterated. And you're such a pathetic sympathy. Sympathy. Yep sympathetic.
Now we in some areas it says compassion if you remember I can't remember what week it was. But if we we did Ephesians chapter 4 verse 32. And compassion actually is the Greek word for who's black not.
Which meant to feel something with inside. And here's the reason why some it should be right here. That's what this means. Whose black noise actually in the Greek right here for kind-hearted meaning feeling with inside of you a compassion for one another feeling a desire.
You remember when Jesus he said that he the the crowds have been following him for many days and he said man they're going to get weary if I send them back. And he says that God that Jesus built compassion over them.
And what did he do. You remember he fed 5 ,000 people. Okay that was the word that was used here. And I think I think his translations translated it as compassion but actually needs to be sympathetic in that here.
So for us to have sympathy for one another what does that mean. Sure it does fall upon love. But sympathy also has an action. There you go care. Yeah if you say that you you have sympathy for someone doesn't it cause some type of action says that it.
I think it's in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 15 that we have a great high priest who's what sympathetic with you and I and was tempted in all ways just like you and me but without sin. Well how was Jesus sympathetic with you.
By you me. But what. Because he became flesh. And then Jesus could now sympathize with our weaknesses because of the flesh. Andy. But you look like you're really thinking down there what you got. Okay.
So sympathetic has to do with caring. It's more than just loving someone. But we weird hey are we sympathetic for what's going on. And the other side of the yes we care. And there's parts of us that wishes that we can do something reach out to the churches over there because they are there are our churches over there.
Christian churches are being dislodged. People are being killed over some just retarded stuff. So we are sympathetic and we care. Therefore we act in such a way that we're going to display our sympathy with action.
So we live in harmonious or live in one mind with one another. We're gonna be sympathetic with one another. And brotherly love. They remember remember what week it was. But we did one on loving the brethren.
And I have to go back and see. And the word here is you know if I remember what the Greek word for brotherly love was Philea brotherly love. Yep this is this actually is would be translated philo Adelphi which means a lot meaning brotherly Adelphi brotherly love philo love Adelphi brotherly love.
What does it mean to us to have brotherly love for one another. These are all at these are all actions. So what would that look like if the one and others are reciprocal. What's it gonna look like. This would have to get your yes.
I'm not disagreeing. Yes this would require fellowship. How can we be a community of brethren although we have sister in in here. How can we be a community of brothers if we my brotherhood. If we don't fellowship with one another what a group of men call themselves brothers and will not fellowship with one another.
Not saying don't always like you know what I mean take any type of organization that call themselves the brotherhood. And what are they going to do. They're going to intentionally get time to do what.
Fellowship with one another. Yes I was.
Just sitting here thinking as he was describing that it's the same way in our family I mean our family gets together and fellowships because we love.
One another. Sure. Because there's a familial relationship. Yeah. And there is a familial relationship between even you and I are there. We are not from the same mother and father but there is a unity between you and I.
That would not be that there. That would not be with my unconverted family members. Exactly. We forget that. I understand. Yeah we have. You understand that you and I have more in common with the people that are converted in more with those that are that are the converted in the dow low tribe then with your unconverted family.
Members. Even to the point if I may. Yes even to the point of your fellowship with that person. Yeah. I mean you know you're probably not going to have as much fellowship with your unconverted brother than you would.
You and I. Oh sure.
I could take my own. I was converted before my older brother me and my brother could not get along did not get along. It caused my sister I mean my wife did not get along with my brother and that was his sister-in-law because of his his lifestyle.
We could not. If you didn't mix. Yeah it just didn't it didn't work once he was converted then obviously we have some same interest that changed. But yeah we have to have that this the brotherly love we can fellowship because of what we're of one mind of one spirit one baptism of one Savior.
Now does this take some time for all of this to work itself out. Well sure it doesn't happen in the split second. And think of just getting to know new members or getting to know new people you work with.
Or what I say we're minister with. Yeah it takes time it takes time. All right. What does it mean to be kind hearted. I thought that's what y 'all would say. It's kind of weird. I'm.
Gonna move it up so we can see it. All of those words. Can I describe each of the.
Other words when they are a description and sometimes can be used as a synonym. That's why when it was translated to compassion for the other house they got probably anything. I mean as far as kind heart goes may you raise that one down there.
I'm hard. It will produce an action. Remember it seems black and white is the word that we use. And it was the feeling of compassion in your guts. So when Jesus had compassion or was kind hearted towards those that were hungry that had been bought in for three days he did what he said.
He fed him he fed him he fed him. So we're kind hearted towards one another. What we gonna do. You can feed me. I'll always eat. We're gonna do something to show that compassion to show that desire to show that action of love towards one another to our brethren.
How that how that plays out could be. I don't know. The hundreds of million different ways you know say this or were we caught will use for instance we already said that we were kind of hearted to to stop when he was here.
Were we not. We were. And he has them probably the numbers off the top of his head. We were very kind hearted. Well I think we gave him what was it Andy $3 ,300 as a gift to him. That is great. That we we couldn't go over there.
Could we. We all couldn't load up. But we all couldn't load up and go on a church field trip there. So what did we do. We gave out of some of us gave it out of our descent of our necessities. And some of us gave out our abundance to see to it that he could get over there and do what he needed to do him and his wife and his family.
So that was the action. Sometimes given money how else can we can it be demonstrated time. That's difficult. Man hang a lot. We're all busy. But yeah time. So it could be showing time or it could be money time.
And this could play out in multiple ways. Sometimes it could just be spending time with someone this literally spending time. But some of it is in the opening of the scriptures. Not everybody can spend the same amount of time with everybody.
But I have some young men that I speak with during the week and early in the mornings. I'm kind hearted towards them. They're going through some very difficult times and we open the scriptures together.
That's what we did to see to it that you know they can apply the the the immeasurable riches the unfathomable riches of God's Word and apply that to their life. That's what we do. That takes time. I don't care how that takes time on any scale.
And I will die thankful for those men they have decided that they're going to get up early because I'm up early. And he used to be the only one I could talk to at four in the morning. Now that he's retired I can't do that.
All right time and money. What else. Sure I'm gonna be grumpy. No grumpy spirit. A few weeks ago we talked a little bit about this about when we're serving one another. Y 'all remember. And sometimes when we look and we're serving one another it looks we're doing it in such a way that a lot of long face we should be serving one another with joy.
And I think that's what you're pointing to. Yeah. Don't have a grumpy spirit about yeah. Are you doing what you're doing out of a kind heart and compassion for your brother or sister. Are you doing it because out of compulsion.
I would say this if you're doing these things out of compulsion don't do it. Don't do it because you're doing it out of obligation not out of love for your brother or sister. Even when God says hey don't give your into your money to the to the local assembly out of compulsion.
Y 'all remember that passage. Right. We read it almost or somebody quotes it almost every week. Don't give it out of compulsion. Do it with what a cheerful heart. We should do everything with a cheerful heart with one another.
Yes ma 'am. I think sometimes we do it out of obedience and God brings the feelings later. Sure you know. So I think you go ahead and do it knowing it's in here and we're supposed to do it. And then God multiplies that.
But if your lifestyle of serving hungry with you if your lifestyle of serving the Lord is an attitude of grumpiness or an attitude of compulsion or out of just out of Christian duty you need to examine yourself because there should be a joy that comes to within serving the Lord and serving your brother and sister in Christ.
That should go. Man. I'm happy God has given me the opportunity to exemplify love towards my neighbor. Yeah. Is there a time that we yeah we have. Sometimes there is time for Christian duty. Yes there is.
But that shouldn't be the consistent pattern of one's life how it's time money and not a grumpy spirit. And the last one in there is what did your say. Your said what come on. That's actually the translated almost to the key to you have a no fro knows is what that would be in the Greek humble mind.
Fro knows meaning mind or intellect tempo meaning the humility. So what does it mean to be humble in mind. Okay. Remember what it says in Philippians about Christ. What do you bear some of some people that they remember.
But this mind being you. Okay. So did Jesus have the prerogative to say look at me. I'm God. Did he have the prerogative to do that. Yeah. Did he have the prerogative to say bow down and worship. I hate even saying that that sounds like this ain't bow down and worship me.
Did he. He didn't do that. He didn't he didn't take that equality. God it says to be something to grasp at this time of humiliation. So what did he do. He laid that prerogative aside. And the first part of having a humble spirit is putting others first.
Putting others first. Did Jesus Christ put others first above himself. Now let's just list a couple of us. Yeah. Thank God. He came into the world because we had a greater need than he did. He didn't eat anything about going to the cross.
Yes. That was the greatest need. Look. Anything after salvation is nothing but bonus. I mean Jesus came into the world to save sinners our salvation. He came in. He secured those who were decreed in eternity fast.
He secured that. Anything after that to that believer is nothing but bonus and gracious and good. So Jesus came into the world in a humble mind putting others above himself. I how else did. Uh. Can we put others first as Christ did.
Yes. Ma 'am. No not conceited. Meaning don't be arrogant. Was Jesus arrogant. No. We read earlier that Jesus when people reviled against him cause and said deceitful things again him did. He read that he respond in such a way that he responded in anger.
He kept it quiet. So we shouldn't be conceited. I do think when we put others first this will diminish because we put other people's first and we realize you know what they're more important than I. I don't have any.
I don't have any prerogative to look down on someone. That's actually when it comes to the ones I've been looking down so they were there. It's speaking down to them in a condescending way. How else can we have a humble spirit or humble mind.
Can you see it. Yeah. I'm sorry. That's him. Let me slide the border. Be teachable. Be teachable. How many of us in here go. Yeah. I've achieved everything I need to know about the Christian life. Maybe want to raise your hand.
So then we can say how unteachable and conceited. Yeah. Nobody. We've got to be willing to learn from people. We've got to be willing to go. I'm not. I'm not achieved that level of sanctification that the Bible requires.
Therefore I can learn from anybody that takes away pride that will make your priority will certainly expose it. Yeah. It'll expose it. Be teachable. I don't care how many biblical languages somebody knows.
I don't care how many books they read. I don't care how many how often they read their Bible through in a complete way. We can all learn from one another. We can all learn from one. Just because God has given a person the the the ability and the desire and the giftedness to teach or preach does not mean they are the now the rule and and standard of all truth.
That rule and standard of all truth is right here. And sometimes this right here tells me when I'm wrong tells me when I have gone the error of my way. And that's why we should always be one. Be ready to be teachable.
And can you see that right there anyway be ready to repent. We realize that we're absolutely in complete submission to the Lord and that everything we get from him. And we know this that we we have to be ready to repent of our wrong thinking wrong doing and wrong acting anything else about being a humble mind.
What's that. I know I saw that when I was reading. It is like King James when I use in the mornings to read on my dash. That's my that's my Bible I've had for probably 17 years. And when I read that I went.
That's interesting. So let's just take it. Let's take that word. Courteous. What would the word courteous mean. Does it mean to that we should open the door for the person that's are coming into church.
Is that what that means. It could. Yeah. Does that display Christ's likeness. Well a lost person can open the door. I think there's a nuance to that within the Christian community. Is that courtesy. Is that how he translated than what they're trying to say.
Are we thinking the courteous has the idea of doing what thinking of yourself less important than the other person. Be courteous. Yeah. It's not holding the door open. Or although that can be an act of kindness and it's not courteous can be done by the unconverted.
Yeah it really is especially within the context of the people that we prefer one another. We have compassion on one another because we understand by grace the grace of God that other people possess versus like I said just common grace because you know somebody don't open the door for us somebody lets the door go as you're walking in.
How many of us say man thanks.
Yeah but we don't think we're sinned against that. Yeah I don't know some of you might and it does. And under we're gonna when it's trying to convey is the fact that we should be kind to one another. Kind.
A lot of times we say just be nice. Well I don't know y 'all can search your Bible. I low bar wide nice ain't in there. It ain't the word nice ain't even a biblical word. It's not kindness is don't people say you know we should be kind of one another.
That's true. So kind and love and patience are all what fruit to the Spirit that need to be honed within us because those are the fact that the Holy Spirit has come and regenerated us than those those those fruits of the Spirit begin to be evident.
But dude they're not in perfect abundance. So how do we do that. We have to be humble of mind with one another. We have to we have to be of one mind with one another so that those those fruits can then be pruned to produce more fruit.
That's what all I mean. It all goes back to this is the what the Spirit produces. The spirit will produce a some translations harmonious mind. It'll produce that of one mind. Why. Because we're all in unity of one spirit.
Then it will make a sympathetic for one another. Why. Because we couldn't sympathize when our brother or sister is hurting whether it be financially physically spiritually. A lot of times we're more simple.
We're more sympathetic when we see someone have a death in the family. Is that not true. Are we really that sympathetic when we see somebody who's struggling financially or we see that they're struggling spiritually.
I'll tell you what what bothers me more than anything because eventually this don't want to be cold-hearted. But death will eventually that will what life will get busy again and somebody's in spiritual depression.
Meaning they're struggling and that every day in and out of life and you understand that the Bible talks about those. Then they have the tendency to want to turn away. That bothers me more than anything because that has damnable consequences.
I'm gonna tell me that person losing her salvation. Have somebody. I'm talking to you right now. Man they're light. There's they're going down this way. Man God's supposed to love me. He's but to cure me.
Why are the things happening to me. Maybe this is all a farce. That's scary. So what do you do. Hey man God's the author and perfecter of your faith that which he began when you hills gonna see it to the end.
But that bothers me. So we should be him. And that would be extending brotherly love. Once again. Brotherly love has to do with the act of the Spirit in the heart of the believer being kind and being a humble and spear all of those are the fruit are a a result of the fruit of the Spirit.
Being exhibited in one's life doesn't mean that it's done perfectly. It just means that it's being done. We have two minutes.
We've used in terms of common courtesy. I think it was easy said about sinners to take care of sinners how publicans will lend to other publicans but for us it really is on a different. It's in the spirit it's not in just in the flesh and I think we get to see to thinking it just do it in the flesh.
It's right it's otherwise the glory of God's not involved and I think that's where a lot of people will do it in a common kind of way. But yet their thought isn't to give God the glory nor do they see themselves as the result of his grace in their lives.
Yeah yeah that's true. All right. Well you got something to say young lady. All right. Well let's pray. And hey talk to me. All right. Let's pray. Father God thank you so much for the example of your son father which we can always point back to who was kind-hearted who had the love for the brethren who was of one mind and one spirit to accomplish that what you sent him to do.
And he was certainly humbled. And he put aside those prerogatives of deity to come and do that what you called him to do. Father we thank you for your word. Thank you that we can examine it week after week and day after day.
And father never mine it down to its fullness. That father your word is inexhaustible and your riches are inexhaustible. Father we thank you for that. Repair us. Now for time of corporate worship that you would be honored.
And all that said and done. And the singing and the preaching of the word and the giving of offerings in Christ's name. Amen.