CLOTHEDWITH HUMILITY

REALIZING OUR HELPLESS STATE

The Father gave them hope through the resurrection of JesusProtected by the power

of GodSalvation revealedRedeemed by the

blood of Christ

OBEDIENCE AND LOVE

✦The man blessed to enjoy this salvation, hope, inheritance etc. responds by obeying and demonstrating a sincere love“sincere” - without pretense or showThe point being this saved man lives for God and his brother rather than self

OBEDIENCE AND LOVE

✦This man rids himself of those attitudes which prevent obedience and brotherly love (2:1-3)We take this same mindset into every relationship (2:13-20) “To sum up all of you be harmonious…” (3:8-12 )

FOLLOW IN HIS STEPS

✦Why Me??Submission is not punishment for sin it is what we must do to partake in the Divine Nature (2:22-23)Do you have the faith to submit?

SURVIVING THE FIRE

✦In such conditions how does a local church maintain its integrity? Sacrificial Humble Leadership Submission and humility on the part of all

SURVIVING THE FIRE

✦“clothe yourselves with humility” “clothe” literally means in the Greek to “put or tie something on oneself” (BDAG)

SURVIVING THE FIRE

✦“clothe yourselves with humility” to fasten or gird on one’s self; the ἐγκόμβωμα was the white scarf or apron of slaves, which was fastened to the girdle of the vest ἐξωμίς, and distinguished slaves from freemen; hence 1 Pet. 5:5 τὴν ταπεινοφρ. ἐγκομβώσασθε, gird yourselves with humility as your servile garb (ἐγκόμβωμα) i. e. by putting on humility show your subjection one to another. (Thayer p.166)

SEEKING TO SERVE

✦JESUS DEMONSTRATES THE CONCEPT OF BEING CLOTHED WITH HUMILITYPETER’S OUTBURST DEMONSTRATES A NEEDED PRINCIPLE