A loving community of Christ-followers glorifying God together by making disciples of all nations

Sermons on Submission (Page 5)

“A Submitted Community”

While it’s impossible for us to calculate the benefit God receives from worship (since we’re not God), Peter’s point is that worshipers derive maximal benefit—maximal joy, spiritual fulfillment and soul satisfaction—from worshiping God when we give His worship maximal focus through obedience. And the obedience sought in this text is that we “Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution.” Nothing says satisfaction more clearly than obedience; and nothing says obedience more clearly than submission. And nothing indicates a worshipful, satisfied, obedient submission to God more impactfully than a community of Christ-followers living out that command together.