Like
obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in
ignorance
We are called upon to be like
responsible children, those who can take on the things that the Lord has for
us. There is tremendous peer pressure
that will be brought to bear upon us not to act in this manner. Rather, the way things were, the ways ‘we’ve
always done things’, tradition, this is what we can expect to return to. Peer pressure will press us to return to
these ways. But these ways are from the
time when we were ignorant, when we did not know that the Lord God had in store
for us.
Peter has gone from ‘recapping’ the
faith message he brought in person to his readers to laying out for them what
is expected in response. BC-Before
Christ-they lived lives of ignorance.
AC-After Christ (more consistent than AD, Anno Domino, “Year of Our Lord”)-everything
has changed. And they are expected, we
are expected, to respond in the proper way to this change of everything.
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