Thursday, January 14, 2016

Putting It All Together


If you invoke as Father the one who judges all people impartially according to their deeds, live in reverent fear during the time of your exile.

In other words, “It is a dare for us to call down the Creator of all, the one who judges all people with the impartiality of mercy given to us through the death and resurrection of Jesus, a judgment that will be according to what we do, the choices that we make, to be for or against our God, living in a reverent fear, because who we are in Christ can cause backlash in the community in which we live, especially as we lives our lives in this exile, this expectation of the Second Coming of Christ.”
Living as one who serves God, according to Peter, the one who serves the God who judges people by the deeds they do-as deeds deserving mercy or deeds deserving condemnation-this is a call to beware of this time of exile in a world of those who turn away from God, and deserve condemnation.  It is the time of persecution that Peter and his followers were living under, a time that Peter was seeking to explain to them.

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