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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