Worship Preparation - April 27, 2025
Read the sermon text:1 Peter 2:13-25
Read the sermon summary: This Sunday, we’ll return to our series in 1 Peter. We've been exploring our identity as holy exiles—those who belong to God because of his grace to us in Christ. In our last passage, we saw the command to "keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable," a charge that introduces the next section of the letter, stretching from 2:11 to 3:7. Within this unit, Peter addresses three relationships marked by submission. This Sunday, we’ll focus on the first two: submission to governing authorities and the call for servants to submit to their masters (2:13–25). We’ll see that this submission isn’t weak or blind, but that it's purposeful, grace-filled, and patterned after Christ himself. Far from being passive, it becomes a bold testimony to the power and beauty of the gospel.
Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon:
Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me
Verse 1
What gift of grace is Jesus my redeemer
There is no more for heaven now to give
He is my joy my righteousness and freedom
My steadfast love my deep and boundless peace
To this I hold my hope is only Jesus
For my life is wholly bound to his
Oh how strange and divine I can sing all is mine
Yet not I but through Christ in me
Verse 2
The night is dark but I am not forsaken
For by my side the Saviour he will stay
I labour on in weakness and rejoicing
For in my need his power is displayed
To this I hold my Shepherd will defend me
Through the deepest valley he will lead
Oh the night has been won and I shall overcome
Yet not I but through Christ in me
Verse 3
No fate I dread I know I am forgiven
The future sure the price it has been paid
For Jesus bled and suffered for my pardon
And he was raised to overthrow the grave
To this I hold my sin has been defeated
Jesus now and ever is my plea
Oh the chains are released I can sing I am free
Yet not I but through Christ in me
Verse 4
With every breath I long to follow Jesus
For he has said that he will bring me home
And day by day I know he will renew me
Until I stand with joy before the throne
To this I hold my hope is only Jesus
All the glory evermore to him
When the race is complete still my lips shall repeat
Yet not I but through Christ in me
Ending
When the race is complete still my lips shall repeat
Yet not I but through Christ in me
Yet not I but through Christ in me
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