BE SUBMISSIVE ONE TO ANOTHER

 SATURDAY, 16^TH DECEMBER, 2023.

 

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

 

Topic: BE SUBMISSIVE ONE TO ANOTHER

 

MEMORIZE: " ⁵ Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."  - 1 Peter 5:5

 

SCRIPTURE READING: 1 Peter 5:2-7 (NKJV)

⁵ Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." ⁶ Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time."

 

EXPOSITION:

Humility is a Christian virtue that produces submission. There cannot be submission where pride is in action. For our service to be acceptable to God, we must be humble. Having settled and explained the duty of the pastors or spiritual guides of the church, apostle Paul comes now to instruct the flock, how to behave themselves to their ministers and to one another. He calls them the younger, as being generally younger than their grave pastors, and to put them in mind of their inferiority, the term younger being used by our Saviour to signify an inferior, Luke 22:26 “But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.”  Jesus exhorts those that are younger and inferior to submit themselves to the elder, to give due respect and reverence to their persons, and to yield to their admonitions, reproof, and authority, enjoining and commanding what the word of God requires, Hebrews 13:17 “Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.”.

 

As to one another, the rule is that they should all be subject one to another, so far as to receive the reproofs and counsels one of another, and be ready to bear one another's burdens, and perform all the offices of friendship and charity one to another; and particular persons should submit to the directions of the whole society, Eph 5:21 “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”; Jas 5:16 “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”. These duties of submission to superiors in age or office, and subjection to one another, being contrary to the proud nature and selfish interests of men, he thereby advised them to be clothed with humility. This is not just an advice but also a command. When we humble ourselves, it is then we will put on the strength of God which will enable us to resist the devil and he will flee before us.

 

PRAYER POINTS: 1. Lord, let the spirit of humility possess me in the name of Jesus.

2. Lord, deliver your church And the ministers from spirit and power of pride in the name of Jesus.

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