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Follow His Footsteps

Follow His Footsteps. (1 Peter 2:21) For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:. Follow His Footsteps. (1 Peter 2:21)

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Follow His Footsteps

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  1. Follow His Footsteps • (1 Peter 2:21) • For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

  2. Follow His Footsteps • (1 Peter 2:21) • For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

  3. 1. We Must Die To Sin (1 Pet. 2:24) Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus

  4. Be Dead to Sin, Living For Righteousness! • (1 Peter 2:24) • who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.

  5. Rom. 6:1-10

  6. Leaving Sin Behind Us… • (1 Peter 2:1-2) Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,

  7. Leaving Sin Behind Us…and Moving Onward to Better Things • (1 Peter 2:25) For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

  8. We Must Die To Sin (1 Pet. 2:24) We Must Hunger For God’s Word So That We Might Grow to Do His Work (1 Pet. 2:2) . Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus

  9. Hungering For God’s Word and to Do God’s Work • (John 4:30-34) • Then they went out of the city and came to Him. In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." Therefore the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?" Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

  10. We Must Die To Sin (1 Pet. 2:24) We Must Hunger For God’s Word So That We Might Grow to Do His Work (1 Pet. 2:2) We Must Become Useful In Service to the Master (1 Pet. 2:4-5) Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus

  11. Become A Useful Tool For the Master • (1 Peter 2:4-5) • Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

  12. Become A Useful Tool For the Master • (1 Peter 2:9) But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

  13. Become A Useful Tool For the Master • (1 Peter 2:7) Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,"

  14. Become A Useful Tool For the Master • (1 Peter 2:11-12) Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

  15. We Must Die To Sin (1 Pet. 2:24) We Must Hunger For God’s Word So That We Might Grow to Do His Work (1 Pet. 2:2) We Must Become Useful In Service to the Master (1 Pet. 2:4-5) Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus 4. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner In This World (1 Pet. 2:13-17) .

  16. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner Before the World • (1 Peter 2:13-17) Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men-- as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

  17. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner Before the World • (1 Peter 2:13-17) Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men-- as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

  18. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner Before the World • (1 Peter 2:13-17) Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men-- as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

  19. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner Before the World • (1 Peter 2:13-17) Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men-- as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

  20. We Must Die To Sin (1 Pet. 2:24) We Must Hunger For God’s Word So That We Might Grow to Do His Work (1 Pet. 2:2) We Must Become Useful In Service to the Master (1 Pet. 2:4-5) Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus 4. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner In This World (1 Pet. 2:13-17) 5. We Should Not Return Evil For Evil (1 Pet. 2:23)

  21. We Should Not Return Evil For Evil • (1 Peter 2:21) • For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

  22. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner Before the World • (Matthew 27:12-14) • And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing. Then Pilate said to Him, "Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?" But He answered him not one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

  23. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner Before the World • (Matthew 16:21-23) • From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!" But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men."

  24. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner Before the World • (1 Pet. 2:23) • He “committed Himself to Him who judges righteously”

  25. We Must Conduct Ourselves In An Orderly Manner Before the World • This is how Peter and John rejoiced, being found worthy to suffer shame for Christ (Ac. 5:41) • This is how Paul and Silas could sing in a jail cell at midnight (Ac. 16:25) • It is how Paul could write “Rejoice always” (1 Thess. 5:16) and mean it.

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