Peter Barnes | 1 Peter 2:21-24
SERMON NOTES
CHRIST – OUR EXAMPLE AND OUR SUBSTITUTE
(1 Peter 2:21-24)
– addressed specifically to slaves (2:21)
1. Christ our example.
(a) He is sinless. 2:22; 1 John 2:6; Acts 10:37-38; 2 Cor.5:21
(b) He did not retaliate. 2:23a. Charles Simeon: ‘My enemy, whatever evil he says of me, does not reduce me so low as he would if he knew all concerning me that God knows.’
– Pastor Julius von Jan in November 1938: ‘The S.A. men spat upon me with no understanding how I rejoiced to be brought so near to the Lord in such shame and in such discipleship.’
– Prov.24:29.
(c) He did not threaten. 2:23b. Luke 22:63-65; 23:35-37; Matt.26:51-53, but see Luke 23:34
(d) He committed Himself to the righteous Judge. 2:23c. Rom.12:18-21. Justice is not set aside.
2. Christ our substitute.
– 2:24; 3:18
– Matt.16:22 and Acts 4:29; George Wishart in 1546.