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As Obedient Children
1Peter
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
17 ¶And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
If we are to be OBEDIENT children, these mindsets are prerequisite, (without these, obedience will be so much the harder)
- Gird up the loins of our mind
- Be sober
- Hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought
- Have reverential fear of our Father
(These forms the four main points of the message preached at the second service last Lord's Day.)
These will greatly assist our work in rendering obedience to God:
- negatively: by not fashioning yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance,
- positively "be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
- This will aid in practical obedience in all the different areas of our life.
