What Is Excellent Behavior?

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• What Is Excellent Behavior?
• 1 Peter 213-25

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Keep Your Behavior Excellent

• Submitto every human institution

v.15- Right living MAY stop false accusations
Speaks to civil disobedience,
disrespect, and resistance
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Keep Your Behavior Excellent

• Submitto every human institution
• Honor ALL men

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but
with humility of mind regard one another as more
important than yourselves4. do not merely look
out for your own personal interests, but also for
the interests of others.5. Have this attitude in
yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, Phil.
23-5
Speaks to seeing VALUE in others
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Keep Your Behavior Excellent

• Submitto every human institution
• Honor ALL men
• Love the brotherhood

agapao, active goodwill, choosing
to love
Lit. keep loving everyone in relation to Christ
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1 John 316 420

• We know love by this, that He laid down His life
  for us and we ought to lay down our lives for
  the brethren.
• If someone says, "I love God," and hates his
  brother, he is a liar for the one who does not
  love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love
  God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we
  have from Him, that the one who loves God should
  love his brother also.

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Keep Your Behavior Excellent

• Submitto every human institution
• Honor ALL men
• Love the brotherhood
• Fear God

Greek- phobeo - to show reverence and respect
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How do we show respect?

• Obedience

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this
is right.2. HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which
is the first commandment with a promise),3. SO
THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY
LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH. Ephesians 61-2

• Attitude
• Presentation

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Leviticus 101-3

• Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took
  their respective firepans, and after putting fire
  in them, placed incense on it and offered strange
  fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded
  them.2. And fire came out from the presence of
  the LORD and consumed them, and they died before
  the LORD.3. Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what
  the LORD spoke, saying, By those who come near
  Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
  people I will be honored.' " So Aaron, therefore,
  kept silent.

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Exodus 1910, 14-15

• The LORD also said to Moses, "Go to the people
  and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let
  them wash their garments
• So Moses went down from the mountain to the
  people and consecrated the people, and they
  washed their garments.15. He said to the people,
  "Be ready for the third day do not go near a
  woman."

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Keep Your Behavior Excellent

• Submitto every human institution
• Honor ALL men
• Love the brotherhood
• Fear God
• Honor the King

king would refer here to Ceaser
Leaders and their important decisions draw our
ire.
Excellent behavior gives honor to the office.
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Keep Your Behavior Excellent

• Submitto every human institution
• Honor ALL men
• Love the brotherhood
• Fear God
• Honor the King
• Be submissive to your masters

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All kind of masters included

• Some would be fair in attitude and action

• Others would be unfair, surly, and inconsiderate

The key here? When Peter is speaking of fear and
reverence he is speaking of God
A parallel situation can be found in an employer
with power over one today. Gods favor is on
the patient one.
Good service is NOT determined by ones master,
but by THE Master.
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Keep Your Behavior Excellent

• Submitto every human institution
• Honor ALL men
• Love the brotherhood
• Fear God
• Honor the King
• Be submissive to your masters
• Follow in His footsteps

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How shall we follow?
Greek- kaleo- invited for this purpose i.e., He
suffered unjustly, but trusted God and was
patient.
Our Example w/government all men the
brotherhood political leaders employers
We now have A shepherd and Guardian
of our souls