Returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of Your Souls
Click here to listen to this sermon. “[Christ] Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls” (1 Peter 2:24-25). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! I can understand why those who chose our pericopes (our assigned Bible readings for the week) might have decided to omit verse 18 from our Epistle today. They wished to avoid added controversy. But the verse does give us some needed context as to what kind of suffering Peter was calling these disciples to endure: “Servants [or slaves] be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if wh...