Feeding the Sheep - Blessed Life 8
"Behave like obedient children. Don’t let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be." 1 Peter 1:14 [This is the 38th message of this series] This lesson is intended for mature believers (or adulting believers). For a more orderly study, please go through all the previous messages first, if you haven't yet. 1 Peter [This will be the 8th of a series within a series] Living the Blessed Life Peter instructed the first church (among other things) to behave and not be controlled by their desires. Obedience As believers in Christ, we are called children of God. Our Father in heaven is a Good Father and although when He looks at us He sees Christ, He will not be mocked by willfully disobedient children. As Christians, we ought to be like Christ. Samuel the prophet of old said, Obedience is better than sacrifice. So many believers do lip service or worse, do things by merely following traditional or ritualistic sacrifices. God does not require