Lecture Theme:
God’s promises bring privileges, but they also bring obligations. God’s people learn that rebel- ling against him and breaking his covenant results in the mercy of chastening to train them in his ways and to turn them back to himself.
Text:
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation” (1 Peter 2:11–12).