Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for March 23, 2025
The Submission and Substitution Connection
1 Peter 2:13-25
1. Introduction
• the matter of identity (2:1-12)
• this morning: submission in a secular culture and its scriptural support
2. Command: Submit to Civil Government 13-17
• the meaning and the reason (13)
• the scope (14)
• the divine strategy: doing good, using freedom, showing respect (15-17)
3. Command: Submit in the Context of Personal Employment 18-20
• counter-cultural inclusion (18)
• gracious enduring (19-20)
4. Connection: See How Substitution Relates to Submission 21-25
• example to trace: refusal and reliance (21-23)
• ultimate and unique submission through substitution (24) (Lev. 16)
• sustaining Shepherd (25) (Isa. 53:6)
5. So What?
• Because Jesus is your ultimate standard and only substitute, live in glad submission to Him.
• It takes a divine methodology to achieve a divine agenda.
• “Why did they nail Him to Calvary’s tree? Why, tell me, why was He there? Jesus the helper, the healer, the friend, why, tell me, why was He there? All my iniquities on Him were laid; He nailed them all to the tree. Jesus the debt of my sin fully paid; He paid the ransom for me.” (J. Moore, “Why?”)
