Thank you. Jesus call for us to follow him doesn't come with a promise of health and wealth and success, as some false teachers like to proclaim.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll look to the Bible to see what it means

to follow Christ. Alistair Begg is teaching from 1st Peter chapter 2.

We've already noted that he has been giving instruction concerning submission in the civil realm of government

and in the realm of everyday employment from verse 18 on. And he's going to go in in verse 1 of chapter 3

to address the nature of submission within the family unit, and in the midst of all of that,

he provides us with this supreme pattern and example by calling, as it were, to the witness stand,

one who by his life and death presents unassailable evidence as to the nature and significance of submission.

Now, this in itself is quite a wonder, because if you remember the gospel records at all,

you will know that Peter didn't always feel this way about submission.

Indeed, when Jesus explained to Peter, after Peter in Matthew 16,

you can check it, had made that tremendous statement, you are the Christ, the son of the living God.

And Jesus then went on to explain that he must go to Jerusalem and he must suffer at the hands

of wicked men and he must die and he must be raised. Peter breaks wicked men, and he must die, and he must be raised,

Peter breaks into the conversation and says, no way, Jesus, this must never happen to you.

You must never suffer.

And Christ turns to him, and he said, get behind me, Satan.

You're now speaking like a man. you are not speaking in the way that God

illuminates the heart. And so it's an amazing transformation in Peter's life that he who would

run away from suffering, who would run away from the nature of submission, now finds himself

bowing beneath that same principle and describing its practice

for his readers who would follow him. If it was a lesson that Peter needed to learn, it is a lesson

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