Sermon
Under Authority and Actually Happy
Cross Church
Speaker: Nick Floyd
June 30, 2025 · 30 min
Summary
Peter teaches Christians to live under government authority while maintaining submission to God alone. The sermon explores five ways believers exemplify Christ: doing good to silence critics, exercising freedom as God's servants, honoring leaders, modeling respect toward the unjust, and enduring suffering faithfully like Jesus did, ultimately entrusting themselves to God's justice.
Highlights
Christian freedom is always conditioned by Christian responsibility.
You can wholeheartedly disagree with somebody and still honor them.
God sees when you do the right thing and are punished for it.