6th Sunday of Easter

1 Peter 3:13-22

Consciences are made clean here!

Peter’s audience was likely being told day after day that they were

terrible, immoral, unpatriotic and a threat to upstanding Roman society

just for worshiping Christ. If you’re told this often enough, you’re

going to eventually start believing it. So Peter writes to combat this lie.

These Christians do not need to be troubled by all these accusations, but they can live with a

“good conscience,” meaning that they know that in Christ, they are innocent of all things.

Baptism testifies to this. It is “an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the

resurrection of Jesus Christ.” This means that no matter what false accusations the world may

throw at you, it will never stick. Because your name has already been cleared by the one who

judges the living and the dead.