It is Jesus Christ, through what he did, who gives men access to God. Those addressed from among the Jews were among the chosen ones, "elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father.". Such a man is desperately easily hurt. The rest will die. The truth is that the assumption of "my flock," or "yours", is the root of endless mischief. The Jews had brought His government into contempt by their own rebellion against His name; and Jehovah Himself had found it morally needful to hand over His own nation into the power of their enemies. Overcome by giddiness while flying, Icarus disobeyed his father and soared into the sky. Jesus preached to them through the apostles. You are the strong one, give her that strength. The real meaning may make the difficulty appear to be greater for a moment (as, I suppose, the truth often, if not always, does); but when received and understood, what has such strength of appeal to the conscience? He who loves life (present and eternal), and desires to continue to do so, not involving himself in troubles which will make this life a burden, and cause him to forfeit eternal life. We cannot very well apply this question and answer in infant baptism, unless it be to the parents; but, as we have said, baptism in the very early church was of adult men and women coming spontaneously from heathenism into the Church. This letter encourages the Elect in the audience the mainly gentile audience of these areas of the world. If not who were the spirits that He preached to? Here it is a pain to be obliged once more to make a depreciatory remark on our common English version.

It may well be that when he compares himself with his fellow-men, he has nothing to fear from the comparison. 3:18-22 For Christ also died once and for all for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. "For for this cause was the gospel preached to the dead also, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit."

Shall I redeem them from Death? No doubt if a person were at once to be brought into the comfort of full peace with God through the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, this would suit the heart's sense of its own need. For this reason, most scholars have rejected it. Moreover, the strange notion of those who think that unbelievers as to the coming of Christ, were after his death freed from their sin, needs no long refutation; for it is an indubitable doctrine of Scripture, that we obtain not salvation in Christ except by faith; then there is no hope left for those who continue to death unbelieving.

(ii) He lays it down that that sacrifice was for sin. What am I going to do?

1 Peter 3:19 says that Jesus preached unto spirits in prison; are these spirits associated with the angels of 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6? among ourselves, besides divers great theologians of other countries, including St. Thomas Aquinas on the one hand and Beza on the other--it was "in spirit," i.e., mystically speaking, our Lord Himself who, in and through the person of Noah, preached repentance to the old world. (Although it involves the use of Greek some readers may be, interested to see how Rendel Harris arrived at this famous, emendation.

It is almost impossible for us to realize what life must have been for the wife who was brave enough to become a Christian. That government may differ in character and depth; there may be at a fitting moment a far closer dealing with souls (as undoubtedly this is the case since redemption). (1 Enoch 911), 1 Enoch 12.4, 13.1 Christian humility comes from two things. I mean, here's a --here's a kid, you know, high in LSD telling me, Peace, brother. I have lost the cream of my congregation." He had gone and preached unto the spirits, By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison. As Edwin H. Robertson put it: "Only forgiveness without reason can match sin without excuse." He went, not by a local motion, but by special operation, as God is frequently said to move, Genesis 11:5; Hosea 5:15; Micah 1:3. I will set down his own words: Le sentiment qui veut que Jesus Christ soit descendu aux enfers, pour annoncer sa venue aux anciens patriarches, et pour les tirer de cette espece de prison, ou ils Pattendoient si long tems, est indubitable; et nous le regardons comme un article de notre foi: mais on peut douter que ce soit le sens de Saint Pierre en cet endroit. Another view is that the people to whom Jesus preached were those alive after Pentecost and in bondage to Satan and sin. He does not advise the wife to leave her husband. If we saw a company of men in prison who had seen better days - a multitude now drunken, and debased, and poor, and riotous - it would not be improper to say that the prospect of wealth and honor was once held out to this ragged and wretched multitude. It is one of the tragedies of the modern situation that there are so many Church members who, if they were asked what they believe, could not tell, and who, if they were asked why they believe it, would be equally helpless. Pearls were loved most of all. Interpretation of the dead ones in 1 Peter 4:6? O death, where is thy sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. "Dost thou work wonders for the dead? It is the grace of the Risen Lord which cleanses us; it is to the Risen, Living Lord that we pledge ourselves; it is to the Risen, Living Lord that we look for strength to keep the pledge that we have given.

But "God did not leave his soul in hell, neither did he allow the Holy One to see corruption," but this same Jesus has God raised from the dead ( Acts 2:27 ). The trial of our faith will not be revealed then, but "at the appearing of Jesus." There are three distinct truths in these verses, as has been often remarked, and most clearly, as we have seen. The less secure she feels, the more she challenges your decision. And we all come the same way to the same Lord to receive the same grace. He is keeping up the link with saints of old by a general principle. So I do not believe in what is called baptismal regeneration. I mean, his eyes got big and he just --he was just telling me, you know, how much he'd enjoyed the message and how it spoke to him, and all, and she comes up with all of this and his eyes get big and all. And he, speaking, said; that is, he said. Christianity accordingly, it will be observed, comes in between these two extremes after the first, and before the second, coming of Christ; and this is exactly what Peter shows us in this epistle. . It is not here blessing them in heavenly places in Christ. There is nothing at all in the verse that warrants a web of doctrine strange to the rest of the Bible. I admit that what is in the Bible requires faith; and this is as it should be. They too, those who had been before them, had been put to the proof in this way. By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison; 1 Peter 1:11,12 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Epictetus and Peter agree. As we shall go on to see, this most probably means that in the time between his death and his resurrection Jesus actually preached the gospel in the abode of the dead; that is to say, to those who in their lifetime had never had the opportunity to hear it. , , . Bengel speaks of "the labour bestowed on dress which consumes much time." He does not tell her to insist that there is no difference between slave and freeman, Gentile and Jew, male and female, but that all are the same in the presence of the Christ whom she has come to know. 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. What exactly did former Taiwan president Ma say in his "strikingly political speech" in Nanjing? If not, can you indicate why not? If you suffer for evil doing, you've got it coming. It is practical; and holiness costs suffering in this world. Other New Testament Scriptures relate to Christ's descent and His victory over death: In saying, He ascended, what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? Peter has just laid down the duty of wives; now he lays down the duty of husbands. Why did Peter mention Noah?

It comes, second, from the fact that the Christian has a new standard of comparison. Thus the passage is sufficiently plain. Least of all can the Jews be said to be sown in the land of Palestine. And big boys don't cry; that is, big boys aren't emotional. Sanctification of the Spirit is that primary action that was experienced before Saul entered into peace with God. This alone restores the balance; and thus we are taken out of all conceit of our own stability. Undoubtedly there was always a secret election of saints after the fall and long before the call of Abraham and his seed; but now the choice of saints was to be made a manifest thing, a testimony before men, though of course not till glory come absolutely perfect. "The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any that go down into silence" ( Psalms 115:17). To "the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it. The Jew, as such, was bound to obey the law. Now because I believe in Jesus Christ, I want to obey Him and thus I am baptized as a sign of what has transpired already within my heart. Let him meet criticism with a life which is beyond reproach. Here, I. Nay, we have Christ Himself brought in to enforce and illustrate it. In due time there will be the fulfilment of the prophecies to the letter. sub-view 3 (fallen Angels - not people): proclaimed triumph over the fallen angels (the Nephilim, i.e. A man may have more than one attitude to goodness.

To make the spirit by which Christ preached, as here, to have been his human spirit, or anything else except the Holy Spirit, involves men in making distinctions that are simply not discernible in the word of God.

Nothing of the sort is ever said in God's word but what excludes it. "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren," for this is the sure effect "see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." (ii) The second attitude is limitation.

Women cannot hold public offices, or priesthoods, or gain triumphs; they have no public occupations. So guilty man cannot but quake, still by scepticism he may reason himself out of his fears, or he can find a religion that soothes and destroys his conscience. But that man has this conscience in his natural state is most certain. 28), for the stubborn non-fulfillment of the laws given through him.10, (Much of the material included in this answer is based on Hilarion Alfayev's Christ the Conqueror of Hell: the Descent into Hades from an Orthodox Perspective, especially Chapters 1 and 2. Web3 , Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; Immediately the idea of being brought to safety through the water turns Peter's thoughts to Christian baptism, which is also a bringing to safety through the water. For in Christianity, it removes any kind of barriers that exists between people. 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They had been used to this and more in Judaism, but it had all passed away. One cannot reconcile Heb. Some of those addressed were domestics, whether or not they were slaves. Here in Christianity emerged the revolutionary principle that women had equal spiritual rights and with that the relationship between the sexes was changed. {} . Thirdly, it seems very strange, that Peter, speaking of the apostles, should immediately, as though forgetting himself, go back to the time of Noah. Compare also Jesus implication that angels do not procreate in Matthew 22:30. Because they have partaken of the one bread, they must be one body ( 1 Corinthians 10:17). (iii) He must remember that the woman has equal spiritual rights. So you, husbands don't try to pounce on this scripture and use it as a club to beat your wives in submission.

Thus neither faith had its adequate and suited sphere, nor had hope its proper character till Jesus went away. So the same if you go through the rite or the ritual of water baptism and it hasn't happened in your heart; it's only a witness against you. The meaning in that sense I take to be this: that the people formally pledged themselves to legal obedience, and bound themselves in this solemn manner to obey. 3:17-22;4:1-6 For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be the will of God, than to suffer for doing wrong.

Some advocates of this view say this took place in hell between His crucifixion and His resurrection. But if you suffer for well doing, then that is a better thing. Christian forgets his proper dignity. However, apart from that, on which I do not mean to enter more tonight, one thing is remarkable, that even when all was in apostolic, order, and where pastors and teachers and prophets and so on were, and besides, where the elders had been fitly appointed by the apostles themselves or by apostolic men, even there and at that very time they were exhorted against the notion of considering, "This is my congregation, and that is your leader."

He said the spirits of these unbelievers are in prison now (i.e., Sheol) awaiting resurrection and judgment by God (cf. Philippians 2:10

(i) He must be understanding.

Still others hold that He announced good news to the saved among them. The intention is just that you recognize that true beauty is inward. Next he proceeds to bring in what had to do with others. As all know, many things were allowed then for the hardness of the heart, which are thoroughly condemned now. Web1 Peter 3:19-20King James Version. "If any man speak, [let it be] as oracles of God; if any man minister, [let it be] as of the ability which God giveth." a great many perished. To this the answer is easy. Their story is told in Genesis 6:1-8. It is not often that words are thus left out. He alone was competent to suffer for sin. The hearers. Nor is it only that He comes down from God, but He goes up to God. From the whole we learn that, (1.) The Jews had a very shadowy conception of life beyond the grave. 3. In the general sense of the word, salvation awaits the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because the more cold and aloof you are, the less secure she feels. That would be the best sermon she could preach to win her husband for Christ. But if a wife became a Christian while her husband did not, she was taking a step which was unprecedented and which produced the acutest problems. Have no fear of them; do not be troubled; but in your hearts give Christ a unique place. As time went on, there emerged the idea of stages and divisions in this shadowland. Having been made alive by the Holy Ghost Christ went "In the spirit," that is, in the spiritual form of life, in that part that cannot be put to death, in this way he "entered upon a journey" to accomplish a particular task. And it would have been easy to have railed back but the poor woman is mentally disturbed. We have already seen that in the ancient world women had no part in public life whatsoever; they had nothing to pass their time; for that reason it was sometimes argued that they must be allowed an interest in dress and adornment. "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And as he is writing in his own little exhortations here, he goes back and he quotes a portion of Psalm 34 , about three or four verses out of Psalm 34 . This too is of the greatest importance for us all to remember and seek to realize by faith. He suffered in other ways; in this He stands alone for us; "that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. Finally [addressing now both], be of one mind, having compassion for one another, love as brethren, be pitiful ( 1 Peter 3:8 ). There is an awakening of conscience by the Spirit through the word (for I am not speaking now of anything natural, of moral desires or emotions of the heart). The way of the most is neither the best, the wisest, nor the safest way to follow: better to follow the eight in the ark than the eight millions drowned by the flood and damned to hell. As a matter of fact, "he went and preached" is just a Biblical way of saying he preached. But to take very simple and obvious examples, the Passover Lamb and the scapegoat, who bore the sins of the people, are types of Jesus; and the work of the High Priest in making sacrifice for the sins of the people is a type of his saving work. Personal / Relative Pronoun - Dative Neuter Singular, Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular, Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular. It would be well if all were clearly to understand what they are doing when they take upon themselves membership of the Church. But the wonderful place given to the Christian is that, though we do become the people of God now, whether Jew or Gentile, and although the believing Jew does obtain mercy now, he is not sown on the earth, but called out for heaven, and, in consequence, becomes a pilgrim and stranger here below till Jesus appears. The Greek for for sins is either huper ( G5228) or peri ( G4012) hamartion ( G266) . Its effect must be on a man's very soul and on his whole life. Certainly this mode of speaking would be most unsuitable. (a) If Christ descended into Hades, then his death was no sham. Web10. Women did not share in the worship of the Greeks and the Romans. In any presentation of the Christian case and in any argument for the Christian faith, the accent should be the accent of love.