sometimes signify a watch, yet more commonly a prison, and which We can easily comprehend it. They are now "spirits" since they died long ago and their bodies have not yet experienced resurrection. ft "KESTREL" TRENTHAM MEETING STEEPLECHASE SURPRISE MANAWATU'S BIG PRICE KOREROS PARLIAMENTARY % SPRINT IO DUNGARVAN ( Per Press Association. ) Still others hold that He announced good news to the saved among them. We can all understand this: holiness, when one has to do with God; royalty, before the world when the temptation is to forget our heavenly honour. For Christ communicated a new nature which loves to obey God's will, which accordingly is given us from conversion, before (and it may be long before) a person enjoys peace. Some woman really railed on me this morning, now it isn't the first time. It belongs to the condition in which man is that, being fallen, and yet having a conscience of the good that alas! It is Paul's dream that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth ( Php_2:10 ). Christ died once and for all for sins. It is a strange sound and fact at first, but in the end precious. A third group holds that Jesus proclaimed His victory on the cross to fallen angels. prison of hell, so the Syriac version renders it, (lwyvb) , "in hell", see ( Revelation And this by Christ's work is made good for us, because the very one that became responsible for our sins on the cross is in glory now. The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. When a man is roused to hate his sins through God's testimony reaching him, and convicting him before God, and not in his own eyes, when a man is ashamed of all that he has been in presence of God's grace, ever so little known and understood, still where a real work goes on in the soul, sanctification of the Spirit is true there. words are to be understood of Christ's going to preach, by his The New Testament is completely sure that on the Cross something happened which never needs to happen again and that in that happening sin is finally defeated. So "be full of pity", or another translation of the Greek word is tenderhearted. The man that would make all his scripture to be the epistle to the Ephesians would soon find himself in want of Peter. It was to them that Enoch did, in fact, preach; and there are those who think that what this passage means is not that Christ preached mercy and another chance; but that, in token of his complete triumph, he preached terrible doom to those angels who had sinned. Such labour is no modern thing. . Where is each to be proved? 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 . Having a good conscience; that, whereas they may speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ ( 1 Peter 3:16 ). Not only are they to be set publicly at the head of the nations, but God himself will link His own glory from above with them as His earthly people here below, and nothing but peace, righteousness, and plenty will be found all over the earth in that day of glory. In any presentation of the Christian case and in any argument for the Christian faith, the accent should be the accent of love. Therefore there could be no comparison on that score, not even for a Jew. For he that will love life, and see good days ( 1 Peter 3:10 ), Now here Peter goes back and just quotes a portion out of the psalms. One sees alas! here, and delivered the souls of the Old Testament saints and Again, when Peter is talking about the banishing of fear, he is thinking of Isaiah 8:13, "But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.". Then he begins his exhortations, and first of all with the personal snares of every day, with what the Christian had to contend with in himself. It is not to be explained in terms of a swoon on the Cross, or anything like that. It is not said to be at Christ's coming. The trial of our faith will not be revealed then, but "at the appearing of Jesus." "if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts ( 1 Peter 3:14-15 ): Give a special place for God in your life. 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. He said, Boy, you really handled that well, you know. It is not affirmed that he preached the gospel, for if that specific idea had been expressed it would have been rather by another word - euangelizo. might be saved, if they would; and, as others, to let them know In addition, such a conjecture should make the text intelligible. It was thus that Sara obeyed Abraham calling him, "Lord." II. The legal sacrifices were repeated from day to day, and from year to year; but the sacrifice of Christ, once offered, purgeth away sin, Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 9:26; Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 10:10; Hebrews 10:12; Hebrews 10:14. But when he rose again, he rose with a spiritual body, in which he was rid of the necessary weaknesses of humanity and liberated from the necessary limitations of time and space. But the sanctification of the Spirit laid down here is in order to the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus; and therefore unless you would destroy the grace of God, and reverse a multitude of scriptures as to justification by faith, this sanctification cannot be one's practice of day by day. [Note: E.g., Michaels, pp. (4.) They were tempted by the beauty of mortal women; they came to earth, seduced them and begat children; and because of their action, it is inferred, the wickedness of man was great and his thoughts were always evil. The Christian does not belong to the world, and consequently is not bound by accidents of time. Roman matrons were prohibited from drinking wine, and Egnatius beat his wife to death when he found her doing so. The intention is just that you recognize that true beauty is inward. Have you heard some of these things that are happening on the road? Nothing of the sort is ever said in God's word but what excludes it. That is, our hope arises from being born anew and this new birth comes in some sense thru Jesus' resurrection. as some, to preach to the devils and damned spirits, that they (vi) Peter sees the work of Christ in terms of complete triumph. They assimilated passages one to another; they thought that what was right in one case must be right in another; and thus the tendency was to blunt the fine edge of the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God. Through him we have boldness and access and confidence to come to God ( Ephesians 3:12). (i) Right in the forefront he sets Christian unity. Every time they let her out, she comes around here and rails on me. It is good that we should feel that it is unbelief, and that unbelief can produce nothing but death. The simple idea is that of persons confined as in a prison; and the passage will prove only that in the time when the apostle wrote there were those wire were thus confined. This is the reason why he connects it with the appearing of Jesus Christ. ", This leads to another important point; that if we do suffer, it ought never to be for sin, and for the affecting reason that Christ has once for all suffered for sins. Then it is that the trial of the faith of the Christian will be made manifest in glory. The flesh never counts on God for good. He then says, that Christ did not rise only for himself, but that he made known to others the same . But there's an interesting proverb that says, "A soft answer turns away wrath" ( Proverbs 15:1 ). The cruelty which is hardest to bear is often not deliberate but the product of sheer thoughtlessness. But this was never the case with Jesus. That the Spirit of God did strive with, convict, and reprove the antediluvians, is evident from Genesis 6:3: My Spirit shall not always strive with man, forasmuch as he is flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. At first sight, perhaps, these words may be startling to some, that is, to such as think that the sense of "salvation" is weakened thereby. That is, the holiness of the Christian is fuller, and deeper than that of the Jew. Seek peace, pursue it." But this interpretation cannot stand; it is indeed inconsistent with the words of the passage, for Peter ascribes salvation only to the family of Noah, and gives over to ruin all who were not within the ark. 20:7 ) when the Apostle Peter wrote this epistle; so that And here is the wonderful infatuation of unbelief. 2. that generation who was then in being; and who being disobedient, 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. The Psalmist wrote: "In death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give thee praise?" Nor is there a doubt but that the holy fathers in life, as well as after death, directed their thoughts to this object. The exhortation is not limited to slaves. It is plain that, if God foreordained it, He at the same time took care to act on it, and this is long before either Judaism or the law. That He might be able to wash and cleanse you from your sin in order that you might have the purposes of God accomplished in your life as you fellowship with God. human soul, but his divine nature meant, by the Spirit, by which It is not here blessing them in heavenly places in Christ. Christ has died and triumphed over death, and therefore believers are, through him, cleansed from sin, made alive and brought back to God (20-22). He did not mean the mere outward act of baptism. God is so patient that he waited for 120 years before sending the Flood in Noahs day (Genesis 6:3). A remnant, it is true, had been brought up from Babylon for the purpose of being tested by a new trial by the presentation of the Messiah to them; but alas! They were that wicked race which lived in the days of Noah. Turn away from evil, do good. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. The copy from which this translation was taken evidently read conclusi erdnt, with one of the MSS. Honey, do I look nice? 1 Peter 3:18-22 contain some very difficult exegetical problems. But it may be inquired, Why he puts in prison the souls of the godly after having quitted their bodies? It is not merely the work effected, but salvation revealed; and hence it necessarily awaits the revelation of Jesus Christ. "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." (a) If Christ descended into Hades, then his death was no sham. In every business contract there was a definite question and answer which made the contract binding. 2 Peter 2:4) and that they were disobedient in the days of Noah (1 Peter 3:20). They were apt to rise against oppression and to fail in obedience to a superior, at least among the heathen. died, their separate souls were put into prison, and there they But this is not all; we need Christ interceding for us, as well as the privilege of being in Christ; we need to have Him active in His love before our God, and not merely a condition in which we stand. When she was under her father she was under the patria potestas, the father's power, which gave the father the right even of life and death over her; and when she married she passed equally into the power of her husband. for the apostle prescribes two things: 1. consideration for the wife, as of the weaker sex: 2. honour for the wife, as a fellow-heir of the grace of life. This is what we've been called to do. And then he takes up what is distinctly spiritual power, which should be used not in charity only but with conscience before God, and for His glory through our Lord Jesus. When the suffering is part of the human situation, it still cannot despoil him of the most precious things in life. Many great scholars have accepted that view; but we do not think it is the view which comes naturally from Peter's words. The Zealots were the fanatical patriots, who were pledged to liberate their native land by every possible means. "Baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh . The prison was death by which men were bound. Those who died in faith went to the place of comfort and were comforted by father Abraham. When one member of the body suffers all the other members suffer with it; and when one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it ( 1 Corinthians 12:26), and it must be so with Christians, who are the body of Christ. And if ye call on the Father" that is, if ye call on Him as Father "who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." were when the apostle wrote: from whence we learn, that Christ Scripture: 1 Peter 3:9. It only makes confusion in jumbling up law and gospel, to the detriment of both, and indeed to the destruction of all the beauty and force of truth. THE CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT FOR CHRIST ( 1 Peter 3:15 b-16). does struggle to have its own way. But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye:] and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. Because we are men, there come physical suffering, death, sorrow, distress of mind and weariness and pain of body. Why are modern Bible translations copyrighted. Yet the Christian life has a certain blessedness which runs through it all. Certainly such is not the teaching of God's word anywhere, still less is it what the apostle Peter insists on here. 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 . God has a right to use whom He pleases, according to His own sovereign will and wisdom; but the truth is, that if you have received a gift, you are not only at liberty but rather bound to use it in Christ's name. We ought to be seeking to bring blessings to people. Into the Court of the Priests, into the nearer presence of God, he could not go; and of the priests, only the High Priest could enter into the Holy of Holies. The plain and easy sense of the words is, that Christ, by his Spirit, by which he was quickened, went in the ministry of Noah, the preacher of righteousness, and preached both by words and deeds, by the personal ministry of Noah, and by the building of the ark, to that generation who was then in being; and who being disobedient, and continuing so, a flood was brought upon them which destroyed them all; and whose spirits, or separate souls, were then in the prison of hell, so the Syriac version renders it, , "in hell", see Revelation 20:7 when the Apostle Peter wrote this epistle; so that Christ neither went into this prison, nor preached in it, nor to spirits that were then in it when he preached, but to persons alive in the days of Noah, and who being disobedient, when they died, their separate souls were put into prison, and there they were when the apostle wrote: from whence we learn, that Christ was, that he existed in his divine nature before he was incarnate, he was before Abraham, he was in the days of Noah; and that Christ also, under the Old Testament, acted the part of a Mediator, in his divine nature, and by his Spirit discharged that branch of it, his prophetic office, before he appeared in human nature; and that the Gospel was preached in those early times, as unto Abraham, so before him. We have the value of Christ's blood already spoken of, but now it is added of God that He "raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory." ( Psalms 6:5). In the word of God, then, we find that the accomplishment of the prophecy supposes an earthly place, with visible power and glory given to the Jewish people. King James Version (KJV) Public Domain. For the time that is past is sufficient to have done what the Gentiles will to do, to have lived a life of licentiousness, lust, drunkenness, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatry. Therefore, "If Christ is said by Paul to go and do, what he did by his apostles, Christ may with equal propriety be said by Peter to go and do what he did by Noah."[33]. He must be considerate and sensitive to the feelings of his wife. But you need never be afraid of trusting God or His word. The prophets were constantly saying that the righteousness of God was near at, hand, and His salvation to be revealed. The principle, however, is sound; and may we heed it in conscience, looking to the Lord's grace in our weakness. He went to preach to "the spirits in prison." 1 Peter 3:19. 16 having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in christ. 1 Peter 3 - Submission and Suffering A. Submission in the home. (i) There are those who wish to eliminate it altogether. And it becomes a beautiful symbol.But if it has not happened in my heart, it cannot happen by the ritual. He is forming a family, and no longer governing one chosen nation. He was opposed, reviled, disbelieved, and, we may suppose, persecuted. He who does not love remains in death. Now Peter is saying, Honor her knowing that she's weaker. This is both true and important in its place. It was Christianity which introduced chivalry into the relationship between men and women. To what did it all point? 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