It may appear singular that in this passage Peter should make mention of those who were unbelieving in the days of Noah, and of baptism as the antitype of the water of the deluge; but this may be explained from the circumstance that . 1 Peter 3:19. See the analysis of the chapter. 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 he refers it to the present, it is the salvation of souls, not of bodies. relates to the souls of men, in a separate state from their This was known in Israel, but it could in no wise draw out the affections in the same way as calling Him Father. he does not do, and of the evil that he does, he has a dread of God, knowing that He must bring into judgment the good that he knew but did not, and the evil that he knew and did. But none of these wonders of grace could have been, unless by redemption we receive the end of our faith meanwhile, namely, soul-salvation. "No particular stress should be laid on the clause he went. incarnate, he was before Abraham, he was in the days of Noah; and Some of those addressed were domestics, whether or not they were slaves. Is this, you know, do you like this outfit? Thus, for instance, Saul of Tarsus had this sanctification of the Spirit the moment that, struck down to the earth, he received the testimony of the Lord speaking from heaven. He had quoted the law in 1 Peter 1:1-25, the prophets in1 Peter 2:1-25; 1 Peter 2:1-25, and now the psalms in 1 Peter 3:1-22. (2.) In the thrilling early days of the Church this prayer was fulfilled, for they were all of one heart and of soul ( Acts 4:32). There can be no Christianity without compassion. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request. It is to receive forgiveness from God and to give forgiveness to men that the Christian is called. Nor is there a doubt but that the holy fathers in life, as well as after death, directed their thoughts to this object. He is speaking about the people that heard Noah, and despised the word of the Lord then. You may find that which meets guilt in death, but never is salvation short of or separable from the power of resurrection. Never fear for the honour of the scripture, never shrink from committing yourself to what God says. But then He may do more and display Himself to the world. It must be remembered that at this stage of the Church's history we are still dealing with adult baptism, the baptism of people who had come straight from heathenism into Christianity and who were taking upon themselves a new way of life. ) with what precedes, and in which reference is made to the glory of Him who was quickened according to the Spirit. There is at least one passage in the Old Testament which lists the various items of female adornment and threatens the day of judgment in which they will be destroyed. Honey, do I look nice? God may have judged them in this world, but this is not all. If that supposition meets the full force of the language, then no argument can be based on it in proof that he went to preach to them after their death, and while his body was lying in the grave. And so He ascended to the right hand of God; the angels, the authorities, the powers, the ranking of angels are all subject unto him. 1 Peter 3:19 (GNTA) and in his spiritual existence he went and preached to the imprisoned spirits. human soul, but his divine nature meant, by the Spirit, by which All this will come in due time, and it may be very rapidly, even the self-same hour; but the very first thing that a soul born of God feels is the desire at all cost to do the will of God. We are heirs together of the grace of life.". They watch. 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. From the whole we learn that, (1.) Sacrament is derived from the Latin sacramentum, which means a soldier's oath of loyalty on entering the army. For a wife to change her religion while her husband did not was unthinkable. "The opinion which states that Jesus Christ descended into hell, to announce his coming to the ancient patriarchs, and to deliver them from that species of prison, where they had so long waited for him, is incontrovertible; and we (the Catholics) consider it as an article of our faith: but we may doubt whether this be the meaning of St. Peter in this place.". According to Christian light nothing will do but ability to stand before the glory of God. Such is not., the topic of Peter; it had been given to another instrument more fitted for revealing the heavenly position of the believer. But if you suffer for well doing, then that is a better thing. 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. 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. 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. hope of salvation afterwards; and the latter is absurd, vain, and Because of what they did in the times of Noah, leaving their own habitation, giving themselves over to fornication and going after "strange flesh", after the daughters of men. C. E. B. Cranfield writes so finely of this that we cannot do other than quote his whole comment in full, lengthy though it is: "The New Testament never treats this agreeing in Christ as an unnecessary though highly desirable spiritual luxury, but as something essential to the true being of the Church. (a) It is argued that Jesus preached in Hades only to the spirits of the men who were disobedient in the days of Noah. (Psalms 40:1-17; Hebrews 10:1-39) Thus He goes in peaceful triumph into the presence of God, establishing our faith and hope in God, and not merely in Himself. 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. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. Who are referred to by spirits? Jesus, before He ascended into heaven said to the disciples, "All power is given to me in heaven and earth" ( Matthew 28:18 ). Do the shades rise up to praise thee? But in the destruction by the flood eight people--Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives--were brought to safety in the ark. She must be submissive. Here we find the various relations of life practically met. He is and can be put to death by his family members if he leaves the Islam faith and becomes a Christian. He was put to death in the flesh, but he was raised to life in the Spirit, in which also he went and preached to the spirits who are in prison, the spirits who were once upon a time disobedient in the time when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built, in which some few--that is, eight souls--were brought in safety through the water. In a certain sense they are strangers now; but it is an awful sense, because it is the fruit of judgment. That is, our hope arises from being born anew and this new birth comes in some sense thru Jesus' resurrection. This is just the difference between the Christian and the Jew. "For you," says he, "who are kept;" for Christian doctrine is not, as men so often say, that of saints persevering. of the Vulgate which I have seen in reading spiritibus, "to the spirits.". It is granted that, even in connection with spiritual gift in the way of speaking, there is such a thing as the natural ability of the person taken into account; but this is not the gift, though it be the suited vehicle for it. In the general sense of the word, salvation awaits the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Take, for instance, the duty of obedience; the value of a gracious, peaceful walk here below; the degree of confidence in God. Studying the book of 2 Peter 3; shows a significant summary of the history, time and relevant details according to the bible's acts based onBenson Joseph - Bible Commentary and reading parallely the bible's version New King James Version. If he, though perfectly just, why should not we, who are all criminals? It is not a spineless submission that is meant but, as someone has finely put it, a "voluntary selflessness." See Matthew 3:1; Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:35; Mark 5:20; Mark 7:36. And I was greeting couple of young men first time they were here, and they were telling me how much they enjoyed the service. We have first seen one of them, "a holy priesthood;" there is another lower down, in verse 9, where he says, "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood." It was inevitable that one marriage partner might be won for Christ, while the other remained untouched by the appeal of the gospel; and such a situation inevitably had difficulties. The meaning is, that the same Spirit which was efficacious in restoring him to life, after he was put to death, was that by which he preached to the spirits in prison. A corresponding illustration in the New Testament is baptism. There are few passages where the value of a lovely Christian life is so vividly stressed. In any presentation of the Christian case and in any argument for the Christian faith, the accent should be the accent of love. In writing to the Christians of Corinth, he uses the same picture of the Christians as members of one body in spite of all their differing qualities and gifts ( 1 Corinthians 12:12-31). But then, again, as long as Christ was here, it could not be exactly hope. And the apostle guards against the wrong conclusion, that, because in certain things we stand contrasted with the Old Testament saints, there are no grounds in common. What, then, is Peter's advice in such a case? NICZSB. For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, so that, although they have already been judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the Spirit like God. There we have not merely the blessed Saviour who in unspeakable love comes down and attracts the heart, and searches the conscience, but He settles all for us with God by redemption. In due time there will be the fulfilment of the prophecies to the letter. Next he shows some of the privileges as well as wants of the Christian. And so he talked about, first of all, the servants submitting themselves unto their own masters, Christ leaving us an example. She that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and Marcus my son. If he once suffered, and then entered into glory, shall not we be patient under trouble, since it will be but a little time and we shall follow him to glory? Because we are men, there come physical suffering, death, sorrow, distress of mind and weariness and pain of body. The Jew, as such, was bound to obey the law. And this is exceedingly interesting, because if the prophet be compared, it will be seen to illustrate what has been remarked before the difference between the present accomplishment made good in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, and the future fulfilment of the prophecies. Getting along; you know our prayer life can be hindered by friction within the home. Qui facit per alium, facit per se. God really proclaims a message to mankind when he does it by the instrumentality of the prophets, or apostles, or other ministers of religion; and all that is necessarily implied in this language would be met by the supposition that Christ delivered a message to the antediluvian race by the agency of Noah. This is the more important, because of itself it completely dissipates a thought as common as it is grievous to the Lord, that Christ is the one in whom the love is, and that His task for the most part is to turn away the totally opposite feeling that is in God Himself. The less secure she feels, the more she challenges your decision. 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 Christian must go through the mental and spiritual toil of thinking out his faith, so that he can tell what he believes and why. Hair was waved and dyed, sometimes black, more often auburn. There are three distinct truths in these verses, as has been often remarked, and most clearly, as we have seen. You see, God created you in the beginning for fellowship. Since this is the only passage in the New Testament upon which the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory is supposed to rest, it is important to ascertain the fair meaning of the language here employed. sometimes signify a watch, yet more commonly a prison, and which This is not the sanctification of the Spirit. Christianity alone settles all questions. The point is this--as the Jews saw it, only the priests had the right of close access to God. "There are as many ways to the stars as there are men to climb them." For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. It is a mistake to construe it of one that knows not what took place in the lower parts of the earth. It is equally true, however, that from the beginning of his first epistle, Peter draws out the contrast of the Christian place with their old Jewish one. It may well be that when he compares himself with his fellow-men, he has nothing to fear from the comparison. "Such expressions (he went) are often redundant in Greek. This ought to be the spring of all our confidence, even in God Himself, with His own power preserving us. Thus the passage is altogether dissociated from the doctrine of the descent into hell; and the sense (though not the Greek) would be better expressed by writing, He had gone and preached unto the spirits (now) in prison. Christ was once and for all offered to bear the sin of many ( Hebrews 9:28). All through the New Testament rings this plea for Christian unity. In this passage Peter has three great things to say about baptism. former is impracticable and impossible; for after death follows And when the Lord Jesus appears by and by, there will be not the gospel as it is now preached, nor the Holy Ghost as He is now sent down from heaven, but the word going forth and the Spirit poured out suitably to that day. 3:7 Likewise, you husbands, live understandingly with your wives, remembering that women are the weaker sex and assigning honour to them as fellow-heirs of the grace of life, so that there may be no barrier to your prayers. ft "KESTREL" TRENTHAM MEETING STEEPLECHASE SURPRISE MANAWATU'S BIG PRICE KOREROS PARLIAMENTARY % SPRINT IO DUNGARVAN ( Per Press Association. ) But even on this word there are several various readings; some of the Greek MSS. The text of 1 Pet 3:19-20 is indeed difficult, but not incomprehensible. He'll be gone and then I won't have anything. It was in this spiritual condition of perfect freedom that the preaching to the dead took place. He said they are in prison (cf. It is exactly what filled Jesus perfectly. As we know, from that day to this there has never been a real recovery, but only the return of a remnant for special purposes for a season. Being sanctified of the Spirit, we are called to obey as Christ obeyed. And the woman is always fishing for the affirmation of this. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, And she's always fishing for "Honey, you're beautiful. This, then, may serve to show the true nature of Christianity, which, coming in after redemption, is founded on it, and forms in us heavenly associations and hopes while Jesus is away, and we are waiting for Him to return. Thirdly, it seems very strange, that Peter, speaking of the apostles, should immediately, as though forgetting himself, go back to the time of Noah. 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