So, then, it must first of all be remembered that this whole matter is to be thought of, not in terms of hell, as we understand the word, but in terms of Christ's going to the dead in their shadowy world. In other words, if we think of firmness, as well as the sense of belonging to heaven, a bright triumphant consciousness of glory, surely we must enter into and enjoy the precious truth of our union with Christ. Obedience is always right, but not to man when he would force the dishonour of God. Honey, do you love me? So "be full of pity", or another translation of the Greek word is tenderhearted. acc-pl-fem. What had Christ not gone through in the same path? ( Psalms 6:5). Start your free trial today! They think that there is something wrong with the text as it stands, that some scribe has perhaps copied it wrongly; and they, therefore, suggest that some word should be changed or added. On the other hand, if he gives to Jesus Christ the unique place in his life, the most precious thing for him is his relationship to God and nothing can take that from him. You'll have a good life. The Jews had a very shadowy conception of life beyond the grave. The partaking of the bread and the cup, if you --if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you're actually partaking your own damnation. One pound weight of the best Tyrian purple wool, strained twice through, cost 1,000 denarii, 43.50 British pounds. It may be that we will never agree in our theories of what exactly happened on the Cross, for, indeed, as Charles Wesley said in that same hymn: "'Tis mystery all!" Christ died once and for all for sins, the just.for the unjust. It will be observed here that there are two motives to holiness: the first is that He has called us; the next, that we call Him, and this by the sweet and near title of Father. Oh boy, what that does then is just compound the insecurity of the wife that cause her to challenge you in the first place. The word occurs thirty-eight times in the New Testament in the undoubted sense of a "prison," and not once in that of a place of protection, though twice (Revelation 18:2) it is used in the derived sense of "a cage." Of course it was Christ, which, after all, was far more important in one sense than the work He wrought for bringing us to God. Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. that he was come, and to fill them with dread and terror; but Our faith must be a first-hand discovery and not a second-hand story. "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going" ( Ecclesiastes 9:10). This is founded on the very principle of Christianity itself; that is, doing good, suffering for it, and taking it patiently. But how can we on this? It is not a question of that; but of a soul quickened by the Spirit through the truth received in ever so simple and limited a manner. And interestingly enough, Sarah had and asserted her place, too. But there is discipline also. Therefore God has His own wise, holy, and gracious mode of dealing with it. The description of the desired conduct, 1 Peter 3:8-9 2. It was a real inward and not merely external setting apart; it was through "sanctification of the Spirit." You wives who have unbelieving husbands, you're more apt to convert them by your lifestyle than you are by putting tracts in their peanut butter sandwiches. 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 ). 1 Peter 2:8 "Defense" (Greek: apologia): Christians should always be ready to give a defense, . 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. GOD'S WORD Translation Chapter Parallel 1 Peter 3:19 (GW) In it he also went to proclaim his victory to the spirits kept in prison. If persons take the actual application as the fulfilment of the prophecies, it in fact not only nullifies the future of scripture, but destroys the beauty and point of the present; for what the apostle intimates is, that they had obtained mercy now, though none were yet sown in the earth. The point that Peter is making is that, even if the Christian is compelled to suffer unjustly for his faith, he is only walking the way that his Lord and Saviour has already walked. (a) It is argued that Jesus preached in Hades only to the spirits of the men who were disobedient in the days of Noah. The example of Christ is proposed as an argument for patience under sufferings, the strength of which will be discerned if we consider the several points contained in the words; observe therefore, 1. 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). That does not mean that the like-mindedness we are to strive for is to be a drab uniformity of the sort beloved of bureaucrats. they were sometimes so, yet to what purpose should this former Bengel speaks of "the labour bestowed on dress which consumes much time." (2) If the meaning be that he went and preached after his death, it seems difficult to know why the reference is to those only who had been disobedient in the days of Noah. Why were they alone selected for this message? There is nothing at all in the verse that warrants a web of doctrine strange to the rest of the Bible. And so, when they see that they have nothing else than to be bedfellows of men, they begin to beautify themselves and put all their hopes on that. Sulpicius Gallus dismissed his wife because she had once appeared in the streets without a veil. What is meant by prison here? ) with what precedes, and in which reference is made to the glory of Him who was quickened according to the Spirit. The self-same principle is true in the believer, although of course it is pure grace toward him, whereas it was moral perfectness in Jesus. "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. It does not seem to be of such prime importance that much need be said. "Laying aside," he says, "all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby to salvation." Short as this passage is, it has in it much of the very essence of the Christian ethic. By which Spirit, his own Divine energy and authority. Catholicato d'Occidente - Decreto Della Chiesa vetero-cattolica ortodossa e dell'antecedenza del Catholicato d'Occidente Mentre l'8 ottobre 1941, il Primate e Vescovo Presiedente della Chiesa Episcopale Apostolica, Dr. Arthur Wolfort Brooks (Mar John Emmanuel, 1889-1948) ha rilasciato un Certificato di Accettazione in cui ha accettato l'ufficio aggiuntivo di Vescovo Presiedente della Chiesa . There must be in her life a lovely chastity and fidelity founded on love. An idea similar to the one here expressed may be found in 2 Peter 2:4, though the word prison does not there occur: God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and in Jude 1:6, And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains, under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day. The allusion, in the passage before us, is undoubtedly to confinement or imprisonment in the invisible world; and perhaps to those who are reserved there with reference to some future arrangement - for this idea enters commonly into the use of the word prison. That's always a better thing. They were that wicked race which lived in the days of Noah. 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. And more people are brought to Christ by the observing of the Christian life as you live it, than are converted through just someone laying the four spiritual laws on them.We were talking with a missionary who is in the Philippines and has a ministry basically to the Moslems. He reminds the Christians of Rome that, though they are many, they are one body, and he pleads with them to be of one mind ( Romans 12:4; Romans 12:16). In this I, for one, do not believe. and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you for the reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and reverence ( 1 Peter 3:15 ): So live the kind of a life that is an example that will provoke people to question you. And so in the challenging of the authority, they then feel they have to assert their manhood. To what did it all point? It symbolizes that which has already transpired in my heart. "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request. Thence, we see, they did speak of these very things. You may find that which meets guilt in death, but never is salvation short of or separable from the power of resurrection. What they were here directed to was to "feed the flock of God." More than this, there is full security, spite of our passing through a world filled with hatred and peril, for the Christian above all. It is easy to lose the sense of pity and still easier to be satisfied with a sentimentalism which feels a moment's comfortable sorrow and does nothing. and how is it that we can call Him Father? As we are told here, "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing," no wonder he adds, "ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." Honey, do I look nice? 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. The point is this--as the Jews saw it, only the priests had the right of close access to God. bondage. Such is not., the topic of Peter; it had been given to another instrument more fitted for revealing the heavenly position of the believer. There is tupos ( G5179) , type, which means a seal, and there is antitupos ( G499) , antitype, which means the impression of the seal. The old life just being buried; and as I come up out of the water, it's that new life in the Spirit, in Christ. There is a wider and, if possible, a deeper thought than the measure of our walk, which, after all, differs in all the children of God, no two being exactly the same, and all of us depending on self-judgment as well as growth in the knowledge of the Lord and of His grace. The "spirits" here will thus correspond with "in spirit" there. And a challenge of their authority is a real threat to their manhood. Are they separate from others? These were the jewels which adorned the holy women of old. See Note 1 at end of the chapter. 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. 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. Sort beloved of bureaucrats his wife because she had once appeared in the streets without veil! 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