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. Sanctification of the Spirit is that primary action that was experienced before Saul entered into peace with God. they were sometimes so, yet to what purpose should this former 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 divine things it is precisely what shows the power and special character of a Christian's faith. The word rendered prison, ( phulake,) means properly watch, guard - the act of keeping watch, or the guard itself; then watchpost, or station; then a place where anyone is watched or guarded, as a prison; then a watch in the sense of a division of the night, as the morning watch. It is well known that such expressions are often redundant in Greek writers, as in others. And the high priest asked them, Acts 5:27 The captain and officers just went to collect the apostles but without any violence. But it did not matter whether one gave silver or gold, it was all corruptible; and to what did it come at last? But besides this, the gospel, instead of putting a man under blood as a threat or imprecation of death in case of failure, the awful sign of his doom before his eyes if he disobeyed, puts him under the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, which assures him of plenary forgiveness. Nor is it only that we find here the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, but the life that grace has given us is characterized by resurrection power. (2) The Descent Into Hell ( 1 Peter 3:18 b-20;4:6 Continued). It is exactly what filled Jesus perfectly. Both Paul and Peter are quite sure that the Christian wife must remain with the heathen husband so long as he does not send her away. "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth." 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. It is a strange sound and fact at first, but in the end precious. "The just for the unjust,". Jesus, before He ascended into heaven said to the disciples, "All power is given to me in heaven and earth" ( Matthew 28:18 ). 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. [Note: E.g., Bigg, p. But when it is a question of drawing near, let us not forget that we are a holy priesthood. If it were your heritage, you would have certain rights; but the truth is that he who stands in the position of an elder has no small responsibility. One part of the answer is given here in 1Pe 1:3, another part is given in 1Pe 1:23-25. Salem Media Group. She comes up and grabs me and starts calling me a filthy viper and all kinds of stuff, you know. Have no fear of them; do not be troubled; but in your hearts give Christ a unique place. Monday, 7 March 2022 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. 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? "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). So God is often represented as coming, as descending, etc., when he brings a message to mankind. By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. What a place for the Christian! There is a sense in which pity is in danger of becoming a lost virtue. In the general sense of the word, salvation awaits the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. 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. In his body he suffered the penalty for their sins - death. First Peter 3:18-20 says, "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark . 19 In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison . He went to preach to "the spirits in prison." 1 Peter 2. Not rendering evil for evil ( 1 Peter 3:9 ), Now that's what the natural man would like to do, isn't it? I repeat, it is God's flock, not yours; and you are not to lord over it as if it were your own belongings. "All power," He said, "is given to me in heaven and in earth." The precious blood of Christ is another thing altogether; and there alone is efficacy found before God; so also His incorruptible seed revealing Himself is planted in the heart of the saint. does not agree with the connection of the words: others are of We do honour to the world and shame to this our place by seeking its favours. Consequently that nation as a display of His government was a thing of the past. And Rendel Harris thought that this passage referred, not to Jesus, but to Enoch, and Moffatt so far agreed with him as to put Enoch into his translation. In the top line in italic print, we have set down, the Greek of the passage in English lettering and beneath each, thanatotheis ( G2289) men ( G3303) sarki ( G4561), zoopoietheis ( G2227) de ( G1161) pneumati ( G4151), en ( G1722) ho ( G3588) kai ( G2532) tois ( G3588), en ( G1722) phulake ( G5438) pneumasi ( G4151). Some interpreters believe that the incident involving the sons of God and the daughters of men (Genesis 6:1-4) is what Peter had in view here. Luke next records, "Now Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon.". There is in this passage the solution of one of the most haunting questions raised by the Christian faith--what is to happen to those who lived before Jesus Christ and to those to whom the gospel never came? They had now an offer of mercy; those that accepted of it should be saved, but those who rejected Christ and the gospel should be as certainly destroyed as ever the disobedient in the times of Noah were. The times of the Gentiles are still in course of accomplishment. Here again the whole New Testament urges this duty upon us. The enforcement of the conduct from Scripture,1 Peter 3:10-12 They are scattered over the earth, and can find no rest for their souls, any more than their feet. It means that the work of Christ is infinite in its range. quoted above, as closid togyder proves. The prison was death by which men were bound. The "spirits" here will thus correspond with "in spirit" there. They think they have an understanding of scripture, and that they may therefore speak to profit; but it is a totally different thing if one desire only to speak as God's mouthpiece, though it is granted that one may here as elsewhere mistake and fail. Acts 12:20. 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. The mark of the Christian is that he forgives others as God has forgiven him ( Ephesians 4:32). The apostle passes from the example of Christ to that of the old world, and sets before the Jews, to whom he wrote, the different event of those who believed and obeyed Christ preaching by Noah, from those that continued disobedient and unbelieving, intimating to the Jews that they were under a like sentence. They watch. His coming ( ) is that which effects the rapture and reception of the saints to Himself; and His appearing is that which subsequently displays them with Himself before the world, and therefore expresses but a part of His presence, being the special (not the generic) term. There are those who guide, and it is a most proper thing. (3.) To proclaim, herald, preach. We might put it that the Old Testament event symbolically represents and foreshadows the New Testament event. This attitude--and it is that of some very great New Testament interpreters--believes that Peter is indeed saying that Jesus went to Hades and preached, but that he by no means preached to all the inhabitants of Hades. They are not yet finished; and they must be punctually fulfilled. 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). But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, a meek and a quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is very valuable ( 1 Peter 3:4 ). What is meant by prison here? "Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." c. It means Jews, and none but Jews, who believe in the Lord Jesus. What Christ was to them then was all: not in the least did any suspect (for indeed it was not yet true) that any were in Him. It is used in the New Testament, with reference to the future world, only in the following places: 1 Peter 3:19, Preached unto the spirits in prison; and Revelation 20:7, Satan shall be loosed put of his prison.. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. He says that after his resurrection Jesus went into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to him ( 1 Peter 3:22). "In which" refers back to the spiritual sphere of life in which Jesus Christ now lives (1 Peter 3:18). Pity is of the very essence of God and compassion of the very being of Jesus Christ; a pity so great that God sent his only Son to die for men, a compassion so intense that it took Christ to the Cross. What is it that Saul of Tarsus says as the effect of the light of God shining on his soul? In this case, those actually addressed had belonged to that elect people, but now they were chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. This was known in Israel, but it could in no wise draw out the affections in the same way as calling Him Father. And so it's important that there be a harmony within the house. The appearing of Jesus is exclusively when the Lord will make Himself visible, and be seen by every eye. It is tragic to realize how far men are from realizing this unity in their personal lives and how far the Church is from realizing it within herself. It was thus that Sara obeyed Abraham calling him, "Lord." Where this is duly weighed, it is wonderful what a change is produced in the mind, tone, and temper a change both in those who tend the flock, and in those who are cared for; because then God is looked to, and there is no petty feeling of infringing the rights of man in one form or another. I do not believe that if a person is not baptized, then they are not saved. So far was their believing in Christ from taking them out of the people, it is then alone that they became, a people. It may be to him a burden or a bore or something which he vaguely desires but the price of which he is not willing to pay in terms of effort. In 1 Peter 3:19 it states that Christ 'went and preached to the spirits in prison'. 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." The modern parallel is entering upon full membership of the Church. Some wish to eliminate it altogether and attempt to do so along two lines. Being sanctified of the Spirit, we are called to obey as Christ obeyed. Christianity came into a world of luxury and decadence combined. When he refers to Him as a "lamb without blemish and without spot," he evidently points to their types, yea, to Christ before the types, because we had that from the very beginning in the first recorded sacrifice, long before there was a Jew and still more before the law. vvvv RP 1 Peter 2:1 You see, God created you in the beginning for fellowship. Not so; for as He came out in the love of God, who none the less must by this very Christ judge every soul that lives in sin and unbelief, He would not go back to heaven until He bad by His own sacrifice completely put sin away. The Zealots were the fanatical patriots, who were pledged to liberate their native land by every possible means. God takes exact notice of all the means and advantages that people in all ages have had for the salvation of their souls; it is put to the account of the old world that Christ offered them his help, sent his Spirit, gave them fair warning by Noah, and waited a long time for their amendment. Who ever loved a person that he never saw? Various are the senses given of this passage: some say, that Christ, upon his death, went in his human soul to hell; either, as some, to preach to the devils and damned spirits, that they might be saved, if they would; and, as others, to let them know that he was come, and to fill them with dread and terror; but though hell may be meant by the prison, yet the text does not say that he went unto it, or preached in it; only that the spirits were in it, to whom he sometimes went, and preached; nor is his human soul, but his divine nature meant, by the Spirit, by which he went and preached to them: and as for the ends proposed, the former is impracticable and impossible; for after death follows judgment, which is an eternal one; nor is there any salvation, or hope of salvation afterwards; and the latter is absurd, vain, and needless. The creature is utterly ruined in every way, and with so much the speedier manifestation the more spiritual the trial. Will the dust praise thee? One thing is clear, sympathy and selfishness cannot coexist. for they were in peace and rest, in the kingdom of heaven, in He was opposed, reviled, disbelieved, and, we may suppose, persecuted. In two very ancient MSS. God is so patient that he waited for 120 years before sending the Flood in Noahs day (Genesis 6:3). a. That is an extremely interesting and ingenious suggestion but without doubt it must be rejected. There he says, "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme; or to governors, as to them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and praise to them that do well.". In Greek civilization the duty of the woman was "to remain indoors and to be obedient to her husband." 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