Accordingly God chooses now not merely out of men but out of the Jews. They think it strange when you do not rush to join them in the same flood of profligacy and they abuse you for not doing so. 2 Peter 2:4 speaks of these sinning angels as being imprisoned in hell, awaiting judgment. 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 ). 1 Peter 3:18-22 contain some very difficult exegetical problems. The difference is this. It is a mistake to construe it of one that knows not what took place in the lower parts of the earth. But there's an interesting proverb that says, "A soft answer turns away wrath" ( Proverbs 15:1 ). In our case it is all through Jesus. "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth; because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. Whence is the power or the growth in holiness? There may be no sense of liberty yet, nor even joy in the Lord; there can be no solid peace whatever. Let him meet criticism with a life which is beyond reproach. And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins." Such a man is desperately easily hurt. Jesus went to the cross and died there for your sins. The great matter is, that what is spoken should be from God. 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). She was entirely subject to her husband and completely at his mercy. "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." It is by the silent preaching of the loveliness of her life that she must break down the barriers of prejudice and hostility, and win her husband for her new Master. Suffering is the way in which power in practice is found against the flesh; so that "he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." The word is a somewhat difficult one; but I believe the force is that it is what conscience wants and asks for from God. And may God help us to be tenderhearted, not to become callused or indifferent to the needs of people around us but that we might have tender hearts, full of pity. And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. It does not seem to be of such prime importance that much need be said. Want the Verse of the Day sent to your inbox? Because of it, all who trust in Christ are brought to His Father. What, then, must have been the problems of the wife who became a Christian while her husband remained faithful to the ancestral gods? There is no allusion in this passage to any other; there is no intimation that to any others of those in prison the message here referred to had been delivered. It was no new thought. 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. Christ gave himself for our sins ( Galatians 1:4). It was partly sight and partly faith; but when He went away, it was altogether faith, and nothing but faith. Israel must wait; but we do not. When the Christian remembers his dependence on God and keeps before him the standard of Christ, he must remain humble. (2) The Descent Into Hell ( 1 Peter 3:18 b-20;4:6 Continued). That is to say, any argument in which the Christian is involved must be carried on in a tone which God can hear with joy. 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. Well, the thing is I know the woman; I know her problems. The plural "spirits" describes human beings only one other place in the New Testament (Hebrews 12:23), but it describes evil spirit beings frequently (Matthew 10:1; Mark 1:27; Mark 3:11; Mark 5:13; Mark 6:7: Luke 4:36; Luke 6:18; Acts 5:16; Revelation 16:13; et al.). Thus he shows that even if you look at those that are dead, there was no difference. It was just before that judgment fell on them, and this because they despised the testimony of Christ through Noah. 1 Peter 3:19. The saints are chosen through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience. As it is said in Ephesians: He has chosen us, not the church, but ourselves individually. 1. Whereas the previous example of Jesus stressed the way He suffered while doing good, this one emphasizes the theme of Jesus vindication, which is major in 1 Peter following the quotation of Psalms 34 in 1 Peter 3:10-12. 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. (vi) Lastly, and as a climax, Peter sets forgiveness. She comes up and grabs me and starts calling me a filthy viper and all kinds of stuff, you know. only to their responsibility, not to their faith; and if it be responsibility, whether to do the law or to believe the Messiah, it is all one as far as the result in man is concerned. Sacrament is derived from the Latin sacramentum, which means a soldier's oath of loyalty on entering the army. In the narrow compass of these two verses Peter has the greatest and the deepest things to say about the work of Christ. 1 Peter 4. (ii) The second attitude is limitation. Nevertheless obedience abides the principle of the Christian. Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with fear. "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations." 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 . ungodly", ( 2 Peter 2:5 ) and And this kid said, I didn't know what was going on, I was --I was ready to do something. Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives 1 Peter 3:1 Hebrew Bible 1 Peter 3:1 Aramaic NT: Peshitta "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. It is into this very snare that unbelief has brought men in Christendom. He that would love life, And see good days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile: Let him turn away from evil and do right; Let him seek peace, and pursue it, For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their prayer; But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil. The cruelty which is hardest to bear is often not deliberate but the product of sheer thoughtlessness. Christ has suffered for sins; He has had there, if we may so say, a monopoly; and there let it end: why should we? judgment, which is an eternal one; nor is there any salvation, or Simply to believe in Christ may make a man quite happy, but it never of itself gives solid unbreakable peace. It is Jesus Christ, through what he did, who gives men access to God. If it hasn't transpired in my heart, then baptism is meaningless. At first sight it looks like injustice. 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. The truth is that the assumption of "my flock," or "yours", is the root of endless mischief. And it would have been easy to have railed back but the poor woman is mentally disturbed. The Philippians must stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel; they will make Paul's happiness complete, if they have the same love and have one accord and one mind; the quarrelling Euodias and Syntyche are urged to be of one mind in the Lord ( Php_1:27 ; Php_2:2 ; Php_4:2 ). They will be the greatest people on the face of the earth, and all the Gentiles shall own it. Another ancient MS. in my possession has the words nearly as in the printed copy: In quo et hiis qui in carcere CONCLUSI erant SPIRITUALITER veniens praedicavit; "in which, coming spiritually, he preached to those who were SHUT UP in prison.". The times of the Gentiles are still in course of accomplishment. And interestingly enough, Sarah had and asserted her place, too. A whole Christ is given and needed. He was tenderhearted. It means that the work of Christ is infinite in its range. represents them as in a prison, so applicable to souls in a state In 1 Peter 3:19 he says that Jesus preached to the spirits in prison; and in 1 Peter 4:6 he says that the gospel was preached to them that are dead. 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." She is a fellow-heir of the grace of life. Look at the universe. c. Supposing God only gave the believer according to his own thoughts (often meagre); supposing one believed in the power of the precious blood of Jesus ever so truly, and had nothing more than this our real portion by the Spirit, such an one, I maintain, would be a sorry Christian indeed. 19 After being made alive,[ a] 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. One pound weight of the best Tyrian purple wool, strained twice through, cost 1,000 denarii, 43.50 British pounds. Then comes the general exhortation: "Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, pitiful, lowly-minded: not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." This is the reason why the appearing of Jesus is brought in here. The idea is, that to those spirits who were then in prison who had formerly lived in the days of Noah, the message had been in fact delivered. place; some referring it to such in Noah's time, to whom the Women did not share in the worship of the Greeks and the Romans. It is not a description of all that died in unbelief, but of a generation favoured with a special testimony and smitten by a particular stroke of judgment. We have seen how the Jews believed that all the dead went to Hades, the shadowy land of forgetfulness. Our faith must be a first-hand discovery and not a second-hand story. For less than $5/mo. It is the instinct of that new nature, of life in the believer, who, being born of God, has this necessary feeling of the new nature, the desire to do the will of God. There are three obvious inquiries in ascertaining its signification. The saints, then, are "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation." It is the only way to assign any intelligible meaning to the words "He went and" to suppose that He "went" straight from His quickening in spirit--i.e., from His death. Now all this is here judged and set aside as quite wrong The elders are exhorted and warned. The meaning is that Jesus lived in a human body and was under all the limitations of time and space in the days of his flesh; and died with that body broken and bleeding upon the Cross. II. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED, ( NASB: Lockman) Greek: all' ei kai paschoite ( 2PPAO) dia dikaiosunen, makarioi. By which - Evidently by the Spirit referred to in the previous verse - en ho - the divine nature of the Son of God; that by which he was quickened again, after he had been put to death; the Son of God regarded as a Divine Being, or in that same nature which afterward became incarnate, and whose agency was employed in quickening the man Christ Jesus, who had been put to death. You may find that which meets guilt in death, but never is salvation short of or separable from the power of resurrection. According to this none ought ever to speak unless he has a thorough conviction that he is giving out God's mind and message, as suited for that time and those souls. There is another sense of salvation, and our apostle, as we shall shortly find, does not in anywise ignore it; but then he qualifies the term. It was during the height of the hippie thing around here where these hippies had these old vans and held together with bailing wire, you know; material things didn't mean anything to them, paint all over them. in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, Young's Literal Translation. (c) If Christ descended into Hades and preached there, there is no corner of the universe into which the message of grace has not come. so called; and besides, the apostle is speaking of such who were 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. 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. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. As Christians, we are under a far more searching principle, namely, the grace of God (Romans 6:1-23), which assuredly ought to produce far better and more fruitful results. If there is no other name by which men may be saved, what is to happen to those who never heard it? "For you," says he, "who are kept;" for Christian doctrine is not, as men so often say, that of saints persevering. He is speaking about the people that heard Noah, and despised the word of the Lord then. But should I never get around to being baptized by some unfortunate accident or circumstances of some kind, I will still be saved. What Peter is saying is: "Love goodness with that passionate intensity with which the most fanatical patriot loves his country." The obligation of the husband,1 Peter 3:7 E. The appeal for becoming corporate conduct, 1 Peter 3:8-12 1. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." And again, it is interesting to me because it shows us Peter's good working knowledge of the Scriptures. ft "KESTREL" TRENTHAM MEETING STEEPLECHASE SURPRISE MANAWATU'S BIG PRICE KOREROS PARLIAMENTARY % SPRINT IO DUNGARVAN ( Per Press Association. ) ( Psalms 6:5). . While they behold your chaste lifestyle with reverence. Hair was waved and dyed, sometimes black, more often auburn. 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. There are few passages where the value of a lovely Christian life is so vividly stressed. They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. And John got hold of her and dragged her off as she was railing, going around the corner, you know. Thus, Genesis 11:5, The Lord came down to see the city and the tower. Exodus 19:20, the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai. Numbers 11:25, the Lord came down in a cloud. 2 Samuel 22:10, he bowed the heavens and came down. The idea, however, would be conveyed by this language that he did this personally, or by himself, and not merely by employing the agency of another. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. He was a soft touch. And He preached to those souls that were in prison. God is so patient that he waited for 120 years before sending the Flood in Noahs day (Genesis 6:3). (iii) Third, Peter sets brotherly love. Jesus said, "Blessed are ye," and the word "blessed" is happy; "when men persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Getting along; you know our prayer life can be hindered by friction within the home. 3:13-15a Who will hurt you, if you are ardent lovers of goodness? branch of it, his prophetic office, before he appeared in human May 11, 1986. If Enoch is the person who makes the proclamation to the spirits, then the transition from 3:18 to 3:19 is abrupt in the extreme. Slippers were encrusted with them; Nero even had a room whose walls were covered with them. That very system of reason that makes so much of the will of man, and is not a little proud of it, would deprive God Himself of a will, and under penalty of man's accusation of injustice forbids its exercise according to His own pleasure. They observe, and then, he said, they have to see a miracle and answer to prayer. (a) It is argued that Jesus preached in Hades only to the spirits of the men who were disobedient in the days of Noah. 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