"For sins."3. Now the gospel way of pardon, though it might be said to include all these, is yet different from them all. This is an encouragement for the greatest sinner. Let not sinners question the justice of future punishment.3. Such are the high considerations which hallow and dignify the Christian home! Were His sufferings the consequence of His own desert? hold fast the truth, even if you were much fewer than you are; and never let your opinion be in the least shaken by any allegation of the presumption, the enthusiasm, or the folly of entertaining the opinions which are against those of the great mass of mankind. — a judgment, not of condemnation, but of "chastening" unto salvation? 16, 17). Men looked at it, and said that human foot could never scale its heights. This is the starting point. And so it is with the threatenings of God now; there are few that credit them, and millions that disbelieve them; which are right, the few or the millions? THAT THERE ARE HUMAN SPIRITS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE PRISON OF HELL FOR CENTURIES. Their cause; both their meritorious cause and their final cause; first, what in us procured these sufferings unto Christ, and, secondly, what those His sufferings procured unto us. The Messiah met that deluge, and emerged from it triumphant. How can it be made helpful to us in the cultivation of Christian character and in the living of Christian life? Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on 1 Peter 1:3-7. "He is gone up into heaven, despite all who raged against Him." "He is gone": that sounds rather dolorous. Proverbs says it this way, “An excellent wife, who can find? We cannot too distinctly assert that there is nothing saving in "baptism" itself. Again, our glorified Saviour is the giver of the Holy Spirit. It is not gratitude alone — that, indeed, moves us as we think of what He did for as — but it is the opening of the source of strength by which He was able to do it. Might. He says, "Behold I and the children which God hath given Me." hold fast the truth, even if you were much fewer than you are; and never let your opinion be in the least shaken by any allegation of the presumption, the enthusiasm, or the folly of entertaining the opinions which are against those of the great mass of mankind. His work which He wrought in our nature was the rescuing it from the dominion of sin, and bringing it into union with God. Impurity, remorse, despair, constitute "the blackness of darkness forever."2. THE DESIGN OF THE JUST SUFFERING FOR THE UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING THEM TO GOD.(Wm. Thus it shows us the kneeling suppliant at his lord's feet crying, "Have patience with me and I will pay thee all." There was a compression in that enclosure of flesh and blood which would be taken off instantly by its removal. Christians! It is the part and privilege of a believer to be baptized into Christ, and specifically to be baptized into His death (Romans 6:3, 5). Now let us consider that He "is gone into heaven." There are some who have thought that the substance of our Lord's preaching in Hades was of two kinds — that to some He preached salvation, to others perdition; that to the irreclaimably lost He preached a concio damnatoria. Crimes were laid to His charge which His righteous soul abhorred. These "spirits" were "disobedient once" — and the tense suggests an act of decisive and definite disobedience — "at the time when the long suffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah." It is not the out ward act of washing with water that can save a soul from the dangers that surround us. And then, if we could look far into the heart of God, might it not: appear that He has — considering their light, their calling, their privileges, and promises — quite as much occasion to let His patience have her perfect work in the inconstancies of Christians as in the crimes of unbelievers? They had sinned away their receptivity of the Divine message. And yet it was also expedient that His death should be violent, and so the more penal, to carry the more clear expression of a punishment, and such a violent death as had both ignominy and a curse tied to it, and this inflicted in a judicial way; that He should stand, and be judged, and condemned to death as a guilty person, carrying in that person the persons of so many who would otherwise have fallen under condemnation, as indeed guilty. He suffered in His body. Our doctrine is not sentiment, and view, and opinion, but fact.2. Hence the care in selecting the sacrificial victims that they might be without blemish or defect. A young Jew held out his hand, as being prepared to give an answer, and said, "It is just as if we had the merit; it is just as if we had been crucified!"III. The first thing that follows gospel pardon is safety. You will point your tempter to your "baptism" as a standing symbol of your covenant with Christ; and in this way your "baptism" will be helpful to you, and will save you.III. Why not? But if God be for you, who can be against you? Here is the death of His human nature; — "the flesh." Still He suffers in all our sufferings. I think, since Christ has gone into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, it shows which way we ought to go. To set the example of Christ's sufferings before them (ver. HIS AUTHORITY.1. His talk of the pleasures of the table, his gossipy narration of things that have taken place, his dull, unimaginative dealing with all that happens, his narrow interests and selfish aims, they are dreadfully unsatisfying and wearisome. If anyone were to ask me, "What is the way of salvation?" Bengel. As the stress of the storm strains the ship and shows where the weak parts are, so by our trials God would show us the weak points in our character, that we may strengthen what is weak and supply what is wanting.II. J. S. Bird, B. If anyone were to ask me, "What is the way of salvation?" They have tempted and betrayed each other; cheated, fought, enslaved, murdered each other. )Christ the King of angelsPlain Sermons by Contributors to, Tracts for the Times.We indeed are but little able to enter into the thoughts of apostles when they saw Him in His crucified body, ascending up into heaven. That comprehensive word "sympathy" is to be understood here in its largest sense. Does it not mean, first, unrivalled honour? Here again we see that the resurrection of Christ was not an isolated fact, and did not stand alone. FOR THE EVIL ANGELS.1. Now the gospel way of pardon, though it might be said to include all these, is yet different from them all. We are not at home on earth. Voluntary.II. We see that sufferings are not necessarily the sign of a bad cause.3. A prison is a scene of bondage. The Greek term here translated "answer" means a question or interrogation. Let us complete the sentence — "who is gone into heaven." We are not at home on earth. A MATERIAL CIRCUMSTANCE RELATING TO HIS SUFFERINGS IS TAKEN NOTICE OF.IV. In the Son of Mary the patience of God comes down among men, and we behold His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, in the face of Jesus Christ giving His life for the world, and waiting for its faith.(Bp. In that He appoints them to watch and guard us —(1) What a great honour is this to us. These sufferings were to bring to God the very men who were now exhorted to imitate them. The danger. In form the manifestation was childish; but even in form all that was childish has been done away, and the self same truths are set forth in the ordinances of a more glorious ministration.II. If you take Him you are saved, you are pardoned." The multitudes of those who disbelieved, in Noah's days, perished, and the few that believed were saved. Now, what the wedding ring is to the married couple and society, baptism is to the believer and Christ. Their bodies were buried in the deep of the Deluge, and their spirits were carried into the deeper abyss of Hades. The multitudes of those who disbelieved, in Noah's days, perished, and the few that believed were saved. Does not it also signify intense love? 2. HIS RESIDENCE.1. Looking up with a smile, the dying man answered, "Oh, no, sir; I have died already!" This is an encouragement for the greatest sinner. That nothing more for the purpose will be vouchsafed. He seems to say, "Upwards, My brethren, upwards from off this earth; away from this world to the glory land. He has tried them again and again. I have heard an esteemed Edinburgh minister tell of his visiting an aged Christian man on his deathbed, and saying to him, "Is it not a happy thing that we have the gospel set forth in so few and in such simple words?" And what is meant by baptism? There is a palate in this same Epistle which, rightly considered, makes it evident that St. Peter believed that to the dead in Hades the gospel itself had been proclaimed. He suffered in His soul. OUR ATONEMENT. Now the gospel way of pardon, though it might be said to include all these, is yet different from them all. Remembering your "baptism," the standing seal of that relation, you will say, "I am a baptized Christian, one of Christ's soldiers. You may come out of a successful business or social career with all that the flesh can possibly give you, and find that the virtues of the spirit — the unselfishness, the purity, the honour, the thought of better things have been put out of existence; you are quickened in the flesh, you are put to death in the spirit. III. Was not this their first opportunity of hearing of the great salvation wrought for all believers? But I beg you to remember that He is gone up into heaven as our representative. It is the part and privilege of a believer to be baptized into Christ, and specifically to be baptized into His death (Romans 6:3, 5). We find no hope of the resurrection but in the greatness of Christ, in His intimate and personal connection with the Father. It was His pleasure to remain on earth during those forty days, in order to show Himself alone to His disciples, and to establish beyond doubt the fact that He was risen from the dead; but they were only a delay interposed before that triumphant departure whose way was already prepared. That is, no new work was done by Him after His resurrection which brought about His ascension. THEY WERE OFFICIALLY UNDERTAKEN AND ENDURED. We have received the baptism, when in our Substitute we have received it. Suffering is no uncommon thing; "Man is born to trouble." And if you found that that drowning man had in time past often reviled the one who in his sore need risked his own life to deliver him, how could you find words to express your sense of the nobleness of such self-sacrificing conduct? Let not the righteous be discouraged by their fewness.5. Our guiltiness brought suffering upon Him, and His suffering brings us unto God. "He suffered once for sin," so that to them who lay hold on Him, this holds sure, that sin is never to be suffered for in the way of strict justice again, as not by Him, so not by them who are in Him. The wheel will turn, and they that are lowest now shall soon be highest; they that have been with Him in the dust shall be with Him in His glory.3. The character and success of the great work would be largely indicated by the effect on Him who undertook it; the question which all must ask is, What part of Him gained, and what part of Him lost? To prepare for His disciples.3. It is found in the silent endurance of weakness and in the bold struggle of strength. The wild flood that destroyed the ancient world, and the gentle waters of baptism in Christian times — these two at first sight seem to have little in common. Let not His church tremble, let her not think of putting out the hand of unbelief to steady the ark of the Lord. Disembodied.2. He suffered for me. Infinite leagues must necessarily lie between the Creator and the created; but between God and man in Christ Jesus there seems no distance at all, the man Christ Jesus sits at God's right hand. Our doctrine is not sentiment, and view, and opinion, but fact.2. III. To sit at the right hand of God is the highest conceivable glory. To stand firm in God’s grace every single day, live as one who deserves nothing but has been given everything. The fearful enormity of evil.2. Here are two things to be remarked, their cause and their kind.1. W. Noel, M. A.I. A prison is a scene of darkness. THE NATURE OF CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS.1. Place two men side by side, one of whom has always lived for the flesh, the other of whom has always tried to find the spiritual side of everything, and of every event with which he has come in contact. J. Thomas, D. D.I. Sep 18, 2015. And lastly, there is one final comparison between the two cases. Diseases soon break up the body; time withers the patriarchal oak, crumbles the marble; and "the waters wear away the stones" of the mightiest rocks; but, through ages of agony, the soul lives on!III. But then, as THERE WAS AN ARK which Noah constructed for his preservation and that of his family, we have an ark too, built not by our own hands, but built by our great Creator and Redeemer. )Christ's sufferings for usH. Ignominious.3. THAT CHRIST SUFFERED SHOULD MAKE SUFFERING CHRISTIANS PATIENT. Christ was "in the world" before His incarnation. A place of punishment.4. O man, how far off hast thou wandered! "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished," That baptism to which He looked forward from the first of time, and which He met on Calvary, was none other than the wrath of God against sin, which He had in covenant engaged to bear. Had this been so, His bitter enemies would not have failed to convict Him of sin; but His challenge in this respect was never answered. (Essex Remembrancer. Thou feeble Christian, who believest and prayest and strivest, but hast never laid firm hold on the hope set before thee, who day by day art conning over thine own imperfections, turn thine eyes from looking inward, and look upward on Him where He is. As the term, "just," expresses the perfect purity, both of the nature and of the life of the Saviour; so the term, "unjust," must express the impurity, both of the nature and of the life of those for whom He suffered.II. Here then is another peculiarity. O restful Saviour, we labouring, come to Thee and find rest in Thee; we also sit down expecting the time when Thou shalt put down all our enemies, and we shall tread even Satan under our feet. In the whole of His tripartite humanity? Why not? And what is meant by baptism? THE NATURE OF CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS.1. While the lifeless body was hanging for its last hour on the tree, He, the living spirit, was using the new liberty in a special office and mission — He was on a journey — He was making Paradise itself a scene of activity — "in the spirit," St. Peter says, "He went and preached to the spirits in prison." And yet it was also expedient that His death should be violent, and so the more penal, to carry the more clear expression of a punishment, and such a violent death as had both ignominy and a curse tied to it, and this inflicted in a judicial way; that He should stand, and be judged, and condemned to death as a guilty person, carrying in that person the persons of so many who would otherwise have fallen under condemnation, as indeed guilty. It is this process of gain and loss to which our attention is called in the review of Christ's death and resurrection. There are two more points of comparison on which I must dwell. II. If the bosom of Christ's love is open, and is a refuge to which you may fly for safety, why should you not avail yourself of it?3. A prison is a place of gloom.2. Not that I would make light of trials; far from it. The example and company of the saints in suffering, is very considerable, but that of Christ is more so than any other, yea, than all the rest together. But we may understand that this was a part of their feelings; that now One, who is true Man as we are, who can enter into our joys and sorrows, our hopes and fears, He is set in the highest place, over all created things. There is a touching story told regarding a body of men who had taken part in a rebellion, and were sentenced to have every tenth man of their number shot to deter others from doing what they had done. THE OPPOSITE CHARACTERS OF CHRIST, AND OF THOSE FOR WHOM HE SUFFERED, ARE LAID DOWN.V. Christ is the only thing between us and eternal destruction.III. That similarity is in THE WATER OF BAPTISM, as compared with the water of the deluge to Noah. "Once for all": — "never again," as Bengel has it, "to suffer hereafter" (Hebrews 4:28). THEIR CONDITION.1. The same fact can lead us to the most complete participation in that resurrection, to which our minds are always turned. Let not those who are alarmed despair. We all know the sting that hurts us in contempt, in estrangement, in forgetfulness. Why, then, if Christ had no sin in His nature, no sin in His life — why did He suffer? That this was the apostle's meaning is further manifested by the expression which he used himself, to correct the imagination which might arise in any mind, that the external rite had in itself any such efficacy. Does it not mean, first, unrivalled honour? God's long suffering waited for them.Applications:1. It was the nature of Christ to suffer for sinners. Let us complete the sentence — "who is gone into heaven." "Judged according to men in flesh" — judged so far as the body, and the life of time, goes — for is it not judgment to be cut off hastily from this life of the living, and by a sentence written for evermore upon the page of God? — a judgment, not of condemnation, but of "chastening" unto salvation? The store is comprised of six floors, and the men increase in positive attributes as the shopper ascends the flights. Therefore the apostle, having represented the former at large, ends in this, as the top of all (Hebrews 12:1, 2).1. The apostle Peter wrote: Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered (1 Peter 3:7). "Take heart," he seems to say; "your sufferings are not exceptional; they run in the Divine family; even our Master was not exempt from them; He also suffered in the flesh; but His sufferings did not stay His blessed ministry; nay, they even augmented His sphere of usefulness; 'He was quickened in spirit,' in which also he went forth to herald His accomplished work in regions to which, but for death, He had not obtained access. (John Rogers. But what marks a special contrast between them and the Divine displeasure is this, that as they gain in strength our human antipathies toward transgression are apt to grow hot and hasty. It was the ark which saved; and then the water completed the salvation, by bearing up the ark upon its flood. It belonged to Him who was the incarnate Son of God; and it must take that same body, and show its own power, and do what the flesh had been unable to do. It is in every station and rank of life. It was His pleasure to remain on earth during those forty days, in order to show Himself alone to His disciples, and to establish beyond doubt the fact that He was risen from the dead; but they were only a delay interposed before that triumphant departure whose way was already prepared. What ingratitude is yours!(D. The deluge of wrath, then, will come, like the deluge that swept away the millions of mankind in the days of Noah.II. The Lamb was historically slain in the time of Christ; but long before the coming of Christ there was the Divine atoning love, there was the vicarious suffering of the Saviour. Christ had not yet come; and the personal ministry of the Spirit had not yet been fully developed. There is a touching story told regarding a body of men who had taken part in a rebellion, and were sentenced to have every tenth man of their number shot to deter others from doing what they had done. Besides being the seal and pledge of our accomplished redemption, He is, in this His glorified state, our continuing High Priest and Intercessor. Does it not also signify perfect repose? The multitudes of those who disbelieved, in Noah's days, perished, and the few that believed were saved. If you look at the passage you will see that the apostle guards himself carefully. Arnot.It is questionable whether we would have had skill enough to discover that the two facts mentioned in the text contained essentially the same revelation, if the union had not been expressly pointed out to us in Scripture. "Who is gone into heaven," and therefore can "fill all things." Locally: Although God is everywhere, yet in heaven He is specially seen and enjoyed.V. It is the correction of all that is carnal and all that is superstitious in our religion. "Take heart," he seems to say; "your sufferings are not exceptional; they run in the Divine family; even our Master was not exempt from them; He also suffered in the flesh; but His sufferings did not stay His blessed ministry; nay, they even augmented His sphere of usefulness; 'He was quickened in spirit,' in which also he went forth to herald His accomplished work in regions to which, but for death, He had not obtained access. It bids us not to rest in forms; not to multiply services as services, not to rest in sacraments as sacraments, but to look through all to One who is not here, but ascended; and to be sought therefore as one deeply sympathising with human infirmity, but exercising that sympathy not in weak indulgence but in transforming strength. It is not as a single event by itself that the resurrection stirs our hearts: it is because it is connected with the whole nature of our being, with the whole work of Christ's life, and with the mysteries of our existence, and of the world forever. When its work was through, the spirit, which had never been daunted, which had relied upon the Father in its darkest moments, had an opportunity to show its strength. Taken in this sense, two ideas are suggested:1. The salvation of believers lies not in meeting God for themselves, when the vials of His wrath for sin are poured out; but in being found in Christ, when He receives His people's due. All His people are with Him. His activity of philanthropy never ceased. It is not a corporal and carnal thing. )The resurrection of ChristArthur Brooks.No man ever yet came out of a great work the same as he went into it; he has always lost something, and gained something. Vast territories, with fertile soils and blooming vegetation, with the wealth of navies and harvests in their bosom, were waiting to receive them: and some are waiting still. And so I would that you should be ever conscious of the dignity and honour of the relation that you sustain to Christ. Exercised for the promotion of moral excellence everywhere.3. "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me." The lesson was about the crucifixion of Christ, and the teacher asked, "What connection have we with the work and death of the Lord Jesus?" Christ had not yet come; and the personal ministry of the Spirit had not yet been fully developed. "Who is gone into heaven." It was, in some sort, as if one's nearest and dearest relation were made absolute king of the country. It was the Father's witness to His being the Son of God; in that He has raised Him from the dead. There is love.5. "The just for the unjust"; in which words the substitution of Christ in the place of sinners is plainly expressed. Had this been so, His bitter enemies would not have failed to convict Him of sin; but His challenge in this respect was never answered. I have His prescription, and, unless I attend to that, I cannot expect spiritual healing or health." A. The law in its precept and penalty must be satisfied. To sit at the right hand of God is the highest conceivable glory. Remembering your "baptism," the standing seal of that relation, you will say, "I am a baptized Christian, one of Christ's soldiers. More and more He is bound to Him, until at last, in the great occasion of His death, it is not surprising that the trained and strengthened spirit conquers and raises Him. And the thought of our Lord gone up into heaven, and sitting on the right hand of God, is a thought of great power to set us right in our feelings towards both sorts of angelic beings. That same power which restored His life could have kept it exempted from death; but the design was for death. For men are apt to imagine of our blessed Lord as withdrawn from His Church; and the participation of spiritual gifts and spiritual life to be derived from a long succession of secondary instruments, and ordinances of grace; whereas it is by direct contact of every believing soul with Himself in glory, that all spiritual grace and gifts are derived, and means and ordinances are but helps to lifting the soul by faith into realisation of His person and office, and into communion with Him. The fearful enormity of evil.2. We have all disobeyed, and so there is no hope for any one of us, except in the obedience and death of Christ. Besides being the seal and pledge of our accomplished redemption, He is, in this His glorified state, our continuing High Priest and Intercessor. There, in the centre of the Father's glory, He rests not idle, nor is He unmindful of those whom He came to save. When you have a friend at court, you hope you will do well; but what a friend have we in the King's courts; even Him who is the Wonderful Counsellor! We can only appreciate this suggestion by realising what is implied in being away from God. The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence–the grass is greener where you water it. THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST ARE HERE ASSERTED.II. How far from satisfying the requirements of such language as this is the view that would reduce the death of Christ to the mere result of a life of disinterested and self-sacrificing benevolence employed in turning men to righteousness; the seal of His doctrine, and a distinguished example of passive virtue!II. They were "judged" for their disobedience to this call — men, from the side of flesh and time, could not say otherwise than that these men had died in their sins — but a miracle of mercy sought them out, after long ages, in their prison house — the "three days" of Christ's sojourn "in the heart of the earth" were used, of special grace, in their evangelisation — in the sight of men they lie still under judgment, but in spirit, according to God, they have been quickened into a supernatural life. They had the gospel preached to them.2. And then, if we could look far into the heart of God, might it not: appear that He has — considering their light, their calling, their privileges, and promises — quite as much occasion to let His patience have her perfect work in the inconstancies of Christians as in the crimes of unbelievers? The language intimates that Christ the just One, hath suffered for the sins of the unjust. 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