Peter has quite a bit to say to the wives but he has very little to say to the husbands. He's giving you just one so you can't forget. They had been used to this and more in Judaism, but it had all passed away. Her answer was: "Because he never hurts me." We are told and meant to know, that as He called us by His grace, so we should call on Him as Father. But there is also the suffering in which we may be involved because of our Christianity. You remember when Peter was arrested for the preaching of the Gospel and they beat him and told him not to preach anymore in the name of Jesus Christ? Pliny saw Lollia Paulina, wife of Caligula, wearing a dress so covered with pearls and emeralds that it had cost 450,000 British pounds. But then lest people make a mistake, he points out; it isn't the physical ritual. represents them as in a prison, so applicable to souls in a state Sep 19, 2015. And we all come the same way to the same Lord to receive the same grace. She comes up and grabs me and starts calling me a filthy viper and all kinds of stuff, you know. they were sometimes so, yet to what purpose should this former of life, are called "spirits", which seems to be a word that Simply to believe in Christ may make a man quite happy, but it never of itself gives solid unbreakable peace. To this the answer is easy. that he went unto it, or preached in it; only that the spirits So they were saved by the water or by the ark in the water. Hair was waved and dyed, sometimes black, more often auburn. They assimilated passages one to another; they thought that what was right in one case must be right in another; and thus the tendency was to blunt the fine edge of the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God. 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. It is not affirmed that he preached the gospel, for if that specific idea had been expressed it would have been rather by another word - euangelizo. And this kid said, I didn't know what was going on, I was --I was ready to do something. See Matthew 3:1; Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:35; Mark 5:20; Mark 7:36. He was about to be a sacrifice for sin, giving Himself up spite of suffering, not only from man, but from God. But we did not finish that quotation and we do so now: "If you were to catch your wife in an act of infidelity, you can kill her with impunity without a trial; but, if she were to catch you, she would not venture to touch you with her finger and, indeed, she has no right." Such a man is desperately easily hurt. (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. The obvious problem with this view is that Peter linked these people with Noah. All unbelief therefore will be shown plainly to be of the flesh, not of the Spirit, and never excusable. Through Christ we have access to grace ( Romans 5:2). The word , spirits, is supposed to render this view of the subject improbable, because this must mean disembodied spirits; but this certainly does not follow, for the spirits of just men made perfect, Hebrews 12:23, certainly means righteous men, and men still in the Church militant; and the Father of spirits, Hebrews 12:9, means men still in the body; and the God of the spirits of all flesh, Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16, means men not in a disembodied state. The sin of these people: They were disobedient, that is, rebellious, unpersuadable, and unbelieving, as the word signifies; this their sin is aggravated from the patience and long-suffering of God (which once waited upon them for 120 years together), while Noah was preparing the ark, and by that, as well as by his preaching, giving them fair warning of what was coming upon them. sometimes signify a watch, yet more commonly a prison, and which And Peter is saying recognize that that is the true beauty. 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. As it stands this doctrine is stated in categories which are outworn. 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. Some of these say He extended an offer of salvation to them. 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. but it will be difficult to show, that men, in the present state And I was greeting couple of young men first time they were here, and they were telling me how much they enjoyed the service. It is a solemn warning to unbelief founded on plainly revealed facts before all eyes in this world, and not something to be understood as relating to another world. So opening the prison. Not my wife, I'm not thinking about her. Alas! But the men and women of Noah's generation, notwithstanding "God's patience" in delaying judgment, spurned that proclamation. I love you. Cato the Censor insisted on simplicity; Lucius Valerius answered: "Why should men grudge women their ornaments and their dress? (c) The context indicates that Christ was preaching through Noah, who was in a persecuted minority, and God saved Noah, which is similar to the situation in Peters time: Christ is now preaching the gospel through Peter and his readers (1 Peter 3:15) to a persecuted minority, and God will save them. The death of Christ upon the Cross, however we explain it, avails to restore the lost relationship between God and man. Sin is that which interrupts the relationship which should exist between God and men. John dragging her. He may have done this either by His resurrection itself or by some special announcement to them. It is another character and measure of responsibility. Sir John Seeley said, "No heart is pure that is not passionate; no virtue safe which is not enthusiastic." They should also try to avoid all forms of wrongdoing. 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. Those who hold this view often go on to argue that, since these sinners were desperately disobedient, so much so that God sent the flood and destroyed them ( Genesis 6:12-13), we may believe that no man is outside the mercy of God. Least of all can the Jews be said to be sown in the land of Palestine. ", This leads to another important point; that if we do suffer, it ought never to be for sin, and for the affecting reason that Christ has once for all suffered for sins. 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 then, to what are they sanctified of the Holy Ghost thus? And here it is well to observe, as an important fact to be recognised, that salvation in Peter's epistle looks onward to the future, where it is not otherwise qualified. Peter has just laid down the duty of wives; now he lays down the duty of husbands. Next he proceeds to bring in what had to do with others. She must be pure. 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. I haven't found any biblical evidence for that conclusion. Therefore there could be no comparison on that score, not even for a Jew. He wanted you to be one with Him, but a holy, pure, righteous God cannot be a part of sin, inconsistent with the nature of God. carries on the same idea, of not exacting too rigid accounts, as on 1 peter 3:6 ; , , For the time that is past is sufficient to have done what the Gentiles will to do, to have lived a life of licentiousness, lust, drunkenness, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatry. And you can get a horrible cycle going here as it works against the marriage to destroy it. Did they boast about their law, the apostle can say that Christianity the present blessed revelation of grace in Christ was in God's mind before the foundation of the world. 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. Therefore be would have them know that, as to the novelty with which they reproach Christianity, it was altogether a mistake; for the Lamb without blemish and without spot, though only lately slain, was foreordained before the foundation of the world. He tells her something very simple--nothing else than to be a good wife. 1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. Various are the senses given of this passage: some say, that It is God's instruction: "You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting" ( Exodus 29:4). The" sanctification of the Spirit" here spoken of is absolute. Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. There must be in her life a lovely chastity and fidelity founded on love. In face of all this Peter pleads for the graces which adorn the heart, which are precious in the sight of God. It was the foreknowledge of God the Father in virtue of ( ) sanctification of the Spirit, and this unto the obedience of Jesus Christ (that kind of obedience), and the sprinkling of His blood. It was ever right that love should go out towards others, whether in general kindness towards all mankind, or in special affections towards the family of God. 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. 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.. Peter speaks of them as they were when he wrote; not as they had been, or were at the time when the message was preached to them. But and if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ( 1 Peter 3:13-14 ); He's moving into a new section in which he is going to be talking about suffering, and for the most part suffering wrongfully, suffering for righteousness' sake. The outcome of the submission, 1 Peter 3:6b 2. Others, as the Papists, imagine the sense to be, that Christ, at his death, went in his human soul, into a place they call "Limbus Patrum", which they suppose is meant by the prison here, and delivered the souls of the Old Testament saints and patriarchs from thence, and carried them with him to heaven; but this sense is also false, because, as before observed, not the human soul of Christ, but his divine nature, is designed by the Spirit; nor is there any such place as here feigned, in which the souls of Old Testament saints were, before the death of Christ; for they were in peace and rest, in the kingdom of heaven, in Abraham's bosom, inheriting the promises, and not in a prison; besides, the text says not one word of the delivering of these spirits out of prison, only of Christ's preaching to them: add to all this, and which Beza, with others, observes, the apostle speaks of such as had been disobedient, and unbelievers; a character which will not agree with righteous men, and prophets, and patriarchs, under the former dispensation: others think the words are to be understood of Christ's going to preach, by his apostles, to the Gentiles, as in Ephesians 2:17 who were in a most miserable condition, strangers to the covenants of promise, and destitute of the hope of salvation, and sat in darkness, and the shadow of death, and, as it were, at the gates of hell; were in the bonds of iniquity, and dead in sin, and had been for long time past foolish and disobedient, serving divers lusts and pleasures, to which they were in bondage. 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. And if you read it in Amplified, I think these guys were male chauvinists because they really jump onto this and amplify it almost to an extreme. 3:18b-20 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. 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. The Syriac here is in Sheol, referring to the abodes of the dead, or the place in which departed spirits are supposed to dwell. 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? . That the Spirit of God did strive with, convict, and reprove the antediluvians, is evident from Genesis 6:3: My Spirit shall not always strive with man, forasmuch as he is flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. ft "KESTREL" TRENTHAM MEETING STEEPLECHASE SURPRISE MANAWATU'S BIG PRICE KOREROS PARLIAMENTARY % SPRINT IO DUNGARVAN ( Per Press Association. ) . They too, those who had been before them, had been put to the proof in this way. 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. ] A man under the law never fulfils the law: the man who is under grace is the one that does, and the only one; for the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those "who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Scripture 1 Peter 3 Sort Bible Verse. Peter is, in effect, saying that in baptism God said to the man coming direct from heathenism: "Do you accept the terms of my service? Now there need be no hesitation in declaring that the phrase does not mean God's heritage at all, but another idea wholly different. The Christian does not belong to the world, and consequently is not bound by accidents of time. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing ( 1 Peter 3:17 ). 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