Christ is at the fountainhead of power.2. 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?" Disembodied.2. His was just one of those impressible, impetuous temperaments, with great faults and great virtues, which lay a heavy tax upon the patience of friends, and yet inspire, beneath all that, a lively interest. Lastly, there is service. In the same way, remembering your "baptism," you will say, "I am married to Christ; I have pledged myself to His service as the great purpose of my life.". Let it open to thee just a glimpse of realities out of thy sight! (2) This is the secret of happy dying. Dr. Carey, the great Indian scholar and missionary, tells of his visit to one of the wards in an Indian hospital. In this sense, therefore, it may be said that He "once suffered" — the entire of His sufferings from the very first lay before Him. There is love.5. THE MERITORIOUS CAUSE OF THEM IS ASSIGNED. "Who is gone into heaven." )The ascensionDean Vaughan. Does it not also signify perfect repose? Our Lord's soul could not die; no more can man's soul die.(J. "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me." The sense of actuality: that is, the mere expression of the fact that He had suffered. )Christ at homeHomilist.I. Thomas, D. D.)Christ's sufferingsJ. But the "Spirit" here opposed to the "flesh," or body, is certainly of a higher nature and power than the human soul, which cannot of itself return to re-inhabit and quicken the body. The store is comprised of six floors, and the men increase in positive attributes as the shopper ascends the flights. He has gone there as to His proper abode.2. He has to wait even for His own people that He has redeemed — the Church that He has purchased with His blood — in her backward and worldly living. A place of restraint.3. All our approaches to God should be through Jesus Christ.(S. "Christ suffered, being put to death in the flesh."2. H. But wait a little; why did he do it? What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits unto me?"(J. God employed one flood to wipe away another. )Christ's sufferings; or, the basis of evangelismD. — not in His Divine nature — that is impassible — but in His human nature, which is passible. First of all, then, the ascension of Jesus was the seal of the accomplishment of redemption. Is not this something like the case of the sinner and his Saviour Christ?III. Her face was quite radiant. Huntington. Smart.I. The brief but expressive answer was, "I have taken Him to be my substitute!" "For sins."3. That similarity is in THE WATER OF BAPTISM, as compared with the water of the deluge to Noah. (1) That the chief happiness of man consisteth in the enjoyment of God: that the creature hath as necessary dependence upon God for happiness, as the stream hath upon the fountain. Others think the way of pardon is to be sorry for their sins. His official character. How deep the enmity, how dire the distance between thee and thy God! 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? The law in its precept and penalty must be satisfied. As Noah remained safe, shut up within the ark, while it received the surges of the deluge; so we, in Christ our refuge, are unhurt, while He meets and exhausts in our stead the justice due to sin. This His glorious state of final perfection of humanity is not His alone. The same fact can lead us to the most complete participation in that resurrection, to which our minds are always turned. H. Spurgeon.I. W. Beecher.We accept the life and the death of Christ as an atonement, as a substituted suffering, the just for the unjust; but we do not feel that He was a sufferer only when He was on earth, and that His suffering then was all the suffering that was needful to the salvation of the world. We know what the provocation is, when our motives are misjudged, or our self-respect is insulted; when mean calculations take advantage of our friendship; when our children are forgetful or wilful, our pupils dull, our servants careless, our neighbours arrogant, our beneficiaries unthankful or impertinent. 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." — a judgment, not of condemnation, but of "chastening" unto salvation? How many of the supposed injustices of God's dealing may have their reconciliation and their justification in this hint of the apostle's — in this more profound study of the Scriptures! Might. The language intimates that Christ the just One, hath suffered for the sins of the unjust. The power of a risen Saviour is to show itself in spiritual lives. And it is here; "the just for the unjust," Christ suffered. All His people are with 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. To preserve His truth, and the earthen vessels that contained it, not from the flood of water, but from the flood of sin. 2. He sets before them the example of Christ. "Put to death." (2) The greater honour and dignity our Head hath, the more joy and comfort may we have, who are His members.2. He draws them to the Cross, and you may be sure He will draw them to the crown.(C. The authority of His law must be maintained. That the final misery of those who have heard the gospel must be contrary both to the disposition and agency of Christ.(D. But I beg you to remember that He is gone up into heaven as our representative. The father and son stand together, and as the son runs his eye along the line he discovers that his father is a doomed man. We all know well enough what those things are that try and irritate us, in the common intercourse of life, and where our patience gives way. Look how it was with Him, who had more right than thou hast, to better entertainment in the world. The word "once," is capable of being taken in two senses. The fact that there are spirits in hell to whom the gospel was once preached suggests two very solemn considerations:1. The authority of His law must be maintained. THEY WERE ENDURED ON BEHALF OF THE UNJUST.1. A prison is a scene of bondage. (Canon T. S. Evades, D. D.)The spirits in prisonDean Vaughan.St. A great effort for a selfish purpose drains a man's moral resources, he has to surrender nobler considerations and higher purposes; but it leaves him better off in the things of this world, with a larger fortune, and a greater command of earth's luxuries. It means also communion and counsel. The Greek term here translated "answer" means a question or interrogation. 3. The Lord Jesus Christ is willing to be your substitute now and here, and in God's name and on the authority of His own Word I offer Jesus Christ to be your substitute. "(Plain Sermons by Contributors to "Tracts for the Times. In the Old Testament times, this principle of Divine government was exhibited in acts and ordinances of a more material kind. It casts in a beam of light on the dark mystery of our sufferings by telling us that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, bidding us rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him. But we can bring the doctrine home much closer to our personal feeling than this. CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS WERE FOR HIS PEOPLE AND ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR SINS. (Essex Remembrancer. Nor is the whole Scripture less clear and strong as to the practical value of this virtue in the Christian standard of character. They shall be all presented faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. “It is no longer I who live, but [what?] (Dean Alford. Why did not His perfect sinlessness screen Him from all evil? They had made the world a different place, one that had the power and presence of God as well as of man in it; never were they to forget that. So we can assume Peter means for husbands to not take advantage of your position of authority over your wife who functions in a submissive role to your headship. How many of the supposed injustices of God's dealing may have their reconciliation and their justification in this hint of the apostle's — in this more profound study of the Scriptures! He suffered for me. As it is no small honour to Him our Head to have all these under Him, so the meditation hereof cannot but be comfortable to us, both in regard of Him and ourselves.3. This is one of the wonders of heaven. As that is known, it ought to determine whether it is a work in which we wish to join. Let us not try to put out of our minds the notion of the bad angels being around us, until we have turned in serious prayer to Him who for our sake holds them in chains. )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. He intends us to remove, for He has removed. The fact that He came from the Father, and was ever bound to the Father, was the very thing that made Him able to call men back to the Father. Now just as submission doesn’t imply the inferiority of the one who submits, so the word weaker does not imply a wife is weaker in character or intellect to her husband. But here it is not likeness, it is dependence, that is brought out. The apostle has been saying that Christ's sufferings were so like the sufferings of the disciples, that they could feel the sustaining power of them. In the same way, remembering your "baptism," you will say, "I am married to Christ; I have pledged myself to His service as the great purpose of my life."IV. The mystery of life's power would be made theirs. That nothing more for the purpose will be vouchsafed. He was "put to death" as regards the one; He was "made alive" as regards the other. A. W. Beecher.We accept the life and the death of Christ as an atonement, as a substituted suffering, the just for the unjust; but we do not feel that He was a sufferer only when He was on earth, and that His suffering then was all the suffering that was needful to the salvation of the world. But here it is not likeness, it is dependence, that is brought out. A place of restraint.3. A prison is a scene of guilt.3. Flesh and spirit were both strong in Christ through all His life. Plain Sermons by Contributors to, Tracts for the Times. Who can seriously think of the world blaspheming its Maker, rebelling against Him, and then proudly contending that there is very little evil in that rebellion, and not see that some signal proof from the Governor of all, that that rebellion shall not be tolerated? Intense.2. He spares them that they may spare each other. It is not a corporal and carnal thing. As the flood saved Noah, by destroying the wicked that swarmed on the earth, while he escaped by being shut within the ark; the baptism wherewith Christ was baptized saves Christians, by destroying sins and sinners, so that they who are found in Him in the time of visitation shall step out with Him upon a new earth, under a new heaven, wherein dwelleth righteousness.(W. It seems as if Christ would say, "I appreciate how great a weight of conduct I have put upon you; I would help you bear it. That was Paul's desire: "If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead." By the operations of His Holy Spirit.3. We find no hope of the resurrection but in the greatness of Christ, in His intimate and personal connection with the Father. That similarity is in THE WATER OF BAPTISM, as compared with the water of the deluge to Noah. 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. The issue of His sufferings. Are we to rise as He did? It is so various in its manifestations, that it seems as if we took a new lesson in it every day. They, too, would have but one object — to bring men to God. )Christ at homeHomilist.I. 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. He does not overlook them, but looks directly at them all. If the purpose of the Supreme had been to preserve the lives of those eight, it could have been accomplished by preventing the flood from coming, better than by constructing an ark to float on its surface. O man, how far off hast thou wandered! 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. Sep 18, 2015. Let not sinners question the justice of future punishment.3. THAT YOU HAVE ACCEPTED CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOUR. (1) That He might set us an example of patience and resignation to the Divine will, under the troubles and difficulties of this life. A great effort for a selfish purpose drains a man's moral resources, he has to surrender nobler considerations and higher purposes; but it leaves him better off in the things of this world, with a larger fortune, and a greater command of earth's luxuries. THAT THERE ARE HUMAN SPIRITS ACTUALLY IN THE PRISON OF HELL.1. These sufferings were to bring to God the very men who were now exhorted to imitate them. This is one of the greatest words in all the Bible — in all the world. II. W. McKay, D. D.The sufferings of Christ were in many respects peculiar:I. All His people are with Him. "Once for all": — "never again," as Bengel has it, "to suffer hereafter" (Hebrews 4:28). Smart.I. And therefore, when Christ begins His gospel with the fact of suffering, we are at a loss whether to admire most the wisdom or the love of the method; together the boldness and the reasonableness of what He does startle us into asking the secret of One who could thus utilise the world's greatest enemy, and turn in defence of mankind the very weapons which have so long wrought their destruction. When Solomon would describe the love of the King to his bride, he said, "Upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." His sufferings are sufficient.2. Remember that this being on the right hand of God relates to the complex person of our Lord; it relates to Him not as God alone, but as God and man. Unless you come to know and feel your need of a thing, you will never desire or welcome it. 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. Again, our glorified Saviour is the giver of the Holy Spirit. Peter is telling you husbands that your position of authority is not a license for insensitivity. The figure implies —1. He has gone there as to His proper abode.2. 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. They are "spirits in prison" — they are dead men fast holden in Divine custody, as guilty aforetime of a great disobedience, which sealed their fate here, and swept them promiscuously into a condition which men must call "judgment." God is just and holy, as well as merciful and loving. This, then, is what I want to bring out as the most important thing. THE MERITORIOUS CAUSE OF THEM IS ASSIGNED.III. The danger. Yet we dare not raise a monument to Christ as one who is dead. But when this great Master approaches this very fact of suffering, as the one which He will use in His work, we have reason to expect a word of authority from Him on this most distressing feature of it. The issue of His sufferings. To prepare for His disciples.3. It is the correction of all that is carnal and all that is superstitious in our religion. "(Plain Sermons by Contributors to "Tracts for the Times. Each prisoner constructs his own prison. Peter’s continued instruction in verses 8-12 expands the focus from specific relationships to relationships in general. The expression "once," denotes the perfection of His atonement.4. Christ was "in the world" before His incarnation. First of all, then, the ascension of Jesus was the seal of the accomplishment of redemption. Immortal.II. The act of baptism is an open public renunciation of sin, of sinful pleasures, of the follies of the world.II. His sufferings stand alone. The water flood, so far from being the source of danger, was the instrument employed to save. But then we know that our Lord, as man, is gone into a greater nearness to God than ever; "He is gone into heaven," where is the throne of the great King. On a bed, in a corner of the room, lay a dying soldier. The salvation which God works for His own, both in its whole and in its several parts, is a twofold operation. Art thou mean in thy birth and life, despised, misjudged, and reviled, on all hands? Use the text thus, and it has life in it. There are many things that he would not do because it would disgrace his profession. Christ is at the fountainhead of power. By the sufferings of Christ all grounds of controversy between God and sinners were legally removed (Colossians 1:20). If anyone were to ask me, "What is the way of salvation?" They had opened His love. A poor weakened body labours under pain and disease for years; but the mind grows brighter day by day, and the spirit becomes more refined. Surely this could not be; such a theory could never be in harmony with what we know of His Divine mission. 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. 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. "Who is gone into heaven," and therefore can "fill all things." They had the gospel preached to them.2. Christ is to His people now the one Ark. The due consideration of Christ's sufferings doth much temper all the sufferings of Christians, especially such as are directly for Christ. In accepting Christ as your Saviour you promise Him that you will give yourself up to Him. Thus disembodied and spirit ensphered the Son of God to the departed souls of the antediluvian world made a journey — and made a preachment. 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." Earth and hell may combine against my weak nature; but there I see that nature standing in the Godhead glorified, and I know that I am safe. )The sufferings of ChristArthur Brooks.Suffering is universal in the world. The catalogue of its shapes and degrees is well-nigh inexhaustible, yet it does not exhaust His patience. What is this but St. Peter's "judged, according to men, in flesh," yet "living, according to God, in spirit"? Satan tempted Him; His friends forsook Him; God hid His face from Him.2. Jesus is gone up to the right hand of God, and sitteth there. Did He, in whom death could work no moral change, speak in His disembodied spirit to disembodied spirits, as He spake in the flesh to men in the flesh? Don’t use your physical advantage as a justification to mistreat your wife. The compact you now make with Christ, and of which your "baptism" will be the standing sign and symbol, is that you accept, believe in Him as your Saviour. Why, then, if Christ had no sin in His nature, no sin in His life — why did He suffer? Unless you come to know and feel your need of a thing, you will never desire or welcome it. I wish I could write the word "sins" on your hearts today. Is not this something like the case of the sinner and his Saviour Christ?III. "Once for all": — "never again," as Bengel has it, "to suffer hereafter" (Hebrews 4:28). He waits for men that they may return to Him. The language intimates that Christ suffered once for sins voluntarily. We all know well enough what those things are that try and irritate us, in the common intercourse of life, and where our patience gives way. "Who is gone into heaven," and therefore can "fill all things." That which took place in His own person He makes to be a picture of what takes place in the men whom He saves. Here is One willing to take your place. Satan tempted Him; His friends forsook Him; God hid His face from Him.2. That man, for that yielding, is executed, within the day, under God's death warrant. The act of baptism is an open public renunciation of sin, of sinful pleasures, of the follies of the world.II. The godly husband must understand every room in his wife’s heart and be sensitive to her needs. And therefore, just as the water bore up the ark of Noah, and it was when the waves dashed upon the ark in which he floated that his preservation was completed, so it is by baptism that the disciples of Jesus Christ are likewise saved. WE HAVE THE GREAT MYSTERY OF CHRIST'S DEATH ALLUDED TO — "Put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit." Marriage is a relationship of mutual sympathy. It is some ease to the mind in any distress, to look upon examples of the like or greater distress, in present or former times. "He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth."2. (3) We must keep within com pass, and walk carefully in God's ways.II. Consider, first, what a thing it is to know that the good angels are on our side, that they camp about us to deliver us. Price. A prison is a scene of thoughtfulness. But the Christian is subject to grievous temptations and sad desertions, which are heavier by far than the sufferings which the apostle speaks of here. As the argument is strong in itself, so, to the new man it is particularly strong; it binds him most, as it is not far fetched, but a home pattern; as when you persuade men to virtue by the example of those that they have a near relation to.3. When Peter says, “you husbands in the same way,” he means like the wives, “you husbands in the same way” imitate Christ. It is not a corporal and carnal thing. But then we know that our Lord, as man, is gone into a greater nearness to God than ever; "He is gone into heaven," where is the throne of the great King. Huntington.The term applied here to the Almighty represents Him as we are not very apt to think of Him, i.e., as having before Him all the evil, of every kind, in His children, and bearing it; our ingratitude, our disobedience, our folly, our fickleness, our obstinacy, our selfishness, our wilfulness, our sensuality, our irreverence, our vanity — the whole dark and diversified mass of our sin. Now let us consider that He "is gone into heaven." 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. It belongs not to Him any more than His death and resurrection belonged to Him, as man individual. It is deliverance by destruction. His activity of philanthropy never ceased. "Who is gone into heaven." How shall the awful gulf be bridged which thy sins have opened between thy God and thee? Christ's cause is safe. WE HAVE A REFERENCE TO THE OBJECT OF CHRIST'S ACCOMPLISHING THIS OBJECT — "To bring us to God." Let not those who are alarmed despair. We can fancy we see the men drawn up in a long line. A place of restraint.3. All believers shall be solemnly presented to God in the great day (Colossians 1:22; Jude 1:24). It is so various in its manifestations, that it seems as if we took a new lesson in it every day. In that He appoints them to watch and guard us —(1) What a great honour is this to us. This is no past matter. What meaneth it that Christ sits at the right hand of God? HIS RESIDENCE.1. The mystery of life's power would be made theirs. One after another these nations have broken away from their Creator's commandment. 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. J. Brock, B. A.I. That body which was entombed, was united to the spring of life, the Divine Spirit of the God-head that quickened it.(Abp. It is built by the hand of God, it will float in safety over the deluge, and whoever is in it will be gloriously saved; but we must get within it. What had been lost by the flesh had been more than made up by spirit, and the great transaction was a victory. Living by grace is admitting each day, I am getting better than I deserve. "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? And I can find this only in the glorified form of my Lord, now in heaven at God's right hand, holding together this world, creating, blessing, vivifying, governing all things. He suffered in His body. The next being to God is man. See what the spirit can do to the flesh, and be encouraged in every battle." You find it in the unhurried order of the natural creation; the slow building and furnishing of the outer worlds; the slow succession of geologic ages; the slow procession in ascending ranks, one only so little above another, of the races of plants and animals, affording an epoch for a reptile or a fern; the 'slow preparation of the planet for its final purpose in the rearing of an immortal family, the revelation of the spiritual glory of the Divine Man in the flesh, and the manifestation, by that incarnation, of a new earth with the sons of God for its kings and priests. Does it not also signify perfect repose? (Arthur Brooks. To answer these questions, we must have recourse to the doctrine of the substitution and atonement of Christ, and then to such questions it is easy to give an answer.3. When visiting our Jewish Mission Schools at Pesth, the capital of Hungary, a few years ago, I heard the truth on which I have been dwelling strikingly brought out by one of the pupils. 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