Let us give a little wider reach to the treatment of the subject by contemplating the patience of God in its sublime delay, its slowness as men count slowness, in bringing about the most beneficent ends. He suffered in His soul. The multitudes of those who disbelieved, in Noah's days, perished, and the few that believed were saved. THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST ARE HERE ASSERTED.II. And now, although no longer humbled in the flesh, Christ has not lost that peculiar element and attribute of the Divine nature — namely, substitution, imputation, vicariousness. He the Crucified One, His body still hanging on the tree, passed away from the Cross of Calvary to the place of custody, where the souls of the departed were in confinement. "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. THE CHARACTER OF THE SUFFERER, AND OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM HE SUFFERED.1. Anti-typical to which, the apostle says, "Baptism doth now save us." They had the gospel preached to them.2. We have received the baptism, when in our Substitute we have received it. It is this process of gain and loss to which our attention is called in the review of Christ's death and resurrection. Legally: They remove all governmental obstructions to reconciliation.2. )Baptism doth now save usThe two baptismsW. And the water of baptism is the antitype of that water of the deluge, because it completes the figure which makes the person safe in Christ, who is the only Ark of the soul from the deluge to come. 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. He suffered not only unjustly but for the unjust. Might. That sweet hunk of Christian femininity is also AL Capone in a skirt. Others think the way of pardon is trying to be as good as they can — saying their prayers, and striving to do what is right. I know they are often bitter and so long continued as to put a sore strain on clinging faith. It is His manhood that is at the right hand of God. In going into heaven there is also this thought, that our Lord is gone now into the place of perfect happiness and of complete glory. III. For all its vast craving mouth and devouring appetite, crying, Give, give, yet was the grave forced to give Him up again, as the fish to give up the prophet Jonah. 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 regard it as a thing to be turned to when one comes near to die — as a sort of desperate remedy to be taken when one can do no better. THE PURPOSES OF CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS. The deliverance. He suffered in His soul. (John Flavel. But Christ was not an ordinary man. That was Paul's desire: "If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead." As that is known, it ought to determine whether it is a work in which we wish to join. The next being to God is man. )Our ascended LordC. From Him all spiritual influence comes direct, and without union with Him no man has the Spirit of the Lord. It was the spirit of the Son of God. THE DESIGN OF THE JUST SUFFERING FOR THE UNJUST, THAT HE MIGHT BRING THEM TO GOD.(Wm. Art thou mean in thy birth and life, despised, misjudged, and reviled, on all hands? A. The millions disbelieved. The third fact is, His dominion: "Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him." 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. (Romans 6:3-13). Immortal.II. A. THE CHARACTER OF THE SUFFERER, AND OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM HE SUFFERED.1. But here it is not likeness, it is dependence, that is brought out. In penitential sorrow.2. A place of restraint.3. He sets before them the example of Christ. These sufferings were to bring to God the very men who were now exhorted to imitate them. But, as they remembered it, it would affect their lives, and change the whole character of them. 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. A place of confinement for trial.III. 1P iP i Pet) Every national life has grown corrupt. We saw that this greatest feature of Christ's resurrection was based on the fact that no man comes out of a transaction the same as he went into it. He has gone there as to His proper abode.2. In what way, then, you may ask, does baptism save us? who, out of the cries and groans to which we close our ears, made the praises of God resound through the world? )The longsuffering of God waitedThe patience of GodBp. But the great end of His suffering for sins, the just for the unjust, was to bring us unto God.Application;1. Just so far as they are real offences at all, they are offences against Him before they are to us. In this sense it has an element of salvation in it, and it may be made helpful to you in the cultivation of Christian character and life by reminding you of the terms of that covenant.I. 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. (2) It implies their having access into the gracious presence of God. We have, it is true, as men and women, our disapprobations and even our little indignations at wrong-doing. The spirit must assert itself: it must be seen to be the lifeguard of the body; it must be evident as the great protecting, rescuing power. The third fact is, His dominion: "Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him." 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. “It is no longer I who live, but [what?] 1 Peter 3:7 A husband shopping center (Husband Mart) has just opened, where a woman may go to choose a husband from among many men. Here are two things to be remarked, their cause and their kind.1. But there is another similarity between the disciples of Christ and Noah and his family. (Dean Vaughan. THEIR HISTORY.1. The designation by which the Redeemer is here distinguished, and the emphatic statement whereby He characterises His sufferings must be taken together — "Christ once suffered for sins." First of all, then, the ascension of Jesus was the seal of the accomplishment of redemption. They regard it as a thing to be turned to when one comes near to die — as a sort of desperate remedy to be taken when one can do no better. He sees the tyrants, the traitors, the hardened profligates, living out their many days, and some of them dying natural deaths in their beds, the Alvas and Torquemadas, small and great, of every age — His judgment seat not moved forward one hair's breadth to meet them this side the grave. 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. THAT YOU HAVE REPENTED OF YOUR PAST LIFE AND CONDUCT. Locally: Although God is everywhere, yet in heaven He is specially seen and enjoyed.V. It belongs, in its actuality and in its effects, to our whole nature, which He bore on Him and bears on Him at this moment. In this sense, therefore, it may be said that He "once suffered" — the entire of His sufferings from the very first lay before Him. Propitiatory. 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. On the first floor, the sign on the door reads, “Floor 1–These men have jobs.” The woman reads the sign and says to herself, “Well, that’s better than my last boyfriend, but I wonder what’s further up?” So up she goes. 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. 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. )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. Locally: Although God is everywhere, yet in heaven He is specially seen and enjoyed.V. For man to be away from God is as if a flower were separated from its root, a babe from its mother.IV. 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. What happens then, we ask? But the expression, "the just," intimates not only the perfect purity of His nature, but also the perfect purity of His life. Let us draw nigh to God.4. 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. It is the privilege of strength to suffer for weakness. And lastly, there is one final comparison between the two cases. When tempted to relax or disobey, you will answer your tempter, "I have placed myself in the hands of Christ; I am not my own. As long as you think merely of Noah being saved from death by drowning, you miss the grand design of God in bringing the flood upon the earth. This language intimates, that Christ the just One hath suffered. In others, as in the case of the prodigal, there is a time, sharp and distinct, when reflection arrests them in their course of sin and folly. 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? THE MERITORIOUS CAUSE OF THEM IS ASSIGNED.III. A prison is a scene of bondage. Then came the contest with sin and suffering, and the body succumbed. 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. There are a thousand things that hinder men that have done wrong from forsaking their wrong-doing. He sets before them the example of Christ. The sufferings of Christ were expiatory, substitutionary and vicarious. If you take Him you are saved, you are pardoned." They are full in His sight. What object did the Almighty Ruler contemplate in those stupendous arrangements? 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. 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. (3) Our inability to return to God of ourselves; we must be brought back by Christ, or perish forever in a state of separation from God (Luke 15:5). 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. It is only by getting at the true nature of a difficulty that we are able to conquer it; the new and deeper knowledge opens ways of approach unthought of before. Study 1 Peter 3 with ... J. Vernon McGee . If anyone were to ask me, "What is the way of salvation?" When that declaration or compact has been made by both parties the man puts the ring on the finger of the woman as a sign or evidence that such declaration has been made. Only the mighty can help; and, as He thus helps, we look to His might as the reason for it, and through the work for us we find our Saviour. He shows us this patience first as the Maker of things. In some, from their natural temperament, or from the advantages of early surroundings, the religious life seems a gradual development. J. We could smile at death, and at him who hath its power, if we were free from sin.2. What influence the sufferings of Christ for sin have on the bringing of sinners to God. Where can we find a just comparison for them? I am gone, and you must be gone, This is not your place of resting, but you must prepare yourselves for a time when it shall be said of each one of you, 'He is gone.'" 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. 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. This His glorious state of final perfection of humanity is not His alone. Were His sufferings the consequence of His own desert? "In the flesh." But I beg you to remember that He is gone up into heaven as our representative. THE SUFFERINGS BY WHICH HE MADE ATONEMENT FOR SIN. He was at once the foundation, standard, and revelation, of eternal rectitude.III. To preserve His truth, and the earthen vessels that contained it, not from the flood of water, but from the flood of sin. For each one of them He kindled the light of conscience or of revelation, to show them the way, and they shut their eyes upon it. 1. Is it clear, or are you still angry when she sins, or hurt when she disappoints you, gives into fear or stops trusting? Thus it shows us the kneeling suppliant at his lord's feet crying, "Have patience with me and I will pay thee all." He hates all grossness enough to drop it out of his life; and yet, with a sympathy with all souls, he finds gleams of hope in those of whom the world can say nothing but evil. A prison is a place of gloom.2. 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. 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