Time Well Spent with Cornelius F. Warren

The beloved big fisherman Peter wrote 1 and 2 Peter. They are remarkable in all ways for their amazing content. Faithful to certainly God’s intention for Peter as an apostle, he presents to us the significance of the sufferings of Christ. It’s so critical that people in our world understand why Jesus died and rose again. That He did that, many people know. Why He did that, many people surmise. But it is critical to understand the meaning of the sufferings of Jesus Christ, critical to your eternal wellbeing. Peter writes in 1 Peter 3: 18-22, ““For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19 in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, 20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. 21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.” Peter begins with the death of Christ in verse 18 and he ends with the resurrection of Christ in verse 21. Everything in between is based upon the death and resurrection of Christ. In His death He accomplished the things Peter outlines and by His resurrection that accomplishment was affirmed by God who raised Him from the dead.