For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
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… what you've done, this bridge will absorb and take the weight of your sin and mine. The weight limit is unlimited. Unlimited. That's why the Bible says boldly in 1 Peter 3, verse 18, for Christ has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust that he might, I love this, let's say it, bring us to God. So it's a Jesus thing, isn't it? It's a God thing. God took responsibility of this architecture of Easter to build a bridge from his side to our side. And you can think about this too, another metaphor as a giant cross, you know the cross beam being the bridge deck the cross is a bridge and you have a bridge to cross but I've got to I've got to ask you have you have you crossed the bridge I mean God has done everything he can for you and for me he's even given us the capacity for faith, for a decision for a choice have, I'm just asking, have you done that? …
Peter can explain this from 1 Peter chapter 3. For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body, but made alive by the Spirit, through whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison. this scripture is dense with significance. It deserves to be pondered phrase by phrase, so let's do so. First of all, for Christ died for sins. To sin is to rebel. To sin is to turn away. To sin is to tell God, I don't want you to be my king. Sin centers life on self, not God. We were made to be centered on God. Sin gets us off center. Selfish ambition, not divine celebration. And the wages or the consequences of sin is death. We die. We die a physical and a spiritual death. Adam and Eve created in the Garden of Eden were immortal. They would not have died had they not sinned. But they sinned and death entered the garden. …
… Look at 1 Peter 3, 1 Peter 3, and verse 18. Christ 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. Just simply saying, Christ died. His flesh is buried in the grave prior to the resurrection, but His Spirit is alive. What did His Spirit do? Verse 19, in which, that is, in His Spirit, which obviously could never die, He went and made proclamation, He announced triumph to the spirits now in prison. Who are the spirits in prison? They are the ones, verse 20, who were disobedient when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah during the construction of the ark. So these spirits in prison sinned during Noah's time. What was their sin? You have to go back to Genesis 6, and we have this bizarre sin described. Just start in verse 1. It came about, Genesis 6, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them. …