Does it not mean, first, unrivalled honour? Are we to rise as He did? Then the flesh grows and asserts itself, until at length its hour of weakness comes, and, in the failure of disease or of old age, it loses its power, and sinks once more into the earth. St. Peter expatiates in the field thus entered. (3) We must keep within com pass, and walk carefully in God's ways. From this interpretation of the text an inference may be drawn. But Christ was not an ordinary man. 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. (Romans 6:3-13). You know the story of "The Heart made Captive" — the slave bought with British gold, who vowed he would never serve his purchaser. Have we not a reason for this, and at the same time a deeper look into his warm heart, when we turn to his personal character and history? Each prisoner constructs his own prison. "Gone into heaven." There are many things that he would not do because it would disgrace his profession. Were His sufferings the consequence of His own desert? Was it not that the innocent suffered for the guilty, and that on account of this suffering the guilty might go free? If any of us stand wondering how the mountain of our own or the world's suffering shall be conquered, and have never seen the path opened on the side of man's sin, have tried every way but the fight against sin, have shed tears over every calamity but the depravity of our nature, have done everything but confess our sins in the sight of God, nay, have dismissed that as too dark and hard a side of the problem for us to face, now let the way opened by One who knew the secrets of our nature and of the generation of that mountain of suffering, — let that way be the one for our feet to follow. Taken in this sense, two ideas are suggested:1. That is, no new work was done by Him after His resurrection which brought about His ascension. The gospel way of pardon is by substitution — by One taking the place of another, by the Just taking the place of the unjust — the Good taking the place of the evil — the just Jesus, the good Jesus, taking the place of the unjust and the evil. We have all disobeyed, and so there is no hope for any one of us, except in the obedience and death of Christ. It is the cleansing of the conscience from its guilt, so that when God makes inquisition for blood, He finds no spot or wrinkle there; so that the conscience, when put to the question, answers peace to the challenge of the Judge. 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. )"Baptism": helpfulB. Dobbin, M. A.I. One after another these nations have broken away from their Creator's commandment. To prepare for His disciples.3. Here again we see that the resurrection of Christ was not an isolated fact, and did not stand alone. 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. 3. Here is One willing to take your place. It is the cleansing of the conscience from its guilt, so that when God makes inquisition for blood, He finds no spot or wrinkle there; so that the conscience, when put to the question, answers peace to the challenge of the Judge. 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. In this way, too, "baptism" may be helpful to you, and so save you. I would come to each of you and say, "You are lost, and unless you get pardon you will be lost forever. A philanthropic age needs the Cross, men anxious to alleviate the sufferings of the world need to have their own hearts broken for their sins, and all of us need to cling to these events of the suffering and death of Christ, and to feel that they contain the very power of our lives within them — the power of forgiveness and redemption, the power of happiness, the power of true labour, the power of the life eternal for this world and for the world that is to come. The very trials of our life are ordered by a wiser will than ours, and are parts of a Heavenly Father's discipline. It is this process of gain and loss to which our attention is called in the review of Christ's death and resurrection. THAT YOU HAVE REPENTED OF YOUR PAST LIFE AND CONDUCT. Every national life has grown corrupt. 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, too, is like Noah's. W. McKay, D. D.The sufferings of Christ were in many respects peculiar:I. He suffered in His body. "Christ once suffered." )The design of Christ's sufferingsSketches of Four Hundred Sermons.I. To set forth the DESIGN of Christ's sufferings, and to aim at its accomplishment in BRINGING MEN TO GOD. 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. THEIR HISTORY.1. To prepare for His disciples.3. The language intimates that Christ suffered once for sins voluntarily. But those words, doubtless, mean the evil angels as well as the good; our unseen enemies, as well as our unseen friends. Use the text thus, and it has life in it. It means also communion and counsel. He who is very God and very man, one person in two natures, did suffer death — in which nature? He was "put to death" as regards the one; He was "made alive" as regards the other. It is the correction of all that is carnal and all that is superstitious in our religion. Apart from personal interest in the sufferings of Christ, suffering regarded as the result of sin — suffering for sin — is a fact, the most terrible and unrelieved in the experience and history of our world. We rise from the physical to the moral world. As the term, "just," expresses the perfect purity, both of the nature and of the life of the Saviour; so the term, "unjust," must express the impurity, both of the nature and of the life of those for whom He suffered.II. Flesh and spirit were both strong in Christ through all His life. Did He, the Apostle on earth of His Father in heaven, continue to pursue His Divine mission in Hades? FOR THE EVIL ANGELS.1. The water of baptism could no more save the baptized man, of itself, than the water of the deluge could save the antediluvian sinners who were outside the ark. The brief but expressive answer was, "I have taken Him to be my substitute!" “The grace of life” is not eternal life, but the best of this life. It means also communion and counsel. It is quite noticeable that one of the apostles of our Lord dwells on this grace of patience with peculiar earnestness, returning to it as if it had a special power to his conscience and a special sacredness to his heart; and this is St. Peter, from whom my text is taken. He suffered in His soul. The object of His sufferings.4. Satan tempted Him; His friends forsook Him; God hid His face from Him.2. The Messiah met that deluge, and emerged from it triumphant. Among these were two, a father and son. J. S. Bird, B. Taken in this sense, two ideas are suggested:1. And the thought of our Lord gone up into heaven, and sitting on the right hand of God, is a thought of great power to set us right in our feelings towards both sorts of angelic beings. From Him all spiritual influence comes direct, and without union with Him no man has the Spirit of the Lord. Specially contemplates the good of His followers.(Homilist. Yet even in these, this same argument holds; for our Saviour is not ignorant of those, though still without sin. Earthly prisons cannot confine the soul.II. To get a good conscience within them (vers. Men may quarrel with the suffering while they hug the sin, but the connection is there. )Christ's sufferingsAbp. Crimes were laid to His charge which His righteous soul abhorred. It is His manhood that is at the right hand of God. I think, since Christ has gone into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, it shows which way we ought to go. The subject furnishes — First: Encouragement to suffering Christians. 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 is this process of gain and loss to which our attention is called in the review of Christ's death and resurrection. All these are subject to Christ, and He hath triumphed over them.2. It is deliverance by destruction. It means also communion and counsel. "Gone into heaven." Since thus our Lord hath taught us by suffering in His own person and hath thus dignified sufferings, we should certainly rather be ambitious than afraid of them. When one has gone down He has set up another, and waited patiently for that. We naturally think, even from our childhood, a good deal of the spiritual world; of beings out of sight, who yet, for aught we know, may often be very near us, and may have great power to do us good, or to hurt us in body and soul. We see that sufferings are not necessarily the sign of a bad cause.3. Christians! Let us see if there is anything elsewhere in Scripture that will help us in bearing up under the weight of this remarkable disclosure. (Dean Alford. Thus disembodied and spirit ensphered the Son of God to the departed souls of the antediluvian world made a journey — and made a preachment. The wife sees the ring on her finger, and she says, "I am married; I am no longer my own. Now you demand the trumpet, for the words are full of soul-stirring music, and create intense delight. It is the Christian application of "God is spirit." Why did not His perfect sinlessness screen Him from all evil? "Take heart," he seems to say; "your sufferings are not exceptional; they run in the Divine family; even our Master was not exempt from them; He also suffered in the flesh; but His sufferings did not stay His blessed ministry; nay, they even augmented His sphere of usefulness; 'He was quickened in spirit,' in which also he went forth to herald His accomplished work in regions to which, but for death, He had not obtained access. A. Locally: Although God is everywhere, yet in heaven He is specially seen and enjoyed.V. 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