For Our Salvation
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18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, 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, 19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, 20 because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
1. Christ suffered for our salvation. (vs. 18)
1. Christ suffered for our salvation. (vs. 18)
4 who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
2. We can live in confidence of Christ’s victory over evil. (vs. 19-20)
2. We can live in confidence of Christ’s victory over evil. (vs. 19-20)
12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. 13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.
3. The sacrament of baptism allows us to participate in this victory. (vs. 21-22)
3. The sacrament of baptism allows us to participate in this victory. (vs. 21-22)
4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.