5.14.45 10.6.2019 1 Peter 3.18-22 Jesus Saves

• Entice: We have heard the Joyful sound…Jesus saves! Jesus saves! I love the hymn. I relish the thought.

▾ Start:

• Entice: We have heard the Joyful sound…Jesus saves! Jesus saves! I love the hymn. I relish the thought.

• Engage: What does that mean to you? What exactly did He do? What concrete steps? What actions?

• Expand: Jesus provides a model for our behavior in times of duress. He also is the means of our salvation.

• Excite: If we follow Him closely and live engagingly in the world, sooner or later someone will ask "what do you mean, 'Jesus saves?'" From what? How? I hope that this message answers those questions simply and clearly.

answers those questions simply and clearly.

Explore: Jesus

JesusSaves

Saves

through what He did, by what He is doing, and through what He will do!

Explain: How? How does He save?

1 Peter 3:18–22 ESV

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.

▾ Body of Sermon:

Sacrifice

Christ suffered...

Righteous for unrighteous..

To bring us to God...

His body being put to death…brought alive in the Spirit.

Announcement

His passion and it’s outcome announced to the evil forces which seduced mankind since the fall. They are defeated, defanged, denounced, and dismissed!

Victory

through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

His victory is our victory...

His resurrection empowers our resurrection...

Elimination

Elimination

Baptism saves us not by eliminating dirt from the body, but by cleansing the conscience and eliminating not only the shame but the guilt.

Salvation is not just a matter of what we get…but what is gone!

Subjection

We not only sing “Jesus Saves” but also “He is Lord!”

His victory is complete! Both the angelic and demonic powers are subject to His resurrection rule...

And He extends that rule to His church, the presence of the Kingdom on earth.

▾ Shut Down:

• It is easy to sing songs of celebration about a Lord who saves us so completely. We live out that salvation in a world which is increasingly complex, consistently oppositional, reliably evil. In short. We are outside Eden after the fall.

reliably evil. In short. We are outside Eden after the fall.

• He saved us to continue proclaiming that victory, to expand the reach of His Kingdom. It required grit, a think skin, and a positive outlook. Those things we can learn from His example.

example.

• That powerful example is effective because His actions to save us make it real, empower our ministry, expand our vision. Yes He has saved you. Now He sends you. Are you going with Him?

with Him?