INCREDIBLE GRACE?

Are you ready for this one? This will be so amazing it is hard to believe!

“For Christ has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18- )... no problem there, hey... “...being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit” – amazing and wonderful!

Now let’s slow down and read this very carefully...           

“By which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison...”

Who went and preached? Christ did.                   

How??  By the Spirit.                                             

(Noah hasn’t even been mentioned yet)

So who did Christ preach to?                                  

Those who... “which sometime were disobedient when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah”

Is this what it is saying?...

Christ, by the Spirit, preached to those in prison who had been disobedient to God’s longsuffering in Noah’s time!

WOW!! This is more grace than us Christians can cope with, let alone appreciate.

Moving on... 

Are we saved by baptism? Of course not – it is only a figure, just like Noah’s ark, of what Christ has done for us: “The like figure whereunto...”

Whatever this amazing Scripture means...                

What have you done with God’s incredible saving grace towards you?