I Peter 3:19 is
intriguing. It tells us that in
the time between Good Friday and Easter Sunday Jesus went to the people who had
been unreceptive to God during the time of Noah and the building of Ark. He preached to them there. We don't know what He said or the
purpose of his presence there.
Maybe we're not supposed to know.
Maybe we're suppose to read the story and marvel at the grace of God,
and the distance He will go to invite people into His grace.
At any rate, we do see at
least two things. First, God
doesn't write people off but will go the distance to do everything possible to
draw them to Himself. Maybe that's
why John Newton called it "Amazing Grace." Secondly, we see the work of grace in the lives of people
who do respond to Jesus. As the
Ark saved Noah and His family so baptism into Christ saves you and me.
It is impossible to think
of Jesus correctly without seeing in Him the One who "died for sins once
for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God" (I
Pet. 3:16). It is impossible to
think of Jesus correctly without seeing Him alive because of the resurrection
(I Pet. 3:21). It is impossible to
think of Jesus correctly without seeing Him "at the right hand of God,
having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been
subjected to Him" (I Pet. 3:22).
Our world is in such a
mess and is in such great need of a Savior that we dare not proclaim Jesus to
be less than He is. It is no time
to be politically correct. People
need to know that sin is their greatest enemy, that death is in their future,
and that only God's grace can save them.
Proclaim it from the
mountaintop, "Jesus Is Lord."
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JESUS IS LORD!
JESUS IS LORD!
JESUS IS LORD!
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