On Sunday mornings, we're going through First Peter, verse by verse and Lord willing today, we will complete chapter three.

Our text will be verses 18 through 22.

And I'll ask if you're able, those of you that are here to stand, if not where you're seated is fine.

You can follow along as I read.

The Apostle Paul, or Paul.

I spent some time in the epistles.

Let's try that again.

Just as I can hear.

The Apostle Peter, rough week.

Verse 18, for Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.

He was put to death in the body, but made alive by the Spirit through whom also he went

and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days

of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved

through water.

And this water symbolizes an anti-type baptism that now saves you also, not the removal

of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand with angels, authorities, and powers

in submission to him.

It's self-explanatory, right?

So we could just, let's pray.

Wow, Lord, your word is just alive, powerful, active like a two-edged sword.

And Lord, we need that surgical sword in our lives.

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