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The Pilgrim’s Suffering (Part 2): Baptism Remembered

September 2, 2018 Preacher: Series: The Pilgrim Letters: 1 & 2 Peter

Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18–22

Key Truth: We are to suffer well by remembering Christ’s lordship through His defeat of death and all the associated powers as well as our baptisms as a sign and seal of our participation in that victory in Christ.  


How do you deal with your fears and anxieties?
What brings you the most comfort?

 

 

The Call to Remember the Resurrected and Ascended Lordship of Christ:

1 Peter 3:18-20

“To know that Jesus is Lord of all is truly one of the greatest possible encouragements for all Christians but specifically those experiencing the power of Satan and his forces through persecution. Sometimes it will seem that evil has the upper hand in life. Here Peter reminds us that the truth is that Christ is ascended on high and over all powers and authorities. Our lives are in his hands and he will watch over his own and deliver us just as faithfully as he delivered Noah and his family.”

Paul Gardner, 1&2 Peter & Jude: Christian Living in an Age of Suffering

 

What are some ways that the lordship of Christ over death and all the associated powers helps (or can help) you in your fears and anxieties?


 

The Call to Remember Your Baptism:

1 Peter 3:21-22

167. How is our baptism to be improved by us?

A. The needful but much neglected duty of improving our baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and when we are present at the administration of it to others; by serious and thankful consideration of the nature of it, and of the ends for which Christ instituted it, the privileges and benefits conferred and sealed thereby, and our solemn vow made therein; by being humbled for our sinful defilement, our falling short of, and walking contrary to, the grace of baptism, and our engagements; by growing up to assurance of pardon of sin, and of all other blessings sealed to us in that sacrament; by drawing strength from the death and resurrection of Christ, into whom we are baptized, for the mortifying of sin, and quickening of grace; and by endeavoring to live by faith, to have our conversation in holiness and righteousness, as those that have therein given up their names to Christ; and to walk in brotherly love, as being baptized by the same Spirit into one body.

Westminster Larger Catechism

 

How often do you return to your baptism and what it signifies and seals as a means of grace in a time of suffering?

 

1 Peter 3:18-22 teaches us that we are to suffer well by remembering:
-Christ’s lordship through His defeat of death and all the associated powers
-your baptism as a sign and seal of your participation in that victory in Christ

 

“We know what the text says: Jesus was victorious and completely vindicated. We know what the text is intended to do: encourage the reader with the certain and fixed truth that in the end those who are in Christ will win.”

David R. Helm, 1&2 Peter and Jude: Sharing in Christ’s Sufferings

 

 

Communion

 

 

Benediction:

1 Peter 5:6-11