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1 Peter chapter 3. 1 Peter chapter 3. Verse has been going through my mind. Verse 18. For Christ also hath once suffered four sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
You'll notice at the end of verse 17, as Peter is writing to his audience, telling them, it is better if the will of God be so that you suffer for well-doing. He says, and that's what's going to happen.
You will suffer for well-doing because you're Christians, because the world hates you and so on, and you're living righteously. But then he goes on to say, but Christ also hath once suffered four sins.
He's taking that to the infinite level. And I was thinking about that, the sufferings of Christ. I want you to think about something tonight, you and your sins, and for us who are saved. Because it doesn't matter where, but the point of this verse is that he is bringing before them in this letter of what it means to suffer.
Suffering for righteousness' sake. Suffering because of the hatred of the world and the persecution of the world. And he is constantly bringing out the example of Christ. And as I sat there and was listening to Brandon too, thinking of this, Christ suffered for sins.
The whole core of the Gospel is in a price that was paid by suffering. The suffering of a Savior who is absolutely holy, spotless, pure. Suffering for individuals who are absolutely spotted and guilty.
I honestly don't know, except today I know it was covered in the conference a little bit, that the blinding power of Satan, the love of sinners for their sins. But I want you to think tonight where you sit in your seat, you who are lost in your sins, to think about how much you are holding on to your sins.
How much you are staying and remaining in your lost condition while there is a Savior who has actually suffered for sins. For the sins you've committed. For you. And you remain there in your position of lostness.
This verse has three times before us the word for. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. And as I thought about the sufferings of Christ, I thought about my mind just quickly unfolded history.
And I went back to the Garden of Eden. Biblical history. A lamb, likely an innocent animal, that was taken and God clothes Adam and Eve with the skin of that animal. That animal did nothing. They did.
That animal was the one that had to die. And you go through the entirety of biblical history. The lambs and the oxen and the goats and the sheep, these animals that constantly were killed, sacrificed.
But in this verse, you have a man. You have a person. You have infinite suffering. You have a sacrifice of the Son of God as he gives himself. No one took his life from him. No one could. And I was thinking in that, he did the unthinkable.
The unthinkable. That the Son of God should suffer. That the Son of God should be made a sacrifice for sins. That the Holy One should literally know what it is, actually know what it is, to be forsaken of God, under the judgment of God, in the darkness on that cross, suffering.
He did the unthinkable. You, you, suffer for your sins. I could see that. But him, unless it was pure love, unless it was pure desire to see you saved, unless it was pure willingness to carry out the will of God.
It's unthinkable, isn't it really? And as the crowd that day stood there and said, away with him, away with him. We do not want this to reign over us. And shouted cries of that he deserves to die. We have a law.
And by our law, he ought to die. They had no idea that what they were saying was boomeranging back upon them. And condemning them. And it was exposing him as being the one who truly is the Lamb of God.
The sacrifice for sin. Listen, I just, I want you to think tonight of the sufferings of Christ. It's almost unthinkable, isn't it? How much he suffered. The hours. The physical suffering. The spiritual suffering.
The agony. When he who knew no sin was made sin for us. When the sin of the world was laid upon him. When he paid the price in full. You suffer for sin. I suffer for sin. Happens all the time. On a daily basis we do.
On a daily basis in the sense of for what we are. Things happen. But that's not what I'm talking about. He who knew no sin suffered for all sin. The limitless price of his sufferings. It is unthinkable.
And I'll tell you one more thing that's here. It's unrepeatable. Never be done again. It's not even the fact that it won't be done again. It can't be done again. Because it was paid in full. There's absolutely no need.
God was satisfied. And when the Lord Jesus died, he said it is finished. That payment was made. In full. Why did he do it? Well, the rest of the verse tells you. That he might bring you to God. You who are lost.
Can't find your way. Unable to take direction. Unable to get to heaven. Unable to save yourself. Unable to deliver yourself. Absolutely powerless. Condemned. Hopeless. Lost. He suffered for sin. The just for the unjust.
That he might bring us to God. I want to tell you tonight. You who are not saved. In this meeting. Every day. Your sins are bringing you further away from God. Further and further. Deeper in sin. Greater in judgment.
Bringing you away. Here is the truth that's telling you. He wants to bring you to him. He wants to stop you from going away. He wants to save you from being lost. Because the work is done. And he has already paid the price.
Christ also has once suffered for sins. The just for the unjust. I remember hearing years ago. The account of a tribe down in the Amazon. And they, every year, they would make a trek. A journey. Down in Brazil.
A tribe in the jungles of Brazil there. On the Amazon River Basin. And they would bring an animal with them. It was usually a large bull. And they would cut this bull. They would slit its throat and drive it into the Amazon River.
And as that animal would make its way into the waters. And the waters would begin to turn red. The dreaded piranha would come. And they would all be attracted to that animal. And they would attack it.
In mass. And while that animal was taking away those piranha. And directing them toward it. That tribe would make its crossing over the river. So that they could be brought to the other side. They could go to the other side.
That animal became the sacrifice. Those fish attacked that animal. So that they could be safe. Let me tell you what the Lord Jesus said. What he did. He said it is finished. He told his disciples he had to go to Jerusalem.
The Son of Man must suffer many things. He said many things. But listen to what Peter says. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins. The just for the unjust. That he might bring us to God. By his sacrifice.
He not only has opened the way. He is the way. To take you to God. He is both God and man. And as that one who is that mediator. He can bring you to God. Paying the price for sin in full. You could be saved from the penalty of your sin.
And have eternal life in Christ. That is the word of God.