known for his unique ability to simplify profound truth so that it can be applied to Everyday Life Adrien Rogers was one of the most effective preachers respected Bible teachers and Christian leaders of our time thanks for joining us for this message here’s Adrian Rogers now would you take your Bibles and turn please to First Peter the 3D chapter we’ve been preaching through first Peter under the general heading Timeless truths for tough times and in the Providence of God we come today to a passage that deals with the
resurrection which proves that all things work together for good to those who preach the gospel and we’re coming right to this wonderful passage on the resurrection of our dear wonderful Savior and uh we’re going to read Verse 18 on through the end of the chapter all right first Peter Chapter 3 Verse 18 and following our sermon title is the Conquering Christ and In this passage Simon Peter is going to be talking about Victory in Jesus for Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might
bring us to God and being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the spirit by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison which sometime were disobedient when Once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was a preparing wherein few that is eight Souls were saved by water the like figure where unto even baptism death also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience toward God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ who is gone
into heaven and is on the right hand of God angels and authorities and Powers being made subject unto him now the best news this old world has ever heard came from a graveside just outside Jerusalem he is not here he is risen he is risen friend indeed he is alive because on that day life and death met in a tomb in Mortal Combat and life won and death died and Jesus death was the death of death and on that cross and in that tomb Jesus has won a victory now Peter is talking to people who are suffering people are having problem
problems people are having tough times and I’ve been preaching about Peter’s Timeless truths for these tough times now folks there is no more Timeless truth than this that Christ was raised from the dead that’s it that’s a truth that science cannot explain that’s a truth that history cannot repeat and that is a truth that time cannot erode away that Christ was raised from the dead it is the basic fun fundamental truth the truth of all truths it’s the truth that proves him to be the Son of God you know they said on the cross if
