Christ is Supreme

Meditations in the Season of Lent 

March 31, 2022

Christ is Supreme

Now Christ has gone to heaven. He is seated in the place of honor next to God, and all the angels and authorities and powers accept his authority.

1 Peter 3:22

Read:1 Peter 3:17-22

Peter begins this passage writing again about the suffering the new community of believers was experiencing in the culture, especially from the civil authorities. He then connects our suffering to the suffering Jesus experienced.

Many churches use the Apostles’ Creed in one of two versions. In one, the Creed affirms Jesus “. . . suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; the third day he rose from the dead; he ascended into heaven.” Another version of the Creed affirms Jesus “. . .    suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. On the third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven.”

The word ‘hell’ is used by tradition, but the word should be translated, ‘Hades” which was a place where all the dead went as opposed to hell which is a place of punishment. The NLT and the NRSV uses the phrase “spirits in prison” for verse 19.

Peter’s point is that these spirits had been disobedient to God. He then uses the experience of Noah to show how our baptism is a way of expressing our salvation brought through the resurrection of Jesus.

My Takeaway: In verse 22, quoted above, Peter is affirming that Jesus has all authority and is supreme over all creation. This is my periodic reminder to read again of the supremacy of Christ in Colossians 1:15-20.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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