Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for April 6, 2025

Audio will be posted on April 6.

The Straight Stuff about Suffering

1 Peter 3:13-22

1. Setting 13-17

• between two “calls” to suffer
• Considering Christ’s substitutionary death and triumphant resurrection, magnify His worth when you suffer.
• two key commands: Don’t Fear and Do Honor

2. Suffering of Christ 18

• once for sins, for the unrighteous, to bring us to God

3. Spirit and Spirits 19-20

• proclamation to spirits
• days of Noah

4. Symbolism 21

• correspondence to baptism

5. Subjection 22

• current location
• comprehensive submission

6. So What?

• “No wound? No scar? Yet as the Master shall the servant be, and pierced are the feet that follow Me. But thine are whole. Can he have followed far who hast no wound or scar?” (A. Carmichael, “Hast Thou No Scar?”)
• Expect and embrace suffering.
• “Worthy of Worship” (T. York)