He who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, but who suffers; how do they suffer; who ceases from sin and how does this happen? This sermon attempts to address these big questions and then explain how this was helpful for Peter's readers and how it continues to help believers today.
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“ a summary ” In this sermon, Derek Carlsen focuses on the best way to translate 1 Peter 4:1. The original Greek has only four words in the first phrase which when directly translated to English read, “Christ, therefore since, has suffered, flesh.” He would translate this “Christ, then, has suffered for our flesh. Indeed, arm yourselves with the same insight.” He then says “for he who has suffered in the flesh” refers to Christ. In the Greek, the tense of the word suffering refers to a singular, completed act, not an ongoing process.
So Peter is saying we should arm ourselves with this insight: Christ suffered in the flesh for our flesh so we might live in this life free to do the will of God. We are not just marking time until we are freed from this life. Christ suffered, not merely to redeem our souls, but to redeem our whole being from the guilt and bondage of sin so we can fulfill his original purpose for the earth of discipling all nations, of having dominion over all things for the glory of his kingdom here and now. His death stopped sin. This is our weapon: the power and bondage of sin have been stopped. Because we were united with Christ when he suffered in the flesh, we have the power to defeat sin in our flesh.
Derek Carlsen is a native Zimbabwean and was a resident in that country until he was called to be the pastor of the Church of Christian Liberty from April 2003 to September 2005. Following this, he became founding pastor of Covenant Reformed Church of Elk Grove in Elk Grove...
