Standing Firm in My Baptism

Peter brings his readers once again back to the cross of Christ and the core of the Gospel: Jesus “suffered once for sins, the Righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit” (v18). How does Jesus through His passion bring us back to God? Through baptism! Peter connects salvation through waters via the ark to our salvation via the waters of baptism. In baptism, through the power of Jesus’ resurrection, we receive a clean conscience before God. In such union with Christ, we share His victory over sin, death, Satan, and the grave.