Descended Into Hell, Rose Again, Ascended | 1 Peter 3 18-22 - Clint Leavitt

When we think of hell, we often carry with us certain pictures and images. More often than not, those images are formed less by what the bible actually says, and more by what our culture has depicted. Watch as Pastor Clint unpacks the story that the bible truly unfolds, how the bible's is far more a picture of heaven and earth than it is heaven and hell, and how Jesus' death, resurrection, and ascension prove three things about Himself: that He is a brother, a savior, and a king. Sermon Resources: 1. "People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, “If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.” I do not think that is the best way of looking at it...Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other." -C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity" 2. “He went in and captured the colors like a conquering hero, flinging open the doors and rummaging around among the devils so that one fell out through a window and another through a hole in the wall.” -Martin Luther, sermon at Torgau 3. “Here is someone who wants to be one of us, a comrade of the outcasts, a brother of the blind, and a companion of the lonely, the suffering, and the dying. He appears among them without privileges, sharing their fate, the Savior of the world–incognito.” -Helmut Thielicke, "I Believe: The Christians Creed