 confess that I feel really unworthy to be standing in this room. Dr. Heiser has done a really excellent teaching on why we baptize. So I've asked him to say a few words about what this means for the one in the world. Very good. First Peter 3, verse 18 to the end of the chapter. So it's a weird chapter, so pay attention. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous. He might bring us to God, being put to God's inflection, made alive in spirit. In which he went and complained to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey him, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah. While the ark is being prepared, in which a fear that is eight persons was brought safely through water, baptism which corresponds to this now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, of angels, authorities, and powers, having been subjected to evil. The obvious question here is, what in the world is Peter thinking? Because he combines baptism, the resurrection, the subjugation of the angels, authorities, and powers to Jesus, the spirits being visited in prison by Jesus, Noah, and the ark. What in the world is he thinking? It's an odd passage, but honestly, I don't think it's that complicated. If you can grasp one pretty profound concept, that is typology. It's a term we probably all heard. A type is a nonverbal prophecy. We're all used to the idea of verbal prophecy. A prophet says something about the future, then you wait for it to come past. A type is a nonverbal prophecy. That is an event, an institution, a person. That in the Old Testament is there as part of the story of it, that three figures or four shadows, something yet to come. So it's a nonverbal prophecy. Now the one that's the most obvious that we know in the New Testament is Paul. Paul says in Romans 5 that Jesus was a type, a two-pass of things to come. Adam was a type of Jesus. Jesus is the second Adam. So there were things about Adam that paralleled, of course, Israel, but that ultimately paralleled Jesus. So Adam is the type. Jesus is what scholars call the anti-typical film. If you can get that idea that Adam prefigured Jesus, then you can understand what's going on in 1 Peter 3, because as Adam was a type for Paul, about Jesus. So Enoch was a type about Jesus for Peter. Now I just read to you about the spirits descending, Jesus ascending and proclaiming the spirits and all that. Peter, 2 Peter, has something else about that. If you knew as many New Testament writers do, as many New Testament people do, if you knew the story of Enoch and the book of Enoch, this would make perfect sense to you. Here's the story, the quick version. The watchers descend to Mount Hermon. They take an oath among themselves. They go and they do what they're doing to corrupt humanity, and basically they get caught. They get reported. And God sentences them to do. He sends archangels to judge them. And they're in prison, the spirits in prison. And they get in touch with Enoch, because Enoch is in a spiritual plane. Enoch walks with God and all that. And they say, could you, as one favorite of God, could you go to God on our behalf and ask him to let us out of here? Tell him we're sorry, we made a mistake, we want forgiveness. And Enoch says, sure, I'll do that. And Enoch goes and asks God, can you relent, can you let them out of here this? Like God says, let me think about it, no. In other words, you're toast, you're condemned. So Enoch descended to the spirits and told them what God's decision was. No, you're imprisoned here, you are divorced from God, you're separated from God, and that's pretty much the end of the story. So what's Peter thinking? Well, Peter is saying, well, just as Enoch did this and announced the doom of the watchers to the watchers. So Jesus descends and his message for the spirits and prison as the fulfillment of the foreshadowing of Enoch is essentially the same. He goes down there and says, hey, guys, I bet you didn't expect to see me here because I'm dead. You probably think you won. Well, I got news for you. I'm going to be out of here in a few days and you are still going to be. You're going to lose. And when Peter connects baptism to this, baptism united to Christ, he joined to Christ in his body, this death, peril, and resurrection, every baptism is a repeated declaration to the forces of darkness that you lose, that we have chosen sides and you lose. You have no control, no condemnation over us. We're here and forever and we're not. So it's a repetition. So baptism work, again, we're used to thinking of that and it is a public declaration. But it is also a public declaration of power. Amen. I realize. I baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. And the Holy Spirit. Amen. I'm going to the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. This way. This way. The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Indeed I baptized you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Say it out loud. Jesus Christ. Amen. I factions腹 andặcобade. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. I baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Congratulations. No, Derek. It's too easy to lose your footing and go floating. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Tom. Lori, I baptize you in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I have a special request as husband baptized wife. Once again, a public proclamation of the powers of darkness.