BLESSED FROM BEING BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

My Dear Precious Child, Peter had experienced personal daily fellowship with Jesus Christ for three years before His crucifixion and resurrection and yet Jesus still told His disciples that some of the things that He told them were too difficult for them to perceive. (John 16:7-16) He assured them that when the Holy Spirit came to live in them that He would fully explain those truths to them in language that each one of them could readily understand. So when Peter was writing his first letter to the churches, he explained truths that had been too difficult previously but had been currently revealed to him by the Holy Spirit. Peter wrote that Christ, being righteous, had died for the sins of the unrighteous so that He might bring them into My presence by Jesus Christ being put to death in His flesh but made alive again in the Spirit. He also wrote that Christ had gone to hell and preached salvation to the imprisoned spirits who formerly did not obey Me, as was prophesied in the days of Noah when a few were saved through water and the ark. Those imprisoned spirits were the saints who were raised from hell when Christ was. (Matthew 27:52-54) Then Peter explained that the believers to whom He wrote the letter had been saved, not by removal of dirt from their bodies, but through the resurrection of Christ Jesus which gave to them a CLEAR CONSCIENCE now that Christ had come into heaven with Me and is at My right hand with all angels, spiritual authorities and powers subject to him. His emphasis was on the fact that My plan of salvation had given to all believers a CLEAR CONSCIENCE with no condemnation of sin. (I Peter 3:18-22) Further explanation from Peter in his first letter to the believers was that since Christ suffered in his fleshly body for the sins of humanity, that you must arm yourself to also be ready to suffer in the battle against evil since you have My power and authority to also win the battles by the power of My Holy Spirit since it was the Holy Spirit who raised Christ from the dead who also lives inside of you. You have the power to no longer live controlled by the lusts of the flesh such as drunkenness, reveling, lying, and lawless idolatries but you have the power to live your life on earth living to please Me. When you suffer by being ridiculed, insulted, reviled and persecuted for My sake because of your righteous behavior, then you are blessed for doing good instead of doing evil. (I Peter 3:17; I Peter 4:1-3) Then Peter gave strict instructions to the believers who would be reading his letter. He wrote that you must, above all things, love one another because love covers a multitude of sins, meaning that love disregards and overlooks the sins of other people instead of amplifying them. (I Peter 4:8) One way in which he encouraged the believers to show love is by being hospitable to everyone with brotherly love and that you love without a complaining heart. He said that My children should not suffer as a murderer, a thief, a criminal or a mischief maker by infringing on the rights of other people. He wrote that the only suffering to which you are called is if you suffer because of your righteousness in exhibiting the character traits of Christ Jesus. People who set their minds on things of the world will be repulsed by your righteous behavior because they don't understand it. Don't be bewildered that the devil is going to test your faith by your suffering abuse at the mouths of other people. They don't understand your freedom. Liberty is foreign to them. Forgive them. They don't know what they are doing. Christ died so that you would have a CLEAR CONSCIENCE without condemnation of sin from the devil. Your Loving, Forgiving Father