St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

The Apostle's Creed mentions that Christ, upon his death, descended to the dead, and the first letter of Peter reveals upon Christ's descent, he preached to the rebellious spirits in prison (Hades, Sheol), the very first Easter homily! We consider the impact of the three days laid in the tomb and what was happening in the realm of the Spirit and the realm of the dead. Christus Victor! (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) Eph. 4:9-10 For Christ also suffered[b] 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, in which[c] he went and proclaimed[d] to the spirits in prison, because[e] they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were broug