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"For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil" – 1 Peter 3:17 _.

Learn from Jesus’ Suffering (1 Peter 3:18a) This is a mysterious passage of Scripture describing Jesus’ suffering; your suffering may be mysterious as well.

When you suffer, remember Jesus Christ.

Our greatest need is not the absence of suffering but the presence of God. What are you learning about Jesus through suffering?

Learn from Jesus’ Death (1 Peter 3:18b – 20) On the cross, Jesus said, “It is finished.” There was nothing else to be done in regard to his work of salvation, therefore it was not necessary for Christ to descend into hell, as some interpreters have said of this passage.

On the cross, Jesus said, “Today you will be with me in paradise” (emphasis added), which appears to be further evidence against the idea that Christ descended into hell after his death.

“It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27). There is no second chance for repentance and faith after death.

The story of Noah (Genesis 6:5 – 14) is often twisted to say that because Noah was righteous, he received favor from God. The Bible, however,

presents the opposite order: God’s favor (“grace”) precedes and enables Noah’s righteousness.

Along with his sons, Noah preached righteousness and built the Ark for 120 years. He was constantly mocked and nobody ever responded to his invitation for repentance. Christians suffer likewise in our day, awaiting the fulfillment of God’s promise.

Learn from Jesus’ Resurrection Baptism symbolizes the death, burial, and resurrection Jesus Christ.

Baptism is an outward demonstration of inward transformation.

Baptism shows a FACT (“the resurrection of Jesus Christ”) and FAITH (“a good conscience”).

Learn from Jesus’ Ascension Remember who Jesus is, not just who he was. As a Christian…

You will die, as Jesus did.

Your body will go into the ground but your spirit will live, as Jesus’ did.

You will rise from death as Jesus did.

You will live in victory over the presence and power of sin with Jesus.

In the meantime…

You will suffer as Jesus did.

Your suffering will likely be as mysterious as Jesus’ suffering and as confusing as 1 Peter 3.

Don’t try and figure it all out.

Suffer well in faith like Noah did Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 44 helpful votes More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 40 helpful votes Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

John 16:33 ESV / 25 helpful votes I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.�

Romans 8:18 ESV / 22 helpful votes For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

1 Peter 4:12-19 ESV / 21 helpful votes Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. ...

1 Peter 4:12-13 ESV / 18 helpful votes Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

1 Peter 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Psalm 34:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

HelpfulNot Helpful Revelation 21:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.�

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the

temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

John 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 14:27 ESV / 8 helpful votes Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

Isaiah 55:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.