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Welcome to Day 2389 of Wisdom-Trek. Thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to\xa0Wisdom Day 2389 \u2013 OUR STRANGE LIFE \u2013 FOCUSING FULLY ON JESUS CHRIST 1 PETER 3:8-17 \u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church Message \u2013 05/26/2024 Our Strange Life \u2013 Focusing Fully on Jesus Christ 1 Peter 3:18-22 Last week, we moved forward with our overall submission theme as we learned how to have A Righteous Life and a Ready Defense utilizing the nine maturity checkpoints of our Christian faith. Today, we switch the focus of why we,| as Christ Followers,| may suffer for our faith to the One who suffered all for us in a message titled, Focusing Fully on Jesus Christ. Today\u2019s passage is 1 Peter 3:18-22, on page 1890 of your Pew Bibles. \xa018\xa0For Christ also suffered once\xa0for sins,\xa0the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.\xa0He was put to death in the body\xa0but made alive in the Spirit.\xa019\xa0After being made alive,[d]\xa0he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits\u2014\xa020\xa0to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently\xa0in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.\xa0In it only a few people, eight in all,\xa0were saved\xa0through water,\xa021\xa0and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you\xa0also\u2014not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience\xa0toward God.[e]\xa0It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,\xa022\xa0who has gone into heaven\xa0and is at God\u2019s right hand\u2014with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. This passage of 1 Peter 3:18-22 is one of the most challenging passages to translate and interpret. Let\u2019s look at this passage, focusing on its context to help us better grasp its content. \u2014 3:18 \u2014 This section begins in the middle of a paragraph, a larger unit of Peter\u2019s thought and argument. In the previous section, Peter referred to the believer\u2019s appropriate response to unjust suffering (3:14-17). Believers who conduct their lives virtuously (3:8-12) sometimes incur unfair treatment as a result (3:14). Peter makes his point clear in 3:17: Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong! At this point in the paragraph, Peter turns our attention to Christ, who exemplified unjust punishment. In 3:18-22, Christ alone is the focus of our attention. Peter outlines in summary fashion the significant movements of Christ from His suffering and death on our behalf (3:18) to His resurrection and exaltation to the right hand of God (3:21-22). Sandwiched between the familiar recounting of Christ\u2019s death and resurrection, we find a few brief statements about what Christ did amid His descent (3:19-20) and how we publicly associate ourselves with Christ\u2019s death and resurrection...