By Pastor Jason Lim

Suffering is not a curse. It is the path of Jesus. Peter thus exhorts his readers to endure, to do good:

1. PROCLAMATION.

Jesus, after His death & resurrection, proclaimed His victory, by the Spirit, to fallen angels in Tartarus.

2. PROTECTION. Peter uses the same Noahic story to show just as God saved the 8 in the ark from the waters, He will save His people in Christ from His judgment, through Christ’s death & resurrection.

3. PRE-EMINENCE. Jesus shows that suffering injustice is the path to glory.

God wants us to be priests who glorify him. And it is via surprising ways of submission and suffering.