You know, there are a lot of mysteries about the Christian faith.

And by mystery, I don't mean something like a whodunit where you have to figure out who did the crime and that sort of thing.

What I mean is things that are hard to understand because they're so massively big.

They are spiritual truths that are hard for us who

abound to this earthly existence to really understand. But today we're going to dig into one at

1 Peter chapter 3, verse 18, as we seek to get our minds aligned with the truth of God's word today

on the morning mindset. So get out your Bibles, get out your morning mindset journal if you have one.

And before we do, I'm going to ask you if you would consider sharing the morning mindset with

someone, someone you know, especially if you have someone who speaks Chinese or Spanish or even Hindi,

we have podcast episodes being published in those languages as well, trying to reach

people in as many ways as we can. So if you would take a moment to think about prayerfully

who you could invite to listen to Morning Mindset, I would appreciate it. You can always send

them to MorningMindsetmedia.com. They can find all of our different language podcasts right there on the

main page. All right, let's pray before we dig into 1. Peter 3, 18.

Lord Jesus says, as we look into the mysteries of what you've done for us, through your life,

your death, your burial, your resurrection, we ask you to open our hearts and minds to truly grasp and truly believe what you've done

so that we can be strengthened, supported, and empowered for the kind of life you expect us to live on planet Earth.

We ask in Jesus' name, amen.

All right, friends, well, you might notice the title for this episode is why Jesus suffered and died.

That's one of those mysteries we really need to dig into and understand on a deeper level.

So let's look at it in 1. Peter 3, verse number 18.

It says, for Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might

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