well, good morning and welcome. It’s good to see you all. Also want to give a welcome to those of you who are joining us online. My name is Ben Lander, one of the pastors here And we are in the midst of a series going through the book of 1st Peter today. We’re going to be going through First Peter chapter four and so you can grab your bibles in turn with me to First Peter chapter four, I just want to remind us a little bit of where we’ve come from. The book of First Peter is written by the Apostle Peter to a region of churches, a group of churches throughout Galicia in Greece and they’re going through a lot of hard times. This is written shortly before Peter was arrested. So you know we know that he wasn’t arrested yet which happened between 66 68 A. D. Uh so that was also before Emperor Nero destroyed the temple in 80 70 and all of that. So we know that the persecution and difficulty is happening, christians are getting persecuted, they’re getting arrested, they’re getting killed. It’s a difficult time and he’s riding to these churches to encourage them and to, to encourage people to be living for christ and to know how to suffer. And so you see this kind of re occurring theme about relationships about suffering, about how you should be uh you know, conducting yourself when you are unjustly treated when you’re suffering. And so Shane talked this last week about suffering and undeserved suffering. And the theme continues this week. And so I’m going to pray and then we’re going to begin in Chapter four verse 1. So let’s pray, please pray with me. Lord jesus. We come to you this morning and we asked you to speak to us, We yield ourselves to you Lord. We surrender our lives to once again fill us with your spirit! Open up the eyes of our hearts and our minds to understand your word, To be challenged to be encouraged to be convicted whatever you want to do, Lord. Right now, we give you permission to speak with us. However you want to speak through your word in jesus name. Amen. Read with me in chapter four verses will start with versus one through six. Therefore, since christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same understanding because the one who suffers in the flesh is finished with sin in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will. For there has already been enough time spent doing what the gentiles do, carrying on in unrestrained behavior. Evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, lawless idolatry. They’re surprised that you don’t join them in the same flood of wild living and they slender you they will give an account the one who stands ready to judge the living and the dead. For this reason, the gospel has also preached those who are now dead, so that although they might be judged in the flesh according to human standards, they might live in the spirit according to God’s standards. So, as I mentioned, one of the main themes of this book involves suffering. And this chapter starts with the word therefore, and as Shane talked about this last week, he talked about how christ unjustly suffered and he suffered though willingly once for all, because he gave himself in his life for us and for our sin. And so he starts out and says, because christ after the flesh, because he gave himself for us, arm yourselves with the same understanding, that word understanding is attitude, perspective, mindset, understanding the same understanding the same mindset, the same perspective that christ has is what we should have and apply in the suffering that we experience. And it says the words here, arm yourselves, I think that’s very interesting arming yourself, that’s a military term. And what he’s saying here is we are in a battle and we need to have that same perspective that …