Morning. Good morning. Welcome. We’re also trying to coordinate with Mother’s Day. We’re also trying to coordinate like a five plane jet fly over to, you know, summarize our service for your mom’s. We want to honor your mom’s. It’s epic work you all are doing at home. And so thank you for coming. We are just orient you. We are in weak, weak. Four of our first peter series are real ID series. Looking at our identity we have in christ I think we’ll be finishing this series if all goes well sometime in june as a church. So it’s been really good. I I like to look at a question attention. Some of you probably have seen heard felt or tasted as a christian here in Lincoln Nebraska. Many of you have heard the questions or thoughts out there. Maybe even in here in this room of the bible is a dead archaic, out of touch book that has no relevance in our lives. It’s racist, it’s sexist, it’s an angry ancient literature that is oppressive in nature. You might have heard that, or for my kids, you might have heard things like how can you read this? This doesn’t have any pictures, you know? So it’s it’s an interesting, interesting argument to tee up and so I know our culture today is dealing with a lot of things that the culture in the day. Peter wrote to the audience of the target audience of churches in the area of Kansas in Nebraska, that that demographic area spread out over those are two state region here. There’s a network of churches that Peter wrote this letter to And this letter was read to the churches when they gather and it was circulated among those churches. And in first Peter 16 that talks about how the church is. The believers are grieved with trials of various kinds and the trials that we’ve just remind you of the trials that they’re grieved with. The trials they’re dealing with is racial, political, economic social. There is quite a similarity to what the Peter is writing to and who we are living through as christians here in Lincoln Nebraska. There’s a lot of carry over between between those two worlds, colliding. Um, the Bible is a timeless book that speaks to all times, especially this time that we’re living in its Christians. There’s passages and those principles that speak to us as believers living in Lincoln Nebraska in the year 2021 that do have a high degree of relativity and impact into our life, into what we’re hearing from our culture today. I am encouraged looking through this, but I do feel like the trials that we face of many is kind of various kinds. It’s one thing to have external public trials, doesn’t think nothing of an internal private trial. And I it feels like this christian walk, it doesn’t feel like a casual strolls on the beach when things are tough, God carried me. You know, it doesn’t feel like that, like some of you might have seen that bookmark as a kid, none of you have seen that bookmark as a kid, it seems like from your faces, but it doesn’t feel like a casual stroll on a sunny day. My christian life feels like a UFC fight. One corner is me, the other corner is everything else. And sometimes the external big public trials, they hit you, you take some blows, you drop a few, but you get your butt kicked basically. But the internal private trials on top of that, and you feel like you get your head clock, do you feel like you got rings, you lost your balance, you lost your spiritual wind and you sit down in your corner and you catch your breath, drink a little bit of water. You have to go back out again day after day and as time goes on, life goes on and we get pounded as christians are walk of God feels like a UFC cage fighting. So it could be a good round, it could be a bad round. I don’t know what your last week was like, but I do think this is sage timely words from peter to the first century chu…