Hi, good morning. Um my name is a nine Scherer, my wife and I help direct the college ministry here. And this morning we’re gonna be continuing our series. This is just the second week um of our series in first Peter. Uh so if you missed first week, um you kind of missed uh not a lot, but pretty much to set up. So I’ll overview it a little bit, but you’re not too far behind, it’s gonna be okay. Um So yeah, we’re mike last week um kind of set us up perfectly. Um and the title for the entire series, um as you noticed what’s called Real Identity, and it’s this idea that as christians, we want to have a real identity in christ. And basically what this letter is in first Peter, what this letter is is a letter written by um Peter or spoken by Peter and take into these churches that are in exile, they’re being persecuted against. It’s tough. Um and they’re discouraged, right? And Peter, what he’s trying to do is is given encouraging kind of exhortation to them and saying, hey, you know, you chose to follow jesus, you chose to say yes. And so this is what your identity looks like. This is now who you are, have confidence in this, This is a good thing. And furthermore, while he’s explaining that he’s kind of going over what it actually means to have an identity in jesus. Um and so I’m going to pray real quick. Um and then we’re gonna get into first peter um starting in verse 13. So let me pray and if you would just pray with me and then we’ll jump in heavenly Father, just thank you for this time. Thank you for your word. Um God thank you for um your son, jesus and God that we can and put our identity into you God and that we can be called something different. Something new. God that you are loving. You are kind. You are merciful. I’m thankful for you. God. Would you just allow me to speak truth today? Um and and and would your word and your spirit be in this room with us? God, we love you and we praise you and your name. I pray amen. Um before we start, you know, you know, one more thing I think that um you know, you might be like ah here we go again. Because if you’ve grown up in church, you’ve probably heard this phrase so often, right? Like let’s be real. You’ve heard this idea of Fine Dragon, any of jesus find your identity and jesus, you’ve heard this so much. So you might be like, I got this one in the bag. Maybe you haven’t, Maybe you have it. Well, that’s even better. I I have growing up, I heard this a lot. Find your identity in jesus, but sometimes it happens so often it’s spoken to us um assuming that we know what that even means. And so I think what’s great about this chapter here in verse Peter is he’s going to take a real practical look at one step that we can take to find our identity in jesus by no means, am I saying this is the whole thing, right? I’m not going through the whole bible today, this is one step. And this is a this is a great, great first step. That’s why it’s towards the beginning of the letter, a great first step. If you’re like, yes, You know, I want I want to follow Jesus, this is an amazing first step to hone in on focusing on and say, you know, I might not be able to do everything all at once tomorrow, but I can focus on this, I can take this one step towards finding my identity in Christ. So here we go. I hope you’re excited, I’m ready verse 13. Here we go. This is therefore preparing your minds for action and being sober minded. Set your hope fully on the grace that we brought to you at the revelation of jesus christ. And I’m going to pause for a second and just sit here a little bit before we move on. We have to get this verse, we can’t miss it, we can’t miss this verse. I I think the rest of what’s gonna happen. Um it’s still it’s kind of standing on this verse. So we got to get it. Um you know, we’…