Good morning. Good morning. It was a good morning for you, right, Wasn’t it? Maybe it wasn’t, well, even if it wasn’t God is so good and we’re glad that you’re here with us. Um, if I haven’t met you, my name is dan and I’m one of the elders here. There’s five of us, four of us now. We sent one out and he’s planning a church, so there’s four of us now. Um, so glad that you’re here with us this morning. Go ahead and open your bibles to Romans. Chapter 12 work. Our main text will be two verses, but we will read quite a bit of romans just because of the context. Um, we believe in exposition of preaching and teaching. And even though we’re gonna look at two verses this morning, the way in which we work that out. Exposition aly is we look at the contexts that that verse lives in. We we don’t just say that one verse has its own zip code, right? It lives within a context. And so the context helps to bring more of the meaning of the individual verses that we’re going to highlight today. So while you’re turning there to Romans 12, I do want to tell a little bit of a story um, to kind of set the table a bit for today’s teaching recently, I did a wedding, I did a premarital counseling and a wedding for a couple of friends and um, I took them through a curriculum that I used for premarital counseling that likes to use fictional characters. Um, and highlighting within these fictional characters, various challenges that America couple might face. And uh, some of the challenges are kind of over the top a little, a little bit silly, but they communicate a point, They emphasize the point, they get the point across, so to speak. For example, one of the little challenges that I saw, um, that I think is funny from the book is that this newlywed couple, right? Um, every night the wife would politely ask the husband to turn off all the lights in the house and you know, they’re newlywed the first night or so. No big deal. Right? Oh man, this is my wife. Yeah, she’s asked me to, yeah, yeah, I’ll do that, you know, So he goes and he obliges and he turns off all the lights. Um, every other night after that, she continued to ask the question, would you please turn off all the lights? And it didn’t matter if he was in bed first or if he was in bed last. She wanted him to turn off all the lights. Well, uh, the shiny newness of marriage began to wear off and this young husband became incredibly frustrated and lashed out at his wife and said, you turn off the lights, I’m in bed already, right. And uh, that really crushed her and led her to believe, well, did I marry the right person? He won’t even turn off all the lights right, You know? Um, but through the course of conversation and trying to resolve this conflict over who will shut off the lights, it was revealed that this wife, this this new wife, um the one man that she had respected the most in her life was her father and what he did every night was he shut off the lights, he tucked her into bed and he kissed her goodnight. But she’s not married to her father, she’s married to a different man. And so the point of that is that in marriage, You have two individuals with two lives shaped by various experiences, relationships, values, ideas Coming from different families, trying to come together and become one new family. And that’s hard. In fact, it’s incredibly hard without God, but it’s worth it. And so my goal in the pre medal counselors to help these two individuals understand the things that have shaped their personality and the things that have shaped their spouse’s personality and to figure out how to follow jesus in becoming one new family. And through that process, you’ve got to be transformed. That only works if both individuals are being transformed. And so this morning we’re gonna talk about trans…