All right, good morning, go and have a seat. Alright. It’s good to be with you guys. It’s been a while since I’ve been up here for you to join it online. It’s good, good to be with you two were we’re going to continue on in our first Peter series and I was looking at our verses for today and I was kind of thinking about this situation where have you ever had a conversation with somebody and you’re talking with them and you really think you’re laying your conversation out? It’s very plain, very clear, really evident. And then all of a sudden you come to realize that they misunderstood you that you guys cross past somewhere and and are on different roads completely and write what you thought you said and what they understood. We’re just wildly different. Right? That that happens quite often and for somebody who are married you probably. Yeah, that that was the other day. Right? So it’s there are things that we communicate and and it doesn’t always come off the way we thought we we use words all the time and well we have different connotations with different words to and so we we’ve read this book called Love and respect and they have an example in there where a husband and wife are talking, they can say the exact same thing and all of sudden you’re like wait right, The wife might say uh honey, I don’t have any clothes and well they don’t have anything fitting for the occasion or anything new to wear. The husband says honey, I don’t have any clothes. Well they’re all dirty, right? So I mean like it’s the same statement, just two different things. And so we can sometimes miss each other. English can be a difficult language when we think about, okay and now we have first peter written in greek and we’re taking it to english and english alone can be difficult, as we have miscommunication there. And so our goal, even as we read and study the bible is to look through and understand what the original intent of the, of the author was. What is God trying to tell us through the author in its original context, in its original meaning? Right, so the, the study of words is Entomology. And we’re not gonna spend uh all day kind of nerd out on Entomology, but we do want to look at words and what they mean. And and that’s gonna help us to determine what Peter was trying to tell us here in our, in our portion of scripture. So let’s flip if you have a bible or you’ll be up on the screen in your bible will be first peter 3 13 through 22. I’ll read that and then we’ll dive in. says, Now who is there to harm you? If you are zealous for what is good. But even if you should suffer for righteousness sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them nor be troubled. But in your hearts regard christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for the reason of hope that is in you. Yet do it with gentleness and respect. Having a good conscience so that when you are slandered those who are vile your good behavior in christ maybe put the shame for it is better to suffer for doing good in. That should be God’s will than for doing evil. For christ also suffered once for sins. The righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison because they formerly did not obey when God patiently waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, In which a few that is eight persons were brought safely through water baptism, which corresponds to this now saves you not as the removable dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of jesus christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities and powers having been subjected t…