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All righty well it's good to have you if you've got a Bible go to the Book of

First Peter. We're in the New Testament Book of First Peter. We're starting

in chapter one verse 13 today and just you know it's a letter and a letter is

so special. Once last time you got a handwritten custom letter we'll get the

junk mail right. We all get the spam we all get the text we all get the calls

we all get the emails. I went to the mailbox yesterday. Here's what I do

every day. I go to the mailbox I open the mailbox I take out all the mail I put

it in the garbage and then I go home. That's what I do every single day and all

my neighbors do the exact same thing. I don't know why any of us has a mailbox.

We could all save the mail person a lot of time and they could just drop it all in

the garbage and save us all. I'll walk to the mailbox but every once in a while you

get something very special and this is a handwritten letter something of

actual length from someone that you know and love that obviously took the time

to sit down and pen something very very personal for you. When we get these

things we tend to keep them. Some of you have love letters. Some of you have

really great gifts that people wrote letters and notes to you and you've kept

them over the years. Well that's exactly how they would have received First Peter.

First Peter is a letter. So the guy who writes that he is the senior human

leader on the earth spiritually speaking. He's their version of Billy Graham

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