Here we are and we're halfway through our seminar and we have covered seven verses.

So Marshall asked me downstairs how far you intend to get and I said I don't know we'll go

this this session and then we'll decide whether we're going to do a blitz in the last session and cover more, but we'll see.

This is a class about how to read the Bible, not primarily all of 1st Peter.

Verse 7.

So that the tested genuineness of your faith

more precious than gold that parishes, though're tested by fire.

So gold is the most precious thing he could think of probably,

and even gold being fragile and consumable and

is put through fire so that it gets more goldy,

goldish and and the dross is burned out of it, so that's even more valuable when it goes

through a fire, and your faith, the genuineness of your faith is more valuable, may I paraphrase,

than the greatest values on the earth. I think that's fair. I think that's what

gold stands for here. So it's just gold. Oh, what about platinum? No, no, no.

That's not that's not. Doesn't matter what Delta Airlines does, it's, it's, gold is the best.

And your face is way, way more valuable than anything on the earth. And the way God thinks about that is that it is so valuable he will put it through fire of various kinds.

So don't begrudge the school of suffering.

God deems it necessary.

The reason we get angry about suffering is because we don't share God's

priorities. We want our comfort for us, for our children, for the people in the

Paul, and we don't like God's judgments.

But if we submit ourselves,

...