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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Gaglio.

First Peter has a context, so let's read our text today.

We'll come back and try to lay over again the context of why Peter wrote this,

who he wrote it to, what was happening in the world around.

Our text today begins in chapter 5, verse 5.

Right above there have been some specific words to leaders, young and old,

but then as we do all throughout first Peter, we are all going to get swept into the story in verse 5.

Young men in the same way be submissive for those who are older to which I say amen.

But then here we all come.

So if you're not an elder or if you're not one of the younger,

if you're not one of these leaders that get specifically addressed in the first few verses of this chapter,

all of a sudden the net is thrown wider and he says in the same way,

excuse me, all of you, clothe yourselves with humility.

So we've got young men in the same way, and now in the next phrase, all of you.

So all of you meaning all of you leaders, but as we track back through first Peter,

all of you believers, we always are looking at these specific segments through first Peter,

and then he'll come and say, and now all of you, all of you, all of you, all of you believers are now on board.

And so he says, all of you, that's me, that's you, everybody in Christ today,

clothe yourselves with humility toward one another,

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