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Hello, hello, hello, ladies and gents, it's your girl Kirby Kelly and welcome to this week's

episode of the Bought and Beloved podcast. I hope you're having a great week. As you can tell,

I don't know what happened, but I have just completely lost my voice. My sinuses are going crazy.

Could it be that I volunteered at a student conference last week and I'm still recovering from

just the intensity with that? Probably. Could it be the Texas summer pollination or whatever?

You know what? Maybe. Who knows? But all I know is that I sound crazy, but we are still going

through with recording this week. I also just want to mention real quick, real brief that if you did

not listen to the Freedom series that I just did here on my podcast, please cue that up. I've

gotten so many messages, emails, different testimonies of how it just reached so many people,

impacted so many people. Basically, with the first few episodes, it was just a relaunch of some

of my first episodes that many of you guys, my new listeners probably haven't had the opportunity

to hear yet. So go back and listen to those. And then last week I had my good friend Jacob coin with

me, part one and part two talking about depression, talking about self-harm, talking about suicidal

thoughts and tendencies and how there is freedom in that, how there is the fullness of life despite

the enemy really trying to, trying to channelize us with death. And I know that many people right now

are just going through so much. And I just hope that through those messages, I was able to provide

some light to you, some hope to you, truth to you above all else from God's word. But yeah,

please go cue that up. Anyways, today, as you can tell by the podcast title, we're going to be

talking about a royal priesthood. Now, if you grew up in the church or are used to kind of like

church lingo, there are many names, many identities that we are given as the body of Christ. One of

them is a royal priesthood. We see this in second Peter, or sorry, first Peter chapter two verse five.

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