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Sounds good.

How you all feel?

Well, good morning.

Started out good.

Started out well.

Crossword Heaven.

It's hard for me, not to talk about it.

My happiness is not all bound up in that game but I feel.

Okay, save I enjoyed watching the game.

I have you later.

You know though, so we're getting in the playoff season right now.

The teams that make it to the playoffs, just something different about them versus the other teams.

All the teams have.

All kinds of challenges throughout the season, think they face.

Challenges to do in a regular-season you face challenges, you need to play at home.

You have more support, you play a way with your facing a different crowd, if it's in a different field.

A different I only got some have turf some grass of the changes, what you wear changes how they play and changes, the injuries weather in the weather can change.

So like for example the game couple weeks ago against the Bears and the Eagles weren't ready for the cold weather.

And if some of your looking at me, like, are we talked about this morning, I just want you to know that.

I know what I'm what I'm doing.

It's hard to believe it, so they faced all kinds of things, regular-season, teams face injuries that have to be made and different people do it around a dozen injuries to change into.

These are all challenges that teens face in order to get to where they are now in the playoffs or some of them, still going to be working on it today to go to the playoffs with the team.

Also some things we don't often think about too much is that these guys get sick?

They get colds and flu to get covid and either going to be without, are they going to give me to play right after this to getting over that?

I know.

And they're tired.

Me not want to be where you are.

That's the challenge and improvise the challenge at the base of neck over, so the teams that have made it to the playoffs, a difference between them and regular-season teams is that they have found a way to overcome the challenges.

They found a way to even in their weakness, even when circumstances were uncovered, they found a way to win.

And one of the reasons as possible is well, there's a lot of reasons right now, lest they come together to create good teams, the coaching is a deal.

Who's your coach about the play last night or you going to comment made during the game.

After halftime, one of the reporters said that the coach for the Giants.

We said something offensive.

Like we just don't have enough place like another reporters going to tell the rest of the world start on his trouble was too thin.

That's what I heard her say.

It's probably not what he said, the Playbook man and it has a designer.

That design is a vibrant play is designed with this attention, attention to sign plays that are intended to give them success.

I just looked at my notes and I forgot about the damn talk about challenges, you know, even this year with you fit interesting thing where a player has hit the test in his heart stops of people.

Watch teen teen life.

But this morning really use it.

As a kickoff.

For iMessage, I didn't have that one hit down.

Mexico vs. My Play Books in the adjustments that they make.

The question, the teams seem to answer isn't whether they are a playoff grade teams, they're not asking that question.

Now asking, do we belong to play on a team that go to belong here in the cloud itself now is, are we champions?

Time has passed where they're asking themselves.

Are we play out material?

The question now is our world champion and something is happening.

We're going to continue to have questions are going to find out the answer to it.

But Peter since we're in the first Peter, Peter call, or ReDiscover his letter, he exiled us all that last week.

so although they are spread out geographically and are a mix of people groups internally There's no mistaking that God has included all of them on his team.

Because of their faith in Jesus.

Their lives are different now, the game is changed, they're wondering how it is.

They're supposed to play.

What I'm saying is Seems from what we're looking at in Peters letter, the things he says.

And the things he writes, the way he describes his audience and the church youth groups that are going to hear this letter, that's written to them as we said last week.

There there comprise most likely a both Jews and Gentiles people different background and Jewish at this.

That Jesus has recently said that he's, he's come by now.

He has been crucified the news of his resurrection has spread, Jesus has ascended and his disciples are out now telling him.

Peter specifically is going to tell the world.

That God himself, our creator has come and made a way for us to be.

Related to him.

And so, are these people who have heard the message of Jesus, and what he's done on their behalf, have believed this and they've created a small groups of people churches in, and around the area, that you mentioned very early on.

Is that these two people groups at least we'll just kind of General with the Jews and the Gentile.

They have they have very different background experiences and get her come together into a team called this morning to a new team.

With a new objective for some of them.

And more importantly, new ways to play the game.

There's a new way to live and they're trying to Prior to their.

Occasionally.

There was could have been there likely was.

For some if not there's a nametag in is in between the two groups, so to speak in another documents and other places and situations, even though you and I can come together with different personalities and that we love one.

Another, that there is still in your home.

You going to have it in the church, so and there's ways that maybe some of us prior to learning with Jesus wants her must have treated people differently because we played by different set of rules, but never on this team.

And there's a new way to play these.

People are going through something similar stuff has changed their wondering, how they're supposed to play.

And how?

Who are they is teammates and how are they declare?

What does God expect them to be?

Now that they identify with him, what are we?

The truth is good news about Jesus.

I accept the implications of it, what it means for my life but I have questions now.

I have questions about.

How do I see myself?

How do I see how am I supposed to play a game?

I know that many of us are certain, we've been added to God's team roster.

Some very recently, And I am excited about that.

but there are seasons in situations when we are not sure who, or how to be even As Believers, we will find ourselves.

When we have to face how we behaved.

We find ourselves dealing with an uncertain, and I think I got a little feeling in that are fake.

You can start keeping with the football metaphor.

Sidelines getting the best players on the best players.

I certainly can sign last inside line.

Even mature, believers So it's funny to me, then the most profound answer, the most profound solution to the question of, how are supposed to be an adult for not being too?

He wants.

I was thinking as we were singing, the song has to know.

It shows, How? Probably.

Could have worked through the lyrics of these songs to preach the message, which is pretty cool.

I'm hoping, well, you'll have to use your thinking cap cuz I don't have the mental capacity to keep drawing back to the lyrics and an attachment completely doable songs that are mentioned in her text this morning.

And so I want to begin their join me then reading 1st Peter.

We're going to start at chapter.