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Hey, it is really a privilege to be with you and to speak with you.

I don't really have a sermon like the beginning 2020 sermon, not really a prophetic word sermon. I'm kind of like the new, I'm not really a New Year's resolution guy. Like if I think something needs to be changed, I'll try to get after it when it's, I won't wait until January. Or I'll avoid it. You know, so I'll just avoid it. So, yeah. But, But I do like the Lord's,

as I was saying that earlier,

the Lord said,

no, no,

this is an important word

for where we are as a congregation.

I'm going to talk to you about grace

and talk to you about how the danger of gracelessness

in the people saved by grace.

The danger of a gracelessness amongst the people saved by grace.

And so, you have just a little light word, you know.

But I'm going to be reading to a parable.

And this is a parable that, again, the parables are strong. And we teach them to kids, we act like they're safe. They're, oh, they're strong. If you can read the parable and not feel like you got punched in the face, then you're reading it wrong at some level. Because it, like, the parable we're going to talk about today is like an 800-pound gorilla just sitting in the room staring at me like, you see me? What are you going to do about me? You gotta make some decisions, don't you, Dan? I'm like, yes, I do, parable.

So we're gonna uh we're gonna look at

just a strong you know teaching from jesus and it's always weird to kind of teach directly from

jesus because you you know he's a great preacher he's the best preacher ever lived he's he's god so

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