Amen. Amen. How's everybody? Good? I'm Pastor Britt. I'm honored to be able to open. I paid them to do that. And I'm honored to be able to open God's word. If you have your

Bibles, go with me to Matthew Chapter 11. That's where we're going to spend the majority of our time. Over the last few weeks, we've been working through a series called Run Over by the Grace Train, where we've been

looking through the scriptures at all the different dimensions of grace and the impact that it has

on our life. And we've been tracking along with Pastor Jobie's new book, fantastic new book,

that I hope you've either read or are reading called Run Over by the Grace Train. We're going to offroad from his

book a little bit today, mostly because I didn't write it. And so, but we are going to stay on the

topic of grace in Matthew chapter 11. As you find your way there, I grew up on a farm, and if you

were to walk out the back of our little farmhouse, you would have, within a couple hundred

yards, you would have seen a little bass pond. And on the backside of that bass pond was a creek

that ran deep into the woods. And if you followed this creek about half a mile back or so into the

woods, you would come to a place where over time the water had eroded out a pretty big ditch.

And on one side, it was pretty high, like 15 feet, and the other side was pretty low,

like creek level.

And as kids, we used to go out there, and we would run and jump off of this cliff down

onto where the creek bed was, and we called it death jump.

It was serious.

And we would run, and we did this hundreds of times. And one day, me and one of my older cousins and one of my younger cousins

were out there playing. I did grow up on a farm with all of my family that lived on the same

farm. I thought it was normal at the time. Turns out it's a little Waco, Texas-E, but that's,

you know, who knew? and so we're out there

my older cousin and younger cousin and for whatever reason for many years my younger cousin would go out

there with us but he would never jump he would walk up to the edge and he would stop and then he would

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