I'm I'm going to be. I'm going to be in God's house today.

Oh, I can feel it. I can feel it. What a great day it is to be in church together today. And I just, if you're in worship here at Grantsville, I know it's true at every location, even though it's joining us online. I just sense the presence of God here today. I know you just clap, but does anybody love the presence of our God and grateful

that when we do praise him, he inhabits his place. And so I sent his presence here today.

And we even spent a little more time in worship today intentionally just to, so we can just enjoy

the presence of God. So it's great to be in his presence. And come on, it is great to be with his people.

Are you happy with the person you're sitting next to? Well, tell them you're glad to see him at church today. Now, do that other neighbor, your second choice. Tell them you're glad they're in church today. It is just great. We're together in God's presence. We're together with God's people, and we're going to get into God's Word together today.

And I'm so honored to be here in week five of our Goodness of God series.

And I do want to officially welcome all the locations in Alabama and Georgia. What a miracle.

Our church is a miracle. Only God could bring all of us together. And so every location, the correctional

facilities, and then online and on demand. In fact, I met earlier today, I met a family that has always been online. They've been watching online for several years. They were here today for the first time in person. So wherever you are at any location, any environment, yeah, put your hands together. Let's welcome our church family. You're part of the family. And so week five of the goodness of God series,

get your app out if you want to take notes today. We'd love you to do that to follow along.

There's even a lot of extra content today for this message. But our key verse is Psalm 348 that says,

taste and see that the Lord is good. He is good. Come on, God is good. And all the time,

I think we got one more in us. God is good. And all the time? He is good. And he invites us,

catch this church. He invites us to experience him, not just to know about him, not just to have, you know, knowledge of who he is or what he's done.

Our God is so good that he invites us to taste and see he wants all of us to have a personal experience in his presence.

And he also says that anyone who runs to me will find refuge.

And that's really what we're doing in this series. We're praying that all of us would, you know, would see the goodness of God, that we would experience that. And we have the opportunity even to share his goodness to taste and see that the Lord is good. And so week one, I talked about how Jesus reigns, that he went to that cross of Calvary, and he was crowned king there. and he now reigns and he has to that cross of Calvary and he was crowned king there and he now reigns and

he has the power of life and eternity. Week two, Pastor Chris talked about how Jesus forgives.

Anybody grateful that our God is a forgiving God? I need his grace more than ever before.

All of us do. And then week three, we talked about the call of God.

Then last week, oh, my goodness, I was actually, Jill and I were in Oxford last week with our Oxford family, but Pastor Dino brought such an amazing message, just experiencing the restoration of our God. And this week is a little different, and it's kind of one of those like roll your sleeves up. We're going to get to work today. You all ready? Today, we're going to talk about how Jesus grew.

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