Yeah, yeah, living in the reality of God's will for my life.

Isn't that where you want to be?

That's where Brenda is.

And so one of the best parts of being a part of God's family is that you get to pay witness not only to the transformational work that God does in you and in your life and in your heart and in your mind, but you get to pay witness to what God does in the life of others. Getting to know Brenda over the past couple years has been so powerful because

while she has been going through great suffering, she's doing that somehow with great joy. And there's

only one explanation for that and that explanation has a name. I bet you know the name. Go ahead. Say it

out loud. Jesus and you will not be shocked to know that that is our keyword again today. So get

your journals out, all right? Get your Bibles out. Keyword is Jesus. We're going to be in John chapter 10. We're going to pick it up right in verse one where Connor left off for us last week. By the way, how about Connor and Lydia in the way they taught us the past couple weeks? Yeah. Awesome, awesome, awesome they did a great job so grateful for both of them and our entire teaching team as i was thinking

about this week i was thinking about awesome awesome awesome they did a great job so grateful for both of them and our entire teaching team as

i was thinking about this week i was thinking about this and i was thinking about how there was a time

in my life where i had what i would refer to as a tactile relationship with a basketball you wouldn't

be able to tell it now like if you put me out on a court i do not have any handles but back in the day

about fifth grade i peaked i was really really good in fifth grade. I had some handles back then. And one of the reasons was, was because I just had a basketball in my hand all the time. In fact, I would get dropped off for school about an hour before everybody else here at this campus, actually. Right down the hall from where I'm standing used to be a gymnasium, I would sneak into that gymnasium like six o'clock in the morning and I had a ball that was hidden underneath of some

wooden stairs then I would pull those stairs out and I would take the ball out and then I would just get up shot

after shot after shot I would work on ball handling drills I'd be a sweaty mess by first first hour and so I would say

I had a real feel for this back then it It was a very tactile relationship. Now, fast forward, about the age of 30, I began to build a relationship in the same manner with this thing right here. Now, this is my barbell from my home gym in my garage, and I've had it for approximately 16 years, something like that. And so when I look at this barbell, I don't just see

a barbell. What I see is I see the blood, the sweat, and the tears. When I see the chalk that's

embedded in the nerling, when I see the oxidation process that's taken over, what I see is all the

pain and the suffering and the agony that I've poured out over this barbell for 16 years. So I have a real affection, like a

genuine affection for this barbell, because we've been through a lot together. It's like an

extension of my hands. I have a real feel for it. It's a tactile relationship. Actually, I bought

this Bible about the same time. This is a Bible I bought that I was hopeful would outlive me. I'm not sure if it will. It's getting pretty worn out. I bought it to have in my office to be primarily the Bible that I study and prepare sermons with. And as I look at the edges, it's getting pretty frayed, and this genuine leather is falling apart. And it's got annotations, and it's got notes, and it's got under got notes and it's got underlines and it's got highlights

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