Amen and amen and good morning and welcome and did you stay you can be seated. You're

probably wiped out already. Well I'm just glad that you're here. Those of you

online joining us you have the luxury of pushing pause.

But we're glad that you're joining us as well. Before we get started, I just want to again,

as I did on Thursday night in first service, express to all of you how thankful and grateful I am for the love

that you've shown to my family and myself at a time when we needed it the most, you have been,

you guys are the real deal, you know.

You've been so patient with me, gracious to me,

didn't change the locks on me,

that's not on my notes,

but infinitely more importantly, you've been so faithful in praying for me as well

as my three adult children who are really hurting alongside of me. So please continue to pray

for my children. So God has been teaching this teacher,

many life lessons and always will until that great

and final day, but one of them is

that I'm as privileged as I am spoiled. I've shared this before.

I truly believe I'm the most spoiled pastor, not in America, the world.

I'm not complaining, but I really, I sometimes just pinch myself. You know,

I mean I get to be bestowed with the privilege in honor of pastoring this, your church. This is an amazing church. You guys are so loving and so caring.

It's not it's not feigned or fake. You know you can have plastic fruit. From afar it looks real till you get up close.

Haw, was I ever deceived?

No, you guys are real fruit, delicious fruit, and you make the joy.

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