All right, Galatians chapter 3. And last week we had a little power outage going on, so we kind of hurried through some of the end of it there when we were down around verse number 8. And I think I might have given you the references, but it's kind of neat to look at them real quick. Galatians 3, 8, he personifies the word scripture, which is kind of strange. But it's done a couple of other times. In other words, the scripture foreseeing, the scripture doesn't have eyes. Now God could foresee something, but it's kind of weird how this thing's worded. And look over in Romans 9, you'll see it. Romans 9 and Hebrews 4, Romans 9, 17. This is talking about the Old Testament situation where Moses is going against Pharaoh and they have the contest and all those things. Look down in verse 17. For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, even for this same purpose have I raised thee up." Now you can, if you have a reference Bible, you should have a cross reference there to the Old Testament where that thing is said. And God had made the statement, for this purpose I've raised thee up that I might show my power. And, but it's God talking, but he refers to it as Scripture because that's what God said and it's recorded in the Scripture. Come in the book of Hebrews, Hebrews chapter four, real similar thing. Hebrews chapter four. Hebrews chapter 4, look down if you will, very familiar passage, verse number 12, everybody's familiar with that one, for the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the divine and center of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. What is a discerner? The Word of God. That's an attribute of a person. Then let's look in 13, neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight. Going back to God, but he's talking about the word of God. So what you find in these three references is a very, very high exaltation of the actual word of God because it represents God. And so you don't go astray when you magnify his word because even Psalm 138 verse two, it says he's magnified his word above his name. Now the name of Jesus, every knee's gonna bow. So even the devil's gonna bow at the name of Jesus, but God's word is magnified above the name of Jesus. So that's pretty powerful. All right, come back to Galatians. That's kind of a side note as far as the storyline of what he's saying here in Galatians, but he's just making reference to the Old Testament and what God was doing there. God was justifying Abraham by faith, and he's given a tight picture of what happens to us in this age when we believe in Jesus Christ, we're justified by faith. We believe by faith what God says and we're justified. Now notice verse number eight. And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith. Now the heathen, of course, that's Gentiles. That word heathen is the same word used for nations all through the Bible. And the Lord told Abraham, I'm gonna bless him that blesseth thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. And so we have a great picture of this thing. Before Abraham is ever even circumcised, Genesis 15, God says, you believe I'll give you this many kids? He says, yeah. He says, okay, I'm gonna give you righteousness. So that's before he's circumcised. Circumcision is how the Jews tell them apart from the Gentiles. And that's the big sign of the Jewish covenant. The Abrahamic covenant is circumcision. So before he's circumcised, God simply gives him imputed righteousness by faith. And the reason that's important is because we are not circumcised. We are uncircumcised Gentiles, and we believe by faith. And so Abraham's that type picture before he's ever circumcised. Notice verse number nine, so then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. So we can truly say, you know, Abraham is our father spiritually, not physically. The gospel to Abraham of course is that all the nations are going to be blessed through him. You see that in the text and then notice there's a physical side and there's a spiritual side to this thing. But you want to make sure you understand the difference. Verse number 9, they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. We're blessed because we believe what God told us, that we're gonna be saved by Christ. And so we're blessed with Abraham, but we're not blessed in the sense of, I'm gonna go to Palestine and say, hey, this land's mine, because I'm a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. That's the covenant promise that God gave to the physical Jews. You wanna make sure you understand that difference. There's two seeds or two lines that come from Abraham, physical and spiritual. All right, verse number 10, for as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written, curse it is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. but that no man is justified by the law on the side of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them." Okay, so notice in verse number 10, he's building this argument. All these people are trying to tell these Galatians, look, you need to go back and do these works of the law. You need to be circumcised, you need to not eat certain foods, and you need to keep these feast days. And Paul's like, look, why do you wanna do that? You're going back under a curse. The works of the law are a curse. So he develops this idea in verse number 10. Go back to the Old Testament, look at a couple of references on this. This curse. Go to the book of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 27 and Malachi 4. This has to do with the curse here. Deuteronomy 27 and Malachi 4. And this may be the, you should have a cross-referencing if you have a reference Bible to that reference. verse number 12, probably Leviticus there. Look in Deuteronomy 27, and then the last book of the Old Testament, Malachi. We get Deuteronomy 27, come down to Look at the end of this thing, get the end of chapter 27. So what happens when they go into the land, the Lord says, you get some guys and you put them on Mount Ebel and you get them on Mount Gerizim and you pronounce blessings on one side and cursings on the other side. So notice all these cursings, it starts in 16. 16, 17, 18, 19, cursed, cursed, cursed. based on the bad works that they do. If they do those things, they're cursed. Look in verse 26, it sums it up. Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them, and all the people shall say amen. That's the works of the law. The works of the law say you have to do these things. This is what you have to do. Come over to the book of Malachi. Last book in the Old Testament. Look how it closes. This is the last of the prophets. Look at the very last word in the Old Testament. See it? Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. So that Old Testament law is summed up by a curse. to Galatians chapter 3 so he says, you need to get this thing that people that are under the works of the Law they are just putting themselves under a curse, they are putting themselves under bondage and you don't want to go back and do that. He says, Cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them. Verse 11 in Galatians 3.11, But that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God it is evident for the just shall live by faith. Verse Okay, so the law does not justify people in the sight of God like we speak of justification. I think I gave you this word last time. But it's one of those biblical words I taught a series. You can go look it up on Sermon Audio, the salvation words, Bible words. And we went through several of the T-I-O-N words. Salvation, regeneration, justification, propitiation, imputation, glorification. There's a whole bunch of them. And this word justification, of course the word justify, And if someone is justified, let's say they've been accused of something, you say, hey, I'm going to go, we're going to bring up the evidence. And then they say, hey, you're justified. You have done nothing wrong. Or they say, hey, I've got this plea. I've got to bring something. This person did something wrong. I'm going to prove you how. Well, you can justify your case. And so that's how that word's used. So it's a legal term, it's even used today. So for someone to be justified, it will be the opposite of being condemned. If someone was condemned, that means they would be declared guilty and they were under judgment. To be justified is to be not condemned, to be set free. A good way to remember it on this side of the cross is just as if, see just if, just as if I had not sinned. That's a good way to remember it for New Testament justification. But I want you to see the difference here, because notice he says nobody's justified by the law. So the Old Testament law could not justify anybody. It's kind of like, it just couldn't do the job. It's kind of like trying to shave with a banana. It doesn't work. Not that I've tried it, but. It's not going to work. The law cannot justify anybody. Let's look at Old Testament justification. Notice that it is different than New Testament justification. Let's take some references. Go to the book of Exodus. Exodus chapter 23. You take a speed limit sign. There's the speed limit sign. And basically, it just sets the precedent. You determine whether or not you're going to keep that law. That's your determination. That sign does nothing but tell you what the law is. And that's all the Old Testament law did. The Old Testament law said, thou shalt not, thou shalt not. Here are the rules, here are the boundaries. But that Old Testament saint, it was up to him to do what God told him to do. The law couldn't save anybody. The law couldn't justify anybody. It pretty much just says, this is God's standards of holiness. And specifically for the Jews, about 683 laws. They had all kind of laws, dietary laws. ceremonial laws, a lot of cultural things, religious laws. They had all kind of sacrificial laws, the Levite laws. What about the laws when a man dies, his brother's got to marry his wife? Aren't you glad we're not under that law anymore? Amen. People say, I want to keep that Old Testament law. I don't think you're going to keep that one. And so you think about the lever right laws and all those kinds of things, you realize there's a whole system that sets up. Now, those individuals, they made up their mind whether they were going to do those things or not, but the law didn't justify anybody. Notice how this justification works. Look at Exodus 23. He gives him all of these thou shalt nots, one, two, three, four, and so forth. Thou shalt not rest judgment, verse six. Keep thee from a false matter, verse seven. Look at it. Keep thee from a false matter, and the innocent and righteous slay thou not, for I will not justify the wicked. Now keep that in your mind, because what does it say in the book of Romans? God, in the New Testament, God justifies the ungodly, but not in the Old Testament. He does not justify the ungodly in the Old Testament. He only justifies the righteous. You want to make sure you understand that difference. Let's see if I can give you that Romans. Anybody have that Romans reference? Romans 4-5, I think it is. Should be Romans. Romans 4-5 is maybe one of them. Romans 4-5 says, but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. You see, in the New Testament, here's what you want to make sure you get. Your faith, when you put faith in Jesus Christ, that's counted for righteousness, not the things you do. God says, okay, that person believed on Jesus Christ, I can justify them. They're still ungodly. They could have just come from killings. They could have killed somebody, and 10 minutes later, they could have turned to Jesus Christ, and they could get saved. They are wicked. They have done crimes. They're probably headed to the electric chair. God says, he put faith in Jesus Christ, I'm gonna justify. He said, God, you're gonna justify that man? He just killed somebody. Yeah, he's ungodly, and God's gonna justify him because he had faith. different case in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament God looks down and He finds a guy doing right and a guy living right and doing good things. He says, I'm going to justify that guy. You can't make those two the same. If you do, you just create all kinds of contradictions in the Bible. Let's go back to the Old Testament. Let me show you some more of these. Deuteronomy 25. God does not justify the wicked in the Old Testament. He sends them to hell. In the New Testament He justifies the wicked. All the saved people from the cross on, we're all saved sinners. We're wicked. And we're justified. All right, look in Deuteronomy 20, 25. Look at this, verse one. If there be a controversy between men and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. So you want to make sure you understand these terms confuse these terms, righteous and wicked. We look on the other side of the cross and a lot of times we define everything through our own Christian experience and that's sometimes dangerous. because you can't just interpret the whole Bible based on the New Testament, because you gotta go back in chronology. Christ hadn't come yet. So somebody in the Old Testament could be considered righteous because they did that was right. A righteous person was not sinless. Solomon even said, there's not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not. But God would look at people, if they did what the law prescribed them to do, if they brought their sacrifices, if they came to the three feasts a year, If they basically did what people try to claim nowadays, well, I don't kill anybody, and I'm a good person. If they did that, God'd say, yeah, they're righteous. That's not defined in the New Testament Paul line since. The Bible says in Romans 3, there's none righteous, no, not one. But the Bible doesn't contradict. So God looks at their works under the Old Testament. They're either righteous or wicked. And when you read Ezekiel 18, he goes through that whole thing. He says, if you have a righteous man and he's doing good for a while, but then he turns and he starts doing wickedness, that man's gonna die in his sin. He's gonna go to hell. The wicked shall be turned into hell in all the nations that forget God. And you can have somebody that's saved in the church age, if they've trusted Jesus Christ as their Savior, they can quote-unquote backslide and do wicked things, but they will not go to hell. It's a big difference, Old Testament and New Testament. So you wanna make sure you understand these terms. In the New Testament, we talk about somebody being righteous. We're talking about a Christian that's trusted Jesus, and Jesus' righteousness has been put on his account. So we don't, you know, on Christ the solid rock I stand, all the ground is sinking sand. It's His righteousness, not ours. But Old Testament, God looked down and said, okay, you're living right, I'm gonna justify you. You're not living right, I'm gonna condemn you. Look at a couple more here. Look in, let's see, where are we at here? Look in 1 Kings 8. This is Solomon's Prayer, I think, 1 Kings 8. Yeah, look in 1 Kings 8. This is that prayer that a lot of people from 2 Chronicles try to, you know, make America this great Christian nation by. You know, if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray. Well, if you just want to take that whole thing and apply it, you're going to have some problems. Look in 1 Kings 8. By the way, my people is not a reference to the United States. It's a reference to the Jewish nation in the Old Testament. under a theocracy. Look at 1 Kings 8, 32. Then hear thou in heaven and do and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked to bring his way upon his head and justifying the righteous to give him according to his righteousness. That's works, that's not faith. All right, look in Ezekiel 14. That's not New Testament salvation. You wanna make sure you see the distinction there. Look in Ezekiel 14. There's a bunch in Ezekiel, but we can't look at all of them. 18 is the best chapter on it, you read the whole chapter. But look in Ezekiel 14, notice a reference to some Old Testament saints, and some of them even predate the law. Job would, and Noah. Look in Ezekiel 14. Ezekiel chapter 14, this is the Lord's judgment on Israel. And he basically says, you know, they're shot. Even if these guys were there, they wouldn't be able to save the nation, just themselves. Look in Ezekiel 14, verse 14. Ezekiel 14, 14. Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. That's not New Testament. You don't deliver your soul by your own, your own righteousness is no good. So you want to make sure you understand that Old Testament justification versus New Testament justification. I gave you the verse Romans 4, 5. He justifies us by faith. Now let's go to the book of Habakkuk, if you can find it. It is in there. It's in the Minor Prophets there. The book of Habakkuk, chapter 2, right before Zephaniah, right before Haggai, right before Zechariah. Look in Habakkuk chapter two. Now this is the place where Paul quotes, and you can jot down, I'll just write these references up here for you. Verse 11 is quoted in Habakkuk 2.4. So this is the main text that's quoted. One day we're gonna get to heaven, and this guy's gonna walk up to you and say, hey, how you doing? You're gonna say, hey, good. He's gonna say, what's your name? You're gonna say Habakkuk. He's gonna say, did you ever read my book? Now it's only a couple chapters, so you wanna make sure you read Habakkuk there. But this thing is quoted in Romans 117, and it's also quoted in Hebrews 1038, and then it's quoted in the passage we're at here in Galatians. And then you're gonna notice one word missing, and it's very telling. Look in the book of Habakkuk. And you compare it to Galatians 3 and you'll see the word and how Paul quotes this thing. Now we believe all scripture is given the inspiration of God. Even the translations within the scripture. There are about 40 Old Testament quotations in the New Testament. The New Testament was not written in Hebrew, the New Testament was written in Greek. So anytime you read a New Testament quotation from the Old Testament, it is a translation. You say, well I just don't believe a translation could be inspired. Well what are you gonna do with the conversation Moses had with Pharaoh? He's talking Egyptian, it's recorded in Hebrew, it's a translation. What are you gonna do with those 120 languages, the provinces where the decree from Esther was sent out? 120 translations, and you read about it in the book of Esther. People don't think, there's all kind of translations in the Bible. And all the New Testament translations are from the Old Testament Hebrew, and here's something you wanna make sure you get, is those translations don't always match, word for word. What are you going to do with that? Well, any author can quote himself any way he wants to quote him. And it'd still be the author's work. If I was to tell you, look, go down to the store, grab me a bottle of pop if I'm from up north. And then whenever I quote myself, I say, yeah, I told him to walk down to the store and get me a bottle of pop. Well, I said walk instead of go. But I quoted myself. The author can quote himself however he wants to quote himself. So there's no problem with God. I hope you understand my logic there. Some of you look blinking like an owl in a tree. So when you read these New Testament quotations, they don't always have to match because God's given his word by inspiration. So there's no problem with that. But here's the thing about it. There's nothing arbitrary with God. So when we study every word of God, he wouldn't have told us man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God, unless he wanted us to pay attention to every word of God. So it's apparent when Paul quotes the book of Habakkuk three times, he leaves out this word. Why? Now look at it. It's pretty apparent. Habakkuk chapter number two. And, of course, the quotes in Galatians 3, and I gave you these other Romans 1, 17, and Hebrews 10. Paul always quotes it differently. Look back at 2, verse number 4. Of course, the book of Habakkuk gives a prophecy of God's judgment, but also it makes reference, obviously, to the second advent of Christ. But you'll notice as these judgments are coming down and the Lord's giving him this vision for the impending judgment coming on the nation of Israel, he says in verse four, behold, his soul is lifted up, is not upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith. His is removed in all the New Testament quotations. Now I know we could all just look at it very generally and we could say, you know what, you have your faith. And I know what we mean by that. We mean, okay, I'm saved, I've trusted Jesus Christ as my personal savior, that's my faith, his faith. You could generalize this verse and kind of scoot around the obvious three omissions in the New Testament, but I think you missed the point. The missed the point is this man, there's something in the Old Testament that is attributed to that man because of his own personal righteousness. When you read in Ephesians chapter two, one of our favorite verses, a lot of you all haven't memorized. He says, for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. What is the gift of God? Faith. God gives every man enough faith to believe on Christ. And so at the end of the day, you're not looking back saying, you know, I finally found God. He was hard to find, but I found it. And I did it my way. No, you didn't do nothing. You just believed on Jesus Christ. No works whatsoever attached. That Old Testament saint is a whole different ball game. He's got a list of do's and don'ts. That list of do's and don'ts can't save him, but if he is not living a righteous life, his goose is cooked. And his righteousness, that's another word, that word righteous, but then the righteousness is different between Old and New Testament. In the New Testament, your righteousness is as filthy rags in the sight of God. In the Old Testament, a person's personal righteousness was how they found favor with God. And we'll have time to run all those verses. People get confused on this. They think, well, if somebody had to do all these works and they had to be sinless, well, we're not talking about sinlessness. Again, the Bible speaks of people walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. That's Zacharias and Elizabeth, John the Baptist's parents, Old Testament saints, before Christ ever died on the cross. Paul the Apostle even said, as a Pharisee, he kept the law blameless. That means they do the things prescribed in the law up to a reasonable point. They're not sinless. And so you wanna make sure you get that distinction in your head. So this word his is taken out in the New Testament to, I think, magnify the difference between Old Testament justification, which is not the same as New Testament justification. The Old Testament justification is based on what the person did. The New Testament justification is based on what Jesus Christ did. And the only way you're justified now is based on the finished work of Jesus Christ. And I think this is seen with the book of James, because Abraham's a dual type. He's a type of a church-age saint that believes by faith, but he's also a type of a tribulation saint in the book of James, because he has to be justified by works. And that Genesis chapter 22 passage, when he offers up Isaac probably getting ahead of myself here in just a minute. But when he offers up Isaac in Genesis 22 the Bible says in the book of James when he draws from that illustration he says, Well, not Abraham my father, just Abraham our father. He's not our father, not as far as lineage goes. But to those Jews, Abraham our father. Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac's son upon the altar? Yes, certainly he was. His imputation, his imputed righteousness and his justification didn't come at the same time like they do with us. When you got saved, God gave you his righteousness and he justified you. Abraham believed God that he was going to give him that many children. God gave him imputed righteousness. And then in Genesis 22, he justifies him. And so, because he followed through, people say, well, James 2 is recording justification before men. Did you ever read Genesis 22? There's nobody around. It's Abraham and Isaac and God. What's this justification before men? There's no men around. They leave the servants at the bottom of the mountain. All right, come back to Galatians 3. So you wanna make sure you get this thing with Old Testament, New Testament justification. Because Paul's basically saying, you're saved by grace through faith, you're justified by faith. Why do you wanna go back under some Old Testament setup and try to get under the law and try to live according to the law? You're just asking for trouble. You're just taking on a bunch of tradition, a bunch of bondage. All right, back in Galatians 3. Verse 11, but that no man is justified by the law and the sight of God, it is evident for the just shall live by faith. Now even verse 11 can be applicable to the Old Testament. God could not justify people based on the law. The law can't justify anybody. And I think I gave you all the references, Ezekiel, Daniel, I mean, Deuteronomy, okay. Verse number 12, and the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them. You should have a cross-reference there to Leviticus 18.5. Yeah, that's the quotation, Leviticus 18.5. All right, verse 13. This is a great verse. You should memorize it. If you don't have it memorized, we'll try to, well, I thought we were gonna get into the new sheet today, but we might not make it to the new sheet. Verse 13, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. You should have a cross reference. Do you have a reference in your Bible? That's probably it. I should have an Old Testament one. Deuteronomy 21 is probably, yeah, that's the last part of it. Deuteronomy 21, it says, his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but that's when they hang him, they hung him by the head. But thou shalt anywise bury him that day, for he that is hanged is accursed of God, that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. And so that's the quotation there. So the idea is that Christ hangs on the cross as a curse, and that is a curse of the law. So look over in chapter four of Galatians, and notice this thing about the law and Christ. Galatians chapter number four, look in verse four. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. So when Jesus Christ came, Galatians 4, 4 and 5, he is born under the law. He is a Jewish son of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, son of David. And he comes obedient under the law. Mary and Joseph are under the law. What do they do? They take him to eight days old. They go and get him circumcised. They do what they're supposed to do. Mary does a sin offering. Tell that to your Catholic friends. She had to take a sin offering because she was a sinner. She said, I rejoice in God, my Savior. And so she did everything prescribed under that law. So the Old Testament was still going on all through the earthly life of Christ. People think, okay, I'm in the New Testament, Matthew. Well, you're in the New Testament, the books of the New Testament. But that old covenant that was given by Moses, that thing is still going all the way through until Christ dies on the cross because he hangs there as a result of the curse of the law. And if you really wanna break it down and you think about it, that's what the law produces. I mean, there it is. And Christ died under the curse of the law. He hangs there, all of his sin is being condemned by the law because the law does that. The law's got the speed limit sign, the law's on the book. They point out what you do that's wrong. That's what the law does, the law says, you messed it, you messed up, you missed it. All right, so verse number 13, the law brings a curse. And it teaches us, look in verse 13. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. What would we call that? That'll be your answer on your little sheet. Everybody's looking on the sheet, I'm watching you, you're like, what's his answer? So he's for us, so we would call that a what? Anybody guess? No, similar, close. What'd you say? Yeah. Substitution. It's the doctrine of substitution. It's kind of a simple word, but it's also one of those T-I-O-N words, and it simply, it teaches that Christ took our place. So he's telling these Galatians, look, you're trying to get under the law. Christ already fulfilled the law. As a matter of fact, he fulfilled the law in that he never even sinned. He wasn't just righteous like we consider Zacharias and Elizabeth and some of those Old Testament saints righteous. We're talking about somebody that's more than righteous. We're talking about somebody that's sinless. and he hung on the cross and was condemned, your sins were put on him, he's a substitute. He died where you should have been hanging. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. So if the law says you must die because of those sins, Christ died for those sins, so then we don't have to die. Let's just suppose a guy came in here and he has a mandate from whatever religion he's in that he has one bullet in his gun and that bullet must go in a Christian. And he aims it over here, and Brother Richard runs over there and jumps in front of the bullet. The guy's shooting at me, I guess because I'm the speaker. So he's got the one bullet from his leaders of his religion that says one Christian must die, and he shoots at me. Brother Richard runs over there, jumps, dives. It hits Richard instead of me. Now Sister Wendy would be real sad. But he doesn't die. Hey, let's just make it a happy ending. And then Brother Ricky beats the snot out of the guy. Amen. You wonder why we got these people strategically placed, amen? It's for our safety. So when you think about that, he took the hit for me, then I don't get hit because there's only one bullet in the gun. And see, the law says there must be a just payment. But the problem with all the bulls and goats and lambs, they could not take away sin. And even if another man died, another man's a sinner. He would be dying for his own sins. So Jesus, not being a sinner, he could take on all of our sins. So he died in our place, and once that's been satisfied, we're not under the curse anymore. We don't have to pay for those sins. So that's redemption. We've been redeemed out from under that. We've been purchased, we've been bought back. And so that law brings a curse. And so you wanna get that. All right, we're gonna have to stop there. We have time for some questions. We'll get into the next handout next week. Any questions over any of that or any other Bible questions you might have?