up and they can't make it and so Brother Jerry was the first one on the list so he called him up and he graciously said he'd be coming and speaking to us so let's continue in prayer. Brother Charles has got handouts up here on my table if you want to get one from his presentation, the handouts up here. Brother Gary's booklets are up here, and just feel free to take them. Let's go to the Lord in prayer and ask the Lord to continue to be with us this afternoon. Brother Carl, would you offer a prayer, please? Father, we do call once again to give you thanks for this privilege that we have to be together here. Thank you, Lord, for the beautiful day itself. Thank you, Lord, for the ability that each one of us individually have to come this way. Now, as we gather together again this afternoon, as we mentioned this morning, the iron strikes iron. We pray, Lord, that the sparks that will come from that will fuel the fire in each one of our souls and not flame up, and that will destroy. He did tell me last year I was going to be first runner-up. I thought I was going to be Miss Congeniality. And he didn't spring this on me until last week. I'm just kidding. But anyway, I've got no handouts. But the Lord be with us, and the Lord bless us in this, and that we would all be blessed of the Lord in this. As Brother Darrell just told me a minute ago, Brother Charles is a hard act to follow. So y'all look to the Lord, but lower your expectations. But anyway, I appreciate the theme that's under consideration here this week, and I think it's so relevant to our day and age, particularly this time. If I were to title this, I would title this service, or rather the heart of a servant in the time of discouragement. And that ought to ring a few bells with all of us in so many ways. And the thing that's kind of finally got my mind settled on this a little bit is found the 30th chapter of 1 Samuel where David is the king there. And one particular verse just kind of sticks out at me. And we'll get to this. But the part that just kind of lifts up, that David encouraged himself. And the Lord is God. That's what it boiled down to. And you may have been to that point. I may have been to that point. You may not be there now, but you may be coming. And David, in so many ways, in this beautiful picture, this beautiful narrative that's given to us here, is in some ways a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because He recovered all. He recovered all. There were none that were left behind. So we've got this wonderful picture of David and he had been left alone. And we find that as the fifth chapter of the book of Acts, These words were written by Luke. That whole chapter starts out with a bang. People are dropping dead. And it's like that old expression, nothing focuses the mind like an execution. I don't know if you've ever heard that. That'll get your attention. I have no doubt it got their attention in that day and age. They sat up and took notice. And the bell had been rung. So that occurred, and they were doing the work that they had been sent to, and the Pharisees get wind of it. What's the first thing they do? They throw them in jail. That's going to solve the problem, right? throw them in jail. Well, the next thing they know, they get a report. They say, look, those men you put in jail, they're out there back doing it again. They're back at what they were doing before. So here they go, and they go, and as the brother spoke this morning about Gamaliel was there, and Gamaliel says, look, y'all slow down. Slow down, boys. You need to take a hard look at what you're doing. If this is of man, it's going to fall. Nothing's going to become of it. But if it's of God, you can't stop it. You can't do anything to make this not happen. And he spoke some reasoning to them and they kind of backed off a little bit. But they did have to give him a good beating. Okay, isn't that amazing? And we're going to send you on the way with a good beating under your belt. It's like they say in There used to be a sign in a medieval prison, beatings will continue until the morale improves. You've probably seen that before. Well, they had to endure beatings in that day and age, but did that deter them? Were they discouraged? Well, they had reason to be. If not, at this time, things were going to happen in their lives that were going to upend them. And they were going to be discouraged, like you and I get there today. We get discouraged. I'm just going to say something, brethren. If there's any group of people, and I know you share my view. If there's any group of people in the world, on planet Earth, that I want to encourage, it's the Lord's Church. I know you share that view. as a subset to the Lord's church. If there's any group of people, specifically men, that I want to encourage, it's you. It's you. And I know you feel that way for me. I know. You're my yoke, brethren. We have a commonality that I can't find anywhere else. I can say things to you, brethren, that you understand. I mean, not all of them, but we have the same goal. We worship the same Savior. And the Lord knew what these men were going to be faced with in His true Lord's Prayer that He uttered in John 17. He starts out, as you know, praying for Himself. Ain't nothing wrong with that. It's nothing selfish about you praying for you. It's nothing selfish about me praying for me. Lord, help me that I might help others. The hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that He might glorify Thee as Thou hast given Him power over all flesh. that He should give eternal life as many as Thou hast given Him. That portion of that prayer is in stone and it's complete. It's not ongoing. It's not continuing because yes, brother Charles, it's a finished work. Nothing left in that portion of the prayer undone or yet to be accomplished. But the rest of it, is varying degrees of that. In fact, part of it is organic and dynamic and living today. The third part of that prayer, but the one I want to focus on is the part where He speaks to His disciples. He speaks for them and about them. Because He knows what they've got ahead of them. Those are the same men that took the beating. Those are the same men, and it's going to be worse than that, that all of them, I believe except for one, met violent, untimely deaths as a result of what was there. So in the 17th chapter, the 6th verse, the Lord says in His prayer to the Father, I have manifested Thy name unto the men which Thou gave Me out of the world." When you think about that, this just exudes meekness. You know, if you're on the job and we're trying to promote ourselves, or you're in business, or whatever we're doing, and we want our credentials, we want our accomplishments known, we let everybody know what we've done. Right? That's just human nature. We don't have to even learn that. It's standard. It's in the DNA. And He's the one called these men, and they came and they followed Him. Right? And He didn't say, Lord, you remember those men that I saw and I sought them out? And I, I, I? Is that what He said? No, Lord. The men which Thou gave Me out of the world, Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me, and they have kept Thy Word. Lord, the honor goes to You. Not to me. He's exuding the meekness of this obedient, faithful Son in the heart of a servant. Now they have known that all things that whatsoever Thou hast given Me are of Thee. For I have given unto them the words that Thou gavest Me, and they have received them. And they have surely known that I came out from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didst send Me. I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou gavest Me, they are Thine." And of course we see here a passage about the world and we have a good understanding as to what that means and what the nomenclature of that word is, what it doesn't mean. So, I am no more in the world. But these are in the world, and I have come to Thee, Holy Father. Keep through Thine own name those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one as we are." Or like we are. He said in verse 14, I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them. You know, there's parts of this, and these things were accomplished, but brethren, this same prayer that the Lord prayed for His disciples is relevant to you today. Yes, this did occur. The first part of that prayer, there's nothing in real time today that's lacking on that prayer. And the third part of that prayer, yes, it's dynamic and it's living and it's organic for those who will believe. That's what He says in this prayer. But for this portion of it, it's relevant to you today. It's relevant to you and I today as it was to them. And the things in this world that we may face when this discouragement sets in I have given them Thy Word, and the world hath hated them." That's really what we can expect. And if it's not the case sometimes, we just need to count ourselves blessed. But if it does, we shouldn't be that surprised. that it does, in fact, happen. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy word. Thy word is true. Lord, I'm looking at a group of men today and I say that same thing. Lord, sanctify these men. Sanctify me. Sanctify me through Your Word. For what? For service. For the heart of a servant. Because that's all we are. You know, we look at the life of Moses. Here was this man who lived At the White House. Buckingham Palace. The Pharaoh's house. We know what happened. We know all about his history. We know what he did. And he led the children of Israel out. And all these things. But you know the greatest title that Moses ever had in his whole life? It was after it was over. It was when it was over and God spoke to Joshua. And what did He say? Moses, My servant. My servant. Moses never heard... I know he felt that from the Lord, but he never heard the Lord say that. But God looked at him in his life, the meekest and mildest of men, and said, My servant. Joshua, he's dead. Wow! Greatest abolition that the man ever had was in that. Sanctify them through Thy truth. That's a scary thing to ask God to sanctify me. Yes, it is. Do we know what we ask? Are we kind of like the disciples' mothers who say, you don't know what you ask? Sanctification is As you well know, I like how Brother Gary identifies the new birth. It's instant, it's instantaneous, it's quickening, it's one time, and it's done. Right? Doesn't need me, doesn't need you, the Holy Spirit only. That's not sanctification. Sanctification is an ongoing work. It's a work in process through all of our lives. And when they lower us down six feet, or actually when we take our last breath, that's when sanctification will have ended. That we might grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord. And Jesus was praying that for His men, and by succession, you and I today. Set us apart, Father, for a holy purpose. Set us apart. Why does He do that? It's kind of like purification. When you think about it, different ways that we're purified, different ways that we're sanctified. We're sanctified, first of all, by... Let's get the big one in the room out of the way first. We're sanctified by blood. We're sanctified by the blood of Jesus Christ. And it identifies His people into who you are. We're sanctified but the cleansing of water. Water. You know, if we go to the Old Testament, Brother Randall, and we find the Jews were given the ordinances that required washing in water, right? And what did they do with it? They did what man always does. They take it to the extreme and they obsess over it. Is there anything that man does not obsess over and take to the extreme? And water was no example, was no exception to that. And they did that. You'd go into the temple and the water would be there. What did Jesus tell them about that cleansing in Washington? He says on the outside, you look so nice and clean like a freshly scrubbed pig. Or like whited sepulchers. But what's on the inside? Dead man's bones. That's what man always does. But there's a sanctification in that. Sanctification in water of the cleansing that's there. And thirdly, the one that seems to be the most difficult to bear is sanctification by fire. Have you ever been washed by fire? Washed in fire? Go ask Job. And when he hath... Job 28, when I am tried, I shall come forth as gold. By what? The fire of His trials. The trials of His faith. The trials of the things that we endure in this life. And it's easier to talk about than it's easier to endure. Brother Dub and I and our spouses, we were blessed to inherit a little property up in South Mississippi. There's a little pine farm up there. And we have a cousin who's a forester, and he takes care of it for us, does a good job. And a few years back, Bobby says, Jerry and Dub, we need to have a burn. We've got to have a burn. Explain it to me." So he says, we're going to go out there and we're going to have a controlled fire. Why? He said, well, you've got these beautiful little trees that are growing here and there's undergrowth and trash living things that ought not be there. And the purpose is to burn them off so that the nutrients in the ground will go to the trees where we want it to. Because you see, that trash that's growing becomes a distraction to the nutrients that keep the tree from growing. So, we have controlled burns and it burned it off, brother. You know, we look at our lives today, and we look at what's going on in our lives, and those around us, and people that we care about, and people that we love, and we see when we get off track, one of the things that's perpetuating that is too many distractions. We've all got too many distractions in our lives. We've been amazed by watching the brethren in Africa who are readily receiving the Word. And one of the things that I've noticed is they'll sit through long sessions of preaching and eyes almost don't blink, okay? I'm not saying they don't have distractions, but they don't have as many as we've got. We've got too many things that are in our way that keep us from doing the things that the Lord would have us to do. Would you amen that? And I'm seated right there. Lord, burn it off. Burn it off. Lord, burn off the dross. Get rid of it, Lord. Sanctify me. Set me apart for a holy purpose as You would have it to be, Lord, that I might do what You would have me to do, whatever that might be. And wherever You would send me to be, Lord, may it be of You. May it be of You. So these were the men that were here and they were doing what the Lord would have them to do. And they didn't always do right either. Newsflash. They made mistakes. So we throw the baby out with the water, right? No. We lovingly correct them. Isn't that where the church comes in? Isn't that where the church is supposed to come in and put your arm around and say, Brother, I love you, but we might want to rethink that. We might have to do that sometimes. Would you do that for somebody you love? There you go. That's what we do for those that we love. But these things come up and we look at what's going on in the world today. There's so many parallels to this situation that David was faced with, with what we have to contend with today. He'd been fighting. He'd been fighting with Saul. He had troops. He had 600 troops. He was down to 600 and they'd gone with him everywhere. They'd hit the Cave of Doolin. They'd sought refuge and solace there. David was a wearied man knowing what he had been faced with and what he was having to do. So he has his family back up here in Ziklag. From a natural sense, everything that was important to him was lodged at Ziklag. Not only for him, but for his troops. So he's fighting the Amalekites. He's fighting Saul. And it came to pass that when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, this enemy, this vexation that was given to Israel. They had invaded the south and smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire. The whole city is burned and had taken the women captives that were there and they slew neither great nor small, but carried them away. And they went on their way. So David and his men came back. They came to the city and behold, it was burned with fire. And their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken away captive. And none of them were there. David and the people that were with him, that was his soldiers, lifted up their voices and wept until they had no more power to weep. If you ever had to cry, I ain't got another tear in me. I'm cried out. I'm empty. Depleted. That's what they were. No more power to weep. David's two wives were taken captive. But it's going to get worse. We haven't hit bottom yet. David's two wives were taken captive. And David, verse 6, was greatly distressed. I understand. Now, we're on the downhill slope, but we're still not there. It's going to get worse. For David was greatly distressed. for the people." That's His soldiers. His 600 men. His faithful soldiers. This kind of sounds like Peter, doesn't it? You know? Lord, I'm Your stand-up man. I'll be with You always. David was greatly distressed for the people spake of stoning him. We're going to kill him. His own men. God had given them the victories and they had seen it and witnessed it, yet in spite of that, when the going got tough, we want you gone. We want to kill you. And all the people were grieved. Every man for his sons and for his daughters. encouraged himself. And the Lord is God. You're probably like me. This is not a political discussion, but we're somewhat encouraged for the events of two weeks ago. There's some encouragement there. But is that your confidence? You know, for a lot of Americans it is. For a lot of Americans, this is, okay, next, go on to something else. I don't think the 2 Chronicles admonition has been reached yet, brother. Some people think that election fulfilled that. Isn't that amazing? You know, we hadn't even scratched the surface. Lord send revival. Well, you know, where does revival start? It starts there and it starts with what? I just want revival. Forget the repentance part. No can do. Not going to happen. Think of Jonah and Nineveh and repentance and revival. Brethren, there's a pattern. It's kind of like sanctification. Do you really know for what you ask? But we're still not to rock bottom. It's going to get worse. And David said to Abathiar, the priest of Emelech's son, he said, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. Well, that's a good start. David's saying, what do I do? What do I do? It's kind of like these signs, yard signs I've been seeing. It's time to pray. It's time to pray. Well, that references this here. It's time to pray. It's time to beseech God. Lord, what would You have us to do? Where would You have us to go? I pray Thee, bring me hither to the ephod. And He did, and He brought it to them. And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake it? And He answered him and said, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. There's the promise. It's not the event. but it's prophesying that that will happen. So David went, he and his 600 men that were with him, and came to the Brook Bazar where those that were left behind stayed. Little uncertain as to what exactly that means, but you read the next words and it clarifies it. But David pursued and he and the 400 men. So we've gone from 600 to 400 for 200 abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook baser. We don't know their real reasons. We don't know whatever reason it was that they didn't do what God commanded them to do, which was to follow their captain, who was David the king. But I'm sure they had a good reason within themselves as to why they didn't do what they knew they were supposed to do. But isn't that the way we are? Do we not do things that seem right in our own minds and our own eyes? And then we always look for the reasons to justify doing what we wanted to do in the first place. Well, that's what they did. You know, the nature of man hasn't changed one bit since this time. So it's still that way. So the number has gone from 600 to 400. So a third David's troops have left him for the task at hand. We're right at rock bottom here. The families are gone. His goods are gone. The village is burned down. We don't know where they're at. And they want to kill me. And a lot of my troops have decided we can't go with you no more, David. But David encouraged himself. in the Lord His God. What did He say? Lord, I don't know how this is going to turn out, but I'm looking to You. I'm looking to You. Lord, You haven't brought me this far to leave me here. And whatever You do, Lord, it's well with me. It's like that woman when Elijah was there with her. Elisha. I'm sorry. What did he ask her? Are you okay? She said, it's well. It's okay. It's okay. Brethren, to you, my fellow yoke brethren, that has to be what we view with the Lord. Lord, You do all things well, even when Jerry doesn't understand it. Even when Jerry can't comprehend it. When Jerry has no grasp of what's going on, Lord, You do things well. Lord, make me reconcile to Your will with gratitude and graciousness. So he overtook it and he pursued, and 400 men for 200 were left behind and were so faint that they could not go over the brook baser. Now here's rock bottom. We're bottoming out, y'all. We're fixing to come up. We're heading up. Something encouraging happens here. And this has to do with service and being a servant, which goes to the heart of what we are and what we're to do. I go to Scripture and Isaiah gives us the picture of the perfect servant. It's prophesied of in Isaiah 42. Behold My servant, whom I uphold, Mine elect, My chosen, in whom My soul delighted. This is God speaking. I have put My Spirit upon him, and he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench, and He shall bring forth judgment unto truth." Elder Randall, I like this part. This is about that recovering all. He shall not fail. Nor be discouraged. Who is that? That was the elect servant. And he found an Egyptian in the field. And they found an Egyptian, and brought him in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat, and they did make him drink water." Brethren, this is what we do in the face of the greatest discouragement. This is what we do right here. What does that serve? even when you don't feel like serving. So here they are. His troops are there, and they're distraught, and they're fewer in number, and they're discouraged, and they're angry, and they're bitter. And they look over in the corner, and there's a little Egyptian, a what? An Egyptian who's over there who's half-dead. And they bring him to David. And what does David do? He nourishes him. He lifts him up. He didn't know how this was going to turn out. I look at me sometimes. What would I have done? In my flesh, I say, I ain't got time for you. I ain't got time for this. I've got to go find the folks. Right? We get single-minded. But as we look in the rearview mirror on this, God used that little small man, that Egyptian man, He used him for His glory. Because it was by His hand that they're going to get the best answers that are there. But not for Him. Who knows? Who knows? The question is, did God use this? Yes, He did. Yes, He did. God used this. How is it for us today in doing that same thing, brethren? This is part of the teaching and preaching. Isn't that amazing? And they took the beaten and they ceased not in the temple and in the houses to teach and to preach. That's what they did. They had discouragements, yet they had a focus of mind and a focus of heart that was there. And they would ask them questions. He asked him questions, and they gave him a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, and his spirit came again to him, for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk no water three days and three nights. And David said unto him, To whom thou belongest, and whence art thou? And he says, I am a young man of Egypt. And when they found out I was sick, they discarded me out of hand. But I can tell you all kinds of things. I can tell you some things that you didn't know. And that's exactly what he did. He recounts the history. He says, we made an invasion upon the south. And we burned Ziklag with fire. And David says, can you tell me to where they are right now? And he says, swear unto me by God that thou wilt not kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my master. Don't let me go back to them. And he says, I will not. And he took them to where they were. And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad around the earth, eating and drinking and dancing because of all the great spoils that had been taken out of the land of the Philistines and out of the land of Judah. And David smote them from the twilight even until the evening of the next day. And there escaped not a man of them, save 400 young men." I don't know about y'all, but this next part, maybe I've got a strange sense of humor. But in my mind's eye, I just want to see 400 men on camels fled. That just is the funniest thing to me when I think about a herd of camels with people making the escape of Charles. So there's a little humor in here as well, right? So there were men who rode upon camels and they fled. David recovered all. that the Amalekites had carried away. That's the first time we're told that in the past tense. And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither son nor daughter, neither spoil nor things that they had taken to them. David recovered all. Is that Jesus or what? Someone was talking earlier about the difference in the old Baptist in terms of when they were able to see a knowledge of the truth and they were able to understand more of it, and they come to a knowledge of the doctrines of grace and realize that He's successful, brethren. Everyone for whom He came to die will live with Him in Heaven without one being left out. I call him a friend. He's a godly man. And I ask him one day. He's very devoted in his church. That's what he's satisfied with. And I ask him one day, I said, I want to ask you a question, Ron. Will everyone for whom Jesus Christ died live with Him in heaven? And I've got this deer in the headlight. This man's gone to church all his life. He knows the Bible. And I've got this deer in the headlight. And the answer was, that's a good question. That's a good question. So I gave him a follow-up. I gave him a breather. I gave him a breather. Brother, it was probably a couple months later, I said, let's go back to that question. We were over coffee. We were having breakfast or something. I said, that question I asked you, have you thought about that? Yeah, I did. I said, you thought any more about it? Yeah. He said they won't. I said, what you said, I said, oh. I said, no. I said, then how can he be successful? How can he win? If he lost one, he lost them all. You see, brethren, when he wins, that's victory. So, if he wasn't victorious, he didn't win! You know, but I'm so thankful that I can see that. And you can too. And I just say, Lord, open their eyes. Like those soldiers there. Lord, open their eyes. That they might see. What's your point with this, Brother Jerry? The point being, brethren, in the face of everything we face, You and I have to have the heart of a servant. The heart of a servant. And that's all we're ever going to be. Brother Ernie Bryson is not here this year. I just realized that. Two years ago, didn't you love that? Was that great or what? You're nothing but a mule. Yeah, that's what he was. He went through all of his discourse and he got, but you're nothing but a meal. And he went back to that theme. And that's so true. Well, brethren, I'm just a servant. And you are too. Look at all of Paul's epistles and Peter's. Paul always starts out by saying, Paul the Apostle, a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sometimes He says a servant. Sometimes He says an apostle. Sometimes He says a servant and an apostle. But He always has that included. I love this. This touched my heart. You know, the Queen of England died 2, 3, 4 years ago. About 5, 6 years ago before she died, there had been this long proclamation thanking the Lord for her reign through the British Isles or whatever. She signed it. This long proclamation is a gratitude to God and to the nation. It was published. And this is the part that touched me. In her handwriting, she wrote at the bottom of it, Your servant, Elizabeth. That touched my heart. Now here's the queen who was a servant. Well, brethren, you have a king. The only one that is the king. And He came as a servant. He's a servant. And He was over there and He was with His disciples. The supper being ended. Laid aside His garment. Wrapped a towel around Him. girded himself with a towel, began to wash their feet. The act of a servant. I've given you an example. Happy are you. Blessed are you if you do this. Do we not all agree that that's when we're at our most elevated Amen. When we're at our most exalted is when we're at the feet of our brethren. Amen. And the crucial test, now it's easy, you and I, we're in commonality. But what happens when we have a brother that we may have had aught with? How does that play in Peoria? How does that play out? Lord, give us the grace. I believe that there may be less issues when there were conflicts, even with those brethren that we might see some things differently with if we were at their feet. And that we viewed each other as servants. And that's how we're ever going to be. I'm never going to be anything more than a servant of the Most High God. But you know, for me, that's all I want to be. And I know you feel that same way. And I want to encourage you, not by what I say, but I want to encourage you by my life and what I try to do. The way I try to live my life in the witness to God's people and serving God's people wherever they may be, that we all might be an encouragement to one another. I'm afraid a lot of our country is viewing this election as the end-all, be-all. There's going to be a great letdown until our priorities are in the right place. And that's a big if. That's a big if. I should have done this up front. I'll give you the definition of a servant. I'm going to be honest. This is a hybrid. I got part of it from OED, but then I modified it a little bit. I have the right to do that. Okay? Here we go. A person who waits upon his master. It's simple. That's not my part. Yeah. Well, who's our master? One who attends to the wishes. Of his superior. And a good servant. You know, the servants in Scripture aren't always good. There were some bad servants. There were some slothful servants. There were some that were not the gold standard, okay? But then there were many who were. And for those that were, they are those who attend to the wishes of His Superior with faithfulness. with faithfulness. My faithful servant. Moses, my servant, is dead. Brethren, I hope this encourages you. I hope we feel that as we realize that in the days ahead, Lord, give me the opportunity to exhibit a servant's heart. in my life, whether it's in my community, whether it's in my church, it's in people that I know, it's in the circumstances that I find myself in that I might let my light so shine. I think one of the greatest things that might be said of us as Old Baptists today is when you have a visitor sometimes that might walk away and might say, I don't really understand what those people believe. There's a lot of things about them I've never seen before, but this one thing I do know, I look at them and they love the Lord and they love each other. You know, that first part? We can work on that. We can work on that. But brethren, if somebody realizes that we don't love the Lord nor one another, God help us. And I'm thankful to say that I don't believe that to be the case. I don't believe that to be the case. May the Lord bless this. May the Lord bless you. And may He bless each of us in the rest of this meeting. Come here, brother.