Let's turn to our Bible tonight, the book of Revelation, chapter 2. Revelation chapter two, we're gonna look at one of these churches now, we've got to the third one, and this is a church in Pergamon. I'm gonna read from 2.12 to 17, and 2.12 to 17, and just notice the promises in the last verse, what Christ gives to us, and we'll be looking at those as we finish the sermon tonight. The church in Pergamon. And to the angel of the church in Pergamon write, The words of him who has the sharp, two-edged sword. I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is, yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans, therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it. So here we come to this church in Revelation. I thought of a number of things we could call it. Maybe the church in Pergamon or maybe a subtitle is the hidden manor and the white stone. Did you see that promise at the end? The hidden manor and the white stone. I wonder what that white stone signifies. Well we'll look at that towards the end this evening. But what we're going to look at is just four things briefly this evening that the message to the church in Pergamon is different to the message in Ephesus and to Smyrna. And yet each of these epistles were to be read to the other churches. And they are seven kinds of churches. They were true churches. And there are lessons in each of them for every church and always in every generation. So the question is, what are the lessons that we can learn this evening? Well, it seems as if Christ is speaking to church members here. And what we're finding is, first of all, my first heading will be that church members belong to Christ. And of course, you know that. Church members belong to Christ. But not every church member is so happy with my second heading, and it's this. Church members are responsible to Christ. They may say yes, but in practice it may be a different matter. The third thing is that the church members here are warned by Christ. And it's always refreshing sometimes when you get a letter like this that it's not, you know, there's many warnings for elders and for preachers and rightly so. But here it seems to be the thrust of this epistle is a warning to church members. And fourthly, the church members will be rewarded by Christ. So they belong to Christ, they're responsible to Christ, they're worn by Christ, and they are rewarded by Christ. And we see as we get in the other letters, verse 12, and to the angel of the church in Pergamum, right. And so this message is written down, to be written down by John to be read and then to be preached by, as it were, the pastor of that congregation. This is different to the other letters. You've got a little bit of a postal route. You've got Ephesus, first of all, and then Smyrna, which is modern-day Izmir, and then you've got Pergamon, and then you've got the other churches, which are in a kind of an upside-down kind of V, and it's a bit of a route together. So here we've got these churches that are connected, but there's a distance between them. In Ephesus, what was the problem there? Well, the one who walked among the seven golden lampstands, including that church in Ephesus, was in their midst. And the key verse is in 2 verse 4. To Ephesus, the Lord said, you have abandoned the love you had at first. And therefore there's nobody here, children, young people, adults, who can't be prepared, hopefully, to have our hearts examined and asked ourselves, are we loving Christ in the way we should? And for the husbands, are we loving our wives in the way we should? And wives, are you loving your husbands as you should? And children, are you loving your parents in the way that you should? And for brothers and sisters in the church, where have we abandoned our love? And I hope that's not the case. But Smyrna there, they were persecuted, that second church, and they were precious from the outside. They were facing slander from the Jews, which is given as the origin of Satan. And Christians were going to be thrown into prison. And Jesus Christ says, it's the devil who was organizing Christians to be thrown into prison. There was pressure without. But it's amazing in that church, there was no, as it were, criticism of the church. Not that they wouldn't have, they were perfect, no church is perfect, but they were faithful. And so our prayer, for us as a church and individuals, that we would be faithful to Christ. But here we face a different problem. What's the problem here? It's not pressure without, it's pressure from within the church. And this seems to be, as we look at these seven churches, one of the most difficult trials that we face in the body of Christ. So as you look with me, here we see this problem emerging there, and we see that some hold the teaching of Balaam, which we'll explain in a moment, and some hold the teaching of Nicolaitans. Here we see this. this letter verse 14 but I have a few things against you you have some there who hold and it seems if there are certain church members who are have bought into a certain form of teaching and are unwilling to let go of it And some there hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Not everybody, but some. And Christ with his all-seeing eyes is now looking into this church, and he's identifying this problem. So we'll look at Balaam and Balak, and we know that this king hired Balaam to prophesy, and he couldn't do anything in Numbers 22 to 24. All he could do was speak blessing, the oracles of God. But what we find is immediately afterwards in Numbers 25 is the apostasy of Israel and the zeal of Phinehas who stamped that out. Now you think, well what's happening here? Well we don't know quite there in Numbers 25 what's happening. We have to go to Numbers 31 to see how did they turn away from God. And there we find in Numbers, we find in 31 and verse 16 says this, behold, these on Balaam's advice caused Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor. And so the plague came on the congregations of the Lord. What we learn there is that, as it were, the devil stirred up this King Balak to try and curse the people of God, couldn't do it. And so Balaam finds a different way to attack the people of God, and he advises, get them to be tempted by these idolatrous people as they enter into all kinds of immorality and idolatry. And as a result of the, as we say, doctrinal corruption entered into the people of God, God himself then came and judged them. And apparently, according to the word of God, it was the advice of Balaam that caused this issue. And so here we see that within the camp of Smyrna, there was some hold in this doctrine of Balaam. getting people to disobey the Lord. And so it will be until the coming of Christ, but we need to be on our guard. And it's interesting, as I tell you this, as we look at this letter, that Balaam was killed. Do you know that? Numbers 31.8. How was he killed? He was killed with the sword. He was killed with the sword. And here we have an aspect of Christ. It says in 2 verse 12, And to the angel of the church in Pergamon write the words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. And we know from the vision in chapter 1, it's a sharp two-edged sword coming out of the mouth of Christ. And so we'll see an aspect of Christ tonight, which will give us a bigger vision as to who he really is. And so on Balaam's advice, the people of God sinned against the Lord. And the lesson is this, the corruption within the church is the chief threat to God against in every generation. Let me say that again. Corruption within the church is the chief threat to guard against in every generation. It's not precious so much from the outside, it's when people depart from the Lord on the inside. And so let's go to our first heading, the church members belong to Christ. Here we see in verse 13, the Lord says, the Lord Jesus Christ says, I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is, yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. So here is a commendation. I hope that you're glad tonight, as I am, with this little word that keeps on being there, I know where you dwell. We get that in 2 verse 2. I know your works. In 2 verse 9, I know your tribulation. In 2 verse 19, to fire Tyre, I know your works. And I hope we're encouraged tonight that the Lord knows our situation. It's remarkable being in the US, how you cross paths providentially with certain friends, who we arrived in the house of one minister friend, and one of the most bitterest trials they've ever faced happened to be on the day we happened to be there. And it was just remarkable. And this minister said to me, we don't get to choose our own suffering, which we did. We wish that we did at times, but we don't get to choose our suffering. God chooses it, and it's often not what we would want. And we happened to be there with them in their home on the day of the most day of intense suffering. And we're just thankful for the providence of God, of whatever mutual encouragement we could give. And I remember as we were discussing with tears from both sides in their living room, Job, the book of Job, how Job is so helpful. But he knows the way that I take. And when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Whatever you're going through tonight, the Word of God says, I know where you dwell. The Lord knows where we dwell, individually and together. And Job says, the Lord knows the way that I take. Your path may be very bitter this evening. You may be facing intense pressure. You may not. You may be on the mountaintop. Well, who knows where you may be on a certain day in the next month? If I'd have been in that person's house two days before, little would they have known, they had no idea that this absolute crushing providence was coming their way. And when that day happens, may you remember that the word of God says, I know where you dwell. Isn't that sweet for us? Isn't that encouraging? Sometimes other people are not even interested in the crushing providence as we go through, but the Lord Jesus Christ is. And he's more interested in them than even we are ourselves. He's even more interested in them than we are ourselves. He says, I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Why is that? Well, if you ever go to Berlin, there's a famous museum there, it's called Pergamon Museum, because there was this famous altar, which was an idolatrous altar, which is in Pergamon, which was sacrificing to these false Greek gods and it was well known everywhere it dominated the skyline and it's referred to as Satan's throne this idolatrous temple that was so prominent the German archaeologists I think in the 19th century were so impressed with it that dug it all up and And it's now pretty much in a museum in Berlin. You can go and visit it. And there's just a big hole in the ground where it once was. But it's still impressive to see this reconstruction. So it was referring, Satan's throne was referring to this idolatrous worship that was taking place. But around all of the Greek temples, there was always cult prostitution on all the things that would take place, a lot of immorality. And so what we're seeing from this letter here is that clearly people are mixing Christianity with what's happening there and a little bit like, you know, the man who got himself a car once and he loves sports cars and so he went driving through the Italian Alps and He wanted to see how close to the edge he could get. And somebody had to instruct him and say, listen, you want to really take it easy, this could be very dangerous. And said, you don't want to see how close to the edge you can drive a mountain, but see how close to the mountain you can keep so you don't fall off. And sometimes Christians, they want to push the boundaries. You met Christians like that? They want to play around with the world and see how close to the world they can get. This seems to have been part of the problem within the church here in Pergamon. Wasn't everyone, but it was some members who were buying into this false vision. But church members belong to Christ. Christ says, I know where you dwell. And so it says, the words of him who has a sharp two-edged sword. And then we see that if they were not going to repent, it says in verse 16, therefore repent, and if not, I will come to you. So it's not the pastor coming to them, it's not the elders coming to them, Jesus Christ says to members there, and it's true today, that if people don't repent, and they live in persistent sin, he will come after you. Now let me just explain something that we're discussing this morning. The same with Jeremiah and here. There's a difference between willful, persistent rebellion and then of Christians letting the Lord down. This congregation is filled with people, including myself, who let the Lord down every week. So we're not talking about letting the Lord down. You know, otherwise there'd be no hope for us, but there is hope. We let the Lord down and we run to the Lord and we ask him to forgive us. That's not what's being dealt with here. and hardness of heart against God. I think clearly against what the elders were trying to warn people of, but no, they were saying, we know better than those elders. We know better than the apostle John. We know better than these men. And they were hardening themselves against Christ. And then Christ says to these church members, this is true for you as well. And I, he says, if you don't repent, therefore I will come to you soon and war against them with a sword of my mouth. Christianity is a sobering religion, isn't it? Christ says he will come. And so the first heading is that church members belong to Christ. I know where you dwell, I will come to you. Our second heading is that church members are responsible to Christ. Not only do we belong to Christ, but we are responsible to him. Not just the elders, but church members. We're all responsible to Christ. And here we see one of the famous buts in the Word of God. The Lord commends them in the beginning. I know where you dwell. You hold fast my name even in times of persecution. Antipas was killed. They didn't deny the Lord then. But, he says, but now we're thankful for the word but but there are other buts in the gospel we sometimes prefer Lloyd Jones I think more or less indicated that it's one of the most important words in the Bible and from Romans chapter 3 and it's recorded this sermon he preached let me just turn there it's from Romans chapter 3 and when he preached on Romans over quite a period of time, he got to Romans chapter 3 in verse 21, and after Paul had outlined the wrath of God, he says, Paul says, but now the righteousness of God, and I think Lloyd-Jones preached a sermon called But Now. But now, are you thankful for the but now in your life this evening? Where would you or I be if it wasn't for the but now of God intervening in your life? And so we're thankful for that, or one of the other buts of the gospel, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Where would we be if the Lord marked our transgressions? Who could stand? But with you there is plenteous redemption. So we're thankful for the gospel for those buts. But there's this kind of but as well. Verse 14, Christ Jesus says here that to teach the members, they're responsible to Christ. He says, but I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. So church members are responsible to Christ. And there are certain ones who are holding to this teaching. It becomes a stumbling block. Eating food sacrificed to idols Some hold the teaching of Nicolaitans, which we don't really know what it is, except that to the church, to the Ephesians, Christ says he hates that teaching. You know that there are some false doctrines around today, and Jesus doesn't just turn a blind eye. He hates certain doctrines that are promoted, and he hated this doctrine of the Nicolaitans. And so, we mustn't just have a post-modern view that says, well, you know, we understand people have many different ways of doing things. No, some teachings are hateful. And teachings that entice church members to moral and doctrinal corruption are such things. And so we see that the church here, there was some members, not all, who were holding to these teachings of Balaam, holding to the teaching of Balaam. What we see, Balaam tried to curse God's people, he failed, and then he advised them to go after these Midianites and then end up entering into all kinds of sexual morality and marriages and therefore bring their gods into them and it's almost, shall I put it, it's a tolerance with society which God doesn't permit. That's one of the things that we find is a danger of, both then and now, the teaching of Balaam. Even to the point, let me give a few examples and there are many more I could give. When I was a young Christian, it was almost unthinkable that any young people would ever go to nightclubs. We all know at nightclubs, anyone who's been in the world, we know nightclubs are really a center of iniquity, of immorality, of scant dress, of drunkenness, of taking drugs and such like. Every non-Christian knows that. So to think that a professing Christian would be desirous to go there and go there on a regular basis, I would say is very similar to the teaching of Balaam. And yet you find people today thinking, well, I can just do that. But you can't, as it were, live on a slippery riverbank. Eventually, you'll fall in. And so people end up living as a hypocrite and committing all kinds of sexual immorality and covering it up, but it doesn't go astray from the eyes of Christ. And so Christians that hold such things would be perhaps similar to what we find here, this teaching of Balaam. I'll give you another contemporary example that we need to be aware of, the danger of certain false teachings. And I think, I remember Brian Norton used to warn me regularly and say, Kevin, one of the biggest dangers for the church today is the internet. I said, what do you mean, Brian? He said, well, people can go onto the internet and you can find anybody to agree with you. So we're very thankful for the many great blessings that we have on the internet. Could be sermons and different things. But we as Christians need to be scrutinizing what comes into our lives, and testing things, and not just uncritically accepting everything that comes our way. Because here we see, in the word of God, that we are responsible to Christ. And there are people there who've taken on teaching that was false, was against Christ, and they would not let it go. There is certain tolerance with sin, I find, in many circles. Almost as if, well, you're just a miserable Christian preaching about the law of God. Well, the law of God is not there to make us miserable. The law of God is to show us the error of our ways so that we can repent. And so we need to be aware of the many winds of doctrine. And we see here that church members are responsible to Christ. We all are. Our third heading is that church members are worn by Christ. And here we see in 3, verse 16 and 17. He says, therefore repent, and if not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. And here we see the parallel that we get that Balaam himself was slain with the sword. And it's interesting the parallel is made that Christ says he will war against those people who persistently hold to these hateful doctrines that Christ himself will come and war against them with the sword of his mouth. And that raises the bar for us in terms of the responsibility, especially as we mature as Christians, to make sure we're not holding to teachings that would encourage not only ourselves but others to a life of sexual immorality. or doctrines antinomianism that's against the law for example there's been certain false teachers in in certain parts of the united states who've overemphasized justification and said all that really matters is justification and if you face temptation well run and remind yourself of your justification whatever problem you face well the problem with that is it doesn't get christians need to be responsible for their actions and realize where to put to death things and where to be working on our sanctification as well. Those kinds of things are well-known and have been reported on, but we need to be aware that church members here are warned by Christ. The warning is not for everyone. It's for those who are willfully rebellious against Christ in holding the doctrine of Balaam and the doctrine, the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Again, we find the question. People say, well, doctrine's not important. Well, according to Christ it is. If people hold certain doctrines, he says, he will come and war against them. He says, therefore repent. What does repent mean? It means to change your mind. Is there anybody here that you've bought into a certain kind of teaching that you've been holding to yourself that you know privately that this teaching is sinful and you need to repent? I only heard this week about a certain liberal professor in a certain reform seminary. And apparently before he ever even got the job in this reform seminary, he'd already begun to buy into liberal teaching. and to deny the truth of the Old Testament and its integrity, and yet still applied for this job in this reformed seminary. And as they began to lecture on the Old Testament, all the students began to sit there thinking, what is coming out from this man? He doesn't believe the Old Testament, but he kept on persisting. And when he was challenged, he would deny it. No, no, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying this. And you remember when you were a child and you had a bath, Your parents put you in the bath, and you remember you had the soap there, remember that? And you tried to grab hold of the bar of soap, and you used to love it, or I used to love it in the days of bars of soap, grubbing all of it and then firing it across the room, remember that? Well, some false teachers, and also Christians who hold to false doctrine, when they're actually confronted, they're like that bar of soap in the bath. You try to grab hold of it, and it just slips out of your hands. Now it might be remarkable to you or I, but this professor in the end, he was finally removed from that seminary. He's no longer there. And now he's completely liberal, and he's written a book testifying about his theological trajectory. And the reality is, he admits in the book, that he was liberal before he ever applied for the job in that seminary. So sometimes, not just liberal theologians, but Christians can begin to buy into false teaching, as some of these did here. Not all, but some of them were holding to the teaching of Balaam, and it was putting stumbling blocks before others. So we need to take seriously what we believe, because Christ sees that, and he says, repent. So he's still giving them opportunity to repent, and he says, if they don't repent, if not, I will come to you soon, and war against them with a sword of my mouth. Is that your Christ this evening? Is your Christ the one who is to be loved, but also feared? Sometimes we have a too lower view of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then he says, he who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. But fourthly, in closing tonight, the church members who persist with the Lord, because not everyone was buying into this false teaching, but the ones who persist, as there are glorious promises for us tonight, our fourth heading is the church members will be rewarded by Christ. What is the reward? It's hidden manna. It's a white stone, and a white stone with a new name on it. What does that mean as we close tonight, as we come to the Lord's Supper? To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it. Now clearly, whatever Christ is promising here is known by that original audience. even though it might not be clear to us. So as we close tonight, let me explain what this white stone means, what this white stone with a name on it means, and what's the hidden manna. Here are some glorious promises for us as we come to the Lord's table, as we think about the gospel, what precious promises we have from Christ. Those who persist in their rebellion against Christ, not the ones who let him down, but the ones who willfully will not submit to Christ. Christ will come and war against them, and he still will. He's not inactive. But those who persevere through difficulties, including the, well, let me just say this. Christians who constantly get led astray by false doctrines, and they're not new Christians, sometimes we wonder, have they really repented of their sin? I know we can all be gullible, but the elect can be deceived, but I don't think indefinitely on wild doctrines that are out there. But look at the promises. Those who conquer, it says, to the one who conquers or to overcomes. And there are many things to overcome in the Christian life. Would you agree? I wish the Christian life was easy, but there are many things to overcome. And it doesn't Christians who are older than me keep on telling me, it doesn't get easier, Kevin. It doesn't get easier. It gets more difficult. And there's something in me that wants to deceive myself and say, I've gone through enough trials. Surely we're gonna get to a place where we just coast to the one who conquers. Hidden manna. Well, remember in the Old Testament when they went through the wilderness, God provided them with this manna that came. Not on the Sabbath, but on the other six days it came, and the Lord fed them in the wilderness. And we find in the New Testament, the Lord Jesus Christ applying the manna to himself. I am the bread of life. And so the promised is Christ himself, but it's the hidden manna. It's not promised in this false teaching. It's hidden manna. We have a bit of this hidden manna this evening. Here we are in this chapel away from the world, and the word of God preached and read, and the Lord's Supper is all part of the hidden manna. In fact, some of this manna was even stored up in a golden pot and placed in the Ark of the Covenant. Christ himself will feed us. Isn't that a promise? Christ himself will give us that manna. Remember Jesus said, man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. That Christ will nourish us, this hidden manna. It's not spectacular. Likewise, the manna just almost appeared, didn't it? And some of the people said, well, what is this? And sometimes Christ feeding us. It's not spectacular, but it's there day by day. Are you thankful for that hidden manna by which Christ feeds his elect? It's Christ himself. And those who are not interested in it, they think, well, I don't want to know about this hidden manna. That's what Christ offers to the one who conquers, both in this world and then into eternity, have promised the hidden manna. Where is Christ right now? He's hidden in heaven. We can't see him with our eyes. Where is Christ now? He's beyond the veil, seated at the right hand of God the Father. And yet, by the Holy Spirit, he feeds the elect with the hidden manna. What about this white stone, he says? I will give, notice it comes from Christ. I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone. How would you feel tonight if I went around and slapped or gave you, well, gave everyone a white stone? How would you feel? It wouldn't mean anything to you. What did it mean to this church here? Well, the white stone symbolized several things, which is quite exciting when Jesus says, I will give you a white stone. The first thing is that white stones were used in the judicial system. So when you were deciding whether somebody was guilty or not, you either voted with a white stone, which meant innocent, or a black stone, which meant guilty. And so therefore, if the jury decide with white stones that you are not guilty, it means you are innocent. And what would also happen sometimes, that person may be given a white stone which would declare you are innocent. You could almost, you know, you couldn't say, well, you couldn't go on the internet and say, just check the judge records. Here's a white stone, and it would declare I'm innocent. White stones were also used as well in terms of voting. In fact, in Acts 26, Paul talks about being part of the Sanhedrin, and they were used as voting pebbles as well. And so you'd use a white pebble to vote on certain matters. And the third thing they were used for, sometimes in the games that they had in the Greek world, that when the person who won the certain event, let's say running, they were given a white stone, which meant they had entrance into, for example, like the winner's feast. So to be given a white stone meant you had entrance to certain things. The white stone symbolized you are innocent in a court of law. It symbolizes entrance and access into royal assemblies at times, or for those who've overcome and run the race, you get a white stone to come to this winner's feast. or even as a voting pebble. What does that mean spiritually? Jesus Christ says, to the one who conquers, I will give a white stone. I will declare you to be not guilty. And for eternity, I will give you a white stone, a voting pebble. It's Christ that chooses, not ourselves. He gives it. We don't choose ourselves. What a blessing. And I'll give you a white stone. It's almost like an entrance ticket supper of the Lamb, and to heaven itself. So you can see the significance, the spiritual significance of this white stone. And furthermore, as we close, it says, I will give you a white stone, Christ says, to the one who overcomes with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it. That white stone symbolizes we are justified by Christ, declared to be not guilty, but with a new name. We don't know what this new name is except the one who receives it. We don't know if it's one of the names of God or whether we're given a new name. What we do know is it's a symbol of our adoption into God's family. Are you pleased tonight for the promise of Christ to be given a white stone with a new name on it and be given from the hand of Christ himself? What a personal savior. To those church members who overcome, He gives a white stone. That's something of a symbolization. We know from the Old Testament about the new name. We don't know if we'll be given a new name ourselves or whether it'll be a name of God, don't want to speculate, but we know in the Old Testament that Abraham's name was changed to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah, Jacob to Israel, Simon to Peter, Saul to Paul. What we do know, what a personal promise from Christ. What a motivation it is for us to overcome, and even in the midst of pressures within the church, a false doctrine. Well, as we conclude tonight, as we finish, as we come towards the Lord's table, may we have an enlarged vision of Christ. Yes, He's our Savior, He's the one who loves us, but He's the one who would fight against us if we persist in rebelling against Him. So therefore, our love for Jesus, Our submission to Jesus Christ should combine love and reverence. Love and reverence. We must think of Christ as he really is, the ascended one to whom John, when he saw him, he fell at his feet as though dead. He's ascended on high and sits at the right hand of God the Father. Is that how you think of him tonight? And it's Christ really himself serving as we as elders will serve the bread and the wine. But really, just as Christ says, and I will give you a white stone. It really is Christ who gives us the bread and the wine. It's from his hand, not from me, a man. This table belongs to the Lord. And what a privilege it is to seek to be faithful to the Lord with the help of the grace of God between now and the day when we see him. Amen.