Hear now God's Word from 1 Peter 1, beginning at verse 13. Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ, as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts as in your ignorance, but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear, knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was ordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God." Congregation, this is the Word of the Lord. Amen. You may be seated. So many of you will be familiar already that 1 Peter is an epistle written to suffering Christians, pilgrims who were being persecuted because of their faith in Christ. He is writing to them to speak comfort to them and to ground them in the divine truth. He's not speaking empty platitudes or simply making expressions of sympathy. He is urging them to gird themselves for the suffering by which they have been called to glorify the Lord. who first saved them by suffering for us all. And he points to the fact that they have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus and the way in which that knowledge, that truth, should make a profound difference in our lives. And so tonight I want to encourage you with some of these same exhortations that we find here in Peter's first letter. He begins in verse 13 speaking to mindset and sobriety and the hope that is to characterize the Christian life. He says, first of all, gird up the loins of your mind. Now, when a man in the ancient world wanted to run, he would have to tuck up his robe so that he could run and not trip on his garment. In the same way, Peter says we are to gird ourselves, but in this case, what we need to gather up is our mind. We're to prepare ourselves for spiritual battle every day, and it requires a particular mindset. In other words, there is more to this than simply a religious habit, more than just a daily pattern of prayer or devotion. There is an actual attitude change that is to flow out of our relationship to God, and out of our worship, and out of our daily prayers. It would be easy every morning to get a cup of coffee and our Bible or a prayer book and go through our morning quiet time and then simply set that aside and approach our lives in the way that everyone else around us may do. But in fact, Peter says we are to approach our day and all of our work and our experiences in life with our minds girded. That is fixed and set and prepared for the battle that we face. Mindset is crucial in our success, in enduring suffering, in battling temptation, and in obeying God. The Christian life calls us to practice virtues, and practice requires deliberation and mental engagement. Not just going through the motions, but having our head in the game, we might say. And many of us, I think, if we're honest, will admit that oftentimes, not always, but oftentimes in our lives, we struggle unnecessarily. And we fail more often because our minds are not in the right place. Because our minds are not on the work that we have been called by God to do. We've seen that in our vocations. We've seen that doing household chores. We've seen that doing basic tasks, and we're not paying attention to what we're doing. We're basically on autopilot. You've missed your turn because of this. You found yourself a couple of miles down the road from where you're supposed to be, simply because your mind was wandering. Now you're operating the vehicle safely, but your head is not in the game. You're not paying attention. And there are struggles in the Christian life, there are failures in the Christian life, that are attributable to the very same kind of mistake. How often are we defeated before we even begin? How often have we already given up the fight before we start? Because we see temptation coming, and we know, I can't win this round. I've failed every single time. That opponent always beats me at the game, and therefore, I'm as good as done, even before the contest begins. And when that's our mindset, we don't resist in the way that we should. We don't persevere in the way that we could. We don't have hope in God, oftentimes, because our minds are not set upon the Word of God, the promises of God, the realities of the work of Christ for our salvation. We are not called to live the Christian life in a rocking chair. We are called to gird our minds for combat and for competition, to get up every day and to remember that we are downrange. We are on enemy ground. We are surrounded by foes. There are spiritual hosts of wickedness that are coming after us. And there is a different mindset that you are to bring to that kind of context than if you feel safely secured in your own space. Peter goes on and says we are not only to gird our minds, but to be sober. And the word that he uses here speaks of a calm and collected spirit. A person who is temperate, dispassionate, and circumspect in his life. And this is really the fruit of self-control. Self-control is the fruit of the Spirit. It's part of the grace that the Spirit of God is working in your heart and in your life. And the result of that self-control will be an attitude of sobriety. Sobriety in our attitude and in our disposition toward the lives that we live. My favorite poem speaks of that sobriety as definitional for true manhood. All of my boys had to memorize the poem, If, by Rudyard Kipling when they were much younger. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating. And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise. The first stanza of a great poem. And yet he is talking about a sobriety that is definitional for true manhood. And this is what separates men and boys. It's not chronology. It's not the amount of testosterone that you have coursing through your body. It is whether or not you have the outcome of self-control, the exercise of self-control leading to a sober mindset. This sobriety is the opposite of intoxication, whether by the elevation or depression of one's spirits. We think about being intoxicated normally makes people happy and giddy and peppy and perky and more bubbly and they're just speaking without any inhibition or self-control. But you've probably seen alcohol do the exact opposite, haven't you? You've seen it depress. You've seen people who become weepy in their beer when they get enough of it in their body. Well, the reality is you can be intoxicated in either of those ways even if you never touch alcohol in your life. intoxicated by elevation of your spirits, irrespective of the circumstances of your life, or depression of your spirits, sometimes because you're focusing too much on the circumstances of your life. But the Christian is neither to be giddy and silly, nor despairing and panicked by what's going on around him. He is supposed to be sober. And that is even-keeled. That is temperate. And that doesn't mean he can't have a good time. And that doesn't mean he's not able to weep with those who weep. But he is a person who is not driven and tossed emotionally and mentally by all of the winds and the waves of his life. This is the mindset of a true son of Issachar. if you recall from the book of Chronicles, one who knows the time and knows what men ought to do. That is a sober-minded person. And all Christians are called to that kind of sobriety. And then he says, verse 13 still, rest your hope fully on the grace of Christ. Now, Peter may not have had as much formal education as Paul, but Peter's sentences are rich and fascinating. Paul writes in what we call a higher register of Greek, and then other writers in the New Testament have an even more complex and sophisticated form of Greek than Paul does. Peter writes in a very simple and maybe not entirely accurate form of Greek, and yet the substance of what he says is magnificent. Think about that sentence. Rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. That is an exhortation that is worthy of many hours of regular prayerful meditation. It might be a good one to commit to memory to that end. What does it mean to rest our hope fully there? It means forsaking all other people and things in which we would otherwise place hope. It means not resting our hope on other people who may inevitably disappoint us. or other outcomes that may inevitably not turn out in the way that we wish they would, and placing all of our hope on Jesus. And saying, no matter what happens in my life, whether I experience success or failure, whether things go my way or not, whether other people love and appreciate me or forsake me, my hope is in the Lord and in the revelation of grace that we will see one day in Him. What does it mean to hope in Jesus? It means that Jesus is our comfort, our joy, our full desire, and all of the encouragement that we need to press on. You don't need anything else. You don't need any expectation of success. Now, our world would say, that's exactly what you need. If you don't expect to be successful, you can't have any hope. You don't have any motivation to go and to do the things that you ought to do. But the reality is, Peter is saying, you do have an expectation. An expectation of what will happen at the return of Jesus. His victory is inevitable. As we saw this morning, death will be swallowed up in victory. And so from that perspective, there is a real sense in which we don't need many of the things that we want, and many of the things that are beneficial to us. Certainly, no man is an island. We live in community. We benefit from fellowship. It's a means of grace, but we don't need man's help. And so when men forsake us, when they turn against us, it's disappointing. It may be hurtful. But ultimately, all of my hope rests upon Jesus and not upon my brother or my fellow man. Friendship, worldly comforts, or success, none of those are things that I need. They are welcome additions. But the reality is, all I need is to know that one day the King is coming again. That's all I need to know. And the Christian lives every day in view of that day. Every single day of my life is to be lived in view of that day when the grace that is to be brought to me is brought at the revelation of the Lord. Peter goes on in verses 14 to 16, to exhort us to be holy just like our Father in heaven. We are obedient children, he says. Obedient children of the Father, but will we be that or not? We are God's children. We are objects of His pity, grace, and love, and as His children, we are supposed to obey Our Father, we're called to that. To lives of joyful and faithful submission to His will. That's what it means to be a child in the household. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. If that's true in Christian families, if that's true in all human families, how much more true is it in God's family? If my children owe obedience to me because they are my children, then what do I owe to my Father who is in heaven? Now you cannot understand this point if you view God's law as an enemy. If you view God's law as a foe, as an opponent, as something that is merely there or even primarily there to convict you, to condemn you, to crush you, and to drive you to the cross. The law has that purpose for the unconverted. But that is not its purpose in your life. Yes, the law convicts us of our sin and reminds us of our need for Jesus. But that first use of the law, as it's traditionally identified, is preeminently for the unconverted. The primary use of the law for the church is as a rule of life and faith and gratitude, as a law in which we delight. It is the Father's instruction telling us how to be what we are, God's children, and how to be obedient in that role. God's law, therefore, is our friend. These are the house rules by which we conduct our lives, and when the children obey the rules, everything goes better. Everything is easier. Disobedience is hard. It brings discipline. It brings shame. When we are obedient children, everything is much better. And God's law is there to help us understand how to be obedient children in the Father's house. The Father has set His love upon us in His Son, and that tells us who we are and how we are to live. You've been adopted as a child of God. Go out and live like it. Go out and live like you belong to the Maker of heaven and earth, and that He loves you, not just as a creature, not just as a servant, but as a son, as a daughter. And then treat your brothers and sisters in Christ as brothers and sisters in the family of God. As those who are loved by the Father who has loved you. And that includes, Peter says, repudiating the former pattern of lust that characterized our lives. It was a pattern that not only characterized us, but was actually taught to us. We were catechized in this lust. It was cultivated by the world that has educated us. Remember, Chesterton says there was no such thing as uneducated people. The street urchin in Oliver Twist is as educated as the person who has a terminal degree. He's just been educated in worldly wickedness. That pattern of lust is no longer the organizing principle of our hearts. Our hearts, as children of God, have been changed. Our affections have been reordered. We have been given new loves and taught a new way to love. A life of worldly lust, Peter says, is ignorance. It is aimless conduct. We chase pleasure and success without knowledge because we are fools. Why would you do those kinds of things? Now, you have been adopted by the Father. And you have been taught a new pattern of life and love and values. Our lives are characterized by new holy desires created by the Spirit and trained by God's Law Word. God's Word is continuing to train and mold our hearts in the same way that your Word to your children is reordering their minds and their lives and their affections. If you discipline your son and you leave him at the end of discipline, angry and sullen, you are missing the point. The point is not external conformity. The point is the conformity of the heart to God's law and to the Father's love expressed through you as a parent. If your goal as parents is simply to survive the day and keep the children from burning the house down, which admittedly there are seasons of our lives where that seems like the best that we can do, but ultimately that's not your job as a parent. It's not just to survive. It's not just to keep your children out of juvenile hall. Your goal is to form your children in the likeness of Jesus Christ. That is what the Father is doing as He pours His Word into you and applies it to you. So every day as you're reading Scripture, every day as you're praying the Psalms, every Lord's Day as you're sitting under the teaching of the Word, what God is doing is retraining and educating your heart. Because what was formerly natural to us, what was formerly characteristic of us, is no good. We need a new ordering, a new prioritization of affection and desire, and that is taught to us by the Word of God. Don't let your conscience be your guide. Let God's Word retrain your conscience. That's the point. And then we're to be conformed, he says, to the holiness of God. God is holy, and He calls us to holiness in union and communion with Him, because we can have holiness no other way. We can't be holy independent of God. We can't be holy outside of Christ. Everything, everyone outside of Jesus is by definition unholy. Because holiness is a property, is an attribute that we have by connection with and proximity to the Holy One. Holiness speaks of God's transcendence. His purity, perfection, and consecration to the true good. God is committed to goodness, which He Himself is. Goodness, as we know it, is simply an expression of God's own character. And in the same way, we are called to that type of transcendence. Now, you might say, well, no, no, no, Pastor. I've read a theology book. That's one of God's incommunicable attributes, His transcendence. That's one of the attributes we don't share. That's a conversation for another day. whether communicable and non-communicable, incommunicable, or even the right categories. Because actually, in every way that we see God's character and being manifest, there is a type of communication of that in covenant relationship with the Lord. And here is where transcendence comes in. We are to transcend the corruption of this world. even as God is above and beyond the corruption of this present world, so we, through union with Him, by fellowship with Him, are to be more and more above and beyond the corruption that is characteristic of this present age. We are to live in purity and live consecrated to lives of faithfulness consecrated to the goodness that we find in Him. Our works are of little value and effectiveness. Holiness is what our brother needs, and it is what our God demands. All of the good things that you can do for your neighbor, for your brother and sister, for your co-worker, or even your enemy, is objectively of very little value. What your brethren, and your neighbors, and your friends, and even your enemies need more than anything is for you to be a holy person. That's more valuable. It's more important. And it's exactly what God calls us to. A life of good works, sure, but first to holiness. Because good works without holiness are not in themselves any good at all. Peter goes on in verses 17 to 19 to talk about the holiness that then characterizes the fear that we have grounded in the blood of Jesus. Christ has delivered us from fear in one sense. John talks about that in 1 John chapter 4, you remember. Perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment, but he who fears has not been made perfect in love. So the fear of being condemned by God on the last day is no longer a fear that we carry with ourselves. When we lay our heads down on our pillow at night, you should know with confidence, my soul is at peace with God. My sins are forgiven. I am accepted because of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. It's a simple prayer, but it's absolutely appropriate. Because I am at peace. And if this is the last time I close my eyes in this world, when I open my eyes I will see the face of Christ. Not because I am good, but because God is good. And because He has given His Son for me. Jesus has delivered us from fear of judgment. From the fear of hell. From the fear of divine wrath. But He has saved us in fear. And He has saved us for another type of fear. Notice what Peter says, verse 17, if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here, In fear. Why? Because God is a judge. Now, He's your Father. And so He's judging you in the way that a good father will. That is in love. That is in mercy. But a good father will still judge critically and kindly the deeds of his children. And there is to be a holy fear that characterizes our life of obedience to God. And that's more than reverence. It's not less than reverence, but the mistake that is sometimes made is to say, well, the fear of God is simply reverence and awe. No, it's reverence and awe plus some. Reverence is an important part of that godly fear, which is more fully, perhaps, defined as a wholesome dread of displeasing. We dread to displease our Father, but in a wholesome way. Not in a terrified way. Not in a way that fears Him lashing out. Not in a way that fears, if I don't measure up, then I will be rejected. No, it's a fear grounded in the Gospel, grounded in the work and righteousness of Christ, and yet a fear of love that desires to please God more than anything else. And the man who fears God in this way will be fearless regarding everyone and everything else. That's why we talk about the importance of living with reverent abandon. When you fear God, you don't have to fear anyone or anything else, because all of your fear is directed God toward, I want to please Him, and if I don't please anyone else, if nothing else in my life works out in the way that I hoped it would, it doesn't matter, because our heart's orientation is to fear and to glorify God. Now does that kind of godly fear characterize our lives? Or, if we're honest, are we more afraid of man? Or are we more afraid of danger? Christians are not supposed to be afraid of danger. We are. That's natural. But you're not supposed to be. Not everything that's natural, not everything that's expected, is spiritual. And this is a reminder of our sanctification. You find yourself in a situation where you're afraid. Okay, that's understandable. But as a Christian, God has called you out of that fear. Fear God and fear nothing else. Are you afraid of missing out? How often does that animate the sins that we commit? How often does that drive us into disobedience? Because I'm afraid I'm going to miss out on some pleasure, some satisfaction, something that we think God might not be willing to give us. Why does an immoral man view pornography or engage in casual sex? It's because he doesn't fear God. Because if he feared God, he wouldn't do that kind of thing. You remember Jonathan Edwards' resolutions that he made as a very young man and resolved to read every week for the balance of his life. Resolution number 7 said, Resolved never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. And number 17, resolves that I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die. What difference would that make in your life if every day you lived in the way that you will wish you had lived when you come to the end of your life? When you look back and all of the regrets that you have, All of the foolishness that characterized so many years of your life. What if from this day forward, you lived like that person that you wish you would have been. That God called you to be. Peter says, remember that you have been redeemed by the most precious thing in the world. Literally bought back by the precious blood of Christ. By the blood of God Himself. And you say, God doesn't have blood. That's true. The God-man has blood. The God-man shed his blood. And so, Paul can say to the elders from Ephesus in Acts 20-28, shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. Because the blood of Christ is the blood of God, and there's no greater treasure in the world. God became man and poured out his blood for you. Jesus had a body and blood coursed through His veins for the express purpose of that blood running out of His body onto the ground to purchase you. It's the most precious thing in the world. How then should we live? The Lord has bought you. He owns you. And He has literally poured Himself out for you. And without treating the blood of Jesus in a superstitious manner, which I realize some traditions have, we really should probably reflect a little more than we do on its worth. Because that blood is created by God in order to be spilled. That is the purpose for which Jesus is given a body, is to lay it on the altar of the cross for your sake. Every drop from His back, from His head, from His hands and His feet, and from His side where the spear pierced Him, every drop is worth more than the rest of the entire universe combined. And He made it so that He could shed it. so that he could spill it, because that was the price required to save you. Peter says, remember that and meditate on that. That's worth keeping in our minds. We've been delivered from the empty life that was handed down to us. Notice what Peter says, the Lord saved us from the empty way of life handed down by tradition from our fathers. The word here, worthless, unsuccessful way of life. One way you could translate that. All pride of heritage aside, the way of life passed down by our fathers is empty and leads to hell. Some of us can be pretty proud of our heritage, pretty proud of the people that we came from, the part of the country that we belong to, the fathers and grandfathers that we had, but ultimately, outside of Christ, it leads to hell. It's worthless. It's less than worthless. It's useless. It's unsuccessful. We can't rely on human wisdom. Even the greatest examples of it, we have to learn from Christ. What will the greatest wisdom of the Greco-Roman world bring you to? It will bring you to perdition apart from Jesus. Current conversations about ethnicity and heritage and culture have some value, but only if we learn to think about those categories biblically, which seems to be in short supply right now. But Peter gets to the point. This is ultimately what it comes down to. There is one race in the Bible, the human race. There are two humanities. That's it. Fundamentally, all of the rest of the conversations and distinctions aside, there is one race and two humanities. We will be sons of Adam or sons of Christ, and no one will be saved because he was a son of the South. Finally, in verses 20 and 21, he speaks about the Christ in whom and through whom you believe. And these are two verses that, as Calvinists, we love to camp out on. We could spend a lot of time here. We won't this evening, but notice a few points. Peter says in verse 20, He, Christ, indeed, was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you. who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. For ordained before the foundation of the world, the Son was destined to die and rise again even before the world was made. Which is why one of our former elders used to say, before God said, let there be light, He said, let there be a church. He created the world so that He could create the church, and the church could fill that world with glory. Salvation began in eternity in the mind of God. Christ would be a lamb before he became a king. It is very important that we understand that. Peter makes it clear the cross is not plan B. It is not a reaction to man's sin. It is not an adjustment based on the fall. It is not due to the fact that the Jews did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah and crown Him King. The cross was the plan all along. The first crown was always going to be made out of thorns. He was foreordained to that role before God said, let there be light. And this is the perfect and incomprehensible wisdom of God. The author knew the entire story from the beginning. He knew that it would be through death and resurrection that the world would be saved. And there is no other plan. There need not ever be. The Lord is not making adjustments as we go along and doing the best that He can with what we have. Salvation is assured because salvation is secured by the decree of God prior to creation. That's an important thing to try to wrap our minds around. Foreordained before the foundation of the world, but manifest in history for you. That's what Peter says. The plan may have appeared in God's mind long ago. Christ came into creation. He stepped out of eternity into time and he did it, Peter says, for you. born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those who are under the law. This plan is executed in space, in history, in creation. And therefore these are the last times, the last days, the final period before Christ's return. This is what the Bible calls the day of salvation. That's not something that we're waiting for. That's something that's been going on for a very long time and may go on for a very long time yet. But the point that Peter is making means necessarily that Christianity is therefore not a philosophy and not a myth. It's not simply a prescription for how to have a good life. It's not just giving you ethical guidelines. You could learn that from the Stoics. You don't need to be a Christian for that. You can look at ancient philosophy and just kind of figure out how to be a good person. That's not what Christianity is about. It's true history. It's the accomplishment of salvation for you. And that historical grounding of our faith is important for living faithfully in history right now, because that's what you're doing. You are on the stairs of Sirith Ungol. You are making your way up a steep ascent and suddenly discovering that you are in the same stories that were told so long ago. 2,000 years ago, something happened and you're in the same story. You have woken up and realized the book that you are reading, you are a character on the page. And you are to be faithful in history by looking back to history and seeing the true Christ who entered into history for your salvation. We live today in view of what was done in former days and in hope of the final day to come. There's a past, present, and future aspect to the Christian faith that makes it far more than mythology or philosophy, far more than moralism. past, present, and future all must be tied together or Christian faith ceases to be Christian. And then Peter says, in whom and through whom you believe and are saved. Did you notice that? We believe in Christ through Christ. who through Him, verse 21, believe in God. We believe in God through Christ. The preposition is important there, and yes, it's in the original. It's through Christ that we are born again and enabled to believe. You can't believe in God without God coming and making that possible. Your faith is not external to God, external to the plan, purpose, and work of God. Your faith is the product of the work of God. It is united to Christ that you trust in Christ and so visibly become in union with Him. 1 John chapter 5 and verse 1, whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. This is a place where our English translations fail us just a bit because there is a very important verb distinction here in the original. The verb in the first part of the clause, whoever believes, present, active, indicative, whoever is believing right now that Jesus is the Christ has been perfect passive. Perfect passive. Has been born of God. A perfect passive verb in Greek speaks of something that was already accomplished in the past and was done to you, not by you. That's important. He has been previously born of God and he didn't birth himself. He was born by God. He was born anew, and you had as much to do with that second birth as you did with your first. It was done to you, and it was done by the Lord, and that new birth precedes your present faith. You can't believe in Jesus unless you have been born anew. And you can't muster that up within yourself. You can't believe in Jesus so that you might be reborn. You're not going to believe unless you've been born. When you believe, you know something happened before that. Before you called on Him, He began calling you and enabled you to hear and respond in faith. The same power, Peter says, that raised Christ from the dead is the power by which you believe and therefore the power by which you will always believe." Do you know why you're going to remain a believer? Because the same power that raised Christ from the dead, and notice in some passages Jesus says, I lay down my life that I may take it up again, and we say, oh, Jesus raised himself from the dead. There's a sense in which that's true, John 10, 17 and 18. But the overwhelming number of references throughout the New Testament to the resurrection of Christ is that it is the Father, by His Spirit, that raises Christ from the dead. And that power, Peter says, is the power by which you believe. Look again, "...who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that to this end that your faith and hope are in God." The Father raises Christ, glorifies Christ, so that you can believe in Christ and have your hope fulfilled. So why do you believe? Because God has enabled you to believe. And why will you continue to believe? Because the same power that brought Jesus back from the grave will bring you to God in faith. Our faith is in God, by God. And our hope is in God, by God. He authors the faith. He authors the hope. And then He brings both to completion by His own power. You won't stop believing because you didn't decide to start believing. The Lord is working in you to that end. You'll continue to believe in Jesus because you did not believe by yourself. You believed by God's grace. So whether we are suffering or not, Peter's words offer endless comfort and very helpful encouragement to us. To remember that we were bought with the blood of the Son of God. That we are adopted by God as His children, called to obedience in holiness, and brought to faith. brought to trust and hope in God by the same power by which God raised His Son from the dead. May God impress that upon our hearts. And may we, in faith, cling to that everlasting hope. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.