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Well, Greg didn't want us to think a couple times about it. But they're probably in it. They're going to be so used to it. Well, good morning, everyone. How are we doing today? Mark's doing good because he got deer. He got a picture of it to prove it. So it's not the one that got away. All right. Well, we're looking at lesson number four here today, a godly lifestyle. On to Titus chapter 2. Any prayer requests? Yes? Anne Kavinsky, my neighbor, one whose son had a stroke over the summer, her mom, Pat, is in the hospital with pneumonia. Special prayers for her, please. OK. So Anne's mom? Yes. Okay. Has your dad went to see anybody yet, Bob? Not yet. Okay. Okay. Mark? Please continue to pray for spiritual growth of If you talk to her, you might ask if she gets any good out of the bulletin stuff that I send her, if she's not looking at them. I've been sending them for months, but I don't know. I think you told me that a long time back, but she's never made comments. Yeah. OK. I'll ask her. Yeah. All right. Anything else going on? I might pray for Allie Houston. I haven't heard here the last couple of days if that vertigo stuff's getting better. She's supposed to be driving back from Michigan on. Well, there's mom. We'll find out. Any update on Allie? She's doing much better. Good. OK. She's actually able to drive and everything as of yesterday, so. OK. Yeah. The medicine worked, and she's getting better. You like to be able to turn your head if you need to going through Chicago. All righty. Yeah, that's no fun. Yeah. What was that used to be that? Well, that's dating me. Was it TV program as the world turns? But you don't like that when you turn your head in the world turns. OK, all right, well, let's let's pray here. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your goodness to us. Thank you for safety here this morning. Pray that you'd Help us as we look at this portion of scripture today. We do ask that you might minister strength and healing to Anne's mom there in the hospital with pneumonia. Strengthen her, give the doctor's wisdom as a treater. For Bob's dad as he goes in to see the cancer doctor, give them wisdom and the best approach for this. Pray for those that Mark is trying to keep in contact with and share scripture and talk to him about the Lord for Christie and June, Ben, and for Tammy, his mom, Rick, Amanda. Lord, we pray that you'll continue to work in their hearts You bring people into their lives, too, that would tell them the same thing. So they can think that it's not just something Mark believes, but other people believe that, too, and that they need to come to know Christ as Savior. We thank you for the improvement there for Allie. I'm pretty sure she might be in good shape, able to drive home here this next week, for others that are Going to be traveling, Chris and Patty, to Michigan, and we just, Dalton and his wife, heading for Kansas. Pray that you continue to give them journey mercies. Ask that you guide us again now to your word, in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, Titus chapter two, a godly lifestyle. Our lifestyle is, an evidence of our salvation. Other people don't always listen to what we have to say, but they observe our lives, and we ought not to say one thing and do another, okay? People ought to be able to see it by our life that there's a relationship between us and the Lord. And we see here, Paul talks to different age groups. He gives them some examples of what kind of lifestyle we ought to be demonstrating as Christians. And they mentioned here, as kind of an illustration to think about, if you were to get your mom some gift something that she's always wanted you know and you finally were able to come up with this gift you know how would you wrap it would you find some old newspaper cut up the paper sack from the grocery store and wrap it up with it or would you try to get some nice paper and ribbon and make it look nice. And well, we know what we'd want to do, okay? And they related that as our faith is like the valuable package and our actions are like the wrapping. That's what people see on the outside, all right? And so we ought to leave them an example that they would want for their own lives, not like, ooh, and they call themselves a Christian. So as you look here at Titus chapter two, he again qualifies, it's a practical portion of scripture where he gives us some pretty clear indications on what our lives ought to look like. Back in chapter one, we were looking at some of that. we saw that how belief and behavior interact with one another. You know, some things kind of go together, mashed potatoes and gravy, eggs and sausage or ham and cheese, whatever. Well, our beliefs have an impact on how we live, how we act. And if we got wrong beliefs, it's more likely gonna lead to wrong behavior. Whereas if we got good teaching, good doctrine, leads to godly behavior, okay? We tend to act out what's in our head, all right? And Titus chapter one, again, talked about the ungodly. Well, their beliefs were wrong, and that's why they acted the way they did. And I mean, we can see some of that even through this last Well, it's not over with. I don't think it's ever over, but the political stuff, how people act out, it's what they think. You know, those that hated Israel and were for Hamas and everything else, and they're out protesting and making life miserable for Jewish people. Yeah, their beliefs corresponded to their behavior. And so wrong belief leads to wrong behavior. Well, it's because they don't know the Lord, and that's why they act the way they do. We ought not really be surprised at the way unbelievers live and act, whether they realize it or not. You know, if you tell them that, they wouldn't believe it, but really Satan's in control of their life. And so they're gonna act accordingly. Well, we look at, it points out too that sometimes kind of a fault for us as fundamental Bible-believing Christians is that we take people at, we like to believe people. Somebody tells you that they're saved, you wanna believe that. But it ought to be backed up by their life. And I'm not one to be going around doubting people's salvation. That's kind of a little bugaboo of mine. You may have been in meetings, something like that. Evangelist comes in. He's counting heads to see whether that was a success or not. You know, and this is exaggeration, but singing 19 verses of just as I am, you know, if he can't get the whole church up to the front of the church, uh, kneeling for something, you know, um, then, and so I'm not one to get people to be doubting their salvation, but it really ought to be true. You know, because once in a while you get somebody, because I remember somebody that used to, I was always talking about God, believe in God. Well, that's good, but who else believes in God? The devil does, says he believes in God, and he trembles, all right? What are you doing with Jesus Christ? You don't just bypass Jesus, say, I believe in God, and you got your ticket punched to go to heaven. You can't ignore Jesus. and get there, okay? But that we ought to look at it, and I'd like to look at a couple of verses here, it points out. Acts 26 and verse 20, it says, But show first unto them of Damascus and of Jerusalem and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do the works meant for repentance." Okay? Doesn't mean person has to be, you know, just weeping and wailing over their sin. Not everybody responds the same way. But there ought to be some evidence that there's a desired change in their lives. Famir verse was found there in Ephesians. Ones that we know there, we know Ephesians 2, 8, and 9. And I always say, don't forget verse 10, okay? You know, 8 and 9 says, It says, for by grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourselves, but a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Then 10 goes on to say, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto, or for the purpose of good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. So, but we gotta get it in the right order. It's not works first to gain your salvation. But after you are saved, God's got kind of a to-do list. Mark? It also teaches, the Lord says, you shall know them by their fruits. There used to be a barfly, now I'm not, so to speak, and then you're in church and, you know, following the way the Lord teaches. Yeah, there ought to be different people, depending on where they're at. Like I say, if you're a barfly, people are going to notice the difference. If you kind of lead a clean life and you know some people that do, but they're still an unbeliever, they haven't trusted Christ, you might not see as dramatic a change in their life as maybe somebody else. But, you know, God has good works in mind for us to do. It's not just, okay, I'm saved, I can sit on my hands, you know, until Jesus comes, you know. No, there's things he'd like for us to do. He tells us also in 1 John 2, verse 4, he has said, I know him and keep not his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him." So for the person who says, I know the Lord, but we don't keep God's commandments. We're not obedient to the Lord. He says, you're a liar. You say one thing, but your actions tell us something else. And he points out too that sometimes We kind of just attribute it to, well, they're just carnal. Well, there is carnality in scripture. People that are believers, but yet tend to act and appear to, they match more up with the unsaved than they do the believers. But that's not what God wants either. You know, sometimes we call it backslidden Christians. But we see here that oftentimes that's with new believers, okay? Sometimes, you know, it works different with different people, okay? Somebody gets saved. They've got some undesirable habits, we'll say. Sometimes it's just gone the next day. Other times, it's something they struggle with for a while. They get rid of some of this stuff. And that might be referred to as carnal, because again, they're still looking like and acting like an unsaved person. But they're progressing. They're making headway. But these folks that he's talking about back in Titus chapter one, they were false teachers, okay? They weren't believers, and they weren't teaching it right, and they weren't acting right. In fact, there's a pretty rough description of some of these people that Paul and others give. But it's like Mark said, Christ taught that you'll be known by your fruits. We know an apple tree or a pear tree by the fruit that's on it. And so as a Christian, we ought to be demonstrating Christian type fruit, okay? And so he was looking for godly leaders. And again, their lifestyle needs to back up what they say. Let's see, another verse here out of 1 John. First John 2. Let's see, 2, 3, and 5, it says, 1 John 2, 3, it says, and hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments. Okay, again, someone who's obedient to the Lord, they're backing it up with their life. Verse 5, and whoso keepeth his word in him verily, is the love of God perfected, hereby we know that we're in Him, okay? You know, it gives us assurance in our own lives, as well as others that are observing our lives. And so he gives some, again, some examples of the kind of behavior that he's looking for. And it's not just, you know, well, whatever seems good to you kind of thing. There might be additions to this, but talking about a godly lifestyle. And he talks to five different categories of people. And he starts with older men, okay? They're in Titus chapter two. And verse two, he says, the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. Okay? So we'll look at this here a little bit closer. It says he's to be sober. Well, is there anything about being sober other than not being the opposite of being drunk? Okay. What else is sober? Okay, clean thoughts. Doesn't mean that we have to go around, you know, because sometimes, oh, they're a bit sober, you know. their expression on their face. As Christians, we don't have to walk around looking like we just bit into a lemon, you know? Okay? But we need to have sound doctrine sound beliefs and We're Sober as being a part of it. Okay, you know that we're not controlled by alcohol of some kind or drugs, you know, there's all kinds of that available too, but We appear to be in sound mind. We've got right thinking, straight thinking. And so this was one of the things he's looking for in the aged men. He uses the word grave. I don't know about you, but I don't use that much as an adjective to describe somebody. I'm thinking about a grave as a hole in the ground. Okay. But a more contemporary word they say would be more like dignified. Okay. He's restrained in his behavior. Okay. He's, he's not acting wild and crazy. All right. Has a serious attitude about life. Doesn't mean you can't have fun. and enjoy life, but at the same time, he knows what life's all about, you know? And he's not just, you've got some people that you say, they just never grew up, you know? They're 50 years old and they're still acting and thinking like a kid, you know? Temperate, okay? This, again, same kind of word, a takeoff of the word sober. but it has correct thinking, both about God and about people, about life, sound in the faith, has a sure trust in the Lord, strong, healthy thinking, confidence in the Lord. You can tell people that are trusted in the Lord for things and those who aren't. Sound and love. I mean, first Corinthians talks about that, something that we all have need of, but that's what charity is talking about. It means love, but not just love of self. Okay. But love for others. Again, the definition that I've kind of learned in my own mind for myself is Seeking the other person's highest good without expecting anything in return. You're looking out for the good of others. There's a lot of people out there that's just looking out for me, myself, and I. Well, if I don't look after myself, nobody else is going to. That kind of attitude. No, we're looking about what's good for others and concern for others. He talks about here, too, is sound in faith, in charity, in patience. Patience, he says here, know how to persevere, to stick with your commitment to Christ, no matter what has happened, that our faith is not easily shaken when things come along, that some potholes, some rough spots, difficulties in life, that we're not just followers of Christ when things are going well. Things got not so good that we're getting ticked off at God. But we're sticking with the Lord through thick and thin. We'll talk a little bit about that in the morning service about people that Paul was talking with. But they don't become disillusioned or bitter when things don't always go their way. And they mentioned here, it's easier, it seems like, when we grow older. You find sometimes people, as they grow older, there's a number of things that have happened in their life that they're disappointed over. And physically, maybe they can't do some of the things they used to do, can't get around as easy. Some of their friends are dying off. They get a bit lonely and they just, you know, their fire for the Lord's went to a pilot light. They haven't lost their salvation, but they're just kind of, oh, you know. And so we have to be careful that that doesn't creep into our lives. We get kind of a negative attitude towards anybody and everybody. I don't know about you, but I have difficulty hanging around people like that, you know, because it's like the flu. It's catching, you know. If somebody's always down on life and, yeah. So, well, you know what I'm talking about. Okay. So then he goes on to talk about aged women. Okay. Now the guy's, he's pretty smart. He just says aged women. He didn't say what year. that what you qualify for. But he says that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things. And so this Behaviors becometh holiness." Now, I wouldn't have come up with this, but a writer here says the meaning behind this is that it's proper for the priests, okay? How do you get that? Well, the older women oftentimes were also widows, They often were there in the temple helping out with the offerings and praying for others, like we see with the Christmas story with Hannah or Anna there in the temple. You know, you think of a priest who's making daily offerings for the people, for Israel, and we're looking at having a right relationship with the Lord. He says, too, that they're not false accusers. And the word behind that is diablos, and it's used some 35 times in the New Testament. And it's the same word that's used for Satan and the devil. And that means slanderer, okay? And so we know that Satan's a slanderer. He makes false accusations about anybody and everybody, spreads around the evil. Well, he doesn't want the older women to be doing that. Used to be the, you know, cartoon pictures or whatever that women would be hanging over the back fence swapping stories. I don't know if anybody has a back fence anymore or anybody seems to have the time to just jab her. I still remember though as a kid, now this is, again, it's dating meeting and you can tell your kids what that means here. Anybody remember a party line? You know? Well, we used to have wires with the neighbor, you know? And it's, you got two people on the same phone line. So you pick up the phone and somebody's talking. So you got to hang it back up and wait till they're done before you can make a phone call. And sometimes they can talk for a long time before you finally, oh, it's dial tone. I can, now I can get the call, you know? Uh, but not false accusers, not just, you know, picking holes and people. Um, and, um, it, you know, Bible talks about the tongue, you know, uh, it helps us eat, but it can also shred people. And, uh, Some of you, you've probably experienced that as well. Sometimes I would much rather if people had just punched me one, you know, that you get over than having said something to you that just kind of rattles around in your head for the next 10 years or more, okay? It talks too about not giving too much wine. The question is, why the word much? And we've talked about that, I think, in the last chapter there, but they had a, at least historians tell us this, that the wine back in those days was diluted, okay, it was watered down, and so it took much wine to get you to start acting and thinking a little goofy, all right? So they were not to be Given too much wine. They wanted them in their right mind. Okay? not to be confused or You know saying doing things And I think we probably all know, okay, the guy that was driving the wrong way down the freeway when Vice President Harris, her convoy or whatever they call the thing, was heading for the airport and you got some guy driving the wrong way, apparently he passed him from what I read. At first it didn't look like he'd come up to him yet. And he didn't even realize that what was going on on the other side in the other lanes. And it's like, well, yeah, there was alcohol involved. You know, people do things that they wouldn't normally do, you know, and you start pouring booze down them. And he points out something, I guess, who knows what people thinking either, but he's, he said, not necessarily drunk, but he says, perhaps he was thinking about all too prominent practice of older women and men that turned to alcohol for relief and tension, boredom, fear, loneliness. Possible for a person to be given to wine and never drink enough at one point to be drunk, But surely there were those in those days as today who drink in the morning to clear their minds, have a drink at noon to help them face the rest of the day, to drink in the evening to relax before dinner, and to drink at bedtime for sound sleep. Yeah, they're just on the bottle all the time, okay? And he's saying these women ought not to be looking for at looking at the bottle for strength, okay? They're not going to be able to be passing on much good if that's the case. But he does say that they ought to be teachers of good things. In those days, it was kind of the responsibility of the older women to teach the younger women, okay? Apparently, Paul, Timothy, or Titus and others didn't have Sunday school class for young women to teach them how they ought to live. They kind of left that to the older women to teach them, to be good examples of them. And we see that as we look more into the what Paul's looking for to take place there in the younger women. But again, they were to be teachers to the younger women. Maybe they spent more time with one another than they do today. And I was thinking about that. There were probably more women at home in those days than there are today. You know, it wasn't, I don't know, when it really started. Was it World War II when the guys are all over fighting in Europe and they needed people to build airplanes and tanks and everything else? And the ladies went to work and they've been working ever since then, okay? So they had more time with one another and they were preparing to teach. And you have to have a good example. You're not going to be motivated to follow somebody whose life is kind of a mess, a bad example. And so you want a good example to follow. Well, that leads us up to what he's looking for out of the young women. In verse four and five, he says that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chase, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blaspheme. And so he gives seven different qualities here for these younger women. Some of them apply to married women, others to single or both. But he says here that they were to love their husbands. And their husbands, not the neighbor's husband or the guy down the street, but their own husbands. And the older women were to encourage them. Well, one of the ways they're gonna encourage it is if they see it in that person's life, how they treat their husbands. They wanted to have a good influence on the younger women. They were to love their children. Well, most moms do. Although if you're honest, there are some points where you'd like to set the kid out on the step. I still remember this years ago, James Dobson, I can't remember his wife's name, doesn't matter. But anyway, little kids at home. And I won't go on what all had happened between the kid and the dog and everything else that day. It was just been a total disaster. He drives in the driveway and his wife's sitting on the step crying. And so he gets out of the car. She hands him the kid and gets in the car and leaves. And she comes back, but she just needed a break. But it depends on what kind of home you've grown up in. You know, sometimes guys don't know how to demonstrate love to their wife, to their kids, because they didn't have a dad around to demonstrate it for them. But it can be the same way around for if there's, you know, dad's raising the kids, mom's not around, and she may grew up in a home where there wasn't a mom that loved him, okay? It tells them to be discreet, to be in one's right mind. Talks about, you know, elsewhere in back in chapter one about being sober and tempered. But to be looking to the Lord for provisions in life, not just the things of this world, accumulation of stuff. He says too, that they were to be to be chased, another word might there be purity. And it talks about scripture about purity is like fine gold. And Satan wants to attack and does attack young women. He wants to take away that purity. And so the older women were, again, to try to teach them how to battle and make right choices. Philippians chapter four, sometimes it talks about how that, let me get here, Philippians chapter four, Things that we're not supposed to worry about, and so on. Philippians 4, 6, you know, be careful for nothing, and don't worry about this, that, and the other. And talks about how we can have the peace of God, and then it tells us some things that we ought to think about. There in verse eight, finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, Whatsoever things are a good report, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. We're surrounded by a lot of junk. I guess I notice it like, and I don't know what most of these are even about, but just the title of the programs on TV, if you sit there and just punch your way through something, you know, and it's murder this, murder that, you know, and yeah, not much that's going to build you up, you know. And so, again, We have to be the ones, with the Lord's help, to choose pure things. He says, too, keepers of the home, okay? Or the idea here is home workers. But to keep the home running well, okay? Now they didn't have some of the distractions that we've got today, okay? There isn't the soaps on TV or something. But he's, you know, just being lazy. being busybodies, you know, to take care of the things that are going on at home, whether it's training your children and other such things. There's plenty, usually plenty to do trying to figure out how to get it all done. Then too, he says, he just uses the word good. Paul has used this previously about good works. He mentioned sometimes elsewhere, but like Dorcas, gives an example of her. She was known as a lady that was full of good works. And he's saying young women who are young, healthy, productive, ought to be doing things for the Lord and for others to do good. And obedient to their own husbands. And I realize sometimes that goes cross-grain with the thinking of today. But that's how God designed marriage. You know, the husband has a responsibility to be the loving leader. And I underline loving. Not the dictator, but the loving leader and the wife to be the voluntary follower, to be willing to be submissive to the leadership of her husband. And it doesn't mean that you're always gonna agree with him, but okay, God's gonna hold him accountable for the decisions. And to be willing, again, for her own husband. It's not like, well, I could be submissive to this guy, but not the one I've got. No, it's the one that you're married to. Then he talks, too, about the young men. They're in verse 6. He got a short list here, but he says, young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded, or mine has a marginal word there, discreet, okay? Sober, temperate, discreet. I use other terms, have their head screwed on the right way around. You know, they got good thinking, their brains engaged. And again, right thinking, right behavior. Wrong thinking, wrong behavior. Okay, so this is what he's looking for in young men. And then he touches on, lastly here, last group, is that of servants. And this has application to the employer-employee relationship there in verse 9 and 10. He says, exhort servants, and the employee would be like the servant, exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, and to please them in all things, not answering again, not purloining, but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things." Well, let's look at this a little closer, okay? So he says there, to be obedient to their own masters. Real pretty simple. Basically, do what you're told. Okay? And I realize sometimes you may end up working with somebody that whenever the boss tells them to do something, they've got a better way of doing it. Okay? Just remember, they're paying you to do what he's telling you to do. You know, that's assuming But what they're asking you to do is legal and right. There's maybe different ways of doing it. But if they're wanting you to do it this way, then you need to be willing to do that. And if it turns out not well, well, then that's his fault, not yours. You're just doing what you're told. Mark? Also in that, though, you have to use discretion because your boss can put you in serious harm. Well, okay, so if you know that you're like you say your life's being threatened or you're doing something dangerous or whatever and I don't see a problem with you speaking up. But I also know people that tend to go from job to job to job because they never get along with their supervisor or their boss. It's kind of interesting how that's worked out, not in every case, but the one I'm thinking of. They knew just about how long you had to work before you could claim unemployment. And they would work about that long, get in a fight with their boss, they'd get let go, claim unemployment until that ran out, and then they'd have to go out and get a job again. But that's a rough way to work, not much of an example for your children. It's kind of rough on your wife and everybody else. Yeah, okay, so unless there's a real good reason, you do what you're told to do, okay? And then to please your masters, you go beyond obedience. If something else needs to be done and you can see it, not none of this, well, that's not in my job description. Well, Isn't there a lot of things in life that need to be done that aren't in your job description? As mom, dad, whatever, okay? Not answering back, you know? They're not looking for a lot of back talk, okay? And you might be tempted to say things, but You find you don't have to apologize for what you don't say, okay? And you don't have to say everything that comes to your mind. You come across people that whenever it comes to minds what they say, and it's like, oh, we could have lived without that, you know? He talks about here not purloining. Might be pilfering, stealing. Okay. Show good faith, be faithful, be trustworthy. And, but he says, don't take things that don't belong to you. You know, whether it's something that you feel justified in taking home with you. But no, that belongs to the company. You leave it there. I jumped ahead on this, showing good fidelity, showing good faith, faithful, trustworthy, show up on time, stay till you're supposed to, not just looking for a way out. I still remember working at John Deere, and we got second shift, we'd get paid on Thursday night. You know, well, a lot of them wouldn't, fake sick for Friday, you know, or they'd get out at noon so they could head for the bar, and then they wouldn't make it in on Monday because they're hungover, you know. And then all their work gets dropped on somebody else, okay, but they're in the Union so you can't do nothing, which doesn't seem right. So something to think about. And I see our time's kind of gone here. But anyway, he talks about here reasons for godly behavior. The world tends to judge us by what they see by our behavior, not just what we believe or what we might try to teach. You know, if we're just always going around griping and complaining and not doing our work, you know, people pick up on that. Or young women, as they're talking about, you know, are they behaving? And he says all of that reflects on God and His Word. He says that God's Word might not be blasphemed. Putting things in order, presenting our life in an attractive way can be used to draw people to Christ. If we're a bad example, there's, you know, people, again, look at us and think, wow, if that's what a Christian is, don't want any part of it. And, you know, there are people who've kind of got stung along the way by somebody that called themselves a Christian. You know, they cheated them out of money. And this can go anywhere. I mean, anybody can be that way. I still remember somebody I knew that was a plumber, and he did work for church. Well, then they'd try to get out of paying him. Or they'd say, well, we'll consider that a donation. Well, he didn't do it to donate. He did it for, he's got expenses. He needs to pay the guy for all the parts and everything else. And so wherever we're at, again, our behavior and our reputation, okay, is really at stake and it reflects upon the Lord. And if we got a bad reputation, There's not much reason people are going to want to listen to us when we start talking to them about the Lord or sharing the gospel with them. It's kind of like, oh, now we're going to talk Sunday school stuff. What about how you work at work every day? Our time's gone, I'll quit. All right, let's pray. Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you. Help us to realize it's not always just what we say, it's what we do that people remember, and how we behave before them that they tend to remember, how we treat them. And Lord, we pray that you continue to impress upon our hearts that you do have standards that you want us to live by. And you give us some pretty good suggestions here, probably enough homework for all of us that there's a weak spot in there somewhere that we could work on. And we pray that you would help us to have good thinking, good beliefs, good behavior, and that we might represent you well before the world today, and that they'd be willing to listen to what we have to say because of our lifestyle. And we thank you in Jesus' name, amen. All right, thank you. th th th th