chapter 18 Jeremiah chapter 18 stay with the other children okay will you all right Jeremiah chapter 18 the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying arise and go down to the potter's house and there I will cause thee to hear my words then I will then I went down to the potter's house and behold he wrote a work on the on the wheel and the wheel that he made of clay was marred in the hands of the potter so he made it again another vessel has seemed good to the potter to make it let's pray heavily father thank you lord that you are the potter and we are the clay thank you lord he's still working on me still working on my brothers and sisters thank you lord in jesus name amen you may be seated so we continue with our theme for the year at the cross road we need to look of the crossroads let's look at our panel over there this is most humanity right there Every day, you find yourself right there in the crossroad. Where am I going, left or right? Some crossroads are easy, because you can just make a little decision and spare the moment. Others are very, very hard to do. And sometimes we need help for those. Otherwise, we're going to make horrendous mistakes. Today, we're going to look, or this morning, go to the potter's house. Go to the potter's house. And that's what our our Lord says right here in Jeremiah chapter 18 go down to the potter's house God says to Jeremiah so if you are in your Christian walk did you ever stop at a crossroad I believe all of us have done or been there a lot there and before making a decision to which you should go did you turn and walk to the potter's house did you say you know what I don't know what to do I'm going to God's house. I'm going to see what God has to say about this, because honestly, I don't know what to do. You ever been there? All of us been there. And sometimes you come to the God's house and you go home and still don't have the answer. You say, Lord, you didn't speak to me this time. And God says to you and me, go to the potter's house again and again and again. That's some of us. That's all of us at one time. the other you may say pastor why the potter's house why should I go there well if you have any knowledge or any understanding about a potter and what he does you will you want to get there by the way do you ever see did you ever see a man working clay you ever see it all right you need to go to Massachusetts where does that place call Oh, there's a place in Massachusetts. All America is there. You're going to see somebody there play the clay. What is that place called? Plymouth Plantation. Not Plymouth Plantation. It's a different name. That's in Plymouth, Massachusetts. You know, I get the name. It will come to me, OK? Right now? But anyway, I had a privilege to see, when I live in Portugal, many people, actually in the islands, in Sao Michael, it's a very traditional art, seeing somebody doing that. They make little things, big things, small things. You ask them what to make, and they create it for you. And I saw that. And it's amazing what they do with clay and water and their hands and some little tools that they have. Beautiful art that they make. Well, think about it. in the Bible God says go to the potter's house who's the potter here who's the clay okay so so sometimes it's better to stop at the potter's house before we get to a crossroad of decision Now get this, all this evolves a decision in your part. When you get to a crossroad, you either stay there and say, let me go to the potter's house before I'll go to the left or the right. Or we can just go left or right without even thinking about it. Just take a moment to think about how many time, how many different decisions do you have to make just to get to church this morning? All right, you took a shower this morning, or maybe you took a bath this morning, or maybe you took nothing. What to wear? You walk in the closet, if you had a closet, did you try many many more? What shoes should I put on today? What shoes should I wear? Am I going to have breakfast? Am I going to have coffee? Am I going to have tea? Am I going to have water? Which car should I drive? This car or that car? Should I drive a bicycle to church? Should I walk to church? So, what to do with kids if you have kids? What do they should wear? Which path should I take to go to church? This street, that street, many lights, this street, so here's a whole bunch of decisions before you got to church this morning. So each day we are confronted with hundreds of decisions. Some of the choices that we make on our daily basis are very little or have little impact in our lives. Others obviously can change the course of our lives. Other choices can significantly change the course of your life and my life. For example, for a teenager, what school should I go? What girls should I date? What college should I go? What career do I want? Also, big decisions that will impact their lives. What friends should I hang up with? Is this a good friend? Is this a bad friend? Is this guy going to do me good or do me bad? You know what? I had to make the same decisions. All of us had to make those decisions, too. You know what? Because they come, even today, grownups. Should I hang out with these people? Should I excuse these people? Should I answer this phone call? Should I answer that phone call? Should I go to the store? Should I stay home? as older the older you get you don't want to stay home more than you want to go to the store but anyway but you see what i'm saying here is the all those decisions that we do every day so get this our lives are filled with decisions what to wear what to eat where to go what to do what to say what to buy so the most critical of all of our decisions is about Jesus Christ What should I do with Jesus? Should I ignore Jesus? Should I ignore His word? Should I ignore the Bible? Should I deny the Bible? Or should I accept the Bible? Should I accept Jesus as my Savior? These are all decisions we have to make. By the way, this decision about Jesus will impact not only this life, but the life to come. You say, well, you don't... No, it is. The Bible says a decision about Jesus will impact this life, your life here, it will impact the life to come. So let me give you an example. One of my favorite stories in the entire Word of God is the book of Ruth. The story of Naomi and her husband, Limelech, they moved to the land of Moab, which they intend that they could stay there just for a while. But while they were outside of the will of God, outside the land of promise, Naomi's husband died and her two sons, the whole family died. And in no time Naomi lost her husband and her two sons and now she's left by herself with two daughter-in-laws. She goes back to Bethlehem to the house of bread. You see they left the house of bread seeking bread and now they return to the house of bread looking for bread. When she returns, she does with a bitter heart. That was a decision. It's obvious that the pain of losing her loved ones was dominating her heart and mind, causing bitterness. How many people this morning, as I'm speaking, are at a crossroad of bitterness? They can't move out of it. And if you try to talk them out of it, they say, you don't understand. what I'm going through what somebody did to me or this situation that I've been through you do not understand you know to be honest with you I do don't understand but God does God understands but I don't and sometimes he can explain to you and you still don't understand but God does see bitterness is like cancer it goes through your roots of you like your veins they eat you up it takes the joy out of you the happiness out of you sucks everything else Naomi went back home full of bitterness she crossed that crossroad she didn't consult with God and she allowed bitterness to eat her up she went back to the house of bread full of bitterness actually this is what she says don't call me Naomi anymore call me Mara she said don't call me naomi naomi means pleasant but call me maro in root chapter 1 verse 20 she says this word and she said unto them call me call me na naomi call me maro for the almighty had dealt very bitterly with me here's what she's doing she blamed god for her bitterness There are many people that do that. Their child dies, a loved one passes away, and instead of their understanding and accepting what God does, even, listen, there are many things in our lives that we don't have an answer for. Right? There are many things in your life, in my life, and if you ask me, I would say, I don't have the answer, I don't know. God does things that we don't understand. You know what? Naomi did not accept that, and she blames God for it. And she said, come tomorrow. She went through that crossroads and she was blaming God all the way. Don't blame God. Don't blame God. This is a brand new year that we just started, isn't it? But for us to start a new year, I believe we must go to the potter's house. so we can learn and be mold by the potter. You see, the clay sometimes, the potter works the clay. And if there's lumps in the clay, the potter removes the clay to make a fine product. Naomi had a lump of bitterness that needed to be removed. so let's look at this message this morning that I have for you the Lord lay in my heart about go to the potter's house number one if you follow want to follow the outline is out here on the screen so you can follow you right there is right there in your bulletin there is a printout the purpose for the potter's request look what it says in verse 2 arise I mean get up and go down walk there to the potter's house and there I will cause thee to hear my words see here's the request go to my house go to the potter's house and once you're there you're going to hear my words think with me of what the potter have in his hands it is clay of all the things that God can compare us to he compare you and me to clay some people think that is an insult to be compared to sheep what about being compared to a piece of clay know God gets away with all this stuff not us we even sing we I mean we even sing it have thy own way Lord have thy own way listen to this thou art the I am the mold me and make me after while I am waiting You know the song. You see, we sing it. But if I say to you, John, you're just a piece of clay. He goes, excuse me? You want to get like as guards up? And you're like, what did you say? Right Peter? Good. What is it? You know what? That's what we do. But God, God gets His way. He goes like, you guys are not a piece of clay. You know what? And actually it's true. How did God form the first man? out of the dust of the ground you don't understand when i die i'm going to tell god what he needs to hear no you are not you will bow the knee and will confess who he is he is the king of kings and the lord of lords your creator as you believe it or not so the purpose of the part is request let the reality of who we are What is clay? Clay, in my own words, is a glorified lump of earth. That's what clay is. Listen please, this is not even an analogy right here. This is not even a comparison. This is not even a metaphor. This is not a make-believe. This is who we are. This is the reality of our beginning. Don't we say from dust to dust? What do you say when people die? Why don't we say it? ashes ashes whatever that goes uh yeah we say right because we know the reality of it i'm not saying that you're not should not live your life and enjoy the life that god gives you please don't don't think that way all right god gives us life enjoy life and oh but in reality let's think about who we are as human beings see god stepped in heathen grabbed a lump of earth shape the earth and and and then into a in that lump of dirt you blow into this nauseous and man became a living soul wow makes a good movie right it's a piece of dirt shape it up boom who am i i'm just kind of kidding here but folks let me put it this way evolution is not a reality is a theory I feel bad for people that believe in evolution. We've been around for 200 million years. Really? Prove me. You were there? Oh, no. No, I was not. Oh, God was there in the beginning. And the Bible tells step by step when the earth was created. Let me blow your mind this morning. How old do you think the earth is? Go ahead, anybody. You don't mean 250 million years? said about 6 000 thank you folks evolution doesn't have this right at all it didn't take millions of years for man to become who he is first of all let me put it this way we came from a cell somewhere where the cell came from came from another cell where the other cell came from i can keep asking the same question he come to a point oh i don't know you see God created kept on going but to say that you listen big bang theory nothing happens out of nothing right by the way the gorillas still grilling in the trees oh my goodness whatever they are oh goodness folks We definitely came from dirt. That's the way God made us. Now think with me for a second. How would we look like? How would we be? And how would we be our shape if we would be in the hands of the partner? I don't care about what evolutionists say about this. I suspect that we will still be dirt to this day. We even say, when somebody dies, like Isaiah goes, I said, ashes to ashes and dust to dust. And that's the reality of who we are. Folks, without the hand of God and the breath of God, as much as we don't like to see it, you and I are nothing but a piece of clay. Listen, folks, I don't try to disrespect you here this morning and make you feel this small. I'm just trying to say the reality of who we are. Without the hand of the potter and the breath of the potter, you and I are absolutely nothing. when you find yourself on a crossroad instead of making an unwise decision on which way to go stop and go to the potter's house and the potter will mold you and make you in something beautiful and when you go back to the crossroad believe me you will make the right decision after you leave the potter's house but go to the potter's house he said he's going to speak you know what if you come to the potter's house this morning here's the word of the living god here's the word of the potter it's the word of god we don't want to say this you know what but in here have everything we need to live this life we don't need anything else we don't need social media we don't need facebook we don't need youtube we need the bible that's what we need I grew up before electricity. I know how it is. We had candlelight dinners every night. I grew up with no water at home, no heat. So how'd you survive? By the grace of God. We're here. How old are you? I'm 250 years old. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Sometimes we think we need all this stuff to live. No, we don't. I'm not against those things, I like them too, okay? So please understand that clay is just clay until the potter molds it and shapes it into a form. So when the potter gets hold of the clay, he have the ability to fashion to something beautiful as you are. Here's the question for you this morning. Are you moldable? That's the question. I can now answer that question for you. You see, the potter says right there, he saw the potter throw the clay to the side and pick up a new lump of clay. You know why? Because the other piece of clay was no good. It's right there in the verses. He picked up another piece of clay. I've seen that happen. When there's too much lumps in the clay, the potter looks at it, this thing is no good, and tears it away, picks up another one. There's no perfect clay, don't get me wrong here. but some clay that is pretty bad look what it says in psalm 100 verse 3 know ye that the Lord is God it is he that made us and we not ourselves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture so the purpose of the potter's request to go to his house number two the purpose of the potter's work look at verse three then I went down to the potter's house and behold he wrote a work on the wheel it's interesting clay a wheel a paddle and his hands in water and he makes something beautiful before the potter puts the clay on the wheel he inspects the condition of the clay to see if there's any impurity If the clay has impurities, they must be removed. Now, before you got saved, you were just a piece of clay. You were against God, full of impurities. Don't you glad you went to the potter's house and you received Him as your Savior. Isn't that great? But not just that. We, as His children, we still have impurities. And we need to go to the potter's house so the potter can remove one by one and make you better each day. is my thing don't go don't cross the crossroads without going to the potter's house go to the potter's house first and before you go across that crossroads you already know where you're going because the potter told you so I better walk half a mile with Jesus then walk 20 miles without Jesus I better take it slow and go the long way with Jesus than take shortcuts without Jesus. Our world don't want Jesus today. He's too boring. He's too antique. He's out of touch with reality. He does not understand me. No, he understands you more than you understand yourself. He knows your heart. He knows your mind. He knows what you're doing. But we put Jesus aside. What a society we live in today. A godless society. God has put out a public school. How sad reality. I went to school. We used to pray in school. My teacher said, take us to church. You say, we're in the world. Yes, we did. We went to church. Once a week on Fridays, we went to church with the teacher. What kind of teacher is that? One that loved us enough to take us to church. they say whatever happened in America don't say never it's we don't need God yes we do look at the crime rate in our world look at the disrespect that people have for their fellow men look at the words that put on social media towards people look at those things you say where's God in all this they don't have God with them they don't want God how sad there's no one you don't want to cry when you see this stuff and you go on social media I see this list people follow me I have no idea they are you know what they have these arguments with each other Christian people about silliness instead of putting silly arguments on social media put the gospel in there Some of you do and I, I praise the Lord every time I see it. And I do put likes in there. Because now I agree with you. The purpose of the potter's work. Letter A, to clean up impurities. God wants to clean you up. God wants to clean me up. Don't think you have arrived. Don't think I have done it all. You know, I don't need God. Yes, we do need the Lord. I mean part of this way, man was God's best creation. He loves you and loves me. But don't live your life like God does not exist. Because He does. Well, I don't believe it exists, regardless what you believe or not. It doesn't mean that He does not exist. Go outside, look at creation and tell me if it was an accident. You get up in the morning, you're still living. God's sustaining you. The universe still rotating. God sustained the universe. You say, well, no, no, that's mother nature. That's science. They're like, you know what? There's mother nature. There's also a father God. You see, the purpose of the potter's work, number three, the potter's problems look at verse 4 and the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hands of the potter so he made it again another vessel has seemed good to the potter to make it the potter had some clay in his hands and it was no good When the clay had impurities and air pockets, it is marred in the hands of the potter. In other words, the clay was not designed to come out the way the potter designed to. Actually, the word marred in verse 4, in Hebrew means destruction. In other words, the vessel is not good for anything except destruction. The vessel serves no productive purpose to the potter. Listen, please, when you're outside of the Word of God, you allow impurities and self-importance to premiere your life and you don't fulfill the purpose in which God has created us for. As a result of such actions, you become of no use for the potter. People outside of the will of God have no productive purpose for God. Doesn't mean they're not God's children. It means that God have no purpose for them. He has a purpose but because of the inclination, the direction God says I'm going to use you. The clay only purposes to be fashioned by the hands of the potter. He is the one who molds and shapes the clay. He's the one who creates the vessel for purposeful service. You see, one clay is too hard, too lumpy for the potter to work with it. The more you allow twigs and stones and leaves and all types of impurities to come into your life, the harder it is for the potter to work with you as a vessel. So there it is, the potter's problem. The potter's problem is the impurities that the clay have. And let me tell you, there's no pure clay here. There's none. Don't imagine yourself, look, I think I'm a nice piece of clay. No, you're not. No, you're not. You see, the clay has a purpose. God wants to fashion you. Number four, the purpose of the potter's pressure application. You must never thought this, but especially if you don't know that much about pottery, let me tell you that the potter's work and shapes the clay, he applies pressure. And that's when people have a problem. See, if he wants to make some wave on the thing that he builds, he puts pressure on it. And so it takes that shape that he puts on. I mean, I wish all of us would go to a potter's house and see the way it works. Very simple work. But he puts that pressure. Why? Because he wants you and I to be shaped into something beautiful. Here's the problem that we have. We don't like the pressure. We don't like the pressure. We complain about the pressure. so it takes time over and over again and we say we complain we murmur against God because too much pressure we can stand it in the meantime the pot is still working at the wheel still working still applying that pressure and he said to you and me let it go let it go let it go I want to make something beautiful out of you let it go let me tell you this What is the things in your life that you need to let go? So the pot can make something beautiful out of you and out of me. Bad friends, unhealthy friends, unhealthy places, behavior, words, what is the things that we need to get rid of it let the potter take out so we can make from us something like beautiful regardless you're already beautiful in the eyes of God don't get me wrong but he wants something make something beautiful out of you and let me tell you all of us have lumps that need to be removed and he applies pressure you see he tells Jeremiah go to the potter's house And Jeremiah is watching all this going on. If you're not saved here this morning, God wants to save you so He can work in you. So now, ironically many people don't like pressure. They don't like to be pressed at work. They don't like the pressure at home. They don't like to be pressed at all. Why? Because it's not a good feeling to be pressed. No one wants to be under the pressure cooking. Nobody wants to live under pressure. Listen what people say, I have to get away from this job because there's so much pressure here. I have to get away from this, this relationship because too much pressure here. I have to get away from this people because there's too much pressure here. I have to get away from, from to where people don't know who I am so I can alleviate myself from this pressure around me. So pressure, pressure, pressure, you know what? And the world goes along with you and says, yes, you're right. You know what? There's too much anxiety, too much this, too much that. If it makes you feel like this way, you forget the potter's house. And the potter says, sit at the wheel. Sit at the wheel. Let me make something beautiful out of you. But I'm going to apply pressure. And when I apply pressure, it's going to hurt. Listen, sometimes when you take a lump of clay, a lump out of the clay, it hurts. For an example, when I first got saved many years ago, I used to love to listen rock and roll. I used to jam that stuff. You know how painful it was to get rid of it? I'm talking about, I was a pastor. Listen, the Lord convict my heart to get rid of it. Nobody told me. Nobody said, get rid of this stuff. The Lord impressed on my heart and I said, okay, Lord, you want me to do this? I'm going to do that. You know how I did it? One at a time. One this. like this you're talking about the pieces of music then one day I had to put everything in a bag and said this is heavy because this is hurting too much you know it's like trying to pull a little piece in a little piece and you just get rid of the problem in one shot I had to learn the hard way see there's a lot of pieces of clay that we when the Lord applying the precious Lord let me just help you up and take this thing out of here But there's something we got, we put the hand and say, Lord, don't take it out. I like this too much. And the Lord said, I want to work in you. Listen, folks, people are trying to avoid pressure at all costs, but this is not the reality of life. Actually, I think that we do a disservice to the new generation by making them think that life is a picnic. Life's not a picnic at all, but full of different pressures. Listen, we need to tell the new generation, life is not fair. Life hurts. Life is full of problems and you have to go through it. You follow that? I mean, they're teaching these little kids, everything is wonderful. You know what? They go to college and don't even know how to read and write, many of them. How sad is that? I mean, listen, I'm not putting things up. I'm telling you the truth. You know what? We need to tell a new generation, life hurts. You know, this problem's got to be resolved. You need to be wise how to make your decision. You need to be wise what kind of friends you're going to get, what kind of relationships you're going to evolve yourself with. And we are the ones who got to teach them. Otherwise, who will? Somebody will. Tell them to go to the potter's house, but make sure you go there yourself. Number five. the purpose of the potter's patience. O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? Say the Lord, that's verse six, behold, as the clay is in the potter's hands, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel. if the hand produces pressure then the wheel produces patience think about how boring it is to be in a potter's vessel how exciting you think it is to go around and around and around in circles but that's what God does to us and let me work you out let me make something beautiful out of you listen I thank the Lord for his patience I think all of us here are the same way Thank you, Lord. You're so patient with me because I'm so stubborn. The Lord says, sit in the wheel. Sit in the wheel. Sit in the wheel. Okay, Lord. Two minutes later, why jump out of the wheel? Sit back in the wheel. Lord, I'm getting dizzy over here. I'm going around in circles. Be patient. I'm working on you. But Lord, I don't wanna go around in circles. You know, I got low blood pressure, I got dizzy. By nature, I'm not very patient, but thank Lord for your patient. Thank you, Lord, for your patient. Thank you, Lord, for the patient that you have with me. every single day. You might not be a person of a lot of patience, but praise the Lord for his patience. Listen to this, if the person at the drive-thru doesn't give us what we want immediately, we lose our cool because we don't have the patience to wait. If the iPhone doesn't change the page immediately, we get angry because of our lack of patience. I see people throw the phone across the rooms because it doesn't do what you want or doesn't move fast enough. No patience. Imagine if God was that way. Imagine if the potter was that way. He spin you around, you're too hard, garbage you go. Oh, praise the Lord is not like that. Praise the Lord that He doesn't throw me in the garbage, which He works in me and in you constantly. Try to take those impurities out of you and me. And you say, Lord, one second, Lord, you took this one, but I like this one. Put that one back on. No, no, no, put it there. And we do that all the time. If somebody doesn't drive you fast enough in front of you, only God knows what comes out of your mouth. philosophy of many people's minds is Lord I want patient but I want I want what I wrote in here I want patient but I want get it right now number six almost done the potters likes moldable clay the potter likes moldable clay there he goes look at verse six I already read that verse nobody is moldable But the question is, what way are you moldable? Some people are very moldable towards the ways of sin instead of the ways of God. The Bible tells us in Romans 12 that we are not allowed, not allow the world to squeeze us into its mold. You see, there's a lot of people who are moldable, but they are moldable to the wrong mold. They are moldable to the world, not to God. If the world says do this, they do that. If God says do this, mm-mm. You see? There's a part of, not God, there's the world. The world wants to squeeze you in, to make you think like they do, to make you talk like they do. When you go to work tomorrow, those of us who go to work tomorrow, and you mind your business and you're praising the Lord, you're going to hear the world around you. And you're going to hear their conversations much different than yours. Why? Because the world is molding them and God is molding you. See the difference? Some people are not in the same wheel that you are. Go to the potter's house. and learn from me. Pastor, the Bible is an old book. Praise the Lord is an old book. The Bible is out of date. No, you are out of date. The Bible have mistakes. No, you make mistakes, not the Bible. You know why? Because this is the words of our Creator. This is the words of the one who created everything that your eyes see. And this is the words of the one you will one day meet face to face. That's the words of our God. You'd be amazed what God can do with you and in you and through you if you go to the potter's house. Let me give you an example of people. Finney Crosby, she was in the hands of the potter. David was a king. He was in the hands of the potter. Joseph was in the hands of the potter. Daniel, a prisoner of war in Babylon, was in the hands of the potter. Listen folks, those people have nothing special in them that can make them better than anybody else, but they allow the potter to work in them and through them. And let me tell you, and I conclude with this, You might walking towards a crossroad right now. You might be at a crossroad right now. You might be dealing with a crossroad right now. But before you cross left or right, go to the potter's house, as God asked you and me to do. Go there. Sit on a wheel. Let God work in you. As he passed, I have no clue what you said this morning about potter and clay. Then go look for a pottery place and just think about what I said. Watch the person work the wheel for real, work the clay and make something beautiful out of that. You'll be fascinated about it. And that's what God wants to make out of you and out of me. Something fascinating, something beautiful. Let's go to the potter's house. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you, Lord, so much for your love and mercy. Thank you, Lord, for the wheel and for the hands of the potter. Thank you, Lord, that you continually are moving those lumps that don't belong in us. Thank you for that. In Jesus' name, amen. All right. If you could stand, please. We have a song of invitation this morning. I have no clue what it is, but we will sing something. Oops. Okay. Is You're All on the Altar, page 516. Page 516. You have longed for sweet peace and for faith to increase and have earnestly, fervently prayed. But you cannot have rest or be perfectly blessed until all on the altar is laid. Is you all on the altar of sacrifice laid Your heart does the spirit control You can only be blessed And have peace and sweet rest As you yield and put body and soul Bible says right here, present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God. Romans chapter 12 verse 1. Tell you what, we are the clay. We are in the hands of the potter. The potter wants to mold you, take the lumps, those bad lumps out of you and make something beautiful out of you. Here's the question that you have to ask yourself, am I moldable? Am I going to allow God to work in me? I cannot answer that question for you. You have to answer God for that. Maybe you've never been in the wheel, you've never received Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. What about making peace with Jesus? Confess your sin, your wrong, and accept Him as your Savior. Walking with Him on this earth is a wonderful thing. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you, Lord, so much. For the ponder, thank you, Lord, for the wheel. Help us, Lord, to be moldable. Help us, Lord, not to be stubborn as you spend us in a wheel and work with your hands. Lord, apply the pressure that we need and help us not to murmur and complain. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. We are dismissed before we leave. I just want to say, as of right now, we still have the service for tonight, but I'll be watching the weather. And if there's something that we need, I hate to cancel the service right now, but if the weather gets worse, I will make sure, watch online, watch on Facebook, watch us, or we get to you somewhere, somehow, we'll get to you. If there's no service, you don't hear anything. I mean, if there is service, you hear nothing from us. If there is no service, then we will somehow catch up to you, okay? So you don't have to get out of your house in the middle of a snowstorm, all right? You are dismissed.