We talked about patriarchy in a very big general sort of way last week All right The ultimate point of everything last week was that Well, there's two points really. One is that patriarchy is just baked into the world. You can't really get away from this mediated authority system. It's never just you. It's like there's always somebody beneath you, or between you. Thankfully, for most of us, most of the time, that's just the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, it's nobody else. And that's good. In our spiritual lives, it's you, God and his word and that's who's responsible so You know that I don't I don't want to put more barriers in there. It's not Basically even though I can tell you what's right. I can't tell you what to believe or how Although I mean I could you know I can tell you that I believe you're wrong I can show you in Scripture why you're wrong, but I I don't have a right to say, well, we'll take a, the example from Paul's day is that, okay, so Corinthians, Corinthian church, Corinth is a very evil place, okay? I mean, there's actually a Greek word, which means to play the Corinthian, and it means to be the most degenerate person around. You know, to just, you know, I mean, it's like, You're just that bad anyway So and he's writing to a church there in fact, we've got two of the three letters at least that he wrote to that church But they're dealing with a problem that is a little bit weird because honestly the cheapest The cheapest meat in the market, sometimes the higher quality meat, too, was the meat that had already been sacrificed to one of the gods there. You know, they sacrifice it, they burn off some small fraction of it to the Greek gods or Roman gods or whomever, and then they offer the rest at a discount in the market. And that's the meat that everybody kind of walks to if you're not. Seriously very hardcore Where it came from and so there are people you know a lot of people in the church are like Well, who cares where we bought it from who cares who it was? Dedicated to because you know we know God made everything and you know they're not anything those gods so who cares we took advantage of the discount and That's right, I mean, you know, you know, who cares that, you know, I don't know, honestly, I've gone to fish fries, you know, at a Catholic church sometimes because I really wanted fish. And I didn't really care much about their theology at that point, you know, it's just like, yeah, it's fish. And I like fish, so that kind of thing. But then there's another contingent in the church that says, dare you, sir. I mean, you know, you, it's like you're worshiping that God yourself because you took the food that was dedicated to that God, sacrificed to that God and you ate it. So you're just as bad as they are. Wow. Idolatry. You know, let's, let's, let's round up the elders. Let's talk about, you know, kicking you out of here. That's, you know, both, you know, I I honestly, I'm I'm kind of a Pharisee. I tend to be pretty hardcore about things unless they're my problems and uh so, I'll you know, I I'm probably if I've been in that church, I would have sided with the people who are like, you know, stone them. Well, not, you know, you can't get away with that legally even in his day but you know, you know, tell them that they're committing No, it doesn't matter. It really, really doesn't matter. We all know that those gods are nothing. However, and this is something weird that kind of crept into the church. Again, this is one of those things you just don't see much in other religions, if at all. Because Paul basically says, if this isn't directly connected, To you know, you know god's law godly teaching right doctrine if it's not directly connected to that You can do whatever your conscience will let you get away with But you have to follow your conscience and that's kind of strange you're like well you just said it was nothing so We should always taking advantage of the discount. Oh, it says yes, but if that still says, no, I feel like I'm committing idolatry by eating this, then you shouldn't eat it. Because for you, it will be idolatry. And it's like, wait a minute, wait a minute. I thought, you know, that sounds like a very subjective view of the truth here. And I thought we were against that. But, you know, isn't truth truth? Isn't, you know, it's yes or no. Come on, Paul, what is it? And basically what he says is, that's when he says that all things are lawful, but all things aren't profitable. You know, yeah, we can get away with just about anything that God didn't directly decree about. You know, the Ten Commandments, you're stuck with those. You know, things like that, you know, places in the scriptures where God has clearly stated what he wants out of people, what he desires, what the truth is, those, you're responsible for those. that the stuff that you don't really know where it falls, it's you, God, and your conscience, and that's it. And he said, but the thing is, that means that in a church, there's gonna be what he calls weaker people and stronger people. The weaker people are the ones whose consciences are very powerful in their lives, who just, I just can't eat that stuff because, like, you know, it's like sacrificing to the God, isn't it? Okay, well, you're a weaker brother. And he doesn't even say that, but he's not necessarily saying they have to be. He just said, look, at this stage of your growth in the Lord, you can only deal with so much. You know, God hasn't dealt with this with you yet. God hasn't taught you his grace in this area. So, you're kind of stuck with this and most importantly though, you are in the body with other people who think differently. So, the two of you need to recognize you are need to stop trying to run these people out of town on a rail, or out of your church on a rail, as it were. And okay, then he turns to the people who are strong, he considers, the ones who know that idols don't mean anything, and you might as well take advantage of the prizes. Paul says, but you guys, you shouldn't be doing it in front of them. You shouldn't be telling them, oh, you should be stronger, and waving it in their face. you know, have some love to each other. Recognize that you're all in different places. You know, I mean, sometimes, you know, the weaker brother is gonna say, it's not different places, it's right and wrong. But the thing is, if you can't bring up scriptural proof for that, you don't, you don't get to, you can't make that call. You can't go after them about it. You know, you need to have a scriptural backing. And when I say scriptural backing, I'm not saying you gotta find one of the commandments in Moses' law about this. Sometimes it's more of a trend. Another example would be, Jesus said that anyone who looks upon a woman with lust in his heart has committed adultery in his heart with her. Legit, obviously, Jesus said it, so of course we believe it, right? But is that a principle that extends at all? Well, I'm not looking at a woman who watched after her, but I am watching the movie she was in, where she kind of shows everything. And yeah, I mean, I don't think I'm having entirely godly feelings about that, but again, you said look at the woman, not look at the digital copy of the woman that's playing on my TV. Okay, well see, you're the one now, splitting hairs. Because it's obvious there's a scriptural principle here. You don't look at anybody other than your wife with those feelings. And if you do, you have a sin to deal with, and it's real. So I guess what I'm saying is sometimes you can point to a direct verse that says, hey, you shouldn't do that. And sometimes you have to say, there's a scriptural principle in play that you shouldn't do that. You've got an argument. You've got to kind of hash this out. Ultimately, though, everybody is responsible for their own carrying out of God's will and God's commandments. We have a name for that in adaptive scriptures, self-confidence. I always forget what it is. Self-confidence, it's basically, you know, you're responsible for the things in your own life, the things that nobody knows that they're happening, you know, in your house, and the things that, you know, the things that you that nobody's really ruled on. In Baptist churches, it's funny because alcohol was a really big deal in a lot of the Baptist churches, especially, I mean, it was true before Prohibition, but Prohibition just really cemented it. And everybody thinks of, I mean, a lot, not everybody anymore, but there was a time when I was growing up, if you were Baptist, what it meant is, oh, you guys don't drink and you guys don't dance. It's funny because when I think of Baptists, you know, I think of, you know, you dump people all the way when you're baptizing them, and you only do this with people who are old enough to make the profession of faith. That's the Baptist distinctive in my mind, one of them. But yeah, for these other people, it's like, no, it's your actions. And every Baptist church I ever went to usually had something in their constitution that said, look, we're going to come at you if you're drinking alcohol. Which is the weirdest thing in the world because, you know, how do you deal with all these passages of scripture where godly people are drinking things that are clearly alcoholic? Solomon even says that sometimes that's just a bad thing. Jesus made the best wine that came out at the end of the wedding at Canaan. You know? I mean, you know, they had, they typically had the good wine first at a wedding because then everybody would get enough of that that they wouldn't necessarily notice that, you know, the quality was dropping. You know, everybody's having a really good time. Everybody's, you know, drunkenness is a sin, but drinking is not in Scripture. It definitely is not. And at weddings back then, yeah, they would save the worst one for the last because, you know, again, people, they don't know at that point. They're like, well, it was pretty good, you know, because they're a little tipsy already. They're kind of, You know, they don't, they're not being quite as, I don't know, their palate has not been as refined since they had the good wine earlier. But hey, that's what was surprising to them about when Jesus told those servants, besides the fact that the wine just came, you know, that he turned water into wine, besides that, the people who didn't hear about the miracle, but did know that the wine had been brought out by Jesus, or been brought out at all, I should say, you know, they went to the guy in charge of the feast and said, all right, you do everything differently around here, right? Because this is the best, you know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not wasted at all. And you, you save the best wine for last. So Jesus actually cared about the quality of alcoholic beverage that he produced miraculously. Do you think that Jesus really had a problem with drinking? Anybody? Obvious right answer here. That's your question. He didn't care. You know, that's, you know, he didn't see a problem with it. And that's, again, that's just, it's so obvious. There's a lot of warnings against drunkenness and a lot of things saying, hey, it's wine, enjoy it. But you know, what do you do with these passages? But the Baptists were just like, I don't know, for some reason, they drew the line way up here, way, you know, they're holier than God, apparently, as far as this one thing goes. That's nuts. Anyway. That train of thought winds around so much, I don't know where it came from anymore. Oh well, point is, you're responsible for You're responsible for your relationship with God, personally. So, you know, while the pastor, as the shepherd of the flock, needs to keep an eye on you, he's not micro-managing your spiritual life, right? He's not sitting on your shoulder going, well, did you go to the Bible today? He'd like to use you because, you know, you're a relative, but everybody else, no. Alright, but moving on finally Yeah, we created man and woman meet creating created them very differently and it's not just Let's just be honest if you're if you haven't figured this out by now. Well, you need to think about it pretty hard men and women are not equals in almost any way and That's a good thing They're really differently skilled and And this is not to say, you know, God does not go to extremes. This is not to say that a man can't nurture and a woman can't lead. It's just, you know, it's impossible. It's not saying that. You know, I think that there are probably women who, if they had to lead a church, they'd be capable of it. But the law says no. Paul is very clear on that point. Paul says women don't lead. And people think frequently when they're faced with that clear statement in First Timothy, if I remember correctly, people say, well, maybe that was a cultural thing because, you know, the women weren't educated back then. So that's maybe why he was saying that because, you know, you don't want somebody who's not qualified. So he's basically saying until The women kind of get up to speed until equality really sets in here. Yeah, women probably shouldn't teach, but it's temporary. That is far and away the number one argument I've heard for saying the poll didn't really And the fact is, you see, what that ignores is that Paul gives you the exact reason he said that in the very next verse. And it's not that. The problem is that nobody likes his answer. Nobody likes his reason. Because his reason is, because man wasn't deceived first, woman was. Look at Adam and Eve, throwing this out there. And honestly, even when I read that, even now in my life, I read it and I think, you can't blame everybody for it. You can't blame every woman out there for what you did. It's funny, though, I believe the Holy Spirit inspired those words, and I think I'm arguing with God at that point. You can't do that. That's a bad idea, by the way. I do not recommend telling God what he should have written in his book. He's kind of a picky author. But that's Paul's reasoning. And you've got to figure out what you want to do with that. I'm not going to get into it any further personally, but you've got to figure out how you're going to deal with stuff like that. But clearly, all through the Old and New Testament, men and women have different roles. In Judges? Who here's read Judges? You should. It's an awesome book. We've got all the classic Sunday school ones, like Samson and Delilah and stuff like that. But there's one that's really interesting. It's about Barak. He's the general of Israel, and they're taking on the Aramean, if I remember correctly. And they're coming against him, and they're outnumbered, and they're surely gonna die, the Israelites are. And Barak's like, okay, and the one person who actually as God's ear, so to speak, can give his messages. The one prophet that's kind of in the area at this point is a woman, which happens, named Deborah. And so, Barak goes to Deborah and says, is it worth it? What are we doing here? And she said, oh, yeah, you're gonna trounce them. You're gonna beat them six ways from Sunday. This is nothing. Go out and win. Well, Barak, a little bit scared about whether or not he has actually God's, you know, he doesn't really know for sure if God is on his side. He doesn't really trust her word without her being there. He's like, well, he'll definitely be on our side if you're with us, because you're his prophet, right? So he said, I'm not going to go out there and fight them unless you're right there with me. And Deborah says, okay, scary cat, I'll go. But the bad news is that you're not going to get the credit for the best part of the battle. You're not going to get the credit for actually the win. But I guess Brock shrugged it off. And they went on to, yeah, they killed him and chased him off. The general of the other side, He was running away, and he made it into a tent, and there's a woman there, and it sounds like he may have known her. They were probably up in the north part of Israel, and so they kind of had dealings with both sides a little bit. So he ran in there, and her husband's away. I think her husband was probably with the Israelites fighting against his people. She didn't mention that. So he goes in there, and he's just like, will you help me? They're all coming up to me. There's like thousands of men trying to track me down out here, and I gotta get away. And she's like, oh, yeah, sure, I'll help you. You know, he lays down on his bed for him. She's like, here, you know, hide under the blanket. I'll get you some milk to drink. And, you know, why don't you take a nap? Because you just, you look terrible, man. And, you know, I'll take care of everything else. Go ahead. And he trusts her and goes to sleep. And she goes and grabs one of the 10 pegs and a hammer, puts it over his head, and slams it home. He got the credit for the win. And Debra was like, see, that's not how it could have been. In a way, that's not how it should have been. Obviously, ultimately, it is the way God willed it, because that's what happens is God's will. But if you'd been obedient, Brock, You would have had this great epic battle and you want to kill them in front of everybody and you'd be this great general and everybody Be like whoo far off and the Lord's with him, but they weren't And this you know and this guy got the ultimate humiliation that the other side's general had the ultimate humiliation of course It was after he was dead He was killed by a woman Anyway so I But people have roles, and it's when they step outside of them that things get a little iffy. Again, sometimes you have to. Like, you know, Deborah, she was put in this position. Is she gonna say no? I mean, she's looking at Barack. I mean, it's like Barack doesn't really have what it takes to lead. He's scared, and he's leading an army. If you're a general of an army defending your people, you really can't be squeamish. You gotta defend the border no matter what. Put your life on the line, man. That's what you do as a soldier. Put your bodies, as the Star-Spangled Banner says, between their loved homes and the war's desolation. That's not the main verse, that's one of the later verses. That's a really good book. Song, anyway. That's the kind of soldier you're supposed to be, and he wasn't it. And so she had to step up and do it. And that, you know, again, God was with them on that because sometimes, yeah, you gotta kind of cross the line and play the other game. You know, sometimes a man has a man and his wife, they have children, and then the wife dies. And he is left in both roles in some respects. You know, yeah, his mom might take care of them while he's working and stuff like that. But the fact is, he's got to learn to be the hard way, both the nurturer and, you know, maintainer of the home for these kids and their leader and primary teacher and the one who takes them to Christ in the end. I mean, and he's got both roles, and that's hard, that's really hard, but sometimes it happens. So again, I don't want you to have too rigid of an idea of this, but the fact is, generally speaking, yeah, men do man things and women do woman things. And that's, there's not, biggest lie I think that feminism has kind of sold us is that there's less and less happiness and less good that comes out of doing a woman's thing. You know, the fact is, I mean, you know, if you ever read things in the Bible that are written about women, I'm thinking Proverbs 31, I'm thinking the Song of Songs, which is, by the way, I highly recommend reading that book. If you haven't read the Song of Solomon, you really need to. It's weird. It's something you can't read in public. It's very straightforward about a man and a woman in some ways. If you have just a little bit of poet in your soul, you can even see deeper into ways that it's like, good heavens, this is almost dirty. God, are you sure you wanted this in here? But he did. I'm gonna talk about that next spring, hopefully, and then foresee. And I'm gonna shock everybody in there you're gonna throw me out or Okay, so And what is a meaning you know oh boy who was it? Basically said, if you gave me a long enough lever, I'd move the world. I just need a long enough lever and a fulcrum to rest it on, and I can move the world. That's true, technically, physically, right? I mean, that's actually how simple machines work. But in our world, men are the lever, but we can't work without a fulcrum. We need a base. coming out from which we get our strength that gives us a reason and a purpose for doing what we do. Why are men fighting for their country in the Bible or in the modern day? Because they have something to fight for. You know, they've taken this idea of fighting for their family, because of course they would defend their family. If somebody came across his property line with the intent of taking his stuff and killing his family and stuff, of course he'd step up, right? Hopefully. And he just took that one step further. We're all banding together to make that pledge about all of our families, that we're all gonna be a band of men together As an army if you will our militia or whatever Guarding all of our families against the oncoming threat, and that's a natural state of things in the world Well, why do they do it because there's something to defend? because and what gives The good that is at home because they know their children are taken care of. They know they have a home to go back to. They know that they're going to go back and their soul is going to be healed from the terrible things of war by the love and comfort that their wives give them. That's what keeps them coming back. It's not, it's not high ideals. You know, High ideals don't really matter when you, you know, when the German is over the, you know, is standing over you in the trench with a bayonet in your face. You know, generally speaking, you're not sitting there going, you know, America, woo! You know. You know, I mean, what you're thinking is, I just want to go home. But that might be enough to cause you to do amazing things to get out of that situation. All right, we can rebel against the roles that God put into creation, or we can over-emphasize them. Hey, it's like everything. There's two ditches, one on either side. I'll bet you, any of you who've been through anything has ever done, has heard about, you know, he always describes things as a road with two ditches, right? Anybody heard that before from him? You guys haven't? I'm amazed, because I feel like he's talking to me about that every week. Maybe he means something. The idea is that there's, you know, there's opposite extremes you can easily go to that kind of wreck the whole thing. With him it's usually legalism and licentiousness. In other words, You're either so about the law that, you know, you threw grace out the window ages ago, or you're so about, you know, grace and how it makes you able to do anything you want to do that you don't even care to obey. And that's okay. Jesus gave me a blood check. Yeah. And those are the two ditches on either side of the road. You got to, you got to dodge both. You got to stay There's two ditches on the sides of this road too. What happens when you rebel against traditional roles and traditional, you know, the things that God put into creation as far as men and women go? What do we call it now? Who trumpets these things more than anybody? If you had to give them sort of a class name, philosophy name. I ask the worst questions, really. Feminists. Yeah, I'm sorry. I never, I don't know how to lead you there. My communication skills are terrible. Feminists. Feminists are the ones who overcorrect on the one side, and say that this is all messed up. This is men keeping us down. This is patriarchy. It is patriarchy. It's not men keeping you down, but it is patriarchy, yes. We need to reclaim that one, honestly. It's a good word. I mean, God's our father. You don't have to say God's your mother. God is not beyond gender, by the way. He plans things, and he does them. That's the definition of a man. The Holy Spirit is probably the closest thing, maybe, to a feminine ideal, but I wouldn't even, the Holy Spirit's not even really feminine, because the Holy Spirit is the one pushing his way into your heart, changing it on his own time, under his own terms and his own power, and making you a new creation in Christ, So even the Holy Spirit of the three persons isn't very feminine. But he does kind of have a nurturing quality, let's say. But the Father is nothing like that. C.S. Lewis, I love the way he put it. He said, there's something so masculine that we're all feminine compared to it. And that thing is God. He's very, you know, and this is why we talk about Jesus in the church. Jesus sees the church as his bride marrying the church. That's a theme that just comes back over and over again in the New Testament. Because Jesus is the one who does things, he accomplishes them, he makes goals and he sets forth to do them. And he expects us to love him and to serve him and to form a base of peace and righteousness from which he acts to do these things. Especially, again, when you're a man and you're told, yeah, you're part of this feminine group. I mean, it's great, you know, but it makes sense, theologically. All right, so if you're gonna rebel against God's patriarchy, then that's kind of it. You've gone over. Feminism, you know, says that's not fair. I can do, you know, anything you can do, I can do better from, and you get your good. Oh, you know what I talked about? Yay! Yay! Somebody recognizes a reference on you. Yeah, yeah. It's a great song. I sang it when I was a little kid. Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you. No, you can't. Yes, I can. Anyway. Oh, God. I just keep forgetting I'm recording. Okay That you know that that's that's feminism as opposed to thing, you know, we don't even need man, you know Yeah, you know men are toxic men men make problems everywhere they go Some of them never marry some of them I Because that's where feminism lands you at the end is like well, I just don't have any use for men at all I mean, I'm gonna just I'm just gonna turn sexuality on its head and I'm gonna be with a woman I Agree We can't be against something just because of the effect Seriously, I mean yeah, yeah, and I thought about this a lot. You know what I'm dealing with people who are actually Homosexuals and lesbians or whatever or trans good heavens. I mean that's good to be a real thing now You know you can't be coming at them from the effect That's the thing though, but if deep down that's your biggest problem with it, that's gonna come out. You're just gonna be like, weird. Yuck. And you gotta have more of a reason for that. You gotta understand that God has a natural law. It's that stamp that he put on the whole creation when he made it. You just keep talking. which I usually will put up with, but good heavens, you. Anyway, yeah. All right, getting past that. Okay, so what's the opposite of feminism? You guys have to be able to figure this one out. If you fall into the other ditch, if you're just way too patriarchal, shall we say. Give me an example of that, somebody. Well, see, feminism says that masculinity is toxic. Oh, but you're saying it could be really toxic and turn into that. Do you have an example? Can you think of something in recent history that just really plays into that? You know those guys on Instagram that do the podcast? Like Andrew Tate? They sit there. What woman needs to be put in her place? You know, honestly, okay, the red pill. That's what you're talking about. I think that they're over correcting a little bit to try and throw feminism over Without but they don't have a basis for it. I mean, you know when you're godless you don't have any room to complain about somebody else's rejection of God's principles because you're like Well, yeah, but what do you, you know, why are you saying this stuff? And their reasons are largely evolutionary and largely, you know, it's just, well, obviously, better for the community. Okay, nice, great, thanks, buddy. Thank you for playing and get off the stage. You know, I'm thinking of people, though, who, yeah, you've got a point there. I think you've got a point. News in last few years, that's really good big thing. I've seen their show at TLC You Wow, okay. Believe me. I didn't think about that. Okay. I totally didn't think about this or what? So I didn't yeah that didn't enter my mind that somebody would ever say that I'm sorry I love it when I'm surprised. I love being surprised They have a show that everybody's talking about. Oh, golly. Yeah, but that's the thing. They flip the other way, too. They kind of, you know, I mean, the Swinger cult and the Swinger group and the Mormon. Yeah. Anyway, never mind. Boy, I didn't think I'd have to deal with any of this stuff. I thought everybody would just get this. It's the Duggars, people. Come on. 19 kids and counting. The Duggars? Yes. You know who I'm talking about? You don't know who the Duggars are? Have you, do you never go shopping and see them on magazine covers? I know who they are and I don't, I hardly watch Salomish kids. Except for Better Call Saul. This is a really Better Call Saul. Okay, well anyway, you can research that on your own time. Real quick. The Duggars are into the theology of a group called the Institute of Basic Life Principles. It was started and run for most of its run by a guy named Bill Gothard, who never married, lived with his mother until she died, if I remember correctly. They go too far in the other direction. And they, you know, they're, it's hard to describe exactly what's wrong with them, but it's just cold-blooded. I mean, again, if you've ever seen their interviews, if you haven't, the interviews are the ones coming out. They start with J. Oh wait, they all do. Yeah, but the oldest couple of them have gotten away from the family and really distanced themselves from the family and from the theology. And the one whose husband was a missionary and they went to be missionary someplace, those two, actually, they're pretty interesting to listen to because it sounds like they actually settled in a good place. But yeah, everything else was very cult-like. And what is a cult, by the way? Real quick, and then we're gonna end it. How would you define a cult? Yeah, usually it is one leader. Sometimes it's a little bit shaken up, like NXIVM had, you know, you've got David Reverneer way up here, but then you had the people underneath him, Allison Mack, Nancy Wiltshire, I don't remember, anyway. Sorry, I did watch that documentary. Huh? It's a religious group. Tends to be. That has a Well, I'll tell you what the world's definition is and I'll tell you what Christianity is slightly different take on it is but it's largely The world would basically say a cult is any high-demand religion. High-demand meaning they want something unreasonable out of you. You give your lives, you give all your money, you turn your willpower over to us, all the women have to sleep with the leader, that kind of thing. But that's not quite all of them. I mean, honestly. became a Christian, and whenever anybody ever accuses of being a cult, the leader, who I knew personally, would always say, well, this is a terrible cult if it's a cult, because where's the money and where's the women? And he was kidding, because that was his argument for why they're not a cult. But Christianity has a slightly bigger take on it. It's any religious group that is breaking away from the Orthodox faith. You know the faith that comes from Scripture on essential doctrines like saved by grace You know that kind of thing the Trinity But that results then in a high demand religion on one side or total lawlessness on the other because some cults are are all about the anarchy. Some cults are about, woo, free love, woo. They're hippie commies, basically. And sometimes it's a combination of the two. The low-ranking people, it's always like, no, no, no, no, no. We don't have sex anymore because sex, that's an evil thing that you shouldn't do. But you get up into the higher ranks and you find out, actually, I mean, we have our papal people. Anyway, so, but yeah, Christianity says it's a high demand religion, but it's high demand religion that came out of a perversion of the Christian faith. That's a cult. Oh, yeah, Mormons would count though, obviously. And polygamy is the direct result of that. Yeah, absolutely. And you know, they can say all they want. be a state without it. You knew that they would never vote. You know, Congress would never let them in as a state unless they suddenly, their prophets suddenly had revelations. God told us that polygamy is wrong. Finally, he gave us some clear guidance on this. So, we don't do that anymore. And that's why they all went underground and we have now fundamentalist groups that are everywhere that are polygamous. All right, anyway, that's, all right, well, next time we're gonna get a bit more into masculine and feminine roles, but it's how they play out in different places, like with God and with us. And pretty soon we're getting into something I really like to talk about, which is, you know, what is our responsibility in politics? Anyway, hopefully we'll get there. Anyway, any comments or questions? That was really yet another very long, very fast talk on my part, and I'm sorry. You guys gotta tell me. I really, I do have a great deal of respect for all of you, and if somebody tells me this is not working, I'm not getting this, I will change. I know the material, but I don't know if I'm getting it across. All right, you're dismissed. Go be part of worship.