Matthew chapter 22, verses 34 through 40. But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? And he said to him, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets. Let's pray. God, Thank you for your great love for us. God, thank you for loving us so much that you sent your Son to die for us, that you sent your Son Jesus to save us from our sins. God, we praise you that you were reconciling the world to yourself in Jesus Christ. And God, we praise you for our Savior, and we praise you for his teaching. God, I pray that as we study His words this morning, that You would help us to understand them and that You would transform us by them and that You would help us to see what it means to love God with all that we are and to love others as ourselves. These are the great commandments. I pray that you would help us to obey them. We pray this in Christ's name. Amen. Well, New Year's is a time for resolutions and fresh starts. It's a time when many of us take stock of the previous year and seek to make meaningful changes in the year ahead. Most of us focus on eating better, or exercising more, or losing weight, or paying off debts, or saving money, or creating an emergency fund. Some of us focus on spiritual resolutions. Some start plans to read the Bible. Some set aside specific times to pray. Others plan to get more involved in their local church. Each of these resolutions has merit. We are embodied creatures. Scripture does call us to care for our bodies and to avoid sins committed against our bodies. And we have been called to steward our finances. It's good to save and plan and give to the work of the Lord. And cultivating the disciplines of Bible reading and prayer are keys to Christian growth. These are worthy goals. And if you've resolved to do any of these things in 2025, I want to applaud you and encourage you to keep going. If you can make it through the second week in January, you can make it through the rest of the year. That's what the statistics say, okay? So just get through this next week and you will be well on your way to keeping your New Year's resolution. And yet, none of these things is more important than loving God and loving others. In Matthew 22, 40, Jesus said that the entire Old Testament, all the law and the prophets, that's shorthand for the whole Old Testament, all the law and the prophets, depend on loving God and loving others. It depends on these two commandments. The whole Old Testament is commanding us to love God with all that we are and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. There's no greater commandment. That's what Jesus is saying. There's no greater commandment in the Old Testament. There's no greater goal. There's no higher pursuit. Every verse, every chapter, every book in the Old Testament was breathed out by God through his servants to teach us to love him and to love our neighbor. Jesus' statements in Matthew 22 are sweeping and all-encompassing. They have the power to transform lives and ministries, and this glorious, overarching theme is picked up in the New Testament. In 1 Timothy 1-5, the Apostle Paul summarizes his ministry like this. The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. The goal of Paul's ministry, which he received from the Lord Jesus, was love for God and for the people he ministered to. That's what God had called him to do. That's what he says in 1 Timothy 1-5 as he describes his ministry. So this morning, we are going to return to our study of the love of God. And I want us to see the way that it is supposed to shape our lives. And my prayer is that Jesus' statements in Matthew 22, 37 through 40 would set the trajectory for this ministry in the year ahead. My prayer is that each of us would grow in our love for God and for others. And as we study this passage this morning, I want to look at three things. The first thing that I want to look at is the context, and we see that in verses 34 through 35. And the next thing that I want to look at is the question, the question that was posed to Jesus. Jesus was asked a question by a lawyer, by a religious scholar, and we see that in verse 36. And then I want to consider Jesus' answer. And we see Jesus' answer in verses 37 through 40. There are a lot of ways that we could approach this text. And there are a lot of questions that people have asked regarding this text and tried to find answers to. But this morning I just want to focus on what Jesus says are the greatest commands. on what Jesus says about the whole Old Testament. What it means for us. What does it mean to love God with all that we are? What does it mean to love others as ourselves? How do we obey these commands? That's what I want to focus on this morning. So we'll look at the surrounding context, we'll look at the question, and we will look at the answer that Jesus gives. So our passage begins with these statements. But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. As Matthew recounts Jesus' final interactions with the individuals who would eventually frame him and put him to death, it's clear that each word was carefully chosen to convey the mounting tension between Jesus and the Jewish establishment. These statements are filled with tantalizing details, and they call, they beg for further explanation. It says, the Sadducees had been silenced. That's notable. That's something you want to make note of. The Sadducees had been silenced. The wealthy, educated, influential aristocrats had been silenced by the blue-collar carpenter from Nazareth. That probably didn't go over very well. That was probably a massive blow to their pride. And then, he says, when the Pharisees heard about this, when they had heard what had happened, they gathered together and they hatched their own plan to discredit Jesus. This was their opportunity. It was a golden opportunity to shame Jesus into obscurity. This was their opportunity to prove that they were better than their arch rivals, the Sadducees. So they send a delegation. They send an expert in the Mosaic law. They send the best and the brightest with the ultimate gotcha question, and we'll talk about that in a little bit, to stump Jesus and to make him look silly. These statements reference the events that preceded this interaction, and they set the stage for what follows. They set the stage for Jesus' answer about what the greatest commandment is. Now, in order for us to grasp what's going on here and to kind of feel the tension, we have to go all the way back to chapter 21. We have to move out of the immediate context and go to the broader context. And what I want to point out is just that if you look at chapter 21, kind of this broader context that we find these passages nestled within, what we see is that the events that are recorded in chapter 22 take place during the week of Passover. So if we go back to chapter 21, we see that Jesus enters the city of Jerusalem. It's referred to as the triumphal entry. There's crowds that have gathered there, And there's people that every year make a pilgrimage to celebrate the Passover in Jerusalem, and Jesus and his disciples do the same. And after three years of preaching and teaching and healing every disease and affliction and doing good works, the crowd is ready to crown him king. And they start shouting and they throw their cloaks on the street on the path to Jerusalem. They throw palm branches before him. They set him on a donkey and they lead him into the city shouting, Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. And when we read Luke's account of the triumphal entry, we see that the Pharisees are indignant, and they tell Jesus to quiet his disciples, to quiet his followers. And so, the tension is mounting. And we see that the opposition against Jesus is increasing. And then the next thing we read is that Jesus cleanses the temple. He disrupts the Pharisees, the chief priests, and the rulers' side hustle. He confronts their sin, and the tension is mounting. And then we see that they challenge his authority when he is teaching in chapter 21, verses 23 through 27. And then what follows after the triumphal entry in these initial confrontations with Jesus is three parables. And each of these parables is spoken against the scribes and the Pharisees. It's spoken against the chief priests and the elders. And Matthew 21, 45 says that they caught on, okay, they realized that Jesus was speaking these parables against them and that Jesus was condemning their sin and that Jesus was saying that Sometimes the professedly religious are the ones who are furthest from the kingdom of God, and sometimes the most unlikely converts are the ones who repent and seek the Lord. And that third parable is found in the beginning of chapter 22, verses 1 through 14, And then, after these three parables, there are a series of questions, a series of four questions. Three of them are asked of Jesus, and then Jesus asks a question of his own. And in each case, the tension is mounting, and it's reaching this fever pitch And all of the questions that the religious leaders ask Jesus are designed to make him look foolish. If you look at verse 15, it says, then the Pharisees went, this is chapter 22, verse 15, then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. Jesus is growing in popularity. Jesus has the support of the people. The religious leaders are threatened. They want to get rid of him. They want to kill him. The Bible is actually going to say that they are eventually going to plot his death. So they're angry and they're giving their very best effort to make Jesus look like a fool so that his popularity wanes, so that his followers disperse, so that Jesus goes away. He fades into obscurity. And the first question comes in verses 15 through 22. And if you remember what's going on in this passage, you remember that the Pharisees hatched this brilliant plan, right? They want to put Jesus in this sort of situation that is impossible. It's your classic catch-22. From their perspective, Jesus had only two options. They ask him, is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar? And he says, and if he says, okay, if he responds to that question, yes, you should pay taxes to Caesar, the people are going to be really upset. They don't like taxes. And they certainly don't like unpatriotic bootlickers who kowtow to Caesar. So if Jesus says yes, pay taxes to Caesar, his followers are going to reject him. They're going to disperse. He's going to lose his popularity among the people. But if he says, no, it is not lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, then Caesar's going to be really upset. Caesar really likes taxes. And anyone who refuses to pay taxes will be charged with insurrection. So either way, they've got him. There's no escape. He's going to fall out of favor with the people, or he's going to forfeit his life. But Jesus gives this incredible answer. He says, the coin for the tax. And so they bring him a denarius. And he says, whose inscription and likeness is on it? And they say Caesar's. And Jesus says, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's. And his point is that we bear God's image. We belong to him. We owe him our lives. We must obey him. We must worship and serve him. We must give him his due. And likewise, we must give Caesar his due. He rules this region and controls the currency. The coins you carry bear his image, so give him his due. And Jesus points out that there's no conflict of interest here. You need to serve God and submit to the authority that he's placed over you, and it's this brilliant, incredibly wise answer. And then the second question is found in verses 23 through 33, or this second exchange between the religious leaders and Jesus is found in chapter 22, verses 23 through 33. And this time, it's the Sadducees who come with a question. And the Sadducees don't believe that there's a resurrection. And so they have this ultimate hypothetical situation that disproves the resurrection from the dead. And they present it to Jesus, and they give this illustration about this man who had six brothers, and it's rooted in this concept of leveret marriage in the Old Testament. And they say, If a man marries a woman and he dies and has no children and then leaves it to his younger brother and then the second and the third all the way down to the seventh have her as a wife, whose wife will she be in the resurrection? And the point is that they come up with this ultimate hypothetical scenario that will disprove the resurrection. But Jesus' answer is brilliant. It's brilliant. It's so wise. He zeroes in on the minutia of Exodus 3, verse 6. He focuses on this one two-letter word in the English, M. And he points out that God is the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. God says, I am the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. And he gives this amazing, incredibly wise answer. And we see that Jesus' wisdom is put on full display and that they can't They can't trip him up. They can't entangle him in his words. They can't entrap him. And then we get to the passage that we're studying this morning. And again, they ask him another question. And this question is another Catch-22 situation. And they're trying to disrupt what Jesus is doing by making him look foolish in a public setting. But Jesus gives another incredibly wise answer and he summarizes the entire Old Testament in two commands. And it's this wonderfully simple, wonderfully profound answer and it showcases Jesus' wisdom for all to see. And I just want to reiterate that fact that this passage shows Jesus' incredible wisdom. And the reason that I want to say that, and I want to point that out, and I want to keep emphasizing that, is that I find it to just be powerfully encouraging. For many of you, 2025 has gotten off to a rocky start. Things have not gone as you hoped. Life feels confusing and disorienting and hard. And friends, this morning, I want you to consider your God. I want you to consider your savior and shepherd. I want you to consider his awesome wisdom. Every path he has chosen for you is right. He knows what he's doing, and he's doing more than you or I could possibly comprehend. There's purpose in our pain. Every trial has been carefully designed by our infinitely wise shepherd to accomplish our eternal good. And I realize that that may be hard to believe right now, but it won't be forever. Revelation 5.12 says that Jesus is worthy to receive all wisdom. What that tells me is that one day, when I stand before the Lord Jesus and look back at my life, I will join the host of heaven and say, you did everything right. I wouldn't change a thing. You possess all wisdom. Friends, take heart in that this morning, regardless of what you're going through. Now, we turn our attention to the question that is asked of Jesus in verse 36. The lawyer asked teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? And while there is nothing overtly malicious in his question, Matthew unveils the lawyer's motives in the previous verse. Verse 35 says that this question was asked to test him. The word picks up on previous statements in verses 15 and 17 where the inquirer's motive is clearly malicious. It also mirrors the questions asked in Matthew 16.1 and 19.3 in which the Pharisees and Sadducees sought to justify their unbelief and expose Jesus as a false prophet who was seeking to abolish the law and to lead the people astray. Suffice it to say, this wasn't an honest inquiry. This man wasn't seeking the truth. He was commissioned by his superiors to expose Jesus as an unlearned fraud or to bait him into disparaging the law and proving that he was a false prophet. While Mark's gospel paints him in somewhat more favorable terms, Jesus' response to this man makes it clear that he's still playing for the other team, and that whatever the conflict of interest he personally experienced, it was not shared by the chief priests and the elders whose intentions were entirely nefarious. We should also note that this question wasn't new, at least conceptually. Data gathered from historical sources indicate that the lawyers' questions stemmed from an ongoing debate within Judaism in the first century. The rabbis made distinctions between light and heavy commandments. An awareness of these distinctions is even reflected in Jesus' rebuke of the scribes and Pharisees in the next chapter. While they emphasized the importance of obeying the lighter commandments, they were compelled to identify more basic principles within the law. The rabbis, for example, asked which commandments must be kept even on penalty of death. And in their training, they sought to determine which commandments were inviolable and how the various commandments were related to one another. Some, however, didn't share this opinion and emphasized that all of the commandments were equally important. And so given that there was a variety of opinions on this topic, and Jesus' answer was sure to divide his supporters and weaken his influence, it's not surprising that the scholar asked him which commandment was the greatest. It was a question that heretofore could not be answered by even the most formidable rabbis. was another catch-22. But Jesus isn't so easily cornered. He's wiser than Solomon. He's smarter than all the scholars in Jerusalem. And the puzzle they failed to solve was no match for the Son of God. His answer was brilliant and breathtaking. It was beautiful. It was profound. It was the final answer to the Pharisee's final questions, and it was so good that they didn't ask him any more questions. Now, let's look at Jesus' answer to this question. And we'll tackle it in two parts. We see as Jesus begins to answer the Pharisee's question, as he begins to answer this legal scholar's question, He doesn't just give one answer. He actually gives two answers. If you look at verse 38, after he quotes Deuteronomy 6, 5, he says, this is the great and first commandment. What that means is that there's another commandment, at least one more. And so he's letting this lawyer, this legal scholar, know that he's about to get more than he bargained for. But the first answer that Jesus gives is found in Deuteronomy 6, 5. He quotes this passage and he says, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. He begins by acknowledging that the greatest commandment is rooted in love for God. And love is multifaceted. It's worth noting, I think, that in 1 Corinthians 13, Paul never defines what love is. He simply describes it in both positive and negative terms. Still, it might be helpful for us this morning if we attempt some sort of synthesis of what the Bible says about love. And as I've considered what the Bible says about love, I think it can be defined like this. It can be defined as a strong, principled affection that affirms another person's value and that actively and continually seeks their good. Human love is a function of God's love for his creation. And human beings' love for God depends on his glory and benevolence towards his creatures. As 1 John 4.19 points out, we love because God first loved us. And so, as we consider what Jesus has said this morning, The obvious question becomes, how do we love God with all of our heart and all of our soul and all of our mind? How do we love God with everything that we are? How do we love God with the totality of our being? That's what each one of those words is pointing us to. It's not talking about how We are to love God with these various aspects of our person. It's not giving us a definitive breakdown of the human person. It's simply pointing us to the fact that we are to love God with the totality of our person. So the question becomes, how do we do that? And here I think that the immediate context from which Jesus draws his response is particularly helpful. And so the first way in which we love God is by ridding our hearts of idols. In our modern society, we don't tend to worship statues made of gold or silver or wood or little figurines that we can put on the hutch above the fireplace. but there are innumerable objects that have taken their place. And so when Jesus is quoting from Deuteronomy, and he's quoting what's called the Shema, a statement that faithful Jews would recite two times a day, it begins by saying, hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And what that is calling the Israelites to do is to worship God alone. It is a statement of monotheism. It's stating that God is one of a kind, he's unique, he's holy, he is the only God, he is the one who is supremely glorious and powerful and wise, and because that's who he is, we need to worship him alone and we need to worship him with everything that we are, with every capacity we possess to the fullest extent possible. And so when we consider what this passage is pointing us to and how it's teaching us to love God, what it's teaching us to do is to worship God alone and to get rid of the idols in our lives. And an idol in its most basic form is anyone or anything that takes the place of God in our lives. It is anything that steals our affection for God. It is anything that compromises our allegiance to God. It is anything that robs him of the worship that he rightly deserves. We may not worship gods of gold, silver, and wood, but we do worship the gods of money, sex, and power. We make idols out of our bank accounts and investment portfolios. We succumb to every kind of sexual deviance because we're convinced it will satisfy us more than knowing and serving the God of the universe. We scratch and scrape, we jockey for position, we expend all of our time and energy to be number one in our families, in our church, in our workplace, because we want control, because we want to call the shots, because we want all eyes on us. We make idols out of careers and hobbies. We make idols out of friends and fun. We make idols out of food and drink and every earthly pleasure. We even take God's good gifts of marriage and family and ministry and make them the focus of our lives. So here's the question. What has grabbed a hold of your heart? What consumes your thoughts? What has become higher in your affections than God? What has compromised your allegiance to the one true King? Friends, I don't know what's pulling on the strings of your heart, but I know that there are dozens and dozens of things that are competing for your affections and that are leading you away from God. And I know that each and every one of those idols will destroy you. So do whatever you must to rid them from your lives. For some, that means removing yourself from a particular environment. For others, that means throwing out your TV or computer or mobile device or setting strict parameters that limit when and how those items can be used. For some of us, it means ending friendships that draw us away from God and tempt us to sin and encourage us to participate in all kinds of things that God hates. And while there are positive steps that we can take to resist the idols that so easily ensnare us, we need to tear down the idols that are already there, and we need to redirect our affections to God. The second way in which we love God is by obeying His commandments. In Deuteronomy 6, Moses commands the people to put God's word on their hearts and mouths and homes so that they would not forget him, so that they would be careful to do all his commandments, so that they would live in the good land that the Lord had promised to them. In Deuteronomy 6, 17 through 18, he says, you shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God and his testimonies and his statutes which he has commanded you and you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord that it may go well with you and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. The proximity of these statements to the command to love the Lord your God makes the link between these verses unmistakable. One of the primary ways in which we love God is by obeying his commandments. It seems simple, but it is so necessary. You cannot love father or mother by rebelling against their authority. You cannot love king or country by breaking the laws of the kingdom. The same is true for God. You cannot love God and live in disobedience. So what this means is that we need to read our Bibles. We need to understand what the Bible is saying. We need to learn what God expects of us, and we need to do it. What that means is that we need to read the book. We need to meditate on it day and night. We need to read it with our brothers and sisters in Christ. We need to learn it and study it and do it. We need to grow in our love for God by growing in our obedience to his will. And we need to grow in our understanding of his will by reading his word. After Jesus says that the first and great commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind, he says there is a second great commandment that you need to pay attention to. And he says this in verse 39. This second great commandment is that you shall love your neighbor as yourself. And Jesus points out that this second great commandment is tightly tied to the first. It is like it, Jesus says. And what this seems to indicate is that you cannot keep the first commandment without also keeping the second. That is, you cannot love God without also loving your neighbor. And this seems apparent from even the most cursory reading of the Old and New Testaments. If love for God can be measured by our obedience to God's command, and there are numerous commands throughout the Old and New Testaments to love our neighbors, then we cannot keep this first commandment to love God without also keeping this second commandment to love our neighbors. The first John 4 20 clarifies the connection between loving God and neighbors. John writes, if anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And so as we consider these comments further, we see that once again, Jesus quotes from the law. Here in verse 39, he quotes from Leviticus 19, 18. And as we look at that passage and consider what it's saying, one of the things that we notice is that it actually comes at the end of a longer section, a section that actually begins in verse 9. And that this verse that Jesus quotes from is kind of a summary statement of what precedes it. It encapsulates everything that shows up in verses nine through 18. And so, when we ask this question, or when we kind of ask the obvious questions, who is our neighbor? What does it mean to love our neighbors as ourselves? One of the things that stands out and one of the things that is really helpful when we even just seek to answer that first question, who is our neighbor, so that we can figure out how to love them as we love ourselves. is to look at the parallel account that is in Luke's gospel. And the parallel account to Matthew 22, 34 through 40 that shows up in Luke's gospel is immediately followed by his parable of the Good Samaritan. And the parable of the Good Samaritan is going to teach us some really key things about our neighbors, and it's going to help us identify who our neighbor is. And what it teaches is that our neighbor is not bound by national, racial, familial, or religious ties. And our neighbor is anyone who crosses our path. And so, when we seek to just answer that question, who is our neighbor, so that we can love them like we should, we come to realize that it's referring to anyone. It's referring to anyone that we come into contact with, anyone that crosses our path. It can't be reduced to the person who lives next door, or to the people in our church, or to the people in our community, or even to the people in our nation. But what does it mean to love them as ourselves? Well, Jesus' parable about the Good Samaritan's care and compassion for the man who was beaten and left for dead is certainly a good place to start. But I think that the best place to look to and the text that best describes what it means to love our neighbor is the text from which Jesus quotes. And so if we return to Leviticus chapter 19, and we look at verses 9 through 18, what we see is that it is an extended discussion on what it means to love our neighbor. And as we read verses 9 and 10, we see that it teaches us that we should be generous and hospitable, and that we should share our possessions with those in need. Hoarding what you have and being greedy are the opposite of what it means to be loving. Verses 11 through 13 teach that we should give, that we should be honest and fair in our dealings with others, and that we shouldn't lie to them. Lying and stealing and cheating are manifestly unloving. Verses 14 through 16 instruct us to care for those who are weaker than us, to seek justice, and to stand up for the safety and well-being of our neighbors. And verses 17 and 18 teach that we shouldn't hold a grudge or harbor bitterness in our hearts. Friends, this is what it means to love our neighbor as ourselves. It means that we should treat them as we want to be treated. It means that we should seek their best. It means that our relationships with other people should be marked by a strong, principled affection that affirms their value as God's image bearers and that actively and continually seeks their good. That's what it means to love God and to love your neighbor. And I just want to conclude our time with two more comments. The first comment I want to make to anyone who is here today who has not put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ is not looking to the Lord Jesus alone to save them, to reconcile them to God, to give them eternal life. Perhaps you're here today and you're trying to get to heaven by your own good deeds, you're trying to Be a good person and take care of your family and work hard at your job and you think that if you just do enough good things that God is going to extend his favor to you and God is going to welcome you into heaven. Maybe you would consider yourself to be a very religious person and you see your attendance here this morning as part of being a good religious person who goes to church. I just want you to consider what Jesus is saying. He says, the greatest commandments is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. And the second is to love your neighbor as yourself. If those are the greatest commandments, then the worst thing that we could possibly do is to not love God and to not love our neighbor as ourself. And the truth is, none of us do that perfectly. None of us love God perfectly. None of us love God with our whole being, with all that we are, with all that we possibly can give. None of us worship God like that. None of us love God like that. None of us serve God like that. And none of us love other people as much as we love ourselves. We're selfish, self-centered people, and we don't perfectly love others like we ought to. Our relationship with them isn't marked by a strong, principled affection that affirms their value and that actively and continually seeks their good. And that's why we need Jesus, because He's the only one who perfectly obeyed those commandments. He's the only one who perfectly loved the Father with everything that He was, with everything that He had, and He's the only one who perfectly loved the people around Him. Friends, your best efforts cannot get you to heaven. They cannot earn God's favor. Your best efforts aren't good enough. You need Jesus, and I would encourage you to turn to him today, to turn from your sins and put your trust in Jesus alone. And if you have any questions about that, please see me, please see Pastor Joe, please see one of the individuals that led this morning or that's in the row next to you. Ask them about this. And then secondly, I just want to end with a final note to my brothers and sisters in Christ to Tri-County Bible Church. There are no greater commandments in all the Bible. As you gear up for 2025, I pray that you would make it your aim to love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and to love your neighbor as yourself. Let's pray. God, we cannot in our own strength, by our own effort, obey these commandments. Lord, I pray that your Spirit would move powerfully among this congregation, and I pray that your Spirit would help us to love you with heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbors as ourself. God, please help us to grow in these ways in the coming year and in the years ahead. We pray these things in Jesus' name, amen.