Do you have the Lord's love or a Valentine's love? Let me read to you these verses. 1 John 4, beginning at verse 7. We could start at the beginning, but really we get to verse 7 through 21 is where we want to be tonight. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God. Whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love. In this, the love of God was manifest among us that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe that love, the love that God has for us. Here's that statement again. God is love. And whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us. so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world." This is an interesting statement. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because He first loved us. 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 this commandment we have from him, whoever loves God must also love his brother." Now whenever you think about this subject topic called love, it's really a subject that as a pastor you just Think about how would you try to express the love of God. I read a story about someone said to Mrs. Albert Einstein, do you understand your husband Albert's theory of relativity? And she said, no, not in the least. But I understand Albert and he can be trusted. Well, if you're talking about the love of God, it's kind of like that. Pastor Larry, or I could ask you, do you feel like you understand this knowledge or the subject of God's love? And probably you would say no, not nearly as much as I would like to. Love is a funny world, a word. That one word can make the heart flutter uncontrollably, can make the toughest man blush, Johnny Cash. wrote a song six foot six he stood on the ground weighed 235 pounds but he saw that giant of a man brought down by thing called love to make the toughest man blush it can make a grown man cry can make a woman jump for joy the world is almost obsessed these days with this thing called love and this friday this coming friday is valentine's day And we're going to hear a lot and read a lot about Valentine's in the next few days. Silly little poems and ditties that go with it. I read some of them this week and I laughed. A lot of them are humorous and they deal with an emotional type of love that doesn't really deal with commitment or problems or depth, but just the fluffy side that makes you smile and laugh and kind of referred to as puppy love. A couple of humorous little things I read about Valentines were as follows. They dealt with some soul-searching, profound questions. Example, what do farmers give their wives for Valentines? Answer, hogs and kisses. I like this one, what's the best part about Valentine's Day? And the answer was the day after when the chocolates go on sale. The reason I ask if you have the Lord's love in your heart as opposed to a Valentine's love is because there's a huge difference between the two. Valentine's love in my mind is a, and I'm not against it, don't think I am, but it's a different type of love than what we're talking about tonight. Valentine's love is a speakeasy. carefree declaration, sometimes sweet but shallow and superficial of what can be called surface love. The love of God, however, is a whole different picture. It's not a speakeasy love. It's not carefree. It's not fluffy accolades, nor is it a mile wide and an inch deep. It is not. It is, in fact, the direct opposite of those things that we're talking about tonight. Psychiatrists, and I think I put it up on the board, psychiatrists mentioned that there are three different needs. The greatest needs that we have is individuals, the need to be wanted, the need to be needed, and the need to be loved. We all talk a lot about love and yet we know really so little about it. In fact, the person who does not know Christ or the Bible will never get a concrete, clear definition, understanding of what love is apart from the Bible and apart from Christ. The world we are living in today knows very little about love and the only reason there's any understanding or any examples of love in the world today is because the Holy Spirit is still here and God's people are still here. But when they're gone, there will be no further manifestations of love in this world. You and I know tonight that the Bible is God's love letter to man. And the Apostle John is the expert on love in the Bible. Paul was the apostle of faith. If you wanted to know about faith, talk to Paul. James was the apostle of works. He emphasized how our works have to come and keep up with our profession. Otherwise, this is just hollow without the works that go with it. Peter was the apostle of judgment. He talked a lot about that in first and second Peter. But John, John is the guy that you go to if you want to know about love. He can tell you more, perhaps, than the others combined. No one in the Bible speaks of love with more depth and detail. than he does. So in this message tonight, we're just going to look at it through the eyes of John and try to just grasp a hold. You know, I don't know how you would bulldog an elephant. I really don't. You know, if you watch rodeo, you can see how they can bulldog a steer. You grab a hold of horns. They're close together. You tip him over if you're strong enough. I don't know how you would bulldog an elephant. I don't know how you would bulldog a hippopotamus. There's just hardly any place you could get a hold of them to do that. It's too big and you wouldn't be strong enough and you couldn't secure a hold on it. I kind of feel like that when you talk about the love of God. It's just almost too big to even, it's trying to kind of like get your arms around a weather balloon. It just can't happen. You can only have a little bit of it. But let's start out by talking just about the evidence of love. We're calling it love's sure evidence. Someone said this. Love is the thermometer by which you can take your spiritual temperature. Love is a thermometer. And when we talk about love tonight, I'm thinking of it in the context of love for God and God's love for us. Love is the thermometer that whereby you can take your spiritual temperature. If you were put on a trial for being a Christian, love is the one indisputable evidence that would convict you of being saved. People would say, I know there have to be a Christian. I know they are a Christian because they don't respond to situations like other people do. They act different in crisis. They treat even people that differ with them and people that they differ with, they treat them differently. Yeah, they're a Christian alright. Because there's something inside of them that shows forth no matter the circumstance, no matter the situation. They're different. And it's that quality called love. The Bible tells us that one of the evidences of love in verses 7 there is that If you have love, it's an evidence that you are in the family of God. God's children are loving children. When you and I were born into this world, we took on the sinful nature of our parents and of the human race. But when we are born into the spiritual world, we take on a the nature of God. We take on, as it were, a divine nature. In fact, 2 Peter 1, verse 4 says, through the promises of God, we become partakers of what? The divine nature. When I was born physically, I took on my earthly father's human nature and acted naturally and sinfully. But when I was born spiritually, I take on my heavenly Father's nature. And from then on, God expects me to act supernaturally. What is God's nature? Well, it tells us right there in verse 7. I hope you'll keep your Bibles open because we're going to be looking at it. It tells us there that God's nature is love. Beloved, let us love one another. How can I do that? Why should I do that? What's my example? For love is from God. You cannot reverse that statement. Someone has put it this way. Love does not define God, but God defines love. That is, all that God is and does is motivated by love. I want you to think about that because I'm going to give you a statement here in a couple of minutes that's going to challenge you on that. God created this world purely out of the motive of love. The Bible tells us that he saw that what he had made, it was good, but he wanted something additional. He wanted something more. He wanted something that he could love and that would love him in return. The animal world wasn't capable of that. God saw that there was a need. And so God created man out of pure love. He created you and he created me so that he could love us. God created heaven so that He could have a place where we could love Him and each other for all of eternity. And God created hell out of a motive of love as well. Hell was originally created for the devil and his angels. It was created so that His children might be forever separated from those who rebelled against Him. You say, well, why then would a loving God send anybody to hell? God doesn't, I think, as you have heard me say and other pastors say many times, God doesn't send people to hell. I'll never believe that if I live to be 450 years of age. people consign themselves to hell by rejecting God's offer of salvation. Last night came out on the prayer chain of a lady that was requesting prayer for her daughter because she lives right next to some individuals in the apartment complex. Remember that, those of you that are on the prayer chain? Those individuals are very unruly. They're druggies. They threaten her. She's afraid for her life at times. Now, the mother that sent that request out was deeply concerned over the welfare of her daughter. If she was able, what would love enable her to do in a time like that? Love would say, I'm going to take you out and away from that, from those who don't love you, from those who reject you, from those who don't want you around, from those who don't share your values. So when I say that it was actually a motive of love whereby God created not only heaven, but he also created hell. so that those who did not want to be with God or around God or share God's nature, God in love separated those out, His people out from those that don't want that. And therefore we have that place called hell. Follow this logic. God is love. Those who have been born again are the children of God. God's children share God's nature. God's children, therefore, will love. You follow that? I'm going to go through that again. But I want you to see the logic of that. God is love. Those who have been born of God are the children of God. God's children share God's nature. We just read that in 2 Peter. First Peter, that he has given unto us, we're partakers of the divine nature. And therefore, if we are partakers of the divine nature and that divine nature is love, therefore God's children will love. So one of the thermometers of your soul can be, if you are a child of God, you can know that you are in the family of God. Secondly, that brings you into fellowship with God. Verse eight tells us that. It says there, anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love. Now that word know there has a lot deeper meaning than intellectual understanding. In fact, it's not even referring to mental knowledge. It's referring to an intimate knowledge of the heart. It's kind of, it has a concept there that goes clear back even in Genesis when it said Adam knew Eve. There was an intimacy, a physical intimacy, and this is talking, this know here is talking about a spiritual intimacy. That if we know God, then we are in fellowship with God where first of all that makes us part of the family of God and it brings us into fellowship with God. And if you want to know how well you know God, if you want to know how close you are to God, then ask the question, how much love is in your heart? How much love is in your heart for Him? How much love is in your heart for others? If the love of God is not springing up as a flowing river within your life, then you need to clear away that which is clogging the drain. Because to live a life in which you feel no emotion, no love, no lasting love. Sometimes we can humanly love if people are nice to us. But how do we respond to those that have hurt us to the very quick of our soul? How do we respond to those situations that we don't understand, that are tragic, that go beyond our ability to even grasp it? I spent about an hour this afternoon on the telephone with a couple that I married a number of years ago back in South Dakota. This couple now has a daughter that recently was married, several months ago, a year ago maybe. Maybe it's been two years ago the daughter was married. This month she lost, she miscarried her five-month-old baby. And her, this couple that I married, this girl's mother, Her mother-in-law, she was calling me and she said, you're going to have to explain that one to me because right now I'm really mad at God. I'm really mad at God. I hope you have some good answers for me. And I need to tell you, I prayed earnestly. I prayed sincerely because I can see that in some ways that lady's faith, she's not a strong Christian. She would be a professing Christian. But I don't know if she's ever moved. I'm not judging. I don't know how far she's moved from the entry level on into the things of God. And when something like this happens, it really cares at the very fabric of your faith way down deep in your soul, even if you're an established Christian. So I spent about an hour explaining and praying to her, sharing verses. I knew she was going to call because she contacted Dory last night and said, can I talk to him today? So we set up the time today. And I've been praying. In fact, I got some stuff from Pastor's Message this morning and ran that off after service and shared some of the things that that man had given us there about adversity and tied that in with the Scripture and prayed earnestly. And while I was talking to her, she would hardly respond. But I thought unless she interrupts or she begins to reject what I'm saying and I need to elaborate, I'm just going to seize this opportunity to present the love of Christ as I know it. And in this time when she's questioning God's love, I'm sharing with her the love of God and that we choose to love God. even when we cannot see any reason in a certain situation as to why we should love God, when it may even look like God was acting adversely toward us. When we were all done, she thanked me. I prayed with her. But I want you to know there is an evidence of love. The first evidence of love is that you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that you have Him, receive Him as your Father, that you're part of the family of God, and then that causes you to enter into the fellowship with God. Where do we get this example of God? Point number two. This supreme example of love. Well, notice where that comes from in verses 9 through 11. In this, the love of God was made manifest among us. And here's where we get this big, beautiful example that God sent His only Son into the world that we might live through Him. The word manifested there means to come out in the open. It means to make a public display. The cross is God's flashing neon sign that God loves you. We're not too far now from Easter. And we'll hear more about the cross in that time. The cross is God's flashing neon sign that He loves you. That person is a fool who doubts two things, either the existence of God or the love of God. The man who doubts the existence of God is a fool because the Bible says, the heavens declare the glory of God. And the man who doubts the love of God is a fool because the Bible said, for God demonstrated His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, He died for us. Let me tell you quickly some things about love, the manifestations of it. True love is a sacrificial love. True love is a sacrificial love. Something I discovered or thought I knew when I was preparing this message. Love is not only defined by the sacrifice of Jesus. But here's the truth. Here's what came to me so powerfully that I don't know that I had ever seen before. Love is not only defined by the sacrifice of Jesus, but it's also defined by the giving of the Father. You know, sometimes I don't know that I had appreciated that as much as I had appreciated the second fact as much as I had appreciated the first. You know, that Jesus gave Himself. Oh, what a love! I came to realize this week and to appreciate this week more often that just as much as Jesus showed His love by being willing to come, God showed His love by being willing to give Him, to send Him. If you put yourself in that place of offering up the dearest one to you for somebody that didn't care a snap of the fingers, For somebody that might even look at you and sneer at you and say, you are the biggest fool that ever lived. And yet, you could look beyond that rejection and that scorn. You could look beyond that stigma of being thought a fool and give that which was the dearest to you. Not a possession, but a person. I don't know that I really dawned on me until this week, and I'm not sure I've absorbed it all yet, that the sacrifice of love, the sacrifice was not only in Jesus giving Himself, but in God sending His Son to do that. I don't know if that grips you like it has gripped me. It stayed with me. It was a sacrifice for the father to send the son and a sacrifice to pour out the judgment we deserved upon that son. In the chapter that comes just before that chapter, 1 John 3 16, by this we know that he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for his brothers. Is it any wonder that God turned His back, as it were, when Jesus was on the cross? He turned, as it were, spiritually away from that horrendous scene. This is my own conjecture. Even as Jesus said, if there's any other way to do this except I have to go to the cross, I wonder if in that time of when Jesus was enduring the things that he was enduring, and God Almighty seeing the suffering that he was experiencing, of course keeping in mind that Jesus and God are one, but there's a sense in which they're also separate entities. But I wonder in that time if even in the mind of God Almighty, there wasn't something that he was searching his mind to make sure he had done the right thing. We know God doesn't question Himself. But the point of it is, I never saw so much till this week about the sacrifice. This is sacrificial love. I want to tell you something. I want to tell you something. Years ago when I was young, there were hippies who used to go around and talk about free love. Make love, not war. so stoned out of their mind they couldn't have done either. But the point of it was that love was free. I want to tell you something. If it's free, it's not love. And if it's love, it's not free. Because love costs. You have to pay a price to love. And if you're a mother, or a dad, You don't need any explanation of that. You pay the price. You do what you have to do in that moment if you love. Years ago there was a man, I've used this illustration, but when it talks about what love is, a man by the name of Dr. B.H. Faup. He was the first president of a Wesleyan church. Before that there had not been organized as a denomination and they'd had superintendents. But here they had the first president. Now they have superintendents, etc. But at that point in time they had presidents, just one. And Dr. B.H. Faulk was the first president of the Wesleyan denomination. He was a great man of God. He came and spoke to us theologues at college. had such profound truths. He was such a humble man and yet such a capable man. Intellectually a giant and spiritually a great man of God. He was just elected president a few weeks when it was discovered that his wife had stage four cancer. His job was going to require him to travel all over the world as the church's representative. And I remember full well going into class one morning and one of our professors saying, Dr. Faulk has resigned as president of the denomination. And part of his resignation speech, it was very brief, the words that he penned, but part of it showed his great love for God and his great love for his spouse. He said, after much prayer, In consultation with my Heavenly Father, I am tendering my resignation. It has come to me that many men are capable of being the president of this denomination, but no other man is capable of being the husband to my wife that she needs in such a time as this, except myself. I hereby tender my resignation. It wasn't out of fatalism. It wasn't out of bitterness. It wasn't out of placing his wife ahead of the will of God. But Dr. Faub understood that love has to be prioritized and it costs. And he was right. Another man was elected president of the denomination. But Dr. Faub ministered to his wife. Love always costs. It's a sacrifice to it. It's selfless. True love is selfless love. Real love always seeks to meet the need of someone else. Real love always seeks to meet the need of its object, of that person. When I was in darkness, God sent His light. When I was in deadness, God sent His life. When I was in doom, God sent His love. You see, the death of Jesus, friends, was not an accident. It was an appointment. He did not die as a weak martyr. He died as a mighty conqueror. Jesus died that we might live through Him, that we might live for Him, and that we might live someday with Him. It was a selfless love. It's a satisfying love. Verse 10, I see that. It tells me there in verse 10, in this is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation. That word propitiation is a strange word. It comes only a couple times in scriptures. But its basic meaning is one of the most beautiful words in all of the Bible. It means a satisfaction. It means we are told in John 1, verse 5, God is light. Now that light refers to purity. It refers to the holiness of God. God's love is holy. But God did not want to give us death. He wanted to give us life. So He sent His Son to take our place to be the satisfying factor for the penalty of our sins. That's what that word propitiation Though it's spelled propit, it's propitiation means. Someone has well said that if a judge lets a guilty man go free, the judge himself is condemned. And if God had not dealt with man's sinful nature in a righteous way, a way that could satisfy divine requirement, then he would have ceased to be righteous. That's why he sent his son so that he was the only one capable of shedding his blood to make a one-time payment for that. So he became our propitiation, the satisfaction factor that God could look on and say, paid in full, paid in full. So it is that kind of a love. It's a sharing love, a satisfying love, a selfless love. And we could go on there. When it comes to that word sharing, I heard about a man who was preaching, a pastor who was preaching a series of stewardship sermons. And after one sermon, a man walked out of the church who really loved his money and he hated it every time the preacher talked about stewardship. Went right down and just ate it to the cancer of his heart. And he told the pastor on the way out that he didn't really care about God or the church. He got sick and tired of hearing about sermons and preachers talking, give, give, give, give. And the preacher looked at the man and said, Sir, thank you for the best definition of Christianity I have ever heard. Give, give, give, give. It goes far beyond money. Far beyond that. You see, you can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving. A man who does not give joyfully and generously to the work of God on the financial level probably does not understand Christ. He does not understand Christianity and he does not understand the cross. So the evidence of that is God's love is we're in his family. We have fellowship. The example of it is God gave us that example in sending His Son, and Jesus manifested that example in coming through His love, sacrificial, selflessly satisfying, and a sharing love. Let's look at number three. I don't know if we'll even go to number four. I'm more interested in us getting what we get rather than just in the quantity here. But I want you to see the essence of love, love's essence. What does it mean, love's essence? We can talk about the evidence of love and the example of it, but what is the essence of love? What's it comprised of, in other words? It bears repeating that the kind of love that we're speaking about is marked not so much by natural, but as supernatural characteristics. Now, when I went through this, I think every one of us knows, oh, I need to love. I want to love. But how do you quantify it? How do you even know if you have the love of God as opposed to just a good feeling or you just try to do good every day? Is that love? If you just try to do good every day, if you just try to follow, if you try to read so much and you try to pray so much and you try to do a kind deed, is that love? Could be. Might not necessarily be. Let's look in verse 12 and 13. No one has ever seen God A lot of people claim they have, but that verse right there says they haven't. If we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us. Now, here's where we get this essence of love right here. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit." That, point A, is love's provision. It's the Holy Spirit. The only way that you and I can love is through sharing the nature of God. And when we become Christians, The Holy Spirit takes up residence within us. He is the one then that helps us, enables us to honestly and sincerely love. Now, God has given us His Holy Spirit, but here, now get this, follow this closely in closing. John is not talking about the gift of the Holy Spirit as much as he's talking about the Holy Spirit's gift to us. We sometimes get so caught up in the gifts of the Spirit. Oh, my goodness. Whole denominations have been spawned over that one. The gifts of the Spirit, what they are, what they are not. But let me read that to you again. John is not here, I don't think, talking about the gift of the Holy Spirit, but he's talking about the Holy Spirit's gift to us. You see, love is not something that's naturally produced in us. Love is something that is supernaturally produced in us. Love is not something you work up through resolution or intention or declaration. Love is something that God works out. through you. You don't work up love. The Holy Spirit within you is love, and thus God works out His love through you. That's why you can act, and that's why you can say what you do and act like you do, when if you were in the flesh it would be 180 degrees different from what you normally would do. You follow that? Because you're allowing God's love to flow out from you and through you. So this essence of love is the Holy Spirit. That's the Lord's provision. And then the love profession. Look in verses 14 and 15. Here's the profession. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, there's the profession of genuine love. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God. The man who is full of the Holy Spirit will not only love God, he will also love Jesus and will profess that Jesus is the Son of God and the Lord of all. Because the same Holy Spirit who gives a man love for God will also give a man love for Jesus. That's why Jesus said, If you've seen Me, you have seen the Father. How sayest thou then, Show us the Father? Knowest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? He said in John 14. And in 1 Corinthians 12. He said, No one can say Jesus is Lord except the Holy Spirit. You know, there's a movement still around today where they try to separate they'll say, God yes, Jesus no. Or try to make Jesus, try to make Jesus into an inferior being, into an individual conceived by God through intimacy with Mary. I want to tell you that's blasphemy. Nothing more. Nothing less. Nothing else. And nothing but blasphemy. Jesus. No one, 1 Corinthians, can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. And then lastly here, love's possession. Love's possession. Do you see it the latter part of verse 16? We'll close with that one. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. Now here's the position. God is love. And whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. John is simply saying where you live in your understanding of God's love for you depends on how much you love God. If God's love is in you, you possess God and He possesses you. You belong to God and God belongs to you. God lives in you and you live in Him. But friend, I want you to remember this tonight as you leave here. God will not live where love is absent. God will not live. And I know every one of us can look to someone or some event and say, do you mean I'm supposed to love so and so? Do you mean I'm supposed to love this thing, this situation the way it turned out? What I'm saying to you is that God can give you You might not ever be buddy-buddy. You might not ever be best friends. I'm not even implying that. I don't think that's the kind of love we're talking about here. But what I'm saying is that even no matter how much you've been hurt or devastated, you cannot go around with a compartment in your spirit or heart in which there is hatred that you allow the devil to just work up in your system all the time just like a yeast, and it's always in your system. You know what it'll do? It'll make you a hard-faced Christian and it'll make you a hard-hearted Christian. If you look at people, sometimes you can almost look at the face of individuals and tell that they have been angry or bitter for years by their countenance. Did you know that? There's something about it. You just look at them and you know that inside there's an angry person waiting to spring up or to spew out in just a moment. Just boom, boom, boom. And every one of us has had individuals like that. Failed friendships. Failed marriages. Failed jobs. failed events, failed expectations, where you can go around just as bitter and as full of gall. But what you have to do, not talking about saying, well, that never happened. I'm not talking about denying the hurt or the pain, but I'm saying, Let the love of God flow through you to where even though that is a memory in your mind, it's not a cancer in your spirit. Does that make sense? And the reason it cannot be is because God is love. And he that says that he loves God but hates his brother, hates his former boss, hates his former professor, hates their former spouse, hates the former whatever or whoever or wherever. Sometimes you can hate a place. I've had people tell me I hate Rock Springs. I wouldn't live there for nothing. Don't let any hatred in your heart for any reason. God is love. And He expects us to abide in His love. Let's pray. Lord, it's easy to talk about love and it's easy to hear about it. And I don't know that we've even scratched the surface. I think we could have a thousand preachers preaching at the same time a thousand different sermons. And we would at times feel like we were drinking from a fire hydrant All we know, Lord, is at times we're very unloving. At times we can act more like the devil in hatred than a God who's filled with love. And so, Lord, I pray that You would search my own heart tonight. Deliver us. Deliver me from that spirit of judgment, from that spirit of censoriousness, From that spirit whereby somebody doesn't agree with me, he must be wrong. Whereby somebody doesn't treat me kindly, he must be of the devil. Whereby self is so easily hurt and so quickly pampered, and we forget that the greatest example of love was selfless and sacrificial and sharing. O God, conform us to the image of Christ. Take our hearts and blot out that which is evil and wicked and self-seeking And even as Janelle shared with us tonight, those works of the flesh that reflect sinful, selfish love and replace them with the fruit of the Spirit that manifests the love of God. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. Blot out, clean out, stamp out every attribute that is ungodly and replace it with the blessed Holy Spirit. And we shall begin to understand what it means to share and to be a partaker of the divine nature. Seal these words to our hearts, we pray in Jesus' wonderful name. Amen. God bless you. Thank you so much for your presence tonight.