So, Hilty, I've got another recommendation for you to buy from Susan. This is the New Bible Commentary. See that? NBC, New Bible Commentary. It's pretty new in the sense that it's the team of editors. Carson, DA Carson, is one of the editors. RT France, a commentary on Matthew that I use a good bit, that Dr. Jacobs recommended. He's one of the main editors of it. And so, to give you the idea now, this volume is a commentary on the whole Bible. So, it's not word upon word. It's not lengthy, but it is conceptual. And I'm going to read a section out of it this morning, but I'm always recommending books for you guys. New Bible Commentary would be a book that you would probably put on your shelf as a reference material. I've also been looking at, where is it? Carol Donaldson in here. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. That's David, not David Jeremiah, Jeremiah Burroughs, the Puritan, the rare jewel of Christian contentment. And looking at that for maybe a study, now that thing is hundreds of years old, but falls into the category of being one of the top five books that every Christian ought to read. I have a question. Do you get a commission for all these written books? Now I spend my money on these books. Well, I think you should contact them. The rare jewel of Christian contentment. So we're even thinking, I'm reviewing it right now, thinking about it in terms of maybe our summer series. You know, our July, August, September, our summer series. He's got the rare jewel of worship, too. Oh, I didn't know that. Rare jewel of Christian contentment. So I just happened to open it up this morning, and on page 120, he talks about it. It's broken up so that he talks concept, and then he talks about it. And he says, if you find yourself complaining and murmuring, then you must also understand that you're putting yourself in a position that the wrath of God will fall on you. Mumbling and complaining. OK. That's a real picnic. You just don't want people telling you the truth. Okay, so the New Bible Commentary, and I'm just going to reach back a little bit about what we talked about as far as Peter was concerned, and then we're going to smoothly move into the Transfiguration. So we're back to Peter and that whole issue that has been such a bugaboo with Romans, Catholics, Protestants, and everything that has to do with church government. The name Peter means rock. Jesus played on this meaning to designate Peter, to purposely designate Peter as the foundation of the new people of God. Now this is the new Bible commentary, this is D.A. Carson, R.T. Franz, saying that that was on purpose, this was not symbolic, that Jesus actually was giving Peter a leadership role. To designate Peter as the foundation of the new people of God, his leadership would involve the authority as of a steward whose keys symbolized his responsibility to regulate the affairs of the household of God. Peter would exercise his leadership by his authority to declare what is and what is not permissible in the kingdom of heaven, that is, to bind and to loose. The story of the early years of the church in Acts shows how Peter fulfilled this role. The same authority was shared with the other disciples. And you find this often, most clearly in Acts 18.18, where the you, talking Peter, talking to the other apostles, you are representative leaders and Peter is not considered to be an overlord. And to put a definition on that, Peter, in his writing in 1 Peter, just calls himself a fellow elder. So that kind of wraps that up and should be definitive for anybody that's looking at it. So it's a yes and a no. Peter has authority in the early foundations of the Church. And the no is that he was not, as is termed by Roman Catholics, the vicar or the representative of Christ on Earth for the sake of the Church. So it's a mix. Probably, more properly, it's a mix of understanding that Catholics probably got it wrong, but the Anabaptists, in reaction to the Catholics, probably got it just as wrong. I'm just going to say he made a mistake. Peter wasn't the rock, Cephas. The Lord made him Cephas, not the rock. Okay, so I'm getting there. I'm getting to Petra, one of the two words Petra, and Kerfa, I think it is. Let's see what else I want to do on this. It's interesting that in that particular segment that we were looking, that that was the first time Jesus saying, you are the Christ. Peter saying, you are the Christ. Okay, do you remember that? That was the first time anybody had ever used that title on Jesus. which, again, lends some credibility to this whole thing about Jesus and Peter and the church. So that was the first time, although Matthew had used the title seven or eight times at that point. The rock Petra differs from the name Petros. The rock referred to is not Peter himself. OK, Ernie, this is to your point. is not to Peter himself, but the confession that he had just made of Jesus as Messiah. So that is the rock. In Aramaic, OK, now he's going to give you the other side. In Aramaic, however, the same term, kipha, would appear in both places. The change in Greek, in fact, is not significant. Say that again, Jerry, about the rock and not Peter was not. Well, OK, lots of times the argument comes down to Petra, Petros. And then the editors in this section are talking, there's a third word that in Aramaic can be used for either one. So his point is trying to build a case based on Petra or Petros is probably the wrong way to enter the argument. That's what his point is, if you do this. And then he makes one more thing, the text does not, of course, say anything about the church in Rome. Doesn't say anything about Rome. Doesn't say anything about succession of the apostles from Peter on. Doesn't say anything about that. Really, all it's talking about is the unique founding role of Peter himself in the early church. And we really shouldn't ignore that fact. As Protestants, we probably shouldn't ignore that fact simply because of what Roman Catholics did with it. OK? We clear about this? All right. I didn't think that I covered this well enough. And so we're talking about this. this harsh pivot that Jesus took. And so on one hand, you've got two dynamics here. You've got Jesus on one hand talking about from this time on. Remember, that was one of the turning points. The first turning point in Matthew was from this time on, he preached repent. And then he used the same phrase again, from this time on, and all he talked about was his death. So there's two huge turning points, at the very least, in Matthew, which leaves the apostles in a really bad spot because of their misunderstanding of the cross. Now, it is, I think you might agree, sort of counterintuitive to say, Jesus, you're going to die, and that's going to be good? Right? I mean, you just stick your... That's exactly right. They didn't understand the whole, the completeness of the picture. But, you know, try not to miss the drama in all this. You get how the Apostle was saying, now tell me how this is a good thing. Okay? And if you go through any suffering, you say that. Tell me how this is a good thing. And I mean, this is the point, and I think I said this to you last week, where if you wanted to be kind of gross about it, you might say, tell me what good a dead Messiah is? And so there's that that's going on, and remember that Jesus, these are his top guys. If your top guys are misunderstanding the message, what do you expect is going on downstream? Okay, right? If you're running an organization, what do you expect is happening downstream that isn't happening with your executive council? Okay, so it marks this terrific turn where Jesus, even geographically, he's been content to be in Galilee, in the outer regions. He's ignored, basically, Jerusalem. So he starts talking about his death, and he makes a pivot to Jerusalem. So geographically, there's now a focus on Jerusalem, and the character of his preaching is almost totally about the cross. about his death, and then he'll add his resurrection, which we're going to talk about, because the apostles did not get resurrection either. They didn't understand that. Now, they understood the far resurrection. They believed the resurrection at the end of time, whenever that was going to happen. They got that. But any near-time resurrection? Uh-uh. They didn't understand it. And remember that Lazarus, the raising of Lazarus hasn't happened yet. So in our timeline, raising of Lazarus hasn't happened yet. So when I started thinking about that, I said, ah, that's why you did it then. So after all this, basically he's saying, come on, guys, here, I'll show you what resurrection looks like. So you might start to see some purpose. For the death of Lazarus, why did he have to die? For the death of Lazarus, the raising of Lazarus, and the witness that was to Jesus' disciples. So you kind of see how all that fits in when you're looking at it in these little pockets that MacArthur had done. Now, let me get back to Peter and then I'm going to get off this. This whole thing was just too much for Peter. That's what you're seeing. He had just made the confession, you are the Christ. And he gets the strongest commendation you can get from Jesus. Peter, you couldn't have got that anywhere except that God the Father gave it to you. Okay, what greater commendation can you get for your witness than that? All right, and then Peter turns right around and says, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to be talking about death. That's not going to happen. Okay, and Jesus assigns him to an act of Satan. Okay, so you got, all right, now, this is new Bible commentary. This is their take on what happened to Peter. Okay, so keep that in mind. This is their talk as they view that portion of the scripture and the words that are used. They say this, this all was just too much for Peter, whose triumphant declaration no doubt carried the hope of sharing in the Messiah's glory. Like other Jews at the time, he probably understood the Messiah's work and primarily earthly and political terms. Death, defeat, and death, and still worse, rejection by Israel's official leadership, was not on his agenda. He didn't think those things were going to happen. In this, he expressed the things of men, and as long as Jesus' disciples shared this purely human perspective, Jesus' mission, the things of God, would never make sense to the apostles. This is why Jesus had been anxious to tamp down all the popular enthusiasm. His remarkable fierce reaction to Peter, who had already been told he was the foundational rock of the new church, had suddenly become a stumbling block. And the idea of sharing the Messiah's glory had to give way to sharing his humiliation and rejection. And who wanted to do that? To take up the cross is to set off for public execution, not to suffer patiently some irritation. That's not what Jesus was talking about. Not that you're going to suffer a hangnail I'm telling you to pick up your cross and follow me, and follow me right to the executioner." That's what he was saying. Now we put that in a bunch of different categories. That's not what Jesus was talking about. For the disciple, as for the master, it was going to lead to literal death. But by a powerful play on words, the same Greek word for life and soul, Jesus posed the question of this. What is real life to you? They're more important considerations than merely physical survival. What is real life to you? That was the question. That was the question to them. What is real life to you? Okay, so I could go on, it goes on along those ways. That's the new Bible commentary, new Bible commentary. Carson, France, pretty good. It would make a great Valentine gift if you didn't do anything. Just saying, you could say it was back-ordered, you know, I mean, you could just lie about it. Okay, so the critical importance of the cross, being counterintuitive to the understanding of the apostles, his inner circle, they didn't get it. So let us move forward to number 89. Jesus is gloriously transfigured. Now again, you've got to put this in context of purpose. purpose. What was this for? What was it about? Was it for Jesus? Did Jesus somehow benefit from this? There are some people that want to talk about that he was being encouraged by Elijah and Moses and being strengthened for his journey. You know, Elijah and Moses, you've got to consider this in its totality, Elijah and Moses, even though they are residing in some form of the heavenly realm, are not greater than Jesus. So trying to put them into a spot where they're teaching him about it or giving him counsel, probably wrong. because of who they are and because of who Jesus is, okay? So you see my point? So you're always looking. I'm sorry? Peter made that point when he said, I can put up three tens. Yeah, I mean, what was bad about that? What was bad about Peter saying, I'll put up three boos? One for Elijah, one for Moses, one for you. What was he doing? He was making them equal. He was making them equal. Who said that? Thank you, Rick. See how necessary you are. You need to come more often. He was equating Elijah, Moses, and Jesus. That's horrendous. I've always wondered how did they know it was Elijah and Moses? Well, name tags. See? How did I know that I was calling you the wrong name? Look at your name tag. Yeah, who knows? I mean, it's a good question. How do you know Moses and Elijah? How did they get bodies? There's other questions in there. I mean, before the final resurrection, how did Moses and Elijah get bodies that Peter, James, and John could actually see? And Jerry, I think it's interesting. It said, while Peter was speaking, God the Father spoke from heaven and said, you know, this is my son, and I'm all pleased, and then he says, hear him. Listen, yeah. And basically told him to shut up. Yeah, well, OK, so I got that same thing, Terry, that while Peter's talking, God just interrupts. If this was a glimpse into eternity, then sure, they would have bodies, because they were, you know, if it wasn't just a glimpse into that. Yeah. But the reality of this is, in order for Peter, James, and John to have any testimony of this occurrence, the bodies were necessary. Right? I mean, and you find that God does what's necessary for his purpose. And he's not confined by rules. Well, you did it right there. You've got to do it over here. Well, no, I don't. You know, we try to impose rules of conduct on you. On what basis would we do so? Jerry, I have a question. Last week, we were talking about the line where he says, standing here will shall not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. And you said, it probably wasn't the transfiguration. That's right. I did say that. And the point completely went over my head. All right, why would I say that? Why would I say something that was, well, option one, he's just wrong. Obviously he's not wrong. He was seeing if you were paying attention. All right, what I was saying is, one, we could take it just the way it's written. After six days, he exposes his glory to Peter, James, and John. We could say that. And they were the ones that didn't taste death because they saw it. So we take it just like that. If we take it for the way that it's handled in Matthew, Remember that whole thing about Matthew 24, where the term coming kept being used. And what we determined was that was coming off of Daniel 7, where one that looked like he was the son of man, looking like he was slain, received the kingdom from the Ancient of Days. Do you remember Daniel 7? And so the way we took that was this coming into his kingdom was not time-oriented. It was prophecy fulfilled after Jesus finished his earthly ministry and sacrifice and resurrection. So Jesus says, it is finished. It is finished. That was all that the Messiah was to do. So upon his ascension, I should say, he went back into his heavenly realm in his rightful place, receiving the kingdom which was always the intention. So what we were saying was the coming part of that was not time-oriented. It was event-oriented. So that's why I said that. And I could be completely wrong. But that's the take of France in his commentary in Matthew, that that's what is meant. Now, taking a different view, and I'm on page 230, this is going to give you a slightly different view, is this. Now, it came to pass. after six days, and after these things, okay, where Jesus says, I'm going to suffer and die, right? And this is after his proclamation to Peter. Jesus took Peter, James, and John's brother and led them up on a high mountain by themselves, and he did that to pray, and as he prayed, he was transfigured Again, before them. It didn't happen in secret. The appearance of his face was altered, shown like the sun. His clothes became shining and glistening, exceedingly white like snow. White as the light. Now you see the mix of all the Gospels in there. You see how you get a continuous picture. So here's Mark, became shining, his face was altered. Here's Matthew, shone like the sun in his clothes. Mark became shining, luke and glistening. Mark, exceedingly white like snow, you get the idea, okay? This is harmonizing the Gospels. As white as light, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them, and behold, Moses and Elijah appeared, and again, to them, And they were talking with Jesus, who appeared in glory and spoke of his--" now, look, this is interesting speak. Spoke of his decease, which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem. Anybody draw back at that? Yeah? Terry? Well, you know you're going to die, right? So let's talk about your death. about his decease, which he was about to accomplish. So we're not flipping your life backwards, which is what Dr. Scheffler is doing, where you look at your life from your death backwards. That's what this is talking about there. He's talking about his death making his accomplishment. So my point here, I think, is that we don't look at our personal suffering and all that as having purpose to it, and yet it may well have purpose, as Jesus had purpose in this, which he understood very well. It was his ministry and purpose that he was about to accomplish. Now, this is also part of what the disciples do not understand. You know, Peter's saying, at all costs, you have got to avoid the cross. Don't go to Jerusalem, okay? And Jesus says, Peter, go away. You do not understand what I have to do. But one day, you will. OK, so you see this? Now, here's a part of this that I don't quite get. So give me some counsel. But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep. And when they were fully awake, they saw. I don't quite get those sentences. OK? Heavily asleep. And when they were fully awake, his glory and the two men who stood with him. Anybody understand that? Maybe it's like our regeneration. They finally understood. I don't quite grasp that. I think they were sleeping. I think it was nighttime when the transfiguration happened, wasn't it? Okay. They just woke him. Could have been. They were awake when it happened. They were awakened and they saw his board. Is that the same word that would have been used when they were asleep at the garden? When they were asleep in the garden? That's what I was thinking. I don't know. I mean, I just, it's a little bit cumbersome. Well, wouldn't you think if he showed like they say he did that that would wake you up? Well, okay, I'm glad you said that. Now there are people that believe that you can be slain in the spirit. Eva believes you can be slain in the spirit. Okay, being slain in the spirit, and of course you've seen this on TV where the preacher will just hit you on the head and bam, you just fall out, you're out. I've seen it on TV where he takes out a whole auditorium. Okay, they all fall down and it's, okay. 500 of them. All right, so, and being slain in the spirit, I heard an argument for this that, went through the scripture and identified people that were slain in the spirit and in the scripture. For example, when Jesus was in the garden, was this what you were going to say? Okay. When Jesus was in the garden and they came to arrest him and he said, who are you looking for? And they said, we're looking for Jesus of Nazareth. And he said, I am he. And the scripture says, and they all fell down. Oh yeah, you said I am. Okay. That's a place, if you believe, being slain in the Spirit, you might point to that. See there? Right there. Where the Spirit is so overpowering It just takes your legs out from under you. Yeah, but that was God that did that to them. Some preachers are not going to have that. Okay, I'm not arguing in favor of preachers doing that. Okay, so that's an aside, but obviously I agree with your point that you're seeing Jesus in a glorified state. and you're going to remain somehow static and composed? I would think so. So my personal understanding of this is that's exactly what happened. It's just overpowering. And then Peter says something dumb, right? Let's give Peter credit. Master, it's good for us to be here. If you wish, let us make three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses, one for Elijah. Not knowing what he said, because he didn't know what to say, for they were so great. Are you afraid? No, I think everybody would like to hear. You know what I mean? I really get it. I mean, we are kind of asleep and not really fully appreciating, you know, fully appreciating. I mean, I can really relate to that. I mean, me too. Taking these apostles as being human, fleshly, not understanding, uneducated kind of guys, sticking them in the middle of that situation? And while he was still speaking, okay, this is what Terry said, while Peter was still talking, behold, a bright cloud came, overshadowed them, and they were fearful as they entered the cloud. Okay, now the cloud always is talking about the glory of God. Okay, you're entering into the intense light of the glory of God. And suddenly a voice came out of the cloud saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, hear him. So now do you think that had anything to do with the fact that Peter was still talking? hear him, and when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces. And here again you see greatly afraid." Yeah. Right? When the voice had ceased, Jesus came, touched them, arise, don't be afraid. When they had lifted up their eyes, they looked around, saw no one but Jesus, only with themselves. I mean, it's a beautiful picture, isn't it? Just a beautiful picture. until after he was raised from the dead. Yeah. I mean, they thought the whole thing was over, even though Jesus had explicitly told them, I will be mistreated, I will die, I will lay in the grave three days, and I will resurrect. You have to take into consideration who they were. They were Jews. And they always thought Jesus would come as a warrior in his kingdom. There you are. Yep, absolutely. They called him Rabbi until the end. That's the way they looked at it. Yeah, so apply some of this. These major terms that the Lord gives you, and let's take an easy one. these major turns in your life theologically. Let's suppose you're on a, take a pick, you're on the Baptist train, or you're on the Methodist train, or you're on the Catholic train, and that's all you've heard, and then all of a sudden, the Scripture starts appearing like it wants to take you in a different direction. See that? The more you read the Scripture, the more it's trying to that pull you into a way different direction than the train that you're on. I know some of your testimonies here. It's exactly what happened to you, you know? And it becomes a real contest if you keep coming to church and you keep hearing the truth of the gospel, because you're compelled to believe this new truth, and yet you don't want to because it's so contrary to everything you know. It's really the first time that being It makes it clear that Jesus is right there. No one but Jesus only. I mean, at the end of the day, it's really what Christ is saying all along. I'm it, that's all I need to, that's it. There's nothing else in there. That's what your life should be about. Yeah, it's a beautiful picture. And what did this do for Peter? Okay, so they've heard all this bad news, right? Heard all this terrible news, and then, They see Jesus in his glorified state. I mean, you see how this squared the books with heaven. How they may well have seen both sides of the ledger now. OK, it talks about he transfigured before that. Right. And then it goes on to say they were heavy with sleep and they didn't know what to do. Now, I don't know if there was one. I don't understand all that stuff. I worked with a woman who said it was scary. She didn't do it at her church. even though they did it in her church. I'm not saying I believe that was true, right? I don't know. She just said that she wasn't about to go up there, even though she's a member of her congregation. But it's almost like the response from Peter and them is, I don't know. But yet when God spoke, they immediately fell on their face. I mean, it's more of a sense that they knew all about God. But they still didn't get Jesus, even when he transfigured, I mean, in a way. I mean, it's like the response between the two, to me, are very different. Oh, yeah, very different. So, I mean, I don't know if heavy with sleep was they were literally sleeping, or they just still didn't get it, or... Yeah. I don't know. Well, it's safe to say they didn't get it. Yeah. Okay, that even after these, and I would think this would this extravagant manifestation of the glory of Jesus, that even after that, they still didn't quite understand. Well, in fact, let's just turn the page, because they say exactly that thing. Now, as they came down from the mountain, so after this tremendous experience, Jesus commanded and saying, tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead. Okay, now that's not the first time they've heard that, right? So they kept this word to themselves and told no one in those days any of the things they've seen while questioning what rising from the dead meant. There you are. I mean, you know, and Thomas. You know, unless I put my hands in the holes of the nails, I am not going to believe this. And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then did the scribes say that Elijah must come first? And Jesus answered and said, Indeed, Elijah is coming first, and will restore all things. But I say to you, Elijah has already come. And they didn't know him. He did to him whatever they wished, as it is written, likewise how is it written concerning the Son of Man, that he must also suffer many things at their hands and be treated with, and this word is just awful, contempt. You're treating the Lord Jesus with contempt. And the disciples understood as he spoke to them John the Baptist. So go to this note on 232, questioning what the rising from the dead meant. You see that? It's the study note on page 232, questioning what rising from the dead meant. Like most of the Jewish people, Sadducees being notable exceptions, the disciples believe in a future resurrection, What confused them was Jesus' implication that his own resurrection was imminent. Now? And thus, so was his death. The disciples' confusion provides further evidence that they still did not understand Jesus' messianic mission. Further proof that Peter didn't get it was when he was in the garden. And he felt like he had to defend Jesus. He drew the sword. There you are. And yet, what would our reaction be to the same thing? You know, I mean, I'm right there. I'm saying, yeah, you're not taking him. I don't care what the odds are. And you know, can't you just see Jesus? Peter, put the sword away. I mean, you know, you could put a, Peter, Don't you think that I at any time could call for 10,000 angels to defend me? You think I need you with one sword? I mean, so these little pockets that we get. Okay, so after all the terrible news, Jesus took his inner circle, and that's significant in itself, that Jesus had his buddies. I don't like it. You don't like the term? OK. I don't like the fact. You don't like that it happened. Jesus had preference for some of the disciples over the others. And yet, I think that we're all equal. There's a little resentment in my heart that he had favorites. I'm a relevant account to God in the end. So you want to tell Jim, you want to tell him. I have a feeling he's going to be higher up than me. Yeah, honey, I want him to know. I want him to know. Wouldn't that be the human side of things? Okay, now do you hear what this is? I mean, now it appears, let's say that. It appears that Jesus had favorites. And the favorites appear to be Peter, James, and John. And multiple times in the scripture you see Jesus took Peter, James, and John and did such and such. Now, it appears they were favorites. Elizabeth said, I just wanted to rewrite the Bible and tell God why. Isn't it good having her back? I wish it was. I'm glad she's well. It's affecting my soul. OK, anybody else take umbrage with that? Keep me straight. That Jesus didn't love, have kinship, with all the apostles all in exactly the same way. Anybody else take offense to that? This is probably not very intelligent. Maybe, you know, foretelling like, you know, the elect are considered faithful, and you have the people who are not. And this is just an example. So God the Father Well, that's what I kind of thought when they took it, that it could be symbolic. But also, if he came as man, then would he not have some attributes of man in the sense that We all have people that we prefer to be with over others. It doesn't always mean we like them better. Okay. You're not putting spiritual value on it. You're talking about just the human reaction. Well, I'm just saying, if he came as man as well as God, then the man part of him would have attributes of, there's just some people he's coming on who enjoy better than others. It doesn't mean that you like somebody better I mean, I like a lot of people, but there's certain people that I like to spend more time with just because I enjoy their company more so than others. Okay, so why are we fighting this? Why do we not like the idea that Jesus may well have liked two or three out of his... Are you fighting? It doesn't bother me. Could we use the same argument? He only picked 12. they were all I mean, it's got it's got to begin and end somewhere. What if you just had a purpose? There you go. That's what Terry just whispered in my ear that they have a special purpose James the church, john to write revelation and to see all this and to live the longest. And so and Peter Was the head of the church. Was the head of the church. I mean, not Peter, but what he said about the Christ. So that's a good point. You and Terry agree, honey. And so now I'm. It's got to be wrong if they agree. You knew he was going to say that. So I'm not going to rewrite this. I'm not going to be gone. OK. Well, OK. So you're. And I'm not being negative. You're spiritualizing it. I'm looking at it at face value. So, OK. I have more power when it says what he says about Esau than I do about that. Well, again, now that should be spiritualized because that's exactly what he's talking about, right? Because he talks about God's choice and election in Esau and Jacob. Okay. All right. Wait a minute. Let him explain. We'll expand that a little bit. Okay. Jacob, I'd love that he saw what God says. Yeah. And I'd like to say, so he didn't die. I'm just saying, don't it bother you that God specifically says he hated someone? More so than Jesus had friends. Yeah. Jesus had favors. That would bother me more than Jesus having a favor. Okay. Isn't that just all of us trying to decide what justice is? Yeah. What really we shouldn't be? You saw in Jacob? All of it. No, we're talking about all of it. Like you, as humans, sometimes we want to think in our own head, well, that's not justice, even though God is the one who decides what justice is, not us. But as humans, we think we know better sometimes. And that's, well, I mean, you know what I'm saying. Everybody sometimes questions the least bit. Why is this happening? How can this be right? When you see someone suffering or, yeah, I mean, I think. That's what Peter was doing. Peter was saying, no, no, no, no, that's not gonna work. Now, you being dead is not the answer to this problem. He thinks he's protecting him. He's trying to protect him. But he was wrong. Exactly. You've got to see it. He was wrong. Alright, we've got to quit. Alright, we'll pick up next week at number 4, number 112. We'll do, and I always say this, 12, 13, 14 is on the menu for next week. 112, 113, 114 is on the menu for next week. Lord, thank you for the fact that you give us your scripture and the fact that you've given us servants throughout history that have ministered to us. And sometimes these guys really suffered for it. But you know, Lord, you have been faithful to do exactly what you said, to build your church, and the gates of hell itself will not overcome it. We thank you for your grace and the fact that you are Almighty God. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.