stage for what's about to come. All right. How about we do some Ezekiel. And we've been we've gone through the first three chapters. We looked at basically angelic creatures the four living creatures. We looked at how they followed along with the glory of God. Ezekiel a couple of times had an encounter with the glory of God. And now we we started this last week and we're going to pick up with some object lessons that God is having Ezekiel do, not down in Jerusalem area, but he's still, he's up in Babylon, and God has a great number of people that have been taken captive to Babylon. Again, three main deportations. 605 BC, just as a reminder of this quick review, In 605 BC, when Nebuchadnezzar came in with his first deportation, what major prophet was taken captive to Babylon? Daniel, along with thousands of others. Second major, second major deportation, what major prophet was taken captive to Babylon? Ezekiel, okay, the one we're talking about right now. Now, we have not gotten to the third deportation because Ezekiel, is now prophesying about what is going to take place. Now from history, we do know that there's going to be a third major deportation. What year is that going to happen? 586 B.C., so 605 B.C., 597 B.C., Ezekiel's in Babylon. Now Ezekiel's preaching to those in the captivity about what's going to take place. The thing to understand here, why is God having Ezekiel talk to people in captivity instead of going down Jerusalem at this point? Because they're still not getting it. And God is going to be working on the people that are already in captivity, telling them that their city's gonna be destroyed. And that's basically what's coming. All right, so again, first object lesson. We got through, I think, verse four last time. So he said, you son of man, take a clay tablet, lay it before you, portray on it a city, specifically Jerusalem. Now he's like, I want you to build military things around it like it's gonna get plundered. Well, this was more than just a little picture, this is prophecy, and this is exactly what happened. Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, heap up a mound against it, set camps against it also, and place battering rams against all around. So again, Ezekiel makes this little teeny little city, and some of you remember why he did this and how he's going to portray it. Basically he's just sitting, he's gonna lay on his one side, then he's gonna lay on his other side, and he's got this city of Jerusalem that God is going to, he's prophesying, I'm gonna destroy it. It hasn't been destroyed yet. And Ezekiel is giving a long object listen to those in captivity, verse three. Moreover, take for yourself an iron plate, set it as an iron wall between you and the city, set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a what? A sign, okay? And that's exactly what God is having Ezekiel do. Not like the nonsense signs we looked at half an hour ago. This is a real deal. God's saying this is a sign, Ezekiel, that I want you to get to the people about the destruction that's going to come. All right. So again, here's another artist rendition. He's basically laying. People are watching him. And we're going to actually talk about what he was able to eat and how his food was to be made. It's rather quite disgusting. But we'll get to that a little bit later. I'm not sure we're going to get to it tonight. Let me just explain it, because this will come up probably next week, because based on time, we won't get there. God basically tells him, listen, here's what I want you to do. You're going to lay there. You're going to lay there for 390 days and another 40 days. And what I want you to do is you're going to get about a quart of water a day to drink. Then I want you to take some different grains, put them together with some lentils and so forth, and I want you to cook them. And again, this is where it gets a little bizarre. God says, I want you to cook your food over human excrement, which I want you to do in front of the people. Ezekiel pushed back and says and again we'll get to this probably not today but I want to explain the picture and you'll remember when we get to that probably in a week or so. Ezekiel says Lord really like I've never done anything that's defiled I've never eaten anything that's defiled. I've really I've tried to do my best to follow law and God says all right I'll make a compromise here. God changes. And he says, instead of using human excrement, you can use cow excrement and you can cook your food over that. It's still defiled, it's still yucky, it's still whatever, but God said the Jewish people are gonna be eating defiled food when the plunder comes. And of course, he didn't tell him the date, but in 586 BC, this is all picturing what would happen. No water, no food, no fuel. and it's just gonna be a horrible time because of Israel's sin. So again, he's prophesying using these object lessons. Verse four, lie also on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it according to the number of the days that you lie in it, you shall bear their iniquity. Now here's where we left off last week, we got through this. For I've laid on you the years of their iniquity according to the number of the days 390 days, so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. So again, and I told you that I went through quite a few different commentaries. Nobody could come up with what they thought the 390 days referred to except one individual, which was Warren Wiersbe. And he's not usually a very detailed exegetical commenter. He's a little more practical, but he actually is the one that came up with a reasonable explanation. So he said listen, the division of the northern and southern kingdom when Solomon's son Rehoboam basically split with Solomon's servant who was Jeroboam. We're actually gonna spend a lot of time on that tonight. So we got two individuals. Solomon had a servant named Jeroboam. And we're gonna see that in the next slide. That's very important. Solomon had a son. named Rehoboam. So we have this division that's going to take place. But the point is Solomon's son Rehoboam, when he took office, was the king of the south of Judah. From the date that he took office as the king until Zedekiah came out to 394 years. Well wait a minute, 394 doesn't work with 390. Well, we're going to also see that Rehoboam walked with God around three years, according to 2 Chronicles 11, which then reasonably gets you to that 390 number. So is that 100% accurate? I can't swear to it, because the scriptures don't tell us, but it's the best explanation that I've seen, so that's what I'm at least sharing with you. All right, so here's what we're going to be looking at. We're going to give you a little bit of history now. We're going to stop Ezekiel for a second. Again, I don't know who knows what about Israel's history. I don't know if you how many people understand about the division that happened between the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom and how all that came about. So one time I'm going to do this. We're going to go through it. And if anybody wants to know more about that, then they can come back and look at this lesson. So we're kind of doing a A little caveat here for a minute to explain why these things were taking place. All right, so if you look up here, 930 BC is when the kingdom divided. Instead of having the complete Israel, it got divided into the two major sections that you see on the map. Israel, how many tribes were assigned to Israel? 10, and Judah? Two. Basically, you're going to see what almost sounds like a contradiction in scripture, that they were assigned one tribe, but we'll explain why Judah and Benjamin became part of that southern kingdom. That's going to follow along here. So again, the slide, Jeroboam is Solomon's servant. He rebels against Solomon. He's going to become the king of Israel. Rehoboam, who does some awful naughty things too, we're gonna see, becomes, if you will, the leader of the southern kingdom or of Judah. So these are the two key players that we wanna keep in mind. So we go from one empire, if you will, Israel, to two different sections, the northern and the southern kingdom. Now, again, we're gonna look at the history of this now from scripture. The northern kingdom, what year and by whom, first of all, what year were they taken into captivity? Israel, the northern section. 722 B.C. and who took Israel, not Judah, but who took Israel into captivity? Assyria. Why does that matter? Because Assyria in 722 B.C. was the world empire at that time. they are going to be plundered by what country? Babylon, all right, which is why we're dealing with Babylon in 605, 597, and 586, it's all under the Babylonian Empire. All right, so let's look at the history of this. So Rehoboam, again, the son of whom? Rehoboam is the son of Solomon. Who is Solomon's dad? David, all right, so if we start out with King Saul, then we go to King David. King David, and then King David has a son named Solomon. Solomon has a son named Rehoboam. It's kind of weird because Jeroboam, the Boam brothers, they're not brothers, they're different. Jeroboam was a servant, Rehoboam was a son, but they kind of sound the same, so it's kind of hard to keep them separate. All right, 2 Chronicles 11. Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem. Where did Solomon? Okay, Solomon again, he's the king. was the king and built cities for defense in Judah, the southern kingdom. And he built Bethlehem, Edom, Tekoa, Beth, Zer, Soka, Adullam, Gath, Mereshath, Ziph, Aduram, Lashish, Zecha, Zorah, Hijan, and Hebron. You all know where all those are, right? Yeah, just southern section Israel, just keep that in mind. Which are in Judah, that southern section, again, all those cities, We were just talking about in that red section is where they were built. And he, speaking of Rehoboam, Solomon's son, fortified the strongholds and put captains in them and stores of food, oil, and wine. Also in every city, he put shields and spears and made them very strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side. And from all their territories, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel took their stand with him. For the Levites left their common lands and their possessions and came to Judah. Now remember, Jerusalem is in the region of Judea, which is also known as Judah at this point. So for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to the Lord. All right, so Jeroboam is going to end up being the boss over the north or the south? The north, all right. Jeroboam rebels. They reject the Levites and they're gonna go into paganism. So the Levites said, well, let's go south where we think we can be better or better serve in Judah. All right, 2 Chronicles 11.5. Then he, Jeroboam, appointed for himself priests for the high places. All right, in Scripture, when we're talking about the high places, what are we referring to? pagan idolatrous places. In other words, Jeroboam built altars to their idolatrous, or to their false gods, which was idolatry. So Jeroboam appointed for himself priests for the high places, catch the next words, for the what? For the demons and the calf idols which he had made. So there's no doubt about it, Jeroboam is rebelling against God, the northern kingdom rebelled against God, and it's just setting that straight in this particular verse, so helps us understand it. Verse 16, and after the Levites left, now who are the Levites? They're the priests, they're the ones that take care of the temple, they do all the priestly things in Jerusalem, but after the Levites left, those from all the tribe of Israel, such as set their heart to seek the Lord God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice the Lord God of their fathers. And again, Levites had specific territories that were given to them amongst all of the 12 tribes, but they got fed up in the northern kingdom and came south. So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong for how long? Three years, that's that 394, and now we got the three years, so at least we're within striking distance of the 390. because they walked in the way of David and Solomon. So Rehoboam, Solomon's son, is actually doing right for about three years of his reign. All right, now here's where we're probably gonna park the rest of the time. This is the historical background of how the North and the South split. And it's in 1 Kings chapter 11, and we're gonna spend just probably the rest of the night on this in order just to set this so you have the historical background. If you've never gone through this, it's well worth the effort to understand it. If you're familiar with it, just consider it hopefully a good review, and that'll take us right back so we start understanding why Ezekiel is specifically talking to the southern kingdom at this point. All right, 1 Kings 11, let's start it out. But King Solomon, loved many foreign women as well as the daughter of Pharaoh, woman of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites. Is this God's perfect will that Solomon had all these foreign wives? Absolutely not. From the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, and here's what proves it, You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely, and this is why in the New Testaments it makes it very clear, do not marry an unsaved person if you're a Christian. It's just asking for trouble and God says it's not to be done. You say, well does it happen? Of course it happens. It happens all the time, folks get married and a Christian to a non-Christian, it's like, well, you know, they'll come to Christ because I'm really gonna, I'm gonna get the Bible to them. Maybe, maybe that scenario will come to pass, but, and young people, anytime young people come and it's like, man, you know, I'm a Christian, I know I'm a Christian, but man, I just love him or I just love her, and I really think they're gonna come to Christ someday, and it's like, Can't marry you can't no can do because if that you get that say if the scenario happens where both of them are Christians. Yeah. All good. If the person comes to Christ all good. I've I've led multiple multiple individuals to Christ because somebody wanted to marry that person and they're unsaved they come to my office and it's like The first thing I ask couples every single time, well, tell me your testimony. When did you put your faith and trust in Christ? And the same one, boom, out it comes. The other person is like, well, well, you know, and maybe they'll talk about, well, you know, I go to church, the typical answers. And I'm like, well, if you died right now, where would you go? And seriously, I've had the privilege of leading quite a few folks to Christ. Some doesn't happen, and we're not going to the altar together. But folks come to Christ, I watch them for a bit, make sure it's not a love conversion, but a true conversion to Christ, and we move forward. But why? Because this is exactly why. When you marry an unsaved person, it's gonna go south. And that's what happened with Solomon. Surely they will turn your hearts after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love. Did Solomon end up being corrupt because of all of this idolatry and pagan gods in his life? Yeah, he messed up. And God told him he would mess up, but he did it anyway. All right, so who are all these people that he's talking about? So again, Israel is off to the left, and the red would be Gaza now, but it wasn't Gaza back in the day. of the southern kingdom, which is kind of the brown, and then up north, we're looking at Israel. So we're talking about the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the Edomites, all in what's known as modern-day Jordan. So they were taking wives from there, which they shouldn't have done. They were making peace with the enemy. The city of Sidon was just a little bit north of Moab, Edom, and what did I leave out? Moab, oh, Moab, Ammon and Edom. So Sidon was just the next city north of that where they were taking wives from, which they shouldn't have. And then finally, up to the north, even a little bit further, the Hittite kingdom. Again, not saved people, not Jewish. Well, not Jewish people. None of those folks were following the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But Solomon says we need to make peace. And the best way to make peace is to give me a give me a wife from your areas. And Not a good idea, and of course, totally against what God had in mind. All right, but that's how it started, and that was the downfall of Solomon following God. 1 Kings 11.3, and he had, check this out, 700 wives. Back in, it's kind of funny, but back in the day, and I don't even know if ladies hardly wear these anymore, preacher in the church I was going to, he said, man, that's a lot of pantyhose on the shower. And I don't know, shouldn't have said that, but I always found that amusing. And it's the way I remember, I'm like, wow, that is something. 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines, 300 concubines. So he had 700 literal wives, 300 support actresses, if you will, and his wives turned away his heart. That's 1,000 females that he was basically, had relationships with, and I mean, they're his wives and concubines. So I'm like, wow, I can't hardly keep track of Valerie, much less 1,000 others. But I mean, it's just, it's unbelievable. But that's what Solomon did. Was it wrong? Yes. Was it against God's will? Yes. Is polygamy and bigamy and all the rest against God? Yes. Did God allow it to happen without killing them? Yes, he did. And it's just an amazing thing. Verse four, for it was so when Solomon was old that his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God as was the heart of his father David. All right, this is the starting point of how we're gonna end up with the two divided kingdoms. Solomon messed up. He's not following God. his son is going to be as bad or worse than Solomon was. Verse five, for Solomon went after Ashtaroth, the goddess of the Sidonians. Well, why did he do that? Let's see, did Solomon marry anybody from Sidon? Yeah, and she brought her gods in or whatever it was, and so he's like, well, that's cool, I'll follow Ashtaroth. And after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites, so he married people from the area of Ammon and sucked into their gods as well. Solomon did evil on the side of the Lord and did not fully follow the Lord as did his father David. Solomon built a high place, in other words an altar for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the people of Ammon. Remember what happened with Molech? What did people do with their children with the false god Molech? They sacrificed their children to him. It's actually the place called Gehenna. If you go to Israel, and it's one of the border areas right north, let's see, right south of Jerusalem, and Gehenna still exists, although it used to be a perpetual fire. It was a garbage dump. and they had a statue of the god Moloch there, and the people would take their babies, put their babies on the arms of Moloch, and they literally would burn to death there as an offering to, I mean, just horrible abominations. Why? Because Solomon married foreign women that didn't know God, and to horrible results. Verse eight, and he did likewise for all his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods, so the Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned to the Lord, or from the Lord, God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. Can you imagine that? I mean, I would be, I think I would be, I mean, I'd be awestruck, but man, I mean, if God appeared to you and talked to you, I mean, how outstanding would that be? I mentioned, I don't remember what, I think it might have been last Wednesday, it's like, you know, I'm sitting out in the backyard or whatever, which is where I like to do my personal quiet kind of times. It's like, you know, and I just talked to God and it's like, you know, and I said this, you know, would you break the rule and come on down and chat with me a while? And you know, I'd just like to see it, have a chat. And of course God says, nope, not doing it. But I mean, he saw God twice. I mean, how amazing. God appears to him twice, talks to him twice, and he still messes up. Yeah, the strength of the flesh, absolutely. I mean, amazing. All right, verse 11. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, because you have done this and have not kept my covenant, my statutes, which I have commanded you, here it is. I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant, who's a servant, Jeroboam, who's his son? Rehoboam. All right, verse 12. Nevertheless, I will not do it in your eyes for the sake of your father David. I will tear it out of the hand of your son, which will be Rehoboam. So God allows him to die without the kingdom being removed, but he guarantees that under his son it will be taken away. However, I will not tear away the whole kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son, which is actually Judah, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have Chosen. All right, a few more here. Then Solomon's servant Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zaretta, whose mother's name was Zerua, a widow, also rebelled against the king. All right, just one tragedy after another. And this is what caused him to rebel against the king. Solomon had built the Milo and repaired the damages to the city of David his father. The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor, and Solomon, seeing that the young man was industrious, made him the officer over all the labor force of the house of Joseph. All right, so this is a picture of basically what was called the Milo. Now if you go, again, if you're in Israel, this is part of the city of David. I mean, it's quite Interesting, the architecture, this has been uncovered. If you go about three blocks north of this, you're at the Temple Mount. So basically you come off the Temple Mount area, walk through the old city of Jerusalem, you cross a main street, and then you come about a block south of that, and this is where the big giant city of David is, where this Milo existed. All right, now it happened at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the way and he had clothed himself in a new garment and the two were alone in the field. We're gonna talk about the division now. Then Ahijah took hold of the new garment that was on him and tore it into 12 pieces. And of course you know why, 12 tribes of Israel. And he said to Jeroboam, take for yourself 10 pieces. In other words, he's getting 10 of the 12 tribes. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give 10 tribes to you. But he shall have one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. All right, a little more. Because they have forsaken me, What did they do? Solomon worshiped false gods. He got sucked into idolatry. Folks, this is one of the reasons why I did what I did at the beginning of our time together. I don't want you to get sucked in by stuff that's false, that's nonsense, that's anti-biblical. It's like we gotta fight against it. We don't want to corrupt our walk with God. We don't wanna corrupt the word of God. So we've got to make sure we understand it. Solomon, because he failed to warn the people and he failed to walk with God and he failed to only marry within, if you will, the Jewish people, man, bad things happen, okay? So he said, because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, Shemesh, the god of the Moabites, Milcom, the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my eyes and keep my statutes and my judgments as did his father David. However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hands, we're getting redundant now, because I made him ruler over all the days of his life for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose because he kept my commandments and my statutes. Here we go. Everything's boiling down to, we're gonna end up at about 930 BC right now, but, and here's God's pronouncement, I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and give it to you 10 tribes. And to his son, who's his son? Who's his son? Rehoboam, I will give one tribe that my servant David, wait a minute, Davidic covenant, 2 Samuel chapter seven verses six to 16. God promised that there would always be a Jewish people and he also promised from the line of David that who would come from the line of David, the Messiah. would come from the line of David, so he could not wipe them out. So he said that my servant David may always have a lamp, basically speaking of, we're not silencing his line, it will always be there, a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there. So I will take you, you shall reign over all your heart desires and you shall be king over Israel. Then it shall be, if ye heed all that I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as my servant David did." Isn't that amazing? We're probably going to stop here. Did David always walk with God? Yet, how does God describe David? He walked in my ways and did what is right in my sight. Kept my statutes and my commandments. Wait a second. So David sees Bathsheba. He lusts after her. She comes to his chambers. He has an intimate relationship with her. She gets pregnant by David. David gets upset when he finds out that Bathsheba's pregnant because she's married. So David says, have his husband show up at my chambers. Listen, you've done a great job out there. I want you just to eat, drink, be merry, go see your wife. Why? because he wanted him to go into his wife. I mean, obviously, she wasn't showing much at this point. But if you're an adult, you understand what happens when you get pregnant. Certain things don't happen and certain things obviously didn't happen. So she knew she was pregnant. So he's like, listen, get him to come, get him up into his house. And that stinker said, I will not go into my wife. why should I enjoy my wife when my other friends are out there dying for the cause and fighting the battle? And David's like, come on, man, eat, drink tonight, enjoy things, go in and see your wife, and that stinker wouldn't do it. He was so loyal to the cause of God and fighting, so what does David do? Sends him to the front lines and said, listen, get this guy, send him to the front lines, withdraw the troops, And guess what happens? He's dead. So he basically set up his murder. And God says, then it shall be if you heed all that I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as my servant David did. David's dead now. I mean, he's not around. All these things that happened, and what does God say? My servant David kept my statutes, kept my commandments. Why do you think God could say that at this point? What did David do after he sinned against God? I mean, he repented full bore. God, I knew I messed up. I'm sorry I messed up. And he wailed and moaned and it was as sincere as he can be because God accepted it. God knows the heart. And because he had done, I mean, good night, he commits adultery, he commits murder. I mean, God took his son from him. He killed his son. That was a part of Bathsheba and his get-together. But because his heart was repentant, and he's like, God, yeah, I messed up. I messed up big time. And God says, all right. I mean, think about it. And we are going to shut down here, and I'll pick up next week. Have you ever done anything wrong. Don't say a word. We've all done wrong right. You ever messed up really bad. We ever. So he said no. Well good for you. How many folks have messed up. And I mean they just live with guilt. They live horribly. And all of a sudden first John 1 9 might come to mind if we confess our sins he is what. His faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Good night David. I mean he did a couple of the biggies there so to speak. I mean horrible horrible things. And yet he comes to God repents of his horrible behavior and gets right with God and God said let's move forward David. Now wonderful. Listen, I don't care what you did yesterday, the day before, 100 years ago. I don't care what sin you committed. No matter what you've done, and some people live in horrible guilt, why don't you do what David did? Give it to the Lord. Ask him for his forgiveness. Do you think God is going to turn you down? Look what David did. I mean, there it is. murder, adultery. God said, listen, I love you. Isn't it good that God loves us despite of who we are? I mean, good night. Every single one of us deserves to go to hell forever. And God says, listen, did you trust Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, receive the free gift of eternal life by placing your faith in him? And God says, I love you and guess what I'm going to do for you. I'm going to do that fancy doctrinal word called justify you. You see when when you get to heaven if I wanted to look at your record and see all the sins that you committed I could do that. But he's like that's not what I'm going to look at in heaven because you see when you get to heaven you're going to be justified. There's no sin held to your account. I'm justified 100 percent clean in the eyes of God and that's why God could save David. Man after my own heart. I love David and God loves you. Father thank you for your love for us. As we examine these things and we begin to understand some of the historical things with Israel. Father, what a wonderful place just to stop right now and to relish the wonderful fact that you forgive sinners. You forgive sinners. But it does require one thing from us, acknowledging that sin, realizing that that sin could indeed, even today, separate us eternally from you. But you've made it so wonderful. that any single person, no matter what they've done, no matter how bad they may think it is in their eyes, you said, listen, for God so loved the world, that's each one of us, that he gave his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, on that cross, that whosoever would believe in him and his death, his burial, and his resurrection should not perish or go to hell, but have everlasting life. Father, thank you that you're forgiving God. Father, not a single one of us deserves that free gift of eternal life, but you said, listen, I paid it all. I paid it all through my death, through my burial, through my resurrection, and that simply by receiving the free gift of faith, we can spend eternity with you. Lord, it's so simple, it seems to us, but it cost you everything. Father, thank you for doing that. Thank you for Jesus, who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we indeed through our faith in what he did could have eternal life. Now Father, I pray that as we go our separate ways for a bit, I look forward to this Sunday, Lord, as we're gonna celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus when he came to Jerusalem knowing that a few days later he would be sacrificed to give his life to pay for our sins and then three days later be raised victorious from the grave. Lord, what a great week coming up. What a great time to celebrate what you've done in our lives Father, help us to keep that forefront, help us to relish it, help us to bask in the beauty of who Jesus Christ is this week. And we'll give the praise, the honor, and the glory in all God's people said, amen. Thanks for being here, have a great night.