All right, well let's open with prayer then and we will get right back into Pilgrim's Progress, Part Two. Father, we thank you for this Lord's Day. We thank you for this great salvation that we are so privileged to have that you've given to us in the Lord Jesus Christ. And we pray, Father, that on this Lord's Day, as your church is gathered together, that we would worship you in such a manner in Christ and for your glory alone that that you would be truly worshiped and praised. And we pray, Father, for those that are ill this morning. We ask your blessing be upon them and that you would sustain them and encourage them. And we thank you for all of the people that listen online and join together with us and how they're an encouragement to us as well. And so we ask your blessing on us today and pray that your word would be effective and do its work in us. And we pray this all in Christ's name, amen. Okay, yes, we left off where I have my little checkmark. That doesn't help you much. The paragraph is, Christiana at this was greatly abashed in herself, all right? So that's in this one, the big one. If you've got a different one, I'd be on a bit of a different page. I'm going to back up from that two paragraphs up to the top of the page here, where it's next morning when she was up. All right, the paragraph, next morning when she was up. Don't forget to leave a little check mark when we end the day, and you'll find it easier. And remember that then Christiana had come under great conviction now, and particularly in regard for her sin. against her husband, Christian, when he left the city of destruction and how she even encouraged her kids and treated him in a mocking fashion. In fact, down below here somewhere where we're reading today, she's troubled in mind as she remembered her curlish carriage toward him. Curlish means mean-spirited. Carriage means behavior, right? So her mean-spirited behavior, and she's under conviction of that. And so she had a dream about these things, and then we read, next morning when she was up, had prayed to God and talked with her children a while, One, someone knocked hard at the door to whom she spoke out saying, if you come in God's name, come in. So he said, amen, truly, and opened the door and saluted her with, greeted her with, peace be to this house. And when he had done this, he said, Christiana, do you know where I've come from? She blushed and trembled. Also, her heart began to wax warm with desires to know from where he came and what his errand to her was. So he said to her, my name is secret. I dwell with those that are high. So this is almost like an angel, do you think, something like this? It's talked of where I dwell as if you had a desire to go there. I dwell in heaven and we've heard that you desire to go there too. Also, there's a report that you are aware of the evil that you have formerly done to your husband in hardening your heart against his way and in keeping of these babes, these children, in their ignorance. Christiana, the merciful one has sent me to tell you, Christ has sent me to tell you, that he is a God ready to forgive, and that he takes delight to multiply pardon to offenses. He would also have you know that he invites you to come into his presence, to his table, and that he will feed you with the fat of his house and with the heritage of Jacob thy father." There is Christian Thy husband, oh, I should, I read that wrong. There is, Christian is there, that kind of thing. Your husband that was with legions more, his companions, ever beholding that face that ministers life to beholders. And they will all be glad when they shall hear the sound of your feet stepping over your father's threshold. And here's where we left off. Christiana at this was greatly abashed in herself and bowing her head to the ground, this visitor proceeded and said, Christiana, here is also a letter for you, which I brought from your husband's king. So she took it and opened it, but it smelled after the manner of the best perfume, and also it was written in letters of gold. The contents of the letter was that the king would have her to do as did Christian her husband, because that was the way to come to his city and to dwell in his presence with joy forever. So this is that invitation from Christ, but she's gonna have to travel the same path. She has to be a pilgrim. At this, the good woman was quite overcome, so she cried out to her visitor, sir, will you carry me and my children with you that we also may go and worship the king? The visitor said, Christiana, And here's an important lesson. The bitter is before the sweet. You must, through troubles, as he did that went before you, enter this city. So, reflects on Jesus' words. In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I've overcome the world. Wherefore I advise you to do as did Christian your husband. Go to the wicked gate, yonder. over the plain, for that stands at the beginning of the way up which you must go. And I wish you all good speed. Also, I advise that you put this letter in your bosom." Remember, that's the same thing that happened to Christian. isn't that that's what he lost at the right his invitation he had to go back and and that's also what What was the flake at the end, the counterfeit that went to hell right at the gate of the city? Because he didn't have the letter. Oh, yeah. Was that ignorance? Ignorance. I think, yeah. Yeah, right. So also I advise that you put this letter in your bosom, that you read therein to yourself and to your children until you have got it by root of heart. And Verla, that's note number eight, if you want to look that up for us. till you've got it by root of heart. It must be something like, till you really believe it or something. I don't know. We'll see what it means. For it's one of the songs that you must sing while you are in this house of your pilgrimage, and you must deliver it, deliver in at the further gate. So when you get to the final gate, you have to show this, that the King has called you. Now I saw in my dream that this old gentleman, as he told me this story, did himself seem to be greatly affected with it, or therewith. He moreover proceeded and said, so Christiana, oh, he moreover proceeded and said, this is almost like a typo here or something. So Christian, it's like something's left out there. He moreover proceeded and said, comma, Does anybody else have any other words in there? And then it goes, so Christiana called her sons together and began to address herself to them. It's like something's left out there. Anyway, my sons, this is her speaking, I have, as you may perceive, been of late under much exercise and anguish, you might say, in my soul about the death of your father. not because I doubt of all his happiness. I am satisfied now that he is well. I have also been much affected with the thoughts of my own state and yours, which I truly believe is by nature miserable. My carriages, my behaviors also to your father in his distress, that's before he left, is a great load to my conscience. It's a burden to her. For I hardened both my own heart and yours against him and refused to go with him on pilgrimage. The thoughts of these things would now kill me outright, except that for a dream which I had last night, and because of the encouragement which this stranger has given me this morning. Come, my children, let's pack up and be gone to the gate that leads to the celestial country, that we may see your father and be with him and his companions in peace, according to the laws of that land." Then did her children burst out into tears for joy that the heart of their mother was so inclined So their visitor bid them farewell, and they began to prepare to set out for their journey. I wonder if Bunyan's trying to tell us something there about, you know, with the kids being joyful at this before. In other words, I think he's trying to tell us little kids, they're going to follow the leadings of their parent. When she was mocking her husband, they were mocking her husband. Now she is leading them in the right way and they're ready to go. So, important point there. But while they were thus about to be gone, to leave, now this is great here, this is classic. Two of the women that were Christiana's neighbors came up to her house and knocked at her door. Now what does that remind you of? From part one. Two neighbors, right? Christian is setting out, right, on his journey. Obstinate and pliable show up, and what were they trying to do? Talk her out of it. Yeah, they talk him, and now that's what these two are gonna do. So these neighbors come, and she says the same thing. If you come in God's name, come in. this the women were stunned for this kind of language they were not used to hearing or to perceive to drop from the lips of Christiana yet they came in so they came in on false pretense but but behold they found the good woman preparing to be gone from her house so they began and said neighbor pray and pray you know as an old word for to ask to ask right okay neighbor Pray, what is your meaning by this? Christiana answered and said to the eldest of them, whose name was Mrs. Tamaris. I am preparing for a journey. parentheses here, this Tamarus was the daughter to him that met Christian upon the hill difficulty and would have had him gone back in here to sea for fear of the lion. So these are fearful bunch, they're not faithful. So Tamarus, Tamarus said, what journey I pray you? And Christiana said, even to go after my good husband. And with that, she fell weeping. Tamara said, I hope not so, good neighbor. Pray for your poorest children's sakes. Do not so unwomanly cast away yourself. You're being a rotten mother if you do this. And Christiana said, no, my children shall go with me. Not one of them is willing to stay behind. Tamris, I wonder in my very heart what or who has brought you into this mind. Who have you been talking to? That kind of a thing. Christiana, oh neighbor, if you knew as much as I do, I don't doubt but that you would go along with me. Tamris, prithee, prithee, that means pray thee, or tell me, tell me, what new knowledge have you got that so works off your mind from your friends and that tempts you to go nobody knows where? See, now she's starting to get hit with stuff that probably many of you have heard before, right? It's like, well, don't you care about us? You don't care about your kids. You don't care about us. You're going to do this Christian thing, right? And Christiana said, I've been sorely afflicted since my husband's departure from me, but especially since he went over the river. She heard that he died, was in heaven. But that which troubles me most is my curlish carriages to him when he was under his distress. Besides, I am now as he was then. Now she's under conviction. Nothing will serve me but going on pilgrimage following Christ. I was dreaming last night that I saw him. O that my soul was with him! He dwells in the presence of the King of the country. He sits and eats with him at his table. He has become a companion of immortals, and has a house now given him to dwell in, to which the best palaces on earth, if compared, seem to be as dung-hill. The prince of the place has also sent for me, with promise of entertainment reception, if I shall come to him. His messenger was here even now, and has brought me a letter which invites me to come." And with that she plucked out her letter and read it, and said to them, What now will you say to this? Oh, the madness that has possessed you and your husband to run yourselves upon such difficulties. You've heard, I'm sure, what your husband met with, even in a manner at the first step that he took on his way as our neighbor obstinate, can you testify?" So they're talking there about the slew of despond that he got into. Is that thing working, Verla? No, but keep going. OK. He went along with him, yes, and pliable too, until they, like wise men, absent and pliable, were afraid to go any further. We also heard, over and above, how he met with the lions, Apollyon, the shadow of death, and many other things. Nor is the danger that he met with at Vanity Fair to be forgotten by you. That's where a faithful was killed. For if he, though a man, was so hard put to it, what can you, being but a poor woman, do? You know, what's going to happen to you at Vanity Fair? Consider also that these four sweet babes are your children, your flesh and bones. Wherefore, though thou should be so rash as to cast away yourself, yet for the sake of the fruit of your body, keep thou at home. Stay at home. You don't care about your children. I'm just gonna read to you a paragraph here from Calvin's Sermons on Galatians. And if I can remember where we're at here. This has to do with him and Christians in Calvin's day and today meeting with those same kinds of accusations and objections which are designed to keep a person from following Christ. So he's talking from Galatians 2. Let's be clear that when Paul says we live by the faith of Jesus Christ, He is, and he's referring to Galatians 2.20 especially, nevertheless, not I, but I've been crucified with Christ and the life that I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God. When Paul says we live by the faith of Jesus Christ, he's warning us that nothing in this world should be allowed to prevent us from resting upon the promises of God. When considering all that is around us in this earthly life, all we see is little more than death itself. So she's leaving this city of destruction. And we need to realize that this present world is a city of destruction. You know, God in his mercy has given us, left us some beauty and so forth in this world. But really, we need to understand that this world is a sinful place. It's in rebellion against God. It's a wicked place. And so he says, we have to walk by faith. If we have God's word, We no longer need to ask, well, who shall ascend into heaven for us? Who shall descend into the deep? Who will, and this whole emphasis here, what do we have to do ourselves to be saved? Well, Christ has already done it. We must therefore always remember what is written so that we do not set our hopes on those things which can be seen. but on things which are imperceptible to our human senses. We walk by faith, not by sight." Now, what he goes on to and what really relates to this Tamarus, who's attacking Christiana here, is he talks about, especially in his day, how the Roman Catholics and the Papists, as he called them, would attack the true Christians. We won't mind suffering if it helps engrave upon us the promises of God upon our hearts, keeping us joyful and cheerful in the midst of problems and afflictions. We can boldly ignore the mockeries and slanders of unbelievers when they reproach us this way, in ways like this, right? You are but poor, plowman, you know, laborers. You think that you've become like little kings because you believe the gospel. Poor wretches, where's the joy and happiness which you say God has promised you? Where's the inestimable treasure which you claim to value so highly? You have nothing more than those whom you call God's enemies, those who are supposed to be damned and accursed. And then he says, none of this must be allowed to shake us. as I have said, for we must hold fast to our faith." Now you're going to see Christiana here hold fast to her faith, faith in the face of what Tamarus is, you know, all these mockings and so forth. Christiana said to her, Do not tempt me, my neighbor. I have now a price put into my hands to get gain, and I should be a fool of the greatest size if I should have no heart to strike in with the opportunity. So she's got this invitation, she's got this inheritance, a pearl of great price, and she'd be a fool if she doesn't pursue it. And because you tell me Of all these troubles, this is a great statement here, because you tell me of all these troubles that I'm likely to meet with in the way as a pilgrim, they are so far from being to me a discouragement that they show that I am in the right. The bitter must come before the sweet. You see that? So, well, aren't you thinking about all these troubles? Look at what's going to happen. You know, what about your family and so on? Well, She knows now that to follow Christ is gonna mean much trouble in this present world, but at the same time, that verifies that it's the right way, because that was what Christ experienced in this world. And if you think that through, you'll see how so many professing Christians have that all backwards today. know I mean I can remember years ago a friend of mine blogged to a church over in in Portland that was growing real fast and so forth and and We, I knew him real well and we were talking about things and, you know, years passed, especially all the battles we had in the church here and so on. And I was telling him about those things. And he said, I didn't, I don't understand. You guys just seem to have these troubles all the time. We don't have anything like that in our church. See, so, well, what she's saying is going right against that. The question is not, why does a Christian have trouble in this world? The question is, why does this professing Christian not have troubles, then, in the world? The bitter must come before the sweet, and that also will make the sweet the better. Now here's this great statement. Therefore, since you did not come to my house in God's name as I said, I pray you to be gone and not to disquiet me further." In other words, she said, get out. Get out. And she gives her the boot out of the house. And of course, Tamarus' response, then Tamarus reviled her and said to her fellow, come, neighbor Mercy, let's leave her in her own hands since she scorns our counsel and company. Now the same thing's gonna happen, has happened with obstinate and pliable. So mercy is more like pliable, okay? You know, remember pliable didn't just go back to the city right away with obstinate. He started out to travel with Christian, they ended up in the, slew. And then he went back. So Mercy says, Mercy was at a stand and could not so readily comply with her neighbor, and that for a twofold reason. So I think there's something here we should take note of too. Because this is a very common tactic. Oftentimes a really wicked person whether it be trying to discourage a new Christian or destroy the church, whatever it might be. Oftentimes, they will come with an associate, right? Obstinate had pliable, Tamarus had mercy. And the companion is of a weaker nature. kind of reminds me of Jehovah's Witnesses coming to your door. You know, you got the main one, you got the other one that's kind of being trained here. And so you can see that. I remember, let's see, I don't think any of you were here, Mack, I don't think you were on the board at that time, but it was like in about the second year that I was here. And I can remember having a board meeting in one of the rooms back there. And here came this ringleader troublemaker, And he's just a wicked man. And he's trying to get me kicked out, or he's just trying. But he brings along, both of them dairy farmers, by the way, in case. But he brings along this other guy. Yeah, that's right. Got to watch those dairy farmers. But he brings along this other guy with him. And the other guy is the one, he's holding the Bible, and he's reading this verse, trying to rebuke us, whatever, and he's reading his Bible and his verse to us. Well, the whole thing was a setup. Really, the real ringleader was the other guy, and he's just using this guy here. And it turns out that the guy his associate, the one reading his Bible and stuff. He's just known as the foulest mouth guy and wicked temper and so forth. in the community, so at any rate. But that is what you have here, you know? So here's Tamaris, and here's Mercy. Mercy, well, I don't know what to do here. I'm going to stand. She could not so readily comply with her neighbor, and that for a twofold reason. First, her bowels, right, her heart, her innards yearned over Christiana. So she's got some sympathy for Christiana. So she said within herself, if my neighbor will, needs, desires to be gone, I will go a little way with her and help her. She's going to help her, right? Okay. Secondly, her bowels, her heart, I guess you'd say yearned over her own soul for what Christiana had said had taken some hold upon her mind. She's under some conviction here, maybe some seeds sown on the rocky ground. Wherefore, she said within herself again, I will yet have more talk with this Christiana, and if I find truth and life in what she shall say, myself with my heart shall also go with her. Therefore Mercy began thus to reply to her neighbor Tamarus. Mercy said, Neighbor, I did indeed come with you to see Christiana this morning, and since she is, as you see, a taking of her last farewell of her country, I think to walk this sunshine morning a little way with her to help her on the way. But she told her not of her second reason. That is, I want to hear a little more about this king and see if it's true or not. But kept that to herself. Who knows? I haven't read the second part, and so maybe this will have more of a happy ending. I don't know. We'll see. So here's Tamarus. Well, I see you have a mind to go a-fooling too. But take heed in time, and be wise. While we are out of danger, we are out. But when we're in, we're in. So Mrs. Tamaris returned to her house, and Christiana betook herself to her journey. But when Tamaris was, when she arrived at home, at her house, she sends for some of her neighbors, namely, here we go, Mrs. Bats-Eyes. Mrs. Inconsiderate, Mrs. Light-Mind, and Mrs. Know-Nothing. So when they were come to her house, she follows the telling of the story of Christiana and of her intended journey, and thus she began her tale. Tamara's neighbors, having had little to do this morning, I went to give Christiana a visit." That's a slam, by the way, from Bunyan to Tamaris, right? Having had little to do this morning, or any morning, probably, right? So she's going to be a gad about, I went to give Christiana a visit. And when I came at the door, I knocked, as you know, it is our custom. And she answered, if you come in God's name, come in. So in I went, thinking all was well. But when I came in, I found her preparing herself to depart the town, she and also her children. So I asked her what was her meaning by that. And she told me in short that she was now of a mind to go on pilgrimage, as did her husband. She also told me of a dream that she had had and how the king of the country where her husband was had sent an inviting letter to come there. Then said Mrs. Know-Nothing, and what? Do you think she will go? Tamara says, yes, go she will, whatever comes of it. And Methinks, I know it by this, because that which was my great argument to persuade her to stay home, namely the trouble she was likely to meet with in the way, is one great argument with her to put her forward on her journey. She took my argument and she actually turned it and is using it as encouragement to go. For she told me in so many words, the bitter goes before the sweet. Yes, and for as much as it does, it makes the sweet the sweeter, she said, right? Mrs. Batsize chimes in here. Oh, this blind and foolish woman. So who's blind? Blind as a bat, right? And she's saying that Christiana's blind. Oh, this blind and foolish woman. Will she not take warning by her husband's afflictions? For my part, I see. No, you don't. I see if he was here again, he would rest himself, content in a whole skin and never run so many hazards for nothing. Whole skin, not too sure. being safe, I guess, I don't know. Mrs. Inconsiderate also replied, saying, Away with such fantastical fools from the town, and good riddance, for my part, I say of her, should she stay where she dwells, and retain this her mine, who could live quietly by her? For she will either be dumpish, there's dumpish, It's not good, right? Or unneighborly, or talk of such matters as no wise person can abide, where for my part I shall never be sorry for her departure. Let her go. Let better come in her room. T'was never a good world since these whimsical fools dwelt in it. So here's an example of Mrs. Inconsiderate. She's the person in the community that, you know, to each his own. Let's not stir up any trouble. You Christians, you're always causing trouble. And you just need to live and let live. That kind of a thing. Then Mrs. Lightmine added as follows, come put this kind of talk away. I was yesterday at Madame Wanton's. breed, where we were as merry as the maids. For who do you think should be there but I and Mrs. Love-the-Flesh, and three or four more with Mr. Letchery? Mrs. Filth was there, and some of the others. So there we had music and dancing, and what else was fit to fill up the pleasure? And I dare say my lady herself is an admirable, well-bred gentlewoman, and Mr. Lechery is as pretty a fellow. By this time Christiana was got on her way, and Mercy went along with her. So they went, her children being there also. Christiana began to discourse, to talk as they went, and Mercy said, Christiana, I take this as an unexpected favor that you should set forth out of doors with me to accompany me a little in the way. Mercy then said young Mercy, for she was but young, if I thought it would be to purpose, a good purpose, to go with you, I would never go near the town anymore. Christiana said, well mercy said Christiana, cast in your lot with me. I know well what will be the end of our pilgrimage. My husband is where He would not but be for all the gold in the Spanish mines. Nor shall you be rejected, though you go, but upon my invitation. The king who sent for me and my children is one that delights in mercy. Play on words there. Besides, if you will, I will hire you. And you shall go along with me as my servant. Yet we will have all things in common between you and me. only go along with me. Mercy said, but how shall I be ascertained that I also should be entertained? And I think she means received by the king. Had I this hope, but from one that can tell, I would make no stick at all. I wouldn't make an excuse, but would go, being helped by him that can help. though the way was never so tedious. Well, said Christiana, loving mercy, I will tell you what you shall do. Go with me to the wicked gate, and there I will further inquire for you. And if there you shall not meet with encouragement, I will be content that you shall return to your place. I will also pay you for your kindness which you show to me and my children in the accompanying us in our way as you do." And Mercy said, Then I will go there, and will take what shall follow. And the Lord grant that my lot may there fall, even as the King of heaven shall have his heart upon me. Christiana was then glad at heart not only that she had a companion, but also because she'd prevailed with this poor maid to fall in love with her own salvation. So they went on together, and Mercy began to weep. Then said Christiana, Why are you weeping so, my sister? And she said, Alas, Who can but lament sorrow? Hey, Dad. One thing that I was thinking, and it's just a little thought, is that Mercy kind of reminds me a little bit of Ruth. Of Ruth? Oh, yeah. Where she went. Ruth accompanying Naomi? Yeah. And she obviously at that point didn't really know. Yeah, she was a pagan, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. She went with her mother-in-law. Yeah. So maybe, and ultimately she says, your God shall be my God, right? Yeah. So maybe Bunyan had Ruth in mind here as well. So Mercy said, because she's weeping, who can but lament that shall but rightly, who shall but rightly consider what a state and condition my poor relatives are in that yet remain in our sinful town. And that which makes my grief the more heavy is because they have no instructor nor anyone to tell them what is to come. Christiana. Well, this is an interesting statement. bowels become pilgrims. I think maybe what that means is, because Mercy is showing some good signs here, right? And she's having emotions and feelings of a good kind, some maybe some conviction of care for other people, feeling sorrowful for Christiana and so forth. And maybe what he's saying here, bowels become pilgrims, is that maybe this is how the Lord starts working on a person first, that they start to, their heart warms as as he said earlier. Bowels become pilgrims. And thou dost for thy friends as my good Christian did for me. So in other words, you are moved in your heart for your friends. You have a care about your friends and their state of their souls. as my good Christian did for me when he left me. He mourned because I wouldn't heed nor regard him. But his Lord and ours did gather up his tears and put them into his bottle. Storing up, there's, I think, reference in the Old Testament to that. These are the prayers of the righteous. And now both I and you and these my sweet babes are reaping the fruit and benefit of those prayers. I hope, mercy, that these tears of yours will not be lost. For the truth has said, that they that sow in tears shall reap in joy. And he that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him. And there's a reference here to Psalm 126. Then mercy said, a little poetry here, let the most blessed be my guide, if be his blessed will, to his gate, into his fold, up to his holy hill. And let him never suffer me, permit me to swerve or turn aside from his free grace and holy ways. whatever shall me betide, whatever shall happen. And let him gather them of mine, my friends, my relatives, that I've left behind. Lord, make them pray that they may be thine with all their heart and mind. So, now my old friend proceeded and said, But when Christiana came to the slough of, this is the narrator again, came to the slough of Despont, she began to be in a stand, not know what to do, right, halting. For said she, this is the place in which my dear husband had liked to have been, almost was, smothered with mud. She perceived also that notwithstanding the command of the king to make this place for pilgrims good, Yet it was rather worse than formerly. Remember, a Christian had had that conversation. Well, how come he doesn't fill this thing in? And it was actually impossible to do. So I asked if that was true. Yes, said the old gentleman. Too true. Remember, this story began with him, essentially Bunyan, the narrator, falling asleep in the woods. And then this old gentleman came to him and started telling him about, although that's what this conversation is back to. Yes, said the old gentleman, too true. For many there be that pretend to be the king's laborers and that say they are for mending the king's highways, that bring dirt and dung instead of stones, and so mar instead of mending. Here, repairing. Here, Christiana, therefore, with her boys did make a stand, but said, Mercy, come, let us venture, only let us be wary. There's some faith in action there. Then they looked well to the steps and made a shift, I think that means quickly, to get staggeringly over. Yet Christiana had liked to have been in, fallen in, and that not once nor twice. They had no sinner got over, but they thought they heard words that said to them, blessed is she that believes, for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. Then they went on again, and mercy said to Christiana, had I as good ground to hope, for a loving reception at the wicked gate is you, I think no slew of despond would discourage me. Well, said the other, you know your sore, and I know mine, and good friend, we shall all have enough evil before we come at our journey's end. I'm not sure what they meant there by you know your sore and your difficulty. But at any rate, well, I think we'll stop right there then and see how they proceed. It's kind of sounding like there's going to be a happier ending here for mercy than there was for pliable, who went back to the beginning. So we'll stop right there. Father, thank you for these truths from your word. We pray that our faith would be strengthened by them and that we would persevere, recognizing that in this world, your people will have tribulation, but you've overcome the world and you will see us each one safely home. And we pray this in Christ's name. Amen.