We're in Proverbs 2. Proverbs 2, I'm gonna start with verse 4, just as a launch here tonight. Proverbs 2, 4 says, if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasure, then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. That's kind of the push here. And so the treasure hunt starts tonight. I've made that announcement a few times. It starts tonight. I've spent a long time getting this all built and ready. And so it starts after church. That's one of the rules. You can't do the treasure hunt during service hours. I don't want you up here flipping chairs while we're trying to preach. So no hunting during service times. It uses a different technology than we've used before. We've used QR codes and puzzle boxes and all kinds of, but this is different. We're using what's called an NFC tag. It's a little thing like this. But you won't see them because they're hidden. But they're little and it requires a smartphone if you want to participate. And they're a little tricky to use. And so in the basement, after the business meeting, yes, so we've made this suffer as long as possible. You have the service and a business meeting. Then we can go down and start the treasure hunt. There is, that's where the hunt starts. And so on the wall, along where the classrooms are, starting from the left to the right, you'll see pictures and it's a tutorial. And the practice area to see how your phone works, make sure you got it dialed in. And as you scan it, it'll give you more information about the hunt and tips and tricks and things to do as you begin to look for this treasure, which is silver. And so in 1882, Morgan's silver dollar is hidden on the premises. Just, you know, sake of instruction, it's all in the building. I didn't do anything outside. And the only place off limits is my office. I could hide it a million places in there, but all of you can't fit, and so I put it everywhere else. And so read all the instructions as you go through the papers on the wall and the things that pop up on your phone. There's two practice clues to see how your phone, you should have some haptics when it goes off, like it'll beep and so it's, most of your phones should have all this technology on there. You might have to turn it on. I have some of those instructions down there. But you should have like a little thump when it does it or you hear it beep and it'll pop up and it's going to take you to a website. So you need to be, you know, you'll be connected to the web or the internet and you should have it free here. If not, we get you the password. It'll give you further instructions. It'll tell you to go over the play area again and different hints. And then there's a couple of practice clues and a practice clue on how to help find it. And then you'll start. And there might be more than one prize, depending on how this goes. After the silver, it might not, probably won't be silver, but it'd be something else that we put in there, because right now silver's up. And so that's good. But please do try to finish the hunt. It should just be fun. That's part of it. Part of it is to see, to take what this is saying, what Solomon's trying to do. And remember why we're doing it to capture the zeal and the excitement of the hunt looking for treasure You know, it's like solving a clue It's very satisfying to take a clue and solve it and then apply that to how we study scripture And how we approach scripture that we'd see it like a treasure hunt with that excitement that thrill. What's God gonna teach me? What's he gonna show me? What can I learn from this, you know? and then you're gonna gain something better than silver when it gets done and so You can ask me for generic hints. I'm not going to give any hints on the puzzle unless everyone's stuck on one. They're like, Brian, your brain is a mystery, and no one can get this and understand it in a million years. Or if you're having technical troubles with a tag, there's one that's a little bit difficult to get it to go off, but it does go off. It's pretty precise, and I might be able to help you with that. There's only one. All the other ones are pretty simple and pretty easy. And I did, in saying that, I also tried to make it as hard as possible. I'd like for this to last more than a half hour. I used to, when the kids were young, I'd build this whole big scavenger hunt in the house and they'd do it in 15 minutes. It took me a month to build it and get it all ready. And they're like, run as fast as they can. So I've tried to make this, so at least it should take you a couple weeks, hopefully, since you have to actually be here to try to solve it. A few things are going to take your noggin. Also, just no cheating. Stay in the spirit of the game. Don't use... your clever workarounds. And I say that because there's a few of you in here that I know. And you can use some clever workarounds just on the way that the clues are built that you could probably gain some of it. And then I kind of came to that realization after about three. I'm like, I got to gain this. Jared's going to be here. I got Gerald and Tim in the room. I got all these different people that know some things about tech. And so I had to change up some of my structuring to kind of throw that off. So stay in the spirit of the game in that way. So yeah, that's the treasure hunt. I'll remind you again at the end. It's my last slide when we get to the gaming thing. So hopefully we have fun with it and hopefully it all works. It worked earlier. If not, I'll go back to the drawing board. We're ready for Proverbs 2, verse 10. That's where we actually stopped. Proverbs 2, 10 says, when wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul, Solomon is gonna kind of give us a flat out, list flat out the benefits of wisdom. He's trying to build within his son and within us, and so he's teaching us as if we were his children, why we should seek wisdom, why this is important. That's not something trivial, it's not something we can just roll our eyes about, it's just dad being dad. No, this is for us, it's for our benefit. So he's trying to teach and instill in us the benefits of wisdom. is to encourage us to seek the treasure. That's what wisdom and knowledge is, to find it. And then once we find that wisdom, to use it. It's one thing to find knowledge, and it's one thing to learn and see that, oh, that's pretty wise, that's pretty good. And then you neglect it, or you flat out ignore it. It's one thing if you have all this knowledge on how something works, how things work, and then you don't do it. That's ridiculous. I think most of us in this room a lot of us in this room. Remember Lance Armstrong? He was the pro cyclist. He was everywhere. Back between 1999 to 2005, he was just dominant in pro bicycling. He won the Tour de France seven consecutive times. It was like every night, you'd see he's like, oh, he wins, he wins, he wins. He was a symbol of perseverance because he had survived cancer, and he's out there fighting on this bicycle. He knew the rules and the ethics of the sport. And yet while proclaiming and advocating that people should be clean and that people should be going and abiding by the rules, he opposed in public performance enhancing drugs and yet he used them. And not only did he use them, he orchestrated one of the most sophisticated doping programs in sports history. It's kind of legendary. He pressured teammates into using, into doping, the whole time saying that, no, we're not doing this. He used them and then, matter of fact, when people would try to come out and accuse him of that, he took legal action against them. And because he was so well known and he had so much money that it usually got shut down. But in 2012, he was convicted and stripped of all seven titles, banned from professional cycling, and lost tens of millions of dollars in advertising and endorsement deals that he would have had. So he had all this wisdom, he had all this knowledge, and then he didn't apply it, and it cost him dearly. Sad to say, same for Solomon. He gives us a lot of wisdom and a lot of knowledge and a lot of things that if he only would have heeded, But he makes up for it with Ecclesiastes, I guess. He writes it and kind of says, do as I say, not as I do, which is never very effective, right? When the grandpa or the dad's saying, do as I say, not as I do, it's like, no, I'm watching you. I'm gonna do like you do. That's usually how it happens. And so, take the advice and apply it. Solomon failed, but in Matthew 12, verse 42, Jesus says, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. Jesus didn't fail. Jesus didn't fall. Jesus is wisdom personified. When we read all this, it'll use it in the feminine, but it's applying to Jesus ultimately. So men fail, remember this, but Jesus doesn't. So we have the ultimate example and the best hero. Verse 10 says, when wisdom entereth into thine heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul, discretion shall preserve thee and understanding shall keep thee. So imagine you pursue wisdom, and you pursue knowledge, like a man pursues treasure. Now you have some wisdom. You've been after it, you've been looking for it, you've been reading, you've been studying, and you get some. And you get some discretion. What's discretion? That means you're able to make wise choices. Because you have some wisdom and some understanding, you don't just run willy-nilly. You can make some wise choices. Then it says this, that once you do that, Discretion shall preserve thee and understanding shall keep thee. Your wise choices then start to guard you. They keep you from making dumb investments or going into that place you shouldn't go or saying that thing that you shouldn't say. It preserves you is what King James puts it, but it protects you. Understanding keeps you safe. You're like, oh no, I've seen this before. No, I know what this is going to be. And wisdom is learning from somebody else's. Experience gives you wisdom, sure. That's the hard, rough road, and sometimes you have to go down that road, but wisdom is read what others have done. That's why the Bible says the Old Testament's there for our examples, and then the New Testament talks about Jesus as our example, and read and know and apply this and save yourself from grief, instead of a long, hard-knock life in that way. To quote Old Fernandez, I guess. And so, verse 12 says, to deliver thee from the way of the evil man and from the man that speaketh froward things. Wisdom and knowledge saves you from evil people, protects you, it guards you, it'll keep you safe. You'll be able to discern who's good and who's wicked. Sometimes they might trick you. I was telling the Davises before that church that TJ's been playing this Mario game. He's got an older one that uses text box. And he kept running in and asking Megan what it said. And she's like, you can read. And so he started reading and discerning and figuring out and driving this game. And there was a couple of characters that were telling him not to go this certain way because it was dangerous. And he's like, they're keeping me safe. And she's like, I don't know. I think they're lying to you. He's like, they wouldn't lie to me. They lied to him. He's just shocked. Oh, those people that lied to you. They're keeping me from winning the game. You know, to be young and innocent, right? You gotta learn those lessons. I'd rather he learned it playing Mario. than in school or out on the streets, and so you can gain wisdom. You get to do all that, and you find out there's some people you can't trust, and some people speak with fork and tongue, or both sides of their mouth, or whatever else, and you start learning and gaining those things, and you get that wisdom from other people and through experience, but yeah. You're protected, you're guarded, you're kept safe. It says there that they speaketh forward things, says the King James. They twist their words. They're saying something, but there's a little twist to it. It's not quite shooting straight. Speak forward things. Imagine with me if you can. Tonight after church here in June 11th, 2025. You get done with the treasure hunt, and you're like, that rascally Brian, I can't figure out. And you finally give up and go home, because I say get out, because I gotta shut the door, I'm hungry. And everyone leaves. And you go home and you turn on the TV, and you're watching a news reporter, and she's standing on the streets of Los Angeles. And she says, I don't know why the troops have been here, I don't know what's going on. It is a mostly peaceful protest. But your wisdom kicks in, and you're like, wait a minute. And all of a sudden you're able to shun the authority bias that has been ingrained in us. And most of the time rightfully so. Or social conformity that's been instilled in us on how we're to behave socially. And that's mostly good too, but it can be used against you. Authority bias can be used against you. And you look at the images on the screen of the looting, how's that support? illegal immigrants robbing the Apple store, going and taking everything from a sushi place. How is that supporting the cause and that? And you see the fires that are being set to buildings as they're trying to then start it, because they say it's the dry season, they're expecting them to set the brush fires loose and have... California on fire 2.0 as they launch fireworks into crowds I saw one that hit on a windshield came underneath the hood that blew the whole hood up so you think that's just fireworks yeah until explodes in your face or in your pocket or in your car and that way you know that they do that and you begin to watch that then you see them flipping cars over and beating these all those are autonomous cars leave I had sent some pictures when he was out there though they're driverless and They actually have those that go around town and do it and so that's a lot of the ones that they've been burning, not all of them. But bricks thrown at cars, officers are there going by and we saw the overpass pictures and they're throwing it down on them, the officer that gets hit in the head from on top. Officers being fought. against cars being flipped, roads being blocked so people can't get to work, ambulances can't get through. How's that helping the citizens of California when you can't go to your job and you can't traverse? They said California's traffic's horrible anyway, let alone when you block a major artery. Can you imagine the frustration of you when you're stuck and there's a car behind you and beside you and you're just sitting there and then everybody runs up on you. What's that gonna be? And you're watching all this and you see people spray painting things down the public sidewalk and on the roads and on the buildings and on the signs and on the cars and doing all these different things. They're just damaging property. And you say to yourself, I think that reporter might be lying to me. This is not peaceful at all. This is newspeak. That's from Orwell, 1984, where they say what they want you to see. It's called reality management. We can't help what's going on, but we can trick you into believing with our words. We'll repeat it again, and again, and again, and you will conform because I'm on TV and you're not. Because I say I'm telling you the truth and you're not there. And you need to believe me, I'm a person in authority. No, listen, things are fine. Maxine Waters, there's nothing going on. I don't know what the problem is. Trust me, I'm elected representative here. You need to trust me in this. And so no, that's called mind control. But because you seek God, And because you have been seeking after knowledge and wisdom, and because you've been in God's word, and been in God's house, and been around God's people, and you begin to apply the wisdom that you've been learning to your life, you have wisdom, and understanding, and discretion, and it preserves you, and it protects you, and then you say no. Now all of a sudden you're an obstacle. You're something that just threw a stick in the cog of the machine that's not working as it is. And it's an evil machine. And then it's our job to say, wrong. The emperor's not wearing any clothes. I don't care what the rest of you say. He's naked. We come out and so we are to be strong-willed. God calls us to that. You know, we're to control our mind, to discern right from wrong, good from evil. We're to be a discerner of truth and not just taking what's been spoon-fed to us, like, I guess it's mostly peaceful. We're not to be a lemming and just follow the guy in front of us. Because you're already, if you're saved, you're already a part of that crowd that got off the broad way and found the narrow way. So God says, you're already a called out one. You're not a blind follower of the blind. You're to be an independent thinker. They always blame Christians of using the Bible as a crutch. No, the Bible is the glasses that corrects our vision, that we see things along God's way, because His way is the way of knowledge, right, and the way of truth, and the way of wisdom. And so what you become when you say no, I don't believe you anymore, all of a sudden you're a force to be reckoned with. That's the Christian soldier that we're called to be. We're to be one that says, no, I'm calling a spade a spade. I'm calling it as I see it. I'm not going along with anybody else. You wanna talk about something that's hard to do, you do that. When everybody else is going and you say, no, not me. That's what God is calling us, that's what Solomon is calling his son to. I don't care what the crowd's doing, son, you do what is right. I don't care what everybody else says, son, you do what's right. And God tells us, as our heavenly Father, I don't care what everybody else says, it's aligned with the Bible, it's what I'm saying, you look and see, examine, test and see, do what's right. That's what he's calling us for. That's what Solomon wants us to be. God wants us to be an independent thinker, one who goes through and sees and understands, a follower of Him. Who is He? The giver of liberty. That was America's cause at the outset, to be ones who promoted liberty, freedom, and to promote freedom around the world, not democracy, freedom, liberty. That was our cause. That's who we are. To oppose evil men. Sometimes at a small scale, it might just be someone in your neighborhood. No, that's not true, I saw what was truth. And you stand up and you speak for truth. Nah, yeah, we did do that. And you stand up and you take it and you own it. Or sometimes on a larger scale, when everybody else is doing it, and you're like, no, that's not right, we're not gonna do that. Verse 12 says, "'Cause when you do this, the discerner shall preserve thee "'and understand thee and keep thee.'" Verse 12 says, "'To deliver thee from the way of the evil man "'and from the man that speaketh forward things. "'There are evil men and there are evil women in the world, and they are trying to perpetrate evil upon us and other people, and it's up to us. He told us to stand up for the widows and the orphans and the defenseless, and yeah, we will stand up for the stranger and the foreigner, but there are right ways to do things, and we would encourage them in right, and we would look over. America is the one nation in the world that everybody wants to come to because we do do it right, and we do do it just, and it does pay off. But part of that contract is that you conform to who we are and what we do. We don't come in and then non-conform and wave a Mexican flag saying, don't send me back to Mexico. Talk about a mixed message, right? Don't you, how dare you send me back? But I love that country as long as I'm here. That's just kind of confusing. They're evil men and they're women. They're evil women, verse 13. Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness. There are people who do that. that like darkness, they're lured by the dark side, by the power, and whatever it might be, promise them. That's a horrible thing to watch someone go down that path. We're supposed to be trying to win them the whole way. Verse 14 says, who rejoice to do evil and delight in frowardness of the wicked. Frowardness means perversity or perverse things. They delight in being perverse. We find out about, in our day and age today, P. Diddy or Sean Combs or whatever. Attention's gone away from that, kind of makes you wonder, what's going on over here? If something else is going on there, what are we missing? But there are people that traffic in perversity. We find that more and more in our headlines, and we need to be out and distanced from it. And so we kind of find that Proverbs 2 in this ancient document is as relevant and as useful today as it is anytime, right? This is a key to something that unlocks us and keeps us from being mind controlled and going down some path. And so, yeah, we're to have the truth and handle the truth and have it in us so that we can expose the lies that are out there and not fall for them. We're to seek wisdom now. And the more we seek wisdom now, let this be an answer, a wake-up call to us. Seek wisdom all the more. Use this treasure hunter. Use the things we've talked about here and just in the current situation. Seek wisdom now and to sock it away and try to apply it because it'll protect you from the evil that comes tomorrow. And what might that be? We live in the age of deception. where, I don't know, have you seen the new ones where it's like, hey, I'm reporting live from this hurricane. No, I'm not, I'm an AI, and you can't tell that it looks any different. I mean, it's getting that good that you're like, ooh, if I'd have seen that, I'd just thought it was some news anchor I didn't know. False flags, that's where they do one thing to blame another group. We're looking for that, you know, where they're gonna take some conservative person who shoots in the crowd and they'll find him dead with a MAGA hat or something like that, and just to try to launch the civil war that they want so badly. That would be called a false flag, Hitler did it, where you build up something to be able to get the cause. There's a lot of things I could mention that have happened in history that I'll save it. We live in the days of lies and deception. We are basically living in Matthew 24, where he talks about be careful for deception, be careful for liars. They are coming this way, they're going to deceive you. We have it all around us right now. But then Solomon brings the practicalness real close to home. So yeah, there's a grand scale on our country. There's a grand scale on our community where we put it. And he says there's even a more important scale as it comes down to within your arm's reach. Verse 16. I guess I forgot one. Look at verse 15. Whose ways are crooked and they froward in their paths. So they're crooked in all that they do, the wicked do, and they're also perverse in all the way that they live. Verse 16, so, sorry. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even the stranger which flattereth with her words. He wants to give you wisdom to avoid that co-worker who flatters you after you had a fight with your wife or your husband. The guy who bumped into you in the grocery store, or the person online, or the one person who made you that one nice comment, so you go in that private chat. or whatever it is, or what the scammer that reaches you, however it is, the immoral man or the immoral woman who used seductive words to try to draw you in deeper, to flatter you and seduce you, to separate you from your wife, your family, your kids, your money, whatever it might be. He says that's where it hits home. So you apply wisdom and you keep it, try to keep it as far away as you can, but when it gets close, Watch out for those people around you as well. Discern against those truths, verse 17. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, speaking, he's using the feminine because he's talking to the son here. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth and forgetteth the covenant of her God. The guide of her youth and the covenant of her God. What do you think that is? This is Bible speak for marriage. Married young, Bible times that married young. And so the guide or the companion or the, how's it put, yeah, the guide of her youth would be the husband or wife, the one that they married when they were young, when they were young and they got married. They were there to guard and protect one another. doing some marriage counseling for someone before they get married, and going over these things, how you're to be protecting one another, guarding one another, fighting for one another, because you're becoming one. Because after you get married, you're no longer just Brian. I'm no longer Brian. It's Brian Elaine, right? You can't separate Jay and Chris. Levi and Beth. Tim and Linda, you all come together. Tom and Zina, we all become. Dave and Kim, we're all these. Bill and Jesse, you become one. That's how you always say it. That's how it comes together. I'm telling them that's it. Part of that is that you're protecting, you're guarding, you're protecting one another through all these things. What I do and what I marry, it's a covenant marriage. It's a covenant relationship. The Bible, we call it the Old and New Testament, but probably the better term would be Old and New Covenant because we had an old covenant in the Old Testament. We have a new and better covenant under Jesus Christ. It's a lot like a marriage ceremony. There's a covenant that had nine parts, and most of them are represented in a marriage story where you, first part of a covenant, you would take off your robe, which, not your house robe, but your, it would be like their outer garment, the thing that they always wore, that looked like them. You'd be like, oh, that's Brian's robe. And you switched them with one another. Christ does that for us. He takes off my robes of unrighteousness, and he gives me his robes of righteousness. And marriage, you do the same, you're being like, I'm giving you all I have and she's giving you all that she has. The old covenant, they would make a scar, cut it, you know, blood brother like you do in school, you know, mix your blood. We're becoming one in the same where we talk about the two becoming one. And then part of that is like we put a ring on today, you know, you hold your, you know, I was a younger kid, so I'm like, ah, we must have watched a lot more cowboy and Indian movies. Because I'm like, you know, when an Indian says how, and they're like, no. Or when you get robbed, and they're like, you'd raise your hand. OK, yeah. I'm like, hands up. That's the show. He said, how? It was to show how many covenants you had, how many scars you had. I heard of a missionary as he was going through Africa that he had cut covenant with 50 different tribes. So he had 50 different scars that went down his arm. So when he came to the next tribe and he raised his hand, they're all like, we better be friends with this guy. He's got 50 other groups that are going to back him up. We put a ring on our finger and say, oh, he's not single anymore, he has someone, he's with someone else, and that they are too. The eating of the cake, that's why I always advocate with the people I talk to, don't smear it in their face, this is part of that symbolism. I'm becoming and feeding you, and we're coming into each other, and vice versa, as we symbolize feeding each other, that we're taking care of one another, and all those things. You change names and everything else, and Christ gives us a new name. A lot that comes in. It's the covenant. It's a Bible covenant. It's the covenant of marriage. This oath is broken by this lady. Verse 17, which forgetteth the guide of her youth, her husband, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. She made an oath. And a covenant is stronger than a promise. It's an oath. It's an identity. Like I said, it's a picture of salvation. It's what Christ has done with us, where now I take on his name, and then he is mine and I am his. And he will guide and protect us, and he will care for me, and I identify with him, and on and on, just like in a marriage, we switch and we do all that as well. Verse 18 says, for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. She will kill you. Verse 19, none that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. And if this is uncomfortable, it gets real uncomfortable, because Solomon's not done. He covers this topic several times in several different ways, because it's so practical. And he says, you know, that other person that's promising you everything is robbing you of everything. It's not going to be better. Because now you have to do all the dropping the kids off and do all this. It's not more freedom. Now you're bound all the more. Everything that they thought for that few moments. She will kill you. He will kill you. They will destroy your life, the thing that you had and the joy and the pleasure and the continuity and the upholding marriage and then strengthening that and instilling that of the security in your kids, the picture of God and the family, how that portrays God and makes it easier for your children to breathe because you had a believer, because you had a loving mother and a loving father and they stayed together and they fought through things and they fought for you. It's easy to understand a God of heaven who would live for you and protect you and die for you and all that because you have all this and all that. All these that try to lure you away will destroy your life. Whether it's someone in person or if it's pornography online or whatever it is, it's all a lie. Whether it's just in your mind or if it's acted out in that way. Jesus says it's the same way. He who looks on a woman or a man and lusts after them is not married, it counts the same. It is not the way, it's not his way. It is not a wise way, is what he's trying to tell his son. It's not the smart way. It's not the way you ought to go. Oh, it might be fun for a minute. There's a pleasure in sin for a season, but there's a lot of ramifications afterwards. It's not smart. It's not righteous at all. It's destruction. the things that you would carry with you. So he says, be wise, learn something, avoid it, go around it, see it as a snake in the road. Be like the Joseph principle, right? When Potiphar's wife grabs him, he leaves the coat and runs away. He's like, I'd rather she had my coat than have me, I'm outta here. And he went to jail and whatever else, but he kept his testimony, right, and God used it. We're gonna keep our testimonies. Verse 20 says, that thou mayest walk in the way of good men. and keep the paths of the righteous. Verse 21, for the upright shall dwell in the land and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. Kind of takes a turn here a little bit, but it actually fits. He jumps all the way to the end. He's not just talking about life right now and how it happens and how it plays out. He's jumping all the way into the end of the world Who inherits the earth? Who is in heaven? Who lives forever with God? Is it the evil one? Is it the adulterers? Is it the thieves? Is it the ones who are perverse and fraud and think about those things? Is it the wicked people? No, you can go, the next to last chapter of Revelation, he starts talking about no liars, no adulterers, and you'll find their place in eternity. No, it's the right and the righteous, he says there. It's the one, he calls them good, the way of good men in verse 20. The keeper of righteousness. The perfect in God's eyes. How do you get perfect? Can we be perfect? No, but we can be perfect in God's eyes if we have Christ, right? Because Christ is perfect. He makes up all the difference. And so he makes us perfect in him. And so he's forwarding to the end. It's like this is preserving your life. You can go the way and have fun and you can say like, hey, look, I live till I'm 70 or 80 or 90. It's like, hope is worth it. What is the profit of man if he gains the whole world, if he loses his soul? And Solomon's trying to paint, it's like eternity in light of all this. And Rehoboam, his son, which, I'll go ahead and spill the beans a little bit. He doesn't heed Solomon's advice. When he becomes king, they're like, the old men are like, you should do like your father. Rule wisely and be kind. making a light burden on the people so that they will love you. Do your duty as a king to guard and protect and to do what you have to do. And there was a little bit of taxes involved and all that to keep it light, keep it easy, keep the people happy. You know, we're in the golden age of Israel. Or he had his friends, all these young punk friends, and they're like, charge him 10 times as much, you'll be richer. Make him work harder. Make him pay you everything. Do all that. Put the burden upon him, and he did. He went with heavy taxes. He went with heavy liens. He put everything and made their life miserable, and he didn't live very long. So he doesn't heed the warning, but we should heed the warning of Rehoboam. We'll look into it in more detail in the future here, but we'll stop there at the end of chapter two and pick up with chapter three.