May we, that we have saved all that's apart, may worship only Thee. With our spirit witness, Lord, that we are sons of God. Redeemed from sin and death and hell, through Christ the Holy One. Tonight we shall turn together to the book of Acts. Acts chapter 4 and reading into chapter 5. Turn with me in your Bibles to Acts chapter 4 beginning to read at verse 32. Acts 4.32. I want to speak to you tonight on the topic, The Holy Spirit is Holy. We'll begin reading at verse 32 and the first 11 verses of chapter 5. All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had with great power The apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was with them all. There were no needy persons among them, for from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales, and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need. Joseph a Levite from Cyprus whom the apostles called Barnabas, which means son of encouragement, sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles' feet. Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. With his wife's full knowledge, he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles' feet. Then Peter said, Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received from the land? Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to Ben, but to God. When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. Then the young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him. About three hours later, his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land? Yes, she said, that is the price. Peter said to her, How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also. At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in, and finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events." Don't close your Bibles, because you'll want to look at this passage and a couple of others surrounding it tonight. And we want to look at these verses together to see what the Lord has to teach us about the Holy Spirit. Tonight as we look at this passage, see a passage of profound contrasts. On the one side, you have this beautiful love and care that is being developed in the Church of the Lord Jesus by the Holy Spirit. And on the other side of the question, on the other side here, you have the swift and the sure judgment of God upon Ananias and Sapphira, by the Holy Spirit. Now, people of God, tonight as you look at this passage, if you find this to be incompatible, if you are uncomfortable tonight, if you are uncomfortable particularly when you think about these two people who were struck down by the judgment of the Holy Spirit. I want to say to you that you do not really know very well the God of the Scriptures. You really do not know very well the God Whom we serve, because the God of the Scriptures is both good and He is holy at the same time. so that if we feel uncomfortable about God striking down these two people, we really do not understand, we really do not grasp who God is, the God whom you serve. If you, seeing Ananias and Sapphira struck down, want to blame this on the Apostle Peter. You've got it all wrong. It was God who struck them down. And so tonight, we want to take some time to look at this God whom we serve, who on the one hand, blesses richly the church of Christ Jesus with this this awesome fellowship that is developing in the early New Testament church. And on the other hand, we want to see His judgment upon this lie in the church. We're reminded really that the Holy Spirit is holy, and it might surprise some of us. There are those who are believers who have the idea that the Holy Spirit is some warm and fuzzy fury inside of ourselves that gives us a little comfort, that gives us a little guidance and leadership as He indwells us. And it is true, of course, that the Holy Spirit, as the third person of the Trinity, does indwell us. And as a matter of fact, we are dependent upon Him to lead us and to guide us and to comfort us. But I want to stress before you tonight that the same Spirit who leads and guides and directs us is also the Holy Spirit. And we need to understand something of His holy character tonight. Both the Scriptures and the Heidelberg Catechism stress those two aspects, those two characteristics of the Spirit. On the one hand, the Bible talks about the Spirit as indwelling us. He makes us His temple. And that's a joyous thing when we think about that, because if the Holy Spirit is living in us, if He is dwelling in us, then to be sure He comforts us, He leads us, He does indeed guide us, and He remains with us forever. We're His people. We rejoice in that. The Spirit of God never leaves us who are His children. You can depend upon that. The Holy Spirit of God takes the work of Christ Jesus and He continually applies it to you and to me and all of God's people so that without the work of the Holy Spirit we would be empty. We would have no meaning in our lives. We would be without hope in this world. So this is a very precious teaching of the Scriptures that the Holy Spirit does indeed develop in us this comfort, this strength, this leadership, this direction, His presence throughout all of life. But at the same time, the Bible teaches us that the Holy Spirit is divine. The Holy Spirit is God. so that we must recognize that part of His character. He is equally and eternally divine with the Father and the Son. And the Spirit shares in all the attributes of the divine God. So that if we were to say the Father is holy and the Son is holy, we must certainly say that the Holy Spirit is holy. He is equally God with the Father and the Son. He is equally God. He is equally powerful. He is equally perfect. He is uncreated. He is everywhere present. He is all-knowing, but He is also holy. And that's what I want to draw your attention to tonight. His very title, His very name stresses before us His holy character. We see that displayed so beautifully in our text. I want for you to see, in the first place, that the Holy Spirit of God produces Christian fellowship, and then, secondly, that the Holy Spirit brings divine judgment. When you take a look at the book of Acts, the picture that you see is one of a healthy and a growing church. but a church which is certainly not flawless. I want to stress that because of several reasons. Until the end of time, the church of Christ Jesus will struggle with sin. We need to understand that. We need to really Let that sink down deeply in our minds because you see, God is saying to us as a church, we need to wrestle with sin. We need to deal with sin in the life of the church. This is something that is not talked about in many, many churches. There is no mention of sin. There is no law read in many churches. As if sin were a foreign object to the church. We need to recognize the sinful character of our own hearts and the sinful character of the church of Jesus Christ on this side of glory. When you look at the early New Testament church, you see a church full of hypocrisy. In many ways, there are interpersonal problems. There are difficulties with which the church wrestles. And so, the church is always called to holiness. The church must always struggle with sin. We need to make up our minds, as part of the church of Christ, that that will be our battle. And it will be our battle until the Lord Jesus Christ comes again. I remind you of this, not only because we need to be realistic in our struggle with sin, But I also remind you of this because there are people, you see, who would suggest that we should emulate the New Testament church exactly as it was back then. And if we emulate the church, the early New Testament church, if we do everything the early New Testament church did, well, we're going to be a great church. What I want to suggest to you tonight that we should not emulate everything in the early New Testament church. You and I must understand that the church then and the church today wrestles with sin and the early New Testament church was not perfect in any form or fashion. We see that certainly here in this passage. But I want to begin by bringing to your attention what the Holy Spirit was doing in that early New Testament church. We read here that the early New Testament church was characterized by a marvelously deep Christian fellowship. The church was of one heart, the church was of one mind, the people of God loved each other so much that we find here in this passage that they shared all their possessions. There was nobody in need in that church. The Word of God proclaimed by the apostles had such a tremendous effect upon the people that they were giving tremendously to the needs of that church, some of whom were actually selling their possessions and then giving the money to the church for the needs of the needy in that congregation. among whom was Barnabas, this great man of encouragement. Now as we look at this practice of selling property and giving the monies to the church, we must understand in the first place that this was not Christian communism as some people would suggest that it was. Understand, of course, particularly from chapter 5, verses 3 and 4, that the believers were not compelled to sell their property. The church didn't force them to sell their property. They were not coerced in selling their property. This was simply a voluntary activity on their part. So there was not this kind of being forced by the church or forced by the government to sell the property, and it's important for us when we think about Ananias and Sapphira. They were not under obligation except the obligation that was created in them by the Holy Spirit to truly love the body of Christ and also to care for the body of Christ, an obligation certainly that you and I still have today. We need to love each other from the heart. We need to care for each other as obedient servants of God. But you see, the selling of the property and the giving away of those monies was created in these people as an indication of their generous and genuine love for the people of God. If you have your Bibles open, which I trust you do, I would suggest that we turn back to chapter 2 and verse 42 because There the Bible lists four things to which the believers devoted themselves. These are four important things, it seems to me, that we need to recognize if we're to understand the situation before us tonight. In chapter 2, verse 42, the Bible, first of all, lists that they were devoted to the apostles' teaching. These believers were devoted to the apostles' teaching. This is very crucial. This is the foundation for everything else in the context of the church. That's why it indeed is listed first. The people of God were dedicated to the apostles' teaching. In chapter 4, verse 32, this is what we read, "...with great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was with them all." The Word of God, you see, was the driving force, it was the foundation of all that they did. And this too is very important for us to recognize. Because if we base our lives, if we base our worship, if we base our practices on anything else than the solid rock of the Word of God, then we are on shifting sand. So it is important for the church to understand that everything that we are to do as believers, as congregations, as federations of churches, is to be based on the foundation of the very Word of God. That's where it all derives from. That's our standard. The second thing that's brought out for us in terms of the early New Testament church is that they devoted themselves, the Bible says, to the fellowship of the Spirit. There was great harmony in the Church of Christ Jesus, because they were one in the Spirit and in their commitment to the Apostles' teaching. I'm not going to ask you to turn to that, but perhaps sometime you can read Ephesians chapter 4, because Ephesians 4 tells us about the unity in the Church of Christ. And the unity in the Church of Christ is not built on ethnicity. In other words, The unity in Christ's church is not built upon the fact that we happen to be all white, or all black, or all Asians, or all from Dutch background. That's not what gives unity to the church of Christ Jesus. It is not that we have our unity because we have some kind of organizational structure. We're all in that same kind of structure. Organization does not produce unity. Not true unity. We must understand that true unity is not developed simply because we want to be unified. It's important for us to understand tonight that true unity is founded upon the Word of God. That's why Ephesians 4 tells us that God has given some people to prepare God's people for works of service so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God. And then having that unity, says Ephesians 4, we will not run after every wind of teaching and doctrine and so on. So that you see, true unity is a result of understanding and comprehending and agreeing upon what the Scripture says to us is the direction for our lives and for the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that unity in the church was so deep, it ran so deeply, that it resulted in the people sharing everything in common. I want to bring to your attention, and we must comprehend this, that the Spirit of God joins us not only to Himself, but the Spirit of God joins us together as the church. It is the Spirit of God that gives us that unity in the truth. so that you cannot have one without the other. You cannot say, I have the Spirit of God living in me, and I love Jesus Christ, but I hate His church. You cannot say, I love Christ, but I hate His body. It would be like me saying to my wife, Faye, on Father's Day, oh, Faye, I sure love you, but I hate your body. It cannot be, is it? Because Jesus Christ in the power of the Spirit joins us not only to Himself, but He joins us to the Church of Christ. He joins us together. It is the Holy Spirit, you see, that creates that unity among God's people. I have often said, that peace and unity in the church is something very fragile. Things that are fragile frequently are very precious and expensive. Things that are fragile are easily broken. Peace and unity in the church are very, very precious. Congregation of Jesus Christ, preserve it. Keep it. Promote it with all the power within you. Being united together in Jesus Christ and in the Word of Truth, the Scriptures. The third thing that is described about these early New Testament Christians is given to us again in Acts 2 verse 42, that they were engaged in the breaking of bread. They were engaged in the breaking of bread. At least this means that that fellowship that existed among those early Christians was expressed in the fact that they had meals together as an expression of that unity. There are those who would suggest that this is a reference to the Lord's Supper. It may be. I don't happen to be convinced that every reference to this kind of having this breaking of bread necessarily refers to the Lord's Supper, but it certainly may. Those early New Testament Christians frequently held the Lord's Supper also in the context of a meal together. The Church of Christ Jesus expresses its unity in one way, and that is, it loves each other so much that we can even sit down at the same table and eat together. That's a beautiful thing, isn't it? And then the final thing that's mentioned there in Acts is that they were devoted to prayer. The body of Christ was devoted to prayer. The body of Christ that cannot pray together I might say, cannot stay together. You see, prayer is certainly an expression of a spirit-filled people, because we share each other's needs, we share each other's joys, and praying together is an expression of that great unity that exists among us. Dennis Johnson, at this point, asked some pertinent questions in view of this passage. He says, Are our schedules too full to fit in some fellowship that is more than skin deep? Are the needs of other people so troublesome that we would prefer to keep them at arm's length? Delight over belonging to the family of God evokes a joyful eagerness to be with and to share with the brothers and sisters in Christ. When we learn to think, pray, and care for the family of God, what needs of the brothers and sisters will we discover and hurry to fill? When brothers and sisters are in need, the normal response of God's people, touched by His Spirit, is to share together as members of families, and how they do it is normal in the church today. And then he ends with this question. How normal is the church today? Is this a normal church? Do you love each other from the heart? Are you experiencing true unity in the Word of God as Christ has commanded? Is this enriching to your body? The marvelous thing it is to have the Spirit of God in us. And I'm grateful for the many indications that I have seen that this is a normal church. Growing in the Lord, growing in His Word, growing in Christian fellowship, fellowshiping together over food and drink and in prayer. And I want to encourage you all tonight to continue in that. to grow in that unity. A relatively new church, but a church that enjoys the fellowship, you see, of the Holy Spirit created in you for your good, but ultimately for the glory of God. Continue that. Maintain it. Increase it. Let it grow among you. that you may be enriched and the glory of God may be advanced." Well, we see in this passage in the second place that the Spirit of God also brings divine judgment. Here are Ananias and Sapphira. They are part of this New Testament church and they saw what was going on there in chapter 4. So the Bible tells us that Ananias also sold a piece of property and he brought the money to the apostles' feet. But Peter was permitted by the Holy Spirit to notice in the heart of Ananias that there was deception there. There was a lie. that there was a lie there. And so, of course, as we read in this passage, the holiness of God struck down Ananias immediately, and a little bit later, also his wife. We need to take a look at that tonight. We need to notice, first of all, the character of the sin. The sin was not simply greed. The sin that we're talking about here in terms of Ananias was not simply greed. Greed is bad enough to be sure. It was not a refusal on Ananias' part to give up the money. Remember, Ananias was not under compulsion to give any money in terms of the sale of that property. So what was going on here? Ananias failed to recognize that where the Spirit of God is, there God is. He failed to recognize that the Holy Spirit is holy. He failed to recognize that God is a consuming fire who destroys, as someone put it, who destroys deception on contact. Look at verses 3 and 4 with me together. It's important to tie these two verses together. Look at verses 3 and 4. Verse 3, Peter says to Ananias, you have lied to the Holy Spirit. And then at the end of verse 4, you have not lied to men, but to God. That's the heart of His sin. The Holy Spirit is divine, so that where the Spirit is, there God is in all of His purity and power and holiness. So that when you sin against the Spirit of God, you sin against the triune God. His sin was not to hold back some of the money His sin was to hold back some of the money and to give the impression that it was all given to God. You see the deception there. You see the lie there. That's the point of it all. Ananias lied to the Holy Spirit. He lied to God. And his judgment was swift. It was sudden, it was appalling, it was awful, it was direct from the hand of God because God cannot tolerate such sin. Now I want to point out something that seems to me that is very interesting and is very important for us to notice. In this sobering account, it is important for us to notice a word in the original language in verse 2. The word being, He kept back. It's an interesting verb. He kept back part of the money for himself. The word really means that he pilfered the money. He took this money because he embezzled it. And if you look at the Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is this verb, which appears only once in the entire Old Testament, And perhaps by now you have already guessed where that verb appears. It appears in the account of Achan. Boys and girls, you will remember about Achan. Joshua is about to conquer the land of Canaan. They come to the city of Jericho. Everything that the soldiers obtain in the destruction of Jericho is to be turned over to the Lord, dedicated to the Lord. And what did Akin do? He pilfered, there's the verb, he took some of this money for himself, he embezzled that money, and you notice he buried it in his tent. So that here, Ananias, like Achan in the Old Testament, showed contempt for the command and the holiness of God. And you all know what happened to Achan. He was stoned to death. Well, congregation of the Lord Jesus, this is serious business. So that Donald Gray Barnhouse once wrote, if God acted in the same way today that he did in the fifth chapter of Acts, you'd have to have a morgue in the basement of every church and a mortician on the pastoral staff. In view of God's holiness, I must bring my own life before the bar of God's justice. In view of God's holiness, we must remember that the church is a refuge for the repentant, but it is never a refuge for the lie. I have people in my own congregation who stand before me. They're maybe standing here right in the front row. As you have had people stand here in the front row, people who say to me, they look me right in the eye, they vow before me, they vow before God, they vow before the entire congregation in their profession of faith, yes, I believe what the Bible teaches. I uphold what the confessions teach us. I promise to be faithful in my church attendance. I promise to come under the discipline and the care of the elders. They stand there. They say that. They vow before God. And six months later, you don't see them anymore. And it's all a lie. It's all empty. I sometimes have young adults who stand about this far in front of me. They're about to be married. And they say to me and they say to God and the entire congregation that's assembled there, I promise to be faithful to my marital vows, to love my wife, to love my husband until death do us part. A couple years down the line, you hear that they've parted. I have parents standing before me, like as in any other church. And they promise to nurture and train this child in the fear of the Lord, And then it turns out that they're not faithful in family devotions. They're not faithful in nurturing their children by teaching them the catechism. Sending them to the classes of instruction. It's all a lie, I guess. Has it ever happened here? Has it ever happened here? You see, Ananias and Sapphira were part of the church, and yet God struck them down for their lie. Can any one of us tonight suggest that we deserve anything less than they? If so, we are filled with hypocrisy. And yet, God does not strike us down. Why? It is because of the mercy and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? There are many incidences of sin in the early New Testament church throughout the book of Acts, throughout the church in history. God does not always visit His wrath upon such sin with instantaneous death, with judgment that is swift and sudden and appalling. Justice of God leaves room for our repentance, doesn't it? So then, why did God deal with Ananias and Sapphira in the way that He did? To be sure, Luke, the writer of the book of Acts, as well as the Gospel of Luke, records other incidences of judgment in the book of Acts. But when you take an overall view of the book of Acts, this is an exception, isn't it? You might say that this is an exception rather than the rule. So why does God strike down Ananias? I want to hold out before you three reasons. As the church is getting started here in the early New Testament church, the church must understand right from the very beginning that people must stand honestly before God. The church must stand honestly before God. You cannot be part of the church and live the lie. That's what God wanted to impress upon the church. The church must understand the holiness of God. The same Spirit that brings joy and peace and unity among the believers is the same Spirit that is holy and brings judgment against those who take His holiness and His purity and His unity for granted. And so the Holy Spirit impresses upon the church the fact that it is extremely dangerous for the church to be living a lie. God's judgment fell upon the church to purify His church. The congregation of Jesus, the church today in our modern world needs to hear that message. Needs to hear that message. Because frequently in the church of Christ today, everything that's talked about is not to offend the people that are there. It's all about how God loves us, and He does. But you see, it's only half the picture. It's only a half-truth when we would simply suggest that God only loves His people. He calls us to holiness. The second reason is that God provides a warning for us today. God warned the church then, but He also warns us today. Though the punishment of our sins may not fall upon us immediately, I want to say to you tonight in the name of Christ that God will punish sin. And if we take for granted His mercy, Ananias' judgment is reflective of the punishment that we shall receive at the second coming of our Lord Jesus. Unrepentant sin in the body of Christ is a serious matter. And it's a warning today. The church of Christ needs certainly to be warned. But finally, God also moved the church, as we see, to awesome fear by His judgment. He moved the church to awesome fear. Acts 5 verse 5 says that great fear seized all who heard what had happened. God wants His church to fear Him. God wants His church, that is, to love Him with awe and reverence." The church does not hear very much about worshiping God with awe and reverence. He wants His people to live before His face and to worship Him with awe and with reverence. Why is it that God does not want clowning around, entertainment, movies, drama, and skits, and what not all, in the worship of His church. I heard a church in our area, on sort of the west coast. It wasn't our church. For the churches were actually having the ministers wrestle together on the pulpit area. Brought in a great many people. Wouldn't you be fascinated to see the two of us, Reverend Wagonmaker and myself, wrestling together here? Why is God so offended at such a thing? Because the Holy Spirit is holy. And only what God commands in His worship is acceptable to God. We are not to worship Him in any other way than He has commanded in His Word. The Holy Spirit is holy so that your relationship to God and my relationship to God, our worship of Almighty God is never to be casual and careless. He's holy. But you must also remember, and people of God, here is our comfort, you must also remember that the fear of God is rooted in His holiness and His justice. Because you see, the God whom we served, whom we continue to serve as those New Testament believers served Him, this God whom we serve visited His righteous wrath and His justice against our sin upon His own Son. That's where our comfort is. He doesn't destroy us. Even though we are fully deserving of His destruction, what does He do? He takes all of His wrath and righteous judgment against our sin and He pours it upon the Lord Jesus Christ And He makes us His sons and daughters. He washes us of all of our sins in His blood. It was Jesus who was put to death. It was Jesus who was struck down that we might live forever. You see, it was Christ who stood in our place and received the sentence as though He had lied. as though He had stolen, as though He had violated every command, as we have. And it was all placed upon Jesus Christ that we might live in the presence of His holiness. And that's good news. That's the wonderful thing about being a Christian. That's grace, my friends. Grace. obtained by Christ, a grace worked in us by the Spirit of God who is holy. And now He strives with you and with me in sanctification to clean our lives and our hearts and our minds so that we might be holy in His sight. Thank God that the Spirit is holy. Let's pray. Lord God in Heaven, what an amazing thing it is that You would have pity on us and that in the power of the Holy Spirit we would be Yours forever and ever. We thank You for the mercy that You show to us Here you have given us in this passage the teaching that your Spirit is holy, therefore creating holy fellowship among your people, but also, Father, rooting out all that was displeasing to you in terms of the lie of Ananias and Sapphira. O Lord in heaven, We pray that You will continue to work in us that we might be holier and holier before Your face. You have declared us to be holy in Christ, but we beg of You, Father, for the strength and the courage to wipe out, to destroy all sin that is within us. Lord, help us in this battle. We cannot do it ourselves. O Lord, we long to be holy. We pray that Your Holy Spirit may grow powerfully within us so that more and more we would see ourselves as the temple of the Holy Spirit. That we would see ourselves, Father, more and more in conformity with Your will as You create unity in the body, as You create unity among us and among our fellow believers. We pray that we may be jealous for the holiness of your worship. Because worship cannot be acceptable to you unless, O Lord, it is holy before Your face. May we recognize that and may we rejoice in the fact that You accept our worship in the name and in the work of Christ Jesus. We pray that You will do that today. Take the words that have been spoken in weakness and also in shortcoming and in sinfulness, and use them, Lord, to the praise and the glory of your name. Bless this people gathered here in Wampanoag. Give to this people true joy and unity in the truth. Cover her with your wings. Grant her, Father, your rich blessing. Give to her spiritual and numerical growth. Give to her the joy of the service of the Lord. Bless Your Word so that Your people might truly feed upon it and be nourished unto eternal life. May we stand together, Father, as Your people, standing against sin and Satan and all of his hosts, so that someday when the Lord Jesus Christ returns on the clouds of glory, When those clouds are parted back and they are rolled back as a scroll, and when our Lord Jesus Christ descends, we pray that your church may hear those welcoming words, well done, good and faithful servants, come, come now and enter into my rest. Father, help us to be faithful for Jesus' sake. Amen. Please turn with me as we sing number 20. Psalm 15 asks the question, Who, O Lord, with Thee abiding in Thy house shall be Thy guest? Who His feet to Zion turning in Thy holy hills shall rest? Let's sing the rest. of this song to discover also the answer from Psalm 15. It's number 20. Let's arise and sing the three verses. Lord, with Thee I give my all, shall Thee I bless, Who will take me by the hand, when I'm old and ill to rest? We never walk alone, and we'll ride without a fear. When He speaks, He speaks the Bible, but with truth and love sincere. He that slanders not his brother does no evil to a friend. To reproaches of another he refuses to attend. Wicked man, when not his maker, But the world will fear the Lord, From His brow He will unwaver, Though it bring Him sad reward. In eulogy landing, No excess He adds to man, Can the innocent be friendly in his eyes that praise the man? Hewing this an evil spurning, he shall evermore be moved. This the man where thee sojourning, this the man by thee have proved. In response of gratitude, the deacons will now wait upon us so that we might give to the Lord our evening offering for the general fund. you you you It's been a blessing for me to be with you today. And now as you take leave of God's people, I'd ask you to stand and receive His blessing. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace. Amen. O come all ye faithful and triumphantly, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O come, O come, O come, O come, O come to Bethlehem. She does so well. Good evening. You are welcome. It's good to see you again. Blessings to you. Take care now. Blessings to you. Take care now. You take care too. So good to see you again.