Amen. Appreciate the good song tonight. I had a good mention to you. Kids had a good time at camp and appreciate Miss Ellen going and chaperoning the girls and appreciate Noah going. He had a pretty easy time with the boys. I think they all wanted to go to bed at 10 o'clock. But we had a good group of kids go. And they really were, had a good time, didn't give us any trouble. And again, Noah was invaluable to me, because I was like, I'm not staying. I was actually going to go stay in the cabin. Miss Ellen said, you don't need to stay in the cabin after going through heart surgery and all that and still not feeling good. So I stayed in the hotel. You say, preacher, I would. Well, you weren't there. and uh... but we had a good time with appreciate you let them go and and given some had given towards some that uh... maybe didn't have the money to go in and uh... the church paid for part of it and uh... they i think it's well worth a good investment But we had a good time. I want you to turn to Matthew chapter five tonight, if you would, and we'll continue. This may take us all year to go through these Beatitudes, and I think it'd be well worth it. Because again, what happens is we, and people say, well, I want to hear practical preaching. Well, this is as practical as it gets, because the Lord basically was going through here saying, if you're a Christian, if you're a follower of Christ, this is what your life ought to look like. And we've got all these ideas, right? I mean, the idea of being a Christian is Christ-like. What better way to figure out what that is, right? Because there's all these ideas. People say, well, I don't think that's what Christians should act like. I don't think that's what Christians should be like. Okay, where are you getting your information? Well, this is what I think. Well, why not examine the life of Christ? Why not examine the teachings of Christ and base everything off of that? So again, in chapter 5, we see that he begins in verse 2, he said, he opened his mouth, which again means that's the word of God. Verse 3 said, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. Now again, all these are stacking on top of each other. You're not going to get to verses 11 and 12 which we'll study tonight until you have understood and really made the first ones a part of your life. Blessed are the poor in spirit. You can't, you can't, until you understand your own depravity, you can't see that other people that we're all just sinners saved by grace, right? Because what happens brother Gary, a lot of times we get saved and we'll say, well, we'll look down our nose at other people and say, well, they're not doing this, this and this. And, uh, you have to realize that without the grace of God, uh, such were some of us. And then he goes on, uh, uh, blessed or the meek, that'd be a good one, right? That that'd be something that, but you know, Moses was the meekest man, uh, who ever lived by besides Jesus. Right. Uh, and, uh, he, he actually had great strength, but it was great strength under power. That's what meekness is. And, uh, blessed the day which hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled wonder. Wouldn't that be good today? The day we live in, I mean, we're, we, we hunger for power and we thirst for Uh, popularity, but the Bible said we're to hunger and thirst after righteousness to be, to be like Christ. We're, we're to want the character of Christ in our life. And then in verse 70, so blessed are the merciful, but they shall obtain mercy. Well, that again, not revenge mercy. The one of the preachers told the kids at camp said grace is God's unmerited favor, right? God giving you something you don't deserve. Mercy is God withholding what you do deserve. Praise God. Wouldn't God, we'd have mercy. All right. Then it goes on blessed are the pure in heart for they shall be shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God. Some of the most wretched wars I've ever seen, been among believers. Then it goes to verse 10, blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. We looked at that last time. Now verse 11 and 12 go along with verse 10. Blessed are ye, right? Ye, when he says ye, it's individual. Blessed are ye, right? When men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Now look at verse 12. Rejoice and be exceeding glad. Now there is no way. that you will do that in your flesh. If you're not filled with the Spirit of God, you will never do that. You'll never be filled with the Spirit of God until you start understanding the characters of the Beatitudes, Christ's Sermon on the Mount. And he said, Blessed rejoice to be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Now there's a difference between enduring and being glad, right? We endure hardship as a good soldier. But here the Bible said that we're to rejoice and be exceeding glad when we're persecuted for his sake. But John, not for my sake, not even for the church's sake, for his sake. So here's what I wanna share with you in this Matthew chapter five, verse 17. The Bible said we're to rejoice in tribulation. Again, let's wrap our mind around this that we cannot do that outside of the person of Jesus Christ. You can't do it. It's hard to do it being a Christian. It's hard to do it, Brother Jose, being a part of a good Bible-preaching church. It's hard to do it being around other believers encouraging you. There has to be something within us that drives us that we want to be so like Christ that nothing else matters except what He tells us to do. Now, friend, if we don't get there, Brother Eddie, if we never get to that place, we'll never be able to do what the Lord commands us to do in these Beatitudes because it's too difficult. And by the way, we look at the Christian life and say, well, preacher, it's too hard, too difficult for us to do this. You're right. And that's the way God designed it so that you and I cannot do it outside the power and person of the Lord Jesus Christ. So verse 11 and 12 go right along with verse 10. It's a continuation of verse 10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. So understand that this brings out every further truth in the character of the Christian. In other words, some of this deals with what you can see, but a lot of it deals with what you can't see. All this that we're seeing in verses one, all the way down through verse number what, 10, are inward man stuff, right? You'll see the results of it, but you cannot see, and here's the thing, Brother Kenneth, some of this, can we be honest, some of this can be faked. Right up until you get to verses 10, 11, and 12. Cause you ain't going to fake. You're not going to look at verse 12, rejoice and be exceeding glad in persecution. You can't fake that. So what the Lord's saying, again, how we react to things shows how much about our inner man. We can all say how much we love Jesus when things are going good. I mentioned this morning, we have a testimony service, and when God's blessing and meeting needs and taking, well, I want to thank God. Oh, he paid my electric bill. He took care of the medical bill. He took care of the car payment. Hey, my tires lasted 10,000, and we ought to thank God for those things. But when's the last time we said I want to thank God for the trial that He put me through or allowed me to go through because it made me rely on Him more? I don't know about you, that's not easy to do. That's not something a pastor wants to do very often, I promise you that. But there are three principles with regards to this type of Christian that he's talking about. And here's what it is. The Christian is unlike everyone who is not a Christian. Well, that's sanctification. We're supposed to be set apart. The Bible says we're to peculiar people. That doesn't mean weird. It means a set apart people. So there ought to be a distinction between those who are Christians and those that are not. Well, automatically we understand, well, when it comes to music and what we listen to and what we watch and all that, and that's been so pushed on us for years. And I'm not against that. I think there ought to be a difference in the place we go, you know, movie theaters and, you know, bars and all that. There ought to be difference. Agree? But see, that's where a lot of it stopped. We ought to be different in the way we handle things. We ought to be different in how we treat people. There ought to be a difference in us. That's what the Bible's telling us. We ought to be so much like Christ that people who are not Christians see Christ in us. And that's opposite of what modern Christianity's trying to teach. They're trying to teach us to be more like the world to win the world. Well, that's the craziest thing ever. Why would you be more like something to win them to your argument when what they've really done is won you to their argument? So first thing is sanctification. The second principle, the Lord makes the promises to those who face persecution for righteousness' sake. So the Christian's life is to be controlled by Jesus. Well, that's submission. So first of all is sanctification. Second is submission that we're to be controlled by Christ and that's Ephesians five. And then the Christian's life should be controlled by thoughts of heaven. Well, that's our hope. And my hope is not that America's going to get better. My hope is not that the world's going to get better. See, we need to get off of this thing, Christians, about, well, if this happens and this happens and America's going to be, we're going to get better. Maybe for a while, but ultimately, all of us, the world's getting worse. And if you don't believe that, then you don't believe contrary to the word of God. Why? Because if you look, even in Old Testament times, as countries prospered, as God's people prospered, you know what they did? They turned their back on God. And then he had to drag them into persecution and slavery. And then he'd go and rescue them because they would cry unto him again. And it was a cycle. We're no different. That's why if you look at every empire, the Roman Empire, America, every great empire fails. Why? Because of pride. So we're, again, going to this place where our hope is not here, our hope is things not gonna get better. Our hope, Miss Peggy sang about this morning, is heaven. Amen. Listen, I love church, I love God's people, I love America, I love to be alive. As contrary to people, so I'm just ready to go to heaven. Well, there's a side of me that I am, but praise God, as long as he's here, I wanna live a good life. Amen? I want to enjoy it. I'm in no hurry to check out. Right? And if you are, that's on you. I mean, maybe one day I'll get there, but I'm not there now. I want to live to 94 and eat tater chips and drink coffee. I mean, that's okay with me. I don't want to be laid up in a bed until I'm 94. But I wouldn't mind living to be 94 years old and still enjoying life and still having a good time and still serving God, wouldn't you? That'd be all right with me. But I know this, that no matter how long God leaves me on this earth, ultimately, I'm going to draw my last breath and I better have some hope on the other side of the grave because if I don't, man, I'll tell you what, if our hope is in this life only, we're most miserable. We're miserable. And I think that's where a lot of Christians are. They don't look ahead and see what's ahead of us. We're just, we're trying to make the best out of this life. And we're saying, and we fail and life fails us and people fail us. And we're like, I'm so terribly miserable because nothing seems to be going my way. Well, hallelujah. Praise God. Then get your eyes off the world and get it, get it to heaven. So let's let's look at this scripture. Three things I want to share with you about it and are actually two things will be done. Number one when we're talking about the Christian this scripture deals with how he faces persecution. So look at verse 11. He said that Jesus said again understand who's saying this. This isn't John the Baptist. It's Jesus. He said, blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, verse 10. Verse 11, blessed are ye. So in verse 10, it's a general thing, right? In verse 11, he pinpoints it to an individual. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Well, who's he talking to? In the context, he's talking to his disciples. Now think about what they're getting ready to go through. They're going to be persecuted. They're going to be, Peter's going to be hung upside down. Some of them are going to be sold in half. So, so what he's saying is I'm pointing to you, right? And I'm saying, when you are persecuted, if you're doing it for the sake of Christ, you ought to rejoice. Well, how he faces persecution, he does not retaliate. Did Jesus retaliate? No. No one said, well, he could have called down 10,000 angels. He didn't have to do that. He could have just said, I'm getting off the cross and got off the cross. Amen. Think about that. He could have called down 10,000. He didn't need to. Matter of fact, if you, if you, uh, If you look, right? If you look, was it not in the garden where he spoke and they fell backwards? So, could he retaliated? He sure could. Was it Peter that chopped that guy's ear off? He put it right back on and he said, we're not going there. He could have, but he didn't. Well, what about us? We retaliate. Eye for an eye. We like Old Testament principles when we're dealing with other people. We like New Testament principles when we're dealing with us. We like Old Testament principles. Brother Johnny, you offended me eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Brother Johnny, I offended you. The Bible said you're to forgive me, have mercy on me. Ain't that right? Hey, we get biblical when we fight, when we're good Baptists. Hey, when it's a fight in the house, right? Husband and wife, it's eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, praise God. But we want mercy. Baby, I'm sorry. Right? Hey, we get historical, Brother Jose, when we argue. That's right, remember? So to retaliate is to be like the natural man, right? not to be like the Christ man, not to be like the spiritual man. The Christian is different in nature. Well, you say you're saved, you're 10 years old, guess what, young person? Well, they're just teenagers, preacher, give them a break. But they're teenagers that say they're filled with the Spirit of God, that they're saved and born again and going to heaven, then you tell me why they shouldn't be different. Well, because their mom and daddy's different. Well, mom and daddy's ought to be different. Grandmas and grandpas ought to be different. We all should be different. It's not just teenagers. I mean, let's be honest. Teenagers are no more wicked than young adults. Young adults are no more wicked than grown adults, and grown adults are no more wicked than old adults. We got this natural man, and if we don't submit to the Spirit of God, what happens is we start acting like the world, not like Christ. So he's saying we're not to retaliate, but then he also is saying we're not to have resentment. See, we're not to have ill feelings about what is done to us. I mean, that's not easy, right? That's not, you can't do that on your own. How many times has God allowed some stuff in your life and mine? Guess what, we've got mad at God. There's been people that have gotten out of church because God allowed some stuff happen in their life and they blame God. I've talked to them, Brother Dennis, I'm mad at God. You can be. But if God is who we say he is, how are you going to get mad at him? He's right. He's righteous, which means right. How are you going to get mad at him? Well, he's not treating me fair. What's fair? We'll get resentment toward what happens to us, but then we're also to not have ill feelings about who's done it to us. But Tim, listen, I'll just be honest, brother Jose, you've been pastoring here for how long? 12, 13 years? 13 years. You've been preaching for how long? Long time? 20 years? I'm not putting you on the spot. Anybody ever hurt your feelings? Never? Yeah. But you're still preaching. Amen. Still serving God, right? But Shane, have I ever hurt your feelings? Still serving God? Anybody in here, you've never got your feelings hurt? At church, still serving God? See what I'm saying? You can resent all you want. but you can't be resentful and be like Christ. Father, forgive them. Did Jesus die just for the people that would accept Christ as Savior? For God so loved the world. You know who's included in that world? The people that hung him on the cross. Amen. So he is to not retaliate, he's not to have resentment, and then watch this, he's not to be depressed. Now there's probably more people because the Bible said rejoice and be exceedingly glad. There's probably, you might can get away with not retaliating. You might even be spiritual enough not to be resentful. But I promise you this, if the devil and the world keeps hitting you with enough darts, And the right person hurts you and the right person to get you to the place that you're disappointed. You'll get depressed. Sometimes listen, sometimes circumstances will get you to the place where you feel like you've done all you can do to serve God and God allows some things happen in your life and you go, this ain't right, God. You say, not me, I'm too spiritual. Well, when you get to heaven one day, you can tell Elijah how to not get depressed. Because when he was under that tree, he was done. I just want to die. You ever felt like that? God just take me on out of here. It's not even worth living. Right? I mean, he just had a great victory. He just stood up against the prophets of Baal and won a great victory, slew them. And remember this? He had prayed and caused it not to rain. And then one woman, old Jezebel, said, you know what? I'm going to kill you. This was God's man. And either his faith wavered a bit because God, she couldn't do it unless God allowed it. Right? God had to allow it. He wasn't afraid of all the prophets of Baal and all that. He wasn't afraid of them. But here's one woman. He's like, I got to get out of here. And he got depressed. You ever been there? See, when tribulation comes in your life. If you're not walking with God, if you're not filled with the Spirit of God, if you're not set apart, what happens? If your vision is things going to get better, I want to make things better and all my hope is in this world, what happens is when that situation doesn't get better, now all of a sudden you're depressed. But the Bible said we're to, notice what he said in verse 12, he said rejoice and be not just glad, he said exceeding glad. So don't let persecution rob you of the joy of the Lord that you have. So number one, it deals with how he faces persecution, but then in verse 12, the Bible tells us why the Christian is to rejoice. Now notice he said rejoice, be exceedingly glad. Here's the reason why. For great is your reward in heaven. Did you read where your reward is? Brother Gary, he never said rejoice and be exceedingly glad because it's going to come back on this earth. Now again, why is that important? Because if you're waiting to have retribution or have the reward of God on this side of eternity and you don't get it, you know what happens? You go back to the top of verse 12 and you won't rejoice and be exceedingly glad. You'll be depressed because you'll think you're getting the raw end of the deal. Right? Look at it like this, how many, now don't raise your hand, but how many of you have a retirement account that you're putting money into it every single month and every single month and rolling over, rolling over. Well, you didn't take it out this month, right? You didn't take it out this year. Your goal is to keep putting it in there so that one day, maybe, Who knows, right? Who knows? Hopefully one day you'll have a little something in there where you can buy some groceries in your old age. Well, if you go in there, you know, and you've been putting it in there for a year and you go to your financial guy and you say hey pal I'm ready to take that money out right now he said yeah you got $1,200 in here you go I thought I thought you said if I put this money in here when I got ready to retire to have all this money well yeah one day not after a year right and you pull that money out you'd be disappointed because it's not a very big reward But if you keep putting that $100 in every month over 40 years and the miracle of compound interest and you have several million dollars in there, then that reward looks a lot better, doesn't it? Well, friend, may I say that all you're doing here on this earth is you're depositing, right? You're laying some stuff up in heaven. You may not see the reward on this side of eternity. So don't be disappointed. I don't, listen, I don't look at my accounts every, I look, well, I look at them every single day, but I've learned this, if I get, if I'm not careful, brother Jay, I'll look at that thing and go, whoa, whoa, what's going on? And the knee jerk reaction is I need to take the money out, because guess what? It's going down. Well, that's dumb, because when you take it out, do you know what's going to happen? It's going to start going back up. You just leave it in there. Well, same thing with this. If you're waiting for God to say, okay, well, you went through this trial in your life. Here's your reward. Well, what happens if you don't get it till you get to heaven? But listen, church, the same reward that you've earned, you can lose. So what happens if you would have earned it, but because you weren't faithful and you thought God did you wrong, you quit and now you've lost the reward God's going to give you. Well, why are we to rejoice? Well, here's what the Bible said. Verse 12, great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. So why do we rejoice? First of all, because it's proof of who we are. Jesus said the world hates you. You know why? Because it hated me first. You are like the prophets. That's what the Bible said. Satan actually gives you proof that you are a child of God. Listen. When one preacher said this way said the devil doesn't ever bother you because you're on his side. Right. He's not. You've never faced Satan face to face. You know why. Because you're walking with him. Persecution, tribulation is not a sign necessarily you're doing something wrong. It may be at that point that you're doing it all right and Satan's trying to stop you. Hey, listen, if church, Brother Jose, if all we ever had at church every Sunday, well, you know, shouting time in heaven and all church every day was grow, grow, grow, grow numerically, guess what? There's a problem there. You can't base things on the size. You can't base the spirituality of things on the size. If it was, there's a big church down in Texas that doesn't preach the gospel. It's the biggest one in the world. You can't base everything off size. There's church all over the place. Churches, they have no standard, won't preach the Bible, won't preach truth, but they're growing like crazy. And Brother Bobby told me this, he said, he said, don't ever look at size as a spiritual barometer of what God's doing. He said, because a lot of times it's like old dead dog on the side of the road. He said, they're dead and they swell up and then they decay from the inside. I probably wouldn't have been quite that graphic, but hey, I believe he's accurate. It's proof of who we are, but also it's proof of whose we are. We're being persecuted because we're like him. If you're being persecuted for righteousness sake. We're being treated like he was treated. If we're following Christ. I said it last week, you can't be contrary all the time and not expect persecution. Say, well, I'm suffering for Jesus. I know preachers that way. There was one used to be, Brother Jose, he prided himself on being the most controversial preacher in America. And everybody hated him. I mean, he was just mean, arrogant, nasty, preached. I mean, just hateful. Guess what? Now he's with contemporary movement. People couldn't stand him. I wouldn't go across the street to hear him preach. If John the Baptist was leading the singing, I wouldn't go. I'm okay with hard preaching. As long as you stay in that book. As long as you're not nasty with it. I'm okay with hard preaching. You can preach on stuff and sometimes, hey, I might go, hmm, I'm not sure. But I'm alright with it. But if you're just doing it to be contentious, I ain't got any use for that. I was at a meeting one time and I won't name the preacher. He's up there bragging, he's preaching up a storm. He said, I want to tell you something. He said, all you boys. He said, I believe a fundamentalist ought to wear a white shirt, nothing else. I'm like, here we go. He said, you bunch of Hollywood preachers. He said, you got your blue shirts with your white collars on. Guess what? I had one of those on that night. We was leaving. This preacher said, did that offend you? I said, I care less. I ain't preaching for him. He just got done telling a story about he's going to the meeting. He had on his Harley-Davidson hat and his Harley-Davidson shirt and he got stopped by a cop and he said, I threw my Bible up there so he knew I was a preacher. I'm listening to a guy tell me that I'm dressing like a Hollywood preacher because I'm dressing like a businessman and he had on a t-shirt and a hat. I said, I ain't worried about him. Didn't offend me. Guess what? I wouldn't go hear him preach again. If he'd preach that book, I'd go, hey. If I was in error, Brother Fry taught me, if that book's right and you're in error, you need to submit to that book. Amen. But see, it's proof of whose we are. If the devil's causing you trouble because you're like Christ, you're proving that you're his. And then there's proof of where we're going. Well, may I say this? If we're sanctified, we're different. And if we're different, people are like, what are you doing here? If you were to go, I promise you this, Brother Jose, I've gone to Mexico six or seven times. There is no way when I walk the streets of any Any town in Mexico, I'll guarantee you they don't think I'm Mexican. They don't. Nobody's ever say, what village are you from? You know what they say? You're a gringo. Because I'm different. Not better, just different. I'm taller than most, right? I'm lighter skinned than most. I wear, my clothing is probably different than a lot of what they wear. Even if I try to speak Spanish, guess what? They know. They know with my Southern drawl that I'm not from Mexico. So my point is, they see me as different. What, does this world see you as different? Are we so like them, they're like, can't tell the difference, right? See, the proof where we're going is this, is that it's a hallmark, you're destined for heaven. I don't want, Brother Shane, I don't want my tent stakes dug down too deep here, right? I don't want to feel like this is my home. I'll be honest with you. We've lived in Davidson County for 22 years. And I don't mean this negatively. It don't feel like home to me. And I don't mean that negatively. But I'll drive down 150 and it still fits. And maybe, you know. I grew up across the river, 30 minutes from here, but this is different. Brother Jose, you've been here 13 years. This doesn't feel like California to you, see? And again, don't get upset. I'm not saying that in a negative way, like, well, you're saying we're not, and I'm not saying that. I just know that I grew up 30 minutes from here in another county, and as long as I stay here, I'm a foreigner. That's okay. Well, guess what? That's how we are in this world. And if you don't feel that way, if you're so caught up when I got to fit in and this is my home and this is my world and then you're missing it, man, because it's going to be much better over there. And so, and being uncomfortable in this world should be proof of where we're going. And then finally the promise of the reward. We don't know exactly what it is. We just know Jesus promised it. And we know he does all things well. So my point is this, Matthew 5, 11, 12 tells us this, we're to rejoice in tribulation. How do we do that? Well, you gotta be set apart from this world. Listen to me, you should be insulated Not isolated, right? If you're insulated, if the insulation's good enough, whatever's going on outside the house doesn't matter, right? The insulation's good enough when it's, you know, 20 degrees below zero and the insulation is good enough and you got the heat going inside it's going to feel good in there when it's 110 outside and the insulation is good and you run the air condition it's going to feel good inside well that's how we're to be we're not from we're not a part of this world it's not our home right so we're passing through and so when we're when we're faced with tribulation we have to realize it's just temporary I mean, again, Paul and all that he went through, he just called it light affliction. I'm just saying this, his light affliction would put me and probably most of you, I'd done quick God a long time ago, wouldn't you? Stoned, prison everywhere he went. People used to love him. He said, listen, why do you hate me for telling you the truth? You used to love me for telling you the truth. That's what he was saying. But he just kept going. Jesus kept going. John the Baptist kept going. Peter kept going. Well, you and I just got to keep going. Rejoice. Rejoice. Be exceedingly glad. Man, I don't know how you do that without Jesus. If I'm not wrapped up in Him and He's not controlling me, there's no way I'm going to do that. No way you're going to do that. We're rejoicing tribulation. Again, I think the only way we can do that is in Him and His power. And you say, well, I can't do it. You're right. I can't either. But we tell on ourselves, don't we? I just can't do it. I don't have the ability. Yeah, you're right. But you're also saying that you don't have the ability or the want to See, because here's the thing. Let me finish with this. Two things. If God said you could do it, you can do it. Right? Three of you. Let me say it again. If God said in his word you can do it, you can do it. Agree? If not, he's a liar. So if he says you can do it and you don't do it, it ain't on him, it's on you. And it's not the fact that you can't do it, it's the fact that you won't do it because he's telling you how to do it, you got to rely on him. So we ought to be a happy people. We ought to be a joyous people. We ought to rejoice and be exceedingly glad because our name is written in heaven. And we can do that in the power of the Holy Spirit. Let's stand together. Let's stand together. Amen. Heads bowed, eyes closed, altars open tonight. If you need to come, you come. No matter what we go through, the Lord's gone through more, hasn't he? Amen. Well, I appreciate that song. Rejoice in the Lord. He makes no mistakes. Whatever you and I go through, the Lord allows it. Sometimes it's for chastening. Sometimes it's for correction. Sometimes it's just because God wants us to rely on Him more. Yes, Lord. Fourth is gold. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Amen.