Thank Brother Russell for that introduction. I like how he started off saying yesterday was all the eggheads, and I think he was saying today you get the idiots. I know it's not true for Brother John, and for Brother Callie, and for the rest of the speakers. Maybe for James, but I know it's true for me. I am just a dude. And I think my palms are sweating. My fingerprint thing is not working. Don't worry, we'll get it. All right, I'll pull up my PowerPoint here. He was saying that James is a fanboy of mine. I should show you the email exchange that we had the last couple of days, and you might change your mind. No, he's a dear brother. That's the beautiful thing of it. You know, sometimes we can get into it online, get into it with emails, but once we see each other, everything's cleared up and fine, so. All right. That is my website. And that is me, Sy Tambrinkate. I am originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. For those of you who are not familiar with where Toronto is, it's right on top of the NBA. We won, we won. Your trophy is north of the border. I'm not a basketball fan, but we won this year. So I also really appreciate... I also really appreciate when Russell had introduced us and mentioned that, I don't think he mentioned, I'm from Canada, but for those of you who are not aware, John Barrows is also a fellow Canadian. He left when he was very young, but he is also heralds from the great country of Canada, the great white north. Something very interesting about that as well, is that right now, you are further north than where I live. People will say, well, you live in Canada, don't you? Yeah, but the border goes down like that, so. Our basketball team, the slogan is, we the north. There's actually two American basketball teams that are further north than us. But one thing I want to encourage you with is that I am you up here. I spent most of my adult life working in a boiler room. I am a boiler operator by trade. I was taking readings on boilers and chillers and compressors. And then I went to an evangelism conference from the church I was attending at the time, and I disagreed with 95% of what the guy said. I had a passion for sharing and defending my faith. But then I discovered most of my life I was doing it wrong. And we're going to get into that a little bit. But I want to encourage you that I am you. Now, when I say that, you know, that's not entirely the case because I think a lot of you out there have more education than I do. So I'm probably even dumber than most of you. But I don't have any degrees behind my name except for this one. I'm a D.W.A.W. And for those of you who are not familiar with that is, I'm a dude with a website. So that's something that you have to aspire to. A couple of years back, we came out with the film that Russell had mentioned, How to Answer the Fool, and that's on my Answer Anyone YouTube channel. You can check it out. It's at the Dutch price now, and I can say that because I am, of course, Dutch. My last name is Ten Bruggenkate, by the way. Ten is a prefix like van or de. like Corey Ten Boom. Nobody calls her Corey Boom, but everybody calls me Cy Bruggenkate. Ten is part of my last name. Oh, I remember what I was going to say. When Russell introduced you, he said, you know, I'm sure that a lot of you here have heard of Cy Ten Bruggenkate, and I'm sitting right behind this gentleman here going, oh, that was great, so I'm going to address this whole thing to you. And we also came out with a film, Debating Dela Hunty, that's a documentary on a debate that I did back in 2014. That's also on my YouTube channel. at the Dutch Prize. I have a couple of YouTube channels. Answer Anyone is the one where I post the films and more of the scripted content. But I also have another YouTube channel, Proof That God Exists. That's where a lot of the debates go and a lot of the open air preaching and things like that. And just recently, I started a series, a series of one, Answer Anyone. That's also on my YouTube channel. And the first person that I gave an answer to is Matt Walsh. Now, Matt Walsh, he worked for Ben Shapiro. He was interviewed by Ben Shapiro. And he said that when we argue issues of abortion or gender issues, we do not consult the Bible. We do not refer to the Bible. And my friend John Speed said, Si, you need to do something about this. So I wrote a blog post, and Matt Walsh read the blog post, and he talked about me on his show for about 20 minutes, telling the world how much of an idiot I was. So I decided to make a response, and that's on that channel. It's over an hour long. And I conclude that talk, that response to Matt Walsh, with an interview with my dear brother, fellow Canadian, John Barrows. And I'd encourage you to go there and check it out. A lot of people are encouraged by it. Because I've got just a little bit of time to share with you the type of apologetics I teach. So in a way, you're going to see that half an hour is way too much time. But also, if you're not familiar with it, it might be like drinking from a fire hose, as they say. So the dude with the website, this is my website, proofthatgodexists.org. And just a brief introduction to the website. If you come to the website, This is the first page you run into. And you have four options. You can click on any one of those options. Absolute truth exists. Absolute truth does not exist. I don't know if absolute truth exists, and I don't care if absolute truth exists. And I define absolute truth as something that is true for all people at all times everywhere. And you can click on any of those. Now, the unbeliever comes to my page, and of course, they click on absolute truth does not exist. Because if you admit that absolute truth exists, you're basically admitting that God exists, because you can't get absolute truth without God. So they might click on that one first, and then it takes them to this page, which says absolute truth does not exist, absolutely true or false. To say absolute truth does not exist is to make an absolute truth claim. So no matter which button they click, it takes them back to the first page. Actually, it used to. But I would get email after email after email, your website is broken. I said, no, actually your reasoning is broken. But because I was getting so many emails, I changed it. So now it takes you to this page. It says, this is not a glitch. Think about it. So at this point, they say, well, I guess I don't know if absolute truth exists. And they click on that. And it says, I don't know if absolute truth exists, absolutely true or false. To say that you don't know if absolute truth exists is to make an absolute truth claim. So then it takes them back to the front page, or this one again. And by this time they get frustrated, they click on, well, I guess I don't care that opposite truth exists, and it takes them to Disney. They don't care, I'm not going to spend my time arguing with them. Now, Christians get upset with me, and they actually think my website is broken. And I say, it's actually a biblical principle. In 1 Corinthians 15, 32, when the Apostle Paul said, if Christ is not raised, basically, if what we believe is not true, we might as well eat, drink, for tomorrow we die. And I think if Disney was around at the time of the Apostle Paul, he might have said, if Christ is not raised, if what we believe is not true, he might as well go to Disney for Tomorrow We Die. It's actually the unbelievers that get a kick out of it, and they go back to the site, and then they click, absolute truth does exist. And that's just an introduction. But if you go there, you can see links to my videos. So that's proofthatgodexists.org. Like I say, I spent most of my life in a boiler room, my adult life, my working life, but now they call me an apologist. Now, an apologist is not somebody who goes around saying that they're sorry. I don't know what you say over here. Is it sorry or sorry? Well, I'm a Canadian, so I say sorry. But it's not going around saying you're sorry. It comes from the root word apologia, which means to give a reasoned defense of the truth of what you believe. Now, one thing you'll see very interestingly is that there is no office of apologist in Scripture. And you'll find out why that is the case, because we're supposed to be able to do it. Just like there's no office of love your neighborest, If I came here today and say, I'm a love-your-neighborist, then I'm going to spend this next time teaching how to love your neighbor. You say, what are you talking about? I know how to do that. Bring them a casserole. You know how to love your neighbor. You're supposed to know how to defend your faith. Sometimes I'll go to a conference and I'll say, you've asked me to teach you how to defend your faith that God exists. I'm going to throw a bit of a curveball. I didn't tell your pastor this, but I'm going to teach you how to defend your faith that your parents exist. And they go, why do you have this freak from Canada coming down here teaching us how to defend the faith that our parents exist? I said, that would be crazy, wouldn't it? Yes. Why? Because you know your parents. I said, what am I doing here teaching you how to defend your faith that God exists? If you know him, you can do it. And I'm not dumping on anybody because I'm you. I was sitting there listening to people telling me I gotta go to the bookstore and buy all these different books to try and teach me how to defend my faith of the God that I know, the God that saved me. One of the worst things that I hear is when somebody on Facebook says I was talking to my unbelieving sister-in-law the other day, and I really wish Sai was there. I say, yeah, I wish I was there to listen to you talk about the God that saved you. Everybody should know how to defend their faith, and hopefully I will make that more clear as we proceed. So apologetics is a branch of theology concerned with defending the truth of Christianity. And like I say, I only have a half an hour to hopefully change your view on apologetics, if you're not familiar with me at all, sir. I only have a half an hour, but really it's too much, because apologetics is easy, read your Bible, believe what it says. Have a nice day. It's that simple. I wish I could leave at this point, but it's that easy. Read your Bible, believe what it says. But the world, and Christians included, are telling you that the Bible is not enough for you to defend your faith. Jesus said in Luke 21, 15, I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. Not William Lane Craig, not me. Jesus said, I will give you the words. is the power of our apologetic. It's a King James, but I was looking for one at ESV, but couldn't find it. When are we supposed to be prepared to do apologetics? When are we supposed to be prepared? Well, how do we know the answer to that question? The answer to my questions are always going to be what scripture tells us, because that is my ultimate authority, and hopefully it's all of yours as well. First Peter 3.15, but in your hearts honor Christ as Lord. Always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and respect. We're supposed to always be prepared. And if you do it wrong, I guarantee you that you will not be prepared and you will not feel prepared. So again, what are my qualifications for teaching you today? Most of my life, I was doing it wrong. I was doing it wrong. I was not talking about the God that I believed in. I was talking about the God that the world wanted me to believe in. The God that most people who teach apologetics are teaching you to defend. So what was I doing wrong? When a person told me that they didn't believe in God, I gave them evidence. One problem with evidence, you have to be brilliant. I'm not. You have to study nuclear chemistry, physics, biology. You have to study all of those things. By the way, I'm tying this into abortion, mostly on my next talk, but I want to give you a foundation for when you're out there, you know, debating with people who want to kill their babies. So, you have to be brilliant. And let's say you study rock layers. You study geology because there's somebody out there saying, your Bible, you know, you guys are crazy. You believe in a young Earth or whatever. And you study your rock layers. And somebody comes up to you and you wipe the floor with this guy because you studied your rock layers. What's he going to do when he gets home? Google rock layers. You want him to repent and put his trust in Jesus Christ, and he's at home googling rock layers. Congratulations. And he finds a PhD that lives down the street, an unbeliever, a geologist, PhD. He pulls him out in the street tomorrow, and he argues with you. And he wipes the floor with you. Because one problem with evidence is you have to be brilliant, and there's always someone smarter than you. That's what I was doing, always catching up on the latest evidence to try and defeat the professed unbeliever. Here's another problem with evidence. You reduce God to a probability. Now, common arguments for the existence of God, I used to love these arguments, cosmological, theological, arguments for the resurrection, et cetera, et cetera. Now, I think we're going to do a Q&A later, and if you want to ask why they're probabilistic, I can show you why they're probabilistic, but these are not arguing for the God that we believe in. For example, the teleological argument, one that I used to love, talked about the odds of evolution are like a tornado going through a junkyard and making a fully functional 747. So many quadrillion or whatever it was, a lot more than that, to one. Now, for somebody who hates God, what are they going to pick? I don't know how it happened, but I'm picking that one. God is not a probability. Here's the question, though. Do we even believe in a certain God or a probable God? How do we know the answer to that question? Again, we're gonna go to scripture. Romans 839, for I'm convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. What a wonderful verse. Sitting in church, tears streaming down our face. In church, we say nothing can separate us from the love of the Father. Beautiful. Nothing can separate us from the love of the Father. Then we go out in the world and we say, if I'm wrong about God, then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God, then you wasted your eternity. Do you know how many Christians shared that? Pascal's Wager. The reason that Pascal's Wager grates on me so much is because I used to do it. If I'm wrong, I die, rot in the ground, worms eat my body. If I'm right, I get to go to heaven with God forever. If you're right, you die, rot in the ground, worms eat your body. If you're wrong, you go to hell. What have you got to lose? The day before I'm in church and I'm saying nothing can separate me from the love of the Father, the next day I go out into the world and I say I could be wrong. Brothers and sisters, if you can be wrong, you cannot say nothing can separate me from the love of the Father. You can only say nothing can separate me from the love of the Father if I'm right. That's not what we say in church. In church we worship a certainty, and then we go out into the world and we defend faith in a probability. Now this, I'm gonna show you a few clips. This is not to throw these people under the bus. I hope that they're brothers in the Lord, I really do, but they're speaking like I used to before I understood a biblical apologetic. Now this is a fellow named Sean McDowell. This is at a debate that he was giving, and I want you to listen. This man goes around teaching people how to defend their faith. He might be a dear brother, I'd love to sit down with him. But I want you to listen to what he said in this debate. Talking about God and defending God. One of the toughest conversations I had is I sat down with my dad. I said, dad, I don't know if everything you've taught me is true. And I'll never forget his response. He looked right back at me and said, son, that's great. He said, seek truth with all your heart. And I'm confident you'll find it. And that's what I've tried to do. I've read every conceivable side that I can. I could be wrong. I fully admit that I could be mistaken. But I haven't been able to find a better explanation for not only morality, but for all reality, the science, the philosophy, the history, apart from God. If there was a better one, I would believe it. He could be wrong. If there was a better worldview, he would believe it. Can he say nothing could separate me from the love of the Father? Not if that's what he believes. I don't believe he believes that, by the way. I don't believe any Christian believes that. The Bible says everyone's certain that God exists. But the problem is, if you say that, get out of here, you bigot. But if you say I could be wrong, then you're welcome everywhere. And I think the world has duped, as it had duped me in the past, to presenting a possibility, a probability. Now here, this next clip is of a fellow named William Lane Craig. William Lane Craig is the most feared Christian debater out there. Sometimes I'll speak at a conference like this, And, you know, people love William Lane Craig. I'm not saying he's not a believer, but this is the most feared Christian debater. He's in a debate with a fellow named Lawrence Krauss. And Lawrence Krauss asks him if he's certain that God exists. That's the whole point. We don't claim certainty. And that's great. Well, do you claim certainty? No. I don't get that. Are you certain that God exists? No! Good. Are you certain that God exists? No! And what does the atheist say? Good. Yeah, that's good alright. Because he's not professing something I believe in and hopefully something that he doesn't believe in either. But that's the thing, if you go to a party and you say, you know, I could be wrong, but you know, Jesus changed my life and I get to be with him forever, if you put your trust in him then, you know, You can go to heaven too, but I could be wrong. Oh, why don't you go over and, you know, there's some Muslims and Buddhists, they could be wrong too. You could have a nice conversation. You go to that same party, you say, I am certain that God exists, and certain that Jesus died for sinners like you and me. And you need to put your trust in him, otherwise you're going to hell, and I love you enough to tell you that. Get out of here. And people want to be invited to that party. We have to start talking about the God that we actually believe in, the God that the Bible tells us about. The God we believe in certainly exists and has certainly revealed himself. If you're not defending your faith in that God, you're doing it wrong. Now, I'm not a married man, but what if I said that I had a wonderful, loving relationship with my wife, I'm just not certain she exists. You've had every right to question my relationship, if not my sanity. And I meet people on the campuses, how's your relationship with Jesus Christ? Oh, it's fantastic. Are you certain that God exists? No, I could be wrong. It's absurd to me. Now, the biggest problem with evidence, where do you hear evidence out in the world? You hear evidence most often in the court of law. In that court, who do you present the evidence to? You present evidence to the judge and jury. An unbeliever comes up to you and say, I don't believe in God, and you present them with evidence, who are you saying is the judge? Them. And in what seat in that courtroom do we put the Lord of glory? We put them into the criminal's box, and we elevate the unbeliever to the position of judge. And the problem is, God has given us wonderful evidence. We can win that court case. We can prove to that person that God exists. And he says, yes, you've met my burden of proof. Now I believe in your God. Who's the judge? He's still the judge. That's a problem. He's saying, God, you have to submit to my standard before I'll submit to you. And that's a problem. Now, can God save people through evidences? Absolutely. God can strike a straight blow with a bent stick. But for somebody who says they're a Christian because of the evidence, my question would be, what evidence would make you no longer a Christian? And if they give me some evidence, I say, that's a huge problem because it shows that you're still the judge. You see, when we give the unbeliever evidence, we're in danger of making them the judge over God. This next clip is a fellow named Frank Turek, and he goes around teaching apologetics, teaching you and your children how to defend the faith. And sorry, I'm probably messing with your audios with all my videos, but I apologize for that. So this is Frank Turek. This is from one of his promotional videos where he's encouraging you to have him to come to your school and teach apologetics. But we're going to show through two scientific arguments and one philosophical argument that there's a spaceless, timeless, immaterial, powerful, moral, personal, intelligent creator out there and we're not going to use the Bible to show you that evidence. We're just going to give you evidence and let you see where it leads. Yeah. We're not going to use the Bible to show you that God exists. We're just going to give you evidence and let you see where it leads. We're going to give you evidence and make you the judge. Now, you might think, well, we don't really do this, but then you go to the bookstore and what kind of books do you get? The Case for a Creator, Lee Strobel. Now, I believe Lee Strobel is a brother in the Lord, but in this book, The Case for a Creator, who's the judge? Not God. They're making a case for the unbeliever so they can say whether or not God exists. Evidence for God. Evidence that demands a verdict. That's by Josh McDowell, Sean's father. and bestseller, you know, reprints evidence that demands a verdict. By who? By the unbeliever. They're going to decide whether or not God exists. They, in effect, put God on trial. Now, I know people think that I'm equivocating, that I'm not using the word, you know, the way that they're using it. They say we would never try Jesus. I mean, we wouldn't do that. We put on our bumper sticks. We put it on our t-shirts. We put it on our church signs. Try Jesus. But surely a megachurch pastor would not go on national television and tell the world to put Jesus on trial. That would never happen, right? who do not accept Christ as their personal Savior. I'm saying that this is the perfect time to open their life, to give it a chance. I'd say, give them a 60-day trial. I dare you. I dare you to put Jesus on trial. Who in scripture tried Jesus? Pontius Pilate. He only tried him for a few hours, and if he didn't repent, he's in hell. This man's telling you to try Jesus for 60 days. Not my God. We flock out to Christian movies. I would like to bypass senseless debate altogether and jump to the conclusion, which every sophomore is already aware of. There is no God. Oh. You send your kid to school and you get some snot-nosed professor who's saying that there is no God. You see, I don't mind stepping on toes clearly, so that's why Russell and I are probably, you know, brothers in that regard. You go to a movie like that and he says, there is no God. But you have equipped your son, you have equipped your son to talk to that professor, so what's he gonna do? Mr. Wheaton, are you ready? We're going to put God on trial. We're going to put God on trial. I almost did a backflip when I saw that. Not my God. Now, don't get me wrong. There were some wonderful things in that movie. Don't get me wrong. But we don't put God on trial. Scripture says, do not put the Lord your God to the test. Any God that we are the judge over is not God. We don't try the Lord of glory. We submit to him. As I said earlier, apologetics is easy. Read your Bible, believe what it says. What does the Bible say? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Now you might think, you know, that's kind of difficult. What does that mean, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, and Christ are hidden in all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge? Wouldn't it be nice if the Apostle Paul, after he wrote something like that, would say, why are you telling us this, Paul? Wouldn't it be nice if he would just explain himself when he says, and Christ are hidden in all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge? Well, those of you who are familiar with that verse would know the very next verse. I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. And what do we do? We go out in the world, Was Jonah swallowed by a grouper? Fine sounding arguments. We take paper fragments to try and prove to people that a donkey talked. We have books in defense of miracles. We're trying to tell people that God is not necessary. And again, we go back to the whale shark off the coast of Madagascar. He has a big enough mouth and a big enough, you know, the first stomach doesn't have enough acid in it. Possibly a man could survive there for three days. We're trying to show that God is not necessary. Miracles are miracles. You don't have to prove miracles to unbelievers. You see, what we're trying to do is to give unbelievers evidence so that they'll come to know the truth and repent. Now, if I started my talk today and I said, I'm going to give you people the truth to give to the unbelievers so that they'll repent. You'd be out with your notepads going, writing all this stuff down. Oh, that's great. I want to give truth to the unbelievers so that they'll repent. What is the Bible saying? Opponents must be instructed, gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance, leading to a knowledge of the truth. Repentance comes before a knowledge of the truth. Look, folks, without God, a talking donkey is nuts. A man and a fish for three days, without God, is nuts. A man who died and rose again after three days, without God, is nuts. I'm not stupid. I, well, maybe I am. But I'll go on the street and say, yes, I agree with you. Without God, that's crazy. But God could do that, right? Yeah, if he exists. So your problem isn't with miracles. Your problem is with the God of miracles. And then I show them that if they have a problem with the God of miracles, they can't have a problem with miracles. Because then they want to say my Bible's not true. And I say, where do you get truth without God? But that is the whole three-hour lecture series, so I won't get into that. But too bad Paul never warned people of arguing in this way with false knowledge, with these bad arguments. And of course, when I say something like that, I do have a verse to support that. Oh, Timothy, guard the deposit and trust that you avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge. What is false knowledge? Colossians 2 verse 8, see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. You're arguing with people and you're giving up the store. We're arguing on their terms rather than the truth of scripture. You see, before I understood the biblical apologetic, I never saw it in scripture. Now I cannot read scripture without seeing it. This is not just a cool way to argue, brothers and sisters, it's life-changing. We have God as Lord of our theology and he becomes Lord of our apologetic. He's the foundation of everything. Now I can't read scripture without seeing it. Something like the FedEx symbol. For those of you who don't know, in the FedEx symbol, there's an arrow. I never saw that stupid arrow. Now I can't look at the FedEx symbol without seeing that arrow. And I've ruined it for all of you. Every time you see that FedEx symbol, you're gonna be looking at that arrow. And same with me with Scripture. I never saw this apologetic in Scripture before, but now I can't read Scripture without seeing it. Here's the question, then, how do we defend our faith with people who know for certain that God exists? When someone tells you that they don't know that God exists, don't believe them. Now, I'm just gonna wrap up soon, but I'll give you a couple stories. You know, tomorrow in my talk, I will wrap it up, you know, more with the abortion message, but I don't, when you see this in scripture, when it says everyone knows that God exists, Romans chapter one, don't go out and call them liars. The Bible calls them truth suppressors. And now you're talking about something that's way above my pay grade. You know, you have the first order and second order beliefs that they suppress the strong one, elevate the smaller one. They might be lying. Don't call them liars. Say they're truth suppressors. Well, I had just come to understand this form of biblical apologetics. I used to be an evidentialist. I used to argue evidence with everybody. Now I do what the Bible says. And I was sitting down with a friend of mine for dinner. And we just got to the restaurant. We sat down. We were sitting down for about five minutes. And he said, Si, the thing that I hate most about you is how certain you are that God exists. How are you so certain that God exists? Six months before, I would have given him all the evidence, paper, fragments, complexity of the eye, all that stuff, but I didn't. I looked him in the eye. I said, you know how I'm so certain that God exists? Same way you are. But I'm following him and you're not, and I don't know why. My friend got up from the table. He looked at his hands as if he had to go wash them. We'd just been to the restroom five minutes earlier. Why do you think he got up and went to the restroom? because he was crying. I would have argued with him for six hours about the complexity of the eye. I just told him what the Bible said. It doesn't mean that everybody is going to turn around and, you know, weep over that. They might think you're nuts. It doesn't matter. It does not matter. Not too long after that, I was at Living Waters doing some evangelism out at Newport Beach. And there's about 50 of us on the bus. And believe it or not, I'm an introvert. I don't like crowds. I don't even like talking to people that much. But God has put me in this position. And so I was with like 50 evangelists on the bus. And I'm the first one off the bus. So I walk away from the crowd. This guy comes up to me. He says, what's going on over there? I said, I don't know, a bunch of crazy Christians sharing their faith or something like that. The guy goes, oh, no. I said, yeah, I'm one of them. He started laughing, and it was a nice icebreaker. Then he got real serious. He said, two of my brothers killed themselves, committed suicide. He said, I hated God. I shook my fist at God. I swore at God. And then I finally said, there can be no God. He had a book on Hinduism in the basket of his bicycle. And he showed it to me. It was dog-eared, underlined. He was reading it. He was loving it. He said, what do you think about this Brahman, this oneness of being? Hinduism is one of the easiest religions to logically refute. But I didn't. I said, is that the God you're mad at when your brothers kill themselves? Do you know what he said to me? Nothing. He started weeping. Not going to happen with everybody you talk to, but now you're arguing for the truth of scripture. And again, tomorrow I'm going to share some more of those stories with you. But I got just a few short clips, and I'm at 29 minutes and 18 seconds, so I might go a little bit over. What was I going to say? It's not good if you forget your crane of thought when you're doing this. Oh, yes. The story. This story I heard from a friend of mine named Jeff Rose. Now, he told it years ago, and he's allowed me to repeat the story, and he's heard me repeat it, and he says, that's not exactly how it went. So I tell it better than he does. But I want to encourage you, I want to encourage you, when you're out defending your faith, share the truth of scripture with the person, and you won't miss. Now, Jeff told me the story that he went deer hunting a number of years ago. His friend invited him to go bow hunting. and he'd never been before. His friend was a little bit more experienced, but Jeff figured he was gonna be a good shot, he was gonna show off to his friend. So he went out and he bought the nicest bow, the nicest arrows, you know, the Sidewinder arrowheads, he said, and camouflage outfit and a tree stand. And they set up in this forest about 100 yards apart. All day, nothing. Just starting to get dark and Jeff hears a crash in his friend's tree stand. He goes, oh no, he got one. He said either he got one or he fell out of the tree. He didn't want his friend to get one, he wanted to get one. But he said, I might as well go over there to make sure he's okay. So he walks towards his friend's tree stand and his eyes are wide like this. He says, I got one, I got one. Jeff says, where? He says, over that tall grass over there. So Jeff goes to look for this dead deer. He's looking through the tall grass and he finds the guy's arrow. He said, you missed. He was happy. He said, you missed, pal, I got your arrow right here, you missed. The guy said, I didn't miss. That arrow went clean through it. So it went through its ribcage, through its heart. 70 yards down that path, that deer's gonna be lying there dead. And they go down that path, and there's that deer lying there dead. And you're out in the street at the abortion clinic, and somebody walks by you, and you quote a scripture verse to them, and they walk by and they flip you off. You didn't miss. God's word is sharper than that arrow. It's sharper than a two-edged sword. 70 yards down the path, when that person's putting their head on their pillow, they might think about what you said to them. There's two types of people in the world. There's sheep and there's goats. One thing scripture never says is that goats become sheep. Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice. You didn't miss. I just want to close with this video by Waylon Craig where he is being introduced. This is in Australia where he's about to give a lecture on apologetics. I was asked to share some thoughts this evening on helping Christians to become everyday apologists. The Bible commands us always be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. Oh, sorry, that's the one, he actually quoted scripture on that one. That's what he said, right? Is that what he said? Hang on, let me just play that again just one second. The Bible commands us always be ready to give a defense. That's what he said, right? Brothers and sisters, that is not where that verse starts. But in your hearts, set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared. We do not argue for the Lordship of Jesus Christ by giving it up. You didn't miss. Apologetics is easy. Read your Bible. Believe what it says. Amen.