Psalm 132, verse number 1. Lord, remember David and all his afflictions, how he swore unto the Lord and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob. Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed. I will not give sleep to mine eyes, nor slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the Lord and habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. Now, we've been going over, of course, on Thursday nights a series called What Makes People Great. Bible people A to Z is what we've been calling it. We've done A, we've done B, C, and this is D. All right, David. And I don't think we're going to get through David. We're not going to cover every aspect of his life in this. You could take a long time on David for that. We're going to probably do two weeks on this, though, for sure. But what makes a person great? We started with that at the beginning of the year. What makes a person great is not money, it's not fame, it's not family status. There are many people who have all of those things, and yet, they are not considered great people. But what makes a person truly great is the ability, is the victory that they have through Jesus Christ. And you know what? As you'll find, anybody in the Bible that you'd consider great, they trusted in God, and God got them through some tough situations. In our text, we see an admonition to remember David and his afflictions. We don't know for sure who wrote this psalm. It is more than likely written by Solomon, possibly during the time leading up to the completion of the temple. Now, if you remember the life of David, you remember that David tried to build the temple of God over and over and over and over and over again, and God said, no. Now, it's interesting to me because that was a good thing that David wanted to do. I mean, he wanted to build, but God said, no. This is not the message, but here's what I've learned in my life. If I'm trying to do something good, even if it's for God, and God keeps telling me no, I better listen, amen? Because sometimes we try to do something good and God keeps saying no, and I've gone ahead and done it anyway, and that always comes back on me, doesn't it? You think, well, Lord, I did something good for you. Well, if God keeps, folks, if God won't let you do it, don't do it. Amen. All right. If he's if he's if he's saying no, listen, remember Balaam's donkey. All right. Listen to the donkey. Amen. All right. If God's that obvious and sometimes God has to get that obvious with me anyway, he's trying to tell me know about something. I've learned that it's best if I say, OK, Lord, I trust you. Now the word afflictions, found in verse number 1, is the Hebrew word anah. You don't have to know that necessarily, it's not going to be a quiz, but it means depressed, it means to abase, to depress or to abase. It is used 83 times in our Bibles, it's translated as afflict, or dealt hardly, or abased. Even though David dealt with these things though, David had faced a lot of afflictions. I mean, here's a Psalm asking God to remember the afflictions of David. Even though David dealt with a lot of personal struggles and failures and just a lot of things David went through, we don't generally think of David in that light, right? I mean, generally when you think of David, you think of what? You think of positive things, right? You think of David and Goliath. You think of the mighty king that he was. I know he has some, by the way, he has some catastrophic failures. But still, despite all of that, David's called a man after God's own heart. And generally, we don't think of David like, when you say Jonah, our instant reaction to Jonah is, he did do a lot of good things, but... He was kind of a bad guy. I mean, he didn't really get it, right? I mean, he just, he didn't understand. And so, but David, when we think of David, man, I think he's somebody that loved God and somebody who wanted to follow God wholeheartedly. He didn't always do it, but David loved God. Think about this, about David. He's included in the Hall of Faith chapter in Hebrews chapter 11. He is mentioned by name in the Bible 1,139 times, which is more than Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Noah combined. They were all pretty important people. He's mentioned more than any of the disciples, any of Jesus' 12 disciples, and the Apostle Paul. I don't know about combined, I didn't count all the twelve disciples up in the Apostle Paul, but by name. But he's mentioned more than any of them in one single time. Actually, in my study that I did, I couldn't find one person other than God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit, okay, the Trinity. I couldn't find one individual that was mentioned in the Bible more times than David. There's a little Bible study for you, all right, if you want to find that. If you find somebody, tell me, because I was just sitting there typing people's names in the Bible, trying to see how many times they showed up. And even Moses, I mean, who is a great leader, and he is 300 times almost less than David mentioned in the Bible. So David, there's a lot that is said about David. And of course, you know, Jesus Christ comes from the lineage of David. That's another reason why he's mentioned so much. And all the kings, if they were good, they followed their father, David, even though he wasn't their direct father. And so David is mentioned a lot vicariously as well. But you know what, folks? Listen, the writer in our text centers this request about David with three things in mind, okay? And three things in mind here. Number one, the Lord's memory, all right? God remembers His own. I'm thankful for that. Lord, remember David. You see, God remembers His own. God remembered Noah in Genesis 8-1. God remembered His covenant in Genesis 9-15. God remembered Abraham in Genesis 19-29. He remembered His promise to His people in Exodus 2-24. We just talked about that in church a couple weeks ago. He remembered a woman named Hannah in 1 Samuel 1.19. I'm glad God knows His own. Amen? Folks, the idea that God is some being who just created us and then left us to our own existence is not a biblical concept, alright? As you study the God of the Bible and you begin to know Him, He is a personal God who personally knows you. Now, I'm not doing all the, you know, the God gets us liberal stuff that I see out there sometimes, because some of that drives me crazy. But anyway, I'm not going to chase that rabbit tonight. But I do believe God knows us. The Bible says He knows the very hairs of our head, alright? He tells the disciples, you're worth more than many sparrows. Amen? I mean, so this is a personal God. And I'll find, David and I find others, Lord, I find Job asking this, Lord, remember, I find lots of people asking the Lord to remember. You know what? Hey, listen, let's be real. Come on. Sometimes when we're praying about a situation in our lives... Hey boys, sit up and listen. Sometimes when we're praying about a situation in our lives, it's easy to think that God has forgotten us, right? I mean, God's got so many other things going on, it's easy to think, man, God's forgotten about little old me, right? But God hasn't. God knows you. By the way, Israel for 430 years was in Egypt. And they cried out to God, and the Bible says, and God remembered. And God remembered. Well, did he forget? No. But sometimes God specifically remembers. That's interesting. There's other things God chooses to forget. That's your sins after you get saved. And I'm thankful for that too. But the Lord's memory, the Lord's mercy is the next thing I see there. You say, preacher, he doesn't say anything about God's mercy in that passage. Well, everywhere I see God, I see mercy. Because God doesn't have to remember David. God doesn't have to remember his afflictions. God doesn't have to look at them and think about them and take thought of them. God doesn't have to do anything for me. He doesn't. God doesn't have to love me. God doesn't have to send His Son to die for me. That's one of my favorite truths in the whole world. God doesn't need any of us. But He wants us, amen? I'm thankful for that. He doesn't have to do anything He doesn't want to do, but He chooses to do so because He's merciful. You start studying the character of God, even in judgment, you'll see the mercy of God. The Lord's might, the third thing. Why is He calling on God? Because God is all-powerful and can do all things. Hey, I'm thankful that when I pray, I don't pray to you. And you don't pray to me. Because I'm very limited in what I can do for you. Amen? I'm thankful I don't pray to the president. He can do a lot more than I can. He's a more important person than me. Let's be honest. Whether you feel like that or not. But it's true. But I'm glad I don't have somebody who's just limited by the finite confines of man. Some people say, why can't I understand everything about God? That's a good thing. Because if you could, he wouldn't be very much of a God. But we serve a God who's infinite. We serve a God who's all-powerful. But David had afflictions. He had many reasons to quit, but all throughout his life, he remained a faithful servant of God. Now this is just kind of all introduction here. What kind of afflictions did David have? First, he had a battle with self. D.L. Moody, the famous evangelist, often said, my greatest enemy is myself. And you know folks, truth is, the person we struggle with the most isn't Satan, and the person we struggle with the most isn't our family member. The person we struggle with the most is ourself. That's who James Young struggles with the most. That's who, if I'm honest, lets me down the most, is myself. Amen? David had plenty of personal failures. What we see in his life, though, was the consequences of sin. He didn't escape them. But we also see a deep, personal, true repentance that accompanied David's life. God can and will restore a person who will truly repent and ask His forgiveness. But selfishness is a problem for all of us. It is for me. Everybody loves themselves. Our world is enamored with that right now. It is selfishness that destroys the work of a Savior. It's selfishness that destroys a church. It's selfishness that limits our effectiveness for Christ. I came across a poem that said, I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about. And you know what? That's true for a lot of people. We just go about. Christ went about doing good. But David had a battle with self, and you will too. The good news is you can and you should have victory. Amen? We can live in victory. We can walk in the Spirit. We don't have to fulfill the lust of the flesh. I don't have to just be a James Young pleaser, alright? I can be a God pleaser. Amen? And there are many verses in Scripture that support that. Second thing was David had heartaches. Hey, every life will have some tears. David had many. Psalms reveals this to us. I mean, read Psalms. Just sit down and tell me how many times as you're going through, David says, help me, God. Save me, God. Teach me, God. God, where are you at? God, all my enemies are around me. God, I'm afflicted. God, I'm tormented. God, I'm this. Why? Because David had a lot of problems. I mean, think about David's life. Saul, his father-in-law, tried to kill him two times as a youth. He escaped barely twice. He would have killed him a lot of other times if he could have caught him. Saul gave him a daughter, Michael, and when he gave David his daughter, Michael, to be his wife, he said she will be an affliction in his side. He said, my daughter, Michael, she's trouble. I'm going to give her to David to be his wife so she can afflict him. Saul pursued David through caves and wilderness for years. I mean, David was the rightful king of Israel and Saul chased him and hunted him for years. And David was a he was a refugee. I mean, he was he was running from the law, the bad law, even though he was the rightful king. People wanted to stone him after the Philistines took their families. David knew what it was like to bury a son. Actually, he knew what it was like to bury several, some old and some babies. Absalom, his son, stole his heart and leading a coup on the government, David had to leave his home for a while until it was all sorted out and it all ended with Absalom being hung by a tree and pierced with darts. And some people would say, well, you know, preacher, you know, he deserved that. Well, Absalom may have deserved it, but that didn't make it any easier on his dad. David lamented and cried and said, Absalom, Absalom. He was heartbroken. Lee Roberson, a faithful preacher of the Word of God, he used to say this, he said, disappointments can be blessings. Yes, and disappointments can be turned into God's appointments. I like that saying. Disappointments can be turned into God's appointments. David had a lot of disappointments. There were many disappointments in his life. The main one, one of the main ones, as you read about David, was the fact that he wanted to build the house of God, and God kept telling him no. Now David made a great decision in his life to go ahead and begin gathering the materials because Solomon was going to do it. We preached on that before in church. And David gathered the materials so that when Solomon, God said, build the temple, there was all a bunch of stuff here. So David made the right decision, but I'm glad he did not go ahead and just do it anyway. That would have gone bad. But you know what, afflictions can do a lot of things for us. Now, I don't think anybody in this room likes to be afflicted, right? I mean, that's just not like, it's probably when you go to sleep tonight, you're probably not gonna play, Lord, now I lay me down to sleep, please afflict me throughout the week, all right? I mean, you're not gonna do that, amen? No one asks to be afflicted, but afflictions do a lot of things for us. They toughen us. They toughen us, why? Because God knows how much we can handle, amen? They help us better stand the stress of life. That's what toughening it is. Afflictions also, they also, they're weird things, because not only do they toughen you and make sure that you know that God can give you the victory and the strength, but they also tender us. Because when you've been through some things, we say this often during prayer time, when you've been through things, it's often because you can be a blessing to others who are going through the same thing later on. And you say, Lord, why did you allow me to go through? And then all of a sudden you meet somebody who's going through that. And now all of a sudden, what are you? You're real tender towards that, aren't you? Why? Because you've been there. You've walked that valley. You've lost that loved one. You've had that surgery. You've had that financial crisis. And it tenders you to help other people. Afflictions teach us. They should anyway, you know. Afflictions teach us sometimes what to do and what not to do. Hey, there's a lot of afflictions James Jones calls on his own self, amen? And I've had to look back and go, I probably shouldn't have done that. Why? It teaches us. But while David had many afflictions, there were some things that he did not have. That's what we're going to focus on tonight for a few minutes. Take your Bibles and go back to Psalm 14. Psalm 14. Now this isn't Psalm of David. Psalm 14. Psalm 14, verse number 1. And when you get there, why don't you go ahead and read it together with me. Psalm 14, verse number 1. The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. You know what David had? David never had any doubts about God's existence. You say, preacher, why are we emphasizing that? Well, you know what? A lot of times, when people go through hardships, their natural reaction is to either blame God or deny that God even exists in the first place. I've met a lot of people like that. And when something bad happens in their life, when they are afflicted, when they are tormented, it would just be easier to excuse God out of the picture altogether because it just makes their life somewhat better to bear. In order to justify their lifestyle, people have to excuse away the existence of a personal God. David, under the inspiration of Scripture said, the fool has said in his heart, there is no God. Hey folks, listen, why? Because you know what? I've remembered co-workers of mine throughout the years, and as I talk to them as they're going through something, and they're just so bitter and angry at God who they don't even believe exists. You know, which is always... You know, they're talking about how they're an atheist or an agnostic, and then when something bad happens in their life, they blame God. And I'm like, wait a minute, I didn't think you believed in God in the first place. But there's a lot of people that are bitter at God. Hey folks, listen. If you're not careful, there's Christians that have gotten this way, too. They believed in God and then all of a sudden God didn't do exactly what they wanted. And so they don't believe in him anymore. I could take you all the way around this country. There's a guy who founded an organization called Freedom from Religion. He was a pastor in three different churches before he founded that organization. You know what happened in his life? affliction. And you know what happened to him? He got bitter. So you know what he decided? God must not be fair. Now, that's the first step. That's that's that's a dangerous step to go to. And God must not love me and God must not care. You know what? God's not even real. And you say, preacher, I could never do that. Well, I hope you wouldn't. But there's a lot of people that have. There's a lot of people that at one time they sat in a church, I almost said church pew, a church seat just like you, and sang, Oh, how I love Jesus. And now they say, Oh, God doesn't even exist. How did they get there? They deny Him to the point where they don't believe in Him anymore. Read Romans chapter 1. Read about the progression of sin. Sometimes, see where it takes people. God gives them over to a reprobate mind. Folks, that's where America is right now. By and large, by a whole. Now, there's a lot of good people in America, amen? I'm thankful that I really believe America's better represented than we are in the news media, amen? We are. I meet a lot of good people. I meet a lot of people that are saved, and I believe they genuinely are. And they love the Lord. But there's a lot of people that used to sit in a church just like you and worship God that don't even believe He exists anymore. Why? Because it's easier for them. Number two. What else did David not do? These are some things he didn't do. He did not rebel against God. I'm going to go back to 2 Samuel 24. You can go with me if you want. 2 Samuel chapter 24. I'm going to read verses 10 through 17. I'm going to come right back to Psalms though, so keep your thumb there. 2 Samuel chapter 24. I'm going to read verses 10-17. David has sinned, he has numbered the people God told him not to. Here's what David said, And David's heart smote him. After that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done. And now I beseech Thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have done very foolishly. For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things. Choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came to David and told him and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? Or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies while they pursue thee? Or that there be three days pestilence in thy land? Now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait. Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great, and let me not fall into the hand of man.' So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning, even to the time appointed. And there died of the people from Dan, even unto Beersheba, seventy thousand men. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough. Stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing place of Arunah the Jebusite. He's also called Ornan in Chronicles. And David spake unto the Lord, when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these people, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house." Now folks, that's probably, it's one of David's biggest failures, I would say. 70,000 people died as a result of his sin. I'd say that's a pretty big failure, wouldn't you? The other one we know of is his sin with Bathsheba. We're not going to go into that tonight. I'm not saying David never sinned. What I'm saying, though, is when God corrected David, David did not run from it. David got down on his knees and said, Lord, I'm a sinner and I need to fall into your mercy. By the way, when he sinned with Bathsheba and he murdered her husband and he did all of that, he still lost a child because of it. I mean, David, sin always has consequences. But you know what? You say, preacher, why was David, even though he had these catastrophic failures, I mean, come on now. Today, in our world today, David would not be allowed to preach for most people's pulpits because of his moral failures. David would not be allowed, the people would look at him funny when he walked into church because he had some catastrophic failures in his life. Because none of us ever have, right? Amen? But people would look at him funny. Why? Because, oh, that's David. Man, did you hear what he did? 70,000 people died because of that. Hey, if you killed 70,000 people, you can bet for sure some people would hang it over your head. You bet everybody would just let that go? Now all the good Christians would, right? We're supposed to, but that'd be tough. That'd be tough if I walked into church and I had killed 70,000 people because of my sin, and some of them were probably your family members. You'd have to be real spiritual to forgive me. But you know what? David didn't rebel against God. David got down on his knees and he's in this case, he said, I'm just going to fall into God's hand. Why? Because God's merciful. By the way, God could have killed a whole lot more people than that. And God did. And God punished the sin. And then God stayed his hand while he said it's enough. And then he made a way for David to make it right. You know what? After David sinned with Bathsheba and Bathsheba sinned with David, it took two people to sin, amen, in this case. But after that, you know what? They had a baby that died, but they had another baby that was born to them. His name was Solomon. He became the wisest man on earth, and God gave him unparalleled wisdom. And Bathsheba, if you study her life, became one of the godliest women in the Bible, and she's in the lineage of Jesus Christ. What's the difference? Repentance. 1 John 1.9, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Hey folks, listen. You want to succeed in the Christian life, keep a short sin account with God. Doesn't mean you're going to escape the consequences, alright? But you know what? True repentance will keep you going for God. Why? Because God doesn't want to punish you to destroy you. How many of you have children? Raise your hand. All right, there you go. So you're saying if you're awake, that's what I'm doing, so. How many of you ever spanked your children? Good, good. How many of you, your intent was to maim and paralyze your children for life? Nobody. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You felt like that sometimes, right? But that's never the goal of chastening. You know what the goal of chastening is in the Bible? It's to reclaim a person. It's to correct the wrongs so that they can be reclaimed, by the way. Maybe this is where Solomon learned it, by the way. I don't know. Maybe this is where he learned it. I know he's spoken to the inspiration of God. Maybe he learned it in his dad's life and saw his dad truly repent of major catastrophic errors in his life and saw the hand of heard about the hand of chastening in David's life. And when Solomon wrote in Proverbs 311, my son despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction. Why? For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, even as a father, the son in whom he delighted. The goal of biblical chastening is never to inflict pain, although that is associated with it. The goal is to correct a behavior and to reclaim that person. David was a powerhouse for God, not because he didn't have serious failures, but because David knew how to get right with God. Hey folks, you need to know how to get right with God. Why? Because I guarantee you're going to mess up. Amen? I guarantee you're going to sin. You're not going to escape consequences, and that's why we preach on that. But you know what? Truthfully, there's been some times I just had to fall into the hand of mercy of God, because I know I deserved a whole lot worse than what He gave me. Because he knew how to get right with God. Psalm 51 continues to be the greatest expression, in my opinion, of what true biblical repentance looks like. David prayed that prayer. You can write that down. We're not going there. Folks, be sensitive and yielded to God's correction in your life. Number three, and we're done. He didn't doubt God's plan for the future. Take your Bible and go to Psalm 22. Now, for sake of time, I'm not going to develop all this tonight. I may, when we come back and talk about it again, I may recap this because there's a lot more than I can say right here. But there's three psalms in our psalm that are linked together, Psalm 22, Psalm 23, and Psalm 24. Most people are very familiar with Psalm 23, and they're very unfamiliar with Psalm 22 and 24. It's just personal opinion. But David, under the inspiration of God, writes three psalms that form a trilogy of the crucifixion, the shed blood, the burial, the death burial, the resurrection, and the coming again of Christ. You see, in Psalm 22, He starts out with this, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me? Does that sound like anyone else you know? Who does it sound like? That's because Jesus quoted these words on the cross. And if you read Psalm 22 here, Oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee, they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee and were delivered, they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me shall laugh me to scorn. That's what they did to Jesus. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver Him. Let her deliver Him, seeing He delighted in Him. Sounds like what they said to Jesus, doesn't it? But thou art he that took me out of the womb, thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb, thou art my God from my mother's belly. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help me. Many bulls have compassed me, strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and roaring lion. I am poured out like water. And all my bones are out of joint. That's what happened to Jesus on the cross. My heart is like wax. It is melted in the midst of my bowels. It was a suffering. By the way, there's no evidence that David ever suffered like he's describing here because he's not describing himself. He's giving a prophecy here in Psalms. He is prophesying about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, my tongue cleaveth to my jaws." What did Jesus say when He was on the cross? I thirst. And they said, give him to drink. And they put a reed on a sponge. and now has brought me into the dust of death, for dogs have come past me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me, they pierced my hands and my feet, I may tell all my bones, they look and stare upon me, they part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture." They did that to Jesus Christ. You see, Psalm 22 depicts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. He was the good shepherd who gives his life for his sheep. Jesus said in John 10, 11, I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. In Psalm 23, we know that one, right? Amen. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. But do you realize there's so much more to it than that? Psalm 23 reveals Him as the Great Shepherd. Hebrews 13.20 tells us, Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Psalm 24, if you'll read it and study it out, The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. Tells us the chief shepherd will set up his kingdom and to rule and reign on the earth. 1 Peter 5, 4 tells us this as well. And when the chief shepherd shall appear, he shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. And I know that's a promise, but the chief shepherd is coming back. Hey folks, listen. David did not doubt God's existence. David did not doubt God's hand in his life. David did not escape his afflictions, but David knew how to get right. He didn't rebel against God when he was corrected. And the third thing is, David did not doubt God's plan for the future. Hey, when God told him no on the temple, David said, Lord, I don't understand, but you have a plan. And God uses David to prophesy about the future coming Messiah, by the way, that's coming through His lineage. And in Psalm 22, 23, and 24, we have a picture of the entirety of the gospel of Jesus Christ until He's going to come back and set up His kingdom. And David was the one God used to give that to us. Hey folks, listen, I'm glad. I'm glad for salvation, amen? That helps me during affliction. By the way, I'm glad for a merciful God. I'm glad that when I do wrong, sometimes I don't get as bad as I deserve. You say, well, Preacher, it feels bad. Yeah, it feels bad, but you know what? God could have given you a whole lot worse. I'm glad I'm not God, amen? Why? Because I'd be striking that lightning button an awful lot, right? I mean, Lord, you know, those people that drive 15 miles an hour on the road, you know, I just... But you know what? There's a reason we're not God, amen? And you know what? Just like David, let's not forget, hey, as bad as it's going to get in twenty twenty four in light of eternity, twenty twenty four means nothing to God. Why? He's he's the same yesterday, today, forever. Jesus is the same. All may change, but Jesus never. Glory to his name. Amen.