All right, brethren. If you will,
let's turn to Psalm 42. Psalm 42. Just as a reminder, at the end
of May, Brother Eric Lutter will be here with us. Michelle will
be with him. And we'll have a cookout that
day before he preaches on Sunday. And he'll stay with us, I think,
until the end of next week. I told him I wouldn't make him preach
Wednesday. You can't vacation if you gotta preach, there's
no such thing. John come back from Ashland, I went, how was
your vacation? And he, ha, yeah. He travel and preach a bunch
of places, but it's hard on him. But anyway, we'll have a cookout
for him and I'll make him visit long as he ought to the day before
on Saturday, May the 27th. So let Kimberly know if you're
able to attend. We'll provide all the food and
everything. Psalm 42. Psalm 42. I've listened to a lot of messages
on this psalm over the years, and the titles, which don't mean
nothing, I'll give you a hint of what's in the message, but
if I got a title and went to go look for a message to match
that title, we're all in trouble. Spiritual depression is one of
them my pastor preached, and a troubled heart, and panting,
and a lot of things. Um, there's a reason a believer
has a downcast spirit. There's a reason that children
of God, those Israel, Jacob's not called Jacob anymore. Israel,
you shall be called Israel. Y'all are called. There's a reason
that those people called Israel by God who saved them, that they're,
they have depressed spirits. They have loneliness. It's on
purpose. So just like the Lord came to
Jacob again, 40 years later and said, your name's Jacob. That's
a little cold and get a little dark in there. There's some sadness
that's needed. But I've heard the Psalm read
so many times in a, a mostly negative light with, with, with
the gospel in it, you know, as our relief, but I hope we can
see it with new eyes today. This is throughout the Psalm.
It's the capital S spirit. speaking to the lowercase s spirit
in the recovery. Let's read this. Verse one, as
the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after
thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for
the living God. When shall I come and appear
before God? This psalm is such a positive
psalm. I'm serious. I mean it. Like
I said, everybody show up chilly and everybody be mad because
we ruined the cookout. Or you can have a chilly cookoff and
charge people to come to it, right? Attitude makes a whole
lot of difference. The eyes we're given to look
at something. This psalm is so encouraging to me this week,
and I pray the Lord will show us that. I pray it'll be an encouragement
to you. David begins here, he says, just
like a heart, that's a deer, a deer, just like a deer panteth,
it longs for, it needs after the water brook. That's just
as a deer's running from its predators, running from the hunter,
It's enemies, and it longs, it craves for the safety of the
water brook. It craves for that refreshment
of the waters. The rest that takes place next
to that, those water brooks, isn't it? In like manner, just
the same. Just as that deer, its whole
being is desiring that stream, that water. So panteth my soul
after thee, O God. That's what David's saying. That
place, that water brook, that's a person. You get that? That's
what it says, right? I'm just telling you what God
says. That's what the scripture said. That rest that's in that water brook,
that's a person. He's our rest. That refreshment,
that healing that you're going to get from drinking that water
brook, that's a person. He's living water in him. That
is who my soul longs for. And those things only come from
being with you, Lord. I can have rest. I can have peace.
I can have life. I can have refreshment. I can
have healing. All those things only if I'm with you. You're
it. I don't need a big bank account.
I don't need my leg to quit hurting. I need Him. Everything else will
be fine. Who's he thirsting for? Verse
2. My soul thirsteth. Oh, we understand that, don't
we? What masterful words. Did our Lord, did he give a,
he said, let me tell you something about salvation. He said, from
a super lapsarian, a hopper Calvinist point of view. No, he said, I'm
a door. That's a door. You kids know what a door is?
We know what a door is, don't you? You ever been thirsty? That's
a language our Lord uses. David says, my soul thirsteth,
verse two, for God, for the living God. We understand thirst. If you've ever been thirsty,
I was in a desert one time, we went black on water, means you
run out of water. And then we saw a guy brushing his teeth
and he was washing his body armor with a bottle of water and we
tackled him. About beat him to death. It takes over your thoughts,
your plans. Remember Jacob, the planner,
the plan of salvation. If God makes you thirsty, you'll
put them plans away and there's an instinct that takes over.
You have to have it. It consumes everything. Nothing
but water will do. If you've ever been that thirsty,
you want your big old milkshake. I don't want a milkshake. I want
water. How about some milk? Oh, you couldn't swallow it.
What lemon juice? What did they give our Lord when
he said he thirsted? God and vinegar. I want water. I want water. And it's a person.
I thirst for the living God. He did not say he thirsted for
five point Calvinism. Did he? He didn't thirst for
the London Baptist confessionals. He said, my soul panteth and
thirst for the living God. And now people say, oh, it's
all, I can't find him. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's good news.
Natural man thirst after natural things. To thirst after the true
and living God. That's good news. You know why?
He made you thirsty. Dead people ain't thirsty. He
makes life, you get thirsty. Right? You have a surgery, what
do they want you to do? They want you to drink something.
All right, you can drink stuff on your own, go to the bathroom,
it's like good, now you can go home. Thirsty, there's life there.
Dead folks don't get thirsty. There in Jeremiah 29 it says
this, the Lord says, for I know the thoughts that I think towards
you. I just think so highly of God. It matters what he thinks
of you. I know the thoughts I think towards
you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give
you an expected end. You shall be called Israel. Last
hour, right? That's what's going to happen. You'll be conformed
to the image of Christ. That's what predestination is. It's
being made and conformed to a person. He said, I'm gonna give you a
hope, an expected end. Who's our hope? That's verse
two, isn't it? I'm gonna give you an expected end. Then, he
said, I'm gonna do all this. I know I thought towards you,
thoughts of peace, not of evil. I'm gonna give you an expected
end. Then shall you call on me. Then you're gonna get thirsty.
And you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you.
We'll read last hour. When we do our walk of faith,
the Lord said, I'm gonna abide in them and I'm gonna walk in
them. But, but, but, but, but, well,
I don't, that's what he said. Don't get mad at me, he said.
He said, you'll pray and I'll harken unto you and you shall
seek me and you're gonna find me. When you shall search with
me with all your heart, I will be found of you, saith the Lord.
That's what's happening here. Searching with all our heart,
H-E-A-R-T, not H-A-R-T, right? But like that deer, we must have
him. We panteth, we thirsteth. And
he's made everything we need. And we need him, don't want him,
we need him. The Lord does that in us. He makes us thirsty by
giving us life. We are his workmanship. He did it. He makes life. Nobody can do that. We can take
some mud and make something and we can make a computer and do
your math for you or something like that, make calculus. You
can't make life. We're used, we're the means, it's life's
made, but you can't do it. He can, or his workmanship. We
didn't know that before. And then he teaches us, teaches
us thirst. All men and women have, everybody,
A-double-L, all, all of mankind, everybody born Adam has this
need, this need of water, but they don't all have the thirst.
God ain't gave it to them. They don't need it. You put a
water fountain out of a cemetery out there, you think anybody's
gonna drink out of it? They're dead, they don't need it. You
put a water fountain out in the desert and there's a lot of people
there, they're gonna drink out of that water fountain. They don't have this
thirst. And if we have it, if you have
that thirst, Lord my soul thirsteth after you. Thank him for it. That's good. He gave it. You'll seek him, you'll find
him. What are we to do if we're thirsty? Our Lord stood up in
that great day of the feast. I'm in front of everybody. all
them highfalutin religious folks with their $10 words. And he
said, if any man thirst, he cried. He cried, yelled out loud. If any man thirst, let him come
unto me and drink. He didn't say, come, I'll give
you some water. He said, you come to me. He that believeth on me,
as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers
of living water. The people say, Lord, let us
come. They say, kill him. That's natural
man, isn't it? There's some thirsty there. He
spoke to him. What'd he say? Well, that's New
Testament stuff. Here's the dispensations of our
Lord. Isaiah 55 says, ho, listen, pay attention. Hey, everyone
that's thirsteth, Come ye to the waters. Come on. Lord, my
soul thirsts after you. Come on. Come to him. Come to him. This is beautiful.
I was reading this this week too. The Lord spoke to John in
Revelation 21. He said, it is done. We can get
a hold of that. He'd know something. He made
that a complete sentence. Simple. It's done. It's done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the end. I will give unto him that is
a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely." Well,
you got to do something. You ain't got to do nothing.
If you're that thirsty, you can't walk. If you're that thirsty,
you can't even cry out water. If we're painting, we're truly
on the verge of death, isn't it? And it's life and death.
He said, I'll give them water freely. And you know what he
did to John? You know what he showed John?
The same thing He shows every one of His children. He said,
and He showed me a pure river of living water, crystal, clear
as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the
Lamb. That water's coming out of the
Lamb. That's a person. That's Him, isn't it? Our text
is in Psalm 42, verse two. My soul thirsteth for God, for
the living God. We don't have a prophet buried
over Mecca. We don't have a tomb with the
bones of booty in it. We don't have a statue or a big
hunk of cold stone you gotta go rub your hands on and bow
to, no. And we don't have a lifeless stoic God that's cold and unmoving
and unbending. We have a desire to know and
be with and consume the living God. What's a living God do?
He rules. Well, people got a problem with
that. He reigns. He does whatsoever He wants to
do in heaven and armies of earth and under the seas and everywhere
else. God did it. He's the first cause of everything.
If He didn't do it, He ain't God. I don't think that way. It don't matter what you think.
He is. He's the I Am. He rules, He reigns, He loves,
He corrects, He provides for, He conquers, He defends, He wounds,
He heals, He makes alive. I'll tell you something else,
boys, if you're thirsty and you're panting, He hears and He speaks. Isn't that something? My soul
thirsteth for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear
before God? Oh Lord, I'm thirsty for you. When can I be with you? We count
the days down. I was away from camera for a
year and we'd have 28 days in a wake up. Can't say 29 days
because that last day don't get an inclusive day. You do calendar
mathematics. Um, that's an inclusive day.
So we'd say 29 days in a wake up. Oh, when can I get here?
When can I get here? You love somebody. You won't
be with them. When will this race be over? I want to be presented
faultless. I want to be presented in the
presence of His glory with exceeding joy, because He kept me from
falling. That's what Jude said, wasn't it? Unto Him that's able
to keep you from falling, present you faultless before the presence
of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God, our Savior.
When can I be with you? That's what I want. When will
that happen? Like last hour, we looked at Hebrews 11. We look
for a city that's not built with hands. who's builder and maker's
God. That's why I want to be there
with him. We look for that coming of our chief shepherd when he
shall appear. I'm weary. I'm thirsty. I'm tired. I'm looking for him,
for the living God, and everything else in me desires to be with
him. This world's old. Jacob, you ain't gonna be called
Jacob no more. Yeah, you're right, Lord. I don't
want nothing to do with it. It's dead to me. I'm dead to
it. They don't like me. And it's
dead to me. I don't want it. All this panting, this rapid
breathing, this longing, this desire, I would have passed out. Unless, you know, look back a
couple of Psalms or Psalm 27. Been a couple of months. Look at Psalm 27, verse 13. If I didn't have an expected
end that that Lord had for me, I couldn't go on. If I didn't
have his word of what he said his thoughts towards me were,
my thoughts towards him, feelings come, feelings go. Feelings are
deceiving, ain't they? I'm just so weak and unable and
thirsty and panting. But his thoughts towards us,
he gives us expected. Look here at Psalm 23, like that deer,
it'd have passed out. Psalm 27 verse 13, I had fainted. I'd have just fell over and died.
I'd have fainted. Unless I had believed to see the goodness
of the Lord in the land of the living. Oh, if I didn't have
that expectancy, I couldn't go on. And the Spirit speaks to
David. Here's the instruction. You get that way? Here's the
instruction. Psalm 27, verse 14. Wait on the
Lord. I'm going to faint. You're going
to get that water broke. Wait, wait. Is that good advice? Could I be wrong in saying, wait
on the Lord? Just wait on him. He's on his throne. You think
he ain't doing what he wants? Wait, wait, be still. Peace,
calm down. Oh, Maurice, Jonathan Holbrook
laughed so hard at that yesterday. Maurice used to tell us, he'd
say, go sit underneath the shade tree and eat your ham sandwich. You're
going to be all right. Just wait on the Lord. It'll be fine. We
got some pulled pork barbecue back here. Just sit down. Wait
on him. I'm thirsting for God. Yeah,
well. Wait, wait on the Lord. Trust, that's what that means.
Trust the Lord. Trust, you ain't gonna wait on
somebody you don't trust. Repair fellas are like, I don't think
you're gonna come in. What time you wanna go get lunch? You don't trust them,
you don't know. We know him, we long for him,
we trust him. For right now, I'm heart sick,
I'm home sick to the point of weeping. Back in our text there
in Psalm 43, Psalm 42 verse three. David says, my tears have been
my meat, day and night. He says, all I can eat is my
tears. That's the approved fast, the
acceptable fast of the Lord. People say, oh, I'm not eating
to try to be closer to God. You're trying to lose some weight,
maybe. That ain't the fast. He gives a fast, and your heart
broke. You're sick. You can't eat nothing. Like a
loss of a loved one. Here, eat a sandwich. I can't
eat nothing. I can't. My tears are my meat. But this is good
news. Dead people don't cry. I mean,
they might be, carnally, unbelievers might be sad about some things,
but these are tears of sin of God. He said, my tears have been
my meat day and night while they continually saying to me, where
is thy God? A lot of the texts and the scriptures
are bifocal or trifocal or however, way more beautiful than I could
ever expound. We don't scratch the surface.
But our tears, they consume us to the point we can't eat or
do anything else, and that's true. And there's times that man inside
of you is fighting and says, where's your God now? And where's
your God? Unfamed soul thirst is in us,
and it says, what's going on? But the fact we have those tears,
here's the other angle of it. The fact we have them, he gave
them. And those tears, the Lord makes us weep over him. They're
asking us, David, where's your God? You're laying on a bed just
bawling your eyes out because of your sin and your wretchedness
in this world and you long to be with Christ. Where's your
God? You're lying in that bed of self-pity
and wallowing in it and you're watering your couch. Where's
your God? In times of trouble, let the Lord send. Yesterday
we was talking, where's your God? That's not me. Well, he's on his throne. I don't
know. People don't have such a lack
of assurance and they feel like they're overcome with unbelief
because you look at yourself. But where's Lord at? He's on his
throne. Was he going to fail? Look. Of course he ain't going
to fail. He's God. Is he going to lose
one of his legs? No. So he's still on his throne. That's a good question, isn't
it? Wait on him. Wait on him. Henry, his son died in Vietnam,
and a cruel, unregenerated person come to him at the funeral. And they said, where was your
God when your son died? And the Lord gave him something
to say. He looked at him, he said, the same place he was when
his son died on his throne. That'll take a wind out of you.
When we cry out from the heart, we have tears of despair. Where
is he? Where is he? When you're just wallowing around
and you're crying, oh Lord, I can't see it. Where is he? Where he's
always been. He's on his throne, isn't he?
When you search for him with all your heart, he said, if you
look for me with all your heart, what you gonna do? You're gonna
find me. You're gonna find me. You see how the tears of this
trial could be a friend? Have we lived through that long
enough? Have we been through enough trials to say, well, at
the end of this, I'm going to see the Lord. Are you hurting?
Oh, no, there's still water coming out of my face. I still weep. I still shave my head and rip
my clothes and fell down and sackcloth and ashes. I'll see
the Lord in this. I'll see him. Reminds us where
he is, seated on his throne, not pacing. That sissified Jesus
this nation talks about makes me disgusted. He's wringing his
hands. Oh, just pretty please, won't you let me do something?
That ain't a God. This is the God. He's seated on his throne.
Because he ain't fretting. The heathen, as stated in Psalm
115, the heathen say, not as tears, not a friend or wounds
of a friend. The heathen say, where is now
their God? Where's your God now? And he
said, our God's in the heavens. He done whatsoever he's pleased.
He made me cry and that's all right. Look here in verse four. When I remember these things,
when I think about all this stuff, I remember where he is. I pour
out my soul in me. Oh, there's water just coming
out. It's overflowing, isn't it? For I've gone with the multitude. I went with them to the house
of God with the voice of joy and praise with a multitude that
kept the holy day. It don't matter if we're in a
house of worship, the Lord's gathered us together to praise
him and we all rejoice together, or if I'm at home in my closet.
If he works this in me, my heart just pours out to him. Doesn't
it? And I like being where other
people's experienced that. We were in the same boat. Fellas
in the same ship. You get that? They kept that
holy day, didn't they? That multitude. It doesn't matter
if I'm in the house of God or my closet, my heart pours out
when I remember who saved me. My heart pours out when I remember
where he is now. When I remember his majesty and
his glory. Not that we rely on the experiences,
but we have them, don't we? I remember. I remember that before.
He said in Romans 5, Paul did, he said, and not only so, we
glory in tribulations also. Them tears we have, those couches
we're watering, thank God for them, he sent them. You got something
real hard going on, Lord sent them. It's going to be for your
good, it's going to be for his glory, and that ought to be more
important to us. We always focus on our good, don't we? Paul said,
we glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience.
and tear ducts are gonna get in real good shape. You're gonna
get used to it. It's gonna work patience, and
patience is gonna work experience. It's gonna happen over and over
and over again, and maybe, sooner or later, we're gonna learn something.
You reckon? And that experience is gonna
work hope. Hope. Expected end, not wishy. Like, oh, well, I hope it rains.
No, an expected end's what the word is. And hope maketh not
ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.
Hearts pour out, is that what David said? Our hearts by the
Holy Ghost, which is given to us. The Ghost comes to us, the
Holy Ghost, God sending, the Comforter. And he said, look
to Christ. You ain't got no Holy Ghost down here. Well, you're
looking for a hoopty-hollering and pew-jumping and Bible-pumping.
He said, when he comes, he's gonna speak of me. We preach
Christ and him crucified. Verse four, when I remember these
things, I pour out my soul in me, for I had gone with the multitude.
I went with them to the house of God and with the voice of
joy and praise with a multitude that kept that holy day. Seeing
our brethren in the house of God, praising his name with joy
and faithfully attending to hear the word, no matter what, no
matter the tears, no matter the grief, no matter who's in town,
no matter what, that encourages me. That encourage you? I was talking to some dear people,
buddy. I mean, heart-wrenching trials, people are our same age,
things I couldn't imagine. And I said, Lord did it. It's
all right. He sent it. He'll keep us. We
believe him. We hurt, but we believe. We'll wait on him. You
think I don't encourage me? The Lord sends a trial to a local
assembly, a body of saints. That's why he gathers us together.
He don't bop that sheep on the head and say, good luck, we'll
see you later. He brings the sheep back and
he fitly frames us together. That way your trials affect me
and my trials affect you. And it's for the bodies, for
the good of us and other assemblies where he's gathered his saints. The troubles we go through, that's
for their good. The troubles they're going through, that's
for your good. God gave somebody cancer to teach you something.
Well, I couldn't believe a God would do that. He said, I've
given nations for you. Well, that's just unimaginable.
Maybe he grabbed your hand and he gave his son for you. A lot
more valuable than nations and a little bit of cancer or heartache
or whatever. He gave his son for us. I remember
these things, David said. I remember them. Peter said,
be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, is
a roaring lion, walketh about to see who he may devour. I want
to sit this like wheat. I want to chew this up. Whom
steadfast, resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that this
same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in
the world. The same thing we're going through, somebody else
is going through. That's for the body, isn't it? That encouragement,
all this encouragement leads to a question. This is the chorus.
We remember this is a song, right? They sang this. This is a song. Look here in verse five. Psalm
42, verse five. Why art thou cast down, O my
soul, and why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God, for
I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Look
to him, hope to him. Why are you cast down? Is that
a good question? Next time you say it, you cast
down, you can't breathe. It's sin or the world or whatever. And it's got you. You just, I
just, I want to be with the Lord right now. Why are you cast down? Give me one good reason. He's
revealed his son in you and he saved you and he, you're called
Israel now and you shall be called Israel. Why are you upset? Why? You got a good reason? There
ain't one. He sent this, and if it ain't
for our immediate good, which it is, it's for our brethren's
good, for those that's in the house of God. This is right,
that's good, we ought to have that. It says, while thou art
disquieted in me, hope thou in God, wait on him, trust him.
He's your expected end, for I shall yet praise him for the help of
his countenance. It says help there, doesn't it?
This is the chorus. Look down in verse 11. Looks
the same, doesn't it? Why art thou cast down, O my
soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Why y'all shook up? Hope thou in God. Look to him,
trust him. The response, for I shall yet
praise him, who is the help of my countenance. Oh, it doesn't
say that, it says the health, doesn't it? The songwriter changed
it up on us. Well, what did he say at the
first time? He's our help. He's our help in time of trouble.
You know what he says? The Lord Jesus Christ, our king
that we pant after, is our help in time of trouble. You in trouble? If you ain't, you don't need
help. You need water? Ain't thirsty?
I can tell. You ain't knocking somebody out
of your way to get to the water. Those that's in trouble, He's
our help in time of trouble. Isn't that good? Well, I have
comfort now, but I'm still sick. I still have a sick body. Who
is there in verse 11? Who is the health of my countenance? He's the great physician. You
sick? If not, you don't need the great
physician. If you're sick, he's our health of our countenance
and my God, isn't that something? We got a little bit of time.
Let's go back up to verse six. David cries out, oh my God, my soul
is cast down within me. That's going to happen over and
over. Therefore, because it's cast down, will I remember thee
from the land of Jordan and from the Hemorrhoids and from the
hill of Mizar? That's all those things that
took place. I remember your deliverance and time passed. I remember those
battles. That's what Paul was saying. We have this experience.
We have some patience and we have experience. Now we're hope.
I remember. Do you remember? The Lord's Remembrers,
right? Remember that. He said, deep
calleth, here's how bad the trial is. When, when the deep calleth
unto deep at the noise of thy water spouts, that means it's
raining so hard on the seas, you can't tell the difference
between the skies and the oceans. And the waves are coming up and
talking to each other, and there's tornadoes on the water, water
spouts, right? and it's billows all over me
and they're gone over me. When that happens, the Lord,
verse eight, the Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
I know that. Do you know that? Have you lived it a couple of
times? All the trials are coming. All the tears are coming. You're
gonna be in the midst of it. You ain't gonna see no way out.
And you said, this boat's sinking. When that happens, then the Lord's
gonna command his loving kindness and it's gonna be like daytime.
Well, it might still rain. You may still get wet. You still
gotta paddle to shore. That's still gonna happen. That's
what he's gonna command. Is that the power of positive
thinking? No, that's a God that saves his people. He said, I
will command, the Lord will command his loving kindness in the daytime
and in the night, his song shall be with me. What about when it
gets dark? I still will be singing to him. My prayer unto God of
my life. I will say unto God, my rock,
why hast thou forgotten me? That's going to happen. Lord,
I know I'm not fixed. I haven't learned my lesson.
I know it's going to happen again, because I know I'm a Jacob. I
know what I am. It's going to happen again. But you're going
to ask, that capital S spirit's going to ask my little s spirit,
why go you mourning? Why are you mourning? Because
of the enemy. Are you surrounded? You better believe it. We are,
ain't we? I mean, plum, 360. Plum surrounded by nothing but
enemies. The spot flea use us and chew me in half if the Lord
take his hand off of him in a heartbeat. But why are you mourning? What's
wrong with you? He said that about that giving
fast too. He said, don't you walk around the world with your
cheeks all sunk in? Oh, I'm just so bad off and I'm
fasting. I can't eat because the Lord
shall be my sin. He said, you wash your face. You do that in
your closet. Somebody believes God. What's your mourning for?
It's real. Verse 10 says, as with a sword
in my bones. Boy, it hurt, wouldn't it? Mine
enemies reproach me. Oh, they say daily unto me, daily,
where is thy God? What's that answer? I'm gonna
remember this, Lord. It's gonna happen again. Why art thou cast
down on my soul? What's wrong with you? Don't
be cast down. And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou
in God. for I shall yet praise him who
is the health of my countenance." That's the life of my countenance.
And my God, my Lord and my God, as Thomas said. I hope that's
cheerful instead of a tearjerker. That's what we call it old sad
country song, tearjerker. That's a good thing, the Lord
jerks some tears out of you, isn't it? All right, Brother Mike, you
can come leave us.