So before we begin, is there
any prayer requests we'd like to remember? Remember this family
of our, this man that was assassinated today, Charlie Kirk. And I know
that's kind of been on everybody's mind and he leaves behind a young
wife and two small children and millions of people that liked
him. And so remember that family in
prayer. Well, let's look to the Lord
in prayer and then we'll begin our lesson. Almighty God, we're
thankful for your great goodness to us, Lord, and we just sometimes
can't even begin to fathom all the wonderful things that you've
done for us and all the things that you do according to your
purpose, Lord, that we just can't understand in this life. Pray
that you just bless your word now as it goes out, bless wherever
it might be preached in truth that it would accomplish your
purpose. bless our pastors as they're away, and bless their
trip, and may they have an enjoyable visit with those friends that
they made back there, and ask special blessing for the Kirk
family, Lord, as they mourn the loss of their husband, father,
and friend, Lord, for we ask in Jesus' name. Well, as we were
beginning this lesson, the name of this lesson that I came up
with was Being Made Perfect. I started it quite a while ago,
but then the other day I was reading my newspaper and there
was an article in there about a church, I think it was in Florida,
somewhere on the East Coast. The name of their church was
Striving for Perfection. And I thought, well, I kind of
missed the point there. And, you know, we have so many
things in this world that fail to see how that's a possibility. And I was reading a thing in
Habakkuk, kind of remind me of this, and a thing that David
wrote in Psalms. In Habakkuk chapter one, this
prophet lays out this burden that he sees and he prays to
God about it. And he said, how long, how, oh
Lord, how long shall I cry, and wilt thou not hear it, even cry
out unto thee of violence, and thou will not save? Why dost
thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance, for spoiling
and violence are before me, and there are that raise up strife
and contention, and therefore the law is slacked, and judgment
doth never go forth, for the wicked doth encompass about the
righteous, therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. And the Lord gives
him a pretty interesting answer in verse five. He says, behold
you among the heathen in regard and wonder marvelously for I
will work a work in your days which you will not believe though
it be told you. Isn't that just the truth? I
mean, we, Isaiah said, who's going to believe our report?
I have something so wonderful to tell you that without divine
intervention. There's just no believing it.
It's just too far out there. And then again, in Psalm 139
chapter verse six is the one that I had kind of written down
to put in my notes for tonight. But He kind of takes a self-examination
look here as he's writing this and understands that the Lord
understands his very being as a human and his frailties and
the things that we're up against as people. And he says, oh Lord,
thou has searched me and known me. Thou knowest my down sitting
and my uprising. Thou understandeth my thought
afar off. Thou compass my path, am I lying
down and you're acquainted with all my ways? For there is not
a word in my tongue, but Lord, you knowest it altogether. Thou
has beset me behind and before and laid thy hand upon me." And
then he says, such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it's
high. I cannot attain to it. And this
word attain here is kind of related to our study tonight in that
it kind of, it doesn't mean that he will try to work to where
he gets to the level of what the Lord's talking about. He
says, I've seen how you work and what you've done for me.
And I just can't, I can't fathom the scope of it. He says, it's
just too wonderful for me. I can't, my mind is too small
to contain the sum of it. And I think later on, he says,
when I meditated in the night watches, I just can't comprehend
it. It's just too much, too wonderful.
With that, we'll begin with my notes about considering the blessings
of being recipients of God's blessing as opposed to a works
or performance-oriented philosophy whereby one can make themselves
worthy or one can work themselves toward being perfect. And when
we think about perfect in our society today and in our language,
we throw that word around pretty casually and we see something
we like and we say, oh, that was perfect. that kind of usage
of it. And so it's kind of lost some
of its meaning over time. And it's kind of diluted down
to a point where I don't think it really has a lot of, people
don't really understand it. But in a scriptural sense, it's
very clear word that, and it has to do with being complete
and needing nothing else. And when we really think about
something that's perfect, if something's perfect, you don't
need to do anything to it. You don't need to add to it.
You don't need to take away from it. You don't need to change
it. You don't need to modify it. It's just perfect the way
it is. It's complete. And, you know,
the scriptural understanding that we receive from God, it
demonstrates the administration of this from a sovereignty aspect. And there's a clear delineation
between the spiritual, which is provided by God, and the physical,
which man tries to come with on their own efforts. We can
just work ourselves to being better and better and better.
But in God's view, that's not satisfactory. And what do we
always find out about God is what he requires, what he demands,
he always supplies. If we have the sin issue, He
supplies the remedy for that. Everything He requires in the
way of a provision has been made by Christ for us in our place. But from man's standpoint, we
see Perfection is a possible goal with which effort, if we
have enough effort, we can achieve it. And in this world, we can
do that by physical means or efforts. But from God's point
of view, Perfection means that He has provided all that is needed
and all that it requires by the sacrifice of His Son and the
work in us via the new birth. When that happens, it's... It's
all complete. And that's why Jesus said, it's
finished. I paid the price there. And you are complete in him.
And all these phrases that we have from the scriptures that
tell us everything needed has been taken care of. In our understanding
of us, when we get an understanding of this from God, it's very humbling. because it comes to us via grace
with no merit. And when we receive the new birth,
we're like, we read that scripture in Jeremiah all the time, that
when I give you a new heart and a heart to love me and take away
your stony heart and cleanse you from all your unrighteousness
and all your sin and everything, then you're gonna look at yourself
and see just how really unworthy you were in your own self. And
he said, then you're going to loathe yourself. But at the same
time, you say, he's taken care of that. So it's a double-edged
sword there that convicts and at the same time It's so wonderful
that we're like David, we can't understand why that happened,
other than it's just, God said, it's my will, it's my purpose.
So as we look at a couple of examples of this in the Old Testament,
And when we look at the word perfect in the Old Testament
and the New Testament, one's a Hebrew understanding and one's
a Greek understanding, but they're both fairly consistent, the same,
which makes sense because the New Testament folks preached
out of the Old Testament and they used the same ideas, but
they brought them forth in the language of the time, which was
either Greek various languages that they spoke. In 2 Samuel
22 verse 33, it reads, God is my strength and power and he
maketh my way perfect. So, there's a couple of things
that we would point out about that verse. First, it focuses
right on God as the source of this blessing, of this perfection
that he provides for us. God is my strength and power,
and he maketh. That's very crucial. You can
underline that in your Bible because He's the one who makes
this happen, makes it possible. He maketh my way perfect. He maketh my way complete. He
makes my way, it doesn't need anything else. He supplied everything
required. In the Old Testament understanding,
if you look that up in your concordance, it will say without blemish.
Where do we run into that term in the New Testament? He'll provide
the church without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. And
Christ was a lamb without blemish. It means complete. It means full.
It means perfect, sincerely, sound, without spot. Another
term that we find in the New Testament. Undefiled, upright,
whole. Those are all just wonderful
terms that apply to this word, perfect, in that it's complete.
There's nothing else needed. So we don't need to do anything
else to make ourselves acceptable to God because he's taking care
of all that. All we can do is do like David and Samuel and
say, I can't attain to this. I try. I think about it a lot,
and it's just too wonderful for me, he said. So, a good blessing
there. And then people have an idea
about God that he just makes suggestions or makes things possible,
and then the rest of it is kind of up to you. But we find the
scriptures are totally opposed to that, and that he is in full
control of all things. And if we go back to Genesis
chapter 17 for a minute, in Genesis chapter 17 verse 1, we're looking
at Abraham there. And back then his name was Abram,
and the Lord changed that a little bit later, and introduced a part
of his... I think I read this in a book
about the names of God, When he changed Abraham's name, he
put a piece of his own Jehovah name, inserted it into the middle
of Abraham's name. And so he became not Abram, but
Abraham. And so in verse one of Genesis
chapter 17, when Abram was 90 years old and nine, the Lord
appeared to Abram, and he said unto him, I am the Almighty God. Walk before me and be thou perfect. Now, that wasn't just an invitation
or a suggestion. And when we look at when the
Lord God says something, it's not just in vain, it's effectual,
it's full of purpose and His will. And what God demands, we
find again here, what He requires, He provides. And so if we go
back to Genesis chapter 1 to look at this, when God says,
be thou perfect, And he wasn't talking about Abram in a physical
sense there, because Abram was a physical person that was going
to get old and die, and he made some choices in his life that
was one of those things where God meant it for good. He didn't
think it through, and he just tried to do his own striving for perfection, as it
were, on his own, and ended up with Ishmael, and we all know
how that went. But in Genesis chapter one, verse
three, and God, in this creation narrative here in Genesis chapter
one, God said, let there be light. And there was light. And if you
look that up in your Strong's Concordance, you'll find that
let there be is actually just one word. There was, and there
was is just one word. And they're the same word. They're
the exact same word. So in the original text, it means
exist or become or be. So we might read that verse as
God said, light be. and light became. It's just a
past tense form of the same word. But that's really what that word
means. It means to exist or become and
expresses the will and purpose of God. And the phrase, and there
was light is the same word expressed as a result of God's will and
purpose in the light. So what he said, came to pass. And it wasn't just like, well,
I'll say something and then we'll see what happens. He had a specific
thing in his mind, in his will, in his purpose. And he determined
to create that. And he gave the command to that
to be created. But it's the same word we find
in Genesis 17 where he told Abraham, be perfect. And when did that
occur? When was Abraham in this relationship
with God? It was before the foundation
of the world. Elect, according to God's purpose, before the
foundation of the world. He came to Abraham in the fullness
of time, when it was the right time, told him how he was going
to be viewed. He was going to be viewed as
complete, complete in Christ. He was going to be viewed as
without blemish, spotless. needing nothing, completely taken
care of, needing nothing else. So we have that interesting usage
there, and it wasn't by any works or performance by Abram, but
by the determinate counsel and will of God and the eternal covenant
of grace that he was able to say, be thou perfect, and then
view him as from eternity in that capacity, knowing that the
Lamb was slain from before the foundation of the world and in
time would come and fulfill that. And we see the example of that
that he brought to Abram when he took Isaac up on the mountain
and he said, well, here's the fire, here's the altar, here's
the wood, where's the Lamb? And Abram said, God will provide
himself a sacrifice. Very clear understanding there. Now we go to the New Testament,
and let's look at an example in Hebrews, the 12th chapter,
in verse 23, where this same phrase, perfect, is used. In
Hebrews 12, 23, this letter This epistle is addressed to
the General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn, which are written
in heaven. And to the judge, God, the judge
of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, made complete,
made needing nothing, made without spot, made without wrinkle. So
we have the same word in the Greek, It means to complete,
to accomplish, to consummate, finish, make perfect, fulfill. We find it translated in the
New Testament. Sometimes it's translated fulfilled
in Luke chapter two, in John four, to finish. And in Hebrew
728, it's translated as consecrated or designated, set apart. So as we look at the original
defining of perfect in both the Old and New Testaments, it just
says you're complete and you need nothing else. It's all been
taken care of. And isn't that what it tells
us in Colossians chapter 2? Flip over to Colossians chapter
2. Verse 10, and it says, and ye are complete in him, which
is the head of all principality and power. And the him, of course,
is Christ. You're complete in him, and you
need nothing else. You're complete in him. signifying,
and that word complete, it's not a different translation of
perfect, but it means basically the same thing. But it adds some
things that really amplify what God has done. It means to make
replete, which means crammed to overflowing. You're not just
taken care of just to the minimum, you're crammed to overflowing
with the completeness supplied by Christ, coupled with the notion
that a task finished. So it's those kind of two things
crammed to overflowing, coupled with a task finished. And this
is integrated entirely in him. So once again, we have what God
requires. He supplies, you're completing
Him. You can't, you don't need to
do anything. All you can do is sing the praises
of Him with whom we have to do, sing the praises of Him that
did all this and do like David's and just think about it and say,
it's just too wonderful. And David, from a new birth perspective,
he kind of had a pretty good look in the mirror. He did a
lot of things that are kind of shifty and not what you would
expect from him. You know, we have this, well,
once you're born again, you'll just be sin free. You'll just
be perfect. You won't do any, you won't have
any more mistakes. You won't do anything wrong.
You'll be, you'll be perfect. And you know what, that's taught
in almost every church in America, that once you, once they pronounce
you saved and dip you in the water, Things are just, your
whole life will just be sin free and you'll be perfect. And it
just leads you to be desperate. And it detracts from, because
you think it's all up to you and you say, I'm failing miserably,
how can this be? And I don't know how many people
I've talked to. They have a good day and everything's
going wonderful. Oh, I'm saved, Jesus saved me
and everything's wonderful. And then the next day they do
some boneheaded thing and they say, I'm not saved. How could
I do that? If I'm not if I'm saved I would
never do that if I'm saved So therefore I must not be and so
their whole life is on this sign sign wave cyclical Thing over
and over and over again. They just go through this cycle
of being Desperate one day and elated the next and there's no
steadiness there. There's no I know what I am and
And I don't understand why he loved me so and why he did such
a marvelous work for me. And that one hymn writer he wrote. Well, he must have loved me before
I was born because afterwards there wasn't too much redeeming
quality there for me to attract his attention. So he must have
loved me before the foundation of the world. And that's what
the scripture is saying. You know, I've loved you with
an everlasting love, an eternal love. Therefore, with loving
kindness have I drawn thee. And it's always with a compassion.
It's always with a wonderful love and even when we have so
many examples in the New Testament where the disciples, he tried
to show them things and then they wouldn't, they were obstinate
or unbelieving and oh fools and slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets told you, you know, and unless I stick my hand
in the side, I won't believe and all those things that we
learned and Peter, I'll not deny thee, And three times he says,
you're going to deny me. But you know what he always said
when he met up with him later on, he just said, peace. I've
taken care of that. It's all been paid for. It's all complete. In fact, no
one even remembers it anymore. It's cast as far away from you
as the east is from the west, as far as the bottom of the deepest
part of the sea. And therefore, in Ephesians,
he says he's able to present the church spotless, without
wrinkle, complete, perfect. because of what he did. And that's
kind of the essence of what being made perfect is, is something
that God does for us and has taken care of from eternity and
not anything to do with our performance or our day-to-day whatever. It has to do with God's eternally
electing love and what he has done and what he has provided.
And part of that word complete in Matthew, in Matthew chapter
five, we have another command from God that's the same as the
command that we heard in Genesis. And then we heard twice in Genesis
and one in chapter 17, Matthew 5, 48. He says, be ye therefore perfect,
even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Be complete. You need nothing. Everything's
been provided. And you know, the word be here
at the beginning of that sentence, where it says, be therefore perfect,
where it says, even as your father, which is in heaven, is perfect,
that word is there. And that word be are two tenses
of the same verb. They both express to exist, to
be indicating what God purposes. and is expresses the eternal
immutable love and nature of God as he is, I am that I am. So we're counseled to always
remember that we're complete in him. We don't need to do anything
else. We can't do anything else. Anything
else that we would do would be to cast a spursion on what Christ
did that was already declared satisfactory and complete. It
would be a slap in God's face to say, well, I know you sent
your son and he died on the cross for me, but I need to, you know,
I need to add in my little thing here or I won't feel right. So
they're saying, well, I know, I know, but the sacrifice wasn't
good enough for me totally. It needed a little bit of a little
bit of me in there. I need to strive for that perfection.
And you know, there's a big difference between striving for perfection
and striving to come to a place where you are growing constantly
in grace and understanding more about grace and understanding
more about what God has done for us and understanding the
scope of it. All the lessons that I've taught
in the last 17 years here, some of the things I just, I
just kept saying, this is too high, I cannot attain to it.
When we look at the manifold blessings of God, and we had
a whole lesson on light one time where we look at the rainbow,
the symbol of God's covenant, and we only see the seven colors.
But there's an infinite spectrum of light and colors on both sides
of the middle of what we can see that's invisible to us, but
they're there nonetheless. We just can't see them with our
eye. But when we find out that they're there, we say, Oh my
God, what an expression of God. And when we look up at the sky
and we see that, like Norman said the other day, it just goes
on eternally. It's just an expression of God.
He's not going to create some little small thing that says,
yeah, this is, this is the universe. It's this little thing over here.
And you're just a little microscopic bubble in the middle of that.
It's as expansive as he is. It's made to be past finding
out. The way things interact, it's
all been according to his will and purpose. The way the sun
moves through the universe and the way the earth and the planets
move with the sun and all that thing is recorded in the Old
Testament scriptures and very precisely how they operate. They're
all complete. They're all a picture of God
and his sovereignty. So we have made complete with
the idea of a couple of different ways that this word is used in
respect to time. In Luke chapter 6 verse 40, Jesus
is talking to his disciples and he says, the disciple is not
above his master, but everyone that is perfect. shall be as
his master." There the idea is made complete with the idea of
being repaired or restored in the sense of time. And that is
for our benefit that we view it as something that occurs in
time, even though when God looks at things, it's always I am that
I am. It's always now. He's always
in the now. There's no future, past, or anything
with him. It's all that is just for our
benefit. And then we look at a word here,
the same word that we find in Hebrews chapter 7, verse 19. tells us that for the law made
nothing perfect. So that's just a metaphor for
any kind of works that we do, makes nothing perfect, makes
nothing complete. We can never keep the whole law,
we can never do, if we say Well, starting tomorrow, I'm keeping
the whole. Well, what about yesterday? And
I'm 73. So what about this 72 years and
six months and however many days ago? You know, what about all
that time? You can't undo that. You can't
just pick a spot and say, okay, from now on, I'm going to make
myself perfect. But with God, he's made you complete. He's made you perfect. And he's
made you perfect from before the foundation of the world.
And in time, Christ came and fulfilled the requirements to
make that happen. And then he reveals it to you
at the proper time. That's what Paul said. Would
it please God to reveal his son in me? Before that, I didn't
have any idea even who he was. And I did a lot of things. that
caused me to loathe myself later on. Like Jeremiah said, after
I was given a new heart and a revelation, I kind of loathed myself because,
you know, I was there when I voted with those other guys to have
Stephen stoned. And I held their coats while
they did it. Can you imagine? Stephen probably had family,
probably right there in that town. And they took him out.
And when they talk about stoning in the Bible, they don't talk
about just like walnut size rocks. They're talking about the biggest
rocks they can pick up and heave at you with the intent of taking
your life. They're meant to crush you, kill
you, not just wound or nick you. The law made nothing perfect,
but the bringing in of a better hope did. That's what it says
in Hebrews 7 19. By the witch by that bringing
in a better hope, by the which we draw nigh unto God. We that
were sometimes afar off are made nigh. We're brought near to God
by that hope, and that hope is Christ. We're told that in Colossians
1, verse 27. It says, to whom God would make
known what the riches of the glory of this mystery that we've
been talking about here all night tonight, this mystery of his
making us perfect in Christ among the Gentiles, which is Christ
in you, the hope of glory. And that's what Paul said, when
I pleased God to reveal his son in me, did he just like abracadabra
just pop into him? at that moment, or was he there? Revelation means you reveal something
that's already there. It just didn't come into being.
When I pleased God to reveal his son in me, he's revealing
something that has taken place, something that's there. He just
didn't see it. It's just like the prophet and
his servant when he says, oh my God, we're all dead. And he
said, open his eyes, reveal to him what's really out there.
And when he opened his eyes, when God opened his eyes, he
said, oh man, there's more with us than there is with them. I
guess we're okay. When we look at the who, the
what, the where, the when of being made perfect, it all comes
down to God and his electing love and the covenant of grace.
We're just the recipients of it. We're just the ones that
received the blessing. You know, Paul, he tried to write
about this, and it's really hard to explain a lot of things. He
was given such a blessing of knowledge, and he talks about,
well, one time this guy was caught up to the third heaven, and I
saw stuff there that You know, it's not lawful for me to even
talk about. And then both him and Jesus says,
you know what? I got a lot of things I'd like
to tell you, but you're just not ready. You know, you still
need to be fed with milk. You're still not mature enough
along in your faith for me to expound to you. It's just too
far beyond where you are. And he just brings us along as
we're able. So the who, the what, the how,
the condition of eternity of the elect. And we find that all
this happened because of the covenant of grace between the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And they each covenant
together to bring this about and to create this condition
for us of being made perfect by God and our life in this world
as believers. You know, I like what he wrote
here in Philippians. He kind of describes what we
found in the Old Testament. And he uses some words here that
we've kind of talked about a little bit, but he's writing to these
Philippians. He's trying to explain kind of
his situation there. And he says, not as though I
had already attained. He says, I wish I understood
all of it. I wish I had perfect understanding
of everything or we're already perfect, but I follow after. if that I may apprehend that
for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. So he's giving
the understanding of his physical circumstances and desires. And
he says, you know, the things that I want to do. It seems like I never really
able to do those. And the things that I just don't
want to do, the things that I love, the things that I don't want
to do, those seem to be the things that I do. Maybe I lose my temper.
Maybe I... don't say what I should have
said at the right time according to my own thinking. And so he gives an
understanding of his physical circumstances and desires, having
renounced all of the physical things that he did count on before,
such as lineage to Abram. Abraham is my father. I'm of
the tribe of Benjamin. I was circumcised the eighth
day, and here's all my Jewish stuff that I do that makes me,
I keep the law. I was circumcised. I persecuted
them heathen Jesus people, the ones they called away. I locked
them up. I was on my way to Damascus to
lock more of them up. And I was consenting unto the
death of Stephen and held their coats. You know, when it says
consenting, it means they took a vote and they all cast in the
black bean for him. He needs to go. And, you know,
after God revealed his son in him, he said, very, very clear
language. He says, well, that was all done.
That didn't count for anything. Hard as I tried to strive for
perfection on my own and keep the law and bring about my own
righteousness. And then he writes that very
same thing. Oh, I wish I could do something for my brother and
the children of Israel because they're They're striving for
their own righteousness, and in doing that, they've rejected
the righteousness that is the complete thing that God provided. He goes on to emphasize a desire
to reconcile his physical circumstances in verses 12 through 14 of Philippians,
if you want to read that sometime, but we won't tonight. He had
this quandary, like we kind of all do, and say, you know, why
am I, why do I have these kind of thoughts and desires in my
human situation? And yet I know what my spiritual
situation is, but I can't really reconcile the two things together.
I just have to trust Christ. He's taking care of all of it.
And, you know, John wrote those same things and Mike's gone through
that. And the first John Epistles where we say that we have no
sin, we're just a liar and we make him a liar. But if we confess
our sins and acknowledge who we are and what we are, he's
faithful. He's already forgiven us. He's
already paid double for all of those sins. And so I like the way that the NIV translation
of that Philippians, and I'll read that in a couple of verses
from Romans, and then we'll close. He says, not that I've already
obtained all this or have already arrived at my goal, but I press
on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
And he says, brothers and sisters, I don't consider myself yet to
have taken hold of it. But one thing I do, and this
is just so important. You know, we can get caught up
in this. And he says, forgetting what is behind and straining
toward what is ahead. You know, every day we run into
circumstances where we make bad choices or we have problems or
things confront us and fall. You know, I'm thinking, I wonder
if he ever went back to where Stevens lived and had to look at his family and
say, I'm sorry I killed your son or husband or father or whatever. He just has to look at it from
one of those things like, We kind of meant it for evil, but
God meant it for good to save much people alive, and no telling
how many people have been affected by that sermon that Stephen preached
to those elders and Jews, including Saul. So those things are just
too marvelous for us, and we cannot attain to it, and we'll
probably never understand it in this world. Forgetting what
is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward
the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward
in Christ Jesus. And certainly he had a lot of
things he could wish to forget, and especially his own attempts
at self-righteousness. But he recognizes his failures
only served to magnify what Christ did. He did for him what he could
never do for himself. And so he wrote in Romans chapter
7, when he got through writing this whole section in chapter
7, where he says, I wish I could just do right all the time, but
the things that I want to do, I don't do, and the things that
I don't want to do, those are all things that I do. But he
said in verse 22 of chapter seven, that I delight in the law of
God after the inward bend. The part, the inward part of
me that God is born again. The inward part of me that's
complete in Christ. The inward part of me that's
without spot, without wrinkle, without blemish. And so then
he goes on, and in our Bibles, we have the conclusion of chapter
7, and then we have chapter 8. But really, it's just a continuation
of the very thing that he was writing. Chapter 7, he said,
therefore, there is no condemnation. to them that are in Christ, who
walk not after the flesh, who try their own striving for perfection,
but we walk after the Spirit who's taking care of all those
things for us. So again, we read Hebrews 12,
23, that we read, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven, and to God, the judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men, made perfect. And we'll close
there for the night. Thank you for your attention
and be free as always.