That's a great hymn, isn't it? Great, great hymn. Not a better one in our book, actually. Great. It's a profession of faith in Christ. You're all my hope. You're all my help. It's a confession of sin. I am all unrighteousness. Thou art full of truth and grace. That's a great hymn. Thank you, Jeanette.

Go back to the text now, 2 Corinthians 4. 2 Corinthians 4, read verse 16 with me. For which cause, that is, the cause of Christ, the gospel we preach, the kingdom, the cause of his kingdom, for my brethren's sake, David said, we faint not. But though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. How, how is it renewed? Right here, what we're doing right here. This right here.

This epistle, like all the epistles, was written to God's people, the church. You need to know that. You need to be able to tell people that. You need to be able to go and tell them, because it's not, he's not speaking to everyone, is he? It begins, to the church of God at Corinth, or Rocky Mount, or wherever the church is, with all the saints, to the saints, grace to you, peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. So this is to the church, to confirm us in the gospel, to confirm us in the gospel and to comfort us by the gospel, to confirm to us that the gospel you've heard and preached is the gospel. The man you hear preach is a preacher of the gospel. And your comfort, for your comfort, our only comfort, our only hope is in the gospel, in Christ.

So that's what we do, isn't it? And Paul writes this, he writes of all, if you read it for yourself, you know who he's talking about principally? He's talking about himself and Silas and Timothy and the preachers of the gospel. You notice he said, death work is in us, but life in you.

He said, we're always bearing about in us the body, the dying of the Lord, that the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. All the prophets were killed for the gospel said. All the apostles were killed, except John, for the gospel said. They laid down their life for Christ, just like he laid down his life for them. So he's talking about themselves and them, but it applies to all of us. The troubles we go through, the tribulations, and we won't go through what they went through, for the gospel said. We will not.

Read sometime, let me just briefly remind you, Paul in 2 Corinthians 11, he said, I was in, had stripes frequently. Of the Jews, five times I received 40 stripes, save one. 296 strikes with a whip. Most people didn't live through one beating. Why? For the gospel's sake.

How did he get through that? How did he live through that? Because God put him through it and God brought him through it. God had him do that, go through that. And he said, I was beaten with rods three times. Once I was stoned, three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day, 24 hours, he's tread watering. Journey is often perils of water, perils of robbers, perils of my own countrymen, peril of the heathen, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils, dangers in the sea, perils among false brethren, and weariness and painfulness and watchings of hunger and thirst and fasting, cold and naked. And he said, beside that, the care of all the churches.

Who's weak, he said, and I'm not weak. Who's offended, and I don't get offended. But he says, if I glory, I'm not gonna glory. God the Father has blessed me forevermore. I lie not. And then he says in this text, our light affliction. Did you hear that?

We'll never go through what he went through. And his affliction really was light compared to the Lord Jesus Christ, right? Nobody, and the lamentation, behold, see if for any sorrow like unto my sorrow. So this chapter is for the comfort of God's people. And look at chapter three, verse, no, chapter one, verse three. Look at it. Paul says, bless God, the father and the son.

Bless God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, the God of all comfort, who comforted us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any trouble by the same comfort wherewith we're comforted. Where'd Paul get his comfort? Where we get our comfort. How'd Paul get through his trouble? Same place, same one, same source.

So back in our text. So he says, and don't you love this, verse one, seeing we have this ministry, that is to preach the gospel, this gospel ministry, we have received mercy. The greatest mercy on earth is for you to hear the gospel. The greatest mercy on earth is for God to send you a gospel preacher, it really is. He said down in verse seven, we have this treasure, this glorious treasure, which is the gospel in earthen vessels, fallible, finite, sometimes foolish, fallen men, vessels of clay, clay pots. that the excellency of the power may be of God, not us. That is, if you're blessed by this gospel through such an inferior creature, such a clay pot, you know it's of the Lord, don't you?

I'm just gonna be honest with you. I don't like this live streaming. I went back and looked at myself. I don't like the way I look. I don't like anything about myself. Do you like yourself? Tell me, when you listen to yourself on a record, do you like it? I don't either. But I listen carefully and in spite of myself, this clay, this, what I'm saying is so.

And so, what I'm saying and repeating God's word is the word of life, it's good, it's good, it's good. So if you're blessed, you know God's in it. Now look at, he says that we're not, we faint not, where am I? The title of this message is Hope for a Fainting Heart.

Did that capture your attention? The faint, the word faint here means to be so overcome, to be so weak and tired or sick or sorrowful that you think you're going to collapse. You ever been there? We've all been there, haven't we? Such a heavy trial, worry, or guilt, or fear, or sorrow, or sadness, or just overcome, you think, I can't stand, I'm gonna collapse. You been there?

When the Lord sent me heart trouble, it'd been a good thing about five years ago. That's the first thing that started happening. I thought I was gonna pass out. Sitting in my study, sitting there, just reading, and blackness started coming over me. And I thought, I'm going to pass out. Some of you know that feeling. You've been through it. Well, the same way with spiritual heart trouble. I'm not going to stand under this. I cannot stand under this. I can't take any more. I'm gonna pass out, I'm gonna faint. How you gonna keep from fainting? I'm gonna tell you.

The Lord's gonna tell us in this word. David said this. David said, our hope, our help is in the Lord's word. He said, unless thy word had been my delights, I should have perished in my affliction. I would have passed out. I wouldn't have taken it anymore.

Psalm 119, 49 and 50, David prayed, Lord, remember thy word unto thy servant. Remind me, keep bringing it to mind, upon which thou has caused me to hope. I saw my hope and saw my comfort in my affliction. There is no other source of comfort is there that the God of all comfort did what he said.

And I've said this before, that you and I really can't help each other unless we just give a word in season. We try, don't we? I can't help you with my word, but I can help you with God's word. If God speaks through me. See, I can't help myself. But I tell you who can, where I get my help, that's what Paul said. Same comfort, who's weak and I'm not weak.

Don't you love Brother Wesley's word, false and full of sin I am. He's full of truth and grace. What a wonderful hymn. What a wonderful passage the scripture did. So he says in verse one, we have this ministry, and this is not just the preacher of the gospel, it's you, brother. I have a very fond, this is a very fond passage to me. It was the very first message I preached to this church when you called me as pastor. Because I felt so strongly about this when I came here. We are in this ministry.

This is not me, it's we. Right? We all have a stake here, don't we? Huh? Don't we all have a vested interest in what's going on here? We all need and want for this place where God's name is to continue, don't we? For us, for our children, for our grandchildren, for those we have a burden for, for the gospel sake. We're in this ministry together. It's not a one-man ministry. It's all of us. We're many members in one body, and we're doing one thing, aren't we? Tell me if it's not so, that we're doing one thing, that this preacher and you, we're doing one thing, holding up the head. Huh? My job is to hold up Christ for you, for you to look to Christ, not look at me. That's why I don't like that. I don't like looking at me. I don't want you to look to me. I don't want you to look to him.

And your job is to exhort one another to do the same, to gather together. And so much more as you see the day of Christ approaching. His coming is near, people, it's near. Now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed. He's almost here. He's at the door. Ain't you excited? That's what chapter five is.

He said, this earthly tabernacle will be dissolved. We have a building, a house, not made with hands, eternal in the heaven. And we've grown for this. And we're ready, he said. We're ready to leave this body and be at home with the Lord. So we walk by faith, not by sight.

We see things that the world doesn't see, don't we? We're not looking at things. You look at things around you, that's what he said there in verse 18. Don't look at things around you. Don't judge with the sight of the eyes. Satan is the master deceiver. And he uses lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh, these things.

We look by faith, we walk by faith. And our faith comes from where? Hearing the Word of God. Hearing the Word of God. So, we're all of us in this thing together, brothers and sisters. We're in this thing together and we all go through the same troubles, don't we? Peter said this, he said, know this, that the afflictions that you're going through are accomplished in your brethren throughout the world. The same affliction, every church, all of our brothers and sisters are going through the same troubles and trials. Sorrows, but we sorrow not as those who have no hope. We have hope. Where's your hope? Give me a one word. Really? You've got good hope. A sure hope.

Brother Kelly stopped by today. He does that every now and then, and John and others. We talked the whole time about the gospel dinner. He was there about 30 minutes. Too long, I had to message prepare. But he was so good. Inspired me. I hope I helped you. But he brought up one thing, surety. We have a surety. Boy, that made me stop and think. Boy, I want to preach on that.

Christ our surety, what Judah said concerning his brother Benjamin to the father, he said, if I don't bring him back to me, you hold me responsible. That's Christ our surety, he said. He's our hope. He really is, if your hope is in Him, we sang that song, Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly, while the nearer waters roll, while the tempest still is high, hide me, oh, my Savior, hide, while the storms of life, till the storms of life are past, cover my defenseless head.

You reckon He'll turn anybody away that says that? We don't. I took in two worthless cats I don't need. I still don't need them. I wish I hadn't. How much more, our heavenly father? We really don't have anything to worry about. You know that? We really don't. Nothing. Nothing's against us. If you've heard the gospel, this is where it all hangs on. If God has shined in your heart to give you this blessed gospel, the greatest gift of all is life is what it is, gospel.

You say, I don't know if it's talking about me or not. Look at chapter three, verse 14. It says, the people's minds were blinded. You have chapter three, verse 14. The people's minds were blinded until this day The same veil is untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ. Even today, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. And such were some of you. You were in religion. And you heard stories like Adam and Eve. You heard stories like Noah and the ark. And they were just, you know, just stories. But then when the gospel came to you, what'd you see? Christ. When the veil is removed.

You see, God hides the God of this world, because Christ is anyone's only hope. And the God of this world, his ploy, his grand design is to keep you from looking to Christ. Keep you from hearing the gospel of Christ. He'll let you hear about your worth, your works, your will, your righteousness, your good deeds, your this and your that, what a good heart you've got, and how church can't be church without you. He lets you hear that, and you'll love that, and you'll go to hell believing it. And when the gospel comes, it reduces you to nothing, to a nobody, false and full of sin I am. Well, where's your hope then? How are you going to get to God? One hope. And he opens that veil, like the veil. You can't come in the holy of holies. You can't come into God. You can't do it. You're too sinful. You can't do it.

God really is that holy. But our Lord Jesus Christ, when that veil rent, when he was hanging on that cross, that veil rent from top to bottom. I mean, God opened the way into the holy of holies. Why? One way, by the blood of Christ. Not your deeds, not your work.

And you heard this and you saw this. And so God started stripping the veil away from the Old Testament. See, the world wants to hear stories about our morality and wants to hear stories about our faith and wants to hear stories about how I chose this and they didn't. They want to hear stories like that. That's not the story of this book. That's Satan's guy. and deception. The story of this book is the story of Jesus Christ, who came to save sinners.

And when God shows you that, he's stripped away the veil. He's opened your blind eyes to see man, yourself as you really are, and to see your only hope is in Christ. You're so blessed. It's not doctrine, it's life. And this is the Spirit of the Lord, verse 17. The Spirit of the Lord is his liberty. If the Son makes you free, you're free indeed.

We sing that song, free from the law. I wish the Lord had saved one of these German Baptists, because he'd be singing that song louder than anybody in here. Wouldn't he? Free from the law, happy condition, take that hat off, sling it like a frisbee. Take that money off, free at last. Not under the law.

Verse 18, we all with open face, behold, they couldn't look on Moses when he came down. They couldn't get near the mountain that burnt with fire. Couldn't, don't touch it, you'll die. Don't come near. God says, don't come near. Well, how are we gonna get to it? One way. One way.

And so Paul said, this is our ministry. what we do. We're not going to quit. We're not going to fall and faint under all these troubles and trials. We've got something to do. And it's a matter of life or death. It really is. People got to hear this gospel. They're going to die if they don't. You got to. You need to. You need to keep yourselves in the love of God. You need to keep yourself coming and hearing this gospel. Let nothing and no one keep you from that. And help one another and exhort one another daily. Come on, brother, it's almost over. We have this ministry, he said. We're brothers and we're members one of another.

He says in verse five, we preach not ourselves, It's so, isn't it? Is that so of this place? Is it? But Christ Jesus the Lord. And ourselves your servants, would Jesus say. For God, now here it is. John, is there a better, more glorious verse in all the Bible?

God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness. hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face, the person, the word of the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you seen his glory? Have you heard his voice? Have you? The gospel's hid from most, it really is.

They can come in and, Brother Fred Evans called me yesterday. We had such a good talk. Again, the whole time we were talking about the gospel. And we both said, if everybody that came and left were still here, we'd have to rent out the Roanoke Civic Center. Because they come and they don't see any difference. There's nothing to excite them.

You're looking for flesh, we're looking for a church. But if you're looking for a church, you can go anywhere and find one of your choice. But if you're looking for truth, you're looking for the gospel. If you're looking for help, you're looking for hope, there's one place, and it's the gospel. And it's not being preached everywhere. It's just not. You know it's not. You know it's not.

But the gospel's heard from most, but declared, heard by us, declared, revealed, believed by us. If you, like Ruth, if your hap was to light on a field that belonged to Boaz, and they're not everywhere, if it was your hap for you to light on a field where Boaz, a kinsman redeemer, is being preached and declared every time, then this God's your God, and his people are your people. And you're going to end up married to Boaz. You are.

If one day you heard the gospel, if one day you were in a place like this, and this is not the only place. As far as I know, it is the only one in Franklin County. But it's not the only place. There are places all over, but there are few and far between, aren't there? You know it's that. There are few and far between. If it was your habit to lie on a place where the gospel is preached, And one day, that gospel was preached, and you were there.

And God said, just like he did before the worlds were made, God said, let there be light in your dark heart. You once were blind, now you see. Is that what happened to you? I've told you my father-in-law's story. Men, you love to hear it, and I'll tell it to you again. Such a wonderful story.

He, his wife, and their young children were members of a so-called Christian church, one of these mega churches in downtown Ashland, Kentucky. where everybody, the who's who in the community was there, doctors and lawyers and mayors and councilmen and all that.

They were all there. Okay. And the gospel wasn't there. Ichabod's over the door, but he was there and he was a big giver, a generous giver. And this fellow who was a hireling was there preaching, you know, church can't be church without you. That sort of thing. All right. A man that my father-in-law worked with started talking to him about the gospel. He said, my preacher preaches the truth.

You need to come hear him. Henry Mayans his name. And he did. You came and heard him without his wife and children. He came there on his own. And he was a real rough. Some of you knew him. And his outward countenance was real rough and gruff. He's a teddy bear. But he'd sit there like this. And then he'd go back after it was over, and Dad was at the back of the door greeting the people. And Dad would shake his hand and say, good to see you, Ed. Come back. He said, I might. I might. And this went on. It went on and on. He kept coming. Who kept him coming?

See, before that, what happened was he told this preacher, he said, I'm not hearing something. He told his preacher that. He said, I'm not hearing something and I don't know what it is I'm not hearing. He said, I need to hear something. I think he said, hell is fire and damnation. He said, what you're saying is not so, I know that's not so. And he heard this man and the thing that impressed him about this preacher named Mahan that he was listening to, that he was hitting everything he said from this.

Nothing pressed him. And he wasn't begging and pleading and asking people anything. He just standing up there declaring with authority. Well, one day, one Sunday, he heard. God said, let there be light. Dad said, I saw it. He came back to the back. Dad was back there greeting. He said, Ed, come back. He said, I'll be back tonight. I'll be back Wednesday. He said, I see.

Does that happen to you? Did that happen to you? You belong to him now. The light of the glory of God. Each verse, John, is a message in itself, isn't it? This one verse deserves a message, and we've done that. See, this is a treasure, verse seven. This glorious gospel's a treasure, isn't it? The excellence of the powers of God's not in hands, God's power, it's God's glory, it's Christ's glory. Verse eight, I wanted to get into this, verse eight.

They were troubled on every side, were troubled. On every side, everywhere, everywhere you turn, there's trouble in it. Trouble in this world. Why is there so much trouble? Is it Psalm Job 14, which says, man that is born of woman is a few days and full of trouble. Is that Job 14? I believe it is. Why is that?

Why is there so much trouble? If God loves everybody so much, why is there so much trouble? Because it's not so that God loves everybody. God is angry with everybody. This world is in trouble with God. That's the whole trouble. We're in trouble with God.

He said, there's no rest for the wicked, there's no peace for the wicked, none, but say to the righteous, it shall be well with them. So that begs the question, who's righteous, who's wicked? What is righteousness? That's what we preach and that's who we preach in it. It's not ours, it's him. That's what makes us righteous. Now what you do is what he did on Calvary's trip. It's not you keeping yourself, it's him keeping you. I could stay right there forever.

We're troubled on every side. We're born with trouble. We're in trouble with God. We got trouble everywhere. Man is full of trouble. We've got trouble behind us. Our past gives us trouble, doesn't it? Our past, sin. Trouble with the future. Do you worry about the future? Trouble. Trouble on the left. Trouble on the right. We're surrounded by trouble, aren't we?

Oh, everywhere, look, you can't get out of trouble. Children of Israel, God, I just read that in Exodus, that God put them in a place, hemmed them in. God put them up between Pi, Tyre, and this other, but God said, go here. He said, because Pharaoh's gonna chase them. I'm gonna make him chase them. I'm gonna hymn them in. I'm gonna put them in this trouble where they're all hymned in and trouble this side and trouble that and people chasing them and a vast gulf fixed between them.

They can't get over the Red Sea. They can't get over, there's nothing they can do. They're at the end of their wisdom, their power, their strength. There's nothing they can do. How'd they get out of that? Here's the message. Fear you not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. And he parted that Red Sea and that's Christ crucified. They walked through on dry land and the Egyptians say to do, most people in the world claim to be Christians and all that. It's just not so. Is it so with you though? Is Christ really your only hope? Are you so hemmed in and so pressed in? Tribulation means just pressured in and hemmed in that there's trouble on every side and you don't see any way out but one.

And you look up. Not in distress. Not in distress. Not without hope. No way out. The way. Christ said, I'm the way. He really means that. When 1 Corinthians 10, some of you know this well, 13, it says that there's no trial, no temptation that you've gone through that such is common to man. But God, with that temptation, will not put on you more than you're able to bear, but will with that trial make a way to escape. What is the way, people?

It's Christ. It's not a what. It's not just reading the Bible. It's seeing Christ in the scripture. It's calling on him. Lord, help me. Look at verse eight. We're perplexed. That means we're in a quandary. That's what perplexed me. I don't know what to do. That's what perplexed me. I don't know what to do. I'm at my wits end. You ever been there? I was gonna read you, let me read you one of these.

Micah 7, this is so good. And this word perplexity is throughout the scripture. But let me read this to you, Micah chapter 7. If I can find it, where is Micah? Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, there it is. All right, look, Micah chapter seven, it says this.

It talks about the evil man, the good man, verse two, is perished out of the earth, none upright among men, they all lie for weight and for blood, hunt every man as brother with a net, verse three, they do evil with both hands. Verse four, the best of them is of a briar, the most upright, sharper than a thorn head, the day of thy watchman and thy visitation coming.

Now shall be their perplexity. The gospel comes, a preacher comes, and the first thing he's gonna tell you is you're in a mess. You're in trouble with God. He doesn't say God loves you and Jesus loves you, you had a wonderful plan for your life. He says, repent. if you don't bow to the Lord, not accept it, bow. Perplexed, perplexed. Luke 21, I do want you to turn here and I'm gonna close, I promise you, in a few minutes. Luke 21, you've read this with me before. perplexed, you see all around you. See what modern religion is saying.

See we renounce these hidden things of dishonesty. We renounce all that. We don't handle the word of God deceitfully. Nowhere does it say God loves you and has a wonderful plan for you. It doesn't say that in the Bible. Nowhere does it say Jesus loves you and we do too. It doesn't say that. Nowhere does it say accept him, let him into your heart. It doesn't say that. Nowhere does it say that.

Read your Bible. King James. Makes me mad, makes me angry. And it's not men behind it, it's the God of this world behind it. And these men are his pawns. It perplexes me and people are in perplexity. I was gonna have you read Isaiah 8 again. He turned, looked to the world, dimness and darkness and anguish of spirit, vexation. Religion is not helping any, it's hurting everybody.

God loved, he didn't want this to happen. God didn't want this to happen. Then why did he let it happen? If he loves me. Why did it happen? They can't answer that. It's perplexity. I'm perplexed. How could a God that loves me do this? Do you know? They don't know and they don't have any answers. Where are you gonna find your answers? Right here. Here's God speaking on earth. Okay, look at it. Luke 21. He says, look at verse, let's see, Luke 21.

He said in verse nine, you're gonna hear of wars and commotions. Be not terrified. Who sends wars? Who sends wars? God does. Evil men do what they, but the whole disposing is of the Lord. It's Psalm 7 that says, men are his sword. God says, I kill. And I make it like, God said that. My brother died in Vietnam. That seems like one of the most useless wars ever been fought. 50,000 American soldiers died. What for? What for? Was it a lost cause? Who did that? Who killed my brother?

God did. A man once said cruelly to my father, a man who did not believe this gospel, who does not believe that God does those sort of things. God loves you too much, he wouldn't let that happen. He said in mockery to my father, where was your God when your son died? Can you believe people say something like that?

You know what his answer was, Mike? Same place he was when his son died. Who killed God's son? God did. Now, my brother, I believe, was a believer. Died at 21 years old. That's young, isn't it? If he'd have lived 49 more years, there'd have been 49 more years of trouble, wouldn't it?

But God, rich in mercy, says, kill him. Take him. Bring you to bed. Heartache, trouble, oh my parents, oh, it was deep sorrow, deep sorrow. With joy in heaven. God's good, he doesn't, he does all things well. He does all things, and he does all things well. And that was Job's, the Lord gave, the Lord taken away, blessed be his holy name. As Abraham said, the God of the earth does right. Yes he does. This is our God. You know that? This is our God. This is your God.

No other hope. Verse 10. Nations shall rise against nation. Why? Because man hates. Man's full of hate. Earthquakes, divers play, families, pests. Who sends it? Who sent it? Natural causes. Well, it's global warming. Climate change. Man did this. Carbon, you know. God did that. God does all that. He does all that.

Verse 12, they're gonna lay hands on you. He said to his disciples, they're gonna lay hands on you and persecute you, deliver you to the synagogue. And the prison gonna be brought before kings for my sake. It's gonna be for a testimony. They put Paul in prison. Put him in prison. We got him. We're gonna shut him up now.

No, no, no, no. He's gonna write letters. They're gonna go all over the world. It'll save people all over the world. Verse 16, unless you may be betrayed by parents and brethren, kinfolk and friends, because you'd be put to death. Who did that? God did, Christ said it would happen. You'll be hated of all men for my name's sake, but there shall not a hair of your head perish. Until it's time. Isn't that comforting? In your patience, verse 19, possess your soul. What's patience? Waiting on the Lord, submitting to his will. Say, it's the Lord.

I'm not perplexed. I may be perplexed, but I'm not in despair. Right? I don't know why this and that happened, but I'm not in despair. Not without hope. And then down in verse 26, men's hearts, verse 25, there'll be signs in the sun, the moon, the stars, upon the earth, distress of nations, perplexity. Verse 26, men's hearts failing them for fear, looking for those things that are coming on earth. What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?

The powers of heaven shaking. Then they're gonna see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, and they are, Look up. Look up now. Where are you gonna look? Looking unto Jesus, the Lord Jesus, author and finisher of our faith. Look up, lift up your heads now. Your redemption draweth now.

See, we're not looking at things that are seen, things that are unseen. They said, we're persecuted. I close with, they were persecuted in our text, but not forsaken. Brother Fred said today, he said a fellow was against him and he was talking to him.

He said, I don't, I don't believe what you're saying. And I don't believe what you're saying. And Fred said, I don't care. He just said, I don't care. It's true. He said, I don't like you. He said, I really don't care about that. Paul said, it's a small matter whether you like me or not, but what I'm saying is so. It's no small matter if you believe this. Your life depends on it.

He said, we're persecuted, we're not forsaken. The Lord said, I'm with you. Everybody forsook him, didn't they? Cast down. Brothers, I'll be honest with you, I stay down more than I am up. I really do. I wanted out of this a long time ago. But I'm not gonna quit. I'm not destroyed. None of these things have destroyed us yet. How? One minute. We need to hear this. You need this. Are you glad you heard this? To only help. Only help. Look up. OK, stand with me.