Let's open our Bibles to Nahum
chapter one. Nahum chapter one. No one wants
to hear it. And I know that I'll be mocked
and cussed for saying it, but say it, I must. This present
worldwide coronavirus pandemic that we're experiencing in our
nation and others around the world, like the hurricanes and
tornadoes, like the tsunamis and wars that have filled the
newspapers in recent years is but another act of divine judgment
by which the God of glory warns us of judgment to come. We are
eternity-bound sinners. We need to learn that. We need
to live in the constant expectation of eternity, for soon we must
meet God in judgment. And the only hope for your soul
is the Lord Jesus Christ. You must have his righteousness. You must be washed in his blood. You must have his grace. There
is no other hope for your soul. In the midst of this time of
divine judgment, I thought it might be good to remember and
think upon the goodness of God. So let's look at Nahum chapter
one and see what Nahum tells us about the goodness of God. That's my subject, the goodness
of God. We don't know who Nahum was.
We don't know what kind of man he was, who his parents were,
how long he lived, or even where. We only know that Nahum was a
man who was a prophet of God in his generation, and a faithful
prophet he was. He carried in his heart the burden
of the word of the Lord and faithfully proclaimed the message of God
that was given to his generation. Nahum was one of those men who
faithfully served God in obscurity. without fame or recognition in
this world. But faithful he was as the servant
of God, and that's enough. God tells us virtually nothing
about Nahum, but Nahum tells us a great deal about God. We'll
begin in verse two, Nahum chapter one in verse two. May God, the
Holy Spirit, who calls Nahum to write these words, now write
them upon our hearts and enable us to profit by them. In these
verses, Nahum is describing God. He's telling us who God is, what
God is like. He's just giving to us some attributes
of God. Certainly not all the attributes
of God, no man can do that. But Nahum gives us six divine
attributes, six characteristics of God, characteristics of his
nature essential to him as God. These things distinguish the
Lord God as God. First, he tells us God is jealous. With men, we generally think
of jealousy as a weakness, a fault, not an attribute. With God, it's
an attribute. It's right for God to be jealous
because God is perfect. He's perfect and he makes no
mistakes. Infinitely wise and infinitely
good, infinitely perfect. Any assault upon his person,
any resistance to his will, any rebellion against his rule, any
objection to his work is evil. It's right for God to be jealous.
He's jealous of his son. Ask those who crucify him. He's
jealous for his own honor. He said to Moses, you shall not
enter into the land because my name will be sanctified among
the people. God's jealous for his worship.
He will be worshiped in his way as his ordinance is prescribed
and in no other way. Ask Uzzah and he'll tell you
so. God is jealous for his people. Pharaoh can tell you that. God
will avenge his own elect. He will avenge his honor. He
will avenge the honor of his name and he'll avenge his honor
in all his work. He will avenge himself upon his
enemies. God is jealous and the Lord revengeth. The Lord revengeth
and is furious. The Lord will take vengeance
on his adversaries and he reserveth his wrath, reserveth wrath for
his enemies. Men and women today talk about
God's love and talk about God being love and they talk as though
God's love were like ours, a fluctuating passion. altogether isolated
from his other glorious attributes. I won't speak about that for
now, but understand this, the fact that God is love does not
mean that God is not jealous. The fact that God is love does
not mean that God is not just or that God will not punish sin.
In fact, it is God's love that makes him jealous, so jealous
that he's furious, so jealous that he reserveth wrath for his
enemies. That word wrath you'll notice
is in italics. It's not in the original text.
It was added by our translators. What God reserves for his enemies
and everlasting condemnation. What God reserves for his enemies
in eternal damnation is inconceivably and inexpressibly horrified. God is jealous because the second
thing, the Lord is slow to anger. In other words, great and terrible
as God is, this one whose jealousy makes him furious, he's also
patient, forgiving, and long-suffering with sinners. God is not in a
hurry to punish sin. He's not in a hurry to execute
judgment upon his enemies. Judgment is God's work, but it
is God's strange work. And he's always God who defers
anger, giving sinners space for repentance. This is mercy. God is willing to be gracious. God now affords sinners opportunity
to repent and commands all men everywhere to do so. Many times
we have 2 Peter 3 and 9 thrown at us by men who do not know
God. And they say, the Lord is not
slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness,
but as longsuffering, not willing that any should perish. That's
not a correct quote. Many quote it to us that way,
or quote a portion of the verse that way, in order to deride
the doctrine of God's predestination, limited atonement, or election. But Peter tells us that this
is talking about God's long-suffering toward his elect. His long-suffering,
not willing that any of his elect should perish, but that every
one of them come to repentance and knowledge of the truth. And
then Nahum tells us, third, that the Lord is great in power. He is the omnipotent almighty
God. Oh, what a joy to know that he
who is God, our God is omnipotent almighty. He has all power. He can do all that he's pleased
to do. Our God is a great God because
he is great in power. A weak, frustrated, defeated
God is as useless as a bucket without a bottom or as a well
without water. What is omnipotence? We speak
of God's omnipotence. What is that? It is the ability
and power of God without limit. It is God's ability and power
to do all his pleasure. Hear what God says about that.
Remember the former things of old. For I am God, and there
is none else. I am God, and there is none like
me. There is none like me, no God like me, no creature like
me, no man like me. I declare the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done, saying,
my counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure, calling a
ravenous bird from the east, the man that executed my counsel
from a far country. God Almighty, in his absolute
sovereign power, causes a ravenous bird, sends a raven to feed his
prophet. He calls a man from a pagan country
to deliver his people, saying, Declaring the end from the beginning,
saying I will do all my pleasure. He says, I have spoken it. I
will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it. I will also
do it. Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted
that are far from righteousness. I bring near my righteousness.
It shall not be far off. And my salvation, I bring near
my salvation. It shall not tear it. I will
place salvation in Zion for Israel, my glory. God's omnipotence means
that God is able to perform all his word. It means that God is
able to accomplish all his purpose. God is able to do all his salvation. A weak God is a frustration to
those who worship him because a weak God is frustrated. Many
today would have us to believe that God is frustrated, that
God is weak like man, but God's omnipotent, almighty, he is Jehovah,
and being Jehovah the omnipotent, he is the comfort and stay of
all who trust him. Look at the fourth thing. Nahum
says, the Lord will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord will
not at all acquit the wicked. That is to say, God is just. Justice and truth are the habitation
of His throne. Though He is long-suffering,
though He is patient, God will punish every transgressor and
every transgression. God's forbearance is no indication
that He lacks the will or the ability to punish sin and punish
His enemies. He's great in power. and is just. Therefore, the soul that sinneth,
it shall die. God Almighty will never clear
the guilty. A just God cannot do so. If God is just, if he must punish
sin, how then can sinners be forgiven? How can you and I find
justification and righteousness with God? Justice is essential
to his character. How then can he save us? There's
only one possibility, and that is by substitution. I want you
to turn in your Bible to 2 Corinthians chapter five and look at this
very familiar text of scripture. 2 Corinthians chapter five. If God Almighty saves a sinner,
a guilty sinner like you, like me, if God forgives our sins,
three things must be done. The sinner must be punished to
the full satisfaction of God's justice. Now understand what
I'm saying. Don Fortner must suffer all the
fury of God's holy wrath until justice is satisfied for Don
Fortner's sins. And Don Fortner, his sins, his
guilt, must be totally removed. Not swept under the rug, not
overlooked, but totally removed, taken away. And Don Fortner must
be made perfectly righteous. He must have a perfect nature
with which to inherit the kingdom of God. And these three things
are found only by the substitutionary work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are justified freely by His grace through the redemption
that's in Christ Jesus, whom God sent forth to be a propitiation
through faith in His blood. To declare His righteousness,
His righteousness, His justice, His truth for the remission of
sins that are passed through the forbearance of God. Now look
here at 2 Corinthians chapter 5. I told you if a man would
be Saved, if Don Fortner would be saved, he must be given a
perfect holy nature. Therefore, verse 17, if any man
be in Christ, he's a new creature. Old things are passed away, and
behold, all things have become new. That's the new birth. All
who are born of God are given a new nature, made partakers
of the divine nature. A new man's created in you in
righteousness and in true holiness. And this is God's work, verse
18. All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself,
and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, this
is the message of reconciliation we preach. That God was in Christ,
reconciling the world. Obviously, not everybody in the
world, but the world of his elect. His elect scattered throughout
the earth. Reconciling the world of his elect to himself. How
is that? Not imputing their trespasses
unto them. They were imputed to Christ, who has made sin for
us, and hath committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now
then, we're ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's name, be ye reconciled to God.
Come now to God. That's what God sends preachers
to do, to call sinners to be reconciled to God. Quit warring
against God, for he, The Lord God Almighty, our holy, just
and true God, hath made him, the Lord Jesus Christ, his darling
son, to be sin for us, who knew no sin. had no sin, did no sin. The Holy Lamb of God was made
sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
Having righteousness imputed to us because Christ has given
us His righteousness and given us His nature in the new birth. Christ hath redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written,
cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. And it was made a
curse for us that the blessing of Abraham might come on the
Gentiles, you and I among the Gentiles, through Jesus Christ,
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Look at the fifth thing back here in Nahum. The Lord hath his way, in the
whirlwind and in the storm. What do those words mean? They
mean that the Lord our God, who is jealous, long-suffering, omnipotent
and just, is also totally sovereign. God our God, He who is God indeed,
rules all things absolutely. and the clouds are the dust of
his feet. Our God is in the heavens. He
hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Whatsoever the Lord
pleased, the psalmist said, that did he in heaven, in earth, in
the seas, and in all deep places. The Lord has his way. In all things, at all times,
with all creatures, in all places, the Lord has his way. God has
his way in creation. God has his way in providence,
and God has his way in grace. Oh, would to God I could get
this message proclaimed to this generation. Our God is God indeed. He's an absolute sovereign. Everything
in creation fulfills his will. Everything in providence is but
the fulfilling of his purpose. Everything in grace is the accomplishment
of his hand. We rejoice in the glorious sovereignty
of our great God, knowing that God always exercises his sovereignty
over all things for the redemption and salvation of his people.
what we now experience in this coronavirus pandemic around the
world that's got everyone terrified. An act of judgment, yes, but
this act of judgment is a means by which God Almighty is performing
his will for the saving of his people. How does this accomplish
the salvation of anybody? We won't guess about that, we'll
leave that to God to fulfill his word. We know that all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are
the called according to his purpose. Back here in Nahum chapter one,
verse four, he rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry, and dryeth
up the rivers, Bashan languisheth in Carmel. In the flower of Lebanon,
languisheth, verse five. The mountains quake at him and
the hills melt. The earth is burned at his presence.
Yea, the world and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before
his indignation? Who can abide the fierceness
of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are
thrown down by him. Listen to God's word about himself.
He says, I form the light. and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things. That's what it says about himself
in Isaiah 45 and verse 7. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things. Now you can do what you will
with that, bow to it or rebel. The fact stands still as it is.
God rules everywhere and all things are the work of his hands.
In the last verse of that same chapter, the Lord God says, look
unto me and be you saved all the ends of the earth for I am
God and beside me there is none else. Art thou not it which hath
dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep that made the
depths of the sea away for the ransom of the Lord to pass over?
Yes, this is our God. Therefore the redeemed of the
Lord shall return and come with singing unto Zion and everlasting
joy shall be upon their head and they shall obtain gladness
and joy and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. I, even I, am
he that comforteth you, this sovereign God. Who art thou that
thou shouldest be afraid of man that shall die, and of the Son
of Man which is made grass? Why should you and I fear anything? He who is God is our God, our
Heavenly Father. He has sworn himself to be our
God forever and has taken us as his own people. Even as the
prophet describes the judgment of God, the fierce anger of his
wrath, he raises a question, which when answered, carries
a message of hope for sinners. Nehemiah said, who can stand
before his indignation? Who can abide the fierceness
of his anger? Not me. Not you. God's wrath
would consume us like a snowflake in a blast furnace. But God's
son, the Lord Jesus Christ, our substitute, stood before his
indignation. He ebbed the fierceness of his
anger. He stood before the indignation of the Almighty God and consumed
his wrath in himself, in the sacrifice of himself. Do you
see these attributes of God? The Lord is jealous. The Lord
is long-suffering. The Lord is omnipotent. The Lord
is just. The Lord is sovereign. Now look
at verse seven. The Lord is good. The Lord is
good. Oh, how I like that. Our great
God is good. Goodness is as essential to his
being as justice, truth, holiness, and sovereignty. In fact, his
very name, I've told you many times, God, is but an abbreviation
of the word good. Goodness is the character of
God. And the goodness of God gives
us hope, comfort, and strength in the midst of our trials and
sorrows in this world. Now let's look at these three
things that Nahum tells us in verse seven, and I'll be done.
First, the Lord is good. The Lord is good. We often speak
about God delivering someone from great evil, from some great
sickness or disease, and say, well, the Lord was good, he spared
us. The Lord's good when he spares, and the Lord's good when he doesn't.
I presently carry in my body two illnesses, both of which
are fatal, unless God intervenes to keep me in this world a while
longer and the Lord's good. In fact, it was the goodness
of God intervening in my life 43 years ago who put the seed
of the sickness in me through cobalt treatments. God did that. My doctor, my oncologist, said
to me just the other day, as I was speaking to her about this,
and she said, God can take it away, God's the one who put it
there. And that's exactly the way it is. Whatever he does,
he is good. The Lord this week took home
two dear friends of mine, one we expected to die, one we didn't,
and the Lord is good in taking and in giving. Nahum had been
talking to us about the storm of God's wrath, the terror of
his justice, the greatness of his anger, the whirlwinds, shaking
mountains, melting hills, and burning up. You're listening
to your folks on television, reading your newspaper, listening
to radio, talking wherever you're meeting folks, talk with them
about this coronavirus that suddenly spread so quickly through the
whole world. God is good. I can no more explain the goodness
of God than a thimble can hold the ocean. But I can tell you
some things I know. I know that God is essentially
good. God is essentially good. That is, without goodness, he
would not be God. God is so essentially good, as
John Gill put it, that there is nothing but goodness in God,
and nothing but goodness comes from God. He is ordained and
uses evil. Yes, he said, I create light
and I make darkness. He said, I make good and I create
evil. This is God's work. I, the Lord,
do all these things. Surely the wrath of man shall
praise thee, and the remainder of wrath wilt thou restrain.
God afflicts his children, brings his children many evil things. Many of God's children suffer
terribly evil things. I have friends, brothers and
sisters, faithful men and women in Christ, faithful pastors and
their wives, sons and daughters in prison. Sons and daughters
bring horrible shame to the name. Sons and daughters bring great heartache. This too
is God's doings. This too is God's doings. God
brings pain and God brings the evil that we experience. But
he makes the evil to work good for his people. makes the evil
to work for the salvation of his people. Therefore, the wise
man said, there shall no evil happen to the just. Joseph recognized
this. His brethren were jealous of
it. His brethren sold him into slavery. His brethren sought
to kill him. And when his father died, Joseph
called his brothers before him, and he said, you meant it for
evil. You thought to do me evil, but
God minute for good. God turned their hands from every
side. And Joseph wound up second to Pharaoh in the land of Egypt.
And God saved Israel through Joseph. Joseph said, God put
me here to save much people alive as it is this day. God Almighty
works everything for good to his people. Nothing's ever happened
to you, Regina Henson, that wasn't good for you. before you knew
him and since you knew him. A few years ago, we saw you in
a hospital and expected to lose you. Good for you. Not just you,
good for God's people for days to come. Good for his people. God only does good. God only
does good even when he performs evil in the world. God punishes
sin. He punishes sin with a vengeance.
But even that punishment of sin will be good. It is a vindication
of his justice and is for the protection of his kingdom. I
said to a nurse yesterday, if I had my way, every rapist would
be executed publicly. Would be executed publicly and
be executed violently. The reason for the execution
is not vengeance. It's not anger and vengeance.
It's justice, and it's for the protection of society. And God
Almighty protects his kingdom by the punishment of sin. God
is essentially good, and God is singularly good. That is to
say, he really is the only one who is good. You remember that
rich young ruler said to the Lord Jesus, good master. And
the master said to him, don't you know there's none good but
God? There's none good but God. He's the only one who really
is good. William Tyndale said, God's goodness
is the root of all goodness. Our goodness, if we have any,
springs from his goodness. God alone is good. We do things that God uses, I
hope, for good. Maybe we do some things that
can, in a limited sense, be called good by men, but God alone is
good. I'm looking at the dearest thing
in this world to me. It's so good to me, but not good. Not good. Not good. Look at it, dear friends, dear
to me, good to me, but not good. God alone is good, and he does
good always. God is eternally, immutably good. I am the Lord, I change not. Because I'm good, therefore you
sons of Jacob are not consumed. The goodness of God never varies,
it never changes, it never alters. It doesn't change with our evil
behavior or our evil thoughts. He is good, always good. Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, God is good. God is good in all his acts of
grace. He chose us, predestinated us
under the adoption of sons. He accepted us into beloved. He redeemed us with the precious
blood of Christ. He gave us life. gave us his
spirit, orders his providence, and has done all in his goodness. God is good, I repeat again,
in all his works of providence. We know, all who are taught of
God know. All who are born of God know.
All who know this book know. We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God. We tend to judge God's providence
by the things we see immediately. We ought not do so. We ought
to judge God's providence only by the whole picture of his revelation
when things are done. I once read it illustrated like
this. Sometimes folks go into India
used to go and try to buy those ancient cloths made by the Persians,
made in India. And the lady was standing on
the backside of the cloth and she didn't see anything but just
knots and saw no beauty in it at all. And the man who was selling
it said, you're looking at the wrong side. She flipped it over
and she stood back just aghast at the beauty. On this side of
eternity, We try to understand God's providence, and Lindsay,
all we can see are the nots. That's all we can see. But oh,
when God has done, and we look on the other side, and see the
whole picture of all that God has done, we know all things
work together for good to them that love God, to them who are
the called according to his purpose. All that he has done, throughout
all history. All that he is doing now, right
now, in this day, in this time, in this world, and all that he
shall hereafter do is good. God is infinitely, incomprehensibly,
immeasurably good. Who can measure the goodness
of God? To what shall his goodness be compared? His good beyond
our highest estimation of what is good. Therefore David sang,
the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me lie down
in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still
waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth
me in paths of righteousness for his namesake. Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou
art with me. thy rod and thy staff that comfort
me. Thou preparest a table before
me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil.
My cup runneth over. Surely, surely, surely, goodness
and mercy shall follow me. Goodness and mercy shall chase
me all the days of my life. and I will dwell in the house
of the Lord forever. The Lord is good. That one sentence
is worthy of constant meditation. Eternity itself will not tell
out the fullness of God's goodness and all his goodness is directed
toward us at all times. So look at the second thing David
tells us in verse seven. The Lord is good. The Lord is
a stronghold in the day of trouble. The only place of safety in this
world is the place we find beneath the shadow of his wings. The
Lord who is good is our stronghold, our place of refuge in time of
trouble. He is our refuge. We flee to him for safety. Let us therefore come boldly
to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace
to help in time of need. We have our days of trouble as
long as we live in this world. But notice how Nahum describes
it. He says, every day of trouble is just the day of God's appointments. It is just the day of God's appointments. What a blessed, blessed thoughts.
Whatever the day brings, this is the day God has appointed. Every day of trouble is temporary. It is only the day of trouble. Our light affliction, which is
but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory. The day will soon be over. Whatever
the trouble may be, the Lord is our stronghold in the midst
of trouble. Every kind of trouble. What is
a stronghold? A stronghold is a mighty fortress,
a place for protection against the aggressions of men and of
other enemies. A stronghold is a place of safety,
a place of peace, a place of residence where we dwell, a place
of provision where we have everything we need. Christ is our stronghold. Oh, what a stronghold. In the
day of trouble, He proves Himself to be. And I like this last sentence
in verse 7. The Lord knoweth them that trust
in Him. Do you trust Him? Do you trust
the Lord Jesus Christ, His finished work, His abundant grace, His
many promises, His providential rule? Do you trust His blood,
His righteousness, If you trust Him, the great, the mighty God,
if you do, hear this and be of good comfort. The Lord knows
you. The Lord knoweth them that trust
in Him. That word knoweth is pregnant
with meaning. Let me just give you briefly
a few of the meanings. When the prophet says the Lord
knoweth, he's saying the Lord has foreordained and predestinated
them that trust in Him. The Lord everlastingly loves
them that trust in Him. His knowledge is His predestination. His knowledge is His everlasting
love without cause, without condition, without beginning, without change,
and without end. The Lord is intimately acquainted
with them that trust in Him. Come and listen to this preacher.
Hear me, child of God. The Lord knows you. He knows
where you are. He knows what you need. He knows
how to care for you. He knows what he will do with
you. He knows you. And the Lord graciously approves
of them that trust in him. We who are gods are accepted
in the beloved. Accepted not just positionally,
but in the whole of our lives. Oh, what a wonder. Being one
with Christ, we are accepted in Christ Jesus. And the Lord
holds loving communion within the trust in him. He says to
his disciples, henceforth, I call you not servants, for the servant
knoweth not what his Lord doeth. but I've called you friends. For all things that I have heard
of my Father, I have made known to you. I come and make myself
known to you. I speak to you. I reveal my way
to you. And the Lord tenderly cares for
them that trust in him. Cast all your care upon him,
for he careth for you. He's with you. He'll protect
you. He'll provide for you. He'll
help you. He'll keep you. I had planned
on meeting this morning as we normally do, though it was recommended
that we don't until the governor ordered that we ban worship services
in the state. So today and next Sunday, we
will meet like this online through the virtual services we'll have.
I'll be preaching to you, Lord willing. But some might think
that was being cavalier to meet like this. Not hardly. I've never
known anyone to suffer for worshiping God. I've never known it to happen. I've never known anyone to get
sick by coming to church. I've never known it to happen.
I've been pastoring for more than 50 years. I've never known it
to happen. I've never known any danger engaging in the service
of God. Never known it to happen. Many
years ago, Brother Mahan was down visiting Brother Milton
Howard and had several couples with him. And they'd gone way
up in the Chiapas Highlands. And it was a rainy, stormy night.
The rain season had already set in early. And the roads were
horrible, just horrible. It can't hardly be described.
in a way for you to understand how bad they are there. And some
of the women got very nervous and started to let out a couple
of screams when roads would slip out from under them on the mountains.
And Henry said, Milton, stop the truck. Stop the truck. And Milton stopped and he said,
now listen, we're down here doing God's service, preaching the
gospel of God's grace to these people. There's no evil going
to happen to us doing God's service. Milton, let's go home. And everybody
quiet from then on. Word to God, we can hear God's
voice. The Lord says, hush. Shh. Shh. Shh. Shh. Everything's all right. Everything's
all right. Shh. Everything's all right.
That's enough when I say it to you. Let it be enough when God
says it to you. Shh. Shh. Everything's all right.
because the Lord is good. Oh, I've proved it so. The Lord is good. You've proved
it so, have you not? The Lord is good. We will safely
trust in him. Tamar may disguise herself to
Judah. Isaac may mistake Esau for Jacob. Solomon may not be able to tell
who the child belongs to. But the Lord knoweth them that
trust in him. He knows Daniel in the lion's
den. He knows Job on the dumb hill. He knows Peter in the judgment
hall. He knows Lazarus at the rich
man's gate. He knows Abel falling to the
ground by his brother's wrath. He knows me and he knows you. The foundation of God stand assured. The Lord knoweth them that are
his. And that everyone that nameth
the name of Christ depart from iniquity, depart from distrusting
him. The Lord is good. And the righteous safely trust
in him. Amen. God bless you. And we will
meet you next Sunday.