Good morning, everyone. For our
call to worship, I want to read from 2 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians
chapter three, starting at verse one, 2 Thessalonians chapter
three. Finally, my brethren, pray for
us that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified,
even as it is with you. and that we may be delivered
from unreasonable and wicked men, for all men have not faith,
but the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you and keep
you from evil. In verse 17 of chapter two, just
a few lines above, it says, comfort your hearts and establish you
in every good word and work. Let's pray. Our Father, We thank
you for the kindness that you show to cripples as us, Lord,
who can only run away from you, that you call us and you spread
a feast before us, Lord, a feast of good things. We thank you
for that grace that reigns through righteousness, Lord, the grace
that would not let us perish, but put us in Christ, Lord, and
hid us in your son. Lord, forgive our sins, God,
there are many, and they're all against you. You are the great
God over all the earth, Lord. You commanded and it stood fast,
Lord, our salvation. And thank you, God, that we can
ask for forgiveness of sins through the blood of your son, because
he was pierced for us, Lord. Lord, give your word free course
here, God. You've promised that. Your word
is like the hammer that breaks the rock. Break the rock, Lord,
of pride and unbelief in all of your sheep, God. God, please
deliver us from unreasonable and wicked men and lead us, make
us to cross paths with those of yours that, Lord, they don't
yet know you, who you've begun to work in their heart, God,
to show them that There's nothing good in this world and nothing
good in them. God, establish us. Establish
us, Lord. Establish your good word in us.
Make our hearts to be established with grace and not in meats and
those things that have not profited others, God, but establish us
in your love and your everlasting covenant. Establish us in good
works, God. We believe that all of our works
are wrought in thee. and that you've ordained for
us good works, God, that we should walk in them. Lord, have us to
know that Jesus Christ is our all and all. And God, keep your
candlestick here. Keep this a gospel preaching
church for many years to come, Lord, for our children's sake.
And glorify your son in us now today. Look down and visit this
vine in mercy, amen. Let us stand together once again.
We'll sing the hymn that's on the back of your bulletin. Your Father, guide your children's
feet. Savior, protect your silly sheep. Protect your ransom, blood-caught
flock. Be to our souls a sheltering
rock. Protect us from a world of sin,
from foes without and worse within. Protect us from the fiends of
hell, but most protect us from ourselves. Praying all our pride and vain
conceit, Lord, lay us low before your feet. Make us, how wretched,
vile as snow, Humble our hearts and lay us low. Here we began, here we must stay
If we would walk the narrow way Sinners by nature, all but none
Our only hope is in God's Son But what a blessed hope this
is. Christ is the Lord, our righteousness
washed in His sin atoned in blood. We stand perfectly before our
God. Please be seated. Protect us from a world of sin,
from foes without, and worse, within. Protect us from the fiends of
hell, but most, protect us from ourselves. That verse you read,
Jeff, I was thinking about as we were singing wicked and unreasonable men that
we need to be delivered from first and foremost is ourselves. I can be unreasonable and I need
to be brought back again and again and again to the truth
of the gospel and the person of the Lord Jesus. Will you open your Bibles with
me to John chapter three. John chapter three. I've titled this message, Take
to Himself. Take to Himself. John had just declared the Lord Jesus
as the Lamb of God, John the Baptist. Different John than the one,
of course, that penned the gospel account of John. John the Baptist
in John chapter three had just declared the Lord Jesus to be
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. John
had a large following. And after that declaration, many
of John's disciples left John and began to follow Christ. And John's disciples come to
John and almost in protest, wondering why John's losing his disciples,
They said in verse 25, and there arose a question between some
of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. John was performing
the act of baptism in the Jordan River as a symbol of the purifying
grace of God that takes place in salvation. And John had just baptized the
Lord. And so now there's a debate among John's disciples and the
Jews. These were the same Jews that
would have practiced all of those rituals of purifying in an attempt
to present themselves acceptable to God. You remember the, turning
the water into wine at the marriage feast of Canaan and they had
all those water basins that they went through and ceremonially
washed their hands and it is a picture of man-made religion
because men left to themselves will try to figure out a way
to purify themselves before God. What can I do? What rituals can
I follow? What prayers can I pray? What
religion can I practice? What can I avoid in my life? What can I put in my life in
order to purify myself before God? And men are still debating that,
still debating that. And the only difference between
one religious opinion and another religious opinion is the list
of do's and don'ts required for one to purify themselves before
God. That's the only difference. When we follow the Lord Jesus
in baptism, we are declaring publicly that
we died when Christ died. and that we were raised from
the dead when Christ was raised from the dead. Buried with Christ
in baptism and raised to walk a new life in Christ Jesus, the
only hope that I have of standing in the presence of a holy God,
pure, without sin, is to be found in him. That his death and his
resurrection is what God requires for the purifying of my soul
before God. That's what baptism is. It's
a outward picture of an inward grace that the Lord Jesus accomplished
2,000 years ago. But men are still debating it,
aren't they? The disciples of the Jews and the disciples of
John debating over what's required for the purifying while the sinner. In verse 26, And they came unto
John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond
Jordan, to whom thou bearest witness, they're speaking of
Christ. The one that John baptized, I'm
not worthy to be baptized. Lord came to John and said, baptize
me. What'd John say? I'm not worthy
to unlatch your sandals. I need to be baptized by you.
Suffer to be so, John. Why? That we might fulfill all
righteousness. You see, it's not our water baptism
that saves. It's the baptism of the Lord
Jesus that saves. And the Lord was baptized in
the River Jordan. And when we're baptized, we're
identifying with his baptism. He said, by you baptizing me,
all righteousness is going to be fulfilled. And the fulfillment
of this baptism is gonna be accomplished at the cross. There's our hope
of salvation. Not in any ritual that we follow. We're looking to what the Lord
Jesus accomplished for the hope of our salvation. So these disciples of John are
confused. John, we believed that you were
a prophet sent of God. We believed that the message
that you preached was a message of truth. And now your disciples
are leaving you. And they're going to, they're
uniting themselves to Christ. And we're confused, we don't
understand. Even John himself got confused. Because it won't be long before
John finds himself in prison. with a death sentence over his
head. And John sends some of these
same disciples to the Lord to ask the Lord, are thou the one
that should come or do we look for another? John is confused. Why is it that God sent me with
a message and now I'm dying, I'm being put to death? Was I
wrong? Was I confused? Oh, greater man was never born
of a woman, the Lord Jesus said, than John. And if John had his
fears and doubts when under great trial and tribulation, does that
not explain our fears and doubts? Do we not in the midst of trouble,
wonder, doubt, and fear, do what John did. When you have those
doubts and those fears, do what John did. Go to Christ and ask him, ask
him, art thou the one or do we look for another? And he will
give you the same answer that he gave John. Tell John the things
that you have seen and the things that you have heard. And when
those disciples went back and reported to John in prison, the
things that they had seen and the things that they had heard,
John's heart was restored. His faith was, he was okay. He was good with that. What is
it that convinces us in the midst of our fears and doubts? Is it
to have a better experience, to have a better feeling, to
be delivered from our trials? John never got delivered out
of prison. He went from there to the executioners and he lost
his head, literally. His circumstances weren't changed,
but his faith and his hope was restored by the report that his
disciples gave him. And so will yours be and so will
mine be. We don't look to have our hearts
encouraged by a change in our circumstances. We look for our
hearts to be encouraged by the report that God has given us
in his word of who the Lord Jesus Christ is and what it is he accomplished.
That's how our hearts are encouraged. And God speaks that truth to
our hearts. It won't matter what our circumstances
are. We'll be able to rest secure
in the revelation that God has given of Christ. Well, John's
gonna doubt. The disciples are doubting. His
disciples are wondering, why is it that Back to verse 26, to whom thou
bearest witness, behold, the same baptizeth and all men come
to him. Now, if you look over just a
column in your Bible, you'll see in John chapter four of verse
two, though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples. So the
disciples of John the Baptist now are coming to John and saying,
The one that you pointed to that said, that you said is the Christ,
everybody's now following him and he's baptizing. Well, the
Lord interprets that clearly by telling us that the Lord himself
didn't do the baptizing, his disciples did. And here's the, here's the encouragement
from that truth brethren. What the Lord does, And what
his disciples do are one and the same. One and the same. God merits and credits to the
account of his people the works that the Lord Jesus does. We have such union with Christ
when we are ushered into glory And the Lord says, well done,
thou good and faithful servant, enter into the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world. Then the child of
God's thinking, how could God say of my life, well done? If
you're in Christ, that's all there is, is that which is well
done. Because only what he did will God recognize and acknowledge
and credit. to our account. And here's the
truth of faith. Faith does the same thing. Faith
rejoices in what the Lord Jesus has done. Faith doesn't try to
find comfort in what it's doing. Well, the Lord says to a sheep,
I was hungry and you fed me and I was naked and you clothed me
and I was in prison and you came and visited me. And what did
the sheep say? Lord, when did we do that? When
did we do that? And the Lord says, in that you
did it to the least of these my brethren, you did it unto
me. He's talking about participating in the ministry of the gospel,
which only God's people do. And all of God's people do. All
of God's people join together in the ministry of the gospel.
In either witnessing the gospel, supporting the gospel, praying
for the gospel, believing the gospel, the Lord is seeing our
union with Christ. Because it's the gospel that
puts the robe of righteousness on those that are naked. It is
the gospel that feeds the bread of life to the souls of those
that are hungry. It is the gospel that gives water
to those that are thirsty. It is the gospel that takes in
those that are strangers. And our union with Christ and
participation in his gospel, the Lord is crediting to all
of his people and he's saying, well done. Well done. Oh, the well done is not because
of how well we have done. It's because of how well he's
done. Faith is just looking to him. In verse 27, And John answered
and said, A man can Receive, now I looked up this
word receive and the literal interpretation of this word receive
means to take one to, to take something to himself. Take to
himself, that's what the word receive means. No man can take
to himself something that's not given to him from heaven. Now in the immediate context,
John's talking about the confession of Christ. John's saying he could
not take to himself that which God has not given him. And if
God has declared him to be the Christ, then that's what he is. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter
five. Hebrews chapter five. Look with me at verse four. Now, the Lord is comparing the
priesthood of the Lord Jesus Christ, our high priest, the
one, what did a priest do? A priest interceded with God
on behalf of the people. And we don't participate in man-made
priestcraft. We don't need a man to intercede
for us. There is one man between God
and men, and that is the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is
our high priest. He's our intercessor. He's the
one who goes before God on our behalf and gives himself to the
Father as an offering for our sin. And ever lives, the Bible
says, to make intercession for us. That's the Lord Jesus. And
in the book of Hebrews, the Lord is comparing that Old Testament
priesthood of Aaron to the priesthood, to the eternal priesthood of
the Lord Jesus. And he says in verse four, and
no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called
of God was Aaron. No man can take to himself that
which only God can give. What did John say? A man can
receive nothing. A man can take nothing to himself
except that which is given to him from heaven. John is saying, that the Lord Jesus was given
by God this rightful place. Look at verse 5 in Hebrews chapter
5. So also Christ glorified not himself to be God or to be made
a high priest but He that said unto him, thou art my son, today
I have begotten thee. As he saith also in another place,
thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Who,
speaking of Melchizedek now, that Old Testament pre-incarnate
revelation of the Lord Jesus, that priest of Salem, That one
who came that Abraham paid tithes to, that was Christ. And now
we're likening the Lord Jesus to that Old Testament priest
Melchizedek. And you say, and he didn't take
that to himself. Who in the days of his flesh
when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong
crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death
and was heard in that he feared. He's talking about Christ. Likening
himself to Melchizedek. He's saying this one. Though
he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which
he suffered, and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey him, that believe on him,
that believe on him. No man can take this honor unto
himself, It must be given to him from heaven. At the birth
of the Lord Jesus, God Almighty sent a multitude of heavenly
hosts, singing and praising God and saying, unto you was born
this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the
Lord. At his baptism, an audible voice
spoke from heaven. John saw that. John was there,
John baptized him when the Spirit of God came down as a picture
of the Holy Spirit anointing the Lord Jesus as the Christ,
the Messiah. The Bible says that he is anointed
with the oil of gladness above his fellows. He came in the full
power of the Spirit of God. John was there. That's what John's
referring to. He's saying no man, No man can
receive or take from God something that God hasn't given him. And
we know that God gave him this. At the resurrection, the angel spoke to Mary, why
seek ye the living among the dead? He's not here. He's not
here. On the Mount of Transfiguration,
the Father spoke and said, this is my beloved Son in whom I am
well pleased. No man can receive anything except to be given to him from
heaven. And we have the full testimony
of God's word the full testimony of scripture from Genesis 1.1
all the way to the end of Revelation. In the volume of the book, it
is written of me. What is God doing? This is God's
word. God is giving to his son the
power and the authority. The scripture says that God has
made him both Lord and Christ. This is my beloved son, hear
ye him. Follow him, believe on him. It's
what John said. John's saying, no man, a man
can receive nothing, can take to himself anything other than
that which is given to him from heaven. How much more testimony do we
need? that God the Father has given
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Power. Authority. He's given to Him a kingdom.
Oh! They that obey Him. They that
believe on Him. They that rest in Him. They that
look to Him. They that believe the testimony
that God has made. Many other things did the Lord
Jesus do that are not recorded in this book, but these have
been recorded that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the son of the living God, and that believing you might have
life through his name. What is faith? It's believing
the testimony of God. all that God has said. In Numbers chapter 16, you don't have to turn there,
I'll just tell you the story very quickly. The children of Israel
in the wilderness. God had anointed the tribe of
Levi, the descendants of Aaron, the brethren of Aaron. Aaron
was the high priest who was a Levite and the Levites were charged
with the responsibility of maintaining the tabernacle and leading the
children of Israel in public worship. But there was one priest
and that was Aaron. And there was a Levite by the
name of Korah. And Korah rose up in rebellion.
And Korah said to Aaron, you take too much on yourself. We're Levites and we can approach
God. You think you're the only priest? We can come into the presence
of God too. We don't need you. And Moses, in obedience to what God commanded,
said, separate Korah and his followers from the children of
Israel. And I'll show you. And Aaron
over here, and I'll show you who I have ordained as priest. For a man can receive nothing
except it be given to him from heaven. A man cannot take this
authority on himself. That's what Korah was trying
to do. And the earth opened up. And we have sinkholes here in
Florida. And occasionally you hear about somebody that gets
swallowed up by a sinkhole and they never find them. Well this
was a major sinkhole and God created it right under Korah
and all of his followers and they were swallowed up by the
earth and the earth closed up and they were never seen again.
Why? Because they thought that they
could receive from God something that he had not given them. John spoke the truth when he
said a man can receive nothing except that which God has given
him. You see, a free will works gospel. which is what most people who
call themselves Christians believe. They believe that they can come
into the presence of God and represent themselves as their
own priest. They believe that they can make
an offering of their own will and of their own works before
God that will obligate God to save them because of something
that they've done. They don't believe that the Lord
Jesus himself is the only one who received from heaven that
which men cannot take to themselves. And those who try to come to
God on any other basis, well, you can only imagine what the
opening up of the earth and the swallowing up of those men represents. and the closing up of the earth
for there's no hope of recovery from that. A man can take to himself nothing
but that which God has given to him. Oh, let us not take to
ourselves any thought of being able to come into the presence
of a holy God based on something that we've done or something
that we've not done or something that... We know that's true,
brethren. If you're a believer, God has
brought you to the end of yourself. You know that you have nothing
to offer God. on behalf of your righteousness
that Christ must be your all. And yet, even as believers, these
thoughts of self-righteousness, do they not, is this not the
sin of unbelief that easily, easily persuadeth? The sin that
doth so easily beset us. Is that not the sin of unbelief?
Is that how we need to be reminded, don't we? We need to be reminded
that we can't take from God something that he hasn't given to us. If
we're going to come into the presence of a holy God, we've
got to come. on the merit of, the basis of,
the grace of, the accomplished work of, the shed blood of, the
glorious person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's all and he's in
all and we can't come into the presence of holy God based on
anything else. We cannot add anything to him
and we cannot take anything away from him. He's our all. That's what John's saying. Turn with me to Exodus chapter
15, Exodus 15. You see, the free will gospel
of man-made works religion is nothing more and nothing less
than taking the priesthood into your own hands. It's taking to yourself something
God hasn't given you. A man can take to himself nothing
that God hasn't given him. And there's only one that God
gave this to. In our doubts, in our fears,
in our self-righteousness, in our faltering and failing, let
us do what John the Baptist did. Come again to the Lord and let
us believe by God's grace the testimony that has been made
by God Almighty of His Son. And let us rest our hope, though
we may be facing death as John was, let us rest our hope in
the promises of God because all the promises of God are yea,
yes, and amen, sure, in Christ. And all the blessings of God
are in the Lord Jesus Christ. You have your Bibles open to
Exodus chapter 15. Look with me at verse 9. And
the enemy said, the enemy said, I will pursue I'll seek God. No man seeketh
after God at any time. You see, that's why we need God
to fetch us. We need David to come to Lodabar
in the house of nature and get Mephibosheth and bring him to
himself. We're not gonna seek God, but
what's the self-righteous man say? What's the man who takes to himself
something that God hasn't given him? I'll pursue. I'll decide when I wanna get
right with God. Oh Lord, I can't pursue thee. You didn't give me that power.
You didn't give me the power. You didn't give me to pursue
you. Lord, you've got to pursue me
first. You've got to make me willing in the day of thy power. Look at the second thing that
the enemies of God say, I will overtake. I know God wants to save me.
And when I'm good and ready, I'll overtake him. And I'll give
him permission to save me. And I'll, you know, I know he's
had a man yesterday, after listening to the gospel as clearly as I
know how to preach it, and after having conversation with him.
about the things that we just talked about. And about God's
sovereignty in election. This is what just amazes me. He brought up that picture that
you've seen of a long-haired man that's supposed to be Jesus
standing at a door with vines over it and knocking on the door. And underneath of it, it says,
you know, I stand at the door, knock. If any man will open the
door, I will come into him. And in that painting, there's
no handle on the outside of the door. And this man, after a long
conversation about the sovereignty of God and the free will of man,
he didn't hear a word. Didn't hear a single word. He
said, oh, I find so much comfort in that painting. You know, there's
no door handle on the outside. The door handle's only on the
inside. Man has to make, you know, he's got to take the first
step. He's got to open the door. God can't open it for him. And once again, the Lord convinced
me this gospel is a mystery. It's hidden from the natural
man. He can't see it. He can't believe it. He can't
enter into it. And if God doesn't show him,
he will continue to believe that the door to his heart only has
a handle on the inside and that poor little God is on the outside
of his heart knocking, wanting to get in. I will pursue I will overtake? What did men do? They take to
themselves that which has not been given to them from heaven.
This power has only been given to Christ. John is taking comfort
in the fact that this is the Christ and he will go on to say,
I must decrease, he must increase. The Lord, God Almighty has testified
from heaven. that he has that power, he has
that authority, and no man can receive anything that has not
been given to him from heaven. No man can take from God, God
must give it. And clearly God has given it
to him. I will divide the spoil. Look
at that. Notice each one of these phrases,
and there's six of them, by the way, that's the number of man.
Man was created on six days, 666, the number of man. Oh, there's
where we are. Six, the closest number to seven,
and yet it falls short of his glory, doesn't it? It falls short
of his glory. I'll divide the spoil. The work
that the Lord Jesus did on Calvary's cross was to give some life and
others will die. And I'm going to make the decision
to divide the spoil to myself. The battle that he fought, you're
taking to yourself something that's not being given to you
from heaven. He will divide the spoil, Isaiah chapter 53. The
spoil belongs to him. Well, what does man in his pride
and self-righteousness say? I will, I will, I will. No. Lord, we need to be like that
leper. Lord, I know. that thou can make
me whole if thou will. Lord, I'm dependent upon your
will. My will is not gonna do it. God
leaves us to our will. We will will against God every
time. We will put ourselves on the throne of God. We will rob
Christ of his glory and make ourselves to be God. My lust shall be satisfied upon
them. Oh, the desires and passions
of my, I'll satisfy my needs. I will draw my sword. Now in
the Bible, the sword is seen Well, the sword of the spirit
is the word of God. And when the Lord Jesus comes
in the book of Revelation, his tongue is like a flaming sword. The sword is God's word. It's
God's word. It's the tongue, it's what we
say. And the Lord Jesus said, by your word you shall be justified
and by your word you shall be condemned. And when man draws
his sword, Says with my sword I will overtake I will pray this
prayer. I'll command God I'll do this
and I'll do that. He is taking to himself something
God hasn't given him He is making God dependent upon him for salvation This is life and death, this
is black and white. And yet I know that even as we
try to make these things plain, if the Spirit of God doesn't
give us understanding, people will hear this and they won't
see it, they won't believe it. I'll pray that prayer, my sword. By your words you shall be justified
and by your words you shall be condemned. If we think that God is obligated
because of some words that our sword has spoken, oh Lord, I'm completely dependent
upon thy sword, thy word. Lord, my words, The Bible says,
from the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. You wanna know
what's in your heart, just record everything you say and you'll
find out how your throat is an open sepulcher and your heart
is deceitful and wicked and no man can know it. Oh, our words. When do our words justify us? When we speak the word that God
has spoken. We speak the word God has spoken.
And I know there's people listening right now that think, well, you
know, I just don't know scripture that well and I can't speak back
to God. I hope that we will learn scripture. It's a light
unto our path. It's a lamp unto our feet. But brethren, if you don't know
a single word And as you hear God's word, you're able to say,
amen. That's the word that will justify
you before God. You hear what God has said. You
don't have any scripture committed in memory. You have a hard time
doing that. And somebody asks you for the
hope that's within you and you really have a difficult time
explaining to them and giving them. But when you hear the gospel,
when you hear the truth about who you are and who God is and
how it is that God is pleased to save sinners, you're able
to say from your heart, amen. Amen, that's what I believe that's
that yes Lord truth Lord Yes, I am a sinner Yes, Christ is
the Savior Yes, Lord. I my will my lost my will I Will
draw my sword look at the last thing that the enemy of God says
in verse 9 of Exodus chapter 15 my hand shall And I've got in the margin of
my Bible for the word destroy, repossess. Repossess. My hand will repossess
from God what I lost in the fall of Adam. And what is the hand? The tongue's a picture of the
word of God, the sword of the spirit. What is the hand? It's
our works. I'm going to repossess from God
my salvation by something I do. A man can receive nothing. A man can
take to himself nothing that hasn't been given to him from
heaven. If you read the next couple of
verses in Exodus chapter 15, we won't do it right now, but
there are seven thous, and it's a glorious declaration of what
the Lord has done in Christ. Lord, thou must do it. take to himself peace with God. I heard people say, have you
made your peace with God? What are you going to do to make
peace with God? We get at odds with another person, we can come
and with our words we can sincerely apologize and maybe even bring
gifts. of apology and reconcile ourselves
with another man. But what are we going to do to
make peace with God? My peace I give unto thee. Not as the world giveth. The
world just, oh, the world has a false peace. Peace, peace,
when there really is no peace. The world wants to have the peace
of God without having peace with God. The only way we're going
to have peace with God is that The Prince of Peace, the Lord
Jesus, goes before the Father and offers himself to his heavenly
Father on our behalf, puts his blood on the mercy seat that's
in heaven, stands in our stead before God, On inheritance I will give unto
thee, Acts 20, 32. And I give unto them eternal
life. I give unto them eternal life.
Well, I'm going to take eternal life. You can't take it. A man
can receive nothing. A man can take to himself nothing
that's not been given to him from heaven. I give unto them
eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man
pluck them out of my hand. Oh Lord, give that to me. Give that to me. The Lord Jesus is the only one.
I give unto them a new heart, a heart of stone I will take
out of them and a heart of flesh I will give to them. You see,
brethren, you and I have not been given
from heaven any ability to save ourselves or to give to God something
that's going to obligate him. The Lord Jesus is the only one
that John's disciples were confused. John said, that man received
from heaven that which only the Father can give. And that's the
man and the only man that can save us. God's people glory in that. Oh,
I'm so thankful that God's mercy is not looking to me for anything. And where God's looking, faith
looks. Faith looks. Amen? All right. Tom, let's... 143, let's stand
together, number 143. rejoice