Good evening. It's nice to have
Joy with us. We're going to do a closing hymn
today that we're doing because she's here and can read that
music. And it's not familiar to me, so if it's familiar to
you, sing out. But we're going to open with
some familiar music. So let's all stand together.
Number 37 in your Spiral Gospel Hymns hymn book, Approach My
Soul, the Throne of Grace. ? Approach, my soul, the throne
of grace ? In every time of need ? There's mercy for the needy
one ? Who Jesus' name shall plead Though I'm a weak and sinful
wretch, I will approach the throne. I'll lean upon Christ's mighty
arm and plead His blood alone. The blood, the precious blood
of Christ, has opened up the way by which I can draw near
to God and to my Father pray. Though Satan tempts my heart
to sin, I'll call upon my God. And if I fall, he'll lift me
up and cleanse me in the blood. The way is open, God will hear
my groans and cries of grief. Nothing can keep me from His
throne but mine own unbelief. O Lord, my unbelief remove, and
turn my heart, my grace. Compel me to approach your throne,
and there spread out my case. Please be seated. We open your Bibles with me to
John chapter 9. John chapter 9. We're going to
be in Psalm 69 tonight and the title of the message is The Humble
Shall See. The Humble Shall See. We know
that the seeing eye and the hearing ear are both from the Lord. John chapter 9, there's a story
about a man who was born blind that the Lord gave sight to. And it's a picture of how the
Lord opens the eyes of the blind and enables them to see the truth
of who he is and who they are and how it is that God's pleased
to save sinners. And as Jesus passed by, John
9 verse 1, He saw a man which was born which was blind from
birth. And his disciples asked him,
saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that
he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath
this man sin nor his parents. Now, you know what that means.
He's not saying that this man's without sin or his parents without
sin. He's saying the cause of this blindness is not directly
linked to any particular sin. Neither hath this man sin, nor
his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest
in him. I must work the works of him
that sent me. While it is day, the night cometh,
when no man can work. As long as I am in the world,
I am the light of the world. You know the Lord heals him.
The Pharisees are indignant about this healing, and so they interrogate
him, and in verse 25, he answered and said unto them, they were
accusing the Lord of being a sinner. And he answered and said unto
them, whether he be a sinner or no, I know not. One thing,
I know. Whereas I was blind, now I see. I didn't have any understanding
before. I couldn't see anything. Now I know I see." And then they excommunicated
him from religion. And in verse 35, Jesus heard
that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he
said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? And he answered
and said, Who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him? And Jesus
said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh
with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. He worshipped
him. That's the evidence of believing,
isn't it? Worship, bow, submit. Exalt and glorify the Lord Jesus
Christ. And then the Lord, in verse 39,
said this, For judgment I came into the world, that they would
see not might see, and that they would see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which
were with him heard these words and said unto him, Are we blind
also? Are you suggesting that we can't
see? And Jesus said unto them, If
you were blind, you should have no sin. But now you say, We see. Therefore, your sin remaineth. The humble shall see. Let's pray. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we're so thankful that, as we just sang in that hymn, that
we have a throne of grace that we can approach with boldness,
knowing that we have an advocate knowing that we have acceptance,
that righteousness has been established. Lord, that we can come and spread
out our case before thee and have hope in knowing that you
show mercy. Lord, we pray that you would
be pleased in this hour to open the eyes of our understanding
that you would enable us to see. For truly, Lord, apart from your
sovereign grace, we are blind. We're full of sin and darkness.
We pray that you would give us a single eye, enable us to focus
it on thy dear son and all that he's accomplished in putting
away our sin. For it's in his name we pray,
amen. Number 168, let's all stand together
again, 168. Lord, I hear of showers of blessing. Thou art scattering, full and
free. Showers the thirsty land refreshing. Let some drops now fall on me,
even me. Even me, let thy blessing fall
on me. ? Pass me not, O tender Savior
? Let me love and cling to Thee ? I am longing for Thy favor
? Whilst Thou art calling, O call me ? Even me Even me, let thy blessing fall
on me. Pass me not, O mighty Spirit,
Thou canst make the blind to see. Witness, sir, of Jesus'
merit, Speak the word of power to me, even me. Even me, let thy blessing fall
on me. Love of God so pure and changeless,
blood of Christ so rich and free. Grace of God so strong and boundless,
magnify them all in me. Even me, even me, let thy blessing
fall on me. Pass me not thy lost one bringing,
? Bind my heart, O Lord, to Thee ? While the streams of life are
springing ? Blessing others, O bless me ? Even me, even me
? Let Thy blessing fall on me Please be seated. I started the title of this message,
Blessed or Cursed. Blessed or Cursed, that's a good
hymn. Thy blessings fall on me. There
is a blessing that the Lord promises in Psalm 69, if you'll turn with
me there in your Bibles. But there's also a curse that
is very clear in Psalm 69. And, oh, how we want to be on
the blessing end of God. We certainly don't want to be
those who receive this curse. Look at verse 32 of Psalm 69. shall see this and be glad. What is it that the humble shall
see? Everything that the Lord declares in Psalm 69. They will
see that this passage as with all passages of scripture are
about the glorious person and the accomplished work of the
Lord Jesus Christ. They will see that but for the
grace of God, they would be cursed as well. They will see this and
they'll be glad. If the Lord gives us eyes to
see the truth, it'll gladden our hearts. It'll cause us to
realize that by his grace, look at the rest of that verse, and
your heart shall live, shall live that seek God. There's something very beautiful
about humility and that true humility, not a feigned humility,
not the kind of humility that the religious try to put on. The truly humble person does
not believe themselves to be humble. The truly humble person
doesn't try to act humble. What is humility? Well, humility
before men is believing yourself to be the chief of all centers. Only the children of God believe
that. Only the children of God believe themselves to be in need
of grace more than anyone else. What a humbling experience that
is. And before God, it's believing
that you are void of all righteousness. You have no righteousness. You
have no claim on God whatsoever. You're completely dependent upon
him. Now that's humility. That's humility. It's a statement that you've
heard. I'm sure I've mentioned it a
few times over the years, but it's so true. And that is that
all without exception, all of the righteous believe themselves
to be unrighteous. And all without exception of
the unrighteous believe themselves to be righteous. That's just
true. And it doesn't matter whether
or not you're talking to a religious person or an irreligious person,
everybody's got something that they're trusting in for their
righteousness. And even those who pretend to
be humble, you talk to them, you'll find out. Being around
God's people is just such a delight, isn't it? They don't try to be pretentious.
They don't try to intimidate one another. They don't stand
in judgment of one another. And even as I say that, we look
at our own hearts and we say, well, I've acted that way. I've
been pretentious. I've stood in judgment of other
people. I've looked down my self-righteous
nose at others. Well, that's what I'm saying.
Nobody that's really humble believes themselves to be humble. Nobody does. All the righteous
believe themselves to be unrighteous. But here's the blessing. Here's
the blessing. The truly humble, God has taught
them. He's taught them that they really
are the chief of all sinners. They can see how God would have
mercy on anyone else, but how God would have mercy on somebody
like me? They can identify with that Syrophoenician woman when
the Lord said to her, it is not right that I should give the
children's bread unto dogs. And what did she say? Truth,
Lord. Truth, Lord. And she worshipped
him. She did exactly what that man
did in John chapter nine. She worshipped him. She bowed
before him. That's humility. It's bowing
in his presence and expressing our total dependence upon him. Lord, if you don't give me eyes
to see, I won't see. If you don't give me a heart
to believe, I won't believe. If you don't take away my sin,
there's nothing I can do to put it away. If you don't provide
for me a righteousness outside of myself, there's nothing that
I can do to make myself acceptable in the sight of God. Now that's
humility. God says here, He says, the humble
shall see this and be glad. There's a gladness in that humility,
isn't there? And they shall live. They'll
live. There's life in that humility. Look at verse 33. For the Lord
heareth the poor. Now this word humble in verse
32 is also translated poor, it's also translated afflicted, and
it's also translated meek. And that's who the humble are,
that's who the gospel's for. It's for the poor and the needy. It's for those who are afflicted
by their own sin. For those who say with Rebecca,
why am I thus? Why am I thus? Lord, I'm just,
I live with this body of death. And what the Lord say to her
is because there's two nations in you. There's the affliction. There's the affliction. And so
we're afflicted, we're poor, we're needy. And the Lord said,
for the Lord here at the poor and despiseth not his prisoners."
Oh, Lord, make me your prisoner. Make me captive to your grace. Make me to hear thy word. Make
me to come unto thee. Lord, Lord, put me in the yoke
with the Lord Jesus Christ. All men are prisoners. They're
either prisoners to Satan and sin or they're prisoners to Christ.
That's why the Lord said, I came in order to break down the gates
of hell and come in and take captivity and make them captive
to me. And so the Lord says here that
he will despise not his prisoners. Go back with me. This is the
blessing. This is the blessing that that
we see, we see something about ourselves. We see something about
who the Lord Jesus Christ is in his glorious, sinless person
and in the role of substitute and sin bearer that he took in
his incarnation. And all that's in this psalm,
all that's in this psalm. so that His life and His death
and His resurrection and His ascension becomes the hope of
my salvation. Go back with me to verse 16. This whole psalm is about the
Lord Jesus Christ. And He's crying from the Father
and He says, Oh, hear me. Hear me, Lord, for I come I come
before you based on your loving kindness and the multitude of
your mercies. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ could
have said, Father, I'm coming into thy presence based on my
sincerity, based on my sorrow, based on the proof of my righteousness. But he doesn't. He pleads. He
pleads. the loving kindness of the father.
What he's saying to the father, he's saying, father, if you've
ever loved me, if you've ever loved me, you see, if the father,
if God's ever loved us, he, he can't stop loving us. His love
is perfect. His love is holy. He said, I've
loved you with an everlasting love. You know, our love is,
we love one minute, we don't love the next. We fall in love,
we fall out of love. Our love is in degrees. That's
not so with God's love. Now, what this is saying to me
and you is we approach the throne of grace, not based on our sorrow,
not based on our sincerity, not based on our promise to do better,
but based on the loving kindness of God. Lord, I've got no other
basis to come to you. Look what he says. Hear me, O
Lord, for thy loving kindness. And you know that's the Old Testament
word for grace. Thy grace is good. Lord, that's
the basis on which I come into thy presence. crying out for
your grace and for your goodness, for all of my acceptance, any
hope that I have that you would hear me is based on your grace
and your goodness and the multitude of your mercies. Look at the
rest of that verse. Turn unto me according to the
multitude of thy tender mercies. Oh Lord, I need you to be tender
to me. I need you to be, I need you
to be pitiful to me. I need you to pity me. I've got
to have your tender mercies. I've got no other, this is, this
is humility. Who was so humble as the Lord
Jesus Christ. And this is how he approached
the father. And he said, the humble shall see this and be
glad and they shall live. Humility before God is, is pleading
his grace and his mercy for my acceptance into his presence.
We just sang that hymn. We approach God in the throne
of grace, in the throne of grace. with boldness, Hebrew says, with
boldness. Now that word boldness doesn't
mean that we come with some sort of self-confidence. It means
that we come with the confidence that the Lord Jesus Christ has
been our forerunner. He's prepared the way. He's made
us accepted before God and we're able to come into the presence
of God based on his righteousness. We have confidence not in ourselves,
but in him. And so that's how he's teaching
us to come. Look what he says in verse 17,
hide not thy face from thy servant. Oh, behold my servant, mine elect
whom I uphold. It's the Lord Jesus Christ is
the perfect servant of God. The Lord puts it in the hearts
of each one of His children to want to serve Him. And yet, in
whatever service we do, we come to the conclusion that we are
but unprofitable servants. Lord, what have I ever done?
He did. He served the Father perfectly. He did everything the Father
sent Him to do. And now he's coming before the
father and he says, hide not thy face from thy servant for
I am in trouble. I'm in trouble? What was he in
trouble with? It was a sin. Sin is what caused
him trouble. That was the cup that he drank
of. It was the cup of sin. And he
owns our sin as his own. We're going to see that in the
next few verses. But isn't that what causes us
our trouble? Our sin? Lord, I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble. I can't make
up for my sin. I can't put away my sin. I can't
conquer my sin. I can't do anything about it.
Hear me speedily come Lord right now and rescue me. Rescue me
from myself. Rescue me from my sin. Now that's
the Lord Jesus praying on Calvary's cross and the humble, the humble
shall see this. Do you see that you're that your
trouble is not your circumstances. It's not another person in your
life. It's not your boss. It's not
your spouse. It's not the politicians. The trouble that we have is not
the economy. The trouble is my sin. Lord,
I've got to be delivered right now, speedily. You're gonna have
to come and show me once again what you did to put away my sin. I'll be consumed by it if you
don't deliver me from it. Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem
it. It's so obvious. not only in
my own experience back in religion, but in listening to religious
folks today, that the primary purpose that God serves in this
world is to help folks have a better life. I mean, that's his role. His role is to make you happy.
His role is to provide for your temporal needs. His role is to
make you healthy, wealthy, and wise, and give you a good experience
in this world. And that's not what the Lord's
praying for here. He said, Lord, come into my soul. My soul is overwhelmed with my
sin. He's already prayed in verses
14 and 15 to be delivered from the pit. That's what we need
to be delivered from more than anything else. We need to be
delivered from the grave. We need to be delivered from
the wrath that is to come. We need to be delivered from
God's judgment. And the humble shall see this.
The humble shall see this. Yes, Lord, that is my number
one need for you to deliver my soul and redeem it. Redeem it. Now you know what that word redeem
means. It means to purchase it. We've been redeemed with the
precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. We've been bought with
a price. He is called over and over and
over again, our redeemer. He didn't, he's not making an
effort to redeem. He redeemed. He offered up to
God, his father, the sacrifice that he's making here on Calvary's
cross. And the father accepted his payment. And all of God's elect, all the
bride of Christ were redeemed, redeemed by the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now he's praying to the father,
father, redeem me. What's he going to be redeemed
with, with his own blood, with his own blood, what the father says to us. The
father said to him, when I see the blood, when I see the blood,
I'll pass by you. Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem
it. Deliver me, deliver me because
of mine enemies. Now we have some enemies that
the grave is called our final enemy, our last enemy. And The enemies that we have
are spiritual. Though we walk in the flesh,
we war not after the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal, they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. We battle against principalities
and powers and spiritual darkness and wickedness and dark places. This is a spiritual battle that
we're in. Lord, you're going to have to
deliver me from my enemies. Look at verse 19. Thou hast known
my reproach and my shame and my dishonor. Mine adversaries
are all before thee. I've heard people say, well,
Yes, the Bible says that God made him sin, that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him, but he didn't really
become sin. He just sort of paid for our
sin and engaged in a legal agreement with God to put away
the sins of it. If you bore the punishment of
someone else's crime, You, if you did it willingly, you might
feel some gratification, you might feel some pride, you might
feel some self-righteousness if you did it willingly. If you
did it unwillingly, you might feel some anger, resentment,
for having been punished for someone else's crime. The one
thing you could never ever feel by being punished for someone
else's crime, you could never feel sorrow. You could never
feel shame. You could never feel the things
that he's expressing here, reproach and dishonor, because you would
know in your heart of hearts, I didn't do it. I didn't do it. This matter of imputation, when
God made Christ to be sin for us, He owned our sin as His own. God made them. He made Him to
be sin. He bore our sins in His body
and made His soul, the scripture says, an offering for sin. I don't know what all that means. Turn with me to Lamentations,
Jeremiah and Lamentations chapter 1. He's called a man of sorrows,
acquainted with grief. Look at Lamentations chapter
1 at verse 11. All her people sigh. They seek
bread. They have given their pleasant
things for meat. To relieve the soul, see, O Lord,
and consider, for I am become vile. Is it nothing to you all that
you pass by? Behold, and see if there be any
sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the
Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger." Now,
Jeremiah is speaking prophetically of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
he says, I have become vile. The Lord Jesus Christ was holy,
harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners. He was tried in
all ways that we are yet without sin. He is the pure and perfect,
sinless, righteous son of God. And yet on Calvary's cross, he
became vile and no man ever sorrowed like he sorrowed. And the humble. shall see this and be glad."
Why are we glad? Why are we glad? Because God
saw the travail of his soul and God was satisfied. Otherwise,
we think that we have to sorrow enough to atone for our own sins. The Lord Jesus Christ atoned
for our sins and redeemed us. Look at verse 20 in our text.
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I
look for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters,
but I found none." I read that and I thought about
Job with his miserable comforters and all that we could learn from
the book of Job about atonement and about about self-righteousness
and about the sovereignty of God. Oh, there's so much. Job
is a type of Christ. The scripture starts out in Job
chapter 1 by saying that he was perfect and upright and he feared
God and he eschewed evil. What a What language to describe
the Lord Jesus Christ? And then he was greatly afflicted. And he was falsely accused. And his comforters only added
to his sorrow. That's why he called them his
miserable comforters. They weren't friends at all,
were they? They said, Job, you deserve this. Isn't that what
they said about the Lord Jesus Christ? He's getting what he
deserved. And now he says, I looked for
some to take pity on me, but there was none. I'm for comforters,
but I found none. He went to the cross all by himself. forsaken of his father, forsaken
of his friends, accused falsely by the Pharisees and the self-righteous. They gave me also gall for my
meat and in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. And in John
chapter 19, the scripture says that scriptures might be fulfilled. They gave him vinegar to drink.
And as soon as he tasted of the sponge, He said, it is finished. Everything that's been prophesied
about me that I had to do in order to redeem my people has
been accomplished and the humble, the humble shall see this. Lord,
I don't see myself as being humble, but I do see what you're talking,
I see this. I see this. Now, I mentioned in my introduction
that I started to title this Blessed or Cursed. Blessed or
Cursed. And I fear that maybe somebody
who will be listening to us for the first time might interpret
the comments that I'm about to make as being anti-Semitic. They are not. They are not. I will agree with the Apostle
Paul when he said, my heart's desire for my brethren is that
they might be saved. Oh, that God would have mercy
on all men, whether they be Jew or Gentile. But the truth is that verses
22 through 28 are a curse. They are a curse spoken to God
by the Lord Jesus Christ against the Jews. against the Jews. And this curse began to be fulfilled
in 70 AD. Josephus, the Jewish historian,
tells us that when Titus sent the Roman army to squelch the
Jewish rebellion in 70 AD, they came three days before Passover. Three days before Passover, the
city was packed with 1.1 million people. And the Roman soldiers
surrounded the city and besieged it for four months until everybody
in the city either killed themselves or resorted to cannibalism. And in the end, all 1.1 million
people died. Not one stone did they leave. left on top of another stone. That was the fulfillment of what
the Lord said about the temple, didn't he? And that was the beginning
of their sorrows. They were dispersed. And for
2,000 years, I was talking to a Jewish lady and she said, we
have a history of persecution and affliction and sorrow, and
they do. They do. We think about the Holocaust,
where six million Jews were annihilated by the Nazis, but the Jews have
been suffering more than that. The, you know, you think about
the Crusades and how the Crusaders were fighting against the Mohabitans,
the Muslims in the Middle East, but they slaughtered Jews as
they went through that land as well. The Jewish people have
been suffering. Apartheid in more recent history
in South Africa, the Jews were slaughtered in the Apartheid.
that the Jews in Russia and in Prussia were gathered up and
persecuted by the millions. Why? Why? Why has this happened? Well, because the Lord Jesus
Christ cursed them. Look at verse 22. Let their table become a snare
before them, and that which should have been for their welfare,
let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened that
they see not, and make their loins continually to shake. Pour
out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take
hold of them. Let their habitation be desolate,
and let none dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom thou
hast smitten. You remember when Pilate said,
I wash my hands of this man, I'm innocent of his blood. And
the scripture says, and the Jews said, let his blood be upon us
and upon our children. They had no idea what they were
saying. Not only was his blood on them and their children, but
their children's children's children's children down to this very day. For they persecute him whom thou
hast smitten. It was God. We're not, you know,
there's just been in our lifetime when the Catholic Church has
finally apologized to the Jews for having slaughtered so many
of them over the years. Why did the Catholic Church persecute
the Jews so mercilessly? Because they thought that it
was the Jews that killed Christ. It was God that killed Christ.
It was God that killed. Get pleased for the Father to
bruise him. And we look upon him whom we
have pierced and we mourn after him. It was my sin that was on
the Lord Jesus Christ that caused the Father to have to put him
to death. And that's what the Lord's saying here. They persecuted
him whom thou hast smitten and they talk to grief of those whom
thou hast wounded. Add iniquity unto their iniquity
and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted
out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous. That is a sobering curse. Not
only is it upon the Jews, but it's upon all those who are
proud and self-righteous. All those who reject the Lord
Jesus Christ. You see, there's only blessings
and curses. There's no in-between. But I and poor and sorrowful. Let thy salvation, O God, set
me up on high." Oh, hear the Lord Jesus. You
see, his prayers were answered. The prayers for his exaltation,
And the prayers of the curses and judgment of the unbeliever. All the prayers of the Lord Jesus
Christ are answered. And so he's he's praying for
the father to set him up on high. And that's what he did. He gave
him a name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus
every knee shall bow. And the humble shall see this
and be glad. Be glad. I will praise the name of God
with a song, I will magnify Him with thanksgiving. This also
shall praise the Lord better than an ox or a bullock that
hath horns or hooves." All the sacrifices that were
made in the Old Testament never put away sin. But the sacrifice
that the Lord Jesus Christ did, made, redeemed His people. satisfied God's justice, established
an everlasting righteousness before God, gave him a place
of exaltation. And the humble shall see this
and be glad, and your heart shall live that seek God. For the Lord
heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners. Let the heaven
and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moveth therein,
for God will save Zion. Oh, what a blessed truth. God will save Zion and will build the cities of
Judah that they may dwell there and have it in possession. The
seed also of his servants shall inherit it, and they that love
his name shall dwell therein. We are the seed of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And here's his promise. Here's
his promise. They shall inherit. They shall
inherit that which I've accomplished. The humble. shall see this and
be glad. Be glad. I don't want anything
to do with the curses of God. We see enough of that being fulfilled
in this world. And the real curse of God is
eternal separation, damnation, judgment. And the Lord Jesus
Christ has put that away. He's put it away. through the
sacrifice of himself once and for all. And the humble shall
see this and be glad. Be glad. Our Heavenly Father,
we're thankful. For the precious promises. And
we're thankful also father for the. For the declaration of your
judgment and curses. Lord, we pray that you would. Give us eyes to see. Hearts to
believe. We ask it in Christ name. Amen. Tom Sure, let's do. We're going to sing a new hymn.
We some of us know it. Some of us don't. So if you know
it, sing out. Tom doesn't know it yet so. We'll
introduce him to it tonight. Number 82. God be with you till we meet
again. By his counsels guide, uphold
you. With his sheep securely fold
you. ? God be with you till we meet
again ? Till we meet, till we meet ? Till we meet at Jesus'
feet ? Till we meet, till we meet God be with you till we
meet again. God be with you till we meet
again. Be his wings protecting guide
you. Daily manna still provide you
God be with you till we meet again Till we meet, till we meet
Till we meet at Jesus' feet. Till we meet, till we meet. God be with you till we meet
again. God be with you till we meet
again. When life's perils thick confound
you, put his arms unfailing round you. God be with you till we
meet again. Till we meet, till we meet Till
we meet at Jesus' feet Till we meet, till we meet God be with
you till we meet again God be with you till we meet again. Keep love's banner floating o'er
you. Smite death's threatening wave
before you. God be with you till we meet
again Till we meet, till we meet Till we meet at Jesus' feet Till
we meet, till we meet God be with you till we meet again. I don't have the timing right,
but I can read music. I listen to it a few times. All right, are we offline? me get your attention man thomas sixty two years old today