Let's open this morning's service
with hymn number 70 from your hardback hymnal, number 70, Holy,
Holy, Holy. Let's all stand together. Number
70. Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty. Early in the morning our song
shall rise to Thee. Holy, holy, holy, merciful and
mighty, God in three Persons, blessed Trinity. Holy, holy, holy, all the saints
adore thee, casting down their golden crowns around the glassy
sea. Cherubim and seraphim falling
down before thee, which wert and art and evermore shalt be. Holy, holy, holy, though the
darkness hide thee, though the eye of sinful man thy glory may
not see. Only Thou art holy, there is
none beside Thee, perfect in power, in love and purity. Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty
All thy works shall praise thy name In earth and sky and sea
? Holy, holy, holy ? ? Merciful and mighty ? ? God in three persons
? ? Blessed Trinity ? Please be seated. Good morning. Before we begin, I'd like for
you to turn with me in your Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 2. 1 Timothy
chapter 2. The believers in the first century
suffered great persecution led by the governing authorities. And I'm sure that many of those
believers came to the conclusion that those
people that were persecuting them were beyond salvation. And so the Holy Spirit inspires
the Apostle Paul to instruct the church on how they ought
to react to the governing authorities. And I thought this was important
for us this morning because though we know that there's nothing
in this world Christian except the Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ, there are no Christian nations in this world. The only
thing that has the name of Christ is the people of God. And yet
the Lord is clear as to how we are to respond to this anti-Christian
world in which we live and the anti-Christian leaders that the
Lord has put over the nations. Daniel says he's placed the basis
of men over the nations. God raises up kings and puts
them down. Our God is sovereign. He's sovereign
over every nation. He's sovereign over the leaders
of the nations. And He will do what's best for
His church and for His people in everything that's done. That
having been said, the Lord has made it clear to us that we're
to pray for our governing authorities and we're to submit to them. And I want us to pray this morning.
There's a very, very important meeting I'm sure that you all
know about where our president is meeting this morning in Singapore
with the president of North Korea. And the consequences of that
meeting could be very consequential. And 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse
1. I exhort therefore that first
of all, first of all, the main thing, supplications. Now you know the root of that
word is supply. We go before the Lord for our
every supply, for the supplies of our physical life, and for
the supplies of our spiritual life, the Lord must provide. And so we go before his throne
of grace, pleading with him and seeking him to provide for us
that which we need. I exhort therefore, first of
all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made
for all men, for kings, and for all that are in authority, that
we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable
in the sight of God, our Savior. Let's pray together. Our merciful heavenly Father,
We are thankful that we are able to call you our father and come
before your throne of grace and know that you hear us for Christ's
sake. We thank you that we have not
only acceptance, but we have the assurance of knowing that
our supplications and prayers and intercessions that are made
in the name of thy dear son are pleasing in thy sight." Lord,
we pray right now for our governing authorities. We pray for our
President. We pray for the President of
North Korea and for all the dignitaries that are there helping to make
decisions that will impact the peace of this world and provide
for us a place to live peaceably and godly in this world. We ask,
Lord, that you would direct their speech. We know that the heart
of the king is in the hand of the Lord, and that you direct
it whithersoever you will. And so, Lord, we pray that you
would sovereignly control now for the good of your church and
for the glory of Christ the negotiations that are being made even now.
We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. All right. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Mark Chapter 8. Mark Chapter 8. I've titled this message Progressive
Revelation. Progressive Revelation. There's a lot of people that
believe in progressive salvation. I was listening to a man who
recently wrote a biography of Mr. Rogers, who passed away several
years ago. And Mr. Rogers was an ordained
Presbyterian minister, as you probably know. And he testified in his biography
of Mr. Rogers that the The question
that Mr. Rogers kept asking his wife on
his deathbed was, do you think I've done enough? Now, that's progressive salvation.
You never know if you've done enough. You never have assurance
of salvation. You won't know until you close
your eyes in death and find acceptance with God based on what you've
done. That's not what we're talking
about. That's a lie from the pit of
hell. We're not saved by works. We're saved by God's free and
sovereign grace and we're saved based on the work that the Lord
Jesus Christ has done on behalf of His people. Believers are
able to have assurance of salvation because they're looking unto
Jesus, who is the author, he's the originator, and he's the
finisher of our faith. There's our hope. Our hope is
in Christ. Faith is the evidence of salvation,
trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for all our acceptance and all
our righteousness before God. We have none. But most people
in this world, though they think very little about life after
death until it's right before their face, at that moment, most
people are like Mr. Rogers, wondering if they've
done enough. We're not talking about progressive
sanctification. You see, the truth is that salvation
and sanctification are both absolutes. Either you're saved or you're
not saved, either you're holy or you're not holy. Now, most
folks who would say that, yes, salvation is an absolute, make
sanctification something that is progressive. And by that,
I mean that they're looking not to their works as the cause of
their salvation, but as the evidence of it. If one looks to what they
do either as the cause of their salvation or as the evidence
of their salvation, they're not looking to Christ. They're under
the law. They're looking to their own
works. Sanctification, the Lord tells us in the book of Isaiah,
those who believe in progressive sanctification believe themselves
to be holier than thou, holier than thou, always climbing the
ladder, looking down at others, believing themselves to be holier
than someone else. That's progressive sanctification
and God says it is a smoke in my nostrils. It's an abomination
to me. Now we're not talking about progressive
sanctification. God makes us holy. They which
are sanctified and he which does the sanctifying, that's the Lord
Jesus Christ, are all as one. so that he is not ashamed to
call them his brethren. We are sanctified through the
sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. However, there is something that
is progressive. It's revelation. It's growth
in grace. It's faith. It's love. These things are progressive. And this miracle that our Lord
performs in Mark chapter 8 is given to us in order to illustrate
that very truth. Progressive revelation. Let's look at the miracle. We begin in verse 22. And he
cometh to Bethsaida. Bethsaida is the place where
Andrew and Peter and Philip lived. It was a fishing town on the
northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. These men were fishermen
and they had their homes and their professions here in Bethsaida. The Lord had been to Bethsaida
before and other than the few that the Lord had called out
from that place, the rest of the city had no interest in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Rather than believing on him,
they said to him, prove to us that you are who you say you
are. And here's what the Lord Jesus Christ said about Bethsaida.
He said, woe unto you, Chorazin. Woe unto you, Bethsaida, for
if the mighty works that were done among you were done in Tyre
and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes. But I
say unto you that it'll be better in the day of judgment for Tyre
and Sidon than it will be for you. Bethsaida was a cursed city,
cursed by the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet in that cursed city,
the Lord had a remnant. He had an elect few that he called
out. And here's the story. Look what
he says. And he cometh to Bethsaida and
they bring a blind man unto him and besought him to touch him. blind people can't see and they
cannot find their way to Christ and so here we have an example
of those who had compassion for the blind to bring them to the
Lord Jesus Christ what a what a picture you know you wouldn't
you wouldn't get aggravated at a blind person because they weren't
able to see the oncoming traffic, you would have compassion for
them and want to help them across the road, wouldn't you? And yet,
if they jerked their hand away from you and said to you, I can
see perfectly well, then you might have to say, well, go for
it. But here's the truth. Every single
one of us come into this world blind, don't we? The Lord has
called out those whom he has given sight to tell the blind
about the one who gives sight. They brought him to Christ. Did
the Lord not say to the disciples when he ascended, well the angels
at least, when he ascended back into glory on the Mount of Olives
and the angels said, men of Judea, why do you stand here gazing
up into heaven for this same Jesus? which has been taken up
from you will come again in like manner. What did the Lord say
to them before that happened? You go back into Jerusalem. They
said, Lord, is it time now for you to establish your kingdom?
They were still thinking that the kingdom of God was an earthly
kingdom. It's not. It's not. The kingdom of God
is not an earthly kingdom. It's a spiritual kingdom. My
kingdom is not of this world. Now what the Lord said to Pilate,
he said, if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would
fight. Are you the king of the Jews? Yeah, I am. But my kingdom
is not a physical kingdom, it's a spiritual kingdom. And the
Lord said, but you go back into Jerusalem and the spirit of God
will come upon you and you will be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem
and Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the world.
So the Lord sent his disciples back. And that's the day of Pentecost. What did they do? They were scattered
throughout all the world, preaching the gospel, making disciples. That's what the Lord said in
Matthew chapter 28. As you go, make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit. teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I've commanded you. And lo, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world." You remember when the Lord was
speaking in that home and there was a crippled man that couldn't
get to him because of the press of the crowd. And so four of
his friends got on the roof of the house and they removed some
of the tiles from the roof and they lowered this lame man down
in the presence of the Lord to be healed by Him. All these things
are pictures of what God has called us to do, to pray for
and to take the gospel into the world. Why? Because the world
is full of blind people and they can't see unless somebody who
can see takes them by the hand and brings them to Christ. Might
God give us opportunity to say to our friends and family members,
come. Come and meet a man which told
me everything I ever did. Come in here. We'd be like Andrew going to
his brother Nathaniel and saying to him, we found the Christ,
the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. And what did Nathaniel say? Can
anything good come out of Nazareth? Come. Come and see. Come and
see. May God enable us and bless us
with the opportunity to take this gospel out into the world
and to do like these people did, bring this blind man to Christ. Look at verse Look at verse 23,
and he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the
town. Why did he lead him out of the
town? He had already cursed Bethsaida. He wasn't going to perform any
more miracles in Bethsaida. He wasn't going to give them
any more evidence of who he was. He had already done that. He
had already done that. They were now a cursed city. Now here's the truth of this
miracle. The most dangerous thing in this
world is the gospel. It's the only means by which
we have life. But to reject the gospel, to
reject the gospel, To whom much is given, much is required. And
listen, I stand before you fully aware of this. James said in
James chapter three, let not many of you be masters. And by
that, it means preachers and teachers. For you know that you
shall receive the greater judgment. And the same thing's true of
those who hear the gospel and are able to walk away from the
Lord Jesus Christ. Show me more. I'm not convinced. And the Lord withdraws the awareness
of His presence, not just the awareness, He withdraws His presence
from them. The worst thing that God can
do for me and you is leave us to ourselves. Lord, have mercy on me. Keep
me, Lord. Keep me. Don't leave me to myself.
Don't allow me to make my own opinions. Cause me, Lord, to
be turned and I'll be turned. Give me faith and I'll have faith.
Make me to lie down in green pastures and I'll lie down and
rest in the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, if you don't make me, if
you don't cause me, if you don't make me look up, notice what
happens in this story. He took the blind man by the
hand and led him out of town, and when he had spit in his eyes. What is the significance of that?
We looked at this recently when we saw him spitting on another
man that was blind, you remember that? And if we compare scripture
to scripture, the spiritual to the spiritual, we'll find that
the first reference to spitting in the word of God is in the
Levitical's law. In the Levitical law, the Lord
said, if an unclean man spits on a clean man, then that clean
man becomes unclean. He's got to wash his clothes.
He's got to wash his body. He's got to go before the priest
in order to be made clean. Now, we come into this world
unclean. We're sinners. There's only one that's clean.
There's only one that has pure hands and a clean a pure heart
and clean hands. Here we have just the reversal.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the only man who's spit is clean. He's the only man who's able
to lay his hand on an unclean man and not be defiled. He's the only man that's able
to lay his hand on God and not be destroyed. He's the mediator
between a holy God and sinful man. God's perfect man and man's
perfect God. Here we have the Lord Jesus Christ
interceding for his people. Oh Lord, spit on me. He led him out of town. Bethsaida
had been cursed. God had an elect person, an elect
individual in this cursed city. He takes him by the hand and
leads him out of town. He spits in his eyes and he's
put his hands upon him. He put his hands upon him. Never has anyone been touched
with more tender hands than those who are touched by God. Those
who are touched by the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember in Revelation
chapter 1 when God took John up into heaven and in the very
first chapter of Revelation, and by the way, the book of Revelation
is the revelation of Jesus Christ. It's not the revelation of future
events. God's not giving us events that
are going to take place in the future. We look to the book of
Ed, people do that all the time, don't they? They take the newspaper
in one hand, the Bible in the other hand, they try to match
the events of history to the things that are revealed in the
book of Revelation. This is a revelation of the Lord
Jesus Christ. First verse tells us that. And
then John sees Christ in all of his glory. And John says,
I fell on my face as dead. And every person has that same
reaction. Isaiah had that reaction, didn't
he? I've, my eyes have seen the king and I'm a dead man. I'm
a man of unclean lips. I live in a, among a, we just
sang that song, holy, holy, holy. That comes from Isaiah chapter
six. The seraphim were hovering over the throne of God and what
were they saying? John chapter 12 makes it clear that that one
that Isaiah saw in Isaiah chapter six was the Lord Jesus Christ
sitting upon his throne. What did Isaiah say? Woe is me,
I'm undone. I'm dead man. And that's what
John did. He fell at his feet as dead. And the Lord Jesus Christ reaches
out his hand and he places it on John and he said, John, be
not afraid. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the first and the last, the beginning and the end. John, I'm going
to take care of salvation for you. I'm not going to leave any
of it up to you. I'm going to do it all. I'm going
to choose you and the covenant of grace before the world began.
I'm going to redeem you by the successful atoning work of my
precious blood on Calvary's cross. I'm going to make you willing
in the day of my power. I'm going to call you effectually
to myself and cause you to believe on me. I'm going to keep you
from falling and to present you faultless before my Father and
your God. I'm going to receive you back
into glory. John, don't be afraid. Don't
be afraid. I'm the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning and the end. I'm going to do all your salvation
for you. I know, if any of us left to
you, yeah, you got reason to be afraid. If you think that
God's dependent upon you to do enough in order for you to have
acceptance with God, you've got reason to be afraid, don't you?
You'll die just like Mr. Rogers, wringing your hands,
wondering, have I done enough? Have I done enough? The Lord said, don't be afraid.
I'm the Alpha and the Omega. I've done it all. And I did it
all by myself. And I did it all right. God saw
the travail of my soul and God's satisfied with me. And He's satisfied
with all those for whom I died. Here's the question you and I
have to ask ourselves. Are we satisfied with Christ
or do we need to do something else in order to make what He
did work for us? that's what that's what man-made
religions all about in free will works religion I gotta make a
decision I pray prayer walk and I gotta I gotta perform a work
I've got to prove that I'm I gotta do something he's done it all and when one of God's elect are
made to believe on him they know that he did that too he did that
too or I would have believed on you and you've not made me
to believe. If you're not taking out my heart of stone and put
in a heart of flesh, if you had not given me for by grace you
say through faith, not yourselves, it's a gift of God, isn't it?
The faith that we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is by God's
grace. It's a gift. We can't take credit
for anything, can we? We can't say, well, you know,
I believed. I accepted Jesus. I did this. I didn't know. Just
leave the I out. That's our problem, isn't it?
And here's a perfect example of that. This guy had an I problem,
didn't he? And that's the way religious
people are today. They've got an I problem. Not physical sight,
a spiritual sight. And you understand their I problem
because everything they say starts with I. The Lord calls all of his people
out of cursed places, doesn't he? Abram
lived in the Ur of the Chaldees. That was a pagan, godless culture
that he was brought out of. And yet he's called the father
of the faithful, isn't he? That's where the Lord finds every
one of his children. Remember, Jericho was a cursed
city. After it was destroyed, Joshua
cursed it. Joshua said, let the man that
rebuilds this city lay the first stone on the death of his first
born and the last stone on the death of his last born. He just,
Joshua cursed the city. And the city was rebuilt. And
the man that rebuilt it suffered the curse of what, and yet, out
of that cursed city. What do we have? Rahab, don't
we? Rahab, the mother of Obed, who was the
mother of Jesse, who was the mother of David, in the lineage
of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. And then And then years later,
when the Lord goes through Jericho, Zacchaeus is in Jericho, isn't
he? Blind Bartimaeus is in Jericho.
And so the Lord's pleased to bring out of these cursed cities,
just like he brings out this blind man and opens his eyes
and causes him to see. He spits on him. He touches him. And then what happens? The Lord
said to him in verse 23, and when he had spit in his eyes
and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw it. In other
words, the Lord said, well, how do you see? How do you see? And what did the man say? He
said, I see men as trees walking. After that, Verse 25, he put
his hands again upon his eyes and made him look up. He made him look up. You just
see the Lord put his hands on this man's eyes and pulling his
head up and causing him to look into the face of the Lord Jesus
Christ and saying to him, he made him look up and he restored,
he was restored and saw every man clearly. And he sent him
away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell any
in the town." Don't tell anybody what I've done for you. That
town's been cursed. I've called Philip out of that
town. I've called Peter out of that
town. I've called Andrew out of that town. I've called you
out of that town. Now I'm shaking the dust from
off my feet. Don't tell anybody what I've
done for you. What's the message here? I see men like trees walking.
Proverbs chapter 4 verse 18, but the path of the just is as
the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect
day. This is progressive revelation. It's not progressive salvation,
as most people believe. It's not progressive sanctification. You're not getting better and
better and holier and holier. Our old man's as sinful as he's
ever been. And yet, as we grow in grace and in the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ, we see more and more clearly, don't
we? The Lord strengthens our faith,
increases our love. The Lord said, they that have
been forgiven much, love much. And as we grow in grace and the
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, we begin to understand more and
more of how much we really have been forgiven, don't we? Because
the more we see of Him, the more we see of our sin. The more we
see of our sin, the more we see of His grace. and the more we love him who
forgave us. So there is growth in grace. There is growth in the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is progression of revelation. Now, revelations of God. Just like the Lord had to perform
a miracle of healing for this man, the Lord has to give us
eyes to see the truth. We won't see the truth if he
doesn't give us eyes to see it. I went yesterday, Hugo preached
his father's funeral yesterday and the entire service was in
Spanish and Trish and I were there and we were listening and
I know a few words in Spanish, muy poco. But I knew that they
were talking about, when they said Dios, I knew they were talking
about God. When they said Christos, I knew
they were talking about Christ. When they said Jesus, I knew
they were talking about Jesus. And when they said Senor, I knew
they were referring to him as Lord. But what they were saying
about him, I didn't know. I knew who they were talking
about, I didn't know what they were saying about it. You know that's the way it is
when people come here a lot of times. They hear us use the name the
Lord Jesus Christ who is God and they just assume that we're
saying the same thing that they've ever heard about the Lord Jesus
Christ as God. But it might as well be a foreign
language. Might as well be a foreign language. Because unless the
Lord gives them ears to hear, they're not going to discern
the difference. They're not going to be able to know who it is
we're talking about. And they'll think because they've
heard a few words that they've heard the message when they haven't. Revelation is by God's free and
sovereign grace. And this causes every one of
us to say, oh, Lord, speak to me. Lord, make your voice to
be heard. We looked at that Wednesday night
from the Psalms, Psalm 29. Lord, make your voice to be heard.
Speak clearly to me. And Psalm 29 says that when God
does speak, it's like the sound of many waters. In other words,
it's so loud that it drowns out every other voice. You know that
you've heard from God. And everything contrary to what
God says You don't listen to it. It's a lie. It's not true,
is it? The sound of many waters. It's
so loud, it drowns out every other voice. Revelation is divine. It is from God. And revelation
is progressive. It is progressive. You remember
when the Lord What you know, you know in your
own experience that Revelation, turn with me to 1 Peter. I'm
sorry, turn with me to 1 Peter. I want to, there's so much I
want to say about this and I'm, this is really the point of the
message and we're just now getting to it, but 1 Peter chapter 1. Verse 10, of which salvation, the prophets
having inquired and searched diligently who prophesied of
the grace that should come unto you, searching what or what manner
of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did signify
when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and
the glory that should be followed. Now these, what he's saying is
these Old Testament prophets spoke of the Lord Jesus Christ
but how much of it they were able to fully understand we don't, unto whom it was revealed that
not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the things
which are now reported. unto you by them that have preached
the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven
which things the angels desire to look into." Now this is exactly
what the Lord was saying in Hebrews chapter 1 when he said that God who at sundry times and in
divers manners spake unto our fathers by the prophets hath
in these last days spoken unto us by his son. So the prophecies that were made
about Christ were true, all of them were true, but until the
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ they could not be fully understood. They could not be fully understood. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
full revelation. Did those Old Testament saints,
did they believe what they were, what was revealed to them? Oh,
absolutely. Absolutely. And that's what faith
is. Faith is believing everything
that God has said to you. Everything. Are there more things for him
to say? Yeah. You know there are. Paul said
in 1 Corinthians chapter 13, he said, I look through a glass
dimly now, but then, but then I'll see him face to face and
I'll be made like him. I just have a veiled revelation
of the Lord Jesus Christ now. And then in Philippians chapter
3, it says, Oh, that I might know Him and the power of His
resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering. I've not yet
apprehended that which has apprehended me, but this one thing I do,
I press towards the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus. And that's the message here of
this miracle. As we look up, the Lord enables
us to see more clearly of who He is. And this revelation is
progressive. It is progressive. Another picture
that we see in this miracle is prevenient grace. Prevenient
grace. prevenient, the word pre means
before and convenient means that which is necessary. And so here's
the truth, the Lord elected a particular people according to His own will
and purpose before time ever began. He placed them in Christ
and He did for them everything necessary in order to bring each
and every one of them to the place to where they were able
to hear the gospel. Now that's pre-convenient, that's prevenient
grace. Every child of God knows that
everything that God ordained for them to experience in their
life was ordained of God. It was ordained of God and it
was necessary for them. It was necessary for them. That's
what the Lord meant when He said all things work together for
good for them that love God and those that are called according
to His purpose. He's working all things after the counsel
of His own will and purpose in the life of every one of His
children. It was prevenient grace that
the Apostle Paul was experiencing. Saul of Tarsus when he was arrested
by the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus. Saul, Saul,
why persecutest thou me? It's hard to kick against the
pricks, isn't it, Saul? What were those pricks? Don't
you know from the time that Saul consented to Stephen's death,
standing there and having the men who threw the stones put
their coats down at Saul's feet and he stood there and watched
Stephen martyred. And he watched him
look up into heaven. And he saw the angelic look of
grace and hope on his face as he gave up the ghost. And Saul
was pricked by that. Until the Lord stopped him in
his tracks, didn't he? The rich young ruler, he had
to have that experience with the Lord. The scripture says
that the rich young ruler, that he went away sad, but the Lord
Jesus Christ loved him, loved him. Well, we know from that,
that the rich young ruler eventually was saved. He was saved. He had to have that experience.
Mary Magdalene, possessed with seven demons, a notorious sinner. No telling what kind of lifestyle
she lived. All that was necessary for her.
All that was necessary for her. The woman at the well. What did
the Lord say? Yeah, you've been with five men
and the man you're living with now is not your husband. Come
meet a man who told me everything I ever did. This story of healing where the
Lord, where He sees men as trees walking and then he looks up
and he sees clearly. It's a picture of progressive
revelation and it's a picture of prevenient grace. We see some things. Lord, make
me see clearly. Make me see clearly. Salvation
is not progressive. And here's the last thing I want
to say about this miracle. The Lord always, always, always,
always finishes what He starts. He didn't leave that man seeing
men like trees walking. He brought him all the way, didn't
He? God's never started anything
He didn't finish. And that's especially true in
the work of the Lord Jesus Christ redeeming His people from their
sins. He finished the work. It's finished. It's finished. He accomplishes everything He
sets out to do. He's not like us. How many things
have you left unfinished in your life? Everything we do is to some degree
unfinished, isn't it? There's more that could be done
to it. Not with Him. Everything He does is finished. Can't add anything to it. Can't
take anything away from it. All right, let's take a break.