And let's all stand together. Tell me the old, old story of
unseen things above, of Jesus and His glory, of Jesus and His
love. Tell me the story simply as to
a little child For I am weak and weary and helpless and defiled
Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story of
Jesus and his love. Tell me the story slowly, that
I may take it in, that wonderful redemption, God's remedy for
sin. Tell me the story often for I
forget so soon. The early dew of morning has
passed away at noon. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story of
Jesus and his love. Tell me the story softly with
earnest tones and grave. Remember I'm the sinner whom
Jesus came to save. Tell me the story always If you
would really be In any time of trouble A comforter to me Tell
me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story of
Jesus and His love. Tell me the same old story When
you have cause to fear That this world's empty glory Is costing
me too dear Yes, and when that world's glory is dawning on my
soul, tell me the old, old story. Christ Jesus makes thee whole. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story. Tell me the old, old story of
Jesus and his love. Please be seated. I hope the Lord will do that for
us tonight. Open your Bibles with me, please,
to Ephesians chapter 1 for our scripture reading tonight. Ephesians
chapter 1. I'll be preaching in North Carolina
at Rupert Reibenbach's Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If the
Lord puts it on your heart to pray for me, I'll cover your
prayers. Michael and Robert will be bringing the messages here.
So I know they want you to pray for them. You have your Bibles open to
Ephesians chapter 1. We'll begin reading at verse
16. I cease not to give thanks for
you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the
spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the
eyes of your understanding being enlightened, and that you may
know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches
of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the
exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according
to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ
when He raised Him from the dead and set Him on His own right
hand in heavenly places. far above all principalities
and powers and might and dominion and every name that is named,
not only in this world, but also in that which is to come and
have put all things under his feet and gave him to be head
over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness
of him that filleth all in all. Let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
what hope we have and. Being able to call you our father
and know that. We have acceptance before the. We thank you that we have a. A savior. One who was successful. Satisfying
all the demands of your holy law. One who bore the full penalty. of your divine wrath in order
to satisfy justice and put away our sin once and for all. Oh,
Lord, how we do pray that the eyes of our understanding be
enlightened, that you would cause him to be lifted up, that we
would be drawn to him in faith, that we would find him to be
all and in all. We thank you for your church.
We thank you, Lord, for the body of Christ, for the fellowship
of the saints, for the encouragement that you give each of us as we
encourage one another and pray for one another and fellowship
in the gospel together. Father, we pray for the church
here. We ask, Lord, that that you would
bless Robert and Michael as they make their final preparations
to bring the gospel to your people Sunday. Pray that you would burden
their hearts and give them liberty. Pray for years to hear. We pray
for the church in in North Carolina. And we asked Lord that she would
enable me to preach Christ and pray that you would encourage
the brethren there and that you would be pleased in your time
Lord to call out your lost sheep, enable them to to believe on
Christ. We pray for our fellowship in
Sarasota. We asked Lord that you would
Continue to knit their hearts together in the love of Christ,
and we pray, Father, that you would provide for them. Provide
for them a man that can stand and preach Christ for them. For we ask it in Christ's name.
Amen. Number 56. Number 56 from the hardback 56. Let's all stand, please. Don't repeat on the last line. Just sing it once. Loved with
everlasting love, Led by grace that loved to know, Spirit breathing
from above, Thou hast taught me it is so. O this full and perfect peace,
O this transport all divine, In a love which cannot cease,
I am His and He is mine. Heaven above is softer blue Earth
around is sweeter green Something lives in every hue Priceless
eyes have never seen Birds with gladder songs o'erflow, flowers
with deeper beauties shine. Since I know, as now I know,
I am His and He is mine. Things that once were wild alarms
cannot now disturb my rest. Closed in everlasting arms, pillowed
on the loving breast, while he whispered... Doubt and care and
self-resign While He whispers in my ear I am His and He is
mine His forever, only His Who the Lord and me shall part Ah,
with what a rest of bliss Christ can fill the loving heart Heaven
and earth may fade and flee. Firstborn light in gloom decline. But while God and I shall be,
I am His and He is mine. Please be seated. I am His. By electing grace,
I'm His. By an accomplished redemption,
I am His. By the shed blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ, we are His. What hope, what hope. Would you
open your Bibles with me to Isaiah chapter 11. Isaiah chapter 11. Delivered from the hatched plans
of man. That's the message tonight. Delivered
from the hatched plans of man. There is a way that seems right
unto a man. But in the end, it leads to death. Man-made religion is all around
us. religion that's based on works, religion that's based
on will, religion that's based on human wisdom and understanding. And the child of God is not influenced,
he's not intimidated, and he's not even intrigued with it. He's not. He's been delivered
from it. These are the hatched plans of
natural man. and the child of God has a knowledge
of the truth, a knowledge of God that delivers him from all
the opinions of men, whatever they might be and however they
might differ. It all comes back to man sitting
on the throne of God. When the gospel of God's free
grace is received through faith in the heart by the revealing
the power of the Spirit of God we understand that Christ is
all and we're not we're not as I said we're not intimidated
we're not influenced and we're not even intrigued I love not
you know people say I You know, what about so-and-so? I don't
know. I don't listen to them. I'm not interested. Not interested. As a weaned child, God has given
me the grace to be able to put my hand on the adder's hole and
not be stung by it. There it is. Look. Look at our
text. And the cow, verse 7, we left off, you remember, the child
shall lead them. In verse six, on Sunday morning,
a child shall leave them. Lest you become, as a little
child, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. Suffer the
little children to come unto me, for such are the kingdom
of God. There's that little baby. Can't
feed himself, can't dress himself, He just completely, completely
dependent on the care of that mother to provide everything
it needs for life. And so we look to that child
as an example of our relationship with God. And we are that dependent. We are that dependent on Him. for his grace. And so he says,
and the cow and the bear shall feed. Their young ones, verse
7, shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like
the ox. It's going to go against nature.
Now you've heard me say before that you can put a lion in a
cage and provide for it the most nourishing alfalfa, the most
nourishing straw and hay that might be able to sustain the
life of that lion. He's not going to eat it. He
will starve and die. But you know it really even goes
further than that. Because as I understand the physiology of
a lion, it wouldn't be able to survive on hay even if it did
eat it. So the whole nature of the lion
has to be changed. Not only its desires, but its
whole physical nature has to be changed as well. And what
a picture of the Lord saving grace. It's not in our nature
to believe God. It's not in our nature to feed
on Christ. The natural man cannot receive
the things of the Spirit, neither can he know them, for they are
spiritually discerned. Nicodemus, you must be born again
before you can see the kingdom of God. You've got to be born
from above. You've got to experience the
new birth. And so the natural man is like this lion. He's been given straw to eat,
but he doesn't want it. And unless he's changed, his
nature's changed, he's not going to eat it. And so what does the
Lord say? He's describing the church. He's
describing these children as they gather together. The ones
who were lions by nature are gonna lie down with the ox and
they're gonna eat the same thing. They're going to feast on the
bread of life. They're going to drink of his
blood and eat of his flesh and he's going to be everything to
them. It's more of a miracle of grace
than for a lion to eat straw. And I think it's intriguing also
that the Lord would use such an animal because a lion being
very fierce and very strong and very self-sufficient, the king
of the jungle, now has been humbled to where he's feeding on straw. He's all that fierceness and
all that bravado and all that strength and all that power that
he thought he had, he's been brought low. And I've been humbled
to feed on Christ. And so the cow and the bear shall
feed, their young ones shall lie down together, the lion shall
eat straw like the ox, and the suckling child shall play on
the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand
on the cockatrice den. Now that's a, that's a viper.
So he's saying the weaned child and the little child. Who's the
weaned child? Here we are. Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
28. The Lord gave me an understanding here in preparation for tonight
that I had not seen before. Maybe it will be an encouragement
to you. Isaiah chapter 28. beginning at verse 9, whom shall
he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand
doctrine, the gospel? Who's going to Isaiah asks the
same question in Isaiah chapter 42, I think, to whom has the
arm of the Lord been revealed? Who has believed, I report, to
whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Actually, I think
that's Isaiah 53, but here he's saying the same thing. Who's
going to believe the gospel? Who's going to understand it?
Who's going to receive it? Them that are weaned from the
milk and drawn from the breast. Now, I always kind of thought,
well, you know, weaned, that's past tense, and so this is a
baby that has now matured beyond infancy, and now they're no longer
drinking milk. They're eating meat. They're
eating solid food. But that's not the picture here
at all. This is a suckling child. This is a breastfed child who
isn't finished and he's pulled away. And what does that child
do? Well, Peter put it like this,
as a newborn babe, desire, crave after the sincere milk of the
word that you might grow thereby. So here's our experience. We're
still following the analogy of the believer being a weaned child,
a breastfeeding child. This is the one that the Lord
is going to give understanding to. If you think you've got beyond
your need for milk and you've gotten to the deeper things of
the faith, you're not going to be the one that He's going to
teach knowledge to. The one that's drawn from the
breast, that's the child that's feeding at its mother's breast. And here we are. And the Lord
gives us a taste of His grace, and we want more of it. And when
we have those experiences of being pulled away from it, and
we We find ourselves feeding on the husk of this world. What does the Spirit of God do?
He wells up in our hearts a desire to return and to feed again on
the grace of God and to humble ourselves before God as a little
child. So, he says, the suckling child,
that's the child of God. That's the believer. shall play
on the whole of the asp and the weaned child shall put his hand
on the cockatrice den and they shall not hurt nor destroy in
all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the Lord as the waters covered by the sea. So we've got the
knowledge of God. We don't need this, this, this
cockatrice, this, this evil manmade. Well, let me show you, we'll
just, we'll just follow another place in the scriptures where,
where that same analogy is used. Turn with me to Isaiah chapter
59, Isaiah chapter 59. Verse 1, Behold, the Lord's hand
is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy
that he cannot hear. Problems not with God. Problems
with us. But your iniquities, your iniquities,
I looked up this word. The literal translation is to
pant or exert oneself, usually in vain. That's the word iniquity. To put forth a lot of effort
and not get anything back for it. Now that's the cockatrice
diem. That's man-made religion. That's
works religion. We're not interested. We're the
weaned child. We can put our hand on that bin
and feel sorry for those people. We're not in any way intimidated
by them. and were not brought underneath
that system of rules and regulations have handle not, taste not, touch
not, all the commandments of men that men put together in
order to try to earn favor with God. So here's what God says,
my hand is not short so that I cannot save, nor is my ear
deaf that I cannot hear, but your iniquities have separated
between you and your God and your sins have hit his face from
you that he will not hear. So man's got a problem. He's turned his back on God. He's wasted himself on things
that will not save. Look at verse 3. For your hands
are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips
have spoken lies, your tongues have muttered perverseness. None
calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth. They trust
in vanity, in emptiness, and they speak lies. They conceive
mischief and bring forth iniquity. He's describing human religion. Works religion, free will religion. Man knows he's got a problem
with God and so he's trying to earn favor with God. He's trying
to satisfy the demands of God's justice and he goes about it
by exerting energy into something that doesn't produce any results. They hatch cockatrice eggs and
weave the spider's web. He that eateth of their eggs
dieth. And that which is, you see that
word crushed, it means sprinkled or scattered. So not only are
they eating the eggs, but they're scattering the eggs. What are
they doing? They're doing what we did. They
travel land and sea to make one disciple and turn him into twice
as much of the devil as they are. They're preaching a false
gospel. And so he says they scatter the
eggs and those break forth into vipers. Their webs shall not
become garments. You see, they're trying to cover
their nakedness. It goes all the way back to the garden. It
goes back to Adam attempting to cover his shame before God
with fig leaves that he's woven together with his own hands.
And the only hope that he can have his nakedness covered before
God is for God to come into the garden and slay a lamb and cover
him with the fleece of that lamb. It's the theme that's repeated
over and over and over again in the scriptures because it's
our experience. You know there's a God. You know
you've got a sin problem with that God. You know that your
sin has separated you from that God. And so man by nature goes
about trying to solve his own sin problem, trying to redeem
himself. Oh, and he'll use Jesus, you
know, as part of that patchwork, but he's not looking to Christ
alone. Look what he says. Their webs shall not become garments,
neither shall they cover themselves with their works. Their works
are works of iniquity and the acts of violence is in their
hands. Their feet run to evil and they
make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of
iniquity. Wasting and destruction are in
their paths. The way of peace they have not
known. So what is the cockatrice? What
is the thing that the weaned child, the child of God, who's
being led by a child, that can put his hand on it and not be
hurt by it? He's not influenced by it. He's not drawn into it. He's
not intimidated by it. It's works religion. And the
Lord says, You know, it's so natural to us. It's natural for
a man to try to earn favor with God by something that he does. But the way of truth they do
not know. Christ is that way of truth.
The way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their
goings. They have made them crooked paths,
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace." Lord, I want
to know peace. There's something still in me.
I'm a recovering Pharisee. There's something in me that
I've got to be reminded of who the Lord Jesus Christ is and
what he's accomplished. I need the knowledge of God to
fill my heart lest I be drawn in to that poisonous serpent
who's doing the same thing today that he did for Adam in the garden.
God doesn't want you to eat of that fruit. Because He knows
in the day in which you eat of it, your eyes are going to be
open. You're going to be given free will. You're going to be
given choice. You're going to be given power.
You're going to be able to control the destiny of your own life
in the day in which you eat of that fruit. No, you're going
to die. And the only way that you're
going to be made alive is if God does a miracle of grace in
your heart. And when he does that, go back
with me to our text. Before we go back to the text,
let's turn to Colossians chapter 2. We'll begin reading in verse
16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat and in drink and
in respect of a holy day or a new moon or Sabbath days, which are
a shadow of the things to come, but the body is of Christ. The truth of all these Old Testament
shadows and types and allegories were to point to Christ. He's
our life. But men will still go back to
the law. You and I will do it. And we do it. We do it every
day, don't we? Oh, if I hadn't done that. If
I hadn't thought that. We're influenced by the accuser
of the brethren and we're prone to think that we can improve
our position with God by something we do or something we don't do.
Christ is everything. And so he says, let no man beguile
you of your reward. Christ is your reward. The Lord
told Abraham, he said, I am thine exceeding great reward. I heard
someone, I was talking to a brother last night about a preacher that we had
hoped was preaching the gospel. He had listened to him recently
and said he was preaching rewards in heaven. That destroys the
gospel. You know that one person can
achieve a higher place in heaven based on something that they
do or don't do here on the earth? Rewards in heaven is a destruction
of grace. If this man really is preaching
that and he believes that, he's not preaching the gospel. Let no man beguile you of reward
in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those
things which he hath not seen and vainly puffed up by his fleshly
mind. That's all. That's all man-made
religion is. And not holding the head. Christ. from which all the body of joints
and bands, having nourishment, ministered, and knit together,
increased with the increase of God. Wherefore, if ye be dead
with Christ, if when the Lord Jesus Christ died on Calvary's
cross, I died in Him, God's put away my sins. All the sins of all of God's
elect placed on the Lord Jesus Christ. And there's something
about that. One of the cockatrice dens that
have become more popular in our generation is the Calvinistic
cockatrice. I'm going to read you a statement
from a Calvinist preacher. And he made this statement. This
was the number one message on sermon audio by the number one
Calvinistic preacher, and he titled it, What is the Gospel? What is the Gospel? And this
is what he said. On the cross, God treated Jesus
as if he had committed every sin of every person that would
ever believe. That was the gospel. On the cross,
God treated Jesus. I've got a problem there. You
hear preachers just talking about Jesus all the time. They're speaking
of the God of glory without any respect. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. And
he wasn't as if our sin was put on him. God made him who knew
no sin, sin. There's something very real about
that imputation, something very mysterious, something far beyond
what we can comprehend. But God laid his, our sin on
Christ in his body upon that tree. And he suffered the full
wrath of God and all the shame associated with the sins of his
people when he died on Calvary's cross. It wasn't just a legal
arrangement that God Almighty made with the Son when He said,
well, I'm going to treat you as if you had committed those
sins. I know you didn't. First of all,
there's no justice in that. The justice of God's got to be
satisfied, and the only way justice can be satisfied is if Christ
is made sin. And then He goes on to say, for
all the people that will believe. Now that's true, but it takes
the offense out of the gospel. To say Christ died for all the
people that will believe is to leave folks thinking, well, I
can still decide whether or not he died for me based on whether
or not I believe. Now this is It's trying to make
the gospel palatable to the natural man. It's taking the offense
out of the gospel. It's making it soft and non-offensive. Christ died for the elect. God
chose according to his own will and purpose a particular people
in the covenant of grace without any regard for anything that
we did, good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election
might stand. It was determined by God. Jacob
I have loved and Esau I have hated. Now that's the God we
serve. You get shut up to him and you'll
find yourself begging for mercy. You want to think, well Christ
died for everyone that will believe and I'll find out whether or
not he died for me based on when I believe. He died for the elect
and he put away their sins once and for all and he satisfied
God's justice and he established the only righteousness that there
is which is his righteousness when he ascended into glory and
was seated at the right hand of God and all the blessings
of God are in the heavenlies in Christ right now right now cockatrice dens that's all they
are and the weaned child The child who has the knowledge of
God. Paul goes on in Colossians to
talk about, what do we, you still have your Bibles open
to Colossians chapter 2. not holding the head, verse 19,
from which all the body, by joints and bands, having nourishment,
ministered, and knit together, increase with the increase of
God. Wherefore, if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments
of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you
subject to ordinances, touch not, taste not, handle not, which
are all to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines
of men? That's the cockatrice. The commandments
and the doctrines of men, the things that men say you have
to do and not do in order to earn favor with God. And God
makes it clear. That, uh, it's, it's vanity,
which things verse 23, which things have indeed a show of
wisdom in will worship and humility and the neglecting of the body,
not in any honor to the satisfying of the flesh. The flesh is just
as wicked and just as evil has an appearance of humility. God says, go back with me to
our text. Verse 9, they shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my mountain. The devices of man will not hurt
the child of God. that won't destroy the child
of God. All works religion. Four, why? Why is it we're not
going to be hurt by it? Because we're going to be filled
with the knowledge of God. We're going to know the truth.
We're going to know the God who is. the one who sovereignly elected
a people according to his own will and purpose. He's going
to make himself known to us like he made himself known to Isaiah
when Isaiah saw him high and lifted up. And Isaiah cried,
woe is me, when he heard, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of
hosts. Heaven and earth is filled with
his glory. I'm not like him in any way. The only thing I can do is bow
to him in faith. One of the cockatrice dens, that's
very popular, that I hear people talking about, particularly in
Calvinism, you could almost title every message, Saved to Serve. Saved to Serve. In other words,
the doctrines of Calvinism are delivered, in a
sense, as a stepping stone to the real meat of the matter,
which is your service to God. So salvation is nothing more
than a stepping stone to you being the servant of God. And
so what do you do? You measure everything by how
faithful you are in serving God. The gospel leaves me with woe is me. And whatever service God allows
me to do, I remain an unprofitable servant. We are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which He has ordained that we
should walk in them. Is it possible for a For an omnipotent
God, an omniscient God, a God who knows everything and possesses
all power, a God who has determined everything from the beginning
to the end, is it possible for Him to ordain something that
doesn't come to pass? No! So if we're His workmanship
created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which He has ordained
that we should walk in them, what is He talking about? Whatever is not a faith is sin.
The whole of the believer's life We walk by faith, not by sight.
We're looking to Christ for all our righteousness and all our
justification before God. And so our life is a life of
faith and our life has been ordained of God that we should walk after
Christ, looking unto Jesus who is the author and the finisher
of our faith. So our whole of life is ordained
of God. If God's ever made you a believer,
you can't ever be an unbeliever. Why are we not hurt by these
things? Why are we not destroyed? Why is the rest of the world trying to satisfy this problem
that they have with God by their own means because they have not
the knowledge of God. Look at the verse again. For
the earth, this is the reason why we're not hurt, for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover
the sea. All right, somebody turn that
off, whatever it is. When I can hear it, it's too
loud. Immutability. A God, a God who is swayed by
and determined by the whims and will of man is not God. I am the Lord. I change not. Therefore you sons of Jacob are
not consumed. Oh, this idea that God loves
everybody and Christ died for everybody and God wants everybody
to be saved and He'll save you if you just let Him. That's not
the God who is. Our God is immutable. He's never
changed. He's the same yesterday, today,
and forever. The reason why we're delivered
is because we have the knowledge of God. We have the knowledge
of the fact that He, I love thinking about this, there's never been
a time in time or eternity when God did not love His children. They've been in Christ, who's
the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world from
eternity past. I've loved you with an everlasting
love. Herein is love. Not that we love
God. You see, that's the measure of
love in religion. In the cockatrice den, where
the serpents are, man is competing with man to see who loves God
more. And the measure of love is how much you're serving God.
herein is love not that we love God that's not the that's not
the standard but that he loved us and gave his son to be the
propitiation of our sins you see the knowledge of God is what
delivers us from the cockatrice from the serpent So we're not
hatching man's plans, we're not building our web, we have the
knowledge of God. Effectual redemption. When the
Lord bowed his mighty head on Calvary's cross and said, it
is finished, he redeemed. He redeemed all those that God
had chosen in the covenant of grace. There's nothing left to
be done. Redemption is an accomplished
work. The blood of Christ has been
shed, and sin's been covered, and God's people have been saved.
And when the Lord's pleased to make you willing in the day of
His power, you're just discovering your salvation. You're not making
it happen. free, sovereign grace, irresistible,
irresistible, and preach with confidence, knowing that when
the Spirit of God is pleased to make known to the hearts of
one of God's elect, they're going to come. They're just going to
come. The earth should be full of the
knowledge of the Lord. And that's what delivers us from
all the lies of the serpent that so many men are deceived by. And we'll close with this verse,
verse 10. And in that day shall be a root of Jesse which
shall stand for an ensign of the people. A flag. A marker. Christ is that root
of Jesse. He's the ensign of the people.
Look. And to it shall the Gentiles
seek And His rest shall be glorious. His rest. He's our Sabbath. We're resting in His finished
work. We're resting in His glorious person. We're not running around
trying to do something to earn favor with God. We know that
He's already done it. We're looking to Him. He's paid
the full ransom price. We're not seeking to go back
to the law. We're not looking to ourselves. His rest. His rest. When was that rest? Cease from
your labors, Hebrews chapter 4. Enter into His rest. Enter
into His rest. His rest was from the foundation
of the world. What a glorious rest we have
in Christ. To know that everything that
God is looking to me for, He finds in my Savior, in my substitute. That's a place to rest. You can
sit down there, you can go to sleep there. You can go to sleep
there. You can go to sleep there in
death and not fear death. Our Heavenly Father, we're hopeful,
Lord, that you would be pleased to show us your grace and remind
us by your Spirit the things that you've said Put faith in
our hearts to believe you, Lord. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. 1 26. Let's stand together. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let
me hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from
thy wounded side which flowed be of sin the double cure. Save from wrath and make me pure. Could my tears forever flow? Could my zeal no longer know? These for sin could not atone,
Thou must save and Thou alone. In my hand no price I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling. While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyes shall close in death, When I rise to worlds unknown,
And behold thee on thy throne, Rock of ages cleft for me, Let
me hide myself in thee. I was trying to vote. I was trying to vote.