6th chapter of the book of John.
John chapter 6. John chapter 6 and verse 30. They said therefore unto him,
What sign showest thou then, that we may see and believe thee? What dost thou work? Our fathers
did eat man in the desert. As it is written, he gave them
bread from heaven to eat. Then said Jesus unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from
heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which
cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world. And then said they unto him,
Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am
the bread of life, and he that cometh to me shall never hunger,
and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But I said unto
you that ye also have seen me, and believe not. and all the
Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven,
not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And
this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which
he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it
up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that
sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up
at the last day.' Then the Jews murmured at him, because he said,
I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is
not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
then that he saith, I came down from heaven. Jesus therefore
answered and said unto them, murmur not among yourselves.
No man can come to me except the Father which sent me draw
him, and I will raise him up at the last day. In that forty-first verse it
says, the Jews then murmured at him. Now, there's a reason why they
murmured at the Lord Jesus, and he gives that reason. The Jews
murmured against him because he had said, I am the bread that
came down from heaven. Now, this was a saying that should not have should not have
offended them. I don't know really why this
would have caused them to murmur. But the only thing that you can
say here as to, in reality, why they would murmur at this saying
was that they were blind as to who he really was. They were
blind to his divine glory. You remember we've said many
times that the natural man can see everything in the Lord Jesus
Christ that you and I can see, save his glory. They can't see
his glory. They can see his goodness in
regard to the performance of miracles, and they can see his
benevolent attitudes and things of that nature. that has to do
with his character and with his person. They can readily see
that. They can see the things in regard
to his birth and to his life and to his going about doing
good to every man that he come in contact with, healing the
blind, healing the sick, of palsies and crippling diseases and even
raising the dead. Now, they can see some of those
things and understand to some degree some of those things,
one thing that the natural man cannot see, that the believer
can see. See, there's two categories of
people in the world. There's the believer and the
unbeliever. Now, these people here, it's
evident by what they've said that they were not believers,
they were unbelievers. They did not believe in the Lord
Jesus. He said, But I said unto you that ye also have seen me,
and believed not. So the unbelievers then cannot
see divine glory. They can't see the glory of God
in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. This was the saying that
offended them. I am the bread that came down
from heaven. Well, they were completely blind
to the divine glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, some of these
that murmured at the Lord Jesus had seen him grow up before their
own eyes in the humble house or home of Joseph and Mary. And
some perhaps had seen him working in the carpenter shop. Joseph
was a carpenter, and the Lord Jesus Christ evidently took up
his trade to a degree. That is, when he was a young
man, evidenced in the scriptures that he did. And so they probably
had seen him at work at the carpenter's bench. Yet, in light of all of
this, you see, they refused to behold him to one so lowly as
this man that they had seen grow up in front of their very eyes,
this one that they had observed from time to time working at
the bench in the carpenter shop, they would not beholden to one
such as he, a lowly Nazarene. And the scriptures say that he
was despised of men, he was acquainted
with grief, he was a man of sorrows, he was of a lowly stature, lowly
background. Some said, can any good thing
come out of this place where I was born? Well, so you see,
they refused, rejected. They said no, and they would
not behold it. To one so lowly as the Lord Jesus,
they were far too self-satisfied and self-righteous to see any
need for one to come down from heaven to them, much less. come down to die in their stead. You see, they didn't feel that
he would meet their needs. They were self-righteous and
self-satisfied. Their case, they thought, was
not as desperate as some would indicate it to be. It wasn't
that desperate that they would be holding to such a one as this
son of Joseph and Mary that they had seen grow up before their
own eyes. But the truth is, the truth as to the reason why they would
not be holding to such one as the Lord Jesus Christ is because
they had no hunger for the bread which came down from heaven.
That's the reason they would not believe on him. because they
were not hungry. He said, I am the bread of life.
And they said, by their actions and by their murmurings, they
said, we're not hungry. We're not hungry. Our fathers gave, or our fathers
were supplied from heaven with manna. Moses, he said, done that. Let me read that again. Our fathers
did eat manna in the desert. As it is written, he gave them
bread from heaven. And Jesus said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from
heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. But they said, We're not hungry.
We're not hungry. So the reason why they murmured
at the Lord Jesus Christ in reality was that they weren't hungry.
He said, I, the Jews, in the 41st verse, Jews then murmured
at him because he said, I am the bread which came down from
heaven. We're not hungry. Well, this
serves, I believe, to explain the common treatment which the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, still receives at the
hands of men. Pride, the wicked pride of the self-righteous heart
is responsible for unbelief. Men despise and reject the Lord
Jesus Christ because they feel no need to feed upon the husk
of this world, which are fit food only for the swine of this
world. Really, they have no appetite,
no appetite for the bread which cometh down from heaven. These
Jews murmured and they said, We're not hungry. We're not hungry. I'm the bread which came down
from heaven. I'm not hungry. That's actually
the truth of why they responded to him this way. They weren't hungry. Well, verse
42 now says, "...and they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know. How is it, then, he saith, I
came down from heaven?" Now, this 42nd verse, this shows that
they understood his words, I am the bread which came down from
heaven, meaning this, as signifying that he was of divine origin.
Now, they understood that. They understood what he meant
when he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
They understood that. That is, that he had existed,
that he was a superhuman, that he had existed before he had
appeared unto men. They understood what he was talking
about then. This declaration meant. that
he personally existed in heaven before he ever appeared among
men. John the Baptist testified this. John said, He that cometh from
above is above all. But these Jews that murmured
at the Lord Jesus Christ were in total ignorance of his origin. They were in total ignorance
of his personal existence before his appearance here upon earth.
But they understood what he was talking about when he said, I
am the bread which comes down from heaven. They understood
that he was saying to them, I am the true bread. I came down from
heaven. They understood that. But they
didn't believe it. They understood it, but they
didn't believe it. There's a lot of people who understand
some things of the Bible that they don't believe. A lot of
people. In fact, the world is full of people that understand
some things but don't believe it. I turned the radio on last
night about 10 o'clock, 10.30, and I don't know where I was
at. Well, I know where I was at,
but I don't know where the station was. It was in the dark. I just
turned the dial over, and I come to a religious broadcast, and
it was a preacher interviewing uh... students on the campus
of some university. I don't know what university
it was. It seems to me like he did mention something about Arizona.
But anyhow, he stopped a young man there on the campus and he
asked him, he said, now, do you fear God? And well, he said,
no, not really. He said, well, do you have any
religious training?" He said, well, he said, I was a Roman
Catholic. But he said, I don't go to church anymore. He said,
it's boring. He said, I don't get anything out of it, so I
don't go. And he said, well, are you afraid of judgment? He
said, well, not right now. He said, maybe one of these days,
but I'm not afraid of judgment. Do you believe in hell? Yeah,
yeah, he said, I believe in hell. He said, I believe that when
When a man dies, his soul goes somewhere. His soul goes either
to heaven or to hell. He said, I believe that. And
he said, well, there's no fear in your heart as to the judgment
of God or to hell? He said, no, not right now. You
see, that fellow believed some things, or that fellow understood
some things of the Bible, but he didn't believe them. He understood. He understood judgment, he understood
hell, and he understood heaven, but he didn't believe it. He
understood that they were true, but he didn't believe them. If
he believed them, something would have took place. If these Jews
had really believed that the Lord Jesus Christ was that bread
that comes down from heaven, they would have come to him.
They would have come to him, but they really didn't believe
him. They understood what he was talking about. They understood
that he said to them, I am the bread that comes down from heaven.
I have divine aura to me. They understood that, but they
didn't believe him. They didn't believe him. A lot of people,
you see, like that in our day, they said here in this 42nd verse,
they supposed him to be the natural son of Joseph and Mary. His mother and father, they said
here in this 42nd verse. His mother and father said they,
we know, we know Joseph and Mary. But they did not really know
his father. No. They didn't know his father.
His father was God. So they did not know his father,
nor could they unless the father would reveal himself unto them. Now that was true then, and that's
so now. No man can know the Father unless the Father reveals Himself
unto them. So they said, the only thing
they knew about the Lord Jesus Christ was that He was the Son
of Joseph and Mary. They said He's the natural Son
of Joseph and Mary, and that's all we know, and we don't believe
anything else about Him. Well, it's one thing to receive
intellectually as a religious doctrine or dogma, that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God. But it's another thing to know
him as such for yourself that he is the Son of God. The scriptures
say, flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee. In other
words, to know the Father, to know that the Lord Jesus Christ
is really and absolutely of divine origin, and that he is the Son
of God without spot and without blemish, that he did die in the
sinner's stead, place and room, to know that for oneself, is
a direct result of the operation of God himself. Only God himself
can produce that in our hearts this morning. Flesh and blood
cannot reveal this to my heart. So, the Lord Jesus Christ here
was saying to them, well, let me read verse 43 again. And Jesus
therefore answered and said unto them, Whom are not among yourselves? No man can come to me except
the Father which hath sent me drawing, and I will raise him
up at the last day. Now here the Lord says by your
murmuring against me, you make it evident that you have not
come unto me, and that you are not disposed to come to me. And with your present self-righteousness
you will never Come unto me. That's what he's saying in verse
44, your murmuring. See? No man can come to me except
the Father which hath sent me drawing. He said it's evidenced
by your murmuring that you've never come to me. You don't have
the disposition to come now. And if you continue in your pride
and wickedness of heart, you never will come unto me. See? Before you can come to me, he
didn't say that here, but it's indicated throughout the Bible,
but before you can come unto me, you must be converted and
become as little children. Well, you see, and before that
can take place, before being converted can take place, you must be a subject. Jesus
said, of divine operation. Now, salvation is most exactly
suited to the sinner's needs, but it is not at all suited to
the natural inclination of the sinner. The scriptures say, in
the book of 1 Corinthians, it says that The scriptures are spiritually
discerned. They're spiritually discerned.
And the natural man, the natural man, because of the bent of his
inclination, because of the bent of his nature, he cannot understand
the scriptures. The scriptures are foolishness
unto him. He can't understand them because
of the corruptness and the depravity of his own nature. They're spiritually
discerned. He can't understand them. So
salvation, the salvation of God, is not exactly suited to man's
natural inclinations. The gospel is too spiritual for
the carnal mind. It's too humbling for his pride. It's too exacting for his rebellious
will. It's too lofty for his darkened
understanding, and it's too holy for his earthbound desires. Well,
how can one? who has such a high estimate
of himself and his religious performances, ever admit in his
own heart before God that all of his deeds and religious performances
are as filthy rags before God? How's he going to do that? I'm
talking about these Jews here. I'm talking about these Jews,
and these Jews, I'm sure, are representative in a sense, of
everyone that's outside of Christ this morning, and even represented
us at one time. We murmured at Christ. Why? Why
did they murmur at Christ? Because He said, I'm the bread
that comes down. We're not hungry. We're not hungry. We don't desire anything to eat. We don't have any appetite. So
we're not going to eat that bread. Well, that's the reason I say
that. that how can one who has such a high estimate of himself
and his religious performances admit that his righteousness
is as filthy rags? You know, water will not flow
uphill, nor will the natural man act contrary to his corrupt
conditions. Oh, no. Oh, no. You see, the
evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit. The depravity of
man from the human side or the human element of total depravity
is the only thing that will explain this morning the general rejection
of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the only thing
it'll do. Why do the majority of men and women in God's world
this morning, here in February, Why do the majority of men who
comprise God's world right now despise and reject the Lord Jesus
Christ? Well, because man's a fallen
creature, because man loves sin and hates holiness. That's the
reason why. Because the fall of man has affected
every part of man, his will, his decisions, his actions, everything
about him has been affected by the Fall. He's a fallen preacher,
and therefore he hates that which is good and cleaves to that which
is evil. It's so bad that his condition
is beyond repair. You can't patch him up. That's
the problem with the religion of the 20th century, trying to
patch the natural man up and make him a fit subject for God's
approval. But you can't patch him up. He's
beyond repair. He's fallen too far. He didn't
fall just halfway. He didn't fall just two or three
rungs down the ladder, but he fell all the way into the abyss
of pollution and corruption and sin, and he's a fallen creature
right now. And the evidence that he's a
fallen, depraved creature is that he loves that which and
he hates that which is good. And the reason why the majority
of the world's population say, with one voice, we will not have
this man to reign over us, we reject and we despise this man,
the reason they say that is, is because they're depraved.
They're depraved at heart. Every part of their being is
depraved. In fact, man's will. Talk about
man's will. Man's will has not escaped the
general wreckage of his nature. When man fell, every part of
his being was affected, including his will. Just as his understanding
is darkened, his heart is estranged from God, so is his will enslaved
in sin, and he's a captive of the devil. That's where he's
at. He's bound up. He's hidebound by the devil. Man's only hope is outside of
himself. That's divine hell. That's man's
only hope, is divine hell. Now, if it be true that what
I've said thus far, and it's true, it's true, bless God this
is true, what I've said about man's condition, I'm telling
you why these Jews murmured against the Lord Jesus Christ. Not that
they didn't understand what he said, but they didn't believe
what he said. And they didn't believe what he said because
every part of their faculty was affected by sin. They were depraved
from the soles of their feet to the crown of their head. There
was no sound in the synagogue and they were depraved. And they
need help, and they need divine help. Unless the source of that
help is God, and he comes where they are, they'll die in the
ditch. They'll murmur at the Lord Jesus
Christ not only throughout this life, but in the life to come,
they'll continue to murmur. In hell, they'll lift up their
voice against the Lord Jesus Christ. When they're in hell,
they're not going to change. Their attitude's not going to
change. They're going to be sorry that they're there, but they're
not going to be in love with God and in love with the Lord
Jesus Christ being in hell. They're going to hate Him. And
they'll murmur and despise and reject Jesus throughout the eons
of eternity to come. That's how wicked, how bad they
are. All right? If I'm all of this,
if I'm so powerless, that my whole being is depraved and am
helpless to reverse the tendency of my nature, what am I to do?"
Now, what am I to do? Listen closely. If you miss what
I'm saying now, you missed everything thus far. What am I to do if
I'm as bad as the Scriptures say I am, if I'm as corrupt as
the Scriptures say I am, if I'm as hopeless and helpless as the
Scriptures say I am? that I cannot reverse the tendency
of my nature. My nature is one that's like
water, like gravity. It's like water going downhill. It cannot turn and come back
up hill. It's got to go in that direction.
That's the way my nature is. I have a fallen nature and it's
going in that direction. It cannot reverse the flow, the
tendency of the course. It can't do it. Well then, where
does that leave me? It leaves me hopeless and helpless
and powerless to do anything about it. Is that right? All
right, listen to this then. What should a man do who falls
down and breaks his hip? What should he do? He can't get
up. What should he do? Should he
then lie there in his misery and perish? Not if he has any
desire for relief, he won't. What will he do? He will cry
for help. He will cry that someone will
come and assist him. Will he not do that? That's easy
to understand, isn't it? If a man falls and breaks his
hip, what will he do? What will he do? Will he lie
there in his misery, in his pain, and perish? Will he do that?
Not if he wants to be delivered. Not if he wants some relief.
Not if he wants to get out of that condition into another elevation. No, he'll pry for help. He'll
pry for help. He'll lift up his voice and he'll
appeal to someone for assistance. I read where, not too long ago,
where a woman was trapped in a car. She went over the hill. and she
was trapped in that car, and she couldn't get out, and she
yelled, and she yelled, and she yelled, and she yelled. And she'd
done that for two or three days until she about lost her voice.
She didn't have anything to eat, she was pinned in this wreckage,
but she had a desire to get out of it. She could have remained
silent and perished, but she desired to get out of that car,
and she cried, and she cried, and sure enough, Someone come
along and they heard her distant cry. And they delivered her. I read
out here in Ohio, during this last blizzard that they had in
the state of Ohio, where a fella was running into some big high
drifts in his tractor and trailer, and was in the cab of his trailer
for six days. And his brother went out looking
for him and never would have found him, except he heard the
tapping, tapping of an object against the tab. He finally heard
it. He said, there's someone in there. Well, listen. Should he lie there in his misery
and perish? No. Not if he has any desire
for relief. He'll lift up his voice and he'll
cry for help. Now, if these murmuring Jews
See what I'm saying? If these murmuring Jews had believed
what Christ told them about their helplessness, this is what they
would have done. If they'd have believed, but
they didn't believe it. Now listen to me. If the unsaved
man, unsaved woman, unsaved boy, and unsaved girl, if they would
only believe God Almighty when He says that their loss then
they too would call for a deliverer. But they don't believe they're
lost. You see? They don't believe it. They don't
believe it. God says you're lost. If you're
outside of Christ, God says you're lost. But you don't believe it. You don't believe it. Now, there
ain't no way that you're going to believe that. Why will you
not believe it? Because of the wicked pride in
your heart. Wicked pride in your heart is
responsible for unbelief. Unbelief will damn you. Unbelief
will send you to hell. That's right. If a man had believed
what God says about him in regard to his condition, he'd cry out
for help. That's right. He'd cry if he
really believed that he was lost before God and hopeless and helpless
and the subject fitted for hell. I'll tell you, he'd cry out.
He'd cry out. Now listen. If I cannot come
to Jesus, that's what he says here in verse 44. He says, No
man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw
him. And I will raise him up the last
day. What's he saying here? You understand it as well as
I can. No man. No man, woman, boy or girl, child
or anybody else, nobody, nobody of Adam's population can come
to me. I'm life. I'm the source of life. I'm glory. I'm majesty. I'm splendor. I'm everything. No man can come
to me. No man can come to me except
the Father which sent me, Joy, unless the Father acts in His
behalf and does something for Him, nobody can come. All right? If I cannot come to the Lord
Jesus Christ, except the Father draw me, then it's my responsibility
to beg the Father to draw me. Is that right? That's my responsibility. I'm to beg, I'm to plead, I'm
to cry out to God until I lose my voice. I'm to cry out to God
till my heart breaks. My responsibility is to cry,
Father, Father, Father, draw me, draw me. Follow another sour
calling, do not pass me by. Speak to me, speak to me. That's our responsibility. So if you fall down on the ice,
you're going to lay there and perish? Now, you're going to
lay there in Paris, just lay there in your misery and your
pain, and lay right there. And when you die, you're going
to blame somebody for not delivering you, for people coming by and
didn't help you, didn't see you. And the reason they didn't is
because they couldn't hear you. You're going to blame them? But
all you had to do was to lift up your voice. That's what this
thing's all about, you to lift up your voice and cry out unto
God. You remember that blind Bartimaeus? They said, shut him up! Shut
him up! The disciples said, well, Lord, he's making a nuisance
out of himself! He's crying! Shut him up! Shut
him up! They said, Jesus is coming their
way! And blind Bartimaeus said, Thou
son of David, have mercy on me! Have mercy on me! He was blind! He was blind! He needed help! He said, the Lord was coming
by! And he kept shouting. They tried
to shut him up, but the more they tried to shut him up, the
louder he shouted. Now, Son of David, have mercy! Have mercy on me! And the Lord
heard him and had mercy on him. Oh, brethren, so helpless are
we that with an unchanged heart and mind we never will come to
the Lord Jesus. Our hearts and minds have got
to be changed. God's got to do it. Listen, this change, this
change, you remember this, this change which is absolutely necessary
and essential is one which God alone can produce. Only God can
produce the change that's essential and needful and necessary. We're
fit subjects. Only God can do it. He can do
it. He can do it! It's not that he hasn't got the
power. He's got the power to do it.
And he's showing mercy to people. He saves people every day. Why
don't you and I then cry out and say, Lord, if you're saving
people, why couldn't you save me? I'm hopeless and helpless. I've got nothing to offer. I'm
a sinner by nature and by choice. I'm corrupt. Oh, Lord, what?
Speak to me that I might be saved. Draw me. Let me mention four
things that's meant by divine drawing, and then I'll quit. Of course, this salvation that
we're talking about is coming to Christ. And coming to Christ
is being divinely drawn by God himself, that's what he said,
except no man can come unto me except the Father which sent
me, draw him. Draw. I don't know the whole
meaning of that word, draw, but it certainly suggests a force,
a force beyond my description. Impel, maybe would be the better
word. Impel them to come. Impel them
to come. Of course, I know this, that
God's not going to make you eat bread if you're not hungry. He's
not going to make you eat if you're not willing to eat. You
see what I'm talking about? He's the bread of life. The Lord
Jesus Christ is the bread of life. And if a man flat out says,
I'm not hungry, God will not force that bread down him. God will not force that bread
down his mouth and say, you've got to eat it. He will not do
it. He's got to make him hungry. He's got to make him hungry.
He's got to be hungry. Of course, that's being hungry
to God. Well, listen. What is this drawing? Well, it's
the power of the Holy Spirit overcoming the self-righteousness
of the sinner and convicting him of his lost and hopeless
condition before God. That's what it is. Secondly,
it is the Holy Spirit awakening within the sinner a sense of
his need. That's what it is. And thirdly,
it's the power of the Holy Spirit overcoming the pride of the natural
man so that he is ready to come to the Lord empty-handed as a
beggar. That's what it is. And lastly,
it's the Holy Spirit creating within him a hunger for the bread
of life. That's what it is. That's the
drawing. When you're hungry, when you and I are made hungry
for the bread of life, then we'll eat. We'll eat of that bread. And He said, if you eat of that
bread, you'll never hunger again. You'll never hunger. You eat
of Me, He says, you'll never hunger. If we ever become hungry,
it'll be because the Holy Spirit made us hungry. And if we're
ever made hungry, we'll eat of the Lord Jesus. We'll come to
Him. And when we come to Him, He said, All the Father given
to me will come to me, and him that cometh to me, I will know.
I will cast him out. If you'll come to me, I will
cast you out. Whose fault is it that them people go to hell?
Is it his fault? It's their fault. It's their
fault. If a man goes to hell, it'll
be because he never cried out. It'll be because he never...
It'll not be because there's not bread. There's bread enough,
and some despair. That's right. There's five loaves,
two figures, and it will feed the 5,000 and there's enough
left over to take care of anybody else that's hungry. God help
you. See what I'm talking about this
morning, about these Jews. They murmured. Why did they murmur? They murmured because he said,
I'm the bread which comes down from heaven. They said, we're
not hungry. We're not hungry. We understand what you're talking
about. We understand that you're saying that you're of divine
origin, that you was in heaven once and now you're here. We
understand what you say, but we just don't believe it. We
understand it, but we don't believe it. And men are still saying,
Bob, to this very day, we believe that you come down from heaven.
I mean, we understand that you was born of a virgin and you
came down from heaven, but we don't believe what you said about
us. You said we was lost. We don't believe that. We believe
that we can patch this thing up and we'll make it without
you. You see? And so the whole world, listen,
I know that some folks say, well, I wonder how come you think you
know so much? Well, it's not that. Very little
I know. Very little I know. But it's
pleased God to reveal to my heart the message of the gospel. And
I know that. I know the gospel, and I know
that the majority of the peoples in this world despise and reject
the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm not saying that they don't
believe something. They believe a lot of things about the Bible.
But the pure, unadulterated gospel of the grace of God, they won't
have it. They won't have it. They don't
believe what God says about them. God says they're lost. If they
believed that, they'd start crying when they're back. Now, if they
believed they was lost and hopeless and helpless, and no way out!
No way! I guarantee you, there'd be some
activity in the heart! There'd be some response! There'd
be some voices, all towards heaven, saying, Lord, help me. Help me.
Oh, Lord, I don't deserve it. I don't deserve it. But you can,
if you will. Lord, you can save me, if you
will. It sure will. Lord, have mercy. All right. We'll meet again soon.
Let's stand and anticipate. Lead us in a verse of an old
hymn there, Pat. Now that the fallen were my savior
and guide, Now I'm there for cleansing the dead I cry, There
to my heart was the blood applied. Glory to his name. Glory to his name. Glory to his name. There to my heart was the blood applied. Glory to thee.