to with the vision glorious,
her longing eyes are blessed, and the great church victorious
shall be the church. We have a great thought, we have
a great gospel, and I have a great cold, and
I'm recovering. carries all of us through this. Simon might have mentioned to
you in his prayer about the people around the world that follow
our website. I had an email from a young lady
in Los Angeles on Monday or Tuesday. Never heard of her, have you,
Debbie? Debbie's been going to our website for some time and
she just wanted to convey how much she appreciated our website
and how much she appreciated the fact that we are a church
that delights to proclaim the sovereign grace of God in our
Lord Jesus. So brothers and sisters, there
are things happening in this world beyond the things that
we see with our carnal eyes. It's great to be gathered together
and have time to put aside the cares of the world and just have
this time, this short time where we come and contemplate who the
Lord Jesus is, and contemplate what He's doing right now. What's
going on in heaven? When the Lord looks down from
heaven on a little bunch of people like us, in a little old town
called Nowra, in a scruffy little old building like this, what
does he think? He thinks the way He speaks to
the Shulamite in Song of Solomon. She, at the
end of chapter 6, has been caused to confess and him acknowledge
that what do you see in the Shulamite? You see in the Shulamite what
all of God's children acknowledge is in their lives. as it were
the company of two armies, that battle that goes on between
the flesh and the spirit, the battle that we're all engaged
in. But when we come to Song of Solomon
and we hear the Lord's words again, isn't it remarkable that
every time she has stumbled and fallen in Song of Solomon, His
first words to her are words of great beauty. Isn't it remarkable,
not once in all of Song of Solomon is she rebuked. She has wandered
and sinned grievously. But this is a song. It's a love
song. It's a song where God, the Holy
Spirit, speaks the words of the Lord Jesus to His bride. How beautiful are your feet with
shoes, O Prince's daughter! And it's really good as we look
through this, there's a summary in verse 6, isn't it? And he
says, how fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delight. And then he talks, as she is
given a tenfold description of him, he gives a tenfold description
of his beauty, Her beauty in his eyes, he talks of the joints
of her thighs are like jewels. The work of the hands of an expert
workman, thy navel is a round goblet which wanteth not liquor. Thy belly is a heap of wheat
set about with lilies, thy two breasts are like two young rows
that are twins. Thy neck is a tower of ivory,
thy eyes are like fish pools by Hesbon, by the gate of Bath
rub him. Our nose is as the tower of Lebanon
which looks towards Damascus. Thine head upon thee is like
caramel. The hair of thine head like purple.
The king is held in the galleries. And then he says, How fair and
pleasant thou art, O love for delights. Let's pray. Heavenly
Father, we pray that you would cause these words that your servant
Solomon penned under the power of your Holy Spirit almost 3,000
years ago, Heavenly Father. We pray that you, you who alone
are spirit and life, And take these words that we read today,
these words, we say your words, Heavenly Father, and may it be
you who speak to your people, speak to the hearts of your people,
comfort your people, Encourage those of us who feel like that
man in the Gospels who said, I believe, Lord, please help
my unbelief. And cause us, Heavenly Father,
to have our eyes, by your grace, turned upon. Cause us to gaze
and look upon the Lord Jesus, to come and see him again. and see who His people are in
Him. We pray Your blessing on it,
Heavenly Father. We pray Your blessing on us gathered here
and for our friends who are absent. We pray Your mercy upon them,
our Father. Thank You again for Your Word
which is living and active and powerful and true and is milk
and nourishment to the souls of Your people. We pray these
things for the Lord Jesus that He might be glorified. We read in Ephesians 5 about
marriage. In Genesis 2 we have a great
picture of that marriage, isn't it? It's not good, says the Lord,
after all the good things of creation, it's not good for man
to be alone. And He says, I will make a help
meet for him. I will make someone who is suitable,
someone who is fit, someone who is qualified for him. And God made a woman. and brought
her to him. And Adam said, Now this is bone
of my bones, flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because
she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his
father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they
shall be one flesh." And of course Ephesians 5 says that this is
really talking about the Lord Jesus and the Church. Adam didn't
know what a mother and father was, never experienced a mother
and father. It's talking about the Lord Jesus,
bone of His bones, flesh of His flesh, made suitable, made fit,
made qualified. What a remarkable thing that
the Scriptures declare that the Bride of the Lord Jesus, the
Church, that glorious Church that we've just sung about, is
made perfectly suitable for Him, perfectly complements Him, perfectly
causes Him to be honoured. How close. Flesh of his flesh,
bone of his bones. That's why in marriage it's just
a picture, isn't it, of Christ and his church. They are no longer
two but one. They live together in mutual
self-sacrificial love. The husband is called upon to
love, to protect and provide for his wife. The wife is to
love, to reverence, submit to, to obey her husband. And where
those things have not been, there has been but a disaster. And the Lord Jesus says that
his bride is beautiful. He gives her in this verse, in
verse 1, a new title. Just think of the titles he's
given his bride throughout Song of Solomon. In verse 8 of chapter
1 he says, O thou fairest among women. Verse 9 he says, O my
love. Chapter 2 he says that she's
a lily, delicate and beautiful, but a lily among thorns. In 2 verse 10 he says, she is
my love and my fair one. And he repeats it again and again. 2.13 he says, O my dove. In 4 verse 8 he says, my spouse. Verse 9 he says, my sister, my
spouse. 5 verse 2, he wraps them all
up together, doesn't he? He says, my sister, my love,
my dove, my undefiled. And then in 6.13, she is named but
once in this book. She's called the Shulamite. She
actually bears his name. It is the feminine of Solomon. She bears His name, He names
her with His name. And now in chapter 7, verse 1,
He says, O Prince's daughter. It's the final title He brings
to her in this amazing book. As if He's saying to her, You
may see in yourself the company of two armies, but I'll tell
you who you really are. Prince's daughter. He is, of
course, the Prince of the Kings of the Earth. He is the Prince
of Glory. He is the Prince of Peace. And God's children God's children
are sons and daughters and heirs of a king. Prince, a prince's
daughter. We are heirs, aren't we? We are
joint heirs with Christ. A prince, heirs of a prince,
betrothed to him, one with him. And she says, I am my beloved
and he is mine. What an inheritance we have,
brothers and sisters. Why bother collecting the dust
of this earth when we are the children of a king who not only
owns the universe but can create them by speaking. The streets
of the New Jerusalem are paved with gold. That's how common
it will be. She saw herself, as I said earlier,
she saw herself as the company of two armies. Every motion Every
motion that we have that draws us towards sweet communion with
the Lord and his people is opposed by the armies that are in our
flesh. It's like a battalion, isn't
it? This variegated opposition that's inside of us. It's like
having the army and the navy and the air force and the And
the Marines and the SAS and the spies, all readied. At every minute, you come to
read your Bible and there is some bit of trash beside it. And we spend hours watching and
reading stuff which is trash. We are, if you are like me, how
often, when you know the promised blessings of Church, if we're
honest about it, how often do we wake up on Sunday mornings
and just wish that something else was happening? And yet the
Lord, the Lord is our great leader. And He has won that victory.
He has overcome the world. And He will draw His people together. And He will win that great battle. And as we saw, the battle is
good for us. The battle humbles us. The battle
causes us to look not to the things that are inside of us,
but to look away, to look outside, to look to the Lord Jesus, to
look to Him. That's the glorious message of
the Gospel, isn't it? It seems, and God says, it seems
like foolishness. The Gospel to this world seems
like foolishness. It seems like such a weak thing,
just to declare the wonders of the Lord Jesus. We have to remember
again and again what the Scriptures say about the Gospel declaration. The purpose of the Gospel is
the glory of God. The side benefit of that is the
conversion of sinners. If we invert those things, then
we manipulate people and we manipulate the message, because if our aim
is to convert people, rather than to bring glory to God, we'll
end up heading down paths that are so, so wrong. You see, the
success of the Gospel is the proclamation of the Gospel itself. That's the success of the Gospel.
God hears the Gospel preached and He hears His glorious name
exalted. He hears His dear and darling
Son lifted up before men and honoured for who He is and for
what He's done. That's the glory of the Gospel. So the gospel is a sweet savour,
says 2 Corinthians, it's a sweet savour unto God. It's a sweet savour unto God
whether it's believed or whether it's rejected by men. It's still
a sweet savour unto God. Great prophets like Jeremiah
and Isaiah were sent to preach the Gospel, to proclaim God in
His true character, to proclaim what He has done for His people,
love them from everlasting. And God told those men that the
people would not listen to them, that the people would reject
them. Isaiah, the history tells us,
was put in a log and sawn in half. The success of the Gospel is
in the proclamation of the truth about who God is and how He saves
His people. You see, it's delightful to God In heaven now, there are the
most amazing sights, aren't there? They're all focused. Our singing brethren, the angels
of heaven, they're all focused on one thing, aren't they? They
see the Lamb sitting on that glorious throne, reigning and
ruling. He bears the marks. of His time
on this earth. He bears the marks of His crucifixion. But it is a reign, isn't it? He reigns and He is glorified
and He's admired by the redeemed. And God the Father and God the
Holy Spirit, as it were, join in. I suppose our point is, and
the reason why Song of Solomon is so precious, is that we continually
need our eyes adjusted. I've got some new glasses this
week. It used to be that I looked out on a sea of blurry faces
and if anyone in the last few years has seen me walk down the
street and I've completely ignored them, it's because I didn't have
a clue who they were. They were just, anything from
20 yards away was just a blur. I saw some shapes, but now, I'm
still getting used to them, but now I can see clearly. And it's amazing to me. Our eyes are in need of continual
enlightening, manifestation, revelation. See, the glorious
message of the Gospel is that out of Adam's fallen race there
is a people, princes, daughters, children of the king of kings,
all the bride of one husband, betrothed, named, called, created
to be to the praise of the glory of His grace, in His sight, perpetually
delightful. In Adam, she's black. In Christ, she's beautiful. She's just white. In Adam, she's
wandering. But in Him, she's brought out
of darkness into His light. She's alone and cast off in Song
of Solomon and she's brought to be in his flock. She's hungry
and she's brought to food and not just food but to a banqueting
house. She strays and then she's brought
to a place where she rests in the noonday sun. She's asleep
with her heart awake. She's in her own place of rest
and she's called to come away with him. She sins most grievously,
but she's loved freely and unconditionally. She seeks him and she can't find
him. But he speaks delightfully and
admirably. She speaks delightfully and admirably
of his beauties. When she can't see him, when
she gets no answer from him, and his first words to her are,
you are beautiful, my love. You see, sin is taken away. We live with these warring armies. But these are the words of comfort
from our God on His side. All is finished. We are accepted in the Beloved. When were we accepted in the
Beloved? From before the foundation of the world we were created
by God to be accepted in the Beloved. So the Bride sins, but
nothing changes. Isn't it remarkable? We know
of the four. What happened in the garden when
Eve sinned? Eve took that fruit from the
tree. She was deceived and she was
openly disobedient to God. And what happened in creation? Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. Because God
views his people in a representative. What happened when Adam took
the fruit? Then darkness and sin and shame
and suffering. The Lord in Song of Solomon knows
what she is, as the company of two armies, but He immediately
returns to her and He speaks words of beauty to her. Your
sins are put away. When were your sins put away,
brothers and sisters? From the foundation of the world.
When were your sins put away manifestly, brothers and sisters,
for all this world to see? 2,000 years ago. Did God know before eternity
the path that you would take? Did God know what was going to
happen before it happened? He does. Does it change his love? Does Adam's fall change his love? Do your falls change his love? He says in verse 1 to her, how
beautiful are your feet. If you remember back in chapter
5 when she behaved so wickedly towards him, what has she done? She says, I have put off my coat. I'm at peace in my little world. How shall I put it on again?
How shall I disturb myself? I've made myself comfortable.
And then she says, I have washed my feet. How shall I defile them? Isn't it amazing that he comes
to this description in chapter 7 and the very first thing he
starts with is her feet. He has a ten-fold description
of her from her feet to her head. But how beautiful are your feet
with shoes, he says to her. When we walk in this world in
our Adam flesh, we walk in the ways of this world, don't we? We walk upon it. Her feet are
now beautiful because they are shod feet. As Ephesians says, our feet are
shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, with the
equipment of the gospel of peace. See, we don't walk through this
world with bare feet unprotected. but they are feet that are shod."
It says in Ephesians 6.15 in that verse, it says, by the fitting
your feet with the preparation, with the readiness, with the
equipment that comes from the Gospel. He's saying to his people
that his people in this world They walk with a walk of feet
that are beautiful in God's understanding and in God's assessment. You see, God's children walk
in gospel liberty. We are free from the shackles
that bind the feet of unbelievers. Their feet are trapped like a
mouse on a treadmill, aren't they? They go round and round
and round and round, busy and busy and busy and busy. They
never go anywhere and they huff off at the other end having achieved
absolutely nothing at all. It's vanity, isn't it? Their
life, according to God, is vanity. It's empty. The life of those
whose feet are beautiful, of those who walk in that Gospel
liberty, in that Gospel righteousness, they bear a walk and a fruit
that lasts. So what lasts from this world
into eternity, brothers and sisters? What lasts from your activities
here that gets into heaven? The things that come from heaven
in the gospel of peace and are worked in the hearts of God's
people, that's fruit that lasts, isn't it? Our labour in the Lord
is not in vain. It's not empty. And when the
Lord says in the Sermon on the Mount that the people might see
your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven, if you think about it, every
good deed that you do except one is seen by men and can be
honoured and esteemed by men. You think of all the moral good
works and all of those things. They are seen by men and honoured
by men. What's the one work that glorifies
the Father? The one good work. It is the
preaching of the Gospel. It's the only one. It is the
only one. You see, in Romans 10, we have
that great activity of the church, and it talks about beautiful
feet, doesn't it? How beautiful are the feet of them that preach
the gospel of peace." So this is a church activity. They cannot
preach unless they are sent. They cannot be sent unless there's
a gathering together. It is our responsibility and
our great honour, brothers and sisters, that together we proclaim
the gospel. We proclaim it here. Norm and
Simon and others proclaim it here. Norm works away on his
computer and I don't have a clue what he does. But someone on
the other side of the world comes to our side and they hear about
the Lord Jesus and their hearts are moved with thankfulness and
gratitude. You see, it's a whole church
activity. They are sent. Turn with me to
Isaiah 52. It's a remarkable passage of
scripture. Isaiah describes a world which
is exactly in so many ways like our world. He says in verse 5,
My name continually every day is blasphemed. And then he makes
these great promises, doesn't he? In verse 6 of chapter 52,
he says, Therefore my people shall know my name, my people
shall know my character, who I am and what I do. Therefore
they shall know in that day that I am He that does speak. Behold, it is I. What a remarkable
thing. One of the things that I rejoice
with when I talk to Norm and Simon is that when they come
to prepare messages, and others here might do the same, when
they come to prepare messages it's a humbling. It is in a sense
a reverential and a weighty activity. As 1 Peter 4, verse 11 says,
when you speak, you are speaking the very words of God. Our job in Gospel preaching is
to be saying what God says. And when God speaks, God's words,
will achieve God's purposes. And in verse 7 he says, how beautiful
upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings,
that publishes peace, that brings good tidings of good, that publishes
salvation. And this is the great gospel
declaration, isn't it? Thy God reigneth. Has he ever stopped raining?
Is he raining right now? Is he raining over heaven and
earth and hell and every tiny little atom and the tiniest parts
of the tiniest atom and the furthest extremities of the universe?
Is he raining over the thoughts and hearts of people, the king's
hearts in his hands and he steers it like a river? God rains. Things have not got out of control. No matter how it looks from our
perspective, our God reigns. Verse 8. My watchmen shall lift
up the voice, with the voice together they shall sing. for they shall see eye to eye
when the Lord shall bring again Zion." God's messengers, God's
watchmen, those appointed by God to preach the Gospel and
for the glory of His Son, they see eye to eye because God teaches
them the Gospel. God appoints them to proclaim
the Gospel. So much for the differences amongst
the Church. When our brothers and sisters
come from the other end of the world, people that we've hardly
known like Clay Curtis, what does he come here and proclaim
to us? When Peter Meany comes from the other end of the earth,
what does he proclaim? He proclaims the same message.
Where do they get it from? God. taught them, and God teaches
his people. They see eye to eye, because
God says they see eye to eye. Those who don't see eye to eye
with them need to be caused to think deeply and seriously as
to whether God has called them to be watchmen. What does he
say? He says, that he will be the
one speaking and his watchman will see eye to eye. You know the next chapter. What
a glorious, glorious description of the Lord Jesus, Isaiah 53
is. What a remarkable proclamation
of Him and His love for His bride. It's a proclamation of His glories. And when she proclaims Him, it's
a glorious thing, brothers and sisters. The proclamation of
the Gospel is the glory of the Gospel itself. What a remarkable
gift from God that He's brought us the Gospel. A gospel declares
that thy God reigns. All other gospels say that our
God reigns if, if man does this, if man of his
free will chooses, if man accepts God's offer, our God reigns. Our God reigns. The Lord Jesus has a beautiful
picture of His love for His bride, doesn't He, and His love for
the Gospel proclamation of His Church. In John chapter 13, at
the Last Supper, now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus
knew that His hour was come, that He should depart out of
this world unto the Father, And there's wonderful words, isn't
it? Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them
to the end. This pathetic universal love
that is championed all over the place. I saw it on a t-shirt
of a young fellow the other day, going off out into the world
and on the back of his t-shirt has this great and artistically
and nicely drawn, Jesus loves you. This is how he loves his people.
His love is an everlasting love. His love is a drawing love. His love is a love that sent
him from heaven. His love is the love that took
Him to the cross. His love is the love which is
powerful and effective. His love is the love that causes
Him to take the lowest place. The supper being ended, the devil
now having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot Simon's son
to betray him, and Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all
things into his hand, said, There he was on that night, Our God
reigneth." All things are in His hand. He came to Jerusalem
and to this world as an absolute sovereign monarch. He was an
absolute sovereign monarch at the Last Supper. He was a sovereign
monarch in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was a sovereign monarch triumphing
when they hung Him naked to that cross. knowing all things
had been given into his hands, that he was come from God and
went to God. He rises from the supper and
laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself. After
that he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples'
feet and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded." Washing the feet is the activity
of the lowest of the lowest servants in the household. What a remarkable
thing. What a remarkable testimony to
His serving of His people. And in a sense, preparing them
for the work. Washing the feet of those who
are going to proclaim the Gospel. And then he came to Simon Peter,
and Peter said unto him, Lord, are you going to wash my feet? Jesus answered and said unto
him, what I do now You don't know, but you shall know hereafter. And Peter said unto him, Thou
shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash
thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter said unto him,
Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. And Jesus
said to him, he that is washed needs only save to wash his feet,
but is clean every whit. And you are clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray
him. And he said, they are not clean. He washed their feet. He prepared
them for the proclamation of the Gospel. In declaring the
Gospel, we are declaring how beautiful are His feet. Those feet that walked for 33
and a half years on this earth. Those feet that walked in perfect
obedience to His Father. in thought and word and deed,
in his heart and in his actions, all walking in perfect holy obedience,
walking as a servant, walking as a triumphant king. walking
all the way to Calvary's Hill. And there those beautiful feet
were pierced that His life's blood might be poured out. You see, the feet of the Bride
are beautiful. Because when he walked on this
earth, I walked on this earth. When he walked before his father
in perfect love and obedience to his God, I walked there too. When he walked in this world
in perfect love for his own, I walked with him. He perfectly
loved. His walk is my walk. When His feet were nailed to
that cross and He died, I died. So the beautiful feet proclaim the
glories of a beautiful Saviour. His life is our life. We are one with Him, aren't we?
Circumcised with Him. We walked with Him. We were crucified
with him. We were buried with him. And
those feet now in heaven proclaim his perfect righteousness and
the perfect acceptance of God's people into the holy of holies
in heaven. No wonder he looks at his bride
and he says, your feet are beautiful. everything about you is beautiful. And I'll just be brief, but I
wanted to talk just very briefly for a few minutes about the next
part of the verse, isn't it? The joints of your thighs are
like jewels, the work of an expert workman. You see, the feet of
God's people are joined to the thighs of God's people, and it
talks about really the turnings of the thighs. It's talking about
the way God's people as one walk in this world. The feet are appropriately
shod. They're protected from the thorns
and the prickles and the stings of this world. They're protected
from its reproaches, its criticisms, its slanders and its accusation. But the walk that he's talking
about is the movement of the church and it reflects the workmanship
of the Creator. What are we according to Ephesians? We are God's workmanship. It really means that we are the
work of a master craftsman. We are a masterpiece created
in Christ Jesus under good works which God has ordained that we
should walk in. We are, as a body of believers,
to walk proclaiming the Gospel, the glory of the Gospel, to live,
have a living knowledge of the Lord Jesus. Not to proclaim ourselves
and our righteousness or anything we have done, but talk about
His faithfulness, His love, His forgiveness, His long-suffering,
and we are to look upon our brothers and sisters and we are by the
grace of God to love them because of the Lord Jesus. We look beyond
their flesh. We look beyond our own flesh
and we look to our brothers and sisters as loved by God and loved
and cherished by the Lord Jesus He says they're beautiful. He
says He's taken their sins away. He says He's working by His Spirit
in their lives to draw them into conformity with Him. He says
that He's knitting them together as a body, joined with joints
and marrows. He's joining them together. He
has gone to heaven and he's poured out gifts on his church. And you look around at a body
of believers, as I do week in and week out, and you look around
and you see that everyone, everyone in a body of believers, every
believer has been gifted by God. And you might say, well, I don't
see my gifts. God says they are there. And
the things that He has given to you are necessary. are vital for me." We are one
body. That's how God's Church walks
in this world, isn't it? He says, I am the Lord your God,
which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt. He takes his
people out of the land of this world. And you should not be
their bondman. I have broken the bands of your
yoke. and I have made you to walk upright."
There's a gospel church, and gospel churches are orderly. The whole body is fitly framed
together under one banner, with one purpose. and every member
perfectly fitted together. Why is it when our brothers and
sisters come from the other sides of the world, why do they fit
in like a hand in a glove? Jerry comes from Florida, of
all places, and the Lord brings him here. And Jerry fits in like
he's always been here, doesn't he? Peter and Jill and their
family came and were with us from Scotland. and they fit in
together. I'm going to America in a month's
time and I go to those churches and I fit in. Brothers and sisters,
it's the same. The same gospel has the same
impact on God's people. It knits them together. It unites
them together. We are on a journey. We are walking with feet shod. We have a particular gate in
this world. May God continue to cause us
to see the glories of the Gospel in the things that we bear witness
to around us in our brothers and sisters. May we delight in
being part of a church. A church that has brothers and
sisters all over the world. A church that sings the songs
of heaven right here. A church that God the Father
looks down on and says, my son was successful. My son reigns
gloriously. Let's pray. Now, Heavenly Father,
we thank you again for gathering us together. We thank you for
bringing our friends from afar. We thank you for the reminders
from other people around this world, Heavenly Father, that
you have your church in this world, you have your good seed
scattered throughout this world, and you bring them together and
you join them together and You create and sustain and set Your
angels to camp around like flames of fire the places where Your
Gospel is proclaimed. Oh, Heavenly Father, we pray
that You would use us for Your glory. You would cause us to
look again and again away from ourselves. We would be caused
to look and be saved, to look to Him that You would set us,
Heavenly Father, as like a light on a hill, cause the light of
the Gospel of the glory of Your Son to shine from us and shine
in us, that we might know Your purposes in this world, and we
might see things, Heavenly Father, We might continue to see things
from heaven's perspective, from eternity's perspective, that
your dear and precious son, that precious blood that was shed,
has washed his people and perfectly cleansed them. And they are holy
and spotless and unblameable and beyond reproach. We praise
You, Heavenly Father, that Your dear Son is so glorious and so
successful and that You have caused us to bear witness to
Him in this world. Help us to set aside all the
things that entangle us, Heavenly Father, that we might run the
race that You have set before us with freedom and joy and liberty. in Him who is our Saviour and
our Husband. We pray, Heavenly Father, as
we take these emblems that represent that broken body and that shed
blood, that we would be caused to remember Him and You would
cause us to be thankful to Him, our Father. For we pray in Jesus'
name, Amen.