Isaiah 44. Verse 24, Isaiah 44, 24. Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer,
and He that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that
maketh all, that stretcheth forth the heavens
alone, that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself, that frustrateth
the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad, that turneth
wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish, that
confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of
his messengers, That saith to Jerusalem, thou shalt be inhabited,
and to the cities of Judah you shall be built, and I will raise
up the decayed places thereof. That saith to the deep, be dry,
and I will dry up the rivers. That saith of Christ, and that's
who Cyrus pictures as Christ, that saith of Christ, he is my
shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem,
thou shalt be built, and to the temple thy foundation shall be
laid. Now let's go back over to Psalm
135. Psalm 135. Now, last time we were here,
we saw The psalm begins with, Praise
ye the Lord. And the Lord gave us two reasons
to praise the Lord. We saw two reasons to praise
Him. We just looked at the first four verses last time, and here
were the two reasons we looked at. Verse three, For the Lord
is good. Sing praises unto His name, for
it is pleasant. And then the second reason was
His electing grace. Verse 4 says, because the Lord
hath chosen Jacob unto himself and Israel for his peculiar treasure. Now those are good reasons to
praise ye the Lord. Now we're going to look at something
else he gives us here. And it's praise Him for His greatness
in being the one true sovereign God who saves His people. We're
praising Him for being at least the one God, the true God, the
sovereign, all-powerful God who saves His people. He said in
verse five, praise ye the Lord, for I know that the Lord is great
and that our Lord is above all gods. Now look there and notice
the two names given for the Lord are two different spellings.
The first is all caps, the second begins with a capital, and then
lowercase. That word all caps, the Lord,
refers to God being Jehovah, the existing one, and it always
refers to Him being the covenant-keeping God, the God who saves by covenant
saves his elect Israel by his covenant grace. That's what that
spelling has to do with. And then the second one, our
Lord, that word is Adonai, and that's our master, our master. He's ours personally. He's our
sovereign ruler, our king, our savior personally. And it says
there, And he is, our Lord is above all gods. There are no
other gods. He's saying above all those that
man imagines as being God. Our God is above all. Can you
say with a psalmist, I know? Can you say that, that I know?
God's saints praise the Lord alone because we've been made
to know. We've been made to know. We've
been made to know by the Spirit of God. And we say, I know that
the Lord is great. I know He's great. I need the
Lord who's great because I'm a great sinner and I need a great
Savior. And He is, our Lord is great. And I know that our Lord, our
Master is above all gods. Paul said, I know whom I have
believed. And I am persuaded He is able
to keep that which I've committed to Him against that day. You
know, when the Lord saves you, He makes you know Him. That's
the only way we can worship Him, is Him making us know Him. I mean beholding Him and knowing
Him. How great He is. Something of
His greatness, something of His sovereign, holy, character and
he makes you know that he's your Lord and he persuades you to
commit all to him. And that's what the love of God
is. The love of God is God being committed to his people. He's
committed to us. He committed to us and he gives
you a heart to be committed to him. to be committed to his people. It's not, you know, this thing
that the world calls love is just feelings. It's lust. It's just fleshly. And it comes
and goes. But that's not the love God gives. The love of God is committed
to his people. He'll never turn his back on
us. He'll never leave us. He won't just decide one day
He's just going to walk away from you. He's going to stay
committed to His people because His love is everlasting. It knows
no change. His grace knows no change. And
we know that because He made us know what sinners we are.
And if He called us to begin with and saved us despite of
us, then I know it was not something in me that made Him call me.
He was His grace and His love, and if He didn't leave me before
I knew Him, He's not gonna leave me now that He's made me know
Him. You can just bank on that. By God's grace, brethren, I know
that the Lord's great. By His grace, by His power, I
believe that. I know. I know the Lord is great. He is the Jehovah, the existing
covenant-keeping God. I know that. I believe what His
word says. And I believe our Lord, our master is above all
gods. I really believe that. I believe
what God's word says. And I ask myself this question,
why do I find myself so troubled? Why do I find myself cast down,
feel like I got a weight on me, my own sinful self and it doesn't
necessarily have to be outward sins or outward anything. It's
just seeing yourself come short of what you want to be before
Him and knowing that just in my flesh dwells nothing good.
And then you got brethren and you see brethren go through troubles
and there's nothing you can do. You can't fix it and you can't
pull them out of it. and you get down and you see
troubles all about, you just get down. But you've heard faithful
pastors say this. I've heard many different faithful
pastors, they say it a little differently, but all basically
make this same statement, and you know it and I know it. Our
God is too sovereign To ever be frustrated by anybody, he
can do whatever he's pleased to do. He's too wise to err. He will not err at all in the
salvation of his people. He's too faithful to ever leave
us or forsake us or permit us to be separated from him. He's too merciful to ever cease
being gracious and compassionate to his people. So why, why, why
would we be burdened? Why would we be cast down and
murmuring you know, at our, and it's why, and I do it, I do it,
and I don't want to do that, because I know, I know the Lord
is great, and our Lord is above all God, I know that. I want
to try to preach tonight, and I pray the Lord to strengthen
our hearts, and that he will make us see we're safe and secure
in the arms of our Lord, We really and truly are. We really are. Now what does it mean when we
talk about the Lord is sovereign? What does that really mean? The
Lord is sovereign, omnipotent. What does that mean, omnipotent?
When we read, thy God reigneth, what does that mean? Here's a
good definition from the word of the Lord right here. Here's
a good definition, verse six. Whatsoever the Lord pleased,
That did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep
places. That's a good definition of what
sovereignty of God is. I titled this, Whatsoever the
Lord Please. You know, whatsoever takes in
everything. Whatsoever. Everything in creation,
everything in providence, and everything in salvation. Whatsoever. The Lord pleased, that did he. And he does whatsoever he pleases,
wheresoever he pleases, in heaven, in earth, in the seas, in all
deep places. God's sovereign in creation.
In creation, in creating this world, God did whatsoever he
was pleased to do. He did it in heaven, in earth,
in the seas, and all deep places. Isaiah 40 said, who measured
the waters in the hollow of his hand? They're worried about this
tsunami that might be coming to the shores of North California
now. Our Lord held all the waters
that were ever created in his hand, in the hollow of his hand,
in that little part right there. Like you pour a little bit of
salt or sugar in the palm of your hand right there. He held
all the waters in his hand. He meted out the heaven with
a span. He comprehended the dust of the
earth in a measure. He weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance. That's to give us some idea of
the greatness of our Lord. He's God. He's everywhere. He's all-powerful. He's all-knowing. He's God, and there's no God
like Him. No man's never imagined a God
like Him. He's above all gods that men
imagine. and a sovereign in providence.
Everything that's ever come to pass in this world, from the
first tick of the clock to the last tick of the clock, from
the greatest to the least, whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did He. Every single thing that ever
comes to pass is the Lord doing what pleases Him. He's the sin,
he's overruling it, and he's working it together with the
good that he's working. And he's doing what he pleads
to do from the beginning. He's doing it in heaven, in earth,
in the seas, and in all deep places. The psalmist declares
God's sovereignty in creation and God's sovereignty in providence.
Look right here in verse seven. He said, he causes the vapors
to ascend from the ends of the earth. You know how you, When
the sun comes out after rain and you see that humidity and
you see it just rising up, the Lord did that. He maketh the
lightnings for the rain. He bringeth the wind out of his
treasuries. Brethren, it's just like everything
else. Our Lord rules the weather. He
rules the weather. When his apostles were on that
stormy sea, he sent that storm. Those waves were blowing and
that water was white capping and they were tossed and they
were scared to death. Our Lord came walking on the
sea, not troubled, not tossed, just ruling it all, walking,
just plainly told me. You believe he did that? I believe
he did it. The word says he did it. And
that's who he is. Why would he have a problem doing
that? That's who he is. And he gave Peter the faith to
worship him and believe him and walk on that sea and come to
him in the midst of a storm. And he made those wind and that
waves to cease, and when he did, they hid their face and they
worshiped. They said, of a truth thou art the Son of God. They saw him. He revealed who
he is, that he is God, that he's sovereign. That's what our passage
is stating. It's simply saying he's God.
Because God, a God who's not sovereign, is not God. A God
who's not all-powerful, doing exactly what He's pleased to
do, is not the true God. When you hear men say, God wants
to, or God's trying to, or if you'll let God, or any of those
things, they're not talking about our God. They're not talking
about the God of this book. They're not talking about the true Lord. Because to be God, He's God over
all, and He's ruling everything, or else, That one that's being
spoken about is not God. Sunday we sang that William Cowper
hymn, he plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the
storm. That's who God is. In creation
and in providence whatsoever, the Lord pleased that deity.
In heaven, in earth, in the seas and all deep places. But here's
what rejoices our hearts. Here's what thrills our hearts
right here. He's sovereign in salvation.
He is absolutely sovereign in salvation. Whatsoever the Lord
pleased in salvation, that did he. He's sovereign in salvation. I've preached several times over
the years on the things that it pleased the Lord to do. And
I want to, I want to, put you in remembrance of this again.
And we see it right here in this psalm. Now, first of all, concerning
God's people, the scripture says, it pleased the Lord to make you
his people. It says here, whatsoever the
Lord pleased, that did he, it pleased the Lord to make you
his people. Now look, we see it here in verse
four back up there. We looked at this last time,
but here's why we praise him. The Lord hath chosen Jacob unto
himself and Israel for his peculiar treasure. You know, when men
have a problem with election, that's telling it because what
is the Psalmist saying? He's saying this is why we praise
the Lord. We praise the Lord because he
chose Jacob. And he chose Israel to be his
peculiar treasure. We praise him for choosing to
save his people. We wouldn't have been saved otherwise.
Would you have chosen God if he'd have just left it to you?
I wouldn't have. None of God's people would. We
just wouldn't. When men say, well, I chose God,
they didn't choose this God. Men won't choose this God. but
God gets all the glory and salvation. But listen to what scripture
says, 1 Samuel 12, 22. The Lord will not forsake his
people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased the Lord
to make you his people. That's why. Any other reason? we'd be in trouble, wouldn't
we? He said, he will not forsake his people for his great namesake
because it pleased the Lord to make you his people. That's not
talking about a political people, a political need. That's talking
about God's elect Israel from among Jew and Gentile. It pleased
the Lord to choose whom he would, that he would save, that he would
save and bring to give him all the glory. God didn't choose
everybody in the world. God didn't even choose everybody
in Israel. He didn't even choose everybody
in Abraham's house. He loved Isaac. Isaac was a child
of promise. Ishmael wasn't. He didn't choose
everybody in Jacob's house. I mean, in Isaac's house. Jacob
have I loved, Esau have I hated. But thanks be to God, he did
choose some. And he chose his people. That's
his glory. You know, that's his glory. This
is what, you know, man just wants God's glory. And this is God's
glory. Whenever Moses asked to see his
glory, and Moses was asked him to have mercy on this one that
had rebelled, and that one that had rebelled, and this one, that,
and the other, and it almost sounds like Moses was being overstepping
his bounds. And the Lord said, Moses, I will
show you my glory. I'm gonna make all my goodness
pass before you, but I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.
That's what Paul, when Paul declared over there in Romans nine about
the purpose of God according to the election is that God might
get all the glory. He said, because he said to Moses,
I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. and I will have compassion
on him. I will have compassion. So then,
here's the offense. So then, it is not it. Salvation is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth. It's not of the man that's working
for it, but of God that showeth mercy. Christ said, I didn't
come to call the righteous. I came to call sinners to repentance. Oh, we thank him. If you know
Him and you believe Him, it's because He first chose you, He
first loved you, and be so thankful for that. Oh, thank, if you,
if you, if you don't, you just can't
seem to pray and you just can't find the words to pray, thank
God for choosing you. Just thank God for choosing you.
There's something to pray about. Secondly, it pleased God that
all fullness dwell in his son. This is the second thing. It
pleased God that his son be the firstborn among many brethren,
and that all salvation be of his fullness. That's what it
pleased God to do. Now we're gonna see that right
here in this Psalm. Look at verse eight. Verse eight says, speaking
of our God, it says, who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both
of man and beast. Now note that word firstborn.
That night, God smoked all the firstborn in Egypt of man and
beast. But you know what? He smoked the firstborn in Israel,
but he smoked them in the lamb that God had provided. And so
God said, when I see the blood, and when he saw the blood, he
passed over the firstborn in the houses of Israel, because
he provided the lamb. And that lamb bore the judgment
in the place of the firstborn in Israel. On the cross, the
justice of God smote Christ, the firstborn. He's the firstborn. And it spoke the justice of God
fell on Christ's firstborn when he was made sin for us. And all
God's elect was in Christ the firstborn. And because he laid
down his life and he suffered and he satisfied God, when God
sees his blood, his son, he passes over his elect Israel. That's what we saw Sunday in
Isaiah 53.10. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. Listen,
verse Isaiah 53, 10 says, it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
It pleased the Lord. He put him to grief. Men didn't
crucify Christ. Sinful hands put him on that
crop, but it was God who sent him and put him to grief. When
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of
his soul and be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear them in equity. He
hath made him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be
made the righteousness of God in him. That's what pleased God.
And that's the only way we could be made righteous. That's the
only way God could be satisfied was by sending his son. It pleased
the Lord to bruise him. It pleased the Lord for all foolish
to dwell in him. It pleased him to make him the
firstborn among many brethren. God smoked the firstborn in Egypt,
but he smoked his elect in the lamb God provided. And when he
smoked Christ, he smoked the firstborn lamb that he had provided. And that's why all God's elect
went free. Listen, just look over at Colossians
1.18. Here's why he did it. Here's
why he did it. Make this connection between the firstborn and the lamb. and us being in
Christ and Christ bearing that force and God seeing His blood
and passing over us. Look here, Colossians 1.18, He's
the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn
from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence,
for it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did He. See, it pleased
the Lord to give His Son all the preeminence, that all fullness
be in His Son, that He be the firstborn among many brethren.
That's what Romans 8.29 says. Not only is He sovereign in creation,
not only is He sovereign in providence, He's sovereign in salvation.
And then thirdly, when it pleased God, That's when he revealed
his son in us. Now here's something I wanna
really get you to look at, cause this really, I started seeing
some connections here today that was blessing my heart this afternoon. I was looking at this again.
Now I want you to look here at verse nine. When it pleased God
to reveal his son in us, he regenerated us. Now I want you to see here.
You know what we are by God's mercy? We're signs and wonders. were miracles of God's grace. And you know what the reprobate
is? You know what the things that God is doing to reprobate
man, just like he did to Pharaoh, you know what he was? He was
for a sign and a wonder. Look here, verse nine. He sent
tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh
and upon all his servants. Those were signs and wonders. It was God's sovereign judgment
upon Pharaoh and upon his servants to harden him. But that same
sovereign power of God works in his people, in mercy, to create
you entirely anew. And you know what our Lord says
you are? A sign and a wonder. Listen,
Isaiah 8.18, behold, this is Christ speaking. Isaiah 8 and
verse 18. Behold, I and the children whom
the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel
from the Lord of hosts which dwelleth in Mount Zion. That
miracle, Christ, the Son of God, came down and was formed in the
womb of a virgin and came forth the holy God-man mediator. He's for a sign and for a wonder.
He went to the cross and laid down His life, and like Jonah
was three days and three nights in the earth, He's for a sign
and for a wonder. And when He comes to you in mercy
and in power, the same power that hardened Pharaoh's heart,
the same power that worked those plagues and judgment upon Pharaoh
and his servants and hardened him and left him in his sin,
is the power of God that shows you mercy and saves you from
your sin. Go with me to Romans 9. I want you to see it here,
Romans 9. Look at verse 17. Romans 9, 17,
for the scripture says to Pharaoh, he's just been talking here.
I just read from here about how he told Moses, I'll have mercy
on whom I will. It's not of him that willeth,
not of him that runneth, but of God who shows mercy. He said,
for the scripture said to Pharaoh, even for this same purpose have
I raised thee up. You see, he's talking about his
purpose of showing his power and his name. And he said, even
for this same purpose have I raised you up, Pharaoh, that I might
show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout
all the earth. Therefore, now look, you see,
he just said he has mercy on his elect, and that power, that
name saves his elect. He said, and I raised you up,
Pharaoh, for the same purpose, that my power, my name may be
shown in hardening you. Therefore, Hath he mercy on whom
he will have mercy, and whom he will, he hardeneth. The same
miracle of God's sovereign power does both of them. Now look now
at verse 21, hath not the potter power. Has not the potter power
over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor
and another unto dishonor? Verse 22, what if God, willing
to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with
much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? And that he might make known
the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he hath
aforeprepared unto glory, even us whom he called, not of the
Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. You see, a born-again believer
is a sign and a wonder that manifests the name and the power of God
to save, just like that one that God hardens and turns away and
leaves alone, just like he did Pharaoh, and separates out and
saves his people from. One is a manifestation of the
power and His name and justice and judgment upon them and leaving
them to themselves. The other is a sign and wonder
of His sovereign power and justice and mercy. Oh, He's just, even
to you that He's shown mercy, but He's just to show you mercy
because He sent His Son and laid down His life for you. What a
God, what a God. Paul was a miracle of God's grace.
He was a sign and a wonder of God's grace. And you know what
he said? Before he was Paul, he was Saul,
he was blaspheming, he was cursing God, he was persecuting the church,
and thought he was righteous, thought he was just, thought
he was doing what God would have him to do. You ever notice, brethren,
when you read the scriptures, everything these scriptures say,
the man that hates Christ and hates his people, He'll say,
yeah, that's you. You're the fallen. You're the
sinner. You're not doing what God says do. And he'll turn that
around on you. But the same word you hear it,
here's the difference the Spirit of God makes. You say, I'm the
sinner. And I've got to have mercy from
God. And God's got to say, you see
yourself as the sinner in it. And Paul said, I was breathing
out threatens and slaughter and cursing God and cursing his church.
And you know what the Lord, the Lord would have, if he hadn't
have chosen Paul, he could have done with him just what he did
with Pharaoh. but he chose him and Christ was his fullness.
And so the Lord, this is what Paul said, he said, when it pleased
God, he did whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. When it
pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called
me by his grave, he revealed his son in me. He revealed Christ
in me. that I might preach him among
the heathen. Why'd he do that? Because that's
something else that pleased God. God said it pleased God by the
foolishness of a preacher to save them that believe. Just
see the miracle, the sign and wonder of God's grace. He takes
a man who's before a blasphemer and a persecutor and an injurious
man and he takes him and now he clothes him in the righteousness
of Christ, puts a new heart in him, gives him faith and makes
him a preacher of Christ and him crucified. You know, talk
about a sign and a wonder of God's power and God's grace and
God's mercy and God's love. Whatsoever the Lord pleased,
that did he in heaven, earth, seas, and all deep places. He's
God. That's who he is. I want to show
you this last thing. The pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in Christ's hand. He shall not lose one of his
chosen, redeemed, regenerated saints. That's what Isaiah 53
said, the pleasure of the Lord will prosper in his hand. Now
look at verse 10 here. He not only redeemed Israel from
Egypt, he defeated their enemies in the wilderness and he delivered
his elect remnant among them. He delivered them into Canaan,
right into their inheritance. And this is what he'll do for
us, verse 10. who spoke great nations and slew mighty kings. That's after he brought them
out. Zion, king of the Amorites, he came up and attacked them
first, you know. That's when they defeated, when Moses held
up the rod, and God defeated them. And then Og, king of Bashan,
and then all the kingdoms of Canaan. He carried them right
into Canaan, gave them all the kingdoms of Canaan. and gave
their land for our heritage. I like how he qualifies this,
a heritage and inheritance unto Israel, his people. Listen, Ephesians
1.9 says this, according to his good pleasure, Whatsoever the
Lord pleased, that did he according to his good pleasure, which he
purposed in himself. Paul said in the end, he's gonna
gather together all his elect in one, even in Christ Jesus.
And verse 11 says, in whom also we've obtained an inheritance. That inheritance in Canaan was
theirs. You know that inheritance was
theirs before they ever became slaves in Egypt. Remember at
the Tower of Babel when he divided the languages? You can go back
over there and read it in Genesis. When he divided the languages,
it said he divided the land to the heathen according to the
number of the children of Israel. He provided the same number of
people to take care of that land and cultivate it and provide
for it until Egypt went into slavery. I don't know how many
years they was there. And then he brought them out
and carried them across that land. 40 years they wandered
in the desert and he delivered them to Canaan. And he had 12
lots of land there waiting on them. And he gave them each to
the 12 tribes of Israel. He did that back there at the
Tower of Babel. Well, before this world was created, He already
divided our inheritance to us. And in Christ, right now, we
have obtained that inheritance by Him. And in the end, He's
gonna gather us together in one and deliver us into the Canaan,
and we're gonna have our inheritance, just like He did them, brethren. He works all things after the
counsel of his own will. That's why I read that passage
there in Isaiah 44. He said, Christ is my shepherd,
he shall perform all my pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem, thou
shalt be built, and to the temple thy foundation shall be delayed. He said through Isaiah, he said,
I declare the end from the beginning, my counsel sustain, I will do
all my pleasure. So here's the point, here's the
point of our text, verse 13. Thy name, O Lord, endureth forever,
and thy memorial, thy remembrance, O Lord, throughout all generations. He said, I'm gonna make the word
of my servant effectual. That's how his name's gonna be
remembered by his people. For the Lord will judge his people.
That means he'll rule and govern and protect and defend and plead
our cause and avenge us of all our enemies. That's what it means.
He says, and he'll repent himself concerning his servants. That
means he'll turn and he'll hear us for Christ's sake and he'll
save us out of all our afflictions. The only way a sinner's gonna
praise the Lord That's what our psalm begins with. The only way
we're gonna truly bow and worship the Lord is for God to reveal
that He's great and He's all-powerful and He's got it all from, He's
determined the end from the beginning and in creation and providence
and salvation, He's ruling everything. That's when Isaiah saw His glory,
he hit his face. When Moses saw that glory, he
hid his face and worshiped him. When he came into that ship that
day and they saw that wind and wave sea, they hid their face
and worshiped. You won't worship anybody but
a sovereign God. And when he makes you see he
is the God of all, over all, that's when you bow and you worship
him. And that's how he strengthens
us, brethren, to keep on trusting him and keep on praising him.
What nation is there so great who hath a God so nigh unto them
as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him
for? Deuteronomy 4.7, not another
nation. We ought not ever be down about
a thing. Hey, next time I come in here
murmuring or you hear me murmur about something, remind me of
that. It won't be long. It won't be long. I'll do the
same for you. Let's go to the Lord. We're just
going to close tonight in prayer, brethren. Our great God and our
Savior, we thank you for this word. Thank you for blessing
us and keeping us. Lord, how thankful we are that
you do whatever you're pleased to do. You do it in holiness,
judgment, righteousness, grace, mercy, love. And Lord, even even
in your dealings with the enemy, Everything manifests Your power
and Your name. Lord, make us just rest in You
and trust You and know You're going to save us. You're going
to keep us. Lord, forgive us our unbelief
and our murmuring and our sinfulness and just forgive us for not trusting
you. Lord, be with our brethren who
are troubled and tossed and turned. If they're yours, Lord, according
to this word, we know you're gonna save them. That's all we
need to know. Your will's going to be done.
We trust you. Help us to be witnesses of you
and encourage them when we can. Now pray for them and wait on
them and be ready to open the door, Lord. Forgive us our sins,
Lord. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. All right, brethren, you're dismissed.