Brethren, let's go to Psalm 36.
I want to begin by just reading out of two verses here in Psalm
36. He says in verse 9, He says, For with thee is the fountain
of life. In thy light Shall we see light? And then verse 12, he says, There,
and he's speaking of that light. There in thy light, in the light
of our Lord, are the workers of iniquity fallen. They are
cast down and shall not be able to rise. Now every believer is
made up of two men. There is the old man with which
we're born the first time which Scripture says is corrupt according
to the deceitful lusts. And then there is the new man
with which we're given in the new birth when we're born again
and Scripture says of that new man that he is after God created
in righteousness and true holiness. Now within every believer, these
two men are opposed to each other. They're just opposites and they're
opposed. The old man is a worker of iniquity
and all he does is sin. The new man in which Christ dwells,
in which the Holy Spirit dwells, is the new man in which we worship
God. Now how is the old man in us
subdued? How is he subdued? Sometimes,
you and I both know this, you find your old man of sin reigning
in you. How is he subdued? How is he
brought down? How is the old worker of iniquity
cast down? And how is the new man renewed? How is he made new? How is he
given strength and renewed so that we can worship God in spirit
and in truth? Well, Paul tells us, go to Galatians
5, Paul tells us in Galatians 5, it's by the Spirit. Galatians 5.16, he's telling
the Corinthians not to walk in the flesh, not to go back to
the law and start whipping and biting and devouring one another.
How's that old man going to be kept from venting his lusts and
doing as he would? Galatians 5.16, he says, This
I say then, walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the
lusts of the flesh. And he explains that. He says,
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against
the flesh. And these are contrary the one
to the other. But here's what the Spirit accomplishes.
so that you cannot do the things that you would, so that you cannot
fulfill the lust of the flesh that you would fulfill. You get
that? The Spirit keeps that old man
of flesh subdued. So back in Psalm 36.9, He says,
For with thee is the fountain of life, in thy light shall we
see light. In verse 12, And there in thy
light are the workers of iniquity fallen. The old man of sin and
all his people, the workers of iniquity, is fallen. They are
cast down and they shall not be able to rise by the light
of Christ. So our subject is casting down
the worker of iniquity. It could be titled renewing the
new man because both take place here. We've been looking at these
psalms as the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. In this psalm it
says that the heading, it is to the chief musician a psalm
of David, the servant of the Lord. But we've been looking
at these Psalms as they are in spirit. This is the Psalm of
the Son of David according to the flesh, Christ Jesus the Lord. This is the words of Christ who
is the servant of the Lord bringing all God's people to Him righteous
and holy by His work. So in Psalm 36 we're going to
behold Christ casting down the worker of iniquity in a believer. He's doing it by revealing to
the believer his own sinful flesh, and by revealing to him the light
of God. And thereby, he casts down the
old man within the believer. Now let's go back to Psalm 36
to the beginning. The first thing, the Spirit of
Christ speaks in our new man, revealing to us our wicked old
man of flesh. When we're overtaken and our
old man of flesh is ruling, Christ speaks into the new man that
He's created. And He reveals to us our sin
all over again. He reveals the sin of our old
man. Verse 1, the transgression of the wicked saith within my
heart that there is no fear of God before His eyes. Now, I agree
with Mr. Hawker. This is how I started
looking at this psalm this way. As Mr. Hawker pointed out that
all the commentaries make this to be David speaking about other
wicked sinners. Him looking at other wicked sinners
and that's how he comes to this knowledge. But this is what Christ
reveals to us about our own sinful flesh. We don't need to look
at others to see the transgression of the wicked. It's our own flesh. Our new man is created by God's
grace in the new birth, but there's still an old man of sin, an old
worker of iniquity that's in every believer. The Apostle Paul
said, with my mind, that new man, I myself serve the law of
God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. And so when our old
man starts to reign over us, the only way we're going to be
delivered is by Christ speaking into the new man. and revealing
to us our sin, the sin of the old man. And Christ makes us
see ourselves as the wicked. He speaks into our hearts and
He says, verse 1, the transgression of the wicked saith within my
heart, there's no fear of God before His eyes. Christ comes
like He did in the very first hour. and He speaks into our
heart, and He says within our heart, that old wicked man of
sin in you has no fear of God before His eyes. Is that true? Is that the old man of sin that's
in me has no fear of God in His eyes? That's absolutely true. Christ reveals to me that my
old man of sin is just flattering me. in deceit and iniquity. Verse 2, For he flattereth himself
in his own eyes. The words of his mouth are iniquity
and deceit. He's left off to be wise and
to do good. When I think myself good, when
I begin to think, well, I'm not as bad as a lot of people. That's my sinful flesh flattering
me with iniquity and deceit. If I begin to say to myself,
well my sin's not really that bad, that's my sinful flesh flattering
me with iniquity and deceit. If I think I'm somehow better
than others, that's just the old man flattering me. And the
only way I'm going to be made to know that and to turn from
that old man is Christ revealed to me. That's your old man flattering
you. And Christ reveals to us the
only thing our old nature is, is sin, and that's all it does. He says in verse 3, at the end,
He says, He's left off to be wise and to do good. He deviseth
mischief upon His bed. What's going to make you and
I go home tonight and lie on our pillow and think of a thousand
worldly things that we have to do in the morning rather than
thinking about what we heard tonight? The old man of sin,
devising mischief upon his bed. And this old sinful part of us
makes you and I end up walking in sin against God. This is what
makes us turn from the right way, turn from Christ and walk
in sin. He says in verse 4, he says in
Psalm 36, verse 4, "...he setteth himself in a way that is not
good, he abhors not evil." And Christ has revealed this to me.
When Paul was speaking in Romans 7, and he's speaking of the old
man and the new man, and he said, if I sin, it's not I, but sin
that dwelleth in me. He wasn't making an excuse for
himself. This doesn't excuse us just because there's an old
man and a new man. What he was pointing out is,
there is an old man and a new man. The old man is not the real
me. The real me is the new man. And
the sin dwells in the old man. But that old man is as much me
as my new man is me. And when my sinful flesh sets
me in a way that's not good, it's me that did it. And the
same is true of you. And with an ever believer, the
carnal mind is still enmity against God. Hates God. But here's what
the old man does. Look at the end of verse 4. He
abhors not evil. In the new man, we love God and
we abhor evil. But in that old man of flesh
that's still with you and me, we abhor God and we love evil. You see the opposition of these
two? While there's a warfare within
us, there's two different people within us. Just like there was
in Rebecca's womb. She asked, why am I thus? God
said, there's two different nations in you. There's two different
people in you. And that's the same with every believer. But
by the Holy Spirit of God, Christ is going to subdue our old man
by revealing to us how hateful that old man of sin is. We'll
walk in that old man of sin when he begins to flatter us and we
begin to believe him and think that we're wise and we're good
and we're flattered by his deceit. We'll do that until Christ speaks. Watch this, verse 2. For he flattereth
himself in his own eyes until his iniquity be found to be hateful. And when Christ speaks in our
heart, He makes us to know that everything we were being flattered
by is just hateful. It's just iniquity against God.
And that's what He makes you to see. Go to Jeremiah 2 and
look at verse 19. Here's what God says will happen. And this is so of a believer
in that old man. Jeremiah 2.19, this is the effect
Christ works. Jeremiah 2.19, Thine own wickedness
shall correct thee, and thy backsliding shall reprove thee. Know therefore
and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter thing that thou
hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee,
saith the Lord God of hosts. And whenever Christ speaks in
you, you don't have to look to some other wicked sinner. He'll
make you see this about yourself and He'll use our own sin to
reprove us and correct us. And so Christ gets all the glory. In all ways, in all ways, Christ
is the one who is delivering His people from the body of this
death. Remember Paul said, how shall
I be delivered from the body of this death? I thank God through
Jesus Christ my Lord. He's the one that's going to
do it. A man told me one time that he had almost gotten control
of his sin. And I'll tell you what that is.
That's the old man of sin flattering a man with deceit and iniquity. That's all that is. But for God,
But for God the Holy Spirit speaking at us in our hearts and revealing
to us that that's only flattering, that's the old man flattering
you, turn from him. We would go on thinking we're
growing holier and holier and less sinful and less sinful,
believing the flattering lies of our own sinful flesh. But
Christ won't allow it. He delivers us from it. And then
look at this now, second thing. When He shows us how wretched
and sinful that we are, when He shows me personally that in
my flesh dwells nothing good, and He makes me see I'm in sin,
I'm walking in a way that's not good, I'm being flattered by
my old sinful wicked flesh, and He reveals again to me how sinful
and wretched my flesh is. Then, speaking into my new man,
Christ magnifies the greatness of God. and the greatness of
His grace to save me in spite of me. Look at verse 5. The Holy Spirit bears witness
with my new spirit and this is what He said. He brings me to
say this. Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the
heavens and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. When
Christ makes you behold your sin and how awful it is and He
begins to show you the greatness God and His grace towards you,
He brings you to say, Thy mercy, O Lord, is as high as the heavens. Oh, your mercy, Lord. That's
when you really appreciate mercy, is when you see what a wretched
sinner you are. When He brings you to see this
and He renews that inward man, He does it by making you to see
how God is so great in mercy to withhold from you everything
that you deserve. We never understand God's mercy
and we never glorify God for saving by His sovereign mercy
till we're brought to see what wretched sinners we are. And
then you see it in its greatness. It reaches to the heavens. It's
higher than the heavens. And when Christ makes me behold
what an unfaithful rebel I am in my flesh, He magnifies to
me the unchanging faithfulness of God. Thy faithfulness reacheth
unto the clouds. God is faithful. He's faithful. He's the only faithful one that
we know. He's the only faithful one we
know. God never changes in His faithfulness
toward His people. Every covenant promise He made
to His Son, He fulfills it. And He fulfills every covenant
promise to His people in His Son because He's faithful. I'll
tell you when you'll behold the faithfulness of God. Go to Lamentations
chapter 3. You'll behold the faithfulness
of God when you're brought to behold... when you're brought to behold
how wretched a sinner you are. Look here at Lamentations 3.
Look at verse 15. Imitations 315. This is what
he's doing in our text. He hath filled me with bitterness.
He hath made me drunken with wormwood. He hath also broken
my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot
prosperity. And I said my strength and my
hope is perished from the Lord. Remembering my affliction and
my misery, the wormwood and the gall. That's what He does when
He reveals His sin to you. But then when He reveals God's
faithfulness, watch this. My soul hath them still in remembrance
and is humbled in me. And when He's brought you there,
humbled you down now by your sin, then He turns you to the
Lord. And this I recall to my mind.
Therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that
we're not consumed because His compassions fail not. They're
new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness. Only
when I see that I don't deserve God to be faithful toward me,
and yet I'm made to see that He is faithful toward me, that's
when I see how great His faithfulness really is. And Christ, go back
to our text, Christ magnifies to us God's righteousness. He
says in verse 6, Thy righteousness is like the great mountains.
Thy judgments are great deep, O Lord. Thou preservest man and
beast. God is righteous. That means
everything that God does is right. Everything He does is right.
His righteousness rules all that God does. That's why when I say
to you holiness is His chief attribute, I'm saying righteousness
is His chief attribute. He loves, yes, but He loves in
accordance with His righteousness. He's long-suffering and He's
merciful, but He does that in accordance with His righteousness.
It has to be right. It's not like our mercy would
be mercy at the expense of righteousness. Not God's. Our love is sometimes
very sinful and unfaithful love. Not God's. God's is always right. according with his righteousness.
God's not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that
he should repent. Hath he said and shall he not
do it? Or hath he spoken and shall he
not make it good? You can trust God, he's righteous. God's righteousness is immovable
as the great mountains. He says there, your righteousness
is like the great mountains. The mountains shall depart and
the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from
thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith
the Lord that hath mercy on thee. God's judgments are His ways.
That's His providence. His ways and His providence.
He'll bring something to pass and it's His way in which He
brings it to pass. And His judgments, He makes us
to see here, are deep. Thy judgments are a great deep.
There's places in the ocean we've never been to. Isn't that amazing? Places on this planet man has
never stepped foot on. We've never been to some of the
deep places. That's how deep God's judgments
are to us. But here's the good news. Though
we don't understand what God's doing in Providence a lot of
the times, It's not our place to try to plumb the depths and
dive into the abyss and try to find out God's judgments and
what He's doing. It's our place to trust God.
And we can trust God because we know whatever He does is righteous. It's right. When you know somebody
is right, righteous, you don't have to understand their ways
and their doings. because you know that it's going
to be right. Whatever it is, it's going to be right. And our
Lord preserves us, man and beast. He does this in righteousness.
And when He makes you see your sin, you'll see yourself as more
of a beast than a man. But why does He preserve us?
Because it's right. It's right. See, when He chose
the people, He didn't just choose us arbitrarily. without any regard
to a work of righteousness. He chose us, given us to His
Son, to do the work of righteousness to make us accepted. And when
God reprobated, when He passed by men in eternity, and then
when He reprobates us in time, it's not just arbitrarily, it's
in regard to a work that is unrighteous. So it's righteous. What I'm saying
to you, everything God does is righteous. It's right for Him
to preserve. When we all fell in Adam and
the whole human race was plunged into sin, it was righteous for
God not to destroy us all. Why? Because He had put us in
Christ. He had chosen His people in Christ.
And we stood in Christ, our surety, righteous. And God looked to
Him who would come forth into this earth and would declare
the righteousness of God. And that's what he did. He came
forth and declared God's righteousness. He declared God is just. Every
single elect child of God that God saves, His justice demanded
we all die. And it was righteous that He
demand we die. And so in Christ, every single
elect child of God died under the justice of God so that he
upheld God's holy justice and now God is righteous to have
mercy on us. Because He honored His law first.
And He declared God's the justifier. He wouldn't have been righteous
for us to justify ourselves. We're sinners. So He sent His
Son, and in the person of His Son, God justified His own people. And when you behold His righteousness
at the cross and how strictly He did everything so that it
was all according to His righteousness, now you don't have to know all
His judgments. Whenever He does something in
the world and you don't understand it and you just can't figure
out why God did it this way or why is He treating me this way,
you have this assurance. I can look to the cross and I
can tell you whatever God's doing is righteous. And so I can rest
there. I can rest there. And this is
what He shows you. When He shows you how unrighteous
you are, He shows you how righteous God is. And so He continues to
preserve us. The Lord's not slack concerning
His promises. Some men count slackness. But
His longsuffering to us were to His elect, not willing that
any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Why?
Because it's the righteous thing. He's going to bring every single
redeemed child who right now is lost or maybe they haven't
even been born into this world yet. He's going to make them
be born into this world. He's going to cross their path
with the gospel. He's going to quicken them to
life and bring them to faith in Christ because His holy righteousness
demands it because He justified them. That's why this earth is
preserved right now. And see, when He brings you to
see what a sinner you are, and yet He makes you to know He's
still preserving you. You know, have you ever been
brought to a place where you thought, God, the right thing
to do would be to throw me into hell? But, no, that wouldn't
be the righteous thing. Because He put His people in
Christ. Christ has brought in an everlasting
righteousness for us. And so now the righteous thing
to do is, is preserve us. Whether we're acting like a man
or a beast. And it's more beastly when you
look at men than it is when you look at beasts. He's righteous
to preserve us. And He makes you understand this
when He makes you see your sin. When He makes you see what a
God-hating, sin-loving, worthless sinner you are, and He makes
you see His holy character and all His holy ways toward His
sinful people, Christ magnifies the loving kindness of God. And it says here verse 7, How
excellent is thy loving kindness, O God! Therefore the children
of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. all
over again, each time that He renews our inner man and He reveals
our sin to us, the sin of our old fleshly man. It's just like
He's doing this all over again. The Lord hath appeared of old
unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting
love, therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. He did that
in the first hour, and every time He makes you see your sin,
and He makes you see how holy and right and merciful and faithful
and unchanging He is in all His glorious attributes. He makes
you to see, because I do not change, because I am a righteous
God, and a merciful God, and a faithful God, therefore, in
loving kindness, I've drawn you to me all over again. I'm not
going to let you go. This is God's work. Has He made
you see that? Is there anybody here that He's
not called, that you've never confessed Christ, but you've
been made to see how rotten your flesh is? And you've been made
to see how good God is? I tell you what, I don't even
have to ask that question because if He's ever done that to you
and He's ever shown you how sinful you are and how good He is in
the way that He saves His people, you'll put your trust in Him.
You'll put your trust in Him. That's what He says there. He
says there in verse 7, How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow
of thy wings. When you see Him, you're going
to trust Him. Now, all who trust Him, He makes
us to be abundantly satisfied by providing all we need in this
life and in the life to come. He says in verse 8, They shall
be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. Thou
shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures, for with
thee is the fountain of life. In thy light shall we see light. Now I want you to think of that
passage in the context of a sinner here that Christ has come and
He's worked this work in his heart. And He's made him see
what a wretched sinner he is. And then He's made him see God's
mercy and grace and His faithfulness and His righteousness. And He
makes you to experience how that He satisfies with the fatness
of His house. He makes you experience it. You
become satisfied with the overflowing fatness of God's house when He
does this work in you. He makes us drink of the river
of God's pleasures so that this is what you say. You say, oh,
when men trust in you, they'll be abundantly satisfied with
the fatness of thy house. Now you'll make them drink of
the river of thy pleasures because right now, beholding my absolute
nothingness and beholding Your constant care and your constant
provision for me, you're making me experience this right now.
You're abundantly satisfying me with the fatness of your house. You're making me drink of the
rivers of your pleasures. I know this is what you people
are going to do. This is what you're making me do by revealing
yourself to me. Blessed is the man whom Thou
choosest and causes to approach unto Thee that he may dwell in
Thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Thy house,
even of Thy holy temple. And by this work, turning us
from our sin and turning us to our gracious Lord, He said to
the believer what He said to us at the beginning. We experience
that Christ is the fountain of life. He makes you experience
that He is the fountain of life. Up until He starts working this
work, you know, when He first saves you, you experience this,
that He is the fountain of life. You experience it. You know life
is Christ. He is the fountain of life. He
said, Whosoever drinketh the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. When
He first calls you, you know Christ is everlasting life. But as you go along, He makes
you experience this over and over again because He makes you
see how dry and barren your own flesh is. and how impossible
it is for you to bring forth life in yourself. But yet, He
keeps on keeping you, and He keeps preserving you, and He
keeps making you drink, and He makes you experience this. It's
not a doctrine to you. You know Christ is the fountain
of life. He is everlasting life. Christ
Himself is everlasting life. And as He keeps doing this work,
He makes you to see that He's the light. He is the light. It's what he meant by this. I'm
saying that here he is. He lets you see the darkness
of your flesh. And he lets you see how you've
been flattered into walking in utter darkness. Not flattered
by some stranger. Flattered by your own sinful
flesh. To look to yourself and to walk
in darkness and devise mischief. You've been deceived into darkness
by your own sinful flesh. And then Christ comes and He
shines the light. It makes you behold His light.
And here's what He makes you to experience. Maybe you read
this scripture all your life, but now you know it. You know
it by experience. He said, I am the light of the
world and he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but
shall have the light of life. And now you see what He meant
by that. It's because He's not going to let you keep walking
in darkness. He's going to come and He's going to shine His light
in your heart and He's going to make you walk in His light.
And now you know, that's not just some lofty, grand expression
that He made. It's what He really does. It's
what He really does. And here's the third thing. Then,
by this revelation, Christ puts prayer in our heart. And this
is showing us that He brings us into real communion with Him.
When He first makes you see your sin, you don't feel like you're
going to have any communion with Him. You feel like you're cut
off. But then He makes you see how good He is and how gracious
He is to you. And in that black backdrop of
your sin, He just shines more magnificently in all His light. And when He does that, you're
brought into communion with Him. You fall down and begin to pray
now. And what do you pray? Verse 10.
O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee, and
thy righteousness to the upright in heart. He brings you to pray
for your brethren. You've experienced this that
he's going to continue his loving kindness unto his people. And
you've experienced it. He's going to continue His righteousness
to all those that He's given a new man, created a new man
within and made upright in heart. He's going to continue this.
But He makes you now come to Him and pray for your brethren
and say, Lord, You continue this love and kindness to them. Continue
Your righteousness to them just like You're doing it to me. And
He makes you pray for your own self. And here's what you pray for
your own self. Verse 11, Let not the foot of pride come against
me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. And when you were in darkness,
you might have said that as just saying a prayer, but what you
meant is those people out there. Let not the foot of the proud
out there and the hand of the wicked out there, let them not
come near me. Now when you pray this, you're
talking about your own flesh. Let not the foot of pride that's
in me be against me. Let not the hand of the wicked
that's in me remove me anymore. In other words, Lord, save me
from me. That's where He brings you. And
then lastly, lastly, by the Spirit of Christ subduing our flesh
and making us see light in His light, we're made to know that
it's only in His light that our sinful flesh is cast down. He
says there in verse 12, it was spoken about, in thy light we
see light. And now He says, there in thy
light are the workers of iniquity fallen. They are cast down and
they shall not be able to rise. Now I see, now I see in His light,
only in His light, only by His light, Will my fleshly sinful
self be subdued and cast down? That old worker of iniquity that's
in me, the only way it's going to be cast down is by Christ
giving me this light. The light to know that all I
am in myself is sin and darkness and the light to know how God's
mercy and grace and love and kindness and righteousness never
changes. That's the light that's going
to cast down this old worker of iniquity. Now, go with me
to Romans 7. I want to show you a couple of
things and we'll be done. If we're left to our own power,
there's a new man created in us and we still have that old
man of flesh, but if we're left to ourselves to subdue him, to
subdue the old man, here's what our case will be. Romans 7.19.
Paul said, The good that I would, I do not, but the evil which
I would not, that I do. Verse 22, I delight in the law
of God after the inward man, but I see another law of my members
warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin which is in my members. And that's where
I'll stay. If it's left up to me to subdue
this old sinful flesh, that's where I'd stay. in captivity
to that old, wicked, sinful, wretched worker of iniquity that's
in me right now. He'd bring me into captivity,
that new man, he'd bring me into captivity and I wouldn't be able
to free myself. That's where I'd stay. Go back
to Galatians 5.6. This is what he does. In thy
light we see light. Galatians 5.16 says, Or verse
17, the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other, but by
the Holy Spirit revealing this light to me, that old man, that
old worker of iniquity, he cannot do the things that he would. He can't do... There's a whole
lot more wickedness in me and in you that would surely come
out but he just won't let it. He's going to subdue him. And
so what do we do? What did Paul say to do? He says,
walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Well, how am I going to walk
in the Spirit? How am I going to walk in the
Spirit? Be diligent to be constantly listening to the preaching of
Christ crucified. That's number one. Please God
to save the foolishness of preaching the first hour and every hour
thereafter. And by that I mean here and then
I mean each time we meet here and I mean when you're traveling
or when you're going on the way to work or from work, when you're
home cleaning the house, when you're out cutting the grass.
Put in some ear pods and listen to the gospel of Christ. Be always
listening to Him. Hear His message preached. And
then go to His Word and study what you've learned. And then
be always asking Him in prayer, Lord, save me. Save me from me. Keep me from me. Please keep
me from me. And it will only be by Him that
we do any of those things. and we'll fall right back into
sin again and it'll be Him coming and doing this work all over
again. He's going to do this work and do this work and do
this work until as Paul said in Philippians 3, one day He's
going to change our vile bodies that they'll be fashioned like
unto His glorious body and He's going to do it with that same
power that He did throughout our lives, subdued all things
unto Himself. That same power. I pray that
we don't ever boast that we made ourselves more holy or put down
our sin or anything like that. Who shall deliver me from the
body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ
our Lord. He gets all the glory. Amen.