Alright brethren, let's turn
to 2 Corinthians chapter 1. We finished Paul's first letter
to the Corinthians and we may go through the second letter,
but we'll be in it tonight anyway. And I just want to look at the
very first verse and not really the whole first verse. I just
have a particular phrase that jumped out at me. 2 Corinthians
1 and verse 1. It says, Paul, an apostle of
Jesus Christ by the will of God. And this is what I want us to
focus on tonight. By the will of God. Now the will is the desire. The will is the choice. It comes from within. All intelligent
beings have a will. And the nature determines the
will. Our will by nature, the way we
are born into this world the first time, our will is subject
to our nature. We can only do what our nature
permits us to do. And that's the only will we have
by nature. God has to give us a new will,
a new heart. But the triune God is holy. He is wisdom. He is understanding. He is righteousness. And so God's
will is in harmony with all His divine attributes. God's will
is only what is holy and right and best. It's so perfect, it's
called in Scripture the counsel of His own will. You know, Ephesians
1.11 says, He worketh all things after the counsel of His own
will. That word counsel has to do with
the fact that our triune God is wisdom. And His will is true
counsel. Whatever He is willing to do
is the counsel of His will. And the counsel of God's will
is not a way to do things among many. It is the way to do things. His will is the way. It is the
best way that things should be done. He is wonderful in counsel
and excellent in working. Now this is what I want us to
see. This is the thing that I thought
about when I saw Paul say, I am an apostle of Jesus Christ by
the will of God. The way in which Paul was made
an apostle of Jesus Christ is the way in which God's people
are made everything that we are by God. And that is by the will
of God. Everything that we are He's by
the will of God. Paul was made an apostle by the
will of God. He mentions there Timothy our
brother. Timothy was made our brother
by the will of God. He says there the church is the
church of God. It was made the church of God
by the will of God. He says there God's people are
made saints. That's by the will of God. were
saved, not by our will, by the will of God. So everything that
God has made His people, we are by the will of God. Now that's
what I want us to focus on. Now first of all, God's people
are made what we are by the eternal will of God. By the eternal will
of God, meaning by God's will from eternity, before the world
was made, before He made anything. God is eternal and so His will
is eternal. It's eternal. He said in Isaiah
46.9, Remember the former things of old. He's talking about eternal
things. For I am God and there is none
else. I am God and there is none like
me. Declaring the end from the beginning. That's God declaring what His
will is and what will He will bring to pass from the beginning,
from eternity. From ancient times, the things
that are not yet done. God said, I declared from ancient
times the things that are not yet done saying, My counsel My
will, the counsel of My will shall stand. I will do all My
pleasure. Acts 15.18 says, Known unto God
are all His works from the beginning of the world. God knows all His
works from the beginning of the world because in eternity He
willed everything that He would work in time. And so He knew
What His works would be? Because from eternity He willed
the works that He works in time. And when we talk about God being
eternal and His will being eternal, we have to remember this too.
God is immutable. That means He does not change.
There is no new thought with God. There is no new will with
God. His will is ever the same. That
is a great blessing when we consider how often we change and sin. And that's what He said, I am
the Lord, I change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. If God willed to make you His
son in eternity, God does not change that will. And therefore,
God doesn't consume us because His will is not to consume us.
And then he said this, he said, James said, every good gift and
every perfect gift comes down from above, comes down from the
Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, no shadow of
turning, not even the least degree of change in God. Jesus Christ
the same, yesterday, today, and forever. So when Paul said here,
I'm an apostle by the will of God, It was from eternity that
God willed for Paul to be an apostle. Now think about that. God willed
in eternity, His eternal will was for Paul to be an apostle.
And just like He did that to Paul, everything that God willed
for His people, He willed from eternity. Everything. Go to Ephesians
1.3. We are very familiar with this,
but I want to just look at it. Ephesians 1.3, and hold your place there in
Ephesians 1. But look here, Ephesians 1.3,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
has blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Paul being an apostle
was one of those spiritual blessings that God blessed Paul with. Just
like righteousness and sanctification and redemption and all spiritual
blessings. He blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in eternity in Christ. according
as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having
predestinated us, there's another blessing, unto the adoption of
children, there's a blessing, by Jesus Christ, there's a blessing,
to Himself, there's a blessing, and He did all this according
to the good pleasure of His will. to the praise and the glory of
His grace wherein He made us accepted in the Beloved. Now
in eternity there was no cause outside of God to do this. Aren't
you thankful for that? There was no cause outside of
God. God willed to do this, to choose
His people, choose whom He would, and bless whom He would with
all spiritual blessings in Christ simply because that was His will. Not from any external influence
whatsoever. And that eternal will won't change
because of any external influence whatsoever. It was His will to
choose us. It was His will to redeem us
by Christ. It was His will to call us to
faith in Christ. And it was God's will, just the
same way, to make Paul an apostle of Christ. And Paul said in Galatians
1.15, when it pleased God, when it was His will, who separated
me from my mother's womb. And he is talking about who ordained
me and chose me and made me to be an apostle by His will before
yet I was even brought forth in eternity. Then He called me
by His grace, by His will, by His grace. And what I am getting
at is for you and I, you and me, If we are a dead sinner and
when God makes you to be a saint in the new birth, He does it
because God willed it from eternity. You know, there was a song they
used to sing in one of the free will churches I would go to about
every time somebody believed there is a new name written down
in glory. There is no new name written
down in glory. He willed it from eternity. He
willed it from eternity. He willed it for Paul to take
that saint that he had made a saint and make him an apostle. And
he wills to take his saint and make him a pastor when he does. It is not a surprise with God
He willed it from eternity. He said to Jeremiah, He said,
Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. He is saying the reason Jeremiah
had a being In time, eventually, it was because it was God's will.
God knew him. He knew all his works. He would
make him his workmanship. Jeremiah would be his workmanship
and he knew it from eternity. It was God's will. Before I formed
you in the belly, I knew you. And before you came forth out
of the womb, I sanctified thee and I ordained thee a prophet
unto the nations. And by the same token, brethren,
everything that we are, everything God has made us in Christ and
by Christ, holy, righteous, redeemed, complete in Christ, every blessing
God gives us in time, God willed it from eternity. He willed it
from eternity. 2 Timothy 1.9. Look there with
me. 2 Timothy 1.9. He's talking about God who had
saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our
works, but according to His own purpose and grace. That's His
will. What He willed by His grace,
which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. You see that? Now it's made manifest
by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ who has abolished
death and brought life and immortality to life through the Gospel. But
it was done from eternity in God's will. Now that's His eternal
will. Now, we can't discern God's will
by looking at our will. You know, if I was to say that
I willed something from the very beginning of the day that I'm
going to carry out to the end of the day, well, most of the
time, before the hour's up, my will's already been altered by
something that God's put in my way. He's not going to let me
have my will. So we can't look at our will
and determine, well, if God willed it from eternity, that's great,
but then can He do what He willed from eternity? That's our next point. We're
made what we are not only by the eternal will of God, but
we are made what we are by the sovereign will of God. The word
sovereign is not in the Scripture, but the doctrine is all over
the Scripture. Brother Art just read that Scripture
in Isaiah and he talked about what he would do by his will,
his sovereign will. When God speaks about His will,
He doesn't talk about maybes, He talks about He will. God rules
all creatures He rules all events according to the counsel of His
own will. He works all things after the
counsel of His own will. Now that's power. That's sovereign
power. He said not even a sparrow falls
to the ground without it being God's will. He said the hairs
of your head are numbered. That means your hair is not falling
to the ground except by God's will. That is God's sovereign
power. Everything that comes to pass
in time comes to pass by God's sovereign will. Nobody can perform
anything if it's not God's will. Anything that you see coming
to pass is coming to pass because it's God's will for it to come
to pass. But there's a lot of things that men will to come
to pass that God won't permit to come to pass because it's
not His will. Listen to Lamentations 3.37. Who is He that saith, and
it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? Who is He
that says, I will do such and such, and it will come to pass
when the Lord hasn't commanded it to come to pass? There's nobody
that can do that. Psalm 33.10 says, The Lord bringeth
the counsel, the will of the heathen to nothing, to naught. He maketh the devices of the
people of none effect. The counsel of the Lord standeth
forever, the thoughts of His heart. That's His will, the thoughts
of the heart. They stand to all generations. In other words, they can't be
turned back. A man's heart diviseth his way. We make our plans and
we say what we will do and we have a desire that comes out
of our heart. A man diviseth his way, but the
Lord directeth his steps. In other words, I might will
it, that don't mean it's going to happen. depending on if it's
God's will. There are many devices in a man's
heart. There are many things a man wills
to do that comes up. Some evil, some wicked, sinful,
evil thing, some maybe relatively good things. There are many devices
in a man's heart. Nevertheless, it's the counsel
of the Lord that shall stand. It's God's will that will stand.
Now God's will is worked so sovereignly by God that sinners do God's
will even when they don't know they're doing God's will. That's
how sovereignly God works His will, that sinners are doing
His will even when they don't know God and they don't know
they're doing God's will. They're working His will. You
look at Christ and you look at what wicked men did to Christ
at Calvary. That was not out of God's will.
Christ told them when they came to arrest Him, He said, this
is your hour. This is your time. I am going to permit you to do
what you will now. And that is the only way they
could have done what they will. Of a truth against thy holy child
Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both Herod... Listen to who all
is included in this. Herod, there is a man at the
top who thought he did everything that he willed to do. Herod and
Pontius Pilate, there's another one, with the Gentiles. It's those dogs that the Israelites
said they can't do anything. The Gentiles and the people of
Israel, there's ones who thought we only do what is God's will.
They were gathered together, men who hated each other. gathered
together for to do whatsoever God's hand and God's counsel,
God's will, His sovereign will determined before eternally to
be done. That's what they were doing on
that cross. You know everybody went all crazy here because the
president and this thing he did with these seven nations not
being able to send immigrants to America. Why did He do that? Why did He sign that executive
order? Why did He do it? Do we need to get all bent out
of shape and crazy about that? Listen to this. Revelation 17,
17 says, God hath put in their hearts to fulfill His will until
the words of God shall be fulfilled. That's why He did it. Exactly
why He did it. The King's heart is in the hand
of the Lord. You know, that's where a man's
will comes from, is his heart, his nature. And it says, the
king's heart, the most powerful man in the land, his heart is
in the hand of the Lord. And as the rivers of water, he
turneth it wither so ever he will. When you were a child,
did you ever take Water, you go out playing, you know, in
the dirt. You take water and you pour it and you turn where
it go and you make your little river and it can only go where
you want it to go, you know. God does that with rivers. And
He does it with the king's heart too. That's why this was done. And there's many in our day now
that are so stressed out. We get stressed. I get stressed
out. You get stressed out. And we
get anxious. And we start to worry and fret.
And a believer of all people should never do this. Because
you know what it is? It's unbelief. That's all it
is. That is all it is. We need to come to terms with
it and not blame secondary causes and blame the past experiences
and our environment and whatever the new ism is and the itis is
that we need to not blame. It's unbelief is what it is.
that causes our anxious care. And you know what most of it
comes from? Most of it comes from feeding the old fleshly
man. Listening to music constantly,
watching the news constantly, reading what the newspapers write
constantly. Everything the world is saying,
listen to the world constantly, constantly, constantly. And nobody
agrees with anybody. Nobody's listening to anybody.
They're all just talking. and talk about how terrible everything
is. And if you just didn't have better sense, you'd think it's
going to all fall off into nothing tomorrow. But fill your mind and fill your
heart with God's Word. I got troubled last night. I
was troubled over something last night. About one o'clock in the
morning, I got up and I just went in, turned the light on
and took the Bible and sat and I read this second epistle that
Paul wrote to the Corinthians. And by the time I got to the
end of that book, my heart was so settled and I went back, went
back, slept a good night's rest. I remember when I used to travel
and work and I drive a lot and I constantly was listening to
sermons on tape, constantly. And I'd go in people's houses
where I had to go in and check up. oxygen tanks and things like
that. I'd go in and people would be
sitting there in one spot watching the news. And they would just,
boy, you know, did you hear what happened and this and that, and
that's all they want to talk about. What do you think is going
to happen? What's this going to happen?
And all that. And it didn't move me at all. It didn't shake me. It didn't trouble me because
I've been sitting there listening to how my sovereign God is ruling
everything according to His eternal will, His sovereign will. It's
coming to pass right on time, just like it ought to. And when
you know that, that's the cure for anxious care. That's what
Christ said. He said, take no anxious thoughts
saying, what shall we eat, what shall we drink, wherewithal shall
we be clothed. He said, all those things do
the Gentiles seek. He was using the Gentiles there
as the world. That's what worldly men seek.
They are just troubled all the time by stuff. He said, your
heavenly Father knoweth you have need. He knows your
need. And He knows what you need. But
what did He say? Seek ye first. That means preeminently
all the time be seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
And whatever it is you need, it will be added to you in God's
time. But that's what will settle you
seeking Him preeminently all the time. So you want to, you
want to, I'm telling you, I know people that go out that door,
check it at the door and, and you know, I need to go to the
doctor and this and that, and I'm not knocking doctors. Sometimes
you need to go to a doctor, but I'm telling you, if you want
a cure for care, find out what God says he's doing and going
to do, and it'll calm you. If you know God and he takes
you in your heart, you will be settled. I guarantee it. I guarantee
it. Well, what about the sins that
men commit? Say God's will is sovereign,
what about the sins that men commit? Is that according to
God's sovereign will? It sure is. The worst evil you
could ever think of came about by God's will. The sinner sins
because that's the will of his depraved nature. We do what we
want to do. We do what we will to do. That's
what we do. That's what you do and that's
what I do. You've never done anything but what you will to
do. Ever. You did it because you will to
do it. And whatever was sinful that a man wills to do, he's
guilty because that was his will to do it. He's guilty. And nobody
to blame but him. He did it. But if God is fulfilling
His will using the sins of a sinner, which if He's doing it, that's
what God's doing. He's using the sins of a sinner
to fulfill God's will. That's what God's doing. It wouldn't
happen if it wasn't that. And He's using it and all He's
doing is He's letting that man have the lust of His flesh. He's
letting that man do what he's willing to do. But the sinner
is only permitted to sin if it's God's will. And there's a whole
lot more, you know, if you ever heard this, you're not nearly
as bad as you could be. If you look at others and say,
well, I'm not as bad as so and so, it's only because God had
permitted it, that's all. Because you're not nearly as
bad as you could be. But when you look at men that
take it as far as they can go with it, it's because God permitted
it. And why did He do that? Surely
the wrath of man shall praise God. That's why. And the remainder
of wrath shalt thou restrain. If God's not working it to praise
Him, God don't permit it. But if it's, you know, that's
suffering will. If something so evil and so wicked
can be used to bring glory and honor to God so that He will
permit it to come to pass. That shows you God is so much
more wise and so much sovereign to work His will than we ever
even could imagine, much less think we could do. And by the
sovereign will of God, everything that comes to pass, including
sins, only come to pass by God's will because God is working to
glorify Himself. Now let's go back to the garden.
Sin entered and death by sin and death passed upon all men
by that one sin in the garden. Was that God's will? Of course
it was. It wouldn't have happened if
it wasn't. And we know it was God's will because before it
ever came to pass, God chose a people in Christ in eternity. and said, I'm going to save him.
Why would he have done that if he didn't know what Adam was
going to do in the garden? He knew what he was going to
do in the garden. He permitted him to do what he did in the
garden because it was God's will for him to do it. Well, why?
Because from it, God glorifies Himself, showing how He is righteous,
how that He can make His justice and His mercy meet together in
harmony in Christ who laid down His life for His people. When
you look at that and you see that, what, you know, you try
to, when we think of what's the worst thing that ever happened
in history, you know, you go to things like Hitler and stuff
like that. That's bad. But it wasn't near as bad as
that one thing that happened in the garden because that made
everybody die. Everybody died by what Adam did.
That's, you ought to look at that sin far worse than what
Hitler did because that made everybody die. But God was sovereignly
in control of it, He willed it because He praised God through
it. So that ought to let us know.
Every lesser thing that comes to pass, don't get sideways and
worried about it because if it happens, God is working it according
to His sovereign will to bring glory to His name in the salvation
of His people. It is for the glory of God and
the good of His people. I just guarantee you. Of Him
and through Him, and to Him are all things, to whom be glory
forever. Amen. Now let's go to this last
thing. Like Paul, who said, I'm an apostle
by the will of God. Like Paul, God's people are made
what we are not only by the eternal will of God, not only by the
sovereign will of God, but also by the effectual will of God. God's will is not a wish. It's
not a want. It's not a, I hope I can do this.
Everything that God wills, He affects. He brings it to its
effect and effectually works it and makes it accomplish what
He willed it to accomplish. In Daniel 4.35 we read, He doeth
according to His will. He doeth according to His will
in the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth. And
none can stay His hand or say unto Him, What doest thou? In
the same manner that nothing comes to pass except what God
sovereignly wills. So everything the Lord wills,
He effectually brings to pass. He effectually brings it to pass.
The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought.
That's the will. Surely as I have willed. So shall
it come to pass. As I have purposed, as I have
willed, so shall it stand. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed. That means everything is at His
disposal to bring it to pass and make it effectual. The Lord
of hosts has purposed. And who shall disannul it? His
hand is stretched out and that is a mighty strong hand. And
who is going to turn it back? Nobody ever frustrated God's
will. Nobody. Not anybody ever frustrated
God's will. Nobody. If they could, they'd
be superior to God. They would be God if they could
frustrate God's will. And that can't happen. He's the
Lord of hosts. He's the Most High. And whatsoever
the Lord pleased, that did He in heaven and in earth and in
the seas and all deep places. He effectually did it. He eternally
willed it. He sovereignly He brought that
will to pass and He made it effectual by His will. He brought it to
its end by His will. Now in Christ is where we see
this. We already saw how in eternity God chose His people in Christ
by His eternal will and blessed us with all spiritual blessings,
choosing whom He would. That's His sovereignty, His sovereign
will, choosing whom He would. And when He did that, He effectually
worked His will. He blessed us at that time with
all spiritual blessings in Christ. And so the Scripture tells us
that wasn't based on anything in us, good or evil. And so that
tells you and me, God said, I will have mercy on whom I will have
mercy. So then, it's not of the sinner
that willeth. Salvation is not by our will.
It's not by a running, it's of God's will. It's of God who shows
mercy. Well, then at the time appointed,
when the time came to effectually bring to its end what He had
eternally willed and what He sovereignly worked everything
so that now the time has come, Christ came forth. And Christ
came forth to do the will of God. He had first to fulfill
that old covenant of works and put it away. and that He might
establish that second, that new everlasting covenant of grace
and do this all for His people. Go over to Hebrews 10. Hebrews
10. Hebrews 10.5. Wherefore, when
Christ came into the world, He said, Sacrifice an offering,
thou wouldest not. Under that first covenant, that
old covenant of works, He said all those sacrifices and those
offerings, you did not will those to please you, to make satisfaction. You would not have those. They
were not your will. But a body hast thou prepared
me. Look at verse 6. In burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure, no satisfaction
ever made by any of that. Then said I, this is Christ speaking,
then said I, lo, I come, in the volume of the book it's written
to me, lo, I come to do thy will, O God. I come to effectually
do your will. Look at verse 9. Then said he,
lo, I come to do thy will, O God. And you could put the word affectually
in there. He affectually taketh away the first. He is talking
about that old covenant of works. That He affectually may establish
the second everlasting covenant of grace. Now look at the next
word. By the witch will. Christ said, I came to do thy
will, O God. And He said, by that will. by
the will of Christ, by the will of God, by His will effectually
being worked by Him, He says we are effectually sanctified,
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once. That one offering. Look at verse
14. For by that one offering He hath
perfected forever them that are sanctified. Now that is effectually
making His will effectual. His effectual will. He willed
it in eternity. He sovereignly willed everything
to bring Him to that place and He made it effectual. He accomplished
it. Well, here we are now. You go back to the worst time
of your life you can ever think about when you were dead in sins
and ignorant of God and didn't know who God was and you are
in the uttermost of your depravity and now you think about how God
turned the world upside down. You think about the winding path
that God worked to bring you and the Gospel to cross paths
and have that Gospel cross your path. And you didn't know what
God was doing at all, but when He brought that Gospel to cross
your path, James says, of His own will, of His own will, He
effectually begat us. with the Word of Truth. He did
it. He worked it. By His own will,
He begat us. He made us to be born anew, to
be born a second time, to be born of the Spirit. Which were
born, John said, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man. It wasn't by me being related
to somebody. By blood relation, it wasn't
by the will of my mama and daddy doing something for me. And it
wasn't by my will. But it was by the will of God.
I was born by the will of God. By His will. And then He put
us together with His people in His church. And He united us
together. And He gave us the church to
go forth and preach the gospel. And so we've continued here. We're here right now because
we've been faithful to that charge. And we've kept that charge. And
everything else hadn't been important and we've set everything else
aside and let nothing interfere with us being in harmony to go
forth and preach this Word. And there's only one way we did
that. There's only one way we've ever done that to this point
right here, right now. It's God which worketh in you.
both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It's Him making
His will effectual in His people, in you and me. That's the only
way. We can't boast of it. We can't
say it's by our will and our work, although He's made us willing.
But it's by His will working in us, effectually. And God's
going to keep holding this world in place right now and keep using
this church and other churches so long as He's pleased to do
so until He's called every last one of His elect out. You know
why He's going to do that? You know why He's going to make
effectually do that? Because Peter said He's longsuffering
to us. He's longsuffering to His elect
people who He's willed to save. Because He's not willing. He's
not willing that any should perish, but He is willing that every
one of them, all His elect, shall come to repentance. And so you
account that the longsuffering of God is salvation. He will,
by His effectual will, He makes it effectual. He's going to save
all His people. And go back to Ephesians 1, and
we'll end with this. We know that He's going to do
that. And we know one of these days
we are going to all be together in glory with our God and our
Savior. We know that is going to happen.
And how do we know that? Ephesians 1.9. I am talking about
Him making this effectual so that we know this. Ephesians
1.9. He has made known unto us the
mystery of His will. According to His good pleasure,
according to His effectual will, which He purposed in Himself,
that in the dispensation of the fullness of times, that means
when all time is no more, He is going to gather in one all
things, that's His people, all things in Christ, both which
are in heaven and which are on earth, even in Him. in whom also we've obtained right
now an inheritance. We know we're going to have an
inheritance in glory. How do we know that? Because
we've been predestinated according to the purpose of Him who effectually
works all things after the counsel of His own will. And He did it
that we should be to the praise of God our Father's glory. So we praise God our Father who
first trusted Christ, who by His will effectually trusted
all His people into the hand of God the Son's will and said
save them. And it was the Son's will to
save them. And He is going to save them. So now listen, here
is my point. Like Paul, like Paul, here is
what we say. We have no reason to be distressed.
We have no reason to be perplexed. We have no reason to be anxious
and worrisome over anything. But our confidence is this. All that God has made us in and
by Christ. All that God is doing in us now
and all that God shall make us in glory hereafter. Everything
that we are going to finally, fully be made by God. aspect
of it from beginning to end. It has nothing to do with our
will. Oh, don't look to your will. Don't look to your will
at all. Don't say I will this and it
didn't come to pass and now I'm so depressed. You know what that is? That's
us being mad because we didn't get our will. Don't look to your
will. That's how you'll end up. You'll
end up worried and troubled and upset and angry and distressed
and perplexed and all these things because our will is the weakest
thing there is. Don't look to your will. Nothing
is by will. And our salvation is certainly
not in any way. But we are saved and we are kept
securely by Christ, in Christ, by Christ, by the eternal will. by the sovereign will and by
the effectual will of God. That's where salvation is. We look to His will and we won't
be troubled at all. We'll be troubled on all sides.
There'll be trouble all around us. But we won't be distressed.
Because we're not looking at things that are seen. We're looking
at things that are unseen. The things that are seen are
temporal. The things that are unseen are eternal. And while
that old man, that outward man is dying daily, God's renewing
the inward man day by day and will never perish. As soon as
you put off this temporal house right here and it goes back to
the dust to be absent from the bodies to be present with the
Lord. That's God's will. Look to God's will. All right.