Alright brethren, let's turn
to Galatians chapter 3. Galatians 3, let's read verses
1 through 5. O foolish Galatians, who have
bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth, before whose
eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth? crucified among you. This only would I learn of you.
Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing
of faith?" That's our subject this morning, the hearing of
faith. He says, did you receive the
Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Are
you so foolish, having begun in the Spirit, are you now made
perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things
in vain, if it be yet in vain? He therefore that ministereth
to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he
it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Now
we've been studying in Ephesians the importance of speaking the
truth in love. And that's what the Apostle Paul
is doing here to these Galatians. He's speaking the truth in love.
Paul wrote that word in Ephesians, saying it's important to speak
the truth in love. And he's the one here writing
this to the Galatians. And this is what he's doing.
He's speaking the truth in love. The Apostle did what Christ's
faithful ambassadors do. He spoke the truth in love. Now,
it was how the Galatian believers had been born again by the Holy
Spirit and given faith in the beginning. It was by Paul speaking
the truth in love. That's how they were born again
of the Spirit and given faith to believe. Through the hearing
of faith. Paul had been used of God to
preach the gospel of the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
what the hearing of faith is. It's the faithfulness of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Hearing about His person, hearing
about His works. That's the hearing of faith.
And he said here, Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently
set forth, crucified among you. That's what true gospel preaching
is. This word evidently is the word, the Greek word is the word
from which we get our word graphically. And that's what the preaching
of the gospel is. It's to preach Christ in such clear, plainness
of speech that your hearers cannot possibly mistake what you're
saying. It's to preach Christ so clearly,
so evidently, so graphically, so that it's like Christ is being
crucified right before your eyes, right in your midst. That's what
it is to preach the gospel of Christ, plainly. to preach it
plainly. And then by hearing the faithfulness
of Christ, by hearing what Christ had accomplished, Christ sent
the Holy Spirit to them. And the Holy Spirit entered in
and gave them life and gave many of them faith to believe on Christ. And God imputed the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ to them. They were made righteous by what
he had done. And so Paul now is continuing
to speak the truth and love to them. He says here, he teaches
them, he does it by telling them they're being bewitched. He says,
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you? That's not an
easy message to preach. That's not something that's easy
to say to somebody. You're being bewitched. But it's
the truth. And he had to speak it. So he
spoke the truth in love. It means they were fascinated
by false representations. By false representations, men
will fascinate their hearers. And here's what they were doing.
They were telling the men, and this is what men do. They say
that that in addition to faith in Christ, they must now mortify
the sinful deeds of their flesh and become more moral in their
flesh by keeping the law. You ever heard that message?
It's what 99% of the people that preach preach. You got to become
more moral and you got to become more mortified in the deeds of
your flesh by you keeping the law. And that fascinated the
fleshly man. That appeals to the fleshly man.
That appeals to our flesh, brethren. That message does. And this was
a totally different message than what Paul had preached to them
in the beginning. It was a completely different
message than what Paul had preached in the beginning. Paul preached
the hearing of faith. He preached the works of Christ. He preached the faithfulness
of the Lord Jesus Christ, urging sinners to faith in Christ, to
believe in Christ, to look to Christ for righteousness in justification
and for righteousness in sanctification. That was his message. Look to
Christ for righteousness in being justified and righteousness in
being sanctified. Christ is righteousness and sanctification. And these men preached the hearing
of works. They would come and what they
said was not It was not false in the fact that they were saying,
do this, don't do that, do this, don't do that. These things that
they were saying were good, they're nice things if you could do them.
But that message won't mortify the flesh and it will not make
the flesh memorial. What it does is it inflames the
flesh to think, I can make, I can do this. I can do this myself. I can obtain righteousness, make
myself more righteous in sanctification by what I do. And so they never
heard Christ preach. They were always hearing, do
this, don't do that, do this, don't do that. They weren't hearing
Christ, the faithfulness of Christ declared. And Paul spoke the
truth in love, and he not only told them that they were being
bewitched by this message, he told them what this message does.
Look there, he says, that you should not obey the truth. That
you should not obey the truth. This is what that message of
the hearing of works does. It makes men turn back to the
law, turn back to themselves, and they cease obeying the truth. Paul didn't say that such falsehood
is just error in certain points of doctrine. He didn't call it
that. No, look back at Galatians 1.6.
This is what he said about it. I marvel that you're so soon
removed, you're removed from Christ that called you into the
grace of Christ into another gospel, which is not another. But there be some that trouble
you. That's what he said this message
is. And it's a perversion of the gospel of Christ. He wasn't
like some in our day who say now, now you need to embrace
those who are different in their doctrine because we love one
another. This was true love right here.
This is what he said in verse 8. Though we are an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel to you than that which we preached
unto you, let him be accursed. And he said it again. Let him
be accursed, Paul said. That's speaking the truth in
love. And then later on over in Galatians
5.12, he went so far as to say, I would that they were even cut
off. Well, Paul's in his flesh. No,
Paul's speaking by the Spirit of God. That's the Spirit of
God's Word. That's God's Word, God the Holy
Spirit's Word. Now when you find such strong
words in the inspired Word of God, that tells you and I, brethren,
that this doctrine, all false doctrine, is to be avoided above
all cost. Now, we see in Galatia, he went
on to tell them what will happen when you cease obeying the truth,
when you cease looking to Christ alone, and you begin to focus
on you, and your law keeping by hearing these works of the
law preached. He says this is what will happen. Galatians 5.15
By taking their affection off Christ, they began to examine
each other rather than keeping their affection on Christ. And
when they began to examine each other, They began to find fault
with one another, and they began to accuse one another, and here's
what, they bit and devoured one another. Look at Galatians 5,
15. He said, if you bite and devour one another, take heed
that you be not consumed one of another. He said, you're going
to bite and devour one another, you're going to nitpick one another,
you're going to pick faults one another, so this thing is just
going to be split wide open, and there won't even be a gospel
here at all. But look what the cure was. This
I say then, walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the
lust of the flesh. Focus your affection on Christ
rather than one another and you won't be fulfilling these lusts.
That's what he said. Now that's the result when sinners
take their eye off Christ and look to one another and hear
this work of the law preached. So, now let's go back to Galatians
3. Paul preached the hearing of faith. And now these men were
hearing the works of the law. Now these are the two messages.
Some of you say, well, when I go and hear Clay preach, all he
preaches is God's doing, Christ's works. He preaches what God the
Father does, what Christ the Son does, what God the Holy Spirit
does. That's the hearing of faith, the faithfulness of our God.
Other men, you go and all they preach is, they preach what you
should do. And they preach what you must
be doing. That's works of the law. That's the hearing of works.
Now, you had these two messages being preached, so Paul asked
a question. Galatians 3, 2. This only would I learn of you,
received you the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing
of faith? He says, now how did you begin?
How were you born again? How were you given faith to believe?
How did this thing start? Was it through hearing about
the faithfulness of Christ, or was it by hearing the message
these men are preaching? The works of the law. And they
had to answer, those that were born again, it was by the hearing
of faith. It was by the hearing of the
faithfulness of Christ. And Paul answers the questions
a few verses later. Look at verse 6. He says, Even
as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness,
He said, you believe you began the same way Abraham did. How
did he begin? Look at verse 8. The Scripture,
foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached
before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, and thee shall all nations
be blessed. The reason you don't read in
the Old Testament Scriptures of a man going and preaching
to Abraham It's not that a man wasn't sent to preach the gospel
to Abraham. It's that that is a New Testament
glorification of Christ to send forth His preachers. So the emphasis
wasn't put on that then. The emphasis was put on strictly
the message that He was told. But there was somebody sent to
Abraham with a message. And the message that Abraham
heard preached was, through your children's children's children,
way down the line, Christ is going to be born. And that Savior
that's going to be born is going to work out a righteousness for
His people and justify His people and put away all their sins by
His works. And then He's going to give faith
to His people. He's going to give life to His
people and faith to His people and forgive us of all our sins
so that all His elect in every nation is going to be blessed
by this one that's coming through you, Abraham. And Abraham, as
he heard that message, God sent the Holy Spirit to him and gave
him life and faith and he believed God. He believed God. He believed
God by the same means and the same way that you and I believe
God. You must be born again. That's
not just in the New Testament. That's in the Old Testament.
You must be born again by the Holy Spirit. And he was born
again through this message of the faithfulness of Christ. And
God imputed the righteousness of Christ to him. Abraham couldn't
have heard the law preached, he couldn't have heard the hearing
of works preached because as verse 17 tells us, Galatians
3.17 says the law wasn't given until 430 years later. The law
about Sinai was not given until 430 years later. Now that's a
strong argument to us brethren that the message to preach is
the hearing of the faithfulness of Christ because Moses didn't
even have the law. And God saved him by giving him
faith through this message. And sanctified him, made him
righteous in sanctification, the same as he did in justification. Now, it was the same message
that Abraham heard, the hearing of the faithfulness of Christ,
by which these Galatians began in the faith. The same way, by
the same message. And so Paul asked these questions,
verse 3. He says, Galatians 3, 3, Are
you so foolish, having begun in the Spirit, having begun hearing
the works of the faithfulness of Christ through the Spirit
of God, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Are you going to
be grown now in sanctification, in grace, by hearing the works
of the law preached? by going back to the Law and
to your works and your deeds in the Law? Verse 5, He therefore
that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
that is Christ who ministers the Spirit and works miracles
among you. Does He do it by the works of the Law or by the hearing
of faith? Is He doing it through this message
of works or through the message that declares His own faithfulness?
So, since sinners are not being regenerated by the works of the
Law, Since sinners are being regenerated by the hearing of
faith and not the hearing of the works of the law, by the
Holy Spirit, not by their own flesh, by God sending forth the
Spirit through this message that exalts Christ, not through the
message that exalts man and points man to himself, then brethren,
how are you going to be grown in grace? Through the same message. through the same message that
declares Christ, through the same message that gives Him the
glory, through the same message that declares the works that
He's doing. Now, I want to set Christ before
you graphically. I want to set Him before you
graphically, evidently. And I want you who believe to
see. You're going to see this. As
I preach Christ to you here, I'm going to preach the faithfulness
of Christ to you. And you tell me, as you hear this message,
if it does not strengthen your inner man and mortify your flesh. Tell me if that doesn't take
place. Tell me if your inner man is not edified and the old
man mortified when you hear this message. This is the message
that does it, right here. Turn over to Colossians 2. Turn
to your right there. Colossians 2. The same thing
that happened in Galatia, Paul was warning the church at Colossae
to beware of. Again reading in verse 4, Colossians
2 verse 4. And this I say, lest any man
should beguile you with enticing words. That's what that bewitching
is, to be beguiled with enticing words. For though I be absent
in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding
your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. These folks were looking to Christ.
He said, As you've therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord,
how? Through the hearing of faith.
He says, So walk you in Him. Rooted and built up in Him, established
in the faith, as you've been taught, abounding therein with
thanksgiving. Now beware, lest any man spoil
you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of
men. This is what men preach. The
men preach the hearing of works. The flesh likes that message. That's the tradition of men.
He says, after the rudiments of the world. Rudiments here
means after the law. after the law, the hearing of
works. He said, and not after Christ. Now beware of that, he
said, for in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily, and you are complete in Him, which is the head of
all principality and power. Now here's how we became complete. Here's the hearing of the faith
of Christ. First of all, by the faithfulness of Christ, He put
off the old man of sin. Our old man of sin. The old man
of sin for the elect of God. He put off our old man of sin.
Read verse 11. It says, In Christ you are circumcised
with a circumcision made without hands. in putting off the body
of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, buried
with him in baptism. For God's elect, Christ put off
our body of sins. He put off our old man of flesh
when he took our sins and he died under the justice of God
on the cross. Christ did that. Old Testament
circumcision typified the cutting away of the old, polluted, defiled,
corrupt flesh. That's what it typified. It's
a work done in the heart and it's a work done on the cross.
We're talking here about the aspect of being done on the cross
by Christ. Christ did this work. Christ
did this, it says, without hand. This is the circumcision without
my hands and your hands, without us doing the work. Christ did
this work. The text says when He took our
place, and he satisfied justice, the old man of sin was put off. It was put off of us completely. That old man of sin was destroyed. And the old man of flesh, listen,
that's who does the sinning in us, brethren. It's the old man
of flesh who does the sinning. But that old man of flesh, he's
saying here, is crucified. He's dead. He's buried before
the knowing eye of our God. Look at there, he says he's baptized. You're buried with him in baptism.
Baptism, spoken here, is the baptism that Christ was baptized
with when he was immersed in the judgment of God. When you're
baptized, baptized means immersion. He was immersed in the judgment
of God. engulfed in the judgment of God,
just like going under the water. And then His lifeless body was
taken and buried completely in a tomb, like you bury a dead
man. And He's telling us, when Christ
was immersed in the judgment of God, your old man was crucified. And when Christ was buried in
that tomb, our old man was buried. And so now, before the all-seeing
eye of God, He's saying, your old man has been crucified. He's dead and he's buried. He's
buried. You see water baptism has nothing
to do with circumcision. Men took Old Testament circumcision
and so on the eighth day they'll sprinkle a baby and they call
that baptism because they say baptism is the New Testament
form of circumcision. No it's not. The two are totally
different. One pictures the putting off
of the old man of flesh, circumcision. Baptism pictures the death and
the burial of that old man. They're two totally different
things. We don't circumcise anymore because that was an Old Testament
part of the Old Testament covenant. We do baptize, though, because
that pictures our death and our burial. That's one of the things
it pictures. Now, when you hear this, and
you hear that your old man, that old man that sins, that old man
that causes you the trouble, that old man that you're either
looking to, to mortify, or you're looking to him to try to be more
moral, when you hear that God, before God, that man don't even
exist anymore. Don't they? Thrill you? Don't
that edify your inward man and make you think, I just need to
regard the old man like God does. Dead. Because he is. Before God,
he is. And that's the message that's
going to cause a man to serve God. Let's go to Romans 6. Let me show you that real quick.
Romans 6. Look here. Verse 1. What shall we say then? Shall
we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall
we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Now get what
he's saying there brethren. He's not just saying you ought
not to. Can a dead man live in sin? No. And he's saying there, you're
really dead before God. And therefore before God you
can't continue in sin. You can't. Your old man's gone.
Watch this. Know you not that so many of
us as we're baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his
death? Don't you know what we were picturing
by water baptism was that what Christ accomplished by his death?
What did he accomplish? We're buried with him. by baptism
into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father, even so we should also walk in newness
of life. For if we've been planted together
in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness
of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth
we should not serve sin. You know what's going to make
you not serve sin? This message. This message. This is why He
did it. So that you don't serve sin anymore.
Serve sin by trying to mortify the deeds of your flesh, or serve
sin by trying to live a more moral life. Both of them are
serving sins. When you're doing it in your
flesh, by your works, by your strength, by the keeping of the
law. Both of those are the lust of the flesh. To live immorally
or to live wholly in the flesh, by the flesh, by the deeds of
the law, is nothing but dead, dirty, God-forsaken flesh. But this message says, verse
7, He that's dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ,
we believe we'll also live with Him. Knowing that Christ being
raised from the dead dieth no more, death has no more dominion
over Him. For in that He died, He died unto sin once, but in
that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise, count it so yourselves
to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lust thereof.
Look, neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness
unto sin. The first part there when he
said, don't let sin reign in your mortal body that you should
be in the lust thereof, neither yield ye your members as instruments
of unrighteousness unto sin. The first thing he said in there
is, don't think you're going to be made holy by your flesh,
neither give in to the sins of your flesh. But this message
is the only thing that does it. Yield yourselves unto God. Look
to God as those that are alive from the dead and your members
as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have
dominion over you. For you're not under the law,
you're under grace. You see that? You're not going
to be accused. Now secondly, by the faithfulness
of Christ, our new man was raised when Christ was raised. That's
what he was talking about there when he said you're raised with
him. Now go back to Colossians 2.12. We're buried with Him in baptism,
wherein also you're risen with Him through the faith of the
operation of God who has raised Him from the dead. Now get what
that says. That's not the new birth. That's
not you being regenerated. That's not what we're talking
about. He's saying, just like our old man died when Christ
died, Our new man was born and rose to the right hand of the
Father and sat down with the Father when Christ came out of
the grave and rose and sat down with the Father. Now brethren,
you think about that. Before you and I were born the
first time from our mother's womb, we were already born before
God seated at his right hand in Christ. before we were ever
even born again by the Holy Spirit. We were already born, seated
at the right hand of God in Christ Jesus. Our new man. The old man
nowhere to be seen anymore. Just the new man. Just the new
man. So there's no possibility at
all that God would not send the gospel to you and give you regeneration
and make you to see what Christ has done for you because your
new man is seated with God in Christ at His right hand. And
this is why He did that. Listen, Ephesians 2 verse 5 says,
When we were dead in sin, when me and you were dead, He quickened
us together with Christ By grace you're saved and he raised us
up together and he made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus that for this purpose that in the ages to come he might
show, he might come to you and regenerate you and give you life
and faith in Christ and show you the exceeding riches of his
grace in Christ Jesus. That's why he did it. There's
no possibility. Now this is the hearing of faith.
This is the hearing that I've been risen again as a new man
by the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so that I'm
no longer to regard my old man of flesh at all. This is what makes me
not want to continue in sin. Not the hearing of the works
of the law. The hearing of the faith of Christ. This is what
Paul said there in Colossians 3.1. If you be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above where Christ sits on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things
on the earth, for you're dead and your life is hid with Christ
in God. What message is going to make
me focus my affection on Christ? Me saying, now you do this, you
don't do that. You do this, you don't do this.
Or me preaching Christ. It's okay to tell somebody don't
do this and don't do that. But you've got to preach Christ
to them. You've got to show them Christ.
And show them they have not done it for righteousness. Christ
is the only one that's done it for righteousness. And then show
them now the only way you're going to do it is through Him
working in you through love, making you rejoice in Him and
want to follow Him. And then you're not going to
do it perfectly. You see? Now thirdly, by the faithfulness
of Christ, He sent the Gospel and the Holy Spirit to you who
believe and quicken us to life through this very truth. Verse
13, Colossians 2, 13. You being dead in your sins and
the uncircumcision of your flesh. Now we're talking about us and
our flesh. Have they quickened together with Him. We were dead
in sins, and our old man was dead, and he's still dead, but
Christ came and quickened us together with him. Christ came
and entered in, in spirit, through the gospel, and became the life
within us. So that now we have life in our
inner man. Now there's a new man within
us, and we're one in Christ, and Christ is in us. We're one
in him. One. He in us and we in him.
And look, and through faith, when he did this, he gave you
faith. People will say, well, I was regenerated, and then ten
years later, I was converted and believed. That is hogwash. That is the biggest bunch of
buffoonery I ever heard. Because when Christ, the faithful
one, enters in you, when Christ, the life, enters in you, guess
what you're going to have? Faith and life. You're going
to believe. When you were born the first
time, or your mother's womb, I was born then, but it took
a few years before I lived. No, you were alive. You knew
who your mom and your daddy was right then. He revealed this
to us through faith, verse 13, that He has forgiven you all
trespasses. All means past, present, and
future. all of them, all our trespasses. The old man's dead, the wages
of sin has been paid to justice by Christ, therefore all our
sins are forgiven. That's what he reveals to you.
And then look, and he reveals that the law no longer has anything
to say to us. This is what those men hate.
Those men that want to preach the hearing of work, this is
what they hate right here. They're going to say, but now,
they're going to put some stipulation on this. Hear what God said.
blotting out the handwriting of ordinances. That word means
the dogma. That means the whole law of God
that was against us, which was contrary to us. He took it out
of the way, nailing it to His cross. He did not do away with
the law. No, Christ fulfilled the law. He fulfilled it in perfect righteousness
for His people. So then, it's established for
everybody who believes. We don't make void the law through
faith. The doctrine of faith doesn't
tell you the law is void. The doctrine of faith teaches
the law is established fully, righteously, in holiness by Christ
and we establish it through faith in Him. And so then Christ is
the end of the law. for righteousness to everyone
that believes. The law is not the message that's going to make
you moral and make you want to live right. This message is. This is how you began in the
faith. This is how you're going to grow in the faith. You're
not under the law. Now, Christ did all of this work
on the cross and within his people, both on the cross and within
his people, stealing his people, spoiling his people from the
devil that had us captive. Look at verse 15. And having
spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly,
tromping over them in it. Now, doesn't the message of the
hearing of faith, doesn't it make you, oh man, Is he just
dead? And it makes the new man alive.
And this is the message whereby he grows. Now, lastly, Paul says,
therefore, don't let any man bring you back under the law
for any reason. Sanctification is the reason
they're going to use. Don't let them do it. You'll be grown in
grace the same way you began in grace by the hearing of the
faithfulness of Jesus Christ himself. And it'll be by the
faithfulness of Christ. You'll hear the faithfulness
of Christ preached and Christ will come and do in your heart
exactly what you're hearing preached as you hear it preached. Look
at verse 16. Let no man therefore judge you
in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new
moon, or of the Sabbath. They are a shadow of things to
come. The body is Christ. Let no man
beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping
of angels, intruding into those things which he's not seen vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind. It means don't tolerate people
who want to rule over you by ordering you to bow and scrape
before the law. Don't tolerate it. Don't listen
to men insisting that you join their obsession with angels and
that you seek out visions and all these different things. That's
a lot of hot air and that's all it is. Verse 19. They do not
hold the head from which all the body by joints and bands
have nourishment ministered and knit together increase with the
increase of God. They're completely out of touch
with the source of life. They don't know Christ is alive.
He puts us together in one body. in His body and His very breath
and blood flow through into us through the Holy Spirit and He's
the head and we're the body and we're going to grow up healthy
in God only as Christ nourishes us. And the food He's going to
nourish us with is the gospel of Him and His faithfulness. The old man's mortified one way.
It's by the faithfulness of Christ who grows us through the hearing
of the faithful works of Christ. Paul said, look back at Galatians
2. I'll end with this. Paul said in Galatians 2.20, I am crucified with Christ. There's my old man. He's gone.
Nevertheless, I live. There's my new man. Yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me. and the life which I now live,
here's my sanctification, here's my holy life, the life I now
live in the flesh, in this old dead body, the new me is in this
old dead body, and the life I now live in this flesh, I live by
the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
for me. Now, I don't frustrate the grace
of God, he says, for if righteousness come by the law, That's righteousness
in justification or righteousness in sanctification. If righteousness
in any way comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. You see that? You see that? All right. So remember, the old
man of flesh that would have us to turn from Christ to ourselves,
be it to mortify the evil deeds of our flesh, to make our flesh
more outwardly moral, that old man is dead. He's dead. And if we turn and start obeying
Him and look into the Law and look into our works, we're going
to cease obeying the truth. The truth is Christ. Put off
that old man and put on the new man by obeying the truth. And
the truth, Christ, He effectually commands us in the inner man
to look to, to rest in Christ alone to make us do the work. And that's how we'll be grown. Amen. Let's stand together, Bretton.