1 Peter chapter 1. I read this to you a moment ago
and we'll just go through this and I'll just make a few comments
about it. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 6, wherein
ye greatly rejoice. This is brethren, brethren that
Peter is writing to. And the Apostle says, wherein
ye greatly rejoice. We greatly rejoice. Verse 2 tells
us, you elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling
of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace has been multiplied
to us, and He is being multiplied to us, and shall be multiplied
to us. We greatly rejoice in these things. Verse 4, He says, we've been
called to an inheritance. You have forgotten us again by
the Spirit to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. Greatly rejoice. Greatly rejoice. Verse 5, Kept, kept by the power
of God. You know, it's unfashionable
or, I guess, politically incorrect in this day and time to say she's
a kept woman. Well, the church is a kept woman.
I want to be a kept woman. Don't you? The bride of this
husband. Kept by the power of God through
faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
We're in. He greatly rejoiced. Though now
for a season, now for a season, if need be, year in heaviness
through manifold trials, it's always, if need be, it's always this
God, this Lord of our salvation who knows it's needful. And if
need be, for a little season, if need be, He might, we might
be in some heaviness. Through all kind of different
kinds of trials. You know, there are different
kinds of trials. I don't think sometimes we think about this,
but we have trials in sickness. We think of that. But you know,
we have trials in health too. When we're sick, we get weak
and call on him. When we're healthy, will get
strong and don't. Riches or poverty, both of those,
great trial. Reproach or calm, both can be
a fiery trial to us. Verse 7, why does he do this? Why is it needful that the trial
of your faith. That's what it is. It's the trial
of your faith. He only gives this to those to
whom he's given faith. Everybody suffers. Everybody
in this world suffers things. But if you endure a trial as
a child of God, it's because your father's faithful. He's
faithful. The trial of your faith being
much more precious than of gold that perishes. Your faith is
more precious than gold that perishes. And when the trial
is over, we realize that trial was needful and it was a precious
thing. That we might see how precious
this faith is that he's given. Though it be tried with fire,
and these trials are fiery, they are like fire that purifies the
gold that purges. You put gold in a fire and it
purges to dross that which is not gold away from the gold.
That this faith that he's given might be found under praise and
honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Faith, trusting
all into the hand of God our Savior The Lord Jesus Christ
trusting everything into His hand. That's the only way I know
how to describe faith is casting all your care on Him because
you're persuaded He's able to keep that which you committed
to Him. What is it? Everything. Everything. Everything. Oh, and that is the
most precious, precious, precious, The most valuable thing He's
given us is to be able to truly cast everything
into His hand to trust Him, to provide, to lead us, to save
us. More precious than gold. We have to be reminded of that,
don't we? More precious than gold. Gold, anything that we
esteem as value, it's more precious than that. And He sends the trial
and He, everything that's not faith, everything that's not
trusting, everything into His hand, He's purging that away. Because everything that's not
casting everything into His hand, trusting everything into Him,
is dross and it needs to be purged away. And when we see how utterly
weak we are in the fiery trial and in it, That's when we truly believe,
truly see, truly understand, truly rejoice, truly are thankful
that our God's able to save to the uttermost. Verse 8 tells us something about
what this faith and this trial is about. Faith, whom having
not seen ye love. He's given that. You don't see
him, but by faith you see him, and he is the life. God is the love. He is love. If we're wanting him, it's love's
there. We love him. We love, not as
we all, we don't go around bragging on our love, but we do love him.
We do love him. In whom though now you see him
not, you don't see him yet, do you? Faith is the substance,
faith is the evidence. But we do see him, don't we?
We do see him. We see him. We see him by faith. We don't see him with the eye,
yet believing. And ye rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory. Can you describe it? Can you
describe the joy? I can't. It's unspeakable. It's
being filled with glory only He can give. We can't convey
it. And He does this, He says, receiving
the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Now,
I know we're talking about when Christ comes, Jesus Christ comes. receiving salvation. But God gives faith and He tries
it to this end. That even now, right now, we
rejoice with joy unspeakable, full of glory, receiving from
the Spirit of God, right now, even now, this foretaste of the end. And that end, brethren, is Jesus
Christ. Even the salvation of our souls. If you want to, I don't know
if you mark in your Bible, but if you want to mark in your Bible, receiving the end of your faith,
verse 9, the salvation of your souls, that would be a good place
to have a capital S. Good place. Because that's the
end. Jesus Christ, the appearing of
Jesus Christ, the salvation of our souls. And we can be sure
that if we're His child, brethren, to save us from that which is
not faith, that's not lasting, He'll do whatever He has to do. He'll stand firm. He'll be a
faithful Father, even though we may pout and say, I want to
get up and go back there and play with Joshua. We have to
sit and just know He's going to do what's right for us. So that we be turned to Christ
Jesus, the end of everything that's purpose, the end of our
salvation. It's coming down to a person.
You know that? It's coming down. Remember, I've
said it. It's been a while since I've
said this. It's like a funnel. It's coming right down to a person. To a person. And we're going
to stand before that person. And that person is salvation. Read verse 5 again. Kept by the
power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed
in the last time. That's right. And when we're
found praising and honoring and glorifying our Lord and our Savior,
when He appears, that's the faith that He's gonna honor and glorify
and praise. Can you... I can't even enter
into that. But that's so. That's so. That's oneness. That's rejoicing
in in Him and Him rejoicing in us. That's oneness. That's joy. That's being filled with His
glory. Verse 10, of which salvation
The prophets have inquired and searched diligently who prophesied
of the grace that should come unto you. He's encouraging us
to search diligently this salvation. Now, I said that could be a capital
S. Let's look at this. Luke 2. Luke
chapter 2. Luke chapter 2, verse 25. Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem
whose name was Simeon, and the same man was just and devout,
waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was
upon him. And it was revealed unto him
by the Holy Ghost that he should not seek death before he had
seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into
the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to
do for him after the custom of the law, then took he him up
in his arms and blessed God and said, Lord, now lettest thou
thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have
seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before
the face of all people. I've seen Him. I've seen Him. And this is, look at this next
verse again, verse 11, 1 Peter 1, 11, searching. They looked
diligently. They inquired diligently. They
were looking for this person, this salvation, the prophets
of old were. They were Look, verse 11, searching
what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in
them did signify, when it, the Spirit of Christ, testified beforehand,
before Christ came, the Spirit of God testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ. and the glory that should follow.
The Spirit of Christ was in them. The Spirit of Christ was using
them to testify. He testified in their hearts
beforehand and was using them to testify beforehand to them
in their day. And also, they were saying the
things concerning the sufferings of Christ, the glory that should
follow, everything that's written in the Old Testament Scriptures,
in the Law and the Prophets, they wrote of Him. The Lord said,
it's written of Me. In the volume of the book, it's
written of Me. These scriptures are written of Him. And they
inquire, He gave it to them to give unto whom He would. And they inquired and they searched
diligently looking for Christ this salvation. Searching everything,
he said, seeking diligently. His prophet spoke of Christ and
of His sufferings and of His glory. Look, verse 12, unto whom
it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they
did minister the things which are now reported unto you by
them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven." The Spirit of God revealed to them that
Christ was not coming in their day. They were looking for Him
just on the edge of their seat looking for Him. Looking diligently,
hoping, trusting, applying their hearts unto wisdom, seeking His
face in every word, in every word of God. You have one testifying
to another testifying to another testifying all the way down and
it was revealed unto them of old that they weren't just He
wasn't coming in their day, but they were ministering the things
that would happen when He came. So that we would have those things
and we would know these great glorious mysteries in the shadows
and the types of the Old Testament in the law and the prophets so
we can look into these things and behold This is indeed the
Christ. Everything that He said He would
do long before He ever came, He came and He did everything
He said He would do. Exactly according to how He said
He would do it. Even the parting of His garments
when He was hanging on a cross was done exactly like He said
it would be done. Even the fact that when He hung
there, they wouldn't even break a bone in His body. Everything. Everything. And it all came to
pass because He brought it to pass. Exactly according to His
purpose. Exactly according to His will.
Exactly according to His power to bring it to pass. He did this. He did it. And they saw this
and they heard this and they knew this. And by that same Holy
Ghost, brethren, He sent forth the apostles and they preached
this Word unto brethren in Peter's day. And
He's always had a witness. He's always sent forth pastors
after His own heart who feed His sheep with knowledge and
understanding. And He's spoken to them through this Word of
Grace through the Holy Spirit. which are now reported unto you
by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy
Ghost sent down from heaven." Here's the point, brethren. They
inquired. They searched diligently. They
believed. They longed to see Christ. This
was all that was important to them. Christ, the salvation,
was all that was important to them. And not only the prophets
before, Look at the end of verse 12. Which things do angels desire
to look into? He's given me and you something
He hadn't even given the angels. They want to look. The angels
want to look. The angels want to look at this
salvation. They want to, just like Simeon
said, Oh, now I see Him. The angels are diligently desiring
to look at this salvation. The cherubims on each side of
that mercy seat face that mercy seat. Isaiah said, I heard them. They were crying, Holy, Holy,
Holy is the Lord God our King. They want to look at Him. Verse 13, wherefore, seeing that
Christ has come, seeing that Christ has suffered, seeing that
He's risen to the right hand of the Father, seeing that He's
birthed us into His kingdom, made us to behold by faith that
we're separated from the evil, the unbelief, the sin and rebellion
and ignorance of unbelief out of this world into this marvelous
light Christ Jesus and we behold Him as He is and behold as He
is so are we and as we behold Him and we marvelously have all
this given freely unto us seeing as how the trials are all working
because He is keeping us by these trials to separate us from everything
that is dross and useless and worthless and that we abuse in
this world so that we look steadfastly to the end, to that end to which
we're coming, which is God Almighty, the express image of our God,
the Godhead in a body, Christ Jesus, the Son of God. We're
coming to Him so that we look to that end only in this life
right now. Wherefore, seeing this is the
case, and we have these mysteries and these prophets looked into
these things and inquired diligently and searched to see what we have,
seeing is how the angels desire to look at Christ. Wherefore,
brethren, gird up the loins of your mind, be sober and hope
to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at
the revelation of Jesus Christ. The loins of your mind, gird
them up, gird them up. How? How? How? Search diligently. Inquire diligently. Turn from everything and go after
this Word. Go after this Word that is the
beginning before the beginning as we know it. Go after Him. Be sober, take these great gifts
with the utmost diligence. Hear, search, seek with the whole
heart this great salvation and hope to the end. Even as they
endured and continued looking, looking, looking, looking, looking,
hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you
at the revelation of this salvation. Jesus Christ. Verse 14, as obedient children. This is what obedient children
are. This is the obedience of children. As obedient children. Not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance when
you were dead in trespasses and sins. Just living like a beast
for the world and the pleasures of this world and being just
like this world. But as He which hath called you
is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, because
it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy." We lived only for the world.
We didn't know God then. We didn't know Him then. Everything that we did in our
lives was just It's just for right now, today, immediate gratification
that we didn't know Him. Born of the Spirit of God. Called
out of the world by sanctification of the Spirit. Separated out
of ignorance into truth. As He which hath called you is
holy. He said, I'm not of this world. Now that's holy. And He said of His people, you're
not of this world. That's holy. I'm not what He's not. That's
holiness. I am not. He which hath called you, He
which hath spoken this word to you, He which hath sent this
word to you, He which hath given this word to you, He which has
given His Son the Word, and He which hath worked everything
throughout all time to give you this moment right now. So be ye holy in all manner of
conversation. Not because it's written, I'm
holy. No, be ye holy for I am holy. That's both a A fact, and it's a command. Be ye, and
you are. You who are brothers and sisters
in Christ are not of this world. You have been separated. Sanctification
of the Spirit, the sprinkling of the blood of Christ, and He
says, now follow Him. Follow Him. I'm so thankful for
your diligence. I'm thankful for your sacrifice.
I'm thankful for your example. I'm thankful for your children
and for mine. I don't tell you that enough. I tell other people that a lot. And I'm thankful to God for that. Aren't you thankful He's given
you a heart that longs to be with Him? Aren't you grateful
for that? Aren't you thankful that He's
put in you a longing to be with your brethren? The world doesn't have it. The
world does not have it. honor Him. The more I see Him, the more
I hear of Him, the more He does for me in keeping me from myself,
in keeping me by His power, in making me behold Him. The more
I see Him, the more I behold Him, I want to honor Him. I want
to honor Him. I want to be conformed to Him,
not to this world. I don't want to be fashioned
after this world. I want to be fashioned after
Him. And that won't be fashionable with this world, will it? But
that's okay. I don't care. I want to be conformed
to Him. In everything. In everything. And I want to be conformed to
this world less and less. Look over at 1 Peter 3, verse
13. Just listen to this. I just read
this to Melinda the other day. Listen how simple and how true
this is. Who is he that will harm you
if you be followers of that which is good? It's just simple. Isn't that
simple? So true and so simple. Look at
this next thing He says to us. If you call on the Father, now
this may mean as we're in prayer, I think it also means if we truly
profess to be the children of our Father, to be children of
our Heavenly Father. If you call on the Father, who
without respect of persons, He's not looking at what impresses
me and you. without respect of persons judgeth,
he discerneth according to every man's work." You see, we judge
with the sight, with the eye. He judges according to the heart.
Teach me that. Teach me to not look with the
eye. I don't want to see with the
eye. I want to see, I want to trust Him. I want to, and He
sees with the heart. He looks on the heart. He knows
the motive of every man's work. Every bit of it. Every bit of
it. You know why that's a rejoicing
to me and you brothers and sisters? Because whenever, whenever I
doubt you or you doubt me, whether we, you doubt you or I'm doubting
me, When we're just full of doubt and unbelief, He knows the heart
He has created. That's a blessing. That's a blessing. And He won't deny them that are
His. And He says this, if you call
on the Father in prayer, If you truly profess to be the
children of our Father, who without respect of persons discerns according
to every man's work, looks on the heart, then pass the time
of your sojourning in fear. We're sojourners. Let's don't pass through this
world like we're one with it, and like we're trying to get
everything we can get in it, and keep it, and hoard it, and
hold it, and sit on it, and like this is life. This is not life. Let's pass the time here. It's
just a short season. It's just a little season. Pass
the time here, being in this world but not of
it. If you call on the Father who
without respect of persons judges according to every man's work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear, in reverence to
your Holy Father. You fathers know when your children
are being honest with you, don't you? Well, he knows more. He's
not mocked. He knows. He knows. I want to
be a sojourner. Don't you want to be a sojourner?
I want to be a pilgrim. I want to be passing through.
Just passing through. And this isn't legal fear, brethren.
This is reverence. This is a little child just desiring
with everything to be honoring and well-pleasing because
we love our Father. Because we love Him. Our reward is the Father. I want to be faithful. I want
to be an obedient child of my God and my Father. And here's our motive. Here's our one and only motive.
Verse 18. For as much as you know that
you were not redeemed with corruptible things, things like silver and
gold, things that vain men have passed to us by tradition and
just by form and letter mixed all kind of craziness in
with it. We weren't redeemed with corruptible
things. Why do we want to set our hearts
on corruptible things then? We weren't bought with corruptible
things. We weren't bought with things
that perish. We weren't bought with perishing
things of clay. We weren't redeemed with these
corrupted, moth-eaten, perishing, vile, things that we set our
affections on. We weren't redeemed by those
things. Why we set our affections on them? Why would I want to
go after corruptible things? Why would I want to fashion myself
after the world? Why would I want to live as anything
but a sojourner in this world? I wasn't redeemed with corruptible
things. But with the precious blood of
Christ. I don't know how. And we can't put enough emphasis
on this word precious. Precious. Most precious. Most costly. Unspeakably valuable. Unspeakably precious. Blood of
God the Father's only begotten Son. It's the blood of God. You were bought by His blood
to purchase with His own blood. Bought by the blood of God's
only begotten Son. Blood that purged you of your
sin. Blood that satisfied God completely. Blood that made it so that God's
not ashamed to call you a son and a daughter. That's precious
blood. That's precious blood. This is
successful, victorious blood, efficacious blood, precious blood. It wasn't shed indiscriminately. It wasn't shed universally. It wasn't shed just at random. It was shed particularly and
accomplished the work. Precious blood. As of a lamb
without blemish and without spot. This one who did it was without
blemish and without spot. That makes me want to be without
blemish and without spot in this world. As I pass through it,
sojourning in it, that makes me not want to be the blemish
and the spot of this world. That makes me not want to be
one with this world. I don't want to. I can't be.
I'm just not even comfortable anymore with the world. Perfect, spotless Lamb of God. One who was never under the curse
of the law that I was under because of Adam's sin in the garden.
He was never under that. He went under the curse. This
perfect spotless lamb was without blemish. He was perfect. And
yet God made him to be a curse. To come under the curse of the
law. To lie under divine vengeance. to purchase me from the curse
of the law. What was the price? What were
the wages of the sin? What was the purchase price?
What was it? Death. Being cut off out of the
land of the living. Being separated from God. How real, how real did Christ
do this? How real? As real as He died. as real as He was separated from
God, as real as He was cut off. And just that real, I made alive,
I made holy, I made righteous, right now, right now, by the
imputation of His righteousness and by the imparting of His righteousness
in that new creation that He has created. It's got to be perfect
to come into God's presence. And you and I can't even come
into God's presence in spirit unless it's perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Look at this now, verse 20. Who verily was foreordained before
the foundation of the world. You note that word foreordained.
It's the same word back up there in verse 2. Elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father. through sanctification
of the Spirit, obedience to the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus
Christ, according to the forearrangement, the foreordination, the foreknowing
of God the Father and God the Son, before the foundation of the
world, forearranging everything in a covenant of grace, putting
a people in Christ and blessing them right then and there with
all spiritual blessings in Christ. It was done before anything was
done. And that's how secure it is. But was manifest in these last
times Look, for you who by Him do believe
in God that raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory.
That's right. They saw it. The prophets saw. They saw Him. They longed for
Him. They longed to see Him. But He
was manifested in these last times for you. And you've seen
Him. He's come. It's not in shadow
anymore. We know what He's done. And it was not me foreseeing
or not Him foreseeing that I'd believe Him. Read it again. He
was manifested these last times for you who by Him do believe
in God. You mean that was even determined
before I was? You were predestinated unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ by God to Himself. He ordered everything so that
this gospel comes right to the path of His child and He says,
let there be light. And you see God and know Him
and understand Him and believe Him. How precious is this Lamb of
God? We wouldn't even believe if it
weren't by Him. How precious is this blood of
Christ. God raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory. It's
precious to God. God's satisfied. He's satisfied. That's precious blood. By Him,
by the sprinkling of His blood, the Spirit of God purged our
conscience for dead works to serve as obedient children to
the true and living God. Verse 21, why did he do all this?
Why is Peter saying all this that he's said up to this point
and reminding us of all this, brethren? Why is he reminding
us of all this? That your faith and hope might be in God. That's why God did all this. Is He able to save us and turn
us from this world? He wouldn't have made it and
allowed sin to enter into it if He wasn't able to do it. He's able to. He's able to. So
what do we say to all these spiritual blessings that are so freely
given to us in Christ? Verse 22. Seeing ye have purified
your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned
love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure
heart fervently. being born again, not of corruptible
seed. You see, it's by Him, this seed
by Him. It's not a corruptible thing.
Not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word
of God which liveth and abideth forever. By the Word of God which
liveth and abideth forever. Why? Why do we want to love each
other? Why do we want to be with each
other? Why do we want to constantly gather together with each other
in His name, in this place, and in our homes, and in our wherever
we're together? Why do we want to do that? Why
do we want to be an encouragement to each other? Why? Why? Why?
Why do we not want to be fashioned after this world? Why is this
the love of God in our hearts? For all the flesh is grass. All
the glory of man is just a flower of grass. Why do I want to go
after man? Why do I want to go after man
and not my brethren? The grass withereth, the flower
thereof falleth away. But the word of the Lord endureth
forever." Now this is the Word of Christ. This is the Word that
was given by the prophets. This is the Word that's been
sent to you by the Holy Ghost by them that have preached the
Gospel to you. This is the Word who is the Word who has redeemed
His children. This is the Word that resides
in His people that is the incorruptible seed. And this, look at verse
25, and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto
you. Wherefore, wherefore, laying
aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and envies, and all evil speakings, You know what all those things
are? Those things are the flesh that perishes. Those things are
the fruit of the serpent. That's right, our adversary,
the devil. That's what those things are. We hear the oppressor. We hear the robber. We hear the
one who just sheds a little doubt and sheds innocent blood on you,
or you, or you, or you, or you, or me, or any of us here, and
we give our ear to that, and this will be the result. Malice,
guile, hypocrisies, envies, all evil speaking. Just, just Him,
that fleshly, And you know what happens? We don't see Him. We
don't see Him. Our peace is interrupted. Everything
is interrupted and we don't see Him. But He says, lay aside all
of that. Lay it all aside. And as newborn
babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word that you may grow
thereby. If so be you've tasted, the Lord
is gracious. Well, I'm not a newborn babe.
as newborn babes are ever so dependent and helpless and desire
one thing they just desire that milk don't oh god help us never
become anything more in our desire for the milk for the word let
us become nothing larger or bigger or more self-dependent than a
new born baby. Remember bringing them home?
We just, we just set ours on the bed and just stood back and
looked at it, at her, just sat and looked at her. We just, I
mean just, She lived for one thing, the
milk. The milk. You know where she
got it? Snuggled up, hugged up on her
mother. The church is the bride, the
one through whom the word, the milk, comes like a mother feeds
her newborn baby through her breast. And that's what he's
telling us here. Come together. Everything else, it's not important. This, this is, brethren, this
is it. This is it. Right here, right
now, right here. This is it. This is the end,
one day, brethren, one day. I'm gonna sit right here, and
we're gonna all be facing this way, that way. And we're all,
I'm not gonna be looking at you and you're not gonna be looking
at me. We're gonna be looking at Jesus Christ. God, God, bone of our bone and
flesh of our flesh, glorified in us with him and one with him.
And we're gonna be sitting there together just praising and glorifying
him. And living in a, never going
home, cause we'll be home. at his table, in his kingdom,
in his house, without the interruption of everything that we despise
right now about ourselves, about this world and our longing after
it. Be free from it. That'll be a
happy day. And right now, while we're here,
it says, unto whom cometh. Look over at chapter 2, verse
25, and I'm done. I know this, that this love,
this not fastening ourselves to our former lust as children
of wrath, when we were in ignorance, the end purpose of every trial
is bring us to this, into this unity, into this... to be newborn babies. Dependent
upon this Word. We saw this morning, everything
begins with the Word. Everything continues with the
Word. Everything's grown by the Word. And it's this Word that
makes us ever more and more dependent. You see, in understanding, we're growing
up. And as we grow up in understanding,
in dependence, we're becoming like newborn babies. were being weaned from the world
and more and more just utterly dependent upon this
milk of our Word, our God. Unto whom coming? He said. Look
at verse 225. You were a sheep going astray. But now, returned, brought out
of that strayway by the shepherd. That's who brought,
that's who returned, that's who came and got us and brought us back. Brought
us to Him. And Bishop of His Souls. I'm not the bishop. He is. I'm not the elder, he is. I'm
not the pastor, he is. I'm not the head, he is. And what he said is, desire this
unto whom come, come, come, come, here, here, feed, feed, grow,
grow. And all the while we're being
weaned, weaned, weaned, weaned from that which we need to be
weaned from, the world. All right. Got a lot to be thankful
for, President. I'm thankful for you.