Let's open our Bibles to Isaiah
chapter 27. It's good to have Matthew visiting
with us. He's living nearby from Brother
Jesse Gustan's congregation out in California. And I hope to
be seeing him some. He's going to be living here,
right Matthew? Alright, Isaiah chapter 27. God our Father is the Father
over His house. His Son is the Son over His own
house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence we
have in Christ firm unto the end. His people are described
in Isaiah 27 as a vineyard. We saw this Thursday night. Let
me look at some things here with you and bring us up to our text
this morning. It's called in this chapter a
vineyard of red wine. He said there in Isaiah 27 verse
3, he said, I, the Lord, do keep it. I will water it every moment,
lest any hurt it. I will keep it night and day.
He says, fury is not in me. The reason fury is not in God
toward His chosen children is because Christ Jesus the Lord,
the Son of God, willingly bore the sword of God's wrath into
His soul on their behalf. The Gospel in a verse comes in
Isaiah 27 verses 5 and 6. He says, let him Are you perishing in sin? Do
you see that there's no hope of salvation in your own hand?
He says, let Him take hold of my strength. Christ Jesus is
the power and wisdom of God. He's the strength of God. He's
the power and wisdom whereby God remains just and yet justifies
chosen sinners. He says, let Him take hold of
my strength that He, Christ Jesus, the strength, may make peace
with me. That's what I preached to you
this morning. I beseech you, by the mercies of God, be ye
reconciled to God, laying hold of Christ, trusting Him to make
peace with God for you. God the Father promises you,
He shall make peace, you shall make peace with Him by trusting
His Son, by laying hold of His Son. He says, verse 5, and he
who lays hold of Christ, he shall make peace with me. See, Christ
is in the middle there. He's the mediator. He's the go-between.
If you want to make peace with God, the Father, you've got to
lay a hold of God's Son, Christ Jesus. Verse 6, he says, And
he shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root. Israel,
God's vineyard, His church, His elect people, shall blossom and
bud and fill the face of the world with fruit. He doesn't
deal in fury, He doesn't deal in anger toward His children,
but our Lord does chasten and correct His children. Now the
analogy here is of a gardener, a husbandman, the metaphor is,
and yet at the same time there's intermingled here the example
of a father who corrects and chastens. So we're going to be
looking at sort of both of those. But that's the subject, his chastening,
his correcting, his keeping his vineyard. That's the subject
of these verses, verses 7 through 13. Let's read them together. Hath he smitten him as he smote
those that smote him? Or is he slain according to the
slaughter of them that are slain by him? In measure, when it shooteth
forth, thou wilt debate with it. He stayeth his rough wind
in the day of the east wind. By this, therefore, shall the
iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to
take away his sin. And when he maketh all the stones
of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten and sundered,
the groves and images shall not stand up. Yet the defense city
shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness.
There shall the calf feed, there shall he lie down and consume
the branches thereof. When the boughs thereof are withered,
they shall be broken off. The women come and set them on
fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he that
made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them
will show them no favor. And it shall come to pass in
that day that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of
the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered
one by one, O ye children of Israel. And it shall come to
pass in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they
shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria,
and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the
Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem." Now here's the first thing we
see is the Lord does judge, He does correct the children in
His house. Verse 7 says, Hath he smitten
him as he smote those that smote him? Or is he slain according
to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? Has God smitten
Israel, His true elect, as God has smote those that smote His
church? Is Israel slain in the same way
that God's enemies are slain? That's the question. And the
answer is no. The answer is no. God does smite all those who
smite His church. He said that in Isaiah 26, 21
and 27, 1. He said He's coming forth to
punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. But
God does not smite His children in fury as He does our enemies.
Because His people were all in Christ Jesus, He won't charge
them with sin. Blessed are those whose iniquities
are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to
whom the Lord will not impute sin. And because they were all
in Christ, He will not condemn them for the sin that they are
in their flesh. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk after the Spirit and
not after the flesh, because the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death, made me
free from what I am in my flesh. The Lord has not dealt with us
after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
He does not deal with His children the way He deals with this world.
But God won't allow the planting of His vineyard to go unpruned.
He won't allow the children of His house to go unchastened,
uncorrected. He won't allow us to be turned
from Him to sin. He's going to have His house
in order. He's going to have His vineyard well manicured. And He's going to have His children
in subjection to Him. Now remember, He said, I keep
the vineyard. I keep the vineyard. And he sends
forth pastors not to chop down and try to separate the wheat
from the tares, but to preach the Word. The Word divides asunder. It's the discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart. The Word. And he does this. And he corrects his children
in love like a father corrects his children. In Hebrews 12,
it says, Have you forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto
you as children? My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you're rebuked of him. For
whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth. Whom he loves, he chastens and
scourges every son whom he receives. If you endure chastening, if
you go through chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons.
For what son is he of whom the father chasteneth not? He does
it in love as a father. And he does it in measure. He
chastens in measure. Look at verse 8. In measure,
when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it. He stayeth
his rough wind in the day of the east wind. Now this metaphor
here is of a vineyard. And you picture this tender plant. It's taken root because he's
planted it. It's growing up. And as it grows,
sometimes, I use this analogy sometimes, because it just applies
here to what the Lord's talking about. But you see a tomato plant,
you garden any and all, a tomato plant will grow up, and you will
have the true branches that grow out of it, and they're really
connected to the vine. And they're gonna, the sap's
flowing into them, and they will produce fruit. And then there
are suckers. that grow most of the time in
between where the branches and the vine connect. They'll come
out right there. Those suckers are not connected
to the vine. They look like they are, but
if you ever want to do this, you can take the one that's the
true fruit-bearing vine and try to snap it in two, and it won't
snap in two. You have to really work to get
it from the vine. But that sucker that's growing
there, you can take your little finger and just pluck it, and
it'll just snap right off that vine. It looks like it's part
of the vine, it's green, it's got leaves, but it will never
produce any fruit because it's not getting any sap from the
vine. It's a sucker. Well, that happens
to the Lord's children individually. We get these suckers growing
out of us. They need to be separated from
us. And it's also in the house of the Lord. He deals with His
children and He prunes His vineyard. Now, the east wind and the rough
wind, when it swept across Judah, it was a violent wind. It was
a strong wind. It did a lot of damage. But He
says, He will, when it shooteth forth, when the wind comes and
He sends it forth, He will contend with it. He will use it to contend
with you, His chastening providence, whatever it is He's using to
chasten you, His Word, His providence. He will use it to contend with
you, to chasten you, correct you, but then when He's done
it in measure and He's corrected you just in the proportion you
need to be corrected, before it's more than you can bear,
then He contends with the wind. He contends with what He sent
by His providence and what He sent by... He contends with it
and turns it away. So that He stops His rough wind
in the day of His east wind. When He sends that chastening
hand, He stops it from blowing just when it needs to stop blowing.
Now, everybody's children, you parents that have children, you
know all your children that are under your roof They don't all,
you can't measure out chastening to all of them the same. Every
individual child is different. If you dealt out chastening to
Joshua the way you do A.J. I mean, he wouldn't be able to
handle that. He knows his children as only
he knows his children. And he deals out chastening to
his children in the direct proportion, the direct measure that his children
need chastening. He says, I, the Lord, do keep
this venue. I do it. I keep it. God is faithful who
will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able,
will not suffer you to be tried, chastened, above that you're
able, but will with the trial also make a way to escape it
that you may be able to bear it. That's what he says here.
When the rough wind, when he sends his east wind, that rough
wind, and it's accomplished its purpose, after he's contended
with you using it, then he'll contend with that wind and say,
that's enough. He makes the way. He sends it,
and He makes a way to escape it. Jeremiah prayed. He said, Lord, correct me. Correct
me. A faithful son wants to be corrected.
Correct me, Lord. Don't let me go the wrong way.
Don't let me do something I shouldn't do here. Lord, I want to do what's
honoring to You. I want to do what's going to
magnify Your name. I want to do what's going to be glorifying
to Your body. Help me, Lord. Teach me. But,
Lord, when You correct me, Correct me in judgment, with judgment. With this fatherly love, with
this measure, just the right measure as a father to his son.
Not in thine anger, he said, lest thou bring me to nothing.
Because I'm nothing. I'm nothing. And like as a father
pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him,
those that believe, because he knows our frame, he knows we're
dust. He knows we're dust. Well, the
reason he corrects us is to purge his house of iniquity. That's
the purpose of it. That's the fruit of it. That's
the end cause of it all, is to purge his house, his children
individually, of iniquity. Look at verse 9. By this therefore,
by this chastening hand, by this correcting fatherly judgment,
by this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. This is his
people. Sinners, when he speaks of us
in our need of him doing this for us, of his fatherly judgment,
he always speaks of us as Jacob. Because Jacob, he's a sinner,
he's a supplanter, he's a deceiver, he's deceitful. That's what we
are by nature. That's why we need him to do
this. And he says, by this therefore
shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. And this is all the fruit,
this is the end of it, this is the reason to take away his sin. And by this, when he maketh all
the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten and sundered,
the groves and images shall not stand up then. You see, we have,
you and I, have many altars, and we have many groves, and
we have many images that we gaze upon. We like to think that's
just the papers, that's just the Catholics that do that, but
that's not so. We do that. We have a lot of
altars that we erect. It may be loved ones that come
between us and our God. God won't have that. He won't
have it. It may be the world. It may be
its praise, its honor, its power, its position. It may be our substance. We get to thinking that our life
is in the things we possess. It may be in the things of our
religion. It may be. This was the case
in Judah, in Israel. They had many altars. They had
erected many groves. They had erected many images
and were serving those things in the lust of the flesh, in
worldliness and in religion. And the Lord sent the east wind
of His warriors, those nations, those armies from all the other
nations. He sent them in there and He
began to slay. and kill the wicked, destroy
the wicked. And at the same time, it was
judgment and mercy to those that he had put in Christ who were
righteous in Christ. He was purging them, taking... Your child grabs a hold of a... I came out of the house the other
day and walked into the garage. Joshua and Will were playing
together and they had that orange match, that orange lighter that
I have, that when you pull the trigger on it, it's gonna catch
something on fire. Wind can't blow it out. And they
had that thing, and they were headed out the garage door with
it, both of them. And I went over, and I did this. I took the thing, I said, let
me have that, son. I took it out of his hand, and I said,
here, here's your basketball. Go out, y'all go play basketball.
It's what God did with an entire nation who was clinging to everything
that would cause them to burn and devour them. He went to them
using whole armies of nations and took it out of their hand.
and he put something else in their hand better, the hand of
his own sovereign, omnipotent, effectual grace, the hand of
Christ Jesus his Son to lead them as a father leads his little
children. That's exactly what he did. And
he said, and this is the fruit to take away a sin, to purge
him. And he does that in the sense
that when he turns us like that and he causes us to lay hold
of Christ, He causes us to lay hold of Him in whom all our iniquity
is purged, all our sins have been put away, in whom we are
just and perfect and righteous and shall never be forsaken.
In that sense, He turns us from iniquity and purges our sin.
And He says, and this is the fruit of it when I do it. It's
the same as what the Hebrew writer said. Now, no chastening for
the moment seems to be enjoyable. It's grievous. Nevertheless,
afterward, here's the end of it, the fruit of it. It yields
the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised
thereby. And that peaceable fruit of righteousness is we're turned
from everything else to Christ our righteousness. Christ our
holiness. That's why He said, lift up the
hands that hang down. Follow peace with all men. Christ
is that peace. Follow after holiness. Christ
is that holiness without which no man shall enter in. That's
what He's doing. He's going to turn us from everything
else to Him. From all our altars and all the
things. He's going to make the stones of the altar as chalk
stones that are beaten and sundered and the groves and the images
won't stand up. That's what He's going to do.
Now here's the second thing. Our defense city is Jesus Christ
the Lord. Our defense city is our God.
He says here in verse 10, Yet the defense city shall be desolate,
and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness. There
shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume
the branches thereof. Now some think that this defense
city means Jerusalem. Others think this defense city
means Babylon. Others think that this defense
city means Mystery Babylon, the great harlot that has corrupted
the world. I think it means all three of
them. And here's why I think that, because when the Lord established
Jerusalem and created that nation, Israel, and gave them all the
oracles of God, they thought they had life in that earthly
defense city, they thought they had life in that earthly temple,
they thought they had life in that earthly priest, they thought
they had life in that earthly lamb, they thought they had life
in all those earthly sacrifices, and it was to them Mystery Babylon. Every bit of it, right there
in the midst of Jerusalem, right there in the nation of Israel.
And when Jerusalem was plundered and Solomon's temple was destroyed
and they were carried away into that literal city of Babylon,
it looked so nice to them, they just joined right in with Babylon
and adopted their religion and mixed their idolatries with one
another and just said, well, this suits us just fine. The
law in the temple and all the ceremonies and everything that
God did in Israel was a shadow of good things to come, a means
to an end, not the very image of the things. And then, after
the Lord did all that and He brought them back out of Babylon,
Solomon's temple had been destroyed. He brought them back out. They
built the temple again. They began to... They didn't
have the ark anymore. They didn't have the Shekinah
glory anymore. It was gone. who did come into
that temple to a Christ-stepped foot in it. He used to want it
typified all along. But they had everything else.
They had it all again, but they went right back. The natural
descendants of Abraham went right back to looking at those things
and rejoicing in those things so that when Christ Jesus the
Lord walked right before their eyes, right before their faces,
just like I'm setting Him forth to you right here now before
you, plainly manifest before you, He said, I'm going to destroy
this temple. And he said to them, you destroy
this temple and in three days I will raise it again. And their
minds and their hearts and their eyes and everything was so fixed
on the earthy, the form of religion that they said, how in the world?
This temple was 46 years being built. How in the world is he
going to raise it in three days? And they didn't know he was talking
about himself. They didn't see Christ because
their eyes were blinded with their religion. Their eyes were
blinded with the earthy, with the carnal, because they had
no spirit to see him. They didn't, they couldn't see
him. Carnal, earthy, earthy. And the Hebrew writer said, and
every priest, he stands daily, right now, he stands daily. This
is after Christ had went to the cross and he had bore the wrath
of God in his own body on the tree and purged his people of
their sin. And the veil in the temple had
went from top to bottom and made it obvious and manifest that
the Ark of the Covenant was not in there. The priest had been
putting on a show the whole time. It wasn't even there. And he
said, and yet there's priests that stand here daily offering
oftentimes the very same sacrifices that cannot take away sin. But
this man, Christ Jesus, after he had made one offering for
sin, hath sat down at the right hand of the Father on high because
by his one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. I'm here as a voice of God, on
behalf of God, to set forth this word to you. And as this word
goes forth, my God, who sent me forth into this vineyard,
promises it shall not return unto Him void. It's going to
do one of two things, as it did in that nation Israel. It's going
to harden your heart, so that you can't know God, because you're
in love with the form. with the means, or it's going
to bust open that heart and it's going to cause you to look upward
and see something you've never seen. Heavenly Jerusalem, the
land of Canaan, Christ Jesus the King and High Priest, on
whose shoulder the government of this whole world rests. The
one who is the head of his church. And that's what you need. You
need a king to govern everything in your life as you go through
your daily life in this world. And you need a head over the
church to govern the church. That's what you need. And He's
both. He's both. And that's what you'll
behold. And then the Lord destroyed it all in 70 AD. He came in and He did what He
said. He came in and leveled Jerusalem in 70 AD. Guess what's
happening right now? It's what's happening right now.
Folks are over there fighting over that little bitty mound
of dirt in a dry and barren land. And nations, oh nations all over
the world are, oh don't say anything about Israel. That's our lucky
rabbit's foot. That's gonna get a root rub on that a little bit.
When you do something bad, go to church or do something good
for that nation. Maybe God will bless you for
that. and whole multitudes right now are looking just like the
Jews were in the day that Christ came for an earthly kingdom that's
just going to be in this world. No change is being made to just
Him coming and reigning right here on this earth and all the
saints coming here and reigning right here on this earth and
everybody being drawn over there in that mound of dirt in Israel
to there. There's folks looking for that.
That's exactly what they were in love with all along. That's
exactly why the Jews miss Christ the first time. And if you're
not careful, that'll be why you miss Him the second time. You
won't miss Him the second time, I promise you that. He's going
to come in glory that's going to be so recognizable, everybody's
going to know. It's going to fall backwards like the soldiers
that came to arrest Him. But this is so now. Look at verse
10. Yet the defense city shall be
desolate. He's talking about that natural
city. And the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness. He says it's going to be like
a pasture that's cleared off. There shall the calf feed and
there shall you lie down and consume the branches of it. He
says when the boughs thereof are withered in unbelief. I read Romans 11 to you. When
those natural branches are withered. When the harvest has come to
the end. When I've finished with this
natural brand, when it's come to the end, He says, they shall
be broken off. They should be broken off. The
women come and they set them on fire. Women gathered the firewood
a lot in those days. And He said, they're going to
come and they're going to gather those branches for firewood.
Just like the women come and do it, they're going to be gathered
to be cast into the fire, for it's a people of no understanding.
They don't believe God. Therefore, He that made them
will not have mercy on them. Well, how could God not do that?
Cannot He do with His own what He will? He made them. They would
have been a nation had anything had He not made them. And He
said, He that made them will not have mercy on them, and He
that formed them will show them no favor. You see, here's the
point to get. Our city of refuge is not these
temporal means at all. They're means to teach us of
Christ, to teach us of heavenly Jerusalem, to teach us of the
great promised land of our God. I'm thankful the Lord's entrusted
me to preach the gospel of God's grace to you, but my life's not
in preaching the gospel. I'll be so happy one day when
I can sit down and hear the master tell me all about him. and don't
have to stand up and wrestle and labor and toil and try to
get a message out. My life's not in Him, my life's
in Christ. Be thankful for the gifts He's given you, rejoice
in the gifts that He's measured unto you, but know that your
life's not in those gifts, your life's in the one who gave them.
Paul said, when I was a child, I thought as a child, but when
I became a man, I put away childish things. And what he's saying
is, is right now, these are the childish things, brethren, but
when we come into the fullness of the stature of Christ Jesus
our Lord, when He's gathered in all His elect into the one
body and we're made perfect, conformed in His image, we're
putting away the childish things. So don't get too attached. Don't
be like the Jews of old and get attached to the They got attached
to the shadow and when the image came, they said, we like the
shadow, we like the picture. Don't get attached to the means
and rejoice the one of whom is spoken. And is that not what's
happening in this world today? I mean, in religion it seems
like everybody's being turned to all kinds of service, all
kinds of activities, all kinds of things within the church. I want you to be active. I want
you to be eager for service. I want you to use your substance.
I want you to give yourself first and give your substance and be
used of God for the furtherance of this gospel. But I want it
to be because you see Christ and rejoice in Christ and follow
after Christ and not because you just love the service. That
makes sense. We have a strong city. Look there
in Isaiah 26.1. I tried to point this out to
you last time when we were there, but look at this. Isaiah 26.1.
I love this. Now, if you don't have a King
James Bible, you're going to miss this, but the italicized
words, you take them out. In that day shall this song be
sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city. Salvation
will appoint walls and bulwarks. Salvation's a capital S, brethren. That's a person. He's our strength. He's our city of refuge. How
do you know? Look at verse four. Trust ye
in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah's everlasting strength. He's the one the city of refuge
typified, the defense city. Thou shalt call thy walls Salvation
with a capital S, and thy gates Praise with a capital P. Heavenly
Jerusalem, the city of God which cometh down out of heaven. The
name of the city from that day shall be, the Lord is there,
Jehovah Shema. And he said, I'm going to give
you the name of my city. In Revelation he said, and it's
my name. It's my name. Our city is God, brethren. That's
what the city pictured. He's there at the right hand
of God and he's there in the midst of his church. Now what's all
this going to result in? As he did all that, here in closing,
as he did all that, here's the third thing I want you to see.
What did all that chastening, fatherly judgment, what did it
all result in for his elect? His elect remnant in that nation,
in that time, in the day when he walled this earth, when he
opened up the gospel to the Gentile world, and what is it wrought
in you personally? What is this fatherly chastening
hand, what does it accomplish? What does it do? Look at verse
Isaiah 27, 12. And I'm going to use the New
American Standard here, translation, so that I can just read this
to you and you'll get the gist of it. Isaiah 27, verse 12. And we've been talking about
Husbandry, we've been talking about the vine, we've been talking
about him purging his vineyard like a father chasing his children,
him in wise judgment doing everything like he said it's going to bring
forth some fruit when I finish this. Watch, 12. In that day
the Lord will start his threshing from the flowing stream of the
Euphrates to the brook of Egypt and you will be gathered up one
by one, O sons of Israel. Now immediately he's speaking
to the elect remnant in the nation Israel. And that physical nation
Israel, he's talking to them. But get the picture here now.
Judgment always begins at the house of the Lord. That was the
nation he started with. He formed them and started this
word there and spread it out from there. So he began judgment
there. He began correcting there. He began this work there. He began gathering his true elect.
Now the channel of the river Euphrates is in the northeast
border of Canaan. where the children of Israel
live. And the stream of the Nile into Egypt is in the southeast
border of Canaan. The significance is this, all
Israel shall be saved. All of them. Canaan is a picture
of the new heavens and the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.
When our Lord ascended, the gospel trumpet began to be blown and
He began to gather in His elect from the four corners the Gentiles.
He had broken off the natural branches and He had began to
gather in His elect remnant and He started using them to send
forth this gospel. Look at the next verse. And it
will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will
be blown, and those who were perishing," now he's not talking
about just in those borders he's talked about before, in the land
of Assyria and those who were scattered in the land of Egypt,
They'll come and they'll worship the Lord in the holy mountain
at Jerusalem. He's saying, I'm going to gather
my elect. I'm not casting away the people whom I foreknew. I'm
not casting away any of the true children of Israel in that nation.
I'm going to gather them and I'm going to use them to sound
this trumpet and I'm going to send forth the apostle Paul to
the Gentiles. And I'm going to gather all my
elect from Northeast, South and West throughout the world. And
he says, That's why I read Romans 11 to you. Let's go back over
there now and read just the end part of this. I want you to see
this. Judgment begins at the house of the Lord. Romans 11, 25. For I would not,
brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should
be wise in your own conceit, that blindness in part is happened
to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. He
broke off, he indeed broke off the natural branches, those who
were merely natural descendants of Abraham, he broke those off,
blinded them. But he did it so that he used his true elect remnant
out of that nation to begin gathering his Gentiles. And when the fullness
of the Gentiles be come in, and so, even so, in this manner,
all Israel shall be saved. Because He said, I'll send the
deliverer out of Zion and He's going to turn away ungodliness
from Jacob. My Jacob's that are Jew and Gentile,
male and female, bond and free. My Jacob's, I'm going to deal
with them as one body, as one house, as one vineyard. And I'm
going to deal with them individually as sons of God. I'm going to
chasten them. I'm going to correct them. I'm
going to take away the suckers. And I'm going to purge the vine,
the branches that they bring forth more fruit. And I'm going
to keep them. And I'm going to keep this family.
I'm going to water it day and night. And when the last of my
elect have been brought in, all Israel will be saved. I hope
that's a blessing to you. I know if he did that in a nation,
I know if he's done that with people all over the face of this
earth, gathered them like that, I know he can do that in this
place right here, in this congregation. And I know he can do that in
you personally in your homes. And he did it. How did he do
it then? What was Isaiah doing? Preaching the gospel. Telling
the truth. And he did it. That's how he
did it. That's how he'll do it here. Amen.