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The Marks of Christ's Friendship

John 15:14-15
Henry Sant November, 8 2020 Audio
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Henry Sant November, 8 2020
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

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Let us turn to God's Word in
that portion that we were considering this morning in John chapter
15. In John chapter 15, I want to read
verses 12 through to 15. John 15, 12, This is my commandment,
that ye love one another, as I have loved you, greater love
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever
I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants,
for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But I have called
you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have
made known unto you." Well, earlier we were looking at Those two
verses, 12 and 13. And now I want to concentrate
on what follows here at verse 14. You are my friends, if you
do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants,
for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth, but I have called
you friends. For all things that I have heard
of my Father I have made known unto you. Here then we have the
consequence of obedience. The command is given that ye
love one another. Christ says that those who do
his commandments are his friends. And I want tonight to take up
as a theme that's of the marks of Christ's friendship, the marks
of Christ's friendship. Now let me just recount a little,
reminding you of the context here, the familiar portion of
Holy Scripture. And remember how in the opening
part, the first 11 verses, the Lord speaks of himself as the
true vine. We have one of those great I
Am statements then, that we find throughout John's Gospel, The
I am that I am is the Lord, Jehovah. And it is in the face of the
Lord Jesus Christ that we see the only true God. He is the image of the invisible
God. And so he makes these statements. each of them a further revealing
of something of the character of God. And as I said, here in
the first part of the chapter, he speaks of himself as the vine,
and his father as the husbandman, and believers are branches that
are all united to that vine. And the figure really indicates
to us the idea of union, The branch can only live whilst it's
united to the vine. There's union and there's also
communion. And I said this morning how he
speaks of the importance of that fruit that the branches bear. Verse 8, herein is my Father
glorified that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be my disciples. and we remarked on that fruit
of the Spirit that is spoken of in Galatians and amongst that
fruit of course joy, love and other graces. All of these fruits
are to be evident in the lives of those who are united to the
Lord Jesus Christ. But we were thinking of that
particular fruit of love in what we were considering this morning
here in verses 12 and 13. This is my commandment, that
ye love one another as I have loved you. And again, verse 17,
the Lord repeats it. These things I command you, that
ye love one another. And we said, as Christ gives
this command, as he sets before them this precept, So he also
speaks of himself as the great pattern. Does he command them
to love one another? How has he demonstrated his love
toward them? Greater love hath no man than
this that a man lay down his life for his friends. And I see here a threefold motivation
for believers to follow the example of the Lord Jesus Christ and
to obey his commandments, his motivation in the way in which
the Lord is speaking here. The first thing to motivate them,
surely, is the glorious truth of his death, his death in their
place, his great substitutionary atoning sacrifice. He is going to be their sin-bearer. Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. That's
what he's going to do for his friends. He's going to make the
great, atoning, reconciling sacrifice that the Holy Lord of God demands. There's one motivation. But there's
another also here, and we see it in the way in which Christ
says He will divulge certain things to them. He will confide
in them, in a sense. Isn't that what he says here
in verse 15? Henceforth I call you not servants,
for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth, but I have called
you friends for all things that I have heard of my Father I have
made known unto you. He is telling them of things,
he's sharing secrets with his friends. Isn't that another motivation
for them to be obedient to His commandments. And then the third
thing is, doesn't the Lord delight in them? He speaks of how He
has chosen them in verse 16. You have not chosen me, He says,
but I have chosen you. How He delights in them. Remember
what he says as the wisdom of God back in Proverbs chapter
8, my delights, he says, were with the sons of men. He speaks of his relationship
to the Father, then, I was by him as one brought up with him,
I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, and my delights
were with the sons of men. As he delighted in the Father,
so he delights in those that were given to him, those that
were chosen in him from before the foundation of the world.
And these are all motivations to obey such a one as this who
has befriended poor and needy sinners. It's clear then here
that the motivating cause of all fruitful obedience in believers
flows from the love that the Lord Jesus Christ himself bears
toward them. Everything flows from Him. He
says, If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love. This is my commandment. That's what the Lord is saying,
this is my commandment. Here in verse 12, that ye love
one another as I have loved you. And then again, previously remembering
verse 15 of chapter 14, If ye love me, keep my commandments. Everything flows then from that
love of the Lord Jesus Christ as if he shed abroad in the hearts
of his children, his friends. Believers obey and they do these
things because it is God who is really doing the work in them.
The exhortation of Paul writing in Philippians chapter 2, work
out your own salvation with fear and trembling he says, for it
is God which worketh in you both to will and do of his good pleasure. There's always this dependence
Go back to Isaiah in the Old Testament, Isaiah 26, 12, "...thou
also hast wrought all our works in us." He says, "...are the
Lord beside thee of our dominion over us, but by thee only will
we make mention of thy name." Or the Lord says here in verse
5, "...without me ye can do nothing." How we are so dependent upon
Him in all things. We are to be those then who would
desire that we might be found in Him. Living that life of complete
and utter dependence upon Him. Verse 40 says, Abide in me and
I in you as the brine cannot bear fruit of itself except it
abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me. I am
the vine, ye are the branches, he that abideth in me and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For, as we just said,
without me ye can do nothing. And those who are abiding in
him are the ones that are spoken of here in verses 14 and 15. They are the ones who are his
friends. abiding in Him is evidenced by
their fruit, and that fruit is a life of obedience to Him. Ye are My friends, if ye do whatsoever
I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants,
for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth, but I have called
you friends. For all things that I have heard
of My Father I have made known unto you." It's interesting, isn't it, because
he does call them friends previous to this. We go back to Luke,
the Gospel according to St. Luke, and then in chapter 12,
verse 4, I say unto you, My friends, be not afraid of them that kill
the body, and after that have no more that they can do. He
does call them friends previously. He calls them servants also,
after what we read here in the text. Verse 20 says, remember the word
that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord.
If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they
have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. They're still
his servants, but they're also his friends. Suppose in some
ways the significant passage here is what we have there in
the opening words of Galatians chapter 4. You know the passage,
the opening verses of that chapter. Now I say that the heir, as long
as he is a child, dithereth nothing from a servant, though he be
lord of all. But he is under tutors and governors
until the time appointed of the father, Even so, when we were
children, we were in bondage under the elements of the world.
But, when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth
his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them
that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption
of sons, always with the coming of Christ. It's the fullness
of that revelation of God. They were the heirs, but they
differ nothing from a servant. But now the Lord has come, and
they are to receive that spirit of adoption. They are to be treated
now as his friends, as his friends. And so, to say something of the
mark of that friendship of the Lord Jesus Christ. And first
of all, I want us to consider Christ's friendship in the eternal
covenant. Christ's friendship in the eternal
covenant. Isn't this what he is saying
in this 15th verse and particularly the end of the verse? Henceforth
I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what
his Lord doeth, but I have called you friends. For all things that
I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. He is speaking
here as that one who is the mediator of the New Covenant. And remember,
his office is in that covenant as the mediator. He is the king,
he is the priest, and he is the prophet. And here, of course,
he is particularly exercising his prophetic office. These words
are in the midst of what we call the valedictory discourses. Chapters
14, 15, and 16. It's Christ as that great preacher,
that prophet, that was promised to Moses, like unto Moses, but
greater than Moses. The law was given by Moses' grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ. And here is the Lord exercising
his prophetic office. And what does he say? At the
end of this 15th verse, I have called you friends, for all things
that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. In the Covenant, the Lord Jesus
Christ Himself is a servant. He serves the Father. And He
speaks as a prophet, sent from God. Amos 3,7 we are told, Truly
the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto
his servants, the prophets. And the secret has been revealed
unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and he has come as the prophet to
make known that teaching, that doctrine. And we see it time
and again here in John's Gospel. Chapter 7 and verse 16, he says,
my doctrine, literally my teaching, is not mine, but is that sentment. And here, in the previous chapter,
he says at verse 10, Believers say not that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me, the word that I speak unto you I speak
not of myself. But the Father that dwelleth
in me, he doeth the works. All the words and the works.
Remember, all the mighty works, all the great miracles that he
performs here in John's Gospel are signs. And they're all pointing
to him and to his authority as that one who has been sent by
God. Again, there in verse 24 of chapter
14, He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings. and the word
which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me."
Now, he's exercising then his mediatorial office as that great
prophet, that great preacher, that one who has come to teach
the ways of God. But then when we come into chapter
17, we see more particularly there in his priestly office. As a priest, He prays. That was what the priest did
in the Old Testament. They prayed for the people. They
made sacrifices. And the Lord is here, entering
now into that priestly work. He prays in chapter 17, then
in the following chapters 18 and so forth, we see him as the
great sacrificing priest. But look at the words that he
prays there in the 17th chapter, verse 8. To his father he says,
I have given unto them that is His disciples, I have given unto
them the words which thou gavest Me, and they have received them,
and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have
believed that thou didst send Me." The words that the Father
had given Him were the words that He made known. He is that
one, of course, party to the Eternal Covenant. He is the Son of God. He is equal to the
Father. And yet, in the Covenant, He
becomes God's servant and He has willingly entered with the
Father and the Holy Spirit into that Covenant. We're told in
Zechariah 6.13, the Council of Peace shall be between them both. This is the man who is the peace. This is the man who is the Prince
of Peace and the Council of Peace. He is between them both, between
the Father and the Son and the witness also of the Holy Spirit. And he comes, he comes to speak
of that Council of Peace. He comes to fulfill that Council
of Peace. And that Council of Peace is
equivalent to the Eternal Covenant. All this is the work that the
Lord is engaged in and the work that the Lord is clearly accomplishing
back in chapter 3. Verse 31. We read these words. He that cometh from above is
above all He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the
earth. He that cometh from heaven is
above all. And what he hath seen and heard,
that he testifieth, and no man receiveth his testimony. Continues he that hath received
his testimony, and said to his soul that God is true. For he
whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God. For God giveth
not the Spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son,
and hath given all things into his hand. Mark those words. Verse 32. What he hath seen and
heard, that he testifies. What he had seen and heard is
what the Lord testified. What was it that he had seen
and heard? He was partly to the covenant, the great eternal purpose
of God's covenant in which he had chosen a people in his Son
and committed them into the hands of his Son who in the fullness
of time would come and accomplish all that was necessary for their
salvation. And as a prophet, these are the
things that the Lord is sharing with his disciples. "'I have
called you friends,' he says, "'for all things that I have
heard of my Father "'I have made known unto you.'" Oh, as the
mediator, you see, he reveals all the great blessings of the
covenant to those who are his friends. Psalmy says the secret
of the Lord is with them that fear Him. He will show them His
covenant. He's showing them His covenant.
They fear Him. Oh, they fear Him. We know that.
We see how even bold, impetuous Peter on occasions was full of
great fear before the man Jesus of Nazareth. Remember, The multitude
of the fishes, spoken of at the beginning of Luke chapter 5,
when those experienced fishermen had toiled in vain all through
the night, and then the Lord speaks to them and directs them,
and they are able to catch a great multitude of fish. Oh, such a
great multitude that the ship begins to sink. When Simon Peter
saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me,
for I am a sinful man, O Lord. For he was astonished, and all
that were with him, and the draught of the fishes which they had
taken, they feared him. And to them he showed his covenant. He tells us, All things are delivered
unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son but the Father,
neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever
the Son will reveal him. All they are his friends, and
his friends, you see, are those to whom he shows his covenant.
And this is not a great blessing when the Lord opens our eyes
to those great truths of the everlasting covenant. Our late
dear friend Sidney Norton, and I've said it many a time, but
I don't think I'll ever forget what he would say. He did say
some rather remarkable things on occasions. I remember him
saying, everything is in the Covenant. Everything is in the
Covenant. And he used to say also, we have
to live. We have to live the sovereignty
of God. We have to live that life of complete and utter dependence
upon the God of sovereign grace. the gods of that covenant of
free and sovereign grace. There's friendship then, if with
those who have been shown anything of those great mysteries of the
everlasting covenant of grace, all that fullness of salvation
that is laid up in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. But then secondly, there's also friendship in the
way in which the Lord here is speaking principally throughout
these discourses of the coming of the Holy Spirit. It is the
Spirit, you see, who comes to reveal more and more to those
who are the friends of Christ. We read those words in chapter 16 verse 7, I tell you
the truth, It is expedient for you that I go away, for if I
go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. But if I depart,
I will send him unto you. And what does the Spirit come
for? He comes to reveal to us more
and more of Christ, who is the great Friend of sinners. The Lord Jesus is that remarkable
One who as we said this morning, does nothing but befriend sinners. The scribes and Pharisees despised
him for that. He received sinners and he ate
with them. He had fellowship with sinners. And the Spirit comes to reveal
more and more of the things of the Lord Jesus. There in Acts
16, Verse 12 he says, I have yet
many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now,
O be it when he, the Spirit of truth, is come. He will guide
you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever
he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will show you things
to come. All this day in which we are
living, this Day of Grace, and what a blessed time it is to
live, even in the midst of a pandemic, it's a great time to be living
on the face of the earth, the Day of Grace, the acceptable
time, the Day of Salvation. And to live in a land that has
been so favoured through the generations with the Gospel,
this is the dispensation of the Holy Ghost. And as He comes,
He comes to work as the Spirit of Christ. What does the Lord
go on to say there in verse 14 of chapter 16? Concerning the
Spirit he shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and
shall show it unto you. As the son in that covenant comes
forth as the servant of the Father, So the Spirit comes forth as
the Spirit of Christ, and yet the Holy Ghost is no less God
than the Father or the Son. All the wonders of God's grace
as these things are accomplished, the outworkings of this blessed
covenant of grace. Now the Lord Jesus Christ has
finished his work, he has ascended on high, and he ascends abroad
in the earth, the Holy Spirit. And what are we to expect? What
are we to expect? We're to expect greater things. There's that remarkable verse
that we have previously here in verse 12 of chapter 14. And it's one of those double
verily statements, which of course emphasizes to us the truth of
what the Lord is saying. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also,
and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto
my Father. Now, observe that that second word,
works, is in italics. I think it's a verse that is
often seized on and misinterpreted by some. Those of you who say,
well, what the Lord is saying is that he did great works, mighty
works, miraculous works, and here there are going to be greater
works done in his name. Well, the apostles
certainly did great miracles. But I don't think any have ever
done greater miracles than the Lord Jesus Christ himself performed. He could open the eyes of the
blind. He could unstop the ears of the
deaf. He could make the lame to walk. He could raise the dead to life. And I think if we omit that second
works, it helps us to rightly understand the verse. He that
believeth on me, the works that I do, shall he do also, and greater
than these shall he do, because I go to the Father. He is not
speaking of greater miracles. The Lord's miracles were the
greatest of miracles. He's not speaking of greater
miracles. We're to understand the words
in a spiritual sense. He is speaking about when the
Spirit comes, there will be a greater spreading out of the Gospel. And that's what we have in the
Acts of the Apostles, of course, beginning at Jerusalem. Judea,
Samaria, the uttermost parts of the earth, and then the call
of Saul and the preaching of the Gospel to the Gentiles. These are the greater things.
These are the greater things that are to be done, and they're
to be done, of course, under the gracious ministry of the
Holy Spirit. Remember how Paul speaks of it
there in Ephesians 3, speaking of his own ministry. And what
does he say? For this cause I call the prisoner
of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, if you have heard of the dispensation
of the grace of God which he has given me to you, how that
by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote before
in few words, whereby when you read you may understand my knowledge
in the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known
unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles
and prophets, by the Spirit that the Gentiles should be followers
and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the
gospel. It's the preaching of the gospel.
These are the greater things. Verse 9, he speaks of his ministry
here, to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who
created all things by Jesus Christ, to the intent that now onto the
principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known
by the church, the manifold wisdom of God. Even the angels, principalities
and powers in heavenly places, they look to what the Spirit
is doing in the midst of the people of Christ, in the midst
of the church, and they see the manifold wisdom of God. These
are the greater works, or the greater things. It's that blessed
ministry of the Spirit. And again, it's Paul, isn't it,
who makes these things so abundantly clear? Writing to the Corinthians, there in 1 Corinthians 2 and
verse 10, He says, God hath revealed them
unto us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth
the things of a man, save the Spirit of man which is in him?
Even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God. No, we have received not the
Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that
we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom
teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness
unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritual. so utterly dependent upon that
gracious ministry of the Holy Spirit. And if we know Him and
that blessed ministry opening up to us the truth, coming into
our hearts, convincing us of our sins, making us understand
what our real needs are, isn't this evidence that the Lord is
dealing with us as His friends? I have called you friends, He
says. for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made
known unto you." Isn't real religion something secret, something that
has to be shown to us, something that no other man can teach us,
that only the Lord the Spirit can teach us? Doesn't God do
His work in the souls of men? Does He not come to write His
words upon the sinners' hearts? referred this morning to words
concerning the covenant that we have there in Jeremiah chapter
32 verse 14. But if we turn to the previous
chapter we have the covenant again in chapter 31. What does it say here? Chapter
31 of Jeremiah verse 33. This shall be the covenant that
I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith
the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write
it in their hearts. And I will be their God, and
they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know
the Lord. For they shall all know him, from the least of them
unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord. For I will forgive
their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. or that blessed
work of the Spirit when He comes and He makes real in the soul
of a sinner that there is salvation. Or there's purging in that precious
blood of the Lord Jesus, purging the conscience from all dead
works, all our own dead works. All our righteousness is our
filthy rags. Now we need that blessed work
of the Spirit. The guy in the Lord says here
in this Gospel, John 6, 45, it is written in the Prophets. They
shall be all taught of God, every man therefore that hath heard
and hath learned of the Father cometh unto learn. And the Father as the Son in
this day of the Gospel does his work by and through the gracious
operations, the sovereign workings of God the Holy Ghost. Or are we those who desire to
worship Him, the Blessed Third Person in the glorious Triniton? How He is spoken of here in Scripture? If we are God's friends, if we
are Christ's friends, we will not want to grieve the Spirit
of God. Or God forbid that we should
ever do that, to grieve the Spirit of God. He is the one who teaches. Gain, the language of this same
apostle, in his first general epistle, what does he say? You
have an unction from the Holy One and ye know all things. That unction is the spirit of
Gain. He says you have an anointing. The word is unction there in
1 John 2.20, in verse 24 it reads the anointing, but it's the same
word. The anointing which you have received of him abideth
in you. And ye need not that any man teach you, but as the
same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and
is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in
him. That is the Spirit of Christ,
the one that Christ is promising in all these words that we find
in these three chapters, 14, 15, and sixteen. All we are to abide in the Spirit
as the Spirit of Christ is to abide in us. He is to come and
reveal to us those things of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
His ministry. That's His ministry. Yea, my
friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call
you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But I have called you friends,
For all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known
unto you." And oh, when the Lord comes to His people as a friend,
what does He say? Think of the words that He addresses
to that church of the Laodiceans. There is much to be criticized
in the church, which is one of the seven churches here in Revelation. What does the Lord say? Gaius,
a text that's so often abused, Revelation 3.20. People take
it and say it's an evangelistic verse. They think of that painting
by Holman Hunt of Christ. knocking at the door and they
preach it as a word that belongs to all and suddenly it doesn't,
it's addressed to a church. And it reminds us of how the
Lord is the friend of his people even when they disobey him and
don't do his commandments. And he says to this church, and
he says the same to us, Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in
to him, and I will sup with him, and he with me. Do we not share
meals with our friends? To him that overcometh, I will
grant a seat with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and sat
down with my father in his throne. Eve of Avenir. let him hear what the Spirit
saith unto the churches, or that we might know what it is for
the Lord himself to truly be our friend, even by that gracious
ministry of the Spirit, and that we might oft meet with him and
sup with him and he with us, while the Lord grant his blessing. I'm going to conclude with the hymn 132. This lovely hymn of Joseph Swain,
132. Christ the true friend. A friend there is, your voice
is joy, he sings to praise his name, whose truth and kindness
are divine, whose love's a constant flame, When most we need his
helping hand, his friend is always near. With heaven and earth at
his command, he waits to answer prayer. His love, no end or measure
knows, no change can turn its course. Immutably the same, it
flows from one eternal source. When frowns appear to veil his
face and clouds surround his throne, He hides the purpose
of his grace to make it better known. And if our dearest comforts
fall before his sovereign will, he never takes away our all.
Himself he gives us still. Our sorrows in the scale he weighs
and measures out our pains. The wildest storm his word obeys. His words, its rage restrains. In particular in that fifth verse.
And if our dearest comforts fall before his sovereign will, he
never takes away our all. Himself he gives us still. Let us pray. Gracious God, we
do thank thee. for the gift of such a Saviour
as Jesus Christ is, or that the Spirit might come and ever reveal
Him to us and open to us all those great secrets of the everlasting
covenant, that we might see that all things are in Thy hand, and
Thou art ever a good and a gracious God. Thou wilt never altogether
desert us and leave us, All who do come, then draw near to us
to comfort us and to bless us. Remember us this night as we
separate now. Remember us in coming days, Lord,
who do help us to conduct ourselves as becomes the friends of Christ
in these solemn and difficult days. Hear our prayers. The grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit rest and remain with us now and evermore. Amen. I'll be back in a minute. Yes, you can talk amongst yourselves. Okay, yes, thank you for that. Okay girls, have a good week. You're all busy this week, are
you? another piece of it today, and
it was rubbing on my tongue all the time, making it sore. It's
bad, isn't it, Ruth? I feel sorry for them. I'm sure
you do as well. Right, can you work at the morrow,
Kelly? Yeah. Days, though? Yeah. You've got
days all week? Apart from Sunday night. Oh, you've got Sunday night. Right, hello. If you want, I
can take this. If you want to try for myself,
I can take it downhill, but I might have to turn it up and come back
up. If you can bear with me, I will take it downhill, and
I'll have to close, and then I'll reopen. So what shall we
say? Shall I take it down now? Do you want me to do that? How are you Graham? Is Samuel
there? Is Samuel there today? Yes, thank you. Was he... Hannah, was he on today? No,
no, no, no. Where's Hannah? She's gone. Katie Vine. Hannah,
was Samuel on this morning? You know? I know you've done your best. Do you want to say hello to anybody? Eh? No? Say hello to everyone. It's funny that we're in a big
one there isn't it? I don't like it. Where do things
go? Oh, you said all of that, yeah. They go in this blue box. Oh, you didn't need to do that,
Charlie, because I was... I'll work it out. I'm conscious. You know what?
I'm alright. You'd better ask him. No, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no,

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