If you would go ahead and turn
with me to Numbers chapter seven. Numbers chapter seven. And while
you're turning, let me say something that you're very well aware of. Every moment of our life is seen
by God. You know, men and women think
they have secrets, but none of them are secret to God. He's
omniscient. He knows all things. He sees
all things and God remembers everything. Because of that,
we ought to understand that life is serious business. We know
that God will by no means clear the guilty. The soul that sins,
it shall die. As the holy God, he promised
such. And yet at the same time, those
who look to Christ and trust in him have everlasting life.
Here in Numbers chapter seven, let's read first nine verses. And it came to pass on the day
that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle and had anointed it
and sanctified it and all the instruments thereof, both the
altar and all the vessels thereof and had anointed them and sanctified
them. that the princes of Israel heads
the house of their fathers who were the princes of the tribes
and were over them that were numbered, offered. And they brought
their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons and 12 oxen,
a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox, and they
brought them before the tabernacle. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Take it of them that they may be to do the service
of the tabernacle of the congregation, and thou shalt give them unto
the Levites to every man according to his service. And Moses took
the wagons and the oxen and gave them unto the Levites. Two wagons
and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to
their service, and four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the
sons of Miri, according unto their service, under the hand
of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. Look at verse nine. But unto the sons of Kohath he
gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto
them was that they should bear upon their shoulders. Now here
in Numbers chapter seven, each prince in Israel, one prince
out of every tribe, 12 tribes, was given his own appointed day
for the presenting of his offering. And the princes of Israel brought
their offerings unto Moses. Well, what did they bring? Well,
in verse three, we see that they brought six covered wagons pulled
by 12 oxen. The number 12 in scriptures is
another one of those numbers that's very significant. As you
know, there were 12 tribes in Israel, 12 princes of the 12
tribes. The Lord Jesus had 12 apostles. The book of Revelation, we're
told that there are 12 gates of pearl at New Jerusalem's gate
and that there are 12 angels at the gates. 12 represents the
whole of God's church, the whole of God's elect, the whole bride,
the whole of Israel, the whole body of Christ. Everything involved
in the worship of God was carried from place to place by six covered
wagons. And all the tabernacle materials
were carried in these wagons. I'm sure that it was a tight
fit. You know, as we studied through the book of Exodus, we
saw all that was involved and we'll see a little more of that
tonight. Now God met with Israel in the
tabernacle, no matter where it was moved from place to place,
God in a pillar of a cloud and in a pillar of fire representing
his presence hung over the tabernacle. When the cloud began to move,
Israel began to move. They'd pack up that tabernacle
and they'd head off to the next place led by the pillar of the
cloud or the pillar of fire. As we also saw in our study of
the tabernacle in the book of Exodus, the tabernacle and everything
in it pictures and typifies Christ. just amazing how everything so
beautifully pictures the Lord Jesus. And from this alone, I
was thinking today we ought to see and understand that there
are no holy places in this world. You know, I know it's a big thing
among churches today to take trips to the Holy Land. And they
get a bunch of folks together and chip their money in. They
go over to the Holy Land. They go to Jerusalem. And I'm
not saying that there's anything wrong with that. But what I am
saying is this, nothing holy about it. Absolutely nothing
holy about it. The ground in Israel and the
ground in the city of Jerusalem is no more holy than it is in
Iran or North Korea. No more holy than it is in Madisonville,
Kentucky. Nothing at all spiritual about
men and women's trips to a so-called holy land. It wasn't the ground
that was holy. It was Christ who stood upon
that ground that was. You know, just as there is no
spiritual significance, no salvation in the actual piece of wood,
the cross on which the Lord Jesus hung, there's no efficacy with
the place that our Lord once resided. It's not trusting in
the cross that saves a sinner, it's trusting in the Christ who
hung upon the cross. Now the only holy ground on earth
is that place where God meets with his people and speaks to
his people. So in one sense of the word,
you're on holy ground tonight. God speaks to his people through
the preaching of the gospel. Remember what God said? He said,
Moses, pull off thy shoes, your sandals from off your feet, for
the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. And it was holy
ground only because that's where God was. And that's where God
spoke to Moses. Now, God speaks through his son,
according to Hebrews 1.1. And what a picture the burning
bush is of the Lord Jesus. As Christ hung upon the cross,
he was consumed in the fire of God's wrath and God's judgment,
but his life was never extinguished. That bush burned, but it was
never consumed. That's why Moses was standing
on holy ground. The Lord Jesus Christ was in
his presence. Number seven here is a lengthy
chapter. It contains 89 verses. And as
I said, it gives us the record of the 12 princes and the bringing
of their offerings given for the support and the care of the
tabernacle. And these offerings were substantial
and of great value. And they were basically given
to two men, even though three men are mentioned. And these
men had the hardest task, these two men, did, all three, they
had to assemble and disassemble the tabernacle. Israel began
to move. When the Lord began to move them,
they'd have to tear the tabernacle down and load it up and carry
it to the next place. Now, these three men were named
Mirai, Gershon and Kohad. Mirai's job was to manage the
pillars and the sockets and the pins and the cords that held
the linen curtains, the scarlet threaded curtains surrounding
the courtyard of the tabernacle. Remember, we looked at those
in great detail. According to Numbers chapter
four, Mirai and his sons were assigned the task of bearing
these items from location to location when the tabernacle
was taken down and put back up again. Now, Gershon's job was
to take care and maintain all the curtains and the various
skin coverings, along with all that held them in place as the
tabernacle was moved. And between these two men, Mirai
and Gershon, the offering of the princes was divided with
two wagons and four oxen going to Gershon, and four wagons and
eight oxen given to Meriah. And it was divided in proportion
to the labor involved and to the amount of material each had
to carry. And both of these men were involved
with the exterior elements of the tavern. But none of this
offering was given to Kohath. The reason was that he and his
sons, as we just read, were the bearers of the furniture inside
the tabernacle, the furniture of the tabernacle. They were
the ones who put the golden staffs in the rings and carried the
tabernacle's furnishings around on their shoulders. They bore
the brazen altar, that place where pictured the offerer and
the offering that satisfied God. They bore the labor where the
priesthood washed, that picturing the cleansing from the defilement
of the world to the washing of the water by the Word. Remember,
all these things represent the Lord Jesus. They also carried
the lamp stand, picturing Christ, who's the light and the life
of the world. They were responsible for moving
the table of showbread, which pictures Christ, the bread of
heaven, the bread of life, who was broken as the bread for the
church. And the sons of Kohath also was
responsible for the moving of the altar of incense, picturing
the Lord Jesus, our intercessor, and the Ark of the Covenant,
picturing Christ, the sinner's atonement, propitiation, and
mercy seat, and the revelation of the glory of God. And the
picture and the typology here, I think is pretty clear. The
sons of Kohath picture and typify the work of Christ. Now Mirai
and Gershon pictured the church who need the help of God and
the help of each other. They cannot bear their burdens
alone. God's church cannot bear their
burdens alone. They need the Lord and they need
one another. We've got to have help. That's
just the way God ordained it. But Kohath here, who received
none of the offering, pictures Christ, who accomplished the
work of salvation alone. And he alone put the work of
redemption on his show. And with the golden staff of
his perfection, he finished the work that was given to him alone
to do. Beautiful picture there. Christ
our Lord, by the sacrifice of Himself, suffered and He died
alone. He bore our sins in His own body
on the tree. By Himself, He purged our sins. He needed nor received no help
from anyone. He alone accomplished the task
that was set before Him. What follows in verses 12 through
83 here is a precise and an exact counting by God of every single
item that was offered by these 12 princes. And I want us to
see that God keeps meticulous records much better than we do. One day we must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ. The scripture says that everyone
may receive the things done in their body. They're gonna give
an account of the things that they've done in this body of
flesh. And it says, according to that
he had done, whether it be good or bad. And if we must give an
account to God for them, then it stands to reason that God
has them precisely recorded. The Lord knows everything, as
I said in the beginning, everything. Now every prince in this chapter
is named by name and everything that he gave is listed right
down to the last fire name. I'm not going to take the time
to read all these verses and try to pronounce all these names.
God kept a record of everything that his princes gave to him
for the tabernacle. Every prince brought exactly
the same gifts. It's amazing. You read this on
your own and you'll see that they all gave the same thing
in the same amount. And God kept record of every
sacrifice that they made. God kept record of every offering
and God remembered it all with precise exactness. What a picture this is concerning
believers as God's people in this world, in Christ, being
one with Him, our works and our service and our lives and our
persons are accepted by God, but only one way, and that's
in Him. The message hadn't changed. It's still the same. If any of
us are ever to be saved, it'll be only by, in, and through the
work of righteousness that Christ did for it. We must all bring
to God the same thing, the same offering. Jesus Christ was made. to be sin for us and when he
was the child of God was made the righteousness of God in him. No other way. No other way which
we can be saved. No other way in which we can
obtain the perfect righteousness and holiness that God requires. We're shut up to Christ and I'm
glad that we are. We have a great difficulty speaking
of any good works of our own. You wanna know why? We don't
have any. There is sin in all that we do.
Everything that we do is mixed with sin because sin is what
we are. And our sin is what makes us
sinners. And our personal virtue is always
suspect. When folks start talking about
their goodness, I become very suspicious. God reveals to us
what we are. And then he shows us our need
of a savior. We're hard pressed to see anything
that we do is good because in our flesh dwells no good thing. And our Lord did say this of
us. He said, after we have done all
that was and all that is our duty to do. That word duty means
responsibility. We're responsible to do some
things, especially as believers. But after we've done all that
we're responsible, to do, we must confess that we're still
nothing but unprofitable servants. That's what we are. We have nothing
to offer God that he would accept. Unprofitable. After we've done
what is our responsibility, any allegiance, any loyalty, any
faithfulness, any fidelity, any reverence that we pay to our
just God and Savior was our duty and responsibility to do. And
after we've done all that, we're still nothing more than unprofitable. Our righteousness, our righteousnesses,
plural, are as filthy rags. God's Word commands us to walk
in a life of good works, and our best work is desperately
sinful. We're commanded to give unto
the Lord with a cheerful heart. Our giving is rarely sacrificial. It seems to always flow from
our abundance. Many times our prayers are no
more than flowery phrases that we rehearse thinking that we
somehow impress God in those that hear us. Oh, that God would
enable us to pray from our hearts out of need and our desperate
condition. Our love for the brethren, the
people of God is frail and it's weak at best, often changing
when someone doesn't treat us as though we think they should
or as we feel that we deserve. We're just fickle, aren't we?
We're just, in other words, by nature, we're pretty messed up.
We're pretty messed up. And sin has done this to us.
So what is a sinner to do? What are we to do? Well, we've
got to look away from ourselves and we've got to look to Christ
who sits on the throne of God as our acceptance to God. We've
been accepted in Him no other way. Did Christ not say, no man
cometh to the Father, but by me. No other way to get to God. No other way to be reconciled
to Him. No other way to be brought back into fellowship with a thrice
holy God, only through Christ. You cannot come to God apart
from Christ. You cannot remain with God apart
from Christ. If we're saved, if we're kept,
it's by the power of God found in the Lord Jesus Christ. If
I am saved, it's the work of Christ that saves me. It's the
righteousness of Christ that saves me. If I'm kept, I'm kept
by the work of Christ. And I'll say it, in Christ, one
saved, always saved. And you know, the reason that
men and women don't believe that is because they believe, really,
that salvation is based upon their own work. Now you think
with me for a minute. Oh, I don't believe that a man
is once saved, always saved. It's because they're not looking
to Christ's finished work. They're looking to their own
works of righteousness. And our works are so fickle that
we get ourselves lost one minute and save the next, and lost the
next minute and save the next. But if we look to Christ and
His perfect work that He did for us, it's impossible to be
lost if He died for us. It's impossible for us to be
lost if he shed his blood in our room instead. Isn't that
the best news you ever heard? Christ came into the world to
save sinners. Paul said, of whom I am chief.
My, my, and if Paul considers himself to be chief, my, my,
what am I? What am I? Not by works of righteousness
that we had done, because we can do no work of righteousness
and we had no works of righteousness we can do. Salvation is according
to His mercy, according to God's mercy in Christ. He saved us,
that's what the scripture says. How did God save us? By the washing
of regeneration in Christ's blood, by the renewing of the Holy Ghost
in a new birth, by being made new creatures in the Lord Jesus
Christ, having old things, sin put away, having all things become
new. Now that's what God said in his
word. This is not something that man
has made up. Therefore, if any man be in Christ,
he's a new creature, a new creation. Old things passed away, all things
become new. We're created in Christ Jesus
unto good works. We are God's workmanship. And know what the scriptures
say? We're God's workmanship, and He creates us in Christ.
And in this life, the child of God is being conformed to His
image. That's what the Lord promised.
You know, like an old house, we're not remodeled. We're not
improved. We're not made better. We got
to be tore down. And then we got to be built anew.
And old things are passed away, and behold, all things are new.
The floor plan after which we are now fashioned is Christ. That's what the word conform
means, fashion. fashioned, we're built, we're
fashioned, we're conformed to Christ's image and God accepts
us only in Him. No wonder the Lord told Nicodemus,
you must be born again and to enter the kingdom of God. You
can't see the kingdom of God and you cannot enter the kingdom
of God unless you're born again, unless you're made new, unless
you're made a new creature in Christ. So we must be, we must
come to Christ, we must be born again. Look to Christ high and
lifted up. He's our acceptance. We're truly
one with him and God accepts us through his perfect work.
Now, as we look at these 12 princes, we need to remember that they
were all sinners just like we are. It was God that raised us
up from the dunghill and set us among princes. And it was
not these princes that gave account of what they gave, but God keeps
records. God remembered their offerings
on an individual basis. Now, each prince came on his
designated day, according to verse 11. Follow me here, in
verse 13, it says, on the first day, it was Noshen of the tribe
of Judah that came and gave his offering. Verse 18, on the second
day, it was Nethaniel of the tribe of Issachar. Verse 24,
on the third day, it was Leab of the tribe of Zebulun. that
brought his offering. Verse 30, on the fourth day,
it was Eliezer of the tribe of Reuben. Verse 36, on the fifth
day, it was Shelumiel of the tribe of Simeon. Verse 42, on
the sixth day, it was Eliasaph of the tribe of Gad. Verse 48,
on the seventh day, it was Elishema of the tribe of Ephraim. Verse
54, on the eighth day, it was Gamaliel of the tribe of Manasseh. Verse 60, on the ninth day, it
was Abaddon of the tribe of Benjamin. Verse 66, on the 10th day, it
was Eheizer of the tribe of Dan. Verse 66. Verse 72, on the 11th
day, it was Pagiel of the tribe of Asher. And on the 12th day,
it was a hirer of the tribe of Naphtali, verse 78. Now, what
is the picture that we have here in the offering of the princes
of Israel? What's the significance of this?
Well, first, everything that they brought God here in the
offering of the princes of Israel, God had given to them. Everything
that they brought, everything that they offered to God was
a gift that God gave to them. All this silver, you go down
here and all this gold that you read about, where did they get
that? When they were leaving Egypt, the Egyptians walked up
to them. God put on the Egyptians' heart
and God divinely intervened. And the Egyptians were just coming
up to them and saying, here, Take this. All that gold, all
that silver, God gave them. We have nothing to offer God
but that which God has given us. All we have received, we
received as a gift from God. We're only giving back what God
gave us. We cannot work to earn His favor. We have no worth to merit His
grace. We have no merit to deserve His
mercy. For by grace are we saved through
faith. And even that faith that we have.
Oh, people talk about their faith. Oh, so-and-so's got great faith.
It's a gift of God. What faith we have is God's gift
to us. His grace He gave us, His righteousness
He gave us. The salvation of the righteous
is of the Lord. We don't have anything to offer
God that God didn't give us. And the only thing that we had
to offer God is His Son. And for God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son. Secondly, everything the
princes brought was for the tabernacle. Christ is our tabernacle. He's
our tabernacle in the wilderness of this world. All we do for
Christ is out of love for Him who gave His life for us and
to us. I think about what the Lord's
done for me, and the Lord gives me a glimpse of just what I am,
how sinful I am, and how Christ died to put all my sin away.
I want to be pleasing to Him. I want to act in a way that would
bring Him honor and glory. I know I fall short, we all do,
but our sacrifice is really a sacrifice of praise. Let us always be about
worshiping our great God, serving him, his people, and sharing
the gospel with the lost. God will do the accounting. God
remembers. All our motivation should be
out of love for Christ. He's our wisdom. He's our righteousness. He's our sanctification and redemption. He's all in it all. He's the
end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes in
him. Do you believe in him? Then he's all your righteousness.
The law has no claim on you because he's the end. He's the end of
the law for righteousness to everyone that believes in him.
He fulfilled the law. He kept it perfectly. He satisfied
the justice of God. And you know what? God is satisfied. The greatest thing is that Christ's
perfect work was done in our room and in our stead and in
our place. And God now accepts you, the
sinner that you are. And he accepts me based upon
Christ's perfect work of righteousness. Nothing else. That's why every
prince here brought the same things. In Christ, every child
of God offers the same. And that's the perfect righteousness
of the Lord Jesus provided by His perfect obedience to God's
law. Christ provides for us what God
requires of us. And He provides it all, every
bit of it. And He provides it perfectly.
Christ provides the only perfection that God accepts. It's gotta
be perfect to be accepted. And Christ is most certainly
that. The Lord Jesus said, seek ye first the kingdom of God and
his righteousness. And friends, as we abide in Christ
the vine, we shall bring forth fruit and our fruit will remain.
God remembers and he remembers every detail. God remembers everything
that Christ has done for us. God remembers everything but
his people's sin. And the reason he doesn't remember
that is that all our sin has been put away in and by and through
the Lord Jesus. God will not remember what is
no longer there. I wonder sometimes if we really
believe that. It's difficult. It's difficult to believe, because
we know what we are. We know what we're capable of.
But in Christ, I have no sin, and God sees me as perfect as
He does Him. You know, when our Lord Jesus
walked the earth, when rich man cast their money into the treasury,
the Lord didn't say a thing. But one day there was an old
widow lady, poor pitiful, didn't know where her next meal was
coming from. And she threw a few little old coins in the treasury.
And the Lord Jesus told his disciples that she gave more than all the
others. You know why? Because she gave all she had.
She gave it all, every bit. Oh, that God would enable me
to give all of my heart, all of my mind, all my soul, all
my spirit to Him. God helped us to do that. She
gave all she had. Christ deserves all that we have.
He really does. That poor woman had something
that all the wealth in the world wouldn't buy. She would forever
be in the arms of the one who had given her everything according
to the riches of His grace. If we have that, what else do
we need? What good will it do a man to
gain the whole world and lose his own soul? I had a former
teacher email me yesterday to tell me about a schoolmate that
I went to school with, had some dealings with the man even later
on in business afterwards, and come to find out he's He's way
up in Massachusetts government, I think financial director or
something. And my teacher said he's worth
$6 billion, $6 billion. And you know, the first thing
went through my mind, I feel sorry for him. It's harder for
a rich man to get into heaven than a camel to go through the
eye of a needle. I'm telling you, friends, we're
not taking anything with us when we leave this world. All that
we have that's of any value is Christ. That's it. If I don't
have Him, I don't have anything. That harlot referred to in the
scriptures as only a sinner, a great sinner. Never told her
name. She broke that alabaster box
of ointment and she poured it on the Lord's head. And she was
met with indignation, even from the disciples. She was accused
of wrongdoing. They said, that ointment could
have been sold and given to the poor. And you remember what the
Lord said? He said, you'll always have the
poor with you. There'll always be poor, and
there will be. He said, but me, you have not
always. She loved the Lord because of
what he'd done for her. Every believing child of God
does. Oh, I love the Lord, not as I ought, not as I should,
but I love him because of what he's done for me. He's done for
me what nobody else could do for me. And he's provided to
God for me that which I could never provide. She washed his
feet with her tears. She dried his feet with her hair.
She kissed his feet and anointed them with ointment. She worshiped
him for who he was. Do we love the Lord like that?
Oh, Lord, help me to love you that way. Have we given all to
Him like that poor woman? Well, we most certainly should.
Lord Jesus Christ remembered her good work, that lady with
the alabaster box, and He recorded her act of love on the pages
of Scripture to be remembered forever. The same with that woman
who gave all that she had. He said, wherever this gospel
is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will
be told as a memorial to her. Oh, that God might enable us
to worship the Lord Jesus as He deserves to be worshipped.
Well, let me leave you with this. All these things God spoke to
Moses were spoken to Him from the mercy seat. And again, it's
in Christ, our mercy seat. And the holiest of holies is
where God meets His people. Look at verse 89, if you would,
the last verse. And when Moses was gone into
the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard
the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that
was upon the ark of testimony from between the two cherubims,
and he spake unto him." Now, I know you know this, but we
see here that God only speaks to sinners from, through, in,
and by Jesus Christ, who is our mercy seat. If God comes to you
in mercy and grace, it'll be only in, through, and by the
Lord Jesus Christ. If God saves you, it'll be in
Christ that He does so. Jesus Christ is His mercy seat. In the matter of salvation, I'll
say it again, Christ is all. The 12 princes of Israel, along
with all who are born of God, bring exactly the same thing
to God. They bring exactly the same sacrifice. They bring exactly the same righteousness. They bring exactly the same obedience. They bring the same perfection,
the same perfect work. In other words, all we have to
bring to God is Christ. That's it. He's the only offering
that God will accept. And God accepts us in Him. No
other way. The Bible is so clear on this
matter. I don't know why men and women
endeavor to add to Christ. God who remembers everything
shall reward us, not according to our filthy works, but according
to Christ's perfect work. The minute that I try to add
something to Christ's perfect work, I make it unperfect. It's
on the mercy seat that God accepts our sacrifice and offering, and
that's the blood of the spotless Lamb. That's why Christ must
be our all. You know, if Christ is our all,
then when we offer Him to God, we've offered all to God. In
Colossians chapter three, Paul wrote this. He said, seeing that
we have put off the old man with his deeds, new creation, and
have put on the new man, that's what that is, new creation, born
again, which is renewed in knowledge and after the image of him that
created him. We're made new in Christ. We're
made after the image of the Lord Jesus. He said, now being enlightened,
a new man we are, new woman. New desires, new principles,
new attitudes were created in the image of Christ. We now know
Him. We know His ways. We hate that
old man. We know His ways and we hate
Him. So we continually and we constantly
put Him off, put Him down. If by God's grace, we're able
to put him off, the new man will grow in grace and in the knowledge
of Christ. And one day when our departure
is at hand, and it's coming for all of us, and it won't be very
long for any of us, it's life like a vapor. It's here for a
moment and it faded the way. But at the time of our departure,
that old man will be totally destroyed when we lay down these
bodies of corruption. And Christ gives us that new
glorified body and we'll be just like Christ. When He shall appear,
we'll be just like Him. Oh, He might come for me tonight.
If He does, praise the Lord, I'll be just like Him. But the
scripture's clear, there's neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision or
uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is
all and in all. He's everything. It has nothing
to do with being religious like the Jews, and it doesn't have
anything to do with being sensual and worldly like the Gentiles.
It doesn't have anything to do with trying to keep the law or
failing miserably at keeping it. It has nothing to do with
being wild and unrefined like a barbarian or having cultured
skills like the Scythians did. It doesn't matter if you're an
inmate in prison or a privileged and wealthy man with everything.
Doesn't matter. All that matters when it comes
to acceptance with God is that Christ is your all in all. Any sinner who wants to add to
the perfect work of Christ that's already finished, has yet to
see Christ's work is perfect, that Christ himself is perfect,
and that Christ has made them perfect. They've yet to see that
Jesus Christ is all. Anyone who wants to add, wants
to do something of their own, they've yet to see Christ at
all. All I need, all I want, and all
that I have, all that God requires is a perfect sacrifice, and that's
what Christ is. All is found in Christ because
he's all. There's nothing that can be added.
What shall we do that we might work the works of God? The Lord
said, this is the work of God, that you believe on him whom
he has sent, whom God has sent. Do you believe on him? Do you
believe who Christ says he is? Do you believe who God says Christ
is? God says that Jesus Christ is
all. If he's all, then there can be
nothing else. And if he's all, then you can
add nothing to what he's done. He who remembers everything remembers
not our sin. You think about this. If God
remembers everything, but he doesn't remember our sin, then
our sin must be gone.