That's the title. The subject is Consider What
Great Things He Hath Done. Well, it keeps going on. Samuel was a prophet and a judge
in Israel up to this time. Israel had no king, but God. God was their king. That's all
they had, and he wasn't enough. That's how sad that is. He wasn't
enough. And Samuel had two sons, and
they were corrupt. They did not walk in the way
of their father, Samuel. They perverted judgment. They
took bribes. You can see that over in chapter
eight, verse three. You know, all through the scriptures,
we read where the son walked not in the steps of their fathers. It's evident to us that salvation
doesn't come by fleshly inheritance. We don't pass salvation on to
our children. If we could, we would. We know
we would, but we can't do it. It's not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. It's not of blood, it says in
1 John. It's not of blood. It's of grace. Salvation is all of grace. We
pray for our children, don't we? Our hearts ache for our children. But we trust them into the hands
of the Lord Jesus Christ. If he can save us, if he can
save me, he can save them. And that's how we trust him.
Now the people knew It says that in verse five, they knew that,
well, chapter eight, verse five, but they knew that Samuel was
old and he's ready to pass away. And they didn't want his sons
because they were so wicked. But that was nothing but an excuse.
What they wanted was a king like the other nations. They wanted
a visible king to lead them into battle. That's what they wanted.
They didn't want the invisible God. They wanted a king who was
visible, basically, to lead them into battle, like the other nations
had. It's called peer pressure. That's
what we call it, peer pressure. We want to be like them. And
so they rejected God as king, and that's what God says to Samuel.
They rejected me. They not rejected you, they rejected
me. They used his sons as an excuse
for what they really wanted. And this displeased Samuel, made
him angry. But the Lord said to Samuel,
give them what they want. You don't want God to give you
what you want. Give us, Lord, what we need.
We need mercy, we need grace, we need Christ, we need life.
Give us what we need. Because if He gives us what we
want, it'll all be flesh, just like all they wanted was flesh. It was just a fleshly motive.
That's all it was. He says there in 1 Samuel 8,
7, And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the
people in all that they say unto thee. For they have not rejected
thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over
them. Isn't that what Israel said years later? to the Lord Jesus Christ about
him? Did they not say, we will not have this man to reign over
us? We will not have him as king.
Here's your king. They wrote it over, or Pilate
wrote it over the cross, king of the Jews. They said, don't
you write that. He said that he was king of the
Jews. And he said, well, what I've written, I've written. Here's
your king. This is the king. they said we'll not have this
king reign over us and they said the same thing back years and
years and years before that in the days of samuel said god said
they've not rejected you they've rejected me they don't want me
to reign over them that is the natural enmity that's in every
human being it takes god to save us before we will bow to him
and say lord what will you have me to do Everyone whom the Lord
saves is willing for the Lord to reign over them, aren't you?
You are willing for God's will to be done in your life. You
are. You're willing for that to be
so. You want God's will to be done.
And listen, it's a very serious matter when someone rejects God's
man. It's to reject the Lord Himself.
In John 13, 20, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receives
whomsoever I sin receiveth me. And he that receives me receives
him that sent me. And to reject Christ is to reject
the one that sent him. And to reject his man is to reject
Christ and to reject the one who sent him, the Father. That's
what he's saying. Now Samuel said that he did not
want to sin against the Lord by not praying for the Lord's
people, even though he was angry with them. He was angry about
it and he had a right to be angry with them. But he said, I'm not
going to cease to, I'm not going to sin against the Lord by ceasing
to pray for you. And I'm going to teach you. I'm
going to continue to teach you the good and the right way. Now in verse 23, we see the twofold
work of a pastor. It is to always pray, first of
all, for God's people, is to pray for you. It would be a sin
against the Lord for me not to pray for you. My continual prayer
for this congregation is this, it's this, that we will grow
in grace and in knowledge of Christ. If we do that, it'll
all be well. If we'll continue to grow in
grace and in knowledge of Christ. And that's one of the reasons,
one of the main reasons I go verse by verse. Because it makes
us deal with everything. And we can see Christ in the
light of all the scriptures and scripture interprets scriptures. I like, I've got my commentaries
in there. I read commentaries every week.
But it's the word of God that interprets the word of God. And
it's the Holy Spirit who gives me and you understanding of the
Word of God. You know, one of the things,
one of the gifts that God gives to a man whom he calls to preach
is the ability to use Scripture with Scripture, putting Scripture
that goes with other Scriptures and not out of context. That's
a gift. That is, that's a gift to be
able to do that. So first thing here, God's preacher,
he always prays for God's people, no matter how things appear.
Pastors are to pray for the Lord's people. Paul said in Colossians
1 3, we give thanks. To God and the father of our
Lord Jesus Christ praying always for you. There's nothing that
you can do for me. greater than to pray for me. And there's nothing you can do
for your own self probably greater than to pray for me as I stand
here and preach to you. That I'll stand here and glorify
and edify or glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. And if I glorify
the Lord Jesus Christ, I've learned this. If I glorify him, you will
be edified. The sheep will be fed. If I glorify
Him, if I lift Him up and glorify Him, you will be fed. You will
be instructed. You will be taught of God. And
God will honor that message that honors Him. He'll honor that
messenger that honors Him. Listen, Paul labored in prayer
for the church also. He writes here in Colossians
4.12, he writes a papyrus. He said, Epaphras, who is one
of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring. Sometimes, you know, prayer could
be a labor, if you give yourself to it. Always laboring fervently
for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete
in all the will of God. Well, God make us praying people,
make us to pray for one another fervently, to pray for this congregation
fervently. You know, the scripture says
in James that the prayer of a righteous man, the fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much, much. It's a sin against the
Lord not to pray for his church. And even though Christ is our
high priest and he intercedes for all of God's people, all
his children, we are to intercede also. We are to intercede also. It's hard to hear this. This
thought came to me when I was writing this down. It's hard
to be at odds with someone you pray for. Isn't it? It's tough. It's tough to back
bite and pray for somebody at the same time. It's hard to gossip
and pray. there's nothing to kill that
like prayer if you're really praying for someone you'll you
automatically just be kind to them love them and say and speak
well of them speak well of them prayer change it doesn't change
things it changes us it changes us is what it changes god's already
purposed all things he brings us around to these things And here he gives us the pastor's
ministry. He said, but I will teach you
the good and the right way. That word teach is an old word
back in the old Hebrew word. You know what it means? To shoot. It means to shoot. And you know
what the right way means? Straight. You know what he's
saying? I'll shoot straight with you.
You've heard that old saying. Shoot straight with me now. That's
what Samuel said. I'll shoot straight with you.
I'll tell you the truth. I won't lie to you. I'll take
the word of God and I'll instruct you in the good and the right
way, which is the gospel. It's the gospel of Christ. But
the first thing he does here is pray. That's the first thing
he does. And then teach. He said, I'll teach, and listen,
here's the first instruction. Only, that word means exclusively,
exclusively fear the Lord. Now you and I have too many unfounded
fears. We fear this, we fear disease,
we fear we're going to get sick, we're going to catch this, or
get that, or we're going to, somebody, only, EXCLUSIVELY FEAR THE LORD. Is He not over all things? Are
not all things of God? Not anything moves without His
permission. A dog couldn't even bark against
Israel. It couldn't even bark against
Israel. Only fear the Lord. God is the
true object of fear and nothing else and no one else. It's unbelief to fear anything
else. You know that. I know that. You
know that. It's unbelief that causes us
to fear anything else. We're only to fear Him. Israel
was prone to fearing the nations around them. That's why they
wanted a king. God wasn't enough. In Matthew 10, 28, And fear not
them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul,
but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and
body in hell. They can't do anything but, he
said, kill the body, and they can't do that unless he allows
it, unless he lets whoever, whomever, unless he lets them, they can't
touch you, can't do it. Job said this the fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom It's it's wisdom to fear the
Lord and nothing else and no one else. It's it's it's godly
wisdom It's what that is. That's not natural wisdom because
natural wisdom fears everything else You know scripture says
the fear of man brings a snare It brings a snare it'll cause
you to it'll cause you to compromise the gospel It'll cause us to
compromise the truth if we fear someone else. You know, you're
standing there in a company of someone else and someone's standing
there lying on God and we shut up. We compromise. You know why? There's a fear
there. There's a fear there and we hold
back. It'll cause you to compromise the gospel. And then God's to
be feared because of His name and nature. Holy and Reverend
is His name. Deuteronomy 28 58 if thou wilt
not observe to do all the words of this law that are written
in this book That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful
name the Lord thy God He said it's a glorious and fearful name
To say that the Lord is your God The Lord thy God to say to
say that God is my God is and then fear anything else, that's
a slap in his face. And then people use God's name
so flippantly nowadays, but not you, not us who believe. I've
heard people say, well, my Lord. I know one person, every time
I've heard this person say something that's lordy lordy, and other things I'm not even
gonna say. Anytime God's name is used without
reverence to him is taking his name in vain Exodus 20 verse
7 listen Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God
in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless That taketh
his name in vain God will not hold that person guiltless God's name is to be revered.
We don't use His name except in reverence, in speaking of
Him. And the fear of the Lord is that
which God requires of His people. Does the gospel lower the standards
of God? Did the gospel lower the standards?
No. First of all, Christ met the
standards and that's our righteousness. We met the standards in Christ.
But let's listen to this. In Deuteronomy 10, 12. And now,
Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee? But to fear
the Lord thy God. Yeah, it's a heart work. That comes from the heart. To
fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him,
and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all
thy soul. Now, I ask, does God require any less now? Did the standards get lower?
We're not talking here about obtaining salvation. We obtain
salvation in Jesus Christ. But our walk, our walk is a godly
walk. Is that not so? It's a godly
walk. We don't walk after the flesh
no more. We don't do that. I know we have this flesh, and
I know what it is. I know what it is to deal with
it. But now, God's standards are not lowered.
Are we not to fear God now, the godly fear? Are we not to serve
Him? Are we not to walk in His ways?
Are we not to love Him with all our heart? Are we not to do that?
Absolutely. Can I? Not in this life. Is that an excuse? No. No, I'm
not going to use that as an excuse. I fail every day. Every day. But as one prophet said, Rejoice
not over me, O my enemies. Though I fall, I'll rise again. Tomorrow's a new day. You see,
motive is everything. This motive is everything here,
to love Him, to serve Him with all your heart. You want to,
don't you? You want to. I don't. I wish, and one day
I will. But I'm telling you, the desire
and the motive to do so is there in everyone whom God saves. It's
there. And I think it just grows as
we grow in grace and in knowledge of Christ. It grows. That desire
grows. Psalm 89 7 God is greatly to
be feared in the assembly of the saints And we had in reverence
of all them that are about him Can you imagine what what it's
like in heaven right now with the saints that are there of
the reverence? That is had in all them that are about him the
angels the angels that are there The saints that are there the
ones we know that have gone on before us they are there in complete
reverence of God of the Lord Jesus Christ and then the fear of the Lord
is one of the characteristics that separates that separates
the believer from the unbeliever it separates us David said or
the psalmist said in psalm 86 11 teach me thy way oh lord i
will walk in thy truth unite my heart to fear thy name lord
unite my heart to fear that give me this fear this godly fear
make it to grow in me these are the things we pray for make make
make it to grow a proper fear make it to grow in my heart While I live out this life on
this earth, you know, Paul, Paul speaks of
the wicked as not fearing the Lord. You see the assembly of
the saints, they fear the Lord. God's people fear him. Here's
the difference. Here's the difference. You fear
the Lord. The ungodly don't. There is no
fear of God, he says in Romans 3, 8, 10. There is no fear of
God before their eyes. There's no fear of God. I thank
God. I thank God that I have a fear
of God now that I never had in my life. When I was young, growing
up, teenager, I never thought of God in any way, shape, or
form. He never crossed my mind. I'd go out and do some of the
dumbest things on earth, dumb as can be. One time, I'm just going to tell
this one, one time I was, we were running around with some
guys and we were out driving. I wasn't driving, another guy
was. He had a convertible. And we were flying, I mean flying. And we went out to a place called
Chicken Farm Road. That was the name of it. And it was like this.
And we left the ground. We were going so fast, left the
ground. And I came up through the roof of the car and knocked
the roof off. That roof just flew back. Man, I thought I was
gone out the back. I laughed when I fell back down
in the car. I didn't go out. I laughed. And
I was like, woo, that was fun. Stupid, just stupid. How many times you all could
do this? I mean, you can look back on your life and say the
same thing, no fear of God. And then one day, one day we
heard the gospel and we began to have a real and a right fear
of God. We began to have a real fear
of God. A person who's never been afraid of God has never
met him. They've never met God. A person who does not fear the
Lord is void of spiritual life. A person who does not fear the
Lord does not know the Lord. He doesn't know. He believes that the Lord is
like himself. As the Lord said there in Psalm
50, you thought I was altogether like yourselves. You think I'm
like you. God is to be feared because He's
He's holy. That word means other than. God
is other than me and you by nature. He's other than. We are flesh. God is spirit. God is spirit. He is just. He will by no means
clear the guilty. That scared me to death at first
when I read that. Is there any scriptures that
you've read that just scared you? I mean, just really almost
tormented you. This is one of them. He will
by no means clear the guilty. I'm guilty. I know I'm guilty. And that troubled me so much. In other words, you die guilty,
that's how you stay. That's how you stay. In Christ,
I am not guilty. I'm not guilty in Christ, but
outside of Christ, you die outside of Christ, you're going to stay
guilty. And he will by no means, no,
Jesus Christ is the only way to clear me of all my guilt. His blood and his righteousness
clears me of all guilt. But if I die, if I was to die
without him, God will by no means clear me. It's over with. It's
over with. And I, you and he, listen here, we learned this and this,
I know this by experience. He may show mercy and he may
not. That's something to consider.
He may show mercy and he may not. He'd like to show mercy,
but I sure wouldn't presume upon it. I wouldn't presume upon it. The fear of the Lord is not an
idolatrous, superstitious fear like the Athenians who made an
altar to the unknown God. We know God. We don't know all there is to
know and probably never will. Who can ever grasp such... It's
infinite. The knowledge of God is infinite,
unsearchable. That's what Job said, unsearchable.
And then it's not a hypocritical fear. It's not a fear, listen,
it's not a fear taught by men. Because God said to Israel, your
fear of me is taught by the precepts of men. You're taught, you say,
well, I'm supposed to fear him. A real fear of God is the work
of the Holy Spirit. It's the work of the Holy Spirit.
When you really understand who God is, that's when you'll start
to understand who you are. You can only see who you are
in the light of seeing who he is. You see he's holy and you think,
well I'm not that. I'm the complete opposite of
that. And it's not a servile fear like that of a slave who
obeys the master because of the whip. It's the fear of a son
to a father. It's respectful fear. It's not a slavish fear. It's
a respectful fear. It's a reverent fear. It's born
out of love. It is a real affection for the
Lord, who is God over all, blessed forever. It's a real affection
for Him. Then the second thing Samuel teaches them is this.
Serve the Lord in truth with all your heart. You see, the
fear part has got to be there first. If it's not there, the
rest is not going to happen. The rest is going to go down
the wrong road. Heart worship is the only worship
the Lord recognizes, no other kind. He's not only to be feared,
but he's to be served in fear. He's to be served. 2 Corinthians
5, 15, in that Christ died, he died for all that they which
live should not henceforth live unto themselves. But unto Him which died for them
and rose again, we live to Him. We live to Him, we die to Him. The Scripture says you are bought
with a price, and that price is the blood of Christ. Not silver
and gold, you know that, but with the blood of Christ. And
this serving is to be done, it says here, in truth. It's to
be done in truth according to His Word in the spirit of sincerity. says in john 4 23 but the hour
cometh and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the
father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to
worship him we worship him in spirit we don't we don't worship
him with our hands we don't worship we worship him with the heart
now we do things with our hands serving the lord but worship
comes from the heart it comes from the heart Now here's
the motive for the service. Here's the motive. For consider
how great things he hath done for you. They forgot that, didn't
they? How many times did Israel forget
what the Lord had done for them? Murmured, complained, he would
deliver. Murmured, complained, he would
deliver. Samuel does not use the law as a whip serving the
Lord or as a motive for serving the Lord. Do's and don'ts don't
work, they just don't work. That's not what God's after.
He uses the great things that the Lord has done for them And know what God uses to teach
us in the way of these great things,
in bringing them to remembrance. He says in Titus 2, 11 and 12,
for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all
men, teaching us. It's God's grace who teaches
us what great things he has done for us. It's not just words on
a book, it's God's grace, God's Spirit, and God's Word, teaching
us what great things He has done. You know, the law can make a
man bow, but only grace can make him willing to bow. It can only
make him willing to bow. A fear of the law may keep me
from doing evil, but only the love of Christ can constrain
me. from doing evil. There's a real difference here,
a real difference. You know, there's a real difference
in saying, I don't want to do something because I'll get in
trouble. You know, I may go to jail or
get fined. I just, I don't want to get in
trouble. There's a big difference in saying that and saying this,
I don't want to do that because I don't want to bring reproach
on the name of my Lord. There's a big difference. Now what great things did God
do for Israel? And I'll wind this down. He chose them. be His people. Of all the people on earth, it
pleased God to make them His people. That's what Samuel said
to them. He said there in verse 12, 22,
For the Lord will not forsake His people for His great name's
sake, because it hath pleased the Lord to make you His people. He won't forsake. He will not
forsake His people. And then he delivered them from
the cruel hand of the Egyptians. He tells them that in verse eight. They were there in Egypt and
God sent Moses and Aaron to deliver them. They were under severe
bondage and God delivered them. He gave them manna in the wilderness
and water out of the rock. We looked at that here the last
two Sundays. God gave them that. Their clothes didn't grow old.
Their shoes didn't wear out. They had manna every morning.
They just went out and just gathered it up. Water came out of the
gushing out of the rock. It said gushing out. Over a million,
you know, a million plus people. One stream. coming out of that
rock that's watering that whole nation, that million some people,
how many, two million people, I don't know. You know how much
water it'd take to do that? How much manna from heaven? But
that's nothing, I mean, that's no way. That's no strain on God's
power. No strain on God's power. But he gave them manna in the
wilderness and then they called it light bread. He sent him quail. No matter what the Lord did,
they complained. That is a revelation of an unregenerate
heart. That's what that is. Murmuring
and complaining is evidence that God hasn't saved you. For me,
if that's my life, if I'm always murmuring and complaining, there's
a good chance that God has not saved you. I started putting
it in a bulletin, I took it out, but I had just a short statement
in there because it's just been on my mind, and it was just this,
I thank God that I'm thankful. It was just a short, I took it
out of the bulletin, but I thank God I'm thankful. I thank God
that every day that I thank him for everything. I thank him for
a safe night. I thank you for the food, I thank
you for my health. I'm 68 years old and thus far, I've been healthy. I thought 68 would feel worse
than this, but it doesn't. I thank the Lord for that, I
do. Someone told me back when I was in my 50s, this nurse,
she said to me, she said, you'd be surprised how many 50 years
old are in the nursing home. Only by God's grace, I'm not.
Only by His grace, I'm not. And I thank Him for it. I thank
Him. I hope by His grace, when the
aches and pains are really there, I can thank Him for that too. We'll see. Then He gave them His word. You know, no one else had it.
All the other nations, all the nations that were upon the face
of this earth, one nation had the Word of God. One nation had
the pictures and the types of the Lord Jesus Christ. One nation
had a manifestation of God. One nation had the tabernacle.
One nation had the Shekinah glory. One nation had the Passover.
One nation had the priesthood. One nation had the priesthood
that, one nation, which is a type of that One Nation, that Holy
Nation, the Church. And we have it in reality, not
type. We have the High Priest. We have
the Tabernacle Christ. We have it in its fulfillment.
We have the Passover. Christ, our Passover, is sacrificed
for us. And many times, many times, they
were delivered from their enemies, many times. And last of all,
we who believe, let us consider. At work, you know, that means
to be to contemplate, it means to to be taken up with. I looked this up in dictionary.
It means to be taken up with. We ought to be taken up with
the great things the Lord has done for us. It's so easy to
get taken up with this world. It's so easy to get taken up
with material things. Because we have a nature that
gravitates to that. We have a nature that loves that.
But we also have a nature that loves God. And I pray that that
nature will be fed and grow and strengthened to where we just
say goodbye to this world, let it go on by. But let's consider here that
Christ chose us. We were chosen in Christ. Christ
said to his disciples, you didn't choose me, I chose you. I can't
imagine, I don't know why it stays on my mind, but I can't
imagine that one day, by God's grace, I'm gonna stand there
through no fault of my own. Just by grace, I'm there. I could
be in hell with the rest of the people. But by grace, I'm gonna
live eternally with God and enjoy His presence and enjoy the company
of the saints and where there's no sin, where it's a kingdom
of righteousness. That's just mind-blowing to me. But He chose us in Christ, redeemed
us by His blood, Worked out a righteousness for
us. I don't have to produce one. He did. He did. Righteousness used to not mean
anything to me. It was a boring word. When I thought of righteousness,
I heard anybody speak of righteousness and holiness. Or you think of
somebody that's just strict and mean and just crack the whip
on you. That's the way I thought of it
when I was young. That's the way holiness and righteousness
came across to me. You're not allowed to do this,
not allowed to do that. Can't go here, can't do that, can't
go there. Righteousness and holiness is
a nature. It's the nature of God. And those
who have it have the nature of God. It's not do's and don'ts, it's
a nature. It's the character of God. And then He called us
by His grace. He called us, how many people
left here? How many people left here? This place had to have
been full at one time. It had to have been full. Look how many left, but you didn't. Because you heard the gospel,
you heard it in power. God made a difference between
his people and the Egyptians. He made a difference. He called
you by his grace, gave you a new heart, a new nature. He said,
I'll give him a new heart, a heart to love me, a heart to love me. A new birth, the birth of God.
BORN OF THE SPIRIT, THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.
IT'S OF THE SAME NATURE THAT GOD IS. THAT'S NOT, THAT'S, SOMEONE,
SOME PREACHER SAID, NO, THAT MEANS FELLOWSHIPPERS. NO, WE'RE
NOT FELLOWSHIPPERS, WE'RE NOT JUST FELLOWSHIPPERS, WE ARE PARTAKERS
OF THE DIVINE NATURE. IF YOU'RE BORN OF SOMETHING,
IF A COW HAS A CALF, IT DOES NOT HAVE THE NATURE OF A DOG.
It has the nature of that which is born of, and that which is
born of the Spirit is Spirit. And we are partakers of the divine
nature. What a mystery. Only God can
do that. Only God can do that. Then Christ entered into the
holiest of holies for us. He's called the forerunner. He
took possession of heaven for us. Our elder brother's there
for us. Our God is there for us. Our
Lord, our Savior, our Redeemer, our everything is there for us.
He's there for us. He intercedes there for us. You
know God's ruling all things for us. You know everything.
God ruled the whole world today for us. You know everything today
throughout the whole world, all the way around the globe worked
together for our good today. I don't like to watch the news.
They don't believe that. They don't believe that. Everything that went on today
is for the eternal good of God's people. Everything. Our eternal
good. He rules all things for our good. And then he's coming for us. He's coming for us, forever to
be with the Lord. I look at death, and I say that
because I don't feel like I'm dying right now, I know that.
Somebody's gonna say, you don't feel like, you're not dying, well,
you can say anything. It's easy to say, but I hope
by His grace, and I do look at death differently, even then
I looked at it when I first believed. It's homecoming. It's the door
that we, you know, we got to go through that unless the Lord
comes back, we got to go through that door to enter into glory. Just like our Lord had to go
to the cross to get to the throne. Joseph had to go to the prison
in order to get, end up on the throne. And we, you know, if
the Lord, if the Lord doesn't come back in our time, he's coming
back. He's coming to get us. You know,
he said, I'll go and prepare a place for you. If I go and
prepare a place for you, I'll come again and receive you to
myself to where I am. There you may be also. So he's
coming for us. And I want us to be ready. Not only ready, but anxious,
looking for him. Consider. BE TAKEN UP WITH THIS, WITH WHAT
GREAT THINGS THE LORD HAS DONE FOR YOU, DONE FOR US.