My brother, Psalm 30. Psalm 30. I speak with one of the men there
in Australia, and they said Angus has been sick for a while. He wasn't able to preach, and
he said they got together and just read the scriptures. And he said,
you know, he goes, that didn't hurt us. And I thanked Angus
for reading. I said, just to have somebody
else read, they'll put an inflection where the Lord is, there's gotta
be a passage that you've experienced and the Lord's put on your heart
and been good to you. And for them to read, it's like
I've never heard that before. Clay read to me and I said, when,
how long has it said that? It's said that a long time, ain't
it? It didn't hurt us. Psalm 30. I want to look at these first
six verses this morning. I'll begin in verse one. I will
extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast lifted me up and hast not
made my foes to rejoice over me. O Lord, my God, I cried unto
thee, and thou hast healed me. O Lord, thou hast brought up
my soul from the grave. Thou hast kept me alive, that
I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints
of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a
moment, and his favor life. Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning. And in my prosperity, I said,
I shall never be moved. Psalms are the songs, aren't
they? They were sang, and we love reading
them, and we love singing them. We sang a few of them where they've
been translated into English. But we love that, we love to
read them, and we love to sing them, because the Lord's people,
they apply to us. I hope I said it too simple,
but I like songs that I know about. Not once have I ever sang
and enjoyed a song about figure skating. I don't know if there
is one, but there is one. I just don't have any experience
in that. But I know a lot of songs about
love. I've loved. I know songs about
loss. I've lost. Happy summer days,
waves and beaches and cold winter days and snow, Christmas time. I know about those things. I've
experienced them. I've experienced those things. And David writes
what all children of God experience, ups and downs, times of sorrow,
times of joy, times of faith, boldness, strength, steadfastness. and times of shameful unbelief.
Believers experience those things. Worldly people, the fools, those
unregenerate, those that attempt to steal God's glory for themselves,
they go through similar things. They have some joys and they
have some sadnesses. They have some good times, bad times. Singing,
mourning, but not soul trouble. Having a bunch of trials in this
world ain't gonna do you a lick of good if the Lord doesn't send
you soul trouble. Soul trouble. Grief, sorrow,
crying out because of sin. Anybody cry out just in a bad
spot, but to cry out and have sorrows cause a sin. If you have
that, those sorrows, those crying out, boy, then you can have great
joy. Then you can have true rejoicing, true crying out in praise because
of forgiveness of sin. Because of forgiveness of sin.
Well, then you got a reason to sing. But you got to know that
sin first, isn't it? It says in verse one in Psalm
30, I will extol. That means honor, lift up, praise. I will extol thee, O Lord. I
will honor you, O Lord. Four, because thou hast lifted
me up. I'm gonna sing your praises,
because you're worthy to be praised. There's something I have to sing
your praises about. You've done something for me.
You've lifted me up. Years ago, a man named Charles
Gabriel wrote this. His brow was pierced with many
a thorn. His hands by cruel nails were
torn. when from my guilt and grief, forlorn in love he lifted
me. While he bore my guilt, while
he bore my grief, his love lifted me. From sinking sands he lifted
me, with a tender hand he lifted me. From shades of night to plains
of light. Oh, praise his name. Extol him. Praise his name. He lifted me.
He lifted me. He says, I will extol, honor,
lift up thee, oh Lord, because thou has lifted me up. I'm going
to love you because you first loved me. Nothing about me and
nothing about my bootstraps and lifting it up has anything to
do with, this is the Lord's work, isn't it? He lifted me. I'm going
to sing your praises because you lifted me. Says at the end
of verse one, and has not made my foes to rejoice over me. Lord, you've saved me and you've
not had my foes rejoice over me, have pleasure over me. Who
are our foes? Who's the believer's foes? Well,
it's plural, isn't it? It doesn't say my foe, it says
foes. There's more than one. I'll give you a few of them.
The first one's the accuser of the brethren. Satan. There are
people that think that Satan's not real. Oh, buddy. Our Lord
speaks of him often, doesn't he? He said, Peter, this one,
he chose to sift you like wheat. He seeks to devour you. He said,
I pray that your faith don't fail. How tender. He lifted Peter, didn't he? That
great accuser of the brethren. The Lord came to crush his head.
He's a strong man. And the Lord came to bind that
strong man and spoil his goods. Who's that strong man's goods?
Us. You used to be the property of
the Prince of Darkness until the Lord came and freed you.
He came and saved you. He came and crushed his head.
That's our first foe. What's our other foe? Sin's our
foe. This old man. This brethren, if I was alone on a deserted
island, I have all kinds of accusers. Ain't no way in the world I could
be a child of God. Look what you just thought. Look
what you just did. Look what you just said. Sin's
my foe, isn't it? There's spiritual warfare going
on. And that was a long time. Sin had dominion over me. That
old man's older than the new man. He's been around longer.
But the Lord's grace set us free. He set us free. He came to crush
the serpent's head, and his grace set us free. That's what Paul
told us in Romans 6. He said, for sin shall not have dominion
over you. For you are not under the law,
but under grace. Grace has set us free. The Lord's
done that. What about this world? We still
live in this world. The Lord's came to us. Our biggest
foe's been conquered. Our sin's been conquered. Sin,
death, and hell has been conquered, but we still live in this world.
And there's a whole lot that goes on that takes our mind from
this, where our brother just prayed that. Lord, let us leave
that world apart and have a word from you, and look to you. And
so many things, and the news, and the this and the that. And
real quick, we just get so scared. What about this? Like little
heads with our chickens cut off running around. Don't we? What about this world? It's skillful
at taking our attention. It's skillful at turning our
concerns from the Redeemer that saved us. What does our Lord
say? Be of good cheer, I've overcome
the world. He came to crush the serpent's head. He's freed us
in his grace from sin. Doesn't have a dominion over
it. He's overcome the world. What did that grace and love
do? It blotted out the handwritings
of ordinances that was against us. The law was against us. That's
what we broke. It was contrary to us, and he
took it out of the way. How did he do that? Did he just
sweep it underneath the rug? Like, we'll play pretend like
it didn't happen? As if. That's what old John was
writing in 1 John. It was the Gnostics. Ain't nothing
changed nowadays. Well, it was as if, because they
knew better, because they couldn't understand it, because God hadn't
revealed himself to them. Paul said that plainly. He said he
took the ordinances out of the way, nailing it to his cross.
He did something we can't do, and we have an idea of what it
is. We can't enter into the depths
of that. He nailed it to his cross, and he spoiled principalities
and powers. That's when he crushed the serpent's
head. He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them. This world, and the prince of
this world, and the law, and sin, and everything. It was accomplished
in that hour. He said, for this hour, I've
come. That's what he did. That was our foes, wasn't it?
It says in verse two, oh, Lord, my God, I cried unto thee. That's
who we cried to. Who? The one that does everything.
The one that's able to save. Oh, Lord, my God, I cried unto
thee, and thou hast healed me. That's the most I can do, is
cry. That's what I do most of the
time. We're told to pray without ceasing, and I struggle. I struggle
with it. I cry out because I don't think
I cry out enough. You ever done that? You ever
prayed, Lord, help me because I don't pray enough? I do. We don't know what we ought to
ask, do we? I was thankful Marvin telling
that about Don, and me and him talked about that before. I struggle
with that. It's all, it's easy, pray like
this. Don't listen to them people. Remember, watch out, and you
get your pre-programmed responses, and we will now come to the Lord's
throne of grace, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
that's all it is. Yakety yak. Lord, teach me to pray. That's
what the disciples asked, wasn't it? If the 12 apostles showed
up, would you listen to them? What'd they ask? Lord, teach
us to pray. Teach us to pray. I struggle with that. I have
a hard time with it. I cry often, because often I'm
in trouble. cry, Lord, save, Lord, save,
have mercy, because I'm in need of mercy. I know what I am. And then I'm healed. I see him. And that happens over. And then
it happens over. And then it happens over. And
it keeps happening. Till we're out of this present
evil world. A man or woman will not cry. They won't scream for
healing. That's desperation. He didn't
say you will mention or murmur some prayers, or you'll mumble
some prayers, or you'll say some prayers. He said you'll cry.
You'll scream out for healing. You won't do that until you know
you're sick. You won't cry out to God to heal
you unless you know you need to be healed. That's what has
to come first. We have to know what we are,
the sin that we are. Our Lord said, I've come that
they might have life more abundant. He gives life. I'm dead in trespasses
and sins. I've offended that law. And he
says, I've come to give life and I'm going to do it. Now I'm
healed. He was made sin for us who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. He's done it all. The father
purposed it, and the son purchased it, and it's plum done. And that
turns all my crying into healing, doesn't it? And then all my mourning
goes to singing. Oh, how sad I was. Well, my frown
got turned upside down, because I see him. Verse 3 says, Oh Lord,
thou hast brought up my soul from the grave. Thou has kept
me alive that I should not go down into the pit. Oh, that's
what like gravity and a rock just as fast as it'll take me
right to the bottom of the pit. That was where I was heading.
That was my way. That was my sin, all the bad
stuff I did. And that's sure where my iniquities
was taking me. All the good things I think I
did while I was in religion for a long time. Yeah, it's hogwash.
It's down there at the bottom of that pit muddled up with all
the other stuff and the waste and debris. Ain't no bathrooms
down there in the pits. It's horrible. Disease ridden, isn't
it? Lord kept me from that. We read
there in Ephesians 2, and you hath he quickened. You're who
he's made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins. That's
what we are. We lifted up out of that pit.
We're brought out of that pit. And he tells us about it. It's
not just good news that's hidden underneath a rock. He comes and
tells us about that. He sends somebody to tell us.
That's good. I'm thankful. I've got a woman at the well.
She said, you come here, man. Told me everything. Come see
a man. And they came. The Lord told them disciples,
he said, y'all ready for the harvest? Here it comes. You guys are brothers
and sisters, go comfort them. And they showed up and the Lord
preached to them. And they went to that woman and they said, we
showed up here today. We came to church this morning, we came
to the church house because you asked us and we like you. That was
fine, but now we hurt him. We came here because of you,
that was the means, but we're not gonna worship you, we're
worshiping him. I'm thankful for the man that preached the
gospel to me, and I ain't gonna let nobody talk bad about him.
And I love him because that's the means the Lord used, but
I don't worship him. I'm thankful for the one that he preached.
This ain't nothing new. Turn back one book to Job 33.
Turn to your left there, Job 33. Here's the oldest book I've
mentioned before. And I wonder if Job's any different
than you or me or David. Did he need a different message
or different means than anybody else? It doesn't change, does
it? Look here at Job 33 verse 22. Elihu's speaking to him,
that young fella, youngest of the bunch. He said, I can't,
he said, I've listened to y'all talk for seven days now. And
he said, I'm like a new wine in a sealed up flask. I'm about
to bust. And he busted. Don't remember
everything you had to say. Job 33 verse 22. Yea, his soul
draweth near unto the grave and his life to the destroyers. All
people born of Adam were in that pit. That's where we're heading
down, on our way down in that pit. Verse 23. If there be a
messenger with him, an interpreter, One among a thousand to show
unto man his uprightness. What if somebody's going down
in that pit and there was a man there to tell them about this?
There was a messenger there. You know what the Ethiopian unit
said, you know what you're reading? Well, how can I unless somebody
tells me? I lie. He said, what if there'd be a
messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand? It's a
rare thing. It ain't common. It ain't on every street corner.
to show unto man his uprightness. Then he is gracious unto him. When the Lord speaks through
one of his messengers, and it could be a donkey or an earthworm,
that's what it don't make a difference. He could speak through anything
he wanted. But when he speaks, then he's gracious unto him.
And he saith, and saith, deliver him from going down to the pit.
I found a ransom. I was going down to the pit,
and Lord said, somebody said, you ain't going down to the pit
because there's a ransom. Because of Christ. Because of my son,
I'm gonna save you. His flesh shall be fresher than
a child's, and he shall return to the days of his youth. Boy,
it's brand new. That's a new creation, isn't
it? I'll put a new creation in you,
and he shall pray unto God. That's what that new creation
does. Lord went to Ann and I and said go down there to Paul, to
Saul and go comfort him. And he said, I've heard about
this fellow. I mean, I'll go. And he said, he prayeth. He prayeth. Not he says prayers. Not he wants
a new Mercedes Benz. He prays. That's heartfelt prayer.
He said, he shall pray unto God and he will be favorable. unto
him. God will be favorable to him.
What's God's favor? His grace. His mercy. That's
where life comes from. And he shall see his face with
joy, for he will render unto man his righteousness. His righteousness. Back in our text where David's
telling us, and he's telling himself, and he need reminded
a whole bunch, and we need reminded a whole bunch when he'd be told
these things. It says in verse 4, saying. You that all this
took place, you that were dead in trespasses and sin, and the
Lord sent a preacher of the gospel to you, and he preached the truth,
not a lie. That's the only way God's going
to save his people, is through the preaching of the truth. And
you were told the truth, and you believed because the Lord
spoke life into you. He was favorable to you. Now what? Go around wearing hair shirts.
No, sing. Be happy. There's something to
be happy. There's good news. Not just news, not bad news,
good news. He says, verse four, singing
to the Lord. Oh, you saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance
of his holiness. We ought to sing, shouldn't we? If you know God and he saved
you, you know his son and what he did for you, you ought to
be happy. I ought to be happy. David ought to be happy. Every
one of us ought to be happy. Out of a debt of gratitude, out
of a debt of love, we should be happy. I'm not sad and moping
around and mumbling about everything underneath the sun. We know who
sent whatever it is we have. We know who sent it, whose hand
it is, whose glory it's for, and it's for our good. He said
so. We believe his word, don't we? Article there in the bulletin.
Oh brother dawn. He's just telling telling us
what he heard in a message He wrote it down. He's just telling
what he was told We have so many fears don't we so many fears
and our Lord so often says fear not And we have so many doubts
concerning God's salvation his mercy. Oh my he is Ram. I know
oh And he says, him that cometh to me, I'll know whilst cast
out. And we grumble, and we complain, and we murmur. Oh, well, this
is bad, and that's bad, and this is bad, and traffic's rough. My hip hurts, and my back's out. I sat too long the last two weeks.
I was cramped up, and I'm tall. Nobody knows I'm tall, just me.
Everybody knows I'm tall, don't they? And I moan and murmur,
don't I? And the Lord said, you're gonna
have tribulation. Be of good cheer. It's gonna happen. Hard times are coming, but be
a good cheer. I've overcome the world. I get attached to this
world. You're attached to stuff. No, no. And this ain't my home. He said, we look to a city whose
builder and maker is God. He said, I've got to prepare
a place for you. Why do I care about that place up on Lawson Valley Road?
I mean, it's in my hand, I ain't gonna let it get overgrown and
nasty, but that ain't my home. He went to prepare me a place.
And I have so much care and anxiety for providing of material beings,
and he said, your father in heaven knows these things. Your father
knows these things, don't we? I wanna ask a question. And I
hope I ask myself this question often, every day throughout the
day. I wanna ask this question to
me, and you can listen in. What's more appropriate? for
sinners saved by grace to do. You tell me, ask yourself, I'm
gonna ask myself, what's more appropriate for us to murmur
and complain and wallow in our sorrows or to sing and give thanks
to the holy God that saved us? What's more appropriate? Should
we walk around sad face all the time and frowning or should we
be happy? I wrote down several people's names here that I know
throughout the world. That's just a good example. I mean,
they are afflicted. Afflicted. The Lord's sweet. If he chases
those he loves, he loves them a bunch. And they are just the
most jolly and happy and sweet and easygoing and kind. Some
of them call me and say, I pray for you. That's it. I get a phone call about a couple
times a week. I had nothing really to say,
just wanted to say hi. That was it. Oh, that's sweet. That's tender, isn't it? When do we give thanks? We give
thanks, don't we? Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints
of his, and give thanks. When do we do that? Truly, not,
well, thank you for this food and bless it to my body and something
you learned in Sunday school. When you give thanks to a holy
God, when you know he's holy, when you remember his holiness,
look at verse four, saying unto the Lord, O ye saints of his,
and give thanks at the remembrance. He said, this do in remembrance
of me, didn't he? At the remembrance of his holiness. We've experienced what Christ
did for us. We've come out of that pit. He's bought us, we
know that. And what a celebration occurs in our hearts when that
happens. But beyond that, when we see who it is that did it,
the sales, the features and the benefits, the features and the
benefits. We've received the benefits. Who's the one that
did it? That's the holy God. He's the
one that's accomplished this. He's the one that purposed it.
He's the one that's gonna keep it for eternity. What worries
do I have? Well, I'm back to singing now.
Pretty quick, huh? If I had a benefactor, that'd
be wonderful. Yes, sir. If I had a benefactor,
somebody that just gave me everything, unbeknownst to me, and my bank
account was never emptied. It was always filled up to the
brim every day. And everything was provided for me, and groceries
on my doorstep every morning. If I had a benefactor, I was
the beneficiary. If I had a benefactor, I would
want to know them and give thanks to them, wouldn't you? Wouldn't
you want to thank the one that's provided all things for you?
Our Lord, the holy one of Israel, he sent his son, that holy one,
that holy thing, and he shed his blood to give us a new heart,
to give us life, to be favorable to us, and that new heart desires
to thank Him and to praise Him and to worship Him and to be
with those that worship Him and praise Him and thank Him. I like
family. I like you all. That's what I
told them folks down in Australia. I said, I told them about you
and things that's going on here, and I said, I love them. I said,
that's my family. The Lord's knit us together.
I said, we labor together, and I'm thankful for you, because
they have the same God I do, and I love those folks down in
Australia. They have the same God we do, don't they? The desire
to be together. Verse five says, for his anger
endureth but a moment. In his favor, is life. Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning. This is a messianic psalm, as
they all are, aren't they? There was anger for a moment.
There was anger for a moment. Peter told us that for Christ
also hath once suffered for sins. The just for the unjust, that
he might bring us to God, being put to death in flesh, but quickened
by the Spirit. There must be justice. There
must be anger for a moment, isn't there? Most people don't preach
on that. You don't see it on bumper stickers.
You don't hear it on airways, because it don't sell good. Can't
make a lot of money off of it. It's not profitable. They're
pocketbooks. But the Lord said, the foolish shall not stand in
thy sight. Thou hatest the workers of iniquity. Well, God loves
everybody and he's trying to save you. No, he doesn't. He
hates the workers of iniquity. He judges the righteous. God's
angry with the wicked every day. If I could convince men and women
walking up down this street to get off their high horses and
all their platforms that they're standing on and the same junk
that comes out of their mouth every day, and this is my truth
and here's what's going on. Oh, what about this? You've offended
a holy God. The wages of sins, death, that's
what we earned, isn't it? Well, maybe the Father, that's
Old Testament, but then Jesus came and He's sweet and lovable
to everybody. The Father spoke of the Son in Psalm 45. He said,
Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness. You love everything
that's pure, good, and holy, and true, and you hate everything
that ain't. And he said, therefore God, thy God hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Why is Christ exalted
above everything? Because he loves righteousness
and he hates wickedness. God hates the wicked. He's angry
with them. And he's a holy God. Our Lord
said on the cross, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Why art thou so far from helping me? And the words of my roaring,
oh my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, and am
not seasoned and am not silent. The father turned for the son
because he was made me. The reason people have problems
with that is because they don't think they're seeing. That's
problem. And then our Lord said in Psalm
22 verse 3, but thou art holy. He answered the question. Why
did he ask that? Didn't he know? Of course he knew. We had to
know. He said, Father, I know you hear me always, but I'm going
to say it out loud so these can hear you. Well, he said to his father
out loud so we could hear him. Why did you forsake me? Because
you're holy. Because that transaction took place. Explain it. I can't.
It's so. He did it. And it's done. And this is for
David, and this is for you and I, too, there in verse five.
For his anger endureth, but a moment in his favor is life. We see
the anger of the Lord the first time we realize we're sinning.
When we realize what we are and who it is, his holiness, that
we have offended, uh-oh. You've got problems. You've got
some problems. What's that going to lead to?
There's one outlet. Cry to the Son, flee to Him for mercy, isn't
it? Begging for salvation. Lord's justice against sin is
not something to be mocked. I know what I've earned, the
wages that I've earned, what I've deserved. And then I see
that Christ, He bore it. He came to lay down His life
for the sheep. And then there's life, isn't there? A new life
does that. It says, for His anger endureth
but a moment in His favor, in His grace. is life. Favor means good pleasure, delight,
will, from the root word, to satisfy a debt. Because of his
good pleasure, because of his good will, because of his favor
towards the people, an undeserving people, his grace and his mercy,
we have life. For by grace, by favor, are you
saved through faith and that not of yourselves? It's the gift
of God. It's the gift of God. That's something. Malachi said
that. Who's a god like unto thee? Who's a god like this? Go find
all them other gods everybody and their brothers talking about,
making little whittling out pieces of wood and making funny outfits
and wearing weird underwear and talking about green people coming
out of spaceships and all kinds of nonsense and foolishness.
Who's a god like unto thee? Ain't none of them like him.
He pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the
remnant of his heritage. He retaineth not his anger forever
because he delights in showing mercy. He delights in showing
mercy. James said of his own will begat
he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first
fruits of his creatures. His own will he begat us, made
us his first fruits, made us just like his son, same offspring. Verse five says, for his anger
endureth but a moment, and his favor life. Oh, he's give us
life because of his son. Weeping may endure for a night.
You may cry in the night, but joy comes in the morning. There's
weeping in darkness, isn't there? The sun won't smite you by day,
nor the moon by night. I know what a sunburn is, you
know what that is? What's a moonburn? That's when you're up all night
long weeping. And you see that moon, and boy,
you wish it'd go away, because it hurts. Because you're in the
night season. But joy cometh in the morning.
You know, it was always at night when the Lord came to the dreams.
You don't dream at high noon. You don't dream while you're
at work. You might daydream. But when the Lord comes to speak
to his people in the old, in dreams at night, then they rise
up early. He comes to them at night in
darkness. What's that picture of? You're in darkness if the
Lord ain't come to you. You better be in the darkness
to be brought into his light. And if he hasn't saved you out
of darkness, you're still in it. If we don't start seeing that
those, it's not that the churches are wrong, and this was wrong,
and that one's wrong, and this is wrong, that we start seeing I'm wrong.
We're in trouble. You're just fruit inspectors
and ain't no fruit there. We gotta see that was us. He saves
us out of darkness, and then joy comes in the morning. Joy
comes in the morning. That says cometh, doesn't it?
That's present tense. His nurses are new every day.
We wake up and need to see our Savior every day. And he's that
morning star, isn't he? Revelation 2.28 says, I will
give him the morning star. Oh, is that a sign or wonder?
Oh, do we need to get an astrological calendar out? No. Fools do that. It's foolish. Somebody tunes
in and says, stop it. Quit looking for those things.
Quit looking for signs and wonders. He said, I'll give the morning
star. Then in Revelation 22, he tells us, he said, I, Jesus,
have sent my angel to testify unto thee these things in the
churches. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning
star. He said, I'm the star. What comes up in the morning?
A big star. We see the sun, S-U-N. Boy, if we could seek him early
in our day, wake up and see the S-O-N. Then we might sing his
praises. We might whistle a tune. That's
good, isn't it? The Lord said, if you're sad, pray. And if you're
happy, sing. Sing him. Sing one, whistle. That's good, isn't it? Verse
six says, and in my prosperity I said, I shall. Never be moved. There ain't nothing that can
move us, but what's there to move to? You gonna go to a higher
doctrine? You gonna eat a little higher
on the cow on that one? What in the world's people thinking?
I can't ever be moved from that. I can't ever be moved from simplicity,
that's Christ. Can I? If you could be moved,
where would you go? Our Lord said, y'all leaving
too? That's a successful ministry. Run off 5,000 people in one day.
And then look to the only 12 set left said, you going to go
too? If you going to go, go. I don't care. Pack your bags.
I ain't chasing nobody in a parking lot. What'd that representative
say of the group? Lord, to whom shall we go? I can't be moved. As we looked
before, you're my master, you're my husband, you're my father.
However way you can cut it. That's what the scripture may
ask me one time. It says we're adopted, and it says we're born,
and it says we're bought. Well, which is it? Yes. Yes,
any way you can slice it. We're plum heads, isn't it? We
shall never be moved. All right. Thank you, Brother
Mark.