Hannah and I are going to sing
hymn number 256 if you'd like to read along. When he, like a river, attended
my prayer, When all of my people was called, Whatever my lot,
Thou hast taught me to say It is well, it is well With my soul
It is well, it is well With my soul, with my soul It is well,
it is well with my soul Though Satan should love him,
Though trials should come, Let this blessed assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless abstain, and have shed
his own blood for my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul, with my soul. It is well, it is well My sin, O the bliss of this glorious
thought My sin, not in part, but the whole This nail to the
cross And I bear it no more. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Oh, my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. And Lord, haste the day when
my face shall be sighed. The clouds be rolled back as
a scroll The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend Even
so, it is well with my soul It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well
with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. When the trumpet shall sound, those who know the joyful sound
now, the gospel sound, trumpet, trumpet sound of the gospel,
when that great trumpet sounds, and Paul said, and it shall sound,
it will be a joyful sound such as never before to the world
horrifying, heart-stopping sound to believers. He's here. He's here. Psalm 111. And this
is the Lord we're praising today, attempting to. Psalm 111. Reading through the psalms, this
psalm was such a blessing to me. I knew it would be to many
of you. This is a psalm or song of the
great works of the Lord. A great psalm of the great Lord
and his great works. We couldn't study anything greater,
could we? It begins as nine other psalms
do. The last five songs begin and
end like this. Hallelujah. That's the Hebrew
for praise ye the Lord. Hallelujah. Praise to Jehovah. Hallelujah. Jehovah. Praise to Jehovah. Now one word of warning here
to all of us. Never use that word. Hallelujah. except in fear and reverence
and worship to God. Or else we are guilty of taking
his name in vain. The world likes that word and
uses it flippantly. Don't be guilty of that. Now
you know what the word means. Hallelujah. Praise ye The Lord
that is the God of Abraham pray. That's why we sung that song
while ago, the Lord is Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. Covenant, God. Electing God,
choosing God, covenant, God, unchanging God and the God of
Jacob, he said, I came not Jehovah praise you. the Lord. Praise
means exalt, but none higher. Exalt. Praise means honor. Give
all honor to it. Praise means thank. All thank. Praise means worship. And he
says, praise ye. This is the command to everyone. The last line of the last Psalm,
Psalm 150, says this. Let everything that hath breath
praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Everything
that hath breath. If you have breath, you have
cause to praise the Lord. Yea, you're commanded. Everything. In Psalm 148, 12, he says, young
men and maidens, old men and children. This is why our children,
we should tell our children, instruct our children, sing these
songs. Praise ye the Lord. Why? Not
trying to be cruel, not trying to be mean, but God says, let
them learn the songs of Zion. Praise ye the Lord. If you have
breath, you're a human being. The God in whose hands your breath
is, he says, praise ye the Lord. Praise him, extol him, honor
him. The psalmist says in verse one,
I will. I will. By the will of God, by
the grace of God, I will, he says, praise the Lord with my
whole heart. None of this half-hearted worship
for me, he said. Don't you get tired of that in
yourself? Don't you get tired of giving
mere lip service in these worship services, don't you? Don't you
get tired of hearing the word in your mind wandering? We sing
that hymn, come Holy Spirit, heavenly love, come in these
poor hearts of ours. Kindle a flame of sacred love
and that shall kindle our. Look how we grovel here below,
fond of these earthly toys. It goes on to say, in vain we
strive to tune our formal songs, in vain we strive to rhyme. Hosannas,
let's praise the Lord, languish on our tongues and our devotion.
Is it so with you? David says, by the grace of God,
I will praise him with my whole heart. Because out of the heart
are the issues of life. And this thing of praise is from
the heart, not from the lips. Anybody can say how. But all
we have the abundance of a heart that truly thanks God and worship
God. You don't even have to say it.
But you can sure feel it. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord. He says in verse one, I will
praise the Lord in the assembly of the upright in the congregation. Do we have to? Go to church to
praise the Lord. No. But if you are a member of
the church, you will. Assemble with the assembly in
the congregation. This is the way it is. This is
the way it is. This is what God has ordained.
This is a commandment, isn't it? Let them praise him in the
assembly of the upright. Or that is, those who stand upright. You know, man is on all fours. The world is out there groveling
on all fours like beasts, living for nothing but meat and drink
and so forth. But those whom God has made upright,
that is, things that are higher, things
that are nobler. Those whom he has caused to stand on two feet. like he created man in the beginning,
and look upward to God, the upright, those in Christ. They will be
praising him in the assembly, in the congregation. God has ordained this. God has
ordained it, and it's the joy of his people, this thing of
assembling together. I'll give you a few reasons why.
God ordained this assembling together for his praise and his
work. Number one, God gets more glory,
the more voices that are joined together in praising him. Yeah,
you can be out there on your own, praising God with your own
voice, but more voices together. And more glory here, right? And another thing, it's the nature
of sheep to gather together. Sheep are what you call a gregarious
animal. all clean animals that were on
the art were those that were in a flock all clean animals
flock together they must have one another it's the nature of
a sheet to huddle with other sheep to feed with sheep and
that's the nature of God's people. If you're a sheep you love to
gather together with the science at the river. and saying his
praise and heaven is a congregation. Heaven is a congregation of great
gathering of people who God Almighty has gathered from every nation
tongue people under heaven God gathered them together one big
family or congregated them to do what. One thing. And if you love that here you
love this gathering the assembly of the same. If you do you're
going to love it there and you're going to be able to do it from
the heart to perfect heart see him as he is and praise him as
you all. Those who forsake it here. So
let us not forsake the assembly of ourselves together as the
manner of some. How could someone not. me when
God's. Being honored after the. Those
who forsake it here will be forsaken that praise you the Lord in the
assembly of the site the sites are meeting together to praise
the Lord Jesus Christ I'll be there by the grace of God praise
you the Lord because and here's why we praise the Lord first
to the works of the Lord. That's why we need to pray. This
is what we praise him for God's works are great. How great thou
art. Oh, Lord, my God. When I in awesome
wonder consider all the works, that's the original works. The
works of the Lord are great. Now God's works are many and
so great. that they cannot, like David
said, be reckoned up in order. God's works cannot, were we to
start now and begin to try to catalog and reckon up all the
works of God, we would be here forever. Well, that's what we're
going to be doing in glory forever, praising his work. And the half
has never been told here, never will be. But here's just a few.
OK, we'll just give you a small reckoning. of the works of God,
the Lord's work of creation. The Lord works, his works of
providence are great. God's creation, that's what we
sung about. Verse two says, sought out of
all them that have pleasure there in those that love the Lord's
works, have pleasure in them. They they think upon them. They
look into the Lord's works. Works of creation. are great. God is our great creator, and
what he has done is great. You know, I thought about this.
God's people do not call nature, nature. Certainly don't call
it our mother, do we? Our father is the one that created
it, nor do we call it nature, but we call it what? Creation. Thereby affirming that would
create or that these things were created by our creator. We're not nature lovers. We're
God lovers who love his creation, what he's done. There's a difference,
isn't it? They're God's works over in Psalm eight. David wrote
this blessed Psalm, Psalm eight. He said, when I consider. By
heavens, so they're here. Thy heaven and the work of thy
fingers. Can't you see the great work
of God in this vast creation, the work of thy fingers, the
moon and the stars which thou hast ordained. Scripture says
he telleth the stars a number of them. He calleth them by name.
How many stars are there? Great vast number which no man
can number what God has and he's named them all. That's our great
God. Our great God. Psalm 19 verse
1 says this, it says, the heavens declare the glory of God. The
firmament showeth his handy work, the work of his hand. Oh, the
works of God's hand. All these things are the works
of our great creator and greatly display his greatness. Don't. Like to have a little time to
go in, but we don't have time because there's a greater work.
We got to get to a greater work than that. God's works of Providence. All that he works together, Romans
828 says all things work together. Our great God is working all
things together for good to them, his people that love God. You
know they know it. It's them that love God with
a call according to his purpose and all these works of providence
are great God providing everything necessary for life and for God
and sustaining keeping keeping leading up. Everyone in here
we spend our lives as a tale that's been told. Well, would
you go with me to Deuteronomy 8, Deuteronomy 8? We spend our
lives as a tale that is told. You see, all things are written
concerning us in the book of life, our tale, and it's our
story. And someday it will be told.
Don't you love to look at the stories of Abraham and Isaac
and Jacob and so forth, all the way the Lord dealt with them
and led them and provided for them to bring them where they
were. We have a story. The providence
of our God toward us is great, leading, guiding, protecting,
restraining, keeping, directing. We need every now and then just
stop and think, consider where we came from and all those things
along the way. I believe if we did, we see more
and more of his great works of providence to us, but look here
at Deuteronomy chapter eight, verse two, thou shalt remember
all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years
in the wilderness. Why? It's a humble year. And
to prove thee to know what was in your heart. All the way. We sing that song, don't we?
All the way, my Savior leads me. Nancy, someday we're going
to be able to sing. from the bottom of our hearts and the
top of our lungs. Oh, the great works of my God
in bringing me to this place. Left to myself. But God. The great works of our God. Go
back to Psalm 111. The works of our Lord are great.
Great. God's greatest work. Here's God's
work of creation and providence works of works. Notice it says
works. God's works are great. God's works of creation and providence
and so forth to us are great, but God's greatest work. Singular first three, his work. is honorable, that is for his
honor and glorious completely for his glory. Now we're going
to talk about something great. And more than half has never
been told of this, but now we're going to try to reckon up something
of this work, this great work of redemption. Paul wrote so
great salvation. This work, you see, It says the
works of the Lord, and then he says the work is work is on the
works of the Lord. All go together in this one work. This one work is work of salvation. You see here, oh, Israel. Here,
the Lord, our God is one God, right? But he's three persons. Three person, God, the father,
The Lord our God, God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, God the
Holy Spirit, the Lord, yes, Holy Spirit. These three are one. Each one has a work. Each one
does their work in this salvation, the works of the triune God,
but it's one work. These three are one in this work
of salvation. And verse three says, or verse
two says, sought out. of all them that have pleasure
therein. Sought out. Psalm 70 says, Let such as love
thy salvation. Say continually, The Lord be
magnified. Sought out. Sought out of all
them that love his salvation. This great work. The world gathers
together quite often to admire man's works. Be it art, be it
music, be it theater, or whatever. God's people gather together
whenever possible to admire God's great work of redemption. Every
time. To them, there's nothing greater. To a sinner, the sound of mercy,
there's nothing greater. I love beautiful music. I really
do. There are many songs, even modern
songs, that I like. But these old songs of redemption,
I love. I do, I love them. Songs of redemption. They that have pleasure therein
seek them out. The greatest work of all. And
nothing is greater to God's people than this work of redemption.
Here's the works of the Trinity. Triune God. The works of the
Trinity, that is one work of salvation. God Almighty, God
the Father, chose a people. Yes, elected a people. What a
great thing. He didn't have to. He shouldn't
have. They didn't deserve it. But God, who's rich in mercy,
for his great electing love, wherewith he loved them, chose
them before the foundation of the world. Chosen. God Almighty
chose a people. Over in Isaiah, he said, You
have I chosen. You have I chosen this people
that are assembled that you might know me, Jehovah, and I've chosen
you. I've chosen you. God the Son,
God Almighty, in this work of salvation, chose a people and
gave them to his Son in a covenant, in a purpose, in a plan. The old writers call it a scheme. a purpose, a covenant, an agreement,
a pact, a letter, a book, a covenant, and gave them to his son, said,
these people are going to be sinners and they're going to
have to be redeemed, saved from their sin. Go, son, go. He says,
I'll go. And the son came to this earth
to redeem them. Redeemed them from the law, redeemed
them from sin. Look at verses 3 through 5 together. Verses 4 and 5. He made his wonderful
works to be remembered. The Lord is gracious and full
of compassion. He hath given meat unto them
that fear him. He will ever be mindful of his
covenants. God Almighty chose these persons
and gave them to his Son, and he came down here, the The Lord,
our righteousness, the Lord Jesus Christ, he came down here. His
work, verse three, is honorable. He did it in honor to God's law.
He did it in honor to God. His work is glorious. He did
it for the glory of God, for the glorification of his people.
Oh, the Lord is gracious. The grace of God is in the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord is full of compassion,
the compassionate God, the God of all compassion. How do we
know? Because God was made flesh and dwelt among us. God became
a man, Jesus Christ, the God of all compassion, touched with
the feeling of our infirmity, tempted in all points like as
we are yet without sin, made in the likeness of sinful flesh
but without sin. Able to sucker tempted in all
point able to sucker. He says meat. He's given meat
to them that fear him. Christ said. My body is meat
indeed. In other words, he's given a
sacrifice to center. A lamb, every man must have a
lamb to go to this holy God. Those that fear him, those that
know him, hold it. He's given them meat, a sacrifice,
savory meat, such as the father loved. Michael Jacob store. And he says he'll ever be mindful.
First five of his covenants. Why? God Almighty is ever mindful
of his covenant, because right there beside him sits his son. The representative of his people,
nor will he let us forget. See, Christ came and saved us
from our sin, redeemed his people from their sin by being made
sin for them. and brought in an everlasting
righteousness, his righteousness, it said, endureth forever. Verse four, you see that? Verse
three, his righteousness endureth forever. Christ came down here
and worked out a robe, made a robe to cover sinners, naked sinners
such as will never wear out. The prodigal son, the father,
called for the best robe to be put on him, didn't he? Put on
him. Didn't offer it to him, says,
put it on him. The best robe, what robe is that? One that was without seam and
one that will not wear out. One that fits him perfectly.
He's naked, put the best robe on him. And this robe is Christ
and his righteousness, isn't it? Don't you find that this
gospel fits you perfectly? This gospel of sovereign electing
grace, eternal mercy. Grace, I mean, 100 percent grace
without works your work. Doesn't it fit you perfectly?
And it'll never wear out once you put it on. You keep wearing
it like an old coat, it gets more comfortable, the older you
get. And shod with the gospel of peace, those shoes will never
wear out. You can walk all your day, walk
by faith in this gospel of Christ, and they'll never wear out. And
then you'll die. Yeah, I bring the best throes,
his righteousness that endureth forever, and he meet me indeed. He'll ever be mindful of his
covenant. That's because he's gracious
and full of compassion. And look at verse four. Here's
the work of the Holy Spirit. Verse four, he hath made his
wonderful works to be remembered. See, God the Father chose these
people. God the Son came to redeem them.
That's his work. Redeemed them. And he went, having
finished the work, he went and sat down. The only priest who
ever sat down. His work was finished. Sat down.
He redeemed his people. He brought in this everlasting
righteousness. Well, then God the Father sends his Holy Spirit.
Says to the Spirit, Go. I have a people. They have blood
on them. That's how you know them. Set
them apart. Sanctify them by the gospel.
Call them out from every tribe, kindred, nation by this gospel.
Call them out. Justify them by faith. Bring
them in. Bring them into the assembly.
Bring them in. Teach them who I am. They'll all be taught of
God. Point them to Christ. Give them repentance. Give them
faith. Create a new creature in Christ
Jesus. Give them a new heart, a new
spirit, new eyes, new ears, new tongue. New hands, new feet. Make a new creature in Christ.
Teach them the gospel. Cause them to grow in grace and
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then teach them again. Remind them. Keep reminding them
over and over again. They're forgetful, like children
are. Remind them. He did these things to be remembered. Wednesday night we're going to
partake of the Lord's table. A blessed service for believers. And our Lord said this do in
remembrance. He did these things to be remembered
and God's people always by the Holy Spirit. Remember, because
he takes the things of Christ and brings them to remembrance.
Brings them to remember and look at verse six says he has showed
his people the power of his word. His people. How were you saved? How were you saved, Stan Anderson?
Well, you know how you were saved, don't you? It took the power
of God to save you. Well, how will you be kept? Well,
you know how you'll be kept. Kept by the power of God. What
is the power of God, Stan Anderson? Christ. The wisdom of God and
the power of God. Oh, his people? No. He'll show
his people. the power of his work. Oh, listen
to this. Did I write it down? Oh, he said,
where is it? Where is it? Thou, Lord, hath
made me glad through thy work. I will triumph in the works of
thy hands. If I'm saved, you save me. If
I'm kept, you keep me. If I get to glory, you have to
get me there. All thy people know the power
of thy work. were saved by power not by our. But by. And Christ is that power
the gospel I know what the power of God is the preaching of the
gospel. Because it was the same power that brought this young
prodigal to cry and therefore I don't use any of the main.
Any other tricks and schemes and gimmicks and so forth none
of that I know what the power of God the power of his word
the power of his gospel The same arrow that pierced my heart as
a young rebel will pierce another. I know it, so I'm shooting them. Shooting these arrows, that adventure.
And it's up to the God of the Holy Spirit. It's his work to
bring that arrow home to his elect. There you are. He'll find
them. Yeah, he'll find them. Yes, he
will. You can't hide from God. Thank
God. It's his power, the works of
his hands. His power, and look at verse
six, it says that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. Oh my, just as the Lord drove
out the heathen, remember the Israelites were coming into the
promised land and he drove out the heathen, he passed by millions
of people. This is election. He passed by
millions, not that they were innocent, they were guilty. Well,
so are the Israelites. But it was of the Lord's mercy,
as you said, to choose them. But he passed by millions and
brought them in and gave these undeserving people this heritage. That's us. That's us. How many has he passed
by in electing favor of you? That's his work, that's his glory,
that's his honor. Verse seven, the works of his
hands are verity. Verity. That word means faithful. You can trust what he's done. You can trust what he's done.
You can't trust anything else. Don't do it. Don't lean on the
arm of the flesh or to your own understanding. Don't go to Egypt
for strength. A horse is a vain thing for safety.
Christ is not. Verity that means trustworthy,
faithful. This is a painful thing. And
it's in judgment, according to God's infinite judgment. Wisdom,
the works of his hands, marvelous or great, and his commandments. Over the John Davis and I, one
of our favorite verses is thou has given commandment to save
me. You see where the word of the
king is there. He gives a command. It's going
to happen. It's sure you can't stop it when
God said, Let there be light. Nobody could stop it. King David,
when he said, Go down and fetch my favorite ship. Go down, fetch
my favorite ship, a cripple. Well, what if my ship, my favorite
ship's not willing to come? What if he doesn't want to come?
Are you kidding? You know who I am? King, greatest
king on earth. You know who he is? A cripple.
I said, get him. Oh, Mephibosheth was glad, wasn't
he, for fetching grace. Fetch him. He came. He came. And God made him willing in the
day of his power. Oh, my. Sure, his commandments
are sure. When he gives commandment and
they're back, Robert, What he says here, you can trust him,
you can believe him. When God says, look unto me and
be you saved, look and you'll be saved. When God says, call
on me, call on the name of the Lord, whosoever believeth on
the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved. But what? His commandments
are sure. Sure, they stand fast. Forever,
O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. He that cometh to me,
and all that the Father giveth me shall, I will in no wise,
under any circumstance, for any reason, ever cast them out." Isn't that great? Isn't that
great? The works of the Lord are great.
His commandment stands sure. They stand fast forever. Verse
8, they're done in truth. You see, he does this according
to his justice, according to his truth, according to his word.
God is just, and yet justifier. How? In Christ. In Christ. And uprightness. His uprightness. Look at verse
9. See, we're praising the Lord
here. That's what we're doing. I'm not talking about anybody
else, am I? We're not giving anyone any glory for anything
but him. That's what this whole psalm
is about, him, unto him that loved us, chose us, loved us,
washed us, redeemed us, called us, brought us, sanctified unto
him. He sent redemption unto his people. His people were like Gomer. who
sold herself unto sin like a harlot, sold her body, mind, soul, and
strength to anybody to take it for the cheapest bidder. But
God, but Jesus Christ, our great Hosea, came where we were on
that auction block. Who will have this woman? Nobody. He says, I will. What do you
pay? Everything. He gave himself, sent redemption
unto his people. He's commanded his covenant.
Don't you love that? Verse 8. Isn't this great? He's
commanded his covenant forever. He's ever mindful of his covenant.
He'll never forget his covenant. Jacob. Jacob, look at you. Here in the
end. Jacob, look at you. You're still
doing some of the things that you did when you were just a
boy. What's wrong with you, Jacob?
You're a sinner, aren't you? You're just a worm, aren't you,
Jacob? Fear not, thou worm, Jacob. Jacob, you've forgotten everything
I taught you, haven't you, Jacob? But I haven't forgotten, Jacob. I haven't forgotten all that
I said I would do concerning you. Oh, there are times when
you forget me, I can't forget you. Times when you leave me,
but I cannot leave you. There's times when you don't
think on me, I cannot. and not think on the object of
my love. Therefore, with loving kindness,
I'll draw you always in. I see I'm the God of Jacob, he
said. I change not. My covenant doesn't change. My
word doesn't change. God never changes his plans. But he made it before the world
began. And if you're in it, you're in it. And that won't change. Isn't that great? Isn't that
great? His covenant forever. This is
why we call Him reverend. No man deserves the title Holy
Father. That's why He said, Christ said,
God in human flesh said, call no man your father. No man begat
you. No man spiritually gave birth
to you. There's one that's your father.
They've begotten of God. Call Him your holy Call him the
right, righteous, right, reverend, holy, father, lord, Jesus Christ. Call him that. Don't call any
man that. Reverend. Reverend means respect. Reverend means fear. Reverend
means being in awe of. We're not to be in awe of any
man save the God man. See, he deserves this title at
the end of all these things. In consideration of our great
Lord and his great works doesn't he and he alone deserve this
title. Holy father. He's the only one
John he's the only one we confess our sins to he's the only one
we bow the knee to he's the only one that we worship and kiss
his. Feet he's on. He's our holy father. He's the Reverend Lord Jesus. I know me and have ignorantly.
use this term and. But they're wrong. And people,
people still call me this and I cringe when I try to tell them.
Oh brother, oh brother, oh Mr. Clinton up there, he won't, not
Bill, he calls me a reverend. He won't quit calling me that.
I told him don't call me that. I told him why. He keeps calling
me that. I won't sign my name, as much
as lies within me, because holy and reverent is His name. See,
this is the fear of the Lord. We're not to fear any man. David
said, Whom shall I fear? Of what shall I be afraid? The
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. You begin to fear
God, you won't fear anyone else, anything else. He is our high
potentate. He's the one that reigns and
rules. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and
it continues. God's people are united in their
fear of him and never stop fearing him. Of good understanding, and
that says in the margin, good success. Yeah, you fear the Lord, that's
the beginning of saving wisdom, and you'll have good success.
By the grace of God, it'll have a good end with you. Great success. Oh, my. Good understanding. And God gives all his people
this understanding. Have all they that do his...
And that word is in italics, isn't it? Scriptures talks about
obedience to the gospel. That's what this is speaking
of. Believing the gospel. keeping his commandment that's
laying hold of Christ and the gospel, the truth, not willing
to let go. Keep. That's what the word keep
always mean. And do yes, walk according to
his word. Well, his praise. Endure. If you found anything
great in this. If you take pleasure in these
things. If you'd like to look into it
a little more, sought out of all them that take pleasure,
we're going to meet again on Wednesday. Same thing. And if you take great pleasure
therein and find reason in your heart to praise the Lord, to
say hallelujah, then it's going to continue forever. You're going
to continue forever. You're going to be with the saints
forever, singing hallelujah. I can't wait to hear that. Have
you ever heard it before? Like it ought to be. Okay. Brother Gabe, come and lead us
in closing here. Sing the first and last verse. To God be the glory, great things
He hath done So loved He the world that He gave us His Son
To yield His life in atonement for sin And open the life gate
that all may go in Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the
earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. Last verse. Great things He hath
taught us, great things He hath done, and great are rejoicing
through Jesus the Son. But purer and higher and greater
will be our wonder, our transport, when Jesus we see. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done. I'm going to go ahead and close this
out. Thank you. I don't know what I'm doing. uh... uh... uh... uh... Thank you. you