Mark 12, verse 37, our Lord speaking
here and says, David therefore himself calleth him Lord, calleth
the Christ Lord. And whence is he then his son? And it says that common people
heard him gladly. The common people heard him gladly. I never read this without thinking
of Joe Parks. Every time, every single time
that I would ask him, how are you, he would say, common. Do you remember that? Common.
Every time. That's truly what he felt about
himself. Well, that's good. Common people hear the gospel. Gladly. Common people. We're
going to see common people go into the kingdom. Common people. Common people means ordinary,
run-of-the-mill. When something's common, there's
a whole bunch of you. just a lot. Run of the mill. You could say a mill worker. You know, there's a bunch of
people that work in a factory or mill, and they're all just
common laborers, and they're all pretty much the same. Common, ordinary. Common people
heard him gladly. Common person is not a professing
wise person and not a mighty person, not noble, but a nobody. Turn over there to 1 Corinthians
1, let those fans read for us. 1 Corinthians chapter 1. Nobody, a common person is someone
with no great reputation among the people, no fame, no influence,
no great power. or prestige or wealth. These
were the people who heard the Lord gladly. Just common, ordinary
people heard him gladly. Not the high and the mighty,
not the real religious, not the super-pious, the intellectuals. They came, if you remember, they
came to test him, put him to the test, ask him questions.
Not for information, though. But the common folk Common folk
heard him gladly. Look at verses 17 and following. Paul said, Christ sent me not
to baptize, but to preach the gospel. Not with wisdom of words. You see that? Not with wisdom
of words. That is, fancy words. Intellectual, high-sounding
words. Over in chapter 2. You see, verse
1 of chapter 2, Paul said, Brethren, when I came to you, I came not
with excellency of speech or wisdom when I declared the gospel,
the testimony of God. I didn't come, he says, with
real lengthy words. But very simply, Paul said this
in another place. He said, Therefore, see, we have
such hope. We use great plainness of speech. Paul spoke very plainly. Paul
could have spoken. He could have been a real orator, couldn't he? He
was a brilliant man. What about the Lord himself?
He could have spoken in such a way that no human being could
have understood him. He wrote the language. He wrote
all human languages. He is wisdom. But yet he spoke
very simply, mostly in one- and two-syllable words, occasionally
a three-syllable word. He spoke to be understood, yet the
intellectuals didn't understand him. This was how amazing It
was. The high and mighty couldn't
understand it. It was too simple. What does that tell you about
getting a little too educated? Old-timers used to call them
educated fools. Too much book learning. Romans 1, it says, professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools. Well, but the Pharisees,
doctors and all that, did not hear him, they did not love the
truth, they hated it, despised it. They hated him, they hated
all who preached it. But it says the common people,
look at verse 18, the preaching of the cross, Christ crucified,
the bloody sacrifice, substitution, It is to them that perish foolishness,
but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." Read on.
It is written, God says in the scriptures, Isaiah 29, I will
destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the
scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? And I could ask
that question this morning. You won't find many doctors of
the law. You won't find many attorneys.
You won't find many doctors of medicine. You won't find many
politicians. You won't find many people who
are up the corporate ladder in here. And you won't find them in many places.
where the truth is preached. Why? It's foolishness to them. It's not heady enough. It's not
intellectual enough. It doesn't stimulate their intellect. But it doesn't say not any. It
doesn't say not any are called. Look down at verse You see, your calling, brethren,
not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble
are called. There was a queen of England
one time who, I don't know, I forget who it was, which one, but apparently
she believed the truth. And she said to one of the old
preachers back then, she said, I thank God for the letter M. Oh, how I thank God for the letter
M. He said, why? She said, because it doesn't
say not any noble, but it says not many. So God does say Paul
was an intellect. God saved him. He had to unlearn
everything he knew. You know, let's start all over
again, like a babe. He had to renounce everything
he learned, his lost time, all the schooling he went through.
It's a waste of time. He said, well, but the common
people, you see, you're calling, verse 27, verse 26, you see,
you're calling, brethren, in verse 27, God had chosen the
foolish things of the world to confound the wise. God had chosen
the weak things of the world to confound the things which
are mighty, base things of the world, things which are despised,
that is, those whom others look down upon, is inferior to them,
hath God chosen. Yea, things which are not, that
is, nothing, to bring to nothing, things that are." Common people. Common people. Common people. These are people who have no
air about them. Not trying to impress anybody.
They don't have anything to impress anybody with. Yes, it's a good
place to be. is to not have too much talent
or whatever so that you don't have to try to impress anybody.
It's bad to try to impress people. To be a man-pleaser is a bad
thing, buddy. It's a never-ending trap. Those who have no heirs
generally have no hypocrisy. They don't try to be what they're
not. They don't try to sound like
they're not. A hypocrisy not put on. It's plain ordinary folk. Plain
ordinary folk. Sinners heard him gladly, it
says. Gladly. Plain ordinary, everyday,
run-of-the-mill, common old folks heard him gladly, it says. But
what was he saying that they were hearing gladly? One thing,
they loved to hear him confuse these wise people. Don't
you know, they couldn't answer those fellows. But the Lord did,
and he just made fools out of them, revealed them. They loved
that. They loved that. But what he
was saying, the scripture says, He came to preach the gospel,
glad tidings. He said, I am come, the Spirit
of the Lord is upon me, and anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor. The word poor there means the
common, the ordinary, those who don't have anything. I came to
preach good news to them. Those that don't have anything,
I came to bring glad tidings to them. Glad tidings. Glad tidings to sad people. This message is only glad if
you're sad. You know that? Old Brother Barnard used to say,
I preach for a verdict. He said, every time I preach,
he said, I want a verdict. I want people to either get mad,
get sad, or be glad. One of the three. Or be so plain
And if you do, if you're plain enough, the self-righteous will
get mad. Guilty sinners will get sad. Those who are convicted and believers
will be real glad. If you preach it plain enough.
God's outing to sad sinners. Good news. It's called good news. Now, when is it something good
news? when everything's bad. Something's only good news when
you've heard the bad news. Right? Good news for bad people
is what this is. This is good news for bad people.
This is real help. What our Lord said was real help. I mean real, vital help for helpless
people. Have you ever tried to help somebody? I want to do it myself. That's
the way it is with self-righteous religious people. But not helpless
sinners. This is a successful, effectual
salvation for religious failures. You know that? What our Lord
preached was an absolute, effectual salvation for religious failures,
those who tried and couldn't and just gave up. This is for
those who have given up all hope. You know that? This is sovereign
mercy for guilty sinners. This is sovereign grace for helpless
sinners. This is a strong God for weak
sinners. This is an eternal salvation
for those who cannot keep themselves. Common people. I want you to look at some things
that common people have in common. Go over to Jude, the book of
Jude, right before the revelation, a little tiny Book of Jude, just
one chapter, 25 verses. Book of Jude, but there's so
much here. Common people now, as I said, are just common, old,
ordinary sinners is what they are. Just common, old, ordinary,
base sinners. They're nothing. They realize
that I'm nothing. I have nothing. I can do nothing. I know nothing. I'm just an old common-old sinner,
is all I am. If God saves me, he's going to
have to do it. He's going to have to give me everything, do
everything for me, keep me all the day. Just common people heard
him gladly. Because Christ preached an absolute
free gift, grace. Salvation by grace, 100%. A beggar,
you see, doesn't resent a handout. a beggar. Common people. Jude
3, Jude verse 3 says this, "'Beloved, when I gave all diligence to
write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for
me to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith.'"
Common salvation, he says. So all common people that hear
the gospel and hear it gladly, common, old, ordinary They hear
it gladly. They have this in common. They're
all saved the same way. They're all saved the same way.
They're saved by God's sovereign grace in Christ. The same way. Look at verse 1. Jude writes,
verse 1, to them that are sanctified by God the Father. This is what common people have
in common. set them apart. That sanctified needs to set
apart. Who makes you to differ from
another? Who makes you to differ? You ask just a common believer,
how are you safe? They won't say anything about
themselves. They won't even bring up themselves. They won't say,
That's not in their book ever. That's where the Lord chose me. I didn't choose him. The Lord
called me. The Lord revealed himself to
me. The Lord taught me. The Lord
bought me. The Lord brought me. The Lord
redeemed me. The Lord saved me. The Lord,
the Lord, salvation of the Lord. God chose me. God chose me. Sanctified by God the Father.
Read on. Preserved in Jesus Christ. And
called. Sanctified by God the Father. God Almighty elected a people.
Common old ordinary sinners don't despise election day. They're
so thankful. They're so thankful. Like the
poem says, Lord, it is not that I did choose thee, for, Lord,
that could not be. Hadst thou not chosen me, I would
never have chosen thee. An old common, ordinary sinner
realizes, if God had not chosen me, I'd still be in the gutter,
or I'd still be in the pew and not know him, had not God chosen
me. You know, this is going to be
the eternal cry. of all believers the eternal
cry unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his
own blood. Unto him, unto him. It's going
to be the eternal question by every believer, every believer.
It's going to, there's one question that is never going to really
be able to answer throughout eternity. Why me? We're all going to be asking
that. All common folks, when they're
sitting like Mephibosheth, right beside the King of Kings and
Lord of Lords, at his table, a no-good, worthless, common,
ordinary maggot from off planet earth, made into what's called
a son of God, now sitting at the very table with the King
of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Creator of the universe, with
his arm around you, you're going to say, Why am I here? That's chosen by God, that's
why. Chosen by God. Preserved in Christ Jesus. Preserved
in Jesus Christ. How'd you make it, Mr. Thief?
How'd you make it, Mary Magdalene? How'd you get here? How'd you get here? I was preserved. How did you make it? I was preserved. The Lord kept me by his power.
Preserved in Jesus Christ. You ladies that make preserves. You ladies, some of you ladies
make preserves. Fig preserves. Not many make
those anymore. My grandmother used to. Some
of you do. Strawberry preserves. Preserves. What do you do? What
do you do when you preserve something? Well, you go out and you pick
it. You choose it. Does it hop in
the jar? Do you go out there and put a
jar out there and say, any of you strawberries would love to
be in my preserve? Get in the jar. Why not? That's silly. You laugh at that,
don't you? Anybody go to heaven and choose it, too? Be chosen. Be chosen. You pick that fruit, all right,
and you bring it in, and you wash it, don't you? You wash it. You don't put it
in a jar like it is, do you? Corruption and all that, bugs,
whatever, you got to wash it. Well, God Almighty chose His
people, washed them in the blood of Christ, and then you take
those preserves, or those strawberries, and you put them in a jar. And
whatever you add to it, you put in it, you know, and then you
put a lid on it and you put it in boiling water, don't you?
General. Put it in boiling water and put
it under the fire and over the fire. And after a little while,
you know, you hear that, you know, seal. And that thing is
preserved. It's preserved. That lid seals
and And that jar preserves, we found jars of stuff in our basement,
and I know you have too, the years old, don't tell them how
old. Some of them you can still open them up and it's still be
good. They've been preserved. Folks, that's exactly, that's
a pretty good illustration of how God saves his people. Picks
them, he chooses them, we didn't choose him, he chose us. He washes
them in the blood of Christ. He makes them righteous in Christ,
by Christ, and puts them in Christ by faith for safekeeping. They are in Christ. They will
be found in him on the day of the judgment, when God Almighty
brings forth his people, like opening a jar. You make those
preserves to eat later on for your own enjoyment. God Almighty
is going to bring all those people whom he has preserved in Christ
and bring them into the kingdom for his own enjoyment and to
our eternal salvation. Well, preserved in Christ and
called. He says they've been called,
verse 1. So all of us have in common, all believers, common
old people have these things in common. God chose them, Christ
died for them, Christ keeps them by the Holy Spirit. They've been
called. Every one of them here, the call.
The gospel call. The gospel call. He said, my
sheep hear my voice. I know them. They hear my voice
and they follow me. Every one of them hear the same
gospel. That's my next point. Look over Titus chapter one.
Titus chapter one. All right. Right after the second
book of Timothy, you'll find a little book of Titus. These
common people have common salvation. They've all been saved the same
way. And so they believe the same thing, the common thing. They're all common. They've been
saved the same way, common salvation. And so they believe the same
thing. I mean exactly the same thing. Oh, yes. Yes, they do. Look at it. Verse
1, Titus 1, verse 1 says, Paul, a servant of God and Apostle
of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect." Read on. "...to the faith of God's
elect, and the acknowledging of the truth, which is after
Godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God cannot lie promised
before the world began." that he has in due time manifested
his word through preaching. That's the gospel call which
is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our
Savior, to titus mine own son after the common faith. You see that? That's everything
we just said. The faith of God's elect, it's a common faith. faith of
God's elect. All God's people believe the
same way. Yes, they do. There are not many different
faiths. No, no, no, no. Ephesians 4 says there's one
Lord and one faith. One faith. All these denominations
are man-made, folks. I remind you, in the Bible, there
were no denominations. We're Baptist. We're Methodist.
Everybody was a Baptist. Everybody was baptized. And I
don't mean sprinkle. Everybody was immersed. We're Methodists. Well, we're
Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians.
Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians.
Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians.
Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians.
Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians.
Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians.
Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episcopalians. Episc With church of God, you
mean there's another kind? With church of Christ. Man, why are you saying all this? There were no denominations,
Brother Henry. What was it called? The church. The church. And you ought to believe the
same thing. You'd ask them all. Do you believe God elected you? What do you mean, do I believe
God elected me? They'd all thought that's a stupid question, wouldn't
they? Ask Abraham. You ask Abraham,
a 75-year-old idolater, been worshiping idols for 75 years,
didn't know God, didn't care about the true God. You come up to him later on and
ask him, did God choose you, did you choose God? He laughed
at you. Man, I was a 75-year-old man. Of course God chose me. What
other kind of salvation is there? If salvation's up on earth, then
He has to do it, doesn't He? That's a stupid question. How
are you going to get to heaven? How am I going to get to heaven?
Well, here I am on earth, and there is God. How am I going
to get to heaven? He says to get to there. What
a stupid question. You're guilty of breaking the
law, aren't you? Well, sure, all sin that comes short of the
glory of God. How are you going to be made
righteous? Well, I sure can't do it myself. That's a stupid
question. Somehow or another, God's going
to have to just say, I'm righteous. They all say the same thing.
They all believe the same thing. There are no gray areas. How do you say? Grace! Every
one of them. Every single believer. This word
is at the top of his profession. How do you say? By grace! A free,
unmerited, undeserved gift given me that I didn't even want, but
it was bestowed upon me. Didn't offer it to me. He had
to make me take it. A man can receive nothing except
it be given him a common thing. He can't receive it unless God
gives him the grace to receive it. I'm saved by grace. Mercy. I'm saved by mercy. God didn't give me what I deserve.
God gave me what I didn't deserve. God gave me what Christ deserved.
God gave Christ what I deserve. I'm saved by mercy. Every single
one of God's people have a common thing. How are you going to make it?
Only if God keeps me. If God leaves me alone, I'm going
to quit today. And I'm going to make it all
the way to glory someday if God Almighty keeps me by His power. That's what every single one
of God's common old folks say. If I'm in glory someday, it'll
be 100% by the power of God Almighty. Common faith. Common faith. Is that your profession? Is that
you, you common old Joe? All common old Joes go to glory.
All dogs go to glory. All maggots end up butterflies. All sons of Jacob are not concerned. Oh yeah, is that you? Can you
say that? Can you take your place beside
the thief on the cross, Mary Magdalene? Nobody? They have the common
salvation, they have common faith, common belief, common confession
of faith. Look at Acts 2, all right? I'm going to quit real soon.
Acts chapter 2. This is all good and all important. Acts chapter two, all these common
folk have the same confession of faith, same profession of
faith and confession of faith. Profession and confession, a
little different. Profession is what you say you
believe. Confession is your outward declaration
of it. you profess to be a sinner, you
confess your sins to God. You understand the difference? In they that gladly received
his word, all common people do, were baptized. Were baptized. Every one of them. Every single one of them that
were truly common, and loved what the Lord was saying, loved
that gospel, and received it by his grace, and believed it
by his grace, they confessed him, and believers baptized him. Why, it's the least they could
do. And I've said this before, and it bears saying again, that
baptism is like the marriage vow that we take. when we fall
in love with someone, living with somebody is not love. No. As a matter of fact, and
this is just a fact, this is a fact, four out of five couples
that live together before they're married end up in divorce. That's no, that's no, you see,
that's no real confession of love. That's easy. That's trial and error. But I'm
going to try you a while. And if I see something I don't
like, I'm leaving with no commitment. Love can be described in one
word, commitment. If you really love somebody,
you commit lock, stock, and barrel. mind, body, soul, and strength.
That's what the Lord said. Love me with all your heart.
Love. Love. Marriage is a confession. Two people walk down the aisle.
Do you take this man? I sure do. Love him all your
life? I sure do. Having to hold through
sickness, health? Yes. Poverty? Well, yes. Till death do you part? Do you?
I do. Yeah, right. But anyway, that's
what you said. And then the other one says the
same thing. And they before God Almighty, they confessed and
before all the people, they confess their love and total commitment
to one another. That's a good thing. Unless you
have to perform the ceremony. But it is a good thing. Our Lord
hallowed that. Our Lord married Adam and Eve
in the garden. Boy, that's who you need to marry, you folks.
young people. To marry outside the Lord is
no promise at all that's going to last. If the Lord gives you knowledge
of him and a mate that knows him, then that's a marriage that'll
last. Well, and then baptism is saying
the same thing. I want to profess before everybody.
I want to confess before everybody what Christ did. Crucified, buried,
risen again. He did it for me. And I want
to be crucified with Christ. I want to be just buried, out
of sight, out of mind. I want this old man to just die.
But I want to rise to walk in newness of life, and I want from
this day forward everybody to know Christ is my husband. Do you take this man to be your
Lord and your Savior? I sure do. I want everybody to
know it. No pride in that. That's what
the Lord said to do. What would you say about a man
or a woman who did not refuse to marry you? There was a woman
down at somewhere, one of the businesses, and we were talking,
and I saw a ring on her finger, and I said, Did you engage? She
said, Yeah, been seven years now. I couldn't help myself. I said,
seven years and he hadn't married you yet? My lady, what's he waiting on? Does he not know whether he loves
you or not? Man, oh, man. And Paul said that
in 1 Corinthians. Knowest thou not thyself? Huh? Are the Christ's in you? Do you
love the Lord? Do you love this gospel or not?
Do you believe this gospel or not? Are these your people? Do
you love these people? Do you believe the truth? Do
you believe everything? The Ethiopian eunuch, Brother
Dan, said to Philip, as they were riding along the chariot,
he heard the gospel and he believed everything Philip was saying.
It touched his heart. He loved what he was saying.
He just loved to hear about Christ. Philip told him about everybody
that believes Christ is baptized in Ethiopia. They came up to
a pond, and Ethiopian said, Stop! There's water. He said, What
hinders me from being baptized? Oh, Philip said, Nothing, if
you believe with all your heart. You believe? I sure do. Oh, come
on then. It's a commandment. The eunuch wanted to do what
he was told to do, and he was glad to do it. Well, so common
confession, common trials. Quickly, 1 Corinthians chapter
10. We all have common trials. Common trials. Every believer
will go through. And you know there are many in
here who have put off this thing of baptism, just like everybody
does. I'm waiting until I feel good
enough. Anybody done that? One of these days I'm going to
feel like I've got enough faith. And that'll be like Friday evening,
by the time Sunday rolls around. I don't know. Is that anybody?
Anybody go through that? Or where you are repentant? What is required of confessing
crime? Believe me. And we all have the same struggles,
and everyone who has been baptized, things just didn't change. They
didn't change. If anything, you feel worse than
you did before you got in there. For a time, we'll bear witness
with your spirit and say you're mine, but then the assault comes. The real assault. Once you've
made that commitment, it's like marriage. Oh, you old cronies, you tied
the knot, didn't you? Come on, Joe, let's go! Come
run to the same excess of life with us! Come on, man, we're
going! Let's go!" No, I can't. I really don't want to. I'm married. You see what I mean? Yeah, you are, aren't you? Yeah, you are. It's a good thing. It's a good thing. Common Trials,
chapter 10, verse 10, 1 Corinthians says it. Chapter 10, verse 13. There hath no temptation taken
you, but such as is common to man. You take the person in here who
has known the gospel the longest. He was heard the gospel the longest,
believed the longest, and I had no idea who that is. But it's
not me. But anyway, you take that person
and ask them, are you better than you were twenty, thirty years ago? Do
you feel better about it? Oh, no. Or are your troubles over? Do
you still struggle with sin? Worse than at the start. Well, sure you've got a victory
over some things. Well, by God's restraining grace, you
know, I may not be on the bar stool or in the gutter or full of self-righteousness.
But I still struggle with the same desires, the same temptations,
all the same things, maybe even harder than ever before than
I did in the beginning. Common. Common temptations. Common trials. Every one of them,
every one of them say, if anybody Well, everybody will
probably make it but me. It's up to me. I'm the chief
of sinners. Every one of them say, I'm the
chief of sinners. So those of you who feel that way, you're
not alone. You've got common temptation. Same common temptation. But now,
wait a minute. For your comfort, young believer,
for your comfort, is some who have lived 40 years
in the faith and they still believe. They're still sitting here. They
hadn't quit. They hadn't quit. See, God's
grace is sufficient. Common afflictions, common afflictions,
trials, trial of your faith, work of patience. A couple of
sorrows, David said, are wrung out on God's people while the
world's just happy as you go. fiery trials, common persecution,
the whole world turns against you. Everybody in here who works
in public works, you feel like you're all alone. You feel like
you're all alone. It's common. All God's people,
wherever they be, are common in their persecution. They have
common possessions, and you don't have to turn, but over in Acts
chapter 4, it says that those people that received the word
gladly and were baptized, they all said that nothing was their
own, but they had everything in common. In other words, what's
mine is yours, they said. They had this congregation of
people. love one another truly, and not
just in word, but in deed also. If they saw any real needs of
their people, they met those needs. They met those needs. I get calls all the time from
people needing help. Every one of them, it seems,
is a member of some place, some so-called church. Everyone. That's
one of the first things I ask them. We need food, mostly. It's very rarely food. Very rarely. It's always help me with my rent,
help me with my utility bill, help me with my phone bill. But the first thing I always
ask them is, do you go to church anywhere? Oh yeah, I'm a member
of such and such. I say, and you don't have any food? You mean you're about to lose
your apartment? And you're a member of some so-called church down
the road? Your kids are going hungry, and
they're going to cut off your electricity. It's in the middle
of the winter. You're going to be in the cold, and you're a
member of a church? No, you ain't. No, you're not. And I tell them, if there's anybody
in our congregation who's in real need, They're not going
to leave me alone. No, sir, buddy. No, sir. You mean to tell me if somebody
in here is going to lose their home or lose their... without
food? If you heard Brother Stan and
Sherry and Sister Sherry were going without food, what could...
There's no way you'd get empty your refrigerator, wouldn't you?
Sure you would. Not bragging on here, that's
just the way it is. That's what family does. That's how you know
they're family. That's what James wrote about.
Well, they had common possessions. Well, mind yours, a believer
truly gives you the shirt off his back. Yes, he will. Some
believers, you have to, you have to, Brother Bob Goffey, I have
to watch what I say to them. Like that tie. Sometimes I do say that. Hey,
I like that tie. Yeah, I really like that tie. Seriously, that's the way God's
people are. What's the matter with yours? Give you the shirt
off their back. Common possessions. That's common.
Common people. They're just old common people.
They're nobodies. But there's somebody that got
them. They have common salvation. They say the same way. They all
know it. Common faith. Common faith. Common
confession. Common confession. Common possessions. And so forth. Well, I hope that's
a blessing. Let's sing, in closing, number
228. Brother John, you come up here, please. lead us in singing that. Stand
with us, 228. Let's sing the first and last
verses, OK? 228, first and last. Trust the Ever-Living One, His
will for me shall be. I'll live forever, I'll remain, I'll be
forever free. Give me love that never dies, me.