Chapter six. Chapter six. Look with me at two verses of
Scripture here. Verses 16 and 17, let's read
these. These six things that the Lord
hate, yea, seven are an abomination
or detestable, utterly hated, poured unto him. Are you listening? Everyone. Six things God hates. Seven are an abomination. Verse seventeen. Look at it.
Listen. A proud look. Number one. The Lord says the thing he hates
the most is pride. And that is what we are fullest
of. Pride is what our society is seeking to instill within
us and our children. Isn't it? Look over at Isaiah
23 with me. Isaiah chapter 23. Pride is what
we're the fullest of. It is what our society is trying
to instill in us and our children. They call it by different names—pride. Some call it self-esteem. Some call it dignity. Some even
call it self-worth. But it's still pride, and the
Lord hates it. And it is the thing that will
damn all who are damned. The ultimate cause of the damnation
of all people is pride. Pride. We're going to see that
in young and old. Isaiah 23. Look at this weighty
verse of Scripture. Verse 9. The Lord of hosts hath
purposed it. to stain the pride of all glory. Are you reading that with me?
Folks, if I just read these two verses, we ought to go out of
here repenting, calling on God. The Lord of hosts hath purposed
it. In other words, it's his purpose, and he's going to do it. to stain
the pride of all glory. Anybody that's proud about anything,
the Lord of God has made it his purpose to bring that pride down. And
he's going to do it. To bring into contempt all the
honorable of the earth. If the Lord is going to save
It's going to save me. If he has saved you, if he has
saved me, this is the first thing he dealt with. This is the first
thing he deals with. Pride. He'll bring us down. He'll break us. He'll humble
us. And this is so contrary to what's being preached today.
But this is what God's word says. He'll bring us down. He will
humble us. He that exalteth himself shall
be abased, but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Scripture
said, why? Why does the Lord hate pride
so much, huh? It says it's the first thing
he hates, a proud look. Why does he hate it so much?
Why will it damn us? Why does God hate pride so much,
huh? Well, because we have nothing
to be proud of. Absolutely nothing. 1 Corinthians
4, 7 says this, what do you have that you have not received? Or that is that God has given
us? Nothing. Then he says, if you
received it, From God, why do you glory as if you didn't receive
it? As if you, by your power, as
if I, by my own power, got this thing? Isn't that the essence
of all pride? We're proud of whatever it may
be, acting as if we're the ones who did it. We're the ones who
got it. We're the ones who look like—we're the cause behind why
we look like we do and have what we have and so forth. When the
Scripture says, Every good gift and every perfect gift cometh
down from above, from the Father of lights. Turn over to Jeremiah. I want you to look at this now.
Jeremiah chapter 9. Jeremiah chapter 9. This, you
need to look at this now. Everybody, young and old alike,
young people, teenagers, children, you have a Bible there? I hope
you have a Bible. If you've got a Bible, look at
it. Everybody, all you young people,
you listening? I see some of you staring. Listen to me. Get
your Bible. You got a Bible? Everybody? Look
at it. Jeremiah 9, verses 23 and 24. Look at them. Thus saith the
Lord. Now, Paul Mahan didn't say this. Henry Mahan didn't say this.
Rothbarner didn't say this. Some famous preacher didn't say
this. Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in
his wisdom. Say this to somebody who's real
smart, who's real educated. Don't you dare brag on it. One
little bump on the head will make you a babbling idiot. Right? Who gave you the brain? Who created
the brain? What a creation the brain is. Millions of nerves and blood
vessels and so forth. Who made the brain? Who gave
one man the capacity more than another? God. Let not the wise
man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his
might. I'm stronger than you. I can take you down. I used to do that. I used to
lift weights and all. Who's a small man to lift weights? Well, I
used to, and I took great pride in that I could lift as much
as some big fellas. One little disease, one little
microscopic germ will make me into a vegetable. One little
hit, Stephen, one little hit from a linebacker will turn a
fellow into a quadriplegic. Right? Then what's he going to
brag about? He may have been the strongest
man on the team then, but one little pop, and he's not the
strong one to fly. So who gave a man a body? Who
gave him this strength? Let him glory in God. Let not the rich man glory in
his riches, verse 24. Let him that gloryeth glory in
this. that he understandeth and knoweth
me that I am the Lord, I am the cause of all this. You better
be glorying in me, God says, otherwise I'm going to bring
you down now or later. Right? And because we get by
and because God doesn't humble us now doesn't mean he's not
going to do it eventually. He will. Salvation is for God
to humble us now at his feet. Salvation is for God to bring
us down at his feet to acknowledge him, to see who God is now, not
then, not after we're dead, now. Everything we have, everything
we are, everything we will be or will have is given to us.
And for us to be proud of anything is to rob God Almighty of his
glory. Now turn over to Matthew 18 with
me. Matthew 18. And this is where
we'll stay the remainder of the time. Matthew 18. God Almighty humbled himself. Didn't it? God Almighty, I'm
talking about Jesus Christ, who is God, who was equal with the
Father in the beginning, humbled himself and became a man. This was a condescension, a step
down like we can't take it. For us to become a worm would
be less condescension, less of a demotion than what Christ did. And he came down here, and I'm
talking about him who is bigger, who is stronger, who is more
beautiful, who is wiser than everybody put together. Came
down, and he walked around, and he beheld the pride of worms. Do you know how it sickened him? In other words, he who gave these
men and women, who created them, was listening to them brag and
boast of what they were. Do you know how it sickened him?
He made them. He gave them everything. And
to hear them brag and talk. And even his disciples were not
immune from this. Look at verse 1. At the same
time, came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven? And in another place it said
that they were arguing amongst themselves. I'm a better preacher
than you are. I'm going to—and one fellow's—one
James and John's mother got in on it. My boy's a better preacher. And they were saying, who is
the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? When the king was standing in
front of them. And it says, Jesus called a little child unto him
and set him down in the midst of them. In other words, he called
little children. a little child, one little child,
and brought him up and sat him down. That's what I'm going to
do right now. OK? John Henry, come on up here. Come on. Sarah,
come on. I've done this before, and I'm
going to keep doing it until we get the lesson. This is what the Lord did. He
set a little child down in the midst of the people, and he said
this. Look at verses 3 and 4. The Lord said, as he had that
little child beside him, "'Verily of a truth I say unto you, except
ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not
enter the kingdom of heaven.'" Whosoever therefore shall humble
himself as this little child," and he pointed at the little
children, "...whosoever shall humble himself as this little
child," or these little children, "...the same as the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven." What does it mean to receive
the kingdom of God as a little child? What is it to become a
little child? We better find out, and we better start acting like
one, or God's going to be done with us. Isn't that what he said
right there? Except you be converted, except
you be turned around and become like a little child, you're not
going to get into the kingdom. But if you humble yourself and
become as one of these little children, he said, you're going
to be standing right beside the Lord himself. What is it to receive
the kingdom of God as a little child? Now, when I'm talking
about the kingdom, I'm talking about—he's talking about the
things of God. He's talking about the gospel,
the word of God. Number one, in salvation, when
we're talking about salvation, and you must be born again, you
must be born from above, Christ said, to receive the gospel. To receive the kingdom as a little
child is to receive it in humility. In humility. The gospel says,
by grace are you saved, doesn't it? It doesn't say you work your
way to heaven. It doesn't say you try the best
you can and God will accept you. It says, by grace, you say. The
gift of God is eternal life. It's a gift. It's a free gift.
To receive the gospel as a child is to say, I'm a nobody. I'm a nothing. I have nothing.
I know nothing. I think I know something, but
I realize I know nothing. I can do nothing. The only thing
I've ever earned all my life is what he said the wages of
sin is, death. If God gives me what I deserve,
I'll be condemned, I'll be damned. If I'm going to be saved, God's
going to have to give it to me. That's what it means to receive
the gospel as a little child. Very few people do. They insist
upon having a part in it. Natural man is too proud and
thinks he can earn his way to heaven, thinks that God needs
his help, thinks that Christ came, did the best he could do,
and it's up to him to make it right. No, you receive it as
a gift, as a free, unearned, undeserved gift. Now, these little
children, they didn't earn anything that
they have. They didn't earn anything that
they have. Anything? Did they work for their
house, the automobile, the food, the clothing, anything? Nothing. Everything they have
is a gift. Their parents gave birth to them.
Their parents fed them. Their parents clothed them. Their
parents prepared a place for them. All that they have was given
to them. Right? Everything you have, you
daddy. If you asked them where you got
your bicycle, he'd say, Daddy. Wouldn't he? Where'd you get
your dog?" She'd say, Daddy. Daddy. You ask a true child of
God, where'd you get your salvation? He'd say, My Heavenly Father. I didn't earn it. My Heavenly Father's a gift. So it's to receive it humbly,
the gospel. And then to receive the kingdom
as a little child is to become teachable. To become teachable. free from prejudice, free from
preconceived notions about anything. These little children, they don't
know much. They don't know much. You don't
know anything about nuclear physics, do you? What about—I don't know
much. What about brain surgery? Do you know anything about brain
surgery? Do you? Do you know anything about it? What about justification? Propitiation. To receive the gospel is to come
in here free from prejudice, not knowing much, and not acting
like you know much. It's a shame, isn't it, that
the older these children grow, especially when they hit that
magic number, 13, then they know everything. In thirteen short
years, they become experts. You know, Shane, it's become
teachable. It's willing to listen. These
little children are not going to argue with you about everything.
The reason I didn't call up a teenager, I called up a little child. That's
what Christ said, didn't He? Except you become as little children,
little children. They're not going to argue about
everything with you. They're not going to debate.
They're ready and willing to listen to you. Whatever. Whatever. And except we receive the word
of God as little children, believe in everything the Father says,
we're not going to enter the kingdom of heaven. It's thirdly to believe and be
full of faith about whatever God says. Children believe most
everything you tell them. You know it? Don't they? They
believe just about everything you tell them. We call that being
gullible, naive. You know what it is, really?
It's faith. It's faith in you. It's faith
in their mama and their daddy. Whatever they tell them, they
believe it. They believe it. And a child of God, a believer,
says, whatever God says, I believe it. The world says, that's being
gullible. No, it's faith. faith. God said it, that settles
it. Thank God he causes me to believe
it. To become as a little child is to be trusting and dependent. If you ask one of these little
children if they're worried about their next meal, he's not worried
about anything. He's not even worried about being
up here in front of you all. Wish I was that relaxed. If you
ask them, are you worried about tomorrow? Are you going to get
something to eat tomorrow? You think so? You're not worried about
that, are you? You're not worried. You're not worried about that.
You're not worried about where their next meal's coming from,
about how the bills are going to be paid. Children don't worry
about a thing. They're full of confidence that
their father, he gave it to them, he had no reason not to believe
that it's all going to be there tomorrow. perfect love, cast
it out, period. They depend upon their parents
for everything, too. They trust their parents. They
depend upon them for everything. A child of God, a child of God doesn't depend or
trust himself for anything, especially salvation. Now, this is a needed
point here. A child of God does not trust
himself for salvation. He knows God has provided everything
in Jesus Christ. Everything that he's complete
in Jesus Christ. He doesn't worry about his salvation.
Or shouldn't? If the Father's promised it,
that all who come to him by Christ to be saved, I come to Christ,
I'm saved just as sure as God said it. I need to believe that. Weak believer, you need to believe
that. God can't lie. He says you're complete in Christ.
And a child of God shouldn't worry about his material needs,
ever! Right? Her daddy or his daddy
may fail her. God's never failed any of his
children. He can't! They may lose their
jobs and lose all their earthly means of supporting them and
not have any food for them to eat. My father owns a cattle
on a thousand hills. All the food. He can, if there's
none around, he'll bring it out of a rock. Water. He'll make it rain bread. He
made it. I'll never be Christ said that. He said to his disciples, they
were walking along, he said, now I told you to come and not
bring any money, not bring any clothing, not bring any food
and everything. He said, if you lacked anything yet, they said,
I don't think. You were worried though, weren't
you? Philip said, yeah. We didn't know where we were
going to eat next, but we should have believed you, Lord. That's
what we're going to be saying all through eternity. We should
have believed you, Lord. We should have believed you,
Lord. Didn't like anything. Children are unworldly and unambitious. Children are unworldly and unambitious. Children are usually content
with very little. They can content themselves with very little.
They can enjoy themselves on very little. Their aspirations
or their goals are not too high in life, you know. And when I
was at John's age, and he may think this way, I used to think
a garbage man was an honorable position. And it is. Try doing without them. I used
to think I wanted to be a garbage man, John. Would you want to
be a garbage man? He knows too much. But, you know, they don't have
a high aspiration. My daughter had a poster at school.
They asked all the kids what their dream in life was. She
said hers was to become a farmer and have how many babies? Five
babies. Ask her later on, after the second
one comes along. But, you know, their aspirations
aren't very high, their ambitions aren't too high. Oh, that our young girls would think
it a good thing just to be a wife and a mother. Oh, that our young
boys would grow up and think it's an honorable thing to dig
a ditch to drive a truck. Instead of having to have Be
a lawyer. Be somebody. Some sports hero. Those guys are worthless bombs. Those sports heroes. Worthless
bombs. Making millions of dollars. Come
out of the ghetto. Are they putting their money
back into the ghetto? They're worthless. Overgrown
kids making millions of dollars. They don't know nothing. They're
nobodies. Don't you look up to them either. You look up to your
daddy who's out there working a hard job and earning a living,
earning out of the sweat of his brow, earning your bread. You
look up to your mama who's scrubbing your body and scrubbing your
clothes and washing your dishes and doing honest work. You know, even money is of no
real value to children. If I told these kids, I'm going
to give you five dollars. You'd like to have five dollars?
No? Come on, sir. See, you get self-righteous
when you get up here. Religion makes you self-righteous.
They'd take it, I guarantee you. They'd take it. See, five dollars
is a big deal to them. I remember when a dollar was
a big deal. They don't need much. I go a
long way, like that woman, you know, like that woman who sat
down. A child of God is like that woman
who sat down to a little skimpy meal of just some dry bread,
and she said, all of this, and Christ too? Wow. Hasn't God been good to me? The
roof doesn't leak. John Warburton used to open all
his cabinets up and sit in his kitchen and look at the food
in it. There was a time when he didn't have any. And when
the Lord started blessing him, he'd go in the kitchen and sit
down and open all his cabinets up and just look in there and
look at the food. Thank you, Lord. All this in Christ, too. Kids, children are generally
free from worldly cares. Children don't have too many
pressing engagements. They don't have too many pressing
engagements or business that keeps them from doing things
needful. Like sitting down to the table
with mama and daddy and eating a good meal whenever they're
called. I know, mamas, you have to call
them twice sometimes. The older they get, the more
you keep calling them. You ought not to call them. Every
now and then you ought to try just not calling them. Or at least
call them one time. Try this, mamas. With your teenager,
you call them one time and they don't come, say, all right. And
then eat, clean the dishes up, put them away, and they come
down and say, where's dinner? You say, you're not having any. I called
you, and he refused by not coming. Little children will come. Now,
if they don't have many pressing, whatever they're doing, they
can pretty much drop it and pick it up later to sit down and eat
with their mama and daddy. Drop everything. It's not terribly
important. It can't wait. Nothing is too pressing to the
child of God that he can't drop it to come worship God, to come
be with Christ. Nothing. Take the world, the
psalm says. Give me the Lord Jesus Christ.
That can wait. This can't. I'm going to wait
on the Lord. That can wait on me. Christ is their meat and drink,
their bread and their water, their life. Children also, number
seven, if you take a note, children are fearful and respectful of
their parents, their father. Let's use the father as an example. Children admire and respect and
fear their father, little children. The scripture says the fear of
the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. All God's children fear
God first and foremost. They fear him. They have an awe,
a reverence, a respect for God. They don't talk about God flippantly,
carelessly. They're fearful of offending
God, of disobeying God, of bringing shame upon God. My wife tells
me that one of the things that restrained her restrained her
from doing some of the things that teenagers get into, you
know, going out and carrying on and getting drunk and partying
and getting just wild, you know. One of the things that restrained
her from these things was out of respect to her parents. She
was fearful. She didn't want to hurt and disappoint
her parents. Little children like this are
proud of their parents. You're proud of your daddy, aren't
you? They love their parents. He'll brag on them. You ask these
little children about their daddy, they say, he's the biggest. He
might not be, but they think he is. He's the strongest. He's the handsomest. He can do
anything. They get a little older, and
they're ashamed to be seen with their mama and daddy. I remember when the Lord first
dealt with me, how about you? I bragged on Him a lot. Anybody
and everybody, I'd brag on Him. The older you get, you ever become
ashamed of your Lord? That's sad. Little children, he said, we
need to become like little children. He said to the church in Revelation,
you've lost. Be with your parents. Little children delight to be
with their parents. I'll ask my daughter, you want to sleep
with us? Yeah. There's going to be a few years
from now. She's going to say, Daddy, I
don't sleep. God's people desire his company.
God's children, your little children desire to be like their parent,
too. They want to be like them. They
want to grow up just to be just like daddy, just to be just like
mama, don't they? Huh? A child of God endeavors
to imitate his father, the Lord Jesus Christ. Another thing,
children, to be a child of God received is to become tender
in spirit, become tender. Children are tender and they're
sensitive to sorrow and hurt. of others are sensitive to it
is shocked and amazed by horrible acts on TV when they see things
go on TV. That's a whole other issue in
that thing what it's doing our children but if they see things
The shock, they're amazed by, they're shocked by wickedness
and evil that's going on. Shocked by it. They're sensitive
to it, you see. Have we become so insensitive
to sin and wickedness? Our society, is it so licentious
and evil that we've become so insensitive to what the Scriptures
call evil and corrupt, huh? And what the Scriptures condemn,
like adultery and fornication and drunkenness and rebellion
and homosexuality and blasphemy and all that. Have we become
so insensitive to it that we can watch it without being repulsed
by it? Hmm? We need to become like little
children all over again when it comes to sin. Sensitive, tender, grateful.
Children, little children are grateful for the least favor
done to them, or gift. Smallest token they're grateful
for. Wow. Little children enjoy, listen
to this point, little children enjoy their brothers and sisters.
They enjoy their brethren. See, children grow up, some of
them grow up with a whole house load. They grow up playing with
them. When I grew up, my best friends
were my brothers. And we played together, we fought
together, yeah. The older we got, the less friends,
you know, we became. Until now, that we're mature
and we're friends again. But, you know, we grew up together,
playing with one another, eating, drinking, sleeping, crying, laughing,
enjoying our brothers and sisters, having a big old time together. Who are your companions? You
call yourself a child of God? Who are your companions? They
asked Christ that, didn't they? He said, Behold, my brothers
and my sisters. This is who I like to eat with,
who I like to drink with, who I like to play with, who I like
to laugh with, who I cry with. This is who I enjoy being around.
This is who I meet with. This is my family. These are
my brethren, and I love to be around them. I'm going to grow
up with them, too, in Christ in all things. We're growing
up together, learning together. Children enjoy being around their
brethren. If you enjoy the company of the
world more than those who you claim to be your brothers, you're
probably not a brother yourself. Right? Come on. Face it. Children are not easily
offended either. Or if they are, they quickly
forget, don't they? They quickly forget. Forgive
and forgive. You could have these two right
here. They could get in a knock-down, drag-out fight right here, and
I could pull them apart. They'd be playing together five
minutes later. Wouldn't they? They could be at each other's
throats, and then five minutes later, they have made up, they've
forgotten, and you say, do y'all still mad at each other? What?
Mad? What? Yeah, you had a fight,
didn't we? Well, I just don't remember. You get the point? Except we
become converted and become as little children. The Lord told
Peter, Peter, when you get out of this bad attitude you're in,
why don't you help somebody instead of hurting everybody? Isn't that
what he said? Peter, when you're converted,
you'll strengthen your brethren. You quit being a problem, you'll
start solving them. You'll quit being an offense
and you'll start helping people. You'll quit being offended and
being an offense. When you get out of this teen
tantrum, when you get out of this root of bitterness, when
you quit acting like an unregenerate worldly, you quit causing trouble,
scattering abroad, you become a little child all over again,
become converted, strengthen your brethren, help somebody.
Don't just run around saying, what's everybody, they're doing
this to me, they're doing this to me, what can they do for me,
they better straighten up, they better help me out. No. To coin
a phrase. A late president said, That's
not what the country can do for you. Don't ask what other people
can do for you or what they ought to be doing for you. Ask yourself,
What can I do? What have I done? Our Lord said this. Our Lord
said this. Except there's some drastic change
in us, we're not going to see heaven. Except we become as little
children. Didn't he? And we could go on
and on, couldn't we? What will successfully do this
to us? What will change us? convert us. It's going to take the same thing
that saved you to begin with. Same gospel. Just what I've been
doing this morning. Preaching. Preaching. It's going to take the same gospel. To make me teachable, I'm going
to have to come and sit and listen. And get it out of my head that
I know something I've become a child all over again, and realized
I've got something to learn. I don't know everything. I've
got something to learn. I've got a lot to learn. To become
childlike and trusting and believing, you're going to have to start
coming, sitting, listening, becoming more trusting of God's Word,
dependent, become unworldly and ambitious. You know what the
best cure for worldliness is? You will fall out of love with
the world the more you fall in love with Christ. The more you
fall in love with Christ, you'll fall out of love with the world.
Free from worldly cares, the more you know Christ, the more
convinced you'll be. He's able. I know. Paul said, from a jail cell,
I know whom I believe. I know. And he's able. And he's got me where he wants
me. And I'm not worried. Tenderness, gratitude, love,
all these things are created in the gospel, here in the gospel.
And we remove ourselves from it. We remove ourselves from
the only help we have. Right? OK. I hope it's been some help
to you. This morning we have Today, we have the rare privilege,
and it is a privilege, a rare privilege. We don't experience
this much. We have the rare privilege of witnessing and participating
in both of the ordinances that our Lord handed down to us, that
our Lord gave to us, both of the ordinances. Baptism, the
Lord gave two things for us to do. which is the confession of faith
in Christ, confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and
in the Lord's table. We're going to partake of that
tonight. Baptism is a confession of faith. The Lord's table is
a communion with him. He said he'd be present. He'd
be present, and we'd commune with him. Two things he gave.
And this morning, John Sheasley, Jr. John Sheasley II, whom this church
knows well, he comes this morning to be baptized and profess faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. He told me, John came to me after
a service some time ago and told me that though he was raised
up in this church, he was a young man just like some of our young
ones, Becca, Stephen, the young ones. He grew up here, heard
the gospel. He told me that he was raised up in this church
and knew the doctrine in his head, very similar to my experience. He knew the doctrine, he says,
in his head, and this is right, and this is what you told me.
He understood, but yet he felt, he feels now that the Lord has
been revealing himself to him, his person to him. dealing with
him. The Lord has revealed Christ
to him very really. And he comes, is that not right?
Is that what you told me? He comes professing faith in
that person. Not in doctrine, not just joining
a church, but confessing faith in a person. Baptism, what this
is, our children, young people, what this baptism is. Baptism
was given by the Lord Jesus Christ. He gave it, he said do this.
He said, go ye in all the world and baptize he that believeth
and is baptized shall be saved. Baptism was given by the Lord
to confess him publicly. This is the way you confess him.
You don't come down to the front and shake the hand and do it.
This is the way you do it right here. And what this is. Is saying
you're saying to everybody when Jesus Christ died. I died. When he was buried, I was buried. That old rebel, that old sinner,
that old man, that old woman who didn't care a thing about
God Almighty, is dead. And now there's life. And when
you come up out of the water, it's saying, now I've risen with
Christ to walk in newness of life, to walk with him. It's a confession. Baptism is
a confession that all that Christ did, he did it for me. I believe
it, I receive it as doing it for me, and now I'm his disciple." Is that what you believe, John?
All right. And I tell everyone this. I have told you, and I'll remind
you, that this is the way, if you feel the Lord has has revealed
himself to you. This is the way you do it. This
is the way the Lord has commanded you to do. And just tell me. I didn't have to get out here
and make an emotional plea. I didn't have to get out here
and sing a hundred verses of Just As I Am. He came to me. Remember the Ethiopian eunuch?
He stopped Philip and said, Oh, stop the chariot. What hinders
me? I want to be baptized, too. If you have to be baptized to
confess Christ, the eunuch said, I want to be baptized. I believe. I believe this Christ. I want
to be baptized. And y'all, anybody? We'll leave
the water in there, and maybe we'll do it again this evening
if you want to. But we can fill it up real fast
next week. But this is the way that we confess
Christ. All right, Brother Joe, come
up and lead us in singing a hymn. And while he's leading that,
Brother John, you go on down and be prepared. And I will as
well.