of chapter 3. Judges chapter
3, the last verse. We have a one verse statement
about one of the judges. And I'm going to do some interpreting
about this man. I want to share some things about
this man that I find common among God's people. That's what I want
to do. But notice with me here in the
book of Judges, chapter 3 and verse 31, one verse of scripture. And then there's also a verse
that uses his name in chapter 5 and verse 6. And we will read
that also. But in the book of Judges, chapter
3 and the last verse, We have an after him. Now, if we back
up, we find out that we have been reading about and studying
about Ehud, who was another judge. And during Ehud's time, he completely
put away the enemy. And we mentioned that unless
the enemy, all the enemies of the church are put away, there
is really no victory. And God's people enjoy absolute victory. And it really means something
to hear Christ cry from the cross, it is finished or paid for. He
paid for everything that was required. So all the enemies
have been put away. And we see that picture here with Ehud. He took care of business with
the king, and then he called his forces and they defeated
the Moabites. And we find that there was rest
in verse 30 of that chapter. There was rest for four score
years, for 80 years. And after him was Shamgar. the son of Annas, which slew
of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad, and he also
delivered Israel. That's it. That's all we have
except one verse in chapter five There's a description given to
us about some of the conditions during his time, and that's in
Judges chapter 5, and we read there in verse 6. Judges chapter
5 and verse 6. One more time, Shamgar's name
is mentioned here, but it's more talking about the days of Shamgar,
talking about the conditions during Shamgar's time. Now, whether
this happened prior to him defeating those 600 Philistines, we don't
have a lot of knowledge about that. But I'm going to surmise
that it probably was. It says, in the days of Shamgar,
the son of Anath, in the days of Jeho, the highways were unoccupied. Now, you look that up, it means
it was unsafe to travel. It doesn't mean that they didn't
have travelability. It just means that they were
unsafe. And if you have a running, enemy in your camp or around
you, places are going to be unsafe to go to. And then it goes on
to say the travelers walked through the byways or the secondary roads. So the highways were taken care
of by the enemy, and I have this feeling That this is speaking
about how it was before Shamgar defeated those 600 Philistines
and got rid of the enemy so that Nonetheless, that's what we have
with regard to him now We we do know this about Shamgar and
let's go back to the book of Judges chapter 2 Judges chapter
2 we know this about Shamgar because we have this written
about all the judges and This is something God shares with
us about all the judges, and it tells us there in chapter
2 and verse 16. Nevertheless, now because even
though all the people sin all the time, we find here in His
long-suffering to us word, long-suffering to Asher. He was long-suffering
to Israel, to the remnant according to the election of grace. There
were going to be people in every generation that God had intended
to save, so he was going to spare a whole bunch of people to make
sure that those children are born. But it says here, nevertheless,
in verse 15, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil,
as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them,
and they greatly distressed, nevertheless, the Lord raised
up judges. So when it comes to Shamgar,
are the rest of the judges, the ones before Shamgar, the ones
after Shamgar, we can take confidence that God raised them up. They were not raised up by their
own bootstraps. They were raised up by the Lord.
Nevertheless, the Lord raised up judges. And we find with regard
to the judge, to the one that is, and the word judge doesn't
mean that they had held a court. So often we find that he's the
one that was used by God to protect or put off the enemy. When we
read that, those comments about the Lord Jesus, we find out that
the Lord raised him up. The covenant of grace brought
him up. Not in a birth sense, but in
a sense that the covenant of grace determined that he would
be the ransomer of his people. So nevertheless, the Lord raised
up judges which delivered them out of the hand of those that
spoiled them. So the Lord raised them up and he's also going to
share with us so often that it was he that delivered the people. So we have that knowledge about
Shamgar. Even though we only have one
or two verses about him, we have this said about him, about all
of the judges, that they were raised up of the Lord. What a
statement that is in the most perilous of times that God would
raise up people to take care of his business, to bring the
gospel, that they would bring good news, that they would be
someone that could defeat the enemy and cause peace to be for
80 years. What an accomplishment that God
would do that. If he gave peace for five years,
what an accomplishment that is. And for us to go through every
day in the peace of God, the peace of Jerusalem, pray for
the peace of Jerusalem. So to be at peace. So this we
have with regard to Shamgar. Now, as I think about him in
one verse, what can we say? Well, I wanna say this about
him. I am going to look at Shamgar, a man raised up of God, a judge
of the Lord that was used to throw off the enemy and kill
600 Philistines. Now, our warfare is not that
kind of warfare. Our warfare is with the Word
of God. And if we look at it from that standpoint, we also
could see that Shamgar was one who loved the word of God. He was called by God and he loved
his word. What does the scripture share?
We're going to read that verse of scripture. My sheep hear my
voice. And I like that so much. It tells us of the great power
of God to raise up a people and that they would love his voice.
And I don't know how many times I've shared with a young man,
I quit arguing with God. Really, when we're saved, we
quit arguing with God. We don't get into a battle with
him over his own word. His word is his word, and he's
going to carry it out just as he sees fit. How wonderful it
is for God's people to say, God, I believe it. Thank you. Well,
let's look at a couple of things. I think as we introduce him,
through him we can find that he is like many of the others
that are found in the scriptures. Now, this morning I had been
looking and looking and looking for a verse of scripture. I even
asked Nancy to help me because sometimes she's my strongest
concordance. And to help me find a verse of scripture, I could
just put the thought a little bit together. Well, today I broke
down and I sent a text to Gary Shepard. And instantly he sent that verse
back. I was looking for the word example,
and that's not used in that verse of scripture. It's the pattern,
which is translated oftentimes. So if you will join me in 1 Timothy,
in 1 Timothy 1, 1 Timothy 1, we find here something about
Paul, the apostle. 1 Timothy 1, And there in verse 16, now he
shares with us by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he was moved
by the Holy Spirit to write these things to Timothy, but he also
says, how be it for this cause, 1 Timothy 1, verse 16, how be
it for this cause, I obtain mercy. You know, as we look at Israel
in the days of the judges, we can certainly say, How be it
for this cause, they obtained mercy. God gave them a great
deal of mercy. Finally, we read that he regarded
that covenant no more. He regarded that covenant no
more. And he said, I will establish a covenant. Well, that covenant
has always been an establishment, and that is the everlasting covenant.
But the covenant I will make with them after those days will
be that I will write my laws in their hearts. I will give
them a new heart. I will be their God, they shall be my people,
they will follow me, and on and on it goes. So here we read about
this. Howbeit for this cause I obtain
mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering. You know, the Apostle Paul could
understand a little bit about longsuffering, because if God
had not been longsuffering, this man would have been long gone. There were some people that,
well, the guy that baptized him, are you sure you know who you're
telling me to go to? He has caused great consternation
in the church. Well, he knew what it was to
have long suffering, and then he goes on to say something.
Now, I want this to be kind of a stepping stone for us as we
look at Shamgar tonight, because in many ways, he is an example. of what God does with his people,
and he leaves the mark on his people. He says here, for a pattern,
he might show forth all longsuffering
for a pattern, for an example, to them which should hereafter
believe on him to life everlasting. The Apostle Paul is sharing with
us that God had revealed to him that he was an example of how
God saves his people. Long-suffering, we know that.
He's long-suffering to us. We're not willing that any should
perish. And he's an example of how God does his business. Now,
not every one of us are on the road to Damascus, but my friends,
we know that God is gracious to show us the true light. And no doubt, there were others
that heard about what had happened to us, they heard nothing. You know, it's interesting, you
follow that out, as the Apostle Paul, he heard a voice. Some
of those people didn't even hear a voice. And he saw a great light,
and some didn't see the light. So it's just so interesting that
God picked him out of the hole and showed him this, and he says,
I'm an example. of what God shares with us, those
who would hereafter believe in me. All right, well let's look
a little bit with this theme in mind about Shamgar. Now Sunday
I mentioned this over in the book of Amos, there is two verses
that just stand out for me, and that's in Amos chapter 7, Amos
chapter 7. These verses have been such a
blessing to me. The whole book of Amos has been
such a blessing. But these two verses, as we find
them here in this little book in the Old Testament, couched
away, we read here in the book of Amos chapter 7. Amos chapter 7 and verse 14 and
15. Amos chapter 7, verses 14 and
15. Now, Amos is being called to
be a prophet. And he says, then answered Amos
and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet. Neither was I a prophet's
son. You know, I have this sneaking
hunch that Shamgar, as he grew up, never had it in mind that
he was going to be a deliverer, that he was going to be a judge. He didn't have his mind set on
that. He had some business to tend to, and that's what he was
taken care of. He said, I was not a prophet, neither was I
a prophet's son, but I was a herdman. That's about as common a job
as you could find in the day and time that this was written.
Cattle or sheep, it doesn't matter. He was a herdman and a gatherer
of sycamore fruit. Now when there was nothing to
do with the herd, I was taking care of this business. and the
Lord. And I can just see this about
Shamgar. We have one verse of scripture
about him, but if we look at his background, we're going to
find out that he was not, he was not preparing himself for
the ministry. He was not preparing himself
to be a judge. He was not doing that. He was
taking care of business. The Lord saved him and he said,
I believe that if you don't work, you don't eat. So he was taking
care of his business. And then it says, the Lord took
me as I followed the flock and the Lord said unto me, go prophesy
unto my people Israel. What did he do to Shamgar? He
says, go take care of business for Israel. And he did, he went
and took care of 600 Philistines. And apparently that put them
to flight and now we're gonna have some peace here. So Amos
is kind of a reflection of what we read about every prophet of
the Lord, every preacher, every minister, every servant. We're
not born with the idea that we're going to be some great this,
that when it comes to spiritual things because we realize we're
dead in trespasses and sin when the Lord saves us and he's the
one that had to do all this work so Shamgar was just like this
I'm convinced he was just he uses an ox code to defend Israel Wouldn't it be so easy to simply
say he was a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit and the Lord
called him to do what he asked, what he had him do? All right.
Well, we know that as we look there for just a moment in the
book of Judges that the Lord raised up We're going to find
all the judges the Lord raised up. They didn't raise their hand.
In fact, we're going to have people that say, I'm not capable
of doing the job that needs to be done, that are judges. And
we're going to find the same thing about prophets and kings
and people that God has is the apple of his eye. They're not
haughty and high minded and proud and boastful. They are God's
long-suffering to me. All right, let's look, if you
would, into the book of Numbers chapter 14. Here, I think that
he was much like Caleb in this sense. Shamgar was much like
Caleb. We're going to find out that this is true about every
believer. They're going to be much like
Caleb. Caleb, it would have been Joshua, but here it's recorded.
In the book of Numbers chapter 14, Numbers chapter 14, we have
this recorded about Caleb, and it's so necessary. It is so, it's such a blessing,
and Shamgar and the rest of the judges, if they're God's judges,
have to have this. Every saint has to have this
it doesn't matter what the Lord calls on us to do We have to
have this and that is as it's described here in the book of
Numbers chapter 14 chapter 14 and verse 24 This these words
it says but my servant Caleb because he had another spirit.
What does that mean? He must be born again You have
to have this, and I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that
that's exactly what Caleb and Joshua had. Now, the other ten
didn't, and almost all of Israel that rebelled against Moses and
rebelled against Joshua and Caleb had no idea in the world what
that was. They didn't know what it was
to have the Spirit of God. They had the spirit of bitterness.
They had a spirit of meanness. They had the spirit of contrariness.
They had all of those spirits, but they did not have this spirit.
And he says here, and hath followed me fully. Now I can just hear
Caleb say, when did I do that? When did I do that? But God said,
he followed me fully. Him will I bring into the land
whithersoever he went, and his seed shall possess it." So what
a statement we read here, and I can't help but think that Shamgar
had the same spirit that God had given him, raised him up.
Born into a family in Israel, it doesn't even tell us what
tribe he was from. Gives us the name of his father, but we can't
identify much from that, except, as I've always said, he was related
to Adam. He's a descendant of Adam. He's
a child of Adam. He has sin to the core. So God
had to do something with him before he could even be useful,
and I am convinced that this is what happened. You must be
born again. I can't use you. Now he can use
people that are not born again, but not for good ends. His good
ends, but not theirs. All right, let's look at another
here. Over in the book of 2 Samuel, now this is, David had to say
this, but I can't help but think that Shamgar was much like David
in this sense, as he was used of God to be a judge, and no
doubt he spoke concerning God. He was a judge, a prophet. He was the priest of the Most
High God in the sense that we are kings and priests of God.
Everyone that is a believer is a king and a priest of God. And
here in the book of 2 Samuel, 2 Samuel, we read this about
David. 2 Samuel chapter 23. 2 Samuel
chapter 23 and there in verse 2 we read these words about what
David what's written about him he he said the Spirit of the
Lord spake by me you know when Shamgar was determined to do
what God called on him to do, he understood that that message
had been given to him by the Lord. It was not something he
came up with. You know, for 80 years, they
had rest, and then the judge died, and it tells us, what,
12 times in the book of Judges? And Israel went off and sinned
again. Well, left to himself, he would
have been in that number. But God intervened, God's grace
was present, and he was able to say, what I'm doing is God's
commission. I have his word on this. He has called me to do what I'm
going to do with those Philistines. I'm not in this alone. And so
it is with every one of God's people to know that the Lord
has spoken to us. The spirit of the Lord spake
by me and his word was in my tongue. I know exactly what I'm
doing is because God has ordained that I do that. You know, if
there was ever a place in all the world that was an environment of idols, an idolatrous
environment, it is Israel at this time. I don't have to worry
about Moab, they've already adopted all of the gods of Moab. I don't
have to worry about Canaan, they've already adopted all the gods
of Canaan. All the gods they could get their hands on, they
have adopted. And so Shamgar is raised in one
of the most idolatrous conditions that anybody could be raised
in. He's got them stacked up around
him. I don't know whether his parents worshipped him or not.
We don't have much comment about that. But I know this about Shamgar,
that there was a time when God took those idols away from him. Now, I know that because over
in 1 Thessalonians, it tells us this, chapter 1. Would you
turn there with me? An idolatrous place. You know,
in every place throughout all history, there has been a plethora
of idols. Everywhere. It doesn't matter
whether you were born in the East or in the West. It doesn't
matter whether you're born in Africa or Europe. It doesn't
matter. We have a plethora of idols all around us. And we're
called on from our infancy to call on those idols. And here, in the book of 1 Thessalonians,
what? In this 1 Thessalonians, it's
the E word. Thank God we have the E word,
elect, because that's how God does His business. All right,
1 Thessalonians 1. And there in verse nine, now
we could read the whole chapter. It's just short, but it has so
much to say, and we've read it so many times, but I want us
to notice here with the environment. And that's one of the things
that we notice every time that the judge dies, those people,
Israel, our ancestors, whether we're from England or Ireland
or Italy or Africa or South America, all of our ancestors had idols. Now, the worst idol of all is
the one that's so prominent today, and that is free will. If you
want to get along with people in every religion, that's all
you have to do. You can get along with them because
that's everyone will believe that. Well, we find out that
free will in the book of Judges never left them, led them higher.
It always led them lower. God had to intervene His will
or there would have been nothing going on there. They'd have gone,
all right. Just think of Shamgar growing up there in Israel, in
Israel. in the Baptist church in Israel. And all of the nonsense that
was going on by all the people that were there. And here we
find out that God does something for his people that takes them
away from that. Notice here, verse nine, 1 Thessalonians
chapter one, verse nine, it says, for they themselves show us what
manner of entering in we had unto you and how you turn to
God. Oh my goodness, how you turn
to God. Turn me and I shall be turned.
We will be made willing in the day of His power. Here it says
they turn to God from what? From idols. Now, it doesn't have
to be a stone idol or a gold idol or a piece of wood idol.
We have all kinds of idols of our own creation. Our religion
creates idols. They're all around us. And that
is so true here in Israel at this time. We got the Moabite
idols, we got the Canaanite idols, we got all Philistine idols,
and they're all flocking to them. We've just seen that from the
very beginning. When Joshua died, oh my goodness,
they just adopted all of that stuff and left to ourself. What
would we do? Except for the grace of God there
go I but here we find a group of people How many a remnant
according to the election of grace and it said there how ye
turned Now how'd that happen? He turns us God turns us. We don't turn ourselves. We're
stuck in the mud You ever been stuck in the mud and tried to
turn around? It's not possible. You might get your head around,
but you're not gonna get your feet around. We gotta be moved.
And it says, from idols, and then to what? To serve the living
and true God. I like what Peter had to say,
thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. And here we
find that we have been turned to serve the living and true
God, not just another idol. but the living and true God.
So Shamgar, someday in his life, he was taken from nursing at
these idolatrous altars and caused to look to God and those things
were no longer important. Saul of Tarsus never went back
to his old gods. And you know what his old God
was? God. Through a bad view. He said he believed in the God
of the Old Testament. So what a blessing it is that
God turns us from idols to serve the living and true God. And
then we mentioned earlier, but we want to go over there to the
book of John. The book of John chapter 10, I just can't help
but think that Shamgar was in this camp too. As we look at
him, his commission was from God. I was a herdsman and a gatherer
of sycamore fruit, and God came and told me to do something. Well, he did it. I don't find anywhere in the
Bible that any of God's servants..." And I know people are going to
jump right on Jonah. He ran away on purpose by God. But to run from the ministry? No. Matthew, follow me. Peter, follow me. And he had
a voice with power in it, a voice that could create the heavens
and the earth. and don't think for a moment.
He couldn't take one individual and say those words, and they
were changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, and followed
Him. Now we say, well, they did foolish
things. Who doesn't? I'm glad that the Lord doesn't
look at our sin. I'm glad that the Lord paid for
our sin in completeness and totality. So it's not there anymore. But
John chapter 10, let's get over there. John chapter 10, verse
27, look at this. Shamgar, you're right here. My
sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me." It's
not a mystery who God's going to save. He's not surprised when
people are saved. He has ordered it. My sheep hear
my voice, and they follow me. I know them and they follow me.
So Shamgar, you're right in that flock, that little flock that's
there. You're my sheep and you're doing
what I called on you to do. You're the one I called from
the job that you were doing. You're the one that I raised
up because I raised up all of the judges. You're the one that
I put a spirit, my spirit within you. You're the one that had
my words in your mouth. You're the one, you know what?
Whenever we read the Word of God, we got the Word of God in
our mouth. We're as blessed as David was
to have it given to him by inspiration, because we get to have it in
our mouth and in our heart. There was the plethora of idols
that he had to deal with and thanks be unto God. God dealt
with that just like he did with the Thessalonians. And then my
sheep hear my voice. And you know, turn with me to
the book of Hebrews chapter 3. Hebrews chapter 3. I think that
Shangar was much like Moses in this sense. Notice with me here
in the book of Hebrews chapter 3. Hebrews chapter 3 and verse
5, we read these words about Moses as it's recorded here in
Hebrews chapter 3 and verse 5. And it says, and Moses verily
was faithful. Isn't that interesting? Moses
was very faithful in all his house as a servant. I dare say
it could be said about Shamgar. Shamgar was very faithful in
all his house as a servant for the testimony of those things
which were to be spoken after. Shamgar was faithful in his house. He was faithful to God and he
was a servant of the Most High God. You know, it's written about
David, and I was so thankful that in one time visiting with
the man who brought me the Gospel, he brought this verse of Scripture
up, and it's been a blessing ever since. But that's found
over in the book of Acts, chapter 13. You know, I used to do a
lot of, I don't know whether it was worry, maybe it was concern,
I don't know. Maybe it was both. What's going
to happen here when I'm gone? What's going to happen when I'm
gone? You know, I can't worry about that. I can only do what
I find here in, and I think Shamgar could follow the same thing.
In Acts chapter 13, verse 36, we read about David, wherever
you are, a believer in Christ Jesus. Yeah, we're concerned
about what's going to happen to our group when we're gone.
But this is what it says, for David, after he had served his
own generation. That's all we can do. Our own
generation. We pray that the Lord would raise
up workers for the harvest, but that's his business. It's not
our business, it's his business. I grew up in a culture where
if the preacher didn't call two or three young men to the ministry
a year, he wasn't much of a preacher. Well, God never said that that's
the preacher's job to do. That's God's job to do. Pray
ye, the Lord of the harvest will send forth labors into the harvest.
All right, Lord, we pray that you'll send labors into the harvest.
Well, where are they? That's not our business. It's
his business. Pray ye, the Lord of the harvest.
So David, after he had served his own generation by the will
of God, fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers and saw
corruption. He died, was buried and turned
to ash. That happened to Shamgar and
it's going to happen to every one of those judges. You know,
we read about a judge dying and Israel is going back down in
a garbage pit over and over and over again. It's simply telling
us that Christianity is not born into our children. God's going
to have to take care of that business too. All right. And
if you'll turn with me over into the book of 1 Corinthians 1.
1 Corinthians 1. 1 Corinthians 1 and there, verse
25. Just think about this for a moment as we think about Shamgar. As this judge, one verse of scripture
said about him, but many verses of scripture compliment him.
Just as we read about the Apostle Paul, he was a pattern. God gave him as a pattern of
those who would believe later. And here in the book of 1 Corinthians
1, verse 25, it says, because the foolishness of God is wiser
than men. Isn't that a statement? Have
you stopped to think about that? The foolishness of God is wiser
than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Well,
number one, God's not foolish, and number two, God is not weak. But for an example, just say
it. For ye see your calling, brethren. All right, there's
a calling here. How that not many wise men after
the flesh, not many mighty, Not many noble are called. Wow. The apostles asked Jesus when
he said, how hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom, their
comment was that who then can be saved? And he said, with men
it is impossible. but nothing is impossible with
God. Nothing shall be impossible with
God. So go on with me, but God has chosen, verse 27, the foolish
things of the world. I can't, you just know that there
were some people, how did this guy get to be the judge? Well,
I know him. He was called of God. How but God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen
the weak things of the world to confound the things which
are mighty, and the base things of the world and the things which
are despised hath God chosen, yea, things which are not to
bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should glory in
his presence. Lord, you just don't know how
glad you should be that I'm one of yours. That's the comment you hear.
And the church says, Lord, I know where I came from. and I can only glory. I told that young man today,
I can't glory in my faith, I have to glory in Christ. I cannot
glory in my salvation, I have to glory in His salvation. And
went down through a long list, so you could just see the facial
features We glory in the Lord. And this
all happens to glory in the Lord. All right, he had that. He was
much like all the elect of God. He realized his calling was not
because of some superiority. It was of grace and grace alone. So he is a judge, God's judge. God's judge that judged. And
we have one passage of scripture about him. And you know what?
He's God's judge. God raised him up. God gave him
the message. God gave him the strength. God
gave him the power. God defeated those Philistines
through him with an ox goad. You know, that's the same thing
that God brought up to Saul of Tarsus. It's hard for thee to
kick against the ox goad. That's what that word Prix is,
it's an ox goad. And he defeated all of the Philistines.
Well, God's gonna defeat us all by his word and power of it.
Finally, if you'll turn with me to the book of 2 Samuel. 2
Samuel. In 2 Samuel, we have a list of
some of David's. David had some mighty men. I
mean, mighty men. They had, talk about supermen. They were powerful. God had given
them such strength. Here in 2 Samuel, chapter 23,
2 Samuel, chapter 23, and beginning with verse 11, we have a man
by the name of... 2 Samuel... Yes, Shammah, Shammah. And if
you read prior to this, you find some of the others that were
more powerful than he was. But after him was Shammah, the
son of Ege, the Herorite, and the Philistines were gathered
together into a troop. Now, who was it that Shamgar
defeated? Philistines, 600 of them. He gathered together a
troop where was a piece of ground full of lentils. Now he knows
what to do with lentils, stomp them out. And the people fled
from the Philistines, but he stood in the midst of the ground. Can you just see Shamgar? He's not doing this running.
He's not defeating the Philistines running. He's defeating the Philistines
by the power of God and a stick in his hand. But he stood in
the midst of the ground and defended it and slew the Philistines.
And the Lord wrought a great victory. He didn't even, Shammah
didn't say, oh, look what the Lord did with me. He understood
just like Shamgar understood. This victory is not mine. It's
the victory that the Lord has given us. And Israel was freed
from this nonsense for a short time. And then we're going on
to chapter 4, Lord willing, and pick up with a couple other people
that God uses as judges. So, Shamgar. He's like so many other of God's
folks in the Bible. And he was a faithful servant
of God. He did what God called on him
to do, and he left the rest to God. We'll stop there for tonight.