It's such a blessing. Thank you,
ladies, for that. Well, I want you to go to Exodus
again this morning. And that would be Exodus 25. And you can do what I'm going
to do. I'm going to put my bulletin
there so I can get back there quickly. And then I'm going to
start at Genesis 3. Okay, let's ask God's blessings
now specifically for this service. Lord, it is such a wonderful
thing that You have brought us here this morning to meet for
public worship. It is our honor to be here. It is our privilege. to gather
with the other saints of God and lift up our hearts and our
voices together and render to you the praise that you so richly
deserve. We know that in heaven's everlasting
glory and every voice there is tuned to lift up your honor,
to adore you. And Lord, as they do in heaven,
so we seek to do on earth, to lift up the name of our God, to think, Lord, of You, of Your
grace, of our Savior, who took our filthy
robes of unrighteousness, became accountable for our sins,
died to put them all away. And by His death, His obedience
unto death, He established for us a robe of righteousness. Oh God, what good news for us
sinners. May we truly enter into the worship
service today and magnify Your great name and the great name
of Your Son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus, in whose name we
ask this prayer. Amen. The Old Testament is a progressive
revelation of the gospel of God's redeeming grace. I think of a
passage of Scripture in the book of Isaiah, here a little, there
a little. And line upon line, God brings
us from the earliest pages of His Word. And He brings us from
there, and we grow in understanding of the gospel of God's grace.
here in Genesis chapter 3, which is a very familiar passage of
Scripture to all of you, I'm sure, and to a good many of you
who are watching. In chapter 3, we have the fall
of Adam. who was our federal head. And
of course, in Adam, we all became depraved. We all became sinful. Adam was cut off. Adam and his
wife were cut off from the presence of God. And God sought them out,
and we're so thankful that's what God does. He seeks out the
lost ones. He seeks out those who have fallen. And he himself came up with the
only remedy by which our spiritual malady can be healed, and that's
by the death of an innocent victim in the stead of the guilty. And
certainly this is the theme that's found all the way through the
Old Testament. But here in Genesis chapter 3,
the Lord having announced Himself in verse 15 that the seed of
the woman was coming, He then proceeded to illustrate the gospel. You think of this, God Himself
illustrated how He would save sinners. And he took animals,
he killed them, he skinned them. Of course, in killing those animals,
he shed blood, and then he stripped off the robes of self-righteous
rags that Adam and Eve had put on themselves, and God Himself
robed them in those skins of an innocent victim. And of course,
that's a picture of us. We've fallen into sin. But God
has found a substitute. He found one to die in our stead,
the Lord Jesus, who shed His blood to satisfy divine justice. You see, as a result of Adam's
transgression, there had to be death. God absolutely demanded
it. And so the animals die for Adam
and Eve. And then God, after He robed
our fallen mother and father, then the Lord established a location
where He could be worshipped. You'll notice here in chapter
3 of Genesis, and look at verse 24, the very last verse of chapter
3 of Genesis. And so he drove out the man and
he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden, he placed cherubims. And in between the cherubims
a flaming sword that is a great flame of fire, which turned every
way to keep the way of the tree of life. Now, I want you to notice
that word. He drove out the man and he placed. It's a very interesting word,
which really means he dwelt. God dwelt there. Another good
word there would be he tabernacled there. You can look it up. It's a very interesting word
study you could do on the word placed. It means that God rested
there. And He established that location
where He was to be worshiped. And that's where Adam and Eve
went. They went to worship God. Right here, at the east of the
Garden of Eden, in this location that God showed them. Now, hold
your place there and go back to Exodus chapter 25 and look
at verse 8. And I told you that word placed
means dwelt or tabernacled. Now look over in Exodus chapter
25 and verse 8. God said, let them make me a
sanctuary that I may, what's that next word? Say it. What's that next word? Dwell.
That I may dwell there. That I may tapernacle there. That's where my rest is going
to be. So God, first of all, back over
here in Genesis chapter 3, first of all, He established the way
He could be worshipped. You say, well, when did He do
that? When He killed the animals for Adam and Eve. That's the
way God's to be worshipped. That's the way God's to be approached.
There's got to be death. There's got to be blood. So he
established the way that he was to be worshipped, but now he
establishes the location he's to be worshipped. A specific
location, a specific place. And this is where Adam and Eve
came to worship. Then we get into chapter 4 of
the book of Genesis, and this is where, when they became grown-ups,
this is where Cain and Abel came to worship. And we know Cain,
he came to the right location. Okay? He came to the right location
because he would have come here to meet with God where God dwelt
between the cherubims. I want you to file this away
in your memory now because this is a picture of what we're going
to be speaking about, the Ark of the Covenant, which is where
God dwelt. And we're going to see in Exodus
chapter 25, God dwelt, God tabernacled between the cherubims. And between
the cherubims, that's where the fire of God's very presence ascended
up to glory. What's called the Shekinah glory. So this is where God is to be
worshipped. He established the way He's to
be worshipped, and He established the location of His worship.
And so, Adam and Eve came to this location, then Abel came.
And then Cain came. We know Cain, he came to the
right location, but he didn't come the right way. Because he
brought the produce of the earth that God had cursed. His presentation
to God, His offering to God, had no reference to death. But you see, God said to Adam,
back in the second chapter, in the day you eat thereof, in the
day you transgress My word, you will surely die. That's what
He said, you're going to die. And when Adam ate of the forbidden
fruit, He died spiritually, but he didn't die physically because
God found for him a substitute to die in his stead. And one
innocent of any guilt, an animal, and that animal died because
that is the penalty for transgression. But you see, when Cain came to
the right place to worship God, he came to the right location.
He came to where God tabernacled. He came to the place of God's
rest between the cherubim at the fire. Our God is a consuming
fire. He came to the right location,
but He did not come the right way. And therefore, the Scripture
says God didn't have respect to His offering. How did God
show respect to the offering of Abel? Because Abel came to
the right location, but he also came the right way. He came by
the way of death. He came by the way of substitution. He came bringing the firstlings
of his flock, and he killed the firstling of his flock. He put
it up on that altar, And God indicated he approved of his
sacrifice by that fire. That fire devoured the sacrifice. There was the burnt offering.
And Abel was received. God had respect to his offering. because his offering pictured
God's offering for transgression, for sin, that He would come hundreds
of years later, the Lord Jesus Christ. And what would happen
to the Lord Jesus? He would die. That's what the
law demanded. That's what justice insisted
on. The soul that sinneth shall die. That's why Christ died. Why wasn't
Cain's offering? Why didn't God show respect to
it? Why didn't that fire leap out between the cherubims and
consume Cain's sacrifice? It had no blood. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission of sin. Therefore Cain's, his transgressions,
his sinfulness remained on him and in him. God didn't have respect
to his offering, but to Abel's he had respect. Because the scripture
says in Hebrews 11, by faith, by faith, Abel offered unto God
a more excellent, more excellent sacrifice than his brother offered. So here's what we have here in
Genesis chapter three, and then kind of spilling over into the
fourth chapter. We have the way to worship God, and we have where to worship
God. We have the means to worship
God, the death of the innocent. And we have the location where
God was to be worshipped, between the cherubim, where the fire
was. And it would seem that for several
years, I suppose, that this is where men came to worship, women
came to worship. Families would come together.
This is where God met man and man met God. But then as the
population grew, and people had to, of course, disperse, because
it didn't take too long for the population upon this earth to
begin to really take off, multiply. Then men began to worship God
at individual altars. But still, still the same way. That never changed. But we read,
for instance, Abraham, well, back up, Noah, when Noah came
out of the ark, first thing he did was build an altar. He built
an altar. And he worshipped God. He took
the extra clean animals into the ark so that he could offer
sacrifices to God when he got out. And then with Abraham, he
built an altar, Genesis chapter 12. We just finished studying
Genesis chapter 22. God said, take Isaac, thy son,
thine only son, his only begotten son, take him up to a mount that
I'll show you. which we know is Mount Moriah,
and offer him there as a sacrifice to me. And by the way, here in
Genesis chapter three, most of the reputable commentators say
this is very near Mount Moriah. This is very near Mount Moriah,
where Abraham would offer up Isaac. Of course, he offered
a ram in his stead. And this is where the temple's
going to be built. And this is where our Lord Jesus
would lay down His life, a ransom, give His life a ransom for many. So we have the way God's to be
worshipped, we have the location God's to be worshipped, but as
I say, as the population grew, then people had to spread out.
You've got Abraham, he offered a sacrifice to God, having built
an altar. Jacob did the same thing, or
Isaac did the same thing, then Jacob the same thing, and then
of course Israel's taken into Egyptian bondage. Guess what? No more worship. Of course, most
of them didn't have any desire to worship God. And you need
to remember this about Israel in Egyptian bondage, they were
just about as heathen as the Egyptians were. It was only a
very, very small remnant according to the election of grace that
did worship God. But in chapter 3 of the book
of Exodus, the Lord told Moses, He said, you go, you go and you
tell Pharaoh, let my people go that they will go into the wilderness
and sacrifice unto me. That's still going to be the
same way. But it's going to be in a different
location. In fact, God is going to establish
only one location in all of the world. where he can be worshipped. Up until that time, individual
altars, families, as they spread out, the man, the head of the
house, he'd put some rocks together, and of course the Lord had said,
don't polish the rocks or anything like that, I want them unadorned,
just very plain, ordinary, because all of the focus is not to be
on that altar, but the sacrifice on the altar, which was a blood
sacrifice. Then once the Israelites go into
Egypt, they can't worship God there. There's no indication
of any blood sacrifices there. But God delivers them, and He
delivered them that they might worship Him by means of a sacrifice. He liberated them that they might
worship Him. And you need to understand this
about salvation. I know we benefit in an infinitely
great way. We're forgiven, we're made righteous,
we have a glorious inheritance in heaven, but there's a bigger
reason why God has saved us, and that is to worship Him and
glorify Him. It is all, as Paul said in Ephesians
chapter 1, he says this three times, it's all to the praise
of the glory of His grace. That's why God saves us. He saves
us to worship. He saves us to offer unto Him
the sacrifice of thanksgiving, a grateful heart. Well, then God leads them to
Mount Sinai. And He gives the law to Moses. First time he gave the law to
Moses, the people danced around a golden calf and Moses came
down from the mountain, he threw the law down and broke it all
to pieces. And he goes up in the mountain
again, receives the commandments of God, the laws of God, he comes
down and God says, now you're going to put that in a box. You're
going to put that in a chest. That's a chest made of shittum
wood, and it's going to be covered on the inside and the outside
with gold. It's called the Ark of the Covenant.
Now go back to Exodus chapter 25, and God said, now there, that's
where I'm going to meet you, at the Ark of the Covenant. So God still, the way is established. The way hasn't changed. The way
to God never will change. It can't change. Because God demands death for
your sin. It's one thing to talk about
it, God demands death, and we speak of it in a general way,
death for everybody. Now wait, wait. God demands a
death for you. And that's why He sent Christ Jesus
to be the substitute to die the death of the cross in the stead
of all of His Isaacs, in the stead of all of His people. That
way to God has never changed. It's always by blood, death of
an innocent victim. Now God is going to establish,
He's going to establish a location where He will meet with man and
man will meet with Him. Only one location throughout
all the world, one location, Exodus chapter 25, And look at
verse 22. I could read beginning at verse
10, and we'll do that tonight because I'm coming back to this
subject. But look at Exodus 25 and verse 22. And there, let
me back up to verse 21. Forgive me. Let me back up to
verse 20 because I want you to see the connection of the cherubim.
And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on a high covering
the mercy seat with their wings, their faces shall look one to
another, toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims
be." Just like in Genesis chapter 3. Thou shalt put the mercy seat
above the ark. It's the lid. Think of the mercy
seat as being the lid of the ark. Solid gold. No wood. Solid gold. And in the ark thou
shalt put the testimony of the covenant, God's law, that I gave
thee. Now watch verse 22. And there,
there, I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee
from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims, which
are upon the ark of the testimony of all things which I will give
thee in commandment under the children of Israel. God now establishes
the one location where He will meet with man. Ark of the Covenant
with the lid of the mercy seat sitting on top. The way has been
established. Now the location is established. Let me give you five things real
quick. I won't labor too long on any of them. This is, first
of all, the location where God will meet and commune with Israel. The word commune, that's the
root word for communication. So what he's saying is, I'll
meet with you there, and I'll speak with you there, and you
can speak with me there. But you can't meet with me anywhere
else and I'm not going to meet with you anywhere else. And you
can't speak with me anywhere else and I'm not going to speak
to you anywhere else except one location. And surely you can see now this
Ark of the Covenant pictures of our Lord Jesus. Where is God
going to meet with man? Where can we meet with God? The
Lord Jesus. Where is God going to speak to
us? And where can we speak to God?
Is there anywhere? What about down front here? No.
Don't come down front thinking I'm going to commune with God
down here. I'm going to meet with God down
here. No. He's not down here. He's in Christ Jesus. God will
meet with you in His Son. And you will meet with God. You
want to meet with God? You want to fellowship with God?
You want to worship God? Are you really serious? Well,
here's how you can come to God and meet with God in His beloved
Son. And do you want God to speak
to you? Oh, Jim, if he'd speak to me, oh, it'd be such a blessing. God will not speak to nor be
spoken to by any son or daughter of Adam except through Christ
Jesus the Lord. You got that? That's true, isn't
it? And here God says, I'll meet
you and I'll commune with you. I'll fellowship with you and
I'll talk to you one place. Now, we know that one man is going to come
into this holiest of holies, holy of holies. Indeed, Moses
will on occasion, but most of the time, it is the high priest. It's Aaron who's the high priest.
And he can only come in there one time a year, and never can
he go in without blood. Because you see, the way to come
to God, I'll say it again, it hadn't changed. It hadn't changed
now. We come to God through the substitutionary
sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood. Don't think that you can come
to God without the blood. We may as well name you Cain. If you try to come to God bringing
what you've done, your prayers, your Bible reading, Lord, I've
been faithful, Lord, I've tithed, Lord, I've done this, Lord, I've
done that. Man, I read of people like that
in Matthew chapter 7, and the words they hear from the Savior's
lips is, depart from me, I never knew you. All you do is brag
about what you've done. Oh, come to God through the blood
sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. Well, here's the first thing.
The location where God will meet and commune with Israel is at the Ark of the Covenant.
Now, last Sunday, Sunday before that, we kind of took a tour
of the tabernacle, right? Just a brief tour of the tabernacle.
We said the biggest piece of furniture is the enter-in. There's
the brazen altar, and then there's the brazen laver, and then you
go through the first veil, and then there's the table of showbread,
got 12 loaves of bread on it. It would be changed out every
Sabbath day. And then the priests could eat
that bread. On the other side, there's a golden candlestick.
Then there's the altar of incense. And then you go behind that heavy
veil. Remember, I said it's going to
take several people to lift that. You go back in there, and there's
the Ark of the Covenant with the lid of the Mercy Seat there. There's all seven pieces of the
tabernacle. pieces of furniture. And we started
out there because that's where we began. But when God gave instructions
to Moses about building the tabernacle, and then when the time comes
when they actually build these pieces of furniture, where does
God begin? He always begins with the Ark
of the Covenant. Because you see, that's the throne
of God. Think of the Ark of the Covenant
with the mercy seat on top. There's the throne of God. That's
where God reigns. That's God's presence. If it
wasn't an Ark of the Covenant in there, the rest of the tabernacle
would be meaningless. It means nothing without the
presence of God. That's where God begins. In other words, God's order is
working from the inside out. From the interior to the exterior. What does that say? It says this,
salvation of the Lord. It starts with the Lord. It commences
with the Lord. It originated with the Lord.
It's of the Lord in its purpose. Salvation's of the Lord in its
purchase, in its power, in its presentation, and in its perfection. If it had been left to man to
figure out how and where to meet his Creator, he wouldn't come
up with how to meet Him or where to meet Him, the way to approach
Him or where to approach Him. We wouldn't know. would be groping
around in the darkness. But God in His infinite wisdom
designed salvation for sinners. He designed it Himself. And He
designed this salvation through a suitable sacrifice and substitute,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Would you be accepted by God? Just answer in your own mind.
I'm asking you for an answer in your own mind. Do you want
to be accepted by God? I'll answer for myself. I sure
do. I want to be accepted by God.
Well, I better come to God the right way. I'm coming by the
blood. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I'm coming on His righteousness established by His substitutionary
death. I'm coming the right way through
the sacrifice of Christ, and I'm coming to God at the right
location, the altar, or the ark of the covenant, that is Christ
Jesus Himself who said, I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm the light. There's a way to God. There's
a way to God. Christ is the way, and He's the
location. Remember everything about the
tabernacle set forth Christ, His person, His salvation which
is in Him, redemption, intercession, and entrance into the presence
of God. It's very meaningful. You can't
come to God except through Christ. purpose of the tabernacle and
specifically the purpose of the Ark of the Covenant was to be
a meeting place where God could meet with man
and man could meet with God. Here's the second thing, the
Ark represented the throne of God, God's throne, where his
glory was manifested. It's that bright light coming
out of the Holy of Holies. You know, it illuminated all
the camp of Israel at night. They were never in the dark.
And that bright light, if you trace its origin, it comes from
between the cherubim. Like back there in Genesis 3.
That fire. That fire. God's a consuming
fire. Trace this back to God Himself. You see, the Ark of the Covenant,
that's the glory of Israel. That's Israel's glory. And I'll tell you, Christ Jesus,
He is the glory of God. He is the glory of God. I've quoted this to you several
times. John 1.14, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us, tabernacled among us. And you know what John said?
And we beheld His glory. His glory. Well, when did they
do that? On the Mount of Transfiguration.
When His clothes were white and glistering. And His very countenance
was brighter than the noonday sun. And by faith, by faith we see
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. We read of this man, Christ Jesus,
in Hebrews chapter 1, it says that he is the brightness of
God's glory. He's the brightness of it. that someday we will see the
brightness of God's glory shining in the face of the Lord Jesus
Christ. So the ark represented the throne
of God where His glory was. Here's the third thing. The ark
was the sacred container For the covenant, that is the law
of God, that covenant entered into by Israel with the Lord. Remember the Lord said, I'll
bless you and do this for you and that for you if you'll obey
my law. And they told Moses, hey, tell
the Lord all that he commanded us to do, we'll do. Put that
in the box. Put that in the ark of the covenant. The Ark of the Covenant pictures
our Lord Jesus. And you know what the Scripture
says in Psalm 40 verse 8? Our Lord Jesus speaking, I delight
to do thy will, O God, yea, thy law is within me. It's within my heart. Just like
that law was in the Ark of the Covenant, the law of God was
in Christ Jesus and He obeyed every jot and tittle of it. Every
thought, every motive was in subjection to God. He did all
for the glory of God. He did fully the will of God. Lo, I come to do Thy will, O
God! That's what He said even as He
was coming into this world. God's law is in Him. I'm so thankful
He honored that for all His people. And He bore the penalty of that
law for all His people. Death. That's the reason those
of us who are the beloved of the Lord, those of us who know
Him, we're not going to die. He said, well, Brother Groover,
you just told us Brother Groover, he died last Thursday. Well,
that's the way men speak of leaving this world. But our Lord Jesus
calls it a sleep. He fell asleep in Christ Jesus. We're not going to die because
somebody died for us. Christ died for us. And one of
these days the Lord's going to say, well, it's time for your
soul to come home to glory. It's not going to be death, it's
sleep. We'll fall asleep in Jesus. And
this body will be buried in a bed and the clods of earth will be
rolled over us like a blanket. And the body's going to sleep
there. To the day of a glorious awakening. When our Lord comes
back, time to wake up. Sleep's over. Soul's been with
the Lord in glory maybe for thousands of years. Body's been sleeping
that long. And then here's the fourth thing.
The ark was set forth first and later the brazen altar. This pictures our Lord Jesus
in His incarnation and His sacrificial death. I said the ark, that's
the throne of God. That's the glory of God. He's
the strength of God. But there's no hope for any of
us unless God leaves that Holy of Holies. Unless He leaves His
throne of glory. and comes down here and dies
like the death occurred out there at the brazen altar. That's what's
got to happen. And our Lord Jesus laid His glory
aside, came down here, joined His deity to humanity, suffered,
bled and died for His people. That's pictured out there at
the brazen altar. And here's the last thing. I
want you to get this. At the ark, God met with one
man, God spoke with one man who was the representative of the
people. That's right. You notice the
wording here. Look at verse 22 again. Look
at verse 22. And there I will meet with thee,
Moses. That's just one man. And I will
commune with thee, one man, later Aaron, from above the mercy seat,
from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the
testimony of all things which I will give thee in commandment
unto the children of Israel. We say, well, how is it then
that man can visit with God that is all of the people of
Israel? How can they visit with God, commune with God, and speak
with God when God's only dealing with one man in there? That one
man, get it, was a representative man. He represented all the congregation
of Israel. God said, I'll deal with you,
and in dealing with you, in speaking with you, in blessing you, I'll
bless everybody. And that hadn't changed today
either. God speaks to, He blesses us, He saves us, He keeps us
through one man, the representative man, the Lord Jesus Christ. I'll give you this interesting
passage. Go over to chapter 29 of Exodus. I'll give you this
in closing. You know, when it comes to the
Scriptures, we really want to pay very close attention to words. Like there in chapter 25, there
I will meet with thee. There I will speak with thee."
Number one man. Representative man. Now watch
this. Here in chapter 29, he's talking
about the brazen altar and the sacrifices. Look at verse 42. This shall be a continual burnt
offering. Chapter 29, 42. Throughout your generations at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord,
where I will meet you, the whole congregation, to speak there
with thee. Watch it, verse 43. And there
I will meet with the children of Israel. I'll meet with all
of you. And then he says this, look at
verse 45. and I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will
be their God, and they shall know that I am the Lord their
God that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I
may dwell among them." Isn't that wonderful? Through Christ
Jesus. God dwells with us. And that's exactly what it says
again in John 1.14. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. And He dwells among us now. He's
here with us this morning. He's here with us by His Spirit,
by His omnipresence, and He's in glory at the right hand of
God. Ever since he's exalted, he's
been at the right hand of God. You know, I'll give you this
and I'll quit. Israel had, they had a body of
men called the Sanhedrin. There were 70 men and then they
had one high priest who's kind of the head of the whole shebang. That's the highest court in Israel.
And when lower courts heard various cases that couldn't be settled,
they'd go to the Sanhedrin, Supreme Court. 71 men, 70 plus the one high
priest. And then they'd hear a case and
they'd gather together and they'd come up with a verdict. They'd
go back and over to the left-hand side, There was a scribe. And over to the right-hand side,
there's another scribe. Here's what the high priest would
do. He'd say, what is the verdict? If the verdict was guilty and
therefore condemnation, that guy on the left. That's what
he'd stand up and say. Condemnation. that meant the whole court voted
against that fellow. He's guilty in other words. But
over here on the right hand side there's another scribe and if
the verdict was not guilty he'd stand up and say, he'd say,
forgiven! That's all he'd say. Forgiven! That was His job. To say one word. Forgiven! This
guy over here, one word. Condemned! Condemned! Forgiven! Or acquitted. Our Lord Jesus, what's His position
in heaven? Right hand. And you know what
he says about all of his people. Acquitted. Forgiven. And he says that based upon his
own redeeming grace and blood. To all of you who are in Christ
Jesus by the grace of God, by the gift of faith. You're acquitted. You're forgiven. And that's what
the Lord Jesus will say throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. You're acquitted. You're forgiven. Who can charge God's elect with
anything? When the Savior Himself stands
and says, forgiven! Holds up His hands with the wounds. Forgiven. We come to God through
Him. who loved us and gave Himself
for us. We come the right way. We come
to the right place. Christ the Lord. Our Father,
bless the Word that's gone forth. Trust that Your Spirit will make
it clear to all of us. Make it understandable. And Lord,
give us the wonderful gift of faith to believe Him who is the
Ark of the Covenant and who is Himself the tabernacle of God. For all the tabernacle pictures
Christ. He's the way to God and He's
the location. He's where we worship God. Father, we worship You in, through,
and by Christ Jesus our Lord. Bless us spiritually. Bless us with a knowledge of
Thyself. May we go away this morning rejoicing in that One
who is the way, the truth, and the life, by Whom we come, Father,
unto You. For Jesus' sake, Amen.