Everybody's back in here, I think,
and everybody's got to go to the... They ain't got this hang
up, I don't know what we'll do. If you have your bulletin, well,
they had them out on the table starting Friday night. I think
they all got gone by yesterday sometime. But if you can find
that, is it on the very back of the preacher? On the very
back of it, our hymn of the day, we'll stand together and sing
the hymn of the day in the bulletin. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord. Praise His name with one accord. Tell the wonders of His power. Praise His goodness every hour. Let the ransomed Church begin,
Whom He has redeemed from sin. Gathered from the East and West,
North and South to Interest. Through the wilderness they strayed,
In a lonely, weary way Hungry, thirsty, tired, in pain Caught
a tear to their complaint Oh, that men would praise the
Lord, While His goodness they report. All his wondrous works rehearse
Who redeemed us from the curse. Well, we are so blessed Pastor Greg gave a quest with
us, his wife, Trish. Lord's really blessed him and
his ministry. We have the sweetest fellowship,
the sweetest, sweetest fellowship. You know, that's, I told somebody
yesterday, you can know somebody, I've known folks for 40, 45 years,
never had a crossword with them. Not the first crossword. Only
the Lord can do that. Only the Lord. Brother Greg,
You come all to you by the Lord's message. And when believers do have crosswords,
they're able to forgive one another, aren't they? Because they've
been forgiven. Good morning. Last Sunday. I was reminded of
the importance of making the gospel simple. There's a young
lady in our church that I've been preaching to for about a
year now. And best I know, she had no experience in church before
she started coming to our church. And she came out to me after
the service and she said, Pastor, what does verily, verily mean?
What does verily, verily mean? You know, it's just one of those
things I assumed everybody knew what that meant. And the answer I gave her was that
when you see verily, verily in the Bible, the Lord, all of the
Scripture is God's Word and it's all inspired. But every once
in a while, The Lord will say something that summarizes a lot
of scripture. And when he wants to get our
special attention to make that summary pointed to our hearts,
he says, barely, barely. There are a few times in the
Bible where the Lord does that. not with barely, barely, but
where he condenses all of the Bible with just a few words. One of those times would be when
our Lord drew his last breath on Calvary's cross and he cried,
it is finished, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
That's a summary of all of scripture. Another would be when Paul wrote
in the book of Colossians, Christ is all. That's a summary of everything. The one I'd like for us to consider
tonight is found in Jonah chapter two. And you've heard it quoted
well twice already this morning by brother Caleb. But it's one
of those statements that summarizes all of the Bible. In Jonah chapter two, at verse nine, that I will sacrifice
unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that that I have bowed. Salvation. is of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. Now, that's only good news to those who are
sinners, those who cannot save themselves. I need to be saved. My salvation is my greatest need. It is the one thing needful,
and it is the greatest blessing that a sinner can ever know,
is to be saved. To be safe from what, you might
ask? Well, first and foremost, I need to be safe from myself. am my worst enemy. I'm quick
to blame others. I'm quick to blame people. I'm
quick to blame my circumstances. I'm quick to blame God when things
aren't going like I want them to. But when it's all understood as it
ought to be, I know that I'm the problem. It's me. It's not my circumstances. It's
not other people. And it's certainly not God. It's
my own unbelief. It's my own sin. And I need to
be saved from that. I need to be saved from the penalty
of sin. The penalty of sin, the Bible
says is death. And the scripture says that all
have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. There's
a good definition of sin. I would ask this question to
you that I've asked myself oftentimes. What in your life falls short
of God's glory? That's him. Everything. Everything. I need to be saved. From the wrath of God. I need
to be saved. From the. From the judgment. Of hell that I deserve because
of my sin. The wages of sin is death, eternal
separation from God. I need to be safe from that.
I heard a story about a man. I would be quick to try to atone
for my own sins if I could. The Bible says that We go about
trying to establish our own righteousness, and that's the natural thing.
I need to be safe from that. Heard a story about a man who
worked all of his life and was faithful to send to the bank
a portion of his paycheck every month, working toward retirement. And finally that day came for
him to retire, and he showed up at the bank to withdraw his
money. He identified himself to the
teller, and the teller asked him to wait just a moment, and
she went and got the bank president. The bank president came and confirmed
that this was, in fact, the person that he claimed to be. And the
bank president turned to the bank guard and instructed him
to lock the door and to call the Secret Service. The bank
president said, this is the man that's been sending us counterfeit
money. That's what men do by nature.
They work all their lives offering up things to God that they think
are going to be sufficient for their retirement. And in the
end, they will find out that it's but Counterfeit money. I need to be safe from that because
I'll do that. I'll do that. I need to be safe
from the power of sin. Sin has such power that it will
cause me to not be able to believe God. Sin will blind me. Sin will
harden my heart. I need to be able to believe. I need to be delivered from the
power of sin in that it would cause me to act out the sinful
nature that I have. If God doesn't restrain me, if
he doesn't keep me and subdue the sin of my heart, I will follow
through with my thoughts. And oh, how I look forward to
that day. when I will be saved once and
for all from the very presence of sin. It doth not yet appear
what we shall be. Oh, eye has not seen, nor has
ear heard, nor has it entered into the imagination of man the
things that he's prepared for us. To be without sin, we can't
imagine it, but we believe it. We believe it. does not yet appear what we shall
be, but we know that when he shall appear, we should be made
like him, for we shall see him as he is. How do I know I'm a sinner? Well,
the Holy Spirit convicts us of that. The Lord Jesus said that
it's expedient for you, it's necessary for you that I go away,
For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come. But when he comes,
when he comes, he will reprove, he will convince you of sin because
you believe not on me. Our unbelief is the evidence
of our sinful nature. And apart from God's grace, we
will not believe. And even after the Lord is pleased
to give us faith, there remains in us a nature of unbelief, doesn't
there? The child of God is always crying
out, Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief, help thou mine
unbelief. And because of that unbelief
that remains in my natural man, in my flesh, I never lose the
need of praying, Lord, save me. Lord, save me. How much like
Peter we are when we take our eyes off of Christ and we look
at our circumstances and we look for a way out. And where do we
find ourselves? Sinking into the blackness of
that sea, that hopeless sea. Lord, save me, then old Peter
said, Lord, save me. And immediately the Lord reached
out his hand. There's not a prayer that I pray
more often, and I don't think that any sinner would say there's
not a prayer that I don't pray more. This this matter of being
saved is not a one time event. We don't look back at an experience
and talk about like the religious do of the day when we in which
we got saved. We're continually coming. We're always needing to be saved. So if we're to understand anything
about how the Lord saves, we first have to believe that we are in need
of being saved. We're in need of being saved. There can be no question as to
what the meaning and the message to the Book of Job is. When the Pharisees said to the
Lord, show us a sign, our Lord said to them, a wicked and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign. No sign will be given unto it
except for the sign of Jonah. the sign of Jonah. So we know
that the book of Jonah is a sign. And a sign points us to something. And we could say that all of
scripture is a sign in that it all points us to Christ. Caleb,
you read it earlier when that verse in John chapter five, when
the Lord said to the Pharisees, you search the scriptures because
you think in them You have eternal life. But you miss the meaning
of the Bible. For they are they which testify
of me. In the volume of the book, it
is written of me. Jonah's a sign. Our Lord said. No sign will be given unto this
generation except for the sign of Jonah, who spent three days
and three nights in the belly of the whale. So shall the Son
of Man spend three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. So Jonah is a picture of Christ. Jonah points us to the death
and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ in his work of salvation,
in his work of salvation. So when Jonah cries in chapter
two, verse nine, salvation is of the Lord. We see in this story
so many things about the Lord Jesus. We see something of his
mercy towards sinners. And then he sends a prophet to
Nineveh to preach the gospel to a pagan people. That's God's mercy. In Jonah
chapter four, if you look with me at verse two, Jonah didn't
want to go to Nineveh because the Ninevites were bitter enemies
of the Jews. And Jonah resisted and went the
other way. God corrected him and brought
him back, and Jonah ends up going to Nineveh and preaching, and
God delivers the Ninevites from the judgment that they would
have had. And Jonah prayed in chapter four,
verse two, unto the Lord and said, I pray thee, O Lord, Was
not this my saying when I was yet in my own country? Therefore
I fled before, undetertious, for I knew that thou art a gracious
God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness repentest
thou thee of evil. Lord, I knew you were going to
be merciful to those people. That's why I didn't want to go.
I did not want you to save them. I wanted them to be destroyed.
But I knew that you were a God of mercy. Here's our hope, brethren, I
am the Lord and I change not. Therefore, you sons of Jacob
are not consumed. He is a God who delights in showing
mercy. If we don't know anything of
the mercy of God. That's all on us. That's all
on us. If we're saved, it's all God's
fault. If we're lost, it's all our fault. You say, well, that doesn't make
sense to me. Well, that's what the Bible says. I quoted that verse in
Romans 28 last night, Acts 28 last night when Paul was in Rome.
And after he preached, the scripture says, and some believed and some
believed not. You look up those words and you'll
find that The first word believed is in the passive voice. That
means the subject, the person who believed was passive. They didn't have anything to,
it was a work of grace done to them. And then the next believe
is in the active voice. That means they participated
in their unbelief. So if we believe we were passive
in that, God birthed us by his spirit. If we don't believe.
We actively participate in our unbelief. Our God is a God of mercy. I
know how he delights in showing mercy. We see in the book of
Jonah as a sign. A picture of substitution. In
chapter one, Jonah is on this ship and God sends a great storm
and all that were on that ship were going to die. They were
all going to die. And they finally identified Jonah
as the cause of the storm. And Jonah said, cast me into
the sea. Jonah willingly offered up himself
as a sacrifice to stop the rage and keep those mariners from
dying. What a picture. No sign will
be given unto it except for the sign of Jonah. And then in Jonah
chapter two, we have a glorious picture of Jonah in the belly
of this whale. Verse one of Jonah chapter two,
then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly
and said, I cried by reason of mine afflictions unto the Lord
and he heard me. Out of the belly of hell cried
I and thou heardest my voice. This is a sign. This is our Lord. You know, we have only seven
very brief sayings recorded in Scripture that our Lord said
audibly from the cross. And yet he hung there for three
hours. What was the Lord thinking? What was he praying? Well, I
think Jonah chapter two probably may have been one of the things
the Lord was This is Christ. This is Christ, bearing our sins
on the cross. For thou hast cast me into the
deep, in the midst of the sea, and the floods can pass me about,
all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said,
I am cast out of thy sight, yet I will look again toward thy
holy temple. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? when God made him who knew no
sin to be made sin. The Father's eyes were too pure
to look upon him. And this was the cup that our
Lord prayed might be taken from him when he was in the garden.
Lord, if there be any way, Father, if there be any way, this cup
can pass from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but
thy will be done. It was the cup of sin. It was
the bitter dregs of God's wrath that he would drink dry on Calvary's
cross that he so that he so desired to avoid if there was any other
way. But there was no other way. There was no other way for us
to be saved. Verse five, the waters can pass
me about even to the soul. The depths closed me roundabout. The weeds were wrapped around
my head. I went down to the bottoms of
the mountains. The earth with her bars was about
forever. Yet hast thou brought up my life
from corruption, O Lord my God. This is the sign of Jonah. who
spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so
shall the Son of Man spend three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth. And God said, I cannot allow my holy one to
see corruption. So just as Jonah was vomited
out onto dry ground, so the grave was forced to give up the Lord
Jesus when he satisfied God's justice all by himself. This
is what the book of Jonah is about. This is what the book
of God is about. This is the whole story. This
is a summary of everything in the Bible. Salvation. Here's
our hope. This is a faithful saying, and
this saying is worthy of all expectation, all acceptation. It ought to be accepted by all.
and it's worthy in its entirety to be accepted. Christ Jesus
came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. God makes you to be a sinner.
You are the sinner. No longer. no longer comparing
yourself to other men or comparing yourself to yourself, no longer
thinking that you're getting better or thinking that you're
better than anyone else. Now, now standing by yourself
before God, like the Apostle Paul, you believe yourself to
be the chief of sinners. Lord, I need to be saved. I need
to be saved. I need to be saved from the from
the penalty of sin, from the power of sin, and from the presence
of sin. Lord, save me. Verse seven, when my soul fainted
within me, I remembered the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee. into thy holy temple. They that
observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy, but I will sacrifice
unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving, and I will pay that that I have
vowed, for salvation is of the Lord." You know, we think about some
of the other types, some of the other pictures Some of the other signs in the
Bible that point to our Lord. Daniel, for instance, in the
lion's den. We know something about lions.
We can imagine what that would have been like to be trapped
into a lion's den and to have those lions around us. We think about even Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego in the fiery furnace. We know something about
fire. We've all experienced being burned.
We can relate a little bit about that. We think about Joseph's being
thrown into the pit by his brothers and falsely accused and sold
into slavery. We can relate a little bit to
that experience. We can imagine what that would
be like. The apostles in the sea, drowning, we have some imagination
of what that experience may have been like. We cannot even begin
to imagine. I can't. Three days and three
nights alive in the belly of a whale? What would that, I mean, are
you floating? Are you swimming? Are there other
creatures that the whale has swallowed that's in there with
you? It's pitch dark? The smell? The fear? What would it be like to live
three days and three nights in the belly of a whale? Would the
digestive juices begin to eat away your flesh? What would that
be like? I have no idea. Can't even begin
to imagine it. And yet, And yet, I would sooner
imagine what Jonah went through than I would come to any understanding
whatsoever of what the Lord Jesus Christ went through. We have, we have no, we can identify
perhaps a little bit and imagine what crucifixion would be like.
We've all been cut. We've all been, we've all had
injuries. We know that it wasn't unique
to him. Other men were crucified. There
were one on right and left at the very time that he was crucified.
It wasn't the physical pain of crucifixion that the Lord was,
was so, was so dreading. No. It was the holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sinners and higher than the heavens, the one who
never knew anything about sin, bearing our sins in his body
upon that tree, and in doing so, being cut off from his heavenly
father, which he had perfect union with for all eternity. We know a little bit about The
shame. And the sorrow for sin, but truth
is we get over our sin pretty quickly. When the Holy Spirit
convicts us of sin. And when we suffer the shame
of our sin, especially when it's exposed with others, we. We turn and we feel the sorrow
of that sin. But nothing like. Nothing like
the Lord Jesus. Our shame and our sorrow would
never be sufficient to satisfy what God required for the penalty
of sin. Someone had to. Someone had to
feel sin and experience the death of sin like you and I have never
been able to experience. And the Lord Jesus Christ, the
only one that could have done that. Turn with me to Psalm 38. Jonah is crying from the belly of a whale. And
we just read the words that he expressed, perhaps those are
some of the words that our Lord was offering up to his father
in private, silent prayer from his heart as he hung there for
those three hours on Calvary's cross. Perhaps Psalm 38 was one
of the prayers that the Lord Jesus is offering up to his father. Surely David is not speaking
of himself here. David is speaking prophetically
of Christ. Look what David says in Psalm
38. Oh Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me
in thy hot displeasure, for thine arrows stick fast in me, and
thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh
because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones
because of my sin. Yes. God made him. And the words to
be. There in Second Corinthians,
chapter five or in italics, God made him sin. Who knew no sin? That we might be made the righteousness
of God in him, and I've heard men try to explain. The Lord
Jesus bearing our sins. Only in legal terms. I've heard
men try to explain the Lord Jesus as the sacrifice that satisfied
God's justice. But it's much more than that. If you suffer for someone else's
crime, you can feel proud that you took responsibility for someone
else and you delivered them from that judgment. You might feel
resentment if you didn't want to make that suffering. But the
one thing that you could never feel if you suffered for someone
else's crime, you could never feel personal responsibility.
You could never feel sorrow. You could never feel shame for
that because you didn't do it. Now, this is mysterious. This
is beyond our comprehension. But the Bible gives us some windows
into the heart of God when he tells us what the Lord Jesus
Christ suffered on Calvary's cross. And as much as Jonah is
beyond our understanding, our comprehension, how could a man
live three days and three? What the Lord Jesus suffered
is far, far beyond that. Far beyond that. Look what David's
saying. There is no soundness in my flesh,
verse three, because of thine anger, neither is there any rest
in my bones because of my sin, for mine iniquities are gone
over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too
heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt
because of my foolishness. I am troubled, I am bowed down. I go mourning all the day long,
for my loins are filled with loathsome disease, and there
is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore-broken,
I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Lord,
all my desire is before Thee, and my groaning is not hid from
Thee. My heart panteth, my strength
faileth me. As for the light of mine eyes,
it is almost gone out from me. My lovers and my friends stand
aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off. They also that
seek after my life lay snare for me, and they that seek my
heart speak mischievous things, and imagine deceit all the day
long. But I, as a deaf man, heard not,
and I was a dumb man that opened not my mouth, Thus, I was as
a man that heareth not, and in whose mouths are no reproof. For in thee, O Lord, do I hope,
thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise
they should rejoice over me when my foot slippeth. They magnify
themselves against me, for I am ready to halt, and my sorrow
is continually before me, for I will declare my iniquity, and
I will be sorry for my sin. And God saw the travail of his
soul, And God said, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied. Whatever temporary
separation we might experience because of our sin, whatever
sorrow we might know because of our sin, whatever shame we
might know because of our sin will never be sufficient to atone
for our sin. Oh, if you just pray this prayer
and really mean it and be sorry for your sin, repent of your
sins and come to God and be sorry, He'll forgive you. No, salvation's
of the Lord. It's of Him. He's the only one
that can do it. He's the only one that was able
to satisfy what God required for the sins of His people. Jonah's a sign and his prayer
in the belly of that fish gives us just a little glimpse. And this prayer we just read
gives us just a little glimpse of what the Lord Jesus suffered
when he was separated from his father. And when the Holy One
who never knew sin was made sin. to feel the sorrow of it and
the shame of it and to experience the separation of it. To the
judgment of hell and wrath of God. Salvation is of the Lord. We look to Christ. We look to
Christ for all that God requires. Go back with me to our text.
I will sacrifice, verse nine, I will sacrifice unto thee with
the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that that I have vowed
for salvation as of the Lord. Ephesians chapter five, verse
two says, he made himself an offering to God. You're right, brother. God never
offered himself to us. God was doing business with God
on Calvary's cross. The Lord Jesus was fulfilling
the covenant promises that he had made to his father before
there was sin. Before there was sin. You see, the redemptive work of the
Lord Jesus Christ for sinners wasn't God's response to the
fall in the garden. It can't be. The solution was before the problem. The covenant of grace is eternal,
and it's when God the Father said to his son before time ever
was, before there were angels, before there were stars, when
it was only God for all eternity, when God the Father said to his
son, I'm going to give you a bride. I'm going to choose from among
a people A select few. And I'm going to give to you
and you're going to love them and they're going to love you.
And the Lord Jesus entered into that covenant promise with his
father. And he said, whatever is required to redeem them. And bring them here to glory,
I'll do it. I'll do it. And God, the Holy
Spirit entered into that covenant promise before time ever was. And said, I'll go. I'll go in
the power of almighty God. And I'll take this message of
redemption that salvation is of the Lord, and I will. I will
make it effectual to the hearts of those whom the father chose
and those whom the son redeemed. And I'll make them willing in
the day of my power and they'll come and they'll believe and
they'll rest all the hope of their salvation on Christ. Christ will be made all to them. And all of their salvation will
be of the Lord. Salvations of the Lord. Most
importantly. Yes, it's of the Lord in election.
According to his own will and purpose, he chose a people. You did not choose me, I chose
you. It's of the Lord in regeneration. The Lord is the one who comes
in the power of his spirit and makes us willing. It's of the
Lord in redemption. It is the Lord Jesus that successfully
redeemed his elect people on Calvary's cross. He saved them. Scripture says that God's word
will not return unto him void, it will accomplish the purpose
for which God sends it. And we know we take great comfort
as we preach the written word of God. and declare the living
word of God, that his word will not return unto him void. It
will accomplish the purpose for which he sent it. But we also
know that the Lord Jesus Christ is the word of God who was made
flesh. And when he went back up into
glory, he took with him the names of those for whom he lived and
died. He did not return void. He accomplished the purpose for
which God sent him. And we are seated right now,
all of God's elect are seated right now in the heavenlies in
Christ Jesus, salvations of the Lord, salvations of the Lord. And the father said to him, sit
down here at my right hand until I make all thine enemies thy
footstool. You see, we come into this world
naturally at enmity with God. We come into this world with
our fists raised to heaven. saying, I will not have that
man reign over us. We come into this world setting
ourselves up on the throne of God. And the Lord takes those who
are in enmity with him. And he causes them like Mary. To sit at his feet. And desire
that one thing needful. That one thing needful. To be
saved. to be saved. Salvation is of
the Lord. Any message of salvation that
denies Christ His glory in having done it all is lying vanity. Look with me, if you will, at
verse eight. They that observe lying vanities, empty promises. What are the empty promises of
a false gospel? Well, if you believe, then God
will save you. What's the truth of the gospel?
I have saved you and you will believe. What's the lying vanity
is a false gospel. If you repent, God will forgive
you. What's the truth of the gospel? I have forgiven you and
you will repent. What's the lying vanity of the
false gospel? Well, you know, if you serve
God, he'll bless you. What's the truth of the gospel?
I have blessed you and you will serve me. And they that observe
lying vanities, empty promises, a message that gives you some
part in your salvation, a message that denies that salvation is
of the Lord. causes one to forsake their own
mercy, their own mercy. Well, that's why I didn't go
to Nineveh. I knew you were God of mercy. Oh, how merciful he is. And what
he went through on the cross. was to save his people. I say, Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable
gift. Lord has blessed us so abundantly
in this meeting. And I pray that God in his sovereign
mercy will open some hearts here and some folks will be actually
be saved. God will actually save somebody.
There's been a lot of folks. God's done something for them
in these meetings over the years. But I'm very thankful. I'm going
to offer thanks for the food, and then I want you to come and
lead us in number 82. God be with you till we meet
again. Our Father, how blessed we've
been. Thank you, thank you, thank you for such honest, God-glorifying preaching. Thank you for these men. Thank
you, O Lord, that you so blessed him and blessed us through him.
Thank you for every song that was sung, every prayer that was
prayed, every food that's been fixed, every bite of it. Lord,
we thank you for everything. But most of all. Most of all,
we are thankful that salvation is of the Lord. And God, please. For Christ's
sake, open hearts, open understandings, and save your sheep in this place.
Bring sinners to faith in Christ. We ask it in his holy name. Amen. We will sing number 82 in our
hymn book. Let's all stand together. 82. And I believe all of us,
being this, God be with you till we meet
again. By His counsels guide, uphold
you. With his sheep securely fold
you. God be with you till we meet
again. Till we meet, till we meet. Till we meet at Jesus' feet Till
we meet, till we meet God be with you till we meet again. God be with you till we meet again. Need His wings protecting hide
you. Daily manna still provide you
God be with you till we meet again Till we meet, till we meet
Till we meet at Jesus' feet Till we meet, till we meet. God be with you till we meet
again. God be with you till we meet
again. When life's perils thick confound
you, Hood its arms unfailing round you, God be with you till
we meet again. Till we meet, till we meet Till
we meet at Jesus' feet Till we meet, till we meet God be with
you till we meet again. God be with you till we meet again. Keep love's banners floating
o'er you, Smite death's threatening wave before you, God be with
you till we meet again. Till we meet, till we meet, Till
we meet at Jesus' feet. Till we meet, till we meet. God be with you till we meet
again. Yeah, if we don't meet here,
we'll see one another on this other side. God bless you. I love all of you. We've had
a wonderful meeting and I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful. But
they'll open that door. Too many of us old folks here.
Ready? Go, go, go get it. All you folks that brought dishes,
be sure to take them home with you. Oh.