Good evening everybody. Glad
to see your faces. If you'll open your Bibles to
Psalm 77, we're gonna take a look at it tonight. As I was talking with My uncle
Todd earlier today, he asked me what I was going to speak
on, and I told him Psalm 77, and he said John Owen or Matthew
Henry called this the melancholy psalm. And what is being conveyed
here is in some ways kind of dark, and you get a sense of
the psalmist conveying things that you feel in your heart,
that sometimes you're afraid to say out loud. And sometimes
the Psalms speak more loudly than things that we can say.
It's the feelings that we have. So I'm gonna read a few verses
and we'll kind of walk through this Psalm. Psalm 77, I cried
unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice. And he
gave ear unto me. And in the day of my trouble,
I sought the Lord. My sore ran in the night, and
cease not. My soul refused to be comforted.
I remembered God, and was troubled. I complained. My spirit was overwhelmed. Thou holdest mine eyes, and waking,
so I am troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the
days of old, the years of ancient times, and I call to remembrance
my song in the night. I commune with my own heart,
and my spirit may diligent search. Will the Lord cast off forever? Will he be favorable no more? Is his mercy clean gone forever? Does his promise fail forevermore? And hath God forgotten to be
gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his
tender mercies? And I said, this is my infirmity. But I will remember the years
of the right hand, the most high. I remember the works of the Lord.
Surely, I will remember thy wonders of old. This psalm, we'll pick
up a little later some more into it, but this psalm, I guess the
title of my message is A Call to Remembrance. And when you
look at this psalm just as a whole, you see the angst in the psalmist. crying out to God and he feels
that he's not heard or that God is not acting in the way that
the time he's crying out that he thinks he should. And then
he delves into despair and starts mingling in with, you know, verses
7, 8, and 9 saying, Lord, is he going to cast me off forever?
Is his mercy gone? Did he forget to be gracious?
And so it starts exploring this. And so three times in this psalm,
we read the word selah. And we know that means pause
and consider this. There's something important being
conveyed here. And we need to pause and consider
what it is. But three times in this one psalm, sometimes we
read it once, but three times. So something important is being
said here. And so I need to give it, you
need to give it some careful consideration. And between each
of these Silas, when you look at it, it actually is three separate
kind of texts. And the first one is you see
a pleading. He's pleading with the Lord.
And the second, he delves down even further and he's languishing
in where he's at. He's writhing in pain and kind
of crying out and exploring all those things that I said there.
And the last, we find him remembering. And this is his call to come
to God and his call to consider his faith. And so first, I guess
we'll consider the pleading. And when you read this, he's
cried unto God with his voice. He gave ear unto me in the day
of my trouble. I sought the Lord. My sore ran
into the night and ceased not. I complained. My spirit was overwhelmed. These are all real emotions that
sometimes we're afraid to say, sometimes we're afraid to say
we feel before God is, you know, we seek him in private, we talk
to him in private, but this is pen to paper here. One thing
is certain though, in this life, all of us will have trouble.
If we've not experienced it yet, we will. Now some of us, when
we look around, might say have experienced it more than others.
And some outwardly, when we look at other people, even outside
of this room, they seem to get along just fine. There's no major
life issues. They have no turmoil that we
can see really in their lives, like things are going well. They're
in a loving relationship. Their kids are all healthy and
happy. doing things, making their parents
proud. They're pursuing careers and
they look to them, their business. It's doing well. There's plenty
of money in the bank. Things seem fine from the outside. They have peace in their home.
They don't seem to have the troubles that I do. And this is what I
think the psalmist is crying out here is he's, he's seeing
that like, Lord, I have these troubles. I'm complaining because
I don't feel like I'm getting what I need. Why, Lord? Why is it this way? Why does
it have to be this way? So can a child of God really
think and feel these things? Oh, we see that he does. Turn back just a few pages to
look at this, to Psalm 73. This is King David. And in verse three of Psalm 73,
he says, I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity
of the wicked. For there are no bands in their
death, there's no one standing up yelling in their death, but
their strength is firm. They're not in trouble as other
men, neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore, pride
compass them about as a chain. Violence cover them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than their heart
could wish. They're corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression.
They speak loftily. They set their mouth against
the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth. Therefore,
his people return hither, and waters of a full cup are wrung
out to them. And they say, How doth God know? And is there any knowledge in
the Most High? Behold, these are the ungodly,
who prosper in the world, and they increase in riches. Verily, I have cleansed my heart
in vain, and washed my hands in innocence. For all the day
long have I been plagued and chastened every morning. These
are the words of King David. He was envious. He's seeing exactly
what I just said. You look around and you see,
why don't these people have the same trouble that I do? I seek
after God. I'm a servant. I am a king by
his own hand. And yet, I'm plagued all the
day long. A full cup's rung out to me of
his wrath and trial. And so if you go back to our
text, back in Psalm 77 in verse two, he says, in the day of my
trouble, I sought the Lord. My sore ran in the night. Now
what that means, he says he sought the Lord, but my sore, it doesn't
really translate well, but what it means is my hands are continually
lifted up all night long. Have you ever had to cry out
to the Lord and you're saying, Lord, see me, see what I'm going
through? Help me if there's a there's
something in the scriptures of the lifting up of the hands.
And that's kind of what he's referring to here. My hands were
continually lifted up all night long. He's saying, my God, please
hear me. See me. Help me. Have we ever
felt this way where it seems like I cry and he doesn't hear
that's what he's saying right here is that he doesn't feel
that the Lord is hearing him. My soul, he says, refused to
be comforted. That's why he kept crying all
night long. Has there ever been a time where
we feel our soul is not comforted? There's so much angst and terror
inside where our souls are not comforted. We're not getting
that which would comfort our souls. This angst where you talk
with yourself and you plead with the Lord. Lord, this is what
I'm going through. I need your help. And we feel
like, as is written in the scripture, the heavens are as brass, as
if my prayers are not getting to him. Doesn't mean he doesn't
hear me. It might mean that sometimes
the answer's no. And sometimes that he waits to
deliver us until he's accomplished his purpose. But the Lord hears,
but yet we feel this angst in the moment. And in verse 3, he
says, I remembered God and was troubled. I complained and my
spirit was overwhelmed. I remembered God and was troubled.
I complained. I complained and my spirit is
still troubled. I still feel this. I still am
not getting through this. It's overwhelming. It's more
than what I can deal with. And so this first this first
section of the Sela, I guess, way to put it is his pleading,
his pleading and his complaining to the Lord of his position.
Now, these are the words of the psalmist who really felt this
way. But these also are the words
of the son of God. We know the Psalms are, yes,
it's the man who was inspired to write it, but this is also
Christ speaking through his word. He cried out just like the psalmist,
my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He felt this way. He cried out the same things.
His cry was heard, yet the blow wasn't taken away. It was not
able to be taken away. His soul the Lord Jesus his soul
refused to be comforted. That's why the angels came to
pray with him when he said he was in the garden and said he
sweat great drops of blood. He was praying to his father.
He could not be comforted at that time. He knew that he was
about to be made sin for his people and it overwhelmed him.
It was nothing that he could be comforted with. It's because
he became the curse. He completely was overtaken by
the sins of his people when he put them into his body when they
when he was made to be sin when he said Father I will that these
be with me where I am that in time was the moment that the
father made him to be said. Because from that point on, he
was overwhelmed. He prayed to his father with
cryings and even saying, if this cup can pass from me, if it be
possible, let this cup pass from me. He died for the sins of his
people, he who knew no sin, but yet he died. He was made sin
that we might be made the righteousness of God, which is in him. And
in verse three he says, I remembered God and was troubled. I complained,
my spirit was overwhelmed. He to whom our heart cleaves
to, to whom we run after, when I feel that he is not delivering
me in the moment that I ask him to, and I ask him to. And in
my mind, it's like, Lord, this is what I'm dealing with. I need
your help. You can deliver me. And yet he doesn't in the moment.
It burdens me with a sense of dread. And that's what the psalmist
is saying here as well. He is burdened with a sense of
dread. What if I'm not one of his? What
if my faith is found to be false? And that's what he's exploring,
saying, is the Lord going to just cast me off forever? He's
still the Lord. He's still who he is. But is
he going to cast me off? Is my faith found to be false? Is he not going to show me mercy?
I've called for his mercy. I don't see it. That's what he's
calling out. And in verse four, he says, you
hold my eyes waking that I'm so troubled. I cannot speak.
It's staying up all night. He doesn't at this point. It's
the groans of the heart, the groans from the inside where
no words come out. But yet you're still communing
with the Lord through your heart. You're saying, Lord, help me.
You see me here. No words come out. No words even
need to be said. And what we see here is where
he considers the days of old. I call to remembrance my song
in the night with my own heart and my spirit made search. Will
the Lord cast off forever? Will he be favorable no more? Is his mercy clean gone forever
and doth his promise fail forevermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? You see a flip-flop
between fear and doubt. It's fear, and then I doubt that
he's even gonna do it. Are you gonna cast me away? Have
you forgot to show me mercy? So it's this flip-flop between
fear and doubt, and then he's trying to remember the word.
He's trying to remember the things that did comfort his soul, but
in the moment, they aren't. He knows what's true, He's trying
to console himself in the word and the promises that he's read
and knows. He knows also what his fear is, and he's trying
to find comfort in his faith, but yet finds an inability to
do so in the moment. Now, we also know these are the
words of Christ. It is the experience of the psalmist,
but it is the words of Christ. He knew his father. He knew the
end from the beginning. Yet he asks, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me. How can this be? You think of
this, he was here, he was a person before the world was. Time didn't
exist, and time does not exist for God. It exists for us, but
he is always in the present. So he knows the end from the
beginning, But yet, this teaches us something about the weakness
of the flesh. Even the son of God, when he
was made a man here, knowing the end, knowing how it would
go out, because he was in control of it, yet he still was so overwhelmed
in the moment, in the flesh, that he asked, Father, if it's
possible, let this cup be removed from me. Let it be taken away.
It was that burdensome. Even the Lord Jesus felt that
way. How we feel is not always representative of where we are.
Often the way we feel, we manufacture a little bit bigger than sometimes
where we are. So in this case, you know, you
read verse seven, will the Lord cast off forever? But yet we
know the scripture, I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee.
How are those things, two things balanced with each other? Is
his mercy claim gone? But yet he says, I will be merciful
to their unrighteousness. I will be plenteous in mercy
and he delights in showing mercy. But yet the psalmist is questioning,
is his mercy gone altogether for me? Has he forgotten to be
gracious? And what our brother read earlier,
Mark. where sin did abound, grace did much more abound. So we know
these two things can't be so. So if I'm a child of God, there
are three things that cannot happen. And the three things
we will never experience, and this is something to be thankful
for, even in reading in the angst that this was written, as a child
of God, I will never be cast off. That is one thing that I
will never have to deal with because of the Lord redeem his
people. Therefore, I cannot be cast off.
I'm actually united to him. When he goes in, I go with him. It would be no different than
him casting off a part of his body. He can't do that. So I
will never be cast off. The second thing is mercy will
never be removed. Mercy is for the guilty, and
I am guilty, and mercy is for sinners. And so he says that
he is plenteous in mercy. And so mercy is something that
I will never have to worry about being without. And the third
thing is he will never forget to be gracious. The three things
that's the psalmist questioned here. These are things that the
believer will never have to experience because we're sin did abound.
And then it abounds all through us. In fact, it's all we see
but yet. It's not too great for mercy to do its work and for
grace to be greater than all of our sin. Faith is a looking
to, it is a confident expectation that has to do something with
remembrance. And I'm gonna ask you to turn
over to Isaiah 43 for a minute. Faith has something to do with
remembrance. And so when we read this here,
this is the Lord speaking to Israel here and calming the fears
of the heart of his people. And in verse one he says, but
now thus sayeth the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, he that
formed thee, O Israel. What's the first thing he says?
Fear not, because he knows you do. For I have redeemed thee,
and that's the reason why we're to fear not. I've redeemed thee. There's nothing to fear. If I've
been bought by Christ, this is the beauty of this. Everything
in life has to do with ownership. When we buy a house, you have
to buy title insurance to make sure that house is not owned
by someone else. Because if it is, you can't buy
that house. If we've been redeemed, we sold
ourself in sin in Adam. But if we've been bought back
with the blood of Christ, no matter what you do, you can't
sell yourself. You can't sell yourself to the
devil. You can't sell yourself by continuing sinning. Christ
has bought you. You are owned by him. There's
nothing that you can do to change that. Now your life is not your
own. And we are owned by the son of
God because he purchased and redeemed us. Fear not, for I
have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name,
and thou art mine. You consider that, that's the
ownership right now. What's the name that he calls
you? He tells us over in verse seven, even everyone that is
called by my name. He's given us the same name that
he has. The Lord, our righteousness.
The bride is given that name, and so is the groom. We are given
the same name as the Lord Jesus Christ. He owns us, we are part
of his body. And in verse two, when you pass
through the waters, I will be with thee. And through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee. And when thou walkest through
the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle
upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the
Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I gave Egypt for thy ransom,
Ethiopia and Sebia for thee, since thou was precious in my
sight. And now it's been honorable,
and I have loved thee. Therefore, I will give men for
thee and people for thy life. Fear not, for I am with thee.
This is the Lord's promise to his people. And you consider
this. We are all going to pass through the waters. Waters represent
trials, sorrow, trials in our life. But he says to fear not. I'm with you. There's not anywhere
you're going to go that he's not there. Doesn't mean you're
not going to be in the water. It doesn't mean it's not going
to feel wet and you're not going to get scared. But if he's with
you, it can't hurt you. He says the rivers, rivers represent
sin and death, water. It's so powerful that we can't
there's nothing we can do. You throw yourself in the river,
you're going with it. I remember when I was whitewater
acting once and I got thrown out. And I got thrown in the
water. And there was a water, kind of
a small waterfall coming up. But there were big boulders in
front of it. And I went under the water and I got pinned. And
I was pinned under the water. And I never really realized how
powerful water was until I realized, I can't move. And if I don't
get out of this, I'm going to drown under here. And I didn't,
weirdly, was not panicking. I was very calm. And eventually,
you know, the water kicked me out. But the point was, the river,
is so powerful, we can't fight against it. You can't fight against
your sin. What one sin have you stopped
one time? None. You can't fight against
death. Death's got 100% success rate.
There's nothing that we can do to fight against these. But yet
he says, the river's not gonna overtake you. If I'm with you
going through it, you'll get to the other side. And he says
the fire, fire is trials. He said, They're not going to
burn you. You consider the story of the fiery furnace where the
men were thrown in it. And yet it said, there's four
men walking in there, but weren't three thrown in? He said, no,
the fourth is likened to the son of God. And it said, not
a hair on their head hair was singed. and their clothes didn't
even smell like smoke. You can't stand near a fire for
30 seconds and not smell like smoke, but yet it has no power
over us. A flame only kindles where there's
something to burn. And in Christ, I have no sin. I'm unblameable, unreprovable
in his sight. I may have all the doubts in
the world in here. But if I'm unblameable and I am unreprovable
and without sin in his sight, that's all that matters. It really
doesn't matter what I think about it or what you think about it.
If he says that I am without sin, then I'm without sin. For I'm the it's in verse 3.
I'm the Lord thy God the Holy One of Israel thy Savior I gave
Egypt for thy ransom Ethiopia and Saba for thee these were
peoples since thou was precious in my sight and has out been
Honorable and I've loved thee therefore. I will give men for
thee and people for thy life this is the We can't even understand
love is something we understand with our human relationships.
We can't understand what love is from God other than what he's
shown us he's done in his word. He's saying these peoples are
meaningless to me in order to preserve my people. They're all
part of the master plan. They're all part of my purpose
in order to bring my people to me, to accomplish my purpose
for them. So when we consider these things
about looking for a confident expectation having to do with
remembrance, he's telling them, I did these things for you. And
you made it all through the, you've survived every challenge
that's been in front of you. And I was with you the whole
way. Turn back to our text in Psalm 77. And he's in verse 10. He said,
and this is my infirmity that I will remember the years of
the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of
the Lord. Surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate
also of all thy work and talk of thy doing. Faith is remembering
in trusting what he has done. Faith has an object. You know,
he said in several verses in the New Testament, thy faith
has saved thee. So is it my act of believing that saved me? No,
it's the object of my faith. My object of my faith is what
saves me. And it's remembering and trusting
and looking to what he has done. This is where the psalmist is.
He can find nothing in his present that gives him any comfort at
all. Everything is just angst and doubt and worry and doubt.
And he finds all these reasons why God would have nothing to
do with him. But yet, the one thing that gives him comfort
is remembering what the Lord did, looking to his works of
old, looking to his promise that he's been faithful to accomplish,
and expecting that he won't fall short on what he vowed to perform. Verse 13. Thy way, O God, is
in the sanctuary. And who is so great a God as
our God? Thou art the God that dost wonders,
and hast declared thy strength among the people. Thou hast thine
arm redeemed thy people, and the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
This is my confidence. He is holy, and no one is like
him. I can never achieve this. He
is holy. Holy just means other. It's a
state of being. Things are not holy. It's a nature. It's something that I do not
possess outside of Christ. He's the almighty. He is the
ancient of days. He's the one whose name is called
wonderful. The attributes of our Lord are
far beyond our ability to even understand, but I think that's,
if I have to say one of my favorite names, that's one of my favorite
names for the Lord is His name is wonderful. Beyond our ability
to understand or to know, His ability to accomplish and do
that which we would have never seen or thought possible. He's
the Savior. He redeemed His people. It is
done. It is finished. It's past tense. Therefore, it must come to pass. If he is sought to redeem you,
you will be redeemed. There's nothing that you can
do to change that. And that's the beauty of it. There's nothing
we can do to mess it up either. If I am his sheep that he is
seeking out, he will find me. He has 100% success rate. There's
nobody that got away or that started out that was one of his
sheep that he didn't bring home. And so in verse 16, he says,
the water saw thee, O God. The water saw thee, they were
afraid. The depths also were troubled. Turn with me if you will, I believe
this is referring to Psalm 114. A few pages over, it's a short
psalm. It says, when Israel went out
of Egypt, and this is, again, speaking to remembrance of God
and in the past. When Israel went out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, Judah was
his sanctuary and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it and
fled. Jordan was driven back. The mountains
skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs. What ailed
thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest, thou Jordan that was driven back,
you mountains that skipped like rams and little hills like lambs?
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord and at the presence
of the God of Jacob, which turned the rock into a standing water
and the flint into a fountain of waters. The earth trembles
at his presence. The earth knows its creator.
Do you remember when the Lord was passing through one of the
places he was on the way to the cross and the disciples got on
to the people for getting in his way and fanning him with
the palms and praising his name, they wanted him to get out of
the way. And he said, if these are silent, if these don't keep
saying what they do, he said, the very rocks will cry out.
The earth knows her creator and the earth trembles in his presence.
And yet we have the attention of the God of Jacob. We, his
people, have his foreknowledge. We have his love. We have his
purpose. These things that, God, you'd
look down on man and do anything for me. This gives you some understanding
of the greatness of who God is in the face of whatever you're
facing. If God be for us, who can be
against us? And in verse 17, it says, the
clouds poured out water, the skies sent out a sound, and arrows
also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was
in the heaven, and the lightnings lighted the world, and the earth
trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea, and thy
path is in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Thou leadest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses
and Aaron. Now, Moses and Aaron may have
been the men who walked the Hebrews out of Egypt, but it was him
that led them out. Who led Moses and Aaron? Who
had to pull Moses off the side of a mountain hillside to send
him back to Egypt? The Lord led him. The Lord moved
these men's heart to drive them out of Egypt. So when all the
world seems wrong and dark against us, remember this, children of
God, these are the words of the Lord. These things have I spoken
to you, that in me you might have peace. In the world, you
shall have tribulation. And I can imagine he says this
with a smile on his face looking at him, but be of good cheer.
I've overcome the world. and you can imagine the sense
of being with the Son of God and Him saying that to you. In
me is your peace. You're not going to find it in
anything in this world. Everything here is war and tribulation. It's here today, gone tomorrow.
In me, my person, is your peace. He is our peace before God. When I think of standing before
God, In and of myself, it's terrifying. Because part of me, the way my
mind works is, well, even though I am forgiven, he's tolerating
me for Christ's sake. And that's not it at all. He
doesn't look at me or any of his children and say, well, I
know you're forgiven, but I know what you did. Those sins were
removed as far away as the east is from the west. How far is
the east from the west? It can't be further. It goes
in infinity in every direction. There is no distance between
the east and less. It only increases. And so the
sins are actually removed so far that they did not occur.
Christ died for those sins. He paid for them. And I can stand
at peace before God, knowing that I'm accepted in Christ.
And he is stronger than the scene and the unseen forces in this
world. The earth is the Lord's. and
the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.
If you're in this world, no matter what you are, a person or an
unseen force, whether it be for good or for evil, they're still
the Lord's it said even speaking of Satan some some being that
we are you know terrified of cannot stand before we don't
even feel his presence we don't you know we don't even feel his
presence in our lives but yet it says in Genesis 3 that describes
him as that the Lord thy God have made him And so if he is
made by the Lord, Lord's over him too. So that's why we can
have peace in knowing that he is over all things. And I pray
that God would help me to remember this, that if I'm in Christ,
all things, good things, bad things, things that I understand,
things that I don't understand are ordered for my good and work
towards my salvation. Even the things when I don't
understand why they're happening, how they're happening, when they're
happening, that they're working for my good and for my salvation. And that secondly, I want to
remember that salvation is by his hand without anything from
me. This is where we get so messed
up is when we start trusting our feelings, how I feel about
something. That's what the psalmist is doing.
That's what this whole psalm is, is he's trusting his feelings.
I complained. I'm upset. You're not listening. You're not deliberate. It's his
feelings. But yet we're not looking to Christ. We're not looking
to him as our peace. He's the one that kept the covenant,
not us. It doesn't depend on anything
on us. So it's his keeping that that is our peace. And we can't
look to any when I put my hand on any of it. What I do, what
I don't do, my faith, looking at even the things in quiet in
your own heart. I'll only find a reason to doubt.
I'll only find a reason to doubt what he did. We are called to
look to him for everything in salvation. We are called to remember
that we have an expected end. This life one day for each of
us will end at a different point. Some at a young age, some at
an old age. I don't know how, when, or where,
but I do know that I'll be with him, and then everything will
be okay. He is guarding me all through
this life to bring me to the point where I will be with him.
We all have an expected end, and I need to remember that if
his hand's on it, it's all right whatever happens. I don't have
to always understand. I want to, I want to, I want
to. So does the psalmist, I want
to. but I don't have to. And I pray
that he gives me and you the ability to rest in that and knowing
whatever he does is right and whatever he does is best. And
I want to remember him saying that him that comes to me for
whatever reason, I will no wise cast out. This gives anyone the
ability with the command comes the ability to do it. Anyone
who comes to Christ, he says, I'll never cast you out. Not
for any reason. There's nothing that you can
bring me that would cause me to cast you off. And as the cold
grip of age takes hold on me, and I don't know how much longer
I will have. I got more gray hairs and less hair than I did
have probably two months ago. I may not even remember my own
name one day. But my hope is that he will remember
my name. I want him to remember my name,
because if he remembers my name and says my name before his father,
there's only one reason. It's because my name is written
in his book. And that's a book that is sealed.
There's no extra pages. There's no pen to change it.
There's nothing to add. There's nothing to take it away.
My name is written in his book. And I want him to remember my
name even if I don't remember my own. And I'm trusting him
to do that for me because I can't do it for myself. Faith calls
to remembrance of what the Lord has done, even when we feel cast
off and void of his mercy. And I pray God would give each
of us the faith to do just this, to remember him, to trust him
and to not look to ourselves, we'll end up being right here
with the psalmist where we complain, we're not getting what we want,
it's because we're looking to us and how we feel instead of
looking to what he did. Remembering him and the work
that he's accomplished. Alright, I'll leave you there.