So first and foremost, to all
of you that didn't think I had a wife, there she is. 37 years, and she's
real. Also, let me say this before
I get started. I thank God for Lindsey, what
the Lord's raised him up to do here. in this difficult time,
holding things together. It's just a blessing to have
a man like that that cares and wants the best for you, wants
the best concerning the gospel and it being faithfully preached. So thank you, Lindsay, for that.
And there's so many things that I could say this morning about
Big Don, Brother Don. The one thing that comes to my
mind first is what an encouragement he was to me over the years.
I mean, tremendous encouragement. Pretty much every week, I would
either get an email or a phone call that began much like, hello,
buddy. And it was always to encourage
me and tell me how much he enjoyed our bulletin and our particular
article that I wrote. And it never, well, it just meant a great deal
to me. I'll just say that. And obviously, we all miss him. The music this morning's been
outstanding. I used to call myself a piano
player, but after hearing Diane and Mike play, I think maybe
I need to start taking lessons again. But thank you for that
music. If you would turn with me this
morning to the Gospel of Luke, chapter 23. Luke, chapter 23. Verse 33, if you would, Luke
23, 33. And when they were come to the
place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him. That's
speaking of the Lord Jesus. And the malefactors, one on the
right hand and the other on the left. Now I have often tried
to imagine in my mind's eye what it would have been like to be
there on the day that our Lord Jesus was crucified. Many biblical
historians believe that the crucifixion day was close in proximity to
the time of the Passover, making the streets of Jerusalem just
packed with people. The account of our Lord's crucifixion
is found in all four of the gospel narratives, and there's no doubt
that this was probably, no, not probably, this was the most significant
event in the history of mankind. Had you and I been there that
day, we would have, with our natural, physical eyes, seen
many, many things. We would have seen three crosses,
We would have seen Roman soldiers and Jewish officials. We would have seen the priest
and the Pharisees. We would have seen publicans
and sinners. And we would have seen people
from all walks of life. And I just imagine like a big
festival or a concert, we would have seen peddlers and merchants
selling their goods. We would have seen Mary Magdalene. We would have seen the mother
of James and John. And had you been present this
day, you would have seen John, the beloved apostle, and Mary,
the mother of the Lord Jesus. And everyone there that day had
natural, physical sight. They saw three men who were brought
forth to die on those crosses. And dear sinner, we would have
seen the Lord Jesus himself carry his own cross until he fell exhausted
from the heavy load. We would have seen men discussing
this momentous event. We would have seen certain women
lamenting and crying over Christ approaching death. And we would
have seen many other things that day. But there are many things
on this day that we would have not seen. There were many things
that day that the natural physical eye could not see. There was much revealed at our
Lord's crucifixion that our dead blind eyes could never see. And
this morning, I just would like to give you a few of them. First,
Men and women that day could not see the true nature and character
of fallen men and women's hearts. Just could not see it. Oh, maybe
partially. Those there that day couldn't
see that men and women by nature hate God. Now I know that's strong language
and I know that's not a popular message today. but it's true
nonetheless. The scripture is very clear about
man's heart being deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Only God can know our hearts
truly. Now, if you want to see a true
and accurate picture of man's heart, if you want to see something
of your heart and something of my heart, It was revealed this
day in the way that fallen men and women dealt with God Almighty
in the flesh. From the moment he took on flesh
and blood, Herod sought to kill him. During his life, the Jews
sought to find something at every turn that was worthy of death
to accuse him of. In the end, on this day, they
knelt into the cross. They crucified the Lord of glory. And man's depravity is clearly
exhibited and revealed at the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Every fallen man and woman in their natural born state hates
God. Why is that? Well, Paul said,
because the carnal mind, the fleshly mind is enmity against
God. And that word enmity means hostile. Now we're talking about our hearts
here. Hostile against God. Our sinful minds are not subject
to the law of God. And Paul said, neither can they
be. By nature, fallen men and women will not have a sovereign
God to reign over them. Luke 19, 14. The high priest
and the chief priest, they hated him. The scribes and the Pharisees
absolutely hated the Lord Jesus. The Roman soldiers hated him.
The religious Jews hated him. He was hated in Pilate's Hall
of Judgment. He was hated in Herod's mock
courtroom. Everywhere he went, he was hated.
They disrespected him so much that they spit in his face. That's how much they hated God.
A crown of thorns was placed and pressed down violently upon
his head. as the blood ran into his eyes
and into his mouth. Oh, they hated him. And what
made this even worse was the fact that they hated him without
a cause. They hated him freely without
a cause. That's what the phrase without
a cause means. They should have been crying
holy, holy, holy, but instead they're crying crucify, crucify,
crucify. Their enmity and their hostility
exposed even more, as I said, in the fact that they hated him
for no reason. Now you think about that. I've
thought about it a great deal. The only man that ever lived
on earth without sin, the only man that was always about going
about to do good, was hated. He was despised, he was rejected,
and he was killed without a reason, without a cause. And it's at
Calvary that the hearts of every man and woman are exposed by
God. Christ came in a body that the
Lord prepared him. And his sole purpose was to do
the will of God and to save his people from their sin. Thou shall
call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sin.
And what didn't man do? With their wicked hands and hearts,
they took and they crucified the Lord of glory. And crucifixion
on a cross, oh, it was considered to be the worst of all deaths. It was a cruel execution. but it was the most graphic and
visual way for God to show mankind's hatred and contempt for him. And friends, our Lord's death
on the cross clearly exhibits what's in every heart by nature.
And yet there'll always be some that say, I've never hated God. I've heard men say more than
one on more than one occasion, So that if I would have been
there that day, I would have not only not crucified the Lord
of glory, but I would have tried to prevent it. Have you ever
heard anybody say that? I've heard several folks say
it. Well, what a wishful but self-righteous thought, really.
Now let me seriously ask you, what is willful unbelief but
crucifying Christ? Huh? What is willful rebellion
against Christ, who is the Word of God, but a fresh attempt to
crucify the Savior? Men and women crucify the Lord
Jesus afresh every single day by their lack of interest in
Him. I mean, after all, He's the only
means for any of us to have our sin put away, forgiven, put away
forever. Why do men and women hate the
thought of bowing to a just God and Savior? Well, it's nothing
short of just modern day crucifixion of the Son of the living God.
Let me give you the second reason that men and women couldn't see
with their natural eyes on that day, the Lord of glory, as he
was nailed to a Roman tree. They couldn't see this either.
And that was the holy character of God. God's holy, friends. Our first clue ought to be what
the book is called. It's the Holy Bible. He's called
a holy God. His angels are called holy angels. His prophets were called holy
prophets. God is holy, first and foremost. And how evil we must be, how
evil a thing sin must be if it took the blood of God himself,
to put our sin away. Have you ever thought about that?
How evil we must be that God would kill his beloved son when
the elect of God's sin was found on him. And how holy God must
be that he would crucify his only son before he would compromise
his holy law and justice. Now that shows me something of
just how holy and righteous and just the God of the Bible is. He's the God with whom we have
to do. And being so holy, he can by no means clear the guilty. The soul that sins is gonna die.
The wages of sin is death. The issue The question is, is
how can you and I, the sinners we are, be reconciled to such
a holy and just God? There's only one way. Only one
way. You see, God's standard of holiness
is set so high that he can't, he can't simply sweep our sin
under a rug. It's got to be dealt with. And that's certainly something
that men and women didn't see that day, and that was the holiness
of God. They had, down through the years,
seen the blood of bulls and goats sacrificed over and over again,
continually, year after year. But this day, they saw, or they
didn't see, that the Lamb of God who was slain before the
foundation of the world in the heart and mind of God was himself
dying for his people's sin on the cross. The sacrifice we bring
to God must be perfect, God says, to be accepted. No work a man
can put sin away. Why do men think that they can
do something that God would accept when God requires perfection.
We've never done a perfect thing, never had a perfect thought. We can't do a perfect work. And
no amount of repentance can erase our sin. There's no earned righteousness
in repenting. Why? When we repent, we're only
doing what we should do. We've sinned against God, against
thee and thee only, have we sinned and done this evil in thy sight?
God himself, friends, is too holy to simply excuse our sin. So the question is, how then
can our sin be put away? Now, I know that may seem elementary,
but there's a lot of people, multitudes upon multitudes that
never see that. Has God shown you that? Has God
shown you how he can put your sin away? It's only by the sin
atoning death of the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross. And no dead sinner will ever
see it with their natural sight. God's got to show it to you.
God's got to reveal it to you. God has to reveal it to a sinner,
giving them life and making his shed blood effectual to their
hearts. If he has, thank him for it.
He didn't have to. Flesh and blood hath not revealed
it to you. It was revealed to you by God
the Father, which is in heaven, Matthew 16, 17. Now the third thing that those
who were at the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus didn't see was
the love that God had for his elect. They just didn't see it.
They saw a lot of things, but they didn't see that. You see,
God commended his love toward us in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. That's what's going on this day.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his
life for us. And we ought to lay down our
lives for the brethren. That's something they didn't
see. And this was manifested the love of God toward us because
God sent his only begotten son in the world that we might live
through him. Herein is love, not that we love
God, but that he loved us. And he sent his son to be a propitiation
for our sins. How was Christ made a propitiation
for our sins? He died for them. When we talk about Christ and
Him crucified, there's an excellent article that Brother Don wrote
in your bulletin. Christ and Him crucified takes
in a lot of stuff, a lot of things. Oh, he had to die the just for
the unjust that he might bring us to God. Do you know what that's
saying? He is the just one and he had to die for you and I,
the unjust ones that we are in order to be brought to God. Why?
Because God won't accept anything less than perfection. And you
and I are gonna have to be found in him. In the parable of the lost sheep,
who found who? Did the lost sheep find the shepherd?
No. You hear men preach today, and
that's what you would think. Did the shepherd tell the lost
sheep to, OK, I found you. Now you hurry on home? No, sir. What did he do? He picked him
up, Lindsay, and he put him on his shoulder, and he carried
him all the way there. That's what God did to this sheep. The shepherd loves his sheep.
Loves his sheep. The shepherd gives his life for
his sheep. Fourthly, those with their natural
sight, the day the Lord gave up the ghost, the day that the
Lord laid down his life. You know, we need to refer to
that in the terms of scripture. No man took his life, he laid
it down. He gave up the ghost, nobody
took it from him. but they could not see that this
was the purpose of God. Nobody there that day saw this.
Only divine revelation through the preaching of the gospel can
reveal the will and the purpose of God. No man or woman will
ever see the purpose in Christ's death until God reveals to them
that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners from their
sin. And Paul said, of whom I am chief.
So that's even greater news because Christ came to save the worst
of the worst. That'd make someone like me happy,
because I know what I am by God's grace. The Lord himself said, this is
the will of him that sent me that everyone which seeth the
son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I'll
raise him up at the last day. Looking in the eyes of those
that he loved, God the son prayed to his father and he said, this
is life eternal that they might know thee, the only true God
and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. How are we gonna obtain
our eternal life? We're gonna have to know God.
We're gonna have to know the Lord Jesus Christ and the truth
of Scripture. The Lord's first recorded words
in the Scriptures were, wished ye not that I must be about my
father's business? Oh, I'm telling you friends,
the Lord was on a mission. He must do some things. He must. How it is written of the Son
of Man that He must suffer many things. Oh, He must. And be said
it not, Mark 9, 12. The Son of Man must suffer many
things and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and
scribes and be slain and be raised the third day. He must. Acts chapter two, verse 23, reveals
to us what our physical eyes could never see. Yes, it is true
that the Lord Jesus was taken and was by wicked hands crucified
and slain, but it was by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God. Men didn't see that this day,
but thank God if you do. Thank God if you do. God was
behind it 100%. He had purposed this before time
ever was. And when our Lord cried His last
words, it is finished, He was referring to the Father's business
that He had come to do. He was speaking of the redemption
of His chosen people being accomplished. He said it's finished. It's done. It's accomplished. That which
God had purposed before the foundation of the world was finished. You
know how I know it was finished? Because he sat down. He sat down
at the right hand of God. And he forever makes intercession
for his people. He's on the throne of God right
now. Jimmy pleading your cause and your case. Isn't that something? Somebody once said that just
two letters that distinguish the truth from the lie, a false
gospel says do, and the true gospel says done. Just two letters. D-O and D-O-N-E. Done. It's done. It's finished. It's
accomplished. There's nothing for you and I
to do but to trust and to rest in Him. Won't you rest in Him?
Fifthly, no one present that day saw that Christ Jesus saved
an elect sinner. They didn't see it. What a picture
of God's election of grace we find in that dying thief that
begged for the Lord to remember him in mercy that day. This man
appears to have done nothing right his whole life. It just
seemed like that he was just bent towards evil. He was a thief
who had executed crimes with violence. Some of the commentators
think that he was a murderer, that both of those male factors
were. Even on the cross, he blasphemed
God as he was being executed. You know, I've seen men on death
row or at least in movies to where, you know, right before
they die, they just break down and cry and ask everybody to
forgive them. This man was reviling God as
he was dying. But something happened. He was a man loved and chosen
of God before the world ever was. That's what was happening.
before he had ever done any good or evil that the purpose of God
according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that
calleth. That's what's going on. God had mercy on that poor man,
and later that day, he was with the Lord in paradise. I love
to think about that. There wasn't an eye there that
day that saw that. and child of God, blessed are
your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear. Sixthly,
here's something else that no one saw that day that our Lord
laid down his life. And it again concerns both male
factors that hung on each side of the Lord with him. And that
is this, how near a person may be to hell and yet be saved. The thief that was saved had
one foot in hell and one on a banana peel, as the old saying goes.
Yet in sovereign love and sovereign mercy and grace, he was plucked
from the very fire of hell by the almighty hand of God. And
it's called divine intervention. That's exactly what it is. God
divinely intervenes in the sinner's life. Oh, if he didn't, we'd
be lost forever. Oh my, it takes a sovereign God
to intervene. And something else men and women
never saw that day is how near you can be to Christ and still
be forever lost. How sobering and alarming is
the thought that you can be right there so close and still be lost
forever. How near you can be to Christ
and be forever lost. That's so sobering and alarming
to me, and I think I'm beginning to understand what Paul meant
when he said, you know, I could preach the gospel to others and
myself be a castaway? Oh my. Now on the cross we have
two men, both thieves, both condemned, both damned, both lost, both
without Christ, both seen to be without hope. both in the
presence of the crucified Christ, and one is saved and the other
is lost. Now, what made the difference?
Well, no, that's not the right question. Who made the difference? That's the right question. Who
maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou
didst not receive? And now if thou didst receive
it, why do you glory as if you had not received it? You know,
those are good questions. If God gave it to us, we don't
have anything to glory in. It's a gift from Him. For just a few minutes more,
I want to answer from the scripture, the best I can, one of the most
vital and important questions ever asked. And seeing that our
Lord was crucified, seeing that our Lord did die, the question
I ask is, why did Christ die? Why did Christ die? Well, I think
you know the answer. I think we've pretty well answered
that. Why did Christ die on the cross? You know, many claim to
know the answer and yet they perish. Could it be that most
really don't know the answer at all? Why did Christ die on
the cross? Why did he subject himself to
such a horrific death, even the death of the cross, scripture
describes? Well, the first answer is found
in Romans chapter 14. Would you turn there with me?
Romans chapter 14. Look at verse nine, if you would. Romans 14 verse nine. For to this end, now that just
simply means for this reason, in order to accomplish his objective
for this end, Christ both died and rose and revived. Now look at these next five words,
that he might be Lord. both of the dead and the living.
Christ died on the cross, friends, that He might be Lord of all.
Jesus Christ is Lord by divine decree. The Father loveth the
Son and hath given all things into His hands. By divine decree,
all things are in Christ's hands. Our Lord Himself said in Matthew
chapter 28, verse 18, He said, all power, all authority is given
unto me in heaven and in earth. You see, his father gave it to
him. In John chapter 17, praying to his father, the Lord Jesus
said, thou hast given me power over all flesh. In Acts chapter
two, Peter on the day of Pentecost said, God had made this same
Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ. On Calvary's
cross, he earned the right of the crown that he was given.
You better believe he did. Listen to what Paul said in Philippians
chapter two, verses five through eight. Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself
of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and
was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as
a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross. Friends, because of our Lord's
obedience and his death on the cross, his subjection to his
father will and all things, you have life if you trust in him. Wherefore God hath highly exalted
him and given him a name which is above every name. Now the
question is not if you'll recognize the Lord's Lordship, because
he's already Lord. One day soon, every tongue is
gonna confess just that, he's Lord. We don't make Jesus Lord. God made him Lord, long before
we ever did, or attempted to. The real question to the lost
is when will you recognize His Lordship? Why did Christ die
on Calvary's cross? Well, the second reason is found
in Romans chapter three. Turn back there with me. Romans chapter three, verse 24. I know you know these verses
well, but let's look at them together in light of these things.
Romans 3 verse 24, being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus. This redemption is in
Christ, I know that. Verse 25, whom God has set forth
to be a propitiation through faith in His blood. Now look
at this, to declare His righteousness. To declare His righteousness
for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance
of God. To declare, I say at this time,
His righteousness. It's like Paul is gonna hammer
this nail all the way in. that he might be just, and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Now listen to me carefully
on this. The Lord Jesus Christ died on
the cross, and by doing so, God could remain holy, God could
remain just, God could remain righteous, and yet forgive sinners
without compromising his holy justice at all. You see, he must
remain just to remain God. If Christ had been less than
perfect, he couldn't have fulfilled God's law, nor could he have
satisfied God's justice. But he was perfect and he was
accepted. If there had still been justice
that needed to be dealt with, it would have had to have been
extracted from you and me. But what did He say? He said,
it's finished, isn't it? Our Lord declared in Isaiah chapter
45, verse 21, He said, I am a just God and a Savior. He's both. He's both. He's a just God and a Savior.
Now, someone had to die. The wages of sin is death. Somebody's
blood had to be shed. Without the shedding of blood,
there is no remission of sin. However, the person, the substitute,
needed to die in the chosen sinner's room instead. The person whose
blood must be shed for the remission of sin had to be as perfect as
God. Only a perfect man could keep
the law, satisfy justice, and justify sinners. Jesus Christ
was that person, the only perfect man that ever lived. God will
not only punish sin, God must punish sin. It's not a question
if he will punish sin in order to remain God, he must punish
sin. God will by no means clear the
guilty. You've heard me say that several
times already this morning. Why? Why won't he clear the guilty? Because he's a just God. I had someone a few years back
say to me, he said, you know, you grace preachers are always
talking about God being holy and just and righteous. Well,
what about God's love? Well, I started to say most every
preacher on every corner is preaching that, so we'll leave that to
them, but I didn't. Oh, we thank God for His love,
don't we? You better believe we do. We thank God for His grace
and His mercy. But God cannot manifest His love
at the expense of His justice and His holiness. He can't do
it. Not in remain God. Oh, thank
God for his love, but I thank God for his holiness, his righteousness,
his justification, his redemption. He's made into us wisdom and
righteousness and sanctification and redemption. He is. And that's why Christ Jesus died
on the cross. As the perfect man without sin,
he satisfied God's justice and he justified God's people. Righteousness
and peace have kissed each other. Does that mean that the righteous
justice of God can kiss and give peace to guilty sinners? It can. If Christ has borne their sins,
it is if Christ can pay their debt. If Christ has paid their
debt, it is if Christ took their place. Two words on which the glorious
gospel hangs are those two words, substitution and satisfaction. And God can only be satisfied
with us through the substitution of His Son. I never grow tired
of hearing that, do you? Why did the Lord Jesus die on
Calvary's cross? Let me turn you to one more scripture,
Isaiah chapter 53. Isaiah chapter 53, look at verse
four with me. Surely he hath borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon Him, and with His stripes, we are healed. Boy, there's substitution
written all through those verses. Why is the Lord Jesus, God in
the flesh, hanging on the cross? He's being smitten of God for
His people. He's carrying the griefs and
the sorrows of His elect. He's being bruised for your iniquities
and my iniquities. He's being wounded for our transgressions. He's the Lamb slain before the
foundation of the world. And as the God-Man, He's doing
in time what He already purposed in eternity. You know, from the blood of That
lamb, I'm convinced it was a lamb, but from the blood of that lamb
that was shed for Adam and his wife in the garden to cover them
with skins, to the Passover lamb killed in Egypt whose blood was
put on the doorpost and lentil, God has said, when I see the
blood, I'll pass over you. Now that's my hope. That's my
only hope of standing before God, holy and just and as righteous
as He Himself is. When I see the blood, I'll pass
over you. That blood wasn't put on the
inside of the door for the people to see, was it? No. It was put on the outside for
God to see. And God said, when I see it,
I'll pass over you. I'll pass over you in mercy and
in grace. And friends, He does. Our Lord
died as a sin offering, as a substitute, as a sacrifice, as a surety to
put away His people's sin. Now, did He do what He said He
would do? You better believe He did. We ought to rejoice. Our sin's gone. We don't have
any sin. Put away forever. Oh, God help
you and I to do as John the Baptist said, behold the Lamb of God
which taketh away the sin of the world. He takes away the
sin of all his people in this world, doesn't he? Why did Christ
die on the cross? Well, the last reason is found
in 2 Corinthians 5. I won't turn you there, but it
says, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. God is
angry with the wicked every day. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. Now, where
is that kind of preaching today? I hear men talking about how
much Jesus loves you. God loves everybody. Jesus died
for everybody. What about that verse? He that
believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God
abideth on him. Where's the preaching and the
warning of God's wrath and judgment today? The reason multitudes
and religion today are compromising the death of the Lord Jesus is
because religion has made salvation to be all about what the sinner
does for God and not what God does for the sinner. Men and
women don't think that they need a substitute because men and
women don't believe that they need a sin offering and that
they need a blood atonement. The truth of the matter is most
men and women really don't believe that they're sinners. They really
don't believe that they're dead in trespasses and sin. But God
reveals it to some. Has He revealed it to you? Christ died to redeem that which
was lost. Christ died to restore all that
His people lost in Adam. Christ died to translate us into
the kingdom of His dear Son. He did it all for His own glory. Now I don't assume that all here
this morning know the Lord Jesus. So let me ask you. Probably the
most important question ever asked a human being. What think
ye of Christ? What do you think of him? Whose
son is he? Have you seen whose son he is?
Do you see what none saw on Calvary's mouth that day? Do you see why
Christ died on Calvary's cross? Oh, I'm telling you, friends,
I want the whole world to know that Jesus Christ is my Lord
and my Savior. I want the whole world to know
that He didn't have to do for me what He did for me. He could have and He should have,
I might add. Just pass me by. That's what
I deserved. But that's what mercy and grace
is, isn't it? Him not giving me what I deserve
and giving me what I don't deserve. That's mercy. And that's grace. God still has mercy on whom He
will. He's willing to have mercy on
you. He's willing to have compassion on you. How do I know that? Well,
you asked that leper that came to me. His question was, Lord,
if you will, not if you can, he knew he could. Lord, if you will, I know you
can, but will you? You can make me clean. And I
know what Christ's answer will be if any who truly desire to
be made whole ask him that question. It's always the same. I cannot
find anywhere in this book where the Lord turned down the cry
of a mercy beggar. You know what it is, the answer?
I will. I will be thou clean. And the
scripture says immediately his leprosy was healed. Dear sinner,
if you leave here today unclean, it's only because you don't want
to be cleansed. Let's just call it as it is.
If you truly desire to be made whole, you can be. As you look at the cross this
day with spiritual eyes, with eyes of faith, oh may God give
you eyes of faith. I hope you see your need of Christ.
If you do, his words to you are All ye that labor and heavy laden
over your sin, come to me and I will give you what? Rest. Rest. May God be pleased to make it
so. Brother Lindsey.