I want to begin this evening
by reading Exodus chapter 2, verses 18 through the end of
the chapter. Moses had seen an Egyptian needlessly
slay a Hebrew, and Moses took up his plight and slayed the
Egyptian and then hid his body. And the next day, he saw two
Hebrews striving, one with the other, and jumped into the quarrel. And it was said unto him, who
made thee a prince and a judge over us? Intendest thou to kill
me as thou kilts the Egyptian? And Moses feared and said, surely,
this thing is known. Now look here at verse 15. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing,
he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face
of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat down by
a well. Now the priest of Midian had
seven daughters. And they came and drew water
filled the troughs to water their father's flock. And the shepherds
came and drove them away. But Moses stood up and helped
them and watered their flock. When they came to rule their
father, he said, how is it that you're come so soon today? And
they said, an Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds.
and also drew water enough for us and watered the flock. And
he said unto his daughters, and where is he? Why is it that you
left the man? Call him that he may eat bread. And Moses was content to dwell
with the man, and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And she
bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom. For he said,
I've been a stranger in a strange land. And it came to pass, in
the process of time, that the king of Egypt died, and the children
of Israel sighed by reason of bondage. And they cried, and
their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. God heard
their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with
Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children
of Israel, and God had respect unto them." That's quite a statement. God had respect unto them. Now, as Joseph was a picture
of Christ who suffered on our account, and then was taken from
that cruel captivity of death, hell, and the grave, and then
raised up to be seated on the throne as the reigning, successful,
fully received mediator king, all power given unto him to preserve
and save his people. Joseph was this picture. Moses
is a picture now of Christ sitting upon that throne, whose bodily
presence has been removed. He's a picture of Christ separated
from his people, but given the office and the right to deliver
them out of their bondage. Christ is our great high priest. He's entered into the heavens,
Paul said, to appear in the presence of God for us. He said, now if I go not away,
if I go not away, it's expedient for you that I go away. Because
if I go away, the Spirit will not be sent to you. He's not
coming to you until I get to the Father. He's our covenant
surety. His blood is the blood of the
everlasting covenant. The covenant that God made with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was sure because of the surety. In David's dying words, this
man after God's own heart, he said, although it be not so with
my house, yet hath God made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered
in all things and sure. What made it sure? The surety. The surety. Christ is that surety. covenant that God made with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. It was sure because of the surety.
He says in Galatians 3.16, now to Abraham, this is where God
first announced His covenant to Abraham. Now to Abraham and
his seed were the promises made. He saith not unto seeds as of
many, but unto thy seed, which is Christ. And that which he
promised and made sure in Christ, The law which came 400 and some
years later by this man Moses, the law could not disannul because
it was made sure in Christ. Christ our surety has entered
into his glory. He's ascended to his throne.
The crown's set upon his head and the ring on his finger. The
father in full acceptance of his person and work seats him
at his own right hand. The right hand of favor and the
right hand of power seated at God's right hand. But he's in
heaven and his people still in Egypt. His people still in this
world. He's in heaven. He said in the
spiritual sense, Paul said he quickened us together with Christ
and raised us up with him and we're seated with him in heavenly
places. That's how sure this covenant is in the surety. But
in bodily presence, we're still here. We're still in Egypt, and
we're still in bondage. He's in heaven. His people are
still in this world. The first begotten from the dead
resides in glory, but his people still reside in this world. He prayed unto the Father in
John 17. He said, they're in the world. They're not of it,
but they're in the world. And I pray not that you take
them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. And that's what God was doing
down in Egypt, keeping them, preserving them from the evil
one. In 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 21 it says, For since by
man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made
alive. Now listen, But every man in
his own order, there's an order to the way God accomplishes His
purposes. Every man in his own order Christ
the first fruits, afterwards they that are Christ at His coming. And I know that this coming here
in 1 Corinthians 15 is referring to that second coming of Christ,
at which time He'll gather all of His elect to Himself, And
they'll enter with Him into glory and there reside forever. But
it also is inclusive of Christ's coming and calling of His elect
through the power of His Spirit and the preaching of the gospel.
There is a coming. He comes to us just like He came
to the woman at the well and He came to the paralyzed man
at the pool of Bethesda. There's a coming to Christ in
His coming to us. He comes to us. How does He come
to us? He came with His Spirit. And
He tells us there in John, when He talks about the Spirit come,
He said, when the Spirit comes, He'll take up His abode in you,
and I'll take up my abode in you, and the Father will take
up His abode in you. Paul preceded these words, where
he's talking about this coming of Christ, with this statement
in 1 Corinthians 15, verse 13, He said, if there be no resurrection
of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And if Christ be not risen,
then our preaching in vain, and your faith is also in vain. In
verse 17, if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, and you're
yet in your sins. This is very important. The Spirit
of God coming as a result of His resurrection. Now the victorious
Christ, though separated in body, comes to His people through the
Spirit of God. And those he sets apart for this
purpose, for these means. I'm talking about preachers,
evangelists, missionaries, whatever, apostles, prophets. Paul said,
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the spirit and belief of the truth, whereunto he called you
by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory. That victorious
glory, that finished work, that accomplished work, that's the
glory He's talking about. Not that we're going to be glorified
by anything, but we receive that glory. We rejoice in that glory
and we receive all the benefits of it. He called you by our gospel
to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now
listen to this, 2 Corinthians 5.18. And all things are of God, who
hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given
to us the ministry of reconciliation, to wit that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation."
Now here's what I want you to see, verse 20. We are ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you, and Christ did, be ye reconciled to God. Now, I'm going to make a point
of all this here in a minute. I'm just laying the foundation.
We have in heaven such a priest as can be touched with the feelings
of our infirmities. Because of the success of his
ministry, he not only can be touched, but he has the power
and the right to do something about it. You see what's going
on here? Their cry came up to God. How
did it get up to him? He's the one called them down
there, wasn't he? Huh? Didn't he raise Pharaoh up and
give him that power and give him that authority? Didn't he
appoint Satan as ruler and gave him dominion over... I read that
to you the other day out of the book of Revelations or read it
to somebody. I preach so much I can't remember
who I'm preaching to. But I read that scripture that
he gave him authority over all these nations and all these kings
and people in authority and everybody whose name wasn't written in
the Lamb's Book of Life. He not only has the power to
do it and he can be touched with, but he has the power to make
it happen. And based on the person and work
and offices of the coming Redeemer, God heard the cries of those
people. That's how their cries come up
to God. Through the mediator. And God
heard their cries and attended their cries and God had respect. Can you imagine? And you imagine,
God had respect. Don't you find it difficult sometimes
when you're praying to God and you're ailing and you're hurting
and you... This isn't something important
now because it has to do with me. And you come up before him, don't
you have a little difficulty? Who am I? Don't that come into
your mind? This is the God of all creation,
the God of glory, operating everything. Everything's on the strings,
and He's pulling the strings. All things consist by Him, all
glory in Him. Here I am, a sniveling worm,
and what have I done with the truth He's given me? What have
I done with the blessings that he's given me and the grace that
he's given me? Huh? Comes to a little sacrifice,
well, you know. Huh? Now I'm going to ask him
for something. Oh, and down goes your heart. But that's not how God hears
you cry, and that's not why he has respect. He has respect unto
you because of your mediator. See, there's just one thing stands
between you and hell, between me and hell. I'll put us all
in the same basket. There's just one thing stands
between us and hell, and that's this one mediator. He's in heaven's
glory. But because he is our mediator,
and because of those offices that he holds, and that power
that he has, and that success that he accomplished when he
came into this world as a representative man, because of those things,
All these other things are sure, because He is the surety. Based
on the person and work and offices of this coming Redeemer, God
heard their cries. Now let me tell you something
before we get into this. God does what He pleases, not
what pleases men. He does what He pleases. And
sometimes it pleases us and sometimes it don't, but whether it does
or don't, God does what He pleases. He worketh all things, Paul said,
after the counsel of His own will, not ours. He ruleth in
the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth,
and none can stay His hand or even question His decrees. What am I saying? I'm saying
that God's in no hurry to do what He does. And God does what
He does on purpose. And God does what He does for
the overall good of His elect and for His own glory. Everything
that He does. And each thing, He's not slow
to respond, but He's not quick either. But He responds exactly
according to these things, how He works His purpose. Just exactly. To everything Solomon said, there's
a time. That's the time, God. And I read
that to you here. This time, the fullness of time. What I see here in Exodus is
not just the deliverance of an individual picture. but the way
God reconciles his church in every age, and especially in
the gospel age in which we live. As the deliverer of God, chosen
and called to the office, God's preacher is first rejected at
large by Israel. He comes to them, and he means
well, and he means to do them good, and he believes that he
is this appointed deliverer, and I don't know how he knew
that, if his mother told him that, or his sister told him
that, or a prophet in there told him. I don't know how he knew
that, but he knew that. And he rose up in the power,
the adopted son of Pharaoh, and he was going to do something.
He was a man of war, and he was a A brilliant man and he'd been
taught to the highest degree in letter and he was ready to
do something, ready to make something happen. But that's not how God
works. And when he did that, he was
rejected. He was rejected. And because of persecution and
threat of punishment, he finds himself among the Gentiles. And
remember now, Moses is a type of Christ who comes not in person,
but in the power of His Spirit in a man. And he takes first
to himself a Gentile bride. Isn't that what happened at Pentecost?
Isn't that what happened in the early church? Israel didn't want
any part of it. The council didn't want any part
of it. The high priest didn't want any part of it. The rulers
of the synagogues didn't want any part of it. And finally,
Paul said, Since you judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life,
lo, I turn to the Gentiles." Well, that's what Moses had done,
isn't it? He went out there and took a Gentile bride. And Zipporah
is a picture of the bride of the rejected deliverer as the
Gentiles were called into union with Christ. And he names his
son, he names this son that's born, Gershom. And the name means
a stranger. A stranger. Paul tells us in
Ephesians chapter 2, he said, you remember one time you were
strangers. You were strangers. You remember
that. You weren't Jews. You had no promise of a messiah.
You didn't know what the messiah was. Even religious folks jumping
around and waving their hands to the music, clapping their
hands and speaking in tongues and all this, not one of them
can tell you what the Christ even is or what it's about or
when he was promised or any of the promises concerning him or
who he is or why he came or what he did or where he's at. They
can't tell you any of them things. They don't know anything about
that. Ask them something about the wheels over in Ezekiel, they
can talk about that a little bit. Talk about that end time
and what was it, eschatology, they can talk all about that
kind of stuff. His son named Gershom, he was
a stranger. Listen to this, in Ephesians
3, just let me read you some things here. All I want to accomplish
tonight is to get your mind in the set of what's going on. This
is a picture of Christ coming to deliver His people through
the preaching of the Gospel and by the power of His Spirit, and
it's coming right into the evil king's palace, right on his front
steps, right where his glory is the most seen and his power
the most felt and demonstrated. And with nothing in the world
except the Word of God, this man stands and commands them
in the name of the Father to let his people go. and effects
that deliverance. And he does it with a manifest
body and blood of the substitute. And when God saw the blood, he
passed over them. And when God manifested the blood,
the evil king turned them loose, didn't he? And they walked out,
and God forbid even a dog to bark in rebellion against their
leaving. But listen to this here in Ephesians
chapter 3. I just want to read you several
verses here. Paul said, For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of
Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, if you have heard of the dispensation
of the grace of God which is given me to you, how that by
revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore
in a few words, whereby when you read you may understand my
knowledge and the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was
not made known unto the sons of men, as it's now revealed
unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit, that the Gentiles
should be fellow heirs and of the same body and partakers of
his promise in Christ by the gospel, whereof I was made a
minister according to the gift of the grace of God given unto
me by the effectual working of his power. You think about that. This Gentile
bride. Moses never in his life ever
sat down and contemplated marrying a Gentile bride, did he? But
in the power of God, that's exactly what he did because what he did
was picture something on down the road. And his son will be
a stranger in a strange land. And that's what Paul said to
us over in Ephesians chapter 2. To be included in this covenant,
this boy has to be circumcised. And what he pictured must be
circumcised. These Gentiles, they had to be
circumcised, but not of the flesh. But I'm talking about in the
heart, by the Spirit of God, through the faith, Paul said,
of the operation of God. It's that circumcision. And God
nearly killed old Moses over this very thing. His wife refused,
gave him all kinds of problems about circumcising that little
boy and whatever the reason was. She had something to do with
the blood and marking his flesh and she didn't want any part
of it. She put a lot of pressure on him and he bucked for a little
bit and then he finally bowed and he said, okay, I won't do
it. God nearly killed him over it. He would have killed him
if he hadn't circumcised that boy. Would have killed him. God's ministry in the beginning
was revealed in the calling out of Abraham as a Gentile. And it tells us over in Romans,
he later received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the
righteousness of faith which he had yet being uncircumcised. And then again with the Gentile
believers in whom God sent His Spirit to confirm their calling
and election. circumcised of the heart and
in the spirit, not in the flesh. And then Moses, being a representative
of all gospel preachers, must be prepared for the ministry
by God Himself. He must first spend some time
in the wilderness. You see, that's the thing about
God's preachers, and this always makes me leery when an Arminian
preacher suddenly gets light and just switches over and becomes
a gospel preacher. You've got all of these things
that was affected in a false religion. You've got, first of
all, they don't really believe in any kind of godly calling.
It's just a If you want to be a preacher, we'll send you to
seminary and make you one. So they send them down there
to Preacher Factory, and they make them preachers, and they
come out, and they preach, and they take pulpits, and they have
committees, and they've got councils, and they've got all these things.
And churches need somebody, and they just go to the directory,
and they say, we need a preacher, OK? I've got three up here to
choose from. What's their background? He tells
them, OK, well, send me this one. All right? He comes down
and preaches. They like him. They sign him
up. Now he's a preacher. Then he learns the truth. Well,
is he going to now go through this calling that Paul talked
about? Is he going to go through this
calling? Or is God just going to take
him right out of that mess right into this mess? Huh? How does all that work? Well,
I don't know. I've known some that God has taken out of Armenian
religion and used them in a great way. in the true religion and
in both situations they were preachers. And I've known others
who come out of that mess who were converted and just took
it for granted that they were called to preach and who didn't
go through these things and weren't counseled of God and called of
God and their ministry was a total flop. I've seen both things happen. God's just not going to let us
put him in a box, is he? He's going to do what pleases
him. But I can tell you this, the
first thing that pleases God with His preachers is He's going
to let them spend a little time in the wilderness. Because it's
impossible for me to stand up here and talk to you about bondage
and talk to you about captivity and talk to you about darkness
and talk to you about all those things when I've been raised
down in the palace of the king. I haven't suffered anything.
I haven't been in need of anything. How in the world could Moses
enter in and have compassion on these people the way he must
have compassion on them when he leads them through the wilderness?
Unless he goes through the wilderness first. You see what I'm saying?
And God set him out there. He set him out there among those
Gentiles and he humbled him. You've got to come down. If you're
going to minister to me, then God has to bring you down. I
heard a man say at the 13th Street Conference years ago, he said,
you're going to lose that strut before you get to glory. Now,
you might walk with a strut now, but you're going to lose it before
you get there. And God's minister is going to lose that strut.
Now, they are. You're going to have to come
down. You're going to have to come down. And when he brings
you down, when he gets you down, then he leaves you there for
a little while. You know why? Because a lot of these people
that he's going to minister to have been there a long time.
And you're going to have to be able to enter in with them and
have compassion on them. And they're ignorant. So God's
going to let you grow ignorant. He's not going to let Moses use
hardly anything he learned in Egypt. He's not going to use
it. He's going to bring him down. Bring him down. Got to spend
a little time in the wilderness. You can't talk about being separated
from God unless you've experienced that separation. And I'll tell
you this, I've got no kind words for strangers until I've lived
as a stranger before God and know what it is to be one. Moses lived in the wilderness
40 years. Forty years. He lost all thoughts
being the deliverer. He didn't have any more thoughts
about it. I tell you, I can identify with these men so much. God put
me out just like he did Nebuchadnezzar. He just let me go out like a
beast. Just let me go out to myself
and just stay out there for a while. You just go on out there for
a while. You eat grass like an oxen and you learn what it is
to be a heathen and learn what it is to be a rebel. and learn
what it is to be separated from God. And when I get good and
ready, then your right mind will return unto you. Until then,
your nails can grow like bird's claws and your hair like eagle's
feathers. And you can just run around like
a beast. Well, he wasn't quite that bad with Moses, but he let
Moses wander in the wilderness for 40 years before he sent him down to Egypt
to call his people out of Pharaoh's house. And he sent him into the wilderness
for this reason. And I know that's why he sent
me there. It's to convince you utterly of the insufficiency
of this flesh to accomplish the purpose of God in the reconciliation
of his people. Now, there's just no power in
your flesh to accomplish anything. If you don't believe me, you
just find you a sinner somewhere and you sit down with him and
you try to convince him of these things one-on-one and watch him.
Watch him stand there and shake. Looks like that little dog in
the back window of a car. He just stand there like this,
shaking his head. Rolls off his back like water
off a duck's back. Stand there like that. You can't
do it. You can't do it. It takes the power of God. God
will not use the son of Pharaoh to accomplish his deliverance,
but the son of a Hebrew slave. Moses must and does take his
place with his people. Listen to what Paul says about
Moses over here in the faith chapter of Hebrews, in Hebrews
11, beginning in verse 24. He said, By faith Moses, when
he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter. Whatever that title was, you
know, they gave him a title like they gave to Jacob or Joseph. He wouldn't wear it. Keep your
title. Keep your title. Verse 25. Choosing rather to
suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures
of sin for a season. Esteeming, verse 26. the reproach
of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he
had respect unto the recompense of reward." And I don't think
that's referring, it could be, but I don't think that's referring
to the reward of iniquity or to the reward of enjoying the
pleasures of sin for a season, but the reward of Christ. The
reward of His achievements and the reward of His accomplishments
and the reward of His presence and acknowledgement of you, identification
with you. In verse 27, by faith, it says,
He forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king. And here's
why I think that verse refers to what I said it does. For He
endured as seeing Him who is invisible. He saw Christ. Can you begin to see the picture
that he's setting up here? Christ the Deliverer, born into
this world, raised in Pharaoh's house, being rejected by his
own. He came under his own, his own
received him not. But received by Jethro, also
called Rule. You'll find out in chapter 3
that Jethro is also his name. He pictures the Gentiles receiving
him, receiving him whom the Jews rejected. And then Zipporah taken
into union as his bride, picturing all Gentile believers. And then
finally being made ready by the hand of God, God's minister goes
forth with a full and clear revelation of the glory of God. God takes
him up on the mountain, reveals his glory to him, and then he
tells him where he's going. And Moses said, if you don't
go, I ain't going. Huh? I'm not going. And he says,
to effect their release by the Word of God alone, and to do
so in the very face of Pharaoh's power and glory. Over and over, the Scriptures
talk about this time, this fullness of time in which God works. Paul said in Galatians, when
the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made
of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under
the law. Listen to this. This is in Romans
chapter 11. He said, blindness in part happened
to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. God
got a purpose in it. And then the figures that he
talks about over in Hebrews chapter 9 verse 10, the figures for the
time then present, he said, were imposed on them until the time
of reformation. Oh, God's time. God works in
His own time. Teach us something about being
patient and waiting on God. The wheels of God's purpose of
grace turn slowly, but they turn accurately and they never falter. God will deliver Israel as He
said He would to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but He'll do so as
it pleases Him in His own time, by His own man, in His own way,
and by His own power. Now, Somebody's going to listen
to this message. I don't think you will hear because
I've shown you so many times, but maybe somebody out there
is going to listen to this message and they're wondering how I can
find these things to be accurate types. How do you account for
that? Are you just finding stuff in
here and saying, well, here's what this means, you know, and
then finding that picture. Well, I see it that way. I really
do see it that way sometimes, and I read the scripture. I can
see the types. But over here in Hebrews chapter
3 and 4, it draws a pretty good parallel back to these things.
And I'll close by reading just a few of these verses. In Hebrews
chapter 3, verse 1, it said, Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers
of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of
our profession Christ Jesus. who was faithful to him that
appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in his house." Now
see, he's talking about Christ. He's talking about Moses. For
this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch
as he who hath builted the house has more honor than the house.
Now he's going to show you what's going on here. One of them's
picturing the house, the other one's building the house. For
every house is built by some man, but he that built all things
is God. And Moses verily was faithful
in all of his house as a servant." Now listen, for a testimony of
those things which were to be spoken after. That's why he put
him down there. But Christ as a son over his
own house, whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence
and rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end? Wherefore, that
is based on these things given as a testimony of those things
to come, and that of Christ as a son over his own house, faithful
in all things, wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, And he
goes all the way back to Deuteronomy. I think it's about chapter 23
somewhere, or 33. All the way back to Deuteronomy. And he said, here's what the
Holy Ghost was talking about, way back there. Wherefore, as
the Holy Ghost saith, today, if you will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts, as in the provocation in the day of temptation in the
wilderness. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, all my
works forty years. Wherefore, I was grieved with
that generation and said, they do always err in their heart,
and they've not known my ways. So I swear in my wrath, they
shall not enter into my rest. Take heed, brethren, lest there
be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from
the living God. Chapter 4, verse 1. Let us therefore
fear lest a promise being left to us of entering into his rest,
any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was
the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached
did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that
heard it." God is going to have our hearts, or our carcasses
are going to fall in the wilderness. God calls out a people through
the means of a man who declares the will and command of God concerning
his elect. And through the revelation of
the body and blood of the slain lamb, Israel is led out of captivity
by God's ambassador. They are led through the sea,
through an impassable sea, through a barren wilderness called a
wilderness of sin, and into the promised rest of Canaan. Those
who submitted to God, to God's way, and to God's man entered
into the rest. All the rest of them fell in
the wilderness. Every one of them. All of the
others died. He said, these 10 times, he said,
you provoked me. They're not going to be a number
11. And he said, I swear by my own name, they're not going to
enter into my rest. May the grace of God teach us
and make our testimony to be of those who were recorded just
a little earlier there from where I read you there in Hebrews 11.
It says, these all died in faith. That's what I want. That's my
testimony. I want to be like Caleb, the
faithful dog. Caleb. He said, let's go. He
said, going into Canaan, he said, it's like a tale already told.
Let's go. God's with you. Our Father, we thank you for
this blessed opportunity. Remind us often in our hearts
what a glorious, gracious opportunity it is to gather in a place with
the children of God, hear His gospel preached, and worship
our God. What a privilege. We could be
out there tonight, wandering as we were, lost, strangers,
ignorant, blind, unclean. We find ourselves by the grace
of God in this place, in our right minds, and with a good
understanding and a good hope through grace, rejoicing in your
son and rejoicing in these things that we preach and we teach. Blessed now these little groups
around that are struggling over in Wichita Falls and out there
in San Diego and different places, bless them. If it please you to do so, raise
up a pastor, put over them, raise up a church there, a witness,
for Christ's sake. Amen. I don't have enough breath to
sing a song,