On that solemn, solemn night
before the Lord of life and glory was delivered up as our substitute
into the hands of wicked men to die in our room instead, He
spoke to His disciples in such a way as to give them every possible
word of comfort and assurance to prepare them for the trials
and the heartaches and the troubles he knew they were about to face. He spoke these words to these
disciples because he would give you and me, his disciples, every
conceivable word of comfort and assurance to prepare us for the
trials we must face in this world. Trials from without by those
who hate our God and thus hate us who are his own. Trials from without by all the
difficulties and heartaches and troubles that come from without
and trials from within. the troubles and pains and sorrows
that come upon us because of what we are and what we know
ourselves to be. Our Lord's final discourse and
his final actions by divine inspiration are recorded for us in John chapter
13 through John chapter 18. These chapters are filled with
things intended by the Lord Jesus to encourage our faith in him,
to give us confidence in him, to assure us of his abiding,
unceasing, relentless mercy, love, and grace upon us. Throughout these chapters, throughout
these chapters, his word to us. Our Lord's final word to us and
everything we read, John chapter 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18. Every word gives us this admonition. Let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid. Let
not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid. It
is so sad, so very sad. that many, many, many who should
make it their business always to comfort and encourage and
strengthen God's people in the midst of the struggles we have
in this world, rather make it their business to keep troubling
the hearts of God's people. They don't want you to enjoy
peace and comfort. They want you always troubled
and disturbed. Never enjoy the blessedness of
that which is called the full assurance of faith or the joy
of faith. That's that's presumptuous. But
rather, they would have you constantly in a state of turmoil rather
than in a state of peace. If ever there was a time during
the whole of our Lord's earthly ministry in which he wanted to
minister comfort and peace to the hearts of his beloved, It
was on this solemn night before his sin atoning death is our
substitute. Like the 23rd Psalm, these chapters
are recorded in the book of God to minister to our souls greatest
troubles in this world. Let me remind you of the things
that are recorded here. On that solemn night, he said
to those and his disciples, whose faith he knew must be greatly
tried, I have chosen you." Three times, Rod, he's, I've chosen
you. Three times. He said, I have chosen you that
you should bring forth much fruit. You've not chosen me, but I've
chosen you. If you love the world, the world
would love his own, but I've chosen you. I've chosen you. He told those disciples that
one of them would betray him. And that disturbed them greatly.
That disturbed them greatly. Every one of them suspected himself.
Isn't that amazing? That's just the way God's people
are. They're honest with themselves.
And they know that the root of all evil is in them by nature
because we know ourselves sinners. Lord, is it I? Is it I? And they weren't being falsely
humble. They weren't being hypocritical.
They were speaking honestly. Oh, Lord. If one of us will betray you,
it's got to be me. And to allay those fears, Alan,
he said, no, it's Judas. Let his plainest nose on your
face. No, you won't be the one. It's this one who takes the sock
with me. As soon as he takes it, he'll
go about his hellish deeds. And thus he identified Judas
to them so that when it came to pass, they would continue
to believe and not be fearful. Their faith would not be shaken.
He told the disciples again of his impending death and assured
them that by that which he would accomplish in his death, God
would be glorified in him and he would glorify his father. He said, now I'm going to die.
I've told you. I've told you. I've told you.
I'm going to Jerusalem and there I'll be delivered into the hands
of wicked men. I'll suffer at the hands of the
Jews. I'll be put to death in three days. I'll rise again and
God will be glorified so as to comfort them. when they had to
deal with it. Then, and this is recorded in
Luke's gospel, if you want to look at it later, but it's on
the same occasion, he said, he said, Satan's desired to have
you. That he may sift you as wheat. Your enemy, the devil, will never
give up his pursuit of you. This roaring lion will always
seek to destroy you. But I prayed for you. But I prayed for you. And after
that, it turned to Peter. And he said, Peter. Before you
hear a rooster crow twice. Before the sun rises tomorrow,
you're going to deny me three times. And you know what it said after
that? Let not your heart be troubled.
You believe in God. You believe also in me. What
a word. What a word. In spite of the
trouble you bring on yourself, in spite of what you are, you're
mine. I prayed for you and hell can't
have you. Thank you, blessed Redeemer,
for such sweet assurance in the face of what I am. Throughout
the night, he said to those disciples, all of whom would forsake him.
As he anticipated their great fall, he kept saying, believe
me, believe me, believe me. He didn't say, be sure you believe
the right doctrine. He said, believe me. He didn't
say, be sure you got all your I's dotted and your T's crossed
the way the theologians say you ought to. Believe me. He didn't
say even believe in me. He said, believe me. Believe
me. When you've got nothing on which
to fall, follow me. Believe me. And he assured them These disciples, all of whom
would soon forsake him, all of them, every last one of them,
in his greatest hour of absolute desertion, deserted by heaven
and earth, his disciples would forsake him. He said to his disciples,
I go to prepare places for you. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that
where I am, there you may be also. I remind you again that
the difference between Judas' sin, which was for him a sin
unto death, the sin that would be committed by Judas and that
which was committed by Peter and by the other disciples, The
difference between Judas' sin and your sin and mine is not
the deeds. It wasn't the extent of their
guilt. It wasn't the aggravating circumstances of their crimes.
It certainly wasn't that Judas sinned against more light than
we sinned against or they sinned against. None of those things.
Was it that Judas was more persistent? Read the scriptures. Read the
scriptures. If anything, Peter was more persistent. Is that accurate? Any objection? Well, why is Judas in hell and
Peter in glory? Why are you safe and secure in
the Savior's hands and others aren't? The Master said, I have
prayed for you. That's all. I prayed for them, he said in
John 17. I pray not for the world. He prayed for Peter. He didn't
pray for Judas. He prays for his own. He prays
not for the world. He assures us that though we
must ever be kept aware of our sinfulness,
we must ever be aware of that in the full awareness of what
we are, so that we say with David, my
sin is ever before me. We must be aware of it. In the
midst of that, in the teeth of all our sin, our iniquity, transgression
and sin, he speaks to us in such a way
as to make us ever trust him. And he assures us, he assures
us that he will hear and answer the cries of our hearts. He said,
whatsoever you ask, Father, in my name, I'll do it. Lacris, he says, to you, in spite
of all you are, in all the hell that's in you, you're mine. Well, brother Don, it seems like
the Lord's telling us nothing about our relationship with God.
Nothing about our acceptance with God, nothing about our eternal
salvation in any way depends on us. He's telling us that our
acceptance with God can never be compromised or weakened or
diminished. It's exactly what he's telling
us. That's exactly it. as he anticipated the weakness,
failure, and sin of those beloved disciples, that which they would
display in the next few hours. As he anticipated all the weakness,
failures, and sins we would experience in this world and display throughout
the course of our lives on this earth, our Lord assures them
and assures us that he will never leave us comfortless. He said,
I'll pray the father and he'll send a comforter to you, one
just like me. And he says, I and my father
and my spirit will dwell in you forever. And you will dwell in
me. Oh, what words of assurance.
And then he assures us of his abiding love and says, I'll manifest myself to you,
not to the world, but to you. I'll make myself known to you.
You're the objects of my love. And he promised that he would
give us his blessed spirit, assuring us that his spirit would teach
us all things. And then the Lord Jesus said,
I tell you all these things that ye might believe. That your faith
be not shaken. That your faith, not just faith,
that your faith in me be not shaken. I've said all these things
to you before they come to pass, in anticipation, in anticipation
of the trials from without and the trials from within, so that
when they come to pass, your faith in me not be shaken. Believe
me. Believe me. And then we come
to chapter 15. In chapter 15, the Lord Jesus
gives us a wonderful description and assurance of our everlasting
union with him. He says, I am the vine, ye are
the branches. Now, when you get to chapter
15, if you pull down the commentaries, Somebody said the good ones.
I don't read the other stuff. I wish I could persuade you folks
Don't read trash when you got good stuff. You can read Don't
folks listen to all kinds of sermons and religious nonsense.
Why? When you can listen to good stuff,
I don't understand that I can't figure out why on this earth
you spend your time reading garbage when you read read good stuff
I don't understand why you listen to some Arminian babbler when
you listen about preach free grace. I can't fathom that I
But when you pull down the commentaries, the good ones, and get to John
15, sadly, they've been terribly influenced by outside instructors
who take this totally out of its context. The whole of what's
being discussed here, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, is all about
comfort, isn't it? It's all about comfort. It's
all about assurance. It's all about peace. And then
you get to John 15 and about everybody you read on this or
hear talk about this. I said, now here the Lord's warning
you. You got to do good. You got to
do good. If you don't, he'll get you.
No, he's still talking about comfort. He's still talking about
comfort. It's astounding to me. Some fellows,
they try their best to say grace, but it comes out works every
time because they talk about works all the time, make everything
to be conditioned on works. Now the first thing to be learned
when we read John 15 is this. There is between God's elect
and Jesus Christ a blessed union that can never be dissolved. Listen to this. I am the vine. Ye are the branches. And nothing about the vine or
the branches depends on you. Do you read that? Is that what
you read? Well, sure it is. Read the next
line. My father's the husbandman. He's the one who takes care of
the vineyard, not you. I'm the vine. You're the branches. My father's the husbandman. Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit is taken away. And every
branch that beareth fruit He purges it, that it may bring
forth more fruit. Judas is gone. You'll be all
right. But now, now ye are clean through
the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me and I in
you. As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except
ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me ye
can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he's
cast forth as a branch and is withered. And men gather them
and cast them into the fire and they are burned. This is talking
about a blessed union. between Christ and his people
that can never be broken. That's what we had when we looked
at chapter 14 last week. The Lord Jesus said, I'm in the
father, the father's in me, and you're in me. And I'm in you. One with him, one with him. It's
a union that is vital to him as our mediator and vital to
us as his people. Turn to the Song of Solomon.
This is not a unusual comparison. Back here in the Song of Solomon,
you will see that this union between Christ and his people
as vine and branches is spoken of. When the bride sings her
nuptial love song, she refers to her beloved as divine. Song of Solomon, chapter one,
verse 14. My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphor in
the vineyards of Engedi. That word cluster, remarkable
word, it speaks of a man, speaks of a man. The word means a man
that is all things. Mr. Hawkins says it means the
man that has atoned and is all things, all blessedness. That's what Christ is to you
and me. He's all things. My beloved,
this vine, he's everything. He has a tone for us and he's
everything. All blessedness is in him. We're
blessed of God in him with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
places of him of God. Are you in Christ Jesus in the
vine? Who have God has made into us
wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption
that according as it is written, he that glory of them glory in
the Lord. Our Lord Jesus, when he would
sing of his nuptial love song to us, his bride, his beloved,
he uses the very same language. He uses the same kind of imagery.
Look at chapter 7, the song of Solomon chapter 7. The Lord said, I am the vine,
you're the branches. So real, so absolute is this
union of our souls and our Savior. that in the book of God, it's
constantly referred to. And while you hold your hands
at Song of Solomon, listen to this, this word from David. Thou
hast brought a vine out of Egypt. Thou hast cast out the heathen
and planted it. Thou preparedest room before
it and this cause it to take deep root. And it filled the
land. The hills were covered with the
shadow of it. And the boughs thereof were like
goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs under
the sea and her branches under the river. This is that vine. Turn us again, O Lord God of
hosts. Cause thy face to shine and we
shall be saved. All right, look in Song of Solomon,
chapter seven. Chapter 7, verse 11. Come, my beloved. The Lord Jesus
speaks. He's speaking to you, you who
are his. Come, my beloved. Let us go forth
into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.
Let us get up early to the vineyards. Let us see if the vine flourish,
whether the tender grape appear and the pomegranates bud forth.
There will I give thee my love. Chapter 8, verse 11. Solomon
had a vineyard. A vineyard in Balhaman. He let
out the vineyard unto keepers. Every one for the fruit thereof
was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. My vineyard, which
is mine, is before me. Thou, O Solomon, must have a
thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof, two hundred.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, in the vineyard, the companions
hearken to thy voice. Calls me to hear it. All right,
back here, John chapter 15. This union between Christ and
his people is as close, as real, as the union of the vine and
the branches. He is our life. We're joined to him. Joined to
him vitally. Someone illustrated it this way,
in order for you take a wild piece to be grafted into the
original stock, you've got to have two cuts, a wound in the
original and a wound in that which is to be grafted. And the
Lord Jesus was wounded for our transgressions and he comes and
wounds us by his grace and he binds us to himself. And the
two bound together grow into one. And so we are experientially
one with him as well. We draw all life from him. The branch draws its life, all
the sap of life out of the vine. And we draw all life out of Christ
Jesus, our Lord. All fruit comes from him because
we're one with him, vitally joined to him. We bring forth fruit
in him, from him and by him. But never imagine that grace
is a self-operating principle. Oh, no. Grace is the continual
operation of God. We bring forth fruit because
God is always gracious. And it is he who works in you
both to will and do of his own good pleasure. That is not a
supposition. The master says, from me is thy
fruit found. So that if you believe him right
now, it's because he gives you faith just as in the beginning. Understand that? Do you ever
find yourself when you can't believe him? God forgive me, I do. I do. Do you find yourself when you
can't stop the rush of evil in your soul? Incessantly. But He gives grace and causes
you to believe. He gives grace and turns you
and causes you to run after Him. Peter could no more stop his
downward spiral to evil than a man can take wings and fly.
But when the Lord came to him in mercy, Peter turned and walked
with him again, just as he had before and strengthened his brethren. In fact, the master said to him,
he said, when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. The
picture before us is delightful and comforting. Believing sinners
never have reason to be doubtful of God's salvation. Our Savior
has promised that he will never leave us and he will never leave
us to ourselves. He'll never leave us to our own
strength. He'll never leave us to our own
ability. But God works in us to will and do of his good pleasure.
constantly working in such a way as to make us know our nothingness,
our weakness. I run across young folks. Some
of them might be 60, 70 years old, but they're still young
in grace. Young folks, little babies who Well, he's not here,
so I can use my grandson as an illustration. When that little
fellow was skinnier than he is now, I mean, bless his heart,
he didn't have much skin on his bones. And he'd try to poke out
his chest and pull his shirt off and flex his muscles. You
couldn't even see a bump. But he'd stand and give it this. He'd been working out, getting
strong, and think he's strong. Think he's strong. How silly that many women who
claim to believe God stand in front of the mirror and look
at themselves and flex their muscles and think, now I'm strong. I can take on hell. I can handle
anything that comes along. There's no strength in you. The
sooner you learn it, the more constantly you discover it, the
better off you'll be. Brother Don, what are you telling us? When
I am weak, then I'm strong. When I cast myself entirely on
Christ my Redeemer, then nothing can harm me, and nothing get
to me, and nothing injure me ever. In the second verse here,
John 15, we see that there are many like Judas who are in Christ
divine, only by profession. They've attached themselves to
Him and appear outwardly to be in Him, but they're fruitless
branches. They bear no fruit, no faith,
no hope, no love, no joy, no peace. Not the pretense things
that you can look at men and say, boy, boy, He's a man of
peace. He's so loving and gracious.
He's so good. Oh, he's such a magnanimous man.
No, no. I'm talking about love, joy,
and peace. Things that only God can give. Things that arise from faith
in Christ the Lord. They're attached to the vine.
They appear to be in the vine, but they're only there by profession,
and they'll be cut off. and they'll wither and they'll
be cast into the fire and burn forever. Believers are in Christ. We're branches growing out of
the vine. Are you in him? Bobby, are you in him? If you
believe him, you are. If you believe him, you are.
Now, briefly, let me show you the sweet assurance is given
to us in this tremendous instructive passage of Holy Scripture. Verse
3, I want you to see the assurances here. The purpose, David, that
our Lord uses, is giving, using and giving this, the purpose
why he's using this illustration is to give us assurance. Not
to drive it away, not to cause us to despair, but to give us
assurance. Look at what it says. He said, now the branches that
bear no fruit, they're dead. My father's gonna cut them off
and they'll be cast into hell. Now you're clean. You're clean. You're clean through the word
that I've spoken to you. Verse nine. As the father hath
loved me, so have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. I'll come back to this, Lord
willing, in a few weeks. But the Lord says, as the father loved
me, so have I loved you. Continue ye in my love. And people
ignorantly, ignorantly, they take this. The Lord says, as
the father loved me, so I've loved you now. But now it's up
to you to continue in my love. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. As
the father loved me. I've loved you. And as I continue
in my father's love, so surely you continue in my love. God's love never changed. God's
love doesn't abate. God's love doesn't give up. Verse
11. These things have I spoken unto
you, that you may look inside yourselves and beat yourselves
down I feel horrible all the time. Oh, I'm so low. Oh, I feel so bad. Oh, blessed are they that mourn,
and mourn, and mourn, and mourn, and mourn, and mourn, and mourn,
and mourn. No. Blessed are they that mourn. They shall be comforted. They
shall be comforted. Here it is. I've spoken these
things that Your joy, my joy, might remain
in you, and that your joy, the joy of faith, may be full, so
that you walk before me with the sweet, blessed joy of faith. Verse 13. Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. And you're my friends. I'm telling you now, I love you. Continue in my love. I proved
my love for you. I laid down my life for you.
You're my friends. Verse 15. Henceforth, I call
you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth.
But I've called you friends. I've called you friends for all
things that I have heard of my father I've made known to you. Verse 16, you've not chosen me,
but I've chosen you. And I've ordained you that you
should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain.
That whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he
may give it you. Well, you've got to. You've got
to hang on and hold on and persevere. You've got to keep on keeping
on. If you don't hold on and hang on and persevere and keep
on keeping on, if you don't endure to the end, then at last you're
going to be damned. And all that is true. All that
is true. But the difficulty is when you
start to make the keep on keeping on and the hang on and hanging
on and the persevere and persevere to the end depend on you. We
don't hold Him by our mighty grip. He holds us by His omnipotent
grip of grace. You understand that, don't you?
When our babies were just babies, both of them, I'd take them by
the head and wrap their fingers around mine, like you fathers
do. You know, when you have grandchildren, you get to torment mama and daddy.
They really think you don't know what you're doing. They think
you can't possibly know what's going on. So, oh, you're going
to pull their arms out of joint. I guarantee you, swinging me
by my arms didn't pull them out of joint. It ain't going to happen
with those little fellas. And I'd take them and wrap their
fingers around me and I'd swing them. I mean, just swing them
with something terrible. And they was enjoying it. And
hold, oh, they'd hold. But nobody's foolish enough to
imagine that their security depended on them holding my fingers. Oh,
no. I had a good, firm grip. And they were never in the slightest
danger unless something happened to cause me to let go of my grip. Hear me, Larry Brown. If you're
in his hands, no danger shall come to you until something causes
your God to let go His grip. And that will not happen. That
will not happen. Verse 26, the Lord says, When
the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He'll
tell you what I've been telling you. He'll testify me. He'll tell you that you're perfectly
at ease in his hands, perfectly secure in him, perfectly safe
in him. Verse 27, and ye also shall bear
witness because you've been with me from the beginning. Forty-four years now. Forty-four years. I have been, day by day, experimentally
in the grip of His grace. Forty-four years. And I have often in my father
imagined that I was gone. And I've never been more or less
secure in his grip. My salvation. does not hinge on me, but only
on him and his free grace. But what about these warnings?
Read the chapter again. I've got to, I've got to skip
by this, but you read the chapter again, over and over and over
again. The master says, if, if, If you
continue in my love, if you abide in me, if you continue in my
word, if, if, if. Is he giving us conditions and
qualifications that we must meet? No. No. Are we to understand
these things as warnings lest we perish at last? Not hardly. And one of our recent conferences
by the Rupert by the bark made a statement, tremendously helpful
statement. I've given it to you before.
If you haven't written it down, be sure you do. He said, if all
the ifs in the Bible, if all the ifs in the Bible hang on
Christ, the believer can claim them.
as promises. If. If. If you abide in me, you will.
If you continue in my love, you will. If you continue in my word,
you will. If you continue to draw life
from me, you will. You will. You see, everything
hangs on him. nothing on us. When our Savior
says, abide in me and I in you, and these other things commonly
interpreted as conditions that must be met by us if we're to
be confident of our union with him, he's not giving us precepts
of conditions, but blessed promises of grace. Do you remember when
he in John 20 breathed on his disciples and said to them, receive
ye the Holy Ghost. Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Oh,
I want to receive the Holy Ghost. He wasn't giving a command. He
was giving a promise. He wasn't offering grace, he
was performing grace. He wasn't offering the spirit,
he was giving the spirit. And so it is with his grace all
the time. When he says, abide in me and
I in you, he's assuring us that he undertakes for us and that
we shall abide in him. It's as much as if he had said,
ye shall abide in me and I shall abide in you. Let's see if I
can be good on that. Come back to Jeremiah chapter
38. Chapter 32, excuse me. Jeremiah chapter 32. This is exactly the tenor of
the covenant. Verse 38. Jeremiah 32 verse 38. They shall be my people. And I will be their God. No ifs,
ands, or buts about it. That's what it said. I will give
them one heart and one way that they may fear me for as long
as they're willing to. No, that they may fear me forever
for the good of them and of their children after them. And I will
make an everlasting covenant with them. Watch this now that
I will not turn away from them to do them good, but I will put
my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me.
Yeah, I will rejoice over them to do them good. I will plant
them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole
soul. God says, I will, and they shall.
And he says, I will not, and they shall not. Perhaps you ask,
but pastor, aren't we to look to our evidences for assurance? Aren't we to look in ourselves
and look at our good works and say, boy, I tell you what, I've
sure been doing good today. I don't want to brag. I have to say, I've been pretty
good today. That's a crop full of horse manure. It ain't nothing but bragging.
No. Well, I have to say, I really
do believe I'm a child of God, because I've memorized three
chapters today. Would you like to hear me say
them? Check it out. I have been so good. I think
I really am a child of God now. What about when you weren't so
good? When you lost your temper because you heard Brother Fortner
say it was a crock of horse manure? Or one of that? That was just
a slip. I just slipped up then. Now it's called either trusting
yourself or trusting the Redeemer. You mean we're not to look to
ourselves for evidences? See if you can get this answer. See if you can get it. No, never. But I feel so empty. Good, you
ought to. But I feel so lifeless. You are. But I feel so unworthy. You are. It's good for you to know what
you are. But in Christ, We're gods and one with our Redeemer,
perfect and accepted in the beloved. The anchor of our souls is yonder
in glory. And when your boat's tossed in
the storm, you can sit in the boat and hold
that anchor just as tight as you want to. and your boat's
still gonna rock and reel, because the anchor is useless. It's in
the boat. The anchor of our soul, sure
and steadfast, is in glory. The anchor for our souls is outside
ourselves. The anchor for our souls is Christ
the Lord. Faith, faith. That's the substance
of things hoped for. That's the essence, the evidence
of things not seen. Faith in Christ. That's all.
Faith in Christ. Believe on the Son of God. Believe on the vine. Trust the vine. Oh may God join
you to the vine. And if he does, you'll find yourself
By faith, drawing life from divide. Believing on the Son of God. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath everlasting life. Do you believe on the Son of
God? Do you? Well, I don't know. Yes, you
do. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. You know whether you trust Him
or something else. And if it's something else, I'll
tell you what it is. It's yourself. That's all. You either trust
Christ and Christ alone, Or you say you trust Christ and you
trust your good works and your good feelings and your emotions
and your repentance and the measure of your faith and the measure
of your love and the things that you do good and the things that
you do bad and the good kind of outweighs the bad. Oh yeah,
I trust Jesus. No, no. That's the reason you
live in constant turmoil about this thing. Do you believe on
the son of God? Do you believe him? Pastor, I know before God, I have no hope before Him but
the blood and righteousness of His Son. That's what I'm talking about.
God give you faith in our Redeemer. Amen.