Thank you, Pastor. Turn back, if you will, to 1
John, chapter 3. 1 John, chapter 3. Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly dove. Kindle a flame of heavenly love. these poor hearts of ours. I believe I've got the message
he might use to do that. You know, your pastor read, that
he was manifested to take away our sins. And in him is no sin. That's my subject. in him is
no sin. Now let me tell you why I want
to bring this message. First and foremost, for God's
glory. The message of the gospel is
the revelation of the glory of God and we preach it for God's
glory. If not, God stop me now. for God's glory. Number two,
for you who are my brothers and sisters in Christ, you who know
our Redeemer and know the blessedness of His sacrifice, His atonement,
of His righteousness, of His person, I pray that God the Holy
Spirit will cause our hearts once more to erupt in love for
Him and faith in Him. And for you who are without God,
without Christ, without hope, dead in trespasses and in sins,
lost and just a breath away from hell, I pray that God the Holy
Spirit will be pleased to give you life and faith in our Redeemer. Now let's begin in 1 John chapter
1 and verse 8. I'm going to ask you to do something
that's never pleasant but always needful. Something that's painful
and difficult. Something that you'd rather not
do. Something you'd rather not think
about, much less talk about. I want us to take an honest look
at ourselves, a real honest look at ourselves. Ralph Barnett,
I heard him say a number of times on tape, listening to his messages
when I was a young man, he said, honest folks don't go to hell.
Oh, God, help us now to take an honest look at ourselves. Here in 1 John chapter 1 and
verse 8, we read, if we say we have no sin, if we say that we're
without sin, these folks talk about sinless perfection. If
we say that we have no sin, folks talk about living without sin,
they just have some mistakes. If we say we have no sin, if
we say we have no sin nature, No sinful deeds, no sinful thoughts. If we say we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves. The heart's deceitful above all
things and desperately wicked. And the truth is not in us. Christ
isn't in us. Christ isn't in us. Anybody who
says he's without sin does not know God and never has known
God. Anybody. Well, I knew my dear
grandmother, she thought that your grandmother didn't know
God. And if you think it, you don't either. The truth is not
in us. Verse 9, if we confess our sin. Now, let me tell you what that's
not saying. You come to a confessional booth
and tell a man about the evil you've done. Or come down to
the front of a Baptist church and tell the church about the
evil you've done. I don't need to hear it. I've got enough problems
of my own. This congregation doesn't need to hear it. But
we need to confess our faults one to another. If vengeance
of man, acknowledge it. Get it taken care of. But I don't
need to hear about the evil things that go on with you. This church
doesn't need to hear about the evil things that go on with you.
Besides that, that's easy. Tell me it's easy for me to talk
to you about my sin because you're just like me. That's easy. That's not confessing
your sin. If we confess our sin before
God Almighty, dare you right now open your heart naked before
God? Hide nothing. Conceal nothing. Dare you do so? Dare you not? If we confess our sin, Acknowledge
plainly and honestly what we are before God Almighty. He is
faithful. Faithful to his word and to his
son. Faithful to you. Faithful to
his gospel. He's faithful and just. Just
because his son has made satisfaction for our sins. He's faithful and
just to forgive us our sins. and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. To cleanse us from all unrighteousness. God's forgiveness of sin is not
like ours. We forgive faults and injuries. But I declare I don't think I've
ever forgotten one in my life. Have you? God, forgive me. That's not forgiveness. That's just glossing it over.
One human being with another, trying to figure out a way to
get along. Not forgiveness. Not real. Now we're talking about
God's forgiveness now. He's faithful and just too. Just
wipe them away. Forgive us our sins. All the
time. All the time. Did you ever notice
in scripture how These things that were done at Calvary, done
in eternity, done when we believe, are put in the present tense.
He justifies the ungodly. He forgiveth our iniquities.
He continually does so. And to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If that means that when we confess
our sins and God forgives our sins that He cleans us up and
we no longer have any unrighteousness, then what we read in verse 8
is not so. If we say we have no sin, can't be. What's it mean? He cleanses us
from all unrighteousness. He cleanses our consciences of
guilt. He washes us anew with the Word
and by His Spirit, cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
Verse 10. If we say that we have not sinned,
your pastor just got through leading us in worship, reading
the scriptures, leading us in prayer. And you look at that
boy, I had some ease to pray. I left the Lord with me. The congregation, I believe,
entered into the prayer. Oh, that was good. I haven't
sinned. Whatever you do. It's like that Babylonian harlot
woman in Proverbs chapter 7 who takes her lovers to her bed every
Sunday morning and she gets done and she says, that was good.
She wipes her mouth and says, I haven't seen it. If you do
something, think something, feel something, experience something
and say, I haven't seen it, that was good. Read this. We make Him a liar. And His Word is not in us. Christ
is not in us. Now I want to tell you some things
about myself that may shock you. If they do, they will shock you
only because you refuse to honestly acknowledge yourself. You refuse
honestly to acknowledge and confess your sin before God. Some of
you will identify with what I have to say, because as I describe
myself, you're going to think I've been reading your mail,
and you will know I'm describing you. I want to open my heart's door,
this dark, dark, dark heart, before God who is light, and
ask God to cause the light to shine in this dark, dark heart. What loathsome, foul, evil, vile
creatures do you find there? In my heart, this heart of sinful
flesh, I see everything evil that has ever been on Now, I'm either telling you the
truth or I'm lying to you. No in-between grab. Every evil
imagination, every evil deed, all evil men have ever committed. Looks like I wouldn't be so proud,
doesn't it? Looks like I wouldn't be so judgmental. Looks like
I'd never say again, boy, I don't see how a man can do that. But that's part of that evil.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. Every evil thought,
murders, murders, murders of the most loathsome Murders. The murder of your own children.
The murder of a husband or wife. The murder of your own parents
just to get a little money. Murders. Adulteries. Fornications. And the word translated
fornications speaks of every kind of sexual deviancy. Thefts. False witnesses. Blasphemies. These are the things which defile
a man. What's inside? What's inside? Not your associations. Not your
associations. Your associations may bring them
out more freely, but that's not what defiles you. Now, I remember
Brother Jack Shakes years ago started that school down in Houston,
Texas. I'm sure Chris has heard this a thousand times, but some
gal called up and asked him, said, Reverend Shanks, this so-and-so
gave her name. I don't know who it was. She
said, would you be sure my little boy doesn't get in the wrong
crowd at school over there? He said, what's your boy's name?
And she told him. He said, honey, your boy is the
wrong crowd. Your association is not what
defiles you. It's you, your heart. Here, in my depraved heart, I see depravity. Depravity, total depravity. With me and with you who know
God is not just a doctrine we believe and argue with folks
about. It is the painful bitter every
day, every hour experience of our lives. It is evil in here. Evil I can't control. Evil I
can't subdue. Evil I can't deny. Evil I can't get away from. It's
just foulness I can't get rid of. Now, honestly, before God saved
me, I never dreamed this would be where things are. I really thought even as a young
man that when a man was converted, he'd still have some trouble.
He'd still have some struggle with sin. I'd seen enough to
know that religious folks weren't exactly perfect. And so I expected
to have some difficulties. But I really did think that when
a man was saved, the Lord came in him and cleaned up all that
mess. And his flesh, his evil heart
had been made new, and now that evil heart would get gooder and
gooder and gooder and gooder. I said that so you'd understand
what I'm saying. I know that's not proper English. I thought eventually, It would get better. And you know, I was convinced
it was getting better for a little while. I really was. I didn't have such terrible thoughts
for a while. At least I didn't make myself
think so. I had quick custody. I had fellows that would say
something to me. I wasn't terribly inclined to
knock the block off. I was getting better. I was getting
better. And then I woke up one day with a shocking reality. I'll
never forget it. Don't want to forget it. I was
17 years old. I'd gone back to high school.
And I had something I'd never had in my life, David. I had
a black teacher. And he was a cocky, arrogant
fellow. And he liked to push the buttons.
He loved to dig. And when he found out that I
was what he called religious, he liked that. And one day he
got to pushing the right buttons. I was sitting right in front
of the class and I jumped up and drew back to hit him. I said,
damn you! And I withered. My God, that can't be. And that was just the beginning.
of reality, just the beginning. I've been made to realize more
and more from that day to this, that Don Fortner, that man born
in Bladen County, North Carolina, June 10th, 1950, is exactly the
same now as he's always been. Nothing has changed. Nothing
has changed. Just as vile, just as corrupt
as ever. I'm trying to be honest with
you and honest with God because I want you to be honest with
you and honest with God. Before God saved you, did you
ever imagine that a saved sinner could be so vile, so base, So
corrupt, so evil as you know yourself to be. Now, we're pretty
good at covering up the outside. If you live low enough, you're
sure to find out that that's advisable. People just won't
live with you. But covering up the outside and
changing the inside is something else. Before God saved me, I
never dreamed it was possible for a man who's experienced what
I've experienced, to love Christ so little and this world so much. I never dreamed, I never imagined
that a man who was born of God's Spirit, who trusted the Lord
Jesus Christ, who believed on the Son of God could trust God
so little and fret so much. Never dreamed My heart could
be so cold and hard and indifferent to the things of God and so lively
with regard to almost every other thing I care about, almost everything. Wouldn't it be wonderful to hear
folks as excited talking about blood atonement, free grace,
as it is to hear people who know those things, Tommy, Talk about
Democrats and Republicans. Wouldn't it be wonderful to just
casually talk about the Savior like we talk about his grandchildren? I never dreamed when I first
knew something about prayer, if ever I have, that it'd be
so difficult to pray, to pray. Not just repeat words
and not just ask God to give me my lust, my selfish personal desire. I never dreamed, never dreamed
it would be possible to be so discontent with God's providence,
His goodness, to murmur against Him. In myself, honestly in myself,
I see nothing good, nothing good. I pray, yes, but My prayers are so much self. You hardly call
them prayer. I pray with regular discipline. I have set times of prayer, but it's just times of prayer. I
hate to use the words saying my prayers. We teach our children
to say their prayers. What a horrible thing to do to
a child. But I'm still saying my prayers. I read this book regularly, spend my life. I had the great privilege, like
these other pastors here, I had the great privilege of spending
my life studying this book. Folks in our congregation put
food on my table and clothes on my back and roof over my head
so I can study this book. They have to go out and fight
with the world. I can stay home and study. They got to go out
and dig ditches. I can study. When I read this book, my mind
will run to everything under the sun. Everything under the
sun. If I get to sleep, I can't stay
awake. And to be honest with you, reading doesn't normally
put me to sleep. I can sit down and read every
ad, every worn ad in the newspaper. When I've had three hours sleep,
I can go sit in my bed, read every one of them, never get
sleepy. And not worn anything. But this, it's so averse to me. So averse to my flesh. What about you? What do you see in yourself?
John Newton said it well. He said, I am nothing. I have nothing. And I can do
nothing. So if I come to nothing, nothing
will be lost. I realize this is so averse to
the thinking of our generation. Several years ago, I was in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, preaching. Folks asked us to come up, arrange
a meeting up there. I preached two or three nights. There were a whole slew of Reformed
folks who had heard my name mentioned in less than kind ways before
they came over. And some of the preachers wanted
to have lunch the next day, so we went to lunch. I knew what
was coming. They wanted roast don. And they were arguing with
me about this thing or another, and they kept talking about folks
being more and more righteous and more and more sanctified
and more and more holy. And I won't eat lunch. And the
restaurant was packed. And buddy, you get to talk about
religion, and when preachers start talking about religion,
arguing about it, they can get a little loud. Everybody's listening.
Everybody. And nobody liked what was going on, but they couldn't
help but hear it. And finally, I said to this young fellow who
was there, I said, you seem to be chief spokesman of these fellows
here. And you told me God saved you 10 years ago. I want to ask
you something. Are you more holy now than you
were 10 years ago? Buddy, there wasn't a piece of
lettuce that crunched in that building. I mean, everybody wanted
to hear the answer. Seemed like it took him forever
to answer, but it sure wasn't more than a few seconds. He looked
at me like, what do I say now? And that man swallowed whatever was in his
mouth. And he said, honestly, I would have to say I am. And I said, honestly, I've got
to say this, either you don't know God or I don't know God.
One of the two. What do you say in here? All
right, now, look at 1 John 3, verse 5. Let's take an honest
look at the Lord Jesus Christ as He's revealed in this book. And you know that He was manifested
to take away our sins. And in him is no sin. Your pastor has told you, and
I suspect he's kind of like I am, I deliberately never preach that
I don't quote certain passages of scripture. Second Corinthians
5.21 is one of them. And I'm sure you've heard your
pastor deal with it thousands of times in the brief time you've
known him. And that's to his commendation. and to your good. He was made
sin for us, but he knew no sin. He had no sin. He could do no
sin. He's holy, harmless, undefiled,
separate from sin. He never had an evil thought,
a heart that burned with lust, a cold, calculating, angry passion. He never knew sin. He could not
do sin. Though he is the only man who
ever lived who truly knows sin, for this man is God, he knew
no sin. He was that one who is altogether
separate from sinners. He ate with sinners, drank with
sinners, walked in the company of sinners, but he knew no sin. He graciously receives sinners
and embraces sinners, but He was never corrupted by sinners. He was separate from sinners.
He's perfectly, personally holy. This is important. Very, very
important. Because in order to be a suitable
Savior, a suitable sacrifice for sin, He must be altogether
without sin. The sinner substitute must be
personally innocent but not just personally innocent personally
righteous personally holy he must be a man otherwise he could
never suffer for a man that's why he took on him flesh and
blood and became one of us he could never die for men to redeem
men were he not a man but this man must be without sin he must
be the holy man otherwise his suffering would be for his own
sins and he must be God-man. God-man. Man-God. Say it either way, it's right.
This man who is our Savior is God. I'm sick of reading and
hearing theologians, imaginary theologians, tell us you don't
dare, you don't dare say that God became a man, that God assumed
our nature. No, God became a man. The Word was made flesh. Either He became one of us or
it's just all a talk about nothing. The Word was made flesh. Paul
said that God gave his life for us, didn't he? That's 2028. He
redeemed the church with his own blood. God did. Isaac Watts
wrote that hymn. We sing, well might the sun and
darkness hide and shut his glories in when Christ the mighty maker
died the man for the man for creatures sin. That's not what
Isaac Watts wrote. That's not it. Watts wrote it
this way. Both are proper, but the fellows
who changed it, changed it for their own reasons. Well might
the sun in darkness hide and shut his glories in when God,
the mighty maker, died for man the creature sin. He must be
God, otherwise his suffering has no value. It has no infinite
merit, no infinite worth. His death could never satisfy
the justice of God. But in order to redeem us from
our sins, in order to justify us before God, to make us just
before God, the darling of heaven, the Lord of glory, Jesus Christ,
God's darling Son, must be made sin. Made sin for us by wondrous, infinitely wondrous, infinitely
mysterious, glorious transfer of sin from his elect to him. Jesus Christ was made sin. Oh, the wonder of it. Now, I
know some of you are aware that it must be dealt with, dealt
with plainly. Folks say, well, that was just,
he was treated as if he were sin. He had sin imputed to him. It's a legal matter. John Bunyan
made a statement, tremendous statement. I'll give it to you,
there are other things in between, but this is the words he used. He said, Christ was not made
sin faintly. If he were faintly made sin,
then he faintly suffered the wrath of God. And he famedly
died, and we are famedly redeemed, and we are famedly made righteousness,
and our salvation is a famed salvation. Jesus Christ was not
just treated as though he were sin. Made sin. Made sin. Now I don't know how on this
earth some fools, I don't know how it is because they refuse
to bow to the plain revelation of Scripture, They'll tell you,
well, they used to always say, Christ made a sinner. As if that
sounded better. He made sin. And in no way God
could punish him for sin, justly, except he be made sin. Law won't
allow an innocent man to be punished. He was made sin. He, his own
self, bear our sins in his own body on the tree. that we, being
dead, justified, and freed from sins, should live unto righteousness,
by whose stripes ye were healed. So really and truly is this transfer
of sin from the sinner to the sinner's surety, that our Savior
speaks of our sins and owns them as his own. He says, the reproaches
of them that reproach thee are fallen on me. He said, innumerable
evils have compassed me about. Mine iniquities have taken hold
upon me so that I'm not able to look up at them. They're more
than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart faileth me. Back in June, one of the ladies
in our congregation, Regina Henson, young lady, had a massive heart
attack. Doctors airlifted him over to
the U.K. Med Center. And when I got to the hospital, or my
son-in-law got to the hospital, actually, and then Mark told
me later, I was out of town, and my son-in-law, Doug, was
talking to Mark, and he said the doctor came out and started
asking strange questions. Asked if his wife had lost somebody
very dear to her. Mother or father had died or
child had died. because they'd run all these
tests on her and couldn't find anything wrong, except she'd had this massive heart
attack. And Mark said, no, why? He said, well, it has been well-documented
now. It's always been suspected and
well-documented now that some people have what's called broken
heart syndrome and die of a broken heart immediately
when I heard that. I can hear my Savior say, the
reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen on me, and reproach
hath broken mine heart. My reproach broke his heart. Now listen carefully. And understand
what I'm saying. Understand what this book teaches.
When Christ was made sin for us, he became totally responsible
for our transgressions, our iniquities, and our sins. Totally responsible. Before God, he was made responsible
because he was made sin. and being made responsible, having
our sins then imputed and charged to Him. The Lord Jesus Christ
was rewarded in exact, strict justice with exactly what He
fully deserved. He deserved to die. He deserved
to suffer the horrid, infinite wrath of an angry God. And God
Almighty cried, Awake, O sword! against one that is my fellow,
smite and slay the shepherd. And justice buried its sword
in the soul of my Savior. Until at last God Almighty says
to Jacob, fury is not in me. It's called redemption by his
blood. Redemption by his blood. In the Old Testament, the sacrifices
were laid on the altar and the continually burning fire of the
altar consumed the sacrifice. Here is the sacrifice consumed
by the fire of God's wrath that consumed the fire. And now, God Almighty has no
reason ever to be angry with me. No reason ever to draw out
His whip against me. No reason ever to pull out the
sword against me. No reason ever to impute sin
to me. And therefore, it is written,
blessed is the man unto whom the Lord will not impute sin. Our Lord Jesus was buried in
the tomb and he lay, as Robert Murray McShane said, three days
in the tomb in an unjustified state. But then on the third
day he came forth from the tomb justified in the spirit, freed
from sin. Turn to 1 Peter chapter 4 for
just a minute. 1 Peter chapter 4. Now that glorious mediator who
has made sin for us, who suffered the violent, horrid wrath of
God in our stead, that mediator who is in heaven, who was once
made sin, now has no sin. And in him is no sin. 1 Peter
4 verse 1, For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in
the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with this same mind. For he that
hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin. The scapegoat
has carried it away. It's gone. This is the basis
of our assurance before God, the basis of our comfort, the
basis of our peace. But Brother Don, what happens
when a believer sins? Isn't it strange how we think
and talk when a believer sins? What happens when you don't? When don't you see it? When don't
you see it? But we're talking about the big
things now. Okay, let's just talk about the big things. What
happens? Nothing. Oh, much here. Much here. And God in his providence,
because of his love for his children, chastens them, not because he's
angry with them. Oh, no, he spent his anger on his son. He chastens
them because he's not angry with them. Because of his love for
them, he chastens them for their good, for their profit. But before
God, what happens? Nothing happens. Look back at
1 John chapter 2. 1 John chapter 2. My little children, these things
write unto you that you sin not. Well, Tommy, don't say it. Don't
say it. Don't say it. Sue, bless God,
sue. And, and, wonder why he didn't
start that off with but. And, if any man said, you can
write that just as large or just as little as you want to, it
still comes after this, when you do say it. When you do say
it. Oh, I've lost all hope now. Have
no assurance now. Have no peace now. God's rejected
me now. If any man said, Todd Rutland,
if you're his, nothing's changed. We have an advocate with the
Father. Same one we had before. Jesus
Christ the righteous. And he is the propitiation, the
satisfaction of justice, for our sins all right now briefly
let's look at ourselves in Christ and you know that he was manifested
to take away our sins and in him is no sin turn back to first
Peter chapter four again first Peter the fourth chapter in him
is no sin. Balaam well said, God has not
beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in
Israel. Jeremiah tells us that the Lord
calls us by the name the Lord our righteousness and he tells
us that in those days the Lord God says the iniquity of Israel
shall be sought for, and there shall be none in the sins of
Judah, and they shall not be found." Now, is that 1 Peter
chapter 4? Verse 1, For as much then as
Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise
with the same mind, the mind of Christ who has suffered for
us in the flesh. For he that hath suffered in
the flesh hath ceased from sin, that he no longer should live
the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust of men." Well, that's not Christ. He never
lived in his flesh to the lust of men. Well, what's that got
to do with verse 1? Everything. Because when Christ
suffered in the flesh, I suffered in the flesh. I died in Him. And when Christ ceased from sin,
I ceased from sin in Him. And God says, likewise reckon
yourselves also to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God. That he should no longer live
in the lust of men, but to the will of God. Now back here in
1 John chapter 3. 1 John chapter 3. Look at verse 5. Somebody said, well that's the
way God sees things. I wish I could convince folks
of this. I don't know why it's so hard for folks to believe.
However God sees it, Chris, that's the way it really is. That's
the way it really is. I don't see it that way. How
you see things may or may not be muddled up. How God sees things,
that's the way it really is. That's the way it really is.
He was manifested to take away our sins. And in Him is no sin. And now, by wondrous work of
His grace, Christ has come to take up permanent residence in
us in the new birth. We are in Christ. And Christ is in us. That new
man created in us in righteousness and in true holiness is Christ
the Lord. But brother Don, you can't have
it both ways. I can too. I can too. See this head? It's in this body. See this body? It's in this head. And you can't
get rid of one without getting rid of the other. You can't sever
the one from the other and Don Fortner still be here. You can't
separate the two and life still be here. Christ has me in Him
from eternity. One with Him. And He is in me
by the marvelous work of His free grace and regeneration.
And He lives in me. Paul said, I am crucified with
Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. What does that mean? But just
read the rest of the verse. And the life which I now live,
in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me
and gave himself for me. He says there's no more I but
Christ that dwelleth in me. And then in Romans 7 he said
concerning the new man, he said that's really me. He said when
I do the things I would not, that's not me. Oh no, that's
Saul of Tarsus. That new man! That new man loves
the law of God. Read on. Let's see what it says
here. 1 John chapter 3. In him is no sin. Whosoever abideth
in him. Are you in Christ? Are you in
Christ? We'll find out in just a second.
Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not. Well, almost every commentary
you'll read on this will tell you that means that does not
habitually practice sin. And you might get by with that
if you ignore the rest of the passage. Whosoever sinneth hath
not seen him, neither known him. He's talking about two people
in one body. He's talking about two people
in one person. You know, little children, let
no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is
righteous. I believe God, that's righteous. We love Him because He first
loved us, that's righteous. We love our brethren, love one
another, love our Redeemer, that's righteous. That's not Don Fortner. That's not Don Fortner. That's
Christ in me. And that really is God for you. That's not the one born to Mary
and Paul, that's the one born of God. Do His righteousness. He's righteous. He that commiteth
sin is of the devil. That old man in you, that's of
the devil. That's the result of the fall.
For the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose,
the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works
of the devil. And bless God's son. The last
vestige of Satan himself in this flesh shall be permanently destroyed. He's crushed the serpent's head
and the serpent shall soon be crushed into hell. Read on. Verse 9. Whosoever is born of
God What does that say? Doth not
sin. It's not possible. Brother Todd and I were talking
a couple of days ago, the Lord spoke to Nathanael, an Israelite
indeed, in whom is no guile. No guile. David speaks of the
forgiven man in whom is no guile. No guile. He doth not sin. Not possible. Not possible. For
his seed, his seed remaineth in him. And he cannot sin. Because he's born of God. He's
born of God. That's called free grace. That's called blessed substitution. It's called real union, Christ
in you, and you in Christ forever. Amen. What a Savior. Sounds like when
He saved us, He plumb saved us, doesn't it? I like to hear that. What a comforting message. Gospel. Take five minutes and I'll see
you back here. When you hear the piano, come and sit. Appreciate it.