Open your Bibles with me to 1
Peter chapter 2. Yeah, I remember coming up here
and helping you all when we started building it. I had some wonderful, wonderful
time. All these years, so many men, so many men, for so many
years, unbroken fellowship. communion and fellowship for
year after year after year after year. Oh, it's so wonderful. Oh, it's just wonderful, Jesse,
just wonderful. And it's a delight to be here. I told you last night I was going
to bring a message on coming to Christ. Talked last night
about am I a child of God? How can we know we are? But here
in chapter 2, let's read the first four verses. Wherefore, laying aside all malice
and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings,
as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may
grow thereby, if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious
to whom coming There we go. To whom coming? As unto a living
stone, disallowed indeed of men. What in the world is there in
Christ? Disallowed indeed of men. But oh listen now, but chosen
of God and precious. Chosen of God and precious. Now
as a preacher, as a preacher, called of God. I have no doubt
about that now. If I do, I've done it too late.
Too late. But as a preacher called of God
and these other brethren, we have many things to watch out
for that you don't. Especially in the pulpit. And
this is our ministry right here. This is our ministry where the
grace of God is preached in all of our churches. We have very
strong pulpit ministries. We really, really stress the
preaching of the gospel. Carry your Bibles, follow along
the word of God. We don't stress singing. We don't
stress waving your hands in the air. We don't stress having goosebumps
or coming to the front. We stress the gospel, the word
of God. And this is the most important
ministry that we have in this world. I'd have to step down
to be the President of the United States. I'd have to step down
to be United States Senator. This is how high and holy this
calling is. And you that we of us that are
called of God and take it seriously. And we face men and women three
times a week and sometimes more than that in a lot of places.
This is so important, and we have things to watch out for
in the pulpit ministry that you don't. And there are several
things that I and other preachers must be very careful about when
we're in the pulpit. First of all, we must be very
careful that we do not make salvation and eternal life more difficult
than our Lord Jesus Christ made it. No, don't make it any more
difficult than He made it. Because if we do that, if we
make it more difficult than Christ made it, we'll rob the sheep
of comfort. We'll rob them of assurance and confidence in the
Lord Jesus Christ. And God intends, and I believe
even as I preached last night and asked the question, I believe
God's people got assurance. But God intends for His people
to have assurance. He intends for them to have confidence
in the Father. He intends for them to have faith
in His blessed Son, to believe His blessed Son, trust His Son.
He expects them to come to the throne of grace with great boldness
and confidence in the Son and rest, they rest in their souls.
Now, we don't want to give the impression, and another thing
we don't want to do, we don't want to give the impression that
anything about our works Anything that we do, our church attendance,
anything that we do will prevail with God for forgiveness of our
sin. It will not do it. No. For by grace are you saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of
God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Not by works of
righteousness, which we have done, but according to His own
mercy. His own mercy He saved us. Oh, beloved, salvation is
in the Lord Jesus and Him alone. Never, never, never, never in
anything about us, never in any work we perform, any prayer we
pray, any faithfulness we do, and though we want to do that,
Paul said, I know that in me, in my flesh dwells no good thing. All my righteousnesses are as
a filthy rag. And another reason we have to
watch out for, we don't want to create a generation of Pharisees. Man's got enough self-righteousness,
we don't have to help him. We don't need to give him any
fire to help him build it with. We don't need to give him any
clothes to help him make it worse. You know, and preachers can.
And preachers have preached separation. Separation. And Christian duties. I told
the preachers last night, I bought a book years ago, big as a... It was as big as a, a bigger,
wider than a, deeper than a Strong's Concordance. You know, there's
huge books. I gave $50 for it. Christian Directory by Richard
Baxter. That was the worst $50 I believe
I ever spent. All it was, was telling us what
we need to do as Christians. Well listen, it's not what we
should do, would do, could do, anything. We're not shoulda,
woulda, coulda. Christ did it. We need to quit talking about
what we should do and could do and oughta do. We're not talking,
we're not, we're not oughta do anything, but we're trusting
Christ. Preachers tell you, you ought
to, you ought to, you ought to. Listen, forget ought to. Just forget ought to. I oughta
do this and I oughta do that. Forget that. Just forget it.
The more you talk about ought to, the more you feel guilty
because you didn't do what you ought to do, so just quit talking
about ought to do. Trust the Lord Jesus, find rest
and comfort in Him alone. Quit talking about ought to.
I quit talking about ought to. Only thing I talk about ought
to do is Mary telling me ought to do something. I don't know.
But all beloved, all preachers have preached law and morality
so strongly. that they end up creating a people
who trust in themselves that they're more righteous than others?
There's a congregation up in Pennsylvania, and there's a congregation
up in Owensboro, Kentucky. Boy, if you don't just toe the
line, they put you out right now. Fellow wanted to join the
Marine Corps, and he went to the preachers and asked the elders,
elders, oh, you know, you got to have a bunch of elders. Went
to the elders and said, I want to join the Marine Corps. Oh,
no, no, no, no, no. It's not God's will for you to
join the Marine Corps. He joined the Marine Corps. They excommunicated
him. I tell you what, you're better
out in the end in a mess like that. Ain't that right? Yes, sir. But oh, people like that spend
all their time setting in judgment of other believers. They question
their motives, question their actions, question their word,
question their loyalty, question their faithfulness. And I tell
you, beloved, when we cease to examine ourselves, and began
to examine others, no wonder Paul said, who's sufficient for
these things? And you know when the scripture said examine yourselves
whether you be in the faith? He's not saying examine yourself,
see whether faith is in you. That's not what that's talking
about. Examine yourself so that you believe the gospel, whether
you're in the faith, whether you believe what Christ taught,
what Christ did. It's the faith, not faith in
you. Christ, the faith which we preach. And, oh, we must not
make salvation an eternal life. And it's what we do in the pulpit.
Listen to me. I'm sorry. We must not make salvation. And that's what we preachers.
Oh, it's so. We must not make salvation and eternal life an
easy believism that makes, that marks God himself, that makes
an act of faith and repentance to be an isolated act, a one
time thing. And there's lots of folks that
do that. You know, they'll talk about, well, you know, they got
to go back to a time. They got to go back to a place.
They got to go back to an experience. Go back to something. They keep
saying, well, I believe back there. And I had this experience.
And I went, listen, if you've ever believed, you're believing
now. If you've ever repented, you're repenting now. Once you
start believing, you're always believing. Once you repent, you're
always repenting. It's not just an isolated act.
It's not just something that happens to us one time. And oh
God, help us never to give peace, peace to those who have no peace.
We must not, must not feed the fires of presumption. And I don't
want to entertain men. I don't want to joke with men.
I don't want to entice men. I don't want to allow men and
women to sit under my ministry and go to hell unwarranted. I
don't want to do it. You see, we don't have to give
men material to build false refuges with. They'll make enough of
their own. They'll come up with enough of
their own. And oh, let me show you this
over here. And let's look at 2 Corinthians with me just a
minute. I want you to see this. I appreciate you all letting me
come up. I have to go home tonight. I appreciate Todd letting me
preach last night and tonight so I could Go home. But here, look what
it says. We must not. God help us to never draw disciples
after ourselves. They'll miss Christ if they get
interested in a preacher. You get too caught up in a preacher
and you follow him everywhere he goes, the first minute he
falls, you're going to fall with him. When he goes down, you're
going down. When you put all your eggs in
one basket, if it ain't the Lord Jesus Christ, because that's
where God put all of His, you're going down. You're going down.
Look what he said here now in verse 15. When we're preaching,
this is what us preachers deal with. 2 Corinthians 2.15. 2 Corinthians 2.15. For we are
unto God a sweet saver of Christ. When we're up here preaching,
we open this blessed book and we get up here to honor our Lord
Jesus Christ in the gospel. among His blessed saints. When
we're up here, we're a sweet saver of God in Christ, in them
that are saved, in them that are sitting here that know Christ,
that know the Lord Jesus. And in them that perish, there's
some sitting here, no doubt perishing. To the one we're a saver of death
unto death, When you smell Christ, see Christ, you don't see no
beauty about Him, you don't smell no life about Him, you see no
sweet fragrance about Him, and it's death to you. You're sitting
in death, and death just keep on sitting in death. And the
other, savor of life unto life. As Christ is preached, you have
life, and life just keeps coming to you. No wonder Paul said,
who's sufficient for these things? Who's sufficient for them? Who's
sufficient for them? But now here, back over in 1
Peter 2. We have a three-word picture
of a believer. A three-word picture of a believer.
It pictures a believer. It says there in verse 4, to
whom coming? Three words, to whom coming?
To whom coming? You know, salvation and eternal
life is coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. It begins that way It
continues that way and is perfected that way. Coming to the Lord
Jesus Christ. And I've made this statement
last night. At no time is the Christian profession, the Christian
experience anything more than coming to Christ. And never more
than that right there. At the beginning, at the beginning
of my salvation, at the beginning of my life, my spiritual life,
I came to the Lord Jesus Christ. I came to Him. As the old hymn
writer said, Out of my bondage, my sorrow, and my night, Jesus,
I come. Into thy freedom, gladness, and
light, Jesus, I come. Out of my sickness, into thy
health, out of my woe, into thy wealth, out of my sin, into thyself,
Jesus, I come. That's what we do at the very
beginning. We come to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that throughout our journey, I've been past the same church
30 years now, and all these years, and all these years, throughout
this journey, it's continually coming to Christ. Still coming
to Christ. I came to Him last night. I come
to Him before I got up here. I come to Him this morning. I
come to Him, I don't know how many times today. I'm coming
to Him now. And if He lets me live tomorrow,
I'll come to Him tomorrow. I'll come to Him. And that's
why Paul said to the Galatians, if you've begun in the Spirit,
are you now going to be made perfect by your flesh? Huh? Did you begin with Christ? And
now it's going to be something you do? Oh, beloved, it's never,
never, it's not me and Christ at any time. It's just Christ.
It's just Christ. He's my wisdom. How am I going
to know God apart from the Lord Jesus Christ? Christ has made
unto me wisdom. How am I going to know God apart
from Christ? He's my wisdom. How am I going to know God's
sovereignty and glory and power and justice and grace and mercy
and wrath and righteousness all in one and made understandable
in one person if it's not in Him? He's my sanctification. Sanctification, beloved, is a
state of being. It just means separation. I've
told you this before, and I know your preachers told you this.
A man never gets more holy at one time than he is in the other.
You cannot be more sanctified than you can at any other time.
Can you, Todd? It's a state of being. It's a state of being. Christ is my sanctification.
So how am I going to get any more sanctified than that? He
has perfected forever them that are sanctified. You can't get
more sanctified than that. You know what makes something
sanctified? God said, that's mine. That's all it takes. You
know they had all kinds of bowls and spoons and basins and everything
else in Israel. But what made the distinction?
God said, I want that for mine. I want that for mine. I want
that for mine. Now that's all God, that's all
it is. God said, that's what He done with us. That's mine.
That's all it means. And He's my righteous and I'm
redemption right now. I'm the same sinner saved by
grace that came to Christ at the beginning as I keep coming. And in the end, there's going
to be an end to this one of these days. One of these days, the
spinning class is going to stop. He was glad when you did it.
He said, Class is finished? Class is finished? Well, one
of these days, the end is coming. It's coming. And beloved, who
we gonna go to then? You see, He's the author and
the finisher. He's the Alpha, He's the Omega.
He's the beginning and the end. John said it like this, we shall
see Him as He is. And then what did He say? We
shall be like Him. You know, there's coming a time
He's gonna take this old vile body. And it's a vile body. It's
a vile body. Weak and frail. Oh my, getting
old age spots, wrinkles, skin sagging. You young folks, boy,
bless your heart, you got it made now. But oh my, you know,
and it's coming on this old vile body. He's going to fashion it,
change it, fashion it. And He's going to make it like
unto His glorious body. Why? Because He's able to subdue
all things unto Himself. He'll subdue this whole nature.
He'll subdue this whole body. He'll subdue everything in me
that's against Him. And He'll make a body just like
His body. And oh, Paul having finished
his clothes. You know the song that they sang
in glory? Unto him that loved us. That's
what they're singing about. And washed us from our sins in
his own blood. Oh my. Let me show you this over
here in Philippians. Look here. Philippians chapter
1. Paul having finished his course. He kept the faith. Kept the faith. preached the
gospel, wrote most of the New Testament,
established churches, ordained preachers. You know what he said
about coming to the end? Philippians 1.23, I'm in a strait designed to depart,
a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart. and to be
with Christ. And back up there in verse 21,
he says this, for me to live is Christ. Watch this, and to
die is gain? To die is gain? To die is gain? He said, you know, when He talked
about heaven, He didn't talk about streets of gold. When He
talked about heaven, He didn't talk about gates of pearl. When
He talked about heaven, He didn't talk about all the saints that
was there. When He talked about going to glory, He said, I desire
to depart and be with Christ. That's what I desire to do. This
is the way He describes it. And that's what we have here.
Three word picture, to whom coming. We started in the beginning,
we'll continue, and by God's blessed grace we'll end there.
The redeemed, those redeemed by the grace of God will never
cease coming to Christ until they're perfectly conformed to
His image. David said, I'll be satisfied when I awake in thy
likeness. Now let me ask you a couple of
questions if I can. And some of you may have done
this. I know years ago I did this. Did you one day walk an
aisle and then after a while stopped?
Just quit? Did you one time run for a little
while and then lost all your interest? Just lost your interest? Was there a time that you manifest
great zeal for the Lord Jesus Christ and then just laid it
aside? Did your faith one time spring
up with great enthusiasm? Joy? And then it became choked
out by other things? If this is so, you're not coming
to Christ. No. Look in Matthew 13 with me,
just a moment. Matthew 13. Verse 18. Here we have our Lord
Jesus, and He's talking about sowing seed, and He says the
seed is the Word of God. And He goes out and He begins
to sow this seed. And He tells where this seed,
and the disciples didn't understand it. And so our Lord Jesus, He
begins to explain it to them. And He said here in verse 18,
Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When anyone heareth
the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, He just sat
there and he don't get nothing out of it, don't understand anything.
The wicked one comes along, catches away that which was sown in the
heart. That's the seed received by the wayside. And that he that
received the seed in stony places is the same, that he hearth the
word with joy and receives it, yet he hath no root in himself.
But he'll do it for a little while. When tribulation or persecution
rises because of what? The word. the Word. By and by, He's offended. He'll
quit. He that received the seed among the thorns is he that hears
the Word, the care of this world, the deceitfulness of riches.
You know why He calls riches deceitful? It's because they
never ever give it what you promise. Money can never give you what
it promises. No matter how much you got, it
can't give you what it promises. It deceives you. And it chokes
the Word, you become unfruitful. But He that receiveth the word
in the good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth
it, which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth some a hundredfold,
some sixty, some thirty. And that's the picture of so
many people. They spring up, then they wither away. But the
believer is continually coming to Christ. Now I'm going to show
you something, if I can. John 6, 44. I'm going to take
my time. I, you know, ain't got nowhere
to go but home. John 6, verse 44. We're talking
about coming to Christ. Now look what our Savior says
here. No man can come to Me except the Father, which hath sent Me
to draw him. And I'll raise him up at the
last day. It is written in the prophets, they should be all
taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and learned of
the Father cometh unto Me. You see, beloved, Our first coming
to Christ, no man could come unto me except the Father which
hath sent me draw. I said our first coming was coming
to Christ. But our first coming to Christ
was by an act of the divine grace of God Almighty. It was a miracle
that we came. It was a work of God in us that
came. No man can come to me. Now God
doesn't keep people from coming to Christ. He's full of grace. He's full of plenteous in mercy,
delights in mercy. Our Lord Jesus said, Come unto
me, all you that labor. Oh, He wept over Jerusalem. How
oft would I have gathered you? He said, You will not come to
me that you might ever. The church doesn't prevent men
from coming to Christ. Oh, we gather here tonight and
you keep this building open. You spend a lot of money on this
building. Keep it open. You go on television.
You send out CDs. You send out messages. You send
out missionaries. You do all kinds of things to
get the gospel out. You want people to come to Christ.
The church doesn't keep men from coming to Christ. The loved ones
doesn't prevent people from coming to Christ. You mothers want your
children to come. You fathers want your children
to come. You want your wives, your daughters, your brothers,
your sisters, your mothers, your fathers. Oh, you pray for them. You plead with God for them.
But why can't men come to Christ? Huh? I'll tell you why. They
don't see a need. They don't come because they
don't see any need to come. They don't see anything in Christ
worth coming for. In fact, I had a woman told me
here a while back, she's talking to her husband and asked, you
know, about attending the services
and that, and about trusting Christ. And he said, I don't,
I don't feel the need. That's exactly how I said, I
just don't feel the need. I don't have a need. Don't have a need. What do I
need Christ for? What I need Him for? I'm okay
the way I feel. I'm okay where I'm at. I'm okay
doing what I'm doing. And the reason they don't come,
they don't see anything in Christ worth coming for. They don't
see no beauty about Him. See no glory about Him. See no
grace about Him. See no compassion about Him.
Don't see the blood about Him. Don't see the kindness and mercy
of God in Him. But oh, if they saw in Him what
God's people see in Him. If they saw in Him what God sees
in Him. If they saw in Him the forgiveness
of sin, if they saw in Him the beauty of wholeness, if they
saw in Him the peace that He gives us of our heart, the rest
for our souls, you know what they'd do? They'd come running
just as hard as they'd come. I mean, they'd come running.
But all you know, their hearts are set more on other things.
It's like the man who made the great feast and he bid Told his
servants to go get those who I've invited for the supper. Go tell them to come. And they
all with one consent began to make excuse. I call them two
fools and a henpecked husband. Now, you know, but you think
about it. One fellow said, you know, I bought a piece of ground.
I need to go look at it. Man alive. I'll save some ground.
You know, and what kind of fool buys something he don't look
at? Another fellow, I bought five yoke of oxen. I got to go
prove them, see if they're any good. And this is the most insane
excuse that anybody could ever possibly give. I can't come because
I married a wife. I married a wife. That's how silly men are about
their excuses for not coming to Christ. But he says, no man
can come except the Father which hath sent me to draw him. And
this drawing here, this coming, it's not a physical force. It's
not voices. It's not visions. This is a spiritual
work that God performs in our heart. In the day of His power,
His people are made willing. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest. And what's what else he says?
And causes, causes, causes to approach unto Him. And I have
made this statement and I know I'm right. I know I'm right.
People say God won't make you come to Christ. If He don't make
you come to Christ, He can't get you and bring you to Christ.
You ain't coming. You know when Peter drew out
that sword and cut off Malchus's ear, that word draw right there
is the same word no man come to me except the Father which
sent me drawing. And if God don't reach and get a hold of you and
bring you, you ain't coming. Now that's just the way it is.
Huh? You know, you won't see the hand
get a hold of you, and I won't see it either. Nobody else will
see it, but if he lays hands on you, you're coming. And you know you'll come right
where you are. I know that without a shadow of a doubt. It didn't
say he who begs you to come, he who pleads with you to come,
he who hopes you'll come. He's got tears in His eyes and
just pleading with you. No, He says, He that causes you
to come. And boy, when God gives a man
a new nature, when He gives him a new nature when he's born again,
when God gives him that new nature and regeneration, when God gives
us a knowledge of sin, when Holy Ghost comes and convinces us
of our sin, when He comes and gives us a knowledge of the Lord
Jesus Christ and reveals Christ to us, He makes us willing, so
willing to come to Christ in the day of His power. And all men come to Christ first
because they do see the need. Oh, I see my need. My sins are
ever before me. When we see our sin, we know
we got to have somebody. When we see something in Christ
worth coming for, we see God said, this is my beloved Son.
When we're like Simon Peter, Lord, to whom shall we go? Beloved,
God's persuaded us that's come to Christ and convinced us that
nothing else in this world, nothing in this world is more important
than the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know, our coming to Christ
was not of our own will. It wasn't of our own power. But
you know why we come? All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. A picture of a believer. Our
first coming to Christ was by His grace. I can't take any credit
for it. Can't receive no praise for it.
Can't claim any merit. He called me. Drawed me on. And
you know, here's the difference between believers, people who've
been called to Christ, come to Christ, trust the Lord Jesus.
This spiritual drawing? You know, why in the world do
we feel such an acute, acute awareness of our sin and other
people don't? How can you feel such an acute
consciousness of your sin and other people don't? I can't explain
it. I can't explain it. I went for years. I never had
a... I never had a problem with sin until God converted. Never had... I was at peace with
it. Now I can't explain it now. I didn't know anything, but God
revealed it. Why do you who claim to be believers,
why do you always talk about the beauty of Christ, the glory
of Christ, the power of Christ, the death of Christ, the blood
of Christ? Why do you talk about the deity
of Christ, the eternality of Christ, the intercession of Christ,
the ascension of Christ, Christ sitting at the right hand of
God? Why do you do that? Oh, we don't see anything about
Him that we should desire Him. Why do you believers, why do
you all, why have you all lost interest in the world? Why are
you more interested in getting together, praying, singing hymns,
hearing the gospel? Why do you enjoy being together?
Why do you travel so many miles, spend so much money, stay in
hotels and motels, go to great expense to have people come in?
Why do you do that? Can't explain it. God just made
it so. God just made it so. And I tell you, this coming to
the Lord Jesus, it's a complete coming. I mean, it's a complete
coming. The Scripture says, Caleb...
What does it mean, faithful dog? Caleb, the faithful dog, he followed
the Lord fully. And that's what, boy, I tell
you, if you come to Christ, you come all out. You know, I've
used this illustration so many times. The child of God, when
he comes to Christ, he just takes out his pen, I sign over my life
to Jesus Christ lock, stock and barrel. And that's it. I mean fully, completely. And
anybody that can leave the gospel, anybody that can leave Christ
will leave the gospel and will leave Christ. And our union with
Christ, our coming to Christ, our relationship with Him, it's
not a part-time association. So many people take it to be
that. They take it a part-time association. Once a week, once
a month, once every three weeks. They think they can just waltz
in and out like it's nothing. But oh no, when you have Christ
and you have a union with Him, the marriage, the only reason
there's marriage on this earth is to show men and women the
union we have with Christ. Huh? Our union with Christ is
such a complete union, and our relationship with Him puts everything
and everyone else in their proper place as it affects that union.
If anything affects my union with Christ, I've got to be done
with it. Ain't that right? Anything that affects my union
with Christ, no matter what it is, it's got to go. It's got
to go. Oh, listen, got to lay it aside.
If it's things, if it's people, whatever it is. You know, they
came and said, Oh, your mothers and brothers, they're standing
outside. They're waiting for you. They want you to come outside.
He said, Who is my mother? Who is my brother? Who are they? And he looked at all these people
and said, This is my mother. This is my brothers. This is
my sisters. And our Lord said, If any man
loved the mother and father more than me, Not worthy of me. Not
worthy of me. And you know, this coming to
Christ, it's a continue to continue coming. You know, we that are
the people of God, we've entered into a rest and we shall enter
into a rest. We just keep on coming until
we enter into that eternal rest. You know, there's many things
happen to us in this world and we don't know why. So many things,
so many sicknesses, so many deaths, so many afflictions, so many
things that happen in our lives and we have committed to Christ
and yet things happen, we don't know why. But God does. What
do you do about it? Bring it to Christ and just keep
on coming. If any man come to Christ, He
said, let him deny himself and follow me. And you know this
coming, it's a continual denial, it's a continual warfare. And
it had been wonderful, absolutely wonderful, that when we first
came to our Lord, that our old nature, this old flesh, would
have been eradicated. That we would have been perfectly
conformed to Christ and taken right on to glory. But that's
not the way it is. No. No, the Lord, He prayed in
John 17, 15, He said, I pray not that you take him out of
the world, but that you keep them from the evil one in the
world. And people say, well, I've come
to the Lord, but I still have so many troubles, so many doubts,
so many fears, so many temptations, so much sin. What am I going
to do about it? Come to Christ. I still have family responsibilities,
preacher. I've got cares. What am I going
to do about them? Keep coming to Christ. And old
age is still and on. Old age is still and on. What
are you going to do? Come to Christ. When you're sick,
come to Christ. Just going to keep coming. I
have come. I am coming. And you're coming. Ain't got nowhere else to go.
Ain't got no place else to go. I've been everyplace else. I've been like you, been in fundamentalism,
been in legalism, been in Pentecostalism, been in Arminianism. I've been
in every kind of ism you can imagine. One thing I haven't been in,
intellectualism. Not smart enough. Harvey Bruce. Me and Brucie,
buddy, we, you said you had taught us, you want to learn? Me and
Brucie's alike. You tell us we're smart, me and Brucie, we don't.
We can't even pretend good. Thank you all so much.