Turn with me to Acts, the 17th
chapter. Acts chapter 17. I titled the message, and I talked
to you Sunday evening about how these titles and how I wrestle over these
titles, because the title is the message. And I copied the words from the
text and said that I'm going to call the message, Some of
Them Believed. But Larry told me I had to shorten
it down, so I just shortened it down to Some Believed. And while you're turning over
there, I want to say to those of you that are here and those
who aren't, who may hear the tape, how much I appreciate this
congregation. I don't deserve your appreciation.
I don't deserve your friendship, your fellowship, and I know it. But the Lord, I know where I
ought to be. I ought to be out there with the
rest of the God-hating rebels, walking my own way, doing my
own thing, going along in peaceful ignorance. That's where I ought
to be. But God interrupted my plans
with His grace. And I came here, and you welcomed
me with open arms, and I won't forget it. Now I talked to you the other
night about conversion from Luke chapter 11, but tonight is kind
of a continuation of that and I want to talk to you. And I've
been using that text over in 1 Thessalonians where Paul said,
knowing your election of God. So I thought we'd just go over
here to the book of Acts in chapter 17 and these first four verses. is where Paul came to Thessalonica
and preached to these people. We've got the account here. And
he says here in verse 1, Now when they had passed through
Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica where was
a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul, as his manner was,
went in unto them. And three Sabbath days, reasoned
with them out of the Scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ's
most needs have suffered and risen again from the dead, and
that this Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ. And some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas.
and of the devout Greeks, a great multitude, and of the chief women,
not a few." Now, this is the church that
Paul says, knowing brethren beloved, your election of God. That's
saying something. That's saying something. This is the account of the history
of the gospel coming to the Thessalonians. This is the church that Paul
thanks God for in his second letter. Listen to what he says. He said, I thank God for you
always, knowing that God hath from the beginning chosen you
unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the
truth." How did he know that? Because he said, He called you
by my gospel. That's how he knew those things.
That's why he rejoiced in those things. And I want us to look
at the account of their conversion here in the first four verses
of Acts 17 with this thought in mind. Now I stand before you tonight
with an open book. An open book. And it's open in
front of me, and I believe it to be the Word of God, cover
to cover. Inerrant, infallible. Peter said, Holy Ghost inspired.
He said these men wrote. Just take those italics out of
there. He said, they wrote moved by the Holy Ghost. It was written by I don't know
how many men. There's arguments over who wrote
what, but it was written by many, many men over thousands and thousands
of years. Think about the different times
and ages. You think about, you've seen
movies of just the 1800s. How much different is the culture
in the 1800s from what it is right now? I went down to vote
a while ago. It took five seconds. I was gone,
out the door. Think of the communication differences. Think of the advantages. Think
of all the things, flight, all those things that we've done. Think how different the cultures
are. And we grew up here in the United States with all these
freedoms, and a lot of countries don't have any freedom at all.
These men wrote, they were from different ages, different times,
different cultures, different backgrounds, diversity of men,
fishermen and shepherds and kings and peasants, rich men, poor
men, all kinds of men. And yet when they'd finished,
God had compiled a canon of Scripture testifying from front to back
of one man telling one story, and every bit of it without a
glitch. Perfect unity, perfect continuity
from Genesis to Revelation. And that's where I want to begin
tonight. And everything I have to say
tonight, I'm going to base on this book. And when I get done,
I'm going to tell you God spoke to you. That's what I'm going
to tell you. See, this thing of preaching
is a fearful thing. It scares me to death. It does. I wrestle. I go in there and
I write some things and throw it away and I'll write something
different and I'll throw it away and I'll change the title and
I'll change where I'm going and I'll change the text. worries
me and one of the fellows said, do you want a cup of coffee?
I said, no, my stomach's upset. I wrestle over these things.
Why? Because I stand, if I preach to you the gospel, then I stand
as an ambassador of Christ. Let me show you that. Turn with
me over to 2 Corinthians chapter 5. Now if I stand here tonight
by my own arrangement, in other words, if I finagled around and
called on and said, man, I wish you'd let me speak. I've got something I think I
need to say. And I do this and do that and try to finagle around
and bend God's providence and make a spot for myself to preach.
And I stand up here by my own arrangement and my own understanding
and my own reasoning. And what I say is not of much
consequence. There's not much consequence.
But if I stand here by the providence of God, and I stand here by His
arrangement, Bobby, with His gospel, with His Spirit declaring
the gospel out of His book, then I stand, Paul said, as though
God did beseech you. Read this with me here in 2 Corinthians
chapter 5. He said in verse 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."
What is that ministry? 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. Thou then, we are ambassadors
for Christ, What's it like? As though God did beseech you
by us. That scares me to death. At the same time, it gives me
all the confidence in the world. Listen to me for just a minute.
I think we make a big mistake. I was talking to Larry about
this last week when we were working on my roof. When we judge our services by
our emotions, I really do. I think we make a big mistake.
You know, we're moved and I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful
I have emotions. I'm thankful my heart can be
touched with the gospel. But I don't have a lot of confidence
in that. And I think we make a big mistake when we go home
and we say, man, the Lord blessed that service. Why? Because I
cried. Because I wept. Because this
one wept and that one wept. You see, the Spirit of God always
blesses His gospel. He always blesses His gospel.
Listen to what Paul said over here in II Corinthians 2 verse
14. He said, Now thanks be unto God,
which always, every single time, always causeth us to triumph
in Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of His knowledge by
us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savor
of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish. To the one, we're the saver of
death unto death, and to the other, the saver of life unto
life. And who is sufficient for these
things? Every time the gospel is preached, every time. Paul said when it's
preached in contention, even then, he said he rejoiced because
the gospel was preached. And if the gospel was preached,
Christ was declared, Christ was exalted, God was given the glory. Now here's what struck me about
Acts chapter 17. Many a philosopher had stood
before these people. These were Greek people, devout,
he said, devout Greek people. They were people raised with
the advantage of school and wisdom and philosophy and all the worldly
arts. These people had heard a lot
of men speak. A lot of them. And they'd heard
some great orators. And they'd heard some highly
educated men. And they were surrounded with
all this idolatry and all these things that Paul talks about
later on in chapter 17 that he saw over in Athens. They'd been
talked to by many well-meaning relatives and friends. Probably
try to talk to them a little bit, get them to change their
life, get them to turn over a new leaf. You know you're going down
the wrong road. You know you need to change your
habits a little bit and reform your life a little bit. And you
need to kind of come over here. Here's the religion we found.
Here's the one that suits us. Here's the one that had the answers
we sought. You might want to come down here.
But if you don't, that'll be all right. Go down there. Go
down there. but go somewhere, do something, change your ways,
do this, do that. They'd heard a lot of men talk.
But one day in the providence of God, God sent His man. You see that
up there? Paul and Silas. They passed by
some places, but they came to Thessalonians. Paul and Silas. And Paul, God
singled out Paul. I don't know a whole lot about
Silas. I know he was with Paul a lot. He was a faithful servant
of God that traveled with Paul. Paul thought a lot of him. I
know that. But on this particular occasion,
God isolated Paul to these Thessalonian people. And He sent him in there
to speak. And he looked just like everybody
else, but he wasn't. Standing before these superstitious
Greeks, steeped in idolatry, steeped in philosophy, steeped
in worldly wisdom, stood the man of God. Here stood one, one
man, in the stead of Christ, And by this man, God spoke. We don't have a word-for-word
account of what He preached to us. I'd like to have heard the
message. But do you believe that? Do you
believe God speaks through a man? Oh, I do. My experience demands
it. It demands it. Romans chapter
10, and I've read it, and I've read it, and I've preached from
it for years, and I've talked about it, and us preachers have
sat around and talked about it in preacher school and all them
things. And I'd read that part down there where it says, How
beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace.
And that didn't mean beans to me. It didn't mean nothing. I
had no idea what that was talking about. And one day, God spoke. And when He spoke, How much difference
it made. And I left that place thinking
to myself, how beautiful are the feet of that man. How beautiful
is the providence of God that caused that man to cross my path
and bring peace to me. Oh, God's man stood up. He looked just like everybody
else. People say, you know, I went
down there. He said he was a pretty interesting
fellow. He said some pretty good things.
He could hold your attention. He brought up things I never
heard before. He had some good illustrations. He had some good
poems. Did God speak? God spoke through this man. Before
this crowd stood a man chosen, anointed, brought by the hand
of God to stand in his stead. Are you with me? That's where
he was at. That's what I'm fixing to do
down in Taylor. That's what I'm doing up here tonight. By the
grace of God, that's what I'm going to do until I die. I want
that on my mind. I want it on my mind in my study.
I want it on my mind in my life. I want it on my mind when I'm
thinking during the afternoon, during the day. There's no middle ground here.
There's no gray area. Either you believe, I'm here
by the providence of God with a message of God, or you're an
idolater. You understand that? When we
sit down, Brother Don gets up to preach, or Brother Larry,
Brother Ron, whoever it is, is bringing that message. If he's
not preaching the message of God's grace, of God's sovereign
grace, there is no other message. The gospel of Christ, raising
up Christ, talking about He must needs die. He must needs suffer. He must needs be raised from
the dead and seated at the right hand of God. If that man's not
preaching that message, you need to get up and go home. Because
if you don't, you're a practicing idolater and so is he. He's an
antichrist. That's what John called him.
An antichrist. There's no middle ground. There's
no gray area. You either believe that this
man is a man of God sent to you by the providence of God, or
you're practicing idolatry. Listen to this, 2 John verse
7. He said, Many deceivers are entered into the world who confess
not that Jesus Christ has come into the flesh. This is a deceiver
and an antichrist, and that man who denies the deity of Christ
the necessity of His deity, the majesty of His coming into the
flesh to satisfy His deity, to glorify His name, to establish
His name, to clear His name. That man who don't preach that,
he's a deceiver, John said. He's an antichrist. Now listen
to this, verse 9, Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine
of Christ hath not God. He's preaching another God. He's
not just off on some point. He's not just mistaken on a point
of doctrine. He's got another God. He's preaching
another God. He don't have God's message.
He don't have God's Spirit. He don't have God's blessing
and favor. He doesn't have His power or
His protection. He don't have His glory in mind
nor the goal of God in mind. He hath not God. That's what
John said. He that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. When? When does he have them? Always. Ain't that what Paul said? Oh, I tell you, that gives me
some assurance. That gives me some confidence. Always. Whether
I feel it or I don't. And he said, if there come any
unto you and bring not this doctrine, don't receive him into your house,
don't tell him have a nice day, don't tell him God's speed. For
he that biddeth him so much as God's speed is a partaker of
his evil deeds. So that's the first thing I see
here in this history of the gospel coming to these Thessalonians.
God's man came to them. God sent His man to them. How shall you hear without a
preacher, and how shall he preach except he be sent? All right,
here's the second thing I see here. It says here that Paul
reasoned with them out of the Scriptures. He reasoned with them. Somebody
asked me a while back, just some off the wall, he said, what are
you going to do about the dinosaurs? What are you going to do about
prehistoric history? I'm not going to do anything
about it. I'm not going to do anything
about it. I'm not going to deal with it. I'm not going to reason with
anybody about dinosaurs. I'm not talking about it. I wasn't
sent to defend history. I've got before me the Word of
God. That's where I'm going to stand. If you want to stand on carbon
dating, you go right ahead. You just go right over there
and stand on it. And in that day of judgment,
you can try to explain to God how come you rebelled against
His gospel and wouldn't submit to His gospel because you're
more interested in standing on something some earthly wise man
dreamed up. You just go on over there and
stand on it. Go over there and stand on natural
history and science. You go right ahead. You go over
there and stand on it. Everything I see about God defied
everything in history. That's what Larry read a while
ago. Here come Israel up there, God's people. They wasn't anybody. They're just a ragtag bunch.
They didn't have anything. They walked up that sea. Them
waves went back. And they crossed over on dry
land. They walked up that River Jordan. What a rollback. What that's got to do with dinosaurs,
I don't know. I'll let you figure it out. I'm just going to ignore it and
rest my message on the Word of God. It said Paul reasoned with
them. He reasoned with them out of
the Scriptures. Like I told you the other day,
this book doesn't give any Explanation for God. In the beginning, God. That's it. And when Paul decided
to stand before these people and declare unto them all these
ceremonies and sacrifices and this foundation of God in the
book of Hebrews, he just starts out, God. And that's where Paul was at
with these Thessalonians. He opened up the book. They delivered
unto him the scrolls or whatever there was, the Old Testament
scriptures. He opened up and he said, here
it is. Here it is right here. And he reasoned with them three
Sabbath days. And we're gathered in here, a
local assembly, with a single man at the helm, the pastor.
We've got deacons and elders. We're exhorted, reproved, rebuked. By the preaching of the Word,
we observe ordinances, baptism in the Lord's table. We're baptized
by immersion. We use wine and unleavened bread
as the elements of the supper. We believe all these things.
How come? Because that's what this book says. That's what this
book says. You see where I'm at? That's
what Paul did. He got that congregation down. He said, now listen to
me. Listen to this. This is one of the first things.
This is back here in the book of Moses. It talks about the
woman's seed. Now watch this. Here's their son Abel killed
a lamb. And he started down through the
book and he reasoned with them out of the scriptures. Paul came to these people, he
neither had nor sought any other basis on which to reason with
his ears than what God had written and preserved for that purpose.
He said, these things, that's what he told John, he said, you
write this, these things have I written unto you that believe
on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have
eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son
of God. You need to sit down sometime
and just read that fifth chapter of 1 John. He said, this book is the record.
It was established and agreed on by the eternal trinity, the
records in heaven. There it is. And he said, and
there's three that bear witness on earth. And when it comes to
you, When God sends His man and that man stands before you with
this book open and he declares the will, the mind of God, the
gospel of Christ, you better bow to it. Because if you don't,
you call God a liar. You're not just calling that
man a liar, you're calling God a liar. It's the Word of God. It has
to do with receiving the testimony of God. Listen to this, 1 John
5, verse 9. If we receive the witness of
men, that's what you're doing tonight. You're receiving the
witness of a man. Well, if we receive the witness
of a man, the witness of God is greater, for this is the witness
of God which He's testified of His Son. He that believeth on
the Son of God hath a witness in himself. It's the only way
he can preach. That's what Paul told those Galatians. He said,
Would it please God who revealed His Son in me? He put the witness
in him that I might be able to preach him among the heathen.
That's what he's talking about here. And he that believeth not
God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that
God gave of His Son. That's the record. That's what
this book's all about. That's what the testimony of
God is. That's what the ministry is all about. That's what Christ
came into this world to declare. It's the testimony of God that
life is in Christ. Life's in Christ because that's
where God put it. That's where He put it. In Him was life. Ain't that what
it says? And the light was the light of men, because that's
where men can see it. You can't see it anywhere else.
No man has seen God at any time, ain't that what it says? But
the Son declared Him. You can see it in Him. Because
that's where you can receive it. You can't receive it. You
couldn't stand before God. My soul, just before the glorified
Christ, before the Redeemer, before the Reconciler, John fell
down to his feet like a dead man. Job covered his mouth, said
he'd never speak again. Isaiah said, woe is me, I'm undone. What would we do before God? That's the only place you can
receive it because that's the only place God can be just and
still justify sinners. Life's in Christ. And Paul reasoned with them about
this testimony of God. He didn't come into the world
to reform it, to make it a better place to live in. He didn't come
into this world to example morality and kindness and love and gentleness
so we could do a little bit better than what we used to do. He didn't
come into the world to make a compromise, to compromise His justice. He
didn't come in here to compromise the infinite evil of sin, to
compromise righteousness either in His character or in what He
requires. He came into this world by the
testimony of God to give life to everybody that believes. A preacher has that square up
with election. That is election. That is. That is election. That's what Paul wrote, didn't
he? That's where we begin this whole
thing. He said, knowing, brethren beloved,
your election of God. How did He know it? Because His
gospel came to Him. Our Lord said to the Father,
I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest Me, and they
have received them, and have known surely that I come out
from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didst send Me. I don't understand how He does
it, Rex. I don't understand how He does it. I don't know all
the workings of it. It's just like Christ told Nicodemus,
the wind blows where it listens. The only thing I can see is the
effects. Just the effects. But somehow God gives to His
own. He works in them through that
man a sense of fear and a sense of respect and a sense that that
man speaks for God. I don't understand that. He just does. He just does. I went into that little church
down in Taylor. I haven't seen those people in
30 years. And they just hung on every word. How come? How come? Who puts that in a man? You weren't
born with it. You weren't born with it. You
can't even listen to your mama. Let alone God. I start talking
to one of my grandkids, and they'll stand there like this, and pretty
soon they're on their way somewhere else doing something else. They
can't even listen to me for five minutes. But God gets a hold
of the heart, and He prepares it and stirs it. And somehow
He gives men and women a sense that that man's sin of God. He's
sin of God. Paul said, I know your election
of God because our gospel came unto you, not word only, but
in power and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance. And you
become followers, listen to this, of us and the Lord. Boy, I hope someday that can be said
in May. Us and the Lord, he said. He
reasoned with them out of the Scriptures. Turn with me over
to Acts chapter 24. Let me show you something over
here. The Lord said by His prophet,
Come, let us reason together, saith the Lord. I'm going to
see if I can help you a little bit with that. Preaching is when
God comes in power and persuades men together with His ambassador. Did you know that? You wasn't
just sitting at home one day and the Spirit of God stirred
your heart and you jumped up and grabbed the Bible and you
said, man, there it is. Oh no. No. He began to trouble you. He began
to give you a desire to go and to hear. He brought you here
for some reason. You might not even come here
to hear the Gospel. You might have come here because
your daddy comes here. Or because I don't know why. I don't know all the reasons
that bring men to cross the path of His messenger. But God brings
them to cross that path. But the reasoning begins when
He crosses your path. And the declaration is made.
Then the reasoning begins. Listen to this here in Acts 24. Verse 24, And after certain days, when
Felix came with his wife, Drusilla, which was a Jewess. He sent for
Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ." That's
exactly what's going on here now. He came to this place to
hear me speak concerning the faith of Christ. And this man,
this governor, he wasn't upset. He wasn't nervous. He wasn't
anxious or afraid. He was a man of position. He
was a man of power. He sat in his chair with all
the dignity of his station and with all the authority he thought
he had and people that he commanded. And he said, you go get that
man now and bring him out here. Out here. Out here. Now watch this, verse 25. And
as he reasoned of righteousness, That righteousness which God
requires. That righteousness the law demands. That righteousness the conscience
bears witness of. And temperance. Temperance. A restraint from evil. A restraining
from evil desires and lusts and pleasures in this world. And
the judgment to come. No escape. No mercy. No clearing
of the guilt. Every thought of the imagination
of the heart brought into light, exposed for what we are, what
we think, and what we feel. Every wicked desire, every wicked
lust, every mean intention, every rebellious act opened to the
eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Paul reasoned with Him
from the Scriptures. What's it say? He wasn't trembling a few minutes
before. Spirit of God accompanied that
man's message. And that governor, full of himself,
began to tremble. He began to tremble. I listened
to a message. We had it back here. And as soon
as Shelby gets here, It's an old, old tape preached years
ago by Scott Richardson on the murder of John the Baptist. And
he talks about how old Harry, when he killed John the Baptist,
he heard of another man, and this man was doing miracles and
preaching that same gospel. And he said, oh, he said, that's
John. That's John. And he trembled. He trembled. That man of high station and
power and position trembled because God came in his ambassador with
his gospel. And the Spirit of God caused
him to have a sense of anxiety, awareness. And he didn't want
anybody to see his fear, to know that he was disturbed. You just
go your way for now. Just go your way this time, and
I'll hear you again in a more convenient season. Let me tell
you something. You don't command the seasons. You don't command God. You don't
command the Spirit of God. Well, you know, I've got a lot
of things going on in my life right now, and a little bit on
down the road. then I'll come down to church
and I'll get my... No. No, you won't. No, you won't. You don't command God's providential
actions. Can you see what's going on here?
God separates a man. Paul said, God separated me from
my mother's womb and revealed His Son in me that I might preach
Him among the heathens. He said to the Roman church,
he said, God separated me unto the gospel. And Paul went. He went wherever God had opened
him a providential door and he preached that gospel. He reasoned
with men from the Word of God. He didn't get up there and tell
stories. He got up there and preached
Christ. And God accompanied his message. And it didn't matter.
It didn't matter if they were wise Greek philosophers or kings. It didn't make any difference.
God accompanied that man and gave those men a sense of who
he was. And that man, led by the Word
of God, led by the providence of God, led by the Spirit of
God, he was brought to stand before men and reason with them
out of the Scriptures. Now watch this, Acts 17, verse
3. Opening and alleging. Opening and alleging. I won't
have time tonight to talk to you about that opening. But over
in Revelations, I think it's chapter 10, he talks about Christ,
the angel of the covenant, standing there with the little book open.
Opened in his hand. He told John, he said, go get
the book. John went over and asked him
for the book. When he asked him, he gave it to him. He said, now
eat it up. Eat it up. Swallow it, the whole
thing. Eat the whole book. He said,
because you've got to preach. You've got to preach. Opening and alleging, opening.
Only Christ can open the Scriptures. It's the same book that he got
back there in Revelation 5. concerning the will of God and
the mind of God and all the high counsels of God is the same book. That's what this book is. This
book reveals in the hands of God's man, it reveals through
the Holy Spirit of God, it reveals God's mind and God's will and
God's glory and Christ. It's on every page, but we don't
see it. But through this man, that's
what I'm getting at. That's what our pastor is doing.
Our pastor is down there in Texas and down there in Taylor, Arkansas,
where I'm getting ready to go, standing with the book open.
Opening and alleging from this book, from the Word of God. What's
the opening? That Christ must needs have suffered
and risen again from the dead. He must needs have suffered because
sin is an offense to God. Sin is pictured in the courtyard
of the high priest when men blindfolded Christ and spit in His face, slapped Him with open palms,
prophesied. Who slapped Him? Sin is pictured in that crown
of thorns that they shoved down into His brow. Sin is pictured when they put
the purple robe on him and mocked his offices. It's pictured when
the vinegar mixed with gall was sponged on his lips and his covering
taken from around him. Sin is the taking of the sacrifice
by force. and marrying them on the cross.
Sin. All sin. Every sin. It's an abomination
to God. That's why God won't clear the
guilty. He can't forgive. He cannot excuse, and He will
not compromise. Every sin must receive, he said,
a due recompense of reward and to find pardon with God, to win
favor with God, to be reconciled to God, Christ must needs have
suffered. Christ must come into the world
as a man, as a body chosen and anointed, watched and proved
and then offered up through suffering and death. He must provide himself
a lamb for a burnt offering. And he must come as the gift
of God, as the gift of God. Come in the grace of God, come
according to the Word of God and die in our room instead.
And dying on the cross, having manifested the righteousness
of God, exalted the justice of God, declared the name of God,
cleared his holy character. God raised him from the dead.
And this Jesus, this Jesus, he said, that I preach unto you,
this Jesus of Nazareth that I preach unto you, he's Christ. He's Christ. You go over to the
book of Galatians, you find out that there was another Jesus
being preached. There's another Jesus in our day, quite a few
of them, being preached up and down the lane. I see it out on
their billboards. We went out to vote a while ago,
and the place where we voted out in Junction City was a church.
And I walked in there, and there's commandments wrote all over the
wall, and pictures of the Last Supper, and crosses, and all
this kind of junk hanging everywhere. It's another Jesus. It's another
God, another faith, another spirit. But Paul said, this Jesus that
I preach unto you, He is the Christ. He is the Lamb. Rest
in Him and trust in Him. But Jesus set forth in the volume
of this book, this Jesus in all of His offices and accomplishments
in His person, this Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ.
And He opened up the mystery of God and God came in power
and persuasion. And it's in some of them believing. See, we talked about conversion
the other night. The strong man coming in. Overcoming. He got to overcome that man,
but how does he do it? How does he do it? He does it
through God's man. And he does it through his gospel.
That's how it's done.