okay turn back then to Galatians
Galatians and uh... chapter five verse one is going
to be our focus this morning but we'll just look back into
chapter four a little bit now of course I've been saying this
a lot in recent weeks but basically there are only two religions
in the world fundamentally just two just two and in a sense they
both agree there's the true religion and there's all the rest which
are false religions but in a sense they both agree and they agree
in this man is not right with God you know it varies the degree
to which they think that but they they agree man is not right
with God and we have to face God we have to give an account
both agree in that sense and the two religions are summarized
in two words works and grace all the religion that is to do
with works and that true religion which is to do with grace and
what does the one mean it means this getting right with God on
the basis of what man does for God and what does grace mean
getting right with God on the basis of what God does for man. That's easy to remember, isn't
it? Just think about it. It's a world of difference. There
are people today going to churches up and down this country, supposedly
Christian churches, some of them even reformed Baptist Calvinistic
churches, and they believe they get right with God on the basis
of some things that they must do, otherwise they're found wanting.
and it's a lie the scriptures don't teach that the scriptures
teach sovereign grace two religions works and grace and you can lump
the whole lot together a false religion under I don't care whether
it's called Islam or Catholicism or what it's called it's a religion
of works and so much of what calls itself Christianity is
a religion of works and the argument that Paul has been developing
in Galatians chapter 4 is that this is illustrated by Abraham
and the two sons he had, and the two women by whom he had
the two sons, Hagar, the maid, the bond-servant, and Sarah,
the free-born wife. two women, two sons, one father
Abraham, and they're symbolical of two Jerusalems, he's been
saying in these verses from Galatians 4.21 down to 27 or so, he's been
showing that they're symbolized by two Jerusalems. One was the
Jerusalem of Paul's day, that first century Jerusalem, the
other is the New Jerusalem, which comes down from God out of heaven,
that New Jerusalem that Revelation speaks of. The Jerusalem that
was in his day was the Jerusalem of those people that were afflicting
the Galatians with false teaching. They were Judaizers, Jewish teachers
who'd come down from Jerusalem, from head office as it were,
from where the apostles were, teaching them. They needed to
be circumcised. They needed to obey all of the
Mosaic law in order to be right with God. They were trying to
impose bondage, a religion of bondage, of slavery. because
they were in bondage. The Jerusalem above, look at
verse 25, Hagar corresponds to Jerusalem which now is and is
in bondage with her children. The Jerusalem which now is. In
what way? Well, the Jerusalem of Paul's day was in bondage
to civil powers because the Romans had invaded. They didn't have
their own government. It was a Roman government that
they had. So they were in bondage. The people felt it very, very
strongly. they were in moral bondage to sin that which is
in the heart of man they were in bondage to it which they know
you know by nature you're not right with God you know that
your sin convicts you you know irrespective of a law being written
down there's a law in the conscience as Romans 1 says there's a law
in the conscience which shows that we're alienated from God
and convicted by his moral law by the sin that is in us and
is with us all the time and then This Jerusalem that then was,
was in legal bondage, bondage to the whole of the Mosaic law
system. It was a slavish obedience. It
was a, you must do and you must continue to do everything written
in the book of the law as long as you live. It was an unforgiving
slavish obedience that was required. There was no allowance made for
human weakness. It was absolutely, objectively
black and white you either obeyed it or you didn't. Ah well I've
obeyed 99% of it but I've offended in one point and the Apostle
James says though you keep it all if you offend in one point
you are guilty of all and that's the law and that's the thing
that the Jerusalem that then was these Judaizers this legalistic
works religion is a religion of bondage of slavery now every
religion This is what Don Faulkner says, every religion that teaches
sinners to perform works of any kind to obtain righteousness,
to obtain favor with God, to make God think better of you,
that religion is a prison. It's true, it's a prison. It
locks you up. That religion locks you up if
it teaches that you have to perform any works of any kind. What do
you mean, any works? Yes, absolutely. What about the
work of believing? that one too what about that
verse where the Jews asked Jesus and they said to him tell us
what we should do that we might do the works of God and he said
okay this is the work of God that you believe on him whom
he sent what about believing isn't that the work that I do?
no the answer that Jesus gives to that question is this is the
work of God not of you it's the work of God that you believe
in the one whom he has sent. God gives that gift of faith
to believe the one whom he sent. Even that, your work of believing
is not what makes you right with God, it's God in Christ who's
made you right with God. Remember what we were talking
about a few weeks ago, the difference between faith in Jesus Christ,
which we have, but the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, the faith of
Jesus Christ which saves us, which establishes righteousness
So what about good works then? Isn't true religion a religion
of good works? Yes, of course it is. But this
is the key. Good works result from grace. They don't cause it. It isn't
good works that cause God to look graciously upon you. It's
good works that result from the fact that God has looked graciously
upon you in sovereign grace. and so there are these two religions
works and grace that which says I get right with God by what
I do for him and that which says I get right with God by what
he in Christ has done for me and you see again illustrated
in the story of Sarah and Hagar you know the Abraham and Sarah
resorted to worldly, fleshly thinking when they thought, well
it's impossible, she was too old, she was way beyond the years
of childbearing. Abraham was nearly a hundred
years old, way beyond it, well more like ninety years old at
the time. And so she said, well we've got to give God a helping
hand, because God can't do his own work unless we give him a
helping hand. You know, it's just like people say, we've got
to make this gospel easier for people to believe. because God
can't make people believe unless we make it easier for them to
believe and in a pictorial way they said we've got to help God
out with this promise you're not going to get a son unless
we give him a helping hand here's my maid Hagar you go and have
a child with her and that's the way that we'll get God to fulfill
his promise no we know what anguish and trouble that that caused
it was Sarah's inability to bear a child it was Sarah's inability
to bear Isaac that demonstrated that God alone could fulfill
that promise that was God's work to fulfill that promise in that
in that woman who was 90 years old and a man who was as good
as dead says the scripture nearly a hundred years old and yet they
had a child of promise showing it was entirely of God and so
we get to verse 28 of chapter 4 and Paul says this now we brethren
as Isaac are children of promise. Isaac was a child of promise.
Isaac was the result of the fulfillment of God's promise entirely, without
the help of human beings, entirely the result of the fulfillment
of God's promise. And so all believers, everybody that comes
to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are free-born children of promise. We are all children of promise
as Isaac was. all that the father gives to
Christ he says John chapter 6 and verse 37 Jesus said this to them
they're all gathered around him and he said all that the father
gives to me because there is a people that the father gave
to the son in eternity before the beginning of time he says
Paul says to Timothy before the beginning of time a people whom
the father gave to Christ and all of them will come to him
all of them will come to him by faith all of them will be
given faith to believe and to see all that the father gives
me will come to me and the one who comes to me just in case
anybody might despair just in case any poor sinner might despair
that they're just too bad and that God won't call them and
won't draw them he says and whoever comes to me whoever you are without
distinction whoever you are he will in no wise cast out and
he brings his people these free-born children to be heirs of God. We read in Romans 8 16 and 17
the Apostle Paul again says that the Spirit of God comes and witnesses
with our spirits that we are the children of God and however
much the materialists can argue You know, the Professor Dawkinses
of this world, with their materialistic philosophy, they can't argue
against this because the children of God have this witness within
them, from the Holy Spirit of God, that they are the children
of God. They know that. We know it. He witnesses that
we are these free-born children of promise. And if we're free-born
children, we're heirs of God and we're joint heirs with Christ.
Now what's the result of that? You see, there are these people
who are brought to believe in Christ, to see that his works
have fulfilled all righteousness on their behalf. And they have
this freedom of salvation, of rightness with God, entirely
on the basis of what God in Christ has done for them. And not on
the basis of any obligation that we have to earn our own way there. Not at all. The result of it
is this. Look at this, verse 29. But as
He who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him
who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. and so it is you see what happened
was Ishmael who by this stage was I don't know 10 or 12 years
old something like that when Isaac was born and there's this
little toddler it's almost like Michael and Timothy you know
about 12 years old and about one and a half years old and
we read in Genesis 21 and verse 9 that Ishmael mocked derided
poured scorn on Isaac the freeborn son of promise and it's the same
today it's a picture remember we're not learning anything about
the morals of families from Isaac and Ishmael and Abraham and Sarah
and Hagar that's another issue there are lessons in there undoubtedly
but that's not the purpose of the scripture the purpose of
the scripture is to show us grace in pictures and that does and
what it's showing us is that The child of bondage, the child
of Hagar, the child of human free willism persecutes the child
of promise. And so it is today. So it is. Legalistic works religion will
always hate and persecute that which is a free sovereign grace. Not because that which is a free
sovereign grace does any harm or poses any threat, It's just
that they can't stand it. That there's a people who claim
to be free in Christ. They get so mad at that. No,
you're not free in Christ. There are all these moral laws
that you've got to keep. You cannot say that. You're teaching
people to sin. I remember, I remember the trouble
that Bill got into, best part of 20 years ago. When, what was
it he said? let them loose wasn't it, let
them loose and oh didn't they rise up in anger there was gnashing
of teeth because a preacher had dared to suggest that Christians
true believers ought to be let free set free from the constraints
of law well that's what the scriptures teach that is what they teach
you see it wasn't it wasn't that he posed a threat he was just
there the son of promise and so it is legalistic religion
persecutes and hates and opposes and seeks to destroy and seeks
to put out and seeks to excommunicate that which proclaims freedom
in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's as Paul said when he's recounting
the time at the Jerusalem Council back in Galatians 2 just turn
back a page Galatians 2 and verse 4 look what he says there this
occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in, who came
in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ
Jesus. Why? That they might bring us
back into bondage. That's what they wanted to do.
They didn't like it that we had liberty. They wanted to bring
us back into bondage. And so what does Paul say? Verse
30, quoting the scripture, what does the scripture say? This
is chapter 4 of Galatians, verse 30. Cast out the bondwoman and
her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son
of the free woman. So then, brethren, we are not
children of the bondwoman, but of the free. You see? If you're
a free-born child of God, a son of promise in the Lord Jesus
Christ, you're free. You're free. Cast out the filthy
rags of your own righteousness in seeking to earn any additional
favor with God. Cast it out of your thinking.
Cast it out of your practice. We're free. And so then we come
to our text, chapter 5 and verse 1. Stand fast therefore in the
liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled
again with a yoke of bondage you see he's saying this to these
Galatian people who he's giving the benefit of the doubt to he's
treating them and speaking to them as if they are true believers
who have been influenced by these false teachers coming and trying
to get them back into slavery and bondage to law and he's showing
them The gospel he preached was a gospel of freedom in Christ.
So don't be entangled again with it. Don't slip back into it.
Stand fast. It's a military expression. Stand
fast. Hold your ground. Don't give
in. To be saved by Christ is freedom,
in capital letters. To be saved by Christ is freedom. Freedom is a tremendous concept. It's something that echoes in
the human heart. You think about it, how much
of literature the theme is freedom. We've got a book on our shelves
back at home, which is the biography of a man in Virginia called Booker
T. Washington. And Booker T. Washington
was a Negro slave. I can't remember the timing.
I should have looked it up, but I can't remember it. You can
go and visit the center, the Booker T. Washington Center on
the Blue Ridge of Virginia. and it's called Up From Slavery,
how he came out of that bondage of slavery and what a long and
difficult road it was to come out of slavery into freedom. And what a treasure, what a prize. All of the riches of the world
were nothing compared with the blessings of freedom that that
man wanted. Physical freedom from slavery,
up from slavery. Think about 70 years or so, slightly
less. 1938, 1939. And Hitler is at
the height of his powers in Germany. And the world is fearful. And
you think about it. people like us you know who I'm
frightened of getting a splinter in my finger off a whole bit
of wood but people like us were prepared if it meant death if
it meant torment and torture they were prepared to fight that
our country and the free world might be free might not be brought
under tyranny you look at in places like in Africa some of
the countries there that are under tyrannical rule and the
yearning of the people to be free to be set at liberty freedom
is a tremendous thing but Christ saved his people that we might
be free that we might be free he came to preach spiritual liberty
just look at Luke chapter 4 I quoted these words in Isaiah which were
a prophecy of the words that he would bring Luke chapter 4
verse 18 This is quoting, this is Jesus in Nazareth. He's handed the book of the prophet
Isaiah and he quotes Isaiah chapter 61 and the first few verses and
he says this, to those people, you can imagine it, little village,
you know, everybody knew everybody else. Who's this bloke? Who does
he think he is? He's just Joseph and Mary's son,
the carpenter's son. Isn't he getting above his station?
Who does he think he is? And they handed him the book
and he said this, the spirit of the Lord is upon me. because
he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has
sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.
That acceptable year, it was the year of Jubilee. the 50th
year. You read the Old Testament law.
Every 50 years, those who were in slavery, all the debts had
to be cancelled. All the slaves had to be set
free. It was the year of jubilee and Jesus said, today, verse
21, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing because I am
the one who has come to do that. He came to set the captives free,
to proclaim liberty to the captives. The gospel of grace is a gospel
of liberty. John chapter 8, which we read
earlier, verse 36. If the Son shall make you free,
you shall be free indeed. I remember when we were in works-based,
legalistic religion. I remember Christine used to
say, the Word of God says this, if the truth shall make you free,
you shall be free indeed, but I'm not free. I'm in constant
bondage. I'm in constant slavery. I'm
constantly being required to do something or to not do something
else. I'm not free, but yet it tells me I ought to be free.
What's wrong? I'll tell you what was wrong.
The gospel of liberty in Christ was not being preached. We weren't
hearing it. That was what was wrong. Well,
what is this liberty wherewith Christ has made his people free? Because we're to stand fast in
the liberty with which Christ has made us free. Four things
I'll give you. It's liberty from the law's bondage. from the law which says do this
and live you know some of these verses you can try and keep up
with me if you like while we look them up but Romans chapter
6 there are several verses that I know a lot of people wish had
never been written and weren't contained in the scripture but
Romans 6 14 says this sin shall not have dominion over you for
you are not under law but under grace does he really mean you're
not under law? I've heard them argue. I remember
one conference where apparently they were getting all in a twist
about this sort of text and they were saying, well, this is a
Hebraism or something like that. No, it's not. It's saying you
are not under law but under grace. Absolutely clear. Turn over a
page to chapter 7, verses 1 to 4 of Romans 7, talking about
being freed from the law and he's saying it's exactly like
the marriage bond. as a wife is subject to her husband
as long as he lives but when he dies that relationship is
finished, it's ended, it's broken she's no longer under the law
of her husband and so it is with legalism, with the law of the
Word of God it's broken in the Lord Jesus Christ, it's ended
in him He says that you're dead to the law through the body of
Christ, that you may be married to another, to him who was raised
from the dead, that you should bear fruit to God, not under
law, but under grace. Chapter 8, verses 1 to 4, there
is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, that
law, that royal law, that noble law has made me free from the
law of sin and death, I'm free from the law of sin and death,
the law that says do this and live, the law that says cursed
is everyone who does not continue, for Christ has redeemed us from
the curse of the law. Chapter 10 and verse 4, probably
the best known of them, because the Jews were ignorant of God's
righteousness and they were seeking to establish their own righteousness
works religion and they have not submitted to the righteousness
of God the true righteousness of God which is in Christ alone
for verse 4 Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone who believes free from its curse I've already mentioned
Galatians 3.13 quoting back in the law of Moses free from condemnation
free from the covenant of works which says do this and live don't
do this and you shall die free from it liberty from bondage
now most agree most religion agrees we're free from the ceremonial
laws we're free from the civil laws that applied to the state
of Israel at the time but they still impose the Ten Commandments
as a moral obligation as the basis for sanctification, the
laws that you must keep to be sanctified, they still impose
those things. They do not say that you are
free from those laws. But how do you keep a Sabbath
day without a blood sacrifice? How do you do that? Or what about
if you use the utilities as we're doing in this room on this day
because we've got the electric lights on. How do you do that
and keep a Sabbath day How do you pick up sticks, as it were,
and get away with it? You who desire to be under the
law, do you not hear what the law says? In Christ, we're free
from the law's bondage. Secondly, liberty from sin. You know, sin was one of the
things that they were in bondage to. Now, of course, we're not
free from the being of sin. Sin is with us. If we say we
have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. We're
not free from the indwelling of sin, because it's in our nature.
We're not free from the temptation of sin, because it's constantly
with us. But we are free from this. We are free from its damning
power and dominion. There's a verse in Romans chapter
6, again, I'll just turn it up quickly chapter 6 and verse 18
and having been set free from sin you became slaves of righteousness
you see that's the word of God says that you have been set free
from sin set free from it in 1st John chapter 3 and verse
5 it says that he Jesus was manifested was was displayed to take away
our sins and in him there is no sin David said in Psalm 32
and verses 1 and 2, and it's quoted again in Romans 4, Blessed
is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity.
We're free from sin in the Lord Jesus Christ. Stand fast in the
liberty by which Christ has made us free. There's liberty of life.
John chapter 10 and verse 10. I am come, says Jesus, that they
might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.
The Word of God talks about us being born again. First Peter
chapter 1 verse 23. Born again, not of corruptible
things, but of the Spirit of God. Born again. Speaks of life,
the liberty of life that there is. And in that, there's freedom
from the fear of death. Just turn over to one of my favorite
passages in the New Testament Hebrews 2 verse 14 Hebrews 2
verse 14 in as much then as the children
that's the children of promise the ones who will believe in
as much then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood
he himself Christ likewise shared in the same flesh and blood that
through death he had to become a man to die a human death he
might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil
and in the process verse 15 release those who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject to bondage in the Lord Jesus
Christ we have liberty of life we have life abundant life we
are freed from the fear of death oh be in no doubt the actual
process is still a chilling process to a human being you know this
physical body you get awfully attached to this physical body
and so therefore the process of separation is not a happy
process but for the believer it's the gateway to eternal glory
and in a sense though we grieve when we lose someone dear if
that person is in Christ we do not grieve as those who have
no hope because in the world without Christ they have no hope
and then there's liberty of sonship the glorious liberty says Romans
8 21 the glorious liberty of the children of God what's that
saying to you you know it's is it not ringing that bell that
true faith is a liberating thing it's freedom It's freedom to
come boldly to the throne of grace, as Hebrews 4.16 says. How are we free? We're free because
we're complete in Him, in Christ. Colossians 2 verse 10. you are
complete in him because he has completed everything on the behalf
of his people you're free from any obligation that you have
to earn it for yourself and any attempt to earn any bit of it
is not just a doctrinal error any attempt to add any element
of works is not just doctrinal error it's an utter denial of
the grace and freedom that goes with the gospel of grace and
so therefore he says stand fast stand fast, hold your ground,
don't yield submission to anyone who tries to steal your liberty
because it's under constant attack from Satan, from works religion,
from all the wilds of the devil, all of the... he goes around
as a prowling lion seeking whom he will destroy and bring back
into bondage. It's like a net, you see. Paul
says, stand fast in the liberty by which Christ has made us free
and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. It's
something that entangles you once you get into it. It starts
as just a little loop that's tangled around you and it ends
up totally knotting you up. I remember once, a couple of
years ago, I was down at the end of the garden and I heard
this high-pitched screaming, very quiet, high-pitched screaming.
and I looked, I couldn't see what it was, I thought it was
a bird perhaps, stuck in a bush. Anyway, we found it eventually,
it was a baby hedgehog, and it had gone round the back of the
shed where there was some old garden, you know, the plastic netting,
and it had got itself wound up in plastic netting, and it was,
the net, the more it tried to get free, the more it tangled
itself up with another loop of it, and it had about six or eight
of these loops round its neck, nearly choking, and it was screaming
with this high-pitched voice, and we picked it out, and very
gently, cut it free and off it went but it was a good picture
of this don't be entangled with a yoke of bondage I'm sure that
hedgehog started with one little loop round it and it ended up
absolutely knotted up and this is what Paul is saying don't
be entangled with it it's a yoke of bondage if you look back at
Acts 15 and verse 10 the Council of Jerusalem Peter says this
Peter, who was a Jew, the Jewish apostle, Peter says this about
what should we impose on the Gentiles, because it was a question,
should we make them keep the law as well? And he said no,
he said this, he said we mustn't lay on them a yoke of bondage,
which we Jews couldn't keep, could we? He said, let's be honest,
we Jews couldn't keep it, nor could our forefathers keep it.
It's a yoke of legal bondage, and so we mustn't lay that on
these people. No. He says, we must tell them that
they're free in the Lord Jesus Christ. If you've never heard
this, listen to this, because you see, there's another yoke
spoken about in the scriptures not just the yoke of bondage
but there's the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ which is an altogether
different yoke it's the one where he says in Matthew 11 and verse
28 let me read it to you you know it well it's at the end
of Matthew 11 come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden
and I will give you rest take my yoke not that yoke of burden
not that yoke of bondage take my yoke upon you and learn from
me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest
for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light that's
the yoke to put upon you not the yoke of bondage of law works
religion but the light yoke of Christ and all that is in him
and the liberty that is in him Christ has purchased the liberty
of all whom the father gave him before the beginning of time
he's purchased it and if you're one of them he'll give you faith
to believe it and enter that glorious liberty and if you want
it do not fear ever being cast out because he said come to me
he who comes to me I will in no wise cast out so you see the
call of the gospel is a call to rest. It's arising from assurance
of Christ's finished work. Where do we get the rest from?
You get the rest from knowing that somebody else has done it.
You get the rest from knowing that you haven't got a debt to
pay because somebody else has paid it. He has paid it. The
job is done. It is finished. Justice is satisfied. The debt is paid. I am redeemed. I have been bought back. My name
is written on his hands and in his heart. And we're free, liberated
in Him to explore everything that God has for His people in
Christ. I love the line in one of Isaac
Watts' hymns. It says this, religion never
was designed to make our pleasures less. But oh, I know some people
who think it was designed to really give you a miserable time
and tie you up in bondage and stop you having any fun at all.
But it wasn't designed for that. It's freedom. in the Lord Jesus
Christ but be warned he says verses 2 to 4 of chapter 5 be
warned I Paul say to you that if you
become circumcised Christ will profit you nothing again I testify
to every man that becomes circumcised and that's just symbolical of
this law keeping legalistic approach he is a debtor to keep the whole
law you have become estranged from Christ You who attempt to
be justified by law, you have fallen from grace. You see that?
Christ will profit you nothing. If you count anything you do
as improving your standing with God, Christ will profit you nothing. Not just you'll lose some of
it, He'll profit you nothing. So circumcision, baptism, Bible
reading, praying, attending church, doing good to others, giving
money, doing favors for God. What are they? They're filthy
rags. If you value them in any way
for your standing with God, that they improve your standing with
God, they're nothing other than filthy rags. And that's the difference
between them and the fruit of the Spirit that we'll come to
in the next week or two. As soon as you start down that
road, you become a debtor, says Paul, to keep the whole law.
You can't have a bit of both. Once you start down that road,
you're totally obligated to keep all of the law in your own strength,
and you've fallen from grace. It's not teaching that you can
lose your salvation. You have to read it in its context,
and the context is this. It's an illustration that you've
fallen from grace. It's as if, if that's the case,
you never really were. You were deluded into thinking
that you were an object of grace, and you weren't. It's not teaching
that you can lose your salvation. You can be deluded and you can
have the appearance of a saved person but if you get back into
this works thing it will be that you're not in a state of grace
at all and that's because you never were in a state of grace
and so hence the encouragement stand fast Stand first in the
liberty of God's children. It's a glorious liberty. Don't
let religious legalism take it from you. This is what Paul is
saying here. This is what we need to stand in. This is what
we need to rejoice in. We need to avoid being entangled
with any yoke of bondage of legalism, legalistic religion, legalistic
works religion. And next time, we'll look at
the right and the wrong use of that liberty because it begs
an obvious question that surely being sinners we're going to
abuse that liberty and that's the accusation that's always
brought so we'll look at that next time okay well we'll sing
our closing hymn at this point