If he does come in and everybody
wants to run back there and talk to him, I won't be offended at
all. I'm just as excited as you are. Turn back to your text in Genesis
chapter 11. This is a familiar story, right? The
Tower of Babel? Everybody knows this story. You probably grew
up hearing it as a child. It's a story of a rebellion.
It's a story of the natural man's rebellion. It's a story of my
rebellion. It's a story of your rebellion. And it's a story of
the Lord putting down that rebellion, the history of it. This is also
the story of how God saves a sinner. There's the gospel right here
in this exact same story. Now here's my first question.
These children of men that represent the natural man, who is their
leader? Every group of men has a leader. We all have a leader.
Who's leading these men? I want you to turn back a page
to Genesis chapter 10, and I want you to look at verse 8. We begin
in verse 8. Genesis 10 verse 8, and Cush
beget Nimrod. He began to be mighty, a mighty
one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before
the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even is Nimrod the mighty hunter
before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom
was Babel, and Erech, and Achad, and Chalmeh in the land of Shinar. This is their leader, Nimrod.
Nimrod. We get some information about
him. You know what his name means? His name means rebellion. That's
what his name means. When we get some information
about this man, we find out that he is a mighty hunter before
the Lord. Now, what does that mean? That does not mean this
man went out and hunted animals. He may have, but that is not
what's being implied here. This man was a hunter of men's
souls. He was a bloodthirsty man. He's a picture of a false
prophet. He's a hunter. Now, think about
hunting for a second. We've got some hunters here.
I've done some hunting. How does a hunter stalk his prey? How
does a hunter get his prey? It's through deception. He camouflages
himself up, he sits in his hide, tries to be as quiet as he can
be, all in hopes that the prey is going to come in, and he'll
take him out. He hunts by deception. That's
a hunter. Now, notice back in your text
in the first verse, the emphasis that the verse puts on this thing
that people were of one language, and of one speech. So the leader,
obviously, must have been of one language and one speech.
When I ask this question, the hunter, when he's camouflaged
up, when he's in his hide and he's waiting for his prey, what
does he say? He says nothing. He wants to
be as quiet as he can be. He doesn't want to spook his
prey. But every once in a while, he issues a call. If you're hunting
turkey, you're gonna issue a turkey call. You're hunting duck, you're
gonna issue a duck call. You're gonna issue a call that is enticing
to your prey. That's going to pull them in.
It's gonna make them feel comfortable and draw them to you. Now here's
my point in all this. This Nimrod, this man whose name
means rebellion, he's a picture of Satan and all his false prophets,
the prince of this world. And him and all his false prophets
are of one speech and they're of one language. And here's their
speech, here's their language, nothing. Nothing that would offend
the natural man. Nothing that would suggest that
danger is afoot. Nothing that would suggest that God is angry
with the wicked, that he is holy and he will not let sin go unpunished.
Nothing that would lead the natural man to believe that he should
be anything but happy and content and complacent with his present
circumstances. A false prophet is best identified
by what he does not say. He says nothing. But in the midst
of all that nothing, the false prophet issues a call. He entices
his prey. He brings him in. And this is
the call that has always worked on the natural man. It's worked
all the way from the garden, and it's still working today.
And I want to show it to you. Turn to Genesis chapter 3. Look at
verse 5. This is Satan speaking to Eve
in the garden. They're talking about the fruit. Genesis 3, 5, For God doth know
that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. This is the call. This is the enticement that has
always worked on the natural man. Ye shall be as gods. You'll have your own glory. You'll
sit on the throne. You will be your own God. You'll
be the one who the angels are singing your praises. You'll
be your own God. It's the call that has always
worked throughout the ages. Now, where is that in our story?
Go back to your text and look at verse 4. You're going to want
to keep your finger there because we're going to turn back and
forth to a bunch of different scriptures. This call, this enticed these
people very well. Look at this, Genesis 11, verse 4. And they
said, these people, go to. Let us build us a city and a
tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a
name. What do they want? Let's make
a name for ourselves. Let's get ourselves some glory
here. Let us make us a name. That is their purpose in this
city. How are they going to accomplish
that purpose? They're going to build a city
and a tower, a city and a tower. Now, this city, this is not just
a place where people live. That's not the point here. What
it's talking about is a fortress. It's talking about a castle.
This is a refuge, a refuge where a man would flee from wrath,
a refuge. They're going to build their
own refuge. This is also a place of defense.
This is a place a man would flee to defend against his enemy.
And you know who their enemy is at this time, who they perceive
to be their enemy. It's the Lord. These men hated
God, and they were building a city, and they were building a tower.
They were going to defend themselves against God's wrath and against
God himself. They hated God. And I'm going
to show you that. These people are not too far
removed from the flood. They're about 120 years removed from
the flood. Noah is still alive at this point. And no doubt,
people are living 400 some odd years at this point. The flood
is still the talk of the town. It's still what people are talking
about. It's still what everyone thinks about. It's the flood.
From the flood, they saw some things. They saw something about
the wrath of God, and they saw something about the character
of God. And I'm gonna give you four things that I thought of.
Number one, they saw the Lord is holy. He's holy. They saw
that he would not allow sin to go unpunished. He was going to
punish sin, and he will always punish sin. And he wasn't going
to let one sin go unpunished. He wasn't even going to let the
sins of Noah and his family go unpunished. Why? Because the
ark had to take the flood. All the waves had to crash against
the ark. All the rain had to come down against the ark. All
the winds had to go against the ark. The ark had to brave the
flood for them. For Noah and his family to be
saved, the ark, the type of Christ, had to take the blows for them.
I knew God was holy, and he would not let sin go unpunished. From
the flood they knew this. They saw something of the mercy
of God. God is merciful, but they saw that he was sovereign
in showing that mercy. Genesis 6, 8 says, but Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah was a sinner. just like
everyone else, just like you and me. Well, let's get that
down pat. Jamie and I look for children's books all the time
that would tell the children's story, a gospel story, and they
always say the same thing. Noah was a good man, and the
Lord saved Noah because he was such a good man. That's not the
truth. Noah was a sinner like you and me. Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord. They saw the Lord was merciful,
but he was sovereign in showing mercy. He will be merciful to
whom he will be merciful, and he will be gracious to whom he
will be gracious, but he is sovereign in showing that mercy and that
grace, and they saw that. They saw that he was a God of
election. Did Noah choose the Lord? The Lord chose Noah, and
he chose to pass by the rest of the world. He was a God of
election. They saw this, he was a God of
sovereignty. They saw the entire world was
in his hands, and he could wipe them out anytime he felt like
it. They all sat in his hands, and he could do whatever it is
he wanted with these people. What is their response to that,
after seeing all that? Did they sing for mercy? Did
they beg for forgiveness? Rebellion. Hatred. And that is the response of a
natural man, if he ever sees who God is. Now, they wanted to build a city
and a tower. They wanted this defense from
God. They wanted their own refuge. They're going to build their
own refuge. Not Christ. not the refuge of God's providing,
not the ark, the ark that Noah was in. They want to build their
own refuge and their own tower. And here's what they're going
to do with this tower. This is a tower that's going to reach all the
way to the top of heaven. They're going to climb in their
tower, and they're going to make their own way to heaven. They're
going to come to God their own way. They're going to build.
They're going to build their own way to God. They're going
to find acceptance through what they do. That's what this tower
represents. This is their safety, this is
their defense, and this is their way to God, is this tower. Now,
they're building materials. What are their building materials?
Look at verse 3 of your text. And they said one to another,
go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they
had brick for stone, and slime they had for mortar. Here's what
they're going to do. They're going to make bricks,
and they're going to put slime in between them. And they're
going to make a row, and they're going to step up on that row. They're
going to go a little bit higher. They're going to make another row. They're
going to step up on that row. They're going to be a little
bit higher. And they're going to build this tower all the way up to heaven. They're
going to build their own way to God. What are these bricks
and slime? I'm going to give you a scripture
here. Turn to Luke 18. The brick, figuratively speaking,
is what man says he does not do. It's what man says he is
not. The slime is what man says he
does. I'm going to show you that pickup
in verse 9 of Luke 18. And he spake this parable unto
certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous and
despised others. Two men went into the temple
to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a Republican. The Pharisee
stood. Why did he stand? Because he
was hard at work. Every priest standeth daily,
ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins. But a priest never stood because
his work was never done, because what he was doing never took
away any sins. This man was hard at work. He stood. He stood. The Pharisee stood, and he prayed
thus with himself. What's meant there? He prayed
thus with himself. Does that just mean his prayers
aren't going anywhere, the Lord's not hearing him? No, he's praying to himself. Why? Because in this man's own
estimation, he is his own God. He is his own Savior. He's going
to build his tower of his bricks and his slime, and he's going
to work his way all the way to heaven. He's going to be his
own God. He's going to be his own Savior. He prayed thus with
himself, because by his estimation, who else would he pray to? He
believed in salvation by works. Salvation is dependent on what
I do. Therefore, I'm the God. I'm the Savior. The Pharisee
stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not
as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as
this publican. You're not an extortioner. You're
not trying to rob God of his glory. You're not unjust. You're not seeking to justify
yourself by your wicked works. You're not an adulterer. You're
not seeking acceptance with God outside of Christ. Everything
the natural man says, he is not. That is exactly what he is, and
it's exactly what you and I are by nature. Everything he says
he is not, that's exactly what he is. Now here's the slogan,
verse 18. I fast twice in the week. I give
tithes of all that I possess. The natural man believes that
salvation is what he does for God. And I love this word slime
that the scripture used to describe man's works. Slime. And what
it actually means is bitumen, which is kind of an oily substance,
but I like how it's translated here. This word slime, it implies
disgust because that's exactly what they are before God. They
are disgusting. They have a putrid smell. This man was building his tower.
He's going to build his own way to God through the do's and the
don'ts of the law. This is salvation by works. Now
what was their concern? Go back to your text and look
at verse 4. And they said, Go to, let us
build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven. and
let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the
face of the whole earth." Now what eventually happened to these
people? What was the judgment the Lord finally rained down
on them? They were scattered, right? Two
things they wanted. They wanted to avoid something.
They wanted to avoid the wrath of God. And they wanted to attain
to something. They wanted to attain to the
acceptance of God. These two things they wanted.
But because of the way they went about it, this is the thing they
received. the judgment of God, and the
thing that they were denied, acceptance. What I'm saying here
is this. This is the natural man. He wants
to be his own God. He seeks to glorify himself.
He wants to stand on his tower of his bricks and his slime and
say, I'm here. I'm in heaven because I built
all this. That's what he wants. But his
tower is torn down. He receives the judgment. And
he does not have acceptance because of the way he purposed to come
on that tower of his brick and his slime. Now, let me show you something
terrifying. Look at verse 6 of your text. And the Lord said, behold, the
people is one, and they have all one language, and this they
begin to do. And now nothing will be restrained
from them which they have imagined to do. What does man imagine
to do? Genesis 6-5, God saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil and that continually. It talks about restraint here.
And if you want a type of that, see, we don't act out as bad
as what we really are. There is restraining grace in
this life. We're thankful for that because
the Lord really took the restraints off. We destroy each other overnight.
That's the truth about you and me. But if you want to see what
actually lies in man's heart, when the restraints are removed,
you go to the cross. The one time men were left alone,
unrestrained to do what they wanted to do with God, what did
they do? They beat him, they mocked him,
and they murdered him. And folks, that is why men deserve
to go to hell. That's it right there. It's not
just that we're sinners. It's not just that we think evil things and
we do evil things. It's that we want to dethrone
God by nature, that we want to be our own God, and we would
kill him if we could get our hands on him. That's why men
deserve to go to hell, because that's what lies in every natural
man's heart. But the point here is this. He
says, nothing will be restrained from them. What he's saying here
is this. If a man seeks to come this way, If he wants to stand
on the bricks and the slime of his own personal obedience, and
he wants to build his tower and try to find acceptance that way,
I'm not going to stop him. The Lord will meet you on the
grounds that you come to him on. And if you come on that tower
of bricks and slime, he will meet you on those grounds, and
you'll be met with the same judgment these people were met with. No
restraints. And my point is this. Men do
what they want to do. We are no victims to the sovereignty
of God. Now, the Lord's judgment. Look at verse 7 of your text.
The Lord says, go to, let us go down and there confound their
language that they may not understand one another's speech. So the
Lord scattered them abroad from the fence upon the face of all
the earth, and they left off to build the city. Two judgments. confounded, and scattered, confounded,
confused, and scattered, separated. Two judgments. Now, what does
that look like? There's going to be a day where
every man who stood on his own tower of his bricks and his slime,
he is going to be judged, and it is going to be a day of confusion,
and it's going to be a day of separation. And I'll show you
that. Turn over to Matthew 7. Look at verse 22. What does this day look like?
Matthew 7 and verse 22. Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? I'm confused. In
thy name have cast out devils. I'm confused. In thy name done
many wonderful works. I'm confused. And then I will
profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that
work iniquity. You've been separated. It's going
to be a day of confusion for every man who stood on the bricks
and slime of his own personal obedience. He will be confused.
I thought I just had to do my best and Christ was going to
do the rest. I thought I just had to accept Jesus Christ as
my personal savior. I'm confused. I thought I just
had to allow him to be my king. I'm confused. Depart from me.
You need to work in equity. I never knew you. What a dreadful
thing to hear. Now that's kind of been a downer,
right? Been kind of a Debbie downer for the first little while.
Where's the gospel in all this? Where's hope for sinners? Where's
the good news in all this? Verse 7 of your text, it's in
four words. Go to, let us go down. The gospel is the good news of
how the Lord He came down and He met His people where they
were at, and He saved us. He came down. In all our inability,
in all our sinfulness, in all our natural hatred of God, He
came down and He saved us with no help from us, the elect. When it says, let us go down,
who's speaking here? Who's he talking about? Is the
Lord saying, well, I'm gonna go down with my angels? I'm gonna go down with
someone else? No, no, no, this is the Trinity. They're speaking
amongst themselves. The Father speaking with the
Son, the Son with the Holy Spirit. Let us go down. We will accomplish
this. The Father. He came to us. He came down before the world
ever began in love for a particular people in Christ. And he elected
those people unto salvation in Christ, a particular people.
And those are the people who are going to be saved, and they
cannot not be saved. Now, the world can hate election
all they want. Not my business. Election is
my only hope. Because I know if it was left
up to me to choose God, to make a choice for Him, I never would
have. My only hope is that He elected me before the world ever
began, that He came to me before I ever knew I needed anything
or anyone. The Father, the Spirit, He comes
at the Lord's appointed time in the regeneration, giving a
member of the elect a new nature. a holy nature, the nature of
God himself, and a new heart. He gives the new birth. Now,
think of this thing of birth for a moment. Birth. In birth,
the beginnings are very painful, aren't they? The mother goes
through great travail. The child goes through great
travail. If you ever want to see a bunch of people worked
up walk into a maternity ward, and you see people who are normally
pretty calm and collected, they'll be losing their minds because
this is a time of great stress. This is similar to the first
works of the Spirit in a man's heart. It comes as a travail
in the beginning because it begins with a tearing down. The Holy
Spirit comes in and he shows us that the bricks and slime
of our obedience are nothing, absolutely nothing, that they
will never stand against God's wrath, that we can never work
our way to heaven, that they are nothing. And it's a terrifying
thing, and it's a painful thing, But what is the end result? Life. Life. New life is birthed in
the believer. And with that life comes a new
heart, a heart of faith. We don't have any confidence
in ourselves. I have no confidence in myself. But I have all confidence that
he is able. Paul said, I know whom I have
believed, and I am persuaded that he is able. Able. Do you believe that He is able?
Able to save you with absolutely no help from you, simply as an
act of His will. Absolutely, I do. A new heart
of faith. It's also a heart of repentance.
Repentance. You guys have heard this before.
Repentance is a change of mind which results from a change of
masters and produces a change in manners. But there's another
change. There is a change in enemies. The Lord brings a man to a repentant
state. His enemies change. Before, he perceived his enemy
to be the Lord. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ is
my only hope. He is my only hope of salvation.
But I see who the enemy is. The enemy is standing right here.
I'm my own worst enemy. I need defense from me. We take
sides with God against ourself. Unless the Lord does this for
us and in us, a man will hate God. You can show him who Christ
is all day long. Unless he has a new heart, he
will still hate God. Just like these people, he will
rebel against him. He will set off to build his
own city and he will set off to build his own tower. Unless
the Lord does something for you and in you, you will always hate
God because you can't bring yourself to repentance and you can't give
yourself heart of faith. But this speaks chiefly. Let
us come down. This speaks chiefly of the Lord
Jesus Christ coming down to save his people. There are three great
stoops that are recorded in the scriptures that the Lord Jesus
Christ made. He came down in three major respects. First,
he came down when he was made man. This is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in a body. He
came down the infinite, became an infant, and he dwelt in a
body of flesh. He left his father's presence.
He left all the praise of all the angels, and he came down
here in a body of flesh to dwell with us. He felt the touch of our infirmities.
He experienced hunger. He experienced sorrow. He experienced
grief. He experienced fatigue. He experienced
loneliness. He was in all points tempted.
That means he was tried. He was subject to trials and
afflictions, just like you and me. Yet he never sinned. He never
stopped believing God. He lived a perfect and holy life. And he honored God's law every
jot in his tittle, in every tittle. And he kept God's holy law. And
he fulfilled his father's will. He came down when he was made
sin. Second Corinthians 521 says, for he, speaking of the father,
hath made him, speaking of the son, to be sin for us. Who's
the us? Is that every man on the face
of the earth? No, it is not. Because if he
died for every man on the face of the earth, then every man
would be saved. This is for the elect. who knew no sin, he never
sinned, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now, sin doesn't bother me very
much at all, if I'm honest. I am so incredibly used to it.
But this one who knew no sin, he became my sin. He bore our
sins in his body on the tree, and he experienced the grief
of sin. the agony of the wrath of sin.
All the father's wrath was poured down upon him. The wrath that
was reserved for every member of the elect was poured down
upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The shame, he experienced it
all. He experienced the frown of his
father, separation from his father. His father turned his back on
him and he forsook him. This man came down. And he came
down when he died. The God-man died. What can I
say about that? He said, it is finished. And
through that death, he accomplished the salvation of all his people. Let us come down. Now, remember what the people of Babel
were seeking. They're going to build their own city. They're
going to build their own defense against God's wrath. They're
going to build their own tower, their own defense, their own refuge.
And they're going to have this tower go all the way to heaven,
and they're going to get there on their own through the work
of their hands. That's what they're going to do. And they want a
name, a name. Their end was a confounding and
a scattering. And that's what the end of every
man will be that seeks to come that way. But here's my point. Here's my point for all of us.
For the elect, for everyone who is looking to Christ alone right
now, we have all that in the Lord Jesus Christ. And I'm going
to show you that. We're going to start with a name. Here's
how I want to do this. I'm going to have you turn to
two scriptures, but I want you to hold one while we look at the other
so you can look at them almost simultaneously. Turn to Jeremiah 33. Jeremiah 33, once you have that
there, I want you to hold on to that scripture, and I want
you to go to Jeremiah 23. Jeremiah 33, once you have that,
go to Jeremiah 23. And go to Jeremiah 23, verse
5. Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and
a king shall reign and prosper. Who's that righteous branch of
David? That's Christ. That's the Lord Jesus Christ,
the righteous branch of David. He's the king. He's the sovereign. And a king shall reign and prosper,
and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his
days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely. And
this is his name whereby, I want you to remember this word, he
shall be called the Lord our righteousness. This is the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I want you to go down to
Jeremiah 33 and look at verse 14. This is the name whereby he shall
be called, the Lord our righteousness. Look at Jeremiah 33 and look
at verse 14. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I
will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the
house of Israel and to the house of Judah. A good thing for a
particular people. In those days, and at that time,
will I cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto David. That's
the Lord Jesus Christ. And he shall execute judgment
and righteousness in the land. In those days shall Judah be
saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name
wherewith she shall be called, the Lord our righteousness. What's his name? The Lord our
righteousness. What's our name? the Lord our
righteousness. His name is our name. What does
that mean? What's the implications of that?
How real is a believer's union with Christ? We've got the same
name. It's because we're part of the
same body. He is the head and we are the body. Let me ask you
something. You've got a body. Can the head be righteous and
the elbow be unrighteous? Nope. The whole body is righteous. Let me ask you this. Can the
head be holy and the elbow be unholy? Nope. The whole body
is one. Can the head be accepted by the
Father and the elbow be unaccepted by the Father? No. No, absolutely not. We have His
name because we are eternally united to Him, and that means
His righteousness, the Lord our righteousness, really is our
righteousness. It really is mine. When He walked
the paths of righteousness, and he honored his father in all
things, and he kept the law. We were in him, and we walked
those paths just along with him. That's our righteousness. That
means when he went to the cross and he bore our sins in his body,
he really did bear our sins in his body. And he bled and died,
and he suffered the wrath, but he was raised again. You know
what that means? That means we're justified. That means God has
no more wrath for the elect. It's all been swallowed up in
Christ, He put the wrath away when He put the sin away, and
now you're justified. You are not guilty. You are the
Lord, our righteousness. Any man looking to Christ alone,
that's your name. Somebody says, you want to make
a name for yourself? Nope. I've got one. I've got a better name. The Lord, our righteousness.
Now, here's the other thing they want. They want a tower, and
they want a city. They want a place of defense. They want a place
of refuge, and they want an access to heaven and access to God,
acceptance. They want to build their own
way. Turn over to Proverbs 18 and look at verse 10. Todd mentioned
this in the Sunday school this morning, and I'm going to steal
it and I'm going to use it because it's really good. We're talking about a name. What's
in a name? We're talking about a tower and
a city. Proverbs 18, look at verse 10. The name of the Lord is a strong
tower. The righteous runneth into it
and is safe. I don't know what else to say
about that other than Christ is our strong tower. Flee to Him. Inside the tower is the place
of safety. That's where the righteous run.
We're righteous in Him. But look at this, look at verse
11. The rich man, talking about a man who is rich, in his own
estimate, rich in good works, rich in a self-righteousness.
The rich man's wealth, his personal righteousness, which he perceives,
is a strong city and has a high wall in his own conceit. What
that means is in his own imagination, in his own opinion, in his own
perception. And that's a city that's going
to be teared down. It will never withstand the wrath of God, but
Christ is our high tower. He is the place of refuge. He's
the house with the blood over the door and on the side post.
He's the ark, the ark that bore the flood. He is the only place
of safety. If a man wants to build his own
city, and by his own estimation, it's built with the works of
his righteousness, that city's going to be wiped out and him
with it. The place of safety, flee to Christ. And finally,
they want an access. They want access to heaven. They
want acceptance with God. And I'm just going to read this
to you. John 14, 6 says, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father,
but by me. He is our great high priest.
And this is our hope, is that when he goes to his Father, we're
in him. We are the Lord, our righteousness.
And we're in Him, and when He goes to the Father, we go in
Him. And the acceptance that He is
accepted with, we have that same acceptance because of who we
are in. The Lord our righteousness. Here's my conclusion, turn back
to your text and look at verse 8. So the Lord scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left
off to build the city. I'm calling on you to do something
tonight. I'm calling on you to leave off. Leave off building your city,
trying to build your own defense, trying to build your own tower,
your own way to God. I'm calling on you to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ alone, because He is the only place
of safety, He is the only place of defense, He is the only way
of access, and He is the only name that the Father recognizes
and greets with acceptance. And that's where I'm going to
end. And Tom's in the back so you
guys can borrow a score from me and get done with it.