Episode Transcript
Good morning.
It's now 60 minutes after the hour of 9 o'clock.
Let's see how awake you all are.
And we're glad you've dedicated your time to be with us both in person, or either in person or online.
And we're going to study God's Word.
We're in 2 Kings chapter 18, verse 32, where we left off last week.
2 Kings chapter 18 and verse 32.
Still in the middle of Rab Sheikah, the Assyrian military commander, trying to convince Judah that it's going to be better for them if they surrender and go to Assyria than if they stay there and die.
And so let's read verse 32 again.
It's a rather long verse, and we have taken it apart over the last few weeks to our advantage.
"Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live and not die.
And hearken not to Hezekiah," now that's Judah's king, "when he persuadeth you, saying, 'The Lord will deliver us.'"
Rab Sheikah told the representatives of Judah, and hence the people of Judah, "hearken not to Hezekiah."
Don't listen to your king.
Listen to mine was the implication.
"Harken not to Hezekiah when he persuadeth you."
And we learned last week that the word persuadeth means to entice.
So Rab Sheikah here is accusing Hezekiah of doing the very thing that Rab Sheikah himself is doing to Judah.
Now what was the specific thing that Hezekiah would say to persuade Judah?
The thing to which Rab Sheikah told Judah not to hearken.
What was that?
Well here it is.
"The Lord will deliver us."
So when Hezekiah would say, "The Lord will deliver us to the people of Judah before he ever said it," Rab Sheikah said, "Don't listen to him when he persuades you, when he tries to entice you by saying, 'The Lord will deliver us.'"
And boy that Rab Sheikah is quite the walking contradiction, isn't he?
First he mocked the Lord as we learned.
Then he said the Lord sent him to destroy Judah.
And now he says the Lord will not deliver Judah.
And that the people shouldn't believe their king when he says otherwise.
Now Rab Sheikah is not the only one who has tried to discourage people from believing that the Lord will deliver them.
And we're going to look at that for a few moments this morning.
Write down in your notes Acts chapter 15 verse 1.
It says, "And certain men which came down from Judah taught the brethren and said, 'Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.'"
Now the writer of the book of Acts, who was Luke, called the men who were being taught by these men from Judea, brethren.
He called them brethren.
So when Luke is saying these men came down from Judea, these men were coming from Judea and were teaching those who were already Christians.
And if they were brethren, they were Christians.
If they were Christians, they were saved.
They put their trust in what Jesus had just done at the cross for them.
And now he rose again from the dead for their justification.
They already believed that.
They were saved.
They were saved the same way you and I are, by believing that same gospel.
They were fellow Christians.
They believed what Jesus taught in Luke chapter 4 verse 18.
Luke 4.18, where Jesus said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised."
And yet, even though Jesus preached this gospel in the ears of the Jews before Acts 15 was even written, these men from Judea who were Jews told the Christian brethren, "You cannot be saved."
They said the same thing that Rabbi Sheikah told the people of Judah.
"Your king's going to try to persuade you that the Lord will deliver you and you cannot be delivered.
You cannot be saved."
They told them they could not be delivered the way Jesus said they could.
These Judaizers, by their very words, not directly but indirectly, told the brethren, "Harken not to Jesus when he persuadeth you, saying the Lord shall deliver you."
"Harken not to the apostles when they persuade you, saying the Lord will deliver you."
Now these Jews from Judea in Acts did not believe Jesus was God.
So they did not believe he had authority to teach anything differently than what they taught.
And what they taught was that it was only by the keeping of the commandments of the Old Testament that one could be righteous with God.
And if they believed Jesus was the Son of God, they would have believed His words.
Rather than saying the Old Testament law would save.
Jesus said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law."
He wrote the law.
He gave it to Moses.
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law."
"I'm not come to destroy the law but to fulfill it."
But these Judaizers from Jesus did not believe Jesus had the authority to do that because they saw Him as just a man.
Because had they believed Jesus was God the Son, they would have understood when He taught them about the purpose of the Old Testament law and all of those ordinances and what they meant.
And because the men from Judea did not believe Jesus was God the Son, then they persecuted anyone else who did.
They persecuted anyone who said you could be saved by faith in the Son of God and His work rather than the keeping of the law through man's work.
That's the nature of persecution all over the world and it always has been.
A Christian doesn't persecute anybody.
Now there have been many who call themselves Christians who persecuted, but a Christian won't persecute anyone.
A Christian will preach the gospel to them in labor in the gospel and pray for lost souls.
But if someone in the end says, "I'm not going to believe."
If they run you off whether you're at work or in your own family living room, somebody says, "I don't want to hear it."
Well we don't turn around and persecute them.
But all of these other religions in the world persecute people who don't believe like they do.
You tell me that you want to go live in a country that's run by Sharia law.
You better not be a Christian or you won't come back.
And at least not like you were, you'll come back in a body bag.
And so these Judaizers from Judea were no different than any other religious body that persecutes God's people.
Now the apostles and the other early Christians gave their freedom and their lives away for preaching the gospel.
They were told not to preach it, but they obeyed God rather than men even at the expense of their own lives.
And I pray for God to continue to make us bold to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ during these very trying days.
And these times aren't going to get any better.
Not on this earth.
Not until Jesus comes and sets up his government and makes all things new.
But while we live on this sin cursed earth, if you're looking for things to get better and better, you're fooling yourself.
It's not going to happen.
We may have days that are better than others.
We may have leaders better than others.
And sometimes the economy is better than others.
But overall, this is not going to get better.
It's going to get worse.
And our trials, our persecutions are very light when you consider the brothers and sisters in the Lord in other places like China and Iran and North Korea.
Yes, we have Christian brothers and sisters in all of those countries and everywhere else that's hostile to Christians.
And the leaders of those countries and the false preachers in those countries and the ones here too will tell you not to hearken to men when they persuade you saying the Lord will deliver us.
In fact, our persecution is going to come from our own government.
Just like the Apostle Paul's persecution did in Acts 18, verses 12 through 13, Acts 18, verses 12 through 13, where it says, "And when Galio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul."
Now, Paul was a Jew.
He was from the tribe of Benjamin.
So he was a Jew in the flesh, just like these Jews who were making insurrection against him.
It says, "And they brought him to the judgment seat, saying, 'This fellow persuaded men to worship God contrary to the law.'"
He persuaded men, he enticed them to worship God.
He persuaded them to believe the gospel.
"But the Pharisees and the heathen alike told the people in various ways, 'Don't hearken to him, the Lord shall not deliver them.'"
Now, back to your text in 2 Kings 18.
We are going to verse 33, and wow, we spent a lot of time in verse 32, didn't we?
We spent almost as much time in verse 32 as we did in the whole book of Jeremiah and Nella.
It was close, pretty close.
But how much treasure was there for us to enjoy?
And I hope you did enjoy and learn from it.
And if you're a note taker, and I encourage you to be one, what you learn in this hour, not just today, but every Sunday school, and every 11 o'clock hour, and every Wednesday night, what you learn will help you in your Christian walk.
And if you make notes and you come across, let's say you find a passage in Song of Solomon, a revelation, or here in 2 Kings, 10 or 15 years down the road, and you read it and you say, "I don't remember what that means."
You go back to your notes.
"I've got mine in chronological order for the entire time that I've been here."
And they're all handwritten notes, and they're not fancy, but they're mine, and I understand what they mean.
And when I go back and I find a passage that I know we've studied in here, I'll go back and look at the notes, whether they're mine or Brother Fulton's messages, and say, "Oh, that's right."
And there'll be a scripture in there that'll point me to another scripture that'll help explain that truth.
And I encourage you to do that, and perhaps your notes will also help you to explain to others how to understand those new or difficult passages.
So we're going to take verse 33 as a whole and learn a few things from it, and let's read it, and then we'll talk about it.
"Now this is Rabshika once again speaking to the representatives of the king of Judah.
"Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?"
Well, first of all, this question begins with a false premise, and that premise is that there are other gods.
A false premise is used to get you to buy a false conclusion.
A false premise is a false foundation, and arguments that are built upon a false foundation have no support, no matter how fancy they are, how wordy they are, how long and well thought out they are.
If they're built upon a false premise or a false foundation, they don't have any support.
You know this from the parable Jesus taught in Matthew chapter 7, verses 26 through 27, Matthew 7 verses 26 through 27, where he said, "And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand.
And the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell and great was the fall of it."
Now I know you've got that little song in your mind, "The wise man built his house upon a rock, the foolish man built his house upon the sand."
And that's good if that helps you to remember that passage.
But let's look at this foolish man's house and tie it to what we're learning here about verse 33, about this false premise that there are other gods.
"The foolish man built his house on a false premise."
He did.
That false premise was sand, but how was it a false premise?
Well, after all, it must have looked just as good as the house the wise man built.
Many do.
While you go through a subdivision of brand new houses with all that fresh paint and clean driveways and brand new yards and the bricks look nice or the stone, and you think, "Well, these are a bunch of nice houses."
But if they're built on bad foundations, if they're just tacked and glued together here and there when nails and screws were called for, come back in a little while in a year or two and you'll start seeing that that once beautiful upper structure does not have what it takes to continue to be a beautiful upper structure.
It's without a foundation.
And so this foolish man in this parable built his house upon sand.
And when it was finished, it stayed put for a little while.
Now, we don't know how long the house in the parable stood, but we know this, that rains and floods and winds came and beat upon that house.
And because the house was built on a false premise, it fell and great was the fall of it.
Now, what did Jesus say that false premise was for that man?
Yes, it was sand as we think of it in earthly terms, but he said everyone that hearth these sayings of mine and do with them not, that's the person who is likened to the foolish man.
So when you hear the Word of God and millions and millions will hear it today and millions more will hear it some other day, you'll either believe it or you won't.
So it's not Jesus didn't say, if you hear my words, then your house is built upon a firm foundation.
He said, if you hear and obey my words and to obey the gospel doesn't mean you go out here and do the gospel, it means you believe what Jesus did, belief in the gospel.
So just hearing his words will not give you a strong house.
That's why many people will go to hell from a church pew, just as quickly as they will from the gutter of a back alley brothel or a drug house or somewhere else like that, or from an atheist couch.
They'll go to hell from church pews too because they hear God's Word but they don't obey it.
They don't do it.
They don't believe the gospel.
They believe there's another way and the key to understanding, or this is a key to understanding religions that are based upon a false premise.
Some of the most beautiful church buildings in the world can be found in the Mormon religion.
I mean spectacular architectural structures and they're usually white or some variation of white and they have these tall spires and the architectural features on them are pretty neat to look at.
But the people who worship inside those magnificent buildings have a false premise.
They're sitting on a false premise.
Oh maybe not the building itself.
But they have a faulty foundation.
In 1842 their founder, the Mormon founder, also the Jesus Christ Church of Latter-day Saints they call themselves, you have to be saved to be a saint.
That's it.
You're not a saint because somebody declares you one based on your works or your service.
You're a saint when you are a Christian.
If you're not a Christian you're not a saint.
Don't care if you call yourself one or not.
And nobody can vote you in as a saint.
So we got that out of the way.
But their founder Joseph Smith gave 13 statements that are foundational articles of the Mormon faith.
I'm going to read you number eight.
This is quote.
He said, "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly.
We also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God."
That is straight out of their doctrinal statement.
Now the first half of that statement would be perfect if they just put a period at the end of it.
That the Bible is the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly.
Absolutely.
I want a correctly translated Bible.
Period.
Anything else that's called the Word of God is not the Word of God.
Including the Book of Mormon.
In fact, adding the Book of Mormon as holy scriptures is like taking dirt and putting it in the concrete mix.
Now these people have a false premise.
They have a false foundation.
They've got dirt in the concrete mix.
They had a firm foundation with God's Word to hear it and to do it.
But they mixed the Book of Mormon in there and gave it equal credence even though it was written by a man in the 1800s, Joseph Smith.
And of course it had to be modified since then because some of their numbers were wrong.
Well, what do you think is going to happen to that house?
Great will be the fall of it.
No matter how beautiful the church buildings are.
Let me tell you I'd rather worship on a dirt floor and a lawn chair and have my foundation in God's Word than go to hell from a mahogany pew in a church that looks like a castle and is not founded completely upon God's Word.
So we've used a little time here to help you understand what a false premise is.
Let's see how that unfolds in verse 33 of our text in 2 Kings 18 if you're just joining us or if you lost your place.
I want you to look at this phrase again, "th any of the gods."
Now the phrase "any of the gods" is a false foundation.
It's a false premise.
And to accept the rest of verse 33 you would have to accept the premise that there are many gods.
Only then could the rest of that verse be possible if you're just dealing logically with it.
The prophet Isaiah who was writing at about the time in history we're reading about gives us great insight into this truth that there are no other gods that this is a false premise Rabshekah begins from.
I love teaching the Bible.
This is so fun and rewarding.
I'm going to read to you from Isaiah chapter 37 verses 18 through 20.
Isaiah 37 verses 18 through 20.
Imagine this, having the words of a prophet available to you in real time at the same time Rabshekah is speaking his lies to Judah.
Here's what Isaiah wrote, "of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries."
Now that's what we're talking about.
We're talking about Assyria and what they have done.
"And have cast their gods into the fire for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone.
Therefore they have destroyed them.
Now therefore, O Lord, our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only."
Now the Assyrians had cast all these nations gods into the fire, Isaiah tells us, because they weren't gods at all.
Isaiah further said, "not only were they not gods, but these were the work of men's hands."
Now when we've studied idols and images, we've talked about that extensively in here, but we'll never be done until the Lord comes to get us.
And those idols, those gods with a little g, were made of wood and stone, both of which God created in the beginning.
Now God created the wood and the stone, didn't he?
But men fashioned them into these idols.
And the gods of the wood and stone weren't real.
The stones were real.
The sculptures were real sculptures, but the actual gods were not.
Because if those gods were real, they would have been more powerful than their own worshipers.
Isn't that part of the contract?
If you're going to claim your God, you've got to be perfect.
You have to be sovereign, you have to have always existed, you have to have made all things.
Otherwise you can't be God, and there's only one, and Isaiah said it.
But those idols, those false gods were limited by the hands that made them.
They looked like whatever the carpenter wanted them to look like.
I mean, when a, now I'm not a very good whittler, what I end up doing, I just whittle everything down to nothing, and I don't have anything.
But some people know how to make stuff out of wood.
Billy probably carve all kinds of neat things out of wood.
But I just doing it because I saw someone else doing it, and I thought it was neat when I was a little boy.
But if I had the ability, or the patience more likely, to fashion something out of wood, in my mind, the entire time I'm carving that image, I would have up here what I want that to look like.
There'd be an image in my head of whether I wanted that to be a knife handle, or a toilet paper roller, or whatever I was going to make out of that stick of wood.
And that limits what that piece of wood can look like, is what my imagination and my ability allows.
And it's the same with these false gods, these images that were made.
Or perhaps it was a stone cutter because it said some of these were made out of stone.
That stone cutter knows what he wants that image to look like.
You know, another thing occurred to me in my study yesterday.
We know the Bible tells us our God is a consuming fire.
And we know that unbelievers will be cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death.
And listen to Matthew chapter 13 verses 41 through 42.
Matthew chapter 13 verses 41 through 42.
"The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire.
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
Now these angels are the Lord's angels, and in obedience to Him, the one who created them, the angels didn't create God, God created the angels.
And not by the cutting of wood or the cutting of stone, but by His own creative power, His Word alone, He created not only the angels but all things.
Now I want you to see the difference between our God who will command His angels to cast unbelievers into the fire and the gods of wood and stone that are made by hands.
Second Chronicles 28 verses 2 through 3, speaking of evil King Ahaz.
We studied Ahaz in second Kings as well.
Second Chronicles 28 verses 2 through 3 says about him, "For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made also molten images for Balaam.
Moreover, he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom and burnt his children in the fire after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel."
Now who was it that cast children into the fire?
Was it Baal?
No.
Was it the angels of Baal?
No, he doesn't have any angels because he's not real.
It was the worshipers of Baal, the same ones who created the molten images and the wooden images to Balaam in the first place.
Well who started the fire into which these children were cast?
Was it Baal?
No.
It was the worshipers of Baal.
Again, it was the man who started the fire.
And no matter how large the fire is, a fire made by man will always go out.
You may have been to the biggest bonfire in the world.
It always burns out.
It's over with.
But God's fire will never go out.
Revelation chapter 20 verse 10.
Revelation 20 verse 10.
"And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever."
That's a fire that never goes out.
That's a torment that is never over.
In 1 Kings chapter 18, which we studied probably a year or two ago, the prophets of Baal were challenged by the prophet Elijah.
And in verse 24, chapter 1 Kings 18, 24, listen to what would be the test to prove whose God was real.
Elijah said, "And call ye," he's talking about, he's talking to the prophets of Baal.
He said, "And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord.
And the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.
And all the people answered and said it is well spoken."
They all agreed the acid test of who the real God was would be the one who answered by fire.
And having studied that passage, we know the gods of Balaam could not call fire down at all.
The rituals they performed, those prophets of Baal cutting themselves, hollering and all of that, were nothing more than a false premise.
It was based on a false premise because, as Isaiah said, they are no gods.
It wasn't that Balaam couldn't bring the fire down that day, it was that Balaam wasn't real.
And God, on the other hand, showed himself as God by sending fire down and consuming all the sacrifices that day.
And we have to get a hold of this, and Judah needed to get a hold of that truth, that they were being given a false premise that, if it was believed, would lead them right into Rab Sheikah's trap.
He asked them rhetorically, meaning he didn't need an answer.
The answer was obvious in his question.
He asked them whether any of the gods had delivered his nation into the hands, out of the hands of the king of Assyria.
Now that meant something else, that each of those gods supposedly had their own lands.
So if you follow that there are other gods, then you'll follow that they have the ability to deliver, and that they have their own lands.
If you say there are no other gods, then none of the rest of that matters, does it?
Let's think about the foolishness of that statement, whether any of the gods had delivered his own nation.
Now I want to emphasize those three words, his own nation.
So not only were these false gods limited by the design of the carpenter or the stone cutter, but they were also limited in their geographical authority.
The god of one country, according to this premise, had no say so over the land that belonged to another country's god.
That's not a god, that's a governor.
Let's see how the Bible describes the Lord God's geographical authority.
Isaiah 54 verse 5, Isaiah chapter 54 in verse 5.
"For thy maker is thine husband, the lord of host is his name, and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called."
God doesn't have just a nation, like the false gods, Rab Sheikah was talking about, that God is the god of the whole earth.
And just to review, going back to Genesis, God created the earth and he gave Adam dominion over all the earth, all the things that were in it.
In Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 is your text for that.
Genesis 1 26, "And God said, 'Let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'"
Now when Adam and Eve sinned, they forfeited their position of dominion over the earth.
So because they yielded to Satan, the earth was cursed.
And Satan, whom the Bible calls the god of this world, which means the god of this age, it also calls him the prince of the power of the air, and the prince of this world, which is cosmos.
That's the arrangement that you see that God made.
That's who Satan is now when it comes to geographical authority.
But both Satan and man are under God's authority, aren't they?
They're under his ultimate rule.
And God is not only the god of a certain land, while having no power over the other, he's a god over all the earth.
In fact, God's authority is not only over all the earth, but it's even greater than that.
John chapter 1 verses 1 through 3.
John chapter 1 verses 1 through 3.
"In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made."
Now it is an unchangeable truth that a creator has authority over his creation.
That is indisputable.
And unless that creator yields or gives that authority to someone else, that authority ultimately is him, is his.
Now you think about that as as a parent.
When a man and a woman make a baby, they are the baby's parents, and they have authority over every aspect of that baby's life.
And when that baby gets a little older, that mother and dad may say, "Well, we're going to send our child to school, or we're going to let them work down here at the sonic when they get old enough."
And they give authority to the principal, the teacher, or to their employer to regulate that child's behavior for a certain time, but then they take it right back.
Why is that?
Because they are ultimately over that child.
If that parent says, "I've given you the authority to regulate my daughter's behavior while she works here at sonic."
Now I'm telling him that my oldest one worked at sonic.
That was one of her jobs in high school, back when they did cash tips.
She made a lot more money than those poor people do.
Now everything's plastic.
But I gave that authority.
Now at any time I could have decided, "You know what?
I don't like the way this boss is treating my daughter, so I'm going to remove that authority and bring her back home and say, 'We'll go work somewhere else.'"
You see how that works?
I had the ultimate authority over my daughter.
And God, even though Satan is the God of this world, even though he gave dominion over the earth to man, and man forfeited it by sin, God is ultimately the God of all the earth, and he is the God of all things.
In fact, he made.
Now that would be everything, wouldn't it?
When an inventor makes something, he has authority over the thing he made, unless he gives it up to another.
He may patent the invention, so nobody else can claim to have authority over it, or over the copies made afterward.
Now the so-called God's Rabschika mentioned are not only fake, but even if they were real, their authority is limited to a country.
In fact, if you remember what God said about making mankind, you'll remember that he would give mankind dominion or authority over all the earth.
Hey, man had more authority than these false gods do.
You see that?
They were over a land.
Man was over the whole earth at one time.
These false gods don't have their own nation because they're not real.
We go back to that false premise, and if they did, they were so weak that they could not deliver the people in their country from the earthly king of Assyria.
Who would want to serve a god like that?
Going back to the passage I read from Isaiah earlier, Isaiah said God was the Lord, and him only.
And that's just more evidence to me.
That's all I need for evidence that there are no other gods.
So the false premise made by Rabschika is destroyed in at least two ways by Isaiah.
First, Isaiah said those gods weren't gods at all.
And second, he said God was the Lord, and him only.
That's not a false premise.
That's a firm foundation.
That's a true premise.
And that means that the Lord God is the only one who can save.
And that's what we preach, and we don't deceive you when we sing.
Jesus saves.
Non-existent other gods cannot do that.
I bet they didn't have a song back then.
Bale saves.
Bale never could save.
And it says, back in our text, who is going to be saved?
It says, "Has any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?"
They're going to be saved, but Rabschika said these other gods have not been able to save people out of the hand of the king of Assyria.
The Bible's already destroyed the false premise of any of the gods with a little g, and because it has, the rest of the phrase is a moot point.
"The lands Assyria conquered were in the hand of Sennacherib," figuratively speaking, "the Assyrian king," but they would not always be so.
Assyria was a powerful empire, but one day they would be conquered by the Babylonians, by the Medes.
So the hand of the king of Assyria was not a strong hand, was it?
He had Israel and the other nations in his hand one moment, but then they were taken from his hand and another moment.
And when we meet again next week, I'm going to show you how our God is not like that.
Let's pray.
Father, we're so grateful to have your word before us to live in a country where we still have some remaining freedoms and one of which is to assemble and to teach your word and learn it and go out and live it.
Our persecutions are very light.
We have not yet resisted unto blood, and I pray that you give us the strength that when those days come, we'll stand on the firm foundation of your word and not desire to be in a building, in a religion, built upon sinking sand.
In Jesus' name, amen.
