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- Jeff Ward: Okay, welcome back to the Accidental Bible Scholar podcast. We're excited you're here. We talked last time about ⁓ us being righteous and we function from a seat of righteousness. And what that means for us, our identity, all that wrapped in. Today we're going to talk about holiness. Okay, is that correct, Randy? That is correct. Okay. And if we get time, we might go to beloved sons and daughters as part of our identity, but. We'll start with holiness. about that? Sounds great. Holiness means to be set apart, specifically to be set apart to God. That's what holiness is. answers the question. Holiness answers the question, who does this person belong to and what is their purpose? So who do you belong to and what's your purpose? That's what it means to be set apart to God. Let me repeat what I've said several times, but it's worth it. I put your holiness and righteousness as a gift. only makes sense in light of a holy and righteous God. Without understanding the holiness of God, then we can believe dumb stuff like we can add to or accomplish our own righteousness or holiness. And that is the state from which we initially kind of find ourselves in life is thinking we can do it ourselves. And the Bible says, nope, Jesus came and did it for us ⁓ because he was the only one able, right? Well, holiness is the same way. ⁓ Many of us, at least initially would have some of the same doubts about holiness as we did about righteousness. Am I really righteous? am I really holy? ⁓ Does my resume support that? Well, your resume, by the power of Holy Spirit, eventually will support it more than it does now as you continue to grow, but it's not about a resume. It's about Christ's resume and his obedience and what he did at the cross, resurrection, and ascension. So ⁓ let's read some scripture here that will... Well, kind of follow the same thing. Let's just prove it before us what holiness is and that we are in fact holy. Sounds good. So Ephesians 1, 4, I'll start there. Ephesians 1, 4, for he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love. notice the word chose. He chose us. And notice how that's linked with holiness. OK, so holiness is to whom you belong. into what purpose you've been called. holiness has this idea, and we'll bring it out a few others, of being chosen because you've been set apart unto God for his purposes, okay, and you belong to him. So we're holy and blameless. Again, this is the word of God saying this. There's no, not connecting anything we've done. It is by faith as is righteousness is by the work of Christ. More so than righteous. Righteous has this idea of a judicial declaration. Holiness has this idea of being chosen. OK, because we belong to him. Right. So if something's going to belong to somebody, that person will select it. You know, yeah. When you go shopping, you pull something off the shelf because that's about you're choosing that to belong to you when you go pay for it. OK, so so holiness has that connotation to it being. answers question, to whom do you belong ⁓ and what purpose? And so you'll find that a lot of times interwoven into these verses that declare or talk about us being holy. Yeah. Okay. That's interesting. Because I thought when we started Holiness, we talked about last time about righteousness and those kind of sound like the same thing. They do, ⁓ but they're different. That's interesting. One's judicial. The other is a choosing and a apart for a specific purpose. Okay. Okay. We'll come back here it says before him in love. We'll bring that out in just a second. Colossians 1 22, do you mind reading that? Sure. But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy without blemish and blameless before him. Okay, so. by his physical body, okay, we were reconciled to him through his death so that he could present us holy without blemish and blameless. versions say faultless. So holy, faultless and blameless. One I wanted to read out, it also says before him. Same thing up in Ephesians 1. there's holiness is this idea that you belong to me. So I come before him in love. Ephesians 1 4 or here before him, Colossians 1 22. is this bringing and setting apart. Okay, you belong to me now. You are now before me. Yeah. Okay. You are now in my presence in relationship with me. So that's some of the implications or some of the attributes of us being holy is being chosen and be chosen to be before him. specifically before him we love to put it in Ephesians 1 for terminology. Do you mind reading 1 Peter 2 9? Not at all. Peter 2 9 says, but you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Okay, we are a holy nation, a people of his own. Notice the ownership, the belonging to stuff. Chosen race. We're not just a race, we're a chosen. race like like I said we were chosen we were picked to be before him okay a royal priesthood a holy nation and and notice the person again who to him be bound a people of his own all this all these kinds of words are associated with holiness being set apart unto him this man and this or this woman who's a father of Jesus Christ have been set apart unto me it's it's more personal than righteousness is right righteousness is is like I said, publicly judicial kind of thing. Okay. Holiness is a more intimate kind of thing, but it's still public as well. I'm not saying that. So that I like this in the NET, which is all we have here. The so that always tells us why. Okay. So that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. So the reason he has set us aside, the purpose, the so that why, remember we said it's who you belong to is also your purpose. The purpose of being chosen and pulled and set apart is so that we may proclaim the virtues of the one who called us out of darkness into light. So the fact that one, we are no longer in darkness. We are in light. But we are, the purpose of our holiness is to declare and proclaim the virtues of the one who called us. Let's see, Romans 1, 7. There's a bunch of these. I just pulled a couple of them out. says to. Romans 1-7, to all those loved by God in Rome, loved, ⁓ belonging to, called to be saints, a calling, grace and peace to you from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Saints is an unfortunate, I think, unfortunate translation. It's holy ones. It literally means holy ones. If you read it literally, you'd say, to all those loved by God in Rome, called to be holy ones, called out to be set apart, to belong to God. Holy ones. That's one of those, and just a quick side note, you know, the King James was a monumental step in the translation of the Bible. It was so monumental that many of our early, modern translations still lean on it pretty heavily. I think sometimes we lean on it too heavily. And the reason I say we lean on it too heavily is because it's a 400 year old English. So it's not the same English we speak today. Over 100, words have a completely different dictionary meaning today than they did 400 years ago. 100 words that are used in the King James. This is one of those, but some of us, some of our versions, the NETs, what I'm talking about here, they bring some of these words forward that don't mean much to us, but they sound very religious. And I don't know why they do that. I would have read, I would rather saints be described as holy ones. What I've said, think saints is used something like 60 times in the New Testament. And it would be a lot easier for a teacher to convince a fellow believer that they are holy if 60 times they were called holy ones, right? Instead of saints, because saints is like, I don't know. That's a good little guy that the Catholics talk about. Yeah, wear around their neck. And that's, that's just really, that's something that, you know, I don't know, it's some religious something. Yeah. But if I would much rather be translated holy ones, but it's not. 1 Corinthians 1, 2 says, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified, sanctified past tense means to be made holy, who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be saints or called to be holy ones. Notice that calling is associated with holiness, to whom you belong and to what purpose. It says, with all those everywhere, just finished verse, with all those everywhere who call in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. their Lord and ours. So this holiness, sanctification, this holiness has a connotation of choosing belonging to with a purpose. Read Hebrews 10.10 if you don't mind. Okay. Hebrews 10.10. By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Okay. Sanctified to be made holy through the body of Jesus Christ. So it is This happened on the cross, okay? And we read earlier in where Colossians 1.22 is another example of it coming through the body of Christ, through his sacrifice on the cross. We have been sanctified. Notice the choosing. Where's the choosing? Do you see it? It's a trick question. By his will. By his will, we have been sanctified. Again, it has this idea of his choosing. By your will, you come and you pull. Corn flakes, you know, off the shelf in the grocery to go buy it. You've chosen this. It's by your will you've chosen. So it's this choosing thing. Read Hebrews 10, 14, four verses later. For by one offering, he is perfected for all time, those who are made holy. Okay, so perfected for all time. It's a one and done kind of thing. It's a one offering, one sacrifice that's good for all time. to bring us all, make us holy or to sanctify us, okay? Let's see. Here's where I was gonna discuss, but I already discussed it in previous episode, the fruit of righteousness or the fruit of holiness can only be done by somebody who is already righteous or holy. And we talked about that last time. But a holy act or a righteous act is only done from a righteous person who doesn't need anything in return. Because if I need something from you, It's not, I'm not doing you a favor. I'm doing me a favor. Okay. I'm doing me a good deed for myself and it's no longer a good deed. Sounds good. One quick thing before we go on is all these verses I pulled out in the last episode, righteousness and here, they're all past tense. Okay. It's a done deal. The righteousness is a done deal. The sanctification is a done deal. You'll also find verses though, where the sanctification is an ongoing process. So it is both a, to coin a phrase from Patrick Morley decades ago that it's always stuck with me. He said salvation is that there is a point of salvation and then there is a process of salvation. ⁓ Paul talks about working out our salvation. So there is a point and a process. There is a point of being set aside, but you're fully set aside. Then there is the process of continuing in that. ⁓ We get some of the technicalities of it probably, but it's basically taking this righteousness and this holiness that is made as a result of a gift, actually, 1 Corinthians 6, 17 says, we've been joined as one with Christ in spirit. So my spirit and Christ's spirit are one. Sounds blasphemous, it's not. I'm just quoting a scripture. And now, our renewing our mind, our training our body, these are all words that the Bible uses, is now the process of letting all that out, if you will. But to create these, ⁓ these fruit of righteousness or this fruit of holiness that comes out from the fully righteous, fully redeemed heart or from fully redeemed spirit to use both ⁓ biblical terms there. The heart is the spirit in most cases in biblical terminology. Questions or comments or things you want to talk about for holiness? All right. Let's look up some of these. I'll let you look up Romans 8, 14 through 17. Okay, I'm going to now next we're changing topics. The topic we're going to now is. We are loved sons and daughters. We've already talked about us being in the beloved and we've seen that. And then. So we're going to look at Glacians 4 through 7. So you've got Romans 8, 14 through 17. Romans 8, okay. If you're groping in the dark over there. Alright, go ahead and read that one, Gerrady. Romans 8, 14 through 17. Okay. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself bears witness to our spirit that we are God's children. Okay. Within our spirit, the Holy Spirit bears witness that we are valid, legitimate adopted sons and daughters. Okay, that is one of the things that that happened to me when we said save me Jesus. We are co-heirs side-by-side heirs with Jesus Christ. Yep. Okay, so ⁓ Some of the things there is talking about our spirit His spirit witnessing our spirit talks about those who are in the spirit or walk according to the spirit and the first part of Romans 8 There's this comparison in contrast when walking in the flesh and walking in the spirit walking in the flesh walking spirit so for those who are walking in the spirit, we have this confirmation that we are in fact sons and daughters. Now let me read John 1, 12 and 13. This introduction to the gospel of John. But to all who have received him, those who believe in his name, he has given the right to become God's children. Children not born by human parents or by human desire or our husband's decision, but by God. There's almost a sense of holiness in there too, because he chose, it was by his will that you and I have been brought into the, to become God's children. So we've, this even uses the word here, given the right, right? You have a right to be the child. There is a legal standing that a son or daughter has. This is part of it that's, that's, ⁓ that's telling us that, that we had this legal standing, not just a beloved standing, we are that. But we have a legal standing as a son or a daughter to come before the father and to and to do and be in relationship with him. We'll talk about that relationship here in just a second. But Galatians four. Let's see, four, four through seven. Glacians 4, 4 through 7. But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights. And because you are sons, God sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, who calls Abba father. So you are no longer a slave, but a son. If you're a son, then you're also an heir through God. How many different ways can he say, he are? His children we are we are sons. I will make a couple points here. We have been redeemed. We have been as sons with full rights. The NET, which I'm reading from, many times, I would say most times, I haven't counted, will take a Greek term that was written 2000 years ago that was very male oriented and then they'll turn it into brothers, like it says brothers, the NET would say brothers and sisters. We've read, I think we've been reading from the NET, Earlier it said sons and daughters, or it says children. This one just leaves it at sons. It doesn't add sons and daughters. So I want to bring that out. I'm not apologizing for the NET. The reason it is, because he's talking about that we may be adopted as sons with full rights. When this was written, sons had completely different rights than daughters. So he's not making a statement of leaving out the ladies who are born again believers. He's wrapping them up in there, this is translation of the equation. It doesn't want to lose the fact that whether we are sons or daughters, whether they are men or women, that in this context, we were all sons. In other words, we all have the rights of a son, the inheritance of a son. Now, in many legal and maybe most legal situations 2000 years ago, the women were just plain old left out of everything. And so the NET is very specific here in breaking what they normally do, which is take a ⁓ male reference and turn it into both male and female. They don't do it here. And the reason it's important. So all of us, my wife, your wife, my two daughters, every female every woman that believes in Jesus Christ has the rights, the full rights of a son because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross. And the NET is just preserving that aspect of it here for us, even though they generally would not have translated it that way. So we have a spirit into our hearts, which we'll talk about here in a little bit as another part of our identity. But that cries Abba father real similar to what you just read earlier from Romans eight. But ⁓ love the part about sons with full rights. Yeah. Many of us ⁓ this mistaken, unbelief, false humility thing want to play down. Well, I'm a son, but I'm not, but you know, I'm I'm not the son. Well, yeah, we're not. God himself, I got that, but we are sons with full rights. And here's why it's understand it's one of the reasons for me anyway, it's important to understand this idea of rights because when my faith is at its lowest, when my attitude is, know, things aren't going, sometimes it's hard for me to come before a God with favor and I can't get there. my faith won't go into favor maybe because I had a rough day. I've had things aren't going right. The attacks or maybe I've given into the attacks of Satan, but rights to me, right or wrong, to me rights is a little bit lower standard for me to get in the door. I'm like, I'm it. You know, if you, if you falsely think you get in the door because you're good works, when you're bad day, you don't even go. But if I know you want a bad day, I have a right to come before my father. I have the full rights of sons. And we'll talk about kind of. running the family business here in just a second, but that's the rights that we have when we come before him. I want to come as desire. I want to feel welcome from him, but on the days, man, that I've just haven't really met whatever standard I was going for. Maybe the accused of the brethren is unloaded on me. And I started to believe a little bit of it. I can still, I can still exercise a right. ⁓ And so, and it's more than that. I'm not just saying that it's actually the full rights. to do business in the family business, which we'll talk about here in just a second, which is our assignment, our assignment as sons and daughters. We name it very, you know, formerly in Genesis one, you know, to rule and to reign, fulfill, ⁓ execute dominion. Those are the kinds of words that we would ⁓ use it. We would use it just as formally, but maybe not quite of God's will on earth as is in heaven. But here as a son or a daughter, we are to, we're basically to have a hand in running the family business. Now think I made this, I can't remember if we made this earlier things like that, but, Sometimes it's easier to be a servant or to be a slave. What I mean by that is, slaves are just given a to-do list. How many times we come before God and go, God, if you just write it down and let me go do it, ⁓ just give me the list. But many times he comes to us as a son and with a father and go, okay, what should we do here? We are co-laborers as family members running the business. All right, we know what your will is, Father, but there's three or four different ways to do it. Okay, what do you think? I don't know. I was really hoping you'd tell me what you thought, Father. I don't know what you think. Well, of the three or four, I think this would be a good one. Okay. And you go, that's a completely different relationship and a completely different interaction when I'm a son or a daughter versus a slave or a servant. And we're still servants. I'm not saying we're not. My dad, I serve my dad ⁓ this weekend and last week doing some things for him, ⁓ helping him with his email, helping with some of his banking stuff. You know, I can do that. We don't live in the same town. I can do that from the distance. I'm still a son, but I'm also serving him. And that's the way that we do that. Interesting. We are sons in the house, not servants in the house. Again, I'm not saying we don't serve our father. We certainly serve our father. We serve our big brother, Jesus Christ. But we are, we have the status of a son in his house, not a status of a servant in the house. And those, those servants and sons act completely different, dress completely different, have different tasks, everything. I like the prodigal son. The prodigal son is a great demonstration of this. And I don't have it. I'm going to go read it, take the time to go read it. But he was given shoes, a robe, and a ring. Servants don't wear shoes in that time. He was given shoes, those shoes of sonship. He was given a robe of righteousness. So he is now within a right standing of his father. And everybody that saw it, when he walked around the estate, when he went downtown, he had shoes, like, ⁓ and a robe. ⁓ that's that man's son. And he's in full right standing with him. So it's a robe of righteous shoes of sonship. And the last one was a ring of authority. That ring was kind of like the signature or was the signature of the day. By having a ring on his finger, it wasn't just decorative like most rings are in our culture. It was the ability to do business in his father's name. So he would go downtown and buy supplies, buy something he wanted, buy something somebody else needed in the family. He was able to go down there and execute that as a son. Didn't have to have a list that come from his father. It could be a list that he came up with because he's why he's a son. He's a member of the family in full and right standing. When he walked into a shop or he wanted to execute a contract, say the people looked at him go that is a son in right standing who can sign for his dad. And that's who we are. There's a authority here in a little bit, but a son and a daughter with full rights. have authorities that a servant does not. Yeah. Okay. That's it on sonship or love son and daughter. And we'll keep going. Holy Spirit would be the next. Holy Spirit filled. I think we're 26 minutes in. Okay. So yeah, let's keep going. Keep going. All right. Another identity we have are characteristics of this new creation that is plugged into Adam's covenant. via the New Covenant is Holy Spirit filled. Paul will tell us the mystery of the gospel is Christ in us. And nobody saw that coming. ⁓ Says this gospel that Peter says that the angels are looking on trying to figure it out. ⁓ It says that in Ephesians chapter two, Paul says that this ⁓ bestowing upon us all these rites, seated at the right of the Father, sorry, specifically to talk about. is so that he can point to us as object of his grace in the ages to come. He's going point to us, hey, you want our grace? Look at this guy. Yeah, you might think he doesn't belong here, but he's my son sitting in my right hand. Right. And that will be a picture of his grace for all the ages. So in this Holy Spirit feeling, some of these verses will look up are absolutely scandalous, particularly to a religious person, but to any of us, especially if we have God's holiness in mind as we started this section. Are you going to Caution's 2? Got it. 9 through 10? will, before you read, let me get a little bit ahead. I'm going to 1 Corinthians 2, 2 12. Okay, go ahead and read Colossians 2, 9, and 10. Colossians 2, 9, and 10. For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form, and you have been filled in him who is the head over every ruler and authority. Okay, I want you to read again here in just a second, but fullness and filled are the same word except one's a... adjective and one's a verb. Okay. But they're the same Greek word. Notice that fullness is used to talk about Jesus deity and that same word with the same degree is used to talk about how we have been filled in him and it's a weird thing to say filled. We wouldn't say filled in him normally. We'd say filled with him. Yeah. So the picture there is a five gallon bucket of water and we're a little bitty jar and you take the whole jar you feel you don't the five gallon bucket into there, you just drop the whole jar into that bucket. That's filling that jar in the bucket and the water. So we're filled beyond what we can imagine. But with fullness and filled being the same word, listen to that and as you read it again when you get a second. Yeah. For in him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form. and you have been filled in him who is the head over every ruler and authority. Okay, so to the same degree that Jesus is deity, we are also filled in him. That's scandalous to think about. Yeah. To the point that the finite can be infinite, we are all the way to that point. That's how close to deity we are because we have deity living within us. Paul would call that one of, if not the mystery of the gospel. that we have God within us. And not just like a little section, we are filled with Him. So we have the Holy Spirit. What's the Holy Spirit's job? If I was asked the Holy Spirit's job, I would get a lot of things. A lot of the things that people... qualities that they put on the Holy Spirit sound an awful lot about the task and the qualities that the accuser or the brethren has. Matter of fact, I hear a lot of people talk, you can't distinguish the two. That's not true. Let me tell you what, and this is we'll go through a little bit. This one is probably not on the tip of everybody's tongue. Comment on the Holy Spirit says, now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, so that, that's the why in an ET, so that we may know the things that we are freely, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. So one of the Holy Spirit's primary job as he takes up residence into us, as we develop this relationship of hearing and speaking what he says and understanding what he says, then one of his primary things is to let us know and make sure we're aware of. or that we may know the things we've been freely given. Not the things we've been, you know, stingingly given, yeah, or things we've earned, we figured out, but the things we have been lavishly given, freely given. That too is in a religious person's mindset is scandalous. Which one, are we going to Hebrews? All right, go to Hebrews 10, 15 through 17 or 15 comma 17. I'm gonna go look up. where everybody catches their breath while I catch my breath. I'm going to heat Ephesians one and then I'm going to flip over here to Colossians one. Now read, now you're reading from the NET, right? Yes. There's a print verse 16 is in parentheses. Yeah. If you can and make it make sense, read 15 and 17 and skip the parentheses part. It's a little awkward, but But I don't want to clutter our minds with verse 16 with this parenthetical statement that's already been addressed in earlier verses. Hebrews 10, 15, and then 17. And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us. then he says, their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer. Okay, one of the things the Holy Spirit does to you and I and to all believers is to bear witness that our sins and our lawless deeds will be remembered no more. We don't think of that his job. We think it's something opposite of that. We think his job is to totally remind us daily of our sins. in the pre-seen verses in chapter Hebrews chapter 10 says we're no longer to have a consciousness of sin. Well, we think the natural man thinks that consciousness of sin is going to help us not sin. And that's just not true. A lack of consciousness of sin. is going to be Christ focused. And that's how we get out of sin. Cause sin just, as we chase down Jesus Christ, sin just falls in our wake and swivels up and dies. Yeah. Okay. But here saying that there's this great event that happened in time. And I've described this a hundred times to you, but on the cross from noon to three, it went dark. It's as if God reached up and turned the sun off for three hours and go, listen, what's about to happen. is an intimate, horrific, wrathful task of love as I pour out sin on my son and as I execute the wrath. I think you turn the lights off. We don't have one word about what happened there. There's not one English word. There's not one human word of any language that describes what happened from noon to three. It was so personal, yet so horrific. I think it's not because he doesn't want to tell us. I think it's because he can't tell us. I don't think we have the ability to comprehend. I don't think there's human language that could capture what happened there, Except we have a witness. We have a witness. And according to Hebrews 10, it's the Holy Spirit. we have all the, the, within the, the persons within the Godhead, all three at work. And literally the Godhead was split in half as God the Father, forsook God the Son. But we have a witness. And what I mean is, nobody could witness that. Nobody could bear witness to that because it was a God-level thing going on. As the Son became sin and God's wrath was poured out on him. But we had a note-taker, and this note-taker is the Holy Spirit. And he was sitting there, and now he's our witness. And it says he bears witness. that our sins and our lawless deeds are remembered no more. That's one of the jobs of this Holy Spirit field. I'm only gonna read one more. I got two more there. I'm gonna read Colossians 1, 9, and 10. Colossians 1, Ephesians 1, 17 through 19, that's what I was gonna read, as well as Colossians 1, 9, and 10. I'll just go with Colossians 1, 9, and 10. One of the things that my wife and I have done, and I know you guys, you've done, is pray these prayers of Paul for our family. Colossians 1, 9, and 10 is a great prayer. It's a prayer that Paul prays for the Colossians. It's a great prayer to... pray for our sons and our daughters and for our spouses. It says, this reason we also from the day we heard about you have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding so that that's the purpose or the why so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all aspects bearing fruit in every good deed growing in the knowledge of God. And it continues that thing but One of the things that the Spirit of God does is fill us with the knowledge of all spiritual wisdom and understanding. mean, what better thing to pray for ourselves and for our children and for our spouses and for our friends is that they would be filled with the spiritual wisdom and understanding. That's one of the mechanisms, and that was done by the Holy Spirit. ⁓ Ephesians 1 17 through 18 talks about having enlightened eyes of the heart and the spirit. know, walking in faith requires eyes of the heart, spiritual eyes, and it requires those to be enlightened. That's what Paul prays for the Ephesians in chapter one is that their spiritual eyes or the eyes of their heart, which is their spirit, would be enlightened. Those are all the kinds of things that is asking for, but the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, ⁓ the person of the Holy Spirit is one of the things that he does in response to prayers like this. All right, that's all I was going to have to do with the Holy Spirit. Obviously, that's a, all of these as you know are very, just scratching the surface for questions, comments, or thoughts on any of that. Nope, that's good stuff. I especially like that prayer. You're right. It's good to insert name of your kids or wife into that and pray that. It's good. Those are Paul's prayers. Those are good places to start from prayers. Okay. Thanks, Randy. 37.