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Speaker: I'm not saying it's a great
film, but I, I, I really like this movie.
Um, and the general conceit of this
movie is that Death, capital D, Mr.
Death, takes a holiday.
And he comes to Earth, and he picks
this super interesting man, played by
Anthony Hopkins, to follow around for
a couple of weeks because he's curious.
He just kind of wants to see life through
a human lens, and through someone's
eyes who is an important person and
kind of making waves in the world.
And so he picks Anthony Hopkins, this
man named William Parrish, and says, "I'm
here to eventually take you, but before
I do, I wanna spend some time with you."
And so the movie is him kind of coming
to terms with his, his eventual death.
Great date movie.
Um, I'm sure I I think I forced Allison
to watch this while we were dating.
And just a, just a little meditation
on the in- inevitability of death
and how it comes for all of us.
It's really romantic.
Um, and so there's a scene in this movie,
where one of my favorite quotes comes
from, and Anthony Hopkins says, "Well, so
how, how is it that you're here, Death?
How are you here?
And, and are you neglecting your
duties kind of around the world, your,
the work that you have to go do?"
And so Brad Pitt-- Death is
very handsome, by the way.
Um, Brad Pitt says to him, he says,
"Hey, when you were, when you were
brushing your teeth this morning,
you weren't just brushing your teeth.
You were making connections in your brain.
You were crossing t-
crossing T's and dotting I's.
You were doing deals in your head.
You were making plans."
And William Parrish kind of nods his head
in understanding, and he says, Brad Pitt
says, "Now, multiply that by infinity,
take it to the depths of forever, and
you'll still only have the slightest
glimpse of what I'm talking about."
And that quote pops into my head
a lot when I think about God.
When I'm learning something new
about God and I don't understand
it, I try to embrace the mystery of
it instead of running away from it.
Um, it's not always easy,
but I, I try to do that.
So my hope today is that you will
get just the slightest glimpse of
God's extravagant love for you.
Uh, I hope there might be some
conviction that comes with this.
While there is maybe conviction
with the parable, I hope there also
might be a renewed sense of love,
not just of God's love for you, but
of yours for Him, even when we don't
understand why He works the way He does.
So let's, let's just pray real quick.
Father, thanks for your word.
Thank you for the
opportunity to preach it.
Um, as our comforter and guide and helper
and friend, would you be with us today?
And give us ears to hear.
And we pray for the one who preaches,
Lord, for you know his sins are many.
Amen.
All right, so we have been looking
at the parables of Jesus, right
there, the stories he told.
Hopefully, you guys have seen in him
some glimpses of what God values, how God
views human life in light of his kingdom.
We, as humans, we tend
to follow a lot of rules.
We have a lot of systems in place
to help us make sense of the
world, and we work very, very
hard to be viewed the right way.
And Jesus sees that in us,
and he uses parables to speak
straight to our hearts, right?
To remind us of spiritual truths that we
need for daily living and for thriving.
And so today, we're gonna talk about the
parable of the great banquet in Luke 14.
If you have a Bible, grab it.
You can turn to Luke 14.
We're not gonna start there just yet,
but that's where our text begins today.
So to give you some context for what's
going on, 'cause this, this text dives
straight into something that's been
happening a few chapters and verses
before, so I just wanna set the scene.
Uh, if you're an actor, this is
called your moment before, right?
If you, you know, you need to know
what happened before you start
speaking to someone on stage.
So this is your moment before.
Jesus has been invited to a dinner
party, and it's the Sabbath.
Um, and he's at the house of a
prominent ruler of the Pharisees.
We don't know who this dude
is, but he's a big deal.
And the Pharisees are watching
Jesus closely, meaning they're
watching him with suspicion.
They're watching him
with malicious intent.
These guys are always
trying to trap Jesus.
If you've been in church any
amount of time, you've probably
heard this about the Pharisees.
They're always trying to catch
Jesus in some contradiction.
They're always trying to catch him in
a, a, a misstep so they can shut him
down, they can stop his ministry, and
they can stop the threat that he po-
B- again, before our text, the,
the, the Bible says there's a man
at this party with dropsy, which
is this old outdated medical term.
It, today it means edema.
It means a man who has swelling in
his limbs and his body, fluid buildup
due to a heart condition or a liver
condition or a kidney condition.
It can happen for a lot of reasons.
So there's a sick man
at this party, right?
And he sort of kind of, he appears
in front of Jesus, not, not
literally like out of nowhere, but
I imagine that he's a wallflower.
You know, maybe he's hugging
the wall at this party, and I,
I, I as- I'm assuming he wasn't
really invited to this gathering.
I think the Pharisees brought him
in to place him in front of Jesus
just to see what Jesus would do.
So I, I imagine some guys kind of
grabbed him and shoved him to the
middle of the room when Jesus walked in
And remember, it's the Sabbath.
So the implication here, and the
text doesn't really say this, it
just says, "A man appeared," right?
The implication here is that these
guys are trying again to test Jesus.
They wanna see what he's gonna do.
Is he gonna heal this guy?
Is he gonna break the law on the Sabbath?
And so Jesus being Jesus, he knows
what they're trying to do, right?
And so he turns the tables
on them, as he always does.
He Jesus jukes them, okay?
And he points to the lawyers and
Pharisees and he says, "Hey, um, is it
lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"
And these guys are silent.
Right?
There's, they, they, they can't answer
Jesus because if they say yes, that
it's lawful to heal, then they break
the law, and they love the law, right?
They, they, they can't break the law.
And if they say no, then they
lack compassion in front of
all of these party guests.
It's not a great look for them.
They were very concerned with outward
appearances, and so they're just awkward.
They're, they're silent.
They, they don't, they kinda, "Uh, okay."
They kinda just stand there.
And then Jesus being Jesus, he turns
to the sick man and takes him aside and
heals him and sends him home, right?
Poor guy, just shoved into the middle of a
party, center of attention here, and Jesus
compassionately goes and, and so they,
he, he catches them in their test, but
then being who he is, he turns and heals
the dude anyway and sends him home, okay?
And as the guy's walking away, the
Bible says that he turns back to the
Pharisees and he says, "Hey, which
of you having a son or an ox that has
fallen into a well on the Sabbath day
will not immediately pull him out?"
He's kinda going, "Come on, guys.
Like, really?"
And so right off the bat, and again,
the, they, they couldn't reply.
They just stood there dumbfounded.
So right off the bat, as he
often does, he's making things a
little uncomfortable here, okay?
He was invited to this party,
and he's just immediately made
it awkward, which I kinda love.
So that's the first thing, okay?
That, that's the first thing that
happens before our text starts.
The second thing that happens is that
Jesus, after he sends the man away,
he turns and he looks around this
room at this party, and he notices
how people have sat themselves in
positions of, of, you know, uh, um,
at the, at the highest seats, right?
Trying to get honor, trying
to be closer to the host.
And seeing their hearts and
their intentions, Jesus gives
them a lesson in humility.
He tells them that, "Hey, this is
how you should be sitting," right?
"You should sit lower so if the
host comes and, uh, you know, he,
the host might ask you to move up.
And if you're sitting high, if someone
important shows up, he might ask you
to move down, so you should, you should
just seat yourself at the lowest place in
hopes that the host might invite you up."
And he says, "Those who exalt themselves
will be humbled, and those who
humble themselves will be exalted."
So that's the second thing he does.
And the third thing he does,
he's just on a roll now, okay?
He's just walking in this party,
giving good advice, right?
"Hey, don't do this.
Do," you know, whatever.
He's not, he's, he's, he's on a roll.
So he turns to the host and he says,
"Hey, by the way, host, when you throw
a party, don't invite your friends,
don't invite your family, don't
invite your rich neighbors, because
all of those folks can repay you.
They can give back to you.
Instead, invite the poor, the
blind, the crippled, the lame,
because they cannot repay you.
The lowest people in society."
And he says to the host, "If you
do this, you will be rewarded at
the resurrection of the righteous."
Not such bad advice.
And don't you have to th- think that
like after all of these three things
that he did, these guys are just
looking around this room going, "Weed."
None of these people that he's
talking about are at this party, okay?
So again, awkward.
He's causing a stir.
And he's not really saying anything,
though, that these folks can disagree
with, and this is where our text picks up.
It drops us right in the middle of it.
The first thing that you read is that
there's this guy reclining at the table,
and the guy looks around, and he takes
the temperature of the room, okay?
Verse 15.
He kind of, like, tries to, he, he,
he, he goes, "This is my chance to
impress everyone and impress Jesus."
He wants to seize this opportunity.
He wants some religious brownie points.
And so he interrupts the silence and
he shouts out, "Blessed is everyone
who eats bread in the Kingdom of God."
Kind of this haughty, like, "Yes.
Yes.
I agree withâ¦"
You know, whatever
"Blessed is everyone who eats
bread in the kingdom of God."
And wise preachers and scholars
have pointed out we, we don't
really know if this guy said this
in earnest, like in good faith.
We don't know if he was being cynical.
We don't really know if he
was making fun of Jesus.
Remember, though, the people at this
party aren't big fans of, of Christ.
They're interested in him and they're
curious about him, but they don't,
they don't like what he's been saying.
So he may have been honest.
I hope he was.
Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.
And the great thing is he
doesn't know how right he was.
"Blessed is everyone who eats
bread in the kingdom of God."
And instead of responding to the guy
and kind of giving him a gold star and
a pat on the head, Jesus tells him, and
by way of this crowd, them, a parable
Starting there, uh, in verse 16.
So he says, "There was a guy
who, who threw a huge banquet.
Everyone's gonna be there.
It's the place to be.
He had, giving a, giving a large banquet,
he invited many, and at the time for
the banquet, he sent his servant to
say to those who had been invited,
'Come, for everything is now ready.'"
Okay, so in ancient Jewish culture,
similar to ours, they would send out two
invitations when we were having a party.
The first one being like an RSVP.
Are you gonna be there, right?
You're invited to this party.
Yes, we're gonna come.
The second one was when
the party was ready.
When the food was ready, when the
wine had been poured, they would send
another invite l- via a courier or
a servant or something like that.
He'd go out and say,
"Hey, everything's ready.
Come to the feast."
And then in verse 17, continuing
there, "At the time for the banquet,
he sent his servet- servant to
say to those who had been invited,
'Come, for everything is now ready.'
But they all alike began to make excuses.
The first said to him, 'I bought a
field and I have to go out and see it.
Please have me excused.'
Another said, 'I have
bought five yoke of oxen.
I go to examine them.
Please have me excused.'
And another said, 'I've married a
wife, and therefore I cannot come.'"
Okay, so at the last minute,
these three people have decided
they can't make it, right?
I bought a field, I bought
some oxen, and I got married
And if we think about any of these
excuses for more than half a second,
you'll see that they're pretty terrible
They're pretty terrible excuses, right?
If you examine these just for a moment.
So the first guy, "I bought a
field and I have to go see it."
So really, you bought a field, you
bought property, you bought land,
and you didn't go check it out first?
Okay, and even if you didn't go
check it out first, don't you think
it'll still be there tomorrow?
It's land.
Like, couldn't you come to the party
and then go see it after the party?
The second guy, "I bought some oxen
and I need to go try them out."
You do?
So again, you, you didn't go take a
look at them before you bought them?
And we, we can assume this guy, the
oxen man, is a, a wealthy landowner.
He's probably a really wealthy farmer.
Says he bought five yoke of oxen.
That's 10 oxen, okay?
That's way more than the average person
would need for subsistence farming.
Maybe that one oxen, right?
If you're, if you're a poor farmer, to
survive you have one cow and that's it.
This guy just went and bought 10,
so he's making a living off of
farming is what the text is implying.
2 to 300 acres at least, he's plowing
land with these, with these animals.
And so he trusts the fate, this, this
shrewd businessman, he trusts the
fate of his business and his money to
10 oxen that he just hasn't vetted?
Not a great excuse.
And the third guy, love this guy,
"I got married and I cannot come."
Okay.
So maybe, right, ancient Jewish
world, Deuteronomy 24, he might
be referencing Deuteronomy 24.
It says here in Deuteronomy 24, "When a
man marries," quote, "he is exempt from
military service and any other public
duty, civic responsibility, or official
business for one full year so he can
stay home and bring joy to his wife."
Ladies, can you imagine just
how- ⦠horrible that would be?
Okay.
It would get old so fast.
Allison would be like,
"Just, just go to war."
"Just go, just go walk around Walmart.
Get out of my house."
Like, "Just get out of here, man."
Um, and so i- is it a, is
it a good excuse, right?
If you just got married, why can't
you bring your wife to the party?
I don't get it.
It's a free date night.
Let's ring in our new marr-
marriage at this, at this feast.
Why don't you just go to
the celebration together?
But no, all alike, these guys
make these silly excuses, and the
reality of the situation here is
that they just don't want to go.
They don't want to respond.
They don't want to come.
They, they don't wanna make the effort.
They don't wanna be
inconvenienced by the travel.
They don't want to go.
There are worldly things, good things.
These are good things, by the way.
Good things, though, that they've
allowed to preoccupy their attention.
They have each of them presumed,
based on their social standing,
that it's okay if they miss out.
They don't have to go, so they don't go.
So the servant, he, he runs back to the
host and he says, "They're not coming."
The Bible says, the, the parable says
that this host, he got angry at this.
And in verse 21 he says, "Go out quickly
to the streets and the lanes of the
city, and bring in the poor and the
crippled and the blind and the lame."
So remember, Jesus has already told the
host here how to throw a party, and the
parable is speaking directly to this.
He says, "Go out to the streets.
Invite those who are the lowest of
the low," again, the common people.
These weren't the people with roofs
over their heads or money to their name.
They were the ones who were traditionally
excluded from things like this,
and the host says, "Go get them."
And the servant has already done this.
The servant replies to him, verse
22, "Sir, what you have commanded has
been done, and still there is room."
And the master said to the servant,
"Then go out to the highways and
hedges and compel people to come
in, that my house may be filled."
And then the parable ends with the host
saying, "For I tell you, none of those men
who were invited shall taste my banquet."
So what's Jesus saying here?
The host of this great feast is God.
There's gonna be a huge party, and Jesus
is telling them, "God's throwing a party.
He's the host."
And the servant that was sent out to
proclaim these invitations, that's Jesus.
The people at this table, at this
party, probably don't necessarily
know that yet, and if they, if Jesus
has said that's who He is, they
certainly don't believe Him, right?
But, but Jesus talking about Himself,
He's the servant who is going out to
proclaim that the Kingdom of God is
here, that there's going to be a party.
"Everything is now ready,"
as the servant says.
And we're gonna, we'll come
back to Jesus in just a minute
The people in the story, the
three guys who, who gave the
excuses, those are the Israelites.
Okay?
The Israelites were God's chosen people.
They were invited by God himself,
the host of this great feast, into
a covenant relationship with him.
And again, and again, and again, they
have all rejected God through their
choices and through their actions.
They've disobeyed God.
They've dishonored God and worshiped
false gods and idols, and people like
the Pharisees were part of this crew.
The Pharisees that he's talking
to, they'd adopted moralism over
repentance and pursuit of God.
And then the people that the servant
goes and gets, that first group,
the people who were living in the
streets and the lanes in the city, as
we said, these are the common folk.
These are the marginalized, the
excluded, the ones who had to beg to eat.
Okay?
These were the least of these.
And then finally, that last group, and
this is where we find ourselves in this
story, the people on the highways and
the hedges, those were the Gentiles.
Jesus is talking about people
who were separated from Jews by
these very, very strict religious
and genealogical boundaries.
See, to the Jews, the
Gentiles were lawless pagans.
Right?
They were outside of God's law.
They were a people that had
no great family lineage.
They had no ethnic bloodline to point to.
They had no covenant promise to
lay hold of, and that's us, right?
In the story, we- we're,
we're the Gentiles.
And listen, that, that's not
even the point of this parable.
We'll get to the point, but I just wanted
you to see who you once were and who you
are now, if you are a follower of Jesus.
So what Jesus is saying here
is that, it's what, it's what
Peter echoes later in 1 Peter 10.
He says, "Once you were not a
people, but now you're God's people.
Once you had not received mercy,
but now you have received mercy."
And so the people that Jesus
is dining with, they're hearing
something radical again from Jesus.
He's telling them, "Don't presume that
you're gonna get into this future heavenly
feast and this banquet because of your
bloodlines and because of your zeal and
because of all your rule following."
But the ones who are gonna
get in are the least of these.
He's saying the people that you
have neglected and abandoned
are loved by God, and they're
invited in, and that's you and me
So look at what God does in this story.
He keeps, He keeps expanding
this invitation outward
and outward and outward.
The people who thought they
belonged are confronted with these
outsiders that are being welcomed.
The ones who rejected that
invitation are replaced by the
ones who would accept the call.
They would accept, and they
would respond to the invitation.
And somewhere along the line, I think
that we, as the Gentiles in this
story, as those who are without a
home, I think that we have forgotten
the sweetness of our salvation.
I think that we've started behaving
like people, the people in this
parable, who initially accepted that
call, but then they didn't show up.
We've shifted from the
Gentiles to the Israelites.
We're sort of in the family now, and
the same thing that happened to them
has happened to us as believers.
And I think that it presents
itself in, in two ways.
Okay?
Number one, I think we've
started believing that our
good behavior will save us.
I think we've started believing
that, um, that what we do will make
us right in the eyes of God, and our
moralism has hardened our hearts.
Do you know what moralism is?
Moralism is not morality.
Morality is sort of a, a cultural
understanding of good and, uh, of right
and wrong and a kind of an internal code.
Like, you know what is right,
and you know what is wrong.
That's morality.
Moralism is this overemphasis
on good behavior.
Moralism trades genuine
empathy and understanding for
a rigid self-righteousness.
Moralism takes these complex human
issues, and it turns them into
simple tests of good versus bad
And it leads us to judge people
so harshly because they come from
different cultures than we come from.
Or maybe they don't follow the rules
as well as we do, which then actually
leads us to hate not just them, but
we hate ourselves because following
the rules is actually super hard.
And then that leads us to hate
God because, again, following
the rules is super hard.
And we start to not really
know that we hate God.
We're just so- kind of upset all the
time, but we still follow the rules,
and nobody can know how upset we are
because they have to see how good we are.
We gotta hold onto it
Let me tell you a, a hard truth.
If you grew up, if you grew up
as an Evangelical, Jesus has no
interest in your good behavior
He doesn't want it.
He wants your heart
At 40 years old, I have finally
come to realize that a shower
beer is not gonna send me to hell
But pride might
See, Jesus didn't come
to call the righteous.
He came to call sinners, and we have
forgotten that the humble servant in
this story, this Jesus, is the guy who
ran down the highways and the hedges
to find us and to call us when we were
outsiders, when we had nothing And our
culture has taken it upon itself to sort
of say, "Who, who's really a Christian?
Who's really an American?
Let's shove people out.
Let's shut the door of the kingdom
in people's faces," as Jesus told
the Pharisees that they did back in
Matthew, back earlier here in Luke.
So salt and light as people of
God, as part of the Church, it's
worth it to just take a moment to
ask ourselves, "Where do I have a
tendency to be like the Pharisees?
Where do I have a tendency to lean on
moralism instead of leaning on Christ?
Where do I tend to give
in to fear of the other?"
And then how, how, how do
we fight this in ourselves?
So a few questions.
How, how are we spending our money?
You know, Ben talks about this a lot.
I think he talked about
it a couple weeks ago.
If you have the budget, are you
inviting people into your home?
Are you preparing a meal
to share with people?
Are you giving to the church?
Look, we, we don't need your money 'cause
we're trying to buy smoke machines, okay?
We gotta pay the rent here, man.
We gotta have a place for people to come.
Are you giving to your local church?
Are you giving to organizations
that help the outsider, not
organizations that banish the outsider?
Or how are you using your power?
Are you voting for people
and laws that, again, p- only
protect us, that preserve us?
They preserve this false idealistic vision
of what American life is supposed to be.
Or are you voting for people
and laws that will, again, bless
and help the lowest of the low?
Think of Brent Doré.
He's a lawyer.
He was on the board at Fortress.
He didn't have to do that, but he chose
to use his power and his knowledge and
his wisdom to help an organization that
is helping the underserved in our city.
And hey, who are we hanging out with?
Do, do you spend any time with people
who you don't traditionally vibe with?
Are we all about tribalism?
Good Lord, look around America right now.
It's just tribalism.
Like, the, the- there is-- it's
just like the moralism thing.
Like, there, there's no
room for nuance or context.
It's just I'm on this team,
and you're on this team.
Or maybe even worse than that,
are you just alone all the time?
Do, do you just hang out at, at,
at home by yourself all the time?
I went to dinner with my parents, they're
here, uh, and Ally the other night, and I
got to admit our waiter was a weird dude.
Okay?
He made me uncomfortable.
Um, he was weird, and that's okay.
God loves a weird guy.
I'm a weird guy.
But somewhere in my brain, I just
thought, "Well, I'm, I'm less
socially awkward than this guy."
Um, because he w- it was,
it was weird, man, okay?
My d- I didn't, I didn't,
I didn't feel comfortable.
And so I was like, "Hey, I'm,
I'm better than this guy."
And I was nice to him, right?
I wasn't rude.
I wasn't some jerk to him, but I just, I
didn't, I didn't invite him in, you know?
"Yes, I'll have this.
Yeah, thanks.
Take the check.
Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah."
I didn't invite him in.
I shut the Kingdom of Heaven in his face.
And so I think I failed
him in that situation
So who are we?
Who are we praying for, right?
Or better yet, are we praying for people?
Okay, good things to think about.
The second way, that's the first
way that I think we've forgotten
the sweetness of our salvation.
The second way I think we do it shows up
just like the people in this story, right?
They're just too busy
to come to the feast.
Listen, if you, if you're a Christian
in this room, at some point in your
life, you accepted that initial banquet
invitation, and you said you'd be there.
But maybe the weights of the world,
the, the, the cares, your possessions,
your family, your activities, all the
practices you gotta rush to, all the,
all the boards that you're on, all
the things you gotta get to and do,
they've just sort of superseded God, and
God's become an afterthought for you.
You've just been distracted.
It's too much trouble.
You'll get to Him later.
And so here's what I wanna ask
of you, both groups this week
So instead of taking the, the, the,
the idea, uh, that's been presented
to us in this parable a- and going
home and feeling shame that we
haven't, you know, we haven't lived
the way we should, maybe instead
You go home and you ask God this week to
restore to you the joy of your salvation.
Maybe you just ask him to
remind you of his love for you
Maybe you, you think about the wonder and
the mystery of the grace that saved you.
You ask him to bolster you up,
to encourage you, to give you
the strength to participate in
the kingdom because it's here.
The kingdom is here now.
So Jesus wasn't telling these
guys that it's some faraway
thing that will eventually come.
That's what they all thought.
Jesus said, "No, no, no.
I, the, the host has gotâ¦
Like, I'm here now.
We're having a banquet now.
Yes, there will be one, but
th- this is a feast now," and
Jesus wants us to participate.
He wants us to be part of it
Sometimes I get, I get stuck in moralism
and I get stuck in apathy because in
reality I just believe I'm not really,
I'm not worthy enough to participate.
And sure, like, the truth of, of, of
our state is that we're, we're not.
God has made us worthy, right?
But, but we fail to accept that.
We fail to remember that.
I struggle believing that God
loves me, and maybe you do too
So this isn't a call to
change your behavior.
This isn't a call to
go and do more for God.
This is a call to start in your own
heart and let the outflow of what Christ
has done for you spread out into the
greater Fort Worth area, the world
If you're like me, you,
you have a million reasons.
You have a million reasons
why God shouldn't love you
But see, I, I don't think he does.
I think he just loves me.
I think he just loves you
Robert Capon was, uh, talked
about him up here before.
He was a Episcopal priest and a chef,
and he wrote this book called The Supper
of the Lamb, which is what we're talking
about today, and he's cheeky, right?
He's one of the funniest
writers I've ever read.
He, I heard someone call him
the patron saint of merrymaking.
The whole book is about how God
has given us rich food for joy.
Cooking is for our joy.
The onion exists because
it makes God happy.
He holds all those layers and
all those cells together, that he
makes wine bloom on the wine skins.
He changes them chemically
because he just says, "This was,
this was, we did this last year.
Let's do it again.
This is great
And despite all these reasons that I
have for why God doesn't love me or can't
love me, Capon says, "God is eccentric.
He has loves, not reasons."
He has loves, not reasons
And so I want you to multiply
that by infinity and take it to
the depths of forever, and you
will still only have the slightest
glimpse of what I'm talking about
Let's pray.
Father, thank you.
Thank you that you love
us despite our failings.
Thank you that you just want to be
in relationship with us, that you
just want us to be at your banquet
table feasting on your grace.
Thank you for your Word.
Amen