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Faith Sees The Big Picture
How did Abraham's unwavering faith serve as a guiding light through life's twists and turns? We promise a journey into the heart of biblical narratives, where faith isn't just a concept but a living, breathing force that shapes destinies. In this episode, we explore pivotal moments in the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, revealing how their faith propelled them toward divine promises, even amidst uncertainty and adversity.
And let's pick our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. Say this together. Say, heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be in church tonight. These are momentous times in which we live. This is a year of milestones and I'm determined. The milestones are going to come in my life. Progress, they're going to be marked down. Breakthroughs, lord, they belong to me and I thank you for them in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. God's got some breakthroughs for all of us.
Speaker 1:Let's look at Hebrews 11. I don't know how many times I've preached out of this chapter. It must be a whole bunch. Seems like Hebrews 11 pages get all worn out faster than the rest of my Bible. I'm not sure why. Hebrews 11. And it's talking about what I call the Hall of Fame of Faith. They're all Old Testament saints and we'll start reading with verse 1, hebrews 11, 1.
Speaker 1:Now, faith is. Faith is now. If God's going to do something, that's hope. That's not faith. No, faith is now. Faith is. You know, we have it now.
Speaker 1:Now, faith is substance, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen or not yet seen For. By it, that is, by faith, the elders obtained a good report. Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed I like the amplified, fashioned and equipped for their intended purpose. That's so powerful. The worlds were framed by the Word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Verse 6, notice it didn't say nothing. Not made of nothing, no, it was made of something, but it wasn't made of things that appeared. Made of words. But without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Verse 8, by faith. One version says by an act of faith. Faith is an act. Faith is not a thought. Faith is not a concept. Faith is not a. You know reasoning. Faith is an act. Faith is not a. You know reasoning. Faith is an act by an act of faith.
Speaker 1:Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed and he went out not knowing whether he went. He went out not knowing, by faith, by an act of faith, the fact that he left by faith, not knowing. Verse nine by faith, he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. You look up their lives. And they made. They made. Isaac and Jacob had the same exact promise that that Abraham had, but he sojourned in the land of promise. See, in other words, he didn't, he didn't live there, he just moved through there. It was his, but he didn't possess it. He sojourned, he visited, lived in tabernacles with his son and grandson, isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise, because he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Speaker 1:And so tonight I have a message entitled Faith Sees the Big Picture. Faith sees the big picture. You ever heard can't see the forest for the trees. You know, sometimes we get fixated on minutia, we get fixated on things that are not the most important thing, just an array of circumstances that we face and so forth. But faith, bible faith sees the big picture. Everybody say the big picture. Everybody say the big picture. I mean show me a big picture person, I'll show you somebody that's going to win. I'm going to show you somebody that's going to succeed. Show me somebody that gets bogged down in minutiae and I'll show you somebody that's probably going to have a hard time. Faith sees the big picture.
Speaker 1:Faith is what you need when you don't know. Sometimes you know, you just don't know. I mean you've got an action that you believe God has given you to take, but you just really don't know what in the world. I mean he had to leave and he didn't know where he was going. He said leave now and I'll show you later where you're going Kind of a challenge. Faith is what you need when you can't see. He was looking for a city that he couldn't see, never did see it on this earth. He never saw it in his lifetime. He finally saw it, but not in this lifetime, not when he was on the earth, but not in this lifetime, not when he was on the earth. And so faith is what you need when you want to please God. How many of you want to please God? If you don't want to please God, just get saved, okay, and then we'll have an altar call. No, we want to please God, but faith is what it takes. There's no pleasing him without faith, no pleasing him without faith.
Speaker 1:And Abraham was just simple enough to have the faith that sees the big picture. I mean, you know, let's go back to Genesis and go through his story for a little bit here, genesis 12. And I want to point some things out. Faith sees the big picture and I think I'm going to hopefully you'll see your life in this and see some things that you can help you, that will help you with your life. That's my aim is to encourage you Life. That's my aim is to encourage you so that you don't get lost on the minutia of things where you start feeling like this thing didn't work out and this thing didn't work out. Well, let's take the big picture. God's not through, and neither are you. Amen. Well, but you just don't know what happened today. Well, I might not know what happened today, but I know what's going to happen in your life if you stay in faith, you stay acting like God's Word is true and acting like you know.
Speaker 1:That you believe is an action verb. It means to act, it doesn't mean just to agree with it in your brain tissue. So here in Genesis 12, it says, verse 1, now the Lord had said unto Abram Get thee out of thy country and from your kindred and from your father's house unto a land that I will show you. And so notice his specific commands. I mean, he specifically commanded him number one leave your country. And he was from Ur of the Chaldees, he's the Chaldean, you know, he's Syrian. Essentially, leave that place. And number two you kinfolk, leave you kinfolk. Would that include his father? Would that include his nephew, lot? But he kind of messed up on that part, didn't he? Because he brought his father and he brought Lot and Lot's wife, so he didn't exactly do what God told him to do, didn't he? Because he brought his father and he brought Lot and Lot's wife, so he didn't exactly do what God told him to do, did he?
Speaker 1:Everybody say minutia? See, it's still a big picture. The big picture is he left not knowing. I mean, that took some faith, he had faith, he had faith as a seed. He might not have had enough faith to do everything God said to do, but he had enough faith to do the basic thing and he left not knowing that, really, god imputed it to him for righteousness. God called him the father of faith. I mean, sometimes I think we see these Bible characters and we make them like into superheroes, you know, like you know bigger than life.
Speaker 1:No, they, they. They got stinking flesh like we do, and they're not, they're not saved. They don't have a new nature. They have the fallen nature on the inside of them. Abraham is great as he was, he had faith, but he didn't have a new nature. They have the fallen nature on the inside of them. Abraham as great as he was, he had faith, but he didn't have. He was not a new creature. He was not born again. And so he left, not knowing.
Speaker 1:But he took his father and his kinfolk. And then, you know, as he's going along, god didn't show him where to go. He didn't give God a chance to show him anything. He stopped in a place called Haran. It's an ungodly city full of wickedness. His father is an idol maker and makes idols. You've got to go back in your Bible and do some study to find all this out, but it's in there. And they stayed in Haran for 15 years. He still hadn't gone where God had wanted to show him. He hadn't made it that far yet he stopped off in Haran and what happened there? He picked up a Hagar. Hagar, beware of stopping in Haran. You might pick up a Hagar. It's affecting us today because a Hagar is a mother of Arabians.
Speaker 1:I mean she, you know, she was the housemaid, essentially and and, of course, earlier in their marriage. I mean, you know Abraham's wife, sarai Abram, before they got her new name, so her name was Sarai and she just didn't have. You know, she couldn't bear children. So she said well, go in and have a child by the maid there, boy, that was not a brilliant idea. In and have a child by the maid there, boy, that was not a brilliant idea. Boy, you can start piling up a lot of minutiae that he missed, can't you? Are you piling up a bunch of minutiae that you missed, and is it holding you back? Is it weighing you down? Is it making you feel like you know what? I don't know if I'm going to make it. I mean, it seems like I've got a zero in this quiz so far. I'm missing a whole lot.
Speaker 1:Listen, I mean, faith sees the big picture. Man, you came to church on a Sunday night. You've got something. You're hungry enough to come in here on a Sunday night. This message is I want to encourage you, no matter what you've done or haven't done. So then, how many of you know that? It didn't surprise God that any of that happened?
Speaker 1:But notice what God gave him in verse 2. See, he told him to do four things Leave your country, leave your kinfolk, leave your daddy's house, go to a land that I will show you. And he's only got one out of four so far. He could check off one. I don't know where I come from. That means you got a 25 on the pop quiz. That's an F right, I mean you know. I mean he didn't even get three out of four. I mean he got one out of four.
Speaker 1:And how many of you know God wasn't surprised. And guess what? God gave him? These promises. He said and I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless thee. I'll curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. I'll bless you to make you a blessing. That was the promise.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you something Did God deliver on his side of the equation, really, even though Abraham made a 25 on his pop quiz? I mean, our God is so merciful. Our God is not looking for a way to hit you upside the head and send you into eternity. He wants to bless you as much as he can bless you. It's never a question. It's never a question with him. Do you want to bless your kids but you know sometimes you just have to hold back because if they just you know messing, just have to hold back, because if they just you know messing up left and right, well you can't. You can't bless that because you're giving them the wrong signal. But even so, I mean, look at abraham. Abraham had messed up. He got a 25 on his pop quiz.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad a and m graded on the curve. I mean I'll never forget my first math class. I mean I I didn't know where I was. Oh, forget math. It was chemistry, chemistry. I was in a classroom. It was an auditorium about this size, 300 students. How would you like to go to a class with one professor and 300 students? What are my chances of learning anything? It was a four hour class, so you had three hours of of class a week and then you had a three hour lab a week and the lab was a Chinese guy that could not speak English. He'd just get up in front of the class and go. I never understood a word. The man said he would scribble on the board. He had this grease board. He'd scribble across that board and you'd try to think what is that? Is that a chemical equation? What is that? I mean, I couldn't figure out what he was doing and I just knew I had an F in that class. I made an A minus. They graded on the curve.
Speaker 1:Well, god grades on the curve. You might have made a 25, but God said, hey, you're my man of faith and power, I'm going to bless your socks off, boy. You got one thing right whoo, you left your country. Whoa, not knowing Whoa. Proverbs 16, nine. You know we make our plans, but God orders our steps. Sometimes your plans don't.
Speaker 1:He had, didn't he have kind of his own plan, didn't he? I mean, if you'd really be honest, he kind of had his own. He heard God, but I mean he had his own plan. Once he got in the heat of the battle, I don't know what his daddy told him when he was leaving. I don't know what lot could have possibly told him when he was leaving. I don't know what Lot could have possibly told him when he was leaving him, but just look at the carnage, I mean, that resulted His father. The only reason he ever left Haran is because his father died in Haran, and so now daddy's dead.
Speaker 1:So then they finally leave Haran and go on down the road and they finally intersect the promised land. It's not theirs to live in yet, but God told him. He said look up and down. This is it, this is what I'm going to leave you and your seed. It's going to be multiplied. Look up at the stars. More than the stars in the heavens, look at the dust. Greater than the dust, there's a lot of dust there. I've been there. There's a lot of dust. But even so that Abram had his own plan. God still blessed him. He had faith as a seed. Have you got faith as a seed? Amen. So he did leave not knowing. Therefore, god blessed him.
Speaker 1:See, obedience brings the blessings, even if it's just partial obedience. So don't knock it. I mean, I'm not encouraging you to give up following God all the way to everything that he says, but you know, sometimes, when we're learning to walk with him, we don't I don't know With me. He's asked me to do things I just didn't have faith to do, and if you'll take a step, he'll give you credit. I said He'll give you credit. Sometimes God will reward you even though you don't have faith now, but he knows you're going to have faith later. I mean, our Father loves us, us. He loves us supernaturally. He loves us unconditionally. We, we, we hang around the human kind of love and we kind of impute it to god, we reckon it to god like that's the way he loves us. That's not how he loves us, oh no, he loves us with His kind of love. His kind of love is so far beyond what we experience on the earth. You know, I just want to encourage. And so obedience brings the blessing.
Speaker 1:Look in Genesis 13, next chapter. So he went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that, he had lot with him into the south, verse 2, and Abram was just barely able to pay his lex. They almost repossessed his camel. Abram was very rich in cattle, silver and gold. Very rich, not just rich, very rich. Everybody say very. He was blessed to do what, to be a blessing. It wasn't just supposed to go to him and not through him. It went to him and it went through. He was blessed to be a blessing. How can we be a blessing if we're not blessed? So we are blessed. Galatians 3 says we're blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places. One version says we're blessed with all the blessings that heaven itself enjoys. Praise God, Everybody say I'm blessed to be a blessing. And then you keep reading on down there and in verse 7 you find out there's a strife now.
Speaker 1:This mistake of bringing his nephew along is that now he's got Lot and he's got strife. The herdsmen are having trouble. See, there's not enough room for both of them, for their cattle. When I say cattle, I'm not talking about cows, I'm talking about sheep and goats. They take a lot of grass and there's not much grass in Israel. I mean, you know just, didn't much. It's pretty, it's dry baby. And now you've got enough herds to support two separate families and it's just and they're together. You know, I don't know if they had the same tent they lived in or whether their tents were side by side. I don't know if they had the same tent they lived in or whether their tents were side by side. I don't know how that all that went. But I mean, you know just, I mean he shouldn't have brought Lot, but here he is, and now they've got strife and Lot's herdsmen are fighting with Abram's herdsmen and Abram knew he had enough sense to know that I've got to get strife out of my house. I'm not going to have strife. Lot, come over here. Man, we can't be fighting.
Speaker 1:You just pick where you want to go. If you want to go that way, I'll go this way. If you'd rather go this way, I'll go that way. You pick, it's your choice. See, there's a guy that knows he's blessed, no matter what your choice. See, there's a guy that knows he's blessed, no matter what. There's a guy that just knows that strife is a killer and he's not a right fighter. And he's not trying to win the argument. You know you need to take a little bit more interest in your herdsman. You know you wouldn't have a nickel to rub if it wasn't for me. Buddy boy, you better get right. No, he didn't do that. He said you pick where you want to go, you pick.
Speaker 1:Well, we know what Lot did. He picked Sodom. He picked Sodom. He didn't like to live out in the country anyway. He wasn't a country boy at heart. I guess he'd rather live in town. I'm pretty sure his wife was like that. His daughters were sure like that. So they picked an ungodly, wicked city. And so as soon as he left, god cut the covenant with Abram. See, I mean, as long as Lot was hanging around, god couldn't cut the covenant with Abram. As long as Lot was hanging around, god couldn't cut the covenant with Abram. As soon as Lot left, god began to double down on his blessing. Are y'all with me now? And that's because he got rid of Lot and he got rid of the strife.
Speaker 1:But then in the next chapter I mean they hardly got settled in Sodom and Gomorrah then the five kings come through the town in Sodom and Gomorrah and they raided the town and they took everything of Lot's. They took all of his wealth and all of his stuff. I don't know what motivated Abram, but that's my blood over there that's just got ripped off and I'm not going to stand for that devil. I'm not going to stand for you ripping off my blood kin. He's so rich, he's got enough power to get his army together and go over there and defeat those five kings and slaughtered them. And he brought all the spoils of the battle and he met Melchizedek coming back from the slaughter of the kings. Melchizedek, according to Hebrews, has no lineage. There's no mention of him in the Bible. He's without father, without mother. He is a type and shadow of Jesus, the high priest.
Speaker 1:And so the Bible says in the book of Hebrews that the patriarchs paid tithes. In Abraham, the less is blessed of the better. And so he gave a tithe of all those goods. I mean, that was his. He won it by conquest. And so then the king of Sodom comes out there and says oh man, I'm so thankful for you, abram, I'm really glad you did what you did. Listen, you just keep all the goods. Just give us the women and children back. Just give us our families back. We'll be fine with it. He said I'm not going to keep all this. All I'm taking is what it cost me to do war and the tithe. I tithe every bit of it. But I don't want you saying that you made me rich. Here's it all back. You can have it all back. He restored all of Lot's goods back to him. Come on, lift your hands. He's blessed to be a blessing. I'm telling you we're blessed to be a blessing.
Speaker 1:Big picture I'm just thinking about Abram. He's an amazing man. He wasn't perfect, but he had love, he had wisdom, all right. So what was the big picture? Let's look back at Hebrews 11. I know some of you are wondering well, what was the big picture in his life? What was it that he? So let's get back over to Hebrews 11. He had some powerful experiences with God Cut the covenant with God, had a name change, had a supernatural childbirth when they were past age. I mean, you know, he had quite a track record, all right. So what was the big picture? Hebrews 11, verse 9.
Speaker 1:By faith, he sojourned in the land of promises, in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise, for he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God. And then, well, let's just keep reading verse 12. Therefore, sprang there even of one of him and him, as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky and multitude and as the sandwiches by the seashore, innumerable. So God's promise to him was fulfilled. These all died in faith, not having received the promise, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. So what was the big picture? Well, he looked for a heavenly Jerusalem that he couldn't see and never did find it. When did he find it? When Jesus rose from the dead, defeated the devil, and then the Bible says Jesus went and preached to the spirits in prison.
Speaker 1:They were all Old Testament saints were held in what we call the bosom of Abraham. It's a place next to hell. It's separated. You know, father Abraham, you know the wicked man. You know the rich man that died. You know, wanted a drink of water and tried to get his servant to go from the bosom of Abraham and go over there and give him. Father Abraham, tell my servant to bring me some water. It's hot over here. No, there's a great gulf fixed. He can't come over there and you can't come over there.
Speaker 1:So we understand, then, that the Old Testament saints they couldn't go to heaven there. They're not born again. There are two of them there, though. Enoch is there, elijah's there. They've got to come back. In the last days. They're going to come back and they're going to be a witness and then they're going to be slaughtered by the Antichrist and raised from the dead and they're going to be lifted up off and everybody's going to see it on television. They're going to be watching TV and watch Enoch and Elijah get raised from the dead. It's pretty amazing. I wonder if Enoch and Elijah are counting the days when they get to come back down here and get killed, anyway.
Speaker 1:But besides them, everybody else went to the bosom of Abraham that's what they call that place and so he looked for a heavenly Jerusalem. He saw it. It says in verse 13,. He saw it afar of. How did he see it? By the eyes of his faith, because God told him it was there. He was persuaded by it.
Speaker 1:What do you mean persuaded by it? He kept moving, regardless of whether he could see it with his eyeballs. He saw it by faith. Your faith has got eyesight. Your faith has eyes. Your faith has ears. Your faith has a voice. It has five senses. Your spirit and your faith both have five senses. They're not connected to your body, they're spiritual.
Speaker 1:So he was persuaded by it. In other words, he never gave up. He didn't quit just because he made a 25 on the pop quiz. He kept moving forward. He kept doing the right thing. He made a lot of mistakes. Moving forward, he kept doing the right thing. He made a lot of mistakes. I said he made a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 1:He embraced it. What does that mean? Well, he got so close to it in his spirit that he could just bring it right on in to his heart. He received it in his heart, god. You said it was there, you said it was mine. I receive it.
Speaker 1:I'm not moved by what I see, I'm not moved by how I feel. I'm only moved by what I believe. And I believe your word, big picture, and he confessed it. Really, you're not going to do much without a confession. You're going to have to speak, you're going to have to say something about what you haven't seen yet. And if you're going to constantly say, well, I don't see anything, well see, then you're speaking wrong. My, I see it in the Word, that's all I need. I see what belongs to me right here. Thank God, it's mine, hallelujah. The Bible says be strong, I'm strong. Let the weak say I'm strong, I'm strong in the Lord and the power of His might. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. When panic attacks come my way, I having done all to stand, I stand against them. I'm not going to bow to fear. God didn't give me a spirit of fear, power of love and a sound mind.
Speaker 1:Seven years ago, in January, I was in ICU open heart surgery. Most open heart surgeries are two and a half hours. Mine was seven. During the surgery the surgeon punctured my heart with a catheter and the heart-lung machine is pumping blood in my body and it's squirting everywhere. I'm in a coma and I'm crashing.
Speaker 1:Thank God I didn't know it. My family knew it. Some of it Didn't know it all, but I mean you know, when the nurse keeps coming out and you're expecting a couple hours and the nurse comes out after three and says, well, we've had some complications, I mean they just had to stay in faith. Gladys and my kids had to. Just they didn't know what happened An hour six when they came out and the look on that nurse's face told them all they needed to know. You know you could have fallen apart, they could have just melted, but they stood and of course, after it was all over we found out what happened. I mean you know they stabbed my heart with a catheter and punched a hole in it and it's squirting, you know, squirting blood. And they with a catheter and punched a hole in it and it's squirting blood and they can't find it. You know this is slippery and I had shaken hands with the associate cardiologist or heart surgeon.
Speaker 1:There were two of them the main guy who studied under DeBakey and he was part of North Cypress and really a well-known surgeon, and I met his associate that was going to be in there with him and when I shook hands with him it's like shaking hands with one of my grandkids. It's the smallest hands I've ever seen. Here's a full-grown man but his hand little, old, bitty hand, you know Well. Now I know why he has small hands, because he was able to. Finally he's trying to hold my heart and it's slippery and everything, and he's looking, trying to find the blood is squirting all over everywhere and finally he finally sees it and he sticks his little finger in the hole, plugs the hole with his little finger oh my God and puts a stitch in there. My heart's got a stitch in it when the hole used to be. Glory to God. But I'm laying there in ICU.
Speaker 1:I don't mind telling you I had a rough time. I mean, I couldn't sleep. I went days without sleep. Besides the fact they wake you up anyway, you can't forget about sleeping in ICU because they're always coming and they're messing with you all the time. But besides that, I couldn't get my breath, I could not breathe, and they put this you know sleep apnea machine on me and it blows you know sleep apnea machine on me and it blows, you know, nothing helped.
Speaker 1:And I got so sleep deprived that I was beginning to see things and it looked like spiders had come in my room and they built these nets. And I would look up at the ceiling and it would just be like this and it would be going along the top corner of the room where the ceiling meets the wall and it would be going like this and every now and then it would hang down and bounce like this. I'm telling you, I saw spiderwebs all over the room. It was hanging from the ceiling, hanging on the walls, and I was in such a mental state I couldn't sleep. See, that's what they do to torture people is interrupt their sleep. You have hallucinations Besides the pain, drugs and all of that.
Speaker 1:And one night I thought I was going to die. I called the kids. I said get up here and get your hands on me. I don't know if I can make it through the night. I feel like I'm about to. And I wasn't. All my numbers were fine, it was my mind. And they came up in the ice storm. I don't know if you, we had an ice storm that night and they had risked their life just to get back to the ICU. I didn't know that I wouldn't have done it, I'm sure, but I wasn't in my right mind. What am I saying All night long? You know what I said God's not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and love. I must have quoted that verse a thousand times, maybe a lot, maybe more, maybe 10,000 times, night after night after night. You know, I finally I mean, you know, I finally got the victory. It wasn't the first night or the second night, but I got the victory over that sleep deprivation, talking about the big picture.
Speaker 1:And so these all died, not only Abraham, but all the Old Testament. Saints Isaac and Jacob had the same promise exactly. They never saw it, they never got to live there, they never got to possess that land. Their seed did their seed. And, of course, the land of Israel. Their land is a type and shadow of our inheritance. We have an inheritance. It's our healing, it's our provision, it's our freedom, it's our protection. Are y'all with me now? Big picture no, we haven't been perfect, but God loves us and he's rewarding us. Big picture no, we hadn't been perfect, but God loves us and he's rewarding us because we diligently sought Him.
Speaker 1:So here we finish, 30 years as a church. You know we haven't always known exactly what we were going to do. We haven't always. It didn't always look really good. I mean, especially when we moved out of that building to the seventh day. It didn't look look really good. I mean especially when we moved out of that building to the seventh day. It didn't look real cool during that time.
Speaker 1:But I'm glad. I'm grateful for all the things that we've been through, that we've been able to conquer and we've been able to overcome. And I'm just reminded that our faith always grabbed a hold of the big picture. We've always obeyed as a church. We've always obeyed God's mandates and His Word. We've always taken steps to do what we knew to do. We didn't always know what we were doing. I mean, I had no idea God's plan was going to be for us to have capital worship in all 50 states. But now that's what I know we're going to do. We are going to do that. We are going to be in charge of getting all 50 of the United States and maybe 51 with Canada.
Speaker 1:Maybe Canada will be the US and Canada hockey team had a big blowout brawl. They booed the Canadians, booed the national anthem and boy, those guys on the US side went out there and they started beating up on the can. So they beat them up physically and then they beat them in the game. They beat and pounded the Canadians. Poor Canadians, they might as well just give up come the 51st. He said I talked to. He said the other night I heard him, he was doing an interview. He said I talked to Governor Trudeau the other day and he just went right through it. He never even he just never smiled. I talked to Governor Trudeau the other day and da-da-da-da-da, he's actually the Prime Minister of Canada, but he calls him the Governor. It's hilarious. Our faith sees the big picture. We've been blessed to be a blessing. Come on, lift your hand tonight. Praise God, hallelujah. Did you get anything out of this? I don't know if you got anything out of it. I got a lot out of it. Thank God for what God has done, amen.