They took us in and tried us and told us. We walked home. Somebody in the hospital squats. So they said, you know, you're going to feel hospital. You know, it was, we didn't know it was one, but it was, you know, they, they changed their orders. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Glad you all are here this morning. And I don't have my pulpit this morning. We're doing a little different here. We are, we have the Lord's Supper service during the meal. So I'm pulpitless, but I think we can handle it. I, I have a Bible and a brain and you all. So what more do we need? Right? And those of you online, thanks for joining us here today. As we have been doing a little series, little bit of this and a little bit of that, which is very descriptive of the series. It's a little bit of this and a little bit of that, which means it's not really a series. It's just a bunch of stuff I wanted to put in that I wanted to talk about somewhere along the way. And so today we're going to look at Acts, chapter 13, verse 48 here in just a moment, but I will get us started in prayer. Heavenly Father, thanks for your blessing today for the encouragement of being able to gather together here in this place, not only for the worship that is to come with the remembrance of the body and the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, but also to come and do a little Bible study this morning. And we pray that it's helpful and useful and encouraging to us. In Jesus name, amen. And I want to talk about. Excuse me. As I push a mute button over there, I heard myself coming out of the side. There we go. I want to talk about. We're glad to have guests, by the way. I will, we'll do, we'll do formal introductions in the next service. How's that? But glad from North Carolina that you are here with us and glad Florida is back where they belong and Tennessee and all of us. Acts chapter 13, verse 48 is what I want to look at today as our, as our chief scripture here. Pardon me for I'm going to put most of these scriptures on the screen today because it'll be a lot easier because we're going through a lot of them. And I, I, I, I, my, my keyboard will be on the side or the other, so I'll have to switch from side to side. But you'll be okay, won't you? As we go to Acts 13:48, it is a passage in which I don't know how to work that keyboard. I got to go over here. It's a. It's a passage in which we have. Maybe I don't know how to work this one either. I'm going to get there. There we go. We have an interesting little issue that takes place up front. You all know that I'm not a Calvinist, but there are a few passages you bump into and you say, oh, wait a minute, maybe I should be a Calvinist. Because this sounds kind of Calvinist. And is it Calvinist? Of course, most are probably aware. But the Calvinist position would be that God has preordained from before the foundations of the world, those that would be saved and those that would be damned. So in Acts, chapter 13, Paul comes and he gives what I would argue is the first time we have the dispensation of the grace of God proclaimed clearly and verbally. Now, that may sound like a shock because obviously, you know, it's a long time after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's a long time after the day of Pentecost. But that was a Jewish audience, and all the messages were to Jews. There is the Cornelius issue, which we could look at. But even with Cornelius, there is the issue of Cornelius was a devout Jew, which in Scripture always means he goes to the synagogue, he is a worshiper in the synagogue. He recognized Jesus as the Jewish Messiah. So we might call it the Kingdom Gospel. But the grace gospel, outside of the law of Moses, are outside, I should say, to use Paul's words in Ephesians 3:12, the grace gospel is outside of the covenants and the commonwealth of Israel. Where once Paul says, in Ephesians 2:12, I should say Paul says, if you're outside of those covenants commonwealth, you are without God and without hope. Okay, that was where things were. You had to come into Israel and her covenant in order to be a part of what God was doing. But now something new has happened, and I'm. I'm actually just going to jump up here to verse 38 and show a glimpse of Paul's message. He's got Jews and Gentiles in his audience here. I want to say he's in Antioch. Pardon me if I have that wrong, but he's got both Jews and Gentiles. And he then in preaching does come to the point where the Jews are very clearly rejecting his message. And so he begins to share this gospel of grace, the dispensation of the grace of God. And he says, be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. Now that's not so, so stunning, I would argue, to say this is not even knew, you know, on the day of Pentecost, what must you do? Repent and be baptized that you might be. Oh, repent and be baptized for the remission of sins. Okay, the remission of sins, the forgiveness of sins. A number of words that we can use. But this idea of the forgiveness of sins is not the new part. The new part comes really in verse 39, the next verse, which Paul, still speaking of Jesus, says, by him all that believe are justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. Now that is the clearest first time, and we're going to talk about some first time issues today, but the clearest first time that someone actually says it, I, I think by the time you actually say something, usually you, you have come to understand it before you say it. So there's, you know, Saul of Tarsus came and had this road to Damascus experience and received his heavenly vision. And, and I would say the dispensation of the grace of God that he talks about, given by revelation, the revelation of the mystery that's happened before, before this. But now here again, for the very first time, you have this thing where you could now be justified. And we have all that believe are justified from things even which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. Now, the law of Moses did have an atoning, you know, the day of atonement, the atoning, sacrifices for sin, whatnot. But there were some things the law of Moses really couldn't help you with. If, for example, if you committed premeditated murder, sorry, there's no sacrifice for that. You know, the law of Moses was a little more for, shall we say, inadvertent sins, sins you committed that you might not even know you committed, for example, in the day of atonement, some of these kind of things. But here is a complete all, all that believe are justified from all things. And then he specifies all things, even the things which you could not be justified for Moses, okay, so he's giving a presentation to Jews, to Gentiles, a salvation presentation, if you will, a gospel presentation. And that's where we jump down and come to verse 48, which is really what we're going to look at today. And it says here, when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. Let's stop right there. Remember that the previous message had been, if you're outside of the covenants and commonwealth of Israel, you are without God and without hope. So if you now bring a message that I started to say seems to imply, but I think you would have to drop the seems to and implies. It just explicitly states anybody by belief can be justified from all things. Don't even need the law of Moses or even outside the law of Moses, a completely different thing that takes place. So when they heard that, I got my stick there so I can look teacherly. There we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Steve was trying to hide it because he's afraid I was going to whop him on the head. So here we go. They were glorified. They glorified the word of the Lord. And then here's the key issue right here. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. That does seem to be Calvinist, doesn't it? As many as were ordained to eternal life, that is God before the foundation of the world set this certain number of people that were there on that day, a number of Gentiles, and they were going to believe this was God's plan from the beginning. And it was specific that, you know, Bill and Bob and Mary and Sue and Randy, because Calvinists always include themselves, were, were preordained and brought in there. Now, I want us to look at this phrase right here, as many as were ordained. And I want us to look at it in a strictly linguistic point of view. I remember, and I know I've told this story before, but I like to tell it and you forgot it, so. But I remember in Hebrew class in seminary, as I was studying Hebrew, the professor said something that I found shocking at the time, but I remembered it and the older I got and the more I studied language and theology, the more I realized I think he's right. And what he said was, I would rather. By the way, this was the late 80s, we didn't have AI. He said, I would rather have a computer that was perfect at linguistics, translate the Bible than someone who was perfect and theology and had a tremendous love for the Lord, translate the Bible. And I thought, I don't want a computer. I want somebody who loves Jesus. Because that sounds good, right? Well, what I came to realize after a while is you can love Jesus and make a mess out of words. You can, you can twist them and turn. And what he was saying is, we need linguists. That's one of the reasons I like the King James, is it was, I think, the greatest collection of linguists that the world has ever seen in one room come together. To, to really make sure, okay, linguistically, what do we have here? So I want to translate this strictly from a linguistic point of view. Now, I am a strong believer that if the words don't linguistically say something, then you should not twist them to make them say that. Our problem is we come with our theology first a lot of times and we kind of think we know what this means. When. Why? Because in American culture, I did a series not too long ago on our Thursday night study in American Culture. We really are inundated with Calvinist thinking from our Puritan forefathers, who are all Calvinists. And that, that Puritan strain of American religion there was also a. A church, Church, not Church of Christ, Church of England, an Anglican strain that came in through Virginia. The southern colonies were more Anglican. The northern colonies were very much Calvinist Puritan, you know, the Jonathan Edwards and all those kinds of things. Well, that New England, in a lot of ways, not only religiously, politically, socially and whatnot, really affected our American psyche, if you will, all the way up to this day. So it doesn't matter if you are Baptist or Presbyterian or Lutheran or even, I'll say Catholic or, you know, non denominator, whatever. We've got this heritage that is part of our collective memory. So even if it's not part of your personal memory, as soon as you open your mouth and say something, the, the rest in the room will set you straight by our collective memory. Right. We were talking about that the other day at supper, weren't we? What, what's the word that I used, man? The Mandela effect. That's it. Mandela. The Mandela effect is when groups remember things that never happened. Something like that, like I did had. They named it out something after Nelson Mandela and I don't remember. It was something about something that happened that he was in prison that everybody remembered, but actually it never happened. And so we get this in here and Rich, of course, being from West Virginia, he is used to saying what an attorney. Tarnation. And everybody knows Yosemite Sam said that, but Yosemite Sam is never recorded as saying what in a tarnation. So anyway, we read things in that really don't need to be read read in at all. We need to go linguistically. So I want to look at the word right here, ordained. And I, I've given you on the outline a little bit of Greek, more than we necessarily need to go to. But you can take that and, and study this if you're not sure if I'm telling you the truth or not. The word Is hard to say. It is tetag manos. Tetag manos. And that word comes from tasso. Now, I know tasso doesn't sound like tetagnemos, tetagunt, that word, they sound different, but it really is the same word and it has to do. And I've given you some of the mapping there if you want to map it out. So I don't know about that. It has to do with the fact that in Greek, verbs change their very structure so that in the spelling you can tell this comes from this root word and it's this form of the root word. And it has to do with, you know, third person plurals or third, you know, all, every, every little thing has a different spelling. The word is tasso. And that's the word we're going to study today is tasso. And we are going to take that and get a straightforward look at this word tasso, because we want to know linguistically, what does it mean to be ordained. Now we'll look at it in all of its different contexts, because if we were to say, no, I only want to know what it means to be ordained to eternal life, then we only have this scripture because it's the only time that it uses the word in that, in that specific context. So we're going to back up and look at it. Now there is this thing called, and we've talked about it before, the law of first use. Now, the law of first use was not passed by Congress or even by the eu. It hasn't been verified by the Supreme Court. It's not that kind of law. It's a law of hermeneutics. How do you translate scripture? And it is based upon the concept that scripture interprets itself. Sometimes we even say scripture is its own dictionary. Okay, so the Bible is its own dictionary, which means when we see a word like ordained, we need to go back into it. Now, you can do this from English, I'm going to do it from Greek, and, and check this out. Why the law of first use? Because we make an assumption. There are some assumptions built into this, and we always question the assumptions around here, but we make the assumption the first time it's ever used. The reader would need to take the context, as we call it in the John Nelson Darby Academy. Context clues. Figure it out from the context clues. Okay, so you go to the first one where the reader might say, never seen this word anymore. Okay, well, what are the context clues? What, how is it used there? What can we draw from it? What? I don't know. This will sound taos to say it. But what spirit does the word give? What aura does the word give? What, what, what meaning is clearly there? And then we take that as the default meaning of the word. Now some words do later on obviously change their meaning, or if there's another context, it will change the, the meaning. And so we, we, we look at that and say, okay, if there's nothing later on that changes this, I'm going to take the word to mean what it is in the, in the very first use. And so let's, let's look at some of these things. But let me say up front that the word ordained or tasso is in Greek. It is, it's really kind of a military word in its origin. That Rich, you were in the military. What do you call it when everybody's supposed to get in order? Formation. Formation. Get in formation. Do they say that or is that muster? Thought you said mustard for a minute. What does mustard have to do with it? You got a muster. Okay. It's the extent of my military career, but okay, it's that kind of word that says get in your place, you know, in the line, think, think military or think marching band or something like this. That has a lot of order to it, even, you know, to, to. To add to that a little bit, even chain of command kind of things. Who is, who's in charge of whom, or you've got even logic kind of things like, you know, which came first, the chicken or the egg. That's a tasso issue. We got to put this in some sort of order. Now that's what it means in Greek, by the way. In English, if you look up again, we have taken ordained to mean something. Maybe, maybe this morning, if I don't forget about it, when we come to the Lord's Supper, I, I might speak about the word ordinance sounds kind of like ordained and, and would come from the same root. Or we think, you know, you're going to ordain a deacon, perhaps, or ordain a pastor. And so we think of it kind of as a setting aside, but really in its, in its original use, ordained, it just means to put in order. Tasso. And that's the, the. In 1611, the, the linguists gathered together and they said, okay, the word is tasso here, and it's in the passive. How are we going to do this? They were ordained unto eternal life. Now we'll put that together here in just a moment, but let's look at a couple of these passages. Let's go to Matthew chapter 1, verse 24, which is the first use of it. Matthew 1:24 says Joseph. This is when Joseph, Joseph and Mary. This is when Joseph discovered that Mary was with child and thought about putting her away secretly. But then he had the vision, you know, don't be afraid to take Mary as thy wife. Joseph, being raised from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had. What? That is not biden. Yes, bidden him and took unto him his wife. Now, would you read into that. Before the foundations of the world, all of this had been planned. We might go and argue that theologically from some other perspective. You know, we got Genesis 3:15 and the promise of a Messiah and whatnot. But here the word bidden is that same word. It is a little different format of the word. And I think I've got that on the outline there, but it's the same word. What happened is Joseph said, I'm going to put her away secretly. And then the angel of the Lord came and said, let me order your thinking a little bit. Let me give you some information which you need to know. That which has been found in her is of the Holy Ghost. She's going to bring forth a child. You are going to call his name, Jesus. He will save his people from their sins. All this took place that what was happened, you know, what was prophesied by the prophet Isaiah. A virgin will conceive. A son will be given that this might take place. And then Joseph says, ah, I get it. I will do as you say. Now, what happened in this ordered bidden made some sense of, if I can stretch that just a little bit, what was going on? Joseph says, now I know and I'm definitely in on this. I'll be part of this. Has anyone ever come and said, hey, I need you to do xyz. And you said, that's the stupidest thing in the world. I am not doing that ever, ever, ever. And then you said, well, I need you to know that pdq. And he said, I'm on it, you know, immediately. Once you knew the all the facts, once that was ordered in your mind, what happened? You took that order. And so the angel of the Lord here. Can I say again, I might be edging a little bit off center here, but can I say the angel of the Lord here convinced him, and so he convinced him with the information that's given in the previous verses. And so he took her for his wife. Let's look at Matthew, chapter 8, verse 4, in which you have a reference really to the Old Testament. And yeah, it says, jesus saith unto him, see, thou tell no man, but go thy way. Show thyself unto the priest. This is a leper that Jesus had healed. And Jesus has given him some instructions. You know, go show thyself to the priest. Offer the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony unto them. This commanded here is also ordered. What did Moses do? He explained to them, I went on Mount Sinai. I got instructions. The instructions involve. Here's everything you're supposed to do. Moses ordered their thinking for a testimony unto them. So there's the first two times. In the New Testament, we have that exact word. Now let's suppose then that we take and apply that understanding to Acts chapter 13, verse 48, where it says again, as many as were ordained to eternal life believed, Moses gave them instruction, and they would carry that instruction out. Joseph was given some understanding, insight into what was taking place behind the scenes, that he didn't know about it, and therefore he obeyed. Now, put that all the same word, Tasso into this. And so they've heard the word of the Lord through Paul. As many as heard this made sense to them. They began to put their logic together and say, whoa, now I get it. Those people believed. Now, what about, ah, let's. Let's just pretend here, I assume that somebody was somebody there when. Even when Paul was preaching, somebody fell asleep, right? And they woke up. What's going on here? They might not have believed because they were out of it. Or what about the person who is thinking, you know, I think we're out of eggs, man. Eggs are expensive, but they're not as expensive as they used to be. And, you know, oh, Molly, she makes wonderful deviled eg. I remember when we used to go to the creek together and, you know, their mind has just fallen, one thing after another. And then Paul comes to the end and says, who would like to believe? And believe what? What are you talking about? Okay, somebody's mind is wandering. Somebody or. Or let me give one more. Somebody's like, I don't know about this. You're telling me that Jesus is the Messiah, but the Jews rejected him, and now this Jewish thing is opened, available to everybody. I'm not buying it yet. I'll investigate a little more. Okay. Their thinking was not yet ordered because they were asleep, because they were daydreaming, because they were skeptics. I love skeptics, by the way. Otherwise I wouldn't live in Taos. You would. You would pull your hair out. But, you know, there's. There's all sorts of reasons but also, of course, there are those who were listening every step of the way saying, this makes perfect sense. I get it. I see it from the passages he's brought. I think he used those passages in the right, the right context. I, I see, you know, some other things that have happened around me. I put it all together. So to, again, to bring those first two uses, as many as can I. Well, let me say it the simple way. First of all, as many as got their thinking in order believed makes all the sense in the world. And it doesn't make this pre temporal. Before the foundations of the world, God selected Tom, Dick and Harry to be to become believers. Rather, they had a very ordered presentation to them. Now if you take that and say, okay, I'm going to test that out a little bit, this is what you do in science or in interpreting the word of God is you make an assumption and then you test it out. You make your hypothesis and then you test it. So our hypothesis is they got a logical presentation of the gospel and as many as there were that got it, they believed others might need another presentation. Others might need to have some caffeine and then have a presentation. You know, whatever this, the case is, it has to do with this is a logical presentation and they got it. You know, I have said maybe as much as I've said just about anything else. I think my job as a pastor is to change the way you think. That's, that's what I do is change the way you think. I want you to think biblically, which means I've got to go and do the study and then I have to try to put together a presentation, which I think is going to help change the way you think. By the way, most people are stubborn thinkers. You know, it's not an easy job to change the way you think. And for the pastor, I would say this is a class for Luca. You know, someday for the pastor, you do have to kind of consider how does Jody think versus the way Rich thinks versus the way Steve thinks versus the way Gloria thinks versus the way Ursula thinks versus the way John thinks. And what would, what could I put together to take their kind of thinking? Now, pastors can't always do that. That's why sometimes you fall asleep, which I guess is a gift. You know, that if the pastor is just missing where you are, get a nap. And then on the way out say, pastor, pastor, I had a great experience today, but I think this is one of the reasons why churches tend over time to take on the personality of their pastor. Because people who think like that come together and say, oh, I, you know, I get it when he, when he talks, I, I understand other people. You know, the pastor can't quite get into that zone sometimes and it doesn't, doesn't work out as well. That's okay. Now that's at the end of the seminary lesson or the practicality lesson of changing the way you think. But I think what we've got here is this. Now we're going to take our assumption and we want to test that out a little bit. I've got a number of scriptures here that I'm going to look at. Let's go back to Matthew and go to Matthew 28:16. And in case I didn't say that very well, as I chased a rabbit, I want to say Tasso ordained is a, I'll use the word mundane. It is kind of a mundane word. Not a great mystical behind the scenes theological issue. It's a mundane word and in a very mundane way. And I don't mean the negatives on that we can sometimes put with mundane, but in a very mundane way. Paul gave a real nice, clear, logical presentation of the scripture. And some people said, that makes perfect sense. I'm going to accept that. Now, does that work with the other times the scripture used the 11 disciples? This is after the resurrection. The 11 disciples went away into Galilee unto a mountain, mountain where Jesus had appointed them. It's the same word, Tasso, right there. For appointed. Jesus had appointed them. Now did this take place before the foundations of the earth? No, took place before the death, burial and resurrection, even, you know, on the resurrection, which we'll celebrate, of course, next week at the resurrection. Jesus says to it was Mary, wasn't it? Jesus said, go and tell the others. I'll meet them in Galilee, the place that I told them, okay, they had a meeting place. Here's where it's going to be. So this appointed right here again. They didn't have a dream, they didn't have a vision. They didn't have the Holy Spirit working in their heart to give them this understanding. They didn't have. What was the movie that had the guy with the potatoes in the devil's tower like a space move X Alien. Close Encounters. It was Close Encounters. Yes. So Google it. So they didn't have any kind of experience like that, an out of body experience. Jesus had just told them, go up Highway 64 until you get to this point, then turn left, right. And so that is, Tasso gave him clear instructions. They followed the clear instructions. They mustered. Did I use that term? Right. And. And. And fell into place there. Let's look at another one. Luke, chapter seven, verse eight, where it says, I am also a man. This is the centurion. I am also a man set under authority. Having under me soldiers, I say to one, go. And he goeth, to another, come, and he cometh. And to my servant do this. And he doeth this. Okay, here the. We have this. The word is actually right, right here. Authority. I am set under tasso. That is, there is an order. And my men know that when I say jump, they say, how high? Now they go to some other guy that may be very smart, handsome, a charming work of art, and he says, jump. And they say, forget it. Why? Because they're not under tasso. Now, here again, this is really kind of a mundane word. How did this centurion come to be a man set under authority? Well, likely he. Likely he paid for the job. You know, there was money under the table, likely. But in the Roman world. But, you know, likely he worked his way. He earned it. It was a. It was a Roman government commission that he received. And it. It is this. This logic that comes forth. So here I am again, under authority. A. Again, let's go with a mundane thing. Let's go to Acts chapter 15, which is, of course, the chapter where they have a big meeting saying, wait, Paul, we think you're doing something we're not so sure about. And in Acts 15, it says, when, therefore, Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles. There's our word right there. Determined, Tasso. Okay, so Paul Barnabas had this arm wrestling match, and nobody was winning over issues with the gospel. And so the crowd that was there determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other men. Was this done before the foundations of the world? We wouldn't read that in there. All we would read is they had a business meeting and they said, folks, we got to do something here. We got to figure this out. And somebody stood up and said, I'll make a motion that Paul and Barnabas go to Jerusalem because the people from Jerusalem are causing us some challenges. You guys go and meet with them, and someone says, I second. And they had some discussion. And all in favor said, aye. Okay. That's how they determined it. Right. I'm sure they use Robert's rules of order. I'm absolutely sure. Okay. I might be reading that into it. Too. But so you see again here, this determined. It's. I don't know. Can I say again, it's a mundane word. Let's. Let's just. Let's. Let's jump to the last one because we won't have time for all of them. First Corinthians, 16, 15 here, maybe. Maybe second Corinthians, maybe somewhere else. What did I have on there? 1 Corinthians 15, 16. Oh, yeah, like dyslexia. Okay, there. There we go. Yes, this is the one. Thank you. I was saying the other day I should get a keyboard for Luca and have him type in the passages. That way I don't have to bend over and all that. And I can blame the dyslexia on him, not me. I beseech you, brethren, you know the house of Stephanas, that is the first fruits of Achaia, that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. That one's kind of an interesting deal, that they are addicted to the ministry of the saints. Our word here is actually addicted. Now, this particular group of people loved to minister to the saints as they. How did they come about that love? I suppose probably like, you know, our missionaries of the month, some of them, we really. We make a connection with. We hook up with. We love those guys. And so how does that happen? Well, you know, one of them sends a video in and we say, oh, what cute kids. Or they send us emails and say, oh, yeah, I really like what they're doing. Or they come and visit us and we get to know them and we say, hey, you know, they're like family to us. And then someone says, hey, you know, let's make sure we support them. Let's send them a Christmas gift, whatever that is. This tasso, they set themselves in order, wasn't determined before the foundation of the world. There's nothing mystical about it. They just connected with this particular cause. And I'm sure it came over time. I'm sure it came with some logic. I'm sure it came with some preaching to change the way they think, whatever, all these things. So it was completely, let's. Let's say a. A mundane thought, logic, even some feelings. I don't have any problem with feelings being in there. Like, hey, I just, you know, I just love those saints. That's why. And so all of that came together to say, this is the only reasonable thing that we can do, is let's help out the saints. So our original passage of Scripture, Acts 13:48, when the Gentiles heard this Presentation. They were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. As many as bought the argument, as many as caught on, as many as heard it and said, yeah, that makes sense. They believed they were ordered to eternal life not in the sense of military order, but ordered to eternal life in the sense of, hey, he put this all in rank. Now let me, let me just conclude this real quick because I'm out of time and say if you take a Calvinist position on this, it's because you read that into it now that doesn't debunk Calvinism in and of itself. You'd have to have more argument than just this one verse here. You know, is there a reason somewhere else to read it in? You'd have to go, but this verse, you can only do that by reading into it. Second thing I think this says to us who share the gospel is we ought to figure out how to share the gospel in a manner that convinces other people, what is it? What would it take to, you know, convince our neighbor, to convince our children or whatever, you know, whoever it is out there as we're sharing the gospel, what would work best in doing that? Because I want to order them to eternal life. I want to give them good thinking, not stinking thinking. And I think sometimes we are not, not completely, we're just passionate but not completely cognizant. The other day I saw someone come along and say, well, it was down here on the corner. The sign said speak up while you can. So I rolled my window down and did. I don't think that was really what she meant, but the thought that came across was, I wonder how many people are really convinced because they got a sign out there that I bet people are stopping and saying, oh, tell me more, tell me more. My, my, my thinking is changing already. Okay, maybe if we really want to change people's thinking, it's going to take a long term approach, it's going to take a logical approach, it's going to take a loving approach. It's going to, you know, whatever it is for the various people that are around, we're going to have to think through that and do that. And that is how they were ordained to eternal life. Okay, I'm out of time and I got to close out this time so we can get ready for the next time here. And let me lead us in a, in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thanks for our Bible study this morning and for the encouragement of it. And we pray that as we go from here we would be cognizant of the fact that we need to share the wonderful gospel of grace in a way that is meaningful to people, that helps them to understand, that changes their thinking in order that they might be ordained unto eternal life as well. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you all. So here, I'll change the picture so I can give. There we go. We're just looking at the cross today. We're going to come and have the Lord's Supper in our service today. Those of you online will have a new link for you here in just a moment. And those of you here, you can take a few minutes stretch break before we get started. God bless. Think I said this morning.