Sent Into the Harvest

Love you. Good morning at Crossway. It is such a

joy and privilege to be with y'all this morning. As

Josh said, this was my church home for many years,

and so it is just a joy to be back

at the place the Lord used to give me a

glimpse of the beauty of the local church, where I

saw people loving one another and taking the command to

make disciples. Seriously, I love this church. Love you guys,

thank you for having me here this morning. As we

begin to shift our attention to the text, I want

us to think about something that is true for many

of us in this room, especially if you feel like

your life is NonStop, go, go, go, and that's this

idea of being busy. And I know for many of

us that is how we would describe our life because

I was catching up with old old friends and multiple

times this morning when I said how's life, I heard

it's busy. And we're busy with work, with families, with

games and schedules and making meals and just trying to

manage all the chaos of life. And even when there

are good things in our life, it feels like we

fill our schedule minute to minute, from the time we

wake up to the time we go to bed, and

without realizing it, Jesus Christ can slowly drift from the

center of our life to the margins. Not because we

don't love him, but because everything else feels so urgent,

feels so immediate, feels like it demands our attention in

that moment. And Luke chapter ten this morning is going

to show us something different. We'll see that Christ does

not just forgive sinners and then send them to live

lives of comfort and ease in whatever way they please. Rather,

he saves people and then he sends people. And that's

the main idea I want you to see from this

passage this morning, that the normal Christian life is a

sent life. Jesus saves you, and he sends you into

his harvest. And as we read this passage, I want

you to consider four questions that the text itself answers.

We want to ask, who does Jesus send, why does

Jesus send them, how does Jesus send them? And what

happens when they go? And so with those questions in mind,

let's turn our attention to Luke chapter ten, starting in

verse one, and we'll read all the way through verse twelve.

After this, the Lord appointed seventy two others and sent

them on ahead of him, two by two, into every

town and place where he himself was about to go.

And he said to them, the harvest is plentiful, but

the labors are few. Therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord

of the harvest to send out labors into his harvest.

Go your way. Behold, I am sending you out as

lambs in the midst of wolves. Carry no money bag,

no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road.

Whatever house you enter, first say peace be to this house,

and if a son of peace is there, your peace

will rest upon him. But if not, it will return

to you. And remain in the same house, eating and

drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages.

Do not go from house to house. Whenever you enter

a town and they receive you, eat what is set

before you, heal the sick in it, and say to

them the Kingdom of God has come near to you.

But whenever you enter a town and they do not

receive you, go into it straight into its streets, and say,

even the dust of your town that clings to our feet,

we wipe off against you. Nevertheless, know this that the

Kingdom of God has come near. I tell you it

will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than

for that town. Would y'all pray with me? Heavenly Father,

we come before you this morning, and we want to

praise you and thank you for all the ways that

you blessed us. We especially thank you for the gift

of your word. This morning, Lord, I confess, we confess

that our hearts are so often distracted. We're pulled in

a thousand directions. Our minds can assumed with responsibilities and anxieties,

and fears and the immediate demands of our lives. But

right now, Lord, I'm asking, by your grace, would you

quiet our hearts? Would you remove distraction? Would you fix

our eyes on King Jesus? And would you give us

humble hearts to receive what Jesus says, give us faith

to believe it, give us courage to obey it. In Lord,

we ask, would Jesus himself commanded us to ask, would

you raise up labors and send them into your harvest?

Raise them up from those in this room, men and

women transformed by the Gospel, we have the courage to

go and share the hope of Jesus with others. We

asked this in Jesus name. Amen. So we're going to

work through this passage verse by verse, considering those four questions.

And we're going to start by asking the question who

does Jesus send? And the text answers that question in

verse one, and I'm gonna read it again and says this.

After this, the Lord appointed seventy two others and sent

them on ahead of him, two by two, into every

town and place where he himself was about to go.

And right at the beginning of this verse we see

an important phrase after this that's telling us that Luke

is connecting chapter ten to what just happened in chapter nine.

And in chapter nine we see Jesus set his face

towards Jerusalem. The urgency is rising, the mission is intensifying,

and at the end of chapter nine Jesus says some

hard things about discipleship. He doesn't just say follow me

and life is going to be easy. He says, let

the dead bury their own dead. No one who puts

his hand to the plow and looks back is fit

for the Kingdom of God. In other words, Jesus is

making it clear that following him is not casual. It's

not signing up for a life of ease. It's not

on certain occasions something you add to your otherwise self

controlled and self directed life. No, he's moving towards Jerusalem,

where he's going to lay down his life for his sheep,

purchasing peace with God through his blood. And as he

moves towards the cross, he's sending messengers ahead of him

to prepare the way. Just as a herald would announce

the coming of a king, he's sending messengers to announce

the coming of the true King, and his arrival we'll

see is going to bring either salvation or judgment. And

notice what the text says next. It says the Lord

appointed seventy two others. That word appointed is important for

us to recognize. Jesus is not standing around asking for volunteers.

He's not acting randomly. He's deliberately, intentionally, sovereignly assigning people

to his mission, which means this, if you are a Christian,

your life is not an accident. You're not here in

San Antonio by accident. You're not at your job in

your workplace by accident. You're not in your apartment complex,

your dorm room, or your neighborhood by accident. Jesus appoints,

he places, and he sends. And who does he appoint?

Says one of my favorite details in the Bible because

of how comforting it is to us. He appoints seventy

two others. I mean, think about that real quick. He

doesn't appoint the inner Circle, the spiritual elite, the twelve Apostles,

those who have everything figured out. He appoints seventy two

of ordinary disciples, which means the mission of King Jesus

is not built on extraordinary people. It's built on ordinary

people who belong to an extraordinary savior. And we need

to hear that this morning, because if you're like me,

you start hearing about mission and it's easy to think, oh, well,

that's for the pastors, that's for the missionaries. That's for

the people who know their Bible better than I do,

that's for those who have their life together. But scripture

is clear, Jesus is calling others. That means the ordinary,

the imperfect, the broken, those still growing and learning and maturing,

those who are dependent on him. And this is not new.

This is how Scripture is always worked. If we were

to go back and look throughout scripture, we would see

examples of this. I think of Isaiah chapter six, when

Isaiah sees the Lord seated on his throne, high and

lifted up, and when he sees him he does not

feel strong. He says, woe is me, for I am lost.

He becomes deeply aware of his sin, of his weakness.

And it's only then, after God has cleansed him and

taken his guilt away, atoned for his sin, that God says,

whom shall I send? And Isaiah responds, here, I am

send me. God did not send Isaiah because he was impressive.

He sent him because he had been forgiven. This is

how Christ works. He saved sinners, and then he sends us.

If you belong to Christ, this includes you. Jesus doesn't

simply teach them, or comfort them or gather them. He

sends them because the Gospel does not simply create worshipers,

It creates witnesses. Following Jesus doesn't simply mean receiving. It

means being sent by him. And this is the normal

Christian life, not just for a certain subset of believers

who know their Bible really well. And notice how he

sends them. The text says he sends them two by two.

Jesus does not send them alone. Every one of us

is a sinner falling short of the glory of God,

who must respond and repentance and faith to the Gospel.

But the Christian faith is not meant to be an

individual faith. Right Jesus doesn't want us to live isolated,

self centered, self controlled lives. He sends his people together

in community, supported by one another. This is part of

the beauty of the Church. We need one another. We're

to encourage each other, to pray for each other, to

love each other, to challenge each other. And that truth

makes this mission far more practical than we might otherwise imagine.

And Jesus doesn't necessarily send you across the world, though

he might. It might mean you're sent across your street

to your unbelieving neighbor's house, or across the office to

your coworker, or across the dinner table to your family

or extended family. We're often sent into ordinary situations, as

ordinary people, with the opportunity to share truth that has extraordinary,

eternal significance. And it's in those ordinary moments that I

would just challenge you to ask the Lord to help

you to love like Jesus, to ask real questions, to

ask good questions, to point people to the hope that

can only be found in Christ. And if you're like, well,

I don't know how to do that, Let's take Pastor

Josh up on the invitation to his house this evening

and see how he and Kara do that. Many of

you in this room have had me in your home.

It doesn't take some crazy grand plan. It's just, hey,

let's love people as we do life with them to

point them to Jesus. Christ saves us and then he

sends us, but he doesn't send us alone. I mean,

even in the Great Commission, he gives us a promise

that he's with us always to the end of the age.

But He's also given other believers, men and women that

he sends alongside us. So that's our first question, who

does Jesus send? He sends us as ordinary believers. As

we continue on in the text, let's consider our second questquestion,

why does Jesus send? Okay, and let's look to verse two.

The text says the harvest is plentiful, but the labors

are few. We're going to stop there and consider that

first phrase, the harvest is plentiful. When Jesus looks at

the world, he doesn't just see scarcity. He doesn't see impossibility,

he doesn't see a lost cause. He sees a harvest.

And he doesn't say the harvest is small. He doesn't

say it's shrinking. He doesn't say it's insignificant or hopeless.

He says the harvest is plentiful. And it's important for

us to realize that because so many of us instinctively

assume the opposite, because of the world we live in

here in twenty twenty six, we look at the culture

around us and say, and I don't think people want

God anymore. We look at our workplaces and think, ah,

people are closed off. We look at our neighborhood and

believe people already have settled on what they believe. We

look at our friends or our family and say that

there's no way that they are open. But Jesus sees

something we often miss. The harvest. Here is a metaphor

for people, people made in the image of God, people

living their lives, people carrying burdens and fears and anxieties

and longings and shame and guilt, whether they can articulate

it or not. People who outwardly may look fine, like

they've got it all together, like life is going well,

but inwardly or crushed by sin or guilt or shame

or anxiety or restlessness, this quiet awareness in their soul

that something is not right. People are searching. They're searching

for meaning, they're searching for healing. They're searching for a

purpose for hope and Jesus as they are a harvest,

which means that all around us, in your circles of

influence in life, there are people who are more spiritually

open than you realize. Not because they themselves are naturally

seeking God on their own Scripture tells us we're all

dead in our trespasses and sins, but because God is

often already at work in their life. Through the hardships,

through the suffering, through the questions, preparing hearts and ways

that we cannot see, He's creating opportunities. He's drawing people

to himself. And so let me just encourage you for

a moment to consider a question as you think about

your life. When you look at your workplace, when you

look at your neighborhood, when you look at your friend

group or your family, what do you see? Do you

see obstacles or do you see harvest. Many of the

people around us are more open then we might realize,

and that they might be more aware of their need

than they let on. They might be really successful on

the outside, but inwardly are empty. They might be really

confident in the way they talk, but it's rooted in

deep insecurity that they may look fine on the outside

when they're just crushed by anxiety and guilt on the inside.

And Jesus says, these people are not beyond reach, they

are a harvest, and so that the problem is not

that there are too few people who need the gospel.

The problem is what he says next, The harvest is plentiful,

but the laborers are few. There's a great harvest, but

there are few laborers. That the limitation is not God's power,

it's not human need, it's not the it's the number

of people who are willing to go. And part of

the reason Christian laborers are few is because it's easy

for us as Christians to be lulled into sleep, drifted

into thinking the church is just someplace we attend and

consume on Sunday morning, rather than a mission that we

join church becomes something we receive from rather than a

mission we are sent from. And the New Testament that

the church is not a spiritual experience that you attended

once a week. It's a people sent into the world.

The church is not a spectator sport, It's a sending base.

And when Jesus calls us and saves us, it means

we are being called to move outward, to press beyond

our selves. It always moves towards others. Christ is building

a people who know him, who love him, and a

people that he sends into his harvest. And so who

does he send? He sends ordinary disciples, ordinary people like

you and me. Why does he send? Because the harvest

is plentiful. Just think in San Antonio, the tens of thousands,

hundreds of thousands who aren't in church on a Sunday

morning right now because they don't know Jesus. Why does

he send because the harvest is plentiful, and because the

laborers are few. But as we continue on, we get

to our third question, how does Jesus send? And again

the text answers this for us, and we look to

the end of verse two to see the first part

of how he sends, and he sends through prayer. The

text says, therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the

harvest to send out labors into his harvest. This isn't

what we would naturally expect. You've got, King Jesus. The

harvest is plentiful. There's a great need, so go. Here's

this strategy, execute on it. But instead, the very first

command he gives us is to pray, which means prayer

is not a preliminary step to the mission. Prayer is

not the warm up to the real work. Prayer is

the work. Prayer acknowledges something fundamental that the harvest belongs

to God. God owns the harvest. God prepares hearts, God

save sinners. God raises up labors. God builds his church,

and he hears our prayers. Mission does not ultimately depend

on our strength, on our effort, on our ability. It

depends on divine power. And one of the primary means

God has ordained to accomplish as his purposes is the prayers,

the earnest prayers of his people. And that's why mission

is not hopeless, because salvation does not depend on us

or our ability. It depends on God. God ordains the ends,

and he ordains the means. He or deigns that people

will be saved, and he ordains they'll be saved through

the prayers and witness and faithfulness of His people, Which means,

if we want to see the lost in our community

come to know Jesus, we must pray. If we want

to see our children get saved, let's pray. If we

want to see our neighbors saved, pray our coworkers saved,

we must pray. And Jesus says, pray earnestly. This is

not a casual prayer, some sort of routine you run

through before a meal. Earnest prayer is different. It's persistent,

it's dependent. It's prayer that has names and faces. Lord,

save my child, Draw my spouse to you, Open my

neighbor's heart to the truth of the Gospel. Give me

courage to share the hope of Jesus. And again, I

just would encourage you in this moment to be honest

with yourself. Think of your heart, think of that this

past week, I think of your your prayer life. If

Christ were to come this morning and say, hey, I'm

gonna save everyone that has been prayed for by name

this week? How many people would he saved? How many

of your lost friends, roommates, neighbors, coworkers, family members? What

he saved? And look, I get it. Oftentimes it's so

easy to feel like, hey, this person is too far gone,

that there are other things I need to pray for.

Just this past week, one of my closest friends, a pastor,

shared this story with me of a man who had

been living as a woman for thirty years, prayed for

for thirty years, who was convicted of his sin, eyes

open to the truth of scripture, repented, believe, trusted in

Christ's Lord and Savior. I was like, man, I've got

to stop living as a woman. God made me male

in his image. I know a lot of lost people,

but I think every one of them would be more

likely to respond to the Gospel than someone in that situation.

We don't know God's plans, purposes, timings, but we do know,

based on what King Jesus says, that we are to

pray earnestly, and when we pray like that, not only

is God going to hear those prayers for the lost

in our lives, but He's going to work in our hearts.

Prayer like this transforms our heart to be more aligned

with him. It trains us to see people the way

that Jesus sees others. So how does Jesus send First,

it's prayerful. Second, Jesus sends us weak and dependent. Let's

continue on. In verse three, the text says, I'm sending

you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. This

is not language that we would choose. That doesn't sound great. Hey,

we're gonna go out as lambs in the midst of wolves.

I don't want to do that. How about lions? But

that's not what the text says. I think the reason

why is because we don't go out in our strength,

but we go out weak, vulnerable, dependent on the Lord.

Jesus is preparing his disciples for reality. There's gonna be rejection,

there will be misunderstanding, there's gonna be resistance. But even

knowing that, Jesus still says to go Courage is not

the absence of fear. Courage is obedience even in the

presence of fear. And we need to be reminded of

that because feeling weak, feeling inadequate, that does not disqualify you.

Feeling insecure does not disqualify you from being faithful to

what God has asked you to do in going to

share the hope of Jesus with those who don't yet

know him. The power of the mission was never meant

to depend on our strength. That rests on his. And

how does he send in verse four, as we continue

reading with no money bag, no knapsack, no sandals, why

would he say that? Why would he send like that?

Because he's teaching dependents. He's teaching them to trust him,

to rely on him, to live not self sufficiently, but

in faith. And this runs against our instincts here in America,

like we want the guarantee, we want the control, We

want to know what's going to happen when it's going

to happen. But when we are weak, his strength is

made clear. When we are dependent, his faithfulness becomes visible.

We cannot manufacture spiritual life. We can't argue someone into conversion.

We can't engineer the change of a human heart. Only

God can do that. Our role is to be faithful.

His role is the power. So how does he send us?

He sends us prayerful, he sends us weak, he sends

us dependent, And lastly he sends us with peace and

a message. Looking at verse five, that texts, whatever house

you enter first, pray peace be to this house. This

is not a polite greeting. This is a declaration. They

are announcing peace with God. They are announcing that reconciliation

is available, that through Jesus Christ, sinners can be forgiven,

that those who are far from God can be brought near.

They are bringing the message of the Gospel. And notice

what else Jesus says in verse seven, He says, remain

in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide.

In other words, don't be in a hurry, stay, pray,

build relationships, love these people. Mission is not about moving

through people as fast as you can, like it was

some sort of personal evangelism assignment in a seminary class.

It's about relationships. Is there one person in your life

that you can invest in for the long haul? Around

at dinner table, in the living room, on a walk.

As you love your neighbors and do life with them,

you're gonna have the opportunity to point them to the

hope of Jesus. And then in verse nine, the text says,

heal the sick in it and say to them the

Kingdom of God has come near to you. We see

both word and deed, truth and mercy. That the message

we carry is not one of self improvement, is not

one of making your life better really quickly. It's not

vague religious advice. It is only God who can make

your life better. It's none of that. It's the announcement

that Jesus Christ is King, and that he saves sinners,

that he alone has the authority to save and send

his people. He forgives the guilty, he cleanses the shameful,

He frees the enslaved, He gives new heart, He brings

rebels home. This is the message that we carry. We

go out prayerful, We go out weak, We go out

depending with nothing other than the truth that Christ is king,

that he has risen, conquering Satan, sin and death, and

in him alone is forgiveness. And what happens when we

go This is our final question. So who does he

send ordinary believers? Why does he send The harvest is plentiful,

the labors are few? How does he send prayerfully dependent

week with the message? And what happens when they go?

Verses ten through twelve. Jesus is honest? Some are going

to receive this message, and some reject it. Here's what

the text says. But whenever you enter a town and

they do not receive, you go into its streets and say,

even the dust of your town that clings to our feet,

we wipe off against you. Nevertheless, know this that the

Kingdom of God has come near. I tell you it

will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than

for that town. This is important for us to hear

because we often assume, Hey, if we are faithful, if

we're loving, if we're earnest, if we say things in

the right way to the right people, they are going

to respond. And Jesus prepares us for reality. Some people

will receive the message, but there are going to be

many who reject it. Some will listen with openness, some

are going to be indifferent. Some are going to be

outright hostile in rejecting the truth of the Gospel. And

Jesus tells us this ahead of time, so we're not surprised,

so we're not discouraged, so that we don't misinterpret that

rejection as failure. Because if you're not prepared for rejection,

you might begin to think, man, maybe something is wrong

with me. Maybe I said it wrong. I'm failing. It's

easy to get discouraged, and one of two things things

will happen. First, you might speaking all stop speaking altogether. Well,

if I keep screwing this up, I'm just not gonna

say anything. Or secondly, you'll begin to soften the message

of the gospel so that those who are opposed to

it might have an easier time accepting it. But Jesus

makes it clear rejection is not failure. Rejection is part

of living in a fallen world. We serve the guy

who got nailed to the cross. If we follow him,

we should expect rejection. Verse eleven. He says, even the

dust of your town that clings to our feet we

wipe off against you. That sounds weird to us, sounds unusual,

but in that culture it carried deep meaning. Faithful Jews

would sometimes shake the dust off their feet when they

left the Gentile territory. It was a symbolic way of saying,

we are leaving this place behind. So when Jesus tells

his disciples to do this, he's teaching them something important.

They're responsible to be faithful to deliver the message, but

they're not responsible for how others respond. We can't make

someone believe, we can't change a human heart. Only God

can do that. But we can pray, we can love,

we can speak, we can be faithful trusting God to

bring spiritual life, and that's incredibly freeing. We don't have

to bear the weight of their spiritual state on our shoulders.

And many of us need to hear that, because you

might have a prodigal child who's walked away and you're

bearing this guilt of Oh, if I had said something

in the right way, that they wouldn't be making these decisions.

Maybe there's tension in a relationship with a colleague or

a friend or a family member because you shared the

gospel and they didn't respond. Well. Jesus is showing us

our call is to be faithful, not the outcome, to

be a witness, trusting God to says, so when someone

rejects the message of the Gospel, we don't have to

be crushed by it. We keep praying for them earnestly,

trusting the Lord in his timing or work according to

his will for his glory. The outcome does not ultimately

rest on us. But then Jesus says something even more sobering.

At the end of this passage, he says, nevertheless, know this,

the Kingdom of God has come near. The Kingdom has

come near. The truth is made known, and everyone who

hears it must respond. When we are rejecting the gospel.

And someone rejects the Gospel, that's not rejecting a philosophy

or an idea. That's rejecting the King himself. And Jesus

makes the seriousness of this sin clear in verse twelve

when he says, I tell you it will be more

bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

Those are weighty words, and Jesus says them because eternity

is real, judgment is real. He's speaking with clarity because

he loves and so we, if we love Christ and

we love those in a life, should not prioritize comfort

or harmony in the relationship at the expense of speaking

the truth of the Gospel with them. The stakes are eternal,

and so there are really two kinds of people in

this room today, those who have received Christ and those

who have rejected him. And if you've not yet accepted Christ,

I want you to hear this clearly. Jesus is not

merely offering to improve your life. This morning, he's offering

to reconcile you to God. He lived a perfect life,

died the death we deserved on the cross, conquered the

grave will come again one day. He offers forgiveness peace

to all who repent and trust in him. Remain neutral

to him. Either you receive him or you reject him.

And this decision carries eternal weight. So that the call

of this passage is not only to go, but to believe,

to receive what Christ has offered in the Gospel, and

to follow him as Lord. And it brings us back

to what we started with. That the main point today

that Jesus saves you and then sends you. Every person

in this room responds to this truth in one of

two ways. If you belong to Christ. This passage King

Jesus himself reminding us that our faith was never meant

to remain private, never meant to be something we contain.

Following Jesus doesn't simply mean believing the right things. It

means being sent by him. You are a disciple who

has been appointed by King Jesus himself to live on mission,

which means your ordinary life has extraordinary purpose. Right where

you are in your home and your word place in

your neighborhood. And so here's the question. Will you live

a sent life or will you live a settled life?

Will you embrace the mission that Jesus has given you,

that He's given each one of us, or will you

drift into a life focus on comfort, routine, and ease.

And I want to make this very practical. As we

begin to close, think of one person in your life

by name who doesn't yet know Jesus Day. And here's

the challenge for this week. Pray earnestly for them every day.

Set yourself a reminder, do whatever you need to do,

but pray earnestly for their salvation. And then ask the

Lord to give you an opportunity to speak the truth

of the Gospel into their life. Maybe you invite them

to coffee, maybe you invite them over to your home

for dinner. I don't know what it looks like. You

don't need to force anything, you don't need to have

all the answers, but you do need to be faithful.

And God calls us to ray earnestly and to those

who might not yet know Christ. Want you to hear

this clearly Jesus is not offering to improve your life.

He's offering to reconcile you to God. Scripture tells us

all of us have sinned. We've all fallen short of

the glory of God. And because God is holy, because

God is just, sin brings judgment. But God, in his

mercy sent Jesus. It's Christ who offers forgiveness, peace and

eternal life to all who repent and believe. You don't

have to have your life together. You don't have to

have all the answers. You repent, you believe, you trust

in Christ because He is a good and gracious savior.

Jesus saves you, then he sends you, and today he

might be calling some of you to repent and believe

for the first time. Come see us at the step

one table of the service. And for those who belong

to him, let us hear the words of Jesus this morning.

The harvest is plentiful. And so let's go out into

our community to live on mission offering the only answer

to the struggling, the brokenness, the sin that they've got

in their life. And that's King Jesus. And so let

me invite you to stand with me as we pray.

As we get ready to return to worship Heavenly Father,

we come before you now. Lord, we thank you for

your word, for the clarity that your word gives us,

for the reminder that the harvest is plentiful. Lord, open

our eyes to see the lost in our community, in

our neighborhoods, in our classes, in our workplace, and so

to see the reality that the laborers are few. Lord,

would you help us understand the urgency and wait of

what's at stake. Would you give us the courage to say,

here I am send me. Would you free us from

the pressure trying to say everything perfectly or having all

the answers, and help us simply be faithful. Help us

acknowledge that we're weak, that we're dependent. Would help us

to love those around us like Christ, pointing them to

Him as the only one who can save. As we

stand and worship, Lord, would you fix our eyes on

the beauty of the gospel. Help us never become numb

to the truth of the Gospel. What helps to grow?

And I love a Christ for your glory. It's in

his name we pray. Amen.