Drift Prevention

Would you open up your Bibles to the book of Hebrews?

We're making our way through the book of Hebrews.

We'll be in the book of Hebrews for a few months here.

Hebrews chapter 2, verses 1 through 4.

Hebrews 2:1–4

It's going to start on page 1187 of your pew Bible.

So let me read these four verses.

This is God speaking to us.

Therefore, we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable,

and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,

how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

It was declared at first by the Lord,

and it was attested to us by those who heard,

while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles

and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will.

May God bless the hearing of His word.

Imagine you are sitting across from your doctor in his examination room,

and He says to you,

we've got back the results of your blood tests,

and they confirm what I've been telling you for the last three years.

Your lifestyle is compromising your health,

and your life is in danger.

And then He goes on.

If you don't heed my words,

if you don't stake your life on what I'm telling you,

you will have a triple bypass in three years,

and you will be in the ground in seven.

He goes on to say,

you're adrift.

You're neglecting yourself.

And if you don't stop,

it's not going to go well for you.

What would you do?

Would you heed

your doctor's

prescriptive words?

Will you stake your life on what

He is saying?

Will you pay much closer

attention to His words?

The book of Hebrews

is one long exhortation,

and it's an exhortation

again and again

not to drift from Christ,

but to hold fast to Christ

all the way to the end.

And what's interspersed

throughout the book of Hebrews

in a beautiful way

are five warning passages.

And this morning,

we're looking at the first warning passage

in chapter 2, 1 through 4.

And these warning passages

in the book of Hebrews

are warnings against apostasy.

Apostasy is when

someone who has professed

to be a Christian

seemingly changes their mind

and rejects Christ

and the salvation He has accomplished.

So, apostasy is having to do

with those who have

claimed to be Christians

turning from Christ

and rejecting Him.

It's not talking about

a season of doubt.

It's not a season of disobedience

and you're coming back to the Lord.

It's about someone

who has rejected Christ.

Someone who's professed

to be a Christian.

The author of Hebrews

is seeing some kind of

spiritual illness in the church,

the original recipients

of this letter.

And do you know

what he's concerned about?

He's concerned

that he is seeing

early onset apostasy

in the church.

And so, he addresses it.

And in Hebrews 2, 1 through 4,

he diagnoses a problem.

And then he gives a prognosis

of what will happen

if this goes unchecked.

And then he finally,

he gives us a prescription

of what to do.

Of how not to drift.

How not to neglect

this great salvation

of Jesus Christ.

Are you going to listen

to the great healer

of your soul this morning?

Are you going to listen

to the very words of God

that he is addressing to you?

Don't drift from the sun.

Stake your life

on this great salvation

in the sun.

Don't drift from him.

Stake your life on him.

So let's look

at the diagnosis first.

Diagnosis is this idea

of this is what the problem is.

And the diagnosis begins

in chapter 2, verse 1.

Therefore, we must pay

much closer attention

to what we have heard

lest we drift away from it.

That's getting at this sense

of the problem.

Notice, verse 1 starts

with a therefore.

And like any good kind of

student of the Bible,

we ask when we see a therefore,

what's the therefore therefore?

And it's connecting

to the argument

that the writer of Hebrews

has just made

that Jesus is greater,

that the Son is greater

than the prophets.

He's the full and final

revelation of God.

He's greater than the angels

because he is God.

Therefore, we must pay

much closer attention

to what we've heard

about Jesus,

this great salvation,

lest we drift away

from Jesus,

this great salvation.

You know,

when we read those words,

lest we drift away,

we're talking about something

becoming unmoored,

unbound,

disconnected.

And maybe in your mind

when you hear the words

drift away,

they don't strike you

as that concerning.

Maybe you go,

maybe you're like me,

you hear drift away

and you start imagining

floating in a lazy river

up in the dells.

It's kind of drifting.

What you're going to see

in the book of Hebrews

is his use of drift away

is far more serious

than that.

In fact,

if you look down

at verse 3,

he uses a word

in the place of drift away.

How shall we escape

if we neglect

such a great salvation?

This drifting away

from what we've heard

is a kind of

spiritual neglect.

And I hope you're getting

kind of this sense of

this is a serious

spiritual condition.

As we make our way

through the book of Hebrews

and as we start looking,

we'll come across

these other warning passages

and the language shifts.

The language shifts

from drifting away

and neglect

and it moves into

much more weighty language.

It starts to show you

the pastoral concern

this writer has

for this church.

He's concerned

that what he is seeing

and hearing about

is early onset apostasy.

In chapter 3,

verse 12,

he moves from drift,

negligence language

to falling away

from the living God.

in chapter 6,

verses 4 through 6,

he says,

it's impossible

to restore

those who have

fallen away

from Christ.

In chapter 10,

verses 26 through 29,

he talks about

this drift,

this negligence,

this falling away

as trampling

the Son of God

underfoot.

He's speaking of those

who've professed

to be Christians.

in chapter 12,

verse 25,

it's a rejection

of him

who warns

from heaven

who's been exalted

on high

at the right hand,

seated at the right hand

of God.

This drift away language

that we see

in chapter 2,

verse 1 right here,

it may not sound serious

when in fact

it's very serious.

It could be

early onset apostasy.

It could be

the metastasizing

of unbelief.

Maybe you're starting

to ask this question,

well,

how do I know

if I'm drifting away?

How do I know

if I'm neglecting

this great salvation

found in Jesus Christ?

Well,

do you know

how you go to,

theoretically,

you go to your doctor

once a year

for an annual checkup?

Imagine you're sitting

on the examination table.

He pulls out

that little tool

with that little windshield

on it

and it has a little nose

on the end

with a little light on it.

Do you know

what I'm talking about?

He puts it

into your ear

and he's looking

into your ear.

Do you know why?

He's checking

your hearing.

It's a diagnostic.

We can ask

a similar question

diagnostic,

brothers and sisters.

It's not just

are you hearing

God speak

through His Word?

Are you

heeding

His Word?

Are you

obeying

and believing

what He's saying

in His Word?

So it's an ear check.

There's another

kind of check.

Do you remember

you're sitting there

and your doctor

pulls out that

little rubber mallet

and He kind of taps

just below your kneecap?

He's checking

your reflexes?

When you encounter

sin,

what's your reflex?

When you're tempted

to grieve God,

what's your reaction?

Is it like,

ooh,

give me some of that?

Or are you like,

no, no.

this isn't pleasing

in His sight?

What's your knee-jerk reaction

to when tempted

by sin?

There's another

kind of check.

It's the breathing check.

It's when your doctor

pulls out the stethoscope

and he puts it

on your back

and he says,

okay,

take a deep breath,

breathe in,

breathe out.

I was on staff

with Campus Crusade

for Christ

and the founder

of Campus Crusade

is a guy named

Bill Bright

and he taught

all the staff

this idea

of spiritual breathing.

It's where you

inhale God's Word

and you exhale

sin by way

of confession.

When was the last time

as a diagnostic check

on how you are doing,

when was the last time

you confessed sin

on your own

between you

and God

where you said,

Lord,

thank you for making me

aware of that

grievous thing in me.

I confess it to you

as wrong.

You're exhaling toxic air

by way of confession.

Ear check,

knee check,

lung check

and then he takes

that stethoscope

and puts it on your chest

and he's listening.

He's listening for your pulse.

Let me ask you,

Christian,

what is your heart beating for?

Is your heart beating

for God's Son?

If a stethoscope

was put on your heart,

would we hear,

God's Son,

God's Son,

God's Son,

your heart pulses

for the glory

of Jesus?

Or is it

myself,

myself,

myself?

These are just diagnostics

to check how we're doing.

We're sitting on the examination,

we're in the examination room

of God

and he's using his word

to get at stuff in us

to see if there's any hint

of us drifting away,

of neglecting him.

It could be early onset apostasy.

So we take the time now

to ask these hard questions.

Do you know

what these hard

kind of questions

are getting at?

What's at the very heart

of these kinds of

drift and negligence?

It's in 312.

Take care, brothers,

lest there be in any of you

an evil,

unbelieving heart

leading you to fall away

from the living God.

These are diagnostics

to check your heart

and the health

of your faith

in Christ.

And expose any kind

of unbelief.

The diagnosis

that this writer

of Hebrews

is showing us

is a kind of unbelief.

It's a drift.

It's a negligence.

And he moves from diagnosis

to prognosis.

A prognosis

is a prediction.

It's a prediction

of what a disease,

of what an injury,

of what a virus

will develop into

if it goes unchecked.

checked.

And the prognosis

that we're given

is in verses

2 through 4

of chapter 2.

It's a prognosis

of unbelief.

What happens

when an unbelieving

heart is unrepentant?

Unrepentant.

And what we see here

is a prognosis

that is not good.

What we have

in 2, 1 through 4

is essentially

a warning.

The writer

of Hebrews

is elegant.

He's sophisticated.

And he argues

with complicated arguments.

And he's going to warn us

this morning

with a kind of an argument

that moves from lesser

to greater.

He's going to go

something like this.

Hey,

if those people

living in the

old covenant

under the law

of Moses,

if when they

rejected

God's word

and they

received

a just

retribution,

how much

more

will

we

who profess

Christ

in the new covenant

not escape

a judgment

if we reject

Christ?

That's going to be

the argument here.

He's moving

from lesser

to greater

and it's a warning.

So let me show you

three elements

in the comparison,

okay?

There's the message.

In chapter

2,

verse 2,

we read,

for since the message

declared by angels

proved to be reliable.

That's the lesser

of the argument.

It's talking about

a message

that was declared

by angels.

What's being referred

to here

is the law

of Moses.

The angels

served as

an intermediary

in bringing forth

the law of Moses.

You can look up

Galatians 3.19.

And so this message,

this law of Moses,

you can sum it up

in the Ten Commandments.

You won't have

any other gods

before you.

Observe the Sabbath,

honor your parents,

don't bear false witness,

don't covet.

The thing about

this message is

it doesn't save.

What the law of Moses

does and does well

is it puts forth

the standard

of God's holiness

and it exposes

our sinfulness.

It shows us

that we fall short.

That's the message.

The lesser message.

The greater message

is in verse 3.

How shall we escape

if we neglect

such a great salvation?

It was declared

at first by the Lord.

It's what we have heard.

It's the message

of the gospel

of Jesus Christ.

Christ.

It's what he's been saying

all up to this point

that the Son

is greater than the prophets.

In verse 2,

he's the full and final

revelation of God.

He's greater than the angels.

He is God.

He has brought about salvation.

Angels serve him.

He's declared this message.

It's the gospel.

And what we see

going on here

is the gospel

is greater

than the Mosaic law

because the Mosaic law

can't save

whereas the gospel

one believed does save.

The other comparison

is between messengers.

So we have a comparison

between Mosaic law

and gospel

and now we have

a comparison

between the lesser

angels declared

and the new covenant

messenger,

the Lord.

for since the message

declared by angels

proved to be reliable,

these angels

were intermediaries

of the Mosaic law

and it was,

it proved reliable.

It was binding.

It was the truth

of God's word

and that's the lesser

of the messengers,

these angels.

The greater of the messengers

is in verse 3.

How shall we escape

if we neglect

such a great salvation?

It was declared

at first

by the Lord.

And if you look up

at verse 10,

it's the last reference

to the Lord.

You, Lord,

laid the foundation

of the earth

in the beginning.

Do you know

who that's referencing?

The Son, Jesus.

What's being said here

is that

the message

of the gospel,

the messenger,

the first messenger,

the first declarer

of this great salvation

was Jesus himself,

the Son.

The messenger

is the message.

Chapter 1, verse 2,

but in these last days

he has spoken to us

by his Son.

He is the message.

And not only just

Jesus,

I mean,

we see it in

Mark chapter 1,

Mark 1:14

verses 14 and 15.

Jesus says this.

Now, after John was arrested,

Jesus came into Galilee.

This is the first thing

he says

in the gospel of Mark.

Jesus came into Galilee

proclaiming the gospel

of God

and saying,

the time is fulfilled

and the kingdom of God

is at hand.

Repent and believe

the gospel.

Who was the first

declarer of the gospel?

In the new covenant,

it's Jesus.

But it's not just Jesus.

Look who else

attests

to this salvation.

It was declared

at first

by the Lord

and it was attested

to us

by those who heard.

So,

there's another group

of people

who heard

the Lord Jesus

kind of proclaim

this gospel

and they were ear witnesses

and eyewitnesses

were talking about

the apostles.

And they attested

to this message.

They proclaimed it.

Did you know,

aside from Judas,

10 of the 11 apostles

died martyrs' death

proclaiming

this great salvation

about Jesus?

That Jesus,

the Son,

was fully God,

fully man.

That he died

on the cross

for our sins.

He was raised

on the third day.

He ascended on high

to the right hand of God

where he's reigning on high

and then he will come back

and return

and judge all things.

They died.

It gets at this

attesting to the truthfulness

of the message.

But there's more.

Four.

While God also

bore witness

by signs and wonders

and various miracles

all throughout the gospels,

all throughout the book of Acts,

you see signs

and wonders

and miracles

being done.

All pointing to

the truthfulness

of this great salvation.

in Christ.

It's God

bearing witness

to the gospel.

And we also have

and by gifts

of the Holy Spirit

distributed

according to his will.

The Holy Spirit

in Pentecost,

he came down

and poured out

gifts

upon all of those

who believed in Jesus.

It was the beginning

of the new covenant age

where God's people

themselves

become the priesthood

of all believers.

believers.

It's a new era

bearing witness

to the truthfulness

of this gospel salvation.

Here's what I'm trying

to get at.

the messenger

of the old covenant,

these angels

attesting

to the Mosaic law,

that was good,

it's true,

but it's

this message

of salvation

that was proclaimed

first by Jesus

and then attested

to by the apostles

and was born witness

by God

and the Holy Spirit,

that's better!

That's better!

It's a lesser

to greater argument.

And this is where

it gets to the crux

of the matter.

This is now

where the warning

comes in.

The new covenant

brings a greater

retribution.

This gospel message,

when rejected,

it has a greater

punishment.

It has a greater punishment.

In chapter 2,

verse 2,

we read,

and every transgression

or disobedience

received a just

retribution.

This Mosaic law

that was brought in

by angels,

anyone who transgressed it,

stepped over the line

of God's word,

anyone who disobeyed it,

were unwilling

to listen to God's word.

It brought about

a just punishment.

Just think

of that generation

of Israelites

who wandered

for 40 years

in the wilderness

and were not allowed

into the promised land

because of their unbelief.

A just retribution.

And then we move

into the new covenant.

Verse 3,

if they didn't escape,

how shall we escape

if we neglect

this great salvation?

salvation?

How shall we escape

if we drift

and neglect

this great salvation

in the sun?

If you reject

the great salvation

in the sun,

you will face

the great retribution

of the sun.

That's how serious

this is.

God is not indifferent

to those who have professed

to be followers

of Jesus

and then trample

him underfoot.

It's a warning

of God's impending wrath.

It's a serious business

in the book of Hebrews.

If there are signs

that could be

early onset apostasy,

you must take them seriously.

Now you may be

sitting in your pew

wondering,

hold on Pastor Mike,

I thought that once

you're saved,

you're always saved.

This doesn't sound

like that.

Well, let me just

kind of tweak that

for you.

What the New Testament

actually teaches

is what's called

the perseverance

of the saints.

A saving faith,

a genuine saving faith,

is a persevering faith.

It's what Jesus

talked about

in Matthew 24,

those who endure

to the end

will be saved.

The proof

of the genuineness

of one's faith

is ultimately

demonstrated

in being faithful

to Jesus

all the way

to the end

of your life

or His return.

So you may be

asking this question,

you know what,

I've been hearing

about ex-evangelicals,

it seems like

every three to six months

there's another pastor

who's walked away

from the Christian faith.

What about them?

What do you think

about them,

Pastor Mike?

I've come to the conclusion

that they were likely

not Christians

to begin with.

Because the work

of God's Spirit

in regenerating

someone's heart

in the justifying

grace of God

is irrevocable.

Genuine faith

perseveres

all the way

to the end.

And that's what you're

going to hear

in the book of Hebrews

over and over again.

It's called up

to something.

Now let me just

make one comment here.

If you find yourself

in a situation,

maybe you've grown up

in the church

and you're asking

the question,

do I believe

all this stuff?

Maybe you're reflecting

on some things

and you're like,

have you heard

the word

deconstructing

the faith phrase?

This is a very

helpful book

if you're in that

situation.

It's called

Before You Lose Your Faith.

We've got four other copies

at the Connect Desk

out there.

I read this two years ago.

This would be very helpful

for anyone in the room

who is like,

is this true?

Is this Christianity

thing true?

This is a great book

to read.

Come find me

after the service

if that's you.

Here's what's happening

in 2, 1 through 4.

It's a lesser

to greater argument

warning us

not to drift.

Who likes

greater than,

less than,

or equal to?

I love it

in elementary school.

I loved it!

So you tell me,

who's greater?

The message

of the gospel

or the message

of Moses?

The gospel!

Because the gospel

saves.

Greater than,

less than,

or equal to.

The messenger

of the Lord Jesus Christ

or angels?

The Lord Jesus Christ.

What is the

greater retribution?

Rejection of the son

or rejection of Moses?

It's rejection

of the son.

And so this lesser

to greater argument,

well,

it's a prognosis

of what will happen

if you've professed

Christ

and then you

go full-fledged

apostasy.

Serious business.

the prognosis.

Anybody in the room

looking for a little

hope at this point?

maybe you're sitting

in your pew

like,

good doctor,

would you prescribe

something, please,

by which,

by which I can

assure

myself

that I will not

fall away.

doctor,

Lord Jesus,

would you please

prescribe something

to me

so that I won't

drift,

that I won't

trample you

underfoot,

that I won't

reject you,

that I won't

fall away from you,

would you please

give me something?

And he does.

It's in verse 1.

Therefore,

we must

pay much

closer attention

to what we

have heard.

If

the diagnosis

is drift,

it's neglect,

and with

the possibility

of this

early onset

apostasy,

if that's what

the diagnosis

is,

if it's drifting

from Christ,

do you know

what the

prescription is?

pay much

closer attention

to Christ.

Draw near

to him.

Your great

salvation.

It's drift

prevention.

He is our

drift prevention.

It's the

opposite of

neglect.

It's at the

heart of

holding fast

to Jesus

all the way

to the end.

It's fixing

your eyes

on him,

paying much

closer attention

to him.

Let me

just point

out three

things.

What we

have heard.

We must

pay much

closer attention

to what we

have heard.

The what we

have heard

is the gospel

of Jesus

Christ,

this great

salvation.

He is the

message,

the Son,

the radiance

of God's glory,

the exact

imprint of

God's nature.

He humbled

himself,

taking on

flesh.

He offered

himself on

the cross,

a sacrifice

to pay

for our

sins once

and for

all,

purifying us

from sins.

And then he

sat down at

the right hand

of God.

This is the

gospel.

This is the

good news.

It's like a

priceless diamond.

I just happen

to have a

priceless diamond

with me.

I brought it

here under

lock and

key.

It's worth

trillions.

See that?

Don't rush

the pulpit.

Do you

know what

makes a

diamond

valuable?

It's rare.

It's unique.

It's useful.

It's the

hardest

substance

on earth

naturally.

That's why

you have

diamond-tipped

cutting blades.

And it's

beautiful.

It

refracts

light and

glorious

splendor.

You know,

the gospel of

Jesus Christ

is the

greatest

diamond of

all.

It's

rare.

Who else

do you know

that is totally

God and totally

man and one

person?

That's rare.

It's useful.

Not for

cutting hard

substances.

What the

gospel does,

it delivers us

from our sin.

It rescues

us.

It's the

message of

salvation.

There's

nothing else.

There's no

other name

under heaven

given among

men by

which we

can be

saved.

And it's

beautiful.

The gospel

is beautiful.

It's God's

grace on

display.

Him loving

sinners in

their sin.

What a

beautiful,

beautiful thing.

what this

gospel is,

it calls for

paying careful

attention to

it.

We don't

want to

devalue it.

We don't

want to

neglect it,

drift from

it.

We're to

pay much

closer

attention to

it.

It's the

opposite of

neglect.

It's the

opposite of

drifting away.

Have you

ever seen

a jeweler

examining

diamonds?

Pulls out

that black

monocle

magnifier

and he's

examining

a diamond.

He's looking

at the

clarity of

it.

He's looking

at the

cut on

it.

He's looking

at the

carat

size.

He's looking

at the

color.

And when

they all

match up,

he's like,

wow!

Now,

that's a

diamond.

It's a

beauty.

It's

incredible

worth.

What we're

being called

to do

here,

and paying

close

attention to

the gospel

message,

this great

salvation,

is to make

our hearts

happy in

Jesus.

It's to

treasure him.

It's to

treasure Christ

and what he

has done.

To delight in

him,

to gaze

frequently

in an

unrushed

fashion

upon Christ

and his

finished work.

That's the

glory of

this message.

You know

what?

We live

in a

over-hurried,

over-extended

rush

culture.

And what

we're being

called upon

to is to

gaze upon

the greatness

of our

salvation in

Christ

frequently

in an

unrushed

fashion.

This is the

prescription.

This is what

wards off

drift and

neglect.

You may be

asking,

how do I

do that?

How do I

pay much

more closer

attention to

this message

of salvation?

Well,

you don't

look inside

yourself.

You don't

look for it

in an

experience.

You gaze

upon the

glory of

the Son

in the

pages of

Scripture.

That's

where you

will pay

close attention

to Jesus.

In this

book,

if you

haven't started

reading through

the book of

Hebrews,

I would

encourage you

to for

one reason,

the glory

of the

Son.

Again

and again

and again

we are

given these

glimpses of

the glory

of the

Son.

It is

a,

it makes

your heart

happy in

Jesus.

It will

help you

treasure

Him.

This

morning I

was in

the book

of Revelation.

I had

my socks

blown off

because of

the glory

of Jesus

in chapter

one.

The

Gospels,

these are

glimpse after

glimpse of

the Son

in action

where you

can gaze

upon His

glory and

be amazed.

Treasure

Him.

Pay close

attention to

Him.

What is

He doing?

What is

He saying?

How is

He interacting

with people?

That's

your King.

It's

finding a

time.

It's

finding a

place.

It's

having a

plan and

it's

having a

goal.

And the

goal,

when you

look to

gaze upon

Jesus,

is to

glory in

Jesus,

is to

delight in

Him.

We must

pay careful

attention to

this

gospel message

with which

we've heard

again and

again.

There's

one word

in verse

one I

just want

you to

see.

It's the

word must.

therefore,

we must

pay much

closer

attention.

It's not

a maybe.

It's not

a suggestion.

It's a

must.

Do you

not want

to drift?

Do you

not want

to neglect

this great

salvation in

the sun?

You must

pay much

closer attention

to what we've

heard about

Him.

It's God's

prescription to

ward off

early onset

apostasy.

Do you

know how

to keep

from drifting

from Christ

and neglecting

Him?

Big

daily

doses

of Jesus.

Big

daily

doses

of Jesus.

Don't

drift

from Him.

Stake

your

life

upon Him.

Pay

careful

attention

to Him.

Here you

are

in God's

examination

room.

The

diagnosis

we've seen

this morning

is one of

unbelief.

Drift,

negligence

of the

sun,

moves into

falling away,

trampling

Him underfoot,

rejecting Him

wholesale.

We don't

want that.

The

prognosis

is very

sober.

When

this kind

of drift

and negligence

goes unchecked,

unheeded,

you don't

listen to

the doctor

of your

soul,

there's no

escape from

the wrath

to come.

God

will

come.

And for

those who've

professed

faith in

Christ,

who persist

in their

rejection of

Christ,

they were

likely never

Christians to

begin with.

But the

prescription,

whether you

are a

non-Christian

in the

room,

you need

to treasure

Jesus.

And if

you're a

Christian in

the room,

you need

to treasure

Jesus.

it's to

pay much

closer

attention to

this great

salvation in

the Son that

he, I mean,

we celebrated at

the table this

morning.

He gave

himself for

us.

He died

for you.

Brothers

and sisters,

where are

you at?

will you

heed God's

word?

Will you

stop

drifting

from the

Son and

start staking

your life

on him?

It's what

we call

around here

treasuring

Jesus above

all else.

All the

way,

all the

way,

all the

way to

the

end.

Will you

pray with

me?

Father

God,

would you

pour out

your

spirit

upon

us

that we

would see

the glory

of the

Son

throughout

the pages

of Scripture,

that you

would wow

us,

that we

would

treasure

the gospel

diamond,

and that

we

would

press

on out

of joy

in Jesus,

even if

that means

suffering,

even if

that means

hardship.

God,

unite us

around the

Son.

In your name

we pray.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

I