The Effects of Revival

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Good morning. I'm Andrew. I'm part of the youth group here.

At Christ Church, our scripture reading today is from Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2, verses 1-4, 9-14, and 37-47.

As printed in your liturgy, so you can find it.

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest upon each of them.

All were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus in Asia, Phrygia and Panphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene,

visitors from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs.

We hear them declaring the wonders of God in their own tongues.

Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, What does this mean?

Some, however, made fun of them and said, They have had too much wine.

Then Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd,

Fellow Jews and all you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you.

Listen carefully to what I say.

When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles,

Brothers, what shall we do?

Peter replied, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins,

and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

The promise is for you and for your children and all who are far off, for all whom the Lord will call.

And with many other words he warned them, and he pleaded with them, Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.

Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Everyone was filled with the awe of the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.

All believers were together and had everything in common.

They sold property and possessions to give anyone who had need.

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.

They broke their bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people.

And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Lord, send the Holy Spirit and amplify my voice.

If you are new to Christ Church, we're doing something new this fall.

In fact, something we've never done before in our almost 17 years together, and that is preaching about revival.

And I've just been sensing the Lord leading us in this direction for quite some time because we were locked down as a church for a year.

Some of us haven't been able to participate in our church for two years or maybe even more.

And our church experienced an incredible amount of change, an incredible amount of challenges in a very short period of time.

And so I've just, in this post-pandemic season, as we're reforming Christ Church with newcomers and old-timers,

with people from Berkeley and Oakland and points north and south and east and west of here,

I just sense the Lord inviting us to preach and to pray for a revival of the Holy Spirit to come and build the church.

To build the church up into an awakened and enlivened and quickened body of Spirit-filled, Spirit-led Christians.

And as we consider the work of the Holy Spirit in the church,

I want to draw your attention to the difference between the ordinary work of the Holy Spirit and the extraordinary work of the Holy Spirit.

Because on the one hand, there's this regular work of the Holy Spirit that's usual, that's quiet, gradual, steady,

and ordinary work to maintain and to extend the kingdom of God among us all the time.

And we praise God for that.

It's like the perpetual dew of God's grace, these little dew drops that form on each individual little blade of grass,

working with each of us in our own way and in our own time.

And then there's the exceptional work of the Holy Spirit,

the unusual, striking, sudden, rapid, extraordinary work of the Spirit to, in the church,

manifest and increase the glory and the power of God in our lives.

And this is not like the dew every day.

This is like the seasonal rain that comes.

And it's this collective, simultaneous work that's happening among us all at the same time

that's just absolutely remarkable.

And so what I'm calling the church to do is to pray not just for the dew, but to pray for the rain,

to pray for the rainy season to come, to pray for a downpour of the Holy Spirit, as it were.

Does that make sense?

So today, in the sermon series so far, we've talked about the urgent need of the church,

at least in the Western world, for revival.

And we've talked about the hindrances to revival and longing for revival and expecting revival.

And today we're talking about the effects of revival.

And what I've been arguing, Andrew and I have been arguing,

that every revival is really a repetition of Pentecost.

And so today we want to take a deeper look at this narrative of when the Holy Spirit came upon the church

so that we might know how to pray that the Holy Spirit would reproduce these effects among us.

And I'm going to try to persuade you over these next few minutes that the ministry of the Spirit produces

or creates a five-fold vitality in His church.

The ministry of the Spirit creates a five-fold vitality in His church.

And let me talk for a few minutes just about the ministry of the Spirit.

It's not that the Holy Spirit had never shown up in the world before the day of Pentecost.

The Spirit had been given to this person here and that person there.

And of course, Jesus Himself was full of the Holy Spirit.

But the Holy Spirit had never been poured out en masse,

had never been outpoured on a group of people in an overwhelming and unexpected and unmistakable way.

And that's what happens at Pentecost.

The Holy Spirit comes down on this small congregation of about 120 disciples, about this size group.

And we're told in verse 1 that when the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

Why? Why were they there? What were they doing?

Well, they were praying.

Because the resurrected Jesus had told them to go and to wait to be clothed with power from on high.

And so Acts 1.14 tells us that they joined together constantly in prayer.

Praying for the Holy Spirit.

Praying to be clothed with power from on high.

And there's no revival without this kind of praying.

No revival without joining constantly in prayer.

Lord, clothe us with this power from on high.

Well, look at what happens in verse 2.

Suddenly a sound, like the blowing of a violent wind, came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And they saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

So the sound in their ears was like a category 5, you know, hurricane force winds.

And the sense to their eyes was like flames of fire.

And perhaps in this moment they're remembering John the Baptist who said,

One is going to come who's going to baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire.

And maybe they're like, oh, that's terrifying and exhilarating all at the same time.

Well, what does this wind and this fire mean?

Well, there are signs to us that the Holy Spirit is this raw, wild, untamable power that unleashes among us the uncreated energies of God.

So that when the Holy Spirit comes, what happens?

Well, the same Spirit that brought order to the chaos of creation at the beginning,

the same Spirit that came to the dead body of Jesus and gave it life and raised him up to immortality and indestructibility,

that Spirit comes upon the church and it affects two major changes among Jesus' disciples.

Before Pentecost, as we know, these apostles were weak.

They were helpless.

They were afraid.

But what happens after Pentecost?

After Pentecost, they're filled with this blazing power.

Look at Peter and his courage.

He had denied his Lord.

And yet now he's facing fearlessly this hostile crowd and the power of the authorities that can put him to death.

And he doesn't seem to care.

These people who had been hiding, men and women hiding behind locked doors for fear of the authorities,

are now out there.

They go out and they turn the whole Roman Empire upside down.

How do we explain that change?

It's a miracle.

The Spirit of God came down.

And when the Holy Spirit came,

the resurrected, ascended, and enthroned Lord Jesus,

through the Spirit,

was giving his power and his authority and his energy

to all the people who were trusting in him and calling on him and following him.

That's what Pentecost is about.

And that's really what revival is all about.

That the Holy Spirit comes to listless and lifeless believers.

And he puts a fresh wind and a fresh fire in our hearts

so that we are experiencing in a new way

the fullness and the abundance of life in our resurrected Lord Jesus.

Does that make sense?

But you know, what else happens beyond that?

They not only have a new power and a new life and a new courage,

but we're told in verse 4 that all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit

and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

This Holy Spirit came dancing on the disciples in tongues of fire

to enable the church to find her tongue,

to enable the church to open her mouth and speak words

and utter rational, intelligent, coherent, persuasive words

in language that everybody could understand

and that was relevant to their lives.

You know, many people think that when the Holy Spirit comes

he's going to turn me into a Marvel superhero.

But that's not what the Holy Spirit does.

What happens when the Holy Spirit comes

is that people come under his speaking ministry,

under his truth ministry.

So that in verse 11, they say,

we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues.

When the Holy Spirit comes, people can hear

about the wonderful works of God in and through Jesus

in a fresh way like they've never heard it before.

They can hear about the mighty acts of God,

the saving deeds of God to intervene into our lives

and to come and turn fallen, ruined,

sin-soaked creatures like us into new creations.

And that's what happens to Peter in verse 14.

It says, Peter stood up with the 11

and he raised his voice and addressed the crowd.

Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem,

let me explain this to you.

Listen carefully to what I say.

And when the Holy Spirit comes,

the Spirit produces this five-point sermon from Peter.

You can read about it later.

Peter gives them a sermon about the scriptures

and the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

That's what happens when the Spirit comes.

Do you remember Jesus' favorite name for the Holy Spirit?

The Spirit of truth.

The Spirit brings a new power on the church

to declare the truth of the gospel.

And after Peter gets done with this long five-point sermon,

he kept everybody late.

They had to get to lunch late.

It was really annoying.

What does it say in verse 37?

It says, when the people heard this,

they were cut to the heart

and said to Peter and the other apostles,

brothers, what shall we do?

See, the Holy Spirit brings this truth

that we are sinners and Jesus alone can save us.

And that truth begins to penetrate beneath the surface,

beyond the superficial and the shallow stuff,

down to the real stuff,

down to what matters most,

down to the deepest human heart problems

and heart needs that we have.

And so I just want to say that if you're here today

and you're exploring Christianity,

we are so glad that you've come to do that here,

but I have to warn you

that part of the ministry of the Holy Spirit

is to cut you to your heart.

The Spirit of Truth wants to come

and give you a painful, piercing truth,

an uncomfortable and even inconvenient truth,

a demanding and a challenging truth.

The Holy Spirit wants to come and convince you

of the plight of your sin

and of the power of Christ to save you.

And the Holy Spirit wants to come and cut your heart

so that you can see how desperate you are before God

and that you might cry out to Him

like these people cried out,

what shall we do?

What shall we do?

And if you're someone here today

who identifies as a Christian

and if you're praying for revival

and you want more of the Holy Spirit,

I want to warn you,

be careful what you pray for

because this Spirit of Truth wants to deal with you

and wants to deal with the things in your mind

and the things in your life

that are not in line with the truth of the gospel.

He wants to come and blow through your life

like a fresh wind.

He wants to blaze through your life like a fire.

The Holy Spirit wants to come

and give you a new energy and power

and authority and courage

like we see our brothers and sisters had

in those first days.

In fact, the Holy Spirit wants to come

and He wants to open your mouth

so that you too can speak the truth

of the gospel to other people

so that you too can declare

the wonderful works of God in Christ

and so that you, like Peter, can say,

let me explain this to you.

So I invite us to examine ourselves this morning.

Whether we're exploring Christianity

or whether we identify as Christian,

do I really want this ministry of the Holy Spirit?

Do I really want the Holy Spirit to cut me?

And do I really want the Holy Spirit to change me?

Because when revival comes, that's what happens.

And it doesn't just happen to an individual here,

an individual there.

It happens to whole communities all at one time.

That's the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

And the ministry of the Spirit comes,

and we notice in this text that

the Spirit creates a five-fold vitality in the church.

The Spirit comes and creates a five-fold vitality

in His church.

And a church that's not in revival

might be strong in one or two of these areas,

but when the Holy Spirit comes

and revival is happening,

He creates a vitality in all five of these areas

simultaneously, and that is this.

Vibrant worship, intimate fellowship,

doctrinal teaching, biblical evangelism,

and compassionate social concern.

A church is ordinarily maybe strong

at one or two of these,

but when the Holy Spirit comes,

He brings alive all five,

and I want to talk about each one for a moment.

First of all, vibrant worship.

We're told in verse 42 that

they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching

and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread,

and to prayer, or in the Greek it says

to the prayers, which means

they devoted themselves to prayer in private,

in their closet at home,

where they prayed before the Father

who's unseen and sees what's done in secret.

But they also committed themselves

to these public gatherings of prayer

when the church would come together

and plead with God about particular things.

They devoted themselves to this,

and it says in verse 46

that every day they continued to meet together

in the temple courts.

They broke bread in their homes

and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,

praising God.

They met in both the temple and in homes,

this balance between the organic and the organized,

the formal and the informal.

They said we don't just need

the large congregation of the temple,

we also need the smaller groups in our homes.

We need both.

And the church committed themselves,

it says, daily to pray,

not just one prayer meeting a month.

They had 30 prayer meetings a month.

And if we're gonna have revival in this place,

we've gotta pray more at home,

and we've gotta pray more at church.

And that's why we've created opportunities

for us to do that here on Sunday mornings,

Tuesday nights,

second Wednesday of the month

is our even song and prayer.

We had 30 people last time.

I hope we'll have 120 people next time.

And if you missed it,

I'd love for you to come and join us.

But it says here that they,

in their vibrant worship,

with a glad heart they praised God.

There was an exuberant, unfiltered joy.

Because God the Father has sent his Son

and his Spirit to save us,

how can we not be joyful?

Isn't the fruit of the Holy Spirit joy?

I mean, I don't know about you,

but a few times in my life,

I've walked into a worship service,

and I thought,

oh no, I've come to a funeral by mistake.

You know, nobody's smiling,

the music is slow,

it's all in a minor key,

it sounds like a dirge,

and I'm like, cheer up.

You know, because Jesus died,

but spoiler alert,

he rose from the dead.

So we should sing boldly,

and robustly,

and loudly,

and joyfully,

and with one voice,

like that choir that was up here.

We should all be the choir.

Amen?

But there's a reverent rejoicing,

because it says in verse 43

that they were filled with awe.

And the reason they were filled with awe

is because they sensed

the power and the presence of God,

this high and holy God,

and he was doing wonders and signs among them.

And that caused them

to just fall on their knees

with a sense of awe before God,

and that's what happens in revival.

The Holy Spirit comes,

and we have both glad praise

and reverent fear

with continual prayer.

The ministry of the Spirit

creates this vibrancy,

this vitality in worship.

But he also creates

this intimate fellowship, right?

These first Christians

were not living as isolated individualists.

They said,

we need each other.

And when it says

that they devoted themselves

to fellowship,

that means they committed

their most precious resource

of their time.

They said,

the church family

is going to be more important to us

than any other potential

time investment out there.

That God and the people of God

are going to be our top priority

in our scheduling

and our organizing.

That we're not going to waste

any time on anything

that's not worthy of our time.

Well, what did they do

when they came and met together

every morning and every evening

before and after work?

They devoted themselves

to fellowship,

or that word in Greek

is koinonia.

And what it does not mean

in Greek is

they devoted themselves

to hang out over coffee.

Because the word means

they devoted themselves

to a sharing in common.

And what is it

that they were sharing in common?

These were not affinity groups.

They were not shared interests.

They did not say,

oh, you like IPAs?

So do I.

Oh, you like novels?

So do I.

Oh, you like the NBA?

You like to knit?

You like politics?

So do I.

It was not a sharing

in those things.

Though I like some of those things.

What were they sharing in common?

They were sharing in common

the grace of the Father,

Son, and Holy Spirit.

They were sharing in common

the divine and eternal life

of God Himself among them.

They were sharing in common

the abundant eternal life

of Christ within them.

Their common shared participation in God

gave them a common shared life together.

I don't know if you've ever read this book

called The Pursuit of God

by A.W. Tozer,

but he says this.

He says,

Has it ever occurred to you

that 100 pianos,

all tuned to the same fork,

are automatically tuned to each other?

They are of one accord

by being tuned,

not to each other,

but to another standard

to which one must individually bow.

So 100 worshipers met together,

each one looking away to Christ,

are in heart nearer to each other

than they could possibly be

were they to become unity conscience

and turn their eyes away from God

and strive for a closer fellowship.

And you see, in revival,

what happens is that the whole church

becomes tuned to the fork of Christ

and Him crucified.

And because we're tuned to that fork,

we, without even thinking,

we just start sacrificially giving ourselves

to love and serve each other

because that's what He did for us.

So when the Spirit comes,

He creates this five-fold vitality,

vibrant worship,

intimate fellowship,

doctrinal teaching is the third thing.

In verse 43,

it says that they devoted themselves

to the apostles' teaching.

When they got together for worship

and for fellowship,

they came to fix their attention

on the divine truth

that had been given from the Father

through Jesus

by the Holy Spirit

to the apostles.

These spirit-filled Christians

were not enjoying among themselves

a mystical experience

that caused them to neglect their intellect

and to stop thinking

and to despise theology.

Rather, the fullness of the Spirit

caused them to engage their minds

in the truth of divine revelation.

And that's one of the great tests

to know whether or not

you have the Spirit

and are full of the Holy Spirit

is do you give any time

to seek the truth

that's been given through the apostles

in the New Testament?

These are the authoritative teachers

that Jesus taught.

And don't we wish

that we could have been part of those sessions,

right,

where Jesus is interpreting the Bible to them,

where Jesus is telling them,

here are the words

and the works

and the ways of God.

Well, friends,

in a way,

we can be a part of that

because it's been preserved

for us in the New Testament.

What we see here

is that the Spirit of God

leads the people of God

to submit to the Word of God.

One of the great

living New Testament scholars

of our time

is N.T. Wright

and he says this,

he says,

where no attention

is given to apostolic

doctrinal teaching

and to constant

lifelong Christian learning,

people quickly revert

to the worldview

or mindset

of the surrounding culture

and end up with their minds

shaped by whichever

social pressures

are most persuasive

with Jesus somewhere around

as a pale influence

or memory.

And haven't we seen

that happen in the church

in North America

over the last three years,

five years,

seven years,

whenever you want to start

the clock, right?

But a church that's in revival

when the Holy Spirit comes

is a people

that's soaking in this truth

and this doctrinal teaching

of the New Testament.

Now, you might say,

gosh, you're almost,

we hopefully,

you're almost at the end

of your sermon,

but why have you only talked

about the interior life

of the church so far?

I mean, why haven't you said

anything about the compassionate

outreach of the church

to the outside world?

And you're right.

When revival happens,

when the Holy Spirit comes,

he brings in the church

this balance

where she's devoted

both to nurturing

her interior life

of God's people

and to meeting

the exterior needs

of the city,

both spiritual needs

and material needs.

But I do want to say

that there's a priority here.

There's a priority

of interior worship

and fellowship

and teaching

because those things

are what energizes

and what directs

all the rest of the stuff

out there.

If we don't have anything

going on in here,

we can't start

to sustain things out there.

And that's the fourth thing

I want to bring up

is that the Holy Spirit

comes and brings about

biblical evangelism.

And again,

we have a priority here

before compassionate

social concern

because people's material needs

are a signpost

to their deeper

and more urgent

spiritual needs

that are eternal

and ultimate things.

We believe at this church

that people are not

just bodies

but they're immortal souls

who are going to stand

before the judge

of all the earth.

And that's why this text

is so excited

to tell us

in verse 47

that the Lord

was adding to their number

daily

those who were being saved.

What does that mean?

Saved from what?

Rescued to what?

Well, if you go later

this afternoon

and you read

Peter's gospel preaching

at Pentecost,

you'll get the answer.

He basically tells them

that you are more sinful

and flawed

than you ever dared imagine

and you're more accepted

and loved

than you ever dared hope.

And that's basically

what verse 38 is saying.

Peter replied,

repent and be baptized

every one of you

in the name of Jesus Christ

for the forgiveness

of your sins

and you will receive

the gift of the Holy Spirit.

He says,

repent of your sins.

All evangelism,

all sharing of the gospel

has to say that.

That you are living

in the bondage

of sin and death.

That you need to be saved

from that.

That you cannot save yourself

and if you were to die

right now,

you'd go unprotected

before the judgment of God

and you would perish forever.

That's what Peter's

just told them.

But then he tells them,

that's why you must be immersed.

You must be immersed

into Jesus

who's the only one

who can deal with your sin.

The only one

who's died in your place.

The only one

who can forgive you.

Jesus is the only one

who can give you

the Holy Spirit

to come and indwell you

and get the mercy of God

and the love of God

inside of you

so you can experience

its power.

This is Holy Spirit

inspired evangelism.

It's based on these two truths

that number one,

God is holy

and his law is just

and you fall far short of it.

But number two,

that God is loving

and that in Jesus

he's dealt with your sin

and you can be totally forgiven

and accepted.

And I have to say

that a church

that is all about acceptance

and all about grace

and all about God's love

and they never tell you

about the law of God

or his wrath on sin

or the reality of hell

and the justice of hell,

that's not a very loving church.

It's actually,

it's not a church in revival.

But a church

that's only ever telling you

what's wrong with you,

that you're guilty,

that you need to be repent

and they're not telling you

that Jesus wants to accept you,

that Jesus can give you

the freedom of forgiveness

and the power of the Holy Spirit,

that church is also not in revival.

When the Holy Spirit comes

he brings these two truths to bear

and the evangelism,

the biblical evangelism

of the early church

included both.

And what we know

is that it led to

exponential,

explosive conversions

that changed the whole

Roman Empire.

prayer.

Now the final thing

I want to say

is that there's one

more mark

of Holy Spirit vitality

that we see in revival.

Vibrant worship,

intimate fellowship,

doctrinal teaching,

biblical evangelism,

and finally,

compassionate social concern.

It says that in verse 42,

they devoted themselves

to breaking bread.

That is the Lord's Supper

where the Lord comes to us

and he says,

hey, everybody,

I want you

and I welcome you

into a personal relationship

with me.

And people were so transformed

by that experience

that they would go out

and they would say that

to their neighbors.

Hey, I want you to come

and be in personal relationship

with me.

In verse 44,

it says all the believers

were together

and they had everything

in common.

They sold property

and possessions

to give to anyone

who had need

because the fruit

of the Holy Spirit

is love.

And when needs

would arise,

they would practice

this radical,

voluntary generosity

where they said,

you know,

the Father shared

his son

and the son shared

his life with us

so by the Holy Spirit,

we're going to share

all the things

that we have

to meet real needs

among our brothers

and sisters.

But they didn't stop there.

They just kept extending

that principle

of generosity

and care

out to everybody.

People that were

radically different

than them

socially,

racially,

economically.

I love this

statement

from Rodney Stark.

He's a sociologist

that wrote a book

called The Rise of Christianity

and he paints

this bleak picture

of the misery

and brutality

of life

in the Greco-Roman world

and he says,

to cities

filled with the homeless

and impoverished,

Christianity offered

charity

as well as hope.

And to cities

filled with newcomers

and strangers,

Christianity offered

an immediate basis

for attachments.

And to cities

filled with orphans

and widows,

Christianity provided

a new and expanded

sense of family.

And to cities

torn by violent

ethnic strife,

Christianity offered

a new basis

for social solidarity.

And to cities

faced with epidemics,

fires,

and earthquakes,

Christianity offered

effective

nursing services.

Friends,

in revival,

when the Holy Spirit

comes,

He leaves in His wake

orphanages

and hospitals

and schools

and the abolition

of slavery

and the reform

of child labor laws

and the reform

of prisons

and factories

and the rescue

of women and children

from abuse

and the care

of the mentally ill.

If you just go

and read about

what God's done

and how the Holy Spirit

works in revival,

you'll see that pattern

over and over

and over again.

And don't we want

to be a part of that?

Christ Church,

don't we want

this five-fold vitality,

vibrant worship,

intimate fellowship,

doctrinal teaching,

biblical evangelism,

compassionate social concern?

I want to give you

a moment just to speak

with the Holy Spirit.

I know we're

a Presbyterian church

so I know that's crazy.

But I want you

to ask the Holy Spirit

a question right now.

Holy Spirit,

how do you want

to create

this five-fold vitality

in my life?

What are you wanting to do?

Is there anything

in my life

that's grieving you?

Anything that might be

quenching the work

that you're trying to do?

Is there anything

in me that's hindering

you from carrying out

your will in my life?

Holy Spirit,

is there anything

you want me to stop doing?

Is there anything

you want me to start doing?

And if as you ask

that question,

you sense a prompting

from the Holy Spirit,

you sense that the Spirit

is saying something to you,

write it down.

Don't forget it.

Go home today

and pray about it.

Ask God to do some work

in your life

because He needs

to do work in my life

if we're going to experience

revival at Christ Church.

If we want the Holy Spirit

to come down

not just as the dew

but as the rain,

as a downpour

of showers

of God's grace among us.

May it be so.

In the name of the Father,

Son, and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.