United Church of God
Sermon Transcript — February 2, 2008
Today I had planned to discuss one of the basic biblical topics. There are many of them. I'd like to begin this discussion by going back in history a few hundred years; a little over 500 years ago. This would of course been a time when the nation of the United States of America did not exist. It would have been a time before the British Empire became a world ruling empire.
I'd like to go back to 1493. In 1493 Pope Alexander the 6th divided the world into two parts. These two divisions of the world were given to Spain and Portugal. At that time these two were the most powerful nations on earth, both of whom were loyal to the Catholic See and Catholicism. Now the purpose of dividing the world in half and assigning it to these two nations by the Pope was the sense that the Kingdom of God was spreading around the world and that the Spanish and the Portuguese should settle the world and also convert the world to Catholicism. Of course with their belief that the Kingdom of God was on earth then and was spreading, they had a big job ahead of them. Let's turn to Luke chapter 10 because you see we're not the only ones who can read scripture and the church leaders at that time; about 510 or 511 years ago could read Luke 10 in verse 2 where Christ said:
Luke 10:2 "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest."
This was the high goal of Pope Alexander the 6 th. He wanted to see the world settled and converted.
Now the Spanish took this task very seriously. You may of course have heard of the Spanish Armada, the great fleet that the Spanish had which was the greatest ship fleet of the time. They sailed primarily to the new world as we would understand it, South America, Central America, Mexico and about a third of the United States along the west coast. Now their method of settling was rather interesting. The Spanish were quite a bit bigger than the natives or the Indians who lived in the western hemisphere; in South and Central America and Mexico. In fact they were about probably a foot or foot and half taller so when they arrived by ship and they disembarked and came ashore they looked bigger than the locals. Many of the locals did not have refined weapons as did the Spanish. They were after all great conquerors, they had suits of mail, they had the swale hats which you may recall, the shields, the big swords and the spears. They were trained combatants and they easily ran over the inhabitants of these lands, the Indians. They conquered it very quickly. When they landed by ship they not only bought soldiers but they bought padres, they were called in the Spanish language. These were monks to convert the people. Now what they did when they landed is they built schools and churches and they began to teach the local population the Spanish language so they could convert them with their Spanish word of God. They then organized the people into groups and had them farm land, raise cattle, tan hides and most of the produce that was created by these communities was shipped back to Spain and Portugal and other parts of Europe. One thing that they found in the new world that they really liked though was gold, particularly in South and Central America.
So the Spanish started up the west coast searching for gold during this process as they were settling communities along the way. When they got to Baja, California and started moving north they came to an area where they eventually landed; it was beautiful. When they looked from the Pacific Ocean towards the shore they saw these beautiful cliffs, gorgeous blue bays, one in particular was especially blue and clear and could easily take several ships and up above were cliffs and up above the cliffs were these beautiful sea pines and when the Spanish soldiers saw it they called it La Hoya which means the jewel. They saw this beautiful coastline and they called it La Hoya. When they finally came to shore and started exploring the shore and found the local Indians that lived there, they crowned or named the place San Diego which means St. James and they named it after the apostle James in the name of the Pope when they landed there.
The Spanish began something that remains as testament to their attempt to convert the new world until today. In San Diego they began to build missions like those I described and they built a highway going from south to north in California; they called the El Camino Real that is, the king's highway and they did this in honor of the king of Spain. Along El Camino Real they built 21 missions as they headed north, started in San Diego and they began to spot those missions along El Camino Real until they got just north of San Francisco where the 21 st mission was built and they finally gave up; they were looking for gold. They marched along the California coast and all the way up into the central valley area and all the way above the great bay area they stopped. They gave up 70 miles short of what turned out to be the greatest gold finds in American history; in 1849 the American gold rush in California. They stopped just short of it.
Now I personally feel that placed into God's plan; about the riches that He promised to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and not especially the Spaniards because that played into the wealth that America developed during the middle of the 19 th century.
But anyway, what Californians have done in the last several decades is to restore these 21 missions. In fact some people travel to California so they can go to the 21 missions and so they take off and they travel up El Camino Real to visit the 21 missions in California. It is an interesting tour, I've visited many of them, I don't think all 21 but it's a very interesting tour to this day. That is their testament, their legacy if you will in their attempt to the great harvest of the world. As we all know now the Spanish were eventually stopped, their Armada was defeated by the British and the rest is history.
Well let's notice here in Luke chapter 10, verse 17, a very interesting discussion that Christ has with these disciples He sends out and this is leading me; I'm going to get there eventually to the topic of the day. It says:
Luke 10:17 Then the seventy returned with joy saying: "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name."
Verse 18: And He said to them: "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven." (talking about the demons).
Verse 19: "Behold I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
Now I don't know about you but if Christ had said this directly to me I would be very happy. I would get pretty excited to have within my grasp the power of miracle working; the power to overcome poisonous serpents and scorpions. But notice what Christ says in verse 20:
Verse 20: "Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."
That's what I want to talk about today. What was Christ talking about? What gives us great joy? What is He referring to; our names are written in heaven? Let's go to Revelation chapter 3, verse 5 because there's a great deal written about this in the scriptures; this particular topic, about our names being written in heaven. Obviously it is something very important to Christ. He said it's more joyful than being given the power of God's Spirit to perform miracles. It's an assurance of eternal life, it's the culmination of the plan of God brought to fruition, that our names are written in heaven. Notice in Revelation chapter 3, verse 5:
Revelation 3:5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments (symbolizing purity) and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
Today I want to discuss the Book of Life, the Book of Life if you like titles for sermons, this could be the Book of Life and what it should mean to us. Christ said we should rejoice if we're found there. What is the Book of Life? Whose names are written therein? What is written there? Is it just names? How may this knowledge help us personally?
Let's go over a few pages to Revelation chapter 17, verse 8. Notice this, a particular prophecy about the beast and it is not my intent to talk about the beast today but there's an interesting comment here about the Book of Life:
Revelation 17:8 The beast that you saw was and is not and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was and is not and yet is.
We know there's coming a time in the future when the world by in large will be deceived by the great miracle working power of this beast coming at the time of the end. It seems here that the revelator, Jesus Christ is saying that those whose names are written in the Book of Life will be protected as we heard in the sermonette; will be preserved and defended against deception even by the great miracle worker at the time of the end when Christ said even the elect might be deceived were it not for His spirit and His seal.
So based on the scriptures we've covered so far, I'd like to summarize what we have learned about the Book of Life and I want to build on this list as we go along. First of all it is Christ who controls the Book of Life; it is under His authority. Secondarily He can put names in the Book of Life as He wills. It would seem that as we are called by God and God begins to give us His Holy Spirit that our names are then placed in the Book of Life. He can take names out of the Book of Life. I don't know what that is like; we'll explore that a little bit as we go along. There were people in the bible who said don't blot out my name from the Book of Life, but God has the power or Christ does to take them out. Those whose names are in the Book of Life will be mentioned to the Father and the angels where Christ said: "I will confess your name to the Father." You may recall that scripture. Those in the Book of Life will not be fooled, there is a measure of spiritual protection on their minds and the Book of Life goes all the way back to the foundation of the world. It's been around a long time, longer than the bible as a matter of fact. It's a very important book by anybody's estimation. Let's go back to Revelation 22, just a page or two in my bible. I'm not going to refer to all the scriptures regarding the Book of Life, there are too many to include in one sermon. It's quite a subject if you wish to research further I would certainly encourage that. In chapter 21, verse 27 for example it talks about those in the New Jerusalem will be those written in the Book of Life but I'd like to focus on chapter 22, verse 19.
Revelation 22:19 And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written (or prophesied) in this book.
So it's pretty serious not to mess with the prophecies of God because we would risk removing our names from the Book of Life. As I said, there are a number of references in scripture to this book as it's called in scripture. Moses called it when he was talking to God, Your Book. So there was knowledge of it, even in the time of Moses. In Exodus 32, verse 31 Moses makes reference to that. Also Paul discusses the Book of Life. In Philippians 4 verse 3 as he is writing his letter to the church of Philippi he mentions several members there and he says: "I know that your names are written in the Book of Life." This had to be very encouraging to those people to whom he was writing, in Philippians 4:3 he mentions that. In fact, I'm sure from what I read in scripture that our names are written in the Book of Life, we're there. As Christ said it's a very joyful thing, it's one of the greatest things we could have is to have our name written in the Book of Life.
But is there anything else besides our names there? I don't know how many of you visited the memorials but if you go to Washington D.C. you will find the Viet Nam Memorial, a Korean Memorial, a Memorial to War World II and as you walk through those memorials you will see almost an endless list of names; hundreds of thousands of names.
I remember a few years ago visiting Honolulu, Hawaii and having the opportunity to go out to the Arizona Memorial. As all of you know the Arizona lies at the bottom of the harbor, but you can see it from the surface of the water and they have built a memorial over the wreck that is sunken there. When you go into that memorial it's very sobering. A boat will take you out to the memorial. You get on with a certain number of people and they allow you a few minutes and most people are very quiet and respectful as they're walking around thru the memorial. Other than the size which looks out over the sunken ship and you can still see the stack, it's just below the water and because the water is so clear in Hawaii you can actually see the Arizona below the water. It's very sobering to think that those young men are still entombed in that boat, by and large when it was sunk on December 7, 1941. As I looked at the wall at the names; it just lists all the names of the Navy and Mariners who died in that boat I noticed that there was a Register on the wall. Now Register is not a real common name and of course immediately I looked at the name and I began to wonder, o.k. where's he from? Is he related to me? I wonder what led him here? What became of his family? I had all these questions flood into my mind because I made an instant connection of course with the name on that wall. Now normally if you see thousands of names on a wall, it's interesting, it's a name, you feel sorry for the families of the deceased but it's a memorial that's got a name, it doesn't have a great deal of meaning. So I saw on the wall it's instant Register and it listed his first name and so when I got home I tried to do a search on it and I couldn't find anything, it led me nowhere. That was a little frustrating.
A few years ago I used to live in a little town along the east coast in the state of Delaware where I pastored the churches there called Lewis, Delaware. We built a home about a block and half from the inland waterway in Lewis, Delaware. My boys at the time were in grade school and as a lesson in history because I love history, I took the boys down to Main Street in the little town of Lewis and they have an ice cream store there called Kings Ice Cream store and as far as I know the King family started this little store and they made home made ice cream there. For all I know, it may still be there. You could get some of the best home made ice cream in the world at Kings Ice Cream. So I'd take the boys down there, particularly on a Friday evening in the summer, we would get an ice cream cone and we'd walk across the street into the graveyard. Now you might think that's pretty morbid but I wanted to use this as object lesson for my sons. I wanted to teach them about the history of the town in which they lived which used to be a fishing village that went all the way back to the mid to late seventeenth century. In fact the homes along Main Street are some of the old restored captains homes that are still there, three and four stories high, Victorian in style and up at the top they had the banister they called the widow's walk which literally was the widows of the captains (they weren't widows yet) but they were the wives of the captains would walk along that walk anxiously awaiting looking east to the ocean to see the sails come back from the Merchant Mariners of the fishing fleets. Many of them of course became widows because their mates never returned from the sea.
But when you walk through the graveyard you see these usually old slate stone grave markers. Some of them you can't even read anymore, the weather has beaten them so badly you can't even make out the names on them anymore but those that you can make out have biblical names and usually right below them is the date of their birth and the date of their death and a dash. It seems so futile to me that many of these captains and their families had lived so long, had done so many great things and the only thing that they can be remembered for was a dash. To me it seemed insignificant, just like a name on a memorial it seemed to be inadequate even though they were honored in that way.
I remember when I moved to New England, I like Mr. Franks and others before him. We've gone up there, we've went searching in some of the graveyards for early Sabbathtarians down in Newport, Rhode Island, Hopkinton, Rhode Island and other parts of New England. I remember walking through the graveyards there looking for the same thing and again we just found names oftentimes, the date of ones birth, a dash and the date of ones death. It seems so inadequate. I found one time a homemade gravestone. I don't know if the man who was laid to rest there made it or someone else did, but I wrote it down because I was very impressed by it. It gave me more information than just the dash. It said here lies Roger Bastor. He was a bachelor, a block maker and one of the founding members of the Sabbathtarian Church of God. That stone has been there nearly 300 years and I thought wow, this is quite a testament to the man who is laid to rest here; that he was one of the founding members of the first Sabbathtarian Church in America; he was one of seven. That impressed me; there was something there that told me a little bit about him which I felt so much more heartwarming than looking at a dash. I realized that sometimes there's not enough information in just a name.
Let's go to Psalms chapter 56. You know these are wonderful memorials to people in some cases. I've often thought, is the Book of Life more than just a listing of names? I think we will see that it is, especially when we discover its primarily use, because God has perfect memory. Why would He need a book for a way to remember names, a list? God has the ability to remember everything, we know that. We're going to discuss in a little bit He also has the ability to forget everything if He wants to. But in Psalms 56 I'd like to bring your attention first of all to the summary at the beginning of the chapter. In the new King James it says before you actually begin verse 1, it says: To the Chief Musician. Set to "The Silent Dove in Distant Lands," which is the name of a song. A Michtam of David when the Philistines captured him in Gath. So this kind of sets the stage for this particular hymn or psalm which David wrote. These are words that David wrote to encourage himself and he set it to music; he was a musician, to encourage himself while he was in prison by the Philistines. So this kind of sets the stage. It's interesting that he took a familiar song that he knew and he put his own words into it and of course when you look at our hymnal you will find that Dwight Armstrong did a similar thing. He took a lot of Anglican hymns and he replaced the words that were in those hymns with the Psalms that he recorded that David had written and so today we have a number of songs in our hymnal that even though it may be an Anglican hymn, the words are now from the Psalms. So David writes this song for encouragement and I'd like to focus our attention on eight thru eleven. Singing to God now, David says:
Psalm 56:8 You number my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle;
I find this a very interesting expression. We normally think that our tears are associated with prayers and we normally think that prayers are sad and then like most conversations they just fade away, disappear. I think there's more to the preservation of our prayers that we might imagine. When we get to the book of Revelation God says that He asked the angel to pour out the prayers that He's preserved in a vessel on the altar and the saver of that inspires God to intervene in the course of the history of man. So somehow God saves prayers too; preserves those words. He says: You number my wanderings which are experiences, in other words you remember my experiences. You put my prayers into your bottle, you capture those someway.
Are they not in Your book?
David says. I believe David understood that the Book of Life contained more than just a list of names, it seems so inadequate.
Verse 9: When I cry out to you, then my enemies will turn back; this I know because God is for me.
Verse 10: In God (I will praise His word), in the Lord (I will praise His word).
Verse 11: In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
So he was encouraging himself with the song set to a familiar tune and he used these words which I think are very insightful for us in beginning to understand what the Book of Life may actually contain, or the names. It seems experiences which God and Christ deemed important; character building experiences, trials endured and prayers. David seemed to indicate that the trial he was enduring here while he was captured by the Philistines was a trial endured. He had to trust in God to rescue him from that which God eventually did. Let's go to Psalms 139, back just a few pages. Once again this is a psalm of David. David says:
Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
It's rather awkward here and I think this is probably because it was originally written in Hebrew poetry, set to music which we don't have any longer and translated into English is very awkward. I find translation into the Living Bible is very helpful in this section. I'd like to read from the Living Bible, verses 13 thru 16 to get a little more insight.
Psalm 139:13 You made all the delicate inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother's womb.
Verse 14: Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous and how well I know it.
Verse 15: You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion (talking about within the womb).
Verse 16: You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. (acknowledging that God had been involved in his life from birth onward and this last phrase). Every day was recorded in your Book!
David had confidence that those character building experiences, those trials which he endured; those prayers he offered to God were recorded on a daily basis in God's book, the Book of Life.
Let's go to Malachi, chapter 3 in verse 16, again another familiar scripture. The prophet here writes about God's people particularly at the time of the end.
Malachi 3:16 Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, (we heard earlier about the four pillars; bible study, prayer, fasting and meditation. There's a fifth pillar, it is called fellowship, very important fellowship) and the Lord listened and heard them; so a book of remembrance was written before Him, for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on His name.
A book of remembrance, a book to remember people by.
I told you about those graves that we looked at in New England. I also had the opportunity to go into a library that's preserved a lot of the history of those early Sabbathtarians in America and there's a ledger book in the museum there that keeps a weekly record of attendance, tithes that were paid by the members, keeps a record would you believe, baptisms and disfellowshipments and marriages and other records of goings on of that early group in New England, it's there. It's preserved there, it's a book of memorial that you can go back and read and it is chronicle from the time of Steven Mumford onto the time that the church moved to Hopkinton, Rhode Island and moved out of Newport. It is very interesting history that is there, it is memorialized in this ledger book. Since then a number of people have chronicled that history and written it into other books to remember the adventures of those early Sabbathtarians in America. Notice verse 17.
Verse 17: They shall be Mine says the Lord of hosts, on the day that I make them My jewels. (that is on the day that they become My special people when My plan is fulfilled). And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Those who talked often one to another, their names were remembered in the book, a book of remembrance. So it seems that Christ records daily memoirs of the saints in the Book of Life.
Let's summarize so far what we have discovered in reading these scriptures. We know that our names are in those books. I speculate, but with I think pretty good biblical authority, that our experiences and our prayers are also recorded in the Book of Life. Our names can be removed from the Book of Life. Christ is the one who personally records the information in the Book of Life. The Book of Life records information all the way back to the foundation of the world including personalities like Able, Enoch, Noah, Moses and on and on to the New Testament church and the apostles and over the last two thousand years, all of those that God has called and given His spirit. Only those listed in the Book of Life will be in the New Jerusalem and those listed in the Book of Life are protected from the beast.
Let's try to be a little more specific, let's go to Hebrews 8. I'd like to examine a scripture that I believe tells us pretty clearly what's not going to be in the Book of Life, about you and me and how and why it differs from the bible. Scriptures tells us we're being judged out of these books, this book the bible. The Book of Life is a different book. It contains different information about some of the same people but about more than what we find canonized in the bible. We find here in Hebrews 8 verse 12 a very familiar but a very encouraging and inspiring scripture and I read it often.
Hebrews 8:12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
I think one of the most difficult understandings that we can come to is that God has perfect forgetfulness because we don't. When somebody trespasses against us we say o.k. I forgive you when they ask for forgiveness or when we feel we need to forgive them even if they don't ask; o.k. I forgive you. But what we do with that little morsel of information, that little offense? Can we take it out of our minds? No, we file it in the back of the drawer, don't we? If that person offends us again, uh ha, that's twice. See, we don't forget perfectly like God does. God says when we ask for forgiveness of our sins and our unrighteousness that He is faithful to forgive. So God forgives perfectly and He doesn't remember. If we were to kneel down with Him the next day and say: "God, I made the mistake again, this is the second time I've done this in two days and I'm sure you remember yesterday." He would say: "No, I don't remember yesterday because I forgave that sin yesterday and I promised perfect forgetfulness."
So God is writing a memorial about you and me in the Book of Life. I believe that He does not include in those writings about you and me the bad stuff; the negative stuff, the sins, the unrighteousness. He only records the character building experiences, the trials endured and the prayers that we pray. He doesn't include the bad news, the lawless deeds, and the sins. I think it's going to be interesting when we all meet together, that great wedding feast, I'm looking forward to this, the great personalities of the bible, can't wait to meet King David. I know I won't be the first but there will be a first one who meets him and says, I know all about you and he might say, what do you mean? You see he's never seen the bible, he doesn't know what's in there; he doesn't know what's written about him. The scriptures contain the good, the bad and the ugly of those servants of God in history but the Book of Life seems to, at least in my reading not include the bad and the ugly but just the good.
Let's go to Ezekiel chapter 21. It's a scripture that supports what we read in Hebrews the 8 th chapter. I'm sorry Ezekiel 18, verse 21, the prophet here says:
Ezekiel 18:21 But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
The prophet is talking about living eternally, this whole concept of salvation.
Verse 22: None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; (just as we read earlier) because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live.
You see God uses the good, bad and ugly in these experiences to help encourage us from the lives of these patriarchs and these servants of God in the past to inspire us, to instruct us, to set us an example particularly as it is in Christ's life. That's what the word of God is used for, it's very useful, it's very helpful to us, it is the standard as I mentioned earlier by which we will be judged. But the Book of Life serves a different purpose. It will not include the negative side of our lives or of the patriarchs or of those who have gone before us.
Verse 23: "Do I have pleasure at all that the wicked should die?" says the Lord God. "And not that he should turn from his wicked ways and live?
You know Paul said that it is God's will that all men would be saved. But notice verse 24:
Verse 24: "But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? (notice this) All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die."
Verse 25: "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair.' Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair and your ways which are not fair?"
I'm sure that the Book of Life is much bigger than this notebook I have here. Maybe even God is taking advantage of electronic storage now and using technology. He certainly could do that for the future.
You know this scripture; the first part of it is very encouraging but the second part is very sobering. It means that someone can spend a better part of a lifetime, 10, 20, 30, 40 years having their name, their acts of character, their prayers recorded in the Book of Life and then at some point they turn from that. You know Moses said: "Preserve me in Your book." Paul said: "Do not blot me out of the Book of Life." It can be done; a root of bitterness can enter a person and then God would have no choice but to tear their record out of the Book of Life. It is sobering to think about isn't it?
What would Christ write in the Book of Life about us this coming year with the time that we spend in discussion, in thought, in action, and in our prayers being recorded in the Book of Life; the trials endured, the prayers, the acts of pure religion? It seems to me with what we know about the Book of Life that we would want to be more like sheep and less like goats. We want to pray more and complain less, be more tolerant and less judgmental, be more caring and less critical, be more supportive of one another and less condemning, be more forgiving and less angry, be more humble and less presumptuous, be more serving and less self seeking, be more loving and less selfish, be more godly and less like this world because these positive characteristics are the ones which God will remember and Christ will record in the Book of life.
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes." The Catholics are famous today for their missions in their attempt to convert the world particularly along El Camino Real.
Let's turn to Revelation 20 to conclude today. We read here in the resurrection chapter something very profound.
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God (it's talking about the second resurrection as we call it in the church) and books were open. (we have most of us in our laps right now the collection of 66 books in the bible. These people will be judged by the same yardstick that we're judged by, the holy bible, the word of God.) And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. (which I believe will be very encouraging to these people because in it will be not only the names but the character building experiences, the prayers, the acts of pure religion and godly contrition for all of these people to study and being inspired by through that period of time that they live and are judged by God.) And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
Verse 13: The Sea gave up the dead who were in it and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.
I think in the future people will be encouraged and inspired for eternity by the example that has been recorded by Jesus Christ in the Book of Life and then declared before God the Father.
As Christ said, we should be overjoyed and thrilled with the concept. It is greater than the miracle working power. It is greater than knowledge and understanding. Our legacy will last forever preserved in the Book of Life.