Are You Puffy?

So this is the first day of Unleavened Bread. Hopefully everyone here is going to spend the next seven days eating this, looking at this, pondering this, finding ways to make it taste better. Butter works. Chocolate works better. My wife makes those. So over the years, twelve years I've been here, I've spoken on the first day of Unleavened Bread many times, brought all the Old Testament stuff we would go through, talked about the journeys and all the various things, but had to have something different this year. So we're going to go into a little bit of the New Testament study of this. Since Jesus Christ kept this, since the New Testament Church, they knew all about this.

And so do you. And hopefully someday the entire world will know. I did research and found that less than two-tenths of one percent of the world is keeping this today. Even know what this day is about. Yes, I looked all those numbers up. We are a small, small percentage of the world. God knew that. That's part of God's plan. Makes us unique. So my title today is, Are You Puffy?

Are you puffy? Are you puffed up? What does that mean? I mean full of self. We all get a little bit full of ourselves, as I was told when I was younger by my parents, before we even came into the church. Another way to put it is you're educated above your intelligence. As the South used to say, you're too big for your britches, boy. There's different ways of pointing out, are you puffy? Full of yourself. Many of you know or have heard, especially lately, about P. Diddy. Oh, P. Diddy? Yes, almost everybody knows P. Diddy. He's a billionaire. He's a media mogul. Well, anybody that's known his work during the time knows his first name.

Before he changed it to P. Diddy was what? Well, you know Sean Cone, but no. Puff Daddy. That was his first real stage name, until he kind of got in a lot of trouble for being too puffy. And the law closed down on him, and he decided he needed to clean up his act. Well, I don't know if the law is back in this corner yet, but they look like they are. But he got the name because when he was younger, they said when he walked the streets, he was pretty full of himself, even though he wasn't very big, and said whenever you upset him, he would huff and puff.

He didn't blow your house down, but he was known to walk big. I think he was a little bigger than what he was. Could you be puffed up by your intelligence? Is it possible? Yes. We sometimes think we know more than what we know. Sometimes we know quite a bit. And I want to go through that today, because that's what these next days are about. And this is the first day, is making sure we keep a non-puffed up life, that we're working not only to be flat compared to puffy, but humble, because we know that Jesus Christ was.

He set that example. He didn't have to set that for his disciples, didn't he? Because they got kind of puffy, didn't they? Just think of the stories. He had to tell Peter, get behind him. He had to tell James and John, the sons of thunder, you don't know what you're talking about. When they wanted to call fire down, how dare? How dare those stinking Samaritans disrespect you, teacher. And so he had to put them in their place. He said, I haven't been coming here to be this big shot.

And if you're going to work for me or work with me, you're going to have to be humble. Humble. As Chris Rivera talked about, one of my mentors, Denny Lucre, a very humble man. Gibson's knew him quite well. Very humble man. He set the example for me. He set the example for telling me, my name's not Mr. Lucre, it's Denny. Denny is what my friends call me. So if you want to be my friend, call me Denny. Now you know where I got Chuck. I'm not Mr. Smith. I'm Chuck. When Christ tells his disciples, you're my friends.

That's what this is about. I just have the responsibility of trying to take care of you and feed you. Be there when times are bad. Be there when times are good, like last night. We've had some bad times in this church. We've lost some pillars in the Fort Lauderdale church. Lost some giants. You guys did too. So I want to look at what this day that God really wants us to learn from and take from this day to the next day to the next day to the last day. And hopefully a pattern has set in to where after seven days you kind of, maybe I need to be like this. Maybe I can continue to be like this.

Paul talked and preached and started churches in the Greek areas. A lot of Greeks had to be difficult. He spoke Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic. I don't know what other languages he spoke, but he had a unique ability to understand the Greek mind because it is quite different. You have to remember, Paul came on the scene. They had their heroes. Socrates!

Google it. You'll find he was one of the greatest minds, they say, of the smartest men who ever lived. You'll see Socrates on there. Wise as whoever lived Socrates. And then there was Plato, his student. And he's also considered a top intellectual. And then, of course, there was his student, Aristotle. All Greek, all teachers. Aristotle was even hired by Philip of Macedonia to teach and to mentor his son, Alexander the Great. And he did. So much so that Alexander the Great later said that he was not the son of Philip.

He was the son of Zeus. He was the son of a god. Hmm. So I guess we kind of know where that teaching can lead.

But it gave the Greek mind and those who spoke Greek and lived in Macedonia and various areas, it gave them a feeling of superiority.

That became a problem because that's not what Christ mindset is. To esteem others better than ourselves. Esteem every person, everyone. That's not easy, is it? It isn't for me.

But that's what he said because he said, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Christ had that mindset. Except he was a god, Alexander. It'll be interesting in the resurrection when Alexander gets to meet a human who was a god instead of one who thought he was.

And so we are at this point of study where it was Greek philosophers who dominated the world scene at the time. Even though it was a Roman world, they adopted so many of the things that the Greeks had. And this sets up the church at the time because there were so many churches started by Paul in these Greek areas. I had a friend named George. Not you, George. I still have a friend named George, but he's not Greek. My friend in Tennessee was named George, and he started a restaurant called the Parthenon. We would go and eat there. It was a building behind my office building at the time, and we got to know him and his wife. They came and we had a great time.

To the United States from Greece with $17 in his pocket. Now he's a multi-millionaire. Maybe I should have listened to him a little more. He is, I'm not.

But George, I would go over there often to eat at his restaurant. We would sit. If he was not busy, he would come and sit and we'd talk. And I just like to listen to him. Of course, he also told me when I'd ask him Greek words, he goes, that's that old Greek. I don't do old Greek. That's corny Greek. That's ancient Greek. I don't do that.

But he told me how great the world was today because of the Greeks.

Basically, the issue was that if the Greeks hadn't come along, everybody would still be today trying to make a round wheel.

That was George. And he would tell me all the great people and all the great things.

That they were the most advanced culture the world had ever seen.

The only thing wrong was that Alexander died from drinking too much, he said, which the Greeks liked to do. So, into this story, we have the church.

And so many in the church at the time were puffy because it's a society they grew up in. It's what was bred in them ever since they were young kids, just like George now. That's 2,000 years ago, but George still, you know, the Greek way was superior.

I remember I asked him, what do you think their greatest accomplishment was?

He said, we didn't kill the Christ. That was his way of looking at it. It was a way of downing the Romans because I could have said, why don't you conquer by the Romans? And he didn't want to go there. But it gave me an insight into that Greek mind. And so, there was a problem in the church of God because we live in this society here, which is totally different than the West Coast. As Courtney could say, different than Seattle, that Elgy could say, or various people in various places. We'll each take a little bit of the culture. It becomes incorporated in our lives. So, this is what I want to talk about today, is this problem in the Greek church of God. Puff. It's in your Bible. Puffeth. Depends on what translation. Puffy.

But in the New Testament, that word, the Greek word for it, is only used eight times.

Seven of those were to one church. Which church do you think that was? The church of Corinth, you bet! The Corinthians! Seven times. We get to kind of look at that today.

Because all but one was in 1 Corinthians. Now, we as a church, we in the United States, we have puffy people. Right? A lot of our politicians are puffy, aren't they? Right? Can you think of a couple politicians that are puffy?

Yes. I know one story of one of those up there. Her staff would, behind your back, call her her highness. She wanted to be here. We have the other one, the Donald. He's got his name. Both have egos off the charts.

But you know what? You can't blame them. We can't. I can blame you because you know better. They don't know any better. This is how they became successful. If you set everything else aside and you want to be successful, and you don't care how you do it, you will be successful. Whether it is sports, whether it is entertainment, whether it is business, whether it is everything, you will be up there. That's the way life is. These two wanted it. They went and got it.

Humility was not at the top of their list. As so many people today just think of it. Entertainment, sports. It's the way that it is.

So Paul has to teach the Greeks not to be puffy, especially the Church of Corinth. And it happens that he writes this book, 1 Corinthians, right about this time, just around the Passover in the Days of Unleavened Bread. We know that because of the context. In which he talks, which is ideal for us to read. Today, because I only have eight scriptures, are eight different pieces of scripture where this word is used. Because I want everyone to understand. So what can we learn to help us by looking at this word puff or puffy? To help us for the next seven days. Let's learn. Let's learn. Because Paul spent enough time building this church, helping it to grow. But the word puff in the Greek is fusiou.

Fusiou. That's how it is pronounced. Fousiou. Fousiou. Fousiou. And it means, just what I have up here, means to inflate, to make proud, to be haughty. Seen any haughty people? Maybe you know one intimately.

We have to look even at ourselves. Other times we are even haughty.

It's to pull up, to swell, to expand the opposite of this here, isn't it? The opposite of what we're to be learning. Paul was going into that Greek society where intellect was everything. Philosophy being great. They were great warriors because Alexander the Great conquered most of the known world. There are three geniuses who are even thought to be out of this world intelligent, successful people.

Go with me to verse 1. 1 Corinthians. If you join me, 1 Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 1.

It won't read the whole thing because the most important thing it says here is, knowledge puffs up.

Haven't you seen people? I know. And you don't.

People who are puffed up. So Paul is telling you, your knowledge is puffing you up. It's not making you humble. It's not making you Christ-like.

We used to have an old man that stayed with us. He used to say, he was a very smart man, he would always find somebody very wise. He said, you're too busy knowing anything to learn anything.

And we've all met those people, haven't we?

Jeff, Mike, in construction. Second, third day on the job, you hire some new guy and he's already telling you how to do construction. I had plenty of them. That is what it also means. Knowledge.

Intellectual snobbery.

We've all met those people. I'm just surprised so many of them weren't for the government.

You've gone down to get your license. You ever talk to somebody at the IRS?

I want to say, I guess I'm so blessed just to be on the phone with you the way you make a sound.

And then you can meet someone who is just so humble they're just going out of their way to help you and you're just amazed and you tell them because you're probably not going to see it again for a while.

See, that's when human nature is raining. And if they have something that you need, they need to make you know it's important. I am important. This is not the way of Christ.

It's not what we do.

I have a BA from Yale, an MBA from Harvard, and a doctorate from MIT.

I don't.

Mary's scratching her head like, where did you get that before?

That would impress a lot of people. Okay, that would impress. Oh, wow!

I've met doctors from MIT. I've met those from Harvard who had MBAs, Harvard School of Businesses like, renowned.

God's not impressed because God wants to see this. And He loves to see this when you're this. When you have a degree from Harvard, except no one knows it. You have all this stuff, but no one knows it. Warren Buffett's car is a 2014. His Cadillac. That was hail damaged when he bought it. This is a billionaire, except if you saw him on the street, you probably wouldn't even know who he was.

Now, does he have an ego? I'm sure he does. I've never met him, but you don't see him want to be in front of everybody. You don't see him throwing his wealth out. As a matter of fact, asking what his one vice was. And he said, I eat at McDonald's every morning for breakfast.

Worth $130 billion, and he goes to McDonald's for breakfast.

I'm not worth one ten thousandths of that. I still don't go to McDonald's.

My wife wouldn't let me, for one thing.

I'm not worth one thousandth of that.

Matter of fact, it's amazing because there's a story of Miami in this town. And back in the 60s, Muhammad Ali actually trained here in Miami. You can see pictures of it. Trained at hotels, trained at YMCAs, and he was busy. Well, there happened to be this time it was told, and I did see a picture of them together where Bruce Lee was a fan of Muhammad Ali, and Muhammad Ali was a fan of Bruce Lee.

And I saw a picture of them together. And then this man tells the story of them going out for lunch together. And as they were sitting there, somewhere in Miami, outside, this fly kept coming by. But it was by, and Bruce Lee looked at Muhammad Ali and said, well, if you're the greatest, why don't you just grab that fly? Muhammad Ali says, okay, with my left hand or my right hand? He said, of course, with your left. And Ali just grabbed that fly, looked at it, and flew off.

And he said, well, if you're the greatest martial arts guy ever, you've got those chopsticks there, let me see you catch that fly.

And he looked at him. He said, with the left wing or the right wing?

I don't believe the story, but it showed egos. It showed a type of person. That's what we don't want to be known by, is it? Go with me to 1 Corinthians 4. 1 Corinthians 4.

Verse 6, Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up. Puffed up. It's the first time it's used in the New Testament, and it sets the tone for all these because he realized he was showing that there's a problem here, and I don't want you to be puffed up. So let's work on it. Go later in the same chapter. Verse 18, Now some are puffed up as though I were not coming to you.

Because he said he was going to send Timothy because he couldn't get there. So he's going to send Timothy and some of them were like, you send us. You send us this little young punk.

Do you not know who we are? We want the best. We want you, our Apollos. How dare you send this spiritual midget to us? He was trying to tell them.

And some are puffed up as though I were not coming to you. Verse 19, But I will come to you shortly if the Lord wills, and I will know not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. Power to overcome being puffed up. Because typically you can see it in most people. And if you don't see it, you can definitely hear it, can't you? We all know that. And we've been called for something, oops, wow, bigger than that, bigger than to be great in this world. It's to be great in the next one. In the Kingdom of God. I don't have to go through because I've gone through so many times the promises, the inheritance, and kings and priests in a perfect kingdom.

Verse 20, I don't have this down there. I don't have this down there. For the Kingdom of God is not in word but in power. Power to overcome. Power to be a part now of that. We are training for that. He gets to see, and not just God gets to see, the world gets to see. And how many people have turned away because of what they've seen? Shame on us. And it's usually just because of this.

Just because of this. Go with me to chapter 5. Chapter 5, I'll read verse 1. It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality that is not even named among the Gentiles. That a man has his father's wife, his stepmother. Then he says in verse 2, And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. They were just like, oh, well, you know, we love him. You know, we understand. We show patience. No, let's not disturb anything. It might disturb the church. It might disturb people. It's all about love, isn't it? This is what Paul is trying to teach them. Verse 3, For I indeed as absent body, but present in spirit, have already judged as though I were present concerning him who has done this deed. And then he says in verse 6, Your glorying is not good. So they were proud of it. They were proud of having open sin in the church. Can you imagine that? A man and his wife and son, and the man dies. And they come, next week or two, they come and sit on the front row together.

Maybe they're holding hands.

Maybe they're doing, rubbing each other's shoulders instead of the people going, uh, they're going, well, who are we to judge? Who are we to judge? I guess he finally found love. No. This is what is bad, that it's open sin. Because we all see it, but open sin in the church can't have it.

So your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven, leavens, the whole lump? Now we know. This is about the Holy Days.

Therefore purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump. Since you are true, since you truly are unleavened, which means you have in spirit, you know the way, you know to do this, but you've allowed this leaven into your life. For indeed Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us. For say, therefore, let us keep the feast, feast of unleavened bread, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, being true to God and being sincere about this walk of life. This is what this pictures. This is what he wanted them to do.

Imagine that.

Do you know us? Every one of us is about the same. You realize that?

When we're born, we're pretty flat, aren't we? Not much there. But you know when you first start walking? I started walking at nine months, my mother said. That was such a problem. But then you begin to think you know a lot. You know what happens?

We become inflated.

Then somebody calling me?

Somebody doesn't like that. We go to school, and you know pretty soon we're going to end school. We think we know more than our parents and our teachers, right?

Oh, we're really puffed up. And then if you get good in sports, like this young man sitting over here, you can be a right to far. When you become ranked, everybody knows who you are, you begin to be puffed up. And then you go to college, right Joshua? And then you know a whole lot, right? And then you get your first job, and when you're in your 20s and 30s, I knew everything. And to God, this is what we look like. This is real life.

Now, you know what God can do? Because He wants to call you. He can stick a pin in it, can't he? Boom! And He has for many people, and taken so much of our thoughts of being superior down to nothing. But you know He doesn't want to do that. He doesn't want to use a pin. Why? Because He loves us and it's merciful. But you know what He wants us to do?

He wants us to do it. He wants us to turn ourselves flat.

Turn ourselves into this, brethren. He's asking us to do it.

And that's it. How amazing is that? That He doesn't want to pop our balloon. He wants us to do it. And He gives us time. You know, He's given me amazing time.

Probably He's given me too much time.

I probably would have been shorter to stick than He is.

Because I should have known earlier.

But man, you know what? Think of my 20s and 30s. I just, I love that time. Because I could go on four-hour sleep. I could go and play sports. I could do all these things. And you just, you feel invincible. And then when you know something, no one else doesn't know, boy, you just...

It's part of life.

But as you get older... And many of you older ones got a little gray hair like me, you can tell you, we need our sleep.

Right? And all of a sudden, all these things we knew, they're not that important anymore. All these books that we've read, and I've read a lot of books, all that knowledge, hmm, this is where God wants us. He wants us going down this road. That's why they are the feast of Unleavened Bear. We should be celebrating this, celebrating not only the food, but who we are as unleavened sons and daughters of God. And when we're able to overcome, as Jeff was talking about noticing, we know that sin, and then... But when we overcome it, yeah.

That's why we should smile. We should say thank you, because it's Him working in us. Let's go. Let's finish this up. All right. Let's go to the other verses in 1 Corinthians 13. 1 Corinthians 13. I'll do 1 through 4, but it's mainly 4. 1 Corinthians 13. We know this as the what? The love chapter, right? Oh, where is he? I know Orwin back there remembers me reading this at his wedding. That's where we're reading all weddings, because it's necessary if a marriage is going to last, you better have this. You better have these, or guess what? You get to go to divorce court.

In a community property state, you get to keep half if you don't get this one right. But here it says, and Paul's telling this, this is a church of Corinth. These are the ones he talked about being puffed up. He said, though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not agape, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal, just a bunch of sound.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, oh, let me tell you what's going to happen. I can tell you the two witnesses I can tell you when the Christ is coming. I can tell you all this kind of stuff. And I understand all mysteries you want to know about God, just come and talk to me. And all knowledge, what do you need to know? And though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not agape, I am nothing.

You need a little love. You need to take ego out and love in. See what he says, verse 3, and though I be so all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not agape, it profits me nothing. And then he goes into this, he says, love suffers long, and his kind does not envy. Love does not parade itself, is not puffed up. You know what my margin says for all the times it's got puffed up? One word, same word. Anybody have it in their margin? What does it say? Arrogant. Not just arrogant. You're arrogant.

You think so much of yourself. That's what puffed up means. Is it nice to have confidence? Yes, but it's confidence that God's in charge. Not us, not our brain, not our mind. It's him, him in us.

Is not arrogant. Is not puffed up. Can we put arrogance out this next seven days? Out of every chance, because you know what's going to happen? Every one of you, yes, you tomorrow, you're going to have a chance. You're going to have a chance to put down, you're going to see it. You're going to have a chance. He's, every one of us in the next few days, we're going to have a chance to show that we're putting arrogance out and humility in. I guarantee you, if not, come back and tell me. Come back and tell me Saturday. Well, not me. I was so great that I never had a chance to be arrogant. No! This is all part of what we are doing here. You know, it's interesting that the love chapter, the agape chapter in this chapter 13, it has seven do's and eight do nots. 15 in there. Seven do this and this do not.

When it comes to love, it needs to be replaced. This, because it's not puffed up, it's not arrogant. When you love other human beings, it's not. It says love suffers wrong and it's kind, it's not envy. Love does not parade itself. See the suit? It's a nice suit. Look at that. It's Lloyd and Taylor. Do you know how much a Lloyd and Taylor suit cost? Lloyd and Taylor. It's $4,500. Maybe $700. Not where I got it. I got it for $75.

Big deal. Big deal. This is what he's wanting us to do, to come off of this.

Does not behave rudely. Why? Because you're not arrogant. You're not puffed up.

Does not seek its own. This is what I want. Let me get first in line today for the food. Now we're going to see who really wants to be. Now nobody will want to go up there first. Right? Puffed up. And I saw how some of you ate last night. You are puffed up, as I am. But that's not what it's about. Let's go.

Because 1 Corinthians 13 just tells us what to take out and what to put in so that we can be this, so we can be flat like this. Let's go to the last one, and that's Colossians 2. Colossians 2.

Verse 18. Here we had people judging them on what they ate, and don't judge me, and we've gone through these scriptures before. But I just want to do verse 18. Said, let no one defraud you of your reward, taking delight in false humility. You ever seen false humility?

Here, let me give you some money because I have so much.

No, it's false or acting pious. Oh, yes, I'm very religious. And then you see them tomorrow, and they're not. This is false humility. And worship of angels. Well, I understand because angels work with me.

Intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. This is why we need the mind of Christ, because our fleshly mind will take over, and we will be full of ourselves, and we'll be puffed up. Very, very much so.

I had a friend of mine in high school. He was very smart. As a matter of fact, he had a photographic memory. I didn't know that. He later became a history teacher. And I moved in from Indiana into Tennessee in my second grade. What did I know as a second grader? I didn't know much, but I come in there, and I sat down the first day and just trying to behave. I don't know what to do, and somebody passes me this note, this piece of paper. And I looked at him going, what is this? And I didn't understand it. So I went to the guy who drew it, which was my friend, Wayne. And what it showed was these people with hats, these soldiers with hats that had S on them, stabbing and killing all these people with Ns on their their hat. And it was just a you know what a second grader is pretty good. Just a bloody scene. And I'm going, what? I don't understand this. He said, you don't know about the Civil War. You're from Indiana. You're from the North. I just wanted you show that the South we may have lost, but we're still superior. I didn't second grade. And I'm like, I don't came home. I said, Can you guys tell me about the Civil War? We never even studied that. My dad goes, Well, they got battlefields all over Tennessee. You know, that's part of it. And as Wayne grew to know him well, and like going to class, riding a bus together, he would just look at the notes and boom, he could just print it right off. I mean, he never even had to study. He just read whatever it was. Photographic memory is really great. And so even teachers, even in the seventh, eighth grade, they were teaching his history and he would stop the teacher. He said, nope, that's not really correct. This happened at this and the teacher would go, How? Well, read this book in this book.

And I remember the teacher asking, Do you think you're the smartest kid in class? And he goes, No. He said, Why do you act that way? Then? Why do you act like it?

And Wayne later graduated top of home. He wasn't valedictorian because he just didn't care that much. But I remember him calling me about the Civil War. I was out of high school and stuff. He got talking about the Emancipation Proclamation. He said, of 1863. I just said, I thought it was 1862. Oh, no, no, no, you're wrong. Three years later, he calls me and says, Well, you were technically right. It happened in December, but it wasn't ratified until January of 1863. I said, What? I had forgotten it. I didn't even know. I had no clue. But to him, this was it. And if you remember, Mary and I went and dated with them. And if you, Wayne never talked about anything except if he really knew it. And would I say he was vain? Not really. But there was an arrogance there. There is a difference. It's an arrogance there of me, of just wanting to show you, you are inferior. Brethren, that's what we need to make sure that we do not make anyone feel inferior. I've met people in the past that had an incredible amount of money. They had prestige and everything. And you never knew that they would help people, and they would do whatever.

That's what we're supposed to be, because that's what Christ was. Let me finish this. I'm... Look at my watch.

How many of us want to take a...

Four? How many of us would want to take a... take a... IQ test? I don't. I don't. But if you were good at it, what would you do?

I'll take it. I'll take it. Why?

I think God wants us to have a spiritual IQ, so that we can do these things. So puffy, arrogant, narcissistic, full of oneself. It's about selfishness.

I want to end here, but I got the short scene I want to play, because I never forgot it. Because it's written by Pat Conroy, who actually... This is a true story of his father. He grew up in the military, and he was a military brat, and his father was just so domineering and arrogant, and he was a colonel or whatever. And I never forget this part of the movie, so I want to... Just a 30-second clip, because I cannot get this out of my head, because this was supposed to be true. He just made this about his father. So can you play that clip?

Seats, gentlemen. Morning. You may not have the privilege of serving under the meanest, toughest screaming and squadron commander in the Marine Corps. Me. Now, I don't want you to consider me as just your commanding officer. I want you to look on me like I was... well... God. If I say something, you pretend it's coming from the burning bush.

Imagine growing up with that as your father. Pat Conroy did. I've seen interviews with him. He's wrote many books, so forth. We're blessed that we have a spiritual father that teaches us, that shows us. Brethren, for the next seven days, this is your teacher. This bread is your teacher. Learn. Learn all you can, because humble is flat. And, brethren, leave this feast flat and not puffy.