The General Epistles - Part 13

Well, good evening once again. Good evening again, everybody. And so we have come to 2 Peter and chapter 2. So he would turn to 2 Peter and chapter 2 and verse 1. But there were false prophets also among the people. There have been false prophets from day 1 to the present time among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you. Now in Matthew 13, there is a discussion of the terrors that Satan the devil comes along and he plants terrors in the congregations. And of course, some people are led away by their own lust and their own desire to make a name for themselves in some way. So there have always been false teachers among the people. And sometimes it's innocent that people do the things they do because they're innocent. They are misguided or misled. But we have to rely on the Spirit of God and the Word of God to make our decisions. Now that word, terrors, T-A-R-E-S, is only used in the book of Matthew and it appears eight times in the book of Matthew in which God is eventually going to sort out the terrors. He tells us that we should be careful in dealing with terrors and false teachers because oftentimes we can pluck up wheat along with the terrors. So we have to be careful as to what we say and what we do when it comes to terrors or false teachers among us. And always, we are looking to the Word of God and the Spirit of God to guide us in making the right decision. So there will always be false teachers among us, as it says here, who shall privately bring in damnable heresies. And so it's privately, secretly, very few people are open about it. And there are avenues available to those who think they have a new revelation or added knowledge whereby they can air their knowledge or what they have discovered in their studies. And they can talk about it with those who are in authority and who know and that kind of thing. So there isn't a way to do that. And even if you're convicted of it and believe in your heart that is right, unless it is approved, don't air it abroad because we will be reaping or eventually reaping. But to begin with, we will fall into judgment ourselves if we lead somebody astray. And we know we've read from James where it says, My brethren, be not many teachers. So when you set yourself up to be a teacher, that is a very heavy responsibility. And of course, it begins with the ministry and then it's with all of us. All of us have to be careful about that. So there are false teachers and bring in to themselves, or bring to themselves swift destruction. Of course, that destruction may not occur until the judgment when Jesus Christ returns. And he will bundle up the tears as it says in Matthew 13, and they will be burned. So it's a frightful thing to fall into the hands of the living God in judgment. And hopefully none of us will be led astray. Many shall follow their pernicious ways. Pernicious is a word that has a wide range of meanings. It's basically destructive ways in which not only are you destroying yourself, but you're taking a chance of destroying someone else by reason of whom the way of truth shall be even spoken of. And I know back in the early days, when I first came to Ambassador College, people were drinking beer in the stands during the Feast of Tabernacles. This was 1969. And the church got a reputation in the community that there were just a bunch of drunks out there and abusing alcohol and that kind of thing. In fact, I wrote an extensive paper, some 20 typewritten pages as my project in the freshman Bible class. And it was widely circulated, and slowly that changed. Thankfully, that changed. We had one registrar in one of the nearby universities, the University of Texas at Tyler.

She would determine whether or not our students could transfer from Ambassador to UT Tyler. And she heard about in the men's locker room, the faculty locker room, there was a beer keg. And one time she visited the campus, and we showed her around. And one of the first things she said is, I want to see that beer keg up there. And so we showed it to her. And of course, a lot of people drink beer, and a lot of people drink wine, and some people drink hard liquor. But you have to be careful that you do not do anything that offends people to the point that they speak evil of the church. And people are looking for something to criticize those that believe differently from what they do. So please be careful, and don't cause evil and a bad reflection to fall upon the church for any reason. And through covetousness, and we know what covetousness is, it is desiring something that we don't have. It may be in the possession of somebody else, or it may not be in the possession of somebody else, but if we covet, if we desire wrongfully something else. You know, the Apostle Paul writes that I have learned that whatsoever state I find myself in, therewith to be content. So contentment with godliness is great gain, as it says in the Epistles of Paul. And through covetousness shall they with fain words, fain words make merchandise of you whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation or judgment slumbers not. That Greek word therefore damnation in the King James very often they translate words that could be translated as judgment as damnation. In this case, this word means destruction, perdition.

Destruction is probably the main word. Their own destruction slumbers not. So they're going to be judged and they're going to be dealt with. For God spared not the angels that sin, but cast them down to the King James says hell. And the Greek word there is tartarum. There are three Greek words that are translated hell in the New Testament. One is Hades, which means the grave, and the other is kihenna, which means the fire that burns one up. As long as there is combustible material, it burns. Now the fire is going to be kept burning during the millennium, and people will be placed into the fire, but they will burn only as long as there's combustible material to be burned. So they're but this is a different Greek word. It means a state of restraint. Some, so they are angels who have become demons who are in a state of restraint. In the Epistles of Paul in chapter 6, I hope you're taking notes and writing the scriptural references down in chapter 6 of 1 Corinthians.

It says, know you not that you shall judge angels. So those angels that are in a state of tartarum, a condition of restraint, will be judged at some point. And as the Bible makes it clear that once the angels set their position, they made a choice of whether they would follow Satan in his ways or follow God in his ways. There's no evidence in scripture that any angel repents of their sins. Verse 4, for if God spared not the angels that sinned and cast them down to tartarum and delivered them into change of darkness reserved to judgment. And so, as I said, don't you know that you're going to judge angels?

I hit a wrong button and the script suddenly I was at 1 Peter. So now we're at 2 Peter chapter 2 and verse 5.

Well, it's back to 1 Peter, so I gotta get to 2 Peter 2 2 and verse 5.

In 2 Peter 2 and verse 5, He spared not the old world but saved Noah. So the great flood that came upon the earth, Noah was the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, that genealogy that is mentioned there in Genesis, that he was the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. As we know, Noah preached for 120 years, and I'm sure that people passed by and made fun of Noah, were building an ark on dry land. Now, there is a demonstration, a project called the Ark Project in Kentucky, where a group of people have built a replica of the ark. It's quite fascinating. The Council of Elders, once upon a time, when I was serving on the council, we went out and visited the ark there in Kentucky. And I remember so vividly one of the displays that they have. They had a baby dinosaur, and they said, baby dinosaur for sacrificial purposes. Obviously, God would not allow an unclean animal to be sacrificed. And there were many theological errors, but it's a marvelous feat in one sense of craftsmanship that they have replicated the ark and everything, and tried to display it. And so, I would recommend touring that, but don't be fooled by their displays at all. In verse 6 now, in turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, and condemned them with an overthrow, making an example unto those that after should live ungodly. Now, there are several examples in the Bible, several mentions, especially of Sodom. In fact, Sodomy was against the law in the United States for a long time, and eventually a law was passed that permitted Sodomy. In some states, I have not checked this out for sure, but some states still have laws against Sodomy. But really what it's talking about is Leviticus.

Let's turn quickly to Leviticus chapter 18. Leviticus chapter 18, and see there what God has to say about homosexuality. There's Leviticus 22 and verse, I mean Leviticus 18, Leviticus 18 and verse 22. Leviticus 18 and verse 22. So in Leviticus 18 verse 22, in fact, the first part of the chapter here deals with incense, incense, and its opposite of incense. It deals with incest, showing that you're not even to look upon the nakedness of your, a lot of people. It's named in the first part of Leviticus 18.

So in Leviticus 18 and verse 22 we want. Leviticus 18 22. You should not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination. It is abomination. I don't know why we cannot get that straight in our thinking. One time, not so long ago, maybe a year or two ago, I gave a sermon on the clash of two ideologies. We have two ideologies with regard to sexuality in the United States, and for that part, for that matter, much of the Western world. Now, in some areas, you can receive the death penalty for homosexuality. In fact, Iran is one of the places where they put the Islamic world is against homosexuality. Of course, that doesn't justify many of the things and beliefs that the Islamic world has. In 1 Corinthians chapter 6, one might say, well, it's just in Leviticus in the Old Testament that there's a prohibition that Christ changed all of that. Well, he did not change it. So we go to 1 Corinthians chapter 6, and we find out people that will not be in the kingdom of God. It's not only just those who are homosexuals, but notice what it says. This is 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revelers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God, and such were some of you. And so, the Corinthians had come out of that. Corinth was the Las Vegas of the day where anything goes. Nevada is one of the states in which prostitution is legalized. I think there might be another state that has legalized prostitution, Nevada is one of those states that has legalized prostitution, and it is rampant throughout the Las Vegas area. So, we see a great prohibition against that kind of behavior, and it's not to be tolerated by God's people at all. So, we're back now to... we're back to 2 Peter chapter 2, verse 6, where it says, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned with an overthrow, making an example unto those that after should live ungodly. Every person in the church, especially adults like you, should know immediately in Leviticus 1822 the prohibition against homosexuality, and also 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 9. Continue now in 2 Peter 2, verse 7, and deliver just Lot. Now, Lot is an interesting story. Lot was Abraham's nephew, and you remember in Genesis, there rose a dispute among the herdsmen of Abraham and Lot. And Abraham and Lot got together, and Abraham gave over to Lot and said, well, you just... you take whichever way you want to go. You can go to the lush green pastures, or you can go a different direction. I'll go in the other direction. So Lot pitched his tents toward Sodom. Lot pitched his tents toward Sodom. Here's another verse that if you pitch your tent toward Sodom, let's look at Genesis, I think it's verse 12 in Genesis chapter 13 verse 12. Let's see if that's right. Again, I should have written it down, but I didn't. In Genesis 13 and verse 12...

Let's have... I mean 13. I need to look at 13 and verse 12. So...

Genesis 13 and 12...

But the men of Sodom were wicked, and...

Can't see that. But... Anyhow, I'm looking for the verse that says that Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom, and he did. And if you pitch your tent toward Sodom, you're going to wind up in Sodom, and so did Lot. But here God was merciful to Lot, and he even called him a person that was a righteous man. So we read verse 7 again. Delivered Lot, just Lot, Bex with the filthy conversation or conduct of the wicked, for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing Bex his righteous soul from day to day with unlawful deeds. Now, of course, the word for soul is nayfish, used for animal life and for human life. And I have generally paused in a sermon or Bible study to say what it really means is life potential. That your life potential is in the hands of God. Remember in Matthew 10, 28, it says, fear not him who is able to kill just the body, but fear him who is able to kill body and soul, the King James translation, which means life essence, that only God can take your life away from you and you be forgotten. It is the second death, and the Bible calls it the second death, which is the second death in Revelation 20, the last verse. If you get thrown in the lake of fire, that is the second death from which there is no resurrection. So he begs his righteous soul that is lot from day to day with unlawful, with the unlawful deeds, their unlawful deeds. So he was living in a, you know, they talked about the sexual revolution of the 60s, and it really did start in an open way in the 60s in the United States. And one of the slogans of the hippie movement that came out of the 60s was, make love, not war. And of course, the protesters of the Vietnam War were all over the big cities, and they even held events like Woodstock in the state of New York and other places. And from that point on, that was like a pinnacle, a starting point, I shouldn't say pinnacle. I don't guess we've yet reached the pinnacle of sexual liberation. More and more, I read, where it says that fewer and fewer people are getting married, but more and more people are having illicit sex. So sex is what Hollywood is based on, and is what the advertising world is based on, to a large degree, is to put a scantily clothed woman in a commercial or in a movie, and movies now are generally filled with them, and some of the commercials are filled with them. Now, verse 9, the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. So Lot was mercifully punished, but Lot, we know the story of Moab, in which Lot's daughters got him drunk, and he had sex with each daughter, and they conceived, and they'd bear children, and he was he was father of an evil line of people. So if you pinch your tent toward Sodom, you're going to wind up in Sodom. Now, what the final outcome of Lot is after that he was made drunk by his daughters, and he bore two daughters that became very much the enemies of Israel as they marched toward the Promised Land.

Now verse 10, but chiefly then that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government. We have like a 50-50 split. It's almost a 50-50 split of the Democrats and the Republicans in the nation at the present time. They're divided by deep ideologies that can never be mended, I do not think, and there will always be some kind of wrangle going on, and of course, a great target now, and he makes himself a great target based on some of the things he says is our president. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, and they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. As one writer recently wrote, he is the most speaking to the president of the U.S. He is the most famous person in the world. Nearly every journalist on earth has taken up pen and said evil things about the president. In verse 11, this is pretty frightful to consider, whereas angels which are greater in power and might bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. I remember when Michael was disputing for the body of Moses that he dare not bring, this is in the book of Jude, that he dare not bring a railing accusation against the devil, but merely said, the Lord rebuke you. And all of us, I would say all of us, I know I have been guilty, and probably you have too, of speaking evil against dignities, saying that they were such and such, and we know that we should not do that. But these are natural beasts. So Peter likens them to beasts, which they're out to devour the prey. Satan makes himself into a roaring lion, like a ravening lion, ravening the prey, trying to get someone in his clutches so that he can devour them. And so, but these are natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil, speak evil of the things that they understood or understand not, and shall perish in their own corruption. Better be careful before we make a railing accusation against anybody or anything, and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as a counted pleasure to riot in the daytime spots they are in blemishes sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you.

So one of the great things that's coming upon the earth, as I have mentioned so many times, is great deception. And great deception. You remember that even Satan the devil closed himself in the robes of righteousness and feigns that he is righteous, that he is an angel of light. And some people, there is even the church of Satan. Remember that Satan's name was changed from Lucifer to Satan. Initially it was Lucifer, which means light bringer, and his name was changed to Satan, which means adversary. So he became an adversary of God and drew a third of the angels who became demons with him. And he organized them into a structure that now controls much of the world. It says very clearly in 2 Corinthians 4, verse 4, that Satan is the God of this present evil age. Satan is the God of this present evil age. It's only those that have been called out of darkness into God's marvelous light that understand that the battles we now face, as the Apostle Paul writes in Ephesians chapter 6, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against wicked spirits in high places. So we should be ever mindful that we are in a spiritual war, and spiritual warfare is being waged. Now we have verse 15. Well, let's read 14 again. We haven't read 14. Having eyes full of adultery. You notice that the eyes are one of the principal things that are made up, from the false eyelashes to the outlining of the eyes to the eyeshadow to the whatever.

The eyes can be made to look seductive, and there can be a seductive look on the face of people. You know, as you check out the newsstands, the magazines that are displayed, generally they'll have a woman on the front cover, not always, a woman on the front cover with a seductive look on her face, eyes full of adultery, they cannot cease from sin, beguiling, unstable souls, at heart they have exercised with covetous practices, cursed children. And our children are under a curse. They have a heavy burden because they are also exposed today to the dual ideology that is extant in our country today. Children in kindergarten and first grade are pairing off. Now, we want to turn to Ezekiel chapter 16. In Ezekiel 16, there's an account given of Israel, what they were like when God discovered them, and they were in their filth, they were like in their afterbirth, after they were born, after they were called out of darkness into God's marvelous light. In Ezekiel 16, beginning in verse 9, then I washed you, I washed you with water, yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil, I clothed you with, I'm trying to find my glasses.

I don't see them. Here they are.

I clothed you with bordered work and shod you with badger skin, I girded you about with linen, fine linen, and covered you with silk. I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands and a chain on your neck or necklace, and I put a jewel on your forehead and earrings in their ears and a beautiful crown upon your head. You were then decked with gold and silver, and your raiment bordered work. You did eat fine flour and honey and oil, and you were exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom. So that's the beginning of Israel and what God did for them, of bringing them out of idolatry into his marvelous light. So we see there's nothing wrong with dressing up and putting forth your best foot, as they say, especially on the Sabbath where you are appearing before God. We have churches now in which they advertise, oh, come as you are, and they look like they're going to shopping at Walmart. Well, that's not what God says. We have been taught from ages past that we should present ourselves in the best way possible when we appear before God. Now, the matter of makeup is a different matter, and so you could call what God did with Israel to some degree makeup, making them beautiful, but there's a difference whether or not it is laden and seductive in nature. Now, Isaiah 16—I'm sorry, it's not Isaiah 16. It's Isaiah 3, verse 16. We want to go to Isaiah 3.

We'll read selective verses here in Isaiah 3. Verse 9, The show of their accountanists has witnessed against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom. They hide it not, woe unto their soul for their life essence, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Verse 12, for as my people, children of their oppressors women rule over them, O my people, they which lead you cause you to err and destroy the way of your paths.

Is God against women? Am I against women not in the slightest? I love my wife dearly and everything that she does. So, it's not because of a lack of love or care or concern. It is what God has ordained. He ordained in the family a hierarchical structure. That means from the highest to the lowest. Hierarchical means from the highest to the lowest. God is the head of Christ. Christ is the head of men. Men is the head of women. Parents are the head of children. That is the God-ordained structure for human society.

So, O the they that lead you, and more and more women appear in just about every kind of commercial you want to name from politics to the funny papers and so on it goes.

Verse 16, Moreover, the Lord says, Behold, the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, and wanton I is walking, and menacing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. Therefore, the Lord will smite with his scam, the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.

You can read the rest of the chapter, because it is quite direct. The time is coming, described in verse 4, chapter 4, and in that day, when you see the expression, in that day is what's called a prophetic utterance, and it introduces this subject. In that day, that is in the millennium, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, wear our own apparel, only let us be called by your name to take away our reproach.

In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and calmly, for them that are escaped of Israel, and it shall come to pass that they that are left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy men, every one that is written among the living of Jerusalem. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning, that's going to happen when that happens, and the Lord shall create every dwelling place in Mount Zion, and upon her assemblies a cloud, and smoke by day, and shining of a flaming fire by night, for upon all the glory shall be a defense, and there shall be a shadow for his shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from the storm and the rain.

So God is going to set things right when Christ comes again, and restore things the way he intended things to run to begin with. And I say, chapter one, in fact, it says, I will restore your judges as from the beginning.

So as I said in talking with someone before, the study began. There are a lot of hard things, and we might call them hard, if we simply take God for what he says, and the Word of God, then it's a different matter. So we go back to 2 Peter, and we're in verse 15. Which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam. Now Numbers, chapter 22, Balaam, the word Balaam appears, the person Balaam appears, time after time.

It's in that chapter that we get the famous example of Balaam's donkey, speaking of prophecy that really blessed the children of Israel. See, Balak had hired Balaam. Balaam was a soothsayer, a false prophet, and he, Balaam, B-A-L-A-K, had hired Balaam, the false prophet, the son of Bozar, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

So he loved the money he would get from soothsaying, telling people's fortunes, and so on. So, Balak hired him to prophesy against Israel, but it turns out that even his donkey blessed Israel, and so eventually did Balaam. And it's amazing how many times Balaam is used. The name Balaam, and the example from Numbers 22, is used throughout the Old Testament and to some degree in the New Testament. Balaam, the son of Bozar, who loved the wages of righteousness, he got paid for it, but was rebuked for his iniquity. The dumb donkey, speaking with man's voice, forbade the madness of the prophet.

So even when he tried to deliver a curse against Israel, it turned into blessing and came out of the mouth of the donkey. Some agent of God spoke through, an angel of God spoke through the donkey. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever. Now, I have entered into discussion with people with regard to spirit beings. Can God destroy spirit beings? Well, some people will argue that since it appears that Satan and the false prophet are not destroyed in the lake of fire, they burn forever and ever.

As noted in Revelation chapter 20, they were cast where the rest of the people were cast, the rest of the people that were cast in there were burned up, but they burned forever and ever. And I answered that question with, does God create anything that he cannot destroy? I don't believe that he does. I don't believe God creates anything that he cannot destroy. But Satan and his angels, according to what you read from Scripture, will be to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, the great swelling words today are democracy, liberty.

They allure through the lust of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escape from them who live in error.

God is the one who makes the final decisions, and in the family, the husband is supposed to make the final decision. And when it comes to human beings, we ought to obey God and not man. But God is the ultimate arbiter, and he's the one who decides what is good and what is evil. While they promise him liberty, oh, liberty, just come with us. You can do anything you want to. You can be an existentialist. You can create your own essence. You can be what you want to be. You want to be a homosexual? Oh, you can. You want to be a trans? Oh, you can be that. No problem. We don't want to thwart your growth in any way, so we can have a sex change operation for you, and the government will pay for it. Of course, some of that has changed in some states, but not in everyone. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are servants of corruption, for whom a man is overcome of the same as he brought in bondage.

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord God, in this word, hear knowledge. Notice the word knowledge. The word knowledge is epinosis. It is superior knowledge. It is knowledge above and beyond what man can impart. It is reveal knowledge. No man knows the things of God, according to 1 Corinthians 2, verses 10 and 11. No man knows the things of God, unless it is revealed to him or her.

So while they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruptions, for whom a man is overcome of the same as he brought in bondage. So become the servants of sin. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord, superior knowledge of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. It would be better to die in ignorance, and not have ever tasted the good gift.

Hebrews 6, verses 6, and those that follow, show that once you have tasted the good gift, and you fall away, you break that rubber band, drifting away from God only so far, to that band Snaps, there is no way back, no way back, for it is impossible to renew them once they have tasted the good gift of life. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb, the dog is returned to his own vomit, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. And that is a quite sad sight. We had pigs on the farm growing up, and probably some of you grew up had pigs on the farm, I don't know. But anyhow, I came into God's marvelous light. I would not eat the fat meat even then, and I came to even hate the smell of pork in any shape, form, or fashion. And so, it's a terrible sight to see a pig wallowing in the mire, and I've seen it quite often in my lifetime, and yet people will eat those scavengers as if they were great food. I recently read an article that said that pork was a great source of protein, and you might say that about snakes, I don't know. Maybe snakes are a great source of protein, but I don't plan to eat any. So, with that, we come to the end of chapter 2 and the end of the study tonight, and so we ask you if you have any question or comment, please let us know. Question or comment from any of you. So, surely, it's hard some of you into reality.

Hi, Dr. Ward. Good evening. Good evening. I thought I'd just comment on verse 19, where it says, where they promised them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption. You know, just coming through the spring holy days, I spent some time over in West Africa, and in one of the messages, I was talking to them about how in the U.S., you know, people look at America and say, you know, the freest land, the greatest land in the world, but how we've taken our liberty and, in many cases, turned it back into bondage because of what people feel they're free to do, and yet they bring themselves into physical and spiritual bondage through their free actions. So freedom's not really freedom, and, you know, according to how someone uses it, and that's the promise here, right? You can be free to do what you want and enjoy that freedom, but in the end, if it's not godly, it brings you right back into spiritual Egypt and bondage again. Yes, and we have that verse in James chapter 1, it says, the perfect law of liberty. So those who abide by the law of God, they really have liberty as long as they're within the law of God. There's no guilt, there's no shame, there's nothing. You're free, you're clear. Your conscience is free to do whatever, as long as it's within the law of God. We ought to obey God and not man. Of course, the way of God is spoken of as evil today. Oh, you're part of that old whatever they want to name. And even in nominal Christians are being treated very badly around the world today. Some are giving their lives. They don't even know the whole truth as you know the truth, but they're willing to give their lives for what they know, for the light that they've been shed on their mind and heart. Great comment. Anybody else?

Okay, we're going to be back to every other week now. I don't think there's any. So two weeks from tonight brings us to win. I should always get a calendar, but I haven't. April 29th. April the 29th. Okay, we'll see you then. April the 29th. Two weeks from today.