I am fairly confident, Lord willing, we will not still be in the Romans in the month of March. We're coming to the end of this series. I look back to see when the first message was. It was preached on April the 23rd, 2017. Now we took breaks along the way, okay? Quite a few breaks along the way, but this has been a several year journey through the wonderful heights and the mountaintops of the book of Romans. And so as I see the end in sight, I'm beginning to consider, well, what will the last message be? How are we gonna finish this study? And I want to ask you the question, what do you think your response should be as this book closes? As a preacher, I'm kind of thinking like the fourth road bridge in Glasgow. There's Edinburgh, isn't it Edinburgh? Edinburgh. It's Edinburgh. The story is that once they finished painting it, they go back and start over again. I'm kind of thinking that might be the way they approach the book of Romans. Once we finish it, we just start all over again. But let's leave that aside for now. We won't do that at this stage. But I would ask you to think carefully, what should your response be to all we've seen in this particular part of scripture? Well, I think it is here in the words of this closing section. It begins, now to him. Again, it's difficult to understand this in English. It's a very, very long and complex sentence in English. But the essence of this, now to him be glory. When you remove all the various sub clauses, the point of the whole section of the texology is, now to him be glory. And that is the right response to the book of Romans, that we should praise and give glory to our God through Jesus Christ. For we see the glory of God in the gospel in this book in a most magnificent way. And so if you find yourself unable to genuinely respond in such a way, Then perhaps it is necessary, if you go back over the book again, to consider it afresh and to see all of those things that ought to cause your heart to praise and give glory to the greatness of the God who is only wise. But the focus in this doxology, of course, is on the nature and the character of this God. Now to him that is. And so I say it doesn't finish until the verse number 27. Now to him that is God only wise be glory. But the focus on the first verse of this doxology, verse 25, is on the power of God to establish believers. Now to him that is a power to establish you according to my gospel. It is on the nature of God and his ability to establish Christians. So this fits in well with the immediate context. Again we saw at the last Lord's Day that Christians are indeed safe. against the devices of the evil one. Verse number 20 had the assurance that God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. Though Satan will bring false teachers to play in the work of God, their deception, their evil devices shall not succeed and the elect shall not be deceived. Truth shall triumph. Evil and heresies will be put down. See, false teachers, they attack particularly the faith of the believer. That's what I want to hold on to right now. Going to get the rest of the message, you've got to get this now. It is the nature of false teaching to lay assault upon the faith of the believer. On the one hand, upon the doctrines of the faith, the faith, the objective faith, but also your faith personally. But in light of such attacks against your faith, God is able to establish you. God is able to keep you. And so when you see this doxology, there are three topics that come to the surface that will make up the topics for the next three Lord's Days. First of all, there is the establishing of the believer by the power of God. Then secondly, there is the means used, namely the gospel, the mystery of the gospel mentioned in verses 25 and 26. And then thirdly, there is the glory of God in the gospel. When I tease this out in my mind and diagram the sentence, I think those are three things that come to light. Establishing the believer by the power of God, the means God uses, and the mystery of the gospel, and then the glory of God in the gospel. That's where we're going. That's our roadmap for the next three Lord's Days with the Lord's help. So today we're going to begin with God's power working in the believer. God's power to establish or to establish a believer in the faith. And I have just two very straightforward things to leave with you today. First of all, I want to think about the struggles of the believer. the struggles of the believer. You see, the extent of our struggles and the extent of our weakness is seen in the necessity of God's power to establish us. We only really see our weakness properly when we understand that the only thing that keeps us is the power of God. Now, I'm gonna take time to define, establish a little later on. But for now, very simply, it has the idea of establishing or fixing or securing, confirming. The idea here is that it is the power of God that enables us to live eternally. If you like, our eternal salvation depends upon this power of God at work. Not him that is a power to establish you according to my gospel. Again, there are several words used for power in the scriptures. This is the word or one of the derivations of the word that we get our word explosive or dynamite from. That's strength power, like a dynamo or dynamite all come from this particular word in verse number 25. But I want you to turn across to Colossians chapter one. I want you to consider again Paul's consistent testimony as to the necessity of this power. And in Colossians chapter 1, there is this wonderful prayer that comes from the apostle for the believers that they might walk worthy of the Lord, verse number 10. And Paul is turning this idea over in his mind, and we've looked at this text in different times. They need the word of God, verse number nine. They need to walk worthy in terms of their good works in verse number 10. But in verse number 11, if the believer is to walk worthy, they must be strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. Note the end of that reference. If you are to persevere in the faith with a joyful spirit, Paul understands you must be strengthened with the might of God. That means you cannot persevere joyfully in your own strength. It's the implication, again, of your inherent weakness. Again, there are two words used here for power in Colossians chapter one. There is the word for might that's used there. Strengthen with all might. That's our word in Romans chapter 16. And a different word is used in the verse number 11, again, according to his glorious power. I just want to take a moment to point out to you that it's not out of his glorious power. It's according to His glorious power in the same way that God supplies our needs out of the riches, again, of His glory there in Romans or Philippians 4 verse 19. My God shall supply all your need according to His riches and glory. Not out of. It's often said, again, that a rich man can give you a penny. It's out of his riches. But according to his righteousness is a totally different concept. And so it is for the power of God here. Again, a strong man can lift a feather. But your weakness is such that you need the power of God according to his glorious power. That's what's being said here. You go back to Ephesians chapter one. Again, you'll see very similar words being used. This is a consistent theme of the apostle Paul. If he's in chapter 1, he's praying for them, that they might know what is the exceeding, verse 19, the exceeding greatness of power to us who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead. The power that we need to first believe and to believe persistently, patiently, joyfully is the power that brought Christ from the dead. That's the power we need as believers. And God is able to give us that power without in any way depleting His power. It never gets weary or tired. This is the power that God gives us according to his glorious power. We are truly kept by the power of God through faith, 1 Peter 1. And so I want you to notice how weak you are. How weak I am again today. The measure of our weakness is seen in the measure of the power that's required. We need nothing less than the power of the Most High God, the resurrected power seen in Christ Jesus. But if you consider the identity of those, again back to Romans chapter 16, you think of the identity of this company, again it says in verse number 25, Now to him that is a power to establish you. The you is important here. He's referring to Really the entire church. He's referring to all of those under the ear of this letter, it's being read in the church, it's been written by Tertius, dictated by Paul, now being read, and it's being heard in the congregation, and not one person, you can imagine the scene, it's being read here right now, and the word use, use, you can't think to yourself, I'm gonna jump out the window, this is not a play to me. It's each and every person in the church. No matter how good you think you are or strong you may be right now, you need the same power of the Most High God. This weakness affects all of us. These are saints who are saved. Again, you'll see in the outline there, there are four S's here, just to consider the nature of these people. They are saved. Again, you think back to the early chapters of Romans. The wrath of God is made known in the world. The wrath of God is coming. But those who trust in Christ, though they are guilty in themselves, they're justified, they're saved. They are those who have been justified by faith, therefore they've peaced with God. They are those who have been justified by His blood. They shall be saved from wrath through Him. These are those who have known the unchangeable righteousness of Christ imputed to their accounts. Justification doesn't mean you don't need the power of God. The fact that you're justified does not mean that you don't need the power of God to live today. and to serve Christ today. They're justified, they're sanctified. You turn back to Romans chapter six. I'm just summarizing here the nature of these words. So that they're justified, they're saved, saints, they're sanctified. Romans chapter six, verse number 16. Know ye not? That to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are, to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. But God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, that ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness." They are a sanctified people. Again, you know I'm using that term in that definitive sense. They've been set apart by God. They've got a new heart, a new nature. They're no longer under the bondage of sin. Sin does not have dominion over them. But even that blessedness does not mean they don't need the power of God. The fact you're born again, dear child of God, and you've got a brand new heart, you're a new creature in Christ Jesus, does not mean that you don't need the power of God. They're saved, they're sanctified, they're secure. And again, you turn across to chapter eight, of course. The language at the end of chapter 8. God is able. He's got the power to keep us. No one and nothing has the power to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. We're secure. And yet, the portion of the scriptures still ends with this blessed assurance. God has the power to establish you. Because you're saved and sanctified and secure, it doesn't mean you don't need the power of God. Because this same company, they're a struggling company as well, they're struggling saints. Paul presents his own example in chapter 7. In the verse 15 and following, The struggle with sin, the remaining sin in the believer. Though sin no longer reigns, it still remains. So the child of God is the one who struggles under the presence of sin. Struggles under the presence of the afflictions of this world. Chapter 8 and verse number 23. but not only they, but ourselves also, which are the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. What is this groaning that they're groaning under? Again, that is the words in verse number 18, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us. They're struggling. You see, our security in Christ doesn't deny these struggles. Saved, sanctified, secure, and yet a struggling saint. That's what you are today, dear child of God. Now, I'm not quite sure how you will need to hear this today. Not sure. Perhaps some of you are very, very aware of this. You've come to the house of God today and you are so painfully aware of your weakness. Be encouraged. God is able to establish you. What you feel in terms of your weakness does not mean that you're not justified, doesn't mean you're not sanctified, doesn't mean you're not secure. Your weakness is not a mark of the fact that you're not a true child of God. In fact, I would go further. Knowing our weakness is a sign of an increasing knowledge of ourselves. And I fear for those who are not aware of their weakness today. I fear for them. Those who know their weakness are those who know themselves, and thus those who are more mature in the things of God are more aware of their weakness. See for many, many years perhaps, but they are very conscious of their weakness and their maturity leads to them depending upon the Lord. That's a good thing, not a bad thing. So if you're here today aware of your weakness, then please be encouraged. But there may be those who are naive to their state. Intellectually you agree, you can't disagree, can you? You can't. Theologically, you can't disagree with this. Very, very clear in the scriptures. But you live as if you were strong. You live depending upon your own strength. You live presuming that while others will fall, I will never fall. Honestly, you look at others who have struggled and fallen and sinned, And you despise that. You think you're above that. You think like it never happened to you. I'm well above such carnality. You don't say that. But it might be true. It might well be the case for you. You're naive regarding the strength of sin that remains in your soul. You think in yourself you're stronger than the sin that remains. And yet if any man thinks he stands, he should take heed lest he falls. I'm not standing here before you now with some arrogant spirit that I'm preaching to others and not to myself. I don't believe I will fall. because I believe in the part of God to keep. But I'm also very, very aware that many pastors have fallen into tragic sin. And I know that I'm not above that. If I look away from the Lord and look to myself, naive regarding the strength of sin, the strength of the enemy, Again, verse 20 refers to Satan. Satan, who's the adversary of the brethren, one who is strong. But here I must press upon you what's at stake here. You see, we understand, yes, we could fall morally, we could fall in some way of sin, we could tell a lie, we could do something that is against the law of God, but what's at stake here is actually your faith in God. And that's what I want you to see here afresh today. What's at stake here is your hold upon the Lord. Consider the context here, the false teachers and the attack that they assault against the very nature of your faith, the ground of your faith. Consider the parallel passages as we're going to do in a moment or two here. The issue is that our faith is weak and vulnerable. The issue here is that you may fall into unbelief. You know, people like David, David fell into sin and recovered. What we're seeing here is the danger of falling into unbelief. As Hebrews 3 puts it, take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. You see when Satan was going to sift Peter, and the other disciples, but let's focus on Peter particularly. Satan's there to sift him. What was it that Christ prayed for? He prayed for him that his faith would not fail. You see when Satan comes and attacks us in the context of Romans chapter 16, God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet. The attack is on our faith. Hence we are kept by the power of God through faith. 1 Peter 1 verse 5. Or even as Paul warns of Romans here, look back to Romans chapter 11. In immediate context, Romans 11, verse number 20, he's warning the Gentile believers, what of a pride heart? But what happens to a pride heart? Well, verse 20 says this regarding the Jews. In other words, take heed lest you fall into unbelief. And so the danger here, dear child of God, the danger in front of you today in your weakness is that you may fall into unbelief. As a justified, sanctified, secure believer, your weakness is such that if the power of God is removed from your soul, you will fall into unbelief. You can't keep your faith for a second in your own strength. You can't do it, and you won't do it. And without the power of God, you wouldn't want to do it. And so be aware of your weakness. Be aware of the warning signs of spiritual malady that's coming in the weakness of your heart. Be careful when you begin to doubt the covenant of God. You doubt Is Christ's work really sufficient? Is it really true that if I trust in Christ Jesus, the covenant promises are mine, that my sins and iniquities He remember no more? You know, you'll have met Christians who struggled with that in their hearts, unbelief came upon them, and they wonder, is the gospel and the covenant really reliable? The danger of doubting the covenant. The danger of doubting the commands of God. Oh, for a season, you had no difficulty believing that God's word pointed you in the right direction to live. But by and large, you begin to wonder, is God's way really the best way? And you begin to wrestle and fight against the commands of God. You know, if that's happening in your soul today, if you're rationalizing sin and begin to justify yourself with your attitudes, your actions, and your words, if you're justifying yourself, you're doubting the commands of God and you're entering unbelief. It's not a small thing to doubt the commands of God. If you think that God's will is not the best way, if you second guess God, God's holding back a blessing from me in this commandment. What you're doing is you're walking down the path of unbelief. Your weakness is such, you doubt the goodness of the commands of God. And of course, one that perhaps is most common of all. In our unbelief, we doubt the care of God. Does God really care? In my life right here and now, does God really care? And will God really care for me in the days to come? See, those are the signs of unbelief. Those signs, dear child of God, today are gracious signs of your weakness. And that's for your good. You know, there are many, many things in the medical world that begin to point out some serious illness. Begin to get an itch. Perhaps you've liver disease. Maybe something is wrong with your liver and you begin to get an itch. Multiple other things that may be a skin rash here or there that may point to some other more serious illness. If you're here today and you're beginning to detect the signs of doubting the covenant and doubting the commands and doubting the care of God, these are warning signs. Begin to seek help and treatment in the mercy of God, in the word of God, by the grace of God. They're gracious warnings, but whatever you do, don't ignore them. Don't keep on going further down the path of unbelief. Realize your weakness as proven by the need for the power of God. Realize, I cannot work, or will, or do as good for God without the power of God in my life. The struggles of the believer. Secondly, let's say I'm thinking about the establishing of the believer. The establishing of the believer. We have a word here used, now to him, that has a power to establish you. It's an interesting word. It's used in Romans 1.11 regarding Paul coming to impart some spiritual gift to the end that you may be established. It's used actually in a very interesting place in Luke chapter 16 regarding the rich man and Lazarus and the great gulf that is fixed. It's our word here. A gulf established, confirmed, certain, stable. It was used certainly, if you turn back to the book of Acts, it was used there as a technical term almost for the confirming of the believers. You've got Acts chapter 14. After the missionary journey, the apostles go back around the various cities and Acts chapter 14 Again, it's not exactly the same word, but it's a cognate verb, if you like. It's a connected verb. And it says there in verse number 22, confirming the souls of the disciples and exhort them to continue in the faith. Again, see, I'm making this point. There's a connection here. The confirming of the disciples was that they continued in the faith. It's all about faith. And the establishing of the believer is confirming them in the faith. 15 and the verse number 41 is used there also. He went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. All over in chapter 18, and this is the actual verb that's used, 18 verse number 23. And after he'd spent some time there, he departed, went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. That's our word, strengthening them. In weakness, the apostle comes and seeks to confirm, stabilize, and strengthen the disciples. So you see that in Paul's writings. Turn across to 1 Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians chapter 3. There are three times here in these two letters to the Thessalonians, they use the term. Come back to the same point. The burden of the apostles is to establish and firm them in their faith. Verse 13, to the end he may establish your hearts, unblamable in holiness before gods. Or 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 and the verse number 3, but the Lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from evil. The context of those against the gospel. You see, Peter used the term as well. In his doxology, the God of all grace, who has called us unto eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you've suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you. It's a real blessing to know that in our weakness, God is strong. and that God is able to set and fix our hearts. Now, when I use the word fix, I'm not meaning repair here, but to establish, to confirm, to fix, as in you might fix something to the groin with large bolts. You know, if your heart is fixed, established, settled, confirmed, and some new doctrine comes along, you're not gonna be blown over. You're not gonna lose your faith. You're established, you're fixed. Some new doctrine comes, and those who aren't established and fixed, they're like the children, they're tossed about with every wind of doctrine, but not those who are fixed. Or perhaps some new divinity comes along, Some new challenge in life. How often the child of God finds himself blown over by some new difficulty. Oh, five years ago, they would never have questioned that they could fall into unbelief, but now something has come in their lives and they find themselves in a point where they're wrestling and struggling with unbelief. But God's able to fix your heart. God's able by His might. That's what you see here. Now to Him, there is a power to establish through the might and the power of God. Some of your favorite texts in the Bible emphasize the promise of God's strength. I almost guarantee it. Psalm 27, verse 14, wait in the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. Isaiah 41 verse 10, Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Or Paul's testimony of 2 Corinthians 12, For when I am weak, then am I strong. There's nothing stronger than the might of God. Weakness or weakness should not send us to despair, but the dependence upon the Lord, to depend upon the might of God, even in hurricane strength winds. There's times in your life as a Christian that you come upon a situation and you believe that you're being uprooted and gonna be tossed around into some other time zone. But even hurricane-strength winds are not stronger than the mighty power of God. You can trust on him to establish your heart in those times, the might of God. And finally for today, the means that he uses. Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ. The means that God uses, the preaching of Christ, Again, there's all sorts of things written regarding the prepositions used here, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ. Is it that the power of God is contained, if you like, by promise in Paul's gospel? Well, yes it is. But the most likely construction of this is that Paul is saying that God is of power to establish you and establish us according to the preaching of Jesus Christ, which is his gospel. It is emphasizing the means that God uses. Of course, Christ prays the same. Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth. So we as the children of God, we are strengthened in or by the truth. Turn to 2 Peter 1. 2 Peter 1, verse number 12. Peter writing to his readers here says, Wherefore, I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them and be established in the present truth. How does this work in our hearts? What is the mechanism at work here? Well, it is that as the believer is reminded and confronted with truth, so they are strengthened in their faith. Remember again, unbelief is the danger. If unbelief is a danger, then the solution is a strengthening of our faith. The fixing of our hearts here, the establishing of our souls is establishing of our faith and faith is always in the word of God. The word of truth, the word that can be trusted. So just a couple of applications here. There is a word of challenge and comfort for the preacher here. Challenge the preacher and comfort. I was challenged again this week to see the responsibility of the preacher. To preach in such a way that believers are fixed and established in the truth. In other words, my preaching must predominantly be that of preaching propositional truths. My task is to preach the gospel in all of its fullness as the whole counsel of God. Given danger in my own heart and in your hearts towards weakness of unbelief, it is vital that I do all I can by the grace of God to continue to remind you and present you regarding the truth of the gospel, the history of the gospel, and the theology of the gospel. Pulpits are often misused. They become places of social commentary, or become places where men will preach a hobby horse, or in some way engage continually in polemics, pointing out this error and that error. There's a need for those things in place. But the dominant theme of gospel preaching must be the presentation of doctrinal truth. That's the focus, so that you're established in your faith and not blown about. Part of that's going to be pointing out the application of the gospel. So is it wrong to do a series on what a good marriage is? Of course not. But if that is mere moralism, it's dangerous. But like Paul, it's grounded upon doctrinal truth. Christ loved his church. Husbands, love your wives. Church, submit to Christ. Wives, submit to your husband. Those are the things that Paul uses to then make the application. So to turn across to 2 Timothy chapter 4. 2 Timothy chapter 4. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead as appeared in his kingdom. Verse number two, preach the word. Preach the word. He's going to deal with the fact that times will come when people will be blown away into unbelief. Their hearts will not be fixed. And so he says to them, preach the word. Be instant in season, out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine with teaching. You ought to come here and be aware that you're being taught regarding the propositional truths of the gospel. And then from that, then come the words of reproof, rebuke, and exhortation. Gotta come from the gospel foundation. And then the application will follow. And so I was certainly challenged and reminded of that again at this time. I've got to preach the whole counsel of God, but continually preach Christ and crucified propositional truth, but also persuasion. There is something that's different between preaching and reading the scriptures. You see what Paul says in Romans 6, 16? Well, they didn't have books in those days. They couldn't read the Word, but they could go to the synagogue and hear the Word being read. Preaching does something more than what you receive by reading the Word. The task of the preacher is not to simply repeat what is said in the scriptures, but to work to persuade you regarding the truthfulness and the goodness of the word. It is to continually engage in holy argument, that you leave here Lord's day by Lord's day, having sat under the word of God and later you're going, yeah, that's really true. I really believe that. Do you think, so this morning, that Christ came to establish the covenant as Jehovah incarnate, and you leave here, I was persuaded that, amen, my Jesus loves me freely, unconditionally, and gave his lifeblood to save me. What does that do to your faith? It establishes it. It strengthens it. So the preacher's task is to, as I do more, is to seek to bring you to the strength of your convictions, to work in your minds, to challenge you to think and to question, do I believe this? Do I believe in the covenant and the commands and in the care of God? So that leads to the second issue here, application-wise. Yes, there's a challenge and a comfort to the preacher. God, use the word of God. The challenge for you all is to make proper use of the means of grace. If it is God's ordained will to use human instruments to strengthen your faith, then it is your duty to give yourselves diligently the hearing and the obeying of the preaching of the word of God. Not to man, but to the scriptures expounded in your hearing. There's a proportionality between an unsteel believer and the reception of the word of God. And you can hear the preaching and go, ah, that was a nice sermon. What's the matter with you, the phone not? to muse, to consider, to be brain in your spirit and search the scriptures. Are these things true? That by the grace of God, you come here, Lord's day by Lord's day, morning and evening, and you're being established and strengthened because you do not know what hurricane winds are gonna come tomorrow in the form of false doctrine or new difficulties, and they're gonna seek to blow you away, and thus you must give yourselves continually to the hearing of the word of God. They come with a heart ready and willing to receive the word preached in your hearing. Rested, diligent, determined to take what is said and apply it to your soul. Why? Because that's what God says is good for you. That's what God says is for your benefit. God is a power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ. Again, you pray for me and I'll pray for you. By God's grace, I'll do my duty. By God's grace, you do your duty. And by God's grace, we will not be blown away by every wind of doctrine or by every new difficulty that comes across us as the people of God. What a great God we have. May God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen. I look back to this next Lord's Day and the Lord's will look more about this matter of means used in the nature of the gospel of Christ Jesus. Let's all pray together again at this time. Oh eternal God and Father, we thank you again for the gifts you've given us in the word of God. We recognize, oh God, that we are weak in ourselves. We realize, oh God, we're completely undone if we're left to ourselves. We thank you, dear Father, that for many of us, we can look back over decades of Christian testimony, and it's all of your grace. It's all your grace, O God, that we've lasted this far. We thank you for your mercy. O God, we've gone through so many different things in our lives, and yet somehow, by your wonderful grace, we're still kept. Continue with us, O God. Bless everyone in this congregation. Pray for those who leave no foundation at all. They need to be saved, save them today. Oh Lord God, teach us in the right ways. Help us, oh God, to love your word, to love the gospel. Help us never doubt, oh God, your covenant, your commands, or your care. Oh Lord, you care for us. You're good to us. Help us to trust you at all times. We pray once more in Jesus' name, amen.