The passage that we are going to read is found in 1 Peter chapter 1, verses 13 to 21. Let's read, brothers and sisters. It says, Therefore sow the loafs of your understanding, be sober, and wait completely in the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is manifested. As obedient children, do not conform to the desires that you had before, being in your ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, be ye also holy in all your ways of living. For it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. And if ye invoke by the Father he who, without the exception of people, judges according to the work of each one, led you in fear all the time of your pilgrimage, knowing that you were rescued from your vain way of life, which you received from your fathers, not with corruptible things like gold or silver, but with the precious blood of Christ, as from a lamb without stain and without contamination. ya destinado desde antes de la fundación del mundo, pero manifestado en los posteros tiempos por amor de vosotros, y mediante el cual creéis en Dios, quien le resucitó de los muertos y le ha dado gloria, para que vuestra fe y esperanza sean en Dios." Hasta ahí, nada más, hermanos. El título de mi mensaje es, Viviendo vidas santas y esperanzadoras. This title describes what we find in the first verse, in verse number 13, where the Apostle says, While we gather here tonight to consider what this portion of Scripture says, In this passage, the apostle Peter makes a request or an exhortation and sends the believers to live lives full of hope and holy lives, while they live in a world that is chasing them, a world that presents all kinds of proofs and suffering. And by studying this portion of Scripture, which is a doctrinal portion, We must pray to God to help us see what the text says so that we can live obedient lives to the Lord Jesus Christ, so that we can live lives that please Him and lives that give Him honor and glory. Let's consider, before entering the text, what is the content of this epistle briefly. Obviously, this epistle is written by the apostle Peter, who presents himself as an apostle in chapter 1, and greets a group of believers who have been dispersed. They are being persecuted because of the Gospel, and he writes this letter to encourage them, to exhort them to persevere in the midst of persecution. And he emphasizes the concept of salvation and the hope that is found in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, here in chapter 1. And Peter also exhorts the believers to endure the trials and to remain faithful in the Lord. These two things are important. To endure the trials that come into our lives and to remain faithful. and also discusses the role of the prophets in the preaching and the coming of Christ, and exhorts the believers to love one another, to practice hospitality, and to be good administrators of God's grace. This chapter has one of the most important doctrines in Christian life, which is the doctrine of sanctification, which is found there in verse Numbers 14, 15, and 16. These three verses speak to us of sanctification. It says, as obedient children. Believers are obedient children of God, who do not conform to the desires we had before in our state of ignorance. And then comes the opposite of that, verse 15. but as the one who called you is holy, be ye also holy, and behold this, in all your manner of living, for it is written, Be holy, for I am holy." The doctrine that we are going to study tonight, in this portion of Scripture, is the doctrine of sanctification. It is the idea of living holy lives, full of joy, of hope, in the midst of a fallen world. This doctrine is extremely essential for Christian life, because by understanding it, we realize that we must live in a way in which we are constantly seeking to please God. And we must make an effort, because sanctification is a work that God does through the power of his Holy Spirit, but it also requires the obedience of the believer. Salvation is the sovereign work of God, but sanctification is the work of God and the work of man, in obedience to the word of God. The doctrine of sanctification, brothers, is the process of being sanctified, being set aside for the purposes of God, and this implies the transformation of our heart of our mind as believers to conform to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sanctification is a process of life. It begins at the moment we are saved and ends at the moment we are glorified. And through these two works of salvation, we are constantly transforming ourselves. Sanctification is a work of perfection. It is a work of conformation to the Lord Jesus Christ. And it is achieved through the help of the Holy Spirit in the life of each believer, and through the effort that the believer makes to be obedient to the Word of God. Sanctification implies a positional aspect, but it also implies a progressive aspect. The positional aspect is that the moment God saved us, He called us, He separated us. That is, to separate means to be holy. God separated us for Him, for His purposes, and He did this. But He also has this aspect, which is progressive, in which we conform to the likeness of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we find the biblical foundation in this portion that we just read, where Paul exhorts the believers to live holy lives and full of hope. Now, what is the historical context in which Paul is writing this letter to the believers? It's Peter, not Paul. Peter wrote this letter to the believers who are facing persecution. and are suffering because of their faith, not because of sin, but because of their faith. Christians are under intense pressure to conform to the immorality of the world, to the paganism of the world, to the bad habits of the world. And in the midst of that opposition, they have to live a holy life. They are called to do the opposite of what the world is pressuring them to do. And this is the exhortation to them. Look at verse number 13. Verse number 13. It says, verse 13, the first part. Therefore, sow the loaves of your understanding, be sober, and to wait completely for the grace that will come to you when Jesus Christ is manifested. The first part of this verse, where it says, Señid los lomos de vuestro entendimiento, is a metaphorical way of telling the believers to prepare for the action. In ancient times, men used a kind of tunic dress, and when they were going to prepare for the action, like to work, to run, or to do anything, they took their tunic and strapped it to their belt, so that it would not disturb them at the time of work, of entering into action. But in this way, notice that Peter says, "...strain the backs of your understanding," not of the tunic, but of the understanding. And what does he mean by this personal writing? What he says here is to instruct the believers to have minds that are alert, minds that are completely sober. This means being attentive and disciplined in our thoughts and actions. Notice how the text continues to say, It says, sed sobrios, sed sobrios. The word sobrio has two meanings. One is not being drunk. It's the opposite of being drunk. But sed sobrio means to have a balanced mind, a mind that is sober, that doesn't act foolishly, In the second part of the verse, we are sent to prepare ourselves for action, being sober, in second place, and in third place, to wait completely in hope, which is our Lord Jesus Christ. So, this verse describes how we Christians should live. We live lives that are prepared for action. And this way of living is a sober way of living. and a way of living with understanding that has a future hope in eternity. So here, Peter calls the persecuted believers to put their trust in the grace that will be revealed in the future. Now, in verse number 14, it says, Do not conform to the desires that you had before, being in your ignorance. Notice that this verse gives us a negative commandment. The commandment is not to conform to the desires in which we lived before being in Christ. In other words, what you are saying is that now that you are in Christ, you do not live as you lived before. And the word he uses here is a word that says to conform. In Spanish, this word derives from Latin, which means to model or shape. And in the biblical context, the word conformarse, or to be conformed, has the idea of being formed or modeled according to a certain pattern or standard. And it is used for the process of transformation and adherence to a model. So the scripture says here, as obedient children. This is a description of true Christians. A true Christian wants to obey God. I'm not saying that he obeys perfectly. I'm not saying that it's easy to obey, but what we do say, because the scripture says it, is that he wants to obey God. does not live a life of total disobedience. And when he disobeys, he repents and seeks to return to the Lord to please Him. So, what does it mean to conform? If the text tells us, do not conform to the desires that you had before, being in your ignorance. What does the scripture mean? The word conform, In Scripture, both in the Old and New Testaments, it has this meaning. For example, in the Old Testament, the word that is commonly used is a word that appears 17 times in the Old Testament, and it translates as to be similar or to be similar. So the idea here is to do something according to a model that is already done. like a sample, a pattern. Last night, my wife and I were looking at how a tailor designs a suit. He takes the measurements, and before cutting the fabric, he puts all the measurements on paper, and cuts the lines of the paper, which are the patterns, on which he will then put the fabric and the pattern, and he will make a cut exactly according to the pattern of the paper. And this is the idea. The idea that we don't conform to the desires we had before. We don't live as non-believers. We don't live doing our sinful will. We live doing God's will. So here the call is not to conform. In the New Testament, the word conformity is found six times and means Conformar o modelar, tiene el mismo concepto, la misma idea. Por ejemplo, en el libro de Génesis, In chapter 1, verse 26 to 27, God says, Let us make man according to our image and likeness. That is, man originally, before the fall, was created without sin, similar to God in a sense of holiness, apart from evil. He had nothing to do with evil. Then, in the fall, in Genesis 3, verse 1 to 6, That conformation to God was damaged. We still carry the image of God, but the image of God is damaged in all men. Until the moment we come to the Lord Jesus Christ, and that image begins to be reconstructed, and that image is becoming more and more conformed to the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, the term conformation is used to describe the process of transforming the image of God. Go to Psalm 17, verse 15. See how the psalmist uses this word. He says, As for me, I will see your face in justice. Psalm 17, 15. I will be satisfied when I awaken to your likeness. The desire of the psalmist is to conform to God, to be like God. And this is the idea when Peter says, as obedient children, do not conform to the old way of living, to the sinful way. He is now going to make a call to conform to the holiness of God. So first he says it in a negative sense, and then he is going to say it in a positive sense. Another example of this is found in Isaiah 40, verse 18, where the prophet asks a question and says, And the answer is that God has no comparison. No one is like God. God is unique. In the New Testament, in the Book of Romans, in chapter 12, verse 2, Paul says, Do not conform yourselves to this century, that is, to the sinful form of the world, but transform yourselves through the renovation of your understanding, so that you may verify what is the will of God, pleasant and perfect. So here the word conformarse translates from the Greek word that means to be formed or molded according to a pattern. So we return to the same thing, it is this same idea, this same concept. And this verse teaches that as Christians we are called to be transformed and not conformed to the values of the world. The word transformed comes from a Greek word that is metamorphosis, which means to change from one form to another. We believers change from a sinful form to a holy form, which is the conformation and renewal of our mind. So conforming to the likeness of Christ is also a crucial aspect of Christian discipleship. Now, let's look at verses 15 and 16. Verses 15 and 16. We saw that Paul says, do not conform to desires. I forgot to mention a comment on the word desire. The word desire in Greek is an epitome that means evil desires, impious desires that do not conform to the will of God. So everything that is opposed to the will of God, the word of God commands us not to conform to it. Verse number 15. Notice that verse 15 begins with a word that establishes a total contrast. It says, Sino. This little word, Sino, is a conjunction. It's something that connects what was just said with what follows to establish a contrast. Sino, as the one who called you is holy. Notice there that it says, God is holy. Be ye also saints in all your ways of living. First of all, believers are called by God. God called us to salvation. And in that calling, we are now exhorted that as He called us to salvation, He called us to be saints. Therefore, we must also be saints in what, brothers? What does the verse say there? in our entire way of living. Brother, these words don't fit in our mouth. They are very big words. They are words that have to make us meditate today, that have to make us meditate tomorrow, and that have to make us meditate our entire Christian life. The million-dollar question, so to speak, every day is, am I conforming to God? Am I living in a holy way? in this aspect of my life. And this is very serious, brothers, because many times we forget, brothers, that we have to be saints in all our way of living. Saints in our thinking, saints in our looking, saints in our listening, saints in our speaking, saints in our way of responding. And we must be careful, because many times we lose the sobriety And we use words that are not our own in our vocabulary. And we must examine ourselves when that happens. If I'm here in the pulpit and there's a word that I can't pronounce in my daily life from the pulpit, then it shouldn't be part of my normal life either, right? It shouldn't be part of that. It shouldn't be. We must examine ourselves to know How is our way of speaking in front of the Lord? How is our way of thinking in front of the Lord? When we are alone, when no one sees us, what is our thinking, our actions? One of the Puritans said that man is what he thinks when he is alone and no one sees him. And that is the truth. So the point is, how are we in our meditation? It is our life, as the Psalm 19 says at the end, in the last verses, where it says, Be grateful for the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart before you, O Jehovah my rock and my Redeemer. My thought is being grateful. If it is not, I have to go to the throne of God's grace to confess my sin and ask the Lord to cleanse me of my evil. So, in those verses 15 and 16, Peter is writing, but he says, The Greek word translated here as saint is a word that is pronounced hagios. which means separated or consecrated. We Christians are called to be conformed to the holiness of Christ and to reflect His character in our lives. God has separated us to consecrate ourselves for Him. And this should make us separate from the world. In other words, the term that the Bible uses here refers to the process of being transformed and modeled according to the pattern or specific example. In this case, it is the person of Christ. We mold ourselves to the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Verse number 15 is a quote from Leviticus 11.44. In Leviticus 11.44, emphasizes the call to be saints because God is holy. And a biblical commentator says, as a people chosen by God, we are called to reflect their character in our lives. This includes living a life away from sin and seeking justice. That is, if the text tells us, if not, as the one who called you is holy, God is holy, Be ye also holy in all your ways of living. Brothers and sisters, the attribute of the holiness of God is the only attribute that is mentioned or emphasized three times. When we see in the prophet Isaiah, in chapter 6, where it says, In the year when King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting in a high and sublime throne. And his skirts covered the temple. And then he talks about the angelic beings, with their wings, how they covered their faces, their bodies, and how they flew. And then he mentions the song they sang. Holy, holy, holy Jehovah of the armies. I mean, they're not saying, powerful, powerful, powerful. but holy, holy, holy. And this speaks to us of the imperative to understand that God is extremely holy, so that we desire to be holy as He is holy. In verse number 16, it says there, it says, because it is written. Here is the quote from Leviticus 11, 44 and 45, and also Leviticus 19, 2, where the verse says, written is, Sed santos, porque yo soy santo. ¿Quién desea eso para nosotros, hermanos? Vean el versículo. Pedro está hablando y está citando el versículo tal y como está. Y es Dios quien dice eso. Dios dice, sed santos, vean el versículo. It's written, be holy because I am holy. God is asking for it. God is telling his people, be holy as I am holy. He said this to the people in the Old Testament. He continues to say this today to his church in the New Testament. He also says this to us today. So this is important to understand. Verse 17. In this verse, the apostle Peter is pointing out the importance of living a holy and fearful life of God as His children. Look at the verse. It says, And if ye invoke by the Father that which without the exception of men judges the work of each one, be ye led with fear all the time of your pilgrimage. First, if we are going to invoke the name of God, Or are we going to invoke God as Father? Then let us be like Him. Why? Because we must understand that God judges the work of each one. He does not make exceptions for people. Not because we are His children and we are in Christ and we live a sinful life. Do you think God will answer our prayers? He does not. God does not hear the impious. Now, let's not make a mistake, brothers. Sometimes we say, I already believed in Christ. My salvation is certain. But if the walk of a professor in Christ is to continually do evil, that person will go to hell. He will not go to eternal life. Why? Because his works show the opposite of what he professes with his mouth. So here, Peter is exhorting the believers so that they may be aligned as believers, so that they may have a reverent fear during all their peregrination on earth. Brother, Scripture says in the Book of Proverbs that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God. And Paul says in 1 Timothy, apart from the iniquity of all who invoke the name of the Lord, In other words, there is such a big emphasis that if we are going to call God our Father, we must behave as He is. And here there is a reminder that we must live according to the principles and values of God while we are in an earthly world. So, in this sinful world, the world has a behavior that is normal for them. But God has principles in His Word, and we must not conform to the principles of the world, but conform to the principles of the Word of God. We must stay away from this temporal world. We must maintain a reverence to God, a respect at all times, because that is what will help us to seek Him. Look at verse 18. In verse 18, it says that we should drive with fear at all times of our pilgrimage. But verse 18 says, knowing. Why should we drive at all times of our pilgrimage with fear before God? Verse 18. Knowing that you were rescued of your vain way of living, which you received from your fathers, not with corruptible things like gold or silver, and then verse 19 says, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb, without stain and without contamination. First thing, verse number 18. In this verse, Peter emphasizes that the believers They were not redeemed with material things like gold or silver, but with something more valuable, which is the blood of Christ. But also notice the emphasis that is in verse number 19, talking about the blood of the lamb with which they were redeemed, without stain and without contamination. Everything that has to do with God is holy. His holy land his holy people, his holy mountain, his holy temple, his holy word, his holy law, his holy church, his holy children, and the Lamb of God who cleansed us and took away the sin of the world is holy, without stain and without contamination. There is nothing in God that has contamination. Now, look at the verse, brothers. knowing what salvation is. Salvation is a rescue. You were rescued from what? From our vain way of living. So if God rescued us from the vain way of living, why should we live in it? We should move away from living in that vain way, and the verse says here, We receive this way of life from our parents. So, since Adam and Eve sinned, all men have sinned. Psalm 51, verse 5, the psalmist says, In sin my mother conceived me, and in sin I was formed. Thank you, brothers, for the reminder. Look, brothers, as man is a sinner, God rescues him because of the inheritance of his parents, God rescued him. But this rescue was not a human rescue. It was a holy rescue, a rescue that included not gold or silver, because that is corruptible, but something more precious than its emphasis is holiness. Verse 19. The precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb. What kind of lamb, brothers and sisters? Without stain and without contamination. In other words, The person of Christ, as a lamb that was offered for our sins, is in contrast with the corruptible things of this world, which are gold and silver, which man can use to make a personal redemption, which he cannot achieve. But this verse is important. Now, in this 19th verse that we just read, Peter is explaining that in addition to the death and sacrifice of Christ, as a lamb without a stain, This was the maximum price that was paid for our redemption. This is what God paid. This is the fulfillment of the Old Testament and God's plan from the beginning. Now, in verse number 20, it says that this lamb, clean and unscathed, has been destined since before the foundation of the world. This means that in the past eternity, God predestined, God destined, God planned to offer his Son as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. That was already planned, and the same verse says, but manifested in later times for the love of you. In verse number 20, Peter reminds the believers that although Christ was predestined before the foundation of the world, his sacrifice was made manifest in these last days for the love of each believer. And this shows the great love and grace of God towards us, brothers, towards his people. In verse number 21, we will conclude the study of the verses, but we're going to put it in a series of applications. It says, and through which, speaking of the lamb of Christ himself, through which you believe in God, that is, that we believe in God through Christ, who resurrected him from the dead. God resurrected him from the dead and has given him glory, so that your faith and hope may be in God. Through Christ, we believers have reason to believe in God, and we have hope in Him. His resurrection, glorification by God the Father, are the firm foundation of our hope. We have hope that will be revealed from heaven. Now, brothers, The cost of our salvation, according to this verse, was the precious blood of Christ. And the blood of Christ is the only thing that is enough to deal with our sins. This sacrifice, according to Peter, was planned before the foundation of the world, and it was an act of love and mercy from God. Now think for a moment that you yourself has a debt that he can't pay, but he has so many family members who love him and want to help him, but by imposing all the resources together of his family members, he can pay that debt. But then, someone appears who has unlimited resources and has to pay that and much more than that, and he does it. and doesn't ask for anything in return. He does it out of grace, out of mercy. That is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ paid a debt that we couldn't pay, brothers. We didn't have the resources to pay it. Now, brothers, Scripture here exhorts us. And I make a request to you and to myself. And as believers, we should never take for granted the cost of our salvation. A great cost was paid for our salvation, brothers and sisters. Nothing was paid for. Christ died for our sins. It was our sins that led Him to the cross. And for that reason, we must consider this. We must remember the great sacrifice that was made for us. And in that way, live our lives with gratitude every day, with an action of gratitude. I ask you a question, and at the same time I ask myself, when did you take the time to sit down and think about the great sacrifice that Christ made in your favor? To say to the Lord, thank you, thank you very much. Thank you for doing what I could not do, what no one could do for me, what no religious ceremony does, which is to forgive sins. This is only possible by the grace of God through the blood of Christ. Just as we can use our minds for evil, we can use them to meditate on bad wishes, The opposite of this would be to use our mind to give thanks, to meditate on the sacrifice of Christ, to think about what God has done for us. And that has to do with a pious life. Each one of us must develop a way of thinking that is doctrinal, biblical, and uses it to think about the great truths of Scripture. This should also motivate us, brothers, to share the good news of salvation, to tell others about the hope in God. And when we think about the doctrine of salvation, how do we apply this doctrine to our lives? First, we must examine our minds and where our hope is. Brothers, ¿Cuál es su esperanza en este mundo? ¿Ser rico? ¿Ser famoso? ¿Cuál es la esperanza que tenemos? ¿Debe estar puesta solamente en nuestro Señor Jesucristo? Una pregunta. ¿Están nuestras mentes enfocadas en Cristo? ¿O estamos siendo distraídos por las cosas de este mundo? ¿Se han dado cuenta How much time can we spend looking at our phones, distracted by things that don't really bring any benefit? They will entertain us temporarily, momentarily, but we don't use the same amount of time to meditate on our Lord. And that, brothers, is a problem for us. That, brothers, I tell you, I'm not telling you, to make them feel bad for the fact of making them feel bad. It doesn't have that purpose, that study. It has the purpose of making us think, of making us recapacitate. The reason why we are not prepared for temptation is because we are not men and women dedicated to the study of the Word of God, to the memorization of the Word of God, to pray, asking the Lord to give us His grace and strength when temptation comes, when persecution comes, when problems come. We are not ready. Let's put it this way. It's like a boxer who doesn't have a fight scheduled for the next six months. And he says, well, I need three months to get in shape for the fight. I'm going to have three months of weight training. And in three months of weight training, I gain 30 pounds. And those 30 pounds... They're going to stop him in his three months, because instead of preparing and getting in shape, he's going to worry about losing weight. And when there's news of a next fight, in order to gain weight, he's going to have to dehydrate in a way that's going to undermine all his strength. And he comes and fights and has no strength. And his opponent is in his optimal weight, in his optimal strength. And he overcomes him. And when they interview him because he lost, they say, I was disheartened and I had no strength. What does that mean? I wasn't ready. I wasn't prepared. In the same way, believers, when temptation comes, or the afflictions of life come, we are not ready, we are not prepared, because we have not done the discipline of cultivating a way of thinking in which we conform to holiness, we conform to the word of God, we conform to the holiness of God, as I said. So, brothers and sisters, tonight's study presents a great urgency for each of us. And it is the urgency of knowing how to manage our time and dedicate, let's be redundant, time to seek the Lord, to deal with situations in our lives, with sin in our lives, With sin, not only of what we know we shouldn't do, but of what we know we should do and don't do. That's why it's the exhortation of the Word of God. And this has to help us tonight to seek the Lord. We must keep our minds alert. Remember the verse, it says, Therefore, be ready for action. How do we prepare for action? Knowing that God is holy and that he commands me to live a holy life, that he does not conform to the old sinful desires that I had before, because God has rescued me from my vain way of living. which I received from my parents, but now I have been rescued for a new way of living. And this new way of living is marked by the holiness of God. There are Christians who have been criticized a lot, and there is a very technical word that is used to refer to these Christians in a very polite way. and they are called pious Christians. They are those Christians who have a high sense of the holiness of God and seek to conform their life to the holiness of God. That something in their life that is not right, they seek to ask God for forgiveness immediately and seek to move away from that which does not conform to the holiness of God. And we need to have a return, brothers, to that type of Christianity. A pious Christianity that seeks to cling to God. Maintaining an alert, sober mind, putting hope in the grace that will be revealed when the Lord Jesus Christ returns. There has to be an effort to live holy lives, obeying the word of God, reflecting the character of God. where we encourage each other to remain firm in our faith as we walk towards our eternal hope. Brothers and sisters, we must hold on to the doctrine of living holy lives and with hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is something we must think about tonight. We need to be reminded that this world is not our home, brothers and sisters. If you have noticed, the context of this passage calls the believers to be pilgrims. We are transcendent, we go by the past. And someone who goes by the past does not worry about building a house. They live in their little tents, knowing that the next day they will get up and continue on their way. In seeking to live holy lives, brothers and sisters, we need to be a testimony of God's love and grace to a fallen world. If we don't live holy lives, At any time, brothers and sisters, we will not have a sober mind and we will say something or we will do something that will discredit us as Christians. So we have to confess God. We have to seek to restore our reputation. So this passage, brothers, calls us to live a life prepared for a constant action of sobriety, not conforming to worldly desires, but rather conforming to the holiness of God, knowing that the purpose of our salvation was to rescue ourselves of our vain way of living for an eternal hope that will be manifested when the Lord Jesus Christ returns. So, if there is something practical that you and I can do to get to this place, it is to start little by little, it is to undertake a path in which we examine our lives and seek that each area of our life, little by little, with the power of God, with the help of the Holy Spirit, be conformed to the holiness of God. Amen. Let's pray, brothers. Heavenly Father, we thank you for, through your word, tonight you have reminded us that we must live holy lives and full of hope in the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Queremos rogarte que nos ayudes a mantener mentes enfocadas en ti. Que nos ayudes a ser obedientes a tu palabra. Que nos ayudes a no hacernos al molde del cual fuimos rescatados, de nuestra vana manera de vivir. We pray, Lord, that your Holy Spirit gives us the strength, the perseverance to live as your chosen and holy people, set aside for your glory. And we ask all these things, Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.