If you have a copy of God's Word, let me invite you to take it and turn to the Gospel of Luke, Luke chapter 15, Luke's Gospel chapter 15. We'll begin our reading at the opening verse of this chapter, Luke chapter 15, and we'll begin at the verse number one. Then drew near unto him, speaking of our Lord Jesus Christ, all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he laith it on his shoulders, rejoicing. When he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto him, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety-nine just persons which need no repentance, either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it. And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the peace which I had lost. Likewise I say unto you that there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. We'll end our reading at the end of the verse number 10, and may God add a blessing to the public reading of His word. Let's unite in a word of prayer, please. Our loving and our eternal Father, we come before Thee. We need Thee, O God. I need Thee. In the preaching of the word, O God, we have done it so many times, and yet we are as impoverished as ever. as empty as ever, as powerless as ever, to bring a man, a woman, a boy or girl to that place of decision, that place of repentance, that place of conversion. Oh God, this is thy work. Do thy work in this house tonight. Glorify thine only begotten Son. Let every name perish. and fall to the ground, accept his name. For we offer prayer in and through our Savior's precious name. Amen and amen. I'm sure you've heard sometime during your lifetime, the old maxman, cleanliness is next to godliness. Maybe you as a mother have used it as you peered into the bedroom of some teenage son or daughter. You surveyed the scene of absolute, complete devastation before your eyes, and you've rebuked the occupant of that particular room with the words, cleanliness is next to godliness. In the 18th century, John Wesley, in one of his sermons entitled, On Dress, indicated that the saying was already well known, even in the 18th century. Speaking from the words found there in 1 Peter 3, verse 3 and 4, Wesley said during that 1778 sermon, slothliness, speaking of untidiness or uncleanness in appearance or habit, is no part of religion, that neither this nor any other text of scripture condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. Hygiene is something that society has become obsessed about to the extent that millions of pounds are spent every day on either personal hygiene, food hygiene, environmental hygiene, domestic hygiene, community hygiene or hospital hygiene. Gone are the days when you used to go out into a potato field, gather spuds for the morning, and then at lunchtime, wipe off the excess mud on your clothes, and tuck in to a particular lunchbox that maybe a mother had provided for you. And as you ate the sandwiches with those hands, you ate most of the potato field with you. Gone are the days when that happens. Today I'm sure people would be out with their baby wipes and out with their gels, those gels that you get in order to do away with all the germs. and all of the things that would be maybe upon your hand. The cleaning industry has saw an exponential growth over the last number of years. The British Cleaning Council tells us that the cleaning industry contributes some 24 billion pounds every year to the United Kingdom economy. It is one of the United Kingdom's biggest employers, estimated 700,000 people every day employed in some way within the cleaning industry. It's not uncommon. It's not uncommon for cleaners to come into people's houses today. Not uncommon for homes to be no longer cleaned by the actual homeowner, but rather the household duties are performed by some outside cleaner. They come and hoover, they clean the windows, they wash the dishes, they do the ironing, they perform other household duties on behalf of the householder. I'm aware that there are those within the congregation that are involved in this particular industry, the cleaning industry. And so I want to preach a gospel message for a cleaner tonight. It is the 10th of this series of messages we've been preaching about with respect to various occupations. I must admit that my preaching ability is never going to go to the extent that I'm going to be able to preach a message about maybe a mechanic or maybe some office worker, or maybe a milkman, or maybe a nurse, or some veterinary staff, or some chef, or some grocery store employee. I don't think I'll ever get a message. I'm not gonna twist the scriptures. But regardless of whether or not you're involved in the particular industry, matters not. The truths that will be presented are as much worthy of your consideration and your response. as if you were actually working in that particular form of industry. And so tonight, in the moments left to us, I want to preach a gospel message for a cleaner. I want to do so by looking at this diligent cleaner were brought to consider here in Luke's gospel, chapter 15, simply the verses 8 and 9 of the chapter. Now, the chapter in which this particular cleaner is to be found is one that is familiar to us all. It is a chapter that records three consecutive parables that presents one gospel truth. We have the lost sheep, and then we have the lost silver, and then we have the lost son. In each of the parables, something is lost that needs to be found. That's the simple connecting thought. Something lost, it needs to be found. And it reminds us that we as sinners are lost. And that if we are ever to be found, if we're ever to be in God's heaven, if we're ever to be in Christ, then we need to be found. One preacher said concerning these three parables, he said, they present this single truth, that mercy stretches forth her hand to misery. that grace receives men as sinners, that it deals with demerit, unworthiness, and worthlessness. In a word, that salvation is not of merit, but of grace. Salvation is not of merit, but it's all of grace. My headings are very simple. Three headings tonight. One is to firstly look at the losing of the coin. I want us then to think about the seeking of the coin, and then I want us to think about the finding of this particular coin. Let me begin by passing some comments on the losing of the coin. Luke 15 verse 8 begins with the words, what woman, having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece? The word silver is the word drachmae, It's where we get the English word drachma, a little small coin. That coin would have been of little value. Really little monetary value was attached to this coin that this woman loses. But although it was of little monetary value, there was emotional, there was some sentimental attachment to it. That is obvious because she diligently seeks after this particular coin. Now some commentators believe that this little small drachma, this little silver coin, was one of the 10 pieces of silver that would have made up the diary gift that a woman's husband would have given to a particular woman whom he was going to marry. She would wear it around either the head or around her wrist. It would be a daily reminder to her of her husband's devotion and love. Others suggest that this was simply just part of her money, part of her bank balance. These little ten pieces of silver, these little drachma coins, they were really part of her savings, money that was stored up, reserved for those emergencies that you know, ladies, so often arise in the home from time to time. She set it aside for some emergency and so she comes to count them one day and understands that one has been lost. Now, what this little coin was, whether it was part of the diary or whether it was part of simply her savings, we cannot be dogmatic as to which of the two possibilities that it was. But we do come to understand that this lady, she loses one of the ten pieces of silver. There is a resemblance between this little coin and us as human beings. Because if you look at any coin that you have in your pocket, you'll find that there is an impression upon that coin. Upon every coin that we have in our pockets, and I speak of British sterling, whatever coin it is, you'll find the impression of the queen's head on it. There is the impression of the monarch. upon that particular coin. And I suppose there is a resemblance with respect to ourselves because upon every human being, the image of God has been stamped upon every human being. Genesis chapter 1, we read the words that God made man in his image. And whenever man was first created, having come out from the pristine hand of God, he had upon himself the very image of God. Man was created in true holiness and righteousness and in knowledge. Now it is true that since the fall, God's image has been marred in some way. It is true that we do not possess holiness, it is true that we do not possess our own righteousness, but there is at least a semblance of God upon us. We are souls that will live forever and forever. We possess within our own minds a knowledge of God. God has given to us via creation and via conscience this ability to know that there is a God and I am accountable to God. upon the very image, or upon us, God's image has been stamped. What it is, what God desires to do, is that God desires to impress that image, and to, as it were, recreate that image within us. He desires to restore the image of God in us. This work commences at salvation. It continues in sanctification. It finds its completion in our glorification. Because in 1 John 3 verse 2 it tells us, when Christ shall appear, we shall be like Him. And there is going to be a restoring of the image of God in us. And this commences at salvation. Tonight he would desire to place his image upon you in a greater way. Now there are a number of things that we want to think about this evening about this silver piece. I want you to notice in the first place that this coin was fallen. The coin was fallen. Obvious? I know. But I want to simply remind you that this coin had fallen at some time in the past in order that it was now lost. It's lost in the verse number 8. And that was because of a fall. It had fallen either out of the purse or it had fallen off the necklace or armband upon which it was once placed. There was a fall. And in a similar way, we as sinners have fallen. We fell in Adam. our federal head. In the Garden of Eden, Adam was our representative. And there in the Garden of God, Adam transgressed God's law and as our representative, he fell. And we fell in Adam. We're lost. We're fallen. I want to remind you, as I have, that that fall has affected every faculty of our being. That means that although we have ears, We cannot hear God's voice. Although we have got physical eyes, we cannot see our own sad state or the glories that there are in Christ. Though we have feet, we flee from God rather than fly to God. Though we have hands, we use them to push God out of our lives rather than to embrace and welcome him into our minds. Though we've got a mind, God is not in our thoughts. Though we've got a heart, our heart is hard. to the appeals of God in the gospel, being fallen from God, we go further and further away from Him, as we daily sin against Him in thought and word and in deed. You are a fallen creature. You are a fallen creature. I wonder, do you appreciate that? Do you appreciate, sinner, this evening that you are a fallen creature? that so great has been your fall, that there has and there is no hope of self-recovery. Such is the fall of man. There is nothing that you or I can do to bring us out of that fallen state. We need divine intervention. We need God to come and to rescue us. This is what he does in the gospel. You're fallen, fallen in your sin. Are you aware this evening that unless God comes in mercy, reaches down into that dung hell of sin, into that horrible pit where the married clay is, unless God in grace comes and lifts you out of your sinful state, that you will remain in that fallen state all of your life and be damned. Now if you doubt whether or not you be fallen, If you doubt whether your fellow man or fellow countrymen are fallen creatures, pick up the newspaper tomorrow and you'll soon see that man is a fallen creature. You just turn on the radio news and you listen to the hourly news bulletins and you'll be fully aware that man is a fallen creature. You turn and watch your television screen tomorrow And you'll understand that man is a fallen creature. Just take a walk out your front door. Look up and down the road. Just stand and survey what men and women do in your house and estate tomorrow. The sin that they go to, the language that they use, the desires that they crave and run after in life. And it'll not be long until you realize that you as well as they are fallen creatures. This coin was fallen. The second thing about the coin was that it was lost. It was not only fallen, but it was lost. Something can fall and we can quickly gather it up again, but not so with this coin. It was fallen, but But the extent, the state to which it had went to, had went further than simply a fallen state. It is in a lost state. It can't be found. That's very evident because we see this woman diligently searching for the piece of silver. There would have been no need for the search if the coin wasn't lost, but lost is what it was. Each and every one of us are lost. Just like the lost piece of silver. Now some are lost in the depths of sin. Some are lost in great sin. Sin of adultery, sin of pornography, sin of alcohol abuse, drug abuse. And yet others are lost in sin just the same. They walk the moral side of life. They walk the clean road, but it's still the broad road. Because regardless of what and where you're lost, regardless of the sin that you're involved in, lost is lost. Lost is lost. There are no degrees of lostness. Either a thing is lost or a thing is found. There's no such thing as being half lost or three quarters lost. Lost is lost. Now while you may not have fallen into the depths of sin that others have fallen into, while drink may never have crossed your lips, while the butt end of a cigarette may never have been held between your two lips, while an illegal drug may never have ran through your veins at any point of your life, While it may have been that sexual morality has never been practiced by you, yet I want to remind you that you're as much lost as those that are involved in such openly sinful practices. And you need to be sought for and found by the Spirit of God. There is no degrees of lostness. This coin was lost. I wonder, are you aware of that? Do you feel your lostness? Do you feel tonight that you're lost? You may say, preacher, I know where I am. I'm not speaking about where you are physically, geographically. I'm not insulting your intelligence. But you understand tonight that you're lost spiritually. That you're lost because of the fall. That you're lost to God. because of that inherited sin nature, that you're lost to God with respect to your actions and your deeds and your thoughts, that you're lost in a multitude of sins, the sins of omission, the sins of commission. Do you feel your lost estate? Do you feel that within your soul? Do you feel the doom of it? Do you feel the hopelessness of your estate? Tonight you're lost. A.W. Pink said, many are the terms used by the Holy Spirit to describe the solemn and dire first state to which the fall has reduced every descendant of Adam. And among them, probably none is more pointed and awesome than the term lost. Lost. How dismal is its sound. How much is summed up in just one single word. Lost. Lost. The third thing about this coin was that it was insensible. insensible. Insensible in the sense that the coin was unaware that it was lost. It was unaware that it was fallen. This coin was simply an inanimate object. No life in it. It had no emotions. It had no feelings. It couldn't see. It couldn't hear. It couldn't feel. This coin was wholly unaware of its loss and fallen state that it was now found in. And is that not an apt picture of you, the sinner? Here you are. Not a Christian. Lost. Condemned already. The wrath of God abiding upon you. And you're insensible to it all. There's no concern. No trouble of heart. No convicting of conscience. Here you are, you see, you hear the preacher preach. You see it in the Word, your need to believe and to repent and to believe the Gospel. And yet it makes no lasting impact, no lasting impression upon the mind and upon the heart. You're dead in sins and trespasses, insensible of your danger, unaware that you're fallen and you're lost before God because of your sin. Oh, the danger that you're in! Sinner! The danger that you're in! Understand it. You're a heartbeat from hell. Understand it. You're a breath from eternity. And here you are, insensible to it all. No thought of God. No thought of getting right with God. No thought of being saved. No thought of being born again. The Bible informs you that you're condemned already. That you're under the curse of the law. That God's anger burns against you every day. He's angry with the wicked every day. It's only His mercy, His long-suffering that keeps you out of God's hell. And here you are, unaware of it all. Oh, that God would arise you. Oh, that there would be resurrection within the soul. Oh, that you would be alarmed by the gospel tonight, by the Spirit of God, and that that alarm would propel you to Jesus Christ, propel you to the blood, propel you to the cross, and be saved. Be saved tonight. This coin was insensible. fallen and lost. How many a sinner is found in such a state? You, sinner, are found in that state, fallen, lost, insensible to it all. Let me move to think with you about the seeking off the coin, the seeking off the coin, alerted to the fact that one of the 10 pieces of silver was lost. We read that the owner sets about searching and seeking that which was lost. The Savior tells us that she lights a candle. She seeks diligently until that little piece is found. I want you to know a number of things about the search. The first thing I want you to notice concerning the silver piece that was sought for, it was sought for personally. It was sought for personally. This woman did not seek outside assistance to find this coin. She doesn't call her husband to help her. She doesn't call a sister or a brother or a neighbor or a friend or a family member to help her find the coin. Instead, she makes it her personal mission to seek the coin. Can I say in the gospel, God has not outsourced the seeking of the sinner to anyone or anything else, neither angels, neither preachers, neither man or woman, neither any other creature, but he himself. In the person or in the trinity of his sacred persons, he has made it his personal mission to seek and to save that which was lost. That is affirmed by the words in Luke 19, verse 10. For the Son of Man is come to seek and deceive that which is lost. The Father, the Son, the Spirit, they draw the sinner out of sin and on to Jesus Christ. Really, all I am is an ambassador tonight. I cannot seek or find you. That is the role of God Himself. And God looks into this meeting and He searches the pews from front to back, from gallery to main body, even in to the very hall itself where others gather and listen to God's precious Word. God is looking and God is personally seeking you out. Is that not a marvelous thought? Many another thing God could be concerned about tonight, but tonight He's concerned about your soul. So much so that He comes to you in the gospel. He encourages you to come, to be seen, to be born again of the Spirit. You see, the soul belongs to God, and therefore it is His mission to seek the soul. He does so by His Spirit, who is the great searcher and finder of men's souls. He seeks you. My question is, will you seek Him? He seeks you. The lost silver piece was also sought for precisely. We are told that the woman, she sweeps the house and she sought for the coin. Note the word diligently. The word is only used here in the New Testament. It's the only time. Sometimes we would maybe think, well, Mary and Joseph, they sought diligently for the Christ child at 12 years of age. Remember that she says, we have sought thee diligently, not the same word. This is the only time this word is used. It simply means carefully. This isn't, as it were, a quick look over the house on this part of the woman. This search required diligence, precision, and care. And it is no different when God seeks the soul in the gospel. Because when He does so, He does so with great diligence. He does so with great precision. He does so with great care. And such is his seeking of you tonight in this house. Here you are. God has given the preacher this message. Providence has so arranged your day that you're found in this house tonight. God has already challenged you. You've felt the impact already upon your heart as you've come to understand that I am fallen and that I am lost. and I need to be recovered. God with great precision is seeking you out and he desires that you would be lifted out of your sin and brought into union with Jesus Christ. The coin was sought for personally, it was sought for precisely, it was sought for persistently. Nothing was going to deter this woman from finding this coin. Whatever other duties she had to take care of, all those other duties and all those other concerns and cares were set to one side until she found this very coin. I note that she first lights a candle. She lights a candle to find the piece of silver. It tells us, doth not light a candle. That's the first thing she does. She looks into every dark nook and cranny within the house. No sign of the coin. With that drawing a blank, she now starts to sweep the entire house from top to bottom, sweeping it out, making sure that every part of the house is examined precisely in order that this little coin would be found. And that search continues until she find it. Until she finds it, there is a persistence in the search. I put it to you, sinner, I put it to you that God has been persistent in seeking you. He's been persistent. He has come to you, meeting after meeting, gospel service after gospel service. and he has been persistently hounding you down in the gospel. Despite the rebuffles, despite the many refusals, despite the many rebuttals on your side, God has continued to come time and time again and appealed to you to leave your sin and trust in Jesus Christ. Let me ask you, will tonight his persistence pay off? Will it pay off? Will you come to Christ? Will you be found by him in the gospel? Will you be saved? Oh, may this night his seeking of you end as you make your way to the cross, as you repent of your sin and believe in Christ the Savior. It's interesting to note, just a little aside, where the coin was found. We cannot be precise with respect to where it was located. We don't know if it was found in the kitchen, the living room, the bedroom, the hallway, the bathroom, but at least my reading of Luke chapter 15, we can say at least this, it was found in the house. It was found in the house. It was lost in the house, but it was found in the house. I don't think I need to spiritualize it, but let me spiritualize it anyway. Many a person is lost in the house, God's house. They're lost in the house. They're lost with respect to God. They come to the place of worship, they sing the hymns, they bow their heads in prayer, they give money into the offering plate, they sing God's praise, they listen to the preaching, but they're lost. They're lost spiritually in the house of God. But thank God if you're lost in the house, you can be found in the house tonight. This house. This is God's house. house of God. Maybe you are presently lost, lost to God, lost to grace, lost to heaven. Well, the glad tidings is that God has come to seek the lost and to save the lost. Oh, that you would be found by him in this house tonight. I was lost I was lost when I came to this meeting tonight, but your testimony can be that I was found in this house. God found me, and God saved me, and God rescued me. The losing of the coin, the seeking of the coin, finally the finding of the coin. No other outcome but the finding of this silver piece was going to be a satisfactory outcome for this woman. She wasn't just going to be content to having tried to find the coin. Her goal, the outcome, the only outcome, was that she would find it. You know, I'm not content enough to just have you here, Lord's Day after Lord's Day. I'm not content with that. It is my desire that you would be found by Christ. that you would be saved. This coin must be found, regardless of the energy, regardless of the time expended in doing so. It simply has to be found. There is no other option but the finding of the coin. We read in verse nine, and when she had found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, rejoice with me, for I have found the peace which I had lost. Patience and persistence pays off for this woman. She locates the silver piece. Two closing truths connected with the finding of this coin. The first truth that I want you to notice is condescension, condescension. Although not explicitly stated in verses 8 and 9 of chapter 15, we can only assume that whenever either the lamp glinted off the little silver piece, or whether the brush removed the dirt that had covered it, that woman had to do something. That woman had to stooped down. That woman had to bend down to pick that piece out of the dirt in order that that little piece would be drawn onto her again. I tell you, sinner, God has to stoop down to save you. God had to stoop down to save me. and he found me in the dirt. He found me in the dust. He found me there among the refuge. He went into the dunghill and he reached in and he found me. Oh, what condescension that God would stoop down and pick me up. I tell you, sinner, when God steps down and lifts you, the sinner, out of your sin in an act of gracious condescension, I tell you, He steps down for very little. He steps down for very little in order that He might draw you unto Himself. God will God will step down tonight. He will hear your cry. He will hear your cry. He lifts so little when he steps down. If you don't believe that, you have an over-inflated opinion about yourself. If you think that God gain something by lifting you out of sin's dirt. If you ever thought of that, you have an over-inflated opinion about yourself. He took a nothing, and he rescued a nothing, and God lifted me up out of my sin. Condescension, the last truth. Celebration. celebration. This woman rejoiced. She calls her neighbors to rejoice with her. She's found her lost drachma. Joyous celebrations break out. Much mustn't have happened in that little village. Can you imagine it? It must have been a place where tumbleweed must have went through every day, a boring little place to live. If they're going to rejoice over just a little silver piece found, but the whole village is brought, encouraged to rejoice in the finding of the lost coin. When a lost sinner is found by God, we're told that there is joy in the presence of the angels. I'm sure the angels rejoice. I'm sure they do. I'm sure the saints rejoice, but could I suggest to you, could I suggest to you that God rejoices? We have that over there. I think it is in the book of Zephaniah. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty and he will save. He will rejoice over thee with joy. Let me try and find the verse. If I'm corrected, I maybe have to find it some other time. He will rejoice over thee with joy. He will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. That's what God does when he saves a sinner, he rejoices. It says in the presence of the angels, not the angels, in the presence of the angels. Who are in the presence of the angels? Well, the saints are. The saints most likely rejoice, but God is there. God rejoices. It delights God to save the lost. What did he say in Ezekiel? I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked. God takes no pleasure in the man who dies without Christ. But oh, what joy it brings to the heart of God over one sinner that repenteth. Imagine that, not over 10, Not over a hundred, just one. That speaks to me about the value of one, just the value of one soul. God feels a need to rejoice. And what causes God to rejoice? Well, we're told in the verse number 10, there is joy in the presence of the angels over one sinner that repenteth. Now doesn't that tie neatly in to our family worship service? God doesn't rejoice over someone that makes a profession of faith. God doesn't rejoice over someone that makes a decision for Jesus Christ. God doesn't rejoice over a person that makes a commitment to God. No, what brings him joy is when the sinner repents. their sin. What joy would be in your home tonight, what joy would be among your family, your friends, the people of God, what joy would there be in the glory if tonight you repented, if you came to Christ, if you were sought and found by Him in the gospel. Oh may the Spirit be so working within your soul, That lingering in delay is no longer an option, but that your cry would be, Jesus, I come to thee. Don't live life on the verge of faith and die in unbelief. Don't live life on the verge of faith and die in unbelief. Be saved. Make sure of heaven. He seeks you in the gospel. Come and welcome to Jesus. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Let me thank you for listening. And I mean from the youngest in this meeting house tonight. There are young ones here. Mother, Father, you'll not regret. You'll not regret having your children under the gospel. I know it's going to be difficult getting them to bed tonight, but you be faithful and God will work in their soul. If I can help you in any way. You're not a Christian tonight. You say, I'm not saved. I'm fallen. I'm lost. But there is something in me that senses this lost estate. I'm starting to feel it, preacher. I'm not a Christian. I need to be saved. You seek me. Seek out counsel. Seek Christ. Don't get me wrong. Want to help you as much as I can, but you need the Lord. You need to seek the Lord. Seek him while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near. Oh, that we would have call to call our neighbors together and say, rejoice with us. Rejoice with us. A sinner has repented. Come to Christ tonight. Speak to us at the door, please. Lift your heart to God, even now in the pew, and seek him for salvation. Our loving Father, our gracious God, we thank thee for the day that you swept through the places of sin that we were to be found, and you found us, and you stepped down, and you picked us up. What did you really get, Lord? What did you really get? But it was thy purpose and thy plan to lift us out of our sin. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for stepping down and lifting me and drawing me onto thyself. Do it tonight in this meeting. Lord, step down. Reach some soul in this house. Save the lost. Work in hearts, we pray. Give concern of soul. Oh, that compunction within. Oh, I need to seek the Savior. I need to be found. I'm lost. I need to be found. Oh, may that cry go up. We look to Thee, Lord. This is Thy work. Thou has not outsourced this to me, this work of finding. That is not my work, Lord. Thou has not outsourced it to me. This is Thy blessed work. Lord, move in this house and find those for whom thou didst dine. We pray these are petitions and prayers, in and through your Savior's precious name. Amen and amen.