So far I'm gonna review real fast because if you haven't been here last three or four weeks I guess we've been in this one one chapter and we've been looking at this chapter 2 verse 1 section 1 this first paragraph and which basically describes attributes of God. I'm careful not to say the attributes of God, because there's quite an extensive list. And depending on who you read and what you look at, that list can be very extensive. But as we learned, in one of God's attributes, he's incomprehensible. So even if we thought we knew all of it, we'd fall short. We wouldn't know all of it. But in this section, so far we've looked at the singularity of God or his oneness. that He alone is God, and even though we'll get to section three, there are three persons in this Godhead, there's only one God. And also, we looked at his independence, or the old word for that is aseity, in that he exists because he exists. He doesn't need any reason to exist, right? Nobody made him exist. No thing made him exist. He wasn't combusted out of big bang or anything like that. He is God and He's always been as God the Father in the Old Testament said and Jesus while He was on earth said I am and He is. And then we talked about incomprehensibility that He's It's impossible for us to comprehend all of God, and they even talked a lot about the fact that that's going to be true for all eternity. You know, I used to say, sometimes I love going back to this confession and studying the Word of God, because no matter how much you do it, and how old you get, you keep, God keeps correcting you and you realize, man. And so I was talking to a pastor, the pastor next door this morning, and he was telling me about having to get in his pulpit recently and apologize for something he had said that he now knows is wrong. I said, Hey, brother, don't get used to that. You're going to do that for a long time because you're studying and you're growing in grace. And I, but that's a blessing. That's a good thing. You know, I remember as a kid hearing people say, I believe everything I believe when I got saved. Wow, that's a that's not good. You know, because now some things we need to believe obviously, but there if you if you haven't changed any That's kind of frightening. But what we talked about was that For all eternity, we'll never comprehend God. We can't ever even gain on knowing about Him, right? We talked about that. I just have fun doing that and thinking through that, because as I was saying, I can remember saying on several occasions, I can't wait to get to heaven, and then I'll know God as I know everything about God. I'll know Him completely. And I won't. I mean, that's the thing about God is that We'll never completely comprehend Him. We'll know about Him. Of course, we'll see Christ. But that's just an amazing thing. It has been for me to think through, the incomprehensibility of God. And then we talked about simplicity, how He's not made up of parts. Not only did He not come from somewhere, but He's not a God who's made up of parts. So nothing composes Him. And we talked about that not only as God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit. not composing God, He just is those things, those persons. But also, the other attributes that we've talked about, like grace and love and mercy, those don't make up God, right? He's God, therefore He's love. He's God, therefore He's grace. He's merciful, and He's just, and He is righteous, and all those things, right? We talked about that. So simplicity, within simplicity, we also had to dive off into The fact that he doesn't change, you know, he's not made up of parts, therefore he has no passions. We talked about that, right? And how, and again, I learned a lot myself in the last month and a half just looking back through these things and re-studying and thinking through The fact that God is, because He's a simple God, not made up of parts, He doesn't change emotionally. It's not that He doesn't have emotions, but He doesn't change emotionally. So He doesn't react to us and become angry. because we do something, He's constantly angry at sin, but He's constantly merciful toward His people through Christ, right? And sometimes we find ourselves in different positions, but God's never changed. And that's the awesome thing, I think, to think through, is that it changes our view of God. He's not this awful figure that is staying up in heaven throwing lightning bolts at people when they mess up, but His anger is always against the wicked. but his grace and favor and mercy are always toward his people and So we talked about that and I'm trying to I'm trying to talk Until my brain remembers those other two words, but so it's not happening. What's the other two words? Oh, well, those are those two we talked about those and thank you for that, but I'm talking about within simplicity he is impassable that's what I was trying to think of because he doesn't change and he does not have passions and What's the other one? Immutable. Thank you so much. Immutable. I didn't want to pull it back out of that folder I put it in on this computer. Which means he doesn't change. All these big words, and we talked about that too, that we have to have categories for our finite minds to grasp these things at all, right? And so it's not just, some people would say, Show me incomprehensibility, the Word and the Bible. You're not going to be able to look that up in the Greek New Testament or the strongest concordance, you know. But we've had to, as finite humans, we've had to create these categories by which we can try to understand these things, right? And so that's not sinful. But if your categories are biblical, then that's a good thing. And again, that's what a confession is, right? If we go all the way back to our opening study about why do we have a confession? Because everybody's confessional. Anytime I stand up and preach, I'm being confessional. I'm talking about what we believe about Jesus and what we believe about holiness or what we believe about election, any of those things, right? To be confessional is to delineate doctrine. And so we can make these, we make these categories so we can try to understand these things. Now the ones I think, I think we kind of got to that and that's where we ended. But we're about to hit these last four, which is our infinity, sovereignty, love, and justice. And these are all included. And again, we're only using these because these are the ones that are in this paragraph. But we've really already talked about all these, but we'll look at them and see right here. If you think about infinity, starting about down there where the five is, if y'all got little numbers beside it, he is invisible, no body parts, no changeable emotions or no passions. He alone has immortality dwelling in light that no one can approach. And then he is unchangeable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, all these things we said, almighty, in every way, infinite. There's the word. And then it says absolutely holy, perfectly wise, holy, free, completely absolute. And then we've kind of already talked about that fact that he We tend to think of eternity as future, right? Well, in eternity we'll be this. We're going to live for all eternity. But when you talk about God, we have to talk about infinity because he exists as far back as he does forward and there's never you know he never was not and he never will not be now we are eternal beings since we've been created but that's what that doctrine of infinity says and you can see that in that he has mortality alone he is immense eternal incomprehensible also infinite absolutely holy perfectly wise Holy, free, completely absolute. Now, again, that idea of holy, free goes back to these other things we've talked about. Why does God not have to react to us in a way that we think He should react? Because He's holy, free. He's the only one that really has, if you want to call it, a free will that is not affected by anything. right? He alone has that kind of will that he can do what he wants and he is totally free and he's completely absolute. I'm trying to see some of these verses. that they list here, down there, Psalm 115 and three, our God is in the heavens, he does all that he pleases, declaring the end, this is in Isaiah, declaring the end from the beginning and from the ancient times, things not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand and I will accomplish all my purpose. So, the attribute of infinity, and remember, all these that we've talked about to this point, have been God's attributes alone, right? None of these apply to us. None of us have infinity, none of us are incomprehensible, none of us have this kind of simplicity, none of us exist Just because we are, we had a creator. We had a time we were not, and then we became. And none of us have singularity like God. And also, this next one, he is sovereign. And it says he works all things according to the counsel of his own unchangeable and completely righteous will. And we've talked about that a lot in the last in the last several weeks about the fact that God is sovereign. We named our church Sovereign Savior because we believe in sovereignty, right? We believe He is sovereign. He is the only sovereign. He is in control of all things. And one of the interesting passages that they include here in our confession, that He does all things according to His completely righteous will for His own glory is Proverbs 16 and 4. Are you familiar with this passage? The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble or for the day of destruction. I've quoted this numerous times when people say, well, you, I mean, if that's true, what you're saying is true, then it's like you believe that some people were just created for trouble, destruction, a lot. Well, I mean, there is a passage, at least one passage I know of, that suggests that everything has a purpose, even the wicked, for the day of destruction. So, again, I think we don't like hearing stuff like this because, to us, that's not fair from a human perspective. But we don't understand true justice. We don't understand how can God be just and do this? And the truth is, I don't know. So I'm not pretending like I have an answer for that, how I can't explain to somebody, oh, that's easy, because I don't know God's eternal, infinite wisdom and why He does what He does and how He knows what He knows, but He says this. And I almost think, if I'm not mistaken, I mean, it seems very clear that we see this played out in the pages of Scripture. Somebody like, somebody like a, I don't know why my brain's not working tonight, but, oh my gosh. Who sold Jesus out for 30 pieces of silver? Judas. Man, I've done this all day. You know how sometimes you wake up and they, I've done this to everybody I've talked to today, just like my brain has quit. Judas, of all people I couldn't think of. I mean, I think it was Christ that said, I chose all of you, and Judas, he was the devil. And yeah, and I mean, again, that's hard for us to wrap our mind around. That's not fair. Okay, well, somebody was gonna do it. And I think, again, what we do is we try to think, we therefore then think about people we know who aren't yet Christians. And we can't accept, well, you mean that person's created for the day of destruction? I mean, we shouldn't think in those terms. Because our only thoughts should be anybody can hear the gospel and be saved. I mean, that's what the Bible teaches. Preach the gospel to every creature. We know, and I don't care what kind of theology you hold to, everybody's not going to accept it, Christ. And everybody's not going to believe in Christ. That doesn't change the truth of the matter. And it shouldn't change the fact that we, I mean, I always believed somebody can be born again. I mean, by the grace of God, until they're gone. And then once they're gone, I mean, I don't, that's not in my ball, that's not in my court anymore, right? So, but anyways, I just, I didn't realize that that passage was there until I was reading back through this this week, and I, oh, Proverbs 16, four. Anybody wanna comment or say anything, questions about that? Two things popped in my mind when you were just talking about that. The passages in the Old Testament, which we went through in Sunday school, you know, where God commands the Israelites to go in and wipe out entire peoples, men, women, children, livestock, I mean, everything. And for us, that's very difficult to try to understand. But it ties right into what you're saying, and that is that we don't have a proper sense of what true justice is, only God does. And then the second thing that came to mind was that passage in Romans, which I know we'll get to shortly, where Paul talks about vessels. Some vessels are made for glory, and some vessels are made for common use, preserved for the day of judgment. So even Paul alludes to... Is that Romans or Timothy? Is that Romans? Oh yeah, that's exactly right. So I was just thinking about. So yeah, it's it's all it's all throughout scripture, but I think that's probably the best way to sum it up is what you said is that, you know, our sense of justice is corrupt, and so it makes it very hard for us to. I mean, you know, lost people all the time are saying, well, you know, if your God allows children to die from cancer, it's like What kind of God is that? And it's them trying to package God in a box that they understand and that they would agree with when his were all corrupt. And so we don't see things correctly. Most of those same people don't have a problem with murdering their own baby inside a womb. But God, what kind of God would just kill babies? That's health care. Yeah, that's right. Oh, it's reproductive rights. Reproductive rights. But yeah, and that passage, that same thing he does talk about in Timothy, so that's interesting. In Romans 9 and 2 Timothy, so Paul doesn't shy away from it. Twice in Romans 9, yeah. Good, I get to talk about this on a Sunday after evening prayer. I remember the only reason I said anything about that is because I have a vivid memory of preaching from 2 Timothy when I was in my former ministry. And I got a phone call and a personal meeting about me daring to suggest that some vessels were useless. And I didn't even really, I almost skipped over that. All I did was read it. I read it during my sermon. And I did briefly comment on it, but yeah, that was not met with popularity. And there again, I'm thinking, well, I mean, I didn't get too upset because I realized this is probably the first time this one guy had ever even heard that. Didn't realize, okay, well, I mean, what else does it mean? Because it's pretty clear that this is what God's Word says. But again, we have that idea that if we don't just play nice with everybody, how will anybody ever come to Christ if we can't hurt anybody's feelings? view of Scripture is about is that it's just about getting people saved. It's not really about revealing who God is. It's more about what I have to do to get people on our side. Yeah, and if you already have a God built up in your mind and in your church, you can't be reading Scripture that contradicts that God that you've been teaching about. If you do, then you have to do what I said earlier. You have to get back in the pulpit and say, I gotta apologize. I've been preaching about a God that's not really the one of the Bible, which I've done. And I don't imagine it'll be the first, last time I've done it. In fact, I'm thinking through some stuff right now that I won't bring up now because it would just be confusing, but some stuff probably nobody else ever heard me say possibly, but I'm realizing It's amazing, I can't remember who Judas is, but I can read something and learn and realize, you know, like a year ago, I was preaching and I said that, and that was wrong. And I can remember that, but I can't remember who Judas is. But anyways, the sinful flesh, man. Deteriorating brains. All right, well now, As I mentioned, and I couldn't think of this word a while ago, but now I've taught long enough to remember. the incommunicable attributes of God, the ones that we don't share with Him. Non-communicable, I don't remember what the word is exactly. But communicable attributes are ones that not only does God have, but we, in some way, share. Now these so far, from sovereignty all the way back up to singularity, there's nothing about us that is relatable as humans to God in any capacity. But these last two, love and justice, are communicable in the sense that we too have these attributes. But notice what it says right there after the 12 number. He, like you're talking about God, is not loving. He's most loving. So not to be confused, Yet we share this and we can say, you know, we can say about any of you, you know, he's a real loving person and that person loves people. Okay, but God is most loving, right? So we're still talking about God here. He's most loving, He's most gracious, most merciful, and most patient. He overflows with the goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. And He rewards those who seek Him diligently. So there's the, both love and justice are gonna come in here, but he, obviously he's most loving, gracious, merciful. Now again, all of us, we can be loving, we can be gracious, we can be merciful, we can be patient, we can show forth goodness, we can speak truth, we can forgive iniquity. I mean, we're commanded to do that, right? Forgive those who sin against you as I've forgiven you. Of course, we can't reward this part as God alone, rewarding those who seek Him diligently. And then the justice, at the same time, though He rewards those who seek Him diligently, He is perfectly just and terrifying in His judgments, because He hates all sin and will certainly not clear the guilty. So, and there again, if you don't understand If you don't understand law, gospel, distinction, that the Bible is saying, it looks like, even this is not the Bible, this is our confession, it looks like it's contradicting itself. Wait, God forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin, and rewards those who seek Him. But wait, He's also perfectly just and terrifying in judgment, and He hates all sin, and will certainly not clear the guilty. Of course, we know that is true. And though we're sinners and we need forgiveness, the only reason we're cleared of guilt is because of Christ, right? So none of this is wrong about God because he, again, he is always hating sin, he's always not clearing the guilty. So the only people that are cleared, who are, even though we're guilty, will be cleared, that is forgiven, of our transgression and sin because of Christ, right? Not because we're... And not only that, but who seeks Him diligently? Because the Bible is clear about that in a couple places in the New Testament, even. He rewards those who seek Him diligently. Who are those who seek Him diligently? Only those who believe in Christ, right? And we didn't seek Him, I think I alluded to this Sunday morning, we didn't seek Him, we weren't seeking Him diligently, and then He said, oh, look, there's somebody seeking me diligently. I will save him. It's like, I think it was David in one place in the Psalms said, Lord, You said, seek You, and my heart started seeking You. I mean, he understood that. there was something outside of Him giving him this. And we understand that too. And that's the reason we have to keep these distinctions and these categories. The law commands that we seek God, but we can't seek Him. So when we find ourselves seeking Him, Something had to happen, right? And that's a little taste of what a law of gospel distinction is. Where's the gospel in Romans 3 that says, no one seeks after me. There's none righteous, no, not one. But yet, if you seek me, you will find me when you seek me with all your heart. But our heart is deceitful and desperately wicked above all things. And so these things you have to, I was trying to explain this to a pastor this morning. When the Bible says do, that is law, and we cannot do what God commands spiritually unless Christ is in us and doing it. And so that gives us no reason to boast, right? But it does, I mean, if we understand that, then by all means, Obey what the scriptures say. But unfortunately, we've been mostly taught, obey what scripture says, and then God will X, Y, Z. Rather than, because who God is, and because of what Christ has done, and now he has brought you into his family, he's awakened you from the dead, given you faith to believe, and the Holy Spirit of God is in you, do these things. Knowing that even when you fail, you look to Christ. Instead of feeling like a failure, you're gonna go, man, never gonna get this. No, you just keep looking to Christ. Because you've been forgiven. It's a beautiful thing. I was looking at these passages. Not the ones I was looking for. Anybody wanna say anything? No? Everything's good? There it is, Hebrews 11. Without faith, it's impossible to please Him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that He is or that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him. And I think that's important to see. If the Bible had just said right there, if you just draw near to God and believe He exists, But it clearly says without faith you can't please Him, so know that right up front, right? So then, if y'all don't want to say anything, we keep going down to section two. And this, the first section, obviously focuses on attributes of God in Himself. This second paragraph sort of focuses on the relations of God to His creatures in light of the attributes that we've just been talking about. Now we sort of looked at that anyways. Because I know last week or maybe the week before, I didn't want it to feel like all these things, all these attributes of God make him feel like, I mean, make it, he looks like just some cold deity sitting way off that has nothing to do with his creation. And that's not true. But paragraph, because paragraph two now will come in and sort of reemphasize all the doctrines in one but in the sense of what it means to how God relates to his creatures. So we'll just look at those in closing and see if y'all want to talk about these. I mean, there's not a lot to comment about. God has all life, glory, goodness, and blessedness in and of himself. He alone is all sufficient in himself. He does not need any creatures he has made, nor does he derive any glory from them. We talked about that already, right? He doesn't need us. He doesn't need anything, but He demonstrates His own glory in us, in creatures, by them, to them, and upon them. That so reminds me of, I can't remember now, if it was Matthew, Henry, somebody, I read this statement years ago, I'll never forget it. God will either be honored in His creatures, or upon them. And that kind of goes back to what we were saying about Judas and others. I mean, God will be glorified and honored one way or another. And all creation, because it's all His. And there again, like you said, Romans 9 and other places, I mean, just the potter, what right has the clay to turn around to the potter and say, hey, why'd you make me this? He has a right to do what he wants to. We just have a hard time with that, right? We do not like that. And honestly, let's just be, if we're all completely honest, none of us really like to be totally dethroned because we like to be in charge. And we like to think that we are captains and that we have more control than we do. That started in the garden, didn't it? Yes. And we would have fallen for the same thing. I mean, we still do. But I know I've told this story real quickly, but one of the first times I was confronted about this at my previous pastorate was a young man that came in and was just like, man, I hear you believe in I heard you're a Calvinist, that's basically what he said. I said, okay, well, who told you that? And he told me, and I said, well, what do you think that means? And he kind of said, and I said, well, some of that's true. And he said, so you're telling me, because at that time I only had two kids, we're about to have a third one, he said, you're telling me if God wanted to save your son and not your daughter, you'd be okay with that? I said, well, I didn't say I'd be okay with that. I don't think I could ever be okay with that. until glory, and then somehow God would make me okay with that. But I said, here's the thing. It's God's heaven. Should he not be able to choose who he puts there? And he said, I've never thought about that. And he just stood up and said, I'm gonna have to go think about that. And I said, okay, well, think about it. And now he believes all these doctrines. But it was just funny that if you think in that term, well, I mean, it's God's heaven. We never like to think about it. We really think we want God to be what we would be if we were in charge. Well, I would do it this way. If I was God, I would do this. I would make it so everybody gets their own choice and if they go, if they separate from God, it'll all be up to them and not God. And you know, a lot of people believe that. It's just, it's hard to wrap that, it's hard to put that into scripture. It doesn't, there's too much scripture to contradict that. Anyways, He does not derive any glory from them. Instead, He demonstrates His own glory in them, by them, to them, and upon them. He alone is the source of all being, and everything is from Him, through Him, and to Him. And I'll say this too. That phrase, and upon them, I mean sometimes even those of us who are His children, if we're honest, it's through sometimes God's discipline in the sufferings of this life that He's glorified, right? So even upon us, too. That's true. So it's not just, when I say upon them, it's not just those who will stand in ultimate judgment and condemnation. But, you know, it's the things we've been talking about in Romans 8. I mean, God's going to work everything out for good to those who are His and according to His purpose. Because, as it keeps going, He's absolute sovereign ruler over all creatures. And here's this part. He's the absolute sovereign ruler over all creatures to act through them, for them, or upon them as he pleases. In his sight, everything is open and visible. I think that's probably the hardest thing that as humans in our flesh we have to deal with. That God can do what he wants to with us as he pleases, right? Because we have a tendency, that's not what I want you to do, God. I want you to do something different. And we're all that way. Things don't go my way, that's not the way I want it. If my plan's not working out. I don't like that. But I think it's important, you know, these guys who are putting this confession together, they're trying every way possible to demonstrate the truths of these attributes of God. This is what it means in the life of His people, right? This is how He acts and has the right to act. Because in His sight, everything is open and visible. And there again, our sight is limited, very finite, very short, but His is open and visible. To Him, everything is open and visible. His knowledge, again, is infinite and infallible. So He's never going to be surprised by anything. You know, God's not going to be taken aback by something. I think I've shared with you before, the very first The very first incident that I remember that got the ball rolling for me to thinking through doctrine, and especially the doctrines of grace and the sovereignty of God, was a pastor who's a friend of mine I was serving with. He's still a pastor. He doesn't believe in any of the doctrines of grace. But he stood in the pulpit one day and said, has it ever occurred to you that nothing ever occurred to God? And I've never heard anything like that. And I mean, I've finished seminary and everything. You know, maybe people said stuff like that, but I couldn't hear it. But at that point, my ears were open. And I thought that just really started snowballing on me. Nothing ever has occurred to God. That means he's His knowledge is infinite and infallible, and it does not depend on any creature. And it just really messed me up, and it's still messing me up. So for Him, nothing is contingent or uncertain. And again, we've kind of talked about all these things, but in relation to us as humans in His creation and the creatures that He's made, nothing is contingent or uncertain. Now again, if open theism teaches that that's not true, open theism teaches that God is kind of up there wherever he is waiting for our decisions and then he don't really know what we're gonna do and that he is kind of okay yeah I'm glad they made that one sure what they was gonna do but now I know and that's not that's not the view that historically at least our forefathers in this faith have believed about God. He is absolutely holy in all his plans, in all his works, and in all his commands. Angels and human beings owe to him all worship, service, or obedience that creatures owe to the Creator, and whatever else he is pleased to require of them. That's a pretty tough word, isn't it? There's plenty of There's plenty of passages, Psalm 145 they list, the Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. Revelation, there's some passages. Hebrews 4, and no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account. You start thinking about these things and the implications of them. And we'll get to this, but Romans 11, this doxology Paul gives at the end of that chapter, for who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid? For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever, amen. It's reminiscent of what we, the words we read Sunday from Elihu and Job, right? What have you ever done that's affected you? You know, how has your sin ever bothered God? Like, have you ever done anything that's benefited Him? And that's what Paul said, man, who's ever known the mind of God or been able to be His counselor? But yet we kind of feel like we are sometimes, right? God, I don't want to do it that way. If I was me, I'd do it differently. We might not say that, but we do think it probably. What else? Anybody want to say anything? It's heavy stuff, but I mean, again, I feel like it's comforting stuff. I don't feel like it's, oh man, that's an awful God that's just in charge of everything. But if he's not in control, then who is, right? So, I mean, I have to trust that, right? I mean, I'm trusting that right now in this country, if God's not in control. I mean, I certainly hope the people in Washington aren't in control. We in trouble. But, uh, it's the only way I can, you know, have peace at all. But I won't say anything. I think it's interesting to think about what what emotions we have that would not be in heaven, like fear, sadness, anxiety. Yeah, I mean, we'll have to wait. We'll have peace. So it's not that we won't have emotions. It's just the emotions like fear, for example. We have fear because we don't fully understand how in control God is. And we have anxiety for the same reason. And we can't see his plans. We can't see what he knows. Right. We're blinded to them and we're sinful and rebellious enough to think that we have to be in control of these things. We frustration, that's another one, right? Because he's talking about, you know, we think things should go this way, but when it doesn't, we feel frustration. Right. All of that as a result of sin and our fall. That's interesting, I've never thought, you know, I've only thought about no tears, or God will wipe away tears in heaven. So I'm assuming there'll be tears of joy. No sadness. Yeah, no sickness. I've thought about those. But I haven't thought about other emotions like fear. or anxiety, or depression, or any of those things that we all can have a tendency to battle with, and fretting. Doubt. Doubt, yeah. All those things. That's an interesting thought. I think a lot of times about Elijah. You remember when he had Elisha with him, and Elisha was all worried and scared about the enemies, and he's like, come here, let me show you something. And he prayed that God would open his eyes That's when he saw the angelic army. All that time Elijah knew that that was there. So he was like bold and brave and not fearful. And Elisha was blinded to it. So he was afraid and all this. And it's like, man, if we could just have that. If we could see like that and be able to go through life with that kind of confidence and boldness. not be fretted by circumstances. And there's something in faith that I believe that's what God has for us in faith. Because like we were reading in, I think it's in Romans 8, right? Where, well, who believes, I mean, who has faith in what he can see? You don't. Your faith is not practiced if you can see it. And so, that's interesting though. That's basically what we're saying is we want faith to become sight. Right. That's right. Absolutely. We do. Yeah. Because we do. We even do that now, even in life, you know, I wish I could see. But, you know, the reality is I probably don't want to see what's in the future because who knows how I'd react to that, what I would do. But you're right in the in the sense that we'll be made like Christ and we'll be in that will be what he's desired for us to be. So much of that stuff. I was talking with the patient yesterday about that, who's getting close to dying. I can't even imagine what that's going to be like. Just to be somewhere where there's not only no sin, but no influence. Not even a sinful thought, or a sinful desire. I can't even imagine that with my brain. No, even on good days when I'm very joyful, I think I've got no cares in the world, there's still sinful thoughts and sinful desires and sinful things that I have to fight in this flesh. So, it's hard to fathom. Maybe that's why when Paul said, you know, when he knew a man that went to, you know, up to heaven and said that he saw things that's never entered into the mind of man. Right. It's not even lawful for words to explain what's there. So maybe that's what it is, is he saw that existence and there's no words on this side of it to express.