Jeff Durbin | The Fountain of Life

Proverbs 14:27 and the Fear of the Lord as Wisdom

If you would please open your Bibles to the book of Proverbs chapter 14. Proverbs 14, working through this book of divine wisdom, how do we live? Not just what do we know, not just knowledge, but wisdom.

Proverbs chapter 14 in verse 27. Hear now the word of the living and the true God. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life that one may turn away from the snares of death. Thus far is the reading of God's holy word.

Let's pray together. Father, we come before your throne. You are the holy God, the consuming fire, the God of justice and love, the God who never changes. You're the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Lord, you say you do not change and therefore we're not consumed. God, we thank you for your everlasting love. We thank you for your word, this gift of you speaking to us. This is your speech, God. And so, Lord, I pray that you would work through the deficiencies of the pastor, the teacher today, and you would teach by your spirit through your word.

I pray that you'd bless and heal your church, heal our minds, and strengthen us, lift us up. I pray that you would work by your spirit today, that people would forget me and remember you. We pray this in Jesus' name.

Amen. So you've seen this a lot already. We're in the book of Proverbs, God's book of divine wisdom, wisdom from above, and you've already seen this a lot. You see it throughout scripture, and we're going to get into that in just a moment, but the fear of the Lord, the fear of God, you've already seen it at the very beginning.

How does the book start? Proverbs 1, verse 7, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of, there you go, that's how it starts. First opening of the book lays down the foundation. If you want to understand, if you want to know, if you want to be able to live, if you want to have skill in living, you want knowledge, you want wisdom, the very starting point is the fear of God.

That's how the book started, and it happens over and over again. We've already hit a number of verses where the fear of the Lord is mentioned. It's throughout the book of Psalms, it's throughout the entire Bible.

The fear of Yahweh, not the fear of some God, some type of God, but the fear of Yahweh, the fear of the true and living God, the only God, to fear Him. So, this is obviously, as you do this, not popular today.

Reverential Awe, Not a Servile Fear

It's not that it's not popular because it's not clearly communicated in the Bible or there's some ambiguity to this doctrine or this truth of fearing God. It's not popular today because we have spun a version of the Christian of God that tries to make him more palatable for the world to receive.

We want people to come and fill our churches. We want large churches, large buildings, large programs. We want to give a message that is something that is easy for everyone to digest. We want to know that, hey, this is for everybody, no matter where you're at, no matter what you're doing.

We have a version of God that's very soft around the edges, and it's not a God who is full of wrath, a God who is a consuming fire. We don't want to see God in that way, so we've sort of given a portrait to the West of the evangelical God where he's just very sort of cool, smooth, easygoing, nice God.

He doesn't have any concerns for justice or obedience. He's just a God of grace. So, it's not that the attributes being highlighted are not true. Yes, God is a God of grace. I mean, Scripture goes beyond saying that God is loving.

It says that God is what? He is love. He's not just a loving God. He doesn't just have an everlasting love that never ends, that never burns out, but it says that in terms of God in his own character, what is God like?

Who is God? God is love. So, it's not as though those attributes are untrue, the ones that are being highlighted all the time to sort of soften the edges around God. It's an incomplete portrait of God.

We're the creatures. We can't even comprehend everything about God, but God has revealed himself to us in his word to show us what he's like, what his character is like, and we do, of course, see things in Scripture that seem like, in some ways, like how is God like that all the time?

Because I see myself generally in kind of like a lane at a time. I might have sort of a period of the day where I'm really sad, I'm melancholy, maybe a moment where from 11 to 12 where I'm very joyful and full of praise, then back down again to maybe some sadness and some grief, whatever the case may be, and so we look at God as creatures, this incomprehensible God, and we're saying, how can God be all these things and this way all the time?

And the answer is, that's why you should fear him, because he's not like you, he's not like me, he's not a creature, he's perfect in every attribute, he's not just love, God is also just, he's not just merciful, God is a God of wrath, he responds to evil, he will always do right, he is the God of vengeance.

I mean, what does God say in his word to us as Christians? What does he say to us? Like, leave the vengeance to God. Why? What does God say? Vengeance is mine, I will what? Repay, that's what we're supposed to do, is to see God, he will not miss it, he will always answer, there will be a final answer and a final end, so when we see evil all around us, and evil, even evil not being responded to in this life, justice not being served here, we know that there's an ultimate day ahead of us.

Why? Because of what we know about God's character, his attributes, God's nature, but it's not popular today to talk about fearing God, to have an actual fear of God. I mean, God's sort of portrayed in scripture as just our friend.

Now, is it true, again, is it true that as Christians, we are the friends of God? Is it true? I mean, it actually says, that's a Bible verse, that those who fear God are the friends of God, so is it true that God is my friend?

Yes. Is it true that God is my father, that he's a loving father to me? Yes, but scripture tells me to fear God, and it actually describes it interestingly in scripture in this way, it'll say to fear God, and to not fear man.

It'll talk about the fear of man as a snare, or as a trap, so we're told, fear God, don't fear man. Fear God, don't fear death. Fear God, don't fear the future. But it's interesting, the weight goes a different direction.

Like, we want to say, nah, don't fear God, right? But scripture says, uh, no, fear God, and don't fear anything else. See how scripture portrays that? Very different than we want to preach, or teach, or accept today, but we have to define this.

Why the Fear of the Lord Means Reverent Trembling

We're gonna break this proverb, this wisdom from above, we're gonna break it down piece by piece today. The first part is the fear of the Lord. What is biblically defined fear? Because there's a danger, I admit this, look, I admit, and we should all be willing to be gracious enough to somebody who hears this call to fear God, and they struggle with it, because the kind of fear they're used to with a father is a different type of fear that scripture's not calling you to.

It's not a fear of an unstable and an unjust father. So we tend to think about that, right? Like fear, you know, I was walking down the street, it was late at night, and I see some strange characters sort of coming my direction.

We think of that as, well, I was afraid, my adrenaline shot up, and I was afraid. I live in South Phoenix, and this sort of thing happens all the time now in South Phoenix. I think everyone's decided to descend on South Phoenix and live in my neighborhood, and like set up camp behind my house, and sort of those sorts of things.

So at night, I'll regularly see just really shady characters just walking on my sidewalk. They stole a package two nights ago from in front of my house, they broke into my mailbox and stole credit cards and things like that.

It's an ongoing thing, but generally, if I'm pulling out, like I was the other night, pulling out of my driveway, and I see some guy that doesn't belong in my neighborhood, the first thing that pops up is concern.

What's this guy doing here? Is he dangerous to my family? Is he here to break in? I have an app that every morning notifies me of all the bad stuff that happened in the last 24 hours within a half a mile or a mile of my house.

And every single day, it's burglary half a mile from your house, break-in, it's theft, it's a violent attack, there was a shooting, those sorts of things. Every morning, it's like, oh, it's good to live in South Phoenix.

It's wonderful. But that's not the kind of fear scripture's calling you to have, the kind of fear that you feel an instant shot of adrenaline and fear because you don't know what this person's going to do.

They're unstable. Maybe they're dangerous. It's not that kind of fear. It's not the fear of an unstable and an unjust father that many of you have probably experienced, where dad's going to come home, you've done something wrong, or you know he's had a bad day, he's not in a good mood.

You're afraid of dad to come home because of what might happen when he goes through those doors. Is he going to throw furniture? Is he going to be physically abusive? Is it going to be violent? Is it going to end with holes in the wall?

Those sorts of things. It's not that kind of fear scripture's calling you to have, the fear of an unstable and unjust person. It's actually the opposite. When scripture calls you to fear the true and living God, it's calling you to have reverential awe, reverential awe and trembling because he is holy.

Because he's holy and we're not. We're to fear God with reverential awe and trembling because he is consistent, because he's unchanging, because he's righteous, and because he's faithful as a father. He will always do as he promises.

And so scripture says, fear God. That's a reverential awe before God, a trembling before God. Why would we fear him? Because he's the judge of all the earth and he will always do right. So scripture again puts them in two categories in terms of fear.

What are you to fear? Fear God, fear the Lord, fear God over and over and over again. But don't fear man, don't fear the future, don't fear death, don't fear your circumstances. There's the command. Fear God, don't fear anything else.

Don't even fear, Jesus says, what people can do to the body. You know that scripture, correct? Where scripture talks about not fearing man. Don't fear the people that can do things to your body. Fear the one who can throw both your body and your soul into hell forever.

There's the call. Don't fear the ones that could do things to you physically. What can man do to me is the cry of scripture. What can man ultimately do to me? It's what kept the martyrs with so much strength throughout Christian history.

I mean, you guys probably heard years ago, we were in Scotland for End Abortion Now to try to get the work started there for Christians to save babies there. And we got to do this tour in Edinburgh called the Covenanter Tour of the Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters and John Knox and all that happened there.

And there were so many amazing stories that make you feel very small as a Christian. It makes you question your own faith, like, do I believe God like these men and women did? Would I respond the same and given the same circumstances?

Is my faith like theirs? Is it that deep? I mean, the kinds of things that they endured where they would have their thumbs broken and their legs broken, and then they were dragged after this kangaroo court down this cobblestone street that we walked down.

It's still the same stones. You're walking over their blood down to the very bottom where in the public square, everybody's there to watch. You're brought up on this platform to be killed in front of everybody.

And there's story after story after story of these faithful Christians with no fear, with no fear. I mean, preachers that were saying as they're walking up the platform, saying things like, I have more fear of God every Sunday when I ascend to that pulpit than I have right now on this platform.

Really? Is that true? Because that's amazing. That's a sanctifying work of God in somebody's heart to put them in that kind of position. The fear of God is greater in me when I ascend to that pulpit to bring his word to the people of God.

It's greater then than in this very moment where you're going to behead me in front of everybody. What brings a person to that kind of place? To not fear death in that way? Well, it's the cry of scripture.

What can man do to me? What can you do ultimately to me? I know the one who saved me from my sin. I know the one who's sovereign even over your ability right now to take my life. I know the one who determined before the foundation of this earth was laid.

I know the one who determined my days. He knows all my days and he determined this moment so he's the sovereign. And I know the one who is ultimately going to raise this body that's your killing from the dead.

And so what's there to fear? Well, if you fear God, you won't fear the future. If you fear God, you won't fear the financial circumstances you're in right now because you trust him. You trust him as the sovereign.

You trust his providence. If you fear God, you won't fear man. You won't fear the future. You won't fear death. But you are called and I am called to fear the Lord. So we need to lay down some foundations though.

The Creator, Sovereign, and Holy God

Ultimately, why? Why have reverential awe and trembling before this holy God? Why? Well, there's a number of reasons why and it's a bit dangerous in the presence of God to question why I should fear him.

But let's let's unpack this for the purposes of explaining to the doubters. Why should we fear God? We should fear God because ultimately he's the creator. We fear him and we have all before him and reverence before him because he made all of this.

He made you and every part of you and every system in you. It's incredible. We've talked about this a lot, but the further we get into the depth of science and biology, where we're at today in our ability to study the human body and the human genome and what makes human beings unique and the language of life that is in your cells, that it's just speech.

It is speech. God's speaking you into existence. That language, the further we go, the scarier it gets in terms of it's shouting to us about the glory of God and him as creator. The deeper we go into astronomy or to the depths of science and looking at biology or all of life, the deeper we go, the further we get into understanding how much we should fear this God because he's the creator.

It's incomprehensible. I want you to see this. I've mentioned it before, but you need to take a look at it. One of my favorite documentaries is with Douglas Wilson and Christopher Hitchens. It's called Collision.

If you haven't seen it yet, I highly encourage you to see it. It's free now. I think it's free. At least it's on YouTube. I hope no one stole it, but it's on YouTube right now. You can see it, Collision, Douglas Wilson, Christopher Hitchens.

They have this debate tour around a book. Christopher Hitchens, my favorite atheist in history. I wish he was still alive. I would love to have talked with him. He does this really great debate tour with Douglas Wilson.

Douglas Wilson, I think, was probably one of the first guys that actually just had Christopher Hitchens dumbfounded. He's an amazing thinker, Christopher Hitchens was. He is fast on his feet. He is an artist with his words.

As you watch him debate Christians, he tends to win the audience a lot with how he speaks. Douglas Wilson just took his legs off. At the end of the film, you see this private moment between Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson in the limousine.

They were at the pub before that, so I think that Christopher Hitchens may have had a few. You know that old saying, in vino veritas? Everyone know that saying? What's it mean? In vino veritas. What is it?

In wine there is truth. Veritas. Veritas. In wine there is truth. I think that was the moment where it was in vino veritas. I think Christopher Hitchens, as an atheist, maybe had a little bit and was letting a little bit loose.

He wouldn't normally do, but he says to Douglas Wilson in the limousine that one of the hardest things for the atheist to overcome in debate with the Christian is just the insane complexity of all of life and creation.

That everything is on a razor's edge, Hitchens says, where one move to the left or to the right and life is not possible. Everything is in this perfect, incredible balance from the bottom all the way out there.

The farther you go, the lower you go. You see this insane balance that is just incomprehensible and Christopher Hitchens, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, that's what they call themselves. Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, the famous new atheist.

One of the most famous atheists in this last generation says that as an atheist, it's hard to overcome that. It's hard to overcome the clear identification of created by creator in all of this. So why should you fear God?

Because he's the creator of all things. We should fear God because scripture says that he's the sovereign over all things, not the sovereign over just the micro things, the small things, the macro things, the big things, the overarching things.

Scripture says that God declares the end from the beginning. And he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. And no one can stay his hand and say, what have you done?

He's so sovereign. There isn't, as of course, you know, Sproul said a maverick molecule in the entire universe. Everything is by design. Everything is by God's decree. Everything has purpose. And so God has the control over all things.

And so we should fear God because he's the sovereign over all things. We should fear God because he's holy. Now, you know this scene, but I can't think of a better scene to express this than Isaiah chapter 6.

Isaiah chapter 6, it's the scene where Isaiah gets a glimpse of the holiness of God. He's before the throne and the glory of God is there. And Isaiah is this incredible prophet from the Old Testament.

My favorite book of the Old Testament, actually. It's amazing. In Isaiah chapter 6, here you have this, in a category of human experience, this righteous prophet. And he gets a glimpse of the glory of God and the holiness of God.

And the angels are there. And the angels are saying about God that he is holy, holy, holy. Now, I never want to assume that everyone understands always what that means. So I'm going to explain this. In the Hebrew, there's no punctuation.

So there's no period, comma, exclamation point. There's a different way to emphasize something rather than putting an exclamation point. Or like today, if we're doing it in text with somebody like, you're never going to believe this!

Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. You have 10, which is a little excessive, right? You're kind of running wild with that many exclamation points. But we do it in text to make sure you understand I really mean this.

Well, in Isaiah, in the Hebrew, to emphasize the holiness of God, how he is separate from us, and he is good, and he is righteous, and we're not, the angels are saying that God is holy, holy, holy. It is a way to scream it from the text.

Not just holy, holy, but holy, holy, holy. And the scene ends with Isaiah covering his mouth, and he immediately recognizes his own brokenness, his own sin, how foul he is before the throne of God, because he says, I'm a man of unclean lips, and I'm coming apart at the seams.

So I would venture to say I think probably Isaiah lived a more righteous life than any of us in this room, in terms of him as a prophet of God, speaking for God, living a life of holiness and blamelessness before man and God, as much as a human being is able to do that.

And when he got before the throne of God in this incredible vision, his immediate response is to recognize what's on his lips, and that he shouldn't even be here. I want to die. So why should we fear God?

Why should we have awe and reverence and trembling before the true God? It's because God is holy, and you're not. You're not. I'm not. God is holy. God is also a just God. Of course, we can look around the world today and see injustice and evil around us, and we could decry it, and we could condemn it, and there's no question in my mind that every person in this room right now has experienced some injustice, some evil, some vile word, some abusive thing.

And we recognize the injustice, the not-rightness of it all. But what Scripture says about God is that he's a just God. That should cause us to fear. He's not going to miss anything. He'll answer absolutely everything.

As a matter of fact, in the very next chapter in Proverbs, we're probably going to combine this verse with a few other ones, but it says that the eyes of the Lord are on everything, everyone, on the good and the evil, on the good and the evil.

He knows all things. He knows the depths of your hearts. He knows every thought. It even says in Scripture that on the last day, people will be held accountable for every idle word, every idle thought.

Nothing escapes God's justice. And that's the glory of the cross, by the way, the justice of God satisfied on my behalf in Christ so that I'm not condemned for it. I don't answer for it. Jesus answered for it.

But there is a day where everything will be answered by God. No injustice will be ignored. Everything will be answered in one of two ways by this just God. One, his justice is satisfied for all of your sins, every thought, every sin, every rebellion, every lawlessness, every lie, every adulterous thought, every act of adultery, every murderous thought, every act of murder.

It is satisfied in Jesus. It is not ignored. Or why should we should fear God is that if you and I are not in Christ, if we don't know him, if we're not joined to him by faith, if that death didn't satisfy ours, then every single sin and injustice will be brought before the watching world and will be answered by this God who is a consuming fire, everything.

So why should we have fear and reverence and all before the true and living God? It is because he is just. It says in scripture, the judge of all the earth will always do right. He's going to answer everything.

We should fear God and have all before him because he's just. We should fear God because he is full of wrath. Of course, again, God is not like us. He is incomprehensible. God is merciful. God is love.

God is forgiving. His mercy is new every morning. But it also says that God is a consuming fire and he is a God of wrath and justice, that he actually pours out, pours out his wrath. We should fear him for this because he has a settled opposition to evil.

We tend to think of wrath on our side as human beings as pretty bad. Like if I was to say that I saw somebody in here in the parking lot have an outburst and they just raged and they poured out wrath, we would probably have a perspective of that, that it probably was not healthy.

There was some wrath tinged with hatred. There was some wrath tinged with abuse. We would see it as maybe out of control. You are so filled with wrath right now as a human being, as a creature, we would say that's tinged probably with some sin.

But when we think about the wrath of God, it is not ever tinged with sin. It is never out of balance. It is always perfect. It is always right. It is always true. And it is settled opposition against evil and that is why we should fear him.

Again, scripture says vengeance is mine. I will repay, says the Lord. I'll say briefly something on this too to bring some context to something popular in history. You all know the story of Jonathan Edwards and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

It's a popular story in America's history. There was a great awakening. It was a moment of light and life and repentance and forgiveness and all kinds of great things that happened not very long ago in America's history.

And you know about the famous American theologian Jonathan Edwards and that famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. I want to just point something out. I think, and of course I don't have all the answers here, but I think one of the reasons that that sermon did so much, of course first and foremost because of the Spirit of God, but secondly of course because the scripture contained in that terrible sermon.

And by terrible I don't mean bad. But also I think it was the context of the day. Think about it. Think about the day that they lived in where you had a basic Christian culture and understanding of God.

What came from the New England pulpit at the time was essentially a reformed confessionalism. They knew they were catechized. They had catechism. They had confession. They knew what God was like. They knew God's nature.

They knew God's attributes. They knew God's character. They knew God's law. They even made sure they had God's law in the state laws. Like that's how much we revere and respect God and his commandments is they're actually put forth into the capital itself and into our laws.

There was a context at the time where there's an understanding of the character of God that was basic and understood in that culture. And then in comes Edwards pointing everyone towards the wrath of God against sin and how all of us hang in the balance between life and death.

Between now and eternity. That's where we hang. That's where Edwards point was in the message. Sinners in the hands of an angry God. And God is right now holding you. And it's only because God is holding you that you haven't dropped and descended into hell.

And why would that have such an impact in that day? It's because of what they understood about God, his justice, his righteousness, and his character. And if we don't fear God, sinners in the hands of an angry God is a meaningless challenge.

It's a meaningless threat if we don't fear God. If you call out on Mill Avenue on Friday and Saturday night to the licentiousness and to the debauchery and the evil going on and you say you are all sinners in the hands of an angry God, people scoff and they walk right past.

Why? Because of course there's rebellion, their hearts are hard, but they don't understand the character of God. People rebel against God. What must first happen is we must abandon fear of God. Get that and you'll get the substance of what I'm saying.

In order to rebel against God and to fall again into sin, we must first abandon our fear of God. We have to pretend in that moment when we entertain the lust or the adultery or the abuse or the hate or the murder or whatever it is, we have to first disassociate ourselves from God as creator and as the one who is watching all things and as the sovereign.

If I'm going to walk into a path of sin, I must first abandon my fear of God. First, watch it. Every time I sin or you sin, the first thing we must cast off is our fear of God. It's the first to go, generally speaking.

Scriptural Warnings, the Fountain of Life, and the Snare of Death

So we have to fear God because he's wrathful. And I want to say, I think it's interesting, I do, I think it's interesting that when the apostle Paul is explaining the gospel and how God saves and it's all to his glory and it's this gift of his grace, when he gives us this beautiful story of salvation in that cross, what does he say as the definition?

What is definitional of the fallen person? He says what? There's none who does good. There's none righteous. And how does he sum up the description of all of us, every one of us, not just not good, not righteous, non-God-seeking, the poison of asbestos under their lips, all the rest, the summary of it is what?

There is no fear of God. See that? The contrast between those who know God and those who don't know God, those who don't know God, those who are not redeemed, they have no fear of God. They don't care.

They don't fear God. And so when this verse says the fear of the Lord is the fountain of life, we need to know what that means. And so just a couple verses here for you to write down, for you to go and meditate on later.

Proverbs 1 -7, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. We've already been here. Proverbs 8 -13, the fear of the Lord is hatred of evil, pride and arrogance, and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Jesus says in Matthew 10 -28, and do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Psalm 33 -8, let all the earth fear the Lord.

Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe before him. Luke 1 -50, and his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. Deuteronomy 10 -12, and now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you?

But to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Proverbs 19 -23, the fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied.

He will not be visited by harm. Psalm 25 -14, the friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant. Psalm 34 -9, O fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack.

This could go on. Scripture calls us clearly to stand in reverential awe before God. Scripture says here in verse 27, the fear of the Lord is a fountain of life. Think about fountain as a spring or a well, to which everyone in this room goes, what's that?

Particularly kids in here are going, I have no idea, because for us the spring or the fountain is just a turn of a knob, right? Just right there in front of us at all times. My son, August, he loves to go outside and just turn the water hose on and spray everything and to make like mud things and build things out of mud.

And sometimes I have to, I find out that he turned it on and he never turned it off. And so like in the morning he'll turn it on and then I was like, hey, make sure you turn it off. And then I'll come home later that day.

And he forgot and left it on. And what is it in my backyard? It's this ginormous like Lake now that's formed in my backyard. And of course I received the penalty at the end of the month with the bill, right?

But that's it with our kids. It's easy for them to go. I want some water, turn it on. I want to take a shower, turn it on. I could do this for as long as I want. I could just keep it on. And I have this unending stream of water and it wasn't that way in human history.

It's not that way in many parts of the world. You know that some parts of the world are not like we have because of the blessings of the Christian worldview that came here and produced all of these things.

Some of the parts of the world every day is a struggle to make sure that you have life giving water, that you have a spring or a well. We send missionaries and we have workers that go to foreign lands to make sure that we help them to build wells so they don't die.

And that's the context this comes from. It doesn't mean a lot to us today. Be honest. It doesn't mean a lot to us because for us, a fountain of water and life is just a turn of the knob away. Like each one of us can hang out here forever and pretty much survive off of that water fountain back there.

It's just this unending stream. Where's it coming from? We don't know. Don't really care, right? It's just there. That's where we live today. It's all underneath us. It's all somebody else's in charge of making sure there's always enough of it and it's just going to keep coming into my home.

And so we don't really, I think, respect really what this is communicating to a people that had to fight for a well or a spring or something that would keep life. Think about it for a minute. People have, you know, it just depends on where you're at, like your metabolism, how healthy you are, and are there some differences in terms of time?

So it's not, it's not absolute, but they say that the human body can't go more than about three days without water. And in terms of it impacting you and ultimately what happens if you don't have water is you die.

Like I think it's people doing like water fast. Anyone here ever do a water fast? Water fast? Yeah. So I, of course, it's very popular today with biohacking to figure out how you can get your metabolism working again.