Something Is Wrong - Part 04 of 05 — Richard Owen Roberts

I thought you wouldn't be very many out tonight, so my unrelief is horribly rebuked, and I have to have faith and to rejoice in God. Sundays is the day for everybody to be out, so I never expect too many out through the week, because there are several reasons.

And very often it's because our church people, as a rule, are not used to teaching. They're used to evangelism and other forms of ministry, but not teaching. So I never expect too many. So I was sat here tonight, and I thought, well, they're coming in and coming in my faith.

Lord, where was my faith today? Anyway, but I have prayed that the Lord would send in the people who are to be helped. Now, he knows your hearts, he knows you better than I do, and so I always ask him to keep away the people who won't be helped.

There are people that I pray the Lord will not bring into the meeting, because they don't know what's the matter with me. They don't know what the truth is, and they're stumbled and upset and get confused.

So I just say, Lord, now keep them away and bless them very nice and make them happy, and bring in the people who need help and know they need it and are anxious to receive it. Then, Lord, that creates an atmosphere in which I feel the Spirit of God can move.

How many of you know what I mean? I don't mean to be naughty, but I really do feel that way. I have often prayed people out of the meeting and prayed them in. You remember when Jesus taught, it was the same.

Jesus’ Teaching to Multitudes and Disciples

He didn't have one message for everybody. He had a message for the multitudes, peculiarly the message with physical phenomena such as healings and visions and things which would attract the man physically.

He used all of those, and he taught in fascinating parables and stories. But when he was alone with his disciples, it says, he expounded things to them. Do you see a difference already? Can you see a difference?

Well, certainly. For without parables and miracles and all that, he did not speak to the multitudes, only with that. But when he was alone with receptive hearts, some that he could coach up a little bit more than the rest, he was able to open even more and more.

And if you follow the gradation that there is in the fellowship of Jesus, illustrated in the New Testament by those who followed him, you will be surprised to find that he is always the center, and about him moves this multitude and it gradually reduces and reduces and reduces and reduces until it becomes quite a unique little group who can really have an ear.

Revelation, to him that hath an ear, let him hear. Well, people say, I have ears. Of course we all have ears. He's not talking about that. But it's their capacity, the hearing capacity. Those who have hearing capacity, he says, listen, and he always has a message for them.

And so in my teaching, I pray that those who have ears may come and may be able to receive something of the truth which God has given. I said Sunday, I am not original in truth. There is nobody who is original in truth, and there's no body, no group of people, and no church or no clique or no anything.

There's no one has a corner on it. It's just too terrific. It's too big, tremendous to be crowded down into one little creed even. Our creeds are delicious and wonderful, but you know, after all, they can't contain the thing.

Much of our teaching is purely suggestive. I know that. So there's nobody has a corner on truth. Everyone should contribute. In my reading, you'd be amazed at the things I read because I am able to find truth in so many, many places.

He told me that long ago. When I dedicated myself to God, he made me know he had called me out in a teaching mission and was asking me to dedicate my whole life to that field. He said, I'm going to give you truth, but I will give it to you in many, many prosaic places.

Not always from just this Bible right here that you're reading, but life is a great book. Nature is a great book. The human heart is a great book. And he said, you will have to learn with me to detect and then to interpret, and I will give you truth from all places.

And he has. He's not limited to just Genesis and Revelation. This is the written letter of the word. But truth is tremendous. We have this as the vehicle inspired of God. Nothing in the world like it.

No man could write it. Divinely inspired. But it is the instrument. It is the word of God. But life moves through it. Life isn't in this. Life vibrates through it, though. Through its message. So we have to learn that.

And don't close your heart. Keep your heart open that is able to speak to you in a thousand ways from a thousand tongues. Now what I have to bring to you as I come season by season, it's nothing in which I am original.

I have discovered truth. I have found it because I've dedicated my life to it. And I've asked God to make me one who is receptive. And as I discover the truth and discover the truth and discover the truth, it isn't mine.

I don't make it up. I don't sit down and make truth. Ridiculous. You discover it. Then you ask God to give you powers of transmitting. To release it. To give it. And then there has to be receptivity in the person who has it.

And then you'll get your blessed result. And so teaching is a strange ministry. I taught, of course, in public schools. I'm an educated man, if you believe it or not. I'm a college man, a seminary man.

I know those fields very well. Majored in all those subjects. And I know what it is from the teacher's standpoint. And to me there's no vocation like it. It is unique. It's different. I do some preaching in with it.

But it's a teaching message. And many people don't care for it because it's not too entertaining and spectacular. It requires this part of the body as much as this part. How many of you know that? How many of you know it requires this part as much as this part?

Yes. Yes, it does. And so I'm glad always to minister as far as able to each one in his own place. He told me something. I've said it before and I tell it to you. When God brings you truth, and you're not able to relate it perfectly to your system of thinking or even to your Christian vision, but you know it's truth.

The Spirit will witness in you that's truth, but you can't get a hold of it. You don't know how to organize it. You don't know where it belongs. But you say, that's the truth. But how to fit that into your scheme of thinking and into your life of living, you may not be able to do it in a moment, but the Holy Spirit in you will witness to truth wherever he finds it.

He will witness to it. Now God said to me, you're going to find that. And when you can't relate it perfectly, because you don't understand it, and its philosophy clicks or doesn't click with what you have, I'll tell you something.

He says, build a little shelf in your heart, and quietly tuck it away in there. Now close the door. Let it alone. No, you want to fuss with it. Let it alone. Well, I want, let it alone. Well, why? You have no spiritual apprehension yet developed.

All revelation in its approach has to, your heart has to be conditioned for revelation. You can't just spontaneously have revelation. No, your heart has to continually be built with powers of reception for the revelation.

Then, in time, as God comes along, there will be a place where that very truth is needed, and you'll be so glad you didn't discard it. You will be so happy to think, well, that's where that belongs. I heard a line on that a year ago, two years ago, and I couldn't fit it in with my little experience, but I always thought, well, I guess that's truth, all right, Lord.

Yes, put it in there. How many get it? Do you get it? Then, by and by, God will bring you to a place where that is the truth adequate, the only truth that will fit in to where you belong. So I have carried in my heart, on my shelf, pieces of truth 30, 40, 50 years before I could find it, where it belonged.

50 years of it. I've been baptized in the Spirit 55, so I've been going a long time. I told him Sunday, I'm getting old, I'm over 80 years old, and here I stand as if I was 45, 50, or 60, and I'm gay as anything.

Well, God good. He's good to me. He keeps me alive and alert. Yes, I'm over 80. Somebody take me to heaven. No. Young, fresh, eager. How many know the Spirit keeps you alive? I couldn't carry on if I didn't have the Holy Spirit.

The Spirit carries on in me. He says, let me get in there. I said, come on, Lord, I'm tired. Well, I can take over. Then he takes over. So, in teaching, I have this privilege of breaking the bread into 100 pieces.

You have to get used to that. If you've come for a logically arranged little message, which homiletically is correct, and imagine, I taught homiletics in college years ago, 100 years ago. I taught homiletics.

Well, I haven't had more use for homiletical rules in my message than a cat. Well, why? I know the rules of a homiletically arranged message. It's subject, it's introduction, it's illustration, it's conclusion, the finale.

I know all of that. But they're trying to put over in a lot of schools, you know. My goodness. I say, haven't they got out of that yet? I say, Lord, when will they ever wake up? No, my message won't follow that.

So, some people who come say, well, that was a strange message. Oh, it will be. It's just the thinking. I have a right as a teacher to do something that a lot of people don't understand. That is repeat.

And repeat. And repeat. And repeat. I heard him say that before. Come around here, and I'll say it 12 more times. And repeat. Now, why? That's the prerogative of a teacher. For some only learn through the power of repetition.

Some by absorption. How many know some get it by absorption? I have people who come and listen, and listen, listen. And finally, it registers purely through a process of absorption. Not too strong mental processes, but absorption.

How many get that? That's right. How many know you will receive from God by absorption, too, when your mental processes fail you? How? Keep very close to the Lord. Keep very close to the Lord. I have gained some bits of truth that have helped to revolutionize my life.

Not through a logically arranged process of thinking. I've had that. Logic. Philosophy. I've had that. I know that. But by very close and intimate contact with the living Lord. Silently. Quietly. Do you know you can absorb?

A process of absorbing. So with my group, you're my students tonight. You're my students. And so that's the way I talk to students when I lecture and teach in the Heaven College of Art. I'm a student.

So I like to take that attitude. I will have to repeat, and repeat, and repeat. That's my prerogative. That's necessary because of the condition of the people to whom I minister. If I only want to tell you one thing, I can get up and say it, and then sit down.

But that isn't it. I have a lot of truth that I want to handle. And so sometimes it's hard, like tonight, just for a vote. How many are here for the first time? Don't be scared. Now put up your hands, please.

Almost half of you. Almost half. Put them up. Just don't go. That's it. Pray for those who have rheumatism, brother. Good. That's right. So we take quite a little while getting through. Absorption. Repetition.

Whatever method is necessary. Now I have to do this way because I have a group of people tonight. Now tomorrow night I won't have them. Now tonight I want to start something that I know when I start it won't work exactly because I can't get my people.

The Difficulty of Teaching a Multi-Night Series

I would like to teach in a series, but you can't have a series of more than two nights because the people you have tonight won't be here tomorrow night. Well, then what you have given tonight, the poor dears have it, and the next one will come in the second night and say, well, what is he talking about?

Where did you hook up? How many of you know that makes it very difficult in teaching? Terrifically so. And yet others have asked me, why don't you give a series? Can't you give us a series? That's what I would like to do.

If I talk about prayer, I would like at least three to four evenings in a series to open that subject. Anyone can exhaust the subject of prayer in one message. I don't want to hear it. I really don't.

I couldn't waste my time on it. No, it takes time. Now they've asked for a series. Can't you give us something in a series, develop so and so in the spirit? I said, I can't do it. I'm here too short a time, and you're too flipping.

You're in one evening, out the next, and here you are, and tomorrow you won't be here. I said, I can't do that. It makes it too difficult. So I hope you'll take up with what I have, and don't be too severe in your criticism.

I have reasons to feel this way. Tonight, I had hoped to work on that subject I'd suggested Sunday. We were dealing in the Garden of Eden. How many are wearied with the Garden of Eden, are you? Now, those who come in tonight don't know what we're laughing at.

How many know what you're laughing at? Put up your hands. Well, you weren't here Sunday, so you don't know what we're talking about. Will we ever get you to heaven where you can sit down and have your three hours?

How many think you could take a little bit more of the Garden of Eden, do you? Or have you exhausted it? No. We worked two services on the parts of the Garden of Eden, and Adam and Eve. We've nowhere near exhausted it.

But I want to go back to that Garden of Eden to deal with a little subject that I suggested Sunday, and some of you were concerned about it. How many know that question? Yes. Now, in a series, I wondered if I could do maybe two tonight, I would like it.

Around 11, they have a coffee break at 11, don't you? Yes, that's good. So, yeah, I thought so. I would like to deal with maybe two questions tonight, and maybe two tomorrow night, because I only want to deal with four.

Now, what do you mean? I mean questions which God has asked, or have been asked, when they already know the answer far better than the person to whom they asked the question. And yet that looks so simple.

But I found it, and God put me on the chase of it. I said, Lord, that's a strange thing, that here's a question. You ask a question which you know more about it than the people, then why do you have to ask such a funny question?

Well, that got me going, because I get starved off on almost any tangent. So then I get my Bible out, and I go to work. And I said, well, that's repeated another time. And by and by, I find, well, he's doing that again.

Then I find he's doing it again. And I look, and I find he's doing that again. I got four of them already lined up. Four times where he will ask a question, and he knows all the time all about it. Well, when he does that, I'm just foolish enough to say, Lord, you must have a reason for that, or you wouldn't do it.

How do you think he would have a reason for it? Well, now it's for us to detect that. So tonight, for a little while, let's get in, as far as possible, in with two questions, and see if we can discover a reason for such an arrangement as that.

The Biblical Meaning of the Fall and Death

Now we'll go back to the Garden of Eden, where we've been working for two services, concerning the creation, and we call it the fall of man. But I wish we couldn't use that term. The fall is not mentioned in the Bible.

Death is mentioned in the Bible. But the fall of man is a phrase which we use in theology. You can't find the fall of man in the Bible. We find a word stronger than that. We find the word death. In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely fall.

No! In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Death is the penalty. He falls, of course, in one sense of the word, from his lovely level of grace, into sin and bondage. But that doesn't cover the whole episode of sin and disobedience.

That's only one phase of it. But why limit just this marvelous thing called the death of man to one phase, that he fell from grace? That's only one phase of the death! Go back to what God said. In the day thou eatest thou shalt surely die.

But to get theology all mixed up, and phraseology, and church phrases mixed in with your religion, and trying to get to God, and you're all wrong. Now I found that a hard way, because I was taught and taught and taught.

College and seminary and all the way through, taught. But so many things I had to unlearn after I had spent 20 years learning them. Now that's hard, but it's right. I was a good, faithful student, but I had to unlearn, oh, so many things which I faithfully learned!

Because it was not the truth, it was theological exposition. Man's traditions. The church's way of looking at this. How does my church look at it? How does the other church look at it? How many know that isn't yet the truth?

Now you're getting church-minded. Our church teaches this. I don't care what your church teaches. Well, my church always stood for that. I don't care about that. What does the Bible say? Well, then I'm a heretic.

Soon as I teach like that, then I'm a heretic. I'm a happy one. You need not pray and put your kind, let me weep on your shoulder. I'm not crying about that. I'm only too happy to have discovered some of these things, and found my place in liberty, for which I praise God.

I don't want to, again, be bound under the bondage of a whole lot of religiosity, tradition, religious habits, church stuff. I don't want to be bound by it. This is all I need. It has brought me life, and it will take me back again to God.

It will do the same for you. And in that terrific episode in the garden there, in the third chapter of Genesis, we find a tragedy, a disaster. In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Well, we know that he didn't relate to the physical act, because he lived three, four hundred years, three hundred and something other years.

His body didn't fall right over in a corpse when he ate it. Well, something died. In the day you eat it, you will die. Well, then, he didn't die physically, what died? That spiritual contact in God, that sweet, holy breath of God, which had come down to actuate and dominate in this trinity of spirit, soul, and body, which man is.

Man is a trinity. He is spirit, soul, and body. The Holy Spirit was the breath of God, who dwelt in the spiritual power of his being, a capacity for God, which is born and brought into man. Adam was made with that spiritual capacity.

He was made with capacities and gifts for his physical, psychic life, and physical life, but also given capacities for truth and life. That was the life of God that actuated in him, and he was dominated, and he lived under the power and the control of that life of God, the will of God in him.

Now, he says, when you take the forbidden fruit, that will be cancelled. You will die. Your physical body, your intelligence, your psychic life, that whole great phenomena of life, that will all remain, but it will be ruined.

It will not function normally as it should. It will be thrown under a law. Law? Philet, you talk about law all the time. The world is full of law. The whole world is built on law. Your Christian experience, as much as you've got tonight, is built on law.

I'm not talking about the Ten Commandments. Let that go for ten minutes. I'm talking about a law which governs in the mechanism of a whole human being. The structural law which governs is held by law.

That is control. Now, he says, when sin has come, that has been thrown into terrific disorganization. That's why the grand, glorious intelligence that was gifted in Adam has totally collapsed until now, he says, what little you are able to get in knowledge you earn by the sweat of your face.

And after several thousand years, we have an electric light. You think electricity is a new thing? Well, there's nothing new under the sun. There's nothing new. We only make discoveries. We make discoveries, but there's nothing new.

Ever. Nothing new. And so, he says, in the day thou eatest serum, thou shalt surely die. That is, this whole thing will be thrown into disorganization. All of his mental life is confused, distorted, his processes broken down, that he is working continually under a shadow.

Even your physical frame will suffer, and in the end, it'll die. Do you think death was in the thought of God when he created Adam? What ridiculous! No, no. Death is the result of sin. Death is the result of sin.

That's one of the hangovers. That's a bit of the result of that terrible catastrophe of disobedience. Death wasn't in his program. I'd like to talk a while on that, show you why I know that. Oh, you want proof?

I'll prove it, dear. I have it right here, right in this lovely book that I just love. I have the proof of it. I wouldn't dare to tell you things that I didn't know I had proof of. It's not my proof. It's the word of God.

It's the lovely truth. So he said, you will thus fail. Well, they of course partook of the fruit, and Adam died. Now, as I've said Sunday, very few people ever stop to think. Let me tell you something.

God’s Question to Adam and the Beginning of Redemption

The last time God had talked with Adam, he was a living, brilliant, vibrant spirit. Holy and sweet and lovely and innocent. This time when he comes down into the garden to deal with him, is the first contact he has with a dead Adam.

How many of you know that's true? Put up your hands. Come on, put them up. Thank you. We don't think about those things. I say that because I feel intense in these things. I feel the spirit of God so intense, I can fairly scream when I get up, but I have to be polite.

No, this is God's first contact with a dead Adam. But he still has communion with him. He still has access to him. Isn't it sweet? So man is born dead. A broken down wreck that God has access to. All of his wreckage does not hinder God coming and bringing us out of our wreckage and confusion into a glorious new creature in Christ Jesus.

A thing that has never lived on the earth before. Not this thing, but a new creature that we are in Christ. Miracle, isn't it? So when he comes down, he deals with Adam. What is the first thing that he says to him?

What is the first thing that he says to this dead man? He asks him a question. Where are... I can't help but feel pathos in that. I feel a tenderness in it. As I said Sunday, that is the first little vision I have of a broken hearted God.

He did not come down to rebuke him. He came down to salvage and to bring him through. He did not come down as a judge. He came down as a mighty God who would bring redemption to this whole chaotic thing.

The whole world is swirling through time in its wreckage. That was the lovely, marvelous hearted God. Don't you love God? How many love him? I want you to love him. I want you to love him. All I can feel that when he approached him was a pathos, a disappointment.

Where are... Now listen, how many of you know God knew where he was better than Adam did? Do you think Adam had any consciousness of the devastation he brought to this universe? Do you think Adam knew then the devastation that has projected itself for these thousands of years in a broken down creation and man under a law of sin and death?

Do you think Adam had any idea of that? He just was conscious of the fact that he had lost his contact with God. That sweet access, that sweet oneness had been ruined illustrated by the idea of garments and he was unclothed.

He's not talking about whether he had a coat on him or a shirt. He's not talking about that. Morally and spiritually he was stripped. Morally and spiritually he was naked before God and had no life and no accent that God in his great mercy, our great God, how wonderful he is.

He could move down. And he says, why? Because he had failed in these two great objectives. Adam had been made for the glory of God and Adam had been made to bring to God a peculiar pleasure that no other thing in the universe could bring.

No angels could bring it. No creation thing could bring it. But man in his response because he's created in the image and likeness of God he can offer back to God the thing the heart of God has always hungered for.

He cares tonight more about a fellowship in you than anything on God's earth. He cares more about the fellowship of your heart with his than he does anything in the world because it is something that only you can give.

People can do so many things. He wants you to become so. Not do, but become. Not do, become. The do is so simple. The becoming is a divine process which will last till we move into God. And even in the next age I expect to grow.

Do you? It's merely the releasing of the seed plot here. The little seed plot. The little potential. Glory to God. Just the little potential here. Years to get it in shape. Released and projected through the eternal ages as a media for the glory of God and to give his heart pleasure.

Do you see that? That's what life is about. That's the kind of thing I want people to see. As I said to my little sister Wells where I sit I said I'd give money tonight if certain people would go to a meeting and let me help them.

I would give them money to do it because they don't seem to know it. They don't seem to know it. I have offered it. I remember in school years ago when I was teaching and I had some precious students.

Some of them were quite immature. But the more immature you are the less you seem to know anything about God. And so I could excuse them because they didn't know much. They were all saved and baptized to the Holy Ghost and they had gifts and everything marvelous, spectacular, tremendous, super expedulious if you really want to know.

But they didn't know what he said. And I remember too, one of them had a briefcase. I think he had two or three little sermon outlines which he had dug out. He had done something tremendous because he had found two or three thoughts.

God bless them, that's all right. And they were tremendous. And he had been out and preached several times under the anointing I guess he called it. I don't know. And he had quite a time. But to have him sit still and let me lecture, he just couldn't seem to take it for the awful itch of to the work and tremendous things which were to issue from the gifts which he held.

It was all I could do was keep in place teaching. So I went to him one time and I said, now listen dear, I don't want to be too wild with you, bad, but you don't know who you are yet and I want to help you.

I'll be as gentle as I can and as kind as I can. Now I will give you so much a lecture if you will come in here and listen. I really did. I said, I will pay you because you don't know enough to know you don't know.

At least you know what that is. How do you know that's a bad place to be? And I said, you don't know enough to know you don't know. But I do. I will pay you. Well, of course he was a little chagrined.

Naturally he had sense enough for that. But it, well it held him for a little while. But he was always very difficult because he had tremendous visions of the world being redeemed and the power of God falling and the nations being brought in and glory, I don't know where he was going obviously his coat tail off there on one of the clouds that's about the last I could see of him.

It was so terrific to me. Well, you want to know the sequel? Huh? I think it was three, four years later I was teaching in a convention and I didn't know the man was anywhere near me. I didn't even know he was in the same state.

And I gave my message and after the message I always like to be alone with the Lord a little while. I like to be away just a little while. And it was dark back to the church in kind of a long lane and I was walking down there thanking the Lord for the meeting and loving him.

How many ever go out to love the Lord? He's so beautiful. I think he's wonderful. And as I was walking somebody came up behind me with an arm over my shoulder it kind of scared me. I said, yes? Well, here was my dear boy.

He'd been in the work about three years and had learned two or three things. Do you know his first words? Oh, for that, he said. I wish I could go back to school now and listen to those lectures, he says.

I've been out in the work and I wish I could. I said, listen dear, school is out. And it was out. I was out of school. How many get the point? There are certain times of visitation. Certain times of opportunity.

Certain times when God says thus. But if we're too stupid we don't know the difference and we let it drive. But he'll always have somebody around to help you. And so here, this question. Come back. Where are thou?

Now, God knows all about that. Well, then why did he ask it? Well, you'll find it out by running over your story two or three times. What happened? Well, Adam began to pour out his heart. Honestly. He didn't have to have a special meeting for conviction.

And all of them throwed the Holy Ghost conviction on him. No. They just let him talk his heart out. And so he said, well, Lord God, thus and thus and thus. How many remember the story? The story. He took the steps.

Of course, first was this. How many know the defense mechanism that always has to come in first? I mean, those who know psychology. How many know all of this? The Bible's full of it, dear. The wife whom you gave me.

Of course, I wouldn't have done it, but she did. How many get that or can't you? Did you ever feel that? I think the people in the world call it passing the buck, don't they? Yes. Yes, that's what they call it in the world.

But this is old Adam. Such a performance as that isn't something new. It's as old as Adam. And so finally he works around and he works around till he spills it all out. And then he finally says, and we did eat of the forbidden fruit, and so and so, and look at the mess.

That was a terrible thing, wasn't it? Then God begins to tell him the result of it. He hadn't gotten through yet. He begins to let him feel in his conviction what he has done. Cursed be the earth for your sake.

He didn't curse Adam. How many know he never cursed Adam? We are under a curse. He cursed the earth. Cursed be the earth for thy doings. And all the animals and all that had to go into a subjection for which they were not accountable at all.

I never go to a zoo and see a poor lion. I always feel apologetic, I think you poor thing. God never made you like that. Never in the world, never in the world, never in the world. But that is a result of sin in the world.

Your ferocity, your ugliness, your bloodthirst, all of that is a result of sin in the world. God never created you to go and jump on something and kill us. Never in the world. But he said, cursed judgment upon all creation for your sake, I have a redemption for you.

So he lets him sense that. Then the next thing he says, and he clothed Adam and Eve with garments of what? A slain little animal. How do you get your first shedding of blood? The first picture of the shedding of blood is there in Genesis.

It's God slaying a little innocent animal that he might have a covering. How many can see the Lord Jesus? He's showing us redemption. Do you see the covering wasn't just a little skin? That's the symbol of it.

That's alright to have an animal, I suppose. That's not what he's talking about. He's talking about this strange mystical symbol which is before them. Three figures and speaks of a covering of righteousness through the shed blood of the Christ.

And that would be enough to cover. So he covers them. So now you'll see three things. You see God giving them an occasion for growth and development. By doing what? Subjecting them to a law of testing and proving.

Testing, Obedience, and Growth Through Trials

Now your law of testing and proving is in the second chapter of Genesis. As soon as man is created, a law of testing and proving is introduced. Why? Now please remember. The law of testing and proving such as here's the tree, the possibilities of right or wrong.

You have a strange part of your makeup in the personality set up is a power to will. Now that power of will has to function. And you can't make a power of choice over a one thing. How many of you know you have to have two things at least to make a choice?