(Depressed Disciples) Holiness the False and the True — Willie Mullan

One now in a song of grateful praise, for my dear Lord my voice I raise, with all his saints I've joined to tell, my Jesus has done all things well. It's one please. We've been looking for nine weeks past now at this matter of depression, and we find that people are depressed by many different things.

Some are depressed because of the fear of death, and we've gone into that. Some people I find depressed because of the evil speaking of others, bat-biting it's called sometimes, and instead of just closing their ears to it and getting out of it, they go to bed and fuss and turn, and at last you find them broken down and depressed.

And others are depressed because of some thing they committed a way back somewhere maybe years ago. But I think that the greatest source of depression among believers is false teachings. There are so many false teachings, and they teach young people things that are not true, and they lead them up what I call a false garden path.

And the young people are out to be the best for God, and they're led up this alley. And then they find it's not working, and then they blame themselves. And you find some of them going into a mental home because of this.

Holiness as a Source of False Spiritual Discouragement

Now we're back to expose some false teaching this evening. And we're going to look at holiness tonight. We're going to look at holiness, the false and the truth. Dr. Eisenstein wrote a book many, many years ago, and it's entitled Holiness, the False and the Truth.

And I shall say this openly and unachievably that I believe that it's the best book that was ever written. That's what I believe. And if you find it on some bookshelf, then sag your shirt and buy it because it would be worth something.

But when Dr. Eisenstein wrote this book, there were some folks who read it and who said that both he and it should be burned at the stake. Well you see, when I tackle holiness, I may have a few enemies around me, but I shall stake what the stitches teach.

Because I'm neither seer you have found, nor covet you have smiled. I'm just a servant of the Lord in here, and nobody else matters. I must serve the Lord. And you know this holiness, you'll find that sometimes it's called holiness, and sometimes it's called by this great, big, long, fanciful word of sanctification.

You hear them talking about sanctification all over the world, and they don't even know what the word means. And then you hear them talking about the higher life, and then you hear them talking about the second lesson.

And you'll find that it's all mixed up and jumbled together. And so I'm going to tell you what they say, and then I'm going to tell you what the book says. And I would think you would be able to follow that quite clearly.

You see, I can remember when I was just saved. Now you just think of a drunkard getting saved. And I'd got my first new suit. Oh, for many years, of course. And I went to the little bookshop in Bangor, in Crouchwell Road there, where Jennifer used to work.

And I remember I'm looking along the shelf on just a few weeks' save, you know. And I saw this book, Holiness, and I wondered what this was about, you know. Took it out, and I'm reading it when somebody put their hand on my shoulder.

And it was one of the great pictures from the convention of Bangor. He said, You're a young man. And this is 43 years ago, remember. He said, You're a young man. Are you long saved? I said, Mom, I'm just saved a week or two.

I just want to go on with the Lord, you know. He said, You're interested in holiness. I said, Yes, oh yes, if this is what I must be, then I'm interested, yes. He said, You'd better put that back in the shelf again, for that's not for you.

And I put it back in the shelf. He said, You know, I'll tell you what holiness is. He said, You see, I got saved just the way you got saved, and I was rejoicing in the Lord, and my heart was overflowing just the way yours is.

But, you see, I hadn't received the Spirit of God. Oh, I was just saved. But he said, I went to my room, and I prayed for weeks. And then one night, like a ball of fire, something came through the roof, and the Spirit came upon me and entered into me.

And I was baptized of the Spirit. I was sanctified. I was made whole. Now, I was a young fellow, and I didn't know very much at all. And I said, What does this mean to you? He said, You know, it meant that from that moment forward, I didn't commit sin at all.

And I said, You actually mean that although I'm saved, I haven't received the Holy Ghost? And if I had received the Holy Ghost, then I would be in a position where I wouldn't sin at all. He said, That's right.

First Corinthians and the Problem of Sinless-Perfection Claims

And you know, the Lord must have been with me from the day I was born again, because I opened my Bible to this fellow, and I said, Look, I want you to look at this with me. Remember, I'm just a kid, you know, in those days.

But you have a look at what I did with him. And at first Corinthians, and it's chapter six, please. First Corinthians, chapter six. And it's Paul writing to these Corinthians. And I had trouble finding the place, you know, because when I was just saved, I couldn't find the place very quickly.

But I eventually found it. And at verse nineteen, I read to them somewhat timidly. I read the words, What? Paul's asking a question, I said. Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?

I said, Have these boys got the Holy Ghost? He said, Yes. You can see that, can't you? That their body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you. So I say, They've got this thing that you're talking about, that the Holy Ghost had entered into them.

He said, Yes. I said, That's funny, because when you go back to chapter three, I'll tell you what way it reads. It reads, And I, brethren, should not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

I have fed you with milk and not with meat, for hitherto you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal, for whereof there is among you envy and strife and division. Are ye not carnal?

I said, These fellows have the Holy Ghost and the Satan among themselves, and their enemies. I took them back a little bit, you know. And I said to Mr., The yarn that you are telling me, and the yarn that that book is telling me, two different stories.

Now, which one of you do you think that I'm going to accept? Do I go by you, or do I go by the book? Twelve of these men had the Holy Ghost, but they were still sinning. And the old fellow was in effect.

He thought I was some theological professor, and I could hardly write my own name. Or the trite that you have to listen to at times, and it is trite, let me tell you. You see, I was preaching once at Porta Vogue, and we had great meetings there, and there are some friends from Porta Vogue here this evening, bless them.

And the old schoolmaster there at the big school, he was a brilliant fellow, but he didn't like me exposing these things like this. And I started to deal with some of the false teachings about holiness and sanctification and so-called second blessings.

You know, one night he came back into the little room, and he said, Look, we are having this out, even if we go to bed early hours in the morning. I said, That's all right, that's all right. He said, Well, you are all tied up in a knot, you know.

This word holiness and this word sanctification and this second blessing, it's all the same thing. I said, You're very sure, Master? Yes, I'm very sure. And I'm very sure there was a day long after I was saved when it happened.

What happened? He says, I got sanctified, I got this real experience. I said, You're quite sure about this, Master? He says, I'm very sure. You're sure that holiness and sanctification and the higher life and second blessings are all the same?

Yes, I'm sure. You're wrong. You'll fix this tomorrow night. Fix this after I've fixed you, Master. I said, Now we'll turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 7. You do it with me now. 1 Corinthians chapter 7. And I read him this verse, For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife.

I said, Now, Master, you know a thing or two about sentences, how you pass them and all that sort of thing, and the verb and the noun and all the rest of it. Have a look at this, Master. Just be careful, Master.

It says, The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife. Are you telling me that the unbelieving husband has got the second blessing? Now, you would know, wouldn't you? You would know that he's talking fact.

He hasn't got the first blessing yet. He's not saved. Yet the book you're reading out of says, The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife. Is he sanctified or is he not? Of course he is sanctified.

It's not holiness he has. No. Nor is it higher life he has. Nor is it second blessing he has. You know, when you listen to these old fellows talking, if you were a bit soft, you know, you would get all muddled and you'd go home and you would lie awake and you'd turn over in bed and you would sacrifice a thousand things if you could only get into this supposed blessing that they're in, supposed nonsense they're in.

That's what it is. And we'll see if the night goes on enough in a hurry, shall we? Because I'm just not in the mood this evening. Yes, I'll take the coat off now. The wife said to me before I come up, don't you take that coat off, for I don't like that shirt.

Well, that's just enough to make me take the coat off. We'll have trouble when I go home because some of them will go down and tell her before the mouth of the door. My son says, let's go in and stir a rock.

Okay, I can take it. I've had 40 years of it, I'm okay. All right. You know, I hear some of these young ones talking about the blessing they have. And they use language like this, I have it. I've got it.

I have it. It's all I, isn't it? And they don't catch it on, it's all I. Listen, dear. It's not I, but comes that comes. Just take the eye out of it for a minute or two. And less of the I now. Here they do love to talk about the I.

Well, yes, I think that you can see quite clearly that there are some who teach things, and also have said to me, you know, this whole gospel that you preach, you know, it's all right. But there's a greater thing, you know, it's respect and gratitude that you should be preaching.

I think it's a loss. Paul didn't know about it, because Paul said, God forbids that I should glory save in the cross. But you're in an advanced class, aren't you? Oh, they're sick in there. They just make me fed up looking at them with They have all experienced, always experienced, always something coming through the loop of something.

But all the experience is different from the book. My dear, if you can't see that your experience is different from the book, and you must be wrong, it's a pity of you. I don't know where you'll end up.

But we're going to fix it this evening. We've got to fix it very carefully, too. Yes, I want to do this with you. Now, you've got the notes in your hand, and we'll just use the word sanctification. And let's begin at the bottom for the moment, just so you see.

You see, I'm allowed to do that. Some old critic will say, you know, what did you put the note like that for, and then go to the bottom. When I put the note, I can do what I like. And the first till the last, and the last till the first.

We never text like that, just in money, do we? All right. Now, let's have a look at the sanctification of inanimate objects. Let's go to the book of Exodus, and we're at chapter forty, please. Book of Exodus, chapter forty.

Sanctification of Inanimate Objects in Exodus

We don't want to waste too much time on this, but the Lord is talking to Moses. You can see from the first verse, the Lord spake unto Moses. It's the Lord talking to Moses. And then down at verse ten, he said this to Moses, And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt offering.

You know, it was the altar where the lamb was offered. And all his vessels sanctify the altar. I said to the old schoolmaster that evening, was this altar sanctified? He didn't want to say, you know. He said, answer the question first.

The kid took as long about that in the class, he was smacking. Stand up and answer the question. Was this altar sanctified? Yes, of course it was. The altar was a clean made. It's a big thing that was built, what they put the lamb on.

Now, there's nobody coming round after this meeting to tell me it had an experience. Is there an inanimate object having an experience? Oh, you must be mad. Oh, but it was sanctified. We're getting into deeper waters as we go on.

Because I can tell you that the unbelieving husband was sanctified and the altar was sanctified. And don't try to tell me the altar had an experience in the back room. It won't work. And you can see that the next verse says, verse 11, And thou shalt anoint the ladle that was the vessel at the tabernacle that held the water.

And his foot-arm sanctified. They're trying to tell me it had a back room experience. I don't think I need to waste time on that. Now, let's go back to that sanctification of the unbelieving husband.

We're going backwards up those notes. And we're back at 1 Corinthians chapter 7. You see, when I talked to the old schoolmaster and calmed them down, and let them see that the altar and the ladle and the tabernacle and any other inanimate objects that had this great word placed upon them, they were sanctified.

And that the unbelieving husband was sanctified. He said, you know, maybe I'm using the wrong word. Oh, I said, that's an admission that lasts from you. You know right well that you're talking crap. And if you would say it like that, we would get on to hurt you.

They said, Master, you just don't know what the word sanctification means. That's your trouble. And you ought to know. And they said, fuck you at the big school up there, because you don't know. And then he said to me, it means separation.

And I said, you do know. Because when they anointed the altar, it just meant that this vessel was set apart, separated unto God. You couldn't sleep on it. It was set apart for offering, the burnt offering.

It was just set apart. Now, when you come to the unbelieving husband, how do you deal with this truth? This is very easy. Let me do it in a simple way so that you can see. You see, once upon a time, Paul came down to Canaan.

You know, if you go to Greece sometime, and you go to Athens, and I think you should, and go up and see all the temples up on the mount there, you will remember this, that twenty miles down the road is the city of Canaan.

And Paul preached to Darchens, and then he went down to Corinth. And I remember the morning I preached to Darchens, and I was determined I'd go down that road to Corinth that afternoon, but things didn't turn out like that.

Sanctification Through the Light of a Believing Household

Now, on the way down there are one or two little villages. Little Greek villages. And let's think about them in Paul's day. Let's think about them like this. Now, this is for your good I'm using this in this section.

Let's think there are twenty houses in the little village. Just twenty houses. Just like the little colony of Gibson Taylor out there. Now, Paul's coming down the road. He's going to Corinth. But he stops in the middle of this little colony of houses.

Gets out in the centre of Greece. And he's preaching the gospel, and there's nobody saved in any one of these houses. They never heard the gospel. And he's preaching this glorious gospel that God so loved the world that he gave his son, that the Lord Jesus came, born of the Virgin, and he went to the cross and paid the price of our redemption in drops of ruby blood, and rose again to be the Saviour.

And Paul's really battering about on the village Greek. Now, we'll say there's a little woman in the corner house comes up. And comes on to the green and says, tell me more about it. And she gets full.

We'll cut it short. She gets full. We'll get down on the green for God's sake. But Paul's got to go on. Now, you see all these houses, twenty of them? Well, there's nineteen of them in the dark. But there's one house there's a light in it now.

There's a real woman who knows the Lord. And her husband is separated from all the others. Because he has a light with him continually. And in that sense, and only in that sense, the unbelieving husband in the wee corner house is sanctified by the grace she has got sent.

No problem with it. The man hasn't had any experience, but he has a light in the house now. He's different from all the other boys. I think you would think he would do well. Let's sing the sanctification of the sun.

The Son Sanctified and One with the Father

Let's go to John chapter 10. John's gospel chapter 10. And the Lord Jesus is preaching here in what a mighty chapter it is. It's a chapter where he preaches about being the good shepherd who gives his life for the sheep.

And then he made one of the great statements of his whole life. I wrote a book on it once entitled it, On the Super Sayings of the Saviour. Because while our Lord said wonderful things all the time, and never man spake like this man, yet out of all the sayings there are some super sayings.

And I picked out all the super sayings of the Saviour. This little book has gone around the world. Now look at verse 30. We're at John 10 verse 30. And the Lord Jesus is speaking and he said, I and my Father are one.

Now that's a super saying. You see if you were talking about your Father, I trust that you would know to say this, my Father and I. Oh but he didn't do that. He was just trying to let the Jews see that he was co and co and coeternal with the Father.

The eternal Father and the eternal Son were on the same basis. And he said, I and my Father are one. So there is one God but there are three persons in the Godhead. And he's just talking about the eternal Son and the eternal Father and they're co-equal.

I and my Father. Now this is what the rest of us can't see of course. They just don't understand this. It's a pity of them. Because they argue with me about Jesus Christ. They say you say he's God. I know he's God.

I have no trouble with that. Well let's see what it says here. He looked at the cloud and said, I and my Father are one, at verse thirty. Verse thirty-one, then the Jews took up storms again to storm him.

They're going to storm him now. Jesus answered them, many good works have I showed you from my Father. For which of those works do ye storm me? The Jews answered him saying, for a good work ye storm me not, but for blasphemy.

And because that thou being a man makest thyself God. Oh they don't understand it all that. It's a pity of the rest of us isn't it? The boys that were standing wondering, they knew what he was talking about.

He said you're making yourself God. Of course if he says I and my Father are one, he's making himself God. And the Jews believed it was blasphemy and they're going to full storm. I think it's a pity of people who can't read.

Once upon a time I could certainly read. I don't think it takes any preaching for that genius need to read. Verse thirty-four, Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law I said ye are gods? If he called them gods unto whom the word of God came and the scripture cannot be broken, say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified.

That's a bit I must say. So I said to the old master, using him tonight because I gave him a lesson, I said are you trying to tell me that the Lord Jesus needed the second blessing as ever before? Were you trying to say that?

Now he was big enough and honourable enough to say it. No I didn't mean that. I said you said at the beginning that holiness and sanctification and higher life and second blessing were all one if Jesus was sanctified.

They're not what you are saying master. They're a checker box. Oh but I know there are boys who say it for months and there are boys who say that my Lord needed something else. Oh the curse of God be on your head.

I beg you. This book says he was sinless and spotless and faultless and harmless. A poor miserable creature like you. You say he needed something else. You want to go and fall into the river three times and come up twelve.

You get sick looking at you. No it's quite as usual. That's what it is. And the sanctification of the inanimate object. They can't have an experience. And the unbelieving husband had no experience. He was just separated out from the other crowd because his wife was saved.

And the Lord Jesus was separated by the Father to be the saviour of the world. The Father sent the Son to be the saviour. He separated the mortals and said do you doubt you'll be the saviour. The Father sanctified him in that sense.

It's a great pity of people who read things into the scriptures that are not there and upset young believers and take them up a garden path until they're crying out for this holiness which is not really there.

The whole thing is false. Now let's begin the true holiness now. Because there is a true holiness in us. So we start from the top now. We just go back and forward in just whatever way we like to. Now we're at sanctification of the spirit now.

Sanctification of the Spirit and the Belief of the Truth

Let's follow this true holiness right through. Now come with me to 2 Thessalonians and we're at chapter 2. 2 Thessalonians and make sure you get 2 Thessalonians and make sure you get the 2nd chapter. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and we're after the truth now.

We've just been exposing the error for a moment. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and Paul is writing to these saints at Thessalonica and this is what he said to them in verse 13. 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 13.

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you brethren beloved of the Lord. Have you seen that little phrase brethren beloved of the Lord? You know he's writing to the saints. And he did love the saints you know.

And he said we are bound to give thanks always to God for you brethren beloved of the Lord because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation. All right? Take your shoulder there. You know it's a very wonderful thing and I don't want to get into election or predestination or sovereign choice although that's there and if you push me I'll do it.

You see way back before they were held in order so the rest of the saints were saying God was there. He must be there. He's eternal. And he must know everything that's going to happen along the path of Jesus Christ.

He must know everything. If he can prove to me that he didn't know then I can prove to you he wasn't God. If he's God he must know. He knows the end from the beginning. And you see he would know that I would be born in Newtown Arms.

He would know that. And he would know that I would be number 17 in our family. There were 16 boys in our family and one girl. And I was the last one of the lot. So I could never have been a spoiled boy at any time.

You know if there's just one lad in the family well Grandma will spoil him on you. If there's one lad Grandma will spoil him on you. But when Grandma and Grandma have cuddled 16 of them before you arrived they're finished spoiling them now.

So I was never spoiled. Number 17. All the old clothes from the boys come down the line to me. Old jerseys. Yes. No shoes. Bare feet. Legs. Praise the Lord. But the Lord knew I would be born there. But the Lord also knew that there would come a day and it is 43 years ago when I would stand that drunken spot.

Yay convicted for the first time in my life. And I would take Jesus Christ God's son and I would give him my life. God knew. And because of his knowledge you see I left according to the full knowledge of God.

Don't think that God put me out in the last year. You can't argue like that. Election is based on God's full knowledge. He knew what I would do with Christ and he knew what you will do with Christ too.

So he does. And what you're going to do with Christ will determine your eternity. But you see because he knew that I would accept his son then Paul is saying here from the beginning God has from the beginning chosen you for salvation.

Now through, this is how it works out of course, through sanctification of the Spirit and the belief of the truth. Now let me ask you which one comes first. Does belief of the truth come first and sanctification of the Spirit second or does sanctification of the Spirit come first and belief of the truth second?

You tell me. You are supposed to be able to know. I'll tell you that sanctification of the Spirit comes first. You see sometimes I preach on Sunday nights from this platform, many, many Sunday nights throughout all the years, and you know you can feel that the Spirit of God is helping you.

And when the congregation rise to go sometimes there is somebody to talk to. There's a big man just sitting there just now. The man with a bald head, he won't say anything to me about that. And I can remember the, many years ago sir, 1959, yes, way back in 1959 you know when the whole crowd has gone up, this big man sits down.

And I watched him from here, you know. The head was down and I could see him knuckling the tears away. You know what happened? The Holy Ghost has taken hold of him and has separated him from the crowd.

That's what you call sanctification of the Spirit. That's not second blessing. That's first blessing. You know what he needed? Because I knew what he needed. And the deacons here knew to leave him alone.

I'd go down here very carefully and down there and sit down beside him. What's up with you? You see, he was now separated out from the crowd by the Spirit of God and that's a great thing to happen to you when the Spirit of God takes hold of you.

Now what he needed now was belief of the truth. And what I needed to do was to sit down by his side and show him the truth. That God loved him, that Christ died for him, that the work was finished, that there was a living Saviour who was able to save to the very upper motion.

And all that he had to do was put the arms of his faith around this wonder-working Saviour and let him His own. And salvation was his. Did you see that? Well, I've heard truth from this phrase, sanctification of the Spirit.

Well, then you do the whole book in your office. It happens to be sanctification of the Spirit, ah, and belief of the truth. That's why I was hoping it says, I can't save them. I believe with all my heart, unless the Holy Ghost comes into this place and deals with men and women, they won't be saved.

It's the Spirit of God. But I know the truth and I know how to show them the truth. And that's how that big man away in 1959, that's him, that gloriously saved. And the whole family says now, and the wife and all the rest of it, you know, it spreads like wildfire.

He's one of the best men we have on this mission, too. Yes, well, that's sanctification of the Spirit now. Let's have a look at this now. Let's go up to Hebrews, and we're at chapter 13. It's the last chapter of Hebrews.

Sanctification by Christ’s Sacrifice in Hebrews 13

Hebrews chapter 13. It's a mighty portion, I may as well tell you. Hebrews 13, and there are two verses here. Let me read them to you, and it will save time if you watch them, verses 11 and 12. And in verse 11 we have the old sin offering type, and in verse 12 we have the fulfilment of it.

If God gave a type in the Old Testament, our Lord Jesus Christ is the fulfilment of the type. Look at verse 11. For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the High Priest for sin are burned without the candle.

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might thank to fire the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let me try to do them for you. I think you can see the bodies of those beasts. Let's take this type first of all.

There were beasts offered in sacrifice. Now let's see the bodies of those beasts. Now the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary, are burned without the candle. Now just try to see them carrying the bodies outside the camp.

Let's remember that there were twelve tribes people. Let's remember that there were thousands in each tribe. Let's remember that the camp was bigger than Belfast, Chile, just in case you don't get the perspective right.

And if they're going to take these beasts outside the camp, they've got to carry them all for miles, we'll say going out towards Newton Harbour Wells and the other side of McDonalds. And out there in the wilderness it was, they burned these bodies.

Bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the High Priest for sin are burned without the candle. Just took the bodies out there and What was it all about? What was it all talking about?

Why all this activity? You see the bodies of those beasts were typifying the body of our Lord Jesus. And our Lord Jesus it says, he and his own self bear all sins in his own body. Oh but the word bear there is a Greek word, it's a Greek word, and it means he bore them away.

You see when he hung on the cross, God laid on him all my iniquity, all my horrible sins, my drunken sins, my terrible sins were laid on him. And he bared them, but he didn't only bare them, he bore them away.

He bore them away out into a wilderness where they will never be found no more forever. My sins are gone. And they're all gone. That's the wonder of it. When he had by himself purged our sins, he blotted, they're all blotted out.

That's wonderful. But did you think the bodies of those beasts, did you see the blood of the beasts, because they separated body and blood. The bodies of those whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest.

And get the word high priest into your mind. And if you get the word high priest into your mind, then you know the sanctuary there is the Holy of Holies. And it's the day of atonement, and he's bringing the blood right into the Holy of Holies, right into the centre of the tabernacle.

And if you watch me, the bodies went that way, and the blood came this way. Oh get it right now. And the blood came right in to the mercy seat where God's glory was. And it was sprinkled on the mercy seat, so that the body went out that way, and the blood came in this way.

And the body was dealing with my sins. And the blood was dealing with my God. Because it's the blood that makes atonement. God gave the promise, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. A mighty thing you know.

Because you know, this deals with my sins in their totality for eternity. And this deals with God. He practically satisfied him on account of me. I can look into God's face and say, Jesus shed his blood for me.

Because there's something more, if you separate body and blood. You know what you have don't you? Well just try separating my body and blood this evening, and you know what will happen to me, I will die.

So that you have not only the body bearing sin away, you have not only the blood satisfying God, but you have the death of Christ. It is his death, his body and blood being separated. And through death he destroyed him who had the power of death.

You see my sins are dealt with in their totality for eternity. God is perfectly satisfied forever because of power in the blood. And Satan is crushed, because through death Christ destroyed him who had the power of death.

You know the people that talk, a lot of Christ don't understand Calvary properly. The more you understand Calvary the more you'll be blessed. Now when you see Christ fulfilling this now, because we have the trike in verse eleven, and we have the anti-trike in verse twelve, just to make sure there's no mistakes.