Face to Face — G.W. North

Moses Desires God's Presence

Wonderful. I think I must finish here with something that I started about earlier. Chapter 33, I would have liked to have carried it a bit further, and this is where I'm going to finish for tonight. On the same note, the Lord says to Moses, depart and go up hence.

Thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, and to the land which I swear unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I finish. And I'll send an angel before thee, and I'll drive out the Canaanites, and the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Sinaites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and to a land flowing with milk and honey.

For I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people, lest I consume thee in the way. Moses' heart thanked. I know it did. It's all right. I'm going to ask him. I've told you a lot of things I'm going to ask, questions I'm going to ask.

I'm going to heaven full of questions. Moses' heart. How do I know his heart thanked? Because when I got into Moses' spirit, you say, really? Yeah, I got into Moses' spirit. I often do that. I get it in yours sometimes, and you don't know it.

Thank you. So, God was saying it to me. And you've never got anywhere with your Bible till you see that spirits are encaptured there. I know you said encapsulated, but I don't want you to be taking capsules all your life.

Here is the tremendous thing. Let's go to verse 12. We'll have to come back to this next week, somewhat, but I guess. Moses says to the Lord, Seize him. Thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people, and thou wilt not let me know whom thou wilt send with me.

Listen, Lord, thou and I are on first name terms. What's the name of this angel you're going to send with me? I don't want to know. I don't mind. I know thee. This is what he's saying. Did you know that's what he was saying?

I told you, you've got to get into his spirit. You've got to get into his thinking. You say, bring up this people, and thou wilt not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast found grace also in my sight.

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee. See, that's all he wanted. He didn't particularly want promise there, and he didn't particularly want all these other things.

That I may know thee. That I may find grace in thy sight. Isn't that marvellous? If I have found grace, that I may know thee, that I may find grace. Lord, I'm utterly dependent on thy grace. He'd already broken the law.

Smashed it. Yeah, he had. Smashed it. Consider, he said, that this nation is thy people. The people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt. God said in verse one, this nation is thy people.

He felt emboldened to say so. He felt emboldened to say so. And he said, no, when God said, I'll kill them all, make a new nation out of you, Moses. No, he won. He saw standing with God. You know, you can be absolutely certain with God.

You can know what God will do and say, if you get intimate enough. Persons that I'm intimate with, I can tell you what they'll do. I know their reactions or responses on certain issues. I can see their faces.

I know where their eyes will go. I'll know the tone of their voice. Well, it's because I'm intimate with them. And I know them. And his love is, listen, have you got this intimacy with God? Or haven't you?

It's so glorious. And God said to him, my presence shall go with thee. I will. Moses, you don't want me to leave thee? An angel's not good enough for thee? No, that's right, Lord. I'll send you. Thou canst have me, Moses.

I will give thee rest. And he says to God, if thy presence go not with me, I don't want to. I don't want to exercise any power on our behalf. Carry us not up then. He's reflecting back to the time when God had said in Exodus 19, when he gathered the people at the foot of the mountains.

And he said, you ought to go back down there and you ought to say, Moses, say to them that I've borne thee on eagles wings for myself. I've carried them for myself. You see, that's it. I don't want thee to carry us another yard, Lord.

I want to stay here. I'd rather have this fragrant moment of thy presence and talking to thee than all the flesh pots of Egypt or all the gold of Pharaoh or all the trees in Canaan and all the rivers of milk and all the honey.

I'd rather have thee than life itself. That's what he said. That's the secret of Moses. This was the great moment of his life. This was beyond bloodshed, because it was only a lamb's blood that was shed.

Now, it's reality. Only lambs that were shed. Of course, it drew attention to the redemption. Of course, draw points to the glorious land and its mothers, but that was only an animal. This is the God that met him in the bush.

This is the God to whom he'd gone up. This is the God into whom he passed. He was presence to presence. That glorious thing that we speak about when we say this person had a presence. Moses knew he was in the presence.

What's the use of you going anywhere? What's the use of you going anywhere, anyplace? What's the use of God taking you anywhere by some angelic this, that or the other? I don't know this other angel. Thou hast myriads of them.

I don't want them, O Lord, not as substitutes for thee. Because he didn't want an angel, God gave him myriads to look after. And because he didn't particularly want to live to fill his stomach up with cow's flesh, and lumps of lamb's chop, and dates, and figs, and pomegranates, and milk, and I don't know what.

Because he didn't want mountains that were made of iron and silver out of the veins of the earth. They want him. That was the secret. I don't want anything else but that. What a marvelous truth. Well, that's how it's supposed to be with us.

From Sinai's Judgment to Pentecost's Life

May I say something? Along the day when God, when Moses broke the law, when God gave it finally, and God broke it, and Moses broke it, 3 ,000 souls were slain, were slain on the day of Pentecost. When God came, 3 ,000 souls were saved.

I don't know how many of you guys still work that job. I guess there are probably more than 120. But what a marvelous thing, on that glorious day of life, when God comes down and he writes the law in people's hearts, and he baptizes them in the Holy Ghost and fire, and the work of the covenant is in wrought in a man or a woman's soul.

From then on, he has the presence, the known presence of the Lord. Oh, Lord, let me never pass away from the consciousness of this moment of being alive. I don't want to go anywhere from here, Lord. If I were to go anywhere, go with me, Lord.

Carry me out. Oh, what a marvelous thing. What was special to Moses can be, if you like, special. So, I want to bracket it with the word common to all of us. We shall never be a Moses. Never. But I tell you what, you have had grace shown to you that you may know God, and that knowing him still yet, grace shall be shown unto you, that you may know him better.

For he knew that grace had been shown to him, and he broken the law, and he smashed it. Moses' anger waxed hot, and he smashed it. Smashed it. Did God say, right, excommunication? No. No. Isn't it a wonderful thing, when God comes and through all our bloomers, and blunders, and mistakes, and stupid things we do, and loves us, and loves us, until in the end we say, oh Lord, just your presence is all.

Are you there? Moses wasn't reaching out for it. He had it. Let's all get bowed down. Let's all bend our spirits unto him. Shall we? Maybe tonight. I don't know who. Someone will pass into this. You don't have to try and blow your mind on it.

Listen woman, man, you'd rather be willing for it. I didn't say inert, and impassive, feeling nothing this way, or that way. Not screwed up, but already with a sense of the divine power through the words that God has spoken to you.

Knowing that this is God's will, and intention for you. Do you know, trust? This is what Moses knew. Whatever you do, don't let your mind float away without you. This night Lord, be thou thyself, and the hearts of men and women may really pass into thee.

All the world becomes silent and dim. Yesterday and tomorrow vanish. Now Lord, be all in all. Thank you. For this evening, as has been announced already, this is the next to last study in this series on Moses.

If you were here last week, you may recall that we finished our reading and study together in that wonderful 34th chapter of Exodus. I'm afraid I'm inclined, or if afraid is the word, to call every chapter in the Bible wonderful, because I always discover something wonderful in it, wherever I go.

Even in the least likeliest chapters sometimes, that just contain a list of names. When you know that in those days names meant something, although they didn't sort of look around for an uprising film star to name their children after, but they looked to God, and they sought his guidance, and they felt that names had some significance.

I suppose too, that in looking back, in hindsight, we know that God chose a special name for his own son, because it had significance. And he didn't look around for some king or somebody on earth, for there wasn't a king on earth called Jesus to name him after, and it was a wonderful and glorious thing.

All right then, may the Lord bless us and lead us into his truth tonight. May I then direct your attention, having told you that we finished in, I beg your pardon, it was 33 where we finished our reading, may I direct your attention to the last part of chapter 34.

And in verse 29 we read this, it came to pass when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses whispered not that the skin of his face shone, while he, that is God, talked with him.

And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him. And Moses called unto them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him, as Moses talked with them.

And afterwards all the children of Israel came nigh, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off until he came out. And he came out and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone.

And Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him. I should think that at some time in your life you will have heard some reference to this section, if not heard sermons or whatever about it.

For this is one of the great highlights of Moses' life. It's glorious in the next hymn in that blue book from where we were singing, we sang hymn 56, you find the hymn which has these words in it, Moses thy backward path might do, but not a perfect sight obtain.

And I would like to sung this hymn, but I don't think we're very familiar with it. I can remember a time in my life when it just about swept me off my feet. It was one of the great discoveries of Wesley I made, and I can remember with what joy I sang it again and again in public and in private.

And even when my voice was silent, that is, you know you can't keep singing all the day long, it was going over and over and over in my heart. Marvelous truth. This unconscious thing, something had happened to Moses that had absolutely transformed him.

I suppose we can find a parallel with it when we think about the Lord Jesus going up the Mount of Transfiguration. Moses had this kind of transfiguration, not at the depth of course that the Lord Jesus had it, but nevertheless it was a very, very real experience with him.

And I dare say that every one of us in this room that professes the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior would long to know something of the wonder of that. I know that Paul makes a lot of it, or at least quite a bit, when he writes to the Corinthians in his second letter, you will remember in the third chapter and refer to the fact that Moses put a veil over his face.

But he said we're not as Moses who put a veil over his face, we're just not like this. Perhaps if we had all spent time in the presence of the Lord as Moses did, we may have to think about it. For at this period he had spent an almost unbroken period of 80 days, nearly three months, away with God.

He had neither eaten nor had he drunk. So virtually as every medical person in the room knows, why even a profound idiot like myself knows, he was a dead man. He virtually come back from beyond the veil.

That's where God was speaking to when Moses spoke from beyond the veil. He was a man just about come back from the dead. And what a message he brought. You will know the message that he finally brought, at least I expect you will, but I'm somewhere about halfway to what I want to say to you.

So I'll go back and start at the beginning. This is one of the wonderful things about Moses. When I say halfway, I'm not speaking with reference to time. I mean halfway through the things I want to say.

Now you will remember, I hope, seeing that I've spoken of this being about somewhere around 80 days, that Moses had been up into the presence of God before. He had gone up, as you remember, at the command of God.

He'd gone up into Sinai, which was one of the peaks of the Horeb range. In case when you've been reading through here, sometimes you see Horeb and sometimes you will see Sinai. Well, it's just like saying Alps and Mont Blanc.

All right, that's the difference. That's just one of the peaks of the Alps, you see. And so, he'd gone up there upon the first occasion, and he'd come down because of the tragedy that had taken place.

God had informed him of it. And we're told upon this occasion, in verse 19 of chapter 32, that as soon as Moses would come nigh unto the camp, that is, when he had descended at Sinai, that he saw the calf and the dancing, and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands and break them.

Beneath the mount, and he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strode it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. And we looked at it in rather more detail earlier, so I won't do it tonight.

That was after the first occasion, and it was a dreadful thing, because up in the mountain there, God had been telling them they would have no God beside him, and so what Moses did, he just took and destroyed this golden calf, and strode it on the water, made them drink it, which would, you will know, was the great jealousy test.

God says he's a jealous God, and he demonstrated to them that this thing that they had made, like any other thing that man can make, could be destroyed and burned. And what was the use of worshipping anything like that?

I hope that nobody in this room, whether blatantly and openly or subtly, underneath, is worshipping something which you know very well can be destroyed. You and I have got to have a God that is the true God, that cannot be destroyed.

You will know, of course, how easily God demonstrated that in the person of his son, by when raising him from the dead, when everybody thought they'd destroyed him. And so, he is indestructible. They couldn't even destroy flesh and blood.

Moses found it quite easy to destroy metal. And he rose from the dead. Amen. Now, that was the tragedy of it all. Sometimes, when my mind goes over it again and again, I want to talk something more of the flood of indignation that rises in my heart, at least, to think that God, in the mountains, had been telling Moses about himself, and all that he wanted.

And down there, the people were worshipping a golden calf. Well, you know what that deserves. It deserves destruction. I don't mean the calf. I mean that when people's hearts go in that direction, they deserve destruction.

To lower God down to some bit of wood or stone or metal, as though he's that, and no more, is terrible. Well, when Moses goes down, and he sees what's happening, he breaks the commandments straight away.

He smashes them. People who worship false gods can't have anything to do with the commandments of God. You can't. All right. Well, after dealing with it, this, it says in verse 30, it came to pass on the morrow, that would of course be the 41st day, Moses said unto the people, you have sinned a great sin, and now I will go up unto the Lord.

Peradventure he shall make, I shall make an atonement for your sin. Moses returned unto the Lord and said, oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin, couldn't go on, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

And the Lord said unto Moses, whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. Well, what a thing. All right. Now, here is the background to what I want to say. Moses is our chosen subject, and we were thinking about the face shining and glowing with the inner glory.

The Lamb's Book of Life and Atonement

Now, if ever you and I are going to be in this position, remember we've got to have the knowledge that Moses had. I mean the basic knowledge. I suppose that as a man goes, he must have been one of the most wonderful men that's ever been on the earth.

This, I think, would be generally agreed throughout the civilized world. Must have been one of the most wonderful men, so he must have known an awful lot. Well, you think that he, by God's grace of course, went down into Egypt, affected the deliverance of a nation, took them a lot of slaves, and turned them into a nation, gave them a rule, and a government gave them a system of worship, turned a lot of ragtag, bobtail people into a fighting army.

I don't know what he didn't do. He was a philosopher, statesman, prophet, general. I don't know what he wasn't. Most, one of the most wonderful men that's ever lived. He could compose songs. He sang a ma, lit them in a psalm in Exodus 15, when they came over the Red Sea.

I don't know what he couldn't do, this man. But, basic to it all, and you've got to know this, that your name is written in God's book. Now, that's where you start. Do you know your name is written in the book of God?

Do you? Now, it was nothing that God kept on earth. It had nothing to do with church registers. There wasn't a church, you know that. It had nothing to do with an electoral roll, where everybody is registered.

It had nothing to do with anything that we know along this line. But, God, who himself wrote the Ten Commandments, apparently has a book. Now, how we're going to describe it, I don't know. But, this I do know, that just as we read here, in this chapter of God's book, this same thing is told us in the New Testament.

So, you and I have to know that our names are written in the Lamb's book of life. That's what the apostles of the Lord Jesus tell us. So, I want to ask you this question. Have you got this supreme confidence this night?

We've been praying about brother and sister Hastie and their two children. Well, what if it was you that was facing the surgeons night to night? What if there was some mysterious thing in you that could be your death before the night was out?

Are you confident that your name is written in the book of life? Now, Moses was. And listen, he wasn't talking like some empty-headed philosopher. He was a man who was intimate with God. And he knew, just as though if you get close to me and you came to my home, you'd find I had books too.

So, you might find my name written in one or two. I mean that I own them. But here is the glorious thing, and we've all got to know it, and Moses knew this. That the only way a name could be in God's book is by what he says.

An atonement for your sin. In the end of verse 30, you're following me, in the scripture. He went up, as you will remember, with the desire that he wanted to make atonement somehow for the sin of the children of Israel.

Now, similarly, as he knew that atonement has to be made for sin, that names may be in God's book. So, you have to know that it is only by the grace of God, through the blessed sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and all that he did on the cross, that your name can be in that book.

That's all. That's all. Now, you've got to know this, and you've got to know it deeply. Moses did. Thank God for men and women who, throughout the centuries, no less than Moses, knew and have known that their names are written there.

Listen, you can't write it in yourself. It's written by God. Glorious, isn't it? To know this. You think of yourself, probably you think of yourself as some kind of nobody, as I think of myself. No, my name isn't Charles.

I don't belong to the royal family. I'm a nobody, but it's a marvelous thing that I know that my name's in God's book. I know it's there. I know that he's my father. I know that I belong to him. I know that he can say about me, he's mine, and I can say about him, he is mine.

Now, you've got to be certain like that, and not because you know some texts in the bible, or that you go to some place of worship, but surely through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. I shall never cease to wonder at this marvelous love of God.

Intercessory Prayer and Personal Audience With God

There's something else, too, I want to say here, and it's this. There's no doubt about this great man of God. He knew what prayer was. I don't know whether you know what prayer is. Real intercessory prayer.

Maltese. I haven't counted. I suppose I ought to have done. But we'll count it, shall we? One, I'm looking in verse 31. Count with me, will you? I'm counting the words. One, I'm in prayer. Start with O.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39. And he prayed one of the mightiest prayers that's ever been prayed.

Hmm. I wonder if you spoil real prayer by verbiage. You talk too much. Moses had mastered the art of intercession. He wasn't a chatterbox that couldn't hold his tongue. Some people pray like that and you wonder whether it's a sort of a bubbling stream that's flowing.

And that's all. Just about as shallow. Moses had learned the art of prayer. What was it? He got right into the presence of God. He labored to go up the mountain and get there. But when he got there he could do it all in 30-odd words.

What do you know about prayer? And, and beloved, God did what he said. And I think that you may have come to the conclusion that I have unavoidably come to. You know what it is? Yes you do. You don't need me to tell you.

It's an unavoidable one so you will all come to it. Watch your arm. In so much that's called prayer it's only people laboring up the mountains to get into the presence of God. He got right there. That's what took him the time going back up the mountain.

Good you will know what I know too. That his heart all the time was smoking. Oh I've got to go up. It would have gone through his mind. It was of course through his very veins with every panting step he took.

For he was over 80 years of age. Remember? Not that he was worn out. He died at 120 and apparently he was stronger than I am. At least he didn't need spectacles than I do. So my Bible, the Bible doesn't say anything about my spectacles but it does say that his eye was undimmed.

Here then is the glory of it. Now know this. It's a marvellous thing the privilege that's open to every one of us in this room. Once you know that you're right there with God by his mercy and grace and your name's in the book.

I want to tell you this though. One of the reasons it's there is not just a God against you falling into a flat spin or dropping into a depression here and there. Again because we've got no assurance of this that and the other.

It's there to grant you knowledge that you have the right of personal audience with God. Did you know that? So you don't have to get a priest to pray for you or a parson or a pastor or somebody else like that.

Some person. Wonderful when you have personal dealings with God yourself. I rejoiced with somebody over the phone today because this I heard coming over the phone what had happened to this particular person.

First personal dealings with God. First person. Not even we are they them. First person and that's why your name is there. Perhaps to astound you all though I hope not in that I want to believe that you are scripture readers.

Did you know this? That Jesus told his disciples when he was on the earth. He said I tell you not that I will pray for you. Because we've always been brought up on the sort of idea that Jesus is praying for us.

How many of us have heard that? Yeah okay yeah that's right. But Jesus told them. I'll tell you where you'll find it. Check it out. John chapter 16. Don't take my word for it only. Read the bible and Jesus said there I say not unto you that I will pray the father for you.

For the father loves you. You ought to go in and pray for yourself. That's your privilege. Glory. Because some of our hymns are fashioned that way. Oh Jesus pray for me or you know or somebody else. Some saint or someone else to pray for us you see.

The Tabernacle and Face-to-Face Communion

Call to the background that we've been in. Here it is. Glorious audience with God. I don't know what you wish for more than that. Is there anything more? Oh yes. Let's go on. We must go because the clock is.

Turn that clock round the other way so that nobody sees it. Well we've only got one more night after tonight. And it's so glorious. Now it's wonderful when this truth comes in to the heart. It rather being reminds me of another one of those great hymns of wasted you know.

But I have part and I have part of the peace. What more can a poor sinner have? Well he can have more than that. He's always more, more, more, more, more. Oh hallelujah. Let's have a look at this shall we.

And in this marvelous chapter 33. We looked into this a little bit last week. Apologies to those who who may sort of not be able to catch on quite so quickly as those that have seen coming all the way through.

But when it is this. In verse 6 when Moses had come down and done all spoken to them. It says the children of Israel they stripped themselves of their ornaments by the Mount Horeb. They'd all get themselves up in all their finery to go dancing in front of of the the horrible effigy.

And they stripped themselves by the Mount Horeb and Moses took the tabernacle pitched it without the camp far off from the camp and called it the tabernacle of the congregation. Now this was not yet the tabernacle of the Lord.

They had not yet built it. But here's another wonderful thing about Moses. In Moses tent it was his home. You know they're always in tents. But his home if I may say so had been turned into a little house of God.

Whatever the others did. Whatever the rest of Israel did. He had turned his family tent into a tabernacle of God. And he used to meet God in his home. Do you? Do you meet God in your home? Well do you?

Hmm. Well do you or don't you? I mean you might meet a lot of other people called television stars or radio this or LP people. Jockeys they call them. All this sort of thing. Well who do you meet in your home?

It was the tabernacle to Moses. And he took his tent and he pitched it outside the tent. And I guess everybody's heart sank into their boots. For they knew this and it's like so many people on earth today.

They knew that Moses knew God but they didn't know him himself. And there are too many people relying on somebody else that knows God. And this I want to say to you. If you really want to know God your home's got to be the tabernacle.

And that says I don't mean you should write the letters up and put them up in neon lighting or anything like that. It's got to be the place where you meet God in a very very wonderful way. He took that and he put it outside the tent.

Outside the camp. He called it the tabernacle of the congregation. I'm looking at verse 7. And it came to pass that everyone which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation which was without the camp.

And it came to pass when Moses went out unto the tabernacle that all the people rose up and stood every man at his tent door and looked after Moses until he was gone into the tabernacle. And it came to pass that Moses entered into the tabernacle.

A cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle. And the Lord talked with Moses. And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door. And all the people rose up and worshipped every man in his tent door.

And the Lord spoke unto Moses face to face as a man speaks unto his friend. That's really mouth to mouth in the Hebrew. And he turned again into the camp. But his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

It's a marvelous thing. Of this I'm absolutely sure. And I think that this makes it very very plain that you and I have got to know constant communion with the Lord. There is the mountaintop experience.

But there's the normal everyday thing. Moses went into that tabernacle and God came down there. Well do you know this? Do you? Glorious isn't it? And there they are communing. Last week we looked at a little of these things.

So I don't want to go over that ground again. And God speaks to him. And in verse 14 he says to Moses My presence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest. My presence shall go with thee. I wonder if there had been somebody outside listening.

But they weren't. Because they were dead scared because of what they'd done. They thought they'd offended God mortally as far as they were concerned. There's nobody listening. But if you'd have been listening outside that tent or would you have sort of sunk down on your knees and said oh God I wish I could have that.

Or would you have dropped on your knees beside Moses and said Lord I thank you I have it. Where are you? Where My presence shall go with thee. Moses Moses you loveless people. But don't try and get your rest from them.

Poor Moses. I say poor Moses. Though I say great and privileged Moses. But if he could have looked ahead 12 months. Or if he could have looked ahead for 30 odd years. He would have known how true it was.

It was if God had said to him you won't find your rest in this people. Because you know how that through their sins and constant unbelief they wandered and wandered and wandered. And they they blasphemed.

They turned against God. They turned against Moses. They sought to murder him. And all sorts of things. I tell you you can't see ahead. You cannot see into the next hour. Leave alone the future at all.

You can't see tomorrow. What's it going to bring for you? Well I'll tell you what it can bring. Rest. If he's with you. My presence shall go with thee. Hallelujah. You know I I wasn't listening critically tonight.

But I knew what I was going to talk about. You know when when the prayer session was on. At least I hoped I knew. Because sometimes I switch off as you know. I mean switch off onto other lines. And everybody's praying but Lord give them peace.