Mark14:55-64

Yes, from the web, we, of course, welcome everyone here in God's house. And just by a little ministration here, we don't pass the hat or the plate, I guess I should say. We do have a little box out there in the hallway.

As the Lord leads you, if you'd like to leave a gift either offering in that box, feel free to do so. And let me think. Is there anything else? I can't think of anything else. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Is there anything else?

We're going to all have a meal together today. Normally on the first Sunday of the month, we have a love feast and we'll partake of our communion at that time, breaking the bread together. And of course, then serving the wine after our meal and fellowship.

So we look forward to that and all are invited to remain and partake in that. Well, sir.

And next, next Sunday, Sunday school will be having a visiting group from Crestview, a recovery program. They'll be sharing their their ministry during next week's Sunday. Wonderful, wonderful.

Well, again, good to see everybody out. And for those that are wondering where my wife and granddaughter are, they will be here shortly. We were scrambling this morning and this is a two car Sunday. Yes, sir.

And tonight and tomorrow night, I think Dr. White is speaking at Trinity. The Trinity. OK, OK.

Great. Thank you. Thank you. Well, without further ado, as we normally do, we lift up our service in prayer. And so let's do so and lift up our Lord and the message we're about to receive. Read in Psalm 66, one and two and three.

Make a joyful sound to God and all the earth. Sing out the honor of his name. Make his praises glorious. Say to God, how awesome are your works? We'll be doing that throughout the service today. And let's begin by singing our choral call to worship.

Where are you?

Were you there? Number two, 60 in the Red Hemlock, number two, 60 to 60.

I was listening to Marian Anderson. There's a name drop if anybody wants to look it up. And her singing spiritual. So I said, I think we've got that one in our handbook. We'll try that one this time.

First five at the course this time.

Call on God and ask his blessing on our worship today. Oh, Father, you who received your beloved son into your presence, having raised him from the dead, receive us in him now and bless us that the spirit who brings glory to the sun will work in our hearts to love him with all of our heart and soul and mind and strength.

And so to issue forth from the heart worship that is pleasing to you because it is centered in him and on him. Help us, blessed Holy Spirit and bless, Lord, your worship in every place today where men sincerely call upon your name.

And we thank you for your good work. We call on you, Father. Again, in the blessed name of your son, Jesus. Amen.

Read him once again. And we're going to sing when I survey the wondrous cross. Number two, 52.

They read him to 50 foot to turn to our statement of faith this morning.

And if you pull out your blue salter there and we're going to turn to the golden pages and with this morning, we'll be reading selection number six and selection number 20. They're in the front of that blue salter.

Number six out of that, Matthew one verse twenty one through twenty three. Believing in God's word and confessing it together. And you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

So all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying, behold, the Virgin shall be with child and bear a son. It's late in the selection. Number twenty out of Revelation.

We'll be reading chapter seven, verse twelve again all together. Blessing and glory. You may be seated. We'll now sing Psalm number 110 in the blue salter there. And to the benefit of our guests, the background here, Pastor Cain has put many of the Psalms to music to help facilitate our remembrance of them.

So we're going to sing this morning. Psalm number 110 in the blue salter.

Yeah, if you go to the like the middle of the book and whatever song you see there, then it's less a lower number than Psalm 110 and keep turning. It's higher than Psalm 110 and turn back.

We don't have all the Psalms, but we may have people say.

Psalm 31, 14, the psalmist says, but I trusted in you, Yahweh. I said, you are my God. It's a very simple, but quite a profound confession, isn't it? You are my God. Whatever are counted as gods among men, we count the true God as as our God.

And so let's come before him and as Jesus said, pray in this manner. So we will follow his outline that he gave us when he said that. Oh, Father, we we thank you. You, the one who have birthed a nation and continues to birth a spiritual nation of priests before you because of the priests that we have sung about here in Psalm 110.

And so we ask, oh, God, that you will hear our prayer. Teach us to intercede. But we thank you that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be uttered. And so what we lack in our prayer and in our understanding and in our feeling, we know the spirit prays on our behalf.

And so we thank you. Spirit also tutor us, teach us to pray, fill us with wisdom, fill us with your word so that we will be answering back according to what is written. For we know that this is God's voice.

And so, Father, we ask from your throne in heaven, hear us. And we follow Solomon's advice where he says, God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore, let your words be few. Lord, we pray then that we will choose our words wisely again by the strength and help of your spirit to say what needs to be said.

Lord, we ask then, first of all, that your name be set apart, be treated holy and sanctified. Teach us in your name. And we know, as the psalmist has said, you have magnified your word above all your name.

All the ways that you are made known and everything points to you. But your word is chief and your words are living and powerful. And if they are in us and we are alive through them, then you are working in us.

So, God, we pray then that we will have faith to receive all that you are saying, not to deflect anything because of the pain of conviction, but rather even to invite it. And so we pray that your name will be set apart in all of the earth.

And we long for that day when the knowledge of the Lord covers the earth as the waters cover the seas. We pray then, oh, God, that your kingdom will come, that you will cause it to come by your great power.

Come, Lord Jesus. And until, Lord, your arrival to claim what is yours. We pray that the kingdom of God, which is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, will advance in us, in your people.

That, Lord, you will grant us that we will not let anything take the peace of Christ away, that we will, as Paul told us, to let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts. And then, Lord, as king, teach us your law, teach us your commands and to love your commands so that your will will be done here on earth as your angels do your will in heaven, that they hear your voice and they go forth with strength.

So, Lord, grant us to hear the word that will be laid upon us and within us to also go forth to do what we hear. Lord, then bless, Lord, your servant, James White, to speak with all boldness today, to reach your people in your name.

We pray, as Paul told Timothy, for all peoples and those that are in authority over them so that we, your church, may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all reverence and sobriety. And we pray, Lord, do not deliver us into the hands of those who hate you.

And we pray for our brothers and sisters who are in prison today. You have told us, Lord, to remember them as though we were there chained up with them. And so, Lord, we do pause to think upon them right now.

Lord, we know that we have brothers and sisters that are dying every day and because they would not deny the name of Christ. We pray, O God, that we might count the cost, what it is worth even to mention the name of Christ among those whom we we know do not believe, that we will not be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

And we pray then, O God, Lord of the harvest, send workers into the harvest fields of the souls of men. Bless those who have gone forth. Bless those that we are privileged to help as a church, as individuals.

Lord, God, continue to raise up and send forth those who hear the need, who hear where the fields are white unto harvest and they there are harvesters needed. Lord, send us forth and grant us, Lord, that we will walk in wisdom toward those who are outside the faith, redeeming the time, our speech always in grace, seasoned with salt, so that we will know how to answer each one.

Lord God, we we pray among the nations. We pray for the peoples of your old covenant who continue to hold to the old covenant and who do not hear the old covenant in its witness of Christ and the new covenant that has that has been established.

And we pray then, Lord, how long until that promised time that the fullness of the Gentiles have has come in and you lift the blindness of the Jewish people, Lord. But we think of ourselves then. And as Paul told him, thinking of them to fear that if the natural olive branch was cut off, how much more we who are wild olive branches by nature will be cut off if we don't believe.

And so, Lord, work in us a godly fear and revive your church, that that we will be afraid to misrepresent you, afraid to speak wrongly concerning you and afraid to live in a way that dishonors you, that this godly fear, Lord, may motivate us.

Lord, again, convict us by your word so that you may also correct us and realign us with your ways. Lord, we pray now asking that you will bless our families, that you will bless us to be husbands who love their wives as Christ loves the church.

Wives who submit to their husbands as the church is to Christ. Children who obey their parents and the Lord, for this is right. And parents, Lord, who consecrate their children in the mouth of your word.

Lord, then hear our prayer for our daily needs. Give us this day the bread of subsistence. Tear for us our portion of bread. Grant us, Lord, then self-control by your spirit with food and drink and all things in this earth to hold them lightly, as it were, and not to return to idolatry in our hearts.

But we do thank you that we may receive as those who have been richly blessed. For we we have and we pray that we would therefore be generous, that you would receive the sacrifice of help for the needy.

We pray, oh, God, that you will receive, Lord, our acknowledgments of your lordship and ownership of all things. You would receive the tithes, the offerings. Lord, we pray that you would grant us recuperation of soul day by day and sleep and restful sleep.

We pray that you would grant us healing. Lord, we remember Buddy Phillips. We pray, Lord, for Dave Lessard. We pray for Miriam Woodyard. Oh, God, Lord, we pray for my mom. Pray for Sue Green. We pray, oh, God, for Mickey Polk.

Lord, for Don Cowden, continue to strengthen him. Lord, we pray for Ashley. Bless her, Lord, and her pregnancy, her and the baby. Lord, we pray for Addison Moore, that you would heal her of her eating disability.

Lord, we ask that you would bless Spencer Tosi as he goes into field training for this week. Give him safety. We pray for Julie Lessard for healing from COVID and that you will protect David during this time.

Lord, we do pray for our the salvation of our lost loved ones. And Lord, we pray for your blessing on the Mickey Schneider's family and the loss of Amy. Lord, we pray for Will Platt and his recovery from cancer.

And Lord, bless the Anderson families with salvation and sanctification. We pray, oh, God, that you would bless Chris Hatton to find godly Christian companionship. Lord, bless Linda Tabor with continued healing from pancreatic cancer.

And we pray, Lord, for the release of the Americans and the Afghans that are held hostage, oh, God. Lord, hear our prayers and whatever we have not enumerated before you here. We pray, oh, God, that we will that we will obey your command to be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanks to make our requests known to you.

And then, Lord, we count on you to give us that incomprehensible peace that will guard our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Forgive us where we have rather worried, where we have been frustrated and angry and not submitted to your providences.

Oh, God, we pray that you would forgive us of all of our sins. We know only the blood of Christ can cleanse us. Teach us to confess, then, oh, God, to say what you say about sin and to know it of ourselves.

And then as those who are freely forgiven, that we would freely forgive. We hear the warning of our Lord that if we do not forgive in their deviations, neither will our father forgive ours. And so, Lord, in this and every way, we pray, do not lead us into temptation.

Rather, search us out, oh, God. We know that you will not invent any temptation in us. But where there is a desire pulling at us. And as the psalmist said, if I gazed at iniquity in my heart, the master would not have heard.

And so show us, Lord, where we are perhaps entrapped in something today, oh, God. And we pray for the Lord Jesus to do his work, for he is savior. He is deliverer, as we have confessed in his word. Lord Jesus, deliver us from evil, from our own evil.

We know the evil one. Satan has nothing that with which he can pull us down apart from our own evil within ourselves. Therefore, deliver us by showing us that evil, that we may turn from it again. Thank you for the advantageous place we are in, that the word is going to be preached and the word is profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction and realignment and for instruction in righteousness, schooling us and staying in what we hear.

Lord, you love your people. Lord, we love you. We ask that you will speak to us from your word. Asking it in Jesus name.

Amen. Mr. James White.

We usually have a scripture reading here, but he's going to read and do it. I think right the way that old Paul told Timothy there when he said, till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

And so I think that's probably the way it's supposed to go. Just start reading and start exhorting and teaching. So praise God. Got to find a place here. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a lot of stuff up here.

All right. Well, it's good to be with you here somewhere in Florida, wherever I am. I think it's Valparaiso, but I drove down yesterday from Atlanta. I am still upset with Google as to how it's arranged that particular trip.

I am learning that Google will put you through all sorts of places that you should never go with a RV. And especially under a lot of trees, you should not go under with an RV if you like to have your conditioner left on top.

So anyways, no damage. We're, we're, we're, we're good. But it was, it was a bit on the, the nerve wracking side. So we're going to have to do some rearranging on the way back. It's pretty much I -10 all the way back to my, where I live.

So that's not really a, really an issue. But it is good to be with you. I mentioned that in the past when I walked in, you all have a pipe leak someplace. There's water falling out of the sky. You need to look to that, get a plumber on that as quick as possible.

I am from Phoenix, Arizona. And so when it started coming down this morning, that was, that was quite enjoyable. I think you got more rain in half an hour than we've gotten the past year. But that's, that's how things are there.

And so I was just up at the G3 conference. I'm sure that most of you are probably aware of that particular conference. So we had, I think, 6 ,400 people at the conference this year. And I, I got a bear hug from Votie Balcom right before he spoke.

That's, and if you know Votie Balcom, that's, that's a bear, that's a bear hug. It's a, that's a real one. And so it was good to see a lot of, a lot of folks there. I am traveling. I, in 2019, I flew 165 ,000 miles.

I, I ministered in Samara, Russia, in Johannesburg, South Africa. I spent about two and a half months in London. I managed to just escape at the end of 2019 from Melbourne, Australia, which if you know what's going on down there, you understand what I mean.

I just barely managed to escape. It is such a shame. It's such a beautiful city. I had a debate with a young Muslim fellow down there. I was looking forward to doing more debates with him. I ran a 10K along the beach, just beautiful, beautiful place.

And in a matter of months, it was locked down and it's one of the most freedom starved places in the world right now. And so that was 2019 and my, how things have changed. And so to get the opportunity to get back out and to see folks, I think my overseas ministry is pretty much done, to be honest with you.

But I want to, while we still can, before they set up the border guards and, and start putting up the walls, funny if these, this group of people put up walls, isn't it? But I, we purchased an RV. I had never done an RV before in my life.

So the learning curve has been great. But I must admit, I managed to back her in and get her set up in a very brief amount of time last night at the little RV park nearby. And so I'm getting better. I'm not going to be an expert, so at least 20 ,000 miles, I would say, but at the rate I'm going, I'll, I'll get there by the middle of next year.

So I would appreciate your prayers for safety while traveling. I see some wild stuff out there, primarily on the part of certain truckers that think they're actually on the Indianapolis 500 Speedway. And especially when going through construction zones where your lanes are this wide, you got six inches on each side and, and they just go blowing by at 10 miles an hour over the speed limit.

It's lots of fun. So anyways, I still have a lot of speaking to do. I hope you'll come out tonight and tomorrow night, especially if you're interested in the Bible translation issue. I don't think there's any controversy about that here in the panhandle of Florida at all.

That was meant to be funny. It's okay. I know it's okay to respond. But I do realize, of course, you're in the hotbed of these things. And so I think it's important to know where the Bible came from, how to defend it, and what its history actually is, not strange stories made up by peoples whose last name rhyme with Tuckman.

So you might want to come out the next two nights for that. If you turn your Bibles, please, to Mark chapter 14. I was thinking, Pastor Cain wrote to me and asked if I would like to speak. And I said, sure.

And what would you like to speak on? And I said, well, I'll be honest with you. I will have just spoken at G3. We did Q &As, et cetera, et cetera. And I said, what I enjoy doing is I've had the opportunity over the decades to teach Greek over and over again, teach Hebrew.

And what I like to do and what people seem to enjoy is when I open up a text and I simply do a fresh live translation as I'm walking through it and then go back through and make application and exegesis and commenting on its history, whatever else it might be.

And so I was thinking, normally I'll do like John chapter 9 or something like that. But I have a real attraction to the Gospel of Mark, and someday, and maybe if I get disciplined enough while I'm traveling, I'll figure out how to do translation while driving.

That would probably be a little bit distracted. But I've wanted for a long time to do a translation of the Gospel of Mark for Muslims, because I have a real burden for Muslims. I have debated Muslims in mosques in England, South Africa, places like that.

And I still want to reach out to those folks, even if I'm not going to get an opportunity to travel to those places. And many of them have somewhat of a bias against the Gospel of John. They've been told that it's later, unreliable, so on and so forth.

And they've accepted the idea that the Gospel of Mark was the first written. We do not know the order of the Gospels. If you go to the local Bible college, they're going to tell you that it was probably Mark and then Matthew and Luke borrowed from Mark and changed stuff.

And then John was just off on an island doing his own weird thing. And that's sadly how things are presented. The fact of the matter is, we don't know the order of the Gospels. And there are lots of issues that are raised when you start trying to figure that out and then interpret each Gospel in light of a certain theory.

But one of the things it said is that Mark has the lowest view of Jesus and John has the highest view of Jesus. And my Muslim friends all believe that. They've been taught that. Shabir Ali, a fellow I've debated a number of times, has made that very popular amongst Muslims.

And so I like to go to the Gospel of Mark because it has such a high view of Jesus. People just sometimes skip over it or they're not aware of it or whatever it might be. And as I was thinking about some of the texts in the Gospel of Mark that are truly amazing in what they witness concerning Christ, I thought about the trial of Jesus.

And as I read through the text again, it struck me that there are actually a number of things that have tremendous ramifications and relevance to our own study. And I just realized it's very wise that I looked at my watch because your clock's dead, just so you know.

Now that's very convenient because, you know, when you've got a guest preacher and he's trying to figure out how long you're supposed to go and the clock doesn't work, man, I'm really doing well here.

The thing's barely moved. Actually it has barely moved because it's not really working. So hear that or no, that's not even close. So don't throw a guy a curve like that. You're going to be here all day long.

I thought I was getting something done, but nothing has happened. It's very strange. Anyway, Gospel of Mark, there's so much in this text that we can make application to what's going on in our world today.

So let's take a look at beginning at verse 55. Now that's Mark 14, the longest chapter. And of course it's because it is on the arrest and betrayal, arrest and the trial of Jesus. And so Jesus has been brought before the high priest and the Sanhedrin, and they are seeking to bring testimony against him.

And so the high priests and all the Sanhedrin were seeking testimony against Jesus so they might put him to death, but they were not finding any. For many were testifying falsely against him, but this is fascinating, and their testimonies were not, and the term is equal.

So some of your translations will say something like consistent, but I'll come back and comment on that, that they were not equal with one another. There's something there about how you determine what is truth.

Truth and consistency, vastly important issues in our day, in our postmodern world where truth and consistency is now something that is literally in our day being considered a bad thing. I've literally heard people view a meaningful epistemology, a meaningful understanding of knowledge as an example of white supremacy.

And I don't know about you, but when I get on a plane, I want an engineer that knows about truth and consistency, having built it and maintained it. And this whole world functions that way. So it's interesting that the terminology there is, but their testimonies were not equal, or they themselves, the testifiers, were not equal with one another, they were not consistent.

And certain of these false testifiers, these false witnesses stood up, and they were saying that we heard him saying that I will destroy this temple made with hands, and by means of or during the course of three days will raise up or will build up another not made with hands.

But even in this, their testimony was not, again, equal or consistent. And the high priest stood up in the midst, was standing and literally stood in the midst of them, and so he took a central place in the proceedings.

And he asked Jesus, he was asking Jesus, do you have no answer? Do you not hear what these are testifying against you? But Jesus was silent and answered him nothing. Again, the high priest was asking him and saying to him, are you the Christos?

That is, of course, the Greek translation of the Hebrew term, Mashiach, the anointed one, the Messiah. Are you the Christ, the son of the blessed one? And Jesus said, I am. And you will see the son of man seated at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven.

Now the chief priest tore his robes. He tore his clothing. The standard, this would be something that the Jewish people would do as a sign of tremendous grief or amazement at something like that. And so the chief priest tore his tunic, his clothes, and said, what further need do we have of witnesses?

You heard the blasphemy. What do you judge? And it literally means to shine. So it was supposed to be the judgment of the judge shining light forth. It's rather ironic in this situation. It's used in that way.

What do you conclude? What do you judge? And they all judged him to be they condemned him. It's a negative judgment. They contemned him to be worthy of death. And so here you have Mark's version, if you want to read the parallels.

And by the way, I would strongly encourage you. There are excellent printed or now, of course, all on our phones and computers and so on and so forth, parallels of the Gospels where you put Matthew, Mark and Luke in line with one another, the synoptic Gospels, and you can compare them as they tell similar stories.

So example, for example, in this case, the section that we just read through is paralleled in Matthew 26, 59 to 68, and in Luke 22, 66 to 71. And it is a very challenging study. I spent, if I recall correctly, seven or nine years teaching through the synoptic Gospels at the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church a couple of decades ago now, I think.

And it really challenges you to listen carefully to what is being said. It's easy for our minds to harmonize things, but when they're right there on the page together, we can see the challenges that are sometimes ours in looking at the synoptic Gospels and seeking to understand their testimony to the words of Christ.

And if I recall, I will mention one such parallel in a few moments. But here we have Mark's version. It's interesting that Mark is the shortest of the Gospels. Mark doesn't give us a lot of the teachings of Jesus, but when Mark does focus in on an event in Jesus' life, he normally spends more time giving us details than Matthew or Luke does, which is interesting.

This is very important when you're looking at some of the alleged contradictions between the synoptic Gospels, is that the other Gospels will summarize, they'll telescope, they'll bring stuff together.

You know the old telescopes where you pull it out like this and then push it back together. Well, sometimes, you know, if I wanted to relate to you, for example, the events so far on this trip, if we were sitting down over dinner and you had a special interest in how you travel the country in an RV, then I might give you lots of details about the places I've stopped and the things that I've encountered and the different kind of hookups that you'll run into and some funny things I've encountered, like when I went up to Idaho and my dear friend said, oh yeah, I've got an RV hookup in my house, and then I got there and found out that he had a 110-volt extension cord in the hose.

That's not quite an RV hookup. And so now I ask very specifically, oh, so you mean minimum 30 amp 220, and then it's like, oh, you need that? Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, I do. So if we were sitting down at dinner and you had an interest, then I would give you a lot of details, but if we're standing at the back door and I figure you're going to be there for the next 60 seconds, I'm going to telescope a lot of that stuff.

I'm going to leave out a lot of details. Now, am I lying to you? No. It's just simply I recognize I only have a certain amount of time. I only have a certain amount of space if I was writing it down. And so the various Gospels, the Gospel writers had the freedom to determine how much detail they were going to go into.

And it's interesting that when Mark goes into detail on something, he frequently goes into more detail than the other Gospels, which cover much more territory than Mark did. But that's why you have the differences between them.

And so here in the shortest Gospel, you have this discussion of what happens before the high priest. Now, of course, you know that biblically there's only supposed to be one high priest. But the Romans started messing with the system.

The Sadducees had become involved politically with the Romans, and so some of the high priests would be removed by the Romans and other people put in, and so you ended up with multiple high priests, which is a violation of God's law.

But that was the situation that they they faced. And the Sanhedrin, and that's the exact word that's used in verse fifty five. So Nedron, that's the council of the Jewish leaders. They have decided to move.

They have, of course, used Judas to betray the Lord. And so they have decided to move. Now is the time to move against this man who has been such a thorn in our side for so long. And we are concerned that this man is going to be doing and saying things that are going to upset the balance, the very delicate balance that we are trying to maintain with our Roman overlords.

And of course, you as you know, that balance is not going to last. And barely 40 years after these events, Jerusalem would be reduced to a smoking ruin by Titus and Roman legions. And so but they're trying to hold on.

And what they are doing is they are seeking the term in verse fifty five. They are seeking. They're looking for the same term that's used in John, chapter six, when the men are seeking Jesus and they they row their boats across the lake, which is interesting.

They're the very men that Jesus identifies as unbelievers. You've seen me, but you do not believe. And yet they rode boats across the lake to find Jesus. They were seeking him. Very same term that's used here in verse fifty five.

The high priests are seeking against Jesus testimony so they might put him to death. But they weren't finding it. It's not that they weren't they weren't finding pseudo martyrs. That's the term that's used in verse 56 pseudo witnesses, false witnesses, people who are willing to lie.

They had lots of those folks. Pretty easy to find folks to lie if you promise them certain things. And that's a sad commentary on the human condition. But it remains a grave danger to us today. And so they found many of them.

But as I mentioned, when I read through it, the the test of the testifiers and hence their testimony were not consistent. They were not equal. And I wanted to comment upon that because we we live we've been living in a day and now this has become, sadly, a part of public policy, educational policy.

Well, it's going to be part of educational policy for decades. It eventually will become part of public policy. And I think many of us ignored the what we considered the wackos in the academy who were bringing postmodernism and a completely foreign understanding of truth and how we know truth and the importance of truth.

All of we just sort of said, well, those are the weirdos over there. And, you know, most of the time, once people graduate from from, you know, university and maybe once they've paid off their huge debts and have discovered how hard that was, they all grow up and they get out of that weird phase of of being immature university students.

Well, that's the problem is those immature university students are now in charge. And the result is what we are we are seeing. We are we are literally seeing a situation arising where you have people, the whole the whole issue of who is a male and who is a female, the idea that two plus two equaling four is racist, this just complete destruction of common sense in our experience.

We should have seen it coming. You can't allow that to not go unchallenged for so long and not expect that people are going to start acting on the basis of these things. And so we are we are there's I don't have it in front of me, but there I can pull it out.

But there's an excellent quote that I would recommend to you by Theodore Dalrymple. Dalrymple studied the the rhetoric of the Soviet Union, and most of you aren't old enough to remember. There's only there might be.