(Europe 2008) Session 1 - a Man Sent From God — B.H. Clendennen

You know, it's possible to so use a microscope till you get addicted to it and you can't see beyond, you know, our own little world. There's a move of God on this planet today around this world equal to the day of Pentecost.

May not be happening right where we are, but it will as we faithful, true to God. I just came back from one of the most difficult trips that I've ever made and I've made a lot of them. But I was, I was left, we begun in Israel.

We have been going there. We have the school, both the Arabic and the Hebrew language and we, it's very difficult there. They're trying to get rid of the Christians. You know, the Jewish Orthodox think more of us than the Muslims do.

You know, it's just a point in time and I began there and it was, it was an awesome thing. My message to them was, can these bones live? Dealing with Israel, you know, dealing with that nation of Israel.

I said, you know, bones always speak of former life, always. You know, you see a bone, you know, something lived there. And Israel, you know, when Jesus cursed that fig tree, it was, it was prophetic of the nation.

He went to Jerusalem. There, you know, he wept over it. The tree died overnight. He spoke of the death of that nation. Three and a half years after that, Titus and his Roman army, or 40 years after, excuse me, overran.

A million and a half Jews died and they were scattered to the ends of the world. Never to be regathered till this time. Well, in 1948, you know, they came back, but they came back just like they left, dead.

They came back spiritually dead and that's, this was a prophecy. Can these bones live? I dealt with the fact she will survive, she will live. She's got a date with the Antichrist. She will accept the wrong one.

But then when the image is set up, but we're in a very momentous time of history. Christ, surely we are that final generation. It's not a time for us to be careless. It's a time to set our affections totally upon things above.

Forsaking All to Follow Christ

That bridal company will be a people that have forsook all in an effort to be his disciple. If any man comes after me not willing to forsake all that he hath, he cannot, cannot be my disciple. That's God's word to us in this room.

And we're there. I went from there, though, to Ukraine. We had a thousand of our students in the Ukraine for a, it was fasting prayer time. From there, though, the next three countries, very difficult countries.

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia. Unbelievable what God is doing. The testimonies coming out of that, of what God is doing in that world of Islam. They're coming at night, and they're coming to be saved.

One of our young students in Bangladesh, a very, very difficult country. He felt after he got out of school that God would have him to begin a church in a very difficult, pretty violent Islamic place where he went into.

And a Muslim man let him rent one of his houses for the church because the law is you cannot reach out to Muslims. Well, he begun, and a few come in that were not Islamic and were wonderfully born again, and many miracles happened among them.

He said, God just worked, making known to him he was in the right place. And a Muslim man came to him and said, I've heard testimonies of those that are coming of what God is doing. And he had a, I think he said, now I may be wrong in age, but a four or five year old son and said he may be dead now, he can't live.

I left to come here to talk to you. My young son is ill, he cannot live. Can this Jesus they're telling me about heal my boy? And with the young man, maybe 25 years old, the pastor, he said, when I began to pray, going to pray, laid hands on the father, going to pray for the son.

But instead of praying, I said, you go home, your son is well. And he went home, and that son is as well as he ever, a four year old, could be. And he's one, 25 Muslims and 12 Hindus that one man has brought into that church.

Amen. I tell you, this is a moment of history to be excited about, folks. We look at our own little corner, and it don't look like much, but I can tell you, we just put a little higher rim on this. Amen.

But there is things going on, that's alright. Yeah. That's beyond words. There's a testimony out there. I listened, I had a doctor, a very fine medical doctor from Mississippi, retired, now works with me, and over that part of Israel of the school of Christ.

He said, you know, we're reliving the book of Acts. He said, it's one thing to see on the screen, but to go and to hear, to see what God is doing. How wonderful it is. You know, we began a conference like this in 1980.

I was pastor in Beaumont, Texas, and the preachers that came that night, we put them in a choir. There was 24 of them. The last one, there was about 800 of us. I expect next year, if Jesus tarries, us to see them.

Amen. You know, this is going to be a yearly affair. We'll get the time set for it, where it will be the same every year. You know, Jesus said for us to come aside, you know, come apart, and wrestle off.

If we don't do that, we'll just come apart, that's all. You know, if you don't have time to stop, then you don't have time. But there's never any time lost in the journey when you stop to seek God. Never.

When you stop to pray, you stop to seek the Lord. And we're going to be here, you know, in the morning. You didn't give the schedule, did you? We begin 6 o 'clock to 7, with a prayer meeting. Now, if you're really serious about knowing God and God meeting you, then you'll be here with us at 6 o 'clock in the morning.

That's just the way that is. We'll be here to seek God, to lay hold of God. Then 7 o 'clock will be the first service. My dear friend and brother, they've known me long and I've known them personally, but Brother Kirby, would you stand, dear pastor?

We'll be bringing the message to us, the 7 o 'clock message in the morning. We'll pray 6 to 7. Then we'll have the message. Then we'll have breakfast, come back, and I'll be speaking to you at 10 o 'clock, and then 7 .30 every evening.

Then we close out Friday at noon here, but then we have a rally where? In Wales. In Wales. All right. So we'll hear all about that as we go, but I just feel so good being here tonight. Friends from different places I haven't seen in a while, and new friends.

I see a sister from all the way up in Iceland. God bless you. Amen. Just wonderful, wonderful to be here. I'm going to read from John 1, verse 6. Father, if you'll please bless the reading, speaking, hearing, and willing to do this word tonight.

If you'll anoint us, oh, to speak, to hear. Then everything will be well. Everything will be well. In the name of Jesus. Oh, I thank you, Lord. I thank you, Lord. I thank you for this prayer, this praise, this worship here tonight.

In the name of Jesus. My message, I just felt very strong this first night of this. A man sent from God. A man sent from God. John chapter 1, verse 6 says, There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Whose name was John. Here comes this man, strange man from the wilderness of Judea, dressed in camel's hair. Appetite of locusts and wild honey. Without any fanfare, without an ad in the Jerusalem Post or on the TV channel.

Came this strange man. He broke 400 years of darkness. Turned the banks of the Jordan into the front street of the world. And introduced the kingdom of God. One man. A man sent from God. How we've underestimated.

How we've been tricked into so many things that church has found itself believing. That's the number of tears of the number of people we can get into a religious service that affects God. But God's never been affected by crowd.

A Broken and Contrite Spirit

He said, here is the man that I'll look to. He that is of a broken and a contrite spirit. And trembles at my word. God takes time. God stops making worlds to stop, to talk, to deal with that man. That man that has time for Him.

If we do not have time for God, then God has no time for us. But in this message tonight, I want to deal with that. A man sent from God. God's answer to every crisis is a man of God. Now if you'll just put aside everything else and do your reading somewhere else.

I want to talk to you tonight. Come halfway around the world. And I come here to talk to you. And I believe that God has talked to me to talk to you in this service. No matter what the conditions. How desperate the times.

No matter how wicked and perverted the age. To right the situation, God only needed a man through which God could speak and work. Never needed anything else. All God has ever needed. Now that term man is a generic term.

You know it takes in the whole of mankind. But all He's ever needed in every single situation of life was that man. And all that man as ever needed was God. That's what must grip us tonight. All of this, it's wonderful to have this keyboard and Sister Candice to lead us in this singing.

But it's a privilege, not a necessity. I put this school in Albania, which you know is Illyrica. That's where Paul said in Romans 15 and 19. Through mighty signs and wonders. By the power of the Spirit of God, I fully preach the gospel to you of Illyrica.

Well, modern Albania is ancient Illyrica. While I was there in the mountains, I looked, I was up there, I looked down. It's a beautiful country. But was one of the most complete atheistic countries in this world.

Not Muslim, not Christian, nothing was allowed there. The largest sign in the country was on top of the airport. And it said, there is no God. That was a sign. But I looked down across, I began to weep.

And a business friend of mine that travels with me, biggest part of the time, Brother White. I began to weep and he said, why are you weeping Pastor? I said, I just went back 2 ,000 years. A man came to this land.

1 ,200 miles at least from Jerusalem. These heathen never heard of Jerusalem, much less Jesus Christ. But he's got to prove to them that a man died in Jerusalem as a criminal. Who was the Son of God. And prove that he did.

Because he made that Christ alive. The only reason for the church is to be a revealer of Christ. We're not here to hold religious meetings. We're not here to keep religion alive. It's not a platform meeting to sing our courses.

All of that leads to one thing, that we are here. The vocation of this church is to be a revealer of Christ. And if Christ is not seen and made alive, then that's not God's church. I don't care who you are.

He's not a God of the dead. He's a God of the living. And if that church is not alive, then God is not there. This is our reason for being. Our only reason for being as a body of Christ. To be the expression of that Christ.

God's call has never been for a program. Never did God call a council or a committee to seek an answer to any situation. His only quest is for a man that will stand in that gap. That's all. Whenever, at times, no matter what it was, God's only need was for that man.

Biblical Examples of God Using One Person

History bears witness to this truth. That when God found his man, that man became the total solution to that crisis. Every time. Not one time, every single time. Look back at example Noah, in the days of the flood.

The world had become so rotten that the only solution was to destroy it. There's no remedy. But the answer to that awful time was a righteous man by the name of Noah. Noah was perhaps the most successful preacher that ever passed this way.

I know that raises a question mark because there's only 8 converts. I can tell you everybody didn't save Edam. He never missed nobody. No, not one human on this planet. You found nobody hanging onto a limb somewhere.

They either lost it or they made it. He missed nobody. But all God needed was a man. When Nineveh was so rotten that a turkey buzzard had to hold its nose to fly over it. All God needed was a preacher.

That's all. Every time. All God needed was a man that was in tune with himself. That man come preaching. Look at Joseph in the preservation of Israel. They're in that awful time. All God needed. Moses, the deliverance.

Jonah, the destruction. Ezekiel and the dry bones. They not only said they were dry, they're very dry. And God asked the question, can these bones live? Well, Ezekiel was a wise man. He wasn't smart like a lot of us.

We don't have an answer to God. But he looked at the situation and he said to God, you know, only you know whether these bones can live or not. And God said, if I can find a man with enough faith to preach to these bones, Sarah can have a baby.

These bones can live. This church in Europe can come alive. We can become the greatest force on this earth in the 21st century if we'll rise up to be the church. If we'll refuse to allow men to intimidate.

But we cannot, if there's any ambiguity to our preaching, then it's out. Amen. This is a world that's terrified at dogmatism. But Christianity is not one of many. This is it. There is nothing beyond it.

There is no Mary, no Buddha, no Mohammed. There's nobody but Jesus Christ. And that must be preached till this world bows its knees. But if God can find such people, not user friendly, not secret sensitive, not tiptoeing around anything.

Truth never holds parley with anybody. This gospel is a revelation to be proclaimed. Not to be apologized. We argue with nobody. We state the truth. You either believe it or you don't believe it. That's not our responsibility.

And if the church will come back to this truth, then this nation, this world that we live in will one more time hear the gospel of Christ. But when you stand, when we got big name preachers. One of the biggest, you know Mr. Hagee?

He's preaching that the harlot system of the book of Revelation is the church of Rome. Well I've heard that preached all of my life. All the way back, all the commentaries, all the while. Well the whole world rose up against it.

So it changed history and said I was wrong. That's no time to say I'm wrong about anything. Find out the truth before you say it. And then we must obey God and not a man. The whole preaching of this truth.

Confronting Apostasy and Cultural Sin

As a church, we've never faced a greater crisis. Apostasy abound. Truth is being sacrificed for unity. Another Jesus is being preached. Ungodly, immoral men occupy some of the largest pulpits in the nation where I come from and I'm sure right here.

We have a repeat. My good friend and I, he brought this up to me and it's so registered in my mind. You know Aesop's fables was the first time maybe in history that a lower form of life was used to teach a higher form of life.

When you have unregenerate men in this pulpit attempting to preach a higher form of life, you're going to wind up with what we've wind up with in this time. When you have unregenerate men handling this book of life, it doesn't matter how many seminaries they've been to.

It doesn't matter. Nothing God has demands a degree. I'm not making an appeal for ignorance, but I am telling you God can deal and work with any human wherever he is, if that human will give themselves to God.

It is the foolish things that God takes to confound the wise. The results, the results of all of this, this apostasy and the drive for unity, out there sacrificing truth, the nations, this one and the one I come from, have lost its mooring.

Absolutely. She's adrift in a sea of wickedness and immorality, murdering millions of unborn babies, glorifying homosexuality and adultery and does not want to retain God in her knowledge. We're beyond the third give up of God, folks.

There's something going on on this planet, and God is just simply looking for a voice that's not afraid to preach. You know, I passed through this country years ago. I saw a billboard of an old man and an old lady all hugged up, and this billboard said, We're out together so that you will stay together.

Well, what long to saw two men hugged up on another billboard, and they're together so that you will stay together. I went home and I said, I can tell you it's moving west. Yes, sir, it's moving west.

Up in Canada, $25 ,000 fine for preaching against it. I said, I can tell you it's moving north. But all of it is one thing, whether you believe what you preach or not. I can tell you God's bringing every preacher to the bar.

If it's going to cost you a trip to the prison, are you still going to believe what you preach? Or are we going to back off and say, maybe I'm wrong? This is the final hour of that church, and somebody must stand up and be that voice of God.

I'm as sure as I'm alive there's going to be Stephens, and I'm as sure as I'm alive there's going to be a church. That church is going to be victorious, as sure as you in this building. Somebody is going to overcome.

Somebody is going to walk with God. Somebody is going to be a testimony. And you and I are being brought to a decision in the south. The separation from God has literally turned the nations into hell.

The Bible said the nation that forgets God will shall be turned into hell. That don't mean they're dumped into a fire at that moment, but the very nature. It said Saul was going to meet certain men, and when he met them, he's going to be turned into another man.

He began to prosper. That just simply means the nature of Saul was changed. And now the nation that forgets God, and you know from Europe, from America, wherever you're from, we forgot God. And that's hell out there, folks.

We murdered babies by the millions. Not safe everywhere you turn. Our streets have become hell. Everything, the nature of it, simply because there was a forgetting of God Almighty. But the God who never changes has one answer to this deplorable situation.

And that's a man that will stand in that gap for him and make up that hedge. That man that will preach and proclaim what God has said without any hedging whatsoever. Just say what God is. Such a man must be endowed with certain unalterable qualities.

The Qualities of a Faithful Minister

Number one, he must be a man of unceasing prayer. Whatever pulls us out of that altar ultimately will pull us out of God. That cannot be. You cannot live otherwise outside of that altar. Three things Christ said.

He said, if any man will be my disciple, number one, he must deny himself. He cannot be a selfish man. He cannot live for himself. That has to go. Second, he must take up that cross. Because that cross is the only thing that will keep that man dead.

Nothing else. If you don't take that cross up, then that which was crucified with Christ will come alive in a worse form than he was before he died. But third, follow Christ. Those are the pathways. They are no other.

No, absolutely no other. Such a man must be a man of unceasing prayer. Second, he must be a man of one cause. This one thing I do. A businessman may preach, but a preacher cannot be a businessman. No, no.

God separates us under this gospel. There may be times he has to make tent to get things going. But there has to be that time that he knows this is not where I belong. I'm separate. I'm a Levite. I own nothing.

God is the inheritance of that man. And when it ceases to be that, then he ceases or becomes ineffective as far as God is concerned. Amen. When we're more concerned about ourselves and the affairs of this life than we are of the kingdom of God, then we've missed it.

You see, I was born again in the Holiness Church, born again in the Assemblies of God Church, 59 years ago. And the message then was come out, come out, come out. Well, that is true. You know, separated from.

You know, you don't do this, you don't do that. But just that kind of a thought doesn't do it. It's not a separation from, it's a separation unto. And when a man or woman is separated unto God, that takes care of the world, mister, because that's the enemy.

I said that's the enemy. But it's a separation unto God. So that whatever I do, wherever I go, it is always a question, what would God do? In America, I watch preachers change churches every two years.

God did it in 10 miles. They're not looking for anything but a better payday. That's all. They're looking for a bigger parsonage. They're looking for a better place to live. Somewhere to increase their fare in life.

Not what is the will of God. You see, separate that man. He must be a man of one cause. This one thing I do, he must be a man that can withstand rejection even by his own people. You see, Joseph, that's the only way.

All of his, everybody rejected. He must be a man that can withstand such a rejection if he's going to be used of God in these final hours. Has to be. And then fourth, he must be a man that can withstand ridicule, hatred, and the lying of the devil.

There's always going to be those that lie, tell things that's not true in an effort to destroy what you are. But all of that is a test of us. Are you going to strike back? Are you going to become bitter because they are angry and mean?

Are you going to be that? All of this is a test. You know, when Abraham came finally to Moriah and drew the sword to murder, to sacrifice that lamb, God stopped him and said, I know I can trust you. And if you can count the stars, you'll know how many children I'm going to give you.

If you can count those stars. But all of it was a test to see what you're going to do. See, God not only gives, but he must know what you're going to do with it. We receive in his name. We hold in his name.

Therefore, he must know before he gives anything of value, what you're going to do with it. If you're going to be a prosperity preacher and make everything of earth, then God has no time for you. I mean, you're a misnomer of everything that this stands for.

Amen. You know, I listen to a man preaching and he said, my faith got me a jet airplane. What has your faith got you? My wife gets upset with me talking to television. But I have to, you know, I have to talk.

I said, my faith delivered me from the vanity of wanting one. Amen. Yes. I'll reach millions of people while men play with their little games with religion. This is a dedication unto God. I don't know whether it will take you or whether it will take me, but I must be willing to go.

Amen. I must be willing to go. Finally, he must be a man of vision, commitment, boldness, and compassion. And if God can find such in this conference, then the devil in Europe is in trouble. That's all.

I can tell you, that's all he's ever needed. You know, if such a man can be found in this conference, the only answer to these demonic times is a supernatural intervention of God. We must have revival.

It doesn't matter if we need revival. We must have revival. There's no changing of things unless God comes. But before there can ever be a revival in that world, there must be a renewal here. See, this world, the spirit out there is the spirit of evolution.

Number one, that is every one of you and I are just a higher form of an animal. Well, if you believe that, then if you get in my way, then I'll kill you. That's the reason you got drive-by shootings and murders everywhere.

Life means nothing. Or else it's a reincarnation of Hinduism where there are no accidents. Somebody break in, rape your wife, murder your children. Don't worry about it. That's how it had to be for you to come up in a little higher form of things.

See, that's the spirit that prevails. But when that church is renewed and this river begins to flow again of the Holy Spirit of God, then everything is changed. Everything changes. Well, we are there.

It's always been. A revival comes. One of the great signs is a deadness in that church and a lawlessness in that world. The man that wrote Commentaries of Laws, the name never has come to me, I want to warn you.

But just the same, he said one month before the Wesleyan revival broke out, he couldn't find a gospel church in all of London. All of London. They had little step ladders at that bar that would have a little step ladder that four and five year old children could climb up and have a drink.

That's where it was. But when that revival swept, all of that changed. Everything changed. Men's hearts turned toward eternity. It didn't matter. We need it. We must have it, folks. If we're going to survive, if we're going to be.

And if it happens, it's going to take this kind of people. Now, we're witnessing, I believe, the final countdown. This is not a war of flesh and blood. It's Christ and antichrist. It's light and darkness, good and evil.

It won't be won with swords and bombs. God must rend those heavens and come down. Oh, that God rend the heavens and come down. That the mountains would melt at your presence. That's the only answer to these all.

For God to intervene in the affairs of man, he must have that old man in place. You know, when the Bible talks, old men dream dreams. Now, that word old man, that has nothing to do with age. It translates a word where we get our word presbyter.

It means a man, the overseer of God. It's that pastor, the voice of God in that church. So you see, before that can ever be renewed, he must get that old man into place. Old men are the mouthpiece of God.

Same word, we get that overseer, presbyter. God must have his old man who will go into that holy of holies and wait there till he dreams that dream. Till he hears what God is saying. It isn't scrambling around on a Saturday night, trying to find something to say to people coming to church.

It's to wait in that presence of God until we hear what heaven is saying. And then say it to that church. God said, my sheep know my voice. But to be God's voice, we must separate the clean from the unclean.

He said, if you'll separate the clean from the unclean, then you can be my voice. That simply means separate that flesh from the spirit. You have to be able to discern what's God and what's not God. And if we'll do that, we'll be his voice and his sheep will hear that voice.

That's a guarantee of God. They will hear that voice. Now, God must have those old men that wait there. He must go from that holy place to proclaim to that church what he's seen and heard. He must. See, God's method of talking has always been to one man.

God himself never talks to the crowd. He talks to one man. And through that man to his body. Now, if Israel heard it, and he said, no, let him talk to you and you talk to us. You know, they got a second hand, been that way pretty well.

But God has a man, always, wherever he can find that man, that he can talk to. And that man, without changing it, will speak what God says. Then the world is in trouble now. There's nothing can stand.

Moses didn't go to Egypt with a plan, folks. He went there to do what he was told. He had no idea what he was going to do. He's just going to do what he's told. And he delivered three million people from the mightiest empire on this earth.

That ought to tell us something. We don't need a new program. We've been fornicating with them Hagar's long enough. We've filled the church with Ishmael's and not Isaac's. We must repent, come back to God's altar, and we need Pentecost one more time.

There is no hope. Man said to me, I don't like to hear that. Well, that's the way it is anyway. Sometimes it's hard to say what you have to say. Now, we have the perfect example as said with Moses. The anointing oil came on Aaron's head, came down to his beard, which means his mouth.

He's a mouthpiece. Moses couldn't talk, so he become the second half of the old man. He was Moses' mouthpiece. He spoke for him. Moses was God's answer to the situation. Once God got Moses back in Egypt, it's over with with Pharaoh.

There's going to be a battle. There's going to be a war. But the decision has already been made because God put in the bosom of that man everything to deliver them, people. Pastor, wherever you are, if you're there in the will of God, I promise you whatever is necessary is inside of you.

It's in you. It's not out there somewhere. It's in there. If you're full of the Holy Ghost. Moses was a seer, zakan. That's what he alone had the word from God. Oil came on Moses, God's old man. Since Moses couldn't speak, Aaron become his mouthpiece.

He was the second half of the old man. Oil on him, Moses, to the beard, mouthpiece, to the skirts, the body of believers. That's the way it's always been. Always been that. Oil comes down on the old man, flows through him to the body of believers, through them to the world.

The day of Pentecost, God never poured that spirit out on Jerusalem. Poured it out on 120 people and threw them to a world. That's all he looks for today. Is that people. That will be there. That will be there.

The Fire of the Holy Spirit in Preaching

Now, who is the chief cornerstone? Jesus. I'm telling you folks, he's full of oil. I said he's full of oil. He has more than enough. More than enough. He's full of oil, but he must have his old man, there's mouthpiece.

For God to heal a situation, that preacher must dream his dream and bring that back to that body pure and clear. He must bring it back to that congregation. A pure, clear message from God. This world's in trouble.

Man, wife, both have to work to make a living, even to eat most of the time. And they come to church. They don't care about the politics. They want to know, does God know where I am? Is there any answer to where I am?

Does God know I'm alive? They go to church to hear from heaven. And if that were to happen, there'd be a path to that door. If that man knows, if I go there. See, if they're sick, it ought not to be getting them to the hospital, if I can just get to that church.

If I can just get to that church. You know, one Sunday morning, 20, 25 years ago. That old church seat about 700. You couldn't get 10 more people in it that morning. And a couple come in late. Only two seats, right down the front.

Well, it brought them down, man and his wife. In the preaching, I come down off that platform, walking down that aisle. When I got where they were, just without any thought, I said, are you going to live and not die?

And I wondered why I said that. Well, she began to weep. And I kept preaching. After the service, she comes still weeping. This is Sunday morning. She said, two days ago, Friday evening, Friday afternoon, I'm in the hospital in Houston.

And the doctor comes in and says, all the tests are back. And said to her, if you live 30 days, you'll live two weeks longer than I believe you can live. It's no hope. And he walked out, left my husband in the aisle.

My husband began to weep. And she said, don't, don't, don't weep. Said, I've been watching there in Houston, that's 80 miles away. And said, I've been watching the church on Beaumont, Texas, on television from Beaumont, Texas.

And I believe if I could get there, I'd be all right. That was her word. She wasn't a Pentecostal lady, but she had heard. Well, that morning, they got there. She was totally healed. I never saw her for six months.

She had gained about 50 pounds. Wasn't happy about that, but she was well. You know, she was, she was well. God made her whole. But see, she said, if I can just get there. That woman with the issue of blood said, if I can just touch it.

Well, you can't make that church one thing and Christ something else. He's the head. I'm the body. We're the body. You can't make the church something and Christ something else. And that church ought to be, if I can just get there.

When I was teaching a school in Sweden a number of years ago, I'd become desperately ill. They had to just carry me out. And the two of the fellows helped me up the stairs. The next morning, the older son of the pastor said, you know, I thought she was going to die.