The Cross-Centered Life Q&a 2 — Paul Washer

The Cross-Centered Life Q&A 2 — Paul Washer

Mission of the church, and so we're missional because we do these things in a group.

I had to ask you that because I really don't understand all these terms that these people are using. I think all of it is just the last gasps of a dying corpse. I think it is a lot of either scholars or little boys playing missions.

I don't have time to entertain all their little theories and all their new gimmicks and gadgetries to doing missions. The fact of the matter is, look at the early church. They were fully convinced of the resurrected Christ.

The Early Church, the Holy Spirit, and the Supremacy of Prayer

They were filled with the Holy Spirit and they were obedient to the word. They gave themselves to copious amounts of individual and corporate prayer. All the theories and fads and programs and methodologies and strategies that are used in the world today cannot replace that.

The world is going to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ through men and women who know their God. I would go to some of these people and I would sit down and the first thing I would ask them is, sit down and share with me your systematic theology.

Most would not be able to. Sit down and share with me what it means that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Tell me how a man is born again. Talk to me about the evangelical graces of repentance and faith.

Talk to me about how many hours you spend in prayer a day. Talk to me about your meditation study of God's word. Talk to me about your nightwatches in which you are crying out for greater and greater manifestations and outpourings of the Holy Spirit upon yourself and your ministry.

When you get through telling me all that, then I'll talk to you about the word missional. The spirit of God must direct the church of God. You cannot get a new concept or some sort of program or vision or catchphrase or word to substitute men and women who know their God and dwell in His presence.

Much of this, not all of it, but much of it is just, it's like little boys playing army. When I was called into the ministry, a preacher, I've never met another like him. Never met a man so filled with the Holy Spirit and so powerful.

His word came not with eloquence, but with power. He looked at me when I told him God had called me. And when he looked at me, he disintegrated me. It's like he could look right through me. He was a jovial person.

He could be even a fun person. But when his eyes narrowed and he looked at you, it's like he looked right through you. And he said, boy, can you be alone? And I thought when he said that, that it meant, you know, I would preach the truth and no one would like me and I would be alone.

Would I be willing to do that? That's not what he meant. What he meant was this. While everyone else was running around with all their little methodologies and strategies and key phrases. Could you dwell alone with God in the secret place?

He said, that's where men of God are born. I think that's the problem with just about everything you see that has to do with evangelism and missions today. We would rather invent strategies and words like missional.

You don't need a word like missional. You need a word like biblical. What did the Church of Acts do? And so you can't accomplish it by inventing a word and trying to rally people around that word. You can't make the Church of Acts happen.

You have to cry out to God that the spirit of God would fall upon his people. But that may require hours a day of prayer. Repentance of sin. The Christian life and the Christian ministry is a supernatural endeavor.

It cannot happen through mere men. It has to happen through men and women who are filled with the Holy Spirit. And who know their God and know his presence. I don't like any of those kind of terms. I don't.

What was your next question?

Anyone else? Question? Alright, let's go all the way down there. Yeah, what are your views on my Christian rap and Christian rock?

Christian Music, Worship, and the Danger of Carnal Emotion

Lecrae and Tripoli are both friends of mine. Now you really think I'm cool, don't you? But I consider it an honor for them to be my friends. And it's not because they're rappers, but because they really seek to be men of God.

And they are. They walk in integrity. But if they were here right now, they would tell you what they do is extremely dangerous. Chylan also, a great theologian, he would tell you. Extremely dangerous.

You see, the flesh is a very dangerous foe. And the flesh gets excited so easily. And when I've gone and been with either of these men and watched them, talked to them before and after, counseled them, I know their heart and I know that a lot of people who go and listen to them are genuine and sincere and enjoy their music.

There is a lot of truth. As a matter of fact, there's more truth in most of their songs than there is in most preaching. As a matter of fact, their rapping is more like preaching than music. But at the same time, you'll see other people who are gathered there who are carnal, wicked and sensual and who don't have a clue about what those men are all about.

Now, with me, I stand up behind a pulpit. I'm just an old guy. There isn't a whole lot to get excited about. But when you've got music and, as he says, you know, that bass is just thumping, then you can really get out of hand.

If you're listening to rap music, Christian rock and all this kind of stuff, more than you're reading the word, pretty much write it down. You're an immature believer. You can't live on that stuff. I would say that a great many of these rappers and these other musicians, Christian pop, Christian rock, they should not be.

They're not in the ministry. I've known, I could name off to you some of the big ones that I've seen, talked to. And they need to leave whatever they call of a ministry behind. And they probably would if they could cross over.

They probably would. Young people, it's amazing to me. Now, I love music. I have sensed that every night here, there's been more freedom each night. But I want to tell you something. Let's take all of these songs and sing them.

I'm not saying do this, but it's just an example. Let's take all these songs and sing them without any guitar, drums, any music whatsoever. And just sing the words. And if you do not get as excited and passionate with just the words, then it tells me your emotion for Jesus is coming out of music and not the truth of the song.

Okay? Here's something that is kind of dangerous to tell you, because maybe some of you aren't even old enough to understand it. Godly, godly people who fear the Lord, who know His presence, they have a lot of freedom.

Immature people don't have quite as much freedom. You see, a person who has been cast down in the presence of God, covering his head and trembling, when he gets up and dances before the Lord, I guarantee you, it's in holiness.

But some person who knows nothing of the holiness of God, nothing of the attributes of God, and hears a song, gets all excited and starts moving around, who knows what's going on. I always want to be gracious.

And I love some of those men. I truly do. And I appreciate a lot of their songs. But I also constantly warn them. There is great danger just because of the way it's presented. Listen to me. Those of you who want to be singers and have a band and lead music and all this stuff, do you realize that God killed two music directors in Leviticus 10?

He burned them alive. If you write a book on the attributes of God, do you know where probably 65 of all your biblical information, you know where it's going to come from? Maybe even more, maybe 75 of all your verses are going to come from?

The book of Psalms. Almost when you write a book on the attributes of God, almost all your verses come out of the only hymn book in the Bible. The only song book in the Bible. That tells me the guy who wrote those songs was a theologian.

Maybe the best one in the entire Bible. So if you want to write songs, maybe you ought to be a theologian. Really? Do you know everybody's a theologian? Everybody in this room's a theologian. It's just some of you are really bad at it.

If you're going to lead worship, it's my opinion that the person who leads worship in the church should be at least as holy as the one preaching. Because worship, according to Ephesians and Colossians, is didactic.

It has a purpose. And that purpose is also teaching. Teaching truth through music. Martin Luther believed that maybe the Reformation was carried on further by the hymns that people sang rather than even the preaching.

You can sing heresy as well as preach it. And so, if you say, man, I want to have a Christian group band or something. Okay. Read Grudem. Read some Edwards. Go throughout the entire scripture, surveying every verse and text you can find with regard to the attributes of God.

Become a sound theologian and then pick up your guitar. And that'll help all of us from going astray in worship. Okay, next question.

Okay, John. What do you think about the concept that people read the books of the world and watch the entertainment of the world in order to better understand the culture in which they live and connect and witness to it?

Guarding the Mind and Heart from Worldly Media

There's some truth in that. There's some truth in what they say. It's very difficult for me. I live something of a cloistered life. I'm preaching to churches, preaching to Christians, or I'm preaching on the street and no one wants to get near me.

So I live a pretty cloistered life. How am I supposed to find out what's going on in my culture? When I look at the prophets, they knew everything that was going on in their culture. They did. They knew about the murders.

They knew about the corruption in business. They knew about the immorality. They were able to point it out clearly. They were able to speak to their generation. But now here's what you need to see. I am a man who is studying the Word of God.

I'm 49 years old. And for some reason, it seems apparent that God has given me a ministry to speak to my culture. Sometimes I will read news reports. I will look at magazines. Sometimes there may even be a movie or something that doesn't have anything in it that would violate Scripture or conscience in the sense of defiling me, that will tell me something about my culture, and I will take a look at it.

But that is a lot different from a group, from a teenager who just wants to see Iron Man 2. Okay? There's a big difference between the two things. Most young people who are in the church, I don't see how they could ever be holy.

I honestly don't. Because most are not renewing their mind every day in the Word of God. I mean, you're not. You're just not. And when you do, it's five, ten minutes, or check off something in a discipleship booklet.

So you're spending less than a few minutes every day renewing your mind in the Word of God, and yet you're living 16 hours a day, and your mind is being bombarded with everything worldly. And then, it's absolutely astounding to me what even seminary students in good seminaries will watch, and what they'll read.

I mean, it's just, it's an abomination. It's an abomination. You must guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. There's a difference between a 49-year-old preacher who speaks to his culture, reading World Magazine, or you going out and watching some video clip from Britney Spears.

Sometimes things will come out that are necessary to see. I remember when The Passion came out. I finally saw the thing. Why? I wanted to see what did people think about Christ's Gospel. When What Dreams May Come came out, a film about a man who dies and goes to heaven and then goes to hell.

I wanted to see what is my culture's view on heaven and hell, and it was very enlightening. It helped me address and understand certain issues. But listen to me. Unless I absolutely have to, I won't go to a mall.

I have probably been to a mall in the last 10 years, maybe three times. I won't go to a mall. Why? I want to be holy. The place is not only defiled in the sense that now, the pornography is put all over the windows of each little shop.

But there is a defiling spirit. The spirit that is within the teenagers that walk around there, and especially the girls, is violent and an animal. I'm not going to take my boys there. And some of you love going there all the time, and then you wonder why you can't be holy.

Leonard Ravenhill gave me a tract many years ago, sent it to me when he knew I was struggling. And the tract simply said, Others can, you cannot. If I want to be a man who knows God and has a sense of His power, there are things I cannot do.

Now maybe you can in your freedom, but I cannot. You see, part of being holy is that a man is shut up to God. And sometimes it feels like I'm watching everybody else live their lives through a window.

They're over there and I'm over on the other side. But that's one of the prices. You see these guys who invent all these words, like missional and all these different theories and everything. It's what you have to do when you want to do Christian things, but you neither know or have the power and presence of God in your life.

You have to write little books and theories and follow them. And pretty soon the word missional will disappear from the Christian scene, like all the other words. And a new word will take its place when that one doesn't work.

Just like the thousands of programs in the Southern Baptist Convention. The things that are going to change the world and never do. So you've got to get something else. The next PhD student who writes a paper on how to do missions, well, let's use that, let's go with that.

No, my friend. Be very careful of media. Be terrified of media. And listen, I know that many of you are given to media. You'll play video games that are so violent. If you were truly sensitive to the Holy Spirit, you would know the moment you saw the first scene, the Spirit would be so grieved in you that you would throw up.

But you've become hardened and you can play them. You see, somebody on a video game, he shoots people and his chest blows open. I have wrapped my arms around a man whose chest was blown open, trying to use my own hands and my chest to keep the bullet wounds closed while blood's covering my entire body.

You have no idea what you're doing when you play those games. You see, you're from a culture that's so desensitized. Everything you watch that is wrong is going to harden your heart. And then eventually, pornography and other things.

We've even redefined pornography. Do you know when you go through a mall and you see those big posters that are on a window of a certain store that sells things to young ladies? Do you know when I was a young person, that was pornography?

Now, little boys walk through there and gape at it. Our society has become hard. Many of you have become hard. Do you know some of you have a spirit to you? Well, everyone does. That can be discerned.

No little young teenage girl to have a hard spirit. They ought to be innocent and soft, undefiled. Girls, let me share something with you. There is a sense in which you should be, as we say in Spanish, una inocentona.

You should be an innocent. You shouldn't even know about 75 of the things you know. Because those bad things you know, they make your face hard. It's etched into your face. Media can kill you.

Okay, next question. How do you fight off pride as much as you're known in all the YouTubes? And how do you personally fight that?

Humility, Ministry, and the Weakness of the Servant

My wife beats me every day. Next question. Listen, a good illustration. I was preaching one time and I was asked to preach on the Old Testament. And I got up in the pulpit. It's going to take a text from Ezekiel.

I looked over to my right and there sat Dr. Mugliar. A Hebrew scholar from India who is also more mature than I am and far more godly than I am. And I was almost ashamed to be up there. The more nobler, the more godly man was seated.

And I was standing to teach someone who did not. He has forgotten more about the Old Testament than I know. God uses the ignoble and the weak, the unwise. I know what I am. I'm not John Piper or John MacArthur.

I'm a guy with one famous sermon that got me kicked out. You see, ministry and even you being used is not a sign that you are godly or holy. You don't know what I'm really like. How would you find that out?

How would you find out what I'm really like? Go home and watch me love my wife. And it's humbling. It's not hard to jump up on a park bench after the terrorists have blown it up and there's still smoke all over the place.

It's not hard to jump up on a park bench and start proclaiming the gospel. What's hard is to love the person closest to you. And when you do that, you begin to see all your failures, all your failures.

And when I struggle to read the word of God, I was tired this morning. I mean, I didn't get to bed till like midnight. I was counseling and stuff. And then I got in a midnight go-kart death match with a brother here.

I'm getting old because he beat me. And I even cheated. And he still beat me. Tonight, midnight, you're mine. I'm not going to be able to preach this afternoon because I'm taking my go-kart to a mechanic.

Don't let your children out on the streets at midnight because it's going to look like Mad Max world out there tonight. I really didn't want to get up. And I had to sit there for a minute and struggle to get my Bible and get it open, just like you.

You see, there are no such things as a great man of God. There are only tiny, little, weak, pitiful men of a great and a merciful God. That's all there is. And when you start believing the hype about yourself, you're doomed.

You're doomed. I hope that I'm a sincere man. And I hope that I am a true Israelite in whom there is no guile. But that's all. There are no great men. There are no great men. Okay, next question.

Assurance of Salvation and the Call to Seek Christ

I see that hand. Okay, so I basically lived in a Christian family my whole life. So as a little kid, I thought that I was a Christian and I didn't really understand. But now since I'm older, I'm not. Like, I'm kind of scared because whenever I'm older and I die, I go to hell.

And I thought that I was a Christian my whole life. And I just want to know if I am or if I am. Like, I don't know how to. You want to know what? What was the last part? Like, I basically lived in a Christian family my entire life.

And I thought that I was saved. And I'm not sure if I am.

Okay, that's the fact that you're sitting here right now. And you're not sure that you're a Christian. That is a gift from God. That is a gift from God. Because there are probably some here today who believe they're Christians and they're not.

Now, you're at a place where you're not sure. Is that correct? You're just not sure. Okay, now there's any time you're traveling down the right road, there are ditches on both sides. One is to just say, oh, of course, I'm saved.

Why am I letting this bother me? And try to convince yourself that you are. That's wrong. The other ditch, the other extreme is when you think that the only way you can know you're a Christian. Is if you have all these Christian virtues in you that not even maybe mature believers have all the time.

So you can be too lenient with yourself or you can be too strict. I would be more than happy to sit with you and another brother and sister. A woman and a man like if your parents are here or whatever and talk to you about this matter.

Here's the things that you need to know. Do you truly want to be saved? Then know this. You can be. Everybody who wants to be saved can be saved. Now, here's something else that's very encouraging. Most people don't want to be saved.

Okay. Now, so if you're sitting there and you want to be saved, it's because God has already begun a work in you. Do you understand me so far? Now, here's the neat thing. He who begins a work and a person always finishes it.

So now you've got the confidence of I want to be saved and the Bible says anybody who wants to be saved can be saved. And I am a radically depraved sinner who normally would hate God. But I'm not hating God.

As a matter of fact, I want God and I want to be saved. So God must already be working in me. And if God's already working in me, he promised to finish the work he began. I'm telling you, you've got a lot going for you right now.

Okay. Now, God says, seek me. But he doesn't just say, seek me and and maybe I'll let you find me. He says, seek me and you will find me. Come to me. I will not cast you out. Now, did you see Chronicles of Narnia?

All right. You know, that last part, which is my favorite line. Aslan, it's the end of the movie and he's taking off down the beach and Lucy saying, oh, I'm going to miss him and I wish he would come back.

And and Mr. Thomas says, well, after all, he's not a tame lion. OK, now, I don't know if you know this, but God is not at our beckon call. He's not a tame lion. Now, he says to you, little Lucy, seek me.

You will find me. Call on me. I will answer you. Come to me. I will not cast you out. But little Lucy. It's my prerogative to decide when I come and I may test you. Will you keep calling until I do? Will you keep seeking me until I come to you?

You seek him. You will find him. You will. Now, if you want to talk later on, OK, we'll talk for hours. OK. Just because this is important, don't leave here without getting some counsel in the matter, because I can't.

I need to talk to you and hear you and go to scripture with you. And we can't do that in this great big group. OK. All right. Now, don't don't you get out of here without talking to me, because I will hunt you down.

What is your name?

Madison. All right. I want the group to pray for Madison through the day as well. Over here.

Divorce, Conversion, and Biblical Church Discipline

Your views on divorce. It's really, really bad.

Boy, divorce. You're always hearing people say today that there's as much divorce in the church as outside of the church. There's much, you know, worldliness in the church is outside of the church and all that type of thing.

That's not true. It's not true. The problem is we're calling something the church that's not the church. The main problem with the rampant divorce and evangelicalism is not that Christians get divorced as much as non-Christians.

The problem is most of the evangelicals that call themselves Christians are not Christians. And if people started getting converted, we would have a lot less divorce. Now, secondly, I'm not saying that divorce can't happen to a Christian.

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that the rampant divorce that's everywhere, 50 percent or whatever it is. The first issue is we've got the gospel wrong in America and we're passing people through a simple creed.

And if they say yes, we're declaring them saved. We're trying to disciple goats and make them into sheep. When in order for a goat to become a sheep, he has to be supernaturally transformed. So we would have a lot less trouble with divorce if preachers preach the gospel.

But even Christians can go through a time of struggle now and can get divorced. And it's a horrible, terrible thing. Now, let me say before I go on, let me say something else. Whenever two people are thinking about getting a divorce, a lot of people will use the cliche.

Well, if they're thinking about a divorce, there's problems on both sides. You know, both people are messed up. Who told you that? That's not necessarily true. It can be true and maybe oftentimes it's true, but it doesn't mean what you're saying all the time is true.

That's just not true. That every time there's a conflict, it's both people's fault. Then Jesus was a sinner because he got in conflict with the Pharisees. I mean, some sincere Christians get left because their spouse doesn't want to follow the Lord.

You see, so it's not always both parties are guilty if there's a divorce coming on. Now, here's some of the problems with the guard to divorce. A lot of people go to very large churches where they are not really pastored.

You see, or they're pastored by their small group leader who's not a pastor. But here's the problem. God gave us pastors and he gave requirements for those pastors in 1st Timothy 3, Titus 1. And pastors are to have these qualifications because these are the qualifications necessary to pastor people.

But most people really aren't being pastored by pastors. That's why one of the problems with youth, the youth have been removed from the elders and turned over to a 21 year old. The children have been removed from the elders and turned over to a well-meaning older lady, possibly.

No, the church is to be cared for by elders and pastors. You see that? All right. If a pastor is truly looking at his people and is fellowshipping with his people, he will begin quickly to discern a problem.

Oftentimes, divorce occurs because the problem is not discerned early enough and it's spread like cancer. OK, second of all, one of the reasons for divorce in the church is because church discipline is not practiced.

And one of the reasons why people who are divorced are left by a spouse spend the rest of their life with the big D hanging over their head is because church discipline is not practiced. Here's something that would be done in a biblical church.

Let's say a couple comes. We start noticing there's problems. We go to them or they come to us. And both of them say we're getting a divorce. We just can't we just can't do this anymore. Well, the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to begin to ask them about their conversion and I'm going to begin to study their lives with them.

Because the first possibility is them knowing that God hates divorce, that it is a heinous crime. It makes me doubt, are they truly Christian? But let's say that after going through, we find out they are truly Christian or at least one of them is.

But there is a root of bitterness that has sprung up that has defiled them. OK, so I look at both of them and say, look, I go through scripture and I say, you cannot get a divorce. You cannot. We need to work through this.

I take them through text after text. Maybe other elders are there also. And let's say that the woman, she says, you're right, Pastor, I can't do this. You're right. I see the truth of scripture. I can't do this.

I'm willing to work it out. And the husband looks at me and says, who do you think you are? You don't run my life. I want to get a divorce. I'll get a divorce. I say, sir, at this moment, you may be showing yourself to be an unbeliever.

And if you continue in this path, you will be disciplined in this church. I don't care about your discipline. So we dismiss and elders go back to this man several times. The woman is now broken and she's wanting to restore her marriage.

And this man just keeps in his rebellion. And finally, what happens? They divorce. He's put out of the church. But not only is he put out of the church, she's brought before the church because the church has the power to bind and to loose.

And the church makes this declaration. This sister has been divorced. Her husband. Has disregarded every admonition from scripture and has been put out of this church and is to be considered an unbeliever.

This woman. Upon hearing the word of God. She came into conformity to the word of God and the church. She has been broken. She has been studying scripture. She has submitted. To everything that we have put before her.

She shows all the evidence. Of a believer in right standing with God. She is to be given the full and right hand of Christian fellowship. She is to be honored in this church as an obedient Christian. And if we hear anybody casting any dispersion upon her for what has happened, they will be brought before the elders.

She is loosed. She is free. She is to be honored as a believer in this church. You see, here's one of the problems. Because church is not are not practicing discipline. We have all sorts of maladies. And one of the great reasons for all the divorce in the church is the lack of church discipline.

So we have divorced people who run wild. And we have people that have been left behind that always live in the shadow of divorce. The church ought to bind those who have left and are in disobedience. And cast them out and treat them as a Gentile.

And the one who continues on in that marriage. The one who continues on in submission to the word of God ought to be honored. We set one free and we bind the other. But since that's not done, divorce is rampant.

So there's two things. The preaching of the gospel. And an idea of what true conversion is. And the practice of biblical discipleship and biblical discipline. Okay, next question.

Effective Preaching and the Glory of God in Weak Servants

Do you think you change people's lives whenever you're preaching and think. And you make them want to urge to become a Christian. Do you think you do that?

One time, I think it was D .L. Moody. Correct me if I'm wrong. It was D .L. Moody walking down the streets of Chicago. And this drunk came up to him. And said, just totally bold faced drunk. Says, D .L. Moody, D .L. Moody.

I was in one of your meetings. You know, I'm one of your disciples. Or something like that. D .L. Moody said, yeah, you're one of my disciples. But you're not Christ's disciple. That's what kind of disciple I would produce.

Right there. Now, any time. Now listen. Especially those of you who are maybe young and in the ministry. And going in the ministry. Do you know when Jesus told Peter, cast your net. And Peter cast the net.

It filled up with fish. And he pulled it in. What happened to Peter? He collapsed. He disintegrated. He disintegrated. He was ashamed. He was ashamed when that happened. And he turns around. And he looks at Christ.

And he says, depart from me, Lord. I am a sinful man. And what he's basically saying is, Lord. This was. Now, understand my language. It's basically, he's thinking this way. Lord, this is wrong. You picked the wrong man.

This. This should not have happened. At my hands. It should not have been my hand that was on the net. It should have been someone else. You must not know who I am. I shouldn't have been able to see this miracle.

Any time a preacher preaches. And God either edifies his people or saves the loss. That should be the attitude of the preacher. Lord. This is wrong. You shouldn't have used. Someone like me. To have this sort of thing happen.

I should not have been allowed to have put my hand to that net. And this is to show you something glorious. Because the scripture is just unity. It's all just written. By God. Look at this. You know, Isaiah six.

In the year King Uzziah died. I saw the Lord high and lifted up his train. And fill the temple above. And stood the seraphim. Each one having six wings. To he covered his face. With two he covered his feet.

With two he did fly. And one cried unto the other. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. And the post the door moved at the voice of him who cried. The house was filled with smoke.

Then said I woe is me. For I am undone. For I am a man of unclean lips. And I dwell among a people of unclean lips. John chapter 12 tells us. That Isaiah was looking. At the son of God. That the one seated upon that throne.

Was the son of God. You see. God created the world. Through his son. He sustains the world. Through his son. He reveals himself. Through his son. He saves the world. Through his son. He'll judge the world.

Through his son. The one that Isaiah saw. Was the son. Now. Isaiah sees. The glory. Of the son. He falls down. He's broken into a million pieces. He cries out. He pronounces a death sentence. On himself.

Actually. He curses himself. He says. I'm an unclean man. And then the Lord looks at him. And says. Who will go for me? Who can I send? Who will go for me? God commissions Isaiah. Guess what? The same thing happens.

In the New Testament. The son of God. Tells Peter. Throw your net. He throws his net. It fills up with fish. And the glory. Of the son. Is revealed. Peter. Like Isaiah. Falls down. Disintegrated. And broken.

And just like Isaiah. Says. I'm undone. Depart from me. Get away from me. I'm. I'm wretched. I'm a man of unclean lips. And just like. The son of God. Commissioned Isaiah. The son of God. Now looks at Peter.