SNBS with Pastor Josiah Shipley - Philippians 2:1-11

Recap of Philippians 1 and the Call to Live Worthy of the Gospel

Those of you coming in, we're going to be in Philippians chapter 2 tonight. I am going to, as people are coming in, I'm going to go ahead and recap real quick Philippians chapter 1. And for those of you that have sat under my teaching for any amount of time, Sunday night Bible study, we've been at it for over two years now, 13 plus 1, John.

I went back and added up everything we've covered over the past two years. We normally cover, it takes us four weeks to cover one chapter. That's our regular pace. I've tried to speed it up because that doesn't really work in this format as well.

Plus I'm doing all the reading, so it goes by a little bit faster. Anyway, two weeks ago we covered Romans 8 in one week. Last week we covered Philippians 1 in one week. I cannot do that with Philippians chapter 2.

Tonight I intend on getting through verses 1 through 11, and they are huge. We might not even finish that. We're going to be on Philippians 2 for maybe two weeks before we move on. But tonight we're going to focus in on verses 1 through 11.

This is on Christian unity and who Jesus Christ is, and those are not two different things because we need to be unified in our knowledge of who Jesus is. So let me catch everybody up who wasn't here last week on chapter 1 and then we'll read chapter 2.

Okay, chapter 1, Paul starts out by talking about fellowship and partnership with his fellow believers in Philippi. That word is koinonia. We're going to need to know that word. Now, this is one of the prison epistles Paul is writing while imprisoned.

This is towards the end of his life in the 60s AD. And Paul is writing to this church and he prays for all of them individually because of their koinonia, their partnership in the gospel, and their continued faithfulness in that partnership.

Now in verse 6 of chapter 1, he told them that he is sure of this, that he who started a good work in them will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. He encouraged them by reminding them that God didn't just save you when you realized that you're conversion at 10 years old, that God loved you, and then he left you to his own.

Grace begins before the world ever began, but your realization of grace begins at your conversion and it does not stop during your Christian walk. It doesn't stop at conversion, it continues on. You need God to serve God.

Let me say that again. You need God to serve God. It is God who is working in you, enabling you to desire and work out his good purpose. He enables you to have the desire and to carry out that desire for his good purpose.

Because according to Ephesians 2, we carry out naturally the desires of our flesh which are always evil. Paul keeps talking to them and then he gets to verse 27 of chapter 1. And this is really the preface for chapter 2 because remember, these little chapter divisions were not originally there.

This was a letter. In verse 27 of chapter 1, Paul said this. Just one thing, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then whether I come see you or am absent, I will hear about you, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith that comes from the gospel.

You don't just need the gospel to save you, you need the gospel to sanctify you. Live your life in a manner worthy. We talked about last week how Paul makes it crystal clear that you were not worthy. But he died for you anyway.

The point of the gospel is not to tell you that you are worthy of Christ's sacrifice, but to tell you that you are not worthy of it. But he is sanctifying you, molding you to make you more and more in his image.

Remember our analogy. It's not ours, it's scripture's analogy. Scripture says that we are all clay and he's the potter. He is molding us into whatever form he wants. And he's molding us into the image of his son.

And when you are saved, you are positionally set apart, positionally sanctified, positionally placed in the body of Christ. And that when you're in the body of Christ, the eye can't say to the ear, I don't need you.

Okay? Whatever part of the body of Christ God has placed you in, your job is to be that working, that body part, whatever that function is, to the best of your ability because God is working in you. You are in Christ who is working in you.

I've used this analogy before, but since the Bible often speaks of us being part of the body of Christ, Jesus spoke about himself, let me tell you a story real quick and then we'll finally read chapter two.

When I was in high school, I injured my MCL. Okay? That is the ligament on the inner part of your knee. I checked with Evan to make sure I was right. I had a partial MCL tear, which basically means if there are a hundred strands of my MCL, I tore 20 of them.

Now at that time, I was one of the stronger guys on the football team. I could squat 465 pounds. When I hurt that MCL, I was about the weakest guy on the team. I couldn't play. I couldn't lift. I couldn't do anything.

I was pretty much worthless. Because one body part was not doing its job, the rest of the body suffered. And like I said, I hurt my right knee. Well, after a couple of weeks in the crutches, my left ankle got hurt.

Do you know why my left ankle was hurting? Because it was having to pick up all the slack that my right knee wasn't doing. Don't get lost in the analogy. My point is this. As a body of Christ, we are a cohesive unit.

We are individually being molded into the image of Christ. And Christ's church as a whole is being molded to His image. And when you are not wired with Christ, it does not just hurt you. It affects others.

It affects others. We've spoke about this before, but remember, please, please, please realize that since you are part of a body, if you are not doing your job and you're not where you're supposed to be, your brothers and sisters will feel those effects.

However, where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. So that when you do shine your light and others see it, they can be edified. Think about this. We've spoken of this before. The Bible says that Noah found favor with God.

But how many people got on the ark? Eight. It never says anything about them being righteous or unrighteous with God. But through the blessing of Noah, others received that grace, that mercy, I should say.

So Paul ends chapter one by saying, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel. Notice the very first thing he says after that is not by getting a megaphone and going on the street corner and saying, I love Jesus.

The first thing he says about living worthy of the gospel is standing firm with your brothers and sisters in Christ with one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith that comes from the gospel.

Not being frightened in any way by your opponents, because that's not of their destruction, but of your deliverance. And this is from God, for it has been given to you on Christ's behalf, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him.

God just didn't give you faith at your conversion. He gives you faith throughout your Christian walk, throughout your sanctification. I need that faith. Lord I believe, but help my unbelief. Once he says live your life in a manner worthy in verse 27 of chapter one, he tells you to stand firm, that koinonia, with your brothers and sisters in Christ.

The Humility and Obedience of Christ in Philippians 2:1-11

Okay. Chapter two. We're going to read chapter two, verse one through 11, and I'm going to read out of the Holman. You can read whatever version you want, but if you want to follow along with me, I'm going to read out of the Holman.

So we're in chapter two, verses one through 11. If you don't listen to another word I say in the next 40 minutes or so, I want you to listen to what scripture has to say, and then you can turn me off or whatever, but please, I beg you, whatever you're doing right now, listen to what the word of God has to tell you.

Verse one. If then there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, sharing the same feelings, focusing on one goal.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility, consider others as more important than yourselves. Verse four. Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Well, how do we do that? Verse five. Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus, who existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for his own advantage. Instead, he emptied himself by assuming the form of a slave and taking on the likeness of men.

And when he had come as a man in his external form, verse eight, he humbled himself by becoming obedient, obedient to the point of death. Even death on a cross. For this reason, God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name so that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth.

And every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the father. We're going to come back to that last part in a little bit. You'll see why we can only cover 11 verses tonight.

Okay, this unity that we're speaking of, you can't be unified in the spirit if you're not in the spirit. Let me say that again, please, guys. You cannot be unified in the spirit if you're not in the spirit.

I love my church at Witton. I could take a lie detector test right now and say I love them. My best friends in the world are my fellow believers at Witton Baptist Church, and it's not because they have great taste in sports teams, because most of them do not.

It's not because I'm buddy-buddy with them or I can hang out with them. That is not why there's koinonia at my church, because there's a lot of people that have the same characteristics and quality. Some of my best friends, I have almost nothing in common with.

They're the exact opposite of me, okay? The reason why I have that love for them is because we both have the same love that comes from Jesus, and we're both focused on one goal, and that's glorifying Him.

Think about the triangle. If we have two people, okay? If they try to move towards the other, they leave where they're at, and they become less of themselves. They're never going to get to each other.

But if they're both focused on one goal, as they both focus on that one goal, they grow closer together. Guys, any believer on this planet that believes that Jesus Christ is Lord, I can have koinonia with that person.

I can have fellowship with that person. I can belong with that person, because we're focused on one goal. If then, or since there is, encouragement in Christ, consolation of love, I'm back in verse 1, any koinonia, fellowship with the Spirit, any affection and mercy.

That word affection and mercy, if you're reading the King James right now, it's going to say literally bowels of mercy. The word in Greek is splantna. It means guts, intestines. That's the type of mercy, that core mercy and love and encouragement you should have for your brothers and sisters in Christ.

Not the ones you're friends, your brothers and sisters in Christ, you should have that type of mercy, that inner core, splantna, those bowels, that affection of mercy. That's some pretty intense mercy.

Now what is mercy? Mercy is when someone does not get the punishment they deserve. When someone wrongs you, when someone wrongs you, mercy is not the type of forgiveness we talk about where you say you forgive them and then you talk about them behind their back or hold a grudge against them for the next 10 years.

Mercy is them not getting the condemnation they deserve. Ephesians 4 .32, be kind and compassionate, forgiving one another, and just as the Lord forgave you, so you must also forgive. I ask you, did Jesus wait for you to ask for forgiveness before he forgave you?

No. Because if he did, if Jesus waited for you to humble yourself before he showed you grace, he'd be waiting all the way until you died and went to hell. He, according to chapter 1, started the good work in you, and he will carry it on to completion.

He has bought a people for his own possession, and he bought it with his blood. I fear that sometimes we have more mercy for a dog on an animal adoption commercial than we do for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

I once had someone tell me, well, yeah, Josiah, but these guys have wronged me before. Right, that's what mercy is. There's no such thing as mercy unless there has been sin or wronging. There's no such thing as mercy.

You can't forgive someone, you can't forgive someone if they've never wronged you. Be kind and compassionate, forgiving one another. If the verse stopped there, as it does on most little pillow quilts, that's not that hard of a verse to follow.

But it's the next part. Just as, cathos, just as the Lord forgave you, so you must, not should, must also forgive. Think about how the Lord forgave you, not just before you were a believer, but still in that heart right now.

So you must also forgive. Guys, I think one of the core things we as believers need to know is who God is. Because if you know who God is, the more and more you know who God is, the more disgusted you are with the sin in yourself, and the more you realize your need and undeservedness for grace and share it with others.

Okay, Paul says in verse 2, Fulfill my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love. Love is from God. We only love him because he first loved us. Sharing the same feelings, focusing on one goal.

The goal is the glory of God. We're going to talk more about that in just a second. Verse 3 and 4. Okay, Josiah, you have shown us what type of mercy we're supposed to have, what type of unity we're supposed to have.

You've laid it out. Now, how do we do that? Don't just tell me what I'm supposed to do. How do I do that? Well, per usual, the Bible gives you a list of do nots and do's so that you can know how to do that.

It doesn't just tell you what not to do, it tells you what to do. I love when the Bible does this, it makes it crystal clear. In answering a how question, the Bible is going to be very explicit for us.

You ready? Verse 3. Do nothing out of selfish ambition. Some of your Bibles may say rivalry. Do nothing out of selfish ambition. Now, let me ask you a question. What do you think the Bible means when it says nothing means nothing?

Do nothing out of selfish ambition. I had someone in a moment of frustration a few months ago. They knew they were doing something wrong and they said, Josiah, can't I just be selfish for one day? You tell me.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition. But in humility, consider or count others as more important than yourselves. I think that word count and consider, everyone who's listening to this right now needs to really pay attention to this.

It does not say that by the world's standards they are more important than you. It says count them as more important than you. It does not say that by everyone else they are more important than you. In fact, they probably aren't.

By everyone else's standards, they may be below you, but you are to consider, to count, to treat them as if they are more important than you. How do you do that? But looking out, not for your interests, but for the interest of others.

Okay, well, Josiah, look, how serious is God about selfishness? I'm going to read two passages to you real quick just to show you how serious the Lord is about selfishness. You can write these down and read them later.

Again, I would encourage you to do that. The first one is out of Romans chapter 2, verse 7 and 8. Romans chapter 2, verse 7 and 8. Write this down and read it later. This is how serious God takes selfishness.

God will repay each one according to his works. Eternal life to those by persistence in doing good, seek glory, honor, and immortality, but wrath and indignation for who? Verse 8 of Romans 2. Wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking, disobey the truth, and are obeying unrighteousness.

The first thing God says, the first sign God says he will pour out his wrath and indignation on, self-seeking people. In case you're not convinced, guys, I am simply trying to show you how seriously God takes selfishness.

This is 2 Timothy chapter 3. Paul writes to Pastor Timothy and says this,. But know this, in the last days difficult times will come, for men will be lovers of self. Whoa! You read on. There's six verses of all the sins that people will have, and then at the end it says these people have a form of godliness, but deny his power.

These are people that claim to be Christians, and the first thing Paul says, you know that the end times are coming, or maybe I better should say the last times and perilous times, is that people will be lovers of self.

You should love yourself. No, that's the first thing God said he's going to punish. Selfish ambition. See, there's a difference, church, between what some of you call treating yourself and some of you call selfishness.

There's nothing wrong with treating yourself so long as it's not selfishness, but sometimes I think we get those two terms confused. Lover of self. Here's how you know. How do I know which is which? Are you putting others above your needs?

Are you putting others above your needs? Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit. That word conceit is quite literally kenodoxion. It means vain glory. Doxia, or doxology, means glory. Vain glory.

You know what vain glory is? It's glory given to anybody else other than God. Let me say that again. Vain glory or conceit is giving glory to anybody other than God. Verse 5. Okay, I know I give a lot of verses that I say every Christian should memorize, but seriously.

Philippians 2 .5. Write this on your arm. Tattoo it on your forehead. Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus. Well, hold on. I thought we were talking about unity. What's with this shifting to who Jesus is?

You can't be unified if you don't know who you're unified in. Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus. Verse 6. Who existing in the form of God. If you're reading NIV or NLT right now, it will say who being God or being in the very nature God.

The Greek word, morphetheo, means the form of God. Jesus, existing in the form of God in equality with God. Did not use that for his own advantage. Think about this for a minute. Paul starts off chapter 2 by telling you to humble yourself and treat others as more important than yourselves.

And the prime example he uses is God the Son, who in equality with God, the eternal Yahweh, the Son of Yahweh, humbled himself and took on the form of a slave, morphe theulo. And he humbled himself, pay attention, verse 8.

How did he humble himself in verse 8? By becoming obedient. By becoming obedient. If you want me to sum up how to live your life worthy of the gospel, obey. Obey. I'm hearing Ava say it right now. Obey.

Obey. Remember the passage in 1 Samuel, I think it's chapter 15, where God tells Saul, go to the enemy, take nothing back, leave no one alive. Well, Saul and the soldiers bring back animals to sacrifice to God.

They bring back property. God asks Saul, what are you doing? I told you not to bring anything back. Saul says, yes, God. But the soldiers brought them back in order to offer you sacrifices. And God through the prophet Samuel says, what does God desire more?

I desire obedience more than sacrifice. I desire obedience more than sacrifice. Jesus said, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. He didn't say, if you love me, you'll talk about how much you love me.

We must not love in word or speech, but in truth and action. If you love him, you'll keep his commandments. And when you don't, you will feel the conviction of the Holy Spirit so much because the Lord chastens those he loves that you will immediately get right backstabbed with God.

And if you don't, you're going to continually, continually feel that conviction of the Holy Spirit until one day God will use harsher measures to make sure you're listening, as some of us can attest to.

He's existing in the form of God. And even though he's equal to God, he still humbled himself to obedience. I want you to picture this for me. Picture that Jesus Christ is the creator of the world. According to John chapter one, he is.

His creation rejected his love and refused to acknowledge him as Lord. So he assumed the form of a slave, i .e. his creation, and humbled himself below that creation and allowed that creation to murder him so he could become a curse for them and their sin could be imputed on him.

And that's Jesus. That's Jesus who humbled himself to that level. How dare us not? If Jesus Christ, according to verse eight, humbled himself by becoming obedient to the Father, and Jesus humbled himself that much, how could we not humble ourselves below our brothers and sisters in Christ?

Let me give you another picture of who Jesus is as we keep talking about this type of humility that leads to unity. I want you to write this down, but I'm going to read it to you. Verse nine through 11.

Let me read it again. Philippians 2, nine through 11. For this reason, God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, those in heaven and on earth and on the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

I want you to remember that passage. I'm going to flip all the way back, and you can write this down or you can read with me, to Isaiah chapter 45. I'm flipping all the way back to Isaiah chapter 45, and you are welcome to read it with me.

Now, I want to remind you, and I'm going to start, guys, for those of you reading with me, I'm going to start in verse 18. This is Isaiah 45, verse 18. If you're reading your Bible, just a little reminder with the Old Testament, if you see the word Lord written in all capital letters, that is not a typo.

If you see the word Lord written in all capital letters, that is telling you the divine name Yahweh is being used there, God's name. Remember, in Exodus chapter 3, God described his name to Moses three ways.

He said, I am that I am. He said, I am. He said, my name is Yahweh, which is built off I am. I am, Yahweh, the eternal one, the eternal being. I am. Before Abraham was, I am. I just am. Alright, now, if Lord is written in all caps, that means that name Yahweh was used.

If it's not, if it's just a capital L in all lowercase, that means Adonai, which means master. So, as you're reading along, if you hear me say Yahweh, look in your Bible, you'll see that it's written in all capital letters, L-O-R-D.

And again, some of your Bibles may even spell it Jehovah, same word. Alright, and that's who's speaking. I'm in Isaiah 45, verse 18. Now, I want you to listen, and at the end, you may hear something familiar.

Isaiah 45, 18. Verse 20. Yes, let them counsel together. Who predicted this long ago, and who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, Yahweh? There is no other God but me, a righteous God and Savior, and there is no one except me.

Verse 22. For I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, please listen. This is Yahweh speaking, verse 22. By myself I have sworn, a word will not be revoked. Every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will swear allegiance.

Did you just hear that? Isaiah 45, 22. Every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess. Does that sound familiar? Didn't we just read that in Philippians? In Isaiah 45, written 700 years before Jesus, Yahweh is speaking, God, and he said, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will swear allegiance.

Now, back in Philippians, look at verse 9 through 11 again. At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, and every tongue will swear allegiance. Paul quotes this passage in Isaiah in Romans 14, 11 too. You can look it up later, Romans chapter 14, verse 11, and I want you to listen very closely to what just happened.

Paul, quoting Yahweh, quoting Jehovah, quoting God from the Old Testament, takes that passage in the Old Testament, quotes it in the New Testament, and replaces the word Yahweh for Jesus. You know why?

You know why he can do that and not be blasphemy? You know why he can do that and not be a misquote? Because Jesus is Yahweh. Because Jesus is God. So that Paul, oh goodness, 750 years later, can write the same thing that God said and say, at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow.

And notice, because people may say, yeah, but what about people that have died since then? Every knee will bow, verse 10, of those in heaven and still on the earth and those under the earth. Wherever they are, in eternity or in the present age, every single knee will bow, and every tongue will swear allegiance.

It doesn't say every knee might bow, or some knees, or most, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is curiaus, that Jesus Christ is the Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

I want to leave you with that little part before we move on. Isaiah 45, Philippians 2. Compare it for yourself. I commend it to you. And read that again. I'll give you one more, Joel chapter 2 says, whoever calls on the name of Yahweh will be saved.

Romans 10, 13 says, whoever calls on the name of Jesus will be saved. You know why? Because Jesus is God. Now, with that in mind, let's go back. That Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords, to whom every knee will bow and every tongue will swear allegiance to, that Jesus, according to verse 8, even he humbled himself by becoming obedient.

Glory, Holiness, and Reflecting Christ Through Obedience

How dare us not? How dare us not? What is humility? Well, it's summed up in one verse, John chapter 3, verse 30. My Whit Knights are probably going to get sick of hearing it soon because I've quoted it every week.

John 3, 30, he must increase and I must decrease. I think I've spoken of this before. Guys, when we pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit, that is a honorable, exalting prayer. That's a good prayer. But it's not like God injects you with more Holy Spirit.

That's not what happens. The same Holy Spirit that has always been in you is still in you if you're a believer. If you're not, he's not there. But it's not being injected with an extra dose of Holy Spirit.

It's you being emptied of yourself so the Holy Spirit can work through you. He must increase by you decreasing, said John the Baptist. That's how God's increased. That's how God's mortified, by you getting out of the way and dying to yourself.

If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself by taking up a cross, a torture device daily and following me. You exalt God by not exalting yourself, but by humbling yourself and exalting him.

Equal to God, verse 7, he emptied himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. He didn't even come as a conquering king. He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Father, if there be any other way, let this cup pass me, but not my, but thy will be done. Not my will, but yours, God. I am going to set the example of obedience for all the world to see. This is humility.

It's obedience. You want to show the world you love God, obey. Obey. Obey. There is it simply put. You don't need a doctorate in theology to know that. Obey. God made it real easy for us because James, John, Paul, and Jesus all said, the greatest commandment is this.

And notice they always say commandment and then say two things because they're one and the same. Love the Lord your God, not in part, but with all of you, your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.

That sums up the whole law. That sums up the whole law. What kind of love are we talking about? Well, we're talking about the kind of love that does not a single thing out of selfish ambition, but considers others as more important than themselves.

That's the type of love we're talking about. We only love him because he first loved us. Jesus didn't wait for us to be on good terms with him or to start liking him or to start seeking him out. One more thing on this point before we move on to talk about the name of Jesus.

Romans chapter 3 says that there is no one who seeks God. What do you think the Bible means when it says no one? Well, in the Old Testament, God said, you will find me when you search me with your whole heart.

But according to Romans chapter 3, there's no one seeking God. So how will anyone ever find him? One word, grace. Grace. It has been given to you on Christ's behalf to believe in him. For by grace you have been saved through faith.

And it's not of yourselves, guys. It's the gift of God, not of works, so that no one on this planet can boast. For we are his creation, Ephesians 2 .10, created in Christ Jesus, position of sanctification, for good works, progressive sanctification, that God prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them.

Your sanctification was prepared ahead of time by God. Your job is to obey. That's your job, to obey. Just like God called Jeremiah in the womb. He had his good works planned out. Jeremiah's job was to obey.

Verse 10, so that at the name of Jesus. Now why did Paul say at the name of Jesus? Have you ever thought about that? Or did you, like me, just read past it and not think twice about it? I did that for years.

He could have just said, so then, at Jesus, but he said at the name of Jesus. What's with the emphasis on the name of Jesus? Well, it's not the actual phonetical sound or letters, J-E-S-U-S. When Acts says, neither is there salvation in any other, for there's no other name, we're not talking about J-E-S-U-S, because it wasn't even written in English.

We're not talking about in Greek, Iesu. We're not talking about the actual letters, that the name of Jesus, otherwise you'd have to be able to read or write to be saved. That's not what it means. So that at the name of Jesus, what is meant when he says at the name?

Well, a name is great or not, it's either great or not, not because of how it's spelled or how it's pronounced, because who or what it represents. The name Yahweh, in its original form, is not even pronounceable, because there's no vowels in it.

It's not how it's pronounced, it's what it represents. Let me give you an analogy. Every one of you, don't put this in the comment section, every one of you right now can think of a name that you always decided you were never going to name your kids, and you don't like that name, because you knew somebody in high school or whatever that had that name and you didn't like them.

So that for the rest of your life, that name is associated with something negative. Am I right or wrong? Right? That name, because of someone you didn't like, or who was annoying, or who wronged you, whatever, that name for the rest of your life has a negative connotation because of who and what that name represents in your mind.

Whether it's fair or not, that's what's happening, right? Clint, dude, Clint, it is good to see you, man. Even through this. I love you, man. Hit me up after this. Guys, a name is not great because of who and what, or how it's spelled.

It's great based on who and what it represents. So again, every one of you can think of that. You can think of a name that you don't like because you immediately have negative attributes about it because of someone you knew with that name, and you'll never name your kids that.

You'll never name your dog that. At the same time, there are some names, and those of you from Witten, when I say these names, the moment I say the name, your eyes are going to light up because of who and what that name represents.

Marty. Now, when I just said the name Marty, every one of you have a series of attributes that you in your brain, in your brain, attributed to that name because of who and what Marty is. When I say Vicky, or Jeff, or Char, or Rebecca, you all have an idea of what that name represents to you because of who and what it represents.