The Spirit of Resurrection — Zac Poonen

Last week, last Sunday, Christians around the world, millions of them, celebrated what they claim was the day Jesus rose from the dead. Of course we know he rose up from the dead in the first day of the week, but what does it mean to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

The Spirit Who Raised Jesus from the Dead

If we are convinced about this and we understand its significance and understand the connection of that with the coming of the Holy Spirit, then I believe it will change our whole lives. One of the titles given to Jesus, to the Holy Spirit, when the Holy Spirit is given many titles, he's called the Holy Spirit, but one of the titles given to the Holy Spirit is in Romans 8 and verse 11, and this title has some connection with us.

I mean the Holy, the Word of God doesn't give different titles to Jesus or the Holy Spirit without a meaning. If Jesus is called a good shepherd, that means something. If he's called the way, the truth, and the life, all those things mean something.

And the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Grace, the Spirit of Truth, Helper, Comforter, all these things mean something. And here's another of those titles, Romans 8 and verse 11. He's called the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead, that is the Father.

It never says in the Bible anywhere that Jesus raised himself from the dead. In John chapter 10 he says, I have power to lay down my life and I have power to raise it again. He had the power because he's God.

So what did Jesus have power for? You stand there for a moment to John's Gospel chapter 10 and verse 18. No one, verse 17 first, the Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it again.

It's an amazing truth that God loves those who are willing to lay down their earthly life in order to exchange it for a heavenly one. I'll tell you, I want God to love me because I know it'll make me a triumphant person.

And there are different degrees in which God loves people. There's one sense in which he loves the whole world. God so loved the world that he gave his only Son. That includes murderers, thieves, terrorists, everybody.

But there's a special type of love he has for those like Jesus, those who follow in his footsteps. And my father loves me because I lay down my life. And he taught us to take up our cross and lay down this earthly life we have all received from Adam.

And we lay down that life in the moments of temptation. In the moments when I'm tempted to assert my life, to assert my rights and my reputation and to defend myself and to fight with others who try to take it away.

If I lay down my life like Jesus, the Father loves me. When I'm tempted with this earthly life of Adam, to lust with my eyes, to watch internet pornography, to speak with my tongue, to be angry, I lay down that life.

And I say, that's an awful life, Lord. I lay down. I have to choose it. When I lay down, the Father loves me. I believe all of us are loved by God. But let me tell you, it's not equal. Because many of us don't lay down our life in the moment of temptation.

You got to be fooling yourself if you think that God loves everybody in the world equally. He loves everybody. But it's very clear that Jesus said that there are certain people whom the Father loves more than others.

So I lay down my life and so the Father loves me. And no one has taken away that life from me. No one can take it away. I laid down on my own initiative. Now you, if you want, you can assert yourself.

Sure. Jesus could not have been crucified if he had not voluntarily given himself. He could have called 72 ,000 angels to defend him. One angel would have been enough. But he could have called 72 ,000.

But he did not call them because he laid down his life. And I have also got the authority to take, I've got authority to lay down and I've got authority to take it up. That means I've got authority to go to the cross and die and go to the grave.

I've got authority to come out of the grave. But he only used the authority to lay it down. He had the authority to take it up again. But he never took it up again. That's something we must always remember.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say Jesus raised himself from the dead. He arose. True. But he arose because the Father raised him from the dead. Now it's a very important principle which we testify to in baptism that I surrender to somebody putting me in the water.

But I can't lift myself up in a proper baptism if I'm baptized on my feet. I can't lift myself up. I'll just go into the water unless somebody else lifts me up. But going down I surrender. It's very very exact the symbolism of baptism.

I lay down my life, believe that God will raise it up again. And that raising up is so important. In Romans 8 11 he's called a spirit, the Holy Spirit is called the spirit of the Father who raised Jesus from the dead.

This is the Holy Spirit whom the Father worked with in raising Jesus from that grave. And we got to understand the significance of being raised from the dead. See death came because of sin. If there was no sin there would be no death.

If there was no disobedience to God there'd be no death. So when Jesus was raised from the dead it was because he had conquered sin and all the consequences and results of sin. If that was not true he would not have been raised from the dead.

And the Holy Spirit raised him from the dead saying that man's greatest enemy, death, has been defeated. Some of you may have enemies. I think we live in a wicked world where all of us have some type of enemies.

There also are different degrees of enemies. Some who hate us a lot, some who hate us a little bit. Jesus said even members of your own family could become your enemies, particularly if you are a disciple of Jesus.

But it doesn't make a difference. You make a list of all your enemies. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15 the last enemy is death. That's the greatest of all and he conquered that. And he says if this spirit, Romans 8 11, dwells in you.

The Holy Spirit’s Permanent Residence in the Believer

Now there's a difference between dwelling and visiting. When I come to your home I'm visiting your home. But you dwell in your home. I don't dwell in your home. I dwell in my home. Dwelling means a permanent residence, a permanent address.

You know some forms which we fill up for different things. They ask you what is your permanent address? I want the Holy Spirit to say one of his permanent addresses is my heart. Is that one of the Holy Spirit's permanent addresses?

Your heart? He'll come into anybody's heart if you are willing. Basically only two things. To keep it clean. That means as soon as it gets dirty you confess it and cleanse it immediately. Don't wait. If you sin now within the next five seconds of your knowing it you must confess it.

Of your knowing it. Now you may sin in the morning and not be aware of that sin till sometime later. But as soon as you're aware of it, confess it immediately. And the Holy Spirit will make a permanent residence you have.

The second condition is always humble yourself. Because the spirit of grace is given to the humble. So anybody sitting here, if you surrendered your life to the Lordship of Christ, the Holy Spirit will give a permanent address as your heart if you are one of those who's quick to acknowledge, confess sin, don't blame others like Adam.

Oh the devil is so clever. When you sin he will try to make you put at least some percentage of the blame on somebody else. Adam did take part of the blame for opening his mouth. But he said put part of the blame on his wife and part of the blame on God.

Don't do that. He like the thief on the cross who went to paradise said it's all me. It's nobody else's fault. It's me. I'm totally guilty. Jesus said that's great. Paradise is made for people like you who take the blame completely.

And those who take put the blame on others are kicked out of paradise like Adam. So you have a choice. You can either be kicked out or accepted. It all depends on one thing. Will you take the blame 100

Think of something that you blame somebody for in the last one week. Can you think of somebody you blame? Yours is also the blame partially but you highlighted the blame of somebody else. I'll tell you that's why your Christian life is so miserable.

That's why you can't rejoice in the Lord always. You can rejoice in the Lord always only in paradise, in God's presence. And if you want to get there I'll tell you a little secret. Don't blame anybody else for your sin, for your mistake.

Not your wife, not your husband, not your children. Say Lord it's me. It's me. So and then in all situations humble yourself. Humble yourself. Jesus humbled himself. Lord I'm not going to I'm not going to exalt myself.

I'm going to go down. Then if this spirit dwells in you, it's made permanent residence in you, what's he going to do? He who raised Jesus from the dead, the father who raised Jesus from the dead, will give life to your dead dying body through this spirit that lives in you.

Resurrection Life for the Mind, Emotions, and Body

First of all inside my body dwells my spirit. It's constantly exposed to death by sin. The Holy Spirit will give me life. I've got a mind which is so corrupted and spoiled by sin through the years and it's warped and crooked in his judgment.

Do you acknowledge that? That because of sin you're you know it's like you know these foot rulers that children use in school. You can draw a straight line. Imagine if the ruler was all crooked and that's how our mind is.

We think we are drawing a straight line but the ruler is all crooked. But if you're humble enough to acknowledge that and say Lord my mind has been warped by sin. I can't think straight and sometimes when I'm absolutely convinced I'm right I could be a hundred percent wrong.

Have you had that experience in the past? I've had it so many times that the Lord has told me don't be so sure you're right. I'll tell you where I'm absolutely sure I'm right. Anything written in the Bible there I don't have any doubt.

But when some area where I say I think I prefer to say what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13. I see through a glass darkly. I don't know fully. I mean I have some idea but I'm not sure. If it's written in the Word no doubt at all.

I'm talking about things which are not written in the Word you know. Sometimes even our assessment of certain people could be wrong. We need to discern people. We cannot live in the world if we don't discern people otherwise you'll be fooled by all the cult leaders and all the false religions and atheists and everybody.

So we need to use our mind. But when we assess people I think so-and-so is spiritual. I think so-and-so is carnal. I think so-and-so is worldly. You may be right but allow for the possibility that you may also be wrong.

That's all I'm saying. You may be wrong. Allow for that possibility because there are many crooks in the world who can fool even clever people like you. Allow for that possibility but the Holy Spirit will give life to this dying mortal mind of mine.

My emotions, you know the feelings of happiness, it can be a deception. There are a lot of people who drink, get drunk and feel so happy. They're not really happy. It's the effect of the drink. People who take drugs they get high.

They think they're in heaven. They're not in heaven. They're on their way to hell. But they think that they are. Emotions can be deceptive. Sometimes even have you had these emotions in a Sunday morning meeting where you sing about the way Jesus suffered and died and oh you feel so sad for him and you feel you love Jesus so much.

Wait till tomorrow and you'll see you don't love Jesus so much at all. It's just temporary emotion during the meeting. It's deceptive because Jesus says if you love me you'll keep my commandments and if you don't keep his commandments tomorrow, all this feeling that you got here in the meeting when you were singing that song and even the tears came down your eyes, it's all a deception.

Don't be fooled by it. I'm just trying to save you from deception. Our minds are mortal. Our emotions are deceptive. Our bodies are dying. But it's a wonderful thing that the Holy Spirit, the Father who sent the Holy Spirit to raise Jesus from the dead, that same Holy Spirit, not some other, the same Holy Spirit can dwell in me and it says he can give me life to my body and that includes all of my personality.

Little by little I taste more clarity in my mind that I discover now that I can discern people more accurately than I could do 20 years ago or 30 -40 years ago. That I can look at people, look at their eyes and listen to their talk for five minutes and discern where they stand spiritually.

See that can happen for you. It's like you know you take a knife and you sharpen it and sharpen it and sharpen it in that knife which is so blunt you had such difficulty cutting the meat now you touch it and it cuts.

It's something like that. The Holy Spirit will make us sharp and when we read God's Word, you read and read. I mean I was just reading something this week in Ezekiel, one of those you know difficult chapters in Ezekiel 44 and you don't get much out of those chapters right?

But I tell you God spoke something so powerful to my heart from there as I was reading it. It's like that you know the Holy Spirit makes the Bible which many people say is boring. It is boring to them because the knife is blunt.

It's like saying I can't cut this meat. I agree you can't cut it but that's because you allow your mind and your spirit to be defiled by sin. You blame other people and you don't judge yourself quickly.

You don't confess your sin quickly and then you say the Bible is boring. The Bible is boring because your knife is blunt. Whereas somebody else takes another sharp knife and touches the meat and it cuts.

Somebody else reads the same Bible and he gets something living out of it. God Almighty speaks to him. How is that? It's the same book. It's the attitude of heart. Somebody else sees something in scripture which you don't see.

How is it? He's a human being like you but he's opened his being to the Holy Spirit and I want to say to you my brothers and sisters honor the Holy Spirit in your life. Don't allow all the confusion there is in the world today about the Holy Spirit to confuse you.

The Power of the Holy Spirit and the Resurrection

I believe we all need to be filled with the Holy Spirit or baptized in the Holy Spirit. Call it what you like but we must be filled with the Holy Spirit and and I don't mean the way most Pentecostals seek it.

It's a seeking for power. I've often said that 90 of the speaking in tongues that I have heard in my life is all counterfeit. I don't believe it's genuine. It's my opinion. A lot of it I've heard on television and in meetings.

90 is human psychological manipulation. People are fooling themselves because they don't have power. There's a 10 that's genuine and most of the people who have a genuine experience of speaking in tongues never use it in public or hardly ever in public.

It's mostly always in private between them and God. So that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a power. Which power? This power that raised Jesus from the dead. What is the greatest power?

I mean we think of power that sent a rocket to the moon. Which is greater? You know that the Bible says the greatest power that was manifested on earth was the power that God exercised when he raised Jesus from the dead.

Now there are many ways in God has exercised power through the years. He raised people from the dead in the Old Testament. Elijah, through Elijah, through Elisha, even through Jesus, Lazarus and others were raised from the dead.

But that was not a great manifestation of God's power because the people who were raised from the dead died again. Lazarus is not alive today. Imagine that God did something and finally the effect of it was after some years negated because the guy died again.

They were raised from the dead but there was a difference. When Jesus rose from the dead he conquered death. You can't say Lazarus conquered death because death conquered him after a few years. Jairus' daughter, she didn't conquer death.

Death conquered her after a few years. But Jesus conquered death. You need to see the resurrection of Jesus distinct from all the other raising from the dead in the Bible. God raised Jesus from the dead.

There's something significant about that. It was conquering something because death was the main weapon of Satan. When Adam sinned and he handed over the world to Satan, Satan got the keys of death. And it's always been in his hands for thousands of years.

He could kill people, could do anything to people, could harm them, he could kill them. In fact when God said, when God allowed Job to attack Satan, sorry, God allowed Satan to attack Job, Job chapter 1, you read that he could send fire and he could kill Job's children.

Imagine, Satan could kill Job's children. He had the keys of death. In the next chapter you read that God opened the hedge for him to attack Job also. He could have killed Job except God said, sorry, you can't kill him.

You can make him sick. You can give him anything but don't kill him. Otherwise Satan could have killed Job too. But something happened when Jesus rose from the dead. Something wonderful happened which we don't think about enough.

We think a lot about the cross. I really believe we need to think a lot more about the resurrection. And I'll tell you what happened. Turn to Hebrews in chapter 2. When Jesus rose from the dead, something happened.

There are many things that happened. This is one of the things that happened. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14. Since the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himself took part of this same thing. What did he do through death?

Through death he rendered powerless. That's the real meaning of that word. The one who had the power of death, that is the devil. Now please read that verse. Even a third standard student can answer this question.

Who had the power of death? Who? The devil. It's written there. Not who has, present tense, who had, past tense, the power of the devil, the death, the devil. And he took away that power of death from him.

That's the meaning of he rendered him powerless. This man who had power, he took away that power. That's the meaning. If I were to paraphrase it, that he took away the power from the one who had the power of death.

And one way in which the Old Testament spoke about power is keys, authority, the keys of the kingdom. And the Lord told Peter, I give you the keys of the kingdom. He's giving authority. So power of death is keys of death.

Christ’s Authority over Death and Hades

Now turn to Revelation in chapter 1 and see what Jesus says there to John when he, John saw Jesus. And it says in verse 17, 1 Revelation 1 17, I saw Jesus. I fell at his feet like a dead man and he's placed his right hand on me and said don't be afraid.

I'm the first and I'm the last. I'm the living one. I was dead and I'm alive forevermore. I was raised from the dead. I have the keys of death. And of Hades which is a place where people go after their dead.

Jesus used the picture of keys. I'm the one who opens the door of death and I'm the one who opens the door to where people go after their dead. I have it. When did he get it? I mean as God he had power but he had to, because man gave, it was a man who gave the key to the devil.

In Genesis 3, Adam, it had to be a man who took the key back from the devil. That's why Jesus had to become a man. It wasn't an angel who gave the key to the devil, it was a man. And Jesus came as a man and took that key back from the devil for our sake.

Now turn back to Hebrews 2. Why did he take the keys of death back? So that, verse 15, it wasn't for his own sake. You know that Jesus never did anything for his own sake. True Christianity, the true, the closer a man lives to Jesus, the less he will do things for his own sake.

The more he will do things for God and for Christ. The closer you live to Adam and this sinful humanity, the more you'll spend all your life doing things only for yourself and you'll nominally do something for the Lord maybe on Sunday morning.

But Jesus never did anything, he did it for us. It says here he did it to free us. Verse 15, who through the fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. Do you know all fear is like somebody putting a chain on me.

Any type of fear, I don't care what it is. The fear of death is the greatest fear. We can say those are the strongest chains. I may die. I may die of cancer. I may die of a road accident. I may die of something or somebody may kill me.

The fear of death and beneath that fear are all the other fears. The fear I may lose my job. The fear I may lose my house. The fear my children may suffer. The fear I may die before my children grow up.

The fear that I may not be able to provide for my family and you name it a hundred and a thousand and one fears. Every fear is a chain the devil puts on my mind. It's a chain. Did Jesus come to leave me with some of those chains?

Do you know the number of Christians, born-again believers, who allow the devil to put chains around them and they say okay, okay put it around me. What do I mean? The devil comes to them and says what'll happen if this happens to you?

What'll happen if this happens to you? What'll happen if this happens to you? And you keep listening one more round. One more chain goes once more around your mind and what'll happen if this happens to you?

And you think some more. What is the result? At the end of all those thoughts which the devil has put into your mind, what'll happen if this? What'll happen if this? What'll happen if this? At the end of it I'm a slave.

I don't have freedom. I've lost my joy. I'm depressed. I'm gloomy and I make life unhappy for people in my own home. Do you know what you need to hear? Jesus rose from the dead brother, sister. Jesus took away the keys of death so that you need never have a single fear in your life if you surrender to the Lordship of Christ.

I never want to live one single moment of my life without Jesus Christ being Lord. I know it's the safest place in the universe. Do you think the safest place in the universe is or in the world is your home?

You say India is safe, Afghanistan is dangerous, Iraq is dangerous, maybe physically, but I'll tell you the safest place in the world is the center of God's will. It is. If I live in the center of the will of God, I'm absolutely safe wherever I am because nothing can hurt me.

He who does the will of God lives forever. He doesn't fear death because he's ready to meet the Lord anytime and he knows that he cannot die before the Lord opens the door. It's a tremendous assurance.

Resurrection Hope for Families and Future Generations

I want to know that. I live in a world full of sickness. Anybody can get the flu. Anybody can get cancer. Do you know that even people can get AIDS without any sexual relationship? Just if some nurse puts an unsterilized needle into your vein, you can be absolutely living the purest life and you can get AIDS.

It's that easy. We live in a dangerous world. There's terrorism. You don't know where a bomb will go off. How are we going to live? How are our children going to live? How it's going to be when you die and your sweet little children grow up and they've got to face a world a hundred times worse than yours?

It's like we sing in that song. Because Jesus lives, our children can face tomorrow. That's why I say to you, you better teach your children to trust in Jesus. You give them education. You give them food.

You give them clothing. You give them so wonderful. Praise God. You're a good father. You've got a good mother. But if you haven't taught them to trust in Jesus, I tell you, you're a total failure as a parent.

If you have only taught them how to make money, how to live clean, how to wear good clothes, how to be stylish, how to follow those models who dress immodestly on the television screen and in the advertisements, and you haven't taught them to be holy and follow Jesus, I will say without any hesitation, you're a total failure as a father and mother.

I don't care if your child is getting a hundred thousand rupees a month. You're a total failure. They won't be able to face the future with a hundred thousand rupees a month. I'll tell you that. But if you have Jesus, if the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead has set my permanent addresses, that person's heart, boy, you have done the greatest thing you can do for your children.

Teach them to be quick to acknowledge sin. Teach them not to blame others. All this habit of blaming others. My dear brothers and sisters, everywhere in the world you go, you hear it. It's true. I'm not saying they didn't make mistakes.

Don't you think Eve made a mistake in giving Adam that fruit she did? But what the Lord doesn't want us to concentrate on that. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying you should pretend that people in the world are not making mistakes.

No, they are. They're making thousands of mistakes. They may be worse than you, but I say don't concentrate on them. When Isaiah chapter 5, Isaiah went around saying, woe is so-and-so who gets drunk and woe is so-and-so who exploit poor people and woe is so-and-so who live in sin.

He was absolutely right. But in Isaiah chapter 6, that was chapter 5, in chapter 6 he says, I saw the Lord and he says woe is me. That's what happened. This guy was saying woe is so-and-so, woe is so-and-so and he was absolutely right.

When he saw the Lord, he says woe is me. My tongue is bad, he says. And I live in the midst of people who speak bad things with their tongues. He didn't say, oh they are all pure and I'm sinner. That's not humility.

That is stupidity. I don't have to say, well everybody else is holy. I'm so sinful. That's rubbish. Everybody else is also sinful. But I see my own sin. Maybe your wife is sinful. So what? What about you?

Maybe your husband is sinful. True. What about you? That's the point. We don't have to pretend that other people are more spiritual. You know some people read that verse in Philippians chapter 2, verse 4, which says consider other people as more important than yourself.

They misread it. I mean Christians misread most verses in the Bible. They misread it as consider everybody as more spiritual than yourself. Uh-huh. Then even Jesus didn't obey that. Did Jesus go around saying, oh Judas Iscariot is more spiritual than me.

Peter is more spiritual than me. Did he say that? I'm following Jesus. I don't have to go around saying, oh that brother is more spiritual than me. That sister is more spiritual. No, that sister is carnal.

What did Paul say about the Corinthians? Oh you fellows are more spiritual than me. No, he said you're all carnal. I'm spiritual. He was one of the humblest apostles. Don't think humility is to believe that everybody is more spiritual than you.

That's a lie. And God doesn't ask you to do that. He says consider them as more important. That means wash their feet. You're the servant. Because you're more spiritual. Read scripture carefully. So we see ourselves.

The Holy Spirit’s Sanctifying Work in Daily Life

Teach our children to see ourselves. The key, the Holy Spirit can be there. The Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. They purify our mind, sanctify our emotions. We got control over our emotions. Anger, boy, that's an emotion.

Just like joy is an emotion. You got to get under the control of the Holy Spirit. There's no other way to control it. No one can control the tongue it says. You can control. You know James chapter 3 says you can tame a lion, you can tame an elephant, you can tame a tiger, but you can't tame your tongue.

Absolutely right. If you put your tongue in a zoo, somewhere it'll come out. You can't keep it there. The lion will stay there, the tiger will stay there, but your tongue will just slip through the cage and come out.

It's like you can't tame it. It's not possible. That's how it is. But the Holy Spirit can. He can control. It says here he'll give life to our mortal body. The parts of my body. Think of the amount of depth that comes into my mind through my eyes.

Can you just think for a moment about the amount of spiritual depth you have received into your mind just through your eyes. Forget every other member of your body. Just these little eyes. The amount of spiritual depth that has got into your mind through the eyes.

And forget about before you're a believer. After you became a believer. It's massive. It's like asking the lady who collects the garbage to come and dump it all in my sitting room. Why carry it around?

Dump it in my sitting room. Next day she comes along with more garbage. Yeah here bring it in. Bring it right in. We got piled up here. And your house stinks like anything. Nobody will be so crazy. Nobody will ask a garbage truck to come and dump the garbage into their sitting room or even into their compound.

The eye is a gate. You decide whether you open it or not. You can open your gate and allow the garbage truck to come and dump all the garbage in your compound if you like. When it's passing by you say come.

Come right in. It doesn't force its way and it's just passing by the road. You say hey stop I want some garbage in my house. Come and dump it here. You open the gate. The eye is a gate. You open it. You open it when you go to the internet.

You can take good things also. The eye is a gate from which you get good things. Or you can dump a lot of garbage. You know who can control it? Only the Holy Spirit. You can't do it. You think you can control your tongue?

You can't. But the Holy Spirit can. When it says he'll give life to your mortal body. This is my mortal body. A body that brings mortal means dying. Capable of death. It's just going to go down into death, death, death, death, death.

But the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead it says in Romans 8 11 can give life to this mortal body. Yeah so that I can live holy according to his name which is Holy Spirit. I think most of you heard this story of the man who came to our church some years ago and said to me.

You know he was from some other Pentecostal church I think. You don't have the Holy Spirit here. I said why? Have you lived in my home? Have you seen how I handle money? Have you seen how I talk to my wife?

How do you come here and decide that? Oh you don't make enough noise here in this meeting. Oh noise. I said that's the difference. My Trinity is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Your Trinity is Father, Son and noisy spirit.

That's the difference between you and me. We worship a different Trinity. Sorry. Our Trinity makes us holy not noisy. We make noise sure but holiness noise without holiness. The prophets of Baal could make that.

On the Mount Carmel nothing happened. Holy Spirit comes and makes us holy. Gives life to our mortal body. I'll tell you some other thing. He when we get this type of life into our eyes and our tongue and our mind it affects our body.

Any doctor will tell you that if you're always the anxious nervous type there's a sort of a nerve that gives you ulcers in your stomach. Yeah it's true. It didn't come because you ate something. It's because you're always tense, tense, tense and anxious.