The Lord and His Anointed: Part 2

The Lord and His anointed in today's part two. I'd like for you to turn with me. I'd like to read the chapter with you, along us looking at it together. Chapter two, the psalm. Wonderful chapter. Don't you love these psalms?

A hundred and fifty they are. The Psalter. Spirit inspired. God breathed.

All sufficient.

Inspired. Infallible. Word of the living God. Psalm chapter two verse, beginning of verse one through twelve. Why do the heathen rage? And why the people, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed.

Saying, let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son. This day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them into pieces, like a potter's vessel. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings. Be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him. Oh, let's bow in prayer to our wonderful God. Thank Him for this Word that's come on a sea of blood.

Thank God today that we have it in our own language. Let's pray. O Lord, our Father, our God, Lord, as we approach Your eternal throne by faith, we realize, O Lord, that no worship will be acceptable unto Thee, O God, unless it's through Your blessed Son, Your only begotten Son.

You said, kiss the Son.

That's worship. The Lord Jesus Christ. And that's what heaven does right now, is worshiping the Son, worshiping the Father,.

The Spirit,.

Three in one. And, Father, we thank You through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, we can come right into Your holy presence. O God, we do not look at this lightly. Matter of fact, we come with fear and trembling.

And we tread the courts lightly. So, Father, we come, and we come by faith, and we look to Christ alone this morning. He is our mediator, He's our redeemer, and our great high priest. And, Lord, we ask, Lord, through His name, and through the Holy Spirit, to sanctify us,.

And through Your word,.

Wash us, and purge us, so that our worship would be pleasing to You, O God, this morning. We pray that Your name, to be hallowed, Lord,.

Through the preached word.

Thank You that this holy word has come to us in our language this morning. And we realize, O God, that all is vain, unless Your blessed Holy Spirit comes.

And shows us Christ.

O God, show us Jesus Christ in Him,.

Crucified, buried,.

And resurrected. Lord, we thank You for Your word. So, Lord, we plead with You to open our eyes that we only see Jesus. That's our prayer. Give us ears to hear Jesus. Open our understanding to know Jesus.

And as David prayed, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. And we ask all this for Your glory.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.

This is a wonderful and glorious psalm, is it not? Psalm 2 is one of those great messianic psalms. It's written by David. First of all, I'd like to open up by just mentioning to you a little bit about the importance of a messianic psalm.

And then we're going to go right and pick up right where we left off. But I believe it's important that we understand about a messianic psalm. The first way of finding out, knowing that a psalm is a messianic psalm, and not all the psalms are messianic.

Now, all the roads will eventually lead to Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I can assure you that. Spurgeon said that. But the messianic psalms are special prophetic psalms on the Lord Jesus Christ. The first way of understanding three methods of knowing that a psalm is a messianic psalm is, number one, by the testimony of the writers of the Old Testament.

The testimony of the writers of the Old Testament. The prophets that spoke and prophesied under the Spirit of God, prophesied of Jesus Christ, the Anointed One. Christ being the Anointed One. So it's the testimony of the Old Testament writers.

That's the first one. And there's a few occurrences of these. We find them in particular in psalms found in other books, which attribute to them to a discussion on the Messiah specifically. Secondly, is that there are references in the New Testament, not only the Old Testament testifies, but the New Testament to these psalms, these messianic psalms, either by Christ Himself that spoke of Himself, referring to Him, because He spoke of David many times.

He quotes the psalm, and He quotes Deuteronomy, and He quotes many, many scriptures. You see this constantly. But Christ Himself and the writers who made note to them as pertaining to Jesus Christ. For example, Psalm 2 is no doubt quoted as we looked at last Lord's Day in prayer by the early apostolic church.

As they were praying, in chapter 4 of the book of Acts, Luke records this for us. And it basically says that through verse 24 through verse 26, as they were praying, that this psalm is a messianic psalm, and it's written by the mouth of thy servant David.

That's what they said in prayer. So even though there's no title of the author, David is the writer. And it could be also that Psalm 1 and 2 are inseparable. They could be linked together like a chain.

Psalm 1 is introduced in chapter 1, verse 1. As you see it, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of ungodly. And if you notice in the closing of Psalm 2, it ends, blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.

So it begins with the blessing and ends with the blessing. So it's a good possibility these two psalms are connected together. Kind of like Psalm 42 and 43. It's almost like a connection. We have the chapters and the verses to divide it and things, but originally when it was written, it was a flow of thought.

Then there are times of pauses and separations, but Psalm 1 and 2 possibly could go together. But nevertheless, this wonderful psalm too is a messianic psalm. The third thing is, the method, is that there is a testimony by the Jews, Jewish believers and the church itself denoting that these psalms refer to the Messiah.

Let me say that again, that there is a testimony. The testimony is very important. And from the church, the early church, denoting that these psalms refer to the Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ. So we can ask those three questions while we're reading all the messianic, whatever psalm you come to, the messianic psalm, to see if it's truly messianic.

Number one, do the other Old Testament writers give testimony to the Messiah? Do they give testimony to the Messiah? And number two, do the New Testament writers refer to these psalms in reference to the Messiah?

And third, do the Jewish believers in the church refer to Christ, Jesus, as the Messiah? And in reading Psalm 2, if we ask these questions, we can answer each one of those questions with emphatically absolute yea and amen.

It fits perfectly of who Jesus is. So we do know even though under the Spirit of God, David is addressing His time, you see many psalms, many scriptures like this, there's the prophecy that leads directly to Jesus Christ.

You had the Davidic covenant, David is king, but we know who the great king is. Under it being His seed, that it leads to Jesus Christ. And actually, if we read the Bible, we know after Jesus' resurrection in Luke, Jesus spoke to the disciples on the road to Emmaus and He opened up the scriptures, wouldn't you like to hear that?

And He expounded to them on the scriptures of all the verses and the chapters, and it even speaks of the psalms. He went to those scriptures and He spoke of Himself and afterwards they testified, did not our hearts burn within us?

Beloved, that's what I desire, don't you? I want my heart to burn this morning by hearing this Word. And then when we leave out of here, we burn for Jesus Christ and we burn so much that people see a burning shining light in us to make a difference in this old dark world.

Because I tell you, as you well know, this old dark world needs to have a burning shining light. And it's here. It's right here.

The Word of God.

So yes, emphatically yes and amen, this is a messianic psalm. Therefore, when we come to the messianic psalm, we see the people here in Psalm 2 raging against the Lord and His anointed and we see God's determined purpose to exalt His Son.

And in the end,.

He's going to reign forever and ever. Now we've got something to look forward to, don't we? Jesus will triumph. He's already triumphed, but in the end, when He comes back, all the enemies will be laid waste.

Now, as we read this, with the eye of faith, as Spurgeon said, watch the final triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ over all His enemies. And as we read this wonderful psalm and study it and look at it together, we also, with an attitude of fear and trembling, this is another truth from the Word of God that I would like to set before you this morning to help us view this psalm right.

And that is this one truth here, and I didn't think about this until I was studying, I said, you know, there's so many people and all of us need to be very careful when we read the Word of God, we need to make sure we pray over it and we ask the Spirit of God to show us something that we're missing.

And I thought about 1 Samuel 16, verse 7b. You're familiar with this verse, and it's one that we quote quite often, but I like to tie it in to Psalm 2 as we look into these verses this morning. And the Scripture says here, the Lord does not see as man sees.

The Lord does not see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. As a matter of fact, if you go to Revelation, it says Jesus Christ is the searcher of hearts.

He searches the reins of our hearts. None other than Christ Himself through the blessed Spirit of God can search in the deep recesses of our soul and our hearts. So I like to set that before you as we go through this psalm because a lot of times we read a psalm and we say we missed something, but the Lord does not see as man sees.

Hallelujah for that.

For man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. So the psalmist who is David, as we well know, that's given to us from Acts 4, verse 24 -26.

We know that.

He's the writer. Psalm 2 gives us a unique perspective.

Of viewing God.

And God is sitting on His throne and He's high and lifted up as Isaiah saw Him. He's high and lifted up, looking down upon the kingdoms of this world like the Scripture says that heaven is His throne and earth is His footstool.

And the question we need to ask here is what does God see? That's the question. What does God see? What does God see? God sees the kings of the earth setting themselves against Himself, against God, and His anointed, the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's what God sees. God's angry with the wicked every day. I like what John MacArthur says. Put that on the church sign. You know, you see all these little cute sayings on church signs and I saw one on Valentine's Day.

Be mine slash God. Now, that really made me sick. They're adding to the Word of God. God never said that. You see what I'm saying? Don't say something that God never said. But if it's in these 66 books right here compiled as the Bible and if you were to put something line by line and precept by precept and I love when churches do that on a sign.

They put a scripture. I say, now that has power to it. That strikes my heart. That strikes my soul.

But don't give me these little cute sayings.

That God never said.

You see that too often. And it gives us a hint what's going on. It gives us a hint. Does that church, what is called a church, are they going by the Word of God? Do they live by this Word? Do they preach the Word?

Do they love the Word? Do they know the Word?

Well, God help us.

We need to see things as God sees. So, what does God see? What does God see? He sees here in chapter 2, He sees the vein plodding of men trying to shape this world as they would like it. Don't we see that today?

But God sees deeper. He sees into the motives of their hearts and why they're doing it. And all that they're plodding is in vain. And we looked at that last week, that there's vain imaginations. Vain.

Verse 1. And the people imagine a vain thing. Imagine. The imaginations of people's hearts is evil continually.

It's deep evil.

So, we see that. Could this really be the sad state of the kings of the earth of our day? That they really would desire to vain plodding, trying to shape in this world as they would like to in vain imaginations attempting to break the bonds of the one who actually upholds the world by the Word of His power?

Would they try to dare usurp God? Well, we see that little man tries to attempt this. Would the kings of the earth, the presidents, and whoever it may be, do they not want what is best for man? Oh, they may get up and say it.

Like a lot of politicians do. They lie and lie just to get in office, to get their way. But do they really? Are they concerned for the best of man? We know that's not always the case, do we? Do they actually seek and desire to thwart Almighty God and His rule over them?

And do they even believe that... Well, do they believe that God exists? Do they believe that there is a God? These are questions. Well, beloved, let me say this. As we see the things right before our very eyes unfolding right now in our present time, how relevant, then, is this psalm to in the 21st century?

How relevant is this psalm? It's very relevant. As a matter of fact, everything in this book, and it's written thousands and thousands of years ago, this is just as relevant and fresh as it was back when it was penned.

The amazing thing is that this psalm, which was written thousands of years ago, it's more relevant than ever before. Even in Acts, if you read Acts 4, 24 -26, the church, the early believers that came together and as they were praying, they quoted this.

They quoted part of it. And actually, they saw the relevance in that day. See? As they crucified the Lord's anointed, Jesus Christ.

That's what they said. They quoted it.

In prayer. Early believers saw that this psalm, they saw this psalm unfolding right before their eyes. And that was 2 ,000 years ago. Well, it's just as relevant today as it was then. And it's very relevant.

More important in our day than ever. Now, was there ever a time when it was more needful for the rulers of the earth today to look to God? But yet, that's not the case, is it? We see judgment about us.

A lot of people disagree with me. You know, a lot of people says, God bless America, but I'm telling you, God's not going to bless America until there's repentance. That is so lightly used. Matter of fact, a lot of people wouldn't like me saying this, but I see curse.

I see a woe about us. I see wicked leaders. And God has given people over to a delusion. Because we understand, if we read this book, as you see as well as I do, that God is sovereign over everything, isn't He?

And He allows the wicked rulers to come in. Well, this is very serious. How does God see? You know, actually, God sees opposite the way we see things. Unless we see through the eyes of the Blessed Holy Spirit, through these Scriptures.

And you read through the Old Testament, and you see how Israel rebelled against the Lord, and how they disobeyed His commandments. And notice that God would always discipline Israel by giving them wicked rulers.

And a lot of times,.

Discipline them with a rod, a loving rod, to bring them back to themselves, to God. And He would allow hard things to happen, to wake them up. And then they'd go right back to it. And you see this. You see this if you read the whole entire Bible.

You see this rebellion, obstinance, against the Lord. They forget God. And what does the Scripture say? That the nations that forget God,.

That's sad,.

Shall be turned into hell. Be turned into Sheol. God turns them over. Read Romans 1 to a reprobate mind. Well, here we see the heathen is raging. Imagine a vain thing. And keep in mind that Psalm 2 was written hundreds of years ago, like I said, before the birth of Christ.

God's anointed had not yet appeared on earth. And we know that by this Bible, Jesus Christ has come, the anointed one, the Messiah has come. And what did they do to Him? They crucified Him. They crucified the King of glory.

The King in which they rejected and put Him on a cross. And they buried Him. But oh beloved, we know in the third day, God raised Him from the dead. And now He's our risen King. He's majestic and He sits in the heavens at His Father's right side as our high King of glory, our eternal priest, our priest, making intercession for His people.

Exalted on high, He's reigning. And yet even in our day, the rulers of the earth are in an uproar. And the nations are devising a vain thing. And the kings of the earth take their stand again. And the rulers take counsel against the Lord and His anointed.

Now we pick up, now last Lord's day we look at rage and rebellion, right? We see this. Rage and rebellion in verses 1 to 3. The heathen rage. The people imagine a vain thing. Why? Why? That's the question.

And the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed saying, let us break their bands asunder and cast their cords from us. Well there you have, that is rage and rebellion.

Then we looked at the second part of it is derision and decision. Derision and decision in verses 4 through 6. He that sitteth in the heaven shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision. And then shall He speak unto them in His wrath and vex them in His sore displeasure.

And then He says this in verse 6. Don't you love this? Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. He is set there. I love that word set. He's not going to be moved.

He's set there.

God is set there.

And today I would like the third and fourth points. The third would be Jesus and judgment. Jesus and judgment in verse 7 through 9. And instruction and invitation in verses 10 through 12 as we give application.

Let's look at the third point. Verse 7. We see verse 7 through 9. Jesus and judgment. Verse 7 says,. And the Lord says, I will declare the decree. I will declare the decree. The Lord has said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

There we have the divine decree. The divine decree. And who is speaking here? Were the Lord's anointed? He speaks. The Lord's anointed. We have looked into the wicked council of the chamber, have we not?

And we looked to the throne of God and God laughs. And now we see the anointed. The anointed one declaring His holy rights. That's what it means. He has holy rights of sovereignty. And He gives warning.

God has laughed at the wicked's council.

And raging.

And now Christ the anointed comes forward as the risen Redeemer. And He makes a declaration. Don't you love this? There's a declaration that's made. It makes me think of what the Apostle Paul said about the Lord Jesus Christ in the opening up of Romans 1 .4.

He said, He is declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. Jesus is declared to be the Son of God. And was it not the Father that said, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.

And here in Psalm 2 verse 7, this declaration is made by the anointed one. And as Jesus Christ comes forward looking into the raging rebellious kings that are angry with angry faces and hatred against the Lord and His anointed.

And Jesus Christ is almost said to say, If this is not enough to make you silent, God through Christ will shut every mouth. Does not Paul say that in Romans? That every mouth will be shut. God will have the last say.

Regardless of little man's puny voices and what they rage and what they say.

Isn't this humbling?

I look at myself in this and I think, I need to be bowing my face and bowing before the King of kings.

And the Lord of lords.

And the scripture says, Every knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. We need to bow now and submit to His Lordship now before it's everlasting too late.

Because one day, there's going to come a day even the enemies is going to bow. And that's what he's talking about. So God through Christ will shut the mouth of every person.

In the divine,.

What he's saying here,.

The divine decree. I will declare the decree.

Notice what he says, I will declare it.

That's a powerful statement. This decree is a direct conflict with the little puny men's devices. This decree enlarges on the pledge of adoption, by the way, given to David's heir. If you look at 2 Samuel 7, chapter 7, verse 14,.

It says this,.

I will be his father and he shall be my son. Commentator, I was looking and digging in this and commentator Derek Kidner, I love his comments on this. He says this,. The words here may have been spoken as of an oracle by a prophet or read out by the king.

I will tell the decree. Usually kings will say that. I will tell the decree. In coronation or a rite or as the word today suggests, the mark, the moment when the new sovereign formally took up his inheritance and his titles.

And the connection of this announcement with the resurrection, which I quoted in Romans 1, 4 and also in Acts 13, 33, which says, God has fulfilled the same unto us, their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again, as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my son.

This day have I begotten thee. And Kidner goes on to say, it's a doubly meaningful fulfillment against such a background. To go on to comment, he says,. For any earthly king, this form of address could bear only the lightest interpretation, but the New Testament holds it to the full value which excludes the very angels.

To leave only one candidate,.

One candidate in possession.

End quote.

And who would that be? The Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ. How do we know this?

How do we know this?

There's so many verses that this one verse speaks of, but you go to Hebrews 1, 5. Go with me there, and I want you to see this. Hebrews 1, 5. And I like to read more than just one verse here because the connection is so great and so wonderful.

But look at verse 5. And he says, For unto which of the angels said, he at any time, speaking of Christ, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee in question. And again, I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son.

You notice he's quoting, he's going back to that verse in Samuel. Okay, and then look at verse 6. I want to read all the way to the end of the chapter 1, but notice the connection here. And again, which he bringeth in the first begotten into the world.

Who's he speaking of?

Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ.

He saith,.

And let all the angels of God worship him. All the angels of God worship him. And the angels he saith, and of the angels he saith, and he maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. I just read that this morning.

But unto the Son he saith, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. And a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity. Therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Speaking of Jesus. And thou, Lord, in the beginning, hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands. They shall perish. They shall perish.

But thou remainest.

And they all shall wax old as doeth a garment. And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up. And they shall be changed. But thou art the same. And thy years shall not fail. But to which of the angels said he at any time, sit on my right hand until I make thy enemies.

Thy footstool?

That's a question. And then he closes chapter 1 here. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? All that pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ as the King of glory.

The King of glory. So we see that this is about Jesus. Now, we go back to Psalm 2 verse 7. We see Christ Himself gives His testimony, right? He gives His own testimony. And Christ is the installed mediator.

He's the installed mediator. You are my Son. He's a mediator. Here is full proof of the Lord Jesus Christ's glorious divinity. You are my Son. You are my Son. Today I've begotten Thee. Now, as you think about that,.

That's really deep.

I even had somebody ask me one time in a grocery store, and it caused me to really search the Scriptures. And I never thought of it. And this was a person that was seeking truth and seeking... She says, I've asked a lot of pastors this, and they never could give me...

A lot of Christians, just not only pastors, but a lot of Christians, Bible students, they couldn't give me a right answer. She says, tell me what the word begotten means. Begotten. I said, you know, that is an excellent question.

And I sit there and I said, wow, I'll put a sealant to that. I need to dig into that.

Begotten.

But you see it all over the Bible.

Let's look at it just a little bit. Begotten.

First, there's a real sense in which Christ was the Son of God from all eternity. Think of this. Now, this is deep. I only can go so far with this. A theologian, Narcy Sproul, could do a much better job for sure.

But let me, as a Bible student, just tell you what I came up with this. God, Jesus is the Son of God from all eternity past. Because in Acts 13 .33, it says, however, the verse is quoted. When that verse is quoted, it is in reference to Christ's incarnation.

When He was made flesh. And there's another one. Another reference is that Christ was begotten in the resurrection. Colossians 1 .18. The firstborn from the dead.

From the dead.

He was risen up. So He's the firstborn, the Son of God, in the incarnation, but also the begotten in the resurrection. And there's another one. Finally, some suggest that this day, speaking of here, refers to the future day when Christ will be crowned as King.

So notice that. So Christ is begotten, the begotten Son, in the sense of eternity past, present, and future.

He's all of that.

And I'd like to give that the answer, and check me with that as a good Berean, but Christ is the eternal Son in the past, and present, and future.

Isn't it glorious?

That Jesus is all in all. Well, let's go to verse 8. I'm going to leave it right there because we can go on and on on that wonderful verse. But verse 8 says this. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.

Oh, this is wonderful. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. You know, as you look in the Bible, and you read the Bible, it was a custom among great kings to give the favored of what they might ask.

Esther chapter 5. Verse 6 says this. And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition?

What is thy petition?

Notice what the king is saying. And it shall be granted thee. And what is thy request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed. The king was asking Esther that. The queen.

And therefore,.

So Jesus our Lord has only to ask, and He will have. And in verse 8, He declares to His enemies that they are His inheritance.

So He asks of His enemies.

Now folks, this is glorious. Who are God's enemies? Have you ever thought of that? Who's God's enemies?

Prove that, preacher.

Oh, I could prove it.

It's not my opinion.

It's the Word of God. Romans 5 .10. Paul says this. For if when we were enemies.

Listen to that.

Because we were once all enemies of God. We were enemies against the Holy God. We were reconciled to God by the death of His Son. Much more being reconciled we shall be saved by His life.

Hallelujah.

You see what he's saying?

By His resurrection. Just not only His substitutionary death. We're saved,.

But we're saved by.

The power of His resurrection. We were enemies.

We were enemies.

Get that. If you're in Jesus Christ, you're not an enemy now. You're a friend of God. But those that are outside of Jesus Christ are enemies. But Jesus is asking, ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen.

He's saying, give me the enemies. Isn't this glorious? Colossians 1, 21, 22. And you that were...

Were.

There he is again.

There's that word again.

Were.

Past. Sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works. By wicked works. Yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight.

We cannot be friends of God and be cleaned up.

And washed on the inside.

Unless Jesus takes a hold of us.

And washes us with the regenerating power of His Word. Go with me to Ephesians 2. This is glorious because Paul is speaking of the same thing about being an enemy of God. And in Ephesians 2, let me just read it.

And you, verse 1, and you hath He quickened. Now, that translation hath He quickened is not in the original. You can read it. And you who were dead in trespasses and sins. The translators decided to put hath He quickened, made alive in there, but you can read it as you who were dead in trespasses and sins were in time past.

You walked according to the course of this world. That's when we were enemies of God, right? According to the course of this world, according to the prince and the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.

Among whom also we all had our conversation, that conversation means manner of life,.

The way you lived,.

In times past, in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath even as others. In other words, you're an enemy of God. If you're in that state.