Faith in and for the Holy Spirit — Jim Cymbala

My name is Jim symbol. I'm so happy to be here tonight and Excuse the way I look when I saw you looking so comfortable. I feel so out of place. I spoke to my assistant Just yesterday, and I said I don't have to wear a suit there.

Do I? Both times I speak she's I said it's rather casual. I remember that she said no. They said they're taping something and you have to wear a suit. And Shows how important communication is because I'm the only one in the suit and all of North Carolina.

I think tonight. But it's it's a joy to be here, so forgive me God is great isn't he. Isn't our God great? Well, amen, let's put our hands together and just praise him for his greatness. I want to talk to you tonight about having faith in and for the Holy Spirit.

Revival as Restoration to the New Testament Church

I'm not going to use the term revival much because We all know what it is we all long for it. A Lot of us have read a lot of books about the different revival times, but I want to Couch all of my comments in the terms of the New Testament, which doesn't really speak so much to that word, but talks about really revival being a restoration revival revitalization revival re Getting back to life the way it was at the beginning.

The way God intended the church to be which was a spirit-filled Holy Spirit permeated lead governed Church so as People who live in the New Covenant era We have to be people of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He's not here now. He's coming again when he when he says two or three are gathered. I'll be there. He's speaking of course of his presence through the person of the Holy Spirit who's called the Spirit of Christ.

God's only representative on earth at this moment is the Holy Spirit. Any time of quote revival is a time of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Where hopefully God is restoring the church his people back to what was in the beginning his original Plan for the church not Baptist or Pentecostal or Methodist or Lutheran or those were not Calvinist or or or Arminian but the church as we find it in the New Testament.

That's why he gave us the book of Acts and the letters the epistles. So that we wouldn't have our own vision and blueprint for his church. It's his church not my church. So many people visit me and say what's your vision for the Brooklyn Tabernacle?

I didn't know I was supposed to have one. I thought that's why God gave us the New Testament. Oh, there's a specific application Granted and there are things God leads you to do based on your gifting and personality and where he's placed you.

But really the reason he gave us first and second Timothy and Titus and the book of Acts is he's saying this is the way It's supposed to be. Not the way you grew up. Not what you read in some book about the Welsh Revival or the Great Awakening.

All of that is judged by the Word of God to get back to what God intended his church to be when he gave birth to it in the second chapter of Acts and although my Remarks are going to be kind of a running commentary on some verses that we're going to read through I never was more sure that I'm speaking about the right thing than I am tonight although I was somewhat unsure as I was praying in my room because As you'll see the comments that have preceded me including the video lead perfectly to What I want to talk to you about on the Holy Spirit the book of Acts if anybody thirsts let him come to me and Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water this he spoke of the Spirit.

Which had not been given yet because Christ had not been glorified. But to start off I wanted to tell you about The wonderful power there is in the Holy Spirit to pray get people to pray and to change somebody.

Danny Velasco’s Conversion Through Persistent Prayer

You know my wife, and I started in the inner city more than 30 years ago, and we've seen some marvelous conversions our church our carols choir almost 300 people is made up of Stories that would stagger your mind of how God has changed people, but we have one that has just stood out and I learned about this person by a young a woman in the choir coming to me and Intriguing me to pray some years ago.

She was a former Miss, Mississippi who had finished second runner-up to the winner that year and She came to New York. And she became a model and then she came to our church and although she had been raised in quote a church setting She really had not committed her life to the Lord or whatever her situation was she wasn't walking close with the Lord and God began to work in Wanda Getty was her name then and she came Wanda Bruckner and She married five children still model, and she came to me one day and said pastor There's an impossible situation except for God in a guy that I've been working with that.

I met through my job impossible. This guy is as far out as you can get. I said, what's his name? She just said Danny. I said I've ever met him. She said no he's come to the church, but you've never met him.

He if he doesn't meet God. He's going to die I Said she said, but I got some people fasting and praying with me because I'm believing God for Danny. This is the story, would you please watch? That's what it is because it's all just a reminder to us as Saints as followers of Jesus Christ to say listen I know it's hard, but there is something so much.

That's not cute up. That's not the story. It's supposed to go past this. There's my pretty wife I didn't think you'd say this.

On a fashion show here we go someone is touching your face and touching your hair. You become somewhat Conversationally intimate with that person almost instantly. And when I met him he was still mr. Fabulous, I mean he had a head on his black cashmere.

And he was drinking his martini and living on top of the world and at the time.

I didn't realize that he was on the beginning of the slide downward as a hairdresser makeup artist for a lot of celebrities and Fashion magazines, and you know at one time. I was pulling in three thousand dollars a day.

That was my rate for me being in the studio. But that kind of all fell apart. You know I began to overdose a lot on photo shoots and once you start overdosing you cross the line and when you cross that line You become an insurance risk and suddenly I was more or less blackballed in the business.

Did you know who you were. Did you have any kind of sense of who you were even when I was at the height of? This amazing career. I always felt like I didn't really belong. I always felt like Empty and lonely and just like out of place.

It was through relationship through time and through listening to some of the details of his life. And then through kind of seeing him sliding downward that I knew.

This is this is someone I have to share the gospel with. I was willing to let go of my family and my friends and my career and Everything that I knew Everything that I knew that was my life. I was willing, but I wasn't willing to let go of the drug.

I was just praying I was petitioning God specifically for Danny's salvation knowing that everything else that was wrong would Straighten out. So that was. That was the the sole focus of my of my prayer for him.

I just thought she was crazy to be honest. I thought she was like a religious fanatic. That's that was my impression. She's a beautiful girl. She's really sweet, but she's a religious fanatic.

By the time our lives had become intertwined. He was losing weight at a very Fast clip he was no longer wearing cashmere. I had the sense of wow.

If he doesn't find God he's gonna die he's gonna die. Drugs had just taken me to a point where I one day My whole world had collapsed and I took a garbage can and I pulled it between my legs and I began to cut up Anything that had my name on it.

I cut it up and I walked out of a 5 ,000 square foot loft and And pulled the door behind me and I just never went back and I began to live on the street. But why did you why did you cut up your cards?

Why did you buy your identity? I think I just didn't want. I knew that I would die on the street and I didn't want to be recognized. I didn't want my family to be called. That's I mean I was resigned to the fact that I was gonna die on the street and that was it.

Did you do drugs out here? Oh, yeah just sit around here and Shoot dope. I mean in the mornings you'd see just all syringes around here. I had an agent that I used to call from the streets. Every couple of days collect from a payphone and every once in a while.

She would say Let's go Wanda this model from Ford's been calling, you know, she wants you to call her. So I would call Wanda because I knew I could make a few dollars. I didn't know.

That you could go out and do heroin for $20 I said if you'll come to church I'll give you the $20 there because I'll meet you there at the church to give you the money and somehow I would make him come in and you know, then he would Hear the gospel and then I'd give him his money and he'd go on his way.

I just think we remember this her saying to me, you know, Danny the day you call in the Lord. And I said, well, you know what that'll never happen because I will never call on the name of the Lord. She said well, I just want you to remember that, you know When you're really backed up against the wall when you call the name of the Lord, he's gonna set you free.

I had gone from this kind of Celebrated You know person to this Crazy man living on the streets in New York talking to themselves laughing cursing Like an animal living on the street, you know where one voice just started spewing filthy language in my head.

Just filthy words like unconnected disjointed filthy words while the other voice was accusing and then Another voice had joined in that was just laughing and laughing and laughing. I Was starving to death.

I had gotten down to a hundred and eight pounds. I I had hepatitis a hepatitis B hepatitis C all at the same time. I got off the train I remember that and I remember kind of stumbling to this hospital that I saw when I woke up I was in a hospital bed and I was laying like in my own vomit and And All the voices were screaming in my head.

But there was just one moment where I heard like a sweet voice that said the day you call on the name of the Lord he's gonna set you free and There was and then right behind it all the voices kept screaming in my head.

And then again, I heard that the day you call the name of Lord he's gonna set you free and that's when I began to Just cry out to God and and you know Just I I didn't know how to pray. I didn't know really what I was saying.

I was just saying You know Jesus help me save me. You're my only hope but I have no other hope you know and that's the moment that I'll never forget because It was like at that moment that the spirit of the Living God just swept into that hospital room at that moment all the voices in my head stopped and Like all the fears and all the phobias just dropped away from me and I knew that I was in the presence of God.

I knew That the Spirit of God was in the room healing me and Changing me. I went directly from that hospital into a Christian rehab and And I just began to Devour God's Word, you know. It was like I was like a hungry man just feasting on the Word of God the first Chance that I got I wrote Wanda that letter and.

I Told her kind of everything. I opened this letter and it's from Danny and He began to tell me about.

How he had become a Christian. I came and I stayed with her and and her husband In their apartment and we went to Brooklyn Tabernacle. Pastor similar said something From the pulp. I was like sitting in the second row and said you know, you want to hear a great miracle.

He goes you think part and God partying the Red Sea was a big miracle. Well, Danny Velasco got saved and he's sitting right there. And the place went nuts. They all knew me as this 108 pound Drug addict, you know Living in the street and they had all been praying for me.

I'll be sitting in Brooklyn Tabernacle and I look up and I see him sitting in the choir and it just. It breaks me all over again. It just breaks me.

I know that God is real and that he's heard me and that he was as close as the mention of his name and. And whoever calls in the name of the Lord will be saved. Amen.

Whoever calls on the name of the Lord, let's put our hands together in that amazing Come on, let's thank God for Danny Velasco. We praise you Lord. He was as close as the mention of his name. Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.

Faith in the Holy Spirit and Faith for the Holy Spirit

You know, well, I found that a lot of people who are serious about God have faith in the Holy Spirit. But what they're lacking and what we struggle with is faith for the Holy Spirit. Faith in the Holy Spirit and his work is different than faith for the Holy Spirit and we live in a day now where somebody's got to get a hold of God and somebody's got to hold up a different paradigm or a Different model of how to do church because just since I was here two years ago I can't tell you all the stuff I've heard and seen as I've traveled around the country and around the world of the declension of real Christianity in churches today.

It's astounding. How many know what I'm talking about? Say amen. I mean, it's scary. It's not I'm not trying to be Melodramatic, this is this is heavy-duty stuff even groups and churches and denominations that have just given lip service to the Holy Spirit for decades or even a century, you know just No, no Openness to the Holy Spirit no belief in what he can do.

And as Samuel Chadwick the great Methodist preacher said Christianity is hopeless without the Holy Ghost. It's hopeless. You can bang the Bible all you want and get people to look inside and be introspective.

Without the wind of the Holy Spirit the whole thing comes to nothing comes to absolutely nothing but self-effort and Depression and. But forget those groups of people now people at least thump the Bible and preach the Bible.

They're throwing over the Bible now overboard like nothing you cannot believe now in Baptist churches Pentecostal churches Nazarene church all kinds of churches. They're not even preaching the Word of God anymore.

Not even using the Bible as a reference. Are you living in the same country as I am? Do you know what I'm talking about and these are becoming the models? Has all the spiritual weight of popcorn has just nothing to it and It's becoming the craze.

I Talked with my friend Warren Weir's beat. Who a lot of you know of or know him? He and I talk every week or a couple times a week. And I thank God he prays for me every single morning has a picture of Carol and I and our Family and extended family my children and grandchildren and we talk and one day he just about broke down.

He broke down on the phone, and he's not an emotional man. But he broke down and said I'm struggling brother because this place where he was at with his wife. He said they're in time into Antinomian is and there's nothing wrong.

God's grace is so great that nothing's wrong. Nothing's wrong. Because God understands you're going through something you're sleeping with somebody or you're you're messing around with this or whatever.

Don't worry. What's a little pornography. God understands, you know that nobody's perfect. I mean, it's really weird. Do I get any witness here from you? Do you do is this what you're also sensing? I mean I talk on the phone to some friends.

They have like brother Weir's be and Dave Wilkerson some other friends Tony Evans and some other guys and we're just talking and going. Wow. Ravi Zacharias was just at our church Two Sundays on Palm Sunday.

He was there and spoke and we were chatting before the meeting and and and we were alarming each other things He saw and had heard and seen I had not and things I would experience. He said no, that's not true.

I mean By the way, isn't he a wonderful gift to the body of Christ Ravi Zacharias? He was so good. He preached on on the love of God from Jose. I never saw him get so emotional the Spirit of God was on him.

He preached the prophet who married a prostitute. Sometimes though he gets so deep. I mean, I have no idea what he's saying. I Mean one time I was in Moody Church, and I heard him speak. I lost him for at least 10 minutes.

I just kept going. Amen. It sounds good to me. I have no idea what you're saying, but praise God, I mean Wow. So brilliant, oh my goodness what I'd like to do. Talk about talking faith in and for the Holy Spirit is do nothing more than not do an exhaustive study but read a whole bunch of verses in the book of Acts about the Holy Spirit and and Could could we ask God to help us to clear our minds of our biases?

Leaving Tradition to Seek God’s Truth

Because you know what? I've learned look at me for a second. We'll start reading in Acts 2 in just a second. Here's what I've learned. You know with the first thing God said to Abraham on this walk of faith the first thing he ever spoke to Abraham the first Words was leave your home.

Leave your home leave what you're used to and step out. I have something better for you. You don't know where you're going. That's okay. I know where you're going. That was the first thing and I have found spiritually God's been applying that to my life.

And I see that as such a hindrance for people they want God to do something, but they're not leaving what they grew up in. You know God knew do a new thing, but I ain't changing. I'm not changing one of my views.

Born and reared this way praise God. I'm going to die this way. I Mean who would in sports in in anything in science who thinks that way as Finney said? Who would who would ten years after starting school still be going over ABC?

And it's so hard for us to read the Bible without the lenses of what we're already committed to. So God can't break in and show us anything new because oh, we don't believe that. Well, what it wouldn't matter what you believe, or I believe don't we want to know God's truth?

Isn't there something better than we're experiencing must God have something better. Do we only have to talk about what happened a hundred years ago or two hundred years ago? I mean can't we show somebody something better than just stories about what used to be.

Aren't people really longing for where's the beef I? Talked to a minister not long ago of a well-known church in Texas. And he said to me this remark, and I don't totally agree with him, but I saw his point.

He said you know a lot of these revival people in these holiness people. You know what I don't get about them. How come if they're so close to God they don't produce more converts. Where's the fruit? They look down at everyone else and say you're not praying.

You're not digging. You're not searching. So where's your beef? Where's your fruit. Jesus said you'll know a tree by its fruit? Not by its doctrinal statement by its fruit. He had a point. That's why I'm driven back again and again to the book of Acts and to the epistles.

Like Alexander White said he never liked to be more than a couple feet away from his New Testament. I like to keep that New Testament. I have a Weymouth New Testament that I put in leather that I blesses me so much.

Keep it with me. Just reading trying to catch the aroma and the rhythm of how it was in the beginning. Not how what you grew up in or what I grew up in. Listen, I grew up in a church That preached Jesus, but they wouldn't want a black person within a hundred yards of the church.

This were my ethnic ancestors. Aunts and uncles you're Eastern European Polish Ukrainian. That's what I am. So what am I supposed to do follow the tradition of my elders? Be a bigot and a racist the rest of my life.

Talk about God and the Holy Ghost, but just don't like people a lot of people are like that. They're talking about God and they walk with God. They just have no use for people. They're always getting alone with God.

Listen, you can't love the head without loving the body. This is how you know people who are really love God and are close to God. They have they weep over God's people. They want to be with God's people.

They weep over the Danny Velasco's. Because they see people the way Jesus sees them. Well, listen, I'm here to encourage you and encourage myself. I've never preached this before. It's not really a sermon.

I just thought we could look at some verses together and see what do we learn about the Holy Spirit? But take off your glasses take off your glasses of what you're used to and what I'm used to. And I don't want to be controversial.

That's the last thing I want to be. I want to stay on a controversial subject subject. But I want to talk about things that I think we all can affirm and agree on because I Know at this conference. We have different denominations and different Doctrinal emphases.

But let's talk about the person the beautiful person of the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit. Oh God what would I Carol do without the Holy Spirit? I Never went to seminary or Bible school where God put me.

Oh my goodness, and there's so many problems and Without the faith in the power of the Holy Spirit. What would I do? I wouldn't even go to church this Sunday because Only God could help me. Only God could help me but I'm glad where I am because I can't depend on anything else.

It's God or bust. It's not in the culture where I am go to church maybe where you live it's in the culture to go to church. Somewhere you live some of you live in a place where you know. It's hard to know who's just going and who's a real born-again Christian in the inner city.

That's not so much. So you don't need a scorecard there to tell the Christians. It's not in the culture. They want entertainment. They go to Broadway. Why would you go to some silly church? Acts 2 verse 1 acts 1 let's go to acts 1 start in the beginning.

Pentecost and the Spirit’s Empowering Presence

So when they met together They asked him the risen Lord Lord were are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel? He said to them. It's not for you to know the times or dates. The father has said by his own authority but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and to the ends of the earth.

After he said this by the way He was taken up before their very eyes and a cloud hid them from their sight. Acts 2 verse 1. When the day of Pentecost that feast Came they were all together in one place.

Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house. Where they were sitting they weren't kneeling or standing they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them and all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit.

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and Began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Acts 2 verse 38. Peter replied repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off for all whom the Lord our God will call. What we notice here in these passages a couple of things I just want to touch on. We know from Acts 1 there were a hundred and twenty at least in Acts 1 and it seems like all of them.

And maybe more were there in Acts 2 including Jesus's mother Mary and. The beginning point was to be filled with the Holy Spirit. God's intention for the Christian religion was that the vessel would be cleaned by the blood of Jesus.

So that the vessel would be made ready to be filled. Not touched not a trickle rivers filled they were all filled with the Holy Spirit now since the Holy Spirit is not a gas or a vapor or or a liquid or a solid.

But it's a person that means it would seem a totality of control by the Holy Spirit. Which in this case sent them into an ecstasy where they began to speak in ecstatic tongues of languages. They didn't know.

But the Spirit gave them the ability to speak only foreigners. Who happened to be there for the feast? Understood that they were praising God and speaking of the great things he had done when they heard them speak.

Notice this was the beginning this was the essential. God had given them a commission. God had given them a mission going to all the world. But you cannot do it without the power of the Holy Spirit. They were the only people with the message that could save people but he told them do not go tarry.

So how important is the filling of the Holy Spirit? That they were the only people who had the message. People were dying all over Jerusalem and in Samaria and in Galilee. Judea got Samaria Galilee they were dying and he said still don't go.

You're the only ones you know, I'm alive. You're the only ones with the message don't go because what you're going to encounter. Satanic strongholds. Opposition. The wisdom that you're going to need to do this the power the boldness you do not have.

Although you are cleansed and believe in me and you see me now risen. You need something else you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Without that they couldn't do the job. And Brothers and sisters if anything is true.

This is true. Nothing has changed to this day. We cannot do it with computers. We cannot do it with talent we can't do it with cleverness and productions and Relating and all those other things. We need wisdom in all our communication.

But we need whatever this anointing and power is of the Holy Spirit. We need it. And a lot of you already might be pausing and saying oh, where's he going? Because the so-called charismatic movement has had so many excesses and.

So many weird things people barking crawling screaming yelling. Disrupting meetings doing all kinds of bizarre things that many people who are serious about God have withdrawn and said if that's the Holy Spirit I pass and.

That's just what the devil planned for you to do. You throw out the baby with the bathwater. So you go around America I have for years now, and you see that pendulum. It's funny, but it's not funny. Churches are either Cemeteries or insane asylums.

There are many exceptions to that. I don't want to generalize, but you know exactly what I'm talking about either north of the neck. Intellectualism glorying in. I have super orthodoxy. Nobody else does.

We're the only ones who have it, right? Or on the other side forget the Bible throw it out. We're just going to race around the building and and and and have church praise God, whatever and. Either one of those is a trap.

It's Satan's way of getting us. To not focus on the one that we desperately need. I will send you another comforter. You cannot do that work. I don't care what seminary you go to went to. None of the original 12 went to any seminary.

They were fishermen that was the point and I want to just press that upon you. Isn't it amazing. These people who were filled with the Holy Spirit one of them a few weeks earlier had cursed and denied.

He knew the Lord and now he was filled with the Holy Spirit. Which of us in our churches with that track record would have him preach? With our sense of decency and a reputation who would have Peter preach.

Oh, yes. Here's Peter. He's coming to preach. Just recently he cursed and denied he knew the Lord and let's give him a hand as he comes up here to to speak. I mean, oh, I'm so glad God is not like us.

How many say amen? I'm so glad God is a God of grace and this is the point about faith not just in but for the Holy Spirit. They were all filled and they were a motley crew. Because after three years of living with them, how important is the Holy Spirit?

What in the world did Jesus produce after three years of living with them with perfect teaching? Not much because when he got arrested none of them hung around and on the way to Jerusalem they were arguing all of them.

Who was the greatest he could not get it through to them. That's the limitation of preaching and teaching. Preaching and teaching can never do what God the Holy Spirit can do. The best we can do is point people to God so they have their own encounter with God.

If all I do is talk and you take notes and you go home. It's just more head knowledge. Unless you we meet God here tonight in some new way through the Holy Spirit. We're gonna go back and be the same old same old in our church, and I don't want to do that.

I Want to be a better pastor. I want to be a better husband. God knows. I want to be a better grandfather. I want to be a better Man of God pastor. How many want to be better by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Wave your hand at me come on better. Better we can be better. The Holy Spirit baptism was not the conclusion it was the beginning. It was the beginning. They were filled with this promise this gift this overflowing of this stream, and that was what to bless others.

You know in John 4 he he talked about if you knew it who was talking to you Samaritan lady you would ask for this water, and you would drink it, but in John 7 he's talking about a river. If anybody thirst notice the qualifications if.

Anybody thirst let him come to me anyone. Thirst that's all. Oh. No, there's got to be 20 other conditions. We'll get to that in a second. If anyone thirst let him just come to me, but am I ready. Am I really sold out?

Am I totally consecrated. Have I really searched my heart if anyone thirst let him come to me while you're going through? That for 20 years a lot of people are dying and going to hell who need your ministry, and they were all filled.

Evidence for Repeated Fillings of the Holy Spirit

Very quickly obviously don't want to be controversial again. But let's state the obviously obvious not all Christians and not all churches are spirit-filled churches. That is obvious. Three quick proofs from the Bible.

I'll give you number one one of the qualifications of the seven was choose out men for you the Apostle said that are full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom if every Christian was full of the Holy Spirit. How could that be a qualification for position of leadership?

That would be like choose out a Christian among the Christian. No Known to be full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom not everyone was second proof Ephesians 5 28 isn't it. Don't be drunk with wine. But continuous present tense be being filled with the Holy Spirit if everyone is always filled with the Holy Spirit.

Why would Paul tell the church in Ephesus don't be filled with wine where in its excess? The vouchery but be being filled. Keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit. That's for us. How are we going to help others who are lukewarm and cold if we're not where we need to be.

Remember if you preach from your head you only reach their head. If you preach from Sukkot a song your heart filled with the Holy Spirit you can reach their heart. Third proof Church at Laodicea one of the seven churches Jesus was walking among Christian Church.

No doubt. You're neither hot nor cold, but you're lukewarm. I'm going to vomit you out of My mouth. If that church was spirit-filled and Jesus was going to vomit it out of his mouth then words don't mean anything.

I Wonder how many churches in this country are spirit-filled. How many pastors are spirit-filled controlled and Phil filled and led and Anointed and empowered by the Holy Spirit. I'm not talking about fanaticism.

I hope you can look at me and hear my words and understand what Carol and I have been doing for more than 30 years. That I'm not a nut. I'm not for running and jumping and carrying on let everything be done to edification.

But I like yes, let everything be done decently in order, but not the decency in order of a cemetery. The decency in order of the Holy Spirit breathing moving so All you pastors that are here. We can go back and we can lead people into spirit fillness.

That will be the judgment on me when Carol and I stand at the judgment seat of Christ. Not what you thought of me not what my peers thought of me some years ago. I won the book a year award. What am I going to do when Jesus comes hold up my plaque for book of the year?