Who Is the King — Roy Hession

Shall we pray? Lord Jesus we ask thee that we shall indeed have our eyes turned upon thee that tonight we shall look full in thy wonderful face and that the things that have gripped us and held us and diverted us shall grow strangely dim in the light of thy glory and grace.

We thank thee Lord Jesus that thou art the sinner's friend and not his foe that has not come to the failing saint with a big stick for thou has borne that big stick in thy body on the tree Jehovah lifted up his rod.

O Christ it woke against thee and we thank thee that now there's not one stroke for us and we ask Lord that thou wilt so deal with us as to help us to appropriate and come and know the value and power of Calvary's precious blood to bring us into new life to restore all that's gone wrong to give back to us what we've forfeited of late.

So Lord we look up to thee breathe upon thine own holy word and make it a living word to us this evening for Jesus' sake. Amen amen. Well my wife and I are looking forward to these days amongst you. We came to Canada very unprepared and every time that one of the pastors wrote to me and said we're praying for you that God will prepare you and incidentally that I would prepare myself.

I used to feel terrible because it was about all I could do to make the deadline. You know these deadlines we have to make you in business and we in the Lord's work. And before going off to another country there were many things for us to do and you know I didn't come to Canada in a very spiritual frame of mind.

I always want to. I always want to come to every new assignment blessed up and prayed up you know fully paid up fully blessed up member. I never succeed in doing so whenever I go on any new assignment I find I go just as I am without one plea that that thy blood was shed to me.

I always want to go with everything all stored up and ready and the Lord again and again has had to say to me behold I go before you into Galilee or into Canada there shall you see me. You may go empty you may go defeated you may go dry go as you are because there you will see me.

And we want to praise the Lord. We've been seeing Jesus these days and been blessing us as he's been blessing everybody else. And so we want to share what we are learning of him with you. And I've been sharing with the Lord and with my brothers in the in the office before we came how the theme that I think God's given us where it is a beautiful theme.

I feel there are gaps in it which I haven't gone deeply enough into it. And I'm looking to the Lord. And I want you to do the same that you'll make up for what is empty in that brother up there so that not one of us will miss what you have Lord for us.

But you don't want to hear me giving a stunning address. Do you. You've had plenty. I'm sure over here in North America you're bound in mighty preachers. But what you've come for is to see Jesus and to see the way of renewal and revival and victory for your own life.

The Dramatic Story of Adonijah and Solomon

Now I'm going to turn you to a passage which I don't think is all too familiar to you. At least you don't often hear it read. And I want to tell you the reading of the Word of God is one of the most important part of the service.

And I'm going to take time out this evening to read to you one of the most dramatic portions of Scripture could well be the script of something on television. I tell you the drama in the scriptures. Terrific but best of all we're going to see pictures of ourselves and above all of the Lord Jesus in this passage.

And as I read it may be you'll seek to see where you can identify in the story and where you can identify Jesus in the story. We're going to read together then the first book of Kings chapter 1. The first book of Kings chapter 1.

And at this point in the record David is an old old man. He's lost the power really to read and he knows it. He's largely confined to his sick room. And of course the thing that's agitating everybody's mind is who is going to take the throne after him.

Which of his many sons it was at that point that one of his sons comes onto the scene that's fine that Adonijah the son of Haggis exalted himself saying I will be king. And he prepared him chariots and horsemen and 50 men to run before him.

And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying why hast thou done so. And he was also a very goodly man and his mother bare him after Absalom. I don't know something about that mother. She produced two problem sons Absalom, Absalom.

What a trouble David had with Absalom. And now Adonijah and he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiah the priest and they following Adonijah helped him but Zobot the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Notham the prophet and Shinshai and Re 'ai and the mighty men which belong to David were not with Adonijah and Adonijah threw sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zohareth which is by Enrogel and called all his brethren the king's sons and all the men of Judah the king's servants but Notham the prophet and Benaiah and the mighty men and Solomon his brother he called not.

Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon saying hath thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggis does reign and David our Lord knoweth it not now therefore come let me I pray thee give thee counsel that thou mayst save thine own life and the life of thy son Solomon go and get thee in unto King David and say unto him didst thou my Lord O King swear unto thy handmaid saying assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne.

Why then doth Adonijah reigneth? Behold while thou yet talkest there with the king I also will come in after thee and confirm thy word. And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber and the king was very old and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king and Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king and the king said what wouldst thou?

And she said unto him my Lord thou swearest by the Lord thy God unto thy handmaid saying assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne and now behold Adonijah reigneth and now my Lord the king thou knowest it not and he has slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance and has caught all the sons of the king and the birth of the priest and Jerd the captive the host and Solomon but Solomon thy servant hath he not caught and thou my Lord o king the eyes of all Israel are upon thee that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my Lord the king after him otherwise it shall come to pass when my Lord the king shall sleep with his fathers that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

And though while she yet talked with the king Nathan the prophet also came in and they told the king saying behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground and Nathan said my Lord o king hast thou said Adonijah shall reign after me and he shall sit upon my throne for he has gone down this day and has slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance and has caught all the king's sons and the captains of the host and the birth of the priest and behold they eat and drink before him and say God save King Adonijah that me even me thy servant and Zadok the priest and Zaniah the son of Jehoiada and thy servant Solomon hath he not caught.

Is this thing done by my Lord the king. And thou has not showed it unto thy servant who should sit on the throne of my Lord the king after him. Then King David answered and said call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king's presence and stood before the king and the king swear and said as the Lord did it that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress even as I swear unto thee by the Lord God of Israel saying assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me and he shall be set upon my throne in my stead even so will I certainly do this day.

Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth and did reverence to the king and said let my Lord King David live forever. Not much chance of that. Of course he was on his way out. That's the way he used to speak in those days.

Let my Lord King David live forever. And King David said call me Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Banah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king. The king also said unto them take with you the servants of your Lord and call Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule and bring him down to Jihon and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel and blow him with the trumpet and say God pays King Solomon.

Then you shall come up after him that he may come and sit upon my throne for he shall be king in my stead and I've appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah. And Banah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said amen the Lord God of my Lord the king say so too as the Lord has been with my Lord the king even so be he with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my Lord King David.

So Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Banah the son of Jehoiada and the Cherethites and the Perethites went down and called Solomon to ride upon King David's mule and brought him to Jihon. And Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon.

And they blew the trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon. And all the people came up after him. And the people piped with pipes and rejoiced with great joy. Son of the earth went with the sound of them.

And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they've made an end of eating. And then Job heard the sound of the trumpet. He said wherefore is this noise of a city being in an uproar.

And while he yet spake the whole Jonathan the son of Bartholomew the priest came and Adonijah said unto him come in for thou art a valiant man and bring his good tidings. And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah verily our Lord King David has made Solomon king and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Banah the son of Jehoiada and the Cherethites and the Perethites.

And they have called him to ride upon the king's mule. And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon and they have come up from thence rejoicing so that the city reign again.

This is the noise that ye have heard also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom. Moreover the king's servants came to bless our Lord King David saying God make the name of Solomon better than thy name and make his throne better than thy throne.

And the king bowed himself upon the bed. And also thus saith the king blessed be the Lord God of Israel which hath given one to sit on my throne this day mine eyes even seeing it. And all the guests that were with Adonijah discovered they had got another pressing engagement.

They found it convenient not to proceed with the feast. And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid little wonder and rose up and everyone went his way. And Adonijah feared because of Solomon and arose and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

And was told Solomon saying behold Adonijah feareth King Solomon. For now he is caught hold on the horns of the altar saying let King Solomon swear unto me today that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

And Solomon said if he will show himself a worthy man there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth but if wickedness be found in him he shall die. So King Solomon sent and they brought him down from the altar and he came and bowed himself to King Solomon and Solomon said unto him go to thy house.

The Threefold Movement from Self-Exaltation to Repentance

Isn't that a story? I suppose you all heard it before or read it much. What a story. And I'm picking out three verses that show the simple sequence. And maybe from that you can see the whole direction of the message that comes to our hearts from it.

First of all verse 5. Then Adonijah the son of Haggis exalted himself saying I will be king chapter 1. And then verse 43 verily our Lord King David hath made Solomon king. Chapter 2. And then verse 50.

And Adonijah feared because of Solomon and arose and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar. Chapter 3. And as you know we have just had our general election in Great Britain and the great issue which the election was fought on at least in the early days of the campaign was who was going to govern Britain?

Who governs Britain? The government or the trade union? And really that was more or less the issue in this story. Who was going to govern Israel? Who was going to be king in the stead of the old man David?

Was it going to be Adonijah or Solomon? And of course this is a picture to us of the all important question that who is going to govern you? Are you going to be self governed? Is Adonijah the picture of your own pathetic little self going to run your own pathetic little life?

Or is it going to be the one whom God has appointed to be king? The greater than Solomon the Lord Jesus Christ who is going to be king? And the delightful thing about this story it shows us what this making Jesus king really means.

See usually we talk about people and talk about ourselves making Jesus king. And the idea rather is of a country that needs a king a government. And they are looking around for a suitable governor. That is not the picture Adonijah had already made himself king.

And if Solomon was going to be king it meant one king having to break before another. And in making Jesus king it can be the most painful thing in your life. Because like Adonijah you had I had exalted ourselves I will be king.

And it is one king having to bow and break before another. So this is no light thing going to be king. Well chapter 1 tells us that Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself saying I will be king. You don't see why I shouldn't be?

I am in the royal family I have kids. I know I have got just the right form of appearance and personality. And why the whole matter seemed to be undecided though most people knew what David had in mind but he had never been promulgated.

And so while it was just the case Adonijah steps in quick and he exalts himself saying I will be king. And he calls various key people in the kingdom to a feast in which he is going to inaugurate his reign.

There is the story of chapter 1 isn't it suggestive. Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself saying I will be king. And that is the story of Adam. He exalted himself saying I will be king. I will run my own life.

I will go my own way. I put in my claim for self ownership and self rule. That was the nature of the first sin. And all his sons ever since have followed in his steps. Quite naturally we exalted ourselves and said I am going to be king.

It never occurred to us to do anything else but to run our own lives and go our own way to seek our own ends and our own glory. And do it all through our own effort. The three forms of the self life self will self effort and self glory all bound up with the innate decision on all of us saying I will be king of my own affairs please.

And even though of course most of us have had a real experience with Jesus Christ and be truly converted to him it doesn't of necessity over that fact as to who is king although you may have tasted something of the grace of God as I know so well from my own experience you and I can still be running our own lives still the centre of things ourselves and the citadel of self has never been captured and we are still saying I will be king.

I will decide what I want to do. I will be the artist of what I give up and what I don't give up. I will consult my own convenience as to what I do or don't do even in the Lord's service. What pleases me I will do.

What doesn't please me I won't do. I am not going to be bound by anybody else. I don't want to. Why should I do what other people say. I am going to do what I like. And you mean not only you don't want to do what other people say but what the Lord says.

And although we may have had a real experience in which that thing in some measure has been slain in us maybe latterly it has come back again. And there have been situations cropping up these days in some of our lives where we have exalted ourselves saying I will be king now this has some terrible results for us.

The Burdens of Self-Rule

First of all it always works out to the damaging of our own selves because if you are king then you have got to be king. You have got the responsibility. And when you are trying to run things yourself either your business life your home life or your Christian service you are the king.

What frustrations we experience. Things don't seem to go our way. And how frustrated we get. And then how full of worry we are. We are king. The kingdom is our responsibility. But how is it going to turn out.

And you and I sometimes worry ourselves too. Well of course you have to. If you are the king I wouldn't be the Prime Minister of Great Britain for all the tea in China. I don't want to be the President of the United States.

You know I don't know too much about Canadian politics. You have been for a line there. As far as our pleasure is concerned it needs a little Watergate entertainment to get the British press to take notice of things this size.

And I want to tell you if you are assuming the leadership of your own affairs perhaps it has been very subtle but it is nonetheless true. The onus is on you. And there are times when it will almost kill you.

You get so worried about the business about the family about that bit of Christian service. You know I was asking my wife who said it an easy lies the head that wears the crown. Was it Shakespeare. I don't know.

It's not in the Bible. I know that much. But how true. Listen an easy lies the head that wears the crown. And I tell you the attempt to be king is sort of sometimes going to almost kill you. But you hang on.

I hang on nonetheless. And then it also works out me being king. Not only for the damaging of myself but the wronging of others. For in the pursuit of my own ends and my own glory and my own wishes and standing up for my own rights I am going to often wrong others.

Very often it will be a question of which I am going to choose their interest or my interest. And when I am king there is hardly a moment choice. It's always my interest. And somebody else goes to the wall somebody else gets robbed somebody else is sent home weeping somebody else goes up to their bedroom weeping because you're king.

And you're only going to consider your own wretched little self in issue after. And of course it often produces jealousy because as king you don't always get what you want somebody else does. And you cannot forget jealousy.

I want to tell you if you're jealous then you'll have to repent of being king. Because that's the reason why you're jealous. If you weren't the king if you surrendered this question of who is going to be in the front it wouldn't have mattered to you.

But you haven't and therefore you are jealous. This is the thing I have to repent of so often. I would say that the Christian who hasn't begun to see jealousy just hasn't begun you little know to the extent to which suckly you and I have been exhausting ourselves I'll be king.

But jealousy is often the symptom of that deeper thing at the bottom. And then too the damage and hurt in our relationships with one another comes as a result of the fact that I'm not the only one who wants to be king.

There's another fellow who wants to be king. And you know one home or one situation where there's more than one king won't work. And you find two kings knocking at one another and resenting one another not giving way to one another blaming one another.

And all this comes as a result of you wanting to be king. Oh but the other person wants to be king. Yes yes that's true. But if you didn't their desire for self centredness wouldn't disturb you as much as it does.

It's only because their self centredness is crossing your self centredness that it puts you in the state you sometimes get and you feel so resentful. Oh my dear friends what a terrible thing this is. This is the basic problem with all of us the one thing that God is out to deal with me on again and again Roy Hessian exhorts himself saying I will be king.

And it comes out in my relationships with other people I've had over the years and has God had to deal with me and convict me of it. But there's a third thing the worst thing of all that comes as a result of me exhorting myself wanting to be king.

Self-Rule Usurps Christ's Place

And that is well we'll go back to the story to tell you what that is. There was one very obvious thing that would come as a result of Adonijah exalting himself to be king. The moment he was really established in the kingship he would liquidate the only real remaining claimant to the throne Solomon and Solomon and Bathsheba without a doubt would have been liquidated.

He was taking the place that David had all along intended for Bathsheba's son Solomon. And so it is that in exalting myself and me being the king do you know I've really taken the place that God appointed for the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have virtually disowned him. I believe one can almost say one has virtually crucified Jesus Christ afresh. You've taken his place and you don't intend to brook interference. This is how it was in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He told a story to illustrate this fact. That story of that vineyard that was let out to those farmers. Do you remember it? And it was arranged by the owner that they would pay rent. They were just the tenants pay rent for this vineyard and the rent would be a proportion of the grapes at the appropriate time of the year.

And so he went away and the appropriate time of the year came along and he sent servants to collect the fruit the rent. But something had happened in the meanwhile. These farmers had said they were working hard enough on this farm and they decided they would no longer be tenants.

They had judged themselves saying we will be the landlords. And they really got hold of that idea. And the whole thing was rather awkward when the real landlord sent his servants to collect the fruit and the reason why they treated them as you know they did they stoned them and even killed one or two of them was because they had exalted themselves saying I will be king.

And who is this coming here? And this was grievous to the owner. He said I know the way God bless them all I sent servants but of course they don't respect them. Last of all he sent unto them his son saying when they see him they will reverence him.

He was very ingenious to have thought that they said hey this is the heir and you will really be ours. And the whole history of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ is summed up in that story. And when those tenants who decided to be landlords saw Jesus this is what happened.

This was the heir and they wanted so to be their own king that they put him on the cross. And you know if I'm king I'm partaker in that crucifixion of Jesus Christ. True. I didn't put him on the cross but I've left him there.

I've virtually left Jesus Christ where the world put him. And I think we can regard ourselves in a very real measure in proportion as we've exalted ourselves to be king. We've been taking his place and we've been giving him nothing but the cross.

He's been wounded as it says in the book of Zechariah in the house of his friends. What are these wounds in thine arms those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends not my foes not my friends.

They exalted themselves. They wanted to be king. And when I pressed my claim they wouldn't have it they wouldn't repent. So there's chapter 1 and Elijah the son of Haggis exalted himself saying I will be king.

The Enthronement of the True King

And then you get the story. And we come into chapter 2 and he's a great old priest you know. And they suddenly hear the sound of trumpets. They suddenly hear the sound of multitude saying God save didn't quite get the name.

Hey what's that said Joab. And he was the general. Oh Joab what a man I want to preach on Joab one day. Never was. Is there a better picture in the whole of the Old Testament of a carnal Christian zealous for David but carnal like the disciples with the Lord Jesus Christ.

And he Joab who stood so loyal to David in the matter of Absalom was caught in the matter of Adonijah. And I've seen that happen dear Christians who withstood one issue a grave temptation to compromise and they stood for the truth.

But in their old age they got caught by another. And this Joab who stood so loyal to David for so long backed the wrong horse and he got involved in this neat little plan of Adonijah. And when the news came in as to what all this meant they were told verily our Lord King David hath made Solomon king all along.

This had been his intention. This was his appointed heir that Stephen knew it his intermits knew it and people in the nation had a pretty shrewd idea when this usurper got in first and the news came to the old man David he ordered that Solomon the one who was appointed not only by David but by God himself to be put on the king's mule and taken down and crowned in the most impressive way possible.

That was good news for some but it wasn't for Adonijah. Come in Jonathan you're a man who brings good news good news. I was a man. It's irritating. Verily our Lord King David hath made Solomon king. And those little Adonijah propped up there at the top of the table.

I tell you that was a shattering blow to Adonijah. And this is exactly the message that the apostles went through to the Jewish nation with in the acts of the apostles. Now if you look at the sermon that Peter and Paul preached to Israel in the acts of the apostles you will find their sort of gospel preaching was a little different from the way in which we preach the gospel because the situation was a little different.

This was the message they went to a pupil who had newly put this whoever it was on the cross and set away with him he didn't really believe that he'd been raised from the dead. But then miracles began to take place and these men came forth with this message therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom you crucified Lord and Christ.

And he hath commanded us to preach unto the people and to testify that it is he the one that you put on the cross but whom God put on the throne who is ordained of God to be judge of living and dead. That was the main thrust they were out the conviction of sin.

And their message convicted Israel so much as that simple message. They didn't want to hear that this Jesus was alive was the throne on the throne was ordained to be judge of living and dead. And these miracles were an evidence of that that they didn't want to know that if you go on like this that the priest will bring this man's blood upon us that was it.

That's what Jesus meant when he said thou shalt be given unto this generation no sign. But that was the promise of the prophet Jonah. And then they had a shock when Jonah appeared they mean the shipmen got to shore.

They got news back to Nineveh that Jonah has drowned three days later he's in their streets that Lord has come risen so to speak from the dead. And it was Jonah himself not only his message that helped Nineveh to humble themselves to repentance.

This was the message verily our Lord King David hath made our Solomon. And that's the message for us the very Lord Jesus whose place we have been so politely taking whose glory we've been stealing has been raised from the dead and has been made Lord of Lords King of Kings in his hands.

The Father hath committed all judgment that all men should honour the Son as they honour the Father. And my friend is not the least bit interested in your honour accorded to him as God he judges everything by the place we do or do not accord to his Son.

It says when he comes again in Isaiah 52 he shall startle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him. For that which had not been told them shall they see. And that which they had not heard shall they understand.

They'll realise who it was that was put on that cross of Calvary years ago. Behold we read he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him. And there also which pierced him and all nations shall wail because of him.

Our modern society doesn't think to leave Jesus Christ out of their lives. Is all that what does it matter. But this is the one they've left out is the very one in whose hands their destiny is going to be.

And though I'm talking to those who have initially repented and got right with God at least way back and their eternal salvation is settled how are you going to feel when the world is looking on him whom they have pierced.

And you and I have been piercing him too. They shall look on him whom they have pierced and mourn for him. And I want to tell you though I'm not suggesting if you haven't got right through to victory.

I'm not suggesting you lose your salvation but you lose much else. And then he comes to say the least to use John's words in his epistle we shall be ashamed before him at his coming to this place. He won the right to that place by blood sweat toil and tears.

If he's been exalted to God's right hand it's only because he first humbled himself. And I've been trying to take that place without any such qualification at all. I've assumed I've got to be the right person out in front.

I've got to be the right to have my own way with other people too. I've never earned that right. He's earned it. I haven't. You haven't. What have we done in the way of humbling ourselves to the bottom.

Nothing at all. And yet there we are even possessing to be believers in all sorts of situations exhausting ourselves saying I will be king. And that's unhappiness we've caused. How we've hurt others and hurt ourselves too.

And all the time God hath made his son Jesus king yet have I set my king on my own. And you and I have been guilty of rebellion. I deny he wasn't rebelling first of all against David but against David's choice of Solomon.

But he was in that sense rebelling against David. And you and I unconsciously in some degree it may well be but none the less culpably have been rebelling against God's choice of Jesus to be king. In these lies.

Did you look up to him. Well it produced conviction of sins in the act of the apostles. They were pricked in the heart. God help us. What have we done. It's a beautiful thing when the Holy Spirit pricks our heart and shows you that in seeking to be king you've taken the place of the Lord Jesus Christ and put him to an open shame.

Repentance at the Horns of the Altar

We come now to chapter 3. And Adonijah feared. What did he do when he had a choice. He could have stuck it out and said I'll be king. Come on you fellows. We'll stand our ground. But I'm afraid those fellows all had another appointment.

As I've said what are you leaving for. Come on come on. As a matter of fact I think I really want to be going. And someone else said they want to be going. And Adonijah's left in lonely state. Well Adonijah what are you going to do.

Stick it out. What chance of success have you he says. I admit it I've got no chance at all. And Adonijah feared because of Solomon healthy fear and arose and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

He went into the temple. No I don't suppose it was because it was the brazen altar that would be in the outer courtyard accessible. But this was the altar which the daily burnt offerings had been offered.

This was the altar around which atoning blood had often been sprinkled. What could he do. Had he been king Solomon would have died. And now Solomon's king what's going to happen to him. And his only chance of safety was to get to that temple and cling hold of the horns of the altar.

I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving. I'm king here. He can't possibly send somebody to kill me on the altar. He couldn't dishonor the altar by sprinkling my blood upon it. And of course Solomon couldn't.

And Solomon spared him. Put him down from his vain pretensions and put him on a sort of probation. And his life was spared. Oh I tell you that's the only thing to do when God's dealing with you. Man you and I have got to learn how to repent as believers.

This is the last act among the saints. It's the last word in our vocabulary. I remind you in the seven letters to the seven churches in the early chapters of Revelation to five out of the seven churches the message was repent.

I've had people say the saints aren't called upon to repent in the scriptures. They are five of those churches. We're called upon to repent. And it's pretty blunt. Do you notice. You look at it sometimes repent.