1 Peter 1:10-12 The Word is Alive

Welcome to the podcast of Recast Church in Madawan, Michigan. This is a message from Pastor Don Filsack from the series Ready for the Storm on 1st Peter. If you'd like more information on Recast Church, please visit us on the web at www .recastchurch .com.

Here's Pastor Don.

Gratitude for Gathering and Church Announcements

Well, good morning, welcome to Recast Church. I'm Don Filsack. I'm the lead pastor here and if you can find your seats That would be great. I Gather together as God's people and when I say it's a privilege I mean that it hasn't always been this way.

It hasn't always been that we are as God's people have been able to gather together in a public forum like this. If you think about where we're sitting and where we're meeting right now, we're meeting in a public school.

With the freedom of religion to express praise and glory to God here in this public setting. Without fear that the police are going to break in and break it up or beat us with batons or anything. But we are here under the awesome grace of God.

So I hope that as we're gathered together right from the beginning that your heart is moved with gratitude To God for the freedom that we have here in this country as of now to be able to gather together and to worship him to dig into his word to praise him in song this morning.

A Couple of small details as we get started as you received a connection card when you walked in. There's a worship folder that that's in that worship folder has some of the different activities and events that are going on.

But that is not the primary way you get connected here. The primary way is by filling out that connection card turning it into the black box back there. And again, if it's your first time here with us and you fill in one of those connection cards turn it in.

Please take a free coffee mug back there. Just our way of saying thanks for joining with us this morning and then any offerings that anybody would choose to give we don't pass an offering plate. We desire for everybody to take that that step of Going to the black box back there and putting putting money in the envelope if you choose to and so we don't want anybody feel.

That pressure is that plate passes? We want it to be out of the abundance and overflow of gratitude for what God has done for you. So if you choose to do that again, there's an envelope provided. There's also a place to recycle those envelopes if you're not going to use that so it doesn't just end up on the floorboard of Your car or you have to throw it out on the way here.

We can reuse it next week if it you're not going to use it this time around. And then remember that anything that is given that's marked expansion fund either on the envelope or on the check memo line is going to go into a Specific account with the goal of eventually building a building on the property that we purchased out on East McGillan.

So we currently own 12 acres out there free and clear. We don't know any on that so praise God for that but at this point we are in the process of raising the money to Take it down to actually breaking ground out there on a new facility.

Exiles, Living Hope, and the Road Through First Peter

So With all that we're gonna we're gonna take our time kind of moving through the book of first Peter and that's where we've been and We're moving carefully through it a slower. You're gonna notice is that I take chunks off and as you see what I'm preaching week week after week.

You're gonna see that they're a little bit smaller than what you're used to. But at the same time, they're just they're so meaty and dense. There's so much packed in to the letter of first Peter for us and we are smack dab in the middle of Peter his opening chapter providing encouragement to those who are feeling like Exiles those who are feeling like the world around them is starting to press in a little bit those who are Recognizing that the world is not always the friend of the follower of Jesus Christ.

Have you experienced some of that already? You know if you read the headlines you watch the news. Is it is it true that the world is not always our friend as a matter of fact often? We're finding that it's pressing in pressing in more and more and I think all the more reason for us to be grateful for the Freedoms and show gratitude and thankfulness for those glimpses that we have in our culture of freedom that we still have to express our faith at this time in history, I Hope you're finding encouragement from first Peter and these first couple times that we've gone through and last week We were encouraged to reflect on the amazing and glorious salvation that God has granted to his children.

He has in Peter's words caused us to be born again to a living Hope and that living hope we saw last week helps us to endure trials and through those trials We are refined like gold in a crucible and we begin to grow in praise and honor To Jesus Christ that will ultimately culminate in all glory and honor going to him at his revelation in the end.

This morning in our three short verses Peter continues on in encouragement. He's seeking to bring us encouragement and my goal is that by the end of this time together this morning that you leave here encouraged.

Now we remember verse 2 you can look there in verse 2 sets the stage for this entire chapter. It reads like a table of contents for chapter 1 of first Peter. So look at that with me first Peter chapter 2 It says according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit last week We talked about that plan of God that salvation plan from the Father and this week We're going to be talking about that second that second statement that we are elect not just according to the plan of God the Father, but we are also elect in the sanctification of the Spirit of God this week.

This text is going to explain to us The great privilege we have and being called out as what I would say is the most privileged generation of believers. We are a unique people in the history of the world and even by the last statement in our text that we're going to read Here in just a moment.

We find that even in a cosmic perspective. We are Privileged that even the angels long to be insiders in the things that you and I have the privilege to be insiders of. So let's open to if you're not already there first Peter 1 We're gonna read verses 10 through 12 again a short text.

If you don't have a Bible open in front of you. Or you don't have an app for that or whatever and and you don't have it there. Then if you could just raise your hand one of these guys will just give you a Bible if you if you don't have one.

We do want everybody to have a copy of the Word of God. And so and if you don't have one Take that home with you. We we have them back there on the table as well afterwards. I'll follow along as I read the very words of God to us here at recast Church this morning.

Concerning this salvation. The prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully. Inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.

It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves. But you in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preach the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven things into which angels long to look.

Prayer for Worship and Gratitude for Salvation

Let's pray as the band comes to lead us in worship this morning father. You have been doing amazing things down through history you Spoke through the prophets you I mean all the way back in creation. And then at the fall you predicted that one would be sent who would crush the head of the serpent.

And on down through history you worked through your people and Now we find ourselves here in this place where the things that they looked forward to we now look back towards and remember. So father I pray that you would fill us with encouragement and enthusiasm that you have brought us to this place in history as your people.

That you have not just given us a first birth, but you have allowed us to be born again to a living. Hope through Your power and through the work of Jesus Christ. And may we rejoice this morning as we have an opportunity to sing praises to you.

Let our voices Mingle together in a way that that is glorious and majestic and is reflecting on who you are Father that we would worship you in spirit and in truth in our in the truth of the words that we sing.

But also in enthusiasm and joy because you have saved us. I ask this in Jesus name. Thank you very much for the bands leading us in worship. I'm very grateful for them and even for Rob being able to step in and Josh's absence this morning and Many of you was actually rolling through the announcements, but Josh and Heidi had their baby this past week.

So praising God for that for Hudson and I'm doing well. Be sure that you know that you can get comfortable whatever it takes if you need to get up at any time during the message. There's more coffee. There's more donuts probably while supplies last.

There's some juice over here. And then if you I know that those chairs might get uncomfortable. So you might need to just stand up and stretch in the back. That's fine with me. You're not going to distract me anything shy of just coming up and shouting me down.

It's probably gonna be fine with me. So but if you step out in the hallway and go to the end of the hallway to the right. That's where the restrooms are down here. I know that some of you who are familiar with the building know that there's restrooms down here.

We reserve those for the children's ministry. So use the ones that are down here at this end of the hallway if you need to use that at any time. Especially since we provide free coffee. So Peter has gone through this with us so far and given us a pretty in-depth discussion about the plan of Salvation.

We talked about that last week and that that plan of salvation comes from the foreknowledge of God. Really ultimately from the foreknowledge of the Father and that word foreknowledge there means plan.

The Sanctifying Work of the Holy Spirit

So now he turns his eyes to the work of the Spirit in our text here this three verses first Peter 1 10 through 12 by the way I want you to have that open to first Peter if you have a Bible with you first Peter chapter 1 Verses 10 through 12 that you can see that that's the outline of my text.

I don't. When I preach I'm just going through books of the Bible. I'm going section by section. I mentioned a bunch of times that really that's the way that we roll here at recast because if we were to get up if I got up every Sunday and just shared what's on my heart.

It would be like a soapbox and you get the same message all the time and you get tired of that pretty quick. So I like going through books of the Bible because it forces me to preach on the entire Thing that God wants to tell us versus just my hobby horses and my pet topics and stuff.

So that's where we're at first Peter 1 10 through 12. Most of us are aware though that as he talks about the Spirit in this text that there's a variety of different things that the Holy Spirit does. Some of you were raised in a church you attended a Sunday school.

You're raised in maybe a Christian home or whatever. And so you have some notions of the different types of things that the Holy Spirit does from the pages of Scripture. I think we could probably come up with a pretty hefty list.

So I'll just give you a smattering of some of the things that we know the Spirit does for us. The Holy Spirit Convicts us of sin, right? Are you aware of that work of the Holy Spirit? Has he ever done that for you?

Where it's kind of like you're about to do something you know is wrong and it's like there's that voice that just kind of Says no. No, you know that this is wrong. You know, this is an offense to God and so sometimes the Holy Spirit convicts us.

The Holy Spirit Seals believers a ministry that's mentioned of the Holy Spirit that he seals us. He's like a guarantee a down payment for us and in that sense that same sense of him sealing us the Holy Spirit Indwells believers now, I don't know if you've ever thought about this like from the little kids Sunday school perspective did you picture that there's a little compartment in your heart and the Holy Spirit is in there living and he's like.

And is that the way that was that what it means when we talk about the Holy Spirit in dwelling believers. Like there's a component of him inside us. I believe that that's a lot more about ethics and morals and him guiding us into truth and directing on our lives and owning our lives and so that's what it means that the Spirit dwells in his people that our behavior is.

Becoming more and more conformed to him. He guides us gives us direction. The Holy Spirit sheds light on the word for believers. I don't think I've ever thought about this. But have you ever considered like if a if an unbeliever reads John 3 16 and a believer reads John 3 16.

Is there a substantial difference in their? Understanding of the words. The answer is actually no an unbeliever can understand the content of Scripture. They can get it. They can understand what it means in English.

Are you getting what I'm saying in there? So they understand the what it means but do they apply and understand the Implications of it what it has to do with them and that it's something that ought to apply to their lives.

And so the Holy Spirit takes and is there something different about when a believer reads it and an unbeliever reads it? Yes, because we see it as valuable. We see it as important for us speaking about us in our lives.

Are you getting what I'm saying in that and the Holy Spirit has that role? Have you ever noticed sometimes where you read a passage that you are very familiar with and the circumstances of your life? And something about that text strikes you right where you're at.

Maybe early in the morning. Maybe you're in the process and in the practice of getting up and reading the Bible over your lunchtime or whatever. But you read Scripture and it's like I've read that a hundred times and it never hit me that way and then all of a Sudden boom, it's like the lights come on and you're like, oh that's either convicting or that's encouraging or whatever.

It might be that's the work of the Spirit in your life. So the Spirit does all different kinds of things but here in verse 2 of 1st Peter chapter 1 He is concerned with a very specific work of the Holy Spirit.

He says that we have been Chosen we have been elect in the sanctification of The Spirit he is concerned with the sanctifying work of the Spirit now you go. Okay, Don that that solves everything now I get it now.

I know what he's doing. How many of you have like a really solid working definition of the word sanctification. And so is that a word that you use on a regular basis? You use it all the time right in your workplace.

You're talking to everybody about your sanctification and stuff. Probably not a word that you're using very often and it needs some definition. My guess is that as soon as many of us hear that word if you've been kicking it around church for a while.

That your thoughts turn to something about living for God. Any of you have that kind of notion in your mind when you hear the word Sanctification something about the way we live or improving our lives or looking more like Christ for some of us it evokes in our minds.

Maybe a list of rules that we should live by. Or something like that but to be honest many of us do not really if we're honest have a Decent understanding of the word sanctification and the fact of the matter is many who have been around the church for a long time.

Have not heard a good definition of the word sanctification. So I'm gonna share with you what one of my theology professors many many years ago I'm shared with me about this word that has really helped me to Get my get my mind and my arms around this word Sanctification.

The word sanctification is like the verb form of the word. Holy. Okay, that solves everything, right? So holiness is like the thing and to sanctify something means to make it Holy to to to holify it. Okay, so it doesn't mean to poke hole In it, but it means to make something holy.

Well, that's great. But the the illustration that my professor gave me really just kind of sunk into my mind. He said he remembers a few times. This was an older gentleman I don't know if he's actually still with us today.

But an older gentleman who says I remember back in the day when I was just a wee little lad my mom had a sanctified pair of scissors and I remember being paddled for using her sanctified scissors in an unsanctified way.

So let me explain this that my mom liked to sew a lot. Okay, she was always sewing. She was always cutting cloth. She had a sanctified wholly set apart pair of scissors that was only to be used to cut cloth.

So he said every once in a while me and my brothers We needed some binder twine cut or we needed some paper cut or we needed something else or we needed to pry something loose. We got a little bit of trouble because we used mom's sanctified Wholly set apart pair of scissors now can scissors be used for a variety of different things.

Yeah. Can a human life be used for a variety of different things? Absolutely. But we're talking about Sanctification. We're talking about something that is set apart for a specific use. Are you getting me on this?

Does that kind of snap it into focus for you? Like it did for me the idea of a set apart pair of scissors. They are used for this reason they can they can do a lot of different things. They have a lot of potential to do a variety of things, but this set of scissors is for a specific purpose.

Intentionally set aside. That illustration is stuck with me and has helped to clarify Some very significant realities for me in my walk with Christ and what it means to be Sanctified to be set apart. So sanctification is the process of setting something aside for a specific purpose.

So from this notion of being set aside or making something unique comes a reasonable conclusion. That those who have been given new life in Christ and have been granted a living Hope as Peter said last week. They have been set aside for a specific purpose.

And I think just a just a minor side note on this that I think is valuable to contemplate is that being set aside Means that we are no longer our own. But indeed we are rightly and Reasonably owned by our Lord and Master and King Jesus Christ.

Who owns you. Who calls the shots for you? We live different from the world. Because we now have a God given use. Rhetorical questions you don't need to answer. Who do you breathe for? Who do you breathe for.

Who do you work for. Who dictates the way that you communicate with others. Who dictates the way you communicate with your spouse? Who dictates the way you communicate with your children your boss your co-workers?

Those who directly report to you. Who determines how you drive your car. Yeah, Oh conviction yeah conviction me too. Who calls the shots. Hit a cultural hot topic here. Who who calls the shots concerning the expression of your sexuality.

Who calls the shots concerning the expression of your sexuality? Who owns your body? Who owns your academic pursuits? Who drives your entertainment choices? The implications of our being set aside by God are Extremely important.

There is not a component of what it means to be a human that is not impacted that is not touched. There's nothing that I do in any given day that is not touched by the fact that I am owned Body and soul by my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his claim over me is absolute.

It is absolute. Well you look at my life, and you're you don't have to live with me long. Linda's over there going. Yeah, I know you don't have to live with me long to realize that I don't. I don't always do.

What God wants of me? And it is to my shame and to my detriment that I am NOT at all times sanctified and completely set apart for the use of God and that is called sin and that needs to be repented of and turned from and Walked away from coming back in line with what my Lord and Savior wants of me.

Peter is saying that we have been set apart from others in salvation by the Holy Spirit. And now here in verses 10 through 12. He is going to describe what he means by this Concept of being set apart.

Certainly as we dig deeper into this letter We're gonna see that Peter spells out the implications more and more about what a life looks like that is set apart by the Holy Spirit. But the way he explains the self this sanctification in our text here moving through verses 10 through 12 Might surprise us a little bit at what he is implying by us being sanctified or set apart.

Something unique about you and me that he wants to highlight for us that should provide us imminent intense awesome encouragement. Something about the way that God has set us apart. Peter clarifies at the start of verse 10 that he wants to he wants to say right away I'm I am talking still about salvation concerning this salvation he says.

But I want to explain that salvation from a different perspective. I want to talk to you about how God in the Spirit has set you apart in his calling of you. And partway into verse 10 he begins to describe the ancient prophets in it.

It appears as though as we go through this next maybe 10 minutes of this message. It's gonna be like where is he going with this? Why all this talk about sanctification in the introduction of your message and then now we're gonna talk about the prophets.

Where's this going? Well, we'll settle in here and we'll figure it out. He talks about the prophets and the fact of the matter is we probably don't spend much time in the prophets, right? I mean, maybe if you're reading through the Bible in a year you hit it then but very rarely I'm guessing that not many of you woke up early to her to review your memorization of the book of Habakkuk.

Was that it was that what you were doing this? I know that's what you did before breakfast this morning. You were memorizing Habakkuk, right? Or you were you turn to meditate on Obadiah when a crisis hits in your life, right?

Nahum. Mmm, just love to hear those prophecies of judgment against Nineveh. Or the prophet Joel about all those locusts just just really gets me going what you know. Well, the fact of the matter is it's all God's Word and I don't mean to be whimsical about it because it is it's all Beneficial but we recognize that the prophets can be confusing and hard to apply anybody with me on that.

Can be difficult to apply directly to our lives. And if you've read some of the minor prophets and you know what I'm talking about, it takes work. It takes effort. To understand what's going on there.

It's historical understanding. But Peter says we can learn some good stuff from the prophets and he that's what he's pointing us. He's pointing us back to them to talk about them for a minute. And he first tells us in verse 10 that the prophets actually foretold the grace that would belong to you and me.

They talked about it way back when about where we sit today. Hmm. Hey, you got my attention Peter. What is this that these ancient prophets were saying about me? What is it recast that these ancient prophets were saying about you?

They were talking about us. Oh your ears ringing. Centuries centuries and centuries ago. They were referring to us. Huh? Now if you've spent any time reading any of the prophets you realize that they talked about a lot of different things a Lot of content there there were major themes some of the major themes that probably stand out to you.

Even when I mentioned the word prophets is the sinfulness of the nation's the sinfulness of God's people. Does that stand out as maybe one of the themes in the Old Testament prophets those of you have read them?

Do you agree with me on that major massive theme? Judgment. The judgment of the nation's. The judgment of the people of God. The grace of God. A little thought of theme in the prophets. The grace of God that he would leave any Alive that he would leave a remnant.

A lot of the prophets talk consistently and continually about a remnant that will be left sprinkled throughout all the Old Testament prophets are glimpses of a major restoration on the horizon a major reconciliation between God and man and they point to a person coming they point to one on the way to bring about this reconciliation and If you read the prophets with a mind towards grace.

Some amazing things will begin to pop out at you. Some of these things that I think Peter is referring to in the prophet Ezekiel. Ezekiel was given a glimpse of a future time our time a Time when God would take out the heart of stone from his people and would replace it.

He would give them open-heart surgery if you will. Obviously it's a metaphor. But he would give them open-heart surgery and he would take out the heart of stone. And he would give them a heart of flesh take out a stone a stony heart that doesn't beat for him.

That doesn't have relationship that doesn't have connection with him and he would take it out of their chest and put it in its place a Heart of flesh that would beat for him and would be in love with him and would be connected to him.

Can any of you in the room relate to that? You're like, hey, that sounds like my story. At one point I was the one with that that rock in my chest that would not beat for anyone. Had no passion had no love had no desire for the things of God and God has taken that from me and in this place I have this inexplicable.

I can't really explain how it's happened, but I have this love for God that is overflowing in me now. Ezekiel saw that but the Prophet Joel didn't just talk about just the Locust plague but he foresaw a time when the Spirit of God would descend on men women children masters servants.

Not just judges and priests and Kings like in the Old Testament. But all would have access to the Spirit of God, but we know that's through Jesus Christ. But he foresaw a time when all would be Candidates for the indwelling of the Spirit of God and then of course Isaiah we can't even Scratch the surface of the things that Isaiah foresaw.

He saw the foresaw he foresaw the coming of the suffering servant who would be crushed by God for the forgiveness of sins. He saw some images that I wonder what he what how did that make sense to him in his ancient culture in his ancient time?

He was given these glimpses of things yet to happen things out in the future. And I wonder how much it is just kind of and we're gonna see here in just a moment that some of the things that the Prophets actually foresaw mystified them it confused them to a degree.

They didn't get it all. Because according to to Peter in verses 10 and 11 these prophets were not privileged with the full picture of what they were talking about. Have you ever watched parts of a movie?

And you think of a movie maybe you've seen just bits and pieces of it. I remember when we drove out west. Cars 2 is one of those movies for me because my kids were listening to it on our trip Out west in the in the back of our van and so they were watching it.

And so I've got bits and pieces of it between conversations with Linda and different stuff going on. And so if you have a movie like that in mind. Maybe you saw it in a couple different sittings you saw the first part and then the second half part and whatever and you try To piece together the plot or whatever if you can think in those terms.

Then you have some inkling or some understanding of what it was like for these Old Testament prophets who certainly did not Understand the whole thing if I want to understand the full plot. I think I have the gist of cars 2.

But I would need to sit down and watch the whole thing to be sure you getting what I'm saying. And at this point that is kind of similar. So the prophets were given Gifts of snapshots of God's plan of grace that was coming down the pipeline.

But they were not given full disclosure. They did not see the picture that you and I see they were putting together pieces of the puzzle. We have the puzzle put together for us. Guess where it is. It's on your lap.

The puzzle has been put together for you and me. They longed for this. They would trade places with you and me in a heartbeat to have this. This is what they longed for. They they hungered after this the words that are used in this text for the way the prophets viewed this are intense.

They knew that they didn't have it all according to this text. So like a person who receives a torn love note. Can you imagine getting a love note from somebody that you love that's gone away for a while and you get that you get the note.

And it's only and you can see that it's torn right in half and you only get half of it. How many of you might want to know what the other half says and you would earnestly desire to know the other words on the page.

That's the way the prophets were regarding the grace of God. In verse 10 Peter says that these prophets searched they inquired carefully. The text says about the grace that is now ours. Ours. They Inquired carefully about it.

They were intrigued by it. They were in some sense mystified by it. They were drawn in by it. There is a diligent in the Hebrew words that are used here in verse 10 to indicate that the prophets made it their passion to know more to search to study to understand.

To seek to comb over the details like with a fine-tooth comb going back over the prophecies again and again looking for more. The word inquiry implies even prayer and seeking the Lord saying God show us more of your grace.

We hunger for more. They'd long to know him and they long to know his plan of redemption. They recognized that even from that historical place. What a privilege the grace of God truly is. The knowledge of his grace was worth their diligent study.

They didn't even have the full picture. It was worth their diligent study. And they specifically understood by the spirit that a person was coming a person was on the way so the primary the primary focus of their inquiry the primary focus of what it was that they were looking for was who is He and when is he coming?

Who and when according to the text is the primary focus of their inquiry? They Inquired by the Holy Spirit of Christ who predicted the sufferings of the Christ and the glories of a future eternal kingdom.

This is another way of saying what I hope you already know and that is as we go through the Old Testament. Every story in the Old Testament whispers the name of Jesus Christ. There's a great resource.

I would like to recommend if you have younger children and you're here. I recommend this book highly. It's called the Jesus storybook Bible. Does any of you have that or know what I'm talking about a handful of you?

It's an excellent resource and I You know I would recommend that you Get on Amazon and grab a copy or go to the bookstore and grab a copy but the subtitle of it is every story whispers his name and it's it's it's awesome because it takes Kids through in a really, you know good pictures and good narrative.

But it takes them through the Old Testament stories pointing to Jesus in the Old Testament stories. It's a great resource that we've used with our kids. I love it because rather than making the stories all about us like so many children's curriculums do like so many children's books do it's All about us.

It's all about a morality. It's all about sharing with your brother sharing with your sister obeying your parents. It's always you ever thought about how much we teach our kids to do do do. How are we teaching them the gospel?

How are we teaching about them their needs? So when the when the Jesus storybook Bible gets to the story of David and Goliath. It doesn't end like most children's stories and you can slay your giants, too.

Is that what the story is that the story cuz last time I checked I'm not too good at killing Giants. How many of you to acknowledge that you have some Giants in your life that just don't go away right now.

You know, like I want it to go away and I've been trying to slay it. I'm been trying to kill it. What am I doing wrong? Because this giant isn't dead yet. I'm here and I'm trying God by faith to trust you with this and it's not gone yet.

The story of David and Goliath. I'm convinced we've gotten wrong for years. God Sent to us a greater David. David being not the picture of you and me. David being the picture of who? Jesus Christ. The one who in the end will slay our Giants will destroy sin will destroy death will slay that ancient serpent and He will be punished forever and ever.

That's the story. And so these Old Testament stories point to Jesus and That's what the prophets were doing for us. It's interesting to note that these Old Testament prophets knew that the answer they were searching for was personal.

They were not looking for some future event as if salvation was going to come in the form of an earthquake. That would destroy all the enemies of Israel or that it would be fire from heaven that would come down.

Could God have done it that way. Could he? Yeah, of course. He's God. He could have done it that way but instead it's personal. Salvation was coming through a person a Messiah. One born of the woman who would crush the head of the serpent all the way back in Genesis.

From the very beginning the prophecies have always been about one who would come to rescue us. God is personal and the prophets knew it and they set their hearts on knowing more about the one who was on his way.

That's what they wanted to know most about. Who is he? When's he coming? You catch do you catch any anticipation on their part. A Hunger a thirst an inquiry. Who is he? And when's he coming. Because I can't wait and I hope I get to see it.