Being Servants of Christ's Body： A Word to Elders — Zac Poonen

The first thing that I want to emphasize is what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 6. Matthew 6 as I was meditating recently on the Sermon on the Mount again. You know, you keep discovering new things when you read the scriptures even after 60 years.

I saw this expression in Matthew 5 48 In a fresh way, it is not a promise that you will be made perfect. That would be different. It's a command. We study common commands and promises in Memory verse and this is a command.

It's not a command that a lot of people like to look at but yet It's one of the right in the middle of the Sermon on the Mount You must be perfect As your Heavenly Father is perfect. Now we know that it's impossible for us to be perfect in wisdom power knowledge and Probably a hundred and one other things but since we learned to since we have learned to See scripture in its context always We can't go astray so Jesus said that in the middle of a few statements.

So when I see that verse I look at the immediately preceding verses and immediately preceding verses talking about Being good to those who are evil towards us. That is the area we are to be perfect and that means it is possible it's possible to love our enemy and it's possible to do good to those who hate us and pray for those who persecute us and To greet those who don't read us.

That is possible. That's not an impossible command in that area be perfect and that's a good area for all of us to examine ourselves in the beginning and See that our heart is free from any grudge against anyone in the whole world.

Believer or unbeliever all of us I say any anybody who's more than six or seven years old has faced some harm that somebody did to them and We are all much older there are people who have spoken evil of us done harm to us and Especially if you are servants of the Lord and I found that as a servant of the Lord.

There are many people who Target me they write about me and articles and whatnot. I said by God's grace I can say I have forgiven every single one of them. It's been my habit Whenever I hear a report of someone having said or done something Against me or to hurt me.

I immediately right there. I say Lord. I forgive that person. I don't know what he's did or said. I haven't read what he wrote about me or said about me. I haven't heard it, but I forgive him right now in Jesus name and I cannot remove that memory that Knowledge of that fact from my memory.

I have no control of my over my memory and God does not demand that I forget even God himself does not forget anything. Read Hebrews 8 12 carefully. He doesn't say I'll forget about your sins. He says I will not remember.

Which means I choose. It's an exercise of God's will. I will I will not remember. So I also say I will not to remember what people have done. God remember God knows every single thing we ever did he hasn't forgotten it but he wills not to remember the past that is under the blood of Jesus and that is our choice also in relation to all the people who have Done or said and it's very important to keep our heart.

Absolutely clear in this area. Because the word of Jesus is clear. If you don't forgive others, you will not be forgiven. And if I'm an unforgiven man, I'm absolutely unfit to lead God's people. I will not be able to hear God's voice.

Clear Consciences and Spiritual Hearing

The Hebrews it says it God the Apostle Paul said to the Hebrews in chapter 5 you have become dull of hearing and Because you're dull of hearing I cannot say to you you read that passage in Hebrews 5 towards the end of it.

Because you're dull of hearing I cannot explain to you some of the wonderful things about the humanity of Jesus Christ. Yes, you all believe in his deity, but there are some amazing truths about his humanity that can change your life.

But I can't explain them to you. He says because you're dull of hearing you've understood the truth of forgiveness of sins and maybe the baptism in the Holy Spirit, but In terms of living that overcoming life walking in Jesus footsteps, there are many things I want to explain but they are dull of hearing and I think they became dull of hearing because they didn't keep their conscience clear.

But I whenever people ask me to pray for them for healing it says the elders must pray when people come and ask for healing. But James 5 there says when the elders pray for healing if that person has committed sins, it'll be forgiven him.

So I asked them particularly about one sin. Have you forgiven everybody because I find that is the one thing that blocks even healing from people. So it's very important. And I'm not saying we should fellowship with everyone.

Jesus never had fellowship with the Pharisees. Jesus is my example in forgiving. I Don't want to be trying to be more spiritual than Jesus by Fellowship going visiting Pharisees homes to show that I have forgiven them.

No, Jesus never did that He forgave them and that was before his father. That was it and even on the cross when the worst crime that has ever committed on this earth He immediately forgave teaching us that whatever crime people do against you is far Inferior to the crime of the crucifixion of the Son of God and he forgave immediately.

There was no delay there father Forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. It everybody knows if you kill a man, it's wrong but what they did not know was to whom they were doing it that it was the Son of God and Very often it's like that.

I Chapter 2 verse 5 and 8 and God's a wall of fire on about us and Whenever anybody hurts us he's poking into God's eye. I Mean that's not boasting and we keep a clear conscience and walk in humility before God.

We are the apple of God's eye and The eye does not protect itself. It's the hand that reaches out and Stops that person from poking my any further and that's God who does that. I'm not to do that God will stop.

Whoever tries to do that and Whenever he wants to stop it and however much he wants to stop it but my calling is to be perfect in this area to bless those who curse me love all my enemies and To pray for those who treat me badly and that's just an exercise of my will.

I Have forgiven them And I wish the best for them. I don't wish any evil for them. I must keep myself in that place always. Whether I feel like it or not is not necessary. We all are mature enough to know that we do not live by our feelings.

We have finished living by feelings. We live by faith and So it's not a question of whether I feel I've forgiven or not. I don't live by feelings. I live by the fact that I have exercised my will before God Almighty and told him clearly I Forgive them.

I want to release them. I will not hold their throat and hold anything against them. I'd have no demands and I do not wish any evil. I wish them good. Then I move on To as your father in heaven is perfect.

Hidden Righteousness Before God

What immediately precedes that verse and then what immediately follows that verse? That's the next thing and that is Matthew chapter 6 verse 1 to 18 and that's basically That unlike the old covenant where the act itself was enough the prayer or the typing or the fasting.

And it was quite okay if everybody knew that you were fasting regularly and if you were paying your tithes and that you were praying as planned by God and Came to Jerusalem as often you are supposed to.

But in the new covenant, you have to be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect. They did not know the father in the old covenant and To be perfect as my father in heaven is perfect according to the succeeding verses in chapter 6 of Matthew.

Is that I do nothing? Before the face of men. I Do not want people to know What I have done for the Lord. I don't want people to know how much I pray or fast or Sacrifice or Any righteousness that I've done or any money that I've given.

I don't want people to know. I Realize that in our day when you give an offering very often is given by a check and the treasurer will know that's okay. You can't avoid it. The question is not whether people know many things that we do.

People will know for example your ministry. You can't keep it completely hidden people know about it. But the point is not whether people know about it. The question is whether you want people to know about it.

Or you get a secret delight when people know that you did something. That's what I've got to repent. And that can happen very very easily. I've had to judge myself up to many many times in the past years of feeling a little satisfaction when I have Ministered the Word of God in a Very free and powerful way.

I really had to go before God's face and say Lord forgive me for touching your glory. There's one thing God will never give us. Isaiah 42 8 says my glory. I will not give to another. He gives us his love his love his power his wisdom and so many things.

But his glory in time and in eternity no one can touch it. The glory of God belongs to him alone and So we have to be very careful because there's a lot of this in Christendom and we are the products of we grew up in Babylon in Christendom all of us and we have gradually come out of it and just like We have a flesh we inherited from Adam and that still troubles us in the same way some of the habits of Babylon in Christendom can still cling to us if we are not careful and That's why we have to be very alert if we want to keep our hearing clear.

If I'm not hearing God correcting me rebuking me. Showing me the right path in love. Something is wrong if I'm not hearing God encouraging me. When I'm depressed or discouraged. If I end that gloomy position for long.

Something is wrong. I'm not hearing because God never wants us to be like that but to be encouraged. Otherwise I cannot come fulfill the command which says rejoice always. So I for myself have taken this as a law for my life.

That any time I don't have fullness of joy in my heart. I Say to myself You're not in the Father's presence. Because Psalm 16 11 says in the Father's presence there is fullness of joy. And I must have it all the time because I want to live in the Father's presence all the time.

That is more important than even reading the Bible every day. You have all I've had a habit from childhood. I'm not childhood from the time I was born again to read the scriptures every day. But as I've grown more and more mature I've discovered that more than just Easing my conscience that I read the Bible for a few minutes is to ask myself.

Have I heard God speaking to me today? You can read the Bible for half an hour and not hear God speaking to you. Just ease your conscience. I Tell you honestly, it's more important for me to hear God speaking to me in the morning than reading the Bible in the morning.

And I wouldn't say that to a new believer. But I can say that to all of you who are mature who understand the value of Scripture that I want to hear God. The thing I try to do to the best of my ability as soon as I wake up in the morning while still in bed I say Lord, I want to hear you today man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from God's mouth and Genesis 1 says he spoke every day.

God said this on the first day second day third day fourth day. That's the first page of the Bible teaching me that throughout my life. Every day God wants to speak to me. And if I allow God to speak to me and submit to him like the earth did Way back in Genesis 1 something will happen every day in my life some little thing maybe not conscious something invisible.

Which I may not be aware of but if I respond to what I hear of God even a one word something will happen in my inner life and That's the way God wants us to live. That's the way to progress In sanctification, that's the way to purify ourselves as he is pure.

That's very very important. That's the first thing. I would say to live before God's face and not to be disturbed by things that happen around us and this requires a constant battle because Pride is not never too far away from us particularly when people esteem us respect us and particularly when After we have had great freedom to minister the word Pride is very very close.

That's a time. We need to be alert. We stand before people so much more than other believers in our church. We are in greater danger. So we need to be alert. The Bible says exhort one another daily. Yes, you'll be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin in Hebrews 3 and 13.

24 hours exhort one another. Every 24 hours. Yes, you'll be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. So I learned from that Hebrews 3 13 that it takes only 24 hours for me to be hardened not through obvious sin.

But through deceptive sin, which I'm not aware of and a lot of it is through pride. That's the most deceptive of all some of the other things I can be aware of immediately. Encourage and exhort one another and we don't meet one another daily.

And we don't have people to exhort us every day. But thank God that in our day even if we don't have one another I have Peter and Paul and John and Others in the scriptures who exhort me who can exhort me every single day.

Like I can get a good exhortation from one of the Apostles. As I read God's Word, so that's very very important that helps us to live. Before the face of God, this is fundamental. We mustn't think of our ministry primarily.

The First Temptation: Using Spiritual Power for Personal Gain

Turn with me to Matthew in chapter 4 the words of Jesus. These are to me the first three temptations of Jesus were very very Relevant for me when I started serving the Lord when I I quit my job 54 years ago and One of these are the The three temptations of Jesus were some of the things that the Lord brought to my mind at that time.

I was just 26 years old and The first thing the Lord showed me was from the first temptation. The devil said you've got power you've just been baptized in the Holy Spirit the anointing is the The Devil told Jesus the anointing of God is upon you.

God's pleased with you now use that power to satisfy your need. You're not stealing. You're not asking for ice cream. You're not asking for luxury. You're asking for basic bread to survive and You've got the power God gave you that power to Produce bread here in the wilderness with your supernatural power use it and Jesus said no.

He would use it later on to produce bread for 5 ,000 people who are hungry in John chapter 6. But he would not use it for himself. And that's the first thing the Lord told me. The power that I've given you to serve me never never.

Use it for your own profit. To make money for yourself. Never never use it to get honor for yourself all glory for yourself. Always use it. Under the leading of God for the good of others feed the 5 ,000 with it fine.

But don't use it to feed yourself. I will take care of your need. Without your using I will provide the money you need. I will provide everything you need and We must be very strict in this. That I don't even use the respect I get from others because of my ministry to gain something for myself.

Gain for me from my ministry must be zero. I think we are faithful in this area of money all of us but we have also got to be equally faithful in the area of receiving honor or Expecting any even one of the things the Lord told me is not even to expect.

Thanks from others. Gratitude from others for what I do for them. Not at all. Years ago I learned that when I was very disappointed with somebody who did not express his thanks for me. I Mean after many years that after having left Bangalore gone somewhere else he prospered.

But he seemed to completely forget all the years we helped him as a young man In Bangalore and the Lord said you're wrong. You should not expect thanks from him in as much as you've done it to the least of these my brothers.

You've done it unto me. So if you want thanks expect it from me, I'll give that to you in the final day. Don't expect it from anybody on earth. That was the day I discovered that Expecting thanks from somebody is a sin for me at my level.

Some brother who's in the kindergarten it may not be a sin for him because he hasn't studied that subject yet. But for me it was sin from that day onwards to expect gratitude from someone. I expect zero gratitude and I mean I'm thankful for Them that they have learned that habit of gratitude.

That's good. So I don't say oh, I don't want it. That'd be super spiritual. If somebody comes to thank you very much For that message and bless me. I receive it. I don't want to act humble before him and say no, no.

No, I'll give the glory to God. That's all seeking honor for my humility. No, I just accepted and go on and I secretly I give the honor to God. I don't want even honor for humility and saying oh, well, it wasn't me.

It was the Lord all that type of super spiritual stuff and Never to expect thanks inwardly if people thank me I accept it. It's a good habit for them. When out of ten lepers when only one came to thank Jesus, he said where are the nine?

He the Lord of the universe. He has the right to expect people to come and thank him, but not me. I have I'm a servant and I Like the servant be who you know Jesus said about the man who worked and worked and worked in the field and When he came back the master didn't say okay sit down.

I'll serve you. He said make food for me and He's even so he said even when once you have done every single thing that is commanded you you know that verse in Luke It's the gospel. Then say we are unprofitable servants.

We have only done What we were told to do. We have to retain that Place dear brothers always I believe it's because of this that so many Brothers don't have a mighty anointing of the Holy Spirit upon them.

It leaks out through some little pride some little seeking honor some little receiving honor. I'm Sharing this to plug those holes so that we're gonna live before God's face alone and And give all the glory to him and when we have done the best we ever could have day of fantastic service will come before the Lord and say Lord.

We've only done what we were asked to do. We probably haven't even finished all that we were asked to do and if we did finish everything you're asked to we are still Unprofitable servants. Those are the words of Jesus and we had to obey that command is very very important.

So never use the power for myself. That was the first temptation the second one Temptation in Matthew 4 is Don't take God for granted. Don't say oh well because I've served the Lord now if I jump off the roof God will protect me.

No, he won't. You may have served the Lord for 50 years. If you jump off the roof will break your head and Don't foolishly claim some promise. We are not senior believers who can take something. No, we don't tempt God by such things.

We had to walk in humility when there are stairs available in the temple. We use the stairs just like other ordinary human beings. We use the stairs. We're not going to show off and say well. We are servants of God we can do we can live by a Higher standard than you guys in these areas.

No, we humbly take the stairs. Jesus humbly took the stairs. He didn't want to show off. Saying what he could do now, you know the application of this. There are many many applications of this and you ask God to show you how this applies in your own life.

As to where I'm supposed to take the stairs and where I'm trying to jump off the roof of the temple to show what a great Man of God I am see that was the second part of that temptation. One was you know foolishly temp God.

The other is when you Jesus when you land down there in the Lower part of the temple book people see you descending and claiming as a son of God. This is an honor there with Jesus denied and the third one was I'm thinking of particularly here.

The Third Temptation: Rejecting Shortcuts and Worshiping God Alone

You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve. See the alternative to worshiping God here in this verse is worshiping Satan and worshiping Satan means Trying compromising in some area in my life in order for some Personal gain that's how I look at it.

Jesus had come to the world come to earth to get the world for the father and the Devil said you don't have to go the hard way of the cross. I'll give you a shortcut. There are no shortcuts in God's kingdom is the way of the cross every single day.

Even if I've taken up the cross for 50 years, I still have to take up the cross today. Just like a new believer I'm no different when it comes to that. There are no shortcuts to bringing the world to Christ.

When Jesus said no, I don't want any shortcuts. I have to go the way of the cross. You're trying to tell me to avoid that. That's why he told said get behind me Satan. Get away Satan. You're trying to tell me to avoid the way of the cross.

You remember the next time When Peter told Jesus to avoid the way of the cross again, he said the same words get behind me Satan. Twice once to Satan directly and the other time to Peter both times. The temptation was avoid the cross.

Take a shortcut. And I need to recognize that voice wherever it comes from from my heart or from somebody else. No, take the easy path avoid this and there's too much sacrifice here. There's too much there too many problems along that way is difficult this way.

Get behind me Satan. I have no time to listen to you. Blessed are you we can recognize these very subtle ways, you know, Satan's a deceiver. He doesn't come bringing a piece of ordinary paper and saying this is a hundred dollar bill no.

He brings something that looks exactly like a hundred dollar bill both watermark and everything and it's not I Don't want to receive anything from the devil's hand and we've got to be alert in this area that I don't take shortcuts and the other part of this is What Jesus said?

You cannot serve God. Before you have learned to worship and Worship, let me please. Let me emphasize this. I Sometimes feel I must what the only person emphasizing this so much. I hardly ever hear anybody saying it.

What the entire Christian world calls praise and worship is not worship. It is praise and Thanksgiving. That's not worship at all and People may say brother Zach, what does it matter if we call it worship if it is not actually worship.

It's along with praising the Lord. Yes, it does. And I use the example of a person who has never seen a Cadillac car and say if somebody tells him hey listen I've got a gift for you if a Cadillac car go to this store and pick it up and The storekeeper knows this guy hasn't never seen a Cadillac car and gives him an honorary bicycle with the label Cadillac written on it Cadillac car and gives it to him and he takes away the cycle and rides it thinking he's got a Cadillac car.

He hasn't. That's the danger of Calling a bicycle a Cadillac car when it is not you miss something that you're supposed to have the real Cadillac car. So if you call something worship, which is not worship you satisfy yourself.

Yeah, I worshipped and praise God on Sunday morning. No, you didn't. You praised and thanked him. Worship is a is mostly something we have to do in private. It's in the most holy place. You can praise and thank God in the holy place.

See, there are three parts to the tabernacle. The outer coat is where most believers are. Yeah, they've come through the gate. They are born again, and they've gone to the labor. They're baptized in water.

That's the altar and the labor the cross of forgiveness and the labor of baptism. That's over and then there are some people who go beyond that to the baptism in the Holy Spirit that is the holy place where they have they study the Word of God that 12 loaves of bread on the show bread on the table and they pray the altar of incense and They keep the oil burning with the oil of the Holy Spirit fine, and they praise and thank God there.

It's wonderful. It's a smaller crowd in the holy place is mostly the priests and those who serve God, but you go to the most holy place. There's only one person there. It's God. There's nobody there. There's no place to show off or preach or Anything there all that is in the holy place in the outer court.

And our calling is to go through the veil. Every day and going through the veil is not an act of a moment. Hebrews 10 19 and 20 says Jesus has made a new and living way. Not a door. If it was a door you enter in a moment a new and living way through the veil.

Which is his flesh which he crucified for 33 and a half years and that's what the staring of the veil meant that Jesus had faithfully rent every stitch of that veil in 33 and a half years every Temptation that man could ever face.

He took up the cross and died to his own will and entered the veil. And that's the way for me. He's opened away. He's inaugurated. It says there for me to walk so that I can live in the father's presence all the time but in a sense, I'm alone there and If others have come through the way they are there, but I'm more aware of the father's presence.

I'm delighted to have these other brothers there also who are also inside the veil in the most holy place but I'm more aware of the father and Jesus than about all these people. That's worship to be occupied in something.

We have to do mostly alone by ourselves. Where we and it's not so much even in words. I believe the highest form of worship is in silence. The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.

I think that's in Habakkuk and all the Lord is in his holy temple at all the earth be silent before. Silence is the highest form of worship. Where you don't have words to express? You know that there are songs we can sing along to God and I do that often.

My God how wonderful thou art. Thy majesty how bright. How wonderful thy. What Judgment seat and depths of burning light. So we Sing those songs before the Lord and there are many other songs of worship love with everlasting love that relationship with Jesus is Very very important to be maintained every single day.

Personal Devotion to Jesus as the Source of Ministry

We call it worship or we can all it also call it personal devotion to Jesus. Dear brothers, your ministry will go down gradually If you're not maintaining personal devotion to Jesus every day. And that's not something you have to spend hours in it's it's a moment-by-moment thing.

And this was the thing that Paul was afraid of that the Corinthians would miss out on. I believe that's the reason for their carnality. 2nd Corinthians in chapter 3 it says I'm afraid sorry chapter 11 2nd Corinthians 11.

I'm afraid was 11 verse 3 That like the e like he was deceived and led astray by the devil away from the tree of life. Which means 2nd Corinthians 11 3 simple pure devotion to Christ. That's the tree of life.

That's the thing that the devil deceived you either way from that's what I get from comparing 2nd Corinthians 11 3 with Genesis chapter 3. So I've missed the tree of life too. If I have not if I'm not living in simple devotion to Christ and If you're not maintaining simple pure devotion to Christ, you'll miss the tree of life.

You can accumulate the knowledge of good and evil in tons and tons and numerous interpretations of Scripture and doctrine and understanding this and explanation of this verse and Powerful clever things from different parts of Scripture.

It's all knowledge of good and evil. It's not the tree of life if I'm not living in simple pure Devotion to Jesus Christ in my personal life dear brothers. Ask yourself that I I Check myself on that regularly.

It's the main thing that matters. I say my whole ministry must flow out from that. Otherwise, I'm just a servant of men. Not a servant of God. Some people some Brothers are wonderful servants of men. They sacrifice so much.

They do so much for God's people and they build fellowship with them. They open their home to them. They give money for them. They spend their time. They play with them. There's so many things but It is all for men.

It's not that it's not the Lord says it was not done as unto me. Yeah, it can lead to even Lord. We cast out demons in your name. We did this in your name and we Preached in your name and we served and we sacrificed we gave up so much of our time for you.

And the Lord says well, how much did you know me. How much did you spend time with me? Is that important? Lord says that's a primary thing. God created man to be a worshiper of him. It's not so much service, you know in the Old Testament if you read the Old Testament and see God's heart, you know.

We're not under the Old Covenant, but I read the Old Testament a lot to see God's heart. And you can see God's heart in the way. He speaks to Israel through the prophets. You guys worship idols. You're giving preference to idols more than to me.

That is one of the primary things the Lord criticized Israel for what does that mean? It means what is the idol today? My ministry can be an idol. Something more important than Jesus himself. It's very easy to begin our Christian life with fervent devotion to Christ and after a few years of ministry to be taken up with the ministry, particularly if God blesses it and We compare our present ministry today to what it was say 20 years ago when we were messing up our Christian life and Not and wasting time and we say wow God's given me so much life praise the Lord for that.

But has your ministry now become your idol? Is this the thing you're worshiping now? Is the is your church building your idol? Is the way your service goes so smoothly your idol is your music your idol.

I Don't know trees a thing God detested in the Old Covenant and it's so easy. Is your job your idol to glory in the fact that I Support myself. It's supporting myself become my idol. That that's what I glory in now.

Lord have mercy on us. Let me never worship idols. Idolatry is a very very subtle thing. It comes in so easily. Those Israelites didn't even think they were doing something so evil when they worship the Golden Calf.

Or they worship bail. It's unimaginable. How in the world could people have seen the mighty power of God? Splitting open the Red Sea and bringing that pillar of cloud from of see all that and still go and bow down before a golden top and Say this is the God the delivery from Egypt.

We think they're crazy. But I think it's like that with a lot of servants of the Lord today who think that it is by their power that they Preached or did something or Somebody was healed or something or the other.

What a need there is for brokenness. You know, I think often of the bread. We are bread in God's hand. We have surrendered. I believe all of us have surrendered everything like the boy Gave all his five loaves to Jesus.

He didn't hold back one. Dear Lord take all my five loaves. That's total surrender. That's where we begin. Then we pray for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. That is the Lord blessing the loaves great.

But it's still five loaves the multitude is not fed until the loaves are broken. That's the third thing first the total surrender then the anointing the Lord blessing us and thirdly the brokenness that's the point at which the fight becomes 25 ,000 loaves that 5 ,000 people can eat and Then we got to remain there.

Worship, Devotion, and the Song of Solomon

So these are some of the things I want to emphasize. Please make sure that worship has an important part in your life. And that's personal devotion to Jesus Christ. It may not be in words it may be in silence, but it's Where you know, I I love song of Solomon as a book Where I can relate to Jesus intimately.

You know, there's one passage in song of Solomon which to me is a beautiful picture of worship. I would encourage you to Read it. I wish we had a whole day to talk about all this. But it'll have to be another time it says in Song of Solomon chapter 4 and The bride is saying in the last verse Awake or north wind song of Solomon chapter 4 verse 16 awake or north wind and come wind of the south the north wind is the cold wind of trial and Maybe persecution and difficulties and the south wind is the warm wind of Blessing and encouragement.

I'd say whichever wind comes the north cold wind of trial and persecution difficulties or the south wind of encouragement and blessing whichever it is. When it breeds upon my garden everything is for my beloved.

To receive let my beloved come into this garden. And eat this choice fruits. It's reserved for my beloved. It doesn't matter which wind is blowing upon me. It's going to it's for my beloved alone and for nobody else.