15 - The Ministry of the Holy Spirit, Part 1

Well, welcome to the Striving for Eternity Academy's School of Systematic Theology. We are glad that you are with us today, and today we are going to be looking into the ministry of the Holy Spirit. And this will be a two-part lesson, okay?

So if you have your syllabus, that means if you are a student of the Academy and you have one of the syllabuses, it is a very helpful thing to have with you. The syllabus will give you my notes, and the syllabus has some fill-in-the-blanks for you.

So we encourage you to get a syllabus. You can sign up at the website to get one. It comes with a yearly membership, which means you get all the syllabuses that we produce within the year, which would be about two, at least two per year.

But we'll see, we may be doing more. So this week we are in lesson number 11, which is the ministry of the Holy Spirit, alright? The ministry of the Holy Spirit. Now as we go through this, you're going to see that we will deal with, we're going to start dealing with some controversial issues.

Maybe not so much in this lesson as the ones to follow, but when we do this, what I want to encourage you with is to, even if you disagree with me, if you could at least, if you could at least email us at academyatstrivingforeternity .org, if you could email us where you disagree, but support it with Scripture.

Just don't tell us that you disagree because you feel a certain way, okay? Disagree based on the proper ways of interpretation, right? We've gone through those in the school of Biblical Harmonetics, which we will be redoing those in high definition very soon.

But if you disagree, that's okay. We're not all going to agree on everything and actually we're all going to be wrong in some areas. There's going to be areas where each one of us are wrong and that's okay.

That should be perfectly fine with us because we should be more concerned about what God says and there's going to be areas that God will correct us, okay? So, it's not going to hurt my feelings if you disagree with me, alright?

But the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the lives of men throughout the ages is a vital study for today. Many groups have either de-emphasized or exaggerated the ministry of the Spirit. And so once again, our understanding of this doctrine is going to come through the study of the Scriptures.

And in this lesson, what we're going to examine is the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament during the life of Christ and then in the future. And you say, Andrew, did you miss something in the middle there?

Like, shouldn't it go Old Testament, life of Christ, like the church age, New Testament time periods and then the future? What's up with that? No, I didn't. It's just that we're going to pick up on the age that affects us the most, the church age, this time we live in, we're going to deal with that next class, okay?

But I want to say that there's really two extremes and I said this already but I want to emphasize it again. When it comes to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, many years ago, about a hundred some years ago, a hundred and eight years ago to be exact, in 1905, started a movement called the Pentecostal Movement.

The Pentecostal Movement moved into the Charismatic Movement, moved into Word of Faith Movement and now into anything goes kind of movement. And what you see in these movements is an exaggeration of the Holy Spirit's ministry.

Actually, in some circles, it's way beyond just exaggeration and I would say even blasphemy. Blasphemy when they claim things done against God, things that God would say are wrong and they claim that it's from the Holy Spirit, okay?

This is stuff, some bizarre stuff that goes on. Now what has been the reaction to that? Well, coming from more of the fundamentalist circles, what ended up happening was moving so far away from the Charismatics and the Pentecostals that they almost de-emphasized the Holy Spirit altogether so that it's almost as if you don't hear anything at all about the Holy Spirit within some of those churches.

So you have those two extremes and they're extremes and when you get to the extremes both have issues, alright? So, what do we have? We want to start by taking a look at the Holy Spirit's ministry and not ignoring the third person of the Godhead.

He is very important as we're going to see in our lives next week when we look at that. But when we examine this, the Holy Spirit is a vital study and we're actually going to spend a couple of weeks looking into the ministry that He has.

The Holy Spirit in Creation, Restraint, Revelation, and Service

Let's start by looking at the ministry of the Spirit in the Old Testament and we're going to take a look at a couple of things that He did in the Old Testament. We're going to look at some of the ways He ministered, some of the things He did.

Specifically, let's look at the first one which is creation, creation. Now when we think of creation we think of Genesis, so let us turn to Genesis 1, Genesis 1 verse 2 and it says this, "...the earth was void, sorry, the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.".

And so what you see there is that the Spirit was active in the creation of the world. The Holy Spirit was active in the creation of the world, that's your blank there, world. So what you end up seeing is that the Spirit was part, was one of three people that were active in creation.

This is something we see when we look at the fact of the creation, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the redemption of man, these are things that all three members have a ministry in and are active in.

So the Holy Spirit was active in the creation of the world. Okay, and so also you see that the Spirit was active in the creation of man, and this is in one of the earliest books of the Bible, Job 33 verse 4, "...the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.".

So the Spirit of God made Job. That's what He's saying, okay? And so we see that this is one of the things is that the Holy Spirit is active in creation. Not only is He active in creation, but He is also active in restraint.

Restraint, what do we mean? Well let's look at Genesis 6 -3 and it says, "...then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for He is flesh, His days shall be a hundred and twenty years.".

This is dealing with the time of the flood where God is saying that He will give a hundred and twenty years before the judgment, and this was the fact that the Holy Spirit was restraining, and this is a good thing that the Holy Spirit restrains.

Let's look at 1 Peter 3 and verse 20, it says, "...because they formerly did not obey when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few," that is eight persons, "...were brought safely through water.".

This is talking about some angels that were punished, or at least that's how some take it, that's how I take it obviously, that were punished during the time of Noah. Now here's the interesting thing with that.

We see that the Holy Spirit restrains God's justice and His wrath. That's actually a really good thing, because if God did not constrain Himself, if God gave us justice right now, every single person that doesn't know Jesus Christ would be dead.

If God would have given complete justice in the time of Noah, there would never have been a Jesus coming to earth in the first coming. This is the importance. The Holy Spirit restrains Himself, and that is one of His ministries.

There will be a time when the Holy Spirit will remove that restraint, and that will be a scary time. But looking at the ministry in the Old Testament, we start with His creation, we then see that there is His restraint.

Thirdly, we see that He is involved in revelation. The Holy Spirit was active in the guidance of God's message to man. Let's take a look at 2 Peter 1 .21,. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit was involved in the revelation, in providing man with God's word. Not only was He involved in creation, but He was involved in restraint, He was involved in revelation, and then letter D there in your syllabus, He was involved in service.

He was involved in service. The first thing is that He enabled workmanship. He enabled workmanship. Let's take a look at that in Exodus 31. In Exodus 31, He says here,. And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones, for setting and cutting wood, to work in every craft.

So it is the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament that gave people the gifts and talents to be able to make the tent of Tabernacle and to create the Ark of the Covenant. That's what was in the context there in Exodus.

And so what you see there is that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives us our talents and our gifts. Now, I say that because when we get to the next lesson, next class, we're going to look at the giftings that the Holy Spirit gives to believers.

So we're going to see some differences there. But we can say that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives us all of the gifts or talents that we have. Some of us are born with certain talents. Some people can sing and play musical instruments, like my friend Kerry.

I'm not the one you want to hear sing. And you definitely don't want to see me on a musical instrument. I used to play the trumpet. I think it was more a noise than a joyful. But there is a time coming when I'll sing with a glorified voice, and even I can sing then.

But those of us who have talents, that is something that the Holy Spirit gives. He also, and this is how we most often see the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, is that He enables for leadership. He enables for leadership.

That's your blank there in letter D. The second blank is that He enables for leadership. And what we're going to do is take a look at several passages of Scripture and see different leaders. And if you have your syllabus, you can fill in the names of leaders as I give them to you.

But we're going to see different leaders that God had put His Holy Spirit in them to give them, to enable them toward leadership. Alright? Let's start with Joseph. Let's start with Joseph in Genesis 41.

Genesis 41, 38. And Pharaoh said to his servant, Can we find a man like this in whom is the Spirit of God? Now he's speaking of Joseph. Okay? And he's saying there's nobody that we can find that has the Spirit of God in him.

Alright? And so we see that the Spirit enabled him for leadership. Let's look at another. Your second one there under Numbers 11 is Moses and the elders. Moses and the elders is your second blank. And this is Numbers 11, 16 -17.

Then the Lord said to Moses, Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

And I will come down and talk with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you, and I will put it on them, and they shall bear witness, bear the burden of the people with you, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.

So you see there, the second group where we see the Holy Spirit enabling people for leadership is Moses. So we have Joseph is your first blank. Then Moses and the elders. Your third one under Deuteronomy 34 is Joshua.

Joshua the son of Nun was full of the Spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him, so the people of Israel obeyed him, and he did as the Lord had commanded. So Joshua is our third one. Next we have the Judges, and we're going to look at three passages here.

I hope that's large enough for you to read. Actually for the sake of time, I'm not going to read them, but it is Judges 3, 9 -10, Judges 6, 24, and 11, 29, and you see Athenel, Gideon, and Jephthah. We're all given the Spirit for the sake of leadership.

Next in 1 Samuel 10 .10 or 16 .13, either one of those, I don't know that we're going to have time to read that, but in those you see David and Saul. Both David and Saul were, in those passages, had the Spirit upon them.

Now this brings up an interesting thought. The Holy Spirit left Saul, and this is where we get into some of the differences. We've looked at this in some previous classes, but we saw that the Holy Spirit would come upon someone for leadership in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament we're actually indwelt with the Holy Spirit.

He indwells us, and so it's a different relationship in the New Testament versus the Old Testament. That's the difference of the New Covenant. It's why we no longer need a high priest or a priesthood.

So thus in the Old Testament economy, there are similarities to the Spirit's ministry as in the New Testament. He's still active in bringing forth life. He still ministers and provides gifts and talents to people in serving and in leadership.

The same Spirit that guided the writers of the Old Testament also guided the writers of the New Testament. The same Holy Spirit convicts of sin both in the Old and New Testament. The primary distinction of ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Two Testaments is that the Holy Spirit was not universal in ministry to all believers, and His abiding service could be temporary as we saw with Saul.

Indwelling and sanctification are also exclusively to the New Testament ministries. So we'll see that next class. But what you see there is the fact that there are similarities between the Old Testament and New Testament ministries, but there's also some distinctions.

We're going to look into them a little bit more next class. But what we see there is the Holy Spirit's ministry was one where He was active in the Old Testament in creation, in restraint, in revelation, in service.

And when we looked at it in service, we see the one that we most commonly talk about, which is His enabling not just of craftsmanship or workmanship, of giving of talents, but also that of leadership, of enabling for leadership.

And so we see that in the life of Saul. But Saul, the Holy Spirit departed from Saul when he sinned against God and came upon David. And then David was the one to be anointed king. Even Jonathan, Saul's son, recognized that David would reign as king after his father and in his own place because he saw the Spirit acting within David's life.

So that is the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. Let us now turn to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of Christ. So let us first start with prior to the incarnation. That is your blank there, incarnation.

The Holy Spirit in the Life of Christ: Prophecy, Conception, Ministry, Death, and Resurrection

So prior to His incarnation, we see that the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of Christ was prophesied in the Old Testament. And we've seen some of this before, so we could look at many passages of the Old Testament where we see it, but let's just look at Isaiah 11, the first three verses there.

And we see the prophecy there. There shall come forth and shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his root shall bear fruit. This is speaking of Jesus. The stump of Jesse refers to King David and his offspring.

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, and the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord, and his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

He shall not judge by what his eyes see or decide, disputes by what his ears hear. So we see here that this is a prophecy. If you want, you can cross-reference this with John 3, verses 34, and Luke 4, verses 18 to 21, and you'll see the references here that are mentioned.

But prior to His Incarnation, the Incarnation just means when God became flesh, means to be in flesh, so it is when God Himself became a man. So before He became a man, there were prophecies. We see second, let her be there at His conception.

The Spirit of God was involved in Christ's conception. Let's look at Luke 1, verse 35. And the angel answered her, the Holy Spirit, her being Mary, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

Therefore, the child to be born shall be called Holy, the Son of God. So we see that the Holy Spirit had a ministry that was prophesied before His Incarnation. He had a ministry at His conception. And then we see, thirdly, during His life.

During His life. And we see the Holy Spirit was very active during the life of Christ. I'm not going to look up each of the verses that we have there in your syllabus. You can look each of them up, but let me just give you these ways that the Holy Spirit was ministering during the life of Christ.

First, we see in Luke 4, verse 18, that He was involved in anointing. We see that in Luke 4, verse 1, that the Holy Spirit filled believers. We see in John 6, verse 27, that the Holy Spirit was sealing people.

He was involved in sealing, which was part of an endowment or a guarantee. We see in Luke 4, verse 1, and also in John 8, verse 29, that the Holy Spirit led people. We also see in Luke 10, verse 21, the Holy Spirit rejoices.

So He would rejoice. And lastly, I mentioned that He empowered people in Matthew 12, verse 28, or in the first four verses of Luke 4. And so we note here that while Christ indeed was God, and I want to make a distinction here, because this is something that those who deny the deity of Jesus Christ get hung up on.

And we have to be careful how we word things. And so if you look in your syllabus, look at the note at the bottom there. But while Christ was indeed God, by the process of incarnation, He humbled Himself and willingly surrendered the use of His divine attributes, placing Himself into the care of the Father and the Holy Spirit in order to become our Savior and sympathetic High Priest.

This is very important to understand. Jesus Christ was still God. As God, He could read people's minds. As God, He can raise the dead. As God, He could give life where there was none. As God, He can multiply bread and fish.

He can do all these things as God. But there are passages that also speak of the fact that Jesus Christ, while He walked the earth, humbled Himself, emptied Himself to be a slave of man. He became a slave even unto death, as Philippians 2 would say.

But He did that submitting Himself to God the Father, God the Holy Spirit. They worked through Him, but it was still Him as God that had the authority. This is important to understand. Just because He submitted Himself to the Holy Spirit does not mean that He gave up His deity in any way, shape or form.

So when some people look at Philippians 2 and they come up with this kenosis theory that Jesus Christ somehow stopped being divine, that He gave up His divine nature and only had a human nature, that would be an error.

And this is why that would be such an error. That would be an error because if Jesus Christ was not God, then He was not eternal. And if He's not eternal, then He could not pay an eternal fine. This is why Jesus must be God.

This is what makes Christianity unique, is that Christianity is the only faith, the only religion that teaches that we can have forgiveness of the eternal debt. Because God paid it, an eternal being. That's what makes Christianity unique.

And so this is the thing that we end up seeing, is that when we look at the ministry of the Holy Spirit, we see some similarities, we also see some differences, but when we see the life of Christ, we see Christ having both a human nature and a divine nature, though He submitted Himself.

And I fully admit that my human finite mind, which cannot comprehend a vast number of things, cannot comprehend how one member of the Holy Spirit submitted Himself to another member. But there is some headship even within the Trinity.

Jesus Christ submits Himself, the Son submits Himself to the Father, and the Holy Spirit submits Himself to the Son. And so there is within the headship some sort of hierarchy that we see in the Scriptures, though I cannot comprehend that.

Sorry, just is. And so this is the thing, this is very important. I got into a discussion once on Facebook over this because someone was emphasizing so strongly on the fact that Jesus Christ submitted Himself in everything to the Holy Spirit, and the flaw in that is that He was still God.

And the irony was this person was trying to argue with me saying that just because He was saying this did not deny His deity, and up popped a guy who totally denies the deity of Jesus Christ and he was in total agreement with the brother who put the post.

And I was like, huh, do you see? That's the point. So this is where we end up sometimes. We have to be careful. And I want to encourage you to be careful in your thinking and in your language. Jesus did submit Himself to the Father and to the Spirit, but it does not mean that He gave up His deity, okay?

This is why if you sing the hymn, if you're actually in a church that sings hymns, I know many of you don't do that anymore. Alright, we'll skip that topic. But there's a hymn, I think it's, And I think it's the second stanza or second verse that says that Jesus gave up all but love.

That's theologically incorrect. And that's what we're discussing. It is the thought that when Jesus Christ was on the cross, He gave up His deity, because deity, how could deity die? That's what the Muslims will always say.

How could God die? Well, God can't die. That's the whole importance of it. God is eternal. Man can die. So Jesus in His humanity could die, but He had to still be God. He didn't give up all but love. He didn't give up His deity.

He couldn't have, because if He did, then you and I are in a desperate situation. Because if Jesus Christ gave up His deity, you and I will have to pay for our sin for all of eternity. That's how important it is.

Okay, I'll get off my soapbox. Sorry. We've got more of the class to do. All right, so we see that in the life of Christ, we saw the Holy Spirit's ministry prior to incarnation, at conception, during the life of Christ, and letter D there, at His death.

At His death. Let's take a quick look at Hebrews 9. We see the Holy Spirit was the personal agent involved in the death of Christ. How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered Himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from the dead work to serve the living God?

So here is again, we saw that, if you look through the Scriptures, you see, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, all involved in creation. They're all involved in the death of Christ. They're all involved in the resurrection of Christ.

They're all involved in the giving of revelation. These are things that are all involved in. And so, we see that who killed Christ? Was it the Romans? I mean, it was the Roman guards that physically put those nails through His hands and put them up there on that crucifix.

Was it the Jews? I mean, the Jewish people, the Jewish leaders, they were the ones who brought Him to the Romans for judgment. Well, Jesus made it really clear. No one would take His life but Himself.

And the Holy Spirit was involved in that process of taking His life. So, we see that He was involved prior to His incarnation, at His conception, during His life, at His death, and then lastly, letter E there, in the resurrection, which again, all three members of the Trinity were involved in.

Okay? So, let us take a look at what, if you look in your syllabus, we're going to look at that to see this. We see all three members. Let's first look at the Father and the resurrection. The Father, this is your blank there, the Father and resurrection.

Romans 8, 11. If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, dwells in you, He who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

So, in this, who does it say, look at the passage, who does it say raised Jesus from the dead? Well, it says the Father. Okay, the Spirit, actually it's the Spirit. Maybe I had that wrong. This may be a translation issue, I might have to look this up, but let's look at, the second is John 2, 19 to 21, where we see Jesus answered them, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.

The Jews then said, it is taken 46 years to build this temple and will you raise it up in three days? But He was speaking of the temple of His body. This is Jesus, or the Son and the resurrection. The Son and the resurrection.

In 1 Peter 3, 18, for Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous that He might bring to us God, being put to death in the flesh and made alive in the Spirit. Okay, so we see the Spirit and the resurrection.

So all three members of the Trinity, of the Godhead, were involved in the resurrection. So we see the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. We saw the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of Christ.

What about briefly, we'll look at the future. We'll look at the future, okay? Now I am saying here that I'm going to tip my hat a little and tell you the right way to view the future. Okay, some of you may think that's a little arrogant.

But no, I do believe that this is my understanding of the Scriptures and this is how I understand the Scriptures to teach and we're going to get into it in much greater detail. So don't just tune me out just because of the fact that I'm giving my view because we can disagree.

And we may actually have different times where during our summer schools we're going to bring different people on to discuss some areas where we disagree so you can see the differences and we're going to actually look at the differing views that people have of end times.

But I believe that the Spirit will be active in the tribulation time period. To save some time, I'm not going to turn to 2 Thessalonians because I've got something very special I want to do at the end of class tonight that might take a little bit more time.

So it is important to realize that the restraining, remember that restraining work that we talked about with the Holy Spirit, that the restraining and convicting work of the Spirit will be removed during this time in the sense that the spiritual body of Christ, i .e. the Church, has its presence and its influence removed.

So I believe during the tribulation period that restraining ministry and convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit will be removed when He removes the Church from the earth. That would be what's called the rapture.

I believe in a rapture and I believe, obviously if you understand these terms, I believe that the Church will be removed prior to the rapture making me pre-millennial and pre-tribulational if you understand those terms.

And if you don't understand those terms, just stick with us in class. We're going to explain those. We're going to explain all the things, the amillennial, postmillennial, premillennial. We'll get into all that fun stuff and your head will spin and yeah, it'll be good.

But I also think that the ministry of the Holy Spirit during the millennium, what is the millennium? The millennium is that thousand year period that we had mentioned in Revelation chapter 20 that talks about a thousand year rule of Christ, a physical literal rule of Christ.

And so in relation to believers, if you look in your syllabus, the Spirit will indwell believers during this time. Okay, Ezekiel 36 verses 25 to 28. Also, the Holy Spirit will baptize believers during this time.

Joel 2, 28 and 29. You can cross-reference that with the passage in Ezekiel that we just mentioned. Now, in relation to Christ in the future, the fullness of the Spirit will be evident in the life and ministry of the reigning Christ.

Christ will physically reign. This is in Isaiah 11, 1 through 3. He will physically reign, I believe. And we will see that, that the Holy Spirit will be involved in that. All right? So, this is something that if you don't understand all the stuff of the end times, that's okay.

What will really benefit you by us going through this is we're going to keep dropping little notes throughout. And this is why it's an advantage if you start this school from the beginning and work your way through.

Because when we do that, we're not only building these principles on top of each other, but we also are going to help so that we don't make the mistake that many do. Many people jump into theology at a study of prophecy and end times, or the secondary one that most people jump in is salvation, how we got saved.

And they jump into the Calvinism, Arminianism debate, and that's where it ends up. And that's a bad place to start. You want to start with the attributes of God. Actually, you really want to start, we really started, with the school of biblical hermeneutics.

You first want to understand how to interpret the passage. Okay? And so we want to go through that. Now, so what we end up having is we want to look at this as we study these things and build upon them.

I'm going to drop terminology like premillennial, amillennial, postmillennial. And if you are dying to know what they mean, well, you can contact us and we'll go over it. You can look them up. Get a good study Bible or a good systematic theology and go over them.

But what you want to be able to do is look at them throughout. Okay? So when we look at the end times, again, we see that the Spirit will be active in relation to believers. And in your first blank there, the Holy Spirit will indwell believers and will baptize believers is your second blank.

Alright? So what we see is that when we build this up, we're building up to the end times. You don't want to jump right into that. Alright? So if you have any questions with this, please email us at academyatstrivingforeternity .org.

You can also go to the Striving for Eternity Facebook group. You can join the group, which is different than our page, but in the group there's a lot more discussion and you can post questions there. You'll see that throughout the week we do post questions for you to think about and answer.

And I want as many students answering. What we've been noticing is that some students, as soon as someone gives an answer, the other students just say, yeah, I agree with it and they don't answer. Give your answer as well.

Because throughout the year, as some of you have already discovered, you well behaved, students who attend the class, are active online in the class, get rewarded. We send things out to you guys, as some of you already found out.

Some of you got a CD already. Some of you others are going to be receiving some other things, and some of you may be receiving CDs, but we want to reward those students who are putting in the extra time in class.

Okay? And so we want to encourage you to email us. Alright? So we are going to next week look at the ministry of the Holy Spirit part two, and we are going to see his ministry in the church age, in the time that we live.

We're going to see how the Holy Spirit is active with us now. Alright? And so we want to encourage you to consider enrolling as a student. One of the things you get is the syllabus. We also send some other things throughout.

But before we close, there's some announcements we always like to do. I know some people like to tune out at this point, and I encourage you, do not tune out, because you are about to see something that is truly encouraging.

One of the things that we realize is that many of us tend to not encourage other believers as much as maybe we should. And so we here at Striving for Eternity always want to encourage you to encourage others.

Even if you don't know the person personally that we put out for you to encourage, I encourage you to get to know that person. Add them on Facebook if they're on Facebook, contact them by email, but get to know them.