Let the Righteous Smite Me — Carter Conlon

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The Deeper Life of Christ and the Call to Freedom

Psalm 141. There's a lot of talk today about the deeper life of Christ. And the Lord is beginning to show me some things about the deeper life of Christ. Things that are hard to hear. But if we have ears to hear, this could be the beginning today, I believe, of something very profound.

In many lives, those that are standing, I gather there's no more room in our overflow rooms. And those in the education annex and all of the adjacent rooms listening to the gospel. I do believe today that if you can hear this, it can be the beginning of something very, very profound.

As a matter of fact, it can be the beginning of the most Christ-likeness in your life that you've ever known. But what I'm about to share with you can only happen by the power of God. You cannot do it in the natural man.

It's an impossibility. It has to be something of Christ that has worked into you and I to be able to do this. My message is entitled, Let the Righteous Smite Me. Let the Righteous Smite Me. Father, I thank you, God, for the anointing of your Holy Spirit.

I thank you for your presence. Lord, it's about your presence. It's about you being here in our midst. Where you are, there's life. Where you are, there's freedom. Where you are, there's revelation. If you're not here, then these are just words and they fall to the ground.

And at best, we try to appropriate them, but we can't. Lord, it's you. It's your life. And we do bow. I bow and I bend my knee before you. I declare that I have no resources apart from you. I have nothing to offer apart from what you've already given to me.

And so I give back to you that which you've given to me. And I ask you, Lord, that you glorify your name today. I ask you, Lord, that you'd be lifted up and honored. And that your kingdom would advance in the hearts of your people.

This is your church, your body on this earth. Let your kingdom come. That's our cry. And let your will be done. What you desire us to be and you desire to do in us and through us, let that be accomplished in this house today.

All day I pray for it. Not just this morning, but all day. Let your will be done. Be with us. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for so manifesting the presence of Christ in our midst today. We thank you in Jesus' mighty name.

David’s Prayer for Protection and Correction

Psalm 141. David, the king. He says, Lord, I cry unto thee, make haste unto me and give ear unto my voice when I cry unto thee. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity. And let me not eat of their dainties. Let the righteous smite me.

It shall be a kindness. And let him reprove me. It shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head. For yet my prayer shall also be in their calamities. When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth. But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord. In thee is my trust. Leave not my soul destitute. Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me and the djinns of the workers of iniquity.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets whilst that I withal escape. Now, the Reiss Chronological Bible places this particular psalm, 141, as being written at the time when David had escaped from Saul into the cave of Aguila.

You find that in 1 Samuel chapter 22 and 1 Chronicles chapter 12. Now, it's recorded that at this time of the writing of this psalm that all of David's father's house and the people of the tribes, both of Benjamin and Judah, came to him to profess their loyalty.

Now, we know that David had been wrongly treated by the king of Israel, Saul. Saul had allowed a spirit of jealousy to come into his life and be lost, in a sense, in touch with God. He began to resent this young man who had an anointing on his life, and he began to pursue him, wanting to kill him.

David had had to flee from his presence for his very life. And so, in this particular cave, came to him his own family, many of his own family, and many, not all, but out of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah, came to him to profess to him that we are loyal to you.

We see the hand of God on you. We know that God's called you and we're with you. And now, at this same time, David also pens Psalm 142. And in this psalm, he makes a very, very curious statement about this particular situation.

In Psalm 142, he says, When my spirit, verse 3, was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. God, I was overwhelmed. The circumstances were too much for me, but you knew. And the word in the Hebrew means that you caused me to know, you informed me, you announced it to me, you appointed it to me, you put it in order.

David is saying it this way. I had an inward knowledge that even though I didn't fully understand it, I knew that this was an appointed pathway for my life. And beloved, if you're going to walk with God, I want to tell you today that there are going to be appointed pathways for your life that you don't understand.

You're going to be appointed to pathways, especially if God wants to use your life in any great measure. Pathways where you don't understand what's happening, and within yourself, you do not possess the resources to win the victory.

There's nothing within you that could win it. There's everything in you that wants to go in another direction, or respond in a way other than God would have you to respond. And these are appointed pathways, and these pathways are to open to us an understanding of our inherent inability to be everything that God calls us to be.

To actually be anything that God calls us to be. We're unable. The moment we begin to think we can do something, God will appoint a pathway to prove to us that we can't. If we think we're very loving people, then God will put somebody or something before us to show us we're not, and we can't.

It's an appointed pathway. Some of you are on that appointed pathway right now. You're in your workplace or your neighborhood, and moved in next door to you or sitting at the next desk is somebody that without the grace of God, you would rather strangle them than ever see them come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

David said, I had this inward knowledge that this was an appointed path. And how confusing it must have been for him. A young man coming in and Samuel anointing him and telling him he's going to be king of Israel, and walking into the camp knowing that God is with him.

He's won victories out in his own particular seclusion with sheep in the wilderness. Coming in and taking away or putting off all the armor that Israel had learned to trust in, and walking down and confronting not just Goliath, but the whole of the armies of the Philistines that were swallowing up God's heritage.

And seeing this mighty victory being called into Saul's court, a sweet psalmist that when he began to worship God, the evil spirit that troubled Saul had to flee away. The anointing was so strong upon this young man's life, only to find himself fleeing.

Only to find himself surrounded by people perhaps for a season equally as confused as he had been in the beginning. But God will always cause us to have an inward knowledge that he has appointed the path.

Have you ever been in a place like that? Where it seems like all hell is around you. You try to rebuke the devil, but there's this inward understanding that this is not the devil doing this. And even if he's got somewhat of a measure of a hand in it, it has been allowed.

He's been allowed to touch my life. God has allowed it for a reason, for a purpose that I don't yet understand. But yet, David says, I know my path. I know it has been ordained of God. But then he goes on in verse 3 and he says, In the way wherein I walked, have they privily laid a snare for me.

He says, now there are people around me who have laid a snare for me. In this way that God has chosen for me to walk in. Now who are they? Who are they? We quite often want to point to Saul. Obviously Saul was trying to kill him and Saul's army is trying to kill him.

And there's others that are informers and evil people all around. But this is, I don't believe, what David is talking about. Because he also penned this Psalm 142 at the time of trouble in Adullam's cave.

Who are they? And here they are in verse 4, he says, I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no man that would know me. In other words, there was no man that understood. This is what David is saying.

I looked to the right in this cave. The word know in the Hebrew text is nakhar, it means to perceive or understand or give honor to something. I looked on my right hand, David said, and there's nobody that understood the pathway that God had me on.

Refuge failed me. No man cared for my soul. No man cared for my soul, the word is nefesh, it means, I'm going to give you my definition because it's a very long, long definition. But it means my life, which had come from my heartfelt love for the ways of God.

Nobody cared for this. God had appointed a path for me and everybody's trying to counsel me. Can you picture in this cave everybody's there saying, we're with you, David, and we're going to conquer and how evil this regime of Saul has become and how wrong spirited they are and how wrong you've been treated and we're going to lash out and God's going to put them in our hands and we're going to get vengeance and David is there and that's why he prays in Psalm 141.

He said, Lord, I cry to you. This is in the cave. He said, make haste. Come to me. Give ear unto my voice. Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense. In other words, when I lift up my voice, let it be a sweet perfume before the throne of God and the lifting up of my hands is the evening sacrifice.

David says in the morning and the evening. Oh, God, let my prayer be right. Let my words be right. Let my heart be right. Let it be acceptable. David said, set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips inclined, not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity.

And let me not eat of their dainties. You see, there are men around David who are speaking and desiring to act in the heat of their spirit. There are men that one day are going to be mighty, but I have to remind you that at the time they first came to David, they were not mighty.

They were distressed and they were in debt and they were discontent. And that distress and that discontent is working in them. It's coming out of their mouths. And David is sitting in the cave. I can literally picture him leaning on the wall saying, God, I don't understand it, but I trust you.

And I know your hand is in this. I know my life is in order. And, oh, God, I sense that this is your path. I sense that your hand is in this. God, your hand is still even on Saul. I don't understand it, but your hand is on him.

That's why I will not touch him. I will not touch the Lord's anointed. It's a very dangerous thing to touch any man or woman whom God's spirit is on. And he says, God, but I'm looking on my right. I look on my left.

And there's nobody here that wants to, that even at this point has a desire to understand that sometimes there are ways of God that we don't understand. And they're speaking things and they're talking vengeance.

And there's all this wrath pouring out of their mouths. And David is saying, don't let me eat of their dainties. They're partaking of a table that I don't want to eat of. I don't want to go there because I know there's no victory in there.

David said, I've never seen victory there. I've never known victory there. I've only known victory in a pure and right relationship with God. In 1 Samuel 24, you see the situation where Saul is led right into the cave.

And as the Bible says, he walked into the cave to relieve himself. And David and his men are inside the cave. And the men said to David, oh, David, here's the thing that God spoke to you of. That he was going to deliver your enemies into your hand and you could do with them whatsoever you wished.

Here he is. They said, smite him, smite him, you know. And David got up and the Bible says he just cut off a piece of his garment, but his heart smote him. He said, how could I touch the Lord's anointed?

And with these words, the Bible says he stayed the hand of those that wanted to go farther. He stayed the man. He said, no, don't touch him, don't touch him. He's God's anointed. And that had been David's cry way back in the beginning.

God, don't let me eat of their David. Don't let me eat of this bitter fruit. This self-induced desire for vengeance. God, don't let me eat of it. Don't let me eat of the fruit of the wounded human heart that wants to take things into his or her own hands.

God, don't let me eat of that fruit. Keep me from it. Verse 5, Psalm 141. He says, let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness. Let him reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head.

Responding to Righteous People Who Act Unrighteously

Let the righteous smite me. Now, the word smite in the Hebrew is helem. And it means to strike, to hammer, to stamp, to beat to pieces, to dissolve, to break up, to scatter. I don't believe, David, this is not speaking about righteous reproof.

This is speaking about, David is saying, God, let the righteous smite me. You see, there's quite a difference between when the unrighteous smite you and the righteous smite you. It's an amazing thing.

It's easy for us to pray, oh God, vanquish my enemies, get rid of my enemies. Let them fall into their own net and let them fall into their pit. All the rest of this. But what do we do? How do we respond when the righteous smite us?

When people who are right in the sight of God, who have the Spirit of God on them, they are children of God, but for a season they don't behave like it. For a season they give themselves to words that they shouldn't speak.

And they lash out because they have yet to understand the depths of walking in Jesus Christ. And they lash out to wound and to hurt and to scatter and to stamp and to beat to pieces their own brethren.

Amazing. It happens all the time in the church of Jesus Christ. And then as David's men were in the beginning, then others rise up and start to lash back. And there you have, really, you have the foundation of most church splits.

Most divisions in the body. A failure to understand some of the truths that I'm about to, that the Holy Spirit's about to open in these scriptures. David said it shall be a kindness. Let him reprove me, it will be an excellent oil, it won't break my head.

From my study I come to this conclusion. David is saying it will bring me into the fullness of God's person, his purpose and provision for and through my life. In other words, David is saying it will drive me deep into God.

If the righteous smite me, it will be a kindness because it will drive me deep into God. Who alone can supply what I need to keep his character and to fulfill his purpose for my life. When the righteous smite me, I have no power to withstand this urge to eat of the dainties of others around me.

God, you're going to have to come and give me the ability to forgive. You're going to have to come and give me the ability to be gracious. You're going to have to come, you're going to have to drive me down deep.

You see, those who are quick to respond, quick to anger, never understand these truths. You see, it's one thing, as I said earlier, to be smitten by the evil. It's another thing entirely to be smitten by the righteous.

And I define righteous as those who are accepted by God, even though they don't always act or speak like it. Accepted by God. Think of Joseph in Genesis chapter 37, if you go there with me. Very quickly, Genesis chapter 37.

Joseph’s Suffering and the Testing of His Destiny

Think of Joseph heading out to call of God on his life. He's aware of this call of God. And he heads out to greet his brothers sent there by his father. In Genesis 37, 23, it says, It came to pass when Joseph was coming to his brethren that they stripped him out of his coat.

In other words, I want you to just go on this journey with me. They're not just without speech doing these things. They are saying things. Hey, dreamer. Hey, one who thinks he's got a call of God. Hey, one who thinks that God's going to use his life greatly and for his glory.

And as they walk up to him, you can see the malice in them. Now, these are brethren. These are co-inheritors of the blessing of Abraham. Co-inheritors of the promise. And they're walking up to this young man who's just in love with the Lord, in love with God.

He's got all these promises that God is speaking to his life. But this envy rises up. This envy rises up in the righteous. Yes, they're behaving unrighteously, but they are co-inheritors of Abraham's blessing.

You have to understand that. And all of a sudden, they're beginning to act in a way they shouldn't act. And they rise up and they stripped him of his coat. That was on him. And they took him, verse 24, and cast him into a pit.

And the pit was empty and there was no water in it. And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked. And behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm, etc., etc.

And Judah said to his brethren, What profit's it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let not our hand be upon him, for he's our brother in our flesh.

And his brethren were content. And I want you to picture with me the rough, the hard speech and the rough treatment. You've got to picture Joseph down in the well. And later on, when they stood before Joseph in Egypt, they said, You see, the hand of God is on us now because we heard the cries of our brother and shut our ears to it.

If they heard their brother's cries, I want to conjecture, at least to some measure, Joseph also heard their speech, heard their plans to kill him, heard their plans to sell him off as a slave. And you can hear him crying out of the well, I'm your brother.

Why would you want to do these things to me? I've never harmed you. All I have is the call of God on my life. And now you're talking about slaying me and selling me off and taking away the coat that's on me and concealing my blood and selling me off as a slave.

And Joseph begins to cry out. But their hard speeches drown out his plaintive cry to be released from the grip of their evil. Now, it's at this place, it's at this juncture that many of God's people's destinies are decided.

It's at this juncture that many people fail. It's at this place that many people in the body of Jesus Christ, having a call and a love for God, run into righteous brethren who are for a season behaving unrighteously.

They run into them and they become the recipients of hard treatment and harsh words and unjust accusation and everything else that can come out of an evilly gripped heart for that moment. And they become bitter.

And they become useless in the kingdom of God. And they begin to respond like these discontented men who are on the left and right of David and they begin to lash out and talk about vengeance and stand up and try to justify themselves and argue the point and create all kinds of strife and division.

Not realizing that both have fallen into the devil's trap. The trap being to destroy the effectiveness of the anointing of God on both sides, on all lives combined. Every church split, every split between brother and brother robs you of the anointing of God.

If you have an issue with a brother or sister in Christ that is unresolved, you are robbed to a great measure of what God wants to do in and through your life. Study the Bible all you want, but you will never go down deep into Christ until the truths in this psalm begin to be realized in your heart.

It's so easy to go at the shallow crowd. It doesn't require any strength to go at the shallow. The shallow crowd rarely see anything beyond their immediate circumstance. The shallow crowd have no sense that this could be the hand of God.

They have no sense that this might be God's leading, causing me to have to go to Him. As David said, let the righteous smite me, it will be an excellent oil. Let Him smite me. It's going to be a kindness because when the righteous smite me, I've got to go down deep.

I've got to go down deep to find the resources of God to be able to be a channel of His blessing in this situation. The shallow react quickly and untemperedly. Somebody says an unkind word and they snap right back right away.

There's half of the marriages in the church of Jesus Christ are destroyed by shallow Christianity. People who say, I love God, but don't want to ever go down deep, don't ever want to find the resource it takes to be the husband or wife that God calls us to be to our mate.

Those that are shallow seek relief through vengeance. The shallow crowd, they said, all right, He did it to me, I'm going to do it to Him. He's slandering my character, I'm going to slander His. We'll see who gets the best of this.

And never understanding that God may want you just to hold your peace, just to be quiet and see that God will always vindicate. Always. I say always vindicate those that are His. Always. Always. And let me tell you, it's hard to be quiet sometimes.

I remember one time years ago, I was facing an accusation from somebody that I knew I could literally blow right out of the water before the congregation. The Holy Spirit said, be quiet, it will hurt some of the young people.

It will hurt others in the church. Say nothing. So I had to endure being misunderstood for a season. It's hard not to speak, but God ultimately vindicated me. Ultimately the truth began to arise because the anointing does not work with those who are not walking in right relationship with Him.

God's Spirit does not bear witness to a lie. The shallow seek relief through vengeance. Even though Jesus says in Matthew 5, 38 and 39, you've heard that it's been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for tooth.

But I say to you that you resist not evil. He's not talking about Christian passivity. He's talking about these very issues that I'm talking about. Don't resist evil. If someone smites you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Follow the pathway Christ was saying that I'm going to example for you. The shallow rarely understand that all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.

Trusting God Instead of Answering Evil With Vengeance

But thanks be to God that neither Joseph nor David did these things. Instead, they chose to trust and so they became inheritors of the deep resources of God. In Psalm 145, verses 2 and 3, David says it this way, Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and His greatness is unsearchable.

One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts. David said, Oh God, I have found you and I have found your ways and your greatness to be unsearchable. It's like a man who says, God, I have dropped down a line with a lead ball on it to try to find the depth of this well and the world does not contain enough rope for me to tie together to get to the bottom.

I cannot find the bottom of this resource. Just when I think it's run out, I find another level and it goes deeper and deeper. Oh beloved, when you lay hold of this, this is the very basis of an exciting Christian life.

It's the basis of true Christianity. When you say, Oh God, I have no resources, I'm absolutely bankrupt. But you have all the resources of eternity and beyond. And God, no matter how much I cry, no matter how down I get or how deep I dig, I never get to the bottom.

Paul said to the Ephesians, Unto me, who am the less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ. Unsearchable. In other words, they cannot be found out.

You can never get to the end of it. You will never get to the end of God's strength or God's resource or God's supply. Unsearchable greatness. Hallelujah. David says again in Psalm 141, verse 6, he said, When their judges, I was talking about, let the righteous smite me.

He said, My prayer, though, will be in their calamity. You see, there's a calamity coming. Those who use their tongues unadvisedly will face a calamity. You can be sure of it because God is with them.

Yes, they may be anointed. Yes, they may be touched of God, but they will face a calamity. God will see to it that they face one. And David said, My prayer will. Yes, they will try to destroy me, but my prayer will be for them and their calamities.

Remember David's cry for Jonathan and for Saul. He said they were stronger than lions and swifter than eagles. The genuine compassion that was in his heart, even after hearing of the death of one who had pursued him and tried to kill him.

He said, When their judges are overthrown in stony places, then they shall hear my words, for they are sweet. Verse 6. Now, the judges, the concept of judges are those truths. You remember in the Old Testament we had the book of Judges.

That means those raised up to bring to this generation an understanding of God. In other words, when their understanding is overthrown in stony places. In Matthew chapter 13, Jesus said there are people who receive the word on stony ground.

They receive it with great joy, but they have no depth in themselves. And when they are opposed, they become quickly offended. These are people who have received the word on very stony ground. There's no depth to them.

And David says their judges are going to be overthrown in stony places. Their truths that they're standing on, when they are opposed themselves, are going to fail them. Because there's no depth to what they believe.

There's no depth to the Christ that they preach or espouse in their heart. They've never found the depth of mercy. They've never released the depth of God's mercy. They've never walked in the depth of God's covering.

And so, when difficult times come to them, their whole truth system is going to be overthrown. That's why you find many 15, 20 years in the church walking away saying, Ah, I've had enough with God. I've had enough with this church.

I'll go home and read my Bible by myself. They're overthrown in their stony understanding of God. You see, the righteous, when given to quick and impulsive action and quick and hurtful speaking, are showing that they are very shallow partakers of Christ.

If you have an uncontrolled tongue, you are very shallow in experience of Jesus Christ in your life. Yes, you may have a knowledge of Christ, but you're very shallow in His presence. When you are very quick to action, very quick to anger, very quick to vengeance, very quick to respond, there's a shallowness in you that will cause you eventually, if you don't let God deal with it, it will cause you to be overthrown.

The standards of truth are thrown down. And David said, My prayer will be in their calamities, and they will hear my words, for they are sweet. David says, When they hit the bottom, even those who tried to hurt me, I'll be there.

And I'll be there to encourage them. I'll be there to pick them up. I'll be there to help them. I'll be there to lift them. You see, this is the evidence of true Christian character. Ah, so many can profess that I'm living the deeper life.

And of course, generally, if you're from that persuasion, quite often it boils down to, you know, you have a big bank account. But the evidence of true Christian character is the sign that Christ's life is in you, is that when you and I have a desire to go back, as Jesus did, and be kind in whatever way we can to those who have been responsible for our wounds.

This is Christ. Christ was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. But on the third day, he rose and came back. And he came back to Peter who had failed him. He came back to others who had so learned truth from him and gotten into such confusion.

And no doubt, there were many who had said things that they shouldn't have said. In the heat of the moment, in their anger, in their misunderstanding, quite conceivably said things even to one another.

But he came back. And you see, I failed him. David said, Lord, if you marked iniquities, who could stand? When we get to heaven, we're going to see how many times we failed him in a day. But you see, if you're a Christian, it's not marked against you.

There's no record in heaven. The blood of Christ covers all of our sin. It's an amazing thing. It's an amazing truth. And he keeps coming back. And if I fail him, he comes back. And if my character fails him, he comes back.

He keeps coming back, even when I wound him. In the way it may be I treat somebody else in the body of Jesus Christ, or in the way I respond to a certain situation, he comes back to me. Thank God he does.

I thank God we don't serve a one-time God. Here's your chance, blow it, and you've lost for eternity. Blow it, I'll never come back. But that's the evidence of Christian character. When I can go back to somebody who has wounded me, and be the channel of God's blessing to that person, be the channel of God's encouragement when their situation has come and they have fallen, when they've finally fallen into their own trap, when they've finally stepped on their own tongue and fallen over, and finally they have come to the end of their resources, to find me or you, whoever it has been that has been victimized by their speech or victimized.

I'm talking about the righteous. First, to find you or me at their doorstep saying, I heard something happen, I've come to see if I can do something to help you. To find a card in the mail that says, I just want you to know I've been praying for you, and I thank God for you, and I do pray that God use your life for His glory.

You don't have to go into old wounds, there's no need for that. Just words of encouragement. They pick it up. You see, that's what the Bible says. If somebody hurts you, like do a good deed, and you heap coals and fire, that's not judgment.

That's conscience. When you do something good to those that have done evil to you, you are pricking their conscience to come back to God. Those are the coals of fire, the scripture that Christ Himself speaks about, so that they may come back and begin to live for the Lord.

Joseph’s Forgiveness and the Provision of God

In Genesis 50, you find one day Joseph's brethren now, after all their hard words and everything, coming into hard times. Remember, David said, my prayer will be for them in their calamities, and when they hit bottom, they will hear my words.

I'll be there for them, and my words will be sweet. And Joseph's brethren come before him after their father has died, and he says to them in chapter 50, he says, but as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it to good, to bring to pass as it is this day, and to save much people alive.

In verse 21 he says, now therefore, fear ye not, I will nourish you. This is exactly what David is talking about. When they hit rock bottom, I will be there. Because I've made a choice to go deep in God, and I know that those that go deep in God will have a supply.

When everyone around hits rock bottom, I'll be there, and God's supply will be in my life, and I will be a representative of Jesus Christ, who is always merciful, kind, and compassionate to those who are out of the way.

He said, don't be afraid, I will nourish you. In other words, God has given me the supply, and I will feed you. I will help you, and your little ones. It's not just you, but your family. And he comforted them, and he spoke kindly to them.