The Wonderful, Awful Motivation For Ministry - (part 4) - [Isaiah 6:1-13]

Well, I Intend this morning to start off by teaching you something that most likely you've never heard of before and that is I kid you not the Schmidt sting pain index and It rates the stings of insects that can carry that carry venom.

It was put together by a man named Schmidt in 1984 and he rates the stings from zero not really stinging too much to four that sting like mad. For visitors. I've just been stung by wasps or hornets or bees four times in the last Five weeks maybe and so I just did a little research and if you get stung by a sweat bee.

It's only one point zero. He describes it as just a light sting. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm. Fire ants are 1 .2 on the scale. Sharp and suddenly and mildly. Alarming like walking across a shag carpet and reaching for the light switch.

A Bullhorn ant has a sting of 1 .8 on the ratings. A rare piercing elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek. A Bald-faced hornet 2 .0 similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.

A Yellow jacket hot and smoky almost irreverent. He says I imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar in your tongue. A Honeybee, I purposely know. I personally know this one like a match head that flips off and burns on your skin.

And Just a few others. I just like the way he describes these. The red harvester ant 3 .0 bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail. Paper wasp 3 .0 caustic and burning.

Distinctly bitter aftertaste like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut. Then my famous my favorite one is a pepsis wasp 4 .0 blinding fierce. Shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has been dropped into your bubble bath.

If you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream but none of these. Come close at all to the reaction Isaiah had when he saw God. Let's turn to Isaiah chapter 6 for our final installment of this wonderful awful Call to ministry.

Isaiah chapter 6 found right in the middle of your Bible. If you're here for the first time, you'll need your Bibles today. We want to study this. We believe that God has placed Every book of the Bible for our profit for our good for our encouragement for our Confrontation so that God would work on our souls and we would be more like Christ and This passage here will not just show us the awfulness of God.

It will show us the grace of God as well. And so does a passage that it just exalts God's name when I say God's name. God's name is the sum total of all his attributes when you say the name of God. It's just not a proper name like mr. Our mrs. Our sir.

It's it's a word used back in the Bible days to denote all of a person everything that he was everything that he did and The focus here will be on the holiness and grace of God. And why don't we just bow our heads and ask God's blessing on our message a father.

We would come to you this morning as needy people. And Lord all kinds of issues swirling around in our personal lives and we would acknowledge this morning that you know of all of those. You are not informed when they happened in time because you know them ahead of time and you are in time with grace mercifully allowing us to Work through those issues and that you would produce perseverance in us and endurance and Lord.

So today we would ask that your spirit might put blinders on our eyes that we might not consider Our house or lack of our job or lack of or any other thing? But Lord that you would let us see with eyes of faith and with eyes to see the revelation of Scripture Written thousands of years ago that you are holy and gracious and that Lord today It would be our desire to be more like you.

We would ask that you'd help us to be more holy in our lives at our work at home we'd ask us that you would we'd ask you that you would help us to be more gracious to others and that by Looking at this passage today your spirit would see fit and to be pleased.

To do in our work or do a work in our hearts so that we may never be the same for your son's sake. Well, Isaiah is this book of visions and we come to a vision in chapter 6. That is unlike almost any in the Bible and we've been working through this the last three weeks and basically the outline has been this if you would like to serve like Isaiah like John the Baptist like Jesus.

What would that take? How would you be able to say to yourself? You know, I want to be a better servant. Shall I just work harder? Shall I sweat more? Shall I try harder? Shall I sign up for everything while some of those might be good and right to do?

It all starts with your view of God. And so Isaiah 6 is going to give us the right view of God not only his holiness and his otherness. But also how merciful he is to people like us. And so if you'd like to serve with more Intensity with more desire with more enthusiasm verb we might say Then we will look at five views From Isaiah 6 to help us along that road.

The first view we saw in verses 1 2 3 and 4 not a whole lot of you review this morning. But if you'd like to serve God with all your heart soul mind and strength number one Found in the first four verses you must see that God is holy.

You must know that God is holy. I'll just read the verses in the year of King Uzziah's death. I saw the Lord sitting on a throne Lofty and exalted with the train of his robe filling the temple. Seraphim stood above him each having six wings with two he covered his face and with two he covered his feet and with two he flew and one called out to the another and said Holy holy holy is Yahweh of hosts the Lord of hosts.

The whole earth is full of his glory. Everything about God is different. He's holy. It's a fundamental aspect of God and Here they cry out. Holy. Holy. Holy the Lord of the military warriors of his strength of his power of his absolute conquering ability is this great God.

And when something like that happens verse 4 the foundations of the thresholds. Trembled at the voice of him who called out while the temple was filling with smoke everything about this picture is holy.

It's one thing for us to say Wow Isaiah saw God is holy. Question for you this morning is do you see God that way? Is he this great exalted God or is he just some kind of God that you manipulate for your own choosing?

Kind of keep him in the backseat once in a while and at Christmas and Easter you bring him out. Secondly not just seeing God as holy when you want to serve God with all your heart. We also need to see that we're not worthy to serve this King.

Verse 5 Isaiah knew that even though he was redeemed even though he was holy compared to other people. Compared to everyone else in Israel and Jude and Babylonian Empires, of course, he was holy. But when he sees God he sees the comparison the bell curve is out the window and he says woe is me for I am ruined.

Because I'm a man of unclean lips and I live among the people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen The King there's lots of monarchs in those days, but I've seen Yahweh of hosts. I Probably shouldn't admit it, but I was not saved when this all happened.

When I was probably 13 14 15 16, I worked in haunted houses in Nebraska and we just got a big thrill scaring people and so we would put all kinds of makeup on and fangs and stuff and and Kids do what I say not as I do.

So we would hide in these corners of this house and it would be all for charity. And I remember getting in certain spots where I was not able to be seen at all. And when unsuspecting people would come by I wouldn't scare them right away.

I would pause. I Would just delay a moment or two and they would think it was just a scene over here with some kind of you know Stupid Halloween deal and they would come over and I would jump all the way out try to make myself as big as possible.

You know if you want to scare a dog you try to get big so I would try to get. I'm not trying to say the people were dogs, but One plus one, you know and so I would jump out and I make myself big and I would scream as loud as I possibly could and inevitably.

About 20 of the people would just fall flat down on their faces. It was like a tire iron tire iron going down in a swimming pool. I mean it was just coming straight down and that's exactly what happened here except it wasn't the fear of some kind of you know Oaf guy from Nebraska with some kind of neon fangs in his mouth.

Here is the holiness of God. It's as if Isaiah runs to the back of the temple to try to get out. He cannot escape this God. This sermon is not going to be about hell. But you can just imagine the terror of hell is God himself there with his holiness and the sinner there with all their sin.

It's this kind of nuclear disaster. Isaiah knows and if you would really like to serve the Lord like David Brainerd or Amy Carmichael. It's not a attack on our self-esteem. It is not an attack on us as you know.

We've got to you know. We're no good for anything and we need to cut ourselves with glass and and we're just horrible people. I'm just horrible and. But it is a true and right assessment that if God is holy.

I'm sinful and. And I don't deserve to serve you. It would be a pleasure to serve you but I have no rights. I have no way to press you to make me serve you and. Then thankfully the third view is found in God's Initiating grace number one.

You must see God's holiness number two. You must see your sinfulness. And number three, you must see that God initiates grace and forgiveness. Look at verses six and seven. This is not potential grace.

This is not possible grace. This is not Isaiah asked for it and then God responds. This is God causing God initiating God alone. Doing the work then one of the seraphim flew to me certainly sent by God.

With a burning coal in his hand. Which he had taken from the altar with tongs. Touched my mouth with it and said behold. This has touched your lips. And as far as God was concerned his lips and his heart were combined hooked together connected and your iniquity is taken away it's gone and Isaiah your sin is literally atoned for covered.

Here's this holiness of God that sets God apart, but holiness also Has this effect and the effect is if there's unholiness it wants to consume it. It wants to to attack it. One scholar said that which is holy is not only distinct from the profane But is in opposition to it as well therefore God hates and punishes sin and Yet instead of sending the angel to kill Isaiah. He covers his sins and redeems him and that's exactly what's happened to us.

Yes, it may not have been an angel, but it has been a messenger from God sent to proclaim to us the truth. We've been forgiven. God has not counted our sins against us because who could stand if we were Counting our sins.

When you know God has forgiven you you'll serve him to the ends of the earth. That's why the fourth view is found in verse 8 God's holy. We're not worthy. God's gracious and he forgives because he's a loving God who keeps his covenants and number four.

You must see that if you have to be Wrangled are coerced to serve. Then go back to number one if you have to be forced to serve and say You know We you better serve and we try to pressure you and force you then revert back to one and remember God's holiness sin and grace because those lessons haven't been learned if the lesson of holiness and sin and the Bringing to the bringing together of God and man through grace hasn't happened.

Then we don't respond well, but if it is happened We're ready. Just like Isaiah. Look at everything was a preparation and now God speaks of the first time then I heard the voice of the Lord saying Whom shall I send and who will go for us and with going to the front of the class enthusiasm?

Then Isaiah said here am I send me. I love to read Puritans. But you know one of the things about Puritans that can go too far is this introspection that becomes almost Selfish where you gaze at your navel so long and you examine your sins so much and you're kind of captivated by what we call Worm theology should probably replace worm theology with insect theology and be theology.

But that would be a different illustration and you're so consumed with yourself. You never go do anything for others. There was a response here. Holy sin grace. Well, I've got to go. It's not going. Isaiah's not like well, you know God you asked for somebody to go, but I'm too sinful to go.

He's already acknowledged that he's already acknowledged I can't serve you and God is giving the privilege of Isaiah to respond with God. I'll go for you it's good to examine yourselves and Then go serve the Lord.

Isaiah didn't feel led. Isaiah was driven intellectually by grace preeminent Isaiah scholar young said Listen beloved here in this matchless passage We find the reason why so few are willing to serve God.

They need above all the conviction of sin only when a man has been convicted of sin and has understood that the Redeemer has borne the guilt of his sin is he willfully and Ready joyfully to serve God to go wherever God may call him in Hebrews 9.

It says that God cleanses our conscience. That we may serve the living God. Let's go back to Romans. We did that last week but I wanted to get to a part that I missed last week Romans chapter 12 if you would and I think I can help us as a church desire to serve the Lord with more excellence.

I think this church beats the typical church. That is to say most of the Churches in the world 20 of the people do 80 of the work. I think it's greater in our church. I think 30 or 40 or 50 percent of the people do most of the work.

And so if you're a worker be around here, I want to encourage you to say thank you for your service. And if you know you can serve better than this should motivate you to do that. And if you don't serve at all, there's no day like today than to say God, you're right.

I repent God. You're a forgiving God help me to do right. And here in Romans chapter 12, it's all about the mind. Well, I could probably give you some emotional sob story. How does Paul motivate the church at Rome to serve?

He says here's chapters 1 to 11 about the righteousness of God. People don't have righteousness. God gives righteousness through Christ. Jesus. This righteousness is is Wonderful. It is great and God has saved you even though you don't deserve it and nothing can separate you from this righteousness of Christ.

That you have and by the way, here's the story with Israel and the Gentiles and after all that he says I want you to do something first. Besides thinking about what we're going to have what has already happened.

What should I do? Somebody teaches you a lesson about grace. What's the first thing you should do and here we have it verse 3 of chapter 12 of Romans. I think it's strange almost I wouldn't write things like this.

I would say have a quiet time. I would say read your Bibles. I would say attend church services. I would say Evangelize your neighbor when you remember how that God has saved you his holiness has been.

Has confronted Jesus in your place and now God says I want you to go serve me. I'd say okay I need to preach the gospel to my neighbor. What does he say though? Interestingly the first thing that people should do.

And the answer is think about using your spiritual gifts. Weird. Counterintuitive four times the word think is used or a derivative in verse 3. Let me highlight those while I read this. After chapters 1 through 11 after chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 in the renewing of your mind.

It don't get put in the jello mold of the world. He says in verse 3 for through the grace given to me. I say to every man among you Here's your marching orders. Not to think more highly of himself than you ought to think.

But to think as to so have sound thinking as God has allotted each a measure of faith. The first exercise the first lesson for Christians after realizing how God has saved you is to think rightly. About using your spiritual gifts because that's what he goes on to talk about.

Let me put it on the the converse side. It is insanity to be saved from your sins and not think about serving other people as The as the as the God man who comes to earth. To seek and save those who are lost not to be served but to Serve and give his life a ransom for many.

To imitate this kind of God the first reaction of imitation is you know, I want to serve and anything less is frankly straightjacket worthy. Do they still have straitjackets? I don't know. I've never seen one for a long time.

I've never been in one for a long time. I only visited one guy back in California who was in kind of this Mental ward and I just kept thinking if we get our name tags messed up. They'll never believe me and I can't get out of here.

It is Illogical if it's logical to say I will serve since God has saved me. It is illogical to say, you know what God saved me and Glad I got hell insurance and off I go because I got people to see and places to go to.

There's a lot of talk about mental illness today. If the response of the Christian based on Christ perfect life death burial and resurrection is not God. Here I am send me that is true mental illness.

And Paul is saying I want you to be humble. I want you to think soberly. I want you to be humble. One man said pride says this. I like to serve but don't treat me like a servant. Why is it do you think in your Bibles that the majority of the time the word doulas?

Slave is translated servant. Why is doulas a word that obviously in the original language means slave is translated servant. Servant means you know I can if I want and I can minister if I'd like and and I'll check in when I want and quit when I'm done and The word is slave.

Not some kind of a an idea of American slave in the south. But a slave back in the old days where someone owned you. Someone had rights to you. Someone had acquired you. We are people who have been acquired by God with a ransom price the death of Christ.

He owns us. We are his slaves have no rights and We are given the privilege to serve other people. It's like the man who was disobeying Romans 12 3 and thinking he was pretty good and didn't want to serve those lowly ministries.

And so he said to his friend, you know, would you please pray for me that I might not when I might not become More than I should and that I might become nothing. And his friend said you are nothing brother.

Take it by faith. I like that. We've been given gifts. You see it in verse 4 and 5 of Romans 12 Just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function. So we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members one of another.

God saves us Romans 1 to 11 and then he says, you know, I want you to think properly. I don't want you the world to control your mind. I want you to think about using your spiritual gifts, right? And you're all one body.

Nobody's better. Nobody's preeminent. Nobody is Unneeded. No, no one is independent of each other. I mean this kind of language just destroys those who have home church and just it's you know. The dad and the kids and the wife.

It's the body of believers that need to get together. No Lone Ranger Christians. No solo Christians. We are a body together. All serving the same Lord all having the same goal all wanting to be good stewards.

Verse 6. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 and the Spiritual gift which is above and beyond that let us exercise them accordingly. Or as Peter would say be good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

We've been given the privilege to serve and that should be our gut reaction serve. I asked myself the question this week if we're supposed to serve and we don't what happens. Well a couple things could happen.

Number one we serve and pursue something else. We are made to pursue God, but if we don't pursue God through serving people then we pursue things like education work sports fun and in the environment.

Now those things are good. But when they become Above God and preeminence they become idols. We need to serve God's people to show that we're serving God and then everything falls into place. If I could really push the envelope, I'll try to push it.

The focus friends of ministry is not on the family. The focus is the family serving the Lord together. It's the wrong focus if your focus is on the family. You've got the wrong focus the focus is having your family come together to serve the Lord and his people.

If you don't serve the Lord and his people then you serve someone else or you become idle. Listen to JC. Idleness is the devil's best friend. It is the surest way to give him an opportunity of doing us harm.

An idle mind is like an open door and if Satan does not enter in himself by it It is certain he will throw in something to raise bad thoughts in your soul. We're not meant to be idle. Why is it so important for men who don't have employment to go get jobs because idleness is not good.

Spiritual gifts idleness isn't good either. One thing that the text doesn't say in Romans or in Isaiah. But the Lord gives us privilege to serve on earth and we get rewards in heaven for our work on earth that We would pay to do.

Never think about that John Gershner used to say besides sin. What can you do? What cannot be done in heaven that you can do on earth. Answer? Well evangelism, I guess that would be one but don't bother me with on with that.

I'm trying to get to the answer I want all right. There's a couple exceptions, but what is one of the things? Keeping up more rewards. Because you'll have the rewards given to you. Whatever way you want to think of rewards in heaven I think it's a greater capacity.

Enjoy the greatness of God, but whoever it might be you can't do that in heaven. So work now while you can. Not to make yourself a Christian, but because you are. Not to make yourself holy, but because you are I.

I Love the church bulletin board that said work for the Lord. The pay is not much but the retirement plan is out of this world. My brother stand firm let nothing move you. Always give yourself fully to the work of the Lord because that you know.

Your labor in the Lord is not in what vein first. Corinthians 558. This week. I don't know what why it came to my mind, but I thought you know, I'm gonna die one day. We all realize that but I really thought you know I'm going to die one day and what kind of legacy will I leave behind.

And I thought about that. What will my kids remember me for what will the church remember me for just all kinds of thoughts flooding into my mind. And then I began to think of an old quote that I heard once from Spurgeon about when you're laying on your deathbed.

How can you be comfortable? Knowing you can't get up and serve like you used to but you wish you could. You're so much wiser towards the end of your life and you'd say if I could only do it over again Spurgeon said if I have any message to give you from my own bed of sickness, it would be this.

If you do not wish to be full of regret regrets when you are obliged to lie still work while you can. If you desire to make a sick bed. Be as soft as it can be do not stuff it with mournful reflections that you wasted time when you were in health and strength.

People said to me years ago. You'll break your Constitution down preaching ten times a week. Well, if I have done so Spurgeon said I'm glad of it. I would do the same again if I had 50 Constitutions. I would rejoice to break them down in the servants service of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Young men you that are strong overcome the wicked one and fight for the Lord while you can. You will never regret having done all that lies in you for our blessed Lord. Crowd as much as you can into every day and postpone no work till tomorrow.

What a good example. That is a man who has been graced by God to see his holiness. The man's own sin. God's graciousness. And then Spurgeon said to the day I die and that's exactly what happened. I'm glad to know some of you listen to my sermons.

This morning. I received this sheet of paper. And said I listen to your sermon from last week and here's the paper and the person signed their name on the bottom. I'll flip it around so you can't see the person's name they said here's a blank piece of paper and.

You write on there, whatever you want me to do around the church and I'm willing to do it. That's it. That's Isaiah like that's Romans like. And I asked him how small the font could be. And instead of drudge work we are able to rejoice in the Lord while we work for him.

It is a privilege. It is a pleasure. Number five. Let's go back to Isaiah chapter 6 the fifth transforming view that inspires God's people. For every generation in every place. When people see God's holiness and their own sin and God's initiating grace and they want to respond with service and.

Then they realize God's sovereign and in verses 9 to 13 They realize and you must realize that God gets to choose your ministry. That God gets to choose your ministry. Let's look at the historical context and then we'll make some practical comments as well.

Question why do missionary? Sending services stop at verse 8. Why do they stop in verse 8? Because 9 10 11 and 12 are what we call in the Midwest kind of dicey. Kind of tough we stop at verse 8 yet six times in the New Testament 9 through 13 or a portion of it would be found six times in the New Testament.

God saw fit. To place this section of Scripture John 12 Matthew 13 mark 4 acts 28 Luke 8 and Romans 11 so what happens here verse 9 and God said go and tell this people. Do you notice your quotation marks there go and tell this people that's God speaking and here's what God tells Isaiah to tell the people Isaiah here's your message.

It's a two-point sermon. Keep on listening and do not perceive keep on looking but do not understand. Huh? I think that was for Ezekiel God or didn't you already do that for Jeremiah? You want to give me the callusing ministry?

You want me to go tell people to listen, but you're never gonna get it and to hear but you'll never understand it. I get that right by the way, does God call? His people this people are my people you see there in verse 9.

They're disobedient. He says you tell this people. You tell this obstinate stiff-necked group of people. In a way that expresses emphasis. Listen, but don't perceive look, but do not understand Isaiah.

You've just said to me. I've seen your holiness. I've seen my sin. I've seen your grace God and I'm ready to serve. Okay, you get the stiff-necked ministry. It's right there in the bulletin under opportunities to serve.

Alright God. You can just imagine Isaiah saying I'll do whatever it takes God. I'm your man. Send me and you know. The good news is God when I preach there's gonna be revival. There's gonna be salvation.

There's going to be sanctification. There's going to be people throwing their their trinkets away. They're going to not be with yearning for Egypt anymore and God you're going to Start a revival and people will shout to me bring the book.

God your word doesn't come back void. God says to Isaiah. Well, my word doesn't come back void and it either softens or hardens and in this particular case Isaiah. Your words gonna harden them. It's going to be harder for people to believe after you're done.

He says in verse 10 render the hearts of this people insensitive through preaching friends. Their ears dull their eyes dim lest they see with their eyes. Here with their ears and understand with their hearts you see that their ears dull lest they see with.

With their ears dull lest they hear lest they understand. So here with their ears eyes dim lest they see and Return and be healed. God says to Isaiah you begin to rub them their souls so long and so hard with the Word of God that calluses appear and I will hide my truth to this people by your preaching.

They like an inoculation will become vaccinated. To the Word of God you just give them enough in the right way and inoculate them so that they will be impervious to my message very very interesting. It says I want you to make the heart of my people literally in the Hebrew fat.

You make them fat you when there's a lot of fat there's less susceptibility of feeling. Make them fat when you preach. Judicial blindness blinding people by preaching and Isaiah said in verse 11, what would you say?

And I said Lord how long? And he answered until it's gone until the cities are devastated and without. Inhabitant houses are without people and the land is utterly desolate. How long I'm sorry about this God.

Mercy, can there be mercy and time? God goes on to say in verse 12 The Lord has removed men far away and forsaken places are many in the land in the midst of the land. There's going to be destruction and yet with God and his mercy and his goodness in verse 13 gives hope.

There's gonna be a remnant and there's a key word in here in verse 13 if you had to pick one word out of verse 13 as strangely placed as Different as one word to highlight see if you can find it when I read the verse.

Yet there will be a tenth portion in it. Yes. Most will reject but there'll be a stump a Remnant it will be again subject to burning like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains when it is filled. The holy seed is its stump.

What's the key word? What's the word that seems strange? God says I'm gonna use you Isaiah to preach and it's gonna callous them over and it's gonna be a message of judgment to them. That they have deserved and earned and merited yet in the midst of all the judgment and preaching as God is so often Condescending to do he says there's going to be something and he calls it what.

What's the key word? The word that's out of place. Well, you couldn't say stump, but I think it's the word holy. Here's holy. Holy. Holy is this great God? The angels are singing and God says by the way, I say you preached of this people.

They're not my people and you harden their hearts and yet I'm a God who keeps my promises to Abraham. I'm a covenant-keeping God. My name is Yahweh and I have a love for my people and I'm gonna save a holy Outstanding that he would call them.

You know what this reminds me of Isaiah's mandate it reminds me of our job of evangelizing it reminds me of our Charge to go preach the gospel to other people. And at the time we have left Let me give you just several charges so you could honor your salvation as you preach the gospel to your friends and family.

Just some implications from Isaiah 6 9 to 13. By the way, there are 25 people I think signed up for the grace evangelism class. If you're signed up raise your hand. I think that is awesome. But you know if they've been draught, there's always a comma, but I hope there's gonna be a hundred more 25 of you signed up.

What could you do to the world with 25 people who can preach the gospel more confidently and more accurately? Wonder what you could do with 12 Apostles. And one's even a son of perdition. I am so glad a Free class on how to tell others about the greatness of Christ Jesus.

See matter of fact, maybe we should change something. I think the 25 who have signed up and all who will sign up in the future should pay us for such a class. You should pay us to have us teach you how to extol Christ.

I'll never forget back in the day when VCRs first came out and there was a little Slow motion button. You remember those? And then of course, you know your buddy always has something better than you do.

And so then he had the frame by frame slow-mo. I remember Magic Johnson the basketball player for the Lakers and I remember Michael Jordan the Chicago Bull great would go up and do some kind of Death-defying slam dunk over some Boston Celtics face.

Oh, sorry. Where was that? Oh, Just want to see if you're listening. Hey, I'm here I try to root for the Celtics and then we got Patino and then look but maybe this year Bloom where your planet at least the the Patriots and the Red Sox are good.

I get a root for them. But anyway back to the story. They would do some kind of unbelievable dunk. They would do something that was so amazing that we would get that slow motion out. I call my buddies over.