Sermon:Jesus Heals the Unclean - Part 2

The Kingdom of God and the Old Testament Background

Alright, you can open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 8, Gospel according to Matthew chapter 8. We're in a series right now called the Kingdom of God. I chose that title very carefully because really in the Gospel according to Matthew, he uses Kingdom of Heaven, but we wanted to communicate to everybody that Kingdom of Heaven and Kingdom of God are really synonymous in the New Testament.

Matthew's being very careful with the First Century audience and he's saying Heaven, replacing the word God for Heaven because of Jewish sensitivities. And so really it's about the rule of Messiah, the rule of the Messiah.

Now as you guys are getting there in your Bibles, just a background for a moment. Remember that the Old Testament Scriptures, the Jews of the First Century, the Christians in the First Century understood what the Old Testament was.

It's very, very important in a day like today where people deny that really we can know the Scriptures or what really is in the Word of God, what actually the Word of God is that's been handed down to us.

And so the New Testament Church, the First Century Jews knew what the Old Testament Scriptures were. 2 Timothy 3, 16 -17, the Apostle Paul says to Timothy that since he was a child, he's known the Scriptures.

Which Scriptures is he referring to? The Old Testament Scriptures. He's known them since he was a child and they were able to make him wise unto salvation. And so they know what those books were. And in particular, in the First Century Jewish Temple, Second Temple Judaism had a temple.

And in that temple they had the books laid up in the temple that they knew were from God, divinely inspired. And what books were those? Well, those were the 39 books of our Old Testament canon. They did not contain the Apocrypha.

They did not contain any of those other writings. They knew what was sacred Scripture and they were laid up in the temple. Now, why am I bringing that up right now? I'm bringing it up for a reason. These Christians understood that God had given them the plan of history.

That God had actually told us what He's going to do in history to bring salvation to the world. That all the, and there's one of the expressions in the Old Testament in Psalm 22, was that all the families of the earth were going to return to worship the Lord.

Another example is Isaiah Chapter 2, that the nations were going to stream up to the mountain of God to worship God. The law, the Torah would go forth from Zion, from the center place of God's people.

But here's what they knew. Messiah, the son of David, the seed of Abraham was coming into the world to bring salvation to the ends of the earth. But he was going to come to rule the world. That he was actually going to, Psalm 1101, sit on his throne and put all of God's enemies under his feet in victory.

Okay, that's what they understood. And so that's the background, that's the floor, the ground underneath which they stood to tell this story of Jesus. The rule of the Messiah, the kingdom of God is broken in history.

And so we are there now in the Gospel according to Matthew. It's called the Kingdom of God series. It's an expositional look at the Gospel according to Matthew. Now here's what you need to know as we open up today.

We're going to pray. Here's what you need to know. Matthew is not coming up with a novel story about the Messiah. Nothing in the New Testament speaks about, well, God tried something before and it just didn't work out well for God.

And so God now has a plan B working in history which is, well, now it's the message of Jesus. That's not the story. The story is that God has spoken through his prophets and the law and the prophets, all testifying about Jesus Christ, Jesus Mashiach, Jesus the Messiah, the ruler of the world, the ruler of the kings of the earth as the book of Revelation says.

This is the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And so Matthew is expressing to us in this Gospel that Jesus fulfills all the Old Testament prophecies that were anticipated in Mashiach, in the Messiah.

And so now we move out of Jesus speaking in the Sermon on the Mount, teaching, didactic teaching, systematic teaching, point by point by point, to now Jesus in the historical narrative walking around and performing miracles.

Okay?

Jesus' Authority in Teaching and Miracles

I want to say this. There is more going on in the text than simply Jesus being some wonder worker. He's not merely doing magic tricks. He's not simply going around with a ministry of miracles, and that's really what separates Jesus from, like, all the other religious leaders in the world, that he does miracles.

I mean, people throughout the centuries have tried to perform miracles to really testify towards their ministry and their calling, but Jesus isn't simply a wonder worker. Matthew's not telling us this story simply so that we see, oh, Jesus can perform miracles.

There's more going on. So I'm going to read the text, and then we're going to open it today, and I want to focus really in upon two major points today. There's more I'll say, but two major points I want you to walk away with today, sort of to meditate on, okay?

So if you would, rise together as a church as we read the word of the living God. I'm reading from the HCSB. It's a fine translation. We like the ESV, NASB, and the HCSB at Apologia Church. Those are great translations.

Hear now the words of the living and true God. When he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. Right away, a man with a serious skin disease came up and knelt before him, saying, Lord, if you're willing, you can make me clean.

Reaching on his hand, he touched him, saying, I am willing, be made clean. Immediately his disease was healed. Then Jesus told him, see that you don't tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses prescribed as a testimony to them.

When he entered into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, pleading with him, Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed in terrible agony. I will come and heal him, he told him. Lord, the centurion replied, I'm not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be cured.

For I, too, am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, go, and he goes, and to another, come, and he comes. And to my slave, do this, and he does it. Hearing this, Jesus was amazed and said to those following him, I assure you, I have not found anyone in Israel with so great a faith.

I tell you that many will come from east and west and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then Jesus told the centurion, go as you have believed, let it be done for you. And his servant was cured that very moment. When Jesus went into Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.

So he touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve him. When evening came, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed. He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick, so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled.

He himself took our weaknesses and carried our diseases. As far as the reading of God's word, let's pray. Father, get me out of the way. Father, please. Please, Lord, teach your church by your spirit.

Lord, we all recognize right now and submit to you, God, that if you don't teach through your word and spirit, Lord, we cannot understand. We have no ability to see. We have no ability to be challenged and convicted.

Lord, if you don't work, Lord, I pray that it's not my words that are remembered but yours, that I would be out of the way, and your word would shine and change us, transform us. Please, God, form us together as the church around your word.

Let us have understanding, God. Guard my lips today from error and teach from your word. In Jesus' name, amen. You guys can be seated. So here's the opener, Matthew 8. Again, the background is that Jesus does the didactic, systematic teaching in the Sermon on the Mount.

That's done now. Matthew presents Jesus as the promised Mashiach, the Messiah, the anticipated one. He teaches. This is the one. He has the genealogy that matches. Matthew starts bringing in some verses from the Old Testament, starts quoting from Isaiah, thinking in Isaiah,.

Goes to Hosea.

He's now showing you that Jesus actually fits the bill. This is the Messiah, the one we waited for. He's finally arrived. Here's proof, right? He shows that Jesus is the story that God had promised. He is the substance, the summary of the whole story, of all of creation, of God's glory and redemption.

But now we move again from that didactic teaching in the Sermon on the Mount. Now we're going into the public miracle ministry of Jesus, his public ministry. So we've gone from his teaching to showing that he has authority.

Jesus tells a story about two people with two different foundations, with two destinations. In life, listen, you hear the words of Jesus. Right now in this room, we talked about this. In this room right now, there are two kinds of people, because you've heard his word.

You've heard his sayings. And Jesus says, people are going to hear his word, and you're going to be in one of two positions. You're going to be a fool, or you're going to be a wise person. And the fool, Jesus says, builds their life upon sand, and the wise one digs deep, lays a foundation.

And that foundation, Jesus says, that person is the one who builds their life upon the rock. Christ, his word, his revelation. And Jesus says the two destinations, the one on the rock, the one who dug deep, the one who went down and took the time to contemplate the future, and to prepare that one, Jesus says, digs deep and is on a rock, and they make it through the storm.

And the issues of life come, and they will come for all of us. They beat on both houses. The one on the rock weathers the storm. They make it through. They're there to see the sun rise the next day. They're there to live another day.

They're there, and they can experience peace, solace the next day. And Jesus says the fool is the one who doesn't build their life upon his word, and the fool ends in desolation. And what is their response in Matthew 7 near the end?

What do they say?

When they hear Jesus, they say what about his teaching? They say that he speaks as one having what? Authority, and not as our scribes. Jesus doesn't appeal to any other rabbi, any other teacher. He only appeals at times to the Father's authority or his own authority.

Jesus receives worship. Jesus reads their thoughts. He speaks to them in response to what they're thinking. Jesus forgives sins. You're going to see that in the text. He receives worship. Jesus receives worship.

And Jesus appeals to his own self, listen, attesting authority. And Matthew shows you. He has the authority.

It's self-attesting.

He doesn't need anybody to corroborate his story. He's the boss. He's in charge. And Matthew's going to show you that here in just a moment with the centurion also, showing that centurion recognized that Jesus was the one with authority.

That's the point of him saying I have authority. I tell him to go this way and him to go that way. Jesus, you're the one with authority. Above me, I see it. So Matthew goes from Jesus' teaching ministry.

He talks about his authority.

And now we see his mighty deeds. Now, here's what you need to see in the text. It's kind of bookends. Matthew does this on purpose, I believe. If you take notes, Matthew 4, verse 23 is the first step in this bookend.

And then Matthew 9, 35 is the other bookend. And what is that? That is where you have the repetition of the primary ministry of Jesus.

What is it?

That Jesus was teaching in the synagogues. He was preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and he was healing. There's the ministry of Jesus, and it's repeated, Matthew 4, Matthew 9, teaching, preaching, and miracles.

That was Jesus' primary ministry. Now, what do you have? If Matthew 8 opens up and you start moving through, you have Matthew start to list here about, depending on how you count them, about 10 miracles, about 10 miracles.

And those miracles I said at the beginning, listen, this is vitally important to get. If you want to walk away remembering something I said, remember this, that there is more going on in the text than Jesus being a wonder worker.

He's not just doing that going, look, I can heal blind people. Look, I can give someone who's paralyzed their legs back again. I can heal a leper. Jesus is doing much, much more.

Watch.

The miracles are signposts.

Okay?

The miracles themselves that you're going to see in the text, they are signposts that point to a greater reality.

All right?

When you see a school crossing sign, the signpost is merely declaring to you a greater truth.

Right?

There are children here, lives at stake.

Right?

Children are crossing. It's a sign pointing to a greater reality that there are children here that need our protection.

Be careful. Lives are at stake.

That's what's going on with the signs. These signs are pointing to a deeper meaning and truth. It's not just wonder working. You got to grab hold of that.

Now, watch.

It's been suggested I told you last week.

This is part two.

If you want to see part one, go on YouTube and watch the first one if you missed it. It's been suggested that really you can break these miracles up into three sections. Three sections. Three are healing miracles.

Three are power miracles displaying the power of Jesus, say, over the demons.

And three are restorative miracles. Restoration.

That's how you can really break up these miracles into sections.

Okay?

Now, let's talk for a moment about miracles. Again, I'm not going to reiterate the whole first section again today to unpack what we did last week. But let me just talk about miracles for a second. This is really important.

First point I want you to get a hold of is this. Is that the miracles, again, are signposts to a greater truth and reality about Jesus. Example. Jesus gives sight to the blind.

Do you get it?

Jesus gives hearing to deaf people.

Do you get it?

You see, what happened?

Watch.

What happened to the blind girl or blind boy? What happened to them? When Jesus gave them their sight back, what happened? They died. Not that moment, but eventually they died. And their eyes didn't work again.

How about the deaf people? They got their hearing back, but it was only temporary.

Right?

They eventually died and heard nothing in their physical body. When Jesus raised a little girl from the dead, he says, little girl, arise. One of the most precious things I can even imagine. Jesus saying, little girl, arise.

And then when she's alive from the dead, right, what's the first thing he says? He says, get her something to eat. She's probably hungry.

Right?

I love that. Little incidental detail that historians look for to show you that the story is a real account of a witness. It's a little incidental. Like he says, make sure you give her something to eat.

Right?

Because she's been dead for a while.

Right?

That's just like amazing. But it's there in the story. But watch. When the little girl died and then Jesus says, little girl, arise, she died again. So is Jesus just working wonders?

Right?

Just performing miracles, right? Blind, deaf, raising from the dead. Like is that the point? No, because Jesus is pointing to a greater reality. Watch that he gives people eyes to see and ears that can hear now.

What's Jesus say to people? He says, whoever has ears to hear, let them hear. Kind of a weird thing to say. I mean, was he speaking to crowds of people that were just like bald heads with no ears?

That is super creepy.

Right?

Is that really what it was? You just certain people had ears in the first century? Like is that?

No.

Jesus, we know what he's saying. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.

Why?

Because ultimately it is only by the grace of God that any of us hear. And the message of the gospel goes out to the world. And some people don't listen. And some people do. And Jesus is speaking to the elect of God, who are under the grace and mercy of God, that God gives eyes and ears to.

The fact that Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, Lazarus died again. What is this supposed to tell you about Jesus? When he raises somebody from the dead, he's showing the world two things. One, he has the power to raise you from death.

And he says he has the power to raise himself from the dead. He is the one that has life in his very word. All he has to do is speak it. What's he say in the beginning of the world when he creates everything?

Jesus does what? He says, let there be what?

Light.

And there's light. And then Jesus says to dead people, he says, Lazarus, come forth. And he comes hopping out of the tomb.

That's our Savior.

And Jesus doing these miracles is not merely a wonder worker. So when atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and critics of the Bible look at these miracles, and they say, oh, just another religious charlatan walking around performing miracles.

It's just common fare among religions. Miracles, right? Believe me, the testimony of Jesus Christ is that the miracles were not the thing.

Proof? Watch.

As Matthew 8 opens up, what does he tell the leper?

What does he say?

When he heals him of his leprosy, he says, don't what? Tell anybody. You see these charlatans on television today, on Christian television, performing what are miracles. It isn't interesting. They perform miracles and do things that you couldn't possibly see.

Like he says he had HIV. And I've healed him of his HIV. Can you see that? He said he had a brain tumor. And I've healed him of his brain tumor. Can you see that?

Right?

Where are all the paralyzed people that come up on stage at these events? And what do these charlatans want? They want you to see their miracle ministry so that you can know they're truly from God. And Jesus has several examples.

Listen.

Where he heals someone and he says to them, now, shut up about it. Don't say a word to anybody. Because the real meaning was deeper than that moment in that little miracle. Jesus' ministry is much more powerful than wonder working.

Miracles, Naturalism, and the Christian Worldview

Now, this is what I want you to hear. About miracles. We have to come face to face with unbelievers in our world today. You have hostile and militant atheists today that attack the Christian faith on the basis, oddly, of miracles.

And I'll give you a good example. And we'll have Greg just go ahead and pull this up here. But one of the primary forms of attack that Christopher Hitchens, my favorite atheist who is now a creationist, he died.

One of the primary forms of his attack and methods of attack that he made against the Christian faith was on the basis of the miracles. And he often uses that as it's just so absurd. And I'll let you see it right here.

Here's a famous scene of Hitchens. Sound?

Do you believe that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin? Yes. Do you believe he was resurrected from the dead? Yes. I rest my case. He's just made it very plain to you. Science has nothing to do with his beliefs.

Okay.

Look at that baby face.

Oh.

Go ahead and X that out. There's a red button over there.

There you go.

No, just don't really do that. Sorry.

But you can move that picture.

That's just going to distract everyone for the rest of the time.

There you go. Okay.

So here's what you need to know. Christopher Hitchens often used that as a tactic against Christians when he was debating them. He would say, how absurd is it? How silly are you?

Wait, wait.

Here's my response. Jesus raised from the dead? I rest my case.

Stupidity.

Unscientific.

Irrational.

You silly Christians believing in your miracles. And he walks away from it as though it was some sort of devastating argument against Christianity. What does it display? Nothing except that he has a pre-commitment to his naturalism and materialism.

When an unbeliever attacks our faith because the miracles in the New Testament, first and foremost, they say nothing about truth. All they show is that they are firming up their commitments to their naturalistic materialist worldview.

Now, hang on.

Those words right now confuse you.

Hang on. Watch.

Miracles in the New Testament should only be wow to Christians. And let me tell you why. Think for a moment about two positions. Pay attention. This is important. Once you grab hold of this, you are going to love it.

So that when an atheist attacks you on the basis of miracles in the Bible, you will know exactly how to reach them. Two positions. One, the Christian position. What do we believe about the universe? We believe that God governs the universe.

That God, listen, he spoke and he particularly very personally created the world with a purpose. He grants the world its existence. He carries it along, Hebrews 1, to its intended destination. God is the one who is governing right now Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, still a planet.

Okay?

He is the one who is spinning them in motion. Right now the earth is doing its revolution around our star. And we're spinning in the process. Moving throughout this galaxy which is in a universe that is full of so many galaxies it is impossible to even comprehend.

And what do we believe? We believe that God is the one who governs it personally so that we believe as Christians we can depend upon, listen, the uniformity in nature. The nature can be studied. As a matter of fact, when Christians gave the world universities on the level that we have today, when we gave the world science on the level that we have it today, we did so on the basis of the biblical worldview.

Why did we believe that we could study the world? Because we believed in a sovereign God who personally governs and orders it. How come we believed in history that we should study this creation? Because we believe there is such a thing as beauty, truth, goodness, that we could observe God's good creation and make sense of it.

We believe that there are invisible laws of mathematics, arithmetic, that hold the entire system together.

Did you know that?

That if, watch, if the math in the universe was off, life is impossible. That right now you are being held to your seat right now by the laws of math. Thank Jesus. We believe as Christians that God orders creation and governs it so we can, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, so that we can depend upon the principle of induction.

That Christians believe, watch, that the future will be like the past. What we observed in past experience in God's world, whether it be laws, whether it be how things function, experimentation, walking our dogs, brushing our teeth, pouring glasses of milk, we believe the universe is governed and orderly and it's not chaos, so that we believe science is possible.

We gave the world its pop in modern science, the Christian worldview did, not atheism. Now watch, that's the one position. The second position is the unbelieving worldview, say the Christopher Hitchens.

Naturalistic materialism, naturalism, no supernatural activity whatsoever, no supernatural. Only natural processes, materialism, all that exists is matter. Matter and motion, stuff, all it is is stuff.

Nothing spiritual, nothing immaterial. The unbeliever, like Hitchens, believes, watch, that nothing, nothing, nothing, made something. You got to try that really slowly, ready? No thing, no thing, made some thing.

No thing made some thing. And he's laughing at miracles. The unbeliever believes that the universe, the way that we see it today, all came about through ungoverned, unpurposed, unpersonal, non-personal forces.

That watch, there was an explosion and through time and chance and chaos, we got babies, baboons, giraffes, pandas. We got all these amazing things, watch, through time and chance, acting on matter, chaos.

And the unbeliever, like Lawrence Krauss today, physicist at ASU, buddies with Richard Dawkins, the unbelieving physicist like Lawrence Krauss says about the universe, that the physical laws we see, listen, came about by accident.

Now I have to ask, pray tell, how do we do physics if we live in a universe that came about by accident with laws that cannot be trusted? In an unbelieving universe, they believe that fish became philosophers.

They believe that inorganic matter became, through a magical configuration, organic. Non-living became living. It's really miraculous, it's an amazing thing. And the unbeliever believes we live in a universe that's chaos.

Chaos, time and chance, cannot be dependent upon because you have no guarantee the future will be like the past. Now stop, you've got two positions here. One believes in an orderly universe that it's actually possible.

Who's that? The Christian. Why? Because we know the personal God who governs it and orders it. And the unbeliever believes in a universe that's time and chance acting on matter, it's just chaos, unpurposed and ungoverned.

Anything's possible in their universe. Now watch. Which worldview should be most surprised by miracles?

The Christian.

Why?

Because we believe in an orderly universe that's governed. There are laws, it works a certain way. We have a God who's ordered it that way. It is law-like, not accidental, not unpurposed, not ungoverned.

So when we see a man dead and then alive again, what do we say?

That's a miracle!

God has fed some sort of redemptive act into his creation. You see, here's why. Dead men don't rise from the dead in this orderly governed universe.

Do you get it?

And then the unbeliever comes along, he borrows from Christianity, snatches up ideas and things that only work as themes within Christianity, and he says, silly Christians, you believe that in this orderly governed universe miracles happen?

Did you catch it? The unbeliever has to borrow from the Christian worldview in order to make fun of the Christian worldview for miracles.

Watch.

It's not strange in Christopher Hitchens' view of the universe that a dead man rises. It's not strange in his universe that a man walked on water. It's not strange in his universe that a man gave sight to blind people.

It's not strange in his universe that a man gave hearing to deaf people. You know why? In the unbeliever's world, anything's possible. Anything. In the Christian worldview, we have a basis to look at a redemptive act like resurrection and say, what in the world is going on?

Those sort of things don't happen in God's universe because it's orderly. So when God does a miracle like parts of Red Sea, feeds thousands of people, raises people from the dead, we're supposed to take notice as Christians and go, wait, those sort of things don't just happen.

And so for Christians, we see miracles and say, wow, what's going on? The unbeliever has no basis whatsoever in a coherent way to mock the Christian worldview for miracles because in their worldview, anything's possible.

There are no laws, no justification for laws, and that's what you need to hear. Does that make sense? Silly atheist. Miracles are for Christians. Now, I want to say one more thing about miracles today.

Where do we put this? Again, for an exposition of the verses that came here about what Jesus did here in these miracles, go to last week's message. I want to unpack a little more today. Now, this is really important.

I'm about to show you something that's one of the most moving things I have honestly ever seen in my entire life, and I really, really mean that. I've listened to it this week probably 20 times. It is so moving, and I researched it to see about its authenticity, and I can report to you that I believe it is 100 authentic, and I think you're going to hear it yourself.

So go ahead and get this ready for us, Greg. I want to talk for a moment about miracles today because we're talking about miracles now. It's in the text. Jesus performed it. So does that mean now that miracles are normative for the New Testament church?

Well, I want to point something out to all of us. If you read Joel 2, which is quoted by the apostle Peter at Pentecost, he quotes Joel 2, and he says that in the last days, blood and fire and pillars of smoke, they will dream dreams, they will prophesy, see visions.

They pointed to that generation as the generation of the signs before the coming judgment of God. And so watch. From about 30 A .D. to 70 A .D., you see some miraculous stuff happening in that first century.

Here's why. God was displaying, I believe, to the covenant breakers that he was in fact with the church. This was the people of God. Jesus is the Messiah. So there were miracles of resurrection, miracles of healing.

There were tongues and all these amazing things. Does that mean that now in the post-fall of Jerusalem that miracles are normative? No. Does it mean now because Jesus died for our sins that now anybody can be healed?

No. God may give you your cancer for his glory in a fallen world. He may allow that to take place for his own purpose. When John Piper got cancer, one of the most amazing stories I've heard about a response to disease, when Piper got cancer, diagnosed with cancer, he doesn't get miffed at God, angry with God.

He doesn't walk out of the doctor's office and demand from God a divine healing.

What does he say?

He walks out of the doctor's office after his diagnosis and he says this, God, please don't let me waste my cancer. Recognizing the sovereign God that in his providence he may allow you and I in this fallen world to experience the brokenness of this world for his own glory, our good, and the good of his people.

Yes, God can heal today. No, there is nothing in the New Testament that says that God is bound somehow, that he cannot give gifts today, that he cannot heal today. Yes, he can, and we believe him for healing.

And if you're sick in this church, we're gonna pray over you, we're gonna anoint you with oil, we're gonna pray for God to heal you. We believe that he does heal today. I know stories of people being healed by God in the New Testament church in the last 10 years.

We believe that God heals. Is it normative for today for people to have ministries of miracles where they go and they just heal people on the spot? That is not normative for the church today. That is a special sign ministry in the first century, but God does still heal today.

And sometimes he gives us a glimpse. So this is a story, I'm not gonna give you all of it. It's a Baptist pastor. This is not him, by the way. He's telling the story. You're gonna hear the audio. It's a Baptist pastor who gets the flu, and he's preaching on a Sunday, three services.

After the first service, he loses his voice. Second service, can barely speak. The third service, his throat is hurting so bad he doesn't have a voice left. He basically is told to go home. His church prays for him.

Time goes on. His flu goes away. Two weeks later, no more flu, but his throat is still killing him, and he still can't talk. So he sees doctors. Doctors say, your throat looks like it's basically shut.

Here's some medication. They said six weeks, no talking. That'd be hard for pastors to do, right? It'd be really hard for me to do. I'd be dying, right? Six weeks, shut up. Don't say a thing, right? Let your voice rest for six weeks.