Enter Into Rest — Zac Poonen

Purity in the Inner Life

Yesterday, we were seeing how God desires truth, reality, in the innermost being, in our inner parts, and the test of whether we fear God or not is basically this. See, all Christians think that they fear God, but for myself, I have used this as a test to find whether I fear God or not is whether I'm more concerned about purity in my inner life and thoughts and attitudes than in my outer life.

All people who are more concerned about having a good testimony before men alone, about purity in the outer life, and who are careless about their thoughts and attitudes, which no one can see, are people who do not fear God.

The mark of a man who fears God is, or a woman who fears God is, that he or she is far more concerned about those inner movings and thoughts which no one can see, far more concerned about one's private life than one's public life.

In fact, Jesus said that if you clean the inside of the cup, you don't have to worry about the outside. The outside will automatically be clean. It's an amazing thing. If you read carefully in Matthew 23, he told the Pharisees, you are so careful about the outside of the cup, you're so particular that you want to impress people with everything you do, the way you speak, the way you dress, the way you read your Bibles, the way you go to the synagogues.

Everything is designed to give people an impression that you're really holy. But he said, you're not worried about the inside of the cup. God's worried about that. And he said, if you clean the inside of the cup, you won't have to worry about the outside at all.

It will automatically be clean. The Old Testament law was like an ointment. If you had a sore in my hand, this ointment would, you could rub this ointment on it and it would go. But it didn't solve the problem, because once it went in one hand, the sore would come on the other hand.

So I was glad to have this tube of ointment, called the law, and rub it, and it would be okay. Then it would come in my leg or somewhere else. This is how people lived till Jesus came. Always something erupting somewhere or the other.

You finish with one thing and then another thing has come up. And they were glad to have the ointment of the law. The law raised the level of the Jewish people far higher than the level of all the nations of the world.

Grace and the New Covenant

It was good. We never despised it. It was God who gave it. But when Jesus came, it says he set aside that. And he brought grace, perhaps the most misunderstood word in Christendom. The law came by Moses, but grace came by Jesus Christ.

That's John chapter 1, verse 17. The law came by Moses, and grace came by Jesus Christ. And I ask people, who's greater, Moses or Jesus? And if Moses lifted you that high, how high do you think Jesus would lift you?

Far higher. How much higher? As much higher as Jesus is above Moses. But when we look at those who say they are under grace, does it look as though they are higher than all these people in the Old Testament, like John the Baptist and Elijah?

Oh no! They are so much lower. That's why I say grace is the most misunderstood word in Christendom. Grace is not just forgiveness. The Bible says, when you are under grace, sin will not have dominion over you.

That's the mark of a man who has really understood grace, that sin has lost its power over him. I speak as one who was born again, and for 16 years I thought I was under grace. Well I experienced one part of grace, forgiveness of sins.

And I was defeated. I never let other people know it, it was inside. And then God opened my eyes to see what grace was, the new covenant. And here in Hebrews 4, we see another aspect of the new covenant.

Entering the Sabbath Rest

It says here, it's called entering into rest. And it says here, in verse 9, there remains therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God. The Old Testament sabbath was instituted by God, and it's mentioned here as, verse 4 in the last part, and God rested on the seventh day from all his works.

And referring to that sabbath, he says in verse 9, there remains a sabbath rest for the people of God. Yesterday I said that David wanted truth in the inward parts, but he couldn't get it. He couldn't make it.

You couldn't have it till Jesus came. Everything on the inside could come only after Jesus came, after the Holy Spirit came. The law could only clean up a person on the outside. In fact, everything in the Old Testament was on the outside.

The temple was on the outside. Today the temple is inside. The sacrifices were on the outside. Today we make sacrifices inside. There the sacrifices were visible for everybody to see. Today our sacrifices, Jesus says, let no one see.

Let only God see. Everything is hidden in the New Covenant. I was mentioning this ointment, which cleaned up the outside. Now what Jesus brought is like an antibiotic, which a person can take, and it deals with the problem inside, and then the sores disappear on my hands and my legs and everywhere, and I can throw away that tube of ointment.

That's what it means to be free from the law. But if you haven't taken the antibiotic, you better keep the tube of ointment, because that will at least keep you from sin. The trouble with a lot of Christians is that they've thrown away the tube of ointment, and they haven't taken the antibiotic either, and they are worse than those people under the law.

When can we be free from the law? When I've really come under grace. Sin shall not have dominion over you, because you're not under law, but under grace. I'm not living with the tube of ointment anymore.

I've got an antibiotic that's gone inside and dealt with the problem inside. I've learned to allow the Holy Spirit to convict me inside. I have secret dealings with God, alone, when nobody knows. I've learned to judge myself first, stop judging other people.

Dealt with the problem inside, inside the cup. Asked God for power to help me to clean the inside of the cup. I don't need the tube of ointment anymore. So here it speaks about arrest, and that's another thing which those people under the law never understood.

The Sabbath in the Old Testament

And yet, it was a very important thing under the law. We read that once, in the time of Moses, when the Sabbath was instituted for Israel, there was a man who went out on the Sabbath day just to pick up sticks.

There was a law that you shouldn't make a fire on the Sabbath day. Now, he hadn't made a fire. He was just picking up sticks, probably to make fire on the next day. But he did some work. And they asked Moses, what shall we do with this man?

Moses said, well, let's see God. God said, kill him. He disobeyed the Sabbath. It was a terrible thing in the Old Testament, to break the Sabbath. Many, many times, God rebuked the Israelites for breaking the Sabbath through the prophets.

There's a whole chapter on it in Isaiah 58. And we read that the reason why, you know, it was not just the weekly Sabbath they had, God gave them other Sabbaths, like there was a Sabbath of giving the land rest after six years, of working the fields.

God said, give rest of the land on the seventh year, and I'll give you double the crops in the sixth year, so that you'll have enough to carry you through till the eighth year. But the covetousness of those Jewish people made them plow the fields in the seventh year too.

In the beginning they obeyed, but after a while, they didn't keep that sabbatical year. But you can't fool God. God's not mocked. What a man sows, he will reap one day or the other. And for 490 years, they disobeyed God by not keeping the sabbatical year for the land.

And God said, okay, I'm going to send you to Babylon, and for 70 years, the land will have rest. Because you wouldn't give it rest once in seven years. I'll make sure you give it now. I'm just using these examples to show how serious a thing it was to break the Sabbath in the Old Testament.

Jesus and the Pharisees on the Sabbath

Now the Pharisees, in Jesus' time, they understood the seriousness of it, but they misunderstood the meaning of it. And it looks as if they were frequent, I mean, not looks, we see frequently, that they were in conflict with Jesus on this very issue.

We read of Jesus coming into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and the Pharisees were watching him closely to see whether he would heal someone on the Sabbath day. Their understanding of work was that you don't even heal a person.

They misunderstood it completely. And sometimes I wonder whether Jesus deliberately did things on the Sabbath day to provoke them. Provoke them, because we read in John chapter 5, that he went to the pool of Bethesda.

Now he could have gone to the pool of Bethesda on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but he went on a Saturday. He could have healed those people any of those days, but he went there on a Sabbath day, and he saw this man lying there for thirty years and told him to take up his bed and walk, and it was Sabbath day.

And the Jews wanted to kill him. Why did Jesus provoke them? Because he was trying to point out to them, this is not the meaning of the Sabbath. This is not what God meant. Have we understood what is the spiritual application of the Sabbath for us today?

If it was such a serious thing, as I showed you from a few examples in the Old Testament, and such a controversial issue in Jesus' discussions with the Pharisees, so controversial that the Pharisees wanted to kill Jesus because he broke the Sabbath.

And now today, does all this have a meaning? Or does it have no meaning? To many Christians, if you were to ask them, what is the Sabbath that means to you? They still think of that Old Testament law that you must rest one day, and they say, well, the day is shifted to Sunday now, and we read the Bible, and do special things on Sundays in relation to God that we don't do on other days.

That's the Sabbath. Where do you get that in Scripture? It says here, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. And anything that is emphasized tremendously in the Old Testament must have a spiritual application for us, and here is a whole chapter, Hebrews chapter 4, written on this subject in the New Testament.

The Warning to Believers About Entering Rest

And it says in the first verse of this chapter, Let us fear, lest there is a promise remaining of entering into God's rest. Any one of you should seem to come short of it. To whom is he writing? He is writing, in chapter 3, verse 1, we read, to holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, whose apostle and high priest is Jesus Christ.

He is writing to born-again believers, holy brethren who have partaken of a heavenly calling. He is not writing to unconverted people. He is not writing to Jewish people. He is writing to those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their apostle and high priest.

And what does he tell such believers? We fall into that category. Let us fear, lest there is a promise given to us of entering into rest, and we should seem to come short of it. And this is in connection with the previous verses, chapter 3, verse 16.

He speaks about those who came out of Egypt, led by Moses, but he was angry with them for forty years because, verse 18, he swore that they would not enter into his rest. The land of Canaan is called here a land of rest.

That is another big thing in the Old Testament, entering the land of Canaan. God gave the Israelites, we read in Exodus 3 .14, two promises. To the elders, Moses spoke, saying, Thus said the Lord, I will take you out of Egypt, and I will bring you into Canaan.

That was the gospel they heard. It had two sides to it. Don't ever forget it. I will take you out of Egypt, I will bring you into Canaan. Now some people say, the promises of God are always fulfilled.

Well, here is one promise that wasn't fulfilled. None of those elders ever entered Canaan, to whom God spoke. It was the next generation that entered. God may have something for us, and it may never be fulfilled if we don't believe, if we don't have faith.

And that's what it says here in chapter 4, verse 2. The middle, the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith, in those who heard. They heard a word, but their faith was not added to it, so the word did not profit them.

In other words, it was not fulfilled. Remember that. Everything that God has for you, is not going to be fulfilled, automatically. Christ died for the sins of the world, the Bible says. There are millions of people in the world, whose sins are not forgiven.

Why? Didn't he die for the sins of the world? This is the answer. Their faith has not taken that word, that Christ died for their sins. So that's the example he uses here. The children of Israel came out of Egypt, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, and you're redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

Maybe you've come out of Egypt, you're born again. Good. Holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. He says, there was one more part to that gospel, and that they were to enter into Canaan.

And that's the part that God left out, to that entire generation of 600 ,000 people. And he says, take heed to that warning. In 1 Corinthians 10, quoting the same example, of the children of Israel, perishing in the wilderness, he says, these things are written, as an example for us, upon whom the end of the age has come.

It's an example for us. What is the example? That people who are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, who are baptized in the Red Sea, which is a picture of baptism in water. And 1 Corinthians 10, verse 4, speaks of a baptism in a cloud, which is a picture of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, that came from above.

The Holy Spirit Leads Believers Into Victory

What is the purpose of that? And I tell you, this is where so many who speak about the baptism in the Holy Spirit today, have gone completely astray. In the Old Testament, we read that pillar of cloud is called, in 1 Corinthians 10, a baptism in the cloud, a baptism in the Holy Spirit.

What was it for? The cloud came for one purpose. It wasn't to give them any experiences. It was to lead them into Canaan. And that's the purpose with which God gave the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.

I believe this is where so many people have gone astray. They have not understood the purpose of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has come from above to lead us into Canaan. Step by step by step, that cloud went ahead of them, and at one point, they turned back.

That's why God was angry with them. They would not enter into Canaan. They would not enter into that life of rest. They would not enter into the life of victory. God said, well, these giants look stronger than God.

They insulted God. That's unbelief. What does it mean when it says their faith was not mingled with that word? Here is a promise God had given them. I will bring you into Canaan. He didn't tell them, I will bring you out of Egypt, and then you will fight your way into Canaan.

That's not what he told them. He said, I will bring you out of Egypt, and I will bring you into Canaan. That's what was believed. But they looked at the giants. Were those giants more powerful than the armies of Pharaoh that God dealt with?

Pharaoh's armies, Egypt was the only superpower in the world those days, and God dealt with it mightily. God liberated his people from the only superpower that existed in the world in those days. And who were these?

What was Canaan compared to Egypt? Couldn't God deal with those giants? He certainly could, but they looked at those giants and said, no, it's not possible. And they did not enter that land. And he says God was angry with them.

Miracles Do Not Prove Spiritual Approval

Did he bless them? Did he give them food every day? He certainly did. For 40 years he gave them food, every day, miraculously from heaven. Did he give them water to drink? They never thirsted for 40 years.

And who? People whom he was angry with. You know, there are believers who say God answers my prayer. I'm sure he does. It doesn't prove he's happy with you. It only proves he's a good God. God makes the sun to rise on the good and the evil.

You know that verse in Matthew 5? So I ask people, what do you have to do for the sun to rise on you? You have to be either good or evil. Qualify? Everybody qualifies. He makes the rain to fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.

If you want the rain on your farm, what do you have to do? You have to be either righteous or unrighteous. That's all. Everybody qualifies. For God's material blessings, everybody qualifies. Good and evil, and unrighteous.

And when the Israelites received the manna for those 38 years after they had turned back from Canaan's land, it only proved that God was a good God, that he answered their prayer. When they were sick with snake bites, he healed them.

I want to say this, my brothers and sisters, because I've seen so many people around the world deceiving themselves because they think that prayer proves he must be happy with me. No. If those prayers are related to material things, if God blesses you materially, it only proves God is a good God.

It does not prove he's happy with you. You may say he's done a miracle for you, not greater than getting manna from heaven, not greater than supernatural healing from snake bites, not greater than quails falling in the field in front of you when you have a meal.

They experienced some of the greatest miracles written in the whole Bible. There was no one. If you had one of those Israelites coming up here and giving a testimony, we'd sit with our mouth open, wondering, boy, look what he saw.

I mean, if we today, if a man gets bread falling from heaven once, he'd be testifying about it around the country for the next 30 years. But these people, they received manna for 30 years. God wasn't happy.

If a man came up here and said, I want to tell you, brothers and sisters, I saw the sea split open. And not one of these fancy stories like people speak nowadays. This man would be speaking the truth.

One of the Israelites. I saw cloud coming from heaven that led us day by day. And we prayed and God gave us bread from heaven, not for one day, my friends, 40 years. And he'd give his testimony. I think most believers would sit there and look at him and say, boy, what a man of God.

Would you ever think that God was angry with that man for all those 40 years? That's what it says here. He was angry with them. Because despite all these things, they never got into where God wanted them to go.

And that's a word for every Christian who finds a satisfaction in material blessings. God's prospered me. God's given me a good home. God's given me good children. God's provided all my needs. That doesn't necessarily prove that you have sought the kingdom of God first.

There are lots of people out there in the world who are atheists, godless people, who have many material blessings, far more than you and me. It doesn't prove they've sought God's kingdom. It only proves that God is a good God.

Miracles also do not prove that God is happy with us. They experience miracles. Jesus healed sick people who were never converted later on. And I believe some of those people who shouted crucify him must have been some of the people who were healed by him once upon a time.

It's amazing. Jesus said that there would be people in the last day who come to him and say, Lord, we did miracles in your name. So miracles also don't prove that God is happy with you. Have you entered into rest?

Rest as Freedom From Guilt and Agitation

Have you understood this Sabbath rest that God wants you to enter into? It's an inner thing. And I want to share a little bit with you tonight as to what that means. The Sabbath which God emphasized so much in the Old Testament, the Sabbath which was the issue on which there was a great conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees, is explained to us as a rest into which we must enter.

We first enter into rest when the heaviness and the weight of guilt is removed from us. When we first come to the cross, when we see that Jesus died for us, that unrest and heaviness that was in our heart because of sin, because of the guilt of our sin of many years, is gone.

That's the first step. And I trust most of us have taken that. If not, I want to tell you, you'll never come there unless you come in humility to the cross and say, Lord Jesus, there is no way that the guilt of my past life can ever be blotted out.

In my country, there are 800 million people who are trying to blot out the guilt of their sins by doing good works and giving money to the poor and spending a lifetime of doing so many things, going to sacrifice, giving sacrifices, going on pilgrimages, doing something to get their sins forgiven.

It cannot be forgiven. It must be shed on the cross that all our past guilt is removed in a moment. That's the first step. And if you haven't taken that, you need to take that now where the guilt of your past life is removed in a moment when you say, Lord Jesus, I'll never be good enough to come to you.

I come to you as I am, just as I am, without one plea, if you do something like that, you can be forgiven. But many who are forgiven like that still have not entered fully into rest. I see Christians who are weary and heavy laden.

In my younger days, I used to preach that verse, Matthew 11, 28, in the streets of India, here and there, Jesus says, Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Today I preach that to believers.

I find them all weary and heavy laden believers who are so heavy laden, agitated about something or the other, or about someone or the other, weary, heavy laden. Are you one like that, born again, but not in rest in your heart?

There is agitation in your heart, disturbance, like they have this thing called an agitator in some of the older washing machines, always agitating, going this way and that way and this way and that way.

Is your heart like that, concerning someone, concerning some situation, concerning something about the future? It's to such people Jesus says, Come to me, rest. It's to such people the word of God says, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

It's not that external seizing to work, stopping work. It's the inward seizing from all unrest, seizing from all agitation, coming to rest. A rest that comes, like it says here, why was it those people could not enter into rest?

It says because they didn't have faith. They didn't believe that God was almighty, mightier than those giants. But it says for us, verse 3, Hebrews 4, 3, we who have believed enter into that rest. It's only by faith.

It's not by struggling. The more you struggle, the more there's going to be unrest. You know, heaven is a place of perfect rest. And this is where the Lord invites us. When John was on the Isle of Patmos, he first saw a vision of the Lord.

He was persecuted. He was exiled to that island. And then the Lord showed him a vision of the condition of all the churches in his time. It was the first century, but five of those seven churches were in a pretty backslidden state, a very bad state.

And he looked at all this, and it's pretty depressing when you look at Christendom even today. The Lord said then in chapter 4 to John, He said, come up higher. I want to say to you, my brothers and sisters, that's the word you need to hear.

The Lord is inviting us to come up higher. To come up and see everything from his standpoint. Then we will enter into rest. That's the place where the Lord wants to bring us. In fact, when you were converted, potentially, that place was already yours, because the Bible says, He has seated us with Christ, where?

In the heavenlies. But we come down to earth so quickly, and we look at everything from his standpoint, and that's why all the unrest comes. God invites us to come up higher, to enter into his rest, by faith.

Prayer, Faith, and the Father in Heaven

When Jesus taught us to pray, He didn't say we have to repeat that prayer every day. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. I think it's a very good thing to repeat it, if you can mean every sentence.

If it's just like a parrot or playing a tape recorder, then it's useless. But He did say, pray in this way. When you read the two passages where it comes in Luke 11 and Matthew 6, He said pray in this way.

In other words, basically, the content of all our prayers should follow this general guideline. How does it begin? He said, before you start your prayer, say, Our Father who art in heaven, in other words, remind yourself of two things.

One, that you are praying to one who is your daddy, who is your father, who loves you more than anyone on earth loves you, who is compassionate like a father, pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him.

Two, he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust. This is the one to whom we are praying. We are not praying to someone who is demanding. We are not praying to one who is reluctant to forgive, but one who is ready to forgive.

We are praying to one who understands that we are dust. We are praying to one who has seen your sincerity. We are praying to one who sees how you are longing to please him, even if people misunderstand you.

One who understands your particular situation, your particular difficulties. A father, that is the first thing we need to remember when we pray. We are praying to one who has tremendous compassion for us, who has understanding.

God Understands Different Temperaments and Struggles

Some of us have temperaments which are very reserved and shy. I am like that. I remember in my younger days, before I found my security in God, I used to be envious of believers who were extroverts. You know, these happy-go-lucky people who are born like that, who can slap people on the back and say, Hi, how are you?

And here I am, I am reluctant to do things like that, I am very shy and inward looking. I say, I wish I could be like that. God never made me like that. And then I felt inferior to them. Then till I discovered that I didn't have to be an extrovert to be a disciple of Jesus.

I could follow Jesus with my own temperament and personality. Jesus didn't say go into all the world and make extroverts. He said go into all the world and make disciples. And that's what I am to be. Now, I say this because some people feel, I want to be like that person who is very outgoing and can always talk about wonderful things and make people happy.

Well, if you are not like that, it doesn't matter. God made you the way you are and you got to find acceptance. God understands you even if people don't. And some of us have had experiences in life which have given us certain hang-ups, have maybe warped our personality and people don't understand.

I want to say God understands. He understands the things that people don't understand. He understands everything we have gone through in our past life. You know, sometimes we compare believers like this.

One believer has reached up to here. Another believer has reached up there, spiritually. And we say, well, that believer is ahead of this brother, so he must be more zealous. Well, not necessarily. It's true, he is higher up.

But you know what God sees? God sees where they started from. This man who is here may have started from way down there. And this man who is here only started from here. So who has made more progress?

God, who sees everything, sees this brother as a far more wholehearted brother than this one. Well, we can't see that. We see this person as ahead. And we are. That's why the Bible says, don't judge. All those wonderful faculties of discernment that you think you have, you don't have them.

Just humble yourself and say, Lord, I don't know. I even see myself darkly through a glass. How in the world am I going to see other people clearly? It's good to humble ourselves and acknowledge that we know very, very little.

God understands. We are speaking to a Father who understands our struggles, who understands the pit from which we've come up. That other brother was fortunate enough not to have come up from such a pit.

So he doesn't have the hang-ups I have. He doesn't have the struggles I have. He was fortunate enough to be brought up in a home where the parents were God-fearing. Maybe you came from a home where it was like a gutter.

God understands that. Even if men don't. God makes allowance for it. Even if men don't. He's a Father. And it's when you understand that, when you believe that, we who believe, enter into rest. Otherwise, you'll always have a complaint.

Somebody doesn't understand you. Somebody doesn't understand your struggles. Why do you want people to understand your struggles? Jesus said, come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden. He didn't say, go to men.

He said, come to me. And I will give you rest. That's a Sabbath. Where my life can be a perfect Sabbath rest. I want to say, my brothers and sisters, that before you work for the Lord, that's what you need to come into.

First. God is a Father. And the second part of that prayer was, our Father who art in Heaven. See, I need to know not only God, as my loving, compassionate, understanding, kind Father, who understands everything about me, my personality, my warped temperament, the crookedness in my personality that has come up through the difficult circumstances I've had in my home and upbringing and maybe my ancestry.

You know, we have carried a lot of baggage from our past ancestry and life. God understands it. He understands you fully. And He's one who's in Heaven, which means He's one who's got total control over everything.

There are times when I sit outside my house and I look at the stars and I say, Lord, how great you are. And if you know a little bit of geography, you know that these stars are much bigger than our Earth.

They are massive. In fact, I've read in the geography books that one of these stars is so big that our entire solar system could rotate inside it if it were hollow. Can you imagine that? The sun and the moon and all the planets rotating inside this star at the same distance if that star were hollow.

That's how big some of these stars are. But they are so many light years away. It'll take us thousands of years to reach some of those stars, even if we travel at the speed of light, which is 186 ,000 miles a second.

And so far away, such a huge universe and our Earth, this thing which will look so big when you look at it from the heavenlies, it's a speck of dust. Not even a speck of dust. This is how God sees it.

And I say, Lord, I want to see this myself. I want to encourage you to do this sometimes. I do this particularly when I have a difficult problem and I'm facing. When I have a difficult problem, this is what I do.

I want to think of my father in heaven. And this is how I meditate on Almighty God up there, my heavenly father, running this massive universe with all the stars and huge stars and small, small planets and one small little speck of dust somewhere out there called the Earth.

And on that Earth, there's a still smaller speck of dust called me. And this person called me is having a problem, which I think is a huge problem which nobody can solve. And when I look at it from that perspective, I say, Lord, what is this?

This little thing worrying me so much. Our father who art in heaven. I want to encourage you to begin your prayers like that. Not necessarily always with those words, but with that faith that, you know, a lot of our prayers are not answered because we don't believe.

If you pray a prayer and you don't believe, it's like writing a huge letter and not mailing it. You can have a satisfaction that you wrote the letter, but nothing is going to come of it. You don't have faith.

But when you pray, even a one sentence prayer, it's like a one line letter and you mail it, it goes. And you have faith and say, my father in heaven, I believe you know everything that's happening here and there is no problem.