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As a church. We're going through Matthew, the book of Matthew, and we are in the Sermon on the Mount, which is famous material. In fact, the verses we're going to hear today, you may have never been in church ever before, but you probably have heard the verse. We're going to start off with Matthew chapter seven verse one. So great material. I'm so glad that we get to go through these six verses together. But before we jump into the actual text, I just want to set this stage by saying this, that across societies people strive to occupy the moral high ground, the moral high ground. So taking a stand for what you perceive as morally right and good. Here's just a few examples. You may have the environmental activists who are advocating for regulations to combat climate change and they see their actions as a moral imperative to protect the planet. You may have a justice mindset, individuals who are championing reforms in the justice system, believing in a moral necessity for fair and just treatment for all you may have.
This would be the picture of abortion, right? So pro-life, you have those who defend the rights of unborn babies, viewing their stance as a moral commitment to the sanctity of life. You may have for another example, those who advocate for free speech. This is a picture of the intellectual dark web. All these people are championing the idea of free thought and the expression of free speech on the internet, and they view that as a moral issue. You have the group that is advocating for gender fluidity and they view that as a moral issue. You have another group of society that views people advocating for a diet that does not require the death of an animal. Here's some protestors who are against eating animal or any animal byproducts. Behind these causes is a moral judgment. A moral judgment. So for example, here with these PETA protestors, they view it as immoral to kill these animals, and I'm not making a statement on their position or the other positions.
What I just want to do is I want you to have these images in your head of people who are trying to take a moral high ground within society. They're trying to hold a position because here's the other side of it, people engage in these issues and then the temptation is to wrap oneself in a sense of self-righteousness. Once you take this position to then believe that you are a better human because you are holding one of these positions. So maybe you're with Peter, maybe you're advocating for gender fluidity or the intellectual dark web, whatever it is, it can tend to breed in our hearts a sense of moral superiority. But look at this statement. This is a little bit flamboyant, this statement. I don't really mean it, but Christians can be the worst when it comes to their moral high ground.
I agree with that
Statement. Do you? Yes, I do. They can. Sometimes I was
Born and raised in a Pentecostal situation, and if you didn't agree with them, then you would outcast
It. I'm glad you're here. I'm so glad you were judged
Harshly
Too. Yeah, I know. I've been in that setting too. Does anybody else feel like they've been in that setting before? Yeah, yeah, sometimes. And here's the thing, so we are in the middle of Jesus's teaching on the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus is teaching a moral standard, but the temptation is whether you have a faith-based moral standard or you derive, you hold onto some moral high ground that's not necessarily faith-based, but it's within society. The temptation is to become self-righteous, and so that sets the stage for the teaching this morning. Here's some of the things, maybe if you're a Christian, some of the things that in the Christian camp where we have this self-righteous position is somebody might say, well, I homeschool my kids and think that they have this kind of high moral ground because of how they work with their kids. Or it could be like, look at me.
I don't listen to that kind of music over there and therefore I can wrap myself in this sense of self-righteousness. Or there can be this. Look, I listen to Dave Ramsey and I don't use credit cards, and so for some reason I think of myself as a more moral person because of my relationship with dad. Listen, this sermon this morning, I'm the most guilty of this, okay? So just want to be real transparent with you. I love the moral and just the vision, the social vision that Jesus lays out, but this temptation to flip that, to follow Jesus and to love your neighbor as yourself, the dark of that is to become proud in your performance. And Jesus has something to say to me this morning, and hopefully you'll listen as he is correcting me. Jesus talks about, and we've read this, Jesus talks about honesty within society, forgiveness, fidelity, and marriage.
All of these things are beautiful. It's this beautiful vision of life, but again, the danger is to become self-righteous, self-righteous and proud. Let's read these verses to together and then we'll kind of unpack it. Do you recognize this verse? I told you you'd recognize it. Here's what he says, do not judge so that you won't be judged for, you'll be judged by the same standard with which you judge others and you'll be measured by the same measure you use. Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, let me take the splinter out of your eye and look, there's a beam of wood in your own eye Hypocrite. First, take the beam of wood out of your eye and then you'll see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.
Don't give what is holy to the dogs or toss your pearls before the pigs or they will trample them under their feet and tear you to pieces, tear you to pieces. Lord, we would ask that you would come and teach us by your spirit, Lord, where we become self-righteous and proud. Lord, would you please forgive me? Forgive us for that self-righteous mentality, even if it's not following you, but holding one of these social issues and believing we have the moral high ground. God, if we're not walking into humility before you, then we're walking in a lie. Lord, forgive us of our sins and teach us and instruct us and give us hope. Lord, as we read through this text this morning and we pray this in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. I want to put this question before you as we look at this text in our pursuit of what we believe is right, that's a moral statement.
How do we ensure that we don't fall into the trap of judging others and overlooking our own flaws and need for growth? I think that's the question. That's the question that this text is going to ask of us. Let's look at this first two verses, okay? This is that section on judging. Do not judge so that you won't be judged for, you'll be judged by the same standard with which you judge others and you'll be measured by the same measure you use. So we're talking about judging. I'm going to give you a quote, which I think really sums this up well, it's a longer quote, multiple slides, but it gives us a good framework for understanding what Jesus is saying here. So for track with it, he says, judging because the word judging it's used a lot, right? In just these two verses, judging this is the theme.
So here's what he says. He says, judging in this context, it doesn't mean a court trial or an admonition. It can refer to discerning or evaluating what is right or wrong. How do we know that? Well, he's going to explain that here's why all of these things are valid for Christians, followers of Jesus, all of these things are valid for believers. These are all Bible references that you can look up at some other point if you want to because, and he points to these verses because these are all examples of when Christians do hold a trial in the courtroom, they use the church as if it were a courtroom or they're evaluating or admonishing that fits. So we want to know what does Jesus say when he says, don't judge. What is Jesus talking about? So what is this judgmental attitude connote? It means looking down.
Look at this. This is important. It means looking down on a person with a superior attitude. What was your name? Felicia? Is that what you that looking down is? That was your experience. My father was very looking down, right? Looking down on a person with a superior attitude, criticizing or condemning them without a loving concern. That's important, right? The loving concern. If the loving concern is not underneath, if it's not underneath, then it's Jesus is like, Hey, that shouldn't be a part of it. The opposite of the second we petition of on forgiveness. I think this keeps going the key component here it is, the key component is the absence of love. Admonition has a humility that says, I love you enough that I want to help you, and tomorrow you'll need to correct me. So Jesus is not against you holding a moral position and even as do community life together as a church, there are instances where somebody, and we've had it in here, we've had people who come into church and they are mean, and it's not our job to say, oh, I'm not going to judge you. No, because of the protection of our church, there are people that are not here this morning because they're mean and I've had to tell them the way you're behaving is wrong. And they're like, no, it's not, and I'm going to sue you before telling me that. And I've said, well, great. You're not welcome here anymore. That person was judged. Did you have a question?
Yes. Yeah. Save that because we're going to come back when we go a little bit further in chapter seven, in fact, read ahead, he's going to talk about evaluating who you spend time with and he's going to say, you see a tree, it has good fruit. Or if you see a tree that has bad fruit, and he says, your people's lives are like trees, some of 'em are bearing good fruit from their lives and some are bearing bad fruit. Well, to determine if a life has good or bad fruit, you're judging them in a sense. So Jesus is going to say that just in the few verses. So when you hear somebody, hey, when somebody comes up to you and says, Hey, judge, not lest you be judged and they're quoting this verse, you should first say, wow, you know the Bible. I know the Bible too.
I love the Bible. What are you reading in your quiet times, right? So anyway, but besides that, what you should say is, Hey, what do you think that means? What do you think it means? It means this. It means this idea of, listen, we need to work with each other with the context of love. We need to have this context of love because yes, I believe in morality and because I'm a follower of Jesus, my morality comes from scripture. I believe what is right and wrong is determined by what the Bible says. But if I'm not loving and instead I'm condemning and saying, Hey, you are going to hell, you're damned, then I'm falling short of the standard that Jesus here is teaching. And so he says, but this is, notice this as well. Jesus correlates. If we go back here, Jesus is correlating our judgment with the judgment will receive.
Do you see that? It's Jesus is saying, don't judge so that you won't be judged, and then he substantiates it. In other words, he's going to back up verse one by explaining it better. In verse two, he says, for you'll be judged by the same standard with which you judge others. That's only fair, right? If you're going to go around and judge everybody else, don't you expect that you would held to that same standard? That's only fair. Now, Jesus teaches this in other places. I got to show you this in Luke because it's similar material, but it adds a couple of other components. So we have, this is another book about Jesus' life. It's the gospel of Luke. It's the third book in your New Testament, in your Bible, and this is Jesus's teaching. Do not judge and you'll not be judged. Do not condemn. So this is kind of the new material. Do not condemn and you'll not be condemned. Forgive and you'll be forgiven, give and it'll be given to you a good measure pressed down, shaken together, running over, and it'll be poured into your lap for with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. So there's not only in this account here, Jesus is not only teaching in the negative sense, this correlation between the way you do it and what comes back at you. It's almost like a karma thing.
But the thing about karma doesn't attach it to a personal God. Here, Jesus is teaching that this is a correlating law within the universe, but God is overseeing this. Now, here's the crazy thing, right? And man, I'm so tempted to get off on a tangent with this, but the world that God made, he designed it in systems. And so when you sew a piece of a kernel of grain into the ground and it gets watered, and then the sun warms the soil and the sun, somehow that kernel of grain knows the direction of the sunlight and it sprouts, it begins to come up. What's happening is a system that God designed, and in Galatians chapter six, Galatians five or six, I think it's five, he says, you'll reap what you sow. And so there is this principle in God's universe that he's designed of systems working, and that's why science, the arena of science exists.
If you're a scientist, you love the fact that systems are predictable and you're able to replicate and see causation and effect, cause and effect in the universe. All of that stuff is because of how God made it. Now, the beautiful thing though is that God can overrule his systems and sometimes God takes the most judgmental and condemning and hypocritical person and he interrupts their cycle and he reveals himself like he did to Paul. And he shows Paul, Paul, you're totally wrong. As a pharisaical Jew who's condemning Christians and throwing him into jail, the God knocks Paul off of his horse on the way to go persecute Christians, and he says, look, I'm the one that you're persecuting. And so it's important to see that Jesus is laying out for his followers, this society where he's saying, you cannot be a person that's condemning others or it's going to be measured out to you in the same way.
It's the same laws are going to be applied to you, but yet that God also is the gracious God who interrupts these cycles sometimes and says, I'm going to give you mercy. Another place where Jesus does this is with the woman caught in adultery. The Pharisees find a woman who is caught in the middle of sleeping with another man in an adulterous relationship mid act. They pull her in front of Jesus, the law in Exodus and Leviticus condemns this woman to death. And so they say to Jesus, what are you going to do with her? And here's what Jesus said when they persisted in questioning him, Jesus stood up and he said to them, the one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her. You see, Jesus is again correlating this idea of judgment saying, alright, which one of you is ready to jump into this arena and be this woman's judge?
One of the followers of Jesus was the younger brother of Jesus named James. He seemed to have been deeply impacted by what Jesus said. And so he puts it this way. He says, don't criticize one another. Brothers and sisters, anyone who defames or judges a fellow believer, defames and judges the law. If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge, there's one law giver and judge who is able to save and destroy, but who are you to judge your neighbor? I think that's a sound system that did that. I apologize. There's like a frequency thing right now. It's so loud.
So James is, again, he's tapping into the same principle that Jesus is teaching. He's tapping into it saying, listen, when you jump over into this realm of judging, you're jumping into a realm where you don't belong. Paul, when he talks about this, he says, who are you to judge another man's slave? He answers to his own master. That's the metaphor that he used, slave and master kind of that relationship. He's like, you can't judge that other person. So Jesus, here again, he's framing up society. Here he is talking about judging and man the temptation that exists as we follow Jesus and as Jesus is changing our life, right? Because the Holy Spirit comes into us. So you find out about Jesus and you decide, okay, I'm ready to surrender my life and be a follower of him. And the Bible says at that point, God places his spirit in you.
Your body becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit. What does it become? The temple. What is a temple? It's the worship center. It becomes a building where God's presence is at and what does he do? He begins to go to work on our character and our thoughts, and there's temptation that he deals with and we begin to change. He begins to transform us from the inside out. But as he's doing that, and we're excited because we look at, we're looking at somebody that we now feel comfortable with and our conscience is feeling more at ease and we're like, I have a respect for myself because what God is doing in me, I'm now a person that was honest in that situation or I was loving when I was patient, when somebody was mean to me, and there's this sense of self-worth and happiness, and you're happy about just kind of holding that higher moral ground than you once did.
But at the same time, all of a sudden, what creeps in that self-righteous pride of where you begin to start talking? Why is that person over there not growing? How come they don't hold my convictions? How come they don't care about God's law as much as I do? And all of a sudden you're no longer that beautiful, sanctified humble Christian, you're now that Who was Dennis, the men's neighbor's name Mr. Wilson. You're one of those Christians, the Mr. Wilson Christians that's kind of crabby and get off my lawn, right? That's the temptation. As you're walking with Jesus, you start to think that you made yourself good and that everybody else should make themselves good like you and play. So yeah, so at least that's what I do. I don't know about you, but that's how it works in my life. Well, this is that passage from this is what Paul says in Romans.
He says, therefore, every one of you who judges is without excuse. This is an interesting flip on it. Paul turns it around on the juice. He's like, Hey, you want to judge? You don't have any excuse anymore because you are evidencing that. Well, he continues. He says, for when you judge another, you condemn yourself. Since you the judge, you're doing the very same thing. Now we know that God's judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth. Do you think any one of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same, that you will escape God's judgment? There is this seductive thing about just being able to criticize somebody else and identify what they're doing wrong and why they're doing it and psychoanalyze them and be like, man, they're just messed up. I know that I've worked, I've been in ministry and a pastor for a long time and there've been seasons where my fellowship, fellowship with other Christians was just criticizing the wrongs of other people, and that's wicked.
Jesus is like, that is wrong. That's not what it means to be a Christian is like looking down your nose at other people. But some of you have been the victim of that attitude, that mentality. Okay, so let's summarize, summarize Matthew seven, one through two. In essence, Jesus's teaching is echoed throughout the New Testament. It calls us to a posture of humility. What does it call us to humility, humility, and love in our interactions of others? It's not merely about abstaining. It is not just abstaining from judgment, but it's about transforming our attitude from one of superiority to one of loving concern, right? If you see somebody who's overtaken in a fault, it says in Galatians, we love those people. We bring them in. It's like you don't want to be stuck in that addiction or continuing to fall or destroy your life because you have some bad character quality. No, I'm concerned for you, not looking down my nose at you.
We are reminded that the manner in which we judge others, it reflects our understanding of grace and impacts how we experience God's grace ourselves as followers of Christ. We are called to exercise discernment with compassion, remembering that we too are under the same grace we extend to others. This challenges us to live not as judges over our neighbors, but as fellow travelers in need of mercy striving together towards the truth and love embodied in Christ. A couple of weeks ago, go back like a couple months, we saw in Jesus's teaching on prayer, he said, forgive them as we forgive our debtors. Forgive us as we forgive our debtors. Again, those correlating principles of like God is working with us as we treat others in that way. That is the idea of Jesus's teaching now, a little bit of humor from Jesus. We get it in three through five, one of the times where Jesus is just funny.
Verse three, why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, Hey, let me take the splinter out of your eye and look, there's a beam of wood in your own eye hypocrite. First, take the beam of wood out of your eye and then you'll see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye. It's this idea of having a beam just sticking out of your eyeball as you try to help other people, you can't even get close and the absurdity of it, that's the humor. Jesus here has just come up with the most absurd image of a two by four hanging out of a person's eyeball, which is not even possible, but imagine it. You can't even can't get close to the other person's eye because there's a beam there, and he's like, what are you doing?
Just trying to kind of use the shock value of the image to just say, look, be evaluating yourself. This ties perfectly in with the sentiment of verses one and two. The text is centered around, again, the importance of humility, self-awareness, discernment in our interactions and judgments. It's about recognizing our flaws, pointing out our faults or point, yeah, understanding our faults and understanding when and how to share these truths wisely. This passage encourages a reflective and discerning approach to life and relationships grounded in self-examination and humility. We are out of time. Let me just give you this one last idea again. Here's the question and then the spiritual practice that we'll give you. Again, here's the question. In our pursuit of what we believe is right, how do we ensure that we don't fall into the trap of judging others, overlooking our own flaws and a need for growth? Here's the spiritual practice that I would encourage you to kind of implement in your own life. It's this practice of self-examination. Self-examination is a process whereby the Holy Spirit opens my heart to what is true about me. This is not the same thing as a neurotic shame inducing inventory. Instead, it is a way of opening myself to God within the safety of his love so I can authentically seek transformation. Confession, which follows self examination. Confession embraces Christ's gift of forgiveness and restoration while setting us on the path to renewal and change.
If there was ever anyone who held a moral high ground, it was Jesus. And yet the way in which Jesus dealt with humanity, the only people where he was harsh and critical was to deal with the self-righteous. Jesus was approachable. He had a rag tag group of disciples who were former fishermen. Tax collectors. In his entourage of people that followed him were people who had been freed of demon possession, people who had been prostitutes, broken lives, who were outcast from society, were the followers of Jesus. And those people were welcome in his group. And Jesus got in trouble with the Pharisees for eating with sinners and tax collectors. The Pharisees, the self-righteous religious leaders were upset with Jesus for being that merciful and that gracious Jesus sets the tone. And just like he did at the beginning of this sermon, when he says he flings open the gates of his kingdom and he says, this is the place where blessed are the poor in spirit.
Blessed are those who mourn. Blessed are those who are persecuted. You all are welcome here. You people that are suffering and downcast and poor and trodden down. This is my kingdom's all about you. You're welcome here. That is the attitude that is demonstrated by Jesus beyond this sermon and what made Jesus so attractive, and he's telling us as his followers, look, let the Holy Spirit author that attitude in your lives. This is oftentimes this self kind of condemning. Unfortunately, it's oftentimes expressed by Christians through social media. Sometimes Christians will be like this to your face, and that's unfortunate. But there's something that's kind of like sometimes about the anonymity of the internet or just the detachment from face-to-face interactions where people just feel freed up to use the internet and to be ornery and Mr. Wilson's and to think, I hold a higher moral ground, high moral ground and I can condemn you for, but this is the thing, we as Christians, we're no better.
What are we as Christians that's different from non-Christians? We're forgiven. That's what's different about us. We're not better. I have amazing friends that don't follow Jesus that are probably more loving. They're more humble, they're more peaceful. They're definitely smarter than me. The common ground that we have as Christians that kind of sets us apart is that we get to say, Hey, we've surrendered to Jesus and he's forgiven us of our junk, and we want more people to experience the forgiveness of Jesus. And then we get the help of the Holy Spirit, the assistance of God to bring us into the new life and this beautiful vision that Jesus is laying out here. Aren't you glad that he lays out that Jesus here is, he is criticizing and condemning the condemner?
He is saying, look, if you're the recipient of the self-righteous, religious condemner, I'm not on their side. I'm on your side and I'm advocating for your close relationship with the Father. So it's the love of God. The love of God that has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit bearing witness to his love for you and I, you're loved. You are deeply loved by God. Lord, we thank you for your word. Thank you for loving us. Would you forgive us of that self-righteous attitude of having the beam hanging out of our eyes? Lord, please help us to be more humble. Lord, help me to be more humble and self-aware, Lord of the sins that you have forgiven in my life. To be cognizant of how sinful I am and what you have forgiven and that you have washed me. I pray that we would be marked as a church, as people who are like that, who are humble, and that we're free to just confess our sins and it's just not boast in our sin, but say, this is what I've done wrong and I'm ready and happy to receive the forgiveness of God.
Thank you for that. Lord, I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. We're going to take communion together, which is a celebration that forgiveness. So for us as a church, we have open community. That means that if you are a follower of Jesus and you are baptized, whether you're baptized here at or another church, but you're a follower of Jesus, we want you to come take the bread in the cup, sit with those elements back in your chair as this song is playing, I'd encourage you to do this practice of self-examination, and it's just saying, God, forgive my sin. Cleanse me. Cleanse me of these things. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. And then we will take communion together. Let's sing and
Come forward and
Receive
Is crowned with glory. Name is victory or praise will rise to Christ. Your name will rise. Rise to declare, resurrecting
Declare
The two.
Amen. I want to put on the screen, Jesus is teaching about communion because I know sometimes at church, lemme see if I can turn my iPad sideways and make it a little bit bigger. Sometimes church is new or you've been in different settings. So this is Jesus's teaching on communion. So Jesus is in an upper room with his disciples and they're celebrating what was called the Passover supper. This had been a 1500 year old tradition that had given to the nation of Israel, celebrating their delivery, deliverance from Egypt, slavery in Egypt, and the fact that God caused the angel of death to pass over the houses where the Hebrews lived. And so they'd been celebrating this meal, but then, so Jesus is there with his disciples, and Jesus took the bread and he blessed it and he broke it and he gave it to his disciples and he said, take and eat.
This is my body. So he took the bread and you have bread. It was like this. It was like a matza because it was not just like a normal loaf of bread, but it was a ceremonial piece of bread for the Passover meal. It had significance. Going back to the Book of Exodus, and you can read it, but Jesus says, do you see what he does? He says, this is my body. So it's a symbol, right? It's a symbol of what he did on the cross. So let's hold it up. I'm going to pray. Lord, we thank you, thank you, Jesus for going to the cross and for your body being broken for us. We're so grateful for your sacrifice. Let's take the bread and eat it together.
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Then you see the next verse there, 27. It says, then he took a cup and after giving thanks, he gave it to them. And he said, drink from it. All of you, for this is my blood. But it's not just his blood. You see, it's the blood of the covenant of is poured out for, for the condemnation of the wicked. No, it doesn't say that, right? What does it say? It's for the forgiveness of sins. It's for the forgiveness of sins. And then he adds onto this. I tell you, I will not drink from the fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it and new with you in my father's kingdom. So we're going to have this meal, he says, and then there's going to be a future meal. The Bible's full of eating lots of meals, right? All these meals. And so this is a meal that we're eating kind of in the meantime while we're waiting for that party with Jesus. Okay? So he says, take and drink. This is my blood. It's the blood of the covenant. Let's hold up the cup together. Thank you, Jesus, for your blood being shed for us. We're grateful for the sacrifice that you made on the cross, and we're so grateful for a new covenant that we relate to you. Let's drink together.
Amen. Amen. Let's stand together.
We close our church service with just a prayer. I'm going to pray over you and we're going to pray for the city. Lord, thank you for letting us be here. Thank you for giving us bodies that worked enough to get in the door and God up out of bed, and we made it here. Lord, we're so grateful for the freedom to worship you and God, we need you to go with us as we go into this week. We don't want to go alone, Lord, and do our week. And you've promised Lord that your spirit will be with us, that you'll never leave us or forsake us. And so Lord, we lean into that promise that God you'll guide us and that you'll deliver us from evil and that you'll speak to us, and that you'll convict us where we need conviction, and that you'll go with us this week.
Continue, God to transform our lives, continue to just provide for our needs and to teach us. And Lord, we ask for your work in Baltimore city that you would continue to set people free from darkness, from their own self-destruction, set people free from addiction, from lies of the devil. Set people free from toxic relationships, set people free, Lord, this week from poverty. Lord, we ask for you to be present in Baltimore city. We pray that you would root out corruption in the government and that you would shine a light and expose wickedness in the government. Lord, please would you come and be the good king that reigns and rules in the midst of this city, bringing deliverance and hope and healing. Lord, prepare our hearts to celebrate Easter in a couple of weeks. We pray that people would be open to you, Lord, during the season, and that there would be not just people attending church, but there would just be conversion that occurs in the lives of individuals, people turning their life over to you.
Use us this week. Use us in our families. Use us in our workplaces, in our neighborhoods and where we live at. Lord, we pray that you would work through us and that you would bring about your good work in the world where we are physically at. We ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you for being at church. It's good to see you. We're going to clean up in here, so if you have a minute to stay, we work kind of as a team to clean up, and then we can go over to the Compassion Center. There is some food over today, but listen, don't take food out of the center until we're done cleaning up here. Okay? We're going to do it together.