God is so here and He wants to do something new and He is doing something new in His church,
something new where we let the Spirit have His way.
It's just great to come into the church where there's no program.
Just, what does God want to do?
I'll tell you what He wants to do this morning.
I have this, when Nikki started to speak today, I just heard the expression, slamming the
door on fear.
That's what we're going to do today, God is going to slam the door on fear and anxiety.
You can be seated.
Hallelujah.
And I haven't got really a prepared sermon, I just scribbled a couple of notes, but this
is the best way when the Holy Spirit gives you a fresh word for the people in the morning,
in the meeting.
I want you to open your Bible though to Psalm 23 and I want to just talk about David here
and what God wants to do.
Some of us know this Psalm off my heart, oh God, send more rain, hallelujah, more rain
Lord, more rain.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, He makes me to lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside the still waters, He restores my soul, He leads me in the path of righteousness
for His name's sake.
Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, You anoint my head with oil
that my cup runs over, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
I want us to focus on, yeah, I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil for You are with me.
You know, I've heard the type of preaching that actually will say to you, you know, if
you're right with God, I sort of grew up around this preaching, if you're right with God,
you're not going to have too many challenges and you're not going to have too much drama
in your life because the sign that you're right with God is that all that stuff leaves
your life and it's a lie from the pit of hell.
It's kind of hyper prosperity.
This is God, all He's going to do is give you a good, comfortable life of blessing,
ease and comfort.
But you know, David is the portrait of a kingdom man.
Jesus called the son of David.
So if you want to know what a kingdom man or woman, but I'm not, you know how it is.
It's not, you know, this gender nonsense these days is just all rubbish.
But David is a portrait of a kingdom man, person.
You want to know what we're supposed to be able to look at the life of David.
He's flawed, but he's got a heart after God.
That's why he's a kingdom man.
But David knew his challenges.
David wrote this and there was many, many times where he was completely right with God.
This is, you can say, well, what about with Bathsheba?
This is even before he fell with Bathsheba.
He was completely right with God.
He was walking with God.
He was anointed by God.
He'd been used by God to pick great victories.
Yet in his experience, God had led him to this place where Saul was trying to kill him
and almost daily for a season, he didn't know whether he was going to die today.
Like death was right there.
Death was just right with him.
And he goes, yeah, but I've learned something.
Even when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, because death has shadows,
some people see them, he goes, I will not fear.
I will fear no evil for you are with me.
And see, it's very important because I believe we are entering a season where you and I are
going to face, I just believe, difficult times.
You know, there's wars.
There's even talks of, you know, this war that's going on, there's a good spread that
we could get sucked in.
And in the spirit, everybody knows, anyone who's a spiritual person knows in 2019, something
has changed in our world.
We're going to go from darkness to deep darkness because we're, I don't want to digress here,
but the season of grace is ending and the season of God's righteous judgment or tribulation
is beginning.
That's where we are on God's clock.
And so it's getting darker and it's getting darker.
And maybe there will be a nuclear war.
Maybe there will be, you know, we talk about shortages and there should be famine.
But when we speak about this, you got to be careful that that does not open the door to
a spirit of fear.
Now I want to tell you, it's a spirit of fear because 2 Timothy 1, 7 says, God has not given
us a spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind.
Power, love and a sound mind.
So fear, it's not just in a negative emotion.
Fear is a spirit that wants to break into your house and take up residency in your heart.
And what it does when fear comes in, fear completely neutralizes and paralyzes.
You see that in John 20.
Jesus had given the disciples the command to go into the world.
He'd been with them.
He said, the Holy Spirit will be with you going into all the world.
But when Jesus was resurrected and came to them, they weren't in the world.
It says they were locked in a room for fear of the Jews.
They were paralyzed and neutralized.
You know, and fear will neutralize you from walking into God's destiny for you.
If we don't know how to slam the door on fear, when it comes, you need to know how to slam
the door in its face.
See, fear, the way Satan works, faith comes, this is the way God works.
Faith comes from hearing, where does it come from?
From hearing the word.
Now faith is from God.
It's from the kingdom.
Satan is a counterfeiter.
Satan produces, not faith, he produces fear.
It's been said many, many times, fear is really faith in Satan.
It's kind of complex, but it's almost true.
But what, fear comes just the way faith comes.
Fear comes where you hear a negative word which is satanically inspired.
That's how fear gets in.
And you don't recognize it and you don't deal with it and you don't tear it down and you
don't use the weapons of war that you've been given.
That word could be, you're going broke.
You're going to die from this.
You'll never recover from this.
They'll never come, a child will never come back.
Your marriage is over.
You never get, these are the words that Satan speaks.
And when we agree with them, when we hear them and agree with them, it opens the door
to the spirit of fear.
And it's Satan's favorite tool is fear and intimidation.
You see this in Matthew chapter four.
Jesus, I've preached on this before, but I'll return to it.
Jesus says to the disciples, he gives them a promise.
He gives them a word.
It's a great word.
He says, I'm going to use you and I'm going to take you to bring deliverance to a man
who's on the other side.
This man was tormented and he was suffering.
He was demon possessed.
And Jesus said, you can see it in Mark chapter four, verse 35.
Jesus said, he said to them, let us cross over to the other side.
So they have the word of God.
They're going to the other side.
That's the word of Jesus.
But what happens when they start to move with that word, with the promise that God has,
he's going to use them with deliverance.
It says, Satan sent a storm.
There's storms that God sends to correct you.
Jonas was one of them, but there's demonic storms that Satan sends to stop you getting
to your destiny.
And this was one of those.
And when they saw the storm, when the storm came, instead of speaking to the storm, as
Jesus was teaching them, they saw the storm.
It produced fear in their hearts.
And what did they do?
Jesus said, you're going over.
What did they say?
The very opposite.
They said, Jesus, don't you care?
We're going under.
And see, this is why Satan wants to put fear in you.
And this is how he works with fear, because Satan knows the power of the word and the
spoken word.
He knows the power of your confession.
And he wants you to prophesy against your own life.
God gives you promises and they're prophesying against their own life.
The very opposite of what God said.
God has said, you're an overcomer.
That's his promise.
He says, no weapon formed against you will prosper.
That's what you should confess when weapons come.
But if we don't control fear, we end up prophesying death over our lives, death over our families,
death over our finances.
The exact opposite of what God says, because we believe in what we've heard from the devil
rather than what we've heard from God.
So it's very important.
You know, there's a man called...
We've got time.
Yeah, we've got time.
Lots of time.
It's raining.
There's a man called...
I find this incredibly fascinating.
There's a man called Jeroboam in the Scriptures.
And this is just what...
It just indicates what a fear thought can do to you.
I've said many, many times, we are all going to experience scary things.
We are human.
We are going experiencing the emotion of being afraid.
But that's different to allowing fear to come in and determine your actions.
Any action you do as a result of fear...
And by the way, in the church, that's often masqueraded as wisdom.
Oh yeah.
Fear action is often moderated as wisdom.
I remember when God told me to go to Pakistan.
I had pastors ring me and say, you shouldn't go.
This is like...
This is not right.
You know, this is a...
People weren't going in those days.
This is like a dangerous place and you go to church and all the rest of it.
And it sounded so wise.
But if you've heard from God, you've heard from God.
I've heard from God.
Any action you take as a result of cooperating with the emotion of fear will be destructive.
It will not lead you to where God wants to take you.
Look at this man.
This is quite incredible.
It's in 2 Kings chapter 11.
And sorry, I lie.
It's in 1 Kings chapter 11.
God says to this man, he says, Rehoboam is no good.
He's listened to the advice of young people and God's just had it with him.
He's Solomon's son.
And he says, I'm actually going to...
This is where when Israel was all one tribe, one nation.
He says, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and all 10 tribes and give
it to you, Jeroboam.
He shall have one tribe for the sake of my servant.
This is Rehoboam.
For the sake of Jerusalem because they have forsaken me.
He goes on to say, verse 35, but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and give
it to you, 10 tribes.
And to his son, I will give one tribe that my servant David will always have a lamp before
me in Jerusalem.
But listen to this.
So I'll take you and you shall reign over all your heart's desires and you shall be
king over Israel.
Then it shall be, if you heed all that I command you, walk in my ways and do what is right
in my sight to keep my statutes and command you.
As my servant David did, I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built
for David and will give Israel to you.
This is incredible.
He had the same promise given to him of King David.
He had the promise that he would be just like King David.
He had the promise that God would give him and he would reign over everything he wanted,
his heart's desires.
What a promise.
That was God's plan for his life to be just like David, to extend the kingdom like David.
David was undefeated in every battle and whatever he desired, because God is a good God, God
wants to fulfill the desires of your heart, if you have a kingdom heart.
He wanted to do that.
But what happened to this man?
I'll tell you what happened.
It's quite astounding.
If you fast forward to chapter 14, it says that God tore, just as I tore the kingdom
away from the house of David and gave it to you, because you have not been as my servant
David, but you have done evil, you have gone and made yourself other gods, therefore behold,
I'll bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam.
I'll cut off from Jeroboam every mile in Israel, bond and free.
I'll take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam as one takes refuge until it is all
gone.
The dog shall eat whatever belongs to Rehoboam.
So what changed this man from being given this great promise of God, this great destiny
in God, this great plan to being totally condemned and judged by God as a failure?
Well, if you turn to chapter 12, there's an incident.
Jeroboam is given the kingdom, he has 10 tribes, but he is in the north and Rehoboam is in
the south.
He only has one tribe.
Now where did the people worship?
They worshiped in the south at Jerusalem.
So it says that Jeroboam is set in his heart, verse 26, now the kingdom may return to the
house of David.
If these people go off for sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart
of the people will turn back to the Lord, Rehoboam, king of Judah, and they will kill
and go back to Rehoboam.
Therefore the king asked advice and made two calves of gold and said to the people, it
is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem.
What am I saying?
I'm saying he had this great promise, but when he looked at the people, this is what
fear is.
Fear is Satan's dark room where the images that your mind creates get developed.
Here's a man, he's saying the people go down to Jerusalem to worship, let them go.
God is with me and he's made me a promise.
He doesn't say that.
He says they're going down to Jerusalem and this is where fear takes over, that they'll
go down, they'll see Rehoboam, they'll get attached to Rehoboam, they'll leave me and
they'll come back and want to kill me.
It was all a lie, but it was all fear thoughts.
When he acted out of those fear thoughts, the fear thoughts produced action which made
two golden calves.
Those golden calves caused more evil, not only in Israel in his days, but for generations
to come.
It was the cause of all of Israel's apostasy and it came out of actions which come out
of fear thoughts.
Every action you take which comes from fear is destructive to you.
It's destructive to your family.
That's why you've got to slam the door on fear.
When you recognize the emotion of fear rising, you've got to apply, stand and apply the
promises of God to your life.
Matthew chapter 14, Peter, he starts to walk with Jesus.
He's going to walk in the supernatural.
What does it say?
He nearly had a watery grave because it says, Peter said, you want me to come out in the
water?
And he did.
He started to walk in the water.
Jesus said, come.
When he had walked, come out of the boat, he walked in the water to Jesus, but when
he saw that the wind was boistered, he was afraid and then he began to sunk, crying out,
Lord, save me.
Because fear will sink you.
Fear, it will sink you.
It will neutralize you.
It will paralyze you.
It will steal your destiny.
And you know, fear, it says in, I think it's one, John 5, 4, somewhere around there, but
it says, fear has torment, but perfect love casts out fear.
When this spirit of fear comes into your life, it torments you.
We might call that torment anxiety, but it is tormenting and it is not God's plan for
your life.
Do you know, most of the things, this is why we're told not to be anxious.
Being anxious is wrong before God.
Why are we told not to be anxious?
Because most of the things that the devil wants you to be anxious and fearful about,
most of the things never happen.
And you have been given grace for one day.
It's why Jesus says, do not be anxious.
Look at the birds of the air.
I'll turn to the scripture in Matthew chapter 6.
Jesus said about your material things.
You know, you may be worried about whether you're going to have enough food because,
you know, the world is saying there's going to be shortages and, you know, cost of living
pressure and all that.
Jesus said, I say to you in verse 25, chapter 6, do not worry about your life, what you
eat, what you drink.
Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds of the air for they neither sow nor reap nor gather there, but your heavenly
Father feeds them.
Are you not of more value than they?
Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his nature, to his stature?
And then he goes on to say, if God closed the grass of the field like this, will he
not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Therefore, do not worry saying what shall we eat, what will we drink?
For all these things the Gentiles seek for the heavenly Father knows that you need these
things but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall
be added.
He finishes by saying this, therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry
about its own things sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
What does he mean?
He means God has given you grace for today.
That's what it says.
He has given you grace for today.
You have grace to live today.
In every day, in every day you live there is a certain amount of blessing in that day
and there are a certain amount of problems and challenges, but you have grace for that
day to live and overcome and to believe God and be victorious, but you don't have grace
for tomorrow.
When you worry you are taking tomorrow's problems and you're bringing them into today so now
you have double the problems and you don't have grace for that and that's why you start
to go down.
That's why you do not worry.
You do not meditate on tomorrow.
You just focus on today.
That's how you slam the door on anxiety.
You know, as I said, challenges are not going to stop coming.
Challenges are going to come, but you must understand that those challenges and you must
know how to not allow those challenges to open the door to the spirit of fear.
You must know how to slam the door on fear, keep the door to fear shut and how do you
do that?
1 John 5, 4 says, faith is the victory.
It is so important.
There's a scripture, faith.
Faith comes from hearing the word and there's a scripture, I think it's in John chapter
3 somewhere, but it says, let God be true and every man a liar.
That's what someone of faith must know.
Like, God's made me a promise.
I can read all these newspapers.
I can hear all these opinions from man, but if God has made me a promise, let God be true
and everything else is a lie.
That's the attitude of a man of faith.
That God has made you promise.
You know, he said when you go through the challenges, when you get attacked, God has
made you a promise, no weapon formed against you will prosper.
When you go through challenges, God has made you a promise that everything will work together
for your good.
God says the enemy will come in, but when the enemy comes in like a flood, he said,
the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a stand and a banner.
When the angels see that banner, they come and defend you.
That's the truth.
Let God be true and every man a liar.
But you've got to be able to hear the word of God, know the word of God and proclaim
it in the face of the devil when challenges come.
You've got to know how to slam the door on fear because I'm hearing so many Christians,
they speak about what's coming and what's coming down the pipe and it all sounds like
wisdom and it's just fear manifesting.
You know, you know what, you know how to, you know how you overcome fear.
This is so profound.
If you turn to, well first of all, Jesus, when the disciples were speaking fear words
when the storm comes, what was Jesus doing?
He's asleep in the boat.
Now why was he able to sleep?
It was a hurricane.
The boat was filled with water, his feet were wet.
Because you know why?
Jesus, when he was baptizing the Spirit at his baptism, he heard a voice, this is an
experience, what did the voice say?
You are my beloved son.
It's just not knowing about God's love.
There's a difference between knowing that God is nuts about me.
He rejoices over me with singing and my wife may love me, my children may love me, but
that's not perfect love.
When I know who I am, a child of God and how he really feels about me, I know that no one
can take me out of his hands until he's done with me.
Perfect love casts out fear.
And that's what you, you know the apostle Paul, it says when they said they were going
to behead him, history said he ran to the chopping block because he knew his time was
up.
Before that he never feared a thing.
Perth do you know how much, do you know how much God, the creator of all things, loves
you?
A lot of people know God so loved the world, you know that in the scripture that he goes,
but they don't know that God loves me.
You must have like Jesus had, it was a revelation at his baptism that God loves me.
Because it's perfect love, not the love of your wife, not good love, it's perfect love
and the only person who loves perfectly is God that casts out, slams the door on fear
and Jesus had no fear because he knew he was held in the arms of his father.
Isaiah 43 says this, it says, but know this says the Lord who created you, you who formed
you, I believe this is a prophetic word, oh Israel, fear not for I have redeemed you,
I purchased you with my son's blood, I bought you back, I have called you by your name,
you are mine.
Therefore, God says, if you're a true Christian, you've been bought with the blood of Jesus,
you're no longer your own, you belong to him and he has responsibility for you, not you.
You are his property and he says when you pass through the waters, doesn't say you're
not going to pass through the waters, he says when you do like that David passed through
the valley of death, you are going to pass through waters and those waters can be terrifying,
those waters can be flood waters.
He says when you pass through the waters and he says through the rivers and he says when
you walk through the fire, there will be fire in your life, there'll be times when you feel,
when a fire brings great heat, there's great heat being applied, pressure being applied
to your life, to your finances, to your family, to your health, challenges coming, to your
relationships and he says but when you go through the waters, when you go through the
rivers, when you go through the fire, this is his promise, I will be with you.
If bad times are coming, the only thing that matters is, is God with you?
His anointing, his glory, is he with you?
He's with you, he's with those who are with him.
And if God is with you, think about this, he says I will be with you, they shall not
overflow you, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.
And I'm saying to you Christian, the same God says when Jesus rose from the death, I
will be with you and never forsake you.
It means his presence will be with you in the storm, in the fire, like those Hebrew
boys in the fire, Jesus was with them.
And he says the fire will not scorch you, they came out of that fire without even smelly
clothes and you will come through every challenge, no weapon formed against you will prosper
if you believe it.
Everything that happens to you will work for your good if you believe it.
Those family issues, those financial issues, if you trust God and stand on his word, it'll
all turn around for your good.
But you must know how to slam the door on fear.
Because when you go through those waters, when you go through those rivers, when you
go through that fire, the devil comes and says this is it.
Like Peter, you're going under when Jesus said he's going over.
So when you see weapons coming against you, weapons coming against your health, your family,
your business, you're going to say I know the weapon is real, I'm not denying reality,
but God is with me and he said no weapon formed against me will prosper.
This is the faith, this is the faith.
Jesus said when I come again will I find faith on the earth?
There's so much fake faith in the church, but faith is knowing God is with you, it's
knowing the word and the promise God has given you and it's standing on them.
And when you hear the voice of the enemy and you will hear it saying you're a goner, you
said I'm rejecting that voice and I'm standing on the promises of God which says no weapon
formed against me is going to prosper.
There's a person, I don't like that wooing by the way, shouting the spirit, but I don't
like that noise.
There's a person in the scriptures, it's in 2 Samuel, I like him, I've preached to him
a number of times, particularly to the men.
And it says here, it says 2 Samuel 23, his name is Shammah and he's one of my heroes.
And it says that after him was a man named Shammah, the son of Agai the Harareite, the
Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there is a piece of ground full of lentils.
So the people fled from the Philistines, but he stationed himself in the middle of the
field, defended it and killed the Philistines, so the Lord bought about a great victory.
You know this is just a picture, the enemy came, everyone felt the terror.
It says when they came to take his lentils, it was his and the enemy comes to steal, kill
and destroy, you know that?
The enemy comes to steal what God's given you.
Enemy comes to steal your peace, enemy comes to steal your marriage, enemy comes to steal
your destiny, enemy comes to steal your children, enemy wants to steal.
And the enemy came to steal something God had given this man.
And when the enemy turned up because they were fearsome, everybody fled and said, it's
too much for us.
They just gave in to fear.
But I love this man.
This man stood and slammed the door on fear and he knew the promises of God that said
to Joshua in chapter one verse five, no one will be able to stand against the man of God
who stands on my word.
And he stood there with the word of God and he stood there on the promises of God and
he stood there and he would not let the enemy steal what he'd come to steal because he stood
on the promises of God.
And you know what happens when you stand on the word of God and you slam the door on fear
even though you can do nothing and all you have is a word.
It said then God bought about a great victory.
God enters your battle when you stand on the promises of God and you do not be moved by
what the enemy is saying.
This is when the power of God comes into your life, into your situation and turns everything
for your good.
But you must stand on the promises because faith is the victory and the enemy will come.
The enemy will come to steal, he will come to kill, he will come to destroy because that's
his will, that's his nature.
But this man knew God has made me promises.
I'm not going.
I'm going to simply trust God's Word and come what may I'm not fleeing, I'm not opening
the door to fear, I'm just going to stand on God's promises even if I die standing on
them.
I'm going to stand on what God's told me, when he did the power of God came.
What I'm saying is I felt Nicky say this morning, you know there are David walked through the
valley of shadow of death, darkness, there are dark times coming.
Isaiah speaks about you know floods and fires.
You know we're going to go through, I just know we're going through a season of difficulty.
It started in spirits, it started in 2020, it's not over yet, time is going to get hard
for Christians.
But do not, do not allow your mind to become that place where you know as I said before,
it's the dark rooms where negatives are developed.
Do not allow your mind to project what Satan's trying to say to you.
Do not look into the future and begin to worry, you only have grace for today.
But believe every day, my God has made me a promise, He is with me, even if I fail,
He'll never forsake me.
Even on my worst day, He's never going to forsake me.
He is with me and I will not be scorched by that fire.
Those flood waters when they see rising, they may come right up to here, but at the very
right last moment, He'll make them subside because His grace is sufficient and when He
says He's with me, it means He's with me to sustain me.
In the Spirit today, in the Spirit today, I just believe God is shutting the door, if
you believe it, on fear.
It's slamming the door on fear, slamming the door on fear.
Recognize how the devil works, how he speaks, how he wants you to come in agreement and
act from fear.
But how to know your God, stand on His Word, proclaim His promises.
I want to tell you, faith is a victory.
Faith is a victory.
Do you know how much God loves you?
The time to know it is when you're going through it.
When you're going through challenging times, when you go through difficulty times, it's
so important to know, not to deny the difficulty, not to think something's wrong, but just,
you know what you've got to know?
This is what Peter didn't know.
You know that storm on the lake?
God knew all about it and He allowed it.
It was a lesson to be learned.
It was teaching times.
You've got to go through stuff to grow.
If it comes to you, if it gets to you, God has allowed it.
That's what you've got to know.
If it gets to you, He's allowed it.
He's not the author of it, but He allowed it.
There's nothing wrong.
Just lay there and say, God, you allowed it, but you love me.
You're with me.
There's a lesson here and it's everything at the other side.
When I come out the other side, it's going to work for my good.
Shout it in the face of the devil.
It's going to work for my good.
And the weapon I see, yeah, I see the weapon of illness.
I see the weapon of this.
I see the weapon of that.
I see it, but it shall not prosper.
Shout it in the face of the devil and shout it in the face.
It doesn't matter if I sinned yesterday.
It doesn't matter if I failed tomorrow.
My God is with me and He is loyal.
He is not up and down, God.
He has made a promise when I trusted in the blood of Jesus that He would never forsake
me and He will sustain me through every situation.
That is my God.
Praise God.
Put your hand on your heart.
Put your hand on your heart this morning.
Father God, I want to thank you that you have given us your Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and
He dwells inside me.
And He is the person, the spiritual person of God, the Godhead.
Father God, give me revelation today of what it really means that you are with me, that
you will never forsake me.
Give me revelation of what that means.
Father, give me revelation of how faithful you are to your promise, that Father God,
you perform, your power still comes into human situations like it did for Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego.
That when we stand and we believe that we are still able to go through stuff and come
out of it unsinged, we are still able to go through fires and come out of it completely
protected.
Father God, in the name of Jesus today, I slam the door on fear.
Every heart slammed the door on fear today.
I declare that you have not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind.
Father God, in the name of Jesus, I take authority over all anxiety, every phobia and I break
your power today in Jesus name.
I declare you today, every person free from anxiety, that spirit will leave you and it
shall not return.
But the spirit of faith, kingdom faith will come into that heart today.
You shall hear the word of God.
You shall get revelation from the promises of God and you shall see the victory in Jesus
name.
Hallelujah.
Told you sermons that are ad hoc are better.
God is with us.
He is faithful and you will not be paralyzed anymore.
You will not be neutralized anymore by fear, but you will overcome it in Jesus name.
Hallelujah.
God bless you today, keep your ministry up and praise Lord the tiered man.