Do you trust him this morning? Whoo! Hallelujah.
Amen. If you have your Bibles, take hold of your
sword by the hilt and open to the book of Judges,
the eighth chapter, Judges 8. I want to say this
morning how good it is to have with us Brother
Caden Roberts, who is going through the MIP program.
He's visiting with us today. It's his assignment.
So y 'all be on your best behavior. Don't none
of y 'all let the Holy Ghost run you down the
aisle or nothing like that. We got company. We
got company. Y 'all behave. That's about as dripping
with sarcasm as I can get. Amen. Brother Caden,
thank you for being here with us this morning.
I trust you've already encountered the Spirit
of the Lord. His Word enriches your heart. I
pray that for each of us today, that we have
encountered, I've already met the Lord. The Spirit
of the Lord is truly in the house. Amen. And
as it is obvious, we will be having water baptism
as soon as I quit or get finished or whatever
we end up doing here in a little bit. We have
seven folks following in the footsteps of the
Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Give them praise for
that. They deserve it. Following in his footsteps.
Amen. A little report from Men on the Mountain
this past weekend. I think they ended up with
nine salvations, first -time salvations, and
ten rededications. Amen. So, amen. God's still
saving. He's still saving. One particular. Report
I got, testimony, his old boy had never been
to church before. Was in Satan's something other
motorcycle gang. And always wore the do -rag,
the colors, and the whole deal. First time he'd
ever been to church was Friday night. Give his
heart to the Lord. Amen. Showed up Saturday morning
without the do -rag. Pastor Caleb told me, he
said, you're talking about a transformation.
Man come on this mountain, never been in church
before, and before he left, 24 hours later, had
a broom in his hand serving. That's transformation.
Amen? That's transformation. And so we just thank
the Lord for that. If you have your Bibles, trust
you do. Judges chapter 8. We're going to read
verse 4 to us today. Let's see what the Spirit
of the Lord has to deal in our hearts this morning.
Judges 8, 4 reads, And Gideon came to Jordan,
and he passed over, he and the three hundred
men that were with him, faint yet pursuing. Faint,
yet pursuing. I think that's just what we'll
call it. Faint, but in hot pursuit. My Lord.
Hallelujah. Might take me a spell right here,
and we ain't even started yet. I'll pray for
you if you pray for me, and hopefully we'll come
out of this thing together. Lord, I love you.
I thank you this morning so much for your...
presence with us for truly thou art in this house
Lord as we feel your glory touching our hearts
and minds now as we have partaken from the loaf
of life which is the bread the word the living
God's voice I pray Lord that you would help us
now help me to preach that which is pleasing
to you but edifying to the body and that we leave
this place Lord so much better than we came in
And we'll be quick to praise you for it all in
Christ's name. The church says? Amen. Ask your
neighbor, are you in hot pursuit? I know you're
faint. Someone once described the journey of
life in this fashion. When as a child I laughed
and wept and time crept. How many of you remember
how long it took for Christmas to come? Right?
Or the 4th of July so you could go buy your $3
worth of firecrackers. That's about all we'd
get. But you've got a lot more for $3 than you
do for $20 these days. We've got enough to get
in trouble. I'll just put it and leave it there.
When as a youth I dreamed and talked and time
walked. When I became a full -grown man, time
ran. Amen. Time's just running away from us,
right? But it gets better. And later, as I grew
older, time flew. Anybody in the fly zone? That's
about where we're at. Soon I shall find, while
traveling on, time gone. Let that sink in just
a little bit. Time crept. Time ran. Time walks.
Time flies. And before we know it, time is gone.
We look into our text this morning, the statement
at the end of that fourth verse. For Gideon,
he was in that time running. He's a grown man,
full grown. But in the time in which Gideon's
living, Midian, the Midianites are ruling over
them, terrorizing his people. And we find in
the story, you'll find Gideon threshing wheat.
By the wine press. That's two different operations.
But Gideon is threshing his wheat by the wine
press for fear of the Midianites coming to steal
his harvest. My, my, my. Where are you hiding
to hold on to your harvest? But what finds Gideon
is the angel of the Lord. Now, a little sidebar,
you can't hide from God. When he's on your trail,
he's going to find you no matter where you are.
So the angel of the Lord approaches Gideon, and
he approaches him in a most odd way for Gideon.
Gideon, thou mighty man of valor. He's thinking,
who are you talking to? I'm hiding over here.
I'm hiding from the enemy. But see, what God
knows about you. is that when you surrender to
Him, what He can do through you. Amen? What He
can do through you and what God desires to do
with you. You know the story. Hopefully you do.
If not, you need to go read 6, 7, and 8 of Gideon's
life. You need to read this story of how he proved
it was God actually talking to him. I, you know,
sometimes folks like to cast a little... little
dark light toward Gideon for trying the spirit
but I'm one of those I mean if he was in trouble
I'm in big trouble because I put out fleeces
I do all kind of stuff to know because simply
you just want to know that you're in full obedience
to the Lord right and that's what Gideon will
know I don't want to step out into something
God that you're not in and if it's true to you
let me just hold if you'll wait a minute let
me go let me go get something he said I'll be
right here he goes in prepares the sacrifice
and puts it before the angel of the Lord. He
touches it with that staff. It's consumed. And
then that wasn't just enough, so he had to go
with a fleece route. Well, let it be wet on one
side and dry on the other, right? Let it be dry
on one side and wet on the other. And finally,
after he got it, he finally knows that it's God,
and he surrenders to the Lord. When you and I
are living out this life, and we're going through
this process and this journey of walking through,
there's some things that begin to happen. We
may find ourselves in hiding. We may... try to
withdraw from the pressure. That's what he's
doing. He's withdrawn from the pressure of the
enemy. He's trying to maintain and keep what
little he's got. But can I tell you, child of
God, that's not where you and I need to be. We're
not just trying to maintain what we have. I'm
not just trying to keep what little I got of
the Spirit of God and the power of God and the
presence of God and the peace of God and the
joy of the Lord. Are you hearing me? I'm not
just trying to maintain what I have. because
there is no maintaining because I use a little
bit of it all every day. So I am after the fresh
supply. I am with Gideon. I am in a hot pursuit.
Amen. It's not that we don't get faint in life.
Faint just simply means to grow weary, to grow
thirsty, to grow exhausted. So we find here with
Gideon some of us in the same fashion. Gideon
went through, received the instruction from the
Lord. He gets the picture. a clay jar. He lights
a torch and he puts it inside it. He gets his
sword. They get trumpets and he dispatches the
men out. You have to go. I don't have time to
preach the whole process of how he got from 35
,000 to 300. The process isn't a point. The fact
is he went with 300 men selected by God to face
the enemy and he followed obediently. Specifically
the instructions that were laid out before him
on how to get this victory. Amen. And so they
get there. They're on the tops of the hill. They're
in the midnight hour. He blows a trumpet. He
breaks the jars. The light illuminates. Talks
about the arm of God and the sword of Gideon.
And then all of a sudden they jump to their feet
and light everywhere. They feel as though they're
surrounded. They turn on each other. And a great
victory is won. The text that we're reading today
is post -victory. Are you hearing me? It's post
-victory. But he still has the same 300 men.
They have battled all night. They are tired.
They are weary. But there were some who escaped.
And he's not going to stop with the escape of
the enemy. So he begins to pursue after the two
princes that were left. And he's in a hot pursuit
after them. He's on their heels. And he comes
to the Jordan. Now the Jordan has so much representation
for us. We sing about crossing over old chilly
Jordan. has so many references for the children
of Israel. It's just on and on and on it goes
with the power of God and the encounters at the
Jordan. He passes over the Jordan, and he comes
up, and he comes to the little place of Sukkoth,
and he's wanting some refreshment. He's wanting
some bread and some water and some food for his
men, and they refuse him because of the two kings
that he is in pursuit of. They said, well, do
you have their heads? in your hand, we're not
going to help you because if you're not here,
they're going to come in and they'll find out
that we helped you, yada, yada, yada, as the
story goes. Sometimes, child of God, I want you
to know something. When you may be surrounded
by others who could help you, help may only come
from the Lord. Others may not strengthen you,
but one thing you can rely on is that God will
strengthen you. But I love what old Gideon told
him. He said, look here, if I survive this thing,
I'm coming back here. And he said, I'm taking
the brush of the wheel. If you go back and read
it, in other words, when he comes back, he goes
to them, he takes their leaders, he cuts a limb,
and he disciplines them. My Lord, grown men got
leg striped because of their failure to assist
in the war. I thought, my Lord, that sounded
like some of my youthful days when mama said,
you get back here and I'm going to show you.
When Gideon come back to town, son, he took a
limb and striped them. You need to read that.
If you don't read the Bible, there's some interesting
things in the Word of God. But it lets us know
this. When others may not come alongside you,
God will still cause you to obtain the victory
that you are in hot pursuit after. They go into
Sukkoth and they said, we're faint, but we're
still in pursuit. We're faint, but we're still
following. We're faint, but we're still chasing
after. That's where I'm at in my life right now.
I am weary. I am exhausted. I am thirsty. I am
hungry. But I am still in hot pursuit of the
glory and the victory that has been promised.
And each of us, we all are faint. You are weary,
but God is still on your side. And the promise
of victory is still proclaimed over each of our
lives. And I am in hot pursuit. And devil, if
you mess with me, I'll come back with a hickory
switch. Gideon said, all right, have it your
way, but I'll be back. That's long before MacArthur
ever said it. You know, maybe he's a Bible reader.
I'm coming back. When we think about this pursuit
of life and this journey that we're going through,
times get hard. Battles are difficult. And look,
it's supposed to be. It is supposed to be difficult.
Why? Because the devil's trying to kill you.
Hello? I mean, do we understand the reality?
The devil's trying to take you to hell with him.
He knows his final destination, and he's trying
to take as many as he can with him. And in opposition
to that is the Lord of glory who's trying to
usher you into his presence. And when we grow
faint and we grow weary and we grow exhausted,
we still must press on. Perseverance is a virtue
for the child of God. We must persevere. And
in my mind is echoing, and I know I've said it
before, but I just heard it again. Endeavor to
persevere. Who knows that reference? There you
go. That's outlaw Joseph Wales, by the way. That's
Chief Joseph. Well, it was. And never to persevere.
Faint, but still in hot pursuit. I'm moving forward.
Faint, yet pursuing. Yes. In this life, Jesus
said, how many know the letters of red are the
words of the Christ? In this life, you shall
have tribulation. And he should have put a comma
there and went on. Suck it up and get over it
and look to me. But that's not what he said.
He said, in this life, you shall have tribulation.
But the Lord in his kindness said, be of good
cheer. Why? Because I have overcome the world.
And he began to declare, Peace I give unto you,
not as the world gives peace, but my peace give
I unto you, that your joy may be for when and
where in the middle of the faint moments of life.
We draw deep from the well of Isaiah when he
declared it from the well of our salvation. We
draw deep and we take in. In the moments that
we are faint, when we can't find no other resolution
and any other help from any other direction,
we look toward the hills as the psalmist declared.
My help comes from the Lord. You may be faint,
but remain in pursuit. Weary, thirsty, exhausted,
yet chasing following. Mark 15 or Matthew 15,
32, the Lord said, then Jesus called his disciples
unto him and he said, I have compassion on the
multitude because they continue with me now three
days and have nothing to eat and I will not listen
and I will not send them away fasting lest they
faint in the way. Gideon went to Saccoth and
got no help. He went to the rulers and the leaders
there and got no bread. He had no water offered
him. Nothing was given to him. But you and I,
we have the words of the Lord. You can be with
him, but he'll not turn you away. He'll not send
you away fasting. Why? Because he does not desire
that we should faint along the way. What are
you saying? If you abide in him and he abides
with you and you are part of that true vine and
you become part of that true branch and you're
crafted in there and you abide in him, he will
always, are you hearing me? He will always nurture
you. He will always nourish you. Because he will
not send you away. Because he does not want you
to grow exhausted. He doesn't want you to grow
weary. What are you saying, pastor? I'm saying
that we remain in him. Though the world turn
against you, you just remain faithful and persevere
with the Lord. Because when the time comes and
you feel like you can't go another mile, there's
going to be an addition of grace into your life.
There's going to be a fresh wind begin to blow
in. And you're going to get your second wind.
And you're going to remain. in pursuit. You can't
grow faint in prayer. Don't grow weary and exhausted
praying. You've got to pray on, child of God.
Luke 18 and 1. And he spake a parable unto them
to this end that men ought always to pray and
not to faint. Every believer needs to pray. I
was kindly I was shocked this weekend in talking
to a pastor about his congregation and a conversation
he overheard between some folks. And I know these
people very well. They were talking to each other
saying, well, yeah, you're very busy. You got
kids, yada, yada, yada. You got life. And I don't
know that you have to read your Bible every day.
I don't even know actually that you have to pray.
Well, I don't think so either. We are so busy.
Hello, folks. That just, that one thing it did
is it made me mad because it made me feel like
a failure for I'd pastored those folks for a
few years and I thought, what did you do? And
wanted to call them on the phone. What's coming
out of your face? Would you tell me what possessed
you to come to a conclusion that you're so busy
that you don't have to pray? When the Word of
God declares that men ought always to pray, that
we faint not, because you will faint, you will
get exhausted, and you will quit without the
grace that is added to your life every single
day, without the promise of the victory that
has been declared over you, that the enemy shall
flee before you. If you don't get in your word
and you don't get on your knees, how can you
sustain? You sure can't come back and take those
who are against you with a switch. I got to keep
going. We can't faint in our confidence. In our
confidence. How many of you are confident in
God? Let me tell you something. He's not always
going to do what you tell him to do. I know how
we pray. We do more telling than we do asking.
How do you know that? Because that's the way
I pray sometimes. And if he had listened to me,
some of you would be in better shape. Because
I pray for you. Amen. But he don't do what we
tell him. Matter of fact, he don't even take
my kind suggestions. I just quit. And I kindly
fell back on, Father, your will be done. And
I pour out my need. Let your prayer come before
the Lord with supplication and intercession,
with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made
known unto God. So that's what I've got to where
I do. I turn folks over. I turn problems over.
I no longer offer suggestions or solutions. I
just offer you up before the Lord. I offer me
up before the Lord. And I declare it hallowed
be thy name. Oh, thy kingdom come, thy will be
done. do is put myself back on the wheel and
mar me down one more time application of the
water and of the spirit break me down keep me
on the wheel your will be done and some of us
ought to declare it's your will not my wishes
but it's your will oh God that I faint not hallelujah
that I don't grow exhausted and I don't quit
and give up 2 Corinthians 4, 1, Therefore, seeing
we have this ministry, for all you that have
ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint
not. As we have received mercy, we faint not.
There's a reason that Jeremiah penned in that
wonderful book of Lamentations that we are not
consumed because of the Lord's mercies, and His
mercies are new. Every morning. Why? Because
some of you, like myself, we are reformed heathens.
Transformed heathens. I'm not a heathen. I'm
a transformed. I used to be. Try not to be these
days. Not perfect in that attempt. But I'm doing
my diligence to try not to be. Therefore, seeing
we have this ministry, whether you realize it
or not, each of us, each of you, we all have
a ministry. You're a missionary whether you like
it or not. By being a disciple of Christ as you
go, as you go through life, as you are going,
you are to witness of the goodness and the glory
of God. To try and make other disciples. That's
all of us. Doesn't matter what age. Doesn't matter
where we're at. And we can't grow faint in doing
that. We do not faint. Therefore, seeing we have
this ministry, as we have received mercy, we
faint not. God gives and grants his mercy every
day. So you and I must never, ever give up. We
must continue in the battle. We must keep fighting.
Oh, from Friday night's message, Proverbs 24
and 16. For a just man falleth seven times, and
he riseth up. Pastor preached a message up there
Friday night and said, you can't keep a good
man down. Hey, Lord, even though sometimes the
righteous were knocked down seven times, you
can't keep a righteous one down. Not just a man,
but you can't keep a righteous woman down. You
can't keep a righteous child down. The enemy
can do his very best. And we get, how many have
seen, what was it, Captain America? Seen that?
Little Steve Austin, real scrawny like. And then,
what was his name? Steve somebody. Who? Rogers.
Was he? No, he was the $6 million man. Huh? That's
for your time, see. Steve Austin was the $6 million.
Where you at, people? Come on, somebody. Majors.
We'll have to go with Stone Cold then. It's my
sermon, y 'all. Just along for the ride. Where
was I at? No, we're going to pass that. No, we're
looking at keeping a good man down. Though the
righteous fall seven times, he riseth up. How
many knows it's harder to get back up after you
fail three? Number four is a little more difficult.
Five is more difficult. Six is more difficult.
Seven is more difficult to keep rising and keep
getting back up. Don't you think you get faint
after seven, eight, nine times? I've lost count.
I quit counting. I quit counting. I don't count
that anymore because I get knocked down regularly.
But Steve, watch his face. Captain America. What's
his name? Now we're back to Steve Rogers. Got
back to where I was going, James. Every time
he got knocked down, he'd say, I can do this
all day. I mean, that was even before he got
juiced up, you know. He said, I can do this all
day. He in the fight, little scrawny thing. Sometimes
it's, you know, not the size of the dog in the
fight. It's the fight and the dog. You've heard
that. I can do this all day because of my confidence.
It's no longer in myself. My confidence is not
in my strength. And so my resolve is in he that's
in me. Because one of my favorite, and I quote
it all the time, is John 4 and 4 back there,
1 John 4 and 4. Greater is he that's in me than
he that is in this world. I can do this all day,
devil. I can do it because I'm not getting up
on my own. I get knocked down and he picks me
up. Isn't that what the psalmist said? He picks
me up out of the pit. He takes me up out and
washes my clay and he puts me on. I can do this
all day. Why? Because I have become confident,
and my mind is made up. There is no other choice
but him, God, and God alone. So come on, devil.
Give it your best shot, and he has, and he does,
and I just keep getting back up looking at it.
I wipe a little blood, blow a little snot, wipe
a few tears, and say, I can do this all day because
it's not me. It's he that lives in me, the power
that I have, the hope that I have. Hear me, church.
You may be faint, but keep getting back up. You
may get knocked down. five, six, seven, ten,
fifteen dozen, but he will help you back up.
You'll rise up. Life, life, life, life. Whether
you're running, whether you're walking, whether
it's creeping by, whether it's flying by, or
whether it's almost gone. Stay and remain in
hot pursuit. Remain confident in him. Psalm 34,
19, many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
Don't grow faint in your hope. Don't let your
hope become exhausted. Hope is a powerful thing.
Amen? Hope is a life -giving source. Hope causes
us to keep going. Amen. Don't faint in your hope.
2 Corinthians 4 verse 16. For which cause we
faint not. But though our outward man perish,
yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Hope
keeps going and hope keeps us going. Our bodies
are perishing. Amen. At best, what we can do
is try to keep them in shape and they still fall
apart. Amen? Even with new parts. Some of you
got new parts. Stainless, titanium. Probably
some plastic. Our bodies perish. We have to renew
ourselves every day. Y 'all quit. Faint not.
Don't let your hope be despaired for the hope
that we have is not in this world. Paul told
Timothy, he said, our hope is Jesus Christ. That's
why when we walk through the dilemma of life,
whether it's creeping, flying, you heard it.
Doesn't matter at what point of life you're at.
Hope is what gets me to the next step in life.
But I found myself praying more lately, even
so, Lord, come. Even so, Lord, come. And my hope
is not growing faint in the return of the Lord.
My hope in the return of the Lord is increasing.
I'm looking for Jesus to come any day. Any day.
day the Lord could come. The signs of the times
are aligning. I don't know how much persecution
we'll have to endure. I don't know how much trial,
how much tribulation we'll have to endure. But
one thing I know we won't have to endure is the
wrath of God when he comes back with his wrath.
When he unpours the cork and he just lets his
power reign across us. We won't have to indulge
the wrath of God. We'll be removed. Hallelujah.
And I am looking and yearning for the expediency
of the removal. I'm looking for the trumpet to
sound and the skies to part and look toward the
east of the rising of the sun and see a glory
that far causes a shadow to be cast upon the
blazing of the sun. And that is the glory of
the Son of God standing to receive us. My hope
is firm. Don't faint in doing work. Galatians
6 and 9, let us. Not be weary in well -doing.
For in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
Yes, weariness creeps on the flesh. Yes, even
weariness creeps into the soul. Because of the
tribulations and persecutions and the afflictions
that accompany this life. At some point, we all
must realize that, hey, we're not saved just
so things get better. Sometimes we get saved
and turn to the Lord and things get worse. They
do. Circumstances worsen. But even though circumstances
grow worse, grace increases. People think, well,
I've started trying to serve the Lord and everything's
falling apart. Well, it's supposed to. Well,
I thought it was the other way around. You'll
get there. Push on. There has to be a level of
commitment. Anybody can serve the Lord in a lily
valley. There's no thorns. But you walk through
where the roses bloom, you're going to get pricked
along the way. So don't just start looking for
an... I don't know why I'm saying this. Don't
just start looking for an instant relief. The
instant relief comes to your soul. The weight
and the burden of sin is lifted. But then the
enemy assures to you that the burden and the
weight of this life increases. Why, pastor? Because
he wants you to go to hell with him. Don't grow
weary. You'll reap. You'll reap in due season
when the time comes if you faint not. In trusting.
Don't grow faint in trusting the Lord. We sung
that just a minute ago. Ephesians 3, 13. Wherefore,
I desire that you faint not at my tribulations
for you, which is your glory. Paul said, don't
you get exhausted for what I'm going through.
On your behalf, are you hearing pastor today?
Don't get exhausted for what I may be going through.
Don't get exhausted for what those around you
are going through. Don't grow weary. Don't faint
because of the afflictions and the trials of
others which we endure for your glory. Why? Because
the words of our testimony cause us to become
overcomers through the blood of the Lamb. When
I overcome, you are increased in your overcoming
ability. Why? Because of the testimony that I've
just lived through and declared to your life.
Well, if they can make it, so can I. Because
God is no respecter of person. Entrust him. Trust
the Lord. Trust God in everything, every trial,
every test, every temptation, every affliction.
In well -doing, 2 Thessalonians 3, 13. But you,
brethren, be not weary in well -doing. Sometimes
people exhaust you. Don't they? Don't weep and
howl and moan and groan. Just trust and pray.
Quit griping. Stop whining. Quit belly aching.
Start looking at more than who you are and what
you are and the situation around you. Elevate
your vision to see where God is at. We love to
whine. What have we got to whine about? I'm redeemed
by love divine. People declare, well, don't you
ever ask why? No, we don't. Pose the question,
why not sometimes? I mean, why not? He's my God
too, just like yours. And the promises that we
have for each of us. So we persevere, we push
through. Isaiah 40, 29, he giveth power to the
faint. Whoa. And to them that have no might,
he increases strength. Even the youth shall faint
and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall. But they that wait upon the Lord, you know
this one. Shall renew their strength. And they
shall mount up with wings as eagles. And they
shall run and not be weary. And they shall walk.
And not. Faint. I'm still in hot pursuit. What
are you saying pastor? I'm encouraging you to
remain. In hot pursuit. In whatever situation.
Whatever dilemma. You may be facing. God's got
you. Do you have him? He don't let you go. Have
you turned him loose? Where's your confidence
in God? Where's your ability to trust God? Are
you praying? Are you in his word? Are you still
doing the work? Are you still plowing through
with the ministry that God's given you? If you
don't think, he's going to increase your strength.
He's going to cause us all to be victorious.
We all become overcomers if we remain in hot
pursuit. Stand with me this morning. Remain in
hot pursuit. We're going to have baptism here
in just a little bit, but we're not rushing this
next portion of this service. Because this is
why we've come. That if we faint, if we're weary,
if we're exhausted, if we're thirsty, if we're
hungry, we hear the words of the Lord that he's
not going to send us away fasting. Unless we
faint along the way. I don't believe in accidents.
Don't believe in luck. No such thing as luck.
You have to be superstitious to believe in luck.
You can give me a nine -leaf clover and it ain't
going to do no good. I believe in God. I believe
in the favor of God. And if I don't faint when
my time gets up, I'm going to get a reward in
due season if I don't faint, if I don't stop
short. So I'm remaining in hot pursuit. And I
know I'm not the only one that's faint. I know
that. We've all got our battles. You either just
come out of one, you're about to go in one, or
you're standing flat -footed in the middle of
one. But I'm not going to faint. I'm going to
adjust. Where's these hoorah boys at? Any Marines
in the house? Adapt and overcome. That's about
what we're about to do. And I'm staying in hot
pursuit. Remaining in hot pursuit. So with that,
how many of you need a refresher this morning?
Come on down. We're going to have to get on each
side of the baptistry. If you need a refresher,
just come on down this morning. If you're feeling
faint, you're feeling weird.