WEBVTT 00:00:01.260 --> 00:00:04.120 They dragged the ark in next to their God, thought 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:07.620 they'd won, and God made himself such a problem 00:00:07.620 --> 00:00:16.379 they couldn't even sit down anymore. Tonight 00:00:16.379 --> 00:00:18.879 we step into a story that feels like defeat. 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.940 Israel has lost everything, its army shattered, 00:00:23.300 --> 00:00:27.100 its leaders gone, and even the Ark of the Covenant 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:31.370 carried off in the enemy hands. The Philistines 00:00:31.370 --> 00:00:35.030 think they've captured God, sitting beside their 00:00:35.030 --> 00:00:37.490 own and claimed victory, but what follows it 00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:41.350 is strange, unsettling, and unexpectedly sharp 00:00:41.350 --> 00:00:43.829 with a little bit of humor. False gods falling 00:00:43.829 --> 00:00:47.090 down, cities unraveling, and a quiet reminder 00:00:47.090 --> 00:00:50.329 that God is never as contained as we might imagine. 00:00:51.070 --> 00:00:54.990 What looks like loss begins to turn slowly into 00:00:54.990 --> 00:00:58.840 something else entirely. Meanwhile, we have gathered 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:02.039 for our ordinary Wednesday night meal. Plates 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:05.780 of lasagna still warm, chairs pulled close. The 00:01:05.780 --> 00:01:08.359 hum of conversation settling into something quieter. 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:11.599 This is where we open the text together. Somewhere 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:14.379 between laughter and weariness bringing up our 00:01:14.379 --> 00:01:17.379 own stories to the table. So settle in, take 00:01:17.379 --> 00:01:20.739 a breath and come with us. And I'll see you on 00:01:20.739 --> 00:01:27.859 the other side. You know, as I was getting ready 00:01:27.859 --> 00:01:32.799 to do this Bible study, I'd actually mentioned 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.719 this to the ladies in the kitchen earlier when 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.340 I came down. And so I thought I'd go ahead and 00:01:39.340 --> 00:01:44.019 open the offer up to all of you. I know everybody 00:01:44.019 --> 00:01:46.219 here, and I know you guys know your Bible pretty 00:01:46.219 --> 00:01:54.010 well. So think, what would I wager, Pastor? That 00:01:54.010 --> 00:01:58.650 he can tell me a Bible story from the Bible that 00:01:58.650 --> 00:02:02.829 I have never heard before. Think in your head, 00:02:02.950 --> 00:02:06.109 what would I be willing to say? Pastor, there's 00:02:06.109 --> 00:02:08.030 no way you could tell me a Bible story that I 00:02:08.030 --> 00:02:11.729 haven't heard before. And then afterwards, you 00:02:11.729 --> 00:02:14.020 tell me which one of us would have won. Okay. 00:02:14.740 --> 00:02:17.259 Now, since I don't have Wayne here tonight, I 00:02:17.259 --> 00:02:19.199 got to go to Wayne's table. Do I have any thumbs? 00:02:19.340 --> 00:02:22.120 All right. Thumbs up all around. Now, before 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.639 I begin the actual story, I need to actually 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.560 set us in the scene of where we are in the narrative 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:32.280 of God's people. So real quick, at this point 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.759 in the story, there is no king at all. No Saul 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:41.939 yet. No David yet. Samuel, our story tonight 00:02:41.939 --> 00:02:45.000 comes from the first book of Samuel. Samuel, 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.979 as the priest, hasn't even really come on the 00:02:47.979 --> 00:02:51.900 scene yet because Eli is still in charge. Well, 00:02:52.020 --> 00:02:55.979 Eli and his sons. This is the time of the judges. 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.560 This is the time where the people of Israel were 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:03.439 a unified people, but they didn't have a king 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:07.319 yet. So we're in what's called the time of the 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.900 judges. Now they're also fighting the Philistines. 00:03:11.819 --> 00:03:15.599 And just to kind of put it in your mind geographically, 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:19.280 the tabernacle, because there's no temple, the 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.639 tabernacle's in Shiloh, not in Jerusalem yet. 00:03:23.139 --> 00:03:26.599 So that's where we are kind of in this story. 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:29.259 And before I get to the text, I also need you 00:03:29.259 --> 00:03:33.099 to know what has happened in the chapter before 00:03:33.099 --> 00:03:35.719 tonight's story, because the story doesn't start 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:41.139 funny. It starts in ruins. Israel had just suffered 00:03:41.139 --> 00:03:44.659 one of the worst military defeats in its history. 00:03:45.340 --> 00:03:50.419 30 ,000 foot soldiers dead at the Battle of Ebenezer. 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:56.419 Hophni and Phinehas, those are Eli's sons, they're 00:03:56.419 --> 00:03:59.240 priests who had been running the tabernacle like 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:05.520 a franchise. They're killed on the field. The 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:10.580 Ark of the Covenant, the mercy seat, the footstool 00:04:10.580 --> 00:04:15.780 of God, the most sacred object in Israel's possession, 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:25.779 is captured, taken, gone. And when the news reaches 00:04:25.779 --> 00:04:31.519 old Eli back in Shiloh, he falls backward off 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:37.899 his chair. breaks his neck, and dies. His daughter 00:04:37.899 --> 00:04:42.560 -in -law goes into labor, delivers a boy, names 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.759 him Ichabod, which means the glory has departed 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:51.699 from Israel, and then dies on the birthing stone. 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:58.120 So by the time our text opens tonight, there's 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.160 no priest, no judge, no prophet, no army, no 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:07.389 plan. No ark. Israel is sitting in the ashes 00:05:07.389 --> 00:05:15.149 with nothing left. And the Philistines are loading 00:05:15.149 --> 00:05:20.829 their trophy onto a cart headed for Ashdod. And, 00:05:20.889 --> 00:05:24.310 as you could imagine, they're feeling pretty 00:05:24.310 --> 00:05:28.949 good about themselves. Remember that, because 00:05:28.949 --> 00:05:37.019 what happens next? God does entirely alone. There 00:05:37.019 --> 00:05:39.300 is something the Philistines don't know yet. 00:05:40.259 --> 00:05:42.839 Something that will take them seven months in 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:46.819 five cities to learn. You can capture a box. 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.959 You cannot capture what lives inside of it. You 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:56.459 can carry a throne into your house, but you do 00:05:56.459 --> 00:05:59.560 not get to decide who sits upon it. Friends. 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:02.399 Tune your ears to the reading of Holy Scripture 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:05.639 tonight. Our reading comes from the prophecy 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:09.259 of Samuel, his first book of prophecy, beginning 00:06:09.259 --> 00:06:14.480 chapter 5, verse 1. When the Philistines factored 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:18.199 the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.600 to Ashdod. Then the Philistines took the ark 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:23.879 of God and brought it into the house of Dagon 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:29.259 and set it up beside Dagon. And when the people 00:06:29.259 --> 00:06:36.560 of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.579 had fallen face downward on the ground before 00:06:40.579 --> 00:06:45.420 the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and they 00:06:45.420 --> 00:06:50.620 put him back in his place. But when they rose 00:06:50.620 --> 00:06:55.839 early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:59.060 fallen face downward on the ground before the 00:06:59.060 --> 00:07:02.819 Ark of the Lord and the head of Dagon, and both 00:07:02.819 --> 00:07:06.879 of his palms were lying cut off on the threshold. 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:12.779 Only the trunk of Dagon was left. That is why 00:07:12.779 --> 00:07:17.100 the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house 00:07:17.100 --> 00:07:20.879 of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:26.410 and Ashdod. To this very day. Thus ends the reading 00:07:26.410 --> 00:07:30.889 of scripture this evening. They put him back. 00:07:32.410 --> 00:07:37.129 Their God fell on his face before a box that 00:07:37.129 --> 00:07:40.170 belonged to somebody else. And their first instinct 00:07:40.170 --> 00:07:45.290 was to pick him up and pretend like it didn't 00:07:45.290 --> 00:07:49.629 happen. And I need you to see something. I need 00:07:49.629 --> 00:07:54.529 you to be honest with me. Just in your head. 00:07:55.230 --> 00:07:58.649 How many of you have ever read 1 Samuel 5 and 00:07:58.649 --> 00:08:03.829 6? Now, you go, I don't know. Well, there's probably 00:08:03.829 --> 00:08:06.689 a good reason why you haven't, and let me tell 00:08:06.689 --> 00:08:10.449 you why. Because your Sunday school teacher skipped 00:08:10.449 --> 00:08:14.029 it. Your preacher skipped it. The lectionary 00:08:14.029 --> 00:08:17.629 skips it. And there is a reason why everybody 00:08:17.629 --> 00:08:22.860 skips it, because in about four verses, God is 00:08:22.860 --> 00:08:27.100 going to give the entire Philistine, the entire 00:08:27.100 --> 00:08:33.019 Philistine nation, hemorrhoids. And nobody knows 00:08:33.019 --> 00:08:36.779 what to do with that on a Sunday morning in church. 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:42.320 But this is Wednesday night. And this is a Bible 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:46.639 study. And I'm telling you, what's hiding in 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.549 these two chapters is one of the funniest strangest, 00:08:50.549 --> 00:08:53.950 and most theologically loaded passage in the 00:08:53.950 --> 00:08:58.230 Old Testament. And more than likely, you've never 00:08:58.230 --> 00:09:01.769 heard a lesson on it. So settle in. I hope to 00:09:01.769 --> 00:09:06.230 have just a touch of fun tonight. So the Philistines 00:09:06.230 --> 00:09:09.570 bring the Ark into the Temple of Dagon at Ashdod 00:09:09.570 --> 00:09:14.549 and set it up next to the golden statue. Standard 00:09:14.549 --> 00:09:17.559 operating procedure in the ancient world. You 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:20.960 defeat an enemy, you capture their god object, 00:09:21.220 --> 00:09:25.759 and you set it at the feet of your god, like 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:32.639 a trophy. My god beat your god. Scoreboard. Dagon, 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:36.519 now, there's been a long argument about this 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:40.500 name. The old reading connects it to dag, the 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:44.100 Hebrew word for fish, which is where you may 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:46.480 have... thought. I've seen this before. This 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:49.259 is where we get the old pictures of half man, 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:54.059 half fish God. But better scholarship actually 00:09:54.059 --> 00:09:59.720 associates it with the word Dagan, which means 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:05.000 grain. So Dagon, probably an agricultural God, 00:10:05.220 --> 00:10:10.379 top of the Philistine pantheon. This was their 00:10:10.379 --> 00:10:16.090 main guy. Morning one. The priests walk in. Dagon 00:10:16.090 --> 00:10:18.529 is face down on the floor in front of the ark. 00:10:18.970 --> 00:10:22.009 And the Hebrew word here is surgical. The verb 00:10:22.009 --> 00:10:25.149 for how he's fallen is the same word used for 00:10:25.149 --> 00:10:31.549 prostration before Yahweh. Dagon is broken. He's 00:10:31.549 --> 00:10:35.389 worshiping. The priests pick him up, set him 00:10:35.389 --> 00:10:39.570 back. Don't say a word. Just reset their God 00:10:39.570 --> 00:10:44.100 like a lamp that had got knocked over. Morning 00:10:44.100 --> 00:10:49.419 two. Dagon is on the floor again. But this time 00:10:49.419 --> 00:10:53.179 his head is off. Both of his palms cut off. Lying 00:10:53.179 --> 00:10:58.059 on the threshold. That part that thinks. The 00:10:58.059 --> 00:11:03.980 parts that act. Being removed. Nobody was in 00:11:03.980 --> 00:11:06.940 the room. No army broke in. The Ark didn't move. 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:10.220 And the narrator drops this little note. This 00:11:10.220 --> 00:11:13.460 is why the priests of Dagon do not step on the 00:11:13.460 --> 00:11:16.860 threshold of Dagon's temple in Ashdod to this 00:11:16.860 --> 00:11:21.860 very day. They remember this moment so viscerally, 00:11:21.860 --> 00:11:26.039 so hard, that they built a permanent ritual around 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:30.080 avoiding the spot where their god had been dismantled. 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.220 They don't worship at that threshold. They step 00:11:34.220 --> 00:11:40.769 over it like haunted ground. Now it gets worse. 00:11:42.789 --> 00:11:49.850 God's hand falls heavy on Ashdod. The text says 00:11:49.850 --> 00:11:55.769 that he struck them with opalum, opalum, swellings 00:11:55.769 --> 00:12:00.049 or tumors. And here's where the Hebrew word study 00:12:00.049 --> 00:12:02.389 gets just a little bit interesting. The written 00:12:02.389 --> 00:12:06.929 text uses one word, but the scribal tradition. 00:12:07.769 --> 00:12:13.509 The kirei, which is like a marginal note in the 00:12:13.509 --> 00:12:18.090 Torah, it's like an asterisk. It actually tells 00:12:18.090 --> 00:12:20.889 you what to say actually out loud when you're 00:12:20.889 --> 00:12:24.230 reading it in synagogue, and it's substituting 00:12:24.230 --> 00:12:26.710 a different word that's actually in Scripture. 00:12:27.509 --> 00:12:32.850 A more specific word. That word is tekerim. And 00:12:32.850 --> 00:12:35.009 I put it up here on the board just because someone, 00:12:35.169 --> 00:12:37.809 I thought, I'm going to Google it just to see 00:12:37.809 --> 00:12:43.049 if he's really saying the truth. The scribes 00:12:43.049 --> 00:12:47.629 were so uncomfortable with how specific this 00:12:47.629 --> 00:12:53.470 affliction was that they created a euphemism 00:12:53.470 --> 00:12:59.549 in the margins of inspired text. Even the copyists 00:12:59.549 --> 00:13:05.789 were blushing. And Ashdod says, this thing out 00:13:05.789 --> 00:13:12.129 of here and ships the Ark off to Gath. Gath breaks 00:13:12.129 --> 00:13:18.950 out. Gath sends it to Ekron. The Ekronites see 00:13:18.950 --> 00:13:24.190 it coming and start screaming. The text says 00:13:24.190 --> 00:13:28.110 their cry went up to heaven. They didn't even 00:13:28.110 --> 00:13:31.700 want this thing in the city limits. And the Ark 00:13:31.700 --> 00:13:36.600 is doing a victory tour of Philistia. And every 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:40.940 city that touches it gets hit. It's a hot potato 00:13:40.940 --> 00:13:45.899 story. And it's hilarious. Until you stop and 00:13:45.899 --> 00:13:51.139 realize what it actually means. The God who appeared 00:13:51.139 --> 00:13:55.759 to be defeated. The God who appeared to be captured. 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:01.669 The God whose glory... supposedly had departed, 00:14:02.009 --> 00:14:06.809 is more dangerous in enemy territory than he 00:14:06.809 --> 00:14:10.850 ever was on the battlefield. The Philistines 00:14:10.850 --> 00:14:16.730 won the war and are losing everything else. Seven 00:14:16.730 --> 00:14:20.870 months. That's how long Mark stayed in Philistia. 00:14:20.889 --> 00:14:25.710 Seven. The number of completion. God lets it 00:14:25.710 --> 00:14:29.460 play all the way out. When the Philistine priests 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:33.679 finally consult their diviners, the advice they 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:38.919 get is remarkable. They say, don't send it back 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:44.980 empty. Send a guilt offering. And the text puts 00:14:44.980 --> 00:14:49.679 in their mouths a word, a sham. It's the same 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:53.679 word used for a guilt offering in Leviticus 5. 00:14:55.850 --> 00:15:00.309 These are pagan priests. Outside the heaven. 00:15:01.250 --> 00:15:08.549 With no Torah. Reaching for the right theological 00:15:08.549 --> 00:15:13.149 category by instinct. Or maybe by something more 00:15:13.149 --> 00:15:19.970 than instinct. The offering. Five golden tekerim. 00:15:20.870 --> 00:15:27.399 Or tumors. and five golden mice, one for each 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:33.019 of the five Philistine lords. Make an image of 00:15:33.019 --> 00:15:36.100 what's affecting you and send it back with the 00:15:36.100 --> 00:15:39.840 box. And if that sounds familiar, it should, 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:43.080 because you just heard me preach on the bronze 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:47.600 serpent three weeks ago. Numbers 21. The image 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:51.419 of the affliction becomes the vehicle for deliverance. 00:15:52.269 --> 00:15:56.470 The Philistines are doing Moses theology and 00:15:56.470 --> 00:15:59.990 they don't even know it. But here's the part 00:15:59.990 --> 00:16:04.370 of the story nobody preaches. And it's also the 00:16:04.370 --> 00:16:11.370 part I can't stop thinking about. Because the 00:16:11.370 --> 00:16:17.750 Philistine priests design a test. They take two 00:16:17.750 --> 00:16:22.759 milk cows. Cows that have never worn a yoke. 00:16:24.019 --> 00:16:27.860 And they separate them from their nursing calves. 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:34.179 They hitch them to a new cart, and they put the 00:16:34.179 --> 00:16:41.120 ark on the cart, and they let them go. If they 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:46.360 walk towards Beth Shemesh, which is Israel, against 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:50.419 every instinct, pulling a load they've never 00:16:50.419 --> 00:16:55.460 pulled, down a road they've never walked, away 00:16:55.460 --> 00:17:02.620 from their crying calves, then it was gone. If 00:17:02.620 --> 00:17:06.099 they turn back to their calves, hemorrhoids are 00:17:06.099 --> 00:17:12.420 just bad luck. Cows go straight. Tex says they 00:17:12.420 --> 00:17:18.680 went along the way, lowing as they went. And 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.599 they did not turn aside to the right or to the 00:17:22.599 --> 00:17:33.460 left. Lower as they went. They're crying. They're 00:17:33.460 --> 00:17:38.640 calling for their babies. Every fiber of their 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:41.380 animal nature is pulling them backwards towards 00:17:41.380 --> 00:17:45.960 the only thing they know. And they walk a straight 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:51.680 line forward. Not turning aside. Not stopping. 00:17:53.180 --> 00:17:59.960 And crying the whole way. Let me ask you something. 00:18:01.019 --> 00:18:04.519 And I want to ask it gently because we just walked 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.619 a really long road, Lenten journey together. 00:18:09.539 --> 00:18:13.180 Have you ever been obedient and heartbroken at 00:18:13.180 --> 00:18:17.369 the same time? Because the milk cows are not 00:18:17.369 --> 00:18:20.970 a footnote. The milk cows are this whole sermon. 00:18:23.009 --> 00:18:26.190 Everybody that knows the story likes to tell 00:18:26.190 --> 00:18:28.990 the hemorrhoids bit. Nobody preaches the cows. 00:18:30.170 --> 00:18:34.250 But the cows are what God uses to bring himself 00:18:34.250 --> 00:18:39.460 back home. Not a prophet, not a priest, not a 00:18:39.460 --> 00:18:42.500 warrior. Two animals who had never worn a yoke, 00:18:42.579 --> 00:18:45.380 bearing something wholly they didn't understand, 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:50.299 moving away from everything they loved, not turning 00:18:50.299 --> 00:18:56.180 aside. That's not obedience. That's a calling. 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.940 Sometimes, friends, faithfulness doesn't look 00:19:01.940 --> 00:19:07.380 like triumph. Sometimes, It looks like carrying 00:19:07.380 --> 00:19:09.960 something sacred in the wrong direction of your 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:15.640 heart. And still not turning aside. Blowing the 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:21.539 whole way. And the glory that departed, it was 00:19:21.539 --> 00:19:25.240 never gone. It just went somewhere no one thought 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:31.299 to look. So, go from this place knowing that 00:19:31.299 --> 00:19:33.759 God does not need your cooperation to be God. 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:38.079 He does not need your strength to do his work. 00:19:39.019 --> 00:19:42.079 He doesn't need your competence, your strategy, 00:19:42.099 --> 00:19:46.079 or your confidence. But he will use your willingness. 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:53.059 Even if it comes with tears. Even if you're lowing 00:19:53.059 --> 00:19:58.319 the whole way. The road is straight. The cart 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:01.559 is not your weight. And the glory never left. 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:04.980 It just went to work in a room where nobody had 00:20:04.980 --> 00:20:15.259 invited it. So go in peace. Amen. As we close 00:20:15.259 --> 00:20:18.039 tonight, maybe you're carrying something that 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.440 feels heavier than you expected. Maybe obedience 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:26.220 has not felt triumphant, but costly, quiet, unseen, 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.779 and a little bit heartbreaking. And maybe... 00:20:30.460 --> 00:20:33.799 That's where this story meets you. Because the 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:36.180 road does not always feel good beneath your feet. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:39.440 Faithfulness does not always sound like singing. 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:43.740 It might sound like lulling. But take heart. 00:20:44.180 --> 00:20:46.900 God has never needed perfect conditions to do 00:20:46.900 --> 00:20:50.400 his work. He meets you on the road, not after. 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:54.839 Sometimes the most honest obedience is the kind 00:20:54.839 --> 00:20:57.920 that keeps walking even with tears in your throat. 00:20:59.210 --> 00:21:01.470 And if somewhere along the way tonight you heard 00:21:01.470 --> 00:21:04.309 something you hadn't heard before, or maybe you 00:21:04.309 --> 00:21:06.710 heard something familiar, but this time it settled 00:21:06.710 --> 00:21:11.150 differently, this time it stayed, then let that 00:21:11.150 --> 00:21:15.369 matter. If it helped you, stirred you, or met 00:21:15.369 --> 00:21:18.230 you where you are, toss that old like in the 00:21:18.230 --> 00:21:20.029 offering plate just like we do down at church. 00:21:20.150 --> 00:21:22.490 And if you'd like to keep walking with us every 00:21:22.490 --> 00:21:25.509 Wednesday, every Sunday, go ahead, tie to your 00:21:25.509 --> 00:21:27.890 subscribe, so you'll know when we're meeting 00:21:27.890 --> 00:21:31.799 again. And until that time, friend, be blessed.