Suffering Hope and the Love of Christ

Test, test, test, test. Welcome. We have a potluck gathering as soon as the lesson is over today. So there's plenty of food for everybody. We would love you to be able to stay.

Last week, we started a particular lesson called 11 marks of true salvation from Romans 8. many of you were traveling with loved ones, but we're going to finish the 11 marks today, Lord willing. We made it through the first six marks. So we're picking up on mark number seven, mark of salvation number seven from Romans eight. So flip in your notes to page four.

We also mentioned last week that the moment a person is born again, the Holy Spirit comes to live inside of them and imparts a new relationship. He is the author of this new relationship with God, and he's also the author of new behaviors, new orientations, new affections, a new bias against sin. And so when we look into Romans 8, if you're a true Christian, Romans 8 is like a mirror. And as you look in this chapter, you go, that's describing my relationship with the Lord exactly. Or at least when I'm walking in the spirit, it describes.

describes my relationship with the Lord precisely. Because in Romans 8, the phrase that Paul keeps using is, those who are led by the Spirit do such and such. They put sin to death. They have the consciousness that they're a son of God. They're eagerly awaiting Christ's return.

There's all these manifestations of the Spirit in Romans 8. And so because there's such a large collection here of evidences of the Spirit, I was led to write a paper on this, especially for Christian counselors and for those of you who are discipling others, because you want to be able to provide a diagnostic of those you're investing in to find out what their spiritual condition is, especially where to help them grow and repent and turn things around. So look at page four. Mark number seven says those who are led of the spirit see the reality of being a co-air of Christ, and therefore they're willing to suffer with Christ. And so I'll read passage in Romans 8 from which that is taken.

I'm starting in verse 16, where it says the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God, and if children also heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. So by way of review, what is the longest treatise on salvation? in the whole Bible, the book of Romans. And so in the book of Romans, we find out in just a marvelous three-dimensional way that we are united with Christ, and that's especially brought out in chapters 5 through 8. The Father unites us to Christ, and then all the benefits of Christ incarnation, his death, his priesthood, his resurrection, all those benefits become the property of those who have been united with Christ by faith.

So we would say that the Father has radically identified the true believer with the Son of God so that everything that Jesus is, is doing, will do and has done becomes our rightful property. The only reason we have a full right to be in heaven is because of who Jesus is and what he's done. And so the gospel is so powerful here. It takes our eyes off our own efforts, takes our eyes off our religious performance, and puts it on Christ as our qualification, our eligibility to be fully accepted by the Father. And so the entire welfare of our eternal soul rests upon Christ if we know Him, and He is our Lord.

And those who know the Lord, they esteem Him in love, and they want to march under His orders. They want to make His purposes, their purposes. And one of the things we discover from this verse here in 17 and 18, these two verses, is that our destiny is wrapped up in Christ's destiny. In other words, the next time he appears publicly on the scene, we will appear with him. And his destiny is that he is heir of the world.

He will inherit the universe. He will inherit the kingdom of God. That is his destiny and that is the destiny of the true sons and daughters of God. We will inherit the universe with him and we will reign. reign with him.

Now, in an earthly arrangement, normally a wife assumes the station in life that her husband has. And so if her husband is a pastor, then she will fulfill the role of a pastor's wife. I was asked to speak in El Paso recently, and they asked me, does your wife do conferences? No, just bring me down there, but she will be happy to address the women there. And so because my wife assumes my station in life, she can't escape the fact that she's a pastor's wife.

Now if a wife is married to a bush pilot, then she'll probably be flying around in the jungle and landing on precariously short airstrips because she's assumed that station and life of her husband. If you're married to a corporate executive, that'll mean entertaining clients. And so a wife normally assumes the station and life of her husband. It's also true in Christianity. We will assume the station in life of our Lord, who is our heavenly husband.

He is heir of the universe. He is going to inherit all things, and we will rule and reign with him as his celestial bride. Therefore, as those radically identified with Christ, we are willing to bear temporary reproach from the world for his sake. Now, we had an experience at CalArts University, We took some people witnessing last Wednesday night, and I would say normally we are very well received. But these two young men, like sniffer dogs, figured out we were there to share the gospel, and they went on the offense really fast.

Anthony was in the next room, having a very favorable witnessing time with someone from Tehran, Iran. But we were matched up with these two young men, and by the end of our conversation, they described the words of life coming from Christ as poison and that we had committed a great travesty coming onto their turf to try to change their deepest core beliefs isn't that amazing and that's just a small amount of persecution for Christ's sake it hurt we had a lot of adrenaline our hearts were beating fast one guy who'd never gone witnessing before his heart was still beating fast when he drove home he was still anxious about the event so the true Christian is willing to take a few insults for Christ's sake and even more the true Christian is willing to suffer for Christ's sake and look at our text it says it says in our text heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ if indeed we suffer with him but notice Paul's logic in verse 18 he's weighing things one thing against another he's weighing the eternal glory to come against temporary light suffering and affliction. So Paul says, I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. So do you follow his logic there? Paul is always weighing one thing against another.

The infinite privilege of knowing Christ versus everything on earth that could give you glory and honor. And Paul says, everything on earth that could give you glory and honor by comparison with the privilege of knowing Christ is rubbish by comparison. Philippians chapter 3. So what about this willingness to suffer for Christ? The spirit is willing to lead you into that courage to be willing to take an insult for Christ.

That's a function of God's spirit. It's not just your own ability to have a stiff upper lip and say, I'm willing to take a risk for Christ. It's the Holy Spirit that produces that virtue and that character quality in you. It says in 2 Timothy 312, all who desire to live righteously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. So if you're trying to get through life here without taking any heat for being a Christian, be careful.

Because all who desire to live righteously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, it's inescapable if you're a true believer. Some type of social ostracism will mark you out. Paul even says in Colossus 1-24, I'm doing my part in filling up that which is lacking in Christ's afflictions. In other words, the world is not done afflicting Jesus. They can't get to him because he's in glory, and so they will aim that affliction at his followers.

And so this willingness to suffer some ridicule, some mockery, some actual physical suffering for the sake of Christ, is evidence that we are truly heirs with him and will inherit a matchless, glory to come. That's why Paul says, look, this is sort of like a prerequisite here. It says, we're going to inherit this glory if indeed we suffer with him. So those willing to suffer with Christ have faith to see the infinite privilege of this coming kingdom. They've assessed the priceless weight of glory to come, and they have said, I am willing to suffer some inconvenience for the sake of Jesus.

I'm willing to do that. So our diagnostic here under number seven. Those who are led by the Spirit do much more than simply maintain a high level of ethics. They see the eternal value of reigning with Christ, and therefore they've counted all things as loss compared to the privilege of knowing Jesus. By contrast, those who are according to the flesh, that is Paul's term, for a person who does not have the Spirit, a person is not born again.

Those who are according to the flesh are ultimately, going to reveal themselves as not friends of the cross because their core values are wrapped up in temporal things. Paul says in Philippians 3, 18, and 19, if you set your highest values on temporal things, you're an enemy of the cross. And so we must be controlled by an appetite for the kingdom. This has to seize our affections and affect us that our citizenship is with Christ and heaven, our true citizenship. Well, these are all leading us in the direction of, I mean, Paul is just, the sequence in these marks is just so rational.

The more I study this chapter, the more amazed I am, how one mark of salvation leads us to the next one. And so mark number eight at the bottom of page four, those who are led by the spirit are eagerly awaiting Christ's return. They're longing for Christ's return. I find that that grows cool easily because there's so many things that vie for our attention down here. It seems like days go by sometimes when I'm not longing for Christ's return.

I've got to go back to the text and let this feed my appetite and my heart affections for the Lord. So I just want to be honest with you. This longing for Christ's return is not something we usually experience 12 hours a day. It requires the Word of God to inflame our affections. Now, our text says something fascinating about the present state of planet Earth.

It says in verse 19, for the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God, for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of him who was subjected it in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God, for we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth until now. Lots of metaphors there and a number of literary devices. The first literary device we see is personification. Paul takes the whole creation and says it is groaning. I watch a lot of nature programs.

I see these poor caribou up in the Arctic Circle, eaten alive by black flies and mosquitoes, sometimes stampeding just to get away from these bugs in their eyes and nostrils. That's part of creation groaning, waiting to be delivered into this new paradise where creation is not red in tooth and claw, predation is not dominating the African savannah, but there's a new type of harmony. The lamb will lie down with a lion. The child will play over the den of a cobra. got these promises of millennial peace when the curse is lifted but for the time being the whole creation is groaning I take that to mean even the inanimate creation even star systems are being eaten by black holes and stars are exploding into nebula and consuming neighboring stars this whole groaning of the creation is because of the judicial curse of God it goes all the way back to Adam's disobedience all the way back there when God says I will curse the ground and the earth for your sake because of your disobedience.

And so suddenly Adam does not have an effortless planetary kingship. Suddenly his effortless ability to move around palm trees and mango trees and create a flower garden for Eve and not without a drop of sweat. Suddenly everything is resisted by mildew, drought, blight, insect, canker worm, all these things that destroy agriculture. We have a curse on the earth right now, and it's a judicial judgment of God. But the promise of our text was it was subjected in hope.

Someday, that curse will be lifted. Someday that curse will be gone. Someday the lamb will lie down with a lion, and nature will not be red in tooth and claw. And the fascinating thing about our chapter is the whole creation is waiting for an event. Yes, it's waiting for its liberation from the curse, but it's also waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

God. Just let that sink in a moment. God has synchronized the lifting of the curse with your public revelation to the rational universe. When you are revealed as the glorified sons and daughters of God publicly before the myriads of angels at that same moment, the curse will be lifted from the universe. That's what Paul is saying here.

This is why the whole creation is waiting, verse 19, for the revealing of the sons of God. Every bit of suffering in the universe now is poised, waiting, groaning for our revelation as the sons of God. See, the final installment of your sonship is glorification. And that's why it says, it says right here, we are eagerly waiting, verse 23, we're eagerly waiting for our adoption as sons. I thought we already were adopted.

We are. But the final installment of your adoption is glorification. And so God has synchronized your glorification with the liberation of the universe from the curse. Now you can't even open the newspaper today without seeing stuff about going green and deep ecology. And I'll quote John MacArthur, ecology is great, but God is going to ruin the planet during the tribulation.

He's really going to wreck it during the tribulation. And so the ultimate going green, the ultimate deep ecology is when the curse is lifted and the sons of God are revealed publicly to the rational universe, to all these angels. waiting and watching to see you go from polluted dust to just like Jesus. The whole universe is poised for that moment. And this has to capture our imagination.

This has to capture our affections. It's got to take hold of us. Do you long to be rid of sin, put your weapons down, and have your resurrection body? If you do, that will affect the way you live. Do you long to see even the creation delivered from weakness, decay, corruption, disease?

I do. When I watch a nature program and a baby wildebeest is about to get eaten, I change the channel because I know that's part of the curse. Just bloody, cruel predation is not part of God's original creation. Death is the great intruder. Decay, corruption, disease is the great intruder, and that will be lifted and removed permanently at the glorification of the sons of God.

Is your hope fixed on this? Is your hope animated? by this. Do you eagerly await Christ's return? And all that comes with it, everything that comes with it, says in our text that we are eagerly awaiting his return with perseverance, verse 25.

Are you persevering in awaiting Christ's return? Remember the wise and foolish virgins in Christ's parable. It was only the wise virgins who were perseverant. They had enough oil to persevere until the bridegroom appeared. The foolish virgins did not.

And so part of our job as we come to scripture is keep this eagerness alive. Keep this hope alive. Feed your hope on this promise. So look at the diagnostic at the top, near the top of page 5, just in analyzing how this mark affects us practically. Those who are led by the Spirit will manifest a spirit engendered perseverance in eagerly awaiting for Christ's return.

They do not cool off for long. to the point of caring little for Christ's return. Instead, they're controlled by the hope of Christ's return. By contrast, the false believer has only a probability hope. I hope things work out spiritually at the end of my life.

That's not spirit-led hope. Spirit-led hope says, I am eagerly waiting his return with stamina, with endurance, with perseverance. I have loyalty to Christ that gives me a willingness to put sin to death. So we have an eagerness to receive our resurrection bodies. See, that means every time we groan in a sickness, in an ailment, under an affliction, being misunderstood by people, tripping over the same sin that we just can't seem to eradicate.

All this groaning is meant to inflame our hope that someday we will no longer groan when that curse is lifted. When the sons of God are revealed, the universe will be changed, God has synchronized our public revelation with the deliverance of this universe from entropy, the curse, decay, and deterioration. I'll tell you, there's tens of thousands of PhDs. I used to do some work for Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and one day I was illustrating there, and they had a convention of astronomers. And all these guys had pipes.

an astronomer smoking a pipe. It's just so iconic. They're all smoking their pipes, talking about the latest star system and the bigger lens they're getting and everything else. But not one of these men has ever thought about the fact that a deteriorating universe is traceable to Adam's sin, and a deteriorating universe will be eliminated when the sons of God are revealed. These guys know everything there is to know about astronomy, except the major thing.

Someday God's going to remake the universe. All right. Mark, number, Number nine, those who are led by the Spirit are those who pray in the Spirit. That is, they manifest dependency on the Spirit. They're ever aware of the Spirit's ministry that it's needed by them to assist them in their prayers and petitions to the Heavenly Father.

And where do I get that from? Verses 26 through 30. It says, and in the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. There's our word again groanings.

And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. I love these verses here. This is a mirror we're looking into. This is a searching passage about your prayer life. And the issue really is this.

When you pray, are you aware you need the Spirit's assistance. We're not just bringing a laundry list to God trying to soften up and mollify God to get him to do certain things for us. When we pray, we are praying that we might be adjusted to God's will. We're not trying to adjust God to our will. We want to be adjusted to God's will.

And see, prayer changes us. It doesn't change God. It changes us. We've got to get that through our heads. It says that those who do not receive their request, James 4.3, are praying for things to use on their pleasures.

But the true Christian is praying for advances in holiness and loyalty and putting sin to death and service and fruitfulness. The true Christian is praying for those things first and foremost. What a contrast there is, revealed in James 4.3. Now, notice that the Spirit's interceding for us, because we don't know how to pray as we should. Sometimes we're just at a loss for words.

But the wonderful thing is the Holy Spirit and interceding for you knows what you really need. It's like he takes your prayer and, you know, changes a little bit, and then your prayer is in line with God's will because he knows what you really need and what you really need is Christ-likeness. That's what you really need. I've had some stomach problems lately, kind of an irritated stomach. and it's been wonderful but humbling to share my requests with some of my brothers because they'll say, oh, Jay, can I pray with you?

So I'm thinking, man, they're going to pray a really passionate prayer. Make that problem go away. But instead what they prayed was sanctify Jay through this. Help him to learn all the things he doesn't know and needs to know and all the areas in his life he doesn't see that are out of line. I mean, this guy's got his arm on my shoulder praying those things.

Hey, I just asked for my stomach, not for sanctification. But see, that's really the issue here. When the Spirit intercedes for you, he's interceding in a way that advances your sanctification. Now, what's one of the most common verses quoted out of context in the Bible? Romans 828.

We know that God causes all things to work together for good, to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose, and then we just forget the context. But the working together for good is not just so, so you get the right car, the right job, the right spouse, all things together for good here, the good is defined in the following verses. Now, yes, God is concerned about many things in our earthly welfare, and he does minister to us in terms of the needs of our earthly welfare, but the good is defined for us in the verses that follow. The good toward which God is working all things together is defined for us in verse 29. For whom he foreknew, that's all the elect, all who will be saved, that is to love ahead of time, he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his son that he might be the first born among many brethren.

Jesus wants a bride with his virtues. Jesus wants a bride with his character qualities. Jesus wants a bride he can present before the rational universe without spot and wrinkle dressed in white, and his sanctifying work is producing a bride like that. You see, God does not change. We're the ones that have to change.

God is getting us ready for this presentation before the Father and the Son. He's getting us ready for this presentation. So the good toward which he is working is that we might be conformed to the moral image of Jesus Christ. So every time I quote that verse, God works all things together for good. I better add verse 29.

mind. Lord, you're working toward the good of me being conformed to the moral likeness of Jesus. In order that, Jesus might have a bride that pleases him. See, it says Jesus will be the first born among many brethren. That's the church.

That's the church. I think this would change the way I prayed. If I really believe that the Holy Spirit's there, assisting me and interceding for me in all my prayers, making sure everything dovetails into this master plan of making me like Christ. I think that would change the way I prayed. I've got to go back and review this chapter because the Holy Spirit's there superintending all my prayers making sure that it goes into that ultimate master plan of conforming me to the image of Christ.

And so I take this verse also to me in Romans 828. He causes all things to work together for good. I use that as a, I look at that all as a comprehensive, In other words, God has the ability to waste nothing in your life's experiences. He can take every blessing, every humbling, every advancement, every promotion, every demotion, every loss, cross, gift, honor, dishonor, affliction, discipline. He can take all of that, every sigh, every tear, and cycle it into your holiness.

God does not waste a single tear, a single sigh, a single moment of dejection. He recycles all of that into your conformity to Christ. See, that's the great promise. He causes all things to work together for good. Now, when the Puritans preached to their parishioners, they used to say, people improve the situation.

Whatever you're going through, losses, crosses, advancements, or demotions improve the situation. And what the Puritans meant was this. use every occasion to think and act biblically because God is determined in his power and boundless wisdom to make everything in your life experience redound to your sanctification. God is determined to make everything in your life experience accrue to your sanctification. That is God's great purpose.

God is doing that. He has a master plan. He wants to present you before the watching universe. without spot and wrinkle, dressed in white, conformed to the moral image of Jesus Christ. I think it would affect the way we pray, if we really believe that, that the Holy Spirit's interceding, knowing what the mind of the Father is.

And so the diagnostic at the top of page six here is this. Again, this mark is addressing our spiritual sight. We have to see past the temporal issues of personal welfare to the ultimate good and goal of the Father, which is to make the elect like Christ. We have to see past our temporal circumstances and pray in radical dependency on the Spirit knowing that he's working through our groaning, our longing and our yearning to make us like the Son of God. You have to make sure that we're thinking in that particular way.

All right, mark number 10, there's only one after Mark number 10, and we've completed the 11 marks here. Mark number 10, those led by the Spirit depend upon Christ, their advocate, to silence any charge of condemnation against them. One of the most telling marks of the true child of God is how you do the bookkeeping of your conscience. The true child of God sees by faith in the Word of God that is heavenly high priest Christ Jesus is standing at the right hand of the Father, interceding on behalf of the saints. And so when we think of Christ's work on the cross and his resurrection, that is the finished work of Christ.

But theologians refer to his constant intercession on your behalf as his unfinished work. The unfinished work of Christ is he's up there interceding for you day and night. He ever lives to make intercession for us. And he's pleading the merits of his blood on our behalf. Christ, therefore, is able to silence any charge of legal guilt.

against his people. He does so by pleading the merits of his own blood, and that shed blood silences the demand of justice for the laws of God that we have trampled and put underfoot. So Christ ever lives to make intercession for us, Hebrews 725. And so all the charges brought by the accuser, and that's one of Satan's names, the accuser, all the charges brought against the saints by the accuser amount to nothing. Those charges cannot stick because Christ has nailed that accusatory document to his own cross and paid for those charges with his own life blood.

This ought to be a comfort to us. But the application question today is this. How do you do the bookkeeping of your conscience? How do you try to balance the spreadsheet of your conscience? Do you try to weigh your good deeds and your spiritual duties against your failings?

Or do you have no other argument or no other plea than the one heard in heaven that Christ's blood is there to silence all the charges against you? Dear people, the false believer looks to some other method to balance his conscience. And it is a universal experience among the human race to always be trying to deal with a defiled conscience. That is a universal experience. The question is, how do you balance your conscience?

By church by giving personal reformation, comparing yourself to others, or do you do the bookkeeping of your conscience by being led by the Spirit to the atonement? See, the Holy Spirit is willing to lead you to the atonement. He never tires of pointing to the blood. The Holy Spirit never gets weary of pointing to the blood. You cannot wear out the atonement.

The Holy Spirit keeps pointing the true child of God to the blood of Christ as the foundation for, freedom from guilt and condemnation. So those who are led by the Spirit, that's the true child of God, they keep running to the atonement every time they fail morally. They keep running to the atonement. They see the matchless power of Christ advocacy, and therefore they want his blood on their behalf to silence their conscience accusations. They wouldn't settle for anything else.

Arc 11, and then we're finished. Those who are led by the Spirit are controlled by Christ's love. Christ's love is the animating principle in their lives. We're told in the end of this text that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. Nothing shall do that.

Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword. I'm in verse 35. Nothing can do that. It says we overwhelmingly conquer through him. Verse 37.

I think it's fascinating that the revelation martyrs who were killed because of their faith in Christ are described as having conquered even the efforts of the Antichrist, even though the Antichrist killed them, it says they conquered by means of the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ was their conquering weapon. So no false law passed against them demanding their execution could stand. They're the ones who will reign. so nothing can separate us from this love of Christ and what does that look like practically in our Christian walk we face a lot of trials and I'm tempted just as you are to live by circumstances and to walk by sight and I've got to keep returning to Holy Scripture to understand that it is Christ's love that's meant to animate me and control me not my circumstances it's his love that puts in us a backbone of steel making us say no to sins invitations.

It's his love that makes us willing to take up our cross daily and deny ourselves. It's his love that controlled Paul, the apostle. For the apostle Paul says in Galatians 220, I live by faith in him who loved me and delivered himself up for me. And the implication in Galatians 220 is this, I live upon Gethsemini love which made Christ willing to be betrayed for me. That love which was willing to be betrayed for me, his willingness to have that treacherous kiss from Judas, that's the love I'm living by, his Gethsemini love.

See, that's to see a love that's so vast and so extensive, it makes you willing to deny yourself and follow Christ. But more than that, this is more than simply propositional. This is more than just a propositional statement that God moved heaven and earth, so Christ could become incarnate, become mortal, and die in your place. It's more than that, because we're told in the book of Romans that the Holy Spirit sheds this love abroad in the heart of the true believer. So there is a subjective experience of this love.

It's not simply doctrinal and propositional that you put your faith in it. There is a real experience. Now Puritans, and you've heard Scott's sermon this morning, the Puritans weren't very eager to extend assurance of salvation to everybody who made a profession of faith. They were a little bit conservative on extending assurance of salvation. But one thing the Puritans agreed upon, if you have tasted this otherworldly love, if you've ever experienced this love, you are saved for all eternity.

If you've ever experienced this love, you will experience it forever. If you've ever experienced this love, you will taste it for all time and all eternity. Isn't that interesting? The Puritans who were so conservative in giving assurance said, if you've known this love, if you've tasted the love of God should have brought in your heart by the spirit, you are a saved person forever. Because God does not give this love experience to someone who does not know Jesus.

This love experience is only given to a truly born-again person sealed by the spirit. So just in closing, what does this have to do with our walk? these 11 marks that we've seen, I believe it's a multi-dimensional portrait of the believer's faith in action. I believe these are behaviors you cannot produce, but when you're rightly adjusted to the Holy Spirit, these 11 marks will exist in your life. I also believe that a person filled with the spirit, these marks are normative.

They're not just reserved for missionaries and pastors. These marks are normative in your Christian life. They describe how the spirit leads a true believer in his daily wall, and I believe these 11 marks provide an incredibly useful tool for us to exhort, admonish, disciple, and counsel one another and thereby stimulate one another to love and good deeds. So I pray that you'll use this in your own ministry. I've already talked to several brothers who are using this handout in the people their disciples.

So I encourage you to get into Romans 8 yourself and dig out these treasures and allow the spirit to lead you into these behaviors. behaviors. All right, before we eat, we have a good five or ten minutes to do discussion. And we would welcome that discussion from you. And oh good, we get to lay hands on the birds.

I was wondering if you get to do that. Wow, would you folks come up here? We're going to let the questions wait a minute. and I want Jake to come up here, Jake Ebner, and we're going to lay hands on the birds. Would you tell the class what your next move is?

Up to Northern California. We're moving all our stuff up there in the Modesto area where we're going to head over to Israel.