Evidence Of The Grace Of God

Now Antioch, and we'll talk about this more next week as we develop this and go through chapter 11. Antioch is becoming now the focus or the central place of Christianity. It's moving from the central focus of Jerusalem and will actually move to Antioch. The mission work and everything else is going to just move out of Antioch from this point on. We'll see the Jerusalem council back in chapter 15

and we'll see as Paul comes back to Jerusalem towards the end of Acts, we'll see him coming into Jerusalem to the disciples again. But the primary focus and the emphasis of ministry is going to come out of Antioch. Now Antioch in the Roman Empire was one of the second largest cities in the empire, fully corrupt. I mean it was really almost worse than Corinth.

If you know anything about the Bible and about what the Corinthian church had to face, Antioch was almost worse than that. And so when the disciples in Jerusalem heard that people were getting saved in Antioch, they're Gentiles, they wanted to send somebody to check it out. But evidently the other disciples were all tied up with other things. Peter had been with Cornelius in Caesarea and was given an account of that in the first part of chapter 11.

And the other apostles were evidently swamped and they got a hold of Barnabas and sent Barnabas up to check out this movement of God in Antioch. And he comes to Antioch and verse 23 says, When he arrived and he saw the evidence of the grace of God. And that was my intention to talk about that today. What is the evidence of the grace of God? How do we see that?

We have it here. God's grace is abundantly being poured out upon our fellowship here. When he saw the evidence of the grace of God, then he was glad. And then this half of the verse is what the Lord really emphasized to my heart. And he encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all of their hearts. He encouraged them after seeing God's grace upon them,

seeing the reality of what had happened that these heathen had been saved, these Gentiles, this goyim, this wretch among wretches had turned to Christ. He was excited, saw God's grace, but he encouraged them that they would remain true to the Lord with all of their hearts. And that just lit up to me and it goes right along with what we heard about finishing well.

And He's encouraging us now to hang on. Don't let go. Trust the Lord. Remain true to the Lord with all of your hearts and seek to finish well. Pastor Chuck had an article as he began the conference that he held up. And I shared this morning at first service that it was out of the Orange County Register, but Ann properly reminded me it was out of the Modesto Journal.

And Pastor Damian Kyle from Modesto had brought it to Chuck and it was the May 2nd edition. And on the cover, on the front page, it was a full page article and there was a huge picture of this fellow named Charles Templeton. Now you may not, most of you here may not be old enough to remember, but back in the late 40s and early 50s when Billy Graham started his Tent Crusades, the first one that really kicked off his mighty move of God in his life across our country was in 1949 in Los Angeles. And at that same time in Canada, there was a man named Charles Templeton who began doing the Crusades just as Billy Graham did and was having tremendous success.

He became part of the staff of the Billy Graham Foundation, of Billy Graham Ministries. And Chuck and Greg Laurie were in Albuquerque the Thursday before the conference started with Billy and Franklin Graham at Franklin Graham Crusade. And Chuck shared that Billy shared with him that there was a time there during the early 50s that he thought that Charles Templeton would actually be his successor, that when time came, he would just hand the baton to Charles Templeton. A very charismatic individual, very gifted in his preaching.

Pastor Chuck said that he never met him, but he had heard him preach. And he was a very gifted preacher. But along the mid to late 50s, he ended up leaving the ministry and denouncing Christianity. And then has most recently, and this is what the article in the Modesto Journal was sharing, that he's written a book that's called Farewell to God. And in it, he goes ahead and delineates his ideas and feelings

about the fallacies of the Christian faith, about how trusting God is really just a placebo and there is no God. He declares himself to be an agnostic. And Pastor Chuck shared what the article didn't mention was that the reason he left the ministry back in the 50s was he became involved in an extramarital affair. And he was confronted with that affair and was given the choice.

He could either choose to leave the ministry and that or choose to call an end to the affair, which was an affront. And he chose to leave the ministry. He chose to follow his flesh and pursue his physical relationship than to follow the Lord and pursue his spiritual relationship with his Heavenly Father. And he didn't finish well. And the sad thing is, it's not just happening with pastors or Billy Grahams.

It's happening in the body of Christ, left and right.

These two nations dislike each other. There's always been a rivalry there. Now that they both have nuclear weapons, plus India doesn't like China. India and China have fought several conflicts with each other. What's going to happen in that particular area of the world? Things are very unstable. At the same time, we have Indonesia, the unrest that happened in Indonesia.

if that economy goes down, most of Asia will go down. It'll pull most of Asia down with it. If it does, it's going to affect the entire world. Just because they're 10,000 miles away and that's happening over there and if they have nuclear war, well, the fallout will eventually get here. It's not just, you can't isolate it anymore. You can't isolate yourself from it and say, well, that's them over there

and as long as I get three squares a day and can still go out and do whatever I want to do, I'm okay. It's not going to happen that way. If their economy goes down, it's going to affect the economies of the world. We're ripe for the Antichrist. We're ripe for the global community to come into being. We're right there. We're on the verge of some wars and skirmishes.

Israel is having problems with the Palestinians in the area. Hillary this past week made a statement that she's fully supportive of a full Palestinian state according to their agreements, the Palestinian agreements as far as boundaries and borders are concerned. That's a 180 degree turn from what the United States has done up to this point. It caused a conflict and Netanyahu who was supposed to come and have a summit with Bill Clinton declined to come because of that statement and they're trying to do damage control and say, well, it really wasn't that statement.

But the hearts of the liberal American society are coming out and the Christians seemingly are silent where this is concerned because we're at that point where, don't rock my boat, I'm still doing okay,

ship of our country, but don't rock the boat." Well, it's going to get rocked. God's shaking everything. He's shaking the foundations, and everything that's not of Him is going to crumble. So watch it. We're ripe. We're ripe for Russia to be provoked into moving down into the Middle East. Ezekiel 38 and 39 being fulfilled. So we're at the end. Don't drift. Don't let go. Hold on tight to your trust in the Lord.

finish well. Saul had so many things going for him. We've been in 1 and we're starting into 2 Samuel on Wednesday nights, but we did this over a period of months in 1 Samuel. Chapter 9. There was a Benjamite, verse 1, a man of standing whose name was Kish, son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bekorah, the son of Aphia, Benjamin. And he had a son named Saul, an impressive young man without equal among the Israelites, a head taller

than any of the others. Now just in those two verses you see a tremendous opportunity, a tremendous start that Saul had. He was a Benjamite. He was the son of, verse 1, a man with standing. That's a man with means, a man of wealth, a man of influence. Although he was from Benjamin, which was the smallest tribe in the nation of Israel, his dad and

King James, I think New American Standard says he was handsome. He was good looking. And not only that, it says without equal among the Israelites, he was the better looking of all of them. So not only did he have family position and family money behind him, he was good looking. He was very attractive. How many of you would like to have one of those? Not only that, it says that he was a head taller than any of the others. So he was a

man of stature, head taller. You know, the big thing now is size matters, you know, Godzilla being released. And everything now you're going to see is size matters with everything. And size does matter to a certain extent. Our God is an awesome God, without equal. But Saul was a head taller. He was a big guy, good looking guy, wealthy, good family background.

his heart. And you read in the text that the Spirit of God came upon him and changed his heart. He had a new heart that day, walking with the Lord with the anointing of the Spirit of God. But God begins to give him victory. God begins to bless his efforts as king. And Saul begins to listen to what the people are saying. And he begins to be concerned more with what the people are saying than with what God wants him to do. And the fascinating

thing is, as you read about the life of Saul in 1 Samuel, is from the point of his anointing on, he does not inquire of the Lord anymore. He feels like he's got it together. The Spirit of God has come upon him and he's seeing great victory in these different areas. And he's doing what he thinks is good stuff and moving along with the anointing of God so that he doesn't seek God anymore. He doesn't take time to ask God what he wants him to do or

if he's doing correctly what he should be doing. He just wants the approval of the people and he wants to appease his own flesh. He's the king after all. And so Samuel rebukes him, sends him on a mission to go to the Amalekites and just totally wipe them out. This is what God wants you to do is go wipe out the Amalekites. Don't leave anything breathing, man or beast.

And you know the story. Saul goes down and wipes most of them out but saves the best of the flocks and of the herds for himself to bring back. And he leaves King Agag alive and brings him back. And he meets Samuel. Samuel comes to him later after he gets back. And in between the time that he comes back and the time Samuel meets him, he goes to Mount Carmel and erects a monument to himself. Builds a great monument to himself. He's really

pleased with himself. And Samuel comes and he says to Saul, did you do what the Lord said? And he says, yes I did. And Samuel says, well what's all the bleeding of the sheep and all that I hear? Oh, well these are the sacrifices that we brought back to offer to God. And Samuel says, stop. He puts his hands over his ears and says, stop. Just stop. But I've done the Lord's bidding. No you didn't. You were disobedient. Don't you

know that God cherishes obedience? Obedience is better than sacrifice, than the sacrifice of a thousand rams, a thousand sheep. And he says that God has removed now the kingdom from you, Saul, and he's giving it to someone else. And Samuel turns to leave and Saul reaches out and grabs the hem of his robe and it tears. And Samuel looks and he says, in the same

way, so God is tearing the kingdom away from you. He's torn it out of your hands, Saul. And Saul, the text says that Saul, and Saul repents and says, I'm sorry. But immediately he says, but don't go away. You know, would you do me the honor of coming out with me

as to how the battle's going to go. He'd fallen so far. He could have been and should have been great in the eyes of the Lord. Now he was seeking the occult for answers. And he goes into battle and it was, Samuel told him, you're going to die and Jonathan's going to die and Saul becomes mortally wounded in battle and is nearing death and the Philistines are approaching and he tells his armor bearer, run me through lest they come and make sport

of me. He knew that because he was alive they would torture him to death but they would do it by making sport of him in front of the Philistines, in front of not only the army but the people in the cities that they would take him back to. They would not only torture him, that wasn't the thing that was scaring him is that he wouldn't look good in front of the people. So he begged his armor bearer to run him through. His armor bearer

of course didn't and Saul had to take his own life, falling upon his own sword, ending

want to back off and just kind of go and pray that you can just go and eat a bite of food and leave without any kind of confrontation, without anybody saying anything to you about your faith, without you having to take a stand for your faith where that's concerned. You just want to kind of follow along and not make waves because you've gotten to the point where you're more concerned with what people think. Or maybe it's your job. On your job you get all the stuff from your fellow employees and they're always razzing you and they're always doing things to you because they know you're a Christian and you've heard that your bosses are not too up on Christianity and Christians and so you don't want your faith

to really show because you might lose a chance for a promotion or you might lose face in the eyes of your employers or maybe you're in school and you've got it tougher because you're around kids who want to be cool, want to look cool, want to say cool or hot or whatever the vernacular is now for in or with it. You want to be the bomb and that's out, whatever it is. You want to be that and do that. And to be a Christian and although WWJD is kind of fashionable now, you don't want to wear anything else that might really indicate or

on to me. Another one who started well, and you're in Samuel, go to your left to Judges chapter 13. Judges chapter 13, another one who started well, and you know the story behind him, but we'll just kind of highlight it, was Samson. Started well. Judges chapter 13 is where the areas of Samson's life begin. And in the first few verses we see that Samson's mother

was met by an angel. Actually, verse 3 says, the angel of the Lord. And usually the designation for the angel of the Lord, probably the angel of the Lord in the Old Testament, was the pre-incarnate Christ. She probably met with Jesus. And in rehearsing to her husband what the angel had said down in verse 7, she says that the angel said to me, you will conceive

and give birth to a son and now then drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not

you would cut your hair, shave your head or whatever, and present that, give that to the priest, and they would lay it on the altar and offer it as part of the offering, showing that your vow was complete before the Lord. That's what Paul was doing when he came back to Jerusalem on his final time to Jerusalem before he was arrested. He came to the disciples and they said, well, there's a lot of unrest because of what people have heard about you. Why don't you take these brothers that were going to fulfill their vows and you go fulfill

began to stir him. So God was blessing him as he was born and he was growing and he was growing in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, much like we read about John the Baptist. And the spirit of the Lord was stirring him, was upon him and gave him great strength, strength beyond that of the normal human. But then immediately in chapter 14 we read, and Samson went down, verse 1, Samson went

among our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised? Timnah was in Philistine territory. Timnah was the city of the enemy. And so Samson had moved into the enemy's camp, boldly and brashly, not for anything for the Lord, not on a mission from God to move in and snatch a coal out

Your brain fires. You have neurons that fire electrically. Patterns. Certain patterns that help with thought. Your thought processes with memory. Those are all firings. It's a computer. Your brain is like a computer that... The computers that are designed today are designed after some of the processes of the human mind. They can't get one close enough. It's as close as the mind is, but the mind fires.

And you remember things because your mind has fired certain patterns, certain ways. And it's just like a road that's been etched in the sand. You come back to that road and follow it. And with men, with pornography, it's a hook. It's an addiction. And you can't dabble in that. You can't just kind of look and, well, I just get this for the articles because the articles are so good.

Your brain fires after seeing those things. All of a sudden, your wife doesn't look as good anymore. And she's not doing the things that you want her to do, that you've seen these things happen. And so your fleshly life is not being fulfilled, your physical life. And so you seek other things. And it's a hook of the enemy. You can't dabble. You can't go into Satan's camp and just dabble and not get hurt.

You'll get burned. You can't just go to a party. And, well, this is just, you know, this is just, this isn't a real strong drink. It's just a cooler or just a wine or whatever. And you just take it. It's all right. You know, it's nothing big deal. You can't dabble. You can't go to the enemy's camp and just dabble in these areas and not get burned. You can't just go, you know, just a little, just a little bit of a joint, man.

What's a little joint going to hurt? A little joint's not going to hurt anything. A little snort of coke just make you feel better. You can't. There are certain places Christians ought not be. There are certain things we ought not be viewing. And yet now they're pumping it with more and more brazenness into our homes. And if you're not selective, you're going to get dissuaded.

You're going to get moved and you'll end up going, how did I get here? You'll wake up in the middle of shambles and destruction and wonder, how did I get here? Oh, you know the story with Samson. That particular incident didn't work out in Timnah. Later, he goes and visits a prostitute in this certain town, moving further and further from the things of the Lord.

God's Spirit's still upon him, though. It's amazing. God's grace and God's love for you and I is so amazing and so strong that even when we're stupid, His Spirit is still there with us. His Spirit still moves with us. He loves us. His grace is still there abundantly. But Samson got to the point where he saw another woman named Delilah again in Philistine country, in the country of the enemies.

Marries her, and you know the story. Right from the beginning, the Philistines come and hire her to find out her husband's secret of his strength.

Make yourself comfortable. Why don't you take a nap? You know, it's just, you had a rough day, I know. And so he goes to sleep and she calls the Philistines in and they bind him with these green vines. And she says, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. And he jumps out of bed and he, the spirit of God is upon him. And he pops those vines as though they were nothing.

And he cleans house with all the Philistines. His wife says, Samson, you're playing games with me. You didn't tell me the truth. Now, what's the secret of your strength? And he says, well, it's new ropes. You know, they bound me with old ropes before when the Israelites turned me over to the Philistines. And I just popped those old ropes, real easy. So you bind me with new ropes, though, and I'll be disabled.

I'll be weak, just like any other man. And so she says, well, Samson, come on over here and take another nap. You know, just lay down. Been a rough day. And just put your feet up for a while and take a rest. And while he's asleep, she brings in the Philistines and they bind him with new ropes. And they get him bound, and she yells, Samson, the Philistines are upon you.

And the Spirit of the Lord is upon him. And he jumps up and he pops those ropes as if they were flax, as if they were nothing. And he cleans house with the Philistines. Well, now Delilah is upset with him and begins to cry, as women do. Samson, you haven't been honest with me at all. Now, what's the secret of your strength? And he says, well, if you take my hair and braid it and weave it

into the blocks on a loom, then I'll be as weak and helpless as any other man. And she says, Samson, come here and lay down and take the load off and just get some rest. So again, he goes to sleep. And she calls the Philistines in. And they weave his hair in amongst the loom. And then she hollers, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. And he jumps up again.

The Spirit of God is upon him. And he jumps up and rips the whole loom and falls apart as he jumps up and just tears it apart. And he cleans house with the Philistines again. Well, now Delilah is beside herself. And she just moans and groans and says, Samson, I thought we could trust each other. And you've just proven that you're a liar and that I can't trust you at all.

Now, it's interesting that the first two times weren't even close to the truth. But the third time, he's moved now closer to the area of his strength, moved into revealing the fact that his hair has something to do with it, moving in closer to a surrender to the suggestions of evil. But this last time, he finally says, well, if you shave my head, then I'll be weak as any other man. And so she gets him some warm milk and says, Samson, why don't you come over here and just lay down, put your head in my lap.

He lays down, goes to sleep. And they bring in the Philistine barber and has a razor there and shaves his head. And she yells, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. And he jumped up as before. But the text says, but he did not realize that the Spirit of God had left him. So much into the areas of the enemy's camp, so much consumed by his lust that he didn't even

realize that the Spirit of God had left him. And the Philistines jumped upon him and they took sticks and they gouged out his eyes first. First thing they did was took his eyes. And sin is so blinding. You think you're OK. You think you're in control. You can flirt a little. It's OK. Everybody flirts a little. But then you're blinded to the extent that you've gone.

You fantasize in your mind, and then the opportunity's there. And you're blinded to how close you really are to stepping off that edge into sin, into being fully consumed by the sin, because sin blinds. Then they take Samson and they took him to the mill in the area of the Philistines' cities. And with brass or bronze shackles and chains, they chained him to a millstone and forced him to grind the barley that was there.

Started strong, started great, anointed by God, consecrated to the Lord. Now blinded by sin and in bondage and shackles, bondage to sin, life ruined. Finally, they bring Samson to the temple of one of their gods and stand him up between the pillars and seek to make sport of him. And Samson prays. He prays, oh, sovereign Lord, remember me. Oh, God, please strengthen me just once more

and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes. Let me die with the Philistines. And the Spirit of God came upon him one last time. His hair had begun to grow again. And God's Spirit came upon him one last time. And he had the servant boy that brought him out there place his hands on the two pillars. And with all of his strength, he pushed and he separated,

moved those pillars out from their standings, from their foundations. And the whole Colosseum area that they were in, the area of the temple area for their god, collapsed. And over 3,000 people were killed. And Samson ended up killing more in his death than he did in his life. But what a pitiful ending to a life that could have been so strong for the Lord, that

should have finished well for the Lord. But he was destroyed by his own lust, venturing into the enemy camp. Where are you where that's concerned? Have you been kind of dabbling in the enemy's camp? You've been kind of dabbling with areas of sin. You've been fantasizing certain things, having these romantic fantasies, or fantasizing that if you were in control, you'd

take care of these problems. You'd work these things out. You wouldn't do this or do that. And those are underhanded kind of things. And all of a sudden, the door's going to open. And you're going to find yourself in destruction and wonder, how did I get here? What did I ever do? How come I couldn't see it coming? I never fail to read Judges and read that area of Samson

going, how could you be so stupid? Four times she did this, you know? And then there's always those fingers pointing back at you. And you remember that circumstance you got into. And you go, how could I have ever been so stupid as to do that? How could I have said those things or done that? How could I? And I find I'm just as susceptible as Samson. Now, the scriptures are full, though,

of those who did finish well. Many did finish well. David began well, stumbled in the middle, repented, confessed his sin, and finished well, so much so that when his life is recounted elsewhere in scripture, his sin isn't even mentioned, because God has taken and removed it. As far as from the east is from the west. That's what God does with you and I. We stumble all the time.

Presuming upon God's grace is saying, I'm going to stumble anyhow. So who cares? I'm saved. I'm OK. I'm going to stumble. I don't care. And I go off and I want to live my life how I want to live it. That's presuming upon grace. Living in grace is saying, God, I'm helpless. I know I am a sinner saved by grace. Help me, Lord. And your eyes are set on him. And you keep moving towards him.

And you stumble. But as you stumble, you realize his forgiveness. And you realize his grace is there. And it enables you and it picks you up so that you can keep on moving towards him. You're moving towards him as a goal. Yes, you're going to stumble. But presuming on the grace of God is, hey, I'm saved by grace. I'm a sinner saved by grace. And I can go on about all of this.

And occasionally, I'll seek the Lord. But if I don't, he forgives me anyhow because he understands that I'm only human. And I can't spend all my time with him. I've got to do these other things in the world. That's presuming upon God's grace. But David finished well, loved the Lord, sought him, repented, confessed when he was in sin, and moved on towards the Lord.

And God blessed him. And he finished well. Elijah was another one. Elijah, anointed by the Lord, there was a time in his life where he stumbled, where he was intimidated by the woman Jezebel. And he ran away from the situation after seeing God's tremendous hand of blessing. And he was afraid of what the people were thinking and of what Jezebel was going to do.

And God had to finally bring him back to his trust in the Lord by listening to that still, small voice. One of the teachers that shared on Elijah. And he mentioned that, you know, you look at the corruptness of the Northern Kingdom of Israel at this particular time, and how could anybody have ever followed Ahab and Jezebel? And he said, but if you look back in history, everything was going well in the nation.

The economy was great. The stock market was up. And so there was a little corruption in the leadership. Who cares, you know? And he says, it's a lot like Bill Habb and Hillary Bell. But Elijah finished well. Daniel finished well. Now, Daniel finished from the beginning of what we have, the account of Daniel throughout his book. Daniel finished well. There was no lag time with Daniel.

And one of the things to realize is because Daniel continued daily to rehearse the things of God. When Daniel was taken captive, he was a teenager. But he had been raised, evidently, with the understanding of the things of God. And he didn't forsake that, even as a youth, even as a teen. Daily, he'd rehearse the things of the Lord. And it goes back to what I was saying about how

our brains operate. And daily, he was rehearsing the word of God, rehearsing the things of the Lord, praying before the Lord. And those neurons are firing in the same way over and over and over and over with the word of God, with the desires of the Lord, with the prayers of God, so that when Daniel was placed in those detrimental circumstances, he already knew how he was going to respond. It was already a part of his system.

He chose to eat certain foods that would not be an offense to the Lord. He chose to worship God and not the statue of Nebuchadnezzar. It was no small thing. It was no big deal, really, with Daniel, where that was concerned. As a matter of fact, Daniel's not even in chapter 4, where that's concerned. But he had to be around there somewhere. Picture the rapture there, just a side note.

Daniel's gone at that particular time, just as the church will be gone during the time of tribulation. But Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego didn't even hesitate. They weren't going to worship this idol, even if it meant being thrown into the fiery furnace. He rehearsed those things. When the edict came out that you can't pray to anybody except Nebuchadnezzar, it was no big deal to Daniel.

He'd done it. He's already rehearsed it. This is my life. I'm surrendered to the Lord. Went to his house, threw open his shutters, just as he always did, facing Jerusalem and prayed. And that got him arrested and thrown into the lion's den. But it was nothing, no big deal, because he'd already rehearsed those things in his mind. He wasn't fantasizing about the king's daughter

or fantasizing about some, you know, big thing that he could do if he could get in here. And his heart was set on the Lord. And Daniel finished well. And ultimately, our Lord finished well. He's the greatest example. When the disciples came back to Jesus in John chapter 4, after he'd stayed there at the well in Samaria and they'd gone on into town to get some food,

he looked refreshed. And they said, has somebody brought him food that we didn't realize? And Jesus said that my meat, my substance, is to do the work of him that sent me. I'm satisfied. He said, I'm fulfilled when I'm obedient to the Lord, when I'm obedient to the Father. When I do that that the Father has sent me to do, I'm sustained, I'm filled. Do you feel that way ever?

I mean, is spending time with God, do you, drudgery? I mean, I'm saying this now, you know, and I gotta go home and get back in my devotional time with God because I'm feeling the conviction and I've been out of it. And so I'll go home and I'll whip that Bible open or I'll whip that little devotional open and I'll do my duty. Is that how you feel? Is there ever a time you spend time with the Lord

and spend time in his word and spend time in prayer and you finish and it's like you've, you must have eaten something because you feel satisfied, nourished, and you're full and it's like you've regained a strength and all it's been is just been sitting in the presence of God. Have you ever felt that way? That's what Jesus was talking about. That's the example he sets for us.

You'd be amazed at the satisfaction that you find, that you have from seeking the Lord, from setting the Lord first before you. In Hebrews chapter 12, we are told to set aside every sin and every weight that holds us and run the race that's set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame. Now what was the joy that was set before him? May I say to you that it wasn't heaven?

It wasn't the glory of being again and filled with the glory that was, because he'd had that already. He laid that aside to come to the earth and to die on a cross for us. So it wasn't the glory itself that he was looking at, thinking, boy, you know, a couple more hours finally and I'll be back in glory. The joy that was set before him is you. He saw.