Discovering the Way, Repentance And Faith Toward God

This is North Way tape number 542. This message, the second in the series, Discovering the Way, was delivered by Pastor Jay Passavant of North Way Christian Community on September 10, 1986. I was reading a story that Ern Baxter had written about something that happened. When he had fallen short of funds during the Depression, I guess it was 50 years ago now, he ignored or neglected the problems he was having with his teeth. And when finally he came into some money, he went to search out a dentist to take care of some of the toothaches that he was developing. So he started searching through the phone book and he found one dentist that advertised Painless Dentistry. He said, well that's the one for me. He went to, we'll call him Dr. Painless, and had all six cavities filled by Dr. Painless. And much to his amazement, it really was virtually a pain-free experience. He felt he had found the perfect dentist. Five or six months later, he began developing toothaches and they felt like they were in the same place in his mouth. And they got more and more severe and so eventually he couldn't take it any longer and he went to a different dentist. He took some x-rays and looked carefully at them and he said, Mr. Baxter, I believe I can tell you what dentist you went to. You went to Dr. Painless, didn't you? He said, yes I did. He said, well the reason why Dr. Painless has no pain is because he doesn't take the decay out. He just fills over it and seals it off temporarily. Then the decay works itself down and out and you're in bigger trouble now than you would have been if you'd taken care of it back in the beginning. Beloved, as the dentist concluded, he said, now is when the pain really begins. Reminds me of a dentist I had when I was growing up named Dr. Hurt. That's no joke. I had one tooth pulled in my life and it was by Dr. Hurt. Never forgotten that. But the point of Ern Baxter's story was this. There's wisdom in dealing with something the right way the first time. And when it comes to many of our lives, the dirt and stain of sin is for many of us initially covered over and not dug out. And as we deal tonight initially in the first of these two lessons on repentance and faith toward God, beloved, I need to say to you that we, many of us, are reaping delayed pain syndromes in our Christian walk because no one told us when we first came to Christ how to get the dirt out. And I believe tonight that the Lord is going to minister. My prayer tonight is that this isn't just a lesson up here, but it's a lesson down in here. That there's some digging out. And I pray tonight, if there's some pain, you'll know that it's pain that the Holy Spirit is allowing so that you can be healed and restored by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ. Now let's talk for just a second about what sin is. The word sin, homotheia in the Greek, means to fall short or to miss the mark. It was used of a bowman who would pull his bow way back and let go of the arrow, but it would miss the bullseye. Missing the mark. That's what sin is. And what is the mark of the Christian, beloved? There's one bullseye for the Christian life, and it's marked perfection. It's marked perfection. That's the mark that we've got to hit. How many of you know we don't hit that mark? Even the best among us fall short just a little bit. Some of us fall short a lot. We know that. We think of sin in several categories. Most of us in Romans chapter 1, again, I won't ask you to turn to these scriptures, but write them down on your notes, and you can look them up later. Romans 1, the first kind of sinner that we hear about is the kind that most of us associate with what it means to be a real sinner. That's a profligate, a person who's locked in immorality, a person who's bound up in some self-serving kind of incestuousness or whatever, a drug dealer, a really gross, immoral person. That's a sinner in many of our minds and our characterization of that. Romans 1 talks about idolaters and the immoral and so on. But also in Romans chapter 2, it goes on to talk about those who reject God's idea of what is righteous and seek their own righteousness. God calls that person a sinner. I would call that person an intellectual sinner, a person who's designed their own kind of relationship to God. So this is the way I'm going to relate to God and has rejected God's way. I read in the paper tonight, I just was glancing through some things, a policeman was hit by a car down in Millvale and nearly killed. And he wrote, you can read it in tonight's Pittsburgh Press. He said, I'm not a religious fanatic, but I sure prayed a lot. Now that's so characterized. I'm going to get off the track here. But you see, that's where most people are. They have enough religion to think that they're secure. They're just as good as anybody else. So many people will say, when they think about God, well, God will accept me because I know where this man is and I know where this man is and I'm as good as they are. How many know God doesn't compare us to our brother or sister? He's got one standard and that standard is His perfect righteousness. If anyone knows that policeman, share with them. He needs to be a religious fanatic. If that means to give his life to Christ and find freedom from the stain of sin. The third kind of sinner the Bible talks about is what I'll call a religious sinner. And that's someone who is dead sure that their religion is going to save them and they're out to prove it by keeping a set of laws or rigid statutes or some sort of decrees or pronouncements that they were told will cause them to be saved if they keep them. We all know people who sit in pews every Sunday thinking that at the end, God's going to put them up on some scale and they'll have more goods than they do bads. They'll have more religion than they do sin and God will say, hey, it's close but come on through. I want you to know that's not the way God's going to operate. Now folks, those people are lost. They're as lost as the heathen over in Zambia who's never heard the gospel. Understand that. You're dealing day by day with people who are lost in sin. And the Bible says, beloved, that the wages of sin is death. What's it talking about? It's talking about eternal separation from God. Oh, I pray for a burden on all of our hearts and mine included that when we see someone, that we don't just see the external, secure, kind of whatever shall be, shall be attitude of the people. But we see them lost in their sin. Now beloved, as we think about this matter of sin, for you and I, this thing that I just want to touch on it, I believe we're all most susceptible to our sins of pride and sins of selfishness. It seems to me that those two areas are where we are most prone to be snared by the enemy. I don't need you, Lord. I'm really doing quite well on my own in this area. Or I want it just this way. This is how I really want it. I want it just, this is how it really ought to be for it to be right. This is the way I've decided I need it, Lord. And you see, those two attitudes infiltrate every relationship we're in. They infiltrate all of our associations. For most of us, it's how we deal at work. It's how we deal at church. It's how we deal with our friends. Pride and selfishness, the two things that keep us from God. Pride, I don't need you, God. I'll do it my way. Thank you very much. You created the world. But I just heard last night, in fact, I was just, God, last night I was there and I heard Carl Sagan telling me that we all came from little particles. And so I just don't need to hear what you have to say because Carl Sagan told me that this is the way it happened. And the world is bound up and trying to prove itself. They don't need God, they say. Captain of our own destiny. Well, you know how I feel about that. But beloved, these are all sins. But what causes that in us? Well, it's our sin nature. Say that with me, would you? Sin nature. Now, you all know the difference between sins and sin nature. Sins are what come out of sin nature. Sin nature in us is the inclination to always want our own way. Romans chapter 5 and verse 12, I believe it is. The Bible says that sin entered the human race through one man. Adam fell. Adam was the federal head. Through him, all through the generations, sin entered the human race. Have you ever watched a little tiny baby operating? It's the best word I can think of. To get its own way. To be put where it wants to be put or fed when it wants. That's just the first manifestation of what's in every one of us. The desire to want our own way. That's sin nature. And that is morally unacceptable to God. It's separated from God. And if we live in that state for our whole lives and die, beloved, that's the way we end our life, is separated from Almighty God. Our sin nature cannot fellowship with God. It's as simple as that. Isaiah 53, 6 says, All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to our own way. That's what sin does for us. Now, sin nature manifests itself in sins. And there's all kinds of sins. In the New Testament, in case you're interested, how many sins do you think are listed in the New Testament? How many sins are named in the New Testament? Well, I've come up with a figure. 103 specific sins. And most of those aren't the ones that you do. Or me. But they're all in there. Anger, malice, hate, lying, all those. Adultery, fornication. 103 of them. But you know what the worst sin is? It's pride, which I think manifests itself in this way. The Bible calls it self-righteousness. Self-righteousness. And do you know, as I read the Gospels, do you know who Jesus condemned? He only condemned one group. He didn't condemn the lost. Do you know that? Jesus never condemned the lost. He had compassion on the lost. He told them they were lost. But you know who He condemned? He condemned that Pharisee who said, Hey, I've made it on my own through God. And beloved, please hear this. There are many people that you associate with who feel, that's how they're operating right now. They've earned their way before God and they're living in a self-righteousness. And do you know that the Jews... I read this. Just look at this. This is worth seeing just to make a point. Turn to John 11. This just knocked my socks off today as I was before the Lord. I don't want to get any more sidetracked than I already am. John chapter 11. Look at this. You want to see what self-righteousness does to you, beloved? Now look at this. This is going to grab you. This is the story in John chapter 11 of Lazarus being raised from the dead. If you haven't read that story, just read it again. If you haven't read it lately, let it just wash over you the power, the pathos of God in this whole... It's just a beautiful story. Now look at this. At the end, Jesus raised him up. In verse 44 He says, The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to him, Take off the grave clothes and let him go. Now look at verse 45. Therefore, many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and had seen what Jesus did... What had he just done? He raised the man that had been dead for four days and was, the Bible says, stinking. Okay? All right? They put their faith in Him, verse 46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. And the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting and the Sanhedrin said, What are we accomplishing? Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. Well, you see, even in the face of a man four days in the grave, rising up, people still clung to their self-righteousness. I just want you to know, pray that God will never let you fall into self-righteousness, thinking that you understand everything that God has already said, thinking that you're the authority of this book. Remember, those Pharisees knew this book better than any of the people that got saved. They knew it line by line. That's the danger, I fear, in some of the teaching that goes out in Christian circles. It's so legalistic that it breeds self-righteousness. And it's a danger. Now look with me. This is what sin is then. I've just roughly touched it. Falling short of the mark. Now let's look at repentance. Repentance is God's way of dealing with this sin problem, beloved. Now the two words in the Hebrew and the Greek that mean repent have two connotations. Here they are. One means to lament and grieve. That's the idea of the sorrow. And the other means to undertake a different course or to have a change of mind. You've all heard the word, many of you I'm sure, metanoia in Greek, which means to have a change of mind. So what it means is that I have seen things one way and now I see them another. How about this for an illustration? The idea of repentance and conversion has with it this thought that you are walking on a path and suddenly God breaks in on you, though you're walking this way, God breaks in on you and you realize the error of that way and your need and you turn and walk this way. That's repentance. It's a literal turning of your direction A person who is in an adulterous relationship and repents leaves the relationship and turns and walks another way. A person who is dabbling in the occult and repents, turns and goes another direction and leaves those things. That's repentance. It comes through the mind, it's a changing of the mind and a turning of the direction toward God. Repentance establishes that God is wholly right. He's wholly right. God isn't pretty much right for your life, He's entirely right. That gets down inside of us sometimes. We kind of think, well, I really feel like I know what's best in this situation, God. I've had people say to me, well, Jesus was never married so he couldn't imagine what it's like. Okay? But God is right when he talks about how to live in a married relationship. He's always right. I had a wonderful quote by Charles Finney that I didn't bring in with me. I'll have to see if I can dig it up when we have a little break in a moment. But Finney's point is that God doesn't get most of us and doesn't have most of the truth, He has it all. And when we need to deal with repentance, it's on God's terms. He is absolutely and totally wholly right. We abandon all excuses and apologies. Do you know that? When we repent, we say, God, you didn't realize how much pressure I was under when I wrote that check. There is no excuse in repentance. It's, God, I was wrong. I want you to know it takes courage just to say that. I was wrong. God's just looking for people to say, I was wrong. I didn't do it your way, Lord. To honestly face our sinfulness as God reveals it to us. Now, there's a lot of people who don't talk much about repentance and it's led to this. Here's a good quote. Today, cheap grace is being taught and received by cheap faith resulting in cheap Christians. You see, people who just kind of say, well, you know, God understands me. I'll just do whatever I please end up walking a Christian life that has no value to me. There's no value to God in that kind of life because it's live for yourself. A cheap Christian. And if we're going to walk a Christian life pleasing God, we've got to begin by agreeing with what God says about us, church. Now, understand this. I'm talking right now, for many of you, when you came to the Lord, someone explained to you that repentance was the beginning point and you knew that you began by turning and walking toward God. If you've come to this church and you found Christ here, we always talk about the fact that the very first thing you've got to do is acknowledge your need of God, your sinfulness, your separation, and then turn to God. But some of you didn't have that teaching. Some of you may have just prayed with somebody on the TV screen that said, well, you know, you want a new life. Come and just ask God into your life and everything will be new and wonderful. Dr. Pamos will do his job. But see, God says that there is none righteous, no, not one, in Romans 3. Romans 5, verse 8, is one of my favorite verses. The proof of God's amazing love is this, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Christ didn't say, Scott, once you get your act together, then you can accept me. He said, Scott, just like you are. Carol, just like you are, I'm going to accept you. If you'll come and just acknowledge your need. He loves us just as we are. Now, second page of your notes there, I say, what are the three characteristics then of repentance, the three descriptive phrases? Well, three things have to happen. There's sorrow, there's confession, and there's turning. Those three things. There's sorrow for your sin, there's confession of it. Confession means agreeing with God. Homologeo means to agree with God. And then thirdly, there's a turning away from it. Don't tell God you're sorry. Don't say, Lord, I did this and I'm sorry, and then go back and do it the day after tomorrow. That's not repentance. That's just feeling bad about a situation. All right? Now, let me just go on here quickly. Repentance, Romans 2, is our first responsibility. Well, Jesus came and said, the very first word out of his mouth was, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. That's the beginning point. You see, this is a foundational teaching. This is what you should have heard when you first came to Christ. This is the gospel. Repent, because the kingdom of God, the rule of God has come. It's at hand. Verse 12 of Mark 6, And the disciples went out and preached that men should repent. Acts 2.38, Then Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you. In the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins. It's the first word of the gospel. Now, beloved, why has man so resisted this matter of repentance? How many of you know that's not a popular word? If you walked into your office tomorrow and said, well, you know, repentance is good for you. What? That's not exactly the prosperity approach. Well, you see, it's the first word of the gospel. You don't get any farther with God than repentance. And I will say to you that you will not go any farther in God than you've learned to repent. That repentance is what cleanses the soul. It was described this way to me. All that God wants to pour into you comes down through the funnel of repentance. And then, it's like an hourglass. He's got all this blessing, this inheritance, this great plan for your life. But it comes down through that narrow channel of repentance and then opens up to be received. Why has man failed to repent? Well, John 3, 19. Incredible scripture. It says right there, this is the verdict. Light has come into the world, but men love darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. They love darkness because their deeds were evil. I don't know if it's as common to you as it is. In my understanding, I'm sure it must be for most of you, but isn't it interesting how bars and all places like that are always dark? You know, they're almost always dark because what's happening in there is there's this sense of I like to cover what I'm, if not what I'm doing, at least what I'm thinking about doing. And that's because men love that. They love the darkness because their deeds are evil. Why has man failed to repent? Well, because he's not under any conviction. Do you know, beloved, that one of the things that has failed us in our preaching in this generation is that we haven't preached the law of God. We haven't preached the law of God. Now, some of you, by the way, if you're thinking, well, you don't preach much about the law of God here. See, I am really preaching to the church. I'm teaching the church Sunday mornings. If I was speaking evangelistically, if I was out in a tent or outside, then I have a different approach. But you see, most places you won't hear about the law. And you take, really, out of the hand of the Holy Spirit, the very instrument that God designed to bring men to repentance. The law of God. To help them to see how far short they've fallen. How much they've sinned, fallen short. The law is designed... The Bible says that the law was a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, to show us how far short we've fallen in God. That's why the laws are all in there. Why isn't man repentant? Because he's not accountable to anybody. Do you know people have no idea of accountability? They just think they're going to cruise through life, do their own thing, and in the end, it'll all work out. Accountability is a word that just is kind of gone from our vocabulary. Who are you accountable to for your actions? And finally, man doesn't recognize that repentance comes from God. He doesn't ask God for the grace of repentance. You know the Bible says in Genesis 6-3 that God will not always strive with man? But God might be calling you to repent tonight in some areas in your life. And you sense that calling. And you can ignore it. You can push it off. You can drive it away. And God won't always strive with you. And ultimately, you can fall into a place where you can no longer respond to the calling of God. Now what is God want of us? What is He want of us? What is repentance really about for us then as believers? Look over in Roman numeral 5. The first thing we need to do, beloved, is to see that we can ask God, ask God for the gift of repentance. Then have God also to the Gentiles granted repentance and the like. It's something we can ask Him for. Ask God for the gift of a soft heart. I pray you would do that. Let's bow our heads right now and do that. Let's ask God for the gift of a soft heart. A repentant heart. Lord, we just want to say that we need You to soften our hearts to hear that soft and still, small voice that convicts us where we wander off in our attitudes and thoughts and actions. Lord, give us the gift of repentance, of turning, of knowing the sorrow that leads to a conversion, Father, and a turning of heart. Oh, Father. Give us that heart, Father. Jesus, give it to us as a church. Keep our hearts. Amen. How do we move in a life of repentance? Well, beloved, there's the first thing I want to say. You need to see yourself as free in Christ. One of the things that will hold you in bondage is if the enemy convinces you that you're unworthy to receive the grace of God. 2 Corinthians 5.21 is a very freeing verse. You've been made the righteousness of God in Christ. Would you say that I am the righteousness of God in Christ? Say it. I am the righteousness of God in Christ. He is Jehovah Sidkenu in me. God, my righteousness. I begin my prayer time with that declaration. He is my righteousness. I didn't earn it. I didn't deserve it. But He is my righteousness. He is my sanctification and my holiness. Then we go on. To live a life of repentance means that as we go in day by day, how many of you know that we still fall short? Well, the Bible has an answer for that, and it says this. My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense. Jesus Christ, the righteous one. He is the atoning sacrifice, the atoning sacrifice for our sins. When we sin, we've got to repent. How many know that the distance between when you sin and when you repent is the measure of your maturity? The shorter the distance from when you sin to when you repent, that's the measure of your maturity. If you can sin and God convicts you and you can wait two weeks to repent, then there's some needs in your heart. But if you sin and you know you've hurt God, if you can fall to your knees, the shorter that span of time, beloved, in my estimation, the more mature you are in Christ Jesus. You know a good place to test that out? It's in your marriage. The longer you can go with the battle zone all set up, and the longer you can just keep firing the darts and the salvos until suddenly God falls on you and you know you're wrong. You might not be the only one wrong, but you know you're wrong. The longer you can make that go on, the more need for maturity you have. Ouch. It's right in there where we all live. And when we go to live a life of repentance, here's how it happens as far as I'm concerned. There's conviction of sin, confession of sin, sorrow for sin, and turning from sin. Conviction of sin, confession of sin, sorrow for sin, and turning from sin. That's what happens in our life. That's how God changes us back on course and puts us back where He wants us to go. See, worldly repentance in Romans 6 is, I shouldn't have gotten caught with that. I'm sorry. Worldly repentance is, well, God, it's really tough where I am. You don't really understand what it's like to work where I work. You don't understand what it's like to work where someone else works. It can get worse and worse and worse as you go. True repentance, though, says, God, I don't want to hurt you. You're worthy of a sinless life. It grieves the heart of God and is sorry for doing so. Now, two things happen as we live a life of repentance. Two things. There's restoration. Write down Acts 3.19. It says there, to repent and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. How many of you found that week of prayer and seeking God was refreshing to your soul? I really found that. Now, I have to say, going through it, it was a struggle for some of us. There was extra discipline required and extra sacrifice, but I found it refreshing. I remember Saturday night as I broke my fast and came here, I shared with some of the staff what a wonderful time of communion with God I had, a refreshing in my soul. And I've been moving in that for the last couple of weeks now, a refreshing. You see, God is faithful. When you're restored in that communion, it's refreshing to your spirit. 2 Chronicles 7.14, that promise that we all hold so dear for our nation, if my people are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked way. Then shall I hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land. Restoration happens as we repent. Number two, God brings restitution. That means he restores and gives back that which has been eaten up in us. And you can read about that in Luke 19.8. Beloved, I'm going to stop here. I didn't cover a number of the points, but I trust that you understand that there's so much here. Those of you who've walked in the Lord a long time, let me say this to you. The danger is that you can hear a teaching on repentance and think, well, I already did that once. I don't need that. But I'm convinced, I'm convinced that once the enemy has realized that he's lost the battle for your salvation, he sets his camp in place to stop the next most important thing in your life, and that is you moving in the purposes of God. And an unrepentant heart will stop the flow of the purpose of God in your life. And what holds us back so often is a church, is the hardness that comes over us. I don't need that. I don't want to hear that. Unrepentance. I yearn that God gives us a repentant heart, a soft heart, because, beloved, it's a joyful heart. Do you know that a person that's been pardoned of their sin, a person, think for a moment. I mean, just recently I had occasion to see someone who was just let out of jail. This was two days ago. Walked in the front door of the building. And he was so happy. He got out of jail three months earlier. Joyful. He wasn't pardoned, but he was set free. You see, repentance sets us free, and that's the beginning of the joy-filled Christian life. Repentance lets us experience the joy of God saying, I forgive you, and you're free. And I yearn for that, because I know that that is the very life that's contagious. The reason why our life isn't contagious many times is because it's still laden with sin. God wants to say this. Let's move in that together. Can we pray for just a minute? Oh, Father. Father. Just wonder tonight if there might be some here who have never really clearly in your own experience repented of your sin. You've never really acknowledged before God your condition as being separated from God, as being worthy of the judgment of God, the wrath of God in your life. And you've been trying to walk in a way that's pleasing to God, but you realize that you have a weakened foundation. There's a crack in the foundation of life. You've not really understood repentance as the gateway to pleasing God, as the beginning point. And you recognize tonight that there's got to be some things that God sets in order in your life, that you need to turn, have a change of mind. And tonight God's just putting some godly sorrow in your heart for that sin in your life. You realize that an attitude's got to change in you tonight. That sin separates you from God. Now, I might be talking to some of you who feel like you're Christians, but you realize you've never really repented the way I've described tonight. The godly sorrow from sin, agreeing with God about what He said about your condition, and a desire, a willingness to turn from it. I'm not going to call you out of your seat, but I do want to agree with you that tonight marks a time when the Spirit of God is just moving in your heart and you're saying, I know I need that, and I want this foundation in Christ to be laid correctly. Every head bowed, please, and every eye closed. If I was describing you tonight and you want me to agree with you that tonight you're laying that foundation of repentance in your life, look up at me right now if that's you. I agree with you right there on this. Tonight you're laying that foundation of repentance. Okay? Anyone else? Look at me. I want to agree with you. Sir, is that why you're looking at me? Okay, I want to agree with you today. You're going to lay that foundation. Ma'am, I agree with you tonight. Laying that foundation of repentance toward God. Yes, I agree with you right here. Signal me if you want me to agree with you. Let me see your eyes. Flash your hand up this way. I want to agree with you. Anyone else? Okay, yes, I agree with you. You've never really repented the way the Bible says. Tonight you want to do that. Okay, let me just see. Okay, yes, sir, I agree with you. Repentance, turning from the old, embracing the new. Anyone else? Just signal me with your hand. I'll wait another moment. I need to repent, too. Praise God. Thank you, Father. Now, Lord, I just pray that as these have acknowledged that need tonight, and I trust, Lord, that many have said in their hearts, God, I want a soft and repentant heart, that, Lord, we've sensed your acceptance now, and by the blood of Jesus, we rise up, God, and enjoy the liberty of a captive that's been set free. Oh, Jesus, sweep over us with that reality, that we were destined for wrath and have now been declared free of our sin. Oh, God. In the name of Jesus, Beloved, it's an interesting study. The Word of God in the New Testament does not talk about revival. Do you know that? It does not talk much about repentance, apart from the Jesus commandments about it. Until where? Where does it really start talking about it? The book of Revelation, all right? Sure, it mentions it a couple times in Acts as the church is getting started. That's right. But it's not really, there's not a lot said to the church until the book of Revelation. Then what does it say to the seven churches? Depend. Why? Because the same trap befell that early church. It could befall this church right here. This wonderful church that God's raising up. What is it? Well, we get secure. We get overconfident. We just start picking and choosing. And, Beloved, can I tell you something? It has already hit a lot of our people. And we're praying. I'm just praying it away with all my heart. I'm praying away that hardness that would keep people from sensing the need to come under the hand of God and to walk in repentance and in softness. It happened in the New Testament. It'll happen right here, sure, as we're sitting here, unless God keeps us before His throne. Let's stand together for just a moment. Something I really enjoy doing. Put your hands free. Put that book on the chair. Face the east. Over that way toward Doug Boyd. Stretch those hands out. And give that person in front of you just a little shoulder rub there. There you go. Be nice now. All right, now face the west. All right. Now li