Or times that we’ve studied this book. But, god, you reveal things to us every single time, and we’re so thankful for that. I pray that tonight as we dig into more days of creation that you would reveal things to us, that you would make more things clear, and that father, we would use it to confirm our beliefs from the very beginning. Father, tonight, we give you the glory for it all, and we ask it in Jesus’ precious and holy name. Amen.
Amen. Alright. So Genesis chapter one. And, let’s see if we can get to the right spot. I gotta turn way over here to the first page of the bible.
Almost the first page. You know, there’s a table of contents before that. Genesis chapter one beginning in verses nine. We’re gonna read nine through 13. We’re gonna come back and do a little discussion about that.
Genesis nine through 13. Then god said this is after, if you remember, the second day he had created the firmament in the heaven and and above the heaven and and below. And so now it says, then god said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called seas. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seeds is in itself on the earth, and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind, and God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning for the third day. So there’s several things here that we wanna talk about. So remember, we’re we’re we’re moving along, and we’ve already discussed that as the Bible talks about the morning and the evening of whatever day, it is plenty of evidence to believe that that is a twenty four hour period, not ten thousand year period or thirty thousand year period.
It’s a twenty four hour period. God spoke. It happened. And that’s what it keeps saying every time something happens. God said it.
It happened. And this happened. But it took some time. And as it took time, it was the evening and the morning of whatever day that was, a twenty four hour period. And so, as we see that, then we continue to to remember that as we go through this.
So now it says, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together. So the idea is, remember when everything was separated and you had the firm above and the firm below, now what it’s showing is that it appears everything is covered in water. There is no land. Everything is water. And so it says, let the waters be gathered together in one place and dry land appears.
Let me ask this question. Have any of you ever heard the theory that all the earth was once in one place and it broke apart and formed the continents where they are now? Anybody ever heard that? Yep. And and and one of the things that they use for that is the outline of the shape on both continents that they seem to fit together.
Right? Well, doesn’t it stand to reason that if all that was underwater and the water then was separated and the land became above the water, that it would have the same effect? That it would look like it broke apart when in fact, all that happened was the water receded. The water was brought down and gathered into one place, and the land appeared above it. So when people say, well, it had to have all been one at one time.
That’s why it looks like a a puzzle. It all goes together. The whole reality is according to God’s word, it says it was all water. And then it said, let the waters be gathered together and dry land appear. So, therefore, that’s when everything appeared.
Now, let the earth bring forth grass. Fourth day, let the earth the third day, let the earth bring forth grass. Now what has not shown up yet? What? Soil.
Soil? Okay. It said the Earth will appear. We know people are not here, all of that, but what would be important for grass that hasn’t yet shown up yet? Sun.
There’s no sun. There’s no sunshine. Now look. Grass needs a lot of sun to grow. If you don’t think so, plant it under a shade tree and see what happens.
It doesn’t grow very well, if at all. Grass needs sun to grow. It needs light. Right? But yet grass appeared.
Not only did grass appear, but it says that the grass appeared. And when the grass appeared, it also brought forth plants and seed. The plants had to come, but notice what came first. Was it the plants or the seed? It was the plants.
God brought forth the plants that had the seed in them. Therefore, beginning the cycle to allow the seed to become a plant, to become a seed, to become a plant, and so on and so forth. So having said that in that way, which came first, the chicken or the egg? The chicken. The chicken.
Of course, the chicken came first. The reality is this. Think about this. As we know it, all vegetation needs a couple things. It needs water.
It needs sunlight to grow. If it doesn’t have either of those things, it won’t work. In this case, it had the water because the water just receded, so all the ground was plenty wet, but it didn’t have sunlight. But it did have light. Because remember, he created and separated the light from the darkness.
That light that he created, didn’t create, but it said he separated the light from the darkness. That light is considered to be God’s holy light. That’s what lit everything up. He had not yet created the sun and the moon. That hadn’t been created yet, but there was still light.
And in that light, the grass grew, the plants grew, they created seed, they had all of that. So, the whole reality when we look at all this, is these days of creation are literal days, not slow evolutionary development. Things that were created by God were created in full size. Now think about this. These plants were created as mature plants with seeds in them.
They didn’t evolve and then become a seed and then grow into a plant, and then on they were created as full size plants with seed in them, all ready to go. God had not yet created the sun, the moon, and the stars. So when you start talking about the evolution of things, and you start looking at the theory of evolution, and you start trying to believe that things began to evolve, and life happened, and then this happened, and then that happened, the whole theory is thrown out the window when there’s no sun and there’s no moon for that to grow. If there’s no sun for that to grow, then how could it grow? It can’t, except for that the light of God covered the place.
So think about that. Many people often wonder how were they created on the fourth day, but night and day was created on the first day. Well, the sun and the moon were created on the fourth day, night and day were created on the first day. The difference is the light that created day was the light of God. In the fourth day, it became the sun, the moon, and the stars.
So, we think about that. Revelation tells us that there will come a day when we will no longer have a need for the sun, the moon, or the stars any longer. Why not? Because the glory of God will light up everything. We don’t need it anymore.
We’ll go back to the beginning, how it was in the first place. So it says, let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place, let the dry land appear, and it was so. And it was so. Then it says, the earth brought forth grass, and the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields seed, and the fruit according to its kind. So plants were not created as seeds, but full grown.
Fruit trees were not created as seeds, but full grown. They were mature plants having, an appearance of age because they had seed in them already. So they appeared that they had grown to a point they were developing seed. They were created as mature plants. One important thing I want you to see here, because this is gonna be repeated a whole lot of times in the first chapter of Genesis, according to its kind.
Okay? So think about that. Every all the grass, all the plants, all the herbs, everything that came up was according had seed according to its kind. So that means that if a oregano herb grew, it would not turn into basil. Okay?
It could not become basil. It did not evolve into something else. It may become different types of oregano. Perhaps, there would be different kinds, but it could never be something else. Everything that God created, all the things that he created, the plants, the animals, people, everything that he created, they could evolve to become a different type of species, but they were still the same species.
They couldn’t he didn’t create a monkey that later became a human. Right. Because the monkey was created according to its kind, and man was created according to god’s kind, in his image, and in his own kind. And so when we stop and think about that today, it blows the lid off of things like evolution. Okay?
So in its kind, the whole point is it will never develop into something of another kind. Let the earth bring forth every herb that yields seed and every herb that yields seed according to its kind, and god saw that it was good. Now I want you to say something here. When he created the morning and the day, he doesn’t say it was good, did he? The day and night.
When he created the firmament above and below, he never said, and it was good. Then God said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together in one place and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And he called the dry land earth, and the gathering together the waters he called seas, and God saw that it was good. That’s the first time he said that. Didn’t say that about the rest of it.
When he saw this, the earth that he created, it was good. All that he’d created to that point, god said, it was good. It’s not not not good. It’s good. Now people like to turn things around.
Right? When we study the scripture and it says, God brought forth every herb and every seed and they brought forth all of it and it was good. You know what I hear people say? Oh, well, god created marijuana, so it’s good. We should we should use that.
Right? Because it’s good. Well, God created hemlock too, but do you know what happens if you use that? You die. Right?
So, yes, God created all of that, but he didn’t create it to be used in the manner that some have tried to use it. In fact, the scripture talks about in the old testament, in Exodus and Deuteronomy, it talks about the word sorcery, and it was connected with the making and taking of drugs. So the reality is that when we think about this, don’t let people try to turn things around. God created all the herbs. He created all the plants, and they’re good.
So there’s nothing wrong with using those natural things. There’s not when used properly. When used properly, there’s nothing wrong with that. But it doesn’t mean that, oh, well, God created that, so it should be okay. Understand that.
Alright. Thirteen said, so the evening and the morning were the third day. After God had created, I brought forth the earth, brought forth the grass, herbs, the trees, the fruit, all the seed according to its kind, and it was good. Now verse 14 through 19 says, then God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night. Let them be for signs and seasons and for days and years, and let them be for lights and the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and it was so.
Then God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God sent them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good, So the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Now couple things I want us to see here.
When God said let there be lights, why was it so? It was to divide the day from the night and let them be signs for seasons, and for days, and for years. Let them be signs. So God not only created these lights to light the earth, but he also created them to be signs. So since the very beginning, God has used the sun, the moon, and the stars to measure time and direction.
If a sailor’s out over the water and there’s no moon, how does he know where he’s going? Stars. He uses stars as a graph to figure out the direction he’s going. People told time by the sun before they had app I watches. You know?
Before they had their Apple Watch, they could look at a sundial. Imagine how big those things were. No. I’m teasing. Sundials.
They had sundials to tell time. People could use all these different things for direction, for time. Even now, it’s very easy to know on Airport Boulevard on on afternoon about 04:30, which direction you’re traveling. Because if you’re driving with your eyes closed like this, you’re headed west right into the sun. Please don’t close your eyes like that.
I swear some people do. If you’re on the other direction and it’s not sun in your eyes, you’re heading east. It’s easy to tell that. It’s for signs, for direction. It tells you the season.
Depending on how high the sun gets in the sky, depending on how hot it gets, how close it is, how far away it is, it tells you all of those things. And so we can tell those things even if we didn’t have a calendar if we paid attention to those. They’re all signs. He set them in the firmament of the heaven. Now look.
A few million miles more or less, and life would not be possible. A few million miles closer or farther away, and life could not exist on earth. God put it in the perfect place. Moved it one way or the other just a little bit, it wouldn’t have worked. God put it in the exact perfect place.
And because of that, when the sun burns, we don’t burn up. When the sun burns, we don’t freeze because it’s too far away. We get enough heat and enough light, and things grow. We survive all because God put it in exactly the right place as he spoke it into existence. When we look at all of these lights and these signs and everything in the heavens, we can look at them and we can learn things.
We can if you study constellations and those type things, you can tell by the constellations exactly the direction, all of that stuff. But now look, like with so many other things, people try to use things for negative. So, how many of you how many of you I hope you don’t raise your hands. How many of you are astrologists? How about astronomers?
Hey. We got a couple of astronomers. What’s the difference? Astrology, they take the zodiac signs and they use that and try to tell your fortune, tell you the future, tell you they use it for, basically, worship of Satan. Okay?
It is satanic. People say, oh, it’s just for fun. I don’t really look at it for real, but it really is a worship of the stars themselves and not of God. It’s a worship of the creation and not the creator. A worship of the creation and not of the creator is sinful because God told us not to do that.
That’s an idol. You put the idol in, it becomes a form of worship, which becomes a form of Satanism. Okay? So that’s what we really truly see. All of these things we know.
But in Luke and Acts, it speaks of holy prophets since the world began. Holy prophets since the world began. There are those who believe these prophets are the stars themselves. That since the world began, the prophets, meaning the stars themselves. Why?
Because the word tells us that the the we can observe the creations and see the existence of God. So the prophet since the world began would be the stars and the moon, the things that God created, and people could look at that and know that God truly exists. So there are those that think that’s what they’re talking about when it says holy prophets since the world began. Because when the world first began, there was no people. Right?
God didn’t create them till a little bit later. The sixth day. Sixth? Fifth day. Sixth day.
And, so he didn’t create them till the sixth day. So it was after that. So there are those that think that, but he made the stars. We look at the stars. We can do so many things with the stars, and it’s absolutely phenomenal what we see.
Now our United States government, it’s more now, but and what this, commentator wrote is, at one time, our US government spent a hundred million dollars a year looking for extraterrestrial intelligence. It’s more now. You know why it’s more now? Because they say we have seen UFOs. We’ve we’ve we have.
And we have seen UFOs. They’re not called UFOs anymore. UAFs, I think. Unmanned aerial p, UAP. Unmanned aerial phenomenon.
Right? That’s what they call it now. Yes. We’ve seen that. We don’t know what it is, but we’ve seen it.
Right? They’ve seen something. They can’t explain it. So because they can’t explain it, we’re trying to investigate it. So we’re spending even more money now, James.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, the point is that even though we don’t know what it is, our United States government spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to find what would they think may be life out there somewhere. We don’t even know what’s out there because we can only see so far, but they’re spending all this money to find intelligent life somewhere. The commentator suggests that maybe we should spend a hundred million dollars a year to find intelligent life in Washington, DC.
But that’s the commentator. Okay. My point is this. Why are we doing that? Why are we spending all that time seeking that when the one that we should be seeking is god himself?
That’s the life we should be paying attention to, but that’s what’s going on. So when we look at all of this and we see not only has he made all of the things up to now, he separated the water in the earth. He’s created the plants and the fruit trees and all of that sort of stuff. Now he’s created the sun, the moon, and the stars, and he set them all up to separate night and day and to guide us and direct us in our paths and and direction and and all the things that we can, attain from that. And is the evening and the morning of the fourth day.
So in just four days, we’ve seen a lot of things happen. We went from nothing to something. We went from something to more defined something. Now we’ve got water and earth separated. We’ve got plants and, that have, have sprouted up and and trees and seeds.
Now we’ve got the sun and the moon and the stars. We’ve got all of that. Well, where do we go next? Well, let’s find out. Verse 20 through 23.
Then God said, let the waters abound with abundance of living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens. So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves with which the waters abounded according to their kind and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them saying, be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth. So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Alright. So now we got fish and birds. Right? We got sea animals and air animals. They’re going on.
Stuff happening out here. It’s abounding great variety of birds and sea creatures. It says great sea creatures. The Loch Ness monster. Nobody’s ever definitively gotten a good picture to tell if it’s real.
If it’s not real, something’s there, they think. Right? Dinosaurs. Here’s the thing. Dinosaurs, the Bible tells us about the behemoth on the earth that talks about dinosaurs.
We have dinosaur fossils. Yes. We can see those. We can tell you they were real. They were here.
There were those that lived in the water. There were those that lived in the land, and there were those that flew in the air. There were they were here. God created all of that. So we know it says it was and it was here.
God created the tiniest little hummingbird. And he created the the big old vultures. Right? All these different things that God created. He created all of that.
He put them all in there. But I want you to say something about all of this. He said, let the waters abound. With living creatures, there’s a difference. These are actual creatures that have a life.
They’re not a plant. They’re actual creature that breathes. Right? It has it breathes oxygen. It moves through the water.
It flies through the air. We have all these different creatures that actually have life. Again, he says, notice according to their kind. Right? According to their kind.
Now when we look at all this and we see according to their kind, that means that those birds do not become dogs. They’re birds. They may become different types of birds. Different species of birds are still birds. The fish still become fish.
The mammals still become mammals. They’re all but they don’t change. They don’t turn into something else. They may change to be more adaptive in nature, but they’re still whatever they were. Okay?
Now, I keep talking about that. Does anybody believe in fossils? Yeah. I hope you do. Fossils.
How many fossils have we found that showed a fish that changed into a land animal that began to walk. We found fossils of fish. We found fossils of land animals, but we’ve never found any of the in between. We’ve never found any fossils of one kind of creature that was partly one kind of creature and partly another kind of creature and then became a full oh, we’ve never found that. Now all the fossils we found, we’ve never found that.
Well, all the things that we’ve done, we have never found that according to their kind. That’s what it says. So evolutionists also all the time give convincing examples of microevolution. And what I’m talking about here is so, for instance, a ratio of black to white peppered moss may increase when the pollution makes it easier for dark moss to escape detection. Or finches may develop different beaks in response to their distinctive environment.
But at the end of the day, a moth is a moth and a finch is a finch. They’re still the same. The fossil record, there’s there’s a, a Big Horn Basin in Wyoming that contains a a a continuous record of fossil deposits for what geologists say is five million years. Because this record is so complete, the paleontologists assumed there was gonna be a positive trail of evolution that could be found. Instead, the fossil record does not document a single transition from one species to another.
Evolutionist Nile Eldridge wrote this. We paleontologists have said that the history of life in the fossil record supports the story of gradual evolution all the while knowing that it does not. I can say more, but I won’t. All of this that we see, that God created the the fish, and he created the birds, and he created all of those things. But the whole thing I want you to see in this part too is not only did he create them all according to their kind, but in verse 22, it says, God blessed them.
He didn’t bless the plants, did he? He didn’t he didn’t bless the the the sun and the moon. He didn’t bless the earth and the water, but he blessed the animals. They had life. They had life.
Not only did he bless them, he told them to go forth and multiply. I think I heard that somewhere else. We might talk about that later. He blessed them. He created them.
He blessed them. He told them to go forth and multiply. Right? Okay. So, big deal.
That’s different. It’s not the same as what we saw before. So, by the way, just so you know, Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution, said that if it could not be proven that a species jumped, in other words, it began as one thing, it became something else, then the whole theory of evolution fell apart. And at the end of his life, one of the last things that Darwin wrote is, I have come to realize that species do not jump. Yet, today, we still teach Darwinism and the theory of evolution as fact, even though he said it’s not true.
So moving forward, the sixth day of creation, verse twenty four and twenty five. Then God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, each according to its kind, and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and god saw that it was good. The earth brought forth living creatures. God made birds and sea animals, but now he’s turned his attention towards land animals of various types.
All these different types of land animals that he made. And he made every one of them, it said, over and over in that short passage, according to its kind. When we look at the infinite variety of the animal kingdom, both living and extinct, here’s the thing. God is so creative, and man, does he have a sense of humor. I mean, God made a giraffe and a platypus.
Those are some weird looking animals. He made the and he made a peacock. Right? How beautiful a peacock is, but, you know, the things that make it so beautiful also makes it hard to run away from predators. Ain’t that crazy?
But God made all of those things. And then we look at that and we think, I mean, those are some strange creatures that God made. There’s so many different things. He made a giraffe. Listen.
Why did the giraffe survive? They’re the only animals that can reach that high to eat the foliage off the trees. Then he turned around and he made other animals that eat the foliage off the ground. And then he made some that climb in the trees and and do both. All these different things that god he made all that, And he did every he didn’t make them and then figure out how it’s gonna work later.
He created them for a purpose. He created every single one of those animals for a purpose. I mean, I don’t think anybody could sit down and dream up the animals that God created. It’s just incredible the way that he created all of those. And in every single one of them, it says over and over, according to its kind.
So moving on. We made it through day five. Right? Day six. We’re on to day six.
Let us make man in our image. Alright? So God created all of these animals and he saw that it was good, but we hadn’t ended the the day yet. Then he says, then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
Okay. So couple things here that we’re gonna bring out. This is the first time we see. It says let us. It doesn’t say god did.
It said, let us us in our image. Not me in my image, let us in our image. This is the first place in Genesis that we see specifically a mention of plurality of the trinity. Let us make God in our image. So two things.
It’s us and our, so we know their plurality. It’s not a single one anymore, and in our image. This is the only thing in all of the creation that God made that he said in our image. None of the rest of this did he make in in in the image of the trinity of God. This is the only thing.
Man is the only thing. Mankind is the only thing that God made in our image. That’s the only thing out of all that was done in our image. It’s consistent that there’s one God in three persons. Why?
Because it’s been talking about one now. It says, let us in our and we realize that there’s a consistency there in our image. Now in this image, when we start and think about this, it doesn’t necessarily mean in our image as in we look like God because God is not a human. God is not a person. What it means is we look like God in that we have, the attributes of God.
We have the, the quality of God. We have the things that God has put in us. And so, mankind is the only one that has a, a natural countenance of looking upward, looking to the heavens, looking above for guidance, for peace, for everything. Mankind is the only one that has a variety of facial expressions. Such a variety.
Most animals don’t have that much variety. Now my dog can make some faces. But most of them don’t have a lot of facial expressions. But we have all sorts of expressions. Mankind is the only one who has a sense of shame expressing itself in a blush.
The the other animals don’t blush. And mankind alone speaks. Right? So when we think about all these things, mankind possesses personality, morality, and spirituality. Sometimes, I question the morality and spirituality, but it’s in us.
Okay? And so, when we look at all of that, we see God’s image in our image. These three aspects, these three ideas is personality, meaning the knowledge, feelings, or will to do these things that separates us from animals. Okay? We have knowledge.
We have a will to do things or not. Animals just act on instinct. We have a will to do that. We have a knowledge of what’s gonna happen when we do that. It sets us apart.
Morality. We’re the only animal that actually makes moral judgments and has a conscience. No other animal does that. And spirituality. Man is made for communion with God in our image.
Again, God doesn’t have a physical or human body, but he designed man. So in his physical body, we could do many of the things that God does. We could speak. We could talk. We could hear.
We could do all of those things that it talks about god doing. This body is not patterned after god because this body is going to decay and fall apart. In our image, according to our likeness. Now why does it say that? Image and likeness.
Image and likeness. Maybe we’re gonna get a NIL deal. Image and likeness. That sounds like the same thing, doesn’t it? Image and likeness.
It sorta is. The terms for image and likeness are a little different. Image has more to do with appearance. Likeness has more to do with a a abstract similarity. So image would be a picture of you.
A likeness would be a drawing that looks like you. Okay? Maybe a caricature. Right? So that’s a likeness.
Sir? Yeah. Yeah. You said like a doll? Daughter or a son.
Right. Yes. Exactly. And they look like you, so there’s a likeness. Right?
And an image of you would be an exact, right, like a picture. And a likeness, like I said, could be like a caricature. You know what I’m talking about? Like, a funny cartoon picture that looks like you, but it’s not you. It’s a likeness.
And, yes, children have a likeness to you. People can look at our children and go, I know who their parents are. You know? There’s a likeness. Right?
So they can do that. So we see that God made us and with the same image and likeness. So we have the image of God, but we also have a likeness of God. Okay? So even if we don’t look exactly like him, we have a similarity of God.
And then he tells, let us have dominion over all these things he’s created. Why? Because God created us in his image, in his likeness. He created us to be like him. And so now, on this earth, he has put us in in charge over all of the plants, the animals, everything else that he has created.
He put us over all of that. Okay? That’s pretty amazing. That’s a a very huge responsibility that he put us in charge over that. Let us have dominion over all of that.
So what if we are irresponsible towards the earth? Well, God said we’re supposed to have dominion. We should be responsible for it. Right? So if we’re going around throwing out trash on the side of the road, that’s irresponsible.
We’re not taking very good care of it. If we’re mistreating animals or people or doing whatever, that’s not we’re not taking care of it. And so we’re not doing what god has put us in charge to do. Now I would love to go on and finish out the chapter, but we are out of time. So we’ll get into the last part of day six next week.
And it’s okay because we got a lot to cover with that. And so we’ll get into the last part of day six next week. But we’ve gotten up through the first part of day six. We’ve got all the way up to the creation of man. Said, let us make man, but it didn’t yet say they he made man.
Said, let us do that in our image and let man have all of this, but he did not yet create man. We’ll find out how he did that or what he did with that next week. Okay? Alright. So we’ll pick up next week, verse 27, and and we’ll finish out chapter one, and we’ll see how far we go from that.
Alright? So, again, one thing tonight as you as we sign off for those that are watching online, I I want us to understand as we go back to Genesis, as we study Genesis, one of our purposes in studying Genesis is to understand the creation story. It’s to realize that the creation story takes a lot less faith to trust and understand than some of the theories that are pushed on us today as fact. And so, as I talk about the things and compare some of the things that are that are, being pushed in today’s world, I’m doing that so that we can see what God’s word says versus what the world is telling us so that we can then understand and be able to ascertain exactly how we believe and why we believe what we believe. Okay?
So for those of you who joined us online tonight, thank you so much for that, and look forward to joining together with you again next week, or stop by Sunday morning, 10:45. Love to have you. God bless, and good night.
