I'm actually going to cover chapter 23, 24, and most of chapter 25, but if I read all that, that'd be about all that we do. I just want you to see that chapter 23 chronicles the death of Sarah Abraham's wife, the purchase of a grave for her. The cave of McPeele purchased from the Hittite, and then we come to chapter 24, starting at the first verse. Now Abraham was old, advanced in age, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in every way. And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he owned, please place your hand under my thigh. And I will make you swear by the Lord the God of heaven and the God of earth that you shall not take a wife for my sons and the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live, but you shall go to my country and my relatives and take a wife for my son Isaac. And the servant said to him, to pause the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Should I take your son back to the land from where you came? Abraham said to him, beware lest you take my son back there. The Lord the God of heaven who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth and who spoke to me and who swore to me saying, to your descendants I will give this land, he will send his angel before you and you will take a wife for my son from there. But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this my oath only don't take my son back there. So the servant places hand under the thigh of Abraham, his master and swore to him concerning this matter. Then the servant put 10 camels in the camels of his master and set out with a variety of good things of his master's hand and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor and he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time the time when women go out to draw water. And he said, Lord God of my master Abraham, please grant me success. Show loving kindness to my master Abraham. Behold I am standing by the spring and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. Now may it be that the girl to whom I say please let down your jar so that I may drink and who answers drink and I will water your camels also. May she be the one whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac and by this I shall know that thou hast shown loving kindness to my master. And it came about before he had finished speaking that the whole Rebecca who was born to Bethel the son of Nilka the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor came out with her jar on her shoulder. The girl was very beautiful a virgin no man had had relations with her and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up and the servant ran to meet her and said, please let me drink a little water from your jar. She said drink my lord and she quickly lowered her jar to her hand and gave him a drink when she had finished giving him a drink she said I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking. So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw and she drew for all his camels. Meanwhile the man was gazing at her in silence to know whether the lord had made his journey successful or not. Then it came about when the camels had finished drinking that the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel two bracelets for her wrist weighing ten shekels and gold and said, whose daughter are you? Tell me is there room for us to lodge in your father's house and she said, I am the daughter of Bethel the son of Nilka whom she boarded to Nahor. Again she said, we have plenty of both straw and feed and room to lodge in and then the man bowed low and worshiped the lord. He said, blessed be the lord the god of my master Abraham who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me the lord has guided me straight to the house of my master's brothers. Now they make their way back to the house and his whole story has repeated. As he tells Rebecca's family about all the preparation and the test and what happened and we come to verse 50, her family, Laban and Bethel answered and said, the matter comes from the lord. We cannot speak to you bad or good. Behold, Rebecca is before you take her and go and let her be the wife of your master's son as the lord has spoken. And it came about when Abraham's servant heard their words that he bowed himself to the ground before the lord and the servant brought out articles of silver and gold and garments and gave them to Rebecca and gave precious things to her brother and her mother. Then he and the man who are with him ate and drank and spent the night and when they arose in the morning, he said, send me away to my master. Her brother and her mother said, let the girl stay with us a few days, stay 10 and then she may go and he said to them, don't delay me since the lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master and they said, we will call the girl and consult her wishes. They called Rebecca and said to her, will you go with this man and she said, I will go. Thus they sent away their sister Rebecca and her nurse with Abraham's servants and his men and they blessed Rebecca saying, may you our sister become thousands of 10,000 and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hasten. Rebecca arose with her maid and they mounted the camels and followed the man so the servant took Rebecca and departed. Now Isaac had come from going to Birlaha Roy for he was living in the Gav and Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening and he lifted up his eyes and looked and behold camels were coming. And Rebecca lifted up her eyes and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel and she said, who is that man walking in the field to meet him? He is my master. Then she took her veil and covered herself and the servants told Isaac all the things that he had done. Then Isaac brought her into his mother's Sarah's tent and he took Rebecca and she became his wife and he loved her. Thus Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Now looking at chapter 25, beginning at verse 5, it says, now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. But to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living and sent them away from his son Isaac eastwards to the land of the east. And these are all the years of Abraham's life that he lived, 175 years. And Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life. And he was gathered to his people. Amen. May God bless the treating of his holy and infallible word. Truly the grass withers in the flower face, but not the word of God. Amen. Be seated, please. It's the longest chapter in the book of Genesis, by the way. Number of years ago, movie was made called Dead Pollock Society. Robin Williams played the part of a new English teacher in a New England prep school. John Keating arrives in this 1950s setting to teach in a style and session that the boys had never experienced. In fact, the first day of class, the movie depicts him taking the class out into the hallway and walking him down the hallway to the school trophy case. And there in the trophy case are pictures of alumni and students who had graduated years and years and years earlier. And their teacher gets behind them. He says, look in there, look in their faces, boys. Tell me what you see. He said, because every one of us will soon be food for the worm. Someday, we will grow cold and frail and ill and we will die and they will put us in the ground. He said, look in those faces, boys. It's that they're young just like you. Look at their, look at their, look at their, look at their hope. Look at their strength. Their world is their oyster. They're beginning their lives. He said, every one of those guys in these pictures, he said, but they have a message for you. He tells them, lean in close because they're whispering. And then from behind them, John Keating begins to whisper. He saw the movie, no, the phrase. Carpe Diem. Carpe Diem. He's the day. He's the day. Well, we're gone. We've gone to Genesis chapter 23 and 24 and 25. So look at the picture of one of the alumni of the city. One of the most famous alumni ever. And we, I want you this evening to lean in close and to hear what he might have to say. Well, we should. The Bible says that Abraham lived a long life. The Bible says that when he breathed his last, he had lived to a ripe old age. And he died an old man. And then what is it? And satisfied. He died satisfied with life. How does one die? Satisfied. When you get all the way to the end, you can look back and you can say, well, lean in close. Let's listen to what Abraham might whisper die. I'll give you a hint. I don't think he'll say sees the day. Be more likely that he would tell you that he was seized by the day of the God who loves him and knew him and cared for him. And if we would be so seeded, then we'll die satisfied here. Take your sermon outline, if you would, and you'll see the first point, if we were to listen closely to Abraham and hear him whisper, you might whisper this. Those who die satisfied live with conviction. The first thing that Abraham might whisper is, believe. The Bible says that Abraham believed God. Abraham believed God. Sometimes we make it too complicated, don't we? We get all the way to the end and we look back. What do we want to say that we believe? Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness. Abraham believed Yahweh was God. He came from a land of polytheism, of idolatry, of paganism, but Abraham believed. He believed that Yahweh had revealed himself, that Yahweh was the God, the only God, the true God, and that to give your life in the service of Yahweh, to know him, to walk after him, to follow him. Well, that was life. That was life indeed. Look at Abraham's life now as we come to the end of it. Consider that Abraham, yes he faltered, and we've talked about that. But Abraham believed God. He believed God to leave the land of his birth, to leave his family, to leave his culture, to leave his religion, to leave his safety, to leave his security. He believed that God was faithful. He believed that God was true. He believed that the man who rested his future and his hope and his life in the hands of God was a wise man. He believed. He believed enough to get up and go, even though he didn't know where he was going. He believed God. He believed that God would give him a son, even when his years grew long, and he believed that God would be righteous in his dealings with Sodom. Abraham believed when God said, take your son up on the mountain and slay him. In this case, particularly in chapter 24, chapter 23, Abraham, we see him again believing God when he purchases property to bury his wife and to be buried himself in the future in the land of pain. The promise of God was this, I will give you a land, a great land, for all your descendants. And yet as Abraham nears his wife's eyes and he nears the end of his own life, how much of that land does he possess? How much of that promise has been fulfilled? Nothing. He owns nothing. He has none of it. He has waited. And yet the promise of God is not going to be fulfilled in his sight, in his lifetime. And the conventional wisdom is that you took your family back to the land of your origin, to the land of your forefathers, to your ancestral home. And that's where he would take his wife, Sarah. And that's where she would be buried because that was his home. But Abraham says, what? No, this is my home. This is my land. I don't know any of it, but God promised it. And I am going to act in faith in the future for what I cannot yet see because that's what he says faith is, right? It is knowing that what we can't see is true because Abraham believed God. And so he buries his wife in that land. He declares by saying, this is our home. This is our land, even though it isn't. Not yet, but he believes. You've heard that Hernando de Soto, when he landed his explorers in the new world, he did what? Well, when they wrote a shore and when they got what they needed, the men looked back out and they saw what the boats set a fire. And it was her, it was the Soto's way of saying as we encounter hardship and deprivation and danger, don't you even dream about going back? Because this is now our home. This is where we live. There's no turning back. Those who die satisfied, those who get to the end and look back, but they look back and they say, by God's grace, I believe. To believe is the settled conviction that you belong body and soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a settled conviction that the plight your trust with God is why. And it's good. The Bible says, seek ye first, what? Seek ye first to kingdom of God. Pray like this. Lord, hallowed be thining, thy kingdom comes, thy will be done. Life is about you, Lord. Life is about your honor. Life is about your glory. It's not about me. Life centers in you. And the purpose and the focus and the aim of my life is to make myself of no account for your good because I believe, because I believe that's what I was made for. That's what I was created for. You don't we do that? You know what happens when we pour ourselves out and we abandon strategies of self protection and self love and fear. And we become more about the things of God and God gives us faith and grace to let go. Do you know what happened? We, and many of you have experienced this. You say, this is what I was created for. This is what I was made for. I am experiencing the depths of my soul satisfaction. Your next car, you know, to spend focus on your next car, your next purchase, your next project at work, your next achievement, your next, the next phase of your life, next this next. It's all an exhausting pursuit. It will never yield what you're looking for. I believe God. I believe. And so tonight I want to ask, do you? Do you have you committed your path to walk after the word Jesus Christ? Jesus came into the world and to deny yourself, take up your cross and what? Come after me. Abraham did it. He gave up everything. The disciples gave up everything. Come after me. I want to be satisfied. Do you believe? That in business week, young man is 20-year-old high school dropout that's made a fortune in some techno project. He said, he said, I get a kick out of these people who say, you know, what really makes life important is making up a positive impact on the world. He said, that's a bunch of bull. It's all about money. He described his Jaguar. He described his DeLorean. He says, let's cut through all the garbage. It's all about how much money is done. His name is John DeNine. I can just see the obituary now. John DeNine breathes his laugh. He lives to a ripe old life. And he died in the embrace of his DeLorean. Hey John, what was the sweetest moment of your life? It was the day I bought my DeLorean. You see that at the end of his life? It was me and my DeLorean. How sad. How pathetic. Is it not the one who could say, Lord, I give you my heart, my soul, my life, my family, my bank account, my future? Is the one who will die, he'll die satisfied. He'll die full. Touching to read this week of the young man who died resisting the hijackers, Todd Beemer maybe saw in the paper that his wife gave birth this week. The little girl named after him bearing his middle name Morgan. And his friend said that, you know, it's sad and it is profoundly sad that she will not know her father. The friend said she won't know him but she'll know about him. His life was short. But he loved Jesus, did Todd Beemer. He went to Wheaton College, he earned a reputation for a sincere zeal for Jesus. He taught Sunday school in their small in the Jersey town. And when he was faced by the danger of that hijacking, I mean, who knows how any of us would respond. We might be the ones curled up back in the toilet, in the back of a plane, you know, scared death. But he was scared, who wouldn't be scared. So what did he do? For the telephone operator, he didn't even know, he prayed the Lord's prayer together with her. Then he dropped the phone and he gave up his life. Where do you get that idea? Where do you think? We think he got that idea that that's what God gives us life for is to lay it down. One little girl will never know her father, but she'll know about him. His friend said he didn't live long, but he left the legacy. I think we could say he died, satisfied. God created him for that day. It's Jim Elliott to die as a young missionary who wrote in his journal, he is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep the gains what he cannot lose. The answer of our day is, I can't get no satisfaction. Oh, yes, you can. Oh, yes, you can. Believe. Believe that to have Jesus is to have everything. If you'll be satisfied in this life and in the life of God. If Abraham could whisper to you, he would tell you, believe. And I would ask you tonight, do you? Do you? Second, if Abraham could whisper to you, he would not just say that those who live with conviction die, satisfied, but those who live with calling. Those who live with a sense of calling, who fulfill their calling, who give themselves to their calling, then they die with satisfaction. What was Abraham's calling? Well, you'd have to look back at Genesis chapter 18, his mission, his task, where God says Abraham, Abraham, I have chosen you to order your household well. I have chosen you to direct your children after you to walk in the way of the Lord. This is Abraham's mission. It's to perpetuate the faith. Abraham believed God. Abraham was to take this blessing that God had given him. God had revealed himself to Abraham. Now, inculcate this faith, give this faith, nurture this faith to your children and your calling. Whatever else you do, this is what life is all about. How is he doing? What do we read about Abraham? We can tell that he is having an impact on his household by the faith of his servant. This is Abraham's right hand man, his most entrusted employee, a member you might well understand of his family. And yet, when his servant is sent on a mission to find a wife for Abraham's son Isaac, what do we read of this servant? He's one of the most pious people we meet in all the Bible. At point after point, we find him praying. I think it's verse 12, where in chapter 24, where he's crying out to God, God, give us success. God, I can't accomplish this on my own. Smile on my master. Show your loving kindness to him. Where did he get the idea to live with such fervent dependency on God? We got it from the head of his household. We see Abraham setting apart his family to walk in the way of the Lord and in the steps he takes to safeguard his son Isaac. There's one in chapter 25 where we read just before he dies, it says that all Abraham's other sons that he may have had through concubines or others, he sends them all away. He establishes Isaac alone as is there. But we also, as the primary part of the pastors we read, know that Abraham goes to great lengths to be sure that Isaac forms a family, a marriage that will perpetuate the faith. Let me tell you something from one end of God's word to the other. This is a passionate concern of God that his children only marry others in his family. Listen to what God's word says. Deuteronomy 7, you shall not intermarry with the nations around you, the people around you do not give your daughters to their sons. Do not take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and he will destroy you. First Kings, chapter 11, where it came about when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods. And his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord, his God, as the heart of David, his father had been. Ezra, chapter 9, for they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race is angled and intermingled with the peoples of the land. Indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness. And Ezra says, when I heard about this matter, I tore my garment and my robe, pulled some of the hair from my head and my beard and I sat down appalled. Clearly Abraham has heard God's word and Abraham is determined to do his part, that his family is not going to be like everyone else. They will be distinctive. God has said, I will be a God to you Abraham and your children after you, that's God's covenant promise and Abraham knows that he is a means to God's end in this business, to set his family aside for the Lord. And so we read this wonderful account in Genesis chapter 24, where Abraham takes his servant and commissions him with an oath that the servant's hand is placed in a very intimate place with Abraham to stress the solemnity of the oath. Go find a wife for my son amongst my kin. Now for the servant, this is a problematic task. Lord, what if she doesn't want to come back? What if she doesn't want to go with me to a land she's never seen to marry a man she's never met? That seems like a highly likely outcome. And Abraham says, listen, God's going to see to this. And he says, well, what if I need to? Well, can I take Isaac there? You know, maybe I've got to bring him there to get her to come back. I was Abraham saying, don't you dare swear on an oath. So the servant goes and we know he devises this, when he gets to the land of Abraham's family, devises a test as he waits by the well for the women to come out and draw water in the evening. The not only was looking for a girl who will offer to share water with him, which perhaps be a common courtesy, but to also water all the camel, so it made this long journey with him, which would be rather arduous work. Obviously, the test that would show the graciousness, perhaps the industriousness of this young lady and the girl who comes forth is Rebecca. And we know the story goes that she is from Abraham's household. She offers to do exactly what does the servant had set forth as a test. I mean, his jaw hits the ground. He praises God. God, you led me straight to the woman. This is incredible. He goes to the house. He excitedly tells them the whole story. They see the hand of God in this. They consent to give their daughter. They ask for a delay. However, perhaps she could stay for another week or two. He presses the matter and they bring her Rebecca to make the decision. And they say, this man wishes you to go to be married and wishes you to go right now. How quickly life can change. She just will have to get water. And now she's going as far as could be imagined to marry another man with somebody she knows not. And what's her response? I will go. I will go. And they go and they travel all the way back to know how many how long it took months. It took and they make their way back and Isaac is in the field and he sees her coming. I mean, Hollywood. This is Hollywood. He sees him and she gets high though and it comes to verse 67. Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent and he took her back and she became his wife and he loved her. I mean, it's Harry Med Sally. I mean, this is a date movie right here. You know, this is let's say something goes to die satisfied. We'll be able to look back and say that they faithfully set their children apart to walk after the light. Isn't that right? Now listen, you know, let's take the gloves off for a minute. None of us are going to be good at this. You know, God saves. We don't. We can't save our children. And we're going to fail like everything else. God gives. And we're going to struggle and we're going to be a mess. But you also know what it is to be earnest about something. And those who die satisfied, they look back in their life and say that because of God's grace and his goodness and his work in their life, that when they became Christians at least, they were earnest about this. They were earnest about directing their family in the ways of the Lord. They did it in the way that they caught them. They did it in the way that they instructed them. They did it in the way that they disciplined them. They built a house that was God-centered. They claimed the minds and hearts of their children for the Lord. That doesn't just happen moms and dads. There has to be a decisive action, a decision made that we begin long family life. There was a point which my parents said that their six children would receive a Christian education. And when I came to this community, there was a point at which it became clear from the very beginning that with all my mind, that I would ask God if he wouldn't do that as well for my kids, that I would have the opportunity to give them a Christian education that daily, when I brought my kids to school, I would know that they were being discipled in the things of the Lord. Oh, I can't tell you how thankful I am at the work of God in our men, how thankful I am that God has raised up seven rivers for Christian school. I can't tell you because there's a commission of us all. It's parents, isn't it? The challenge of all of us. And we're so, we're so inadequate. And we struggle. So, I've got to tell you something. We started the pastor's class there and I had 65 or so people in there and I asked him in the first class, tell me if you'd die and stand before God and he says, why should I lighten to heaven? What would you say? And out of all the class, I'm going to say the best answers are three or four kids who go to Christian school here. I don't need best answer among the kids. I mean the best answer. Now, what in a quiz, you know, I'm just telling you that they were able to articulate it in a way in which almost no adult in the class could articulate it. And I believe that parents who will set their children apart, they will reshape the course of history through their courageous obedience. And it's hard. I'm facing our college, you know, and I want my children to go to Christian college. You know what that cost? I've got to sell the youngest one, you know, too. And he said, you know, eBay, it's not, I'm not getting any offers. God, God would you enable, God would you help us because, because look at Abraham, the father of the faith takes great energy to do what God instructed him to do to set the children apart to walk in the way of the Lord. You know, I said Peggy Newton wrote a George Bush when he was spoken in front of Congress after the terrorist attack. She said, it was a God touched the leader. It was a God touched moment. And it was a God touched speech. Who wrote that speech? A graduate of Westminster Christian school. He writes all the president's speeches. God's going to use parents. And just before I came here, I prayed with a man in this church who who describes the possibility of his child going into ministry to death, to those who are deaf. And where did this desire awaken in his daughter? It'll on a mission strip to do makeup. That your child apart, when those mission strips and those camps and those opportunities come along Wednesday by Wednesday by Wednesday, get your children there. Set them apart from marriage. Set them apart for Jesus and in the way that you guide them towards marriage and the way that you guide their education and all the opportunities that you have. I realized the other day I saw our school starting some alumni activity and all the sons and alumni. And I realized that I hope he never gives a dime to seven of his Christian school. I hope he never gives a dime because I hope he still wrapped up in starting a Christian school wherever he lives when he's married and he has children that he won't have a dime to spare for this place for his old man. Because what my parents gave to me, the true test of whether I've been a good father is the way that my kids raise their kids isn't it? That'll be the real test. Does it keep going? This is our calling. And the one who gets to the end of their life and by God's grace and God's goodness, these children walk through the gates of glory. My, they can look back and say, wow, I'm tired. And I'm still paying for that education, but my soul. Third, satisfy those who believe those who have conviction, those who have calling and then in conclusion, we can say this, but those who die, satisfy, lived with confidence. The third thing that Abraham would lean forward and whisper to us is this is go with confidence because you have a leader. Live with confidence. Abraham has confidence. His confidence is not in his leadership. It's not in his gifts. It's not in his wealth. It's not in his authority. It's not in his wisdom. Abraham knew he was the beloved of God. God plucked him out of paganism. God plucked him out of a land. He didn't earn it. He didn't merit it. He didn't deserve it. But God had called him. God had claimed him and God had made him the object of his affection. When Abraham served blocks of this mission and says, how's this going to work? How am I going to find somebody? This doesn't make any sense. What is Abraham said? God will send his angel before you. God is into. He's saying God's hand is on my life. God loves me. God's for me. God's made promises to me. And when God does faithfully guide the servant, you can see in verse 27 of chapter 24 that even the servant says, blessed be the Lord. The God of my master who has not forsaken his loving kindness toward my master. Abraham can look over the course of his life and say, you have led me so well. All the way my Savior leads me. You are my leader, my provider. And I would say to you, you want to end your life satisfied? And you want to live it with the confidence that God is for you and He's with you and He goes before you. In the New Yorker, not long ago, there was a cartoon and the cartoon showed a man enough in one of these large bookstores and at the desk of the clerk. And she's looking at a computer screen and she's saying, you know, hmm, Bible, where, where what section would they have the Bible? And she's, oh, here it is, under self help. No, I don't think so. Of all the places you've filed the Bible, not under self help. I looked unto the hill from whence cometh my help. My help comes from the, from the Lord. Abraham knows it. Look at Seven Rivers Church, the Seven Rivers Church future rest on good leadership and good staff and good congregation and a growing community. Listen, there's a God who loves this place. Yeah, the night we had a meeting with our architects and our construction management firm that we're working with towards the building of our sanctuary. And we left the meeting, those of us officers of the church and leaders of the church said, God, it's exciting. Those guys know what they're doing. I mean, they're going to get us there every single morning you ought to meet with your leader. When you walk out of that meeting, you ought to say, God, you know what I'm doing. He knows my, he knows my past, he knows my future, he knows my now, he knows the world. He's forming, he's with me, he's in me, my future is secure. Abraham had it. There's no reason we shouldn't. Those who die satisfied have lived as the beloved of God to say something. We're going to blow it. You know, we are not going to be as passionately as committed as a God as a word would urge us to be. We're not going to raise our kids that we're going to blow it so often. You know, a key part of raising your kids to follow Jesus is not to do everything right is to confess constantly before them how bad you're doing at it. All the time, how rotten you are as a parent that you need Jesus, because you're not going to do it very well. Just keep running to Jesus in your parenting. Keep running to Jesus, you know, in your conviction and your unbelief. Keep running for the cross. Keep running to the one who loves you. You realize in the story that your Rebecca and the father is choosing a bride for his son. And so he sent his Holy Spirit to you. And the Holy Spirit is willing you and back in you to come home and be the bride. Isn't that what the New Testament says? The bride of Jesus and the Holy Spirit would come and he would say, come back. It seems strange. It's to a land you don't know. It's scary. But if you come, you'll be loved. If you come, you'll be satisfied with all my heart. I urge you this night to say what? I will. I will go. John Henning was two years old in 1943 during the Second World War when he contracted spinal meningitis because of the war and a lack of antibiotics and other things. He survived, but he lost his hearing complete total loss of his hearing as a two year old. So he lived for 57 years, unable to hear. He was a year 2000. That's just really a little over a year ago, a year and a half ago. He heard of an operation where with new technology, they could bypass the damaged parts of the zero and get to the sound waves to his auditory nerve. It was sort of experimental. It wasn't a for sure thing, but they went for it. And so they they with some sort of cochlear implant and a zero. And then it took a number of weeks after that before they'd turned it on and the swelling could go down and finally came the day of reckoning in which they were going to turn this on, tune it in and see if this man who virtually had never heard a sound could hear. And I love this story because when they turned on to turn it on and they got ready to give him this first sound is lifelined over and whispered. I'll tell you something. One day, you will breathe your last. One day, perhaps it will be said of you. You live to a ripe old age. I don't know about that. But one day you'll breathe your last perhaps living to a ripe old age. Will it be said that you died? Satisfied. I'll tell you this. If you lived hearing the lover of your soul, whisper. And if Abraham could whisper anything to you, he would whisper the Yahweh by love you. Believe that and teach it to your kids.