 We're going to be looking at verses four through nine in 2 Peter chapter two. Let's begin reading together at verse four I'll read to verse nine We'll get into our study and I chose to entitle it the Lord knows how to deliver beginning at verse four For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them down to hell Deliver them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment And did not spare the ancient world but saved Noah one of eight people a preacher of righteousness Bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes Condemned them to destruction making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly and delivered righteous lot Who was oppressed with the filthy conduct of the wicked? For that righteous man dwelling among them tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds Then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and How to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment? Now as we've been looking at 2nd Peter remind yourself with me that verses one through three were a portion of his letter where he Begins to warn the church against the infiltration of false teachers He had made it very clear that they would infiltrate and they would bring in destructive error into the church and This destructive error that the false teachers were bringing in that would undermine the gospel related to things like the cross of Jesus Christ and its significance and and they began to influence many people and they caused the gospel to come into Disrepute to be to be ridiculed He says in verse 2 by them the way of truth will be blaspheme that word blaspheme means to be reviled or to be spoken against to be railed against You see Jesus is the way the truth in the life and Because he is the way the truth in it and the life his teachings are called the way of truth and These teachings the way of truth are intended to to transform lives When somebody not only hears the way of truth, but believes and begins to act upon those things that Jesus taught in 3rd John in verse 3 John said I rejoice greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you just as you walk in the truth So it's not a matter of just receiving it. It's a matter receiving believing and acting upon that transforms your life And so Jesus being the one who gives to us the truth because he is the truth There's going to have those who introduce error in order that they might undermine his gospel message in our life and destroy the way that we live Well, he said in verse 3 that they're not going to get away with this because he says their judgment has not been idle Just because God had not moved to judge them does not mean that he's not going to move and that he's not going to judge in Romans chapter 2 verses 5 and 6 from the new living translation We read but because you are stubborn and refused to turn from your sin You are storing up terrible punishment for yourself For a day of anger is coming when God's righteous judgment will be revealed He will judge everyone according to what they have done and So they're going to receive the wages of their sin their judgment. He is saying is sure Now to develop this he's now pointing out that scripture contains three examples of God bringing judgment He refers to God judging angels God judging the ancient world and then he speaks of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, we'll look at those things one at a time some a little bit more than others the first Notice with me. He speaks in verse 4. God did not spare the angels who sinned. He cast them down to hell And so he begins to speak concerning the divine judgment that fell upon fallen angels He's saying if God judged angels he most certainly will judge sinful man and he mentions these angels these angels He refers to as those who sinned He doesn't identify them for us, but they're undoubtedly the same angels that are mentioned in the book of Jude verse 6 These are angels who did not keep their first estate. These are angels who? Rebelled and were ultimately placed into a holding tank if you will they're reserved right now for judgment These are terrible angels that fell with with Lucifer when he rebelled against God and Five times said I will Meaning that he was taking his will and usurping the authority and will of God and as a result of that he was cast out of heaven and he is now referred to as the slanderer devil He's the adversary. He's Satan He has influenced angels and there are angels who've been influenced by him that that Peter and Jude referred to Who are being held in a holding cell if you will he said he cast them down to hell and delivered them to chains of darkness to Be reserved for judgment and so they're in a temporary holding cell But ultimately they'll be placed in the final judgment. It's what he's saying and he's saying that these mighty angels Were dealt with by a mighty God and that God's judgment is for sure if he judges angels he'll judge the false teachers Now this judgment is when both the angels and even men will receive their eternal doom in Revelation chapter 20 verse 10 It says the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone Where the beast and the false prophet are they will be tormented day and night forever and ever He goes on in verse 15 of Revelation 20 to say and anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire And so this judgment is sure it came upon the angels They're being reserved right now, but they ultimately will be placed into their final doom their final destiny Not only will they be there with the beast and and and and the false prophet, but they will also be there with Satan They will be there with all who reject the Lord God. It's a place that is called the lake of fire So one he's saying God's judgment is sure on fallen angels But two he gives a second example of certain judgment and that is the example of what was called the great flood Now notice in verse 5 he says and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah One of eight people a preacher of righteousness bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly So one God's judgment is sure because he judges angels But two God also judges man judges the ungodly He uses the example of the great flood that occurred during the time of Noah And I want you to notice that he speaks of the eight who were saved that would be Noah That would be mrs. Noah That would be the sons of Noah shem ham and japheth and it would be their three wives And that's why he gives the number eight because he's including the family of Noah And these people were protected By God when he brought judgment on the world Now why did God bring judgment on the world? Genesis chapter 6 tells us in the old testament book of Genesis Genesis chapter 6 informs us that the world had become wicked that word wicked there is also translated perverted or perverse Terribly evil corrupt and had become violent In Genesis chapter 6 verses 5 and 6 it says the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth And that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually The Lord was sorry that he had made man on earth And he was grieved in his heart In verses 11 through 13 it says the earth was also corrupt before God the earth was filled with violence So God looked upon the earth and indeed it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth God said to Noah the end of all flesh has come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold I will destroy them with the earth It's wicked. It's evil It's corrupt and it is violent and God says I will bring judgment on the earth When you look at the conditions of the earth then you can see similarities in even our days and I'll point that in just a moment But in the midst of all of that God saved Noah Because according to Genesis chapter 6 verse 8 Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord That's the first time the word grace is found in your bible It's when Noah found grace in the eyes of God He was in the midst of an evil generation But in the midst of the evil of that generation he was saved by the grace of God And Though it was wicked though it was violent though it was corrupt though the thoughts and intents of the human heart Were only wicked continually There was a man in the midst of all of that who walked with God A man who found grace in the sight of the Lord Name was Noah Jesus spoke concerning that because he was saying that Even as in the days of Noah so it would be just before he returns In Matthew 24 37 through 39 it says as the days of Noah were so also We will be the coming of the son of man for as in the days before the flood They were eating drinking Marrying giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and did not know until the flood came and took them all away So also will be the coming of the son of man be You see like Noah we are also by grace preserved by the Lord in the evil day that we live in In 1st Thessalonians 5 9 it says God didn't appoint us to wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus christ Noah lived in a very extremely corrupt time But he's referred to and i want you to see this He's referred to as being a preacher of righteousness a preacher of righteousness That has to be spoken up for just a moment because a lot of people today don't understand what that really means even people in church Don't understand what it means That somebody actually is a preacher of righteousness. He's a preacher who speaks concerning the righteousness that is of God And a preacher who is speaking concerning how a man or a woman may become righteous to stand before God So that they don't enter into judgment And Noah was what is referred to is as as a preacher of righteousness He spoke what God had given to him to speak And he did it because that's what preaching of righteousness really is God has called us as ministers of the gospel To be willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe Now it's not just that we give our opinions Because a lot of people will say that oh you're giving your opinion I remember in our very I believe it was our second second Christmas May have been our first Christmas. It was first Christmas service that we had was actually at a house And then we had a Christmas day service in a church building, but I remember reading through the Christmas story Sharing some things and relating some things To just living for Christ and and and how we can do that and At the end of that service Somebody who had been invited by a friend approached me and Took issue with me and got upset thought that I was pointing some things out about her personal faith She was under conviction. She just didn't realize it. So she just got angry at me You know, she's going to shoot the messenger And so I remember when she approached me and began to speak to me About it. I said no, this is what it says And this is what the bible says and and she said to me something to the effect of well That's your opinion You have opinions and I have opinion And I smiled at her And I said and she said and our opinions are equal and I said that's where you're wrong I said your opinion is unequal to mine Because you don't even pick up the bible to read it as a hobby I study it and I teach it and I've been doing it for years. So for you to equate your opinion with mine Is incorrect what you have is an opinion what I have is a well-reasoned answer And there's a difference between the two But today in our society, this is 31 years ago today in our society people still think like that and even more So today people who never pick up the bible will argue with you about what it means and what it says and and how to understand it People who've never read a bible verse and wouldn't know a bible verse from a poetry You know versus a poetry will argue with you people will say things like well, god helps those who help themselves It's got to be somewhere in the bible, isn't it because they really don't understand And so you ask who's the strongest person in the bible and they'll say hercules and you'll say no I'm sorry. He's not found in the bible And so this does happen, you know, this does occur Where people will argue and see and they argued during the time of Noah Noah was a preacher of righteousness He was saying to the world it is corrupt. It is evil. It is perverse. It is doomed for destruction He didn't say it because that came out of his own heart He said that because he's a preacher of righteousness. He spoke the words that god gave for him to speak The prophet Jeremiah in chapter one verse nine It says the the the lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and the lord said to me behold I have put my words in your mouth And that speaks of being a preacher of righteousness. It's not that he gives his own opinion He's giving well founded words that came from god himself And and that's what noah would do. Noah spoke forth the word of god the mind of god to the people That they might repent and turn and be saved. He preached judgment And he preached judgment. That was to come though. Nobody listened In genesis chapter six verse three. It says the lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man for that. He also is flesh yet his day shall be 120 years I'm giving you 120 years a mend your ways 120 years Noah preached righteousness and in the end the only ones who were saved was his family His wife his sons and daughters-in-law They were the only ones who entered into the ark when god closed the door and nobody else could enter in And judgment came god destroyed the earth with the judgment of the flood This is a man who lived a life of a witness a witness against the immorality of the day He remained faithful in the midst of it It says in Hebrews 11 7 by faith noah being divinely warned of things not yet to be seen Moved with godly fear prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world And became heir of the righteousness, which is according to faith So as noah was moved through faith and fear even so should we too to the saving of others See the point he's making is if god didn't spare the ancient world in the days of noah How much less could he be expected to spare the false teachers in peters day or even in our day? So god moves in judgment god judged the angel god judged the earth And then he comes to verse 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes Convemed them to to destruction Making them an example To those who after afterward would live ungodly and delivered righteous lot Who was oppressed with the filthy conduct of the wicked For that righteous man dwelling among them tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds Now he's speaking concerning Sodom and Gomorrah The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah These cities are proverbial for their evil and are mentioned often in scripture as warnings Now when you think of Sodom and Gomorrah More than likely you normally think of of one sin that is associated with Sodom and Gomorrah But There was more than one sin You may also only think of Sodom and Gomorrah two cities when in reality There were five cities that were judged according to genesis chapter 14 verse 2 God judged Sodom god judged Gomorrah. He also judged Adma, Zebuim and A small city called Bila or Zor They were all caught in the judgment of god Now because Sodom is mentioned often Ezekiel the prophet can be turned to because Ezekiel speaks concerning these cities and their sins in Ezekiel 16 49 and 50 He said this was the sin of your sister Sodom She and her daughters were arrogant Overfed and unconcerned They did not help the poor and needy They were haughty and did detestable or disgusting things before me. Therefore. I did away with them as you have seen God gave the root of the sins that are associated with these cities and why they were destroyed the root of the sin was their pride They thought they were the source of their own blessings. They weren't thankful Romans 1 21 says although they knew God they didn't glorify him as God nor were thankful But became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened God had blessed them But they monopolized the abundance they had and they didn't care for others They had a fullness of food. They had a fullness of abundance But abundance of idleness and they had unconcerned for the poor And these are things that God judged But they also according to verse 50 of Ezekiel 16 They also Were haughty and did detestable things before me and that's why God says therefore. I did away with them What else did they do? What else did they do? What other sin were they guilty of? We're all familiar with it It was the sin of sexual perversion It was a sin of homosexuality You want to change your generation the way generation thinks you want to change a society? Do you go after the old people? Now Old people are said in their ways most people would say Most older people don't really have an openness to be challenged and To pick up new ways of thinking so what do you do go after the kids? How do you go after the kids? You get them as early as you can You get them when they're small you get them in preschool You get them in kindergarten you get them in in elementary school If you can get them in in the early formative years of their lives you can convince them that all kinds of things are right It becomes their culture. So by the time they're getting older they have reasons to believe because this is the way It's always been it's always been this way for me as I growing up. This is what I've adhered to So how do you get to the kids you destroy families? If you destroy families, then you leave a mom and dad you just you destroy Take a dad out or a mom out of a family You destroy the the necessity of having two who can help to form and transform those children's lives through proper education So what do you do? Well, you give them other things you give them education, but you give them education for people who don't have morals And so ultimately what you can do when they're four or five is you can begin to teach them that certain behaviors are okay and that You don't even have to deal with the the behaviors or beliefs of the older people Just just concentrate your attention on the younger Give them reading books that speak about a little girl having two mommies or a little boy having two daddies Make it very mean spirited and evil to ever say anything about homosexuality and As if it's wrong you never want to do that because after all that's hateful, isn't it? That's judgmental That's critical. That's that's mean pass some laws Pass some laws that say that A man marrying a man is fine or a woman marrying another woman is fine because all it really requires is for you to love one another And how can you be such a hater? How can you how can you be so opposed to people's civil rights? And And that's what you do You want to cloud it a little bit more get some contemporary issues and say that it's bigotry It's a form of bigotry. It's a form of bigotry that that that america is is Involved in that causes people to actually be bigoted and overly critical to these poor people Get some entertainment Have some very Appealing talk show hosts who are very much in favor Of this lifestyle it might as well get a lesbian or homosexual to get involved in in championing the cause And if you can get the president behind it all the better And what do you end up doing? Well through the education and the culture and the common culture you take a generation of children And you erase from them any concept of morality And people don't want to argue about that. So what they do is they They say well, we have scientific evidence even though there has never been a A gene that has ever been presented as being a quote-unquote homosexual gene So what you say is you just just basically we're born Homosexual you even want to change the name from homosexual. You give it something that has a more cherry thing. So you call a gay And what do you do is you get a generation And the generation doesn't go to church a lot of people don't go to church They never hear a pastor or a Sunday school teacher teach on passages of scripture. They don't talk about sob and Gomorrah If they do they just simply say they were inhospitable cities and God brought judgment because they were inhospitable to the angels and so you just transform the whole story into something that's current something that is not true And you end up with changing a generation which we have seen take place in our time Watch a comedy a tv program on any Any primetime spot you're going to find a number of very funny families that have homosexual in it Or offices that have funny homosexuals because everybody knows that every homosexual is a lot of fun to be around They're all got great senses of humor and they just be cool to hang with and That's what has happened in our generation as simple as i'm making them simplifying it obviously But that's what's happened That's how you do it You just get the generation coming up and convince them it's okay and that has happened here in the united states in my lifetime in my lifetime When I was a kid growing up. I knew certain behaviors were wrong and certain behaviors were right But you know those behaviors are not being spoken of today They're actually being we're actually being told that they're right and it's outdated. Why do you have these marriage laws? Anyway, it's wrong for you Well, they're marriage laws for a reason You know a man falls in love with his horse. He can't marry the horse. Why? A man falls in love with his daughter. He can't marry his daughter why You see what we're doing is we're taking the morality out of marriage And we're trying to make it some kind of civil right And in doing so We have undermined the authority of the family as god created it one of the three building blocks of all societies That's what we've done Noah was a preacher of righteousness And he was ignored There are many today in pulpits just like this who are preachers of righteousness and they are being ignored Because people don't want to hear it Because wrapped up in the heart of man is rebellion And when we hear something we don't want to believe or agree with we simply say that's your opinion And we modify it whatever's being said so it becomes acceptable to the way we think and what we'd like to believe When god was speaking concerning sadham and gamora. It's found in the book of genesis in chapter 19 He's speaking concerning it in that passage how that angels had come to spend time in Sodom and and lot who was there saw them and said no you can't stay in the streets. It's dangerous at night come into my house It says in genesis 19 four and five Before they lay down the men of the city the men of Sodom both old and young all the people From every quarter surrounded the house and they called the lot and said to him Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out that we may know them carnally We want to have relations with them is what they were saying It was not in his pot in hospitality that that Sodom and Gamora was judged for it It was for the sins of Sodom including sexual perversion In jude seven Jude said Sodom and Gamora and the cities around them in a similar manner to these having given themselves over to sexual Immorality gone after strange flesh are set as an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire Well, you see there are some who today will say well, Jesus never even spoke of this sin And yet you christians seem to make big deal over it Well, Jesus used Sodom as an example in mark chapter 6 verses 10 through 12 He said to them in whatever place you enter a house stay there till you depart from that place And whoever will not receive you nor hear you when you depart from there Shake off the dust under your feet as a testimony against them assuredly I say to you it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gamora in the day of judgment than for that city So they went on and preached that people should repent Matthew 11 23 and 24 a new Capernaum who are exalted to heaven will be brought down to Hades For if the mighty works were done in you were done in Sodom It would have remained until this day But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you Luke 17 28 29 likewise as it was also in the days of lot they ate they drank they bought they sold they planted They built but on the day that lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brinstone from heaven and destroyed them all He used Sodom as an example of judgment and by correlating with scripture the sins of Sodom You know that it included sexual perversion But what did he do? He delivered somebody from the midst of that verse 7 He says he delivered righteous lot who was oppressed with the filthy conduct of the wicked for that righteous man Dwelling among them tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds A lot of people today and I can say this from experience do not understand The passion of a preacher who wants to preach righteousness. They just don't What do they say you're judgmental you're harsh you're condemnatory You're legalistic yourself righteous Lots heart was pierced by the evil that he saw the question has to be asked is ours is ours Is my heart pierced by it Is my heart pierced by what I see When I see children being raised to believe that things that god forbids is acceptable When I see the world that we live in going down the tubes How how am I supposed to feel how are you supposed to feel it should grieve us Jesus stood over the city of Jerusalem and wept over it He wept over it not only did he weep over Lazarus a single individual, but he wept over cities He said you're lost judgments coming it broke his heart That's how it should be for us Not that we shouldn't enjoy our lives god gives us joy and grace and peace and love wonderful things But we ought to have something within our soul that is pierced when we see evil It ought to cause us in some way or other to to be willing and open to share what the truth is to bring people out of the fire To encourage them to know the goodness of god and the grace of god and the love of jesus christ and the peace that can be given to you I wrote something that was published in the orange county register a while back now and an angry homosexual wrote me and and and tried to He told me off is what he did and I wrote him back And I said you say that you're gay I said I have never met more miserable people in my life than homosexuals You're not gay. You're using a word that used to mean happy to describe a behavior that is causing destruction You're not gay. You won't be happy until you have a relationship with god through jesus christ That's how you gain that you don't get it by calling yourself something They don't understand they don't believe it they they get angry at you even the church gets angry At people like me they'll get angry at me. It doesn't matter whether the church gets angry at me or not My job isn't to make people happy. It's to help them become holy. I'm supposed to give the word of god And if righteous lot was grieved I should be grieved That's how it works That's how it works I don't want to become a pastor Who is just passive in the sight in the face of evil? I want to preach a message that will save people from it. I remember a young woman in our fellowship who came And I was teaching a passage that dealt with it just like I am right now And she came with her lesbian girlfriend And later on Wrote me a letter a week or two later. I got a letter and she said I was there. I heard you writing. I heard you speaking concerning homosexuality And I went home with my girlfriend and we began to speak and My girlfriend said all that's his opinion She said but I opened the bible up And I read the passage over again and I looked at the cross references you gave And she said david she goes The bible does teach That homosexuality is a sin Then I'm going to receive judgment She says I want you to know I gave my heart to jesus christ and I've been born again And then several years later she moved she wrote me She's one of my facebook friends to this day And she is married. She has children. She's serving the lord See the truth will set you free It sets you free And that's what we're supposed to preach in there if you cannot go forth weeping very Precious seed you will not come again rejoicing bringing your sheaves with you There there needs to be a place of a broken heart and and and righteous lots heart was pierced by what he saw He lived in Sodom But he never allowed Sodom to live in him In Psalm 119 158 it reads I beheld the transgressors and was grieved because they kept not thy word God wants to set the captive free Compromise and preaching with compromise will never set a captive free It's only the truth that sets somebody free And god knows how to set you free It says in verse 9 the lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment Even as Noah his family and lot were delivered even so those who trust in the lord will be rescued So i'm 34 15 through 19 says the eyes of the lord are on the righteous His ears are attentive to their cry The face of the lord is against those who do evil to cut off the memory of them from the earth The righteous cry out and the lord hears them. He delivers them from all their troubles The lord is close to the broken heart and saves those who are crushed in spirit A righteous man may have many troubles, but the lord delivers him from them all God reserves the unjust for their judgment But he also Delivers us out of our temptations and we have a place that is appointed to us Called heaven Those who have trusted in jesus have a different destiny. They enjoy fellowship with god as it says in psalm 16 11 You will show me the path of life In your presence is fullness of joy at your right hand our pleasures forever more That's why truth is so important eternity hangs in the balance Went into a An icu unit Man was hooked up with all kinds of tubes He was dying of AIDS I walked into the room As I walked into the room there He looks up at me his wife is standing next to him And as I stood next to his bed, I had come to pray for him because he was he was dying He motioned to his wife and his wife gave to him a piece of paper and a pen He had tubes running down his throat so he couldn't speak And I'll never forget him with his shaky hand writing on this piece of paper and He handed it to me And as I opened and I read what he wrote it simply said this it said I am eternally grateful to you The word eternally came out of that page Because he died of AIDS But he had come to faith in jesus christ through our ministry And he went to be with the lord jesus christ eternity means something Eternity means something When people are on their death bed, they don't say I wish I'd have gotten that Porsche They don't say I wish I had that bigger house I've attended more than one person dying and I can guarantee you They don't have things like that that they say I wish I'd have spent more time with my family. I wish I'd have loved my wife more I wish I'd have been a better servant of jesus christ is what I've heard You don't want to enter eternity Like that you want to walk into eternity with joy. There's pleasure awaiting you forever more Preachers of righteousness are grieved by sin But they're overjoyed by the grace Of god We preach the grace of god But there is sin You turn from your sin and you turn to your savior God knows how to reserve the unjust for punishment But he also delivers the righteous out of temptation trust the lord Our father we ask that you would work in us today We ask that by your holy spirit you would move amongst us And even as our eyes are closed our heads are bowed Perhaps there are some in this room right now that the spirit is speaking to You need to get right with god as our eyes are closed our heads are bowed You need prayer to get right with him. You want to open up to him now Would you raise your hand? Let me pray for you right where you're at Father you see these hands and you know the reason why they're being raised to you I ask in jesus name that you would reach down and touch these whose hands are raised And may they enter into fellowship with you may their sins be forgiven wash them and cleanse them renew them And use them for your glory. May they be born again May they become new creations even as they're opening to you if they're rededicating Father may their life be on the proper track now May they move forward in you that their lives might be a blessing to others and be blessed by you We thank you and receive by faith from you lord. Thank you jesus You can put your hands down And lord would you keep moving in us? Do it for your sake and for your glory in your name Amen, let's all stand We'll close with a word of prayer in the last last comment. I do hope you're able to be with us tonight by the way on Wednesday But one of the things that the lord has placed in my heart, you know is to teach you the truth I I gave my heart to christ this month 42 years ago 42 years 42 years and I promise you I was a liberal as liberal as the days long And what changed me into somebody that that's oh, you're such a conservative What changed me is the word of god the word of god So my my vow and my promise to you is every time you come to this church I will do my best to give you the best bible study I can give you that you might know jesus The truth that will set you free. That's my promise to you. I will always teach you the word of god Our father we just would come before you now asking that you would work in our hearts and use us for your glory We leave this place into a field that is so White for harvest use us lord. May our hearts be grieved by the sin May we not judge the sinner may we love them, but may we do the best we can help them to see you May we live in such a way that our words will have even more power lord Because our lives so often can undermine the message we give May we live and may we give that which is from you in jesus name. We pray Amen god bless you