Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor Sermon Podcast
Hope Series (#2): The Hope of Easter
The Hope of Easter by Rob Clark, Senior Pastor at Bournemouth Vineyard, UK
I could have listened to Ken go on about me for another half-hour, but thank you for your warm welcome, Ken, and it's nice to be here in Michigan, and thanks for putting on the nice weather. If you know England at all, you know how much we appreciate the sunshine, and I bring greetings from the Bournemouth Inyard. In fact, a lot of people said, "Oh, give our love to so-and-so." So many people said this that I couldn't possibly remember. So for those of you that were on one of the two or three ministry trips, you know, consider yourself loved and hugged, and the rest of you are greetings from the Bournemouth Inyard, and it's really lovely to have that close friendship. And you know, I said this in the early service, and I really mean this, you've got a great set of pastors, and, you know, in Ken and Nancy, you've got real goals, and you love them and you pray for them, and you, you know, just enjoy what God has given you, because He's given you real treasure. And if I was living here in Michigan, I would gladly come to this church, and I'd gladly serve here. So if you're not serving, find out where God wants you to serve. You don't have to have a great big sort of vision from God to do this. It's real easy. You know, God doesn't really mind what you do, as long as you start doing something. You know, and I just encourage you, if you want to grow with a Lord, you start serving here in the church, even if it's, you know, cleaning the looses, I mean, the toilets. You know, just start doing something. You know, a pastor friend of mine in the UK said, you know, the best leaders He's seen, and all of His life are the people that serve. Start serving. And you know what? God will raise you to the top, because God loves servants. Well that was for free, and we'll get on to what we're going to talk about this. Sorry? I can hear that one. You know, I love talking about that, Ken, because, you know, it's a privilege to give to God, because, you know, we serve a God who gifts. And we're going to be talking about, I think, His greatest gift, and that's at Easter. And we're going to talk this morning, and we're going to have a look at what hope does Easter bring, because Easter brings a lot of hope, and I know that we know all the technical mumbo jumbo, don't we, you know, that Jesus was our propitiation for our sin, isn't that a nice word, and, you know, you can explain that next week, but Ken. And because, you know, I'm a simple boy from Canada, so I don't understand those words. And Jesus came, and He died on the cross, He suffered for us, and we know all of that, don't we? Okay? But what does Easter bring us? What hope does Easter bring us? We're going to have a look at that this morning. We know that Easter accomplished something, and there is a certainty that Easter brings. There's a certainty about our future. Now, there's some of us would love to know exactly what the future brings. Some people would love to know what the stock market would do, you know, a month from now. They'd love to be able to look into a crystal ball, but, you know, we don't have to worry about that because our future is secure. We know who holds the future, don't we? It's Jesus Christ who holds the future. And when He was on earth, in John chapter 10, verses 9 and verse 10, He said a couple of things. He said this, "Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved. Wherever they go, they will find pastures. The thief's purpose is to steal and to kill and to destroy." Let's pause there for a second. We have an enemy, and his purpose, his rezondetra, is to steal, is to kill and to destroy. Now this isn't rocket science. Who does he want to steal? Who does he want to kill? Who does he want to destroy? Who is us? Believers. Now I'm going to use the term believers if that's alright with you. I travel to quite a few Muslim countries, and I don't use the word Christian anymore. I find that a lot of Muslims don't understand the word Muslim. They take a look at the West and they say if that is what Christianity is, it is an abomination. It is the West are infidels. When I'm over in Senegal or when I'm in the eastern part of Turkey, I'll talk to my Muslim friends about the fact that I'm a believer, and they say, "Oh, we understand that." You understand that, so we're going to get rid of that word for a little while. Jesus is talking here to believers, and the language that he is using here is sheep. Now the promise he gave after he told what the enemy was going to do, he said, "My purpose is to give life and all its fullness," and he's talking about sheep here. Now I've got some bad news for you. You're not compared to sort of bears, or leopards, or lions, or tigers. Now I quite like the tiger, and I look at myself in the mirror and I sort of see tiger. What do you see, Ken? Thank you, see I've got a witness, but the Bible compares us to sheep, okay? Now that's bad news, because I've got to tell you something, sheep are stupid. We couldn't get a sheep, so I got Ken instead. Oh yeah, oh we got the sheep. You know their IQ is way down in the single digits. I mean really, really stupid, and they are more than a few fries short of a happy meal. They are stupid. I've spoken to farmers up in the Lake District of England, I've spoken to farmers in Wales, and they all tell me sheep are stupid. So that's bad news. Now there's a village in Turkey, to show you how stupid sheep are, there's a village in Turkey they had a flock of 1,500 sheep, and one of the sheep tried to jump a 45 foot sort of gap, and it didn't, and it crashed to its death below in the ravine. But all 1,500 sheep followed suit, and if you're a sheep lover, this is a sad story. So you might have to comfort the person beside you. The first 400 died, it said the other 1100 had a soft landing. They are dumb. So the Bible, I hope you're getting this, that the Bible compares us to sheep, and at night the sheep are kept in a pen, and there's a shepherd that takes care of them. Well someone I know took a visit to the Holy Land, and he came, he was being taken around, and the guide took them to his hometown, and in his hometown his family have a flock of sheep, and he noticed the pen, and he said to the guide, well I noticed you must not have any wild animals, because there's no gate there. And this deeply tanned shepherd said to him, I'm glad to tell you something about my sheep today, I tell you that I am the gate. And the opening is my bedroom where I sleep at night, did you get that? Jesus our shepherd said, I am the gate. See it wasn't easy to be a shepherd. But if you're a shepherd, and if you're God's sheep, God is saying you're going to be well supplied, you're going to be well defended, you're going to be well taken care of, you're going to be led beside green pastures. And when I was up in the lake district, I learned that the farmers will, and they talked about their sheep so lovingly, and they would take them up to the top pastures in the top of the mountain where the greener grass was, so that the sheep could have green grass, and they'd lead the sheep beside the still waters. When Jesus said on the cross those three words, it is finished. What he was really saying to us is, everything that I had hoped for for you is now come. When you said yes to Jesus, you know, where every head was bowed and every eye was closed, the choir was singing just as I am. And you said yes, God said yes, now their mind. And the only reason you didn't get translated into heaven was that God wants you to live between the now and the not yet. Michael Green talks about this, and he talks about the difference between D-Day and V-E-Day. We live between the times, between the now and the not yet. One day you and I are going to get new bodies, and for those of us who are fallically challenged, we're probably going to get new hair as well. Mine's going to be wavy, I think. And I've always wanted dreads, so maybe I'll have some dreads as well. So I'm going to be the white boy with dreads, okay? Just say hi, Rob. But one day we'll have new bodies, and there's a place that is being prepared for us where there's going to be no more tears and no more sorrow and no more sadness. But until that time, we live in the now, don't we? And every once in a while the not yet breaks in to the now. Oh, I pray that this morning. I pray that the not yet breaks in now. And Ken talks about this walk of discipleship that I'm talking about. See, I'm not talking about being a Christian, you know, this isn't a church for Christians. This is a church for people who want to be disciples of Jesus. This is a church for people who want to walk that road of Jesus' brand spirituality. And how do we do that? Well, the hope of Easter is God's sustaining grace. What do I mean by that? That means that it helps me to keep going. It upholds me. God's sustaining grace upholds me. I don't uphold myself. I've heard people say, you know, I've let God down. I said, no, you didn't. You were never holding them up. God upholds me. He holds me in his hand. He helps me to carry on. And the first type of sustaining grace that God gives me is that he sustains my grace when I'm tempted. He gives me sustaining grace when I'm tempted. And temptation is the first thing that causes us to stumble. In one Peter it talks, it says chapter 5, watch out for the attacks of the devil. You're a great enemy. He prowls around like a roaring lion looking for some victim to devour, take a firm stand against him and so be strong in the faith. What's it talking about here? It's really saying that Satan wants us for lunch. It's not, you know, rose pastor or whatever at the service. It's rose us. That's what he wants. He wants to destroy us. Now, you may not realize this, but the moment that you became a believer, a battle started in your life. You're no longer Satan's property. You're God's property. Satan had to take his hands off you and you're in God's hands. But actually, Satan doesn't like it. So there's a battle going on every single day that you're on this earth. You're faced with moral choices. Am I going to do right or am I going to do wrong? Am I going to choose good or bad? Am I going to be selfish or am I going to be self less? And these moral choices are called temptations. Do you get tempted? Well everybody gets tempted. I get tempted. Ken gets tempted. Not to not so much, but she gets tempted. And the Bible says that we're all tempted. And we'll never outgrow temptation. You know, I don't care how old you are, you know, 80 years of age, 90 years of age, 100 years of age, we all get tempted. But you don't have to feel intimidated about these temptations. Sometimes we even get embarrassed about the temptations. Oh, I can't believe I thought that. Do you ever think that? And you think, how did that thought ever get there? And you get ashamed of that thought. Well, that's not a sin. It's not until you dwell on that, you know, that they, you know, how you chew on that for a little while. When you chew on it, then that becomes a sin. I mean, let's take one area of temptation, gossip. That's a good one, isn't it? Now we don't call it that, do we, in the church, because we like to, to wholly it up a bit. And we say, do you know what, Steve? I'd like to share something with you. In prayer. Because in prayer makes it even more holy. And then you go, you know, can't, I like to share something with you too, in prayer. And we just go around, we share, don't we? Well, you know, somebody tells us something juicy, and you just, you, it's bursting out, isn't it? You can't hold onto it. You've got this juicy little tidbit, and you think, I need to share this. And you, as you begin to dwell on it, and as you begin to open up, you know, you've done it. You sinned. And we, you know, we have a choice to either give in to temptation or to resist temptation. Several years ago, Larry King was interviewing a real hero of mine, Billy Graham, and Billy was talking about the Clinton scandals. And it was an amazing interview, well, it was amazing because I saw it in the UK. And, and they played the whole thing. And finally, Larry says to Billy, you know, you're 80 years of age. You've been in the public, public limelight your entire life, and you've never had a scandal. You have a history of integrity. These are the words out of his mouth. And even as I was listening to it, I, I just started to weep. I thought, this is a man of the world telling another man his life story. You know, what he was saying is, Billy, you've run the race. You have won the prize. Isn't that amazing? Wouldn't you like that? Just be said about you. I tell you, I would. I'd love Larry King to sit me down and say, you know, you've lived a life of integrity, Rob. You're 80 years of age, and, you know, you won the prize. I'd gladly just drop dead there and go and go to glory. And then he said, how have you managed never to have a scandal in your life? And Billy quoted this next verse. He said, in 1 Corinthians chapter 10, that temptations that you have are the same ones that all people have. But you can trust God. He will not let you be tempted more than you can stand. When you are tempted, God will give you a way to escape, and then you will be able to stand it. Folks, this is the hope that Easter brings. Isn't that a fantastic promise? It says here that God will never allow us more temptation than he, that for us to put up with, than he will help us to bear up. When you say to yourself, I just couldn't help myself. You're not telling the truth. When you say, like, Flip Wilson, who's a baby boomer here? So you'll know what I'm talking about when I say Flip Wilson, that devil made me do it. Well, do you know what? The devil didn't make you do it. That's not the truth, because God says I will provide my sustaining grace. I will give you a way to escape. Now it may mean that you turn the channel. It may mean that you have to run out that door. It may mean like me, you know, that you just shut the fridge door. It may mean you change your way of thinking, but God will provide a way of escape. I've heard people say to me, well, Rob, my situation is unique, and because it's a unique circumstance, it's okay for me to bend the rules. It's okay for me to ignore God because God understands that I'm a very unique sort of person and a unique temptation. Ah, wrong answer. What did it say? The temptations that you have are the same ones that all people have. God's sustaining grace helps me to stand when I'm tempted. Then God's sustaining grace helps me when I'm tired. Do you get tired? I get tired. Sometimes I'm not tempted. I'm just tired by life. You know, life sometimes is difficult because, you know, we're trying to do the right thing. Who tries to do the right thing? Most of the time we all try to do the right thing. Sometimes that requires energy, it requires strength. Many of you might be the only believer in the place that you work or the place that you go to school. It's tough. Maybe you're the only believer on the street where you live. Do you ever get tired of doing what's right? Because it's tough moving upstream. When all the societies go this way and Jesus brand spirituality is saying, "No, you need to go this way." And all the societies go that way. It's difficult, isn't it? When all of culture is going one way and the counterculture of Jesus says, "No, go this way." Maybe somebody at the office starts telling dirty jokes and you think, "Well, how do I respond to that? I don't want to be approved, I want to be, you know, I want to be cultural, I want to be with it." And yet, you know, I know something inside of me, the Holy Spirit saying, "Well, that's not really funny." So how do I act? How do I be a believer? How do I be Jesus and actually be cool at the same time? I found out at 50 years of age that's difficult. My 11-year-old says, "Dad, you're never going to be cool again." Well, what do you do when somebody works and says, "Well, it's only a few paper clips. It's only a phone call home. It's only this. It's only that." And you decide to steal a little bit of the office stuff. Come on. Don't you do that? Are you all good? Not your head if you're all good. So what do you do? The more you try to do right, the more energy is required. Well, listen to what God says in Galatians 6, "Let us not grow weary in doing right, for we will reap a harvest of blessing if we do not give up." But where do you get that power? Where do you get the power to do the right thing when sometimes I just feel tired and I want to be nice to my family? No, I know you're never like that. But sometimes I come home and I'm a little bit grouchy, aren't I, Kathy? Sometimes I want to be rude back to the people who are rude to me, especially when I'm driving. And I think you have an expression here called flipping the bird. And at first I thought it might be something about dubs or something like that. I thought it was a sign of peace, but it's not a sign of peace, is it? And so when somebody does that to you, what is your first reaction? Hello? Your first reaction is, "Well, I'm going to tell that guy, it's difficult to be nice." Where do you get that energy from? Well, 2 Corinthians tells us, "It is God who gives us the ability to stand. He has commissioned us and he has identified us as his own by placing his Holy Spirit in our hearts." Do you know what, it's the Holy Spirit that gives us the power, it's not our own power. And the reason why we're tired sometimes is because we are trying to live the life of a believer and that doesn't work. We're trying to be like Jesus and that doesn't work. You know, we're trying to be good and that doesn't work and we're trying to just even keep the 10 commandments and that doesn't work. We're trying to be people of integrity and we find, "Oh, that doesn't work either." And we're trying and we're trying and we're trying and we just get tired. Some people have said to me, "Rob, it is hard to be a believer. It's not hard, it's impossible. It's absolutely impossible. There's only one person who has lived a perfect life. His name was Jesus. Let me tell you about him. He's my friend and he saved my soul. He's rescued me. I'll tell you about that in a second. We just need to let Jesus be Jesus. Stop trying and start trusting. It's not about trying hard. It's about just letting go and letting Jesus just letting Jesus come and be Jesus in us. Just relaxing and letting Jesus' brand of spirituality just to flow out of me and flow out of you and he'll give us the power that we need. Philippians chapter 2 says, "God has it worked within you and he'll give you the will and the power to achieve his purpose." God's got a purpose for us and I think that first purpose and there's a few people here. I just really sense that the Lord is saying there's a few people here right now and you're just asking, "What is my purpose?" I'm going to tell you right now. Says it in the Westminster Shorter Catechism, "To glorify God and enjoy him forever. You're here to worship God." I don't think God could give a toss about your career. He's more concerned with your character and that may come as a shock to you. You're here to worship him wherever you are. I've led worship for, I don't know, since I was the age of 15 and I've had people, lots of people come up to me and they've said, "You know, I just didn't get anything out of that worship today." I said, "That's good because it wasn't for you." We weren't worshiping you today. Once a month maybe we'll put a name in the hat and we'll get you up on stage and we'll just have a time of worshiping you. Do you do that here, Kevin? You know, put one name in the hat of everybody, they got up on stage and we'll just worship them for a morning. Now we're here to worship him. We're here to give him our worship, but I've discovered that there's not one good thing in me. Is there any good thing in you? The only good thing in me is what Jesus has placed. I've found that I'm just a mirror. I simply reflect what He has given me. If you say, "Well, I'm going to try to worship Him more," you're going to lose in battle. Just open your life up and say, "God love me." Simply love me and then reflect that love back to Him. Man, if you spend the rest of your days doing that, you will be a happy person. Actually, you will be a joyous person. You'll be a victorious person. You'll be a winning person. You'll be like Jesus. And God will give you the will and the power to do that. See, the Christian life is not a matter of willpower. It's a matter of God's will and God's power. God will give you His will and His power. And God never asks you to do something that He doesn't give you the power to do it. Would you agree with me that God has a lot of power? You know God made the sun. You know the sun produces more power in one single second than the whole human race has used throughout history. Isn't that amazing? My God did that. The sun has enough energy to burn for another 30 billion years. God made the sun. That's the sort of power that He's got. He's a powerful God. And when He comes to you and I and says, "I will give you some power," He's talking business. He never gets tired. You know when at creation, on the seventh day, God rested. It wasn't because He thought, "Whoa, I'm bushed." That greeting was hard. No. He rested because He was finished. He took a look back and He said, "Puck it." When He made you, He said, "Can't Wilson." There's only one Ken Wilson. That was a perfect Ken Wilson. I couldn't make another one. Perfect. He had finished with creation. And God says, "I will energize those who trust in me." But there's one last way that God gives us His sustaining grace. And this is very real to my life. Not just when I'm tempted, not just when I'm tired, but God sustains me when I'm troubled. When I've got problems. Jesus said, "In this world, you're going to have a lot of trouble." He said, "Don't be upset by it. Don't be surprised. Don't let it blow you away because there are going to be some situations that you can't handle. Did you ever have one of those? What do you do when you have troubles? Do you solve? Do you draw away from God's people? Do you throw yourself into your work and neglect the ones you love? How are you like me? Do you comfort eat?" I'm serious. You know, Ken said, "You're a pretty braver. I've been this honest. Do you know what? I've found the best place to be, as honest. I love that about John Wimber, the founder of this movement. He was an honest guy. I've been a believer my whole life. I've been in the church my whole life. In fact, nine months before I came on his earth, I was in church. I'd never met a man like him who was honest about his stuff, the junk in his life. I love that about John Wimber. Well, I got junk in my life, and I comfort it, and I've done it most of my adult life. I've been on every diet in the world. You might be sitting there really smugly and saying, "I'm a skinny little rant." My sins are visible. What are yours? Hello? Where are your sins? See, all of us are addicted to something. Everyone, not one person here today isn't addicted to something. And if you say, "Rob," that's not right. I'm not addicted to anything. Well, just think of a three-letter word, sin. Maybe not sin here. A little while ago, Ken said to me, "Rob, I've been to your church a few times, and I think it would be good to do the 12 steps." I'd heard of them, and I dismissed it. A year later, Kathy said the same thing to me, and we don't listen to our wives a lot. I dismissed that, and then I suddenly saw all these addicted people coming in and our house group leaders and small group leaders were saying, "What do we do with these people?" And I thought, "I don't know." And so Kathy said, "Well, why don't you listen to what I said and look at the 12 steps?" So I began to look at these 12 steps and decided that we were going to teach through them, much like you did. And we started a 12-step group, and this Easter, it's multiplied, and we now have three 12-step groups, and we have other groups, but it was just phenomenal what God started to do. And one of our members of staff, she's been clean for two years, and God's given her back her children, and she's just phenomenal. It's just phenomenal what God has done in her life. And what I love about the people in these 12 steps is that they are so open and honest with their staff. They say, "This is what I'm like. God come and change me." And they get to that point where they admit that their life is unmanageable and they can't manage it, and they're honest about that. In the middle class, we are so anal sometimes. We pretend we have this facade, and we need to just drop that, be real, because being real is real discipleship. Well, I went to my doctor after Christmas, and my doctor, we talk honestly with one another, and I remember one stage, he said to me, "Rob, you've got more of an answer for my patients than I've got, and he's not a believer." Isn't that interesting? I said, "How many of your patients in percentage-wise could actually do with my services?" He said, "Oh, 80 percent." But after Christmas, he said, "Rob, you know, you're 292 pounds, now that's too big." And he said, "You know, I've got thousands and thousands of patients, and two people I have in their 60s, and they're fat." He didn't mince his words. He said, "I don't have anybody in their 70s or older that's fat. How many are you going to die?" Hello? And so I thought, I got to do something, but then I thought I've tried, and I was preparing a 12-step sermon, and I just felt the Lord say, "Go back to step one." And so I went back to step one, and I opened up my little 12-step book, and I actually wrote down something. I admitted I was powerless over food, that my life had become unmanageable, and I came to believe that a power greater than myself could restore me to sanity. And I made a decision to turn that part of my life and my will over to the care of God. And I tell you, because of the hope of Easter, it wasn't because I don't have the willpower. Because of Easter, today, I'm 242 pounds, that's 50 pounds. It's not finished there, because I know I'm going to go back, and I'm going to work with this counselor again, and I'm going to go back on this diet, and I'm going to get down to 180 pounds, and we're going to take it from there and see what God says. But it wasn't my willpower, but it was God's will and God's power as I surrendered to him. All to Jesus I surrender. All to Him I freely give. I will ever love and trust Him, and in His presence daily live. Do you want the secret of a successful life? Do you know, when I was a kid we used to play Cowboys and Indians. And this is a bit of an oxymoron. To gain your life, you have to surrender. Do you remember what you did when somebody drew on you? What did you do? What did you do if somebody got to draw on you? You put your hands up, but you know, in our society it says if you surrender you lose. No, if you surrender you win. What do you do when you're in those situations and you can't handle it? You focus on Christ. You focus on His sustaining power, because He promises He'll be with us. Well, how do we get help? Four easy steps, you cry out to God. A twelve step kind of cry out. God my life is unmanageable and I can't handle it. Secondly, you fill your mind with God's word. I got one little bit of God's word that I'll, and this is probably my personal testimony. Psalm 40, I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me and he heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and the mire, and He set my feet on a rock and He gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to my God. Many will see in fear and put their trust in the Lord. You fill your mind with God's word. Thirdly, you accept the support of God's people. That means joining a small group. That means joining a ministry. Are you involved in a ministry? Did I ask you that earlier? You should get involved in a ministry. Get involved in a small group. You know, I'm involved in a small group. The reason I'm involved in a small group is because I know I need God's people. I need God's family back and born to help me keep on going. How is it that you don't think you need that? I don't understand that. And then finally, you hold on to God's promises. Because He promises that He will give us a way out. We live between the times, between the now and the not yet. And God's sustaining grace comes and holds us on, carries us on. [ Pause ] When I was a boy, the Lord was speaking to me during my message actually. He was reminding me of a time when I was nine years of age, I was back in Toronto. And I was at People's Church in Toronto and back then it was about 2,000 folk. And Paul Smith was preaching that day and he had a jukebox on stage. And he put a dime in the jukebox and played the hit song from the Beatles. She loves you. Most of you will never heard of that song, but it was a cool song back then. I think we called it groovy, but you know, my daughter would just cringe even me saying that word, and he said, "I want to tell you about God's love." And he said, "If you want to accept that, Jesus, I want you to just walk to the front now." And the Lord said to me, you know, there's a few people here that just need to do that. And if that's you, just as I'm talking and sharing with people, there's a few more things God has said. I want you to just walk to the front. I want to give you a little bit of biblical sort of precedence over that, but God says in his word that if you acknowledge me before men, and he's meaning men and women, I'll acknowledge you before my Father in Heaven. So I'm going to continue talking, and I want you to put a chew on that a bit, and then just come down here. And there'll be somebody from the ministry team. You just say, "Hey, listen, I want to give my life to Jesus, and I want to accept that. I want to step into God's kingdom." And you know, they're going to lead you in a very simple prayer, and they'll probably give you some stuff as well to take away with. You know, the Lord's also saying to me that, you know, there's a lot of people that you just feel real tired. And God wants to refresh you, so I'm just going to invite. In fact, there was just actually so many that I don't think you'd be able to fit at the front. So I just like you to hold your hands out, and just get ready because the Lord is here. Father, I thank you, I thank you that you've been here all morning, and Lord, I thank you that you hear me. Father, God, I thank you. Jesus, I love you, and I ask you to come down on these folks, and that you'd pour out your spirit, but you'd let your fire fall, and Lord, in those times where they're finding it difficult just to keep on going, in those times where people are finding it difficult to be upheld, would you uphold them now, would you, would you carry them? Come, Holy Spirit, and fall. And the Lord's just said to me, "Just wait now, and I'll run." Father. God, I have some ministry teams just to be ready, please. I know there's some of you that you'd really do sense that God's doing something. I'd like you to come forward, and the ministry team is just going to bless what God's doing. They're not going to ask for your life history, they're going to just bless what God's already started right now, so you come. Father, I ask that you pour out more. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. [MUSIC PLAYING]