Lesson 8

If you'd take God's precious Word and turn to the book of Genesis, please. Book of Genesis. Jess and Donna, if you happen to be watching on demand later, we sure miss having you in class today. We're glad that your brother had a successful procedure. Genesis. We're going to go to chapter 4 this morning. Genesis chapter 4. We left off last week talking about Cain and Abel. And we learned about their different offerings. And we learned why one offering was accepted and the other was rejected. And so what we're going to do now is look at God's response to Cain and Abel and Cain's response to God. So if you look here now in Genesis chapter 4, and let's look here just to remind ourselves, Genesis says in verse 3, And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground, and offering unto the Lord. And Abel he also brought of the first things of his flock, and of the fat thereof. Verse 4, and Abel he also brought of the first things of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering, but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. So that's where we left off last week. Two brothers, both the sons of Adam and Eve, and they both brought an offering to the Lord. They both worshiped the same one true God, but one was rejected, the other was accepted. And can anyone remember, thank you so much, can anyone remember what the difference was, what made the difference between Abel's offering and Cain's offering? What made the difference? No not you. I know you know. I'm trying to test. Yes ma'am. Abel's offering was an innocent love in exchange for his and Abel's was just vegetation. Wasn't there no innocence to his offering to God? And Abel's offering was done by faith, believing the promise that God gave, and thus mirroring the offering that God gave for his parents. Cain's wasn't. Cain's, I'll go my own way. I'll do my own thing. God you. . . Which basically is like this. When Abel offers up his innocent substitute, he's saying, God will you accept me, he's making this offer to God, will you accept me on the basis of a spotless, innocent substitute that dies in my place? When Cain makes his offer to God, will you accept me on the basis of what I grew, or the basis of what I'm bringing you? Which was not the promise of a coming savior to dine at a guilty party's place. So when you look at Cain, you're looking at people saying this, I want God to accept me like I am. Well listen, we're not acceptable. You look at people today, we're all flawed individuals. The purpose of the gospel is to not have a perfect God, except imperfect people. The purpose of the gospel is to make imperfect people perfect like God. That's hope. When you, if they would have eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, after they, I'm sorry, if they would have eaten of the tree of life, after they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you would have had people locked in to that imperfection, to that sinfulness, to that corrupt mindset for all eternity. There's no hope in that. There's no hope in constantly listening to the news and having your nerves and your stress from listening to the tension between is China going to take us over, is this going to happen, are we going to be able to keep paying the food bills. I mean, who wants to live like that forever? With somebody always trying to get out and get somebody else and always trying to outdo someone and people not loving their neighbor and always wondering who's going to stab you in the back, man, who wants to live that way? So the gospel is not God except me like I am. The gospel is God's going to do something to make me acceptable and make you acceptable. The gospel is God's not going to accept the world in the mistakes and the awfulness that it has. The gospel is God's going to fix the world, make it right, make it new, make us right, make us new. That's the only hope that we would have as a human race, the only hope the world would have. Now, look here if you would and let's see what happens. Verse 6, And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen? Or in other words, Cain, why are you angry, and what's that look on your face all about? What's that disgusted look on your face all about? Verse 7, listen to what God says. If thou doest well, or if you do right, shalt thou not be accepted? As I accepted your brother Abel, he came to me on the basis of that substitute he offered. If you do right, won't you be accepted too? And if thou doest not right, I'm sorry, if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. In other words, Cain, why are you angry? There's no need to be angry. I'll accept you too if you'll just do right. In Cain, if you don't do right, then sin lies at your door. You're guilty, not me. There's no need and you'll be angry at me. You know, when I was in law enforcement, I marveled at the attitude of Cain that I ran into all the time that's still inside the sinful heart of man. I would arrest people who were breaking the law. They knew they were breaking the law. They chose to break the law anyway. Yet they would blame me for their circumstances. It was absolutely amazing. If they were black people, I was a racist. If they were white people, then I was mean in picking on them. There is always a reason for them being okay in me being the one that was wrong. And that's what you're seeing here with God and Cain. God's saying, hey, this is not my mistake. This is not my fault. You have the right to choose to do what's right, Cain, and I'll accept you if you do what's right. But if you don't, sin lies at your door, not mine. You see what God's telling Cain? And now look what he says. Now, if sin lies at your door, that's parenthetical. So if you do well, will you not be accepted? Look now at the end of verse 7. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. So what he's saying is this. Cain was the first born. So Cain, if you do right, won't you be accepted? And Cain, if you don't do right, it's your fault, not mine. But if you do right, you'll be accepted. And unto you shall be Abel's desire, and you will rule over your younger brother. The birthright belonged to Cain. He was the next in line. He was the first born from Adam and Eve. There would have been a hierarchy, Adam, and the first born, and it would have been like that, all the way down. And there would have been a hierarchy, not that they wouldn't have liberty or anything like that, but there would definitely be some type of hierarchical order in society that way. And he says, and if you'll do that, this is what will happen. You'll be accepted. You'll have authority over your brother. But if not, it's your fault, Cain, not mine. Now, let's look here in verse 8, and let's see what Cain decided to do. And Cain talked with Abel, his brother. Now, remember, Abel's the competition. Abel, if Cain is not accepted by God, who's going to be in the hierarchy? Abel is, not Cain. So Cain has a choice. I can either do right by God and be accepted and rule over my brother and be that higher order, or verse 8, and Cain talked with Abel, his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field. Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him. So Cain just cut out the competition. Now who's going to rule over me? Now, God, here's what I did. I'm not going to do well. I'm not going to be accepted, but I'm still in charge. So he thought, well, I'm going to get one over on God, see. Verse 9, and the Lord said unto Cain, Where is thy brother Abel? I'm sorry, where is Abel thy brother? Now, remember, it wasn't that long ago, God was asking Adam, Adam, where are you? He knew where Adam was. Now he's asking Cain, where's your brother? All right, like I was saying, did you eat those cookies? What happened to these cookies in the cookie jar? And so he says, where's your brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper? Cain had a smart mouth, didn't he? He was disrespectful to God. I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper? Verse 10, and he said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries unto me from the ground. God knew the whole time. What'd you do, Cain? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. Verse 11, Now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. So now Cain is cursed, and he's going to have trouble raising food, and he's going to be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth. All right? So we know what a fugitive is, right? A fugitive is someone who's always on the run from the law. What is a vagabond? Anybody? What's a vagabond? Huh? Yep. Person that. . . Well, be careful how you say that, because that's kind of what you do for a living, right? He's a truck driver. It is a person that runs from place to place, but it's someone that does it like with a backpack on their back, you know? So a vagabond, someone that doesn't have a home and just wanders all over the place, he's going to be a fugitive, always on the run. Now that's fascinating, because look what happens next. Verse 13, And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Still somebody else's fault, see? Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid. Now notice that, that's very important. From thy face shall I be hid. Why is Cain going to be a fugitive? Because he's going to be hiding from God. He's going to be running from God the whole time. He's going to be a vagabond because he will not inherit the earth. You know, Jesus said the meek shall inherit the earth. They actually have a home to look forward to eternally, but not Cain. Not Cain. He's cursed from the earth, God said. So he's not going to inherit the earth. Why? Because he's a rebel. Alright? So let's go ahead and look here. So he says, And I shall be led apart of verse 14, And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, And it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me. And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord said a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. So God was merciful to Cain, and put a mark on him, letting folks know, don't kill Cain for what he's done. And God was merciful to him. After all, they had to populate the earth. Look here now at verse 16, And Cain went out. This is the key from the presence of the Lord. If you might want to underscore that in your Bibles. He's going to be a fugitive. Why? Not from man, from the presence of the Lord. Eventually what happens to fugitives? They get caught. They get convicted. They get punished. What's going to happen to Cain one day? He's going to stand before God. He's going to be convicted for his sin, for not coming God's way, for not accepting the sacrifice God offered him. And he's going to be punished. He'll never have an eternal home. And it's very sad. So verse 16, And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived in Berenach. And he built a city and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. So notice Cain built his own city. That doesn't sound like a vagabond, does it? Remember this is spiritual. He's a fugitive from God. He's a vagabond in the earth because he has no home. He is wandering in the earth, but he'll never inherit the earth. We are wandering in the earth today, those who believe in God and accept his son as their savior. And even though we wander in the earth today, the Bible promises one day there'll be a new heaven and a new earth, and we'll live in it forever. And so we have a home. We're not vagabonds. We're pilgrims, and there's a difference, you see. A pilgrim is going somewhere. He's on a journey, but he's got a destination. And Cain, on the other hand, was not on a journey. Cain wasn't going anywhere because Cain rejected God in his good news of the coming Savior. Let's look here now. Verse 18, And unto Enoch was born Erad, and Erad begat Mehujael, and Mehujael begat Methusel, and Methusel begat Lamech, and Lamech took unto him two wives. The name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Zilla, and Ada bare Jabel. He was the father of such as dwell and tense, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all such as handled the harp and organ. In Zilla she also bare Tubal Cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal Cain was Naima, and Lamech said unto his wives, Ada and Zilla. Hear my voice. Anyway, we'll stop right there. The main thing I want you to see is this. And the reason I read all those funny sounding names and the types of jobs that they had was I wanted you to see that the Bible records the genealogy from Adam all the way to the ark, which we'll get into next week, if we don't get into it this morning. It records the genealogies of the people from the first man, the children that were born, the wives that were taken, the children that they had, what type of work they did, where they lived. This is a historical genealogical record. When I was in law enforcement, I did a lot of criminal investigation. The majority of my time in law enforcement was as a criminal investigator. And I learned pretty fast how to tell the difference between someone lying to me on a story they were giving and someone who was fabricating a story. And you know what the difference is? When someone's lying, and I'm going to give you an example, let's say you haul a lot of construction equipment. I recovered stolen construction equipment. So let's say that, let's say old Chris over here, let's say that I catch him and he's got a stolen backhoe. All right? Yeah, he really didn't do it. This is just for hypothetical. But let's say I find Chris with a nice stolen backhoe. All right? Now backhoes are kind of expensive. And so I say, Chris, this backhoe is stolen here. And I know when it was stolen because I have the theft report. I know it's only been stolen for a few weeks. And I say, where'd you get this backhoe? If Chris is telling me the truth, I mean because if you're going to spend thousands of dollars on a piece of construction equipment, don't you think you'd have a receipt for it? Don't you think you know who you're buying it from? All right? So if Chris says, well, I saw this thing for sale on the corner of the road, had it for sale sign on it, I called the phone number on it, and a guy came and met me there, and I paid for the backhoe and hadn't seen the guy since. Well, who was he? What was his name? I don't know. Well, what was his name? Juan Gonzales. All right? Or John Smith, you know? Well, do you have a phone number from that backhoe? Man, I had it on my phone, but I lost my phone. I don't know. I don't. Since then, I have no way of knowing where that phone number is. Is that a true story? No. He has created that story in such a way that it provides me absolutely no way to link and trace his story back and verify it. Now, what if he said, oh, I bought that from so-and-so. He's also got a little construction business, and he said he didn't need the backhoe much anymore, and so he wanted to buy another one, and so he sold this thing to me, and here, I've got to build a sale right here, and I'll give you the guy's phone number. His place is right down the road over here, you know? In fact, so-and-so was with me. Gabriel was, Rep. On was with me whenever we bought it together, and now, is that a true story? That's something I can go. I can trace it back. I can verify his story. I've got names, dates, places, things like that. When you read the Scriptures from Genesis, and I know, and I don't know if any of you all have ever started out reading the Bible, you thought, I'm going to read the Bible all the way through. As you're reading the Bible all the way through, you start to come up on some really difficult genealogical records that have some really strange names that are hard to pronounce, and they begat these children. They begat these children. They begat these children. It goes on and on and on, and suddenly, you feel like, oh, my goodness, I can't read all this, and you get bogged down and you quit. Did that ever happen to anybody? Yeah. Got hands going up. The reason those names and locations and job descriptions are there is because it's a true record, and the people documenting this are giving us things we can tie back to that you can go and say, because they used to say King David didn't exist in the Bible. All they said was, there's a King David who wrote the Psalms and all this, but we found no archaeological records saying this and all that, the Davidic Empire and all that. Well, next thing you know, years go by, and they do an archaeological dig, and they find it. Well, the Bible was true the whole time, and it's just like no different than him telling me, oh, I bought it from Joe Blow down here, who owns this construction company, and it's located over here, and then I can go and verify, yes, there is a person who owns this construction company. Yes, he did sell that backhoe to Chris. Yes, Gabriel Reppon was with him at the time, and we verify what we call in law enforcement corroborating evidence. When you look here in Scripture, evidence is corroborated. It's corroborated by different testimonies of different people who lived in different times, and next thing you know, you do an archaeological dig and you find it. And I think God on purpose allows things not to be found for quite a while, just to let people do the talking so that later they'll find it and get a little embarrassed about it. Of course, they don't publicize that stuff very much, but that happens all the time. And so that's why God's put all these records here. Let me tell you this, and we'll see it when we get to the New Testament. The Bible provides a genealogical record from the very first man God created, his son, his son, his son, his son, his son, all the way down, all the way to the promise Savior that came 2,000 years ago. That's a lot of people. That's an amazing record. You can actually go back and trace the promise Savior's birth to his parents, to their parents, to their parents, to their parents, to their parents, all the way back to the first man ever made. That is history. That's amazing. And so that's why I wanted to read you these records here. Who they were, where they lived, what they did. Notice that they were artifacts of brass in this metal. They had metallurgy. Notice that it said, if you'll look here, that was brass and iron in verse 22. Notice in verse 21, those that handled the harp and organ, you had musicians, you had metallurgists, you had construction people, they built a city. You had people who were very sophisticated. The cartoons that you see of some caveman going, and the other one going, and they have some stick over their shoulder and they go hit a woman on the head and drag her off to the cave. None of that's true. None of it's true. There's no record of it. There's no history of it. It's a pure invention of evolutionists that want to say that we came from monkeys and that we were cavemen and these Neanderthals and all this other stuff. But you see here the record of the first grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the first man in how they were known for dealing with cattle. They were agriculturists. They were musicians. They were metallurgists. Look here now if you would in verse 25. But first notice what they were not. They were not worshippers of God. None of that's mentioned. They were all descendants of Cain. They were all raised apart from God's presence, not being taught God's knowledge. That was not passed down to them because Cain was not a believer. Cain was angry at God. He rejected God. So Cain began having these descendants, and this is the ungodly line of men. Got it? The ungodly line of men began descending from Cain. Abel was the believer, but Abel was killed. So now we're going to go to another set of genealogical records. Verse 25. And Adam knew his wife again as she bare a son and called his name Seth. For God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel whom Cain slew. Remember the gospel message God gave in the Garden of Eden. I will put in the tea, he said to the serpent, between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. In other words, the woman's going to give birth to a child, who gives birth to a child, to a child, to a child, to a child, till finally the promised Savior is born. Put God up here, Satan here. Cain was of his father the devil, the works of his father he did. Abel had God as his heavenly father, but Cain killed Abel. So now who's the godly line going to come through, the godly seed? She said, called his name Seth. The name Seth means appointed. For God, she said, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel. So now Seth comes here and takes the place that Abel would have had. Now watch this. Verse 26. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enos, then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. So at this time, here you have metallurgists, construction people, business people, building a city, living their lives, doing their worldly thing. Over here you have a line of people that are being descended from Seth, and they're calling on the name of the Lord. And to call on the name of the Lord means to put your faith and trust in God, to have your hope in him and his promises. So these people are the godly line. These people are the ungodly line at that time. All through the history of the world, we have had the ungodly line and the godly line, not just physically but spiritually, which ultimately is the way it is. We'll see here in a little bit. The godly line and the ungodly line. Today we have people who care nothing about God. They live their life the way they want to. They don't believe in God. They don't think about God. If they do, it's in a negative way. You have other people who say, you know, we're going to put our faith and trust in God. And we're going to do what God says to do, and we're going to know his word. And so if you'll look here now, verse 5, this is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him, male and female, created he them, and blessed them and called their name Adam, which means basically mankind made from the earth. In the day when they were created, Adam lived 130 years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image and called his name Seth. Now notice here, when we're looking, if you'll look here in chapter 5, verse 1, this is the book of the generations of Adam. It goes from Adam to Seth. You see how that generation goes? It skipped Abel. It skipped Cain. It skipped all those others. Chapter 5 is giving us the genealogy of the godly line of the believers. There is going to be a line of people through which they would believe God's promises, they would continue to record God's word, and they would continue to pass down God's teachings to the next generation. It is because of these people here that we're reading about that we're holding this right here this morning. We owe them a lot. Alright? And as we continue to go through the Bible, we're going to continue to see the results and the interactions on earth between the godly line, I'm sorry, between the ungodly line and the godly line. You see it all the way up to the time of the crucifixion. It really comes to a head then. It'll really come to a head at the end of the world. Alright, so let's look here now. Oh, by the way, if you ever wonder why people hate Israel, it all comes back to this, but we'll learn more about it as we go. Alright, let's go ahead and look here now. Verse 3, And Adam lived in 130 years and begat a son in his own likeness after his image and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were 800 years, and he begat sons and daughters. So Adam and Eve were giving birth for 800 years to boys and girls. That's where all these other people came from that were getting married. But the genealogy, as far as the Bible goes, that we're going to be following and are interested in, it's going to be the godly line. And that's where chapter 5 is taking us to, to aim us toward following this godly line of people that are going to fulfill the promise of the seed bruising the serpent's head and overcoming that ungodly line, if that makes sense. I get excited thinking about it. It's absolutely amazing. Alright, now let's look here. Verse 5, And all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died. And Seth lived in 105 years and begat Enos. And Seth lived after he begat Enos 807 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Seth were 912 years and he died. And Enos lived, now you see how it's skipping over, all the other sons and daughters of Seth. We're focusing on Enos now. And Enos lived 90 years and begat Canaan. And the reason God's so meticulous with these genealogies is because it's going to go all the way to the promised Savior that God promised back in the Garden of Eden. Much care was given in all this. Alright, and all the days of Enos, verse 11, were 905 years and he died. And Canaan lived 70 years and begat Mahalil. And Canaan lived after he begat Mahalil 840 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Canaan were 910 years and he died. And Mahalil lived 60 and 5 years and begat Jared. And Mahalil lived after he begat Jared 830 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalil were 890 and 5 years and he died. And Jared lived in 160 and 2 years and he begat Enoch. And Jared lived after he begat Enoch 800 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared were 960 and 2 years and he died. And Enoch lived 60 and 5 years and begat Methuselah. Now if you've ever heard the old saying, he's as old as Methuselah, this is where this came from. Because Methuselah is the person who lived the longest ever in the history of God's Word. So let's look at Methuselah. Enoch lived 60 and 5 years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were 360 and 5 years. And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him. Notice something different there about Enoch? He didn't die. Everyone else has died. Enoch didn't die. God took Enoch. Enoch is still alive. Enoch never died. Huh? Yeah, God took him. So Enoch walked with God and then God took him. Now without getting too far off, I believe Enoch will come back to earth again. And that's one of the two witnesses in the book of Revelation. But, and the two witnesses died. There were two people in the Bible who did not die. And that's Enoch and Elijah. And so, it's very possible those two witnesses that come in the book of Revelation and start bearing witness on earth, they both get killed for their faith. It's very possible those are the two. That God took them up, kept them for a while, brought them back down to finish their mission at the end of time, and then they die. But, Enoch did not die. And if that's not one of the two witnesses, that's God's thing. But God took him. And so now he's gone. He had this son, Methuselah. Look now in verse 25, Methuselah lived in 180 and 7 years and begat Lamech. And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech, 780 and 2 years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Methuselah were 960 and 9 years and he died. So that's why he's the oldest fella in the Bible, 969 years. And Lamech, which was Methuselah's son, verse 28, lived in 180 and 2 years and begat a son. And he called his name Noah. Now you see how all of these, this is absolutely fascinating. Because eventually we're now going to get to the story of Noah and the Ark. And when we get to the story of Noah and the Ark next week, you're going to see it is an amazing story. And it has nothing to do with the fairy tale stuff with the cartoon figures of all the animals having the head stuck out of the Ark and they're all happy floating with Noah. It has nothing even close to that. And what the world does, and unfortunately a lot of churches, they're ignorant. They don't know the Scriptures well enough, so they paint up this kitty looking thing, like it's just some fairy tale, like Spongebob Squarepants or something. And it's not that way. So eventually everyone that's going to survive past Noah and the flood got to belong to Noah's family. And that's why the Bible is following the genealogical record from Adam to Seth, all this godly line, all the way up to Noah. From Noah everyone after the flood, which is the post-Aluvian age, this is the anti-Aluvian age here, the post-Aluvian age, we're going to follow the genealogy all the way down to there. Now we're not so much going to follow it here. They would take up so much time and so much reading for us to do it. But it's all there. And now when we get to the New Testament we probably will. We'll probably actually follow it and just read every one of them. It'll be fun. So this is why this is so important. This is why these records are so important. And God willing, next week we'll get into Noah and the flood and we'll see what happened. And we'll leave this up here. Hopefully Sherry won't touch it. If not we'll redraw it. We're going to see what happened that caused the flood to take place and it'll be something that happened between the godly line and the ungodly line. And I can't wait to get into it with you. Any questions what we went over? We're actually stopping on time today. Usually I'm running you over and I'm rushing. Yes, sir. And Judas the craft. Basically what? Judas. Judas? Yeah. Iscariot? Yeah, Iscariot. Okay. So yeah, he was of the cane line. Okay. That's a very good question. So here's what we want to see. And next week we'll help that. This is how it started off. This group of people that did not pass the gospel down to their children. This group of people who did. But we know spiritually speaking people from, you know, it doesn't matter who your parents are and what your parents believe. You can believe and you can believe different than your family, you know. So someone could be raised Muslim and have Arab parents and they could end up like many Muslims do end up believing what the Jews teach and what the Scriptures teach and what we teach. So eventually these two lines intersect, which is what calls the flood. And there was a breakdown in the Golly line over here. And as a lot of things do, the next generations, they don't keep it. They don't hold on to it. I said last night, I was talking to somebody and I said, the first generation builds, the second generation maintains, the third generation destroys. That's kind of how it works. And so we'll see what happens. So no, Judas was not necessarily from this line right here, but this is just how it started off. Yeah, because as we know, the Jews descended from the Golly line. They were all descendants of the Golly line. But they are the ones that crucified Christ, but they are also the ones who gave us a New Testament. So it doesn't matter who your family is physically. You know, it didn't matter who you descended from physically. The Jews crucified Jesus. Jews were the apostles of Jesus. So it matters what who you are and what you believe inside. But historically, this is how it started out with this bunch and with this bunch. And now next week, they're going to merge and lines are going to get blurred real bad. Make sense? All right. Very good question. All right. We'll go ahead and see you next door.