SPEAKER_00: The Hebrew writer in chapter eleven verse one says, Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
SPEAKER_00: If you've been around me for a little while, you'll know that I like movies.
SPEAKER_00: I'm a movie guy.
SPEAKER_00: Uh I like series of movies.
SPEAKER_00: I like the I like the Indiana Jones series, for example.
SPEAKER_00: I saw Raiders of the Lost start 12 times when I was 12 years old.
SPEAKER_00: I like the movie.
SPEAKER_00: There's another movie within that trilogy called Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
SPEAKER_00: And I don't want to be spoiler here, but it's been out for like 40 years, all right?
SPEAKER_00: So you've had your chance.
SPEAKER_00: But there's a part in that movie when, if you remember, his father, who's played by Sean Connery, you know, Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, and and his father uh has been shot, and and he has to retrieve the grail, as the the legend and and myth you know says, that that if you you pour water upon uh the wound, it would heal, it would save his father.
SPEAKER_00: But you know, Indiana Jones is it has to go through all of these different booby traps and and ways that you're gonna get killed, and and he's seen that because the the the grail is protected.
SPEAKER_00: Well, he comes to a point where he sees this great chasm, if you remember, if you've seen it, and there's no way he's gonna clear that.
SPEAKER_00: He can't get a running start fast enough to propel him from one side to the other.
SPEAKER_00: And if you remember, when when he gets there, he says it's a leap of faith.
SPEAKER_00: He can't work it out in his mind.
SPEAKER_00: He can't reason how to negotiate this obstacle.
SPEAKER_00: And so when he says it's a leap of faith, his father, bleeding to death, is saying to himself, only the only only the the penitent man can cross.
SPEAKER_00: And so Indiana Jones, you remember, he reaches down, picks up some dust, and he throws it out in front of him in what appears to be a great chasm, but actually is an optical illusion.
SPEAKER_00: Again, I hate to be a spoiler here, but it has been out forever.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that where you see a bridge that goes across, but you can't see it because it's an optical illusion.
SPEAKER_00: Again, the Hebrew writer says faith is being sure of what is hoped for and certain of what we do not see.
SPEAKER_00: Now, you may be asking yourself, David, why did you go off on this rabbit trail about Indiana Jones and the last crusade and this, you know, this thing you can't see and whatnot?
SPEAKER_00: It's a leap of faith.
SPEAKER_00: Folks, the second commandment really is about what the Hebrew writer said, if you really stop and think about it.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
SPEAKER_00: God says in the second commandment, you shall not make a graven image or idol for yourself to worship.
SPEAKER_00: Because you can't trust in me because you can't see me.
SPEAKER_00: So you've got to make something for yourself that you can trust in.
SPEAKER_00: And that never happens today, does it?
SPEAKER_00: This has modern application.
SPEAKER_00: And we're gonna dig deeper into the second commandment this morning.
SPEAKER_00: But before we do, I would ask that you join me in prayer this morning and invite the Spirit to bless our message.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray together.
SPEAKER_00: Father God, we thank you for your love and your many blessings, the greatest of which is Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: I can't imagine what it would be like to allow your son to go through that, through all that he went through.
SPEAKER_00: And that's just what we can comprehend.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, thank you for going to the cross for us.
SPEAKER_00: You didn't have to do it, but you did.
SPEAKER_00: You did it because you love us.
SPEAKER_00: We hope that our worship to this point has been pleasing and acceptable to you, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Spirit, I pray that you're you would be very powerful in our message this morning, that you will speak powerfully, that you will use me as your flawed vessel to communicate a flawless message.
SPEAKER_00: Speak to our hearts and our minds this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Help us to have a deeper understanding of the second commandment.
SPEAKER_00: Help us to get beyond uh what so many people struggle with in this.
SPEAKER_00: It's like, well, we we learned all that in VBS, didn't we?
SPEAKER_00: Well, no, not exactly.
SPEAKER_00: There's more to it than that.
SPEAKER_00: And so I pray that this message is an encouragement to us all.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, we love you so much and we thank you for all that you do for us.
SPEAKER_00: We worship you and we praise you as the one true and living God, and we offer this prayer together in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Hideyoshi.
SPEAKER_00: Anybody ever heard of a guy named Hideyoshi?
SPEAKER_00: I didn't think so.
SPEAKER_00: Hideyoshi was a Japanese warlord who ruled over Japan in the late 1500s, and he commissioned a colossal statue of Buddha for a shrine in Kyoto.
SPEAKER_00: And it took 50,000 men five years to build it.
SPEAKER_00: But the work had scarcely begun when an earthquake in 1596 brought the roof down in that shrine and totally wrecked the statue of Buddha that he had commissioned.
SPEAKER_00: And in a rage, Hideyoshi shot an arrow into what was left of the fallen statue, saying these words, I put you here at great expense, and you can't even look after your own temple.
SPEAKER_00: This morning we're going to continue in our series from the Ten Commandments.
SPEAKER_00: And last week we we took a closer look at the first commandment, which says, You shall have no other gods before me.
SPEAKER_00: And what we learned was that God wants us to place nothing in our life before Him.
SPEAKER_00: No thing, no one should have more influence in your life and my life than the Lord does.
SPEAKER_00: And family, anything that does, anything that does has become an idol in our life.
SPEAKER_00: Today, in the second commandment, God gives us some additional guidance.
SPEAKER_00: And so not only does he command not to worship other gods, but we can also see that he encourages us to worship the one true God in the proper way.
SPEAKER_00: And so when we look at the second commandment, it's very clearly stated in our scripture reading this morning in Exodus chapter 20, verses 4 through 6.
SPEAKER_00: God says, You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or the earth beneath, or in the waters below.
SPEAKER_00: You shall not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation, for those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
SPEAKER_00: Church, when we consider the second commandment in light of the first commandment, which says, You shall have no other gods before me, what we see is that God isn't just telling you and me to avoid idols.
SPEAKER_00: He is also telling us to avoid anything that hinders our worship of the one true God, specifically a visual representation of Him that causes us to limit him in any way.
SPEAKER_00: Now, on the surface, that may not seem like a big deal to a lot of people.
SPEAKER_00: On the surface, it may appear that God is overstating something minor.
SPEAKER_00: But we need to consider why this is so important.
SPEAKER_00: First, when we compartmentalize God into an image or into an icon or into a statue, we have disrespected God and we have disregarded God's glory.
SPEAKER_00: And we have an example of this very thing happening.
SPEAKER_00: And God's reaction to it.
SPEAKER_00: Oddly enough, when Moses was up on Sinai receiving the commandments from God, specifically the commandment against it, if you remember, while Moses was on the mountain on Mount Sinai with God receiving the commandments, the people grew restless.
SPEAKER_00: And they convinced Aaron to make for them a God.
SPEAKER_00: A God for themselves.
SPEAKER_00: So Aaron took the gold and he took the jewelry from everyone, he melted it down and he formed a golden calf.
SPEAKER_00: And everybody's familiar with this story.
SPEAKER_00: We learned this way, way back in VBS, right?
SPEAKER_00: Church, there's many possibilities as to why Aaron made a golden calf.
SPEAKER_00: Why did he choose that?
SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of animals that God created.
SPEAKER_00: There's all kinds of things that he could have formed into a God, but why did he choose a golden calf?
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you've ever asked that question before.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's all he could make.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that was his special.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's where his talent was.
SPEAKER_00: If you asked Devin to draw a picture, guess what?
SPEAKER_00: My specialty is stick people.
SPEAKER_00: And so you're going to go get the best stick people I got if you're going to ask me to draw a picture or something.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was all that he could make.
SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
SPEAKER_00: It's widely believed that he chose one of the gods of Egypt to make.
SPEAKER_00: Now, why would he do that?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they just walked out of there.
SPEAKER_00: They just left slavery.
SPEAKER_00: And now they're talking about going back.
SPEAKER_00: And so why would he make a golden calf?
SPEAKER_00: So that if the Israelites returned to Egypt, they might be shown mercy because a God of Egypt that Egypt recognized would go before them.
SPEAKER_00: But in this case, let's give Aaron the benefit of the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Some believe the God of Israel was associated with or pictured as a calf or a bull.
SPEAKER_00: They say that this resulted through the process of religious assimilation or syncretism, which is a blending of religions together.
SPEAKER_00: And so what a lot of people say is that the Israelites, during their 400 years of captivity, they took Jehovah, whom they could not see.
SPEAKER_00: Remember, now faith is being sure of what we hope for, certain of what we do not see.
SPEAKER_00: During that 400 years of hard slavery, they took Jehovah and they blended him with a recognizable visual God of Egypt, and they created a blended God for themselves.
SPEAKER_00: A God that would have been accepted in the polytheistic culture of Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: So let's assume that's the case.
SPEAKER_00: And this golden calf, in their minds, is a visual representation of God.
SPEAKER_00: Family, God still has a problem with that.
SPEAKER_00: Even though this was a visual image of strength and power that was recognized in the world and in their culture, and their attention very well may have been very sincere in doing so.
SPEAKER_00: But here's the deal: God is still offended by it.
SPEAKER_00: And the reason being because he has been limited by being reduced to an image.
SPEAKER_00: He has been compartmentalized.
SPEAKER_00: He has been stereotyped.
SPEAKER_00: Church, let me tell you something.
SPEAKER_00: Images and stereotypes are dangerous.
SPEAKER_00: And the reason why is because they diminish reality.
SPEAKER_00: They diminish what reality is.
SPEAKER_00: And there's all types, all kinds of false stereotypes out there.
SPEAKER_00: For example, the farmer who only works two months out of the year at harvest time.
SPEAKER_00: Or the teacher.
SPEAKER_00: We have any teachers in here?
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we got a few.
SPEAKER_00: Here's another false stereotype.
SPEAKER_00: Teachers, man, they got it made.
SPEAKER_00: They got it so easy.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they only work nine months out of the year, and they teach the same stuff over and over and over again.
SPEAKER_00: And it's just, it's easy.
SPEAKER_00: They get a state retirement, they get a pension.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's just it's just too simple.
SPEAKER_00: False stereotype.
SPEAKER_00: How about the factory worker who gets paid an awesome wage for doing mindless repetitive work?
SPEAKER_00: That's a false stereotype.
SPEAKER_00: Completely false.
SPEAKER_00: Or my personal favorite, the preacher who only works one day a week.
SPEAKER_00: Now that is completely and totally false.
SPEAKER_00: If you count Wednesday night, that's two days a week.
SPEAKER_00: I just want to put that out there right now.
SPEAKER_00: That is a false stereotype.
SPEAKER_00: And I've been silent for too long, but I digress.
SPEAKER_00: Church, all of these are false stereotypes that are offensive because they give false or an incomplete picture of the truth by compartmentalizing someone or something into far less than what they really are.
SPEAKER_00: And so when we picture God as some earthly form, church, we do the same thing.
SPEAKER_00: We compartmentalize him into something less than he really is.
SPEAKER_00: And this is offensive to God.
SPEAKER_00: And so here's the thing.
SPEAKER_00: When people do this, we not only compartmentalize God, we not only put him in a box, but we also mislead people when we do so.
SPEAKER_00: Going back to Aaron, even if he was trying the best that he could to appease the people with an image of God, as the people began bowing down to it, their association with this being God was reinforced.
SPEAKER_00: Aaron was misleading them.
SPEAKER_00: Family, when you stop and think about that logically, just step away from it and start thinking about it logically, it is arrogant and ignorant to think that you can create something with your own hands, that you can think up something, create something with your own hands, and then bow down to it as your creator.
SPEAKER_00: That even makes sense.
SPEAKER_00: That's oxymoronic.
SPEAKER_00: But people did it, and people still do it.
SPEAKER_00: However, the reality is that people do it all the time.
SPEAKER_00: People pray to statues, people pray to icons.
SPEAKER_00: And in most world religions, that is exactly what happens, and in a lot of Christian denominations and religions, it still happens.
SPEAKER_00: And so their prayers can't come from the love and creativity of their own hearts.
SPEAKER_00: They have to come from an approved liturgy.
SPEAKER_00: The right words.
SPEAKER_00: From somebody else.
SPEAKER_00: Let me ask you a question.
SPEAKER_00: Have you ever had a ever had a good luck charm?
SPEAKER_00: Anybody ever had a good luck charm?
SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
SPEAKER_00: You can admit it.
SPEAKER_00: I remember my senior year in high school, I received a four-leaf clover from one of the cheerleaders at the first pep rally of the first season.
SPEAKER_00: First game of the season, my senior year.
SPEAKER_00: So I took that four-leaf clover and I put it in my right football cleat, my right shoe.
SPEAKER_00: And that night, that game that we played, I rushed for nearly a hundred yards and had scored a touchdown that game.
SPEAKER_00: I was pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing.
SPEAKER_00: The next game, after we'd won the first three, after we won the first three, I lost the four-leaf clover.
SPEAKER_00: Man, I was having a great season until I lost the four-leaf clover.
SPEAKER_00: Devin was a running fool at running back.
SPEAKER_00: And then I lost the four-leaf clover.
SPEAKER_00: The next game, we got blown out at homecoming by the number five team in the state.
SPEAKER_00: We'd won the first three games of that season, and then I lost that four-leaf clover.
SPEAKER_00: And after we lost that first game, we lost every other district game except one for the rest of the season.
SPEAKER_00: Now, a superstitious person would say, Well, that's pretty simple, man.
SPEAKER_00: You lost the four-leaf clover.
SPEAKER_00: Why'd you do that?
SPEAKER_00: That's why you only won one game after that.
SPEAKER_00: But here's the reality.
SPEAKER_00: The reality is that our first three games were cupcake games against much weaker opponents.
SPEAKER_00: Because our coach knew that we didn't stand a chance.
SPEAKER_00: He knew we didn't stand a chance because we had just moved up that year into the toughest 6A division in Texas high school football.
SPEAKER_00: Four out of the ten games we played were against top ten teams in 6A in the state.
SPEAKER_00: We didn't have a chance.
SPEAKER_00: Church, we've all viewed lifeless things as if they have some mysterious power to one degree or another.
SPEAKER_00: So it's not a stretch.
SPEAKER_00: It's really not a stretch to think that we can begin to view symbols of God as if they were God.
SPEAKER_00: And this is dangerous.
SPEAKER_00: Very dangerous.
SPEAKER_00: But does that command, family, does that command apply only to physical, tangible idols?
SPEAKER_00: Could it not also apply to our thoughts as well?
SPEAKER_00: Let me ask you another question.
SPEAKER_00: What is your image of God?
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm sure people have asked you that question before.
SPEAKER_00: And when we're asked that question, what image of God comes into your mind?
SPEAKER_00: Some like to think of God as the great architect.
SPEAKER_00: My father, my grandfather, my brother, a few uncles, they were all, they were all Masons.
SPEAKER_00: In their mind, God is the great architect.
SPEAKER_00: Some think of him as a judge, while others don't really like.
SPEAKER_00: Like to think of him as a judge for obvious reasons.
SPEAKER_00: Others, then the most popular belief is this.
SPEAKER_00: Others like to think of him as a father or a grandfather with long white hair and a long white beard.
SPEAKER_00: Church, regardless of what our vision of God is in our mind, that's exactly what it is.
SPEAKER_00: It's a vision.
SPEAKER_00: It's a vision that we have compartmentalized God into.
SPEAKER_00: It's a box.
SPEAKER_00: It's a box that the finite limits of our mind have put the Almighty, unlimited, infinite God into.
SPEAKER_00: And when we do that, God is not happy about it.
SPEAKER_00: And can you see why?
SPEAKER_00: Church, I realize that this is nearly impossible not to do.
SPEAKER_00: There's something about us that wants to have something that we can grasp, something that we can go to as our image and understanding of who God is and what God looks like.
SPEAKER_00: And when we share that vision with someone else, we we mislead them.
SPEAKER_00: And to having a false and limited understanding of God as well.
SPEAKER_00: Did that image originate with you?
SPEAKER_00: Or did it come from someone else?
SPEAKER_00: Or something else that you saw?
SPEAKER_00: Church, the point is simple, but it's still very important.
SPEAKER_00: If we're going to have an accurate understanding of God, then we have to learn and we have to lean on what God Himself tells us in His Word about Himself.
SPEAKER_00: Why should we obey the second commandment?
SPEAKER_00: People will ask that question.
SPEAKER_00: Why should we obey the second commandment?
SPEAKER_00: Because God is a jealous God.
SPEAKER_00: He says so himself in verse 5.
SPEAKER_00: He says, For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.
SPEAKER_00: Now take a good look at that.
SPEAKER_00: That's reason enough to obey the second commandment right there.
SPEAKER_00: But you know what?
SPEAKER_00: As you look at that, in light of that, family, these words surprise us just a little bit, don't they?
SPEAKER_00: God says, I am a jealous God.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the idea of God being jealous is something that we kind of have a hard time wrapping our head around, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, think about that for just a moment.
SPEAKER_00: The reason why we have a hard time with that is because we think of jealousy in a certain way.
SPEAKER_00: When we think of jealousy, it's almost always, it's always in a negative connotation.
SPEAKER_00: To us, to be jealous means to be suspicious.
SPEAKER_00: It means to be distrustful.
SPEAKER_00: But when applied to the Lord, family, who is incapable of these things, right?
SPEAKER_00: Because he is flawless, the word jealous in the Lord's case, family, what that reveals is the intensity of the emotion that he has for us.
SPEAKER_00: So when we give the attention, when we give the praise, when we give the worship and adoration that God deserves without limit, without limiting him.
SPEAKER_00: When we give all of those things that he deserves to someone or something else, he is offended.
SPEAKER_00: Church, God's jealousy isn't fueled by petty insecurity like ours is.
SPEAKER_00: God's jealousy is fueled by the eternal flame of the love that He has for you and for me.
SPEAKER_00: If jealousy can be used in a possible context, God uses it as such.
SPEAKER_00: When he says, I am a jealous God, I am intense in my love for you, I am intense in my forgiveness, in my protection of you as my child.
SPEAKER_00: I can't think of that word being used in a positive context anywhere else.
SPEAKER_00: Family, it's so important to obey this commandment.
SPEAKER_00: Because not obeying it, according to God Himself, results in negative consequences for our children.
SPEAKER_00: If you're a parent this morning, your ears should be perking up.
SPEAKER_00: Look at what God says in the latter half of verses five and six.
SPEAKER_00: He says, I, the Lord, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generations, to those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
SPEAKER_00: Church, these words should trouble most people.
SPEAKER_00: Because on the surface, it appears that God intends to punish our children for our sins.
SPEAKER_00: And when we think about that, about God punishing my son or my daughter for my sons, my sins, the very idea of that seems completely and totally unfair.
SPEAKER_00: To make things more complicated, Ezekiel chapter 18, if you're familiar with it, tells us that God will not punish the child for the sins of their father.
SPEAKER_00: So people will ask, does the scripture contradict itself?
SPEAKER_00: The short answer is no.
SPEAKER_00: It never does.
SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing Ezekiel chapter 18 gives a deeper explanation regarding this issue.
SPEAKER_00: So, church, one rule of biblical study that we must never forget is that you always interpret the brief passage, the small passage on any given subject in consideration of the passage that's more extensive on the same subject.
SPEAKER_00: And the nuts and bolts of Ezekiel chapter 18 says that God punishes those who follow the example of their sinful fathers.
SPEAKER_00: But those who turn away from that example and follow the Lord will be blessed.
SPEAKER_00: Family, that's why our example of faith is so important.
SPEAKER_00: Mom, dad, your example of faith is extremely important because if we are disobedient, then our children will most likely follow our example of disobedience.
SPEAKER_00: So let's apply this rationale.
SPEAKER_00: Let's make application.
SPEAKER_00: If our children see us living a superficial faith, family, they learn to view faith as being insignificant.
SPEAKER_00: If our children see us living a faith focused on experience, then our children will seek experiences rather than God.
SPEAKER_00: If our children see us bowing and worshiping representations of God, then our children will come to the conclusion that that representation of God is God.
SPEAKER_00: And if our children grow up in a home where worship isn't a priority, then our children will seldom exercise that option in their life.
SPEAKER_00: If our children grow up in a home where faith is separate and apart from daily life and daily decisions, let me tell you what happens.
SPEAKER_00: Our children conclude that faith is irrelevant.
SPEAKER_00: If faith is only something that they see on Sunday morning, you got problems.
SPEAKER_00: And your children are going to have bigger problems.
SPEAKER_00: Church, with this in mind, we can clearly see that God's word is true.
SPEAKER_00: He will punish the children of those who disobey him to the third and fourth generations because they walk in the light of their parents' example.
SPEAKER_00: You know, our children may or may not listen to what we say, but I can guarantee you this.
SPEAKER_00: Church, something we must realize is that God doesn't leave it there.
SPEAKER_00: Man, that's the good part.
SPEAKER_00: This is the good part.
SPEAKER_00: God doesn't leave it there.
SPEAKER_00: He goes on to say that those who are faithful will bring blessings to their children for a thousand generations by giving them a good biblical example to follow.
SPEAKER_00: So, church, which generation describes you?
SPEAKER_00: Which example describes your family this morning?
SPEAKER_00: Are you in a situation where you're the leader of your home or you're a parent in your home and you know that as a family you haven't been as dedicated as you need to be?
SPEAKER_00: Maybe there's something in your life that has taken God off of that pedestal where he should be as the top priority, and you've placed something else there.
SPEAKER_00: Don't beat yourself up over it.
SPEAKER_00: It's not uncommon, but it is dangerous.
SPEAKER_00: And the thing about it is you know that it is.
SPEAKER_00: You know that you can do better.
SPEAKER_00: We all can do better, but you know that you need to put God first.
SPEAKER_00: Today's the opportunity to do that.
SPEAKER_00: Now that doesn't mean that you have to walk the aisle.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, a hundred, a little over a hundred years ago, walking the aisle at the end of a sermon was unheard of.
SPEAKER_00: Invitation song, they didn't have one.
SPEAKER_00: What happened was sermon was over, and if you needed to talk to the preacher, you talked to him afterwards.
SPEAKER_00: You didn't have to do that in front of everybody.
SPEAKER_00: The point I'm making is if you need to do it, do it.
SPEAKER_00: Find a shepherd.
SPEAKER_00: Find me.
SPEAKER_00: We're not going to judge you.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to love you.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to pray with you, we're going to pray for you.
SPEAKER_00: Because we struggle with the same things.
SPEAKER_00: We're just human too.
SPEAKER_00: And so the shepherds are going to be up front to welcome you if you're ready to walk the aisle and start over.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe starting over for you is confessing Jesus as Lord, putting your life behind you that you've lived, and starting a new walk with Jesus today.
SPEAKER_00: That's your choice.
SPEAKER_00: And everything's ready for you to make that choice.
SPEAKER_00: Are you ready?
SPEAKER_00: And again, if you need to come back to the Lord, you need to rededicate your life to the Lord, this is a great opportunity to do it.
SPEAKER_00: Just follow what the Spirit is saying to you in your heart.
SPEAKER_00: If you're looking for a place to call home as far as church goes, we'd love you to have you here at Central as a part of our church family.
SPEAKER_00: Whatever you need this morning, whatever burden you're hauling around, man, unload it.
SPEAKER_00: Unload it.
SPEAKER_00: Don't carry it any further than you have to.
SPEAKER_00: Respond as the Spirit calls while we stick.