WEBVTT 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:12.000 You're listening to the road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:30.079 You see, justification means that Christ took your sin upon himself so that when you put him into you, you can walk righteous. 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:33.520 Because it's his righteousness, it's not your righteousness. 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:35.439 That's what Good Friday's all about. 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:46.960 Good Friday is about a blood transfusion that occurred through the sinless, perfect, pure blood of Jesus that flowed on that tree. 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:51.840 That if we would put our faith in him, we could be justified by his blood. 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:56.719 At The Road, our mission is to empower people to change the world. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:00.960 For more information on the road, visit theroad.org. 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:06.079 We hope you are encouraged by today's message from pastor teacher Steve Holt. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:20.879 Instead of reading the crucifixion story, I thought we'd camp on Romans 5.8 today. 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:26.400 Romans 5.8 sums up the power of the blood. 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:38.560 But God demonstrates his own love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, or while we were still sinners, Christ died for you and me. 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:45.439 Much more than having now been justified by his blood. 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:48.560 Underline that, highlight that, circle that. 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.519 Justified by his blood. 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:56.799 You have justification through the blood of Jesus. 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.799 The best definition I can give is it's just as if you've never sinned. 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:02.480 That's a good definition of justified. 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:06.879 You are justified in Christ by the blood of Christ. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:13.280 We shall be saved from wrath through him, not through you. 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.199 You can't save yourself. 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:17.599 That's what all the other religions teach. 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:25.520 But in Christianity, the salvation of your soul comes through the blood of Christ, which justifies you. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.960 By Christ taking on your sin, you're saved from wrath. 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:34.319 Nobody here is going to experience any wrath. 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:36.080 Isn't that great news? 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:37.520 Yeah. 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:42.400 Now, if you haven't received Christ, and there's probably a number of you that haven't, you ought to do it today. 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:43.759 Smart. 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:50.960 Put on your thinking cap, and maybe say to yourself, I don't really want to experience wrath. 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:53.520 I want to experience the goodness of God. 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:55.199 It can start today. 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:56.400 Verse 10. 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:12.080 For if when we were sent enemies, we were reconciled, there's that word again, reconciled to God through the death of his son, much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:16.400 So today is Good Friday. 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:19.039 Time of the Passover. 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:31.599 We're going to take communion today because it is a picture of the Passover, which was prophetic of what was going to happen on Good Friday. 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:52.879 And when the Passover instituted by God speaking to Moses in Egypt, had no idea what they were doing yet, but that that would actually be prophetic for what we're experiencing today, some 2,000 years later, 4,000 years ago, of the crucifixion of Christ. 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:57.599 So in 50 days, men and women, is Pentecost. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:11.520 And so the Holy Spirit has not been released in power yet, because the Holy Spirit can't be released until until Passover, until Good Friday. 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:19.279 And so for 24 hours, Jesus has been stripped, he's been beaten. 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:30.079 Jesus' back is lacerated with the Roman whip that has shards of steel. 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.040 Some say steel balls were in it too. 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:39.360 But shards of iron, maybe even glass and bone. 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:45.199 And they've just ripped through his back all the way down to the subterranean tissue. 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:50.399 His muscles are probably showing, and he's bleeding out. 00:04:50.879 --> 00:05:03.839 And then he's spread out, and his hands are punctured by iron nails, and his feet are punctured with iron nails. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:12.879 One historian, Josephus, wrote, quote, the Roman cross was the bloodiest of all deaths known to man. 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:17.199 And so he is gradually bleeding out. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:25.839 It is 1.23 here on April 2nd, 2021. 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.839 And we know from history that from noon to 3 p.m. 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:36.480 on that day, some 2,000 years ago, darkness came over the land. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.680 Some would say it was a blackout. 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.759 And at 3 p.m., Jesus died. 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:46.160 So we celebrate his death. 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:47.439 There's power in the blood. 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:54.879 We celebrate the death of Christ today because we believe there's power in the blood that fled on this day. 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:57.120 Power in the blood. 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:02.000 Because God had an original vision for your life. 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:04.399 God had an original vision for America. 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.879 God has a vision for Colorado Springs. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:09.279 God has a vision for your family. 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:16.959 You are placed on this earth with a vision first instituted to Adam. 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:18.879 And Adam and Eve. 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.439 This is what Genesis 1.26 says. 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:25.759 God said, Let us make man in our image. 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:32.639 Notice the plural, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in communion together, making man and making woman. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:36.639 Let us make man in our own image according to our likeness. 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.519 Let them have dominion. 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:49.759 So God placed a mission in the beginning for man and woman to have dominion over the earth. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:55.759 In other words, to colonize earth with the kingdom of God. 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.199 To bring the kingdom of God, colonies of the kingdom. 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:01.519 This is a colony of the kingdom. 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:03.439 It's a weird colony. 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.480 It's called the road, but it is a colony nonetheless. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:10.079 But that's because you guys are all weirdos. 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.519 You're strange and peculiar people, the word says. 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:29.360 So God originally gave Adam and Eve a mandate to colonize earth with heaven. 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.600 And then Adam and Eve, as we know, they sinned, they went astray. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:46.160 We know in Genesis 3.9 that God actually comes into the garden, the original colony, and can't find Adam. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:48.879 Like you can hide from God. 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:53.360 Some of you have been hiding from God your whole life. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:56.000 We have a word for that where I come from. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:57.360 It's called dumb. 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:00.319 You can't hide from God. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:12.639 So he hides from God, and scriptures say, Isaiah 53, 6 says, we all like sheep have gone astray. 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:23.439 Because the sin that was released into the human blood through Adam infects us all now. 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:25.680 We're all infected with that blood. 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:30.240 And sin is really the guilt of rebellion. 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:31.519 That's really what it means. 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:32.879 It's rebellion. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:36.399 Sin is rebellion against authority. 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:44.399 And so when we rebel against godly authority, it's sin. 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:47.120 All sin is rebellion to authority. 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:52.159 And all of you in this room, including myself, have rebelled against authority in our lives. 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:54.720 That's what makes us sinners. 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:56.879 And so all rebellion is sin. 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:05.600 Now, listen, Satan instigated rebellion, but God instituted death. 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:08.559 So he said that when you sin, you'll die. 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:11.679 And the enemy came and said, you won't die. 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.000 So he's always twisting the truth, right? 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:21.039 Because all he knows the MO of the enemy, the MO of Satan and his minions is always to steal, kill, and destroy. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:22.879 And so he comes in that way. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.279 So he fakes out Eve, who fakes out Adam. 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:36.559 They sin, they rebel against God's authority, and then death gets instituted because Satan knew that death would. 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.720 So there was a need for a blood sacrifice. 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:47.120 And the best example we have initially is Cain and Abel. 00:09:47.519 --> 00:10:00.320 So you have Cain who comes to God with fruit and vegetables and rituals, and the scriptures say that God was not pleased with that. 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.519 It's a picture of all religions. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.240 All religions of the world are like that. 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.639 You know, we lived for many, many years in the Orient. 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:26.000 And you could go out in any city in Asia and you would see almost at every corner some kind of a statue with fruit or vegetables or something like that laid there before that idol. 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:36.960 And if you went into almost any home in Asia where Buddhism is strong or Hinduism is strong, you see these idols, and then you see the fruit. 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.840 And so that all got started with Cain. 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:44.559 Because we're always trying to appease God. 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:47.279 That's our natural inclination. 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:55.200 We're going to appease God through the fruit of the ground, through the fruit of our labor, through our good works. 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:02.080 But then Abel, Abel sacrificed one lamb. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.679 He didn't have a greenhouse and get all the fruit and the vegetables out. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:13.919 He sacrificed one lamb and it was acceptable to God. 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:20.799 A blood sacrifice was acceptable to God because men and women, there's power in the blood. 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:23.200 There's power in the blood. 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:32.320 Leviticus 14, 13, we read, then he shall kill the lamb in the place where he kills the sin offering. 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:40.240 The killing of the lamb, he's saying, is offering a sin offering and a burnt offering in a holy place. 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:45.519 For as the sin offering is the priest, so is the trespass offering, it is most holy. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:54.720 Now let me give you five thoughts about the power of the blood that is literally and biologically true about the power of blood. 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.759 First, all life is in the blood, men and women. 00:11:58.080 --> 00:11:59.919 All life flows through the blood. 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.600 Your oxygen flows through the blood. 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:14.879 So if you shoot an animal or if you shoot a person, something like that happens, it's not the bullet that kills them, it's the leakage of the blood. 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:16.960 That's how they die. 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.360 The blood is exacted that way. 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:20.559 So all life is in the blood. 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:23.679 Number two, all healing is in blood. 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:25.919 All healing is in blood. 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:35.360 If you injure yourself, you're gonna get usually a bruise, and that bruise is because that blood is flowing to that injured area because it's healing that injured area. 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:36.720 Bruises are good. 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:39.759 All healing is in the blood. 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.279 Number three, all health flows from your blood. 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:45.120 All health flows from blood. 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:52.879 Because when you eat, the nutrients, the vitamins flow through the blood, the proteins flow through the blood. 00:12:53.519 --> 00:13:03.840 So I pray when I eat that, those potato chips, I pray that it will become carrots as it flows into my bloodstream. 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:05.200 Only kidding. 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:06.399 A little bit. 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.440 Number four, all protection is in the blood. 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:11.120 All protection is in the blood. 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:12.720 That's your immune system. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.159 You have strong blood, you have a strong immune system. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:18.879 Blood fights disease. 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:21.200 Blood fights viruses. 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.919 Blood keeps you safe. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:24.960 But now listen to this. 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:29.519 Fifthly, death flows through blood. 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:32.240 All death flows through blood. 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:37.600 If you get poison into your blood, it can kill you. 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:39.360 You hear what I'm saying? 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.279 So poison can flow through your blood. 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:53.519 You've got kidneys, you have pancreas, you got a heart, you got a liver, you can remove those briefly and still live through the blood. 00:13:53.600 --> 00:14:04.879 You can have a liver transplant, but men and women, you can have a healthy liver, a healthy heart, healthy pancreas, healthy kidneys, but if there's no blood flowing, you're dead. 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:10.159 So death flows through blood if it's poisoned. 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.200 Now listen to what I'm gonna say. 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:19.039 Our blood, through the sin of Adam, is poisoned. 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:24.159 If you've never given your heart to Christ and surrendered to Christ, you got poisoned blood. 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:25.679 That's what sin does. 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:29.360 It poisons our spiritual bloodstream. 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:31.759 Now listen to what I'm gonna say. 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:36.399 We have spiritual cancer flowing through us. 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:40.720 We have spiritual aids flowing through our blood. 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:43.919 We need a blood transfusion. 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:46.000 You need a blood transfusion. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:53.600 If you've accepted Christ, if you have given your heart to him, if you're a wholehearted disciple, is you've had a blood transfusion. 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:55.360 Not dialysis. 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:57.519 You know what dialysis is? 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:03.679 Dialysis is taking your blood, running it through a machine, cleaning it up, and then putting it back in. 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:05.679 That's religion. 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:09.440 Religion is dialysis. 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:12.799 It's you trying to clean up your act. 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.200 I'm gonna get better this year. 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:21.279 I'm here at Good Friday service with the robe because I'm gonna clean up my act tomorrow. 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:26.000 And starting on Easter, I'm gonna quit doing this and quit doing that. 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:30.000 Let me just tell you, that's dialysis and the blood still the same. 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:33.200 It might get clean for a while, but you're just gonna dirty it up again. 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:35.200 That's religion. 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:38.159 You need a blood transfusion. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.000 I need a blood transfusion. 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.720 I got a blood transfusion when I was 18 years old. 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:46.000 A spiritual blood transfusion because guess what? 00:15:46.159 --> 00:16:00.240 I needed not my blood trying to get cleaned up, I needed the spiritual, pure blood of Jesus at Calvary infused into my heart. 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:01.840 That's what I needed. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.919 And when I gave my heart to Christ, I got a blood transfusion. 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:19.840 And his blood flows in my veins now, and it's not my blood, and his blood is good enough, even when I mess up, even when I still sin, even when I make mistakes, I realize that I am, what is the word? 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:21.360 Justified. 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:39.200 You see, justification means that Christ took your sin upon himself, so that when you put him into you, you could walk righteous. 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.639 Because it's his righteousness, it's not your righteousness. 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:44.559 That's what Good Friday's all about. 00:16:44.799 --> 00:17:01.120 Good Friday is about a blood transfusion that occurred through the sinless, perfect, pure blood of Jesus that flowed on that tree, that if we would put our faith in him, we could be justified by his blood. 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:10.319 But God demonstrates his own love toward us in that while we were all while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:18.559 Much more than having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:31.039 Not through you, through him, not through being a good person, not by following the dictates of even the Bible, as wonderful as it is, is through him. 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:35.440 It's his righteousness flowing through you. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:41.440 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son. 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:48.799 Much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:53.279 That's resurrection day. 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.759 You gotta have resurrection day. 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:57.920 We have to have Easter. 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:20.799 Jesus' blood is pure, Peter said it this way: knowing that you are not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold from your aimless conduct received by traditions of your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb, without blemish and without spot. 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:28.160 Men and women in crucifixion was the most heinous, most bloody death anyone could go through. 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:38.720 Because God the Father was making an exclamation point that the kingdom revolution is gonna come through a blood transfusion. 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:43.519 The kingdom revolution is gonna come through a blood transfusion. 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.559 His blood for you and me. 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:50.640 That's the revolution, that's when it begins in your heart. 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:52.400 And so here's what happened. 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:54.720 This is man, it gets me fired up. 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:56.319 I get pumped about this. 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:57.119 Listen. 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:09.279 What happened in Genesis 3 has been canceled out, and we are redeemed for Genesis 1. 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:32.960 In other words, the original mission that you and I were given was to take dominion over our life, to take dominion over our spiritual life, to take dominion over the earth, to make an impact upon this earth, to bring a kingdom of God revolution, because the Holy Spirit's living within our life, and when you get spirit-filled, the fire of God flows in you, and when the fire of God flows in you, all things are possible. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.400 It's been restored. 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:42.079 At Calvary, it's been restored. 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:56.400 That's why we use words like restored, recreated, redeemed, revived, renewed. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:01.039 We have God's image back. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:04.079 You have God's image back. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:08.880 You've been restored, redeemed by the power of the blood. 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:14.720 Now, in Leviticus it says, don't eat the blood. 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:25.359 When the Israelites would take that animal that they had sacrificed, they were to drain the blood out because God knew there's poison in the blood. 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:28.720 There's not poison in the meat, there's poison in the blood. 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:36.559 And if that animal had anything in it that wasn't healthy, it was going to be drained out. 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:37.759 Alright? 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:46.640 So it was always said in the old covenant, don't eat, don't drink the blood. 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:58.160 And on the night in which he was betrayed, for the first time, Jesus said, drink my blood. 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:01.440 You can drink my blood. 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:04.880 You can eat my flesh. 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:14.559 So Jesus said, Matthew 26, and as they were eating, Jesus took bread and he blessed and he broke it. 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:19.039 And he gave it to the disciples and he said, Take eat, this is my body. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:30.240 Then he took the cup and he gave thanks and he gave it to them, saying, Drink from it all of you, for this is my blood. 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:36.559 New covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:48.400 Men and women, the new covenant is the reinstitution of the original vision that you can take dominion over your life through the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:52.319 That we can make an impact upon culture through the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:54.720 Not you, but Christ working through you. 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:59.759 In partnership with Christ, set free to walk. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:09.440 In redemption, innovation, creativity, joy, fruit of the kingdoms, righteousness, peace, and joy. 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:23.599 I mean, any psychologist worth his salt will tell you you give me a person, he wouldn't use these terms, but I'll just put terms into his mouth, that walks in righteousness, peace, and joy, I'll show you a successful person. 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:29.920 Because the more you walk in the ways of Christ, the more creative you are. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:44.640 The more joy you have in your heart, the more you can think on your feet, the more you can get vision from God, hear his voice, and walk in the vocation that God's called you in as a kingdom colonizer. 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:46.240 Isn't that exciting? 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.240 You've been listening to The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt. 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.279 We hope you have been blessed by today's message. 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:59.359 To connect with us further, visit theroad.org. 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.359 If you are walking through a difficult time, we want to pray for you. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:10.720 Go to theroad.org, click on the ministries tab, and go to our prayer page to send us your prayer request. 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:18.880 Thanks again for tuning in today, and be sure to listen to the next edition of The Road with Pastor Teacher Steve Holt.