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Thanks for joining us. If you have your, if you have
your Bibles, go with me over to Exodus chapter 16.
Exodus chapter 16 is where we're going to be.
So you can just grab that. A few years ago, my daughter
Claire, you know, I have a set of twin girls.
My daughter Claire told me a story.
We were just talking and she told me the story about
something that had happened about a year before to her.
And the story really kind of caught me by surprise.
She said about a year before she was at a birthday party with her
and Ava were at a birthday party down the street at a little
friend's house and they were having a good time.
Everything was going good. But at some point the the girl
hosting the party put a movie on that Claire and Ava knew
instinctively their mother would not be happy about them
watching, that their mother would not want them to watch
this. And so they kind of whispered
back and forth to try to figure out what to do.
And finally Claire spoke up and said, hey, I don't think our mom
would want us to watch this. And the birthday girl retorted
back to her. It's OK, she's not here at that
moment. Claire said she stood up.
Ava stood up with her and Claire said well, we're going home and
they walked out of that house and they walked to our house.
Now, when she told me the story, this was about a year after the
occurrence, I was super proud of her.
Obviously, wouldn't you be proud of your kid if they told you
that story? Just super proud of her, but not
just because of the decision. I was proud of her and I was
proud of us as parents, Marianne and I, because of the trust that
was behind the decision. The trust that was behind the
decision. You see, she didn't make that
decision because she wanted to stick out in front of a bunch of
girls her age. She didn't make the decision
because she was like gung ho about this movie that she
shouldn't be watching. She made that decision because
she trusted her mom. She made that decision because
she trusted her mom. She believed that her mom had
her best interest in heart. My wife has spent years with my
children, not just setting boundaries, not just setting
rules, but explaining those boundaries, the wisdom behind
the boundaries, the why behind the what.
And what happened was over time, all of our children, but
especially the girls they had trust, built up that this was
true. That Marianne did indeed have
their best interest in mind. You know, Marianne and I, when
it came to raising kids and we have four teenagers, we were
never trying to just raise rule followers.
We were never just trying to raise kids that would do what we
told them. Do you know that?
Like just do what I told you when I tell you to do it.
We were never trying to do that. We were always trying to raise
people who trust us. That was always our goal.
We want to raise people who trust us.
And because what we know is at the root of any healthy
relationship is not compliance, but trust, at the root of any
healthy relationship is not compliance, but trust.
And that's exactly what God does with us, His people.
God meets us where we are and He begins forming us not just to
follow His instructions, not just to follow His rules, but He
forms us to trust His heart. That's what He wants for you.
He wants you to trust His heart in that.
That kind of life where you're living day-to-day of trusting
God's heart, trusting his character.
That kind of life was called by Eugene Peterson in his book A
Long Obedience in the same direction.
It's a great book. He actually stole the quote from
Nietzsche who was an anti God philosopher.
But A long obedience in the same direction, ongoing obedience to
God. Listen to me carefully.
Ongoing obedience to God is founded on trust in God.
Trust in God, not fear of God, not trepidation of God, but long
term obedience to God is founded on trust in God.
Now today let's look at how God is doing this work with the
Israelites as they were leaving slavery in Egypt and headed to
the Canaan land or the promised land.
So if you have your Bibles Exodus chapter 16, we're going
to jump into verses one through 3 here at first.
Now this is just a few weeks after the Exodus, after a few
weeks after they've left Egypt. This is what it says.
The whole Israelite community set out from Elam and came to
the desert of sin, which is which is between Elam and Sinai
on the 15th day of the second month.
After they had come out of Egypt in the desert, the whole
community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
The Israelites said to them, if only we had died by the Lord's
hand in Egypt. There we sat around pots of meat
and ate all foods, all the food we wanted.
But you have brought us into the desert to starve this entire
assembly to death. So here's the first idea I want
you to know this morning. Number one, difficult
circumstances challenge our trust in God.
Difficult circumstances challenge our trust in God.
Write that down here. It is these, these, this
assembly of Israelites, it's been a few weeks that they've
left Egypt, a few weeks out of slavery.
And they had seen God do incredible things.
He led them out of slavery. He provided them with an amazing
leader in Moses, right? A courageous leader.
God had done this. He delivered them from the
pursuing army. He parted the Red Sea, He
provided for them clean water when they were in the
wilderness. He stayed with them every step
of the way, sustaining them. But now as they move into the
desert, the deeper into the desert on their way to the
promised land, they're they're hungry.
And you know, we have a term when you're not just hungry, but
you're hungry and you're hangry. What do we call that hangry?
The Israelite people are everybody say hangry, They're
hangry, they're hangry and I, I get a little hangry.
So I can understand they're hungry and because they're
hungry, suddenly all they can see is what they lack.
That's all they can see. All they can see is what they
don't have. They become blind to everything
God had already done because now things are hard, things are
difficult. And so they can't look in the
rearview mirror and see all the faithfulness of God in the past.
They can't see how God has come through for them over and over
and over again. They can't see that because
they're hungry and all they can see is their lack.
And here's the thing, Their story is not just their story.
Their story is our story as well.
We are the same way. Here's a here's a truth that I
just believe about religious people in general.
And I think this is true about religious people of any ilk of
religion. Religious people tend to operate
from a false belief, and that false belief is this.
They tend to think because I believe in God and I do
religious things like go to church, give some money away,
whatever it is, then I shouldn't face hardship.
I should be spared hardship. This is a false belief many
people operate under. If God is good, then nothing bad
or challenging should come my way.
This is, this is, and here's the thing, this is, this is, this is
challenging. Most of us do not know we're
operating under that false belief until something bad
happens, right? It's when something bad happens
in our lives and we go, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
I've been going to church. I've been giving some money
away. I've been, I've been trying to
be good. And this is the thinks I get.
And that's when we realized that, oh, it was never the
gospel or never the the God of the Bible that we were believing
in. It was a religion made-up to
really protect ourselves. Hey, God, if I try to be good,
then you won't let anything bad happen to me.
And that's when we discover it. But Jesus, Jesus challenges this
false belief in the Gospel of John, chapter 16, verses 32
through 33, John records these words of Jesus.
And Jesus said this, A time is coming, and in fact has come,
when you will be scattered each to your own home.
You will leave you all, You will leave me all alone.
Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.
I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace in
this world, you will have what's that say trouble.
But take heart. I have overcome the world.
Jesus lays this out very clearly to for his followers.
They've already left everything they've they've they've walked
away from their jobs, they've walked away from their money.
They've they've created a lot of insecurity in their lives to
follow him for around for three years.
They've already had a lot of trouble and he says to them,
guys, I, I'm going to face trouble and you will too.
And that now here's the thing, the reason, the reason we have
this false belief that if I, if I believe in God, bad things
won't happen to me is that we, that the natural disposition of
our hearts is religion. And what religion says is if I'm
good, God let's good things happen to me.
And if something bad happens to me, then I must not have been
what? I must not have been good.
And so God must be punishing me. But Jesus says, you guys are all
going to leave me alone. You're all going to be
scattered. I'm going to be by myself,
except God's going to be with me.
You're all going to abandon me and reject me.
And surely we wouldn't say Jesus wasn't good, right?
Something bad happened to him and we wouldn't say Jesus wasn't
good. And so this is a false belief we
operate under. It doesn't when bad things
happen in our lives, it doesn't mean that we're being punished
by God. It doesn't mean that we're being
abandoned by God. Now, listen to me carefully.
This is a theology you have to understand.
The world in in the book of Genesis, the world is under a
curse. The world is under a curse, and
so that the world is broken and things are not the way they're
supposed to be. And in this broken world, that's
not the way it's supposed to be. There will be dark days for
every single person when when we leave the broken world, or
better yet, when the broken world is made new, as Jesus
said, at the renewal of all things, then we will no longer
suffer dark days. But as long as we are members of
this broken world under the curse, we will suffer as members
in this earth under the curse. So difficult circumstances
challenge our trust in God, and we operate under this false
belief that nothing bad should happen to us when we belong to
God. What happens is when something
bad happens to you, you struggle to trust God.
We do. We, like the Israelites, forget
all of His provisions that He's given us.
We forget that He's provided A Savior to walk us out of bondage
and out of sin. We forget that He has given us
the promise of eternal life, the promise of a new heaven and a
new earth. We forget that He's been with us
every step of our previous dark days.
So when you look back on your life and you see the dark days
you've walked through, you can see that God has been with you.
But when you enter into another dark season, your trust kind of
gets wobbly. It gets weak, and we forget.
We forget the faithfulness of God.
And when you forget, you lose trust.
And friend, at the center of this whole thing is this idea of
trust. The work God is doing is around
trust. Trust in Him.
You see what God is doing. God is forming you and me into
being people who trust Him. You see, most people tend to
think that following Jesus is about going to church, avoiding
the big bad sins, and trying to be good.
Like this is the whole. Like, this is what many people
think Christianity is. This is why some people reject
Christianity, by the way, right? They go, well, I don't really
need Christianity to be a moral person.
I could be a moral person without Christianity.
But this is not what Christianity is, and this is not
what God is after. God is working in your life
something much deeper than just obeying the rules.
Like that's not what he's after. God is forming you into a person
who trusts him deeply. That's what God is doing.
A person who who trusts God's heart, a person who says, I know
that God has my best interest at heart.
At heart I know that that he's, he's got the best intentions for
me. But look, Steven, your life is
falling apart. All these terrible things are
happening around you. All these, all these horrible
things are coming into your life.
How could you believe that God is faithful?
Because I trust his character. This is what God is trying to
form in me. People who follow him, not just
because we're told to, not just because we're afraid of
something bad happening to us, but we follow him because we
trust his heart, his character, and listen carefully.
We trust his ways. We think his ways of doing
things are just better. We just trust that.
Now, am I there all the time? You're like, are you?
No, I'm not. I'll tell you more about that
near the end of this talk. I'm not.
Are you there all the time? No.
Do you, are you listening to the sermon going well?
I mean, am I the only one I got to get my act together.
Everybody else here trust God deeply and I don't know, they
don't, they don't trust me. I spent a lot of time with
people. We're we're all in this fight.
We're all in this fight. And here's the thing, God is
interested in this fight more than you are.
In other words, as as much as you want to trust God and have a
heart that relies on him, God is actually doing the work of
forming you into a person who trusts Him deeply.
And that's our second idea this morning #2 God trains our hearts
to trust him. God trains our hearts to trust
him. Write that down.
He trains our hearts. So #1 difficult circumstances
challenge our trust in God, but #2 God trains our hearts to
trust him. Look at this Exodus verses 4 and
5 of chapter 16. This is what it says.
Then the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down bread from heaven
for you. The people are to go out each
day and gather enough for that day.
In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow My
instructions. On the 6th day they are to
prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as
they gather on the other days. Now do you see in verse 4 this
line? Look at verse 4 again, it says
this. In this way I will test them and
see whether they will follow my instructions.
Do you see that? A test reveals what's really
there. A test reveals what's really
there. It shows if you take a test, it
shows whether whether you have actually learned of the skill or
gained of the knowledge, right? That's what a test does.
It reveals what's really there. In a test from a good teacher,
in a good system, a test isn't just about passing and failing.
You know this, right? A test isn't just about passing
and failing. A test is about development.
A test is meant to prepare you for what lies ahead.
That's why we're that's why we give tests.
We give tests in order to prepare a person for what lies
ahead. So if you're in a class learning
to underwater Weld, which I would imagine would be hard, and
I would imagine that you want some tests to learn how to do
that, to make sure you're good at it along the way before you
find yourselves, you know, in a lake welding a bridge, you want
some tests along the way for the purpose of developing you think
about it like a doctor. We a man goes to a woman goes to
medical school, she wants to be a doctor, but she has to take
tests on the way to being a doctor.
Why is she taking tests? Is she taking tests to see if
she can become a doctor? No, she got into medical school.
Most likely she can become a doctor.
She she is taking tests to prepare her for the future.
She will more likely be a successful doctor if she passed
some tests along the way. This is what God is doing.
God is testing his people here, not to see if they pass or fail,
but he's testing them to develop them.
He's not just giving them food. He's teaching them to trust him.
He this is the point. He's forming them into the kind
of people who obey him because they trust his character and
they trust his ways. And friend, you and I that we
may feel like some days we don't trust God, that we just like,
I'm just trying to get through this life or I'm just trying to,
you know, get it, avoid as much pain and get as much comfort as
I can get. And a lot of us live that way.
What I'm telling you is God is working in every moment, every
moment to form you into the type of person who trusts Him deeply.
Now, this is important. God provided for His people,
right? You will have bread every day.
You have meat at night, quail at night, bread in the morning.
Whoa, what a cool life, right? Never have to prepare any food.
It's just always there. He provided for them in their
needs, but He provided for them on His terms.
And this is important. He says I'm going to give, I'm
going to, I'm going to give you what you need, but I'm going to
give it to you on your terms. In other words, he says I will
feed you, I will give you what you need in the season, but I'm
going to do it my way, the way I decide.
Will you trust me? And the way he decides to do it
is very specific. Daily enough for that day, not
extra, not any you can store up except for on on before the
Sabbath, just what they need. That's it.
And and even like when he provides for the Sabbath, he
provides just enough for that day and for the next day for the
Sabbath. He, I love this God in his
beautiful wisdom says, I'm going to provide for your daily needs
and I'm even going to provide that you can have a rest like
I'm going to provide. That's how rich he is.
He provides for them on his terms.
Now some of those people, if you go read the story, some of those
people trust him. They, they believe what God
says. And they get up every morning,
they go collect their, their bread, they collect their manna.
And even as they collect their quail just for that day, and
they put them in the little pots, they're told to put them
in and they have it just for that day.
And that's it, right? That's all they have, but other
people, they went out every morning and they would try to
gather as much as possible, right.
It would because they were like, you know, we get this, it's free
stuff. Oh yeah.
But you know, like call your mom and then everybody get here and
bring bags, you know, and like you just piling it in, right?
You just because this is the way we are like because we operate
from the scarcity mindset, like a what we going to have for
tomorrow. If we don't collect all of it
today, we're not going to have enough for tomorrow.
So we just piled in, piling, piling in.
Well, if you go read the story, what happened is it is spoiled
and it got maggots in it. If they got any extra, The only,
the only thing that to collect was just for that day.
That's all. That's it.
You see, here's the deal. Why did God say I'll provide for
you, but only from day-to-day? Why?
Because it wasn't about the provision for their needs.
It was always about the formation of their hearts.
It wasn't about the provision of their needs, it was always about
the formation of their hearts. Israel's issue is not food.
That's not their issue. Their issue is trust.
They think their issue is food, but that's we all think we know
what our issues are. We don't.
God knows what my issues are. And Israel's issues are not
food. They're trust.
You see, they've only ever lived under Pharaoh for 400 years.
They've been slaves, and what the slaveholder has done for
them is provided their needs. Remember, they said it would
have been better for us to die at the Lord's hand in Egypt.
There we sat around pots of meat.
In other words, we had plenty with a slaveholder who did not
have their best intentions at heart, who was just trying to
hold them for their labor. The slaveholder gave them all
that they needed for food. But God is not trying to create
slaves out of us. God is trying to create free men
and free women who love him and who follow him out of us.
And at the root of that, we have to be people who trust him.
And so these Israelites, they have learned how to survive
under Pharaoh, but they did not yet know how to walk as free men
and free women with God. And that's the reason God
provides the way he does. I mean, think about this.
God could have given a storehouse of food.
He could have been like, here's a barn and you guys, it's we're
just going to, we're going to drag this barn around everywhere
you go, so you got all the food you're going to need.
He could have done that easily. He could have removed all the
uncertainty in your life of following God, of trying to be a
Christian. Have you ever wanted God just to
remove all the uncertainty? I mean, I have most days, every
day. I just want God.
If you just tell me how this is going to go, tell me what's
going to. I've had people tell me that if
I just knew how it was all going to end up, I'd be OK.
This is what we want. And here's a moment where God
could have removed all uncertainty from his people.
And he doesn't remove all uncertainty.
He leaves them in this day-to-day uncertainty.
Could you imagine every night you go to bed going, you think
there's going to be bread again tomorrow?
I mean there has been for like 6 months.
I mean it probably, but could it end tomorrow?
I mean it could end tomorrow. If it ends tomorrow, what we're
going to eat, I don't know. We'll have to figure that out.
Then like we hear the storm, we go, man, God, you could have
removed all uncertainty. Well, the issue for God isn't
that we get our needs met. The issue for God is that we
become people who are trusting Him.
And so he trains us. His goal was not to just feed
them. It was to form them, to teach
them to trust Him one day at a time.
And here's the thing about obedience.
If you're going to obey God, it is always connected to trust
God. It always is.
And as they learn to trust Him, they would learn to obey Him.
So God provides for us during our trials and our dark days,
even when we are tempted to mistrust Him, even when we are
grumbling and complaining. Because God is more concerned
about your formation than you are.
You were concerned about the next meal, the next certainty of
things working out. God is going, no, I care more
about your heart and who your heart trust.
And this leads us to our final idea.
God is faithful even when we struggle to trust him.
So number one was difficult circumstances challenge our
trust in God and #2 was God trains our hearts to trust him.
And #3 God is faithful even when we struggle to trust Him.
Listen to this in Exodus chapter 16 verses 6 through 10.
It says so Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites in the
evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out
of Egypt in the morning. You will see that the glory of
the Lord, because He has heard your grumbling against Him.
Who are we that you should grumble against us?
Moses also said you will know that it was the Lord when he
gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you
want in the morning, because he has heard you're grumbling
against Him. Who are we?
You are grumbling against us. You are not grumbling against
us, but against the Lord. Now I've told you this before,
Whenever the Bible writers repeat something twice, you pay
attention. So two times, right?
Exodus says you aren't grumbling against us, you're grumbling
against the Lord and then verse 9 then Moses told Aaron say to
the entire Israelite community, come before the Lord for he has
heard your grumbling. Verse 10, while Aaron was
speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward
the desert and there was the glory of the Lord appearing in
the cloud. And man, I read the story.
I feel so bad for Moses and Aaron because they are wore out.
I've been a leader who people complain to.
It's hard, right? And he's the whole nation's
complaining to, to him. Moses and Aaron are worn out by
the people's constant complaining.
And Moses tells Aaron to gather everyone together and here they
are. They, they get everybody
together for, for Aaron to give them the news of what's going to
happen. And they're just weeks away from
being, having been freed from slavery.
And here they are grumbling against God.
And Aaron puts them all together and the whole community is
assembled and something unexpected happens.
They look out over the desert and what do they see?
They see the glory of the Lord. Think about that.
They are grumbling and complaining.
And Exodus says very clearly they're grumbling and
complaining against God, and God shows them his glory.
Isn't that cool? You see, what we tend to think
is that if I mistrust God, God's going to punish me because our
natural disposition is religion. We just think like religious
people. If I mistrust God, God's going
to punish me. But what this story teaches us
is that God does not respond to their mistrust with punishment.
He responds to their mistrust with presence.
That's beautiful. He reveals himself to them even
as they are doubting him. Aren't you grateful that God is
not like us? Aren't you easily offended when
someone doesn't trust you? I am.
I'm easily offended if you don't trust me.
Here's God. He is not easily offended.
He's not quick to pull away. He's committed to His people,
committed to their formation. He not only provides for them in
the daily bread, but he and he trains them to trust him every
single day. But listen to this.
He gives them his presence to strengthen them in that trust.
He says, I'm not just going to ask you to trust me blindly.
Isn't this beautiful? I'm not just going to ask you to
trust me blindly. I'm going to give you, I'm going
to show you my glory. I'm going to show you my
presence to to strengthen that trust.
And friend, God has done the same thing for you and I, if you
are a believer in Jesus Christ. God has done the same thing for
you and me if you are a believer in Jesus Christ.
When we place our faith in Christ, the Bible says that we
receive the Holy Spirit, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
He comes to dwell within us. And the Holy Spirit reminds us
again and again that God is with us.
Even when our trust feels weak, even when our faith is
struggling. He comforts us with this truth.
He is with us and he does this. The Holy Spirit does this in
many ways. He does it by gathering into
worship. Have you ever come to worship
left and went home? Yeah, I think God did some work
in my heart today. Right.
Like he does it that way. He does it.
He does it when you do acts of service for other people, God
comes alongside you and strengthens you and he shows you
himself as you serve other people.
He does it through the through the Scripture.
When you spend time. Have you ever read the Bible and
thought, oh, man, I feel like this is talking to me right now.
I feel like this book knows me. He does he that's the Holy
Spirit showing you that he's with you, that he's present with
you, but he also does it with the people that are around you.
In other words, your brothers and sisters in Christ.
This is why being in a community and being in a small group is so
important. Because it's in that community
that you are reminded that that what the Holy Spirit's telling
you is true, that God's presence is with you.
And I've experienced this personally.
A couple years ago, my daughter Ava was hospitalized for like 2
weeks in Choa and in Atlanta that chose in Atlanta and
Marianne was there with her the entire time and I was at home
with the other children the whole time.
And it was one of those seasons if, and this is just a couple
years ago, it was one of those seasons where it was dark, it
was heavy. And for me it was really hard to
keep trusting God. My kid was really sick, really
bad off, and they couldn't get her back on track.
And I was angry and sad and frustrated and trying to preach
sermons. And in that time, dear friends
of ours who live South of Atlanta, George and Renee
Dillard, who's a preacher at a church and was my childhood
preacher, and Marion's childhood preachers.
We grew up. He and Renee drove from South
Atlanta to Choa to go see their best friend, Ava.
They brought her gifts, they prayed with her, they gave
flowers, and they actually went a second time.
In the middle of my, like, struggling to trust that God was
taking care of this moment, He reminded me that he was present.
It was one of those moments where you kind of go, I'm
holding on. It is difficult to trust you
right now, God. And then you hear about these
friends who go and love your child in the midst of your
child's pain. And it's like looking across the
desert at a cloud and going, oh, yeah, God is with me.
He's present. And that trains me to trust him
deeper. This is what God does.
He doesn't get frustrated at me. He doesn't get annoyed with me.
God is so committed to forming in me and in you.
Trust. He is so committed to walking
with us over the long haul that he doesn't back down when you
grumble. He doesn't back down when you
mistrust. He doesn't back down when you
struggle. No, he doesn't step back.
He steps in. He reminds us.
He shows us his glory. He makes his presence known.
He says, hey, I'm with you in the middle of this.
Even though you and I struggle to trust him, God remains
faithful. He is faithful even though we
struggle. So this morning, difficult
circumstances will challenge our trust in God.
They will. I'm not going to lie to you,
they will. They do me.
But God provides for us on His terms, and He trains our hearts
to trust Him. And even when you and I struggle
to trust God, He gives us His presence to strengthen us.
You see, God is forming you into something, and what He's
developing you for is for something in your future, for
His glory, and for His purposes. In other words, there's a reason
why He wants us to be people who trust Him.
There's something coming. Just like for the Doctor Who's
tested, there's something coming for the believer who is learning
to trust. There's something coming.
God is forming you for a purpose.
Now hear me say this very clearly.
This may be the most important sentence of the entire talk.
The foundation of the whole Christian life is not your
faithfulness to God, but God's faithfulness to you.
It is not how strong you feel today or how much you trust God
today. It's not whether you pass the
test every time 1 comes. That's not the case at all.
The foundation of our life with Christ is this.
Even when we struggle, He is steady.
Even when we are faithless, He is faithful.
So here's the invitation. Trust Him today, not tomorrow
when you think everything's going to make sense, which by
the way, it won't. Not tomorrow when you think
you're going to feel stronger, you won't.
Trust Him today with today's needs, today's provision,
today's presence, and tomorrow. Guess what?
He'll be there. He'll be there.
You're not there yet, but He'll be there when you get there.
You see, this is how God forms a life of trust.
Not all at once, but one day at a time, one drop of mana at a
time. And as you trust Him to provide
for you every day, you will begin to see what's been true
all along, that God has been with you, that he's providing,
that he's training, that he is showing up.
And when your trust is small, his faithfulness is sure.
So remember this, friend. When your life is hard, God is
at work, He is still faithful. When your life is hard, God is
at work. He is still faithful.
God is at work. Will you stand with me?
Father, thank you that you've given us this time to gather to
worship and sing. Thank you for the musicians and
the singers who led us into your presence this morning.
Thank you that we were able to unpack your word.
I pray that that we would be a church made it for people who
are learning to trust you daily. We pray this with all of our
hearts in Christ's name, Amen. Thank you friends, have a great
Master Sunday.