I want to focus on the next point, but I want to read out of
John. I did not read this last week
and I want to read this about out of John 21 verses 15 through
17, John 2115 through 17. It says this.
So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon,
Peter, Simon son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?
And he said to him, yes Lord, you know that I love you.
And he said to him, feed my lambs.
Now, this is Jesus, right, talking to Peter who is getting
ready to what? Help usher in the church and
help usher in the church. And he's listen to what?
Listen to the discourse that he's having with Peter.
He said to him, feed my lambs. Now look at this.
He's letting him know we're getting ready to usher in the
church because we know on the day of Pentecost, right, 3000
were added to the church and we see that now we have a bunch of
baby lambs. Lambs are babies.
They're baby sheep. So look at the process of him
talking to Peter. Listen, you're going to have to
feed my little babies. You're going to have to feed my
lambs. He and and look at the
progression. And he said to him again a
second time, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?
And he said, yes, Lord, you know that I love you.
And he said to him, tend my sheep again.
Now you're not a lamb, you're a sheep, which again shows us that
growth process that he expects for his sheeple, right?
That we are to grow and mature. And no matter the place of
growth that we're in, he still wants us to be fed.
He still wants us to be tended to.
He still wants us to be cared for.
And he see this example of what he's showing him.
And then he goes on to say, and he said to him a third time,
Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?
And Peter was grieved because he said to him a third time, do you
love me? And he said to him, Lord, you
know all things, you know that I love you.
And Jesus said to him, look at here feed my sheep.
This is and this one right here. Feed my sheep is a place of
maturity. No matter what age you get, God
wants you to have a shepherd in your life to feed you, to care
for you, to take care of you, to help guide you, to help lead you
into the right pastures. Amen.
Hallelujah. And so I just wanted to read
that one to you guys again because he's he's breaking it
down for Peter. That's getting ready to have to
pastor this church, that's getting ready to come in in the
book of Acts. OK, look at Isaiah 4011.
Isaiah 4011 out of the amplified.
It says this. He will protect his flock like a
shepherd, and He will gather the lambs in His arm, He will carry
them in His bosom, and He will gently, carefully lead those
nursing their young. Look at the care or the nature
of the shepherd here. Think about this with your Walt,
with the Lord as He is your shepherd.
Think about how he wants to care for you no matter what you're
going through. Think about how He just wants to
bring you into his bosom and love you and care for you and
guide you and protect you all the days of your life.
Amen. And so let's go to the next
point of Psalms 23 #4 It says this, that He refreshes and
restores my soul. He refreshes and restores my
soul. The Good Shepherd, the Chief
Shepherd, the Great Shepherd always wants restoration in your
life. Always.
He always wants to bring restoration, period.
He wants to restore to you what the devil has stolen from your
life. He wants to bring restoration to
you spiritually. He wants to bring restoration to
you physically. He wants to bring restoration to
you mentally. That's where he says he restores
your soul, your mind, your will, and your emotions.
He wants them restored from the trauma that you may have
experienced and that probably every single one of us has
experienced. No matter how good of a life we
may have thought we lived, if it was done outside of Christ, we
were damaged. Period.
And he wants to restore it all back to us, Every bit of it.
Every bit of it because He's a loving, loving Father and He
loves us. Amen.
So he wants to restore. He wants to restore
relationships that have, I know many of you that had broken
relationships that before you came to this church.
And God has redeemed and restored relationships that you
thought you would never have again with your children, with
your family. Come on, He wants to bring
restoration to relationships. That's why no matter what we
encounter with one another, restoration should always be the
first thing that we want in whatever situation it is that
we're going through, because that is the heart of our
shepherd. Restoration period,
reconciliation period. That's what he wants in our
lives. He wants us to be restored
materially. He wants us to be restored
individually, right? I mean, it's so personal in all
arenas of our life. He wants full restoration.
He wants original intent. He wants an original intent to
where there was no barrier between you and God ever again
because of anything that you had experienced from the sin nature
or from the tyrannical rule of the devil.
He wants it all restored, and right here is where most of that
restoration has to take place, right here.
And so first Peter 225 says this, for you were continually
wandering like so many sheep, but now you have come back to
the shepherd, the guardian of your souls.
You see that you've come back to the Shepherd and now his number
one thing in your life as the Good Shepherd and seeing him in
this facet of, of God is that he wants to be the guardian of your
soul to bring restoration in every wicked, twisted, messed up
thought that you may have about yourself.
He wants it restored. He doesn't want you to have a
messed up, twisted mind of inferiority, of insecurities, of
rejection. He doesn't want any of that for
your life anymore. He wants to restore it, and if
we allow him to be the guardian of it, guess what he'll do?
He'll lead us and guide us and give us.
He'll feed us what we need for every one of those things, those
thoughts to eradicate them so that you never have to look at
yourself like that again. You'll never have to think about
yourself like that again. You'll forget.
That's the old man. He's dead.
I don't even remember that anymore because you know what?
That is not me. That is not who I am.
You see what I'm saying? So he wants to be the guardian
of our soul, and he wants complete restoration in all of
these areas in our life. Look at Acts chapter 3, verses
19 through 21. Acts 319 through 21, it says
this. So repent, change your inner
self. I love the way that it says this
about repentance here because again, a lot of times we can get
in a place of thinking repentance is only about things
we can do outside. You know what I mean?
Like, I've got to change this behavior, but change behavior
only starts from the inside. Changed behavior only starts
from the inside, period. When you do it from the outside,
it's behavioral modification. Isn't that what we teach our
teen, our kids at Washington? What's going on in your heart
that's making you do this behavior?
And we don't want to deal with behavioral modification.
We want to deal with what's going on in the inner man to
make a real change. And when you realize that that's
what God wants to do in your life, works won't even be a part
of your thinking because you'll realize I can't do anything out
here to change anything. I can only do it here.
And then when I do it here, it's going to change what's out here.
See what I'm saying? So that's why I like the way
this reads out of the Amplified. Here in Acts 3/19/21 it says so
change your inner self, your old way of what thinking?
Regret past sins and return to God.
Seek His purpose for your life so that your sins would be wiped
away and blotted out completely erased, right?
Because this is the favorable year of the Lord.
This is the church age, the age of grace, the the, the age where
mercy is ever present. His love is always available.
Hallelujah. Judgment will come one day, but
it's not that dispensation yet, right?
So again, when we realize what he's saying here and it, it all
has to do with what's going on in the heart.
Because remember God saying man looks at the outside, but God
looks at the heart. It's always been about what's
going on in here because what you see out here is a direct
result of what's going on in here.
OK, so it says your sins have been blotted out.
That's why he says, you know that this is the the Jubilee
year, so to speak. Remember we talked about that,
about the anointing, Your sins has been blotted out completely
erased. So that what times of refreshing
you see this? So that times of refreshing may
come from the presence of the Lord.
The Lord is your Shepherd, and He wants to refresh your soul.
He wants to restore your soul. He wants you to be able to
experience refreshing at all times within your life, so that
for refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
Listen to this in the amplified restoring you like a cool wind
on a hot day. Hallelujah, that's what He'll do
in your life for you. Glory to God, He'll come in and
bring a time of a wind blowing through and just refreshing your
soul. Come on, He can do a new thing
in you if you'll just look to Him as your shepherd.
Hallelujah. Oh, he's my shepherd.
Come on. And you know what?
There's going to be times of refreshing and the restoration
of my soul. And you know what's so good
about this is that you can have it constantly.
If the Holy Ghost, if you are born again and the Holy Ghost
lives on the inside of you, come on, then you have access to the
refreshing at all times. At all times, no matter what
you're going through, glory to God, you can have a time of
refreshing for your soul. And what is so awesome about
this is because listen, he knows that we are in a fallen broken
world. And he even said, and James, in
this world, in this life, you will enter trials, tribulations,
There's gonna be circumstances. Just because we're born again
doesn't mean that we have no problems.
No, we're walking in a fallen, broken world with a lot of
people that still have sin nature.
Wickedness is prevailing. He the devil is still the God of
this world and all of his systems.
That's why I'm telling you, in these last days, we have to
guard our heart even more for having compassion on people.
Because, you know, I just was told this very night that people
that had put out Amendment 4 signs in their yard, listen,
This is why I'm telling you this.
They put out these signs in their yard and every day they'd
come out and they were missing. So somebody was yanking them up.
So he was out one day looking and seeing it missing and
somebody drove by him and screamed out at him.
I hope your daughter gets one day that is pure evil and
wickedness. And thank God this guy from our
church had the Holy Ghost on the inside of him to restrain
himself. But that makes you not want to
have compassion, because if I love you, Lord, that he would
say that that he wished that guy's daughter would be raped
one day. I sometimes wish we were still
back in the old covenant, but I'm working on my compassion.
Y'all? Don't get me started.
See what I hear before we come in to minister the word and I'm
dealing with compassion and then they don't tell me something
like that. This is the real world we're
living in. And so every day we're going to
have to choose again, we know this, to put on love, but not
only putting on love, putting on and seeing people with the
compassion that our Good Shepherd had for them.
Because if they don't repent, right?
So where was I at? Yes, so that times of refreshing
may come from the presence of the Lord restoring you like a
cool wind on a hot day, and that you may send to and that he may
send to you Jesus Christ, who has a been appointed for you
from heaven and must keep until the time.
Listen to this for complete restoration of all things about
which God promised through the mouth of his holy prophets from
the ancient of times. It's always been about
restoring, restoring always back to the original intent that He
had for man. Complete restoration.
Complete restoration and so we have to focus on that about and
from our Good Shepherd that listen, if things are still
going on in our lives, you know what he wants us restored.
He wants us restored. Hallelujah.
Psalms 5110 says create in me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a
right steadfast spirit within me.
You see that renew a right steadfast spirit within me
because we're going to have to do that as long as we are
walking in this earth. And as the day grows darker and
sins abounding, yes, his light abounds even more, but that
doesn't mean that we're not going to.
We have to make sure we don't become desynthesized to the
wickedness and the sin. Because that's when we'll lose
our compassion, you see that? That's when we'll lose it if we
become desynthesized to it. Psalms 51 and 12, restore to me
the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your generous
spirit. You see that restore, even your
salvation needs to be restored. You have to stir yourself up.
You have to stir your salvation up.
You have to stir it up. That's why he says you can't
forget what the blood, the price, the blood is paid for
you, right? And you have to stir up the fact
that I'm born again, that I'm saved.
Come on and remember where I was to stir up the fact I'm born
again, I'm saved, I have joy, I'm excited that I am the Lord's
Amen, Hallelujah. Because if we don't stir it up,
This is why people what they call backslide.
But He wants to refresh you. He wants to bring joy In the
midst of times in your life that maybe you feel dry or you're not
excited about your life in Christ anymore, Well, guess
what? You never have to not be.
All you have to do is stir it back up and ask the Holy Spirit,
the Good Shepherd, Amen, to help restore unto you the joy, the
excitement of your salvation, that I'm saved, I'm born again,
I'm Spirit filled. Come on, Hallelujah, I'm
redeemed from the curse. Come on, I'm redeemed from the
curse of the law, Glory to God, Hallelujah.
And I'm excited. We have to stir it up.
Jeremiah 3017 says this.
For I will restore again. I'm letting you see all the
areas of life that he wants to restore you.
And for I will restore even your health, and I will heal you of
all your wounds, declares the Lord, because they have called
you an outcast, saying it is I and no one cares for her.
Listen, He wants to restore even your health in your body.
Everything come on your physical body.
I'm telling you that's why you can again every year be being
restored. You go home to your you know,
your what are they called reunions, family reunions or
high school reunions and you look at people that aren't born
again and you looking good. They're broke down on every
medicine known to man. Come on.
They look can't barely even walk at your age.
Look all beat up, tattered, broken.
Come on. And you got to remind yourself
of that. No, I'm strong in the Lord and
the power of his might. He brought health and healing to
me to restore my body so that I can be running like Caleb and
Joshua. Come on, in my 80s and taking a
mountain and that's what he wants, complete restoration in
your body. Hallelujah, health and healing
because we're going to see here in a minute.
You going to walk through some shadows?
I know people that's walk through the shadow of death.
Hallelujah. But they had to had to call on
the Good Shepherd. Come on.
So Isaiah 40 says this, and 29 through 31 says he gives
strength to the weary, and to him who has no might he
increases power. Even youths grow weary and
tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly.
But those who wait on the Lord, who expect and look for and hope
in, will gain new strength and renew their power.
Oh Hallelujah. They will lift up their wings
and rise up to close up close to God, like eagles rising toward
the sun. They will run and not grow
weary. They will walk and not grow
tired and will not grow tired. So your strength, your body can
be renewed day by day, day by day, day by day.
Hallelujah. So He leads me #5 He leads me in
the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
So here is a promise of guidance that he will always be there to
lead and guide you because that's what a shepherd does,
period. That is one of his main
assignments is to lead and guide the sheep also so that they
don't fall off the Cliff. Come on, So they don't fall off
in a Creek and get their things all.
Have you seen? I saw a meme, you know,
scrolling through those reels and I saw a meme of a sheep.
And I can't remember what the little the little saying was,
but the sheep was trying to run and jump over the Creek, but he
kept falling in the Creek. And so he pulled the shepherd
pulls him out and he takes off and runs again and tries to run,
run over or jump over the same Creek and falls in the Creek.
So again, God is there to help us, to lead us into places that
we're not going to fail. We're not going to fail if we'll
trust in him to lead us and guide us as a Good Shepherd.
And he's going to, like I said, always lead us to a place of
security, to a place of rest. He's always going to lead us to
peace. He's always going to lead us to
restoration. This is how he's leading us.
He's always leading us into green pastures where we can be
sure that we are going to get fed properly, that we're going
to be able to lie in those green pastures and kick our feet back.
Come on. Because he's provided everything
for us. That's where he's leading us.
He's not leading us to a place of lack or want.
He's leading us to paths of everything that we need,
everything. That's how he leads us and
that's how he guides us. And so He's leading us into
paths of righteousness for his namesake so that He can be
glorified, so that when people see how you're always being led
by God in every situation and coming out on top and people
recognize me. And you just went through this
situation and, and, and you ought to say, but I didn't go
through it alone because I had a guide.
I had a helper. Come on.
I had a Good Shepherd that was leading me into places of
righteousness, that was leading me into victory.
Come on, that was leading me into the good places.
Glory to God, not into the dry wilderness.
Hallelujah. No, the only time we saw people
going into the dry wilderness is because they wanted to stay
there. But He's going to lead us and
guide us into places of refreshing, into good pastures.
Amen. Romans 814.
This is why it's so wonderful that we have been given the Holy
Spirit, Amen. For all who are allowing
themselves, listen to that, who are allowing themselves.
Because we cannot allow ourselves to be LED.
Don't be a goat. Because, you know, there's
sheeple and there's goats right here.
They haven't been separated yet. But I don't want to talk about
the stubborn goats anyway, because I have compassion.
So we want to be let. We want to allow Him to lead us
into the right places at the right time.
Come on in the right season, doing the right thing so that
His name can be glorified at all times through our lives.
So that when people see us, they can see us always on top and
never on the bottom. Come on, isn't that what he
said? We'll be above and not beneath.
Come on, if you'll just simply follow Him, you'll be blessed,
and if you don't, there's a curse.
Proverbs 36 says this in all your ways.
Know and acknowledge and recognize Him and He will make
your paths. What straight?
He'll make them straight. He's not there to confuse you,
to get you lost, to get you down a road that you don't know where
you're at. Get you lost.
No, he's going to lead you straight there on a straight
path, and you'll be able listen to what it says.
A straight and smooth, removing all obstacles that block your
way. He's going to he's going to
remove those things that are standing in your way.
And we know we have been given authority to speak to anything
that would try to act like it's going to stand in my way.
So he's going to do it if we'll allow him and if we'll
acknowledge him in all of our ways in every situation that
we're going through. Psalms 32 and 8 says this.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.
I will counsel you who are willing to what?
Learn. So you got to be willing to
allow him to lead you, and then you've got to be willing to
learn his way and to learn of him.
Amen. Hallelujah.
Because you don't want to be a stubborn goat.
Psalms 119 and 1:05 it says this.
Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light to my path.
Psalms 3723 says this The steps of a good here it is and
righteous man are directed and established by the Lord and he
delights in his way and blesses his path.
Hallelujah. See, there's blessings on the
path that you're allowing him to lead you.
But if you want to lead your own life and go down your own path
and way of doing things because you like it and because you want
to do it and you want to continue to do this, then guess
what? You're going to have the result
of that path of your own way. And we know the result of the
paths that we used to be on. Come on.
And they were always bringing us to a place of a dead end.
The drugs, the alcohol, come on the the the girls, the guys
always leading us to a place of a dead end.
The money come on the position always leading us to a place of
the dead end. Because we weren't following the
right person. We weren't following the right
path. And many of us got off, and you
can still get off. You can still get off and get on
your own path and do it your own way.
And all you're going to have is death and destruction.
Because whatsoever a man soweth, so how he so shall he reap.
And that is still applicable in the New Testament and in the New
Covenant, even though you're born again.
Because he says if you sow to the flesh of doing it your own
way, guess what? You're going to reap the flesh,
which leads to destruction. If you sow, sow to the Spirit,
which is of him, come on then guess what, you're going to reap
of the Spirit of life. Hallelujah.
Still a principle in the earth today, even though you're born
again. So we get to make the choice.
Even still after we've chosen Jesus, we still get to make the
choice if we're going to live following Him or still living
and doing it our own way. Nothing changes with that.
OK, so we have to understand that we must be led by him.
Now let me read this. Psalms 31 Three.
Are y'all good? It says this.
Yes. You are my rock and my fortress.
For your name's sake. You listen to that.
For your name's sake, You will lead me and guide me.
We can trust in the fact that He will lead us and He will guide
us into places of righteousness. Or what I also would like to
say, He's going to lead us and guide us in every situation into
victory, into victory. That's where He's going to lead
us and that's where He's going to guide us into a place of
victory. No matter what we're going on,
if we'll be led by him, if we'll let Him lead, if we'll put him
out front and say lead me, Lord, I need your leading in this.
Come on. Because I know where I want to
go and I know what I want to do, but that's going to not be a
good result. So I want victory in this
situation. So I'm acknowledging you that
you want to lead me down the right path as my Good Shepherd.
2nd Corinthians 214 But thanks be to God, who always leads us
into triumph. Hallelujah, This is the Good
Shepherd. He's never going to lead you
into a place of defeat. Come on.
He's never going to lead you into a place of destruction.
He's never going to lead you into a place of abandonment, but
he's always going to lead you into a place of triumph in every
situation in your life. Hallelujah.
A place of victory, glory to God, a place of overcoming.
Come on, come on. A place of rising above that
situation. Glory to God because we've been
given the reigning spirit on the inside of us.
Hallelujah. So everywhere I go, I'm going to
reign. Come on, I'm going to triumph,
I'm going to overcome. Come on, all the the
circumstances, all the trials, all the things that we have to
still walk through in this life until he returns.
But we can walk in victory. We can walk in triumph.
We can walk overcoming, Come on. And never being in a place of
destruction, glory to God. Last point that I just want to
cover tonight before we close is a place of security.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil, for you are with me.
I don't care who else is with me.
I want to know that God is with me no matter what's going on.
I don't even care if my husband's with me.
I just want my Good Shepherd, come on, my great Shepherd with
me, my Lord, my Shepherd, I want him with me no matter what I'm
walking through because I don't have to fear anything.
I don't have to fear anything. So he says, listen, even though
you're walking through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil. For you are with me, you're with
me. That's why he's a man.
You will. God with us, He's with us, He's
for us, He's in US. Glory to God, Hallelujah, He's
with us so we don't have to fear no matter what we're walking
through. And look at this.
Look what it says though. You walk through the valley of
the shadow of death. We're going to walk in this life
through mountains and valleys, period.
We're going to be walking through.
We're going to walk through mountains and we're going to
walk through valleys. And you know what?
We're going to walk still in this fallen world again, where
he says there's going to be trials, there's going to be
tests, there's going to be tribulations.
There's going to be things that's going to take place
because the world is still in the fallen state.
But look what he says. You're going to walk through it.
He never intends you to live in it.
Whatever has happened in your life, as long as you can still
get up, you may fall. Come on, 7 times. 70, come on.
But if you'll just get back up, get up out of the valley, come
on up. The shadow of death that's
keeping death surrounding you. The shadows there, it's like a
cloud following you. But you're stuck there.
You want to be there. But if you'll just say no, I'm
supposed to be walking through this.
I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be walking through
it and it's just a shadow and I don't have to fear because God
is with me. God is with me.
Psalms 3415 and 22 says this. The eyes of the Lord are towards
the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.
The face of the Lord is against evil doers to cut off the memory
of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord
hears him, and what does He do? And He delivers them out of all
of their troubles, because that's what He is.
As a Good Shepherd. He is going to deliver you out
of all of your troubles. He is going to restore back to
you anything that you may. Look what he did with Job.
Come on. Job got double for his trouble.
What was God's heart there? That he would be restored.
And he was, because he never
spoke against God, even though everybody around him wanted him
to curse him. So look what he says.
He says, listen, I'm here to deliver you out of all of your
troubles. No matter what you're going
through. It may look like death to you.
It's a shadow. Remember that first.
It's just a shadow. And I'm here to deliver you out
of it so you don't even have to fear that this thing can take
you out. But it'll only take you out if
you stay there and you don't keep walking if you don't keep
doing what you know you're supposed to be doing, right?
Listen to what He says. He says the Lord is near to the
broken hearted. Isn't that what he said?
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
What he's anointed me to what? Heal the broken hearted.
So the Lord is always He's near to the broken hearted, and He
saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
Listen to what He says. But the Lord delivers them out
of them all. He did not promise us that we
were not going to have afflictions.
He did not promise us that we were not going to have issues
that we would still have to deal with while we were in this
earth. But you know what He did promise
us that He would deliver us from all of them.
He deliver us. You know why?
Because He is love. He loves us.
He cares for us. He's a Good Shepherd,
Hallelujah, and he does not want his people in a place of
destruction, only restoration, says verse 21.
Evil shall slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous
will be condemned. But the Lord redeems the soul of
his servants, and none of those who take refuge in him or and
none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
Hallelujah. So he wants to deliver us from
all of our problems. Hallelujah.
Psalms 118 six. The Lord is for me.
That's that needs to just be your confession.
The Lord is for me. He is not against me.
The Lord is for me. Isn't that a simple confession
that we could say every day? The Lord's for me.
He's for me because I'm the righteous and He loves me.
He's for me, Hallelujah. He's for me and I will not fear.
What can man do to me? He does not want us to fear
anything, Anything and especially man, Especially man
because he has the final say and you don't have to fear not one
person, no man, if you fear him, that's the only one.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Glory to God.
Come on, have the worship team come up.
My last scripture, Psalms 27 as they're coming up.
Psalms 27, one through 6. The Lord is my light to see.
The valley gets dark, the valley can get dark and a shadows cast,
which means there's darkness. But you know what he says?
The Lord is my light. He's our light.
He's our light in the midst of that, and no matter how dark it
gets, His light is always on. Isn't that a hotel slogan?
We'll leave the light on for you.
He's always got the light on for us.
Glory to God, He always has the light.
He's the light. Hallelujah and my salvation,
whom shall I fear? The Lord is my refuge and my
fortress of my life. Whom shall I dread When the
wicked came against me to eat my flesh?
Wow, OK, My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell,
though an army encamped against me.
Listen to what He says. My heart will not fear.
Though war arises against me,
even in this I am confident. Hallelujah.
See the confidence that you can have when you truly trust Him.
It says one thing I've asked of the Lord and that I will seek
that I would dwell in the House of the Lord in His presence all
the days of my life to gaze upon His beauty.
They delightful, the delightful loveliness, majestic grandeur of
our Lord to meditate in His temple.
Wow. Not only is he talking about the
presence of God, he's talking about the House of the Lord.
Do we love coming to the House of the Lord, meditating in His
principles when we're here? That's what we're doing, guys.
Being in His presence, gazing at His beauty, His goodness, His
loving kindness. That's what it's about and we
can't ever take that for granted that we've actually been
welcomed into his house.