Questioning Evangelism

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I'm onaudible with an awful lot of the word crimes and I'm glad to be with you today. I'm here in North Carolina and it is a gorgeous spring day, 67 degrees, bright and sunny. I don't know. I just feel so alive when spring comes. I was just talking to Nick about allergies. Oh my goodness. The pollen is here. I don't tend to struggle with allergies.

But a lot of people around here do. So moving into spring. It's awesome.

Also has some challenges. But just glad we're moving into spring. moving into Easter in the next few weeks, and I've been teaching a study with a friend of mine on the book of John, and we've been walking through the last week of Jesus's life leading up to the crucifixion and the resurrection.

So I would just encourage you to make sure that you spend some time in the gospels, and you just track along with Jesus on his way to the cross, and then his burial, and his resurrection, and his restoration, and then the great commission, as he commissions his followers to go carry out his mission to the ends of the world. So just wanted to start with that thought here on this Tuesday afternoon, and I am just coming off of our women's conference, the Oasis, second annual Oasis women's conference was this past Saturday, and we've talked about that conference here on the air several times, and I've had guests who were speakers at that conference, and just wanted to give you a little recap. We had a fantastic day on Saturday. Over 500 women from 70 something churches. I don't have a final count on how many churches were represented, but a good bit over 70, and it was just such a phenomenal day. I'll tell you though, when I arrived at the church on Saturday morning around seven o'clock, I walked up to a shattered door on the door of Pinedale Christian Church, who hosted the conference for us, and in that moment, I realized that when you do anything for the Lord, there's going to be spiritual warfare, and I immediately felt a little bit of a grip of fear, and just had to capture that thought, and take it back to Christ, and know that he is stronger than any evil that comes against us, and then I walked in, and some members of our prayer team, they were already in there, and they had taken the rock, and put it at the prayer room, and they said this is the rock of our salvation. Nothing will stand against the work of the Lord, and so we kind of redeemed that moment that we walked into initially, and had a phenomenal day of prayer, and worship, and speakers, and testimonies, and breakout sessions, and so if you want to call and tell us about something that you've maybe attended lately, maybe it was a conference, or maybe it was a small group, or it was a discussion, or a sermon that you heard that really impacted you, I'd love to hear a little bit about something that has impacted you lately. Our prayer was for these women to come together from all over our city, and our part of North Carolina. They were actually women from other states who drove in, so that was pretty fantastic, but they would meet each other, that they would learn, and grow, and be encouraged, but ultimately they would be drawn to Christ, and that they would walk away having known him more deeply, and seen his beauty, and his glory in increasing measures, so I think that's what's happened through that conference, and I'm sure we'll see the ripple effects of what the women learned, and just that encounter with Jesus as in the coming months and months and years, so who knows how God is going to use the things that he calls us to.

He's so faithful in that way. So if you have a story, if you have something that you have attended, oh the other thing, last week, I got invited to go to a Phil Wickham concert in Greensboro, and by a friend she works with Matthew West, and so she got some tickets, and we were able to go. We had VIP entry, so we were sitting at the front, and it was just a phenomenal concert, because I don't know if you've been to a Phil Wickham concert, but his concerts are not really concerts, they're more worship events, and so more of a sing-along worship event, and he was playing with Cody Carnes and Christian Stanfield, and so the three of them played together for three hours.

I've never been to a concert where the headliner sang for three hours. Phil Wickham took a small break in there where the other two sang, but for the most part they led worship for three hours, and it was just a little slice of heaven, and I think God had positioned that concert in just the right spot for me to just take a break from all the planning of the conference, and just remember it's all about Jesus. Everything is about Jesus. It's not about us. It's about him, and what he's doing in the world, and so I was really able to center my heart in worship, and just then walk into the conference with my heart in the right place, so that was to Tracy out there.

Thank you for those tickets. We had a great time together at that concert, but when I was thinking about the conference this past weekend, I spoke on the Samaritan woman, and so I really want to go through what I shared at the conference, because I was surprised to hear how many people had the feedback that they never really thought that deeply about her story, and sometimes when you've been raised in church, and you hear sermons, you just take things away, and you might never get to the point of actually studying the scripture deeply for yourself, and so I want to walk you through a few of the things that I taught at the conference, and if you have comments on this story, or maybe any other story in scripture, and you want to call in the numbers 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884, and maybe you can share a story out of the New Testament, or out of the Bible overall, that maybe once you started to study it yourself, you learned some things that you didn't know. God's Word is alive.

It's active. I can study something, or read something, and then read it again later, and they're just layers to God's Word. It is alive and active, and depending on my life, and what I'm walking through, scripture will speak differently to me in different seasons of my life.

It's just, it's just the most amazing book, because it's a supernatural book from God. The Holy Spirit speaks through the Word of God, and then the Word of God, the Person of God, is revealed through it. So when we come back, I'm going to delve into the story of the Samaritan woman from John 4, but hang tight, and we'll be right back.

Welcome back to Truth Talk Live! Today we're talking about the story of the Samaritan woman, and I taught on this this past weekend at the Oasis Conference in Winston-Salem, and I think this story has the potential to really transform the way we think about sharing our faith with other people when we look to Jesus as the example, and how He did that. He asked a lot of questions. He talked to people, and He tried to identify their point of need. He navigated conversations in a way where He connected with things that they cared about, and He moved some of those conversations from casual to meaningful to spiritual and to gospel, and ultimately He leads this woman to reveal to her who He is, and so I think we need to keep that in mind when we're talking to people about our faith or trying to share the gospel with them, that we're trying to lead the conversation in the direction of them knowing Christ, and so so often we may start at the wrong conversation point. Maybe we start with, you know, social issues or different ideas that can go off into lots of tangents, but ultimately we want to lead people to Christ, and when people know Christ, then the Holy Spirit comes in, and lots of things change for them at that point, so we're just going to talk a little bit about this story, but if you want to call in, I think the theme of today is going to be how do we use questions, and how do we navigate conversations with people who are far from God, and how do we lead them to the point where they come face to face with Jesus, because that's exactly what Jesus is going to do in this story of His interaction with the Samaritan woman. Now I call it the story of the Samaritan woman, but keep in mind every story is God's story, so this is really a story about Jesus and His interaction with the Samaritan woman. So we find this story in John chapter 4, and this is John's gospel. John wrote the fourth gospel. He wrote it later than the other gospel writers, and John writes from a deeply theological perspective, so he includes things that the other gospel writers did not include.

For one thing, they had already written their gospels, and they had included lots of details and stories, but John has an intentional purpose with his gospel, and we see that in John chapter 20, when he says that he wrote his gospel so that people would believe that Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God, the Savior of the world. So when we come to the Samaritan woman story, it picks up in chapter 4 verse 4, and whether this story is new to you or you've heard it lots of times before, I want you to just kind of listen to the story. I'm going to tell the story, or if you're sitting somewhere and you have your Bible, you can follow along with in God's Word, but you pick up the story when Jesus is traveling from Judea to Galilee, and if you look at a map of the region during this time, you have three regions.

The southern part is Judea, the middle part is Samaria, and the northern part is Galilee. So Jesus is walking from Judea to Galilee, and so he has to pass through Samaria. Now it's a three-day walk, and I don't know how you feel about walks. I love to walk, but I max out at a five-hour car ride, so a three-day walk seems crazy to me, but of course people walked everywhere back then, and so they were walking three days from Judea to Galilee, and it says they have to pass through Samaria because Samaria is in the middle, but technically they didn't have to walk through Samaria because some Jewish people would add an extra day's walk to avoid going through Samaria.

So that should tell you something, but before you judge, have you ever seen somebody in the grocery store, and maybe you didn't want to see them, and you turned your cart around, and you walked down three extra aisles to avoid them, or maybe you declined a phone call to somebody you didn't want to talk to, but let me ask, how bad would it have to be that you would walk an extra day to avoid a group of people? I'm going to give you a short history lesson. I love history. Biblical history has come to life for me, especially when I went to Israel, and I was actually able to see some of these places in Israel, and you kind of where you glossed over some of the names of these places. When I'd read scripture previously, I'm like, oh, I know what that looks like.

I can picture it in my mind. I can see the Sea of Galilee, and I'll tell some of the ladies in some of our Bible studies, if you've never been there, there's so many great travel videos. If you just YouTube, you know, travel videos of the Holy Land, of Israel, and you can see all these places that maybe you've never been able to travel to, but, and it will give a lot more context and color to just your mind as you read scripture.

But three-minute history lesson. In 931, King Solomon, he was the king of Israel, and he died. And when he died, the nation of Israel was 12 tribes, and they divided into two kingdoms, 10 tribes in the north and two in the south. The 10 in the north took the name of Israel, and that included the region of Samaria.

The two in the south kept the name Judea, or Judah, and that included Jerusalem. And so 10 in the north, two in the south, and these two kingdoms were not, that was not what God had ever intended. But they had a lot of animosity with it, with each other. The northern, the northern kingdom had different kings in the southern kingdom, and at some point they even fought against each other. They formed alliances with other kingdoms, other countries, and fought against each other, somewhat like our civil war. But God was not pleased, because who likes their kids to fight with each other?

Not to mention that God had given them a mandate to be a light to the nations, so they were certainly not fulfilling that mandate. Things got worse, and eventually after prophets, after warnings, God had the kingdom of Assyria come in and conquer that northern kingdom. And the Jews that were left there intermarried with the Assyrians, they worshiped Assyrian gods, and eventually they built their own temple at Mount Gerizim in Samaria. So rather than go down south to the to the temple that Solomon had built in Jerusalem, they worshiped at Mount Gerizim in Samaria.

So that's the backstory. So here as we enter this story, Jesus is sitting in a well in the northern kingdom in the region of Samaria, just a stone's throw from Mount Gerizim. So back to the story, verse 6 says he's sitting in a well, and he's thirsty and he's tired. Now despite being the creator of the universe, every droplet of water that's ever existed, he's thirsty and he's tired.

Jesus became human to relate to our humanity, and he meets us in our brokenness. But Jesus is not just sitting, he is waiting. This is not an accident, it's not a coincidence, this is a divine appointment. And have any of you ever experienced a divine appointment?

If you look for God every day, you'll realize you have a lot of divine appointments. So this woman comes at noon, and if you've ever heard this preached or taught, you'll know that women typically came to the well in the in the early morning or the late afternoon to avoid the heat. But here she is, it's noon, it's hot, and she's alone. And the fact that she's alone tells us even more about her. We'll pick up the story when we come back, but we're going to find out some fascinating things about the Samaritan woman and possibly why she was there alone in the heat of the day. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live.

If you want to call in the numbers 866-348-7884. We're talking about the Samaritan woman, and we left off as she walks up to Jesus at the well. In the heat of the day, he's tired, he's thirsty, and he's waiting for this divine appointment with this woman.

We're not sure why she's here in the heat of the day, but we do have some clues. We know that Middle Eastern culture was and is very communal, so it would be very unusual for anyone to do really much of anything by themselves. Their lives are very interwoven with the lives of other people and their culture. So she's here alone, and you get the idea that she's carrying more than just her jar. Maybe some of you can relate to carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.

Maybe things that have been done to you, things you've done, and have you ever wished for someone to come along and lift off that heavy load and give you freedom. So I wonder if that's the way this woman was feeling. I find it interesting in the gospels that sometimes you know the people's names, and sometimes you don't. And she's just this unnamed woman, and we know her by her ethnicity, which is super interesting. But sometimes I think we don't know their names, because I think she maybe represents so many women, and maybe men as well, but especially women. And you know, if you've ever felt like you're from the wrong zip code, maybe the wrong color, the wrong gender, the wrong family, the wrong ethnicity, she's your girl. She can relate, you can relate to her. If you've ever experienced anger or disappointment, maybe bitterness or loss, loneliness, grief, guilt, rejection, isolation, emptiness, she's your girl.

And maybe as you hear her story, you start to feel the sting of tears, or your chest tightens up, because you know some of those feelings and some of those experiences. But I want to promise you this, God sees you, he knows you, he loves you. And in the gospels, we read how Jesus walks right past cultural, gender, racial, religious, and socioeconomic boundaries to save women, men, and children.

Paul writes in Ephesians that Jesus is able to do immeasurably more, far more abundantly, than you can ask or imagine according to his power at work in you. In verse seven, Jesus asked her for a drink of water. So fair warning, if you've read this story before, maybe you realize that this story zigs and zags all over the place.

There are lots of changes of subject, changes of conversation, but his question catches her off guard. She undoubtedly knew of the bad blood between the Jews and the Samaritans, but she also knew that any self-respecting Jewish rabbi would never speak to a woman, much less a Samaritan woman, much less her. According to biblical scholar D.A. Carson, some schools of Jewish thought taught that a rabbi talking to a woman was a waste of time, and so dangerous that it might land him in hell.

That's pretty serious. I don't think we adequately grasp how poorly women were treated in some of these cultures, and what a different perspective Jesus brought when he elevated the status of women and brought them from shame to honor. This spread throughout the first and second centuries in the Roman Empire and gave dignity to women. She's trying to figure out why this rabbi is asking for her drink, but I wonder what Jesus is thinking. I wonder if he's thinking back to the moment he created her, out of love, on purpose, for a purpose, how she was made in the image of God to represent and reflect him, the Father, Son, and the Spirit to the world. But now he sees her in her brokenness, how the image of God in her has been shattered, how she's forgotten who she is and whose she is.

True to his nature, he moves toward her in love. She has dignity and value because she was created by him. But she doesn't understand, and so she pushes back in verse 9. She says, How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink of water from me, a Samaritan woman? So here's the question under her question. You're not going to drink from my cup, are you?

If you know anything about Jewish cleanliness laws, that is a no-go. But Jesus has no problem drinking from her cup. His heart is for her, but she doesn't know him or his heart. So she's evaluating Jesus based on her experiences and her culture. Despite her doubts, Jesus doesn't give up on her. He doesn't walk away. He doesn't call her foolish.

He doesn't stop trying to meet her at her point of her deepest need. And this is where it gets really interesting because Jesus starts this patient process of peeling back her identity and revealing his. Verse 10, he responds to her question and says, If you knew the gift of God, who it is who says to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

Now, I love this. Jesus talks theology with this woman. Until the spread of Christianity in the first and second centuries, women were seldom encouraged or allowed to learn. In John's Gospel, Jesus is described as the living water, but she doesn't understand the meaning of living water. And she says, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, as well as deep. Where are you going to get that living water? Basically, Sir, you don't even have a bucket.

Where are you going to get that living water you're talking about? Then she seems to question his authority. She says, Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us this well? And it's a little hard to tell, but you wonder if her tone is just a little bit chippy.

I mean, she has a good point. Jacob's well was pretty awesome. It was built 1800 years before Jesus had this conversation with this woman.

It's 100 feet deep, seven feet wide, and carved through solid limestone and still gives fresh water to this day. How does he respond to her question? He could have said a lot of things, but he's patient. He's gaining her trust and leading her to the most profound truth she will ever encounter. So her question, Are you greater than Jacob who dug this well? She's basically asking, Who do you think you are? Jesus, who are you? And that's the million dollar question. If you haven't asked that question, you should.

Jesus, who are you? And she has no idea what she's asking. So Jesus goes on to explain that he wants to give her eternal life, this living water that springs up to eternal life. But her understanding is limited to the physical world. Her mind is not on eternity. She's just trying to survive, make it another day, keep her head down, keep from being noticed.

Her life is her focus. So Jesus changes the subject to the one thing she can understand, her life. He says, Go call your husbands, go call your husband and come here. What he's getting at is, let's get down to the real reason you're here.

I can see you're carrying a heavy burden beyond your water pots. He's leading her to come to terms with her wounds and her weariness. Her response, I have no husband. Now, you know, when you've technically told the truth, but you just left out a few small details or maybe some major details, I think that's where she is in the conversation. So Jesus responds, You are right in saying I have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the one you're with is not your husband.

What you have said is true. Jesus is actually very gracious in his response. He doesn't seem to rush to judgment. He doesn't condemn her. He doesn't call her out for her sin. And Jesus has no problem calling people out for their sin because we've seen that lots of other places in the Gospels.

But he just states the more complete truth about her life circumstances. I want to point out many times this passage has been taught with the premise, with the assumption that this woman is immoral. Her sin has landed her in this situation as the reason she's at the well in the heat of the day.

We just assume that she's a bad woman. In fact, one lady wrote a whole book called Bad Girls of the Bible. She's just a bad girl of the Bible. But the text actually doesn't tell us why she's had five husbands. And we seem to see in the way that Jesus responds to her that perhaps it's not her sin that he wants to deal with first.

Maybe she was a bad girl, but Jesus doesn't start there. So interesting, biblical scholars have proposed several scenarios. First, if some of these were divorces, keep in mind that women could not divorce their husbands. Only men could divorce their wives. And a few decades prior to Jesus coming on the scene, there was a famous rabbi, Rabbi Hillel, and he taught that a man could divorce his woman for any reason, burning the bread or speaking to a stranger in the street.

What if these men from Samaria followed the teaching of Rabbi Hillel? That would have made for a very difficult life for women who could be thrown away, discarded, anytime for any reason, leaving them alone and vulnerable. There's a second reason. Maybe her husbands died. Maybe two of them died. Maybe five of them died. Can you imagine the grief that she had experienced? I wonder if she had started to see herself as a curse, or maybe other people looked at her as a curse. There's a third theory, and we'll come back and we'll visit this third theory after the break.

So just hang on. The third theory has to do... You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com Welcome back to Truth Talk. We've been talking about the Samaritan woman and her interaction with Jesus at the well, at Jacob's well, at Mount Gerizim in Samaria. And we talked about two possible reasons that this woman found herself in the circumstances that she described at the well. One being the possibility of her divorces. The second being that her husbands had died.

And the third, which was what I was getting to just before the break, is that this woman was barren. And in a culture that valued women for their ability to have children, it certainly puts a different light on her life if she had been divorced for her inability to have children. And so it just makes me think how often we rush to judgment when we don't understand somebody's circumstances. And if our hearts were like Christ, we would move towards people.

We would move towards the lost and the broken with love and compassion and the good news of the gospel, because that's what Christ has done for us. You know, I think that no matter what happened, whatever reason, whatever circumstances, background, I can't imagine what kind of shame and guilt, rejection she had experienced over and over and over. So Jesus has just exposed her deepest wound, but he's not being cruel. He's actually leading her to the place where he will redefine her identity. But at this point, instead of calling out her sin, he seems to be identifying her shame. And you're going to see him in the story slowly lift her from a place of from a place of shame to a place of honor, a place of shame to a place of honor.

And this just makes me love Jesus so much. He's identified her source of shame, but she's not really ready to deal with that. So she changes the subject to religion. She says, sir, I perceive you're a prophet. Apparently she doesn't want to continue down the family tree conversation. And so she asked Jesus a question about where people should worship, Mount Gerizim or Jerusalem.

And now you understand the question because of the history that I shared earlier. Jesus tells her it's not about a place of worship, but it is about worshiping from the heart and spirit and truth. And this is where it starts to take a turn because she says, I know the Messiah is coming who is called the Christ. And when he comes, he will tell us all things.

So this is like a softball pitch over the plate. He's led her to this place where she starts to talk about her desire to know and meet the Messiah. So if it feels like she's ready to wrap it up, I can feel her kind of picking up her pot, straightening her scarf, but Jesus hasn't come this far to let her walk away. He's come all the way from heaven. He came, he added humanity to his deity. He humbled himself, became human to serve humanity by giving his life. And he was not going to let her walk away.

And so he, what Jesus does next in this, in the text, it's wild. He's going to actually reveal his identity to her. And in that moment, he's going to change her past, her present and her future.

Now let's remember the story. She's an outcast. She's lived under a heavy load of shame and possibly guilt for years. In her high school yearbook, she got the award for least likely to talk to the Messiah face to face. But in this moment, if you've been to a gender reveal, you get it.

This is the moment that you burst the balloons, you spray the silly string, or you cut the cake. Jesus declares to her, I who speak to you am he. I who speak to you am he. And what he's actually saying in Greek is egoi me, which is translated, I am he.

The significance of that statement is the Greek version of the Hebrew name that God gave to Moses in Exodus. Jesus is saying, you are looking at Yahweh. I am the self-existent creator, the source of physical, spiritual, and eternal life. I'm the answer to every question you've ever asked.

And I'm the more your heart has longed for. And in this moment, Jesus rolls back the veil from his identity and he reveals that he's so much more than what she could have ever imagined. He's more than a Jewish man. He's more than a rabbi. He's Yahweh, the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Savior of the world. He's the second member of the Trinity, 100% God, 100% man. Immanuel, God with us, and his name is Yahweh. Jesus is going to use this phrase eight more times in the book of John.

And when you study this, oh, this is so good. All of those I am statements are shared with groups. You see the crowds are religious leaders, the disciples, the mourners at Lazarus's tomb, and the soldiers who come to arrest him. And when he says that name, they fall down because the power goes out with that name. But this time, for the first time that he ever unveils his I am identity, it's in a one-on-one conversation with none other than this woman. Jesus came for the crowds, but he came for the one.

And maybe you need to hear that today. He came for the crowds, but he came for the one, and he came for you. Bible teacher Christy McClellan points out that a person can only do one thing the first time, one time.

Seems kind of obvious. But there's only one time for Jesus to tell someone for the first time that he's the Messiah, and in the book of John the first time, he tells it to this woman. She's encountered Jesus, the promised Messiah, the Savior of the world, Immanuel, God in the flesh, and she is changed. Meeting Jesus will do that to a person, and I'm sure if I could hear you as you're listening to this, you would say I have been changed by an encounter with Christ. Jesus has redeemed her past, redefined her identity, and he's redirecting her future. She leaves her water jar, she takes her new identity, and she goes back home to the very people she had previously avoided. She says, come see a man who told me everything I'd ever done. Can this be the Christ? That's so funny that that's her lead.

Come see a man who told me everything I've done. She's no longer living under this false identity of shame, but she's living in a new identity as a beloved. And don't miss the fact that she's the first missionary in the book of John.

The people must have seen the difference. Because of her testimony, her witness compels them to go meet Jesus for themselves. Jesus stays two days, and many more conclude that Jesus is the Savior of the world.

So what I like to ask, if you love what Jesus did for her, let me tell you what he did for you. So before the foundation of the world, God existed, Father, Son, and Spirit, in a relationship described as an eternal bond of love. And out of the overflow of that relationship, God created humanity. In Genesis, we find our purpose to live in relationship with God, others, ourselves, and creation, and to reflect and represent him to the world.

But we all know if we've read Genesis 3, it didn't take very long. Instead of living for him and his image, we chose to live for ourselves. And the Bible calls that rebellion sin, and explains that we are living in the consequences of our sin and the sin of humanity, and we see that all around us.

We see the brokenness in the world, and we see the brokenness in ourselves. We are shattered by our sin into a thousand pieces, with no way to fix ourselves. Our sin deserves death because it's a rejection of the God who loves us and made us. But God doesn't want to destroy those he created in his image, so he made a way for us to be saved through his self-sacrifice. Jesus added humanity to his deity. He came to earth to live a perfect life, to die in your place instead of you. And he rose from the dead.

Salvation through Christ is offered to anyone who will turn from what has become God to you, turn to him and place your faith in what he did for you. Colossians says it this way, God took your sin, your shame, your brokenness and rebellion, and with Christ he nailed your sins to the cross. Then God buried your sin, your shame, your brokenness and rebellion. He buried them in the grave with Christ, dead and buried with the land that was slain for the sins of the world. And then three days later, God raised Jesus from the dead. Jesus ran out of that tomb, not as a lamb but as a lion, his resurrection declaring that the fullness of God won't be kept in a grave. Darkness, your hour is over.

Sin, death and Satan, you are defeated. And that's what he did for you. So I hope this retelling, this recap, this reminder of Jesus's interaction with this Samaritan woman, I hope you see yourself in the story. I hope it also encourages you to look for people around you because every day Jesus is giving you divine appointments.

There are people in your life right now that you are going to cross paths with. And would you follow Jesus's pattern of asking questions, meeting someone at their point of need, and leading them to understand the identity of Christ. That's called evangelism, that's sharing our faith, but sometimes we start at the wrong place. So invite people to meet the God who loved them, who created them out of love on purpose and for a purpose.

Explain to them what our sin has done, that it's distanced us from him, but that God made a way through Christ to bring us back into a relationship and to adopt us into his family. That's my Tuesday. Good news of the gospel.

Good news from the life of Jesus, the Word of God that he's given us so that we can know who he is and how we can share this good news with the world. So I hope you'll join us back on Truth Talk tomorrow. I'm not sure who is hosting tomorrow, but it's just always great to be on here. It's a great group of listeners. I love the Truth Network and what this station is doing in our city, in our state, and across the world. So have a great rest of the day. We'll see you back next time.