Well, it is good to see you here at Union Grove. I'm so glad that you're here. And it's nice to come to church when it's not 100 degrees outside, right? Can I get an amen there? And but no, we're grateful for all the rain that we had this week.
I'm thankful for that. And it's just been just such a good week. And it is good to see you. Like David mentioned earlier, if you're a guest here today, maybe it's the first time that you've ever been here. Thank you for being here.
And we know you could have been in a lot of places and you've chosen to worship with us today. And we just want to say thank you for that. And don't forget to take that new here card before you leave out to our welcome center. And we'd love to get a gift in your hands just as our way of saying thank you for being here. And I know you'll appreciate that.
And we just appreciate your presence here today. Before we dive in today to our series, I wanted to mention just a couple of things. Last week, I mentioned this. We say often at our church, and if you've been here before, you've heard us say this, that our church is a great place to attend. but it's an even better place to belong.
And we really, we love that you're here. We love those that attend and things. But what we want every person to do that attends, we'd love to help them belong to our church and go a little bit deeper. And that's why we ask every person in our church to step out of a row in this room and into a smaller group of people, whether that be a Bible fellowship or something in addition to what we're doing right here. And you say, why do you ask people to do that?
Well, it's really for two reasons. First, we believe as a church fundamentally that we grow better together. We grow better in the context of relationships. And so, what we want for you is that when you come in here, you have some relationships of people in this room that are pushing you, that are challenging you, that are sharpening you in your faith, because we fundamentally believe we grow better in the context of relationships. And here's what we know: in this room, it's not a great time for you to really build deep, meaningful relationships in this setting.
That's why we ask you to go to a Bible fellowship or go to what we're about to start in this fall, a community group. And this is something brand new we've not done here before. Community groups are basically Bible fellowships, same purpose, which is to grow spiritually and to connect relationally. And what we're asking people to do is if you're not in something and you want to grow in your faith and you want to connect relationally with other people, we'd love for you to be in a community group. They're just Bible studies that are going to meet in homes during the week.
And so they're small, 10 or less adults that are going to meet in people's homes. And so starting next week, you're going to have the opportunity. If you want to attend one, you can. And you're going to have the opportunity to sign up.
So be praying about that and just seeing if that's something the Lord is leading you to do. And maybe it's a step, maybe it's a next step in your faith. And we would love for you to do that. Also, one way that you can connect is our men in the church. And I would love for all the guys to listen and to try to attend this if at all possible.
We are going to be going to the Iron Man. Men's, it's like a day conference at a church not far from here. They invited us last week, and I thought this would be a really good thing for our men to go to. And so, this is gonna be held at Peace Haven Baptist Church on August the 15th. And we'll be leaving here at about 12:30 in the afternoon.
We'll be back by about 8 o'clock that night. It's over towards Yadkinville at Peace Haven Baptist Church. And I would love for all the guys to come. This is for, I believe we said 16 and older. And so, even our 16 teenagers, upper high school teenagers, we love for you to come, be a part of it.
And it's going to be a great time. There's a couple of speakers, and then it's capped off by a steak dinner, which I'm pretty excited about as well. And it's $25, and there's a sign-up sheet out in the welcome center.
So, on your way out today, if you're available on August the 15th, stop by the welcome center. Go ahead and put your name down because we do have to register early so that they can have the right amount of food and that kind of thing. But I think it'll be a fun time. We're going to take a bus, and we love for you to be a part of that.
Well, listen, we've been in a series entitled Summer Classics, and I don't have to give it a lot of introduction because we're kind of at the end of it. There's two weeks left counting today. And so, many of you, you've told me, even this morning, that you've been looking. At this picture, and you've been trying to decide which ones we have left, and that kind of thing.
So, we have today, and we have next week, and that kind of thing. And so, I'm super excited about the message here today that God has for us, this classic. And I'll give you a little bit of a hint. here. I've been trying to give you a little bit of a hint so that you can guess at what it is.
But the little hint or pun, if you would, is this, that this Summer Classic is absolutely on Fire. What do you think it is? Very good.
Well done. You guys are awesome. Moses in the burning bush, where we're going to be at today. Exodus chapter number three. If you have your Bible here today, I hope that you do, and it'll help you engage.
And so join us in Exodus chapter number three here today. While you're turning there, I want to give you a little bit of background just to kind of give you a runway. And you say, Pastor Josh, we've been in church forever. We know the background. We get it.
I want you to understand anytime we do background, it's important to the context. And so I love doing that. And also, I want you to remember: if you're kind of one of those, you've been in church our whole life, remember this: that not everybody in the room has been in church their whole life.
So, sometimes when we do this, I don't want you to check out and just be like, oh my goodness, here we go again. He's giving us stuff we already know. It could be brand new to somebody here in this room. And so, I want you to understand that.
So, a little bit of background to get us to where Exodus chapter number three is, it'll help you understand.
So, if you remember, In the book of Genesis, a man comes onto the scene. His name is Joseph. And you remember his brothers sold him into slavery. And so he goes to Egypt. And through a lot of series of events, he gets, you know, raised.
He's, you know, really powerful in Egypt and that kind of thing. And there was this bond between Egypt and the Israelites. And so they're there and that kind of thing.
Well, Joseph dies, and then a new Pharaoh comes onto the scene. They're in Egypt. And he is intimidated with the size of the Israelite army.
So, the Israelites that are living there in Egypt, they're just a growing population. They're getting bigger, which, by the way, is exactly what God promised, right? And so, his will is coming to pass, and they're there in Egypt. And this new Pharaoh says, Man, I'm a little insecure about this. He didn't say that out loud, but that's exactly what it is.
And so, he made a decree that they would be under the rule of Egypt and that they would enter into slavery and bondage, and that the Israelites would be their slaves. And he also made this decree that all the babies that were born, the baby boys that were born into Israelite families, that they would be killed.
So, that would stop the growing population.
Well, after this, there was a... A woman that conceived. She was of the house of Levi. And so she conceived and she ended up hiding the baby. And you know the story.
She put the baby in a basket and sent him down the river. And one of Pharaoh's daughters finds the basket and sees the baby, has compassion on the baby, and they end up raising this baby. They named the baby Moses, which literally in Hebrew means drawn because he was drawn from the river, if you would. And so they name him Moses. And now he is living as a young boy in the palace there in Egypt.
And so, but he was from the house of Levi. And so, Moses is raised there in the palace there in Egypt when he was about 40 years old. He sees an Egyptian man herding and smiting an Israelite. And so Moses goes, he's going to take matters into his own hands. And so he goes and he kills the Egyptian and buries him in the sand.
He thinks, hey, I'll just get away with this. Nobody will know. But word began to spread, and eventually Pharaoh found out. And so Moses is a wanted man. there in Egypt.
So, what he does is he flees. He goes hundreds of miles away to a place called Midian, which is modern-day Saudi Arabia.
So, he goes to Midian and he's fleed, and he lands in this desert of Midian, and he makes his home there. He was about 40 years old when he fled, and he makes his home in Midian. He finds himself a wife. He has uh several sons there in Midian. And he becomes a shepherd.
What's amazing to the story, and you would know this too about your life, little do you know or little did Moses know that Moses, for all these years, for the next forty years, would be a shepherd leading sheep In the wilderness, and isn't that like our Lord to prepare him in that way to eventually lead the Israelites in the wilderness as well later on in his story.
Well, after Moses was there for 40 years there in Midian, he's 80 years old now. And he's a shepherd boy still, and he's there in the wilderness. That's when we pick up Exodus chapter number three.
Now, one chapter before that in Exodus 2, the cries of the Israelites is said at the very end of chapter 2. The cries of the Israelites, because they're in captivity, they're in Egypt, they're enslaved in Egypt, they've been enslaved for over 400 years. And they're crying out to God. And God hears them. And so now, according to God's perfect timetable, it is time to reveal himself to Moses as Moses will be the one to lead his people out of Egyptian captivity.
And that's where we pick it up in Exodus chapter number three, verse number one. Here's what it says: now, Moses. He kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the backside of the desert. And he came to the mountain of God. even to horeb Now, one just small bit of information here.
Horeb is most believe that this is Mount Sinai. The reason why is because you say, why is it not called Mount Sinai?
Well, here's the thing: in Exodus 20, when God comes down and He reveals Himself to Moses and He gives him the law, the Ten Commandments, it's called Mount Sinai. But in Deuteronomy chapter number five, the same story about Moses receiving the law, in Deuteronomy 5, it's called Horeb. And so most believe that this is the same place, that this is where Moses would eventually get the law. But just a tidbit of information: verse 2: And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. And he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire.
And the bush was not consumed. Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight. Why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush. And he said, Moses.
Moses And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither, put off thy shoes. from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest. Is wholly Brown.
Now, this is the first time the word holy is mentioned in the Bible. In the Hebrew, it is the word kadesh. This is a sacred place. And by the way, when you come into the presence of God, it is a sacred place. Listen, it bothers me that we casually approach the throne room way too often in our society.
In our Christian faith, we've kind of boiled down to God just being like, you know, just sitting there like, hey, what's up, God? That kind of thing. That is not how we approach the throne room. When we, a lot of people, you know, we debate, like, how are we going to approach God when we see Him in heaven? Here's what I'll tell you: more often than not, I think we're going to be on our faces before Him.
And that's exactly what you see here.
So, this is sacred ground. This is a moment that you see that being in the presence of God, it is holy, it is sacred.
So, Moses removes his feet, verse 6. Moreover, not his feet, his shoes.
Okay, he didn't like to cut off his feet.
Sorry. Verse 6: Moreover, he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. The Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt. I've heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of the land unto a good land, and a large unto a land flowing with with milk. And a honey unto the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Verse 9: Now, therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me. I've also seen the oppression. Wherewith the Egyptians oppressed them.
Come now. Therefore. And I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people. The children of Israel out of out of Egypt.
Now What you see here in verse 10. is God's timetable. He says Moses Come.
Now. Everybody say the word now. Down. God's timetable is perfect. Moses has been in the wilderness for 40 years, and what God is telling him to do is to go back.
To where he was raised, to Egypt, the place where his face was on every wanted poster in town because he killed an Egyptian, right? And God wants him to go back there where he is not wanted and that people want him dead because he killed an Egyptian. And I want you to go back there and go before the most powerful man in Egypt and demand That he let the Israelites go. What an incredible tall task. Let me ask you this: Have you ever gotten into something?
where you felt you were way over your head. You ever, you know, been asked to do something at work? And maybe you were given a task or a or a project. And when you got into it, you're like, I have bit off more than I can chew. I can't do this.
I feel inadequate. I don't feel like I'm capable of doing it. I can feel two times in my life. I really remember those moments. One time was when our first child, Lindley, was born.
We were in the hospital. And when you're in the hospital, you have just tons of help, right? You have everybody visiting the hospital. You have nurses coming in every five minutes when you're trying to get rest, right? And they're doing their thing and all this kind of stuff.
You have all the help in the world. If you have questions, there's tons of people to ask. I'll never forget when they said, all right, you guys are free to go. And I was thinking, you are going to send us home with this little baby when you aren't coming with us, right? I felt we were in way over our head.
How in the world are we supposed to raise this child and do what we're supposed to do? Another time was when I came here. Like we have a you know, I'm I like the church side of things, but we have a school, you know, a growing school. And I've sat in this seat and there's been many times I'm in the office and I'm thinking, I'm in way. Over my Head.
And if you work with me, you probably have seen he's in way over his head. We all have experiences like this where it's like we're placed in situations where we just feel like we can't handle it. We don't feel like we're the right guy. And we feel like this is in way over our head. That's exactly how Moses felt.
Moses felt the exact same way.
So, if you've been there, you can relate to Moses here in this story. He didn't feel like he could do this. This is way too out of his League.
So, Moses responds in a couple of different ways. And in chapter 3 and 4, which we're not going to look at all of it, you have his responses. I'm going to run through these quickly, and then we're going to see God's response to him. The first thing he says in verse 11 of chapter 3, you can look there. He asked this question.
You'll see it up on the screen. Who am I? In Exodus 3:11, here's what it says: Moses said unto God, Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out? of Egypt. Literally, he's saying, Lord, you want me to go back where I am not wanted.
I am not the right guy. Find somebody else that maybe they're not looking for to kill, and that kind of thing, and everything's good. The second response he had is found in Exodus 3:13. Here's the question he asked: Who? is sending me.
It says in verse 13, Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, and they shall say to me, What is his name? Right? What will I say unto them? Literally, he's asking God: How can I prove that you are who you say you are? The third response is this.
It's found in chapter 4, verse 1. He asked this: What if No one believes me. What if no one responds and no one believes what I'm saying? Exodus 4:1 says, And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice, for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. What if no one believes me, Lord?
What if no one responds? What if I'm rejected? What if I'm laughed at? What if I'm mocked? Like, what is going to happen, and what am I going to do then?
The next response is found in Exodus 4 verse 10. He literally says, you'll see it up on the screen, I'm not. Qualified. He literally says, I'm slow to speech. I'm not eloquent.
I do not have the words. In other words, I'm insecure. I don't have the giftedness, Lord, to do what you're calling me to do. I am not the right guy. And so he ends his response to the Lord in this dialogue in chapter 3 and 4 by the last thing he asked of the Lord, verse 13 of Exodus 4.
He literally says this: Lord, send someone. else. He says in verse 13, and he said, Oh my Lord, send, I pray thee by the hand of him who thou wilt send. Literally, God. There's somebody else better out there.
There's a more eloquent person. I think you made a mistake. I think you were thinking that another person was going to be wandering around in the wilderness today, Lord. You got the wrong. Die.
Now listen, God's been patient. Up to this point. This whole dialogue is going on. God's been patient. But when Moses is implying that God made a mistake, like, hey, go find somebody else, Lord, that's when God gets upset.
He gets angry. Exodus 4:14. After Moses says, Go find somebody else, here's what the Lord says: The anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well, and also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee. And when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
Here's the point: here, God's saying this: Moses, I didn't make a mistake when I chose you. Like, I knew exactly who I was choosing. I was choosing the one that couldn't speak well. I was choosing the one that was not qualified. I did not make a mistake.
I am going to be everything that you need to accomplish what I'm calling you to do.
So we see this incredible story. And I want to look at God's response to each of those, you know, five things, those five responses of Moses.
So let's look first at the question: who am I? First thing Moses asked him: what was God's response? Notice Moses didn't ask. How can I do this? He asked who?
Like, who am I, Lord? I am not the guy. You see, the problem with Moses, and this is true for you and for me, the problem was Moses. He wasn't looking at the obstacle which was Pharaoh. But he also wasn't looking at where his strength was coming from.
He was looking at himself. You want to know why a lot of times we say no to what God's leading us to do? Is because you're forgetting who's sending you, and you're focused in on yourself. And that's exactly what Moses is. And here's what's interesting: do not miss this because sometimes in the Bible, not every time, so don't read into this into every situation, but here's what I'll tell you: you sometimes need to look at what God doesn't say.
You know what God doesn't say here when Moses is like, Who am I? He doesn't say, Moses. You're talented. He doesn't say, Moses, you're gifted. Moses, listen, like, live out your strengths.
You got what it takes. Look into the mirror every single morning before you leave the house and tell yourself, I am good and I can do this. He didn't say anything about it. He never responded to Moses about Moses. He only responded to Moses.
About himself.
So instead of encouraging Moses and telling him how good he was, how talented he was, how strong he was, and all these kinds of things, he never said that. Here's what he said. I will be with you, Moses. I will be with you. Moses And here's what I'll tell you.
God. Shifted the focus. Off of Moses. and on to himself. And for some of you, God's leading you to do something.
He might be leading you to go across the street. and to share the good news of the gospel with somebody. He might be, you got some new neighbors living in your community, and he might be inviting them to come and to, you know, you to invite them over to your house for dinner. And share the good news and share your testimony. He might be leading you to Bible college to go into the ministry, or he might be leading you to serve for a summer at youth camp or whatever.
He might be leading you to lead a Bible study or to lead a community group or to teach a Bible fellowship class. He might be leading you right now to serve in children's ministry and to, you know, say, hey, I'm going to give up. I'm going to make a difference in these life. Instead of complaining about the next generation, I'm going to make a difference in the next generation. He might be leading you to something.
And here's what I will tell you: is this, if God is leading you or whatever he's leading you to, here's what I'm telling you. Don't focus on yourself. Focus on the one who is sending you. And here's why. Our confidence.
is never supposed to come from believing we are enough. Our confidence comes from knowing that he is enough. You want to know where our confidence is? If you're in over your head and God's led you to something, then good. Because your confidence in accomplishing the task that is in front of you is never supposed to be from believing that we're talented enough to do this, we're good enough to do this, we're gifted enough to do this.
No, the confidence that we have to do something for the Lord always comes from knowing that He is enough for us. Knowing that he is enough to lead us and he is enough to guide us. Maybe you're asking today: who am I? Listen. That is not.
Yeah. question The right question is not who am I? The right question is who is with me? You know, Moses got it wrong. It's not who am I, Moses.
It's who's going to be with you. And if God's led you to something, stop asking, who am I? Stop looking at yourself. Start saying, who is with me? Because if God be for me, who can be against me?
The second thing he asked was, who's sending me? You know, it's like hey Lord. If I do this, like, and they doubt me, who do I say that you are? God's answer. I am That I am.
This is Jehovah. The first time it's mentioned. God Himself mentions at one time His covenant name of Jehovah, Yahweh. He mentions at one time in Genesis chapter 2, I believe, verse 13. But this is the first time he introduces this name to his people.
And this is his covenant name, Jehovah. And this is who he is. It literally means self-existing. One. And here's the point.
Not, it's basically saying that I am God, not the one that was. Not the one that I will be, although those things are true. I am God right now. I am he. That's why we sang the song Same God because I want you to believe that.
That right now, if you're serving God, you're serving Jehovah. You're serving the God, the self-existing one, the same God of the Bible that we're looking at that revealed himself in a burning bush. That's the God that you're serving right now. And so, in other words, what he's saying is this: when he says, I am that I am, he's saying, Moses, whatever you need, I already am. You need strength?
I am. You need peace? I am. You need wisdom? I am.
You need courage? I am. Everything that you need, I am. You see, here's what I'll tell you about your life: God never promises an easy journey. He doesn't promise that you're just going to go through life and everything's going to figure it out and it's going to be so smooth and it's going to be like a bed of roses.
He never promises an easy journey. He promises his unchanging presence in your life and that should be enough for you. The third response, what if no one believes me? It's a good question. We don't like to be rejected, right?
We don't like to be rejected because That's a fear that we have. I mean, I remember. Back in where I grew up, we used to do door-to-door visitation. And I loved it. And my parents took me every week, and I was a young teenager, and I had to go to houses of complete strangers and ask them.
If they were to die today, where would they go? There's that's scary. And when you're just starting that kind of conversation with a complete stranger, like, hey, I'm so-and-so. I know we've not met before. Are you having a good day?
Yes, yes, yes. Let's talk about death for just a moment. Just say, Just say you were to die today. I hope not, but just say it happens, right? If it happened, where would you go?
I was scared to death. And I feared rejection. I feared, like, what if these people just say no? And what do I do? What if they slam the door in my face?
What if I get criticized? What if I look completely foolish? And you know what God does? God gave him. A sign because he wanted to show how powerful he was going to be in his life.
So, what did he do? Remember the story? He said, Moses, what do you have in your hand? Moses had a staff. Just like a good shepherd, he has a staff.
He says, Throw it on the ground, it becomes a snake. Right there, I would have been gone. I'd have been out of the wilderness, right? And then he says, pick it up.
So he grabs the snake. That's faith, man. I tell you, we don't talk much about that story. That's about the biggest amount of faith I've ever seen. You tell me to grab a snake?
So he does, he grabs it, it becomes a rod again. You say, why did God do that? He wanted to use what Moses already had. To show The power of what God can do through it. And here's what I'll tell you.
You might be thinking, what if nobody believes me? I'm not qualified enough. Let me tell you this: God wants to use what you have. All you're responsible to do is to offer yourself. To offer your life.
God, whatever you want me to do, I'm here. I don't have a whole lot to offer, but the good thing about our Lord is He can do much with the little that you have. He can do much with the little that you have. I mean, think about it. You got the rod that he used is going to eventually part the Red Sea and help the Israelites, you know, get water out of a rock.
How about David? You know, all David had was a slingshot, but here's what I'll tell you: with God, a slingshot can slay the largest giant out there, right? How about Gideon, or I mean, Samson, the jawbone of a donkey? Right. And he used that to slay a bunch of Philistines.
How about in the New Testament, the little boy who showed up to hear Jesus with just a lunchable filled with fish and bread? And here's what I will tell you: is with God, a little fish and a bread can feed thousands upon thousands of people. Here's what I'll say: you might think that you don't have a whole lot in your life. And let me remind you, you probably don't. None of us do when it comes to God.
But what God wants to do is, He wants to take what you have, whatever that may be, as little as it might be, that's okay. He wants to take it and wants to use it to do an incredible miracle through your life. But too often, we're looking at what we don't have. All you're responsible to do is obey. You see, our job is obedience, his job is results.
And that's what Moses had to learn. The next one, he said, I'm not qualified. Moses didn't think he was gifted enough to do what God was asking him to do. And and You know, God, it's almost like I'm not gifted. Let me tell you, God did not make a mistake.
He didn't show up. in the wrong wilderness. The wrong desert. And let me tell you this: if God is. called you to something.
He didn't get the wrong guy. He didn't knock on the wrong heart. He didn't call the wrong person. God doesn't make mistakes. He didn't say, oh, I meant to ring this person's name.
or their number. No, what he did was he's like Moses. Yeah, the guy that doesn't have a whole lot to offer, the guy who stutters. The guy that can't speak well, the guy that is super insecure about himself, the guy who thinks he's absolutely nothing, the guy that's in the middle of the wilderness and all he's responsible for is a bunch of sheep. The guy who had literally not much to offer.
That was who God chose. And let me tell you this: if you feel like, man, I'm not enough. And you feel like I can't do it, and you feel like, like, whatever God is leading me to do, I'm not gifted, I'm not qualified, I'm not smart enough, I'm not strong enough, I'm not confident enough, whatever it is, let me tell you this. You are the perfect. Candidate.
for God to use. If that's how you feel today, you're the perfect candidate. You know who God doesn't use? The ones who think they're something. You know, God doesn't, no, He wants to use the ones who know they're nothing.
But we can be something because we know someone. That's the point. And that's what we learn here about Moses. You see, God, he delights in using our weaknesses to display his power. And then his last response is this, Lord.
Send someone else. Moses wanted somebody else to do it. Moses was like, God, you got the wrong guy. And God did not make a mistake. You see, in this story.
We can relate because here's what I'll tell you. I just, I look back at life, and I can't believe the amount of things that God wanted to do, but people said no. The amount of people that God probably called to preach. And they just said I'm not good enough for that. I can't do that.
I can't stand before people. I can't teach a class. I can't lead a community group. I can't open up my home every week. For discipleship.
I don't have the time. I don't have the energy. I don't have the resources. Listen, God wants to do something great in every single one of you. And here's what I want you to know: he might not call you to pastor, he might not call you to be a missionary, he might not call you for something like that, but he's calling you to something.
Every single person in here, God is leading you to something. He's telling, and it could be something small. It could be to serve in children's ministry. It could be to serve on the hospitality team. It could be something that, you know, on our outreach team, when we start implementing some things that David's going to, he kind of teased you about that's coming.
It's going to be great. And it's going to be an opportunity for you to do something that's going to make a difference. And let me tell you this: God's leading us to everything. He's leading us to something. And too often we're spending our life Looking at ourselves saying we're not strong enough.
And here's the truth: without God. Bat. It's true. Yeah.
