Lakewood Bible Study | Erik Luchetta & Jeremy Marrone

((music playing)) Jeremy, how you doing? I'm doing good, man. Good to be here. Yeah, it's good to be back again. I got a question for you. Yep. In the Bible, I've noticed that there is a lot of talk about different mountains. There are many different mountains and each mountain has its own name.

Why does the Bible spend so much time talking about these different mountains? That's a good question. In biblical literature, uh the the mountain of the Lord or the the holy mountain refers to a sacred space where God's presence is felt and where his will is being done or his kingdom is being established.

And this is for the flourishing of humanity. All right? So all the way back at the beginning of the Bible, we see in the garden, God created human beings for a certain purpose. And then he dwelt with those human beings in that space to enact both his kingdom and his will.

And that is seen through actions and the outcome of his will. And so the mountains are a a literary tool. Now, these are actual places that exist that real humans connected with God, but it's used in a way to describe the place where heaven and earth align. So, so you're saying that is that kind of the the place where God dwelt or was present in the earth was at the top of of these mountains.

Yes. And what he would do is he would have interactions with a human being on a mountain and he would bless the human being and then he would tell that human being to take that blessing down to whoever else was with them. Generally a family uh the nation of Israel, Jesus disciples and followers.

Uh all through the scriptures you see God meeting with human beings on a mountain. His presence is there. He gives them some sort of blessing and then says, "Take this and give it to others when you go down the mountain." So in the ancient world, the ancients believed that if you went high up on a mountain, it was it was the very top of the world, if you want to say it like that.

In fact, uh we just went to Switzerland 2 years ago and we went to Yungfra, which is the the big mountain there, and they call it top of Europe. And so it's this place where they believe it's it's the highest point in all of Europe. And so it's this place where they believe they got they've gotten as high as they can.

And that's where the ancients believed on a mountaintop was the place where heaven and earth touched. And it was a it was they viewed these as sacred places. Well, the writers of the Bible use the mountains in a way to describe these are the places where people communed with God for a specific purpose.

And so what I want to talk about today is what is the mountain? What is the mountain? And then who may ascend the mountain? Now this is a really famous scripture in Psalm chapter 24, which we're going to get into. But this is the question. Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?

So mountains are used all the way through the Bible to describe places where heaven and earth meet, where God's presence is felt, and where his will will be enacted from. So he blesses human beings and then tells them, "Enact my will in the earth by taking this blessing and giving it away."

But there's one particular mountain in the Bible that is described as the mountain of the Lord. And so I want to answer that question by talking about multiple mountains, okay, through the scriptures. And we're going to talk about the very first one. Now, the Garden of Eden in chapters 1 and two of Genesis.

The Bible says that God created a beautiful place. It was a garden in Eden and he put two human beings. Now, Ezekiel chapter 28 says this was on a mountain. So, Eden was on a mountain. Eden was on a mountain. And so, um, [clears throat] he actually says this, "You were in Eden, the garden of God.

You were on the holy mountain of God. This is Ezekiel 28 13 and 14. You were in Eden, the garden of God. You were on the holy mountain of God. Now, this is language to say yes, the physical place where they were located was on a on a mountaintop.

But it's also a literary way of saying because you were on that mountaintop with God, it was the presence of God where heaven and earth met. So Ezekiel's description here, this vision that God gave him uh about this this king in Ezekiel 28 is somebody who was in the garden on a mountaintop.

So the Bible starts out on a mountain. And this communion spot with God, this place where heaven and earth were aligned, where Adam and Eve lived, they dwelt there, uh was because God had created them, blessed them, told them to multiply, and then said, "I want you to take this my rule and my will and expand it throughout the whole earth."

That was the original project. Would you agree? Yeah. So, basically, what you're saying is when God meets with somebody on a mountain, he's presently there. Yes. But the point is to with that person to then go down the mountain and then spread whatever blessing God has for the for the people and for the rest of creation.

Yep. And that's what Adam and Eve's ultimate job was. Yes. Was to be with God in the garden and it sounds like expand out into the wider world for the flourishing of humanity. For the flourishing of humanity. Yeah. Because when when the Bible talks about the flourishing of all of God's creation, when that is happening, heaven and earth are aligned.

[clears throat] And so the starting place for human beings with God was on a mountain. It was a place where God would dwell with them. His presence would be present. He was there and then of course his blessing. And so he would say, "Go flourish so that heaven and earth remains aligned."

Well, that did not happen. On the third page of the Bible, heaven and earth got disjointed through sin and evil and corruption. And so because of that, the whole earth was filled with sin, sickness, death, evil, murder, lying, all of the things that we see in the scriptures.

But God's desire was always that heaven and earth would align. And so this human project, even though it went sideways on the third page of the Bible in Genesis 3, God never abandoned his plan for his good world to flourish and for heaven's will and the earth to be to overlap, to be aligned.

And so the the the story of the Bible is the way that God has um through his own son has restored that vocation to human beings to bring alignment of heaven and earth. And Jesus does it ultimately on a mountain and we'll get there in a second. Yeah.

But we start in in the garden. And in Ezekiel 28, it describes the garden on a mountain. And [clears throat] then uh sin enters the world and everything becomes corrupt. And in Genesis chapter 6, the Bible says that violence filled the whole earth. So God judged the world through the flood.

And he told Noah to build a boat, which we won't go into the description of how he told him to build the boat, but it's basically the same language as the constructing of the garden of the earth in Genesis 1. So, um, in essence, the the ark that Noah and his family in were a floating Eden.

It was supposed to be like a floating garden. And God decided to start over with Noah and his family. He didn't abandon the human project, but he started fresh and new with Noah and his family when the flood came and then the waters receded. The Bible says in Genesis 8:4 that Noah's ark landed on the top of Mount Ararat and Noah built an altar to God.

Genesis 8:4, it says, "On the seventh day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Now on the seventh day of the seventh month is very specific language. Why? Because Moses who we believe wrote the first five books of the Bible. He is explaining that that number seven is a mirror image of the seven days of creation in which God created all things in six days and then came to rest or to settle into his creation on the seventh day.

So, this replaying of the story of Adam is Noah's story. And I won't go into a lot of detail on it, but it's fascinating how much they align together. So, you're basically saying in a sense the story of Eden in the garden, yes, is being replayed. Yes. With the ark and Noah.

Yes. It's almost happening again, right? So, that the water recedes and they're on Mount Ararat. Well, he builds an altar to God, which means what? And altar means this is the place where heaven and earth align. It is a place of God's presence, the worship and praise of God going up.

This is where heaven and earth come together. And so Noah decides to do that. But then he builds a vineyard which is essentially a garden. And he takes the grapes and he makes them into wine and he gets drunk. And then his son in the story uncovers him.

And then the Bible says he was shamed. [clears throat] So a man on top of a mountain was made naked and was shamed. This is a replay of Genesis 3 with Adam and Eve where they were I was going to say that's all the elements of the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve sinned.

Yeah. And so now it's just happening all over again. Yes. With Noah on a different mountain. Yeah. It it's a recap. It's the word is recapitulation, but it's a recap of Adam's story in the person of Noah and his family. It's It's almost like God's trying again. Yes.

He's trying again with another human being to keep this project going, and he keeps looking for Adamike humans who will do his will the way he wants. So, you're saying God wants to bless the earth? Yes. He wants heaven's rule to come in and through the earth. It started with the Garden of Eden.

It went sideways. Now, he's doing it again with Noah, and it went sideways again. It went sideways again. So then later on, we see in Genesis 12, God chooses another human being named Abraham and his wife Sarah. And he tells him the exact same thing he told Adam and Noah, multiply.

He to that is the command to Adam. Be fruitful and multiply. It's the same command God gave to Noah in Genesis 8 and 9. Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth. And then Abraham comes and God says, "I'm going to bless you and I'm going to make you a great nation and your descendants are going to be as numerous as the stars and the sand on the shore because you will multiply and you will fill the earth."

So again, here's the third human in the book of Genesis that God has chosen. Wow. As an Adamlike figure to establish his kingdom and rule. Now again, we're answering the question, who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord? And and when you say that, you're saying like who qualifies to go up to where God dwells.

Like who can who can actually who qualifies to go up into God's presence? Yes. Who qualifies? Adam started there failed. Noah failed. Now Abraham is being chosen. And there's a story where in Genesis chapter 22 where God calls Abraham to take the promised son. God told Abraham, I you will be fruitful and multiply and I will do it um to to to prove to you that my word is true, that I'm giving you this promise that it will work out.

I'm going to give you a son in your old age. And he goes, "My wife is barren. How can that happen?" And God goes, "I'm going to work it out." Essentially, I'm paraphrasing. God's going to do it. I'm going to give you a promised son. Well, Abraham and Sarah do not obey the Lord and they try to do it in their own power with a servant girl that they have named Hagar.

And so God eventually uh gives gives Abraham and Sarah their promised son in Isaac. But the first son of the flesh was Ishmael. Now, if you've been in church any longer than about a week, you've probably heard this story before. And if you've never been in church, you might have heard the story before as well.

It's the famous story where Abraham takes his son up on a mountain and God says, "Give him back to me. I want you to sacrifice him on the altar." In Genesis 22:2, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love, that's Isaac, and go to the region of Mariah, which is a mountain. sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain that I will show you.

Genesis 22:2. So Abraham takes his son up a mountain, builds an altar, lays his son out like a sacrifice, and holds the knife, and God stops him. An angel of the Lord stops him from taking his son's life. This is the promised son. You can only imagine that Abraham is sitting there and he's going, "What have I done that God is asking me for my son back? and he's probably grieving.

But when Abraham was born and raised in the Calaldanss or or of the Calaldanss, he was a the Bible says he was a polytheist. His dad and his family, his ancestors, worshiped all kinds of pagan gods. So he had hundreds and thousands of deities he probably worshiped. God called him out and said, "I'm the true and the living God."

And then he tests Abraham in this scene. So Abraham has the knife and he's holding it over his son and God stops him. Why does God stop him? Well, two reasons. Number one, Abraham showed himself to trust the Lord. Number two, God was revealing himself to Abraham as the true and the living God in that presence right there on that mountain.

What was he saying to Abraham? All of your pagan gods that your family grew up worshiping demand a sacrifice. They did. They they sacrificed their own children to the gods. Wow. They were known for that in in the Calaldanss, which is Babylon, the Babylonian uh regions. They had all kinds of pagan tribes and nations who sacrificed their children.

So God stops him and says, "I'm not like every other god who's going to demand a sacrifice." And this is a a scene that is almost a prophetic foreshadowing of the person of Jesus Christ who would come in the gospels and would be sacrificed on a mountain. And he actually uses the same language.

Take your son I Isaac your only son whom you love and sacrifice him. But he stops him because God says I'm not going to ask you for your kid. I'm going to give you my son. So Genesis 22:17, God says, "I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore.

And your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies." God will make you to flourish. God will make you to flourish. But Abraham was not perfect. Just like every other human before him, he wasn't perfect. So again, we're back to the question, who can ascend the mountain of the Lord?

Who can go up to the presence of God and stay there in the presence of God? Who can go up? Well, let me ask you real quick. So, like you think of like David, uh, King David in the Psalms and he's talking about going into the temple where the presence of God was.

Yes. And his desire to be in there in the presence of God forever. Yes. And so I can even see that theme of of God desiring to be present with humanity and human beings desiring to be present with God. But what you're saying is we have example after example after example in the Old Testament of people meeting with God but then failing for failing and for small moments.

So basically there's not a there's not a there's not an extended dwelling. It's a there are moments just moments. So basically what God needs is a truly forever faithful human being. If he could just find a faithful human being, he could bless the whole world then. Yeah. And this is and this is the point of the Bible.

The the the the essence of the Bible is God dwelling with mankind. Why access? This is access. God wants us to have access to his presence. But you see momentary glimpses of it throughout the scriptures and in the Old Testament especially. There are a lot of mountaintop experiences because this is God saying, "My desire is that I would dwell with you and you would dwell with me."

But it's going to take a holy environment. That's what the garden was before sin and corruption entered. It was holy cuz God dwells where there's holy. And so, he's looking for the one human who can make the space holy. He's looking for the one human who can ascend and who can live there and bring others with him.

This is the interesting thing about the Old Testament. So many of the examples, these examples, God actually asked all of let's say Israel, we're about to get to Moses and Mount Si. He actually asked all the children of Israel to come up the mountain, but they were scared.

They saw the cloud on the mountain and they wouldn't go up. Moses was the only one. He took 70 elders up halfway and then he went up to the very top. But actually all the nation of Israel was invited up. Wow. And they refused out of fear because they were like, "God is a holy God."

And so there's these there's these incredible mountaintop experiences, as we like to use that phrase. There's these mountaintop experiences, but it's because this is where God's presence dwells. Now, God's desire is to dwell with man forever. But these are short glimpses. Why? Because humans fail. And all through the Old Testament, you see them failing.

But we need one human to come and succeed so that heaven and earth can be can overlap together forever. That's the goal. So then we get to Moses on Mount Si in Exodus 19:3. It says, "Then Moses went up to God and the Lord God called to him from the mountain."

Mount Si was where Moses went up. He got the the tablets from God, the instructions, what we call the law. But he got the instructions from God on what it means to represent him in the world to all the nations. He chooses Israel. He brings them out of Egypt.

Exodus 19, they're at the base of Mount Si for one year, one exactly one calendar year. And Moses goes up to get the blessing from God, which was his instructions on this is what it looks like to be a nation and a nation that represents me to all the world.

And this is the blessing that would help the whole of humanity and creation flourish which has been from the very beginning. Yes. Somebody meeting with God and then coming down and blessing the whole world. Yep. So God blesses Moses on the mountaintop. So much so that his that his face glows.

He has to put a veil over his face because it it would have killed any human being that would have looked on it because the presence of God radiated on his face. And so Moses goes up a mountain and has a mountaintop experience where we see heaven and earth aligning.

God blesses Moses and tells him, "Bring this back down to the children of Israel. I am going to be a blessing to them and I am going to bless the nations through them." This is the call of Adam. This was the call of Noah. This was the call of Abraham.

And now God's trying another human being. Can we get this right, guys? Can somebody get this right? But it's amazing to see God's undying commitment. He's committed to be in the earth with human beings so that the entire earth would be blessed and all of humanity would flourish.

Yeah. And and again, but but who who can who can go up the mountain? Yeah. Who can go up the mountain and stay there? Who can go up the mountain and bring that blessing down forever? This is the forever language of the Messiah. His throne would be established forever. his justice and righteousness would be established forever.

Who can do it forever? We need one human being who can do that because God will not abandon his, like you said, his human plan, right? He will not throw his project in the trash. He's committed to it. He called it very good in Genesis 1 and he wants to be committed to it till the end.

Yeah. And so, we have another human being going up a mountain. But here's the beautiful thing. We have a prophet named Isaiah who actually gives a prophecy. He gives a prophecy in Isaiah chapter 2 and it's the pro prophecy of the one who can ascend the mountain. Now I want to start real quick and I want to read Psalm 24.

This is the main passage from what I wanted to say tonight. In Psalm 24:es 1-4, it says this, "The earth is the Lord's and everything in it. the world and all who live in it. For he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters. This is Genesis 1.

Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god. He's looking for the one human who has clean hands, perfectly clean hands, and a perfectly pure heart.

So, David is talking about this this human being who would be able to ascend the mountain forever and would be able to bring humanity who trust in him with him forever to dwell with God. Why? Because God's desire is to flourish his humanity and and his creation. And the the only way he knows that that can happen is his presence.

Let's be honest, his presence is the defining factor of why things flourish. Yeah. And you can actually see that in the Old Testament. When God is present, everything prospers. Yes. When God's living in the temple in Jerusalem and the nation, you think of under Solomon, it becomes the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world.

So wealthy that even the the the queen of Sheba comes to visit Solomon and she faints. She sees all the wealth. And so, yeah, God's presence does seem to create abundance. It does. And this is and this is the this is the the life of the believer in Jesus.

We'll get to that, but this is the life of the believer in Jesus by the Holy Spirit. And Jesus actually says in John 10, it's the life, it's an abundant life that he gives. Um, in Isaiah chapter 2, this is a this is a prophetic look forward to the one who would be able to come and do this rightly. the human being who would be able to stand on the mountain, the holy mountain of God forever and not only do that but receive a blessing that he would be able to bless all humanity and all of creation with it.

In Isaiah 2:es 2-4, Isaiah says, "Now it will come about that in the last days, the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of all mountains." It's not just every mountain in the Bible. There's one particular mountain that God is establishing his righteousness and justice on.

And there's one particular mountain that that the Bible's looking forward to. And this is the dwelling place of God with humankind. That's the that's the essentially the definition of it. Yeah. and all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, "Come, let's go up the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob, so that he may teach us about his ways that we may walk in his paths."

For the law will go out from Zion. This is the instruction. This is the blessing from God. The the the instruction blessing from God will go out from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. and he will judge between the nations and will mediate for many peoples.

Now, we talked we talk about this all the time. We talked earlier about the flourishing of creation. What is the flourishing of creation? Let's define it. Peace, prosperity, abundance. Yep. No death, no sickness, removed violence, murder, all of the horrible things, all of the corruption, sin, death removed.

That is what God's ultimate goal is, has been, and is in his project. And we're about to read a verse right here in verse four of Isaiah 2 that defines he will judge between the nations and will mediate for many peoples and they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning knives.

Swords were meant for war and violence. Those will be remade into plowshares where crops and abundance can be produced. Wow. and they their spears which are used for war into pruning knives for the pruning of trees, vegetation, abundance. So the violence and chaos will be turned to peace and the hatred will be turned to prosperity and nation will not lift up a sword against nation and never again will they learn war.

This is because the one human being would go up the mountain and represent humanity in a way that he can keep that presence forever. God would dwell there forever. He would be there. But not only that, but humanity would be able to ascend because of that perfect human with perfectly clean hands and a perfectly pure heart.

So I guess I mean at this point we all know who we're talking about in the person of Jesus Christ. But I want to say this in Isaiah 65. And it will come to pass uh verses 24 and 25 of Isaiah 65. And it will come to pass that before they call, I will answer.

While they're still speaking, I will listen. The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil or harm on my holy mountain. So Isaiah is seeing the prophetic image of the new heavens and the new earth where God sets his entire creation right.

The creation that has gone wrong, he sets it right. The prophetic word at the beginning of Isaiah 2 is the is the one who would come who would set it right. And Isaiah 65 is the picture of what it would look like when it's set right. No evil, no harm.

So God's eventually going to fix the entire earth, as so I guess what you're saying in in a sense is in the final picture and the way the book of Revelation ends is that earth itself will be redeemed. maybe even say it like this, the Garden of Eden will return and it'll cover the entire earth.

Yep. And I think that that's a fascinating vision and really transformative in how we read all of scripture. And to see how how what you're saying is how through this one mountain that will happen and God's abundance and provision will cover the entire earth and sin and death and evil and violence y will be permanently removed.

But if God's going to dwell with humanity, he's got to be able to have a space where he can dwell with humanity. So he's got to have one human who can go into that space forever and represent. Wow. So again, the mountain of the Lord in the scriptures, the mountains are pictures of where heaven and earth come together.

Essentially, they're a high temple. That's what we're explaining. That's really what it's a temple. That's why that's why you see so many people build altars. It's a temple. Yeah. It's really they're interacting with the living God. Because when you think about it, this idea of going up a mountain into the presence of God is actually very priestly language.

It is. You're kind of going in, coming out, and blessing the world. That's that's priestly language. Simple language. And it's therefore it's no it's no surprise that the book of Hebrews says that Jesus will be a faithful high priest forever. Forever. He's the one who's ultimately ensuring and mediating the blessing of heaven into the earth.

Yep. And Hebrews 12 actually says, "Because we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, we will actually join God on his holy mountain forever." That's what the end of Hebrews 12 says. Because of the faithful priest, Jesus, because of the faithful human. So, let's go through Matthew real quick and then we'll land it here.

Um, there's seven mountains in the book of Matthew. The last one, well, we'll get there. Um, but I want to land on the mountain of the Lord. The first mountain in Matthew, in the book of Matthew, is Jesus tempted by Satan in Matthew 4. He took him up on a high mountain and said, "I'll give you all these kingdoms."

And Jesus said, "No, absolutely not." And then he quotes the Bible and he says um that Jesus knows his purpose is not only the earth but at the end of Matthew Jesus says all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. So he's getting both heaven and earth.

And Satan's tempting him with just the earth which it doesn't work right. He says no. And then Matthew chapter 5 6 and 7 the sermon on the mount. The most famous sermon in the history of the world. The sermon on the mount. It happens on a mountain in a desolate place.

This is the replay of the moment that Moses went up on Si. This is the retelling of the Exodus story, but in the person and through the person of Jesus. So then Jesus feeds 5,000 people in the book of Matthew on a mountain. And then Jesus goes up the mountain in Matthew 17 and transfigures or glows, shows his glory to Peter, James, and John.

But Moses and Elijah are there. Why are Moses and Elijah there? Because Moses and Elijah had mountaintop experiences with God in the Old Testament. Moses is a picture of the law or the instruction. And Elijah is a picture of the prophets. Jesus is saying, "All the law and the prophets have spoken of me and now you're seeing my glory."

Wow. So then Jesus goes up on the Mount of Olives at the end of Matthew on the night before he is crucified and he's in a garden and he gets arrested on a mountain. Why? Because he's reversing the curse of Adam on the mountain in Genesis 3. So then he goes up on the outside of the city.

He goes up on a mount called Mount Goltha, which is where they believe Jesus was crucified. That's what the Bible says that Jesus was crucified. Why? Because he's the true and the living. Uh he's the he's the second and last Adam. He is the true human who has perfectly clean hands and perfectly pure heart who can go up the mountain to restore humanity to the presence of God.

So now we see Jesus at a tree being nailed to a tree. This is Adam garden language. And he's the ultimate human with clean hands and a pure heart. And he comes to bring peace and prosperity to the nations, to all those who would put trust in him.

And then the final mountain of Matthew is the mountain of the great commission. And this is a replay of Adam and Eve. Jesus goes up on a mountain with his disciples in Matthew 28. And he tells them, "You go into all the world, teach them to obey my commands, and baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."

This is go language that God told Adam, "I've blessed you. Now take my rule and my commands and and take them out, expand them out, the garden out to the whole earth." And so now he's giving that same command Jesus is to his followers because he's the new the the last and final Adam, the second Adam.

And he's giving that same command on a mountain to his followers. So when God tells Adam and Eve to multiply, basically to expand, yep, throughout the earth. This is similar to Jesus saying go out and preach the gospel. And in a sense, through the preaching of the gospel, God is forming a new family.

Yes. This is like a second family. So you have Adam's family that was in the garden that went sideways and therefore humanity went sideways. Now Jesus sends us out to multiply through the preaching of the gospel, which is the formation of the family. Once again, that's amazing. And my and my final thought on all of this is the Bible starts in a mountain.

We we find Jesus on a mountain um who is the second and last Adam. He is the one who comes to restore uh the whole story of the Bible. All of these all of these stories land on him. The story of Moses, the story of Adam, the story of Elijah, the story all of them land on the person of Jesus.

All of these scenes are put together in sort of a mosaic picture of Jesus on Goltha. Wow. And through his death and resurrection, he is bringing flourishing back to creation. He is bringing the new creation through his death and resurrection. And so I I just want to encourage anybody out there today.

Um the mountaintop experience has been we have access. It has been opened for us because of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the blood that made that space holy. So now we can connect with God because the Bible says that when we give when we follow Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes to live in us.

And so we now commune with God continually because of the great high priest, the one whose hands were clean and his heart was perfectly pure and he went up on the mountain to bring the rest of us up to the presence of God. Wow, that's amazing. Thank you so much for sharing all that and really exploring more and more of what the mountains in the scripture means opens up a whole new way of reading the Bible.

Yep. So again, thank you so much for sharing with uh sharing with us tonight. That was awesome. For sure.