Obedience to God is essential, expected, and beneficial, as Brother Dre emphasizes throughout this podcast episode. He reflects on personal experiences, particularly the importance of honoring commitments and the impact of obedience in both spiritual and everyday life. Dre highlights the current societal trend where individuals resist authority and fail to listen, leading to a cycle of disrespect and disobedience. He supports his points with biblical references, particularly from Isaiah and Hebrews, and shares the story of Saul's disobedience to illustrate that partial obedience is still disobedience. Listeners are encouraged to recognize the significance of adhering to God’s word and the transformative power that comes from genuine obedience in their lives.

Takeaways:

• Obedience to God is essential for spiritual growth and personal fulfillment in life.
• Disrespectful behavior in children often mirrors the actions and attitudes of their parents.
• To truly follow God's word, you must also submit to the authority around you.
• Obedience magnifies faith and allows you to realize God's plan for your life.
• Half obedience is equivalent to full disobedience; it doesn't fulfill God's commands.
• Listening to God's instructions is crucial, especially during times of plenty to avoid future troubles.

Hey, what's going on?

This is brother Dre on the mic.

And welcome.

Welcome to Remnant Ministries, where the word is being taught.

Hope that you're having a good day on today.

Hope that you tuned in to hear the word of God, because that's what we do on this channel.

But before we get into the word on today, I just want to give a big shout out to someone very important to me.

I think I've done this already before, at least a couple times.

But today, well, tomorrow will actually mark a milestone.

Me and my wife will officially be together for 15 years.

Yes, 15 years of marriage.

And I can honestly tell you that when I look at the decision I made, you know, a lot of times we think about whether we made the right decision or not.

And when I look back, yes, there's been ups.

Yes, there's been downs.

Yes, there's been quiet moments.

We've never really been wanting to be throwing stuff at each other or arguing and having to get anybody involved, but there have been moments.

But through it all, we've maintained, and I can honestly say that I don't regret the decision at all.

She is my peace.

She is my healer.

You know, sometimes you don't need the Lord to touch it.

Sometimes I just need my wife to touch me.

Hallelujah.

She's everything to me.

And I just thank God for her.

Amen.

Don't get me teary eyed in here, because we got things to do, okay?

But anyway, let's get into the word.

If you're going to follow me on today, we're going to go to Isaiah, chapter one, looking at verse 19 and 20.

Isaiah, chapter one, verse 19 and 20.

Father God, I thank you for this day.

I thank you, Lord God, that the people's hearts and minds are ready to hear what you have to say.

I do not do this just to do it.

You don't say anything without purpose.

Lord, let your purpose be fulfilled in this place in Jesus name.

Amen.

As always, we always make this declaration.

I just want you to say with me, I believe that God's word is true.

It is the final authority in my life.

Therefore, everything that God has said concerning me shall come to pass.

Amen.

Isaiah, chapter one, looking at verse 19 and 20.

It says, if you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.

But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.

For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

What I want to talk about on today is obedience.

Obedience.

I know it's not a word that people like to hear.

And it's one of those words when people hear it.

I'm not.

I almost said young people, but just people in general.

When you hear that word, people kind of suck their teeth.

You know, when you bring up something that people really don't want you to touch on, they like, oh, Lord, here they go again.

But, yes, we're going to talk about obedience today because obedience to God is expected, essential and beneficial to you.

It really is.

Let me say that again.

Obedience to God is expected.

It is essential and beneficial to you.

Hallelujah.

Right now, we are living in a time where really nobody wants to talk to anybody, or should I say, obey anybody.

Nobody wants us to submit to anybody.

Everybody wants to be a chief.

Nobody wants to be the indian.

Everybody thinks they have all the answers.

And, you know, it's just a.

It's a.

It's gotten to the point where no one is growing because no one wants to submit to the other person.

There was a time where we took God's word as gospel.

We valued God's word.

There was a time where young people valued the advice and the wisdom of old people.

There was a time where, you know, people in the workplace, they would actually listen to their boss, not just do what their boss says, because that's a different thing, but actually listen to their boss and hear what they got to say because they understood whatever they got to say could be beneficial to their life.

But now we're at a time where nobody wants to listen to nobody.

It's amazing.

It's amazing that kids no longer want to listen to their parents.

They just feel like they know everything.

And the Bible talks about that happening in the last days, and how many know that we are in the last days?

Kids don't want to talk to anybody.

Don't want to listen to anybody.

Kids are just being disrespectful.

And, you know, we oftentimes we harp on the kids and.

And we high five each other, or we come into agreement that, yes, kids are disrespectful.

But I want to ask the question on today.

Where did the kids learn that disrespect from?

Where did the kids learn that disobedience from?

It's a question that must be asked, because a lot of times when we're looking at the kids and we're talking about how disrespectful they are, and we're talking about how they won't listen to anybody, we are actually giving them the blueprint.

We are the ones that have made them like that.

Now, I know this is not going to be a popular conversation or a popular quote, but it is the truth.

Many times, the same people that are talking about how disrespectful and how disobedient their kids are are the same people who are disrespectful and disobedient.

The same people.

It's the same people.

You just got your little mini me.

And I don't want you to get this wrong because sometimes people will see how the kids are acting and they will say that that particular parent is reaping what they sold.

You know, you was, you was, uh, you was bad when you was a, when you was a child.

You was disrespectful when you was a child.

You was disobedient when you was a child.

And so therefore, now you got disobedient children and disrespectful children.

And, and I just don't believe that.

I don't believe that.

Yes, I know, you know the thing about karma, but I really don't believe that.

What I believe is really going on is the kids are constantly seeing that same parent do what they're being called out for.

See, you think it's something you did in your past, but a lot of times you're reaping what you're doing now.

The kids are doing what you do now.

The kids see that you're not respectful.

The kids see you talking about everybody.

The kids see you being disobedient.

You don't like to listen to nobody.

The kids hear about all the times you went to your job and you told your boss what you ain't gonna do.

They're hearing all of it.

The kids see your post on social media, how only God can judge you and all this other stuff.

The kids see that.

So it's not something that you did in your past that's hurting them.

A lot of times, it's what you're doing in your present that's hurting them.

Oh, boy.

Yes.

It's in your presence, it's the present you that's a lot of time hurting them.

And so we just can't, we can't say that.

It's just, it's the kids fault because they had to get it from somewhere.

Are you the culprit, though?

Think about it.

So we're talking about obedience.

What is obedience?

What is obedience?

Obedience is compliance with an order, request, or law, or submission to another's authority.

I like that last one in particular.

Let me read that again.

Obedience is compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority.

Amen.

It's actually you're submitting to another's authority.

Hallelujah.

You're submitting to another's authority.

And since we're talking about obedience in the God arena, in the spiritual arena, is submitting to God's authority.

Submitting to God's authority where you have made up in your mind that, no, you don't have all the answers.

No, you're not the biggest dog in the yard.

I submit to his authority.

No, it's not going to be my will, but it's going to be God's will.

No, I'm not going to do it how I would like to do it, but I'm going to do it how God would want me to do it.

It's submitted to his will.

Amen.

And it says, have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

Ooh, let me read this again.

Have confidence in your leaders and submit to their authority because they keep watch over you as those who must give an account do this so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no benefit to you.

Now, before you start tuning me off and you start saying, well, I thought we was talking about God.

Well, we are talking about God being obedient to God.

And how many know that part of being obedient to God is being obedient to God's word.

Oh, goodness.

You can't say that you're being obedient to Goddesse God and not being obedient to God's word.

You know, yes, God tells you things in your private time.

When y'all are in fellowship together during prayer, he will tell you certain things, but there's a lot of things that he has already said in his word that if you live by it, you will be doing what God has told you to do.

Amen.

So we can't throw away the Bible and say, well, I don't believe in the Bible.

You know, I just talked to God, you know, on my own.

You know, me and him got a connection.

No, his word, you can't separate God from his word.

As those who must give an account do this so their work will be a joyous, not a burden, for that would be no benefit to you.

So what is it talking about?

It's talking about being submissive to your spiritual leaders, more or less being submissive to your spiritual leaders.

He says, don't make their work a burden, but make it a joyous.

He said, make it a joy.

He says, have confidence in your leaders.

You know, the Bible says he will give you leaders after his own heart.

He will give you pastors and all the five fold.

He say, I'm going to, what he's basically saying is I'm going to give you people that will invest in your life so that you can reach the will of God for your life.

Let me say that again.

God is going to give you people that will invest in your life so you can reach the will of God for your life.

And so he says, have confidence in them and submit to them.

Submit to their authority because they keep watch over you and they have to give an account for how they treat you and they have to give an account for what they tell you.

He says do this so their work will be a joy.

Don't make the pastor's job so hard.

One of the reasons why we got a lot of pastors leaving the pulpit is because the members make the job so hard, because the deacon or people in position make the job hard.

Every time the pastor tells them something or sets order, you know, there's somebody always talking about, well, I just don't believe that's what needs to be done.

And the Lord ain't telling me that.

Well, he told the leader that, though.

He told the leader, it's just like if, oh, goodness.

It's just like if a man makes a rule in his house, for the house, why would you tried to kick against his rule as a spouse?

Is he, is he being led by God?

Is it something, is it something that's going to hurt you?

If he says just something simple, babe, just before you spend more than dollar 200 at the account, just let me know?

He tells you that now you spend $300 out the account without saying anything.

And then when he asks you about it, now you blowing up.

Oh, I mean, who you think you're talking to?

I am your wife, not your child.

Wait a minute, but that was, that was the rule.

That's, that's, that's, he's just trying to, you know, uh, uh, have structure in the house.

Why wouldn't you, what's, what's wrong with the, the rule.

You understand what I'm saying?

You know, sometimes we make a big deal out of nothing.

And that's why sometimes men don't even say anything anymore.

They don't even talk no more.

Oh, I better get out of that before I go into a whole nother thing.

And I'm gonna get off this message.

Make it a joy, because.

And so it tells you why later on in scripture, make sure that it's not a burden, for that would be no benefit to you, not the pastor.

The pastor going to be all right.

But if you make his job hard, guess what?

He can't pour into you all that he could pour into you.

If you're saying, I don't think the pastor is doing enough, well, why is he not doing enough?

Could it be that he's stressed out because he's having to deal with foolishness all the time?

So the Bible says, don't make his job hard, for that would be no benefit to you.

He needs to be able to focus on investing, pouring into you.

And the best way for him to be at a place where he can really pour into you is when you make his job a joy.

Right now, at this present time, I am a trainer at the job that I'm at, and I can tell you wholeheartedly, when I have people that make the job easy for me, it makes me want to pour more into them.

When they come with the right attitude, it makes me want to pour more into them.

Now, I start going beyond just the textbook, but I actually give them pointers from my personal life so I can speed up the process so that they can be more successful at their job.

Somebody better talk to me on the day.

It's all about, how do you make that person who's pouring into you feel?

Do you make it worth his while or her while?

Hallelujah.

And so we should do our pastors the same way.

Hallelujah.

Praise God.

Now look at Romans, chapter 13, verse one.

So we was talking about on the spiritual side.

Now let's look at Hebrews 13, verse one.

It says, let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.

The authorities that exist have been established by God.

Wait a minute.

God established government?

Yes.

God is very structured.

I don't know if y'all know this or not, but God is very structured.

He loves structure, he loves strategy.

So Hebrew, not Hebrews, Romans, 13 and one.

Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities.

But there is no authority except that which God has established.

The authorities that exist have been established by God.

So obey them that have rule over you.

I got to obey the laws of the land.

It is a sad testimony where you have a Christian breaking law.

It is a sad situation where you have a Christian breaking law.

I can't say, well, I'm obeying God.

If I can't listen to the law.

The law says don't speed.

I'm just using this one as a, as a, as a light example.

If the law says don't speed, the speed limit, 60 miles an hour, and then you going 80 miles an hour, how do you pray?

Lord, please don't.

Let me just, just make sure I don't get caught by the cops.

Lord, no, you're breaking the law.

The law is 60 miles an hour.

If you're speeding, 80, you are subject to penalty.

And let's just say you don't get caught.

Well, that, that wasn't the Lord keeping you.

That wasn't the Lord keeping you.

You broke the.

You just happened to get away with it.

But if you get caught up, you can't blame the Lord for that either, because he's telling you, obey them that have rule over you.

Let everyone be subject to governing authorities.

Going back to the home, why would you go against the head of the house?

You don't want your kids to go against you, so why would you go against, you know, the head of the house?

You understand?

We have to get to a place where we can obey the law.

We have to get to a place where we can submit to those in authority, obey them that have rule over us.

Hallelujah.

How in the world are you going to obey people?

How are you going to disobey people that you can see and then obey a God you can't see?

I have never met somebody who can truly say they have the ability to obey someone they can't see and can't obey the people they see.

It ain't gonna happen.

It ain't gonna happen.

Now, of course, we all know that God's rule is first, that he, his, his word is the final say.

We understand that.

And so if it were to be that you know, someone, that someone in leadership position told you to do something that goes against the Bible, okay, or God's word, now, we got an issue.

If you can show it to me in God's word, that they're not doing what God told you, they're not doing what God told them to do, or they're going against God's word.

Then we have a problem.

Other than that, you have to submit.

You can't get in your feelings.

Obedience is not about your feelings.

Oh, boy.

Let's go to first Samuel chapter 15.

1st Samuel, chapter 15.

I'm going to prove this out.

Hallelujah.

First Samuel 15, looking at 17 through 22.

Samuel said, although you were once small in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel?

The lord anointed you king over Israel, and he sent you on a mission saying, go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites.

Okay, so now let me give you the backstory.

So here it is.

Samuel has told Saul what the Lord has said.

The Lord has said, destroy the amalekites, not defeat them.

Destroy them.

I want you to destroy them.

I want you to kill everything.

Burn everything.

Kill the men, the women, the children.

Burn the cattle.

Destroy.

Completely destroy them.

And so here it is.

We're going to find out Saul didn't do that.

So let's pick it up in 18.

Well, let's go straight right back to 17.

Samuel said, although you were once small in your own eyes, he's talking to Saul.

Did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel?

The Lord anointed you king over Israel, and he sent you on a mission saying, go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites.

Wage war against them until you have wiped them out.

Why did you not obey the Lord?

Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord?

But I did obey the Lord.

Saul said, I went on the mission the Lord assigned me.

I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag, their king.

So there we see.

He didn't obey the soldiers, took sheep and cattle from the plunder.

He didn't obey the best of what was devoted to God in order to sacrifice them to the Lord, your God at Gilgal.

But Samuel replied, does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord?

To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

Did you see that?

So the Lord told them to destroy everybody and everything.

And Saul's answer is, I did that, but I just kept the king alive.

And I kept the best of everything so I could sacrifice it to God.

We kept the plunder, but we kept the best of the cattle, too, so I could make a sacrifice to God.

And so Samuel is saying, but that's not what he told you to do.

He said, obedience to obeydehen is better than sacrifice.

And to heed is better than the fat of the rams.

God don't want no sacrifice when you're not doing what he told you to do.

Which brings me to my point.

You cannot give enough to have the ability to ignore God's word.

God cannot be bought.

And sometimes I think we forget that.

We feel like, you know, if we.

We can do whatever we want to do.

But if we give a big enough offering in church or if we do something good, you know, after we've done all this sin, you know, it'll be all right.

No, God cannot be bought.

If you don't get anything else out of this message, get that God cannot be bought.

You can't give him enough money to make him forget about what he told you to do.

You can't give him enough money or do enough good things for him to overlook your disobedience.

Sin is sin.

He wants you to obey.

What does the Bible say in John 14 and 15?

He says, if you love me, keep my commands.

In other words, if you love me, if you really love me like you say you love me, do what I ask you to do.

But Saul didn't do that.

He figured he could.

He could give his way out of disobeying God.

And notice what he said.

He said, I did what the Lord said, but we know that he didn't.

I say this all the time.

This is something I say all the time.

A half truth is a whole lot.

Somebody ought to write that down.

A half truth is a whole lie.

There's no.

There's no way you can be halfway truthful.

No, if you're halfway truthful, halfway truthful, then you have just told a whole lot.

So half obedience is just full disobedience.

You didn't complete the mission.

You didn't do what I told you to do.

Hallelujah.

If you're taking notes, write this down.

I hope you listen to this.

Obedience magnifies your faith and exercises the plan of God for your life.

Let me say that again.

Obedience magnifies your faith and exercises the plan of God for your life.

What do I mean by that?

Obedience.

When you are obedient to God, it magnifies.

It shows how much you really trust God.

It shows how much you really trust God.

And it exercises the plan of God for your life.

You will never become what God has called you to be.

If you are not obedient, you can have that word over your life.

There are many of us that have a word over our lives, and unfortunately, some of us will never see it because we will not be obedient.

We have gifts.

We can be an anointed at times.

We can have moments in our lives where God can use us or God uses us, but we will never fully be what God has called us to be unless we are obedient.

Hebrews eleven and eight says, by faith, Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, obeyed, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.

That's that faith part.

That's that faith part.

I don't know the end result to this, but still, yet I'm going to be obedient to your word, God.

I don't know what you're trying to do in my life.

I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

But I heard your voice.

I read your word where you said, you know, do this and do that.

And I don't quite understand how that works, but you said it.

So therefore my faith in you, I just believe that you won't lead me wrong.

Therefore, I'm just going to follow your word.

I'm just going to do it.

We will get there at some point.

I trust you.

Abraham left everything he had, left his kinfolk, left his substance, or a lot of it, to follow God, not knowing where he's going.

And it is because he was faithful to God like that, that God called him a friend.

It is because he was faithful to God like that that he became known as the father of the faith.

It is, it is something where even other religions look at you as a man of faith.

Oh, God.

Jews and Muslims all agree Abraham was a man of faith.

He is the father of the faith.

We can argue about a lot of things, but there's not really a religion that, that says he was not a man of faith.

He is recognized as the father of the faith.

Why?

Because he just trusts God.

He just trusts God.

That was the faith and he exercised it.

Look at Joseph in Genesis 41.

When you read the account of Joseph interpreting a dream for Pharaoh, you know the story.

If you don't, it's in Genesis 41.

It was, it was a dream pharaoh had, and it, it made him distraught.

It, it bothered him.

And so here it is.

Joseph has interpreted the dream.

And basically what it was is the dream said he would have seven years of plenty of, and then seven years of scarcity.

And so Joseph gives him the plan.

We're talking about obedience.

Joseph gives him the plan, gives Pharaoh the plan.

In these seven years, you need to be mindful of what's coming ahead.

I want you to save this certain amount of grain so that when the seven years of scarcity or seven years of drought comes, you won't be destroyed.

He said, now.

And Joseph said, this is what I love about Joseph.

Joseph didn't say, well, I think I should head it up.

Joseph said, find someone who can execute the plan.

And pharaoh, being smart, being very smart in seeing what just transpired and how he heard from God, he said, well, who can I find better than you?

Who can I find?

Is there any man in Egypt with the wisdom that he has?

And so he appoints Joseph over the matter.

And sure enough, the seven years of plenty came.

Now we're talking about obedience.

It is easy for us to devalue the word of God when we are in plenty.

Oh, goodness.

Have you ever noticed that most people come to God when they're broke or most people come to God when they're distraught, they have a tendency to listen a little better and obey a little better when they need God to do something for them.

But Joseph and Pharaoh, who gave Joseph all the power that he needed, all the authorities that he needed, they followed the plan to a t in the years of plenty.

Now, we're not just talking normal years.

These were years of plenty.

When they had more than enough, it could have been easy for them to say, okay, I don't believe what, you know.

They talking about seven years drought.

I mean, look at all that we're doing.

Look, all of that we're bringing in.

But they stuck to the plan.

And because they stuck to the plan, they were not destroyed.

I want to ask you a question.

Has God ever told you something to do and because you didn't see a problem, you didn't value the word like you should have?

I've done it.

I've done it.

You hear God telling you something.

But because you don't have a need right now, because you're not in a critical situation, you devalue the word or you don't take it seriously, or sometimes we will allow the enemy to talk us out of that word, saying, look, you got plenty.

You got plenty.

The Lord didn't tell you that you got plenty.

You can do that stuff tomorrow.

And so because we don't do it when he told us to do it, now we're in a situation and we're begging God to get us up out of it, you got to always be careful to listen to the word of God.

Be mindful.

Always hear what he's saying.

God don't just talk to you when you're in trouble.

He talks to you so that you can avoid the trouble.

God is a God of strategy.

And if Genesis 41 don't tell you, I don't know what else will.

God is a God of strategy.

Yes, he'll make miracles, but he'll also give you strategy to where when the enemy does come, you won't even see it because you worked the strategy.

Oh, God.

Oh God.

Somebody ought to hear me on today.

And when you look at that story, Joseph and Pharaoh, you will find out the seven years of plenty came.

And then there was seven years of scarcity, just like the dream was interpreted.

And so when the seven years of scarcity or famine came, Egypt did not lose power.

As a matter of fact, Egypt gained power.

As a matter of fact, Egypt gained riches.

Why?

Because they worked the plan of God.

So what ended up happening?

Other countries had to come to Egypt because they had food and they didn't.

The people of Egypt had to sell their cattle to Pharaoh, to Egypt so that they could survive.

The people had to sell their land to Egypt, to Pharaoh so that they could survive.

And it is, in case you don't know, the only people that didn't have to sell their land were the priests in the country because they always got, they were always taken care of by pharaoh.

The other people that didn't have to sell anything was Joseph's father, which was Israel.

All his people didn't have to sell anything because they had favor with Joseph.

Won't God do it?

But I'm showing you something.

They had the seven years of plenty, then they had the seven years of famine or scarcity.

And while the world is going through a famine, Egypt is growing.

You know, I bought my house.

Not when I went, when there was, when society was booming.

I bought my house in the COVID years.

I bought it in the COVID years.

Now let me back up from that.

God had told me six months prior to, I believe six months prior.

I may be wrong in the, in the time, it might have been a little longer than that, but he told me prior to go get your house.

And so I just obeyed.

I started working towards the house and, and, you know, there were times where they told me no, but I just trusted the word of God.

And so when Covid hit, I already had the down payment for the house.

I had already picked out the house and I got the house at a very good price.

And not only that the interest rate that they gave me initially dropped a whole nother percentage because now we're in Covid.

So instead of getting it at a higher percentage, I got it at a lower percentage because the land was in a famine.

I hope somebody's getting out of getting something out of this.

And the importance of being obedient to God.

Hallelujah.

I want everybody to understand, do not start adhering to the word of God when you're in trouble or listening to what God tells you.

When you're in trouble, do it while there is no trouble, and I promise you, you'll avoid some things and you'll even prosper when everybody else is drowning.

Hallelujah.

Praise God.

I think I'm just gonna stop right there.

That sounds like a good place to stop.

There's some more I could talk about, but I'm gonna stop right there.

Listen, people of God, it is important now more than ever that we be obedient to God's word.

God's word is true.

God's word will bring you out of situations, keep you out of situations, but you got to be obedient.

What good is instructions if you don't read them, huh?

What good are instructions or rules if you don't obey them?

What does the Bible say?

It says, meditate on the word day and night, night and day, and you will be prosperous.

He said, I need you to know my word.

I need you to not only know it, but obey my word.

Faith without works is dead.

Being alone, I can't just know it.

I just can't believe it in my heart.

I got to put action behind it.

And so, for many of us, it's not that God hasn't told us anything.

It's not that he's not speaking to us.

We have just failed to be obedient to his word.

Be obedient to his word and watch God bring you out of situations.

Be obedient to his word and see how you begin to prosper in life.

And you know, I would be lying if I said the enemy wouldn't try to come in and make you think that's a lie.

Because the Bible says the enemy comes immediately to steal, kill, and destroy.

He don't want you to believe the word of God.

He don't want you to stand on the word.

He don't want you to, to have that faith.

But if you be obedient.

And what did we say?

Obedience does.

Obedience magnifies your faith and exercises the plan of God for your life.

If you be obedient, you're gonna really see what God has for you.

Be obedient, okay?

I love you.

I hope you got something out of the message on today.

I see you next time.