what is love — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:16um I'll invite Pastor Paul badik to come
3. 0:20and Sh the word
4. 0:23of Hallelujah praise the
5. 0:27Lord just pray let's let's just pray
6. 0:32um shares Hallelujah yeah heavenly
7. 0:35father thank you for your servant Paul
8. 0:37Hallelujah um and I say servant Paul
9. 0:40because um uh I've seen the servant Hood
10. 0:44uh Ness upon his life Lord and you bless
11. 0:47such character because uh he's a man
12. 0:49after your heart he sees the needs of
13. 0:51others and he serves and he serves and
14. 0:53he seres so just um bless Paul Lord with
15. 0:56your uh anointing to bring the word that
16. 0:58you laid on his heart in Jesus name am
17. 1:01am amen
18. 1:17hallelujah thank you for
19. 1:21that thank you for that good um just um
20. 1:27than that I just open up myself and um
21. 1:30just my seron Lord I just come to you
22. 1:33now Lord as just as your humble servant
23. 1:36like everybody has in this house at this
24. 1:38moment
25. 1:39Lord Lord I just thank you Lord for
26. 1:42giving me the
27. 1:43opportunity to spread your word to
28. 1:46spread the seed that you've given me
29. 1:48today um and to give it out to the
30. 1:52people Lord because that's what we're
31. 1:53meant to do we're meant to share what
32. 1:55you show us Lord I just pray that
33. 1:57everything I say is of you but where and
34. 2:01it takes rot and it grows when everybody
35. 2:04that hears it but
36. 2:05where there's anything of me there Lord
37. 2:08let just wither away and die let just
38. 2:10wither away and die Lord and
39. 2:13and I just honor you for everything you
40. 2:15do in Jesus
41. 2:17name Hallelujah so um what I'm going to
42. 2:20be Ping On is love love amen last week
43. 2:27um was Trump's inauguration
44. 2:30and uh one of the things he did is he
45. 2:33went after the inauguration and he went
46. 2:37and he he got paid for yeah um it's the
47. 2:40thing that they do in America um they go
48. 2:44they get paid for
49. 2:46um
50. 2:48and the person that led the prir over
51. 2:51there was a woman a woman Bishop uh she
52. 2:55brought she brought from the Episcopal
53. 2:57Church um because that basically that's
54. 3:01that's the church in America that's what
55. 3:03you hear most of the people from um she
56. 3:06did she delivered a seron to president
57. 3:10Trump uh she spoke about love and the
58. 3:13need for the president to show Mercy to
59. 3:16the LGBT plus Community the transgender
60. 3:20children and so forth
61. 3:23yeah this bishop that spoke belongs to
62. 3:27the same denomination that the Bishop
63. 3:30Michael Curry belonged to he was the one
64. 3:34that oversaw the ceremony for Prince
65. 3:37Harry and Megan and within that service
66. 3:41we had um a sermon of
67. 3:46Love even quoted the words of Martin
68. 3:49Luther King
69. 3:50Jr during this seron he reminded us
70. 3:54there's power in
71. 3:57love we hear so much about love
72. 4:02from the world and from the church as
73. 4:06soon as somebody wants something to be
74. 4:08done the first thing to do is go to the
75. 4:11word
76. 4:12love if you love me yeah you wouldn't
77. 4:15say
78. 4:17that you wouldn't do that if you loved
79. 4:20me and do this because I love you this
80. 4:24is what you hear all the time love love
81. 4:27love
82. 4:30but unless we truly understand what love
83. 4:33is then these words are meaningless
84. 4:36that's because they do not have any
85. 4:39clear
86. 4:40boundaries they don't have any
87. 4:43depth until we place the word love in
88. 4:47the correct
89. 4:50context when we looking at this
90. 4:54um this word that I'm I'm I'm bringing
91. 4:57today one of the things I looked it is
92. 4:59book if anybody wants to read it it's by
93. 5:02CS Lewis and it's called The Fall loves
94. 5:07am um I am nowhere in composor to CS
95. 5:12Lewis um but I would just like to cover
96. 5:19some things here
97. 5:21yeah
98. 5:23so the love that he the love that he
99. 5:26speaks about is the US filia starge and
100. 5:33Agape once we begin to understand that
101. 5:37not all love is
102. 5:41equal then we can better understand how
103. 5:44to follow Jesus
104. 5:46Commandments in Matthew
105. 5:4922:37 to Jesus said to him you shall
106. 5:53love the Lord your God with all your
107. 5:56heart with all your soul and with all
108. 5:59your mind
109. 6:00this is the first and the great
110. 6:02commandment and the second is like it
111. 6:05you shall love your neighbor as yourself
112. 6:09on these two
113. 6:11Commandments and all the law and the
114. 6:16prophets so let's break this look down
115. 6:19into the four sides so we can best
116. 6:22understand what Jesus is actually saying
117. 6:25in
118. 6:27Matthew so there's Els
119. 6:30this is the love of physical attraction
120. 6:34to
121. 6:35another it is what draws us to our
122. 6:38partner it is a pleasure based and I
123. 6:42think it
124. 6:43shall it is based on
125. 6:46looks and it can be dangerous because it
126. 6:49is driven by a Bas function to possess
127. 6:53someone but if understood and kept in
128. 6:58Balance by Inova type of love affilia
129. 7:01can grow to be one of the most
130. 7:03productive loves in one's
131. 7:06life I doubt that any marriage will last
132. 7:11if it is only based on Earth it will
133. 7:14last
134. 7:17until looks and such start to pass
135. 7:21away
136. 7:22yeah then we have
137. 7:25filia this is a love based on respect
138. 7:29equality familiarity and understanding
139. 7:33it's what we have with one another
140. 7:35through shared experience and knowledge
141. 7:39of one another it is not physical but
142. 7:42rather intellectual and
143. 7:44emotional this is the love that the
144. 7:46apostles act another and we have with
145. 7:49our
146. 7:50friends it can move to Encompass IR us
147. 7:54and form a deep loving relationship that
148. 7:56makes ideal partners of life
149. 8:00me and Janet and that's it me and Janet
150. 8:03before we met both very good friends and
151. 8:06you Janet when she was just a
152. 8:08little 6 16
153. 8:13not you're still little and I remember
154. 8:16well and I knew her then and I got to
155. 8:19know her then I and I and we we got to
156. 8:21be friends
157. 8:23yeah and it was 10 years eight years
158. 8:27later eight years later when that
159. 8:30Rance when that us started being a part
160. 8:33of that yeah and this is how it works it
161. 8:37works together with one another and
162. 8:39that's why I
163. 8:41say them are the two in our kep us going
164. 8:46better then the
165. 8:48storge this is love this love is the
166. 8:52most natural Love of All and it's
167. 8:54something that is there that doesn't
168. 8:57need anything other than to be
169. 9:00this is the love that we have for our
170. 9:03parents children family close relations
171. 9:07Etc it is the love that is felt just to
172. 9:11be there it doesn't need to be earned
173. 9:15and it's difficult to reject and walk
174. 9:17away
175. 9:19from and this can be the most hurtful
176. 9:23because it is taken for granted and can
177. 9:25be abused
178. 9:29we've got a gap
179. 9:31in this is the unconditional love that
180. 9:35is often called
181. 9:36charity because it is freely given
182. 9:39without any expectations of
183. 9:42reward this is the I form of love and
184. 9:45very difficult to work because it is
185. 9:48selfless and doesn't seek anything other
186. 9:51than to bless another it is the love a
187. 9:55mother shows to her child who expects
188. 9:57nothing over to exist this is the love
189. 10:00that Christ showed at the cross yes to
190. 10:03both his father and to
191. 10:06us that is to he laid down his life
192. 10:10because it was
193. 10:19needed I
194. 10:21believe that to fill the two
195. 10:24Commandments that Jesus G
196. 10:26give to Christians falls into this type
197. 10:29of the gap of Love That is what he's
198. 10:31talking about that that is the gap of
199. 10:32love that he's talking about and can
200. 10:34they only be done with the help of the
201. 10:37spirit I don't believe that a gap can be
202. 10:41in in the world yeah because it it's so
203. 10:45selfless we cannot achieve that it's
204. 10:48only through the spirit that we achieve
205. 10:50that type of
206. 10:52love
207. 10:54so now I offer up another type of love
208. 11:00that the Lord tries to that the world
209. 11:03tries to pass off as
210. 11:05that yeah it's self
211. 11:09love so I looked up what self love mean
212. 11:13the M Webster dictionary sums this up a
213. 11:16an appreciation of One's Own worth all
214. 11:21virtue B proper regard for and attention
215. 11:26to one's all happiness or wellbeing
216. 11:30see inflated love or pride of
217. 11:35oneself narcism and
218. 11:39conceit that's what they that's what
219. 11:41self love is it said in there I looked
220. 11:43at
221. 11:45Wikipedia take a Wikipedia by itself
222. 11:47there some good bits in there so self
223. 11:50love defined as love of self or regard
224. 11:54for one's own happiness or
225. 11:56Advantage as been conceptual
226. 11:59conceptualized as both as a basic human
227. 12:02necessity and as a moral flaw akin to
228. 12:05vanity and
229. 12:08selfishness synonymous with aror proper
230. 12:11and conceit egotism narcism
231. 12:14Etc however throughout the 20th and 21st
232. 12:18century self love has adopted a more
233. 12:21positive connotation through Pride
234. 12:24parades
235. 12:26self-respect move the self resect
236. 12:28movement protests the I era and the
237. 12:32modern feminist
238. 12:36movement so this is why we must take
239. 12:39notice of which type of Love Are we and
240. 12:43others actually working in
241. 12:48yeah so given what I have said explained
242. 12:51about love let's look at some key key
243. 12:54Bible
244. 12:56verses so in John John
245. 13:00428 dear friends let us love one another
246. 13:04for love comes from God everyone who
247. 13:07loves has been born of God and knows
248. 13:10God in John 1512
249. 13:13to13 my command is
250. 13:16this love each other as I have loved you
251. 13:20greater love has no more than this to
252. 13:23lay down one's life for one's
253. 13:27friends in one Peter
254. 13:2948 above all love each other deeply
255. 13:33because love covers a multitude of sins
256. 13:36amen amen 1 Corinthians
257. 13:4016:14 do everything in love Colossians
258. 13:453:4 above all be loving this ties
259. 13:50everything together
260. 13:54perfectly Ephesians 4 2:3 be completely
261. 13:58under
262. 13:59and gentle be patient bear one
263. 14:04about in love make every effort to keep
264. 14:07the unity of spirit for the bond of
265. 14:14Peace so I don't see a lot of that self
266. 14:18love in them in them in them Serv there
267. 14:21in them um verses there but you may be
268. 14:26thinking surely that I say we should
269. 14:29love our
270. 14:32ourselves and the answer is yes it does
271. 14:35however it does not love the wants of
272. 14:39our flesh that's right yes but rather
273. 14:42the wants of our
274. 14:46spling we need to find out who we are in
275. 14:49God and what he wants for us and then to
276. 14:53seek to become that
277. 14:55person the person that he made us to be
278. 15:02we shouldn't condemn ourselves when we
279. 15:04fail in what we know we should be doing
280. 15:07but we should try to do better with
281. 15:09assur us that God loves
282. 15:13us in one John
283. 15:1746-8 and so we know and rely on the love
284. 15:20of God as follows God is love whoever
285. 15:24lives in love lives in God and God in
286. 15:27them this is is our made complete among
287. 15:31us so that we will have confidence of
288. 15:33the day of judgment in this world we are
289. 15:36like Jesus there is no fear in love but
290. 15:39perfect love drives out fear because
291. 15:42fear has to do with punishment the one
292. 15:45in fear is not made perfect in
293. 15:48love John
294. 15:50159-10 as the father as loved me so have
295. 15:54I Loved You Now remain in my love if you
296. 15:58keep my commands you will remain in my
297. 16:01love just as I have kept my father's
298. 16:04command and remain in his love thank you
299. 16:08Lord so I mentioned earlier about the
300. 16:11Episcopal Church Bishops and their
301. 16:13sermons on love and how it should be
302. 16:15delivered both these individuals are and
303. 16:18were prayers by the world Med
304. 16:21media yeah they chased
305. 16:23them chasing after them to get them on
306. 16:26their programs yeah they were queing up
307. 16:29to get them on there and they were run
308. 16:31to it as well yeah she was on everything
309. 16:34Bishop Bishop good was on everything and
310. 16:37crying now going oh yeah yeah right
311. 16:40please clap your hands speaking out
312. 16:43right that's what we're saying against
313. 16:45the bigots and the eight wish to Ru
314. 16:48people's life choices and Lifestyles
315. 16:51that's what I was saying yeah yeah I'm
316. 16:53pleasing of
317. 16:55that so let's have a look at some of the
318. 16:57lifestyles
319. 17:00that they was talking
320. 17:01about to all the LGBT plus
321. 17:05Community the Bible stats in 1 Peter 4
322. 17:103-4 for the time that is passed suffices
323. 17:13for doing what the Gentiles want you to
324. 17:15do living his sensuality passions
325. 17:19drunkenness ores drinking pies and
326. 17:21Lawless idolatry with respect as this
327. 17:25they are surprised they're surprised
328. 17:28when you do join them in the same flood
329. 17:31of debure and they Mig
330. 17:35you Pride mares that PR these things on
331. 17:38the street of the world well you've seen
332. 17:41one there with everything being fled
333. 17:44every action being
334. 17:46stimulated yeah um with a in your face
335. 17:51God kind of behavior
336. 17:54yeah on and on there you will see many
337. 17:58people on the church many churches
338. 18:00joining in with that they do
339. 18:04yeah that's because they've got the same
340. 18:07attitude as these s called people of God
341. 18:11these
342. 18:13Bishops this is exactly what the Church
343. 18:16of pergam was called out
344. 18:21for so we look
345. 18:24at Psalms 139
346. 18:2713-6 for you for my inward paths United
347. 18:31me together in my R's room thank you
348. 18:33Lord I praise you for I am fa and
349. 18:36wonder wonderful are your words my soul
350. 18:40soul knows it very well my fame was not
351. 18:43hidden from you when I was being made in
352. 18:46secret inally woven in the deps of the
353. 18:49earth your eyes saw my uniform sub
354. 18:51unformed substance in your book were
355. 18:54written every one of them the days that
356. 18:57were f for for me when as yet there was
357. 19:01none of
358. 19:02them Jeremiah 1: 15 before I follow you
359. 19:06in the womb I knew you and before you
360. 19:09were born I consecrated you I appointed
361. 19:12you a prophet to the nation Hallelujah
362. 19:15Exodus
363. 19:1723 you shall not
364. 19:22Le we have laws set in
365. 19:25place to stop Christians praying in
366. 19:28their own to to their father God outside
367. 19:32these
368. 19:33centers that are legalized places of
369. 19:37murder of innocent children this is
370. 19:40where we
371. 19:42at
372. 19:46transgender I would again quote Psalm
373. 19:48139 combined with Genesis 127 saying God
374. 19:53made them male and female hallelujah
375. 19:57amen amen
376. 19:59there is laws now to stop and and coming
377. 20:02in here and they being pushed across the
378. 20:04world to stop Christians offering prayer
379. 20:06and guidance on how to live as the
380. 20:09people were born to
381. 20:14be this is
382. 20:15what this so-called Bishop was calling
383. 20:19Donald Trump out for because he's
384. 20:23stopping
385. 20:24abortion he's stopping transgender stuff
386. 20:26going on he's about LGBT and the way
387. 20:30it's going on the condition and the
388. 20:32church soall
389. 20:34church I W say the bride he's calling
390. 20:38him for doing that and say your mercy
391. 20:40these scriptures that I'm reading are
392. 20:43not aligned with them amen they with TR
393. 20:46theyed with
394. 20:50Trum I know reaching Bible there for all
395. 20:53these things of the
396. 20:54world Proverbs 616 to 19
397. 20:59there are six things that the Lord hates
398. 21:02seven that are an Abomination to him 4y
399. 21:05eyes line tongue and hands that shed
400. 21:09innocent blood a heart that devises
401. 21:12Wicked plans feet that make a to run to
402. 21:17evil the false witness who breathes out
403. 21:20lies and one who shows dis
404. 21:24and we can see that the way the world
405. 21:27takes on the message from the people's
406. 21:29fed selflove a message that both these
407. 21:33Episcopal Bishops and their like do and
408. 21:36we have to question why is
409. 21:39this why does the world like that what
410. 21:42they're saying
411. 21:45yeah because Jesus
412. 21:48said their behavior towards the word
413. 21:51will be very
414. 21:54different in John 1518 to2 he says
415. 21:59if the world hates you you know that it
416. 22:02hated me before it hated
417. 22:04you if you were of the world the world
418. 22:07would love its own yeah yet because you
419. 22:10are not of the world but I Choose You
420. 22:12Out Of The World therefore the world
421. 22:15hates you Hallelujah remember the word
422. 22:18that I S to you a servant is not greater
423. 22:20than his master if they persecuted me
424. 22:24they will also persecute you if they
425. 22:26kept my word they will keep keep yours
426. 22:29also but all these things they will do
427. 22:32to you for my name's sake because they
428. 22:36do not know who him who sent me if I had
429. 22:39not come and spoken to them they would
430. 22:41have no sin but now they have no excuse
431. 22:44for their sin he who hates me hates my
432. 22:48father also if I had not done among them
433. 22:51The Works which no one else did they
434. 22:54would have no sin but now they have sin
435. 22:57and also
436. 22:58both me and my father but this is
437. 23:02happened that the word might be F
438. 23:04fulfilled which is written in the law
439. 23:06they ha me
440. 23:07without
441. 23:10Hallelujah so I would say the reason
442. 23:14that the world accept this type of self
443. 23:16message love message is so they can act
444. 23:19in the way they want and justify
445. 23:22themselves by of their words it's an a
446. 23:25problem the rejection of God
447. 23:29and a wish to make God in their own
448. 23:31image
449. 23:33yes so that is how the world reacts to
450. 23:36God's love unless the spirit is upon
451. 23:39them so how do we counter the argument
452. 23:43man's love versus God's
453. 23:46love first of all we must understand
454. 23:49that the primary reason we are let in
455. 23:52this world is because we are needed to
456. 23:56show the unserved the love God has for
457. 24:00them and to bring them to
458. 24:03Salvation so how do we do it in Matthew
459. 24:075 it says you are the light of the world
460. 24:11the city that is set on a hill cannot be
461. 24:14hidden nor do they light a lamp and put
462. 24:16it under a basket but on a lampstand and
463. 24:20it gives light to all who are in the
464. 24:22house let your light so shine before men
465. 24:27that they may see your good works and
466. 24:29glorify your father in Heaven
467. 24:33amen so what is this light is spoken
468. 24:36about we all show your show your life so
469. 24:39what is it well in 1 John 47:21 he says
470. 24:45beloved let us love one
471. 24:48another for love is from God and whoever
472. 24:52loves as been born of God and knows God
473. 24:57anyone who does not love does not know
474. 25:00God because God is love in this the love
475. 25:04of God was made manifest Among Us that
476. 25:08God sent his only son into the world so
477. 25:12that might we might live through him in
478. 25:15this love not that we have loved God but
479. 25:19that he loved us and sent his son to be
480. 25:23the prop prop petition for our sins
481. 25:26beloved if God so do we ought to love
482. 25:30one
483. 25:31another no one has ever seen God if we
484. 25:35love one another God abides in us and
485. 25:38his love is perfected in
486. 25:41Us by this we know that we abide in him
487. 25:45and he in US be because he has given us
488. 25:48of the spirit and we have seen and
489. 25:51testified that father has sent his son
490. 25:54to be savior of the world whoever
491. 25:56confesses that Jesus is the son of God
492. 25:59abides in him and he in God so we have
493. 26:02come to know and to believe that love
494. 26:05that God has for us God is love and
495. 26:08whoever abides in
496. 26:10love abides in God and God abides in him
497. 26:13by this love perfected with us so that
498. 26:16we may have confidence on the day of
499. 26:17judgment because as he is so also are we
500. 26:22in this world therefore is no fear in
501. 26:26love but perfect love C out fear but
502. 26:29fear has to do with punishment whe fears
503. 26:32has not been perfected in love we love
504. 26:35because we he first love does if anyone
505. 26:37says I love God and hates his brother he
506. 26:40is a liar for he who does not love his
507. 26:42brother whom he has seen cannot love God
508. 26:45whom he has not seen and this
509. 26:47commandment we have from him but L God
510. 26:50must also love his
511. 26:54brother so that's love that that's the
512. 26:57light that we we have shine out to the
513. 26:59world yeah not as the world shines forth
514. 27:03that light of self love loving
515. 27:08oneself God said the light of this world
516. 27:10is the love that we show for each other
517. 27:13under
518. 27:15in Jesus Jo what to was by dying on the
519. 27:20cross in John 15 12 13 my command is
520. 27:24this love each other as I have loved you
521. 27:28greater love has no one than this to lay
522. 27:31down on our life for one friend he's
523. 27:34telling us that's the extent we got to
524. 27:36love one another yeah we've got to love
525. 27:39one another and then verses that I give
526. 27:41explain the love that he's talking
527. 27:44about yeah we love one another because
528. 27:47he loved us not because of who they
529. 27:50are not because of what they're doing
530. 27:53but because of who Jesus is yeah we're
531. 27:56not a self love we're not this worldly
532. 27:59love yeah this worldly love is very easy
533. 28:01to obtain because it's easy to love
534. 28:04yourself we've all met people do we did
535. 28:07that ourselves before Christ got all of
536. 28:09us most of
537. 28:10us but we must love as Christ loved we
538. 28:14must lay down that
539. 28:16L this is how we should Shine the Light
540. 28:19by laying down the line self love and
541. 28:21take up a new life that love that we're
542. 28:24supposed to take up is called a gap in
543. 28:26love and that love can only be attained
544. 28:30through Christ through the spirit
545. 28:34yeah that's why we should forgive that's
546. 28:36why we should do all we shouldn't take
547. 28:39these
548. 28:42um issues with other people that we
549. 28:44don't agree with that say something we
550. 28:46we don't like
551. 28:48yeah a gy love doesn't last for a reward
552. 28:53we don't look when we give that love out
553. 28:55to be rewarded for that yeah we do it
554. 28:59because we do it because it's
555. 29:01selfless it's a charity it's in the same
556. 29:04way Christ lay down his life yeah he
557. 29:07laid it down for any single one of them
558. 29:09people that is going to go to hell yeah
559. 29:12there will be people going to hell he
560. 29:14laid his life down for Jesus yeah even
561. 29:18though he knew what was going to happen
562. 29:20even though he knew that person was
563. 29:21going to reject him because he wasn't it
564. 29:24wasn't the reward he was looking for was
565. 29:25doing it because it had to be done cuz
566. 29:27that what love is
567. 29:29it's not this love that you hear the
568. 29:31world preach it's not this love that
569. 29:34then you hear from these Episcopal
570. 29:37Bishops you know who when they spad that
571. 29:42their profile gos are their running M
572. 29:45everywhere not one word CH priest was
573. 29:48about Jesus she never mentioned Jesus
574. 29:51yeah because Jesus was involved in that
575. 29:54in my
576. 29:55opinion was not involved in that was all
577. 29:58her about how she feels and her morality
578. 30:02yeah we don't live on our morality we
579. 30:04live on God's morality and Trump to be
580. 30:07fair handled that very well he show long
581. 30:11love in that and he responded to
582. 30:13her yeah he could have just called her
583. 30:16there and then he could have G up and
584. 30:17walked away yeah but he showed a
585. 30:21love yeah he sat there and he took
586. 30:24that
587. 30:26yeah when no need she abused that
588. 30:30position yeah she abused that position
589. 30:32and most people that have got the self
590. 30:35Lov are continually abusing their
591. 30:39position just finish off and I just
592. 30:41finish off with this when
593. 30:43cians 1 thought away he says love is
594. 30:47patient love is kind it does not EMP it
595. 30:52does not blost it is not pound it does
596. 30:55not
597. 30:56dis is not self-seeking it is not evened
598. 31:01it keeps no record of those love does
599. 31:04not Delight in evil but rejo it with the
600. 31:07truth it always protects always trusts
601. 31:10always OBS Always perseveres Love Never
602. 31:15Fails Hallelujah but where there our
603. 31:18prophecies they will cease and where
604. 31:20they our tongues they will be still
605. 31:23where there is knowledge it will pass
606. 31:25away
607. 31:28enjs love enjs and enjs because it's
608. 31:34God God is eternal and love is eternal
609. 31:39so when you hear and you see this sort
610. 31:44of um attack that we're not being loving
611. 31:48just remember this message I give today
612. 31:51we don't want their love we don't want
613. 31:53our self love we're here to be to be the
614. 31:57shine a life shine of love as a
615. 32:01representative of
616. 32:03Christ amen okay thank
617. 32:09[Applause]