And let's begin reading together at verse 20. I'll read to verse 28 and we'll get into our study. Hebrews chapter seven beginning at verse 20, reading to the conclusion of the chapter. The writer writes, and as much as he was not made priest without an oath, for they have become priests without an oath, but he with an oath by him who said to him, the Lord has sworn and will not relent, you are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek. By so much more, Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. And there were many priests because they were prevented by death from continuing, but he because he continues forever has an unchangeable priesthood. And therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost, those who come to God through him, since he ever lives to make intercession for them. For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens, who does not need daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifices first for his own sins and then for the peoples. For this he did once for all when he offered up himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints the son who has been perfected forever. Now the writer here is continuing a thought that he had earlier begun. And he had spoken of the fact that there is a bringing in of a better hope through which we draw near to God. He had just made that statement. And so the point he's making is we have a better hope through Jesus Christ. And the reason we have a better hope through Jesus is because he's superior. He's superior or better than any human priest. He is what he's been referring to in this section. He is our high priest. And that means that we simply draw near to God through him. Now as he's looking at this passage, we need to remember that God never said that in the Aaronic or Levitical priesthood that that priesthood would be permanent. Nowhere is it found in the Old Testament that God ever said that that priesthood is permanent. But because it was ancient, undoubtedly many of the Jews considered it to be permanent or assumed it to be because it was so old. Now as understandable as that is, it has no basis in scripture. And therefore they had no legitimacy for believing that. He makes it very clear that in the ministry of Jesus Christ, there is a priesthood that was established with an oath. But in the priesthood of the Levites, there was no oath. God did not make a promise or an oath when he established that priesthood. When the priests were consecrated to his service, you don't see any indication in the Old Testament that God ever makes an oath concerning that. We're gonna look at this in detail in just a moment. But you see no oath made by God when he established the priesthood. Now you do see God having the priests anointed and consecrated, you see that in the Old Testament, Book of Exodus. If you take notes, it's found in Exodus chapter 28 verses 40 and 41. In that section it says Aaron's sons. For Aaron's sons, you shall make tunics and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make hats for them for glory and beauty. So you shall put them on Aaron, your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them and sanctify them that they may minister to me as priests. So you make the hats and you make the garments. And the garments that they made, and I hadn't done, I wasn't gonna share on this, but it just hit me, I think I will. He had said you shall make hats for them for glory and beauty. When you read the description of the garments of the priests, especially when you look at the description of the high priest, the garments that he wore were brilliant white and absolutely beautiful in every way. And he had a breast plate with 12 gems on them, which represented the 12 tribes of Israel. And as they put the garments on the priest and they put the sash, the tunic they put on the hat and all of the garments that he had as he was standing there, as he has been now clothed with these garments so that he might go out and minister unto the Lord and before the people. They would next take oil and they would drench him with the oil. You know, when you get a picture of the anointing, sometimes you may be thinking that they took their thumb perhaps and simply did some small markings on him. Basically what they did is they drenched him from head to toe and so all of these glorious garments were now consecrated or anointed because there was nothing to take away. There was to be nothing to take away from the glory and the beauty of the Lord even though they were wearing beautiful garments. The garments were now soaked with oil so that they were a picture of man's frailty being consecrated and God's oil being that consecrating element. In other words, today you are consecrated by the Holy Spirit, drenched by the Spirit of God so that any beauty that you might have takes the second place to the anointing of the Spirit of God. And so when the high priest was anointed and his sons were anointed with this oil, it was a symbol of the consecration. It was a symbol of them being set apart in order that they might minister unto the Lord. Now, he anointed them, he had them anointed by oil but he never made an oath that their priesthood would be permanent. When it came to Jesus though, God swore an oath that his priesthood was permanent. You see that in verse 21 when it says they have become priests without an oath but he with an oath by him who said to him the Lord has sworn and will not relent you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. And so the Aaronic priesthood, the priest in the Old Testament who came from the lineage of Aaron, the brother of Moses did not receive an oath from God where God said to them your priesthood is permanent. But on the other hand, Jesus Christ, his priesthood has an oath, God has sworn an oath that his priesthood is forever. That's what he's saying here in verse 21 when he says you are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. And so God made an oath. That word oath is a solemn formal declaration or promise to fulfill a pledge. So God established the priesthood of Christ with an oath in order that he might ensure its constant validity. Interestingly enough, as you look at verse 21, you'll notice that this is a scripture you've seen quoted more than once in the book of Hebrews. In verse 17, he had quoted the same scripture. As a matter of fact, he quotes this particular Psalm, it's Psalm 110 verse four, some four times in this letter. And so what he's saying is God's oath provides additional confirmation to man. He does not need to do so, but he chooses to in order to show that Jesus' priesthood is permanent. So notice he says in verse 21, the Lord has sworn and will not relent. That word relent means he won't change his mind. He's made an eternal decision about Jesus' priesthood and that decision is that is forever. And so the oath demonstrates Jesus' superiority over Aaron. Aaron's priesthood is temporary, Jesus is permanent. He goes on in verse 22 to say, by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant. Now when he says he's become a surety of a better covenant, that word better means that which is useful or advantageous. Those who look to Jesus find in him a guarantee that all of God's promises are met in him. And God's promises are better because they're unconditional and unconditional grace has been made in terms of promises that's been made to us so we can receive from Christ his unconditional grace and therefore his grace is permanent towards us. Moses was given orders by God to give commands to the nation of Israel. And when God was speaking to Moses, Moses brought promises to the children of Israel but the promises that he gave to the children of Israel as you study the Old Testament were what are called conditional promises. If you do this, then I will do this is how it goes in the Old Testament. If you keep my law, I will bless you. It's a conditional promise. You see it in Exodus in chapter 19 verses five and six where God says, if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all the nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites. In Deuteronomy 28, one he said, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God to observe carefully all his commandments which I command you today that the Lord your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth then God says, I'll continue to minister into you. So if you do these things, then I will do that. Now under the new covenant, God now says that he's gonna fulfill the law's requirements for us. In the Old Testament, he says, do this and you shall live. In the New Testament, God says, you can't do that. Therefore, I will do it on your behalf and as a result of that, you shall receive grace promises from me. Paul points out that the law had a variety of reasons. When God gave the law to the nation of Israel it was to establish them in a relationship with him. And it had a variety of reasons and you can see numerous reasons why in the Old Testament. But when Paul was speaking concerning the law in the New Testament, there were other reasons that God gave the law. There's actually two reasons that I'll give to you very briefly. One reason was to awaken in us a reality of our need for salvation because we began to discover what was right and what was wrong by what God said is right and wrong. We have within us, in other words, an impulse towards sin, a basic instinct, if you will, towards doing that which is wrong. But we can do those things that we know are wrong or rather we can do those things without knowing they're wrong, we simply do them because they're natural for us to do. And so a child, for example, a child may steal something. We know that it's stealing because they're taking from somebody. But if you speak to the child and they're four or five years old and by that time probably have some sense of this isn't really a proper thing to do. But if you speak to them and you say, why did you take that, they'll look at you and it's like you're foolish. I mean, why did I take that? Because I wanted that. I mean, why are you asking me that? I can still remember my son, David, who was probably about three years old at the time. And he had those little pajamas with feet.  And we took him to a friend of mine's house to play with his son who was the same age. And we were there visiting and having coffee. It was one evening.  And as I was bringing David in, I remember noticing that one of his legs, one of the pant legs of the pajama legs was hanging a lot lower than the other one. And I thought, how interesting is this? And so I brought him in and I laid him down on his bed and when I laid him down on the bed, you know, he had one real long leg there. So I reached over and I started grabbing the little foot there and I felt something there. And so I ensnapped his pajamas and I shook them out and there were these little matchbox cars. And I knew that they weren't his, you know, they were his friend Adams. He had stolen these matchbox cars and I felt terrible. I really did. I said, oh my, my son is a thief. Now he was only three years old, you know, and I'm making a big deal out of it in my own mind because his mother was a thief and I was afraid. No, she stole my heart. But as I saw that, I thought, oh no, I've got a stealing son, you know. And so I called up Debbie, the mother of Adam and I called Debbie and I said, Debbie, I am so sorry. I said, my son, David stole some of Adams' cars and she starts to laugh and she says, don't care about it. Don't worry at all. She says, I've got several of David's cars over here. Adams had been stealing from David all along. They'd been stealing from one another. It's just natural for them to take what is not theirs simply because they want that. As they grow older though, and you begin to teach them, you teach them, you know, you ought to work for what you possess or receive it as a gift but never take it just because you want it. And yet they grow older and they begin to take things perhaps because they want it and they know at that point that they're stealing. At least they know that they've been told not to do that. Now, as a Christian family, you're going through the Bible. You teach them things, principles of scripture and one day you're reading Exodus 20 and the scripture there in God's speaking says, thou shalt not steal. And so you explain to the children, you know, when you take an object that doesn't belong to you without permission, that's called stealing and it's wrong. Well, the apostle Paul said that the law awakened in him the reality of the knowledge of what covenessness is simply because God said, thou shalt not do that. And when God said, thou shalt not do that, it awakened in him the reality of the fact that that's what he does naturally. He does take things, we'll say, or he does have a covetous heart, a desire for things that don't belong to him or whatever it may be. So Paul said, the law served the purpose of awakening within us the reality of our imperfection. Not only that, but when he spoke to the Galatians, he said, the law is our school master intended by God to bring us to Jesus Christ. The law was intended for us to be awakened to the reality of our sin so that we would come to Christ who is the one who gives to us unconditional grace. And so in the Old Testament, you have God saying, if you do this, you will live. In the New Testament, God says, you can't do those things and therefore I did those things on your behalf in my son, Jesus Christ. In Romans chapter eight, verses three and four, Paul said, what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the spirit. Jesus Christ came perfectly fulfilled the will of his father and gives to us what we didn't have before, his righteousness. Jesus is the only person that we've ever seen in recorded history who could look at somebody, as a matter of fact, could look at a large crowd which would include his mother and his brothers and sisters and he could say, which of you can convict me of sin and not a single one of those people could say I can, not a single one could because he every always did those things that pleased his father. And so he was the one who fulfilled all of God's righteous commands. Now, in the Old Testament, people would be obedient because they were fearful of punishment. Hebrews chapter two verse two said, the message spoken by angels was binding and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment. And so there was a motivation by fear because they would receive punishment. But under Jesus, we are moved by love. We're moved by love through a willing heart and a willing mind. And it's God who gives to us a willing heart and it is God who gives to us a willing mind. If you take notes, Ezekiel gives us a wonderful promise. Ezekiel 36 verses 26 and 27. God said, a new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you shall keep my judgments and do them. Many times as an unbeliever, I had come to the point where I realized that I was helpless and hopeless and I can still remember just before I got saved. As a matter of fact, I can't help but believe that the Lord was moving me towards salvation when all of this was taking place. But I could still remember crying to the Lord in a physical way, crying out to God, saying to him, I'm tired of this life that I'm living. I'm tired of the way that I am. I'm tired of hurting people. I'm tired of hurting my mom and my dad. I'm just tired of the way that I am and I need help, God, and I don't know what to do. I've shared this with you before, but it was coming to a pinnacle in August of 1970. I had turned 20 years old and I had another friend of mine who was turning 19 and another friend who was turning like 21. And we all celebrated our birthdays at the same time because our birthdays were within like two or three days of one another. I had been drafted to go into the military and I was supposed to report for active duty August 25th. My birthday was August 24th, rather August 23rd, but on August 24th we gathered together for a party. And we stayed up pretty much until about three o'clock in the morning. I remember some of that fairly well. I do remember drinking and smoking pot and dropping some drugs and things like that. I remember that. I remember walking home and climbing into my car that was parked on the side of the house because we were partying only about three or four blocks away from where I lived. And I do remember being inside of my car with a couple of friends smoking marijuana. I remember that. And my mom had left the kitchen light on there at the side of the house and I could see my mom looking out the window in the direction that she thought I'd be walking home. And I remember as I was smoking pot, seeing my mom looking out the window to see what her son would come home. And I waited until she turned the light off there in the kitchen. And I waited until about three in the morning. And so I said goodbye to my friends and walked into the house and quietly walked into my room. And I remember laying down on the bed and getting up about 5.30 in the morning. So two and a half hours of sleep or so. I went into the kitchen where my dad and my two sisters and my mom were there in their kitchen. And my mom looked at me. Her eyes were swollen with tears. My dad was very upset. He had his arms folded. He was leaning against the sink. And my two sisters were crying. And my mom looked at me and she said, why couldn't you come home one night? Because I hadn't been home. I'd go out and party and I'd come home all hours. And then I'd been doing that for a year. Why couldn't you come home at your last night here? You're going to leave today. You're leaving right now to go into the military. We won't see you for two years. And your brother, when he went into the military, actually was so sad that he was leaving us, that he climbed in the bed between your father and me and cried and slept next to us because it was his last night with the family. But you didn't even come home. And I remember looking at my mom and my dad and I said, so what? So what? I'll be gone for two years. You'll have nothing to worry about. You won't see me. No more pressure. Sure. So what? I had not a single sense of a heart, no single sense of concern. My mom was crying. My dad was upset. My dad drives me to Los Angeles to the induction center there in LA, gives to me $10, and just looks at me and says, well, good luck, son. And I said, yeah. And I remember climbing out and not even turning around to say goodbye to my father. I just walked into the induction center. And as I went in there and sat down, I was just all bummed out. I was totally hungover. I remember that. And I didn't care about anything. I didn't care about anyone. I had a friend of mine. His name was Gary. And Gary was seated there next to me. We both got rejected that day from the military. He for something he had done and me for something that they hadn't cleared from my record. And I remember coming home after spending my dad's $10. I called a friend of mine and he said, come and pick us up. And I had $10. And my friend Gary had some marijuana. We smoked some pot, went and got some breakfast. And I came home loaded. And I came walking into the house. I was 20 years old. Just a couple of days past my 20th birthday. And I came walking into that house. And as I walked into the house, my dad looked at me. As I walked past him, he said, what are you doing here? And I said, even the army doesn't want me. And I laughed. And I walked into my room. And I continued going down further and further and further until I finally hit rock bottom. I was in Monterey. It was in September. I was there for the Monterey Pop Festival and dropping psilocybin, absolutely loaded for three or four days, drunk, everything. And I finally got to the bottom of my life. And I finally realized, unless something happens in me, I'm not going to make it. Unless something happens in me, my life is going nowhere. There's just nothing I can do. And I began at that point to start crying out to God, saying to him, you've got to do something. There's got to be something done to change my life because I'm driving my parents crazy. I'm hurting everybody that loves me. I don't know what to do. And it was shortly thereafter that the Lord broke into my life. And what he did is he didn't tell me try harder. He didn't give me more rules and regulations, more ordinances and things that I have to do to become acceptable to him. What he did is he pointed me to Jesus Christ to fulfill his righteous requirements on my behalf and pointed me to grace, to the grace of God that transforms people's lives. The promise that God gave in Ezekiel, I will give you a new heart, I'll give you a new spirit. I'll write my law on the tablet of your heart and from within you'll have a desire to do those things that are pleasing to me. Philippians 2.13 says it is God who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure. And so God has done what we could not do. He did it on our behalf. He gave to us a high priest, Jesus Christ, who ever lives to make intercession for us, who ministers to us at all times whenever we have need. Jesus has become our guarantee. He's the one who assumed responsibility that the oath is kept. Jesus is the one assuring us that we have eternal life because it comes through him.  So Jesus is that one that we turn to. He has become a surety of a better covenant, a covenant of grace. In verse 23, there were many priests because they were prevented by death from continuing. There was a succession because a priest would ultimately either retire or he would die. And so there was a succession of priests. They needed to have a new priest all along. And so an order of succession had to be established because of that. The priesthood was a dying priesthood. But he says in verse 24, but he, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. So this points to the superiority of Jesus' priesthood. He never dies. He continues as a priest forever. So in Aaron, replacement was necessary because of retirement or death, but not so with Jesus. Notice verse 24 says his priesthood is unchangeable. That word unchangeable simply means that it doesn't pass onto a successor. It's non-transferable. God has placed Christ in this priesthood. No one else can step into it. And as that priest for us, verse 25, therefore, he is also, now notice this, he is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him since he ever lives to make intercession for them. He is able to save. One that gives to me the insight that I don't save myself. He is able to save is what he says. So one, remember that you have a savior and that savior's name is Jesus Christ. He is the one who saves you. And secondly, I want you to notice that the scripture says here, he is able to save to the uttermost. He is able to save completely. He is able to save perfectly. He is able to save eternally because there is no greater sacrifice that can be given. Jesus Christ has done a work for you that can give to you tonight a sense of relationship with him on a permanent basis. I don't want to and never wanted to have a relationship with God that was based on my works and my efforts to remain close to him alone. I can have a sense of assurance that God has done the work on my behalf. And that assurance of salvation that comes to that realization that Jesus Christ did the work causes me to realize that even in my moments of weakness or the times that I may fail, which are natural for me to do because I can do that through thought or word or deed and I do that in one form or another every day. Every day there's not a single day that comes that I don't fail in one way or another just like you. But I don't fear that I'm losing my relationship with God because he is able to save to the uttermost completely and forever it's been said from the guttermost to the uttermost from the lowest to the highest the Lord can work in your life. And Jesus gave a tremendous promise in John's gospel chapter five verse 24. He said most assuredly I say to you, he who hears my word and believes in him who sent me has everlasting life shall not come into judgment but has passed from death unto life. He who hears my word and believes on him who sent me has eternal life. It's a present tense experience. It's not something you're working to gain. It's not something that if I try hard enough for long enough he ultimately will grant me an entrance into the kingdom of God because I tried so hard for so long. God doesn't grade on the curve and God doesn't grade concerning my efforts for him. What God requires as I find in scripture is simple faith in him, trust in him, belief in him, holding fast to him, regarding him and clinging to him in a complete fashion. And yes I can fail and yes you can too but he can save to the uttermost. And somebody perhaps needs to hear that tonight. He can save you completely. He can save you forever. Now when he saves you your life changes.  You can't have both. You can't serve God and you can't serve the world simultaneously. You can't have two masters. What Jesus said is you simply need to make a choice but you need to understand that if you're not serving me, if you're not on my side, then you are in opposition to me. There's no middle ground. And so he can save me to the uttermost because he has given himself completely for me. But what I do is I embrace him through complete faith and trust in him and no longer am I busy trying to make myself good enough for God. I remember a friend of mine, his name is Nick. Nicky and I grew up together, lived down the street from me. And he knew me very well. And as we grew up, you know, we'd known each other since we were in elementary school and went through high school together and became young adults together. And I came to visit my friend Nick with Marie and I believe my daughter Corinne. And we'd known each other for a long time even at that point. And so as friends are, and he and I were close enough to do this, we were talking and I said, Nicky, Nicky, when are you going to give your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ? And he looks at me and he says, I'm going to do that when I'm better, David. I'm going to do that when I can make myself into a better person.  He said, what? I said, you're an idolater. And he looked and he didn't like that. He was a close friend so he didn't beat me up. He looked at me and he says, what do you mean?  You can't make yourself good enough for Jesus Christ. The Bible doesn't teach us that we have to make ourselves good enough for him. You never can. I said, don't you understand that God's standard of relationship with him is perfection and you're never going to be perfect, Nick. You'll never be so good that God will finally say, well, I owe him fellowship with me. I said, it doesn't work that way. Do you know that God is simply saying to you, come to me as you are, repent from your sin and come to me in faith and I can transform you. But Nicky, if you try to make yourself into something good, if you try to make yourself into something better, then you will never come to Christ because you'll never be good enough. You see, one of the things that we've come to understand simply as this is that Jesus Christ is good enough and I'm not. And he is able to save. He is able to save anybody to the uttermost. And that's what he's teaching us here in verse 25. He is also able to save to the uttermost, those who come to God through him since he ever lives to make intercession for them. So the unending life of Jesus guarantees a complete and permanent access to God. And as our high priest, he functions in this office in heaven before the throne of God. And he can save forever because he lives forever and he ministers forever. Now notice again, it says here that he's able to save. So it's not based on our efforts to obey. One of the scriptures that I think is beautiful that speaks of this is Matthew chapter one, verse 21, when Gabriel was speaking to Joseph and he said concerning Jesus and Mary and especially Mary, he said, she will bring forth the son, you shall call his name Jesus for he will save his people from their sins. So the Lord Jesus Christ has been sent to save us and he's the only one who can cleanse completely from sin and he's the one who presents us to God. As our high priest, we need no other intercessor, human or otherwise. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the father, but by me. In 1st Timothy chapter two, verse five, there is one God and one mediator between God and men and that is the man Christ Jesus. In Acts 412, the Bible said salvation is found in no one else. There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved. So it's the Lord Jesus Christ in faith in his name that causes us to be able to walk in a whole fashion. And so Jesus Christ is able, he makes intercession for us.  So she gave to me a personal saint. I had a saint named, I think it was Saint Anthony. Saint Anthony, there's several Saint Anthony's. And this one was the saint who helps you find lost objects. And so she used to say, this is what you pray. Saint Anthony, please come around for there is something that cannot be found. And then I'd have to name whatever it was that I was missing. So it's normally as I got older it was my keys. I couldn't find my keys ever, you know. And so I would say, please Saint Anthony, please come around for there is something that cannot be found. I can't find my keys or I can't find whatever, you know. My mom had taught me to do that.    And I said, why is that? And she said, well, you know how your dad sometimes is busy and you can't get to him because he's at work or he's not around. He's doing something else. I said, yes. Well, how do you get your request to your father? I said, well, I talked to you. She says, if you talk to me, what do I do? Well, you take those requests to my dad. She said, that's how it works with the Virgin Mary. And therefore, she said, just ask his mother and he'll take it to him. You know, it made sense to me. I was only six, seven, eight years old. I still remember those lessons. But sadly, they were wrong. And my mother would be the very first person to tell you that now, but they were wrong because I was being taught to go to men or I was being taught to go to a woman when in reality I could go to Jesus Christ. And that's what it says here. He ever lives to make intercession for us. Jesus Christ is my high priest. He's the one that I go to who brings my request to the father. And so I can go to him because he ever lives. He doesn't die. He's alive forever. And thus my request can be taken to God at any given time, anytime I ask. And so he ever lives to make intercession for them. And verse 26, for such a high priest was fitting for us who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners and has become higher than the heavens, who does not need daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifices first for his own sins and then for the peoples for this he did once for all when he offered up himself. For the law points as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints the son who has been perfected forever. And so he speaks of the high priest Jesus Christ in this way. The Levitical high priests were insufficient. So Jesus is the right replacement. Notice how he's described. He is holy. That word holy means he has no hint of pollution. This is one for us who is with no pollution whatsoever. He's holy and he's harmless and he's higher than the heavens. He doesn't notice verse 27, he doesn't need daily as those high priests offer up sacrifices. Why? Because there's no hint of pollution within him. He's able to bring us completely to God because he's righteous and eternally holy. High priests were taken from among men and therefore had to give offerings for themselves because they were sinners. Not so with Jesus because Jesus is without sin. Not only is he holy, notice he is harmless. That word harmless speaks of that which is innocent. It has no malice or evil at all. In other words, he injures no man. He lives to serve his father and he serves us because as the great servant he ministered to man. Third, he is undefiled. That means that he's free from any spiritual or moral blemish. He was never tainted by sin in any way and evil could never attach itself to him. And fourth, he is separate from sinners meaning he was never contaminated with sin by nature or action. Though Jesus ate, drank and spent time with sinners he never sinned. He's one who could be around people who are sinful because that's who he came to seek and to save. He would spend time with them but was never attracted to those things that they were in bondage to. That's why he could say concerning Satan that he came but he found nothing in me. There's nothing Jesus said that is within me that in any way is gonna answer to the temptations that he presents to me. He was beyond that. Jesus Christ was very capable of living a sinless and perfect life and that's what he did. He was separate from sinners not that he didn't have fellowship with them because there were times that he was actually accused of being a glutton and a wine-biver because he would spend time with people like that. But that's what he had come to do. He had come to save people and so he wasn't separate from them in the sense of not having anything to do with them. He was separate from them in the sense that he had no sin nature and was not attracted to the things that polluted them. Jesus was an incredible person to have around because there was nothing about me that was sinful that was attractive to him. He was the kind of guy that if you say hey, check that gal out over there, Jesus wasn't gonna do that. He wasn't the kind of person that you could say here you don't wanna drink or you wanna smoke some of this or you wanna do that. He was not attracted to anything like that. He was separate and being separate, he was in a different class. He was just a different person. So he's harmless, he's holy, he's undefiled, he's separate and he has become higher than the heavens. Didn't need to offer sacrifice on a daily basis but he did offer a sacrifice for us. He said and he did this once for all when he offered up himself. Jesus Christ died on the cross one time for all time. His offer of himself was perfect. The one time was sufficient for all time.  You'll see this later on as we continue through Hebrews. He makes it very clear that Jesus Christ one time for all time died on the cross for us.  It was sufficient for all time. And so what we do as believers is we simply cling to him. As believers what we do is we just yield to him. As believers we simply say, God we're gonna trust in you. You see in verse 28 it says the law points high priests men who have weakness but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints the son who has been perfected forever is one time for all time offering is sufficient for all man for all time. And that's why I'm saved now but I got saved almost 36 years ago and I don't have to continue coming saying to him I need to be born again again. I need to be saved again. I was saved by him because he is sufficient to save me for all time. And if you're born again today he's capable of doing that and he did that for you.


this video we use sock and toe to find missing lengths. We're now going to look at one more example that just has a little twist when we're rearranging to get the final answer. Give this one a go yourself but just be careful the rearranging will be a little bit different this time. Pause the video, work out the answer and click play when you're ready to check. Did you get 653 meters? Keep watching for the explanation or click here to skip ahead. So start by labelling the sides. This one is the adjacent because it is next to the 40 degree angle and this one is the hypotenuse because it is the longest side and is across from the right angle. So this gives us a and h so we're going to use the cap. The cos angle is adjacent to hypotenuse and we substitute in our numbers so we get cos 40 equals 500 divided by x. Now for rearranging, multiply both sides by x and so these x are cancelled. Divide by cos 40 on both sides and they cancel. So we get x equals 500 divided by cos 40. So all that rearranging and we just end up with the x and the cos 40 switching places. So type into your calculator 500 divided by cos 40 and you get x equals 652.7. So x is 653 meters. So give this question a go yourself. Pause the video, work out the answer and click play when you're ready to check. Did you get 7 meters? Here's the working. From this two part video you should be able to find a missing side when you already have a side and an angle. You just need to use Socotoa and make sure you label the size correctly. In the next video we're going to look at how to find a missing angle when we already have two sides. We still use Socotoa and then there's just a little twist.


Sometimes there are days that I go on the internet and I'm pretty happy with what I find, right? You know, whether it's amazing gaming news, cool stories, tips and tricks. You know, maybe it's a sporting event or some sports story that I'm really into because I'm a big sports fan as well. And then other times I log in online and as I'm browsing through things, I start to get a little bit annoyed. And today's one of those days because Tears of the Kingdom keeps getting hate. And where is it getting the hate from? We talked about review bombs. This time, it's basically coming from what I seem to, I guess, divulge our PlayStation fans. Like we talked about how Xbox gamers, a little bit before, now PlayStation fans seem to be upset at Tears of the Kingdom. And I think it's because they're worried that Tears of the Kingdom is gonna win Game of the Year if I had to guess, or maybe they just don't like the attention it gets in comparison to their favorite franchises. 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Let's actually get into the brux of this video. I put timestamps. I hope you guys skipped around to the areas that you want to get to, including this one. And I am really frustrated. You know, player essence made a video earlier today talking about how Horizon fans are upset about Tears of the Kingdom, right? And honestly, he just referenced one fan. It's a fan I quote, tweeted myself in this fan over on Twitter again. I don't want to show his name or give him too much attention. But it's basically he said, Horizon Forbidden West is a better game than Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom. But you all don't want to have this conversation. And then obviously I said I'd like to have this conversation and player essence said the same thing. And the guy did actually respond to player essence and said Horizon Forbidden West is better in every way imaginable. Zelda's gameplay is nothing special unless you like your weapons breaking after three attacks. Also, I haven't seen a soul mention the narrative when talking on this game. And as I dove down the rabbit hole on Reddit and Twitter and other forums, it started to be obvious to me that there is a growing distaste for Tears of the Kingdom coming from an audience that I guess we should expect it to come from. But one that's just, I don't know why it exists. It's not like Zelda fans are going out of their way to attack Horizon Forbidden West or Spider-Man or Final Fantasy 16 or God of War. I mean, these games don't even cross our lips. We just don't talk about them at least in a general sense. I'm sure there are some Nintendo fans out there that maybe go out of their way to try to flame the fires. But it's weird because we don't go typically from what I can tell and I'm pretty heavily invested in the Nintendo community. We don't go out of our way to go after the other platforms. We just let them do their thing. Hey, if Xbox wants to have their games and buy Activision Blizzard, cool. Sony's got good stuff with Forbidden West, God of War. I've enjoyed a number of games on PlayStation 5, cool. And then, hey, we have our own thing going on over here with Nintendo Switch. We don't really go out of our way to put down other games to prop up ours unless we are poked and prodded like this person did on Twitter, poking and prodding player essence myself and many other Nintendo fans. And it's very interesting to me, thinking about how this consistently happens every time, specifically a new Zelda game drops. This happened back with Breath of the Wild in comparison to Horizon Zero Dawn at the time. Obviously Forbidden West came out last year. I look at how these fans attack Zelda and I think the one thing that keeps coming to my mind is jealousy. Jealous of the success of an IP that isn't on their platform. And maybe they think the IP would be significantly better on their platform. And if we're honest, yeah, tears of the kingdom would be 60 FPS and 4K on PlayStation 5. No doubt, especially with that development team behind it. But setting that aside, I think there's just an inherent jealousy. Like when you hear things like, oh, the weapon breaks after three attacks, sure, when you first pick up a stick, but they fixed it by adding fuse. And once you get that ability, it ain't no three attacks for any weapon to break. So I just kind of look at this from a flabbergasted point of view that I don't want to attack other games to make tears of the kingdom sound better, right? I don't wanna put down Horizon Forbidden West to prop up tears of the kingdom because I think tears of the kingdom can stand on its own. I don't think it needs to put other games down to justify how good it is. Because they are different games in different worlds with different narratives and different goals. Different visual styles, different development studios. Look, I don't think it's fair to directly compare because they're not attempting to do the same things. I just feel that it gets old watching the fan wars. That's really what this is, right? It's fan wars. Making this video is probably exactly what people like this person on Twitter and other places want me to do. They want me to make a big deal out of this. And it's really not. In the grand scheme, 10 plus million, 10.3 million or so people are playing tears of the kingdom or more, maybe 11, 12 million by now. We don't know, obviously, the current sales beyond launch weekend. But for most of us, none of this impacts our gameplay experience and it certainly doesn't impact mine. In fact, while I'm recording this video, Yulia is upstairs playing tears of the kingdom, discovering things and texting me, all these cool things she's finding that I haven't found yet. And I'm like, what?  That's cool.  And that is a me problem. So what I want to note here to round out this video is one, maybe don't let these people on social media get to you. I shouldn't let them get to me. And two, I think it's just kind of sad that this is the reality of the world where we, some of us anyways, feel that in order to justify the things that we enjoy, we have to put down the things we maybe don't enjoy or the things other people enjoy to help justify our purchasing decisions. The only person you need to justify your purchase to is yourself. And if you're happy with your purchase, then it doesn't matter what anyone else says. Unfortunately, other people want to put you down for that decision because you don't agree with their opinions. It's all subjective anyways. Look, if you like Forbidden West better than tears of the kingdom, more power to you. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I disagree, but hey, you can disagree with me. Let me know your thoughts on this down in the comments below and I'll catch you in the next video.


Music, it's an experience that goes beyond normal day-to-day living. It's a very personal experience for every single person. It's an opportunity to communicate to other people on a very, very deep emotional and personal level in a way that's far, far beyond any kind of words, because in music you're actually delivering to another person an experience of something. You're not conveying just information, but it's the direct translation of an emotional state, a mood to another person. We're entering a very, very interesting time of musical history in terms of, you know, what students can do in terms of, you know, their development and sort of things that they can look forward to in the future. Performance is central to the School of Music here, be it performance in, you know, classical music and jazz and contemporary music, but performance is also very important, say, as a composer or someone interested in music technology, because performance is the degree of skill that allows your personal experience to be conveyed to another person. My vision for the School is to provide an environment of discovery for students, that they're not locked into individual pathways where they can get elite performance training, elite composition training, get the very highest degree of musical education, and at the same time have room to explore a multitude of other facets of music, which could include composition, technology, multimedia, all different cultures of music in a way that it can get out to people and have cultural resonance.


This will be our last question. Hello. I'm Josh Ferguson from the Ross School of Business. My question is more so back to the getting more judges to consider more context and I'm interested to hear in what role do you think diversity plays in that, getting people with different backgrounds, different identities to be a part of our criminal justice system and then how do we improve that pipeline for people to actually have the opportunity to be in your seat? I think diversity is very very valuable and in my personal experience here is why. Because I have been talking about the justice system to anybody who will listen for years but after George Floyd some people listen to me at all and some people listen to me differently as a black female judge. Not only as to the criminal justice system but also to racism because there were a lot of people that again thought racism only happens to poor black people and that is not that is not the truth. You know one of the stories that Dean Watkins Hayes is alluding to was when I first took the bench and my chambermate that called never never to my face of course but that called me a nappy-headed girl to everybody. So even in educating people that racism sees no class I think is effective but also you know I think that even though I had been talking about it like someone like me has a special place because I can come here and I can tell you actually what happens in the courtroom. So I think diverse judges are very very very very very important. And how do we build that pipeline? Well particularly and let me just interject particularly when when when folks of color have had such a fraught relationship to the criminal justice system how do we like we had FBI director Christopher Ray here and we had a career discussion for people who were interested in in the FBI and it you know one of the thoughts that I had was how how do we diversify the pipeline if there's been fraught relationships either individual who have experienced it or a historical legacy of a fraught relationship with an FBI or with law enforcement or with you know immigration enforcement office of homeland security etc all of these agencies that have been involved in policing how do we think about diversifying that pipeline how do we do that? I think that we have to remember you know when we look throughout history in the say for example in the civil rights movement we needed Martin Ann Malcolm and so you if you want to create change you need change with you know outside the system but it also is helpful to have change inside the system and so that not only comes into play with black judges or you know diverse judges period of any color but it also comes into play because you also see black attorneys not wanting to go into prosecutor's offices. But like if I could show you and I'm out of time so I can't but if I could show you all the points throughout the life of a case that a prosecutor is making decisions because the prosecutor is seeing a case a lot of times before even a judge is or before even a public defender is and so for example you have to have diverse people in prosecutor's offices presenting information to the grand jury because the grand jury is the one that decides what someone is going to be charged with and then when you get down the line to trials and plea bargaining and stuff the starting point and I'm talking about this because I said you're from the business school but the starting point for the negotiation comes back to what happened in the grand jury and the indictment you see what I'm saying so if someone is overindicted their negotiation point is not where it should be when you start talking about plea bargains and trials and stuff. So I think we have to again remember we needed Martin and Malcolm and so that lends to you also need people inside the system.


This week we have Boeing suddenly pulling out of the DARPA Experimental Spaceplane program. We've got SpaceX doing amazing things down in Boca Chica with their Starship rocket, and we've got space weather with Dr. Tamethascove. Now, before we begin, make sure that you hit that like button, smash on the subscribe button, and ring that notification bell till you're deaf in the ears because you want to get all of the latest and greatest videos right into your YouTube feed from tomorrow. All right, my name is Jamie Higginbotham. Let's get this thing started. It's Space News for January 26th, 2020. This last Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020, Boeing announced that they'd be backing out of a deal with DARPA to build an experimental spaceplane. That's a pretty click-baity and fantastical title, but it is true. It also doesn't paint the entire picture here, and I don't think it's fair some of the conclusions that are being drawn. For that, we really need to understand who DARPA is and what they're trying to accomplish. All right, going back to the beginning, DARPA stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and was founded in 1958 by President Eisenhower, although at that time it was under the name ARPA. It is currently a government program under the United States Department of Defense. And if ARPA rings a bell for some reason, probably should. This is the agency that helped create the foundation work for some of the amazing stuff we have in our lives today. This is a group that works on huge projects that impact humanity at its core. In 1962, they created ARPANet, which was the foundation for the internet itself. And while Xerox Park gets the credit for the graphical user interface, actually that concept was originally seen in ARPA project called the Augment System. Back in 1961, a decade before Xerox started to tinker with it, and well before Microsoft and Apple grabbed the idea. How about GPS? DARPA has the foundation work for what we now know is the global positioning system all the way back in 1964 with projects called Transit and NavSat well ahead of the 1978 GPS release date. How about something a little more modern? In 2003, they worked on a voice assistant project which then spun off and became Siri. That was then later acquired by Apple. Their next-gen voice stuff is also insanely cool. It's like nothing you have heard before. This is an agency that works on impossible projects. And because of that, they have a lot that are just not successful. When you work beyond the bleeding edge of technology and you're inventing things for the very first time, you're going to encounter a lot of failure. And that's okay. So how does all of this relate to Boeing pulling out of the DARPA contract? Understand this was a DARPA project to push access to space forward far further than we've ever been able to do. The program was originally known as XS-1 and was then later renamed to XSP or Experimental Spaceplane. It's broken into three phases. The first phase we saw Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Mastin Space design a rapidly reusable spaceplane architecture, but not actually build anything. The design called for a vehicle able to launch 10 times in 10 days with a recurring cost of no more than five million per flight while also carrying a 1,400 to 2,300 kilogram payload to low earth orbit. DARPA's favorite design would move on to phase two and three which Boeing then won for $150 million back in 2017. Their winning design was called the Phantom Express. Much like the space shuttle, this was a vertical takeoff horizontal landing vehicle. It was about the size of an executive jet. It would use an aerojet rocket-dyne AR-22 engine which is a sister to the space shuttle main engine or RS-25, but modified to be able to fly 10 times in 10 days. They had some really great flight heritage there and it seemingly worked. In 2018, they ran a test with this engine on the stand doing 10 100 second full throttle firings in 10 days and they completed it with time to spare. This DARPA program pushed engineers to do things better, faster and cheaper. One example of this is clearing up moisture that would gather in the engine between tests. Trying to fire the engine with moisture still in it could actually be catastrophic. That was actually the same for the space shuttle and for the space shuttle main engine, this procedure took days. For the AR-22 on the other hand, well, they got it down to just six hours and that's just one example of time savings. So what happened? They were making great progress, engineers are learning things. Why did Boeing kill the Phantom Express? Actually, only Boeing knows. Last Wednesday, Boeing informed DARPA that they would be pulling out of the XSP program immediately after following a quote, detailed review, unquote, that's it, that's all we know. It's easy to hate on Boeing or think of this as a failure. But I wanted to get some context as to DARPA's insight in this and I happen to know someone who used to be a contractor at DARPA, although not on this specific program. His name is Tim Bailey and he had some really insightful things to say about DARPA as an agency and how they view success and failure. It's important to have some context when you're talking about DARPA programs. DARPA has a different way of looking at and assessing risk when it comes to putting a program together. So in this case, they were looking at advancing a technology. They were looking at advancing not a single piece of technology, a single endpoint, but really how can the entire industry move forward if this technology happens? They look at how the program progressed and what came out of the program as a whole, not whether or not they reached a very specific endpoint at the end. If good companies were funded and amazing research was done out of this, that can be a huge win for the industry. You don't need to look at a single program and a single endpoint as a win-lose scenario. Sometimes it's just about, did you create a scenario? Did you create an environment where everybody can win at something? And that's DARPA's job is to explore what's possible out there. It's not to get to some endpoint and put a satellite into a very specific orbit at a specific time. No, it's to figure out, can you do that? Could you put 70 satellites into very specific orbits and points in space inside of a week? That's a DARPA hard problem. How do we make humanity a space-faring species? How do we create responsive space technologies? That's where you can see the big wins. If you're focused narrowly on, did this one piece of technology, did this one program, did this one little thing work? Of course it's gonna be win-lose, black and white, you failed, but in the scope of industry, in the scope of what we're trying to do, everything is a win. Boeing now knows the limits of what they're willing to do in a program like this and how much money they're willing to put in and how much technology they think they can develop. That's huge for a company like Boeing. It's also an opportunity space for other companies to step in and say, if Boeing isn't willing to do this or if Boeing doesn't wanna continue down this road, maybe there's opportunity for somebody else to do that in the future and to make that case to other people to give a smaller company an opportunity the next time. So overall, I understand that there's frustration that things didn't work out the way they wanted to. There's a mismatch in what we thought was gonna happen and what actually happened. And we can address that, but we don't have to look at it as a failure in the program as long as we still learn things from it and we can still move forward after it. I personally think that's a really great way to look at it, but to be fair, there are those who have their doubts as well. Doug Messier, Parabolic Arc did publish this quote. The winning bidder, Boeing, really wasn't interested in the technology. The company was actually interested in government funding and keeping other companies from developing the system. That quote was taken a bit out of context here, so I do suggest heading over to Parabolic Arc and reading his whole take. They are also super awesome over there and if you're a space nerd like I am, I highly suggest you support and subscribe. I also took a moment to reach out to some of the people we know that worked on the phase one part of this program because there were more than just Boeing working on this and they didn't really wanna speak on the record, but they were all understandably disappointed in Boeing's decision. In the end, I don't think we have enough data to really call this a failure just yet. And actually, when you look at how DARPA works and what it's trying to accomplish, I really don't think it's a failure at all. This is just a path that doesn't work. Maybe next we'll try a different path that does.  That sounds a lot like SpaceX and Elon Musk. And so now I'm gonna take a quick moment to hand it over to Ryan, who's going to give us our latest SpaceX update. SpaceX News has just kept getting busier and busier this past week, but to start off with, Elon Musk revealed some awesome data at the post-Inflate abort test press conference. At the fastest point during flight, the crew-dragged spacecraft reached MUC 2.2 and a height of 40 kilometers. This is a crazy speed to be thinking about, as the spacecraft is traveling faster than Concord ever did and three times far higher than a commercial jet. Another exciting point Elon mentioned was when Demo Mission 2 will hopefully happen. He said that the hardware will be ready by the end of quarter one by the latest. However, they will have to check every system several times before they are certain that they are ready for human flight, which means that SpaceX could be launching actual humans into space before June 30th. And I am so excited for this that I physically cannot describe it and I find it crazy to think that this will finally break up the nine-year gap of human spaceflight from US soil since STS-135 in 2011. And also as it turns out, the second stage of the Falcon 9 news during the Inflate abort might have actually survived the gigantic fireball that could be seen off the east coast of Florida. As a video released by US launch report shows that what seems to be the second stage with the interstage steel attached falling down towards the ocean. On the 27th of January to round 1450 UTC, SpaceX are also looking to launch the next batch of 60 Starlink satellites on the mission named Starlink 3, as it was delayed from the 24th of January. Sadly, I couldn't find any information about how well the special coating on one of the satellites that was launched on Starlink 2 worked. However, if you would want to know more about that, I'd recommend you go and watch the last week's Space News episode where I explained what SpaceX were doing to help astronomers see into the cosmos who could be affected by Starlink's brightness in the night sky. Starship has also been making some awesome progress over the past few weeks with two test tanks being constructed. Around two weeks ago, two bulkheads were mated to create a tank for pressure testing. This tank reached 7.1 bar, which only six bar required for orbital flight. However, SpaceX didn't stop there. As Elon Musk said on Twitter that if they used an improved welding technique, they could possibly get to around 8.5 bar, which will allow them to reach the 1.4 safety limit needed for human flight. So over the past few days or so, the team down at Boca Chica have been constructing another tank. The chances that this tank will have the same end as the original is very high, as it will need to be tested to its limit to ensure that it could be used within Starship for safe human flight to the moon, Mars, and possibly beyond. Ahead a tank for Starship was also pressurized just before the weekend. However, this one didn't meet the same fate of its cousin, as it is still intact when the test was completed. You can also see on the video from Boca Chica gal that SpaceX were actually flying a drone above the tank. And with this week's SpaceX news wrapped up, it's time to head back up on orbit to station 204. Thanks for the update, Ryan. It's kind of excited to see what they're doing down in Boca Chica. All right, we didn't have any launches this last week, but we do have some coming up this next week. So here's a list of all of those, along with everyone's favorite launch. Since there wasn't a whole lot of traffic, there was a bunch of stuff happening in weather. I'm now gonna hand it over to Dr. Tametheskov, who brings us our latest solar weather report. Space weather this week started out quiet, but it sure didn't stay that way. As we switch to our front side, son, you can see everything was pretty bland until we started seeing a new sunspot emerge on the Earth-facing disk. This region ended up being one of the biggest sunspots we've seen in quite some time. And you can see it fizzling and farting there. This became named region 2757, and on the 25th, it fires off an Earth-directed solar storm. It's kind of hard to see here, and we had to wait for the models to kind of get an idea of when it's gonna hit Earth. Right now, it looks like it's gonna hit Earth right about the 29th, but it's probably gonna be a pretty weak storm. You know, we're not that far from solar minimum, so these storms aren't all that strong yet. But hey, who cares? We're seeing these solar storms being launched far more frequently. And as activity continues to ramp up, these storms are gonna get stronger. But believe it or not, this is not the only story. We also have a new bright region that's rotating into Earthview on the southeast limb. This is a solar cycle 25 sunspot. It's a new cycle sunspot, or it's actually a active region. It didn't last as a sunspot all that long, so it's probably not gonna get a designation from NOAA. You know, these new cycle sunspots have a tendency to be a bit shy. They kind of poke out onto the surface of the sun and then dive back down. So we're gonna have to deal with these being bright regions for quite some time yet. Now, as we switch to our far-sighted sun, this is Stereo A. It's our partially far-sighted monitor. You can see that active region kind of emerging in the center of the disk in the south. Now, this region is helping to boost the solar flux. We are now back into the balmy 70s for emergency radio communications and amateur radio operators. But luckily this region is not doing any serious flaring, so we don't have to worry about radio blackouts or anything like that for space launch, affecting communications, or any other types of space traffic. For more details on this week's space weather, including when and where to see aurora when that solar storm hits on the 29th, come check out my channel or see me at spacewetherwoman.com. And before we go, a quick note on an anomaly that happened at Firefly Aerospace this last week. There was a fire that occurred during a test fire during the first stage for Firefly's Alpha small satellite launcher. You can't really see too much in this video that they tweeted, but no one was hurt and emergency crews arrived on the scene quickly. The fire itself was extinguished by the automatic ground fire suppression systems on the pad itself. Firefly says they're reviewing data and looking to find root cause. Just on a personal note, I thought it was actually really cool that they tweeted this out. This was a test. This was in a test stand. This is when you want to see the anomalies happen right here on the ground. That's how these things work. It's part of the learning process. It's not a failure. It's just a learning step forward. This seems to be the theme of this particular show. So I was really happy that they were so transparent in an industry that seems to be very, very opaque lately. So kudos to Firefly Aerospace for tweeting that out. That's our show this week. I'd like to thank everyone so much for watching and especially our members over on YouTube. These are the people who make this show happen. We couldn't stay on orbit without you. Our fueling costs are insane. We have launch costs. It's crazy. Also got to keep the lights on here at station 204. If you'd like to help crowdfund the shows of tomorrow, head on over to youtube.com slash T-M-R-O slash join. And as a reminder, if you wouldn't mind hitting that like button, mashing on the subscribe button and ringing that notification bell a whole lot, it really helps us as well. We want to hit 100,000 subscribers by the end of 2020. And as I mentioned in a couple of previous shows, analytics says that's not going to happen. I'd like to thank you all so much for watching. We'll see you next week. Now you have to wait while I install Google Docs. We'll wait together. It's my birthday this Thursday. Oh, I should have brought a towel. Dang it, I'm 42. So I should have brought a towel while I'm turning 42.