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Welcome to the live big broadcast with Derek Greer. We believe this teaching from God's Word will empower you to live a full, impactful life in Christ. Let's dig in. John 3:1, There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, and this man came to Jesus by night. Last week we covered this, that this was a powerful man, a member of the Sanhedrin, and he came to question Jesus under the COVID of night. Now, we see in the verses we're gonna look at today and throughout the Gospels that God is really not bothered by questions as long as they are honest and they come from a trusting and open heart. James 1:5 says, if anyone lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives what liberally Meaning, he's not cheap with his wisdom and without reproach. He's not going to criticize you for not understanding and not knowing. And then it says, and it will be given to him. Jesus says it even stronger. In Matthew chapter 7 and verse 7, Jesus said, Ask and it will be given you seek and you shall find. Knock, and the door will be open to you. You see, God, though, seldom answers questions the way we expect, but he always answers. And he said to this Nicodemus, to Jesus, he said, rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these things that you do unless God is with him. So Nicodemus starts this conversation very, very politely. He begins by honoring Jesus. Last week we learned of his background. He's a very powerful, educated man. And with that, you know, for him to say God was with Jesus was a big deal, because Jesus is only in his 30s. This man's probably in his 50s. But he began by recognizing that Jesus came. So that's a pretty good start. But we also discovered last week that his description fell a little bit short. Not only was God with Jesus, in verse 13, Jesus went ahead to describe himself as the one who came down from heaven himself. I think Tony Evans said it best. He said, because Jesus Christ is a man, he feels what we feel. But because he's God, he can do something about it. And Jesus answered. Now, you don't really see a question that Jesus needed to answer, but Jesus is reading hearts and he's speaking into the heart of this man. Jesus answered and said to him, verily, verily, truly, truly, most assuredly or literally in the Aramaic, amin, Amin, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot, meaning there's not a possibility, it is impossible unless one is born again, he can not he might, not, not he should. He cannot see the kingdom of God. And what Jesus is teaching here is something that nowadays, I think a lot of us forget. Salvation is God forgiving us. And God's forgiveness is what opens the door to salvation. But forgiveness is not all that's a part of salvation. It's also about a change of nature. A great Christian thinker once said. He said, the Christian doesn't think that God will love us because we're good, but that God makes us good because he loves us. Paul says it this way in 2nd Corinthians, chapter 5 and verse 17. He said, Therefore if anyone does it say anyone. This is a promise for anyone and everyone. I don't care if you are the worst liar, adulterer, homosexual, fornicator, murderer, drug dealer. God wants not only to completely forgive you, but to completely restart and reboot you if you let him. So here's the gospel message. Therefore, if any man is in Christ. A few years ago, I was invited to the Israeli embassy in D.C. and though you know, it was in D.C. it was in the United States. According to the Geneva Convention, the U.S. or the United States government has no right to enter that embassy unless given permission. In fact, some would go so far as to say that actually when I stepped into the embassy grounds, I was no longer in the United States of America, but I was actually in Israel. The Bible says it differently. It says we are in the world, but not of the world. And there's a term used in international law for what I just mentioned is called inviolability. Inviolability. And if you are in Christ, you have entered inviolable zone, you are under God's complete protection. You are under different and unique laws. You hear what I'm saying? Your king is a different king than the land that you are in. And the flesh, the devil and the world can only touch you if you leave God's protective covering. So if you step out of God's will, out of the embassy, you hear what I'm saying? God's will is a covering. And his protection, His Word will protect you and keep you. But when you step out of that will, that's when the world, the devil and the flesh can touch you. So you know, that's why the Bible says we are hid in Christ. We are ambassadors for Christ. So we need to be in Christ, in the embassy. Do you understand what I'm saying? We need to be connected to him. Matter of fact, the devil, you know, Jesus was about to go to the cross and he said, you know what? The prince of this world comes, but he has nothing in me. There was nothing in Jesus that he could touch. And if you are in the vine and God is in you, there's nothing in you. Now, it might mess with you, it might try to tempt you, it might try to draw you out. But ultimately, nothing and no one can snatch us out God's hands once we put ourselves there. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he or she is a new creation. And this is not a change that we can make by ourselves. The gospel is not about behavior modification, but complete inner transformation. Matter of fact, God's not interested in you just turning over a new leaf. He wants you to become part of a completely new tree. You hear what I'm saying? Saying God has a plan for your life. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, watch this. He is a new creation. Now this might surprise you, but in my mind, the miracle of the new creation is greater than the miracle of God's original creation. Because you see, when God created the world, he created it out of nothing. So there was nothing present to resist him, to fight him, or to challenge his hand. But when God steps into our lives to recreate you and I, there's much to oppose him. Our many sins, our stubborn will, our doubts and our fears. Again, God's greatest miracle was not so much as amazing as it was. It's not so much the creation of his world. His greatest miracle is taking contrary creatures like you and I in making us new creatures in Christ Jesus. He said, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation. Then he says, old things have passed away. Behold, behold, is there. Because this is something you need to focus on, meditate on and think about until it becomes true to you. Behold, all things have become new. But here's the challenge. When I gave my life to Jesus, I walked out of that chapel with the same hands and feet. I walked out of that chapel with very much of the same personality. But the scripture says if anyone be in Christ, he's new Creator. Old things are passed. Behold, all things become new. What is he speaking about all things spiritual about us? God cares about the Spirit before he cares about anything else. Matter of fact, everything that is came out of the spiritual realm. All things spiritual about us became completely new. Our mind, our will and emotions are not instantly new. If you were outgoing before you give your life to Jesus, guess what? You're gonna still be outgoing after you give your life to Jesus. Again, if you had 50 year old hands when you gave your Life to Jesus. You still have 50 year old hands after you give your life to Jesus. But what the Bible is saying is God does something totally new and where he does it is in our spirit. In fact, Jesus is gonna tease us a little bit better than Paul. Let's go back to John 3, 4. So Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he's old? He's like Jesus. I hear what you're saying, but not making a whole lot of sense. He said, can he enter into a mother's womb a second time and be born? Jesus answered, amen, Amen. Meaning listen, listen, I mentioned last week, you know, in the Old Testament the prophets had to say, thus saith the Lord, but he was the Lord. So he can say, I say it unto you. So he would say, amen. Amen. I mean, what I'm saying, I am who I am and I am speaking from heaven to you. And Jesus answered, amen. Amen, I say to you. So Jesus didn't back down just because the educated didn't get it. Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom. And by the way, this is a reference to Ezekiel 36, about 25 through 28. And you can look at that at home. We won't do that now, but watch the next verse because Jesus explains, He says, nicodemus, that which is born of the flesh is flesh. No one's first birth assures anyone of the kingdom, only our second. So whether you're born black, white, you know, Jew, Greek, male, female, slave free, Jesus is saying, in order to connect with heaven, you gotta be born a second time or born again. Now in the first birth, you looked a lot like your parents. In the first birth, we looked like a lot like Adam in his fall. But in the second birth, we're adopted into a new family and we no longer just look like our genetics. You hear what I'm saying? Spiritually, we look like God again. Remember in the garden, God said that he made man in his image and his likeness. But doesn't Jesus go on to say, and we're going to look at that in a second, that God is a spirit? So when we were made in his image and likeness. Is he talking about God is bipedal, you know, he could walk on two legs? I'm not sure that that's what he's saying. He's saying that deep down on the inside, our spirits because God is a spirit, our spirit mirrored God's spirit. Now we weren't God, but we look Very much like God, because we were created in his image and likeness. And when God created the earth, he created this thing called paternity, maternity and all the rest where somehow the children look like the parents because it was first established in the spiritual realm. You hear what I'm saying? So when God created Adam, Adam in the spirit looked like the Father. So Jesus said, that which is born of flesh is flesh. So you understand that principle, but now let me apply it to the realm from which all that came from and that which is born of spirit is spirit. The change that the new birth brings doesn't do anything to our flesh. It happens in our spirit and is accomplished by the Holy Spirit. First. Thessalonians 5:23 we're going to dig in, then we're going to come back to Jesus words. Here Paul is speaking by the Holy Spirit. He said, now may the God of peace watch this Himself sanctify you completely. Then Paul goes on to describe the complete makeup of humanity. And he says completely. But then he says whole, as if you know, when the Bible repeats itself, it's for emphasis sake. And God was basically saying to us, listen, I'm about to describe you kit and caboodle. Everything I'm about to say is who you are and everything that needs to be sanctified. And may your whole watch this Spirit, soul and body. According to scripture, we are spirit, soul and body. So I get the soulish part of me. I get my body part, but the spiritual part. Jesus has to take a couple verses to explain to us a little bit. But may your whole spirit, soul and body watch this be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now this may surprise you. God is not a soul. Some of the scriptures hint at the fact God may have a soul. But I'm not going to argue that. I'm not so sure about that. But Jesus made it clear, God's not a soul. Jesus said in John 4:24, God is spirit. And when God makes us look like him, he starts in the spirit. God is spirit. And those who worship him watch this, must worship him in spirit. So in order for it to be true worship, he first has to impact our what spirit. And then he adds another thing in truth. So it's not just the emotion and attitude of it, it's also you need to do it right and according to the Word. But he wants true worshipers to worship him first. In what spirit and what truth? Now you may like gospel music in the flesh, you may be very generous in the flesh, you may you know, feel for other people's hurts in the flesh. You may be very caring in the flesh, but the only way to truly worship God is to become like him in the spirit. I want you to stay with me for a second. What would it profit us to come to God bearing gifts, singing songs, bringing offerings, etc. But looking and acting like the devil? In order for our worship to really move the heart of God, we must first be born into his family. We have to be born again. I think y' all missed it. So there's a lot of folk that got scriptures on their lips, songs on their radio, but they still look like the devil. God doesn't want us to kind of put acts on what's evil. He wants to go to the very core, change our nature, make us look like him. You see, it's one thing for the devil, it's almost a mockery. When the devil comes and worships God because his heart hasn't changed, the devil's gonna do what the devil does. But when a human spirit makes a decision that he or she wants to be part of God's family, take on the characteristics and the attributes of God deep down on the inside, and then we bring gifts and then bring worship, then we love each other, then it's no longer a mockery. We look just like God. Do you understand? Every time we call God Father, we are confessing our new heritage. In fact, when Jesus taught us how to pray, he said we're to pray like this. Our what, Father? The Jews generally did not call God Father. They might call him kind of Father as an entire people, but not really. Jesus came with that because ultimately God wants a family. So he uses this term Father. He wants to be in relationship with you. He wants to be your provider, your protector. He wants to be your progenitor. You hear what I'm saying? We were all born into Adam, but Jesus came as the second Adam. Do you understand what I'm saying? So God could become our Father and we could be adopted into that great family. Back to John 3 and 7. So Nicodemus is listening to Jesus and he's scratching his head a little bit, and Jesus is reading the room, and he knows what's going on. And he said, listen, Nicodemus, don't marvel that I said to you, you must. By the way, it didn't say, you know, what you should be. You know, hopefully you will. But he said, you must be born again. And last week I talked to you about the teaching. At that time, the Jews were taught that Abraham would stand at the gates of hell, lest any good, any Jew, would wander into to hell's fires, if you will. And they thought that by virtue of their birth, they were necessarily saved. That's why John the Baptist message came. Don't say Abraham's your father, you know, and think that gets you in. God's able to use to turn these rocks into children of Abraham, because that was a concept. So he's dealing with a Hebrew of Hebrews. Nicodemus is a powerful Hebrew man that has kept the law. He has all the phylacteries and you know, everything. And he's standing there and he's thinking, you know, I'm justified by virtue my ethnicity. And Jesus said, do not marvel that I said to you, you must be born again. And then he uses this analogy, this metaphor to explain. He uses something Nicodemus knew to explain something that he did not know. He said, nicodemus, just as the wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, you hear the rustling, you can't necessarily see the wind, but you can see the trees moving and bending and the leaves blowing. And he was saying, just as you can't see the wind, but you can see the wind's effect, what God does in the spirit of a person cannot be seen with a naked eye. But we will be able to see his results. We will be able to see its fruit. And when you're really changed in your spirit, it will begin to show up in your actions. Now, here's the deal, lest you think I might be talking down to you, because that's not my intention. I remember when I first got saved, you know, I went into the chapel, I answered the altar call and stood up in front of my peers and said I wanted Jesus in my life. But what was amazing as I walked out of that chapel, I was saved in my spirit. But I found myself doing some of the same old things I did before I went in that chapel. But here was the difference. Before I could do those things and not feel bad about it, before I do those things, feel kind of good about it, kind of proud. Then all of a sudden, and this is what convinced me, something must have happened to me. I was like, something done really happened. I mean, I do those things, then I feel bad, like, what's wrong with me? And, you know, I was in front of the Christian. I don't know nothing about doing right, living right. I know nothing. So I'm just doing me. But I'm feeling bad because God is not just into changing our behavior. He wants to change our nature. In my new nature, I knew that ain't right. You're not sure what to do with this message. You see, a pig plays in the mud because it's his nature. Matter of fact, clean up a pig. But then you know what? He gonna go right back to the mud because that's who he is. So God's not just trying to chain you and give you a whole bunch of legalistic stuff to keep you from doing X, Y, and Z. He goes right to the root. He changes the pig. My wife doesn't like dirt. She don't like dirt. Nowhere on her anything. So he takes the. Instead of the pig's nature, he puts my wife's nature in. You know, I'm trying to say this correctly, But believe me, a pig. Sorry, with my wife's nature will not be in the dirt. That pig will soon have on high heels. That pig will still have soon have on lipstick, because that's her nature. And many of us get religion, but we don't get the new nature. And we're unhappy. We feel restricted because it's not our nature to do the things God commands. But scripture says it's for liberty that Christ set us free, meaning he frees us to live out our nature. Freedom is me being able to do what I want to do. You hear what I'm saying? And one of the reasons why when we're backslidden, we're so miserable. By the way, the most miserable people you're ever gonna meet are backslidden Christians. The reason they're miserable. Cause deep down on the inside, they know I shouldn't be living like this. I shouldn't be acting. Your spirit is crying out to God, help this joker keep making me do the wrong thing. Let me explain a little bit more. When it comes to humans, we're three parts, but majority rules. So we're spirit, soul and body. And the soul is the place we make the decision. And that's where the will and emotions are. And that's why we need to get in his word to change our thinking so we can start lining up more with the spiritual side versus the fleshly side. So, like with me, what happened when I was saved? My spirit got saved, but my soul was the same way. So when my body said my soul was like, that's what we do. And my spirit was like, no, dude, you've been changed. This is not our heritage. This is not our legacy. That's not how Daddy's children do things. You hear what I'm saying? So I Was saved, but I was carnal. But when your soul agrees with your spirit, you get enough information. This is why I teach this word line by line, piece by piece, so your soul and your spirit can agree. And when your spirit wants you to do the right thing, your soul, like, I don't know what that's about. It's like you know exactly what that's about because you read it in the book. Hear what I'm saying? And when your soul and your spirit agree, your body just got to go along with it. Your body not always happy about it. Your body sometimes dragging his feet, sucking his thumb and all the rest. But after a while, the body will learn who's boss. So we discovered that we're spirit, soul and and body. And then he says, the wind blows where it wishes. You hear the sound of it, you hear the results of it. So I literally saw results. There was a willingness to forgive. I was not a forgiving person. Do something wrong with me, I will remember to the day I die. And I'll be looking all my life for an opportunity to get even. But there was something new on the inside. And I was like, lord, I've gone soft. What's wrong with me? No, I've gone right. I'm part of a new family. We don't behave that way. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but can't tell where it comes from or where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the spirit. And what he's saying is, we can't see the wind. We don't know everything about the wind, but we don't question the wind's existence because we can see its effects. The greatest proof that I've been born again was the change in my life. You see, being born again is not a religion. It's just a life changed by God. In fact, if you're around me, I may disappoint you because I'm not the most religious person you're ever going to meet. I'm not going to pray long prayers. Sometimes I forget to pray before I eat. But here's the real deal. I've been praying all day, so that's just a small thing. But with that said, I'm not. You don't. Nothing wrong with robes, and they're honorable and good and, you know, but you don't see a robe. Nothing wrong with people that wear. But I'm not super outwardly religious, but I've been changed. Nicodemus was extremely religious. The problem was he hadn't Been changed. So Jesus is addressing it. Nicodemus answered and said to him, how can these things be? And watch Jesus explanation. It's like. He's like, come on, Jesus. I don't get this. He's like, how is this possible? It's born again. What? And then she said, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness. By the way, when people read that story before Jesus, like, what is this about? I don't get this. But watch what he says. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Numbers 21:4. Let's look at the story. Then they journeyed from Mount Ur by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, and. And the soul of the people became very discouraged. One translation, instead of discouraged, says, they become very impatient on the way. You know, impatience can cause otherwise really smart people to do very foolish things. In fact, sometimes developing patience is the very reason for the journey. God could resolve that issue like that. But God is patient. God is kind. And if you're gonna be part of his family and look like his family and represent him, he has to work patience in you, too. The journey, the process God has for us seldom kills us. I mean, it might kill the bad stuff in us, but it's really the impatience we have along the way that turns deadly. God puts you on the operating table, and, you know, it hurts a little bit, and I know he's giving you anesthesia and the rest, but, you know, it's a little uncomfortable. So you get off the table sooner than you should. You won't let God finish the process because he's trying to work something and fix something on the inside of you. But you don't want to be on that table. So you get down, but you're not stitched up. So stuff starts falling out and you're bleeding and all the rest. And then he has to put you back on the table, and you're like, God, why does this stuff keep happening in my life? Because if you would let me cut it out, sew you up and heal, you'll be able to experience the true benefit of. But you got to be patient with the process. And the people spoke against God and against Moses. Are you sure you want to be a pastor? Because when people get mad at God, they often get mad at you, too. And the people, you know, they became impatient. It's like it's not happening yet. Why it's taking so long? And what's wrong with Moses? And it was Just God and all the rest. And they spoke against him, said, why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? Come on, Moses, you could do better than this, Moses. Come on, God, you could do better than this. God, I've seen you do miracles like that, and this has taken so doggone long, Lord, I'm getting frustrated. And, you know, like, some of us in this room, it's like, you know, God, God, you just let us out of the construction process, now you're going to kill us with a new one. You know, this was their attitude and their thinking. For there's no food or water in our soul. Loathes this worthless bread. I mean, we are so sideways we can even get tired of miracles. I'm tired of this miracle manner. I mean, I could be dying here. And you do give us water. It's just not the amount we want in the way we want. But you know, Lord, I'm tired of being committed to the process. I'm tired of all this. I want to do it my way. Matter of fact, I'm going to switch churches to get more stuff I like on Sundays instead of this joke up there talking about stuff I don't want to hear. But I just want to remind you before you do that. Junk in, junk out. Junk in, junk, junk, junk out. Verse 6. So the Lord sent fiery or poisonous serpents among the people. Say with me. Snakes on the plain. Snakes on the plain. And they bit the people. And many of the people of Israel died. And here's the fact, the snake you keep listening to, at some point, God might have to let it bite you before you learn. Yeah, all six of you. I'm praying for y'. All. Therefore, the people came to Moses, the man they were just criticizing 10 minutes ago. Here's the question. Can you still pray for people that was still criticizing you just a couple minutes ago? But watch Moses, they came to him and said, listen, Mo, we've sinned. We've spoken against the Lord and against you. Sometimes we have very sappy apologies. It's like, well, if I made him. No, you know, you sinned. You know you did not. If I sin or if I, you know you did, just own it and say, I did it and I'm sorry. They said, well, you know, Lord, we have sinned against you against the Lord and against you. Say, Moses, would you pray to the Lord? Now Jesus is our Moses today that he take away the servants from us. But God is a 7 times 70 God and he wouldn't tell us to forgive 7 times 70. Unless he forgave 7 times 70. So watch what his servant did. If you're really a servant of God, you will be able to do what Moses did. Here, watch what Moses did he curse those jokers? No, he prayed for the people. When we repent, God recycles. He will use even our words for good. God knows how to turn it around. Verse 8. Then the Lord said to Moses something really strange, particularly if you, you know, you didn't have Jesus explain it to us. He said, make a fire, make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. Don't snakes typically represent evil in the Bible? Why would a holy God want to put a poisonous snake on a pole in the middle of the camp and then have everybody look at it? Well, 2nd Corinthians 5:21 says it this way. For our sake, he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Jesus became what we are on the cross, sin so we could become what he was on the cross. A son. Back to 21 and 8. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, all of us, have been bitten by sin at some point in our journey, at some point in our life. Not only have we been bitten, we have bit others with our sins. And it shall be that everyone. I don't care what you did, what type of sin it was, I don't care how bad it was. I don't care what we culturally say or don't say about it. Everyone who is bitten when he looks at that snake on the pole shall live. So we have an image of Jesus on the cross that has been painted by Hollywood. However, if Hollywood was able to even come close to presenting a picture of what happened on the cross, it would be rated xxxx. The Bible says that his face was marred beyond any other man's. He was so disfigured you couldn't recognize him. It wasn't just from sweating droplets of blood that will mess you up, really give you a bad day. It wasn't just the beating. When they smacked him in the head with the rods and then they whipped him at the post. And that killed men, often even before they went to the cross. And it wasn't just the cross. The Bible says the sins of the entire world were placed on him. Every foul thought, imagination, intention, machination was placed on Jesus. Every sickness, every disease put in his bloodstream. The curse. The Bible says he became a curse for us. He was on that cross, cursed. And when people looked, they were like he must have blasphemed the Pharisees and the Sadducees because only God could make a man look like that. So what Moses had them do to prefigure the cross, he put a snake up there, the depiction of evil. Because Jesus would not sin, but take our sins, absorb our sins into himself, but still be greater than our sins. Because he's more than a man, He's God at the cross. All of the penalty that was due you, Jesus absorbed. And then on the third day he rose again, all power in his hand, letting us know that you are free as he is. We shall be also and it shall be that everyone who was bitten, when he looks at it, when you look to the cross, when you look away from your strength, your ability, even your failures, and you look to your substitute who became like we are so we could become like he is. The Holy Spirit moves in our heart and transforming. We can't explain how, just like we don't know where the wind come, how it does. I don't know how the Holy Spirit does, but he goes on the inside of the deepest recess of who you are and he takes out the old deadly death and puts in life. And your nature shifts. You become a child of the most High God and in the Spirit. If you had a spiritual nose, it looked just like the Father. If you have spiritual hands, they look just like the Father on the inside. The Bible says it this way. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Meaning there's something that looks just like Christ on the inside of you if you've been born again. And that is your hope of change and glory in the age to come. Did I lose you or are you with Give God just a hand clap for just a second and a hallelujah and I'm going to wrap up. John 3:14. So Jesus is explaining the new birth and he said and as Moses lifted up the servant in the wilderness, even so must there was no other way of redemption. Muhammad couldn't do it, Buddha couldn't do it. There was no other way. John looked and wept. And it's like you know, there was no one that could open a seal. But behold, the Lamb of God showed up and was able. Isaiah couldn't do it, Daniel couldn't do it, Adam himself couldn't do it. No man could do it. So God became a man to get it done for you and I. And as Moses lifted up the servant in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. The nails did not hold Jesus to the cross. It was his love for. For you and I. Verse 15. And here's the reason why he did it. That whoever, whoever you is, whoever you are, whoever you ain't, whatever you is, whoever. No exception. Only God can make whosoever statements like this and keep them. And if you are whoever, the things I'm preaching today belong to you. That whoever believes in him should not perish. But watch this. Have eternal life. God puts his own life into your spirit. That life that makes God. God is inside your living spirit. And then in your spirit he places the Holy Spirit and you become a power that the world has not seen seen. No miracle has ever been done like the miracle of the new birth in each of our lives. And here's the good news. If you look to Jesus today, you can live. You can be made new, you can be healed, you can be put back together again. Even the most broken hearted can be mended. If you bring the pieces, all the pieces to God today. I'm asking. Yes sir. Bring all the broken pieces. Bring every mess up, every screw up. 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