36 Acts 10.44-48 The Same Story

April 21, 2024

Christopher C. Freeman

Title: The Same Story Text: Acts 10:44-48 FCF: We often struggle with assuring ourselves of our and others’ faith. Prop: Because all true believers share a common conversion experience, we must observe these in all whom we give assurance and receive into fellowship. Scripture Intro: [Slide 1] Turn in your bible to Acts chapter 10. In a moment we’ll be reading from the LSB starting in verse 44. You can follow along in the pew bible on page 1243 or in whatever version you prefer. Today we will conclude the episode of Cornelius, saving the epilogue of chapter 11 for next week. God’s hand has been prevalent in this entire episode. Giving two visions, speaking through the Spirit directly to Peter, leading him to the home of a Gentile, finding many gathered there. And after Peter gives a focused explanation of the gospel that Jesus is Lord of all, now we’ll see the dramatic conclusion. And although there are few doctrinal issues that arise here in which Christians disagree, even amid those differences we will highlight the common and uniform experience of conversion for all who are truly united to Christ by faith. So, stand with me out of respect for and to focus on the reading of the Word of God. Invocation: O Christ, we have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and believed in you. May your Spirit meet with us today, and guarantee our inheritance in you, to the praise of your glory. In your name we pray. Amen. Transition: [Slide 2] If something has fur, a tail and barks. You would probably call it a dog. If something has feathers, a bill, and quacks – a duck. Grey skin, very large, with a trunk… you got it - elephant. Isn’t it funny that I can list out three characteristics of an animal and invariably you can guess what it was. Why is that? Well, we come to expect certain characteristics and attributes to be the same across certain animals. Even though no two elephants are exactly the same. Generally speaking they share certain characteristics. Today, Peter will conclude without doubt that the Gentiles before him are genuine members of the body of Christ. He does not conclude this on a whim. Instead, he isolates key characteristics that prove it to be true. Let’s see if we can arrive where Peter does. I.) All true believers share a common conversion experience, so we must look for these commonalities for the assurance of salvation. (44-46a) a. [Slide 3] 44 – While Peter was still speaking these things, i. Peter’s message was not yet concluded. ii. Most likely Peter intended to carry on preaching like he did at Pentecost to implore Cornelius and his friends and family to repent and believe in the name of Jesus. iii. However, Peter was interrupted. And he was interrupted by the Third Person of the Godhead, God the Holy Spirit. b. [Slide 4] The Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the word. i. Because we will need to gather all the evidence from this text to do so, we will not comment on the specific meaning of the words “fell upon” here. Nor will we unpack exactly what the Spirit’s work is at this point. We’ll reserve that for the end. ii. Let’s unpack everything else though. iii. First, although we aren’t looking at the specific nature of the work, we can generally conclude by context that the Spirit’s activity here is indicative of the work of salvation coming to Cornelius, his family, and his friends. iv. Secondly, we should see that not everyone in Cornelius’ house that day received the Spirit’s work. It was only those who were listening to the Word. Implying of course that not all of them were listening. c. [Slide 5] 45 – And all the circumcised believers who came with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also, i. For us, this might seem almost insulting. ii. The Jews really didn’t expect the Holy Spirit to be given to gentiles? Wow. How elitist. iii. Well, no, not really. Even in the Old Testament where God alludes to the global nature of His kingdom and where God prophesies about the coming of the New Covenant… all is shrouded in mystery. iv. Paul comments about this in II Corinthians 3. v. But even if someone were to see through those mysterious shadows and perceive that God’s Spirit would dwell in those of the New Covenant, who were all these prophesies written to? vi. Were they not written to Jews? Jeremiah 31 – this covenant will I make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. No mention of the nations here. vii. So, before we get too uppity ourselves, let us stop to consider how sensical the assumption was that Gentiles must become Jews before they become Christians. And even then, it would be uncertain if they inherited the New Covenant in the same way the Jews did. viii. But here, 6 Jewish Christians, 7 if you count Peter, bore witness to the gift of the Holy Spirit being poured out on the Gentiles. ix. Of course, the question remains how these Jewish Christians knew for a fact that these Gentiles had received the gift of the Spirit being poured out… x. Verse 46 answers that question. d. [Slide 6] 46a – For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. i. Here we see two distinct evidences that they had received the gifting of the Holy Spirit that He had been poured out on them. ii. First, they spoke in tongues. 1. [Slide 7] To remind ourselves, the tongues of the scriptures are not gibberish or babble , nor are they languages unknown to humans, and the only time they appear as a private prayer to God is when they are unprofitable to public worship and edification since they are uninterpreted. 2. Every single time the bible speaks of the gift of tongues in the scriptures it is always a known human language that is supposed to be uttered publicly unless there is no one to interpret it. Tongues were never intended of as a private prayer language, nor is the gift ever linked with non-human languages. 3. [Slide 8] If we confine ourselves to the book of Acts, we can make some further observations of the gift of tongues. a. We have no record thus far of any person privately receiving salvation and the gift of tongues together. b. When tongues are given, they are given only when a large group comes to Christ. And that group is always one that has never before received the gospel of Christ. c. Meaning what? d. The gift of tongues in the book of Acts so far has been used exclusively as a sign gift. A gift used to be a sign to others. e. Meaning what? f. We have seen the gift of tongues used to authenticate the message of the apostles to unbelievers. g. And although unclear, we have also seen some kind of sign gift used, probably tongues, to authenticate to the apostles that God has saved a new group of people. h. Outside of those two examples… we have not seen tongues linked to salvation, nor have we seen tongues used for any other purpose. iii. [Slide 9] So, we must ask ourselves – what is the purpose of the gift of tongues here? 1. Here it seems like it is not the messenger that needs authentication to the hearer but rather the apostle Peter and generally Jewish Christians, need this sign to authenticate that God has saved these Gentiles. 2. They received the same salvation the Jews received. iv. But this was not the only confirming sign that they had received the gift of the Spirit. v. [Slide 10] Second, they magnified God. 1. Although certainly less flashy, this is the primary indicative experience of all those who genuinely receive the gift of the Spirit of God in conversion. They are changed inside and out. 2. These Gentiles experienced the joy of the Lord in their conversion. They knew God and praised Him for what He had done for them. 3. This again proves to us that these tongues were known languages – probably Hebrew or Aramaic – since these Jewish Christians understood what they said to be magnifying the Lord. 4. And for these 6 Jewish Christians, these two signs proved one astounding truth. God has seen fit in His wisdom and grace to offer Christ and His indwelling Spirit to Gentiles in the same way He has been offered to the Jews. That by faith in Christ they can receive forgiveness and new life in Him. 5. And they can do all this without first becoming a Jew. e. [Slide 11] Summary of the Point: All people of every nation, tribe, language, color, gender, social and economic sphere, who through the name of Jesus believe in Him will receive forgiveness of sins and be indwelled with the Holy Spirit and produce evidence of that indwelling. This is the normal indicative experience of those who are united to Christ by true faith. And it doesn’t matter what your background is, it doesn’t matter what your identity is, there is a uniform experience. So as the church of Jesus today, we must look for this uniform experience for assurance of our own salvation and to help others find assurance of their salvation. Transition: [Slide 12(blank)] But besides gaining assurance for ourselves and that others are truly believers, what else must we do with the fact that the conversion experience among all true believers is held in common? II.) All true believers share a common conversion experience, so we must look for these commonalities to remove all hindrances from baptism and acceptance into the church. (46b-48) a. [Slide 13] 46b – Then Peter answered, i. What exactly is Peter answering? ii. Is he answering the tongues sign or the magnifying of God by the newly converted Gentiles? iii. Is he speaking to the astonished Jewish Christians, even though they haven’t actually said anything? iv. And what is the nature of his answer? Is it corrective or instructive? v. How is Peter going to react to all of this? Is Peter going to rebuke the whole thing or has Peter learned from the vision he saw? b. [Slide 14] 47 - “Can anyone refuse water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did?” i. Peter’s answer is full of meaning. ii. First, although it appears that he is looking for consensus or agreement from the 6 Jews who came with him, the LSB’s translation is mostly to blame for that. 1. It isn’t poorly translated – that is for sure. But there are two words of negation in this text that the LSB does not translate. 2. The NIV translates this much closer to what Peter is saying I think “Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.” 3. This is not Peter asking for consensus. Even though this is a question it is actually a statement. 4. Like when I say to my daughter… If I go out and check your chores to see if you’ve done them and find that they are undone, can I come back in and punish you? 5. Now am I asking her for consent? No. I am giving her a statement. My statement is, you better have done your chores or you will be punished. 6. Peter in a similar way says – you should see nothing keeping these people from being baptized because they have received the Holy Spirit just as we have. iii. Second, from Peter’s response, we also see his affirmation that the Gentiles received the Spirit in the same way that he and the other Jewish Christians with him had received the Spirit. 1. These 6 Jewish Christians are from Joppa. Meaning that they are not apostles. Therefore, Peter is not speaking to a specific reception of the Spirit as at Pentecost, but rather to a unified reception of the Spirit among Jews who had truly become part of the church. 2. Peter is saying that these Gentiles, though not being circumcised, though not being Jews, had received the Spirit the same way they had. 3. This was all the authentication Peter needed to state that there was nothing preventing them from being baptized. iv. But another point we must consider is that this scripture seems to be a huge difficulty for those who believe in infant baptism. 1. Although many Pedobaptists have attempted to use Peter’s response to defend infant baptism, it falls short. 2. They say, that Peter’s remarks here highlight the peculiarity that they had received the Spirit prior to being baptized but still needed to be baptized even though what the sign anticipates has already happened. 3. However, under careful analysis of what Peter actually says, it doesn’t hold up. 4. Peter is not saying that since the cart was before the horse, we might as well supply the horse. Instead, Peter sees the reception of the Holy Spirit as the irrefutable evidence that they should be baptized. Why? Because that is exactly how it happened for the Jews. 5. This is not pointing to the peculiarity of order but rather to the commonality of nationality. The Gentiles received the Spirit in the same way we have. 6. Therefore, to have received the Holy Spirit serves as the evidence we must look for to confirm without doubt that someone should be baptized. 7. Peter here does not see Baptism as an anticipatory sign but as a confirming sign. Water baptism confirms that Spirit baptism has already occurred. v. And while we are already distracted talking about these doctrinal matters, let’s go ahead and insert our discussion on the work of the Holy Spirit in this text. vi. [Slide 15] We are 10 chapters into the book of Acts. In those 10 chapters we have had a fairly large sampling of the activity of the Holy Spirit, especially concerning conversion. 1. In that sampling we can see that The Holy Spirit’s work at the experience of conversion is not identical. We’ll not take the time to go through it all, but on the screen is a brief sampling we can go through this upcoming Wednesday night. 2. So, what is common among these examples? a. No doubt the reason there is confusion is because Luke uses several terms to speak of the Spirit’s work. i. Baptism of the Spirit ii. Filling of the Spirit iii. Pouring out of the Spirit iv. The gift of the Spirit v. Receiving the Spirit vi. The Spirit falling upon b. But we are confused because sometimes multiple things happen at the same time and sometimes they don’t. c. We are confused because this is probably a square rectangle situation here. d. Just like all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares, so also, all who have had the Spirit fall on them, be poured out on them, or fill them have also received the gift of the Spirit and been baptized with the Spirit also. e. Thus we see the Spirit’s work divide nicely into two categories. i. The indwelling of the Spirit which is referred to as the Baptism of the Spirit, the gift of the Spirit, and receiving the Spirit. ii. And then we have the empowering of the Spirit which is referred to as the filling of, falling upon, and pouring out of the Spirit. f. Analyzing the book of Acts we find that all who received the empowering had also received the indwelling. But not all who received the indwelling also received the empowering. 3. [Slide 16] In this we can draw some doctrinal teachings. a. All who are regenerated of the Spirit and given eyes and ears to receive faith in Christ, will receive the gift of the baptism of the Spirit of God. Which is being indwelled with the Spirit. b. The empowering of the Spirit is a special and sometimes repeated work of the Spirit in those who have already been indwelled with the Spirit. This empowering is to perform a special task or function for a special purpose of God. c. Pentecostal Christians insist that the sign gifts, particularly the gift of tongues, is either a necessary sign for all who are genuinely Christians, or is a sign that whoever speaks in tongues are a higher tier of Christian than those who do not. i. Many who have attended these churches have felt an inordinate amount of pressure to produce the sign of tongues, but unfortunately, they produce a completely foreign sign to that of the scriptures. For the language they speak is, in most cases, not a human language at all. Nor is it being used as a sign to authenticate anything except that they are connected to God in some unclear way. ii. Much of what occurs in Pentecostal churches is directly contrary to what Paul instructs in I Cor 14 about the priority of preaching and the need for edification to be at the center. 1. Oftentimes in Pentecostal churches the sermon is underemphasized and sign gifts overemphasized. 2. Paul commands that an interpreter be present, which is often disregarded. 3. And Paul even reveals that tongues are a sign to unbelievers, whether they are interpreted or not. But if they are left uninterpreted it will chase them away from the truth of the gospel. vii. And so, we can conclude that the work of the Spirit here in this text speaks to both the indwelling and empowering of the Spirit for these Gentiles. The indwelling accompanied their faith and the empowering produced the speaking in tongues and magnifying the Lord. c. [Slide 17] 48 – And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. i. The six men though convinced that baptism must be administered, hesitated waiting for the Apostle to perform the duty. ii. But Peter commanded them to baptize these who had received the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. iii. We are not told that it was carried out, but the context suggests that Cornelius and a large portion of his household and friends were baptized that day and became members of the growing Church of Jesus Christ. d. [Slide 18] Then they asked him to remain for a few days. i. Here we see one final proof that they had received the Spirit. ii. They were hungry for instruction and fellowship. iii. I’d wager that the same four devotions from Acts 2 were present here. iv. They desired to be taught further the apostles’ teaching. v. They desired to fellowship with Peter and the other believers in a new family. vi. They desired to share the Lord’s Supper with them. vii. And they desired to devote themselves to corporate prayer together. viii. What a sweet time this would have been! How earth shattering. Even the Gentiles are being saved! e. [Slide 19] Summary of the Point: Peter points to the common and uniform experience that the Jews and the Gentiles shared in the salvation of their souls. That they too received the gift of the Spirit after repenting and believing the gospel. Therefore, he saw no reason to deny the Gentiles both the sacrament of baptism and the admission into visible church as a sign of their membership in the universal church. It was the fact of the common experience among all who are united to Christ by faith that made Peter strongly conclude that these Gentiles must be baptized. And so, for us we must also look for the same common experience among those who desire to receive the sacrament of baptism and be received as members of our local body. Conclusion: So, what can we see from this CBC? What doctrinal points can we learn and apply today? Doctrinal Takeaway: [Slide 20] As the church expanded and the gospel was preached to Gentiles, the question remained, will this be a separate church? Will the gospel be received by Gentiles and if so, will it be different than how it was received by the Jews? But since there was no essential difference between the conversion experience of the Gentiles and the Jews… When they saw that they repented and believed in Jesus as the Messiah of God and Lord of all, and received the indwelling of the Spirit of God just like the Jews did… Because everything about their conversion experience was the same as the Jews… Peter concluded that they must be baptized into the community of faith with the Jews. There was nothing preventing them… Not circumcision, not becoming a Jew first… nothing. The Gentiles and Jews were no longer divided. Just like God’s vision revealed to Peter before. There was no more clean and unclean because God has made the unclean… clean. People of every background so long as their experience includes repentance, faith, and the reception of the Spirit of God – are part of the body of Christ. Truly there is no partiality with God. For us then, when we look for the assurance of our own faith, or to confirm the faith of others and baptize them and receive them as members of our church – we must look for those common traits that all true believers have. The uniform experience of conversion. But let me get a little more specific here and apply this to our everyday lives. 1.) [Slide 21] Mind Transformation: “What truth must we believe from this text?” or “What might we not naturally believe that we must believe because of what this text has said?” We must believe that conversion is a uniform experience among all who are truly in Christ. a. When Jesus began His ministry, it is said that He went about preaching repentance and belief in the gospel. b. When Peter preaches in Acts, he highlights these two essentials. That they repent and believe on Jesus as Lord of all. c. As the New Testament writers penned their letters under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, They encouraged their readers to continue to turn from sin and to continue to trust on Christ, not simply for salvation but to trust Him enough to love and obey Him. d. New Testament writers affirm what Peter says here, that the indwelling of the Spirit is an incontrovertible proof that someone is of Christ and needs to be baptized. e. And if someone has the Spirit of God living within them, they will know it! They will know it by the change in their lives. They will know it by their passions being made new. They will know it by their ability to love and obey the Lord. f. Repentance from sin, faith in Christ, receipt of the Spirit which is evidenced by a changed life. g. These three are necessary components of the religious experience called conversion. This is how God converts us into Christ followers. h. He gifts us with repentance from sin, faith in Christ, and His Spirit indwelling us. i. And my friends, this is all or nothing. j. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never turned from their sin. k. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never trusted in the finished work of Christ. l. There is no such thing as a Christian who has never received the gift of the indwelling of the Spirit. m. And there is no such thing as a Christian who having received the Spirit has not gone on to love and Obey Jesus Christ. n. Every true believer… Has all of these in common as their Salvation Story. o. Even children raised in the church having never done drugs or fornicated… Even they must turn from their sin of self-righteousness and pride. Both of which are abominations to God. p. Even children raised to have always believed that Jesus died on the cross for sin and was raised the third day… must by God-gifted faith embrace and wholly depend on this Lord to save them. q. Even children raised in the church, good mannered and well versed in the scriptures, must receive the Spirit of God to truly walk in the way of Christ and to preserve them in good works until the day of judgment. r. We all have the same story my friends. It binds us together. s. We were wretched sinners. Saved by grace through faith in Christ. And He has put His Spirit in our hearts crying Abba! Father! We are not slaves we are sons and if sons then heirs. t. We all have the same story! u. Therefore, we must confess that all true believers will have the same story we have. They must. Or they are not true believers. 2.) [Slide 22] Refutation: “What lies must we cast down” or “What do we naturally believe, or have been taught to believe, that this passage shows is false?” We must deny that a uniform conversion means an identical conversion. a. Yes, these 3, repentance, faith, and the Spirit’s indwelling, are all true of all believers… b. But that does not mean that every conversion will be the same. c. There may be differences in timing. i. Some may experience faith before repentance. They want Christ to save them but it takes time for them to want to leave their sin. ii. Some may wait weeks, repenting and believing before they receive the Spirit. d. There may be differences in form i. Some may pray earnestly in repentance and faith. ii. Some may keep it all in their heads and hearts. iii. Some may wake from dreams or drunken stupors with repentance on their lips and faith in their hearts. iv. Some may hear a preacher preach the Word and come to faith. Others may simply pick up a bible and read and believe. e. There may be differences in degrees i. Some may weep and wail begging for God’s forgiveness. ii. Some may yell and leap for joy. iii. Others may feel a weight of sin lifted. iv. Others may make the logical and comparatively colder calculation that Jesus is Lord of all and I must abandon my life and serve Him. Not a tear shed and joy gained but only in the matter being settled and the questions answered. f. There may be differences in theological precision. i. From long winded, tear filled confession of all that the sinner has done to a simple acknowledgement of sin’s curse – it is all repentance. ii. From precise declarations of all Jesus is to the simple – Jesus save me… g. Though every story is the same in that we all turn from sin, cast ourselves upon Christ and receive His Spirit… Every story is not identical. It is not one-size-fits-all. 3.) [Slide 23] De-Exhortation: “What actions should we stop doing” or “What behaviors do we naturally practice that this passage tells us to stop doing?” We must stop accepting abnormal or insufficient assurances of true conversion. a. Did you pray a prayer? b. Did you walk an aisle? c. Did you accept Jesus into your heart? d. Were you baptized? e. Do you believe in God? f. Do you affirm these doctrinal truths? g. Are your parents Christians? h. Were you raised in the church? i. Are you concerned if you are truly saved? j. Do you think you can lose your salvation? k. These are all… useless questions. They ask nothing and predictably they answer nothing. l. They neither bring assurance nor comfort to anyone. m. They are tropes that aim at targets they cannot see. And we are surprised when they miss? 4.) [Slide 24] Exhortation: “What actions should we take?” or “What is this passage specifically commanding us to do that we don’t naturally do or aren’t currently doing?” We must test ourselves and others to prove this uniform conversion experience is true of us. a. Though the questions before ask nothing and answer nothing… because true Christians all have a uniform conversion experience… b. We can boil down our tests to three simple yet pregnant questions. c. Have we truly turned from sin? d. Have we truly believed on Christ alone? e. Have we truly received the indwelling of the Spirit of God? f. But how would we know the answers to these? g. If we have truly turned from sin, we ought to see a fight. A battle. A war. i. We ought to see evidence of a fleeing, fighting, scrapping, brawling person fighting tooth and nail to escape sin. ii. And we ought NOT see someone holding, cherishing, nurturing, or hiding sin. iii. If we’ve turned from it – it means we don’t want it anymore. Not that we don’t sin… but we hate it. iv. Sin is described in the scripture as an incurable illness or disease. Think about an incurable disease. Let’s go ahead and say it… cancer. Do you treat your sin… like cancer? v. If I could just get a little more cancer. I know its not great for me but I love cancer so much. vi. Foolishness. vii. Have you turned from sin? h. If we have truly believed on Jesus Christ alone, we ought to see a growing love and dependance on Him. i. We ought to see a resting in the Person and work of Christ. ii. We ought to see a cherishing of His Words. iii. We ought to see an emulation of His ways. iv. We ought to see a love for Him and what He’s done. v. We ought to see a passion to know Him more and more. vi. We ought to see joy overwhelm us when we speak of the cleansing power of the cross. vii. We ought to see a hope burn in us that He will return and take us home. viii. We ought to see a growing dissatisfaction with the world and a longing for His Kingdom. ix. We ought to see Him be our everything and everything else by comparison become nothing. x. We ought to see a love for His church. We ought to see a desire to worship with them, serve them, love them, and help them. xi. We ought NOT be attempting to earn or keep our salvation by our performance. xii. We ought NOT be flippant toward the church, the Word of God, or sin. xiii. We ought NOT be fearful or anxious over earthly struggles, nor should they overwhelm and undo us. i. And if we have truly received the Spirit of God, we should see change. i. Not change over days or weeks. But over years. ii. We ought NOT be the same people we were. iii. We ought to see a passion and power to love and obey the Lord. iv. We ought to see a passion and power to love and serve His people. v. We ought to see a passion and power to love unbelievers and share the gospel with them. vi. We ought to bear the scars of the Holy Spirit’s hostile takeover of our lives. j. If these are true and we have the same story… We can be assured of our identity in Christ. 5.) [Slide 25] Comfort: “What comfort can we find here?” or “What peace does the Lord promise us in light of this passage of scripture?” Sharing a uniform conversion binds us to one another as equal inheritors in the promises of Christ. a. Not only are we assured and comforted by sharing the same story together. b. But such a shared story necessarily binds us to one another. c. We are all unworthy and wretched inheritors of beautiful promises. d. Promises we would have no part in were it not for Jesus Christ. e. We are all paupers turned into princes. f. We are beggars made Barons. g. We have all turned from sin, so we can help each other in the fight against it. h. We have all trusted in Christ, so we can help each other cling ever tighter to Him and what He’s done, the joy of what He’s doing, and the hope of what He will do. i. We have all received the Spirit, so we are all the temple of the Living God. We are God bearers all of us. We walk around with His Spirit providing the passion and the power to serve Him. j. Do you not find comfort in this? k. We all have the same story. A beautiful story of wretched little street urchins doing the will of our father the devil… but then suddenly adopted and made children of the Most High God. Let me close with a prayer by the Puritan Matthew Henry Lord, our souls have told you: you are our God. Other lords have had dominion over us, but we affirm the Lord this day to be our God. We will walk in your ways, keep your commandments, honor your judgments. We will listen to your voice and give ourselves to you as your people-for your praise, and for your glory. Lord, truly we are your servants, born in your house. You have loosed our bonds. We are bought with a price, so we are not our own, but yield ourselves to you. We join ourselves to you in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten. We are yours. Save us, for we seek your ways. We give you what is yours, that which comes from your hand. It is in Jesus name we pray this… Amen. Benediction: May the God of all grace, Who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, Himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you! Until we meet again… Go in peace.