Valiant Love

Amen. But I’m thankful to be with you, my great, great friends, the Strobels, who have been such a blessing to my life. I thank them as well. And I don’t want to. I don’t want to belabor.

I want to get right into the word of the Lord today. I want to go to the Book of Judges, chapter 6 and verse 12. And I want to preach today about valiant love. And I trust that it’ll be a blessing to you. The Book of Judges, chapter 6, verse 12.

It’s more of a declaration that I want to make over the men that are in this room. I want to make it over everyone, but especially the men and fathers that are in the room. The Bible says, the Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. I want to preach about valiant love. Can we pray one more time?

Father, I thank you for bringing me back to this house. I thank you for the. The people that make this house a house of worship and a house of prayer. And I pray that you would use me one more time for your glory, that everything I say and do would bring glory to your name. And I pray that the body would be strengthened today in Jesus name.

And everyone said, I want to start out this story with. Start out this sermon today with a. A little bit of a. Of a story that. I’m not gonna lie.

There’s no humility in the story. I’m pretty proud of this story. It was about two weeks ago. I was coming. Gene and I had gone to lunch, and we were doing what we all do best here in America.

We had gone to get Mexican and came back. And it’s funny, only in America can you go to Mexico and come home and be like, you know what? Let’s go get Mexican. Hallelujah. They didn’t have queso in Cancun.

Let’s go get some queso here. And so we went to get our traditional American, white, Mexican ques, and we’d come back to the house. And we’re pulling up into our top driveway, and on my side of the garage, I saw a snake. Now, you don’t know me enough to understand the significance of this story. I am the one that called 911 in 1996 because I saw a fox running down the road.

And I was born and raised in Chicago. I saw a fox running down the road, And I called 911 to report that there was a fox running down the road. And I didn’t know that 911 had hold music until that day. They said, what’s Your emergency? I said, yes, there’s a fox running westbound on Westmore Avenue.

And they’re like, one moment, and I. And someone else comes back on, laughing. What’s your emergency? I said, yes, there is a living, breathing fox running down Westmore Avenue. And he said, are you sure it’s alive?

I’m like, sir, why are you laughing? He’s like, son, if it was a plastic fox fox. I’m like, no, no, no. So you gotta. I mean, like, I felt like I was at the zoo that day, seeing a fox run down the street in Chicago.

I’m not. You know, it’s. I. I don’t go hunting. I go fishing at stocked lakes.

I mean, I don’t. And so we’re pulling up into the parking lot, and there is a snake. And it’s not a little snake, it’s a big snake. I don’t care if you say, was it black? I don’t care.

I don’t care what color it was. I don’t care if it had it all. I know the devil himself, Beelzebub, Satan, the one that spoke to Eve is now in front of my garage. And I got a man up. I’m like, I got a moment with my wife right now.

I might be 5 foot 8, but right now I could be 6 foot 8 in her presence if I man up. So we pulled up and I said, gina. She didn’t see it, by the way. I said, gina, I. I need you to do me a favor.

I need you to get out your door and go straight through the gate to the pool and don’t turn around. And she said, that’s really weird. I said, I need you to trust me. Don’t turn around. Just walk through the gate and don’t look back.

Just go straight to the pool. She said, you’re scaring me. I said, woman, no, I would never do that. Last time I did that. You see the scar?

So I said, honey, please just go through the gate. And so she got through the gate and she said, can I turn around? I said, yes, you can. I said, I just want to make you aware of why. I said, honey, there’s a snake over here.

Well, the whole neighborhood found out, because next thing you hear, oh, that got a snake. What are we gonna do? I’m like, I got it. She’s like, yeah, what are we gonna do? I’m like, so I know we have a shovel.

I just don’t know where we keep the shovel. I am the manliest man you could have brought to Preach, Father’s day. I know we got one. I just don’t know where it is. And so I go and look in the garage.

It’s not there. I’m looking around. And so anyhow, it’s in the pool room. I run and I get it from the pool room. By the time I get back, that thing has kind of slithered off, and I kind of caught it by the tail, and then it slithered under the house.

Now we are at a make or break point, because I don’t. When it slithered under the house, I don’t know where it’s going to go next. And I’ve watched TV shows. I think that thing is going to come through an AC vent. So it’s either I got to do something or we got to sell the house.

House. There’s only two options, only two reasonable, rational options right now. I either find this thing, or we got to sell the house. And so I’m. I, I.

I went to Lowe’s. I got some kind of a spray that you put on a hose. And my wife is just watching me, which is. I mean, eyes like, I, I mean, she’s never. I mean, I just.

Man, I felt. Man, I feel awesome. That is just. Wow. Are you gonna get it?

I’m like, yes, I am. How are you gonna get. And then. And then. And then she’d, you know, remember it was me.

And so again, ah, there’s a snake. So now the neighbor has run out, and she’s like, don’t mind us. There’s just a snake over here. So the neighbor comes, he’s got a garden tool in his hand. I think it’s called a hoe.

I don’t know. It’s like some big. And he’s right. Do you need my help? He’s.

I’m like, I. I’m like, I got it. And she’s like, take his help. I’m like, woman, I got it. So I go to Lowe’s.

I buy the spray, I hook the hose up to the spray, and then there’s the hole by the garage. And so I don’t know what came over me. I get down on my knees, I look down in that hole, and I look eye to eye with the devil himself, like old Belzebub. There you are. Upon thy belly shall thou dwell.

In the dust shall thou eat. Why are you under my house? And she’s like, can you see it? I said, I’m looking at it right in the eye. She’s like, you’re so brave.

And something came on me I’m like, yeah, I might just pull it out with my two hands now. And then I remember, like, no, it’s a snake. I’m not touching it. I don’t have gloves. So I sprayed that.

I mean, I was trying to flood that thing out. And finally I got a quick. I gotta hasten this story, by the way, Virginia Beach. Thank you for tuning in to whatever this is right now, but thank you for tuning in. And so that snake finally comes out of where it was hiding, and it sticks its head, head up, and it’s looking for this clown.

And now I got that shovel, and my wife is. I got the best audience. I got the audience I’ve ever wanted. My wife is just. I mean, no popcorn, no drinks.

I mean, she is fully engaged. The neighbor is over there. Ring cameras are on. ADT is watching even when you’re not. And so, I mean, everything’s going on.

And I got that shovel and I came over and, wow. Cut that serpent’s head off. And just for just like David with Goliath, I didn’t just. I started sawing that sucker off. Separated head from the body.

I’m sorry if he didn’t have breakfast yet. And that. That body still slithering. And I didn’t. I didn’t even.

You could preach a whole sermon about this. That thing still tried to get under the house without the head, and now I got to catch it, and I’m flipping it in the air and I got it. So. And I finally put it in a bag and I just. And.

And when it was all done, my wife said, you did that? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. For the kids in the room. Yes, I did.

Yes, I did. I don’t remember anyways. Yes, I did. She said, wow. She’s told that story to her parents, her aunts, her uncles.

She called my mother. She told one of my aunts. She told all of our children. She’s walked around just talking about, let me tell you what my husband did. My husband killed a snake for me.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is probably the most manly thing I have. It’s the most Southern thing for sure that I’ve ever done. I got so done with that, I wanted to go sell my American Eagle jeans, go get some Wrangler jeans, get out of these loafers and buy some boots. But I don’t know where to buy boots. I mean, I felt like a man.

Got a fake Southern accent and everything after that, because I felt like a man. I felt like I had. Did I did something manly. I did Something that had to do with just strength and someone’s out there. It don’t take a lot of strength to kill the snake.

Well, it did that day. I had to saw that head off. So when we talk about the word valor, a lot of people would associate valor with strength. Or in my case, a snake killer. He’s a man of valor.

He’s not scared of snakes. My wife has asked me now at least four or five times, how are you so brave that day? And I’m just. I’m like, since I know she’s not watching right now, I could, I’ve, I’ve. I have milked that story.

I’m like, well, honey, I just knew I had to be brave for you. I just. I had to protect you. I just know how much they terrify you, and I just wasn’t gonna let it get to you. Wow.

Hallelujah. Glory to God. Anyways, enough said about that. But valor is normally associated just with brute strength. But when you read the scripture, valor isn’t necessarily strength.

It’s the sense of responsibility. It’s not just the ability to fight. It’s the willing to sacrifice. Like old Tony Suarez here. Hallelujah.

It’s the willingness to sacrifice for the people that you care for and the people that have been entrusted to you. Our generation doesn’t suffer from a lack of men. There’s men everywhere. But we suffer from a generation that has lost the concept of valor and understand their assignment. To be fathers, to be sons, to be pastors, to be professionals, to just be men.

At the end of the day, a man of valor is a protector, a provider, a leader, one that knows sacrifice. And throughout history, you see that God raises up men who would stand in the gap, carry responsibilities, and lead others to safety. There’s three that I’m going to focus on today. One that saved his family, one that saved his nation, and then the one that saved me. I want to start by talking about a man named Noah.

That when the world was filled with violence and corruption, Noah chose righteousness. We live in a society filled with violence, filled with corruption. You know, when I was raised, and I’ve talked about this here before, when I was raised in church, TVs were called the one eyed devil, and you weren’t supposed to have one in your house. And, and you know, we preached against the technology rather than the media, not understanding that it wasn’t the technology in itself that was evil, but it was the media. But we’ve gotten to the point now where the media is so evil it’s so corrupt.

I don’t want to turn it on on my phone, on my iPad, or a television. And every time it seems that you do turn it on, you hear about more violence and you hear about more. More corruption. But in a world that’s dominated by corruption, dominated by conspiracy, the Lord looks upon the earth and says, is there a Noah that’s still found righteous in my sight? Is there a Noah that will put their family before everything else?

Is there a Noah that can hear my voice above all the noise? That can hear my voice above all the noise of this world? Because if there’s things that, that, that. That made Noah great, it’s not just that he was righteous, but it’s that he knew how to hear and obey the voice of God. I’m heavily influenced by the word of faith, and, and there’s people that have made fun of the word of faith, and they’ve said, oh, you just, you all are just a bunch of name it and claim it people.

Well, I want you to know that you can’t name it and claim it if you don’t hear it and obey it first. And so Noah heard the voice of God and he obeyed. The voice of heard and obeyed. He received the recompense, the blessing of the Lord, and he built an ark. When no one else would be willing to build an ark, he boarded every nail.

He drove a nail into those boards of wood and fashioned that thing. For it was an act of love. If no one else received a message, he was going to make sure that his family got the message. If no one else got in the ark, he made sure, I’m going to build something that my father family can find safety in. And so he didn’t just live for himself, although he could have.

He could have followed culture. He could have given up on this. Do you understand that when the word of the Lord came to Noah, humanity had never seen a drop of rain fall from the sky? But he got a word. It’s going to rain.

Water is going to fall from the sky. The word didn’t even make sense, but he knew it was better to obey God than to obey man. And he said, I have the word of the Lord, and I’m going to build something that doesn’t fit society. I’m going to build something that doesn’t make sense to modern culture. But I’m going to actually build the salvation of my family.

And I hope you get on board. I hope you come in as well. But if no one else does it, as for me and My house, we’re going to serve the Lord. And because one man obeyed God, his wife was saved, his sons were saved, and his daughter in laws were saved. Because he understood that one generation would have an impact on generations to come.

And I preach today to the Noahs that are in this room that you’re one generation away from blessing coming upon your children and your grandchildren and your great grandchildren. And you might have to build something that doesn’t make sense to Democrats and it doesn’t make sense to Republicans, and it doesn’t make sense to American society, Mexican society and Italian society. But you hear the voice of God, you obey. Obey it. And you make sure if no one else gets this message, my house is going to be saved, my marriage is going to be saved, my children are going to serve the Lord.

Because the flood was coming whether the world believed it or not. And he had made up his mind, if the flood is coming, whether you believe it or not, then I’m going to build this ark whether you mock me or believe me. Because real men aren’t persuaded by the criticisms and the opinions of culture. They follow God. And the greatest gift that Noah gave his family was not wealth, it was salvation.

I pray that every man in this house would hear me today. The greatest thing I. I hope you leave your family a lot of money. I hope that you have that. I hope that you’ve saved for the future.

I hope you’ve built something great. I think every man wants to do that. I pray that generations down the road, grandchildren, great grandchildren, will live in a blessing that you created through the work of your hands and the blessing of the Lord. But if there is no gold and silver, if there is no crypto and there’s no stocks, if there’s no options and there’s no life insurance, if your children can look back and say, my daddy took me to church every Sunday, my daddy took me to Sunday school, my daddy taught me the word of God. When I think back about my dad, my dad’s been in heaven for the last 11 years.

I think about him every day. I miss him so much. I thought about him this morning. Spent time just thinking about the memories I have with my dad. And when I close my eyes and I think about what it was like growing up in my house, the first memory I have of my dad every morning is that when I came down the stairs, he was sitting at the kitchen table with his bible open and his cup of coffee.

And everyone in the house was aware that before he talked to you, he had already talked To Jesus before he read the newspaper. He had already been in the Word and he set an example for my brother and I that you seek God first. You come to God first. You talk to him before you talk to the doctor, before you talk to the lawyer. You get in the Word before you get in media.

That was the example my dad set for me. And I want to talk to some men in this room. It is your God given responsibility, not your wife’s, not your grandparents, not everyone else’s responsibility. It is your responsibility to be the priest of your home and teach your children how to pray. Teach them the word of God, teach them to live in holiness, Teach them to value God more than anything else.

It’s more important than the lake, it’s more important than the baseball game. It’s more important than the beach. It’s more important than anything in this world. Teach your children to be a God fearing man that puts God above everything else. Because your family doesn’t need a perfect man.

They just need a godly man. A godly man is a man that knows how to say he’s sorry when he is, to admit he’s wrong when he’s messed up. A godly man that knows how to pray, that knows how to stand and will build salvation when it doesn’t make sense to anyone else. I grew up in the I told you so era. Dad, why can’t I go to that party?

Because I said so. Dad, why don’t we do this? Because I told you so now you got to give him five pages of Google. But I want to encourage some of us dads. You know, my kids are in their early 20s now.

The youngest is 16, but the oldest is 22. It’s a different era. Good Lord, is it different now? But the older they get, I always said when they get older, I want them to be able to say, my dad didn’t make every right decision. He wasn’t perfect, but he did his best to make sure that we were saved.

Because above all else, that’s what matters. So you have a man named Noah who built salvation and was a man of valor for his family. Then you have a man of valor for his nation named Moses, who is not called just to save himself, but to lead an entire nation out of bondage. Can I tell you that the hope of the United States is not in the next presidential election. It’s not in these upcoming midterms.

America continues to make a mistake putting all of their hope in the White House. Oh, I knew he’s against Trump. No, I’m not. I voted for him, I think five times now. I’m teasing.

One time I voted double just to cancel. No, I’m. That’s a joke. That’s a joke. But they don’t check IDs anyway.

Okay, bad joke. See, I’m getting it all out of my system because at 11 o’ clock, we’re live to the world. Right now we’re just live to Virginia beach so I can have some fun. I’m. I’m a Christian conservative, but I think we tip the holy one of Israel when we make a messiah out of the Oval Office.

The hope of America is not in one leader. The hope of America is in the men and the women in this room that make up their minds to be a Moses and say, I’m going to lead my nation out of bondage. I’m going to lead my nation into the ways of the Lord. The hope is never been and it’s never should be in political figures. And if you do that, you will be disappointed time and time again.

But Moses was a man after God’s heart. A man that feared the Lord. And he was not perfect. But he was called by God to confront the Pharaohs. That means he was called to confront the political system of his time.

He was called to face criticism and face hardship and face responsibility. But he realized the nation is depending on me. A coward would ask what’s best for me. Let me do. Let.

Let me look out for number one. But a man of valor says, what can I do to help those that are depending on me? And Moses had to stand between Egypt and Israel. When others were complaining, he had to keep praying. When others were doubting, he had to keep believing.

And when others wanted to quit, he had to continue. He’s the man that God chose to part the Red Sea and bring them into freedom. I feel like we tempt God every time we say, this man, this woman, this party, this system is the hope. It’s the solution. God says, I got Moses sitting at the fountain today in Elizabeth City.

And if they’ll hear the voice of God, if they’ll hear my call on their life, I’ll use them to part the Red Sea for their family. I’ll use them to bring Christianity back to America in its full strength. Not just to tickle up revival, but a revival that leads to holiness and consecration. God says, I’m looking for a Moses that will stand in the gap and call right, right and wrong, wrong and say, this nation will bow its knees to him and him alone for he is our only hope. See, leadership isn’t recognized by dominance.

It’s recognized by responsibility. Men that don’t run from it. It’s not how many people serve you? How many people work for you? How many people.

Look, that’s how many followers you have. No, no, no. It’s. It’s how many people do you serve? You can.

You can always tell the men because the men are the ones that show up on workday. The men are the ones that show up at the. At the voting booth. They’re the ones that show up when disaster strikes and people need help at their homes and there’s no pay. Hopefully there’s a little Gatorade or some water after the service.

There was no Gatorade for me the day I killed that snake. But that’s okay. No one was expecting me to kill that snake that day. Selfless love but says, I’m serving my family and I’m serving my nation. I’m serving my community.

And our nation desperately needs godly men. Godly men. Amen. Not complaining men. Not criticizing men.

Not men that know how to go on Facebook and just criticize everyone else. Godly men that teach a nation how to bow its knees in prayer. That teach a nation how to seek after God. That teach a nation the blessing that comes from generosity. I’m shaped by men who feared God and led their family and led us as a nation.

Pastors, bishops, prophets, evangelists, teachers, husbands, fathers, grandparents that put God first. And lastly, as I get ready to land this airplane, because I hear the alarm clock going off, the greatest example I have. Noah saved his family. Moses saved a nation, but our heavenly father saved me. Noah and Moses are incredible examples, but neither compares to the greatest act of valor ever demonstrated.

That God didn’t just create us. He saved us. He didn’t just watch over us. He was our shepherd. The greatest revelation of scripture is not just that God made a way, but it’s that God became the way.

Hallelujah. He clothed himself in flesh. He walked amongst us. He bore our sin. He carried our cross.

He shed his blood. Sacrifice that required valor. Because both though that he was both God and man, he made himself man so that he could feel our affliction. That means he felt your temptation. He felt your struggle.

Whatever your worst day has been, he allowed himself to feel it so he’d know what you carry. He wanted to know your burden. And for that, he shed his blood. The greatest act of valor is that he didn’t send someone else. He came himself.

That’s love. He didn’t just speak salvation. He was salvation. He didn’t just love with words. He was the word embodied.

He didn’t just love with by saying, I love you, he carries the wounds of this love. Romans 5 and 8. For God commendeth his love towards us that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The cross is the ultimate picture of valor. That the Creator died for the creation.

That the shepherd died for the sheep, that the Father gave himself for his children. That’s love. That’s love. A man of valor runs to danger to protect his. A man of valor cuts that serpent’s head off.

Sorry. I told you. I’m working on my humility. But I’m still. I’m proud of it myself.

I killed that thing and took a picture at this. I took. I killed it and took a selfie. Hey, look at me. Just in case my wife ever does forget that day.

Hallelujah. Jesus himself kind of took a selfie. It’s everyone in this room because the Bible says you’ve now become the visible image of that invisible God. You are the embodiment of the. If you ever wonder how much does God love, just look at the ones in the room.

That’s how much he loves us. If you knew about to tune up, if you knew who was sitting by you. Boo. If you knew who was on your row, you’d call 911 like I did on that fox. Hallelujah.

But the love of God said that sin’s not too great. That mistakes not so bad, that I can’t wash, redeem and make away. That’s love. That’s love. As I come to a close today, our homes need men of valor.

Our churches, our nation. Not just men who are physically strong. Not just strength, not just. Not just snake killers, but demon slayers. Men who pray when others panic.

Men who give when others are greedy. Men who stand when others give up. Men who lead rather than just follow the crowd. Men that say, as for me, in my house, we’re going to serve the Lord. Men who don’t abandon their family.

If you created a child, father that child. If you. If I don’t know how to be a dad because I didn’t have a dad, then be the one you wish you had. Show up to the ball game, take him to the store and buy him a toy. Just be present for those of you in the room that I’m just meeting for the first time.

Ten years ago, my first wife passed away from leukemia. I was a single dad of three kids. At the time, they were 10, 8, and 6. If you ask my kids. What’s the last present your mom bought you before she passed away?

What’s the last thing mom and dad got you for Christmas? 2016, 2015. They can’t tell you, but they remember every vacation just this week. My son has a friend from California that’s visiting. Let me tell you how messed up California is.

The friend that’s visiting from California looked outside and he said, is that a firefly? Never seen a firefly before. God save California. And my son, who was 6 when his mom passed away, he spoke up. He said, oh, yeah, I used to catch these with my mom all the time.

We’d be in the backyard and I’d catch those, and my mom would. One time I squeezed and I got all the. The light on my head. He just. What does he remember?

He doesn’t remember the toys. It’s the memories of time together. Take time with your family. Take time with your wife. Take time with your children.

It’s the greatest gift outside of salvation. Make time. Men of valor refuses to compromise truth. We don’t bend the rules and look the other way just because someone in the family struggling. We say, I love you, but this word is true and ageless.

And I’ll love you through your struggle. I love you through your temptation. I’ll love you on your worst day. But I’m gonna love you to heaven. I won’t compromise.

And a man of valor will not give up on this generation without putting up a fight. Would you stand with me in this house today? I called today’s message valiant love. It occurred to me now, I’m sure someone here could make a different argument. But it occurred to me that the greatest men in history aren’t remembered for what they accumulated.

They’re remembered for what they sacrificed. They’re remembered for what they gave. How they fight, how they fought, how they stood. That’s who God’s looking for today. Men that will build, lead, protect, sacrifice.

And it’s just a simple response that needs to be made today. Here am I, Lord, make me a man of valor today. As I was getting ready to come preach to you, I am a very nostalgic person. And my oldest turned 21 last Friday. All the boys have birthdays in June.

June. And I was thinking, Cole’s now 21 years old. And I was thinking about the day he was born. And he was born on a Saturday. And then the very next Sunday when I was in church was Father’s Day, and I was preaching it was my first sermon as a Father, and it happened to be on Father’s Day 2005.

And I found those old sermon notes. And I’m not going to read them to you because they’re. I don’t even know if I believe half of these things. I’m just teasing, but I got to thinking today as I was reading these old notes from 2005. I ended the sermon, and this is what.

How I closed the sermon. I had read from Luke 10, 1 and 3, where Jesus says, don’t rejoice that spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written heaven. And the last two paragraphs of the sermon that I wrote in 2005 said, you better believe that I thank God for His many blessings. I believe in blessing, and I believe in miracles. But my joy is not based on those things.

My joy is that he chose me to be his son. And he’s my father. My Father, capital letters. He’s mine and I’m his. Your next miracle, your next breakthrough, does not have so much to do with who you are as it does that God is your Father.

He is your Father. And because he is, he will supply your every need. He will deliver you. He will keep you. Why?

Because you belong to Him. I want you to know that the miracle and the blessing that they sang of is not because you’re going to earn it by how high you jump or how good you sing. In fact, you can’t earn. Was simply given to you because he chose to be your Father. Hallelujah.

That’s love. Because, ladies and gentlemen, it’s hard to love me. But he said, I’ll love you anyhow. I love you through your trial. I love you through your.

That’s love, ladies and gentlemen. And I think we ought to take a moment right now and thank him. Thank him for his love. Thank him for his blessing. Thank him for being the Father that He is.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let me pray over you, and then you’ll be dismissed. You said that there’s a. What kind of gift did you say is waiting for the men?

There’s cookies. The only thing between me and cookies, or you and cookies, is me finally ending this sermon. You’re like my God. You’re like my grandpa. Finish already.

You’re repeating yourself. Grandpa, let me pray over you. And then the next thing that God has for you after this blessing are cookies, and you can get to your reservations at Waffle House. So just let me pray over you right now. Father, I pray that you would raise up Noah’s that would save their families.

Moses’ that would save this nation. And God. Since we’re made in your image, may we be willing to bear the wounds and the suffering that love requires. May we never give up on our families, our marriages and our children. I pray that as our children grow up and grow old, they’ll look back and they’ll say, no.

Dad wasn’t perfect. But dad did his best. Dad loved me. Dad supported me. Dad corrected me.

And dad led me to my heavenly father. With the authority you’ve given me in the spirit, I bless every man that’s in this house today. I bless them. I call them blessed. I pray that the Holy Ghost would overshadow them, fill them and empower them to be spiritual men, to be godly men, men of character, men of integrity, men of generosity.

And may it be said that we led our families and our nations to God. I pray it now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, would you give God praise all over this house? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Oh, give him praise. I will put.