Have you ever wondered if you have been called to something greater? Have you ever doubted that God could use you for His glory? The good news is that your past does not dictate your purpose. God intentionally chooses men and women with complicated histories for His glorious plans. He illustrates this with the selection of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus’ ministry. These were ordinary, sinful men–tax collectors, faithless fishermen, deceivers, zealots–who were called to be the greatest gospel preachers of all time. And though they did not know it then, those twelve men would go on to change the world. God selects people in spite of their past, not because of it, and as the Apostles were transformed into something better by God’s power, the same can be said for us today. Our brokenness does not deter God. Our past does not disqualify us from being used by Him. With the Lord’s healing and refinement, even the worst of sinners can find purpose in His kingdom.
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In a few moments we’re going to land in Mark chapter six. So if you have a Bible you can go ahead and turn there. But before we do that, I’d like to just introduce our discussion for today. Today we are going to be continuing in our ministry of Jesus’s study. We’ve been in this study for the better part of nine months walking through everything Jesus did, everything Jesus said.
Actually we have found ourselves in Mark a lot. Because Mark is a good summation of a lot of the things that Jesus did. But up until this point we have followed Jesus’s ministry as he was baptized on the banks of the Jordan River, went into the wilderness, tempted by Satan, got back into Galilee and then back into Jerusalem and then back into the Galilee and back into Jerusalem and then back into Galilee. And he’s been in Galilee for quite a long time training these twelve disciples who will eventually become apostles and we’ve seen him do miracles and do wonders. And today we look at a pretty straightforward passage. A passage of the kind of the sending out or the calling out of the disciples and we’re going to use this story as kind of a mechanism to make an appeal about who we’re supposed to be.
The appeal that we’re going to make is for you, it’s for me, it’s for our church members, it’s also for those who are maybe just visiting and certainly for those who are watching us online. I want to talk to you today about the idea of a calling. The idea of a calling and something like related to the spirit of adventure that’s in every one of us. The idea that we have been called to a purpose that something deeply ingrained in us says that we need to do something greater and be something more. And I want to talk about that idea from the calling of the disciples and then I want to make an appeal for something that I need from you today.
Today is going to be fun, I think but hopefully it will be not just fun but also be fun and transformative. So you’re with me? OK, here’s a quote. This is a quote from Mark Twain that I love. Such a profound quote.
This is what it says the two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Pretty deep. The days that matter in life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why you were born. You find out your adventure, you figure out what you’re called to, you figure out what you’re designed for. I thought this was an inspirational quote and so I have been using it in my time talking to people.
I go you know one of the coolest quotes I’ve heard is and I say this quote and everyone’s like whoa, that’s deep. But I talked to somebody this week and they said, hey, did you know that Mark Twain died while in a state of depression? I didn’t know that. And we had a conversation about how interesting that was because here’s a man who understood the importance of having and finding a purpose, who ended his life seemingly, who at the end of his life, seemed to have not found his. And I think maybe you’re with me in this, but I think if you’re honest with yourself and if I’m honest with myself, I fear that. I fear that at the end of my life I’m going to look around at all the years of me living and I’m going to think, Was that it?
Was it worth it? Did my life actually matter? Did I do something significant or meaningful? And it’s a scary thought, but if we don’t kind of like numb ourselves with instagram all day long, I think those types of deep thoughts come into our minds consistently. Are you with me? Have you ever thought about these things? Does my life matter? Am I here for a reason? We ask that question after we leave a long day of work, don’t we? Is this really what I want to do with my life?
Yes. Do I really want to work for this fellow? Is this really what I want to do? Or you think about this when you put your head to the pillow. Man, did I spend enough time with my kids today?
Did I love my wife the way I should have or my husband the way I should have? You know, we wonder, am I living the way I ought to? And the longer you live, the more this question perks his head. And the more trials you face, the more you ask yourself this question. And the more suffering you see, the more you ask yourself this question.
We just wonder, have I been called for something? For something? Like, this is what this lesson is about. It’s about coming to grips about the way God calls us. Not anything specific.
You’re going to have to figure that out on your own. But there are some principles that I find right here in this text, in Mark six that I think will help you understand the way God calls people to things.
You with me still? All right. Mark chapter six is we’re going to be mark, chapter six. Verse six is where we’re going to start. It says this then Jesus went around teaching from village to village. We know Jesus has been doing this for the better part of a year and a half. He’s been in this little area in Galilee, in Capernum primarily. But in all those little villages and towns, he’s preaching the same message over and over and over again. A summation of that message is found in the Sermon on the Mount. But it’s a message about the kingdom of God. This is the message he’s been preaching and preaching and preaching and preaching and preaching. And so far he’s the only one preaching. Verse seven.
Calling the twelve, that’s the twelve disciples, to Him. He began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over impure spirits. He gathers them and he says, hey, now I was the only one doing it. Now it’s your turn.
Go. Go. And he gave them authority over impure spirits. Why? Because this miracle is going to be associated with his message.
Hey, if you see miracles, you know the message is real. That’s essentially why I gave him the power to do miracles. Verse eight. These were the instructions, take nothing for the journey except a staff. No bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals, but not an extra shirt. What is he saying? Hey, go with the bare minimum. What you got now is good enough. Go. Don’t try to prepare for this. Don’t try to make it comfortable. Go.
Verse ten. Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, leave that place and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them, they’re going to see that the dust on the feet was from a town that preached the message. And every time they see that dust, they’re going to say, oh, I rejected the message of Jesus.
Verse twelve. They went out and preached that people should repent. That’s the message of the Gospel, that’s the message of the kingdom of God. They drove out many demons. That’s what’s associated with the message, that miracle and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.
That’s the story, that’s what we see. It’s a very functional account, the sending out of the Twelve. And it’s really, this is kind of the seeds of the ministry that will eventually become full bloom in the rest of the New Testament. These guys’ destinies, their adventures, their calling in many ways begins right here.
Here’s Jesus, the perfect leader, delegating his message and his power to the very first generation of Gospel preachers. Now most of the specifics of this text are unique to the apostles. You and I are not going from village to village and town to town. We are not given these specific instructions. Many of these things don’t even directly relate to you and me.
As I mentioned, we’re not traveling from city to city. When you think about your calling, you don’t ever think about bringing your belts. Should I bring my belts or my tunic? Do I have to bring an extra money clip or a bag? We don’t think in terms of wearing sandals or not wearing sandals. Unless you’re Jim Baron, then you wear sandals all the time and you don’t care about anything else. But yeah, I went to Fort Myers with Jim Barron and we were doing construction work and Jim Barron was wearing sandals. Jim Baron is a different type of guy.
But anyway, you don’t think about any of that stuff, right? You don’t think about that stuff as it relates to your calling because this is really for the disciples.
And so, as I was thinking and preparing this lesson, I thought, how do we pull out the most meaning from this text? How do we make this not just a story of people sent out 2000 years ago and make it into a story about you and me? And so I think what we have to do is make an awful lot of implications in the passage, implications that extend beyond the historical context or even the text itself, and even just kind of use this as an illustration for the way in which God calls people to do something great. The account opens up as the calling of the disciples. Jesus had been doing so much work, and now he’s about to send them off.
And who are these twelve men? Well, we’ve actually already taught on the subject, but here’s a quick review. The twelve were men chosen by Jesus at the start of his ministry. These twelve men are eventually going to change the world. I want to hammer that home. It’s important you know, these twelve men will eventually change the world.
They don’t know it at the time, but there is no doubt they actually have already changed the world. Millions of people know about a Jewish rabbi from Galilee because of these twelve men.
They have no idea as they’re being called, that 2000 years later their names would be uttered by a person speaking a language that hasn’t even been invented yet in a small corner of South Florida in sort of a medium-sized church. These men are a bedrock of our faith, but they have no idea, at least they don’t know it yet. Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip, Judas Iscariat, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alfeas, Bartholomew. Judas, Judas Thaddeus and Simon the zealot they’re sent out and they’re called to be again the greatest Gospel preachers of all time. And here’s what’s important for us to know. They didn’t start out as the greatest Gospel preachers of all time. This is the first thing you learn about callings. God doesn’t call you to be something you are currently. It doesn’t ever work like that. Normally when God selects you, you’re a mess, and then he sends you out and you’re still kind of a mess.
But then through the refining of the Gospel, he qualifies you and makes you into something the world has to take notice of. These guys at this point are a bunch of nobodies. Acts, chapter four, verse 13. The Israelites or the leaders of Israel say, who are these people? They say, they’re unschooled, ordinary, uneducated, unskilled men.
Not one of them is a rabbi, not one of them is a scribe. Not one of them is a theologian or an academic or a priest or a pharisee or a Sadducee. Not one of them. Most of them are fishermen. Most of them are tax collectors or religious traitors, political terrorists.
There’s a zealot, there’s a bunch of guys called the Sons of Thunder, which means they’re just hotheads. They have no influence, they have no pedigree. They are sinful. And yet God called them for something beyond themselves.
Are you ready for the first application? Here’s the principle. This is for you and this is for me. It’s this: your past doesn’t dictate your purpose.
I know it’s easy to believe that you got real problems. You have lots of issues, and I know you do. I’ve met you before. That you have a broken history and all that stuff sort of disqualifies you from God using you for something. But when I read this account, and by the way, pretty much every other account of an influential biblical person, I see this principle come to pass. When you look at the apostles lives, the men that Jesus selected to be sent into the world, I see people that God selected to be an illustration for us of the way God chooses men and women with complicated histories for his glorious purposes.
See, even a tax collector, even a faithless fisherman, even a deceiver, even someone that’s later on Paul, the worst of all sinners, can find a purpose in God’s kingdom. We saw this a few weeks ago, right, with the calling of the demoniac. Here’s a guy who lost his mind in a graveyard cutting himself with stones. And at the end of that full account, Jesus has restored him. And he says, return home and go tell everyone what God has done.
Jesus heals a man with a broken past and then sends him out for a purpose. And it’s amazing. We all have our brokenness up and down our generational line, but none of that disqualifies us from being used in the kingdom of God. I think about Abraham. You know the story of Abraham in Genesis, chapter twelve, god calls Abraham to become the father of faith.
Do you know what Abraham was before he was the father of faith? More than likely he was an idol worshiper.
God called him before he was even what he was. God knew what he would be because God’s incredible. So I want to encourage you that and with that, just kind of sharing an illustration about my dad. I love to brag about my dad. This is my family. This is my mom. She still looks this young. This is my oldest brother, my middle brother. This is my sister. Some of you guys know her. That’s me. And this is my dad.
My dad had to overcome a lot of dysfunction in his family line. There was a study done by Stanford University. They actually have a terminology, I think it’s called the Opportunity Cost Study. And it’s about basically going through your lineage. And it’s a questionnaire, and you answer a bunch of questions, and at the end of it, they tell you what it would take for you to, quote, unquote, make it.
Like, what are the percentages? So you put in your story, and then they tell you, okay, based on your life, this is what it would take for you to make it. So I want to tell you a little bit of my dad’s story. My dad’s dad my grandfather was a pretty heavy drinker, and my grandmother was my grandfather’s third wife. On his way to his fourth wife, eventually he would settle down. That’s the history of my family. The background story of my dad’s life is broken homes, alcoholism, dysfunction. Then he moved as an immigrant to the United States and lived, as he tells me, in rat-infested apartments in New York City. And not just New York City, but the South Bronx, which if you know anything about New York City, you know that that’s not where you want to live. If you’re from the South Bronx, I love you. You could certainly live there.
Anyway, so what you do is you put all this stuff into this algorithm, and Stanford University kind of spits out the chances that you would make it. What does an immigrant from a poor neighborhood in New York City whose first language is not English, what are his chances of getting out of that situation? And the numbers are one in 10,000. One In 10,000. You talk about beating the odds. One in 10,000 chances of getting out of that situation. And having your son become a preacher of a church you attend? I don’t know, one in 10 million. I don’t know.
But the point is that with God, the odds who cares about odds? The numbers with God, the odds are 100% that you will break your dysfunctional past. With God, the odds are that God will break any cycle that you have in your life in order to fulfill a purpose that he has called you to. And my dad’s story is that. He comes out of that eventually he follows Christ, and subsequently, I think, 20 people follow Christ in his lineage.
God used my dad for purpose. Besides his dysfunction, besides the alcoholism, besides the broken home. It doesn’t even matter because your past doesn’t dictate your purpose. The power of God is able to transform us, and I love to think of it this way. That God doesn’t select men because of their past. He selects men in spite of it. He goes, I’m going to use the worst. Oh, you want, I’m going to use the murderers. I’m going to use the liars. I’m going to use the sinners. So that at the end of the day, they realize it wasn’t about the person, but it was always about God and his power. It’s pretty amazing, right? These are the guys that God uses to save the world. And their calling should be an encouragement for those of us who look at our past and our family history, or our sin, or our past doubts, or our current history of addiction, or our current history of brokenness and we think, I could never be used. I’m imprisoned by all of that. And I just want to tell you that I see in the scripture God using the most unqualified people to do extraordinary things.
Oh, you’re a murderer, Moses? I got you. Lead my people. Oh, you’re a coward, Gideon? Oh, fine. Become a warrior. Oh, Saul. You killed people because they were converted to me? Fine, you will be a convert and then convert the world. Man, it’s incredible.
Remember when these guys were first called? The Twelve on the Sea of Galilee? What did you say to them? Hey, hey, come, come. Follow me and I’ll make you fish of the people. Right now you’re a fishermen. You’re going to be called to something greater than you ever understood. I love that. That’s the first thing I see.
The second thing I see as a principal here for us is this. These were his instructions. Listen to the instructions carefully. Take nothing for the journey except the staff. No bread, no food. Take no food,. No bag. Meaning you can’t just carry all your supplies, no money in your belts. Wear sandals, but don’t bring anything extra. No extra shirt. Go from town to town and preach. Don’t get comfortable there. That’s what he’s saying. This is not a vacation, homie.
Don’t get comfortable where you’re going. You’re not going there because you know you’re going to hang out on the beautiful sea and take a boat and enjoy yourself. This is not that. This is work. Don’t get comfortable.
Be unencumbered or whatever. Have no burden other than the message that’s on your heart and mind. I want to tell you something about calling that I see from this text. And, man, I wish I could take the time and just unpack why these things are so important. You could study it on your own. It’s such a cool study. Mark, chapter six, eight and nine. Read it. Each of these things has a really unique thing in the message of a minister. But here’s the thing I want you to see, that God’s calling almost always requires a sacrifice of comfort.
You’re going to be sent out, buddy, but all you have is a staff in your hand. In the other accounts in the book of Matthew, they describe what the persecution is going to be like. People are going to hate you because of my message. That’s what it says. People are basically going to despise you because of what you’re going to teach these people.
What is the point? God’s calling. If he calls you, he’s going to call you into discomfort. That’s what happens. You can think about Abraham again, called by God.
Hey, you’re going to a land you will later receive as your inheritance. Do you know anything about that land? No. You’re 85 years old. That’s good. Go. Go be uncomfortable. And if you’re like me, you maybe go searching for your calling in the places that you’re most comfortable with. Oh, you know what I want to figure out? I want to figure out what I’m best at and then I want to figure out what I’ve already set up for me. And then that’s where I’ll find what I’m really called to. But that’s not what I see in the economy of God’s kingdom. In the economy of God’s kingdom, I see Him selecting men and women out of their comfort and into discomfort. Hey, you’re not a leader? Fine. Let me pull you into leading a nation of a million people. That’s what I want you to do. And look, I could just almost guarantee that you will never find what God has called you to in the pace of your own convenience. God’s purposes live in the cities of the unknown, in the places of the unknown. This is why I think the arc of death is so often stated in the Bible, right?
In Matthew 16, it says, for whoever wants to save his life, whoever wants to find real life is going to have to lose it. But whoever loses his life for me is going to find it. Faith is found in mysterious places. Callings are found in mysterious places. Purpose is found in places that are uncomfortable.
The journey to what is greater is going to be more uncomfortable than what is lesser. You’re going to have to face a cloud of uncertainty. Jesus is going to say, hey, go into villages that people are going to hate you because there you’re going to find the adventure of your life.
If you’re going to get called by God, you’re going to have to sacrifice your comfort. And as I mentioned before, God is calling us into the unknown, the unknown parts of our faith, maybe the unknown parts of our lives, all that stuff, so that we could finally find and rely on Him in a way that we may never have before.
This is the other thing I see in this text. I just love this thing. Here is the next thing. Okay, next they went out and preached that people should repent. OK, so again, Jesus has chosen these unqualified men. Go out, don’t bring anything comfortable. This is not a vacation. Go. So they go out, right? And then he says give them really specific instructions about what they’re supposed to do. And I highlighted a couple of words here because I wanted you to see what the message is. The message is two things. It’s a message of the gospel, which is that people should repent. I should have highlighted that. And it’s also a message of compassion. If you see someone with demon possession exorcise that demon. If you see someone who’s sick, heal the sick. You see these two things. And this is everything for you to know. God calls you to preach the gospel. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been in the faith for five minutes or for 50 years, you’re a minister of the gospel. If you’re a Christian, you’re a minister of the gospel. But you’re also a minister of compassion. Whatever your calling is, like, oh, you know, I want to do whatever. I want to do art, I want to just paint pictures. Yeah, but you also need to preach the gospel, and you also need to bring healing on people’s lives. These things are mandatory elements of every person who was ever sent out forevermore.
Preach the gospel. What’s the gospel? Christ and him crucified. Meaning elevating Jesus in people’s lives and elevating the lifestyle of Jesus in people’s lives and then also taking care of people. Anytime we are called to something, it should never drive you towards being less merciful. It should drive you towards being more merciful. You shouldn’t be like, oh, God is calling me to lead a business and I’m going to be a great industry leader, and then I’m going to treat people as terrible as a terrible boss treats people. No, that’s not the way it works, right?
If God calls you to lead people in any industry or whatever, the thought is that you’re going to bring the gospel to those people. And also you’re going to be the kindest, most loving, most gracious, most generous boss there has ever been. I was talking to a brother yesterday who told me that some of the worst people he ever worked for were people that were Christians. It’s like, gosh, they missed the mark.
You should be the greatest boss ever if you’re a Christian. The greatest boss there’s ever been. Well, not pinching pennies, but generous. You got to be an awesome, awesome boss. And that’s the idea, right? If you’re called to something, you should bring the gospel. You should bring compassion, sympathy, mercy, tenderness, kindness. And in that way, people realize that God has sent to you instead of sending himself. He sent you to be an illustration of his love. It’s pretty amazing.
So I’m going to set the scene. So these guys go out, right? They heal. Again, they’re this ragtag group, man. They’re nothing. They’re a bunch of nothings.
Jesus stands there and goes, Go. And they obey. They’ve been with him for a year at least. They knew the message. They knew how to preach it.
So they go out from village to village and they’re preaching the message. They’re being compassionate, they’re being kind. They heal people with sickness and demon possession. We know that they’re doing that because later on they have one person that they couldn’t figure out how to heal. And Jesus is like, oh, you guys missed it. You have to do this and this, right? So they’re going out, they’re healing people, they’re encouraging, the message is amazing. And then they come back. And this is the end of the text in verse 30. This is one of those Mark sandwiches. There’s a story in the middle of two stories, but at the end of the sandwich, at the end of the story is verse 30. And this is what it says. The apostles gathered around Jesus, so they had come back now and reported to him all they had done and taught. Jesus, it was amazing. We went out, we preached the Gospel. We did it, we told people, we shook the dust off our sandals. It was dope. Then because so many people were coming and going. Now all of a sudden, Jesus has multiplied his effort. So it’s not just the multitudes, but it’s the multitudes plus who are coming. And we’re actually going to see that next chapter in verse, the next sermon in John, chapter six, that the crowds are so large, it’s unbelievable. So they’re all coming and going and they did not even have a chance to eat. The disciples can’t even eat. They’re working so hard that they can’t eat. He said to them, come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. What bosses have told you this before? What a great leader Jesus was.
Come with me. Hey, I know there’s so much work to be done, but come with me, let’s get some rest. I used this same circle chart last week, but now I have different things on the circle, so just bear with me. I’m not very creative. So this is what I see in the ministry. I see people being called, I see people serving, and then I see Jesus making them rest. Do you have a theology of rest?
It’s profound in the Scriptures, how often the Bible talks about rest. You know that one of the first holy day in the Bible is called the Sabbath. And you know what that day is? A day of rest.
The Bible is really beautiful because I think sorry, God is beautiful because I think one of the reasons he’s beautiful is that he understands the human capacity for burnout. And so he institutes in the creation of the world the idea that men and women are supposed to rest. So I want to say this. Look, if you’re called to something that’s amazing, you need to be called, and then you need to serve your tail off. But after you’ve finished serving, you need to take some rest.
Have a day, have a season, have a week, have a month. Hey, I’ve been working so hard, I need a rest and then I’m going to come back and get back to work. You got to have a theology of rest.
I love Jesus. Hey, you didn’t have a chance to eat? Come hang with me. Let’s get some rest. Let’s go. Let’s go away.
The other thing I noticed about this is this. And I’ll have to set up the scene for you because it’s pretty profound. Jesus has called these men to go preach the gospel. These men have come back, come back into the fold. And after coming back into the fold, they’re saying, hey, people are coming and people are coming and people are coming, but they still don’t know the product of their work yet.
You know this, right? The way this works? You were called to do something, but you don’t know the outcome. You’re called to do Kingdom kids. Maybe God in your heart is like, you know what? I really need to serve these kids back here. I’m going to say something about Kingdom Kids really quickly. We have 100 or so kids back there who need to be taught about Jesus. They need to be taught about Jesus, and they need people who are disciples of Jesus to teach them about Jesus. And so maybe you get prompted, like, wow, I’m going to go encourage them, and I’m going to go do whatever I’m supposed to do, and I’m going to sing silly songs, I’m gonna raise my hands and whatever. And at the end of that, you have no idea what you did because you planted a seed, and who knows what’s going to come of it? And something that I see in Jesus’s calling of us and something that I see in his calling of all people, is this: just because you’re still waiting doesn’t mean God isn’t working.
The fruits of your purpose may not sprout in your lifetime, but that doesn’t mean that God isn’t using your life.
The disciples, when they die, their religion is very small. They have no idea that 2,000 years later, we would be here. At the end of Abraham’s life, God told him he was going to be the father of many nations. At the end of his life, and he’s going to have descendants as numerous as the sand on the sea shores and the stars in the sky. And at the end of his life, do you know how many children he has? He has one and a half. That’s not as numerous as the sand on the seashores.
He doesn’t know. He doesn’t realize it. Again, the disciples don’t realize it. They don’t understand. They don’t realize that the seeds they planted are eventually going to take root and going to grow. And I think it’s important for you to know that, too. God may call you to something that never grows. God may call you to something and you go, wow, I’m working so hard, and it feels like I’m doing nothing. Yeah, that’s because you just planted some seeds. It’s going to take ten years, but then they’re going to sprout, and it’s going to be beautiful. And no one’s even going to remember your name, but something amazing is going to come of your work. This is why I believe Galatians, Chapter six, says, do not become weary and doing good for at a proper time you’ll reap a harvest if you do not give up.
Sometimes I get angry at that word proper. I wish it said at my time, you know, at the time I asked for. At a proper time, the time that God sees fit. Church you may never see it. You may never in this life be aware of the work that you’ve done, but every single thing that has been called in its time is going to grow.
This story, again is just an archetype of our callings. You have been called to something. You have been called to something. And if you’ve been called to something, which I know you have, you have to be prepared that God is going to rip you out of your comfort zone into something much more difficult, that God doesn’t care about your past, that God can still use you today, that God is going to ask you in whatever you do, to have the gospel as preeminent. And then he’s going to bring you to the cycle of work and rest. And to close out, you may work and work and work and work and work and never see a single dime come from your effort. But that doesn’t mean that God isn’t working on something amazing.
Amen. I want to encourage you guys. There are many ways of figuring this out, but I want to ask you to pray this week. Take some time to pray. God, what’s my calling and am I doing it?
What’s my calling and am I doing it? What have I been called to and am I obeying the calling and the prompting in my heart? Some of you are feeling that right now. God wants me to whatever, to get rid of this situation or to quit my job or God wants me to get rid of that relationship because I know it’s holding me back and pursuing this other thing and to serve people in this way. And you feel it. You just haven’t had maybe the faith or the courage to pursue it.
I want to just encourage, encourage you pray about it and then do it. Do it.