The nuts and bolts of salvation

The nuts and bolts of salvation. How you are born again.

In the book of John, chapter 3, Jesus told a man named Nicodemus: "You must be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven." Specifically, it means you must be born from above. You must be born of the Spirit of God to enter the kingdom of God. In Roman 10:9,10, it tells you the steps to being saved. But what is being saved? What happens to you at the moment of salvation?

Where does the bible explain the process of "being born again, becoming saved?" God explained it about 600 years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In the book of Ezekiel, God gave a detailed description of the Born again process.
 

Ezekiel 36:25 "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules." ESV

Step 1: Cleansing Ezekiel 36:25 "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you." From the Old Testament point of view, they probably thought Ezekiel was referring to Leviticus 30:18-20 ceremonial washings, but now we know it is actually the blood of Jesus that cleanses us from all sins. It is Jesus' shed blood that washes away our sins. Why is Jesus' blood so important? Because he is the God-man. The part of God who humbled himself and became a man. Therefore the blood he shed wasn't only the blood of a man but the blood of God. undeniably the most important blood in all the universe. The only blood that could wash away your sin and unrighteousness.

Cleansing Part 2: “and from all your idols I will cleanse you.” Before you experienced salvation, your spirit was dead to God. You had many idols. It might have been habits, hobbies, money, jobs, and so forth. You may have sought after some forms of god(s) and other religions which were not of God nor of God’s realm. But God promises to cleanse you of your idols. You may receive an instant deliverance or it may be gradual over years. As long as you surrender your life to God, He has promised to remove every idol, one by one.

Step 2: Receiving a new heart. The heart is actually the part of your mind that connects to God. A heart of stone is dead to God, no connection to God whatsoever. Often spoken of as the 'Old man or Old Nature. A new heart or heart of flesh, gives you the ability to sense or connect to God and hear Him in the Spirit realm. This new heart has to grow, develop, and transform.

Ephesians 4:23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds (New Heart, Romans 12:2)

Step 3: Receiving a new spirit. This is the most important step in the salvation process. Your old spirit was dead, just like your heart of stone. From the time that Adam sinned, the spirits of men have been dead to God. It is only when you go through the salvation experience a totally new perfect spirit will replace the old. People often use the term ‘we are being restored.’ But that is wrong. A restored item still looks restored. God gave us a brand new spirit, not restored.

2 Co 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new (mind & spirit) has come.

Ephesians 4:24 and to put on the new self (new creation spirit), created after the likeness (Image) of God in true righteousness and holiness. (a perfect spirit)

You have a completely new spirit. A perfect spirit that is created in the likeness and image of God. Similar to when God first made man in His image at creation, the new creation spirit is once again made in His likeness.

Ge 1:26. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,

Step 4: Receiving the Holy Spirit. Jesus spoke volumes about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit would be our comforter, our power, and much more. He wants to guide us and direct us. There are volumes written about the Holy Spirit. The most important point here is that the Holy Spirit is God, the third person of the Godhead. And now God the Holy Spirit lives in you. God is not up there somewhere in the heavens, hiding silently away. There is no barrier between you and God. He now dwells in you. The Holy Spirit is your inheritance. He is in your thoughts, your mind, your body. You are His home, His temple, a member of the body of Christ. Therefore, it is important to live your life righteously, solely because God has taken up residence in you. You should want to know Him intimately, His plans, His desires for you. Learn how to become an empowered christian. Picture the things you are now capable of because the creator of the universe dwells in you.

Step 5. Obeying God. “And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules." I often wondered how God was going to make us walk in His statues. Then, as I was studying one day, I realized what He was talking about. It is simple. To obey His law, we need to walk in love because love is the fulfillment of all the law. Much of Paul’s teaching was based on love and unity. 1st Corinthians 13 declares the meaning of love.

Matthew 22: 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

So how can I be born again and become a New Spiritual Creation?

Follow the instructions in the scripture below.

Romans 10: 9,10 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Nubby

Why liberals and the far left are the way they are

I wrote about this many years ago, so I have lost the references. As I was preparing for work one day in 2003, I was watching TV and a story came on that showed the possibility of why liberals and far left democrats are the way they are.

It was about young children that came from an orphanage in eastern Europe after the fall of communist Russia. The situation in the orphanage was that for every fifty or so children there was only one caregiver. Very few of the children were able to receive consistent love or care over years at a time. After many of the children were adopted to American parents, most younger children were able to respond to the loving care and adapted to becoming mostly normal children.  

But there were exceptions. Younger children had very little problem adapting. The older the child was, the less they were able to adapt. One girl in particular, age 12, had no response to the love and care she received from her new parents. The doctors performed PET scans of the child and the images revealed something I believe is what affects many of the far left adults today.

The PET scans of a normal child showed normal brain activity in most areas of the brain. Older children from the orphanage, who had received no love or care for all of their formative years, showed ‘no brain activity’ in areas where emotions and feelings normally exist. The conclusion of the story was: that if a child did not receive stimulation to certain areas of the brain in their younger years, that area would not develop as a normal person would. In this case, there was no development at all. The child was unable to reciprocate feelings of love and care. 

What do I conclude from this? For years I was told of studies that showed the older a person was, the harder it was to evangelize or win that person to Christ. Thus the importance has been put upon evangelizing children as early as possible. The faith areas of the brain need stimulation at a very young age. 

What would be other areas of the brain that don’t develop because of lack of stimulation? Common sense would be one. Two: People with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement but lacking in a sense of compassion and understanding of others. This would explain why people who overly obsess over certain issues beyond common sense and reasonable understanding.  Thus we have far left groups, anarchist, communist, et al. and extreme far right groups that are just as bad.

This is also exemplified in hate groups. People, who from a young age, were taught or stimulated to hate another group. Hatred of blacks, whites, Jews, Christians, et al, hatred for no other reason than who the person was. You can ask them why they hate and they cannot tell you why. Because their brains have been developed or stimulated a certain way, it is nearly impossible to reason or use common sense on such a person. 

Thus as Christians, it is more important to spend time influencing our children’s areas of faith. And for others, pray God will stimulate the areas of the brain with the gift of faith so they can be converted and saved.

About weapons of war

In the early 1700’s each state had its own militia. Men of fighting age, each having his own weapon, joined together to fight off indian attacks or whatever threat could arise. When the Revolutionary War began these militias joined and fought alongside the regular army to defeat the British. State militia continued to be used in the War of 1812 and even in the American Civil War. It was expected that men in the militia would fight alongside men in the military using the same weapons as those in the military.

Afterward, in the early 1900’s the National Guard was formed. Now each state has a reserve-trained military force that could be used similarly to the militia except it is connected to US military forces and can be called up for regular duty at any time.

So in early America, men in the militia had to use their own personal weapons in case of war or insurrection. They had weapons of war at the time. There was nothing to restrict men to own whatever weapon they wanted. Even cannons. At the time the Constitution was written and the second amendment was adopted, citizens had weapons of war.

Now the argument is, because things have changed and we have the National Guard, ordinary citizens do not need to have so-called “weapons of war”. Yes, things have changed. Different needs for a different times. But what if things change again? What if the military and national guard cannot do their primary function? There are many "what if" scenarios where things could change. So "just in case" we need to leave the Constitution and the 2nd amendment alone.

The other problem is: the term “Weapons of war” cannot be or has not been defined. Depending on the situation a knife is a weapon of war. As is a spear. Shotguns were used in Vietnam. Are they weapons of war or hunting weapons? The military uses a weapon similar to the commonly used AR-15 but the military would not use an AR-15 itself. The military uses an M16 with "select fire" of three-round bursts and full auto. The AR-15 does not have those features, nor the endurance of a standard military weapon. It's a semiautomatic. So technically, it cannot be called a “Weapon of War”. It is a citizen's self-defense weapon and hunting rifle. There are approximately 15 million AR-15s in use. The rare instances where a crazed individual uses an AR-15 to kill multiple people shouldn't be used to make the other 15 million people defenseless.

Repealing the Second Amendment

With all the talk and actions about repealing the second amendment or banning various guns, one big factor is overlooked. The right to self-defense is a natural right. It is a given that your natural reaction to a threat is to defend and protect yourself and your family. The Supreme Court affirmed this right a few years ago. Per the second amendment, you have a right to be armed and defend yourself anywhere you are. There are a lot of municipalities that infringe on this right and they are wrong.

Picture this scenario: An enemy country hacks into our electrical grid (like the Russians did a short time ago) but this time they are able to completely shut down our electrical grid. Now we are without electricity for weeks or even months. Or perhaps an enemy detonates an EMP bomb in our atmosphere permanently taking out all our electronics and electrical grid. So now we have no phones, no electricity, no internet, and no 911.

With no access to 911, police, fire, or other emergency responders, gangs of thugs (they are out there) start roaming the street looking to rob, rape and kill anyone they desire. Now you are faced with a dilemma. Your natural rights say you need to protect yourself and your family, but you are an anti-gunner. You voted to eliminate the second amendment. You don’t believe in guns. You were depending on the government to protect you. (gag).

You have several choices: 1. You can become religious and pray that the thugs will ignore you. MAYBE they won’t rape your wife and daughter, kill you and take all your stuff. 2. Or, stand your ground and die for what you believe in, that no civilian should have a gun 

3. Run to your neighbor and hope he still has an AR-15 hiding in his closet.

If you think such a scenario cannot happen, well no one thought the 9/11 attacks could happen. Nor Columbine, or Parkland in South Florida, or the Las Vegas shooting could happen. The difference is we didn’t know in advance that the former would or could happen. We do know that our enemies are trying to destroy our electrical grid because it will destroy our civilization. Our only way to keep any sense of a civilized society is that good people to have enough guns and ammo to keep law and order

One of the rants is that “guns are for killing”, implying that guns can only kill good people. I agree that guns are designed to kill. The function of a gun is to kill. Big guns, and little guns are all designed to kill. They kill game for food. They kill game to reduce the overpopulation of various species. Guns are used to kill varmints. Varmints that kill farm animals, destroy crops, and attack humans. Law-abiding citizens buy guns to do all of the above. Most importantly, law-abiding citizens buy guns to defend themselves against bad guys who would do them harm. It is estimated that law-abiding citizens use guns about 1,600,000 times a year to defend themselves either by using the gun or often just showing a bad guy that he has a gun works. So, the possibility that up to 1,600,000 more people would be killed or harmed if you took away the ability to defend themselves by limiting or repealing the second amendment. And don’t forget, the police use guns to keep the law.

When you talk about the “common sense gun laws” that limit people’s right to defend themselves, there is no common sense in that discussion. Those “Common sense gun laws” are exampled in Chicago and they have one of the highest murder rates in the country. You can have your “common sense gun laws” as long as you are not one of the people getting shot. Me, I rather have my gun.

To fix the federal government and put it back to where it should be

To fix the federal government and put it back to where it should be we need:

First a Convention of States. A Convention of States bypasses all the existing corruption, elitist establishment, and all who resist the change to fix anything that benefits the American people.

Second: repeal the 16^th amendment and eliminate the IRS. The government can find more honest and fair ways to collect money. The Fair Tax is one.

Third: repeal the seventeenth amendment. The founding fathers understood that by each state appointing their senators then the senators would be beholden to the state’s best interest, not their individual parties as they are today. Parties will raise monies to give to individuals to get reelected. Favorite senators get more money. less favorite senators get less or none. This makes the candidates beholden to the party's wishes. What we have now is a corrupt system of using tax dollars to buy people's votes in both houses of Congress and it is impossible to break that power hold on the people.

Fourth: and most important: define the “General Welfare” clause to its original meaning. Originally it meant that government could only act for the general welfare of the people within the confines of its defined responsibilities and powers listed in the Constitution. So, the government was restricted in what it could do, per design. In 1933 the Supreme Court said that the “General Welfare” could mean whatever Congress decided it meant. This gave Congress the wildcard it needed to take over anything it wanted as long as it could say it was for the General Welfare of the people. Thus, we have all these different agencies and departments regulating the people and businesses with very few limits. If based on the original constitutional concept these agencies would have never existed in the first place. Remember, Obamacare’s constitutionality was based solely on the General Welfare Clause and even then it had to be called a tax. A 22,000-page tax? Right!

Fifth: Put limits on the spending and commerce clause. The government has no business being in business, picking winners and losers, and funding any business unless, of course, it has to do with national defense. Defense spending would and should be the only exception. And that should only be under strict supervision.

We could add term limits, limitations on salaries, and retirement. Remember, originally being in Congress was a part-time responsibility. They still had to earn their own living and retirement was just as we have now. Every man for himself. In fact, a number of the founders died broke. Congress was not meant to be a full-time job. If retirement is provided then it should be available only after they turn 65 and prorated on years of service with a maximum limit just like the rest of us. If term limits are set at twelve years and they serve six, they should only get half of the max retirement value. My social security has a limit, and so should their retirement.

Finally: every, and I mean every, regulation, tax, or bureaucrat proposal should come back to Congress and be voted on by elected officials. This way they cannot pass the responsibility by saying "I didn't vote for that". Or the teenage response: "Not my fault" or "I didn't do it".

When it comes to fixing the government we should look for the simplest and most straightforward ideas that wipe out most of the damage that the progressives have done over the last one hundred years. I think the five points listed above will do just that.

An important view of the Bill of Rights

An important view of the Bill of Rights that receives little attention is why do we have a Bill of Rights? What was the original intent? You may wonder why the first ten amendments are even listed to begin with. Many erroneously believe the government gives us these rights because they are listed in the amendments. But no, the government does not give us rights. The rights listed in the Bill of Rights were initially considered “natural rights” or God-given rights. Being that these rights were considered God-given (based on years of legal writings at the time) they originally didn’t see the need to list them. The Constitution gave the government limited rights and specific powers. All other rights were given to the states and the people. If the government was given no right or power to take away our God-given rights then why bother to list them.

After the Constitution was adopted the debate continued and eventually, the Bill of Rights was written specifying the God-given natural rights government COULD NOT TAKE AWAY and was supposed to protect.

Today we are facing a battle to take away our second amendment rights based on emotional events that have happened in recent years. Much of the emotion has been stirred in part by the media enhancement of these events. But the fact is that if the government decides it has the power to eliminate the God-given right of self-defense then also has the power to take away any of the other protected rights.

The goal of progressives is to confiscate all guns. Only government (and criminals) will have guns and therefore the world will be peaceful. This was the argument of Hitler. By taking all the guns there would be peace he argued. The result, of course, was that millions of people were defenseless and died at the hand of Hitler. This is the type of situation the founding fathers saw and sought to prevent by listing our specific rights.

When you hear the phrase “For the greater good” or “We need to do it for the children” or use children spokespersons while they are asking you to give up your natural rights, beware, be very aware. The freedom of your children, grandchildren, and all that follow is at stake.

Get Back to The Basics and Fundamentals

    In football, teams that win consistently do one thing, stick to the basics. Losing for them usually comes from a breakdown in the basic fundamentals of blocking, tackling, and catching the ball. Often you will hear a coach say after a loss, ‘We need to get back to the basics’. The same goes for our country. When society and the culture start going haywire There are two fundamental things we need to do to restore our country to what it should be.

    The first is to return to God. Repent means to turn around from doing wrong and choosing to do right. This nation needs to repent and turn back to God for forgiveness, guidance, and blessings.

The second is to return to the original purpose of the Constitution. The progressives have over time, eroded the Constitution so that its original meaning and purpose are lost. Free speech is lost to politically correct speech. Freedom of the press is lost to propaganda and an agenda-driven press. Now warrantless searches and seizures, wiretapping, etc. Freedom of religion is lost to freedom of worship (keep your religion to yourself). And of course, today the cry is to limit or end the 2nd amendment.

    I drove by the capital building in Atlanta this morning (because I didn’t listen to my GPS) and I encountered hundreds of students (not in school) and adults protesting gun violence and crying for more gun control. Guns are already one of the most highly regulated products on the market. There are plenty of gun laws. Enforcement of those laws varies across the country. For some reason, where gun laws are the greatest, gun violence is also greater. Logic will tell you that strict gun laws in those jurisdictions do not prevent crime and murder. 

It is obvious to say most laws only apply after a crime has been committed. 'That felon shouldn't have had a gun, but he did. Or, 'he sould not have passed a background check, but he still got a gun.' 

    Again, let’s talk about the fundamentals and constitutional basics. Many progressives will tell you that the Constitution is old and outdated because it was written in a different time and things and technology have moved us past that. Not so. The Constitution was written in a unique period of time where they could look back at 2000 years of history and at the success and failure of governments over that time. The Constitution was not written based on technology or technical advancements, it was written based on observing 2000 years of human nature. The Constitution is about the nature of man and how he relates to government and has no basis in time. The nature of man has not changed no matter how much technology does. The writers saw that man could not be trusted so they created a Constitution to limit what men in governments could do. 

To start with they created three branches to counterbalance each other. It put limits on the size and what government could do and left everything else to the people and the states. They listed the basic natural human rights that people should have and that the government should not be able to take away. Now, over the years congress has eroded these rights as I listed above. The government we have today would be totally unacceptable to the founders today. The solution to what ails Americans is to return to the basics and do what the writers intended.

With all the talk about guns, the 2nd amendment is a clear example of that erosion. It clearly says that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT be infringed”. Yet we have many cities and states that have severe restrictions on guns and who can have them. This is definitely an infringement and many liberal courts have supported that errant position. They interpret the Constitution according to what they wished it to say. They have over time, taken away the right to freely keep and bear arms and that leaves us no alternative but to have to trust the government to be our protector and safe keeper. People have come to believe that someone else is responsible for their safety and they should be totally passive and wait for help. The basic right to self-defense is replaced and you have no right to protect yourself without government help.

We have reached the point where people believe it is not their responsibility to protect and defend themselves. The memory of that right is gone and the students that are protesting today, totally believe it is the government’s job to keep them safe and provide for their defense. The problem is not more guns or fewer guns. The problem is knowing and understanding our rights and being able to defend our rights and ourselves. Parents need to demand that schools enforce the right to keep and bear arms and equip the schools with whatever force necessary to prevent whatever harm might try to come their way. This is not a federal government thing. This is a local thing where parents demand that their child will be safe and the 2nd amendment affirms the right to do that.

 It is reported that criminals fear people with guns. That is why they pick areas and people who look like easy targets (gun-free zones maybe). A nation that is truly free and allowed to keep and bear arms will have criminals fearful and look for less harmful ways to do their evil deeds.

    Governments, dictators, and tyrants also fear a well-armed nation. We need to keep them fearful, very fearful. When the government fears the people, we are free. When the people fear the government, we are no longer free. Tell me, right now, who is fearing who?
It is often said that the 2nd amendment is the protector of the 1st amendment rights. As we look at our society and culture we can see that we are losing many of our rights. We need to take our country back and return it to our roots, the basics, and the fundamentals. We need to return to God, and the Constitution and start protecting our rights. A single man will not make America great again. It will take millions of God-fearing, Constitutional freedom-loving people to make America great again. Otherwise, the alternatives are not good.

More thought on the Florida shooting and the subsequent protest by students

One more thought based on the Florida shooting and the subsequent protest by students. Students are crying for more gun control and an end to violence. They are protesting in their hometowns, in DC, and in the Florida capital. The same old cry is “Government do something”. "Government please fix my problem." "Government please take care of me." Someone told them that they should depend on the government for all their needs so now they blame the government, the president and anyone else they think should their provider and protector. These kids have missed a very important lesson in life. You are responsible for yourself. You are responsible for your own safety. In early America, nearly everyone had a gun or some means of self-defense. The Constitution guaranteed you that right. Reality has not changed but the education of our children has created a utopia concept that they don’t have to worry about evil anymore, the government will protect them and provide for them.

In the real world, you know that real thing, they are still responsible for themselves. Evil is not going away. Maybe in the utopia fantasyland evil does not exist but in the real world, it does. People die every day. In my high school days if a student died from a car wreck or whatever, we just dealt with it. Today a flood of counselors is required because the utopian bubble has a leak. Kids shouldn’t have to experience bad things like death and all that.

But to the main point: we are responsible for ourselves. Something that is lost on many American kids today, is being self-responsible and being self-reliant. Our Constitution and our freedoms are dependent on people who are self-responsible and self-reliant. So, when it comes to protecting our kids it is up to us to do it or demand the institution we send them to do it. Whether it is armed guards, concealed weapon carriers, reinforced barriers, or any other means, it is not the Federal government's job to do what you need to do at your local level. Here in Georgia, the state has passed a law to allow concealed carry on campus. Who is against it? Every school board in the state and the teacher’s unions. So, who is going to protect your kids? That sign says, “Gun Free Zone”. Is that sign going to keep your kids alive? Parents need to take actions that work. Crying for some law that just might, maybe, slightly possibly keep some bad guy from getting a gun all the while it only makes it harder for law-abiding citizens to get guns to protect them and their children.

I’ve posted below some real common-sense solutions to protect your children at school. They are not the “if we take guns away from everybody then the bad guy will be nice and leave us alone” utopian dream.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2018/02/18/how-to-eliminate-school-shootings-overnight-n2450380

Parents, if you want to really protect your children then do something that works. Remember, the 2^nd amendment gives you the right to protect yourself and your loved ones by being armed. If you choose to not exercise that right that is your choice. Don’t blame the government.

 

Another thought about these advocates for more gun control

Another thought about these advocates for more gun control. These guys want the government to pass some sort of (they call common sense [senseless to me]) gun laws to stop gun violence. Would that be the same government that hired the armed school security guard that never encountered the school shooter? Or would that be the government that provides the police that can help you maybe five minutes from now? I’m not bad-mouthing the police but the reality is they can’t be where you need them when you need them, but they are usually only just a few minutes away.

Would you want the government that put the FBI in charge of protecting us when they failed to follow their own procedures that would have prevented the killer from taking action? Or maybe the government could get the FBI to put in a little more effort in finding a person who claims he wants to be a “professional school shooter”. Is that the government you want to protect you?

Or maybe you want to put your trust in the government that fails to report a domestic abuser so that person can kill 23 innocent churchgoers.

Maybe someday the governments above can fix all those problems I listed, but then what is the next dot that they fail to connect. More laws mean there is more work to do. More work means more opportunities to fail. There will be a next time, and another and another. Each time someone will be blamed for their failure. Each time there will be calls for more and more laws which means more failure. Over time the only thing that will be reduced won’t be the violence, it will be our freedoms.

Ultimately the government cannot save you. When your house is on fire you don’t wait for the fire department to pull you outside. You get yourself and your family out as soon as you can. If your spouse’s heart stops you can’t wait for the EMTs, you must do CPR now. In most of life, we must learn to take care of ourselves until help arrives. We take safety classes, first-aid, and CPR all because we cannot just wait for someone from the government to take care of us at the moment we need them. When it comes to self-defense the same thing applies and that is what the 2^nd amendment provides for us, the natural right to take of ourselves until other help arrives. The natural right to defend ourselves against a threat when we need to, right now in this moment, not later.

Oh, and about this banning AR15s. The old saying “don’t bring a knife to a gunfight”. Well, don’t bring a little gun to a big gun fight. If the bad guy has a 30-round AR15 (legally or illegally), I don’t want the government limiting me to a 10-round magazine because they think it makes “US” safer. The only person they have made safer is the bad guy. While I’m trying to reload he is still shooting at me. I want to be able to have as big a gun and as many rounds as the bad guy does. If he only brings a little gun with a limited magazine that’s his problem, not mine.

The reality is, ultimately, we, you and me, are responsible for our own self-protection. Most of the time the police arrive after the crime has been committed or at best at the end of a crime and chase the bad guy down. If you want to protect your children, your family, and loved ones, YOU are the one responsible. Your only real option is to have more good people with guns in more places than bad guys with guns. How you make that happen is up to you. Because if you don’t, next week will be no different than last week. It could happen all over again.