627. Alfred & Viorica Bain Share Their Testimony - August 27, 2024

[00:00:06] Welcome to Wisdom Today. My name is Bill Kelley and I'll be your host. In this podcast we will be exploring the book of Proverbs.

[00:00:18] Open in prayer. Father God, I thank you for anyone listening to this podcast today. Lord, I pray that you would reveal to everyone listening how much you truly love each and every one of them. I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

[00:00:33] This is Proverb 27 beginning in verse 1.

[00:01:13] Verse 1.

[00:01:16] A satisfied soul loathes the honeycomb, but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Like a bird that wanders from its nest is a man who wanders from his place.

[00:01:31] Ointment and perfume delight the heart, and the sweetness of a man's friend gives delight by hearty counsel.

[00:01:40] Do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend, nor go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.

[00:01:50] Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

[00:01:55] My son, be wise and make my heart glad that I may answer him who reproaches me.

[00:02:02] A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself. The simple pass on and are punished.

[00:02:10] Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he is surety for a seductress.

[00:02:19] He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it will be counted a curse to him.

[00:02:28] A continual dripping on a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike.

[00:02:35] Whoever restrains her restrains the wind, and grasps oil with his right hand.

[00:02:43] As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

[00:02:50] Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit, so he who waits on his master will be honored.

[00:02:57] As in water, face reflects face, so a man's heart reveals the man.

[00:03:05] Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

[00:03:11] The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold.

[00:03:16] And a man is valued by what others say of him.

[00:03:21] Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,

[00:03:27] yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

[00:03:31] Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and attend to your herds.

[00:03:37] For riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to all generations.

[00:03:43] When the hay is removed, all the tender grass shows itself,

[00:03:47] and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.

[00:03:50] The lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.

[00:03:56] You shall have enough goat's milk for your food,

[00:04:00] for the food of your household, and the nourishment of your maidservants.

[00:04:06] Friends, today I'm very excited.

[00:04:09] I have a couple friends who are recent Keiris graduates,

[00:04:14] and they are visiting from Nassau in the Bahamas.

[00:04:17] So I have Alfred and Viorica Bain.

[00:04:20] So I'd like to welcome you, first of all, to my home, to Florida, and to this podcast.

[00:04:26] Alfred, let's start with you.

[00:04:28] We just finished Proverb 27,

[00:04:30] and which verse spoke to you today that you'd like to share a little bit?

[00:04:36] Well, thank you, Bill, for having us on the show.

[00:04:39] It's a pleasure to be here, to be reunited with you and your beautiful wife again.

[00:04:46] You know, one of the verses that are near and dear to my heart,

[00:04:50] and the Lord always speaks to me about this verse,

[00:04:53] is Proverbs chapter 27, verse 23.

[00:04:58] And it reads, as you read before,

[00:05:00] Be diligent to know the state of your flocks.

[00:05:04] Attend to your herds, for riches are not forever.

[00:05:08] However, you know, this verse, I've had some time studying this verse out,

[00:05:14] and, you know, God has, I believe God has called me to be a blessing to the body of Christ

[00:05:20] in terms of helping them to grow up.

[00:05:23] And this is one of the first things that I identified,

[00:05:26] is that believers are not diligent to pay attention to the state of their flock.

[00:05:33] And by the word flock, I mean their finances,

[00:05:39] what's going on in their relationships,

[00:05:43] what's going on in their commitments.

[00:05:49] I like the word diligent.

[00:05:51] I believe if we're going to be successful for God,

[00:05:54] we're going to have to be diligent in all that we do.

[00:05:57] In fact, there's a scripture that is near and dear to me,

[00:06:03] what I call my life scripture, Luke 16, 10,

[00:06:05] that tells us he who is faithful in that which is least is also faithful in much.

[00:06:11] And I really don't see life to be any other way,

[00:06:15] especially the Christian life.

[00:06:18] We must be diligent, one, in our relationship with our Father God through Christ.

[00:06:23] And we must, by extension, be diligent in the things that he's speaking to us through that relationship.

[00:06:31] So that we may be edified by it, but he will be glorified through it all.

[00:06:37] Wow, that's really good.

[00:06:39] And Vierica, which verse spoke to you today that you'd like to share?

[00:06:44] Thank you for having me here in your podcast.

[00:06:48] I'm very excited.

[00:06:52] And the verse in this proverb is verse 5.

[00:07:02] Open, rebuke is better than love carefully consult.

[00:07:11] I believe in people supposed to tell the truth in front of, don't hide it.

[00:07:23] Like, I always, like, tell me the truth.

[00:07:27] Tell me I'm wrong.

[00:07:31] I'm going the wrong direction and not in the good direction.

[00:07:36] Tell me what the word says.

[00:07:38] Wow, that was really good.

[00:07:40] And, you know, I want to piggyback off of what you said.

[00:07:43] Because basically, a lot of people, and this is the term political correctness.

[00:07:48] And that's what people do.

[00:07:50] People want to butter other people up.

[00:07:53] They want them to feel good.

[00:07:54] They don't want to tell them the truth.

[00:07:57] If it's something that they're concerned that they may not like it if you tell them the truth.

[00:08:04] So that is just a really, really good point.

[00:08:08] Would you like to add anything else?

[00:08:12] I love to, people tell other people how much God loves them.

[00:08:19] Yes.

[00:08:20] This is very important.

[00:08:22] It is very important.

[00:08:23] And that's one thing that's missing in our society today is the fact that a lot of people do not have that personal relationship with God.

[00:08:34] And it prevents them, I believe, from living the kind of life God really wants them to live.

[00:08:41] So anyway, hon, I'd like to introduce you.

[00:08:44] My wife is on today as well.

[00:08:46] And I had her on because Viorica and Judy actually sat together the majority of days when they were at Keras.

[00:08:54] And they really developed a pretty close friendship.

[00:08:56] So I thought it would be fun for you to join us today.

[00:09:00] So what verse that would you like to share today, hon?

[00:09:03] Well, I like all the verses that have been shared before, especially the one about being diligent and telling the truth.

[00:09:10] Those are great.

[00:09:11] I just was thinking about verse 9, though.

[00:09:14] It says,

[00:09:14] Ointment and perfume delight the heart.

[00:09:16] And the sweetness of a man's friend gives delight by hearty counsel.

[00:09:21] And I think this is just saying that we need to have people in our lives that will give us good counsel.

[00:09:30] And I know I like that, too.

[00:09:33] I like when I have a good friend that can listen to my heart and speak into my life.

[00:09:40] And I think everybody needs those people that will give them good counsel and not false.

[00:09:45] You know, and I'm going to throw in verse 17 because 17 pretty much encompasses what everyone's already talked about.

[00:09:53] As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

[00:10:00] Now, you can't sharpen the countenance of your friend if you're not going to be brutally honest with them.

[00:10:06] And that's what true friendship is.

[00:10:08] True friendship is don't sit there and talk about the weather.

[00:10:12] You get deep with people that you're truly close with.

[00:10:16] You get deep.

[00:10:17] You can talk about the things of God.

[00:10:20] You talk about the important things of life.

[00:10:23] And that's where you can really sharpen and fine-tune your friend if you're honest to the core.

[00:10:31] So, Alfred, people may not know who you are.

[00:10:35] I know you as a third-year graduate from Karis Bible College.

[00:10:39] But if you would, talk a little bit about your upbringing and what brought you to where you are today.

[00:10:46] Absolutely.

[00:10:47] Well, I was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas.

[00:10:51] My mother had four children, two boys and two girls.

[00:10:57] I'm the oldest boy, second child.

[00:11:00] And I got born again when I was 10 years old at a camp in the Bahamas called Joy Bible Camp.

[00:11:08] And I really started to focus on paying attention to the Lord for a period of time, maybe for 10 years until I was about 20.

[00:11:18] And then I drifted away and I came back to a deeper relationship with the Lord when I was 31.

[00:11:28] And like most people may testify, you know, the cares of this life and different things that happen in this life would cause us to seek the Lord.

[00:11:38] And, Bill, I thank God that I actually was born again because I knew where to turn when the troubles and the cares of this life came at me.

[00:11:48] So, my wife and I, we attended Karis Bible College in 2020, the fall of 2020.

[00:11:56] And it was just something that God had put on my heart for a few years.

[00:12:01] And finally, we were able to do it together.

[00:12:03] And I am so grateful that we did it together because God has blessed our family because of it.

[00:12:10] He's enriched our lives, our relationship because of it.

[00:12:15] And I graduated Karis in 2022 from the Global Training School.

[00:12:23] Because God had worked on my heart for the period that I was at Karis Bible College.

[00:12:31] I've not said it to many people, but many people did not know that before attending Karis, I was, I had a difficult time being in the U.S. for any length of time.

[00:12:45] It was too busy for me.

[00:12:47] I was an island boy.

[00:12:49] I had the impression that everybody was disrespectful, no manners.

[00:12:53] And I had a difficult time adjusting to that.

[00:12:57] So, a certain heart condition developed in me because of this.

[00:13:03] And so, when I was in Karis, God just changed my heart.

[00:13:10] He did surgery on my heart.

[00:13:12] Well, all of a sudden, I developed a love for the United States of America.

[00:13:20] And as I was in school, I heard the Holy Spirit say to me, you are a missionary to the United States.

[00:13:27] And I truly believe that happened because God wanted to make a correction in my heart.

[00:13:34] And he was successful.

[00:13:37] So, I see myself as a missionary to the United States.

[00:13:41] And that's one of the reasons why I did the Global Training School.

[00:13:44] And a lot of it has to do with impacting the culture, not just in the United States, but around the world for Christ.

[00:13:53] My main focus right now is helping believers to grow and mature.

[00:13:58] And it ties right into the Proverbs 27, 17 that you just read.

[00:14:07] That's also another thing that I discovered when I attended Karis.

[00:14:11] I found, and others may have found the same thing, but I found that believers that I met, they had a very difficult time being honest and direct about certain things with you.

[00:14:27] And being from the Bahamas, I was not used to that.

[00:14:32] In fact, I studied it out a little bit.

[00:14:36] And just talking with God about it, I realized that believers have to be honest in love.

[00:14:46] And not to demand that somebody accepts what you say.

[00:14:50] But if they are receptive to what it is that you have to say, then you should share that with them in love.

[00:15:00] And that's something that I set out to do.

[00:15:03] That's something that I set out to do every day.

[00:15:07] Because so many of us are not maturing.

[00:15:11] We have a fear of death, dying.

[00:15:16] We're in debt, up to our eyeballs.

[00:15:22] We have a difficulty evangelizing.

[00:15:26] In fact, I've met so many people who just don't like being around people.

[00:15:32] But I've discovered God is in the people's business.

[00:15:36] So if you are a believer, you're in the people's business as well.

[00:15:41] And until we grasp that concept, it's going to be a long and difficult road for many.

[00:15:49] So, yeah.

[00:15:49] Wow, that's really good.

[00:15:51] And, Biorica, tell us a little bit about your childhood.

[00:15:55] And I know this story because you were in my IAG class.

[00:15:59] But the other people listening today may not know that.

[00:16:02] So just share a little bit about your childhood coming from a different country.

[00:16:05] I was born in Romania, grew up in the Orthodox religion, which everything is, you have to, God will always punish you and always do something.

[00:16:26] When people seek, oh, God, do this, correct me, which for me was something, something not appropriate.

[00:16:39] And I always say, ask myself, where's God?

[00:16:45] I don't, I don't know, but I, one day I will know him.

[00:16:51] And when we go into the church, we have to confess our sin before we get the communion.

[00:17:03] And for me, it doesn't make sense.

[00:17:06] I don't know why, but it doesn't make sense.

[00:17:09] Something, something inside of me tell me is not true.

[00:17:13] But I don't know, I didn't know how to figure out.

[00:17:19] But one day, I was going to my mother's house and a group of people from Pentecost Church, they have a Bible study or they have a meeting in one neighbor's house.

[00:17:38] And they come out and I greetings them and I say hello to them.

[00:17:44] And one man approached me and asked me if I know Jesus.

[00:17:52] I said, of course, I know Jesus is the son of God.

[00:17:56] But you believe you can go through him to the father, to talk with the father?

[00:18:04] And I said, no, I don't think so.

[00:18:11] And lead me in prayer.

[00:18:14] I actually, I said, I want.

[00:18:16] I was pregnant with my first child.

[00:18:18] And I realized after that, I was scared because that person tell me, if you don't want to go to hell, you must receive Jesus.

[00:18:36] And he was scared for me and told me, you have to stay in the world and to read his word and you will see your life will change.

[00:18:53] And I didn't have Bible.

[00:18:59] I don't know how to get the Bible, which Bible, which translation.

[00:19:06] And one day, one colleague bring a Bible to me and told me, God spoke with me to give this Bible.

[00:19:16] I still have that Bible.

[00:19:19] But I didn't know about the Holy Spirit.

[00:19:22] And I know, I read the Bible, but I don't understand.

[00:19:30] But God moved me, take me from Romania to the Bahamas.

[00:19:35] When I met my husband, Alfred, and I get him to know God, to feel with the Holy Spirit.

[00:19:46] And he led me again.

[00:19:52] And I feel with the Holy Spirit and I start to renew my mind.

[00:19:59] And I didn't realize how God worked with me, but based on my understanding.

[00:20:10] Because in that time, when I met my husband, I don't speak very well English.

[00:20:18] And I was afraid for many things.

[00:20:25] But God is good.

[00:20:28] Amen.

[00:20:29] Do you want to ask him?

[00:20:30] Yeah.

[00:20:30] So how did the two of you actually meet?

[00:20:34] Was it?

[00:20:36] We met a friend of mine asked me for going to substitute one nanny.

[00:20:47] Oh, okay.

[00:20:48] Who's working in the Bahamas.

[00:20:50] Yeah.

[00:20:50] Take care.

[00:20:51] Watch for children.

[00:20:52] And asked me for going to the Bahamas for three months, short period of time.

[00:21:03] And by the time I was working in the restaurant in Romania, I don't have problem with struggle with money or something like that.

[00:21:17] But it was inside of me who hurting because after my parents passed away, I was hurting inside.

[00:21:33] Why God do this with me?

[00:21:39] Why I don't have my mother and father?

[00:21:42] Why my mother had cancer?

[00:21:48] Why my mother had cancer?

[00:22:13] But the first time I met him was something different when I met him.

[00:22:23] I don't see actually him.

[00:22:26] I see like angels.

[00:22:30] And I said, maybe this is God.

[00:22:34] But I don't say anything.

[00:22:36] I continue to work and I stay there.

[00:22:42] I go back to Romania.

[00:22:44] I come back and after two years we get married.

[00:22:49] That's a good story.

[00:22:56] What helped me or trust was he told me he going to Bible college.

[00:23:09] And I asked him, which Bible college?

[00:23:14] You go, you can be married?

[00:23:20] It wasn't me.

[00:23:24] And he said, yeah, I can be married.

[00:23:28] And after that, everything coming through and we get together and we're working.

[00:23:38] And I didn't know God sent me to the Bahamas to actually show me his love.

[00:23:48] It's awesome.

[00:23:49] Well, that's really good.

[00:23:52] You know, what I'd like to do is, Alfred, I want to hear your take.

[00:23:56] Because in Proverbs 18 it says, he who finds a wife finds a treasure and obtains favor from the Lord.

[00:24:03] So that tells me that God's design is that people get married.

[00:24:08] That's what his design is.

[00:24:11] And if you get married, you will be blessed.

[00:24:15] So if you would, give your perspective of meeting Biorica.

[00:24:19] How did that come around in your eyes?

[00:24:21] And how has she changed your life for the best?

[00:24:25] Amen.

[00:24:26] Well, first of all, I agree with you 1,000% on he who finds a wife finds a good thing.

[00:24:35] As she may have described before, we were both going about our own lives, doing what it is that we thought we would be doing for the rest of our lives.

[00:24:48] And I had absolutely no intentions of getting married.

[00:24:54] I wasn't looking to get married.

[00:24:57] But it so happened that God changed my heart again.

[00:25:01] I was in Orlando, Florida, and it was the exact same conference that he spoke to me about going to Karis about.

[00:25:12] God said to me by his spirit, I just had this thought.

[00:25:16] I'm sitting up in the balcony listening to the founder of Karis, Andrew Walmart.

[00:25:22] And he says to me, the Holy Spirit that is, in a thought, I want to do something in your life, but I need you to get married.

[00:25:32] And of course, I looked around like Satan get behind me.

[00:25:37] But it would be years later when I met Villarica in the Bahamas.

[00:25:45] So the people that she worked alongside doing the substitution with, they were actually renovating their house.

[00:25:53] And I was their electrical contractor.

[00:25:57] And it happened.

[00:25:58] It's like she said, it was just God.

[00:26:00] Because it so happens that I was not supposed to be the electrical contractor on that job.

[00:26:06] They had a contractor.

[00:26:08] And the contractor did not want me to do the electrical contracting.

[00:26:12] He had his own electrician.

[00:26:15] But the owner, who unbeknownst to me, was a very close friend of a very close friend of mine's from who lived in the Bahamas.

[00:26:27] And she introduced us.

[00:26:28] And the owner called me one day and said, I want you to do my work.

[00:26:32] And that's how God made the connection.

[00:26:35] So I met her through that connection.

[00:26:42] And, you know, I look back in hindsight and I see that God had orchestrated it all.

[00:26:49] Because all of the things that, and we talked about this later, we both were avoiding, is the direction that God had.

[00:26:58] You know, and to even further state on that verse, he who finds a wife finds a good thing.

[00:27:04] See, you know, one of the things that I've learned over this period is that you can have God good.

[00:27:11] You can have the goodness of God.

[00:27:14] But there's also a better and a best.

[00:27:18] So I agree with you.

[00:27:20] If you want God's best, a wife is definitely the way to go.

[00:27:26] How do I know?

[00:27:27] I tried them both.

[00:27:29] And I find that he has just blessed me significant.

[00:27:32] We have a beautiful son, David, together, who is in Christ.

[00:27:38] You know, he's growing every day in the word of God.

[00:27:43] He inspires us all the time, every day.

[00:27:47] So, you know, we're just blessed.

[00:27:49] He's blessed our marriage.

[00:27:51] We went, we had the opportunity to attend Karas Bible College together.

[00:27:55] Grow through a lot of experiences there.

[00:27:57] Oh, man, I'm blessed.

[00:28:01] So I couldn't agree with you more.

[00:28:05] Okay.

[00:28:06] Thank you.

[00:28:07] And that's wonderful.

[00:28:09] We are almost ready to close.

[00:28:12] And I'm going to be having you guys on again by a Zoom meeting.

[00:28:16] But, Viorico, this is what I'd like.

[00:28:18] I know that you graduated with Judy and I a year ago.

[00:28:22] So we graduate on May 13th.

[00:28:24] And today, well, this is in August.

[00:28:27] So we record a couple months in advance.

[00:28:31] But what was the greatest takeaway you got after two years of Karas sitting under the word,

[00:28:38] five hours a day, four hours a day, five days a week for two years?

[00:28:43] What was your biggest takeaway from Karas?

[00:28:48] My biggest takeaway to find them, God's love.

[00:28:56] Who really I am in Christ.

[00:29:02] Because I struggle with many things.

[00:29:06] And I'm always looking at what people say about me.

[00:29:14] Oh, if I don't speak good, what they say.

[00:29:19] I was afraid to speak.

[00:29:20] I was...

[00:29:23] Condemn myself.

[00:29:25] What has happened?

[00:29:26] If I'm not going there, I don't do this.

[00:29:31] But God loves you no matter what.

[00:29:35] And this is important.

[00:29:38] To know how much God loves you.

[00:29:40] You know, I'm going to stop you right there.

[00:29:44] Because like I mentioned, you were in my IEG class.

[00:29:47] And I've got to go to Proverbs 29, 25.

[00:29:50] It says, the fear of man brings a snare.

[00:29:54] And I remember when you started that IEG.

[00:29:58] And you were fearful.

[00:30:00] You were fearful to go up in front of the class.

[00:30:03] And John and I, you know, we were mature believers.

[00:30:06] And we were encouraging you to just go out and just believe in yourself.

[00:30:10] And we really, really pumped you up.

[00:30:13] And I mean, I've watched you grow.

[00:30:15] And it's just been wonderful.

[00:30:17] But what I've learned, and I think you know beyond the shadow of a doubt,

[00:30:22] it's not about what people think.

[00:30:24] It's what God thinks.

[00:30:26] That's the only thing that truly matters.

[00:30:30] Hon, you haven't talked for a while.

[00:30:32] What are your thoughts about what's going on?

[00:30:35] Well, I was just thinking about something that I just read.

[00:30:40] And it was talking about, I've been thinking a lot about the authority that we have with God.

[00:30:47] And in Christ, the authority.

[00:30:50] And there was a catchy title like, Who Died and Made You God?

[00:30:55] Well, Jesus.

[00:30:56] Jesus died.

[00:30:58] Yes.

[00:30:58] And he gave us that authority so we can stand on it.

[00:31:02] And I know I've been, you know, more and more conscious about how many times we are just not exercising our authority in Christ.

[00:31:12] You know, over our own physical bodies, over things that happen around us, in the world, in the government,

[00:31:21] and just in the atmosphere, you know.

[00:31:26] My sister told me about they've been having a lot of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

[00:31:31] And one of the gals went outside and stood at the end of her driveway and told that storm to leave.

[00:31:37] It could go no further.

[00:31:39] And it did.

[00:31:39] So I think that, you know, we just don't really realize what we have inside of us.

[00:31:46] And that's what I've just been thinking about lately.

[00:31:49] And you kind of touched on that, too.

[00:31:52] You know, and you've touched on it.

[00:31:54] We've all talked about it.

[00:31:55] But it's about taking that authority.

[00:31:58] Alfred, what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask you to just speak for just a moment to anyone who may not know Jesus at this point

[00:32:09] and lead anyone who's listening in the sinner's prayer.

[00:32:13] Bill, I'll be happy to do that.

[00:32:16] You know, over the years, I've just learned that one of the most important decisions that any human being can make

[00:32:24] is to be reconciled to God through his son, Jesus Christ.

[00:32:29] So in the audience, if you are out there and you are listening to this podcast

[00:32:35] and you have never accepted Jesus Christ into your heart,

[00:32:41] that you may be reconciled back into relationship with God.

[00:32:45] This is the perfect opportunity to do that.

[00:32:48] So I'd like to lead you in that confession, in that prayer.

[00:32:53] If you repeat after me and you really believe in your heart, the things that you say,

[00:32:59] God wants to be in a relationship with you.

[00:33:02] You get into his word and you will get to know him more.

[00:33:06] Father God, we just thank you, Lord, for this opportunity to be able to speak to the listeners of this podcast.

[00:33:14] And Father, we just ask you to receive as they receive you.

[00:33:22] Jesus, come into my heart.

[00:33:25] I believe that you are the son of God and you died for my sins.

[00:33:30] I thank you for your sacrifice.

[00:33:34] I accept your payment that I may be reconciled to God.

[00:33:39] If you just said that and you believe that in your heart, you are in relationship with God or what the Bible calls you are born again, a new creation in Christ Jesus.

[00:33:53] Find a good Bible church.

[00:33:55] Get into the word of God.

[00:33:58] Talk to God.

[00:33:59] The same way you talk with your children, the same way you talk with your friends, the same way you talk with your spouse is the way that we talk with God.

[00:34:07] Now that we are in this new relationship with God and because it's in Christ, you can go directly to the father and make your request known to him and ask him any question.

[00:34:19] And I promise you, he will answer.

[00:34:23] Wow, that was wonderful.

[00:34:24] And like I said, I'm thinking maybe about four more months.

[00:34:28] We'll get together again.

[00:34:29] But, you know, I know you have so much to offer both of you.

[00:34:33] And I want this to be an ongoing relationship.

[00:34:37] Let's close in prayer.

[00:34:39] Now, may the Lord bless you and keep you.

[00:34:42] The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

[00:34:46] The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

[00:34:51] Friends, please join me again tomorrow as we further explore wisdom today.