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Verse 22, this thou hast seen. See, look at, they say, are I seeing it? We saw it. And then he goes, you know what, God, you've seen this. This thou hast seen, oh Lord, keep not silence, oh Lord, be not far from me. They're trying to bring these false witnesses saying, oh yeah, we see, we caught you, we got you. God, you saw it, you know what's going on. You know I didn't do this. Don't be silent, Lord, defend me, help me out here. Verse 23, stir up thyself and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Judge me, oh Lord, my God, according to thy righteousness and let them not rejoice over me. And I just want to point this out because we've gone over already the point of how Matthew 5, Jesus was saying to love your enemies and we saw it in Romans 12 and we saw it in this passage as well. These passages that talk about doing good unto people, that your enemies and your adversaries and things like that. But how much of this psalm is not talking about good for the people who are wicked? And how much of the other psalms that we've been reading are not talking about good for the people who do wicked and just the Bible as a whole. Okay, keep that in mind. Yes, we need to overcome evil with good. Yes, we need to be able to fight against our flesh in that way. Yes, we need to pray for people, our enemies and things like that and people do wrong. Look, I've got some, you know, in my own personal life, there's someone that's just not just an enemy to me, an adversary that for whatever reason, I don't even know why and it's not just me, it's other people too. This isn't even just like a reason of my faith or something like that. There's just sometimes you have people in your life that are your enemies, right? And there's someone in my life that just treats me like an enemy. Lying, just whatever, all kinds of different things. But I'm not just wishing all, you know, trying to curse him and things like that. I don't because that's not an appropriate time or place in, you know, everything considered, what's going on. I'm gonna do good to that person. I'm gonna do right by him and I'm gonna continue to try to do good even though they're my enemy, even though they may try to persecute me or whatever and have caused bad things to happen to me. But when you have, you know, the reprobate that's trying to like get you, you know, whatever, killed or, you know, trying to get your family destroyed or what, you know, setting those types of traps for you, I'm not gonna be blessing those people. People that wanted to file my children, sorry, I'm not blessing them. There's a time for a blessing and there's a time for a cursing. Just like when God got angry at Jehoshaphat for blessing those that hated the Lord. Blessing Israel, by the way, for hating the Lord. Yes, Israel, Israel. Oh, I thought we're supposed to bless Israel. Well, Jehoshaphat wasn't supposed to in the Old Testament even. Read your Bible sometime. And yes, these concepts and these truths were so applicable back then too. Loving your neighbor, that was in Leviticus. That was prior to Jehoshaphat and the kings of Israel. So the teaching is still there but it's all taking appropriately. And, you know, at the end of the day, if you're not sure, if you say, well, Pastor Burns, where is that dividing? I can't tell you the exact specific. You may not always know or on the side of caution, just overcome evil with good. That is the overarching underlying principle anyways. I mean, you just do it that way and you won't go wrong. And in the clear cut cases, like, dude, this guy's just rejected anyways. Well, I'm not gonna pray for someone who's rejected. Not gonna do it. I'm not gonna be more loving than God. Because you can't be. It's impossible, I'm not gonna think I could be more loving than God.