SPIRITUAL QUALITY (3)

SPIRITUAL QUALITY (3)

Acts 9: 1 - 21; Acts 11: 19 - 26; Acts 13: 1 - 12

SMcC We should go on to Paul this afternoon. We have read extensively in regard of Saul, who is called Paul, as we read in chapter 13, but it is necessary because of the detail that enters into the taking up of this wonderful vessel. There are many things that are very fitting at the present time to be called attention to; and while on the one hand we see the wonderful grace of the dispensation in affecting a person like Saul, on the other hand we see the terribleness of the government of God upon a person like Elymas standing in the way of the testimony going forward. I think if there is anything we should fear, it is the government of God, the wheels of which turn slowly but surely. It may take ten, twenty, thirty, or even fifty years, but the government of God will eventually catch up; and that is one thing we have to keep before us in relation to the dispensation, that while it is the dispensation of grace, the government of God is operating against evil all the time, and affects all who have to do with God, and affects even the nations, because God is always operating against evil, and always promoting what is good, and I think that should be a comfort and stay to our hearts in the present circumstances. Another thing that should affect us as having regard to this matter of quality, is the place the body of Christ has. Saul of Tarsus has to learn that in attacking the saints he is attacking Jesus, the body of Christ here on earth. That is another thing that should be borne in mind in proceeding with our enquiry, the awful solemnity of railing and speaking against the brethren. The Lord says to Saul, “I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.” What is to be noted in the opening of the chapter is the conjunction ‘but.’ Over against the prosperity in the service and the testimony, as we were looking at it this morning in relation to Philip, the apparent evidence that God is blessing His people, and souls were being added to the testimony it says “But Saul still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord.” He had stood at the feet of Stephen, and looked on, and seen the glory that had shone in Stephen, and the spirit of grace that bore with the opposition that was present, and it says “But Saul still breathing out threatenings and slaughter.” Notice these words, ‘but’ and ‘still,’ and then notice “But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven.” Notice how heaven is intervening in this matter “and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why does thou persecute me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.” Saul thought he was just having to do with ordinary men and women, he thought he was doing what was right. He thought he was even doing God service, so blind was he, so perverted in his way. He thought he was doing God service, and the Lord has to arrest him as He does here, “why dost thou persecute me?” What there is in this island in the various localities, the saints as set together is the body of Christ, and think of the awfulness of persecuting that. How the Lord comes in here, and He says, “Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?” All this surrounds the matter of quality in regard to this special vessel that the Lord refers to as an elect vessel.

LC Does the fact that Saul has his eye on men and women indicate that the enemy is quite aware of what God has before Him?

SMcC Very good; men and women, that is excellent, the component parts of the assembly. Not only is he after the men, but the women, as if the arch enemy was skilled in his designs and methods and was out to destroy the thought of the assembly. It is interesting what you point out.

ST Does the “way” here speak of the way according to God, the way of Christianity?

SMcC That is it. It was an expression that was used in those days to describe Christianity, and Christianity is not a static matter, but a moving matter; and what marks those who go out of fellowship is that you will find they are the same today as they were twenty-five years ago. If you look at the divisions, those who have left the fellowship, or any who leave the fellowship, you will find that they are just the same today as they were when they went out, but Christianity involves “the way” which suggests movement.

HF Would you say that Saul reached his limit here as representing the spirit of Jerusalem, but heaven intervened in power, in the power of grace?

SMcC Yes, that is interesting. He reached his limit. It is marvellous how the Lord suffered the saints to be persecuted. Saul might have said “it is evident that the Lord is not putting His hand upon me, and that I am being helped in my service of persecuting the saints,” but he reaches his limit. In Isaiah 8 there is a reference to Immanuel’s land, and it is very interesting as to the waters of the proud Assyrian. “The Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory; and he shall mount up over all his channels, and go over all his banks; and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land. O Immanuel!” Notice, “he shall mount up over all his channels” - he is going beyond the banks, and notice too, “he shall pass through Judah” - God’s sanctuary as Psalm 114 says, and notice these words, “he shall overflow it and go further, he shall reach even to the neck” - notice that - to the neck, but no further. Thus far and no further. Even to the neck but he does not go over the head, the waters do not go over the head; there is a limit reached as God puts His hand upon matters. The neck, suggests that there is a limit reached so that the saints are not completely overthrown or overpowered by the matter. God allows the enemy to go a certain distance, but thus far and no further. I think our hearts should be affected by the Lord Jesus thus dealing with this insolent overbearing man. Think of the audacity of a man to insult the saints, and to speak against them, and think of what the Lord had to say to this man, “I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.” Not “whom thou speakest against,” but “whom thou persecutest.” That is the word that fits in with the occasion. He is persecuting the saints and the Lord is putting His hand upon him.

FH Would the intervention from heaven be sudden, and would that indicate the feelings of heaven in regard of it?

SMcC I think it does. Heaven is considering this matter. Think of all the way the saints had been persecuted in the chapters before this. Think of how heaven had allowed the enemy to work and to move, and the wonderful attitude of grace; the government of God had held its hand, and stayed its hand, but now the Lord Jesus intervenes personally, not through Philip, the evangelist, or through Stephen, although there must have been some impression there, but the Lord says, “I am taking a personal hand in this matter,” and He brings down this insolent, overbearing man, as Paul refers to himself many years later.

BB Would you say a word about the light out of heaven? Every time Paul refers to this he mentions this light in a different way.

SMcC He does, his appreciation of what reached him and touched him seems to grow, and that is right, and in keeping with “the way,” so that we are not the same next year as we are this year, we are growing in the appreciation of the love and glory of the One who has reached us and brought us down.

JR Stephen saw the glory of God and Jesus. And the Person speaking here says “I am Jesus.” Is it the way of grace overabounding?

SMcC That is it. The Lord is here in this matter. Paul refers to it later, he had a personal appearing. This is not a mere manifestation of glory (not that we are belittling that) but he says in 1 Corinthians 9: 1, “Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord?” referring to the fact that it was a personal appearing, the Lord taking in hand this matter. We can count on the Lord in regard to these matters, that while He allows them to go a long way, He will eventually intervene in His own way and time.

GSR Do you think the Lord stayed His hand until now to impress Paul with the capacity of men and women who could suffer like Stephen?

SMcC I think that is excellent, and I think it should touch us, the fact that Saul would get an impression now in regard of all these persons he had persecuted and spoken insultingly against, the wonderful way they had borne it, and the grace of the dispensation that had been manifested. He would get an impression of how the saints could suffer and the capacity in the saints to suffer, and the Spirit is helping them, I think it helps to see that in the matter of opposition the Lord is linking Himself with the saints. We often refer to it in the Supper. On Lord’s day morning we were thinking of it. All the disturbances we have had, the disturbance this afternoon in the way the saints have been spoken against, and yet how the Lord linked on with us in the Supper, prepared to identify Himself with us and to see us through, and I think it is wonderful to take account of the position in this light.

LC Is it not remarkable that in the section relating to Stephen and in this section the saints are described as disciples? Previously it is the apostles, the eleven, and the assembly, but here it is disciplined ones in whom quality is to shine.

SMcC I think that is good and helps. The matter of disciples speaks of those trained and disciplined, and we have to become accustomed to this kind of thing that the way in Christianity involves following in a disciplined path where things are definitely pursued. That is the thought of disciples - followers of the Lord.

SWR The thought of accusing comes in. Is that definitely satanic?

SMcC So that none of us want to be on the side of Satan in accusing the brethren, every one of us should seek to be free from that kind of thing, and the Lord in bringing down Saul impresses him with the universal idea as to the body. Notice how the universal idea and the local idea go together. He first draws his attention to the body, which is the catholic idea, then in verse 6, “But rise up and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.” That is, his attention now is called to what is in Damascus. The Lord has not only His body in a universal way, which Saul was attacking, but He has what is in each of our cities, what is set up in the light of the assembly which we are to give attention to. Paul’s ministry, brings in the idea of local assemblies, the local assembly had not come into view before except in Jerusalem which was more the metropolitan position, but the idea of the local setting is now coming into view and the Lord is stressing it, and Paul is to get this impression at the outset of the dignity of the saints in Damascus.

HF Saul learnt for the first time that the saints are viewed on earth as the Lord’s body and the Head is in heaven, so that he would have a dignified impression of the saints.

SMcC Well, I think he would get that impression, but it is specially to stress the Lord’s identification with the saints here right in this scene. The Lord’s identification with the saints here in the sphere of testimonial suffering.

DMD Would the idea of the city be that we would understand what God has there, and be subject and work it out together?

SMcC That is the whole point; great man as Saul of Tarsus was he had to learn that there were those in the city of Damascus that God had under His hand, and the Lord Jesus had under His hand, and he was to take orders from them, not from the chief priests in Jerusalem; he was to get directions from them as it says, “it shall be told thee what thou must do.” It is not a question of arguing or reasoning about the matter, but “it shall be told thee what thou must do.” And it is a great matter for us to learn that, it enters into quality, and into our development, and we are to see that no one of us is any greater than the assembly, the assembly is the greatest thought, and we are to be subject to the greatest thought.

GSR In Isaiah 11: 16 we have, “And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people which will be left.” Does that correspond with the bringing in of Paul? Are we treading that highway now?

SMcC I should say so, the highway is before us, and later in Isaiah we have “a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness,” Isaiah 35: 8. It is a great thing to keep that in mind, the highway upon which everything travels, “and it shall be called the way of holiness.” It is the highway of holiness, and we can see it here in this chapter.

HD “But rise up and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.” Saul has now a moral right to enter as coming under the sway of the Lord.

SMcC Yes, the Lord has brought him down, and the Lord says, Now the right place for you is in the local gathering at Damascus for the moment. We want to get hold of that, what the local gathering is, and especially to see that the Lord has full confidence in the local gathering. Saul might have said, they have made plenty of mistakes, they do not know what they are doing, but Saul does not say that, he had been brought down completely, and that is what new birth does for us, and when the Lord comes in in power there is no more confidence left, as with Saul.

SWR Would you distinguish between “economy” and “dispensation”?

SMcC Oh, well I think in certain ways both mean the same, it depends on how you use it. The economy goes beyond the dispensation. If we are speaking of the economy into which divine Persons have come that would begin with the coming of the Lord Jesus into manhood, and goes on right into eternity, but if we speak of the economy of grace, it is an equivalent term to the dispensation of grace. Economy just means the way things are administered. You have the economy in Kingston in the Jamaican Government. We have the economy in Washington - the way things work out in the government. If we allude to it in relation to the economy into which divine Persons have come, of course it goes beyond the dispensation.

This section from verses 8 to 21 is most interesting as showing us how the different features of the economy are operated to help us, and it is a remarkable thing that the first thing Saul saw apparently was a brother. It is a great thing to get a right view of the brethren in that light.

AEMcC Was there not quality with the brother? I was thinking of his obedience to the Lord. Saul is told to enter into the city, and Ananias is also told what he must do.

SMcC Yes, and it is very touching to see how Ananias, truly one like ourselves, has certain difficulties, and how the Lord helps him, and he moves in such a way. He is a remarkable person, Ananias. It says in verse 10 “There was a certain disciple in Damascus by name Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, here am I, Lord. And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name, Saul, he is of Tarsus.” It is interesting the sensitiveness of Ananias, and I think that ought to raise something with us. If we are out in the world and going on with things casually in the testimony, and have not much interest in assembly life, we can hardly expect to get these touches that will bring us into the operations of the economy, but Ananias was in the life of the testimony and he went. He was available, and that is a word to us as to whether we are all available.

DB Ananias must have had a humble spirit when the Lord could be free to tell him that a younger brother was going to be an elect vessel.

SMcC Very good. Here was a young man coming into line with the testimony. He was going to take a lead in relation to the ministry, and the Lord indicates that to Ananias. “And the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings, and the sons of Israel; for I will show to him how much he must suffer for my name.” Now, notice this, A great many have difficulty as to appealing to Caesar, and as to how Paul appealed to Caesar, but the remarkable thing is that the Lord told him that he would come before Caesar and Agrippa “to bear my name before both nations and kings” at the very beginning, at his conversion, and I think, as you say, the thought of quality in Ananias comes out in the way he moves immediately to serve in relation to the divine end in regard of this choice vessel.

LC The Lord adds, “I will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name,” the “I” is emphatic. Does that suggest that we are entirely in the Lord’s hand as to this matter of discipline where the development of quality is in mind?

SMcC I think so. It is a remarkable statement, “I will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name.” Think of what enters into these words. We would have thought if any vessel would have been free from suffering Paul would have been as carrying the burdens of the assembly, but let us remember that in these matters it is well to take account of the capacity in the saints to suffer, and this would enter into this statement in regard of Saul of Tarsus. The Lord is going to give him a view of how much he must suffer, as if the Lord has great pleasure in this matter of capacity in the saints for suffering, for the idea of a vessel suggests capacity. We have limited the thought of the elect vessel to Paul ministering, but I think it would be well for us to think a little bit more of the elect vessel on the line of suffering, the capacity of this great vessel to suffer, as he says in Colossians 1: 24, “Now, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill up that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly.” That is not atoning sufferings, but the idea of testimonial suffering, and the Lord fits the vessel, as it were, for suffering.

ST Philippians 1: 29 reads, “Because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also, having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.”

SMcC That is a beautiful word. Read it again, “Because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also, having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.” Mr. Taylor recently in New York drew attention to that verse referring to “it has been given.” We are liable to think of suffering coming upon us as a calamitous kind of thing, but the way it is put in Philippians it is a wonderful favour conferred upon us that we should suffer for His name. It has been given to us not only to believe, but to suffer for His name. It is a great thing to get into our minds, and I think it is a comfort, at least it is a comfort to my soul, in the measure of suffering which we have to think of that - it has been given to us.

EW Timothy was to take his share in suffering.

SMcC That is a very interesting passage, and a word to all of us. We are not to shrink from suffering or to avoid it.

SWR Is it a matter that we can glory in? Paul says in Galatians 6: 14, “Far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.”

SMcC Yes, I think we should learn to do that. Paul says in that same chapter, “I bear in my body the brands of the Lord Jesus,” verse 17. A remarkable statement. What can Judaisers say about that kind of vessel? They did not suffer much, these Judaistic teachers. They were working under the hand of the enemy to hinder in regard of the truth as to Christianity, but Paul faces the whole matter unflinchingly in the very place where it reared its head - Jerusalem, and he calls attention to his sufferings in that way. We are not only to be like Christ in glory, but now in suffering here below. We shall be like Him above, we shall see Him as He is. It will be in a moment, and how we long for it, but in the present moment we are to be like Him, like Him now. Stephen was like Him, Paul was like Him, and we are to be like Him. When people insult us, when men do despite to us, or do not give us what is properly due to us, in whatever sphere it may be, we are to be like our Master, our heavenly Master.

GSR The suffering and the glory are connected, the more Paul suffers the more he apprehends the glory, so that he speaks of the light in a greater way each time.

SMcC It is in these chapters where he is bound and in chains that he brings out his ever-increasing apprehension of the light. It is good to see that as the sufferings are intensified, his appreciation and apprehension of grace increases.

HD Do the sufferings produce fragrance for God, a sweet savour to God? “For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God,” 2 Corinthians 2: 15.

SMcC And that is said in the great epistle of suffering, 2 Corinthians. The whole epistle in a remarkable way brings out sufferings, the sufferings of Christ, and of the apostles. In chapter 1 he says “even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound,” verse 5. Not just one or two, but they “abound.”

OL In the prison at Philippi Paul and Silas at midnight “in praying were praising God with singing,” Acts 16: 25.

SMcC Very good, showing the spiritual quality in these men like ourselves that in the prison, in such sufferings and testings, the service of God was going on. It is a wonderful testimony to the quality in these vessels.

Now we must go on to chapter 11. We will see now how this thought of quality is increasing in that the disciples are first called Christians, and we have the first mention of their being “gathered together” - gathered. Beloved Mr. Taylor was saying in Indianapolis recently that the word ‘gathering’ was better than ‘meeting,’ and it comes in here “gathered together in the assembly,” verse 26. Another thing to be noted which we did not refer to is, verse 20, “But there were certain of them, Cyprians and Cyrenians, who entering into Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, announcing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.” That is a very interesting thing for the Greeks were filled with Alexander the Great, and the mighty exploits of that wonderful general in his thirties, but a youth. What domination he had, how wonderful his exploits were, and the Greeks were filled with Alexander. The disciples were scattered abroad, and they announced the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.

JR How do you understand the term “Lord Jesus”?

SMcC It refers to the excellence of the Person, the One whom God has honoured and glorified. Jesus is the One whom men set aside, and slighted, and disallowed, but Lord Jesus particularly alludes to God’s act in glorifying that blessed Man; it is also a great Pauline title. Paul uses it much in his letters.

JR Stephen was the first to say “Lord Jesus.” “Lord Jesus receive my spirit.”

SMcC Showing how interesting the setting is there. In the midst of suffering the glory is shining and we find the appellation first on the lips of a disciple. Luke uses it, although we may say Luke alone of the evangelists brings us the term, for he speaks of the disciples not finding the body of the Lord Jesus, but Stephen was the first to say “Lord Jesus.”

ECL Does that precious name bring in the Holy Spirit? 1 Corinthians 12: 3 says, “No one can say Lord Jesus, unless in the power of the Holy Spirit.”

SMcC That is to be noted. It requires the Spirit of God to say it rightly. You may watch persons and hear how they speak of divine Persons, and how they address God, and speak of God, and you will find that some are outside of the dispensation altogether, and it is betrayed in the way they speak of Him. “Lord Jesus” is one title that requires the Holy Spirit to use rightly. He officially is in the place of Lord, and it is well to bear that in mind, that while we may refer to the Father as Lord, and to the Spirit as Lord, and the Lord Jesus is officially in the place of Lord. He has been made Lord and Christ. That term officially belongs to the Lord Jesus.

ST Does this teaching for a whole year bring out quality in the disciples?

SMcC Yes. It would be the whole year; springtime, harvest, summer and winter would all be encompassed in this year.

ECL Barnabas had seen quality in Saul and he goes to seek him out.

SMcC Very good. Not many years ago the beloved brother we all love so much and honour, referred to Barnabas, saying he was the unjealous introducer of his more gifted brother Saul. It is a wonderful thing to see that spirit in any of us. It may be a much younger man, but love walking in an unjealous way makes room for more gifted men, and that is a beautiful spirit, and it brings out quality in Barnabas. The Spirit of God says of him “he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith,” verse 24. He was a man of quality, and he was certainly that here in the way he brings Saul in.

We might finish with a word as to Acts 13 to show how quality is constantly increasing, so that we get in the beginning of this last section of the Acts, for the book of the Acts is divided into three sections. Those who read the Synopsis will find that out. Acts 1 is the first section which refers to the time the Lord Jesus was with His disciples in the days before He ascended up into heaven, and then chapters 2 to 12 form another section of the book, where the operations of the Spirit of God are brought before us, and especially His independent operations, independent of Jerusalem in the bringing in of the Ethiopian eunuch and Cornelius, and now in chapter 13 to the end of the book we have this last section in which the great work of Paul is to come before us, and chapter 13 gives us the thought of increase in quality and we find that there are others there who have gift and ability in Antioch, and Antioch as the base and centre of the operations amongst the uncircumcised comes before us.

GSR Does this correspond with Ephesians 4, the persons are the gifts? Is it to stress the value of the gifts in a locality and in the assembly?

SMcC I think it is. What a rich locality Antioch must have been in the way they sat together, and the way they were together despite their gift and ability is interesting, that instead of vying with one another as at Corinth, they were ministering to the Lord and fasting. I think it brings out the quality of these men that instead of each man looking upon his own things he was thinking about the Lord - ministering to the Lord, and fasting, and the Holy Spirit now formally comes into this matter.

LC Throughout the book up to this point the thought of being filled with the Holy Spirit seems to be prominent. Even to Paul Ananias said “be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Is it that the Spirit may be free as filling the vessel and then filling out the whole position?

SMcC That is it, and it is important to see that - filled with the Spirit. It is a great matter the way the Spirit takes things in hand in regard of all these choice vessels. I think we should think more of this matter in view of what the Lord may have before Him, and what the Spirit may have before Him in the finishing of the dispensation.

ECL Is that why in Ephesians Paul says “be filled with the Spirit,” Ephesians 5: 18. Is it that we should take in the full scope of God’s thoughts?

SMcC I think so, and be sustained in the position of our blessing as it is presented in that letter.

JR May we look for development in that line in our localities today where the service of God is going on?

SMcC I think we should, and I think it is apparent, and it is wonderful to see the way ability is coming to light amongst us, and how much there is, and the Lord is helping, and the Spirit is helping, and it should be an encouragement to every young man and woman here to lay themselves out to be available in relation to this great matter, because there is much to be done and room for all. Moses said, “Would that all Jehovah’s people were prophets,” Numbers 11: 29, and that should be the attitude and spirit of every one of us in this matter.

HW Was the Spirit of God acting sovereignly here when He said, “Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them”?

SMcC Yes. He is in complete control of things in the assembly, and He has marked off these two men, and that shows too, something we have all to make way for, the idea of divine sovereignty. There was apparently no feeling with these other brothers that Barnabas and Saul should have been set forward. Divine Persons have a right in Their sovereignty to dispose of things and persons as They see fit.

HD So that the Spirit takes on the first and the last mentioned in verse 1.

SMcC Very interesting, showing it is not a matter of alphabetical order. How do the brethren follow through the preaching of the word of God? Do they look up a book alphabetically and say he preached two weeks ago and it is his turn now? It is a question of ability and what is best suited to the matter on hand, so that it is not a question of alphabetical order nor numerical order, but it is the first and the last. The word of the Lord Jesus, “Many first shall be last and the last first,” Mark 10: 31, comes out very much in these two.

ECL Do we see quality in the assembly here, and quality in Paul coming out in conflict?

SMcC That is very important to see. As Paul moves out into the public position he meets this terrible element, “And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus, who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. He, having called Barnabas and Saul to him desired to hear the word of God. But Elymas the magician (for so his name is by interpretation) opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith. But Saul, who is also Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixing his eyes upon him said, O full of all deceit and all craft; son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness; wilt thou not cease perverting the right paths of the Lord? And now behold the Lord’s hand is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell upon him a mist and darkness; and going about he sought persons who should lead him by the hand. Then the proconsul, seeing what had happened, believed, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.” He had to face the magician - one who juggled things around and would make you believe that one thing was another thing, and that something was so, that was not so - a magician. He opposed them, and this is in the dispensation of grace, and it might be well to finish with that solemn word that while it is the dispensation of grace, the government of God goes through, and is always against evil, and promoting what is good. It is always against evil in whatever nation or whatever individual it may be, and the wheels of God’s government turn slowly, but surely, and that is a solemn thing to consider.

Kingston, Jamaica.