A Challenge to All Who Call on the Name of the Lord - Part 2 — Hamp Sirmans

We began a series last week called The Challenge to All Those Who Call on the Name of the Lord. And we began to discuss some areas where Christians can be hindered from growing in their walk with the Lord and in their pathway.

Some areas where we can face a great deal of opposition. And as we go through these areas, the enemy comes in and can use many different weapons and ways to hinder us. And last week we talked about offenses.

And we talked about being offended with God. We talked about being offended with spiritual leadership. We talked about being offended with others. We talked about being offended with ourselves. And today we're just going to go right into another area of vulnerability for the Christian.

And hopefully, as we look at these different areas, we can gain some insight into our walk with Christ. And hopefully we'll be challenged that when we do face these areas, we're going to trust the Lord to help us through them.

Because every area that I'm going to talk about in this message, this is the second part of it, we're going to face it. Somewhere along the line you're going to face these areas. And it's going to be a challenge to us to allow the Lord and to trust the Lord enough to bring us through.

Let's pray and then we'll get into what we're going to talk about today. Father, we just come before you. Lord, this is a very simple message. It's very easy to entreat. God, when it's brought by your spirit, there's a grace and there's a strength that comes with it.

And I'm praying for that today, Lord, that this would encourage, this would build up, that it would edify, exhort, as your word says in Timothy 3 .16. God, it would bring about a greater level of stability.

God, that it would encourage the body to grow into the stature and the measure of Christ and to understand some of the things that we face in that process. Lord, we love you today. We give you this time in the word.

It's a sacred time. It's a time set apart to hear what you're saying to us as a body. Now, we've been before you as individuals. Now, speak to us as a body. And God, encourage us and enlighten us in your word and into your ways, Lord.

In Jesus' name, amen. Well, let's begin today's message with something that every Christian, like I said, is going to face in this life and growing in the grace of God and in your experience with the Lord.

Change as an Inevitable Part of Christian Growth

And that is change. Change. And that may not seem like something that would present a problem. However, it is. In many, many people's lives, change can be one of the greatest difficulties to face in life, whether you're saved or unsaved.

Going through things, going through sudden changes, as we're going to talk about. It can be very difficult to cope with a sudden flux of experience that we have not kind of prepared ourself for. It can be very difficult.

But we know that without change, life would be impossible. Without change, life would be impossible. God has designed this natural life that it is in a constant cycle of change. My wife and I purchased little gifts for my daughter, Bethany, for her birthday.

And it's a butterfly kit. And they send you caterpillars in a little container. And you can watch the whole change process take place. And, you know, last night we got into a funny situation. We were transferring them from their small container into what will eventually be their habitat, where they're alive in our home.

So they're not flying around the house. And it's very interesting because they've made the transition from the caterpillar up into the point where they'll be their most vulnerable into the crystallized stage.

And they've turned into these very odd, weird-looking shapes. And last night I was touching one of them, and it started shaking, and I thought something was wrong with it. I went to the instruction manual, and that's all part of their defense mechanisms.

All they can do when they're vulnerable like that is just shake and try and, you know, ward off anything that's coming around them. They're very vulnerable. And, you know, we can be very vulnerable in that process of change.

We can be brought into change and into our lives and feel very vulnerable. And that's one reason that change is very difficult because it can leave us feeling very vulnerable. Now, we see this change process not only, you know, in the life of a butterfly.

That's very simple to see. But we also see it in the four seasons. God has ordained the times, the seasons, so that this world can bring forth life. Without four seasons, that we would be living in a wilderness.

There would be no fruit. There would be no life. There would be—the earth wouldn't be able to sustain life. But God has ordained it, this pattern of seasonal changes, so that life can continue on over and over again and continue to bring forth life.

And what's true in the natural life is also mirrored in the spiritual life. That just as there are natural changes in this world that we see every day. We don't even recognize right now we're in winter.

There's no fruit on the trees. There's nothing that speaks of life. We're in that season. We see these natural things going on around us. But just as this world and everything we see around us goes through changes, we do too.

The Christian, the believer will undergo many changes and seasons that are ordained of God. There are seasons in your life. There are times in your life. Ecclesiastes, there's a time to sing. There's a time to mourn.

There's a time to laugh. There's a time to cry. There's a time for war. There's a time for everything. There's a season and there's a time. And we're going to go through things that are ordained of God that's going to bring growth and it's going to cause us to expand in our Christian journey.

It's going to cause us to grow. Because God wants to enlarge us. God wants to bring about a life that is his life and that is a continual outflow of living. And he wants us to bear his fruit. No matter what we're going through in our life or what we face, no matter what season we're in, God desires for there to be an enlargement.

Maybe today you feel like a tree, just no sap, no life, no fruit, no leaves, nothing. You just feel naked. That's all part of the process of what God is doing in our life so that there will be an abundance of more life to follow.

Flourishing Through Every Spiritual Season

Psalm 1 -3 says this, talking about the man that puts his trust in the Lord. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth fruit in his season. His leaves shall not wither and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

Jeremiah 17 -7 and 8 says, Blessed is the man that trusts in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spreads out her roots by the river and shall not see when he comes.

But her leaves shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought. That's fearful or filled with anxiety. In the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. So God wants to produce such a life within us that no matter what we go through, there are resources to draw on that will cause us, even in winter, even when we shouldn't be growing, we're growing.

And we are bringing forth the life of God. Now, to produce such a life, we will undergo many challenges and changes that will test and try us. If we do not realize this, we will face a great deal of discouragement and hardship.

If we don't realize this as a natural process in the Christian journey, we're going to go through a great deal of hardship. We're going to be asking, Why? Why me? We're going to be wondering in our prayer life.

We're going to be straining and striving. We're going to be discouraged. But we need to understand that this is very much a part of our life. Paul says, Does not nature itself teach you? Things are going to change, and we must be ready for it.

Things are going to change. They're not always going to be the same. And we've got to be ready when change comes. We must recognize it as an essential part of our journey. An essential part of our journey is this aspect of change.

It is in the midst of change we are to remain open to God. We are to be pliable clay in His hand. And this is the greatest challenge I think that we face as Christians. That in the midst of change, we stay soft towards God.

And we continue to walk softly before Him. Open to His voice. Yielding to His Spirit. Not shutting Him out. Not growing hardened. Not wandering off in a place of unbelief. But remaining open to the Lord.

And being pliable to Him. And to come into a place where we find the strength and grace of God. To move forward in that time of change. Because the devil wants you to sit still. The devil doesn't want you to change.

The enemy wants to keep you stagnant. He wants to keep you stale. He wants to keep you barren. And so he's going to resist change in your life. And so that means he's going to resist the workings of God in your life.

And he's going to resist you. And he's going to come at you when change is happening. As we're going to talk about. He's going to attack you. And he's going to come because he knows you're vulnerable.

He knows that you're weak. He knows that you've got a lot of questions. But, you know, the Lord is there. And we need to find the strength of God in every change that we undergo. To go through it. And to be bettered by it.

Instead of hindered and stopped. And brought down. Now there's two main areas of change that I want to discuss today with you. Two areas of change that we're all going to go through. And I want to talk with them because under these areas, in these areas.

I want to pinpoint some things that we're going to deal with as we go through this change. So you're going to know what you're going to face. And what we're going to feel. Some of the lies of the enemy.

All of that. I want to use these areas of change. Discuss them with you today. To pinpoint things that you're going to face. And there are a whole lot more that you could add to this list. I'm sure I could talk to many of you.

But I want to talk about the major things that the Christian is going to face. When they go through these areas of change. The first area of change I want to talk about is a change in circumstances. Change in circumstances.

Sudden Changes in Circumstances and the Christian Life

This goes without saying that sudden changes in our lives can shake the strongest Christian's faith. I don't care how strong your faith is. I don't care how much you pray. How much you seek God. Sudden changes in circumstances can shake you to the core.

They can rattle you. They can knock you off course. They can bring you low. All it takes is one phone call. One trip to the doctor. One person's bad decision. One person's mistake. And our whole future is completely and forever changed.

Everything. Everything. I was thinking through this about different people. Not just in the Bible but throughout the history of the church. Through people's wrong decisions. Bad decisions. Mistakes. That person's life completely changed.

We've seen a lot of Fannie Crosby's hymns in the church. Blessed Assurance. Jesus is Mine. Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior. She wrote over 3 ,000 hymns. And she was blind but she wasn't born blind. When she was just an infant in her life, a doctor applied the wrong salve to her eyes and it blinded her forever.

One person's mistake completely altered the life of another. Beyond her control, beyond anything that she could do, her life was changed by one bad mistake. One person's fault. And it's tempting to believe that when sudden change happens to a Christian, that there's something wrong with our faith.

We're tempted to believe that when sudden change is coming to our lives, that they're there because we lack something. Or our faith is not of a quality that it should be. And so we begin to question. We begin to wonder about different reasons why.

Many feel maybe they have these circumstances come into their life and they like the faith that can shield them from sudden calamity. If I would have had faith in God and trusted Him more, I would have been shielded and padded and insulated.

Right? You ever been there? Many questions can run through the believer's mind as they are faced with great and sudden difficulty. Here's some of the things that I've been through and faced in my own life.

Number one, I thought that God insulated me from all forms of great and sudden difficulty. All of a sudden, something happens beyond your control and you begin to think your theology doesn't make room for it.

And there are a lot of Christians out there that have a wrong perception of what it means to walk with God. And they think that because they've been invited into such a great life and everything that it's an insulation, it's a shield.

You know, you read the Scriptures where it says God's a shield, a refuge, a tower, the righteous run into it, all of that. And they think that they're going to be insulated from sudden calamity. That it's just never going to happen to me.

Because my theology, my belief is that God is not going to allow anything that is great and sudden and difficult in my life. Number two, some people, as I mentioned just a moment before this, that the reason that this has happened to me is because my faith is weak.

This is all coming on me because my faith is weak. A third thing that people can think of when they go through sudden changes in circumstances that are difficult and hard is I must be out of touch with God.

I must be out of touch with God. I never saw this coming. If I was in touch with God, I would have heard something. I would have known something. God would have told me. So I must be out of touch with Him.

And number four, and this is something that is a very common struggle. If God is so good, why are my circumstances so rotten? If God is so good, why are my circumstances so rotten? How do I deal? Now, this is just four I've chosen.

You can think of a whole lot more. Probably, is there a God? Does He care for me? You can think of a lot of different other ones that are pertinent and real to you. But how do we deal with the fears and questions that arise when suddenly everything changes?

Everything changes. Firstly, we must realize that we are not exempt from sudden change. Being a Christian does not mean that we have opted out of sudden change. It doesn't mean that we've opted out or taken a sidetrack out of the human experience, that all of a sudden we are immune from sudden change in our life, that it cannot happen to us because I'm a Christian.

It's not going to happen. As I said before, you know, our theology sometimes can be that God just isn't going to allow certain things to happen in my life. But is that really the truth? Is that really the way that it is?

Joseph, Moses, Job, and David Face Sudden Reversals

There are many men and women of God that have walked with Him that have undergone sudden, drastic, and unforeseen circumstances that altered their lives forever. I think about Joseph. You know, when he made the decision to obey his father and go down and visit his brethren, we talked about him recently in some messages here.

He never would have thought that by the end of that day he would have been in a pit. Never. I'm sure he never would have dreamed that or imagined that, that he would have been stripped of everything that was common, everything that was known to him.

All his comforts, the favor of his father, all of that just taken out immediately like a rug being snatched out from under him. And all of a sudden, this young man is taken from such a place of privilege in his father's house to a common slave.

And he's sold as a piece of property into Egypt. Think about him. That was a very sudden change. Think about Moses. In a fit of rage and anger, he kills a man. And his whole life in Egypt changes. And he's sent out, he flees out into the wilderness where he doesn't know what's going to happen.

He doesn't know. And he's taken from a place of privilege and put into a wilderness. And I'm sure that he wondered, how could this happen to me? Job. Job, we read his unforeseen, sudden change comes into this man's life.

In a moment's time, he loses everything. Everything that is near and dear to his heart is stripped from this man. He loses his finances. He loses his children. Everything that is in his health. So everything is taken from him suddenly.

It happens. I think about David. He goes from one moment, everybody's singing his praises. Is this the one that killed 10 ,000? You know, this is the one that killed 10 ,000. And the next minute, he's like a hunted animal.

Running from cave to cave. Cave to cave. Sudden change. We are not exempt from sudden change. We're not exempt from that. In an instant, life can suddenly change for all of us. The Bible says that the rain falls on the just and the unjust.

That doesn't mean just the rain of the blessings that comes down. God does bless. But it also means the storms of life. They come to all men. All of us. Every one of us. They come to us. Our strength when things happen and change happens is knowing that God does not change.

God doesn't change. He is a constant when everything out of the ordinary is happening. His mind does not change towards us. This is our comfort and peace when it appears through circumstances that we are on the outside of God's blessings.

You ever felt there? I'm outside of God's blessings. But His mind doesn't change towards us. His heart doesn't change. James 1 .17 says, Every good gift and perfect gift comes from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

There's no change in His character. God's mind and heart does not change towards us. He invites us during times of change into His tender care when things are spinning out of control or seemingly spinning out of control.

He does not judge us nor condemn us when our emotions are erratic because of sudden change. And that's good to know. That's good to know that He doesn't judge us. That we're left wondering. That is part of the human experience.

What in the world has happened? God doesn't look down and say, Well, you should have more faith and you wouldn't even ask that question. Oh, you have little faith. God doesn't look down. If anything, He's there for you.

And He doesn't condemn you. When you start to go through that natural process of dealing with sudden change, He doesn't run from us when we are trying to cope with transition. God doesn't run from us.

When we're learning how to walk into this transition, God doesn't run from us. He's there for us in transition. Matter of fact, sometimes He's the only thing that's stable. That you know. That's where we have to understand.

That when sudden change happens that we're not exempt from, that there is something constant. This is what being a believer is about. That we have a constant in our life. Someone that will be there for us no matter where the chips fall.

No matter what happens, God will be there for you. Even though many thoughts and temptations flood your heart, thoughts, temptations, even when you fail, trying to cope with change, trying to deal with it, God is not there.

The Bible says a bruised reed He'll not break. A smoking flax He'll not quench it. Dealing with change, God is right there. And He wants us and He invites us during those times to turn our attention towards Him.

Now that doesn't mean that everything is going to go away. It just means that we've got somebody there for us. No matter what is changing all around us, we must always remember God's heart towards us does not change.

Though it looks like the shadows are overshadowing our life and we're out of God's favor, it can never be for a child of God that is walking with Him in unity and loving God. It can never be that you're out of His favor.

Never. Because God's love towards you is constant. And it never changes. Jesus said we are to expect tribulation, circumstances beyond our control, and face them with the fact that He has made it through and He will bring us through as well.

The Bible says this hope that we have is an anchor for our soul. That Jesus has went through this and that He's going to pull us through. It's an anchor for our soul. And I get the picture, you know, of an anchor, Jesus being our anchor in heaven.

And on the other side of that, I see us tied to Him. When change comes and when hard, difficult circumstances, when it happens, I see us with a rope tied around us. And when we don't have the ability to go through it, it's Him on the other side pulling us through it.

Pulling us to the anchor. Pulling us through to victory and to glory. The Lord is there rooting for us and pulling us through it. We're anchored to Him. And He's pulling us through all of that. So if He made it, if He can go through change and transition, then we can face it.

And we can, by His grace, make it through. Number two. Secondly, sudden change is not a good indicator of the strength of your faith. Sudden change is not a good indicator of the strength of your faith.

Sudden Change Does Not Measure the Strength of Faith

In other words, if you think because you've got such a great faith that you're never going to be put in a position where things happen to you that you are totally blown away by, then you have a false understanding of what true faith is.

True faith doesn't make you exempt from sudden change. If anything, it's going to make you more vulnerable. Because that person is going to be tested above others. I think about Job. It wasn't that he had poor faith.

The quality of his faith was poor. It was because God said, Look at this man. Can you find anybody like him? But Job thought, It's my fears. It's because I don't have enough faith. I'm thrown into this.

God has found something in me. But it was the opposite. God said, This is a person that will make it through. I know the quality of his faith. It's not the opposite. Sometimes we think that it's the opposite.

So when sudden change happens to us, it's not a good indication whether we have strong or weak faith. Faith is not a shield that protects us from sudden change. Do you understand that? Faith doesn't protect you from sudden change happening.

The temptation for the believer when faced with sudden change is to immediately question their faith and devotion to God. What did I do wrong? Are sudden changes in circumstances sometimes an indication of something we've done wrong?

Does God sometimes use circumstances to get our attention? Yes, He does. We must bring a balance here because sometimes hard circumstances are a result of our hardness of heart. And it's God speaking to us.

But it's not always that way. How do I discern whether or not my trial was brought on by my disobedience? Here's a very simple way to find out by asking yourself a very simple question. Where was I with God before this trial began?

Was I in a place of complaining or thankfulness? Was I obeying the Lord or living in disobedience? Now the answer to that question will ultimately shed some light onto your pathway if it is answered truthfully without any desire to justify yourself.

If you really want to know where your trial comes from, if it's the Lord speaking to you, you've got to be open to the Holy Spirit. Because I've been here and I've done this. And sometimes it's God trying to speak to me.

And I've walked in self-justification. But when I really take a deeper look into the situation, it's not that I'm just doing something that was right. It's because the Lord is trying to speak into my heart.

Jonah's Disobedience and Paul's Obedience in the Storm

I'm going to look at this as an example. Jonah was caught in a sudden storm that affected everyone around him. Why? Jonah knew why. Because he was running from God. Right? The storm that he was in was brought on by his disobedience.

So it is possible. He was running from the will of God. Will God bring a storm into our lives because we are being defiant? Yes. But all storms and sudden changes of circumstances are not a true indicator of personal disobedience to God.

I think about the Apostle Paul and his storm. Two men in two different storms. One is in a storm because of disobedience. The other is there because he's been obedient. His obedience brought him into a storm.

So our faith will often bring us into storms. Another good indicator to where our storms originate is found in another question. Do I find God's resources available to meet my troubled soul? Though there may be times of quietness and a short season of stillness from God, the child of obedience will always come into a season of comfort and receive a word from the Lord that will sustain them.

So how do I measure? Because if you're in it because you're obedient, God will speak to you. Though there may be a silence for a time and you may go through a lot of confusion, God will ultimately speak to that person.

And he will comfort that heart. Job and Paul both received a promise from the Lord to help them through. The child of obedience will be strengthened through the storm by the presence of the Lord and a word of comfort.

Acts 27, 21. I'm going to read this through 25. But after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, Sirs, you should have hearkened to me and not have loosed from Crete and to have gained this harm and loss.

And now I exert you to be of good cheer. For there shall be no loss of any man's life among you but of the ship. For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve. If this man was in disobedience, he would have never had an angel of the Lord come to him and speak to him words of comfort.

He would have never had that resource. Saying, Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath given thee all this. He's got a promise from the Lord, a comfort. And he speaks with assurance.

And it says, After long abstinence. You know, that took some time for Paul to hear that. He went away and got still. And I'm sure that in all that confusion, he couldn't hear the voice of God readily.

But as he waited on God and as he got along with God, God will always speak to the obedient ear. And that's one way I can indicate, is a good indication to me, whether this storm in my life, this sudden change of circumstances, God's trying to get my attention, or it's just something that God has allowed and I'm walking in obedience.

It took Paul a little while to get the mind of the Lord, but he could get God's mind in a state of confusion because he was right with God. The child that is disobedient will not gain the same comfort until their obedience is fulfilled.

So here, how do I determine if I'm in obedience or disobedience? You're not going to get the same comfort until your obedience is fulfilled, until you make that thing right which is wrong. God's not going to comfort you.

Look at Jonah. I want to read this. Jonah 1 .1, it says,. Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh. Verse 3 says,. But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

Verse 4 said,. The Lord sent a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. And the Bible says that he was thrown overboard, thrown into that ocean.

And then the storm stopped, and then God caused the great fish to swallow him. And then verse, Jonah chapter 2 says,. Jonah prayed to the Lord his God out of the fish's belly and said, I cried by reason of my affliction unto the Lord.

In other words, he's dealing rightly with God at this point. This storm is a storm brought into my life because of my disobedience. In order for this to be made right, I've got to deal rightly with God.

I cannot walk in a self-justifying voice. I must hear what God is speaking to me. I must hear what God is saying. I cried, he said, out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice, for you have cast me into the deep, into the midst of the seas.

He says, God, you cast me here. In the midst of the seas and the floods come past me about, all your billows and your waves passed over me. Verse 7 of chapter 2 says,. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came in unto thee into thy holy temple.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that that I have vowed. In other words, I will fulfill my obedience to you.

Salvation is of the Lord. And verse 10, as soon as he says this, I will obey you. And the Lord spoke to the fish. And it vomited out Jonah upon dry land. When Jonah was willing to obey God, God spoke to his circumstances and said, that's enough.

I've accomplished, this storm has accomplished what I've wanted to accomplish. He's ready to hear and obey what I've told him to do the first time. Jonah 3 .1 says,. And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time.

Thank God the second time the word came. When he was ready to fulfill, God started speaking to Jonah again. God started to speak into this man's life again and started to direct his life. So we see the parallels between the obedient and the disobedient.

That the obedient in their storm, in their sudden calamity, will always have a word from the Lord. And they'll know that in that, that this was not brought on by some act of disobedience. But the disobedient will only have turmoil, confusion of faith, until they make that thing right and then God will begin to speak again and bring them out of the storm.

God ended the horror of the fish's belly when Jonah acknowledged his disobedience. Once that was accomplished, he could hear once again the word of the Lord. Number three, because unforeseen things happen in our lives, it does not mean that we are out of touch with God's spirit.

Trusting God When He Does Not Warn Us

Another temptation is to question your ability to hear and discern the voice of God. Why didn't I hear the Lord speaking to me? Maybe I was not able to hear His voice warning me because I'm out of touch with Him.

God does not always let us know when hard times are coming. He reserves the right to be sovereign Lord of our life. God is not always going to tell you that there's a sudden change coming into your life.

He doesn't always do that. And we must give Him the right to be Lord of all, sovereign of all. It is part of our spiritual journey and our development to learn to trust God in that way. Number four, rotten circumstances are no indication as to the kindness, tenderness and goodness of God.

God's Goodness in a Fallen World

Right? I'm in rotten circumstances. Does that mean God is bad? No. It just means we're living in a fallen, wicked world that's filled with many dangers and snares. This does not mean that God is not good.

It simply proves to our hearts that this world is bad and that we are pilgrims and we are searching for a better land. Beyond the veil of sorrow, there's a very kind and tender-hearted God that pities His children and is there to meet them with the grace that is sufficient to pass through this world.

We must recognize that nothing catches God by surprise. He is sovereign in our lives. And with every hard circumstance, there's a measure of Christ to meet the need. How many of you believe that? The promise He gave to Israel is our promise.

When you go into the land, He said, I'm going to cause honey to flow out of your rocks. What does that mean? God says in every hard circumstance, if you're courageous enough to look for it, I'm going to cause a measure of sweetness in Christ to come out.

I'm going to cause your hard places to yield the sweetness of Christ. And you're going to come out with a testimony of the goodness of the Lord. It is the brave and courageous Christian that says in the hard place, somehow it will bring God glory and me to a greater place than Him.

That's courage. That's hope that's alive in our heart. Now let's talk about the second. We talked about circumstances. But now let's talk about changes in spiritual perceptions. Let's talk about spiritual enlargement.

Spiritual Enlargement and Metamorphosis

Because if we are to be spiritually enlarged, we are going to go through spiritual change. There's going to be a metamorphosis. There's going to be a change in our life. One of the most uncomfortable things that can happen in a believer's life is when God begins to take them to another level of greater understanding and a place of spiritual enlargement.

This can be one of the most difficult things to understand. It can be very hard when all of a sudden you don't understand what's going on with you. The heavens feel like brass. It just seems like, what in the world?

We don't realize it. But God is bringing us to a higher place. He's bringing us into a spiritual... So there are going to be changes. Maybe outward circumstances aren't going to change, but spiritually, there are some changes that can take place.