(A Living Challenge) Revival by Metamorphosis — Dale Gish

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We greet you this evening in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We greet you in our weakness, but we also greet you in the strength and power of the living God. May He have His way here tonight. We do believe it's good to come to the house of God.

To the house of prayer, the Word of God calls it. Together in a collective way and to sing. We were so blessed by the singing tonight and to pray and to read the Word of God and just rejoice in the blessings of God together.

You know, Hebrews 10 does admonish us to forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another in so much the more as you see the day approaching. I believe we're living in the end time.

I believe we can see the day approaching. And so how much more for us that we would gather this way to strengthen each other in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And tonight may we gather in complete humility and brokenness before God and before each other.

Those two go together so that God could speak to us tonight. By God's grace, we want to continue on. We want to lift up the Lord Jesus Christ in our everyday life. We want to lift him up. I love the scriptures that Jesus said that, and I know it's talking about his crucifixion, but it says that I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.

You know, it doesn't say that when he's lifted up, he's going to draw all men to charity. He's not going to bring all men here. He's not going to draw all men to the Mennonites. He's not going to bring all men to the Amish or the Baptists or the Lutherans.

He said that I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me. All the rest of that is distractions. And God wants to draw all of those distractions unto himself. And give us a single eye, may God give us the grace to lay down all the distractions this evening and fix our gaze upon the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have a title for the message this evening. I'll make it here so you can all read this. I want the title to be Revival by Metamorphosis. Revival by Metamorphosis. That is God's perfect will. We'd like to lift that out of the scriptures this evening.

You know, I was thinking as we come together for these meetings, there's a lot of different backgrounds here. If we could go back about 20, 30, 40 years and see where we all came from, we have a lot of different backgrounds in this place.

But I've heard several brothers say, and I like it, they say, really, we only have one background and it's sin. And that's right, isn't it? We all come from the bottom of the miry pit. That's our background.

That's who we are. And you know, you really, you can't blame that on the church that you were in. You can't blame that on the world that we live in. You can't even blame that on the devil himself. That's our testimony.

That's who we are, brothers and sisters, without any help from the devil at all. That's why I'm so excited about God this evening. Because even though we were at the bottom of the miry pit, God in His mercy reached down and drew us up out of the miry clay and set our feet upon a rock.

Amen? And established our going and just poured grace into our life and gave us a complete forgiveness of sin. It's all gone. And just poured grace into our life so that we could be born again and have a new heart and a new mind.

And He gave us the Holy Spirit so that we could walk with God and the exceeding great and precious promises. So that we could be partakers of His divine nature. We could be like Jesus. And if that's not enough, Revelation says that to Him that overcometh, Jesus says, I will grant Him to sit with me in my throne.

I don't know if you ever got a vision of that. But it just sounds like the Lord's going to scoot over and make room for us right there in His throne. I don't know how you are with that, brothers and sisters.

But for me, that is quite a journey. All the way from the bottom of the miry pit to seated with the Lord Jesus Christ in His throne in heavenly places. And the reason that we can do that is because He went all the way the other way.

I mean, there He was in His throne. His glory above the heavens. King of kings. Lord of lords. He had it all. But He stepped down in obedience to His Father's will. And He came all the way down to earth.

And He became a man. And a man of sorrows. Then acquainted with Greece. And He became obedience unto death. Even the death of the cross. You know, I sing a song sometimes. I believe it's in our song book that says, all the way to Calvary He went for me.

And brothers and sisters, that's a long ways. It's a long ways from the glory of God all the way down to the dregs of society. But that's what He did. He went all the way for you and me. And He experienced death.

And I tell you, because He did it, now we can go all the way the other way. Hallelujah. For that. That's the gospel in a nutshell. Amen. I mean, blessed be God. And the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again into a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, never before heard of, to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

That's how much God loves us. That's a journey. That's quite a journey. That's quite a testimony, brothers and sisters, and it's for everyone here this evening. But it's a journey that I like to keep ever before my eyes, even in the midst of when I feel my weakness and I feel undone.

I keep that journey before my eyes. I don't want to forget that journey, and I'm going to tell you tonight that when that journey is there, it changes everything that I do. It gets into everyday life.

It changes it. It changes how I respond when I'm tempted. When temptation comes, and the voices of the world come, and they try to draw me away, and there's a point where that begins to look a little enticing, if we're honest.

But all of a sudden, here comes this journey, before my eyes, and I'm not going to do that! I've been redeemed from that! Sometimes my wife, maybe she's a little upset, and needs me to take some time to hear her heart and comfort her heart.

And I don't have time for that right now! I've made commitments! All of a sudden, here comes this journey, before my eyes, and hey, I have time. It's just a matter of rearranging your priorities. God had time for me.

I have time for her. And when my brother sins a sin against me, and that journey is not before me, forget about that journey! I can't forgive my brother! My focus is on his sin! His inexcusable sin! My focus is on how bad he hurt me, and there's no excuse for that!

And there's no way that I can forgive him! And all of a sudden, here comes this journey. Here comes a cross of my Lord before me. And all of a sudden I remember how much my Lord forgave me. And I get a vision again of how completely He forgave me.

And all of a sudden, I can forgive my brother. I can release him completely. No reservation whatever. That journey changes everything that I do! It changes the very character of who I am. And that brings us to the burden that we have upon our heart this evening.

I'm just going to say it this way, I want to be changed! I want to be changed into the image of His dear Son! None of this, well, that's just how I am stuff. That's just how I am. I've always been that way.

My dad was that way. My grandpa was that way. And that's just the way I am. None of that stuff! I want to be changed! Into the image of His dear Son. We not only want to come to God for salvation, brothers and sisters, but we want to come to be changed.

And yes, we must come. That's the first step. And whosoever will, let him come. I mean, we come to God through Christ for salvation. There's no other way to be saved. We don't make a few changes in our life to get saved, brothers and sisters.

We come to Jesus Christ, our Lord. That's it! I love the first chapter of Hebrews. It seems it clears up any questions anybody might have. It speaks of Jesus Christ there. And it just simply says, who by Himself purged our sins.

Boy, it doesn't sound like He got any help from me. He didn't get any help from my good deeds. He didn't get any help from the Mennonites. Charity. Who by Him purged our sins. That's it. Hallelujah for that!

Let's don't add to that. Let's just receive it and believe it. So, come that way. But come to be changed. I want to be delivered from who I am. We read in the Word of God in a very clear way that you don't just come to God for salvation, brothers and sisters.

It's all through the Scriptures. We come to be changed. You can't separate those two. There's too much power in the blood to be filled with all the fullness of God. That's not possible and not be changed.

To be filled with the Holy Spirit. To be a new creature in Christ Jesus. How are you going to do that and stay the same old you? So, I'm going to challenge this with a pretty strong statement this evening.

And I'm just going to ask you to pray about this. I have a burden on my heart tonight that you would not hear from me, but that you would hear from God. So, I'm just going to pray and ask you to pray that you would hear from God.

You just pray about this as we go through the meeting. But if you have come to God for salvation, and you have not yet begun the changing process that will change you into the image of His dear Son, then you may not have come.

Because you can't separate those two in the Scriptures. And we know, brothers and sisters, that God leaves room for growth. I praise God for that. But to be born again, that's not a maturity thing. That's a birth thing.

That's what born again is. There's a birth. And after birth, we leave room for growth. We don't demand maturity. We extend that grace to everyone just like God does. But don't waller around in it like a hog wallers in the mire.

It's time to grow. Amen? That's the hearts of God. Let's pray. Father, tonight, we want to be changed. We want to be like Jesus. That's our desire. God, we feel the intensity of that desire. And we feel our weakness.

Oh God, the miracle of how You can use fallible man to bring a perfect message of salvation is beyond me. God, I pray that You would do... I pray that You would do it tonight, Father. I just pray that Your name would be lifted up.

Father, I feel my great need of You. I believe that I am my own worst enemy, Father. Have mercy. Have mercy on all of us, Father. There is areas of our life that need to be changed. Areas that are hindering our witness.

As a fellowship. As an individual. As a family. Father, tonight, we have need that You would speak to us. We have not attained. Father, are we so mature that there's no area of our life left for You to lay Your finger on and bring conviction?

Are we there? Oh God, would You take the veil off of our eyes? Not in condemnation. Father, but give us a vision of what You will do for us tonight. We can be changed into the image of Jesus Christ. I pray for it, Father.

Have Your way, is our prayer, oh God, in Jesus' name, Amen. We sing the song sometimes, Shall I come just as I am? I don't know, maybe there's someone here struggling with that. Maybe you feel like you need to get your theology right before you come.

Maybe you need to clean up your life a little bit before you come so you're a little bit more acceptable. Shall I come just as I am? I've asked two questions tonight, and that's the first one, and I want us to know that from the Word of God, there's a resounding yes that echoes all through the Scriptures.

Yes, You'll come just as You are. I mean, You come in Your long hair. Amen. You come with Your marriage in a mess. You come on drugs. You come in Your adulterous situation. You come as an undisciplined father.

You come as an unsubmissive wife. You come as a rebellious child. You come. You open wide your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will enter in. But I want to ask another question. Yes, You come just as You are.

But are You going to stay that way? Come to be changed. Shall You stay just as You are? Again, there's a resounding no that echoes all through the Scriptures and, brothers and sisters, it comes back to us from the woman taken in adultery.

Amen. I mean, yes, dear woman, You come just as You are in Your wretchedness. You come caught in the very act of adultery. But, go and sin no more. Complete change! It echoes back to us from Mary Magdalene.

I mean, what a woman! Filled with seven devils. Yes, You come, but be made clean and Mary be the first one to the tomb. Amen. Complete change! No likeness between the old Mary and the new. It echoes back from the maniac of Gadara.

Yes, dear man, You come living in the cemetery, biting your chains. You come that way. But, go home dressed and in right mind and tell them what great things God has done for you. A complete new lifestyle!

No likeness between the two. And it echoes back from the Philippian jailer and the list is long. Yes, dear Philippian jailer, You come. I don't care if it is midnight. You come. Come one and come all, but come to be changed.

God loves you so much that you may come just as you are and He will accept you, but He loves you way too much to leave you that way. And the change I'm talking about here, brothers and sisters, is not just who you are in Christ now.

It's who you are in your everyday life. Those two go together. Let's not separate them. A complete change in your character and in your everyday life. I'll just tell you that's the burden that God laid on my heart tonight.

I trust that You'll give me liberty to talk about our everyday life. God wants to change us right where we live. And the best way that I know to do that is to open the Word of God and let God speak to us.

I would just simply like to open to Romans 12, and I want to read those first two verses. Let's let the Word of God speak to us tonight. We were just talking this afternoon that the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit into the joints and marrow.

And it's a discerner, a revealer of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. And I had to think of that vision that John had there on the Isle of Patmos when he saw Jesus Christ. And it says that he saw a sharp two-edged sword coming out of his mouth.

And I read that thing one time, and I thought, what's that sword doing coming out of his mouth? Why isn't it in his hand? Why can't he use it? And then I thought, boy, it's words that come out of your mouth.

And the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword. I tell you, when the Word of God speaks, that sword's going both ways. It's cutting to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit. Let's let it do that tonight.

Amen? Let's read the Word of God. And let's open our hearts, then we can be changed. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, unacceptable, and perfect will of God. I want to just focus in on three little words here when God, in His Word, admonishes us, brothers and sisters.

Be ye transformed. Do you know what that means? Transformed. I want to tell you tonight that that transformed comes from the Greek word, is metamorphous. Do you know what that means? In English, it means metamorphosis.

Be ye metamorphosis. Do you know what that is? I'm going to describe it this way. It's when a caterpillar goes through all the changes necessary to become a butterfly. That's what metamorphosis is. When a fat, gluttonous, caterpillar that crawls goes through all the changes necessary to become a beautiful butterfly that flies away.

Brother, that is a big change.

There is no likeness between the two. I mean, a caterpillar, a butterfly, they don't look alike. They don't act alike. And they don't think. A caterpillar thinks, crawl, eat. A butterfly thinks, fly. Rise above the earth.

A caterpillar is stuck to the things of earth. It will never rise above it. A butterfly soars away, defies all gravity. A caterpillar just can't go very far. Butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico.

Praise God. There's been a renewing of the mind. And brothers, that is the kind of change that God had in mind for us. When we got born again, He gave us all the provision for that very thing to happen in us.

That's the Word of God that we're reading tonight. Be ye metamorphosis. That's what the Word of God says. Do we believe it tonight? Is that your testimony? Amen. That happened to me. It's the perfect will of God.

We read that. It's the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. For each one of us, not for just a few. It's God's perfect will that there would be no likeness between the new creation and the old.

When we get born again, there's a complete change. In our life, there is another Scripture that uses the same Word. I would like to turn there. 2 Corinthians chapter 3. Another beautiful passage of Scripture.

Verse 18. I'll just read the one verse here. 2 Corinthians 3 .18 says,. But we all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

I love it! We are changed! There's that word again. God put it in there to tell us something. We really are changed. There's no likeness between our old self and our new. It's good to meditate on all the changes that a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly.

You know what one of those changes is? That caterpillar dies. I just want to challenge you tonight. Have you at least begun the process that God had in mind? You know, if I ever had a homework assignment that I would like to give a congregation, it would be this.

I would encourage you to go find a creative teaching aids store. We are homeschoolers, many of us. They have creative teaching aids. And in those stores, you can buy yourself a little kit that will sell you a little container, a little cage, and they'll send you about a half a dozen caterpillars.

And you just take those home and they'll give you some caterpillars that you can put in there and you can watch those things crawl around and get fat. And you can just watch it happen. You can watch that process of metamorphosis, that process of being transformed right before your very eyes.

I mean, you can watch those little caterpillars begin to spin a cocoon. And you can watch them begin to die. You can watch it! You can watch the very act of metamorphosis, the very word God uses for us.

In the Scriptures, you can watch it happen. And you can let it speak to you of what this Scripture is speaking of. And there's a point there, brothers and sisters, where it doesn't look like much is happening.

But I tell you, through death, great changes are happening. And there comes a time when you can watch those beautiful butterflies fly away with no likeness of their former self. None! You can watch it happen!

You can just watch the operation of God come forth. I mean, you can watch them things crawl in and you can watch them fly away! You can watch them die! And you can watch them live again! And you can say, Praise God!

Me too! Are you getting the burden of the message tonight? God wants to transform us into the image of Jesus Christ. It's that simple. It's His perfect will. It's not a preference thing. It's not an option thing.

It's God's will! For us. Are you willing to do that? Or do we still hang on to our excuses and our reasons that would justify us for why we are the way we are? It happens all the time. We hear it all the time in counseling.

It always comes out. You know, if you knew my wife, if you knew the situation that I was in, if you knew my husband, if you knew my parents, you would understand. If you knew the difficulties that we face, I mean, the list is long.

There's a hundred reasons that men use why they cannot change! And all of them are very real. We need to deal with each one of them. But the reason you won't forgive your brother, how totally inexcusable he was, how badly he hurt you, are you going to carry that to the throne and explain to God who forgave you all?

Are you going to explain to Him in good language so He says, Oh, I see. That makes sense. Brothers, now is the day of salvation. Today is the day of grace where we have opportunity to be changed. You know, if you feel like you cannot change, I want to challenge you tonight by the Word of God that it does not matter who you are.

It doesn't matter what situation you are in. I want to tell you tonight by the living Word of God that when Jesus comes, you can change! No question. It doesn't matter who you are. God is no respecter of person.

It doesn't matter what situation you're in. I don't care if you don't think you can change. The Word of God says that you most absolutely, definitely, positively can change. Can't we? If we can't, what are we going to do with all these Scriptures?

What are you going to do with Scriptures like Romans 12, verse 2? Be ye transformed. What are you going to do with that Scripture if you don't think you can change? 2 Corinthians 3 .18 We are changed into His image from glory to glory.

What are you going to do with that Scripture if it's not possible to change? 2 Corinthians 5 .17 says, Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. All things become new.

That just sounds like metamorphosis to me. That just sounds like a caterpillar changing into a butterfly. That's what that sounds like. In fact, just think about a caterpillar turning into a butterfly as I quote that Scripture.

Here's this caterpillar turning into a butterfly. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. All things become new. It fits. The Word of God is coming together here.

Romans 6, verse 4 Like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should rise to walk in newness of life. Brothers and sisters, what are you going to do with that verse if we can't change?

That says that how we walk in everyday life is identically the same as Christ was raised from the dead. Like as Christ, just like Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, identical, just like that.

We should walk in newness of life. Walk in newness of life is everyday life, brothers and sisters. It is. I believe that. If it's identical, that means we can identify with it. Is that our testimony? I can relate to that Scripture.

I'm just going to confess my weakness this evening. I haven't attained to that. But I'm going to press on. I think that's the heart that the Apostle Paul must have had when he said he hadn't attained.

But he wasn't turning back. He was going to press on because the promises of God are yea and amen. I believe God says, we'll do what He says He will do. That's children of Abraham. Amen? Abraham said that.

He believed that God would do, perform. However that Scripture goes, He's going to do what He said He would do. And so I want to yield myself to that power of God. It's exciting thought to me, to be like Jesus.

What kind of witness? What would that do to your witness? You know, if everybody here was transformed into the image of Christ, then now you're a fellowship. You're a church body working together. We all fit together.

We're all like Jesus Christ. Now what kind of a witness is going to go out from this place? I mean, think about it. It's not dreaming. It's the perfect will of God, isn't it? What I'm really saying is, you don't have to be an undisciplined father.

You don't have to be an unsubmissive wife. You don't have to eat that much. Your house doesn't have to be that big of a mess. You can change. You don't have to interrupt other people. You don't have to read those romance novels.

You don't have to be that busy. You don't have to exaggerate. We can change by the power of God. You can lead a soul to Christ. You can speak an appropriate word for Him. You're not that bashful. You know, I think about old Moses.

I believe he said something to God one time, something like, I am of a slow tongue. I can't talk. But you know, as you read that, it just seems to me like that was when he was kind of taking matters into his own hands and doing things Moses' way.

But when God got him out there to the backside of the desert, and I'll just say, God, he's born again, all of a sudden, and he touched his lips, and he told Moses, who made your mouth? All of a sudden, Moses can speak.

You ever notice that? God gave Moses his brother Aaron to speak, and after that, I don't read where Aaron spoke. Moses spoke. He could speak. He had a lot to say. The words of Moses still speak today.

Be ye transformed. We can do it too. You can make family devotions come alive. You don't have to worry about whether it's your gift or not. It's not a gift to make family devotions come alive. It's a calling.

And it's on every father's life. I believe that. You can pray and fast in secret. Others don't have to know. You can support the one who's ordained. Or it wouldn't be a commandment. You don't have to be the pastor.

You can be easy to be entreated. What would all of these things do to a fellowship? Easy to be entreated. You can pray for each other. You can get up early to pray. What I'm talking about is the life that you now live in the flesh.

That's the way Paul describes it. Your everyday life. He said, I am crucified with Christ. There's the death. That death is always there when you get the new life. I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live.

Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life that I now live in the flesh, that's everyday life. I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. We can change. Complete metamorphosis.

Nothing held back. New creatures in Christ Jesus. And I just want to tell you tonight that I feel like God has laid it on my heart to connect this complete change, this metamorphosis, this operation of God in each heart, to connect that with revival.

I've drawn a little diagram here, and I know that in this diagram you could probably preach a whole sermon. That is not my motive. I just put it up here because I want to make a point. I want to teach a little lesson because this is the illustration that God gave me, and I'm just going to share it with you to connect metamorphosis with revival.

What we have here is a big button. I'm going to call it the revival button. Big revival. It's what we all want. Amen? But I want us to know that only the finger of God can push that button. You and I can't push that button.

Like the song says, God our Father, You send revival. There's nothing that we can do. We're not going to drum it up on our own. No man comes to the Father except the Father draw him. He's going to get all the glory.

Only the finger of God can press that button. But there is something that we can do. That's the burden that we had on our heart last night. That's what all these little buttons are around here underneath the revival button.

This is just an illustration that God gave to me, I believe, and so I'm going to share it. But when the finger of God comes down on this revival button, and down it goes, and it's engaged, I want you to notice something.

All of these little buttons down underneath it are engaged too. That's the only way that button's going to come down. I can't push this button down. I have no liberty to push that button down. But I can push this one.

God, that's something we can do, brothers and sisters. I can push this button right here of my music. I can bring my music into subjection. I can. I can be careful. I can pray earnestly. I can lay my will down.

God encourages us to do that. There are some of these buttons that He won't push. And when the finger of God comes down on this button, brothers and sisters, if there's some area that you will not yield in, I say, this is the way I am.

I can't change. I just can't make family devotions go. I've never been into private, quiet time. And so, I can't push that button down. I want you to know, when the finger of God comes down here and you won't yield, you are a hindrance to revival.

Any of these areas that will not yield, in your finances, in your eating habits, if you won't yield in that area, you are a hindrance to revival. I want to say a few things here. The way we are. Our character.

The things that we have in our homes. Our vehicles. The things that are our possessions. The things we have. And our way of life. Our lifestyles. All greatly affect revival. We need to believe that. They are tied together.

Our character, our possessions and our lifestyle can either invite revival to come, or they can hinder its coming. They can. I think of Achan in the camp of Israel. You know, his character of greed. His lifestyle of deceit.

His possession of a stolen Babylonian garment. What did that do to the camp of Israel? Here was the camp of Israel experiencing victory. Experiencing revival. But here was Achan. And the button's coming down and he won't budge.

He wanted that garment. And he stopped revival. And it got the whole camp of Israel on their face. Pleading with God. Why aren't the promises of God coming true? Why is revival coming down? Where did victory go?

And I tell you, you may not have a stolen Babylonian garment here. But that shouldn't stop us from getting on our face and seeking God and saying, What is wrong? The promises of God are not coming true.

Maybe the problem is metamorphosis. Maybe the problem's not Achan. Maybe the problem is me. Maybe I will not yield. I'm going to share a story that I heard Bill Gothard tell one time. I heard him say one time that he was dealing with a young person who was possessed with evil spirits.

It was very obvious. This man was in bondage. And so, Bill, like a man of God would do, rose up in the Spirit of Christ and he just said, In the name of Jesus Christ, come out of him. And he said there was a voice that came out of this person and that voice said, I don't have to come out of him.

And Bill spoke again. He said, By what authority do you not come out in the name of Jesus? And this voice came out of this young man and he said, Because he has magazines. And because he has magazines, I can stay.

I don't know what all to make of that story, brothers and sisters. I tell it as a true story from a man of God. And I don't know what all to make of that, but it sure came to my mind when I thought about the things that we possess either invites revival to come or it hinders its coming.

We need to be honest and come to grips with that. And again, you may not have bad magazines among you, but you might have some wrong music. You might have some bad business dealings. I don't think we need to say tonight, well, they're always going to have a little of that.

That's man's thinking. Get rid of it. It hinders revival. It can completely stop it. I want to say again that there's something that we can do. We can't push the revival button, but we can push any of these buttons.

The Spirit of God is prompting every one of us to push these buttons. And if you push this button down and you have a burden for souls, and your heart is crying out for souls, and you push this button down and you're praying, and you're fasting, and you push this button down and your eating habits come under control, and you push this button down and you take time for God, and that's what metamorphosis is, brothers and sisters, when all these buttons are down.

And I want you to notice something. It's encouraging to me. When all of these buttons are down, there is nothing to stop or hinder the revival button from coming down too. And so that when all these buttons are down and here comes the finger of God, there's nothing to hinder that button from coming down.