Well, good morning Church and happy winter break. Uh, for those of you that don't know what that is, uh, AKA, those of us that went to school in the eighties and the nineties, what happens now is you go to school for three weeks and you get a week off. Uh, you go to school for three weeks and you get a week off. Uh, that's just kind of how it works now, but man, we're so glad it does. But man, we're so glad you're here. Hey, listen, if you did not grab one of these guides on the way in, we talked a lot about this last week. Um, I hope you have one. If not, there's some people that are walking up and down the aisles. Um, we would love for you to have one of these. It's got a little letter for me. It's got a timeline of God's faithfulness here at Burnt Hickory that every single step of the way, God has shown his light and his love on this church for this community. It's got a guide for life groups. It's got some reflections for you to walk through. It's God's sermon notes. And then in the very, very back there is a commitment guide that I'm just gonna ask you to put with your Bible. Put it with your quiet time materials, and then over these next couple of weeks, not today. So calm down. All right, not today, but over these next couple of weeks, I'm just gonna ask you to begin to pray, to begin to pray what it is that God is gonna put on your heart to be generous for the next generation. Again, today is not about making a commitment, but I'm just gonna ask you if Bern Hickory is home to you to make a commitment, to make a commitment. And here's why. Why? Because we need to move forward. We need to move forward with a new worship space, new discipleship space, new parking lots, and we need to move forward in our global influence of church planting an international ministry center that we're already looking to go with, as well as to begin to train the next generation of church workers, pastors, and missionaries. Listen, we have some big things in front of us, and we know that God has called us to reach this community, and we know that when all of us go all in, what does God do? We talked about it last week, Ephesians chapter three, verse 20. When all of God's people goes all in with our time, our talents, our treasures, God moves, but watch how he moves. Ephesians three 20 says this Now to him, who is able to, to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church in Christ Jesus through all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Listen guys, that's our prayer for Bern Hickory, and that's our prayer for all of us. When we come together on March 1st, we're gonna have a worship gathering that evening with a bunch of leaders, with all of our staff teams. They're gonna be making an early commitment. And then on March the 15th, on March the 15th, we're gonna have a celebration day here on Sunday morning where all of us just simply say, here is our gifts, Lord. Alright, that's coming up. I don't want you to miss either one of those, but speaking of making a bold step for God, I want you to take your Bibles, take your worship guide, and I want you to turn to Ephesians. I mean Ephesians. That was last week. I want you to turn to Genesis chapter six, Genesis chapter six today, because we're gonna look at this idea of all in today. Now, as you're finding Genesis six, let me say this about being all in some of us, when we hear the word all in, we have this little bit of a misconception that I have to be some uber talented, uber rich or uber wealthy or super personal, or I have to have this temperament of of being all in, which is not even anywhere close to the truth. In fact, when God calls us to be all in, it is way more than a personality thing. It is way more than a wisdom thing. It is way more than a wealth thing. Being all in is simply me living in a posture with my hands, with my heart, with my mind open and saying, God, use me. Use everything about me. In fact, I put a little note in your notes today in your sermon notes, that here's what all in literally means. Here's what it is. All in simply means that I am gonna step away from the comfortable and easy, and I'm gonna step into a life of faith that trusts that God is faithful. Listen, church, that is it. That is simply what it is. Me living a lifestyle of being all in for God literally means that I understand that God is trustworthy and I understand that God is with me and God is for me, and God has the best for me. And that God, when I simply just say, here's all of me that he blesses and he gives more than I can even ask or imagine. That's what saying, all I'm all in is about. Now, it's really easy for us to choose comfort. Can I get an AB on that one? I mean, it is, you know what? Like me and three of you, come on. I mean, come on. We, it is, it really is. It's really easy for us to choose control. Can't get an amen on that one. It's really easy for us to choose personal advancements over kingdom advancement. But, but listen to me, Bern, Hickory, listen, listen, listen. Not in this place, because we know that we're not gonna fall trapped to that. And we know that we as a people group, we as a body of Christ, we want to see the gospel shine. We wanna see the gospel shine, win as many kids to Jesus, win as many students to Jesus, win as many old people to Jesus. Amen. We wanna win everybody to Jesus, and we wanna see God transform this community through this body, through this church. And he does it by us being all in. In fact, here's what I would say. I'm almost sure that's what drew a lot of you to this place, because we take a pretty hard stance in saying unapologetically, unashamedly, we're gonna stand on the word. We're gonna worship the king. We're gonna love this community Well, and we are going to walk in His word. If you don't believe me, I want you to hear from some of my dear, dear friends Jason and Aaron White. Listen to their story at Bern Hickory for a minute, and then we'll get in the text. My name's Jason White. Uh, this is my wife Erin, and we've been coming to Burnt Hickory for about 11 years. Honestly, when we first came here, we were hunting for a program that would better suit our kids. We were just looking for a kids program that, you know, through the middle school years and high school years was gonna get them engaged. We wanted to make sure that our kids were definitely grounded in the whole world Outside of the work that's happened with our kids. I, I really enjoyed serving in any place that I can. Uh, the two of us are first grade teachers, so we do that a couple of times a month, and that's been a huge gift. But I also try to find ways to serve at the doors, make sure people, you know, feel like they've, they've been greeted and that they feel like they're home. A good example of Hal Burnt Hickory reaches the community is honestly the first thing I think of is the children's area. When you think about the life of the church, I've always been told like, go to the nursery, go to the kids' area and see how, how much it's thriving. And that's the place that I feel like we really reach young families. We reach, um, people that are just looking for a place to raise their kids. Uh, was the original reason we came here. One of the most special things about Burt Bakery is really just the people understanding that church gathered is the people. And it's being able to yes, hear the word and learn the word and the plan of salvation and serve in ministry, but also to just walk in the hallways with, you know, next to someone and to hug them or to pray with them and to see maybe there's a financial need. And it's just those moments of interacting that really became solid. Like, okay, this is what church is. Uh, the first thing I reflected on when I heard all in was the all together. And what, what does that opportunity look like and who are the leaders that can rise to that occasion? And who are the people that are thinking right now I should probably be serving somewhere? Like how can we reach them now so that we can prepare for this? So the altogether is what made me really expectant and really excited about the change. I'm really, uh, hopeful that this is gonna bring just a different level of serving. Uh, there's not many churches that are experiencing what we are, and I hope that we're good stewards with that. And I hope that the people that are in and part of our church will find a place to serve. Well, my hope for what God is going to do over the next years, um, with this all in is that more people will, will hear the plan of salvation, that they will hear the gospel. I just want people to know who he is and be born again. Man, I really love their heart, but I also specifically love two statements that just hit me in that when Jason said, who are the leaders that will just say, here am I Lord. And then when Aaron said, I just want to see more and more people hear the gospel, listen church, that's the call. But the question is, will we step up this morning? We're gonna look at a guy in scripture in Genesis chapter six that did exactly what we're talking about doing. And we're gonna look at a man named Noah this morning that has one of the clearest examples of saying, here I am God, use all of me. He gives us an example how to live and examples how to say yes Lord. And I just wanna pull some observations from this text that actually connects us with God and connects us with a lifestyle that Noah shows us how to live. Genesis chapter six is where we're gonna be. And I'm gonna start in verse five. I know your guide starts in verse seven, but I'm gonna start in verse five to give us a little bit of backstory. Here's what the text says. It says, the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. Now, that's one of the strongest verses in all the Old Testament. What has happened is Adam and Eve has introduced sin to the world. They have chosen to walk away from God. And from that point on generation after generation, you actually see a chapter before this, a long list of generations. What has happened is people have just taken more and more and more steps away from who God is. And God now is looking down at the earth. Sin has entered the world, and God is seeing that sin is growing, it's growing, and that people are turning their back on God to a point that they're having nothing to do with God. Now, this doesn't mean that people didn't do some good things. It just means that they did not do it for the glory of God. They only did it for their own glory. And God sees this, and he doesn't just see it from kind of an outside looking in, he actually sees it and it breaks his heart because God is a compassionate God. God is a loving God, but all of the people are choosing to walk their own lives so far away from him, but he wants to be with them. But look, it gets bad so bad that in verse six it says this, the Lord regretted that he made the human beings on the earth and his heart was deeply troubled, deeply troubled. That phrase deeply troubled in Hebrew, literally means a soul wrenching grief. Do you know that God grieves when mankind walks away from him that God's heart is broken when mankind walks away from him? Why? Because God knows the love that is offered to us. He knows the life that is offered to us, and he knows how he has offered us himself, but yet we still choose sin. And he knows that not only does sin cause physical death, God knows that this sin that mankind is walking in is inviting an eternal death and an eternal separation from him. And mankind is so far from God that God literally hands them over into their own wishes, and that's separation from him. It breaks his heart. God is a compassionate God, but also he's a just God and he has to deal with sin. So look at verse seven. It says this, so the Lord said, I will wipe from the face of the earth every human, uh, from the earth, the human race I've created, and with them, the animals and the birds and the creatures moving along the ground for I regret that I have made them. Oh, but look at verse eight. Circle these first two words, but Noah. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. And this is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man. He was blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. We're gonna come back to that verse 10. Now, Noah had three sons, shim, ham, and jef. Verse 11. Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become for all the people on the earth had corrupted their ways. Verse 13. So God said to Noah, I'm gonna put an end to all people. For the earth is filled with violence because of them, I'm surely gonna destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an arc of Cyprus wood, make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. Now, look, there is so much in this one little paragraph or two paragraphs right here. There's like a whole series of info in this and it's super heavy. But I want you to focus in on when the conversation turned, when it turned from everything is sinful, everything is dosing, death, everything that is walking away from me. But there is one saying there is one change in the whole conversation. I want you to notice, and it's the phrase, but Noah. But Noah, and I want you to look at how the Bible describes Noah because how the Bible describes Noah is really and truly how the Bible calls all of us to live. Look at the description of Noah. It's the exact opposite of what God says The world is walking in. Number one, it says that the Bible, I'm just reading from the text is righteous, that Noah is righteous in God's eyes. Now what does that mean? It's a big churchy word. It literally means that Noah just has right standing with God. It means that he's in a relationship with God, that his heart is aligned with God, that he makes decisions based on God's character and not the character of the world. That everything in Noah's life is filtered through a God centric funnel. That's what it means. You see, in Noah's day, everyone was building for themselves, but it was only Noah that was building for the kingdom of God. In our days, culture will tell you to build your kingdom, but God says to build his. You see, being all in literally means that we take our talents, we take our resources, and all of our cultural priorities are left to the side, and we now seek the priorities of God. That's righteousness. Not only was he righteous, but number two, the Bible says that he was blameless. He was blameless. It's in the text. I'm just walking through thes descriptions of him that just means he's complete and he's whole. It means that he's full of integrity inside and out. It means that he has integrity in private and integrity in public. It doesn't mean that he's sinless. No, we're gonna see that in a minute. It just means that he's sincere, he's loyal, that his life points to who God is with every situation possible and that he's loyal to God without holding back. You know what? This hit me this week. This just tells me that my life is not to point towards a partial obedience is to point toward a posture of saying, I'm all yours God. The third thing the Bible says that is he just walks with God faithfully. He walks with God faithfully. This just points to a consistency with God, a continual ness with God and a relationship with God, a daily fellowship with God in the same direction. In other words, Noah was not a passive observer of who God is. He was a participant in what God's kingdom should look like. He had an active trust, is what that means. Oh, we're about to see it, but but sometimes don't. We forget when we're reading the story of Noah, the timeline of how long this took. You know, it's really easy to kind look at this little verses of Noah and look at the next three chapters of Noah and think that everything in these three chapters happened in a couple of weeks. You know, God called him, he built a boat, the floods came. He saved humanity. He sent the birds out. Everybody lived happily ever after, right? It's really easy to look at it like that. But do you realize that Noah built this boat for some 75 to a hundred plus years? When I say that Noah walked fatefully with God, Noah woke up every single morning in a place that it had never rained, and he got up and he built a boat near no water for that many years. You see, walking with God means that I'm gonna go where God says go, even if it seems crazy that I'm gonna go where God says go, even if it seems like I don't have the resources to do it, that I'm gonna be who God says I need to be, even if others mock me, even if I'm just having to trust in God's timing and I'm still wondering, God, how are you going to move? He was faithful. Last thing about Noah, the Bible tells us is that Noah, and we actually see this in the rest of the chapters, but I wanna give it to you, Noah just simply was a yes Lord person. He was a simple yes Lord guy. He literally just looked at God in verse 14 when God says, build a boat, and he literally just said, God, I'm yours. Listen to me. Believers, that's the Christian life. The Christian life is just literally standing in radical obedience, not even fully understanding sometimes all that God has called us to do. Man, I love Noah's example. I love it when he builds this boat, but you know what hit me this week is one of the most striking conversations that Noah ever had to have. I'm sure he had lots of ridicule. I'm sure he had lots of mockers. I'm sure people came along and for for years. I mean, oh, 70, 80, 90 years and had things to say. But can you imagine the family conversation when Noah had to tell him this, man, can you imagine that God calls Noah over here, and then Noah gets the family together like a family meeting. He's like, Hey, come in. We gotta have a family talk together. And then Noah gets in front of him. He is like, Hey, listen, you're gonna think I'm crazy. You're gonna think this is the most outlandish thing that you've ever heard, but God has told me that we need to build a boat. Can you imagine the family when they go, why that Noah just simply all he had was this. God said it and I trust him. Oh, believers, that's the life that God has called us to live. That's the life that God is in control. Actually in Hebrews later on in Hebrews 11, it literally says, that's the faith that Noah had. When it says by faith, Noah, when warned about things not yet seen and holy fear built an arc to save his family. See believers, a lot of us rather live in control than live in the full fruitful obedience of God. And I just wonder how many times we've missed the blessings of God on our lives because we have held it right here. And not say, God, I don't understand it, but I'm yours. I'm yours. In fact, watch what Noah did in verse 15. Lemme read the rest of this text. I'm not gonna explain it. You're gonna have to look into all the details this week, but I wanna show you what Noah does after God describes the boat to him. Verse 15 says this, God says, this is how you're to build it. The arc is to be about 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, 30 cubits high. I know you know this, but that's like 500 feet by 80 feet by 50 feet, alright? Or just go to Kentucky, you can see it all right, here it is. All right. It says, make a roof for it, leaving below the roof and opening one cubit high all the way around. Put a door on the side of the ark and make a lower middle and upper decks. God says, for I'm gonna bring flood waters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens. Every creature that has breath of life in it, everything on the earth will perish. Verse 18, don't miss it, but I will establish my covenant with you and you'll enter the ark, you and your sons, and your wife and your sons wives with you. Verse 19, you were to bring into the arc, two of all living creatures, male and female, keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, every kind of animal, and every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. Can you imagine Noah ascend in his lawn chair after he built the boat, just looking up and watching the animals? Come, man, you are to watch this. Verse 21. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them. And oh, underline verse 22, I've been waiting all day to get to this verse. Watch this. And Noah did everything just as God had commanded him. Church, listen, that's walking and obedience. It's not out of understanding all the time. It's not necessarily having all the answers all the time, but it's simply hearing from the Lord, seeing what God has, taking my Bible, listening to the voice of God. And when God says, move, I move, that's Noah's life. You say, well, Matt, I get that and he's an Old Testament hero, but what does all of this have to do with me? How does this transfer into my life? In reality, it transfers exactly into our life because this chapter shows us the kind of faith we're to have. So lemme pull a couple of quick principles, a couple of quick walkaways, and I want you to see how powerful this passage is that shows me how to walk out my faith personally for the rest of my days, as well as shows us as a church what we can do to make room for the next generations. Write these three things down. Number one, like Noah, lemme make the connections like Noah. We have been given grace. We've been given grace. You know what I've ne this blew my mind this week. I never thought about this, this, this week, but in Genesis chapter six, verse eight, watch this. It says this, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Do you know what that literally means? Actually, some of your translations say this, that literally means that Noah was given the grace of God, the grace of God. Now, what is the grace of God? The grace of God is the unmerited favor of God on Noah's life. This means that Noah wasn't perfect. This means that Noah didn't have a sinless life. We know that just like I don't, just like you, don't listen to me, Christian. It is only by the grace of God that you know who God is. It's only by God's grace. Listen to me, Christian, that you now have a relationship with God again, Christian. God has shown you grace. It is the greatest thing this planet has ever gotten. It's the grace of God. Why? We don't think about this much. For those of us that know Jesus, listen to me. There is nothing you did to deserve salvation. Nothing. In fact, I'll take that one more step forward and say this, we deserved drowning. We deserve death. We deserve destruction. We deserve to be eternally separated from God. I know you some, you're like, man, man, this is a pretty harsh text. It is. Until you realize this, Noah was shown grace and through the blood of Jesus Christ, you can be too. And as a result of that, listen to me closely. We don't live for grace, but we live outta the grace that God has given us. That's what the Bible's saying. Listen, remember when I told you the key words or the key phrase in this text was, but Noah, listen to me believer the key text and the key phrase in our life is, but God, in fact, Romans five eight says it like this, but God demonstrates his love for us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. You, you wanna know why we live our lives now You wanna know why God has asked us to be all in, not so that we can get grace. It's because we have been given grace. Grace affects us, but it shows us how much Jesus loves us. It shows us how much Jesus has done for us. And now I can never repay the grace, but I sure can live out of the grace. Like Noah, we've been shown grace, but actually write this down. Number two. Secondly, like Noah, we have a clear mission. We have a clear mission. See, man, I think I was taking it a little bit far. I know it's raining outside, but I think we're gonna be okay today. But listen, but listen. Like Noah, we've been called not to build an arc, but we've been called to be his church like Noah, we've been called to be the body of Christ. We have been called to build the church to shine a light into this community as the church. Well, wait a minute, Matt. Isn't it Jesus that's gonna build his church? Yes, but we are his hands, we are his feet. And our role in this whole idea now is that we're to do anything possible as believers in Jesus, to introduce others and to literally save them out of destruction because of the grace of Jesus Christ. That's our mission. You ever wonder why when you were saved that God didn't just reach down into this planet, rip you out of it and take you home to be with him? It's because of this right here that you have not only been given grace, but now that you have grace, you have been given a mission and that mission is to represent him. And everything that you do, in everything that you say, in every way of life, in every decision you make, in all of your righteousness and all of your blamelessness and all of you walking in the light of Jesus, actually, this is the great commission. Matthew 28 19 says this, therefore going make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you. And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age. Listen to me church, while Noah was called to build an ark, that's our calling. And everything about us should be seeing how many people can we see saved? How many people can we see baptized? How many people can we see? Learn who Jesus is and learn to walk in Jesus From the youngest of this community to the oldest of this community, we've been called to reach it and we've been called to do everything possible to reach this community from the name of Jesus. And this is not just for a one person know a show. This is for every single one of us. I want you to think, let me just for a minute. When this church was created, when it was established in 1973, there was like seven to 10 families that literally just said, God, here's all of us. Use us. They sacrificed, they stepped out, right? You've seen the videos. They said, yes, Lord, we're all in. And the reality is, we now, as a church, are not only standing on their shoulders, we're a byproduct of their faithfulness. Now, translate that into right now in 2026, and think with me for a minute, if there was seven to 10 families that did exactly what God has done in this place, and we're standing on that shoulders, think about what would happen if the literal thousands of us today said, God, I'm all in. Think with me just for a second of the movement of God. Think with me just for a second. We can't even imagine it. We can't even ask for what God would do if we just simply said, God, we know your mission. We're gonna live your mission. Here's all of me. Here's my time. Here's my talents, here's my treasures. God, use it all for your kingdom. Are you seeing the connection here? Noah was given grace, and as a result of that grace, he had one mission and that was to glorify God. Here's the third thing though, like Noah though, kind of a result of the first two, like Noah, our salvation, or you could say our calling if you want to, it actually requires some. If we don't like this, a radical adjustment of life. Oh, listen to me, believers having one foot in and one foot out is the worst place you can stand in this world. I say it all the time. You know why? Because if you're standing one foot in one lane and one foot in the other lane of traffic, you'll get hit by both sides. Can I tell you something about the Christian faith? The Christian faith has a radical adjustment of life. Why? Because of the grace we've been given, because of the mission that we've been called to. What does that mean? It means that yes, God is in the business of saving people. God is in the business of moving in me, but I have to be at a point because of my salvation, because of what God has done, because of the newness he's given me, because of the gift of eternal life with him, that I now am in a position to have a whole new way of life. You know what that means? First, practically, it means the moment Christ saves us, we have a new way of thinking. And that way of thinking is not me first. It's Him first. That means that I now have a new lifestyle. Listen to me student. It's not a lifestyle that people question. Is that person really a Christian or not, but a lifestyle that when somebody sees my life, they automatically know, oh yeah, that person knows Jesus. Not only new lifestyle, but now we have a new set of goals, a radical adjustment of our goals. I'm not saying that we lay down all of our earthly goals, but our earthly goals come way below our kingdom goals. That means that everything that I do now points to the kingdom First. Everything that I do points to more of him and less than me, more of him, and less than my family, more of him and less than my kids parents. It points to the idea that I've been radically saved, reached down out of the miy clay, setting my feet onto the rock for his kingdom, and now I have a radical new way of thinking. I have a new lifestyle. I have a new set of goals, and I have a new approach to how I give my life that I now give my time for the kingdom I now give my treasures for the kingdom. One that's points to who God is in my life. Church is not enough to live a lifestyle that just says I love Jesus. We've gotta live a lifestyle that for year after year after year, just puts another board on the boat that just puts another board on the boat, that just puts another board on the boat. No matter what people say, no matter how people mock us, no matter how people question, no matter what resources it takes, we are called to live an all in life that just says, God, whatever you are leading me to do. My answers yes. It's about surrendering and it's about me dealing with God when God asks me to be his. Now, I was thinking about this Friday morning, this text, and man, some questions just for my own life began just to flood into my soul from this question. And I, and I feel like I just need to give 'em to you. Turkey, it's jerky. It doesn't fit with the message, but I don't, I don't care. The first question that kind of hit me this week is, does my life like Noah's life, does my life and everything that I do and say, does it point towards me saying, God use me. God use me. Have you ever thought about that question? Does my life point in everything with a posture of just saying, Hey, God, use me. Just use me. Let my yes be there always. The second question that hit me this week was this one is, how can I adjust my life so God can even more shine through my life? Like what adjustments need to be made? What attitudes do I need to give up? What adjustment of time do I need to have? Just say, use me. Oh, here's one that really just smacked me this week. This is probably not for you, for me. How, how is God asking me to step up and step out? Who's the neighbor across the street? Who's the person at work? Who's the person at school? What's that area in my life that I just need to finally say, God, it's yours. I'm yours. Here's the last one. Have I ever had enough faith to trust God? Oh, this one hit me from the Noah story. Have I ever had enough faith to trust God even in the uncertain zones? Can can, can I just have a little self confession time? Of course I can. I got the microphone. Listen, uh, I love certainty. Can I get an amen from the certainty people in the house? I love it. I, I love doing the same thing. I love going to the same restaurants. I love having the same schedule. I love certainty. I don't even like surprises. I love certainty. I, I just do. So over this last couple months, as, as Melissa and I have been praying through this, this whole all in initiative on the, on the financial side of it, um, kind of praying through this March day that's coming up on, on what does this look like to, to over and beyond our tithe? What does this look like for three years to, to sacrificially be generous? Um, I just didn't make confession. I've been asking God, God, what can we afford? What can we afford? God, what is it that makes sense? Because that's what my certainty mind asks what makes sense? And oh man, I read this dumb Noah passage this week. You know, I'm, don't send me any, I'm just kidding about that. Um, and God was like, man, it ain't about certainty. It's about you. And it's about all of us simply living a life that says, God, what do you need to do in me to be yours? What do you need to do to be yours? You know what I realized this week? I'm never gonna outgive the grace that God has given me. I'm never gonna OutServe the grace that Jesus did on the cross. I'm never going to live the mission stronger than he did. I'm never going to give to anything more worth it. And God is going to use every single thing that every single one of us does for His kingdom to do more than we could ever ask or imagine.