[Mr. Bruce Anderson] As we look back through time and the broad sweep of history and then forward to the day over a thousand years from now, we're left with one inescapable conclusion—a perfect environment, a perfect government, and perfect leadership do not always guarantee a perfect outcome or result. Kind of startling to contemplate, isn't it? But it's true.

History, both past and future, provide us with three startling examples, this mind-bending phenomenon. Lucifer and his demonic third, the garden of Eden and the snake episode, and Gog and Magog two, it's actually Gog and Magog three, the four corners gang of Revelation 20:8. Now, what does this almost surreal trio of events have to say about the thousand years, a perfect environment, perfect government, and perfect leadership pictured by this wonderful fall festival? And it is.

And this sermon is not going to be a downer. By the time we get through with it, I think you'll see that it's just a little different look at things. And I've been amazed at this feast, how many scriptures that I've used in this in the past have been brought out this year. I don't know if that's the way that works, but we all know that we're not in charge of this amazing way that the messages do dovetail.

So, does this scenario somehow challenge the thought that those who live over into this magnificent period from the heart-rending…and they are. We talk about suffering the hearting-rending ravages of Armageddon, as well as those who are born and grow up and are converted during the entire thousand-year reign. They somehow get off light in their spiritual growing-up process.

After all, it does...all it takes at the end of the millennium is for Satan to, you know, step back on earth again in a kind of a Cameo appearance as we see in Revelation 20. And he's able to deeply influence and deceive a sizable portion. It talks about as the sands of the seashore. And what about the parents? This is one I've cogitated on quite a bit. The parents and grandparents who are physically alive or maybe change spirit beings. In many cases, of that last generation as they watch the unthinkable unfold before their eyes, what goes through their minds? They've been preaching this for a thousand years.

Now, there's much to ponder here today in this surreal scenario, as we think about and deeply consider our preparation as kings and priests, as we've heard already, for this assignment in eternity. Today let's step into paradise for a moment, besides the one we've got here. I'd have to say this ranks, as far as I'm concerned, I've been to about 50 in the top 2 or 3 feast sites I've ever attended as far as just sheer beauty. Gorgeous place. Let's go step into the future, into paradise for a moment. It's a time of lions and lambs as we heard, blooming deserts, all things utopian. Right?

Why it's an age when 70-year-old guys like me will be able to program their DVRs. When TV commercials will, I repeat, will not exceed their programs in length and volume. Won't that be wonderful? And ah yes, that great Scandihoovian entertainment team, Svenanoli [SP] will join Rodney Dangerfield, in finally getting some respect. Yeah, sure you betcha.

Now, we're talking real paradise here. Everybody gets along, no relationship problems. Right? Why even the animals like each other as Mr. Dick pointed out so well. I mean, the world's going to be one big petting zoo, right? That's going to be fun. I really look forward to that. I think everybody does, every kid, young or old kid. Some of us never quite get over that. So, life will be a proverbial breeze with very few bumps in the road and, you know, the lumps of life that we experience. Right?

Well, almost, it's true. It's going to be a wonderful and joyous time as we hear about every year. And I love this God's great family reunion. That's what it is. You always run into people, people that you haven't seen for years. We met a few from 40-some years ago at this feast, it's wonderful, back in my first assignment in Columbus, Ohio.

Now, the scriptures are replete with magical prophetic pictures, good old Isaiah, a millennial prophet, and on and on it goes throughout the Old Testament. Pictures of this time that we celebrate and also look forward to it. This is the highlight of the year, right? I mean, it pictures so much. And ironically, here's the irony, we won't be physical when this takes place. Little irony. That's a whole nother subject, but is it going to be totally lump and bump-free? Which is how we sometimes tend to visualize millennial paradise.

What will this great spiritual adjustment period be like for us for the great remnant of mankind? Now, remember, according to scripture, as many as one-half of the world's population, which may be around eight billion at that time, approximately four billion will perish during the great woes, even the seals leading up to it. That is many times greater than all the wars in man's history put together. That's going to be tough. You talk about suffering.

So, it's going to be a great spiritual adjustment period for this remnant in global shock, from what we might call World War III. The really big one. Armageddon. And as spirit beings, we're going to have quite a different perspective. Will we not? Not one shared by the rest of mankind at least for a while. So, one of the first glimpses we get of this day's fulfillment on the other side of C2C.

Excuse me for the acronyms. I've kind of gotten into that because we use this stuff so often. C2C is Christ's second coming. C1C is Christ's first coming. Go over to Zechariah. We generally read this every year, at least once or twice during the feast. I'll be reading today primarily from the New International Version. It may vary a little bit. Most of you probably have the New King James or you might have the New Living Version, three translations used quite frequently, even in our work...works, published works. Let's go over to Chapter 14. We'll pick up the transition in verses... Start out in verse 1. We'll read a couple of verses here. All right, let me see how to get this thing operating here. Bulbs aren't so good anymore. That's a good one.

Zechariah 14:1-4 "A day of the Lord is coming when your plunder will be divided among you. I will gather all nations through Jerusalem to fight against it. And the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, the women raped and half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. And then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as He fights in the day of battle. And on that day, His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, East of Jerusalem. And the Mount Olives was split in two from east to west forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving north, half south."

Let's pick it up in verse 8.

Zechariah 14:8-9 "And on that day, living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half to the Eastern sea and half to the Western sea,” Dead Sea, Mediterranean, “and summer and in winter. And the Lord will be king over the whole earth. And on that day, there will be one Lord and His name the only name."

That's interesting. Let's go a little further. That's leading up. Let's go a little further down the prophetic road and pick up the verses we usually read.

Zechariah 14:16-19 "Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. And if any of the people of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. And if the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain as well. And if the Lord will bring on them the plague He inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, this will be the punishment of Egypt and a punishment of all nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles."

So, here we find the classic transition scriptures at the beginning of the millennium, we've had read to us, you know, for decades, as we anticipate what's going to take place on the other side. You might call this the birth and toddler years of the millennium and kingdom of God. In this case, through the eyes of Zechariah.

You know, you think about these, and I've thought about it, and it's become part of my vocabulary when I speak in Little Falls, you come to realize after a while God's frustration as Mr. Kubik spoke about so eloquently yesterday, and that spiritual child-rearing is really messy at times. It's messy for us individually.

We all go through those things because just, as we here, free moral agency is tough. We can't control everything. Some of us are more controlling than others. And it's tough to control our environment, and especially our children as we watch them suffer. God's going through the same thing. You know, for 6,000 years, demographers estimate 50 to 100 billion tough times for even the best parent in the universe.

So, it's going to take some time just like with us rearing ours, maybe a lot of it, initially, in the kingdom of God as, you know, it's all set up there at the beginning of the millennium. And the gospel of God's wise benevolent government is going to flow out like that river, but it's going to take time as we'll see in just a moment.

So, how long is it going to take for the planet to begin to look like Isaiah 2:11? Those wonderful scriptures that paint that picture, that millennial picture of utopia in paradise. Well, let's see. Let's hop on one of God's time machines through one of His pilots and let's fly back. And it's actually a scripture that was quoted in Mr. Mill's fine Bible study the other night. It's not one that comes up very often. Let's go back for just a moment to Ezekiel 38. Just capture a sense and the timing of what's going on here.

Ezekiel 38:10-12 "This is what the Sovereign Lord says, on that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme." That's very interesting considering the timeframe here. We'll catch that a little later as well. "And you will say, I will invade a land of unwalled villages. I will attack a peaceful unsuspecting people, all of them living within the walls and without gates and bars. And I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins, and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and land."

You put this together and our B.R.P., BRP as we used to call it, it's now our, I would say, very fine church commentary and goes into this. But you can make the case, this obviously can't be before the millennium. Israel reborn in '48 has never lived in unwalled cities. I was there in the dig in 1971. I sat on a chaise lounge, the south end of the Sea of Galilee, after a hard day of touring in the hot Galleon sun in 1970, and watched tracer bullets over the Golan Heights thinking I was at a 4th of July celebration in Minnesota in one of our lakes. It was surreal.

They have never lived in an unwalled safe environment that is described here. So, this is after C2C. You wonder, "How could that happen after Armageddon? What are these guys thinking?" And it says, it came to mind the generals were plotting. Not that long. More than likely, not everybody, you know, that 200-million man army plus whatever, you know, the beast has will be sent down and will be crossing the Euphrates, etc. There'll be plenty of them back home thinking about how they're going to, you know, have phase two to take out this invader from outer space.

So, this could be...as you put Zechariah together with Ezekiel 38 and you start to realize, Israel, as we've heard, in the second Exodus will be brought back and start to be set up around Jerusalem between the Euphrates and the Nile. Well, it's a pretty good size area. Modern Israel's about the size of New Jersey, expanded up the Euphrates down to the Nile and over to Saudi Arabia. Make that desert bloom and you could handle, you know. Some scriptures imply that Israel after C2C might be passed under the rod. I don't know if that's the military or the entire population. Estimates are today's population of all Israel's about half a billion. That's pretty close to the sands of the seashore. And if its tithed, passed under the rod, that means about 50 million. So, I think 50 million can probably fit in that area.

So, they're going to be set up, and it's going to take years because it says He's going to send out the word just to the neighbors. Well, I'll tell you, Gog and Magog aren't neighbors. They're thousands of miles away. And so what we see laid out here in Ezekiel 38 could take a few years to get out there. So, what does all this have to say about our job in the millennium specifically and about spiritual child-rearing in general?

You might say the seas of social and political change could be a bit rough for a while in a wonderful world tomorrow, even with the King of kings at helm. It's kind of the way it works with free moral agency. So, how could this be? Let's start our search for understanding. Let's try to understand a little bit what's going on. And as we start to try to understand what our job's going to be because we're going to be there during this transition. We're going to be at HQ helping out and working with all these Gentile nations that think we came from another planet, not even in this solar system probably. Let's turn over to Isaiah 30. This scripture's been mentioned a couple of times. I'm going to approach it from maybe a slightly different vantage point.

Isaiah 30:19 "All people of Zion who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious He will be when you cry for help. As soon as He hears, He will answer."

You talk about a response team. For any of you in business, you know that it's not making mistakes that count, it's how you respond when there's a problem in the business world. And customers generally will forgive you, you know, for problems or mistakes that happen along the way, whatever it happens to be, if you respond well. God's all about response. And we see that here.

"Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction..." and actually, the New Living Translation says suffering, "...your teachers will be hidden no more” As we heard. “With your own eyes, you will see them. And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, 'This is the way, walk you in it.'"

Now, be Robin Webber. Yet there are consequences to get the nations into the program as we saw in Zechariah. You might say Isaiah 30 addresses the more personal program after the national acceptance, after a few decades to get us into the program. So, this is more the personal program. Although we know God can work with anybody, anywhere, anytime. It's not restricted, certainly, if they're ready.

So, as we delve into these millennial scriptures, we understand what this fabulous time will really be like and what our job responsibilities will entail. In order to understand that, we realize there're going to be a few challenges, some lumps along the way, and not during just the post-Armageddon period transition as we heard in Zechariah 14 and Ezekiel 38, but throughout the thousand years, right up to the great, white throne judgment. We see that, certainly, at the end.

And what we've read here in Isaiah, there are going to be some challenges along the way. Not everybody when you say don't go to the right or the left is going to listen. So, let's learn a little bit about what I call spiritual lumpology and preparation for our vital kingdom responsibilities from a man who had a Ph.D. in it. His name is Sigmund Wollman.

And I'd like to quote from a "Reader's Digest" article called "Sigmund Wollman's Reality Test." It comes from a book by Robert Fulghum. Probably remember him. He wrote the book "All I Know Is What I Learned In Kindergarten." I'm going to read a little bit of this, kind of set the stage, maybe help us think about this period.

"It was the summer of 1959 at a resort in the Sierra Nevadas of Northern California. I had a job that combined being the night desk clerk in the lodge and helping with the horse wrangling and the stables. The owner-manager was Swiss with European notions about conditions of employment. He and I did not get along. I thought he was a fascist who wanted peasant employees who knew their place. And I was 22 just out of college and pretty free with my opinions. One week the employees had been served the same thing for lunch every single day, two weiners, a mound of sauerkraut, and stale rolls. To compound the insult with injury, the cost of the meals were deducted out of the paychecks.

“I was outraged. On Friday night of that awful week, I was at my night desk job around 11 p.m., and the night auditor had just come in for his duty. I went into the kitchen, saw a note to the chef, to the effect that weiners and sauerkraut were on the employees' menu for two more days. That tore it. For lack of any better audience, I unloaded on the night auditor Sig Wollman.

“I declared that I'd had it up to here, that I was going to get a plate of weiners and sauerkraut and wake up the owner and throw it in his face. And nobody was going to make me eat weiners and sauerkraut for a whole week and make me pay for it. And this was un-American, and I didn't like weiners and sauerkraut enough to eat them one day. And the whole hotel stunk. And I was packing my bags and heading from Montana where they never heard of weiners and sauerkraut and wouldn't feed that stuff to pigs. Something like that.

“I raved on this wave for 20 minutes. My monologue was delivered at the top of my lungs, punctuated by blows in the front desk with a fly swatter, the kicking of chairs and much profanity. As I pitched my fit, Sig Wollman sat quietly on his stool, watching me with sorrowful eyes, put a bloodhound in a suit and a tie and you have Sig Wollman. He had good reason to look sorrowful. Survivor of Auschwitz, three years. German-Jew, thin, coughed a lot.

“He liked being alone at the night job. It gave him intellectual space and peace and quiet. And even more, he could go into the kitchen and have a snack whenever he wanted. All the weiners and sauerkraut he wished, to him a feast. More than that, there was nobody around to tell him what to do. In Auswitch he had dreamed of such a time. The only person he saw at work was me, the nightly disturber of his dream.

“Our shifts overlapped an hour and here I was a one-man war party at full cry. "Listen, Fulghum. Listen, me, listen, me. You know, what's wrong with you? It's not wieners and sauerkraut, it's not the boss, it's not the chef, it's not the job." "So, what's wrong with me?" "Fulghum, you think you know everything but you don't know the difference between inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if I have nothing to eat, if a house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient, Fulghum. Life is lumpy."

I think you can tell Sig knew some big lumps. I think we'd all agree. And I think most people, instinctively, you know the difference between most lumps and have some inkling and how to deal with them. And yet, which of us hasn't been caught off guard and challenged emotionally, mentally, from time to time. Sometimes it's kind of tough to keep it all in perspective and respond in a truly Christian manner. And things like that happen, especially during the day-to-day grind of spiritual boot camp, we call life.

The world tomorrow is going to have its unique challenges, and we're going to be right in the middle of them, expected to know how to administer spiritual lump aid. You might say the Bible's full of lumpy characters as well, and lumpy episodes dealing with the lumpy side of life. So, let's just visit a few for a moment in preparation for Isaiah 30 assignments as providers of spiritual lump aid.

Let's go over to Luke for a moment. A story, once again, we don't read real often, but I think it's one of the more powerful in the Bible. I think it has a very close link, though, it's only a couple of lines long in the book of Job. And that's a whole nother story.

Luke 13:1-5 "Now there were some present at the time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered, 'Do you think that these Galileans were the worst sinners than all other Galilee because they suffered this way? I tell you no, but unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those 18 who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think that they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you no, unless you repent, you too will perish.'"

You might say this is a short footnote of spiritual history only mentioned as an example in another context, repentance. Well, let's go back to that horrible point to the dozens and maybe hundreds of relatives. For them, it was a big lump, a totally unexpected lump. Husbands and wives and children and friends and colleagues, we don't know the mix of the 18, had been walking at night. It probably was adults, but everybody wanted to know why. Secret sins, some great wretchedness of life? Christ says not so. He implies that they were ordinary citizens like you and me, no better or no worse than the rest of Jerusalem or those of Oklahoma City, or New York, or San Bernardino, Orlando, and now Las Vegas. We could tour Europe as well. Could this happen in the millennium?

Well, just ask the innocent women and children and families of the leaders in the armies of millennial Gog and Magog, but not once, but twice, both at the beginning and the end. And how about the women and children of the stubborn and men and leaders putting families through drought and famine rather than going to the feast as we read at the end of Zechariah. These loved ones will be in shock as the reports come back from the millennial battlefields around Jerusalem, especially, you know, there at the beginning. Maybe not the time and chance circumstances of the Tower of Siloam or terrorists work of Meera, 9/11 and the others, but big millennial problems, not inconvenience for the surviving families. I think we'd say that's for sure.

I don't know how far Isaiah's 30 twin spiritual challenges of bread of affliction and water of adversity will take us after such a transition during those first and last years of the millennium, but there'll be something to deal with. A lot to think about here, a lot to ponder from old Sig's Reality Test and years ahead. Let's switch gears here. Let's look into the other side of Sig's Reality Test. We'll check with Luke again and find an oatmeal variety lump. This time let's turn to Luke 10, back a couple of pages.

Luke 10:38 A story you're all familiar with, "As Jesus and His disciples were on their way, He came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to Him. She had a sister called Mary who sat at Lord's feet, listening to what he said, but Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. And she came to Him and asked, 'Lord don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work all by myself? Tell her to help me.' 'Martha, Martha,' the Lord answered, 'You are worried and upset about many things but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken from her.'"

Now, here we find Martha's lump, a kind of a “no mint on the pillow at Motel 6”, waitress a bit tardy or inattentive at the Cracker bBarrel, or maybe you've ended up with a neighbor's phone bill and he's got primetime relatives in Zanzibar and Timbuktu. That kind of lumps.

Now, Martha was put out, but was she really put upon? Maybe a little. It was a bit inconvenient, but after all, what was a little housework compared to sitting at the feet and being taught up close and personal by the creator of the universe? No contest, I would say. You know, so much of life gets down to the P word, a lot of good P words. This is one of my favorites. I use it a lot. Perspective, just like in real estate, three most important things. Oftentimes, in navigating the choppy waters of life, the three most important things are perspective, perspective, perspective.

It's reality time as Sig Wollman stated, "It's time to keep the mintless pillows of life, the small lumps of our sojourn in their proper place emotionally." It's good prep work for minor lump aid in the world tomorrow. And I'm sure we're going to have that. We've already had some. Maybe you've had some already here at the feast. We had some. We came in a little early this year. We couldn't find our rental house. Three times we drove by it, but due to bad Swedish logic and even worse powers of observation, we missed it three times. Later, a dear friend whose initials are Victor Kubik pointed to a sign planted right in the middle of the front yard. I'm not kidding you. Hiding right there in plain sight with the address on it. Oh, well, home sweet home. Sadly, finding it dashed, the eternal hope of my wife, Phyllis, to finally keep a feast in a pop tent.

Finally, let's turn back one chapter in the book of Luke as we head down the backstretch here. Luke 9:51, and what I'm going to do instead of reading it from the New International Version, this happens to be another lump of the oatmeal variety. And we're going to see how our spiritual big brother handled a minor league lump. And I'm going to read it from the Expanded Paraphrase in this little episode of Christ University of The Road. It's called "The Man Nobody Knows." Maybe you've read that. You've got the book. Chapter 1 page 15 by Bruce Barton. I really liked the book. It's got a lot of good things in it.

"It was very late in the afternoon. If you'd like to learn the measure of a man that is the time of day to watch him. We're all a half an inch taller in the morning than at night. And it's fairly easy to take a large view of things when the mind is rested and the nerves are calm, but the day is a steady drain of small annoyances. And the difference in the size of men becomes hourly more apparent.

“The little man loses his temper. The big man takes a firmer hold. It was very late in the afternoon in Galilee. The dozen men who had walked all day over the dusty roads were hot and tired. And the sight of the village was very cheering as they looked down from the top of little hill. Their leader deciding that they had gone far enough, sent two members of the party ahead to arrange for accommodations while he and the others sat down by the roadside to wait.

“After a bit, the messengers were seen returning, and even at a distance, it was apparent that something unpleasant had occurred. Their cheeks were flushed, their voices angry. And as they came near, they quickened their pace, each wanting to be the first to explode the bad news. Breathlessly they told it. The people of the village had refused to receive them. Had given them blunt notice to seek shelter someplace else.

“The indignation of the messengers communicated itself to the others who at first could hardly believe their ears. This backwards village refused to entertain their master. It was unthinkable. He was a famous public figure in that part of the world. He'd healed the sick and given freely to the poor. In the capital city, crowds had followed him enthusiastically, so that even his disciples had become men of importance, looked up to, talked about.

“And now to have this country village deny them admittance as its guests. 'Lord, these people are insufferable.' One of them cried, 'Let us call down fire from heaven and consumed them.' The others joined in with enthusiasm, 'Fire from heaven. That was the idea. Make them smart for their boorishness. Show them that they can't affront us with impunity. Come, Lord, the fire.'

“There are times when nothing a man can say is nearly so powerful as saying nothing. A business executive can understand that. Argue brings him down to the level of those with whom he argues. Silence convicts them of their folly. They wish they had not spoken so quickly. They wonder what He thinks. The lips of Jesus tightened. His fine features showed the strain of the preceding weeks. And in His eyes, there was the foreshadowing of the more bitter weeks to come.

“He needed that night's rest, but He said not a word. Quietly gathered up his garments and started on. His outraged companions following him. It is easy to imagine His keen disappointment. He'd been working with him for three years. Would they never catch the true vision of what He was, what He was about? He had so little time and they were constantly wasting it. They wanted Him to gratify His personal resentment by burning up a village.

Down the hot road, they trailed after Him, awed by His silence, vaguely conscious that they had failed again to measure up. And they went to another village.” says the narrative, nothing more. “No debate, no bitterness, no futile conversation. In the mind of Jesus, the thing was too small for comment. In a world where so much must be done and done quickly, memory could not afford to be burdened with a petty, slight. A small lump, a very small lump. And they went on to another village.”

A powerful statement by the trainer of trainers, the mentor of mentors, our elder brother on how to handle the lumps in the throat and those in the oatmeal. And there will be many of this kind in the millennium just like today. I'm sure. Just ask Barnabas and Paul. Let's finish up with a little more Sig.

"’Fulghum, learn to separate inconvenience from real problems. You will live longer and will not annoy people like me so much. Goodnight.’ In a gesture combining dismissal and blessing, he waved me off to bed. Seldom in my life have I ever been hit between the eyes so hard with the truth. There in the late night darkness of a Sierra Nevada Inn, Sigmund Wollman simultaneously kicked my butt and opened a window in my mind. For 30 years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks, ‘Fulghum, problem or inconvenience?’"

I think of this as the Wollman test of reality. Life is lumpy and a lump in the oatmeal, and a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference. God gives us the ultimate freedom as we've heard so eloquently. At this midpoint, up to the midpoint here in the feast, the ultimate freedom of Deuteronomy 30:19, the freedom of choice.

It is the freedom to meet the lumps of life on their own terms and make choices that with the help of the Holy Spirit will help us and others go into the Matthew 5:48, spiritually-mature divine nature, that Christ compelled us toward in that marvelous scripture. Spiritually-mature divine nature it's what it's all about. And in the process becoming truly more Godlike. The Feast of Tabernacles, as we all know as spiritual showcase time, ambassador time before the world.

Although we do understand the other 355 years, or so, are certainly very important as well. Why? Because we have the local spotlight on us in mass, as we congregate for this wonderful family reunion around the world. I think "Sig Wollman's Reality Test" can help us now. I mentioned we may have a few lumps over the next few days, and who knows, maybe some of you have already had some just like we've had.

Learning about and handling the lumps of life is just about job one for Christians and preparing to help our potential brothers and sisters in the time these days portray with their lumps is right up there. After all, life is lumpy just ask Sig. And spiritual child-rearing is messy, just ask God. And how we respond makes all the difference in the world now, tomorrow, and for eternity. Goodnight, Sig.