Blessed Are Those Who Hunger…
Matthew 5:6
Dismiss Grove KIDZ
OKAY – I want to start off by reading some Words that God breathed.
The God who…
• Is the Maker of heaven and earth
• Holds oceans in the palm of His hands
• Breathes out stars and stretches out billions of galaxies with His hand
At this very moment according to Revelation 5:11 is surround by 10,000 x 10,000 angels (100 million) which is the approximate population of every state on the east coast…
UNDERSTAND – as we sit in here 100 million surround The Lamb who sits on His throne, and they are all singing the same song… “You are worthy…”
YES B/S – that is who breathed the words that we are about to read… YEAH - I thought that I would just over a little context about…
WHOSE - presence we are in, and…
WHOSE - whose words we are about to hear.
LIKE – maybe it would not be a bad idea to give His Word our attention today…
WHAT – say you?
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? - Psalm 42:1,2
David wrote these words during a time when he was in the wilderness of Judah…
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
- Psalm 63:1-3
The prophet Isaiah wrote these powerful and penetrating words to God’s people 700 years before God the Son put on flesh and invaded this planet…
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. - Isaiah 55:1-3
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
- John 4:13-15
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. – John 6:35
Prayer
OKAY – welcome another week in our series on the Gospel of Matthew, ‘The King and His Kingdom.’
NOW – we are in the opening verses of the greatest sermon ever preached (The Sermon on The Mount) preached by the greatest preacher who has ever lived (Jesus).
Specifically we are unpacking what are known as the Beatitudes… Jesus’ radical upside-down manifesto, about the path to a blessed life.
NOW – it is not the path that we would have expected, and it is certainly not the path the most people are on.
• Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs… is the kingdom of heaven.
• Blessed are those who mourn, for they… will be comforted
• Blessed are the meek, for they… will inherit the earth
AND THIS MORNING…
THE - upside down, counterintuitive pathway to a blessed life that we are going to unpack is,
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied. – Matthew 5:6
FOR – they will be what? ‘satisfied’
QUESTION – how satisfied and fulfilling are you finding your life right now? On a scale of 1-10 (1 – I can barely get out of bed in the morning… 10 – I don’t even want to go to bed and miss out on all the satisfaction I am feeling?
Be honest.
Would you like that number to be higher?
Would you like your satisfaction to not be so fleeting?
YOU KNOW – I am confident that God has a Word for some people in this room or watching online this morning.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied. – Matthew 5:6
OKAY – to be hungry and thirsty, is a blessing?
NOW - that doesn't seem to add up, does it?.
I MEAN – I am sure that many standing on the hillside that day, had known hunger and thirst many times in their lives.
IN FACT – I am sure that some were even hungry and thirsty as Jesus spoke those words - AND you can be sure that they saw this as anything but a reason to be happy.
UNDERSTAND - the words that Jesus uses here for "hunger & thirst" are in the present tense and so they describe a continuing, ongoing, constant felt longing.
Blessed are those who ARE hungering and thirsting…
AND LISTEN - Jesus puts these 2 words together (hunger and thirst), to emphasis the extreme nature of this need and desire. NOW – for us to understand the full impact of what Jesus was saying we need to put ourselves in the shoes of His listeners. BECAUSE - today almost none of us knows real hunger. AND - very few of us have known more than momentary thirst...
As a matter of fact, as I was writing this message I tried to think of a time when I was desperately hungry or thirsty to use as an illustration and I could not find one.
YOU SEE - in my life, and I would venture to say in many of yours as well, the words of David found in Ps 37 have proved to be true;
I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging for bread... - Psalm 37:25
YES - God is good, and He has taken exceptionally good care of me. HOWEVER - it was not that way for Christ's contemporaries. UNDERSTAND - in the ancient world men often knew hunger. Wages were low, if they existed at all. AND UNLESS - men were of the wealthy and upper class they seldom grew fat on the fruit of honest labor. IN FACT - many starved.
AND LISTEN - in a desert country where the sun was scorching and the sand and windstorms were frequent, thirst was man's constant companion and water a precious treasure. THEREFORE - to such a people when they heard the word "hunger" it meant the hunger of starvation…
Same word is used in Matthew 4 when Jesus after fasting for 40 days and 40 nights was… hungry
AND WHEN - they heard the word "thirst", it brought to their minds eye the thirst of man who would soon die without water.
Same word is John 19:28, when Jesus after being flogged and hanging on a cross for 6 hours in the hot sun, said “I am thirsty.”
OKAY – what I am trying to say is that these words for hunger and thirst represent a powerful, serious and passionate drive that must be satisfied… (it’s not the hunger or thirst we feel when our grab hub delivery is 5 minutes late or when we have to drink a 12 oz coke instead of a 20 oz one)
Blessed are those who are hunger and thirst for righteousness
For what? - for righteousness.
Okay, so what does that even mean?
LIKE - if we do not know what it means, then how can we ever hunger and thirst for it?
Great questions. Important questions.
And we will attack and answer them a little later on.
OKAY – and so what is the promise in this beatitude for those who hunger and thirst for righteousness….
…for they will be satisfied.
NOW – the word for ‘satisfied’ is the Greek word
Chortazo
AND – it was a term commonly used for the feeding and fattening up of cattle. I MEAN – IF YOU PICTURE…
A Well fed, filled up, hefty happy cow – pigging out, just grazing out in the meadow, having all they need in abundance, You will have the perfect snapshot of being satisfied…
NOW – we find the same word used at the feeding of the 5000…
They all ate and were satisfied… - Matthew 14:20
(with 12 baskets full of leftovers)
AND – it is the word that Jesus uses in Mark 8…
Let the little children eat all they want… - Mark 8:8
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied. – Matthew 5:6
OKAY B/S - here is what I know… LIKE – these have been my observations over the years…
• People are hungry
• People are thirsty, and
• Countless people are unsatisfied and unfulfilled.
YEAH - tragically I think that the lives of many people in our world and even in the church could be summarized by a song I heard on June 17th 1978 when I drove from Baltimore, Md to see a concert in Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pa.
It’s a song I have played and even sang before whenever I talked about this issue of satisfaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrIPxlFzDi0
YEAH – 50+ years later, and they still can’t get no… satisfaction. AND – do you know what?
I THINK - most of us would have to admit that sometimes this is just the way life is for us.
I MEAN - we just can’t get no satisfaction....
EVEN THOUGH - we try & we try & we try….
WE – still feel empty and unfulfilled.
AND UNDERSTAND B/S – if your satisfaction level is kind of low, the problem isn’t God,
BECAUSE – God’s greatest desire is for us to be filled and satisfied.
My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.
– John 10:10
OKAY – let’s think this through.
We all, every one of us… want to be – filled and satisfied
And God wants us to be filled and satisfied….
THEN – what is the problem?
WELL – that brings us to the first point in your notes…
I. Why We Can’t Get No Satisfaction…
UNDERSTAND B/S – the reason why we can’t get no satisfaction? IS BECAUSE – we try to satisfy our hunger and thirst with the wrong things. THINGS – that will never…
Fully, ultimately, ongoingly… satisfy.
GET IT?
AND LISTEN – this is not a new phenomenon for people.
IN FACT – the prophet Jeremiah wrote about this very thing in the 2 chapter of his book…
Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the LORD.
Okay, now lean in church.
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. - Jeremiah 2:11-13
QUESTION - what was sin number 1…
They have forsaken me, the spring of living water…
- Jeremiah 2:13
AND – what was sin number 2?
…and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. – Jeremiah 2:13
I MEAN – what kind of thirsty person would choose a broken cistern where the water will keep leaking out
Over a spring of water that will never run dry and will always be available to satisfy your thirst.
LIKE SERIOUSLY – which would you choose?
Raise your hand if you are going to go with the spring of pure running water. Anyone going for the broken cistern?
YEAH – it would be crazy to choose a broken cistern
YET – people do, we do, you do, I do… a lot of the times.
UNDERSTAND – there are 3 broken cisterns that many people look to for life and satisfaction…
Broken Cistern #1- Relationships
UNDERSTAND – many people think that if they can just find the right relationship… THEN - their life will finally be satisfying and fulfilling… QUESTION - do you know anyone like that? Have you even been that anyone?
Are you that anyone… now?
AND SO THEY - search and search for Mr. or Mrs. right...
AND WHEN - they think they have found him or her they get together... AND - at first it looks like they found the answer – YES - their cup will finally be full,
BUT BEFORE - too long they discover that their partner is not only good at filling their cup, but that they are also quite proficient at punching holes in them and draining them.
WELL - if it is not a husband or wife that is the answer -- then maybe it is children....
YES - many people think, “If only I had a child, then my emptiness would be filled.”
BUT LISTEN - that doesn’t work either –
BECAUSE children, even though they do add much to our lives, are also very good at drilling holes and draining our cup.
Parents can I get an amen?
And guess what parents, we are good at poking holes an draining as well.
AND - I am sure you have found that relationships with friends don’t work either.... Though friends can be a tremendous source of help and encouragement -- they too will disappoint us, hurt us, abandon us…
More than once over the long haul, as they punch holes in our emotional lives....
LISTEN - the simple reality is, that we will ultimately find only frustration in any relationship we seek to find complete fulfillment and satisfaction in…
AND THE REASON IS: Because as we look for life in other people they are at the same time looking for life in us.... “fill me – fill me…”
YOU SEE – sometimes in a relationship we are like 2 giant sponges -- each wanting to soak up life from the other and 1 or both usually end up pretty dry....
QUESTION - Why do we get hurt? Why do we get angry and frustrated with other people?
UNDERSTAND - if we are honest and we look deeper than just the surface emotions… (anger…etc)
WE’LL SEE – that it’s because we’ve been expecting "life" from someone who is not cooperating very well.
NOW – do not misunderstand me, relationships are awesome. AND GOD - wants us to have healthy relationships.
IN FACT – our 3rd core value as a church is that we ‘Do Life Together.’
LISTEN – we want to be a church that is all about authentic and transformational relationships.
NEVERTHELESS – all relationships have their satisfaction limits… and…
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again…
John 4:13
Broken Cistern #2- Possessions
OKAY - if relationships can’t fill our cups and give us life maybe possessions (stuff, things) can...
I MEAN - if I just had more stuff – more money, a bigger house, a nicer car, a vacation house on the beach, a huge diamond ring, designer clothes… etc., etc., etc…
YEAH - if I just had more stuff I know my cup would be overflowing and my thirst would be satisfied...
AND UNDERSTAND B/S… I get it.
LIKE – I have been there and bought the T-Shirt more than once…
YEAH - I know that the mirage of things shimmering in the distance, sure looks like they will do the trick...
LIKE – many times we are convinced that we are just a purchase away from satisfaction.
HOWEVER – (possessions, like relationships)
Don’t really satisfy either…
AND - the satisfaction that they do give, is only temporary.
AND LISTEN – before long…
• that purchase is in a garage sale,
• we are trading in the car
• we are putting a for sale sign as we move into a bigger house, hoping this will finally be the one… (like the Rich in Luke 12… who keep building bigger and bigger barns)
NOW - over the years I have known people who have had a lot of stuff, but very little satisfaction… AND – I have known others (little widows living on social security in a bad part of town with bars on their windows) who when you were around them happiness, contentment and satisfaction just flowed out from them. And you could not help from getting wet.
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again…
John 4:13
OKAY – if relationships and possessions are not able to satisfy, then maybe…
Broken Cistern #3- Applause and Accomplishments
If we could just…
• Win that award, Receive that plague
• Earn that degree, get that recognition
• Score that touchdown, hit that homerun, win that race
• Build that business, Get that promotion,
• Climb that ladder, Achieve that fame
• Hear that applause, Have that success
THEN – my life will finally be full and satisfying.
QUESTION – have you ever thought that way?
I have… and still struggle with thinking that even today?
OKAY – here’s the deal…
WHEN - the applause stops and the plaque gets dusty,
WHEN - the success and achievements you have obtained…
DOES NOT - deliver what you had hoped…
The hunger and the thirst remain.
Everyone who drinks this water
The water of looking for fulfillment and satisfaction
IN – relationship, possessions and accomplishments
will be thirsty again…
John 4:13
NOW – don’t misunderstand me, I am not saying that relationships or possessions or applause and accomplishments are wrong…
As a matter of fact they all can be very beneficial.
BUT – what is wrong (and true satisfaction eluding) is for us to look for them to satisfy the thirst of our heart and our soul… Because they just cannot deliver…
A few years back a brother sent me an email about this very thing.
As a young man I was a good collegiate runner and had aspirations of national competitions. I was dedicated to this effort. When I ran and won a race, I would have a fleeting moment of celebration, then look at the winning time and the celebration dissolved with the thought " I can run faster or it's not fast enough". There was no satisfaction.
In the course of my running career I injured myself twice which prevented me from completing in nationals. Dejected, i took time off from school, worked and then was a ski bum with the life-style associated with thrill seekers.
Hanging with friends, skiing and parties, but alone one night during the Christmas season and Un-satisfied I came back to our shared party house, empty, dark and quiet, all alone -except for a Christmas card from my Aunt. The message embedded in her sentiment pierced my heart and seared itself inside forever:
"Nephew, when you search for happiness in anything but Jesus Christ, it's all a sham and will come to nothing."
That message caught me. It's truth burnt deep into me. It was true and I knew it. Yet, my life-style did not change right away, but my heart was even more unquenched.
It was like I was on a dusty road in my pursuit of school, pleasure and work. All because her message formed and fueled by the Spirit of God caused me to hunger for this truth - to find Christ not just in my head but in my soul.
I knew I needed more of God and I fully committed to Christ as my savior and found the path to satisfaction about 3 years after her message to me that lonely ski-bum Christmas Eve..
Satisfaction is in Christ and doing His will fulfills my soul. Christ breaks down the shams and false Gods of our lives, and He uses people like my Aunt to bring forth His truth and glory and redemption of and satisfaction to our souls.
When you search for happiness in anything but Jesus Christ, it's all a sham and will come to nothing.
And you will get no satisfaction.
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again…
John 4:13
HOWEVER – in Matthew 5:7 Jesus offers a better way… one that will lead to true and lasting satisfaction…
Blessed are those who are hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied. – Matthew 5:6
AND LISTEN – we really were made for another world.
IN FACT - Jesus told Pilate… “that His Kingdom was not of this world”
AND B/S – we are in His Kingdom right now…
AND – what Jesus teaches in the sermon of the mount (His radical, upside-down manifesto of what life in His Kingdom is all about) is most definitely not of this world.
• Being poor in Spirit and embracing our brokenness and asking God for Help
• Mourning
• Pursuing Meekness… striving to have your power and strength under control for the glory of God and the benefit of others…
These let’s ‘be-that-attitudes’ are most definitely not of this world. AMEN?!
OKAY - let’s unpack the final point in your notes…
II. Hungry, To Be Satisfied
Blessed are those who are hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied. – Matthew 5:6
They will be satisfied… Chortazo… fatten up, full, content…
They will be as Paul said in Philippians 4:12
I know both how to have a little, and I know how to have a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content (chortazo)—whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need. – Philippians 4:12
AGAIN MGCC – here is what I know…
• People are hungry
• People are thirsty, and
• Countless people are unsatisfied and unfulfilled (people in the world, people in the church, people in this room).
AND LISTEN – though a good thing, simply not looking for satisfaction in the wrong things is not enough.
LIKE – it is good that we are not eating the wrongs things, but we need to start hungering and thirsting for the right things.
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
- John 4:13-15
NOW - I don’t know, but maybe you are here today and like this woman at the well, you are saying…
Jesus, give me this water!
NOW – I have known and heard of this beatitude for years.
And have even preached on it a few times.
Blessed are those who are hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied. – Matthew 5:6
OKAY – sweet… if we want to be satisfied, all we need to do is hunger and thirst for righteousness… Got it.
BUT HOW – do we actually do that?
LIKE – what does that even mean or look like?
AND MGCC – I want you to know that thought long and hard this week about the answers to those two questions.
BECAUSE…
#1 - my life satisfaction level most definitely could be higher
(it has been pretty low recently… eating the wrong food)
AND #2 – because I have been attending church every week for 42+ years (about 2,200 Sundays)… and on a lot of those Sunday’s I sensed that I was in a room full of many unsatisfied people.
AND SO – this week… until about right now, I have struggled trying to get my heart and mind around what it really means for us, for me, for you…
To Hunger and Thirst after righteousness.
AND SO – here is all I got, for now…
Not exactly, but kind of like a 3 phase thing.
A) Hungering And Thirsting To Be Right With God
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
– 2 Corinthians 5:21
MGCC…
It’s this hunger and thirst to be right with God.
To have the barrier removed.
To realize that only He can remove it.
Because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
– Ephesians 2:5,6
UNDERSTAND B/S – there is great satisfaction is knowing that you are right with God.
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing. – Acts 8:39
B) Hungering And Thirsting To Be With God
AND WHAT - I’m talking about here
IS - hungering and thirsting for a personal relationship with Jesus, wanting to know Him more…
QUESTION – do you really hunger and thirst for that?
YOU KNOW – I think one of the reasons that some people who ‘attend’ church and are not truly satisfied
IS BECAUSE – they have not moved on to phase two (if you will) in this hungering and thirsting after righteousness thing.
YOU SEE – they kind of just paused at the being saved and having the sin barrier removed…
BUT THEY – have not really pursued a personal relationship with HIM… through prayer, bible reading…etc.
UNDERSTAND…IF your LIFE is not going so good,
IF it’s kind of empty and not satisfying, despite all your effort and even with all of your ‘successes.’
You may want to listen to these words of Jesus…
“And this is the way to have eternal life to know, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.” - John 17:3
Note....
#1 ‘eternal life’ - is not just about an awesome forever life with God in heaven, but it also about... a radically different - fulfilling - real - life changing - world impacting life in the here and now.
#2 - the world ‘know’ is not the mere knowing of facts, but it is to know someone intimately through personal experience.
Understand - LIFE (the full, satisfying and abundant kind)
IS NOT FOUND in... possessions, performance, pleasure and even in earthly relationships...
“Anyone who drinks this water will soon be thirsty again.”
- John 4:13
BUT rather REAL LIFE is found in KNOWING GOD (The Father and The Son) through an intimate personal relationship.
I don’t know, but maybe some these final words of Jesus in John 17 are the answer to why - that no matter how hard you try, LIFE seems to always eventually fall short of what you hoped for.
MGCC – do you really hunger and thirst to be with God
LIKE – a deer panting for streams of water?
IF NOT – don’t be surprised that you can’t get no satisfaction.
If we want to be filled by God we have to be hungry for God.
Hungering and thirsting…
• To be right with God,
• To be with God, AND…
C) Hungering And Thirsting To Be Like God
AND MGCC – this 3rd phase if you will…
Is kind new in my understanding of what means to hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Though not at all new to Scripture.
UNDERSTAND – God does not simply want you to be right with Him and to be with Him… He wants to be like Him.
IN FACT – he says the following just a few verses down from the Beatitudes…
You are the light of the world.
A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
– Matthew 5:13-16
YOU SEE – our being with Him is meant to make us like Him, and ‘this like Him’ is meant to flow out from us and into the world that He so loves.
I came across the following quote in my studies this week.
Deep and lasting satisfaction for our souls comes not from the delights of the world nor from a merely religious or vertical relationship with God. Satisfaction comes from God to those whose passion in life is to know Him in the struggle to be like Him in the world.
OKAY – stay with me….
NOW – Jesus uses the word righteousness 5 times in His Sermon on the Mount.
• Here in our text Matthew 5:6
• In Matthew 5:10 when He says that blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness
• In Matthew 6:1 when He tells us not to do our righteousness before men to be seen by them
• In Matthew 6:33 when tells to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things (that people chase after and worry about will be added unto us.
• AND… In Matthew 5:20 which reads this way…
For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. – Matthew 5:20
NOW UNDERSTAND – not everything that Pharisees did was bad or wrong. I MEAN – like they…
• Studied the word of God
• Prayed regularly
• Attended all of the Synagogue services
• They faithfully brought their tithe (10% of their income) to the Temple.
• Served, lived in community.
AND – all of that was good and necessary but something was missing. They were not becoming more like God in the world.
AND LISTEN – I think that is what Jesus was getting at when he called them out in Matthew 23…
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
– Matthew 23:23
When we are like God in…
• His desire for justice
• His dispensing of mercy
• His faithfulness
Deep and lasting satisfaction for our souls comes not from the delights of the world nor from a merely religious or vertical relationship with God. Satisfaction comes from God to those whose passion in life is to know Him in the struggle to be like Him in the world.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. – Micah 6:8
AND YOU KNOW – I think that the 4 beatitudes that follows this beatitude about being filled and satisfied because we hungered and thirst for righteousness, are another portrait of what it looks like to be like God in His word.
• Blessed are the merciful
• Blessed are the pure in heart
• Blessed are the peacemakers
• Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness… (man Jesus sure was, AMEN)
Deep and lasting satisfaction for our souls comes not from the delights of the world nor from a merely religious or vertical relationship with God. Satisfaction comes from God to those whose passion in life is to know Him in the struggle to be like Him in the world.
Hungering and thirsting after righteousness is about…
Being right with God, be with God and being like God
And this leads to being satisfied.
Taste and see that the LORD is good… - Psalm 34:8
HEY - it’s never too late to change your diet.
