It's time to share
there's a world out there
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Looking for a friend like Jesus
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It's time to share
there's a world out there
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Let's tell them
that He loves us so
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Let's tell them
that He loves us so
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Kids' Time,
Kids' Time, Kids' Time
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Hi, boys and girls.
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Ah, I'm just sitting
here, oh, doing my exercises.
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I've been using these
things called dumbbells.
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Now, I don't know why they
call them a dumbbell really,
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because it's not really a bell.
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Did you hear anything jingling?
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I didn't. And they
are not dumb either.
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You know, people use dumbbells
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to help them
develop strong muscles.
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Now if I would
lift this dumbbell
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several times
everyday just like this,
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oh...in a short while
I'd probably be stronger
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than I am right now.
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People like to be
strong for lots of reasons.
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Some people like to show off
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and they like to
flex their muscles
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and just striking poses.
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And some people
love to play sports
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and they know that if they--
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they will play their best
if their bodies are strong.
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Still others, you
know, they work at jobs
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that require them to be strong.
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Like...um, like a carpenter.
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He has to lift heavy
lumber and a bricklayer.
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You know, or a stonemason,
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he handles heavy
loads all day long.
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Doesn't he?
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But his back
even hurts at night.
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You know, even
parents sometimes need to lift
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heavy children
and, and nureses must be
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able to lift heavy patients.
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I'm a nurse and I can tell
you many times in the hospital,
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I had to lift
very heavy patients.
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Well, today's Bible
story is about a young man
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who found himself
in the middle of a war.
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And it's an exciting story
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of how this
fellow named, Jonathan,
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launched a surprise
attack on the enemy.
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And was he strong? Yes, he was.
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And God, whom he served,
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used Jonathan's
strength for a good purpose.
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It's a good thing for us
to take care of our bodies.
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But let's
remember, boys and girls,
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that our strong healthy
bodies are a gift from God.
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We're to glorify
Him and not ourselves.
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Now, today, you're going
to hear more about Jonathan.
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But, right now, Ranger
Jim is going to share with us
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some facts about tree rings.
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Hi, boys and girls.
Ranger Jim here again today.
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We have another
interesting study.
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We're going to be
learning something
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about identifying
trees, their age by the rings
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that are formed as they grow.
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We're growing to start
off with the piece of shumac
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that I'm holding in my hand,
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which is very easy to identify.
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The grains show
very well on this,
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so we can start from
the center counting out.
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Always count the light
ring and the dark ring. Okay?
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If you count them individually,
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you'll double the age.
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So we say the
dark ring, we have one,
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two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.
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And so we will
come up with eight.
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We count what we
call the spring wood,
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which is a light color.
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Then we have a darker color
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and so that it
represents one year.
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And after we've gotten
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to where we got
the general idea.
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If you go for a
walk and you see a stump
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that has been cut down,
someone's logging off an area,
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go over and check it out.
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And you can
determine how old the tree was.
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If you are home schooling
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or if you're going
to a public school,
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perhaps, you could
suggest to your teacher
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that you could go to a sawmill.
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And ask the
sawyer about the tree
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that he's cutting and
ask if he would give you
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a slab of wood
that you can take back
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to your classroom
perhaps two or three samples.
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I've never known a
man that wasn't willing
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to do that and to
help boys and girls
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in their educational process.
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So, perhaps, he can
cut you off some pieces.
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You could make
it a class project
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and take it back
into your classroom
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and study that and
develop that talent.
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I find that very enjoyable.
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We have one here,
that's more difficult.
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I'll hold it up, hoping
that camera can see it well.
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And as you can see, this
tree we call this a hardwood.
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And the reason we
call them hardwood
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is because as they develop,
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they are very, very dense fiber.
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The shumac that I just
showed you a moment ago
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is very soft wood,
grows very rapidly.
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But this one grows slowly.
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So you can see all
the way from the center,
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rather uniform growth rings
all the way out to this point.
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And then, this tree went through
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a period of severe drought,
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very, very, very
slow growth rings.
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Then it had a
period here of good years.
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Here's one, two, three, four,
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five, six years of
plenty of moisture.
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Then we have
another severe drought.
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And this wood, all the
way out to the edges of here
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that period of time there,
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I counted them last
night with a magnifying glass,
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it had about 42
years when that tree--
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42 years that tree grew and grew
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less than an inch and a half.
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And then, this continued
zone out here begins to grow
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more and more and more rapidly.
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So this tree is
about 168 years old,
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if I remember
correctly last night
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in counting those rings.
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And it's a
relatively small tree.
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It's called a hickory tree.
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And so as you count the rings,
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remember a light
ring and a dark ring
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represents one year.
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All right. Now, we
have some things here
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I'd like to show you
that are quiet a novelty.
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This big spike nail
was driven into this tree
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when the tree
was about this size.
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And the nail was driven
up to about here, all right.
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And so then the
tree slowly grows
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around the nail all the way out.
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And if this tree hadn't been cut
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eventually the
nail would've been
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completely
contained within the tree
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as is the case of this.
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This is an insulator.
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This is glass insulator
used for an electric fence.
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This was driven by a
farmer on the side of the tree.
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And the tree slowly
grew and grew and grew
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until it was completely covered,
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the nail and the insulator.
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This one over here
that we have is also one
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that the telephone
company in the early days,
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they didn't always
put up telephone poles,
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that been treated with
creosol to protect them
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to make them last a long time.
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They simply nailed the
insulator spikes in to a tree.
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And this was the part containing
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the glass insulator, the
wires were attached to this.
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And so I have a
friend who has a sawmill
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and he was not happy
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when his saw
struck this large spike.
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And his saw was dulled
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and had to go back to
the man who sharpened saws.
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Now with modern
equipment, those big sawmills
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now are equipped
with X-ray machines
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that they can
tell what's in the log
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before they saw it.
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And so that's a
blessing to them.
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But just an interesting thing
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that the tree continues to grow
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and completely takes
that spike into its body
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and is
contained within the body.
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We have a large piece here,
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I would like to talk
to you a moment about.
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Because it has a special feature
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that I want to point out to you.
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And as you can
see there, once again,
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we have rather
steady growth rate of rings
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all the way out from the center.
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This is simply a
piece of decay here on this
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and a decay over here.
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But I wanted to
point this out to you,
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because this is an
injury to the tree.
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This is a scar and much the same
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as we human beings.
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If you cut yourself or
injure yourself, it heals.
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Doesn't it? But it
will always leave a scar.
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And so that's the
way with the tree.
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This scar was caused, I believe,
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because of all these
very, very small growth rings.
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This tree was having a
difficult time in growing.
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It was most likely
because of competition
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from larger
trees surrounding it.
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But immediately
after the injury,
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the tree began to
grow quite rapidly.
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So that leads me to believe
that this injury was caused
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to the side of
the tree most likely
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when the lumber men
were pulling the logs out,
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one of the logs jammed up
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against the side
of this small tree
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and peeled all the bark off
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and made an injury to the tree.
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And then
immediately without competition,
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the tree began
to grow and mature.
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And so there is a
lesson for us there too.
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If we make unwise decisions
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or if we do things in our life,
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if we make wrong
choices, we will have that scar.
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Now, Jesus takes
us in and loves us.
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But Jesus doesn't
wipe out those scars.
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Many people have
made unwise decisions
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all of their life
with poor eating habits
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or habits of
using the wrong things
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like tobacco or what have you.
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And so, those scars,
they will have to have.
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It doesn't mean that
Jesus doesn't love them.
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But that is always true
that when we do those things,
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we will have to bear
the consequences of that.
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The oldest tree surviving today
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is 2500 years old, a
bristlecone pine tree.
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And they are a
fascinating tree in themselves.
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The only way the
bristlecone pine opens
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so that the seed will sprout
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and bring forth a new pine tree
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is if it has a forest fire.
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The seedpod contains
very strongly bent splines.
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And when a fire releases that,
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that seed is sometime
kicked 70 or 80 feet away
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and lands on the ground
outside of the fire circle.
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And then, it replaces the tree
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that burned in the forest fire.
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What a wonderful savior we have.
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What a wonderful creator
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that He makes those
things for us to see.
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Always He does the
perfect job. Doesn't He?
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So whatever we might do,
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it's that we know that
Jesus always does it better.
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So Ranger Jim is
always reminding you,
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boys and girls, tell
Jesus that you love Him
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'cause He really does love you.
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Hello, boys and girls,
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D'Argio is going to tell us
about Ephesians 6, verse 11.
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"Put on the whole armor of God."
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That's right, D'Argio.
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We need to be protected
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because we're
in the Lord's Army.
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I may never
march in the infantry
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Ride in the
cavalry Shoot the artillery
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I may never fly o'er the enemy
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But I'm in the
Lord's Army Yes, Sir
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I'm in the Lord's Army Yes, Sir
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I'm in the Lord's Army Yes, Sir
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