Amen.
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I was reading in
Genesis 1 this week,
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knowing that the
topic was creation
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and I'm just amazed
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at how God created
the earth in six days
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and on the
seventh day He rested,
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but throughout all
of His creation He says,
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I do all things well.
And that's what the song--
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we're going to teach
you a new song, it's called
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"You do all things well."
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And we're going to
sing it through once
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and then we're going
to ask you to join us
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the second time through.
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Mountain maker
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Ocean tamer
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Glimpses of you Burn in my eyes
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The worship of heaven
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Fills up the
skies You made it all
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Said let there be And there was
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All that we see
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The sound of Your voice
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The works of Your hands
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You do all things well
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You do all things well
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You do all things well
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We're going to
ask you to join us
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the second time as we sing it.
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Just like a tree
that's planted by the water
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I shall not be moved
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The winds are
blowing all around me
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I shall not be moved
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Just like a tree
that's planted by the water
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I shall not be moved
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The winds are
blowing all around me
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I shall not be moved
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These winds will never last
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This storm is sure to pass
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This trial is just a test
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So I shall not
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I shall not No, I shall not
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Be moved
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These winds will never last
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This storm is sure to pass
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This trial is just a test
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So I shall not
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I shall not No, I shall not
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Be moved
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The winds of
affliction sweep over my soul
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and billows and storm
clouds continue to roll
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The winds of
affliction sweep over my soul
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and billows and storm
clouds continue to roll
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The winds of
affliction sweep over my soul
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and billows and storm
clouds continue to roll
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The winds of
affliction sweep over my soul
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and billows and storm
clouds continue to roll
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I shall not I shall not
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No, I shall not be moved
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I shall not I shall not
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No, I shall not be moved
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Let's pray together.
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Holy Father all of creation
has a song, we have a song.
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We wanna sing along.
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We have been much
in reflection already,
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regarding You as our Creator.
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What does it mean here and now
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teach us through Holy Scripture
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and may we be the earth
children you have called us
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to be in Christ name, amen.
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Did you know
that last month Google
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turned black in
order to go green?
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Google, everybody
knows Google, of course.
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The largest internet
search engine on this planet.
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Last month by the
way, in the United States
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alone 6.44 billion searches
Americans made on Google.
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Anyway last
month may be you saw it
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on Google.com homepage
this sort of press release
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notice appeared.
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"Google users in the
United States will notice today
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that we turn the lights
out on the Google.com homepage
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as a gesture to raise
awareness of the world wide
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energy conservation
effort called "Earth Hour."
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Have you heard about it?
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On Saturday March 29,
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Earth Hour invites
people around the world
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to turn off their
lights for one hour
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from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
in their local time zone.
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On this day cities
around the world including
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Copenhagen, Chicago,
Melbourne, Dubai and Tel Aviv
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will hold events to acknowledge
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their commitment to
energy conservation,
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Given our company's commitment
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to environmental
awareness in energy efficiency,
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we strongly support
the earth our campaign."
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So on March 29, if you
had gone to Google.com,
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this is what
you would have seen.
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Google went black
in order to go green.
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Green of course
being the operative color
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of what Paul
Hawkens in his new book,
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"Blessed Unrest" given to
me by my friend Dixie Wang,
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but Paul Hawkens calls
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the largest social
movement in all of history,
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The Green Movement.
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In honor which today
I am wearing this tie
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that does not belong
to me. Three weeks ago
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our worship leader
Justin Davis was up front,
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I said, "Hey,
Justin. In three weeks
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I've got a preach on
green, can I borrow your tie?"
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So thank you Justin, very nice.
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We are talking
about the Green Movement,
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we are talking about
the conservation movement,
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we are talking about
earth day ecology, green Google.
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So here's the pressing question.
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Do you suppose we have
to be as green as Google?
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The pointed answer is simply
we must be greener than Google.
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I want you to open
your Bible with me please
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to the greenest story
in all of Holy Scripture.
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Back to the very
beginning, Genesis 1.
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I want to plunge into
this with you, Genesis 1,
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there is no greener
chapter in the entire book.
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Genesis 1, we're
going to pick it up.
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By the way I need to warn you,
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this story starts
green but almost literally
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overnight the story turns brown.
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We'll get the brown story,
let's start with a green story.
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Genesis 1, this is in
the middle of day six,
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God's creation is
almost about to wrap up.
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And when you step into Genesis 1
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as you're finding it here it is,
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it is the greenest and
most luxurious global garden
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you can possibly imagine.
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Karen and I love
to go to webshots.com.
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Are you
acquainted with webshots.com?
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These brilliant color
photographs from the world over.
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And you know, you put
those on your screen saver.
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You put them on
your desktop and ooh,
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and you ah, just
as luxury in glory.
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During the Genesis 1,
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and while you
and I have witnessed
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spectacular
sunsets and sunrises.
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This is almost heart-stopping.
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Take a look at
this Genesis 1:26,
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this is almost heart-stopping.
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This first of the
green story, Genesis 1:26.
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If you didn't
bring a Bible yourself,
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grab our pew
Bible, same translation
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in New King James Version.
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I want to move to
the end of day six,
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this would be versus
26, Genesis 1:26, page 1,
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of course in your pew Bible.
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Then God said,
creation almost over,
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"Let us make man ha-adam,
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from which
eventually came the name Adam
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but speaking of humankind,
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"Let us make
humankind in our image
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according to our likeness,
let them, male and female,
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let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the
air and over the cattle,
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and over all the earth
and over every creeping thing
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that creeps on the earth."
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Verse 27, "So God created
ha-adam in His own image,
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In the image of
God He created him,
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male and
female, He created them,
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them then God blessed
them and God said to them,
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'Be fruitful and multiply,
fill the earth and subdue do it,
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have dominion over
the fish of the sea,
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over the birds of the air
and over every living thing
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that moves on the earth."
00:23:07.63\00:23:09.42
Now I got to tell
you that for some people
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there are two very
scary verbs tucked away in
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what we've just read.
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Verb 1, have
dominion and verb 2, subdue.
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It's almost as if, I
mean you could get this sets
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that God has somehow granting
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to the human
race a despotic rule,
00:23:23.93\00:23:26.69
sort of a carte
blanche permission
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for unbridled exploitation
of nature and her resources.
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We could make that
conclusion with those two verbs,
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were it not for two
more verbs quickly inserted
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into the very green chapter two.
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You go to read the
two chapters together.
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So two more
verbs, green chapter two,
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go to--drop down to verse 15,
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"Then the Lord God took the man
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and put him in the
garden of Eden to tend,"
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here comes the two
verbs, "to tend and keep it."
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Now that's 1 Hebrew,
abide, it means to tend.
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You can translate it to
till, but something fascinating
00:24:04.03\00:24:06.62
about that Hebrew
word is that the verb
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is very similar to the noun,
00:24:09.40\00:24:10.44
so abide is
very similar to abed.
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And you find abed,
listen to this, guys,
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the very last occurrence
of the Book of Genesis,
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you remember,
Joseph's brothers sold him
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in the slavery 18-- 12
years later, 12 years later.
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19 years later, I'm
sorry 19 years later.
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Those brothers are
gathered in Joseph's presence,
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so we all know the story of how
he introduces himself to them.
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And in that moment
when they fall to the earth,
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they cry out the
words in Genesis 50,
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"We will be your
servants forever."
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The word servants and the
word to tend are identical,
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same writ, meaning that
when God speaks in Genesis 2
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of tending the garden,
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He is describing
serving the earth.
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Now hold on, you'd say how
this fits that second verb.
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Read verse 15 again.
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"Then the Lord took
the man and He put them
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in the garden of Eden to tend,"
and what's the second verb?
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"To keep it."
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The Hebrew word
for keep is Shamar.
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Now when we were boys,
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my mother had us
memorized the 121 Psalm.
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We often repeated the 121 Psalm
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at the beginning of
the Sabbath at sundown.
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I want to show you
something very fascinating
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about this word Shamar,
as it appears in Psalm 121.
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Hold your finger
right there in Genesis 1.
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Finds the 121 Psalm,
Psalm 121, look at this.
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What does that word Shamar mean?
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What are the
implications of this word?
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All right, we are in
the green story, Psalm 121.
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You remember these
words, familiar words.
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All right, Psalm 121, as
it begin their in verse 1,
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"I will lift up my
eyes," everybody knows it,
00:25:58.88\00:26:01.08
"I will lift up
my eyes to the--"
00:26:01.11\00:26:04.62
"I will lift up
my eyes to the hills
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from whence comes my
help comes from the Lord
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who made heaven and earth."
00:26:08.89\00:26:09.94
All right, it is a
song to the Creator,
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"I'm lifting up my
eyes to the Creator.
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He will not allow
your foot to be moved."
00:26:14.77\00:26:17.05
Now notice this, "He
who keeps you," same word,
00:26:17.08\00:26:21.01
as Adam and Eve were
asked to do in the garden.
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"He who keeps you
will not slumber."
00:26:23.18\00:26:24.66
Verse 4, "Behold He who
keeps," there it is again,
00:26:24.69\00:26:26.83
"He who keeps Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep.
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The Lord is your keeper."
There it is, the third time,
00:26:29.80\00:26:32.17
"The Lord is your
shade upon your right hand.
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The sun should not strike you
by day nor the moon by night.
00:26:33.91\00:26:36.39
The Lord shall,"
How does it read?
00:26:36.42\00:26:37.86
"The Lord shall,"
What? Same word again,
00:26:37.89\00:26:40.21
the translators now have given
00:26:40.24\00:26:41.98
a slight
deferential to the word.
00:26:42.01\00:26:44.88
"The Lord shall
preserve you from all evil.
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He shall
preserve," There it is again,
00:26:47.22\00:26:49.07
"He shall preserve your soul."
00:26:49.10\00:26:50.46
Finally verse 8, "The Lord
shall preserve your going out
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and your coming in
from this time forth
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and even forevermore."
00:26:55.11\00:26:56.14
The point ladies and
gentlemen is that word Shamar
00:26:56.17\00:26:58.76
which is to keep is
essentially to preserve
00:26:58.79\00:27:02.35
and to protect which
gives a powerful green truth
00:27:02.38\00:27:08.30
that God is attempting
to bring to the human race
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in the very green
chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis.
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This truth is so powerful
that I wish you take out
00:27:16.20\00:27:18.75
your green study guide today.
00:27:18.78\00:27:20.16
Look at this, our green
study guide, have mercy.
00:27:20.19\00:27:22.42
Take out your
green study guide today.
00:27:22.45\00:27:24.65
Let's scribble
it down, will you?
00:27:24.68\00:27:27.06
Let's jot this-- what
is the green point, guys?
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Thank you ushers for making sure
00:27:29.43\00:27:31.72
that everybody
here gets a green,
00:27:31.75\00:27:33.28
a green, this is
a collector's item,
00:27:33.31\00:27:35.57
you can sell it on eBay.
00:27:35.60\00:27:36.87
A green study guide
for today's green Google.
00:27:36.90\00:27:42.25
Take your study
guide, by the way those
00:27:42.28\00:27:43.36
who are watching on television,
we're delighted to have you.
00:27:43.39\00:27:45.70
You can get the same study,
00:27:45.73\00:27:46.92
and by the way,
it will be green.
00:27:46.95\00:27:48.41
If you have green
paper in your printer,
00:27:48.44\00:27:49.76
it will come out, I promise
you it will come out green.
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Go to our
website, and let me put it
00:27:52.77\00:27:53.86
on the screen for
you www.pmchurch.tv."
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You're looking for a
series called God's Party.
00:27:58.35\00:28:00.03
We are wrapping up the series.
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Next Sabbath, the final
installment in God's Party:
00:28:01.45\00:28:05.40
Yahoo, a perfect
way to end this series
00:28:05.43\00:28:08.38
but today it's Green Google.
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So you are
looking for God's Party
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then you are
looking for Green Google
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and you're looking for
the word beside Green Google
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that says study guide.
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When you find
study guide, you click on
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and you will have
this same study guide.
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All right so let's
just scribble it in.
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What is the green
point that in the beginning
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is seeking to
making to the human race?
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First make sure that you know
that we're in the green story.
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So would you fill it in please,
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jot it down this
is the green story.
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All right, Genesis 1
and 2, the green story.
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Now keep the pen moving.
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Genesis 1:26-28,
here are the two verbs,
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"To have
dominion" and "To subdue,"
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we look at those two verbs
is explained by Genesis 2:15
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where the next two
verbs where "To tend" means,
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jot this down, "To
serve" and "to keep"
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means "To preserve and protect."
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I.e. write it down,
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"To rule the earth
means to serve creation."
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And God describes
putting the human race
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on this planet to
rule, to have dominion means
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you're going to serve it,
you're going to protect it,
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you're going to preserved it.
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In fact, jot this down.
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You could say that the Sabbath
is God's original earth day
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for his green
agenda from the beginning
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because after He
gives those orders
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for the green
movement in the beginning,
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He then gives the Sabbath.
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Let's read that, go back
to Genesis 2 in your Bible.
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Back to that green
chapter, Genesis 2,
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pick it up in verse 1,
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"Thus the heavens and the earth
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and all the host
of them were finished.
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And on the seventh
day God ended His work
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which He had done and He
rested on the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had done.
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Then God blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it,
00:29:52.73\00:29:55.73
because in it He
rested from all His work
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which He had created and made."
00:29:58.72\00:30:02.34
The green story, but the
tragedy is the green story
00:30:02.37\00:30:06.98
was not to
remain green for long.
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And we move almost
overnight to the brown story.
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In fact write it down
please, it's the brown story.
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Everybody knows
the story of the fall.
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God puts a tree in
the middle of the garden,
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nothing poisonous in the
tree, no evil curse to the tree.
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It's simply another tree
00:30:28.57\00:30:30.77
but in order to
have a voting booth,
00:30:30.80\00:30:32.34
in order to establish that
the human race has chosen Him,
00:30:32.37\00:30:36.10
God has given simple
instructions for this tree,
00:30:36.13\00:30:37.96
"If you go to this
tree, you vote for Lucifer.
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If you go to this
tree, you vote for evil.
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If you wish to remain on my
side in this cosmic warfare,
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stay away from the tree.
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We know the
heartache of Eve and Adam
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both going to that tree
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as if they were
pulling the lever,
00:30:54.08\00:30:56.00
pulling the lever
to that voting booth.
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They hide, God
comes in search of them.
00:31:01.27\00:31:04.62
"Why are you hiding from me?"
00:31:08.00\00:31:10.03
"I heard you
coming, I was afraid."
00:31:10.06\00:31:11.41
"Why are you
afraid?" "I am naked."
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"How do you know you are naked?
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Did you eat of that tree?
Ah, you pulled the lever."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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there are four
consequences to the human fall,
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and I want you to get this
down in your study guide please.
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Four consequences, number one.
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As God begins to
talk to them He says,
00:31:26.20\00:31:28.70
"Hey, serpent, I want
to tell you something.
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You are going to
be forever changed."
00:31:29.90\00:31:31.36
Consequence number one,
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is that animal life on
this planet is affected,
00:31:32.90\00:31:35.60
the serpent, all of
animal life is affected.
00:31:35.63\00:31:39.53
Number two, God
looks at the serpent,
00:31:39.56\00:31:41.53
He says, "You know what,
the woman's going to have
00:31:41.56\00:31:43.08
a baby one day and that seed,
I am going to create enmity
00:31:43.11\00:31:46.56
between you and the human
race, that the entire human life
00:31:46.59\00:31:50.07
is affected on this
planet." That's consequence two.
00:31:50.10\00:31:52.39
Consequence number three.
God comes to Eve and He says,
00:31:52.42\00:31:54.98
"Eve, you are going
to still have babies
00:31:55.01\00:31:56.79
but it is going
to be an awful pain.
00:31:56.82\00:31:58.51
You're going to
bare in pain and labor
00:31:58.54\00:32:01.46
to bring forth that child."
00:32:01.49\00:32:02.56
And then God comes
to Adam and He says,
00:32:02.59\00:32:04.20
"Adam, I got to tell
you, the whole creation,
00:32:04.23\00:32:07.27
all of creation will be affected
because of your decision."
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In fact, I want
you to read this,
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verse 17, in this
tragic brown story.
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Verse 17, Genesis
3:17, "Then to Adam,
00:32:16.18\00:32:19.09
God said, this is the Creator,
00:32:19.12\00:32:20.30
this is the pre
incarnate Christ.
00:32:20.33\00:32:22.12
He says to Adam,
'Because you have heeded
00:32:22.15\00:32:23.92
the voice of your wife
and have eaten from the tree
00:32:23.95\00:32:25.97
of which I commanded you saying,
00:32:26.00\00:32:27.67
"You shall not eat of it."
00:32:27.70\00:32:29.18
Cursed is the
ground for your sake.
00:32:29.21\00:32:32.20
In toil you shall eat of
it all the days of your life.
00:32:32.23\00:32:34.74
Both thorns and thistles
it shall bring forth for you.
00:32:34.77\00:32:37.95
And you shall eat
the herb of the field."
00:32:37.98\00:32:39.37
And verse 19, "In
the sweat of your face
00:32:39.40\00:32:41.29
you shall eat till you return
to the ground for out of it
00:32:41.32\00:32:43.88
you were taken, for dust you are
and to dust you shall return."
00:32:43.92\00:32:48.03
It is brown from here on out.
00:32:48.06\00:32:50.84
You are brown now.
You go back to the earth.
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And what's the brown story?
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Ladies and gentlemen,
the brown story is simply
00:32:56.83\00:32:58.38
that as a consequence of our
rebellion against the Creator.
00:32:58.41\00:33:04.90
And by the way the brown story
00:33:04.93\00:33:06.06
is what the green
movement does not tell.
00:33:06.09\00:33:08.67
They either don't
know or don't believe it
00:33:08.70\00:33:11.43
but it is the
brown story that tells us
00:33:11.46\00:33:13.09
as a consequence of
usurping our divinely
00:33:13.13\00:33:18.96
ordained dominion on
this planet allowing it
00:33:18.99\00:33:24.30
to be usurped by the
fallen angel Lucifer,
00:33:24.33\00:33:28.67
by voting to choose
his side over God side.
00:33:28.70\00:33:34.51
It is the brown
story of an entire creation
00:33:34.54\00:33:38.53
that is plunged
into the heartache.
00:33:38.56\00:33:43.85
The green movement does
not tell the brown story.
00:33:43.88\00:33:46.34
You and I must recognize,
we live with that brown story.
00:33:46.37\00:33:50.28
In fact the New
Testament even more powerfully
00:33:50.31\00:33:53.45
than Genesis 3 in
a very succinct way
00:33:53.48\00:33:56.81
tells the from
green to brown story.
00:33:56.84\00:33:58.99
Go to the Book of
Romans, our last text
00:33:59.02\00:34:01.23
we will look up
together, Romans 8.
00:34:01.26\00:34:04.20
I want to reflect with you.
I want to reflect the meaning
00:34:07.14\00:34:09.34
of the third
millennia survivors that we are.
00:34:09.37\00:34:11.84
How do we
relate to the movement,
00:34:11.87\00:34:18.18
the largest social
movement in the history of earth
00:34:18.21\00:34:20.37
as Paul Hawkens calls it.
00:34:20.40\00:34:22.76
Romans 8:19,
drop down to verse 19.
00:34:22.79\00:34:27.69
By the way this is
page 761 in your pew Bible.
00:34:27.72\00:34:32.24
"For the earnest
expectations of the creation,"
00:34:32.27\00:34:34.81
you're going to
see those two words,
00:34:34.84\00:34:36.04
the creation, four
times, that little couplet.
00:34:36.07\00:34:37.85
"For the earnest expectation
of the creation eagerly
00:34:37.88\00:34:41.30
waits for the
revealing of the sons of God."
00:34:41.33\00:34:43.81
Something has gone
horribly wrong in creation
00:34:43.84\00:34:45.83
and all of creation awaits
that the word that the Paul
00:34:45.86\00:34:49.29
uses there is apocalypses.
00:34:49.32\00:34:50.55
It waits for the apocalypse.
00:34:50.58\00:34:52.49
It waits for the
wrapping up of this
00:34:52.52\00:34:55.35
tragedy experiment in rebellion.
00:34:55.38\00:34:57.32
"For the earnest
expectations of the creation
00:34:57.35\00:34:58.83
eagerly waits for the
revealing of the sons of God,"
00:34:58.86\00:35:01.18
Verse 20, "For the creation
00:35:01.21\00:35:02.95
was subjected to
futility, not willingly."
00:35:02.98\00:35:06.81
Nature itself had no
choice in the brown story.
00:35:06.84\00:35:11.75
The choice was
made by the human race
00:35:11.78\00:35:13.44
and as a consequence
all the creation is thrown
00:35:13.47\00:35:17.79
into this horrible dysfunction.
00:35:17.82\00:35:22.48
Verse 20, "For the creation
was subjected to futility,
00:35:22.51\00:35:24.72
not willingly,
but because of Him
00:35:24.75\00:35:26.19
who subjected it in hope."
00:35:26.22\00:35:27.56
God didn't say, "Okay, nature,
00:35:27.59\00:35:29.13
I am going to kill you
now because Adam and Eve said,
00:35:29.16\00:35:31.21
no, no, no, no." He said,
"I am awfully sorry to do this.
00:35:31.24\00:35:32.97
I am awfully sorry
that the entire ecosystem
00:35:33.00\00:35:35.68
now will be plunged into brown."
00:35:35.71\00:35:38.26
Why did God do it
because, verse 21,
00:35:41.18\00:35:42.87
"Because the creation itself
also will be delivered one day
00:35:42.90\00:35:47.11
from the bondage of corruption
00:35:47.14\00:35:48.20
into the glorious
liberty of the children of God."
00:35:48.23\00:35:50.20
Here comes the summation,
00:35:50.23\00:35:52.01
"For we know that
the whole creation,
00:35:52.04\00:35:54.94
the entire earth, all
of nature groans and labors
00:35:54.97\00:35:59.42
with child pangs
together until now."
00:35:59.45\00:36:01.84
Jot it down
ladies and gentlemen,
00:36:01.88\00:36:03.47
"There is no more
succinct and emotive a retelling
00:36:03.50\00:36:06.56
of the green to
brown story than this.
00:36:06.59\00:36:09.28
The whole creation groans.
00:36:09.31\00:36:15.25
We were in Kenya at the
Masai Mara couple of months ago,
00:36:15.28\00:36:18.90
this huge wild kingdom
00:36:18.93\00:36:23.11
and I took this
picture of a lioness
00:36:23.14\00:36:24.76
that had just filled a gazelle.
00:36:24.79\00:36:29.49
Take a look at that
picture, ladies and gentleman,
00:36:29.52\00:36:30.98
that's the brown story.
That's all creation groaning.
00:36:31.01\00:36:37.13
Do you think that
gazelle shows this consequence?
00:36:37.16\00:36:44.06
Creation has not sinned,
creation cannot be faulted.
00:36:44.09\00:36:49.25
It got sucked
into the brown story
00:36:49.28\00:36:53.44
because of our choice.
00:36:53.47\00:36:56.88
All creation, the whole creation
groans, longing for redemption.
00:36:56.91\00:37:04.19
Oh, good, so
let's just wait then.
00:37:04.22\00:37:05.47
Let's just wait
till Christ comes
00:37:05.50\00:37:07.11
and then we get green
again for ever and ever, amen.
00:37:07.14\00:37:10.30
Wrong, wrong. I want
you to listen for a moment
00:37:10.33\00:37:14.20
to one of the most articulate
voices in the green movement.
00:37:14.23\00:37:16.38
He is Harvard
scientist, Edward Wilson,
00:37:16.41\00:37:18.51
hailed by Time Magazine
00:37:18.54\00:37:19.61
as one of the
world's greatest naturalists.
00:37:19.64\00:37:23.19
My son Kirk as we
were flying off to Africa,
00:37:23.22\00:37:27.60
he said, "Dad,
you got to read this.
00:37:27.63\00:37:28.96
You just got to read this book."
00:37:28.99\00:37:31.25
It's E.O.
Wilson's book, new book,
00:37:31.28\00:37:32.84
The Creation, an
appeal to save life on earth.
00:37:32.87\00:37:35.03
Now, Kirk is in
environment studies,
00:37:35.06\00:37:37.20
major, double
major with communications
00:37:37.23\00:37:38.94
and so he's working
for Dennis Woodland,
00:37:38.97\00:37:40.63
the resident scientist
and botanist on this campus.
00:37:40.66\00:37:44.96
And so Kirk
said, "Dad, read it."
00:37:44.99\00:37:47.46
Now, I did, look at
this, atheist scientist.
00:37:47.49\00:37:51.04
And here's how the whole--
here's how the book is set up.
00:37:51.07\00:37:52.88
He is writing to
an imaginary pastor.
00:37:52.91\00:37:58.54
And the whole book is his
passionate appeal to Christians.
00:37:58.57\00:38:03.59
Here's how it begins,
"Dear Pastor we have not met,
00:38:03.62\00:38:06.86
yet I feel I know you
well enough to call you friend.
00:38:06.89\00:38:09.36
First of all, we
grew up in the same faith.
00:38:09.39\00:38:10.97
As a boy I too
answered the altar call,
00:38:11.00\00:38:13.41
I went under the water."
00:38:13.44\00:38:14.47
He was a Baptist,
he grew up a Baptist.
00:38:14.50\00:38:16.51
"I went under the water,
00:38:16.54\00:38:17.57
although I no longer
belong to that faith,
00:38:17.60\00:38:19.23
I am confident that if we met
00:38:19.26\00:38:20.92
and spoke privately
of our deepest beliefs,
00:38:20.95\00:38:23.04
it would be in a spirit of
mutual respect and good will.
00:38:23.07\00:38:26.52
I write to you now
for your counsel and help.
00:38:26.55\00:38:29.99
Of course, in doing
so, I see no way to avoid
00:38:30.02\00:38:32.16
the fundamental differences
in our respective worldviews.
00:38:32.19\00:38:34.57
You are a literalist interpreter
of Christian Holy Scripture.
00:38:34.60\00:38:38.00
You reject the
conclusion of science
00:38:38.03\00:38:39.85
that mankind
evolved from lower forms.
00:38:39.89\00:38:41.88
I am a secular humanist
00:38:41.91\00:38:43.52
which is kind of a
euphemism for atheists.
00:38:43.55\00:38:46.00
I think existence is what
we make of it as individuals.
00:38:46.03\00:38:48.43
There is no
guarantee of life after death,
00:38:48.46\00:38:50.61
and heaven and
hell are what we create
00:38:50.64\00:38:52.32
for ourselves on this planet.
00:38:52.35\00:38:53.63
There is no other home.
Humanity originated here
00:38:53.66\00:38:56.35
by evolution from lower
forms over millions of years.
00:38:56.38\00:38:59.16
And yes, I will
speak plain, our ancestors
00:38:59.20\00:39:01.63
were apelike animals, preacher.
00:39:01.66\00:39:06.45
For you, the glory
of an unseen divinity;
00:39:06.48\00:39:08.46
for me the glory of the
universe revealed at last.
00:39:08.49\00:39:10.73
You have found your final
truth, I am still searching.
00:39:10.76\00:39:13.27
I may be wrong,
you may be wrong.
00:39:13.30\00:39:14.49
We may both be partly right.
00:39:14.52\00:39:18.47
I put it this way
because you have the power
00:39:18.50\00:39:21.96
to help solve a great problem
about which I care deeply.
00:39:21.99\00:39:24.91
I hope you have
the same concern.
00:39:24.94\00:39:26.25
I suggest that we
set aside our differences
00:39:26.28\00:39:28.25
in order to save the Creation."
00:39:28.28\00:39:29.78
And Creation, all
through the book is capital C.
00:39:29.81\00:39:31.92
"The defense of living
nature is a universal value.
00:39:31.95\00:39:34.62
It doesn't arise
from, nor does it promote
00:39:34.65\00:39:36.65
any religious or
ideological dogma.
00:39:36.68\00:39:38.57
Rather, it serves
without discrimination
00:39:38.60\00:39:40.93
the interests of all humanity."
00:39:40.96\00:39:42.33
And now, take your study guide
00:39:42.36\00:39:43.64
because I am going
to pick it up right
00:39:43.67\00:39:45.22
what you have in
your study guide.
00:39:45.25\00:39:46.29
"Pastor, we need your help.
00:39:46.32\00:39:50.41
The Creation-living
Nature is in deep trouble.
00:39:50.44\00:39:53.25
Scientists estimate
that if habitat conversion
00:39:53.28\00:39:55.82
and other
destructive human activities
00:39:55.85\00:39:57.87
continue at
their present rates,"
00:39:57.90\00:39:59.91
write this down,
00:39:59.94\00:40:00.97
"Half the species of
plants and animals on earth
00:40:01.00\00:40:03.50
could be either gone or at
least fated for early extinction
00:40:03.53\00:40:06.73
by the end of the century.
00:40:06.76\00:40:08.60
A full quarter, jot that down.
00:40:11.09\00:40:12.73
A full quarter will
drop to this level during
00:40:12.76\00:40:14.39
the next half century as a
result of climate change alone.
00:40:14.42\00:40:17.13
The ongoing
extinction rate is calculated
00:40:17.16\00:40:19.52
in the most conservative
estimates to be about
00:40:19.55\00:40:21.60
a hundred times
above that prevailing
00:40:21.63\00:40:23.94
before humans appeared on Earth,
00:40:23.97\00:40:25.05
we would say since the fall
00:40:25.08\00:40:26.81
the extinction rate is
hundred times more than
00:40:26.84\00:40:30.38
it was in the beginning
and it is expected to rise
00:40:30.42\00:40:33.36
at least a thousand
times greater or more
00:40:33.39\00:40:36.60
in the next few decades.
00:40:36.63\00:40:37.85
If this rise continues
unabated, the cost to humanity,
00:40:37.88\00:40:41.28
in wealth,
environmental security,
00:40:41.31\00:40:42.72
and quality of life, will
be catastrophic, catastrophic."
00:40:42.75\00:40:48.61
So write this atheist scientist.
00:40:48.64\00:40:52.76
"You may well
ask at this point,"
00:40:52.79\00:40:54.28
let me just keep
reading a couple of more lines.
00:40:54.31\00:40:56.03
"Why me? Because
religion and science
00:40:56.06\00:40:58.58
are the two most powerful
forces in the world today,
00:40:58.61\00:41:00.75
including
especially the United States.
00:41:00.78\00:41:02.46
If religion and
science could be united
00:41:02.49\00:41:04.75
on the common ground of
biological conservation,
00:41:04.78\00:41:07.15
the problem
would soon be solved."
00:41:07.18\00:41:10.15
Now listen to
this, "I am puzzled
00:41:10.18\00:41:11.57
that so many religious leaders,
who spiritually represent
00:41:11.60\00:41:14.02
a large majority of
people around the world,
00:41:14.05\00:41:15.62
have hesitated to make
protection of the Creation
00:41:15.65\00:41:18.80
an important part
of their magisterium."
00:41:18.84\00:41:21.04
Hold on, "Even more
perplexing, now listen,
00:41:21.07\00:41:24.70
is the widespread
conviction among Christians
00:41:24.73\00:41:26.75
that the Second Coming is
imminent," sound familiar?
00:41:26.78\00:41:30.20
"That the Second
Coming is imminent
00:41:30.23\00:41:31.52
and that therefore the
condition of the planet
00:41:31.55\00:41:33.49
is of little consequence.
For those who believe
00:41:33.52\00:41:36.92
this form of Christianity,
the fate of ten million
00:41:36.95\00:41:39.28
other life forms
indeed does not matter.
00:41:39.31\00:41:41.69
Pastor, tell me I
am wrong." Is he wrong?
00:41:41.72\00:41:48.11
Is he wrong about us as a
community of faith in learning?
00:41:48.14\00:41:52.26
Is he wrong about us
who have this passionate
00:41:52.29\00:41:55.13
hope that Jesus is coming soon
00:41:55.16\00:41:56.48
and because of
that hope is he right?
00:41:56.51\00:41:59.73
And in fact, who cares whether
we trash the earth or not,
00:41:59.76\00:42:03.31
it's almost over. Is he wrong?
00:42:03.34\00:42:08.19
I tell you what if
E.O. Wilson were here today,
00:42:08.22\00:42:10.38
I like to write
him a letter back.
00:42:10.41\00:42:11.78
If he were today,
here's what I will do.
00:42:11.81\00:42:13.24
Since he call me
by my first name,
00:42:13.27\00:42:14.60
I will call him
by his first name,
00:42:14.63\00:42:16.27
"Dear, Professor, yes
it is true, yes it is true.
00:42:16.30\00:42:22.29
So here's my letter to
E.O. Wilson, all right.
00:42:22.32\00:42:24.62
"Yes it is true,
we are Adventists
00:42:24.65\00:42:27.14
and we believe that Christ is
soon to return to this planet.
00:42:27.17\00:42:30.58
Nevertheless we
reject the notion
00:42:30.61\00:42:32.69
that the creation is no
longer of any concern to us,
00:42:32.72\00:42:35.34
for we are not
simply little a Adventists,
00:42:35.37\00:42:37.96
a hope shared by
Christians everywhere.
00:42:37.99\00:42:39.65
No, we are
Seventh-day Adventists
00:42:39.68\00:42:43.73
which means that
ideally we should choose
00:42:43.76\00:42:46.16
to live our lives by
the following four credos."
00:42:46.19\00:42:49.87
Would you write these down
in your study guide please.
00:42:49.90\00:42:51.81
Number one, "We are
not products of nature's--
00:42:51.84\00:42:55.29
of natural
selections random chance
00:42:55.32\00:42:58.07
but we are the creation
00:42:58.10\00:42:59.13
of a loving and
intelligent Creator."
00:42:59.16\00:43:01.64
Write that in. Number two,
00:43:01.67\00:43:05.60
"As a memorial of His creation,
00:43:05.63\00:43:07.22
God gave to the human
race the seventh-day Sabbath,
00:43:07.25\00:43:10.64
a day in which we
rest in His friendship
00:43:10.67\00:43:12.45
and celebrate His handiwork."
00:43:12.48\00:43:15.69
Write that in. Number three,
00:43:15.72\00:43:17.54
"We therefore are
reminded every seventh day
00:43:17.57\00:43:20.26
that this world of
nature is God's entrustment
00:43:20.29\00:43:23.11
to us for our care.
And finally, number four,
00:43:23.15\00:43:27.71
"We recognize that
the Creation will never be
00:43:27.74\00:43:30.19
fully healed
though we do recognize
00:43:30.22\00:43:32.71
that it will never be
fully healed of its obvious
00:43:32.74\00:43:34.91
dysfunction
evil's final eradication,
00:43:34.94\00:43:37.17
and though we eagerly do await
00:43:37.20\00:43:39.22
the return of our
Savior and Creator,
00:43:39.25\00:43:41.30
nevertheless we believe
our care of God's Creation
00:43:41.33\00:43:45.28
is required of all who
are children of the Creator."
00:43:45.31\00:43:52.20
Pastor, tell me I
am wrong, you wrote.
00:43:52.23\00:43:54.51
"Professor, I
wish that you were,
00:43:54.54\00:43:56.94
in fact I hope that you are.
But let me be quick to assure
00:43:56.97\00:44:02.07
you that you're also right.
00:44:02.10\00:44:03.98
For now more than
ever religion and science,
00:44:04.01\00:44:05.84
the church and the
academy must join forces
00:44:05.87\00:44:09.10
to fight for the
preservation and protection
00:44:09.13\00:44:11.08
of the creation whether or not
00:44:11.11\00:44:12.74
we believe it to be the product
of natural random selection
00:44:12.77\00:44:15.82
as you do or the gift of
a loving Creator as we do.
00:44:15.85\00:44:18.52
Our radically different
worldviews must not prevent
00:44:18.55\00:44:21.93
or preclude our joining
forces for this shared cause,
00:44:21.97\00:44:26.28
your friend, the Pastor."
00:44:26.31\00:44:28.35
So how green shall we then live,
00:44:34.53\00:44:36.35
we who believe that
Jesus is soon to come?
00:44:36.38\00:44:41.79
Dixie Wang gave me Paul
Hawkens book, Blessed Unrest.
00:44:41.82\00:44:45.94
How the largest
movement in the world
00:44:45.97\00:44:47.74
came into being and
why no one saw it coming.
00:44:47.77\00:44:49.97
In that book, this
is in your study guide,
00:44:50.00\00:44:51.18
in that book he speak
of a rabbinical tradition
00:44:51.21\00:44:53.69
that holds that if
the world is ending
00:44:53.72\00:44:55.35
and the Messiah
arrives, you first plant a tree
00:44:55.38\00:44:59.31
and then go to find out
if the story is true or not.
00:44:59.34\00:45:02.49
You plant a tree.
00:45:02.52\00:45:05.01
So how should we
then plant our trees,
00:45:05.04\00:45:07.10
we who await the
return of the Messiah?
00:45:07.13\00:45:09.82
How shall we
color our world green
00:45:09.85\00:45:11.53
even while it is still brown?
00:45:11.56\00:45:14.66
Let me close with ten
ways, ten ways you and I
00:45:14.69\00:45:19.84
as Creator
loving, creation serving
00:45:19.87\00:45:22.31
and Sabbath keeping Christians
can turn our world green.
00:45:22.34\00:45:25.76
All right, ten ways.
Write them down, ten ways.
00:45:25.79\00:45:29.33
Please get this, this is now
00:45:29.36\00:45:30.44
a part of the
Back to Green story.
00:45:30.47\00:45:33.15
Now back to
green, back to green.
00:45:33.18\00:45:35.46
We were green, then we
were brown and now finally,
00:45:35.49\00:45:37.87
how do we get back to green?
00:45:37.90\00:45:39.36
Number one, eat greens.
00:45:39.39\00:45:42.95
Became a vegetarian.
00:45:48.54\00:45:51.98
New York Times,
January 26 this year,
00:45:52.01\00:45:55.01
carried a piece entitled
00:45:55.05\00:45:56.63
"Rethinking the meat guzzler
that is food for thought."
00:45:56.66\00:45:59.79
keep you pen ready.
00:45:59.82\00:46:01.59
Americans, get this guy's,
00:46:01.62\00:46:03.04
Americans
consume that means grow
00:46:03.07\00:46:04.93
and kill 10 billion
animals a year, just Americans.
00:46:04.96\00:46:10.36
All right, write that down.
00:46:10.39\00:46:12.28
Number two, jot this down.
00:46:12.31\00:46:13.38
An estimated 30% of
the earth's ice free-land
00:46:13.41\00:46:17.04
is directly or indirectly
involved in livestock production
00:46:17.07\00:46:19.94
which generates
nearly a fifth of the world's
00:46:19.97\00:46:23.14
greenhouse gases more
than even transportation.
00:46:23.17\00:46:26.38
Can you believe it?
00:46:26.41\00:46:28.20
More than
transportation, those animals.
00:46:28.23\00:46:32.86
800 million, you don't have
this down but let me tell you,
00:46:32.89\00:46:34.62
800 million human
being suffer from hunger
00:46:34.65\00:46:36.65
and malnutrition
and yet guess what,
00:46:36.68\00:46:38.42
the dominant, the dominant
purpose for growing corn
00:46:38.45\00:46:42.78
and soy is not to
the feed the hungry,
00:46:42.81\00:46:44.94
it's to stock up the animals
that we will then kill to eat.
00:46:44.97\00:46:51.66
Jot this one
down, two to five times
00:46:51.69\00:46:53.52
more grain as much as ten
times more in the United States
00:46:53.55\00:46:56.37
is required to produce
the same amount of calories
00:46:56.41\00:46:58.47
to livestock as to
direct grain consumption.
00:46:58.50\00:47:01.05
Listen, you
want to live healthy,
00:47:01.08\00:47:02.17
take the grain in your hand
00:47:02.20\00:47:03.27
and shove it down in your mouth.
00:47:03.30\00:47:04.36
Don't eat it after
the cow has eaten it.
00:47:04.39\00:47:06.53
Just shove it down your mouth.
00:47:09.00\00:47:12.72
You don't need all
that stuff on top of it.
00:47:12.75\00:47:14.58
One more, the
environmental impact of growing
00:47:17.86\00:47:20.29
so much grain for
animal feed is profound.
00:47:20.33\00:47:23.27
Agriculture in the
U.S. much of which now serve
00:47:23.30\00:47:26.26
the demand for
meat contributes nearly
00:47:26.29\00:47:28.21
three-quarters of all
water quality problems
00:47:28.24\00:47:31.54
in the nation's
rivers and streams."
00:47:31.57\00:47:35.38
Ladies and
gentlemen, I need you hear me
00:47:35.41\00:47:36.44
very, very clearly now.
00:47:36.47\00:47:40.66
Strictly, all right,
strictly from an ecological
00:47:40.69\00:47:44.32
or green perspective,
let's just deal in that way,
00:47:44.35\00:47:49.08
not saying a word
about the massive,
00:47:49.11\00:47:51.47
health cost
carried by disease-causing
00:47:51.50\00:47:53.95
animal flesh consumption.
00:47:53.98\00:47:55.26
Not saying a word about that.
00:47:55.29\00:47:56.41
Not saying a word
about the moral issue
00:47:56.44\00:47:59.26
of animal cruelty
in our assembly line,
00:47:59.29\00:48:01.51
hormone injected, animal
production and slaughter.
00:48:01.54\00:48:04.86
Strictly from a
green perspective,
00:48:04.89\00:48:08.21
it is both
incongruous and inconsistent
00:48:08.24\00:48:11.55
for anyone advocating
environmental stewardship
00:48:11.58\00:48:14.04
to adopt a diet that requires
the raping a both animals
00:48:14.07\00:48:17.32
and farmlands for the
sake of meat consumption.
00:48:17.35\00:48:22.02
It is absolutely incongruous.
00:48:22.05\00:48:25.65
The next time
you're at McDonalds
00:48:25.68\00:48:29.32
and you're wolfing
down that cheeseburger,
00:48:29.35\00:48:32.93
I want you to
think, no, I am serious
00:48:32.96\00:48:35.29
because we have a
whole lot of people
00:48:35.32\00:48:36.36
walking around saying, I
am green, man, I am green.
00:48:36.39\00:48:38.56
I am into this green
movement, bring it on.
00:48:38.59\00:48:41.18
Okay put your money
where your mouth is.
00:48:41.21\00:48:45.27
The next time you wolf
down that double whopper,
00:48:45.30\00:48:52.27
you ask yourself the
implications of my purchasing,
00:48:52.30\00:48:58.41
this product sustains
00:48:58.44\00:49:01.79
an industry that is
destroying this planet.
00:49:01.82\00:49:07.83
Go green, eat
greens, number one.
00:49:07.86\00:49:11.44
Number two, and by
the way from two to nine
00:49:11.47\00:49:14.56
I am embedded to Ashley Burnett.
00:49:14.59\00:49:19.77
In last weeks at student moment,
00:49:19.80\00:49:21.16
delightful little
piece she put together.
00:49:21.19\00:49:22.56
So numbers two
through nine are from her.
00:49:22.59\00:49:25.53
This is good stuff.
So just scribble these,
00:49:25.56\00:49:27.17
I will fly through it.
00:49:27.20\00:49:28.79
Number two,
number one is eat greens.
00:49:28.82\00:49:30.99
Number two, power down.
00:49:31.02\00:49:33.68
What is she talking about?
00:49:33.71\00:49:34.74
She's talking about
turn off the lights.
00:49:34.77\00:49:36.45
I went to Sierra clubs
website and found out that 44%
00:49:36.48\00:49:39.56
of the electricity
we use in our offices,
00:49:39.60\00:49:41.18
in buildings, in classroom,
00:49:41.21\00:49:42.26
44% electricity
is from lights alone.
00:49:42.29\00:49:47.29
Just turn the
light out when you leave.
00:49:47.32\00:49:49.42
Just turn the
light out when you leave.
00:49:49.45\00:49:51.64
You can help the earth,
turn it off, power down.
00:49:51.67\00:49:54.53
Number three, I like
this, this is Ashley,
00:49:54.56\00:49:57.24
tune up, pump up and team up.
00:49:57.27\00:49:59.92
Tune up means if you
have that old belching car
00:49:59.95\00:50:03.12
that keeps blowing blue
smoke all through campus,
00:50:03.15\00:50:05.29
get it tuned,
just get the car tune.
00:50:05.32\00:50:07.30
Team up means
carpool, but pump up,
00:50:07.33\00:50:09.85
I like this. Jot this down.
00:50:09.88\00:50:10.91
If we all kept our
tires properly inflated,
00:50:10.94\00:50:13.51
we could save almost two
billion gallons of gas a year,
00:50:13.54\00:50:18.25
isn't that some, two billion
00:50:18.29\00:50:19.81
just from keeping
your tires pumped up.
00:50:19.84\00:50:21.47
Number three, no,
that's number three.
00:50:21.50\00:50:23.88
Number four, let me
go back to number three
00:50:23.91\00:50:28.26
because there's an
evangelical movement called
00:50:28.29\00:50:30.42
the evangelical environment,
environmental network
00:50:30.45\00:50:33.83
and they are challenging
Christian and Adventists
00:50:33.86\00:50:37.03
love affair with the
SUV's and they are asking
00:50:37.06\00:50:39.30
the bumper sticker question,
what would Jesus drive?
00:50:39.33\00:50:42.27
Drive through our
parking lot after church today.
00:50:48.20\00:50:51.28
Are we doing our
best to conserve gasoline
00:50:55.13\00:50:59.40
and oil
consumption? You say, "Pastor,
00:50:59.43\00:51:02.19
I see that you're
driving a little blazer SUV."
00:51:02.22\00:51:06.17
Yeah, but its 1996,
gives awful gas mileage,
00:51:06.20\00:51:11.46
I am telling you the
truth, 14 miles per gallon.
00:51:11.49\00:51:15.13
Yeah. I know it's a Sabbath
but yes if anybody wants us--
00:51:15.16\00:51:19.10
What did you say, sell it?
00:51:19.13\00:51:20.87
All right. See me afterwards.
00:51:20.90\00:51:24.79
All right, number four,
number four, make it quick.
00:51:27.64\00:51:32.09
Jot this down, will you.
00:51:32.12\00:51:33.23
On average we each
use 123 gallons of water
00:51:33.26\00:51:36.10
per day with 60 of them coming
00:51:36.13\00:51:37.83
from a single 10 minute shower.
00:51:37.86\00:51:40.14
You can save 12 gallons
by cutting two minutes off
00:51:40.17\00:51:42.17
you shower time. Look at
that, go green, shower less.
00:51:42.20\00:51:45.62
Now that's not Ashley,
that's kind of slipped in,
00:51:48.24\00:51:50.23
I don't know how
that got in there.
00:51:50.26\00:51:52.34
Shower well but shower shorter,
that's the point, all right.
00:51:52.37\00:51:55.37
Number five,
number five, recycle it.
00:51:55.40\00:51:58.16
Write it down, recycle it.
00:51:58.19\00:51:59.42
The environmental
protection agency estimates
00:51:59.45\00:52:02.02
that each of us
produces 4.5 pounds
00:52:02.05\00:52:05.27
of trash everyday.
00:52:05.30\00:52:08.64
Now, there's been a
big-faculty send me their,
00:52:08.67\00:52:11.27
some of their
emails, so there's been quite
00:52:11.30\00:52:12.98
a discussion on campus
over the last two weeks
00:52:13.01\00:52:15.15
about recycling on this campus
00:52:15.18\00:52:16.83
and I'm not going to
get into the thick of that.
00:52:16.86\00:52:18.18
I do believe our provost
has heard the conversation
00:52:18.21\00:52:20.56
and is acting to respond.
00:52:20.59\00:52:21.75
Ladies and
gentleman, we've got to recycle.
00:52:21.78\00:52:23.79
We recycle here at the
church, you these bulletins
00:52:23.82\00:52:25.61
that you lovingly leave behind
when you exit this church.
00:52:25.64\00:52:30.52
We take all of that,
all goes to recycling,
00:52:30.55\00:52:32.35
recycle, recycle.
There's a website here,
00:52:32.38\00:52:34.46
if you don't know
where your recycle center is,
00:52:34.49\00:52:35.91
recyclingcenters.org
to find a center near you.
00:52:35.94\00:52:39.18
Number six, go mobile.
00:52:39.21\00:52:40.92
Now this one surprised
me. Buy your own thermos jug
00:52:40.95\00:52:43.68
and get a water
filter and do this.
00:52:43.71\00:52:47.40
Write it down, when you purchase
00:52:47.43\00:52:49.10
a one liter bottle of
water you are actually
00:52:49.14\00:52:51.33
consuming six liters
since plastic manufacturing
00:52:51.36\00:52:54.64
requires five liters of water
00:52:54.67\00:52:56.37
just to cool the plastic
container before you get it.
00:52:56.41\00:52:59.64
So you're drinking six
every time you drink one,
00:52:59.67\00:53:01.57
you are spending
six liters of water.
00:53:01.60\00:53:04.84
Just use your own
thermos, fill it up,
00:53:04.87\00:53:07.10
drink out of that.
00:53:07.13\00:53:09.47
You go Ashley.
Number seven, hug a tree.
00:53:09.50\00:53:12.68
This isn't something, guys.
00:53:12.71\00:53:14.13
Just by leaving
receipts in the ATM machines
00:53:14.16\00:53:16.82
and gas station pumps will save
00:53:16.85\00:53:18.47
over three
billion feet of paper,
00:53:18.50\00:53:21.16
enough to circle the
globe 22 times, amazing.
00:53:21.19\00:53:24.80
Just, hey, I don't
need a receipt, keeps it.
00:53:24.83\00:53:28.65
Sierra Club
reminds us by the way,
00:53:28.68\00:53:29.96
to print on both
sides, they use the back sides
00:53:29.99\00:53:31.46
of old documents
for faxes and drafts.
00:53:31.50\00:53:33.09
The average US
office worker goes through
00:53:33.12\00:53:35.51
10,000 sheets of
copy paper a year.
00:53:35.54\00:53:39.08
Number eight, charitize.
00:53:39.11\00:53:41.58
What does Ashley mean by that?
00:53:41.61\00:53:42.78
She means never
throw old clothes away
00:53:42.81\00:53:45.63
unless they are
exceptionally stinky.
00:53:45.67\00:53:48.45
Take your clothes to
the neighbor to neighbor,
00:53:48.48\00:53:50.95
there's a little
neighbor to neighbor center here
00:53:50.98\00:53:52.37
in the village
you take it their.
00:53:52.40\00:53:53.77
Take it to the
goodwill, recycle your clothes.
00:53:53.80\00:53:56.31
There is somebody on this planet
00:53:56.34\00:53:57.73
who would love
to have that outfit.
00:53:57.76\00:54:00.30
And not have to pay to
have something to wear.
00:54:00.33\00:54:03.48
Recycle your clothes, charitize
it, give it to charity.
00:54:03.51\00:54:05.79
Number nine, this is
a two-mile challenge.
00:54:05.82\00:54:07.52
Ashley says, if you're
going two miles or less,
00:54:07.55\00:54:09.93
park your car, walk
your feet, lose the weight
00:54:09.96\00:54:12.70
and enjoy becoming
green, just park your car.
00:54:12.73\00:54:17.22
Now we don't have to
drive that hundred yards,
00:54:17.25\00:54:19.59
a hundred yards, I
got to drive that parking
00:54:19.62\00:54:22.18
lot across campus, please.
00:54:22.22\00:54:24.54
And finally, number
ten, I want to add this.
00:54:24.57\00:54:26.75
Ponder the green tree. I
love this, Desire of Ages,
00:54:26.78\00:54:30.89
page 660, here's something
for the green movement.
00:54:30.92\00:54:32.90
"To the death of
Christwe owe even
00:54:32.93\00:54:34.76
this earthly life. The bread--"
00:54:34.79\00:54:36.84
and I am thinking
about farmlands globally.
00:54:36.87\00:54:38.92
"The bread we eat is the
purchase of His broken body.
00:54:38.95\00:54:41.00
The water--" I am thinking
about rivers and streams,
00:54:41.03\00:54:43.24
lakes and oceans,
"The water we drink
00:54:43.27\00:54:44.82
is bought by His spilled blood."
00:54:44.85\00:54:46.36
Listen to this,
"The cross of Calvary
00:54:46.39\00:54:48.73
is stamped on every loaf.
00:54:48.76\00:54:50.08
It is reflected in
every water spring."
00:54:50.11\00:54:53.71
Final line,
would you jot it down,
00:54:53.74\00:54:55.21
"The death of
Christ upon the cross
00:54:55.24\00:54:57.33
in some
mysterious way set in motion
00:54:57.36\00:55:00.41
the re-greening of a
creation turned brown."
00:55:00.44\00:55:04.24
Yep, redeeming the
sinners but of course,
00:55:04.27\00:55:06.37
but also a
re-greening of nature as well.
00:55:06.40\00:55:10.52
I'm telling you what
guys, to the cross of Christ,
00:55:10.55\00:55:12.69
truly, truly, truly,
to the cross of Jesus.
00:55:12.72\00:55:15.81
We own it all, we owe everything
to the cross of Christ.
00:55:15.84\00:55:19.34
You know why
don't you, you know why?
00:55:19.37\00:55:20.99
You know why we owe
it all to the cross?
00:55:21.02\00:55:23.37
Because remember when we were
00:55:23.40\00:55:24.46
in Genesis 3 and God said,
00:55:24.50\00:55:25.55
I am going curse the
ground, here's the word,
00:55:25.58\00:55:27.89
the Creator who said
He cursed the ground came
00:55:27.92\00:55:31.07
and bore that
curse on Calvary itself.
00:55:31.10\00:55:35.46
God bore the curse. You
thought that it was Google
00:55:35.49\00:55:39.75
that turned black in
order to become green?
00:55:39.78\00:55:42.02
No, no, no, it is
God who on that Friday
00:55:42.05\00:55:44.28
turned very black
in order for you and me
00:55:44.31\00:55:49.29
to become very green.
00:55:49.32\00:55:51.27
If any man is in Christ,
00:55:54.59\00:55:55.88
if any woman is in
Christ she, he is a green
00:55:55.91\00:56:03.58
and new creation,
00:56:03.61\00:56:08.73
which is why
ladies and gentlemen,
00:56:08.76\00:56:09.83
the Sabbath day is
God's green earth day
00:56:09.86\00:56:16.11
which means that of
all people on this planet,
00:56:16.14\00:56:18.28
you and I have got to
lead the return to green.
00:56:18.31\00:56:26.20
Let's pray. Oh, God,
00:56:26.23\00:56:28.56
our Creator, You make us green,
00:56:31.00\00:56:37.88
You keep us
green in Christ Jesus
00:56:37.91\00:56:42.52
and now holy Father, help us,
00:56:42.55\00:56:46.74
help You turn your world back
00:56:46.77\00:56:52.02
to green again, amen.
00:56:52.06\00:56:57.93
I wanted to take
one more moment here
00:56:57.96\00:56:59.76
at the end of the
telecast to let you know
00:56:59.79\00:57:01.50
how grateful I am
for your journey with us,
00:57:01.53\00:57:04.38
with our New
Perceptions Ministry.
00:57:04.41\00:57:06.33
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:57:06.36\00:57:07.63
is only about television
but I need to tell you,
00:57:07.67\00:57:10.22
we do have a
website which is more than
00:57:10.25\00:57:12.57
just the study guide.
00:57:12.60\00:57:13.93
I know we go to the
study guide every week
00:57:13.96\00:57:15.31
but if you go to our website,
00:57:15.34\00:57:16.57
let me put the
address on the screen again,
00:57:16.60\00:57:18.05
www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:18.08\00:57:22.60
You'll find at
that website a blog.
00:57:22.63\00:57:24.27
I write every Wednesday.
00:57:24.30\00:57:25.33
I sit down with my
laptop and write up a blog,
00:57:25.36\00:57:27.18
something as
commenting on world events,
00:57:27.22\00:57:29.26
something local,
something national.
00:57:29.29\00:57:31.02
You get the blog.
00:57:31.05\00:57:32.17
You want archive,
previous teachings from here
00:57:32.20\00:57:35.11
in the Pioneer Pulpit, you
go to that annotated archive.
00:57:35.14\00:57:38.66
You can pick out a
message, it will be sent to you.
00:57:38.69\00:57:41.24
You want to get into
the podcast business,
00:57:41.27\00:57:43.99
I am not real
high-techie on this
00:57:44.02\00:57:46.20
but if you click podcast,
00:57:46.23\00:57:47.71
you'll be able
to connect instantly
00:57:47.74\00:57:49.37
with every new
teaching that comes
00:57:49.40\00:57:50.75
from the Pioneer Pulpit.
00:57:50.78\00:57:51.91
The point is
we're trying to connect
00:57:51.94\00:57:53.48
with a generation
on the move, on the go.
00:57:53.51\00:57:56.12
Thanks for being a part of it.
00:57:56.15\00:57:57.42
Thanks for your
prayer partnership.
00:57:57.45\00:57:58.87
We have got to
connect with this generation
00:57:58.91\00:58:01.18
at this time in earth's history.
00:58:01.21\00:58:03.47
And I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
00:58:03.50\00:58:05.94
God bless you until next time.
00:58:05.97\00:58:07.51