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>> Good morning, PMC. We're
happy to see you this morning on
this Sabbath morning.
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Let's stand together for prayer.
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Dear Lord, we come to
You with humble hearts.
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Thank You for this opportunity
that we can come together and
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worship You and
praise Your name.
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Thank You for loving us so much.
Thank You for the blessings in
our lives, and thank You for
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this opportunity of a new school
year. We love You, and please
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bless us. Amen. >> Amen.
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>> Remain standing. Thank you so
much. Or up and down if you want
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to exercise.
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So, the first song is a
celebration that we together
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will start this year singing,
and we will conclude this song
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in the New Jerusalem when
it returns down here on Earth.
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Keep that in mind as we sing to
a very beautiful hymn tune that
you all know -- the words
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"For the Music of Creation."
[ "For the Music of Creation"
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plays ] [ Congregation sings ]
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[ Hymn continues ]
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>> You may be seated. So,
this Thursday, we came back
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to Andrews, all the faculty, and
we met for the Faculty Institute
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and were greeted by Stephen
and Susan Zork with a wonderful
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worship.
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And as is customary for Stephen,
he pulled out many new hymns for
us to sing to some common tunes.
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And one really struck me in the
heart, and we're gonna sing it
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now. I asked him if we could
sing it again today. Make this
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your testimony. Really think on
these words. And if it resonates
with your soul, sing it to God.
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[ Congregation sings "As a Fire
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Is Meant for Burning" ]
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[ "God, You Spin the
Whirling Planets" plays ]
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[ Congregation sings ]
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[ Song ends ]
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[ "Open My Eyes,
That I May See" plays ]
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[ Song ends ]
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>> Hello, boys and girls.
Welcome. Do you guys know what I
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am? >> Scientist. >> A
scientist. I am a scienti-- I'm
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a special one called a chemist.
And my name is Dr. Ryan Hayes,
PhD, Department of Chemistry,
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Associate Professor. Or you
can just call me "Dr. Bubbles."
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>> Bubbles? [ Children
speaking indistinctly ]
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>> Yeah, I'm not gonna make
bubbles today, but we are gonna
learn some important lessons and
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some important chemistry. Do you
guys like running experiments?
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>> Yes! >> Yeah!
We're gonna run you one here
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today. We're gonna learn
something about how God works
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right here. I got to ask this
question. I think I know the
answer, but I'm gonna ask it
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anyway. Have you done anything
bad before? [ Inhales sharply ]
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Oh, and some are brave, yes.
Yeah, so, how do we know that
we're doing something bad?
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>> [ Speaks indistinctly ] >>
[ Chuckling ] When it explodes.
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>> When you get caught. >> When
you get caught, yeah. That's how
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we know. No, is there -- Your
parents catch you. But how do
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your parents know when you've
done something bad? How do they
know? >> They have their
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parents' sense -- >> They're
superheroes! >> Oh, they have
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parental sense of superpowers.
I agree. [ Laughter ]
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This is true -- two words that
have never been spoken. But, you
know, I got to let you
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in on a secret -- the way that
we know, as parents, what's
right and what's wrong and
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what's bad and what's good is we
look to God's Word, and, more
specifically, we look at the
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Ten Commandments. So I'm always
trying to teach my kids the Ten
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Commandments, because if you
break one of God's laws, we call
that -- Does anybody know?
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>> Sin. >> Sin. And I
actually got some in a
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bottle right here! Yeah, we
won't run with that one at all.
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But when you do something bad,
it's like putting a stain into
your record, into who you are,
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and you're not feeling too good.
But, you know, every one of you
are different -- some of you are
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tall, some of you are short.
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And I'm gonna represent you, the
kids here, with these different
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glasses that have what
looks like water in there.
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Some of you are nice and round.
Some have taller necks there,
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rounder at the bottom, okay?
Some of you have this nice shape
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here. We have another round one.
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Maybe some of you
are nice and tall.
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You're all different, right?
You look different -- tall,
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short. But you know what?
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You are all the same because you
are going to start maybe doing
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things that -- we hope not, but
we all do this -- we break God's
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law. And sin gets
into our lives here
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and starts to darken our
lives here -- well, hopefully,
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eventually, get dark in
here. [ Inhales sharply ]
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Don't worry. It
will. Oh, there it goes!
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And sin gets into your life
and starts to stain your life.
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Don't worry -- there's
lots of sin, unfortunately.
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And we start to dark-- And, you
know, maybe it was you didn't
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listen to your mom and dad.
That's a commandment, you know,
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"Honor your
father and your mother."
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And maybe -- What are some
other -- Does anyone know some
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of the other commandments?
>> [ Speaks indistinctly ]
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>> "Thou shall
not... kill," yeah.
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And Jesus said something about,
even if you get mad at your
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brother, that's
like the same thing.
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Yes. >> [ Speaks indistinctly ]
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>> Do not lie.
That one's a hard one.
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Teasing and lying with each
other, and we get stains in our
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lives. You know,
and it doesn't matter
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if you're tall and skinny.
You, too, can start to get
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stains in your life here.
And I should've had more stains
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in there, but we'll let
that go down there, okay?
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And it doesn't matter who you
are, what your shape is, what
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you've done, or what sin it is.
We often say, "Well, I didn't
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lie like you did. I
maybe said a bad word.
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That's not as
bad." But you know what?
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To God, it's all the same.
It's still a stain on who you
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are. And you
become colored -- Now,
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you say, "Oh,
that looks so pretty.
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That's so pretty
blue. That sin is so neat.
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All my friends, you know,
are doing -- They're disobeying
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their parents, and
they don't get in trouble.
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They've lied, and they
don't really get in trouble.
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And, you know, nothing bothers
them, so maybe that sin is
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something we should just
-- it's okay to play with."
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And I'm wondering if...
Yeah, we may need to put a bunch
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in there. And I have
backup sin if we need
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it, too. [ Laughter ]
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Yeah, it's
going. It's going there.
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We might need a little bit more,
and I'll just keep telling a
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little bit more here
as we put some in here.
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But sin can get in your life.
Does anybody know, though, how
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you are to get rid
of the sin in your life?
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>> [ Speaks indistinctly ]
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>> Oh, who wants to answer
there? I think we got -- How do
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you get rid of sin in your life?
Oh, I heard Jesu-- Yeah, what?
>> [ Speaks indistinctly ]
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>> You dump the water
out. Ha ha! [ Laughter ]
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What's that?
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>> By being
good? >> By being good.
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Those are really interesting
ways to try to get sin out of
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your life. What do
you think over there,
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young lady? >> [
Speaks indistinctly ]
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>> Wow! I don't
know if you heard
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that -- if you dump the water
out into someone else's cup.
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That is profound. [ Laughter ]
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This is ama-- You guys
should do this at home.
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[ Laughter ] Well, I
got to let you in on a
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little secret -- there's only
one way to get rid of the stain,
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the sin, the bad things in your
life, and we got to know what
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that is because someday
-- Oh, you think you know?
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>> Pray. >> We pray.
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Okay, but we got to
pray something specific.
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>> Put a chemical in it. >>
You put a chemical in there.
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You're getting closer, but
that's not -- What do you think?
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>> We ask God to forgive us.
>> You ask God to forgive you.
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That's right. And I
actually -- I have that
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forgiveness in a
bottle right here.
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Look at that little bottle!
I have in here the power of
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Jesus. In fact,
it's Vitamin C --
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"Vitamin Christ." And
I'm just gonna take a little
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bit of that, and let's see if
it's powerful enough to get rid
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of the stain in one
of these persons' lives.
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And we mix it around... >> Whoa!
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>> ...and it's all clear. Wow!
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Did it matter what
the sin was? >> No.
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>> Nope. >> It's magic.
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>> No, it's not
magic. It's chemistry.
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[ Laughter ] Thank
you for saying that.
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What about this person?
They were a little bit bigger.
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Did the sin matter?
No, it's gone there, too.
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And this person, well, they
had a different type of sin.
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Did it matter? No,
see, Jesus -- that's why He
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came and died, because
Jesus is the special magic, the
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chemistry -- however you want to
explain it -- that will come and
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take away the sin of the world.
It doesn't matter who you are.
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Sin is sin. Yeah,
this one doesn't -- well,
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doesn't have too much blue
in it, but, you know, it's still
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sin. And God
wants to get rid of that
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in there, too.
And it's all gone.
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>> [ Speaks indistinctly ]
>> There's a little blue on top?
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[ Whispering ]
It'll go away, trust me.
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It will go away. [
Normal voice ] Now, hey,
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here's the big sin
problem right here.
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Couldn't I just put that back
in and the sin can go back and
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these people right
here would be sinful again?
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This is why we're all coming to
church and why we're so excited
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and why, as Adventists here,
we know that, someday, Jesus is
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just gonna get rid of
the whole sin problem, okay?
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And the whole sin
problem is just gonna go away.
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And that's why I got a lid on
this so we can just get rid of
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the sin problem
-- the source of it.
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>> Whoa! [ Applause ]
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Okay. Now, I heard this is PMC.
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It's a big church, lots of
people, and I heard that you got
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to go big or go home.
And so, actually, I got
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something
bigger here. [ Grunts ]
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>> Whoa! >> Whew!
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Do you think this little bottle
can take care of all of that?
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>> Yes! >> You guys
are learning to have
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faith there. You bet.
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Oh, I hope so. I'm
gonna just dump it out.
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Jesus poured out His whole life
for you and for me and for the
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whole world. And
let's see -- And lift with
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the legs, not with the back.
[ Straining ] This is pretty
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heavy. Let's see
if we can get rid of
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it. [ Normal voice ] Is it going
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away? >> Yes!
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>> Yeah? There it goes!
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Don't worry -- I have some
backup Jesus if it's not enough.
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[ Laughter ] >> [
Speaking indistinctly ]
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>> It's gone. That's gone away.
There'll be a little bit in
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there. Don't look too closely.
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There'll be some
scars that might remain.
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Hey, this was really cool.
We learned something amazing.
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It doesn't
matter what the sin is.
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Jesus can get rid of
it. And you guys can see it?
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It doesn't matter who you are.
Jesus can get rid of your sin.
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You have to ask, you have to
repent -- trust that Jesus can
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take care of it.
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You guys have been great
listeners. Let's have a prayer
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to end our story time. Dear God
in heaven, thank You for making
this amazing world --
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the only world that we know of
that has water everywhere on top
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of it. And we have so much
inside of us, Lord. It reminds
us that You want to
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do something big in our life and
in this world. You want to get
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rid of the sin in this world so
that we can go home with You
someday -- so we go big, so we
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can go home with You. Lord,
bless these children so they'll
learn about Your power,
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Your law, and how You can get
rid of the sin in their life.
Bless them now, in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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>> In your bulletins, on
page six, we have our Scripture
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reading. Let's read
responsively. I'll read the
light print, and join me in the
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bold print on page six of
your bulletin. John 10... John
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4:10-15... [
Congregation reading ]
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[ Congregation reading ]
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Amen.
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[ Song ends ]
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>> Let's pray together. Oh, God,
here we are in worship, our
hearts lifted up to You.
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Those hymns with new words swept
us heavenward. We've come to
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experience Your presence...
through the prayer You drew us
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near... through Ryan's spot-on
lesson to all of us. Thank you.
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And now, with Carla and Trina
and Ken, we pray the prayer they
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played. "Be Thou our vision, oh,
Lord of our hearts. Naught
nothing be all else to us
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save that Thou art -- Thou our
best thought by day or by night,
waking or sleeping -- Thy
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presence our light." Cast
the vision for us now, dear God.
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In your Word, we pray in
Christ's name. Amen. Amen.
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Gosh. Before I plunge into this
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story, I need to give a
shout-out to a young friend of
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mine named Joshua Husslin --
sophomore, Andrews Academy --
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who did that
artwork. Isn't that beautiful?
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If you're new here, and we have
a bunch of freshman parents with
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their students, new students
-- and faculty, who worship all
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over this community.
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Glad you're here, as well. But
if you're new here, you don't
know that -- one, two,
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three -- there's one spot left.
This will be the fourth year we
have come up with a...theme
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device for Fall Fellowship. And
then the first Friday night with
the freshman -- which will
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be next Friday night -- that's
what happens through the goal
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device. And they will come here
Sabbath after Sabbath or chapel
after chapel, and they will
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remember when they see their
name. So thank you, Joshua, for
moving us into this theme.
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I want to tell you a story, get
us going. Carmine Gallo, in his
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book "The Storyteller's Secret,"
frames that late afternoon,
March 1983 -- two men standing
00:31:27.82\00:31:36.86
on the terrace of a luxury
apartment overlooking New York's
Central Park -- toe to toe.
00:31:36.86\00:31:44.73
The sun is dipping in the west,
over the Hudson River. And there
00:31:44.73\00:31:51.27
is energy between these two. The
older man's 45 years old. He's a
very successful corporate
00:31:51.27\00:31:56.08
executive -- PepsiCo. The young
man, 26, dressed in blue jeans
00:31:56.08\00:32:04.59
and a mock turtleneck, has been
pushing the older guy to jump
ship with his corporation...
00:32:04.59\00:32:14.56
be born in a new venture. But
he's lost, the young man --
absolutely no budging, no
00:32:14.56\00:32:21.10
budging from the executive. And
so now the young man [Chuckling]
00:32:21.10\00:32:27.14
is staring at his running shoes,
staring at the toes of his
running shoes, thinking,
00:32:27.14\00:32:30.95
thinking, thinking, "I've lost,"
when suddenly his head jerks up
and he blurts out, "Do you want
00:32:30.95\00:32:38.92
to sell sugar water for the rest
of your life, or do you want to
come with me and change the
00:32:38.92\00:32:46.03
world?" Now, of course,
everybody knows the fabled story
of that moment when Steve Jobs,
00:32:46.03\00:32:51.13
26, John Sculley, PepsiCo
executive 45, when the ignition
of that question -- as Sculley
00:32:51.13\00:33:00.84
later described it, "a gut punch
--" when the ignition of that
question blended these two into
00:33:00.84\00:33:10.32
a fiery partnership that
literally has changed the world,
00:33:10.32\00:33:19.36
hasn't it? "Do you want to sell
sugar water, or do you want to
come with me and change the
00:33:19.36\00:33:26.17
world for the better?" Two years
later, Steve Jobs -- March 1983.
00:33:26.17\00:33:32.77
Two years later, Steve Jobs
is fired. 12 years after he's
00:33:32.77\00:33:38.88
fired, Apple takes him back. In
his first staff meeting -- Now,
00:33:38.88\00:33:42.28
get this. In his first staff
meeting with the Apple team,
Steve Jobs speaks these words.
00:33:42.28\00:33:48.22
Put them on the
screen for you...
00:33:48.39\00:33:50.49
Here it comes...
00:34:17.62\00:34:19.19
"We believe that people with
passion can change the world for
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the better."
00:34:32.33\00:34:33.74
You have to believe God believes
that, as well. I mean, take a
00:34:33.90\00:34:38.01
look at the theme text that was
assigned to me and us for this
Fall Fellowship weekend.
00:34:38.01\00:34:41.64
Open your Bible to Isaiah
chapter 58. Isaiah chapter 58.
00:34:41.64\00:34:47.25
Theme for this Fall Fellowship
-- "live holy." I tell you what,
00:34:47.25\00:34:55.76
I found out who actually joined
this text to the theme. It's my
friend June Price, our
00:34:55.76\00:35:00.16
chaplain here. I said, "Hey,
June, did you pick that theme,
00:35:00.16\00:35:04.50
that text?" It's a perfect fit.
Watch this. Because in Isaiah
58, you know what's happening
00:35:04.50\00:35:10.17
here? We have a soliloquy of
God. He's doing all the talking,
although he very adroitly quotes
00:35:10.17\00:35:15.98
the people in buttressing
his point. But the fact is, you
00:35:15.98\00:35:20.95
don't get the point with just
this dynamite text. Let's read
the text and see what
00:35:20.95\00:35:28.26
this sign high overhead has to
do with these words of God. This
00:35:28.26\00:35:32.86
is Isaiah 58. Open your Bible to
Isaiah 58:11. I'm in the NIV.
Any Bible you have is fine.
00:35:32.86\00:35:37.00
If you didn't bring a Bible,
track this one, please. Pull the
00:35:37.00\00:35:40.47
pew Bible out.
It'll be page 500.
00:35:40.47\00:35:42.04
Okay, God speaking...
00:35:42.20\00:35:43.77
And what God has launched into
-- and we don't get this with
just that text -- is an
00:36:00.29\00:36:04.96
intense quid-pro-quo
conversation. You know quid pro
00:36:04.96\00:36:09.73
quo -- Latin, "This for that."
God says, "If you do this, I'll
00:36:09.73\00:36:12.40
do that. If you do this, I'll do
that." We need to get a feel for
that before this promise, and so
00:36:12.40\00:36:17.31
I'm gonna ask you to do
something -- We don't read
usually this much in a passage,
00:36:17.31\00:36:22.81
but let's go back to verse 1,
Isaiah 58. Go up to the top of
the chapter. Let's read this.
00:36:22.81\00:36:25.68
Let's get -- sense the drama,
the tension mounting as God
moves to our theme text for
00:36:25.68\00:36:31.62
Fall Fellowship 2016.
00:36:31.62\00:36:33.86
All right, verse one, God
speaking -- "Shout it aloud, do
00:36:34.02\00:36:36.79
not hold back.
Raise your voice like a
00:36:36.79\00:36:38.76
trumpet --" a shofar.
"Declare to my people their
00:36:38.76\00:36:41.16
rebellion and to the descendants
of Jacob their sins..."
00:36:41.16\00:36:44.60
"Yet on the day of your fasting,
you do as you please," God says,
00:37:03.52\00:37:07.16
"and you exploit
all your workers..."
00:37:07.16\00:37:09.76
"Then --" See, he
said, "If, if, if."
00:37:56.07\00:37:58.04
If you do this, this, this, then
here comes the quid pro quo.
00:37:58.04\00:38:01.14
Then you do that...
00:38:01.14\00:38:02.74
"Then you will call, and the
Lord will answer; you will cry
00:38:12.59\00:38:15.89
for help, and He will say, 'Here
am I --'" another quid pro quo.
00:38:15.89\00:38:19.43
Here it comes. "If you
do away with the yoke of
00:38:19.43\00:38:22.16
oppression, with the pointing
finger, and malicious talk..."
00:38:22.16\00:38:25.93
Then -- It's understood here.
"Then the Lord will guide you
00:38:35.94\00:38:39.35
always --" our theme text --
"He will satisfy your needs in a
00:38:39.35\00:38:42.82
sun-scorched land and
will strengthen your frame.
00:38:42.82\00:38:45.72
You will be like a well-watered
garden, like a spring whose
00:38:45.72\00:38:50.39
waters never fail." Wow!
00:38:50.39\00:38:53.63
God cuts to the chase.
00:38:53.63\00:38:56.30
And did you notice he makes the
very same point that Steve Jobs
00:38:56.46\00:39:02.00
made. Put Jobs' words
on the screen for you...
00:39:02.00\00:39:05.67
You know what? That sentence has
Andrews University written all
00:39:13.62\00:39:16.69
over it -- people with passion
who change the world for the
00:39:16.69\00:39:20.56
better. That sentence has the
Seventh-Day Adventist Church
written all over it -- people
00:39:20.56\00:39:24.49
with a passion who change the
world for the better. That even
00:39:24.49\00:39:28.20
has little old Pioneer Memorial
written all over it -- people
with a passion who change the
00:39:28.20\00:39:33.84
world for the better. That's
what I believe about you," God
00:39:33.84\00:39:37.87
declares. "I believe my people,
with my passion, can change the
world for the better."
00:39:37.87\00:39:43.18
And guess what. That's what it
means -- That's what it means to
00:39:43.18\00:39:48.12
live holy. That's it -- to live
with passion, to make a
difference. I mean, come on, "Do
00:39:48.12\00:39:54.62
you want to sell sugar water for
the rest of your life? Come with
00:39:54.62\00:39:58.43
me and change the world." That's
what God's crying out here in
00:39:58.43\00:40:02.26
Isaiah 58. "Do you want to sit
around and quibble over the
sugar water of theological
00:40:02.26\00:40:06.43
niceties and religious debates,
or do you want to come with me
and change the world?"
00:40:06.43\00:40:09.97
That's clearly what live
holy means. "My people, with my
00:40:09.97\00:40:18.15
passion, can change the world
for the better." Oh, by the way,
00:40:18.15\00:40:22.02
who in the world gets changed? [
Chuckles ] Jesus said, "The
least of these, my brothers and
00:40:22.02\00:40:28.12
sisters.
00:40:28.12\00:40:29.02
You do it to
them, you do it to me.
00:40:29.19\00:40:30.96
You don't do it to
them, you don't do it to me."
00:40:30.96\00:40:33.29
That's who He's just talked
about in Isaiah 58, isn't that
00:40:33.29\00:40:35.96
right? Who gets changed?
00:40:35.96\00:40:39.37
The "poor lives matter"
people that Pastor Torres, last
00:40:39.37\00:40:44.01
Sabbath, with passion preached
about, those are the people that
00:40:44.01\00:40:46.94
God is talking about here.
00:40:46.94\00:40:48.68
Who gets changed? The
marginalized, the alienated, the
disenfranchised up the road
00:40:48.84\00:40:53.62
from you, God says, and they are
also in your midst. Concentrate
00:40:53.62\00:41:00.06
on them. To follow God into that
world, to live with passion and
make a difference -- that's what
00:41:00.06\00:41:04.09
it means to live holy. Our
theme. Because live that way,
00:41:04.09\00:41:14.54
and, oh, boy, does God come
through with the promise. Now,
this is writ large, our
00:41:14.54\00:41:20.44
theme text, verse 11. Four
divine quid-pro-quo promises
that, in themselves,
00:41:20.44\00:41:26.45
are a stirring portrait of God.
I'm gonna run these by you, see
00:41:26.45\00:41:30.55
what you think.
Verse 11, read it again...
00:41:30.72\00:41:32.32
Promise number
one -- four of these.
00:41:41.80\00:41:43.30
Here comes promise number one.
00:41:43.30\00:41:45.20
God says, "I will guide you.
I will guide you personally. I
00:41:45.37\00:41:49.54
will guide you institutionally."
And don't you just love that
00:41:49.54\00:41:52.64
word? "I will guide you always.
I'm gonna stay with you always.
It doesn't matter what you've
00:41:52.64\00:41:57.75
been through. It doesn't matter
what you're going through now.
00:41:57.75\00:41:59.95
No matter what, I will be there
to guide you always. You know
why? Because if..."
00:41:59.95\00:42:07.02
It's like that old spiritual
sings -- ¤ If we ever needed the
00:42:07.02\00:42:15.26
Lord before ¤ ¤ We sure do need
Him now, oh ¤ ¤ We sure do need
00:42:15.26\00:42:23.20
Him now ¤ Sing it out. >>
Together: ¤ Oh, we sure do need
00:42:23.20\00:42:27.78
Him now ¤ ¤ If we ever needed
the Lord before ¤ ¤ We sure do
00:42:27.78\00:42:36.69
need Him now ¤ ¤ We need Him
every day and all the way ¤ >> ¤
00:42:36.69\00:42:43.66
All the way ¤ ¤ [ Falsetto ] We
need -- ¤ Oh, sorry. [ Laughter,
00:42:43.66\00:42:48.16
applause ] I tried. I saw Steve
Zork over there. I figured he'd
00:42:48.16\00:42:51.53
jump up. He just said -- [
Clicks tongue ] [ Laughter ]
00:42:51.53\00:42:56.24
Hey, guys, that's where we are
right now. We really need the
00:42:56.24\00:43:01.91
Lord. [ Chuckles ] We need the
Lord. God says, "I got good news
00:43:01.91\00:43:06.01
for you. I will guide you
always. Live holy for me. Live
00:43:06.01\00:43:12.12
holy with me. I'll guide you
always." But there are four of
these. That was number one.
00:43:12.12\00:43:15.29
Here comes number two -- "I will
satisfy you. In fact, I will
00:43:15.29\00:43:20.46
satisfy your needs. In fact, I
will satisfy your needs in a
sun-scorched land."
00:43:20.46\00:43:28.40
Because let's be honest -- we
all -- everybody, no exception
-- we all experience
00:43:28.40\00:43:34.68
droughts in our lives. Some of
them are short-lived. Others can
00:43:34.68\00:43:41.52
be long, dry, and debilitating.
Some of you right now perhaps
are going through the
00:43:41.52\00:43:48.22
sun-scorched land
professionally. Mm-hmm.
00:43:48.22\00:43:52.56
Everything keeps coming up dry,
stale. Your career is no longer
00:43:52.56\00:43:56.56
satisfying to you. Your
job is no longer challenging.
00:43:56.56\00:44:01.10
"I'm gonna satisfy your needs in
that sun-scorched place you find
00:44:01.10\00:44:06.34
yourself today." Some of you are
going through the sun-scorched
land in your marriage right now
00:44:06.34\00:44:13.62
-- right now. "It just -- What
happened? This was here, and now
00:44:13.62\00:44:17.32
it's gone. It's dry, it's
brittle, it's lifeless." Some of
you are going through
00:44:17.32\00:44:22.79
the sun-scorched land
spiritually, morally. The values
that you once stood
00:44:22.79\00:44:28.16
for you have shoved to the side,
and now there's nothing but
burning sun and no water.
00:44:28.16\00:44:34.60
God says, "I will satisfy
your needs. You turn to me, boy.
00:44:34.60\00:44:37.87
Girl, you turn to me, and
I'll take care of you." Mm.
00:44:37.87\00:44:42.48
"I will satisfy your needs."
And, oh, boy, I have to slip
00:44:42.48\00:44:48.35
this in. Because there is a --
I'll tell you, I go through
these sun-scorched periods in my
00:44:48.35\00:44:55.32
life. And when I do, there's a
go-to text that God has shown
me. He says, "Boy, you just keep
00:44:55.32\00:45:01.10
coming back
here," and I go back.
00:45:01.10\00:45:03.10
I beat a beeline to
Jeremiah chapter 17.
00:45:03.26\00:45:07.47
Because it's very interesting --
And I want you to look this up,
00:45:07.47\00:45:09.87
please -- Jeremiah 17.
00:45:09.87\00:45:11.27
And this promise tacked to
Isaiah 58:11, they're just like
00:45:11.44\00:45:16.48
twins. I want you to see this --
Jeremiah. I need you to see it
00:45:16.48\00:45:20.02
in your own Bible -- Jeremiah
17. We'll be right back.
00:45:20.02\00:45:24.22
Jeremiah 17. Wow. Look what God
is saying. "Sun-scorched land?
I'll satisfy your needs."
00:45:24.22\00:45:28.49
Watch this -- chapter
17, Jeremiah. Here it is.
00:45:28.49\00:45:32.16
Yeah, I got this place marked up
all [Chuckles] over because I
have been so many times back to
00:45:32.16\00:45:36.46
this. Jeremiah 17:7...
00:45:36.46\00:45:38.30
"God, do You know how long? I've
hit the sun-scorched land." "No
00:45:57.55\00:46:10.73
big deal to me. You'll be like a
tree planted by the water, roots
00:46:10.73\00:46:14.07
out to the stream. Now here come
three negatives. Here they come.
"It does not fear when heat
00:46:14.07\00:46:18.41
comes." Because heat comes
-- sun-scorched land comes into
00:46:18.41\00:46:21.14
every life at some point --
professionally, morally,
spiritually, maritally,
00:46:21.14\00:46:24.55
financially. It'll come to you.
But, "It does not fear when heat
00:46:24.55\00:46:29.82
comes; its leaves are always
green. It has no worries --" I
00:46:29.82\00:46:34.22
love that. "It has no worries
in a year of drought and never
00:46:34.22\00:46:39.06
fails to bear fruit." "I will
take care of you. I will satisfy
00:46:39.06\00:46:44.93
your needs in a sun-scorched
land. Whatever it is you're
going through right now, I will
00:46:44.93\00:46:49.14
take care of you." [ Sighs ]
Come on. And by the way, this
00:46:49.14\00:46:57.51
promise for living in a
sun-scorched land is a promise
for America, too. I don't know
00:46:57.51\00:47:03.69
if you've slept through the
summer. America's in trouble.
I'll tell you what America is
00:47:03.69\00:47:11.56
facing -- a sun-scorched land
that is rapidly approaching
spiritual drought and moral
00:47:11.56\00:47:16.90
famine. The ancient prophet Amos
predicted a day like this would
00:47:16.90\00:47:22.20
come. God says, "I want you to
get this down so that, when it
00:47:22.20\00:47:25.01
comes, they'll
know I saw it coming."
00:47:25.01\00:47:27.18
Amos 8:11...
00:47:27.34\00:47:30.48
"People will stagger from
sea to --" shining -- "sea and
00:47:38.69\00:47:43.83
wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the
00:47:43.83\00:47:46.49
Lord, but they
will not find it."
00:47:46.49\00:47:49.30
Ladies and gentlemen, this
is the perfect hour in this
00:47:49.30\00:47:52.40
civilization's history to
claim our legacy as the flagship
00:47:52.40\00:47:55.67
daughter of Battle
Creek College, founded in
00:47:55.67\00:47:58.27
1874.
00:47:58.27\00:47:59.51
Let's claim it. And
3,000 students? My Lord.
00:47:59.67\00:48:03.61
3,000 students moving out into a
sun-scorched community, a
sun-scorched nation, a
00:48:03.61\00:48:08.72
sun-scorched planet -- this
is the hour. "Live holy for me,"
00:48:08.72\00:48:17.83
God says. "You live holy for
me... I'll take care of you. I
00:48:17.83\00:48:24.13
will guide you. I will satisfy
you." Here comes number three.
"I will strengthen you."
00:48:24.13\00:48:31.21
The King James reads, "I
will make fat your bones."
00:48:31.21\00:48:34.54
Anybody here want fat bones?
[ Laughter ] God, you could've
00:48:37.15\00:48:41.88
gotten our attention with
something more than that. "I'll
make fat your bones."
00:48:41.88\00:48:46.89
Of course, we miss the point.
God's dealing -- His promise --
with the infrastructure -- our
00:48:46.89\00:48:52.76
personal infrastructure, our
institutional infrastructure.
God is saying, "I will
00:48:52.76\00:48:57.13
strengthen you from the inside
out --" good news for those of
you -- and you are here -- for
00:48:57.13\00:49:02.14
those of you who are burning the
midnight oil to balance your
department's budget.
00:49:02.14\00:49:08.71
"I will take care of you. I will
strengthen that infrastructure
00:49:08.71\00:49:14.08
--" good news for you who are
trying to balance this
congregation's budget. "I will
00:49:14.08\00:49:19.15
take care of you. I will
strengthen that infrastructure
--" good news for you who have
00:49:19.15\00:49:25.16
been tasked to balance the
budget of this university. "I
will take care of you.
00:49:25.16\00:49:31.57
And I will strengthen your
infrastructure. Live holy for
00:49:31.57\00:49:37.51
me." Four profound promises from
God on the eve, on the cusp of a
00:49:37.51\00:49:41.68
new year. And here comes
final promise, number four.
00:49:41.68\00:49:44.41
God says, "I will flourish you."
You say, "Dwight, I just read
00:49:44.58\00:49:47.45
that. There's
nothing about flourish
00:49:47.45\00:49:49.28
in that." Are you kidding?
00:49:49.28\00:49:51.19
The last two lines in verse 11,
if they don't have "flourish"
00:49:51.19\00:49:54.09
written all over them, then you
tell me what they're all about.
00:49:54.09\00:49:57.06
What are the last two
lines? Put them on the screen...
00:49:57.06\00:50:00.03
On the eve of this new year, God
says, "That's the future I have
for you, Andrews University.
00:50:09.84\00:50:15.98
You live holy for me, and I will
flourish you. I will flourish
00:50:15.98\00:50:22.78
you like my favorite garden
on Earth. You will be fresh and
00:50:22.78\00:50:27.26
thick and verdant. You will be a
vegetable garden of red and
yellow and orange and
00:50:27.42\00:50:30.56
green and purple and brown
and white and row after row of
00:50:30.56\00:50:33.46
nature's tastiest delicacies.
You will flourish with moral
00:50:33.46\00:50:38.33
fruit. You will flourish with
00:50:38.33\00:50:40.34
intellectual fruit. You
will flourish with spiritual
00:50:40.34\00:50:43.54
fruit. You will
flourish because you're
00:50:43.54\00:50:46.07
my garden, and I have a built-in
sprinkler system that will keep
00:50:46.07\00:50:49.91
you fresh."
00:50:49.91\00:50:52.35
That's what that sign is all
about -- a built-in sprinkler
system for this institution.
00:50:52.51\00:50:59.85
Like a well-watered garden, like
an artesian well, like a spring
that never runs dry...
00:50:59.85\00:51:09.70
"And so where do I find a spring
like that?" the pretty woman
asks the stranger with the dark
00:51:09.70\00:51:15.84
eyes and the gentle smile -- [
Chuckles ] he, a Jew, sitting on
the mossy lip of this well
00:51:15.84\00:51:22.74
near Sychar, Samaria. Ken Gire,
in his wonderful book, "Intimate
00:51:22.74\00:51:29.32
Moments With the Savior," picks
up the story with this beautiful
word picture -- cannot be
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improved upon. So I'm gonna read
it to you, but so that you don't
get bored with me reading it,
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I'm gonna put a picture you have
never seen in your life of Jesus
and the woman at the well on the
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screen right now. So you look
at that picture, and let me read
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this to you. "The Palestinian
sun glares its impartial eye
upon both this nameless
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Samaritan woman and upon the
Savior of the world. Through
sheer curtains of undulating
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heat she comes. She, too, is
weary -- not so much from the
water jar she carries on her
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head as from the emptiness she
carries in her heart. The
torrents of passion, once
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swift in her life, have now run
their course. She's weathered
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and worn, her face eroded by the
gullies of a spent life. That
she comes at noon, the
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hottest hour of the
day, whispers a rumor of her
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reputation. She's gone from man
to man like one lost in the
desert, sun-struck and
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delirious. She comes to Jacob's
Well, her empty water jar a
telling symbol of her life.
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As her eyes meet the Savior's,
He sees within her a cavernous
aching, a cistern in her soul
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that will forever remain empty
unless He fills it. Yet to her,
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an anonymous woman with a failed
life, He gives the most profound
discourse in Scripture on the
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subject of worship. But equally
remarkable is what Jesus doesn't
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say. He states her past and
present marital status, but
makes no reference to her sin.
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He gives no call to repent. He
presents no structured plan of
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salvation. He offers no prayer.
But with the words, 'I who speak
to you am He,' Jesus brings her
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back to face the Giver and His
remarkable gift, living water --
not a wage to be earned, not a
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prize to be won, but a gift
to be received. To her, this
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stranger was first simply "a
Jew..." then "sir..." then "a
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prophet." And then she sees Him
for who He really is -- Messiah.
And with her heart overflowing
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with living water, she starts to
run -- slowly at first, then as
fast as her new legs will take
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her." So, let's end with Jesus'
incredible offer to the woman at
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the well. Turns out His offer is
a line drawn right out of Isaiah
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58:11. Take a look at this. It's
not our [Indistinct] New provost
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just read it a moment ago. I
want you to end in John four,
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please, John four. John four.
We'll pick up the narrative in
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John 4:11... "And Jesus answered
--" verse 13 -- "'Everyone who
drinks this water will be
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thirsty again...'" The "artesian
well." Ladies and gentleman, you
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have just met Him.
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He is the Lord Jesus Christ, a
spring that never runs dry. In
fact, He is so much the
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artesian well that, even when He
dies on the cross, the water is
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still flowing. He's made every
provision for you and me to live
holy for Him. The water still
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flows. "Desire of Ages," on this
moment -- "Jesus did not convey
the idea that merely one
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draft --" one drink -- "of the
water of life would suffice the
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receiver. He who tastes of the
love of Christ will continually
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long for more; but he
seeks for nothing else.
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The riches, honors, and
pleasures of the world do not
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attract her. The
constant cry of her heart
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is, 'More of thee...'
Every human resource and
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dependence will fail.
The cisterns will be emptied,
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the pools become dry; but
our Redeemer is an inexhaustible
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fountain --" an artesian well.
"We may drink, and drink again,
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and ever find a fresh supply..."
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Amen.
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And so, Andrews University...
this is the Gospel truth for us.
This is the Gospel truth for you
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and me, and that is we will only
live holy when we drink deeply
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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