In the seasons of our silence
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In our darkness, in our day
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Gracious Savior, as you promised
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You are never far away
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Neither life nor
death can part us
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Earth be low nor stars
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In the seasons of our silence
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In our darkness, in our day
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Gracious Savior, as you promised
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You are never far away
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Neither life nor
death can part us
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Earth be low nor stars
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A everlasting love
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We are honor to have
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your alumni return
to your home campus,
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your home church.
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You have sensed this morning,
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why some of us keep
coming back to this place
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Sabbath after
Sabbath to worship.
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We are so blessed.
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Student leaders who...
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have embraced a
vision of worship
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I tell you what every
time I sit at their feet
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as they lead us as if
the portals open or into,
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I should enter that throne room.
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I need you to take--
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I am going to call
an audible right here
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The School of Architecture.
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I need you to take
your Bible out there.
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You didn't bring a
Bible, there's one in a pew rack
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in front of you.
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I was listening
to Pastor Ernie Frank
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just a moment ago
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and when he
accessed these words.
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I must confess I've forgotten
the words were in scripture.
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I wanna read these
words and then invite
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my friends from The
School of Architecture
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to come and join me here.
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Hebrews, the
little Book of Hebrews
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in the New Testament,
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Hebrews Chapter 11,
Bible's hall of fame,
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hall of faith
chapter, Hebrews 11.
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Take a look at this.
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They're really big
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as a community of
faith on that opening salv
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and all those by
faith, by faith, by faith.
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But tucked away
there at the end.
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I've been reminded this
morning are these words as well.
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I want you to see it, let
see drop down to verse 37.
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Whatever transition you have,
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I'll be in the
New King James Version
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which is your pew Bible.
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Hebrews 11:37 and
"They were stoned,
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sawed in two" let's
read, "they were tempted,
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they were slain with the sword:
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they wandered about in
sheepskins and goats skins;
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being destitute,
afflicted and tormented..."
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And then this outstanding line
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verse 38, "Of whom the world..."
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as it go "Of whom the
world was not worthy..."
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Yeah, and then don't
forget the rest of 38,
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"For they wandered in
deserts, in mountains,
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in dens and caves of the earth."
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Karen and I have the privilege
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this summer four
unforgettable days for us
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for the two of us to join
The School of Architecture
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in the
northwest corner of Italy.
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Seven Alpine Valleys
that have become identified
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as sequestered home
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of a Christian sect
called the Waldenses.
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I wanna invite my friends
from The School of Architecture
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to come right now.
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I need to have
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or they're gonna
be come in shifts,
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the Kishah and
Bryce, no Kishah and Chris,
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sorry Bryce,
look up to you next.
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Kishah Michel and
Christopher Perry,
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Carey Carscallen, dean of
The School of Architecture
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and Kathy Demsky, librarian,
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affectionately called
Mrs. 'D' by the students.
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Kishah and Chris we
just added a scripture.
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But I wanna go to
the two that you have
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and take a look
at two key pieces
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to set up a
story of the Waldenses.
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And, Kishah, let start with
you in the Book of Deuteronomy.
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This is our theme book
for our semester series
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call The Chosen here
at Pioneer this semester.
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Well, we gonna
read, Kishah with,
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what chapter's that?
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Deuteronomy 4:7-10.
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All right, let's
look at up with Kishah
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our worshippers Deuteronomy 4
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beginning in verse 7.
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All right, Kishah.
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"What other nation is so great
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as to have their Gods near them
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the way the Lord
our God is near to us
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whenever we pray to him?
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And what other
nation is so great
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as to have such
righteous decrees
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and laws as this body of laws
I am setting before you today?
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Only be careful, and
watch yourselves closely
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so that you do not forget
the things your eyes have seen
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or let them slip from your heart
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as long as you live.
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Teach them to your children
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and to their
children after them.
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Remember the day you stood
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before the Lord
your God at Horeb,
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when he said to me,
'Assemble the people
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before me to hear my
words so that they may learn
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to revere me as long
as they live in the land
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and may teach them
to their children."'
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Thank you, Kishah.
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Amazing that in this
single passage in Deuteronomy
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and we remember,
Moses is addressing
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a grown up generation,
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who is just about to
cross into the Promised Land.
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What's amazing,
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and I have to
remind myself of this,
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is that, they were not in Egypt.
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He says "Remember
when you were in Egypt,"
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but they weren't in Egypt,
they didn't see any of that
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supernatural deliverance
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and yet because
they are children
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of the fathers
and mothers of faith,
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the story becomes theirs.
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And we actually put
ourselves into that story.
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So as we...
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we move into this tale
that we share this morning.
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Somehow we're
the children of the,
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children of the,
children of the children
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and this story
becomes ours as well.
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But we need one more
piece, Christopher Perry.
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Lets go to the Apocalypse,
let set this up so we get...
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prophetic and historical setting
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for the Waldenses.
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Revelation 12:13-16.
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All right, let us
find it with you there.
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It says, "When
the dragon saw that
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he had been
hurled to the earth--
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Hold it right
here. Who's the dragon?
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This Dragon is
Satan. All right, go ahead.
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"He pursued the woman"
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Who-- who's the woman?
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This woman is a church.
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A church. All right.
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The School of
Architecture, good for you.
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All right, so the
dragon, the devil,
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saw the church
and what did he do?
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"He pursued the woman
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who had given
birth to the male child."
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Who's the male
child? This is Jesus.
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Hallelujah. All
right, keep going.
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"The woman was given the
two wings of a great eagle,
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so that she
might fly to the place
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prepared for her in the desert,
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where she would be taken care
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of for a time,
times and half a time..."
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All right, hold it
right there architect to be.
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What in a world is that mean
time, times and half a time?
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That's the 1,260 day prophecy.
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And in the Bible
prophecy, a day equals?
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One year. One year.
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So we have a
period of 1000 years
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Middle Ages, Dark Ages history.
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The enemy going for
the community of faith,
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they flee into the wilderness.
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"Out of the serpent's reach..."
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"Then from his mouth
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the serpent spewed
water like a river,
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to overtake the woman
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and sweep her
away with the torrent.
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But the earth helped the woman
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by opening its mouth
and swallowing the river
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that the dragon had
spewed out of his mouth."
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Amazing.
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So God uses the earth itself
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to shield this
community of faith in hiding.
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The actual barren rocks
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become God's ammunitions
as it where, you know.
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Now thank you
both Kishah and Chris.
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Uh, Carey Carscallen, dean
of The School of Architecture,
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look we all know
what architecture is.
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How can you explain
having Waldenses studies
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in School of Architecture.
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But we look for
ever-- every opportunity
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we can integrate
faith in learning.
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Well, we want to do it
in real in meaningful ways.
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Okay.
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We want our
students to appreciate
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not only the grand
and majestic architecture
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but also the
ordinary, the humble.
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And so have-- just
before this experience,
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they've been
traveling for a month in Europe,
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looking at some of
these great architecture
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and significant urban spaces
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but then we take them up
in to these Alpine Valleys
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where they can look at some
very humble stone buildings,
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houses and settlements that
are made with stone and wood.
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Beautiful, okay. And as they--
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They're drawing
and contemplating.
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They not only think
about this humble architecture
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but the people
who dwelled there,
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who lived there, who built those
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and who ultimately died there.
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And it gives them an opportunity
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to think about their own faith
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and their calling in
relationship to this.
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I know you're proud of
your students in this, are we?
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Incredible bunch.
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All right, guys,
before you sit down,
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just gonna bring
another way up here.
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But Mrs. D, Kathy Demsky,
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you're probably the resident
authority on this campus.
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Done most readings
certainly into the history
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of the Waldenses Community,
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that little sect
through the centuries,
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Uh, Kathy, let set it up
before the kids come up here.
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Okay, who are they?
Who are the Waldenses?
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They were the people
that learnt Christianity
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from the apostles.
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When Rome was--
when Paul was in Rome
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and Nero began
persecuting Christians.
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These early primitive people
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fled to the Piedmont
Valleys in the North of Italy.
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In fact let's
put the map up there
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on the screen please of Italy.
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And you will see there
in the northwest corner.
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You have Carey Carscallen
in the northwest corner
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actually up on the
screen right there, here we go.
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Uh, there it is, the Piedmont
right above the Torre Pellice.
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So they-- they move out of Rome
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and they moved northward.
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Right.
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And they were the chosen,
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the chosen of God
to preserve scripture
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and their faith
through the Dark Ages
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of this world's history.
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They were the
guardians of divine truth
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and Holy Scripture
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and they did more
than just preserve
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the Holy
Scripture and their faith.
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They went out as
missionaries by twos
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and they took the scripture
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and their faith all over Europe.
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A radical mission band,
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we want to come back
with that thought before
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we're through this morning.
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Uh, one last
question for you Kathy,
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why is it,
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that in Dark Age's history
there is so much heartache
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attached to the
story of the Waldenses?
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There was-- it is said that
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there was not a people
that were more maligned
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and persecuted
than the Waldenses.
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But they were
peace loving people.
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They were crushed over and over.
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As a kid grown
up with the story,
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I figured it was just big wave
and then good bye Waldenses.
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Oh, no, it
happens over and over.
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As you had us
view before the tour
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and century after
century, extermination
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and then go back
extermination, go back.
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And they never lost their faith.
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Actually they were the people
who kept the light shining.
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In fact we got, let's
put that on the screen,
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I want to skip that
slide if you have up there now.
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Well, let's show that
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because, Kathy,
you're talking about
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the difference
in the architecture.
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There's the El Duomo in Milan,
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which existed at
the time of Waldenses.
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Ornate architecture, beautiful.
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Karen and I went through that.
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And then on the right
there is the architecture
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of the Waldenses
in the Alpine Valleys,
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Seven Valleys in
the Northwest Piedmont's
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that were
designated Waldensian Valleys.
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And now I want
to go to the logo,
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I shot this at the
little Waldensian Church.
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By the way the
Waldensians still live.
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They exist, they have
churches, very few of them.
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This is at a church
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we worshipped in Sabbath morning
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and there's a Latin
model Lux Lucet in Tenebris,
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a light shines in darkness.
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So let's go into the story.
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Thank you,
Christopher and Kishah.
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Thank you, Kathy.
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Let's bring up our next wave,
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it is your turn this time,
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Bryce, and you
and Sandra, Esmeralda,
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come on up and join us here.
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So we're all
together for these few days.
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I get to you in just a moment
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but let set it up
with some pictures.
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So that everybody gets a feel
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for this Castelluzzo, this is--
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this towering, rocky pinnacle.
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So let's put some
pictures up so that you can see
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Andrews University
students on the move.
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Here's the picture, next please.
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They keep moving, this--
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this, hey, Bryce by the
way this is a long climb.
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How long do you think it
took us to get to the top?
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I think, it took me at
least a couple of hours.
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Couple of hours
to get it to the top.
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At least, yeah.
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I think in all honesty,
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it was about three
or four, weren't it?
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All right.
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Maybe it took you that long.
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But I did, trust me.
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Hey, who's asking
the questions up here?
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Yeah, you're right it did.
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All right.
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Okay, so what we do? We
were looking at picture.
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Let's go back to the pictures.
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Oh, my, look it folks,
we're getting higher now.
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This rocky
pinnacle is really up,
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they were above the clouds.
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You see the clouds, that's a--
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that's a
horizontal shot at the clouds.
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Let see the next picture please.
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When I got to the top,
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students are already
with their sketch pads,
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they've been all over Europe
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and now they're on
the summit of Castelluzzo,
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they're painting,
that's water color there.
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Next slide please.
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I'm telling you,
we're talking straight down.
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It's estimated
that on bloody Easter,
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April 24, 1655, 300 were
hurled off of that ledge.
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So you just read
it, you just read it,
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of whom the world is not worthy,
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we just read it in scripture.
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This is the Castelluzzo
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and then is the next one,
a picture of the monument.
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A pilgrims long ago erected that
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slate pile right at to top.
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It was a moving prayer
service we had, Mrs. D,
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when we gathered around that.
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Yes, you led out in that.
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Bryce, now it's your turn.
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Let me ask you something.
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In fact, I got
your paper right here,
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you wrote kind of reflecting
on your European tour.
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When I pick this
up in your description
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of the Waldensian journey.
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These words, I expected a visit
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and document the site as
an architectural student,
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yet I never
anticipated questioning
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the depths of my soul.
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What in the world
are you describing there?
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Well, as my dean
was already saying.
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We just spend over a month
traveling all through Europe,
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great cities as Rome and
Paris studying architecture
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and I signed up for
this class thinking that
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I'd just continue on with
another architectural portion,
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but the things that I questioned
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when on this strip
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went far deeper than
any building studies.
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When this journey was one that,
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not just examining architecture,
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but one of your faith.
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And when you
climb that mountain,
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the several
hours that it took us
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in the middle of the
day, maybe even longer
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because some of us got lost.
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But thinking of the Waldensians
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doing it in the
middle of the night to escape
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from the Roman
soldiers coming after them.
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I could barely make it up there,
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my weak body, all of ours.
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But they scaled it in
the middle of the night
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and when you
reach top of that cliff,
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just staring down thousands
of feet to the city below.
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You can't even
imagine what the Waldensians
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were thinking to
steer their faith head on
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and to give their
life for their faith
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and their
belief in Jesus Christ.
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I stood there questioning,
if I could do the same.
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Mm-mm, thank you, Bryce.
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Esmeralda, how about you,
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I was reading your
paper here and you wrote...
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you wrote this line
"I never thought that
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I would be in the
place, the same place,
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where some people
stood hundreds of years ago
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for their faith to
take their last breath."
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So you're at the top now,
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what's going through your heart?
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Actually I can kind of remember
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what's going on through my heart
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because my heart is
pounding really hard right now
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and it reminds me of
probably as much as it
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pounded when I got to the top.
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It was a long ways up like,
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Bryce said of like five
hours for me, I'm a slow walker.
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But, when I got to the top
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I did feel like my
heart was gonna fall of
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and I just thought of,
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how would I react to people
persecuting me for my faith
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as a Waldensians women
thousands of years ago.
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And what I have stepped
off from my faith, my faith,
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would I let myself
get thrown off the cliff
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and die for God
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or would I stay
back and reject God.
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And, standing
up there it made me
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rethink of what is
that I really believe?
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And whatever I
believe is it worth it.
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And as it was
for the Waldensians
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hundreds and
hundreds of years ago
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I think it's worth it to me now
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and, um, it was
kind of a refreshing,
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stuff for me to actually arrive
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where they took
their last breath.
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Good, good.
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Sandra, John Milton,
a blind English poet,
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he immortalized
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that Castelluzzo
moment, April 24, 1655.
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When the world
finally got to England,
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written eye witness
accounts, Sir Oliver Cromwell
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was so aghast that
crime against humanity
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that he declared a national day
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of fasting and
prayer in England.
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John Milton
then, takes pen in hand
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in his daughter's hand,
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because he is
blind, he recites this poem
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on the late
massacre in the Piedmonts.
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Can you read
that for us, please?
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"Avenge, O Lord,
thy slaughter'd saints,
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whose bones Lie scatter'd
on the Alpine mountains cold
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Ev'n them who kept
thy truth so pure of old
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When all our fathers
worshipp'd stocks and stones
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Forget not: in thy
book record their groans
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Who were thy sheep and
in their ancient fold Slain
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by the bloody Piemontese
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that roll'd Mother
with infant down the rocks.
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Their moans, the
vales redoubl'd to the hills
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And they to Heav'n
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Their martyr'd
blood and ashes sow
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O'er all the' Italian fields
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where still doth
sway The triple tyrant;
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that from these may
grow A hundred-fold,
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who having learnt thy way
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Early may fly
the Babylonian woe."
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Isn't that something
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from these may
grow out of the seed.
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Totalitarian said that
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the blood of martyr is the seed.
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From these the
great English poets
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may grow a new generation.
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You know what, you're
it. You are that generation.
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I wanna move on to part two now.
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Thank you, guys.
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I'll bring up
Kevin and Christie.
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Come on up and join us.
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Mrs. D, while they're coming up,
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we're gonna talk about the cave.
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How was that?
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For me,
unforgettable, unforgettable.
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But, Kathie, it's interesting
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in your
assignment to these students.
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The assignment does not
read go and sketch a picture
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of Waldensian houses of worship.
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What's up with that?
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Because in the
village where you--
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Where we go to sketch
there are no churches.
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Because they were not allowed
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to have formal places of worship
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until around the
early 1800's, so we don't--
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we attend church
and then grown here,
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and then we go to the
cave, where they worshipped.
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It's said that, they
could fit 200 in there
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that would've
really been packed though.
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This is the... the
particular cave we went--
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The cave we went--
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Let's put a
picture or two up there.
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If you're into claustrophobia,
this is not the cave to visit.
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We're heading right
there towards the opening.
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Next picture please.
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And then you got to
down into that opening,
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crawl into this space that
holds about like you said 200.
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Next picture please.
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It's carved out
kind of a dome feature.
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And there we were
Kathy had asked that
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we celebrate Holy
Communion in that cave,
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most unforgettable Lord supper
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I know that I
will ever officiate at.
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It's so dark that Kevin
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who is sitting
here in the middle.
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Next picture please.
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He has its
little pocket flashlight
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and he's shinning
it over the shoulders
00:24:36.44\00:24:38.04
of Kathy and Conrad
who are holding the tray
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of communion of wine and bread.
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There's no way we
can distribute it,
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if you drop it, there's no way
00:24:45.87\00:24:47.46
we can walk to
it if we can't tell
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where you are and so Kevin has
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just beautifully
there holding that light
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so that you make
your way to the light
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and you'll find salvation.
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What a metaphor
that ended up for us.
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Next picture shows everybody
slowly inching their way
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through the cave
to receive the emblems
00:25:02.44\00:25:05.25
of Lord's victory
for us on Calvary.
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Christy, you've never
worshipped in the cave
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before and I had neither.
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You're in that dank darkness,
what's happening inside of you?
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It was just very moving for me,
00:25:19.73\00:25:24.88
you know, and I saw
the little hole that
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we had to go
through to get to cave,
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it wasn't exactly
what I was expecting
00:25:27.74\00:25:30.14
and when I got
inside it was really dark
00:25:30.17\00:25:34.04
and yeah, cold rainy I
had drops dripping on my head
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'cause it had
rained earlier in the day.
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My eyes finally adjusted
and I just kept thinking about
00:25:40.24\00:25:43.31
all the generations that
had worshipped there before us.
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And I kept
imagining the families
00:25:46.59\00:25:49.38
that must have been there
00:25:49.41\00:25:50.51
and just these people
really lived their faith
00:25:50.54\00:25:55.43
and it was
amazing to be in the place
00:25:55.46\00:25:57.19
that they could come
together and worship the Lord
00:25:57.22\00:26:01.63
and really renew themselves
and get their strength
00:26:01.66\00:26:05.53
to live like they
did, it was amazing.
00:26:05.56\00:26:09.88
And like Milton
wrote out of their faith,
00:26:09.91\00:26:11.80
out of the seeds of
their sacrificial faith
00:26:11.83\00:26:14.94
we are born, we are born.
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Kevin, you've heard
the Waldenses stories
00:26:16.91\00:26:20.27
since a kid
growing up in the church.
00:26:20.30\00:26:23.85
You shared something with me
that I thought was fascinating.
00:26:23.88\00:26:26.75
How the story
affected you as a boy
00:26:26.78\00:26:29.12
when momma told it to you?
00:26:29.15\00:26:31.31
Yes, my mother used
to tell me the stories
00:26:31.34\00:26:35.42
when I was a kid
only 8, 10 years old.
00:26:35.45\00:26:38.51
And during that
time, last semester,
00:26:38.54\00:26:44.10
I was going through
hard times in my life
00:26:44.13\00:26:46.95
and Miss Demsky came to me
00:26:46.98\00:26:49.28
and she asked me
to join her class.
00:26:49.31\00:26:51.89
And as soon as she told me,
00:26:51.92\00:26:55.94
I have some
flashbacks from the stories
00:26:55.97\00:26:58.73
that my mom used to tell me.
00:26:58.76\00:27:00.71
And I joined the
class and here we are
00:27:00.74\00:27:07.71
reading the
stories of the Waldensians
00:27:07.74\00:27:11.04
and suddenly I
started feeling in my heart
00:27:11.07\00:27:14.83
that feeling again of
becoming a missionary.
00:27:14.86\00:27:18.29
Wanting to be a missionary.
00:27:18.32\00:27:19.41
Wanting to be a missionary.
00:27:19.44\00:27:21.76
And at times we feel
that telling our kids
00:27:21.79\00:27:25.68
these types of
stories, terrible stories
00:27:25.71\00:27:28.55
would make them afraid
00:27:28.58\00:27:30.86
of going out and
share the gospel.
00:27:30.89\00:27:33.90
But it's something
mysterious about these stories
00:27:33.93\00:27:38.18
that it burns out
in your heart for years
00:27:38.21\00:27:42.29
and instead of
making you afraid,
00:27:42.32\00:27:45.84
it actually
gives you the courage
00:27:45.87\00:27:48.50
to go and tell someone.
00:27:48.53\00:27:50.32
And here we end up at this cave
00:27:50.35\00:27:53.95
and you come to
me before you said,
00:27:53.98\00:27:55.27
pastor, listen, I've
got a little something,
00:27:55.30\00:27:56.78
I need to talk to the students
00:27:56.81\00:27:57.84
about 23 of you
were in that class.
00:27:57.87\00:27:59.78
Can I have a little time
at the end of the communion?
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I said you bet.
00:28:01.82\00:28:03.20
What were you thinking
wanting to have that time?
00:28:03.23\00:28:06.16
What was-- What
God laid on your heart?
00:28:06.19\00:28:08.53
Well, I always
dream to go to this place
00:28:08.56\00:28:13.38
one time in my life
and I wanted to be special
00:28:13.41\00:28:17.85
and I wanted to
share the same feeling
00:28:17.88\00:28:20.06
for my classmates,
so it came to me that
00:28:20.09\00:28:25.90
trying to make
something significant
00:28:25.93\00:28:28.92
so they can remember
later in their lives.
00:28:28.95\00:28:33.10
I have the idea
of getting a box.
00:28:33.13\00:28:35.32
Little lock box.
00:28:35.35\00:28:36.38
A lock box where
you put a notebook
00:28:36.41\00:28:39.36
and as soon as
we write their names
00:28:39.39\00:28:42.34
in memory or in significance
00:28:42.37\00:28:44.67
as is God is keeping
their names in their heart,
00:28:44.70\00:28:48.21
in his heart.
00:28:48.24\00:28:49.65
And also the piece of paper
00:28:49.68\00:28:52.18
where they will write some notes
00:28:52.21\00:28:53.70
and prayers for
the next generation.
00:28:53.73\00:28:57.40
The interesting
part of the Waldensians
00:28:57.43\00:28:59.96
is that the recent,
00:28:59.99\00:29:01.38
one of the reasons why they died
00:29:01.41\00:29:03.08
is because they
wanted to leave a legacy
00:29:03.11\00:29:05.94
for the rest of
the world for us.
00:29:05.97\00:29:09.47
So that would be a
legacy for other students
00:29:09.50\00:29:13.74
to come for next year.
00:29:13.77\00:29:14.80
Subsequent
architectural classes coming.
00:29:14.83\00:29:16.73
In fact, we got a picture.
Let's put that on the screen.
00:29:16.76\00:29:19.47
You have us, we left the cave.
00:29:19.50\00:29:21.63
We're all writing
there in the light,
00:29:21.66\00:29:23.07
writing prayers or
promises or testimonies
00:29:23.10\00:29:26.84
and then we put
it in that lock box
00:29:26.87\00:29:29.54
and you and Mrs. D
go back into the cave
00:29:29.57\00:29:32.04
'cause the
strategy Kathy is that
00:29:32.07\00:29:33.71
you're gonna
remember where this is.
00:29:33.74\00:29:35.60
Next year when you
bring the next class.
00:29:35.63\00:29:37.23
Now we got a
picture I think of you
00:29:37.26\00:29:39.34
uh, Kevin burying that.
00:29:39.37\00:29:40.83
Yup, I hope you can find that.
00:29:40.86\00:29:43.85
I think we can.
00:29:43.88\00:29:44.91
Yeah, because it's
the-Kevin, it's passing it on
00:29:44.94\00:29:48.56
to the next class
and the next class.
00:29:48.59\00:29:50.25
What we read in Deuteronomy 4.
00:29:50.28\00:29:51.45
Just keep passing it on
00:29:51.48\00:29:52.76
to the next generation
and the next generation.
00:29:52.79\00:29:54.45
It's good for you.
00:29:54.48\00:29:55.51
If you let me pastor,
uh, you just read a verse.
00:29:55.54\00:29:59.37
In the beginning of your sermon.
00:29:59.40\00:30:01.64
I think we missed
one, very important one.
00:30:04.16\00:30:06.53
This is in
Hebrews? This is in Hebrews.
00:30:06.56\00:30:07.95
All right.
00:30:07.98\00:30:09.01
Hebrew 11, the last verse of 11.
00:30:09.04\00:30:13.01
Read it for us.
00:30:13.04\00:30:14.07
It's 39, listen,
00:30:14.10\00:30:16.46
"These were all
commended for their faith,
00:30:16.49\00:30:21.06
yet none of them
received what was
00:30:21.09\00:30:24.10
or what had been
promised to them."
00:30:24.13\00:30:27.53
It's very important.
00:30:27.56\00:30:29.05
It says, "God had
planned something better for us
00:30:29.08\00:30:33.20
so that only
together with them and us...
00:30:33.23\00:30:38.59
Halleluiah.
00:30:38.62\00:30:39.90
"They would be made perfect."
00:30:39.93\00:30:42.23
I believe we are
in those times pastor.
00:30:42.26\00:30:45.62
We are that generation to
make their sacrifice perfect.
00:30:45.65\00:30:51.86
So it's our time.
00:30:51.89\00:30:53.35
Thank you for that.
00:30:53.38\00:30:55.57
We have music
there and of course
00:30:55.60\00:30:58.43
when you
celebrate the cross music
00:30:58.46\00:31:00.89
is front and centre.
00:31:00.92\00:31:02.66
We had a makeshift
quartet on the spot.
00:31:02.69\00:31:04.84
You guys did great and so I said
00:31:04.87\00:31:06.40
"hey when we do this in church,
00:31:06.43\00:31:08.49
would you sing it
in Spanish as you did?
00:31:08.52\00:31:10.50
So guys come on up here.
00:31:10.53\00:31:13.42
This quartet from the
School of Architecture singing,
00:31:13.45\00:31:17.66
singing the hymn that
was first sung in public
00:31:17.69\00:31:20.52
just a stone
throw up poking at road
00:31:20.55\00:31:22.43
in your Andrews University
and all of you alumni remember
00:31:22.46\00:31:24.47
which hymn that was
"The Old Rugged Cross."
00:31:24.50\00:31:27.51
Sing for us
guys, stanza in Spanish
00:31:27.54\00:31:31.62
and then the chorus and
then we all are gonna sing
00:31:31.65\00:31:34.77
the chorus again but
we'll sing it in English.
00:31:34.80\00:31:36.45
We'll sing it with them.
00:31:36.48\00:31:40.73
So I'll cherish
00:33:02.83\00:33:05.93
The old rugged cross
00:33:05.96\00:33:11.59
Till my trophies at last
00:33:11.62\00:33:15.65
I lay down
00:33:15.68\00:33:19.86
I will cling
00:33:19.89\00:33:22.25
To the old rugged cross
00:33:22.28\00:33:28.99
And exchange it
00:33:29.02\00:33:31.51
Someday for a crown
00:33:31.54\00:33:37.36
Thank you
gentlemen. Amen indeed.
00:33:39.87\00:33:42.19
It's a truth of Calvary
00:33:42.22\00:33:43.54
that binds God's
community of faith together
00:33:43.57\00:33:45.67
from A.D.31 all the
way to the end of times,
00:33:45.70\00:33:49.02
that old rugged cross.
00:33:49.05\00:33:51.73
It is at the heart of
this community of faith.
00:33:51.76\00:33:54.53
Thank you, gentleman.
And thank you, Kristy.
00:33:54.56\00:33:57.61
And, Kevin, let's go
up to our last segment
00:33:57.64\00:34:00.15
because there is one more
bit of Waldensian architecture
00:34:00.18\00:34:02.97
that we need to talk about.
00:34:03.00\00:34:04.69
I'm gonna invite Michael,
00:34:04.72\00:34:06.45
you come back up
here please and Amanda
00:34:06.48\00:34:10.27
and let' talk, Kathy,
about the College of the Barbes.
00:34:10.30\00:34:15.10
Who in the world were they?
00:34:15.13\00:34:16.35
Who in the world?
00:34:16.38\00:34:17.44
They were the pastors or
the missionaries actually
00:34:17.47\00:34:21.25
uh, since
scripture was totally central
00:34:21.28\00:34:23.59
to their lives they
built this little college
00:34:23.62\00:34:26.26
which I think we
can see it hopefully.
00:34:26.29\00:34:27.66
Let's put the
picture up there, yeah.
00:34:27.69\00:34:30.38
Little stone building
00:34:30.41\00:34:32.86
but think of
what happened there.
00:34:32.89\00:34:34.93
They not only
memorized scripture,
00:34:34.96\00:34:37.47
the gospels, the epistles,
but they copied scripture
00:34:37.50\00:34:40.92
on little pieces
of paper and segments,
00:34:40.95\00:34:42.98
they can roll up and
hide in their clothing
00:34:43.01\00:34:45.43
as they went out as
missionaries by twos.
00:34:45.46\00:34:47.22
In fact we got a
picture of that round table
00:34:47.25\00:34:49.57
where you were
telling us that is actually
00:34:49.60\00:34:51.58
where they sat and
did the transcriptions.
00:34:51.61\00:34:54.69
By candlelight and
mostly in the winters.
00:34:54.72\00:34:57.45
So snow is covering the whole.
00:34:57.48\00:34:58.76
Covered the whole.
00:34:58.79\00:34:59.84
Probably covered
the whole college.
00:34:59.87\00:35:00.92
It did.
00:35:00.95\00:35:02.03
Kids there and the young adults
00:35:02.06\00:35:03.26
are in there being
trained because the objective
00:35:03.29\00:35:07.22
is not to leave them
on the mountains site.
00:35:07.25\00:35:08.91
What's the objective?
00:35:08.94\00:35:10.67
Well, they actually,
many of them went on to study
00:35:10.70\00:35:13.46
in seminaries of the world,
Paris, Lombardi, other schools
00:35:13.49\00:35:17.34
and then they came
back to go out by twos
00:35:17.37\00:35:20.47
and they didn't
know when they went out.
00:35:20.50\00:35:22.40
They just went for
two years at a time.
00:35:22.43\00:35:25.22
They didn't know if
they would come back.
00:35:25.25\00:35:26.98
And they went out
multi disciplined.
00:35:27.01\00:35:28.27
They went out as merchants.
00:35:28.30\00:35:29.80
They went out as business people
00:35:29.83\00:35:31.57
but inside secret...
00:35:31.60\00:35:33.89
secret undercover
as we say missionaries.
00:35:33.92\00:35:37.50
So, Michael, you were there.
00:35:37.53\00:35:38.58
You were at the
pinnacle of Castelluzzo,
00:35:38.61\00:35:41.67
we were together
in the cave, college.
00:35:41.70\00:35:44.38
I've read your paper.
00:35:44.41\00:35:45.74
You come home, you're
thinking about all this.
00:35:45.77\00:35:48.53
What's the spirit
doing inside of you?
00:35:48.56\00:35:51.87
Well, basically after
seeing these different things
00:35:51.90\00:35:55.15
and also reading
the story from the book
00:35:55.18\00:35:57.23
that we read in class.
00:35:57.26\00:36:00.57
It was a moving moment in that.
00:36:00.60\00:36:02.14
It was pushing me to think about
00:36:02.17\00:36:04.70
what was so worthy
00:36:04.73\00:36:06.97
of this people
giving their lives away.
00:36:07.00\00:36:08.99
That's our most precious gift.
00:36:09.02\00:36:12.23
What so worthy of that.
00:36:12.26\00:36:13.86
And obviously I
came to the conclusion
00:36:13.89\00:36:16.61
that it was the
relationship with Christ
00:36:16.64\00:36:19.31
that was worth
more than life itself
00:36:19.34\00:36:22.74
and that was
powerful and it struck me
00:36:22.77\00:36:25.02
and that is how the relationship
00:36:25.05\00:36:26.26
with Jesus is like.
00:36:26.29\00:36:27.37
It's worth more than lives,
00:36:27.40\00:36:29.71
than our lives
and they knew that.
00:36:29.74\00:36:32.44
And that's why
they gave up their lives
00:36:32.47\00:36:34.42
for something better.
00:36:34.45\00:36:36.12
Um, powerful, powerful.
00:36:36.15\00:36:39.52
We had vivacious French-
Italian guy named Danielle.
00:36:39.55\00:36:44.60
And she sings the songs, Amanda,
00:36:44.63\00:36:46.82
for one of our morning worships.
00:36:46.85\00:36:48.20
She came early
'cause she is gonna take us
00:36:48.23\00:36:49.75
to the next stop wherever.
00:36:49.78\00:36:52.27
I'd only heard that
song once in my life before
00:36:52.30\00:36:54.46
and we got the
hold of the words.
00:36:54.49\00:36:56.05
Would you sing it for
us? The "Border of Red."
00:36:56.08\00:36:58.53
It's a metaphor of
martyrdom and there's a stanza.
00:36:58.56\00:37:00.88
You just sing that stanza
00:37:00.91\00:37:01.95
that applies to
the Waldensian's story?
00:37:01.98\00:37:04.61
Thank you.
00:37:04.64\00:37:09.18
There's a border
of red on his garment
00:37:15.07\00:37:22.53
His robe is a glistening white
00:37:22.56\00:37:29.30
He lives on a
street that's called Holy
00:37:29.33\00:37:36.81
His star-studded
crown glitters bright
00:37:36.84\00:37:43.93
He walks with
the ransomed of ages
00:37:43.96\00:37:50.88
Beloved of all Heaven, it's said
00:37:50.91\00:37:57.36
Why is he so honored in Heaven?
00:37:57.39\00:38:04.17
Tell me, why is
the border of red?
00:38:04.20\00:38:11.02
He was slain in
the valleys of Piedmont
00:38:11.05\00:38:18.17
Killed at the door of his home
00:38:18.20\00:38:24.05
And pursued o'er
the Waldensian mountains
00:38:24.08\00:38:30.88
To be slain by
the legions of Rome
00:38:30.91\00:38:37.36
Despised by his simple religion
00:38:37.39\00:38:43.86
For Jesus he suffered and bled
00:38:43.89\00:38:50.55
But now he will
wear through the ages
00:38:50.58\00:38:57.62
The robe with the border of red
00:38:57.65\00:39:03.98
There's a border
of red on his garment
00:39:04.01\00:39:10.76
His robe is a glistening white
00:39:10.79\00:39:17.49
He lives on a
street that's called Holy
00:39:17.52\00:39:24.24
His star-studded
crown glitters bright
00:39:24.27\00:39:30.89
He walks with
the ransomed of ages
00:39:30.92\00:39:37.54
Beloved of all Heaven, it's said
00:39:37.57\00:39:44.11
Why is he so honored in Heaven?
00:39:44.14\00:39:50.65
Tell me, why is
the border of red?
00:39:50.68\00:39:58.42
Turns out
gentlemen we are all children
00:40:06.77\00:40:11.05
of the Waldensens, aren't we?
00:40:11.08\00:40:12.68
All of us.
00:40:12.71\00:40:14.00
Not just young
adults, every single one of us
00:40:14.03\00:40:17.50
is related to that set
00:40:17.53\00:40:20.13
to that
interrupted Alpine valley.
00:40:20.16\00:40:26.20
So why are we
sharing this story today?
00:40:26.23\00:40:29.81
I'll tell you why.
00:40:29.84\00:40:31.84
It's not an itinerary,
00:40:31.87\00:40:33.06
it's not a little
bit of travel log.
00:40:33.09\00:40:36.36
The fact of the matter remains
00:40:36.39\00:40:37.99
that this Waldensian
Community models for us
00:40:38.02\00:40:42.30
radical commitment to mission.
00:40:42.33\00:40:46.01
Preservation of Holy Scriptures,
00:40:46.04\00:40:48.91
promulgation of Holy Scriptures.
00:40:48.94\00:40:55.83
As I think about
these young adults
00:40:55.86\00:40:58.10
who made their way out
of those Alpine Valleys,
00:40:58.13\00:41:03.81
moved in every
strata of society,
00:41:03.84\00:41:07.33
infiltrating for Christ,
00:41:07.36\00:41:09.25
I cannot but thank
alumni and Andrews University.
00:41:09.28\00:41:13.96
And in fact the 3,000 students
00:41:13.99\00:41:15.83
that have come
to this institution
00:41:15.86\00:41:19.01
are being called to become
a generation just like that.
00:41:19.04\00:41:21.78
Multi disciplined, you're moving
00:41:21.81\00:41:23.38
whatever your training is,
00:41:23.41\00:41:25.75
moving to whatever
field God has called you to
00:41:25.78\00:41:28.84
but in the process you
move as a radical missionary
00:41:28.87\00:41:33.53
for the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:41:33.56\00:41:36.65
Three years ago we
began on this Alumni Sabbath
00:41:36.68\00:41:41.60
devoting the second service
00:41:41.63\00:41:43.26
to an appeal for
student missionaries.
00:41:43.29\00:41:46.12
And so today I'm just
gonna-- without any music,
00:41:46.15\00:41:49.15
without any
fanfare make an invitation.
00:41:49.18\00:41:54.53
Want to speak first
00:41:54.56\00:41:55.94
to our university
students who are here.
00:41:55.97\00:41:58.98
If you are an young
adult in preparation
00:41:59.01\00:42:00.63
as these School of
Architecture students
00:42:00.66\00:42:03.93
are as they were in
the College of the Barbes
00:42:03.96\00:42:06.29
there in those Alpine meadows.
00:42:06.32\00:42:09.46
If you're young
adult in preparation
00:42:09.49\00:42:12.41
for your life
calling and you would be
00:42:12.44\00:42:14.20
willing today to
commit your profession,
00:42:14.23\00:42:19.65
your career as an
entering wedge for Christ
00:42:19.68\00:42:23.02
somewhere on this planet
00:42:23.05\00:42:26.72
as ultimately a
missionary for the savior.
00:42:26.75\00:42:32.24
I'd like to invite you to stand
00:42:32.27\00:42:36.34
to your feet right now.
00:42:36.37\00:42:38.87
You are a university student
willing to commit yourself,
00:42:38.90\00:42:45.36
your career, whatever it is that
00:42:45.39\00:42:47.60
God is getting
ready to lead you.
00:42:47.63\00:42:51.83
But willing to commit yourself
00:42:51.86\00:42:52.98
to be an
entering wedge for Christ
00:42:53.01\00:42:55.49
at some level of society
00:42:55.52\00:42:57.61
wherever it is
that God called you.
00:42:57.64\00:43:00.98
You're student at
Andrews University.
00:43:01.01\00:43:04.49
You're young adult
in this generation.
00:43:04.52\00:43:10.92
God bless you.
00:43:10.95\00:43:14.40
Now this appeal needs to
be more specific than that.
00:43:14.43\00:43:18.71
And that is if
there are some of you
00:43:18.74\00:43:20.30
who have been wrestling over,
00:43:20.33\00:43:21.96
"shall I take a year
out of my academic journey
00:43:21.99\00:43:26.19
and become a missionary,
00:43:26.22\00:43:28.26
leave the campus as
this young adults did,
00:43:28.29\00:43:31.22
these Waldensian young adults.
00:43:31.25\00:43:33.22
Move into society, move
into some country on earth
00:43:33.25\00:43:36.38
and there as a representative
of Christ, serve humanity.
00:43:36.41\00:43:40.77
Some of you have been wrestling,
00:43:40.80\00:43:42.58
you wrestled last year and said,
00:43:42.61\00:43:43.66
"Boy, I don't know if
this is really for me,
00:43:43.69\00:43:45.34
if I can give that year."
00:43:45.37\00:43:48.57
Or some of you
have come to the place
00:43:48.60\00:43:49.77
in your walk with
Jesus where you're saying,
00:43:49.80\00:43:51.44
you know, I
believe I could carve that
00:43:51.47\00:43:54.29
into my Andrews
University journey.
00:43:54.32\00:43:57.75
I need to make this invitation,
00:43:57.78\00:43:59.08
if you would be
willing to give a year
00:43:59.11\00:44:02.10
of your life here
at Andrews University,
00:44:02.13\00:44:04.80
as a student missionary
somewhere on this planet,
00:44:04.83\00:44:07.90
would you mind coming
right down here to the front?
00:44:07.93\00:44:12.75
I'd like to have
a prayer with you
00:44:12.78\00:44:14.54
as you begin the way is this.
00:44:14.57\00:44:19.91
Is this the calling
Christ has given to me?
00:44:19.94\00:44:22.30
Some of you haven't
even thought about it
00:44:22.41\00:44:23.68
until this very
moment, that's okay.
00:44:23.71\00:44:25.32
You are not gonna be shipped off
00:44:25.35\00:44:27.89
somewhere today
or even this year.
00:44:27.92\00:44:31.88
But if you would be willing
in the context of this story
00:44:31.91\00:44:37.53
generation after generation
these Waldensian young adults
00:44:37.56\00:44:40.46
who fending out in the society
00:44:40.49\00:44:44.10
undercover
missionaries for Christ.
00:44:44.13\00:44:45.77
When does a doctor
but he really show up
00:44:45.80\00:44:49.96
as an agent of his kingdom?
00:44:49.99\00:44:51.05
You go as a teacher
but you really show up
00:44:51.08\00:44:53.78
as one that propagate His truth.
00:44:53.81\00:44:58.58
You go as a business
person but you really show up
00:44:58.61\00:45:03.17
as one whose heart is
saying, you know what?
00:45:03.20\00:45:08.50
Jesus has a border
of red on his garment.
00:45:08.53\00:45:11.03
He paid the ultimate sacrifice
00:45:11.06\00:45:13.72
just to get me into the kingdom.
00:45:13.75\00:45:16.91
I'd love to do
something for Jesus.
00:45:16.94\00:45:19.85
I'd love to go as
a student missionary.
00:45:19.88\00:45:22.49
You'd say, Dwight,
what's the big deal.
00:45:22.52\00:45:23.55
I mean, you know,
so I'm gonna go out,
00:45:23.58\00:45:25.40
I'll just be a-- I'll
be missionary for Jesus
00:45:25.43\00:45:27.03
after I leave
Andrews University.
00:45:27.06\00:45:29.05
Well, halleluiah for you.
00:45:29.08\00:45:30.30
We need-- we
absolutely do need that.
00:45:30.33\00:45:33.29
But I've been
here just long enough
00:45:33.32\00:45:34.83
at Andrews
University to know that
00:45:34.86\00:45:37.04
when young adults
move out on a mission trips
00:45:37.07\00:45:39.77
something supernatural
takes place in those lives.
00:45:39.80\00:45:42.87
I've seen--
00:45:42.90\00:45:43.94
I've seen the
students come back.
00:45:43.97\00:45:46.35
There is a change.
00:45:46.38\00:45:48.12
There is uh, I'm not sure
00:45:48.15\00:45:51.13
what the word
is to apply to this
00:45:51.16\00:45:53.53
but there has
been a paradigm shift
00:45:53.56\00:45:56.18
inside that young
mind, inside that heart.
00:45:56.21\00:46:01.24
And so if you'd be
willing to consider a year
00:46:01.27\00:46:06.69
in the service of Christ
somewhere on this planet,
00:46:06.72\00:46:10.87
I'm gonna wait
just a moment longer.
00:46:10.90\00:46:12.95
I'd like to invite
you to come forward.
00:46:12.98\00:46:14.06
We got our chaplain permissions,
00:46:14.09\00:46:16.24
and he, he's gonna give you
00:46:16.27\00:46:20.97
a packet materials you can
take a look at it and wait.
00:46:21.00\00:46:23.94
Would you be willing
today to commit to that mission?
00:46:23.97\00:46:29.52
Anybody else?
00:46:29.55\00:46:34.24
I want to say a word to
the alumni who are here.
00:46:35.62\00:46:39.41
You have been
missionaries in your own--
00:46:39.44\00:46:42.28
in your own way,
in your own calling.
00:46:42.31\00:46:46.35
Obviously we got a giant statue.
00:46:46.38\00:46:50.09
Let me put on the
screen for you sitting
00:46:50.12\00:46:51.32
right outside the
front door of this church.
00:46:51.35\00:46:54.07
Everybody knows
John Nevins Andrews.
00:46:54.10\00:46:57.58
It's more than obvious that
00:46:57.61\00:46:58.70
this
institution has been named--
00:46:58.73\00:47:01.52
named for the purpose
of linking higher education
00:47:01.55\00:47:05.47
to the calling of a missionary.
00:47:05.50\00:47:06.66
First missionary of
our community of faith,
00:47:06.69\00:47:08.46
there he is with his
kids, literally anyway.
00:47:08.49\00:47:14.52
Andrews University alumni,
00:47:14.55\00:47:16.97
your support over the years
00:47:17.00\00:47:18.67
has provided the
financial bedrock
00:47:18.70\00:47:21.04
for our student missionaries
and today we're gonna--
00:47:21.07\00:47:23.70
we're gonna conclude our service
00:47:23.73\00:47:25.55
with an invitation to you
00:47:25.58\00:47:28.02
to support the
student missionary,
00:47:28.05\00:47:30.86
vision of this university.
00:47:30.89\00:47:33.10
Inside your--
00:47:33.13\00:47:34.59
your worship bullet
in there is an envelope.
00:47:34.62\00:47:36.26
I've got mine on the floor here
and I'm not gonna pick it up,
00:47:36.29\00:47:38.16
but if you open up your
alumni worship bulletin,
00:47:38.19\00:47:41.24
there is an envelope designating
00:47:41.27\00:47:44.79
your gifts
specifically to young adults,
00:47:44.82\00:47:48.92
who like the
Waldensian young are committed
00:47:48.95\00:47:52.53
to taking the kingdom of Christ
00:47:52.56\00:47:54.51
through their disciplines
some place on this planet
00:47:54.54\00:47:57.36
while they are here
at Andrews University.
00:47:57.39\00:48:01.91
I'd love for you to have a part.
00:48:01.94\00:48:02.98
I know you're already giving.
00:48:03.01\00:48:04.77
You've already
given to the university.
00:48:04.80\00:48:06.02
You have your causes
00:48:06.05\00:48:07.17
and your
missions that you support.
00:48:07.20\00:48:08.80
I want you to take a look at
00:48:08.83\00:48:09.90
these children of the Waldenses.
00:48:09.93\00:48:13.14
Take a look at these
children of the Waldenses
00:48:13.17\00:48:14.94
and I ask you what
cause could be more vital
00:48:14.97\00:48:21.03
for your financial commitment
than to move these young adults
00:48:21.06\00:48:25.28
into the world for Christ.
00:48:25.31\00:48:26.94
If you'd like to have a part
00:48:26.97\00:48:28.03
in our student
missionary annual appeal,
00:48:28.06\00:48:31.95
that envelope is in
your worship bulletin today.
00:48:31.98\00:48:34.74
Would you take
it out? Would you--
00:48:34.77\00:48:36.07
Would you scribble
something down there.
00:48:36.10\00:48:37.86
You'd say now, Dwight,
00:48:37.89\00:48:39.32
I didn't come
prepared to make a big gift.
00:48:39.35\00:48:41.56
You can go home
and then be prepared
00:48:41.59\00:48:43.27
to make that big
gift but we really do
00:48:43.30\00:48:45.62
need your financial
partnership in this mission.
00:48:45.65\00:48:53.01
There's a hymn in
our hymn notes, Hymn 578.
00:48:53.04\00:48:56.21
I wish you pull that hymnal out,
00:48:56.24\00:48:57.43
we're not gonna
sing all four stanzas
00:48:57.46\00:48:58.94
but I'd like to
sing the first stanza,
00:48:58.97\00:49:05.46
second stanza
and then we'll sing
00:49:05.49\00:49:07.12
the last stanza as well.
00:49:07.15\00:49:10.31
I want to ask the young
adults to keep standing,
00:49:10.34\00:49:12.95
ask the rest of
you remain seated
00:49:12.98\00:49:14.59
while we sing this.
00:49:14.62\00:49:16.36
If you are young
adult and something--
00:49:16.39\00:49:17.68
as you even sing these words,
00:49:17.71\00:49:19.28
God speaks to you
through these word.
00:49:19.31\00:49:20.48
He says, "Hey I'm sending you.
00:49:20.51\00:49:21.54
I'm not calling you to life of--
00:49:21.57\00:49:23.38
I'm not calling
you to life of comfort,
00:49:23.41\00:49:25.10
I am calling to you to
life of radical service to me."
00:49:25.13\00:49:28.92
And your heart is touched
by the spirit even as we sing,
00:49:28.95\00:49:31.79
I want to invite you
please to come out as well
00:49:31.82\00:49:33.42
and join us here at the front.
00:49:33.45\00:49:35.33
The ushers are
gonna move right now
00:49:35.36\00:49:36.95
through the
audience to receive your gift
00:49:36.98\00:49:39.88
to student missionary ministry.
00:49:39.91\00:49:43.37
Let's sing "So send I
you" call of Christ to service.
00:49:43.40\00:49:48.64
So send I you-by grace
00:50:07.24\00:50:11.86
Made strong to triumph
00:50:11.89\00:50:16.27
O'er hosts of hell
00:50:16.30\00:50:19.74
O'er darkness, death, and sin
00:50:19.77\00:50:24.73
My name to bear
00:50:24.76\00:50:28.24
And that name to conquer-
00:50:28.27\00:50:33.39
So send I you
00:50:33.42\00:50:37.18
My victory to win
00:50:37.21\00:50:43.74
So send I you
00:50:43.77\00:50:47.30
To take souls in bondage
00:50:47.33\00:50:52.98
The word of truth
00:50:53.01\00:50:56.44
That sets the captive free
00:50:56.47\00:51:01.65
To break the bonds of sin
00:51:01.68\00:51:06.21
To loose death's fetters-
00:51:06.24\00:51:11.17
So send I you
00:51:11.20\00:51:14.65
To bring the lost to Me
00:51:14.68\00:51:20.85
So send I you-to bear
00:51:23.44\00:51:28.23
My cross with patience
00:51:28.26\00:51:32.74
And then one day
00:51:32.77\00:51:36.28
With joy to lay it down
00:51:36.31\00:51:41.96
To hear My voice
00:51:41.99\00:51:45.82
'Well done, My faithful servant-
00:51:45.85\00:51:52.06
Come share My throne
00:51:52.09\00:51:56.26
My kingdom, and My crown!
00:51:56.29\00:52:02.88
As the Father hath sent Me
00:52:04.97\00:52:11.74
So send I you
00:52:13.68\00:52:20.63
How about the rest of us
children of the Waldenses,
00:52:25.41\00:52:27.49
we want to our
lives, recommit ourselves
00:52:27.52\00:52:29.58
for the Christ's mission today?
00:52:29.61\00:52:31.38
I know you do.
00:52:31.41\00:52:32.47
Stand with me in
that recommitment.
00:52:32.50\00:52:35.84
Offer our all to Christ.
00:52:35.87\00:52:37.15
Jesus, you take us,
you use us on this campus,
00:52:37.18\00:52:40.93
off this campus,
wherever You put us,
00:52:40.96\00:52:42.91
use us to shine
the light in darkness.
00:52:42.94\00:52:48.35
Oh Christ, we stand border
of red is on your garment.
00:52:48.38\00:52:55.33
You poured out your life
00:52:55.36\00:52:57.44
for a lost civilization in world
00:52:57.47\00:53:00.56
because You did that we
are even in the church today
00:53:00.59\00:53:04.43
and so we stand in the sense
00:53:04.46\00:53:06.13
of deep
gratitude and indebtedness.
00:53:06.16\00:53:10.21
We are thankful Holy
Christ for what You have done.
00:53:10.24\00:53:14.88
We stand together as
an act of solidarity.
00:53:14.91\00:53:19.40
We are the
children of the Waldenses.
00:53:19.43\00:53:22.55
Their legacy has
been handed on to us.
00:53:22.58\00:53:26.67
Preservation of Holy Scripture,
00:53:26.70\00:53:33.57
propagation of holy truth.
00:53:33.60\00:53:37.11
That's why we
came to EMC years ago.
00:53:37.14\00:53:40.09
That's why we enrolled
in Andrews University today.
00:53:40.12\00:53:42.11
We stand in solidarity as
children of the Waldenses.
00:53:42.14\00:53:46.70
Take our determination.
Shift the paradigm for us.
00:53:46.73\00:53:52.57
When we go home usher
us into the next level
00:53:52.60\00:53:56.25
of the high
calling of your mission.
00:53:56.28\00:53:58.80
And finally oh,
Jesus, these young adults
00:53:58.83\00:54:01.31
who are standing
across the sanctuary
00:54:01.34\00:54:04.22
and these who have come forward,
00:54:04.25\00:54:07.02
they are Your
children, whatever Your vision
00:54:07.05\00:54:11.00
is for his life or
her life make it clear,
00:54:11.03\00:54:14.67
these who came forward and--
00:54:14.70\00:54:16.07
and have said
"I'll give a year--
00:54:16.10\00:54:18.05
I'll give a year of my life here
00:54:18.08\00:54:21.08
for the sake of
Christ's kingdom.
00:54:21.11\00:54:23.37
Oh, Lord, honor--
honor that decision.
00:54:23.40\00:54:27.49
Grow that commitment.
00:54:27.52\00:54:30.77
They will never come
back to their little world
00:54:30.80\00:54:34.86
the same for having
made that commitment.
00:54:34.89\00:54:39.33
Manage the details,
lead them on the journey
00:54:39.36\00:54:43.29
and one day soon
00:54:43.32\00:54:45.95
as our architect students
have reminded us one day soon
00:54:45.98\00:54:48.91
when the
generations are reunited again
00:54:48.94\00:54:52.31
uh, the joy, Holy Christ
of worshipping You with them,
00:54:52.34\00:54:57.35
all of us, children
of the King at last.
00:54:57.38\00:55:00.58
May not one of us standing today
00:55:00.61\00:55:02.41
missing on that glorious day
00:55:02.44\00:55:04.76
when You return
for Your children.
00:55:04.79\00:55:08.16
We pray in Your holy name.
00:55:08.19\00:55:10.31
Let all the
people say amen and amen.
00:55:10.34\00:55:16.11
Before you go, I
wanted to take one more moment
00:55:23.32\00:55:25.94
and let you know how glad I am
00:55:25.97\00:55:27.45
to share this hour of worship
and Bible teaching with us.
00:55:27.48\00:55:30.32
This is Pioneer Memorial Church.
00:55:30.35\00:55:32.00
We are on the campus
of Andrews University
00:55:32.03\00:55:33.91
and the series is the Chosen.
00:55:33.94\00:55:36.25
This is the series
that has been growing
00:55:36.28\00:55:38.13
and it's burned on my hurt
and over the last few weeks
00:55:38.16\00:55:42.51
before this new
season began in some--
00:55:42.54\00:55:45.27
some concentrated prayer time,
00:55:45.30\00:55:46.71
I believe the Spirit of God
00:55:46.74\00:55:48.23
led me to this series out
of the Book of Deuteronomy
00:55:48.26\00:55:50.82
for this generation
within our community of faith
00:55:50.85\00:55:53.40
and outside this
community of faith.
00:55:53.43\00:55:55.49
I believe both communities
00:55:55.52\00:55:58.60
need to hear the
compelling Bible truth
00:55:58.63\00:56:03.20
captured in the
series called The Chosen.
00:56:03.23\00:56:04.67
So thank you for
joining-- joining me
00:56:04.70\00:56:06.52
and all of us as we
continue our journey
00:56:06.55\00:56:08.84
deeper and deeper into
the heart of this theme.
00:56:08.87\00:56:11.67
Living as you and do and I'm --
00:56:11.70\00:56:13.87
I'm I know I'm
preaching to the choir now.
00:56:13.90\00:56:16.34
Living as we do on the
edge of the civilization
00:56:16.37\00:56:19.38
that is surviving through
constant upheaval and change.
00:56:19.41\00:56:23.49
I am so grateful
and I know you are
00:56:23.52\00:56:25.71
for the bedrock
hope we have in Jesus.
00:56:25.74\00:56:29.26
I'm thankful that
you and I have been given
00:56:29.29\00:56:31.02
the privilege by God to
partner to reach this generation
00:56:31.05\00:56:34.80
the world over through
the satellite telecast.
00:56:34.83\00:56:37.01
I don't know how it works.
00:56:37.04\00:56:38.15
I just know that those
satellites drop the signals
00:56:38.18\00:56:41.24
and those
footprints all over the planet
00:56:41.27\00:56:43.26
are helping
disseminate this divine call
00:56:43.29\00:56:46.76
to become a part of the chosen.
00:56:46.79\00:56:48.41
God's last generation on earth.
00:56:48.44\00:56:50.05
So please, this is
what I wanted you to know.
00:56:50.08\00:56:52.00
I thank God for you.
00:56:52.03\00:56:54.16
The generous way
you have partnered
00:56:54.19\00:56:55.41
with us in the past
00:56:55.44\00:56:56.92
and making new
perceptions possible globally.
00:56:56.95\00:57:00.35
Your tax deductible
gifts are being multiplied
00:57:00.38\00:57:02.71
all across the earth I
believe for such a time as this.
00:57:02.74\00:57:06.34
Look, if you'd like to order
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00:57:13.95\00:57:15.86
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Thank you very, very much
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and be assured
I'm looking forward
00:57:54.73\00:57:56.14
to seeing you here right here
00:57:56.17\00:57:58.68
again next time as we continue
00:57:58.71\00:58:01.08
our fascinating
journey into The Chosen.
00:58:01.11\00:58:04.33
God bless you.
00:58:04.36\00:58:06.67