And hail him as
thy matchless King
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Through all eternity
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Sing it, Worthy is the Lamb.
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Seated on the throne
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Crown You now with many crowns
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You reign victorious
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High and lifted up
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Jesus, Son of God
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The Darling of Heaven crucified
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy is the Lamb
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the world
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The troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Going home to live with God
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world,
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Troubles of the world,
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Troubles of the world.
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Going home to live with God
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I want to meet my mother
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I want to meet my mother
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I want to meet my mother
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I'm going home to live
with God I'll be going...
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I want to meet my mother
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I want to meet my mother
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I want to meet my mother
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I'm going home to live with God
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the world
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Troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Going home to live with God
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the world
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Troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Going home to live with God
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I'm going to live with God
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No more crying No more tears
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No more suffering
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No more crying No more tears
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Troubles of the world
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Troubles of the world
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Soon I will be done with
the troubles of the world
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Going home to live with God
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I'm going home to live with God
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I want to meet my Jesus
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I'm going home to live with God
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I'm going home to live with God
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With God
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Powerful, powerful,
perfect song for a Sabbath
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in which we are
celebrating two anniversaries,
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perfect song they just sang.
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It's in the confluence
of these two anniversaries
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and their juxtaposition today,
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that I have been pondering
God's call to the chosen.
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One anniversary for four days
from today and 490 years ago.
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A young German, priest,
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pastor and professor
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strode across
the least room plaza
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of the tiny little village,
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walked up to the
castle church door,
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wooden, pounded onto that door,
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95 challenges to
the sale of indulgences
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by the church
of the middle ages.
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October 31, 1517 in
the village of Wittenberg,
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just in Germany four weeks ago,
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just to be in that
nation where Martin Luther.
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Wow, Martin Luther,
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unwittingly ignited
the spiritual revolution
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that we still call
the Protestor Reformation.
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Four days from
now, the anniversary,
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four days before
today another anniversary.
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Four days plus 163 years ago,
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a middle age
American Baptist farmer
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turned preacher
in upstate New York,
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quietly awaited the fulfillment
of four passionate years
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of preaching his heart out.
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So convicted and
convince was he of the veracity
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of the Daniels prophecies
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that he had unashamedly
predicted on the authority
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of the word of God
that on October 22, 1844
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Jesus would
return to this planet.
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So four days ago
plus 163 years ago,
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William Miller and
thousands of Christian believers
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up and down the eastern seaboard
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counted the hours
until Jesus would come.
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Soon I will be
done with the troubles
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of the world, going home.
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They hoped and prayed
but Jesus didn't come.
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So 490 years after Martin Luther
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and 163 years
after William Miller,
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we're still here.
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The Protestor Reformation
is still in progress.
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In fact, I carry in
the back of my Bible
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a quotation just
to buck my spirits
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up at times when
I get discouraged.
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A quotation that
declares the reformation
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did not end with Martin Luther
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but that reformation
that he ignited shall continue
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until the last day
of earth's history,
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that reformation must go on.
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And it occurs to me in a
university setting like this
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that we have some
young Martin Luther's here.
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We have some young
William Millers here
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or Wilhelmina Millers here.
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We've got you here, God
has already spotted you.
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You weren't born by accident,
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this series began reminding you,
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you are a child a destiny.
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You are you because
God called you to live.
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So we're still here,
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which is why we're tracking
the footsteps of the chosen
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through the
wilderness to the Promise Land.
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We're on the same journey
going to the promise land,
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also wandering
in this wilderness,
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this series "The Chosen."
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We come to the
heart of this series
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for critical issues
to the children of Israel
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as they tiptoed across
those hot deserts sands
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and obviously these four
issues are critical to us
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because in our pulpit survey,
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this last spring
you wrote it down.
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I want to know about this,
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this, this and
this and so these four
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what do we do with the prophet,
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that was last time
you and I were together.
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How to stone the prophet?
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Question number two,
what do we do with the diet?
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Read, alcohol,
that would be today.
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Question number three,
what do we do with the dress?
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That's coming up next Sabbath,
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how much of naked is acceptable.
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Question number four,
what do we do with the sex?
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That's two Sabbaths from now.
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How to live
without sex for a while?
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And in the second
service only, as we will today,
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we will end with live Q and A.
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Any question that you
have on the subject today,
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I hope you'll ask and I
hope I'll have the answers.
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But let's hear the
question, we'll check together.
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So today, you get a question
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in the middle of
the presentation here,
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scribble it down.
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All right, just scribble it down
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then step up to
one of these mics,
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then we'll be ready to go.
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Let's pray.
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Oh, God, soon I will be done
with the troubles of the world,
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going home to live with God.
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That passion has
ignited generations
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since the days of
Enoch on this planet.
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We're not abandoning that hope,
that our university raised up
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because of that
hope as we worship today,
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in Holy Scripture.
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Please, please
let this be clear,
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that the spirit
of access to my mind
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and all of our minds,
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for the sake of Christ Jesus
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in whose name we pray. Amen.
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So I'm going into the cafeteria
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this last week to
have to the lunch.
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I like to eat the cafeteria food
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because it's great food.
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I go into the cafeteria to eat
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and I'm always looking
for somebody to sit with
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and four students said,
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"Hey, pastor,
come on over here."
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I love to eat with students.
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So I sit down and we're
following a conversation
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and I noticed on
the cafeteria food table
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that we were sitting at.
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These little sandwich boards
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you know these are
little cardboard triangle thing
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that they put
to advertise stuff.
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And so I pick it up,
apparently it's health week,
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either next week or this week
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I'm not sure but there
is health week going on.
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And then there's this
quotation from Mark Twain
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and so I had my
receipt from eating there,
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great food and a great price.
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And on the back of the
receipt I scribble down,
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I scribble down Mark Twain,
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okay, this is a
quotation from Mark Twain.
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It sets us up for our
teaching this morning.
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The Mark Twain once said,
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"The only way to
keep your health,
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is to eat what you don't want."
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All right, "drink
what you don't like
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and do what you rather
not and you'll keep healthy."
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With that thought in mind,
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would you open your Bible please
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to the New Testament the
book first Corinthians 10,
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forget about Mark Twain,
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we don't need him
we'll take Saint Paul
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instead 1 Corinthians 10.
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Didn't bring a Bible,
you really need to track
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as we got a
dynamite story coming up
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and so you want to grab
the pew Bible in front of you.
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This will be page 772
New King James Version
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that'll be what
I'm in this morning
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1 Corinthians
10, 1 Corinthians 10.
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All right, this is a
perfect set up by the way,
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these few verses set us up
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for the next three presentations
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covering the
heart of this series.
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Here we go, so this is
1 Corinthians 10 verse 1,
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"Moreover brethren"
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I like to say
brothers and sisters,
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the new translations
that's what I like about them,
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their gender inclusive.
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"Moreover brothers and sisters,
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I do not want you to be
unaware that all our fathers"
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oh, time out Paul,
who're you writing to?
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I'm writing to a bunch of pagans
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who become Christians in court.
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Are you serious?
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You mean, once we're
baptized into Jesus Christ,
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the whole story of
Israel becomes ours?
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That's my point boy.
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Our fathers, I'm
calling them our fathers.
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"Moreover brothers and sisters,
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I do not want you to be unaware
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that all our
fathers were under the cloud
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all pass to the sea,"
that would be the Red Sea.
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Verse 2, "all were
baptized into Moses
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in the cloud and the sea,"
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and that really feel strange,
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I mean baptized
into Moses, please.
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What's going on here?
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Here's Paul's point
there was a cloud overhead,
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so there's water content,
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there's water on
this side of the Red Sea.
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Water on this side,
they went under the water.
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Paul is saying, and by the way,
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they're baptized
into their leader.
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It's a metaphor
for Christian baptism.
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When you're
baptized into Christ,
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he's your leader
you go into the water
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and you come out
certain of who your leader is.
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That's what Paul's saying,
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so they were all
baptized into Moses.
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And now notice this verse 3,
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"All ate the same spiritual food
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because it was a
supernatural in origin,
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all drank the
same spirit to drink
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because it was
supernatural in origin.
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For they drank of
that spiritual rock
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that followed them
and that rock was Christ."
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Hallelujah,
when you're wandering
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through the hot
desert sands of life,
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"I've got" Paul says,
"I've got great news for you.
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There is a rock
that will be your shade,
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your shelter, your
safety, and your salvation."
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Thank you, Jesus.
The rock is Christ.
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You will find that
rock in your wandering
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through this university
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and through the
rest of your life,
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that rock will always be there.
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Uh-oh, but some
bad news verse 5,
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"But with most of them
God was not well pleased,
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for their bodies were
scattered in the wilderness."
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i.e., they never made
it to the promise land.
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Died, little burial
mounds tracking their journey,
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little humps,
little humps, one by one,
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an entire generation is married.
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Oh, what's going on here?
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Verse 6, "Now these
things became are examples,
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to the intent
that we should not lust
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after evil thing
as they also lusted."
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I need to tell you
that the that the Greek word
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for lust here is epithumeo.
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It means to desire deeply.
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It is not a sin
to desire deeply,
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you can come on, God
majored with desires.
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So desire deeply
just don't desire that
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which will kill you,
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just don't desire
what will kill you.
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That punch line is so important
to Paul that he repeats it.
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He does it in the verse 6
and dropped down to verse 11.
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All over again,
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"Now all these things
happen to them as examples,
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and they were
written for our admonition
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upon whom the ends
of the ages have come."
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Paul's point, the
story of the chosen
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in the
beginning will be book end
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by the story of the
chosen in the ending,
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in the-- they upon whom
the ends of the ages have come.
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They'll be the story
and by the way Paul says,
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their story is preserved here
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so that the
story of our movement
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will be protected over here.
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That's my point, Paul says.
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Learn the lessons
that they went through.
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In fact, that point so critical
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would you grab
a study guide out.
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Is it there in
your worship bulletin,
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pull your study
guide out, please.
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Thank you, ushers,
you're gonna want to study guide
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we're going to get to
alcohol-- 8 resilient factors.
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You want this list,
trust me, hold your hand up,
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if you don't have a study guide.
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We have enough for
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here in the
front, hold your hand up,
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take your study guide out
let me say to those of you
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Delighted to have you.
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Let me put our
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"www" see it
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As soon as you go there
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we're gonna go
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So if you're watching on DVD
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just hit the pause get
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All right, the sentence
at the top, let's fill it up.
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First sentence
of the study guide.
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Their story was preserved
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so that our
movement might be protected.
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Key point,
protected, keep your pen moving.
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The lessons of the
chosen in the beginning
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must be lessons for
the chosen at the ending.
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Some of you are still
getting your study guides,
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let me just remind you
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that if you don't
get an answer here,
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go to our website.
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The answers are at the
bottom of all the study guide
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so you'll be able to
get what you missed here.
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Now let me
repeat that number two,
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the lessons of the
chosen in the beginning
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must be the lessons for
the chosen at the ending.
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Paul says, remember their
story what story do you suppose
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Paul is talking
about here in verse 6?
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Ah, let's track
Israel for a couple days
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in the wilderness.
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Go back to the
fourth book in the Bible,
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that would be
the book of Numbers.
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In our teaching last
time, how to stone the prophet?
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We were also in Numbers,
go back to Numbers, please,
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only this time we're
going to be in Numbers 11.
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I believe, last
time we were Numbers 12.
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So go back to Numbers 11,
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Paul says, I want to tell you--
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I want to remind you of a story.
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We'll be reminded
right here, Numbers 11,
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oh, I didn't give
you the page number, 101.
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If you're looking for it
there in the Old Testament, 101,
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Numbers 11: 4, "
Now the mixed multitude"
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I need to just hit the
pause button right there
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because scholars are
scratching their heads
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and saying who,
who, who are these?
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They're not quite
sure who they are.
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One commentator
says, it really out--
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The Hebrew ought
to be translated,
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now the rift raft, riff-raff,
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what seems clear is
that when Israel fled
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in that
midnight hour from Egypt.
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They were Egyptians they
said, we are going with you.
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You've just messed up
our pantheon of Gods--
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we're going with your God.
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He must be the strongest
around we'll follow you.
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So there is this, there's this--
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there's this crowd
within the community of faith.
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There's always a crowd
within the community of faith.
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There's this crowd,
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their bodies
are in the community
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but their hearts
are back in Egypt.
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Kind of like Mrs. Lot
who left her heart in Sodom,
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you remember that?
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So it's the same
here, verse 4 so,
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"Now the mixed multitude
who were among them yielded"
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look at this
"yielded to intense craving."
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Hit the pause button again
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because and you
have this new study guide
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those words "intense craving"
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in English are actually
the Hebrew Ta'avah, avah,
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those are two words,
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same word back to back
it means craving, craving
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in other words it
said double craving,
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it's intense, double craving.
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Which by the way, jot this down,
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is a classic
definition of appetite.
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Write in the
word appetite, please.
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For what is appetite
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but an intense craving for food,
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for alcohol, for tobacco,
for chocolate, for caffeine,
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for cocaine, for
sex, for gambling.
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I mean the list
goes on and on and on.
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Our appetite is
that craving and in fact,
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keep your pen moving,
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appetite constantly
yielded to results in addiction.
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If you keep
yielding to that appetite,
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you become addicted.
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Whatever, whatever.
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Here's something from Wikipedia,
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technical definition you
have it in your study guide,
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we'll put it on the
screen for those of you viewing
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and Wikipedia got this
from the Neuro ed okay,
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dealing with
psychology and neurology
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they got it from that website.
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Here it is, "Addiction
is a state a physiological
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or psychological dependence
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or devotion to something
manifesting as a condition
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in which medically
significant symptoms
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liable to have a
damaging effect are present."
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I.e., if you do
this long enough,
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it will affect you.
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If you eat this long
enough it will affect you.
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If you drink this long
enough it will affect you.
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It will-- it will
impact your organism,
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that's what addiction does.
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Okay, so now that we
got that clear verse 4
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"Now the mixed
multitude who are among them
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yielded to intense craving;"
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now here the plot thickens.
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"So the children of
Israel also wept again."
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Now that word again is key
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because this has
been going on over
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and over and over.
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Moses almost melts down
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in just a few
verses we'll note that.
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It's happened all over again.
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These belly achers
are going all over again.
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"And so, the
children of Israel also wept
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again said who
will give us meat?"
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That's Hebrew for flesh food.
Who will give us flesh to eat?
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Look at this,
"We remember the fish
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which we ate freely
in Egypt the cucumbers,
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the melons, the leaks,
the onions and garlic."
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It get's you hungry
for dinner, doesn't it?
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Verse 6 "But now own
our whole being is dried up.
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There is nothing at
all except this manna"
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I'm sick of this manna,
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"nothing but this
manna before our eyes."
00:22:12.60\00:22:16.94
We went to-- this
summer as a Nelson
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kind of a family thing, a tribe
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and we conducted
00:22:21.51\00:22:22.71
for simultaneous
evangelistic crusades
00:22:22.74\00:22:25.34
in a great city La Ceiba,
00:22:25.37\00:22:26.58
and if you've gone
south of the border
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you know this is true,
00:22:27.88\00:22:28.96
those cooks south of the border
00:22:28.99\00:22:30.27
they can take just a
little bit a cornmeal,
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have you noticed this?
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Just a little bit of cornmeal
00:22:32.96\00:22:34.28
and they can
make soft tortillas,
00:22:34.31\00:22:36.79
they can make hard taco shells
they can make stuffed burritos.
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They can make crunchy chips
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all from just a
little bit a cornmeal.
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And they come up
north of the border
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by the way and they say,
what is up with you Americans?
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You are always eating bread.
You have bread in the morning.
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You call it toast.
00:22:49.33\00:22:50.39
You have bread at
lunch, you call it sandwiches.
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You put everything under the sun
00:22:51.86\00:22:53.19
between those slices.
00:22:53.22\00:22:54.37
You have bread at night,
you call them dinner rolls.
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Why are you always eating bread?
00:22:55.86\00:22:58.30
And if you go over to China,
00:22:58.33\00:22:59.52
morning noon and
night forever its rice.
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Cultures tend to gravitate
around a particular staple
00:23:03.27\00:23:07.20
and the children of
Israel are no exception.
00:23:07.23\00:23:09.77
Only for them, it
was genuine miracle food.
00:23:09.80\00:23:12.79
I watched television, I
see these advertising oh,
00:23:12.82\00:23:14.93
this a great miracle food, no,
00:23:14.96\00:23:16.39
they had genuine miracle
food and it was called manna.
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It was a white, seedy,
00:23:21.04\00:23:22.56
frost like
substance that appeared
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with the dew every
morning, six days a week.
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So you had manna for breakfast
and lunch and supper on Sunday.
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And then on Monday you
had manna for breakfast
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and lunch and supper.
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And then Tuesday,
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manna breakfast lunch and supper
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and you get the picture.
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It's just manna the
whole blooming week until--
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until you come to Sabbath.
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No manna, oh, it's true.
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You're gonna eat manna again,
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it just don't
come on the Sabbath.
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Something supernatural.
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God says I want to
tell you something, guys,
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I want to tell you
about my Seventh-day Sabbath.
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I've given this
to the human race,
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I did from the
beginning in Genesis
00:24:02.13\00:24:03.97
and I'm gonna, by a
supernatural miracle,
00:24:04.00\00:24:05.97
show you which day of the week.
00:24:06.00\00:24:07.16
You don't have
calendars on your tent walls,
00:24:07.19\00:24:08.26
that's okay.
00:24:08.29\00:24:09.32
I'll show you every Seventh-day.
00:24:09.35\00:24:10.89
There won't be a drop
of manna, so on Friday,
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what I want you to do is go
out and get a double portion.
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I rest on the Sabbath,
00:24:15.23\00:24:16.29
I want you to
rest on the Sabbath.
00:24:16.32\00:24:18.73
So every Sabbath,
a supernatural proof
00:24:18.76\00:24:22.06
this is the Seventh-day.
00:24:22.09\00:24:24.33
Now by the way,
its, its--it's miraculous
00:24:24.36\00:24:26.52
because during the
week, if on Wednesday saying
00:24:26.55\00:24:28.25
you know what I'm
sleeping in on Thursday.
00:24:28.28\00:24:29.65
I'll go out today
and get a double portion,
00:24:29.68\00:24:31.12
by Thursday morning that
stuff is stinking rotten.
00:24:31.15\00:24:35.74
It will not keep,
00:24:35.77\00:24:37.32
only that double
collection on Friday keeps.
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Proof by the way,
00:24:41.10\00:24:42.15
to those who say at the Sabbath
was given on Mount Sinai.
00:24:42.18\00:24:45.34
The Sabbath is
the gift of the Jews
00:24:45.37\00:24:46.40
that came of the
Ten Commandments.
00:24:46.43\00:24:47.48
So you kidding, this story
is before the Ten Commandments.
00:24:47.51\00:24:49.28
The Sabbath goes all
the way back to creation
00:24:49.31\00:24:53.53
and God supernaturally proved
00:24:53.56\00:24:55.09
which day by the
Seventh-day miracle.
00:24:55.12\00:24:58.83
Yeah, well of
course that doesn't make
00:24:58.86\00:24:59.93
the manna any more palatable.
00:24:59.96\00:25:01.72
If you've got
that we got to have
00:25:01.75\00:25:02.78
that meat hungries in
your heart and they got it.
00:25:02.81\00:25:07.71
So Moses says,
00:25:07.74\00:25:08.83
let me tell you
about the manna by the way.
00:25:08.86\00:25:10.85
Let's pick it up again
at verse 6, people weeping
00:25:10.88\00:25:13.50
"But our whole
being is dried up;
00:25:13.53\00:25:16.26
there's nothing at
all except his manna
00:25:16.29\00:25:17.71
before our eyes!"
00:25:17.74\00:25:18.80
Now verse 7, "Now the
manna was like coriander seed,
00:25:18.83\00:25:20.96
and its color like
the color of bdellium"
00:25:20.99\00:25:22.69
that would be white.
00:25:22.72\00:25:23.75
Verse 8, The people
went about it gathered it,"
00:25:23.78\00:25:26.48
just like south of the border.
00:25:26.51\00:25:27.70
"They gathered at
they grounded on millstones
00:25:27.73\00:25:29.88
or they beat it in the mortar,
00:25:29.91\00:25:31.03
they cooked in a
pans, and made cake of it,
00:25:31.06\00:25:32.97
and its tastes is
like the taste the pastry
00:25:33.00\00:25:35.10
prepared with oil."
00:25:35.13\00:25:36.39
I'm thinking kind of
like Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
00:25:36.42\00:25:38.61
I'm thinking
that's probably the taste.
00:25:38.64\00:25:41.20
It says, it's like pastry,
so it must have been good.
00:25:41.23\00:25:43.87
Verse-- but you know what,
00:25:43.90\00:25:44.93
you get tired of Krispy
Kreme if you had it every day.
00:25:44.96\00:25:47.65
Verse 9 "And when the dew
fell on the camp in the night,
00:25:47.68\00:25:51.55
the manna fell on it."
00:25:51.58\00:25:53.00
Now verse 10 watch this,
00:25:53.03\00:25:54.18
"Then Moses heard the people
00:25:54.21\00:25:56.16
weeping
throughout their families,
00:25:56.19\00:25:59.06
everyone at the
door of his tent..."
00:25:59.09\00:26:00.82
I've got to tell you
about the Middle East.
00:26:00.85\00:26:01.88
You just watch
the film out of Iraq,
00:26:01.91\00:26:03.83
when people mourn,
00:26:03.86\00:26:05.62
they never mourn in
private, not in the Middle East,
00:26:05.65\00:26:07.57
you go out in the
middle of the street
00:26:07.60\00:26:08.93
and then you beat your chest
and you cry to the heavens.
00:26:08.96\00:26:13.93
They got it from way back then.
00:26:13.96\00:26:15.45
Everybody is in
the door of their house
00:26:15.48\00:26:17.80
and they're all just
wailing, and I'm telling you,
00:26:17.83\00:26:21.18
it is cutting
Moses to the quick.
00:26:21.21\00:26:25.48
Apparently, it bothered God too,
00:26:25.51\00:26:26.57
it says the anger the
Lord was greatly aroused
00:26:26.60\00:26:30.27
and Moses also was displeased.
00:26:30.30\00:26:33.67
You know what?
00:26:33.70\00:26:35.25
We're too hard on our leaders,
way too hard on our leaders.
00:26:35.28\00:26:39.20
Do you think it is a picnic
00:26:39.23\00:26:41.37
to lead the lives of you and me?
00:26:41.40\00:26:44.43
Do you think, for a
moment, don't you know?
00:26:44.46\00:26:47.43
You know what Moses does?
00:26:47.46\00:26:48.87
He said, I just can't take this
00:26:48.90\00:26:50.66
and he gets alone with
God the next few verses.
00:26:50.69\00:26:52.76
He gets alone
with God and he says,
00:26:52.79\00:26:53.86
now let me just
run this by you again.
00:26:53.89\00:26:55.52
I'm supposed lead
this people how long?
00:26:55.55\00:26:58.63
What have you called me to be?
00:26:58.66\00:26:59.71
He says it, have you
called me to be a nurse maid.
00:26:59.74\00:27:02.06
What I have to do
give them a little bottle
00:27:02.09\00:27:03.53
and burp them everyday.
00:27:03.56\00:27:05.19
Get them through this.
00:27:05.22\00:27:07.23
They're driving me crazy,
God, I'm tired of leadership.
00:27:07.26\00:27:11.47
Trust me, our
leaders get tired of leading.
00:27:11.50\00:27:15.60
So when you and I are
given extra digs and jabs,
00:27:15.63\00:27:19.44
were only making it
harder for the leader.
00:27:19.47\00:27:23.63
Next time you got an
issue with the leader,
00:27:23.66\00:27:25.47
why don't you pray for her?
00:27:25.50\00:27:27.23
Why didn't you pray for him?
00:27:27.26\00:27:28.47
That's what
you're supposed to do.
00:27:28.50\00:27:29.80
No way and get a
little crowd weeping with you.
00:27:29.83\00:27:35.28
In fact, Moses is so--
00:27:35.31\00:27:36.61
Moses is so
heartbroken over this.
00:27:36.64\00:27:39.01
Look at verse 15, you
know what Moses says guys,
00:27:39.04\00:27:40.87
he says, "God, hey God,
tell me do you love me?"
00:27:40.90\00:27:42.79
God says, "Of
course I love you."
00:27:42.82\00:27:44.00
And Moses says, "If
you love me, kill me."
00:27:44.03\00:27:46.69
Look at that, it's right
there in verse 15, "kill me."
00:27:46.72\00:27:49.71
Well, now that gone--
put me out of my misery.
00:27:49.74\00:27:53.88
It's tough
sometimes to be a leader
00:27:53.91\00:27:58.48
and then God says,
"Hey, the Lord God,
00:27:58.51\00:28:00.82
all right,
children, Israel, all right.
00:28:00.85\00:28:03.66
I've heard you, you
have an intense craving
00:28:03.69\00:28:05.65
an appetite for flesh food,
00:28:05.68\00:28:07.00
do you-- I'm gonna give you meat
00:28:07.03\00:28:08.77
until it comes
out your nostrils."
00:28:08.80\00:28:12.52
And he does,
verse 31 look at this,
00:28:12.55\00:28:14.32
can you believe it?
00:28:14.35\00:28:15.38
Verse 31, "Now a wind
went out from the Lord,
00:28:15.41\00:28:18.65
and it brought
quail from the sea
00:28:18.68\00:28:20.78
and left them
fluttering near the camp,
00:28:20.81\00:28:22.79
about a day's
journey on this side
00:28:22.82\00:28:24.46
and about a day's
journey on the other side,
00:28:24.49\00:28:26.22
all around the camp,
00:28:26.25\00:28:27.61
and about two cubits above
the surface of the ground."
00:28:27.64\00:28:30.62
I used to think of that quail
stacked up to about two cubits.
00:28:30.65\00:28:33.79
One cubit, tip elbow to
tip, 18 inches one cubit.
00:28:33.82\00:28:38.30
So two cubits would
be about three feet,
00:28:38.33\00:28:40.19
about a yard, yard and half,
they're not quite not sure.
00:28:40.22\00:28:43.03
I used to think that the
quail piled up that high.
00:28:43.06\00:28:45.69
No, that's not what happened.
00:28:45.72\00:28:47.58
I was reading a
scholar this last week,
00:28:47.61\00:28:48.68
you know what happened?
00:28:48.71\00:28:50.03
The quail came down
and fluttered at three feet
00:28:50.06\00:28:53.14
above the ground.
00:28:53.17\00:28:54.38
Because of the--
00:28:54.41\00:28:55.44
if the quail are
fluttering at eight feet,
00:28:55.47\00:28:57.28
I'm out of luck
00:28:57.31\00:28:58.58
but when the
birds are right here...
00:28:58.61\00:29:02.19
and that's
exactly what they did.
00:29:02.22\00:29:04.00
They fluttered with arms reach.
00:29:04.03\00:29:06.62
Look at this, you
can't believe this.
00:29:06.65\00:29:09.68
Verse 32 "And the
people stayed up all that day,
00:29:09.71\00:29:14.07
and the people
stayed up all that night,
00:29:14.10\00:29:16.99
and the people
stayed up all the next day,
00:29:17.02\00:29:20.13
and they gathered the quail"
00:29:20.16\00:29:21.56
and hold on, now
hold onto your seat
00:29:21.59\00:29:23.07
"He who gathered
least gathered ten homers"
00:29:23.10\00:29:26.03
that's the-- this is the least,
00:29:26.06\00:29:27.83
that's the equivalent
of 62 bushels of quail.
00:29:27.86\00:29:32.15
The guy that got the least,
00:29:32.18\00:29:33.64
had 62 of those apple
bushels around this tent,
00:29:33.67\00:29:37.27
"And they spread
them out for themselves
00:29:41.53\00:29:43.38
all around the camp."
00:29:43.41\00:29:44.44
They killed it
they wanted meat to dry,
00:29:44.47\00:29:46.06
they're gonna cure
and hey, baby, we got--
00:29:46.09\00:29:47.99
we got meat to the
Promise Land, hallelujah.
00:29:48.02\00:29:51.84
But watch this, verse 33,
00:29:51.87\00:29:53.19
"But while the meat was
still between their teeth,
00:29:53.22\00:29:56.94
before it was chewed,
00:29:56.97\00:29:58.91
the wrath of the Lord was
aroused against the people,
00:29:58.94\00:30:02.07
and the Lord struck the people
with a very great plague."
00:30:02.10\00:30:04.96
You know, what God
didn't have to do a thing.
00:30:04.99\00:30:07.74
If you are eating
with a feverish pitch,
00:30:07.77\00:30:10.61
you will kill yourself
cramming it into your mouth.
00:30:10.64\00:30:15.28
You'll kill yourself and
what happened in verse 34,
00:30:15.31\00:30:20.44
"So Moses called the name
00:30:20.47\00:30:21.71
of that place
Kibroth Hattaavah,"
00:30:21.74\00:30:25.03
remember tavah
avah, intense craving,
00:30:25.06\00:30:27.93
he named it the
graves of craving.
00:30:27.96\00:30:31.49
The graves of craving,
so here's the question.
00:30:31.52\00:30:33.91
So what is it
that you crave for?
00:30:33.94\00:30:36.53
What is it that I crave for?
00:30:36.56\00:30:37.82
What do we crave for
here at Andrews University.
00:30:37.85\00:30:39.64
What do we crave for in
the Pioneer Memorial Church?
00:30:39.67\00:30:42.26
What is it?
00:30:42.29\00:30:43.74
The list could be
endless, I suppose,
00:30:43.77\00:30:45.59
but may I mention one
that turns out to be two.
00:30:45.62\00:30:50.22
I had a mother come up to
me at camp meeting this summer.
00:30:50.25\00:30:53.67
She said, "Pastor
have to talk with you."
00:30:53.70\00:30:55.73
So we got off the beaten path,
00:30:55.76\00:30:58.64
turns out the
mother has a daughter
00:30:58.67\00:30:59.70
that is attending at--
00:30:59.73\00:31:01.19
is a student at
Andrews University.
00:31:01.22\00:31:04.56
And the daughter has
confided in her mother
00:31:04.59\00:31:07.21
that she's
worried for her friends,
00:31:07.24\00:31:09.25
who go off campus on
weekends for drinking parties.
00:31:09.28\00:31:14.21
And the mother looked
me straight in the eyes,
00:31:14.24\00:31:16.67
and she says,
"Pastor, you're gonna have
00:31:16.70\00:31:18.48
to say something about this."
00:31:18.51\00:31:22.30
I came home from camp meeting
00:31:22.33\00:31:23.42
and then got out the
surveys from this spring,
00:31:23.45\00:31:24.89
and began to look at the surveys
00:31:24.92\00:31:26.22
and you were
saying the same thing,
00:31:26.25\00:31:27.72
so today, I'm saying something.
00:31:27.75\00:31:33.97
May I read a list
of statistics to you?
00:31:34.00\00:31:38.67
These are
compiled over 12 months
00:31:38.70\00:31:40.10
by the Alcohol Abuse
00:31:40.13\00:31:44.10
and Alcoholism Task
Force on college drinking.
00:31:44.13\00:31:48.69
Adventist Review came out
00:31:48.72\00:31:49.80
with a special
issue on addiction,
00:31:49.83\00:31:53.67
care of these statistics.
00:31:53.70\00:31:55.08
The following statistics
for a year bring into focus
00:31:55.11\00:31:57.42
the consequences
of college drinking.
00:31:57.45\00:31:59.08
All right, over 12 month period
00:31:59.11\00:32:00.82
in the United States of
America here's what happens,
00:32:00.85\00:32:03.48
1,400 students
aged 18 to 24 die.
00:32:03.51\00:32:09.17
Do you understand?
Die. They don't get sick.
00:32:09.20\00:32:12.35
They die, 1,400
every year, 18 to 24.
00:32:12.38\00:32:15.90
500,000 students aged 18 to
24 are unintentionally injured,
00:32:15.93\00:32:21.22
half-a-million,
600,000 students aged 18 to 24
00:32:21.25\00:32:24.17
are assaulted
by another student.
00:32:24.20\00:32:25.67
70,000 students in
that same age bracket
00:32:25.70\00:32:27.97
are victims of alcohol-related
sexual assault or date rape.
00:32:28.00\00:32:32.05
And hold on to
this, 400,000 students
00:32:32.08\00:32:33.71
in that same age
bracket have unprotected sex
00:32:33.74\00:32:36.03
and more than, 100,000
of them are too intoxicated
00:32:36.06\00:32:39.24
to know whether they
had consented or not.
00:32:39.27\00:32:44.49
25% percent of
college students report
00:32:44.52\00:32:45.89
negative academic consequences
from their drinking.
00:32:45.92\00:32:49.01
150,000 students develop
00:32:49.04\00:32:50.29
an alcohol
related health problem
00:32:50.32\00:32:51.60
1.2 to 1.5 % of students
indicates suicide attempts
00:32:51.63\00:32:55.66
within the past year
00:32:55.69\00:32:56.75
as a result of
alcohol or drug use.
00:32:56.78\00:33:00.69
What's going on?
00:33:00.72\00:33:02.20
We got an epidemic in America
00:33:02.23\00:33:03.96
and it's
happening on our campuses.
00:33:03.99\00:33:07.74
This is the whole nation.
00:33:07.77\00:33:12.01
I'll tell you what, based
on empirical evidence alone,
00:33:12.04\00:33:14.35
you can understand
why a university like ours
00:33:14.38\00:33:17.59
would forbid the
use of alcohol, period.
00:33:17.62\00:33:22.11
We're not dealing
with rocket science here.
00:33:22.14\00:33:24.26
Does it then get
used around here,
00:33:30.29\00:33:32.03
since it's forbidden?
00:33:32.06\00:33:34.77
I've had several conversations
with Dwayne McBride.
00:33:34.80\00:33:37.12
He's a sociologist
and a researcher here
00:33:37.15\00:33:39.05
at Andrews University.
00:33:39.08\00:33:40.66
And Dwayne just told
me about a 20 year study
00:33:40.69\00:33:42.81
that he and a
team of researchers
00:33:42.84\00:33:44.12
have undertaken 20
years studying only Adventist
00:33:44.15\00:33:47.83
young adults
attending Adventist colleges
00:33:47.86\00:33:50.34
and universities
in the United States.
00:33:50.37\00:33:56.08
And they've
discovered that our students
00:33:56.11\00:33:57.52
use alcohol and
drugs at a rate two-third
00:33:57.55\00:34:00.58
less than the students
in the general population.
00:34:00.61\00:34:03.91
Hallelujah.
00:34:03.94\00:34:07.15
Except obviously there's
still concern for the one-third,
00:34:07.18\00:34:12.77
nobody needs me to
stand in front of you today
00:34:12.80\00:34:14.76
and present a case
00:34:14.79\00:34:15.83
for the destructive effects
of alcohol in the human brain.
00:34:15.86\00:34:18.31
The college statistics we
just shared are evidence enough.
00:34:18.34\00:34:22.42
Please, however the
biblical-- the biblical case
00:34:22.45\00:34:26.58
for the abstinence from alcohol,
00:34:26.61\00:34:29.14
while it is made textually
00:34:29.17\00:34:30.52
and I put a few verses
there in your study guide
00:34:30.55\00:34:32.83
Proverbs, 20: 1,
Proverbs 23: 29-35.
00:34:32.86\00:34:37.18
You've got a 1
Corinthians 10:31,
00:34:37.21\00:34:38.73
you can go to 1
Corinthian 16, 19 and 20,
00:34:38.76\00:34:40.94
"Your body is a temple of
God, you cannot defile it."
00:34:40.97\00:34:42.99
I mean, we can
make a case textually,
00:34:43.02\00:34:44.77
the Bible
strongest case however,
00:34:44.80\00:34:46.57
listen, the Bible strongest case
00:34:46.60\00:34:48.26
is made
anecdotally through stories.
00:34:48.29\00:34:52.10
I heard a story
just two weeks ago,
00:34:52.13\00:34:53.16
in fact, it was
our children story
00:34:53.19\00:34:54.24
in the First Church.
00:34:54.27\00:34:55.33
Two weeks ago,
about a village in India
00:34:55.36\00:34:56.71
where elephants broke
into the village distillery.
00:34:56.74\00:34:59.73
They didn't know what was in it,
00:34:59.76\00:35:00.99
they broke into the distillery
00:35:01.02\00:35:02.37
drank everything
in the distillery
00:35:02.40\00:35:04.58
and then trashed the village.
00:35:04.61\00:35:09.63
The elephants
had to be euthanized,
00:35:09.66\00:35:13.07
now nobody is
recommending euthanasia
00:35:13.10\00:35:15.14
for those who
consume alcohol in our midst.
00:35:15.17\00:35:19.42
However in the Bible
narrative, euthanasia was once,
00:35:19.45\00:35:23.90
one time, it was a strategy.
00:35:23.93\00:35:25.96
I'm talking about
the two preacher kids.
00:35:25.99\00:35:27.95
The two preacher
boys, the sons of Aaron,
00:35:27.98\00:35:31.18
their names Nadab and Abihu
00:35:31.21\00:35:33.38
who in a drunken stupor
stagger into the sanctuary
00:35:33.41\00:35:37.59
and the glory of God--
00:35:37.62\00:35:40.83
as their bodies
are being dragged
00:35:40.86\00:35:42.40
by their brothers to be buried.
00:35:42.43\00:35:46.06
God makes a point,
take a look at this,
00:35:46.09\00:35:48.75
Leviticus
chapter 10:9 "God says,
00:35:48.78\00:35:50.93
do not drink wine
or intoxicating drink,
00:35:50.96\00:35:53.05
you, nor your sons with you,
00:35:53.08\00:35:54.73
when you go into the tabernacle
of meeting, lest you die.
00:35:54.76\00:35:57.61
It should be a statute forever
throughout your generations
00:35:57.64\00:36:00.54
that you may distinguish
between the Holy and the unholy
00:36:00.57\00:36:03.73
between the
unclean and the clean."
00:36:03.76\00:36:08.58
Anecdotally, the
Bible makes its case.
00:36:08.61\00:36:10.13
Do you ever heard of the story
about Daniel and his four--
00:36:10.16\00:36:12.55
his three
university student peers Daniel
00:36:12.58\00:36:14.86
and there's--
00:36:14.89\00:36:16.09
they discover they're gonna
be served the wine of Babylon.
00:36:16.12\00:36:19.15
And so Daniel makes a
choice everybody knows
00:36:19.18\00:36:21.36
Daniel chapter 1: 8 put
it on the screen please,
00:36:21.39\00:36:23.70
"But Daniel
purposed in his heart
00:36:23.73\00:36:25.64
that he would not defile himself
00:36:25.67\00:36:27.80
with a portion of
the Kings delicacies"
00:36:27.83\00:36:30.96
and it also says,
we left that line out,
00:36:30.99\00:36:32.59
but also says the wine
00:36:32.62\00:36:35.39
and "therefore he requested
the chief of the eunuchs
00:36:35.42\00:36:37.78
that he might
not defile himself."
00:36:37.81\00:36:42.59
Anecdotally, the
Bible makes the case.
00:36:42.62\00:36:44.53
Let's take the
death of our Lord Jesus,
00:36:44.56\00:36:46.34
who, as he's
hanging on the cross.
00:36:46.37\00:36:47.92
They bring to him
just as they're preparing,
00:36:47.95\00:36:49.70
maybe just before hoisting him,
00:36:49.73\00:36:51.46
they bring him sour wine
mixed with gall you know,
00:36:51.49\00:36:53.76
what he says he tastes it.
00:36:53.79\00:36:55.02
Let's look at the
record here Matthew 27,
00:36:55.05\00:36:56.97
"They gave him sour wine
mingled with gall to drink
00:36:57.00\00:36:59.74
but when He had tasted it,"
00:36:59.77\00:37:01.42
and realize what it was
and new why they wanted him too
00:37:01.45\00:37:04.72
because alcohol
will numb the mind.
00:37:04.75\00:37:07.32
That's a no brainer, he
said I will not have that,
00:37:07.35\00:37:10.46
thank you and pushed
it away with his jaw.
00:37:10.49\00:37:14.85
He would not drink it.
00:37:14.88\00:37:17.33
So we had anecdotal
evidence as well as textual
00:37:17.36\00:37:19.98
but you know what,
00:37:20.01\00:37:21.05
I'm gonna take a
different approach
00:37:21.08\00:37:23.23
and I'd like to come
back to appetite for a moment.
00:37:23.26\00:37:25.66
You know what appetite is?
00:37:25.69\00:37:26.75
That very God given,
00:37:26.78\00:37:28.11
that very wonderful
capacity we all have,
00:37:28.14\00:37:30.66
to hunger and thirst, to
be able to savor tasty food,
00:37:30.69\00:37:33.70
to be able to
relish delectable drink.
00:37:33.73\00:37:35.99
I mean, thank God for appetite.
00:37:36.02\00:37:38.82
I mean, can you
imagine being a machine
00:37:38.85\00:37:40.39
just you'd be like a car--
00:37:40.42\00:37:41.47
is just give me that gas,
00:37:41.50\00:37:42.54
I'll suck it up,
no taste, no nothing.
00:37:42.57\00:37:45.96
God made us with appetite
but God created the human race,
00:37:45.99\00:37:49.34
let me do the anatomy,
00:37:49.37\00:37:50.40
I'll step around
from behind this pulpit.
00:37:50.43\00:37:52.87
God made the human
race intentionally one way.
00:37:52.90\00:37:55.49
He said I want your reason,
00:37:55.52\00:37:56.93
by the way,
point on your own body
00:37:56.96\00:37:59.54
to where reason is in your body.
00:37:59.57\00:38:01.56
Just point, you follow
me, point to where reason is,
00:38:01.59\00:38:04.65
yeah, put your finger up here.
00:38:04.68\00:38:05.92
Come on, put
your finger up here.
00:38:05.95\00:38:07.03
This is where
reason takes place,
00:38:07.06\00:38:08.34
is that not right?
00:38:08.37\00:38:09.40
Am I making this up?
00:38:09.43\00:38:10.48
No, now point to
where appetite takes place.
00:38:10.51\00:38:13.71
I know what happens
to the nerve signals
00:38:13.74\00:38:15.86
but where does
appetite involved?
00:38:15.89\00:38:17.83
Yeah, right-- right here,
00:38:17.86\00:38:19.51
God says, hey, I want to--
00:38:19.54\00:38:20.61
I want you to
see how I made you.
00:38:20.64\00:38:22.84
Reason is to be
elevated above appetite,
00:38:22.87\00:38:27.10
you'll be just
fine with reason up here
00:38:27.13\00:38:29.26
and appetite down here.
00:38:29.29\00:38:30.49
The devil comes along,
00:38:30.52\00:38:31.59
who is the enemy of
God and it turns out,
00:38:31.62\00:38:33.29
he's the enemy the human race.
00:38:33.32\00:38:34.54
And he immediately sets
out to reverse God's grace,
00:38:34.57\00:38:39.40
and you know what he does?
00:38:39.43\00:38:40.49
The devil makes fools of us
00:38:40.52\00:38:42.29
because he said I'm gonna
make you walk on your hands.
00:38:42.32\00:38:43.92
I'm gonna make
you walk on your hands
00:38:43.95\00:38:46.28
'cause I want your head
down and I want your belly up.
00:38:46.31\00:38:49.50
I want the belly over the head.
00:38:49.53\00:38:52.31
I want a visceral to control
the rational and the spiritual.
00:38:52.34\00:38:55.68
Would you jot that down, please?
00:38:55.71\00:38:57.15
In our creation,
00:38:57.18\00:38:58.29
God elevated
reason over appetite,
00:38:58.32\00:39:00.30
but in our fall, Satan
elevated appetite over reason.
00:39:00.33\00:39:05.43
He did it with Adam and
Eve at the tree, didn't he?
00:39:05.46\00:39:07.23
He said, hey, good
looking, come here.
00:39:07.26\00:39:09.05
Girl, come here, hey,
you ought to taste this.
00:39:09.08\00:39:15.12
If in fact, if you taste this.
00:39:15.15\00:39:17.39
it'll give you a high so high,
00:39:17.42\00:39:19.61
you'll be higher
than God himself, eat it.
00:39:19.64\00:39:23.21
Appetite elevated
over reason, did at--
00:39:23.24\00:39:27.52
did it right at the beginning.
00:39:27.55\00:39:29.12
He did it with Esop,
remembers the story of Esop?
00:39:29.15\00:39:31.51
He's been hunting all
day, and he's coming in and oh,
00:39:31.54\00:39:33.77
man, is he famished and he gets
00:39:33.80\00:39:35.28
a whiff of his twin
brother Jacobs lentil stew.
00:39:35.31\00:39:39.40
How you could get
mouth watering over that,
00:39:39.43\00:39:41.98
I have no idea but he
smells that lentil stew.
00:39:42.01\00:39:45.40
And he says, ah, and
then Satan whispers to him,
00:39:45.43\00:39:49.07
hey Esop, let me
just a something,
00:39:49.10\00:39:50.89
boy, you are hungry.
00:39:50.92\00:39:53.08
Oh, Esop, I want
to tell you something,
00:39:53.11\00:39:54.42
you are so hungry.
00:39:54.45\00:39:55.58
I predict you will
die if you don't get that.
00:39:55.61\00:39:58.03
So while Satan's
doing that number,
00:39:58.06\00:39:59.55
getting appetite over
reason, he's over here,
00:39:59.58\00:40:01.68
Jacob is saying
hey, by the way boy,
00:40:01.71\00:40:02.75
this is your big chance,
00:40:02.78\00:40:03.81
why don't you make a deal
make a deal with your brother.
00:40:03.84\00:40:05.43
Tell him you'll
give him the stew
00:40:05.46\00:40:07.51
if he'll give you
the birthright, boom!
00:40:07.54\00:40:08.89
And so Satan comes--
00:40:08.92\00:40:10.24
Esop who should
have been the Prince,
00:40:10.27\00:40:12.74
the leader of that tribe.
00:40:12.77\00:40:14.41
Oh, come on, this silly
little birthright stuff,
00:40:14.44\00:40:16.85
you don't believe
Gods promises do you?
00:40:16.88\00:40:18.59
You're hungry boy.
00:40:18.62\00:40:19.65
You're hungry, eat,
appetite over reason.
00:40:19.68\00:40:23.44
Nadab and Abihu,
appetite over reason,
00:40:23.47\00:40:26.83
Satan attempted
that with Daniel,
00:40:26.86\00:40:28.26
appetite over reason, he lost.
00:40:28.29\00:40:30.10
Satan comes to
Almighty God in human form
00:40:30.13\00:40:32.99
in the wilderness
and makes the same play,
00:40:33.02\00:40:35.76
appetite over reason.
00:40:35.79\00:40:37.72
Come on, hey, who are you?
00:40:37.75\00:40:40.84
Look like you haven't
eaten 40 days and 40 nights.
00:40:40.87\00:40:44.10
Pitiful and suppose you
think you are who they--
00:40:44.13\00:40:47.85
who you've been
saying you are, son of God.
00:40:47.88\00:40:49.90
Yeah, right,
give me another one,
00:40:49.93\00:40:51.59
I tell you
what, I'm from heaven,
00:40:51.62\00:40:53.03
if you're really the
son of God, see those--
00:40:53.06\00:40:55.23
I bet you're hungry.
00:40:55.26\00:40:56.29
See those stones,
00:40:56.32\00:40:57.36
you turned one of
them into baked bread
00:40:57.39\00:40:59.29
and I will believe you,
sir, that you are who you are.
00:40:59.32\00:41:02.50
Appetite elevated over reason
but Jesus sniffed a snake,
00:41:02.53\00:41:08.74
smelled the old serpent
and you know what Jesus does,
00:41:08.77\00:41:11.77
this is incredible.
00:41:11.80\00:41:12.89
He goes to our
theme book for this series
00:41:12.92\00:41:15.95
Deuteronomy and by memory,
00:41:15.98\00:41:18.35
he quotes Deuteronomy
8:3 our last text to look up.
00:41:18.38\00:41:21.31
I need you to see it
in your Bible please,
00:41:21.34\00:41:23.34
Deuteronomy your
numbers just go the next book
00:41:23.37\00:41:26.19
over Deuteronomy
chapter 8, amazing.
00:41:26.22\00:41:30.88
He takes our theme
book and quotes from it,
00:41:30.91\00:41:35.31
Deuteronomy chapter 8:3,
00:41:35.34\00:41:38.89
Moses's farewell address
00:41:38.92\00:41:40.39
he'll be dead at
the end to this address,
00:41:40.42\00:41:42.70
he'll climb Mount Nebo
leader fail, leaders failed.
00:41:42.73\00:41:46.48
It's a high price leaders pay,
tough job but also high price.
00:41:46.51\00:41:54.19
So Moses talking to
these grown up children
00:41:54.22\00:41:56.17
whose parents are now
buried in the wilderness.
00:41:56.20\00:41:57.81
"So God humbled you, and
he allowed you to hunger,"
00:41:57.84\00:42:03.11
would you hit the
pause button right there.
00:42:03.14\00:42:05.30
I want to suggest
that there are times
00:42:05.33\00:42:07.31
when God lets you and me
hunger in order to reveal to us
00:42:07.34\00:42:11.58
the ferocious power of appetite.
00:42:11.61\00:42:16.17
I was flying to
another camp meeting,
00:42:16.20\00:42:18.13
it's over in New Jersey.
00:42:18.16\00:42:21.38
And so you have
a good breakfast,
00:42:21.41\00:42:22.46
it's Friday so I'm
gonna start preaching
00:42:22.49\00:42:23.52
first things Sabbath morning.
00:42:23.55\00:42:24.58
It's--It's Friday,
you get a good breakfast
00:42:24.61\00:42:26.78
and then a you fly over
00:42:26.81\00:42:28.83
to the east coast
going to New Jersey.
00:42:28.86\00:42:30.42
And I fly United
00:42:30.45\00:42:31.55
and you know what
United serves you?
00:42:31.58\00:42:32.64
Nothing. Nothing.
00:42:32.67\00:42:33.73
Nothing but these
pitiful, pitiful pretzels
00:42:33.76\00:42:37.21
that's all you
get a tiny little bag.
00:42:37.24\00:42:39.70
If you have another airline
00:42:39.73\00:42:40.78
that feed you
better let me know.
00:42:40.81\00:42:42.82
Nothing, so I get this little--
00:42:42.85\00:42:44.51
I get this little bag,
00:42:44.54\00:42:46.54
so I get the
thickest drink I can get
00:42:46.57\00:42:48.00
and that's tomato juice
00:42:48.03\00:42:49.14
and wolf it all
down with tomato juice.
00:42:49.17\00:42:50.99
The story of my
life, the plane is late,
00:42:51.02\00:42:52.54
so I get into wherever
it is in New Jersey late.
00:42:52.57\00:42:55.69
And then I have this rental car
00:42:55.72\00:42:56.88
and I'm thinking you
know the Sabbath has come,
00:42:56.91\00:42:57.95
I'll find a place to eat
there will be a place to eat.
00:42:57.98\00:43:00.12
I'm going on a turnpike
00:43:00.15\00:43:01.18
I have never
driven on in my life
00:43:01.21\00:43:02.58
and I cannot find a--
00:43:02.61\00:43:03.89
find a blooming place to eat.
00:43:03.92\00:43:06.58
That evening and I'm
saying, this is terrible.
00:43:06.61\00:43:09.05
I had only breakfast.
00:43:09.08\00:43:11.49
I'm-- I'm dying.
00:43:11.52\00:43:14.92
I'm telling you, I have
a problem with appetite.
00:43:14.95\00:43:17.65
Some of you think
that you know what,
00:43:17.68\00:43:19.26
if you're thin, you don't
have a problem with appetite.
00:43:19.29\00:43:20.94
I want to tell you something,
00:43:20.97\00:43:22.06
don't you ever fall
into that kind of thinking.
00:43:22.09\00:43:24.07
Appetite is not determined
by the size of your body.
00:43:24.10\00:43:26.86
Appetite is determined
by the force of that hunger.
00:43:26.89\00:43:30.07
It has nothing to
do with your weight,
00:43:30.10\00:43:31.81
don't let anybody
either side of the spectrum
00:43:31.84\00:43:34.39
lock you into a corner.
00:43:34.42\00:43:35.97
Do you understand? Appetite.
00:43:36.00\00:43:37.70
I see skinny little
people running around
00:43:37.73\00:43:39.73
and that appetite
00:43:39.76\00:43:40.82
is out of
control in their lives.
00:43:40.85\00:43:41.88
They're eating all
through the day this well,
00:43:41.91\00:43:43.31
it's no problem with me.
00:43:43.34\00:43:45.11
No, it is a
problem with you, sir.
00:43:45.14\00:43:48.46
It's a problem
with me, I'll tell you.
00:43:48.49\00:43:49.97
So I'm driving, I say,
00:43:50.00\00:43:51.03
oh, I can't
find anything to eat,
00:43:51.06\00:43:52.54
I'll go without food.
I'll do this for you, God.
00:43:52.57\00:43:57.90
So I get to this hotel
00:43:57.93\00:43:59.15
and I check it is
there any place to eat?
00:43:59.18\00:44:00.40
No, nowhere to eat.
00:44:00.43\00:44:01.62
The breakfast in the
morning at six, okay,
00:44:01.65\00:44:04.45
little, a
little bottle of mints,
00:44:04.48\00:44:07.50
I was tempted to
empty them in my pocket
00:44:07.53\00:44:09.10
and go up to my room.
00:44:09.13\00:44:11.35
I didn't but I
got up into the room
00:44:11.38\00:44:13.54
and you know what,
00:44:13.57\00:44:14.60
by now I'm throwing
a tizzy fit with God,
00:44:14.63\00:44:16.04
I'm just, God I don't--
00:44:16.07\00:44:17.11
What is the problem?
00:44:17.14\00:44:18.17
And just like that
God came to me and said,
00:44:18.20\00:44:19.97
let's just take
a little time out,
00:44:20.00\00:44:21.06
would you breath?
00:44:21.09\00:44:24.98
You skipped two meals
and you're going ballistic.
00:44:25.01\00:44:30.23
I went 40 days and 40
nights without a morsel to eat.
00:44:30.26\00:44:33.90
Don't you tell me
00:44:33.93\00:44:35.13
the power of
appetite in your life.
00:44:35.16\00:44:38.03
It ain't nothing.
00:44:38.06\00:44:41.29
And boy was I
chastised and sat straight.
00:44:41.32\00:44:44.57
There are times when God
allows hunger to overtake us,
00:44:44.60\00:44:48.41
to show us the ferocious
visceral power of appetite.
00:44:48.44\00:44:54.14
Jesus didn't quote
the whole verse to--
00:44:54.17\00:44:56.44
Satan he knew the whole verse.
00:44:56.47\00:44:58.59
"So he humbled you,
allowed you to hunger,
00:44:58.62\00:45:00.54
and fed you with manna"
00:45:00.57\00:45:01.96
by the way, if you're
struggling with appetite
00:45:01.99\00:45:03.90
that is one of the
solutions to appetite,
00:45:03.93\00:45:05.76
I'm telling you the truth.
00:45:05.79\00:45:06.89
Nutritionists will tell you,
if you move to a simple diet,
00:45:06.92\00:45:10.94
this rich, this
multiple 500 course eating,
00:45:10.97\00:45:15.27
you don't have to live that way.
00:45:15.30\00:45:16.87
You can you can
cut back the power,
00:45:16.90\00:45:19.86
go for simplicity.
00:45:19.89\00:45:21.43
So we fed you with manna
00:45:21.46\00:45:23.22
which you do not know
nor did your father's know
00:45:23.25\00:45:24.98
that he might
make you know that,
00:45:25.01\00:45:26.63
here it comes,
00:45:26.66\00:45:27.72
"Man shall not
live by bread alone
00:45:27.75\00:45:29.62
but man lives by every word
00:45:29.65\00:45:31.17
that proceeds
from the mouth of God."
00:45:31.20\00:45:33.49
Write it down please,
00:45:33.52\00:45:34.55
there's Jesus
talking about sliced bread,
00:45:34.58\00:45:36.10
we don't live by
slice bread alone.
00:45:36.13\00:45:37.45
No. No. No.
00:45:37.48\00:45:38.51
Write it down man and woman
00:45:38.54\00:45:39.96
shall not live
by appetite alone.
00:45:39.99\00:45:42.92
Appetite must be
subservient to reason,
00:45:42.95\00:45:45.85
that's the point.
00:45:45.88\00:45:47.13
Lucifer's going for the jugular,
00:45:47.16\00:45:48.74
he's going for appetite
00:45:48.77\00:45:50.04
as he's done all through history
00:45:50.07\00:45:52.08
but Jesus stops him cold,
00:45:52.11\00:45:54.05
he says, I'm not
gonna live by that way.
00:45:54.08\00:45:56.42
Now when I yield to this force,
00:45:56.45\00:45:57.60
of course it's a force in
me but I will not yield to it.
00:45:57.63\00:46:00.44
"Man should not
live by bread alone,
00:46:00.47\00:46:02.19
by appetite alone
00:46:02.22\00:46:03.36
but by every word that proceeds"
00:46:03.39\00:46:04.96
capital W word the
word got the proceeds
00:46:04.99\00:46:07.25
from the mouth of God,
00:46:07.28\00:46:08.35
Jesus points to
Satan write it down,
00:46:08.38\00:46:10.03
"Reason must
supersede appetite."
00:46:10.06\00:46:12.60
Faith must rise above food.
00:46:12.63\00:46:15.08
Your life must be
dictated through your mind
00:46:15.11\00:46:17.89
and not your belly.
00:46:17.92\00:46:20.70
And I put a verse there,
00:46:20.73\00:46:21.79
let me put the verse
on the screen for you.
00:46:21.82\00:46:23.62
This is an amazing verse,
Paul with tears writes this,
00:46:23.65\00:46:26.50
he's writing in
prison by the way.
00:46:26.53\00:46:28.24
Brothers and sisters,
join in following my example
00:46:28.27\00:46:30.87
and note those who so walks
as you walk from us a pattern.
00:46:30.90\00:46:34.53
So go ahead and
follow the way we live.
00:46:34.56\00:46:36.11
"For many walk of
whom I have told you often
00:46:36.14\00:46:39.10
and now tell you even weeping."
00:46:39.13\00:46:41.16
I'm telling you in tears
00:46:41.19\00:46:42.77
"that they are the
enemies of the cross of Christ."
00:46:42.80\00:46:44.46
Who are they?
00:46:44.49\00:46:45.53
"Whose end is destruction,
whose god is their belly,
00:46:45.56\00:46:49.98
and whose glory
is in their shame--
00:46:50.01\00:46:51.95
who set their
minds on earthly things."
00:46:51.98\00:46:56.46
The tragedy is that
even for the chosen,
00:46:56.49\00:46:59.98
the belly can become the God,
00:47:00.01\00:47:02.84
not just for
drink but also for food.
00:47:02.87\00:47:08.31
That's why this
sermon on alcohol
00:47:08.34\00:47:09.50
is really a
teaching on appetite.
00:47:09.53\00:47:11.37
Yeah, but come on,
pastor, give me a break,
00:47:11.40\00:47:13.26
alcohol is a lot worse.
00:47:13.29\00:47:14.59
Oh, really?
00:47:14.62\00:47:15.74
A hundred years
ago, jot this down,
00:47:15.77\00:47:16.94
hundred years ago
these words were written.
00:47:16.97\00:47:18.89
"The word of God
places the sin of gluttony
00:47:18.92\00:47:21.27
in the same catalog
00:47:21.30\00:47:23.16
in the same
category with drunkenness."
00:47:23.19\00:47:26.80
Because appetite out of control
is appetite out of control,
00:47:31.88\00:47:35.92
whether it is food or drink.
00:47:35.95\00:47:38.24
And by the way, whether
you are a college student
00:47:38.27\00:47:41.14
or a leader of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:47:41.17\00:47:43.36
If you don't have your
appetite under control,
00:47:43.39\00:47:45.65
you got a problem.
00:47:45.68\00:47:47.75
I have a problem.
00:47:47.78\00:47:49.77
I have a problem.
00:47:49.80\00:47:52.21
'Cause we want this
will be come on Dwight,
00:47:52.24\00:47:53.33
get them in these alcohol thing.
00:47:53.36\00:47:55.25
'Cause I don't touch alcohol.
Get them. Get them. Get them.
00:47:55.28\00:47:57.04
No, it's not about alcohol,
it's about appetite, appetite.
00:47:57.07\00:48:04.28
So let's not you
and I be too hard
00:48:04.31\00:48:05.54
on the alcohol drinker.
00:48:05.57\00:48:07.30
We who also struggle
with our appetite and I'm one.
00:48:07.33\00:48:11.34
So what hope is
there for our addictions?
00:48:11.37\00:48:14.03
I got some great news
for you, great news for you.
00:48:14.06\00:48:15.52
Great news for your roommate.
00:48:15.55\00:48:16.65
Great news for your spouse.
Great news for your children.
00:48:16.68\00:48:21.49
By the way, when you leave here,
00:48:21.52\00:48:22.97
there will be a magazine,
want to put a magazine.
00:48:23.00\00:48:25.60
You take it home,
you take a look at--
00:48:25.63\00:48:27.14
delightful magazine
that will be at the door
00:48:27.17\00:48:28.87
when you leave.
00:48:28.90\00:48:30.80
By the way, if you're watching
on television right now,
00:48:30.83\00:48:32.34
call the 800 number at the end.
00:48:32.37\00:48:34.20
You'll see this 800 number,
we're right near the end now.
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Call that 800
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All right, but
here's the great news,
00:48:41.66\00:48:44.37
Dwayne McBride
okay, our research,
00:48:44.40\00:48:46.39
our sociologist here,
00:48:46.42\00:48:48.46
in their study
of Adventist young
00:48:48.49\00:48:51.39
in our colleges
over this 20 period,
00:48:51.42\00:48:52.85
they discovered--
00:48:52.88\00:48:54.05
and here's where
your study guides is
00:48:54.08\00:48:55.46
worth all of this,
8 resilience factors.
00:48:55.49\00:48:58.41
They found out that
there are 8 resilience factors
00:48:58.44\00:49:00.43
that were either keep
young adult out an alcohol
00:49:00.46\00:49:03.46
or help young
adults get out alcohol.
00:49:03.49\00:49:06.37
8 of them and by the way,
00:49:06.40\00:49:08.03
Dwayne says that
these eight factors,
00:49:08.06\00:49:09.99
resilience factors
work for any addiction.
00:49:10.02\00:49:12.50
So they're good
news for all of us.
00:49:12.53\00:49:13.88
Okay jot them down
and then I'll sit down.
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Number one parents,
these are 8 factors.
00:49:16.72\00:49:20.70
"Parents accept youth
unconditionally in a home
00:49:20.73\00:49:24.23
characterized by
love and warmth."
00:49:24.26\00:49:26.76
That's great by the way,
these are not in priority.
00:49:26.79\00:49:29.45
I'll show you the number
one predictor in just a moment.
00:49:29.48\00:49:32.01
Number one, "Parent
except youth unconditional."
00:49:32.04\00:49:34.24
The kids need to live in a home,
00:49:34.27\00:49:35.63
where I'm accepted.
00:49:35.66\00:49:36.92
Number two "The
young adult is able to talk
00:49:36.95\00:49:39.44
to another
adult about anything."
00:49:39.47\00:49:41.62
There has to be some
adult in that young adult's life
00:49:41.65\00:49:44.88
that he can talk to
or she can talk too.
00:49:44.91\00:49:46.32
Number three
"Able to talk to faculty
00:49:46.35\00:49:48.61
or staff about anything."
00:49:48.64\00:49:50.10
You know what, God
has called you and me
00:49:50.13\00:49:52.10
to teach classes
at this university.
00:49:52.13\00:49:54.09
Our mission is not
only behind the lectern,
00:49:54.12\00:49:56.15
our mission is in
front of that lectern.
00:49:56.18\00:49:58.18
It is in the mixing and
blending with young adults,
00:49:58.21\00:50:02.31
somebody's looking is
this the guy that I can trust?
00:50:02.34\00:50:04.84
Is this the woman,
00:50:04.87\00:50:06.02
is this the teacher I can trust
with everything on my heart.
00:50:06.05\00:50:09.77
They're looking.
When they have that--
00:50:09.80\00:50:12.12
It's a factor that to keep them
00:50:12.15\00:50:13.24
out of alcohol or gets them out.
00:50:13.27\00:50:15.42
Okay and here is the
number one predictor,
00:50:15.45\00:50:17.07
isn't this amazing?
00:50:17.10\00:50:18.19
Number one predictor,
00:50:18.22\00:50:19.59
they attend
church nearly every week.
00:50:19.62\00:50:23.57
The young adults
surveyed who attend church
00:50:23.60\00:50:25.93
nearly every week
answered no to the question.
00:50:25.96\00:50:28.13
Did you--
00:50:28.16\00:50:29.22
did you subsist
with alcohol last year?
00:50:29.25\00:50:33.05
This is the highest predictor
00:50:33.08\00:50:35.87
so let me just tell you
something ladies and gentlemen,
00:50:35.90\00:50:37.75
you are in the right place
00:50:37.78\00:50:40.51
to live a life set free
from addictions, any addiction.
00:50:40.54\00:50:44.18
You came to the right place.
00:50:44.21\00:50:45.83
I don't care where
you go as long as you go
00:50:45.86\00:50:49.22
and that's something.
00:50:49.25\00:50:50.28
Number five "They
attend Sabbath School
00:50:50.31\00:50:51.38
nearly every week."
00:50:51.41\00:50:52.44
Amazing.
00:50:52.47\00:50:53.50
Number-- these are 8
resilience predicted.
00:50:53.53\00:50:55.19
Number six, "They
have personal prayer
00:50:55.22\00:50:56.91
several times a week praying."
00:50:56.94\00:50:59.73
Number seven "They read
the Bible at least weekly."
00:50:59.76\00:51:01.94
"Man does not
live by bread alone
00:51:01.97\00:51:03.07
but by word that comes
out of my mouth of God."
00:51:03.10\00:51:05.45
They read the
Bible at least weekly
00:51:05.48\00:51:07.47
and find the number eight
00:51:07.50\00:51:08.57
"Community service
four plus hours a month."
00:51:08.60\00:51:11.60
The bus will be
leaving this afternoon
00:51:11.63\00:51:13.47
to Benton Harbor inner city.
00:51:13.50\00:51:15.23
You want to give some
hours of public service,
00:51:15.26\00:51:17.69
get involved in
community service
00:51:17.72\00:51:19.33
here at Andrews University.
00:51:19.36\00:51:20.49
And by the way adults,
00:51:20.52\00:51:21.55
that's true for you and me
with our addictions as well.
00:51:21.58\00:51:23.83
You need to be
helping others not just me.
00:51:23.86\00:51:26.02
Me. Me. Me.
00:51:26.05\00:51:28.43
I-- there you are,
can you believe it?
00:51:28.46\00:51:30.30
8 resilience factors
to keep your appetite
00:51:30.33\00:51:32.68
under control of reason
00:51:32.71\00:51:33.90
and away from alcohol
or addictive behavior.
00:51:33.93\00:51:36.61
8 of them, turns out Jesus
knew what he was talking about,
00:51:36.64\00:51:39.88
when he said man and woman
do not live by bread alone,
00:51:39.91\00:51:42.49
not by appetite, no.
00:51:42.52\00:51:43.96
But by every word to
proceed out of the mouth of God,
00:51:43.99\00:51:46.66
if you go to the word of God
00:51:46.69\00:51:47.95
It will elevate your
reason above your appetite.
00:51:47.98\00:51:50.56
Right now, you have appetite
up go to the word of God
00:51:50.59\00:51:53.27
it will reverse you back
00:51:53.30\00:51:54.82
to your divinely
intended creation.
00:51:54.85\00:51:59.07
Reason here, appetite here.
Reason higher than appetite.
00:51:59.10\00:52:05.15
I want to end
with this quotation.
00:52:05.18\00:52:07.31
Oh, this is great news.
00:52:07.34\00:52:08.50
This is something,
this is desire of ages wow.
00:52:08.53\00:52:11.13
"By passing over the
ground which man must travel,
00:52:11.16\00:52:15.61
our Lord has prepared
the way for us to overcome.
00:52:15.64\00:52:17.62
It is not His will
that we should be placed
00:52:17.65\00:52:19.14
at a disadvantage in
the conflict with Satan.
00:52:19.17\00:52:21.28
He would not have us intimidated
00:52:21.31\00:52:22.64
and discouraged by the
assaults of the serpent."
00:52:22.67\00:52:24.80
And I love this,
"'Be of good cheer,'
00:52:24.83\00:52:26.57
Jesus says, 'I have
overcome the world.'
00:52:26.60\00:52:28.67
John 16:33.
00:52:28.70\00:52:30.03
Let him, let her
who is struggling
00:52:30.06\00:52:32.08
against the power of
appetite look to the Savior
00:52:32.11\00:52:34.80
in the wilderness of temptation.
00:52:34.83\00:52:36.43
See Him in His
agony upon the cross,
00:52:36.46\00:52:38.69
as He exclaimed, 'I thirst.'
00:52:38.72\00:52:41.16
He has endured all that it
is possible for us to bear.
00:52:41.19\00:52:45.13
His victory,
"hallelujah write it down,
00:52:45.16\00:52:47.74
"His victory is ours."
00:52:47.77\00:52:50.77
Ladies and
gentlemen how could the news
00:52:50.80\00:52:52.05
the any better than that, huh?
00:52:52.08\00:52:53.88
I have overcome the
world, be of good cheer.
00:52:53.91\00:52:58.93
My victory is your victory.
00:52:58.96\00:53:01.27
Some of are struggling
00:53:01.30\00:53:02.97
with alcohol abuse in your life.
00:53:03.00\00:53:05.24
You're struggling with
it, I'm telling you my friend,
00:53:05.27\00:53:06.96
I'm not giving you
a simplistic solution
00:53:06.99\00:53:09.41
because if you join AA
00:53:09.44\00:53:11.12
and some of you need to join AA,
00:53:11.15\00:53:12.60
one of the first
things they'll tell you is
00:53:12.63\00:53:14.16
you've got to
depend on divine power.
00:53:14.19\00:53:16.80
That divine power has a
name and his name is Jesus.
00:53:16.83\00:53:20.35
My victory is your victory,
00:53:20.38\00:53:22.53
what I did for you at
cavalry I will do for you now.
00:53:22.56\00:53:25.92
I will give you the power
00:53:25.95\00:53:29.78
to put reason back
up again over appetite.
00:53:29.81\00:53:37.76
How many want
to-- hey, come on guys,
00:53:37.79\00:53:40.20
how many want to say Jesus,
00:53:40.23\00:53:43.28
you know what's going
on in my life right now?
00:53:43.31\00:53:45.42
I need to say this to him,
00:53:45.45\00:53:46.51
you know what's going
on in my life right now?
00:53:46.54\00:53:48.18
Jesus, please,
through the power of you
00:53:48.21\00:53:51.05
victory at Calvary,
00:53:51.08\00:53:52.19
would you reverse,
00:53:52.22\00:53:53.84
do what you must do
00:53:53.87\00:53:55.76
but would you put
reason at the top?
00:53:55.79\00:53:58.72
And let me live in
the power of your victory.
00:53:58.75\00:54:02.55
You want to say
that to Jesus, right?
00:54:02.58\00:54:03.64
Now stand to your feet.
00:54:03.67\00:54:04.70
If you want to
say that to Jesus,
00:54:04.73\00:54:06.48
stand to your feet and
say Jesus, do it please.
00:54:06.51\00:54:10.80
Why wouldn't I stand?
But of course I would stand.
00:54:10.83\00:54:14.85
Oh, Christ we're not
promising you anything
00:54:14.88\00:54:17.40
because our will
is like ropes of sand.
00:54:17.43\00:54:20.40
We've been there and done that
00:54:20.43\00:54:22.38
but we're standing to
our feet, Holy Christ.
00:54:22.41\00:54:26.22
On the cross, the
power of your victory,
00:54:26.25\00:54:31.35
it can be ours and so we stand
00:54:31.38\00:54:34.98
and we got
addictions come on look at us.
00:54:35.01\00:54:37.15
We got appetite
please, we got it
00:54:37.18\00:54:40.76
but we're on the
borders of the promise land.
00:54:40.79\00:54:43.95
Paul was right, some
stuff has to get dealt with now,
00:54:43.98\00:54:47.97
we can't deal with it.
00:54:48.00\00:54:50.00
Don't have the
guts but Holy Christ,
00:54:50.03\00:54:53.36
you have the power.
00:54:53.39\00:54:54.96
You said, be a good
cheer, I've overcome the world.
00:54:54.99\00:54:59.17
My victory is yours
and so we stand Jesus,
00:54:59.20\00:55:01.45
give it to every man
women and child standing
00:55:01.48\00:55:04.25
and what you begin here
Holy Christ journey with us
00:55:04.28\00:55:08.51
every step of the way.
00:55:08.54\00:55:14.16
For your name sake
00:55:14.19\00:55:17.10
let all the people
say, amen and amen.
00:55:17.13\00:55:23.64
Before you go,
00:55:23.67\00:55:24.76
I wanted to take one more moment
00:55:24.79\00:55:26.02
to let you know,
00:55:26.05\00:55:27.08
how glad I am you
shared this hour of worship
00:55:27.11\00:55:29.00
and Bible teachings with us.
00:55:29.03\00:55:30.62
This is the
Pioneer Memorial Church,
00:55:30.65\00:55:32.37
we're on the campus
of Andrews University
00:55:32.40\00:55:34.15
and the series is The Chosen.
00:55:34.18\00:55:36.54
This is the series
that has been growing
00:55:36.57\00:55:39.05
and it's burned on my heart
00:55:39.08\00:55:40.51
and over the last few weeks
before this new season began.
00:55:40.54\00:55:44.83
And some
concentrated prayer time,
00:55:44.86\00:55:46.87
I believe the spirit of
God led me to the series
00:55:46.90\00:55:49.39
out of book of Deuteronomy,
00:55:49.42\00:55:51.04
for this generation
within our community of faith
00:55:51.07\00:55:53.69
and outside this
community of faith.
00:55:53.72\00:55:55.72
I believe both--
00:55:55.75\00:55:57.33
both communities need to
hear the compelling Bible truth
00:55:57.36\00:56:03.45
captured in the
series called The Chosen.
00:56:03.48\00:56:04.94
So thank you for joining,
00:56:04.97\00:56:06.08
joining me and all of us
as we continue our journey
00:56:06.11\00:56:09.11
deeper and deeper
into the heart of--
00:56:09.14\00:56:10.73
of this theme.
00:56:10.76\00:56:12.05
Living as you and I do and I'm--
00:56:12.08\00:56:14.36
I'm-- I know I'm
preaching to the choir now,
00:56:14.39\00:56:16.57
living as we do on the
edge of the civilization
00:56:16.60\00:56:19.67
that is surviving through
constant upheaval and change,
00:56:19.70\00:56:23.87
I'm so grateful
and I know you are
00:56:23.90\00:56:26.10
for the bedrock
hope we have in Jesus.
00:56:26.13\00:56:29.51
I'm thankful that you
and I been given the--
00:56:29.54\00:56:31.86
privilege by God to partner,
00:56:31.89\00:56:33.94
to reach this generation
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the world over through
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I don't know how it works,
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I just know
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drop the signals
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This divine called to
become a part of the chosen,
00:56:46.03\00:56:48.65
God's last generation on earth.
00:56:48.68\00:56:50.29
So please, here's
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