Good morning Pioneer
Memorial. Happy Sabbath.
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Can I see those beautiful smiles
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this morning for our king, amen?
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So delighted to be here
with you again this Sabbath.
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This is the last
Sabbath for the semester.
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And so our students
will be traveling soon,
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we pray that those
here in the community
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will pray for
them as they travel.
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But shall we sing
this Sabbath together.
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Let's stand on our
feet and sing together
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"Hark! The herald angles sing."
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Hark, the herald angels sing
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Glory to the newborn King!
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Peace on earth, and mercy mild
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God and sinners reconciled!'
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Joyful, all ye nations rise
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Join the triumph of the skies
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With th' angelic host proclaim
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'Christ is born in Bethlehem!'
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Hark! The herald angels sing
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'Glory to the newborn King.'
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Hail the
heaven-born Prince of Peace!
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Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
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Life and light to all He brings
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Risen with healing in His wings
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Mild He lays His glory by
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Born that man no more may die
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Born to raise the sons of earth
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Born to give them second birth
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Hark! The herald angels sing
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'Glory to the newborn King!'
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Amen, amen. Amen.
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This next song says, "Come,
now is the time to worship."
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What an appropriate
song this Sabbath day,
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as we come as God has
called us near to his side,
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to be refreshed, to be renewed,
now is the time to worship.
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Come, now is the time to worship
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Come, now is the
time to give your heart
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This sound beautiful.
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Come, just as you are to worship
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Come
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Come, just as you
are before your God
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Come
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One day every tongue
will confess You are God
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One day every knee will bow
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Still the greatest
treasure remains for those
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Who gladly choose You now
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Come, now is the time to worship
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Come, now is the
time to give your heart
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Come, just as you are to worship
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Come, just as you
are before your God
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Come
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Come
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Come
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"I will sing of the
mercies of the Lord."
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I will sing of the
mercies of the Lord forever
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And declare, His
faithfulness in truth
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I will testify.
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I will testify of one crucified
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And I'll sing
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And I'll sing His praises
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To all generations
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To all
generations To all generations
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To all generations we speak
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To all generations
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To all
generations To all generations
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To all generations we sing
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This is our testimony
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of the risen
savior, I will sing.
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I will sing of the
mercies of the Lord forever
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And declare, His
faithfulness in truth
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So with all my heart
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So with all my
heart and every breath
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I will shout
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I will shout His
praises to all generations
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To all generations
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To all generations we speak
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To all
generations To all generations
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To all generations we speak
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We may chorus out.
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To all
generations To all generations
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To all generations we speak
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To all
generations To all generations
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To all generations we sing
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Halleluiah, we
share of the risen savior,
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His desire to save us.
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He's come to save us from
our sins, you may be seated.
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In our worship we bring
in often, we bring our lives.
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The Bible
declares a life of worship.
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Michaela, will you
lead us in this song.
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Over the skies of
Bethlehem appeared a star
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While angels sang
to lowly shepherds
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Three Wiseman seeking
truth traveled from afar
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Hoping to find
the child from heaven
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Falling on their knees
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They bow before the humble
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Prince of Peace
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I bring an offering
of worship to my King
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No one on earth
deserves the praises that I sing
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Jesus, may You receive
the honor that You're due
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O Lord, I bring
an offering to You
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The sun cannot compare
to the glory of Your love
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There is no
shadow in Your presence
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No mortal man would dare
to stand before Your throne
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Before the Holy One of heaven
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It's only by Your blood
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And it's only through
Your mercy, Lord, I come
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I bring an offering
of worship to my King
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No one on earth
deserves the praises that I sing
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Jesus, may You receive
the honor that You're due
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O Lord, I bring
an offering to you
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I bring an offering
of worship to my King
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No one on earth
deserves the praises that I sing
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Jesus, may You receive
the honor that You're due
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O Lord, I bring
an offering to you
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O Lord, I bring
an offering to you
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O Lord, I bring
an offering to you
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Twas the
nighttime before primetime,
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all through the world,
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every creature was
stirring, except for the church.
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Dawned in their kerchiefs
and robed in their gowns,
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the church was asleep
as the curtain came down.
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With all due apology
to Clement Clarke Moore
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or Henry Livingstone,
scholars aren't sure
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which one of them
composed that beloved poem
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"Twas the night
before Christmas."
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Without, with all due
apology to either one of them.
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I tell you, what it
makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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On this
nighttime before primetime,
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is the church snoring
through the final curtain call.
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Let's pray together.
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Are we Father, asleep
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in this nighttime
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in today's teaching as
we wrap up our journey.
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Oh, God through
the words of Christ,
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speak to the hearts of
this campus, in this community
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and all those
who worship with us.
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We pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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How would you like to get
your doctorate in psychology,
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and get it by researching?
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One of your
favorite childhood games,
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1990 Elizabeth
Newton earned her doc,
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PhD in psychology
from Stanford University
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and she did it by studying
a game, my brother and I,
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my brother Greg and I
used to play all the time
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and I'll bet you, you played it?
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You may even still play it?
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Late at night
when you can't sleep
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and your kid brothers in the
trundle bed right beside you.
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Hey Greg, guess this one?
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And you tap out the
tune, have you played that,
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I know they
have a name for this,
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guess that tune probably.
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You tap the tune out.
It's all right, what was it?
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In fact, let me do
it for you right here.
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You guess the tune?
I'll give you a clue later.
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All right, all right.
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Oh, I love that one,
don't you just love that one.
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That is one of my favorites.
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That is one of my
favorites, what is it?
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No. No, you
missed it, you missed it.
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I'm gonna give
you one more clue.
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I'll do it one more
time before this is over.
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But any way look,
so Elizabeth Newton,
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that's what she does,
for her doctoral research
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she divides her study
group into two categories.
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There are the tappers and there
are the listeners, all right.
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Turns out the listening
isn't so easy as you thought
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or as you just proved, a
120 songs, familiar songs
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were tapped out to the listeners
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and they guessed
only 2.5% of those songs,
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three out of 120.
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And it was right here that
Elizabeth Newton's research
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suddenly earned her
doctoral degree in psychology.
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I want to quote from a
book that my friend Ally Archer,
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who is our youth
pastor here, he gave it to me
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for having a part in
his wedding this summer.
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This is Chip and Dan
Heath's book, "Made to Stick:
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Why Some Ideas
Survive and Others Die."
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And this is
fascinating, hold on.
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Before the tapper
has tapped out the songs,
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Newton came to
them and said all right,
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I want you to kind of
guess the percentage of songs
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that will be
figured out by the listeners
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and there too a
man and woman said oh,
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about 50-50 one out of two.
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And yet the numbers
you just heard indicate
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that in fact the ratio
was only 2.5% or 1 out of 40.
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Why?
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Because when a tapper taps,
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she is hearing
the song in her head
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and can't for the
life they figured out
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why you can't get it?
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I'll do it again.
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This time I'll tell
you it's a Christmas carol.
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Come on!
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"O little town of Bethlehem.
How still we see thee lie."
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What do you think it was?
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She was coming
around the mountain?
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Rather, so easy.
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Now, this is Newton's point.
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Here we go, I put it
on the screen for you.
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"It's hard to be a tapper.
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The problem is that tappers
have been given knowledge
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the song title that
makes it impossible for them
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to imagine what it's
like to lack that knowledge.
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When they're tapping, they
can't imagine what it's like
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for the listeners
to hear isolated taps
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rather than the song."
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I like this. "This is
the Curse of knowledge.
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Once we know something,
we find it hard to imagine
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what it was like not to know it.
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Our knowledge has 'cursed'."
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As the Heath
brothers put it as cursed us.
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''And it
becomes difficult for us
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to share our
knowledge with others,
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because we can't
readily re-create
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our listeners' state of mind."
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Could that be our problem too?
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We hear the tune of
divine truth in our minds
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and we figure everybody else
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surely can hear
this tune as well,
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when it turns out that
most, in fact cannot hear,
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we're the only ones who
can, if we're even listening?
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"Twas the
nighttime before primetime."
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And all through the world,
00:26:31.55\00:26:32.94
every creature was
stirring except for the church,
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dawned in their kerchiefs
and wrapped in their gowns
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the church was asleep
as the curtain came down.
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Reminds me of an
old story so familiar,
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we may read it only once.
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Open your Bible with me please
to the Gospel of St. Matthew,
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Matthew Chapter 25, as we
put a wrap on this journey
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you and I've been
on for a few weeks now.
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Matthew Chapter 25,
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I'll be in the today's
New International Version.
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You didn't bring a
Bible, you got to see this,
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we're gonna read it once.
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You got to see it in that
pew Bible in front of you.
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So, grab the pew
Bible, it will be page 668,
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the New King James
Version, read along.
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Matthew Chapter 25.
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Oh, come on
everybody knows this story
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that's read the
gospels, Matthew 25:1,
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Jesus speaking on the
eve of His death, all right.
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Matthew 25:1 "At
that time, Jesus said,
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the kingdom of heaven
will be like ten virgins
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who took their lamps and
went out to meet the bridegroom.
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Five of them were
foolish and five were wise.
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The foolish
ones took their lamps
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but did not take
any oil with them."
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Verse 4, "The wise, however,
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took oil in their jars
along with their lamps.
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The bridegroom was
a long time in coming,
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and they all became
drowsy and fell asleep."
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Verse 6, "At
midnight the cry rang out:
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'Here's the bridegroom!
Come out to meet him!'
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Then all the virgins woke
up and trimmed their lamps.
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The foolish ones
said to the wise,
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'Give us some of your
oil, our lamps are going out.
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"'No,' they replied,
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'there may not be
enough for both us and you.
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Instead, go to
those who sell oil,
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you buy some for yourselves.''
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Verse 10, "But while
they were on their way
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to buy the oil,
the bridegroom arrived.
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The virgins who were ready
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went in with him to
the wedding banquet.
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And the door was shut.
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Later the others came
also. 'Sir, Sir!' they said.
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'Open the door for us!'
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But he replied, 'Truly I
tell you, I don't know you.'
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Therefore Jesus concludes,
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because you do not
know the day or the hour."
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You must watch. Watch. Watch.
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Because you do not
know the day or hour.
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There are two lines
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in that very familiar
story that I am praying.
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Well, we'll rest our
attention this morning
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and I wish you jot
them, both down right now.
00:29:11.08\00:29:13.50
Take that study guide please
out of your worship bulletin.
00:29:13.53\00:29:16.87
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00:29:16.90\00:29:18.78
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00:29:18.81\00:29:19.84
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00:29:19.87\00:29:22.92
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00:29:33.75\00:29:34.90
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Go to our website, let me put it
00:29:36.70\00:29:37.73
on the screen for
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You see it there.
00:29:42.28\00:29:45.54
It's kind of small at
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but you can see
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You're looking for
the series primetime.
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The series is
coming to an end today.
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This is the wrap,
title of this teaching,
00:29:55.38\00:29:58.04
"Twas the
nighttime before primetime."
00:29:58.07\00:30:00.92
When you get to that
title it will say study guide,
00:30:00.95\00:30:02.95
you click on there, you'll
have the same study guide.
00:30:02.98\00:30:06.86
Give you a minute
to... Not a minute,
00:30:06.89\00:30:09.06
we'll give you a
split second to find that.
00:30:09.09\00:30:12.73
Keep your hands up
all the way to balcony
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and an overflow as well.
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Put your hand
up, we'll make sure
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that you get the study guide.
00:30:17.42\00:30:20.27
All right, what are the
two lines, write them down.
00:30:20.30\00:30:21.90
"They all fell asleep."
00:30:21.93\00:30:25.18
That's line number
one, "They all fell asleep."
00:30:25.21\00:30:29.20
And then the other line,
"At midnight the cry rang out:
00:30:29.23\00:30:33.86
The Bridegroom is coming!"
00:30:33.89\00:30:39.11
Two lines, what's the point.
00:30:39.14\00:30:44.37
Twas the
nighttime before primetime
00:30:44.40\00:30:45.92
in all through the world.
00:30:45.95\00:30:47.02
Every creature were
stirring except for the church,
00:30:47.05\00:30:49.91
dawned in their kerchiefs
and wrapped in their gowns,
00:30:49.94\00:30:52.21
the church was asleep
as the curtain came down.
00:30:52.24\00:30:57.94
I'm a bit
embarrassed to ask this,
00:30:57.97\00:30:59.48
but I'm gonna do it anyway.
00:30:59.51\00:31:01.59
Am I the only one
hearing the tapping,
00:31:01.62\00:31:05.71
the incessant
tapping behind the headlines,
00:31:05.74\00:31:10.50
we've been experiencing of late.
00:31:10.53\00:31:14.99
Maybe, it's just
I'm hearing things,
00:31:15.02\00:31:17.99
like the Heath brothers put it,
00:31:18.02\00:31:19.79
I'm hearing a bunch
of disconnected taps,
00:31:19.82\00:31:21.48
like a kind of
bizarre Morse code.
00:31:21.51\00:31:24.38
Is that it?
00:31:24.41\00:31:26.01
What I want to do here is
00:31:26.04\00:31:27.15
run three
headline categories by you.
00:31:27.18\00:31:30.34
I would like to kind
of get your sense of this,
00:31:30.37\00:31:32.14
you might be only one or you--
00:31:32.17\00:31:33.32
anybody else
hearing any tapping here.
00:31:33.35\00:31:36.33
All right, headline
categories. See what you think.
00:31:36.36\00:31:38.83
What's the tune,
we're supposed to be hearing
00:31:38.86\00:31:40.16
from these headlines?
00:31:40.19\00:31:41.83
Headline category number one,
00:31:41.86\00:31:43.02
jot it down, the
'Economy', 'Economy'.
00:31:43.05\00:31:45.93
Headline category one, economy,
00:31:45.96\00:31:47.82
I've never in all of
my short life experience
00:31:47.85\00:31:50.27
such a drumbeat of
headlines pounding out the news
00:31:50.30\00:31:56.02
that our economy
is tanking faster,
00:31:56.05\00:31:58.72
then they can re-write the
headlines for the next day.
00:31:58.75\00:32:01.58
I've never seen
anything like it in my life.
00:32:01.61\00:32:06.30
Here's a piece from a financial
blog out on the west coast.
00:32:06.33\00:32:09.15
He could have
written this tomorrow.
00:32:09.18\00:32:12.50
It's in your study
guide, take a look at it.
00:32:12.53\00:32:14.79
You'll have to fill it in.
00:32:14.82\00:32:16.06
"Today the news
is unrelentingly bad.
00:32:16.09\00:32:19.40
Layoffs are soaring,
home building is plunging,
00:32:19.43\00:32:21.95
and stocks are
falling off a cliff.
00:32:21.98\00:32:23.63
The whole house of
cards seems to be collapsing.
00:32:23.66\00:32:25.82
Imagine how it must feel
to be a treasury official
00:32:25.85\00:32:28.09
or central banker today.
00:32:28.12\00:32:29.67
Unlike the rest of
us, who can only watch
00:32:29.70\00:32:31.27
with horrified fascination
as the global economy implodes,
00:32:31.30\00:32:34.88
you're actually expected
to do something about it.
00:32:34.91\00:32:37.88
But what?
00:32:37.91\00:32:39.06
Everything you
try, no matter how huge
00:32:39.09\00:32:40.96
and impressive
it sounds at first,
00:32:40.99\00:32:43.03
fails miserably
within days, if not hours.
00:32:43.06\00:32:45.99
Now you're huddled
with your advisors around
00:32:46.02\00:32:47.54
a conference
table, yelling at your
00:32:47.57\00:32:49.10
foreign counterparts
on the speakerphone.
00:32:49.13\00:32:51.45
You need a new
plan to keep the world
00:32:51.48\00:32:53.15
from ending tomorrow."
00:32:53.18\00:32:55.28
His words, "from
ending tomorrow."
00:32:55.31\00:33:00.28
You got the website. You
can check that out for yourself.
00:33:00.31\00:33:03.33
Apparently there are more than
a few who are hearing a tune
00:33:03.36\00:33:08.60
behind the
drumming headlines of late.
00:33:08.63\00:33:13.71
So that's headlines
category number one 'Economy.'
00:33:13.74\00:33:15.84
Headline category
number two, jot it down.
00:33:15.87\00:33:17.74
We'll call it
'Humanity', 'Humanity'.
00:33:17.77\00:33:23.03
Back in August, Newsweek writer
00:33:23.06\00:33:24.41
Jessie Elli wrote a piece
00:33:24.44\00:33:26.52
about a new paranoia
in this age, get this.
00:33:26.55\00:33:29.20
Young men who
believe they are the subjects
00:33:29.23\00:33:31.12
of their own reality TV show.
00:33:31.15\00:33:33.94
You see they're in your
study guide, jot it down.
00:33:39.01\00:33:40.62
"Joel Gold, the
director of psychiatrics
00:33:40.65\00:33:43.66
at New York's
Bellevue Hospital Center,
00:33:43.69\00:33:45.37
describes it as
''the pathological product
00:33:45.40\00:33:48.21
of our insatiable
appetite for self-exposure."
00:33:48.24\00:33:53.90
Oh, boy.
00:33:53.93\00:33:56.47
Have we all become the stars
00:33:56.50\00:33:58.64
in our own reality
TV shows, is that it?
00:33:58.67\00:34:02.47
I mean, even the
tragedy in Mumbai,
00:34:02.50\00:34:05.90
just a week ago
even that tragedy.
00:34:05.93\00:34:09.68
What do you have?
00:34:09.71\00:34:10.74
You have every news camp
on earth pointed at them.
00:34:10.77\00:34:15.69
A handful young
men, who now commands
00:34:15.72\00:34:19.34
center stage on
their own reality TV show,
00:34:19.37\00:34:25.73
our insatiable
appetite for self-exposure.
00:34:27.95\00:34:31.00
What's
happening to us as a race?
00:34:31.03\00:34:35.64
You heard this a few
weeks ago young adult Miami,
00:34:35.67\00:34:40.36
with his webcam
going live on the internet
00:34:44.10\00:34:51.33
intentionally
overdoses himself in front of
00:34:51.36\00:34:53.89
the people who are watching him.
00:34:53.92\00:34:55.93
Some are egging him on,
others are begging him not to.
00:34:55.96\00:35:02.23
That webcam
stays on for 12 hours
00:35:02.26\00:35:05.98
where he lies on his bed.
00:35:06.01\00:35:07.98
Somebody reports it
finally to the police.
00:35:08.01\00:35:10.63
They walk into the room,
walk straight to the webcam,
00:35:10.66\00:35:12.68
flip it off, the
young man is dead.
00:35:12.71\00:35:16.55
The insatiable
appetite for self-exposure.
00:35:16.58\00:35:24.03
I mean when, you know,
you read Edward Gibbon's,
00:35:24.06\00:35:27.92
"Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire."
00:35:27.95\00:35:29.92
And I tell you what?
00:35:29.95\00:35:30.99
It isn't hard to imagine one day
00:35:31.02\00:35:34.05
that like the ancient
Romans we'll be doing death live
00:35:34.08\00:35:39.87
on television or the internet.
00:35:39.90\00:35:42.20
People watch, pay to
view. What's happening to us?
00:35:42.23\00:35:48.04
I mean, just please Black
Friday, that hoard of shoppers,
00:35:48.07\00:35:53.88
they crashes down the door
in the Long Island Wal-Mart
00:35:53.91\00:35:57.56
and tramples a
security guard to death,
00:35:57.59\00:36:01.89
racing to get my
favorite present for me.
00:36:01.92\00:36:06.57
All the while they
are running over him,
00:36:06.60\00:36:08.49
they're walking by him,
he's dying and nobody stops.
00:36:08.52\00:36:14.40
Please, what is
happening to us as a race?
00:36:14.43\00:36:21.32
Can you hear the tune,
00:36:21.35\00:36:22.61
behind the incessant
tapping of the headlines.
00:36:22.64\00:36:26.87
What have we become?
00:36:26.90\00:36:28.15
Now here, your listed categories
00:36:28.18\00:36:29.93
is much longer but one more.
00:36:29.96\00:36:31.77
Headline category number three,
write it down, 'Prophecy'.
00:36:31.80\00:36:34.43
Okay, so you have
''Economy, Humanity, Prophecy."
00:36:34.46\00:36:38.28
The European
Parliament right now
00:36:38.31\00:36:40.53
is debating a
provision for all workers
00:36:40.56\00:36:42.16
in the European Union,
00:36:42.19\00:36:43.22
it's a provision
called Working Time Directive.
00:36:43.25\00:36:46.48
You go on to Google,
just type in those three words
00:36:46.51\00:36:48.33
Working Time Directive,
00:36:48.36\00:36:49.60
you have all the
European reports of this.
00:36:49.63\00:36:52.05
Principally, it is an effort
to safeguard European workers
00:36:52.08\00:36:55.23
by regulating the
amount of overtime work
00:36:55.26\00:36:56.98
that would be allowed
providing a minimum weekly rest.
00:36:57.01\00:36:59.86
All right, so you got
to have this much time off.
00:36:59.89\00:37:02.63
Not surprisingly,
00:37:02.66\00:37:04.39
Europe's catholic
bishops have been pushing
00:37:04.42\00:37:06.05
the members of the
European parliament
00:37:06.08\00:37:07.58
to amend the directive,
00:37:07.61\00:37:08.91
so that the
minimum weekly rest period
00:37:08.94\00:37:10.80
"shall in
principle include Sunday."
00:37:10.83\00:37:15.00
I've this in the
study guide for you.
00:37:15.03\00:37:18.60
Piotr Mazurkiewicz,
00:37:18.63\00:37:21.65
secretary general
of the Brussels-based
00:37:21.68\00:37:23.31
Bishop's Conferences of
the European Communities,
00:37:23.34\00:37:26.70
" Now you have to fill this in
"Said the protection of Sunday
00:37:26.73\00:37:30.79
'is a cornerstone of
the European social model
00:37:30.82\00:37:34.42
and an issue of
central importance for workers
00:37:34.45\00:37:36.47
and their families.
00:37:36.50\00:37:37.53
It would make sense, he goes on,
00:37:37.56\00:37:38.81
to complete the current draft
by adding a provision on Sunday
00:37:38.84\00:37:42.14
as a weekly day of rest.'
00:37:42.17\00:37:44.01
" And then a week and a
half, it will come to vote.
00:37:44.04\00:37:48.11
All for the good of the
workers understandably so,
00:37:48.14\00:37:51.14
but Rome's unprecedented
public efforts to return
00:37:51.17\00:37:56.72
secular Europe into
her ecclesiastical fold
00:37:56.75\00:38:01.13
is a harbinger of an
agenda that is clearly global.
00:38:01.16\00:38:04.59
Listen, folks, this
is not rocket science,
00:38:04.62\00:38:07.09
please, it isn't
rocket science to observe
00:38:07.12\00:38:10.57
that an increasingly
severe economic collapse
00:38:10.60\00:38:13.53
can provide the cover
for overt legislative action
00:38:13.56\00:38:17.07
E2U consider unthinkable
or at best unlikely in Europe
00:38:17.10\00:38:21.41
or in the United
States of America.
00:38:21.44\00:38:25.74
Does anybody else hear the tune
00:38:25.77\00:38:28.52
behind the incessant tappings
of the headlines these days
00:38:28.55\00:38:33.47
and what is the tune playing?
00:38:33.50\00:38:37.36
Twas a
nighttime before primetime
00:38:37.39\00:38:39.11
and all through the world
00:38:39.14\00:38:41.29
every creature was
stirring except for the church,
00:38:41.32\00:38:44.05
dawned in their kerchiefs
and wrapped in their gowns,
00:38:44.08\00:38:46.69
the church was asleep,
as the curtain came down.
00:38:46.72\00:38:54.37
So, what about
you? What about me?
00:38:54.40\00:38:56.72
Are we sleeping?
00:38:56.75\00:38:59.22
It doesn't even occurs
we're reading at the parable
00:38:59.25\00:39:00.96
that we just did is clear.
00:39:00.99\00:39:04.12
Everybody in the parable
sleeps, isn't that right?
00:39:04.15\00:39:06.70
Didn't everybody
sleep, all 10 slept.
00:39:06.73\00:39:08.72
So it can't be ascent to sleep.
00:39:08.75\00:39:12.07
The critical difference
00:39:12.10\00:39:13.13
between the five
wise and the five foolish,
00:39:13.16\00:39:15.13
once they've awaken turns out
00:39:15.16\00:39:16.55
to have been
simply a relational one.
00:39:16.58\00:39:19.58
Five of them didn't
know the bridegroom.
00:39:19.61\00:39:23.40
They are pounding on
the door and he says,
00:39:23.43\00:39:26.78
I'm so sorry, I don't know you.
00:39:26.81\00:39:32.86
It will be sad, wouldn't it?
00:39:32.89\00:39:34.79
To know the tune
behind the headlines,
00:39:34.82\00:39:38.11
but not know the
one behind the tune.
00:39:38.14\00:39:43.79
So do you know him, do you?
00:39:43.82\00:39:47.81
I want to tell you something.
00:39:47.84\00:39:50.66
I've been especially
burdened this last three months,
00:39:50.69\00:39:54.17
just watching,
observing the world.
00:39:54.20\00:39:59.70
I'm very concerned and fearful
00:39:59.73\00:40:04.01
that the impending crises
will catch the church asleep.
00:40:04.04\00:40:11.90
Without a vibrant
personal relationship
00:40:11.93\00:40:15.45
with the one who
is soon to return.
00:40:15.48\00:40:20.80
I'm telling you, I
have noticed my praying
00:40:20.83\00:40:23.28
becoming more and more
preoccupied with this petition
00:40:23.31\00:40:28.07
that God will
somehow awaken the church
00:40:28.10\00:40:31.61
to our deep need for Jesus.
00:40:31.64\00:40:37.72
I care around in
my Bible all of them,
00:40:37.75\00:40:40.74
a six word prayer that
was composed a century ago,
00:40:40.77\00:40:46.68
it goes like
this "We seem the sit
00:40:46.71\00:40:48.04
as though we were paralyzed."
00:40:48.07\00:40:49.39
And then here
comes the six words
00:40:49.42\00:40:51.05
"God of heaven, wake us up!"
00:40:51.08\00:40:57.91
I mean, what's the
point, jot it down.
00:41:01.43\00:41:02.76
What is the point of knowing
the tune behind the headlines,
00:41:02.79\00:41:05.43
if we don't know
the one behind the tune?
00:41:05.46\00:41:10.76
And how is it with
you, young primetimers.
00:41:10.79\00:41:14.66
You're the reason
00:41:14.69\00:41:15.72
we got into this
series in the first place.
00:41:15.75\00:41:21.72
I want to tell you something now
00:41:21.75\00:41:22.79
that I wouldn't have
told you at the beginning,
00:41:22.82\00:41:24.70
but since it's over, it's over.
00:41:24.73\00:41:27.32
You know, the
reason, you know the reason
00:41:27.35\00:41:30.79
why you are the
primetime generation.
00:41:30.82\00:41:34.27
It's not because
there is something
00:41:34.30\00:41:36.22
intrinsically
special or unique about you.
00:41:36.25\00:41:42.60
It is rather a simple
and incontrovertible truth
00:41:42.63\00:41:45.40
and that is
when it is nighttime,
00:41:45.43\00:41:49.44
then it is primetime.
00:41:49.47\00:41:52.87
Write that down.
00:41:52.90\00:41:54.43
When it is
nighttime, it's the nighttime
00:41:54.46\00:41:57.03
that makes the primetime.
00:41:57.06\00:41:58.82
It's not the people
that make the primetime,
00:41:58.85\00:42:00.27
it's the nighttime
that makes the primetime.
00:42:00.30\00:42:03.92
When it is
nighttime, then it is primetime.
00:42:03.95\00:42:08.58
And in this
midnight hour of history,
00:42:08.61\00:42:10.98
I tell you that's what makes
you the primetime generation.
00:42:11.01\00:42:15.84
And so my young
friends, I need to say this
00:42:15.87\00:42:17.59
with all your
earnestness that I can muster.
00:42:17.62\00:42:20.31
As a pastor of this campus,
00:42:20.34\00:42:23.80
I need to alert you
00:42:23.83\00:42:27.82
that we are in nighttime now.
00:42:27.85\00:42:32.85
It's
interesting that word night,
00:42:32.88\00:42:33.91
jot it down, how it appears,
00:42:33.94\00:42:36.00
just a position in scripture,
look at this the Apostle Paul,
00:42:36.03\00:42:38.69
Romans 13:11-14, one
line out of that passage,
00:42:38.72\00:42:41.37
"The night is nearly over;
and the day is almost here."
00:42:41.40\00:42:46.92
Look at this one.
00:42:46.95\00:42:47.98
The words of our
Lord Himself, John 9:4,
00:42:48.01\00:42:51.10
"Night is coming,
when no one can work."
00:42:51.13\00:42:53.75
Now Jesus is speaking of,
of His impending crucifixion
00:42:53.78\00:42:56.93
but the very words
indicate an affirmation
00:42:56.96\00:42:59.34
that night can
apparently get so deeply dark
00:42:59.37\00:43:02.25
that it becomes impossible
finally to do any work at all.
00:43:02.28\00:43:07.56
Now listen, we
are not there yet,
00:43:07.59\00:43:11.27
trust me you will
know when we are you know.
00:43:11.30\00:43:18.56
Isaiah 21:11
"Watchmen, you can hear the tune
00:43:18.59\00:43:22.42
tapping out
behind the headlines.
00:43:22.45\00:43:24.10
Watchmen, what is
left of the night?"
00:43:24.13\00:43:27.20
What is left? How
much of night is left?
00:43:27.23\00:43:33.37
Every now and then I'll
have a university student
00:43:33.40\00:43:35.34
walk into my
office here at the church,
00:43:35.37\00:43:38.80
and it goes something like this,
00:43:38.83\00:43:40.13
hey pastor, I'm
telling you what,
00:43:40.16\00:43:41.71
I'm, I'm under conviction
that Jesus is coming soon.
00:43:41.74\00:43:46.15
I'm wondering, what do
you think about this idea?
00:43:46.18\00:43:48.29
I'm thinking a
dropping out of school
00:43:48.32\00:43:50.34
and going straight to
work for God right now.
00:43:50.37\00:43:53.99
What do you think?
That's a fair question.
00:43:54.02\00:43:59.65
Let's say you were the one
00:43:59.68\00:44:00.88
that brought it up 20 years ago.
00:44:00.91\00:44:04.31
What would you be today?
00:44:04.34\00:44:05.81
Well, you would be 20 years
into God's mission, hallelujah.
00:44:05.84\00:44:11.29
But you would also be
00:44:11.32\00:44:13.41
without the benefits of
a liberal hard education
00:44:13.44\00:44:18.11
and you would be
intellectually handicapped.
00:44:18.14\00:44:22.77
You'll say, oh, come on, Dwight,
00:44:22.80\00:44:26.52
that's a little
bit below the belt.
00:44:26.55\00:44:30.57
The classic on
Christ's parables,
00:44:30.60\00:44:32.56
Christ object lessons, I
put it in your study guide
00:44:32.59\00:44:34.60
so you could
see it for yourself.
00:44:34.63\00:44:35.73
You have to fill it in.
00:44:35.76\00:44:36.88
Notice this, "If placed
under the control of His spirit,
00:44:36.91\00:44:42.05
the more
thoroughly the intellect,
00:44:42.08\00:44:44.90
" write it down the intellect.
00:44:44.93\00:44:47.56
"The more thoroughly
the intellect is cultivated,
00:44:47.59\00:44:51.02
the more effectively it can
be used in the service of God."
00:44:51.05\00:44:54.65
Now look, "The uneducated
man who is consecrated to God
00:44:54.68\00:44:59.37
and who longs to
bless others can be,
00:44:59.40\00:45:01.79
and is, used by the
Lord in His service."
00:45:01.82\00:45:04.87
Don't you go pointing
out of this church today,
00:45:04.90\00:45:06.85
oh, but I never
really got an education,
00:45:06.88\00:45:09.21
God is not gonna be able to
use me, wrong, wrong, wrong.
00:45:09.24\00:45:12.38
You will be used, trust me.
00:45:12.41\00:45:14.81
However, however
notice the caveat.
00:45:14.84\00:45:19.11
"But those who, with the
same spirit of consecration,
00:45:19.14\00:45:24.17
have had the benefit
of a thorough education,
00:45:24.20\00:45:27.08
can do a much more
extensive work for Christ.
00:45:27.11\00:45:30.78
They stand on," write
it down "vantage ground,
00:45:30.81\00:45:35.77
" You know what that means?
00:45:35.80\00:45:36.83
It's an advantage to
be intellectually sharp.
00:45:36.86\00:45:42.38
It's an advantage.
00:45:42.41\00:45:44.67
You stand on vantage ground.
00:45:44.70\00:45:48.49
The Lord, listen to this,
00:45:48.52\00:45:49.72
"The Lord desires us to obtain
all the education possible,
00:45:49.75\00:45:54.76
with the object
in view of imparting
00:45:54.79\00:45:56.33
our knowledge to others..."
00:45:56.36\00:45:57.39
That's always the object guys.
00:45:57.42\00:45:58.90
It's not so that
I can become bright
00:45:58.93\00:46:00.37
and every body say,
oh, aren't you smart?
00:46:00.40\00:46:02.32
No.
00:46:02.35\00:46:03.38
The point of the
education is to enable you
00:46:03.41\00:46:05.17
to be more
effective in God's mission.
00:46:05.20\00:46:08.63
"Our minds" keep reading,
00:46:08.66\00:46:10.06
"Our minds should be so
trained that if necessary
00:46:10.09\00:46:13.34
we can present
the truths of His word
00:46:13.37\00:46:15.75
before the highest
earthly authorities
00:46:15.78\00:46:17.96
in such a way as
to glorify His name."
00:46:17.99\00:46:22.23
Write it down.
00:46:22.26\00:46:23.29
"We should not let
slip even one opportunity."
00:46:23.32\00:46:29.01
Don't let it go.
Don't you let it go.
00:46:29.04\00:46:32.16
"One opportunity of
qualifying ourselves
00:46:32.19\00:46:34.11
intellectually to work for God."
00:46:34.14\00:46:39.14
Of course, you
must remain in school
00:46:39.17\00:46:43.92
just because it's nighttime
00:46:43.95\00:46:46.42
doesn't mean it
isn't the right time
00:46:46.45\00:46:49.04
to get your primetime mind
in life equip for maximum value
00:46:49.07\00:46:53.11
and intellectual
service for Christ.
00:46:53.14\00:46:55.94
But here is the good news.
00:46:55.97\00:46:59.06
You can do
primetime, halleluiah.
00:46:59.09\00:47:02.05
You can do primetime right here.
00:47:02.08\00:47:06.33
12 miles up the road,
00:47:06.36\00:47:07.70
there is an
intercity called Benton Harbor;
00:47:07.73\00:47:09.12
we need a 100 more young adults
00:47:09.15\00:47:12.48
who will help us with our
street ministry in that city.
00:47:12.51\00:47:15.94
12 miles up the
road, Student Missions.
00:47:15.97\00:47:19.90
Our Student Missions is ready
to send you anywhere on earth
00:47:19.93\00:47:23.89
that you're
willing to go for Christ.
00:47:23.92\00:47:26.34
While you are
deepening your intellect
00:47:26.37\00:47:27.75
and broadening
your education as well.
00:47:27.78\00:47:30.76
Just talk to Chaplain
Jay Firth or Chaplain Karen.
00:47:30.79\00:47:35.11
Hey, listen,
start your own ministry
00:47:35.14\00:47:36.90
right here on the
campus or in the community.
00:47:36.93\00:47:38.36
Are you into publics?
Start a public ministry?
00:47:38.39\00:47:40.85
Are you in tutelary?
00:47:40.88\00:47:41.91
We got high
schools all over this place
00:47:41.94\00:47:43.56
and elementary schools
00:47:43.59\00:47:44.62
that desperately
need young adult tutors.
00:47:44.65\00:47:48.66
Listen, be a part
of public evangelism.
00:47:48.69\00:47:52.22
We just had 30
Andrews University students
00:47:52.25\00:47:54.98
help us with the
discoveries '08 series.
00:47:55.01\00:47:57.35
And here is some
great news for you.
00:47:57.38\00:47:58.95
In the New Year,
00:47:58.98\00:48:00.01
we are gonna partner
with the religion department
00:48:00.04\00:48:01.93
and invite students of
all disciplines to conduct
00:48:01.96\00:48:04.81
public teaching series
all around this county.
00:48:04.84\00:48:10.71
Signup, we're hoping to
begin a peer to peer mission
00:48:10.74\00:48:17.24
for Notre Dame
University students,
00:48:17.27\00:48:19.14
we need bright minds.
00:48:19.17\00:48:21.18
We already have those
going at Lake Michigan College.
00:48:21.21\00:48:23.86
You can help there.
00:48:23.89\00:48:24.94
The point is you can
do primetime right here,
00:48:24.97\00:48:27.88
so why wait? Do it now.
00:48:27.91\00:48:30.74
And by the way, the
greatest prescription
00:48:30.77\00:48:34.52
for keeping awake
is to stay working.
00:48:34.55\00:48:39.21
Just work. Work.
00:48:39.24\00:48:44.37
This is the primetime.
00:48:44.40\00:48:47.55
If you stay awake,
you will stay awake.
00:48:47.58\00:48:52.90
If you stay at
work, I tell you what?
00:48:52.93\00:48:57.06
Primetimers,
church deeply needs you.
00:48:57.09\00:49:03.57
We need you.
00:49:03.60\00:49:06.04
There's some
others who are sleeping,
00:49:06.07\00:49:08.68
I'm not sure when they'll awake.
00:49:08.71\00:49:13.44
We need you.
00:49:13.47\00:49:16.17
You know,
Elizabeth Newton was right.
00:49:16.20\00:49:17.75
In her doctor
research she said, hey,
00:49:17.78\00:49:19.27
you know the
prime of the tappers is,
00:49:19.30\00:49:21.35
you got to remember
00:49:21.38\00:49:22.41
that the listeners
can't hear the tune
00:49:22.44\00:49:23.78
that the tapper is
hearing in his mind,
00:49:23.81\00:49:25.37
hearing in the heart
because you see the only people
00:49:25.40\00:49:27.86
who can hear the tune
are those who know the tune.
00:49:27.89\00:49:31.16
You already know the tune.
00:49:31.19\00:49:33.30
You already know the tune,
which is why God needs you,
00:49:33.33\00:49:37.68
since you can recognize
the tune to share with those
00:49:37.71\00:49:41.35
who don't know the
tune, the nature of the tune.
00:49:41.38\00:49:44.69
So that they too.., can be a
part of this nighttime moment
00:49:44.72\00:49:51.41
therefore one hour,
00:49:51.44\00:49:53.94
one hour assure
in an eternal day,
00:49:53.97\00:49:59.88
which is why I must tell you.
00:49:59.91\00:50:02.00
If you know the
one behind the tune,
00:50:02.03\00:50:05.54
and you know the
tune behind the tapping,
00:50:05.57\00:50:11.12
we're under moral obligation.
00:50:11.15\00:50:17.25
We are under a joyful invitation
00:50:17.28\00:50:23.67
to tell the world,
00:50:23.70\00:50:26.86
that Jesus is coming soon.
00:50:26.89\00:50:30.03
So today even as we began
00:50:35.63\00:50:39.65
I need to end in a way
we did in first church,
00:50:39.68\00:50:46.02
I need to make a
simple invitation
00:50:46.05\00:50:48.77
that won't take long to ponder.
00:50:48.80\00:50:51.84
If you as a young primetimer
00:50:51.87\00:50:53.67
would be willing to
make yourself available
00:50:53.70\00:50:56.13
to the mission of Christ,
00:50:56.16\00:50:58.71
in this nighttime of primetime,
00:50:58.74\00:51:03.44
to take the glad
tidings of Jesus' soon coming.
00:51:03.47\00:51:06.36
If you'd be willing to
whatever your discipline is
00:51:06.39\00:51:09.14
to make yourself
available to Christ,
00:51:09.17\00:51:12.21
for that nighttime mission.
00:51:12.24\00:51:15.92
You're sitting behind me.
You're sitting in front of me.
00:51:15.95\00:51:18.94
I wish you would
stand to your feet right now
00:51:18.97\00:51:21.86
and by that
standing you just say, hey,
00:51:21.89\00:51:24.51
Jesus, please,
please, please Jesus,
00:51:24.54\00:51:29.43
help me, help me.
00:51:29.46\00:51:32.50
I hear the tapping.
00:51:35.44\00:51:39.11
I know the tune. Please help me.
00:51:39.14\00:51:45.36
Holy Christ,
00:51:45.39\00:51:48.15
is really that a big
deal for us to stand,
00:51:48.18\00:51:53.36
you've been
standing for us for so long.
00:51:53.39\00:51:58.04
But by stranding today
what we are humbly saying is
00:51:58.07\00:52:01.63
we don't want to sleep.
00:52:01.66\00:52:04.21
This is the greatest hour
in the history of civilization.
00:52:04.24\00:52:08.99
We can't sleep through
this curtain call please
00:52:09.02\00:52:12.00
and so we stand.
00:52:12.03\00:52:13.88
Give us something
to do for you Jesus.
00:52:13.91\00:52:17.05
Doesn't matter what
we've been trained to do.
00:52:17.08\00:52:19.82
Give us something to do
for you to tell the world.
00:52:19.85\00:52:27.47
The earnestly good news.
00:52:27.50\00:52:32.33
The child of
Bethlehem is soon to return.
00:52:32.36\00:52:37.40
Use us any way you
wish but know our hearts,
00:52:37.43\00:52:41.80
oh Immanuel come,
come Immanuel, we pray.
00:52:41.83\00:52:49.80
O come, O come, Immanuel
00:53:34.14\00:53:41.14
And ransom captive Israel
00:53:41.17\00:53:48.53
That mourns in lonely exile here
00:53:48.56\00:53:55.82
Until the Son of God appear
00:53:55.85\00:54:02.94
Rejoice! Rejoice!
00:54:02.97\00:54:08.36
Immanuel
00:54:08.39\00:54:12.90
Shall come to thee,
00:54:12.93\00:54:15.63
O Israel!
00:54:15.66\00:54:22.52
O come, Thou Wisdom from on high
00:54:22.55\00:54:29.86
And order all
things, far and nigh
00:54:29.89\00:54:37.14
To us the path of knowledge show
00:54:37.17\00:54:44.72
And cause us in her ways to go
00:54:44.75\00:54:52.02
Rejoice! Rejoice!
00:54:52.05\00:54:57.47
Immanuel
00:54:57.50\00:55:01.86
Shall come to thee,
00:55:01.89\00:55:04.58
O Israel!
00:55:04.61\00:55:11.85
O come, Desire of nations, bind
00:55:11.88\00:55:19.06
All peoples in
one heart and mind
00:55:19.09\00:55:26.88
Bid envy, strife
and quarrels cease
00:55:26.91\00:55:34.42
Fill the whole
world with heaven's peace
00:55:34.45\00:55:41.99
Rejoice! Rejoice!
00:55:42.02\00:55:47.36
Immanuel
00:55:47.39\00:55:52.19
Shall come to thee,
00:55:52.22\00:55:55.01
O Israel!
00:55:55.04\00:55:59.01
And now, may the God of hope
00:56:06.51\00:56:07.92
fill you with all joy and
peace as you trust in Him.
00:56:07.95\00:56:12.89
So, that you may
overflow with hope
00:56:12.92\00:56:15.61
by the power of
the Holy Spirit, amen.
00:56:15.64\00:56:20.09
It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
00:56:35.27\00:56:37.92
I hope the spirit of Jesus
has blessed your time with us
00:56:37.95\00:56:41.11
right here at the
Pioneer Memorial Church
00:56:41.14\00:56:42.56
on the campus of
Andrews University.
00:56:42.59\00:56:44.77
Do you know
that around the world
00:56:44.80\00:56:45.83
people join us every
week for this hour of worship?
00:56:45.86\00:56:48.25
We're always
looking as a consequence
00:56:48.28\00:56:50.14
for new ways to bridge,
00:56:50.17\00:56:51.36
somehow to
connect with these people
00:56:51.39\00:56:53.46
who come here to
worship via the telecast.
00:56:53.49\00:56:56.48
One of the areas that
is quickly growing for us
00:56:56.51\00:56:58.74
is our website.
00:56:58.77\00:56:59.80
We had more than a hundred
00:56:59.83\00:57:00.93
and forty thousand
visitors last year.
00:57:00.96\00:57:03.79
It's an incredible opportunity
00:57:03.82\00:57:05.68
that God has given us
to expand His kingdom.
00:57:05.71\00:57:08.52
If you would like
to help partner with us
00:57:08.55\00:57:10.46
as we seek to spread
the everlasting gospel,
00:57:10.49\00:57:13.36
I'd love to have you
call our toll free numbers.
00:57:13.39\00:57:15.83
We've got very
friendly operator standing by.
00:57:15.86\00:57:18.40
Here's the number, 877-HIS-WILL.
00:57:18.43\00:57:21.52
877 and then the
two words HIS WILL.
00:57:21.55\00:57:23.54
One of the operators would
be happy to give you the details
00:57:23.57\00:57:26.86
of how you can partner
with this global ministry.
00:57:26.89\00:57:29.76
If you prefer, listen
you can do it all online.
00:57:29.79\00:57:31.96
Go to our website
please, www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:31.99\00:57:36.50
I'd be honored to
have the privilege
00:57:36.53\00:57:37.86
of partnering with you
00:57:37.89\00:57:38.92
as we seek to spread the truth
about God for this generation.
00:57:38.95\00:57:42.34
We are living in urgent times.
00:57:42.37\00:57:45.58
Now more than ever,
we've got to go to the world
00:57:45.61\00:57:48.88
with the good
news entrusted to us.
00:57:48.91\00:57:50.58
So once again here's that
toll free number, 877-HIS-WILL.
00:57:50.61\00:57:55.00
Thank you in
advance for your generosity.
00:57:55.03\00:57:57.66
That blesses me and
you grow this ministry.
00:57:57.69\00:58:00.71
I pray that the spirit of Christ
00:58:00.74\00:58:02.19
will abide with you
every step of the way
00:58:02.22\00:58:04.65
and I hope you'll come
back again next time right here
00:58:04.68\00:58:07.83
as we continue our
worship journey together.
00:58:07.86\00:58:10.61