From the highest of heights
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To the depths of the sea
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Creation's
revealing Your majesty
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From the colors of fall
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To the fragrance of spring
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Every creature unique
in the song that it sings
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All exclaiming
Indescribable, uncontainable
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You placed the stars in the sky
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And You know them by name
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You are amazing God
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All powerful, untameable
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Awestruck we fall to our
knees as we humbly proclaim
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You are amazing God
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You are amazing God
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You are amazing God
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Indescribable, uncontainable
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You placed the stars in the sky
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And You know them by name
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You are amazing God
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Incomparable, unchangeable
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You see the depths of my heart
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And You love me the same
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You are amazing God
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All powerful, untameable
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Awestruck we fall to our
knees as we humbly proclaim
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You are amazing God.
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Amen.
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I just want you to
think of how good our God is,
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as we sing this next
song, and how great He is.
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Our God is an Awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom, pow'r and love
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Our God is an Awesome God
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Our God is an Awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom pow'r and love
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Our God is an Awesome God
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Our God is an Awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom pow'r and love
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Our God is an Awesome God
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Our God is an Awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom pow'r and love
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Our God is an Awesome God
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Our God is an Awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom pow'r and love
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Our God is an Awesome God.
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Amen.
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Hosanna
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In the highest
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Let our King be lifted up
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Hosanna
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Hosanna
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In the highest
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Let our King be lifted up
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Hosanna.
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Everybody sing
together, let's lift His name.
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Hosanna
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In the highest
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Let our King be lifted up
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Hosanna
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Be lifted higher
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Higher
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Be lifted higher
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Jesus You be lifted higher
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Higher
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Be lifted higher
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Jesus, You be lifted higher
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Higher
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Be lifted higher
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Jesus, You be lifted higher
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Higher
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Be lifted higher
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Let our King be lifted up
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Let our King be lifted up
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Let our King be lifted up
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Hosanna
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Hosanna
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In the highest
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Let our King be lifted up
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Hosanna.
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Well, good
morning, boys and girls,
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on this Labor Day weekend.
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Nice to see you all of you here.
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Blast here all
before summer is over,
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for some of you,
school starts this next week,
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others have you, oops,
you've already been in school.
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All right, have a seat,
have a seat because you know,
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because this is the
last Sabbath of summer.
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I know we could
have show-and-tell today.
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Let's have a
show-and-tell today.
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So, okay, one last
report on summer time.
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One of the, one of
the joys this summer was
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we got to spend a few days
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with our almost two year
old granddaughter name Ella.
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Oh, she's such a
wonderful little girl.
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And we had a glorious time,
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the bonus was we
got to spend some time
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with her parents as
well, that's not too bad,
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so you kind of do it all
together at the same time
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but we're staying at
Ella's other grandparents place.
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And they have a big farm
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and they have a blueberry patch.
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Anybody know
what blueberries are?
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Do you like
blueberries? I love them.
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So let's go on a little trip.
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I'm just gonna put
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a bunch of
pictures on the screen
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and let's go with Ella
to the blueberry patch.
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Let's pick some
blueberries together.
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Let's see on the big
TV here. There is granny.
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That's Granny Karen and
her little granddaughter,
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our granddaughter Ella.
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Hey, let's go to the blueberry.
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Oh, Ella, do you have a bucket?
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Oh, Ella's got her
bucket, we're ready to go.
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Hey, let's, ooh,
look at those blueberries,
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yum, yum, yum.
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I love
blueberries on top of cereal.
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Ooh, and let's see,
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it's Ella there
with her mother Chelsea,
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that's our
little daughter-in-law,
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pick, pick, pick, pick, pick.
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We all have buckets
pick, pick, pick, pick, pick...
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I'm picking it along,
we're picking it along
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when all of a
sudden boom, look at that!
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Oh!
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Oh!
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What is that?
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A snake!
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That is the snake.
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Is it a real snake? Yes.
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Maybe,
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if you're a birdie flying
over and you love blueberries
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and you see that snake on
top of the blueberry bushes,
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what do you
think that birdie says,
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I think, I've got
the wrong address,
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I'll got somewhere else.
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So we kept picking
and picking, and picking
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and all of a
sudden while we're picking
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we came across
this, oh, what is that?
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That is a hawk.
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In the distance there is an owl
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but this one is the hawk.
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Oh, if you're a little
birdie and you love blueberries,
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I want to get those blueberries,
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I'm coming down.
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Oh, there is a hawk, I'm gone.
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So we're just picking
along and all of a sudden,
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oh, here comes a real one
when all of a sudden, boom,
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we look next picture, oh, ooh!
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Turns out that's just a rubber,
that's just a rubber snake.
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Well, it looks
pretty real, doesn't it?
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Yeah, I wouldn't
pick that either.
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Isn't that
something they put all these,
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they put all these
little fake creatures out
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to keep the birdies away.
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Ella, how do you do?
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Let's see a picture of Ella now.
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Oh, that's not bad
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because 50% of
them she was eating
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so that's the
other 50%, let me see.
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Ella, are you happy?
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Oh, there is papa's little girl,
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look at her.
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Are you thirsty, Ella?
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Okay, let's go with daddy
to get to the, to the spring.
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Oh, there is the redheaded
Kirk and his little girl.
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Hey, pictures off the screen
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because look at
this is way Satan is,
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God makes some beautiful fruit
and you know what Satan does?
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He says, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna put some counterfeits,
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I'm gonna put
some fake distractions,
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I put some fake distractions,
they'll see the distraction
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and they won't go for the fruit.
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Jesus says, "No, no,
come on, this is good fruit.
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Come here, for the
fruits of the spirit,
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come here."
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Satan says, "Oh,
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another fake here, another fake.
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He doesn't want us
to get near the fruit
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that Jesus has made for us,
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but I'm so thankful
that with Jesus nearby,
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Satan is no more
powerful than a blow up snake.
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Nope, Jesus says,
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"I want you to have this fruit."
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And we get to have the fruit.
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Aren't you glad
Jesus made fruits?
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At the end of the
summer just wonderful fruit.
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And aren't you glad,
two hands up, two hands up,
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aren't you glad
that Jesus is our,
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our friend who gives
us the very best gifts,
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the gifts of His fruit.
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Oh, Jesus, fill our
hearts with Your fruit.
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Who wants to pray
today and thank Jesus?
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All right, Tony,
you are the man today,
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way to be there
with that hand up first.
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All right, let's
bow our heads with Tony.
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Let's close the...
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let's close our eyes,
fold our hands and, Tony,
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thank Jesus for
the gifts of His fruit.
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Thank, dear Jesus,
thank You for this day.
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Thank You that we
can come to church today.
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And thank You for the
fruit that You gave us
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and all that we can do, amen.
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Amen, thank you, Tony.
Hey, don't go anywhere.
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Shh, I promised you last week
that you would get something
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if you were
really nice and quiet,
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you were more than nice.
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And Sherry stay right there.
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And Sherry has prepared
blueberries in plastic bags.
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So and there will
be people on this side,
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people on this side,
when you get them back,
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you ask your mommy
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when it's time to
stain your shirt, all right?
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So say, is this the
time to stain my shirt?
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Happy Sabbath to
you, a happy Labor Day.
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You can go over
here. You can go over here.
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You can go over there.
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Help yourself take turns,
there you go, one a piece.
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God bless you,
guys, happy Sabbath.
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I love to tell the story
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Of unseen things above
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Of Jesus and His glory
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Of Jesus and His love
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I love to tell the story
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Because I know 'tis true
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It satisfies my longing
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As nothing else can do
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I love to tell the story
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'Tis pleasant to repeat
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What seems, each time I tell it
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More wonderfully sweet
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I love to tell the story
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For some have never heard
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The message of salvation
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From God's own holy Word
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I love to tell the story
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'Twill be my theme in glory
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To tell the old, old story
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Of Jesus and his love
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I love to tell the story
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For those who know it best
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Seem hungering and thirsting
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To hear it, like the rest
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And when, in scenes of glory
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I sing the new, new song,
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'Twill be the old, old story
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That I have loved so long
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I love to tell the story
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'Twill be my theme in glory
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To tell the old, old story
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Of Jesus and his love.
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August 6, 1945,
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faced in the deadly
glow of a single atomic bomb
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over Hiroshima, Japan,
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the world find itself
assured into the atomic age.
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Four years later deep
behind the Iron Curtain,
00:17:46.53\00:17:48.80
the Soviet Union
conducts their first test
00:17:48.83\00:17:50.67
of an atomic weapon,
00:17:50.73\00:17:52.07
sparking in arms raise
00:17:52.10\00:17:53.44
the like of which
the world has never seen.
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Apprehensive
scientists and intellectuals
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debate the ominous
fate of the planet.
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Three days before his
death on April 18, 1955,
00:18:00.54\00:18:03.68
American
scientist Albert Einstein
00:18:03.71\00:18:05.38
joins British
philosopher Bertrand Russell
00:18:05.41\00:18:07.58
in signing the
Russell-Einstein Manifesto.
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The prospect for the human race
is somber beyond all precedent.
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Mankind are faced with
a clear-cut alternative:
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either we shall all perish,
or we shall have to acquire
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some slight
degree of common sense.
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Soon after in the
village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia,
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22 scientists
including 10 Nobel laureates
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gathered to ponder
00:18:27.47\00:18:28.80
how to avert the Cold War's
threat of nuclear obliteration
00:18:28.84\00:18:32.01
and forge a
plan of global peace.
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And half a century
later the quest still goes on.
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Call it The Pugwash Factor
00:18:37.75\00:18:39.48
because if those
who know do not act,
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the planet is doomed.
00:18:41.65\00:18:43.15
And the reason we're calling it
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The Pugwash Factor
00:18:48.86\00:18:50.73
is because of the
underlying premise,
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when those
intellectuals, those scientists,
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philosophers gathered
in that obscure little
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Nova Scotian
village name Pugwash.
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The premise for their gathering,
00:19:03.24\00:19:04.57
and by the way,
00:19:04.61\00:19:05.94
the Pugwash conferences
are still taking place,
00:19:05.97\00:19:07.31
annual conferences,
00:19:07.34\00:19:08.68
bright thinkers
from around the globe.
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The premise was and is
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the world is on the edge
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and we must do something.
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If you turn your bulletin over,
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I need to say a word about
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the last two
pieces of this short,
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mini series of Pugwash Factor.
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You see on the back
there is line up for this fall.
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I want to draw
your attention to the...
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two weeks, three
weeks from today,
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"The Pugwash Factor:
00:19:35.34\00:19:36.71
How to Discern the
Pope's Agenda for America".
00:19:36.74\00:19:38.84
This would be 48 hours
00:19:38.87\00:19:40.58
after the pontiff
00:19:40.61\00:19:43.45
would be standing in the well
of the United States Congress
00:19:43.48\00:19:45.78
addressing the political
leadership of the nation,
00:19:45.81\00:19:48.52
the president and
the entire country,
00:19:48.55\00:19:50.89
never happen before in history.
00:19:50.92\00:19:52.89
So how can we discern,
what's his agenda, what's up?
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And then the one after it.
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Wants you to keep
that one in mind as well,
00:19:59.46\00:20:02.06
how to respond to
the Supreme Court's
00:20:02.10\00:20:03.83
same-sex marriage decision.
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It's a big deal this summer.
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How does a Christian respond?
00:20:08.07\00:20:09.40
I mean, what do we
say, I mean, what's up?
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I'll be, be there for
these two, the last two.
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Living in a world on
the edge, how do we live?
00:20:16.51\00:20:20.08
How then shall we live?
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Today, it's a part
of the Pugwash Factor,
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I want to pray with you
and then plunge into the story.
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I love what Doug Chuck just say,
00:20:30.13\00:20:32.03
I love to tell the story,
it's so, that's why we're here.
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I want to go to
the part of the story.
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But first let's pray,
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"Dear God,
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the Pugwash Factor
living bright minds,
00:20:41.00\00:20:44.07
this is not, this
is not rocket science,
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bright minds know,
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we know,
00:20:50.88\00:20:52.51
so how then shall we
live given the times.
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Charles just saying it, I love,
I love to tell the story as we,
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as we go to that story,
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ignited within us,
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so help us to
know how to respond,
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to live out that story,
we pray in Christ name, amen.
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You remember the
Greek classic Homer,
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you remember Homer's Iliad,
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and maybe took
literature in high school,
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you had to read that big tome.
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Describing one of the,
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one of the heroes in
his dramatic narrative,
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he, these are the words
were used to describe him,
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he was a friend to man
and he lived in a house
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by the side of the road.
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I like that.
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He was a friend of
mine and he lived in a house
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by the side of the road.
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And the reason I like it
because for me all right,
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maybe not for you but for me,
00:21:44.83\00:21:46.90
it epitomizes
who Jesus was and is.
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He was a friend to man,
He was a friend to people.
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Look He didn't live in a house,
He didn't have a house, says,
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foxes have
dens, birds have nest,
00:21:56.21\00:21:58.65
son of man have
nowhere to lay my head.
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He didn't have a house
I understand that but He,
00:22:00.98\00:22:02.75
He lived out, He was a
friend to the human race.
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Elaine Roulette,
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she is the founder
of my mother's house
00:22:10.26\00:22:11.59
in New York.
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Somebody to came
to her once and ask,
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how do you work with the poor?
00:22:14.36\00:22:16.13
To which she replied, you know,
00:22:16.16\00:22:18.57
you share your
life with the poor.
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Let me live in a house
by the side of the road
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and be a friend to man.
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The American
poet Sam Walter Foss,
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19th century,
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sees this line from Homer,
turned into his personal credo,
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and I have his poem,
it's a five stanza poem,
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I'm not gonna read
the whole poem to you.
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But let me read,
let me read stanza two
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and I must slip in stanza three,
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listen to this,
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"Let me live in a house
by the side of the road,
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where the race of men go by.
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The men who are good
and the men who are bad,
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as good and as bad as I.
00:22:55.90\00:22:58.51
I would not sit in
the scorner's seat,
00:22:58.54\00:23:00.78
or hurl the cynic's ban.
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Let me live in a house
by the side of the road
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and be a friend to man.
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I see from my house
by the side of the road,
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by the side of
the highway of life,
00:23:11.25\00:23:14.16
the men who press
with the ardor of hope,
00:23:14.19\00:23:15.89
the men who are
faint with the strife.
00:23:15.92\00:23:18.16
But I turn not away
00:23:18.19\00:23:19.53
from their
smiles nor their tears,
00:23:19.56\00:23:22.00
both parts of an infinite plan.
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Let me live in a house
by the side of the road
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and be a friend to man."
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I like that
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because it's just
like Jesus, isn't it?
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By the way when
you talk about Jesus
00:23:36.51\00:23:38.65
and this idea
00:23:38.68\00:23:40.02
that we're kind of wrestling
00:23:40.08\00:23:41.42
through, we just
started last Sabbath,
00:23:41.45\00:23:42.78
we're gonna,
00:23:42.82\00:23:44.15
this thing will just take
us right through the season.
00:23:44.19\00:23:45.55
But when you talk
about Jesus and the gospel
00:23:45.59\00:23:48.46
and the gospel is a good news.
00:23:48.49\00:23:50.39
There is a critical distinction
that you need to get,
00:23:50.43\00:23:53.09
I need to get this right
here at the outset and that is,
00:23:53.13\00:23:56.13
listen, the
gospel is not salvation.
00:23:56.16\00:24:00.27
It's not the gospel.
00:24:00.34\00:24:01.67
The gospel is not
forgiveness of sin.
00:24:01.70\00:24:05.11
The gospel is not peace of mind,
00:24:05.14\00:24:06.47
it's not grace, it's
not even divine love.
00:24:06.51\00:24:08.84
The good news of the gospel
is a person and His name Jesus,
00:24:08.88\00:24:12.75
that's the gospel.
00:24:12.78\00:24:14.75
Now that's really critical
00:24:14.78\00:24:16.12
because when Jesus comes
to us as He did last Sabbath,
00:24:16.15\00:24:18.52
was it's Mark 16:15, it
says, "I want you to go,
00:24:18.55\00:24:21.29
go into all the
world and share the gospel,
00:24:21.32\00:24:23.83
share the good news
with every creature."
00:24:23.86\00:24:26.29
We need to understand
00:24:26.33\00:24:27.66
that, that command to go is
Jesus is essentially saying,
00:24:27.73\00:24:30.33
"Hey, go and share me,
share me with the world.
00:24:30.37\00:24:36.30
Tell them how you relate to me,
00:24:36.34\00:24:38.17
tell them I'm your...
tell them I'm your savior,
00:24:38.21\00:24:40.44
tell them I'm
your forever friend.
00:24:40.48\00:24:42.58
That's the, that's
what I want you to share,
00:24:42.61\00:24:45.25
the gospel, the
good news of the gospel
00:24:45.28\00:24:47.58
is Christ Himself.
00:24:47.62\00:24:49.75
In fact, on the
eve of His crucifixion,
00:24:49.78\00:24:51.29
what does Jesus say?
00:24:51.32\00:24:52.85
"I'm, I'm the way,
00:24:52.89\00:24:56.22
the truth and the life."
00:24:56.26\00:24:59.39
Jesus said, "Look,
I'm the laden hunger,
00:24:59.43\00:25:03.10
I'm the undefined thirst,
00:25:03.13\00:25:06.27
I'm the secret longing
00:25:06.30\00:25:08.44
within every
man, woman and child.
00:25:08.47\00:25:11.87
I'm the God shaped
vacuum in every human heart.
00:25:11.91\00:25:15.31
I'm the gospel.
00:25:15.34\00:25:17.15
He is the good news.
00:25:17.18\00:25:19.85
We got to get that,
otherwise it's not good news,
00:25:19.88\00:25:22.88
it's not good news,
I'm not gonna share it.
00:25:22.92\00:25:25.09
I'm not gonna share
unless it's good news.
00:25:25.12\00:25:27.69
And the good
news is, it's Jesus.
00:25:27.72\00:25:30.36
And what's
better news than that,
00:25:30.43\00:25:31.76
He's always been the
good news by the way.
00:25:31.79\00:25:33.13
I want to go to a story now.
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Thank you, Charles, I
love to tell the story.
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Let's go to that
story, the story of Jesus.
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In a particular story
00:25:38.50\00:25:40.10
and I think you even
like the story Matthew 9,
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Matthew 9,
00:25:42.47\00:25:45.27
I'm gonna be in NIV and you,
00:25:45.31\00:25:48.14
whatever your
tablet or phone or Bible,
00:25:48.18\00:25:50.31
I hope it's a Bible, come
on, you're not being embarrassed
00:25:50.35\00:25:52.15
to bring a Bible to this church,
00:25:52.18\00:25:53.68
bring your Bible.
00:25:53.72\00:25:55.18
Don't have a Bible,
pull the pew Bible out
00:25:55.22\00:25:56.55
in front of you.
00:25:56.58\00:25:57.92
It's page number
here somewhere, page 654.
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I love the story,
it's one of my favorites
00:26:01.12\00:26:04.06
because, you know,
they're having a party,
00:26:04.09\00:26:05.43
it's party time,
let the party begin.
00:26:05.46\00:26:08.93
And all my, oh,
this is an opulent house.
00:26:08.96\00:26:12.17
Somebody who owns this house
is obviously pretty wealthy.
00:26:12.20\00:26:15.94
And, boy, they are driving up.
00:26:15.97\00:26:18.24
They are driving
up, they are driving up
00:26:18.27\00:26:20.18
in their stretch limos.
00:26:20.21\00:26:22.71
You ever seen,
when you go to Delaware,
00:26:22.74\00:26:24.08
you know, all
those stretch limos
00:26:24.15\00:26:25.48
when you get to Delaware.
00:26:25.51\00:26:26.85
You know, I tell you the
secret about stretch limos.
00:26:26.88\00:26:28.22
Stretch limos are rented
for people who are important
00:26:28.25\00:26:32.55
and by people who
want to look important,
00:26:32.59\00:26:36.39
stretch limos.
00:26:36.42\00:26:38.03
So these guys have all
rented their own stretch limos,
00:26:38.06\00:26:40.10
because they want be important,
00:26:40.13\00:26:41.43
they're crawling
out of that vehicle,
00:26:41.46\00:26:44.13
rumple tuxedoes on
00:26:44.17\00:26:46.40
and a pasty gaudy girl
00:26:46.43\00:26:48.80
hanging on their
arms, it's party time
00:26:48.84\00:26:51.01
and I'm telling you
the owner of this house
00:26:51.04\00:26:52.71
has invited all his buddies.
00:26:52.74\00:26:55.68
The guest of honor,
you're gonna love this party.
00:26:55.71\00:27:00.55
So they're all
here, they're here,
00:27:00.58\00:27:01.92
the limos up and down the block.
00:27:01.95\00:27:04.12
Where's the guest?
00:27:04.15\00:27:05.49
Oh, here he comes now
00:27:05.52\00:27:06.99
in old beat up dodge van.
00:27:07.02\00:27:12.16
Doors open and
they come crawling out,
00:27:12.19\00:27:14.03
Jesus sent His disciples.
00:27:14.10\00:27:15.93
And Matthew is so excited
00:27:15.96\00:27:17.57
to have them in
his house that the...
00:27:17.60\00:27:19.80
let the party starts
00:27:19.83\00:27:21.17
and he comes running
out with his little iPhone
00:27:21.20\00:27:22.84
and he's just
flashing, flashing no selfies,
00:27:22.87\00:27:24.81
he just, this is
my guest of honor.
00:27:24.84\00:27:28.81
I love the story.
00:27:28.84\00:27:31.11
Let's read it, come
on, come on, come on.
00:27:31.15\00:27:32.98
Matthew 9:9,
00:27:33.01\00:27:35.72
oh, here is the little
story about how Matthew,
00:27:35.75\00:27:37.95
why Matthew is
throwing this party, Verse 9,
00:27:37.99\00:27:40.96
"As Jesus went from there,
00:27:40.99\00:27:42.32
he saw a man named Matthew
00:27:42.36\00:27:44.49
sitting at the tax
collector's booth."
00:27:44.53\00:27:47.50
They hated tax
collectors and Jesus said,
00:27:47.50\00:27:50.23
red letters yo,
you, 'Follow me,'
00:27:50.27\00:27:55.24
and Matthew got
up and followed Him,
00:27:55.27\00:27:56.81
Jesus said, I did want
you in my inner circle.
00:27:56.87\00:27:59.34
Come on, boy, let's go.
00:27:59.37\00:28:01.78
Matthew is so, so excited,
00:28:01.81\00:28:03.91
he's planning
this party, verse 10.
00:28:03.98\00:28:05.48
"While Jesus was having
dinner at Matthew's house,
00:28:05.51\00:28:09.28
many tax collectors..."
00:28:09.32\00:28:11.09
Do you see the words out,
come on to my party, big time.
00:28:11.12\00:28:14.72
"Many time tax collectors
00:28:14.76\00:28:16.19
and sinners came
and ate with him."
00:28:16.22\00:28:17.69
By the way the, you
know, the King James says
00:28:17.73\00:28:19.36
many publicans and sinners came.
00:28:19.39\00:28:21.70
But that is not republicans,
00:28:21.73\00:28:23.97
that's publicans, they came.
00:28:24.00\00:28:27.24
There're lot of republicans
in the news these days,
00:28:27.27\00:28:29.17
so you got to
just throw that in.
00:28:29.20\00:28:31.64
So while Jesus was having
dinner at Matthew's house,
00:28:31.67\00:28:33.88
many tax
collectors and sinners came
00:28:33.91\00:28:35.71
and ate with Him and
His disciples and when...
00:28:35.74\00:28:39.41
Look at this, Pharisees,
when the Pharisees saw this,
00:28:39.45\00:28:42.45
do you think the
Pharisees would be caught dead,
00:28:42.48\00:28:44.92
in this unclean place
00:28:44.95\00:28:46.42
with that dog of a tax collector
00:28:46.45\00:28:48.46
you're kidding,
they're not in the house.
00:28:48.49\00:28:50.56
So where are they?
00:28:50.63\00:28:51.96
Oh, party poopers,
00:28:51.99\00:28:53.33
they're right outside
the window, can't stay away.
00:28:53.36\00:28:55.26
They're outside
the window and they...
00:28:55.30\00:28:58.67
they're trying to get
00:28:58.70\00:29:00.10
the attention of
Jesus' disciples,
00:29:00.17\00:29:01.50
they got a question.
00:29:01.54\00:29:02.87
Here it is,
00:29:02.90\00:29:04.24
"When the
Pharisees saw, verse 11,
00:29:04.27\00:29:06.34
saw this, they
asked his disciples, yo,
00:29:06.37\00:29:09.94
'Why does your teacher eat
00:29:09.98\00:29:11.71
with tax
collectors and sinners?"
00:29:11.75\00:29:14.75
By the way, I love that.
00:29:14.78\00:29:16.12
I've just put
brackets all around this
00:29:16.15\00:29:17.95
because this,
this little line here,
00:29:17.99\00:29:21.42
this is the gospel, right here?
00:29:21.46\00:29:23.32
This is the gospel.
00:29:23.36\00:29:24.99
He eats with tax collectors
and sinners, hug you and me.
00:29:25.03\00:29:29.10
Behold I stand at the door at...
00:29:29.13\00:29:32.00
I knock if any woman,
if any man hears my voice,
00:29:32.03\00:29:34.34
I'm in, we're having...
we're having supper together.
00:29:34.37\00:29:37.51
He eats with tax
collectors and sinners,
00:29:37.54\00:29:40.18
that's why it's the good news.
00:29:40.21\00:29:44.98
Why does your teacher eat
00:29:45.01\00:29:46.72
with tax collectors
and sinners, and Jesus?
00:29:46.75\00:29:49.35
Isn't that something,
Jesus is just like your mother.
00:29:49.38\00:29:52.05
I mean, you can be
having a conversation,
00:29:52.09\00:29:53.46
mother's over here
talking to somebody
00:29:53.49\00:29:54.82
and you're badmouthing over here
00:29:54.86\00:29:56.66
and what does she do,
00:29:56.73\00:29:58.06
she is talking
here but listen there.
00:29:58.09\00:30:01.10
Hush your mouth, boy.
00:30:01.13\00:30:03.47
It's exactly what
happened Jesus is talking here
00:30:03.53\00:30:06.03
listening to the window
00:30:06.07\00:30:08.17
and on hearing this
Jesus said, verse 12,
00:30:08.20\00:30:11.14
red letters now.
00:30:11.17\00:30:12.71
I love this,
00:30:12.74\00:30:14.08
"It is not the
healthy who need a doctor,"
00:30:14.14\00:30:18.11
come on,
00:30:18.15\00:30:19.88
the healthy don't need a doctor,
00:30:19.91\00:30:21.25
"it's the sick."
00:30:21.28\00:30:22.62
Verse 13, "But go and
learn these Pharisees,
00:30:22.65\00:30:25.39
learn what this
means, 'I, God's speaking,
00:30:25.42\00:30:27.66
I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'
00:30:27.69\00:30:31.06
For I have not come to
call the righteous but sinners."
00:30:31.09\00:30:35.50
Some of your translation
say but sinners to repentance.
00:30:35.53\00:30:39.67
Hey, it doesn't get
any better than that.
00:30:39.70\00:30:42.37
I haven't come
to call righteous,
00:30:42.40\00:30:43.84
I came, I came
to call the sinners.
00:30:43.87\00:30:47.41
That's why Jesus
00:30:47.44\00:30:48.78
is the very
personification of the good news
00:30:48.81\00:30:51.21
because He had a
heart for sinners,
00:30:51.25\00:30:52.65
He just, He's a friend,
00:30:52.68\00:30:54.85
He was a friend of
sinners through and through.
00:30:54.88\00:30:58.95
I mean, you can
be a Samaritan woman,
00:30:58.99\00:31:00.56
you can be living
with your fifth man
00:31:00.59\00:31:02.19
and when he sits down
beside you his heart is just,
00:31:02.22\00:31:04.43
his heart is just
longing for your friendship.
00:31:04.46\00:31:08.16
You can be the
baddest of the bad
00:31:08.20\00:31:09.53
in the little town of
Jericho ripping everybody off
00:31:09.56\00:31:11.23
but Jesus says,
00:31:11.27\00:31:12.60
"Hey, boy, I'm going
to your house for dinner."
00:31:12.63\00:31:14.37
He just love sinners.
00:31:14.40\00:31:16.34
Hey, by the way
00:31:16.37\00:31:17.71
he was an equal
opportunity lover of sinners
00:31:17.74\00:31:20.44
because you could be
the most hypocritical
00:31:20.48\00:31:24.51
and critical
Pharisee in the whole village.
00:31:24.55\00:31:29.75
And He's gonna be
sitting on your table,
00:31:29.78\00:31:31.82
aching for your heart as well.
00:31:31.85\00:31:34.66
That's Jesus for you.
00:31:34.69\00:31:37.13
"I have come to
call," Jesus speaking,
00:31:37.19\00:31:40.26
"I have come to call
sinners to repentance."
00:31:40.30\00:31:44.30
By the way I need to ask
you what kind of sinners,
00:31:44.33\00:31:47.90
what kind of sinners?
00:31:47.94\00:31:50.87
I don't see any
limitations here?
00:31:50.91\00:31:52.24
Do you see any
kind of like caveats?
00:31:52.27\00:31:54.94
No, apparently, apparently
it's just all sinners,
00:31:54.98\00:31:57.28
if you're a heterosexual sinner.
00:31:57.31\00:32:00.15
No, no, are you a
homosexual sinner?
00:32:00.22\00:32:03.12
I gave you.
00:32:03.15\00:32:05.95
Apparently
00:32:05.99\00:32:07.36
you can be an ethical
sinner or an unethical sinner.
00:32:07.39\00:32:10.23
You can be an alcoholic
sinner or a nonalcoholic sinner.
00:32:10.26\00:32:17.03
You can be a democrat
sinner or republican sinner
00:32:17.07\00:32:19.73
or an independent sinner.
00:32:19.77\00:32:24.61
You can be an addicted
sinner or a non addicted sinner.
00:32:24.64\00:32:27.81
You can be an
incarcerated sinner
00:32:27.84\00:32:29.78
or a respectable sinner.
00:32:29.81\00:32:32.55
You can be a young sinner,
you can be an old sinner.
00:32:32.58\00:32:34.52
You can be a white
sinner, a black sinner,
00:32:34.55\00:32:36.18
a brown sinner, a yellow sinner.
00:32:36.22\00:32:38.22
You can be a Christian sinner,
you can be a Muslim sinner,
00:32:38.25\00:32:40.82
you can be an atheist sinner,
00:32:40.86\00:32:42.36
you can even be
an Adventist sinner.
00:32:42.39\00:32:46.09
I came to call sinners.
00:32:46.13\00:32:49.13
That's why He is the
good news of the gospel.
00:32:49.16\00:32:55.24
Oh, we must not forget
this, if it's not good news,
00:32:55.27\00:32:57.07
why am I gonna
share with anybody.
00:32:57.14\00:32:58.71
If it's not good news to me,
00:32:58.74\00:33:00.31
why would I ever
want to share it?
00:33:00.38\00:33:02.21
I don't want to share that.
00:33:02.24\00:33:03.75
The good news of
the gospel is a person,
00:33:03.78\00:33:07.42
which means you're
gonna share the gospel,
00:33:07.45\00:33:08.78
you share Jesus.
00:33:08.82\00:33:10.39
Now the question is,
how do I share Jesus?
00:33:10.42\00:33:15.19
Just as Jesus did
you do, by mingling.
00:33:15.22\00:33:21.66
You must become an
equal opportunity mingler
00:33:21.70\00:33:26.70
with everybody just like Jesus.
00:33:26.74\00:33:29.30
Jim Cymbala, his great
book "Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire"
00:33:29.34\00:33:32.21
put the words on
the screen for you.
00:33:32.24\00:33:33.84
"Christians often
hesitate to reach out
00:33:33.88\00:33:36.08
to those who are different.
00:33:36.11\00:33:37.95
They want God to clean the
fish before they catch them."
00:33:37.98\00:33:42.98
God, I'm not
gonna catch this fish,
00:33:43.02\00:33:44.35
look, ooh-huh.
00:33:44.39\00:33:45.99
Clean them up, God,
then I'll catch them for you.
00:33:46.02\00:33:48.96
What's crazy about that?
00:33:48.99\00:33:52.13
If someone's gold ring
00:33:52.16\00:33:53.50
is attached to an
unusual body part,
00:33:53.56\00:33:56.93
if the person
doesn't smell the best,
00:33:57.00\00:33:59.10
or if the skin
color is not the same,
00:33:59.13\00:34:00.94
Christians tend to hesitate.
00:34:00.97\00:34:03.41
But, but think for a
moment Cymbala writing about God
00:34:03.44\00:34:06.61
reaching out to us.
00:34:06.68\00:34:08.18
If ever there was a
'reach,' that was it:
00:34:08.21\00:34:10.98
the holy, pure Deity
extending himself to us
00:34:11.01\00:34:13.45
who are soiled,
evil-hearted, unholy."
00:34:13.52\00:34:16.35
God could have
said, you know what,
00:34:16.38\00:34:17.72
'You're so different from
me, you are so distasteful,
00:34:17.75\00:34:19.95
I would really rather
not get too close to you.'
00:34:19.99\00:34:23.76
He could have said
that, but He didn't say that.
00:34:23.83\00:34:27.60
"It was our very differentness
that drew His hand of love.
00:34:27.66\00:34:31.57
Jesus didn't just speak
the healing word to lepers
00:34:31.60\00:34:33.90
from a distance of thirty yards.
00:34:33.94\00:34:36.20
He touched them."
00:34:36.24\00:34:40.44
He was a friend of sinners,
00:34:40.48\00:34:43.01
tax collectors, prostitutes,
00:34:43.04\00:34:46.88
you name it, all sinners.
00:34:46.92\00:34:50.55
He mingled among us.
00:34:50.59\00:34:53.32
Ellen White powerfully
captured his modus operandi
00:34:53.36\00:34:57.59
with the sentence or two
00:34:57.63\00:34:58.96
that I need to
put on the screen.
00:34:58.99\00:35:00.63
It's just a kind of brood
over the sentence with me.
00:35:00.66\00:35:03.97
"Christ's method
alone will give true success
00:35:04.00\00:35:06.67
in reaching the people.
00:35:06.74\00:35:08.10
His method alone.
00:35:08.14\00:35:11.64
Don't need any
other method, this is it.
00:35:11.67\00:35:14.28
What did He do?
00:35:14.31\00:35:15.64
The Savior mingled, there it is,
00:35:15.68\00:35:17.15
the Savior
mingled with men and women
00:35:17.18\00:35:19.18
as one who desired their good.
00:35:19.21\00:35:21.65
He showed His sympathy for them,
00:35:21.68\00:35:23.12
He ministered to their
needs, and won their confidence.
00:35:23.15\00:35:26.86
Then, then He bade
them, 'Follow Me.'"
00:35:26.89\00:35:32.39
Hey, I want you
to know how simple
00:35:32.43\00:35:33.83
it is to walk in
Jesus' footsteps.
00:35:33.90\00:35:35.86
Let me share with you now
00:35:35.90\00:35:37.23
and grab your
study guide please.
00:35:37.27\00:35:38.60
I want to share with
you the five strategic steps
00:35:38.63\00:35:41.57
you must take to walk
in the footsteps of Jesus,
00:35:41.60\00:35:44.27
we just read them.
00:35:44.31\00:35:45.64
I want to share
these five with you,
00:35:45.67\00:35:47.01
hold your hand up
because here come our ushers.
00:35:47.04\00:35:50.21
And while the ushers are coming,
00:35:50.25\00:35:51.58
I want to say to those of you
00:35:51.61\00:35:52.95
who are watching
live streaming right now,
00:35:52.98\00:35:54.32
we're glad to have you
wherever you are on this planet.
00:35:54.35\00:35:57.99
You're watching the
television right now,
00:35:58.02\00:35:59.69
glad to have you there.
00:35:59.72\00:36:01.12
Listening on the
radio, it doesn't matter.
00:36:01.16\00:36:02.49
I want you to have
the same study guides
00:36:02.52\00:36:03.86
so go to our website,
let's put it on the screen.
00:36:03.89\00:36:05.86
Website on the
screen, there it is,
00:36:05.89\00:36:07.86
www. you see it
at the bottom there,
00:36:07.86\00:36:10.77
.pmchurch.tv.
00:36:10.80\00:36:12.73
You're looking for
the little four parter
00:36:12.77\00:36:14.94
called the Pugwash Factor.
00:36:14.97\00:36:17.31
We're now into part
two, title of this one
00:36:17.34\00:36:19.47
"How to Turn
Mingle into Mission".
00:36:19.51\00:36:21.78
Click that and
you'll have the study guide,
00:36:21.81\00:36:23.28
it's right there, it's
embedded in your computer,
00:36:23.35\00:36:25.18
pump, pop up it
will be on your screen.
00:36:25.21\00:36:27.52
I want you to have
these five as well, please.
00:36:27.55\00:36:30.42
All right, hold your hand up.
00:36:30.49\00:36:32.25
In the balcony you need
some, we'll get them to you.
00:36:32.29\00:36:34.66
All right, good.
00:36:34.69\00:36:37.13
Number one, five
steps, strategic steps.
00:36:37.16\00:36:40.20
Step number one,
00:36:40.23\00:36:41.53
"You mingle among people as one
00:36:41.56\00:36:44.03
who wants the
very best for them."
00:36:44.07\00:36:47.50
You mingle, you
mingle, you mingle.
00:36:47.54\00:36:49.14
How do you mingle?
00:36:49.17\00:36:51.01
You show up where
people already are,
00:36:51.04\00:36:52.41
that's how you mingle.
00:36:52.44\00:36:53.78
You show up where
people already are.
00:36:53.84\00:36:55.51
On a campus like this,
in a village like ours,
00:36:55.54\00:36:57.85
you show up at sporting events.
00:36:57.88\00:36:59.25
Sporting events
00:36:59.28\00:37:00.68
are the great
conveners of Americans
00:37:00.75\00:37:02.68
in the third millennium.
00:37:02.72\00:37:04.05
You want be around
people, go to a sporting event.
00:37:04.12\00:37:06.82
In our little
village we got the Shamrocks
00:37:06.89\00:37:08.66
and, boy, you see the signs
we bleed green Berrien Springs,
00:37:08.69\00:37:12.49
go rocks, Shamrocks, see,
00:37:12.53\00:37:16.43
you show up that's
where the people are.
00:37:16.46\00:37:18.93
You say, I'm just not
in the sports, Dwight,
00:37:18.97\00:37:21.00
"Okay, that's fine."
00:37:21.04\00:37:22.37
Go to the local
concerts in the high school,
00:37:22.40\00:37:24.11
elementary school,
00:37:24.14\00:37:25.47
concert, band
concerts, choir concerts,
00:37:25.51\00:37:27.48
go where music takes place.
00:37:27.51\00:37:30.15
You mingle with people.
00:37:30.18\00:37:32.85
Hey, here is another way.
00:37:32.88\00:37:34.52
When you go into
the cafeteria to eat,
00:37:34.55\00:37:36.82
you go to a table
uninvited and you just sit down.
00:37:36.89\00:37:41.39
No really, that's what you do.
00:37:41.42\00:37:42.76
And by the way look for
people who are eating alone.
00:37:42.79\00:37:46.16
They're open, they
may not know anybody.
00:37:46.19\00:37:48.63
You'd be surprised how many
are sitting there eating alone
00:37:48.66\00:37:50.93
because they don't
have anybody to join them.
00:37:50.97\00:37:53.10
Sit at that table, I try to eat
on Wednesdays in the cafeteria,
00:37:53.13\00:37:56.54
so if you're in the
cafeteria from 12:30 to 1:30
00:37:56.57\00:37:58.74
I'll be happy to
meet you sometime.
00:37:58.77\00:38:00.61
This last Wednesday
so I go to the cafeteria
00:38:00.64\00:38:02.28
and there is a girl
sitting right there and I said,
00:38:02.31\00:38:03.91
"Hey, is this chair
taken across the table?
00:38:03.98\00:38:06.51
She said, "Yes."
00:38:06.55\00:38:08.02
And nobody hear but anyway
there's somebody was coming
00:38:11.25\00:38:13.99
so I said, "How
about the chair beside it?
00:38:14.02\00:38:15.49
She said, you can have
it, I said, I will, sat out.
00:38:15.52\00:38:18.96
Look at, it's just mingling,
00:38:18.99\00:38:20.46
it's just going
where people are,
00:38:20.53\00:38:21.83
you can do that in
the cafeteria here.
00:38:21.86\00:38:23.20
Your kids go to public
school, join the PTA, come on,
00:38:23.23\00:38:25.73
be a part of the
parent-teacher association,
00:38:25.77\00:38:27.44
hang around people.
00:38:27.47\00:38:28.90
Don't just live in your little
00:38:28.94\00:38:30.41
isolated cloister silo
somewhere, get out, mingle.
00:38:30.44\00:38:35.41
By the way
you're college student,
00:38:35.44\00:38:36.78
join in
after-school tutoring program
00:38:36.85\00:38:39.28
in Benton Harbor
or Berrien Springs.
00:38:39.31\00:38:42.35
Sharon Russell will tell
you how much you're needed,
00:38:42.38\00:38:45.72
please go, just volunteer.
00:38:45.75\00:38:48.96
You'd be around people
00:38:48.99\00:38:50.33
you would never be
around with otherwise.
00:38:50.36\00:38:51.99
Join the rotary
club, the optimist,
00:38:52.03\00:38:53.43
some sort of service club,
I don't care, go to weddings,
00:38:53.50\00:38:56.33
go to graduation
receptions, hang around people.
00:38:56.36\00:38:59.07
Jot it down,
00:38:59.10\00:39:00.50
"To mingle
simply means to show up
00:39:00.57\00:39:02.64
where people already are."
00:39:02.67\00:39:05.34
Don't show up
where they are not.
00:39:05.37\00:39:07.04
Show up where they are.
00:39:07.11\00:39:09.74
It means that we
take the initiative,
00:39:09.78\00:39:12.11
this is really important.
00:39:12.15\00:39:13.48
We take the initiative.
00:39:13.55\00:39:14.88
Now this is little
campus is a bit cloistered,
00:39:14.92\00:39:16.72
and these campus
things, you want to,
00:39:16.75\00:39:18.29
you want to be with
us, you come to our H-Pac,
00:39:18.32\00:39:21.16
you come to us,
we don't go to you,
00:39:21.19\00:39:23.39
that's wrong.
00:39:23.46\00:39:24.79
We got to go, go to
where the people are.
00:39:24.83\00:39:29.43
Here's a question for
you. Here's a question.
00:39:29.46\00:39:31.60
When you eat, okay, so
I'm gonna talk about eating
00:39:31.63\00:39:33.84
since we brought the cafeteria.
00:39:33.87\00:39:35.24
When you eat,
00:39:35.27\00:39:37.41
do you sprinkle
your food on your salt?
00:39:37.44\00:39:42.28
Do you?
00:39:45.65\00:39:47.15
No, you say, Dwight,
it's the other way around.
00:39:47.22\00:39:49.18
I sprinkle the salt on my food.
00:39:49.22\00:39:52.29
That's precise of the point.
00:39:52.32\00:39:53.76
Jesus said, "You are
the salt of the world."
00:39:53.79\00:39:55.39
So people are
supposed to sprinkle food
00:39:55.42\00:39:56.76
on top of us to get?
00:39:56.83\00:39:58.33
No, it's the other way
around, we go out, we mingle.
00:39:58.36\00:40:03.26
Which is our Becky
Pippert, oh, Becky Pippert,
00:40:03.33\00:40:05.40
by the way she addressed
the 5,000 Adventist pastors
00:40:05.43\00:40:08.54
in North America and
gathered in Austin this summer
00:40:08.57\00:40:10.77
just before general conference.
00:40:10.81\00:40:12.14
Oh, it's a great
convention called the "Called".
00:40:12.17\00:40:15.04
And she was there,
00:40:15.08\00:40:16.41
I put Becky
Pippert's words on the screen.
00:40:16.44\00:40:18.15
"How can we be
the salt of the earth
00:40:18.18\00:40:20.52
if we never get out
of the salt shaker?"
00:40:20.58\00:40:23.79
Please, get out.
00:40:23.85\00:40:27.32
Practice what the top CEOs
of fortune 500 companies do,
00:40:27.36\00:40:30.69
they've done research and
found out this to be true.
00:40:30.73\00:40:32.76
They do what's called MBWA,
let's put it on the screen.
00:40:32.79\00:40:36.80
What does MBWA mean?
00:40:36.83\00:40:38.27
Jot it down,
00:40:38.30\00:40:39.63
Management by Wandering Around.
00:40:39.67\00:40:44.27
That's what you
do when you mingle,
00:40:44.31\00:40:46.17
you just wander around.
00:40:46.21\00:40:47.54
You don't have to be
an expert at anything.
00:40:47.58\00:40:49.21
You don't have to be
even a great extrovert.
00:40:49.24\00:40:52.95
In fact, Philip
Samaan, my buddy, in his book,
00:40:52.98\00:40:55.78
Christ's Method Alone
makes this excellent point,
00:40:55.82\00:40:58.85
little caveat that we
need to insert right here.
00:40:58.89\00:41:01.29
Put Phil's words
on the screen for you.
00:41:01.32\00:41:02.92
"Taking the
initiative to mingle with others
00:41:02.96\00:41:05.43
naturally comes easier
to some than to others.
00:41:05.46\00:41:09.43
I always find it
more comfortable..."
00:41:09.46\00:41:11.67
I like this council.
00:41:11.70\00:41:13.03
"To mingle with individuals
00:41:13.07\00:41:14.40
I encounter a
normal daily events."
00:41:14.44\00:41:16.07
And that would be like
you know, cafeteria, whatever.
00:41:16.10\00:41:18.74
"The people we rub shoulders
with as we work, as we shop,
00:41:18.77\00:41:21.71
as we bank, and
I'm adding the word,
00:41:21.74\00:41:23.14
as we study, as we carry
out other daily activities.
00:41:23.18\00:41:26.48
Because we have built
bridges with such individuals,
00:41:26.51\00:41:29.35
they and we too, he writes,
00:41:29.38\00:41:32.12
are much less likely to be
00:41:32.15\00:41:34.46
apprehensive or
fearful of each other."
00:41:34.49\00:41:36.99
That's good.
00:41:37.03\00:41:38.36
Mingle step number one, mingle.
Step number two, jot it down.
00:41:38.39\00:41:40.26
There are only five of
these and then I'll sit down.
00:41:40.30\00:41:41.73
Number two, "You show
your sympathy for them."
00:41:41.76\00:41:45.13
Show your sympathy for them.
00:41:45.17\00:41:48.70
You show that you care.
00:41:48.74\00:41:50.14
And how you're
gonna show that you care?
00:41:50.17\00:41:51.51
You've to start
talking, not only show up,
00:41:51.54\00:41:54.11
start up a conversation,
00:41:54.14\00:41:55.48
just, just start up a
conversation, you'll be fine.
00:41:55.51\00:41:58.55
Be genuinely
interested in the other person.
00:41:58.58\00:42:01.68
Lot of times, I
don't talk about me.
00:42:01.72\00:42:03.39
I'm always asking questions,
00:42:03.42\00:42:04.75
what do you do, what's
up, what's up, what's up?
00:42:04.79\00:42:06.15
If I sit with
you at the cafeteria,
00:42:06.19\00:42:07.56
I'll be just
quizzing, quizzing, quizzing.
00:42:07.59\00:42:09.26
Why? I just want to know.
00:42:09.29\00:42:11.79
Now Philip
Samaan tells of the time
00:42:11.83\00:42:13.53
when he was studying in a
public university library.
00:42:13.60\00:42:16.87
The kid across
the table from him
00:42:16.93\00:42:18.30
has books stacked around.
00:42:18.33\00:42:20.00
Philip is waiting
for an entry point
00:42:20.04\00:42:22.47
and he found,
when their eyes meet.
00:42:22.50\00:42:24.37
This is it, he says, wow, wow.
00:42:24.41\00:42:28.04
You're probably studying
for a very big test, right?
00:42:28.08\00:42:31.55
And the fellow shoots back,
yes, but I'm not ready for it.
00:42:31.58\00:42:35.28
Well, what's the test over?
00:42:35.32\00:42:36.95
Biology and I just hate biology.
00:42:36.99\00:42:40.99
And Philip says, well, I guess,
00:42:41.02\00:42:42.36
we all take courses we don't
particularly like at times,
00:42:42.39\00:42:45.79
what's your major?
00:42:45.83\00:42:47.13
Biology, biology.
00:42:47.20\00:42:51.73
Well, why in the
world you take that major
00:42:51.77\00:42:54.70
if you can't stand biology?
00:42:54.74\00:42:56.30
Because the boys replies
my parents are forcing me
00:42:56.34\00:42:59.07
to become a
physician, that's why,
00:42:59.11\00:43:01.61
and boom the door
opened right there,
00:43:01.64\00:43:03.75
boom it's opened and now
they're in the conversation
00:43:03.78\00:43:06.58
and the door
eventually open for Philip
00:43:06.61\00:43:09.35
to share more personally
the truths about his friend.
00:43:09.38\00:43:13.36
It just happens in an offhand
way like that, you mingle,
00:43:13.39\00:43:16.49
you show, you show
your sympathy for them.
00:43:16.52\00:43:20.10
Wow, number three, jot it down.
00:43:20.13\00:43:22.53
Five strategic steps to
walk in the footsteps of Jesus,
00:43:22.56\00:43:25.23
reaching out to people.
00:43:25.27\00:43:26.60
Number three, you identify
and minister to their needs.
00:43:26.63\00:43:30.27
Now look at it, if
that young man said to,
00:43:30.31\00:43:31.81
if that young
man said to Philip,
00:43:31.84\00:43:33.78
I need help
understanding this biology
00:43:33.84\00:43:36.11
and Philip was a biologist,
I'm here, let me help you.
00:43:36.14\00:43:40.58
Oh, Philip could run off
and said, I'll find somebody,
00:43:40.62\00:43:43.55
I had a friend
who is a biologist,
00:43:43.59\00:43:44.92
he'll help you.
00:43:44.95\00:43:46.29
I have a major, you
know, this kid down the hall,
00:43:46.32\00:43:47.79
I know him he's a major
in biology I'll get him,
00:43:47.82\00:43:50.29
he'll help you.
00:43:50.33\00:43:52.26
So you, you look for the need,
you're looking for the need.
00:43:52.29\00:43:55.03
Another Philip by the
way, came across an Ethiopian,
00:43:55.06\00:43:58.87
in a chariot studying Isaiah
53 the scroll, and Philip says,
00:43:58.90\00:44:02.67
you know, what you're reading?
00:44:02.70\00:44:04.04
I don't know, I
don't understand,
00:44:04.11\00:44:05.47
he said, let me help,
get in, get in my car.
00:44:05.51\00:44:08.44
That's exactly what happened.
00:44:08.48\00:44:09.81
You find a need and
then you fill the need.
00:44:09.84\00:44:13.55
And by the way sometimes
it works the other way.
00:44:13.62\00:44:17.79
You can reverse this principle.
00:44:17.82\00:44:19.29
You can go with your
need to them and say,
00:44:19.32\00:44:22.06
could you please help me?
00:44:22.09\00:44:24.59
Jesus did that by the way
00:44:24.63\00:44:25.96
with the woman with the five men
00:44:25.99\00:44:27.30
and the man you're with
now is not your husband.
00:44:27.40\00:44:29.60
He says, "Lady
I'm really thirsty."
00:44:29.63\00:44:33.13
Do you mind, could
I get a drink from you
00:44:33.17\00:44:35.44
and she says, who are you, Jew?
00:44:35.47\00:44:38.47
I'm Samaritan, I'm
not gonna give you drink.
00:44:38.51\00:44:40.34
And He said, "Oh,
00:44:40.38\00:44:41.71
but if you knew
who is asking this,
00:44:41.74\00:44:43.08
you'd ask me for water."
00:44:43.11\00:44:44.45
Boom, now I know
you're not Jesus,
00:44:44.48\00:44:47.62
but you can do the same thing.
00:44:47.65\00:44:48.98
Ask a favor, I do
that with my neighbor,
00:44:49.02\00:44:50.35
unchurched neighbor
across the street all the time.
00:44:50.39\00:44:52.19
Something mechanical
00:44:52.22\00:44:53.56
which I'm totally illiterate at,
00:44:53.62\00:44:54.96
something about the lawn
00:44:54.99\00:44:56.32
which I'm pretty
close to illiterate at,
00:44:56.36\00:44:57.69
I go over to talk
to him because he's,
00:44:57.73\00:44:59.66
I'm guarantee
you every time I do,
00:44:59.69\00:45:01.70
we fall into conversation,
talk about his golf,
00:45:01.73\00:45:03.77
talk about his
work, talk about anything.
00:45:03.80\00:45:06.77
This isn't rocket science.
00:45:06.84\00:45:08.74
This is just, find a need.
00:45:08.77\00:45:13.24
By the way, I gave them a book
00:45:13.27\00:45:15.81
because of all
these conversations.
00:45:15.84\00:45:17.35
And the wife sent me a
note about three weeks later.
00:45:17.38\00:45:19.41
I keep the book by my
bedside and read it every night
00:45:19.45\00:45:21.82
before going to sleep.
00:45:21.85\00:45:23.49
Yes.
00:45:23.52\00:45:24.85
There is no big deal.
00:45:24.89\00:45:26.52
You've to get
00:45:26.55\00:45:27.89
some kind of seminary degree
to do that, are you crazy?
00:45:27.92\00:45:30.06
You just do it.
00:45:30.13\00:45:32.56
Number four, number four,
"You win their confidence."
00:45:32.59\00:45:36.83
Five strategic steps
in the footsteps of Jesus.
00:45:36.87\00:45:39.13
Number four, "You
win their confidence,"
00:45:39.17\00:45:40.80
because that's what happening,
they begin to trust you.
00:45:40.84\00:45:42.94
The more you interact,
00:45:42.97\00:45:44.31
the more you mingle and
then the more you contact,
00:45:44.34\00:45:45.67
hey, can I give you a call?
00:45:45.71\00:45:47.04
Yeah, what's your,
what's your cell phone?
00:45:47.08\00:45:48.41
Let me text you, okay.
00:45:48.44\00:45:49.78
The more you do this,
00:45:49.81\00:45:51.21
and by the way you
do it on campus the kid
00:45:51.25\00:45:52.95
three doors down
from you in the dormitory
00:45:52.98\00:45:54.42
is an atheist barn
on and you know it.
00:45:54.45\00:45:58.82
And you begin to reach out,
00:45:58.85\00:46:00.72
could be your own
roommate by the way,
00:46:00.79\00:46:02.19
could be your roommate.
00:46:02.22\00:46:04.26
You begin to show that you care,
00:46:04.29\00:46:05.79
you just care, you got,
00:46:05.83\00:46:07.40
you're not
throwing hooks in here
00:46:07.46\00:46:08.76
and I'm gonna catching
here, catching here, no,
00:46:08.80\00:46:10.30
I'm showing that,
that I care for you.
00:46:10.37\00:46:13.94
Eventually you
win their confidence.
00:46:13.97\00:46:15.30
Gregory Boyle in his
book, "Tattoos on the Heart:
00:46:15.34\00:46:17.97
The Power of
Boundless Compassion".
00:46:18.01\00:46:19.94
Put the words on
the screen for you.
00:46:19.97\00:46:21.31
He writes,
00:46:21.34\00:46:22.68
"There is no force in the world
00:46:22.71\00:46:24.41
better able to alter anything
from its course than love.
00:46:24.45\00:46:28.02
Ruskin's comment
that you can get someone
00:46:28.05\00:46:29.98
to remove his coat
more surely with a warm,
00:46:30.02\00:46:31.79
gentle sun than with
a cold, blistering wind
00:46:31.82\00:46:33.36
is particularly apt.
00:46:33.39\00:46:34.79
Meeting the world
with a loving heart
00:46:34.82\00:46:36.16
will determine
what we find there...
00:46:36.19\00:46:37.56
Sooner or later we all discover
00:46:37.63\00:46:39.53
that kindness is the
only strength there is."
00:46:39.56\00:46:43.33
Just love people,
00:46:43.37\00:46:45.43
this is, this is,
this is caring one-on-one,
00:46:45.47\00:46:48.34
you can do it.
00:46:48.37\00:46:49.70
Finally, number five.
00:46:49.74\00:46:51.77
"You then," key word, then,
00:46:51.81\00:46:54.04
you've done the four now.
00:46:54.08\00:46:58.18
"You invite them to meet Jesus."
00:46:58.21\00:47:00.08
Francis of Assisi..."
00:47:00.15\00:47:01.48
I like this line,
00:47:01.52\00:47:02.85
"Preach the gospel at all times
and when necessary use words."
00:47:02.88\00:47:07.59
Because it's how you live,
it's the way you treat people,
00:47:07.62\00:47:09.86
it's the way you care,
00:47:09.89\00:47:11.23
it's the way
you show compassion.
00:47:11.26\00:47:12.59
I like that guy,
ooh, I like that girl.
00:47:12.63\00:47:16.13
You won a heart but it's not,
00:47:16.16\00:47:18.90
you don't want to
win the heart to you,
00:47:18.93\00:47:20.27
you want to win
the heart to Him,
00:47:20.34\00:47:21.77
that's why there is a step five.
00:47:21.80\00:47:23.81
So if you're mingling at parties
00:47:27.58\00:47:28.91
and hanging
around other sinners.
00:47:28.94\00:47:30.58
Nothing wrong
with what, Jesus did,
00:47:30.65\00:47:31.98
but if you're doing it
just for the fun of it,
00:47:32.01\00:47:33.95
look out, look out.
00:47:34.02\00:47:36.69
That fake snake is not
a fake, it will get you.
00:47:36.72\00:47:41.59
You don't go just
hanging around people
00:47:41.62\00:47:42.96
because we're parting
together, parting out dude,
00:47:42.99\00:47:45.23
no, you have, you...
00:47:45.26\00:47:46.59
when you mingle
you're always on mission,
00:47:46.63\00:47:47.96
you're on mission.
00:47:47.96\00:47:49.30
Desire of Ages, let me
just, one more quotation,
00:47:49.33\00:47:51.07
Desire of Ages,
"As disciples of Christ
00:47:51.10\00:47:53.10
we shall not
mingle with the world
00:47:53.13\00:47:54.50
from a mere love of pleasure,
to unite with them in folly..."
00:47:54.54\00:47:57.27
No, no, no, no.
00:47:57.31\00:47:58.64
"Such association
can result only in harm.
00:47:58.67\00:48:00.81
We should never give
sanction to sin by our words
00:48:00.84\00:48:03.38
or our deeds..."
00:48:03.41\00:48:04.75
Now, watch this, circle this,
00:48:04.78\00:48:06.11
"By our silence
or our presence."
00:48:06.15\00:48:08.25
Sometimes you know,
what's gonna be going down.
00:48:08.28\00:48:10.65
Saturday night, you know,
what's gonna be going down
00:48:10.72\00:48:12.99
and to show up there
and not say anything.
00:48:13.02\00:48:15.82
There may be a kid,
they say, hey guys, you know,
00:48:15.86\00:48:18.03
I think, I think I
know where this is going,
00:48:18.06\00:48:19.39
you want to go with me?
00:48:19.43\00:48:20.76
Okay, so, so you can do that.
00:48:20.83\00:48:22.33
But you just hang around
not say a word, well, he must,
00:48:22.36\00:48:24.60
Dwight, must be
pretty supportive of this,
00:48:24.63\00:48:26.10
he's just hanging around.
00:48:26.13\00:48:28.04
And I ruined the
moment for Jesus,
00:48:28.07\00:48:31.11
you mingle but only on mission.
00:48:31.14\00:48:34.28
That make sense to
you, does that make sense?
00:48:34.31\00:48:37.75
So you want to invite
people, step number five,
00:48:37.78\00:48:40.02
as you invite them,
00:48:40.05\00:48:42.15
and that's why inviting
your friends to meet Jesus,
00:48:42.18\00:48:44.29
I can't think a better way
00:48:44.32\00:48:45.65
coming up one
week from right now,
00:48:45.69\00:48:47.46
Ty Gibson is
gonna be standing here
00:48:47.49\00:48:48.99
and I'll be sitting right there.
00:48:49.02\00:48:51.03
Listen to Ty one
of the great writers
00:48:51.06\00:48:53.16
in our community of faith today.
00:48:53.19\00:48:54.60
I've got his books.
00:48:54.63\00:48:57.23
I've heard him preach as
Ty is a gifted communicator.
00:48:57.27\00:49:01.17
And in fact,
it's in your bulletin,
00:49:01.20\00:49:03.30
it's in your
bulletin this morning.
00:49:03.34\00:49:05.37
And he's gonna spend seven
day and seven nights with us.
00:49:05.41\00:49:09.14
Two Sabbaths and the week
in between not counting Sunday,
00:49:09.18\00:49:11.68
the week in between
Monday morning, Monday night,
00:49:11.71\00:49:14.15
Tuesday and so on and
so on, 7:30 right here.
00:49:14.18\00:49:17.22
For the campus Monday morning,
00:49:17.25\00:49:19.25
for the campus Monday night
00:49:19.29\00:49:21.06
but the community, they
can't come Monday morning,
00:49:21.09\00:49:22.72
you come and join us.
00:49:22.76\00:49:24.09
We want to fill
this place with people
00:49:24.16\00:49:25.73
who want to share Jesus.
00:49:25.76\00:49:28.30
So you get to
see this little card,
00:49:28.33\00:49:29.66
invite somebody.
00:49:29.70\00:49:31.03
Hey, Ty, sent this
to us late last night.
00:49:31.07\00:49:32.77
I want you to see
this little 60 second,
00:49:32.80\00:49:36.04
Ty talking at
Andrews University,
00:49:36.07\00:49:38.07
let's go.
00:49:38.11\00:49:39.64
Hey, Andrews,
00:49:46.15\00:49:47.52
I'm coming your way
September 12 through 19.
00:49:47.55\00:49:50.39
And I'm really
looking forward to it.
00:49:50.42\00:49:52.49
We're gonna be doing something
I call Reimagining God,
00:49:52.52\00:49:55.79
which for me has been
absolutely vital and necessary,
00:49:55.82\00:50:00.60
because so much of what
is done in the name of God
00:50:00.63\00:50:03.93
in our world makes
God out to be ugly.
00:50:03.97\00:50:06.90
Recently somebody asked
me, do you believe in God?
00:50:06.94\00:50:09.77
And my immediate
response was going to be yes.
00:50:09.80\00:50:13.58
But then in a split
second I thought to myself,
00:50:13.64\00:50:16.31
wait a minute, if I say yes,
00:50:16.34\00:50:17.88
that may equate to
something in their mind
00:50:17.91\00:50:20.28
to which really my
answer would be no.
00:50:20.32\00:50:23.55
When people say the word God,
00:50:23.59\00:50:25.05
so many images and
ideas pop in to our heads.
00:50:25.09\00:50:29.02
The Reimagining God series
00:50:29.06\00:50:30.93
is going to be a series of
snapshots of God's character
00:50:30.96\00:50:35.20
that I think
you're going to find
00:50:35.23\00:50:36.60
to be irresistibly beautiful.
00:50:36.63\00:50:39.00
I'm looking forward to
spending this time with you,
00:50:39.03\00:50:41.07
I hope you can make it.
00:50:41.10\00:50:42.44
I'm really
excited that he's coming.
00:50:46.37\00:50:47.88
He's gonna,
he's gonna bless you,
00:50:47.91\00:50:49.24
I promise you
you're gonna get blessed.
00:50:49.28\00:50:51.35
If you got a
roommate, if you got a friend,
00:50:51.38\00:50:53.58
the guy down the hall, you
got a colleague at the job,
00:50:53.65\00:50:56.25
you have a student
00:50:56.28\00:50:57.62
who's been attending your class,
00:50:57.65\00:50:58.99
just these for a few days,
00:50:59.02\00:51:00.46
somebody you know that
a deeper picture of God
00:51:00.49\00:51:02.99
could just shift, radically
00:51:03.02\00:51:05.86
shift the
paradigm in their lives.
00:51:05.89\00:51:08.40
Invite them to this.
00:51:08.43\00:51:09.76
By the way you
leave today at the exits,
00:51:09.80\00:51:11.73
there will be plenty of
this, just grab a handful.
00:51:11.77\00:51:15.14
Let's do something.
00:51:15.17\00:51:16.50
You got to take the
first four steps, yeah.
00:51:16.54\00:51:18.44
It's a part of the mingling,
followed by the fifth step,
00:51:18.47\00:51:21.21
it's a fifth
step coming to campus
00:51:21.24\00:51:24.38
in just seven days.
00:51:24.41\00:51:26.45
I want to end with a
story from Gregory Boyle's book,
00:51:26.48\00:51:28.22
"Tattoos on the Heart."
00:51:28.25\00:51:30.79
It happens in
the White Memorial,
00:51:30.85\00:51:32.82
it's a hospital in South LA,
00:51:32.85\00:51:34.56
that's name in the
memorial of the Ellen White,
00:51:34.59\00:51:36.16
the White Memorial Hospital.
00:51:36.19\00:51:37.99
And the mother in the
story, her name is Soledad,
00:51:38.03\00:51:40.96
she has already lost two boys,
00:51:41.00\00:51:43.30
two of her sons
to gang violence,
00:51:43.33\00:51:44.90
they were killed
on the front porch
00:51:44.93\00:51:46.87
of her South LA home.
00:51:46.90\00:51:48.67
And Boyle who's a chaplain
to these intercity kids.
00:51:48.70\00:51:53.17
He's describing the mother
00:51:53.21\00:51:54.54
when she hears her
second son now being killed,
00:51:54.58\00:51:56.81
Soledad runs to
the source of the sound
00:51:56.88\00:51:58.35
she would say later,
00:51:58.38\00:51:59.71
she wished the
shooters hadn't left
00:51:59.75\00:52:01.52
until they'd also killed her,
00:52:01.55\00:52:03.25
it being Sunday,
00:52:03.28\00:52:04.72
I didn't come to
the news till late
00:52:04.75\00:52:06.35
about Angel's death on hell
00:52:06.39\00:52:08.09
is her son Angel killed today.
00:52:08.12\00:52:10.83
By the time I reach Soledad's
living room later that day,
00:52:10.86\00:52:13.26
she is huddled in a corner.
00:52:13.29\00:52:14.73
Forget Kleenex.
Forget handkerchief.
00:52:14.73\00:52:17.13
Soledad is sobbing
into a huge bath towel.
00:52:17.17\00:52:19.87
And the few of us there
found our arms too short
00:52:19.90\00:52:22.70
to wrap around
this kind of pain.
00:52:22.74\00:52:25.01
I see Soledad a lot,
00:52:25.04\00:52:26.37
but this one day, two
years after the death of Angel,
00:52:26.41\00:52:29.84
I see her in front of
the office and we hug.
00:52:29.88\00:52:31.75
"How you doin', kiddo?"
00:52:31.78\00:52:33.48
Soledad grabs my arm and
thinks and considers her words.
00:52:33.52\00:52:37.19
"You know, she says,
00:52:37.25\00:52:39.09
I love the two kids that I have.
00:52:39.12\00:52:42.16
I hurt for the
two that are gone."
00:52:42.19\00:52:44.49
She begins to cry and shows
the slightest embarrassment
00:52:44.53\00:52:47.03
at the size of her honesty.
00:52:47.10\00:52:48.43
"The hurt wins she
says, the hurt wins."
00:52:48.46\00:52:52.30
Two months later,
00:52:52.33\00:52:53.67
Soledad is taken to the hospital
00:52:53.70\00:52:55.04
for an irregular
heartbeat and chest pain.
00:52:55.07\00:52:56.97
I visit her in her room,
and she tells me what happened
00:52:57.04\00:52:58.97
the night she came
to the emergency room.
00:52:59.01\00:53:01.24
They have her on a gurney
in the White Memorial's ER.
00:53:01.28\00:53:05.11
The doctors are tending to
her with EKGs and the like,
00:53:05.15\00:53:07.98
when there is a rush of activity
00:53:08.02\00:53:09.38
at the entrance
with a flurry of bodies
00:53:09.42\00:53:11.25
and medical staff moving
into their proscribed roles,
00:53:11.29\00:53:13.69
a teenage gang member is
rushed to the vacant space
00:53:13.76\00:53:16.73
right next to Soledad.
00:53:16.76\00:53:18.09
The kid is covered in blood
from multiple gunshot wounds,
00:53:18.13\00:53:20.40
and they begin
cutting off his clothes.
00:53:20.43\00:53:22.06
The wounds are too
serious to waste time
00:53:22.10\00:53:23.73
pulling the curtain
that separates Soledad
00:53:23.77\00:53:25.77
from this kid
fighting for his life.
00:53:25.80\00:53:27.84
People are pounding on
his chest and inserting IVs.
00:53:27.87\00:53:30.71
Soledad turns and sees him.
00:53:30.77\00:53:32.97
She recognizes
00:53:33.01\00:53:36.44
him as a kid from the gang
00:53:36.48\00:53:38.21
that most certainly
robbed her of her two sons.
00:53:38.25\00:53:42.45
As I saw this kid, she tells me,
00:53:42.48\00:53:44.49
"I just kept thinking of
what my friends might say
00:53:44.52\00:53:46.62
if they were here with me.
00:53:46.65\00:53:47.99
They'd say, pray that he
dies, pray that he dies."
00:53:48.02\00:53:51.23
But she just
looked at this tiny kid,
00:53:51.26\00:53:52.89
struggling to
sidestep the fate of her sons,
00:53:52.93\00:53:55.46
as the doctors work and scream,
00:53:55.50\00:53:57.00
we're losing
him, we're losing him.
00:53:57.03\00:53:58.87
And I began to cry as
I have never cried before
00:53:58.90\00:54:02.27
and I started to pray
the hardest I've ever prayed.
00:54:02.30\00:54:05.34
Please don't let him die.
00:54:05.37\00:54:08.84
I don't want his mom to
go through what I have."
00:54:08.88\00:54:13.25
And the kid lived.
00:54:13.28\00:54:16.35
Sometimes, it only
seems that the hurt wins.
00:54:16.38\00:54:20.36
Mary Oliver writes,
00:54:20.39\00:54:21.72
"There are
things you can't reach.
00:54:21.76\00:54:23.93
But you can reach out to them,
00:54:23.96\00:54:25.83
and all day long."
00:54:25.86\00:54:28.60
Because if we don't reach out,
00:54:31.70\00:54:34.64
no matter what your hurt,
00:54:34.67\00:54:36.00
no matter what your
fear is I can't do this.
00:54:36.04\00:54:37.97
If we don't reach out
00:54:38.01\00:54:40.58
and we have the good news
and the good news is Jesus.
00:54:40.64\00:54:43.75
If we don't share it,
00:54:43.81\00:54:47.78
what's the point
00:54:47.82\00:54:50.65
of the good news in the end?
00:54:50.69\00:54:53.72
Take your connect card, please.
00:54:56.83\00:54:59.29
Let's end.
00:54:59.33\00:55:01.03
With this connect card
stuck in your worship bulletin.
00:55:01.06\00:55:04.37
Pull it out,
00:55:04.40\00:55:06.74
let's respond to
this picture of Jesus.
00:55:06.77\00:55:09.27
We got guest here,
guest, glad you are,
00:55:09.30\00:55:11.11
fill the front of
the card with information
00:55:11.14\00:55:15.34
that you want to share.
00:55:15.38\00:55:18.25
But turn the card
over, my next step today is,
00:55:18.28\00:55:21.68
I'm grateful that the good news
of the gospel is Jesus Himself.
00:55:21.72\00:55:24.92
Is there anybody here,
not grateful, no, check mark,
00:55:24.95\00:55:28.19
I'm grateful that the good news
of the gospel is Jesus Himself.
00:55:28.22\00:55:32.49
I want to follow Jesus' example
00:55:32.53\00:55:34.20
and become comfortable
mingling with people.
00:55:34.20\00:55:37.33
You can ask Him, dear Jesus,
00:55:37.37\00:55:39.37
give me a little
more comfort with people,
00:55:39.40\00:55:41.57
just give me some comfort,
I want to do what You did.
00:55:41.60\00:55:44.44
Number three,
00:55:44.47\00:55:45.81
I will pray for God
to impress me with people
00:55:45.84\00:55:47.24
to invite to hear Ty Gibson,
00:55:47.28\00:55:48.98
extra brochures when you
leave, grab some, let's go.
00:55:49.01\00:55:51.41
And finally number four,
00:55:51.45\00:55:52.78
I would like to join a
Grow Group that focuses
00:55:52.81\00:55:54.78
on how to share Christ
in a warm and winsome way.
00:55:54.82\00:55:58.55
There are bunch now, we
got 70, 70, 79 Grow Groups.
00:55:58.59\00:56:02.42
And the good news is
that catalog is now online.
00:56:02.46\00:56:05.19
Go online, go to our
website, pmchurch.org.
00:56:05.23\00:56:08.83
And you go to that
catalog you pick them out.
00:56:08.86\00:56:11.47
I want to, I
want to join a group
00:56:11.50\00:56:13.74
that focuses on how
to be more effective.
00:56:13.77\00:56:17.54
Whatever you need, ask
Jesus, He's got it for you,
00:56:17.61\00:56:22.31
These are His
footsteps you're walking in.
00:56:22.34\00:56:24.08
Let's pray, Oh, God, Lord Jesus,
00:56:24.15\00:56:27.45
Your footsteps, boy,
00:56:27.52\00:56:28.85
You're a friend of sinners,
equal opportunity friend,
00:56:28.88\00:56:31.92
equal opportunity mingler.
00:56:31.95\00:56:34.79
And Jesus, I think it's safe
to say on behalf of everyone
00:56:34.82\00:56:38.16
who's here this
morning, we want to be like You,
00:56:38.19\00:56:41.60
we want to be like You.
00:56:41.63\00:56:44.77
And so dear God,
boil our hearts up,
00:56:44.80\00:56:48.47
give us the grace, and
the joy, and the courage.
00:56:48.50\00:56:51.81
It's just a
spontaneity to mingle.
00:56:51.84\00:56:54.61
Mingling on
mission to share our Jesus,
00:56:54.64\00:56:58.28
we pray in His name,
00:56:58.31\00:57:01.45
amen.
00:57:01.48\00:57:04.59
May I take an
extra moment with you
00:57:04.62\00:57:05.95
and let you know
how grateful I am
00:57:05.99\00:57:07.62
that you joined
us in worship today?
00:57:07.69\00:57:09.59
I hear from viewers
like you across the nation,
00:57:09.62\00:57:11.73
and literally around
the world, and I'm thankful.
00:57:11.76\00:57:14.56
If you'd like to explore further
00:57:14.60\00:57:15.93
what we have just shared,
00:57:15.96\00:57:17.30
I hope you'll
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00:57:17.37\00:57:18.77
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00:57:18.80\00:57:20.14
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00:57:20.17\00:57:24.01
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00:57:24.04\00:57:25.91
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00:57:25.94\00:57:27.84
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00:57:27.88\00:57:31.61
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00:57:38.29\00:57:40.49
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00:57:43.36\00:57:46.26
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00:57:46.29\00:57:48.90
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00:57:56.30\00:57:58.64
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00:57:58.67\00:58:00.11
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00:58:00.14\00:58:02.31
every step of
this adventurous way.
00:58:02.34\00:58:05.18