Good morning, PMC.
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We're happy to
see you this morning
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on the Sabbath morning.
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Let's stand together for prayer.
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Dear Lord, we come to
you with humble hearts.
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Thank you for this opportunity
that we can come together
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and worship you
and praise your name.
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Thank you for loving us so much.
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Thank you for the
blessings in our lives,
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and thank you
for this opportunity
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of a new school year.
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We love you and please bless us.
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Amen Amen.
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Remain, remain
standing, thank you so much.
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Or up and down, if
you want to exercise.
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So the first
song is a celebration
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that we together will
start this year singing
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and we will conclude
this song in the New Jerusalem
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when it returns
down here on earth.
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Keep that in mind as we sing
to a very beautiful hymn tune
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that you all know,
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"The words for the
music of creation. "
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For the music of creation
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For the song your Spirit sings
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For Your sound's
divine expression
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Burst of joy in living things
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God, our God,
the world's composer
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Hear us, echoes of Your voice
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Music is Your art, Your glory
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Let the human heart rejoice
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Psalms and symphonies exalt
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You Drum and
trumpet, string and reed
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Simple melodies acclaim
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You Tunes that
rise from deepest need
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Hymns of longing and belonging
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Carols from a cheerful throat
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Lilt of lullaby and love song
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Catching heaven in a note
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Saints on earth and angel voices
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In transcendent chorus meet
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Worship lifting up the senses
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Hands that
praise and dancing feet
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Over discord and division
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Music speaks Your joy and peace
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Harmony of earth and heaven
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Song of God
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That cannot cease!
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Amen. You may be seated.
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So this Thursday we
came back to Andrews,
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all the faculty and we
met for the faculty institute
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and we're greeted by
Stephen and Susan Zork
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with a wonderful worship.
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And as is customary for Stephen,
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he pulled out many
new hymns for us to sing
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to some common tunes.
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And one really
struck me in the heart.
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And we're gonna sing it now.
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I asked him if we
can sing it again today.
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Make this your testimony.
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Really think on these words.
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And if it resonates with
your soul, sing it to God.
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As a fire is meant for burning
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With a bright and warming flame
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So the church is
meant for mission
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Giving glory to God's name
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Not to preach
our creeds or customs
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But to build a bridge of care
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We join hands across the nations
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Finding neighbors everywhere
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We are learners, we are teachers
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We are pilgrims on the way
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We are seekers, we are givers
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We are vessels made of clay
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By our gentle, loving actions
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We would show
that Christ is light
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In a humble, listening spirit
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We would live to God's delight
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As a green bud in the springtime
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Is a sign of life renewed
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So may we be signs of oneness
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'Mid earth's peoples, many hued
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As a rainbow lights the heavens
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When a storm is past and gone
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May our lives reflect a radiance
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Of God's new and glorious dawn
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God, you spin
the whirling planets
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Fill the seas
and spread the plain
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Mold the
mountains, fashion blossoms
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Call forth
sunshine, wind, and rain
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We, created in Your image
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Would a true reflection be
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Of Your
justice, grace, and mercy
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And the truth that makes us free
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You have called
us to be faithful
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In our life and ministry
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We respond in grateful worship
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Joined in one community
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When we blur Your gracious image
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Focus us and make us whole
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Healed and
strengthened as Your people
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We move onward toward Your goal
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God, Your word is still creating
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Calling us to life made new
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Now reveal to us fresh vistas
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Where there's
work to dare and do
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Keep us clear of all distortion
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Fashion us with loving care
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Thus, new
creatures in Your image
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We'll proclaim Christ everywhere
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Open my eyes, that I may see
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Glimpses of
truth You have for me
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Place in my
hands the wonderful key
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That shall
unlock and set me free
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Silently now, I wait for Thee
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Ready my God your will to see
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Open my eyes, illumine me
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Spirit divine
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Open my ears, that I may hear
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Voices of truth
you send so clear
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And while the
message sounds in my ear
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Everything false
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Will disappear
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Silently now,
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I wait for thee
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Ready my God your will to see
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Open my ears,
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Illumine me
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Spirit divine
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Open my mouth, and let me bear
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Gladly the warm truth everywhere
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Open my heart,
and let me prepare
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Love with your children
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Thus to share
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Silently now, on bended knee
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Ready I wait your will to see
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Open my heart,
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Illumine me
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Spirit divine
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Hello, boys and girls, welcome.
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You guys know what I am?
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No.
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A scientist.
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I'm a scientist.
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I'm a special one
called a 'Chemist'.
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And my name is
Dr. Ryan Harris PHD,
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Department of
Chemistry, associate professor
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or you can just
call me Doctor Bubbles.
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Bubbles?
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Yeah, I'm not
gonna make bubbles today,
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but we're gonna
some important lessons
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and some important chemistry.
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You guys like
running experiments?
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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We're gonna run
in one here today.
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We're gonna learn something
about how God works right here.
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I gotta ask this question,
I think I know the answer
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but I'm gonna ask in anyway.
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Have you done
anything bad before?
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Yes. Yes.
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Oh, and some are
brave, yes. Yeah.
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So how do we know that
we're doing something bad?
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When it tries to explode.
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When it explodes...
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When you get caught.
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When you get caught,
yeah, that's how we know.
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No, is there,
your parents catch you?
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But how do your parents know
when you've done something bad?
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How do they know?
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They have their parents' senses.
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Okay, they have
parental senses, super powers.
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I agree.
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This is true.
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True words that
never have been spoken,
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but you know I
gotta let you on a secret
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the way that we know
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as parents what's
right and what's wrong,
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what's bad and what's
good is we look to God's word.
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And more specifically we
look at the Ten Commandments.
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So I'm always trying to teach
my kids the Ten Commandments
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because if you
break one of God's laws,
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we call that does any body know?
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Sin!
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And I actually got some
in the bottle right here.
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Yeah, we won't run
with that one at all.
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But when you do something bad,
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it's like putting a
stain into your record,
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into who you are and
you're feeling so good.
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But you know every
one of you are different.
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Some of you are tall,
some of you are short.
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And I'm gonna represent you,
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the kids here with these
different glasses that have...
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Well, looks like water in there.
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Some of you are nice and round.
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Some of you have taller necks,
they're round at the bottom.
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Okay?
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Some of you have
this nice shape here.
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We have another round one.
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Maybe some of you
are nice and tall.
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You're all different, right?
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You look different.
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Tall, short, but you know what?
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You are all the same
because you are going to start
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maybe doing
things that, we hope not,
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but we all do this,
we breaks God's law.
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And sin gets into our lives here
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and starts to
darken our lives here,
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well, hopefully, eventually.
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Yeah, dark in here.
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Don't worry it will.
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Oh, there it goes.
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And sin gets into your life
and starts to stain your life.
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Don't worry there's
lot to sin unfortunately.
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And we start to darken,
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and you know may be it was you
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didn't listen to
your mom and dad.
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That's a commandment you know.
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Honor your
father and your mother.
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And maybe what
are some of other,
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does anyone know some
of the other commandments?
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Thou shall not kill,
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yeah, and Jesus
said something about
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even if you get
mad at your brother
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that's like the same thing.
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Yes.
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Do not lie.
That ones a hard one.
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Teasing and
lying with each other
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and we get stains in our lives.
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You know what, it doesn't matter
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if you are tall and skinny,
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you too can start to get
stains in your life here.
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And I should add
more stains in there.
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But we'll let
that go down there.
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Okay?
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And it doesn't
matter who you are,
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what your shape
is, what you've done,
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or what sin it is.
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We often say, well, I
didn't lie like you did.
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I maybe said a bad
word that's not as bad.
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But you know what? To
God, it's all the same.
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It's still a
stain on who you are.
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And you become color.
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Now wait, some of you would say,
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oh, that looks so
pretty, that's so pretty blue.
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That sin is so neat.
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All my friends,
you know, are doing.
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They're
disobeying their parents.
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And nobody, they
don't get in trouble.
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They've lied and they
don't really get in trouble.
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And, you know,
nothing bothers them.
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So maybe that sin is
something we should just,
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it's okay to play with.
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And I'm wondering if it...
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Yeah, we may need to
put a bunch in there.
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And I have backup
sin if we need it too.
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Yeah, it's
going. It's going there.
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We might need a little bit more
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and I'll just keep
telling little bit more
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as we put some in here.
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But sin can get in your life.
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Does anybody know though
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how you are to get rid
of this sin in your life?
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Yeah!
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Oop! Who want's to answer that?
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I think we got, how do you
get rid of sin in your life?
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I heard Jesus. Yeah, what?
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What do you say?
I'd dump the water out.
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You dump the water out?
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What's that? By being good.
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By being good.
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Those are really
interesting ways to try
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to get sin out of your life.
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What do you think
of it, young lady?
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If you dump the water
out into somebody else's cup.
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Wow! I don't know
if you heard that.
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If you dump the water
out into someone else's cup.
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That is profound.
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This is amazing.
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You guys should do this at home.
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Well, I gotta let
you on a little secret.
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There is only one way
to get rid of the stain,
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the sin, the bad
things in your life.
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And we gotta know what
that is because some day,
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oh, you think you know?
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I'll give them... We pray.
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We pray, that's okay,
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but you gotta pray
something specific.
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You put a chemical in there.
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You put a chemical in there.
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You're getting
closer, but what do you think?
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Ask God to forgive.
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You ask God to forgive you.
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That's right.
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And I actually have that
forgiveness in the bottle
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right here.
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Look at that little bottle.
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I have in here
the power of Jesus.
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In fact it's vitamin C.
00:19:47.95\00:19:49.98
Vitamin Christ.
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And I'm just gonna
take a little bit of that
00:19:52.52\00:19:55.16
and let's see if it's powerful
enough to get rid of the stain
00:19:55.19\00:19:58.66
in one of these person's life.
00:19:58.69\00:20:01.70
And we mix it around.
00:20:01.73\00:20:04.63
And it's all clear.
00:20:04.67\00:20:07.74
Wow!
00:20:07.77\00:20:09.10
Did it matter what the sin was?
00:20:09.14\00:20:10.77
No. No.
00:20:10.81\00:20:12.14
Magic.
00:20:12.17\00:20:13.51
No, it's not magic.
00:20:13.54\00:20:15.08
It's chemistry.
00:20:15.11\00:20:16.44
Thank you for saying it.
00:20:19.68\00:20:22.58
What about this person,
00:20:22.62\00:20:23.95
they were a little bit
bigger did the sin matter?
00:20:23.99\00:20:26.65
No, it's gone there too.
00:20:26.69\00:20:28.76
And this person,
00:20:28.79\00:20:30.13
well, they had a
different type of sin,
00:20:30.16\00:20:31.56
did it matter?
00:20:31.59\00:20:32.93
No. See Jesus that's
why he came and died.
00:20:32.96\00:20:35.96
Because Jesus is
the special magic,
00:20:36.00\00:20:39.43
the chemistry,
00:20:39.47\00:20:40.80
however you want to explain it
00:20:40.84\00:20:42.17
that will come and take
away the sin in the world.
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It doesn't matter who you are.
00:20:45.64\00:20:46.98
Sin is sin.
00:20:47.01\00:20:48.34
But that one
doesn't have too much color.
00:20:48.38\00:20:49.91
Yeah, that one
doesn't have, wow!
00:20:49.94\00:20:51.45
It doesn't have
too much blue in it,
00:20:51.48\00:20:52.81
but you know it's still sin.
00:20:52.85\00:20:55.12
And God wants to get
rid of that in there too.
00:20:55.15\00:20:57.82
And it's all gone.
00:20:57.85\00:21:00.06
There's little blue on top.
00:21:00.09\00:21:01.52
It will go away.
00:21:01.56\00:21:02.89
Trust me. It will go away.
00:21:02.92\00:21:04.26
Now, hey, here's the
big sin problem right here.
00:21:04.29\00:21:07.66
Couldn't I just put that back in
00:21:07.70\00:21:09.13
and the sin can go back
00:21:09.16\00:21:10.67
and these people right
here will be sinful again.
00:21:10.70\00:21:14.74
This is why we're
all coming to church
00:21:14.77\00:21:16.44
and why we're so excited
and why as Adventist here,
00:21:16.47\00:21:19.34
we know that some
day Jesus is just gonna
00:21:19.37\00:21:21.78
get rid of the all
whole sin problem, okay?
00:21:21.81\00:21:24.78
And the all sin
problem is just gonna go away
00:21:24.81\00:21:29.35
and that's why I
got a lid on this.
00:21:29.38\00:21:31.19
So we can just rid
of the sin problem,
00:21:31.22\00:21:34.82
the source of it.
00:21:34.86\00:21:36.19
Okay.
00:21:44.50\00:21:45.87
Now I heard this is PMC.
00:21:45.90\00:21:47.27
It's a big
church, lots of people.
00:21:47.30\00:21:49.07
And I heard that you
gotta go bigger and go home
00:21:49.10\00:21:52.54
and so actually I got
something bigger here.
00:21:52.57\00:21:56.75
Oh! Oh!
00:21:56.78\00:21:59.78
Oh!
00:21:59.81\00:22:04.05
Wow!
00:22:04.09\00:22:05.42
Do you think this little bottle
can take care of all of that?
00:22:05.45\00:22:08.56
Yes.
00:22:08.59\00:22:10.66
You guys are
learning to have faith there.
00:22:10.69\00:22:13.09
You bet.
00:22:13.13\00:22:14.70
Oh, I hope so.
00:22:14.73\00:22:16.06
I'm gonna just dump it out.
00:22:16.10\00:22:17.43
Jesus poured out his
whole life for you, and for me,
00:22:17.47\00:22:20.90
and for the whole world.
00:22:20.94\00:22:22.44
And let's see,
00:22:22.47\00:22:24.07
it lift with your
legs, not with your back.
00:22:24.11\00:22:27.51
This is pretty heavy.
00:22:27.54\00:22:28.88
Let's see if we
can get rid of it.
00:22:28.91\00:22:31.91
Is it going away?
00:22:31.95\00:22:33.28
Yeah. Yeah?
00:22:33.31\00:22:35.15
There it goes.
00:22:35.18\00:22:37.65
Don't worry I have some
backup Jesus if it's not enough.
00:22:37.69\00:22:40.42
It's gone. That's gone away.
00:22:44.53\00:22:46.76
There will be a
little bit in there,
00:22:46.80\00:22:48.13
don't look too closely.
00:22:48.16\00:22:50.80
There will be some
scars that might remain.
00:22:50.83\00:22:55.10
Hey, this is really cool.
00:22:55.14\00:22:56.47
We learned something amazing,
doesn't matter what the sin is,
00:22:56.50\00:22:58.57
Jesus can get rid of it.
00:22:58.61\00:22:59.97
Yes. You guys can see it.
00:23:00.01\00:23:01.44
It doesn't matter who you are,
Jesus can get rid of your sin.
00:23:01.48\00:23:03.75
You have to ask,
you have to repent,
00:23:03.78\00:23:06.25
and trust that
Jesus can take care of it.
00:23:06.28\00:23:08.12
You guys have
been great listeners.
00:23:08.15\00:23:09.48
Let's have a prayer
to end our story time.
00:23:09.52\00:23:12.39
Dear God in heaven,
00:23:12.42\00:23:13.76
thank you for
making this amazing world.
00:23:13.79\00:23:15.56
The only world that
we know of that has water
00:23:15.59\00:23:18.06
everywhere on top of it.
00:23:18.09\00:23:20.03
And we're so much inside of us,
00:23:20.06\00:23:21.50
Lord reminds us
00:23:21.53\00:23:22.93
that you want to do
something big in our life
00:23:22.96\00:23:25.37
and in this world,
00:23:25.40\00:23:26.74
you want to get rid
of the sin in this world
00:23:26.77\00:23:28.10
so that we can go
home with you some day.
00:23:28.14\00:23:31.44
To go big so we
can go home with you.
00:23:31.47\00:23:34.31
Lord, bless these children
00:23:34.34\00:23:35.68
so they'll learn
about your power, your law,
00:23:35.71\00:23:37.78
and how you can get rid
of the sin in their life.
00:23:37.81\00:23:39.71
Bless them now
in Jesus name. Amen.
00:23:39.75\00:23:44.05
In your bulletin, on page 6,
00:23:44.09\00:23:48.22
we have our scripture reading.
00:23:48.26\00:23:51.56
Let's read responsibly.
00:23:51.59\00:23:54.40
I'll read the light print
and join me in the board print.
00:23:54.43\00:23:58.90
On page 6 of your bulletin.
00:23:58.93\00:24:01.57
John 10,
00:24:01.60\00:24:03.81
John 4:10-15.
00:24:03.84\00:24:08.74
Jesus answered here,
00:24:08.78\00:24:11.21
"If you knew the gift of God
00:24:11.25\00:24:14.42
and who it is that
asks you for a drink,
00:24:14.45\00:24:18.85
you would have asked him
00:24:18.89\00:24:21.12
and he would have
given you living water."
00:24:21.16\00:24:25.29
"Sir", she answered,
00:24:25.33\00:24:28.46
"you have nothing to draw
with and the well is deep.
00:24:28.50\00:24:33.23
Where can you get
this living water?
00:24:33.27\00:24:36.30
Are you greater
than our father Jacob,
00:24:36.34\00:24:39.61
who gave us this
well and drank from it,
00:24:39.64\00:24:43.68
as did also his
sons and his livestock?"
00:24:43.71\00:24:48.18
Jesus answered,
00:24:48.22\00:24:49.98
"Everyone who drinks this
water will be thirsty again,
00:24:50.02\00:24:55.52
but whoever drinks the water
I give them will never thirst.
00:24:55.56\00:25:00.90
Indeed, the water I give them
00:25:00.93\00:25:03.57
will become in
them a spring of water
00:25:03.60\00:25:06.94
welling up to eternal life."
00:25:06.97\00:25:09.87
The woman said to him,
00:25:09.90\00:25:12.24
"Sir, give me this water
so that I won't get thirsty
00:25:12.27\00:25:17.15
and have to keep
coming here to draw water."
00:25:17.18\00:25:20.48
Amen.
00:25:20.52\00:25:21.85
Let's pray together.
00:29:03.07\00:29:05.54
Oh, God, here we are in worship.
00:29:05.57\00:29:10.41
Our hearts lifted up to you.
00:29:10.45\00:29:13.11
Those hymns with new
words swept us heavenward.
00:29:13.15\00:29:16.99
We've come to
experience your presence.
00:29:20.02\00:29:24.76
With the prayer,
you drew us near.
00:29:24.79\00:29:27.60
Through reins,
00:29:30.80\00:29:33.20
spot on lesson to all of us,
00:29:33.23\00:29:35.60
thank you.
00:29:35.64\00:29:38.21
And now with
Carolynn, Katrina, and Ken
00:29:38.24\00:29:41.34
we pray the prayer they played.
00:29:41.38\00:29:46.41
Be thou our vision,
00:29:46.45\00:29:49.48
O Lord, of our hearts
00:29:49.52\00:29:52.25
naught nothing be all
else to us save that thou art.
00:29:52.29\00:29:59.19
Thou our best
thought by day or by night
00:29:59.23\00:30:05.00
waking or sleeping,
00:30:05.03\00:30:08.47
thy presence our light.
00:30:08.50\00:30:11.57
Cast the vision
for us now, dear God,
00:30:11.61\00:30:13.68
in your word we pray in
Christ's name, amen, amen.
00:30:13.71\00:30:20.12
Before I plunge into this story,
00:30:20.15\00:30:22.22
I need to give a shout
out to a young friend of mine
00:30:22.25\00:30:24.52
named Joshua Hoslins
sophomore, Andrews Academy
00:30:24.55\00:30:28.89
who did that art work.
00:30:28.92\00:30:31.83
Isn't that beautiful?
00:30:31.86\00:30:34.83
If you are new here
00:30:34.86\00:30:36.20
and we have bunch
of freshmen parents
00:30:36.23\00:30:39.03
with their students,
new students and faculty
00:30:39.07\00:30:42.00
who worship all
over this community,
00:30:42.04\00:30:44.04
glad you are here as well.
00:30:44.07\00:30:45.77
But if you are new
here you know you don't know
00:30:45.81\00:30:49.01
that 1, 2, 3,
there's one spot left.
00:30:49.04\00:30:55.72
This would be the fourth year
00:30:55.75\00:30:57.22
we have come up
with a theme device
00:30:57.25\00:31:01.72
for fall fellowship
00:31:01.76\00:31:03.09
and then the first Friday
night with their freshmen,
00:31:03.12\00:31:06.09
which should be
next Friday night,
00:31:06.13\00:31:08.60
that's what
happens to the goal device.
00:31:08.63\00:31:10.90
And they will come here,
00:31:10.93\00:31:12.27
Sabbath after Sabbath
or chapel after chapel
00:31:12.30\00:31:15.00
and they will remember
when they see their name.
00:31:15.04\00:31:18.47
So thank you, Joshua, for
moving us into this theme.
00:31:18.51\00:31:24.31
I wanna tell you a story.
00:31:24.35\00:31:25.68
Get us going.
00:31:25.71\00:31:27.05
Carmine Gallo in his book,
the Storyteller's Secret frames
00:31:27.08\00:31:30.69
that late afternoon March 1983,
00:31:30.72\00:31:34.62
two men standing on the
terrace of a luxury apartment
00:31:34.66\00:31:39.73
overlooking New
York Central Park,
00:31:39.76\00:31:43.50
toe to toe.
00:31:43.53\00:31:45.23
The sun is dipping in the
west over the Hudson River.
00:31:45.27\00:31:50.04
And there is
energy between these two.
00:31:50.07\00:31:52.81
The older man's 45 years old.
00:31:52.84\00:31:54.64
He's a corporate,
00:31:54.68\00:31:56.01
very successful
corporate executive, PepsiCo.
00:31:56.04\00:32:00.65
The young man, 26,
00:32:00.68\00:32:02.55
dressed in blue
jeans in a mark turtleneck
00:32:02.58\00:32:06.39
has been pushing the older guy
00:32:06.42\00:32:10.56
to jump ship
with his corporation.
00:32:10.59\00:32:15.13
Be born in a new venture.
00:32:15.16\00:32:17.27
But he's lost the young
man, absolutely no budging,
00:32:17.30\00:32:21.20
no budging from the executive.
00:32:21.24\00:32:25.27
And so now the young man
00:32:25.31\00:32:26.81
is staring at his running shoes,
00:32:26.84\00:32:28.44
staring at the toes
of his running shoes,
00:32:28.48\00:32:30.35
thinking, thinking,
thinking, I've lost,
00:32:30.38\00:32:32.78
when suddenly his head
jerks up and he blurs out.
00:32:32.81\00:32:37.39
Do you wanna sell sugar
water for the rest of your life?
00:32:37.42\00:32:41.82
Or do you wanna come
with me and change the world?
00:32:41.86\00:32:46.56
Now, of course,
everybody knows the fable story
00:32:46.59\00:32:49.30
that moment when Steve
Jobs, 26, John Sculley,
00:32:49.33\00:32:52.77
PepsiCo executive, 45,
00:32:52.80\00:32:56.64
when the
ignition of that question,
00:32:56.67\00:33:00.58
as Sculley later
described it, it got punch.
00:33:00.61\00:33:06.35
An ignition of that question
00:33:06.38\00:33:08.58
blended these two
into a fiery partnership
00:33:08.62\00:33:12.52
that literally
has changed the world.
00:33:12.55\00:33:15.02
Hasn't it?
00:33:15.06\00:33:16.39
Do you wanna sell sugar water
or do you wanna come with me
00:33:19.93\00:33:24.53
and change the
world for the better.
00:33:24.57\00:33:28.37
Two years later,
Steve Jobs, March 1982,
00:33:28.40\00:33:33.51
two years later
Steve Jobs is fired.
00:33:33.54\00:33:36.28
Twelve years after he's
fired Apple takes him back
00:33:36.31\00:33:41.02
in his first staff
meeting, now get this,
00:33:41.05\00:33:42.82
in his first staff
meeting with the Apple team
00:33:42.85\00:33:46.29
Steve Jobs speaks these words,
00:33:46.32\00:33:49.06
put them on the screen for you.
00:33:49.09\00:33:52.13
"Marketing is about values.
00:33:52.16\00:33:54.83
This is a very
complicated world.
00:33:54.86\00:33:56.20
It's a very noisy world
00:33:56.23\00:33:57.57
and we're not
going to get a chance
00:33:57.60\00:33:58.93
to get people to
remember much about us.
00:33:58.97\00:34:00.30
No company is.
00:34:00.34\00:34:01.67
And so we need
to be really clear
00:34:01.70\00:34:03.27
on what we want
them to know about us.
00:34:03.30\00:34:05.31
Our customers want
to know who Apple is
00:34:05.34\00:34:08.84
and what is that we stand for.
00:34:08.88\00:34:10.51
What we're about isn't
making boxes for people
00:34:10.55\00:34:13.11
to get jobs done,
although we do that well.
00:34:13.15\00:34:15.55
But Apple is about
something more that that.
00:34:15.58\00:34:18.22
Here it comes.
00:34:18.25\00:34:19.85
Apple's core
value is that we believe
00:34:19.89\00:34:23.43
that people with passion
00:34:23.46\00:34:24.79
can change the
world for the better."
00:34:24.83\00:34:28.93
We believe that
people with passion
00:34:28.96\00:34:31.47
can change the
world for the better.
00:34:31.50\00:34:34.50
You have to believe
God believes that as well.
00:34:34.54\00:34:37.17
I mean, take a
look at the theme text
00:34:37.21\00:34:38.54
that was assigned to me and us
00:34:38.57\00:34:39.91
for this fall
fellowship weekend.
00:34:39.94\00:34:41.54
Open your Bible to Isaiah 58.
00:34:41.58\00:34:45.98
Isaiah 58.
00:34:46.01\00:34:47.95
Theme for this fall
fellowship, live holy.
00:34:47.98\00:34:52.69
I tell you what.
00:34:52.72\00:34:54.06
I found out who actually
joined this text to the theme,
00:34:54.09\00:34:59.63
my friend June
Price our chaplain here.
00:34:59.66\00:35:02.06
I said, hey, June,
did you pick that theme?
00:35:02.10\00:35:03.77
That text?
00:35:03.80\00:35:05.13
It's a perfect fit.
00:35:05.17\00:35:06.50
Watch this.
00:35:06.53\00:35:07.87
Because in Isaiah 58, you
know what's happening here.
00:35:07.90\00:35:10.41
We have a soliloquy of
God, he's doing all the talking,
00:35:10.44\00:35:13.81
although he very
adroitly quotes the people
00:35:13.84\00:35:17.01
and buttressing his point.
00:35:17.05\00:35:18.95
But the fact is
you don't get the point
00:35:18.98\00:35:21.92
with just this dynamite text.
00:35:21.95\00:35:24.62
Let's read the text and see
00:35:24.65\00:35:26.72
what this sign
high overhead has to do
00:35:26.76\00:35:31.19
with these words of God.
00:35:31.23\00:35:32.56
This is Isaiah 58.
00:35:32.59\00:35:33.93
Open your Bible to Isaiah 58:11,
00:35:33.96\00:35:35.30
I'm in the NIV.
00:35:35.33\00:35:36.67
Any Bible you have is fine.
00:35:36.70\00:35:38.27
If you didn't bring a
Bible, track this one please.
00:35:38.30\00:35:39.97
Pull the pew Bible
out, it will be page 500.
00:35:40.00\00:35:42.64
Okay, God speaking.
00:35:42.67\00:35:44.01
"The Lord will guide you always,
00:35:44.04\00:35:46.94
he will satisfy your
needs in a sun-scorched land
00:35:46.98\00:35:50.25
and will strengthen your frame.
00:35:50.28\00:35:53.01
You will be like a
well-watered garden,
00:35:53.05\00:35:54.98
like a spring
whose waters never fail."
00:35:55.02\00:36:00.86
And what God has launched into
00:36:00.89\00:36:03.16
and we don't get
this with just that text,
00:36:03.19\00:36:05.06
is an intense
quiproquo conversation.
00:36:05.09\00:36:08.76
You know quiproquo
Latin, this for that, God says,
00:36:08.80\00:36:11.37
if you do this, I'll do that.
00:36:11.40\00:36:12.73
If you do this, I'll do that.
00:36:12.77\00:36:14.20
We need to get a feel
for that before this promise
00:36:14.24\00:36:18.14
and so I'm gonna
ask you do something,
00:36:18.17\00:36:19.51
we don't read usually
this much in a passage
00:36:19.54\00:36:22.61
but let's go back
to verse 1 Isaiah 58,
00:36:22.64\00:36:24.51
go up to the top of the chapter.
00:36:24.55\00:36:25.88
Let's read this to
get sense of the drama,
00:36:25.91\00:36:27.88
the tension mounting as
God moves to our theme text
00:36:27.92\00:36:31.79
for fall fellowship 2016.
00:36:31.82\00:36:34.76
All right, verse
1 one God speaking.
00:36:34.79\00:36:36.12
"Shout it aloud,
do not hold back.
00:36:36.16\00:36:37.79
Raise your voice like
a trumpet and show for.
00:36:37.83\00:36:40.56
Declare to my
people their rebellion
00:36:40.60\00:36:42.43
and to the
descendants of Jacob their sins.
00:36:42.46\00:36:45.23
For day after
day the seek me out,
00:36:45.27\00:36:47.10
they seem eager to know my ways,
00:36:47.14\00:36:48.54
as if they were a
nation that does what is right
00:36:48.57\00:36:50.61
and has not forsaken
the commandments of its God.
00:36:50.64\00:36:53.61
They ask me for just decisions
00:36:53.64\00:36:55.34
and seem eager for
God to come near them.
00:36:55.38\00:36:58.01
'Why have we fasted', they
say, 'and you have not seen it?
00:36:58.05\00:37:00.88
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you have not noticed?'
00:37:00.92\00:37:04.02
'Yet on the day of your fasting,
00:37:04.05\00:37:05.82
you do as you please',
00:37:05.85\00:37:07.29
God says, 'and you
exploit all your workers.
00:37:07.32\00:37:10.19
Your fasting ends in
quarrelling and strife,
00:37:10.23\00:37:12.19
and in striking each
other with wicked fists.
00:37:12.23\00:37:14.13
You cannot fast as you do today
00:37:14.16\00:37:16.53
and expect your
voice to be heard on high.
00:37:16.56\00:37:18.90
Is this the kind
of fast I have chosen,
00:37:18.93\00:37:21.57
only a day for
people to humble themselves?
00:37:21.60\00:37:24.57
Is it only for bowing one's head
00:37:24.61\00:37:26.34
like a reed and for
lying in sackcloth and ashes?
00:37:26.37\00:37:29.74
Is that what you call a fast,
00:37:29.78\00:37:31.51
a day acceptable to the Lord?
00:37:31.55\00:37:36.02
'Is not this the kind of fasting
00:37:36.05\00:37:38.22
I have chosen:
00:37:38.25\00:37:40.06
to loose the chains of injustice
00:37:40.09\00:37:41.99
and unite the cords of the yoke,
00:37:42.02\00:37:45.39
to set the oppressed
free and break every yoke?
00:37:45.43\00:37:48.06
Is it not to share
your food with the hungry
00:37:48.10\00:37:50.67
and to provide the
poor wanderer with shelter,
00:37:50.70\00:37:52.83
when you see the
naked, to clothe them,
00:37:52.87\00:37:54.37
and not to turn away
from your own flesh and blood?
00:37:54.40\00:37:56.60
Then, so he said, if, if,
if, if you do this, this, this
00:37:56.64\00:37:59.77
then here comes the quiproquo.
00:37:59.81\00:38:01.58
Then you do that,
00:38:01.61\00:38:02.94
then your light will
break forth like the dawn,
00:38:02.98\00:38:06.11
and your healing
will quickly appear,
00:38:06.15\00:38:08.88
then your
righteousness will go before you
00:38:08.92\00:38:11.05
and the glory of the
Lord will be your rear guard.
00:38:11.09\00:38:12.99
Then you will call,
and the Lord will answer,
00:38:13.02\00:38:15.59
you will cry for help
and he will say, here am I.
00:38:15.62\00:38:19.09
Another
quiproquo, here it comes.
00:38:19.13\00:38:20.93
"If you do away
with yoke of oppression,
00:38:20.96\00:38:23.83
with the pointing
finger and malicious talk,
00:38:23.87\00:38:26.23
and if you spend yourselves
in behalf of the hungry
00:38:26.27\00:38:29.37
and satisfy the
needs of the oppressed,
00:38:29.40\00:38:31.17
then your light will
rise in the darkness,
00:38:31.21\00:38:34.38
and your night will
become like the noonday.
00:38:34.41\00:38:36.44
Then it's understood here,
00:38:36.48\00:38:37.95
"Then the Lord
will guide you always,"
00:38:37.98\00:38:40.92
our theme text,"
00:38:40.95\00:38:42.28
he will satisfy your
needs in a sun-scorched land
00:38:42.32\00:38:44.49
and will strengthen your frame.
00:38:44.52\00:38:46.25
You will be like a
well-watered garden,
00:38:46.29\00:38:49.09
like a spring
whose waters never fail."
00:38:49.12\00:38:52.23
Wow!
00:38:52.26\00:38:54.23
God cuts to the chase.
00:38:54.26\00:38:56.70
And did you notice?
00:38:56.73\00:38:58.07
He makes the very same
point that Steve Jobs made.
00:38:58.10\00:39:03.30
Put the Jobs' words
on the screen for you.
00:39:03.34\00:39:06.41
"We believe that
people with passion
00:39:06.44\00:39:09.84
can change the
world for the better."
00:39:09.88\00:39:13.95
You know what?
00:39:13.98\00:39:15.32
That sentence has
Andrews University
00:39:15.35\00:39:16.69
written all over.
00:39:16.72\00:39:18.05
People with passion
00:39:18.09\00:39:19.42
would change the
world for the better.
00:39:19.45\00:39:20.79
That sentence has
00:39:20.82\00:39:22.16
the Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:39:22.19\00:39:23.53
written all over it.
00:39:23.56\00:39:24.89
People with the passion
00:39:24.93\00:39:26.26
who change the
world for the better.
00:39:26.29\00:39:27.63
That even has
little old Pioneer Memorial
00:39:27.66\00:39:29.16
written all over it.
00:39:29.20\00:39:30.53
People with the passion
00:39:30.57\00:39:31.90
who change the
world for the better,
00:39:31.93\00:39:35.50
that's what I believe
about you, God declares.
00:39:35.54\00:39:37.61
I believe my
people with my passion
00:39:37.64\00:39:40.94
can change the
world for the better.
00:39:40.98\00:39:43.81
And guess what?
00:39:43.85\00:39:45.18
That's what it means,
00:39:45.21\00:39:46.55
that's what it
means to live holy.
00:39:46.58\00:39:48.18
That's it.
00:39:48.22\00:39:49.95
To live with
passion, to make a difference,
00:39:49.98\00:39:53.39
I mean, come on, do
you wanna sell sugar water
00:39:53.42\00:39:55.22
for the rest of your life
00:39:55.26\00:39:57.49
or come with me
and change the world.
00:39:57.53\00:40:00.06
That's what God's
crying out here in Isaiah 58.
00:40:00.10\00:40:02.76
Do you want to sit around
00:40:02.80\00:40:04.13
and quibble over the sugar water
00:40:04.17\00:40:05.50
of theological
niceties and religious debates
00:40:05.53\00:40:08.10
or do you want to come
with me and change the world,
00:40:08.14\00:40:10.34
that's clearly
00:40:10.37\00:40:13.78
what live holy means.
00:40:13.81\00:40:16.75
My people with my
passion can change the world
00:40:16.78\00:40:19.95
for the better.
00:40:19.98\00:40:21.32
Oh, by the way who in
the world gets changed?
00:40:21.35\00:40:23.79
Jesus said,
00:40:23.82\00:40:25.59
the least of these
00:40:25.62\00:40:28.19
my brothers and sisters.
00:40:28.22\00:40:29.62
You do it to
them, you do it to me.
00:40:29.66\00:40:31.19
You don't do it to
them, you don't do it to me,
00:40:31.23\00:40:33.16
that's we've just
talked about in Isaiah 50,
00:40:33.19\00:40:36.13
isn't that right?
00:40:36.16\00:40:37.50
Who gets changed?
00:40:37.53\00:40:38.87
The poor lives matter people
that Pastor Torres last Sabbath
00:40:39.83\00:40:44.91
with passion preached about.
00:40:44.94\00:40:46.57
Those are the people that
God is talking about here.
00:40:46.61\00:40:49.48
Who gets changed?
00:40:49.51\00:40:50.85
The marginalized, the alienated,
00:40:50.88\00:40:52.41
the disenfranchised up
the road from you God says
00:40:52.45\00:40:54.75
and they're also in your midst.
00:40:54.78\00:40:57.22
Concentrate on them.
00:40:57.25\00:40:59.05
To follow God into that world,
00:41:00.42\00:41:02.42
to live with passion
and make a difference,
00:41:02.46\00:41:04.06
that's what it
means to live holy,
00:41:04.09\00:41:08.96
our theme...
00:41:09.00\00:41:10.33
Because live that way,
00:41:12.50\00:41:15.27
and oh, boy,
00:41:15.30\00:41:16.64
does God come
through with the promise.
00:41:16.67\00:41:18.04
Now this is writ large
our theme text of verse 11.
00:41:18.07\00:41:23.08
Four divine
quid pro quo promises
00:41:23.11\00:41:26.75
that in themselves are
stirring portrait to God,
00:41:26.78\00:41:28.92
I want to run these by
you, see what do you think.
00:41:28.95\00:41:31.32
Verse 11 read it again,
00:41:31.35\00:41:32.69
"The Lord will guide you always,
00:41:32.72\00:41:34.06
he will satisfy your
needs in a sun-scorched land
00:41:34.09\00:41:36.66
and will strengthen your frame.
00:41:36.69\00:41:38.03
You will be like a
well-watered garden,
00:41:38.06\00:41:39.76
like a spring
whose waters never fail."
00:41:39.79\00:41:43.53
Promise number
one, four of these.
00:41:43.57\00:41:44.90
Here comes promise number
one, God says, I will guide you.
00:41:44.93\00:41:48.27
I will guide you personally.
00:41:48.30\00:41:49.94
I will guide
you institutionally,
00:41:49.97\00:41:51.84
and don't you
just love that word?
00:41:51.87\00:41:53.21
I will guide you always.
00:41:53.24\00:41:56.14
I want to stay with you always.
00:41:56.18\00:41:57.55
It doesn't matter
what you've been through.
00:41:57.58\00:41:59.05
It doesn't matter what
you're going through now.
00:41:59.08\00:42:00.42
No matter what I will be
there to guide you always.
00:42:00.45\00:42:04.05
You know why?
00:42:04.09\00:42:05.42
Because if
00:42:05.45\00:42:06.79
it's like that
old spiritual sayings,
00:42:07.46\00:42:11.69
if we ever
needed the Lord before,
00:42:11.73\00:42:17.03
we sure do need him now.
00:42:17.07\00:42:19.97
Oh, we sure do need him now.
00:42:20.00\00:42:23.57
Sing it out.
00:42:23.61\00:42:24.94
Oh, we sure do need him now
00:42:24.97\00:42:28.24
if we ever
needed the Lord before.
00:42:28.28\00:42:33.78
We sure do need him now.
00:42:33.82\00:42:37.22
We need him every day
00:42:37.25\00:42:40.76
and all the way, all the way.
00:42:40.79\00:42:44.39
We need...
00:42:44.43\00:42:45.86
Oh, for another time.
00:42:45.89\00:42:47.23
I tried I saw Steve
Wohlberg over there,
00:42:48.73\00:42:50.70
I figured he jump up.
00:42:50.73\00:42:52.07
He just said.
00:42:52.10\00:42:53.44
Hey, guys, that's
where we are right now.
00:42:56.71\00:42:59.17
We really need the Lord.
00:42:59.21\00:43:01.84
Yes. We need the Lord.
00:43:01.88\00:43:04.11
God says, I got
good news for you.
00:43:04.15\00:43:06.45
I will guide you always.
00:43:06.48\00:43:10.09
Live holy form
me, live holy with me,
00:43:10.12\00:43:12.82
I'll guide you always.
00:43:12.85\00:43:14.19
But there are four of
these, that was number one.
00:43:14.22\00:43:15.56
Here come number
two, I will satisfy you.
00:43:15.59\00:43:18.76
In fact I will
satisfy your needs.
00:43:18.79\00:43:21.86
In fact I will
satisfy your needs
00:43:21.90\00:43:24.63
in a sun-scorched land
00:43:24.67\00:43:27.04
because let's be honest,
00:43:28.80\00:43:30.67
we all everybody, no exception.
00:43:30.71\00:43:33.54
We all experience
droughts in our life.
00:43:33.58\00:43:36.98
Some of them are short lived,
00:43:37.01\00:43:39.38
others can be long
dry and debilitating.
00:43:39.41\00:43:43.52
Some of you right
now perhaps are going
00:43:43.55\00:43:47.29
through the sun-scorched
land professionally.
00:43:47.32\00:43:51.46
Everything keeps
coming up dry, stale,
00:43:53.06\00:43:55.80
your career is no
longer satisfying,
00:43:55.83\00:43:57.83
your job is no
longer challenging.
00:43:57.87\00:44:01.44
I'm going to satisfy your
needs in that sun-scorched place
00:44:01.47\00:44:05.44
you find yourself today.
00:44:05.47\00:44:06.81
Some of you are going
through the sun-scorched land
00:44:06.84\00:44:10.28
in your marriage right now.
00:44:10.31\00:44:14.05
It just what happened?
00:44:14.08\00:44:15.58
This was here and now it's gone,
00:44:15.62\00:44:17.79
it's dry, it's
brittle, it's lifeless.
00:44:17.82\00:44:21.79
Some of you are going
through the sun-scorched land
00:44:21.82\00:44:24.19
spiritually, morally.
00:44:24.23\00:44:26.76
The values that
you once stood for,
00:44:26.80\00:44:29.26
you've shoved to the side,
00:44:29.30\00:44:31.20
and now there is nothing
but burning sun and no water.
00:44:31.23\00:44:34.97
God says, I will
satisfy your needs.
00:44:35.00\00:44:37.11
You turn to me boy
or girl, you turn to me
00:44:37.14\00:44:39.51
and I'll take care of you.
00:44:39.54\00:44:41.04
I will satisfy your needs.
00:44:43.24\00:44:45.68
And oh, boy, I
have to slip this in
00:44:45.71\00:44:47.65
because there
is... I'll tell you.
00:44:48.85\00:44:50.39
I go through the
sun-scorched periods
00:44:50.42\00:44:54.42
in my life and there.
00:44:54.46\00:44:56.39
When I do
00:44:56.42\00:44:57.76
there is a go to text
that God has shown me,
00:44:58.63\00:45:01.03
this is boy, you
just keep coming back here
00:45:01.06\00:45:02.73
and I go back.
00:45:02.76\00:45:04.10
I beat up
beeline to Jeremiah 17,
00:45:04.13\00:45:08.77
because it's very interesting
and I want you to look this up
00:45:08.80\00:45:10.54
please Jeremiah 17
00:45:10.57\00:45:11.91
and this promise
tag to Isaiah 58:11
00:45:11.94\00:45:16.18
they're just like twins.
00:45:16.21\00:45:17.55
I want you to see this Jeremiah,
00:45:17.58\00:45:18.91
I need you to see
it in your own Bible.
00:45:18.95\00:45:20.72
Jeremiah 17 will be right back.
00:45:20.75\00:45:22.72
Jeremiah 17 wow,
look what God is saying.
00:45:22.75\00:45:25.99
Sun-scorched land,
I'll satisfy your needs.
00:45:26.02\00:45:28.59
Watch this chapter
17 Jeremiah, here it is.
00:45:28.62\00:45:33.29
Yeah, I got the
place marked up all over
00:45:33.33\00:45:35.10
because I've been so
many times back to this.
00:45:35.13\00:45:37.23
Jeremiah 17:7,
"But blessed is the one
00:45:37.27\00:45:40.34
who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him.
00:45:40.37\00:45:44.67
They will be like a
tree planted by the water
00:45:44.71\00:45:47.64
that sends out its
roots by the stream.
00:45:47.68\00:45:50.31
It does not
fear when heat comes,
00:45:50.35\00:45:53.11
its leaves are always green."
00:45:53.15\00:45:56.42
God do you know how long...
00:45:58.02\00:46:00.99
I've hit the sun-scorched land,
00:46:04.03\00:46:06.76
no big deal to me.
00:46:08.86\00:46:11.10
You be like a tree,
planted by the water,
00:46:11.13\00:46:13.67
roots out to the stream.
00:46:13.70\00:46:15.04
Now here comes three
negatives. Here they come.
00:46:15.07\00:46:16.84
It does not
fear when heat comes,
00:46:16.87\00:46:19.07
because heat
comes, sun-scorched land
00:46:19.11\00:46:21.14
comes into every
life at some point
00:46:21.18\00:46:22.68
professionally,
morally, spiritually,
00:46:22.71\00:46:24.11
merrily, financially
00:46:24.15\00:46:25.78
it will come to you,
00:46:25.81\00:46:27.15
but it does not
fear when he comes.
00:46:28.12\00:46:30.55
Its leaves are always green.
00:46:30.59\00:46:32.59
It has no worries, I love that.
00:46:32.62\00:46:34.76
It has no worries
in a year of drought
00:46:34.79\00:46:37.46
and never fails to bear fruit.
00:46:37.49\00:46:41.13
I will take care of you.
00:46:41.16\00:46:43.23
I will satisfy your
needs in a sun-scorched land,
00:46:43.26\00:46:47.14
whatever it is you're
going through right now,
00:46:47.17\00:46:48.77
I will take care of you.
00:46:48.80\00:46:50.41
Come on.
00:46:54.41\00:46:56.18
And by the way this promise
00:46:56.21\00:46:57.55
for living in a
sun-scorched land
00:46:57.58\00:46:59.61
is a promise for America too.
00:46:59.65\00:47:03.39
I don't know if you
slept through this summer.
00:47:03.42\00:47:04.99
America is in trouble.
00:47:08.46\00:47:10.53
I'll tell you
what America is facing.
00:47:10.56\00:47:12.79
A sun-scorched land
that is rapidly approaching
00:47:12.83\00:47:15.36
spiritual
drought and moral famine.
00:47:15.40\00:47:18.30
The ancient prophet Amos
predicted a day like this
00:47:20.17\00:47:22.20
would come,
00:47:22.24\00:47:23.57
'cause I want
you to get this down
00:47:23.61\00:47:24.97
so that when it comes
you'll know I saw it coming.
00:47:25.01\00:47:27.68
Amos 8:11, "'The
days are coming,'
00:47:27.71\00:47:31.58
declares the Sovereign Lord,
00:47:31.61\00:47:32.95
when I will send a
famine through the land
00:47:32.98\00:47:34.32
not a famine of food
or a thirst for water,
00:47:34.35\00:47:36.55
but a famine of
hearing the words of the Lord.
00:47:36.58\00:47:39.12
People will stagger
from sea to shining sea
00:47:39.15\00:47:42.89
and wander from north to east,
00:47:44.09\00:47:45.99
searching for
the word of the Lord,
00:47:46.03\00:47:47.36
but they will not find it."
00:47:47.40\00:47:49.83
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is the perfect hour
00:47:49.86\00:47:52.17
in this civilization's history
00:47:52.20\00:47:54.00
to claim our legacy
as a flagship daughter
00:47:54.04\00:47:56.74
of Battle Creek
College founded in 1874,
00:47:56.77\00:48:00.08
let's claim it.
00:48:00.11\00:48:01.44
And 3,000 students my Lord,
00:48:01.48\00:48:03.98
3,000 students moving out
into a sun-scorched community
00:48:04.01\00:48:07.45
a sun-scorched
nation, a sun-scorched planet,
00:48:07.48\00:48:10.95
this is the hour.
00:48:10.99\00:48:12.75
Live holy for me God says.
00:48:14.02\00:48:16.22
You were the holy for me,
00:48:18.09\00:48:19.69
I'll take care of you.
00:48:21.63\00:48:23.00
I will guide you.
00:48:23.03\00:48:24.63
I will satisfy you.
00:48:24.67\00:48:27.64
Here comes number three.
00:48:27.67\00:48:29.00
I will strengthen you.
00:48:29.04\00:48:30.61
The King James reads, I
will make fat your bones.
00:48:31.61\00:48:34.68
Anybody here wants that bones?
00:48:37.65\00:48:40.95
God, you could
have got our attention
00:48:40.98\00:48:42.92
with something more than that.
00:48:42.95\00:48:44.29
I'll make fat your bones.
00:48:44.32\00:48:45.82
Of course we miss the point.
00:48:47.22\00:48:49.16
God's dealing his
promise with the infrastructure,
00:48:49.19\00:48:53.03
our personal infrastructure,
00:48:53.06\00:48:54.63
our
institutional infrastructure.
00:48:54.66\00:48:56.80
God is saying I
will strengthen you
00:48:56.83\00:48:58.43
from the inside out.
00:48:58.47\00:48:59.83
Good news for those of
you and that you are here,
00:48:59.87\00:49:02.34
for those of you who
are burning the midnight oil
00:49:02.37\00:49:04.54
to balance your
department's budgets.
00:49:04.57\00:49:07.31
I will take care of you.
00:49:09.18\00:49:10.91
I will strengthen
that infrastructure.
00:49:10.95\00:49:13.92
Good news for you
00:49:13.95\00:49:15.28
who are trying to balance
this congregation's budget.
00:49:15.32\00:49:18.45
I will take care of you, I will
strengthen that infrastructure.
00:49:18.49\00:49:22.12
Good news for
you who have entasked
00:49:22.16\00:49:24.66
to balance the
budget of this university.
00:49:24.69\00:49:29.00
I will take care of you
00:49:30.00\00:49:32.57
and I will
strengthen your infrastructure.
00:49:32.60\00:49:34.84
Live holy for me,
00:49:35.87\00:49:37.74
for a profound promise
is from God on the eve,
00:49:37.77\00:49:41.11
on the cusp of a new year.
00:49:41.14\00:49:42.78
And here comes final promise.
00:49:42.81\00:49:44.15
Number four, God
says, I will flourish you.
00:49:44.18\00:49:48.05
You say, Dwight, I just
read it, there is nothing about
00:49:48.08\00:49:49.58
flourishing
that, are you kidding?
00:49:49.62\00:49:51.55
The last two lines of verse 11
00:49:51.59\00:49:53.69
if they don't have
flourish written all over them,
00:49:53.72\00:49:55.92
then you tell me
what they're all about.
00:49:55.96\00:49:57.93
What are the last two
lines? Put them on the screen.
00:49:57.96\00:49:59.69
"You shall be like
a well-watered garden,
00:49:59.73\00:50:03.73
like a spring
whose waters never fail."
00:50:04.73\00:50:09.04
In the eve of this New Year
00:50:10.34\00:50:12.27
God says that's the
future I have for you
00:50:12.31\00:50:14.78
Andrews University.
00:50:14.81\00:50:16.44
You live holy for me
and I will flourish you.
00:50:16.48\00:50:21.38
I will flourish you like
my favorite garden on earth.
00:50:21.42\00:50:25.15
You will be fresh
and thick and prudent.
00:50:25.19\00:50:27.99
You will be a vegetable garden
of red and yellow and orange
00:50:28.02\00:50:30.66
and green and purple and
brown and white in row after row
00:50:30.69\00:50:33.70
of nature's tastiest delicacies,
00:50:33.73\00:50:36.26
you will
flourish with moral fruit.
00:50:36.30\00:50:39.23
You will flourish
with intellectual fruit.
00:50:39.27\00:50:41.97
You will flourish
with spiritual fruit,
00:50:42.00\00:50:44.14
you will flourish
00:50:44.17\00:50:45.61
because you're my garden
00:50:45.64\00:50:47.14
and I have a built
in sprinkler system
00:50:47.18\00:50:49.88
that will keep you fresh.
00:50:49.91\00:50:51.61
That's what
that's line is all about,
00:50:53.08\00:50:55.55
a built in sprinkler
system for this institution.
00:50:55.58\00:51:00.29
Like a well watered garden,
00:51:00.32\00:51:02.76
like an artesian well,
00:51:02.79\00:51:05.16
like a spring
that never runs dry.
00:51:05.19\00:51:08.20
And so where do I
find a spring like that?
00:51:09.83\00:51:14.07
The pretty woman
asks the stranger
00:51:14.10\00:51:15.74
with the dark eyes
and a gentle smile.
00:51:15.77\00:51:19.34
He and you
sitting on a massive lip
00:51:19.37\00:51:21.94
of this well
near Sychar, Samaria.
00:51:21.98\00:51:25.15
Ken Gire in this wonderful book
00:51:26.35\00:51:28.82
"Intimate
Moments with the Savior"
00:51:28.85\00:51:30.39
picks up the story with
this beautiful word picture,
00:51:30.42\00:51:33.82
cannot be improved upon, so
I'm going to read it to you,
00:51:33.86\00:51:36.52
but so that you don't
get bored with me reading it,
00:51:36.56\00:51:40.80
I'm going to put a picture
you're never seen in your life
00:51:40.83\00:51:43.06
of Jesus and the
woman at the well
00:51:43.10\00:51:44.77
on the screen right now.
00:51:44.80\00:51:46.23
So you look at that picture
00:51:46.27\00:51:48.24
and let me read this to you.
00:51:48.27\00:51:49.90
The Palestinian son
glares its impartial eye
00:51:49.94\00:51:53.61
upon both this
name the Samaritan woman
00:51:53.64\00:51:56.04
and upon the savior of the world
00:51:56.08\00:51:58.75
through shear curtains of
undulating heat she comes.
00:51:58.78\00:52:02.35
She too is weary not
so much when the water jar
00:52:02.38\00:52:05.25
she carries on her head,
00:52:05.29\00:52:07.16
that's from the emptiness
she carries in her heart.
00:52:07.19\00:52:09.52
The torrents of
passion once swift in her life
00:52:09.56\00:52:12.63
have now run their course.
00:52:12.66\00:52:14.23
She is weathered and worn,
00:52:14.26\00:52:15.76
her face eroded by the
gullies of a spent life.
00:52:15.80\00:52:19.37
That she comes at noon,
the hottest hour of the day,
00:52:19.40\00:52:22.50
whispers a rumor
of her reputation.
00:52:22.54\00:52:25.84
She's gone from man to man like
00:52:25.87\00:52:27.61
one lost in the desert
sun struck and delirious.
00:52:27.64\00:52:31.95
She comes to Jacob's well,
00:52:31.98\00:52:34.05
her empty water jar are
telling symbol of her life,
00:52:34.08\00:52:39.15
as her eyes meet the savior's.
00:52:39.19\00:52:42.16
He sees within her
a covertness aching.
00:52:43.59\00:52:46.83
A sister in her soul
00:52:46.86\00:52:48.36
that will forever remain
empty unless he fills it.
00:52:48.40\00:52:53.44
Get to her an anonymous
woman with a feared life,
00:52:54.47\00:52:57.17
he gives the most
profound discourse
00:52:57.21\00:52:58.91
in scripture on
the subject of worship.
00:52:58.94\00:53:00.91
But equally remarkable
it's what Jesus doesn't say,
00:53:00.94\00:53:04.58
His states are past
and present marital status
00:53:04.61\00:53:06.95
but makes no
reference to her sin.
00:53:06.98\00:53:09.38
He gives no call to repent.
00:53:09.42\00:53:11.65
He presents no
structured plan of salvation.
00:53:11.69\00:53:14.32
He offers no prayer
00:53:14.36\00:53:16.29
but with the words
00:53:17.49\00:53:19.16
I who speak to you and he,
00:53:19.19\00:53:21.83
Jesus brings her
back to face the giver
00:53:21.86\00:53:25.13
and his
remarkable gift living water.
00:53:25.17\00:53:30.27
Not a wage to be
earned, not a price to be won,
00:53:30.31\00:53:34.08
but a gift to
be received to her.
00:53:34.11\00:53:37.55
This stranger was
first simply a Jew,
00:53:37.58\00:53:40.82
then sir,
00:53:41.98\00:53:43.79
then a prophet
00:53:45.12\00:53:47.62
and then she sees him
00:53:49.09\00:53:51.53
for who he really is Messiah.
00:53:51.56\00:53:54.80
And with her heart
overflowing with living water,
00:53:57.10\00:54:00.07
she starts to
run slowly at first
00:54:00.10\00:54:02.87
then it's faster as
her new legs will take her.
00:54:02.90\00:54:06.98
So let's end
00:54:09.78\00:54:11.75
with Jesus' incredible
offer to the woman at the well,
00:54:11.78\00:54:15.38
turns out is offer
00:54:17.79\00:54:20.16
his a line drawn
right out of Isaiah 58:11.
00:54:20.19\00:54:24.26
Take a look at this.
00:54:24.29\00:54:26.03
Christon Arthur, a new provost
just read it a moment ago,
00:54:26.06\00:54:28.76
I want you to end in
John 4 please, John 4.
00:54:28.80\00:54:32.33
John 4,
00:54:32.37\00:54:34.37
I'll pick the narrative.
00:54:34.40\00:54:36.71
In John 4:11, "'Sir,'
00:54:36.74\00:54:39.37
the woman said,
00:54:41.24\00:54:43.45
'you have nothing to draw
with and the well is deep.
00:54:43.48\00:54:46.61
Where can you get
this living water?'
00:54:46.65\00:54:49.15
" And Jesus answered verse 13,
00:54:49.18\00:54:51.42
"Everyone who drinks this
water will be thirsty again,
00:54:51.45\00:54:55.42
but whoever drinks the water
I give them will never thirst.
00:54:55.46\00:55:00.20
Indeed, the water I
give them will become in them
00:55:00.23\00:55:02.66
a spring of water
welling up to eternal life."
00:55:02.70\00:55:06.57
The artesian well,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:55:06.60\00:55:08.97
you have just met him,
he is the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:55:09.00\00:55:12.07
a spring that never runs dry.
00:55:12.11\00:55:15.08
In fact he is so
much the artesian
00:55:15.11\00:55:17.25
well that even when
he dies on the cross,
00:55:17.28\00:55:20.38
the water is still flowing.
00:55:20.42\00:55:22.45
He's made every provision
00:55:24.75\00:55:26.96
for you and me to
live holy for him.
00:55:26.99\00:55:31.69
The water still flows.
00:55:32.79\00:55:35.03
Desire of Ages on this moment,
00:55:35.06\00:55:38.20
"Jesus did not convey the
idea that merely one draft,
00:55:38.23\00:55:40.87
one drink of the water of
life would suffice the receiver.
00:55:40.90\00:55:44.14
He who tastes of
the love of Christ
00:55:44.17\00:55:46.01
will continually long for more,
but he seeks for nothing else.
00:55:46.04\00:55:49.64
The riches, honors,
and pleasures of the world
00:55:49.68\00:55:51.75
do not attract her.
00:55:51.78\00:55:53.28
The constant cry of her
heart is, More of Thee...
00:55:53.31\00:55:56.92
Every human resource
and dependence will fail.
00:55:56.95\00:56:00.16
The cisterns will be
emptied, the pools become dry,
00:56:00.19\00:56:04.06
but our Redeemer is
an inexhaustible fountain
00:56:04.09\00:56:07.86
and artesian well.
00:56:07.90\00:56:09.83
We may drink, and drink again,
and ever find a fresh supply.
00:56:09.86\00:56:14.14
He in whom Christ
dwells has within himself
00:56:14.17\00:56:16.81
the fountain of blessing -
00:56:16.84\00:56:18.24
'a well of water springing
up into everlasting life.'
00:56:18.27\00:56:21.01
From this source
we may draw strength
00:56:21.04\00:56:24.41
and grace
sufficient for all our needs."
00:56:24.45\00:56:28.92
Amen.
00:56:28.95\00:56:30.99
And so that Andrews University,
00:56:31.02\00:56:34.02
this is a gospel truth for us.
00:56:35.39\00:56:38.03
This is the gospel
truth for you and me
00:56:39.46\00:56:43.16
and that is
00:56:43.20\00:56:45.17
we will only live holy
00:56:45.20\00:56:48.84
when we drink deeply
00:56:50.77\00:56:54.08
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:56:55.11\00:56:57.98
Amen.
00:56:59.05\00:57:00.45
I wanted to take an
extra moment to thank you
00:57:02.62\00:57:04.29
for joining us in worship today.
00:57:04.32\00:57:06.35
It's by the continued
support from viewers like you
00:57:06.39\00:57:08.52
that we're able to
bring this telecast.
00:57:08.56\00:57:11.33
Today I want to
invite you, though,
00:57:11.36\00:57:12.69
to share with us how
this ministry has blessed you.
00:57:12.73\00:57:15.43
Truth is, I get inspiring
notes, e-mails, letters
00:57:15.46\00:57:18.93
from viewers
literally all over the world,
00:57:18.97\00:57:21.40
sharing with us how
God has blessed them
00:57:21.44\00:57:23.51
through this program,
00:57:23.54\00:57:24.87
and I'd love to
hear from you as well.
00:57:24.91\00:57:26.34
It's not that
hard, simple, really.
00:57:26.37\00:57:27.88
Just visit our
website, newperceptions.tv.
00:57:27.91\00:57:31.01
It's one word,
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00:57:31.05\00:57:34.25
And click on the contact
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00:57:34.28\00:57:36.82
Shoot me that e-mail.
00:57:36.85\00:57:38.52
Once again, thank
you for being with us.
00:57:38.55\00:57:40.59
Thank you by the
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00:57:40.62\00:57:42.92
That support is
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00:57:42.96\00:57:45.09
week after week,
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00:57:45.13\00:57:47.43
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00:57:47.46\00:57:51.13
That kind of generosity
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00:57:51.17\00:57:55.10
and blessing to us.
00:57:55.14\00:57:56.47
And I hope you'll join
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00:57:56.50\00:57:58.34
'cause we'll be here.
00:57:58.37\00:57:59.91
In the meantime,
00:57:59.94\00:58:01.41
God be with you and
bless you real good.
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