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>> Would you stand with me as
we sing, "All Things Bright and
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Beautiful"?
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Amen. Isn't our God wonderful?
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He has given us a reason to
praise Him, and that's why --
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because He's great,
because He has made all things.
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We go before Him, and we
fall down, and we give our all.
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We surrender all to Him.
So sing with me now, sing with
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us now -- "We fall
down, we lay our crowns."
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Because who are we
before the great God and King?
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Sing with me. い
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And He's amazing for it, is
He not? He's given us His grace.
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Sing "Amazing
Grace." い Here we go.
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"Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound."
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[ Song ends ] Amen, amen.
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Now, this next song you all may
not be familiar with, but it is
such a simple song, and it
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speaks so true and so real to
what our daily struggle and our
daily toil should be about.
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It's all about falling in love
with Jesus. At the end of the
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day, when we look around us and
we see the birds in the air and
we see the animals all around
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us, they have learned to fall in
love and trust in God, but we
struggle because we have not
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learned to have a relationship
with Him that we put above
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everything else. So when you say
these words, when you talk about
falling in love with Jesus, when
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you talk about having a
relationship with Him,
understand that that's the
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beginning and the end. That's
why we were created, to be loved
-- just to be loved. So let's
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take a moment to fall back in
love, to think about what it is
to be in love with the Savior,
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with the God who gave us
everything -- "the very breath
that's in our nostrils," Job
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says. That belongs to me.
So listen as I sing "Falling in
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Love With Jesus," this first
little verse, and then sing it
back with me, and just open your
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hearts up to our great
God. It goes like this.
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This is your chance now to come
down and lay your burdens before
the throne or just lay a
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praise. "God, You are so good,
and it's awesome to be Your
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child. I just want to tell You
how much I love You." So come
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down now. Don't let the pews or
the people standing next to you
or you feeling closed up in the
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middle stop you. Move down
towards the throne, and pour
your heart out to the
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Father.
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>> Amen.
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>> So, I'm walking around today,
and I'm picking up -- there's a
little theme going on, and so I
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grab a pen, and I start writing
it down. I got to share this
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with you -- unbelievable.
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There are people who are
having -- no kidding -- they're
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having their
wedding anniversary today.
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But Bill and Ruth Chobatar --
I'll start with the youngest --
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and their kids, Todd
and Janine Chobatar, down in
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Orlando, they're celebrating
their 22nd anniversary.
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Wow. And then I go into Sabbath
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school with Ella because I want
to be with Ella and Isabelle in
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Sabbath school, and
Bruce Clausse is up front
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leading, and I find out
Bruce and Linda Clausse are
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celebrating number 36 today.
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And then I show up in first
church and find out that these
beautiful flowers are in honor
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of Ben and Sandy Chilson, who
are celebrating their number 50
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today. And then I'm talking in
the hallway about this, and I
bump into Glen Johnson, who
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informs me that he and Carline
are celebrating their number 62
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today. [ Congregants murmur ]
Wow! And as it turns out, Karen
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and I are celebrating our number
44 today, so what's up with
that? You know, we got married
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right after they invented
electricity, so I know that's
been awhile after all but...
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[ Laughter ] Can you believe
that? So, I have a little poem I
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wrote for all the men in these
couples, and I spent some time
in this poem -- a poem I've
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written for all the men in these
anniversaries, and there may be
others that are celebrating it.
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Here's the poem. It's not real
long. But it's still a poem.
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"Roses are red..." [ Laughter ]
Have you heard this one before?
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[ Laughter ] Are you serious?
I would write something, and
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you've already heard it? "Roses
are red, violets are blue -- I'm
forever grateful to
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God because I fell in love
and married you." Hallelujah.
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All right, put your hands
together for all these couples.
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They're out there. God bless
them. [ Applause ] You're having
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an anniversary -- and June is a
wedding month, so you're gonna
have an anniversary this month,
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please receive our very best
wishes that God will make the
next chapter ahead of you even
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better than what you've
had. He is so good. Yeah.
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All right, I want to pray, and
then I'm really excited about
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this teaching. Let's get to it
right now. Dear Father, a full
morning in worship, that's what
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happens when we come to Your
house. Thank You for worship
today. And we're glad we didn't
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have to come alone, that there
are people sitting around us --
strangers, but we're still
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together. And now we come to
the moment when we turn to Your
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Word, and we want the Word to
speak an intelligible word that
we can pick up and take into the
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busy life. So may that be the
case today. We pray in Jesus'
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name, amen. When I say "the
ravens," those who are
sports-minded among us
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immediately think of the NFL
franchise in -- what city? In
Baltimore. Baltimore Ravens,
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right? But when I say "the
raven," singular, the
literary-minded among us, they
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immediately think of Edgar Allan
Poe and his poem, "The Raven."
"Once upon a midnight dreary,
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when I pondered weak and
weary -- Quoth the raven,
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'Nevermore.'" And when I say
"raven," singular, to the
Bible-minded among us, they
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immediately think of Noah, who
opens the windows of the ark and
-- pfft! -- there goes that
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raven, trying to find anywhere
to land. Nope. Home again. And
to these same Bible-minded
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among us, when I say "the
ravens," plural... nobody thinks
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about Jesus. Everybody thinks
about Elijah, when, in fact,
Jesus has very much to do with
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the ravens, as we're about to
find out, but, first, the story
of Elijah. So I want to go that
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story. Once upon a time, in the
sweet incense, the servant fan
waving -- throne room of a
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wicked king -- a rogue prophet
shows up. Let's go -- 1 Kings
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17. Open your Bible to 1 Kings
17, and while you're doing that,
if we could just get the volume
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down just a tad? We're getting
a bit of a ring up here, guys.
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Bless you. 1 Kings
17:1. I'll be in the
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New International Version today.
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Oh, by the way, while
you're finding 1 Kings 17 in the
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Old Testament, this is number
two in our series "Gone to the
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Birds: Lessons from the Divine
Ornithologist --" eagles last
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week, ravens today. I
wonder what next Sabbath is
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going to be. Just
five Sabbaths in June, but
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a different bird every
time. Let's go to 1 Kings 17:1.
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"Now Elijah the Tishbite, from
Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,
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'As the Lord, the God of
Israel, lives, whom I serve --'"
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"before whom I stand," some of
your translations read -- "there
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will be neither dew nor rain in
the next few years except at my
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word." It's just
like a hand grenade.
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He just tosses that hand grenade
into the Oval Office and then
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walks away. Boom, he's gone.
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And before the king can
say, "Get it," he's gone,
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disappeared. Verse two.
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"And then the word of the Lord
came to Elijah: 'Leave here --'"
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"Quick, quick! Go, go, go, go!"
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"'Turn eastward and hide in
the Kerith Ravine, east of the
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Jordan. You will
drink from the brook,
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and I have commanded --'" some
of your translations read, "'I
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have commanded the --'" what?
Ah, "'The ravens to supply you
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with food there.'"
Here they are, featured bird
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number two. And,
sure enough, verse five,
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"So Elijah did what
the Lord had told him."
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Do you know the difference
between a raven and a crow, hmm?
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I didn't either. You know what I
thought? And I'm embarrassed to
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tell you this because this is
how ignorant I am. I thought
raven and crow were
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just synonyms for the same bird.
Wrong! [ Chuckles ] I found out
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this week that they'revery
different -- oh, my -- very
different, the raven and the
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crow -- same family, but very
different. In fact, let me share
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with you the differences. I got
them scribbled down right here.
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Ravens are bigger than crows.
Yeah, they're a little huskier.
[ Exhales sharply, grunts ]
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Number two, crows go, "Caw, caw,
caw!" [ Hoarsely ] Something
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like that. [ Clears throat ]
[ Normal voice ] I ought to quit
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trying -- [Laughs] I ought to
quit trying to talk like these
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birds. "What are you,
bilingual, Dwight?" [ Laughter ]
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No, I'm not. Crows go --
what you just heard. [ Laughs ]
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And rave-- No, seriously, ravens
go, "Crow, crow, crow!" So crows
go, "Caw, caw, caw!"
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Yeah, you got the difference.
Okay. Number three, ravens
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travel in pairs, and
they're mated for life. Happy
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anniversary. They're mated for
life. Not crows. Crows fly alone
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or fly in flocks that are called
"murders." That's the technical
name. They're called murders,
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old flock of crows. And,
finally, in flight, ravens have
a wedge-shaped tail so
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that, when they put the tail
out, it looks very flat because
the feather lengths are
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different. Crows have the same
length, and so it looks like a
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fan, and that's how you're going
to be able to tell the
difference. But ravens and crows
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-- Listen to this, choir. Ravens
and crows have one stunning
similarity, and that
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is, because they are part of the
corvid family, their brains --
get this -- their brains are
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among the largest in all the
bird kingdom. Largest brains.
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In fact, did you know that the
brain/body-weight ratio for
ravens is the same as the apes,
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the whales, and the humans? [
Chuckles ] They're very smart.
So when I told the kids about
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this little BBC clip, you got to
-- not now, please. This little
clip, you've got to
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watch it. Watch it after
dessert today. It's fascinating.
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You're gonna watch an American
crow, a North American crow --
you're gonna watch him go
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through an amazing eight-step,
sequential, problem-solving
maze, and you're going to say,
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"How did he do that?" There's
only one way that you and I as
friends of God would
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respond. [ Scoffs ] God gave him
a very -- they're the brainiacs
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of the bird kingdom -- a very
bright mind. Which explains why
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God could come to the ravens --
I imagine it was just two
ravens. If they travel in pairs,
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it's just two ravens. And He
comes to the ravens, and He
said, "Mr. and Mrs. Raven, I
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need some help with this
man named Elijah. I'm going to
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provide breakfast, and I'll
provide supper, but I need you
to be the room service. I need
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you to go to where he is, and
I'll tell you where he is, and
you'll find him -- morning, and
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I want you to give him bread and
meat and come back in the
evening -- bread and meat. Did
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you get that, ravens?" "Crow,
crow, crow, crow! Got it." And
that's exactly what they
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did. Intelligent. I
mean, these birds are -- I
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hate to tell you about this, but
these birds are really shysters.
They're a bunch of crooks.
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They're stealing each other's
food all the time, and that's
why the raven has learned, if
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you hide the food, your cache of
food, nobody will see. And
that's why ravens will fake
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like they're hiding their
food and all their buddies are
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watching. [ Chuckles ] [
Chittering ] They didn't hide a
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thing. [ Exhales sharply ]
They're gone, and they hide it
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somewhere else. Ravens have been
known to summon wolves. "Wolves!
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Come over here!" I don't know
how they do it, but they get the
wolves there when they find a
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carcass because the ravens can't
tear a carcass open. They need
the wolves to rip it
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open, and then they'll go
and pick supper or breakfast.
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They're smart. The juvenile
ravens -- get this. Juvenile
ravens have been seen and
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observed to climb a snowbank and
then slide down on their rump --
turn around and run right back
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up, slide down again. There is
no biological purpose for this.
They are just having fun.
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No kidding. They're social
creatures. They will take twigs,
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cut them up into little parts,
so that they can play social
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games together. Now you
know where you got it from. Same
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Creator. And so, in obedience to
that Creator's command, the
ravens -- we just read it --
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bring Elijah breakfast and
supper every single day. Now,
lookit, it's not a menu
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with a whole lot of variety.
It's just bread and meat. In the
Hebrew, it's "bread and
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meat, bread and meat." It's not
a menu for a vegetarian,
certainly not for a
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vegan, but, you know, when
you're running out of food,
that's what you get.
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Which, by the way, in all
essence, is really a tribute.
It's not a tribute to these
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smart ravens. It's a tribute to
the intelligent designer of this
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universe, who equipped His
creation to respond to Him. I
mean, you think about it.
00:30:20.92\00:30:28.89
I don't suppose the Creator is
ever without help. All he has to
00:30:28.89\00:30:32.03
go is go -- [ Snaps fingers
] [ Exhales deeply ] Or come --
00:30:32.03\00:30:35.16
[ Breathes harshly ] Or somebody
purring, some big cat purring up
00:30:35.16\00:30:39.37
against Him. If the Creator
needs transportation, He summons
00:30:39.37\00:30:42.00
a whale. "Hey, whale, I need you
-- transport." Jesus said, "If
00:30:42.00\00:30:47.28
you tell these people to shut
their mouths, I'll tell you
what, the rocks will become a
00:30:47.28\00:30:52.65
choir of praise. They will start
singing to me." If God needs a
spokesman because He's got a
00:30:52.65\00:31:00.22
recalcitrant prophet, the donkey
starts talking. That's just the
way it is. All of creation loves
00:31:00.22\00:31:05.19
the Creator, except the human
race and one third of the
angels. Go figure. Go figure.
00:31:05.19\00:31:12.13
But even if you're a friend of
God, the truth is, if nature
goes berserk, you reap the
00:31:12.13\00:31:16.47
consequences, and that's exactly
what happens here. Look at this.
00:31:16.47\00:31:19.91
Look at verse seven.
00:31:19.91\00:31:21.31
Elijah said, "Not until you hear
from me again, you wicked king,
will you get rain."
00:31:28.25\00:31:33.56
He has to bear the brunt of it.
So the Spirit of the Lord comes
to Elijah, and He says, "Elijah,
00:31:33.56\00:31:39.69
listen, you got to get out of
here. We're going to put you in
00:31:39.69\00:31:42.80
a pagan land. Ahab will never
think of looking for you there.
00:31:42.80\00:31:45.77
And when you get to that little
village -- it'll be a pagan
village -- you will see a little
00:31:45.77\00:31:50.11
lady outside the walls of the
village. She will be picking up
00:31:50.11\00:31:53.51
sticks, and then --" [
Whispering indistinctly ]
"That's what I need you to do."
00:31:53.51\00:31:57.61
And, sure enough, Elijah does
that. He goes into that pagan
00:31:57.61\00:32:00.62
land of Sidon, and there is
Zarephath. There is a woman. By
this point, would you be
00:32:00.62\00:32:05.79
saying, "You can count on God"?
It's all happened exactly as he
00:32:05.79\00:32:12.89
was told. And he says, "My dear
woman, I am a stranger." [
Chuckles ] And she looked up.
00:32:12.89\00:32:17.77
She could tell just by looking
at him. What are we talking
00:32:17.77\00:32:20.57
about? We're talking about camel
hair, leather garment, mantle
over his shoulder, bushy beard,
00:32:20.57\00:32:26.27
thick eyebrows. He's also a holy
man. The woman can figure it out
00:32:26.27\00:32:30.31
-- he's a holy man. And he
speaks like an Israelite. "Dear
woman, I'm from out of
00:32:30.31\00:32:35.85
town, and I am so hungry
and thirsty. Could you please go
00:32:35.85\00:32:40.19
back to your home and make a
little bread for me and some
water? Bring it to me, and I'll
00:32:40.19\00:32:43.96
leave you alone." And the woman
looks at him. "As the Lord your
00:32:43.96\00:32:47.96
God is Yahweh, your -- I've
heard of the name of your God.
As Yahweh, your God, lives, let
00:32:47.96\00:32:52.27
me tell you something, buddy.
I'm picking up sticks right now
for the last little fire.
00:32:52.27\00:32:56.77
I have a little oil, a little
fire. My son and I will have our
00:32:56.77\00:33:00.31
last supper together, and
then it's finis. We'll die."
00:33:00.31\00:33:06.35
Elijah sees the anguish on that
woman's countenance, and he
says, "Woman, woman, woman,
00:33:06.35\00:33:12.09
woman. Don't be afraid. My
God will take care of you if
00:33:12.09\00:33:24.53
you first do this." Something
about the man prompts her.
00:33:24.53\00:33:28.34
She does. Now read the ending.
Read the ending to the story
00:33:28.34\00:33:30.74
here, verse 15.
00:33:30.74\00:33:32.14
Verse 16.
00:33:39.08\00:33:40.48
I'm telling you what, ladies
and gentlemen, it is absolutely
00:33:50.36\00:33:52.36
true.
00:33:52.36\00:33:53.26
God will take care of
you. He will take care of you.
00:33:53.43\00:33:58.93
If, like Elijah, if, like the
widow, you make God first, He
will make it last and last and
00:34:02.14\00:34:16.02
last if you first make God
first. That's no quid pro quo.
00:34:16.02\00:34:25.59
That's, "Do you really want me?"
That's all it is. "Do you really
00:34:25.59\00:34:31.53
want me? 'Cause I run the whole
universe." Let's talk about
00:34:31.53\00:34:39.31
ravens for one more moment.
There's an interesting little
couplet that I found getting
00:34:39.31\00:34:42.34
ready for this message today,
two little lines. I'm gonna run
00:34:42.34\00:34:45.28
them by you, put them on the
screen. They're in your study
guide. It's a take-home study
00:34:45.28\00:34:48.32
guide, no fill in the blanks.
Let's put the first one up, Job
00:34:48.32\00:34:52.02
38:41. God is talking to Job,
and He's saying, "Okay, Job,
where were you, where were you?
00:34:52.02\00:34:54.79
Who did this, who did this,
who did this?" These are all
00:34:54.79\00:34:57.13
rhetorical questions. We know
the answer is God. "You did, You
00:34:57.13\00:35:00.26
did, You did." But He's trying
to make a point to Job, and he
00:35:00.43\00:35:03.70
says, "Hey, Job, who provides
food for the raven when its
young cry out --" crow,
00:35:03.70\00:35:07.04
crow, crow -- "when its young
cry out to God and wander about
00:35:07.04\00:35:10.21
for lack of food?" Who
do you suppose does that?
00:35:10.21\00:35:12.74
And if we don't get it, because
it's a rhetorical question and
00:35:12.74\00:35:15.81
we're not aware that the answer
is embedded in the question, the
00:35:15.81\00:35:18.98
psalmist comes along in
Psalm 147:9, and he answers the
00:35:18.98\00:35:21.75
question for us.
00:35:21.75\00:35:23.15
"He," God, "provides food for
the cattle and for the young
ravens when they call."
00:35:23.32\00:35:31.79
Can you believe that? The little
ravens call to Him, God hears
them calling, and He
00:35:31.79\00:35:37.37
says, "Get food to them. Get
food to them. Help Mama get that
00:35:37.37\00:35:41.80
-- Help Papa get that food..."
leading us to this stunning
00:35:41.80\00:35:47.41
assumption. Apparently, the
Creator of the universe -- get
00:35:47.58\00:35:50.11
this. Listen, listen.
Apparently, the Creator of the
00:35:50.11\00:35:52.38
universe, 24/7, is monitoring
all His creation, including you
00:35:52.38\00:36:00.99
and me -- 24/7. We are
so excited to have Kirk
00:36:00.99\00:36:05.53
and Chelsea with us. I
mean, are we high-fiving
00:36:05.53\00:36:07.73
our -- And Karen and I
get them for seven days.
00:36:07.73\00:36:11.97
Wow. Let me tell you about their
00:36:11.97\00:36:13.50
little girls, precious little
girls -- Ella, 4 and 2/3rds, and
00:36:13.50\00:36:18.47
Isabelle is just 3 months old.
But, anyway, they've got this
00:36:18.47\00:36:23.45
gizmo. I tell you,
high-tech parenting,
00:36:23.45\00:36:25.65
what's up with that?
00:36:25.65\00:36:27.25
They got this gizmo. They can
put the gizmo up in one room,
put another part of the
00:36:27.42\00:36:31.12
gizmo in the room where little
Ella is taking a nap or, in the
middle of the night, is
00:36:31.12\00:36:36.39
sleeping, and do you know what?
This high-tech piece is a
video/audio infrared monitor
00:36:36.39\00:36:43.43
that keeps Mother Chelsea in
instantaneous visual, auditory
touch with her sleeping girl day
00:36:43.43\00:36:50.34
or night. You can't believe it.
And let me tell you, more than
00:36:50.34\00:36:54.08
that -- This is a wonder drug.
More than that, Chelsea or Kirk
can get right up to that
00:36:54.08\00:37:00.58
device, push a button, and it
happens -- they speak, and the
little girls, who cannot see
00:37:00.58\00:37:07.16
Mother or Father anywhere, hear
the voice of their parent. "[
Whispering ] Get back to
00:37:07.16\00:37:13.50
bed." [ Laughter ] [
Normal voice ] Just like God,
00:37:13.50\00:37:20.44
24/7 monitor. He doesn't even
have to show up. He just sends a
00:37:20.44\00:37:24.21
voice, and He plays down this
little -- Infrared, in the
middle of the night, He's
00:37:24.21\00:37:28.21
watching you. Infrared, in the
middle of the night, He says, "I
have a word for you," and you
00:37:28.21\00:37:32.48
hear it. You don't see Him, but
you hear it. That's the God of
00:37:32.48\00:37:36.58
the universe, day and night,
constantly monitoring the
plight, the needs, the safety,
00:37:36.58\00:37:40.42
the wants, the cries of His
little creatures like you and
me. And when the young little
00:37:40.42\00:37:43.73
ravens -- "croak, croak, croak,
croak, croak, croak, croak --"
when they cry out for food, the
00:37:43.73\00:37:47.56
heart of God is touched. "Help
that mother get some food, will
00:37:47.56\00:37:53.54
you?" Which, by the way, is a
perfect segue to Jesus and his
00:37:53.54\00:37:59.57
own comments. You didn't know
that Jesus actually made some
comments about ravens.
00:37:59.57\00:38:02.31
You know why? Because we're so
enamored with the Sermon on the
00:38:02.31\00:38:05.11
Mount in Matthew and we don't
realize that Luke has cut up
that Sermon on the Mount and
00:38:05.11\00:38:08.35
spread it all the way through
his Gospel, that when one of the
cut-up pieces is rendered in
00:38:08.35\00:38:11.59
Luke, it's not like in Matthew,
and I'm going to show this to
you, the last chapter that we're
00:38:11.59\00:38:15.12
in. So we leave 1 Kings 17 and
we go to Luke 12 because we want
00:38:15.12\00:38:19.43
some red letters before we leave
this building. Luke chapter 12.
00:38:19.43\00:38:22.60
Please find Luke 12:22.
00:38:22.60\00:38:27.47
Luke 12:22.
"Then Jesus said to his
00:38:27.64\00:38:30.87
disciples --" that would be you
and me -- "'therefore, I tell
00:38:30.87\00:38:33.41
you, do not worry about
your life, what you will eat; or
00:38:33.41\00:38:37.08
about your body,
what you will wear.
00:38:37.08\00:38:39.58
For life is more than food,
and the body more than clothes.
00:38:39.58\00:38:43.42
Consider the ravens --'" Ooh!
It just says "birds" in Matthew.
00:38:43.42\00:38:47.72
"'Consider the
ravens," Luke adds.
00:38:47.72\00:38:50.33
"'They do not sow or reap, they
have no storeroom or barn; yet
00:38:50.33\00:38:54.60
God feeds them. And
how much more valuable you
00:38:54.60\00:38:58.33
are than birds!'"
00:38:58.33\00:39:00.67
It's as if Jesus -- who is, by
the way, poor as a church mouse,
poor as a church mouse.
00:39:00.84\00:39:06.01
It's as if Jesus is saying, "Yo,
human beings, fellow human
beings, think with me.
00:39:06.01\00:39:11.41
Why do you worry? Why are you
fretting? Why do you have this
00:39:11.41\00:39:17.15
knot in your stomach that gets
tighter by the day? Why are you
00:39:17.15\00:39:21.32
anxious? Don't you understand
that the God of the universe,
who is your personal Creator, is
00:39:21.32\00:39:28.40
able to handle every detail
of your life? Don't you think
00:39:28.40\00:39:32.10
you're worth more than the
ravens that He makes sure get
food?" Rhetorical questions, and
00:39:32.10\00:39:39.01
we know the answer. Of course.
Aren't you more valuable?
00:39:39.01\00:39:44.08
In fact, Luke puts that little
device in there to remind us.
He's already -- Jesus has
00:39:44.08\00:39:47.12
already said that in verse six.
00:39:47.12\00:39:49.02
So just go back to the top
of chapter 12, verse 6 -- Jesus
00:39:49.18\00:39:53.56
speaking. "'Are not
five sparrows sold for
00:39:53.56\00:39:56.39
two pennies? Yet not
one of them is forgotten
00:39:56.39\00:39:59.36
by God.'" Go to
the last part of verse
00:39:59.36\00:40:01.93
seven. "'Don't be
afraid; you are worth
00:40:01.93\00:40:04.60
more than many sparrows.'"
Ken Logan, our minister of
00:40:04.60\00:40:10.71
music -- It's always a pleasure
to be a partner with him in
00:40:10.71\00:40:13.58
worship planning.
00:40:13.58\00:40:14.98
Ken Logan has been composing
some choral music and came
across this delightful but
00:40:15.14\00:40:21.48
poignant quatrain by the English
poet John Banister Tabb. You
have these four lines in
00:40:21.48\00:40:26.86
your study guide. You'll take
them home with you. This was
composed back in 1900.
00:40:26.86\00:40:31.23
He titled this
quatrain "Holy Ground."
00:40:31.23\00:40:33.93
I'll put it on
the screen for you.
00:40:34.10\00:40:36.03
"PAUSE --" and the poet
made sure that's in all caps.
00:40:36.03\00:40:38.87
"PAUSE --" he wants us to
slow do-- "Come on, slow down.
00:40:38.87\00:40:42.90
Slow down."
00:40:42.90\00:40:44.31
How tender and how true. 24/7.
00:40:57.52\00:41:02.29
Even the sparrows
are being monitored.
00:41:02.29\00:41:07.30
And when one
falls, God marks the spot.
00:41:07.30\00:41:12.10
Oh, I love this
from "Desire of Ages."
00:41:12.10\00:41:13.64
Please put it on the screen.
00:41:13.64\00:41:15.54
Hit the pause button right
there. If Satan could get his
00:41:30.82\00:41:33.49
hands on every squirrel, one
hand here and one hand here, do
you know what he would do?
00:41:33.49\00:41:36.56
[ Clicking tongue ] Just wring
the neck, kill 'em. Just kill
00:41:36.56\00:41:41.03
'em. "We don't need -- I
hate this music. Kill it."
00:41:41.03\00:41:45.63
Every creature he would destroy.
Guess who's been on your tail
from the day you were born,
00:41:45.63\00:41:51.97
every day, waiting
for his chance. Ugh.
00:41:51.97\00:41:57.61
Read that last line.
00:41:57.78\00:41:59.35
24/7, the Creator of
the universe monitoring His
00:42:07.29\00:42:12.83
creation.
00:42:12.83\00:42:14.13
My, my, my, my, my. Our little
girl, Chrissy, she had a pet
hamster named Patches.
00:42:14.30\00:42:24.34
Can you picture a hamster? Big
fluff of fur. Hamster. Okay, so,
we went to Walmart and
00:42:24.34\00:42:30.81
bought this little Hamster cage,
and they have these little
things in them, so the hamster
00:42:30.81\00:42:34.48
just running around. That's all
the hamster does. But Chrissy
00:42:34.48\00:42:38.19
just loved that little Patches.
She'd feed it, she'd clean the
little cage, and, one night, as
00:42:38.19\00:42:42.59
she was getting ready to go to
bed, we noticed that Patches was
not behaving -- very lethargic,
00:42:42.59\00:42:47.46
very lethargic, not his
energetic self. "What's going on
00:42:47.46\00:42:51.27
with Patches?" We tried to
get some water in him. Maybe he
00:42:51.27\00:42:54.60
needs more water. You can't
force a hamster to eat. So did
the water, we put Chrissy
00:42:54.60\00:42:59.27
to bed, and she prayed for
Patches. But before going to bed
00:42:59.27\00:43:05.08
ourselves, we happened to check
in on Patches, and you guessed
it -- Patches is dead.
00:43:05.08\00:43:11.12
Just a little blob of
fur, calico fur. We debate.
00:43:11.12\00:43:18.13
"Shall we tell her now, or shall
we wait till the morning? But if
we wait till the morning,
00:43:18.13\00:43:21.86
she said, 'When did it happen?'
And let's go tell her now." And
so we tiptoed into Chrissy's
00:43:21.86\00:43:25.63
darkened bedroom, where Ella is
sleeping right now, and I said,
"Chrissy, Chrissy."
00:43:25.63\00:43:33.84
And she opened her eyes. You
know how your kids open their
eyes when they're just
00:43:33.84\00:43:36.95
still asleep? And she sees,
"Aww, it's Daddy." And so
there's just this little
00:43:36.95\00:43:42.02
angelic smile on her face. "Why
is he waking me up?" I said,
00:43:42.02\00:43:48.22
"Chrissy, we just checked on
Patches. We have some bad news.
00:43:48.22\00:43:55.46
Patches died." And I tell you
what, I'll never forget this
moment as long as I live.
00:43:55.46\00:44:01.60
She's still -- her head on the
pillow. She's looking straight
00:44:01.60\00:44:05.41
into my face. And you know how
that child can just lie there
00:44:05.41\00:44:09.18
without moving, and that
reservoir that is behind the
eyelids, that dam just begins to
00:44:09.18\00:44:14.95
fill. She doesn't say a word.
It just starts overflowing. My
00:44:14.95\00:44:23.46
heart was broken. I knew about
this quotation, and I thought to
myself, "God, kill him."
00:44:23.46\00:44:34.67
Sorry to admit that. We don't
need any more of him on this
00:44:34.67\00:44:42.41
planet. God doesn't need any
more of him on this planet. It's
the children here that He's
00:44:42.41\00:44:46.31
desperately scrambling -- "Get
as many of these kids, and then
I'm pulling the plug.
00:44:46.31\00:44:50.55
Just get as many
of them as you can."
00:44:50.55\00:44:53.32
This week, Andrews University
was stunned with the news, the
tragic news, that one of our
00:44:58.33\00:45:04.33
own working at LithoTech, a
young mother, Tracy Seitenstich,
coming home from a ballgame
00:45:04.33\00:45:12.37
Sunday night --
head-on collision. Gone.
00:45:12.37\00:45:20.18
Do you understand that the
Father of this universe is with
her parents right now, huddled
00:45:20.18\00:45:27.09
over them, holding them as close
as He can? You know who did
00:45:27.09\00:45:33.36
this. We just read it. Jesus
said in Matthew 13, "An enemy
00:45:33.36\00:45:39.17
did this." We live
where the enemy still reigns.
00:45:39.17\00:45:41.70
In fact, on that same page,
in "Desire of Ages" -- I'll put
00:45:41.87\00:45:44.41
this line on the screen for you.
00:45:44.41\00:45:46.31
"Aren't you worth more than five
sparrows to Him?" the Creator
turned human asks us.
00:45:53.55\00:46:00.72
"Why are you afraid? Why do you
fret? Won't He take care of you?
00:46:00.72\00:46:09.30
Even in death, won't He have the
last word?" Make God first, and
00:46:09.30\00:46:21.08
He'll make it last... and,
one day, last and last and last
00:46:21.08\00:46:27.08
forever. Ah, Jesus again here
-- red-letter words, last time.
00:46:27.25\00:46:29.98
Verse 22.
00:46:29.98\00:46:31.39
Now final line, verse 31.
"So seek God's kingdom, and all
00:46:45.90\00:46:50.77
these things that you're
fretting about will be added to
00:46:50.77\00:46:55.98
you."
00:46:55.98\00:46:57.11
"Seek ye first the kingdom of
God," as the King James puts it.
Make God first, and He'll make
00:46:57.28\00:47:03.59
it last. He did it for Elijah,
He did it for the widow, He's
00:47:03.59\00:47:07.42
done it for millions and
millions of human beings, He
does it for the little ravens.
00:47:07.42\00:47:11.23
He will take care of you. I
promise -- No,Hepromises, "I
will take care of you.
00:47:11.23\00:47:15.43
I will take care of you." I
don't know what is the knot in
your stomach today.
00:47:15.43\00:47:19.50
Some of you are so now bound up
in fear and anxiety. You have
hardly the courage to
00:47:19.50\00:47:27.38
face a new day. You can face
that new day because the Creator
00:47:27.38\00:47:33.21
who designed you is beside you
24/7. He will take care of you.
I love this line from
00:47:33.21\00:47:41.06
"Education."
00:47:41.06\00:47:42.12
It's all through the Cross. It's
all through the Cross -- every
blessing, every blessing.
00:47:55.57\00:48:06.21
So, I get a letter, e-mail, from
one of our viewers, all right?
00:48:06.21\00:48:11.29
I'm sure a very dear person. I
have no idea who she is. I have
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no idea where she lives -- not
in this area. And the e-mail
begins this way -- "Okay, Pastor
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Dwight." I'm gonna tell you
something. When you get an
e-mail and the first words are,
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"Okay -- Okay, Pastor Dwight --"
[ Inhales sharply ] Ooh. What's
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following? "I took the tithe
challenge." Now, what's she
talking about? Well, one of our
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outlets is still playing sermons
from two, three, four years ago.
And at one time, I said, "Hey,
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listen, you don't believe that
God can take care of you? Give
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Him a 90-day test. Give him a
90-day test and say, 'God, I'm
going to return everything
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that's yours. First 10%, that's
tithed. That's Yours. You can
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have it all.' Just give Him 90
days, and see if He'll not come
in." So she writes, "I took the
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tithe challenge. NOW --" all
caps -- "this month, the third
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month, my Social Security income
--" she's on fixed income --
"went from $868 to $745 per
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month because the state stopped
paying my Medicaid healthcare
and I have to pay for my own out
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of my own income. Tell me how
that is a blessing for returning
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to God his tithe." [ Inhales
sharply ] "I'm saying aloud with
Job, 'THOUGH HE SLAY ME, I WILL
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TRUST HIM --" all caps. Please
pray for my feeble faith, my
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struggling faith. Thank you in
advance. I'll let you know how
God answers our prayer."
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Ooh. Pressure's on. This came
the 1st of April. 22 days later,
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here comes her answer. And
it doesn't begin with "okay."
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[ Laughter ] "I recently
e-mailed you to tell you that I
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took your 90-day tithe challenge
and my Social Security income
dropped by over $100.
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I told you I trusted God because
I don't believe He lies, and
when He said to PROVE --" all
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caps -- "PROVE Him, so I did.
I just needed prayer to keep my
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faith strong. Well, I checked my
balance today, and instead of
the $100, there was $285 in my
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account." Wow! And I know what
you're thinking. [ Chuckles ]
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You are thinking, "You
know what? That's chump change.
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Big deal, going from $100 to
$285." But, my friend, that's
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precisely my point. This little
widow, who had very little, got
more, and you, with
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all that you have, are you
trusting the same Creator God?
Or are you holding it all for
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yourself? "This is mine. I
earned it. Nobodygets this."
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Is that what you're doing? Ah.
What could lead a little widow
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with an e-mail to take on
this challenge? Oh, she found a
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promise and a command. I want to
share with you what she found.
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It's Malachi 3:10. You've
probably read this before, but
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may I read it in your hearing?
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God speaking -- "'Bring the
whole tithe into the storehouse,
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that there may
be food in my house.
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And test me --'" "'PROVE
--'" all caps, she puts it --
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King James -- "'Prove me in
this,' says the Lord Almighty,
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"and see if I will not throw
open the floodgates of heaven
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and pour out so much blessing
that there will not be room
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enough to store it.'" "I
want you to test me," God
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says, "because I know that
what I've just commanded you is
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counterintuitive. I
know it doesn't make sense to
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give a 10th away and then expect
to have more when the month is
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over. I
understand that, but I rule
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the universe, and I
need your permission.
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If you will return what is
mine -- because it's not yours
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anyway. If you will
return what is mine,
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you're telling me, 'I need
You to run the whole shebang for
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me.' I will run
the entire outfit for
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you is you tell me... I'm first.
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You make me first, and I will
make it last and last and last.
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Make me first. That's because
I'm not going to break your free
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choice. I have to know, am
I first? Show me. You show me.
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I'll step right in. Make me
first, and I will make it last
not just for 90 days,
00:52:09.69\00:52:16.46
not just for 90 years, but do
you know what? I'll make it last
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forever and ever. Even to
Tracy's family, I'll make that
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promise. Forever and ever, I
will restore her one day soon,
and forever and ever, you have
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her." Just ask Elijah. Just ask
that little widow. Just ask the
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widow with the e-mail. Just ask
the ravens. Make Him first, and
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He will make it last and last
and last. I don't know about
you, but I want to say amen to
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that promise. How about it? い
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い [ Congregation sings ] い
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い い い
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い い い
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い い い
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い い い
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い Quieter -- now we're
gonna do it a little quieter.
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[ Congregation sings ] い い
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い い [ Song ends ]
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Oh, Father, we thank You. Jesus
is right. You'll take care of us
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no matter what -- no matter
what. If we'll make You first,
You'll make it last and last and
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last. And for that, we praise
You. "And now may the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ and the
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love of God and the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit be with you
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all." Amen. >> Amen. い
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>> Think of the last time
someone said, "I'm praying for
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you." Didn't it
give you a sense of
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peace and reassurance
that, "Somebody cares for me"?
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I know how I feel when I get an
e-mail from one of our viewers
saying, "Yo, Dwight, I've been
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praying for you lately." There's
nothing like knowing someone is
praying for you, so I
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want to offer you an opportunity
to partner -- let me, let us,
partner with you in prayer.
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If you have a special
prayer request or a praise of
00:57:32.35\00:57:34.82
thanksgiving you'd like to share
with us, I'm inviting you to
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contact one of our
friendly chaplains.
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It's simple to do.
You can call our toll-free
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number -- 877-- the
two words -- HIS-WILL.
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877-HIS-WILL. That
friendly voice that
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answers, you tell him, you tell
her what your prayer need is,
00:57:47.93\00:57:51.07
and we'll join with
you in that petition.
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And may the God who answers
prayer journey with you these
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next few days until we're right
back here together again next
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time.
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