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>> Father in Heaven, thank
You for being here with us.
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Thank You for hearing
and for answering our prayer.
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And, God, this morning,
it's to You that we sing.
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In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.
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so amazing and just
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how marvelous and how wonderful
that His love would be for us.
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That's what this next one is
about -- we stand amazed in the
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presence of Jesus
Christ, who is our Savior.
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[ Song ends ] And it's in our
Father's world that we get to
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live and we get to abide. And
the amazing thing about this
world -- no matter all the
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chaos, no matter everything
that's going on in your life,
there's a space where you and
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God get to come and meet. In the
midst of the storm, in the
middle of the battle raging
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on, there's a place of solitude,
there's a place of quietness and
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a rest. And as we sing this next
song, I invite you to come
forward to that place of rest
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this morning, to lay your
burdens down at the feet of
Jesus as we sing this prayer
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song still hidden underneath the
wings of God as He shelters us
in our time of need.
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So, as we sing, I
invite you to come forward.
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God is your place of rest this
morning. You can find rest at
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the feet of Jesus when sheltered
in the wings of a God that loves
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you so much. Lay yourself down
and rest in the stillness of
Jesus this morning.
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>> Well, good morning, boys and
girls. Nice to see you on this
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third Sabbath of this month that
brings summer. You having a --
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Are you having a good time?
You're not in school now, are
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you? So you're having a
nice beginning to the summer?
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Good. I have just the
right story for you today.
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[ Chuckling ] I heard this story
a long time ago, and I want to
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share it with you because Papa
and Mother and the children are
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in a covered wagon.
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Anybody here know what a covered
wagon is? What's a covered
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wagon? A wagon that has a sort
of thing -- that's it. It this
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kind of a roundish cover. And
the pioneers who were moving
from the East to the West would
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get in their covered wagons.
They said, "Let's go west. Let's
find land out there."
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And so, Mother and Father and
the children and a few pets and
a chicken or two are in, crowded
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into that little covered wagon
and rolling over the yellow
prairie plains -- somewhere in
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Nebraska we'd say today. "Okay,
kids, out. Out, out, out, out.
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Tonight, we're gonna camp right
here. The river's back there,
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but let's camp right here. And
the children all helped set up
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camp. Mother got the -- Father
got the little fire going.
Mother cooked up supper.
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Everybody went to bed, slept so
beautifully under the stars that
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night. Next morning, Father gets
up, and he says, "Hmm." He's
looking to the west.
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"Hmm. I see a cloud. I
wonder if this is a dust storm.
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Is the wind so strong that it's
kicking up the dry dust? Let me
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see. Children, I don't
know. Mother, we may need to be
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careful here. I'm keeping my eye
on it. Let's go and have
breakfast right now."
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And Father kept his eye on it.
And as it got closer, he said,
"No, no, no, no, no, no!
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That is not a dust storm.
I can tell it's smoke. It's a
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wildfire... and it's coming this
way! All right, kids, quick,
quick, quick, quick -- grab the
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chickens. Grab the -- all
the camping stuff in the wagon.
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We'll go back to the river.
We'll get on the other side of
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the river. The fire will not be
able to reach us that way.
Quick, quick, quick!
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We don't have time!" Everybody
climbed in the covered wagon.
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"Yo, go!" The horse
began to move that heavy wagon.
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They turned around, got to the
river. Their kids are looking
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back. "It's getting closer, Dad!
It's getting closer!" Got across
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the river. [ Sighs, chuckles ]
"We made it." And they stood on
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this side of the river, and they
watched as that fire came
roaring right up to the dry
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prairie grass, right to the
river, and then the fire went
out. At the end of the day, just
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a few little wispy trails of
smoke going up. Father says, "I
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think it's safe. Let's start
moving this way again. We'll go
back to where we camped
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last night." And when they
got back, everything was gone --
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just gone. "Wait a
minute. Where is the chicken?"
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Everybody, in their scramble to
get into the covered wagon,
forgot the chicken and her
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chickies. "Oh, I hope she got
away. Oh, I hope she got away,"
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Father said, as he walked
around. And he noticed a hump
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there with a stick -- a little
something sticking up in the
ground. And he touched it with a
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stick. He gently knocked it
over, and... "Peep, peep, peep,
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peep, peep!" Their three little
chickies ran out from under that
hump of ash. And suddenly,
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Father realized, "Boy!" The
children gathered around with
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Father and Mother. The chickies
made it through the fire. Do you
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know why? Because their mother
gathered the little chickies
under her wing, and she just
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held them tight and put her head
over. And the fire roared over
them. Mother gave her life to
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save those little chickies, kind
of like what Jesus did, didn't
He? Didn't He stretch out His
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arms on the cross? Didn't He
stretch out His arms and say,
"Boys and girls, all
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the boys and girls in the
world, come to me. Come, come.
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Come under my wings. I'm gonna
give my life so that you won't
have to die forever.
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And the fire fell on Jesus, not
on us. Oh, I'm so grateful that
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Jesus was willing to give His
life up. That little mother hen
could have flown away and said,
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"You chickies are on your own.
I'm flying to safety." Oh, no.
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Oh, no. God gathers his little
children. "Stay close to me.
Stay under my wing,
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and I will save you." Who wants
to thank Jesus for being that
kind of a savior for
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us? I need a young lady today
because we had a young boy last
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week. Sissy, I saw
your hand. Come on up.
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Little pink stripe on? Yep. Come
on up. And let's hold our hands
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and close our eyes as -- Sissy,
what's your name? Natasha is
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gonna pray. So, Natasha is gonna
pray. Let's close our eyes, hold
our hands, and let's thank
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Jesus, Natasha. >> God, thank
You for this day. Thank you for
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everything You gave us. Bless
all of us. And thank You for
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this church and bless the people
who are sick. In Jesus' name, I
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pray. Amen. >>
Amen. Thank you, Natasha.
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That was a beautiful prayer. As
you go quietly and reverently
back to your seats, you say what
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Natasha said in her heart --
"Thank You, Jesus. Thank You for
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being our Savior." God bless
you. A happy Sabbath to you.
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>> ¤ Children of
the heav'nly Father ¤
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¤ Safely in His bosom gather ¤ ¤
Nestling bird nor star in Heaven
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¤ ¤ Such a refuge e'er was given
¤ ¤¤ ¤ God, His own doth tend
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and nourish ¤ ¤ In His
holy courts, they flourish ¤
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¤ From all evil things He spares
them ¤ ¤ In His mighty arms
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He bears them ¤ ¤¤ >>
¤ Neither life nor death
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shall ever ¤ ¤ From the
Lord, His children sever ¤
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¤ Unto them, His grace He
showeth ¤ ¤ And their sorrows
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all He knoweth ¤ ¤¤ >> ¤
Praise the Lord in joyful
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numbers ¤ ¤ Your
Protector never slumbers ¤
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¤ At the will of your Defender ¤
¤ Ev'ry soul must surrender ¤ >>
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¤ Though He giveth or He taketh
¤ ¤ God His children ne'er
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forsaketh ¤ ¤ His, the loving
purpose solely ¤ ¤ To preserve
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them, pure and holy ¤
¤ To preserve them, pure
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and holy ¤ [ Song ends ]
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>> Oh, God, we have that hope.
Though You give and though You
take, You Your children ne'er
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forsake. So, teach us this
morning. Always push, push that
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teaching deep into our heart and
souls, we humbly pray in
Christ's name. Amen.
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Have you ever noticed how
much our American English --
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I'm talking about
American English --
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is peppered with bird idioms?
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Do you know what I'm talking
about? What are we talking about
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when we talk about a...
[ Snaps fingers ] [ Sighs ]
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...night owl? I'm looking
for that other word. What are we
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talking about when we talk about
a night owl? Yeah, we're talking
about students at Andrews
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University burning the oil till
the early hours of the morning.
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What are we talking about
-- 'cause we use this all the
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time -- lucky duck? I
mean, what's a lucky duck?
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Why would it ever
be lucky to be a duck?
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But we use it. We
say, "I got goose bumps."
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Don't we talk
about goose bumps? Yeah.
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What's good for the
goose is good for the gander.
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You know, I was noticing these
idioms -- they're really built
around domesticated fowls.
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It's 'cause Americans -- the
whole world -- has grown up
around these birds all over the
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yard or the barnyard or
whatever. Don't kill the goose
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that lays the golden egg. I
mean, we say -- We don't even
know what we're saying.
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And I can't believe how many
times I've said this. This is so
absolutely mindless.
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Why would you ever say this in
public -- "I want to kill two
birds with one stone"?
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You do? How awful
of you. [ Laughter ]
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What are you thinking? [
Chuckling ] Two birds with one
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stone? We say things. American
English -- peppered with it,
filled with these bird
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idioms. There's one bird
idiom nobody wants to be called.
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Nobody wants -- especially if
you're a little boy. Nobody
wants to be called this.
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[ Clucking ] Chicken!
Chickening out -- that's what
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you're doing. You're chickening
out on us. But it could be that
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the mother hen turns out to be
the greatest calling of all.
Open your Bible with me, please,
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to Matthew chapter 23,
red-letter words spoken by our
Lord Himself on the eve of
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His own death.
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And while we're looking for
Matthew 23, let me flip it on
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the screen for you.
Our little series in this
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month -- five Sabbaths,
unusually, in this month --
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"Gone to the Birds:
Lessons from the Divine
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Ornithologist." Today's part 3.
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Part 1 -- the
eagle. Part 2 -- ravens.
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Part 3 -- you
guessed it -- the mother hen.
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Let's go. Open your
Bible to Jesus' words,
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Matthew 23. I'm in the
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New International Version.
If you didn't bring a Bible,
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grab the pew
Bible in front of you.
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It'll be a page number in
that Bible. I just don't have it
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written down. Matthew chapter
23. Oh, the deep emotion and
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pathos, as we say in American
Greek -- the pathos of Christ
Himself. Pick it up in verse 37.
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Matthew 23:37. "'O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem...'" You can feel it.
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"'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you
who kill the prophets and stone
those sent to you, how
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often I have longed to gather
your children together, as a hen
gathers her chicks under her
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wings, and you were not
willing.'" There it is -- the
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bird species for today. The Lord
Himself chooses the hen, the
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mother chicken, to describe His
heartbroken love not only for
Jerusalem, but for,
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particularly, the leadership of
Jerusalem, who have been saying,
"No, no, no, no. No, no, no."
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Today, He gets it. Today, He
says, "I know what you're saying
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to me." "Hey, listen, Rabbi,
which part of the 'no' don't you
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understand -- the 'n' or the
'o'?" He's getting it. This is
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the final "no." But unrequited
love does not soon relinquish
its passion. "'O Jerusalem,
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Jerusalem, how often I have
longed to gather your children
together, as a hen gathers her
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chicks under her wings,
but you would not." Mother hen.
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I grew up with chickens in
Japan. When we were living in
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the countryside, of course,
chickens everywhere. In the
city, once in a while,
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you'd hear a cock-a-doodle-doo.
But in Japan... In fact, our pet
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cat Tipper -- God bless him --
with all of his docile purring
that we lived with through the
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years, Tipper, in his old age,
somehow... [ Chuckles ] We don't
know what happened,
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but he killed a nearby Japanese
farmer's chicken and then had
the temerity to drop the carcass
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on our front door. [ Breathes
sharply ] When Tipper did it the
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second time, my parents --
American missionaries, very
sensitive to P.R. --
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said, "The cat has got to go."
And with great wailing and
tears, we climbed into our
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little Japanese car and drove to
a place we'd never driven
before, miles away, because we
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found a veterinarian who agreed
he would euthanize Tipper.
Wailing and crying all the way
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back home. That was
it. Goodbye, Tipper.
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Which made all the more
dramatic, by the way, that
moment when my mother, who's
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been teaching some missionary
kids piano... She's been
teaching them piano,
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and so she's gonna have a little
recital for all the missionary
kids in our little living room
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with all the parents and the
children crowded. Tipper knew
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drama. And at that moment, the
cat, muddied and bedraggled, two
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weeks later... comes stumbling
into the room, and, of course,
the place went berserk.
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And, of course, we kept him. Our
new chicken-killing runaway come
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home hero, Tipper. I mean, how
did he find the way? We had
never been that way. These
00:28:25.60\00:28:32.21
creatures. "'O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem...'" You can sense the
heartache. "'...how often I have
00:28:32.21\00:28:39.65
longed to gather you like a hen
gathers her little chickies.
I've longed to just gather you
00:28:39.65\00:28:42.88
close to me, but you
would not come.'" But why a hen?
00:28:42.88\00:28:48.26
Why'd he pick the metaphor hen?
On the eve of his own death,
00:28:48.26\00:28:52.33
hen. Perhaps because, you know,
that little imagery, and because
the moment we say "mother hen
00:28:52.33\00:28:56.10
and little yellow chickies,"
we can all see it. Ch-ch-ch!
00:28:56.10\00:28:58.13
They're all running
around. "Come on!" [ Clucking ]
00:28:58.13\00:29:00.74
And they all come under
-- we know. Maybe that's why.
00:29:00.74\00:29:03.91
Perhaps, as Craig Keener
observes in his commentary --
00:29:03.91\00:29:08.18
put his words on the screen
-- perhaps this is the reason.
00:29:08.18\00:29:10.58
"Jewish tradition claimed that
Jewish people were under God's
00:29:10.58\00:29:12.91
wings, and when a Jewish
person converted" a neighbor,
00:29:12.91\00:29:15.58
a Gentile neighbor, okay?
So you're witnessing to your
00:29:15.58\00:29:17.99
neighbor. And he
converted a Gentile
00:29:17.99\00:29:19.69
neighbor... "...he or she
brought that Gentile 'under the
00:29:19.69\00:29:24.23
wings of God's presence.'" You
could hardly have a more tender
and poignant expression
00:29:24.23\00:29:29.16
of solicitude. One commentator
says you -- nothing exceeds this
00:29:29.16\00:29:34.14
from Jesus' lips. "Desire of
Ages" describes this moment when
00:29:34.14\00:29:37.81
he speaks these words. "Desire
of Ages" on the screen. By the
way, there is a study
00:29:37.81\00:29:40.24
guide today. You'll
take all these quotes home.
00:29:40.24\00:29:42.14
"Desire of
Ages" on the screen...
00:29:42.14\00:29:44.78
You can just feel
His heart pounding.
00:29:51.02\00:29:53.79
This is it -- one last shot.
00:29:53.79\00:29:57.33
Keep reading. "In a
voice choked by deep
00:29:57.86\00:30:00.93
anguish of heart and
bitter tears He exclaimed,
00:30:00.93\00:30:02.90
'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
thou that killest the prophets,
00:30:02.90\00:30:05.90
and stonest them which are sent
unto thee, how often I would I
00:30:05.90\00:30:08.94
have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen
00:30:08.94\00:30:10.97
gathereth her chickens under
her wings, and ye would not!'"
00:30:10.97\00:30:14.34
Keep reading.
"This is the separation
00:30:14.34\00:30:16.81
struggle.
00:30:16.81\00:30:18.05
We get it.
00:30:27.59\00:30:29.56
We get it. The leadership of
this faith community says, "You
00:30:29.72\00:30:34.76
don't want us. You
don't want me. I got it."
00:30:34.76\00:30:40.17
Ohh. This isn't just a mother
hen anguishing over her chicks
that refuse to come running to
00:30:40.17\00:30:44.87
her for safety and protection.
No, no, no, no. This is a mother
00:30:44.87\00:30:47.91
hen who knows that she is gonna
give her life for those chicks
that will not come running.
00:30:47.91\00:30:52.48
She will give his -- her life.
And the ultimate sacrifice in
00:30:52.48\00:30:58.59
death. Jesus declares, "I am the
mother hen." Isn't that amazing?
00:30:58.59\00:31:06.16
"I am the mother hen." This
isn't a chickening out of the
Savior of the World.
00:31:06.16\00:31:11.77
In fact, He knows that there is
a chicken killing coming very
soon, and He'll be the chicken.
00:31:11.77\00:31:20.11
He's not chickening out. Through
this very maternal image -- and,
00:31:20.11\00:31:25.68
by the way, get this -- this is
as female as you can get with
imagery. And God takes this
00:31:25.68\00:31:34.29
female imagery, and He says,
"That's me. I am the mother
00:31:34.29\00:31:40.86
hen." So, this profound maternal
imagery -- the poignant, the
00:31:40.86\00:31:50.67
strong... refusing almost to let
go of the love of God. There it
00:31:50.67\00:31:56.81
is. We feel it. We sense
it. "How often I have longed to
00:31:56.81\00:32:03.35
gather your children together,
as a hen gathers her chicks
under her wings, but you were
00:32:03.35\00:32:08.76
not willing.'" [ Chuckles ] Come
on, guys. We're talking about --
00:32:08.76\00:32:12.73
You want to talk about -- You
want to talk about a posture of
00:32:12.73\00:32:15.13
protection? How could you be
safer than under your mommy's
wings? How could you be safer?
00:32:15.13\00:32:19.60
You want to talk about a posture
of intimacy? How could you be
00:32:19.60\00:32:23.04
closer to your mother than under
her wings? The child knows when
she's with her mother.
00:32:23.04\00:32:31.51
We just had our two little
granddaughters with us from
Oregon for eight days.
00:32:31.51\00:32:37.02
Just put them on a plane
yesterday, along with their
00:32:37.02\00:32:40.92
mother and father. We offered to
keep the kids. I mean, "Kirk and
Chelsea, you can go home.
00:32:40.92\00:32:44.69
Can we keep Ella and...?" But it
was wonderful to have these two
little girls running
00:32:44.69\00:32:50.77
around our house. And you
know what? When little 4-month
00:32:50.77\00:32:56.94
Isabelle -- We took everybody --
We took everybody on the train
-- you got to do this -- on the
00:32:56.94\00:33:00.04
train to Shedd Aquarium this
last week, okay? So, Isabelle's
00:33:00.04\00:33:03.61
going in what's called a
Snuggie. And you mothers know
what a Snuggie is, 'cause you
00:33:03.61\00:33:06.55
wear it on the front. And she is
bound to her mother's breast and
00:33:06.55\00:33:13.42
heart. That little girl slept
for five hours in that Snuggie
while we walked all the way
00:33:13.42\00:33:17.66
through Shedd Aquarium and had
lunch. You know why she slept?
You can't get any closer.
00:33:17.66\00:33:24.17
You can't get any closer than
that to your mommy. Whenever the
00:33:24.17\00:33:29.50
girls called, they weren't
calling, "Daddy," or, "Papa!"
When they get up in the middle
00:33:29.50\00:33:33.41
of the night, I could hear them
-- "Mommy!" They say -- true
00:33:33.41\00:33:38.81
story -- they say that, after
these raging, bloody battles in
the Civil War, often, in the
00:33:38.81\00:33:46.92
night, with the corpses left,
you could hear a cry of a young
boy calling for his mother.
00:33:46.92\00:33:55.93
"Mother! Mother!" What is there
about a bond between a mother
00:33:55.93\00:34:03.04
and a child? It's not between
a dad and a child. Jesus, on the
00:34:03.04\00:34:09.08
eve of His death, says, "I am
the mother hen. I am the one
that has desperately sought to
00:34:09.08\00:34:17.02
draw you near while there
is still time." Wow. When Jesus
00:34:17.02\00:34:29.60
uses that "I am the hen"
metaphor, I'll just promise you
that He was thinking of a psalm.
00:34:29.60\00:34:37.71
In fact, I assure you He
memorized the psalm at His
00:34:37.71\00:34:42.11
mother's knee. The reason I know
that is because the devil
memorized the same psalm, and if
00:34:42.11\00:34:46.75
the devil memorized the psalm
and the Lord Jesus memorized the
psalm, there must be something
00:34:46.75\00:34:52.19
hugely potent in that psalm. And
I'm gonna show you what the
devil does when he handles
00:34:52.19\00:34:57.76
the psalm. Open your Bible now.
We were in the New Testament.
00:34:57.76\00:35:00.23
We go back to the Old. We're
gonna end in Psalm 91. This is
the great protection
00:35:00.23\00:35:04.23
psalm. This is the psalm that
says, "When the Earth is facing
00:35:04.23\00:35:07.44
its last plagues, I will be
there for you, and you will be
00:35:07.44\00:35:12.97
safe with me." This is that
psalm. My mother -- God bless
her -- oh, she worked on us
00:35:12.97\00:35:19.31
three kids every Friday night to
memorize Psalm 91. Just, "Kids,
00:35:19.31\00:35:23.45
get it down." Psalm 91. Karen
and I have spent years working
on trying to memorize
00:35:23.45\00:35:27.02
that psalm in the King
James English. Psalm 91.
00:35:27.02\00:35:32.26
It's written for a community
destined for apocalyptic
00:35:32.26\00:35:36.46
meltdown. Now, listen --
apocalyptic meltdown. Now, I'm
watching and praying --
00:35:36.46\00:35:41.10
sh-sh-sh -- I'm watching
and praying for what's going on
00:35:41.10\00:35:45.91
right now. I was praying for the
success of that U.S.-North Korea
summit that our President
00:35:45.91\00:35:50.88
arranged a few days ago. I was
praying for its success. And if
you read my blog, you'll
00:35:50.88\00:35:54.15
know why I was praying. I'm not
going into that now. But I know
and you know, in our
00:35:54.15\00:36:00.22
heart of hearts, that the day is
coming when what occurs on Earth
will be beyond human reversal.
00:36:00.22\00:36:08.26
It will be the end game, right?
Yeah. You know that. I know
00:36:08.26\00:36:13.97
that. It'll be like what Paul
was trying to describe. And
these are -- these words are
00:36:13.97\00:36:18.31
really the setting for Psalm 91.
Let's put Paul on the screen.
00:36:18.31\00:36:20.74
1 Thessalonians 5:3.
"For when they say, 'Peace and
00:36:20.91\00:36:23.75
safety!'" Hey, we
got a breakthrough.
00:36:23.75\00:36:25.41
We got it done.
"When they say, 'Peace and
00:36:25.41\00:36:27.78
safety!' then sudden destruction
comes upon them, as labor pains
00:36:27.78\00:36:30.62
upon a pregnant woman.
And they shall not escape."
00:36:30.62\00:36:33.12
We know that that day is coming.
Psalm 91 is for that day. Okay?
00:36:33.29\00:36:40.30
Let's look at it now. Psalm 91.
00:36:40.30\00:36:45.83
Here we go. Verse 1.
"Whoever --" this is the NIV, of
00:36:46.00\00:36:48.57
course.
00:36:48.57\00:36:49.74
What you don't know in reading
it in the English is that the
psalmist has inserted right here
00:36:58.08\00:37:03.62
in the opening salvo four names
for God. So we had to memorize
00:37:03.62\00:37:08.82
this in the -- we had to
memorize this in the King James.
"He that dwelleth in the secret
00:37:08.82\00:37:12.73
place of the Most High." "Most
High" is "Elyon" in the Hebrew.
00:37:12.73\00:37:16.77
"Shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty." "Almighty" is
00:37:16.77\00:37:20.47
"Shaddai" in the Hebrew. "I
will say of the Lord..." It's
00:37:20.47\00:37:24.07
"Yahweh." "I will say of the
Lord" -- the great
covenant-keeping Creator God.
00:37:24.07\00:37:26.84
""I will say of the Lord, my
refuge and my fortress: my God"
00:37:26.84\00:37:32.85
-- "Elohim" -- "my God in whom I
trust." Four names. Whatever
happens in this psalm
00:37:32.85\00:37:37.72
comes from the
four-named God, singular. Wow.
00:37:37.72\00:37:44.73
Now, I love the way one writer
puts it -- "God's commandment --
00:37:44.73\00:37:48.30
keeping people. Stand under the
broad shield of omnipotence in
this psalm." This is good.
00:37:48.30\00:37:54.20
Now you're ready for verse
3. The four-named God -- here he
00:37:54.20\00:37:59.04
goes now -- speaking of Him,
verse 3 -- "Surely he" -- this
00:37:59.04\00:38:03.04
four-named God -- "will save you
from the fowler's snare and from
the deadly pestilence."
00:38:03.04\00:38:10.49
You know, it's very interesting
-- to me, anyway -- the new
00:38:10.49\00:38:14.36
translations -- why they hang
onto this very old King James
Shakespearean word "fowler."
00:38:14.36\00:38:18.29
Who ever uses the word "fowler"
today? We use the word "bird
00:38:18.29\00:38:22.33
hunter" -- two words. But all
the translations, the new ones
-- they all hang on to
00:38:22.33\00:38:26.33
"fowler." This isn't
the only place it appears.
00:38:26.33\00:38:29.24
Let me put another one on the
screen for you. Psalm -- what is
00:38:29.24\00:38:31.87
this? -- Psalm 124:7 -- "We have
escaped like a bird from the
fowler's snare; the snare has
00:38:31.87\00:38:38.38
been broken, and we" -- little
birdies -- "have escaped."
00:38:38.38\00:38:42.88
So, obviously, the fowler's a
bird hunter, but what were the
00:38:43.05\00:38:46.69
ancient hunters like? I
put a little paragraph from a
00:38:46.69\00:38:48.92
Bible dictionary in your
notes. Don't look at it now.
00:38:48.92\00:38:50.96
But a fowler was a professional
bird hunter before the day of
00:38:50.96\00:38:56.60
firearms. You
want to catch a bird --
00:38:56.60\00:38:59.13
you know -- wsssh! --
you don't do that, no.
00:38:59.13\00:39:01.20
Fowlers used
traps. They used nets.
00:39:01.20\00:39:05.41
They used sticks. In
fact, they use one stick
00:39:05.41\00:39:08.34
1 1/2 feet along, about like
this, about a half inch wide --
00:39:08.34\00:39:12.28
straight stick.
00:39:12.28\00:39:13.28
And what they would do,
particularly if they wanted
ground-hugging birds, like
00:39:13.45\00:39:16.92
partridges or pheasants, what
they would do is they would take
00:39:16.92\00:39:20.39
this stick. And you know that,
when you throw a boomerang, what
00:39:20.39\00:39:22.96
does it do? It goes around. This
stick -- they would take it, and
00:39:22.96\00:39:26.73
if you throw it --
Whh-whh-whh-whhh! And they would
throw it low, particularly when
00:39:26.73\00:39:30.83
they're -- the birds are racing
up a hill. They'll throw it low
-- whhh! -- so the stick comes.
00:39:30.83\00:39:35.04
And if somebody comes behind you
and you're standing up and they
just go like this to you, it'll
00:39:35.04\00:39:39.04
make you feel like a fool,
because you're suddenly out of
00:39:39.04\00:39:42.41
control. That's what the stick
did. Boom, boom, boom! And the
00:39:42.41\00:39:45.51
birds go down -- come running
out of the bush. Everybody grab,
grab, grab, grab, grab, grab,
00:39:45.51\00:39:48.65
and they have their birds.
That's what a fowler is. So,
here's the question --
00:39:48.65\00:39:52.52
is a fowler good news for a bird
or bad news? Answer. Answer.
00:39:52.52\00:39:59.23
Bad. As bad news as the devil
himself, and that's exactly
00:39:59.23\00:40:05.07
what's happening here. [
Chuckling ] My, oh, my. So, in
Psalm 91 -- Get this --
00:40:05.07\00:40:10.11
When Psalm 91 declares, "He will
save you from the fowler's
snare," it immediately
00:40:10.11\00:40:15.44
identifies you as a bird.
You are a bird. I am a bird.
00:40:15.44\00:40:20.65
The fowler is you know who
-- evil, evil. And "evil" with a
00:40:20.65\00:40:28.19
"d" spells "devil."
Devil. That's the fowler --
00:40:28.19\00:40:32.59
Satan himself. So, number one,
Psalm 91 tells us, "Guess what
00:40:32.59\00:40:37.10
-- you're the bird." And, number
two, Psalm 91 announces the
00:40:37.10\00:40:40.14
urgently good news that there is
a deliverer who can take down
any fowler on this planet.
00:40:40.14\00:40:45.07
Somebody can rescue us from the
fowler -- good news. [ Chuckles
00:40:45.07\00:40:48.48
] Great news, I would say. Ah.
We are the little chickies.
That's Jesus' point.
00:40:48.48\00:40:55.32
That's the
psalmist's point. Bad times.
00:40:55.32\00:40:58.62
Put it on the screen,
please -- Ecclesiastes 9:12.
00:40:58.79\00:41:02.02
"Moreover, no one knows
when their hour will come."
00:41:02.02\00:41:04.06
No, we don't. "As
fish are caught in a cruel
00:41:04.06\00:41:07.13
net, or birds are taken in a
snare, so people are trapped by
00:41:07.13\00:41:10.27
evil times that fall
unexpectedly unto them."
00:41:10.27\00:41:13.34
Evil times. Trapped. Oh, we know
the fowler. Who here has not
00:41:13.50\00:41:19.31
felt the hot breath of the
fowler taking his stick, ready
to cut your legs out from under
00:41:19.31\00:41:24.08
you? We all know that breath.
We know him. "Patriarchs and
00:41:24.08\00:41:28.68
Prophets" on the screen. "The
great mass of the world will
reject God's mercy," in the
00:41:28.68\00:41:32.59
apocalyptic meltdown, which
Psalm 91 is most poignantly,
succinctly connected with.
00:41:32.59\00:41:39.89
"The great mass of the world
will reject God's mercy, and
will be overwhelmed in swift and
00:41:39.89\00:41:43.93
irretrievable ruin. But those
who heed the warning shall
dwell" -- here it comes,
00:41:43.93\00:41:48.27
Psalm 91 -- "'in the secret
place of the Most High,' and
'abide under the shadow of
00:41:48.27\00:41:52.97
the Almighty.'" End quote.
But the big question is, how
00:41:52.97\00:41:56.64
will God deliver us? How's
He gonna deliver us? Now, here
00:41:56.64\00:42:01.08
comes the psalmist doing
something you could not do in
freshman composition, because
00:42:01.08\00:42:06.35
the psalmist is gonna do what is
a no-no in literary writing, and
that is he's gonna instantly mix
00:42:06.35\00:42:13.40
metaphors. So, the first
metaphor is, you're the chick.
You're the chick, and I'm the
00:42:13.40\00:42:16.46
chick. Second metaphor -- he's
gonna turn God into a chick,
00:42:16.46\00:42:21.24
into a mother, into a hen. So
you got two metaphors going. Ah,
but he's making the point.
00:42:21.24\00:42:29.94
In fact, so that we know this
isn't a little slip-up, I want
you first to read it here.
00:42:29.94\00:42:36.08
This is verse 3. Read
verse 3 again. "Surely he," the
00:42:36.08\00:42:39.02
four-named God, "will save you
from the fowler's snare and from
the deadly pestilence.
00:42:39.02\00:42:41.92
He will cover you with his
feathers, and under his wings"
-- speaking of this
00:42:41.92\00:42:46.59
four-named God -- "under his
wings you will find refuge..."
That feels like a little typo,
00:42:46.59\00:42:51.83
but they didn't really mean
his feathers. He has feathers?
00:42:51.83\00:42:55.70
No, it's not a typo.
00:42:55.70\00:42:56.74
Let me show you, just
from the Book of Psalms.
00:42:56.91\00:42:58.41
Please put it on the
screen. Psalm 17:8-9.
00:42:58.41\00:43:01.08
Under His wings -- there it
is. That's not isolated, either.
00:43:08.75\00:43:12.62
Look at Psalm 57:1.
00:43:12.62\00:43:14.89
The world is going to melt down
one day, and here is a psalm
that says -- Psalm 91 -- here is
00:43:24.77\00:43:30.44
a psalm that declares, "I...
will shelter you under my
feathers, and I'll save you."
00:43:30.44\00:43:42.28
[ Chuckling ] Wow.
Mercy. A mother hen?
00:43:42.28\00:43:49.96
That's precisely Jesus' point.
That's precisely... Any way you
00:43:49.96\00:43:54.56
want to slice it, that's His
point. It's the point in Matthew
23. It's the point in Psalm 91.
00:43:54.56\00:44:00.34
That's his point.
And... [ Clears throat ]
00:44:00.34\00:44:06.04
Excuse me. And the devil knows
it. [ Chuckling ] The devil
00:44:06.04\00:44:10.31
knows the point of Psalm 91,
which is why the devil does some
major surgery -- he, who also
00:44:10.31\00:44:15.95
has memorized Psalm 91, does
some major surgery. I want to
00:44:15.95\00:44:18.89
show this to you. This is
absolutely unbelievable what he
does. Okay, so, picture the
00:44:18.89\00:44:22.66
scene -- 40 days of fasting and
praying are over. This is day
00:44:22.66\00:44:27.13
number 40. Standing before us
now is this emaciated specimen
of humanity. He's all bones --
00:44:27.13\00:44:33.00
His cheeks are protruding,
the bones are. And He's standing
00:44:33.00\00:44:38.21
there, famished. 40 days and
nights of prayer are now
concluded. And guess what --
00:44:38.21\00:44:45.45
guess who shows up.
Wsssh! This glorious, majestic,
00:44:45.45\00:44:50.52
towering being of light, who
looks down at this emaciated
soul, and he says, "Oh, I just
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don't understand this. You can't
-- You cannot be who,
apparently, You think You are."
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I mean, how could
You? Look at You! Okay?!"
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By the way, the devil will
always come to you on your 40th
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day. I'm telling you the truth.
You know what the 40th day is?
It's when you're the weakest
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physically. You'll
never go 40 days of fasting.
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You can't do it. But it's
when you're at your weakest
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physically. That's when the
fowler shows up. "I got this
thing that's gonna cut your legs
00:45:31.23\00:45:34.76
out. Watch this." Wssshww!
That's when he shows up -- when
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you're physically at your
weakest, but he learned from
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Jesus. He didn't know it before,
but he knows it now. Sometimes,
when you're at your
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physical weakest, you are at
your spiritual strongest. And
Jesus was weak physically,
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but He was strong. And so,
when the devil spits that out --
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"Come on, boy. You're hungry,
aren't You? I can tell. Look at
You -- skin and bones.
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Turn those stones into
bread, right now! Do it!"
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Jesus looks at that, and you
know what Jesus does. "It is
written: 'Man shall not
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live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceeds out of
the mouth of God.'"
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Isn't that what he said? Ah! [
Snaps fingers ] Now the fowler,
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who, himself, is a bird, with
his mighty talons, takes the Son
of God, Son of Man, and he flies
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Him high into the dark heavens
and deposits Him on the top of a
00:46:28.32\00:46:35.49
dizzying pinnacle. He says, "All
right. You like quoting
Scriptures, don't You?
00:46:35.49\00:46:40.30
So do I. I have a Scripture for
You. I suggest that You throw
00:46:40.30\00:46:43.87
yourself off of this, because if
God is Your God and You are who
You say You are and that voice
00:46:43.87\00:46:49.94
at the river said You were, just
throw Yourself off. You -- He'll
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send His angels." And the devil
quotes -- now, I want you to
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watch this -- put it on the
screen, please. Matthew 4:6.
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Temptation number 2.
The devil says, "For it is
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written..." Where
did he just hear that?
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He heard that from Jesus.
"I can play this game -- For it
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is written..." And
now he quotes Psalm 91.
00:47:07.32\00:47:09.82
Watch this. "For
it is written" --
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Psalm 91 -- "'He,'"
the four-named God --
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"'will command his angels
concerning you, and they will
00:47:14.30\00:47:16.60
lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your
00:47:16.60\00:47:20.57
foot against a stone.'"
"You want to quote Scripture?
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I quoted Scripture."
Ah! But notice what he does.
00:47:23.30\00:47:26.21
I'm gonna show you the real
Psalm 91 now, and you'll see
00:47:26.21\00:47:28.68
where the surgery is.
"For he," the four-named God,
00:47:28.68\00:47:31.08
"will command his angels
concerning you" -- underline the
00:47:31.08\00:47:33.75
part that the
devil cut out, please.
00:47:33.75\00:47:38.22
He cut that line
out. That is the gut.
00:47:38.22\00:47:40.82
That is the heart
of the entire psalm.
00:47:40.82\00:47:43.12
He cut it out. He skipped.
00:47:43.12\00:47:45.63
And so he added an "and."
"For he will command his angels
00:47:45.63\00:47:48.06
concerning you and
they will lift you up."
00:47:48.06\00:47:50.73
Ah. You know why he cut it out?
Because it's the secret to your
victory against the fowler.
00:47:50.90\00:47:59.27
And he doesn't want Jesus to be
reminded of the secret. He cuts
00:47:59.27\00:48:03.48
it out. But in the act of
cutting it out -- get this --
Jesus, who learned this from
00:48:03.48\00:48:08.38
knee-high to a grasshopper,
learned it -- He's on red alert.
Something's missing.
00:48:08.38\00:48:13.29
Ah, He knew what was missing.
And instantly, He now can
identify who this being is.
00:48:13.29\00:48:20.16
Who would play cut-and-paste
with the inspired Word of God?
00:48:20.16\00:48:28.20
Wow. The devil has hated that
truth. Put that truth on the
screen. And, boy, I wish there
00:48:28.20\00:48:33.58
were a way that I could just
hit, "Lock me in, Scotty."
Wsssh! I'd lock that truth into
00:48:33.58\00:48:37.11
your mind right now. It'd never
leave. Look at that sentence.
00:48:37.11\00:48:39.21
Don't look at me --
look at that sentence.
00:48:39.21\00:48:41.32
The one line Satan was
absolutely certain must not be
introduced to Jesus.
00:48:43.42\00:48:49.79
[ Snaps fingers ] What he cut
out -- What he didn't want Jesus
00:48:49.79\00:48:53.60
to know, he doesn't want you to
know. So, look at that line.
Fool him. Memorize it.
00:48:53.60\00:48:58.80
"He will guard you in all your
ways." That is the great, great
00:48:58.80\00:49:02.17
truth of this mother hen/bird
metaphor. If last week's raven
00:49:02.17\00:49:05.27
metaphor revealed the truth God
will provide, then this week's
mother-hen metaphor reveals the
00:49:05.27\00:49:09.48
truth God will protect. He will
protect you. He will protect
00:49:09.48\00:49:13.92
you. He will guard you in all
your ways. Summon it into your
00:49:13.92\00:49:22.72
-- Drop it into your memory and
summon it up day after day after
00:49:22.72\00:49:27.96
day. "I will put my trust in
Him, for He will guard me in all
00:49:27.96\00:49:31.53
my ways. I will put my trust in
Him, for He will guard me in all
00:49:31.53\00:49:35.94
my ways." Lock that line in --
the one that Satan was hoping
you'll never remember.
00:49:35.94\00:49:42.18
Lock it in, and you'll have the
secret to why Jesus was
victorious with the dark and
00:49:42.18\00:49:50.52
dastardly fowler. He will guard
me -- me -- in all my ways --
00:49:50.52\00:50:00.63
period. All my ways. And by
the way, not just for mañana.
00:50:00.63\00:50:04.77
I know this psalm is for mañana,
for the meltdown that's coming
and the plagues will be talked
00:50:04.77\00:50:08.97
about if you just -- if you'll
memorize this psalm. The plagues
00:50:08.97\00:50:12.27
will be talked about. I know
this is about mañana, but it's
00:50:12.27\00:50:15.68
also about today. When the
fowler is challenging your peace
of mind and your security of
00:50:15.68\00:50:21.78
heart, when he is challenging
you -- and some of you are being
challenged big-time right now.
00:50:21.78\00:50:26.82
Nobody knows the story but you.
You know it. When he's
challenging you, one
00:50:26.82\00:50:32.79
line to the fowler -- "He will
guard me in all my ways." "He
will guard me..." -- eight
00:50:32.79\00:50:41.74
words. "I will put my
trust in him" -- seven words.
00:50:41.74\00:50:44.61
Put the eight and the seven
together. "He will guard me in
00:50:44.61\00:50:48.34
all my ways. I will put my trust
in Him. He'll take care of me.
00:50:48.34\00:50:53.65
He will guard me." Personalize
it -- "He will guard me" --
00:50:53.65\00:50:56.79
personalize it -- "in all my
ways." When your private world
00:50:56.79\00:51:00.66
melts down, He will guard you.
When the world melts down one
day, He will guard you.
00:51:00.66\00:51:04.49
He will guard me in all my ways.
He will guard me in all my ways.
That's it, ladies and gentlemen.
00:51:04.49\00:51:08.26
What the devil cut out is the
bottom line to this metaphor.
00:51:08.26\00:51:12.07
Thank you, devil. Thank you for
drawing our attention to it. Now
we won't forget it.
00:51:12.07\00:51:15.67
"He will guard me in all my
ways" -- say it out loud with
00:51:15.67\00:51:18.61
me. >> He will
guard me in all my ways.
00:51:18.61\00:51:22.71
>> He will guard
me. He'll guard me.
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Wow. You have nothing to
fear. I need to say this.
00:51:28.12\00:51:32.52
You have nothing to
fear, and the devil knows it.
00:51:32.52\00:51:35.12
[ Chuckles ] The
devil knows that you have
00:51:35.12\00:51:37.89
nothing to fear, which is
why he's so breathing down your
00:51:37.89\00:51:42.00
neck, because he's gonna
intimidate you into submission.
00:51:42.00\00:51:44.60
He's gonna intimidate you
to break that trust with your
00:51:44.60\00:51:46.94
Father in heaven,
that four-named God.
00:51:46.94\00:51:48.50
He's gonna break that trust if
it kills him, because he knows
00:51:48.50\00:51:52.24
you have nothing to fear.
00:51:52.24\00:51:53.21
Angels who excel in strength
were surrounding Jesus, and
those angels will be surrounding
00:51:53.38\00:51:57.85
you. Any temptation that comes
your way -- "He will guard me
00:51:57.85\00:52:02.48
all my days." He will guard all
my ways. He will guard you in
00:52:02.48\00:52:09.66
all your ways. Wow. No
matter what you're dreading
00:52:09.66\00:52:12.93
in the future -- no matter what.
The devil knows. Angels who
00:52:12.93\00:52:21.34
excel in strength. The Holy
Spirit, who is the omnipotence
of God, Almighty God, all four
00:52:21.34\00:52:25.17
names, inside of you. The Holy
Spirit says, "Dwight, what do
00:52:25.17\00:52:29.11
you have to fear?" He's saying
to you, whatever your name is --
He's saying, "Hey, girl, what do
00:52:29.11\00:52:32.08
you have to fear? You have
nothing to fear. I'm in you.
00:52:32.08\00:52:36.05
I will guard you in all
your ways. Do you think I would
00:52:36.05\00:52:42.76
forget you? I am the hen. I
am the mother hen. Come, come,
00:52:42.76\00:52:48.03
come, come, come, come. Quick,
quick, quick. Fire's coming.
00:52:48.03\00:52:54.94
Come." In the words of William
Orcutt Cushing, "Under His wings
00:52:54.94\00:53:00.64
-- Under His wings, who from His
love" -- how's it go? -- "can
00:53:00.64\00:53:06.82
sever? Under His wings, my soul
shall abide, safely abide
forever." Ladies and gentlemen,
00:53:06.82\00:53:14.32
that's the truth of the
mother-hen metaphor and the
truth that will save your
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life... ¤¤ ¤¤
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Sing it like a prayer. That last
bit is so beautiful -- "Under
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His wings -- O what precious
enjoyment!" We're gonna sing
like we're right under His wings
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right now. Let's do that. ¤¤
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¤¤ ¤¤
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¤¤ Sing it
where it's a cappella.
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O God, that's our heart. That's
our prayer. Keep us under Your
00:56:25.05\00:56:28.68
wings. If we're not under Your
wings, like Jesus said, how much
00:56:28.68\00:56:32.55
longer do I wait? "You must come
-- come to me now. Don't wait.
00:56:32.55\00:56:35.69
My arms are outstretched. My
protection is eternal. I'll save
you just as long, but
00:56:35.69\00:56:44.50
you must come to me." Father,
let not one man, not one woman,
not one child, not one
00:56:44.50\00:56:50.77
boy, not one girl say, "No, no,
no, no, no, no. I can't come. I
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won't come." We must come under
Your wings. Hold us there. Keep
00:56:55.44\00:57:03.15
us there until our Lord Jesus
comes. Now may the love of the
00:57:03.15\00:57:11.29
Lord Jesus Christ and the grace
of God the Father and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be
00:57:11.29\00:57:18.50
with you. Amen.
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>> I want to take an extra
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It's by the continued support
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Today I want to invite you,
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I get inspiring notes, e-mails
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Dwight, God has been
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He's been doing this." I
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Send me a note. Let me
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Once again, thank you for being
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