Sing them over again to me
00:00:30.59\00:00:34.80
Wonderful words of life
00:00:34.83\00:00:38.93
Let me more of their beauty see
00:00:38.97\00:00:43.00
Wonderful words of life
00:00:43.04\00:00:47.11
Words of life and beauty
00:00:47.14\00:00:51.31
Teach me faith and duty
00:00:51.35\00:00:55.42
Beautiful words, Wonderful words
00:00:55.45\00:00:59.72
Wonderful words of life
00:00:59.75\00:01:03.96
Beautiful words, Wonderful words
00:01:03.99\00:01:08.13
Wonderful words of life
00:01:08.16\00:01:14.44
Christ, the
blessed One Gives to all
00:01:14.47\00:01:18.67
Wonderful words of life
00:01:18.71\00:01:22.88
Sinner list to the loving call
00:01:22.91\00:01:27.12
Wonderful words of life
00:01:27.15\00:01:31.32
All so freely given
00:01:31.35\00:01:35.59
Wooing us to Heaven
00:01:35.62\00:01:39.83
Beautiful words, Wonderful words
00:01:39.86\00:01:44.17
Wonderful words of life
00:01:44.20\00:01:48.40
Beautiful words, Wonderful words
00:01:48.44\00:01:52.71
Wonderful words of life
00:01:52.74\00:01:56.98
Sweetly echo the gospel call
00:02:03.08\00:02:07.36
Wonderful words of life
00:02:07.39\00:02:11.66
Offer pardon and peace to all
00:02:11.69\00:02:15.83
Wonderful words of life
00:02:15.86\00:02:20.20
Jesus only Savior
00:02:20.24\00:02:24.47
Sanctify forever
00:02:24.51\00:02:28.68
Beautiful words, Wonderful words
00:02:28.71\00:02:33.08
Wonderful words of life
00:02:33.11\00:02:37.35
Beautiful words, Wonderful words
00:02:37.39\00:02:41.66
Wonderful words of life
00:02:41.69\00:02:45.99
Beautiful words, Wonderful words
00:02:46.03\00:02:50.33
Wonderful words of life
00:02:50.37\00:02:54.77
Beautiful words, Wonderful words
00:02:54.80\00:02:59.24
Wonderful words of life.
00:02:59.27\00:03:06.21
We've all been watching
00:03:09.75\00:03:11.15
what is going on
in our world today,
00:03:11.19\00:03:13.99
in the country.
00:03:14.02\00:03:15.59
And we see that
there is so much tension,
00:03:15.62\00:03:17.59
not only here in the
US but all over the world.
00:03:17.63\00:03:21.00
There are people who are
hungry and not being fed,
00:03:21.03\00:03:23.43
there is poverty
00:03:23.47\00:03:25.07
and, you know, in this day
there isn't justice and sin
00:03:25.10\00:03:29.27
seems to prevail.
00:03:29.30\00:03:31.07
But God is calling upon us,
00:03:31.11\00:03:33.11
upon you and me
to stand in the gap
00:03:33.14\00:03:36.31
and help those who are in need.
00:03:36.34\00:03:38.81
Like this next song says,
00:03:38.85\00:03:40.78
God will delight
00:03:40.82\00:03:42.15
when we are creators of justice,
00:03:42.18\00:03:44.55
joy, compassion and peace.
00:03:44.59\00:03:47.42
So let us sing these words
00:03:47.46\00:03:49.02
and may they take
root in our hearts.
00:03:49.06\00:03:51.43
For everyone born
00:03:56.80\00:04:00.84
A place at the table
00:04:00.87\00:04:04.67
To everyone born
00:04:04.71\00:04:07.68
Clean water and bread
00:04:07.71\00:04:14.45
A shelter, a space
00:04:14.48\00:04:17.39
A safe place for growing
00:04:17.42\00:04:22.12
For everyone born
00:04:22.16\00:04:25.19
A star over head
00:04:25.23\00:04:31.10
And God will delight
00:04:31.13\00:04:34.10
When we are creators
00:04:34.14\00:04:36.74
Of justice and joy
00:04:36.77\00:04:42.88
Compassion and peace
00:04:42.91\00:04:46.72
Yes, God will delight
00:04:46.75\00:04:49.68
When we are creators
00:04:49.72\00:04:52.35
Of justice
00:04:52.39\00:04:57.69
Justice and joy
00:04:57.73\00:05:02.60
For woman and man
00:05:07.00\00:05:11.04
A place at the table
00:05:11.07\00:05:15.04
Revising the roles
00:05:15.08\00:05:18.11
Deciding the share
00:05:18.15\00:05:24.99
With wisdom and grace
00:05:25.02\00:05:28.09
Dividing the power
00:05:28.12\00:05:33.06
For woman and man
00:05:33.09\00:05:36.00
A system that's fair
00:05:36.03\00:05:42.00
And God will delight
00:05:42.04\00:05:45.11
When we are creators
00:05:45.14\00:05:47.81
Of justice and joy
00:05:47.84\00:05:54.12
Compassion and peace
00:05:54.15\00:05:58.02
Yes, God will delight
00:05:58.05\00:06:01.09
When we are creators
00:06:01.12\00:06:03.69
Of justice
00:06:03.73\00:06:09.26
Justice and joy
00:06:09.30\00:06:14.60
For young and for old
00:06:18.67\00:06:22.71
A place at the table
00:06:22.74\00:06:26.65
A voice to be heard
00:06:26.68\00:06:29.65
A part in the song
00:06:29.68\00:06:36.66
The hand of a child
00:06:36.69\00:06:39.69
In hands that are wrinkled
00:06:39.73\00:06:44.63
For young and for old
00:06:44.67\00:06:47.84
The right to belong
00:06:47.87\00:06:54.04
And God will delight
00:06:54.08\00:06:57.05
When we are creators
00:06:57.08\00:06:59.65
Of justice and joy
00:06:59.68\00:07:05.82
Compassion and peace
00:07:05.85\00:07:09.72
Yes, God will delight
00:07:09.76\00:07:12.83
When we are creators
00:07:12.86\00:07:15.63
Of justice
00:07:15.66\00:07:21.17
Justice and joy
00:07:21.20\00:07:26.64
For just and unjust
00:07:30.81\00:07:34.78
A place at the table
00:07:34.82\00:07:38.75
Abuser, abused
00:07:38.79\00:07:41.96
With need to forgive
00:07:41.99\00:07:48.93
In anger and hurt
00:07:48.96\00:07:52.07
A mindset of mercy
00:07:52.10\00:07:57.11
For just and unjust
00:07:57.14\00:08:00.24
A new way to live
00:08:00.28\00:08:06.28
And God will delight
00:08:06.31\00:08:09.32
When we are creators
00:08:09.35\00:08:12.05
Of justice and joy
00:08:12.09\00:08:18.33
Compassion and peace
00:08:18.36\00:08:22.26
Yes, God will delight
00:08:22.30\00:08:25.37
When we are creators
00:08:25.40\00:08:28.14
Of justice
00:08:28.17\00:08:33.64
Justice and joy
00:08:33.68\00:08:38.85
For everyone born
00:08:43.49\00:08:47.66
A place at the table
00:08:47.69\00:08:51.79
To live without fear
00:08:51.83\00:08:55.03
And simply to be
00:08:55.06\00:08:59.03
To work, to speak out
00:09:02.20\00:09:05.21
To witness and worship
00:09:05.24\00:09:10.15
For everyone born
00:09:10.18\00:09:13.15
The right to be free
00:09:13.18\00:09:19.15
And God will delight
00:09:19.19\00:09:22.12
When we are creators
00:09:22.16\00:09:24.79
Of justice and joy
00:09:24.83\00:09:31.13
Compassion and peace
00:09:31.17\00:09:35.10
Yes, God will delight
00:09:35.14\00:09:38.27
When we are creators
00:09:38.31\00:09:41.01
Of justice
00:09:41.04\00:09:46.51
Justice and joy
00:09:46.55\00:09:52.29
Lord I come to You
00:10:18.25\00:10:21.95
Let my heart Be changed
00:10:21.98\00:10:25.75
Renewed
00:10:25.79\00:10:28.02
Flowing from the grace
00:10:28.06\00:10:31.46
That I found in You
00:10:31.49\00:10:36.97
And Lord I've come to know
00:10:41.80\00:10:45.81
The weaknesses I see in me
00:10:45.84\00:10:51.81
Will be stripped away
00:10:51.85\00:10:57.39
By the power of Your love
00:10:57.42\00:11:01.39
Hold me close
00:11:05.06\00:11:09.53
Let Your love
00:11:09.56\00:11:10.90
Surround me
00:11:10.93\00:11:16.67
Bring me near
00:11:16.71\00:11:21.04
Draw me to Your side
00:11:21.08\00:11:27.88
And as I wait
00:11:27.92\00:11:32.19
I'll rise up like the eagle
00:11:32.22\00:11:38.09
And I will soar with You
00:11:38.13\00:11:40.96
Your Spirit leads me on
00:11:41.00\00:11:43.97
In the power of Your love
00:11:44.00\00:11:48.94
Lord unveil my eyes
00:11:52.24\00:11:55.94
Let me see You face to face
00:11:55.98\00:12:01.65
The knowledge of Your love
00:12:01.68\00:12:05.25
As You live
00:12:05.29\00:12:08.49
In me
00:12:08.52\00:12:12.49
Lord renew my mind
00:12:15.70\00:12:19.53
As Your will unfolds in my life
00:12:19.57\00:12:25.14
In living every day
00:12:25.17\00:12:30.98
By the power of Your love
00:12:31.01\00:12:34.98
Hold me close
00:12:38.62\00:12:43.09
Let Your love
00:12:43.12\00:12:44.46
Surround me
00:12:44.49\00:12:50.23
Bring me near
00:12:50.27\00:12:54.64
Draw me to Your side
00:12:54.67\00:13:01.54
And as I wait
00:13:01.58\00:13:05.91
I'll rise up like the eagle
00:13:05.95\00:13:11.75
And I will soar with You
00:13:11.79\00:13:14.66
Your Spirit leads me on
00:13:14.69\00:13:17.69
In the power of Your love
00:13:17.73\00:13:23.53
Hold me close Me close
00:13:23.57\00:13:29.44
Let Your love
00:13:29.47\00:13:30.81
Surround me
00:13:30.84\00:13:36.68
Bring me near
00:13:36.71\00:13:41.18
Draw me to Your side
00:13:41.22\00:13:48.02
And as I wait
00:13:48.06\00:13:52.29
I'll rise up like the eagle
00:13:52.33\00:13:58.03
And I will soar with You
00:13:58.07\00:14:00.90
Your Spirit leads me on
00:14:00.94\00:14:03.87
In the power of Your love
00:14:03.91\00:14:09.71
And I will soar with You
00:14:09.74\00:14:12.85
Your Spirit leads me on
00:14:12.88\00:14:16.38
In the power of Your love.
00:14:16.42\00:14:23.39
Hi.
00:14:33.94\00:14:35.27
I'm in my yard looking
for interesting things.
00:14:35.30\00:14:38.87
You know, God made
some amazing things
00:14:38.91\00:14:41.61
and some of them are very small,
00:14:41.64\00:14:44.58
and you have to very patient
00:14:44.61\00:14:46.35
and look carefully to find them.
00:14:46.38\00:14:48.85
Have you ever had to be patient?
00:14:48.88\00:14:52.52
When I was looking by my house,
00:14:52.55\00:14:54.39
I found a creature
00:14:54.42\00:14:56.69
that was living
next to my house.
00:14:56.73\00:14:59.23
And this
creature is a good example
00:14:59.26\00:15:01.53
of something
that is very patient.
00:15:01.56\00:15:05.30
Come on. Let's go take a look.
00:15:05.33\00:15:07.80
Do you see this little
round funnel shaped circle
00:15:07.84\00:15:13.17
in the sand.
00:15:13.21\00:15:15.34
That's a clue that tells me
00:15:15.38\00:15:16.85
that a really interesting
00:15:16.88\00:15:18.21
kind of insect is in there.
00:15:18.25\00:15:24.02
That's what his home looks like.
00:15:24.05\00:15:27.02
You can see
there's a couple others,
00:15:27.06\00:15:28.72
there's one here right there.
00:15:28.76\00:15:35.16
And there's
another one over there.
00:15:35.20\00:15:37.30
Do you see this
little guy right here?
00:15:37.33\00:15:40.77
That's the animal
00:15:40.80\00:15:42.60
that lives in those
little circular homes.
00:15:42.64\00:15:47.18
He's called an antlion.
00:15:47.21\00:15:51.31
I want to be able to
show you an antlion of course.
00:15:51.35\00:15:54.62
And so I have one
here in this bin of sand.
00:15:54.65\00:15:58.62
This is the antlion
that lives by my house.
00:15:58.65\00:16:03.53
God has given him a
lot of special tools
00:16:03.56\00:16:06.63
to use to survive in his burrow
00:16:06.66\00:16:09.83
and to be able to eat its food.
00:16:09.86\00:16:12.80
You can see
00:16:12.83\00:16:14.17
that the backend
of him is pointed.
00:16:14.20\00:16:16.34
That helps him
dig, he digs backwards.
00:16:16.37\00:16:20.41
You'll also see
that he's covered
00:16:20.44\00:16:21.91
with lots of little hairs.
00:16:21.94\00:16:24.21
Those hairs help him
sense his environment
00:16:24.25\00:16:27.42
and be able to tell
when insects are coming.
00:16:27.45\00:16:30.95
They also help him to
kind of stick in the sand.
00:16:30.99\00:16:35.39
He has six legs,
00:16:35.42\00:16:36.89
but you could only
see two in this picture.
00:16:36.93\00:16:39.49
They're sticking
straight out from its sides.
00:16:39.53\00:16:42.50
Those legs sleep
backwards to help push sand
00:16:42.53\00:16:46.10
and to help push him along.
00:16:46.13\00:16:49.10
You'll see that his
head is really flat,
00:16:49.14\00:16:51.17
it kind of looks like a shovel,
00:16:51.21\00:16:53.04
and that's what he uses it for.
00:16:53.07\00:16:55.18
He puts his head on to the sand
00:16:55.21\00:16:57.31
and he flicks it
really hard and fast
00:16:57.35\00:17:00.02
and the sand goes flying
up and out of his burrow.
00:17:00.05\00:17:04.32
And last you can see
00:17:04.35\00:17:05.69
those big
mandibles by his mouth,
00:17:05.72\00:17:10.06
his big jaws.
00:17:10.09\00:17:12.39
Those help him catch pray,
00:17:12.43\00:17:15.16
so that he can eat and grow,
00:17:15.20\00:17:17.77
and he's build
his own little home
00:17:17.80\00:17:19.77
right in this box.
00:17:19.80\00:17:22.20
He's even eaten some things.
00:17:22.24\00:17:25.31
It took him a
while to build that home.
00:17:25.34\00:17:27.21
I had to be really patient.
00:17:27.24\00:17:29.64
Sometimes I wish
he would hurry up.
00:17:29.68\00:17:32.65
Sometimes we have to
wait for things, don't we?
00:17:32.68\00:17:35.95
We have to wait
for Jesus to come.
00:17:35.98\00:17:39.12
We had to wait
00:17:39.15\00:17:40.49
to be able to
get out of our house
00:17:40.52\00:17:42.92
and do stuff because of COVID.
00:17:42.96\00:17:46.16
Maybe you're
waiting to do something
00:17:46.19\00:17:48.40
but you're too little
00:17:48.43\00:17:50.80
or it's the wrong time of year,
00:17:50.83\00:17:53.10
and so you have to wait.
00:17:53.13\00:17:55.70
When we wait it takes patience.
00:17:55.74\00:17:58.61
Being patient
00:17:58.64\00:18:00.64
is a really important
skill for us to learn.
00:18:00.68\00:18:04.91
And the antlion
is really patient.
00:18:04.95\00:18:08.38
He's patient when
he builds his home.
00:18:08.42\00:18:11.15
He has to clean
all the big rocks out
00:18:11.19\00:18:14.26
and move any
stuff that falls in.
00:18:14.29\00:18:17.09
He works really hard.
00:18:17.13\00:18:20.36
Then he has to wait
00:18:20.40\00:18:22.30
because this
home is really a trap.
00:18:22.33\00:18:25.63
It's built just right
00:18:25.67\00:18:27.00
so that when
little things come along,
00:18:27.04\00:18:28.74
like ants,
00:18:28.77\00:18:30.24
they slide down
00:18:30.27\00:18:31.91
and they can't
crawl back out again.
00:18:31.94\00:18:34.14
And then he gets
to have a little meal.
00:18:34.18\00:18:36.98
You know, this
antlion is just a larva.
00:18:37.01\00:18:39.91
That means
00:18:39.95\00:18:41.28
it's not all
grown up yet either.
00:18:41.32\00:18:43.89
But it still has a job to do.
00:18:43.92\00:18:46.02
And it has to
wait, waits for its food.
00:18:46.05\00:18:49.19
It waits to grow.
00:18:49.22\00:18:51.29
But you know, when
it grows, it gets wings.
00:18:51.33\00:18:55.36
It turns into something
00:18:55.40\00:18:56.73
that looks totally
different from this creature.
00:18:56.77\00:19:02.44
Turns into a beautiful adult
00:19:02.47\00:19:06.64
and it can fly.
00:19:06.68\00:19:10.75
The antlion story
00:19:10.78\00:19:12.48
is a good reminder
that we can be patient
00:19:12.51\00:19:16.55
and that when we're patient,
00:19:16.58\00:19:19.72
we can still be doing things.
00:19:19.75\00:19:22.46
We can be doing things to
help people around our house.
00:19:22.49\00:19:26.80
We can be doing things
to tell people about Jesus.
00:19:26.83\00:19:31.77
You know, this
antlion while it's waiting
00:19:31.80\00:19:34.94
while it's being
patient, it does stuff.
00:19:34.97\00:19:39.87
It keeps its home clean.
00:19:39.91\00:19:42.68
It keeps it built properly.
00:19:42.71\00:19:45.61
It works.
00:19:45.65\00:19:46.98
Making sure
00:19:47.02\00:19:48.35
everything is
just right every day.
00:19:48.38\00:19:50.59
The Bible says in James 5:8,
00:19:50.62\00:19:53.32
"You too, be
patient and stand firm,
00:19:53.36\00:19:57.06
because the
Lord's coming is near."
00:19:57.09\00:20:00.80
The next time you
have to wait for something,
00:20:00.83\00:20:03.67
remember, Jesus can
help you to be patient,
00:20:03.70\00:20:07.30
just like the antlion.
00:20:07.34\00:20:11.71
Let us pray.
00:20:11.74\00:20:13.78
Dear, Jesus,
thank You for this day.
00:20:13.81\00:20:17.25
Thank You for
this wonderful Sabbath.
00:20:17.28\00:20:20.58
Today that You help
us to help patients.
00:20:20.62\00:20:24.55
Help us to live
according to Your will
00:20:24.59\00:20:29.52
and in Jesus we pray, amen.
00:20:29.56\00:20:32.53
Amen.
00:20:32.56\00:20:33.90
Another rainy day
00:21:05.43\00:21:11.13
I can't recall
00:21:11.17\00:21:13.57
Having sunshine on my face
00:21:13.60\00:21:18.71
And all I feel is pain
00:21:18.74\00:21:24.65
And all I wanna do
00:21:24.68\00:21:27.22
Is walk out of this place
00:21:27.25\00:21:30.39
But when I am stuck
00:21:30.42\00:21:32.39
And I can't move
00:21:32.42\00:21:34.02
And I don't
know What I should do
00:21:34.06\00:21:37.19
And I wonder
00:21:37.23\00:21:38.56
If I'll ever make it through
00:21:38.59\00:21:42.33
I gotta keep singing
00:21:46.23\00:21:49.60
I gotta keep praising Your name
00:21:49.64\00:21:53.98
You're the one
00:21:54.01\00:21:55.34
That's keeping my heart beating
00:21:55.38\00:21:59.65
I gotta keep singing
00:21:59.68\00:22:03.02
I gotta keep praising Your name
00:22:03.05\00:22:07.32
That's the only way
That I'll find healing
00:22:07.36\00:22:13.09
Can I climb up in Your lap
00:22:13.13\00:22:16.63
I don't want to leave
00:22:16.67\00:22:20.70
Jesus sing over me
00:22:20.74\00:22:26.61
I gotta keep singing
00:22:26.64\00:22:31.91
Can I climb up in Your lap
00:22:39.59\00:22:43.12
I don't want to leave
00:22:43.16\00:22:46.39
Jesus
00:22:46.43\00:22:48.16
Sing over me
00:22:48.20\00:22:53.64
Oh You're everything I need
00:22:53.67\00:22:59.21
So I gotta keep singing.
00:22:59.24\00:23:06.21
Oh, that was so beautiful,
00:23:29.67\00:23:31.01
I got to keep singing.
00:23:31.04\00:23:33.21
I gotta keep singing.
00:23:33.24\00:23:34.71
It's the perfect song
00:23:34.74\00:23:37.71
for a generation
alive today getting ready,
00:23:37.75\00:23:41.08
globally,
nationally and locally,
00:23:41.12\00:23:44.95
getting ready to
emerge into a brave new world.
00:23:44.99\00:23:47.52
Our theme for the
next few Sabbaths,
00:23:47.56\00:23:50.73
a brave new world.
00:23:50.76\00:23:53.73
Got to keep
singing. Want to pray.
00:23:53.76\00:23:55.63
Jesus, we got to keep singing.
00:23:55.66\00:23:58.77
You give the song we sing in.
00:23:58.80\00:24:01.57
Grant us the hope, we live it.
00:24:01.60\00:24:05.54
Give us the courage,
00:24:05.57\00:24:08.71
we will abide by that courage.
00:24:08.74\00:24:12.71
Gotta keep singing.
00:24:12.75\00:24:14.08
Bless these
moments in your word.
00:24:14.12\00:24:16.38
We humbly pray, in your name.
00:24:16.42\00:24:19.32
Amen.
00:24:19.35\00:24:21.26
All right, getting ready
to read something to you.
00:24:21.29\00:24:24.69
But the crew reminded me,
00:24:24.73\00:24:26.70
"Hey, Dwight, you're
supposed to throw to us
00:24:26.73\00:24:29.56
when you were standing
up there for the first time
00:24:29.60\00:24:31.13
in front of these empty pews."
00:24:31.17\00:24:32.50
And so their
cameras are all set up
00:24:32.53\00:24:33.87
and I'm not going
to waste that shot.
00:24:33.90\00:24:35.24
And so,
00:24:35.27\00:24:36.60
they're going to
throw it right now
00:24:36.64\00:24:37.97
so that you know that
you can figure out exactly
00:24:38.01\00:24:40.54
where we are in
this empty church.
00:24:40.58\00:24:41.98
So I'm what?
00:24:42.01\00:24:43.35
One, two, three, four, five pews
00:24:43.38\00:24:45.15
from the front
row, you see that.
00:24:45.18\00:24:49.92
Legit, I admit,
guilty as charged.
00:24:49.95\00:24:54.36
You may be guilty
as charged as well.
00:24:54.39\00:24:55.86
What are you
talking about, Dwight?
00:24:55.89\00:24:57.23
I'm talking about
Wall Street Journal
00:24:57.26\00:24:58.59
12 days ago.
00:24:58.63\00:25:00.40
On the technology page,
they came out with this.
00:25:00.43\00:25:06.63
This personal technology as
they're calling this column,
00:25:06.67\00:25:10.04
a piece written
by Nicole Nguyen.
00:25:10.07\00:25:12.47
All right.
00:25:12.51\00:25:13.84
Thanks to my friend Don Wilson,
00:25:13.88\00:25:15.21
I have it right
here in my hands.
00:25:15.24\00:25:16.71
So I'm gonna read a few lines,
guilty as charge maybe you.
00:25:16.75\00:25:19.85
Let's find out.
00:25:19.88\00:25:21.22
She writes, "I fixated on
the glow in my hand, okay,
00:25:21.25\00:25:24.52
lighting up an
otherwise dark bedroom."
00:25:24.55\00:25:27.36
You know what that
glow is in her hand.
00:25:27.39\00:25:30.09
"In the past few months,
00:25:30.13\00:25:31.46
after-hours screen
time has become a ritual.
00:25:31.49\00:25:34.60
Last night and the night before,
00:25:34.63\00:25:35.96
and the night before that,
00:25:36.00\00:25:37.33
I stayed up
thumbing through tweets,
00:25:37.37\00:25:38.73
grainy phone-captured videos,
00:25:38.77\00:25:40.64
posts that gave me hope
and posts that made me enraged.
00:25:40.67\00:25:44.31
I felt like I needed to see it.
00:25:44.34\00:25:47.34
All of it.
00:25:47.38\00:25:49.31
I was "doomscrolling."
00:25:49.34\00:25:53.78
This means
00:25:53.82\00:25:55.15
spending
inordinate amounts of time
00:25:55.18\00:25:56.52
on devices poring over grim news
00:25:56.55\00:25:58.65
and I can't seem to stop.
00:25:58.69\00:26:00.29
Doomscrolling,
00:26:00.32\00:26:01.66
it's become a
part of our vocabulary
00:26:01.69\00:26:03.99
in this culture
now, doomscrolling.
00:26:04.03\00:26:06.23
In fact, Merriam
Webster, the great dictionary,
00:26:06.26\00:26:09.86
they now have doomscrolling
on their words to watch list.
00:26:09.90\00:26:16.81
We're all doing it.
00:26:16.84\00:26:18.57
The next bad news, what is it?
00:26:18.61\00:26:20.61
Doomscrolling. Doomscrolling.
00:26:20.64\00:26:22.61
We do it.
00:26:22.64\00:26:23.98
What say the authorities?
00:26:24.01\00:26:25.88
So here's Mary
McNaughton-Cassill.
00:26:25.91\00:26:28.45
She is professor
of Clinical Psychology
00:26:28.48\00:26:30.25
at the University of
Texas at San Antonio.
00:26:30.29\00:26:33.56
She says, "That's
why we seem predisposed
00:26:33.59\00:26:35.66
to pay more attention
00:26:35.69\00:26:37.26
to negative than
positive things."
00:26:37.29\00:26:40.06
Doomscrolling.
00:26:40.10\00:26:41.43
She goes on.
00:26:41.46\00:26:43.23
"That's why I always recommend
00:26:43.26\00:26:45.30
that people consciously
regulate their media intake."
00:26:45.33\00:26:48.30
A little bit of
counsel for you and me
00:26:48.34\00:26:50.07
in this time of doom.
00:26:50.11\00:26:51.47
"You can't save
other people from drowning
00:26:51.51\00:26:53.98
if you're having
trouble swimming yourself."
00:26:54.01\00:26:56.01
Well, she's
right. Doomscrolling.
00:26:56.04\00:26:58.98
We all do it.
00:26:59.01\00:27:00.35
And why wouldn't we do it?
00:27:00.38\00:27:01.72
Look at the world.
00:27:01.75\00:27:03.08
Look at this brave new world
that we're about to emerge into
00:27:03.12\00:27:05.05
over the next few days.
00:27:05.09\00:27:06.52
Doomscrolling. Are you kidding?
00:27:06.55\00:27:08.59
Pandemic,
COVID-19, global, local.
00:27:08.62\00:27:12.73
Anybody know, is this thing?
00:27:12.76\00:27:14.36
Is this thing going
up? Is it going down?
00:27:14.40\00:27:16.16
Nobody knows.
00:27:16.20\00:27:17.53
Doomscrolling.
00:27:17.57\00:27:18.90
Talk about our economy,
the chaos of a rollercoaster.
00:27:18.93\00:27:23.10
Nobody knows.
00:27:23.14\00:27:25.07
I wanna talk about
this ratio fracture
00:27:25.11\00:27:26.84
that grows wider
by the day and night.
00:27:26.88\00:27:30.15
Doomscrolling.
00:27:30.18\00:27:33.25
You know what?
00:27:33.28\00:27:34.62
I'll betcha
00:27:34.65\00:27:35.98
that if they had
Wi-Fi on the ark,
00:27:36.02\00:27:38.32
Noah and the family
00:27:38.35\00:27:39.69
would have been
doing doomscrolling
00:27:39.72\00:27:41.06
because that's all it
was, bad news back then.
00:27:41.09\00:27:43.39
I'm gonna go to that story.
00:27:43.43\00:27:44.76
Everybody loves the
story of Noah and the ark.
00:27:44.79\00:27:46.19
Let's go there.
I'm grabbing my Bible.
00:27:46.23\00:27:47.90
You've got your Bible
00:27:47.93\00:27:49.26
not too far from
this live screen.
00:27:49.30\00:27:52.70
Live stream screen.
00:27:52.73\00:27:54.60
So find Genesis,
Genesis Chapter 8,
00:27:54.64\00:27:57.41
and I'll be back
00:27:57.44\00:27:58.77
in my New International Version.
00:27:58.81\00:28:00.34
Come on, follow along,
just spend a few minutes
00:28:00.38\00:28:02.61
here in this
very familiar story.
00:28:02.64\00:28:03.98
We're going to go
right to the middle,
00:28:04.01\00:28:05.35
the very middle of the flood.
00:28:05.38\00:28:07.78
Yep.
00:28:07.82\00:28:09.15
intriguing line. Here we go.
00:28:09.18\00:28:10.72
Genesis Chapter 8,
we'll pick it up in verse 1,
00:28:10.75\00:28:12.95
"But God remembered
Noah and all the wild animals
00:28:12.99\00:28:18.79
and the livestock
00:28:18.83\00:28:20.26
that were with him in the ark,
00:28:20.30\00:28:22.26
and he sent a
wind over the earth,
00:28:22.30\00:28:24.87
and the waters receded."
00:28:24.90\00:28:27.74
Wow. I love that line.
00:28:27.77\00:28:30.81
God remembered Noah,
00:28:30.84\00:28:33.38
just when you're
convinced He's forgotten you,
00:28:33.41\00:28:36.44
God says, "No, I remember you."
00:28:36.48\00:28:39.68
In fact, this word.
00:28:39.71\00:28:41.35
The Hebrew word here
00:28:41.38\00:28:42.72
is used a little
later in the Bible.
00:28:42.75\00:28:44.25
Go Genesis, Exodus,
you go to Exodus Chapter 2.
00:28:44.29\00:28:46.69
It's used right there
at the end of Chapter 2
00:28:46.72\00:28:48.49
where it says.
00:28:48.52\00:28:49.92
Let me read it to you here.
00:28:49.96\00:28:52.03
I got scribbled down here
and God heard their groaning.
00:28:52.06\00:28:54.20
Okay, so the children of Israel,
00:28:54.23\00:28:55.56
they're enslaved now.
00:28:55.60\00:28:56.93
And God heard their groaning,
00:28:56.97\00:28:58.30
in the King James it reads
00:28:58.33\00:28:59.67
and God heard their cries
00:28:59.70\00:29:01.84
and he
remembered them, same word.
00:29:01.87\00:29:05.47
But God remembered Noah.
00:29:05.51\00:29:07.31
But God remembered
the children of Israel.
00:29:07.34\00:29:09.88
But God remembers you.
00:29:09.91\00:29:11.51
But God remembers me.
00:29:11.55\00:29:13.15
Did you think He
was going to forget?
00:29:13.18\00:29:14.95
Forget us?
00:29:14.98\00:29:16.62
Never.
00:29:16.65\00:29:18.42
Although you gotta
admit, for some of you,
00:29:18.45\00:29:21.72
this pandemic
could not have come
00:29:21.76\00:29:24.19
at a worse time.
00:29:24.23\00:29:25.59
You were just
rounding the curve.
00:29:25.63\00:29:27.83
It looked like
00:29:27.86\00:29:29.20
everything is
going to be fine at last,
00:29:29.23\00:29:31.10
boom, the bottom drops out.
00:29:31.13\00:29:34.74
The truth of the matter is,
00:29:34.77\00:29:37.91
some of you have had
a battle on your hands.
00:29:37.94\00:29:41.54
You're warring against an enemy.
00:29:41.58\00:29:45.28
Let's talk about
COVID-19 for a moment
00:29:45.31\00:29:46.92
and I hope I'm not misunderstood
00:29:46.95\00:29:49.08
when I say this.
00:29:49.12\00:29:52.19
We really have been blessed.
00:29:52.22\00:29:53.79
I'm talking about
our little community
00:29:53.82\00:29:55.16
right here.
00:29:55.19\00:29:56.52
We've been
blessed by somehow dodging
00:29:56.56\00:30:01.06
as it were the COVID-19 bullet.
00:30:01.10\00:30:03.26
I'm not saying
nobody's been touched by it.
00:30:03.30\00:30:05.93
But relatively speaking,
00:30:05.97\00:30:07.37
you look at our
little community.
00:30:07.40\00:30:10.14
We can commiserate,
00:30:10.17\00:30:12.11
and we do with those who suffer,
00:30:12.14\00:30:14.71
and they still do.
00:30:14.74\00:30:16.54
But we're
quietly under our breath
00:30:16.58\00:30:18.41
praising God saying thank you.
00:30:18.45\00:30:20.85
We think we got through.
00:30:20.88\00:30:22.88
And, of course,
the big uncertainty is
00:30:22.92\00:30:24.65
nobody knows is
it coming back again.
00:30:24.69\00:30:27.99
But we tend to forget
00:30:28.02\00:30:29.36
that COVID-19 is not
the only killer disease
00:30:29.39\00:30:32.99
that stocks the land.
00:30:33.03\00:30:35.20
Some of you just
thought of you a moment ago,
00:30:35.23\00:30:39.03
some of you have
been battling that enemy,
00:30:39.07\00:30:41.60
or whatever the
name that enemy has,
00:30:41.64\00:30:44.47
you're battling for your life.
00:30:44.51\00:30:46.21
Nothing's changed.
00:30:46.24\00:30:47.98
Brave new world
you've been living in it.
00:30:48.01\00:30:50.55
But for some of you, I
suppose it is excusable,
00:30:50.58\00:30:53.95
indeed to come to that moment,
00:30:53.98\00:30:56.62
in the middle of the night
or in the middle of the day
00:30:56.65\00:30:58.25
when you say, "My
Lord, You have forgot me.
00:30:58.29\00:31:00.22
Look what's going on in my life.
00:31:00.26\00:31:01.86
Where have You been?
00:31:01.89\00:31:03.22
Don't you remember me?"
00:31:03.26\00:31:05.79
Now we need this line.
00:31:05.83\00:31:07.86
We need Genesis 8:1.
00:31:07.90\00:31:09.60
It's in the middle of the flood.
00:31:09.63\00:31:11.70
And the word reads.
00:31:11.73\00:31:13.13
"But God remembered Noah."
00:31:13.17\00:31:15.40
He remembers you.
00:31:15.44\00:31:16.97
He remembers me.
00:31:17.01\00:31:18.34
Read it again.
00:31:22.08\00:31:23.41
"But God remembered
Noah and all the wild animals
00:31:23.45\00:31:25.18
and the livestock that
were with him in the ark,
00:31:25.21\00:31:27.22
and he sent a
wind over the earth,
00:31:27.25\00:31:30.15
and the waters receded."
00:31:30.19\00:31:32.25
Now get this.
00:31:32.29\00:31:33.62
There are still
150 more days to go,
00:31:33.66\00:31:38.39
plus another 40,
00:31:38.43\00:31:40.06
plus another
seven, plus another seven.
00:31:40.10\00:31:43.16
Noah is halfway
through the flood.
00:31:43.20\00:31:45.47
It's not like it's just,
00:31:45.50\00:31:46.84
they're getting ready
to throw the doors open.
00:31:46.87\00:31:48.20
No, he's still locked down.
00:31:48.24\00:31:50.71
How many days has
it been for you and me?
00:31:50.74\00:31:52.41
Well, here's what we know.
00:31:52.44\00:31:53.78
We know that on March 15,
the students left this campus.
00:31:53.81\00:31:58.18
They had big chapel on Thursday.
00:31:58.21\00:32:00.15
Friday,
00:32:00.18\00:32:01.52
everybody's gone just like that.
00:32:01.55\00:32:02.95
We're in this church,
March 16, empty church.
00:32:02.98\00:32:07.26
And here we are,
how many days later?
00:32:07.29\00:32:08.86
Here we are 96
days and nights later.
00:32:08.89\00:32:12.69
We'll go 21 more days,
00:32:12.73\00:32:14.13
three weeks from
today until July 11.
00:32:14.16\00:32:16.70
So you had 96 and 21.
00:32:16.73\00:32:18.37
Still looks like
Noah has us beat.
00:32:18.40\00:32:21.87
You knows a little bit.
00:32:21.90\00:32:23.24
He knows a little something
about being locked down.
00:32:23.27\00:32:25.51
And then the door is
open to a brave new world.
00:32:25.54\00:32:29.58
Because when they emerge
00:32:29.61\00:32:30.95
as we are going
to have to emerge,
00:32:30.98\00:32:32.31
we cannot stay
locked up forever.
00:32:32.35\00:32:35.02
When they emerged, as
we are beginning to emerge,
00:32:35.05\00:32:39.35
it is a brave new
world that greets their eyes.
00:32:39.39\00:32:44.83
Not unlike ours.
00:32:44.86\00:32:46.49
So I had this bulletin,
it's called a bulletin.
00:32:46.53\00:32:50.13
I don't know how
it came to our house.
00:32:50.17\00:32:51.50
I mean, look at this AARP.
00:32:51.53\00:32:52.87
AARP bulletin.
00:32:52.90\00:32:54.50
Must be a gift of subscription
that somebody gave to us.
00:32:54.54\00:32:57.27
Why would it be
coming to our house?
00:32:57.31\00:32:59.57
Anyway, so long as I have it,
I might as well talk about it.
00:32:59.61\00:33:01.71
This is the
latest issue, June 2020.
00:33:01.74\00:33:05.08
And...
00:33:05.11\00:33:07.68
Oh, phew,
00:33:07.72\00:33:09.08
there's somebody
else's name on this.
00:33:09.12\00:33:11.09
That had me
worried that somebody else.
00:33:11.12\00:33:13.72
Who lives in that house?
00:33:13.76\00:33:15.09
I'm not gonna give her name.
00:33:15.12\00:33:16.46
I have to be very nice
because after this live stream,
00:33:16.49\00:33:18.36
I have to go home
00:33:18.39\00:33:19.73
and get in the house for dinner.
00:33:19.76\00:33:21.10
So anyway, I'll show it to you
00:33:21.13\00:33:23.33
a reader right off the screen,
00:33:23.37\00:33:24.70
"The New Normal."
00:33:24.73\00:33:26.07
You see that there?
00:33:26.10\00:33:27.44
How the
Coronavirus is redefining life
00:33:27.47\00:33:30.24
for older Americans.
00:33:30.27\00:33:32.41
This is not a
magazine for children.
00:33:32.44\00:33:35.28
It's for older Americans.
00:33:35.31\00:33:37.28
American
Association of Retired People.
00:33:37.31\00:33:39.31
All right, so they have
this little spread here.
00:33:39.35\00:33:42.55
What comes next?
00:33:42.58\00:33:44.92
And I'm not gonna read
all these bullet points,
00:33:44.95\00:33:46.45
but they're just a few
that we just remind ourselves.
00:33:46.49\00:33:48.56
This is a brave new
world we're heading into.
00:33:48.59\00:33:50.53
Indeed.
00:33:50.56\00:33:51.89
"Americans will be
increasingly fixated
00:33:51.93\00:33:53.56
on washing away deadly germs.
00:33:53.60\00:33:56.63
If sneezing into your
elbow took some adjustment,
00:33:56.67\00:33:59.53
brace for what's on
the hygiene horizon.
00:33:59.57\00:34:02.20
Especially for older people,"
00:34:02.24\00:34:03.77
quoting a
physician Johns Hopkins,
00:34:03.81\00:34:06.04
"especially for older people,
00:34:06.07\00:34:07.81
hand scrubbing, mask wearing
00:34:07.84\00:34:09.18
and hyper attention
to surface disinfection
00:34:09.21\00:34:12.01
will be the norm at every turn."
00:34:12.05\00:34:13.68
What we're
going to be doing here
00:34:13.72\00:34:15.05
between services
beginning July 11.
00:34:15.08\00:34:17.49
We're having to do that.
00:34:17.52\00:34:18.85
Everybody's having
to do that all day long.
00:34:18.89\00:34:21.32
I was speaking
of elbows, did you,
00:34:21.36\00:34:22.69
I saw this little
cartoon about a mother.
00:34:22.72\00:34:24.06
So she's sitting
down with her children,
00:34:24.09\00:34:25.43
she says, "All
right, boys and girls,
00:34:25.46\00:34:27.33
we're going to have supper now.
00:34:27.36\00:34:28.70
Has everybody
washed their elbows?"
00:34:28.73\00:34:31.53
Come on.
00:34:31.57\00:34:32.90
That's a brave
new world we're in
00:34:32.93\00:34:34.57
so they said yeah,
00:34:34.60\00:34:35.94
hygiene is going to be
what we're living with.
00:34:35.97\00:34:37.31
Here's another one.
00:34:37.34\00:34:38.67
Oh, the mall, the
morning newspaper, dinner,
00:34:38.71\00:34:40.71
a night on the town,
00:34:40.74\00:34:42.08
COVID-19 is put them
all on the endangered list
00:34:42.11\00:34:43.58
but guess what?
00:34:43.61\00:34:44.95
They're expecting
15,000 more stores to close,
00:34:44.98\00:34:47.88
major chains
have already shut down
00:34:47.92\00:34:49.38
as you and I know.
00:34:49.42\00:34:50.82
A brave new world.
00:34:50.85\00:34:52.19
It won't be the
same. No, no, no.
00:34:52.22\00:34:53.56
Here's another one.
00:34:53.59\00:34:54.92
Take me out to
the crowd not now.
00:34:54.96\00:34:57.06
Quoting the executive director
00:34:57.09\00:34:59.86
and publisher of
Sports Business Journal.
00:34:59.89\00:35:03.47
"I don't see any timeline
00:35:03.50\00:35:04.83
where athletic events
have fans packing the stands."
00:35:04.87\00:35:07.97
Not, it's not gonna happen,
00:35:08.00\00:35:09.34
maybe 25% in
those massive stadiums,
00:35:09.37\00:35:12.14
maybe up to 30%.
00:35:12.17\00:35:13.74
That's it. That's
the brave new world now.
00:35:13.78\00:35:16.85
Ridership and
public transportation down,
00:35:16.88\00:35:19.48
93% down on the subway
riding in New York City.
00:35:19.51\00:35:22.58
Well, we don't
worry about subways here.
00:35:22.62\00:35:24.15
I understand that.
00:35:24.19\00:35:25.52
They're more, but that's enough.
00:35:25.55\00:35:27.66
What's the point, Dwight?
00:35:27.69\00:35:29.02
The point is,
00:35:29.06\00:35:30.39
we too like Noah and his family,
00:35:30.43\00:35:32.09
we too are going to
emerge into a brave new world
00:35:32.13\00:35:34.63
that is irrevocably changed.
00:35:34.66\00:35:36.87
You know that, I know that.
00:35:36.90\00:35:38.77
There's one little point
00:35:38.80\00:35:40.20
that this AARP
bulletin left out.
00:35:40.24\00:35:43.30
And I understand why they did
00:35:43.34\00:35:44.67
because they
don't have children,
00:35:44.71\00:35:46.04
children, they're in school,
00:35:46.07\00:35:47.44
but the issue of education.
00:35:47.48\00:35:50.05
That's a huge issue right now.
00:35:50.08\00:35:51.71
In fact, in my blog, it
came out Wednesday night,
00:35:51.75\00:35:54.88
you get our e-letter.
00:35:54.92\00:35:57.55
And in the blog, if you read it,
00:35:57.59\00:35:58.92
you know that I
made this statement.
00:35:58.95\00:36:01.62
I am convinced
00:36:01.66\00:36:02.99
that our educational leaders
in America probably globally,
00:36:03.02\00:36:07.96
our educational leaders
00:36:08.00\00:36:09.33
are facing the
most daunting challenge
00:36:09.36\00:36:11.03
of all across this
nation and right here at home.
00:36:11.07\00:36:15.40
They're facing a
challenge nobody else is facing.
00:36:15.44\00:36:17.67
It's not the same.
00:36:17.71\00:36:19.04
You can't say, well,
it's just like the hospital.
00:36:19.07\00:36:20.41
No, it's not the same.
00:36:20.44\00:36:21.78
It's different.
00:36:21.81\00:36:23.14
You want,
00:36:23.18\00:36:24.51
you think about the
anxious concerns they have.
00:36:24.55\00:36:25.88
And by the way,
00:36:25.91\00:36:27.25
we have three
educational institutions
00:36:27.28\00:36:28.62
in this little parish.
00:36:28.65\00:36:30.52
Think about our administrators,
our faculty and staff,
00:36:30.55\00:36:32.29
what are they worried about?
00:36:32.32\00:36:33.66
Number one, here
are the questions.
00:36:33.69\00:36:35.02
Will the students come back?
00:36:35.06\00:36:36.39
That's a huge question.
00:36:36.42\00:36:37.76
Number two.
00:36:37.79\00:36:39.13
Will our safety protocol work?
00:36:39.16\00:36:40.50
Big deal.
00:36:40.53\00:36:41.86
Number three.
Will our income hold?
00:36:41.90\00:36:43.77
Everybody's wondering.
00:36:43.80\00:36:45.13
And number four.
00:36:45.17\00:36:46.50
Will the pandemic
recede our search?
00:36:46.53\00:36:48.97
Our educators are living
with a very brave new world
00:36:49.00\00:36:52.87
and you know what?
00:36:52.91\00:36:54.24
We need to be praying for him?
00:36:54.28\00:36:56.24
Absolutely.
00:36:56.28\00:36:57.61
We need to be
praying for them by name.
00:36:57.65\00:37:01.15
Interceding for divine wisdom
00:37:01.18\00:37:04.35
to guide the decisions
00:37:04.39\00:37:05.79
that they're
going to on the spot
00:37:05.82\00:37:07.36
be having to make
00:37:07.39\00:37:08.72
as students
come back, August 24.
00:37:08.76\00:37:11.09
It's coming fast.
00:37:11.13\00:37:13.26
Yeah, we need to
pray for them by name.
00:37:13.29\00:37:15.36
We have principal Savory.
00:37:15.40\00:37:16.90
She's over here with
Murdoch Elementary School.
00:37:16.93\00:37:19.03
I've got principal Leiterman.
00:37:19.07\00:37:20.40
She's over here
at Andrews Academy.
00:37:20.44\00:37:22.00
We have principal,
yeah, she was a principal,
00:37:22.04\00:37:24.47
once in noble cause,
00:37:24.51\00:37:25.84
but she's
president Andrea Luxton
00:37:25.87\00:37:27.74
here at the university.
00:37:27.78\00:37:29.61
And they all have teams,
00:37:29.64\00:37:30.98
and they all have
faculty and staff.
00:37:31.01\00:37:32.35
We need to pray for all of them.
00:37:32.38\00:37:34.62
So it was for Noah
and his family of seven,
00:37:34.65\00:37:38.15
as they emerged
into that bright sunlight
00:37:38.19\00:37:40.82
of a broken and
devastated horizon.
00:37:40.86\00:37:44.13
Oh, what was the
look on their faces?
00:37:44.16\00:37:45.99
They have not
seen this bigger view
00:37:46.03\00:37:49.60
for over a year.
00:37:49.63\00:37:51.33
Okay, let's read it.
00:37:51.37\00:37:52.90
Drop down to verse 15.
00:37:52.93\00:37:56.24
Then God said to Noah,
it's Chapter 8 of Genesis.
00:37:56.27\00:37:59.67
Then God said to Noah,
00:37:59.71\00:38:02.71
'Come, come out of the ark,
00:38:02.74\00:38:05.01
you and your wife, and
your sons and their wives,
00:38:05.05\00:38:07.48
bring out every
kind of living creature
00:38:07.52\00:38:08.85
that is with you,
00:38:08.88\00:38:10.22
the birds, the
animals and all the creatures
00:38:10.25\00:38:11.59
that move along
the ground there."
00:38:11.62\00:38:12.95
Rosemary Bailey
just told us about.
00:38:12.99\00:38:14.66
"So that they can
multiply on the earth
00:38:14.69\00:38:16.32
and be fruitful and increase
in number upon the earth."
00:38:16.36\00:38:21.60
So Noah comes out,
00:38:21.63\00:38:23.50
together with his
sons and his wife,
00:38:23.53\00:38:25.87
and his sons' wives.
00:38:25.90\00:38:27.54
And it's
impossible for you and me
00:38:27.57\00:38:29.17
to comprehend the shock
00:38:29.20\00:38:32.77
once their senses adjust,
they're grateful to be alive,
00:38:32.81\00:38:36.51
but of course, but the shock.
00:38:36.54\00:38:38.61
Have you ever seen a
bummed out landscape?
00:38:38.65\00:38:41.52
I was born in Japan
00:38:41.55\00:38:42.95
after the atomic
bomb in Hiroshima.
00:38:42.98\00:38:47.06
But I've seen those
black and white photos
00:38:47.09\00:38:48.42
that my dad took.
00:38:48.46\00:38:49.79
We're talking
about an inorganic,
00:38:49.82\00:38:53.56
naked skeleton of
an infrastructure.
00:38:53.60\00:38:56.80
That's it. Just a few...
00:38:56.83\00:38:58.17
Listen, I don't have
to make this stuff up,
00:39:01.57\00:39:03.30
Patriarchs and Prophets.
00:39:03.34\00:39:04.77
One terse sets
00:39:04.81\00:39:06.14
describing what
greeted their eyes.
00:39:06.17\00:39:07.51
Here it is.
00:39:07.54\00:39:08.88
"The earth presented
00:39:08.91\00:39:10.25
an appearance of
confusion and desolation,
00:39:10.28\00:39:13.25
impossible to describe."
00:39:13.28\00:39:16.72
Confusion, chaos
questions to the max,
00:39:16.75\00:39:21.12
a brave new world,
00:39:21.16\00:39:23.32
but you have no choice.
00:39:23.36\00:39:25.99
And what does Noah do?
00:39:26.03\00:39:29.06
He's on his face, not
weeping, he's worshiping.
00:39:29.10\00:39:34.40
He is worshiping
his Creator and Savior.
00:39:34.44\00:39:38.01
If he had known the words of Job
00:39:38.04\00:39:39.37
that would come after him,
00:39:39.41\00:39:41.18
it would probably would be words
00:39:41.21\00:39:42.91
that he would be
quoting as he worships,
00:39:42.94\00:39:45.61
"Naked came I
from my mother's womb,
00:39:45.65\00:39:47.68
naked shall I return?
00:39:47.72\00:39:49.08
The Lord gives
and the Lord takes,
00:39:49.12\00:39:50.85
blessed be the name of the Lord.
00:39:50.89\00:39:52.45
A family of eight, they
are down and worshiping.
00:39:52.49\00:39:56.52
I mean, what else can
you do in a brave new world,
00:39:56.56\00:40:00.03
but worship the
one who got you to it,
00:40:00.06\00:40:03.03
and who now
00:40:03.06\00:40:04.40
will have to get you through it.
00:40:04.43\00:40:07.20
Let's read it, verse 20.
00:40:07.24\00:40:09.47
Worship,
00:40:09.50\00:40:10.84
"Then Noah built
an altar to the Lord
00:40:10.87\00:40:13.68
and taking some of
all the clean animals
00:40:13.71\00:40:16.68
and clean birds.
00:40:16.71\00:40:18.05
He sacrificed
burnt offerings on it.
00:40:18.08\00:40:20.88
And the Lord
smelled the pleasing aroma"
00:40:20.92\00:40:22.98
because it's a sign of Calvary.
00:40:23.02\00:40:24.89
It's a sign that God Himself
00:40:24.92\00:40:26.52
will pay the price
for a rebel human race.
00:40:26.55\00:40:30.53
"Pleasing aroma to Him,
00:40:30.56\00:40:31.89
the Lord smelled
the pleasing aroma
00:40:31.93\00:40:33.26
and he said in his heart:
00:40:33.29\00:40:34.63
'Never again will
I curse the ground
00:40:34.66\00:40:36.00
because of humans,
00:40:36.03\00:40:37.37
even though every
inclination of the human heart
00:40:37.40\00:40:39.33
is evil from childhood."
00:40:39.37\00:40:41.27
So soon, yeah,
00:40:41.30\00:40:42.64
don't miss next Sabbath so soon.
00:40:42.67\00:40:45.57
"And never again will I
destroy all living creatures,
00:40:45.61\00:40:48.04
as I have done.
00:40:48.08\00:40:49.41
As long as the earth endures.
00:40:49.44\00:40:51.11
Seedtime and harvest,
00:40:51.15\00:40:52.48
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
00:40:52.51\00:40:53.85
day and night will never cease."
00:40:53.88\00:40:56.35
A brave new world.
00:40:56.38\00:41:00.99
That's the world we live in now.
00:41:01.02\00:41:02.72
We're happy to be in the
summer of that prediction.
00:41:02.76\00:41:05.56
We're in the summer,
but we know winter's coming.
00:41:05.59\00:41:09.03
Yeah.
00:41:09.06\00:41:11.17
Welcome to our brave new world.
00:41:11.20\00:41:14.34
It's the new normal
of sheer uncertainty.
00:41:14.37\00:41:20.51
It's always been that
way for Jesus' friends,
00:41:20.54\00:41:24.15
sheer uncertainty.
00:41:24.18\00:41:26.72
I'm talking about
the intrepid Paul,
00:41:26.75\00:41:28.08
the missionary.
00:41:28.12\00:41:29.45
He's been arrested in Jerusalem.
00:41:29.48\00:41:32.09
Uncertainty, uncertainty.
00:41:32.12\00:41:33.56
On the one hand,
00:41:33.59\00:41:34.92
he knows he does
not want to be left
00:41:34.96\00:41:36.69
in the hands of
Jewish jurisprudence
00:41:36.73\00:41:39.53
and jurisdiction
00:41:39.56\00:41:40.90
because they've already declared
00:41:40.93\00:41:42.30
they will have him executed.
00:41:42.33\00:41:44.03
But on the other
hand, oh, on the other hand,
00:41:44.07\00:41:46.33
if he appeals to
Roman jurisdiction,
00:41:46.37\00:41:49.14
what will that look like
00:41:49.17\00:41:50.51
in the hands of
the corrupt leader,
00:41:50.54\00:41:53.31
Emperor Nero.
00:41:53.34\00:41:56.31
A brave new world
of sheer uncertainty,
00:41:56.34\00:41:59.21
was that way for Paul.
00:41:59.25\00:42:00.58
It was that way for
the Lord Jesus Himself
00:42:00.62\00:42:02.08
in Gethsemane.
00:42:02.12\00:42:03.95
Talking about a new
normal that He cannot decipher,
00:42:03.99\00:42:06.55
does it go this
way, does it go that way,
00:42:06.59\00:42:08.59
in the anguish of His praying.
00:42:08.62\00:42:10.26
On the one hand, Jesus knows,
00:42:10.29\00:42:12.16
of course, He knows
00:42:12.19\00:42:13.70
that His mission is to
save humanity at any cost
00:42:13.73\00:42:16.56
to Himself.
00:42:16.60\00:42:17.93
But on the other hand,
00:42:17.97\00:42:19.97
there is a realization
00:42:20.00\00:42:21.50
as being must resist the thought
00:42:21.54\00:42:23.30
that that salvation will come
at the price of annihilation
00:42:23.34\00:42:26.78
of Himself forever and ever.
00:42:26.81\00:42:30.58
The brave new world
of sheer uncertainty.
00:42:30.61\00:42:33.92
God's friends have
always lived with it.
00:42:33.95\00:42:35.88
How about Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, and Germany?
00:42:35.92\00:42:39.15
Some kind soul gave me
00:42:39.19\00:42:42.72
the biography of
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
00:42:42.76\00:42:45.83
titled Strange Glory
written by Charles Marsh.
00:42:45.86\00:42:50.73
I read all kinds,
00:42:50.77\00:42:52.10
I've read all kinds of
Bonhoeffer biographies,
00:42:52.13\00:42:55.44
but this one has
to rank as the best.
00:42:55.47\00:42:58.17
So there is young Dietrich.
00:42:58.21\00:43:00.18
There he is,
00:43:00.21\00:43:01.54
he's having to
measure the calculus
00:43:01.58\00:43:04.35
between his own nation
00:43:04.38\00:43:06.21
plunging into
despotism with Hitler
00:43:06.25\00:43:09.22
on the one hand,
00:43:09.25\00:43:10.59
and on the other hand,
00:43:10.62\00:43:12.05
the untenable
choice of standing by
00:43:12.09\00:43:13.96
and doing nothing,
00:43:13.99\00:43:15.32
as Jews are
slaughtered in racial hatred.
00:43:15.36\00:43:19.06
The brave new world
of sheer uncertainty.
00:43:22.10\00:43:26.53
And what about
America right now?
00:43:26.57\00:43:28.97
How is a godly Americans
00:43:29.00\00:43:32.11
supposed to be
thinking and living right now?
00:43:32.14\00:43:35.31
I was visiting
00:43:35.34\00:43:36.68
with a physician friend of mine,
00:43:36.71\00:43:38.05
not a member of
this faith community.
00:43:38.08\00:43:39.41
We've known each
other for a few years.
00:43:39.45\00:43:41.08
He was right here this week.
00:43:41.12\00:43:43.02
Very active in his own church.
00:43:46.12\00:43:48.69
And we're talking,
00:43:48.72\00:43:51.09
what are the options
00:43:51.13\00:43:53.09
at this crisis
moment in American history?
00:43:53.13\00:43:56.26
On the one hand,
00:43:56.30\00:43:57.83
shall we disengage
with society and culture
00:43:57.87\00:44:00.74
and embrace a quietism
00:44:00.77\00:44:03.20
that cast our fate to the winds.
00:44:03.24\00:44:04.91
We'll do nothing
whatever, what will be the case,
00:44:04.94\00:44:07.31
I'll say, what will be will be?
00:44:07.34\00:44:08.91
Shall we do that
or on the other hand,
00:44:08.94\00:44:10.85
does the ratio
00:44:10.88\00:44:12.21
fracturing this
generation as inherited?
00:44:12.25\00:44:15.32
Become a pox on
our collective soul,
00:44:15.35\00:44:16.92
a plague
00:44:16.95\00:44:18.29
that we
proactively seek to eradicate?
00:44:18.32\00:44:23.32
Will we work as hard
to get rid of racism 2020
00:44:23.36\00:44:27.66
as we are working
to get rid of COVID-19?
00:44:27.70\00:44:31.03
A brave new world
of sheer uncertainty.
00:44:34.27\00:44:37.14
Look it.
00:44:37.17\00:44:38.51
Nobody's exempt.
00:44:38.54\00:44:40.08
We face the choices.
00:44:40.11\00:44:43.65
The choices for America.
00:44:43.68\00:44:45.38
You know what they
used to call America?
00:44:45.41\00:44:47.02
They called it the new world.
00:44:47.05\00:44:48.45
Oh, the new world.
00:44:48.48\00:44:50.09
They move to the new world.
00:44:50.12\00:44:52.19
And now along
comes Antonin Dvorak.
00:44:52.22\00:44:55.06
Oh, there isn't a heart
00:44:55.09\00:44:56.93
that doesn't
thrill with that soaring,
00:44:56.96\00:45:00.76
that the soaring high heights
of this patriotic promise.
00:45:00.80\00:45:05.73
He's writing about America.
00:45:05.77\00:45:08.04
And everybody of
course loves the Largo.
00:45:08.07\00:45:09.97
That's our favorite part.
We whistle it, we know it.
00:45:10.01\00:45:14.18
What's happened?
00:45:14.21\00:45:16.18
Don't you wish that
optimism of a century ago?
00:45:16.21\00:45:19.58
We're still true today.
00:45:19.61\00:45:21.95
Yeah, brave new world.
00:45:21.98\00:45:24.65
We face a nation.
00:45:24.69\00:45:26.02
We face a world now
00:45:26.05\00:45:27.39
where moral
courage and ethical bravery
00:45:27.42\00:45:29.69
are the last
resort of its citizens.
00:45:29.72\00:45:31.93
They are the last resort
of the followers of Jesus.
00:45:31.96\00:45:35.03
But be warned if you
are a follower of Jesus.
00:45:35.06\00:45:40.10
John Howard Yoder
in that book of his,
00:45:40.14\00:45:43.10
The Politics of Jesus,
00:45:43.14\00:45:44.47
Mennonite ethicist,
00:45:44.51\00:45:46.41
I'm reading the book
through again right now.
00:45:46.44\00:45:49.21
It makes the point,
00:45:49.24\00:45:50.58
if you're going to follow Jesus,
00:45:50.61\00:45:52.21
you need to know
where his social ethic ends.
00:45:52.25\00:45:56.28
It ends on a cross.
00:45:56.32\00:45:58.95
Weight it
carefully that decision.
00:45:58.99\00:46:01.36
I'm quoting him
now, just one line.
00:46:01.39\00:46:02.72
Here it is.
00:46:02.76\00:46:04.09
I'm quoting, "Only at one point,
00:46:04.13\00:46:06.56
only on one subject,
00:46:06.59\00:46:08.53
but then consistently,
00:46:08.56\00:46:10.43
universally is Jesus our example
00:46:10.47\00:46:14.14
in His cross."
00:46:14.17\00:46:18.47
I'm gonna talk
about moral courage.
00:46:18.51\00:46:21.24
I'm gonna talk
about ethical bravery
00:46:21.28\00:46:23.65
as a follower of Christ,
00:46:23.68\00:46:25.01
and you have to talk
about the cross of Jesus.
00:46:25.05\00:46:27.28
You can't factor that out.
00:46:27.32\00:46:29.28
You have to reject.
00:46:29.32\00:46:30.92
We have to reject
political machinations,
00:46:30.95\00:46:33.89
backroom power grabs and
deals and no, no, no, no.
00:46:33.92\00:46:38.86
That's not the social
ethic that Jesus lived.
00:46:38.89\00:46:41.63
Jesus embraced
social nonconformity
00:46:41.66\00:46:43.77
and non violence.
00:46:43.80\00:46:45.43
It is absolutely clear
and it took Him to the cross.
00:46:45.47\00:46:49.44
You ready to end up on a cross?
00:46:49.47\00:46:54.28
Moral courage, yeah.
00:46:54.31\00:46:56.85
That's the only
way it's going to be
00:46:56.88\00:46:58.61
in this brave new world
00:46:58.65\00:46:59.98
if we're going to get through,
00:47:00.02\00:47:01.35
moral courage, ethical bravery.
00:47:01.38\00:47:03.55
Thomas Paine, the
American philosopher,
00:47:03.59\00:47:05.19
the early American writer.
00:47:05.22\00:47:07.72
You remember these words?
00:47:07.76\00:47:09.82
These are the
times to try men's souls.
00:47:09.86\00:47:14.70
You got that right, bro.
00:47:14.73\00:47:17.37
A brave new world
of sheer uncertainty,
00:47:17.40\00:47:20.60
but there's hope.
00:47:20.64\00:47:21.97
There's hope.
00:47:22.00\00:47:23.34
God, there is hope in a sign
00:47:23.37\00:47:24.71
that God gave to
Noah and you and me.
00:47:24.74\00:47:28.88
Come on, let's go.
00:47:28.91\00:47:30.25
Genesis Chapter 9.
00:47:30.28\00:47:31.61
Okay, so we
finished 8, we're in 9 now,
00:47:31.65\00:47:33.31
dropped down to verse 12.
00:47:33.35\00:47:34.98
"And God said,
00:47:35.02\00:47:36.35
'This is the
sign of the covenant
00:47:36.38\00:47:38.92
I am making between me and you
00:47:38.95\00:47:40.99
and every living
creature with you,
00:47:41.02\00:47:42.52
a covenant for all
generations to come.'"
00:47:42.56\00:47:44.96
So it's good for you and me.
00:47:44.99\00:47:46.96
"I have set my
rainbow in the clouds."
00:47:47.00\00:47:50.40
Verse 13.
00:47:50.43\00:47:51.77
"And it will be the
sign of the covenant
00:47:51.80\00:47:54.24
between me and the earth."
00:47:54.27\00:47:57.34
Oh, man, when we were
kids in Sabbath School.
00:47:57.37\00:47:59.77
I bet that they still teach this
00:47:59.81\00:48:01.31
as a memory verse.
00:48:01.34\00:48:02.68
That was from the
Old King James back then
00:48:02.71\00:48:04.05
and it went like this.
00:48:04.08\00:48:05.41
I do set my bow in the cloud.
00:48:05.45\00:48:07.85
You remember that line?
00:48:07.88\00:48:09.22
I've never forgotten it.
00:48:09.25\00:48:10.59
I do set my bow in the cloud.
00:48:10.62\00:48:12.72
God bless our
Sabbath school teachers
00:48:12.75\00:48:14.09
who insist that
our little cherubs
00:48:14.12\00:48:16.76
learn their memory verses.
00:48:16.79\00:48:18.83
Those would be them,
be with them for life.
00:48:18.86\00:48:21.60
Don't dismiss it, Mom and Dad,
when you have family worship.
00:48:21.63\00:48:23.37
Well, you know,
00:48:23.40\00:48:24.73
you don't have to
memorize this anymore,
00:48:24.77\00:48:26.10
no.
00:48:26.13\00:48:27.47
No! Yes!
00:48:27.50\00:48:30.57
I do set my bow in the cloud.
00:48:30.61\00:48:35.48
When I was wrapping
up the eight night series
00:48:35.51\00:48:38.01
from our living
room to New York City.
00:48:38.05\00:48:39.91
You remember we
talked about that
00:48:39.95\00:48:41.28
back in May?
00:48:41.32\00:48:42.65
Eight nights in a row.
00:48:42.68\00:48:44.02
The last night
is a Saturday night.
00:48:44.05\00:48:45.39
This is the wrap up night.
00:48:45.42\00:48:46.99
Just before going on air,
00:48:47.02\00:48:48.42
I get a text
from Claudia Sowler,
00:48:48.46\00:48:50.53
my executive assistant,
00:48:50.56\00:48:52.49
and it says, "Did you know
00:48:52.53\00:48:54.10
that we're under a tornado watch
00:48:54.13\00:48:55.60
until 10 o'clock tonight?"
00:48:55.63\00:48:57.97
Oh, I didn't know that.
00:48:58.00\00:48:59.60
What we gonna do?
00:48:59.63\00:49:00.97
So we went on and
sure enough, boom, man,
00:49:01.00\00:49:03.30
the thunderstorms
rumbled over head.
00:49:03.34\00:49:06.84
Fortunately, no tornado.
00:49:06.88\00:49:09.04
When I finally signed
off for the last time,
00:49:09.08\00:49:11.75
Karen goes out onto our
deck behind the house and said,
00:49:11.78\00:49:14.32
"Dwight, you gotta
come here, come here."
00:49:14.35\00:49:16.58
I hurry out
there, what she's seen.
00:49:16.62\00:49:19.72
And then, in all
its resplendent glory,
00:49:19.75\00:49:26.56
I saw what Janna
Quetz took a picture of,
00:49:26.59\00:49:31.40
and I'm going to show it to
you right now on the screen.
00:49:31.43\00:49:35.20
Look at that.
00:49:35.24\00:49:37.91
That was that night.
00:49:37.94\00:49:40.31
In the distance,
00:49:40.34\00:49:41.68
the gray on
roaming thunderstorm,
00:49:41.71\00:49:46.15
behind us, the sun,
00:49:46.18\00:49:47.88
refracting in the
raindrops still in the air.
00:49:47.92\00:49:51.29
And there is that
beautiful, beautiful rainbow.
00:49:51.32\00:49:54.36
You know what,
00:49:54.39\00:49:55.72
every time you see one of those,
00:49:55.76\00:49:57.09
and we're blessed to see them.
00:49:57.13\00:49:58.89
God says, "I
want you to remember,
00:49:58.93\00:50:00.40
I do set my bow in the cloud."
00:50:00.43\00:50:06.84
Wow!
00:50:06.87\00:50:08.67
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
00:50:08.70\00:50:10.54
Maybe God has set
a bow in your cloud.
00:50:10.57\00:50:14.74
You say, "Dwight,
00:50:14.78\00:50:16.11
what cloud are
you talking about?"
00:50:16.14\00:50:17.48
I'm talking about the cloud
00:50:17.51\00:50:18.85
that's hanging
over you right now.
00:50:18.88\00:50:20.22
That's the
cloud I'm speaking of.
00:50:20.25\00:50:21.58
Seems like that cloud
has stalled over your life,
00:50:21.62\00:50:23.59
and you're being drenched.
00:50:23.62\00:50:25.82
Right?
00:50:25.85\00:50:27.19
Could it be God
has installed His bow,
00:50:27.22\00:50:31.19
I do set my bow in
the cloud, your cloud.
00:50:31.23\00:50:36.97
This doesn't feel
like the good news
00:50:37.00\00:50:38.60
it needs to feel like
00:50:38.63\00:50:39.97
until we get one more
verse and then I'm sitting down,
00:50:40.00\00:50:42.14
but I need you to look this up.
00:50:42.17\00:50:43.51
I never knew that
Isaiah talked about Noah,
00:50:43.54\00:50:45.84
and the flood, and the
rainbow, but you're gonna see,
00:50:45.87\00:50:48.61
I just learned it this week.
00:50:48.64\00:50:49.98
And I got to share it with
you before I sit down, come on.
00:50:50.01\00:50:52.31
This is Isaiah Chapter 54.
00:50:52.35\00:50:54.78
Isaiah 54.
00:50:54.82\00:50:56.92
God is speaking through Isaiah.
00:50:56.95\00:50:58.65
Okay, so drop down to verse 9.
00:50:58.69\00:51:00.12
You want to know
00:51:00.16\00:51:01.49
what that
rainbow is all about now.
00:51:01.52\00:51:02.86
Here we go.
00:51:02.89\00:51:04.23
Verse 9, "To me, God
is speaking to Israel,
00:51:04.26\00:51:06.63
"this is like the days of Noah,
00:51:06.66\00:51:09.00
when I swore that
the waters of Noah
00:51:09.03\00:51:11.90
would never
again cover the earth."
00:51:11.93\00:51:13.60
Well, we just
read that little story.
00:51:13.64\00:51:15.34
And we know that, he
said, I'm putting a rainbow
00:51:15.37\00:51:16.81
just to prove to you
00:51:16.84\00:51:18.17
that we're
never going to destroy
00:51:18.21\00:51:19.54
the planet.
00:51:19.57\00:51:20.91
So we have the rainbow
now, we have Noah and the flood,
00:51:20.94\00:51:22.28
but keep reading.
00:51:22.31\00:51:23.65
It's verse 10,
00:51:23.68\00:51:25.01
"Though the mountains be shaken
00:51:25.05\00:51:27.42
and the hills be removed,"
00:51:27.45\00:51:29.48
you want to get a
feel for a brave new world,
00:51:29.52\00:51:31.42
you just read it.
00:51:31.45\00:51:32.79
"Though the mountains be
shaken and the hills removed"
00:51:32.82\00:51:34.39
because that's
what greeted their eyes
00:51:34.42\00:51:35.76
as they step out into
that blinding sunlight.
00:51:35.79\00:51:38.36
It's been devastated.
00:51:38.39\00:51:40.50
"But though the
mountains be shaken
00:51:40.53\00:51:43.10
and the hills be
removed in your brave new world,
00:51:43.13\00:51:46.13
yet My unfailing love
for you will not be shaken."
00:51:46.17\00:51:52.61
Wow!
00:51:52.64\00:51:54.31
Every time you say I do
set my bow in the cloud.
00:51:54.34\00:51:57.65
Every time you see that rainbow,
00:51:57.68\00:51:59.01
I want you to know.
00:51:59.05\00:52:01.72
Though your
mountains and the hills
00:52:01.75\00:52:03.08
had been shaken and moved,
00:52:03.12\00:52:05.55
and though this
is a brave new world
00:52:05.59\00:52:07.02
for you as you
emerge from this lockdown
00:52:07.06\00:52:08.82
into the life that
you got to keep living.
00:52:08.86\00:52:11.86
I want you to know
00:52:11.89\00:52:13.43
that my unfailing love for you
00:52:13.46\00:52:16.73
will not be shaken
00:52:16.77\00:52:18.70
like those
mountains won't be shaken.
00:52:18.73\00:52:21.30
I'm gonna surround you.
00:52:21.34\00:52:23.10
My love will hold you.
00:52:23.14\00:52:26.17
Are you an administrator
00:52:26.21\00:52:28.98
wrestling over what
it's gonna look like this
00:52:29.01\00:52:31.51
brave new world of a new
year that's just weeks away now?
00:52:31.55\00:52:35.15
God speaking to you.
00:52:35.18\00:52:36.65
Get My love,
00:52:36.69\00:52:38.02
My unfailing love for
you will not be shaken.
00:52:38.05\00:52:44.69
Are you someone
who battles a battle
00:52:44.73\00:52:47.40
that you and God know about?
00:52:47.43\00:52:49.66
And you wonder if you
will survive this yet.
00:52:49.70\00:52:52.60
Though the mountains are
moved and the hills are shaken,
00:52:52.63\00:52:57.21
My unfailing love for
you will not be shaken.
00:52:57.24\00:53:02.91
Wow!
00:53:02.94\00:53:05.21
That's what the rainbow means.
00:53:05.25\00:53:07.22
That's what the
rainbow means for all of us
00:53:07.25\00:53:11.99
who like Noah and his family
00:53:12.02\00:53:14.49
have to walk through these doors
00:53:14.52\00:53:17.43
and back out into a world,
00:53:17.46\00:53:19.29
a brave new world
that's waiting for us.
00:53:19.33\00:53:22.40
So you don't have to be afraid.
00:53:22.43\00:53:25.57
You got companionship.
00:53:25.60\00:53:26.94
Oh, yes, you do.
00:53:26.97\00:53:28.70
Look, when I was a
boy, I grew up with a song.
00:53:28.74\00:53:32.17
I think it was in happy songs.
00:53:32.21\00:53:33.54
I should have checked
it this week, but I didn't.
00:53:33.58\00:53:36.98
A song that I
learned I would whistle it.
00:53:37.01\00:53:39.75
You've probably heard it.
00:53:39.78\00:53:41.12
It goes like,
something like this,
00:53:41.15\00:53:42.48
anywhere with Jesus,
00:53:42.52\00:53:45.09
I can safely...
00:53:45.12\00:53:47.82
How's it go?
00:53:47.86\00:53:49.19
Anywhere with Jesus,
00:53:49.22\00:53:50.56
I can safely go
anywhere He leads me.
00:53:50.59\00:53:53.53
Now listen to this,
00:53:53.56\00:53:54.90
anywhere He leads me in
this brave new world below.
00:53:54.93\00:53:58.97
Yep.
00:53:59.00\00:54:00.54
Anywhere without Him
dearest joys would fade.
00:54:00.57\00:54:05.14
Anywhere with Jesus, I
am not, what's the word?
00:54:05.17\00:54:08.21
What's the word
that rhymes with fade?
00:54:08.24\00:54:10.58
I am not a fade.
00:54:10.61\00:54:14.45
I'm not afraid.
00:54:14.48\00:54:17.75
Stick to your text,
Dwight, quit looking in my face.
00:54:17.79\00:54:21.32
No, I have to.
00:54:21.36\00:54:22.69
I have to look in your face.
00:54:22.72\00:54:24.06
I have to hold
your eyes this time.
00:54:24.09\00:54:25.99
I'm not afraid
00:54:26.03\00:54:27.36
anywhere,
anywhere, fear I cannot know.
00:54:27.40\00:54:29.46
Anywhere with
Jesus, I can safely go.
00:54:29.50\00:54:33.94
That's the good news.
00:54:33.97\00:54:35.30
It's a brave new
world. Of course, it is.
00:54:35.34\00:54:36.97
I have no idea what's out there.
00:54:37.01\00:54:38.81
I have no idea at all.
00:54:38.84\00:54:40.38
I just know that you
and I are going together,
00:54:40.41\00:54:42.81
will stay together.
00:54:42.84\00:54:44.18
And with Jesus,
00:54:44.21\00:54:45.55
if we're with
Jesus, we can safely go.
00:54:45.58\00:54:49.38
Come on, let's sing it.
Let's sing it right now.
00:54:49.42\00:54:51.59
The ladies are
going to sing for us,
00:54:51.62\00:54:52.95
Sinegugu and Lyndon,
00:54:52.99\00:54:54.32
they're going to
sing for us right now.
00:54:54.36\00:54:55.69
But you sing along.
00:54:55.72\00:54:57.06
Don't worry about,
00:54:57.09\00:54:58.43
is my aerosol
getting on anybody.
00:54:58.46\00:54:59.79
You can sing your
heart out there at home
00:54:59.83\00:55:02.56
and let's sing together.
00:55:02.60\00:55:03.93
Anywhere with Jesus
00:55:19.18\00:55:21.75
I can safely go
00:55:21.78\00:55:25.82
Anywhere He leads me
00:55:25.85\00:55:28.32
In this world below
00:55:28.36\00:55:32.69
Anywhere without Him
00:55:32.73\00:55:35.06
Dearest joys would fade
00:55:35.10\00:55:39.53
Anywhere with Jesus
00:55:39.57\00:55:41.90
I am not afraid
00:55:41.94\00:55:46.37
Anywhere! Anywhere!
00:55:46.41\00:55:50.25
Fear I cannot know
00:55:50.28\00:55:54.42
Anywhere with Jesus
00:55:54.45\00:55:57.15
I can safely go.
00:55:57.19\00:56:02.16
Oh, Father,
00:56:05.46\00:56:06.80
that's such a
beautiful assurance
00:56:06.83\00:56:10.17
anywhere, anywhere with Jesus,
00:56:10.20\00:56:15.00
we can safely go.
00:56:15.04\00:56:17.74
We have no idea.
00:56:17.77\00:56:19.67
Talking about sheer uncertainty.
00:56:19.71\00:56:21.04
It's what we live with.
00:56:21.08\00:56:22.41
We have no idea what lies ahead.
00:56:22.44\00:56:26.11
But we know that with Jesus,
00:56:26.15\00:56:28.62
we can emerge into
that brave new world
00:56:28.65\00:56:34.46
and in the shelter of your love,
00:56:34.49\00:56:36.59
my unfailing love for
you that will not be shaken.
00:56:36.62\00:56:41.63
In the shelter of
that rainbow love of yours,
00:56:41.66\00:56:46.60
we can go forth.
00:56:46.63\00:56:50.31
And now,
00:56:50.34\00:56:52.01
may the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ
00:56:52.04\00:56:55.61
and the love of God
00:56:55.64\00:56:57.71
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:56:57.75\00:56:59.51
be with you all.
00:56:59.55\00:57:02.28
Amen.
00:57:02.32\00:57:03.65
We've been really
blessed by the financial support
00:57:06.99\00:57:08.76
that comes from our viewers,
00:57:08.79\00:57:10.23
and we've made a
conscious decision
00:57:10.26\00:57:11.66
not to continually appeal to you
00:57:11.69\00:57:14.00
for that support.
00:57:14.03\00:57:15.40
The fact is, as
everyone in the industry
00:57:15.43\00:57:17.10
will tell you,
00:57:17.13\00:57:18.47
we're needing to
make constant upgrades
00:57:18.50\00:57:19.83
to our technology.
00:57:19.87\00:57:21.47
So if God has blessed you
00:57:21.50\00:57:22.94
and you'd like to further
the work of this ministry,
00:57:22.97\00:57:25.17
we invite you
to partner with us.
00:57:25.21\00:57:26.64
Not a single penny of
your donation will go to me.
00:57:26.68\00:57:29.44
Every bit of your
gift goes to the mission
00:57:29.48\00:57:31.91
of blessing your
community and our world.
00:57:31.95\00:57:34.35
You can donate on our
website, newperceptions.TV.
00:57:34.38\00:57:37.35
Or call the number.
00:57:37.39\00:57:38.89
You know the
number, 877-HIS-WILL.
00:57:38.92\00:57:41.52
Again, that number is 877,
00:57:41.56\00:57:43.69
the two words HIS-WILL.
00:57:43.73\00:57:45.46
And may the God
00:57:45.49\00:57:46.83
who has blessed to
continue to pour into your life
00:57:46.86\00:57:49.10
the gifts of His
joy and His hope.
00:57:49.13\00:57:51.90
Thank you.
00:57:51.93\00:57:53.27
And I'm looking forward
to seeing you right here,
00:57:53.30\00:57:55.27
again, next time.
00:57:55.30\00:57:57.24