O worship the
King All glorious above
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O gratefully sing
His wonderful love
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Our Shield and
Defender The Ancient of Days
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Pavilioned in splendor
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And girded with praise
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Thy bountiful care
What tongue can recite?
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It breathed in the
air It shines in the light
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It streams from the
hills It descends to the plain
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And sweetly distills
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In the dew and the rain.
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Lord, we gather here today
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to accept Your
guidance in our lives.
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And, Lord, as
Andrews University faculty
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are coming back
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and students are
getting ready to come on campus
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and all around
Southwest Michigan teachers
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are organizing at every
level and around the world.
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And You were doing everything
we can to be safe, Lord,
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and to keep others safe
and to inspire our students
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and to offer them love
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and acceptance
and encouragement.
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But we have fears, Lord,
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we confess these fears
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and these
distractions in our lives.
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And we just ask, Lord,
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that You would put
a fire in our hearts
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to turn our eyes upon You.
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We ask that You would
help us to accept Your peace,
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Your peace that
passes all understanding.
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In the name of
Your prayer, amen.
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Like a river glorious
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Is God's perfect peace
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Over all victorious
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In its bright increase
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Perfect, yet it floweth
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Fuller every day
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Perfect, yet it groweth
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Deeper all the way
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Trusting in Jehovah
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Hearts are fully blest
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Finding as He promised
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Perfect peace and rest
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Hidden in the hollow
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Of His blessed hand
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Never foe can follow
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Never traitor stand
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Not a surge of worry
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Not a shade of care
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Not a blast of hurry
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Touch the spirit there
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Trusting in Jehovah
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Hearts are fully blest
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Finding as He promised
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Perfect peace and rest
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Every joy or testing
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Comes from God above
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Given to His children
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As an act of love
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We may trust Him fully
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All for us to do
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Those who trust Him wholly
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Find Him wholly true
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Trusting in Jehovah
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Hearts are fully blest
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Finding as He promised
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Perfect peace and rest.
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Amen.
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You know this morning,
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I was talking with Susan
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and she said
something that stuck in my mind,
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she said, "The hard
thing about mask wearing
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is she had to tell
people that she's smiling."
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You know, we can't
communicate in the same way
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when we're wearing a mask.
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And I just wanna
encourage you all
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to put a giant smile
on your face right now.
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I am so, so happy to be
seeing you all this morning.
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It's my first
time back in church
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and in the building
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and to see the
smile on your face,
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open, open the
joy in your heart.
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And let's lean together
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in the
everlasting arms of Jesus.
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What a
fellowship, What a joy divine
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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What a blessedness
What a peace is mine
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, leaning
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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O how sweet to
walk In this pilgrim way
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Oh, how bright the
path Grows from day to day
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, leaning
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, leaning
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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What have I to
dread What have I to fear
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Leaning On the everlasting arms?
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I have blessed
peace With my Lord so near
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, leaning
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Leaning
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On the everlasting arms.
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Can I get an amen for that?
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Do you have some joy in
your heart this morning?
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You should.
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We have a marvelous Creator
and Redeemer who we worship.
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We should take
confidence in that.
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So as we open our
hearts for prayer now,
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we're going to
sing one more song
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and the song has a
special, a special word in it.
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The word is just,
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and it's not
referring to our God,
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who is just as He is.
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He's the definition of justice.
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It's referring to the idea of,
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if I would only
do this little thing,
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if I would just do this.
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So as we sing the
song, meditate on this word.
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Open your heart.
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Be honest, before God.
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What are you doing with just?
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'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
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Just to take Him at His Word
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Just to rest upon His promise
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Just to know
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"Thus saith the Lord"
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
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How I've proved
Him O'er and o'er!
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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O for grace
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To trust Him more
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Yes, 'tis sweet
To trust in Jesus
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Just from sin and self to cease
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Just from Jesus simply taking
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Life and rest and joy and peace
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
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How I've proved
Him O'er and o'er!
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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O for grace
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To trust Him more
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I'm so glad
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I learned to trust Him
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Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend
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And I know That Thou are with me
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Wilt be with me till the end
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him
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How I've proved
Him O'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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O for grace
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To trust Him more
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Good afternoon everyone.
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The song that Steven
and I would like to sing
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is a song written
by our son Nicholas.
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It grew out of some
research that he did,
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looking for the
images and understandings
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of who God might be in
the population at large.
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He talked to
all kinds of people.
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He was living in LA at the time.
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Went to grad school.
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He talked to families
and people in restaurants
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and people in coffee
bars and people in other bars.
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He told me he didn't partake.
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He talked to just
the rich, the poor,
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everybody he could find,
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to see who and
how people interfaced
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with the idea of God.
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And what he found
is also corroborated
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very much in other research,
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that we tend to believe
that there is something more.
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There is a God out there,
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who has the
bigger picture in mind.
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And so this song
grew out of that research,
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but he also admits
as the rest of us do,
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for all we know,
God is infinitely more.
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He is all of this and more.
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You are Father, Creator
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The source of everything
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And the songs We
sing are different
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But it's You Who makes us think
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You cannot be imagined
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Yet in Your image we are made
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You know everything
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But you still
listen When we pray
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Do the motherless your mother
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Do they abandoned you a friend
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To the falling you are Savior
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Your compassion never ends
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To the sick, you are healing
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You are food to the poor
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You are everything we need
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You are all of this and more
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You are all of this and more
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Even beyond what You have shown
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And we're standing on the shore
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Of an ocean of unknown
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And in the calm And in the storm
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We can hear Your voice
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In ways We've never heard before
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You are God
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You are all of this and more
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You are love You are justice
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You are mystery You are unknown
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We are separated from You
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Yet we are not alone
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You allow The clouds of darkness
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But your streams
of light Breakthrough
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You're beyond all comprehension
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There is no one else like You
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You are all of this and more
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Even beyond what You have shown
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And we're standing on the shore
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Of an ocean of unknown
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And in the calm And in the storm
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We can hear Your voice
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In ways We've never heard before
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You are God
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You are all of this and more
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You are all of this and more
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Even beyond What You have shown
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And we're standing on the shore
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Of an ocean of unknown
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And in the calm And in the storm
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We can hear Your voice
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In ways We've never heard before
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You are God
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You are all of this and more
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You are God
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You are all of this
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You are all of this and more
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Even beyond What You have shown
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And we're standing On the shore
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Of an ocean of unknown
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And in the calm And in the storm
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We can hear Your voice
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In ways We've never heard before
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You are God
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You are all of this and more
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You are God
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You are all of this.
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Lord Jesus,
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You are all of this and more
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and You've been that to us.
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Holy Spirit,
you've been that to us.
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Heavenly Father,
You have been that to us
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all of this and more.
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We're glad to be
alive. We're glad to be here.
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And we're glad to be
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on the other side of the camera.
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Bless the remaining
moments in the Word of God.
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We need a word from Jesus.
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Let the word be
clear. We pray in His name.
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Amen.
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Isn't it amazing
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how you can be
sitting one moment,
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just loving life,
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all the joy and
exuberance of life
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bursting up in your heart
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and you're kind of
singing to yourself
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zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay.
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Oh, my oh my,
what a wonderful day.
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And then just like that,
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your world is
turned upside down.
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They just released them
this week, did you see them?
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I saw them from
the security cameras
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in the St. George
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Hospital
University Medical Center
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in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Those cameras are
running full time when that,
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what was it?
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Ammonium nitrate explosion
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levels Beirut at
least the downtown.
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St. George's near,
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the hospital is
near ground zero.
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I watched those, unbelievable.
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Here comes a physician.
He's walking down the hall.
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He walks past
the nurse's station
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for some reason he
just feels impressed.
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He goes in, boom,
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the whole hall behind him
in that instant disappeared,
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lights out.
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They had a security
camera up in the lobby
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of this wonderful hospital.
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And teenage Lebanese kids
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with their
pandemic white masks on
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are scurrying around out,
they must have heard something,
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they start to go this way,
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then they start
running this way and then boom.
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And then there
was a maternity ward.
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I had to watch this
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to make sure I
wouldn't have told you
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about it otherwise.
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All the bassinets were there.
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I watched it the second time,
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not a baby in those
bassinets, hallelujah.
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The nurses take a look at
all these empty bassinets,
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she goes over here
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and then the
window and the wall.
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The camera keeps going,
00:21:35.02\00:21:36.56
dust settles she
gets up, hallelujah,
00:21:36.59\00:21:40.40
everyone survives
in these video clips.
00:21:40.43\00:21:44.20
One moment, the next gone.
00:21:44.23\00:21:49.27
Pandemic, one moment,
00:21:49.30\00:21:51.41
the next here we are, explosion.
00:21:51.44\00:21:53.58
It can be a phone call you get
00:21:53.61\00:21:55.18
that turns your
world upside down.
00:21:55.21\00:21:57.78
In fact, Jesus
wants us to understand
00:21:57.81\00:22:00.02
that even with
the Second Coming,
00:22:00.05\00:22:02.28
it's going to be that way.
00:22:02.32\00:22:03.65
One moment, here.
00:22:03.69\00:22:07.72
Open your Bible with
me to the words of Jesus.
00:22:07.76\00:22:09.36
Just read that words today,
00:22:09.39\00:22:11.29
because we're
back together again,
00:22:11.33\00:22:13.09
a new year is about to
begin, hasn't begun yet.
00:22:13.13\00:22:15.83
But Mark Chapter 13,
00:22:15.86\00:22:17.93
open your Bible Mark Chapter 13.
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I'll be in the NIV again today.
00:22:19.77\00:22:22.60
Mark Chapter 13,
the words of Jesus.
00:22:22.64\00:22:24.37
What's happened here
00:22:24.41\00:22:25.74
is Jesus is going to
tell us a story, all right.
00:22:25.77\00:22:28.74
This is just three
days before the implosion,
00:22:28.78\00:22:30.75
the explosion called
Calvary three days in advance,
00:22:30.78\00:22:33.92
this is late Tuesday afternoon.
00:22:33.95\00:22:36.55
He has just laid out
00:22:36.58\00:22:38.62
to His closest friends on earth,
00:22:38.65\00:22:40.92
a series of economic indicators,
00:22:40.96\00:22:43.63
political indicators,
sociological indicators,
00:22:43.66\00:22:46.06
ecological indicators,
meteorological indicators
00:22:46.09\00:22:48.86
that will
together form the harbinger
00:22:48.90\00:22:52.03
of His return to this planet.
00:22:52.07\00:22:55.34
He's going to tell a story.
00:22:55.37\00:22:57.57
Let's read it together.
00:22:57.61\00:22:59.01
This is Mark 13:32, but
red letters in my Bible.
00:22:59.04\00:23:02.91
"But about that day
or hour no one knows,
00:23:02.94\00:23:06.72
not even the angels in heaven,
nor the Son," capital S son,
00:23:06.75\00:23:11.15
"but only the Father."
00:23:11.19\00:23:12.85
Whoa, pause button.
00:23:12.89\00:23:14.32
Come on, Dwight, you can't,
00:23:14.36\00:23:15.69
you don't think
00:23:15.72\00:23:17.06
Jesus really meant what He said.
00:23:17.09\00:23:18.43
You don't think He
meant that He Himself
00:23:18.46\00:23:20.03
because it says its capital S.
00:23:20.06\00:23:21.70
He doesn't know
the day of His return?
00:23:21.73\00:23:24.10
Do you know what scholars
have a big debate about that?
00:23:24.13\00:23:26.80
They're weighing in on
both sides of the question.
00:23:26.84\00:23:28.74
No, He doesn't know
00:23:28.77\00:23:30.11
because it's His
son of man nature
00:23:30.14\00:23:32.11
that He's speaking through.
00:23:32.14\00:23:33.71
And after the resurrection
will be His Son of God nature
00:23:33.74\00:23:37.28
that will take back over.
00:23:37.31\00:23:39.08
And it goes back and forth.
00:23:39.11\00:23:41.38
But Frederick Dale
Bruner in his commentary,
00:23:41.42\00:23:44.59
talking about these words.
00:23:44.62\00:23:46.89
He kind of draws a
circle around this way.
00:23:46.92\00:23:49.19
Man, I quote him,
00:23:49.22\00:23:50.56
"It is the very
glory of the incarnation,
00:23:50.59\00:23:54.23
that Christ accepted
those limitations of knowledge,
00:23:54.26\00:23:57.63
which are inseparable
from a true humanity."
00:23:57.67\00:24:01.14
In other words,
00:24:01.17\00:24:02.50
He's one with us at that moment.
00:24:02.54\00:24:04.37
We could have gone up to
Jesus right after and said,
00:24:04.41\00:24:06.41
Lord, this is
fascinating what You did here
00:24:06.44\00:24:08.58
in the little
apocalypse of Mark 13,
00:24:08.61\00:24:10.15
but we have a question.
00:24:10.18\00:24:11.61
Can you give us the date?
00:24:11.65\00:24:13.28
We need the date
when You're coming back.
00:24:13.31\00:24:15.18
And you know what
He would have said?
00:24:15.22\00:24:18.82
It has not been revealed to me.
00:24:18.85\00:24:22.59
Only My Father knows.
00:24:22.62\00:24:25.29
It's possible that even today,
00:24:25.33\00:24:27.33
Jesus so allied with us
in our humanity has chosen,
00:24:27.36\00:24:31.07
"Don't tell Me father.
00:24:31.10\00:24:32.73
I'll just keep
working as hard as I can
00:24:32.77\00:24:36.20
until You hit the button."
00:24:36.24\00:24:38.91
End.
00:24:38.94\00:24:40.74
Wow.
00:24:40.78\00:24:42.98
Now, Jesus is going
to share two assertions
00:24:43.01\00:24:47.72
that we need to get
straight in our minds.
00:24:47.75\00:24:49.68
And He's just shared
assertion number one,
00:24:49.72\00:24:51.82
let's put it.
00:24:51.85\00:24:53.19
Let's put it on
the screen, please.
00:24:53.22\00:24:54.86
Assertion number
one, what do we know?
00:24:54.89\00:24:56.83
We know the
uncertainty of His timing.
00:24:56.86\00:24:59.66
Isn't that right? Nobody knows.
00:24:59.69\00:25:02.20
Nobody knows.
00:25:02.23\00:25:05.83
But let's be clear.
00:25:05.87\00:25:07.24
The uncertainty of His timing
00:25:07.27\00:25:11.24
is not speaking,
00:25:11.27\00:25:15.11
well, just read the next slide.
00:25:15.14\00:25:17.15
Let just read the next slide.
00:25:17.18\00:25:19.01
And I'm gonna put
the second assertion up.
00:25:19.05\00:25:21.12
But we need to
read verse 33 first.
00:25:21.15\00:25:22.65
I was so eager to
share it with you,
00:25:22.68\00:25:24.02
but let's read verse 33 first.
00:25:24.05\00:25:26.09
So he said, Hey, nobody
knows the day or the hour,
00:25:26.12\00:25:28.02
nobody, nobody,
nobody but the Father.
00:25:28.06\00:25:29.49
Now verse 33, "Be on guard!
00:25:29.52\00:25:32.09
Be alert!
00:25:32.13\00:25:33.46
You do not know when
that time will come."
00:25:33.50\00:25:36.46
There's a second
assertion. Let's put that up.
00:25:36.50\00:25:38.00
Now, I'm ready for it.
00:25:38.03\00:25:39.37
Assertion number one, the
uncertainty of His timing.
00:25:39.40\00:25:41.87
Now here comes
assertion number two
00:25:41.90\00:25:43.51
that Jesus makes the certainty,
00:25:43.54\00:25:46.04
not the uncertainty, the
certainty of His returning.
00:25:46.07\00:25:50.45
Let us be clear,
00:25:50.48\00:25:52.55
His returning is
not the uncertainty.
00:25:52.58\00:25:55.22
It's not the uncertainty,
00:25:55.25\00:25:56.69
the uncertainty is
only about the timing.
00:25:56.72\00:26:00.26
That's a big deal
00:26:00.29\00:26:01.62
in this brave
new pandemic world,
00:26:01.66\00:26:03.76
on the eve of the
new year beginning
00:26:03.79\00:26:05.79
here at Andrews University,
00:26:05.83\00:26:07.40
it is not the
returning that is up for grabs.
00:26:07.43\00:26:10.83
Jesus said, "Let not
your heart be," what?
00:26:10.87\00:26:13.60
"Let not your heart be troubled,
00:26:13.64\00:26:14.97
you believe in
God, believe also in...
00:26:15.00\00:26:17.31
In My Father's house are many.
00:26:17.34\00:26:19.27
If it were not
so, I would have...
00:26:19.31\00:26:21.28
I go to prepare a place for you.
00:26:21.31\00:26:23.04
And if I go and prepare a
place for you," let's do it.
00:26:23.08\00:26:25.55
Let's do it out loud
with your hand over your mask.
00:26:25.58\00:26:29.02
"If I go and
prepare a place for you,"
00:26:29.05\00:26:30.99
ah, let's do it out loud,
00:26:31.02\00:26:32.75
"I would come again."
00:26:32.79\00:26:35.52
I went to a
business the other day.
00:26:35.56\00:26:37.96
And the guy saw me coming.
00:26:37.99\00:26:39.56
And he knew who I was.
00:26:39.59\00:26:40.93
So he quickly said
excuse me, just a minute.
00:26:40.96\00:26:43.93
He said, "I have my
handmade mask on now."
00:26:43.97\00:26:48.54
Yeah, it's hard to
communicate, it's hard to talk.
00:26:48.57\00:26:51.21
I will come again.
00:26:51.24\00:26:52.84
We cannot miss.
00:26:52.87\00:26:54.21
There is no uncertainty
about the return of Jesus.
00:26:54.24\00:26:57.21
In fact, you know
what I've noticed?
00:26:57.25\00:26:58.65
I find this rather illuminating.
00:26:58.68\00:27:00.35
How many of you
have earnestly concluded
00:27:00.38\00:27:02.65
and I've been hearing from you.
00:27:02.68\00:27:04.19
You have
concluded, you know what?
00:27:04.22\00:27:06.42
I'm even more certain
00:27:06.45\00:27:07.79
Jesus is returning soon
than I was before the pandemic.
00:27:07.82\00:27:10.36
I'm more sure now
that He's returning soon.
00:27:10.39\00:27:12.76
Something has happened to us.
00:27:12.79\00:27:15.16
We are not the same people
00:27:15.20\00:27:16.53
that went into this
pandemic six months ago.
00:27:16.56\00:27:18.13
We are not the same
people. We have changed.
00:27:18.17\00:27:21.70
And not all for the bad.
00:27:21.74\00:27:26.57
Oh, I tell you what?
00:27:26.61\00:27:28.81
There's a video
that's gone viral.
00:27:28.84\00:27:30.58
I'm going to tell
you about in a moment
00:27:30.61\00:27:31.95
from a Baptist pastor.
00:27:31.98\00:27:35.85
Something's changed in America.
00:27:35.88\00:27:39.45
Yeah.
00:27:39.49\00:27:40.82
Now let's be very
clear, ladies and gentlemen,
00:27:40.86\00:27:42.26
can we put those
two up again, please?
00:27:42.29\00:27:43.79
The uncertainty of His time,
00:27:43.83\00:27:45.19
the uncertainty
is about the timing,
00:27:45.23\00:27:47.16
not the returning.
00:27:47.20\00:27:48.53
The return is
sure, I will come again.
00:27:48.56\00:27:52.10
You can count on me.
00:27:52.13\00:27:53.74
I'll be there.
00:27:53.77\00:27:55.74
So now He tells,
now He tells a story.
00:27:55.77\00:27:58.07
Once upon a time there was a man
00:27:58.11\00:28:00.31
in a lovely mansion,
00:28:00.34\00:28:01.68
and he had a lot of servants.
00:28:01.71\00:28:03.04
And one day he went,
00:28:03.08\00:28:04.41
"Yo, everybody got
to talk, got to talk.
00:28:04.45\00:28:06.98
Hey, listen, I need
to tell you something.
00:28:07.02\00:28:09.12
I'm going on a trip.
00:28:09.15\00:28:12.29
I'm going to be
gone for a while.
00:28:12.32\00:28:15.02
I need you each of
you, you know, you do this.
00:28:15.06\00:28:17.26
Yeah, you know
what, you just keep doing.
00:28:17.29\00:28:18.79
You keep doing
that really helpful.
00:28:18.83\00:28:21.43
You, you, you, you, you,
00:28:21.46\00:28:23.60
and then I'm going to come back.
00:28:23.63\00:28:25.67
Is that clear?"
00:28:25.70\00:28:27.24
"Clear, Master clear."
00:28:27.27\00:28:28.80
But before he could walk away.
00:28:28.84\00:28:30.34
"Excuse me, Master?"
00:28:30.37\00:28:32.47
"Yes."
00:28:32.51\00:28:34.44
"When are you coming back?"
00:28:34.48\00:28:38.85
He smiles.
00:28:38.88\00:28:40.58
"That's a deal.
00:28:40.62\00:28:41.95
I can't tell you.
00:28:41.98\00:28:43.62
I will be back though."
00:28:43.65\00:28:47.42
Yeah, that's the
story, let's read it.
00:28:47.46\00:28:49.79
Come on, red
letters. Here it is.
00:28:49.82\00:28:51.16
It's like a man, verse 34.
00:28:51.19\00:28:52.53
"It's like a man going away:
00:28:52.56\00:28:53.90
He leaves his house
00:28:53.93\00:28:55.26
and he puts his
servants in charge,
00:28:55.30\00:28:56.63
each with their assigned task,
00:28:56.67\00:28:58.70
and he tells the one
at the door to keep watch.
00:28:58.73\00:29:01.60
'Therefore keep watch
00:29:01.64\00:29:03.64
because you do not know
00:29:03.67\00:29:05.71
when the owner of the
house will come back.' "
00:29:05.74\00:29:07.74
Now, I want to put,
00:29:07.78\00:29:09.11
hold that verse
right on the screen here
00:29:09.14\00:29:10.48
because you have
both assertions again,
00:29:10.51\00:29:12.05
now he gave them once in
the preamble to the story
00:29:12.08\00:29:14.68
and now he repeats them.
00:29:14.72\00:29:16.05
Therefore keep
watch, you do not know.
00:29:16.08\00:29:19.25
Assertion number one,
00:29:19.29\00:29:20.69
the uncertainty
of His timing, right?
00:29:20.72\00:29:24.43
But then he quickly
says you do not know when
00:29:24.46\00:29:27.40
and he's making an assertion,
00:29:27.43\00:29:28.76
the owner of the
house will come back,
00:29:28.80\00:29:31.87
hallelujah.
00:29:31.90\00:29:33.40
And that's the
certainty of His returning.
00:29:33.44\00:29:39.21
It's the timing
that's the question.
00:29:39.24\00:29:41.51
Jesus is going to
speak three words.
00:29:46.01\00:29:50.22
And He's going to keep repeating
00:29:50.25\00:29:52.12
those three words.
00:29:52.15\00:29:53.62
Let's go back to
35 and pick it up
00:29:53.66\00:29:55.19
which would take it
to the end of his story.
00:29:55.22\00:29:56.99
Verse 35, "Therefore keep watch
00:29:57.03\00:29:58.43
because you do not know
00:29:58.46\00:29:59.79
when the owner of the
house will come back,"
00:29:59.83\00:30:02.63
two assertions there, they are,
00:30:02.66\00:30:04.33
"whether in the
evening or at midnight, "
00:30:04.37\00:30:07.10
this is there four
watches of the Roman night,
00:30:07.14\00:30:09.50
you got evening,
then you got midnight
00:30:09.54\00:30:11.47
or when the
rooster crows or at dawn.
00:30:11.51\00:30:14.91
If he comes, verse
36, "If he comes suddenly,
00:30:14.94\00:30:17.71
do not let him
find you sleeping."
00:30:17.75\00:30:19.58
Verse 37,"What I say to
you, I say to everyone, Watch!"
00:30:19.61\00:30:24.25
Watch.
00:30:24.29\00:30:25.62
What's Jesus point?
00:30:25.65\00:30:26.99
You just got it. That's it.
00:30:27.02\00:30:28.36
In the Greek Gregoreuo.
00:30:28.39\00:30:31.39
I have a brother named Gregory.
00:30:31.43\00:30:33.80
And his name,
00:30:33.83\00:30:35.16
I'm absolutely convinced
00:30:35.20\00:30:36.53
is from this
Greek word, Gregoreuo.
00:30:36.56\00:30:38.40
What's Gregoreuo
mean? It means keep watch.
00:30:38.43\00:30:40.20
It's just be
watchful, be watchful.
00:30:40.24\00:30:43.20
Three times,
00:30:43.24\00:30:45.24
you just look through it
and count yourself three times,
00:30:45.27\00:30:47.64
watch, watch,
watch, watch, watch,
00:30:47.68\00:30:49.38
it go as more than three.
00:30:49.41\00:30:50.75
That's the whole
point. Just keep watching.
00:30:50.78\00:30:55.68
No question.
00:30:55.72\00:30:57.05
Jesus bottom line,
00:30:57.09\00:30:58.42
the uncertainty of His timing
00:30:58.45\00:31:00.26
is joined to the
certainty of His returning.
00:31:00.29\00:31:04.03
The two of them are
bound to each other.
00:31:04.06\00:31:07.40
And listen, let's say you and I,
00:31:07.43\00:31:09.06
we got all the
servants together,
00:31:09.10\00:31:10.43
the master is gone,
we find out the house,
00:31:10.47\00:31:12.50
and we show up and
we knock at the door
00:31:12.53\00:31:15.00
and the door keeper answers
00:31:15.04\00:31:16.77
and we say
listen, "Can we come in?
00:31:16.81\00:31:18.47
We just want to ask
the servants who work here
00:31:18.51\00:31:21.34
three simple little questions.
00:31:21.38\00:31:22.71
Would that be okay?"
00:31:22.74\00:31:24.08
He's a friendly
guy. Yeah, come on in.
00:31:24.11\00:31:26.05
Yo, everybody take five,
come on down to the entryway,
00:31:26.08\00:31:29.35
we got some guests.
00:31:29.38\00:31:31.15
So all the servants
come tumbling down the stairs
00:31:31.19\00:31:33.92
and from the back of the house.
00:31:33.96\00:31:35.39
And we say listen,
00:31:35.42\00:31:36.76
thank you for letting me
00:31:36.79\00:31:38.13
interrupt your
obviously very busy morning.
00:31:38.16\00:31:39.66
We have three simple
questions to ask you.
00:31:39.69\00:31:41.63
Question number one.
00:31:41.66\00:31:44.17
We have learned that
your master has left.
00:31:44.20\00:31:47.40
Do you know when
he's coming back?
00:31:47.44\00:31:50.51
Hands shoots up?
00:31:50.54\00:31:51.87
I don't know.
00:31:51.91\00:31:53.24
Another hand shoots up.
00:31:53.27\00:31:54.61
I feel it's soon.
00:31:54.64\00:31:56.64
Another hand yo,
00:31:56.68\00:31:58.15
well, it's sure a lot closer
to today than when he left.
00:31:58.18\00:32:04.75
That's good.
00:32:04.79\00:32:06.12
Question number
two, we want to ask you.
00:32:06.15\00:32:08.46
Could it be?
00:32:08.49\00:32:10.26
Do you suppose your
master has been delayed?
00:32:10.29\00:32:14.26
Hmm.
00:32:14.30\00:32:16.26
Everybody's thinking
and then somebody says,
00:32:16.30\00:32:17.83
"Well, how could that be?"
00:32:17.87\00:32:19.20
The voice pipes
up, "He never told us.
00:32:19.23\00:32:20.64
He never told us
00:32:20.67\00:32:22.00
when he was
returning, returning."
00:32:22.04\00:32:23.37
And then the wise person
at the back of the group says,
00:32:23.41\00:32:25.44
"Yeah, right."
00:32:25.47\00:32:26.81
So how could you
possibly call it a delay
00:32:26.84\00:32:28.68
when we have no date
00:32:28.71\00:32:30.05
by which to determine the delay?
00:32:30.08\00:32:33.18
You and I get in
this little habit,
00:32:33.21\00:32:34.55
little pity party.
00:32:34.58\00:32:35.92
Well, he's been
delayed, he's been delayed.
00:32:35.95\00:32:37.29
He's been delayed.
00:32:37.32\00:32:38.65
How can you call it the
delay, he never gave a date.
00:32:38.69\00:32:40.99
Right?
00:32:41.02\00:32:42.89
Okay, but we want
to ask three questions.
00:32:42.92\00:32:45.03
All right.
What's your third one?
00:32:45.06\00:32:46.39
Here it is.
00:32:46.43\00:32:48.36
Knowing all that,
00:32:48.40\00:32:50.07
how do you know
00:32:50.10\00:32:52.20
how to live
00:32:52.23\00:32:53.77
when you don't know
when he's returning?
00:32:53.80\00:33:00.31
Hmm.
00:33:00.34\00:33:02.58
And, of course,
that's Jesus point,
00:33:02.61\00:33:04.05
watch, watch, watch.
00:33:04.08\00:33:07.65
Let's read it one
more time, verse 35.
00:33:07.68\00:33:09.95
"Therefore keep watch
00:33:09.98\00:33:11.95
because you do not know
00:33:11.99\00:33:13.32
when the owner of
the house will come back,
00:33:13.36\00:33:15.22
whether in the
evening, or at midnight,
00:33:15.26\00:33:17.59
or when the
rooster crows, or at dawn.
00:33:17.63\00:33:20.56
If he comes suddenly,
00:33:20.60\00:33:22.30
do not let him
find you sleeping.
00:33:22.33\00:33:25.40
So what I say to you, I
say to everyone, "Watch!"
00:33:25.43\00:33:30.61
Because, ladies and gentlemen,
we know He's coming back.
00:33:30.64\00:33:34.74
Let's put that first line up.
00:33:34.78\00:33:37.05
We know He's coming, don't we?
00:33:37.08\00:33:39.15
I mean, don't you know
that Jesus is coming back?
00:33:39.18\00:33:41.78
You're not
conflicted on this, are you?
00:33:41.82\00:33:43.99
You know, He's
coming, don't you?
00:33:44.02\00:33:46.15
Of course, you do.
00:33:46.19\00:33:47.52
You know, the people say,
00:33:47.56\00:33:48.89
"Hey, you know,
I'm an Adventist,
00:33:48.92\00:33:50.26
but I don't know
that He's coming back."
00:33:50.29\00:33:52.96
You know, that kind of comments,
00:33:52.99\00:33:54.33
that's not an Adventist comment.
00:33:54.36\00:33:55.70
That's a sadventist.
00:33:55.73\00:33:57.80
We live for the return of Jesus
because we know He's coming.
00:33:57.83\00:34:02.10
Next line, please.
00:34:02.14\00:34:03.57
"Even though we don't
know when He's coming,"
00:34:03.61\00:34:07.88
third line please,
00:34:07.91\00:34:09.48
"we live our
lives as if it were,"
00:34:09.51\00:34:14.08
what's that last word?
00:34:14.12\00:34:15.45
"Today."
00:34:15.48\00:34:16.82
Yeah, we live our
lives as if it were today.
00:34:16.85\00:34:20.42
Shh, Jesus says,
"Don't fall asleep.
00:34:20.46\00:34:21.79
I'm telling you,
stay awake, stay alert.
00:34:21.82\00:34:24.03
Stay awake.
00:34:24.06\00:34:25.63
I'm coming."
00:34:25.66\00:34:27.36
And so we live our lives
00:34:27.40\00:34:30.93
as if it were today.
00:34:30.97\00:34:34.47
William Miller,
00:34:34.50\00:34:36.67
our great Baptist forefather
00:34:36.71\00:34:40.04
came to that
compelling conclusion
00:34:40.08\00:34:42.71
when he and his
fellow little a Adventist,
00:34:42.74\00:34:45.45
all right, not
capital A as you and me.
00:34:45.48\00:34:47.42
The little a Adventist
00:34:47.45\00:34:48.78
when they were so
bitterly disappointed
00:34:48.82\00:34:51.75
when they did exactly
what Jesus had told them.
00:34:51.79\00:34:53.92
You can't do, they
set a date for His return.
00:34:53.96\00:34:57.39
So disappointed
is William Miller
00:34:57.43\00:34:59.69
that he sits down
on November 10, 1844.
00:34:59.73\00:35:05.37
Grabs his writing utensil,
00:35:05.40\00:35:08.64
and he scribbles out a letter
to his friend Joshua Himes.
00:35:08.67\00:35:11.87
Let me put the words
on the screen for you.
00:35:11.91\00:35:14.44
This is Miller,
00:35:14.48\00:35:15.84
"Although I have
been twice disappointed,
00:35:15.88\00:35:20.82
I am not yet cast
down or discouraged.
00:35:20.85\00:35:24.65
God has been with me in
spirit, and has comforted me."
00:35:24.69\00:35:29.19
That's beautiful.
00:35:29.22\00:35:30.79
"I have now much more evidence
00:35:30.83\00:35:33.33
that I do believe in God's Word.
00:35:33.36\00:35:37.10
And my hope in
the coming of Christ
00:35:37.13\00:35:39.57
is as strong as ever."
00:35:39.60\00:35:40.97
Is there an
Adventist in this crowd
00:35:41.00\00:35:42.57
that might say an amen to that?
00:35:42.60\00:35:44.67
Amen and amen.
00:35:44.71\00:35:46.04
But he, that same William Miller
00:35:46.07\00:35:48.51
on the screen,
00:35:48.54\00:35:49.88
so what date are
you working for now,
00:35:49.91\00:35:51.91
William?
00:35:51.95\00:35:53.28
"I have fixed my
mind upon another time, "
00:35:53.31\00:35:55.72
he has a date now.
00:35:55.75\00:35:57.15
"I have fixed my
mind upon another time
00:35:57.19\00:35:59.55
and here I mean to stand
until God gives me more light."
00:35:59.59\00:36:02.96
Here it comes.
00:36:02.99\00:36:04.33
"And that is Today" and
he underlines it, "TODAY, "
00:36:04.36\00:36:08.80
and he puts it in all caps,
and then for the third time,
00:36:08.83\00:36:11.40
"and Today,
00:36:11.43\00:36:13.13
until Jesus comes,
00:36:13.17\00:36:15.20
and I see him for
whom my soul yearns."
00:36:15.24\00:36:19.54
Ain't that beautiful?
00:36:19.57\00:36:21.14
I fixed my mind
on another date now.
00:36:21.18\00:36:24.95
In the middle of this pandemic,
00:36:24.98\00:36:26.88
I fixed my mind on another date
00:36:26.92\00:36:28.72
and that date is today
00:36:28.75\00:36:30.09
and today and
today until He comes
00:36:30.12\00:36:31.92
because Jesus said, watch,
watch, watch until I come.
00:36:31.95\00:36:38.46
Wow.
00:36:38.49\00:36:40.83
Put that
sequence up again, please,
00:36:40.86\00:36:43.00
because we know He's coming.
00:36:43.03\00:36:45.23
Even though we don't
know when He's coming,
00:36:45.27\00:36:47.64
we live our lives
as if it were today.
00:36:47.67\00:36:52.84
Hey, listen, listen, listen,
00:36:52.87\00:36:54.21
you don't have to
be a rocket scientist
00:36:54.24\00:36:55.58
to realize the world
is exponentially worse,
00:36:55.61\00:36:58.88
and we are exponentially
closer to Jesus return
00:36:58.91\00:37:01.68
than Miller could
have possibly imagined.
00:37:01.72\00:37:07.49
And here we're on
the brink of a new year,
00:37:07.52\00:37:09.89
brave new pandemic
year at Andrews University,
00:37:09.92\00:37:12.89
at every other
school in the land.
00:37:12.93\00:37:17.40
There's another
Baptist preacher,
00:37:17.43\00:37:19.53
I just hinted at
him a moment ago.
00:37:19.57\00:37:22.40
This one is very
much alive today,
00:37:22.44\00:37:25.14
who through a series of dreams
which have now gone viral.
00:37:25.17\00:37:29.28
He's put them on the
internet, they have gone viral.
00:37:29.31\00:37:33.31
Through a series of
dreams, he is warning America
00:37:33.35\00:37:35.88
of what will befall
this country this fall.
00:37:35.92\00:37:42.16
I don't know people
are hearing about this,
00:37:42.19\00:37:43.56
I had a friend let me know.
00:37:43.59\00:37:45.59
I would never
found it otherwise,
00:37:45.63\00:37:46.96
I'm not giving his name.
00:37:47.00\00:37:49.26
One of these days I
am going to talk about
00:37:49.30\00:37:51.23
what he is publishing.
00:37:51.27\00:37:54.24
Now this you need to understand.
00:37:54.27\00:37:55.60
In my own mindset
here, the man is not a seer.
00:37:55.64\00:37:59.71
He is not a prophet.
I don't believe that.
00:37:59.74\00:38:04.01
But the very fact
that He has chosen
00:38:04.05\00:38:05.75
to articulate these dreams,
00:38:05.78\00:38:07.42
which are planting
unbelievable suggestions
00:38:07.45\00:38:10.89
in the minds of Americans
00:38:10.92\00:38:12.45
and the fact that
this has gone viral
00:38:12.49\00:38:14.36
so that Americans are hungry.
00:38:14.39\00:38:16.12
Somebody speak to
me about certainty
00:38:16.16\00:38:18.63
in the midst of
this awful uncertainty.
00:38:18.66\00:38:21.53
America is ready and ripe
for about anything right now.
00:38:21.56\00:38:25.47
You want to be messiah,
00:38:25.50\00:38:26.84
you just stand
up and say follow me
00:38:26.87\00:38:28.20
and there'll be
people who will follow you.
00:38:28.24\00:38:30.21
That's how bad it's come.
00:38:30.24\00:38:32.34
This is America.
00:38:32.37\00:38:36.34
I'm concerned,
speaking of this gentleman,
00:38:36.38\00:38:39.25
seems like a gracious guy.
00:38:39.28\00:38:41.72
As a young guy,
00:38:41.75\00:38:43.08
I'm concerned that
his dreams might become
00:38:43.12\00:38:47.06
self-fulfilling prophecies
just by the suggestion.
00:38:47.09\00:38:52.96
He's predicting a meltdown
between now and the election
00:38:52.99\00:38:56.56
in America.
00:38:56.60\00:38:59.23
But that word prophecy.
00:38:59.27\00:39:00.90
Hmm.
00:39:00.94\00:39:02.44
Do you know what?
00:39:02.47\00:39:03.87
That's what has so
many Christians confused.
00:39:03.91\00:39:06.44
I've gone online and listen
to a few of their YouTubes,
00:39:06.47\00:39:08.71
absolutely
confused about prophecy.
00:39:08.74\00:39:11.61
And by the way,
I'm sorry to say this.
00:39:11.65\00:39:13.88
There are so many Adventists
00:39:13.92\00:39:15.58
who are just as
confused about prophecy.
00:39:15.62\00:39:18.59
Most have forgotten
00:39:18.62\00:39:19.95
the prophecies
of their childhood
00:39:19.99\00:39:21.79
that they were taught.
00:39:21.82\00:39:23.16
We have a new
generation arriving.
00:39:23.19\00:39:24.53
They're called Gen Z,
they're here in hours,
00:39:24.56\00:39:28.10
met a bunch of
them in first service.
00:39:28.13\00:39:31.40
Nobody, they don't know
diddly-squat about prophecies
00:39:31.43\00:39:33.60
because nobody's
ever talked to them
00:39:33.64\00:39:34.97
about prophecy.
00:39:35.00\00:39:36.67
It's for them and for you and me
00:39:36.71\00:39:40.28
that I feel compelled
to plunge together with you
00:39:40.31\00:39:44.61
into a journey, into prophecy
00:39:44.65\00:39:46.08
like we've never
journeyed before.
00:39:46.11\00:39:49.65
We're going to call
it American apocalypse.
00:39:49.68\00:39:54.29
What is past is prologue.
00:39:54.32\00:39:56.62
William
Shakespeare wrote that line,
00:39:56.66\00:39:58.06
he wrote it in "The Tempest,"
what is past is prologue.
00:39:58.09\00:40:01.53
You look at that,
00:40:01.56\00:40:02.90
takes you a
little while to get it.
00:40:02.93\00:40:04.27
There's a huge lesson there
00:40:04.30\00:40:06.23
and we're going
to tap that lesson
00:40:06.27\00:40:08.20
pretty quickly
into this new series
00:40:08.24\00:40:09.64
American apocalypse.
00:40:09.67\00:40:11.44
And we're only going
to look at prophecies
00:40:11.47\00:40:13.01
that relate to America.
00:40:13.04\00:40:15.54
We're not going to
go to the whole image.
00:40:15.58\00:40:18.65
Look at the whole world.
00:40:18.68\00:40:20.02
No, we're not going to
look at all the history,
00:40:20.05\00:40:21.38
we're only looking
ahead, only looking ahead.
00:40:21.42\00:40:23.69
We will have to
look at the past,
00:40:23.72\00:40:25.79
to inform what's coming.
00:40:25.82\00:40:28.69
I hope your
journey, it begins next week,
00:40:28.72\00:40:32.16
it begins next week.
00:40:32.19\00:40:35.83
And I hope
you'll be a part of it.
00:40:35.86\00:40:37.23
You got family and friends
00:40:37.27\00:40:38.60
that don't even
live in this community,
00:40:38.63\00:40:39.97
you let them
know, you let them know.
00:40:40.00\00:40:44.31
To accompany this new
season of pandemic urgency,
00:40:44.34\00:40:46.47
we are changing
our worship services
00:40:46.51\00:40:48.21
in this way,
beginning next week.
00:40:48.24\00:40:50.61
We are now going to incorporate
an extended prayer focus
00:40:50.65\00:40:54.38
beginning next Sabbath.
00:40:54.42\00:40:56.62
And you'll see
what I'm talking about.
00:40:56.65\00:40:59.39
And we are going to add a
new testimony time in worship
00:40:59.42\00:41:02.66
beginning next week.
00:41:02.69\00:41:04.73
Because we cannot go back
to the way we were worshiping
00:41:04.76\00:41:06.90
when this pandemic struck.
00:41:06.93\00:41:08.26
I know what worship
was like around here.
00:41:08.30\00:41:10.00
I was a part of
it and so were you.
00:41:10.03\00:41:11.37
We cannot go back to that
00:41:11.40\00:41:12.97
and just pretend like
life is just hunky dory,
00:41:13.00\00:41:15.50
and we're all back to normal.
00:41:15.54\00:41:16.87
We are not back to normal
00:41:16.91\00:41:18.24
and we will not
be back to normal.
00:41:18.27\00:41:19.61
This world,
America and the world
00:41:19.64\00:41:22.24
are running out of time.
00:41:22.28\00:41:24.11
Do you understand that?
00:41:24.15\00:41:26.08
Capital A Adventists,
do you understand that?
00:41:26.11\00:41:28.95
We're running out of time.
00:41:28.98\00:41:32.35
And I would be
judgment bound before God
00:41:32.39\00:41:35.59
if I didn't tell you
what I just told you now.
00:41:35.62\00:41:38.29
Oh, Dwight, you're
just using scare tactics.
00:41:38.33\00:41:40.00
I am not.
00:41:40.03\00:41:44.17
My favorite author
of the 19th century,
00:41:44.20\00:41:45.70
as she put it, God
of heaven, wake us up.
00:41:45.73\00:41:50.94
We're waiting for
this little pandemic
00:41:50.97\00:41:52.31
to go away and then, oh, boy,
00:41:52.34\00:41:53.68
now we can go play
ring around the Rosie
00:41:53.71\00:41:55.14
just like we used to do it.
00:41:55.18\00:41:56.51
No, no, no, we cannot go back.
00:41:56.54\00:41:58.08
We cannot go back.
00:41:58.11\00:41:59.45
And our worship needs
to reflect our conviction
00:41:59.48\00:42:01.78
that life has changed
and we have changed with it.
00:42:01.82\00:42:04.32
And by the way, I
don't say all of this
00:42:08.62\00:42:10.16
because of the pandemic
but listen carefully now.
00:42:10.19\00:42:12.86
It's not
because of the pandemic,
00:42:12.89\00:42:14.23
but rather because
00:42:14.26\00:42:15.60
the pandemic has
exposed fault lines
00:42:15.63\00:42:17.83
that are the harbinger
of collapse in this nation.
00:42:17.87\00:42:21.04
We now see those fault lines.
00:42:21.07\00:42:22.74
We didn't see them before.
00:42:22.77\00:42:24.14
Everybody said,
"Nah, no, it's not that.
00:42:24.17\00:42:25.51
No, no, no."
00:42:25.54\00:42:26.88
We see them now.
00:42:26.91\00:42:30.41
And in stunning detail,
00:42:30.45\00:42:32.78
Revelation's prophecies
concerning this nation
00:42:32.81\00:42:34.92
will reveal the measure
and nature of that collapse.
00:42:34.95\00:42:37.89
American
Apocalypse, just you wait.
00:42:37.92\00:42:41.36
You will see.
00:42:41.39\00:42:43.12
You'll see.
00:42:43.16\00:42:45.99
So a couple weeks
ago, I'm walking out
00:42:46.03\00:42:47.36
of the
University Medical Clinic,
00:42:47.40\00:42:48.73
and I bumped into a faculty
friend of mine and his wife,
00:42:48.76\00:42:52.70
he's wearing a mask
and I'm wearing a mask,
00:42:52.73\00:42:54.30
so we're talking
there in the parking lot.
00:42:54.34\00:42:57.94
And I said to him, I
said, "Yo, how's it going?
00:42:57.97\00:43:02.61
Getting ready for
this brave new year?"
00:43:02.64\00:43:06.21
And with his mask on,
00:43:06.25\00:43:07.58
he looks back at me
and he says, "Dwight,
00:43:07.62\00:43:10.39
you're not going to believe it."
00:43:10.42\00:43:13.29
Said, "I would
be in the classroom
00:43:13.32\00:43:14.66
and there's going to
be physical distancing.
00:43:14.69\00:43:16.86
There may be
some in another room.
00:43:16.89\00:43:19.16
But I'm going to
be in the classroom,
00:43:19.19\00:43:21.10
they'll all be masked.
00:43:21.13\00:43:22.46
Oh, yeah, they'll all be masked.
00:43:22.50\00:43:25.13
But while I'm lecturing to them,
00:43:25.17\00:43:26.50
I'm going to have a
laptop sitting right here.
00:43:26.53\00:43:27.90
And I have to keep
looking at that laptop
00:43:27.94\00:43:29.60
because there
are people on remote
00:43:29.64\00:43:30.97
who will be also
taking this class,
00:43:31.01\00:43:32.34
and we need to upload
the class lecture online
00:43:32.37\00:43:35.21
so that other people
00:43:35.24\00:43:36.58
can take advantage of this class
00:43:36.61\00:43:38.45
and that lecture."
00:43:38.48\00:43:40.95
He looked at me and
he shook his masked face,
00:43:40.98\00:43:43.95
he said, "Dwight,
you have no idea."
00:43:43.99\00:43:49.72
And I look back
at him with a smile,
00:43:49.76\00:43:52.03
which he could not see,
00:43:52.06\00:43:53.63
and I said, "I do
believe, you are right."
00:43:53.66\00:43:59.17
Folks, most of us here
have absolutely no concept
00:43:59.20\00:44:02.57
of what our colleagues
in educational leadership.
00:44:02.60\00:44:08.21
I'm talking about
staff at the university.
00:44:08.24\00:44:10.25
I'm talking about
faculty at the university.
00:44:10.28\00:44:11.78
I'm talking about
the administration
00:44:11.81\00:44:13.15
of the university,
00:44:13.18\00:44:14.52
we have no clue to the stresses
they now are living with
00:44:14.55\00:44:17.69
and will continue to live with
00:44:17.72\00:44:19.49
over the uncharted
journey in front of us.
00:44:19.52\00:44:23.43
They not only deserve
00:44:23.46\00:44:24.79
in this brave new
world of COVID-19,
00:44:24.83\00:44:26.70
they not only
deserve our heartfelt thanks,
00:44:26.73\00:44:29.20
they deserve our
heartfelt prayers
00:44:29.23\00:44:31.57
and
intercessions every single day.
00:44:31.60\00:44:36.10
And it's not just this school,
it's every school in the land.
00:44:36.14\00:44:38.54
It's Andrews Academy.
00:44:38.57\00:44:39.91
It's Ruth Murdoch
Elementary School.
00:44:39.94\00:44:41.28
Everybody's living
with this question mark.
00:44:41.31\00:44:45.21
Jesus says,
"Watch, watch, watch."
00:44:45.25\00:44:49.28
And then in John 14,
00:44:49.32\00:44:50.65
just in case we
missed the three watches
00:44:50.69\00:44:52.59
at the end of Chapter
13, Jesus adds one more line.
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Watch and pray.
00:44:55.92\00:45:00.26
You want a solution for this?
00:45:00.30\00:45:02.40
You want to live
through this and survive this?
00:45:02.43\00:45:05.43
Watch and pray.
00:45:05.47\00:45:10.54
There isn't a soul here
00:45:10.57\00:45:11.91
who knows how this
year is going to turn out.
00:45:11.94\00:45:13.58
I don't mean just
Andrews, I mean America.
00:45:13.61\00:45:16.21
I mean, Adventism.
00:45:16.24\00:45:18.31
We have no idea
12 months from now,
00:45:18.35\00:45:21.42
where will we be?
00:45:21.45\00:45:22.78
I don't know.
00:45:22.82\00:45:25.95
But we serve the
same Jesus of long ago,
00:45:25.99\00:45:29.29
who loved on His
disciples that day,
00:45:29.32\00:45:31.06
three days
before His crucifixion.
00:45:31.09\00:45:33.19
And He's the one who is loving
00:45:33.23\00:45:34.56
on the likes of
you and me right now.
00:45:34.60\00:45:36.73
And He's saying,
"Don't you worry.
00:45:36.77\00:45:39.53
Don't you worry.
00:45:39.57\00:45:41.70
I am coming back.
00:45:41.74\00:45:43.47
And until I'm back,
00:45:43.51\00:45:45.47
I will be with you
always to the end of the world.
00:45:45.51\00:45:49.64
I'm never leaving you."
00:45:49.68\00:45:51.68
Trust me, He promises.
00:45:51.71\00:45:56.12
Boy, I say to one,
00:45:56.15\00:45:58.25
I say to all,
watch, watch and pray.
00:45:58.29\00:46:01.09
There is our hope,
leaning hard on Jesus.
00:46:01.12\00:46:04.39
Boy, when they were
singing leaning hard on Jesus,
00:46:04.43\00:46:06.06
could you, did
you start singing it
00:46:06.09\00:46:07.86
and break the rules?
00:46:07.90\00:46:09.63
Man, that's one
of my favorite hymns.
00:46:09.66\00:46:11.50
I want to break
the rules right now
00:46:11.53\00:46:12.87
and stand up and sing
out loud, but we can't.
00:46:12.90\00:46:15.14
You just keep
leaning on me, boy.
00:46:18.21\00:46:20.28
Girl, you just
keep leaning on me.
00:46:20.31\00:46:22.14
Watch.
00:46:22.18\00:46:23.51
Pray. I'm with you.
00:46:23.55\00:46:24.98
Keep talking to me.
Talk to me, talk to me.
00:46:25.01\00:46:29.25
Ellen White,
00:46:29.28\00:46:31.35
in a little booklet
called an Adventist Apocalypse.
00:46:31.39\00:46:34.62
These are her
words on the screen.
00:46:34.66\00:46:36.56
"If the followers of
Christ watch and pray,"
00:46:36.59\00:46:39.36
oh, we've heard that,
00:46:39.39\00:46:40.90
"they may have
light to comprehend
00:46:40.93\00:46:42.96
and appreciate the
maneuvers of the enemy."
00:46:43.00\00:46:45.13
Hold it right there,
00:46:45.17\00:46:46.50
maneuvers of the enemy for what?
00:46:46.53\00:46:47.87
For you.
00:46:47.90\00:46:49.24
Do you understand
00:46:49.27\00:46:50.61
that when the
pandemic has upped the anti,
00:46:50.64\00:46:52.74
it's up the
spiritual anti as well.
00:46:52.77\00:46:54.74
There's somebody who's
gunning for you and me.
00:46:54.78\00:46:56.81
It's not like
00:46:56.85\00:46:58.18
we're just having a
namby-pamby sweet ride
00:46:58.21\00:46:59.85
through this.
00:46:59.88\00:47:01.22
No, this is high
stakes playing for our souls.
00:47:01.25\00:47:05.25
Now we have
nothing to be afraid of.
00:47:05.29\00:47:07.19
But when we watch and pray,
00:47:07.22\00:47:08.56
that the council is
when we watch and pray,
00:47:08.59\00:47:10.99
when we watch and pray,
00:47:11.03\00:47:12.36
we can appreciate the
strategy and be on the alert.
00:47:12.39\00:47:16.10
Jesus comes to
Peter in Chapter 14,
00:47:16.13\00:47:18.57
He says, "Yo Peter, what?
00:47:18.60\00:47:19.93
You're sleeping.
00:47:19.97\00:47:21.50
I'm dying.
00:47:21.54\00:47:22.87
You're sleeping. I
asked you to watch."
00:47:22.90\00:47:25.11
Oh, the spirit is
willing, but the flesh is weak.
00:47:25.14\00:47:27.91
Watch and pray.
00:47:27.94\00:47:29.41
Could you not
watch just for one hour?
00:47:29.44\00:47:33.01
Watch and pray.
00:47:36.12\00:47:38.85
Oh, she goes on. Please.
00:47:38.89\00:47:41.62
"Commotions in the nation,
00:47:41.66\00:47:42.99
"she's speaking
about the United States.
00:47:43.02\00:47:44.36
Isn't this something?
00:47:44.39\00:47:45.73
"Commotions in the nation
00:47:45.76\00:47:47.10
will bring such
scenes in the world
00:47:47.13\00:47:49.33
as we have
heretofore been strangers."
00:47:49.36\00:47:51.80
Stuff is going to happen
we have never seen before.
00:47:51.83\00:47:57.67
Last line, "As
watchmen and watchwomen,
00:47:57.71\00:48:01.18
entrusted with
a special message,
00:48:01.21\00:48:03.41
we are to keep
before the people..."
00:48:03.45\00:48:05.48
That's the people
living all around you
00:48:05.51\00:48:08.28
that don't have
the hope you have.
00:48:08.32\00:48:09.65
"We are to keep
before the people
00:48:09.68\00:48:11.09
the nearness of the end."
00:48:11.12\00:48:13.36
We're running out of time.
00:48:18.63\00:48:21.36
Watch and pray.
00:48:21.40\00:48:22.90
No, you're not
going to know when I come,
00:48:22.93\00:48:24.27
you're not going to know.
00:48:24.30\00:48:25.63
You just watch Him pray,
00:48:25.67\00:48:27.00
you'll be fine,
lo, I'm with you.
00:48:27.04\00:48:30.37
We've contacted
three of you and asked,
00:48:30.41\00:48:32.04
would you please stand before us
00:48:32.07\00:48:34.18
so that we might pray over you?
00:48:34.21\00:48:37.45
And I'm going to
invite the three of you
00:48:37.48\00:48:38.81
that we've contacted
from our staff Tom Straman,
00:48:38.85\00:48:42.58
he works with the
custodial services.
00:48:42.62\00:48:44.95
Tom, come on up.
00:48:44.99\00:48:46.76
From our faculty Getahun Merga.
00:48:46.79\00:48:49.36
In the chemistry
department, Getahun, come on up.
00:48:49.39\00:48:52.39
And representing
our administration this
00:48:52.43\00:48:53.93
morning is our
president, Andrea Luxton.
00:48:53.96\00:48:56.77
We're going to
invite her to come up.
00:48:56.80\00:48:58.53
And Pastor Jenifer.
00:48:58.57\00:49:00.00
Jenifer Daley is our
brand new administrative pastor
00:49:00.04\00:49:02.10
on our team.
00:49:02.14\00:49:03.47
We just introduced her, July 11.
00:49:03.51\00:49:04.84
We're so delighted to have her.
00:49:04.87\00:49:06.37
She's going to pray a
prayer of dedication over these.
00:49:06.41\00:49:10.01
Please join us in prayer.
00:49:10.05\00:49:14.25
Heavenly Father,
we come to You today,
00:49:14.28\00:49:20.79
knowing that You are the answer
00:49:20.82\00:49:23.43
to everything we need, and more.
00:49:23.46\00:49:28.36
I've never been a
university president.
00:49:28.40\00:49:31.07
What does a
university president need
00:49:31.10\00:49:33.47
during this time,
00:49:33.50\00:49:35.14
during these days?
00:49:35.17\00:49:37.81
What does a custodian need?
00:49:37.84\00:49:39.47
What does a faculty
member need in these times?
00:49:39.51\00:49:43.88
Whatever they need, God,
00:49:43.91\00:49:45.71
we come because we're assured
00:49:45.75\00:49:48.08
that You can provide
all of that and more.
00:49:48.12\00:49:53.19
Because You
promised in Your Word
00:49:53.22\00:49:56.19
that You are
able to do exceeding
00:49:56.22\00:49:59.56
abundantly above
everything we ask
00:49:59.59\00:50:03.00
or think.
00:50:03.03\00:50:04.97
And so our great God,
00:50:05.00\00:50:07.20
we acknowledge that
there is no God like you.
00:50:07.24\00:50:10.97
We acknowledge
that whatever we need,
00:50:11.01\00:50:13.71
You can supply.
00:50:13.74\00:50:15.74
We acknowledge
Your Word that says,
00:50:15.78\00:50:17.88
before we call You will answer.
00:50:17.91\00:50:20.98
We acknowledge
Your Word that says,
00:50:21.02\00:50:23.02
we ought not to be
afraid or be discouraged.
00:50:23.05\00:50:28.22
We acknowledge
Your Word that says,
00:50:28.26\00:50:30.13
You are Creator, and Recreator
00:50:30.16\00:50:33.23
and there is nothing
that is too difficult for You.
00:50:33.26\00:50:37.07
And so today we
bring Andrea Luxton,
00:50:37.10\00:50:40.77
Getahun Merga, and
Tom Straman before You.
00:50:40.80\00:50:44.81
They are Your children,
00:50:44.84\00:50:46.84
and You have
called them to serve You
00:50:46.88\00:50:49.21
in the different
areas in which they serve.
00:50:49.24\00:50:52.18
And we praise You
for their commitment
00:50:52.21\00:50:54.42
to serve You.
00:50:54.45\00:50:56.28
But these are unusual days, God,
00:50:56.32\00:50:58.49
these are days of
uncertainty and challenge.
00:50:58.52\00:51:02.96
And so we pray
a special blessing
00:51:02.99\00:51:05.33
upon each of them in
their personal lives.
00:51:05.36\00:51:09.96
You know what they need,
00:51:10.00\00:51:11.77
You know the
challenges they face,
00:51:11.80\00:51:14.30
but more so in
their professional lives.
00:51:14.34\00:51:16.97
God, we ask for
Your special anointing
00:51:17.01\00:51:19.64
upon them.
00:51:19.67\00:51:21.01
We ask not just for them,
but for those they represent,
00:51:21.04\00:51:25.88
that You will
pour out Your Spirit
00:51:25.91\00:51:29.25
in a new, in a powerful way
00:51:29.28\00:51:33.36
in them, on them, through them.
00:51:33.39\00:51:37.13
Do what you will, God,
00:51:37.16\00:51:39.19
for we are
desperately in need of You.
00:51:39.23\00:51:42.46
And so I pray, God,
00:51:42.50\00:51:44.17
anoint them from
the crown of their head
00:51:44.20\00:51:46.84
to the soles of their feet.
00:51:46.87\00:51:49.50
And I pray for each of them,
00:51:49.54\00:51:51.87
that You will add to
their faith knowledge,
00:51:51.91\00:51:55.21
to knowledge goodness,
00:51:55.24\00:51:57.45
to goodness perseverance,
to perseverance self-control,
00:51:57.48\00:52:03.35
to self-control godliness,
00:52:03.39\00:52:06.35
to godliness brotherly kindness,
00:52:06.39\00:52:09.39
and to brotherly kindness love,
00:52:09.42\00:52:11.86
that they may
possess these qualities
00:52:11.89\00:52:14.40
in increasing measure,
00:52:14.43\00:52:16.87
that You might
be able to use them
00:52:16.90\00:52:19.13
like You never have in
these challenging times.
00:52:19.17\00:52:23.00
So I pray Your wisdom upon them.
00:52:23.04\00:52:25.34
I pray Your Spirit in them.
00:52:25.37\00:52:27.58
I pray Your power for them.
00:52:27.61\00:52:30.51
Empower them, ennoble them,
00:52:30.55\00:52:33.08
enable them and, Lord, use them.
00:52:33.11\00:52:37.59
They are making
themselves available,
00:52:37.62\00:52:40.16
they are standing for You
00:52:40.19\00:52:41.72
as representatives
of moral leadership.
00:52:41.76\00:52:45.09
And, Lord, You promised
that You will be there for them
00:52:45.13\00:52:49.56
that You will help them
if they just call on You.
00:52:49.60\00:52:52.00
And so we're calling
00:52:52.03\00:52:53.47
and we thank You now for
what You will do for them
00:52:53.50\00:52:57.01
and in them and through them.
00:52:57.04\00:52:59.54
And not just for them only God,
00:52:59.57\00:53:02.04
but for who they
represent at Andrews Academy
00:53:02.08\00:53:05.31
and Ruth Murdoch Elementary,
00:53:05.35\00:53:07.32
and all our public schools
00:53:07.35\00:53:08.72
and all our schools in our area.
00:53:08.75\00:53:11.09
So, Lord, as a
people, we look to You,
00:53:11.12\00:53:14.46
we expect from You
and we wait on You.
00:53:14.49\00:53:18.16
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
00:53:18.19\00:53:20.63
Amen.
00:53:20.66\00:53:22.80
Would you like to join
me in standing with them?
00:53:22.83\00:53:27.94
And let's rededicate ourselves
00:53:27.97\00:53:31.11
to the chapter
that spreads before us
00:53:31.14\00:53:33.94
no matter who we
are or where we are.
00:53:33.98\00:53:36.58
We're going to sing a chorus,
I want to invite you to stand.
00:53:36.61\00:53:40.18
Chorus maybe you've
sang as a child growing up.
00:53:40.22\00:53:43.18
It's been a
favorite for a lot of us.
00:53:43.22\00:53:46.96
Our friend Steve and Susan Zork
00:53:46.99\00:53:48.96
are going to
lead us in the chorus.
00:53:48.99\00:53:50.33
I want to be
ready when Jesus comes.
00:53:50.36\00:53:51.69
Do you know that one?
00:53:51.73\00:53:53.06
I want to be
ready when Jesus comes
00:53:53.09\00:53:54.90
and we can't sing it with Him,
00:53:54.93\00:53:57.20
but let's just be
sending that prayer of Jesus,
00:53:57.23\00:53:59.47
count me in on
this new beginning,
00:53:59.50\00:54:03.47
this New Year with you.
00:54:03.51\00:54:04.84
I want to be ready
00:54:20.62\00:54:24.36
When Jesus comes
00:54:24.39\00:54:28.70
I want to be ready
00:54:28.73\00:54:32.53
When Jesus comes
00:54:32.57\00:54:37.24
Earth's pleasures grow dim
00:54:37.27\00:54:41.18
While I'm waiting for Him
00:54:41.21\00:54:46.92
Lord, keep me
00:54:46.95\00:54:49.08
Till Jesus comes
00:54:49.12\00:54:55.99
I want to be ready
00:54:56.02\00:55:00.06
When Jesus comes
00:55:00.10\00:55:04.60
I want to be ready
00:55:04.63\00:55:08.60
When Jesus comes
00:55:08.64\00:55:13.51
Earth's pleasures grow dim
00:55:13.54\00:55:17.85
While I'm waiting for Him
00:55:17.88\00:55:23.69
Lord, keep me
00:55:23.72\00:55:25.99
Till Jesus comes.
00:55:26.02\00:55:32.43
Let's hum it one more time.
00:55:32.46\00:55:34.70
Our Great Father,
00:56:24.31\00:56:25.71
we all want to be
ready when You come.
00:56:25.75\00:56:29.92
We surrender our
hearts to You today
00:56:29.95\00:56:32.92
and ask that You
will help us to be ready.
00:56:32.95\00:56:36.02
Help us to watch and
wait and pray and work.
00:56:36.06\00:56:42.40
So that when Jesus
comes, we will be ready.
00:56:42.43\00:56:46.84
Amen.
00:56:46.87\00:56:48.20
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