In the beginning
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the earth was
without form and void.
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Then God said,
"Let there be light."
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And there was light.
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And God divided the
light from the darkness.
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So the evening and the
morning were the first day.
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So the evening and the
morning were the second day.
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Then God said, "Let
the waters under the heaven
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be gathered
together into one place,
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and let the dry land appear,
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let the earth bring
forth grass, and herb,
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and the fruit tree that yields
fruit according to its kind."
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So, the evening and the
morning were the third day.
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Then God made two great lights;
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he made the stars also.
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So the evening and the
morning were the fourth day.
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Then God said,
"Let the waters abound
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within abundance
of living creatures,
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and let birds
fly above the earth
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across the face of the
firmament of the heavens."
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So the evening and the
morning were the fifth day.
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Then God said, "Let the earth
bring forth living creature
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according to its kind,
cattle, and creeping things,
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and beast of the earth."
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Then God said, "Let
us make man in our image,
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according to our likeness".
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So the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.
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And on the seventh day God ended
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His work which He had done;
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and He rested the seventh day
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from all His work
which He had done.
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Then God blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it,
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because in it He had
rested from all His work
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which God had created and made.
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And indeed it was very good.
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As we begin this
evening let's begin with prayer.
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Holy Father, we're just
thank you for the privileged
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to take a walk through
your original week of time.
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And we earnestly
invite the same Holy Spirit
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that was active in
that creative week.
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To create in
our hearts and minds
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tonight refreshing
counter with your own divinity
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through Your word.
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Teach us now as our
prayer in Jesus name, amen.
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We've been walking our
through the creation story.
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We discovered on day one,
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that God separated
light from darkness.
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And day two, He
separated water from water.
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On day three, He separated land
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from water and
created plants on the land.
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Now tonight, you
have your Bibles,
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let's turn to Genesis,
the very first Chapter.
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"So the evening and the
morning were the fifth day.
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And then God said,
"Let the waters abound
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within abundance
of living creatures,"
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with living creatures.
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The Hebrew word there
is for souls, living souls.
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There is
actually a grater variety
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among the fish creatures,
than among all other land
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and water vertebrates
put together 21,000 species
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are cold blooded.
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And there are two basic
types, 95% have a bone skeleton,
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rest have
cartilage type structure
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instead of bone as such.
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And the scripture says,
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and God created
great sea creatures.
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The word for creatures
there is the Hebrew word,
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leviathan, and every
living thing that moves,
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with which the waters abounded,
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according to their kind,
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and God saw that it was good.
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We discovered the word leviathan
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is actually mentioned
in David, Isaiah, and Job.
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And if we read Job's account
there in the 40th Chapter,
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leviathan we strongly
suspect was probably a dinosaur.
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It's a creature that
we've never seen in these times.
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And God said, "He made it."
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and we have to
take His word for that.
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As we take a look
at the fish that God
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created on this fifth day.
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We want to notice
some interesting features
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about water itself,
color underwater is phenomenal.
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And the reason it is phenomenal
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is because it
should not be there!
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Because Red disappears
at 10 feet in the water,
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and then Orange
disappears at 15 feet.
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And Yellow disappears at 30 feet
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and Blue at 60 feet fades away
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into utter darkness.
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And so the
question we ask ourselves
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when we look into the ocean
and we use our strobe lights
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and we use artificial lights
and we can go down 60 feet
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or more where its
just total blackness,
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and this is not
because of our eyes,
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this has to do with the
physics of water itself.
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And what it does to the
color, it's just taken out.
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And so the question
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is why there is so much awesome
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color 60 feet or deeper.
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When as far as we can
tell nobody ever sees it,
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except the Creator.
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And for that I just
gather the fact that God
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is a love of the beautiful
whether you can see it or not.
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And God loves hidden beauty
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and He puts it that way.
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And I think there is a
lesson for us spiritually,
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God loves the
inside of your character
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where nobody else can see it,
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and He wants to
make it beautiful
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with His own seven
character qualities
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from the inside out.
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And so we wanna
take a look tonight
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and take a little
journey down into the water
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and go down 60 feet or deeper,
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the pictures
that were going to see
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most of those were taken
by Bruce and Anita Bassett.
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He was an atheist and his wife
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was a backslidden
Baptist I believe.
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And when they got married
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and they began to do
underwater exploration.
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They love to do scuba
diving and take pictures
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and the more did that
and a more they studied it.
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The more they were
awed by what they saw.
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And their testimony was this.
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After spending
untold hours beneath
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the surface of the
sea, as they beheld
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the glory of the Creator
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of what He
created on this fifth day,
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they call it God's
hidden beauty of the fifth day
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as they studied that.
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They became a believer
and he went from an atheist
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to a believer just
because of what he saw a God's
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handy work created
there on the fifth day.
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And God bless them, saying,
"Be fruitful and multiply,
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and fill the waters in
the sea, Genesis 1 verse 22.
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Here we discover
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in the creations story
God now creates creatures.
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With the capacity to
reproduce after their own kind
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and they had the
capacity to move, they had life,
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unlike the plants, they
still followed the same law
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of genetics, and they now
had the power to reproducing.
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God specifically said to them,
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"Be fruitful and multiply
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and multiply indeed they did.
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And so here we're
looking at one of the sea crabs.
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Notice that in the
ocean we find many creatures
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relate to each other and
I don't know you can figure
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this out or not
but that's barnacles
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up on the top that
have taken up residence
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there with the sea crab.
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This is a Nudibranch,
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the Nudibranch is there
about 2000 species of these
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and they live in
warmer tropical waters
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and what makes them
unique they call Nudibranches,
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because you can
see the filly apparatus
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at the back of this
creature and that its gills.
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And the gills round the
outside of this creature
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and that were it takes in water.
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We also discover when
you go down underneath
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the waters and you
go deep below 60 feet,
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you can't go as far as 6
miles deep into the ocean.
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And at these deeper
levels there are many fish
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that carry their
own light with them.
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For what makes it truly
remarkable is that the lights
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that they carry with them at
this total anky darkness areas
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is they have little
pockets and then those pockets
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they have bacteria and
those bacteria emit light.
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And these
pockets are translucent
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and so the fish
can pull up the shade
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and turn the
light on of the bacteria
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or they can put the shade
down and turn the light off,
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now is that an amazing
harmonious relationship
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between bacteria and fish.
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And they carry
around these bacteria
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in their back
pockets so to speak,
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and as they swim around
the bacteria gets extra food,
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because it comes
in as they swim along
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and so it works out a very handy
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arrangement for both of them.
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Is another one of
the sea creatures,
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many of these sea creatures
look almost like a plant,
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but they actually are not.
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This is a Sea Anemome and
then we have another Nudibranch,
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again notice that
the gills on the outside.
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This is another Nudibranch
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laying a ribbon of eggs
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and you can see the
yellow ribbon there.
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And these are Sea Snails.
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Notice again the beautiful color
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and then we have
another Nudibranch.
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We're gonna
look at quite of them
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because each one is
unique and different,
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different
color, different styles
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and they do different things.
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The fish that holds the
world's record for a capacity
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to hold its own
breathe, it neither eat,
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nor drink nor as
far as we can tell
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even breathe is
called the lungfish.
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It lives in Africa and
it lives in the streams
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there and then those streams
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they go dry
during the dry season.
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And this lungfish will
roll itself up in a mud ball
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and it will get as hard
as a rock and the sun shines
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on it and then it
stays in that condition
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for weeks and months.
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And finally when the rain return
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the mud softens and they swim,
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the fish will quickly
swim out lay their eggs
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and then the dry
season comes again.
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And they will go roll themselves
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back up in a mud ball.
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And here's the thing that
so astonishing this lungfish.
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They've
actually tested this out.
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It can go for seven years
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without any water.
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And when they put
it back in the water,
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it literally resurrects
and comes back to life
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and begins to breathe
and swim and lays its eggs
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and goes back right
on with his lifestyle.
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Think of it, seven years
without breathing or eating,
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it's in some kind of
state of hibernation.
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Nudibranch another one, Kirby
tells that there was a fish
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that had a ring in its
gills and a castle moat
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over in Europe and
this fish swim around
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there and they actually timed it
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as it were 267 years
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that fish lived in
the moat of that castle
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with the ring in its gills.
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Fish can live very
long lengths of time.
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And then we have our starfish,
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and they are unique creature.
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And then we have the
Frog Fish of Indonesia.
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Its about the
size of our house cat
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and what makes this fish unique,
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its almost as though the
Creator had a sense of humor,
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because I don't
know you can see it up,
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but there is a tongue
sticking out of that mouth
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and that tongue it can curl
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it around and looks like
worm almost like anglerfish,
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a needle flip that
tongue around and another fish
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will come along and
think it's a worm and go for it
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and they end up for lunch
because they gobbled it up.
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This particular
fish also can change
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its color incredibly fast.
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This is true of
many of the creatures
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that live in the sea.
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They can change their colors
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just almost
within a few seconds.
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Another picture of a starfish
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many-many
different kinds of starfish
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and many different sizes,
all the way from big to little.
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This is s the Cuttlefish;
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this one is about
half inch in size,
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it's a cousin to the
octopus or the squid.
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And you can see the tentacles
there underneath its body.
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It can swim with his
using its legs like fins
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or it can also
use jet propulsion.
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And that was where
mankind learned about jets
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was from the squid and
from its cousin, the octopus.
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And the octopus also
has a very unique way
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of getting way from its enemies,
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it can shootout black ink
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and under the
cover of that blank ink
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it can escape and get away.
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This is the Leaf Scorpion Fish
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and it is toxic on its fins.
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There are many
creatures in the sea
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that have its own system
of poison of different kinds,
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this one is in its
fins up along at the top.
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Another picture of our starfish.
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And this is a seahorse,
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and they are rather
unique little creature.
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The Seahorse were
makes them rather unique.
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Daddy's do a lot of the
baby sitting as it were,
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because when the
enemies come along
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he just open his mouth
and all the babies swim right
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and he keep
them inside his mouth
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and that the enemy is gone
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and he let's them
all back out again.
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This is the Pygmy Seahorse.
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I'm not sure if you can see it
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or not many of the
creatures of the sea,
00:15:01.45\00:15:04.40
rely on coloration for their
protection from the enemies.
00:15:04.41\00:15:10.12
There you can see
it, if you didn't see it
00:15:10.13\00:15:12.40
before just a little
tiny guy as he blends
00:15:12.41\00:15:16.04
in there with his background.
00:15:16.05\00:15:18.72
Well again and we think
about the beautiful colors.
00:15:18.73\00:15:22.72
That we see in
the under water world.
00:15:22.73\00:15:25.88
This one the Queen Angelfish.
00:15:25.89\00:15:28.72
Now ladies, you got to admit
00:15:28.73\00:15:30.80
and when it comes to dress
00:15:30.81\00:15:32.04
it would be pretty hard to
beat that, don't you think.
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There is just
such a greater variety
00:15:34.37\00:15:36.88
among fish that among
all on the land and water
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vertebrates put together.
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In Mathew 6 verse 25 and 29,
00:15:41.69\00:15:46.00
it asks the question, why
do you worry about your life,
00:15:46.01\00:15:51.20
above what you're going
to going wear for clothing.
00:15:51.21\00:15:55.52
And when we take a look
at the beautiful variety
00:15:55.53\00:15:58.40
that we see in
the world of fish,
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then we can know
that we don't really
00:16:01.05\00:16:05.12
have to worry
about our clothing,
00:16:05.13\00:16:06.32
but our heavenly Father,
00:16:06.33\00:16:08.12
who loves beauty is
going to look after us,
00:16:08.13\00:16:11.60
just as surely as He
looks after this fish.
00:16:11.61\00:16:15.76
Now what would you suppose
00:16:15.77\00:16:17.92
this fish's name
might be, you're right.
00:16:17.93\00:16:22.32
Its call the
Four-eyed Butterfly Fish.
00:16:22.33\00:16:25.36
Which one is the true eye,
00:16:25.37\00:16:27.88
after they're close but
it's at the front end here.
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We think about the
fish and we think about
00:16:30.65\00:16:32.32
the tremendous strength
00:16:32.33\00:16:35.01
that is found among fish.
00:16:35.02\00:16:38.72
We can be almost overwhelmed.
00:16:38.73\00:16:41.40
Paul Harvey told
about a Manta Ray Fish
00:16:41.41\00:16:46.32
that was off the coast
of Florida and a fisherman
00:16:46.33\00:16:50.84
hooked down to that fish.
00:16:50.85\00:16:52.80
It began to pull
his ship out to sea.
00:16:52.81\00:16:56.96
And he couldn't
stopped it and so then he radio
00:16:56.97\00:17:00.08
for a coast guard and
they sent out a cutter
00:17:00.09\00:17:03.60
and they hooked on to it
and its still was pulling both
00:17:03.61\00:17:08.24
the boat and cutter out to sea,
00:17:08.25\00:17:10.68
and they sent
out a second cutter,
00:17:10.69\00:17:12.88
and finally they were
able to get it stopped.
00:17:12.89\00:17:18.52
It weighed 800
pounds 18 feet long wingspan
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and they
measured it and it towed
00:17:23.85\00:17:27.88
those first two boats for
an hour and half out to sea
00:17:27.89\00:17:31.92
before the second boat
00:17:31.93\00:17:33.68
could get there
and bring it to a stop.
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Its just
astonishing the strength
00:17:36.53\00:17:39.37
and the power that
the Creator has put
00:17:39.38\00:17:42.98
into His creatures of the sea.
00:17:42.99\00:17:43.96
This one is
called the Fang Blenny
00:17:47.76\00:17:52.24
and again when we think about
00:17:52.25\00:17:54.00
coloration how's that for color.
00:17:54.01\00:17:55.96
And If you put black
light on that when it would glow
00:17:55.97\00:17:58.36
just like some of our
UV light gets down in there
00:17:58.37\00:18:02.08
and it my personal
opinion well we do not know
00:18:02.09\00:18:06.40
why that color is there.
00:18:06.41\00:18:08.24
I suspect that someday
scientist may discover.
00:18:08.25\00:18:12.84
That fish have some
capacity to pick up color
00:18:12.85\00:18:17.72
beyond what we
know of as visible light
00:18:17.73\00:18:21.52
and may be part of the
electromagnetic spectrum
00:18:21.53\00:18:24.32
that nobody is
ever checked out yet.
00:18:24.33\00:18:26.56
But I think we gonna
find out that coloring
00:18:26.57\00:18:30.16
is not there by accident.
00:18:30.17\00:18:31.56
And when they change colors
00:18:31.57\00:18:33.52
they blend into their
environment and their enemies
00:18:33.53\00:18:36.80
can't see them
when they do that.
00:18:36.81\00:18:39.56
And these are what we call
the Crinoids, or Feather Stars.
00:18:39.57\00:18:45.08
And Crinoids are fun to
look at in the fossils record.
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We find lots of Crinoids.
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I found one on a
mountain top in Tennessee
00:18:51.61\00:18:54.84
and it was
about this bigger out.
00:18:54.85\00:18:56.68
Now how do you find
sea life like Crinoids
00:18:56.69\00:19:00.24
on a mountain top in
Tennessee miles and miles
00:19:00.25\00:19:03.36
from the ocean unless you
believe the biblical account
00:19:03.37\00:19:07.36
of Genesis 7 that there
was flood in the days of Noah
00:19:07.37\00:19:12.04
that encompass the entire world
00:19:12.05\00:19:14.72
and they were buried there.
00:19:14.73\00:19:16.76
Can you see the Squat
Lobster in this picture?
00:19:16.77\00:19:21.68
It's almost always found among
00:19:21.69\00:19:25.32
the acrid eye of the Crinoids,
00:19:25.33\00:19:29.00
that's him right there
in case you missed him.
00:19:29.01\00:19:32.44
And you can see why
he would stay there,
00:19:32.45\00:19:34.08
because that is the perfect
place to hide from his enemies
00:19:34.09\00:19:38.72
and they're always
are found together.
00:19:38.73\00:19:42.28
And this is the
Sea Urchin Shrimp.
00:19:42.29\00:19:44.84
It lives permanently amongst
00:19:44.85\00:19:47.32
the highly toxic
spines of the Sea Urchin.
00:19:47.33\00:19:51.20
It cuts off a few
of those poison spines
00:19:51.21\00:19:54.20
and there it stays
and it's quite protected
00:19:54.21\00:19:57.52
in this very
dangerous hostile environment,
00:19:57.53\00:20:01.68
but it lives
there amongst the spines
00:20:01.69\00:20:03.96
that's where it please
when it gets into trouble.
00:20:03.97\00:20:07.16
And that reminds me of a
little spiritual application.
00:20:07.17\00:20:10.00
Let me ask a question, are
we living in a dangerous world?
00:20:10.01\00:20:14.00
Yes, we are.
00:20:14.01\00:20:15.24
And is there an
enemy in this world?
00:20:15.25\00:20:17.72
Yes, there is.
00:20:17.73\00:20:19.20
And we learned
about the other night,
00:20:19.21\00:20:20.52
but I'll just remind us,
00:20:20.53\00:20:23.08
how do we know
light from darkness.
00:20:23.09\00:20:27.52
On day one we talked about
00:20:27.53\00:20:28.84
putting on the armour of light.
00:20:28.85\00:20:31.16
Philippians 4:8 is the
text and if you put that on
00:20:31.17\00:20:35.36
you can filter out
the harmful effects
00:20:35.37\00:20:38.88
of TV and videos
and computers games,
00:20:38.89\00:20:42.92
and books and all the other
media's that the devil tries
00:20:42.93\00:20:46.68
to put his lies
to our attention,
00:20:46.69\00:20:50.28
and so we learn a
lesson from this Sea Urchin.
00:20:50.29\00:20:53.56
He lives in a dangerous place,
00:20:53.57\00:20:55.28
but he learns how
to live there safely
00:20:55.29\00:20:58.72
and we have to do the same.
00:20:58.73\00:21:00.48
This is the Emperor Shrimp
of Tonga and it is almost always
00:21:00.49\00:21:06.32
found along with
the Sea Cucumbers.
00:21:06.33\00:21:09.72
They have a
relationship together.
00:21:09.73\00:21:14.44
And Anemone Shrimp,
this is in bubble coral.
00:21:14.45\00:21:18.40
And this unusual
form of hard coral
00:21:18.41\00:21:22.08
is filled with water like
grapes and is often inhabited
00:21:22.09\00:21:27.28
by whole flock of
different types of shrimp
00:21:27.29\00:21:30.52
and notice the transparent body.
00:21:30.53\00:21:33.24
You can even see the eggs
00:21:33.25\00:21:35.72
right through the
body of this shrimp.
00:21:35.73\00:21:39.92
This next little fellow,
00:21:39.93\00:21:43.04
what do you think
his name might be,
00:21:43.05\00:21:46.96
it's a False Clown Anemone Fish,
00:21:46.97\00:21:50.64
and he is a unique creature?
00:21:50.65\00:21:53.20
And he also lives
among these poisonous spines,
00:21:53.21\00:21:57.20
but he is immune to stinging
power has no effect on him,
00:21:57.21\00:22:01.92
but he goes there
because his enemies
00:22:01.93\00:22:03.76
can't go there after him.
00:22:03.77\00:22:05.72
And so he has learnt to
make use of its protection.
00:22:05.73\00:22:09.84
We find in the
world of underwater
00:22:09.85\00:22:13.24
so many-many
fascinating stories.
00:22:13.25\00:22:17.28
And one I would like to share
00:22:17.29\00:22:18.56
with you has to
do with the porpoise.
00:22:18.57\00:22:22.28
Porpoise are unique creature,
they're actually a mammal,
00:22:22.29\00:22:27.52
but I believe God
created them on the fifth day.
00:22:27.53\00:22:30.80
And they are so unique they
guide themselves with sonar,
00:22:30.81\00:22:35.16
the military has even
learnt to make use of them
00:22:35.17\00:22:39.40
because they can
be taught many things.
00:22:39.41\00:22:42.32
They are very smart
but here is what I thought
00:22:42.33\00:22:45.28
was so
astonishing a swimmer was off.
00:22:45.29\00:22:49.04
I think it was the coast of
Australia and he was swimming
00:22:49.05\00:22:52.48
there when a shark
00:22:52.49\00:22:56.58
came toward him.
00:22:56.59\00:22:59.12
Well, but about the
same time the shark saw him
00:22:59.13\00:23:03.52
and started toward him,
a whole school of porpoise
00:23:03.53\00:23:09.00
came and they surrounded
him and they just nurtured
00:23:09.01\00:23:14.56
this swimmer all
the way back to shore
00:23:14.57\00:23:18.80
or close enough to shore
where the shark would not come.
00:23:18.81\00:23:22.64
And the meantime those porpoises
00:23:22.65\00:23:24.80
they just kept
circling the swimmer
00:23:24.81\00:23:27.44
and wouldn't let the
shark get any closer, in fact
00:23:27.45\00:23:30.20
they took off after the
shark and chased it away.
00:23:30.21\00:23:35.32
Is that amazing?
00:23:35.33\00:23:37.24
Why would a porpoise,
take out a shark to protect
00:23:37.25\00:23:42.04
a human being, not
even of its own species.
00:23:42.05\00:23:45.24
And I just believe that
the Creator God in heaven
00:23:45.25\00:23:48.12
has put into
the hearts and minds
00:23:48.13\00:23:49.80
of this little
creature a love for people.
00:23:49.81\00:23:53.44
And as we take a
look at this picture.
00:23:53.45\00:23:54.84
This is a Anita Bassett
looking in through a hole
00:23:54.85\00:23:57.92
of Truk Lagoon World War
II and this was the graveyard.
00:23:57.93\00:24:03.88
But it has become
a resurrection place,
00:24:03.89\00:24:06.36
because the sea creatures have
moved in with all their color
00:24:06.37\00:24:10.48
and beauty and they
changed it from a place of death
00:24:10.49\00:24:14.24
to a hope of a resurrection.
00:24:14.25\00:24:18.04
And so the word
"fish" is used 32 times
00:24:18.05\00:24:21.04
in the King James Version.
00:24:21.05\00:24:23.48
These fish can teach
us so many, many lessons
00:24:23.49\00:24:26.84
and that's exactly
what the scripture says
00:24:26.85\00:24:29.08
"Or speak to the
earth, and it will teach you
00:24:29.09\00:24:31.72
and the fish of the
sea will explain to you.
00:24:31.73\00:24:34.64
Who among all
these does not know
00:24:34.65\00:24:36.84
that the hand of
the Lord hath done this,
00:24:36.85\00:24:39.44
in whose hand is the
life of every living thing,
00:24:39.45\00:24:42.68
and the breath of all mankind?
00:24:42.69\00:24:45.16
It asks the question.
00:24:45.17\00:24:46.32
Who doesn't know that?
00:24:46.33\00:24:47.84
And so we have spoken
ever so briefly with fish.
00:24:47.85\00:24:52.68
And I'd just want to share
00:24:52.69\00:24:57.09
one last thought enclosing
00:24:57.10\00:24:59.07
about fish before
we move on, because God
00:24:59.08\00:25:01.36
wasn't done on day five,
there is more yet to come.
00:25:01.37\00:25:05.16
But well the
remarkable features of fish
00:25:05.17\00:25:09.48
is their way of migrating.
00:25:09.49\00:25:12.04
And where I live in
British Columbia, Canada,
00:25:12.05\00:25:14.60
on all the streams there are
big signs it says, salmon run.
00:25:14.61\00:25:18.72
And I just wanna share with you
00:25:18.73\00:25:21.32
the story of the salmon run.
00:25:21.33\00:25:23.48
They are born way
up in the mountains
00:25:23.49\00:25:27.12
and they are in fresh water.
00:25:27.13\00:25:29.32
They go down to the sea
and when they get to the sea,
00:25:29.33\00:25:33.96
these salmon which
are freshwater fish,
00:25:33.97\00:25:36.32
born in freshwater,
they go into the ocean
00:25:36.33\00:25:39.24
and they will stay
there for four years
00:25:39.25\00:25:40.96
or more and then
they will come back.
00:25:40.97\00:25:45.76
And they go back to the
place where they were born
00:25:45.77\00:25:49.24
to lay their
eggs and to reproduce.
00:25:49.25\00:25:53.84
And in of the Moody films.
00:25:53.85\00:25:56.60
I watched it
there because here was
00:25:56.61\00:26:00.40
a very interesting
story of the coho salmon?
00:26:00.41\00:26:03.36
As it came back and it came in,
00:26:03.37\00:26:05.88
this took place
December 2, 1964.
00:26:05.89\00:26:09.52
And this coho salmon
was hatched in a hatchery.
00:26:09.53\00:26:14.04
Mankind has learned how
to help the salmon reproduce
00:26:14.05\00:26:16.88
reproduce and this was
hatched in a man made hatchery.
00:26:16.89\00:26:21.12
Well this salmon
came up to where the water
00:26:21.13\00:26:27.12
was coming out of the hatchery
00:26:27.13\00:26:29.28
but he didn't go in there.
00:26:29.29\00:26:31.04
He swam along
beside and then as it swam
00:26:31.05\00:26:34.48
along beside highway 101.
00:26:34.49\00:26:36.80
It then went underneath a
covert that goes underneath
00:26:36.81\00:26:41.48
the highway 101, swam
underneath the covert,
00:26:41.49\00:26:44.60
came up on the other side
and this is where the water
00:26:44.61\00:26:46.48
goes into the fish hatchery.
00:26:46.49\00:26:49.16
And this large salmon
00:26:49.17\00:26:52.94
then went through a smaller pipe
00:26:52.95\00:26:55.78
about this big and it
swam in underneath that,
00:26:55.79\00:26:59.92
got inside the fish hatchery.
00:26:59.93\00:27:02.88
And when the man
that took take care
00:27:02.89\00:27:04.24
of the fish hatchery
came into the hatchery,
00:27:04.25\00:27:06.56
here is this big
male salmon swimming
00:27:06.57\00:27:09.40
around in the fish hatchery.
00:27:09.41\00:27:11.72
But the screen was
knocked off and it was a pipe
00:27:11.73\00:27:15.64
that came up about
I would say four feet
00:27:15.65\00:27:18.92
and it knock the top of the pipe
00:27:18.93\00:27:22.36
jumped into the place where
he was born and he wondered
00:27:22.37\00:27:26.16
if there were anymore
salmon that it followed suit
00:27:26.17\00:27:29.44
and he lifted up
the boards underneath
00:27:29.45\00:27:31.52
the underground
pathway where the fish coming
00:27:31.53\00:27:35.04
there was 72 salmon in there.
00:27:35.05\00:27:37.24
But they have not
been able to get through
00:27:37.25\00:27:39.52
where this one had got through
00:27:39.53\00:27:40.76
and there they were all
piled up trying to go back
00:27:40.77\00:27:44.76
to the place of their birth.
00:27:44.77\00:27:47.84
Now why they do that?
00:27:47.85\00:27:49.76
You know why they do this?
00:27:49.77\00:27:51.28
Well, and how do they do
that and they have learned
00:27:51.29\00:27:54.16
that the salmon
can smell the water
00:27:54.17\00:27:58.68
from where they were born.
00:27:58.69\00:27:59.80
Water has different
smells and they have found
00:27:59.81\00:28:03.60
the sense of
smell is so sensitive,
00:28:03.61\00:28:06.12
they're one part to a billion,
00:28:06.13\00:28:08.96
that's equivalent of a teaspoon
00:28:08.97\00:28:11.32
to a 11 Olympics swimming pools.
00:28:11.33\00:28:14.48
And they can smell the teaspoon
00:28:14.49\00:28:16.76
and that's how they figure,
00:28:16.77\00:28:18.60
they find their way back
to the place of their birth.
00:28:18.61\00:28:21.88
But I suspect that the
reason they go back to the place
00:28:21.89\00:28:27.72
of their birth, Do you
think that in God's' plan
00:28:27.73\00:28:32.96
because of sin,
God has setup a way,
00:28:32.97\00:28:37.24
He wants to remind us,
that we too need to go back
00:28:37.25\00:28:41.96
to the place of our birth.
00:28:41.97\00:28:44.08
And we need to be
born again spiritually.
00:28:44.09\00:28:47.24
And there is a heart's desire,
00:28:47.25\00:28:48.68
I think of discontent and
nearly every person a desire
00:28:48.69\00:28:52.60
to go back to be reborn
00:28:52.61\00:28:54.61
to have wholeness resorted
00:28:54.62\00:28:59.06
back to them,
the way the Creator
00:28:59.07\00:29:01.28
made them originally.
00:29:01.29\00:29:05.76
Well, God was
not done on day five.
00:29:05.77\00:29:08.28
What else did He
create on this fifth day?
00:29:08.29\00:29:12.68
God now fills the space
with heavens with birds.
00:29:12.69\00:29:17.48
Notice carefully as we
review what's been going on?
00:29:17.49\00:29:22.88
God separated light
from the darkness on day one.
00:29:22.89\00:29:27.52
And on day two, He
separated water from the water.
00:29:27.53\00:29:32.60
And then, He
separated water from land,
00:29:32.61\00:29:37.28
and then He also
put in the plants.
00:29:37.29\00:29:40.52
He first
created a place in space
00:29:40.53\00:29:45.76
and when He had
that space created,
00:29:45.77\00:29:48.20
then He filled that space.
00:29:48.21\00:29:51.76
And then He put the sun and moon
00:29:51.77\00:29:54.00
as we looked at yesterday
into the space of the heavens.
00:29:54.01\00:29:58.16
And then tonight
we're discovering He filled
00:29:58.17\00:30:01.80
the space of the
heavens with birds,
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and the water with fish.
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And tomorrow
night we will discover,
00:30:07.37\00:30:09.80
He also put animals and man.
00:30:09.81\00:30:13.68
And so let's take a
look at birds, and God said,
00:30:16.09\00:30:20.36
"Let birds fly
above the earth across
00:30:20.37\00:30:22.60
the face of the
firmament of the heavens
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Genesis 1 verse 20.
00:30:25.05\00:30:29.60
And God created every winged
bird according to its kind,
00:30:29.61\00:30:32.76
and God saw that it was good.
00:30:32.77\00:30:36.61
And God blessed them, saying,
"Be fruitful and multiply,
00:30:39.12\00:30:42.80
and let birds
multiply on the earth."
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And so the evening and the
morning were the fifth day.
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When God created these
birds, we notice that God
00:30:50.45\00:30:54.00
does something different
with birds and out of the ground
00:30:54.01\00:30:58.76
the Lord God formed
every beast of the field
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and every bird of the air.
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Here we
discover that the Creator
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now in Genesis 2 verse 19,
00:31:06.73\00:31:09.60
it tells us how
He made the birds,
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this isn't just made
with sound waves now.
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God is now forming the birds
out of the dust of the ground,
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so He takes this
earth that has been created
00:31:19.41\00:31:22.60
and now He forms birds from it.
00:31:22.61\00:31:27.08
Jeremiah 8
verse 7 tells us this.
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In Palestine they watch
for the return of the stork,
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similar to this
one and they come up,
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it's a sure sign of spring
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and they're the
largest of the migrating birds.
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"The stork in the heavens
knoweth her appointed time;
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and the turtledove, and the
crane and the swallow observe
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the time of their coming.
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But My people know not
the judgment of the Lord."
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Jeremiah 8 verse 7.
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Birds know their time,
they know when to return
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and when to come back.
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But God threw out the challenge,
00:32:07.07\00:32:08.51
but My people do not know
the time of God's judgments.
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And there is a reaping,
and then there is a sowing,
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and then there is a harvest,
and there is a judgment.
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Birds fulfill God's purpose
00:32:19.99\00:32:23.36
and they make long migrations.
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And land they're are
guided through trackless
00:32:26.31\00:32:28.21
space by the hand of
infinite, but still don't know
00:32:28.22\00:32:32.19
how these birds actually
navigate the way they do.
00:32:32.20\00:32:36.89
And of course our famous bird
00:32:36.90\00:32:40.81
from Canada, the Canada goose,
00:32:40.82\00:32:44.43
they fly 70
percent more efficient
00:32:44.44\00:32:47.17
when they're in formation
00:32:47.18\00:32:48.89
than when they're
flying by themselves.
00:32:48.90\00:32:51.43
And there were these birds
00:32:51.44\00:32:53.97
they were flying at
their migrating time.
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And as they were going
the hunters were blazing away
00:32:57.34\00:33:00.41
and one male goose was hit.
00:33:00.42\00:33:03.64
He landed, he was
wounded, he couldn't fly,
00:33:03.65\00:33:08.08
but he hid in the bulrushes,
the hunters couldn't find him.
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After they had left, he
went over to the barnyard
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and when he went
over to the barnyard.
00:33:15.05\00:33:17.45
He took up a relationship
00:33:17.46\00:33:20.75
there with the tame geese
00:33:20.76\00:33:23.32
that were there in the barnyard.
00:33:23.33\00:33:25.57
And this tame goose,
they took up a relationship
00:33:25.58\00:33:30.10
and as you may know
geese made for life.
00:33:30.11\00:33:33.99
I presume there was a
flock of little goslings,
00:33:34.00\00:33:38.07
they were half
wild and half tame.
00:33:38.08\00:33:39.97
The farmer wondered
what's going to happen
00:33:39.98\00:33:42.69
when the next time
the wild geese come by.
00:33:42.70\00:33:45.73
Well, he didn't
have to long to wait,
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next time you get here,
he's mere hawking in the air.
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And the geese were
going by and this goose
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got a wild glint in his eye,
and boom he took to the air.
00:33:52.96\00:33:57.60
And as you know
they're made for life.
00:33:57.61\00:34:00.43
But this tame
goose was broken hearted.
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Her mate was gone.
00:34:03.79\00:34:05.85
But now get this three days
00:34:05.86\00:34:08.35
later that goose came back.
00:34:08.36\00:34:13.13
Took up residence and
never again attempted to leave.
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But that's not all the story.
00:34:18.84\00:34:20.97
Time went on, there
was another hunting season,
00:34:20.98\00:34:23.15
the hunters are blazing away
00:34:23.16\00:34:24.33
and they killed the tame goose.
00:34:24.34\00:34:26.71
I think they were
aiming at the wild,
00:34:26.72\00:34:28.33
but they killed the
tame one and so the farmer
00:34:28.34\00:34:32.29
took this tame
goose and of course
00:34:32.30\00:34:34.63
now this time voyager was
the name of the wild goose
00:34:34.64\00:34:40.23
that the farmer gave
it, it was broken heart.
00:34:40.24\00:34:43.34
And it was there as the
farmer buried this tame goose
00:34:43.35\00:34:46.94
in the back
behind the barn there.
00:34:46.95\00:34:49.47
At this time, you
could hear the wild honking
00:34:49.48\00:34:51.90
going by and this time
the goose looked heavenward
00:34:51.91\00:34:54.73
and then he circled
and then he took off.
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But here is a
question that I wanna ask you.
00:34:57.44\00:35:00.57
Where do you think
00:35:00.58\00:35:03.43
that goose found the loyalty
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and the self denial to
stay with the tame goose?
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I'd like to suggest
that's the principle of cross.
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And the Creator has put it
even in the heart of a bird.
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If He can put it in
the heart of the bird,
00:35:20.18\00:35:21.64
you're thinking put it
in the hearts of people,
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I think He can.
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And so this--
there is another story,
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there are so many stories
we could tell about geese,
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some day I wanna do may be
a whole book just on geese,
00:35:31.38\00:35:35.16
there is so many
fascinating stories.
00:35:35.17\00:35:36.99
There was a flock of tame geese
00:35:37.00\00:35:39.72
and the wild geese flew in
and these flock of tame geese
00:35:39.73\00:35:43.21
on the farm, they saw
this wild geese flying around.
00:35:43.22\00:35:46.37
And when those
wild geese took off,
00:35:46.38\00:35:49.38
these tame geese begin
to take flying lessons.
00:35:49.39\00:35:53.71
I tell you now, and
they worked and worked
00:35:53.72\00:35:55.86
till these tame
geese actually learned
00:35:55.87\00:35:58.17
how to fly and they said,
it was really kind of scary
00:35:58.18\00:36:01.23
at this farm because
you could be doing a work
00:36:01.24\00:36:03.85
and all of a sudden you
hear this noise and here comes
00:36:03.86\00:36:06.35
this whole herd
of flying tame geese
00:36:06.36\00:36:10.17
just over here your head.
00:36:10.18\00:36:11.69
And they come in
for a landing not quite
00:36:11.70\00:36:13.50
as graceful as
their wild cousins,
00:36:13.51\00:36:15.75
but tame geese can
actually fly like their cousins.
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Well, in Corinthian
15:39 it says, all flesh
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is not the same flesh,
but there is one kind of flesh
00:36:26.72\00:36:30.75
for men there is
another kind of flesh of beasts,
00:36:30.76\00:36:33.78
and there is another for fish,
00:36:33.79\00:36:35.25
and there is another for birds.
00:36:35.26\00:36:37.46
And so we don't know
and we think of our Bible
00:36:37.47\00:36:40.63
says being a science book
00:36:40.64\00:36:44.47
and yet there is
knowledge there forth.
00:36:44.48\00:36:46.87
The Western Tanager is
another one of the song birds.
00:36:46.88\00:36:51.14
There's about 8,600
species of this particular type.
00:36:51.15\00:36:56.53
Each bird has its ministry.
00:36:56.54\00:36:59.25
About half of the songs
birds about 4,000 of them sing.
00:36:59.26\00:37:04.53
Have you ever
thought about why birds sing?
00:37:04.54\00:37:09.38
Have you ever
noticed how tranquilizing
00:37:09.39\00:37:11.32
it is to the system
00:37:11.33\00:37:13.28
to listen to the birds sing?
00:37:13.29\00:37:17.14
Then a song of Song of
Solomon 2 verse 12 says,
00:37:17.15\00:37:19.88
"The flowers appear on the
earth; and the time of singing
00:37:19.89\00:37:23.00
of the bird has come,
and the voice of turtledove
00:37:23.01\00:37:26.61
is heard in our land."
00:37:26.62\00:37:29.68
What time of year is that?
00:37:29.69\00:37:31.35
That's the spring time.
00:37:31.36\00:37:32.81
And the birds are
really is singing away
00:37:32.82\00:37:34.70
at this time of the year.
00:37:34.71\00:37:37.01
And well most of
the people are not aware
00:37:37.02\00:37:38.90
that there is what we call
the early morning bird chorus.
00:37:38.91\00:37:42.03
How many have ever heard it.
00:37:42.04\00:37:43.87
It takes place
one hour before dawn.
00:37:43.88\00:37:47.19
I mean that's early
its dark, its like night.
00:37:47.20\00:37:51.14
And the robins
wake up the whole crew,
00:37:51.15\00:37:53.22
Tillie tweet, Tillie tweet,
Tillie tweet, they sing away
00:37:53.23\00:37:55.90
and then pretty soon
another bird would join in
00:37:55.91\00:37:57.99
and another bird
would join in and barges
00:37:58.00\00:38:00.73
have long puzzle over the
early morning birds chorus,
00:38:00.74\00:38:04.01
because its an hour before
dawn and they sing that way
00:38:04.02\00:38:07.34
and they sing at that
time of the day and away
00:38:07.35\00:38:10.16
and they don't sing
any other time of the day.
00:38:10.17\00:38:12.17
They just--it's
not a territorial call,
00:38:12.18\00:38:14.34
its not mating call.
00:38:14.35\00:38:15.44
They just sing and
sing away and of course
00:38:15.45\00:38:17.48
I'm a preacher and
you can just guess,
00:38:17.49\00:38:19.31
I think they're having morning
worship, that's what I think.
00:38:19.32\00:38:22.59
But surprise, surprise,
00:38:22.60\00:38:27.57
they are may be having morning
00:38:27.58\00:38:29.23
worship, but they
are doing more than that.
00:38:29.24\00:38:32.85
Science has
found out Dan Carlson's
00:38:32.86\00:38:37.53
has done very
careful research on this.
00:38:37.54\00:38:39.88
And he developed a plant
program called Sonic Bloom
00:38:39.89\00:38:43.46
and what they
have learned is this.
00:38:43.47\00:38:46.09
When the birds are
signing at 5,000 hertz frequency
00:38:46.10\00:38:49.79
and the early
morning birds chorus,
00:38:49.80\00:38:52.20
it actually open the
breathing pores of the leaves.
00:38:52.21\00:38:56.18
And the leaves open up and Dan
Carlson's Sonic Bloom program
00:38:56.19\00:39:00.93
as you play that frequency
causes the pores to open up
00:39:00.94\00:39:04.41
and he says, you
can feed the plants
00:39:04.42\00:39:06.22
through their leaves easier
than you can through their
00:39:06.23\00:39:09.02
roots and he
has planted program,
00:39:09.03\00:39:11.86
you can find out on the
internet if you're interested,
00:39:11.87\00:39:15.03
its call Dan Carlson,
and its called Sonic Bloom.
00:39:15.04\00:39:19.26
And but here is the
interesting point to me.
00:39:19.27\00:39:22.08
When those
birds are singing away
00:39:22.09\00:39:23.74
there an hour before
dawn, they are playing right
00:39:23.75\00:39:27.46
on a tree house if you please.
00:39:27.47\00:39:29.50
Opening up the breathing pores,
00:39:29.51\00:39:30.87
so the tree can drink
in the dew of the night.
00:39:30.88\00:39:33.34
Now isn't that a
handy arrangement.
00:39:33.35\00:39:36.12
It just happens
to work out that way.
00:39:36.13\00:39:38.00
Well, others are
roof sighted Towhee.
00:39:38.01\00:39:40.48
And there is the Quail or
Bobwhite creation illustrated
00:39:40.49\00:39:45.13
had a story in there
that a neighbor friend
00:39:45.14\00:39:47.04
of mine recorded
how one Bobwhite's mate
00:39:47.05\00:39:51.23
was killed and
the male took over
00:39:51.24\00:39:53.46
caring for the
little flock of birds
00:39:53.47\00:39:55.99
and then the
neighboring flock of Quail.
00:39:56.00\00:40:01.02
The one mate was
killed then the other one
00:40:01.03\00:40:03.13
was killed and
this father took over
00:40:03.14\00:40:05.49
that bunch of baby birds
to and he had 20 little birds
00:40:05.50\00:40:08.90
all going along after
him looking after them,
00:40:08.91\00:40:11.61
and isn't that incredible.
00:40:11.62\00:40:13.33
That it would
give that kind of care
00:40:13.34\00:40:16.12
even to the
neighbor's all little birds.
00:40:16.13\00:40:19.65
And then there is the
yellow headed-black bird,
00:40:19.66\00:40:22.80
beautiful creatures.
00:40:22.81\00:40:25.85
And then we have
the humming bird.
00:40:25.86\00:40:28.17
And you know, they're
sort of flying helicopter
00:40:28.18\00:40:30.55
as it were, their wing
beats 35 times a second
00:40:30.56\00:40:34.60
and but they do more than
are humming, or helicopters.
00:40:34.61\00:40:38.42
They can be flying
this way and it can turn
00:40:38.43\00:40:40.32
to 45 degree
corner just like that.
00:40:40.33\00:40:43.24
And I don't know if
anything that can do
00:40:43.25\00:40:44.48
that going full speed,
they go this way in that way,
00:40:44.49\00:40:46.64
and they're
just amazing to watch
00:40:46.65\00:40:50.08
the humming
birds skill at flying.
00:40:50.09\00:40:53.54
A man was hearing
rack at outside his window
00:40:53.55\00:40:56.73
and he looked and
there were the humming birds.
00:40:56.74\00:40:59.65
But they were
frantic, a garter snake
00:40:59.66\00:41:01.85
that was coming up this bush.
00:41:01.95\00:41:04.70
And they were dive
bombing the garter snake,
00:41:04.71\00:41:07.75
but the garter snake
didn't pay them any attention
00:41:07.76\00:41:09.71
that were too little
to give him any trouble
00:41:09.72\00:41:11.84
and finally in desperation
the one went sat on the nest
00:41:11.85\00:41:15.45
and the other one flew off.
00:41:15.46\00:41:16.99
And this while I was
just watching this saw
00:41:17.00\00:41:19.50
why did he fly off?
00:41:19.51\00:41:21.30
I didn't have long to wait,
00:41:21.31\00:41:22.96
pretty soon here
came the humming bird
00:41:22.97\00:41:25.06
and it was leading a robin.
00:41:25.07\00:41:27.78
And as soon as the
obin saw the garter snake
00:41:27.79\00:41:30.08
it immediately
attack the garter snake
00:41:30.09\00:41:32.85
and the garter snake
made a hasty retreat out
00:41:32.86\00:41:35.41
of the bush, because a
robin can kill the garter snake.
00:41:35.42\00:41:39.30
But here is the point.
00:41:39.31\00:41:41.75
I wonder if we're
smart as the humming bird.
00:41:41.76\00:41:44.18
That when we take on an
enemy that's too big for us,
00:41:44.19\00:41:46.83
do we have another
sense to go get somebody
00:41:46.84\00:41:48.41
bigger to take on the enemy.
00:41:48.42\00:41:50.76
And we are contending with
an enemy in this world too.
00:41:50.77\00:41:53.82
And we need to find
someone bigger than you
00:41:53.83\00:41:56.32
and I to contend with him.
00:41:56.33\00:41:58.94
Well, there's a famous
Killdeer and it will risk
00:41:58.95\00:42:01.86
its life in order to
protect its young and probably
00:42:01.87\00:42:05.05
all of us have contended with
them at one time or another.
00:42:05.06\00:42:09.03
And they lay their
eggs in the ground.
00:42:09.04\00:42:10.79
Eggs size, shape, and
color, there is a whole science
00:42:10.80\00:42:13.82
to that and they have
their nest, but its interesting
00:42:13.83\00:42:17.99
that when Christ
came to this earth,
00:42:18.00\00:42:20.95
He had no place to go
home like the birds do.
00:42:20.96\00:42:25.33
And then the peacock,
this is now wild peacock
00:42:25.34\00:42:29.28
and feathers are an
absolute wonder to study
00:42:29.29\00:42:32.63
study and they are
aeronautical wonder
00:42:32.64\00:42:35.82
of engineering skill!
00:42:35.83\00:42:37.92
It's one of the lightest things
00:42:37.93\00:42:40.01
known to me and
for its strength.
00:42:40.02\00:42:42.10
And a bird can have up to
25,000 feathers in the swan
00:42:42.11\00:42:47.30
with 12 nerve ending
per wing tip feather.
00:42:47.31\00:42:50.10
So he can just guide that
with just the slightest touch
00:42:50.11\00:42:53.28
of its finger as it work.
00:42:53.29\00:42:55.83
And talk about
color, how is for color.
00:42:55.84\00:42:59.70
You know, ladies and
we think about trying
00:42:59.71\00:43:02.24
to find an attractive dress.
00:43:02.25\00:43:05.29
You will never outdo the birds.
00:43:05.30\00:43:08.48
And yet all the
feathers of an owl
00:43:08.49\00:43:12.27
will weigh one and half ounces.
00:43:12.28\00:43:15.14
And they can fly so silently.
00:43:15.15\00:43:18.26
I remember I was
taking on one time
00:43:18.27\00:43:20.48
and he flew in beside me
and I've never heard him at all.
00:43:20.49\00:43:23.44
And there is a road
runner become quite famous.
00:43:23.45\00:43:25.85
Then there's the Tern.
00:43:25.86\00:43:28.04
How is this for a hairdo?
00:43:28.05\00:43:30.28
You got to admit, you
got to go to beauty parlor
00:43:30.29\00:43:32.62
long time to find
something like that.
00:43:32.63\00:43:34.37
And then gentleman if
you gonna go to church.
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Could you have
better dress than this?
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Birds usually mate for the time
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and which they have their young
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and of course some
birds mate for life.
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And there go bunting,
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turkeys what
about the song birds.
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Behold the fowl of the air,
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they toll not,
neither do they spin
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nor gather into barns,
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yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them.
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Are you not much
greater than they?
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Do we really need to
worry about our food?
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And you know, this
day horticultural society
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of Kansas
George A. Blair States,
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"Kansas has 256 million birds,
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and every year these
birds eat enough insects to fill
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480 trains of 50 boxcars each,
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with 24, 000 pounds per car."
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That is the birds of Kansas
will eat 576 million pounds
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I insect every season.
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Let me tell you,
do the birds serve us?
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Yes, they do.
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And there is the flicker.
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And then there is the eagle.
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And think about the birds
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and so let's draw conclusion
to this message tonight.
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In God's wonder world of nature,
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there are many things that
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often attract our attention.
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And as we go out into that
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beauty of nature,
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there are things
that attract our attention
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saying please study me next.
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And as we
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take a look
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at the beautiful mountains
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in the distance and
anybody who has ever done
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any mountain climbing know that,
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they also have their own
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variety of beauty.
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And in those mountains
we find birds of all kinds
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that invite us to look at them.
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The trees, there
are all kinds of trees
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and they are at their beauty.
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And as we think about
the beauties of water,
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there is a relationship,
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and we find as we look
into the world of nature.
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There is this
symbiotic relationship
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and at the water
falls you can see salmon
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as they would jump
10 foot water falls.
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And eagles often build
their nest high up in a tree.
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And what a thrill it is to watch
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the eagle as it
spread its wings.
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And the question is, the
Bible speaks of the eagle
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and it says, they that
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wait on the Lord
will be like the eagle.
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Have you ever thought about
how the eagle is able to fly?
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If you can have the lights out.
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And the eagle,
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as it goes to fly.
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How does it fly?
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The Bible says, "They
that wait up on the Lord
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we will renew their strength.
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And they will mount up
with wings like an eagle
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and they that are
weary can be refreshed,
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and gain their strength."
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And how does an eagle fly?
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The eagle does not fly by
its own effort or strength.
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The eagle will put out his wings
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and as he puts out its wings,
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he puts it upon a law
that it can't even see,
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the law of thermodynamics.
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And relying on that law
with the swings out spread,
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that law will lift
the eagle to any height
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it needs to go just by relying
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totally on an
invisible law outside it self.
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And the Bible invites
us to wait upon the Lord
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to put our strength on a divine
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power outside ourselves.
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And if we will,
that divine power
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can restore back the years
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the locust have eaten,
that power can lift you up
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and take you to any
height that you need to go
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and my appeal to you
tonight is why not put your wait
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fully on God's Holy
law, His Ten Commandments
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and allow His spirit to
create that law in your heart
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of hearts and that
divine power working
00:55:57.43\00:56:00.59
on the inside will recreate you
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to become a total new person.
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So speak to the
birds, speak to the fish,
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they would tell you who
among all these does not know
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that the hand of
the Lord have done this.
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Could we just bow
our heads for prayer?
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Holy Father as
surely as you breathe life
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into this creatures
the fish and the birds,
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as surely as You've given
them life on this fifth day
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and began to feel
your world with creatures
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that could live and move and
have their being and function.
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Under water that you
put into them and so Lord
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we wanna the learn
the lesson of the eagle
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to wait on the Lord and
He will renewed our strength
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like the eagle as we
rely on a divine power
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totally outside our self.
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And if we do lift
such a prayer of tonight,
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let him do it from the
inside our a new creation
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thank you now in
Jesus name. Amen.
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