1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:02,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Happy New Year to you. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you ready for the new year? 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is the new year ready for you is what we ought to ask, huh? 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:12,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I am happy that the Christmas decorations are still up. 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:24,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes when we take them down just after Christmas, it kind of looks bare. 7 00:00:25,779 --> 00:00:28,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: After having been here for a few weeks. 8 00:00:29,140 --> 00:00:32,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will tell you though, it is still Christmas season. 9 00:00:33,860 --> 00:00:36,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: January 6th is Christmas. 10 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:39,879 Pastor Dale Tunnell: according to the Eastern Orthodox religion. 11 00:00:41,239 --> 00:00:46,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So should you be in Russia at this time, they are still waiting for Christmas to occur on January 6th. 12 00:00:47,660 --> 00:00:51,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So uh that's why the Christmas decorations are still up. 13 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:55,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or because the crew did not get here this last week to take them down. 14 00:00:55,980 --> 00:01:01,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can go with whichever option you want, but uh I like the Christmas decorations up. 15 00:01:01,739 --> 00:01:08,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They are uh add beauty to our facility here. 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You see on the screen, oh you it was on the screen. 17 00:01:13,320 --> 00:01:13,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I saw it. 18 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:14,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I saw it down there. 19 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:15,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There it was. 20 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You see on the screen the title The Bride of Christ. 21 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was going to have a different title, and that it was I Have a Dream. 22 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:28,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh kind of stealing that title from uh Martin Luther King Jr. 23 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in his uh 24 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: speech there in 1963. 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't remember it. 26 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was just a baby at that time. 27 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:41,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh but had to study it a few times. 28 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:48,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And uh it is a beautiful and powerful uh message that he gave. 29 00:01:48,719 --> 00:01:52,479 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um I've been here at Mesa Palms now for two months. 30 00:01:53,880 --> 00:02:00,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I'm still in Ubi, still getting to know what goes on here. 31 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh they don't always tell me when the lights are out. 32 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:09,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh or when things need to be done around here, things just happen. 33 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes I'm here and catch people doing things. 34 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes they happen when I'm not here. 35 00:02:19,220 --> 00:02:23,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I realize I haven't been to all of your homes yet. 36 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:26,739 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I realize you have not invited me to your home yet. 37 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:32,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have not received a lot of text messages and say, hey, I need a pastoral visit. 38 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe you don't need a pastoral visit, but I need to visit you. 39 00:02:37,299 --> 00:02:46,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe you don't need me to visit you, but I need to visit you, because I'm realizing every Sabbath how many people's names I just still do not know. 40 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:47,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now Cheryl's good at it. 41 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:48,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She picks them up. 42 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:50,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She listens to conversations. 43 00:02:50,079 --> 00:02:51,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She hears things. 44 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She you'd be surprised how many names she already knows. 45 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when she talks about you, I have no clue who she's talking about 46 00:02:58,860 --> 00:03:03,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She has to describe a little bit more to me so that I can catch on. 47 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:05,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, that's their name. 48 00:03:05,980 --> 00:03:06,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So um 49 00:03:07,780 --> 00:03:08,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 50 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:11,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I'm telling you, it needs to happen. 51 00:03:11,140 --> 00:03:16,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm I'm I'm still learning things, but I've like I said, I've been here two months. 52 00:03:16,980 --> 00:03:21,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This facility that we have is is beautiful. 53 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:27,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, God has given the church here a beautiful facility. 54 00:03:27,879 --> 00:03:28,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 55 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I look out here and see only about what? 56 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:34,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would you say? 57 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 50% full? 58 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:38,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 45% full? 59 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Something like that? 60 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:46,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh, I should look at the numbers and compare them with the seating capacity and see how that that rates. 61 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:47,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 62 00:03:50,500 --> 00:04:02,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The members that are here that I'm getting to know, the ones I have visited, the ones I've been in meetings with, the ones I've I've visited at the the midweek meetings, the one that is in board meeting, I've been at a few board meetings. 63 00:04:02,740 --> 00:04:03,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Board meetings are fun. 64 00:04:03,940 --> 00:04:05,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I like board meetings. 65 00:04:05,780 --> 00:04:09,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh that's uh when you get to know people a little bit better. 66 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:10,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elders' meetings. 67 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:11,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 68 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:19,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's fun for me to get to know the Bride of Christ here in Mesa Palms. 69 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:32,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I've thought and I've wondered if Jesus were to write us a letter for 2026. 70 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would it say? 71 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:43,879 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we had been included, or if we were included in the twenty I mean in the Revelation letters 72 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh the back here of the Bible, Revelation chapter two and three. 73 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's letters there to the seven churches. 74 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,879 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we were included in those letters 75 00:04:56,580 --> 00:05:00,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would he say to us and how would he say it? 76 00:05:02,660 --> 00:05:04,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You remember some of those letters, right? 77 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:06,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Church of Ephesus? 78 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What he had to say to the Church of Ephesus. 79 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, the Church of Ephesus was a happening place. 80 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were a growing church. 81 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were an exciting church to be at. 82 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:26,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But Jesus tells them, he says, you have lost your first love. 83 00:05:30,099 --> 00:05:34,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Boy, that's that's that's strong, isn't it? 84 00:05:36,259 --> 00:05:39,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those are those are hard words for us to hear sometimes. 85 00:05:40,020 --> 00:05:42,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean if you said that to your your your 86 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:54,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your husband, you've been married, you know, month, three months, a year, five years, and you say you've lost your first love. 87 00:05:56,540 --> 00:05:59,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's your husband gonna think when you say that? 88 00:05:59,580 --> 00:06:03,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then you go further, like Jesus says, He says, repent 89 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:12,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean those are you could almost be offended at those things. 90 00:06:13,180 --> 00:06:18,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Words like that could could be be painful to hear. 91 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:33,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now some individuals say that the the the s the letters to the seven churches, there were actually seven churches that that John was writing to, or Jesus was writing to through John, sending these letters to, but that these seven churches actually also 92 00:06:34,259 --> 00:06:36,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our time prophecies throughout history. 93 00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:43,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The early church would be that church of Ephesus, the one that was growing, the one that was exciting, the one that was on fire for Jesus Christ. 94 00:06:43,039 --> 00:06:47,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When the world was turned upside down, that would be the church of Ephesus. 95 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But then it gets to the point where they lose their first love. 96 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And and John, he writes, first, second, third, John, you read those books and he says 97 00:06:55,940 --> 00:06:58,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love one another, love one another, love one another. 98 00:06:58,740 --> 00:07:01,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why is he reminding them to love one another? 99 00:07:02,260 --> 00:07:04,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because of what Jesus had said. 100 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:06,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You've lost your first love. 101 00:07:07,540 --> 00:07:09,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Could see it in the church. 102 00:07:11,140 --> 00:07:15,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I'm not going through the seven churches right now, but the the the the the Laodicean church. 103 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:24,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If that that section, these are letters to the time prophecies going through the history of the church, and we get to the seventh church there, the Laodicean church. 104 00:07:24,539 --> 00:07:31,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That would be the last day church, the church that is in the in the in the last days before Jesus returns. 105 00:07:31,340 --> 00:07:34,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That would probably be our day. 106 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does he tell the Laodicean church there in in Revelation chapter 3? 107 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:47,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What was it? 108 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:49,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You don't need me. 109 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, you think you are rich and in need of nothing 110 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Boy, that that kinda sounds like the world we live in, doesn't it? 111 00:08:04,660 --> 00:08:08,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People in the valley here think they're rich and they need of nothing. 112 00:08:13,220 --> 00:08:16,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They they they have everything they need to make life happen. 113 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We get to the place where we we we don't even need the the community. 114 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look here chapter three there if you have your Bibles you can open it. 115 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I didn't put it on the screen for you 116 00:08:29,340 --> 00:08:32,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know your works that you're neither hot nor cold. 117 00:08:32,620 --> 00:08:35,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I could wish that you were cold or hot. 118 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:41,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold or hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth. 119 00:08:44,540 --> 00:08:55,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because you say that you are rich, I have become wealthy and have need of nothing, do you know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked? 120 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:02,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you want to receive a letter like that? 121 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't either. 122 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:14,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want to receive a letter like that either. 123 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:15,199 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 124 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want you to receive a letter like that. 125 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because that is painful to hear, painful to look at. 126 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:34,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so I will say, I have a dream 127 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:43,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream for the Mesa Palm Seventh day Adventist Church. 128 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:51,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream where every member has a personal relationship with Jesus. 129 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:54,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Every member. 130 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:01,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I know some of you didn't get the card so you could fill out the five names because you're you're not a voted member here. 131 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:04,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But if you're attending here, you're a member here, okay? 132 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:12,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wouldn't it be nice if every member had a personal relationship with Jesus 133 00:10:13,140 --> 00:10:18,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, do you have a New Year's resolution that you want to have a personal relationship with Jesus this year? 134 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:21,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You want to improve your relationship with Jesus? 135 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 10, 27. 136 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:32,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus says, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 137 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You talk about a New Year's resolution. 138 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to hear God's voice. 139 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want the congregation to hear God's voice. 140 00:10:44,839 --> 00:10:47,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want us to know God's voice. 141 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:53,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For him to know who we are, and for us to put into practice. 142 00:10:55,060 --> 00:10:57,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes that's harder than just hearing. 143 00:10:58,340 --> 00:10:58,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Right? 144 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:02,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We may hear, but we don't always put into practice. 145 00:11:03,060 --> 00:11:09,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want us to hear his voice and to do what he asks us to do. 146 00:11:10,460 --> 00:11:13,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To have that personal relationship with him. 147 00:11:15,020 --> 00:11:18,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means we're going to have to be spending time with him regularly. 148 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means we're going to have to be going on errands for him regularly. 149 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,959 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I know this applies to me also. 150 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, many times the pastor is preaching to himself. 151 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You guys are just here listening. 152 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is what I need to hear as well. 153 00:11:42,540 --> 00:11:48,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want for us as a church to have that personal relationship with Jesus 154 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would that look like? 155 00:11:52,560 --> 00:12:02,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What could we do as a church to encourage one another to have that personal relationship with Jesus? 156 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:11,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I I I was thinking about that this week and I I'm thinking, you know, we already have some things that are really in place for that purpose. 157 00:12:12,220 --> 00:12:23,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When the Seventh-day Adventist Church started, one of the things they wanted was everybody to grow because the knowledge that was taking place at that time, they wanted everybody to grow spiritually, significantly. 158 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:27,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not just incremental, but significant spiritual growth. 159 00:12:27,420 --> 00:12:30,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that was going to have to happen quickly. 160 00:12:30,940 --> 00:12:34,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so they they they started what we call Sabbath school. 161 00:12:36,959 --> 00:12:38,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're not original with that idea. 162 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:40,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We got it from the Methodists. 163 00:12:42,079 --> 00:12:43,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They had Sunday school. 164 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We started Sabbath school. 165 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The purpose for Sabbath school. 166 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is so that we can grow spirit. 167 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:57,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's to get us into God's word so that we are studying on a regular basis. 168 00:12:57,420 --> 00:13:00,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those Sabbath school lesson guides, the the Bible reading guides. 169 00:13:00,380 --> 00:13:03,259 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's so you can study it every day, every day, every day. 170 00:13:03,420 --> 00:13:09,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you you you begin to learn, you begin to grow, and we come together and we go to the classes and it's where a discussion 171 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:15,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: can take place so that we can share what we've learned during the week and how we can apply it to our life. 172 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That was an advertisement for Sabbath School. 173 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In case you weren't catching on. 174 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:38,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, there were times in in in Adventist history that we were known as people of the book, and that was because of Sabbath school. 175 00:13:38,420 --> 00:13:46,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There were times in Seventh day Avenue's history where we would have 150 people coming to Sabbath school and only 100 showing up to the worship service. 176 00:13:46,740 --> 00:13:51,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We had more people in Sabbath school classes than we did that were members of the church. 177 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At one time, Sabbath school class is where Bible study was taking place. 178 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's where we were getting individuals to come and study with us, and they weren't even members. 179 00:14:02,220 --> 00:14:04,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were learning how to grow in Jesus Christ. 180 00:14:05,020 --> 00:14:06,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were learning how to study the Bible. 181 00:14:07,020 --> 00:14:10,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were growing to be able to hear God's voice. 182 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:14,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were growing to know what God's will was for their life. 183 00:14:15,660 --> 00:14:27,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sabbath school a long, long, long time ago, used to be the evangelism for the church. 184 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:38,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Making sure that people studied and and and grew and knew their Bibles, making sure they had that relationship with Jesus. 185 00:14:38,820 --> 00:14:47,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Advertisement again for Sabbath school if you're watching on video, if you're the and listening, advertisement for getting together with the church. 186 00:14:48,180 --> 00:14:50,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need Sabbath school. 187 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:53,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You need Sabbath school. 188 00:14:55,660 --> 00:15:05,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean if there if you are not here well let's see I shouldn't say that I'm not preaching next week 189 00:15:06,060 --> 00:15:16,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you are not here worshiping in two weeks, here, in this room, worshiping with me in two weeks, if you are not here, but you attended Sabbath school, 190 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:19,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I would say hallelujah. 191 00:15:20,260 --> 00:15:25,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To me, Sabbath school is more important than what happens here 192 00:15:26,079 --> 00:15:29,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you want to bring guests, bring them to Sabbath school. 193 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sabbath school is where we really study the word 194 00:15:35,180 --> 00:15:42,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we'll have a Bible study here, but man, if I part of my dream is to grow Sabbath school. 195 00:15:44,180 --> 00:15:49,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna tell you, we have this thing called midweek service or or prayer meeting. 196 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:51,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What? 197 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know you don't drive at night. 198 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know Wednesday night is a difficult time. 199 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, we need to be getting together to pray 200 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to pray together as a community. 201 00:16:09,839 --> 00:16:11,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That midweek service is 202 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:12,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is something special. 203 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:20,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This opportunity we have is at the world church, this ten days of prayer that we're going to have starting Wednesday evening and going to conclude on the on the 17th. 204 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:25,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's a special time where the world church has things that they're praying about. 205 00:16:25,839 --> 00:16:30,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we as a local community, we have things that we need to pray about. 206 00:16:30,380 --> 00:16:32,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we need to be sharing those with each other. 207 00:16:32,779 --> 00:16:34,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it builds community. 208 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:39,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When you listen to each other pray, when you hear each other pray, it builds community. 209 00:16:39,660 --> 00:16:43,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When you when you can sense the other people's hearts, it builds community. 210 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't pray enough together 211 00:16:55,300 --> 00:16:57,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, how many commercials you want during this section? 212 00:16:58,020 --> 00:17:04,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, sometimes you watch that uh programs and there's just commercial after commercial after commercial. 213 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:05,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 214 00:17:06,260 --> 00:17:10,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream that every member has a personal relationship with Jesus. 215 00:17:12,820 --> 00:17:15,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What a wonderful place that would be. 216 00:17:19,140 --> 00:17:29,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream that every member is using their spiritual gifts that God has given to them. 217 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:32,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have a spiritual gift? 218 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter four 219 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:48,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter 4, verse 7 and 8, it says, But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. 220 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:55,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Therefore, he says, when he ascended on high, he left captivity captive and gave gifts to men. 221 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:57,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's it say there? 222 00:17:58,280 --> 00:17:59,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He gave gifts to men. 223 00:18:01,659 --> 00:18:04,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Continues on in verses eleven through sixteen. 224 00:18:14,140 --> 00:18:23,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: till we all come to the unity of the faith and to the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ 225 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:32,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that we should no longer be children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of 226 00:18:32,660 --> 00:18:41,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: deceitful plotting, but speaking the truth in love may grow up in all things unto him who is ahead, Christ. 227 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:55,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working of which every part does its share, causes the growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. 228 00:18:57,180 --> 00:18:59,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have a spiritual gift? 229 00:19:02,700 --> 00:19:05,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know what your spiritual gift is? 230 00:19:10,060 --> 00:19:12,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, that's part of the problem, isn't it? 231 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:16,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't know our spiritual gift. 232 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:20,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So we don't use it. 233 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:33,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, 1 Corinthians chapter 12, Romans chapter 12, they kind of go together with Ephesians 4 and they talk about spiritual gifts. 234 00:19:33,519 --> 00:19:36,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Paul uses the analogy of a body. 235 00:19:37,039 --> 00:19:39,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, all of you know about a body, right? 236 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:43,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know the parts of the body. 237 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:48,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul says when one part of the body isn't working, what happens to the body? 238 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If your foot isn't working, what happens to you? 239 00:19:55,380 --> 00:19:56,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You limp. 240 00:19:58,820 --> 00:20:04,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If the church is a body and part of the body isn't working properly 241 00:20:05,780 --> 00:20:08,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I'm going to say that differently. 242 00:20:08,260 --> 00:20:18,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If the church is a body and part of the body is not using its spiritual gift appropriately, what happens to the body? 243 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's limping down the trail. 244 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or maybe it wasn't the foot that was hurt. 245 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe we're able to run, but we're not able to think. 246 00:20:32,679 --> 00:20:41,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You understand that what would the church be like if everybody was using their spiritual gift? 247 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:48,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We'd be healthy. 248 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, we understand this body analogy a little bit. 249 00:20:52,820 --> 00:20:56,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We understand that there are 11 systems in the human body. 250 00:20:57,060 --> 00:20:59,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know about these systems, right? 251 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:04,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You go to the doctor to when when one of these systems isn't working, you go to the doctor to find out what's the problem. 252 00:21:05,220 --> 00:21:07,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why am I not breathing properly? 253 00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:09,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, my bone's sticking out of my skin here. 254 00:21:09,919 --> 00:21:11,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What should I do? 255 00:21:12,639 --> 00:21:17,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We know when there's a problem and we go and do we are searching for a cure. 256 00:21:18,140 --> 00:21:19,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We understand the human body. 257 00:21:19,820 --> 00:21:21,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we understand the church body? 258 00:21:22,940 --> 00:21:31,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we realize that there are eight systems for church organization that have to be functioning properly in order for a church to be healthy? 259 00:21:31,860 --> 00:21:35,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would happen if we went to the church doctor? 260 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:43,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or if the church doctor came and made a house call to us and began talking to us about the systems in our church and said. 261 00:21:44,419 --> 00:21:49,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm sorry, but your church is gonna die. 262 00:21:50,820 --> 00:21:52,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's on life support 263 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Four of the eight systems aren't working properly. 264 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, what do I do 265 00:22:01,940 --> 00:22:04,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, you need to get the systems resuscitated. 266 00:22:04,659 --> 00:22:07,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You need to get them have surgery on them. 267 00:22:07,940 --> 00:22:14,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You need to get them so that all the gifts in the church are being are working appropriately. 268 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:27,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we don't understand this, I mean a church is supposed to have leadership development that's taking place regularly. 269 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:32,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're supposed to be discovering our spiritual gifts and implementing those things. 270 00:22:33,340 --> 00:22:35,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Evangelism and outreach need to happen. 271 00:22:36,220 --> 00:22:37,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: regularly in a church. 272 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:40,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Small groups need to be taking place in a church. 273 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:45,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Developed biblically authentic and loving relationships needs to be happening in a church. 274 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Worship development needs to be taking place. 275 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Finances, management, and administration need to be taking place. 276 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If these things are happening, the health of a church. 277 00:22:59,260 --> 00:23:05,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It makes it so much more fun to come to church when all of these things are working smoothly. 278 00:23:09,820 --> 00:23:12,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It brings joy to the church. 279 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:15,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's fun to go to church where you have a baptism every Sabbath. 280 00:23:16,540 --> 00:23:18,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I haven't been in one of those. 281 00:23:18,620 --> 00:23:19,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have you? 282 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wouldn't it be nice to be in one where it was taking place every Sabbath? 283 00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:34,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I've been in healthy churches before, and it's they're exciting places to be. 284 00:23:35,419 --> 00:23:40,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When we're all using our our spiritual gifts, man, it works together like 285 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:43,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, like riding in a new automobile. 286 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:52,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How smooth it is when you get in that new automobile, how the the engine purs just right, how the tires are are rotating properly, how 287 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:57,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're up to 95 miles an hour before you look at the speedometer. 288 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh my, how did I get that fast so easy? 289 00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:05,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're just cruising when everything's working good. 290 00:24:09,620 --> 00:24:12,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream here for Mesa Palms. 291 00:24:15,940 --> 00:24:20,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that would be for everybody to understand that we're not on a cruise ship. 292 00:24:22,580 --> 00:24:24,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you have been on cruises. 293 00:24:24,740 --> 00:24:27,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm not talking about against cruises. 294 00:24:27,780 --> 00:24:29,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I've enjoyed a cruise. 295 00:24:31,140 --> 00:24:34,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But here at Mesa Palms, this is not a cruise ship. 296 00:24:34,580 --> 00:24:39,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because on a cruise ship, there's a crew that's behind the scenes is taking care of everything. 297 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the passengers that are on board, they are just having fun. 298 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, we're in a warfare. 299 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is a battleship 300 00:24:50,620 --> 00:25:00,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And this is when so when the cry goes out: man your battle stations, you know exactly what you're supposed to be doing and when you're supposed to be doing it. 301 00:25:01,940 --> 00:25:06,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you're the chief cook and bottle washer, that means you're supposed to be cooking. 302 00:25:07,060 --> 00:25:13,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you're the ones that's the gunner out there on the deck, that means that you're supposed to be there behind the gun. 303 00:25:16,380 --> 00:25:18,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's your spiritual gift? 304 00:25:19,500 --> 00:25:20,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know it? 305 00:25:22,460 --> 00:25:26,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if you say no, come talk to me about it 306 00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:37,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's one of my jobs as the pastor, my spiritual gift, pastoring, one of the roles that I'm supposed to play is to help the church members find their spiritual gifts and to plug them in. 307 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh man, we got nominating committee coming up. 308 00:25:40,380 --> 00:25:42,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We are going to be choosing officers. 309 00:25:42,140 --> 00:25:45,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to be looking for people to plug into places. 310 00:25:45,260 --> 00:25:48,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, this is going to be a fun next three months. 311 00:25:48,460 --> 00:25:49,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you ready for it? 312 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What station do you want to be at? 313 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do you want to be doing? 314 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if you're on a luxury cruise, this may not be the place. 315 00:26:04,340 --> 00:26:08,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because scripture tells us that this this I'm gonna go back to that. 316 00:26:08,580 --> 00:26:10,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did you see what it said there? 317 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:21,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These spiritual gifts are for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, until we all come to the unity of the faith. 318 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:26,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man, to the measure and stature of the fullness of Christ. 319 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we there yet? 320 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we're not there yet, then 321 00:26:33,220 --> 00:26:34,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We should be getting there. 322 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:37,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have a ways to go. 323 00:26:38,740 --> 00:26:41,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need some training to take place. 324 00:26:42,140 --> 00:26:48,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when that takes place, that means we gotta have people that are sitting in the seats being trained 325 00:26:50,980 --> 00:26:53,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know your spiritual gifts? 326 00:26:53,539 --> 00:26:56,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know what you're supposed to be doing in the church? 327 00:26:56,580 --> 00:26:58,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know what battle station you're holding? 328 00:26:59,519 --> 00:27:06,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream for every member is using their spiritual gifts that God has given to them. 329 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now lest you think, you don't have much. 330 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says everybody receives a gift. 331 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:21,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that Matthew 25 parable about the talents where you go and hide it in this in the dirt. 332 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what happened to that guy, don't you? 333 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:27,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want you to be that person. 334 00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:33,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I really don't want you to be that person. 335 00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:39,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want every person to be using the spiritual gifts that they have. 336 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:44,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream. 337 00:27:45,519 --> 00:27:52,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream where here at Mesa Palms we are fulfilling the mission that God has given to his followers. 338 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:56,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does that mean? 339 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The mission that God gave to his followers. 340 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:01,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we understand what that is? 341 00:28:02,860 --> 00:28:04,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts chapter 1, verse 8. 342 00:28:05,420 --> 00:28:16,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus talking to his disciples, his followers, just as he's getting ready to leave the earth, he says, But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses to 343 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:23,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. 344 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What are the followers of Jesus supposed to be doing? 345 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:29,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Witnessing. 346 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Witnessing about what? 347 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:33,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus. 348 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is Jesus your friend? 349 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:40,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you telling people about him? 350 00:28:41,299 --> 00:28:45,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you winning people to be a believer in Jesus, a follower of Jesus? 351 00:28:45,620 --> 00:28:51,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you teaching them to understand the things that Jesus wants them to understand? 352 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:58,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, Jesus says this in Acts chapter 1 there to his disciples. 353 00:28:58,480 --> 00:28:59,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts chapter 2 354 00:29:01,580 --> 00:29:02,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 41. 355 00:29:03,580 --> 00:29:05,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean Acts chapter 2. 356 00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:07,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, we know what happens in Acts chapter 2. 357 00:29:07,260 --> 00:29:12,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Holy Spirit falls on the disciples in a marvelous way. 358 00:29:13,019 --> 00:29:13,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: After 359 00:29:15,140 --> 00:29:16,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ten days of prayer. 360 00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:23,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you are connecting the dots here, just so that you are able to do that. 361 00:29:23,860 --> 00:29:25,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: After the ten days of prayer, 362 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:32,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The disciples received the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit had already been working. 363 00:29:34,519 --> 00:29:41,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For years and years and years the Holy Spirit had already been working, but it was a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit that was given. 364 00:29:45,539 --> 00:29:51,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Peter preaches a dynamic sermon in Acts chapter two, verse forty-one. 365 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:57,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, and then those who gladly received his word were baptized. 366 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:02,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that day about 3,000 souls were added to them. 367 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isn't that beautiful? 368 00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:07,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 3,000. 369 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:13,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you looking forward to the day when we can have 3,000 people baptized there? 370 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know. 371 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That tank's not big enough. 372 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:25,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It'd take us a long time for 3,000 to go in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out. 373 00:30:26,260 --> 00:30:36,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We might have to get we might have to go over to my apartment building and and get all the elders together and all of us take turns baptizing at the swimming pool over at our apartment. 374 00:30:36,659 --> 00:30:38,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wouldn't that be more fun? 375 00:30:39,540 --> 00:30:40,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Go to the river. 376 00:30:40,660 --> 00:30:42,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I like that idea. 377 00:30:42,580 --> 00:30:43,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Go to the river. 378 00:30:43,620 --> 00:30:44,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have the baptism. 379 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, you and I are part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 380 00:30:53,080 --> 00:31:00,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As a church, you may not know this, but as a church, in the year, I'm gonna see if I can get this right, in the year 2024. 381 00:31:00,620 --> 00:31:02,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Numbers haven't come in for 2025. 382 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:10,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But in the year of 2024, we as a Seventh-day Adventist Church were baptizing over 4,000 people per day. 383 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let me try that again. 384 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As a church, we were baptizing over 4,000 people per day. 385 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's fantastic. 386 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's wonderful. 387 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:31,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's great to be part of a world church that is doing that kind of thing. 388 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:41,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We may be the the Can't see the numbers right now. 389 00:31:41,340 --> 00:31:45,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think that we are the fastest growing denomination in the world. 390 00:31:46,460 --> 00:31:49,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we're not, we're very close there. 391 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:55,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that's something special, especially in the day and age when many denominations are declining. 392 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's exciting to be part of a church like that. 393 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And while that is wonderful, it's not good enough. 394 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know how many people are being born every day? 395 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I didn't figure you'd know 396 00:32:20,460 --> 00:32:22,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I didn't look it up either. 397 00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:25,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I'm gonna tell you it's more than 4,000. 398 00:32:28,220 --> 00:32:32,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know every day we baptize 4,000, we're getting further and further behind? 399 00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:40,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that saddening to you? 400 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's happening here in the valley? 401 00:32:48,039 --> 00:32:51,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How many are we baptizing regularly 402 00:32:51,620 --> 00:32:53,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You may know the numbers better than I do. 403 00:32:54,180 --> 00:32:56,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I I don't know what's going on in all the other churches. 404 00:32:59,220 --> 00:33:05,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we see the the the kind of growth that we would expect by people that are filled with the Holy Spirit? 405 00:33:06,899 --> 00:33:17,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Listening to the voice of God, using their spiritual gifts, seeking to fulfill the mission that God has given to us. 406 00:33:21,260 --> 00:33:26,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look at verse 46, 47 of chapter 2, there at Acts. 407 00:33:26,860 --> 00:33:28,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, oh it did put it there 408 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:36,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So so continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart 409 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Praising God and having favor with all the people. 410 00:33:39,799 --> 00:33:45,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. 411 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:47,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What did God do? 412 00:33:49,980 --> 00:33:51,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God added to what? 413 00:33:52,940 --> 00:33:57,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church daily, those who are being saved. 414 00:33:57,179 --> 00:34:01,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now my question is: Is God working here in Mesa? 415 00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:04,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is? 416 00:34:07,660 --> 00:34:10,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is he adding to the church daily those who are being saved? 417 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:16,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which church where? 418 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Part of me is confused. 419 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you see part of the problem that we have? 420 00:34:27,780 --> 00:34:31,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God is supposed to be adding to his church daily. 421 00:34:31,700 --> 00:34:35,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we're not seeing those kind of of results, that is 422 00:34:37,879 --> 00:34:38,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What did they say? 423 00:34:38,919 --> 00:34:40,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Operator error. 424 00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:46,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Something that's happening that isn't supposed to be happening. 425 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:52,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Mesa Palm should be a collection point for those people Jesus is saving. 426 00:34:56,420 --> 00:35:03,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We should be able to to to gather them here, letting people know that this is a place that they are welcome 427 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:18,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That this is a place they can grow in Jesus, that this is a place where they can can pray together, this is a place where they can build community, this is a place that that God has provided for them so that they can know the three angels' messages. 428 00:35:25,579 --> 00:35:29,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now some of you have been here at Mesa Palms a whole lot longer than I have. 429 00:35:30,779 --> 00:35:34,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know the Mesa Palms mission statement? 430 00:35:37,180 --> 00:35:44,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They tell us the mission statements for an organization is important and that every member of the organization should have the mission statement memorized. 431 00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:46,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: so that they know what they are to live by. 432 00:35:47,599 --> 00:35:52,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know the mission statement for the Mesa Palm, Seventh day Adventist Church? 433 00:35:55,579 --> 00:35:57,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Anybody want to stand up and recite it for us? 434 00:35:59,579 --> 00:36:04,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, it was handed to me in uh in a in a book uh several months ago. 435 00:36:04,460 --> 00:36:05,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's the only reason I know it. 436 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So here it is. 437 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Here we go. 438 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:12,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's that? 439 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's on the back of the bulletin. 440 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But none of you started reading it? 441 00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:20,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm glad you knew where it was. 442 00:36:24,940 --> 00:36:26,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let's try it together here. 443 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:35,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Following Christ by creating environment for a healthy, loving relationship with him and his family. 444 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Beautiful mission statement. 445 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:46,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody's taken time and put some work into developing a mission statement like this. 446 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to know it. 447 00:36:52,599 --> 00:36:58,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Evidently having it on the back of the bulletin's not enough for us to know it. 448 00:37:03,180 --> 00:37:05,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to take this to heart. 449 00:37:05,740 --> 00:37:08,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Say this is the this is the mission we've talked about. 450 00:37:08,380 --> 00:37:11,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is the mission our our our leadership has has chosen. 451 00:37:11,660 --> 00:37:13,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is this is what we're striving to do. 452 00:37:14,020 --> 00:37:16,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We want to make this happen. 453 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:29,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well what would happen if we were following Christ, listening to his voice, hearing his word. 454 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:35,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is the way, walk you in it, doing what he wanted us to do, creating an environment for healthy. 455 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:40,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: loving relationship with him and his family. 456 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'll use a different word for for 457 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:50,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today's sermon title, And His Bride 458 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God wants to add individuals to his church. 459 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We should be his witnesses. 460 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:05,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Here 461 00:38:08,300 --> 00:38:09,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's here? 462 00:38:09,580 --> 00:38:10,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Mesa? 463 00:38:12,220 --> 00:38:13,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The valley? 464 00:38:13,260 --> 00:38:14,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Greater Phoenix area? 465 00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:15,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that what you want to say? 466 00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:15,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Here is 467 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:19,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Judea? 468 00:38:19,839 --> 00:38:20,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do you want to say? 469 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:21,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Arizona? 470 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then the rest of the United States? 471 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then the world. 472 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People need to know Jesus is coming soon 473 00:38:38,980 --> 00:38:42,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People need to know Jesus wants to save them. 474 00:38:42,900 --> 00:38:45,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus died to save them. 475 00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:50,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People need to hear the good news that we have as Seventh-day Adventists. 476 00:38:52,240 --> 00:39:00,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those three angels' messages there in Revelation, those are the loud cry that needs to go to the world in the last days. 477 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Everybody needs to know. 478 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:13,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it's not enough just for the pastor to preach it. 479 00:39:17,059 --> 00:39:22,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's not enough just for each of us to to to live it personally. 480 00:39:24,859 --> 00:39:31,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We've got to to to to live it in such a way that it takes over our life and it consumes us. 481 00:39:31,260 --> 00:39:35,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the zeal that we have for our God consumes us. 482 00:39:35,339 --> 00:39:37,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we can't stop talking about it. 483 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We want to tell somebody. 484 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you gray haired people 485 00:39:49,860 --> 00:39:52,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you remember when you first fell in love? 486 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:56,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or you saw somebody you wanted to fall in love with? 487 00:39:58,580 --> 00:40:00,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or you saw somebody that 488 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who'd you tell about it? 489 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh no, we gotta keep that a secret, right? 490 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No, those are the kind of things you tell. 491 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those are the kind of things you share. 492 00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:20,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those are the kind of things you call home and tell mom and dad about. 493 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That love experience was good news. 494 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's the kind of love experience we need to be having with Jesus Christ. 495 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's good news, and we can't help ourselves. 496 00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:39,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's just bubbling out of us. 497 00:40:42,340 --> 00:40:49,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Following Christ by creating an environment for a healthy, loving relationship with Him and His family. 498 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:51,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Beautiful statement. 499 00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter 5, our scripture reading for the day 500 00:41:00,580 --> 00:41:08,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter five says, Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church. 501 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:18,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and gave himself for her, that he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that he might present her to himself 502 00:41:19,099 --> 00:41:29,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 503 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:35,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, that's what God desires for his church. 504 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:38,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God has a dream. 505 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He has a plan for his bride. 506 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He has a plan for his Mesa Palm bride. 507 00:41:48,140 --> 00:41:51,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That they are preparing people for his soon return. 508 00:41:52,460 --> 00:41:54,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That he wants them to be a glorious church. 509 00:41:54,940 --> 00:41:59,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what the text says: a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle. 510 00:41:59,780 --> 00:42:06,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A holy church without blemish, a glorious bride 511 00:42:08,700 --> 00:42:10,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, this is 2026. 512 00:42:11,819 --> 00:42:20,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As was said during the the song service, as was said earlier today, we want Jesus to come soon. 513 00:42:21,340 --> 00:42:25,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know a date was put on it this year, and that would be fantastic. 514 00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:28,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not too soon. 515 00:42:29,820 --> 00:42:32,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But it doesn't give you and I much time. 516 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We've got things that need to happen. 517 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have friends and neighbors you want in heaven? 518 00:42:44,359 --> 00:42:47,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm sorry, I forgot to do something at an earlier point, so I'm gonna do it now. 519 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So you're gonna wait a couple more minutes. 520 00:42:55,119 --> 00:42:58,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you met my parents that were here a couple weeks ago. 521 00:42:59,119 --> 00:42:59,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 522 00:43:01,860 --> 00:43:08,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Missionary Book of the Year was sitting out here in the lobby when I brought my dad to look at the facility here. 523 00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:10,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He stole it. 524 00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:19,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's the kind of example I have as a pastor, son, growing up, and he read it 525 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:27,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he got on the phone and he made sure his church had 400 copies. 526 00:43:28,820 --> 00:43:31,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he's only got a small church there in Georgia. 527 00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:36,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he said, Dale, he says, you need to get your 400 copies. 528 00:43:36,260 --> 00:43:39,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I said, these things are $2 apiece. 529 00:43:40,339 --> 00:43:46,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I said, I got our church to vote to order a whole case of them so we could get it down to the price of $2. 530 00:43:47,540 --> 00:43:51,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he said, Why are you paying $2 for that book? 531 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:57,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said the Georgia Cumberland Conference is selling them to those churches out there for only a dollar a piece. 532 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:13,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He kinda got under my skin a little bit and talked me into ordering four cases 533 00:44:15,079 --> 00:44:16,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for our church. 534 00:44:17,720 --> 00:44:20,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There are three cases that are sitting out here on the pews. 535 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The other fourth case that we had already ordered has not here yet. 536 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:33,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And some people had already said we want so many books, but we have some books for you so that you can share. 537 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can take one for yourself or your family. 538 00:44:37,260 --> 00:44:39,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then you can take four more. 539 00:44:40,940 --> 00:44:42,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's five. 540 00:44:42,940 --> 00:44:45,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You decide who to give them to, okay? 541 00:44:46,299 --> 00:44:52,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want you just to pick it up on your way out of here and leave it in the fellowship hall during potluck. 542 00:44:53,180 --> 00:44:55,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want these things to go home with you. 543 00:44:55,620 --> 00:45:02,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I don't want them just to sit on your night table, nightstand, or your coffee table in the living room. 544 00:45:02,820 --> 00:45:05,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want you to decide who's going to get these. 545 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:13,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, there's good writing in here. 546 00:45:14,599 --> 00:45:18,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People need to read it, understand it, hear about it. 547 00:45:19,940 --> 00:45:23,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you have to, start a book club to read this book. 548 00:45:24,580 --> 00:45:26,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Discuss each chapter with people. 549 00:45:27,780 --> 00:45:29,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Encourage them to to 550 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:33,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Give comments on it. 551 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Talk to you about it. 552 00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You ask them, how'd you like the book 553 00:45:42,240 --> 00:45:47,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's a gift for you from your church 554 00:45:49,440 --> 00:46:00,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because it's important for us to be doing what God wants us to do, fulfilling the mission of his church. 555 00:46:01,940 --> 00:46:03,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I'm going to re say this again. 556 00:46:04,020 --> 00:46:08,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a dream that we know and listen to his voice 557 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:17,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whatever it takes for us in 2026, we need to know and listen to his voice so that he knows us. 558 00:46:18,420 --> 00:46:21,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't want to hear those words, I do not know you. 559 00:46:21,860 --> 00:46:25,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We want to hear the words, welcome home children. 560 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That happens when we know and listen to his voice. 561 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:35,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When we are utilizing the gifts that he has given to us. 562 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He has given us gifts. 563 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:39,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let's use them. 564 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:41,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All of us use them. 565 00:46:41,540 --> 00:46:47,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: using them to fulfill the mission that he has called his church to fulfill. 566 00:46:49,940 --> 00:46:51,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We can do this 567 00:46:52,140 --> 00:46:54,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus is coming soon. 568 00:46:55,340 --> 00:47:00,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have a blessed hope that Jesus is coming soon.