1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:02,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I love Sabbath. 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isn't it fun to come into the house of the Lord and worship? 3 00:00:09,940 --> 00:00:13,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'll tell you a story to remind you what we talked about last week. 4 00:00:13,459 --> 00:00:19,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So while I'm telling this story, you think about last week. 5 00:00:20,980 --> 00:00:22,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is a test. 6 00:00:25,060 --> 00:00:30,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There was a small congregation that was in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. 7 00:00:30,580 --> 00:00:33,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For those of you that don't know, that's out east. 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Tennessee area, Carolina area, and on up part of the east coast there. 9 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:53,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's a small congregation that was building a church, and they uh a member had willed them 10 00:00:53,579 --> 00:01:01,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A piece of property, and the church had gone up, and they were looking forward to the grand opening of their church. 11 00:01:01,660 --> 00:01:05,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: However, there had to be a final inspection that needed to take place 12 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the inspector came out two weeks ahead of time. 13 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:16,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And as he was there, he looked things over and it looked like everything was in order except 14 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:21,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He came into the pastor and he says, there's one problem. 15 00:01:22,079 --> 00:01:27,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For a congregation your size and a church your size, you don't have enough parking space. 16 00:01:28,079 --> 00:01:34,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I'm sorry, because of that, I have to deny your ability to open in two weeks. 17 00:01:37,159 --> 00:01:39,479 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The pastor looked around at the facility. 18 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said, You mean everything's ready except for the parking? 19 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:45,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The inspector said yes. 20 00:01:46,140 --> 00:01:49,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The passenger looked around and said, So what do we have to do? 21 00:01:49,180 --> 00:01:53,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the inspector said, You need to double the size of the parking lot. 22 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:59,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The pastor looked around and is that even possible? 23 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:02,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We just have a small piece of land here. 24 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, except for the land there in the back that 25 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Has a mountain on it. 26 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The pastor side and 27 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:19,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He made an announcement to the congregation. 28 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:25,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Listen, folks, we cannot owe, we're not going to be able to open when we said we're going to open. 29 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Unless God works a miracle. 30 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:32,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So those of you that have mountain moving faith, please gather together this weekend, 7 p. 31 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:33,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: m. 32 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to have a prayer time and we're going to pray for God to move a mountain. 33 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:42,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was a congregation of about 300 people. 34 00:02:43,180 --> 00:02:45,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 24 showed up for prayer meeting. 35 00:02:46,860 --> 00:02:49,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 24 that had mountain moving faith. 36 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:52,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they prayed. 37 00:02:53,580 --> 00:02:55,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They prayed till 10 p. 38 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:55,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: m. 39 00:02:55,980 --> 00:03:00,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the pastor said, okay, we're stopping after three hours. 40 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said the final prayer. 41 00:03:02,159 --> 00:03:03,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said amen. 42 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:10,239 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said, now after that prayer time, I'm just going to tell you, we're going to open next weekend. 43 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The 24 people looked at the pastor. 44 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The pastor said, yeah, we have a God that can do it. 45 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know he can do it. 46 00:03:23,340 --> 00:03:24,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's the plan? 47 00:03:24,860 --> 00:03:26,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know what the plan is. 48 00:03:29,260 --> 00:03:32,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Monday morning the pastor was sitting in his church office. 49 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:36,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody knocked on the door. 50 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:38,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Pastor Hollered, come in. 51 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody came in, construction person wearing a hard hat. 52 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So excuse me, Pastor, I have a question for you. 53 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You have a mountain out back and oh first let me introduce myself. 54 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:50,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm from the Acme Construction Company. 55 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're building a mall in the next county. 56 00:03:55,020 --> 00:03:57,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we need some field dirt. 57 00:03:58,540 --> 00:04:00,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You have a mountain in your backyard. 58 00:04:00,940 --> 00:04:02,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We would love to remove that. 59 00:04:03,099 --> 00:04:04,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We will pay for your dirt. 60 00:04:04,860 --> 00:04:14,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we can just haul your dirt away and everything that we haul away, all the spots that we we mess up, we are willing to pave it free to you. 61 00:04:14,540 --> 00:04:17,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We'll pay you for the dirt and we'll pave. 62 00:04:18,020 --> 00:04:20,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What we take away, what is flattened. 63 00:04:23,060 --> 00:04:24,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The pastor said, you're on. 64 00:04:24,740 --> 00:04:26,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can have as much field dirt as you'd like. 65 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:30,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Just as long as it doubles the size of our current parking lot. 66 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:41,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The next weekend, the church was full of people that had mountain-moving faith. 67 00:04:44,820 --> 00:04:48,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because they had seen what happens. 68 00:04:50,020 --> 00:04:54,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now do you remember what we talked about last week? 69 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come on, just one, just one. 70 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:10,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah yeah, it was on prayer, kinda, wasn't it? 71 00:05:10,340 --> 00:05:11,699 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not just prayer though. 72 00:05:11,860 --> 00:05:15,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was that God does his part. 73 00:05:16,540 --> 00:05:19,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God has a part to play. 74 00:05:20,460 --> 00:05:23,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there are some things that only God can do 75 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:29,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we need to rely on God to do those things, right? 76 00:05:31,220 --> 00:05:36,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God has a work to do, and you and I have a responsibility also. 77 00:05:37,740 --> 00:05:39,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I'm not going to apologize to you. 78 00:05:39,820 --> 00:05:42,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today there's no slides on the screen. 79 00:05:42,380 --> 00:05:44,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's a Bible study. 80 00:05:44,380 --> 00:05:46,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So get out the Bible. 81 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I want to take you to some verses here. 82 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to begin with Matthew chapter 16. 83 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew chapter 16, and we're going to come down to verse 18. 84 00:05:59,180 --> 00:06:02,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And some of you are going to groan when I say that. 85 00:06:03,020 --> 00:06:08,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those of you that are out giving Bible studies and meeting people, you 86 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:14,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not sure why a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church would take you to a text like this. 87 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because it's one of those that sometimes causes trouble for Adventists. 88 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the trouble is not what we're going to talk about today. 89 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's for another sermon at another time at another place. 90 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we're just going to go to verse 18 right now. 91 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:36,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice what verse 18 says. 92 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:45,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says, and I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades. 93 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: shall not prevail against it. 94 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now some of you are thinking, why is that a problem? 95 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:54,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to read the rest of it. 96 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:55,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's part of the problem. 97 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:56,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay? 98 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:57,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to start at 17 this time. 99 00:06:58,340 --> 00:07:07,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven 100 00:07:07,740 --> 00:07:16,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it 101 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. 102 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:25,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 103 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:31,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then he commanded his disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ. 104 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, verse 18 is the verse I want to focus on. 105 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:38,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The rest of that. 106 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's for another time and another place. 107 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:48,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if you cannot wait until we get to it at that other time and other place, you are welcome to come and talk to me about it. 108 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But verse 18 is what I want to show to you today. 109 00:07:53,159 --> 00:07:57,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want you to see that that middle phrase there. 110 00:07:58,860 --> 00:08:05,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And on this rock I will build my church. 111 00:08:06,940 --> 00:08:10,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today I'm pointing out to you, church. 112 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is God's idea. 113 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Man did not come up with this idea of church. 114 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:22,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Church is something that came up in the mind of God. 115 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:29,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Church here, Jesus says, I will build my church. 116 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus has a church. 117 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:40,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now the Bible text that we looked at last week, I'm going to invite you to turn and to Acts chapter two 118 00:08:41,959 --> 00:08:46,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We looked at it last week and we looked at it uh two weeks before that. 119 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So Acts chapter two. 120 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I'm keeping track of these things. 121 00:08:53,440 --> 00:09:00,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts chapter two last verse there, Acts chapter two, verse forty-seven 122 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:04,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice what it says here. 123 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:07,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Praising God and having favor with all the people. 124 00:09:07,519 --> 00:09:09,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the Lord added what? 125 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:16,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To the church, daily those who were being saved 126 00:09:18,420 --> 00:09:24,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church is God's idea, and he adds to it those individuals that were being saved. 127 00:09:25,139 --> 00:09:26,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now you're there in Acts. 128 00:09:26,660 --> 00:09:29,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn over a couple of pages because I know some of you like uh 129 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:32,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A different way of looking at things. 130 00:09:32,740 --> 00:09:35,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts chapter 5, verse 14. 131 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:39,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts chapter 5, verse 14. 132 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:49,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, and believers were increasingly added to the Lord. 133 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:53,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Multitudes of both men and women. 134 00:09:56,519 --> 00:10:00,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts 2 it says they were added to the church. 135 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts 5 it says they're added to 136 00:10:04,660 --> 00:10:05,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Lord. 137 00:10:05,699 --> 00:10:07,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice Acts 14. 138 00:10:08,339 --> 00:10:10,259 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sorry, wrong text. 139 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:11,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts eleven. 140 00:10:11,860 --> 00:10:13,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fourteen was the verse a while ago. 141 00:10:13,779 --> 00:10:16,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts 11, verse 24. 142 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Acts eleven, verse twenty-four. 143 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Talking here about Barnabas. 144 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:33,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says for Barnabas, for he was a good man full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a great many people were added. 145 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:36,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To the Lord. 146 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:45,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So we see this idea of adding people to the Lord and adding people to the church is a similar idea that's taking place 147 00:10:47,260 --> 00:10:48,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In Acts. 148 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:54,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some people want to differentiate between, oh, I just baptized someone into Jesus 149 00:10:56,260 --> 00:10:59,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I didn't baptize them as part of the church. 150 00:11:00,740 --> 00:11:04,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm telling you, when they're added to the Lord, 151 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:13,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They are added to the church because the church is God's gathering place. 152 00:11:14,860 --> 00:11:19,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's the the gathering place for those who are being saved. 153 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you are saying, what's he talking about? 154 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:34,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, we can look around here and we see that our church is not completely full. 155 00:11:36,100 --> 00:11:39,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: With the new lights we have, we can see they're empty spaces. 156 00:11:41,620 --> 00:11:44,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You guys couldn't see that last week, could you? 157 00:11:45,459 --> 00:11:46,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This week you can see. 158 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:49,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, don't you love these lights? 159 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, I'm going to say hallelujah. 160 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:58,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For those of you that paid for the lights, for those of you, for the people that came and worked and putting them in. 161 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It helps me so I can keep an eye on these people over here. 162 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were in the dark for the last couple of months. 163 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,199 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was afraid there was a napping society over 164 00:12:11,459 --> 00:12:12,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I can see you now. 165 00:12:12,740 --> 00:12:15,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can keep an eye on you, so no sleeping now. 166 00:12:17,940 --> 00:12:20,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But the church is the gathering place. 167 00:12:21,899 --> 00:12:24,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For people who are being saved. 168 00:12:24,779 --> 00:12:25,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what we should be. 169 00:12:25,980 --> 00:12:29,259 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We should be a community that is bringing together 170 00:12:29,339 --> 00:12:36,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Individuals that we know and love that are in the process of getting to know Jesus Christ, in the process of being saved. 171 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:40,699 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's the purpose for the church 172 00:12:41,540 --> 00:12:45,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to continue on in this thinking place about the church. 173 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:51,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want you to look at the the ministry of Jesus here in John chapter 6. 174 00:12:52,260 --> 00:12:59,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John chapter six John six verse thirty-eight 175 00:13:03,220 --> 00:13:06,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John six thirty-eight, this is Jesus talking 176 00:13:14,980 --> 00:13:18,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh oh, let's just start at 35, kind of get a little context here. 177 00:13:18,660 --> 00:13:20,259 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 35, Jesus said to them. 178 00:13:20,459 --> 00:13:21,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I am the bread of life. 179 00:13:21,740 --> 00:13:26,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. 180 00:13:26,779 --> 00:13:31,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe 181 00:13:31,540 --> 00:13:39,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will in no means cast out. 182 00:13:39,620 --> 00:13:45,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The verse I wanted to focus on for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will 183 00:13:45,740 --> 00:13:48,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: but the will of him who sent me. 184 00:13:49,660 --> 00:13:52,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus came to this earth for what purpose 185 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes, to do his father's will. 186 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He came to do his father's will. 187 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do you think is the purpose of the church? 188 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To do God's will, it should be the same, huh? 189 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew chapter 12 says that exact same thing. 190 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:15,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew chapter 12. 191 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:21,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Told you it was a Bible study here, Matthew chapter twelve. 192 00:14:25,399 --> 00:14:26,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 50. 193 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:41,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, For whoever does the will of my father in heaven is my mother, my brother, and sister. 194 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those that do the Father's will. 195 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:47,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn back a few pages. 196 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:49,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew chapter 7. 197 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:52,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew chapter 7. 198 00:14:56,540 --> 00:14:59,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I heard the commercial earlier, but I'll make it again. 199 00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:05,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At prayer meeting, our midweek meeting, we're studying the book Thoughts from the Mount of Blessings. 200 00:15:07,100 --> 00:15:09,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You should come and read that book. 201 00:15:10,140 --> 00:15:12,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's from the Sermon on the Mount. 202 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:15,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, this Matthew 5, 6, and 7. 203 00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:17,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew 7 here is part of that sermon. 204 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:18,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: On the mount. 205 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:22,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So hope you can come on on Wednesday evening, 6:30. 206 00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:25,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew chapter 7, come down to verse 21. 207 00:15:28,860 --> 00:15:31,259 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, let's just read that whole section there. 208 00:15:31,740 --> 00:15:35,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. 209 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:43,959 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But he who does the will of my Father in heaven, many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? 210 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have we not cast out demons in your name? 211 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And done many wonderful wonders in your name? 212 00:15:49,339 --> 00:15:52,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then I will declare to them, I never knew you. 213 00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:57,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. 214 00:16:00,140 --> 00:16:02,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice that that first part there. 215 00:16:02,540 --> 00:16:07,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. 216 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:09,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who does he say is going to enter? 217 00:16:13,220 --> 00:16:15,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those who do his will. 218 00:16:15,620 --> 00:16:19,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, Jesus is is countering here between two different groups of people. 219 00:16:20,460 --> 00:16:28,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The two different groups of people are those that do his will and those that 220 00:16:29,940 --> 00:16:32,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know you're thinking it's you're gonna say talk. 221 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:36,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean you're thinking about uh s just talk in his name, right? 222 00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:40,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, we have a lot of people that are not doers. 223 00:16:40,820 --> 00:16:42,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They are talkers. 224 00:16:42,620 --> 00:16:44,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They are believers. 225 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:53,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes they're out even working miracles, prophesying, casting out demons, doing wonders in the name of Jesus. 226 00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:04,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But Jesus says, Depart from me you who practice lawlessness. 227 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Prophesying is lawlessness? 228 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Casting out demons is lawlessness? 229 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Doing wonders is lawlessness? 230 00:17:22,780 --> 00:17:30,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's he contrasting with those that do the will of God? 231 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:36,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, in my mind, I see I see church here. 232 00:17:37,220 --> 00:17:45,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I see people that are in church, individuals that are doing the will of God, and individuals that are acting like they're doing the will of God. 233 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't know anybody like that, do we? 234 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because we're all doers, correct? 235 00:17:55,980 --> 00:18:02,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We want to be filled with a church of people that are are are doing the will of God. 236 00:18:03,580 --> 00:18:11,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This week I heard on the Southern Gospel Radio a song that I said that says uh oh I gotta see if I can get it right. 237 00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:13,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I didn't even write it down. 238 00:18:16,740 --> 00:18:20,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does your walk talk more than your talk talks? 239 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:25,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does your walk talk more than your talk talks? 240 00:18:27,059 --> 00:18:28,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's that mean? 241 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:32,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you do it? 242 00:18:33,380 --> 00:18:35,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or do you just talk about it? 243 00:18:37,299 --> 00:18:40,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which one's better, your talk talk or your walk talk? 244 00:18:44,220 --> 00:18:47,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: La last or two weeks ago, I was in Tennessee and I saw a young man. 245 00:18:47,980 --> 00:18:56,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was walking across the room I was in, and he was pushing a suitcase that was a bright pink suitcase. 246 00:18:57,580 --> 00:19:01,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I made the comment to him, I said, that's a little pink for you, isn't it? 247 00:19:04,779 --> 00:19:10,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Knowing that he was taking his girlfriend's suitcase out. 248 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But he returned and he says, Oh, you like my shirt? 249 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then I noticed that his shirt had a little pink on it. 250 00:19:19,340 --> 00:19:21,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I hadn't noticed that before. 251 00:19:21,980 --> 00:19:25,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he said, I wear this shirt because of you. 252 00:19:28,159 --> 00:19:28,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Me? 253 00:19:29,919 --> 00:19:40,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, he said, you used to wear that pink shirt to church, and I figured if anybody can wear a pink shirt, uh if any man can wear a pink shirt like you wear it, he said, I can wear it. 254 00:19:42,980 --> 00:19:46,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I'm not saying pink shirts gonna get you in heaven. 255 00:19:46,900 --> 00:19:50,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But what I'm saying is people are watching the way you walk. 256 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:56,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can talk and say all kinds of things, but the way you walk is what people are watching. 257 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so our walk-talk needs to be in line with our talk-talk. 258 00:20:04,420 --> 00:20:09,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: According to what Jesus says here in Matthew seven 259 00:20:11,780 --> 00:20:21,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church should be a gathering place for those who are being saved and for those who are doing what God wants them to do. 260 00:20:23,539 --> 00:20:28,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those who are doing what God wants them to do. 261 00:20:31,220 --> 00:20:33,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to be doers of the word 262 00:20:35,420 --> 00:20:45,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not just readers of the word, not just believers of the word, doers of the word 263 00:20:46,940 --> 00:20:49,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Next Bible text is 1 Peter chapter 2. 264 00:20:50,860 --> 00:20:52,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Part of our scripture reading. 265 00:20:52,860 --> 00:20:57,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Peter chapter 2 verses 9 and 10. 266 00:20:59,180 --> 00:21:08,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Peter chapter 2, verses 9 and 10 says, But you are a chosen generation 267 00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:21,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 268 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:30,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who once were not a people, but you are now the people of God who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 269 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isn't that a beautiful text? 270 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't you like that text? 271 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are a chosen generation. 272 00:21:43,299 --> 00:21:44,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How do you feel? 273 00:21:45,460 --> 00:21:46,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Chosen? 274 00:21:46,899 --> 00:21:48,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God chose you. 275 00:21:49,139 --> 00:21:53,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're not only a chosen generation, you are a royal priesthood. 276 00:21:53,820 --> 00:21:55,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Go ahead, sit up a little taller. 277 00:21:57,020 --> 00:21:59,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are royalty. 278 00:22:00,540 --> 00:22:02,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My parents used to remind me of that. 279 00:22:02,460 --> 00:22:04,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Would you act like royalty? 280 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:08,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When I was misbehaving. 281 00:22:10,740 --> 00:22:12,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are royalty. 282 00:22:12,260 --> 00:22:14,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are a holy nation. 283 00:22:16,860 --> 00:22:18,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you a holy nation? 284 00:22:19,340 --> 00:22:21,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: His own special people. 285 00:22:23,580 --> 00:22:27,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to focus on that word, word priesthood, okay? 286 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:30,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The the church is is kind of a a a priesthood. 287 00:22:31,020 --> 00:22:34,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If I were to ask you what do priests do, what would you say? 288 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:43,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Go between God and man is what I heard. 289 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:44,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh serve. 290 00:22:47,059 --> 00:22:48,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Think about the Old Testament there. 291 00:22:48,580 --> 00:22:54,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When we think about the priests, we think about individuals who sacrifice. 292 00:22:54,820 --> 00:22:56,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, in Leviticus, 293 00:22:56,919 --> 00:22:58,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I have it written down here. 294 00:22:58,679 --> 00:23:03,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Leviticus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. 295 00:23:05,740 --> 00:23:08,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The priests are interceding for the people. 296 00:23:08,940 --> 00:23:17,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In Leviticus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, it talks about sacrifice after sacrifice and the different kinds of sacrifices. 297 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:22,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The different ways that the priests were were interceding on behalf of the people. 298 00:23:22,620 --> 00:23:28,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The priests were the ones who would help the people, and they would would take the people, they would help them to to 299 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:38,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cut the throat of the sacrifice, the priests were the ones who took the blood, the priests were the ones who took it into the temple and sprinkled it in the in the temple before the veil. 300 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:43,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This was the work of the priest, interceding on behalf of the people. 301 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When you think of offering sacrifice, 302 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Interceding for people. 303 00:23:53,200 --> 00:24:00,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I had an Old Testament picture come to my mind, one that I I really like, and that was Brother Job. 304 00:24:02,460 --> 00:24:07,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, a lot of times we talk about Job and we tell his story, but the introduction to Job. 305 00:24:07,580 --> 00:24:09,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn to Job chapter 1. 306 00:24:09,660 --> 00:24:13,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to come back here to the New Testament in a minute, but uh Job. 307 00:24:16,039 --> 00:24:16,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Chapter 1. 308 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That yeah, Job right before Psalms there, Job 1. 309 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:26,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't spend a lot of time talking about the this first part of Job. 310 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:29,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Job chapter 1. 311 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:32,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Begin reading here, verse 1. 312 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:39,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Job was a man in the land of us, whose name was there was a man in the land of us whose name was Job. 313 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that man was. 314 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Blameless, some of your versions say righteous and upright. 315 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: One who feared God and shunned evil. 316 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He has seven sons and three daughters were born to him. 317 00:24:51,340 --> 00:25:04,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Also his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East. 318 00:25:06,420 --> 00:25:15,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them 319 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:28,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So it was when the days of feasting had run their course that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. 320 00:25:28,740 --> 00:25:34,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. 321 00:25:34,820 --> 00:25:37,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Thus Job did regularly. 322 00:25:38,980 --> 00:25:41,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What kind of father was Job? 323 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:44,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A concerned father. 324 00:25:45,059 --> 00:25:47,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was worried about the welfare of his children. 325 00:25:48,340 --> 00:25:55,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So much so that he was taking from his herds and he was sacrificing for his children and he was interceding. 326 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:56,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for them. 327 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was begging God to forgive his children. 328 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought the children were supposed to confess their sins 329 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are the children supposed to confess their sins? 330 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Absolutely. 331 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you confess your sins, we we kind of have this whole individualistic attitude about things. 332 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you confess your sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins. 333 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we we think of this as individuals and oh they can confess and oh they can confess and oh 334 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, he can confess too. 335 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:31,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's his responsibility. 336 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But here Job was a righteous man, and what was he doing? 337 00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:40,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was interceding. 338 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:43,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was pleading to God. 339 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:48,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was pleading God for forgiveness for his children. 340 00:26:48,419 --> 00:26:55,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, parents, uh, those of you that had dedication today, y'all, that's the kind of parents we need to be. 341 00:26:55,539 --> 00:26:58,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Interceding for our children 342 00:26:58,419 --> 00:27:02,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those of you as parents interceding for our children and grandchildren. 343 00:27:05,460 --> 00:27:06,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does it go further? 344 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Moses interceded for Israel. 345 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does it go further? 346 00:27:16,019 --> 00:27:24,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, when was the last time that you on your knees pleaded for God for this Mesa Valley? 347 00:27:27,639 --> 00:27:29,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't care about them. 348 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those are sinners out there. 349 00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:33,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there's a lot of them. 350 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes that's the way we feel, isn't it? 351 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we need to be interceding for them. 352 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:47,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Pleading for them. 353 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The same way Abraham pled for Sodom and Gomorrah. 354 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:57,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Lord, if there's ten righteous, you want destroy it for ten, would you? 355 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The priests. 356 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The priests had other responsibilities as well. 357 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:08,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know what else the priest did? 358 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:12,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Interceding? 359 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Another responsibility they had. 360 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I didn't hear that. 361 00:28:22,580 --> 00:28:24,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were also judges, weren't they? 362 00:28:24,580 --> 00:28:26,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm not gonna deal with that one today. 363 00:28:26,660 --> 00:28:29,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well I d I had it written down, but I took it off. 364 00:28:31,820 --> 00:28:32,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Time-wise. 365 00:28:32,860 --> 00:28:34,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna go to the one I had. 366 00:28:34,460 --> 00:28:36,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They maintain the sanctuary. 367 00:28:37,899 --> 00:28:39,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Exodus twenty-seven. 368 00:28:41,019 --> 00:28:43,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Exodus twenty-seven, twenty and twenty-one. 369 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Tells us that they were to maintain the sanctuary. 370 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:51,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They had responsibilities that they were supposed to do there. 371 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Exodus 27 372 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:06,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 20 and 21, it says, and you shall command the children of Israel that they bring you pure oil or pressed olives for the light. 373 00:29:06,340 --> 00:29:12,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to cause the lamp to burn continually in the tabernacle of meeting outside the veil which is before the testimony. 374 00:29:13,140 --> 00:29:17,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening until morning before the Lord. 375 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:23,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It shall be a statue forever to their generations on behalf of the children of Israel. 376 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:36,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our responsibility as priests, the priesthood of all believers, our responsibility is to maintain the sanctuary, the temple. 377 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know you're thinking, oh, well, we did the lights. 378 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What else we need to do? 379 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not what I'm talking about. 380 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn back to the New Testament, Ephesians chapter 2 381 00:29:50,380 --> 00:29:55,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes, the lights needed taken care of, but that's not what uh Jesus here is talking about. 382 00:29:55,820 --> 00:29:57,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter 2. 383 00:30:01,420 --> 00:30:08,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Nineteen and following Ephesians chapter two verses nineteen and follow to twenty-two 384 00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:21,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says now therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ Himself. 385 00:30:21,980 --> 00:30:23,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Being the chief cornerstone. 386 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:27,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, that's part of the answer for the Matthew problem we had earlier. 387 00:30:27,740 --> 00:30:33,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In whom the whole building being fitted together grows into a holy temple of the Lord. 388 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:39,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. 389 00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice it says you also are being 390 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:47,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Grown fitted together, growing into a holy temple. 391 00:30:47,460 --> 00:30:50,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That you is not you, you, you, you, you. 392 00:30:50,580 --> 00:30:51,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's you 393 00:30:54,580 --> 00:30:56,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, you guys don't understand that, do ya? 394 00:30:57,860 --> 00:30:58,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You probably do. 395 00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:05,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When I preach this sermon in the South, Tennessee, Georgia areas, I use the word they know y'all. 396 00:31:09,460 --> 00:31:10,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you guys understand that? 397 00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:13,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is plural. 398 00:31:15,260 --> 00:31:17,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn over a page. 399 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:19,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Corinthians or turn back a page. 400 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:21,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Corinthians chapter 3. 401 00:31:21,820 --> 00:31:23,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we use this one in the wrong way. 402 00:31:24,060 --> 00:31:27,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Corinthians chapter 3, but it says the same thing here. 403 00:31:27,919 --> 00:31:33,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Corinthians chapter 3 verse 16 and 17. 404 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:43,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says, Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 405 00:31:45,140 --> 00:31:46,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We often use that text. 406 00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:55,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, it's underlined, highlighted, and we use that in the context of health ministries. 407 00:31:56,260 --> 00:31:56,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Right? 408 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna tell you the U in this instance is plural 409 00:32:08,180 --> 00:32:09,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do y'all not know? 410 00:32:11,140 --> 00:32:11,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You got it? 411 00:32:12,020 --> 00:32:14,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That ewans are the temple of God? 412 00:32:15,940 --> 00:32:18,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that the Spirit of God dwells in you. 413 00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:23,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If anyone defiles the temple of God, if anyone defiles y'all. 414 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:30,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. 415 00:32:34,740 --> 00:32:36,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we understand that? 416 00:32:37,460 --> 00:32:43,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we are the priesthood and we're supposed to take care of the temple, that means we are supposed to. 417 00:32:45,620 --> 00:32:47,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Take care of each other. 418 00:32:48,340 --> 00:32:51,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have a responsibility to each other. 419 00:32:52,580 --> 00:32:53,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean just look around. 420 00:32:54,020 --> 00:32:55,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can see each other now, okay? 421 00:32:55,540 --> 00:32:57,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look around, okay 422 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:58,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look behind you. 423 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you want those people in heaven with you? 424 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know they may sit across the aisle from you, but do you want those people in heaven with you? 425 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:14,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do we do to ensure that that person, those people, are going to be in heaven with you? 426 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have a responsibility to one another. 427 00:33:20,779 --> 00:33:23,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn a couple of pages, 1 Corinthians chapter 6. 428 00:33:25,179 --> 00:33:27,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 19. 429 00:33:28,060 --> 00:33:32,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those of you in health ministry that were afraid that I took away the verse you were using, don't fear. 430 00:33:33,020 --> 00:33:34,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's still here. 431 00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:37,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 19. 432 00:33:40,660 --> 00:33:45,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, we'll start with 18 so you get the context, so you know I know what I'm talking about. 433 00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:49,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 18 says, flee sexual immorality. 434 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:56,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but you commit sexual immorality sins against his own body. 435 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:02,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you 436 00:34:02,140 --> 00:34:06,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: whom you have from God, and you are not your own. 437 00:34:06,460 --> 00:34:08,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You were bought at a price. 438 00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:14,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's 439 00:34:15,139 --> 00:34:16,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You belong to God. 440 00:34:17,860 --> 00:34:25,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You individually, you individually are the temple of God. 441 00:34:30,820 --> 00:34:32,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're a priest of all believers. 442 00:34:32,740 --> 00:34:37,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means you need to maintain your temple 443 00:34:39,060 --> 00:34:46,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As a priesthood of all believers, that means we corporately need to maintain God's temple. 444 00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:50,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have a responsibility to one another. 445 00:34:51,859 --> 00:34:54,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because we are the priest of God. 446 00:34:56,339 --> 00:34:59,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now maybe that responsibility begins with self-care. 447 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what happens when you get on the plane? 448 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They begin to give you instructions in case of an emergency. 449 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The masks are going to come down from the ceiling. 450 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do they tell you to do? 451 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Put your mask on first. 452 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In other words, don't worry about your children. 453 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:17,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't worry about your spouse. 454 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't worry about your parents. 455 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:21,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Put yours on first because 456 00:35:24,599 --> 00:35:28,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you are not breathing, you cannot help the people around you. 457 00:35:31,079 --> 00:35:32,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So put yours on first so that 458 00:35:33,059 --> 00:35:34,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That you can take care of the people around you. 459 00:35:35,059 --> 00:35:40,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Make sure that you have that relationship with God so that you can care for the people around you. 460 00:35:42,980 --> 00:35:44,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Make sure you are connected. 461 00:35:45,140 --> 00:35:47,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's part of the priesthood of all believers. 462 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:56,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The third thing that the priests do that I wanted to talk about today was they were to teach the law of God. 463 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:56,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God. 464 00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:06,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Leviticus 11, Leviticus 10, verse 11 says part of their responsibility is to teach all the things that Moses recorded. 465 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That is part of the the the priest's responsibility. 466 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:17,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That sounds an awful lot like Jesus, the text that we read last week. 467 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:20,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The text that we had for our scripture reading today. 468 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:30,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What Jesus told his disciples, go you therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and 469 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:39,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. 470 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. 471 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means we have a responsibility to teach 472 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Baptize and teach some more. 473 00:36:50,599 --> 00:36:55,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think we have this the the the Sabbath school class just for the fun of having Sabbath school? 474 00:36:55,820 --> 00:36:56,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: class? 475 00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:58,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's because we are teaching some more. 476 00:36:59,420 --> 00:37:06,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is so that we can encourage one another to grow up and in the fullness and the stature of Jesus Christ. 477 00:37:09,420 --> 00:37:17,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At mid midweek service, we have small groups so that we can encourage people to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. 478 00:37:17,380 --> 00:37:22,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have this responsibility that we're doing because we are priests for God. 479 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:37,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Revelation 14 are our main text that we have as Seventh day Adventists. 480 00:37:37,780 --> 00:37:46,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. 481 00:37:47,540 --> 00:37:49,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How's it going to get there? 482 00:37:52,100 --> 00:37:54,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody has to tell. 483 00:37:54,900 --> 00:37:56,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody has to call them. 484 00:37:56,500 --> 00:38:01,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says crying out with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to Him. 485 00:38:01,140 --> 00:38:03,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: him for the hour of his judgment has come. 486 00:38:04,020 --> 00:38:09,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There I got that word in that you were wanted to for the hour of his judgment has come. 487 00:38:11,099 --> 00:38:13,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're supposed to be letting people know. 488 00:38:13,339 --> 00:38:14,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're supposed to be calling them. 489 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:19,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come and worship the Creator, the one who made the sea and the fountains of water. 490 00:38:22,420 --> 00:38:25,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's part of our teaching that we're supposed to do. 491 00:38:25,380 --> 00:38:26,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Teaching the law of God. 492 00:38:27,140 --> 00:38:31,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Teaching about what God's will is for their life. 493 00:38:43,380 --> 00:38:45,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have any of you heard of God pods? 494 00:38:46,580 --> 00:38:48,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what god pods are? 495 00:38:49,060 --> 00:38:51,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Adventist World Radio uses the word god pods. 496 00:38:52,020 --> 00:38:53,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God pods are not 497 00:38:53,420 --> 00:39:04,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's not a a normal name they use out in the industry, but it's an electronic computer-like device that uh has on their recording of the entire Bible it has evangelistic surviving 498 00:39:04,740 --> 00:39:12,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sermons on there, it has music on there, it has uh spirit of prophecy books on the one that Adventist World Radio is is handing out. 499 00:39:12,740 --> 00:39:19,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the neat thing about these this this instrument that Adventist World Radio uses is that it is solar powered. 500 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:26,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so they distribute these things in places that where the electricity is not constant. 501 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Places out in rural places. 502 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:35,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: One of the places that they work was in Papua New Guinea, PNG. 503 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Trying to get the the message out. 504 00:39:39,119 --> 00:39:46,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A couple years ago we had a large baptism there, series of meetings, and we had baptism there of 300,000 people. 505 00:39:46,420 --> 00:39:50,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They handed out some more godpods there and the people were were were sharing them. 506 00:39:51,140 --> 00:39:55,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, one of these godpods made it to the island of Siasi. 507 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:05,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Populated island not far from Papua part of Papua New Guinea, but it's 508 00:40:06,059 --> 00:40:15,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's it's an island and there are lots of people there, but there are only two Seventh-day Adventists, and the rest of the people that are there are Catholic and Lutheran 509 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:25,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It just so happened that a Catholic family received a godpod, and they were excited to have the godpod. 510 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:30,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They enjoyed listening to the music, they enjoyed listening to the children. 511 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:30,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Story. 512 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They enjoy listening to the prophecy seminars. 513 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:36,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They liked what they were hearing. 514 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:41,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The problem is their neighbors next door is a Lutheran family. 515 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they didn't have a godpod. 516 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they were jealous. 517 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And one night, while the Catholic family was sleeping, one of the family members 518 00:40:52,540 --> 00:40:59,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: From the Lutherans went over to the Catholic house and they stole the godpod. 519 00:41:01,660 --> 00:41:04,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes, well is right. 520 00:41:04,220 --> 00:41:06,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was a terrible offense. 521 00:41:07,220 --> 00:41:19,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Catholic family found it intolerable to watch their their rival family being exaltingly listening to the Godpod and calling members of the community to come and listen to them. 522 00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:19,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The God Pod. 523 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:26,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so the Catholic family decided to call the authorities, and an investigation ensued. 524 00:41:28,660 --> 00:41:38,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The judge was unable to reach a resolution that both parties were happy with, and so he took a Solomonic approach. 525 00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:45,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Catholic family gets it for a week, and then the Lutheran family gets it for a week. 526 00:41:46,220 --> 00:41:50,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then the Catholic family gets it for a week, and then the Lutheran family gets it for 527 00:41:50,940 --> 00:41:51,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Weaker 528 00:41:53,680 --> 00:42:01,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Despite the protest of both families, they finally relented and agreed. 529 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I'm not going to tell you all the details of the story, just to sum it up here. 530 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Right now there are 35 people requesting baptism on the island. 531 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We serve an amazing God. 532 00:42:19,980 --> 00:42:23,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who has called us to be ambassadors for him? 533 00:42:24,619 --> 00:42:28,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, the truth of the matter is the church is Jesus' idea. 534 00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:30,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church is the collecting place. 535 00:42:31,180 --> 00:42:33,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for people that would be saved. 536 00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:45,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church is a family, a community of believers, of individuals that are wanting to do the will of the Father. 537 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:45,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Father. 538 00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:56,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church is a collection of priests for God, ministering on behalf of God, interceding 539 00:42:57,039 --> 00:43:08,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the community, maintaining the temple of God, caring for the needs of the church, and teaching others what God 540 00:43:09,059 --> 00:43:10,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God's will is. 541 00:43:13,859 --> 00:43:21,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now is the time for the church to rise up and do what the church is supposed to do 542 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:22,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to do. 543 00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:29,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God will do his work if we will do ours. 544 00:43:32,420 --> 00:43:38,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At this time I invite you to stand as we sing together, Rise up, O Church of God.