1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Chukmanamui. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which means happy New Year. 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You didn't know it was New Year's today, did you? 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:15,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, in uh lunar new year. 5 00:00:15,719 --> 00:00:19,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So it was Sabbath day in much of Asia 6 00:00:20,759 --> 00:00:24,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were celebrating the lunar new year. 7 00:00:24,279 --> 00:00:28,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so many of them went to church dressed in their national costumes. 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:33,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So Cheryl and I decided to, since they were wearing theirs, that we should wear ours. 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So we are celebrating with them. 10 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:40,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So you are celebrating with them. 11 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:43,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We've already had it mentioned a couple of times. 12 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today is what day? 13 00:00:47,300 --> 00:00:48,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Valentine's. 14 00:00:49,140 --> 00:00:52,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I see that we have lots of people missing today. 15 00:00:53,539 --> 00:00:56,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They must be on Valentine's weekend or something. 16 00:00:57,820 --> 00:01:03,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Taken their significant other and gone someplace special. 17 00:01:05,659 --> 00:01:08,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cheryl and I like Valentine's Day. 18 00:01:08,299 --> 00:01:13,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Forty-four years ago, I decided that I should ask her to be my bride. 19 00:01:14,220 --> 00:01:16,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So it is an anniversary for us. 20 00:01:18,780 --> 00:01:19,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Thank you. 21 00:01:19,420 --> 00:01:20,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She said yes. 22 00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:24,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm so happy that she said yes. 23 00:01:25,259 --> 00:01:28,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It has been a blessing in my life. 24 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:29,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: life. 25 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:34,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I cannot imagine what it would be like if I did not have her. 26 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:38,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We were young, also young 27 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:43,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh I'm not sure we knew exactly what we were doing. 28 00:01:44,860 --> 00:01:50,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know if anybody else does, but I'm just telling you I don't know if I knew what I was doing. 29 00:01:50,460 --> 00:01:52,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I'm gonna tell you God's grace. 30 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:53,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is good. 31 00:01:54,460 --> 00:01:55,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God's grace is good. 32 00:01:56,140 --> 00:01:58,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There were so many things that we did not know. 33 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:03,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's so many things I did not know about love. 34 00:02:05,580 --> 00:02:08,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That uh it has been quite a learning process. 35 00:02:08,940 --> 00:02:16,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I even learned more this week as I was studying for for for the message today, things that I had not realized 36 00:02:17,340 --> 00:02:18,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: before. 37 00:02:18,860 --> 00:02:21,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But something I did know before. 38 00:02:21,819 --> 00:02:25,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People just want to be loved. 39 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:35,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean if you love someone, if you just love someone, the dramatic change that can come in their 40 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:38,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: life if some if you love somebody. 41 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:46,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if you love them, the dramatic change that comes into your life because you love them. 42 00:02:48,620 --> 00:02:55,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This week I read a story about an Adventist church that was holding a depression. 43 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh recovery seminar. 44 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It wasn't the the the the special speaker that was there but was 45 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:13,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: something that they had on the uh DVD being played at the front and then there was the the the expert talking to them. 46 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:19,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: On the DVD, and then there was some discussion for those that were suffering with depression. 47 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:24,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It had been advertised in the community, and as they were getting ready to start 48 00:03:26,220 --> 00:03:33,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A little woman showed up and she sat in the back on the very last place there was to sit. 49 00:03:34,220 --> 00:03:35,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was almost like she 50 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:44,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Didn't want to be there because she did not want to integrate with people, but she sat there and she sat through the presentation. 51 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She sat back in the back during the discussion time. 52 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And she got up to leave just as as things were being dismissed. 53 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But she did stop and sign up for 54 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:00,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The seminar. 55 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:09,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was supposed to be an eight-week seminar, and then she came the next week and she 56 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Got there right on time, but she still sat in the back. 57 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And just as it was over, she was gone. 58 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But the third week, when she arrived, she sat. 59 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, it was still behind everybody else, but it wasn't at the back. 60 00:04:34,220 --> 00:04:42,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She sat a little bit closer, but just behind everyone, and she still observed and she listened 61 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:50,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But by the end of the eight weeks, she was sitting on the front row and she was participating. 62 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was like she had been transformed. 63 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was like she was part of the group. 64 00:04:56,940 --> 00:05:04,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And after the eighth week after she had partaken of the 65 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:15,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The food and the things after everybody had been talking, she said, Pastor, and she asked the elder that had been helping, she says, Can I talk to you two privately? 66 00:05:17,180 --> 00:05:24,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They took her into one of the rooms that was there close, and she began to tell them a little bit of her story. 67 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:32,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How the first night she had actually driven past the church because she couldn't get herself to actually turn in. 68 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And finally she got down the road a little bit and she turned around and 69 00:05:36,639 --> 00:05:39,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: came back and that was the reason that she was late. 70 00:05:39,759 --> 00:05:49,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She wasn't sure she really Well, she didn't like being depressed, but she wasn't sure she could do this. 71 00:05:51,599 --> 00:06:01,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But after eight weeks, she she was there and she told a little bit more of her story and the right it seemed like as she was telling her story, she just looked at them and she said. 72 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is it okay if I be a Seventh-day Adventist? 73 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the elder and the pastor were kind of taken back, and 74 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:19,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's almost as if they looked at each other and they could read each other's thoughts. 75 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We haven't taught her anything from Daniel 2, Daniel 7, 76 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:24,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Daniel 8. 77 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She doesn't know anything about Revelation 12, 13, 14. 78 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:32,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She's asking 79 00:06:34,980 --> 00:06:40,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She had told them that she did not have any any Christian background. 80 00:06:41,060 --> 00:06:44,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's not like she was coming back to Christianity. 81 00:06:44,180 --> 00:06:45,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She had told them 82 00:06:45,740 --> 00:06:48,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That she didn't really know Jesus. 83 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:56,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then so they one of them just looked at her and blurted out, why do you want to be a Seventh-day Adventist? 84 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:03,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And she said, well, you you guys just love me. 85 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:07,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I like the way you love on people. 86 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I like the way that you guys love each other. 87 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I just I want to be part of this. 88 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,479 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How do you answer her question, can I be a Seventh-day Adventist? 89 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,879 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They kind of looked at each other and said, Yeah, you can be a seventh day adventist. 90 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We'd be happy to have you as part of the church family. 91 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:38,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But one of them said, Uh, we'll sit down with you and we'll do a little studying so that you understand what Christianity 92 00:07:38,379 --> 00:07:39,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Christianity is all about. 93 00:07:39,740 --> 00:07:51,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You understand what you are getting yourself into, what it means to be a Seventh-day Adventist, what it means to love people. 94 00:07:56,759 --> 00:08:01,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The last few weeks we have been talking about spiritual gifts. 95 00:08:04,340 --> 00:08:06,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You wondered how I was going to relate this, didn't you? 96 00:08:09,620 --> 00:08:13,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Open your Bible to Ephesians chapter 4, where we left off last week. 97 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:17,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians Chapter Four 98 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter four, there were talks about the spiritual gifts. 99 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:38,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Beginning with verse 11. 100 00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:48,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says, and he gave himself some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, teachers, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. 101 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:58,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ 102 00:08:58,380 --> 00:09:08,060 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 man and the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. 103 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:21,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As we read that last week, I I told you that these gifts are going to be applicable all the way until we get to the place where we come to the fullness and the stature of Jesus Christ. 104 00:09:22,540 --> 00:09:26,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I told you last week that I feel like I have job security. 105 00:09:26,460 --> 00:09:36,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe not job security as in the pastor of Mesa Palms, but I feel like I have job security, as that God has gifted me to be a pastor. 106 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:47,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I know the pastors are going to be around either as long as I'm alive or until Jesus comes. 107 00:09:51,319 --> 00:09:59,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because it's going to take a while because there's always going to be devils going to be around trying to trick men and using his cunning craftiness and deceitful plotting. 108 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:05,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But notice what verse 15 says, 15 and 16, it says, but speaking the truth in what? 109 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That love there is the word agape. 110 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:15,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Speaking the the truth in love. 111 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:20,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means wanting what is best for the other individual, not what is best for yourself. 112 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wanting what is best for the other end of it. 113 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Speaking the truth in love 114 00:10:29,420 --> 00:10:42,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: may grow up into all things into him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole body joined and knit together, by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working, by which every part does its share. 115 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:46,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. 116 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That last word there love is agape as well. 117 00:10:51,079 --> 00:10:58,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These spiritual gifts are supposed to be used in such a way that love continues to grow in the church. 118 00:10:59,399 --> 00:11:03,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These spiritual gifts cannot be used without love. 119 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:07,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We've been looking at spiritual gifts there. 120 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You guys know where they are now. 121 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:11,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Romans chapter. 122 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:14,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Spiritual gifts. 123 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Romans chapter. 124 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, no one remembers. 125 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Romans chapter 12. 126 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:28,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know the people that remember, they've gone on away for the bake the holiday weekend there. 127 00:11:30,060 --> 00:11:31,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Romans chapter twelve. 128 00:11:35,259 --> 00:11:37,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Again, you have spiritual gifts here. 129 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:46,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul talking about these verse 4, but we have many members of one body and all the members don't have the same function. 130 00:11:47,899 --> 00:11:51,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have different gifts, and he lists the gifts there. 131 00:11:51,259 --> 00:11:53,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In verse 9, though, you come down to that. 132 00:11:53,259 --> 00:11:58,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, but let love be without hypocrisy. 133 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:07,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He reminds them that these spiritual gifts are are are couched with with love, that agape love. 134 00:12:08,620 --> 00:12:18,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, here in Romans and here in Ephesians, he mentions this love, but when he talks about spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians, 135 00:12:19,380 --> 00:12:24,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn your Bibles again, 1 Corinthians chapter 12, where he talks about spiritual gifts. 136 00:12:25,060 --> 00:12:26,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, chapter 12, I mean. 137 00:12:27,180 --> 00:12:35,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I should say first Corinthians, he talks about spiritual gifts in detail, fantastic detail for us. 138 00:12:35,420 --> 00:12:41,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Corinthians chapter twelve, he's talking about spiritual gifts. 139 00:12:42,580 --> 00:12:46,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's talking about them so that we can understand spiritual gifts. 140 00:12:46,980 --> 00:12:50,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In 1 Corinthians chapter 12, come down to verse 26. 141 00:12:53,899 --> 00:13:00,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Corinthians 12, verse 26, it says, And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. 142 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:04,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 143 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:13,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It reminds us, I mean, it tells us that if if we have a church family, if we're we're one body, if one of us is suffering, how many of us are suffering? 144 00:13:14,819 --> 00:13:15,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All. 145 00:13:15,779 --> 00:13:20,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have you ever been walking through the house and you stub your toe? 146 00:13:23,139 --> 00:13:25,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What happens when you stub your toe? 147 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:28,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, don't say those bad things. 148 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:29,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 149 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:35,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But you cry out in pain because your your toe is hurting. 150 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But when your toe is hurting, what happens to the rest of your body? 151 00:13:40,140 --> 00:13:43,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It feels it because you begin to hop around. 152 00:13:43,420 --> 00:13:46,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your head feels it because that's where the pain is. 153 00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:53,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That the whole body recognizes that that little toe that you just stubbed. 154 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:57,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now you could just, little toe, what's wrong with you? 155 00:13:57,700 --> 00:13:58,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Straighten up 156 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:05,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But instead, we understand what it means when the body is in pain. 157 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,959 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Conversely, it says, when one is honored. 158 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All of us rejoice with it. 159 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We celebrate with it. 160 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we forget how to do that. 161 00:14:21,959 --> 00:14:27,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that our our envy, our jealousy, when one is honored, we're like, why did they choose him? 162 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why did they get the scholarship? 163 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:32,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I should have got the scholar. 164 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm as bright as she is. 165 00:14:35,579 --> 00:14:37,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't understand. 166 00:14:39,899 --> 00:14:43,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says when one re-w re is honored, all of us 167 00:14:44,420 --> 00:14:47,699 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Should be rejoicing with that. 168 00:14:47,860 --> 00:14:50,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come on down to verse 31. 169 00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:57,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, but earnestly desire the best gifts. 170 00:14:59,860 --> 00:15:02,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you may be thinking, which gift is the best gift? 171 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:08,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul kind of puts them in his order there, just before that, 27 to 31. 172 00:15:08,199 --> 00:15:13,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He puts them in his order, what he understands as the best gifts. 173 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:23,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not what the Corinthian church understands as the best gifts, but what he understands the the order of spiritual gifts kind of are in his mind. 174 00:15:24,060 --> 00:15:31,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then he says, the second part of that verse 31, and yet I show you a more excellent way. 175 00:15:33,660 --> 00:15:36,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then he begins to go off into 1 Corinthians. 176 00:15:36,779 --> 00:15:37,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Chapter 13. 177 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:44,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, 1 Corinthians 13, we kind of like that chapter because it's the love chapter. 178 00:15:45,340 --> 00:15:52,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we've taken this chapter and we have relegated this chapter to weddings. 179 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:59,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have relegated this chapter to marriage seminars. 180 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:04,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have relegated this chapter to engagement seminars. 181 00:16:04,940 --> 00:16:08,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Classes for premarriage counseling. 182 00:16:11,260 --> 00:16:16,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have relegated this chapter to marriages that are struggling. 183 00:16:17,060 --> 00:16:20,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we remind them what love means. 184 00:16:20,820 --> 00:16:22,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, that's good. 185 00:16:22,580 --> 00:16:24,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They need to hear 1 Corinthians 13. 186 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:27,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The premarried need to hear Corinthians 13. 187 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those that are in love and getting married need to hear 1 Corinthians chapter 13. 188 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:38,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But 1 Corinthians chapter 13, I want to remind you, it is smack dab in the middle of 189 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:41,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Spiritual gifts. 190 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Corinthians chapter twelve is talking about what? 191 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Spiritual gifts 192 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Corinthians chapter 13, that love chapter. 193 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:56,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then 1 Corinthians chapter 14 is talking about the misuse that the Corinthian church has of spiritual gifts. 194 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:04,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So, right in the middle of this context of Paul talking about spiritual gifts, he puts that love chapter. 195 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:08,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, we shouldn't be pulling it out and using it for something else. 196 00:17:10,819 --> 00:17:17,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We should understand that it's right in the middle of this conversation about spiritual gifts. 197 00:17:17,779 --> 00:17:19,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice what Paul says. 198 00:17:19,439 --> 00:17:27,439 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 1, though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clinging symbol. 199 00:17:27,439 --> 00:17:37,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He begins where the Corinthian church is, because if you read 1 Corinthians chapter 14, evidently the Corinthian church has taken that gift of tongues and put it as a top priority. 200 00:17:38,460 --> 00:17:40,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Paul is starting there. 201 00:17:40,460 --> 00:17:48,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, hey, if you can speak with tongues, but you don't have love, you are a clanging bell. 202 00:17:48,940 --> 00:17:51,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't you like those clanging bells? 203 00:17:52,559 --> 00:17:54,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No, we don't. 204 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then he goes on, verse 2, and he says, And though I have the gift of prophecy. 205 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:05,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now he gets to what he he his explanation, the ones he just finished with in chapter twelve. 206 00:18:05,940 --> 00:18:12,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said, Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and have all faith 207 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:20,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that I can remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 208 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Go ahead and look at that one more time. 209 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The gift of prophecy 210 00:18:26,340 --> 00:18:37,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if somebody has the gift of prophecy and and you notice that and you look at them and you go, Wow, I wish I understood prophecy like they do. 211 00:18:38,799 --> 00:18:42,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They, it says, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge. 212 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:46,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, isn't it just you listen to some people talk and you think 213 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:52,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh man, when will I ever grow up and understand that? 214 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:57,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I've been to college, I got a master's degree 215 00:18:58,200 --> 00:18:59,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh wow. 216 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe a doctor's degree would I need so I can understand. 217 00:19:03,559 --> 00:19:07,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because when they talk, it just sounds so beautiful. 218 00:19:09,020 --> 00:19:13,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where it says, and have all faith so that I can remove mountains. 219 00:19:13,260 --> 00:19:19,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if somebody had the faith like a George Mueller and can move the mountains or can can can cause 220 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:27,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God to to to to act in such a way that the people are provided for in oh dynamic ways 221 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:29,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ways we can't understand. 222 00:19:30,060 --> 00:19:32,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They're able to move the mountains with their faith. 223 00:19:32,940 --> 00:19:34,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How do you look at those kind of people? 224 00:19:36,580 --> 00:19:46,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, it's as if Paul should have should have quoted from Matthew chapter 7 where Jesus is talking there and he says, those people that they're saying going to say to me 225 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:50,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we prophesied in your name, we cast out demons in your name, we worked miracles in your name. 226 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:57,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I have to say to them, Jesus says, Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity, because I don't know you. 227 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:06,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's as if Paul heard Jesus say that when he when he quotes here verse verse 2. 228 00:20:09,380 --> 00:20:21,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 3, and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, I think about that that rich young ruler that came to Jesus, and Jesus said, Go and sell all that you have. 229 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And though I give my body to be burned. 230 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:40,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's the martyr, the one who dies for Jesus, Stephen who is stoned. 231 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But have not love, it profit 232 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Profits me nothing. 233 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:55,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Boy, when I read that, I just wow 234 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:05,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought martyrdom was was was okay to die for Jesus if I if I could just die for Jesus then 235 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:16,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we have that mentality that that the that the Muslims have that if we just die for God, that we're going to make it to heaven. 236 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:28,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul says that even if we die for God, if we don't have love, if we're not doing it for the right reasons, it profits us nothing. 237 00:21:35,940 --> 00:21:39,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm reminding A I'm reminding us of this 238 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:51,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because even if we use our spiritual gifts that we've talked about in Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians chapter 12 and Ephesians 4, even if we're using our spiritual gifts. 239 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it seems that we're working together as a family. 240 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:03,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we're doing it for the wrong reasons, it profits us 241 00:22:08,679 --> 00:22:17,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Using your spiritual gifts to share the doctrines taught in Scripture may produce baptisms, but it may 242 00:22:17,940 --> 00:22:22,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: not produce loving people if they do not know Jesus Christ. 243 00:22:27,220 --> 00:22:31,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Using your spiritual gifts to help the church grow. 244 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:34,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Will not get you to heaven. 245 00:22:35,540 --> 00:22:40,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Having enough faith to move a mountain, but not doing it because you love people. 246 00:22:41,540 --> 00:22:43,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why I circled that one. 247 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not doing it because I love people. 248 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought faith was that one that it was important to get me to heaven. 249 00:22:54,039 --> 00:22:55,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I had to have faith to get to heaven 250 00:22:55,460 --> 00:23:01,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But if I have enough face to to to move a mountain, surely I have enough face to to get me to heaven. 251 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:14,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul says that that kind of faith is worthless without love. 252 00:23:17,980 --> 00:23:21,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love is what transforms. 253 00:23:23,020 --> 00:23:25,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love is what changes 254 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:26,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Changes. 255 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:33,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love is the dynamic that we have to have in our lives 256 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't remember the young boy's name. 257 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He came to the church there in Ulam 258 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:48,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Batar. 259 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:53,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna call him Dorge because that's a good Mongolian name. 260 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:59,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He came to church and he was dirty. 261 00:24:02,220 --> 00:24:03,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he stank. 262 00:24:05,419 --> 00:24:07,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when I say he stink, he stinked bad. 263 00:24:07,980 --> 00:24:10,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Everybody began to scoot away from him. 264 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:24,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Mongolians began to to ask him to leave, but somehow he began to to move his way around the congregation, the small groups that were in the same 265 00:24:24,860 --> 00:24:31,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sanctuary and he found the English speaking Sabbath school class with all the foreigners. 266 00:24:32,299 --> 00:24:34,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now he knew a few words of English. 267 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:45,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But he ended up sitting in that Sabbath school class, and then when he had opportunity, he began to look at each one of us, and he said 268 00:24:47,140 --> 00:24:56,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: m money and from that Sabbath school class he did get a little bit of money 269 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:05,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But the Mongolians then were quickly to see what was going on and quickly took him out of church. 270 00:25:06,820 --> 00:25:13,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But he noticed what had happened, and so a week or two later he was back. 271 00:25:13,820 --> 00:25:20,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he knew where the English speaking group was and he was there asking for money again. 272 00:25:20,540 --> 00:25:25,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I encouraged the Mongolian church there to not 273 00:25:26,460 --> 00:25:34,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: ask him to leave, but to allow him to stay as long as he did not interrupt and cause too much of a problem. 274 00:25:36,780 --> 00:25:39,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But they couldn't stop him from going to every foreign. 275 00:25:39,919 --> 00:25:43,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he saw and asking for money. 276 00:25:44,799 --> 00:25:49,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They tried to stop him, but they couldn't stop him from all of them 277 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So he would come to church from time to time. 278 00:25:52,440 --> 00:26:01,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I remember one time he he came to church and and after church we were getting in our vehicle to go home and we 279 00:26:01,919 --> 00:26:11,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: lived a few kilometers from the church and it was really, really cold outside and and because we lived a few kilometers, there were a few people that lived along the road and 280 00:26:11,940 --> 00:26:21,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: along the way and they all wanted to get into the vehicle to ride and the vehicle was rather full and then George came and said, Can I ride? 281 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they looked around and it was really full. 282 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And our youngest daughter, Ashley, she said, Yes, you can rise. 283 00:26:31,559 --> 00:26:33,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have my seat. 284 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dad, I'm gonna ride in the luggage compartment at the back. 285 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And she moved to the luggage compartment in the back just fast. 286 00:26:44,380 --> 00:26:46,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Dorge slid in. 287 00:26:46,940 --> 00:26:51,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the people that were sitting next to Dorge were not sure about this arrangement. 288 00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:58,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And after about thirty seconds, the rest of us in the car were not sure about this arrangement. 289 00:26:59,740 --> 00:27:01,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because he still did not smell it. 290 00:27:01,740 --> 00:27:02,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Good. 291 00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:07,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We had found out why he was living in the streets. 292 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:11,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was living under the streets, down where the heating pipes are. 293 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:18,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was what they they they the underground children that they have there in Ulumbatar. 294 00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:24,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But he rode with us to where we lived. 295 00:27:25,460 --> 00:27:27,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now he knew our house. 296 00:27:31,780 --> 00:27:37,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I tell you, he continued to show up at church, and he continued to show up to church during our time there. 297 00:27:37,380 --> 00:27:39,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We left the country in 2006. 298 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:45,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 2017, we went, Cheryl and I went back there for a mission trip. 299 00:27:45,380 --> 00:27:51,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And as we came into the Ulumbatar church, there was George. 300 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He saw us and his face just lit up so big. 301 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I looked at him like, I know you, I know you, who are you? 302 00:28:03,660 --> 00:28:04,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who are you? 303 00:28:04,940 --> 00:28:07,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It wasn't registering fast enough. 304 00:28:08,220 --> 00:28:13,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He came comes running over to us and he just threw his arms around me 305 00:28:16,820 --> 00:28:23,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And held on and held on 306 00:28:24,980 --> 00:28:27,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Mongolians are not huggers. 307 00:28:28,340 --> 00:28:31,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They are not normally demonstrative in this way 308 00:28:34,580 --> 00:28:38,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm a hugger, but I know when to stop. 309 00:28:39,620 --> 00:28:41,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1001, 1002. 310 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1003 tap tap tap that's enough. 311 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:51,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or you're hugging back, you know, 1001, 1002, 1003, release. 312 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isn't that kind of the way it works? 313 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, and when you release, you're expecting to be released. 314 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It did not work that way. 315 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He held on and held on. 316 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:18,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Through translation he expressed to Cheryl and I that he was still coming to church. 317 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because of Ashley. 318 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And because we had loved him. 319 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I looked back on his time there when I was there. 320 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't think I ever loved him. 321 00:29:32,540 --> 00:29:34,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think I tolerated him. 322 00:29:35,580 --> 00:29:39,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I tried to treat him with with dignity and respect. 323 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:44,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But love, that's a that's a that's a big word. 324 00:29:46,820 --> 00:29:58,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let me tell you, he was still there in church because of something that had happened during his street 325 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Children's Days. 326 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A few weeks ago I told you another story about Mongolia. 327 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:06,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I told you about ABA. 328 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:14,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The one who woke up in prison that did not have any any any clothes on when he woke up, and his clothes had been stratag. 329 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:21,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: scattered through town because of his the night before. 330 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:27,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Two t twenty twenty four, two years ago, we went to ASI and we were sitting there in the the back. 331 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We weren't sure about a this was Cheryl and my first 332 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:41,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: first time to to be at ASI and we weren't sure about everything that happened there and so we were just watching what was happening there and during the towards the middle end of the program 333 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:50,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I saw a man walking out and Cheryl tapped me and says, Does that look like Abba? 334 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I looked and I said, Yeah, I think it is Abba. 335 00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:03,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we we we talked to each other and he he kind of walked past and and I got up and out of my row and I I went and 336 00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:07,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Tapped him on the are you Alba? 337 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:16,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He heard my voice and he whipped around and he grabbed me in that death hug. 338 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:20,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he held on. 339 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:23,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he held on. 340 00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:27,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: One thousand one, one thousand two 341 00:31:27,919 --> 00:31:30,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1003 release. 342 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean I was happy to see him, but he held on longer. 343 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:50,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This was somebody that that that that that we had baptized, somebody that that had had had grown up, somebody that had become a pastor, somebody that was should know when to release. 344 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:00,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then he released me and he he he kind of cast me aside and he grabs hold of Cheryl. 345 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And begins to hug. 346 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm thinking one thousand and one, one thousand 347 00:32:11,020 --> 00:32:15,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Until it gets uncomfortable for someone to a grown man to be hugging my wife. 348 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:27,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There were people with him, Mongolians that we had not met or didn't know us 349 00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:37,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Finally, he releases and he says, introduced us to the rest of the group. 350 00:32:37,659 --> 00:32:40,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then he says, I love these people. 351 00:32:47,460 --> 00:32:54,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love changes people, it transforms their lives. 352 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It makes a difference. 353 00:33:01,159 --> 00:33:02,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn to your Bibles again. 354 00:33:02,679 --> 00:33:04,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 John chapter 4. 355 00:33:05,559 --> 00:33:07,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 John chapter 4. 356 00:33:17,799 --> 00:33:20,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First John chapter 4, look at verse 7. 357 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:30,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 358 00:33:30,780 --> 00:33:36,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 359 00:33:36,860 --> 00:33:37,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's that say? 360 00:33:37,740 --> 00:33:39,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He who does not love what? 361 00:33:42,679 --> 00:33:44,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does not know God. 362 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In this, the love of God was manifested toward 363 00:33:53,919 --> 00:34:01,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Us that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him. 364 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In this is love. 365 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the 366 00:34:10,059 --> 00:34:11,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Propitiation for our sins. 367 00:34:12,059 --> 00:34:18,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 368 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We also ought to love one another. 369 00:34:24,039 --> 00:34:26,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This love thing is important. 370 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I see I skipped something here. 371 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:33,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I said read a quote. 372 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have a a quote I want to share with you. 373 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ellen White writes, a true, lovable Christian. 374 00:34:44,700 --> 00:34:50,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is the most powerful argument that can be advanced in favor of Bible truth. 375 00:34:51,819 --> 00:34:54,379 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Such a man is Christ's representative 376 00:34:54,580 --> 00:35:01,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: His life is the most convincing evidence that can be born to the power of divine grace. 377 00:35:01,780 --> 00:35:07,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When God's people bring the righteousness of Christ into the daily life. 378 00:35:08,339 --> 00:35:15,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sinners will be converted and victories over the enemy will be gained. 379 00:35:17,140 --> 00:35:18,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isn't that beautiful? 380 00:35:22,780 --> 00:35:28,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the Review and Herald, uh July twenty-one, nineteen 381 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:37,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ellen White wrote, The Lord desires me to call the attention of his people to the 13th chapter of First Corinthians. 382 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:44,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Read this chapter every day, and from it obtain comfort and strength. 383 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Learn from it the value that God places on 384 00:35:48,020 --> 00:35:54,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sanctified heaven born love and let the lesson that it teaches come home to your hearts. 385 00:35:54,500 --> 00:36:01,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Learn that Christian love is of heavenly birth, and that without it all other qualifications. 386 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are worthless. 387 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those other qualifications 388 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:17,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The spiritual gifts, though I speak with the gift of tongues. 389 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The gift of tongues are important. 390 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The gift of tongues that need we are are needed in the church. 391 00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:28,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The three angels' messages need to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. 392 00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:30,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How does it go to every tongue? 393 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:37,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need somebody speaking in those languages so that they can hear the messages from the three angels. 394 00:36:37,540 --> 00:36:39,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The gift of prophecy is important. 395 00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:44,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul has put it at his top priority in chapter 12. 396 00:36:45,220 --> 00:36:50,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Without the gift of prophecy, we we can't understand the books of Daniel and Revelation. 397 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The prophecies of Jesus. 398 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need the gift of prophecy so that we have this understanding. 399 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:05,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But even if we are able to give the gift of prophecy, even if we have the gift of tongues, if we don't have love, we don't. 400 00:37:08,579 --> 00:37:10,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It profits us nothing. 401 00:37:12,339 --> 00:37:14,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Both have to work together 402 00:37:17,020 --> 00:37:20,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Both have to work together. 403 00:37:24,380 --> 00:37:26,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's why Paul spent so much time. 404 00:37:26,460 --> 00:37:33,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in 1 Corinthians 13, he wanted them to understand about this this gift of love, the more excellent way. 405 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:49,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is gone 406 00:37:49,099 --> 00:37:50,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: love that transforms lives. 407 00:37:53,339 --> 00:37:59,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Lives are not transformed because I listen carefully 408 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:05,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because I post on my Facebook page about how to keep the Sabbath. 409 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:10,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or because I hold evangelistic meetings, team 410 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:19,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: About Revelation chapter 13, understanding who the beast power is and the image of the beast power 411 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those things may be important. 412 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: People may need to hear those things. 413 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:31,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But it's God 414 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God's love that transforms lives. 415 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First John here reminds us it's because the Creator God 416 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God Jesus came down to to this earth. 417 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:49,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean he gave up his his his his his godness 418 00:38:52,339 --> 00:38:54,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To come in in human form. 419 00:38:57,619 --> 00:39:03,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, had a preacher one time, he says, That's the equivalent of you, of me. 420 00:39:04,099 --> 00:39:07,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Becoming a cockroach. 421 00:39:09,140 --> 00:39:11,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You want to become a cockroach? 422 00:39:11,859 --> 00:39:13,859 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To save the cockroaches? 423 00:39:15,140 --> 00:39:15,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I didn't 424 00:39:15,940 --> 00:39:16,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: figure you did. 425 00:39:17,940 --> 00:39:21,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when I heard the preacher say that I didn't want to become a cockroach. 426 00:39:23,220 --> 00:39:24,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But maybe that's further. 427 00:39:24,740 --> 00:39:27,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe God Jesus came further 428 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:35,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to come in human form, to take on our likeness 429 00:39:39,020 --> 00:39:40,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our depravity. 430 00:39:45,740 --> 00:39:48,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He loves us so very, very much. 431 00:39:50,540 --> 00:39:53,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So very, very, very much. 432 00:39:56,540 --> 00:39:58,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think about this and I 433 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I shake my head sometimes and wonder if I even know anything about love. 434 00:40:23,319 --> 00:40:29,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This week I read the story about a woman and her husband who had gotten a divorce. 435 00:40:30,839 --> 00:40:33,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you know how painful that is. 436 00:40:34,540 --> 00:40:39,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: After the divorce, they were working through the co-parenting schedule. 437 00:40:40,060 --> 00:40:41,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How difficult that is. 438 00:40:42,220 --> 00:40:45,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then she found out that her ex-husband was going to remarry. 439 00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:50,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that was more painful. 440 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:56,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Time 441 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:57,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: went by. 442 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:06,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She heard the news that the new wife was having kidney problems. 443 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The only way for her to continue living was to have a kidney transplant. 444 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:15,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes. 445 00:41:17,740 --> 00:41:20,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is probably what Dale would have thought. 446 00:41:23,180 --> 00:41:25,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But she realized what was happening to 447 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:26,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: her ex-husband. 448 00:41:26,599 --> 00:41:30,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She realized what was happening to to her children. 449 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:36,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And she went and had herself tested to see if she was a man. 450 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Found out that she was a match. 451 00:41:46,180 --> 00:41:57,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then she went through the procedure to donate her one of her kidneys for her ex-husband's new wife. 452 00:42:04,359 --> 00:42:06,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The new wife was intrigued. 453 00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:10,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why would an ex-wife do something like that? 454 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And she had the opportunity to share about Jesus. 455 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And now the two go to church together. 456 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:28,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think about that and I th I'm 457 00:42:31,779 --> 00:42:33,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't understand. 458 00:42:34,420 --> 00:42:36,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That doesn't come natural. 459 00:42:38,099 --> 00:42:41,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not the the the first thing that I I think of 460 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:47,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, yeah, maybe a kidney for your for your your child. 461 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:52,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But 462 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:58,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I just how much does Jesus love us? 463 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:09,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then Jesus tells the disciples, All men will know that you are my disciples because you love one another. 464 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love one another the way I have loved you. 465 00:43:17,619 --> 00:43:19,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can't we do it? 466 00:43:24,359 --> 00:43:25,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can we do it? 467 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I look in the mirror. 468 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I look at 1 Corinthians 13. 469 00:43:34,039 --> 00:43:35,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can I do it? 470 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean some of you that got the quote this this morning. 471 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:45,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what I asked you to do today? 472 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did you try it? 473 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:49,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It doesn't sound right. 474 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, I s turn to Second Corinthians thirteen. 475 00:43:55,720 --> 00:43:57,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It doesn't sound right there. 476 00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:01,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did you put your name there? 477 00:44:02,900 --> 00:44:05,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale suffers long and is kind. 478 00:44:05,380 --> 00:44:06,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale does not envy. 479 00:44:06,740 --> 00:44:08,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale does not parade himself. 480 00:44:08,740 --> 00:44:09,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale is not puffed up. 481 00:44:10,020 --> 00:44:11,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale does not behave rudely 482 00:44:11,660 --> 00:44:13,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale does not seek his own. 483 00:44:13,660 --> 00:44:15,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale is not provoked. 484 00:44:15,260 --> 00:44:16,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale thinks no evil. 485 00:44:16,540 --> 00:44:20,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. 486 00:44:20,140 --> 00:44:26,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dale bears all things, Dale believes all things, Dale hopes all things, Dale endures all things, Dale never fails. 487 00:44:27,260 --> 00:44:30,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, when you read it like that, how do you come out? 488 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:39,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean when I read it like that I'm thinking that doesn't sound right something's wrong with this picture 489 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, something's wrong with that picture. 490 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus loves me like this. 491 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then he asked me to 492 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love others in the same way. 493 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my response is 494 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:10,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh Father God, Father God, I have sinned. 495 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Please forgive me 496 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Father God, we have sinned. 497 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Please forgive us 498 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:37,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Father God, come teach us to love the way you love us. 499 00:45:37,599 --> 00:45:43,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: love because we can't do it by ourselves. 500 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:48,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Thank you, God. 501 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:50,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Amen.