1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody asked me this week, uh, what are you preaching? 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:06,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I shouldn't say somebody. 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:10,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I had several somebodies ask me, what is coming up this week? 4 00:00:10,519 --> 00:00:18,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I said, I'm going to preach the same sermon as last week and see how many people notice. 5 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you think I'm joking? 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I am, just a little bit. 7 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:27,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But it's 8 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:36,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's kind of the same message because sometimes when we sing a song, some of us want to sing only the first and last verses. 9 00:00:37,180 --> 00:00:39,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know people like that? 10 00:00:39,420 --> 00:00:46,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And sometimes it's verse two and three that really have a powerful message for us. 11 00:00:46,380 --> 00:00:51,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so today is one of those two and three verses. 12 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:56,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh we sing it sometimes but seldom. 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when I say sometimes but seldom, it's because 14 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:02,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You look at our scripture reading today. 15 00:01:02,980 --> 00:01:05,379 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did you hear our scripture reading? 16 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:09,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We are very common, I am very familiar with that scripture reading. 17 00:01:09,820 --> 00:01:14,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is a a a common one for us as Seventh-day Adventists. 18 00:01:14,540 --> 00:01:19,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have have read this and read this and read this. 19 00:01:19,020 --> 00:01:26,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we always read it in a different context than what I'm sharing today. 20 00:01:26,299 --> 00:01:29,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our scripture reading came there from John 20. 21 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You heard it. 22 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:41,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 19 says, In the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, disciples were assembled, for what reason? 23 00:01:43,260 --> 00:01:45,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where are we going with this sermon? 24 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:51,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As Seventh-day Adventists, we use this sermon in our evangelistic meetings. 25 00:01:51,860 --> 00:02:00,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the night after we have preached the rousing sermon on the Sabbath, the next night we preach a sermon on 26 00:02:03,540 --> 00:02:07,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're not very familiar with how we do evangelism in the Adventist Church? 27 00:02:07,940 --> 00:02:11,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's been a long time since you've heard the series. 28 00:02:11,140 --> 00:02:13,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The next night we preach a sermon on 29 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:22,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sunday, the first day text, and the first day text, and this is one of the first day texts, and so it says there 30 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 20, it says, on the first day of the week. 31 00:02:25,660 --> 00:02:32,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so we read this, and sometimes we say to ourselves, I've got it. 32 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:35,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I understand it. 33 00:02:37,319 --> 00:02:44,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This text is also recorded in Luke chapter twenty-four. 34 00:02:44,180 --> 00:02:52,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Last week we were looking at Luke chapter twenty four, so I want you to turn in your Bibles back to Luke chapter twenty four. 35 00:02:52,019 --> 00:02:58,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And before we begin reading Luke chapter twenty four, I have a series of questions that I would like to ask you. 36 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:06,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: On a scale of one to ten, I want you to take a moment and think about these things. 37 00:03:06,599 --> 00:03:14,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that I'm saying, how much anxiety would you feel if something like this happened to you? 38 00:03:14,540 --> 00:03:18,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 is no anxiety. 39 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:21,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 10 would be very high anxiety. 40 00:03:21,260 --> 00:03:26,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If there was a death, your closest friend suddenly died, how would you feel? 41 00:03:26,620 --> 00:03:31,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: High anxiety, low anxiety. 42 00:03:31,020 --> 00:03:33,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, secondly, security. 43 00:03:33,740 --> 00:03:36,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: One day your boss says to you, you're fired 44 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:43,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If it happens to you on Monday, how do you feel? 45 00:03:43,079 --> 00:03:45,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Especially those of you that are retired. 46 00:03:46,939 --> 00:03:48,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, uh huh. 47 00:03:48,780 --> 00:03:52,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, we got high anxiety there. 48 00:03:52,140 --> 00:03:54,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your hope is shattered 49 00:03:54,220 --> 00:04:02,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The dreams you had for the future, they are gone, seem to evaporate right out from under you. 50 00:04:02,540 --> 00:04:03,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How do you feel? 51 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:06,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Low anxiety or high anxiety? 52 00:04:08,380 --> 00:04:18,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You head home today, and when you get to your house, there is a police tape all around it, and they tell you you have to find alternative housing this evening. 53 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And maybe for the rest of the week. 54 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There has been a crime committed here 55 00:04:28,740 --> 00:04:35,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: High anxiety or low anxiety if you do not have a place to sleep tonight? 56 00:04:35,860 --> 00:04:37,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your reputation 57 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:45,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You've risked everything for a cause, and the cause you believe in has turned sour. 58 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: High anxiety, no anxiety. 59 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, I'm hearing lots of high. 60 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:51,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come on. 61 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:56,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No fives, no sixes, no sevens, no low. 62 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um friend. 63 00:04:59,160 --> 00:04:59,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh 64 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:03,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well how yeah, friends. 65 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The old gang breaks up, including your friends. 66 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those people that you get together with on a regular basis. 67 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Suddenly they decide not to be together anymore. 68 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:13,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, the winner 69 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:16,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Members leave. 70 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: High anxiety, low anxiety. 71 00:05:20,919 --> 00:05:22,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Suicide. 72 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: One of your best friends hangs himself 73 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:30,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Low anxiety, high anxiety. 74 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Betrayal. 75 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:36,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You feel let down by the one person in the world that you thought you could trust. 76 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:42,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: High anxiety, low anxiety. 77 00:05:42,220 --> 00:05:45,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let's change the dynamics a little bit 78 00:05:45,539 --> 00:05:56,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Another series of questions, but let's look at it not from just the the the worldly perspective, but let's look at them from a spiritual perspective 79 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, I put these one up, these up here. 80 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:07,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What is the thing that would trigger a spiritual crisis in your experience? 81 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Something that would cause you to have a real spiritual crisis. 82 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Would it be financial panic? 83 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:21,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If suddenly your your assets were frozen, you couldn't get access to your bank account? 84 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How would you feel about your relationship with God? 85 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:34,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your anger with God over a personal tragedy, would that cause a spiritual crisis in your life? 86 00:06:35,460 --> 00:06:39,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Disappointment over a relationship. 87 00:06:39,460 --> 00:06:42,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A personal relationship that you have with someone. 88 00:06:42,100 --> 00:06:45,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is not going well and it gets worse. 89 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:55,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How does it ex how does it have ramifications upon your spiritual life? 90 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Domestic problems. 91 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hassles. 92 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does that have ramifications on your spiritual life 93 00:07:06,660 --> 00:07:10,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Questions of doubt about your faith. 94 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:18,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody begins asking questions and things that you have not thought about, and your faith is seriously challenged. 95 00:07:18,500 --> 00:07:19,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How does that 96 00:07:21,020 --> 00:07:25,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Affect your spiritual life. 97 00:07:25,580 --> 00:07:28,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Disillusionment with your church 98 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:41,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You find out some of the details about your church that you didn't know, something that you thought uh they felt you felt like they were keeping it a secret from you, and and you were disillusioned with what was happening in your church 99 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:46,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or the last one there, a lack of direction from God. 100 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:53,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You felt like God had gone silent in your life 101 00:07:55,980 --> 00:08:02,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would that do to your relationship experience with God? 102 00:08:03,180 --> 00:08:14,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, I went through these two different things because I wanted us to kind of feel a little bit about what it was like for the disciples. 103 00:08:14,220 --> 00:08:21,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In Luke chapter 24, their whole world had come crashing down. 104 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:27,979 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They they they had experienced something that was was terrible. 105 00:08:27,979 --> 00:08:30,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What had happened had had 106 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,719 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were afraid. 107 00:08:32,719 --> 00:08:33,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were confused. 108 00:08:33,839 --> 00:08:35,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Open your Bible there to Luke 24. 109 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come down to verse 36. 110 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:40,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let's read some of the verses here. 111 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah, let's start back. 112 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:43,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I said 36. 113 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:49,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let's go back up to uh 30. 114 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:50,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: On the screen it says 33. 115 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, let's try 32. 116 00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:07,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, just so you understand what was where where we're headed there, it says, And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us on the road and while he opened the scriptures to us? 117 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I had you go back that far because I wanted you to see this is from last week. 118 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is the overlap from last week. 119 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did not our hearts burn within us 120 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:25,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So they rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven, and those who were with them 121 00:09:25,540 --> 00:09:32,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: gathered together, saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon. 122 00:09:32,019 --> 00:09:40,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they told about the thing that had happened on the road, and how he was known to them, in the breaking of bread. 123 00:09:40,460 --> 00:09:43,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can you imagine how exciting this was for them? 124 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:51,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It tells us in John, we looked at John 20, verse 19, that they were gathered together for what reason? 125 00:09:51,340 --> 00:09:52,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fear. 126 00:09:54,280 --> 00:10:01,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was on the first day of the week after the sun had gone down 127 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:09,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because the sun had gone down when Jesus was walking on the road with Cleopus. 128 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:14,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cleopas and his friend had now come back to Jerusalem that very night. 129 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:28,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It tells us that they came there and they found the disciples there, and they said now at verse thirty-six, now as they said these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, Peace to you. 130 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:34,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 131 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:37,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he said to them, Why are you troubled? 132 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:41,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 133 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:52,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself, handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have. 134 00:10:53,420 --> 00:10:57,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The disciples were gathered there that night because they were afraid. 135 00:10:57,260 --> 00:10:59,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were scared to death. 136 00:10:59,180 --> 00:11:03,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were afraid that the Jews were going to come knocking on their door. 137 00:11:02,959 --> 00:11:09,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they're wanting to do the same thing to them that they had done previously to Jesus. 138 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:19,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were startled when Jesus began to speak. 139 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says they were startled and they were afraid 140 00:11:23,820 --> 00:11:27,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says they thought they saw a ghost. 141 00:11:27,260 --> 00:11:31,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was fear that was clouding their vision. 142 00:11:31,180 --> 00:11:35,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was fear that was distorting their reality. 143 00:11:36,460 --> 00:11:48,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The fear that they had was causing them to act in a way that you and I look at them and we say, that's not normal. 144 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They had spent time with Jesus in the past. 145 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus had told them that he was going to be crucified. 146 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:03,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus had told them that he was going to be resurrected from the dead. 147 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:10,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The women had gone to the tomb early in the morning. 148 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:15,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They came back and told Peter and John, The tomb is empty. 149 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They came back and told them, we saw angels there. 150 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The tomb was empty, and angels told us, He's not here. 151 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:25,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's risen from the dead. 152 00:12:26,380 --> 00:12:34,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, if somebody had told you something like that, the likelihood of you believing it is. 153 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:36,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I know, Slim. 154 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why is the likelihood of you believing it's slim? 155 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You haven't experienced that kind of thing in your life before. 156 00:12:46,780 --> 00:12:53,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And because we haven't experienced those things in our life before, we say, yeah, I don't know 157 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Peter and John go to the tomb. 158 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They see the tomb for themselves. 159 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They see that it is empty. 160 00:13:04,420 --> 00:13:07,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But they are still afraid. 161 00:13:08,340 --> 00:13:10,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The rumor has gotten to them. 162 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:13,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The disciples have stolen the body of Jesus 163 00:13:14,279 --> 00:13:20,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They're afraid of what is going to happen because the rumor is out there. 164 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:25,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they are hiding until Jesus comes. 165 00:13:25,740 --> 00:13:32,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And says to them, Peace be unto you. 166 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:37,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I tell you, fear can make us forget some things, can't it? 167 00:13:40,660 --> 00:13:45,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In our time today, are we ever afraid? 168 00:13:45,540 --> 00:13:49,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you ever afraid when you turn on the TV and you see the the 169 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:56,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Natural disasters that are taking place. 170 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you think to yourself, boy, I sure am glad I live in Arizona. 171 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:08,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No earthquakes, not much fires 172 00:14:11,580 --> 00:14:15,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No tornadoes, no hurricanes. 173 00:14:15,180 --> 00:14:18,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't have to deal with those kind of things. 174 00:14:18,220 --> 00:14:24,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Heard somebody this week say, yeah, but the natural disaster that we have is we've got heat. 175 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:27,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 176 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We turn on the TV and we see the moral decline that is happening in our world. 177 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:39,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we ever get afraid do our hearts begin to to pound a little faster when we see that that moral decay? 178 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:40,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We turn on 179 00:14:52,339 --> 00:15:05,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we begin to get afraid about things because we realize that the government's not going to change our Social Security fast enough to keep up with what is taking place. 180 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:13,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: our hearts began to cause us to be afraid. 181 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:19,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do you think Jesus' words would be to us today if he were to show up in church 182 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You think he would say those words? 183 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Shalom. 184 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Peace be unto you. 185 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When he says those words, what's he talking about? 186 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean when we when we think about peace 187 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we talking about the absence of war? 188 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:48,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, is that what we're looking forward to? 189 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:53,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The the the peace that we want is no more war in this world? 190 00:15:53,040 --> 00:16:02,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's the peace that we are longing for, mom and dad to stop fighting, or the peace that we're longing for, our grandchildren to stop fighting. 191 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:07,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or the peace that we're longing for, us to stop fighting with our grandchildren. 192 00:16:07,940 --> 00:16:17,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or the peace that we're hoping for is that our co workers could just get along, or the team that we've been assigned to, if they could just get along, that would give us peace. 193 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:26,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't think that's the kind of peace Jesus is talking about when he says, peace be unto you. 194 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's talking about the peace of Jesus. 195 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:39,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's talking about you can have that peace when Jesus is present in your life, regardless if there is a war going on. 196 00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:45,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we practice that kind of peace? 197 00:16:46,740 --> 00:16:49,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we meditate about that? 198 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:51,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we think about it? 199 00:16:54,560 --> 00:17:03,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, sometimes we we criticize those people in the Eastern religions because they sit cross-legged, they hold their f hands funny, and they go, um 200 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know what they're doing when they do that? 201 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:10,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They're wanting peace. 202 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They're wanting tranquility in their life. 203 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:21,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe we need to practice the presence of Jesus a little bit more in our life. 204 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:28,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to spend a little bit more time meditating about Jesus and what he would say to us. 205 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:37,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe tomorrow morning when you get up and you're getting ready to go out on your day, you're filled with anxiety about the things that are going on in your life. 206 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Take a little bit of time and listen to Jesus say to you. 207 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:47,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Peace be still. 208 00:17:47,679 --> 00:17:50,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let him speak peace into your life 209 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ask him to be present with you. 210 00:17:54,520 --> 00:18:01,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And even though the storms are raging, even though there's a battle there, even though you're hiding because you're afraid of the Jews. 211 00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:07,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: His peace can be with you. 212 00:18:07,539 --> 00:18:14,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It can be present with you, and you can have peace regardless of what the storm is. 213 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Luke chapter twenty-four 214 00:18:26,420 --> 00:18:28,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come down to verse 38. 215 00:18:30,100 --> 00:18:34,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, and he said to them, Why are you troubled? 216 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:38,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 217 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:49,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, they had seen him, but some of them, even though they had seen him and heard his voice, were still doubting. 218 00:18:52,980 --> 00:18:54,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why were they doubting? 219 00:18:57,620 --> 00:18:58,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Too good to be true. 220 00:18:58,980 --> 00:19:02,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They had never experienced this kind of thing before. 221 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:10,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They couldn't comprehend, they couldn't understand. 222 00:19:10,799 --> 00:19:11,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says 223 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your heart? 224 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:26,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Behold my hands and my feet, and it is I myself, handle me and see, for I have a sp for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as I have. 225 00:19:26,460 --> 00:19:32,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When he said these things, he showed them his hands and his feet. 226 00:19:32,540 --> 00:19:35,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But while they still did not believe 227 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:39,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you see that part? 228 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:42,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of them still did not believe. 229 00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:47,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For joy and marveled, he said to them, Have you any food here? 230 00:19:47,060 --> 00:19:55,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So they gave him a piece of broiled fish and some honeycomb, and he took it and ate it in their presence. 231 00:19:56,140 --> 00:20:04,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to tell you, friends, even when you're doubting, even when you question God, God is willing to give you proof. 232 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:12,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Faith is not blind. 233 00:20:12,140 --> 00:20:15,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God gives evidence for our faith 234 00:20:15,919 --> 00:20:21,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God had already given evidence for these disciples' faith. 235 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They had heard the report about the empty tomb. 236 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A couple of them had seen the grave clothes folded up 237 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They had heard the testimony of others. 238 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have seen the Lord. 239 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But still they did not believe. 240 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Still, they had were slow of understanding. 241 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:53,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, if if if Dale had come into that room, he might have said, I need new disciples. 242 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:55,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's time just to start over. 243 00:20:56,659 --> 00:20:58,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Right? 244 00:20:58,659 --> 00:21:02,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, they were not believing the testimony. 245 00:21:02,260 --> 00:21:07,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were not believing the words of the prophet they had spent time with. 246 00:21:08,260 --> 00:21:15,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were not believing their Lord and Savior that had told them what was going to happen. 247 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:18,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He doesn't even chastise them here. 248 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:28,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He gives them further evidence to build up their faith. 249 00:21:30,460 --> 00:21:31,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Faith is not blind. 250 00:21:31,899 --> 00:21:33,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God gives us evidence. 251 00:21:33,019 --> 00:21:36,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This resurrection is not just a spiritual idea. 252 00:21:36,539 --> 00:21:39,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was a historical reality. 253 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:47,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As Adventists, we need to understand this both with our mind and in our heart. 254 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to have this experience it. 255 00:21:51,220 --> 00:21:54,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It has been confirmed by scripture. 256 00:21:54,660 --> 00:21:57,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's been confirmed by prophecy. 257 00:21:57,060 --> 00:22:05,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It needs to be confirmed by our testimonies, by the experience that we have with our risen Lord and Savior. 258 00:22:08,639 --> 00:22:15,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, when doubts come, and believe me, they will come many times. 259 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God invites us to examine the evidence. 260 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:24,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, it's not enough evidence to take away all doubt. 261 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:31,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can still doubt if you choose to, but their evidence is there that you can believe in a creator God. 262 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:37,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The evidence is there that the Bible is true. 263 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The evidence is there that you can believe prophecy. 264 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It doesn't take away all doubt. 265 00:22:44,679 --> 00:22:48,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But there's enough evidence for you to put your trust in that. 266 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He gives him a purpose. 267 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look at Luke twenty four. 268 00:23:03,220 --> 00:23:04,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come down to verse 44. 269 00:23:04,820 --> 00:23:11,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you. 270 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:23,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That all things must be fulfilled that were written in the law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms concerning me, and he opened their understanding that they might comprehend 271 00:23:24,060 --> 00:23:25,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the scriptures. 272 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:37,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then he said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sin would be preached in the name to all nations. 273 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Beginning at Jerusalem, and you are my witnesses of these things. 274 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Behold, I send the promise of my father upon you. 275 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:49,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with the power from on high 276 00:23:50,140 --> 00:23:52,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He gave them a purpose. 277 00:23:52,220 --> 00:23:56,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He reminded them of what he had told them. 278 00:23:56,860 --> 00:24:04,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not only did he remind them of what he had told them, but then he goes through a Bible study with them. 279 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:18,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I would have been very tempted had I been Jesus to get to that point in time of reminding them what I had said and then I would have turned to Cleopas and I said, Cleopas, would you mind sharing the Bible study? 280 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:21,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that you just heard a few hours earlier? 281 00:24:21,799 --> 00:24:25,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wouldn't that have been a good idea? 282 00:24:25,399 --> 00:24:29,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fantastic teaching moment for Cleopas, right? 283 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wonder how how much Cleopas would have remembered 284 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wonder how much you remember. 285 00:24:42,299 --> 00:24:45,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you remember some of the Bible text from last week? 286 00:24:46,140 --> 00:24:51,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I told you about the Bible study that Jesus gave to Cleopas on the road. 287 00:24:52,019 --> 00:24:56,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wrote some of them down that I didn't do last week. 288 00:24:56,260 --> 00:25:00,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I last week I went to Jesus probably told them about Genesis 3. 289 00:25:00,340 --> 00:25:03,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 15, but he may not have gone to Deuteronomy chapter 18 290 00:25:03,860 --> 00:25:08,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, some of you are going to say, why are you doing this again to us? 291 00:25:08,179 --> 00:25:09,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We heard this sermon last week. 292 00:25:09,940 --> 00:25:11,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes, you did. 293 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I'm throwing a little a few new things in here. 294 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:21,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I know that not all of you were listening completely last week. 295 00:25:21,460 --> 00:25:27,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You weren't writing things down, you weren't taking notes, you weren't uh, I didn't have it on the screen. 296 00:25:27,380 --> 00:25:31,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was saying it a second time because these things are important. 297 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we need to review these things. 298 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:40,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This thing about the resurrection, this is an important doctrine for us as Christians. 299 00:25:41,860 --> 00:25:48,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is an important doctrine for us as Seventh-day Adventists. 300 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:52,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to be able to share what we believe, what we what we know. 301 00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:54,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm sharing this again because 302 00:25:55,800 --> 00:26:01,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh man, for the last two weeks, three weeks, our live streaming hasn't been working. 303 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so maybe there's somebody that's watching to I pray it's working today. 304 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:14,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But maybe there's somebody watching today that missed last week and the week before that needs to hear these things. 305 00:26:16,299 --> 00:26:19,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I'm sharing it with you again because Jesus did it twice. 306 00:26:19,659 --> 00:26:22,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why can't I? 307 00:26:22,059 --> 00:26:24,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Deuteronomy chapter 18. 308 00:26:24,059 --> 00:26:25,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you there yet? 309 00:26:25,260 --> 00:26:26,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come down to verse 15. 310 00:26:27,340 --> 00:26:34,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. 311 00:26:34,780 --> 00:26:39,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Him you shall hear according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb. 312 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:48,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die 313 00:26:50,060 --> 00:26:57,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the Lord said to me, What they have spoken is good, and I will raise up for them a prophet like you. 314 00:26:57,740 --> 00:27:03,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: from among their brethren, and will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. 315 00:27:03,820 --> 00:27:11,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it shall be that whoever will not hear my words, which he speaks in my name, I will require it of him. 316 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:24,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think this is one of the Bible texts that Jesus shared with the disciples at this time about the prophet that was supposed to come, similar to the prophet Moses. 317 00:27:24,220 --> 00:27:29,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is one of those prophecies that was talking about Jesus coming as a prophet. 318 00:27:29,100 --> 00:27:31,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We talked about him coming as a prophet last week. 319 00:27:31,340 --> 00:27:32,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You remember that? 320 00:27:32,540 --> 00:27:36,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't emphasize that part too much about Jesus. 321 00:27:36,260 --> 00:27:44,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus was a prophet. 322 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Psalm 2, verses 1, 2, and 7. 323 00:27:50,039 --> 00:27:51,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can read that there. 324 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Write it down. 325 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:56,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Lord declared, Today you are my son. 326 00:27:57,340 --> 00:28:10,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Talking about the Messiah was going to come, and the Lord God was going to declare him, give him the title, You Are My Son. 327 00:28:10,660 --> 00:28:13,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The sonship of God. 328 00:28:13,220 --> 00:28:16,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Psalm 16, verses 8 through 11. 329 00:28:16,179 --> 00:28:21,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We read that last week where it talked about, my soul shall not see corruption. 330 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:30,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: talking about he was going to be laid in the tomb, but his body was not going to decay. 331 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:36,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A reference to the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus. 332 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:43,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Psalm 110, verse 1, which is quoted in the New Testament, when the Lord said to my Lord, 333 00:28:44,060 --> 00:28:45,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, one that we have to read though. 334 00:28:46,060 --> 00:28:49,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know we read it last week, but I have to to have you see the words today. 335 00:28:49,660 --> 00:28:52,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isaiah 53. 336 00:28:54,420 --> 00:28:59,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I know this is one that we turn to often, but it's powerful. 337 00:28:59,620 --> 00:29:00,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's powerful. 338 00:29:00,820 --> 00:29:05,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isaiah chapter 53, verses 7 and 8. 339 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:13,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. 340 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was led as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before his sheep 341 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Shears is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 342 00:29:20,559 --> 00:29:23,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was taken from prison from judgment. 343 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And who will declare his generation? 344 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For he was cut off from the land of the living. 345 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:32,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the transgression of my people he was stricken. 346 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come down to verse 12. 347 00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:40,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great. 348 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:53,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors 349 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:59,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Reminds us of the Messiah, how he was dying for him for us. 350 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was not dying for himself 351 00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:06,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I left out Daniel chapter 9. 352 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm sure that was part of what Jesus shared with the disciples that night. 353 00:30:12,980 --> 00:30:23,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Even as he was going through this Bible study with them, a second time for some of them that were sitting there, I hope they remembered everything that he said. 354 00:30:23,019 --> 00:30:25,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because those things are important. 355 00:30:25,419 --> 00:30:27,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It gives us a purpose. 356 00:30:27,019 --> 00:30:36,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A purpose, one of the purposes for us as a church, is to know the Word of God, to study the Word of God, to understand the Word of God. 357 00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:43,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, we used to be known as the people of the book. 358 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:49,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because it was quoted so often from our pulpits, because our membership knew the Bible. 359 00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:56,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But today, are we still people of the book? 360 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we understand God's word? 361 00:30:58,880 --> 00:30:59,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we reading it? 362 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we taking it into our heart? 363 00:31:01,919 --> 00:31:04,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we making it part of us? 364 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can we give a Bible study? 365 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In that text there in Luke chapter 24. 366 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can go back there. 367 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:25,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Second purpose was that he gave to them was to proclaim repentance and forgiveness. 368 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:31,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 47. 369 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:40,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 370 00:31:40,340 --> 00:31:45,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What is it they were supposed to be proclaiming? 371 00:31:45,380 --> 00:31:47,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Repentance. 372 00:31:47,780 --> 00:31:49,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Forgiveness. 373 00:31:49,860 --> 00:31:53,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were supposed to be be sharing this information. 374 00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:57,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This information, this this information about who God is. 375 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:10,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What God has done, that the Messiah came to this earth, that the Messiah has died, that the Messiah is resurrected from the dead, this should cause repentance. 376 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This information is not just supposed to be knowledge that we have. 377 00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:18,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is supposed to be transformational for us. 378 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're supposed to be like the people there in Acts 2. 379 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What should we do? 380 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Peter cries out and says, repent. 381 00:32:29,059 --> 00:32:32,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And be baptized. 382 00:32:32,340 --> 00:32:35,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Repent and have a confession. 383 00:32:35,220 --> 00:32:37,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ask for forgiveness. 384 00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:42,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's not just information, it's transformational. 385 00:32:42,860 --> 00:32:46,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus wanted the disciples to understand that. 386 00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:47,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, another purpose. 387 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:48,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He told them there. 388 00:32:48,780 --> 00:32:52,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, and you will be my witnesses. 389 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Of these things. 390 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He told them, you have have seen it 391 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John writes about it in John 1. 392 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:08,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory. 393 00:33:08,919 --> 00:33:12,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was proclaiming what he had seen. 394 00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was proclaiming what he had experienced. 395 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have a testimony to share? 396 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What did God do for you in the last week? 397 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have something that you can share with your friend? 398 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:38,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Something you can share with your coworkers, something you can share with your family so they understand that this Jesus that you believe in has transformed your life? 399 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Has made a difference in your life? 400 00:33:43,980 --> 00:33:48,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're supposed to be his witnesses. 401 00:33:48,220 --> 00:33:54,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is expecting us to share what we have seen, what we have heard, what we have experienced. 402 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:04,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, for us as Seventh-day Adventists, this is this is what do I say? 403 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:05,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Important. 404 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:12,879 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to have a good understanding of this. 405 00:34:12,879 --> 00:34:14,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have a we have a message to 406 00:34:14,859 --> 00:34:15,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To proclaim. 407 00:34:15,740 --> 00:34:25,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our message is founded on scripture, and we are supposed to declare it to every nation, kindred, tribe, and people. 408 00:34:25,419 --> 00:34:27,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fear God and give Him glory. 409 00:34:30,100 --> 00:34:35,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Worship him who made the sea and the fountains of water. 410 00:34:35,620 --> 00:34:38,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we have a good understanding of this? 411 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we have a good understanding of who is supposed to hear this? 412 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or are we just satisfied I heard it? 413 00:34:45,919 --> 00:34:48,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's good enough for me. 414 00:34:49,399 --> 00:34:51,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm saved. 415 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:55,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I got a seat in church. 416 00:34:55,720 --> 00:35:02,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or are we truly his witnesses to go to every nation, kindred, tongue? 417 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:03,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: people. 418 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:07,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 49 there in Luke 24. 419 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:12,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 49 it says, Behold, I send the promise my Father upon you. 420 00:35:12,099 --> 00:35:19,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with the power from on high. 421 00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:26,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus tells them they are to wait and the till they are clothed with the power of the Holy Ghost. 422 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Spirit. 423 00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:35,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, the mission that we have been given is impossible without the Holy Spirit. 424 00:35:36,599 --> 00:35:39,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Without the Holy Spirit, it could not be. 425 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:45,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The early church could not do it until the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost. 426 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The remnant church, God's church in the last days, cannot do it. 427 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:59,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We cannot finish the work that has been given to us to finish until his church has the power of the Holy Spirit 428 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:06,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our greatest need today is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 429 00:36:11,380 --> 00:36:14,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we praying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit? 430 00:36:15,140 --> 00:36:17,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we have an urgency? 431 00:36:18,180 --> 00:36:20,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the outpouring of the Holy Spirit? 432 00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:25,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we united in the mission and the purpose of what God has called us to? 433 00:36:26,339 --> 00:36:31,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Luke 24 here is not just a resurrection story. 434 00:36:33,780 --> 00:36:36,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know, that's what you thought it was. 435 00:36:36,580 --> 00:36:42,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're singing resurrection songs at the beginning, we're singing resurrection songs at the conclusion. 436 00:36:42,580 --> 00:36:45,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you think it's just another resurrection story. 437 00:36:45,839 --> 00:36:50,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, it is more than a resurrection story. 438 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So much more than a resurrection story. 439 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus wants to meet our fears today 440 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:03,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to say to us today, peace be unto you. 441 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't worry about the financial market. 442 00:37:10,359 --> 00:37:15,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't worry about the national na natural disasters that are taking place. 443 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't worry about the economy. 444 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't worry about the wars and rumors of war. 445 00:37:21,060 --> 00:37:27,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Peace be unto you. 446 00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:29,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we listening? 447 00:37:31,660 --> 00:37:33,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus then offers us proof. 448 00:37:33,980 --> 00:37:36,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He gives us evidence for our faith. 449 00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:38,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He gives us a reason to believe. 450 00:37:38,940 --> 00:37:42,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He told us that the scriptures are true. 451 00:37:43,339 --> 00:37:48,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The prophecies that we read in the scripture, they are true. 452 00:37:48,619 --> 00:37:52,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can believe them with your whole heart. 453 00:37:52,460 --> 00:37:54,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You don't have to have the doubts 454 00:37:54,820 --> 00:37:59,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He has given you enough evidence to believe. 455 00:37:59,220 --> 00:38:04,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we willing to base our life on that evidence? 456 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:12,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That includes, friends, Jesus is alive. 457 00:38:12,780 --> 00:38:15,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus is alive. 458 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:26,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He then gives us a purpose. 459 00:38:26,339 --> 00:38:28,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are my church. 460 00:38:28,180 --> 00:38:29,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are my 461 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Witnesses. 462 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:40,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we willing to take that to the world? 463 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know. 464 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:51,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't talk about politics and we don't talk about religion where I live 465 00:38:52,859 --> 00:38:57,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: With my family, when we get together, we don't talk about politics. 466 00:38:57,099 --> 00:38:59,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't talk about religion. 467 00:38:59,339 --> 00:39:01,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Gets you in trouble every time. 468 00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:06,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: On my sports team, you want me to talk about religion there? 469 00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:09,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I that wouldn't be wise. 470 00:39:09,620 --> 00:39:12,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We just play the game. 471 00:39:12,260 --> 00:39:14,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what we're focused on 472 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you hear what we're saying? 473 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:25,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean it's almost as if oh, how do I say this nicely? 474 00:39:26,980 --> 00:39:33,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's almost as if we have fear in our life that something terrible is 475 00:39:34,140 --> 00:39:45,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is going to happen if we remind the people around us that Jesus is alive and that he wants to make a difference in our lives. 476 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:53,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's almost as if we're living in the shadow of the cross 477 00:39:56,420 --> 00:40:03,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's almost as if we're hiding behind the locked doors because we have fear. 478 00:40:03,619 --> 00:40:06,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, the disciples had fear of the Jews. 479 00:40:06,020 --> 00:40:07,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have fear of 480 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:13,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A different kind. 481 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:20,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus has given us a purpose as his followers 482 00:40:21,580 --> 00:40:29,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you will receive power, and you will be my witnesses. 483 00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:29,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh. 484 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: friends, we need to be praying for that power. 485 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:36,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to be praying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 486 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to be praying for holy boldness. 487 00:40:40,940 --> 00:40:48,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that we have the power that we need to share the good news of a resurrected Jesus Christ. 488 00:40:54,400 --> 00:41:02,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today, do you want to receive the peace from Jesus as he says to you, Shalom? 489 00:41:03,619 --> 00:41:09,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today, will you stand on the proof of God's Word 490 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:21,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And believe what it says regarding the the prophecies, believe what it says about the Messiah, believe what it says about the the resurrected Lord, believe what it says about the the 491 00:41:22,420 --> 00:41:30,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus coming again, believe about what it says about, oh dare I say it, United States in Bible prophecy? 492 00:41:30,340 --> 00:41:33,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we stand on what God's Word says? 493 00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:41,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we willing to embrace our purpose as a church? 494 00:41:41,460 --> 00:41:43,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To be a spirit-filled witness 495 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for Jesus Christ. 496 00:41:45,799 --> 00:41:49,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's given us a purpose. 497 00:41:49,799 --> 00:41:52,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are his witnesses 498 00:41:53,559 --> 00:41:55,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let us pray. 499 00:41:55,480 --> 00:42:02,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our gracious Heavenly Father. 500 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Thank you for this story here. 501 00:42:05,859 --> 00:42:09,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is recorded in Luke chapter 24. 502 00:42:09,380 --> 00:42:19,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Thank you to for reminding us that the disciples were afraid, even though they knew you intimately, even though they had lived with you. 503 00:42:19,839 --> 00:42:22,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Thank you for reminding us what they were like, Lord. 504 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:28,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It gives us hope because you want continue to want to use them. 505 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:32,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we know that if you can use them, Lord, there's hope for us. 506 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's a possibility that you 507 00:42:33,580 --> 00:42:48,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You can use us even when we are afraid, even when we have doubts, even when we don't feel the your peace in our life, even though we don't feel like we have the Holy Spirit. 508 00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:52,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Spirit, as we ought. 509 00:42:52,020 --> 00:42:55,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Lord, I pray that you would forgive us for our doubts. 510 00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:57,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Forgive us for our fears 511 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:09,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Lord, I pray that you would give us evidence that you are real, that you are abiding in our heart. 512 00:43:10,420 --> 00:43:19,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As we trust you, as we believe in you, and as we walk with you, I ask, Lord, that you would fill us with the Holy Spirit 513 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:29,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That we might be able to be your witnesses now and throughout eternity. 514 00:43:29,599 --> 00:43:32,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I pray this in the name of Jesus. 515 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Amen.