1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes, thank you very much. 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did an excellent job there. 3 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:14,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Should I try again? 4 00:00:14,260 --> 00:00:16,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, we'll try again. 5 00:00:20,780 --> 00:00:24,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I'm wondering because when I practiced on uh Thursday 6 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:25,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: it was so loud 7 00:00:25,340 --> 00:00:27,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was kinda worried it'd be too loud. 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:31,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, they're saying 9 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:33,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: turn me up. 10 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:39,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, I don't know. 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're supposed to turn that on. 12 00:00:43,260 --> 00:00:46,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I come up here with it on and you control everything back there. 13 00:00:49,340 --> 00:00:50,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, it's on. 14 00:00:50,940 --> 00:00:52,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you got batteries. 15 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:53,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's on. 16 00:00:58,140 --> 00:01:00,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'll tell you, the devil's working hard, isn't he? 17 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, can I hear me here? 18 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:09,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Testing? 19 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:09,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah? 20 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:11,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I hear something here. 21 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But you guys don't hear me out there, huh? 22 00:01:15,159 --> 00:01:16,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, that's all right. 23 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:18,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They'll figure it out. 24 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:20,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 25 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:22,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'll turn these things around 26 00:01:22,759 --> 00:01:24,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: so then you can hear those. 27 00:01:24,039 --> 00:01:24,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 28 00:01:31,860 --> 00:01:33,219 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Keep working at it? 29 00:01:34,340 --> 00:01:35,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay. 30 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:39,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, is this one on? 31 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn them both on so that we can uh get some squealing going on. 32 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:52,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 33 00:01:58,560 --> 00:01:58,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Testing 34 00:01:59,119 --> 00:02:00,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: testing? 35 00:02:00,479 --> 00:02:01,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Testing, testing? 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Something's working there. 37 00:02:07,740 --> 00:02:09,979 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Although I'd hate holding this thing. 38 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:18,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is it working yet? 39 00:02:20,620 --> 00:02:22,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Still not working there, huh? 40 00:02:23,660 --> 00:02:25,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay. 41 00:02:25,420 --> 00:02:28,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wow, this'll be an extra challenge today. 42 00:02:28,540 --> 00:02:29,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my remote control 43 00:02:30,060 --> 00:02:31,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: ran away. 44 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:35,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I would 45 00:02:35,879 --> 00:02:36,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: tell you 46 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:37,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: actually 47 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:37,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: again 48 00:02:37,799 --> 00:02:38,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: like 49 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, I'd rather use this. 50 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:50,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can I use the pulpit 51 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:51,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: mic? 52 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:53,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'll make myself stand still. 53 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:54,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'd rather do that than 54 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:56,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: yeah, there we go. 55 00:03:00,920 --> 00:03:02,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Every day 56 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:04,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of the week 57 00:03:04,820 --> 00:03:08,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Monday through Friday, I receive an email 58 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:12,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: entitled Mikey's Funnies. 59 00:03:12,420 --> 00:03:14,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I signed up for Mikey's Funnies 60 00:03:15,060 --> 00:03:15,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: over 61 00:03:15,540 --> 00:03:17,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 30 years ago 62 00:03:17,620 --> 00:03:18,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know how many funnies 63 00:03:18,980 --> 00:03:19,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have in my email? 64 00:03:22,580 --> 00:03:25,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, this week on Friday he wrote this. 65 00:03:27,100 --> 00:03:27,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says 66 00:03:27,580 --> 00:03:28,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: this weekend 67 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:31,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will be off on Monday. 68 00:03:31,980 --> 00:03:36,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, I want to remind you, Armed Forces Day is for those who are still in uniform. 69 00:03:37,580 --> 00:03:39,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Veterans Day is for those who 70 00:03:40,140 --> 00:03:41,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: hung up 71 00:03:41,740 --> 00:03:42,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: their 72 00:03:42,380 --> 00:03:43,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: uniform. 73 00:03:43,660 --> 00:03:49,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Memorial Day is for those who never got out of their uniform. 74 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to remember those 75 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:55,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: individuals 76 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: who have fought bravely for us. 77 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I will share with you the funny that he sent. 78 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:04,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And this 79 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:05,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: one 80 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:07,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is in quotation marks 81 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:09,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because it is not 82 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:10,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: funny. 83 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:16,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was raining cats and dogs, and I was late for my physical training. 84 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:21,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Traffic was backed up at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and was moving way too slowly. 85 00:04:21,340 --> 00:04:26,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was probably going to be late, and was growing more and more impatient. 86 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:31,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The pace slowed almost to a standstill as I passed Memorial Grove. 87 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:35,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The site built to honor the soldiers who died in the Gander 88 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:41,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: airplane crash, the worst redeployment accident in the history of the 101st Airborne Division. 89 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:49,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because it was close to Memorial Day, a small American flag had been placed on the ground next to each soldier's memorial plaque. 90 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My concern at the time, however, was getting 91 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:56,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 92 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Just wanted to make sure you were awake, so 93 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm still here, my headset. 94 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My concern. 95 00:05:12,919 --> 00:05:13,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 96 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, that's what it was like on Thursday. 97 00:05:18,460 --> 00:05:25,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My concern at the time, however, was getting past the bottleneck, getting out of the rain, and getting to my physical therapy on time. 98 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:26,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All of 99 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:33,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a sudden, infuriatingly, just as the traffic was getting started again, the car in front of me 100 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:34,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: stopped. 101 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:38,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A soldier, a private, of course, jumped out of the 102 00:05:38,580 --> 00:05:39,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: pouring rain 103 00:05:39,460 --> 00:05:41,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and ran over toward one of the grove 104 00:05:41,780 --> 00:05:43,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean toward the grove. 105 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:44,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I couldn't believe it. 106 00:05:44,580 --> 00:05:49,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This knucklehead was holding up every one, for who knows what kind of prank. 107 00:05:49,420 --> 00:05:51,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Horns were honking. 108 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:53,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I waited to see the chewing 109 00:05:53,420 --> 00:05:53,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: out 110 00:05:53,740 --> 00:05:55,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that I wanted to give him 111 00:05:55,740 --> 00:05:57,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for making me late. 112 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was getting soaked to the skin. 113 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: His BDUs were plastered to his frame. 114 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I watched as he ran up to one of the memorial plaques, 115 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: picked up the small American flag that had fallen to the ground in the wind 116 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and the rain, and set it upright. 117 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:21,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then slowly he came to attention, saluted, ran back to his car, and drove off. 118 00:06:22,900 --> 00:06:25,699 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will never forget that incident. 119 00:06:25,699 --> 00:06:28,979 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That soldier, whose name I will never know 120 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:29,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: , 121 00:06:29,860 --> 00:06:34,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: taught me more about duty, honor, and respect 122 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Than a hundred books or a thousand lectures. 123 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That simple salute, that single act of honoring the fallen brother 124 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and his flag, encouraged me 125 00:06:49,220 --> 00:06:52,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For my mission. 126 00:06:52,180 --> 00:06:55,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It said, I will never forget. 127 00:06:55,060 --> 00:06:57,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will keep the faith. 128 00:06:57,660 --> 00:06:58,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will finish 129 00:06:59,180 --> 00:07:00,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the mission. 130 00:07:00,940 --> 00:07:01,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I 131 00:07:01,580 --> 00:07:05,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: am an American soldier. 132 00:07:05,260 --> 00:07:08,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We thank God for examples like that. 133 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:09,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: On this 134 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:11,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Memorial Day. 135 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Examples like that 136 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:14,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: can 137 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encourage us. 138 00:07:16,740 --> 00:07:20,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As has already been mentioned today, we are talking about encouragement 139 00:07:21,140 --> 00:07:23,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in our one-another series. 140 00:07:23,620 --> 00:07:29,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have been talking about one-anothering, the Bible texts in the New Testament that talk about 141 00:07:30,220 --> 00:07:30,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: how 142 00:07:30,780 --> 00:07:34,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we are supposed to relate to one another. 143 00:07:35,419 --> 00:07:36,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's it's very good 144 00:07:36,940 --> 00:07:41,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and it's it's excellent for us to say we need to accomplish the mission. 145 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:44,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That there's a world out there that needs to hear it. 146 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:51,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But friends, if we bring the world out here, out there, in here, and we don't know how to relate to one another 147 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're in a bad way. 148 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Statistically speaking, they tell us 149 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:02,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That 150 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:02,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: it 151 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: between forty 152 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:09,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and fifty percent of our church is exiting the back door. 153 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the number one reason is not theology. 154 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:19,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The number one reason is not because they've lost their faith in God. 155 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:21,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The number one reason is because 156 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of the way we treat one another. 157 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:27,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This 158 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:27,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: one 159 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: anothering, how 160 00:08:30,599 --> 00:08:34,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we relate to each other, is 161 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:35,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: important 162 00:08:36,620 --> 00:08:38,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I know what some of us say. 163 00:08:38,940 --> 00:08:43,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We say, oh, their skin is too thin. 164 00:08:43,180 --> 00:08:44,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can't they take it? 165 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:47,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The reality is 166 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: they probably have been taking it for quite some time. 167 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And sometimes after you take it for quite some time, it's 168 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:58,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Would sure be if you had some 169 00:08:58,399 --> 00:09:03,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: good, if you had some words of encouragement. 170 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:04,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I feel sorry 171 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:05,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for there are 172 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: sound booth individuals. 173 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm picking on them today, okay? 174 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:13,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I feel sorry for them 175 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because the only words they tend to hear from us 176 00:09:20,140 --> 00:09:25,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is when things go wrong. 177 00:09:25,260 --> 00:09:27,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I know some of us we 178 00:09:27,180 --> 00:09:29,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we may say a few words of encouragement 179 00:09:30,380 --> 00:09:31,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: once in a while. 180 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:33,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But the reality is 181 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:36,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the words they hear, the words they remember 182 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:36,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 183 00:09:37,519 --> 00:09:37,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My 184 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: battery pack's not working. 185 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:49,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The words they tend to hear is, why was there ringing in my ears all during the service? 186 00:09:51,340 --> 00:09:53,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The words they tend to hear 187 00:09:55,420 --> 00:09:58,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: are the negative things that we tend 188 00:09:58,460 --> 00:09:59,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to say. 189 00:10:01,220 --> 00:10:02,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I remember my dad 190 00:10:02,579 --> 00:10:04,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: my dad loved to sing. 191 00:10:04,019 --> 00:10:04,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, his 192 00:10:04,980 --> 00:10:09,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when he would talk on the CB, his handle on the C B was Singing Cowboy. 193 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so I grew up with him singing all the time. 194 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there was a a song I I 195 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:16,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: did I write it down 196 00:10:17,980 --> 00:10:20,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, a Dean Martin song. 197 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:25,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But the phrase that I remember him singing, I I think the song is 198 00:10:25,340 --> 00:10:27,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Lay Some Happiness on Me. 199 00:10:27,420 --> 00:10:37,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But the phrase I remember him singing, and he would sing it often, was, Tell me I'm great, and I'll be greater. 200 00:10:38,060 --> 00:10:40,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fill me up, and I'll fly. 201 00:10:42,020 --> 00:10:45,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I remember my dad singing this, and as I got to 202 00:10:45,460 --> 00:10:47,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, as a kid, you just kind of hear these songs. 203 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:48,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, he 204 00:10:48,180 --> 00:10:49,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: sang all kinds of songs. 205 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:55,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But as I grew up, I realized the kind of person that my dad is. 206 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:57,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: His love language is 207 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:01,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: words of affirmation. 208 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:02,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so 209 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:03,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he was 210 00:11:03,839 --> 00:11:05,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: singing this song 211 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:06,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to 212 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: his family, his wife 213 00:11:07,839 --> 00:11:09,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and children. 214 00:11:09,899 --> 00:11:12,699 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Trying to give us a message of 215 00:11:14,940 --> 00:11:16,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encouragement 216 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:26,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you give me encouragement, I can do even better. 217 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Thessalonians 218 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:32,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: five, verse eleven. 219 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says, Therefore, encourage one another 220 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and build each other up, just as 221 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:39,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in fact you 222 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:41,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: are doing. 223 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:44,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Encourage each other 224 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:46,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and build each other up. 225 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you I know uh have been into sports. 226 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:50,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you are are runners. 227 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I told you before that I have runs 228 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:54,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh 229 00:11:54,260 --> 00:11:56,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: there was a period of time when I was a runner. 230 00:11:56,660 --> 00:11:58,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know if I should say it that way. 231 00:11:58,820 --> 00:12:02,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I still do some running, but I have not entered any uh 232 00:12:03,279 --> 00:12:03,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: long 233 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:08,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: distance runs lately, but I I like the part about running when it comes time to run 234 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:10,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because there are lots of s 235 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:11,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: often 236 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: spectators along the way. 237 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the spectators are out there clapping and cheering 238 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and and saying, You 239 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:19,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: got this, you can do it. 240 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:20,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Keep going. 241 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You've made it this far, you'll hit the finish line. 242 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Keep moving. 243 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they are speaking. 244 00:12:28,460 --> 00:12:31,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Words of encouragement. 245 00:12:31,420 --> 00:12:32,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Words of hope. 246 00:12:32,540 --> 00:12:32,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I 247 00:12:32,780 --> 00:12:32,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I 248 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:36,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when you go to a uh a sports event, when you go to one of their arenas. 249 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:36,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You 250 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:38,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you the the team that you are cheering 251 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:39,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for, you 252 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:40,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you say those words. 253 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you go to the baseball game, they they play the organ 254 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: there and they try and get you excited. 255 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:46,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 256 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that you sing for your for your home team. 257 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You you cry out to the batter that's up there. 258 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:52,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You say their name. 259 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those are are words of encouragement. 260 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I remember the first time my dad was invited to 261 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to preach. 262 00:13:02,019 --> 00:13:06,259 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At a predominantly black church. 263 00:13:06,259 --> 00:13:12,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was a kid in in Oklahoma and my dad, I mean, to me, he was the greatest preacher in the world. 264 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:13,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and he he told 265 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:15,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: excellent stories and I I love 266 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to listen to him 267 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:17,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and 268 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: but the one thing that I really liked about my father 269 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is that when it came twelve o'clock he'd stop. 270 00:13:27,980 --> 00:13:30,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know how he did it. 271 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:30,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean 272 00:13:30,860 --> 00:13:32,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: sometimes he would only have ten 273 00:13:32,860 --> 00:13:33,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: or fifteen 274 00:13:33,420 --> 00:13:35,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: minutes to talk, but when he came 275 00:13:35,180 --> 00:13:36,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: twelve o'clock 276 00:13:36,980 --> 00:13:39,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He'd try and find a way to wind it down. 277 00:13:39,220 --> 00:13:51,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now he may go a little bit over, but I remember going to that that predominantly black church with him, and when he stood up to preach, it was five minutes to twelve. 278 00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:51,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 279 00:13:52,140 --> 00:13:57,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: my brother and I were like, what's dad gonna do now? 280 00:13:57,580 --> 00:13:57,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We 281 00:13:58,220 --> 00:13:58,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: know 282 00:13:58,860 --> 00:14:01,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: our father, and we know that he 283 00:14:02,060 --> 00:14:04,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: cannot only preach a five-minute sermon. 284 00:14:04,620 --> 00:14:04,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That 285 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:08,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: just wasn't in him. 286 00:14:08,060 --> 00:14:10,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so it got to 12 o'clock and our 287 00:14:10,620 --> 00:14:10,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: our 288 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:13,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we were listening, we were watching. 289 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's dad gonna do? 290 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He kept going with his sermon. 291 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He got to five after 12, and all of a sudden 292 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: somebody shouted out, Amen! 293 00:14:25,020 --> 00:14:26,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And as soon as somebody said 294 00:14:26,620 --> 00:14:31,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: amen, another person said, preach it to us. 295 00:14:31,260 --> 00:14:35,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And as soon as they said those things, my dad had a little bit more energy 296 00:14:35,260 --> 00:14:36,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and he started 297 00:14:36,420 --> 00:14:39,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Going a little longer and after another couple of minutes 298 00:14:39,779 --> 00:14:42,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: people were crying out, tell us what you mean 299 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:50,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And boy, he got to go in there and they got to talking to him, and that conversation went back and forth and back and forth. 300 00:14:50,020 --> 00:14:55,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my dad managed to make it all the way to past 1230. 301 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:03,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He gave them the full message that he had prepared. 302 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because they were encouraging him. 303 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:13,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was the words of encouragement that got him, in his words, motivated 304 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:14,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to 305 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:15,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: share 306 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the gospel that he had planned on that day 307 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why don't we usually do this? 308 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why don't we often share? 309 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wrote down a couple of reasons we don't usually share. 310 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's number one. 311 00:15:31,220 --> 00:15:33,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't want to give people pride. 312 00:15:33,780 --> 00:15:38,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't want to give them any reason to be proud. 313 00:15:38,340 --> 00:15:38,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so 314 00:15:39,220 --> 00:15:42,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we don't speak those words of encouragement. 315 00:15:43,420 --> 00:15:47,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't say those words of of hope, those words to 316 00:15:47,180 --> 00:15:47,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to 317 00:15:47,580 --> 00:15:49,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to motivate them, because 318 00:15:49,820 --> 00:15:53,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we know what happens when a person gets proud. 319 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:55,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They 320 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: turn into a Lucifer 321 00:15:57,839 --> 00:15:59,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that becomes a Satan. 322 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:02,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we don't want to help people do that. 323 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:02,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so 324 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we are less likely to 325 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:06,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: speak 326 00:16:06,620 --> 00:16:08,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: those words of encouragement. 327 00:16:09,180 --> 00:16:09,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Second one is 328 00:16:10,060 --> 00:16:12,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: successful people get encouragement all the time. 329 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:16,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean the reason they are successful, the reason they've gotten to the place they are 330 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:17,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is because 331 00:16:17,980 --> 00:16:18,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: somebody is 332 00:16:18,940 --> 00:16:21,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is telling them successful things. 333 00:16:20,959 --> 00:16:22,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Telling them encouraging things. 334 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:22,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so 335 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: if I add on to that, then they 336 00:16:25,519 --> 00:16:27,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: they will get proud 337 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:28,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because 338 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: they are receiving that. 339 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to tell you something. 340 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:36,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Most people 341 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:41,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: do not hear encouraging words 342 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're cashier at Walmart. 343 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh yeah, you do that yourself. 344 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:49,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 345 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:52,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You get what I'm saying. 346 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:53,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're cashier at the at this 347 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:55,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: grocery store. 348 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:56,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not you. 349 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:00,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They don't hear the encouraging words. 350 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They hear when they do it wrong. 351 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:09,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But they don't often hear the encouraging words. 352 00:17:09,559 --> 00:17:18,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, I have gotten to the place where, you know, if I'm going to a a restaurant or if I'm going to a hotel, I don't read the reviews. 353 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:19,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now 354 00:17:19,959 --> 00:17:20,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cheryl says 355 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I should read the reviews. 356 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,959 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She says, oh, this one says, you know, and she'll read the reviews and she'll say, oh, we don't want to go there. 357 00:17:27,959 --> 00:17:28,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't want to go there. 358 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:29,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I and and 359 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My philosophy is 360 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:38,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the people that write reviews, why would a person write a positive review? 361 00:17:40,580 --> 00:17:47,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if you're going to write a positive review, they have to have gone above and beyond my expectations 362 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:56,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, if a person goes above and beyond my expectations, I might write them a positive review. 363 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:58,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But let me tell you, they slip up. 364 00:17:59,440 --> 00:17:59,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 365 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm deducting a star. 366 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they slip up twice, you 367 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you get my what I'm saying here? 368 00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:09,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we begin to deduct the stars. 369 00:18:09,460 --> 00:18:11,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's really easy to get stars deducted. 370 00:18:11,780 --> 00:18:14,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's really hard to get stars added. 371 00:18:19,860 --> 00:18:22,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those words of encouragement 372 00:18:23,220 --> 00:18:23,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: are 373 00:18:23,860 --> 00:18:25,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: important. 374 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:26,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Going back here, 1 375 00:18:26,580 --> 00:18:32,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Thessalonians 5, God tells us, therefore, encourage one another. 376 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What are we supposed to do? 377 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:34,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Encourage one another. 378 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:36,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Encourage one another. 379 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who needs encouragement the most? 380 00:18:42,139 --> 00:18:43,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah, I like that answer. 381 00:18:43,980 --> 00:18:45,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Good answer. 382 00:18:45,019 --> 00:18:46,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Everybody. 383 00:18:46,460 --> 00:18:48,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look at the person on your right 384 00:18:48,940 --> 00:18:51,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look at the person on your left. 385 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:52,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those people need encouragement. 386 00:18:52,700 --> 00:18:54,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look at the person behind you. 387 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:57,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those people need encouragement. 388 00:18:57,740 --> 00:19:00,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to be encouraging one another. 389 00:19:00,860 --> 00:19:01,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is a 390 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:08,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do I say a command from God? 391 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That we are to be encouraging. 392 00:19:12,540 --> 00:19:13,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to each other. 393 00:19:13,660 --> 00:19:14,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why? 394 00:19:14,540 --> 00:19:15,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because 395 00:19:15,340 --> 00:19:15,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 396 00:19:15,980 --> 00:19:16,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 397 00:19:16,860 --> 00:19:20,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: an encourager. 398 00:19:20,060 --> 00:19:20,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 399 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:20,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 400 00:19:21,260 --> 00:19:22,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: an encourager. 401 00:19:22,940 --> 00:19:23,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why don't you 402 00:19:23,580 --> 00:19:24,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: open your Bible there? 403 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:35,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 404 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:36,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter 14. 405 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:37,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 406 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: here. 407 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is the part where Jesus is with his 408 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: disciples after the footwashing. 409 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:54,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Starts off with 410 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:55,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: let 411 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: not your heart be troubled 412 00:19:58,820 --> 00:20:00,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We often remember that one. 413 00:20:00,740 --> 00:20:03,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let not your heart be troubled. 414 00:20:03,940 --> 00:20:05,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I want you to remember 415 00:20:05,620 --> 00:20:06,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in that context of 416 00:20:06,899 --> 00:20:06,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: let 417 00:20:07,139 --> 00:20:08,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: not your heart be troubled. 418 00:20:08,340 --> 00:20:11,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going away to prepare a place for you. 419 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:12,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 420 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says this, verse 16. 421 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:21,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another. 422 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:21,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's 423 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:22,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: your version say? 424 00:20:23,679 --> 00:20:25,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you have the the New 425 00:20:25,279 --> 00:20:27,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: King James, he says helper. 426 00:20:27,039 --> 00:20:31,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you have the King James, it says Comforter. 427 00:20:31,279 --> 00:20:33,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you have the NIV, it says 428 00:20:34,580 --> 00:20:37,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All of a sudden I can't remember what the NIV says. 429 00:20:37,539 --> 00:20:39,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Counselor. 430 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:40,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 431 00:20:43,540 --> 00:20:45,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna go back here. 432 00:20:45,460 --> 00:20:48,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look at verse 26. 433 00:20:48,580 --> 00:20:49,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 26 434 00:20:49,620 --> 00:20:50,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says, But the helper 435 00:20:51,519 --> 00:21:00,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that He said to you. 436 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn the page, chapter 15. 437 00:21:03,780 --> 00:21:04,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 438 00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:07,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 26. 439 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:07,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But 440 00:21:08,020 --> 00:21:09,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when the helper 441 00:21:09,220 --> 00:21:15,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, 442 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He will testify of me, and you will also bear witness, because you have been with 443 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:20,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: me 444 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: from the beginning. 445 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn the page again, chapter 16, verse 7. 446 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:32,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says, nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away. 447 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you. 448 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But if I depart 449 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:38,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: , 450 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:40,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will send him 451 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:45,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to you, and he will come and convict the world of sin and of righteousness 452 00:21:46,039 --> 00:21:47,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and of judgment. 453 00:21:48,860 --> 00:21:51,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus here promises in these verses 454 00:21:52,780 --> 00:21:55,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that the Holy Spirit is going to come 455 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When Jesus goes away. 456 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now he's trying to give them words of hope. 457 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's trying to give them words of affirmation 458 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that the helper, the comforter, is going 459 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:08,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to come. 460 00:22:08,820 --> 00:22:10,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I'm going to tell you a little bit of Greek. 461 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:11,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Perikletos 462 00:22:11,940 --> 00:22:13,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is the word for 463 00:22:13,460 --> 00:22:17,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: counselor, or is the word for comforter, or is the word for helper 464 00:22:17,460 --> 00:22:20,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in each of these verses. 465 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:20,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now 466 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: they translate it different ways 467 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: with different versions. 468 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But as you look through Scripture. 469 00:22:29,159 --> 00:22:29,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The 470 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: verb form 471 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of that word, pericaleo 472 00:22:34,279 --> 00:22:34,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: , 473 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:35,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 474 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: mostly translated 475 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:37,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to 476 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:39,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encourage. 477 00:22:41,539 --> 00:22:41,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now 478 00:22:42,020 --> 00:22:44,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: think about that for just a moment. 479 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:53,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In other places in Scripture, when that verb form of that word comes along, it's used to encourage, to encourage, to encourage 480 00:22:53,260 --> 00:23:00,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So if you go back to those verses, you can read them, an encourager is going to come. 481 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:05,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's exactly the role of the Holy Spirit. 482 00:23:05,420 --> 00:23:10,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That encourager, synonym, comforter, synonym, helper. 483 00:23:11,740 --> 00:23:13,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is coming. 484 00:23:13,020 --> 00:23:14,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what it's talking about. 485 00:23:14,460 --> 00:23:16,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what I mean when I say 486 00:23:16,380 --> 00:23:16,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 487 00:23:17,020 --> 00:23:18,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is an encourager. 488 00:23:18,860 --> 00:23:20,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus at this time 489 00:23:20,220 --> 00:23:23,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was trying to encourage the disciples 490 00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:24,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were afraid. 491 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:25,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were fearful. 492 00:23:25,660 --> 00:23:28,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, they were so afraid there in John, few verses, 493 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:31,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: few chapters previously, Jesus wouldn't go 494 00:23:31,660 --> 00:23:32,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: certain places. 495 00:23:32,299 --> 00:23:35,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was leaving the area of Judah and going to Galilee. 496 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because he was afraid, they 497 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: were afraid of what was happening there in Judah. 498 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:41,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he was 499 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:42,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he was leaving that 500 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because people were trying to to kill him 501 00:23:45,820 --> 00:23:53,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus here is trying to comfort the disciples and say that when he is going away, someone is going to come. 502 00:23:53,180 --> 00:23:55,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Holy Spirit is going to come. 503 00:23:55,100 --> 00:24:00,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that Holy Spirit is going to be an encourager in their life. 504 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:04,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you need encouragement in your life? 505 00:24:05,460 --> 00:24:10,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah, then you and I should be praying for the Holy Spirit in our life. 506 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:14,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We 507 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: should be pleading with God to give us the Holy Spirit 508 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:19,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: if we need 509 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encouragement, if we need 510 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: synonym, comforter 511 00:24:24,620 --> 00:24:25,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we need 512 00:24:25,740 --> 00:24:26,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: synonym 513 00:24:26,540 --> 00:24:27,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: helper 514 00:24:27,580 --> 00:24:32,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in our life, we should be asking for 515 00:24:33,100 --> 00:24:35,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Holy Spirit. 516 00:24:38,740 --> 00:24:39,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Second 517 00:24:39,380 --> 00:24:39,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Peter 518 00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:45,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter one, verse twenty-one. 519 00:24:45,060 --> 00:24:47,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: One of the ways that the Holy Spirit 520 00:24:48,340 --> 00:24:49,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encourages 521 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:51,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Second 522 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:51,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Peter 523 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:52,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter 524 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:52,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: one 525 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:55,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: verse 526 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:55,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: twenty-one 527 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:04,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says, For prophecy never came from the will of men, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 528 00:25:05,140 --> 00:25:05,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or 529 00:25:05,460 --> 00:25:06,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as a new international 530 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:11,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: version says, holy men of God spoke as they were carried along 531 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:14,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: by the Holy Spirit. 532 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:18,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Holy men of God spoke as they were encouraged 533 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: by the Holy Spirit. 534 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:29,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's trying to tell us that prophecy, words from the Bible, were given to us as 535 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:30,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a means of 536 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:33,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encouragement. 537 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:40,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you want to be encouraged, if you are praying for the Holy Spirit 538 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:40,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and you are 539 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:44,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: want to be encouraged, read the Bible. 540 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:45,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 541 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:46,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 's word 542 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is supposed to bring us hope. 543 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's supposed to bring us encouragement. 544 00:25:53,679 --> 00:25:56,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Second Timothy chapter 3, verse 16 545 00:25:56,159 --> 00:26:04,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says, All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 546 00:26:04,639 --> 00:26:07,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How much is scripture is given by inspiration? 547 00:26:07,780 --> 00:26:10,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where does that inspiration come from? 548 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:11,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 549 00:26:12,020 --> 00:26:12,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the 550 00:26:12,580 --> 00:26:14,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Holy Spirit. 551 00:26:15,140 --> 00:26:18,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's one of the roles of the Holy Spirit. 552 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:18,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 553 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to carry men along so they can be inspired to write this 554 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: word. 555 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:25,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 556 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:31,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when I say this word, I should say specifically he's talking about there, this Old Testament part. 557 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because that's what it's referring to when 558 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:35,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul writes 559 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:36,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: there 560 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:36,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: all 561 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: scripture. 562 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That Old Testament part is given. 563 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:41,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or 564 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:43,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. 565 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We need to be reading God's word 566 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:47,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: if we need 567 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:53,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encouragement, because that's one of the ways the Holy Spirit encourages us. 568 00:26:56,039 --> 00:26:56,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now 569 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: if you're questioning that, turn your Bible to Titus 570 00:26:59,799 --> 00:27:00,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter 1 571 00:27:02,540 --> 00:27:04,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is where Paul is writing to Titus 572 00:27:04,780 --> 00:27:05,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when he tells 573 00:27:05,420 --> 00:27:05,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Titus 574 00:27:05,980 --> 00:27:10,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to go throughout the the province there and to ordain elders 575 00:27:10,620 --> 00:27:11,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: or ordain 576 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:12,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: pastors 577 00:27:12,220 --> 00:27:14,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the various areas there to 578 00:27:14,380 --> 00:27:16,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for church leadership 579 00:27:15,919 --> 00:27:18,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is what Paul tells Titus 580 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:19,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: about 581 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the pastor. 582 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said, he, that's talking about the pastor, the church elder, he must hold firmly to 583 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can 584 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encourage others by sound doctrine 585 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and refute those who oppose it. 586 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How's the leadership supposed to be using the word? 587 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:42,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As 588 00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:43,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encouragement 589 00:27:47,420 --> 00:27:51,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is supposed to encourage us. 590 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:53,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now lest you think that's a mistake 591 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Second Timothy chapter 592 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: four, where Paul is trying to encourage Timothy and hi 593 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:00,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: his role as a a 594 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a leader there in the church. 595 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:03,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, Preach 596 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:05,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the word. 597 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Be prepared in season and out of season. 598 00:28:07,639 --> 00:28:09,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Be prepared when? 599 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:11,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All the time 600 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to preach the word. 601 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Correct. 602 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:18,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Rebuke. 603 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And what's that next word? 604 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Encourage. 605 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:22,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Encourage. 606 00:28:23,899 --> 00:28:25,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what preaching is for. 607 00:28:25,980 --> 00:28:28,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To correct, rebuke, and encourage 608 00:28:28,299 --> 00:28:30,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: with great patience and careful 609 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:32,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: instruction. 610 00:28:32,940 --> 00:28:37,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Holy Spirit seeks to encourage us with these thoughts. 611 00:28:37,820 --> 00:28:40,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Holy Spirit tells Paul to write to 612 00:28:41,460 --> 00:28:42,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Timothy and to Titus 613 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:43,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and tells them the 614 00:28:44,180 --> 00:28:45,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: role of what God's word 615 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:48,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is supposed to be in the life of the church. 616 00:28:48,660 --> 00:28:51,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, in the place where Paul talks about this the most 617 00:28:53,460 --> 00:28:57,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's in the book of Hebrews, where he talks about encouragement. 618 00:28:57,380 --> 00:28:58,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hebrews chapter 10. 619 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:00,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He talks about encouragement here. 620 00:29:00,180 --> 00:29:01,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is where he 621 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:02,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you want to say 622 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:03,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: wax 623 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is eloquent on encouraging. 624 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hebrews chapter 10 625 00:29:12,940 --> 00:29:14,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 25 626 00:29:15,419 --> 00:29:17,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says, Let us not give up 627 00:29:17,660 --> 00:29:21,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing. 628 00:29:21,220 --> 00:29:21,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But 629 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:29,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the day approaching. 630 00:29:29,380 --> 00:29:31,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, when COVID 631 00:29:31,380 --> 00:29:32,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: came 632 00:29:32,580 --> 00:29:37,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I got a little bit worried when they told us we could not meet together as a church. 633 00:29:39,620 --> 00:29:44,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, my fear was, what are we going to do with this verse? 634 00:29:45,860 --> 00:29:55,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If the end of the world is coming, and the world is telling us, don't meet together, and this verse tells me, let us not give up meeting together. 635 00:29:59,419 --> 00:30:02,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who am I going to obey? 636 00:30:02,700 --> 00:30:03,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have to 637 00:30:03,419 --> 00:30:05,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we have to make a decision. 638 00:30:05,820 --> 00:30:10,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I'm going to tell you, that doesn't mean we have to make foolish decisions. 639 00:30:11,220 --> 00:30:12,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay? 640 00:30:12,660 --> 00:30:18,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That doesn't mean we have to come together in this building, in this church, in this place for a meeting together. 641 00:30:18,419 --> 00:30:24,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means we can be wise and we can meet together in other places, in other ways, in other forms. 642 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I'm going to tell you, this meeting together 643 00:30:28,679 --> 00:30:29,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 644 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: important. 645 00:30:31,399 --> 00:30:31,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All 646 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the more as you see the day approaching 647 00:30:35,740 --> 00:30:36,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul says 648 00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:39,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we are to meet together for what purpose? 649 00:30:41,419 --> 00:30:43,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Encourage one another 650 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I am so thankful that we have the the video cameras. 651 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm thankful that there are people that watch online 652 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:56,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and watching people preach and listening to sermons online, it can be a boost to your soul. 653 00:30:57,340 --> 00:31:00,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: During the week. 654 00:31:00,299 --> 00:31:03,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But there's just something about Sabbath. 655 00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:06,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, something special about 656 00:31:06,380 --> 00:31:07,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sabbath 657 00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:09,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean 658 00:31:09,220 --> 00:31:11,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: last year we we took our 659 00:31:11,539 --> 00:31:11,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: our ten 660 00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:13,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: year old grandson 661 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:14,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and we went to 662 00:31:16,340 --> 00:31:16,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: were 663 00:31:16,740 --> 00:31:18,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we in Spain on Sabbath? 664 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do you do on Sabbath 665 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in a foreign country? 666 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:29,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, according to grandma and grandpa, we go to church. 667 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We get to church there in Spain 668 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:32,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and 669 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's nobody that speaks English. 670 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or if they speak English, it's 671 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: fifteen, twenty 672 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: words of English. 673 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so we're sitting there, we listen to Sabbath 674 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: school, and boy, do you know what? 675 00:31:47,639 --> 00:31:56,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's this wonderful thing called Google Translate, and I just turned that on, and it gave us live translation as we were going along there. 676 00:31:57,140 --> 00:31:59,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'd never had that before. 677 00:31:59,540 --> 00:32:03,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'd been to lots of other churches and never used that. 678 00:32:03,220 --> 00:32:05,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wish I had. 679 00:32:05,620 --> 00:32:06,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Had had it. 680 00:32:08,180 --> 00:32:13,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I'm just going to say, even if I didn't have it, that was the place to be. 681 00:32:13,780 --> 00:32:15,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, there is encouragement 682 00:32:16,180 --> 00:32:17,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: getting together with the brothers 683 00:32:18,260 --> 00:32:19,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and sisters of the Seventh-day Adventist 684 00:32:19,940 --> 00:32:22,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Church, even if you don't understand anything. 685 00:32:24,179 --> 00:32:24,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's just 686 00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:30,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't know, just a blessing that you get. 687 00:32:30,620 --> 00:32:33,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Especially when you see them pull out their 688 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:33,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sabbath 689 00:32:34,139 --> 00:32:36,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: school study guide. 690 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:39,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you know, I know what they're studying. 691 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I wish I could speak their language. 692 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I would have a word or two to share. 693 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:47,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But 694 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you know that you're you're part of something bigger than 695 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:52,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: yourself. 696 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know that you're part of something bigger than your local church. 697 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know that you're part of something bigger than 698 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: America. 699 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:10,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There are other individuals that are out there that are worshiping on the seventh day, worshiping the God of heaven, the maker of heaven and earth. 700 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And your heart is just blessed by that. 701 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is encouraged. 702 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are strengthened by that. 703 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:22,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I encourage you if you go and visit other countries, even if you don't speak the language, 704 00:33:22,019 --> 00:33:23,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Go to church on Sabbath. 705 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:24,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We were in one country. 706 00:33:24,899 --> 00:33:26,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We showed up on Sabbath 707 00:33:26,659 --> 00:33:28,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and the people out, they could speak English. 708 00:33:28,820 --> 00:33:30,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the people asked us, what 709 00:33:30,740 --> 00:33:32,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: are you doing here? 710 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:39,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I say, we're on vacation in this lovely paradise that you have. 711 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What are you doing here today? 712 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:43,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, it's Sabbath. 713 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is church. 714 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's God's holy day. 715 00:33:48,220 --> 00:33:54,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When other individuals come, we hear about it after they have left the island. 716 00:33:54,620 --> 00:33:56,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What are you doing here? 717 00:33:58,020 --> 00:34:00,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm here to worship with. 718 00:34:00,260 --> 00:34:01,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, Cheryl 719 00:34:01,380 --> 00:34:01,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was 720 00:34:02,020 --> 00:34:02,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: so 721 00:34:02,580 --> 00:34:04,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: embarrassed. 722 00:34:04,260 --> 00:34:05,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They took me up 723 00:34:05,540 --> 00:34:05,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and they 724 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:07,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: got me on the platform 725 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:09,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was 726 00:34:09,240 --> 00:34:10,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: so blessed 727 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because sitting in the pews, the 728 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:12,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean 729 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: not pews, the the area was just packed 730 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and it was so hot. 731 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:17,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was stifling 732 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:18,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: hot. 733 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I got up there on the platform 734 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and they had a fan. 735 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:26,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there was no one 736 00:34:26,599 --> 00:34:27,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: pressing 737 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:29,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: on my side. 738 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I could feel the air go around me. 739 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And even though there was 740 00:34:34,940 --> 00:34:38,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody special preaching that day. 741 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:41,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, it was a blessing to be in church. 742 00:34:41,820 --> 00:34:46,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was a blessing to worship with other individuals. 743 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:48,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 744 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:54,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: has a special blessing for us if we will meet together. 745 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:54,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now 746 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:55,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: it doesn't have to happen in church. 747 00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:01,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to tell you, the day may come where it may be against the law to come to a church. 748 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:04,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Like during COVID time or something similar, worse 749 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:05,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: coming up, or 750 00:35:05,859 --> 00:35:07,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: who knows what. 751 00:35:07,460 --> 00:35:09,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Get together in your home. 752 00:35:09,420 --> 00:35:10,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Get together with 753 00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:16,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: other believers in places where you can share, where you can encourage, where you can uplift one another. 754 00:35:16,540 --> 00:35:18,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is what Paul says. 755 00:35:18,140 --> 00:35:21,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let us not give up meeting together. 756 00:35:21,660 --> 00:35:25,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you read the context there, if you have your Bible open, that's great. 757 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:26,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'll put it on the screen for you there. 758 00:35:26,940 --> 00:35:28,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 22. 759 00:35:28,060 --> 00:35:29,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let us draw near to God with the 760 00:35:30,059 --> 00:35:40,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sincere heart and with a full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 761 00:35:42,860 --> 00:35:44,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul is telling us we are to 762 00:35:44,860 --> 00:35:46,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: grow in faith. 763 00:35:46,380 --> 00:35:49,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Secondly, verse 23, it says 764 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:57,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who has promised is faithful. 765 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This meeting together is to remind us that we have a hope. 766 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we have a hope? 767 00:36:03,740 --> 00:36:04,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We do. 768 00:36:04,940 --> 00:36:08,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Keep going, and let us consider how we may what? 769 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:10,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Spur 770 00:36:10,860 --> 00:36:13,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: one another on towards love and good deeds. 771 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is to be an in 772 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know you don't think of it that way. 773 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You may have the mentality that I have. 774 00:36:20,599 --> 00:36:24,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When I think of spur, I think of these things I wear on my cowboy boots. 775 00:36:25,260 --> 00:36:25,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When I uh 776 00:36:26,060 --> 00:36:28,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you know, when you ride the the horses and things and the 777 00:36:28,780 --> 00:36:30,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: those those spurs 778 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:32,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: are you use on the horse to 779 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Encourage them. 780 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now we don't like that kind of encouragement, do we? 781 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But that's the terminology, that's the the word that 782 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that's used to 783 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encourage us. 784 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:46,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: toward 785 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: love and good deeds. 786 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:50,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's what we're supposed to do 787 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when we come together. 788 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We are to help each other 789 00:36:54,640 --> 00:37:00,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: grow in their faith, grow in their knowledge of who God is, grow in their their ability to trust God. 790 00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:07,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: grow in their hope of what God has for us, and grow in their ability to love and to perform good deeds. 791 00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:09,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's our purpose for coming together. 792 00:37:09,380 --> 00:37:10,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse twenty five 793 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:11,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says, let 794 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:13,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: us not give up meeting together 795 00:37:13,380 --> 00:37:15,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for those reasons. 796 00:37:16,980 --> 00:37:22,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why'd you come to church today? 797 00:37:22,740 --> 00:37:25,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I hope it was to get some words of encouragement. 798 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:28,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So 799 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that you can be spurred a little bit. 800 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:32,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or 801 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:36,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as we often say, so that you can have your toes stepped on. 802 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:46,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that you can be motivated to do those things that you know that you need to be doing, so that you can be encouraged to grow in your walk with God 803 00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul gives us another example of this 804 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:54,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when he was riding to the third 805 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the church of Thessalonica. 806 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Church of Thessalonica 807 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:01,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was facing some problems. 808 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those individuals had come out of 809 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: paganism. 810 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:12,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when they came out of paganism, they had been taught that Jesus was coming. 811 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's the word we use? 812 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:15,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Soon. 813 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:16,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 814 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that Jesus was coming soon 815 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and that they were going to be caught up in the clouds to be 816 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus. 817 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:23,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But as 818 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: time went on, Jesus's 819 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that word 820 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:29,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: soon 821 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:35,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was not what they thought soon was, and some of their membership had been dying. 822 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:37,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they 823 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:40,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: were worried about those individuals that had died 824 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:46,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and were not alive to see Jesus come in the clouds of glory. 825 00:38:47,420 --> 00:38:50,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so they were asking questions. 826 00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:50,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is 827 00:38:51,260 --> 00:38:52,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: this real? 828 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:57,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul writes to them in First Thessalonians. 829 00:38:58,060 --> 00:39:02,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He tells them, brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed. 830 00:39:02,860 --> 00:39:05,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or I like that other word that he used in a different translation. 831 00:39:05,820 --> 00:39:07,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know what that word is? 832 00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:09,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ignorant. 833 00:39:09,940 --> 00:39:12,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, I don't want you to be ignorant. 834 00:39:12,020 --> 00:39:13,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want you to be uninformed. 835 00:39:13,940 --> 00:39:15,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now you know what an ignorant means. 836 00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:17,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's a person that is not informed. 837 00:39:19,060 --> 00:39:27,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind 838 00:39:27,620 --> 00:39:29,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: who have no hope. 839 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:40,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 840 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's encouraging them. 841 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:42,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He 842 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: tells them what's going to happen to those people who have fallen asleep. 843 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, according to the Lord's word. 844 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:49,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: According to what? 845 00:39:51,359 --> 00:40:00,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Bible, according to what's been written, according to the documentation that we have. 846 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's a reason that he points back to this. 847 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Holy Spirit has been doing something with this. 848 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You need encouragement? 849 00:40:12,099 --> 00:40:15,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Read the word. 850 00:40:15,059 --> 00:40:15,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, 851 00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:22,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: According to the Lord's word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord. 852 00:40:22,540 --> 00:40:22,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: will 853 00:40:22,860 --> 00:40:29,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 854 00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:33,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command 855 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:33,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: with 856 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:40,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 857 00:40:40,039 --> 00:40:40,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: After that 858 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:41,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we 859 00:40:41,319 --> 00:40:48,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: who are still alive and are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. 860 00:40:47,540 --> 00:40:50,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, don't you love this picture? 861 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:51,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 862 00:40:51,460 --> 00:40:55,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: so we will be with the Lord forever. 863 00:40:56,339 --> 00:40:57,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul could 864 00:40:57,460 --> 00:40:58,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: have stopped there. 865 00:40:58,820 --> 00:41:00,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He had given them 866 00:41:00,660 --> 00:41:02,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: present truth. 867 00:41:02,180 --> 00:41:03,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He had given them the 868 00:41:03,540 --> 00:41:08,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: theology that they needed to correct their misunderstanding of what was taking place. 869 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He could have stopped there, but he didn't. 870 00:41:15,039 --> 00:41:16,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's the next word? 871 00:41:19,460 --> 00:41:21,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, therefore 872 00:41:22,020 --> 00:41:23,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: encourage 873 00:41:23,460 --> 00:41:26,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: one another with these words. 874 00:41:27,620 --> 00:41:29,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paracaleo. 875 00:41:29,860 --> 00:41:31,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That verb form 876 00:41:31,220 --> 00:41:32,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to encourage. 877 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:36,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Therefore, encourage one another with these words. 878 00:41:37,339 --> 00:41:40,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These are the kind of words that are supposed to bring bring hope. 879 00:41:40,619 --> 00:41:43,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These are the kind of words that are supposed to bring encouragement. 880 00:41:43,579 --> 00:41:46,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These are the kind of words that are supposed to bring motivation 881 00:41:46,540 --> 00:41:50,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And these are the kind of words that are supposed to spur us on towards 882 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:51,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: good 883 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:52,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: deeds, love 884 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and and good deeds, uh to to do action. 885 00:42:01,460 --> 00:42:07,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does it work? 886 00:42:07,300 --> 00:42:09,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For some people. 887 00:42:10,220 --> 00:42:13,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does it work? 888 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:16,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes. 889 00:42:16,940 --> 00:42:18,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What motivates you? 890 00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:22,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is it 891 00:42:22,180 --> 00:42:25,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: words of encouragement? 892 00:42:25,540 --> 00:42:25,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean 893 00:42:26,260 --> 00:42:26,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you you 894 00:42:26,820 --> 00:42:27,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: have this balance. 895 00:42:27,860 --> 00:42:29,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What what motivates people? 896 00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:30,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean 897 00:42:30,279 --> 00:42:33,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: some people are are motivated by by the the 898 00:42:33,319 --> 00:42:35,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: these words of encouragement 899 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:35,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and some 900 00:42:36,039 --> 00:42:38,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: people are motivated by a a quick 901 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: swift kick in the pants. 902 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:46,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, you know, what motivates you? 903 00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The carrot that they're holding in front of you or somebody chasing you? 904 00:42:52,060 --> 00:42:53,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Right? 905 00:42:53,180 --> 00:42:55,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which one's going to motivate you more? 906 00:42:56,860 --> 00:42:58,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It depends on the situation. 907 00:42:58,780 --> 00:43:01,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It depends on what's going on. 908 00:43:02,980 --> 00:43:06,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul is is trying to encourage us. 909 00:43:06,180 --> 00:43:08,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul is being used by the Holy Spirit to 910 00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:12,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: try and encourage us, to try and motivate us, to try and 911 00:43:12,660 --> 00:43:15,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: get us to move in the right direction. 912 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:18,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we listening? 913 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:19,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Proverbs 914 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:24,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says similar things. 915 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word 916 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cheers him 917 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: up. 918 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Keep going here. 919 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Proverbs sixteen, verse twenty-four. 920 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Pleasant words are 921 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:39,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: what? 922 00:43:40,660 --> 00:43:47,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones. 923 00:43:47,140 --> 00:43:49,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What kind of words do we need to hear? 924 00:43:49,620 --> 00:43:50,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What do we need to 925 00:43:51,060 --> 00:43:52,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: happen in our life? 926 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Story is told about 927 00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jan Potterowski. 928 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was having a concert. 929 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was a concert pianist. 930 00:44:03,860 --> 00:44:08,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there was a family that wanted to go and and listen to his concert 931 00:44:08,820 --> 00:44:13,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because they had a young son that was about seven years old. 932 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:13,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: who 933 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:15,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was learning to play the piano. 934 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so they took him to the concert 935 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:19,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: so that he could 936 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: see a master at work 937 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:23,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: at the piano. 938 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:30,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They didn't have the best seats, but they got there early. 939 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were sitting, they were on an aisle. 940 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:33,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 941 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:35,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: somehow the parents got distracted 942 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and the the the boy got up and he made his way to the 943 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: piano that was on the stage. 944 00:44:46,119 --> 00:44:46,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 945 00:44:47,079 --> 00:44:47,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he 946 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:52,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: went up to the piano and he sat down on the piano bench. 947 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:54,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He had done that before in 948 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: practicing and things, and so he knew what a piano was for. 949 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:00,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He knew what the piano bench was for. 950 00:45:00,079 --> 00:45:02,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But when he sat down there. 951 00:45:03,660 --> 00:45:05,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Nobody seemed to notice. 952 00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:12,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So he put his hands out on the keys and he began to play the song that he had recently learned. 953 00:45:12,940 --> 00:45:14,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Chopsticks. 954 00:45:17,980 --> 00:45:20,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How many of you know chopsticks? 955 00:45:20,540 --> 00:45:23,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, a few of you taking piano lessons, huh? 956 00:45:24,619 --> 00:45:30,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the moment he starts playing chopsticks, all of a sudden everybody that's there a little bit early 957 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Their eyes turn to the piano. 958 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:42,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They look at who's playing, and they see the young boy sitting there on the bench playing chopsticks 959 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:43,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And mom 960 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and dad sitting there 961 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:51,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when they see their son, can you imagine what they feel? 962 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:54,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The pianist 963 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:59,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: sees what's happening, and he sneaks up behind the boy 964 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:04,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and he whispers in his ear, Keep playing. 965 00:46:05,820 --> 00:46:11,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he reaches his arms around the boy, and he begins to accompany the boy 966 00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:13,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as he is playing 967 00:46:13,980 --> 00:46:16,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chopsticks. 968 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:25,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I can think of a lot of ways that that could have ended differently. 969 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:25,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I 970 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:27,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: can think of so many thing 971 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: ways that could have ended differently. 972 00:46:34,700 --> 00:46:37,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You think about the boy and that boy's love 973 00:46:38,060 --> 00:46:40,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for music afterwards. 974 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:45,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You think about the words of hope, the words of encouragement, the words of affirmation, that 975 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: just spoken by the pianist, just 976 00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as the boy was sitting there playing. 977 00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:58,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Chopsticks. 978 00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:00,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The words of hope. 979 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The words of affirmation 980 00:47:04,460 --> 00:47:05,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As the pianist 981 00:47:05,820 --> 00:47:09,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: simply said, Keep playing. 982 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well my slides disappeared. 983 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:18,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, yeah. 984 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: One more Bible text. 985 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Proverbs 25. 986 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:22,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A 987 00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:22,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: word 988 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: aptly spoken is like apples of gold. 989 00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:31,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In settings of silver. 990 00:47:31,020 --> 00:47:31,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A word 991 00:47:31,980 --> 00:47:35,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: aptly spoken is like apples of gold 992 00:47:35,980 --> 00:47:38,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in settings of silver. 993 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:40,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who can 994 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you encourage this week? 995 00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Homework assignment, okay? 996 00:47:49,079 --> 00:47:51,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who can you encourage this week 997 00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:57,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who needs to hear the right words? 998 00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:58,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who needs to 999 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: be motivated in just the right way, the words of Scripture? 1000 00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:06,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who needs to be encouraged by the Holy Spirit? 1001 00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:09,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This 1002 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:10,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: week. 1003 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah, at least do it once. 1004 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Twice would be better. 1005 00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah, let's make it a good three times, okay? 1006 00:48:19,079 --> 00:48:20,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, there's seven days in the week. 1007 00:48:20,839 --> 00:48:22,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why not just go for seven? 1008 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who can you encourage 1009 00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:27,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: this 1010 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: week?