1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A happy Sabbath, church family. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is good to be with you. 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We missed you last week. 4 00:00:10,559 --> 00:00:16,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah, it is good to be home. 5 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:20,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Last Sabbath we were worshiping in Paris. 6 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: at the International Church there with our granddaughter. 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This was her dream vacation where she wanted to go. 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paris, France. 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to see the Eiffel Tower. 10 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:39,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So we saw the Eiffel Tower. 11 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How long does it take to see the Eiffel Tower? 12 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We saw it from several different angles. 13 00:00:46,340 --> 00:00:48,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: different places around town. 14 00:00:48,740 --> 00:00:54,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I'm going to tell you, our feet were tired. 15 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:04,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There was a lot of walking involved, but we had a good time. 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And when we arrived back home here Thursday evening, our granddaughter said she had a great trip. 17 00:01:10,020 --> 00:01:12,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you can believe her. 18 00:01:12,659 --> 00:01:15,939 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Her grandparents had a great trip. 19 00:01:15,939 --> 00:01:19,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And uh we hope that uh she will remember it 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:26,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We had fun. 21 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:33,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought when I uh heard the announcement for the uh children's church 22 00:01:33,420 --> 00:01:36,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought maybe we should just continue Sabbath school. 23 00:01:38,140 --> 00:01:40,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All the children have disappeared. 24 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:46,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I thought maybe it was a good time to continue Sabbath school because I don't know about you, but uh 25 00:01:46,620 --> 00:01:50,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our teacher, he ran out of time. 26 00:01:50,540 --> 00:01:52,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, what was it, Curtis? 27 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:56,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did we get to Wednesday? 28 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, did you guys cover all the lesson? 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of you have no clue what I'm talking about, the Sabbath school lesson? 30 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, I'm gonna tell you, this Sabbath school lesson this week, it was one that uh 31 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:16,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some people were agonizing against, about, didn't want to hear about it. 32 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:21,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some people were excited that they finally get to talk about something real and practical. 33 00:02:21,020 --> 00:02:35,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh some people were uh not sure where the Sabbath school lesson was going to go based upon your teacher or based upon the people in the the the Sabbath school group that you were part of, and if you were not part of a Sabbath school class, I'm sorry for you. 34 00:02:38,020 --> 00:02:42,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sabbath school is more important than the worship service. 35 00:02:42,420 --> 00:02:43,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Just gonna let you know. 36 00:02:43,540 --> 00:02:47,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think I heard some Sabbath school teacher say that today. 37 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:55,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh he did not know I was listening, but I was just around the corner when I heard him say it and uh But uh I will agree. 38 00:02:55,599 --> 00:03:01,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sabbath school is uh a place where I mean, have you ever been part of a Sabbath school class? 39 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:01,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You just 40 00:03:04,860 --> 00:03:08,939 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You just hunger for Sabbath school. 41 00:03:08,939 --> 00:03:13,739 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I remember going to a uh a Sabbath school class where their Sabbath 42 00:03:14,580 --> 00:03:16,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Worship starts at 8 a. 43 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:16,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: m. 44 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:18,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: on Sabbath morning. 45 00:03:18,340 --> 00:03:20,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So Sabbath worship starts at 8 a. 46 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:20,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: m. 47 00:03:20,820 --> 00:03:23,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and goes from 8 to 10. 48 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then at 10 o'clock, they transition to Sabbath school time. 49 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:33,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Sabbath school goes from 10 o'clock till noon. 50 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:41,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or until the Sabbath school is finished. 51 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:48,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna tell you that those Sabbath school classes, sometimes they did not finish at noon. 52 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:52,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They continued and continued. 53 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:56,379 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean the the fellowship there in those Sabbath school classes. 54 00:03:56,379 --> 00:03:57,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes it was 55 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:04,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the the discussion was so good, so exciting, it was y you just didn't want to stop. 56 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,239 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes there were two people that you could 57 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:15,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You could hear the debate, the tension that was going back and forth and and they didn't want to stop and the rest of us were finished. 58 00:04:17,380 --> 00:04:23,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But have you been part of the Sabbath school class where you you just you you hungered for Sabbath school 59 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:32,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, a a Sabbath school class that every week you you look forward to to getting there because it was your place of of belonging. 60 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:33,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was your place of 61 00:04:33,539 --> 00:04:35,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of giving uh additional insight. 62 00:04:35,460 --> 00:04:42,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe it was a a Sabasco class, maybe it was a small group that you were part of, maybe it was a a a a fellowship group. 63 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You you you just found your place of belonging. 64 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:48,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You you knew that you were going to get into the Bible. 65 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You knew that you were going to get into God's words. 66 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You knew that you were going to get a feast. 67 00:04:52,960 --> 00:05:00,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and you knew that you were going to be sharing ideas and you knew that people were going to be listening to you. 68 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:13,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I remember talking to to individuals that were in college and these individuals that were in college when they when they graduated and they they went from college back to their home churches, they were so 69 00:05:13,820 --> 00:05:21,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: so frustrated with Sabbath school because in their college Sabbath schools they had found places of belonging 70 00:05:22,139 --> 00:05:29,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: places where people were were sharing ideas where where growth was occurring and they they or maybe you've had a Sabbath class of 71 00:05:29,940 --> 00:05:43,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of of young adults of or maybe it was a new married Sabbath school class and it was a place that a as the the weeks went by, the months went by, the years went by, or maybe it was a place that it was the 72 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the people with young families, with with young children. 73 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:52,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it was a place where the the the the things that were shared there, it was a it was unique. 74 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was a a place of of fellowship. 75 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:55,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A place where 76 00:05:55,340 --> 00:06:03,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: camaraderie was built, a place where you you just came to or maybe it was the children were all in school and you you you all had similar 77 00:06:04,260 --> 00:06:09,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean you had children that were similar ages and you you did things together as families. 78 00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:15,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You would it was not just Sabbath school class, it was not just small group, but it was the activities that you did. 79 00:06:15,220 --> 00:06:29,699 Pastor Dale Tunnell: During the week, uh the activities that you did on Sabbath afternoon, activities that you did through the week with with the children, with the families, but you found that place of belonging. 80 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That place of fellowship. 81 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have you ever felt that? 82 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:37,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Three of you. 83 00:06:37,820 --> 00:06:39,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Four, five, six, seven, ten. 84 00:06:39,980 --> 00:06:41,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, some of you. 85 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:43,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then something happens. 86 00:06:43,980 --> 00:06:45,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Things change. 87 00:06:45,260 --> 00:06:49,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Somebody moves or you move or or or or life 88 00:06:49,720 --> 00:07:03,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: continues on and things change as life continues to change and the dynamics change and suddenly you're looking back at what used to be with some nostalgia 89 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:09,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I wish I had a group like that now. 90 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:15,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, do any of you ever think, oh, I would love to go back to my college Sabbath school class? 91 00:07:16,580 --> 00:07:24,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, the things we talked about, the wisdom I have to share with them now, that I didn't have then. 92 00:07:24,740 --> 00:07:31,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, wouldn't it be fun to go back to your college Sabbath school school class 93 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:42,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You look back at some of those places in life, some of those places where you felt that belonging, and you say, how can I 94 00:07:42,980 --> 00:07:46,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How can I recreate that? 95 00:07:46,580 --> 00:07:48,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How can I I carry that with me? 96 00:07:48,660 --> 00:07:49,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How can I I I trans 97 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Expose it to another place at another time. 98 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:54,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That I don't have the same people. 99 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't have the same dynamics. 100 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Life has changed so much. 101 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How do we how do we get that back 102 00:08:04,940 --> 00:08:12,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This morning I got in the car and started the car, pushed the button and it started and as soon as it started the 103 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Radio came on. 104 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's always on in my car. 105 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I don't like silence very much. 106 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:28,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Lucky for me I keep it on uh Gospel Radio. 107 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the song that came on is 108 00:08:33,780 --> 00:08:35,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can call it one of my favorites. 109 00:08:35,539 --> 00:08:36,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have so many favorites. 110 00:08:38,820 --> 00:08:42,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But you know the song. 111 00:08:42,340 --> 00:08:44,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Family of God. 112 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:52,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We've sung it here several times, but uh the history of the song. 113 00:08:57,540 --> 00:08:58,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Gloria writes about it. 114 00:08:58,899 --> 00:09:01,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Gloria Gaither, who helped write the song. 115 00:09:01,060 --> 00:09:04,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Bill and Gloria wrote the song, Family of God. 116 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:11,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She writes about it and she says Ron and Darlene Gardner were part of their church group. 117 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:17,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She says, Bill and I were members of the church of in Alexandria, Indiana. 118 00:09:17,220 --> 00:09:24,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We were not very prominent members in the church, but we were there fairly regularly. 119 00:09:24,180 --> 00:09:28,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ron and Darlene were there with their three children. 120 00:09:29,980 --> 00:09:38,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And one Sunday morning, let's try that again. 121 00:09:38,620 --> 00:09:40,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was a Saturday 122 00:09:45,220 --> 00:09:49,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: After Good Friday. 123 00:09:49,220 --> 00:09:52,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That Ron went to work for the garage. 124 00:09:52,580 --> 00:09:54,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was serving as a mechanic. 125 00:09:54,820 --> 00:10:03,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was making up time that he had taken off the previous Thursday to take his little daughter for some tests prior to an anticipated heart surgery. 126 00:10:04,140 --> 00:10:09,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: While Ron was working with combustible material, there was an explosion. 127 00:10:09,180 --> 00:10:15,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He managed to be blown through large double doors, but the building went up with flames 128 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:23,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Ron's body was covered with burns. 129 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:28,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The doctor said if Ron could just make it through the night, that maybe he had a chance of living 130 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:40,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so the church made phone calls to the other members in church, and they had a prayer meeting, and everybody was praying. 131 00:10:41,660 --> 00:10:43,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For Ron. 132 00:10:43,019 --> 00:10:48,699 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Little groups, big groups, at homes, at the church, over the phone. 133 00:10:48,699 --> 00:10:53,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church was kept open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. 134 00:10:53,200 --> 00:11:05,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And people would meet at the church and they would pray, they would talk, they would beg Jesus, just praying for Ron for his life. 135 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First twenty-four hours Ron lived. 136 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:14,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They said, well, he has a better chance now. 137 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They continue praying. 138 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Continue praying. 139 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:27,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A week later they got together. 140 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The congregation was 141 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:37,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Mournful and sad, but yet happy that Ron was still alive 142 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:47,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church began to communicate with each other even more. 143 00:11:49,220 --> 00:12:01,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There were tears that day of joy and praise, gratitude, but also about pledges of how that they were going to help the family 144 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:09,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They talked about things that they would need, they pledged that they would would help to watch the three children. 145 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They would pledge about spending time at the hospital. 146 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:17,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The blood for transfusion was pledged, money was pledged, meals. 147 00:12:17,220 --> 00:12:22,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: long months of support while the healing process was going to go on. 148 00:12:22,180 --> 00:12:26,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These things were were pledged that week. 149 00:12:27,899 --> 00:12:40,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: After services that day, as Gloria is writing, she says, Bill and I were so full of beauty of all that we could hardly speak on the way home 150 00:12:40,620 --> 00:12:45,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Finally we said something to each other. 151 00:12:45,740 --> 00:12:47,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They do that for us too 152 00:12:52,800 --> 00:13:00,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was words of of hope, but it was words of question because Bill and Gloria were not really role models. 153 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:02,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: At the church. 154 00:13:02,660 --> 00:13:05,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They weren't there on a regular basis. 155 00:13:05,780 --> 00:13:10,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They weren't able to to teach regularly because of their schedule. 156 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:11,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They couldn't 157 00:13:11,540 --> 00:13:14,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: couldn't hold regular positions in the church. 158 00:13:14,820 --> 00:13:19,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so as they made this statement, they'd do that for us too. 159 00:13:19,140 --> 00:13:25,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was a matter of of of a statement of of faith, but it was also a matter of of 160 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: questioning. 161 00:13:28,839 --> 00:13:33,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They'd do the same thing for us too, wouldn't they? 162 00:13:35,460 --> 00:13:41,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It wasn't because that Bill and Gloria were worthy of it at that time. 163 00:13:41,060 --> 00:13:44,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some of us might say they were worthy of it today. 164 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:55,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But at that time, they sat down and wrote the hymn, The Family of God 165 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:07,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because they felt the family fellowship at that time. 166 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:18,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Today I wanted us to focus on fellowship. 167 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:20,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's a nice word 168 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:24,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship. 169 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Koinonia. 170 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church, the called out ones, have fellowship with one another 171 00:14:32,020 --> 00:14:37,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does it mean for us to fellowship together? 172 00:14:37,380 --> 00:14:42,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, we heard the announcement this morning, something that is happening tonight, and that is 173 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is Game Night qualify as fellowship? 174 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:51,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay. 175 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:52,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We heard announcements 176 00:14:53,480 --> 00:15:01,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: this morning about women's ministry getting together and they're going to to to watch a movie together and and 177 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:07,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I heard that the men's ministry is going to do something soon. 178 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:12,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I haven't read about it yet, but I've I've I've heard such is going to happen. 179 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:26,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The these ideas that we have of of the women getting together and watching a movie or the the the men getting together and having brunch together or or these kinds of activities, is that what Scripture is talking about when it says 180 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship. 181 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now maybe that's there's a process 182 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:41,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have written down is watching football together, fellowship. 183 00:15:41,839 --> 00:15:44,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is playing games together at game night fell uh 184 00:15:44,839 --> 00:15:52,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship is is playing golf or pickleball or or going boating, fishing, or hiking, is that fellowship? 185 00:15:52,759 --> 00:15:59,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that what Scripture is talking about when it talks about about fellowship? 186 00:16:00,279 --> 00:16:05,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I invite you to open your Bibles to 1 John chapter 1, where we had our scripture reading today. 187 00:16:07,460 --> 00:16:10,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First John chapter one. 188 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:14,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes, it's not on the screen today, so you'll have to uh 189 00:16:17,820 --> 00:16:20,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Open your Bible. 190 00:16:20,700 --> 00:16:24,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First John chapter one. 191 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:26,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're getting reading here in verse one. 192 00:16:26,220 --> 00:16:26,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says 193 00:16:27,860 --> 00:16:37,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled concerning the word of life 194 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:47,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The life was manifested and we have seen and bear witness and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us. 195 00:16:47,740 --> 00:16:55,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us 196 00:16:55,620 --> 00:17:01,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son, Jesus Christ. 197 00:17:01,779 --> 00:17:10,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full. 198 00:17:11,199 --> 00:17:16,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Pause for a second in our in our reading here of this chapter. 199 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When John is writing this 200 00:17:18,660 --> 00:17:28,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I say John because most Bible scholars believe that it is John, even though he does not identify himself specifically. 201 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:34,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The writing structure of 1 John is very similar to what we have in the Gospel of John. 202 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The introduction here in John chapter 1, I mean 1 John 1 1 203 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:44,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is very similar to the introduction in the Gospel of John. 204 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:51,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So many individuals believe that it is John the disciple that is writing first John. 205 00:17:51,340 --> 00:18:01,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And for that reason, uh the time period that this book shows up, we be we think that it was sort of in the ninety to one hundred AD time period. 206 00:18:01,980 --> 00:18:04,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If that's true, John is now 207 00:18:06,220 --> 00:18:09,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, we'll just call him old. 208 00:18:10,140 --> 00:18:16,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know we don't like that word, but he is the senior statesman 209 00:18:17,340 --> 00:18:19,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of the church. 210 00:18:19,100 --> 00:18:22,139 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's writing because he has seen a lot. 211 00:18:22,139 --> 00:18:27,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He he's writing about, he says, that which we have seen, that which we have looked at, that's what we have 212 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:33,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: have handled with our hands that concerning the word of life. 213 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is writing about what he has experienced. 214 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:39,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is writing because of what he sees 215 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:40,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the church. 216 00:18:40,740 --> 00:18:48,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Many people fall in love with 1 John because oh it's just a wonderful book of the Bible 217 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What no amen there? 218 00:18:52,559 --> 00:18:55,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's just a wonderful book of the Bible. 219 00:18:55,039 --> 00:18:59,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, it's one of those books of the Bible that you can summarize in one word. 220 00:19:01,020 --> 00:19:03,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Love. 221 00:19:03,260 --> 00:19:06,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, we we like that word love, don't we? 222 00:19:06,460 --> 00:19:12,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we like that word love, you're gonna love 1 John because it's all about love. 223 00:19:12,919 --> 00:19:16,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean that's what what John is trying to to describe to us. 224 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's trying to to get us to understand what true love is 225 00:19:25,260 --> 00:19:27,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We come down to verse 3 here. 226 00:19:27,020 --> 00:19:36,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, That which we have seen and heard, we declare to you that you also may have fellowship with us. 227 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:42,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son. 228 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:51,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice he's talking about, he wants us to have fellowship with us, that is, the believers, that is the body of Christ. 229 00:19:50,940 --> 00:19:53,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That is the church family. 230 00:19:53,019 --> 00:19:59,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants people to have fellowship with one another and also to have fellowship with God. 231 00:19:59,899 --> 00:20:02,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because those two things are not 232 00:20:03,980 --> 00:20:06,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: incompatible. 233 00:20:06,140 --> 00:20:11,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, if you study scripture, those two things are very compatible 234 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:13,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those two things are necessary. 235 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:23,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God is, in fact, if you're going to be reconciled with God, God wants you to be reconciled with the church, the body of Christ, the believers in Christ. 236 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:28,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That reconciliation, the church, that's the the people that are being saved. 237 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's the the called out ones 238 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:40,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so he is saying you can have fellowship with us as well as fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. 239 00:20:41,460 --> 00:20:48,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And these things rewrite to you, so that your joy may be full. 240 00:20:48,020 --> 00:20:50,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now we talk a lot about joy. 241 00:20:50,580 --> 00:20:53,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you want full and complete joy? 242 00:20:54,460 --> 00:21:03,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes, that's why John is writing, John is writing, so that we may have full and complete joy. 243 00:21:06,980 --> 00:21:08,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We continue reading here. 244 00:21:08,580 --> 00:21:16,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 245 00:21:16,340 --> 00:21:22,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we say that we have fellowship with him, we walk in darkness and lie, and do not practice the truth. 246 00:21:22,660 --> 00:21:30,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and with the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son. 247 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:35,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cleanses us from all sin. 248 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:40,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice Did I do something? 249 00:21:42,620 --> 00:21:44,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're still back on? 250 00:21:44,220 --> 00:21:45,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay. 251 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:53,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Devil tries to mess with me with this microphone stuff, so I understand how the devil works on that part. 252 00:21:55,140 --> 00:22:09,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 6, if we say that we have fellowship with we walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice the truth. 253 00:22:09,399 --> 00:22:13,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we want to be those kind of people? 254 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:21,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, many people say they want fellowship with God, but they don't want fellowship with the church. 255 00:22:22,659 --> 00:22:24,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that even possible? 256 00:22:26,659 --> 00:22:31,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship with God carries over to our fellowship with one another. 257 00:22:31,860 --> 00:22:36,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God is a God of fellowship. 258 00:22:36,980 --> 00:22:39,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God is the creator God. 259 00:22:39,059 --> 00:22:42,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He said, let us make man in our image. 260 00:22:42,260 --> 00:22:45,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wanted to have a relationship with mankind 261 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:49,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God is a fellowshipping God. 262 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to He wants to hang out with us. 263 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to come down and talk with man. 264 00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:01,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And He wanted it in Genesis to come down and talk with man. 265 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:08,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wanted to have that relationship with them, but then things got in the way. 266 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:14,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, today he longs to have that same kind of relationship with us today 267 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That he had with Adam and Eve in the beginning in the garden. 268 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to walk with us. 269 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to talk with us 270 00:23:22,140 --> 00:23:24,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants us to have that time of prayer. 271 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:26,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants us to open our Bibles. 272 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:33,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He longs for us to pray to Him and to communicate with Him and tell Him the desires of our heart. 273 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:40,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He wants to have that kind of intimate relationship with us 274 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn your Bible, 1 Corinthians chapter 1. 275 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to look at some more of the Bible texts that use this word fellowship. 276 00:23:51,660 --> 00:23:58,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're gonna come back to John, first John there, but uh want us to go to First Corinthians chapter one 277 00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:13,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: First Corinthians chapter one, verse nine. 278 00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:17,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice what Paul says here using this word fellowship. 279 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:27,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 280 00:24:27,740 --> 00:24:34,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: called into the the fellowship of his son, Jesus Christ. 281 00:24:34,860 --> 00:24:38,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn again this time to Ephesians chapter 3 282 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:48,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter three. 283 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know it's easier for me when it's on the screen also, so uh 284 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:58,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter three, verse nine here 285 00:25:01,980 --> 00:25:03,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians three. 286 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:05,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I see, I probably need to read eight also. 287 00:25:05,740 --> 00:25:15,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. 288 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:27,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery from which the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ 289 00:25:28,580 --> 00:25:37,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice both John and and Paul are talking about a fellowship, a fellowship that takes place in the relationship with Jesus Christ. 290 00:25:37,780 --> 00:25:39,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn again this time to Philip. 291 00:25:42,980 --> 00:25:48,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Philippians Chapter One Philippians Chapter One 292 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh we'll start at verse three. 293 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Philippians chapter one. 294 00:25:59,679 --> 00:26:08,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says, I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine, making requests for you with all joy 295 00:26:08,660 --> 00:26:18,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing that he who has begun a good work in you 296 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We'll complete it. 297 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul is saying that that we have that fellowship with God 298 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:41,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your fellowship in the gospel from the first day that you accepted Jesus Christ, that that that fellowship of there, that that that place of of belonging, still there in Philippians, turn over chapter, chapter two. 299 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:49,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verses 1 and 2 it says, Therefore, if there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit 300 00:26:49,740 --> 00:27:01,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: if any affection and mercy fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, and of one mind. 301 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice it says if there be any fellowship of the Spirit. 302 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God's ideal is for us to have fellowship 303 00:27:11,220 --> 00:27:23,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For us to have that place of belonging, for us to have that connection, for us to feel at home with our relationship with Jesus Christ, with our relationship with God. 304 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:31,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we live in the real world. 305 00:27:36,980 --> 00:27:42,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our relationship with God is broken. 306 00:27:42,580 --> 00:27:44,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is shattered. 307 00:27:44,340 --> 00:27:49,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have sin in our lives that have separated us from God. 308 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And our fellowship with God is not what it should be. 309 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:06,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul talks about, I'm going to take you through again a list of Bible texts here, talking about the brokenness of fellowship 310 00:28:07,060 --> 00:28:09,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Go back to 1 Corinthians. 311 00:28:09,620 --> 00:28:13,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Corinthians chapter 10, talking about this brokenness. 312 00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:16,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 20. 313 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:40,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 20, it says, Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. 314 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I do not want you to have fellowship with what? 315 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:46,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Demons. 316 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:51,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul is reminding the people here, you have two two options for fellowship. 317 00:28:52,019 --> 00:29:01,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship with God or fellowship with Oh man, wait, wait, wait, what that claims We don't like 318 00:29:04,740 --> 00:29:07,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those words. 319 00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:10,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's kind of harsh to put it that way. 320 00:29:15,980 --> 00:29:21,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In our Sabbath school lesson, we read a different one, Second Corinthians chapter six. 321 00:29:22,740 --> 00:29:28,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You may have not read it in your Sabbath school lesson, but it was referenced in the lesson this week in 2 Corinthians. 322 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:29,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We didn't get there. 323 00:29:29,620 --> 00:29:32,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We'll get there later in the quarter. 324 00:29:32,580 --> 00:29:35,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 2 Corinthians chapter 6. 325 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:37,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse fourteen 326 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:55,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says, do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness, and what communion has light with darkness? 327 00:29:58,980 --> 00:30:05,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship with unrighteousness, with lawlessness 328 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:16,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, Paul is raising up the choices that we have, that of a fellowship with demons or that of a relationship with Jesus Christ. 329 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:24,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship with lawlessness or or or fellowship with God? 330 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ephesians chapter five 331 00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:32,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse eleven 332 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Paul challenges us here. 333 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:48,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, but have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 334 00:30:51,460 --> 00:30:54,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This idea of fellowship is important for us. 335 00:30:54,980 --> 00:30:59,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's important for us as a church family to understand what fellowship is. 336 00:30:59,380 --> 00:31:01,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's important for us to understand that there is a 337 00:31:02,140 --> 00:31:07,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a fellowship with darkness as well as a fellowship with light. 338 00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:12,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want you to go back to our scripture that we've been looking at, 1 John chapter 1. 339 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Back to first John one. 340 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our scripture reading for today 341 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But if we walk in the light as he is in the light 342 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:44,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sins. 343 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we walk in the light as he in the light, we have what? 344 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship with 345 00:31:55,059 --> 00:31:59,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice it says we have fellowship with one another. 346 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:07,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the last three months, we've been talking about one another text. 347 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:14,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The last three times I have spoken, we have been talking specifically those one another texts, having to deal with 348 00:32:15,419 --> 00:32:28,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: hospitality or or or how we as a church are are relating to to guests, how we are relating to the outsider, the things that we are are providing for them 349 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:32,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: today is is fellowship. 350 00:32:32,740 --> 00:32:36,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This fellowship is is more than just 351 00:32:39,539 --> 00:32:45,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to say it's more than just quality time. 352 00:32:45,140 --> 00:32:48,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: More than just quantitative time. 353 00:32:49,980 --> 00:32:54,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is something something deep that occurs. 354 00:32:54,620 --> 00:32:57,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean when John writes this, I I I wrote down I I 355 00:32:58,340 --> 00:33:06,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John writes here verse 7, it says, But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. 356 00:33:06,419 --> 00:33:09,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my first thought when I when I read that 357 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:20,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wonder if John is reminiscing about Acts. 358 00:33:22,059 --> 00:33:31,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Chapter 2 You know how it describes it there in Acts chapter 2 verse 42 359 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:36,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to read verse start at verse 40, Acts 2, starting with verse 40. 360 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:44,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it says, And with many other works he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation. 361 00:33:46,220 --> 00:33:47,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'll translate that for you. 362 00:33:47,980 --> 00:33:51,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Be saved from the demons of the world. 363 00:33:51,980 --> 00:33:52,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay? 364 00:33:53,220 --> 00:33:55,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: be saved from the demons of the world. 365 00:33:55,860 --> 00:34:05,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then those who gladly received his word were baptized, and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. 366 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:19,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 42, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. 367 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:32,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wonder if what John is remembering here when he writes this verse 7: But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another. 368 00:34:33,139 --> 00:34:42,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wonder if he's he if he's thinking back about what it was like in the in the early days of the church, the the fellowship that they had in in that generation. 369 00:34:42,899 --> 00:34:45,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is it possible to take that fellowship? 370 00:34:45,359 --> 00:34:56,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And to and and to carry it down 50, 60, 70, 80 years later, is it possible for us to have that same kind of fellowship today? 371 00:34:58,220 --> 00:35:10,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And in his mind, it is possible because he says with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sin. 372 00:35:13,460 --> 00:35:18,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He has in his mind about Jesus bringing fellowship. 373 00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:26,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He has in his mind about what can be accomplished with the blood of Jesus Christ. 374 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:33,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we realize that Jesus' death on the cross brings fellowship with one another? 375 00:35:34,039 --> 00:35:37,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I'm glad I got an Amen there. 376 00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:41,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean when I was reading about this this fellowship and and doing some study on it 377 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:50,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: One of the things that uh one of the the speakers pointed me to was to Leviticus chapter three. 378 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know we don't study Leviticus chapter three. 379 00:35:54,859 --> 00:36:06,779 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Those Leviticus 1, the sacrifices there, 2 more sacrifices, 3, more sacrifices, 4, more sacrifices, 5, more sacrifices. 380 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:15,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Chapter six and seven, repeating one, two, three, four, five. 381 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But chapter three there talks about a a special sacrifice, the sacrifice of 382 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Peace offering. 383 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:34,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or if you have the New International Version and some of the other modern translations, it says the sacrifice of fellowship, the fellowship offering 384 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:43,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now it doesn't say it specifically there in in chapter three, but it it covers it again in chapter seven when it re talks about all these. 385 00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:50,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But that sacrifice there, it was a sacrifice that people brought and they would lay their hands on this sacrifice 386 00:36:52,079 --> 00:37:05,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then the blood was shed, and then the intricals of the Yeah, it describes it, they were taken out and were sacrificed on the altar, the the fat and the the 387 00:37:06,020 --> 00:37:08,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: organs that were there were sacrificed on the altar. 388 00:37:08,660 --> 00:37:11,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That sacrifice was was given to God. 389 00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:12,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is the fellowship offering. 390 00:37:12,980 --> 00:37:20,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then the meat of that was taken, and there was a meal that was prepared with that meat 391 00:37:20,140 --> 00:37:31,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And with that meal, the the person who had laid their hands on it and their family and the the priest were supposed to eat that fellowship meal together. 392 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:44,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, sometimes we we we think that we we when we talk about the cross we think we're talking only about the sin offering 393 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:53,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But we forget that these other offerings are talking about the cross also 394 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:01,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus is the the the the fellowship offering. 395 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we understand that? 396 00:38:03,980 --> 00:38:07,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Leviticus 3 is talking about a fellowship offering. 397 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:09,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus is the fellowship offering. 398 00:38:09,340 --> 00:38:17,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus is what is going to unite us and to bring fellowship into our church family. 399 00:38:18,140 --> 00:38:23,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It happens because of what Jesus did at the cross. 400 00:38:26,020 --> 00:38:27,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm not going to cover it too much today. 401 00:38:27,940 --> 00:38:29,619 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm just going to mention it quickly. 402 00:38:29,619 --> 00:38:34,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Deuteronomy chapter 14 talks about a tithe 403 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:43,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it talks about what many scholars refer to as the third tithe. 404 00:38:44,539 --> 00:38:54,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know we often emphasize tithe number one, that's the tithe that goes to the Levites, but there's also a second tithe that is talked about there in the Old Testament. 405 00:38:54,140 --> 00:38:58,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there's also this Deuteronomy, a third tithe. 406 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:10,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They talk about this as a third tithe for two reasons, because there are two other previous tithes, but also this tithe specifically it says you've you have this tithe that you've saved up for year number three 407 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:17,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And this is a tie that you are supposed to use for fellowship 408 00:39:19,580 --> 00:39:21,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you want to look it up, you can look up. 409 00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:22,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to give you the verses here. 410 00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:24,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Deuteronomy 14, 28 and 29. 411 00:39:24,780 --> 00:39:31,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It talks about that special third tithe, which is for the fellowship, that you are supposed to provide a meal 412 00:39:32,340 --> 00:39:40,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For the fatherless, for the widows, and for the priests, and you to eat together 413 00:39:45,740 --> 00:39:46,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Think about that. 414 00:39:46,780 --> 00:39:51,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we if we started, you know, tithe one. 415 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't stop giving tithe one. 416 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Tithe two. 417 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Start giving tithe two if you're not doing it yet. 418 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Tithe three. 419 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would happen if we started having a tie? 420 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, tithe just means 10%. 421 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:12,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's not a, they're not all the same ties. 422 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:17,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Many people get confused when they study this because they think it's all the same ties. 423 00:40:17,660 --> 00:40:18,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But another 10%. 424 00:40:18,780 --> 00:40:21,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we started spending another 10% on fellowship. 425 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:33,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Collecting it so that we could have fellowship that took care of the what is described there in Deuteronomy 14, the fatherless 426 00:40:34,839 --> 00:40:41,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Some people say the orphans because another part of scripture talks about the orphans and the widows. 427 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:50,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This idea of of of fellowship, this begins with God. 428 00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:52,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God is that God of 429 00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:53,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of fellowship. 430 00:40:53,599 --> 00:40:57,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean God created man, he says, Let us create man in his image. 431 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God said it is not good for man to be alone. 432 00:40:59,599 --> 00:41:00,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There was there was fellowship. 433 00:41:00,799 --> 00:41:03,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That Leviticus three, that that fellowship offering. 434 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,359 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The the Deuteronomy fourteen, that that fellowship tithe. 435 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:13,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. 436 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God said, let them build me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them 437 00:41:18,140 --> 00:41:30,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, this idea of fellowship is is continues throughout Scripture if our eyes will just open to the additional possibilities. 438 00:41:33,380 --> 00:41:37,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew 18 was talked about in our Sabbath school lesson this week as well. 439 00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:41,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew 18, I'm going to read to you a different part than what we talked about in Sabbath school, though. 440 00:41:41,940 --> 00:41:43,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew 18. 441 00:41:43,380 --> 00:41:46,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you want to turn there. 442 00:41:47,740 --> 00:41:51,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew eighteen verses nineteen and twenty 443 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:01,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice what it says. 444 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:09,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 445 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:17,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them. 446 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm glad I got a amen there. 447 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isn't that wonderful news? 448 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you sure? 449 00:42:32,839 --> 00:42:41,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We talked about in Sabbath school today this idea of what we believe and the idea of what we practice. 450 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:52,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we believe it, if we believe what the text says there, what should we do 451 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Practice it. 452 00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you call somebody and say, hey, can you get together with me? 453 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because I need to pray. 454 00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:04,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want a prayer partner. 455 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want somebody to pray with me. 456 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:08,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have a prayer partner? 457 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have somebody that you pray with? 458 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:15,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you have two or three that get together so that you can pray? 459 00:43:15,620 --> 00:43:19,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that you can be in the presence of what'd it say? 460 00:43:20,740 --> 00:43:22,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus said, There I am 461 00:43:25,220 --> 00:43:27,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In your midst, right? 462 00:43:27,780 --> 00:43:31,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you get someone else together with you to pray? 463 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean I I I I I love what we do. 464 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:45,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We we we we we have prayer meeting, we have we have prayer time be before Sabbath school, we have the the prayer cards that come up and are collected with the with for the elders to pray. 465 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:47,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sharon has a prayer list. 466 00:43:47,319 --> 00:43:49,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's a prayer list in the bulletin. 467 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:53,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And you need to be praying about those things by yourself. 468 00:43:54,440 --> 00:44:01,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But do you realize what happens when you get together with somebody else and you begin to pray about these kind of things? 469 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does scripture say 470 00:44:07,339 --> 00:44:09,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I didn't hear what you said. 471 00:44:16,300 --> 00:44:18,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not the part I want you to hear just yet. 472 00:44:18,060 --> 00:44:18,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 19. 473 00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:21,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does verse what does Matthew 18 verse 19 say there 474 00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:25,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It will what? 475 00:44:26,460 --> 00:44:28,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh man alive. 476 00:44:28,060 --> 00:44:29,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you do you see what that says? 477 00:44:29,900 --> 00:44:35,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's like handing you a blank check, isn't it? 478 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:41,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we get together like that so we can pray? 479 00:44:42,599 --> 00:44:50,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What happens if you get together with somebody like that and you begin to agonize in prayer over these kind of things? 480 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna tell you what happens. 481 00:44:55,279 --> 00:44:58,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Fellowship. 482 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:04,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The things that you are praying like that for, it it it it it occurs. 483 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What could happen? 484 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:16,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As I was reading this week, preparing for the message today, I read 485 00:45:17,180 --> 00:45:23,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: one heaven's pastor he wrote, When it comes to soul winning 486 00:45:25,539 --> 00:45:33,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ninety-five percent of soul winning is done by fellowship and five percent by teaching. 487 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My head spun when I read that. 488 00:45:40,079 --> 00:45:42,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because that's not where we spend our money. 489 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not where we spend our time. 490 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not where we spend our energy. 491 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:56,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We spend our energy on teaching 492 00:46:00,620 --> 00:46:08,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I scratched my head when I read that and said, I wonder what would happen if we spent more time, energy, effort, and money on fellowship. 493 00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:12,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Would the teaching happen quicker? 494 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I've often said it, and you you've heard me say it from up here before. 495 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:23,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to say it again: that what happens in the lobby is more important than what happens in the sanctuary. 496 00:46:26,660 --> 00:46:31,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What happens in the fellowship hall is more important than what happens in the sanctuary 497 00:46:35,119 --> 00:46:39,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This concept of fellowship is extremely important. 498 00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:52,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Psychologist Arthur Aaron, he claimed that he can cause two people to fall in love. 499 00:46:57,460 --> 00:47:02,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If they will just take time to answer 36 questions. 500 00:47:05,860 --> 00:47:09,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Share their answers with each other. 501 00:47:09,540 --> 00:47:14,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then after those thirty-six questions, if they will look into each other's eyes, 502 00:47:15,579 --> 00:47:18,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For an extended period of time. 503 00:47:25,700 --> 00:47:29,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I've read the questions. 504 00:47:29,140 --> 00:47:34,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I've shared the questions with young adults that are interested in getting married. 505 00:47:37,460 --> 00:47:44,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The concept is because those questions are asking such intimate questions 506 00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:50,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That the level of intimacy continues to grow until you get to question 36. 507 00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:57,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You are deep in intimacy and what you have revealed of yourself and what the other person has revealed to you. 508 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it can take some time for that to occur. 509 00:48:03,599 --> 00:48:09,119 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I wonder what happens in the church when we 510 00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:12,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, I don't want to say it. 511 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What a conversation I heard in our Sabbasco class. 512 00:48:16,839 --> 00:48:20,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're kind of scared to ask those questions. 513 00:48:20,540 --> 00:48:29,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There are things that we don't want to be intimate about in our relationship as a church family. 514 00:48:29,740 --> 00:48:32,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Things that we don't want to discuss. 515 00:48:37,140 --> 00:48:42,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I think of questions we used to ask 516 00:48:43,180 --> 00:48:46,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: individuals to lead them to a relationship with Jesus Christ. 517 00:48:46,860 --> 00:48:52,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you were to die tonight, would you have eternal life 518 00:49:00,140 --> 00:49:05,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What would happen if the elders started coming to your church and asking you that question? 519 00:49:06,900 --> 00:49:09,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the follow-up question. 520 00:49:09,540 --> 00:49:13,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you were to die tonight and you were to arrive at the gate of heaven 521 00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:21,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we'll just say Gabriel was there to ask you, why should I let you into heaven? 522 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:22,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What answer would you give him? 523 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:31,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we begin to ask those questions, are we getting a little bit too intimate with each other? 524 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:32,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we comfortable with that? 525 00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:39,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: With our level of fellowship? 526 00:49:39,260 --> 00:49:45,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the church. 527 00:49:45,180 --> 00:49:47,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How's your walk with Jesus going? 528 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:53,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you growing in Jesus the way you want to be growing? 529 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is there anything I can do to help you grow more like Jesus? 530 00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: More like you want to grow like Jesus 531 00:50:07,140 --> 00:50:10,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What did Jesus do for you this week? 532 00:50:12,339 --> 00:50:15,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What interest of prayer have you had this week? 533 00:50:18,339 --> 00:50:25,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is it possible that we could write a sec uh section of thirty-six questions that we could grow in our 534 00:50:26,140 --> 00:50:30,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our intimacy and our church with one another 535 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What is it we want for each other? 536 00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:44,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we want to simply come to church and hear the beautiful music? 537 00:50:48,340 --> 00:50:54,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we want to come to church and have a lively discussion in our Sabbath school classes? 538 00:50:54,580 --> 00:50:57,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we want to come to church? 539 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, what is our purpose? 540 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:16,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: My desire for you, my desire for me is to have a church family that desires me to be in heaven with them. 541 00:51:17,420 --> 00:51:23,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I want you in heaven with me. 542 00:51:23,100 --> 00:51:26,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means there are going to be times that when the fellowship 543 00:51:27,580 --> 00:51:32,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we're going to truly grow, we're going to experience some challenges. 544 00:51:32,060 --> 00:51:34,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to experience some difficulties. 545 00:51:34,380 --> 00:51:39,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to to to ask one another the difficult questions. 546 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:48,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, but then the fellowship can be so sweet. 547 00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So, so sweet. 548 00:51:59,580 --> 00:52:05,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Joseph Scrivan wrote a poem for his mother in 1855. 549 00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:10,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She was not doing well. 550 00:52:10,820 --> 00:52:12,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were living in Ireland. 551 00:52:13,220 --> 00:52:18,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He never intended that poem to turn into a hymn. 552 00:52:21,500 --> 00:52:27,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: See, Scrivan had endured immense personal tragedy in his life. 553 00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:39,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Including the accidental drowning of his fiancee 554 00:52:40,859 --> 00:52:44,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The day before the wedding 555 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:59,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A few years later, engaged again, weeks before the marriage, his fiance died. 556 00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:06,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Health-related issues. 557 00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:13,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And yet in in 1855 he sat down and he wrote a poem for his mother 558 00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:23,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The poem is the hymn of our closing song. 559 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What a friend we have in Jesus! 560 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know the words. 561 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:35,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Open your hymnal 499. 562 00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:45,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's writing this for his mother after these kind of things happen in his life. 563 00:53:45,079 --> 00:53:47,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says, What a friend we have in Jesus. 564 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:54,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All our sins and griefs to bear, what a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. 565 00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:56,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh what peace we often forfeit. 566 00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:02,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God. 567 00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:07,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God in prayer. 568 00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:11,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we understand the fellowship that God wants for us? 569 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus provided it. 570 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus. 571 00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Try one more time. 572 00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus provided it for us on the cross. 573 00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:32,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He paid the price not just for our sins, he paid the price for our fellowship 574 00:54:34,359 --> 00:54:40,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: our fellowship to be reunited with the Creator God. 575 00:54:40,039 --> 00:54:44,599 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For that that separation that we have with with God. 576 00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:46,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To be completed. 577 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:59,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He provided the fellowship that is available for us to have with one another by his death on the cross. 578 00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:10,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, as we we sing this hymn, I want us to understand Jesus loves us so very much. 579 00:55:11,980 --> 00:55:14,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That he paid the price. 580 00:55:14,860 --> 00:55:23,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That when the elder comes and visits you and he's asks you the question, if you were to die tonight, would you have eternal life? 581 00:55:24,740 --> 00:55:27,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't be shy, don't be embarrassed. 582 00:55:27,460 --> 00:55:36,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These are are questions to cause us to grow, to cause us to have understanding, to cause us to have better fellowship with one another. 583 00:55:36,260 --> 00:55:43,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to to desire to have that intimacy with fellow brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ 584 00:55:46,300 --> 00:55:53,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, we need to be encouraging people to get ready for the soon return of Jesus. 585 00:55:53,500 --> 00:55:56,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus is coming soon. 586 00:56:00,140 --> 00:56:03,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I hope our church is ready. 587 00:56:03,500 --> 00:56:07,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want our church to be ready. 588 00:56:07,260 --> 00:56:10,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus has paid the price. 589 00:56:11,359 --> 00:56:14,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What a friend we have in Jesus