1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Happy Sabbath to you. 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:08,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know that we had the offering earlier and 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:13,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: some things were said about the offering appeal of radio ministries. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:18,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But did you guys hear recently that Good News TV is buying a new radio station 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in Phoenix 6 00:00:22,279 --> 00:00:25,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that will reach five million people? 7 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:29,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean we we sometimes we we're not reading these things. 8 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:30,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's 9 00:00:30,580 --> 00:00:31,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a praise 10 00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:33,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Lord event, okay? 11 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:33,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They're getting a 12 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:37,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh a a bargain on this radio station. 13 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: but they still don't have enough money raised yet to buy it, to to 14 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:43,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to pay for it. 15 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I'm I'm just letting you know. 16 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We also have in our conference a radio station that uh 17 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is ministering to the Native Americans. 18 00:00:52,739 --> 00:00:53,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Full 19 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:54,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: time. 20 00:00:54,260 --> 00:00:54,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So uh 21 00:00:55,059 --> 00:00:56,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: here in our conference 22 00:00:56,739 --> 00:00:57,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we have uh 23 00:00:57,620 --> 00:00:58,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: radio 24 00:00:58,260 --> 00:00:59,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: ministries going on. 25 00:00:59,860 --> 00:01:00,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh 26 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:02,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: did you guys see the children's story today? 27 00:01:03,379 --> 00:01:05,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How many children we had up front? 28 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Two weeks ago we had 25. 29 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What'd you guys do to the children two weeks ago? 30 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Did you guys scare them away or something? 31 00:01:17,740 --> 00:01:18,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I was 32 00:01:18,539 --> 00:01:18,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh 33 00:01:19,259 --> 00:01:20,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I I just saw the the 34 00:01:21,180 --> 00:01:22,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: contrast there 35 00:01:22,299 --> 00:01:25,259 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and thought I could mention that. 36 00:01:25,259 --> 00:01:25,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Um 37 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Dennis, that was an excellent scripture reading 38 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:31,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for last 39 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:32,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: week. 40 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to pick on him there. 41 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Evidently he looked in the wrong bulletin. 42 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, sometimes you carry those bulletins in your in your Bible. 43 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:43,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And uh 44 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that was last week's. 45 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:46,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So it 46 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was a good scripture reading for last week 47 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I'm not going to give you last week's sermon again, just because that was the scripture. 48 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I will have you read this week's scripture reading 49 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:00,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: on the screen here in just a moment. 50 00:02:00,740 --> 00:02:02,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The greatest prophet 51 00:02:02,580 --> 00:02:05,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is what we're talking about today. 52 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:07,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can remember my dad and 53 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:08,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: mom 54 00:02:08,460 --> 00:02:09,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when I was young and I would 55 00:02:09,979 --> 00:02:11,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we were out at my grandparents 56 00:02:11,580 --> 00:02:12,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and my grandpar 57 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:15,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: my grandfather he loved to play dominoes 58 00:02:15,340 --> 00:02:19,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and he had taught his daughter, my mom, to play dominoes. 59 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:21,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my dad had learned fairly well to play dominoes with them. 60 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:27,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they would gather around and uh they were always two teams playing against each other. 61 00:02:27,340 --> 00:02:27,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 62 00:02:27,819 --> 00:02:31,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: my mom and dad were never partners. 63 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They played against each other all the time. 64 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I can remember my mom. 65 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:43,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, from the time I was just a little kid, my mom would say to dad, every time he would do something 66 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:43,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that 67 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: she didn't like. 68 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:47,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Every time 69 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:54,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he would make her gosset, not reach her goal, or something like that, she would call him 70 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:55,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: UOL 71 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:56,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Goat. 72 00:02:57,860 --> 00:02:58,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That 73 00:02:58,340 --> 00:03:01,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was just kind of uh, what do we call it, term 74 00:03:01,459 --> 00:03:03,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of endearment? 75 00:03:03,620 --> 00:03:04,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh 76 00:03:04,780 --> 00:03:05,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I can 77 00:03:05,340 --> 00:03:05,739 Pastor Dale Tunnell: re- I 78 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:07,739 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I still hear it in my head, 79 00:03:07,980 --> 00:03:09,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you know, the the sound of her 80 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:10,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: her saying that, you 81 00:03:10,940 --> 00:03:11,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: owe 82 00:03:11,260 --> 00:03:12,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: goat. 83 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:14,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A few years ago, that term 84 00:03:15,019 --> 00:03:15,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: goat 85 00:03:15,660 --> 00:03:16,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: became 86 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:18,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Different than what mom 87 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:19,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was saying. 88 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:20,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so 89 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:20,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: today 90 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:26,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when mom and dad play dominoes, dad still does something that mom doesn't like and mom 91 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:28,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: can't help herself. 92 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's become a habit for her. 93 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:30,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: She says 94 00:03:31,220 --> 00:03:31,379 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You 95 00:03:31,620 --> 00:03:31,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: owe 96 00:03:32,019 --> 00:03:32,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: goat. 97 00:03:32,980 --> 00:03:37,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And my dad smiles and he says, you know what that means, don't you? 98 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:40,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm the greatest of all time. 99 00:03:41,260 --> 00:03:47,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's the the way he is sure she means it. 100 00:03:47,260 --> 00:03:51,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now the tone she says it with, I'm not sure that's what she means. 101 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But in his mind, that's the way he's going to take it every time she says, yo 102 00:03:58,200 --> 00:03:59,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: goat. 103 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The greatest of 104 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:03,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: all 105 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,959 Pastor Dale Tunnell: time. 106 00:04:08,959 --> 00:04:09,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What a 107 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:14,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What a word to say about 108 00:04:15,140 --> 00:04:16,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: someone. 109 00:04:16,980 --> 00:04:21,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our scripture reading today was supposed to be Matthew 110 00:04:21,299 --> 00:04:22,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 17. 111 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:27,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But I say to you that Elijah has come already. 112 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they did not know him, but they did to him 113 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: whatever they wished. 114 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:38,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Likewise, the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands. 115 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Then the disciples understood 116 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:43,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that he spoke to them 117 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:44,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: about 118 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:46,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 119 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Baptist. 120 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:49,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is when 121 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the dawning in the disciples' 122 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:51,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: mind 123 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:52,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: , 124 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:52,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: they 125 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:53,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: realized who 126 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John the Baptist was. 127 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That John the Baptist was. 128 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not the reincarnation of Elijah. 129 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But John the Baptist was the one that came. 130 00:05:09,180 --> 00:05:11,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the spirit of Elijah. 131 00:05:11,580 --> 00:05:13,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We talked about that last week a little bit, about 132 00:05:14,060 --> 00:05:14,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Malachi 133 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:16,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter 4-4, where it says, one 134 00:05:17,020 --> 00:05:17,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 135 00:05:17,340 --> 00:05:18,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Elijah is going to come 136 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:21,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the great day of the Lord. 137 00:05:24,539 --> 00:05:31,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, if you're going to send Elijah, how would you do it? 138 00:05:32,260 --> 00:05:37,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know, sometimes when we we we we want God to work and we're praying for God to work and 139 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:40,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we don't see Him working 140 00:05:40,660 --> 00:05:43,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because we have already decided 141 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:49,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How God is supposed to work. 142 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you ever guilty of that? 143 00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:55,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't see God moving because 144 00:05:55,919 --> 00:05:57,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we have already determined 145 00:05:58,240 --> 00:05:58,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: how 146 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he is supposed to move. 147 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Think about Gideon. 148 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,199 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He blows a ram's horn. 149 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:06,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He he calls people to come 150 00:06:06,879 --> 00:06:08,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and he gets 32,000 151 00:06:09,199 --> 00:06:11,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Israelites to show up. 152 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:11,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 153 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:19,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he's already thinking, God, how are we going to accomplish the mission here of fighting against the Midianites? 154 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:19,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They have 155 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:20,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: they 156 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:23,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: have so many more people than we do. 157 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:23,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now 158 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God could do this. 159 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:29,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A number of ways. 160 00:06:29,580 --> 00:06:34,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you were Gideon, what way would you like for him to do it? 161 00:06:34,300 --> 00:06:37,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To say, Gideon, go out and blow the ram's horn again. 162 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:42,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: There are some people sitting out there that 163 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: they need to be out here on the battlefield. 164 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:52,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Gideon would blow the ram's horned again, and another 60,000 would show up. 165 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:58,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And if you were Gideon, you would say, thank you. 166 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:00,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Hallelujah. 167 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:00,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But 168 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:01,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 169 00:07:03,140 --> 00:07:08,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says to Gideon, you have too many. 170 00:07:08,420 --> 00:07:10,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Send some home. 171 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:17,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Gideon says, okay, we have too many, all of you that are afraid, just 172 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: got married, don't want to fight, go home. 173 00:07:22,759 --> 00:07:23,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 174 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:26,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says a second time, Gideon, you have 175 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:30,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: too many. 176 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it gets down to 177 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: three hundred. 178 00:07:36,220 --> 00:07:38,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Does God ever work by reduction? 179 00:07:40,540 --> 00:07:43,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, don't say amen too loud. 180 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, think about it. 181 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:51,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How many of you ever pray, God, reduce my bank account? 182 00:07:56,380 --> 00:07:59,259 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not what you're praying for. 183 00:07:59,259 --> 00:08:00,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, you elders, 184 00:08:00,780 --> 00:08:01,979 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we've been in elders' meetings. 185 00:08:02,460 --> 00:08:03,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have we ever got together and 186 00:08:04,060 --> 00:08:04,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: prayed? 187 00:08:04,860 --> 00:08:07,979 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God, reduce our church membership. 188 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:14,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, I don't know that I've heard that one come out of their mouths. 189 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:18,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do 190 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:19,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we ever want a 191 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: reduction? 192 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:23,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: David 193 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:26,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, there's the 194 00:08:27,260 --> 00:08:28,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: man out there, Goliath. 195 00:08:28,940 --> 00:08:32,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is standing out there, he is challenging the Israelites. 196 00:08:32,460 --> 00:08:33,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Send me someone. 197 00:08:33,740 --> 00:08:38,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if you were God, who would you send out there? 198 00:08:38,419 --> 00:08:40,819 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I can think of one Israelite, 199 00:08:40,979 --> 00:08:45,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the scripture tells us, is head and shoulders above every other Israelite 200 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, King Saul. 201 00:08:48,280 --> 00:09:00,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If I was God and I was going to choose someone to go out there and fight Goliath, I would at least give him someone that is head and shoulders above every other Israelite, even though he may dwarf still to what Goliath 202 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:01,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is. 203 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:02,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or 204 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I might pull a quick one on Goliath 205 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:10,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and send out one that has been working out at home, you know, taking uh 206 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:12,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Kong Fu 207 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:12,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: or 208 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:13,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: or 209 00:09:14,460 --> 00:09:14,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: some 210 00:09:15,180 --> 00:09:19,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: martial art or something and has been learning to fight in a a 211 00:09:19,820 --> 00:09:22,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a a different kind of method than what Goliath 212 00:09:22,940 --> 00:09:24,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is expecting. 213 00:09:24,220 --> 00:09:24,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm 214 00:09:24,540 --> 00:09:32,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I might have chosen somebody like that, but to send out the boy shepherd, what 215 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:33,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is God 216 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:35,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: doing? 217 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:38,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The widow 218 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Zarephith, we talked about her a few weeks ago. 219 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:45,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 220 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:58,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if you and I were doing, I mean, I'll put it differently, if Cheryl and I were sitting with her doing financial counseling, because we've done lots of financial counseling with people. 221 00:10:00,220 --> 00:10:05,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If we were sitting with her doing financial counseling, we would advise her to 222 00:10:07,020 --> 00:10:09,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: spend her funds carefully 223 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:13,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 224 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:17,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: tells her through Elijah, make 225 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:17,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Milo 226 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:19,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: first. 227 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:21,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You 228 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:28,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and I would whisper to her, that's poor financial counseling. 229 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not wise. 230 00:10:38,199 --> 00:10:40,759 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you see what God does sometimes 231 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:46,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, sometimes we we we look at the way God does things and we we we 232 00:10:46,740 --> 00:10:48,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we we question it. 233 00:10:48,339 --> 00:10:49,459 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Messiah. 234 00:10:49,459 --> 00:10:54,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean they were looking for a Messiah who was going to overthrow an empire. 235 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:55,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 236 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: sends a Messiah who has to be carried by his mother 237 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:02,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in her arms. 238 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that what they're looking for? 239 00:11:05,780 --> 00:11:10,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's not what they think Scripture says. 240 00:11:10,580 --> 00:11:19,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you and I were writing the story, when it came to the time for the cross, how would you write the story? 241 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:25,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he was standing on the platform with the hangman's 242 00:11:25,220 --> 00:11:26,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: noose around him. 243 00:11:26,740 --> 00:11:29,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were just about ready to pull the lever. 244 00:11:32,140 --> 00:11:32,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or 245 00:11:32,540 --> 00:11:34,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: maybe they even pulled the lever 246 00:11:36,460 --> 00:11:38,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and the rope broke. 247 00:11:38,220 --> 00:11:41,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or someone comes in, you know how we're out here in the West 248 00:11:41,180 --> 00:11:41,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and shoots 249 00:11:41,980 --> 00:11:43,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and and the rope tears 250 00:11:43,980 --> 00:11:44,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and and 251 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:46,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The hero 252 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:47,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 253 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: freed. 254 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, that's the way 255 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we would write this story, isn't it? 256 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:55,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But 257 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:01,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when God writes the story, God writes it so he brings salvation 258 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:03,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: through 259 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:05,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: death. 260 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:11,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if we only knew what to expect 261 00:12:12,580 --> 00:12:14,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: from God. 262 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:18,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, the way that seems right unto us. 263 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:21,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is what? 264 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:25,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The way that seems right unto a man? 265 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:28,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You guys know the Bible text, right? 266 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:29,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where does that lead us? 267 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:31,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: To death 268 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:37,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And on TV, the big thing to say today is 269 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:38,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: just 270 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: follow your heart. 271 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does the Bible say about our hearts? 272 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our hearts are deceitful. 273 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:47,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You know why? 274 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because my heart, it wants what I want all the time. 275 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:53,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is selfish. 276 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It is full of pride. 277 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:56,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so 278 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we have a tendency to not think the way God thinks 279 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and to not heart 280 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the way God hearts. 281 00:13:10,420 --> 00:13:15,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whatever we would do, we can be pretty sure God 282 00:13:15,860 --> 00:13:16,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: would do it 283 00:13:17,460 --> 00:13:18,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: differently. 284 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We are better trained to recognize 285 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:27,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: what 286 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:28,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we want 287 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:29,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: than what 288 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:30,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 289 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:32,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: wants. 290 00:13:32,779 --> 00:13:39,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're trained to recognize what we want instead of what God is already doing. 291 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:44,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because we are 292 00:13:44,460 --> 00:13:47,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: called to serve in what we call an 293 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:48,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: upside-down 294 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:49,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: kingdom. 295 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:52,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where the king is 296 00:13:53,220 --> 00:13:58,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the greatest servant of all, not the ruler or 297 00:13:58,180 --> 00:14:00,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: dictator from the top. 298 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:02,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We have this upside-down 299 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:03,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: kingdom 300 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:05,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that we're called 301 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:06,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of service in. 302 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're called to be 303 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: deacons in. 304 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: An upside-down 305 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:13,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: kingdom. 306 00:14:15,180 --> 00:14:15,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We 307 00:14:15,660 --> 00:14:19,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: pray for increase, and we do pray for increase, don't we? 308 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:24,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And God gives us increase through reduction. 309 00:14:24,540 --> 00:14:26,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We pray for blessings. 310 00:14:29,940 --> 00:14:33,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that we might receive, and God 311 00:14:33,780 --> 00:14:34,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: blesses us 312 00:14:36,180 --> 00:14:37,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when we're giving 313 00:14:40,020 --> 00:14:43,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We think that strength is going to give us power 314 00:14:45,380 --> 00:14:45,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when 315 00:14:45,780 --> 00:14:49,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God says, My power is made strongest in 316 00:14:50,420 --> 00:14:52,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: weakness. 317 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we can't see God moving 318 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: because we've already decided 319 00:15:00,420 --> 00:15:00,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: how 320 00:15:00,980 --> 00:15:02,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God should be moving 321 00:15:02,660 --> 00:15:03,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and we don't see him 322 00:15:04,180 --> 00:15:08,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: moving in the direction we think he ought to be going. 323 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:14,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isaiah 324 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter 43, verse 19, says, Look, I'm about to do something new, even 325 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: now it is coming. 326 00:15:21,820 --> 00:15:23,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you not see it? 327 00:15:24,060 --> 00:15:27,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Continues on, indeed, I will make a way 328 00:15:27,580 --> 00:15:29,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: where? 329 00:15:29,340 --> 00:15:31,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the wilderness, rivers 330 00:15:32,620 --> 00:15:32,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in 331 00:15:33,100 --> 00:15:34,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the desert. 332 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:36,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 333 00:15:36,980 --> 00:15:38,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: doesn't even remove the 334 00:15:38,899 --> 00:15:42,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: environment that is there. 335 00:15:42,740 --> 00:15:46,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we would like for the environment to change. 336 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:52,839 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we want more green grass, we want more big trees, we want more 337 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:53,959 Pastor Dale Tunnell: oasis 338 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:57,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But God 339 00:15:57,759 --> 00:16:00,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says, I'm doing something new. 340 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:01,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm doing some. 341 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,199 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you looking for the way God is going to do it? 342 00:16:05,660 --> 00:16:07,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you desiring 343 00:16:08,060 --> 00:16:08,699 Pastor Dale Tunnell: for God 344 00:16:08,860 --> 00:16:09,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to do it his 345 00:16:09,980 --> 00:16:10,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: way 346 00:16:10,540 --> 00:16:12,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: or your way? 347 00:16:16,260 --> 00:16:25,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When God makes a way, it is often, usually, through difficult situations, difficult circumstances. 348 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which we don't even 349 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:28,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: see 350 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:29,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as possible. 351 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:31,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Last week we talked about 352 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:37,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the scripture reading that was read, the angel talking to Zechariah. 353 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Zechariah says, how is this possible? 354 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:42,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're too old. 355 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When we think we're too old, God says 356 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's possible. 357 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Don't be saying you're too old. 358 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You heard the prayer this morning, didn't you? 359 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:55,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God pro 360 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:56,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean 361 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dan prayed for us old folks, didn't he? 362 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:00,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah. 363 00:17:01,980 --> 00:17:02,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The 364 00:17:02,780 --> 00:17:09,339 Pastor Dale Tunnell: situation that you are facing, it is unlikely that it's going to turn out like you desire it. 365 00:17:09,339 --> 00:17:11,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's going to turn out the way God 366 00:17:12,060 --> 00:17:13,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: wants it to turn out for his 367 00:17:13,820 --> 00:17:15,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: honor and glory. 368 00:17:16,939 --> 00:17:17,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 369 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:25,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: may just do just the opposite of what you think should be done. 370 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:25,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Luke 371 00:17:26,059 --> 00:17:26,939 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter three 372 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:32,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verses one 373 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and two, it says, In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar 374 00:17:36,860 --> 00:17:45,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: While Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was Tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, Tetrarch of the region of Ituria. 375 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:51,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and Trachonithis and Lysinachus, Tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas 376 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:54,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and Caiaphas, God's word 377 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:59,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness. 378 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:02,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do 379 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: we see what Luke has just done there? 380 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:07,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: A few 381 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:10,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a few nice verses there, isn't it? 382 00:18:11,460 --> 00:18:12,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Luke has 383 00:18:12,900 --> 00:18:13,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: described 384 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:17,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the power map of that first century. 385 00:18:21,020 --> 00:18:24,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And demonstrated the pattern of rejecting 386 00:18:24,780 --> 00:18:26,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: those paths 387 00:18:27,020 --> 00:18:30,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and choosing a way to work outside of that. 388 00:18:31,860 --> 00:18:34,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice the power map. 389 00:18:34,660 --> 00:18:37,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Tiberius Caesar, what's he doing? 390 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:40,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Emperor, Pontius 391 00:18:40,660 --> 00:18:41,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Pilate? 392 00:18:42,180 --> 00:18:43,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Governor? 393 00:18:43,220 --> 00:18:44,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Herod? 394 00:18:45,140 --> 00:18:46,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Tetrarch. 395 00:18:46,340 --> 00:18:47,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Philip? 396 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:48,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Licinius? 397 00:18:50,260 --> 00:18:53,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, if you were going to to to work something great, something 398 00:18:54,020 --> 00:18:56,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: something awesome, some miracle, 399 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe you could have 400 00:18:58,160 --> 00:18:58,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: um 401 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:01,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a Bible worker show up and 402 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and give Herod 403 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:03,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a 404 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: some Bible studies and Herod would be converted. 405 00:19:09,460 --> 00:19:11,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we would all say, 406 00:19:12,260 --> 00:19:13,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: hallelujah. 407 00:19:13,700 --> 00:19:15,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wouldn't that have been awesome? 408 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God doesn't do it that way. 409 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He doesn't get the news out by Annas 410 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and Caiphus, who were the religious powers of the day. 411 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:28,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 412 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: bypasses all of them 413 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and goes out to John 414 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and where is John? 415 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In Arizona. 416 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Right. 417 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Out in the in in 418 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the wilderness 419 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Whatever you and I would normally 420 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:50,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: do, God 421 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: chooses to do something 422 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:54,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: different. 423 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:57,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: God 424 00:19:58,140 --> 00:20:02,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: doesn't always do it the same way all the time. 425 00:20:02,140 --> 00:20:04,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We can't have this expectation of 426 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:07,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: what God's way is. 427 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Josephus, 428 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:08,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the 429 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:13,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jewish-Roman historian, he discusses John the Baptist. 430 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:14,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Antiquities 431 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:15,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 18. 432 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:16,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He says this. 433 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:18,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Crowds 434 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:24,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: were coming to John, and his words were having such an effect on them that Herod Antipas 435 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: became afraid of John's influence. 436 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:32,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Herod feared that John's persuasive power over the people could 437 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:41,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: potentially produce political unrest, so he imprisoned and eventually executed him. 438 00:20:42,539 --> 00:20:44,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Wow. 439 00:20:44,059 --> 00:20:53,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Josephus is saying that Herod, the king, the one that is sitting on the throne, the one with the power, the one in charge of the soldiers. 440 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is afraid of John 441 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: out in Arizona, I mean out in the wilderness. 442 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is afraid that he is gaining power and influence. 443 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:07,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so he arrests him. 444 00:21:17,020 --> 00:21:19,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isaiah 43. 445 00:21:19,660 --> 00:21:22,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Look, I'm about to do something new. 446 00:21:22,700 --> 00:21:25,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Even now it is coming. 447 00:21:25,900 --> 00:21:27,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you not see it? 448 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are we looking for God to do something new? 449 00:21:39,060 --> 00:21:43,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, we think that for John's ministry to 450 00:21:43,940 --> 00:21:46,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: gain traction, maybe he needs a 451 00:21:46,580 --> 00:21:51,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: mountaintop experience like that of uh of Elijah. 452 00:21:51,600 --> 00:22:00,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Or maybe he needs to be in the center of Jerusalem and he needs to do like Jonah did, go up and down the streets there in Jerusalem, in the the 453 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:01,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in 454 00:22:01,519 --> 00:22:04,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the the the center of Jerusalem and and cry 455 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:04,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: loud 456 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of what's going to happen. 457 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe he needs to go into the the the political chambers 458 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and talk with the people there. 459 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But John's ministry gains traction 460 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when he's out there. 461 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:25,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the wilderness. 462 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:26,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is that where you want to be planted? 463 00:22:26,639 --> 00:22:28,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is out in the wilderness? 464 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:39,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you had done market research at the time, where should we send our greatest prophet of all times? 465 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Where would you send him 466 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to the wilderness? 467 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:52,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And yet 468 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus refers to John 469 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as the greatest prophet Israel has ever known. 470 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You talk about an upside-down kingdom. 471 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:03,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean he he 472 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:04,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he is saying that 473 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:05,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that John 474 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Baptist is greater than 475 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:16,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: than Enoch, greater than than Noah, greater than Moses, greater than Elijah, greater than Elisha, greater than Daniel, greater than Jonah. 476 00:23:18,420 --> 00:23:25,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Isaiah, Jeremiah, you kind of get the idea here. 477 00:23:25,460 --> 00:23:29,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do we realize what Jesus is saying? 478 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:32,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 479 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:37,639 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 's work in the wilderness is to prepare the way for Jesus' 480 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,559 Pastor Dale Tunnell: work in the world. 481 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:43,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice how 482 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:45,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew describes it here. 483 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, In those days 484 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John the Baptist came preaching 485 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the wilderness. 486 00:23:55,980 --> 00:23:58,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Mark says, John 487 00:23:58,460 --> 00:23:59,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: came 488 00:23:59,260 --> 00:24:00,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: baptizing 489 00:24:01,260 --> 00:24:03,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the wilderness. 490 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:04,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: These are 491 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: are the verses that we use to 492 00:24:07,679 --> 00:24:08,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: give him the name 493 00:24:09,039 --> 00:24:09,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 494 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Baptist. 495 00:24:11,419 --> 00:24:14,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's because he was baptizing people. 496 00:24:14,220 --> 00:24:16,059 Pastor Dale Tunnell: His name was not that because 497 00:24:16,220 --> 00:24:19,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he was part of the Baptist Church. 498 00:24:19,020 --> 00:24:24,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's because that was the action that he was doing when he was out in the wilderness 499 00:24:24,820 --> 00:24:25,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was baptized 500 00:24:26,100 --> 00:24:27,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew, Mark, Luke. 501 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says, during the high priesthood of Annas 502 00:24:30,420 --> 00:24:31,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and Caiaphas, God's word 503 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:35,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: came to John, the son of Zechariah, where? 504 00:24:36,420 --> 00:24:38,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: In the wilderness. 505 00:24:42,100 --> 00:24:47,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Gospel of John, he's not described that way. 506 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:50,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 507 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:56,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 1, 22 and 23, people are asking him, who 508 00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:57,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: are you then? 509 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They ask. 510 00:24:58,519 --> 00:24:59,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And his 511 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: reply is, I am a voice of one 512 00:25:02,279 --> 00:25:04,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: crying in the wilderness. 513 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is quoting from Isaiah 40. 514 00:25:10,380 --> 00:25:16,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse 3, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make 515 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:19,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: straight in the desert a highway for our God. 516 00:25:18,940 --> 00:25:19,019 Pastor Dale Tunnell: where 517 00:25:19,179 --> 00:25:27,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low, and the crooked places shall be made straight. 518 00:25:28,659 --> 00:25:29,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is 519 00:25:29,380 --> 00:25:30,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: this is what 520 00:25:30,980 --> 00:25:31,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 521 00:25:31,620 --> 00:25:31,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 522 00:25:32,019 --> 00:25:32,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 523 00:25:32,820 --> 00:25:34,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: proclaiming. 524 00:25:34,340 --> 00:25:42,659 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That he's gonna chop off the tops of mountains and bring it down, and he's gonna take the valleys and they're gonna be filled with the tops of mountains, and the road is going to be smooth. 525 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:44,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that the King of glory 526 00:25:44,860 --> 00:25:47,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: may come in on a smooth road. 527 00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:51,899 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He is preparing the hearts of people for Jesus to come. 528 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:00,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When heaven conspires, can you imagine what it was like to be in that 529 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that planning committee for in 530 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:03,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: heaven 531 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:03,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as they are 532 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:04,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: contemplating 533 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:05,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: how can we 534 00:26:06,419 --> 00:26:08,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Bring about this earthly movement. 535 00:26:08,980 --> 00:26:11,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How can we make wonderful things happen for the 536 00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:15,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: King of Glory to come? 537 00:26:15,539 --> 00:26:16,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They choose 538 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:19,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For John 539 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to go to the wilderness 540 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:32,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I wonder what 541 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: marketing degrees they had 542 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, some of these things I really question. 543 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:46,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, if you're going to sing the King of Glory to this earth, would you do it in Bethlehem? 544 00:26:48,059 --> 00:26:50,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who did their research? 545 00:26:51,340 --> 00:26:55,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It definitely wasn't Walmart. 546 00:26:55,740 --> 00:26:57,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It wasn't Costco. 547 00:26:57,500 --> 00:26:59,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It wasn't McDonald's. 548 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who's doing the research for heaven? 549 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:11,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who's choosing the places that these things are supposed to happen in the way that they're supposed to be about? 550 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew chapter 3. 551 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When John has asked the question, notice what John says. 552 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:22,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, 553 00:27:22,060 --> 00:27:23,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Brood of vipers, who 554 00:27:23,900 --> 00:27:26,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 555 00:27:26,860 --> 00:27:34,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Therefore, bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, We have Abraham 556 00:27:34,780 --> 00:27:36,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as our father. 557 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:38,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 558 00:27:38,919 --> 00:27:41,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Baptist, he 559 00:27:41,159 --> 00:27:41,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 560 00:27:41,639 --> 00:27:42,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: boldness, 561 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:43,320 Pastor Dale Tunnell: rises up 562 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,159 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and he calls the Pharisees 563 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:46,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the power 564 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:46,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: places 565 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:47,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: players. 566 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: For Jerusalem, for the Israelites. 567 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He calls them a brood of vipers and he tells them to repent 568 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and bring forth the fruits of repentance. 569 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:06,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: So the people ask 570 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: him, saying, What shall we do then? 571 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:20,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He answered to them, He that has two tunics, let him give to him who has none. 572 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:25,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he who has food, let him do what likewise. 573 00:28:29,020 --> 00:28:31,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What does this sound like to you? 574 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know we're afraid to say it, aren't we? 575 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sounds like a social gospel to me. 576 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, this is all too practical. 577 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The art of sharing what you have with someone else? 578 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,919 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, this is John's response 579 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when the people are cut to their heart, when they're cut to the quick. 580 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:55,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: When they say 581 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,040 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John, what kind of fruit are we supposed to be bringing forth? 582 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is what John tells them. 583 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:03,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 584 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:04,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: tells them to 585 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:10,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: give your coat to somebody that doesn't have a coat, to give your food to somebody who is hungry. 586 00:29:15,740 --> 00:29:17,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The tax collectors ask 587 00:29:17,580 --> 00:29:18,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: him. 588 00:29:18,140 --> 00:29:19,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They want to be baptized. 589 00:29:19,820 --> 00:29:20,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they ask 590 00:29:20,620 --> 00:29:21,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John, what 591 00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:23,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: are we supposed to do? 592 00:29:23,179 --> 00:29:26,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now notice, they want to be baptized. 593 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:27,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: They want to have this 594 00:29:27,820 --> 00:29:29,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: baptism of repentance. 595 00:29:29,980 --> 00:29:31,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Their question is 596 00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:33,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: not, do we need to be baptized? 597 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:37,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Their question is, after we're baptized, what are we supposed to do? 598 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:38,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How do we live this out? 599 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is the tax collectors. 600 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he says to them, collect no more 601 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: than what is appointed for you. 602 00:29:51,660 --> 00:29:52,299 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you you 603 00:29:52,460 --> 00:29:54,539 Pastor Dale Tunnell: see the wonder in their eyes? 604 00:29:55,419 --> 00:29:58,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How are they supposed to get rich if they if they're doing that? 605 00:29:59,220 --> 00:30:02,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The scripture continues on in Luke 3. 606 00:30:02,260 --> 00:30:04,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says, the soldiers come to him. 607 00:30:04,740 --> 00:30:04,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now 608 00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:05,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: think about this. 609 00:30:05,940 --> 00:30:07,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who are the soldiers? 610 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:12,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, that's 611 00:30:12,780 --> 00:30:13,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: what we normally think of 612 00:30:14,140 --> 00:30:18,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as the Roman soldiers, but they also had some Jewish soldiers. 613 00:30:18,820 --> 00:30:23,060 Pastor Dale Tunnell: you know, that took part in the in the temple and took care of the grounds and stuff. 614 00:30:23,060 --> 00:30:26,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And, you know, there were some soldiers for the Jews, so we're not exactly sure which ro 615 00:30:27,220 --> 00:30:30,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: soldiers this is part of, but my guess is 616 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:33,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: both were there. 617 00:30:32,980 --> 00:30:37,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they were asking similar questions. 618 00:30:37,620 --> 00:30:40,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they said, the soldier said, What shall we do? 619 00:30:40,980 --> 00:30:42,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he said to them, 620 00:30:42,260 --> 00:30:43,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do not intimidate anyone 621 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:46,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: or accuse falsely. 622 00:30:46,620 --> 00:30:46,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 623 00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:47,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: be 624 00:30:47,660 --> 00:30:48,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: content with your 625 00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:50,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: wages. 626 00:30:54,620 --> 00:30:57,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you think they fell over and had a heart attack right there? 627 00:30:59,420 --> 00:31:01,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: How was this that this 628 00:31:01,180 --> 00:31:02,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: supposed to be enough? 629 00:31:12,559 --> 00:31:13,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Matthew 630 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: three. 631 00:31:15,679 --> 00:31:16,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 632 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:17,519 Pastor Dale Tunnell: continued with his 633 00:31:18,380 --> 00:31:19,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Preaching. 634 00:31:19,740 --> 00:31:25,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And he said, He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. 635 00:31:25,980 --> 00:31:29,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 636 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: His winnowing fan is in his 637 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: hand, and he will thoroughly clean out his 638 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: threshing floor, and gather his wheat into the barn. 639 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But he will burn up the chaff 640 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: with unquenchable 641 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: fire. 642 00:31:44,340 --> 00:31:45,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm gonna tell you 643 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:49,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: folks, John the Baptist did not beat around the bush with what he was preaching 644 00:31:50,660 --> 00:31:51,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean he just kinda 645 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:53,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: laid it all out for them. 646 00:31:53,140 --> 00:31:54,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: From the all the way from 647 00:31:54,660 --> 00:31:56,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: from repentance, needing to 648 00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:05,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a new heart, needing a transformation to occur, a lifestyle change that needed to happen, and to all the way to warning them that there's a judgment 649 00:32:05,540 --> 00:32:08,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and there is hell fire that's going to fall. 650 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:14,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He didn't back off from any of that. 651 00:32:15,860 --> 00:32:19,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He was sharing all of that. 652 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:20,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in his 653 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: message. 654 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now I mentioned before that that Matthew, Mark, and Luke, they all refer to to John 655 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:30,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as 656 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:31,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 657 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:32,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Baptizer or 658 00:32:32,919 --> 00:32:33,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 659 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the one that was out in the wilderness baptizing. 660 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:36,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 661 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: refers, the Gospel of John 662 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:42,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: refers to John the Baptist in different terminology. 663 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:44,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Notice what is here in 664 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:46,080 Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh 665 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:47,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: let's see. 666 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:48,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah, there 667 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:49,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I said it. 668 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: All the other gospels tell us about John the Baptist. 669 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:53,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The gospel writer John 670 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:54,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: tells us about John 671 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:00,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The witness, John 1, verse 6 and 7 says, there was a man 672 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:01,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: sent 673 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: from God, whose name was John. 674 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He came as a witness 675 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to testify about the light, so that all might 676 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: believe through him. 677 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:18,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Gospel of John 678 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: continues to refer to John the Baptist 679 00:33:21,919 --> 00:33:22,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as 680 00:33:22,559 --> 00:33:22,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a 681 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: witness. 682 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:25,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This 683 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:26,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: was 684 00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:27,360 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 685 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,679 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 's testimony. 686 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Over and over 687 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: he is declared to be 688 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:33,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a 689 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: witness. 690 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Over and over throughout the gospel. 691 00:33:37,660 --> 00:33:44,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John, the Gospel of John, refers to John the Baptist and describes him as a witness 692 00:33:46,220 --> 00:33:47,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to Jesus. 693 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What is the job description for a wilderness witnesser? 694 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes we think the the person that is to witness must 695 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:03,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: must 696 00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:09,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Share the exit strategy. 697 00:34:09,820 --> 00:34:11,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But a witness 698 00:34:11,820 --> 00:34:14,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is one who confirms the evidence 699 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:18,419 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 700 00:34:18,659 --> 00:34:25,379 Pastor Dale Tunnell: had said, I baptize with water, but someone stands among you. 701 00:34:25,860 --> 00:34:28,260 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But you don't know him. 702 00:34:28,260 --> 00:34:28,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: He 703 00:34:28,820 --> 00:34:30,179 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is coming after me 704 00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:34,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to untie. 705 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:37,840 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 706 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:38,879 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Baptist 707 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: as a witness 708 00:34:40,879 --> 00:34:42,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: says, Behold 709 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,399 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Lamb of God 710 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,600 Pastor Dale Tunnell: that takes away the sin 711 00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:50,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: of the world. 712 00:34:59,359 --> 00:35:04,079 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John's testimony: the Messiah 713 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:04,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is 714 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:05,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: among you 715 00:35:09,740 --> 00:35:12,940 Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Messiah is now in the wilderness 716 00:35:17,460 --> 00:35:17,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John 717 00:35:17,940 --> 00:35:21,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: 's testimony is that the Messiah was among them 718 00:35:22,420 --> 00:35:22,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: right 719 00:35:23,060 --> 00:35:23,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: then 720 00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:24,020 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and 721 00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:25,620 Pastor Dale Tunnell: there. 722 00:35:27,780 --> 00:35:32,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you ever see the Messiah, the Messiah in the wilderness here in 723 00:35:32,980 --> 00:35:33,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Mesa 724 00:35:36,780 --> 00:35:41,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you see Jesus working here anywhere? 725 00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:44,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Is he doing things? 726 00:35:44,140 --> 00:35:47,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If Jesus is here doing things, 727 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Man, I want to be where Jesus is. 728 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to be doing the things that Jesus is doing. 729 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:54,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want 730 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to be going the places that Jesus is going. 731 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:57,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to be touching 732 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the people that Jesus is touching. 733 00:36:00,820 --> 00:36:07,380 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I want to be hearing the testimonies of people that have been touched by Jesus. 734 00:36:07,380 --> 00:36:10,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I told you last week about, you know, studying 735 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:17,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Desire of ages and and reading the book and and being ready to to share a testimony about Jesus. 736 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,800 Pastor Dale Tunnell: If somebody came to you and and said 737 00:36:22,460 --> 00:36:26,540 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can you introduce me to Jesus? 738 00:36:26,540 --> 00:36:29,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, I I I I told you about that last week 739 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:30,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And 740 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,520 Pastor Dale Tunnell: this week I've had three or four people 741 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: acknowledge to me, Pastor, I'm not sure I could. 742 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:40,720 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Know 743 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: what to share with people about Jesus. 744 00:36:54,279 --> 00:36:56,039 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Man, the weight on my shoulders 745 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:57,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: when somebody said that. 746 00:36:58,200 --> 00:36:59,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Just feels so 747 00:36:59,559 --> 00:37:00,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: so heavy. 748 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,640 Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's like all of a sudden I have this awesome responsibility to 749 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,280 Pastor Dale Tunnell: teach us about Jesus. 750 00:37:12,220 --> 00:37:15,180 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You see the new banners up here? 751 00:37:15,180 --> 00:37:15,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean 752 00:37:15,740 --> 00:37:17,340 Pastor Dale Tunnell: turn your eyes upon Jesus. 753 00:37:17,340 --> 00:37:17,900 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is 754 00:37:18,060 --> 00:37:18,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: this is 755 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:20,680 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What we want to do. 756 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:21,400 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is why we're 757 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:23,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: doing the Desire of Ages reading. 758 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:27,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is why we're we're reading through the Gospels with the book Desire of Ages. 759 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,120 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because we want to turn our eyes upon Jesus. 760 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We want to get to know Jesus. 761 00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:41,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's the message of John the Baptist. 762 00:37:41,420 --> 00:37:45,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. 763 00:37:48,060 --> 00:37:54,700 Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean, John's witness in the wilderness prepared the way for the coming of Jesus. 764 00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:56,220 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our witness 765 00:37:57,180 --> 00:37:59,500 Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the wilderness. 766 00:38:00,220 --> 00:38:00,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: No 767 00:38:00,620 --> 00:38:01,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: amen there. 768 00:38:01,660 --> 00:38:03,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our witness in the wilderness. 769 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:05,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay, I'll use a different word. 770 00:38:05,420 --> 00:38:06,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our witness in the Mesa 771 00:38:07,020 --> 00:38:07,820 Pastor Dale Tunnell: area. 772 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:09,580 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Maybe you didn't like me calling Mesa 773 00:38:09,740 --> 00:38:10,780 Pastor Dale Tunnell: a wilderness. 774 00:38:10,820 --> 00:38:12,100 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our witness in 775 00:38:12,420 --> 00:38:12,980 Pastor Dale Tunnell: the Mesa 776 00:38:13,140 --> 00:38:14,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: area in the wilderness 777 00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:19,860 Pastor Dale Tunnell: is to prepare the way for the second coming of Jesus Christ. 778 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:22,000 Pastor Dale Tunnell: You 779 00:38:22,319 --> 00:38:22,960 Pastor Dale Tunnell: and I 780 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: have been called to be a witness 781 00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:30,240 Pastor Dale Tunnell: like 782 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,160 Pastor Dale Tunnell: John the Baptist. 783 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:38,560 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Our Father God 784 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:47,200 Pastor Dale Tunnell: As I share this today, Lord, this sounds, this sounds. 785 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, it sounds too heavy for us. 786 00:38:52,180 --> 00:39:03,300 Pastor Dale Tunnell: But you have promised, Lord, if we come to you, that you will take our burdens and that your burden is light, and that you will give us strength and you will give us courage and you will give us hope 787 00:39:03,460 --> 00:39:04,099 Pastor Dale Tunnell: to do 788 00:39:05,140 --> 00:39:07,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: What is impossible 789 00:39:08,260 --> 00:39:08,420 Pastor Dale Tunnell: from 790 00:39:08,740 --> 00:39:11,460 Pastor Dale Tunnell: our perspective? 791 00:39:11,460 --> 00:39:15,140 Pastor Dale Tunnell: And Lord, we're going to turn our eyes upon Jesus 792 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,440 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because we want to be one 793 00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:21,480 Pastor Dale Tunnell: hundred percent 794 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,920 Pastor Dale Tunnell: totally, completely 795 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:26,760 Pastor Dale Tunnell: yours. 796 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:32,660 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We want to be totally yours as individuals. 797 00:39:32,660 --> 00:39:34,740 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We want to be totally yours as 798 00:39:35,060 --> 00:39:36,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: family units. 799 00:39:36,579 --> 00:39:40,579 Pastor Dale Tunnell: We want to be totally yours as a church. 800 00:39:43,319 --> 00:39:49,799 Pastor Dale Tunnell: Lord, I pray that you will do the impossible. 801 00:39:49,799 --> 00:39:51,319 Pastor Dale Tunnell: That you will make us 802 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:52,279 Pastor Dale Tunnell: holy 803 00:39:52,599 --> 00:39:53,880 Pastor Dale Tunnell: thine.