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Mesa Palms Seventh-day Adventist Church - The Lord's Table · Adventist Podcast Network

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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ah, the joy of sitting up here is uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I get to see people coming in the back door.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And I noticed that we had about ten, twelve people that came in
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: after
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Meet and greet
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: after
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the announcements
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: That means two things need to happen at uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the service today.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: if
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: you stand
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: up and you see people you didn't meet and greet earlier, you need to meet and greet them at the end.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you understand?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's okay?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: To have meet and greet to begin and the end?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, okay.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Secondly, some of the announcements.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you show up here next week
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: You're going to be severely disappointed.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because the doors will be locked
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that gives you an option.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: You'd either sit out there and wait for other people that show up and then you have Sabbath school in church with a few that uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: want to sit out there and sit under the shade and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: have worship together.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: That is acceptable.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The alternative is you can then go
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: or you can go see the signs, realize you forgot the announcements, and you can go to outdoor church
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which is going to take place at Red Mountain Park.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: don't come here next week.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Red Mountain Park, 10 o'clock.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: What time?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Okay.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The following Sabbath
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's October 10.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to have a special induction ceremony for our Pathfinders as part of our worship service.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So we're looking forward to that
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: October 23
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and 24, we are having
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: some of you that were here for announcements, we're having
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: what?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Pioneer
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sabbath.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah, Pioneer Sabbath.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's a Friday night
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and Sabbath.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we're having
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: special
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: programming that's taking place
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: because we we have it usually pioneer sabbath around october twenty two
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: because you know what happened then
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: right
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: October
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: twenty two
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: is anticipation day.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: They were looking forward to the second coming of Jesus Christ
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: with eager anticipation.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The twenty-third
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: was a disappointment.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: he did not arrive on the 22nd.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we usually have it around that time.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Gives us an opportunity to refresh ourselves with Adventist history.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: enjoy
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: looking forward to that event.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I hope you will be here for that.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Sabbath
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: after that.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We are having Pastor Michael Morehouse here.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: That's October 30
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and 31.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He will also be here the next Sabbath
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: as well.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He's got some exciting programs he's going to share with us,
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: exciting messages, and I think you will want to bring your friends and neighbors to that.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Next week, I hope we have invitations to give to you so that you can share them with your friends and neighbors.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because October 30
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: is especially relevant.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: for
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh Reformation Day, the 31st, especially relevant.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Aliens, Angels, and the Afterlife.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Get an invitation
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: be praying now
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: for who you will
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: invite.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'll stop there.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh no, I shouldn't stop there.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the week after that, that's November 14, if you're following along, November, October 31.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: November seven
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and then November fourteenth, we are going to have some grief training for us.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So we'll have a special
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Presenters
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: here,
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Nicholas will be here to share with us
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: about how
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we can minister to people
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: that have
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: suffered grief.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: some of us
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: need to be ministered too.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know many of you have suffered
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Loss
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the last
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: few months.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Putting
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: together some groups so that we can encourage one another, how we can process grief in our life.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So I hope that these uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: it it it's an it
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: fall gets busy, doesn't it?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: just one event after the other.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So uh things that we can look forward to coming up.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: All right, um
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: last
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: year
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: when
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Was
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: still in
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Vietnam.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The church there decided that they were going to read the Bible through.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And that
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: every month there were going to be, there was going to be a quiz
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: given
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: They uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: were not in the habit of reading their Bible regularly, so we thought this was going to to motivate them.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the prizes
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: given for
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: for answering the questions.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: were
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: going to be significant prizes.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: so
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: began reading in Genesis
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: X
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Exodus
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and quiz time came the first month.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: evidently
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the questions I wrote were a little bit too difficult.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you like difficult questions?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: it
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: depends on if you know the answers, right?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought uh for me I was writing easy questions.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: One of the reasons why I thought it was easy questions is because I grew up
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: reading the Bible
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then I thought they were easier questions
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: because
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Cheryl and I, we read through the Bible every year.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: with
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: our
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: when our children were young, we read through the Bible with them, different versions every year, so it sounded different.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: They weren't just hearing the the same way, the same
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: style
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and things
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and then
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I thought the questions that I was asking were fairly easy questions.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The people
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: answering the questions weren't so sure.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: so they were happy when I left.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And the Vietnamese pastor began to ask the questions.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because he understood his congregation a little bit better than I did.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: th
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: but that only lasted a month and then they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: he said
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: people stopped reading
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know what happens if you stop reading?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: You stop
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: learning.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: You stop growing.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: If I was going to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: this last month, we uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I guess it was this month
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: still, listened
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we were listening to the Bible this time.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: there's a story in there that
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: seems like every time
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I read it, I say, oh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: yeah, I can never remember their name.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: But there were a group of people in Jeremiah chapter 35.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: That Jeremiah was encouraged.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Lord said, Invite them to come to the temple.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And set
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: some bowls of wine in front of them, and invite them to drink with you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: there at the temple
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And so Jeremiah invited this group of people to the temple
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and to, and he set the bowls in front of them there at the table.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they sat down to fellowship together, and he encouraged them, drink.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you guys know who these people are?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Have you turned to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jeremiah 35 yet to find it?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Anybody know who they are?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Who are they?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can't remember their name, but it was
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the family that didn't drink.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The family that didn't drink, there you go.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: it was the Rekabites.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there were three other things that they did not do
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: as well.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says that they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: did
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: not
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: build houses or live in a house that was built.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says that they did not plant
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: seed.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And it says that they did not grow vineyards
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: You begin thinking about this and wondering why did they not drink?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why did they not live in houses?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why did they not plant seed?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why did they not grow vineyards?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the explanation that they give is
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: because
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: their
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: father, grandfather
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Had spoken to them those words
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and encouraged them not to do that.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Now, if they do not drink wine, that's okay.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's plenty of other things to drink.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why, right?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: If they do not live in houses, that means they get to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: live in tents and be nomads.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: If they do not plant seed, that means they get to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Take care of
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: livestock.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: A lot of people were living by taking care of life
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: livestock and not the agriculture
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: kind.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: So that means that they were the kind that would
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Take care of livestock
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: or other things that did not require the planting of seed.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they did not grow vineyards.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: their
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: grandfather, father, had spoken words to them and encouraged them to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: take this
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: vow
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: To
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: take this
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: promise.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they were very strong about it.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And God told Jeremiah, he said.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: This
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: is the kind of people
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: that I want
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to follow me
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because they are very
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: strong
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: with their
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: commitment
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and their
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: vow
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Are you strong with your commitments and vows?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes when you you you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: you go and you visit people and you you see people that are in the hospital and you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: you know that people are on their deathbed.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: They they they ask their children, they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: They they speak to their children and their grandchildren and you can hear them talking about
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and the grandchildren or the the children making promises.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yes, I will
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will do such and such.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will take care of
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: mom.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will make sure that
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: will
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: not
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: do such a thing.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: will, and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: while the person
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: is on their deathbed, while they they believe that they are dying, they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: they can get promises out of the family.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: sometimes the family
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: upholds the promises.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the family
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Ye
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: a spouse will say, Why did you make such a promise?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, they were dying there.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: They're not going to know what I do anyway.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I can just do whatever I want, but I had to tell them something that would
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: would bring them comfort to them.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And they go and do whatever
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: their
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: spouse wants
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: them to do or whatever the family wants them to do
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and they do not
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: keep their promises.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: What kind of
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: things do we do
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: when it comes to our promises?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Things that that we are
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: are encouraged to do.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: How do we
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: honor
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: our loved ones?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The ones that
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: are
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the desire of our heart, the ones that we care about
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: About
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: our
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: scripture reading today came from
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Luke
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter twenty-two.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Luke Twenty
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Two
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I know you just heard it, but I want you to hear it again.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Luke 22, beginning in verse 17
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Says
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: then he took the cup and gave them thanks and said, Take this and divide it among yourselves, for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: What's he
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: saying with those words?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I will not drink it till what?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The kingdom of God comes
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: You
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: think about what what he's saying there.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: It says in verse 19, and then he took bread and and gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them, saying, This is my body, which is
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Given for you.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: this in remembrance of me.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Likewise
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: he also took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is a new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He asked them to do something special
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: remembrance of him.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: As followers of Jesus, as as Christians, we don't have a
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: How do I say this?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't have a
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: a holy city that we go to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: make
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: pilgrimages to.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: To honor
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't have to go to the
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: temple in Jerusalem.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't have to go to to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: birthplace of Bethlehem.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't have to go to outside the city of Jerusalem where
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: where the cross of Jesus was.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't have to make a pilgrimage there.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in our in our lifetime in order to to show our respect, in order to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to show how much
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: love
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, as
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: as Christians, as
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: as Protestant Christians,
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we don't even
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: put
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: up
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: an image
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Like like
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: a cross.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We don't put that up so that we come and and bow down to it.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're not uh bending the knee.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're not
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we're not making the sign of the cross.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're not
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we don't make those kind of images
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: so that you come to it
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in order to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: worship it.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because of our our
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: understanding of what Scripture says.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus didn't ask us to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: well, he didn't ask his
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: disciples to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: make
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: fish, wooden fish, and to to wear it as a as a bracelet
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in order to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to show how much they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: they love
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: him
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He didn't ask them to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to make a cross and to to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to wear it on their ears in order to show how much they love
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: him.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Instead, here in Luke, it's recorded, it says
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: what he told them to do, he says, do
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: this
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in remembrance of
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: me.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: What he gave to his
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: disciples, what he gave to his followers, was not a
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: place to go, was not
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: something
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: that uh that that they wear
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: was not something that they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: put on the the front of their house or
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: their
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: their worship place.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: It was a service that they were to perform.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: To remind them
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: about
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus, to remind them
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: who they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: were.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: To remind them
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: of their responsibility
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus knew he was dying.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He could already feel his
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: life
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: being crushed.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: When he asked them to do this in remembrance of me.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And as he was dying, the
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: as he was there giving them this
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the service.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: They
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: were
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: arguing amongst themselves
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: about
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: who was going to be the greatest.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: About who was going to have things their way.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why do we do that?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Why is it that we want things our
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: way?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We think our
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: way is
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: is
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the best
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: way.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We think
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: others need to do it
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: like
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: we think it ought to be done
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: find arguments about music and worship style
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and church structure
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: children's programming and I could go on and on.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: On
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and on
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: about
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the things that we
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: argue
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: about in church.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Turn over in your Bible.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: John.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Same story
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: as there in Luke, but different writer
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: John
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: 13
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: says
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: hour had come
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: That he was going to depart from the world to the Father, having loved his own, who were in the world, he loved them to the end
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Come down to verse four.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He rose from supper and laid aside his garments, took a towel, and girded
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: himself, and after that he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Which he was girded.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He decided to give them
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: a service
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: decided to give them a visual demonstration
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: of what it meant to be a follower of Jesus, of what it meant to be part of the kingdom of God.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: A visual demonstration of what it meant to submit
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to one another.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: A visual demonstration of what it meant to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Serve
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: one another
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: while they were sitting there waiting for someone to do this
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: act
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: of service.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: waiting for someone to get up and to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: wash the disciples'
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: feet, Jesus took it upon himself.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: To
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: accomplish what none of them wanted to do
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: because
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: did not want to be a servant.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: They wanted to be
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the greatest
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in the kingdom of God.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And as the greatest, they wanted to be
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The one who told people who was going to serve.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Not the one that was willing to serve.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: But Jesus got up from the table and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: girded himself.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He demonstrates to the disciples.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: He demonstrates to us.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: What he has in mind.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Servanthood.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: John
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: chapter 13.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I'm going to come down to verse 12
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: When he had washed their feet, taken his garments, and sat down again, he said to them,
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Do you know what I have done to you?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: You call me teacher
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and lord, and you say
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: well, for so I am.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: If I then
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: your Lord and teacher
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: feet
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Feet, for I have given you an example that you should do as
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I have done to you.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus set them an example.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: One that
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: they
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: were supposed to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: follow, submitting themselves
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to the other.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Can you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: imagine
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: what they thought
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: when
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus told them to do this?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: James and John
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: asking to sit at the right and left of Jesus.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I mean when Jesus tells them that they sh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: need to wash the other disciples'
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: feet, my guess is
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: uh
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: There
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: was a big breath, a lump in their throat that they were trying to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: swallow
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: When Peter heard this, I'm sure the
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: thought passed through his mind.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Really?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: You want me to wash
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: these
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: disciples'
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: feet?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Me
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Verse
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: 16
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Most assuredly I say to you: a servant is not greater than his master, nor is he who is sent
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: greater than he who
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: sent him.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: If you know these things, blessed are you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: if
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: do
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: them.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The Seventh day Adventist Church, we desire to follow
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the example of Jesus.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We desire to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: be submissive.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: To one another, to serve one another.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we invite and encourage our members and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: others that worship with us to do likewise.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Because
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: this
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: is
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the radical
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: love of
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus Christ
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We do
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: this in memory of
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: His dying wish, desiring
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: us
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to serve
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: one
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: another.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Blessed are you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: if you do them
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Seventh-day Adventists practice what is known as open communion.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: This means that you don't have to be a Seventh-day Adventist in order to join with us.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: In fact, if you believe in Jesus Christ, if you've accepted him as your Lord and Savior, we not only want you to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: stay and to watch and to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: learn, we invite you to participate
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: To experience
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the joy of
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: this service.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is a joyful service
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: In just a few minutes, we're going to separate.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And we invite you to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: find a partner, someone that you can wash their feet.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: We're going to separate.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the women are going to go out the doors and turn to the right and go down over here to the fellowship hall
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and and find a partner
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and wash one another's feet.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The men are going to go out and and go to the left and go down the hallway and they're
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's a a room that is marked for the men to wash one another's feet.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: There's a room that is marked for couples or for families
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: where they can go and and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to wash one another's feet.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, this is an opportunity for us to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: demonstrate our
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: submissiveness, our willingness
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: to serve
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: one another.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: This is an opportunity for us to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: experience
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: what the disciples experienced
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Having their feet washed, and Jesus told them, you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: are clean.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: like to call this experience a
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: mini-baptism.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Sometimes I have Adventists that ask me, can I be rebaptized?
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And there's an opportunity for rebaptism, a place for rebaptism.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: But more than that, I said, just celebrate communion.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: It's a mini-baptism where
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus cleanses you.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, it's a beautiful service to have you
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Your feet washed, and to know that Jesus is saying, You
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: are clean.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, that should have been louder.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus saying to you, you are
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: clean.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Yeah.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Well, how beautiful is that.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: And then we come back into this room and we partake.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Of the
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: bread and
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the grape juice.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, the bread representing Jesus'
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: body that's broken for us.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: The grape juice representing his blood that is
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: spilled for us.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Oh, how beautiful is that.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: A service
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: that we have
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in memory of
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Jesus.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Reminding ourselves that we are
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: are following his
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: example.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Reminding ourselves that Jesus is not going to do this again
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: until he does it with us in in heaven.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Reminding ourselves
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Of the gift of Jesus
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: on the cross, dying
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: in our
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: place
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Dying
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: so that we could have eternal life.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Friends, we invite you to
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: celebrate with us
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: as we
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: Participate in this
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: the ordinance of humility, if you want to call it this, the footwashing service, as we come back and celebrate this communion service together, as it unites us together.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: As the body of Christ.
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: I invite you to stand
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Pastor Dale Tunnell: and we will separate at this time