Sukkot Series Week 2： Remember His Goodness Tribe 2022-09-26 Automatically transcribed. Where this and the recording disagree, the recording is the record. ---- Voice wants to change that mic to up just a little. Britt, I'm ready. When you learn. Hi, Baxters. Hi, Baxters. Let's pray together before we start. Did you find it? God. It'll turn out. Oh, Lord Jesus, we just thank you for today. We thank you for everyone in this room, and we know that nobody is here by accident today, that you long to meet with us. We just tell you thank you today as we open our mouths and worship you. We just sing about who you are and we just put all the cares and the worries of the world aside and we just fix our eyes on you today. Just thank you that you are the same yesterday, today, and forever, and you hold our future in your hands. In Jesus' name, amen. Sing along with us. If you're joining us on the livestream at home, we're glad that you're joining us today. Let's just sing. Let's sing and worship him today. Let's get our hearts right. Let's just stand together if you're comfortable. Just stand before him. Just posture your heart this morning. Posture your heart just to worship him. Maybe you need to sit quietly in your seat. But if you can stand, we're just gonna close your eyes with me for just a second. Lord, these are not just words to a song, these are truths. That when we sing death could not hold you, death could not hold you, that we would understand the weight of that, that you conquered even even death, hell, and the grave. There is nothing too big for you. Nothing too big, nothing great, greater than you. No problem, no worry, no depression, no financial concern, no health the to storm. The midst and lifted up of who the you are. We're Everything else just fades in comparison. Just with your eyes closed, just take a minute and just talk to him from your heart this morning. He longs to connect with each and every one of us. Just tell him you love him this morning. Yes, Lord. Let's sing that one more time together. I'm coming back. Let's make this your prayer. Sing it out. You got it. Jesus. So we just tell you this morning, remove anything that we've put in the way of our relationship with you, Lord. Anything we've constructed, anything that this world has put on us like that would hold us back or hinder just falling more and more in love with you, God. The heart of worship is an intimate thing between you and us. We come corporately together like this, Lord. Our worship to you is with everything that we do, everything that we say, every breath that we take. We honor that even this very morning is a beautiful gift from you and what we do with it and to come and gather together to honor you. All we long for is your presence, God. If there's anyone under the sound of my voice right now that has not experienced your presence, that presence that just sends hope and peace, comfort, But I pray right now that they would open their heart to you. It's not about a bunch of ritual. It's just simply about saying, Lord, here I am. Here I am to worship you. And to truly just come before you and say, Lord, would you meet me? Would you meet me today? Would you meet me? And then listen. Listen for his still small voice. We ask for your presence in this place today. You are here. Let us experience it. It's in your presence that we're made whole. It's in your presence that fear is melted away, that shame is melted away, bondage is broken. I And sing that I just want you and nothing else. I just want you and nothing else. Nothing else, Jesus. Nothing else You're welcome. We just long for you. We long for who you are. We long for more of you. Yes. Just be still in his presence for a moment. Jesus, we just rest in your beautiful name today. Jesus. The Let's give the Lord praise in you. Lord, we thank you that these are truths of who you are. Give you all the praise and all the glory today. And everybody said, amen. Great worshipers today. The Lord is in this place. Let's, greet somebody. Maybe there's some new people. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Grab, fill your coffee up, grab some donut holes, our favorite, and then get your Bibles out. We'll be back in just a minute. Hey, Dee. Can you move the air? Worship sweats. That's what it's good. That's what they're that's what they're technically called. Worship sweats. You like it there, Brett? Uh-huh. Yep. Oh, I'm from Minnesota. What part? Okay. I went to the University of Minnesota. I'm from Litchfield, which is 90 miles directly west. Yeah. Yeah. And there's Relatives of Litch Litch a few times. Oh, yeah. Yep. The Litch. Yep. Yes? Yeah. Oh, that's great. Is he working or is he coming today or is he he usually comes on Tuesdays. That's awesome. Yeah. Oh, that's great. That's really cool. You got that mic ready? Alright. Yes, ma'am. And here they are. Alright. It is. It is. Good morning. Everybody here at the TMC and our livestream family, so glad that you're here. Baxter's are back with us, which is great after a little bit of globe trotting and galavanting about much deserved rest. Mountain biking. So I was sick. I'm looking at Anna. Just gonna pick on her for a second and and use some of my dad words. So you you guys were you went to go look at wildlife on the trip that you were at, saw some awesome amazing wild animals like giraffes and things like that. And I'm like, that's what it is. She must have bumped up against a giraffe or something because, like like, her little her little because I've known you guys for so long, but her little kid short neck that all little kids have is turning into a beautiful, long, slender woman's neck. And, like, you're just getting more and more beautiful. But don't you miss the mullet? Oh, I know. I do. We paid big bucks to get that. Did. Removed. Removed. Yep. Not her long, slender neck, but but their son's mullet. She gets a long, beautiful, slender neck. He gets his mullet removed. Oh, as Bob Dylan says, the times, they are a changing. Service is just getting I'm just getting started. I'm an equal opportunity picker honor. I've got my sight set on the VIP section in the back, all those junior high and high school students back there today. Just expect that I will be coming to you. Do whatever you do, do not make eye contact with the teacher. Zoe is like so if you haven't been to Tribe in a while or if you're brand new to Tribe, welcome. I don't know when the last time you guys went to visit a church ended up sitting on like the front row. Like you come to visit, you're always in like the middle. If you're like feeling really ambitious, like the back place is safe. Like today, you lean forward, you're on the worship team. And here we are with the format that lends itself to the venue of Tribe. I really want this to be collaborative. I don't want this to just be me up here on the stage. There is Clay who has a mic. Even though your voice isn't mic'd in here, your voice will be mic'd on the livestream for discipleship campuses and people that tune into the livestream all over the country. We want you to be we want this to be a team effort. And, if you if you call Tribe home, you know what I'm talking about. So, today, as we get into the content that we're gonna talk about today, the conversation that we're going to have today, I want you to ask questions, make comments, draw connections, and I really want this to be a team effort. You got it. Good answer. If you have your bible with you this morning, let's start in Zechariah. And I wanna give you just a quick review because we're gonna we're gonna do a quick review of what the conversation that we started last week, and then move into this week's conversation. We're going to be camped out here for a couple of weeks before we go into a Feast of the lord that begins the beginning of October. So, we're going to start in Zechariah chapter 14 and if you've got one of those old fashioned paper Bibles and you're looking for the book of Zechariah, I usually go to Matthew in the New Testament and then hang a left. Zechariah chapter 14, we're gonna read just a few verses, verses 16 through 19. So if you have that, we'll put it up there on the screen, not the passage, but the address. Would somebody please read Zechariah four Oh. We'll put the address up there. The location. Yeah. Zechariah 1416 Through 19. That's what I would call it, the address. What's the address of that verse again? Where does that verse live? Oh, he lives in Zechariah 14. Yeah. 16 Through 19. There you go. You got it. Small words. Oh, and let's just do verse 16. Okay. Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the feast of tabernacles. Or trumpets as in the email said. Mhmm. Or trumpets. So we're gonna talk a little bit more about trumpets, boots, Succocha. It gets it gets quickly it gets quickly confusing if you don't steep yourself in it. But I wanna point out this verse because several months ago, I came across this passage and it really stood out to me that this is as far as I have scoured, the only feast that we will, that the nations of the earth will celebrate when Jesus returns and establishes his earthly kingdom headquartered in Jerusalem. Every year, this feast throughout the what's known as the millennial reign for a thousand years of Jesus' reign here on earth before we get into the next stuff, which is gonna be a big surprise to all of us. For a thousand years, every year, year after year, the nations of the earth will continue to celebrate this feast of shelters or booths or otherwise known as Sukkot. If we're going to be celebrating this feast for a long time to come, we should probably lean into this feast of the lord, learn about it, see what god has for us to to pull out of this feast, and see how we can get this feast deep down into the marrow of our bones because we're gonna be doing it for a long time. Right? So we started last week with a this four weeks. So this is week two. And last week, we looked at several if we think of the the picture, the the entire story of God, his agenda for mankind through his interactions with people on earth, it's like a big mosaic. A mosaic is a painting or a picture that's done with really small broken tiles, or what you kids maybe would call pixels. So when we look at the whole picture, see we see something wonderful and beautiful, but it's also important we have to have the macro picture, but then we also have to have the micro. So we zoom in from time to time, and that's where we get our baseline and our bedrock from. So, last week we looked at several specific tiles that help us form a picture of what this idea, this feast of Sukkot is. And so, can I'll put those verses up there. We're not going to get into each and every one of them, but if you're taking notes and you weren't here last week, you can write these addresses down. Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16, Nehemiah chapter eight, or you can take a picture of it and come back and study. These three passages help our our if you think of them like individual tiles, they help us put a picture together of a feast of the lord that's known as Sukkot in Hebrew and Sukkot just means shelter or tabernacle or tent or pavilion or shelter. All the same words. We don't really use tabernacle too often. We don't use Sukkot, that word too often. Pavilion, you know, we we we might use that word, but shelter or tent, yeah, that's we understand that. And so This is what we're going be looking at for the next couple of weeks. How many of you are familiar with the TV series The Chosen? It's awesome, isn't it? Can't wait for what season are we on? Three? Coming do we have a release date for that? December. December? Oh, that would be amazing. So I wanna show you a a quick short video where Jesus is celebrating Sukkot with his disciples to give us a little bit different perspective and to fill in a few lines and to give us a little color for what it might have, could have been like celebrating the feast of shelters with Jesus. So we'll put this video on and bring the volume up. You totally respect Nathaniel. I know you're a skilled architect, but this statue will keep the rain out. That's the point. The vegetation provides shade from the sun during the day. And if a few raindrops get through, it is a reminder of our dependence on God, of his provision, and the power people were so vulnerable in the wilderness. And he brought us through. There was time in my life, in my old life, where I had to sleep outside. It is a good reminder how I was delivered from that. This time of dwelling in booths is also a leveler of people. Wealthy, poor, everyone sleeps outside as equals. Well, let's be honest. Not all booths are created equal. Yes. Find it. The beauty of this booth is itself an act of worship. Rabbi, I have a question. Yes. In the prophet Zechariah, it is written, and everyone who has survived, all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the king, the lord of hosts, and to celebrate the feast of tabernacles. We just read that. What? Zechariah says that? The the passage of the feast every year? You just don't pay attention. And there's a lot of reading. They sort of went to get what exactly is your question, big James. One day, our enemies will celebrate this feast with us, Babylonians, Assyrians, Rome The Romans, Jews and Gentile at this table? What would have to happen for that to be possible? Something will have to change. But the votes won't mean anything to them. We're the ones who dwelled in temporary shelters while we wander the wilderness, not them. Everyone has wandered through the wilderness at some point. Mhmm. If all the nations came to celebrate in Jerusalem, there will not be enough room not to buy. I will not bore you with the calculation. Oh, Matthew. Isaac will not be Jerusalem as we know it now. So have to lean up. But if Zakaria focused on it, it will be fulfilled. Right? It just sounds impossible. I'm not saying or two about prophecies that sound impossible. That's Jesus' mother, Mary. Anyone have other questions? Something have to change. Let's go to Leviticus chapter 23. We're gonna focus on one particular passage, and I'm gonna invite somebody from our VIP section to read Leviticus 23 verse forty two and forty three. Perhaps the best volleyball player back there should read it. You bet. See how I did that? And read it nice and loud for those of us down here in the cheap seats. What am I reading? It's also on the screen, if if that would help. Live in temporary shelters for seven days. All native born Israelites are to live in such shelters, so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the Lord. Great. Good job. Good job. For seven days, you must live outside in little shelters. This is the feast of Sukkot or Tabernacles or booths. Perhaps you've heard all those different words before. These are really you can answer honestly. I mean you should always answer honestly, but tell me, is this feast brand new for anybody? Like what? Never heard of this before. Ah, yes. Awesome. Great. So what an interesting let's just zoom way way out and let's just talk in terms of gods, religions, dictates, ordinances, all the different gods and things that people could worship. There's this one god in The Middle East who says, for one week out of every year I want you to move out of your house and into a tent. And if you're gonna follow me that's what I want you to do. What? How unusual? How peculiar? Well, we serve a peculiar God and even though his ways may be unorthodox, he is always up to something. And last week we talked about this idea of why, what is the purpose, what is God's purpose behind having Israel take one week out of every year to live in shelters, booths, or tents? What was that what was that one what was that one keyword as to why? Remember. Look at verse 43. This will remind each new generation of Israelites that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I rescued them from the land of Egypt. I'm the Lord your God. Let's take a quick look at just a few of these words as we continue to to unpack this this passage here. That first word is remind. So in your bible, can underline remind or you can take a little note next to next to that word remind. In Hebrew, the word remind, it means not only to recall for memory like we think of remind, but it also means to know or to learn, to perceive, and that word to consider. Now some of you maybe when you were in school, of you might do really well with like traditional test taking for others. Your traditional test taking skills might be tough because a lot of test taking is not necessarily about how much of the material have you mastered and ingested, but it's how well can you memorize like facts and dates and things and then just regurgitate them on the test. For tests, we need to remember the information that we've studied in the class so that we can repeat it on the test and do well on the test. This but this idea of remember or to remind goes much further than our American educational understanding of the word. Because in Hebrew, that word this will remind, just this feast alone will instruct. We are called to learn from it, not just remember, okay, I do this and it's just kind of like rope muscle memory, but we're supposed to learn from this feast. We're supposed to perceive what is God up to. What does God have for me engaging in this feast? As I mentioned last week, when the Feast of Sukkot kicks off, will be October, what, sixth? Yeah. October 6 in a few weeks, we're gonna invite all of our tribe fam to go on this feast, this journey together. So with your family, Will, start drawing plans now. With your family, you can construct a sukkah or a booth, a shelter, like in your backyard. Alright. The two of you. Two of you. So you mock it up with with a little you know scale model and then you build it. Okay? So the idea is for the week of Sukkot, we're gonna actually do this. Now it's gonna be scalable because I understand that everybody's schedule is busy and hectic and and you've got football till late and you're traveling from Star Valley and you're coming down from Moran and all of the other places in life and things, but the idea is for each family that calls tribe home, we take the week of October 6 and we construct a shelter. Even if you're like for some of our young adults that we have on Tuesday and you're living out of your car, you just take a Willow branch and shove it into your visor overhead. There's your sukkah. But but we're gonna invite all of our tribe families to construct a shelter or a booth whatever and it doesn't have to be elaborate by any means. And then spend time during that week out in your sukkah. If you have your morning coffee out there, if you decide to have evening meal out there, even if it's a little bit chilly, you bundle up. And, we're gonna be putting together not a study guide but like a devotional for that week. So, day one, you're out there with your family in the evening, it's brisk, maybe you got a little fire going in your solo stove, you have dinner together, there'll be a passage for you to read and discuss as a family, there'll be additional activities for littles or for anyone that feels so inclined to do the additional activities, and we'll go on this journey together to not just remind ourselves, but also so that we can learn and perceive. What does God have for me during Sukkot? You always flip that number upside down. You did that last week too. It's Sunday the ninth. I always flip the sixes upside down. Oopsies. It's my lisdexia. Thank you for that. Let's look at one more word before we continue on. There's another interesting there's a lot of interesting words in that, but there's one more word that I want to highlight. It's the word rescue. This will remind each new generation of Israelites that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I what? When I rescued them from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. This idea of rescue is beautiful because it carries the definition of this Hebrew word carries with it the imagery of drawing out. To draw out, to extract, and to remove. And when you hear that word to draw out, is there any story near the same time frame that a little bell goes off in your head? To draw out, to pull out, to remove, to extract from water. It's a who that I'm thinking of. Say the question again. So when you see that word rescued, it means to draw out, to remove, to pull out, to extract. We should be thinking it it it should create the little hyperlink should be highlighted in our brain, taking us back to something else. A little more forward. Moses. Let me just help you guys out. Moses. Moses. When he was pulled out, rescued, removed from the river, from the Nile. So, during Sukkot, God intends for Israel and anybody that follows the Lord's feast to take time to remember all of the good things. All were mined how they made their ancestors live in shelters when he rescued them. And to think about all of the ways that he demonstrated his goodness towards Israel. So now, let's get our minds and our imaginations fired up, and I'd love to hear from some of you some of the things that stand out in your mind depending on how familiar you are with Moses leading Israel out of Egypt, being in the wilderness for forty years, all that happened, and then taking them into the Promised Land, what comes to your mind as some of the things that you recall or you remember, ways that God demonstrated his goodness to Israel in the wilderness? What sort of things come to your mind? Water from a from a rock. When's the last time any of you got water from a rock? Not recently. Not recently. What else? Manna. He made food grow on the ground that even the Israelites were like, what is it? It came from the sky. God's sky bread. Every morning, sky bread for the people. That was the name of my first man. Sky bread, yeah. For the people. Yeah. Sky for people. You got runner-up in their senior talent show. It was the high school boys that did a cover song of Smells Like Teen Spirit that won. It's kind of unfair. Anyway. Anyway, that actually happened in my high school. I mean, not the alright. Anyways. Anyway. Water. Water from the rock. Sky bread for the people. What was what are some other things that so like like we're actually we're actually participating in Sukkot when we recall to mind some of the things. And if you're like, I don't know. You should probably go refresh your memorizer and and read the story of the Exodus or some other things that come to your mind? Oh my gosh. What would that look like? The pillar she so she said the pillar of fire at night and the pillar of cloud by day that led Israel. And the only time it didn't lead Israel is when it moved around behind them to separate them from the advancing Egyptian army so that they could scoot right through the Red Sea in the Gulf Of Aqaba. What did that look like? How many of you would like God's leadership in your life today that obvious? This job or this job? Hold on. Let me look for the class. Oh, this job. Here it is. Oh ding ding. What else? Nobody the Bible says that nobody got sick. Their clothes didn't wear out. How many people are we talking? A couple 100? Maybe a million or more people. Well, how do we know it was a million or more? Well, there are several places at the beginning of the Exodus journey and then at the end after forty years they do a census and if you're really good at math, the men of the tribe are numbered, tribe, clans, families, and when you add up all of those numbers, it's over 500,000 males and you can imagine how many more wives, children, and stragglers, hanger oners, groupies were also there. Over a million people that God took care of. The Chiefs Stadium, I think, holds 73,000. There you go. Say it. The Chiefs Stadium, I think that's football, right? Football. Different tribe. Yeah, different tribe. Their stadium holds 70,000 people. That's a drop in the bucket. What are some other things, either either material ways or or other ways that we can recall. So we're actually doing the feast of Sukkot as we recall to memory these different things. So God was faithful. He rescued Abraham through his grandchildren. He rescued Isaac through his children. I'm just thinking. I'm not in a hurry. What would those days have been like? He established his presence in their midst officially for the very first time of all of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years of time, thousands of years of time that played out before that moment, God had never I should say this, let me modify. He reestablished his presence on earth. Where was the first time? In the garden. Is it heaven? Is it earth? It's the idea like, where am I right now? We walked in the garden in the cool of the evening, spent time with Adam and Eve, his children Cain and Abel. His presence is removed. Cain and Abel are living outside of the garden, but they still wanna get back to that place of intimacy. Where can I go to meet with the God of my father? So they they they make their sacrifice at the entrance to the gate of the Garden Of Eden because they can't get back in. And then after God leads the people out of Egypt into the wilderness, he goes, alright. I cannot wait to be back with you and among you. Here's some ground rules, but he reestablishes a place of his dwelling right in the midst of Israel. And in fact, he even organizes the camp so that the tabernacle tent shelf dwelling is right in the very center of the camp. So I envision in this rescue that that God interacted with them daily. I mean, it was a physical act, and they still grumbled and complained and what have you after a while. And then I look at my life today. I mean, we have to physically pick up God's word or or get in the car to come to church or whatever the case may be. So it's a pretty the difference is pretty pretty vast. Yeah. So think about this. God got Israel out of Egypt, but the time in the wilderness was intended for Israel to get to Egypt out of their hearts. God delivered Israel from Egypt with the purpose of getting them out of Egypt. I've done my part. Now your part is to get to Egypt out of your heart. And we're still working on that Explain that. Thousands of years later. The the thank you. The the mindset, the ways, the mentality, the the the drives, the motives, the hungers, the desires, the passions of Egypt, which are contrary to the ways of God. He's he is relentless in his pursuit of seeing us expunge and expel the ways of Egypt out of our heart. He's done his part. I I get that. But but but Satan is here every day trying to steal, kill, and destroy everything that we do, so how does that Great. Okay. Let's let's let's go to the to this next slide as we answer that. I like it. So if we see what God did for Israel, it can help us today. Remember, a lot of these things were it was written like the New Testament letters. It was written to the church in Philippi, but it's for us today. In second Corinthians, Paul says, these things were written down for our benefit. It happened to them, but we get to learn the lesson and get the benefit of the lesson. So let's break down some of the things behind why God brought them out of Egypt into the wilderness. It's only what a three day walk or a very short walk from Goshen up into the geographical promised land. But it took them a long time to get there and God led them on a circuitous route. Why did he do that? When God rescued Israel, here's the first thing, he removed the distractions. He brought them out into the wilderness to remove the distractions of all that was going on in Egypt. Their mindset, the religion that was forced on them, the the toil of their work. Let's get you out into the desert to remove the distractions. The second thing that he did, he brought them out into the wilderness to reveal their heart. I've delivered you out of Egypt, but I want you children to see how much of Egypt is still in your heart. What would be a good example of Egypt coming out of their heart? In Israel, the story of the wilderness. Belong for the garlic. Yeah. They had in Egypt. Yes. Oh, remember in Egypt when we could eat, They even said at one point, they even said about Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey. They got it so confused and they said we could eat garlic and leeks and onions. How many of you really enjoy a diet of garlic, leeks and like and Corey's like, yeah. Corey's like, well, you're not getting any kisses on your diet of garlic, leeks, and onions. Yeah. But they got it their their their appetite was warped. I I feel like I was leading you on a question. Oh, an example of Israel and the the revealing of their appetites and not just physical. What's the big example that that should be coming up in our hearts? There you go. Oh, Clay. Mike. Israel had God before them on the top of the mountain with thunder and fire and clouds, but Israel still wanted a statue Yeah. A golden God before them who was a calf. But Yeah. Like that's that's just that blows my mind is that that they actually had the living god before them walking with them every day. But they wanted a statue that didn't do anything for them. Yeah. And what did Aaron say when Moses was like, dude, you had one you had one job. What did Aaron say? What do you remember what his excuse or his reason was? People, they wanted something to worship and I told them to take off their jewelry and earrings. And then what did Aaron do? I it into the fire. I threw it into the fire and then Out came out of the And out popped this from their heart. So God You know something else about them? That while they were doing all this, and like you said, they had God up there in the mountain, the clouds, like, you know, God was there. They had no fear of him. And seeing all that he had done to bring them there, I mean, part of sea, the tower of fire Yeah. And yet they still continued their immorality and doing everything with his presence right there with them, but they didn't fear him. Mhmm. They were afraid of him. They were afraid of him but they didn't fear him, revere, honor, respect, take him at his word. Why do we celebrate Sukkot? Yes. To help us remember. So he removed the distraction. He revealed their own hearts to them. And the third kind of major theme or movement is he received them to himself. What ways can you think of if you can remember a bible verse? Great if not, it's okay. How did he receive them? It makes sense. He removed their distractions, he got them out of Egypt. He revealed their own hearts every time they would grumble or complain or the golden calf, but how did he receive them? Like in what way? What does that look like? What comes to your mind? I might gotta look for a verse. Team effort guys member. He received them. What's that mean? What comes to your mind? Tell his coach? Okay. You can just write this verse down. This is what what what came to my mind. In Deuteronomy six verse seven, the the verse is not up on the screen, but it says this. Deuteronomy six verse seven. Excuse me. Seven verse six. There it goes again. Seven verse six. For you are a holy people who belong to the Lord your God. Of all the people of the earth, the Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure. How many of you feel amazing and awesome when you've been exposed for who you really are? Isn't that a great feeling? Like maybe like maybe like let's take like an example at work. You know you have a certain task or job to do, your scope of work includes you know x. You've done that and you've overlooked something or maybe intentionally neglected. But part of a supervisor's job is to review and look at that. They see the scope of work that you've done and they're like, you had a, b, c, and d to do and you did a, b, c sort of, and d, I don't even know where d went, what is this? When you feel exposed like how many of us like really enjoy that and feel awesome? Yeah. Yuck. But in a way, it's exactly what God did. He revealed their own hearts to them for them to be able to see it. And then what is the next thing that he did? He received them. He loved them anyway. Now he clearly established parameters and guidelines and boundaries. Here's who I am and I want to have relationship with you and here's the right way for you to have relationship with me, and there are even some consequences for trying to approach a relationship with God outside of the parameters that he established, Nadab and Abihu. He had just given all of these instructions to the priests on how to do it and what to do and even how to dress and how to approach the Lord. Sacrifices, and here's the incense, you know, and then on day eight, the bible says, so the after all of the instructions, it's it's the priest's first day on the job. And these two guys, Nadab and Abihu, who are not the high priest, it's his dad, Aaron, go into the tent. They think that they can approach God casually, commonly, or on their own terms, and they they bring into the tent of meeting what the Bible describes as as profane fire, incense that was unauthorized, the mixture, the recipe, and God was like, he wasn't mad at him, he's like, I have clear I have clear defined boundaries and they had to pay the price with their life for violating that. But he laid out clearly how we can have right relationship with him and he said, I will receive you as what did the verse that we just read, my own special treasure of all the nations of the earth. You're my own special treasure. So now to answer your question and to to bring up what you just mentioned a moment ago. How can we let Sukkot remind us today of his goodness? How do we bring that two thousand five hundred years into our present day and age? Sukkot reminds us of his goodness when we when we take this week to have the distractions removed from our life. Here's the first thing. We remove ourselves from the routine of comfort. Which is more comfortable, to sit in your house at the dinner table eating a meal or in a paper plate on your lap in a soccer chair? Way more comfortable to eat at home, indoors, inside, or like at Liberty Burger or the bird. Way more comfortable there than outside. Sukkot is intended to remind us of his goodness. When we remove the routine of comfort from our lives, just temporarily suspend it. Nothing gets you excited about your own bed back home than what? Leaving it. Leaving it. Sleeping on the ground, traveling. Sukkot reminds us of his goodness by not only removing the routine of comfort, but by helping us to recalibrate our hearts. We use that word a lot at Tribe, recalibrate because we need to. The most finely tuned instruments are the ones that are the most likely to go out of tune. And our hearts are finely tuned instruments that are intended to be harmonized with the Lord. So when we take the week of Sukkot to remind ourselves that Israel dwelled in tents, what are we doing? We're removing the routine of comfort. We're using this as an opportunity to recalibrate our hearts. Talk to me as I'm sharing these things. I just think I just think sometimes we the Lord just knows us so well that he knows that we would just make idols or make calves. Like, he wants to engage our other senses for us to really remember. Like, he just knows us the way he created us so well. Like, celebrate this because you physically have to get out of the routine you're in to fully remember. And even then, you won't fully remember. But, like, he just knows us so well that if we were like, yeah, we'll just take a week where we'll just think about it. You know, we just get so busy. Mhmm. That I just think as a loving father, he's like, no, trust me. Do something that looks and feels different so that you remember. Mhmm. I know I just think it's like a really sweet invitation from him to meet us in a in a unique way. Jesus is the prince of peace, but he is also the single most disruptive person in the entire universe. If you don't know Jesus as disruptive, I'd venture to say you might not even really know him. That's like his favorite thing to disrupt. And he uses the tool of disruption to get our attention and to get us thinking out of our ruts of thinking so that he can introduce something wonderful, beautiful, and amazing in our lives. Very disruptive. Here it comes. You know, we we're here for a destination wedding and I imagine a lot of people come to this area for that purpose. And it occurred to me that God has a destination wedding for all of us who believe in him. It'll be out of this world according to his own promise. It won't be in Jackson Hole. But Jackson Hole gives people a little sense of something had to be disruptive for them to go a long way to witness a wedding. And so then the question for me was yesterday, what does that mean to us that God uses a wedding in a destination that's difficult to get to for most most Americans Mhmm. To but we're willing to do it. But what willingness do we have to be disrupted for that eternal wedding? Yes. When we celebrate Sukkot, we are embracing disruption for the purpose of inviting God to meet us in a new and fresh way. We've all been to weddings and we're like, yeah, weddings and woo hoo. Hope the cake is good and what's this? Is it open bars? Yeah. How many? How soon can I get a I mean some people think that? Are they having roadhouse? But if we're open to disruption, It it it cracks our heart open for something beautiful for the Lord to do. And we have to be able to distinguish disruption from distraction of the enemy. Because distraction from the enemy is always, give me another d word, destructive. But interruption can can open our our hearts up to something beautiful and wonderful from the Lord. I As we have talked about this last week and this week, I really think as we say around here there's oil on it, know, like the Holy Spirit. I think it's I think it's something even much deeper than than what we've touched on so far. Like, yes, it's to remember and some people are like, well, we're not Jewish. What are we Are you telling me I need to be preaching deeper? No. Oh. I'm help I'm holding your hand as we go out to bed. But I really think it's deeper because the generation that we all live in has been, you know, what John Eldridge calls a comfort culture. Mhmm. And that's it's where we were born. Like we can't help it, we're human, right? Yep. But I think this forcing us to get out of comfort and this recalibrating our hearts and the discipline that it takes and the more we can practice that is how we'll build resilience. And we all think that there's a their time is coming, you know, things are shifting, the world is different and changing and it always has and does but we're moving into a place where comfort's not gonna cut it, you know. We'll need resilience and you don't just get resilience. You have to, you know, fill your tank. And so removing ourselves, you know, whether it's Sukkot or something else, Sukkot is just a precious place in the bible where the Lord, oh, in his foreknowledge, you know, knew that we would need for us to keep practicing. So it's so good to to build our resilience by getting out of our comfort zone and then whatever you just said, just the just the what did you say? Forcing us out of routine. What was the d word? Disruptive. Yeah. For practicing forced disruptiveness or disruption is healthy. Uncomfortable, but good. Just like working out, uncomfortable, really good for you. So I think this is a a key to something that not everybody is on to yet. Yeah. It's so important. Thank you for holding our hand as we go down this, skipping along the trail as we uncover the goodness that God has for us. There's a there's a passage in in the Old Testament where God says yeah. I think it's in Deuteronomy. I've I led you out into the wilderness, I caused you to get hungry and then I fed you. I disrupted your pattern and your routine of the comfortable so that you would would feel off balance causing you to look to me and then I satisfied you with good things. Does that mean we should have weddings in the middle of thunderstorms? It was a memorable wedding. I'll never forget the the one wedding that I did, and I've forgotten their names right now in this moment. Come on, Brian. Renee and Matt. Matt and Renee Grabowski. They got married up at the wedding tree. I don't know if you're familiar with this, up in the Gros Ventre, and we're gathering for the wedding. As we're gathering, the storm clouds are gathering, and it's a pretty exposed spot. And man, we got drenched, and it was awesome. Back to Isaac. No. Just something that when you're talking about, like, Jesus is a dis he disrupts, you know, things. And if you don't know that, then you probably don't know Jesus. But one of the things in the video was that he had all his disciples there and some of them were women. But according to Jewish law, it was only men who were to participate in the feast of booths. And the fact that he had women with him, he just like disruptive. Yeah. He's so disruptive. Moses is cruising along out in the desert running from the the shame and stigma of being a murderer. And he's like, well, this is my life now. Bounding along to the backside of the desert as a shepherd and sees a burning bush. How disruptive is that? Moses said, I'll turn aside and see what this is. I mean, we could we could go on and on like, let's think of bible stories and people who God or Jesus himself disrupted their normal pattern and routine. How many of you like disruption and staying on your toes? I mean, I I like being spontaneous and I like switching things up, but but but by nature as humans, typically we are creatures of comfort. We like the same thing over and over and over. We like our patterns. We like our rhythms. We like our routines. And we typically do not like disruptions. Oh, beloved, we must get used to holy disruptions to keep us on our toes. And from time to time, I I talk about I talk about some friends that I have in the Navy, and they intentionally train introducing disruptions that are completely unplanned for to see how they will react, how they will adapt, and they practice drill after drill after drill. Your gun's jammed. You need three magazines. You have one magazine for your gun. You're jumping out of the plane without a main chute. You only have a reserve chute. The batteries on your nods don't work. Your GPS doesn't work. Disruption. Disruption. Disruption. How do you adapt? How do you adapt? So that as they train that way, so that in real life, on a real mission, like, oh, I've experienced this before. I've experienced this disruption. I've experienced this kind of disruption. You just move on, win the fight, win the fight. God introduces disruptions to us so that when the time comes, the real day of battle, we'll win the fight. And the idea, the bottom line, the idea, this last one is that he invites us to return to him. To remove the routine of comfort, to recalibrate our hearts, and the third thing is to Return to him. Lord, I lean on you. I trust this disruption. My housing situation, haven't encountered before. I'm not gonna turn to a golden calf. I'm not gonna turn to my own schemes. How many of you think that in your own strength, could pull water out of a rock, squeeze it as hard as you want. You'll never get water out of rock out of your own. But when we return to oh. Sukkot reminds us of his goodness. We're intended to remind ourselves of his goodness. Remove the routine of comfort so that in the in the we subject ourselves willingly to the removal of comfort to recalibrate our hearts and to return to him. So that as Amanda said, you said it perfectly, days ahead when it's not an option to have comfort removed from our lives. We're like, oh, I've done this before. You have some measure you have some measure of experience and familiarity with disruption and discomfort. I could do this. I've practiced this. What? Imagine friends, people that society at large, especially first world nations here in America. Oh my gosh. We're so accustomed to comfort. We don't like any discomfort. I don't wanna see any blood. So sanitized, you know? When we subject ourselves willingly to a little bit of discomfort, it helps to to build within us a steel, a resolve. So that in days when it's not optional, we're like, oh, I haven't done this before. We don't crack. We don't crumble. We don't fold. It's a huge part of Sukkot. Let's take the rest of our time. We're we're gonna be out of here before twelve today. Oh, famous last words. I jinxed myself. Look. I closed my bible one last verse. We'll put it up here on the screen. Psalm 73. Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak. I may not get that job that I wanted. I may lose my rental housing here in Jackson. My rent may go up. I mean, you could just fill in the blank. Right? But God remains the strength of my heart, and he is mine forever. Just take a little bit of time and and each of us individually meditate on that. If you need to open it up in your own bible, pull it up on your on your own phone, read it for yourself, underline it, read it again and again on the screen. Maybe you need to read that verse just loud enough for your own ears to hear it. So, if we hear you mumbling, it's okay. We will know that you haven't lost your marbles. You're just meditating and chewing on this verse. Let's just take a little bit of time. Alright? How about if we we meditate on this, we kinda go down underneath the surface of the water into his presence. For just a moment, let's come back up, get a breath of air before we go back down under meditating on this. And I'd love to hear maybe an observation about this passage that you might have or maybe something the Lord is just dropping into your heart. Maybe it's just for you, but maybe it's something to share. Or maybe you would have a a prayer to pray over this. So we spend a few moments individual. Let's come back corporately together and then we're gonna go individual again back down underneath the surface of the water. I knew you would. What's that? Did you send the mic back? Alright. It's rounded up. Thank you, sir. Psalm 73 is is so beautiful. And I don't know who Ephesians is, but that's who wrote it. But it's, if you read the whole thing, there's just 28 verses, but it's about, like, a contradiction of life that we all think. Because he's like, if you read the beginning, he's like, why wicked people are basically prospering. And he's like, this is unfair. What is happening? Why? And I love that he can just question the Lord. But in verse 17, before we get to this that you have on the screen, in 17 is when it switches. And he said, then I went into your sanctuary, oh God, and I finally understood the destiny of the wicked. So he saw their end it seemed like it brought him peace and his understanding changes. Then from verse 17 on, then he's like, oh, I see. I understand. I understand. And then he even says, my heart was even bitter towards them. Like, he just has a heart change. And then, by the time we get here to the to what you read, it's so beautiful because he says he just says, my health may fail and my spirit may grow weak. And then, those two words that are so beautiful in in the Bible, but God. Mhmm. But God Mhmm. Remains the strength of my heart. He's mine forever. So, gosh, it sounds like he has resilience. It's okay to question. It's okay to be like, why? Why are bad things happening? Why are good bad people prospering? What you know, why why why? And then, you know, when you have this encounter with the Lord like he does in verse 17, it changes not the circumstance, but your perspective. There's always an opportunity for encounter in the midst of disruption. Remember Jesus is teaching in a home, and it says in the home, there there were the people that lived in the home, and it Pharisees were there in the home. I think maybe the story's in Mark or Luke. And it's the story of the the roof being torn open. But he's in the home, and it says that Pharisees were in that home also, and there are crowds outside and the bible makes one little sentence of a note and it says that the power was there to heal them. And from the grammar, we can reasonably conclude that Jesus' power was there to heal the Pharisees and they missed it. But the guy who tore the roof off gets lowered down in there. What a disruption. He gets the miracle. They were offended at that disruption. So there's six days for healing. Come back on that day and get healed. Oh my gosh. Okay. Back down. Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail, my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart, and he is mine forever. Jesus. As we finish up our time here together, we like to worship the Lord, gosh, in in all the time, right, in as many ways as we can. But here corporately, we're a tribe family just on these Sunday mornings and then on get on Tuesday night, it's not the it should not be the height of your time with the Lord. I'm gonna say that again. When you come to church, whether it's Sunday morning or Tuesday night, that's just when tribe meets, that should not be the height of your Jesus experience that week. It should just be a time where we get to be a family. Right? And we celebrate and we worship him through the reading of his word, which we did today. We do it through singing our hearts out to him whether we feel like it or not. Right? And another expression of worship is by bringing our tithe and our offering to the Lord. And a lot of churches have done that wrong for many years where I don't know if it's something they've said or the vibe they give or it's like, get out your wallets. It's time to that's so yucky. And that's not what we think it's about here at Tribe. It is about, like we talked about today, calibrating our heart with the Lord. We're not even telling you a dollar amount to give. That is so between you and the Lord. But it's a posture of our heart and it's a way that we worship him and that we let him know, literally putting our money where our mouth is, right, that we trust him. That That we trust him. And so whether you feel like you have tons to give or nothing to give, that's not what it's about. It's about an act of trust where you say, God, I don't, you know, especially, I don't feel like I can give anything. And if Tribe isn't your local church, don't give Tribe, give to your local church. So Tribe isn't asking for your money, we're encouraging you to worship the Lord and tell him that you trust him by an act of bringing your tithe and your offering to him. Because it's a way that we can, like we talked about today, a way that we can build resilience and practice hard things and giving up comfort. Right? That's all a practice. And so this is just one more way that we do that. We're gonna pray together as we bring our tithe and our offering to him and whether you're giving now or another time. The practical piece of this is you can we don't pass buckets or anything, but downstairs there's a black box. You can give cash or check right outside the front door. There's a safety box also online at tribe j h dot com or of course the easiest way is through your smartphone that you'll see instructions on the screen where you just type a new number to 84321 and you give that way. But that's a practical piece, but it is all about your heart. So let's pray together, like I said, while we're here as a tribe family over our tithe and our offerings. So heavenly Father, we just come to you and we say thank you for yet another opportunity to say we love and we trust you. You're so worthy of our love and our trust. Whether we believe that or have to say it by faith, it's true. You're worthy of our love and of our trust. And we thank you for the opportunity we have to show you that by giving. It blesses the the people that it goes to serve. It brings people into your kingdom. It blesses us for being obedient, and it honors you. And we thank you that we get to do that. We love and praise you in Jesus' name. Amen. Only one announcement today, I believe. That's, guess what, guys? Tuesday night meals. If you, want to serve your church in a way that involves in the kitchen and cooking, Leah, you've done that several times and it's always been delicious. Thank you for serving in that way. And many of you have participated. Is there any other announcements or is that what we're hitting today? A what? Brian will give a call. Oh, okay. I didn't I didn't translate the whistling. Like, something about Snow White. I'm not sure. So if you wanna serve your church, you don't even have to attend service on Tuesday night. If you just wanna drop a meal off about 05:45, go for it. On the fridge, there is our sign up, and that's just one way you can serve. If you don't want to ever make a meal and you feel so uncomfortable and forced every time we talk about it, there are other ways you can serve here at Tribe that have nothing to do with culinary experience. So, and talk to me after service. Lissa picks up Cuddy's Pizza when it's Lissa, all you have to do is pick up, pick up, have a car. We'll eat we can even help you, with the money part if you didn't budget for 40 extra people a week, which none of us do. So, talk to me about that or other ways to serve. You can meet up with me after service. There's many ways to serve here. So thank you for coming here today. Pastor Brian, come on up, please. And give us that last announcement and pray us out of here. Thank you, Amanda. Before you stand up and get out of here, I just wanna give you a quick update. If you've been with our tribe fam for any length of time, you've known that for several weeks, we were under contract for a new property, a place for Tribe's next home. And there were three things that that needed to happen, some fundraising that needed to happen, some financing that needed to happen. The big thing was to get the TMC, this is the tribe ministry center, the TMC, under contract for x amount. And those things haven't happened. And as a result, the contract of the Hog Island property that we were under has expired. So we're no longer under contract. And everybody said, this will be interesting. I was gonna was waiting for some yeah. Some boos, some some whoos. I don't know. But God is good. God is good. In talking with our leadership team, when we put an offer on that Hog Island property between when we put that offer in and today, if you're familiar with this area, like, market changes so fast. Things have cooled off dramatically. So, as a result, there's a lot of variables. It's a bit of a disruption to to our plan, but God is good. A lot of there are a good number of board members and elders here today, and we're all in agreement like, hey. God is good and it'll give us a chance to regroup over this winter, refine our vision, our plan, and be ready for the next opportunity whenever that may be. If it's in six weeks, six months, or six and a half months, like Those are your options, God. So I just wanted to give you I just wanted to give you that update. If you're thinking and praying, continue to pray for Tribes Next Home, But it's at this time at this time, it's not the Hog Island property. Okay? And I can answer any more questions that that you might have about that. But I one of the things I love about our Tribe fam is we're flexible and we're we're excited and we're like, this is what we're doing. Alright. Let's go for it. Oh, that door is closed. Alright. Fine. No problem. Let's go. And so I appreciate your your flexibility and your willingness to just have the Lord's best for us in our next home, whatever that may look like. Can I have one thing be? You may. But one really positive thing is it is really encourage us to really seek the Lord on vision before the place. So, like, Lord, what are you calling tribe to? Like, it's not just a building. It's not just a local church. And we've been saying for years, we feel like the Lord has really placed tribe in this valley to be a resource to this community, but so much more than that and helping people learn that the local church is not just a couple hours on Sunday. And so really digging in what the Lord would have tribe do on a property when he brings it, like that's what really came out of this. Like, Lord, what was that all about? We have like just a lot of vision on paper that's more than just the local church that was that we will, as we really pray over it here in the next couple weeks, reveal to you because the vision is what we can all run with. Then the property's like, that's I mean, not in Jackson necessarily, but that's the easy part. Know? I'm looking at Chris Baxter. Right, Chris? That's the easy part. Good. Thank you. Stand up. And can I pray for you? Lord Jesus, thank you for coming up with a better sermon title than what I had. I think my sermon title for today's message was remembering his goodness. But I like the sermon title that we came up with collectively, delighting in divine disruptions. Help us to take delight in divine disruptions that happen in our life so that we will lean on you, look to you, that even though our circumstances may change, you don't change, and you are the strength of our heart. I pray, Lord, for each and every member of our tribe family that's here today and those watching the livestream, that you would be the strength of their heart. That when disruptions come, they would see it as an opportunity to press into you, to encounter you, and for their lives to be forever changed. And no matter what disruptions come, when we're pressing into you, we always, always end up on top. I pray that over each and every member of our tribe family here today. And we pray for Chris and Keisha. Keisha that her hip would get all healed up. He just sent me a text during service. So thanks for tuning in. Love you guys, Bates family. We pray these things in Jesus name, the strong son of God. And everybody said Amen. Amen. I want you guys to have a great week. Have a safe drive back. And remember, you got this.