Be the Reed - Stay Thirsty Part 2 - Audio
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- Hey, welcome to "Costpable Church." I'm Tom on the lead pastor here, and it is awesome to have you. Just so you know, right after the service, we are having our great American coast family. Awesome, amazing, barbecue championship, cook off events right after church at 11.15. So join us if you'd like to eat protein, animal protein, and we'll work on the vegan options better next year, 'cause I don't know that we have a ton. But if that's what you're looking for, we should check it out. And the kids will have fun too. We are continuing our summer series, "Be the Read." Be the read that we've seen in Isaiah 54 to 55 that God promises all these incredible things to His people. And what's so weird about it in Isaiah 54 and 55 is that it doesn't seem like we have to do anything. God's actually just wants to lavish all this cool, amazing stuff on us. And that's a shocking way to think about the world, and it sort of begs the question, okay, then how is it that we're supposed to live? If God does everything, we do nothing, like we're talking about things like He offers to protect and provide and do all this. If we're not, what's our role in all of this? We've been using the story of Asop's Fables, the Oak and the Read to kind of talk about that. Asop tells a story of how there's this big, strong oak who's like, I am strong, and I am mighty, and the wind does not scare me. He leans into the wind, and the wind comes, and he's like, ha ha ha, I am so powerful. And he looks down at the Reads, and he's like, Reads, you're so weak, and you're just the worst, and you're spindly and bendy, and I am the best because I know how to get strong and big, and the Reads don't say anything, they just bow, they bow their heads. The hurricane comes, and the hurricane takes away the leaves from the oak tree, and the oak tree's like, I can handle it, I can handle it, I'm strong enough, I'm good enough, and then of course, he's not, and the oak tree gets uprooted and falls on the ground. The Reads, however, continue blowing in the wind, and the wind does not up-breathe them. In fact, what the wind ends up doing is spreading their seeds so that they multiply and grow.
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Coast Bible Church, PastorTom Bennett, San Juan Capistrano, CA, www.coastbible.org