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you have your Bibles I’m reading from
Deuteronomy the Old Testament
Deuteronomy chapter 31 for just a few
moments he found him in a desert land
and in a wasteland a howling wilderness
and when he was in the wilderness look
what happened he encircled him he
instructed him he kept him aren’t you
thankful in your wilderness he encircles
you he instructs you he kept you when
you couldn’t keep it together mentally
and you were about to have a breakdown
he kept you
he encircled you he instructed you he
kept him as the apple of his eye verse
11 as an Eagle stirs up its nest hovers
over its young spreading out its wings
taking them up carrying them on its
wings so the Lord alone led to him verse
13 said he makes him to ride the heights
of the earth to high places the King
James says to eat the good of the land
to draw honey from the rock notice that
there’s the starina of the nest and then
there is the new level a blessing and I
want to talk to you for a few moments
this morning how of this text that Moses
wrote as a sermon to his congregation
and I’m preaching today on the blessing
of the busted
Nest joked 29 I want him to throw up
just the one verse for the sake of time
but he starts describing how that he
whisked in verse 1 he talks about how
that he wished he could go back when he
had his family when he had his well when
he had his hell when he had locked not
lost everything he said in that time I
was in my prime the favor of God shine
don’t need like a light and on my tent
on my family said my steps were but like
butter my steps were like butter I just
eased into everything there was no
struggle it’s just blessing blessing
everything I touched turned to gold and
then I said 29 and 18 I said I will die
in my nest I’ll just I’ll just stay here
the rest of my life and God said I heard
that and I’m gonna introduce you Joe to
the blessing of the busted nest a nest
is my cozy smug place to rest to retreat
to it’s a nice place to be born into
it’s white birds and other animals build
nest is to have a safe secure wonderful
place for their babies to be born into
but it’s in this text one day Moses was
out in the wilderness he looks up in the
cleft of the rock or in a high tree and
he sees a mother Eagle stirring up the
nest and he sees the église as they are
being moved and shuffled around out
further further further to the edge of
the nest and he grabs a pen and he
begins to write the sermon to Israel and
he said as an eagle stirs up the nest so
God will deal with Israel
the female eagle picks her mate in an
interesting way if you want to qualify
to be her mate first of all she’s picky
she’s choosy about her mate that would
be a great lesson to learn and she takes
a stick she puts him through a series of
tests and she flies to about 15,000 feet
and she would drop that stick there he
comes flying chasing after her trying to
flirt with her she won’t have anything
to do with him she drops the stick and I
could almost see her folding her wings
and looking at him and all of a sudden
he realizes oh she wants me to pick that
up and he starts flying down they can
fly up the 200 miles per hour and he
doesn’t nosedive and grabs that stick in
midair and brings it back to her she
then goes down and gets a much larger
loose from a stick to a log she picks up
a large branch and flies up not to
15,000 feet but to about 5,000 feet and
when he comes soaring out there trying
to impress her she drops the bigger
stick at a lower level and that stick is
racing to the bottom and he has to go
even faster and when he grabs it it
pulls him down me now he’s breaking a
sweat now it’s really getting tough and
just when he thinks that he’s finally
impressed her she goes down and
basically picks up a small tree and she
flies to about 500 feet and he looks at
her and she looks at him and he knows
what she’s about to do she drops it and
when she drops it he flash takes off and
goes down and grabs it it’s pulling him
down he’s doing everything he can to not
let it crash on the rocks it’s taking
all the strength that he has his talons
his claws or just as strong as they can
be holding on to that that huge huge
limb the question is what is the lesson
you’re supposed to learn
and he learns a lesson that all men
learn soon that it’s impossible to
please a woman they man no no let’s keep
moving that’s not discerning today never
enough but but here’s the beauty of this
this is so important catch it now it’s
the mother Eagle that stirs up the nests
where the little eaglets are but it’s
the father Eagle who circles and she’s
testing him to know that when she stirs
up the nest and they go tumbling and
falling and squawking about to hit the
rocks that that father Eagle is powerful
enough is fast enough is strong enough
to not let them fall and ultimately
ultimately be destroyed I want to preach
to somebody today if you’re tumbling and
falling and the nest has been busted up
and everything seems like the bottom has
fallen out of your life and you don’t
know it looks like the rocks are getting
closer and closer you have a father who
can fly faster than you can fall and you
may fall but you will not be destroyed
you may be cast down but you will
ultimately find the loving arms of God
grabbing you rescuing you and taking you
up where you belong so don’t lose heart
God will bust up your nest to teach you
to fly what seems most cruel can become
most beneficial in our life and if you
don’t learn that lesson you’ll
misunderstand and think that God is a
cruel God but the truth is when he’s
going to take you higher he will bust up
your earthly nest many Christians have
folded wings they won’t know change they
won’t know challenge they won’t know
risk in their life I only want security
I only want happiness here on earth
that’s it but you’re called to a higher
calling a heavenly calling is on your
life not
and earthly calling there’s more to life
than the house and the car and the
comfort and the nest that you built it’s
important and God blesses you with it
and if he’s blessed you with it you
ought to be thankful but don’t ever
think that’s what your life is about
it’s not about earthly things but you
have a heavenly calling on your life and
until the Eagle starts disturbing the
nest the eaglets will never step out
into their potential you’ve got a
heavenly calling you’ve got wings that
can lift you above the storms do you
hear me you’re gonna need this sermon
you’ve got wings that can lift you above
the other birds our nest gets too nifty
too comfortable some of you are so
comfortable in the place you’re in right
now that you don’t even need to read the
Bible you don’t even need to pray you
got all the answers and I’m a self-made
man like somebody said why’d you make
yourself like that but I promise you
life has a way of tearing up your little
nest and you’re gonna need him you don’t
need him like you’ve never needed him
sooner or later
and then you’ll discover the blessing of
the best in this had I not gone through
it had I not suffer sometimes we want to
shield our family and shield our
children do we don’t want them to go
through nothing and won’t for nothing in
lack for nothing but the thing that made
you what you are is what you went
through the hardships and the struggles
and the tears and feeling like quitting
and giving up and now you just want to
give everything to them you need to hear
this preacher God says I’m gonna bust up
some of those kids nests until they get
back on their knees and they realize
that what they were
cien was not a lie there is a God in
heaven he does have victory for his
children and I cannot make it on my own
I never would have made it if the Lord
was not on my side oh here’s something
powerful
she doesn’t dismantle the nest she comes
twice she doesn’t dismantle the nest she
just makes it uncomfortable by pulling
out the fur pulling out the skin the
animal hides now the twigs are sticking
those little keep those little anklets
because they don’t even know that they
have two gifts they’re not even aware of
talons or claws and wings they don’t
even know that they have it you never
know that in the soft luxurious
penthouse big-screen laying around all
your clothes all your stuff laid out you
never know what you’ve got you’ll never
find some of your gifts as long as
you’re in a place of comfort and ease
but when she tears that place up all
that’s left is sticks and at that moment
for the first time those little eaglets
take those talons and they grab hold of
a stick and they learn how to stand
because that mother eagle understands
that we’ve got to teach a new generation
that before they can fly they need to
learn how to stand for something you got
to learn how to stand for morality and
stand for character and stand for
integrity and stand for the Word of God
even if nobody else hears even if nobody
has any stand if nobody else will leave
it you learn how to stand all by
yourself because if you don’t stand for
something you’re gonna fall for anything
and it’s
some point if you go ever fly high you
first gotta learn how to take a stand
and say yeah I’m different yeah I don’t
have your morals yeah I don’t go there I
don’t do that that’s who I am and I
stand for some things why am i screaming
I don’t I apologize and I feel this
we got a feature generation it’s alright
to stand all by yourself I don’t have to
have your support I don’t have to have
you liking me I don’t have to be popular
I don’t have to be in your little clique
me and Jesus is all I need to go to the
high places
I stand for some I stand for holiness I
stand for righteousness I stand for the
Lord I’m not ashamed of it you have to
take a stand so tired a little weak
little teenyboppers college students
that are so intellectual that this book
is stupid to you I have a prophecy for
you you’re headed for the blessing of
the busted nest and when your nest gets
broke it’s gonna be amazing
how you get on your knees oh I promise
your life will sooner or later bring you
to your knees big and bad arrogant and
intellectual your there’s some things
your money can’t buy your intellect
can’t fix
your friends can’t help you gotta go to
Jesus leave me to the rock that is
higher than
I know where my help comes from it comes
from the Lord comes from the Lord you’re
supposed to file he’s supposed to be
going higher supposed to be growing in
the Lord not sitting in a comfortable
niche when I got baptized back in 53 and
back in 73 I gave a special offering and
you you’re in a nest of religion thing
about the eaglets when they start
falling and tumbling and plummeting they
look foolish can I preach a minute are
you willing to look foolish are you just
gonna stay comfortable the rest of your
life some of you young people don’t ever
take risk you say no to every challenge
you’re not open to change you just gotta
stick yeah get out of your nest
you will look foolish go somewhere if
you’re lonely go somewhere where some
people are get out of your nest just get
in their circle and stand there and act
like you know what their time but but
that you gotta get out of your little
loneliness and yes there’ll always be
critics when you jump out of the nest
who will be sitting in the nest
I know them they’re from my neighborhood
why you dreaming like that why are you
risking like that you gonna make a fool
out of yourself it’s better to fail
trying to fly than to sit in the nest
and die say it with me again it’s better
to fail trying to fly then sit in the
nest and die why sit we here till we die
I’m gonna take a chance I’m gonna get
out I’m gonna use my wings of faith I
know there’s more to life than just
getting up and paying bills so Lord here
I come I’m coming up higher I’m ready
for the wind to take me where I belong
the high places tell somebody besides
you you don’t you you don’t belong with
the other birds
so let me tell you this I’m almost done
the ego is one of the few birds that
does not flap chickens flap
notice the text said the Eagle flutters
she’s testing and waiting on the wind
she gets on a rock she’s just waiting to
feel the wind it’s not by my it’s not by
pop oh I feel oh and then she flies in
circles they start out small but the
thermal draft gets in that circle and it
starts to this every time she circles
the circle gets bigger and it goes
higher and gets bigger and go if you
will learn to wait on the Lord and seek
after the wind in the upper room the
Holy Ghost came like a mighty rushing
wind and when you feel the Lord leading
you to do something you say here I go
God says your circle of influence will
get bigger and bigger and bigger and
bigger not because you’re talented but
because it’s not by mind it’s not by
power but the Spirit is enlarging my
territory my circle is getting bigger
and bigger and no man can keep me out if
I’m supposed to be there the Spirit will
make a way job said everything was
blessed in my life I was walking in
butter I had my family I had my wealth I
had I was the richest man in the East I
had cattle silver gold more than any man
in the East beautiful wife beautiful
children and then I said to myself
listening to it again and joke 29 I will
die in my nest and God said I heard that
and I want to teach people that I am NOT
the God who wants you to settle just
when you think I’ve done all I can do in
your life opened all the doors that I
can open bless you all that I can bless
you once you settle it disturbs me God
says you get my attention with your
lackadaisical spiritual attitude toward
me and he says if you don’t want
me to tear up your nest you better you
better get out of it you better be like
Isaiah 40 said they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength I may
need to run to the rest to the to the
nest for rest and refuge for season but
at some point I got to get up out of my
discouragement get up out of the divorce
get up out of the bankruptcy get up out
of the depression get up out of the
addiction at some point get up out of
the past out of the heartbreak out of
who left you if somebody left you it was
heavens vote that you don’t need them to
fulfill your destiny for the rest of
your life
six billion people on the planet life
doesn’t end when one walks out of your
life the nest is when you’re totally
afraid of change totally afraid of
taking a chance totally afraid of risk
faith dispelled RSK risk we build our
security we’ve even built our little
spiritual nest we’ve experienced all
that we ever plan to get of God because
I’m just happy where I am I know that
Holy Spirit stuff is real and God bless
Franklin Jensen and all them over there
you know I just like to sit up here in
my nest I just I got my little seat up
here everybody knows in this section
that’s my seat and I leave it alone and
and and and and and so so I just I’m
just happy like I am that is until your
nest get busted up when your nest gets
busted up you don’t need more than you
had yesterday
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so he said in Hebrews 12 everything that
can be shaken will be God doesn’t owe
you anything you owe him everything
God doesn’t owe you anything get that in
your head he doesn’t owe you a perfect
life sweet little picture perfect little
family everything beautiful and I
thought if I said the Lord everything
God doesn’t owe you anything
gave his son you owe him everything so
who you gonna trust in some of you think
you’re in a wonderful little financial
nest you determined giving you kind of
do it but I don’t really need the Lord’s
help well we we need them because we
print paper God makes gold you better
never forget if your nest is blessed and
thank God for it
you ought to be the biggest praise the
biggest praise are all not to be the
person who’s about to lose everything
and they’re really coming after God the
biggest praise are all to be the person
who has the blessed nest you’re in a
season of bless nest and you make sure
you let God know my joy is not from my
nest my joy is from you and that’s why
no matter how much you bless me with I’m
gonna give you the glory I’m gonna give
you the praise I’m gonna give you the
honor
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