1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,560 Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,600 Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,039 I hope the following message challenges, encourages and 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,160 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,040 Go ahead and turn with me to Galatians Chapter 5, verse 25. 6 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,000 We could really go back in this passage. 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,440 You could just keep digging back. 8 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,400 There's such a great passage, but I want to, I want to read 9 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,920 Galatians 525 and then get into the first few verses of chapter 10 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,560 6. Believe the Lord has a word for 11 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,800 us this morning. So verse 25, Paul says this. 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:49,240 He said if we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step 13 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,320 with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, 14 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,840 provoking one another, envying one another. 15 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,160 And then in the original text, there was no break into the next 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,000 chapter. He goes right into it and he 17 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,200 says, brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:12,160 who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. 19 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,640 And so there's this theme that Paul begins to touch on. 20 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,800 Now, a couple of weeks ago we were talking about what it means 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,760 to be spiritual. You know, we, we use that term 22 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,040 being a spiritual man or a spiritual woman, but we got to 23 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,800 define our terms that that's not just some euphemism for someone 24 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,240 who's flighty or, you know, it's there. 25 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,280 There's a solid biblical theology behind this. 26 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,360 And Paul tells us in this passage, one of the primary 27 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,720 markers and one of the primary responsibilities for those who 28 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,560 are spiritual, what he refers to as spiritual. 29 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,680 So he begins in verse 25 of the previous chapter. 30 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,640 He says if we live by the Spirit, let's keep in step with 31 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,640 the Spirit. So living by the Spirit simply 32 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,640 means that we are drawing our vitality, our life. 33 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,400 The source of our spiritual life is from the Spirit. 34 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,720 And he says, if you do that and if you're a believer, that's 35 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,080 what you got to do. You know, there are people that 36 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,560 say, well, the supernatural is not for today, that that ended 37 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,080 with the apostles, when the Christian life ended with the 38 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,000 apostles because the entire Christian life is supernatural. 39 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,680 The only reason you and I can walk with Jesus is the 40 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,960 supernatural inhabitation of the spirit of the living God. 41 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,880 I knew an old biker that got saved and he had a ministry to 42 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,000 to troubled boys and he he wasn't real deep theologically, 43 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,840 but he was solid. He used to say when I got saved, 44 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,280 Jesus came and sat on my heart and looked out through my 45 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,520 eyeballs. That's good theology. 46 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,880 He lives through US. And so he said, if you live by 47 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,120 the Spirit, if we're drawing our life from him, then keep in step 48 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,680 with him. Let's learn to keep in step with 49 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,000 the Spirit. Let's learn to follow his lead. 50 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,400 When he turns, we turn and that's a learning to be 51 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,880 sensitive to the Spirit. And so then he goes on and he 52 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:11,600 says he, he says verse 26, let us not become conceited, 53 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,680 provoking one another, envying one another. 54 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,240 So he juxtaposes living by the spirit, keep in step with the 55 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,120 spirit over against what is proof we're not doing that? 56 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,480 He said, let us not become conceited, provoking one 57 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:30,920 another, envying one another. And so if we're really walking 58 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:33,800 in the spirit, we don't live for ourselves. 59 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,440 We don't come against one other people. 60 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,040 We live for other people. And then he says in verse six, 61 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,800 one brothers. I looked that word up. 62 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,400 We're going to do a little bit of Greek word studies this 63 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,000 morning. That word literally means to 64 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,840 come from the womb means you guys, you came from the same 65 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,160 Mama. You know, we talked about my 66 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,360 brother from another mother. Well, this is a brother from the 67 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,280 same mother brother and we have as believers, we have the same 68 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,280 mother, the church. Our father is God, but we come 69 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,720 from the mother of the church and that makes us brothers. 70 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,240 We be brethren. So he says brothers, He's 71 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,040 appealing to them. If anyone is caught in any 72 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,839 transgression, listen to how he says that. 73 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:23,320 If anyone is caught in any transgression, it's pretty wide 74 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,720 open invitation. Then he says this, you who are 75 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:32,280 spiritual should restore him. And then he tells us how we're 76 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:35,760 to restore him in a spirit of gentleness. 77 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,600 So what Paul is saying is that one of the primary markers, one 78 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:48,440 of the primary characteristics of a spiritual man or woman, one 79 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:54,760 of the primary responsibilities of someone who is spiritual is 80 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,480 the restoration of those who have been caught in a 81 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:02,800 transgression. Now we talked a couple of weeks 82 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,520 ago how this idea of what spiritual is, you know, we're 83 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,200 trinitarian being made by a trinitarian God made in his 84 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,880 image. We are trinitarian in our 85 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,840 expression. He is Father, Son and Spirit. 86 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:18,880 We are spirit, soul and body. In first Corinthians chapter 3, 87 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,120 Paul says he rebukes the Corinthians. 88 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,840 He says you are still carnal, you are mere infants. 89 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,680 So infancy in the our walk with God, we are still living the 90 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:37,760 primary component of our nature, that which leads us is still our 91 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:43,160 body, our fleshly desires. And then he's then he talks 92 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,800 about those who are soulish and he says the soulish man, the, 93 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:52,880 the NIV calls it or the King James Version says the natural 94 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,000 man. The NIV says the man without the 95 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,080 spirit, which is a bad translation. 96 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:58,520 By the way, that's not what Paul saying. 97 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,560 He's saying the man who is led by his soul or the man who is 98 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:06,200 led by his own understanding, his mind, will and emotions. 99 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:09,600 He's led by his emotions. He's led by his own 100 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:11,960 understanding. He's very willful. 101 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,560 That man is a mere adolescent and he can't receive the things 102 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,280 of God. And then he talks about the 103 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:21,680 spiritual man. So what is he saying? 104 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:27,000 He's saying the man who the the primary element of his nature 105 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,360 that is leading him, he is a spiritual man. 106 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,760 He's led by his spirit, not by his mind or by his flesh. 107 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:39,400 And the mark of a spiritual man, one of the primary examples of 108 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,520 that is that we, those who are spiritual, if anyone is caught 109 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:49,040 in any transgression, then let those who are spiritual run to 110 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,800 them and restore them. We need to be aware, one of the 111 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,360 marks of spirituality is that we're looking for those who need 112 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,520 rescued. We're looking for those who got 113 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:04,960 caught in a transgression, and we've all been there and we look 114 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,160 and we go and we rescue that. We go and we restore them, and 115 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,720 we do it with a spirit of gentleness. 116 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,880 That is the mark of Christian maturity. 117 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,640 It's not how good you can sing or how good you can preach. 118 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,800 There's a lot of people that have strong gifts, but it's the 119 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,800 fruit of the Spirit that Paul is looking for here. 120 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,240 Gifts are simply received. You can give a little child a 121 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:36,920 gift or you can give an adult a gift and all they do is receive 122 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,600 it. But fruit is grown. 123 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,320 It has to be matured before it can be enjoyed by those around 124 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,600 the tree. And the fruit of the Spirit, by 125 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,640 the way, is not for your the fruit you produce is not for 126 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,440 you, it's for others. It's for those that live with 127 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,200 you to enjoy and those that are around you. 128 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,360 And so that is the mark of maturity. 129 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,880 I have seen brand new Christians used in spiritual gifts. 130 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:07,560 I had a buddy in Teen Challenge. Guy got radically saved, but he 131 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,320 was carnal as all get up, but he could operate spiritual gifts. 132 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,120 It was amazing from day one man he would he would be able to 133 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,880 operate in spiritual gifts struggled for many, many years 134 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:17,800 because he didn't have the character. 135 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,920 He was very broken, had come from a very broken family and 136 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,080 God's still doing the work in him all these years later. 137 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:30,280 But the the mark of maturity is that the fruit of the Spirit. 138 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:35,799 And so Paul tells us here, you who are spiritual restore those 139 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:38,600 who have been caught in a transgression. 140 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:44,480 There's an interesting passage in Romans chapter 15, verse one. 141 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:51,080 It says this, You who are strong bear the failings of the weak. 142 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:58,000 You can put it this way, that the mark or the measure of your 143 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,280 spiritual strength is how much weakness you can put up with in 144 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,080 others. We could just have an altar call 145 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:11,600 right now. The measure of our spiritual 146 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,160 strength is how much weakness we can put up with in others. 147 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,240 In other words, it's not the man that can climb the mountain. 148 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,080 You know, I got up, I was up the first to the top of the 149 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:22,880 mountain. It's the guy who can climb the 150 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:24,480 mountain with a brother on his back. 151 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,320 He's carrying the one who can't carry himself right now. 152 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:31,960 That's what God's looking for. It's the measure of our 153 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:36,000 relationship with others. And Paul tells us in this 154 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,960 passage very clearly, you who are spiritual, if you want to be 155 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,880 spiritual, then put lenses of restoration and always keep an 156 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,360 eye out for those who need rescued for to come alongside 157 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,400 those and begin to help restore them. 158 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:54,080 So what does Paul mean by this? Well, let's look here. 159 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,360 He says, brothers, if anyone is caught that word caught is an 160 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,920 interesting word. It's pro lambano. 161 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,760 It's to take or seize in advance. 162 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,120 Pro. It's a compound where Pro is in 163 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,440 advance. Lambano is to seize. 164 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,880 It's to grab. But it also has a figurative 165 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,760 meaning of to eat before others have a chance. 166 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,480 Isn't that interesting? Yeah, we're all thinking of that 167 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,760 one relative at Thanksgiving. You you hide the good stuff from 168 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,680 because they're going to sneak out and take it early. 169 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,520 Pro Lambano, that's where you from now on. 170 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,600 So next at this Thanksgiving, say hey pro lambano. 171 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,120 They won't know what you're talking about. 172 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,080 The figurative idea is that food is seized beforehand. 173 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,240 In this context, it is the enemy eating the captive before they 174 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,000 have a chance to move into their assignment. 175 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,720 It's like the enemy. It's so it's to eat in advance. 176 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,640 And the idea is that there's, there's the laying of a, of a 177 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,240 strategy for a long time. Roger Helly, some of you heard 178 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,160 Roger when he was here. Roger mentored me in ministry 179 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:02,960 early on and I, I just love the man. 180 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,200 But he used to tell us and I'll never forget it. 181 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:10,920 He would say, listen, the enemy will lay plans for years to take 182 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:16,040 you down in one night. He will work and lay a strategy 183 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:20,280 all towards that one night. And so we've got to be on our 184 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,040 guard and we've got to rescue those who have been caught. 185 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,160 I love, I love that Paul doesn't say those that dove into sin. 186 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:32,440 He understands that there is a there is a strategy of the enemy 187 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,520 externally. We have our own woundedness, our 188 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:39,360 own propensity internally. And then there's the strategy of 189 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,040 the enemy externally. And Paul compassionately says, 190 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,240 listen, those who have been caught in a transcription 191 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:52,840 restore those with a spirit of gentleness. 192 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,120 And so we need to understand that the enemy is laying traps 193 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,400 and when we see or a brother or a sister be captured, that we 194 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:03,040 want to go in and we want to restore. 195 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:08,040 We want to have those lenses on. The gospel is not merely for the 196 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,840 unsaved. The good news of the gospel of 197 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,200 the Kingdom, the goodness of God, the only reason, the 198 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,000 Kingdom, the goodness. OK, there. 199 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,600 Here's the phrase. The good news of the gospel of 200 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,520 the OR the OR the gospel of the Kingdom. 201 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,080 That's what I'm looking for. OK, let's tear this apart. 202 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,760 Etymologically, Gospel is good news, Kingdom is Kingdom. 203 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,440 King's dominion. The good news of the King's 204 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:35,440 dominion. The only reason that's good news 205 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:38,160 is because the king who rules is good. 206 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,080 If God is not good, the gospel is not good. 207 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,480 It's really bad because this all seeing eye watching you doesn't 208 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,840 like you if he's not good. But the fact is he is good and 209 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,920 we want to exude his nature in the gospel. 210 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,600 And the gospel is not just until we get saved the gospel, we will 211 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,920 never outgrow our need for the good news. 212 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:08,160 And we want to be those who carry the good news both for 213 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,200 those who have not met Christ and those who already know him. 214 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,120 Paul, Jesus said, with the measure you use, it will be 215 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,640 measured to you. Press down, shaken together and 216 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,920 running over. Let's talk about put it in 217 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,920 there, press it down, shake it, press some more until it's 218 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:31,120 running over. In other words, the attitude 219 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,720 with which you deal with others will be the attitude with which 220 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:39,360 you are dealt with, but only increased because you will reap 221 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,880 what you sow. You put in one seed and you get 222 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,720 out a whole cob of corn. And so we want to be sure that 223 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,920 what we're sowing is what we would want to reap. 224 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,320 And so we have that attitude of restoration. 225 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:00,440 Now listen what he says here. He he goes on, he says, 226 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,880 brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are 227 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:08,640 spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. 228 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,680 And then he adds this, keep watch on yourself lest you to be 229 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:16,080 tempted. In other words, realize your own 230 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,880 propensity that you need to be guarded because but for the 231 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,680 grace of God, there go us. And when we lose sight of that, 232 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,280 we become vulnerable and we end up being the one that needs 233 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,120 restored. And so there's this humility 234 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,360 that is worked within our spirit when we realize the frailty of 235 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:38,080 our flesh that we have compassion to be the one who 236 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,000 restores others. That's what God is looking for. 237 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:46,760 Verse 2 bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law 238 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,280 of Christ. Bear one another's burdens. 239 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,560 It's telling the first service I'll I'll never forget this. 240 00:14:55,560 --> 00:15:00,840 It was many years ago now, but when when my wife and I lost our 241 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,040 son, he was four years old and for the first year. 242 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:06,240 I was working at Teen Challenge at the time. 243 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,640 And that first year it was really just living in a fog. 244 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:14,600 I didn't realize how much I was living in a fog, but about the 245 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,920 year anniversary, I sat down in staff meeting and I was waiting 246 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:19,480 for the other staff to get there. 247 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,200 And as they were coming in, the Lord spoke to me very clearly 248 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,960 and it shocked me. He said, Dave, it's time to pick 249 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:30,600 up your burden. And it wasn't a rebuke, it was 250 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,240 just information. David's time. 251 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,520 I felt the affirmation of the Lord, but I was not aware until 252 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,640 that very moment that everybody in that room had been carrying 253 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:45,560 me, that I was not pulling my weight because I was not 254 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,000 capable. And that's what the body of 255 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,160 Christ is about, that when we can't carry ourself, others 256 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:55,280 around us carry us. And every one of us go through 257 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,760 times where we need others to lift the load for us. 258 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,080 And that's part of being a believer. 259 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,960 That's part of the, the, the, the, the beauty. 260 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,040 Because Christianity is a team sport. 261 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:11,080 It's not a solo flight. Good luck with that one. 262 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,800 We all need at times people to carry our burdens and then other 263 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,160 times we carry other people's burdens. 264 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:22,640 And again, the measure of your spiritual strength, the measure 265 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:26,600 of your spirituality is the ability to carry the burden of 266 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:31,600 someone else and not complain. And I, I just remember feeling 267 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,760 so grateful because I, I suddenly became aware, man, 268 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:36,040 these guys have been carrying me. 269 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,560 They knew I wasn't pulling my weight in this organization. 270 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:41,920 And no one said a word. They just did it. 271 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,040 And I knew the Lord said it's time. 272 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,880 And I stepped back in. I'm so grateful that I had a 273 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,560 body of people around me that were willing to do that. 274 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,400 And that's what Heartland needs to be. 275 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,960 We need to be those people who will step in and carry the load 276 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,960 when others can't. We carry one another's burden 277 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:07,720 until we're healed up and we can move on. 278 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,400 Now here Paul says, he says restore him. 279 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,359 This, this word. Restore is such a beautiful 280 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:15,920 word. I was. 281 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,079 I was really blessed as I began to look into it. 282 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:24,359 The Greek word is cartartizo. Cartartizo. 283 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:29,240 It's to correct. It's conceived of as restoring. 284 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,600 Someone listen to this by furnishing a part which is 285 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,720 missing or putting together what is torn or broken. 286 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,760 That's that's the idea of restoration. 287 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,040 Oh, there's something missing in their life. 288 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,400 So what he's saying is a brother or a sister got caught in a 289 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,040 transgression. And So what we come, we come 290 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,640 with a with gentleness and humility, we say they need 291 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:54,920 restored. What does that mean? 292 00:17:55,120 --> 00:17:58,040 We're going to provide what was missing because something was 293 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,360 missing that ended them up in the place they're in or 294 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:03,840 something was broken that needs to be restored. 295 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,880 And we come and we're going to furnish what was missing. 296 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:09,000 And we're going to fix that's what was broken. 297 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,800 We're going to mend what was torn. 298 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,520 But there's more. It's like a Ginsu knife. 299 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,920 There's more. Some of you are like, what is 300 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:18,400 that? You're too young. 301 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:19,760 You won't know. OK. 302 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:21,640 How many of you understood what I said? 303 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:22,840 Look at that. Look at that. 304 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:24,880 OK. I feel affirmed. 305 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,440 It is also translated with this phrase in two different verses. 306 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:34,920 Fully qualified in second Timothy 317 in regards to the 307 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:39,120 man of God being complete, fully qualified for every good work 308 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:43,000 and is translated as with the same phrase in 2nd Corinthians 309 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,560 319. It is translated fully trained 310 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:53,360 and Luke 640 and so we have this to to provide that which is 311 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:58,680 missing, to bind up that which has been broken or torn, but 312 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:04,240 also to fully qualify them, fully train them so they can 313 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:08,400 fulfill their destiny. So the idea of restoration is 314 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:13,000 what is broken, replaced is the restoration of what is broken, 315 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,360 replace what is missing, or to complete training for 316 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:19,440 qualification. All of this is included in this 317 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,280 word. So the idea is that when someone 318 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,560 falls, when they have, when they hit a situation where they find 319 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,320 themselves needing rescued, we don't condemn. 320 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,920 We rush around them and we begin to help them. 321 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:36,480 We provide what is needed. We fix what is broken, and we 322 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,200 also give the training because they're not disqualified. 323 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:44,320 We give them the training so they can still fulfill the call 324 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,280 on their life, but what we do is we take responsibility. 325 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,800 We step in and carry their burden until they can on their 326 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,120 own. It's a beautiful word. 327 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,840 I don't know about you, but I could have church in that word 328 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,480 right there. I just kind of lay down and 329 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:00,360 meditate on that one. That is beautiful and that is 330 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,600 the gospel. That's what Jesus did with us. 331 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,080 Freely you have received, freely give. 332 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:15,040 It's beautiful, I remember. Years ago, I'd pastored this 333 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,560 church for probably a year and my brother, the one I always 334 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,760 refer to as my bald headed brother Christopher, was working 335 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:26,080 at Teen Challenge down in Chattanooga and he calls me on a 336 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,760 Sunday afternoon. He's weeping. 337 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,040 On the other end of the phone he said, Dave, God just told me 338 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,080 that Heartland will be a healing place for pastors. 339 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,280 When he said it, it hit me. I knew it was the Lord. 340 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:42,880 Go forward a few years and life Hetland shared a word with me 341 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,120 the first time Leif Hetland was ever here, Leif said. 342 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:49,280 He said the Lord had told him that there are 12 eagle's nests 343 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,760 in the United States. And there's some things the Lord 344 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,200 has talked to him about in regards to, he said. 345 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,920 But he said I knew where a few of them were, but I didn't know 346 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,120 where all of them were, he said. But when I landed in Des Moines, 347 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:03,920 I knew that this church was one of the eagle's nests. 348 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,520 But there was something unique about this one, he said. 349 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,920 It was an eagle's nest for eagles with broken wings that 350 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,680 God would use this place to restore people. 351 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,000 It was just a more beautiful way of saying what Christopher said. 352 00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,480 A year later, Paul, or two years later, Paul Udall came, first 353 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,080 time he's ever here. He was preaching on a Saturday 354 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,200 night and then he called me up here and he prayed over me. 355 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,760 And he was then he was going to have us pray over the elders and 356 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:32,960 the elders are going to pray over the people. 357 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,920 It was a powerful service. But while he's praying over me, 358 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:41,240 he says heartland is an eagle's nest for eagles with broken 359 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,760 wings. And I thought, oh, that's nice. 360 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,760 Life told him. So the next morning we're 361 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,160 driving to church and I said, so life told you about that word he 362 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:52,920 said, what word? I said that one about the 363 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,920 eagle's nest with eagles, you know, for eagles with broken 364 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:56,880 wings. He said, no. 365 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,360 He said, the Lord, I saw it when I laid hands on you. 366 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,200 I saw that in the Spirit and I, you know, but drove off the road 367 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:08,760 that Hallelujah. What I didn't know is that some 368 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,760 20 years earlier there was a pastor who was pastoring this 369 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,720 church when they were meeting over where Carl Chevrolet meets 370 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,840 that got up 1 morning on a Sunday morning and said the Lord 371 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,960 has told me that this church will be a healing place for 372 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,040 pastors. Isn't that amazing? 373 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,520 I've got a picture on my office wall, beautiful watercolor 374 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,000 water, you know, watercolor painting. 375 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,840 And it's of these huge pine trees in Alaska with some 376 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,560 mountain range behind it and this eagle soaring over the pine 377 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,240 trees. It was given to me as a gift by 378 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,760 a minister. Before he moved back to Alaska, 379 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,400 he had been an overseer of a Pentecostal denomination up in 380 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,080 Africa. His whole family lived up there, 381 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,240 and they went through some really, really hard times. 382 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:04,880 And he began to secretly drink and became an alcoholic, ended 383 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,600 up leaving ministry and was just in a depressed, backslidden 384 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,400 state, just had lost his way. And we were in the middle of a 385 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,560 move of God. This, I think this was about 386 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:20,000 2007, might have been in 2008. His son heard about Heartland 387 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,480 and said, dad, we need to go check this out. 388 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,160 And they came on a Saturday night and his dad got touched. 389 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:32,640 I mean, he got hit and God began to do a work in him 11 morning 390 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,640 on a Sunday morning during that move of God. 391 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,960 He was sitting outside the nursery, which was right out 392 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,080 here are the women's bathroom used to be our nursery and the 393 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,720 men's bathroom was both Anyway, yeah, he was sitting outside the 394 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,520 the women's bathroom or sitting outside the nursery and someone 395 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,680 came and gave their little baby to the nursery worker and a baby 396 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,440 was crying. They're saying we're trying to 397 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,000 wean it from the bottle. But the baby was really crying. 398 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,040 The next day. He is in his truck at work. 399 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,880 He's in a parking lot. And he said the Spirit of God 400 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,720 filled his cab. And he said he just began to 401 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:09,360 weep. And he said all of a sudden he 402 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:12,960 felt this, this tight embrace around him, a squeeze. 403 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,760 And he remembered when he was a little boy, his grandfather 404 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,880 would hold him when he was he had drank, it sounded like he 405 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,600 drank a bottle till he was a little older and his grandfather 406 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,120 would just hold him because they were trying to break him of the 407 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:29,280 Bible, wean him from the bottle, not Bible. 408 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,840 And so he said, and he was sitting in his truck and he felt 409 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,920 this embrace. He said, Lord, what is this? 410 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:41,200 And the Lord said, I'm embracing you, I'm weaning you from the 411 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,200 bottle. He was an alcoholic. 412 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,800 God completely delivered him. Now he's back in Alaska serving 413 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,480 Jesus up there. And before he left, he gave me 414 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,160 this picture of this eagle soaring over the pine trees in 415 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,400 Alaska. And on the bottom is a little 416 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,560 title. It's called the mended wing. 417 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,920 That little that pictures very valuable to me. 418 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,080 God has called us to be a House of healing and restoration. 419 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:19,920 But what it will require is spiritual men and women that can 420 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:24,160 bear the failings of the weak people that can come and be 421 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:32,520 mended back into wholeness. And he says do so with a spirit 422 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:37,600 of gentleness that we have this humility that we see, we 423 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:43,400 recognize our own frailty and we have mercy towards those who 424 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,800 have fallen and we're willing to step in and restore them with a 425 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,840 spirit of gentleness. Now listen to what Paul says 426 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:55,560 here. For if anyone thinks he is 427 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,360 something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 428 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:01,320 That's a pretty bold statement following what we just read. 429 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,560 That's a correction to the rest of us. 430 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,760 Number of years ago, there was a church we were providing 431 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,840 oversight for and one of the young men leaders in the church 432 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:20,160 in fallen into some sin and he had confessed it and they were 433 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:25,440 trying to restore him and someone in the church made some 434 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,000 comments about it. Didn't like it, felt like he was 435 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,600 getting his comeuppance. And the pastor called me and I 436 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,360 told him I said listen, once a man or a woman has confessed 437 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:38,240 their sin, they're no longer on trial. 438 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,760 Now the rest of us are now we're on trial and God is looking and 439 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:48,920 monitoring. Will we pass the test in those 440 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,720 moments, we all have an opportunity to step into that 441 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,760 space and be spiritual and minister the gospel, the good 442 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,760 news, the restoration to provide that which is missing, to mend 443 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:07,040 that which is torn and provide the training so they can get 444 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:12,960 where they need to be. So Paul, he's says if anyone 445 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,960 thinks he's something when he has nothing, he deceives 446 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,000 himself. But let each one test his own 447 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,400 work and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone 448 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,320 and not in his neighbor. What does he mean by that? 449 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,360 It's a weird phrase. What he's saying is that your 450 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:34,840 assessment of yourself needs to be based on yourself and not in 451 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,600 comparison with a brother who is struggling. 452 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,320 We don't compare ourselves with someone's weakest moment. 453 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,880 That's what he started. He said, man, that you're going 454 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,200 to deceive yourself. We need to, we need to assess 455 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,560 ourself and our walk with God and where we're at and our level 456 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,560 of maturity alone. We don't compare ourselves with 457 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,920 our our strong moment with their weak moment or vice versa. 458 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,280 Paul said if you compare yourself with yourself, you show 459 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,840 you're not wise. We need to assess ourself by the 460 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,240 word of God and allow the Lord to grow us up. 461 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:12,040 But he said we've got to be careful not comparing ourself 462 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,400 and the context is with someone who is struggling for then he 463 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:22,360 says verse 5 for each one will have to bear his own load. 464 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,920 Few verses earlier he said carry bear one another's burdens. 465 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,440 Now he says each one's going to have to carry their own load. 466 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,200 You see, that's the end zone. That's, that's the, that's the 467 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,760 goal here, that the one who stumbles and needs rescued, that 468 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,120 the body of Christ goes around them and they pick them up. 469 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,240 They, they, they carry them for a season until they can walk on 470 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,320 their own. And then they carry their own 471 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,120 load. And you know what? 472 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,160 Then they're going to have an opportunity to carry someone 473 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,600 else's load. And in fact, God is so amazing 474 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,320 that he will take our failures and fold them in. 475 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,200 And you've heard it said he'll take your mess and make it your 476 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,640 message. The the things you've gone 477 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,680 through. He will then utilize to bring 478 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,480 his message to the world that your credentials are actually 479 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:23,840 the restoration of your failure. Your your qualification for 480 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,960 ministry is that you've been delivered from something If you 481 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,520 had it all together. You're not the person that I'm 482 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,160 going to come to when I'm down and I'm struggling. 483 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,560 I want to know someone that's been there and got out. 484 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,680 I need some encouragement. And so it's a beautiful thing. 485 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,920 There's there's this beautiful verse in Ephesians chapter 1. 486 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,840 I need a Kleenex, this beautiful verse in Ephesians chapter 1. 487 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:55,160 And it says that God conforms all things to the purpose of his 488 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,480 will. It doesn't say he performs. 489 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:02,520 He doesn't perform it, He conforms it. 490 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,640 God is doing things. And there's times where we are 491 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,600 in step with the Spirit, and then there's times when we're 492 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,880 not. And we've all been there. 493 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,840 We've all succumbed to the trap of the enemy. 494 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,200 And all of a sudden we were the meal and we got robbed of our 495 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,240 destiny momentarily. And hopefully there was 496 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,880 believers around you that could come and support you and carry 497 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,560 you until you could walk on your own. 498 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:30,960 But the brilliant thing about God is that that detour is not 499 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,360 our destiny. It's not a permanent address. 500 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,600 Because what God does is he takes that and he conforms it 501 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,400 into his will. I've had this theological 502 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,760 conversation with the Lord. I still don't know yet, but you 503 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,840 know, I worked for Teen Challenge for 14 years. 504 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,440 I worked with drug addicts and Alcoholics and the reason my 505 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,080 qualification that my my great pedigree for that was I'd been 506 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,760 an alcoholic. I was homeless. 507 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,720 So I was 1 beggar telling the other beggar where to find the 508 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,920 bread. This is my only qualification. 509 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,240 And I've often thought, Lord, was it your will from the 510 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,000 foundations of the earth when you were forming me in my 511 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,800 mother's womb. David will work for Teen 512 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,160 Challenge for 14 years. I kind of doubt it. 513 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,040 I think the reason is because I was, I'm going to coin a word 514 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,200 this morning, my knuckleheadedness got me off in 515 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:24,600 the ditch. So God said, you know what, 516 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,160 we're going to use this. Let's just conform this into our 517 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,160 under my will. And I'm going to use him. 518 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,960 I'm going to deliver him, and then I'm going to help him give 519 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,080 away what I taught him and his deliverance. 520 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,400 And he folded it in his will. And God does that again and 521 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,960 again and again and again. That's the gospel and it's a 522 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,960 beautiful thing. And every one of us, we need to 523 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:51,640 have this spirit of restoration. And the spiritual ones in the 524 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,960 room are always scanning the crowd, looking for who needs the 525 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,640 encouragement, who has been caught this week, who needs 526 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,880 something mended, who needs something furnished that they're 527 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,000 missing today. Because we know what we're taken 528 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,160 care of. We're mature enough now, we're 529 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,600 spiritual. We can for the most part, take 530 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,200 care of our own needs until a crisis hits. 531 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,720 But let's, let's look for those who can't right now because 532 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,200 they're in a crisis. And that's what the body of 533 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,480 Christ is to be. So you who are spiritual, 534 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,960 restore such a one gently. Thanks for listening to our 535 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,680 podcast. If you'd like to help more 536 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,280 people hear this message, you can get the word out by 537 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,640 subscribing and sharing it on social media. 538 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,480 If you'd like to support the ministries of Heartland Church, 539 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,240 you can do so at Heartland Church online.com/give.