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>> If you have your Bibles,
I’m reading from Deuteronomy,
the Old Testament.
Deuteronomy 31,
for just a few moments,
“He found them in a desert land
and in a wasteland,
a hallowing 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.”
Exodus 32:11: “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 him,” —
Exodus 32:13 said:
“He makes him to ride
the heights of the earth,” —
“the high places,”
the King James says:
“To eat the good of the land,
to draw honey
from the rock.”
Notice that there’s
the stirring up of the nest,
and then there
is the new level of blessing.
And I wanna talk to you
for a few moments this morning,
out of this text
that Moses wrote as a sermon
to his congregation.
And I’m preaching today
on, “The Blessing
of the Busted Nest”.
In Job 29, I want ’em
to throw up just the one verse
for the sake of time.
But he starts describing
how that he wished —
in Job 29:1, he talks about
how that he wished
he could go back
when he had his family,
when he had his wealth,
when he had his health,
when he had not lost everything.
He said, “In that time,
I was in my prime,
the favor of God
shined on me like a light,
and on my tent,
on my family.”
Said, “My steps
were like butter.”
My steps were like butter,
I just eased into everything.
There was no struggle,
it was just blessing, blessing.
Everything I touched
turned to gold.
And: “Then I said,” —
Job 29:18: “I said,
‘I will die in my nest,'” —
I’ll just stay here
the rest of my life,
and God said, “I heard that,
and I’m gonna introduce you,
Job, to the blessing
of the busted nest.”
A nest is a cozy,
smug place to rest,
to retreat to.
It’s a nice place
to be born in to.
It’s why birds
and other animals build nests,
it’s to have a safe,
secure, wonderful place
for their babies
to be born in to.
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 eaglets
as they’re 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 wanna 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 fee,
and she would drop that stick.
There, he comes, flying,
chasing after her,
trying to flirt with her,
and she won’t have anything
to do with him.
And 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
to 200 miles per hour,
and he does a nose-dive,
and grabs that stick in mid-air,
and brings it back to her.
She, then, goes down
and gets a much larger —
it moves 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, and he —
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 are just as strong
as they can be,
holding on to that huge,
huge limb.
It’s the mother eagle
that stirs up the nest
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 ’em fall
and ultimately be destroyed.
I wanna 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 want no change,
they want no challenge,
they want no 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 just an earthly calling.
There’s more to life
than the house and the car
and the comfort
and the nest that you build.
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 storm, 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’ve 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’re gonna need Him
like you’ve never needed Him,
sooner or later.
And then,
you’ll discover the blessing
of the busted nest.
Had I not gone through it,
had I not suffered —
sometimes, we wanna shield
our family and shield
our children.
We don’t want ’em
to go through nothing,
and want for nothing,
and 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 wanna give
everything to them.
You need to hear this preacher.
God says, “I’m gonna bust up
some of those kid’s nests,
until they get back
on their knees,”
and they realize
that what they were raised in
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’ve made it
if the Lord
was not on my side.
Glory.
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 eaglets.
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 the stick,
and they learn how to stand.
Because that mother eagle
understands that we’ve gotta
teach a new generation,
that before they can fly,
they need to learn
how to stand for something.
You gotta 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 is,
even if nobody has any —
if nobody else wanna live it,
you learn how to stand
all by yourself.
’cause if you don’t
stand for something,
you’re gonna fall
for anything.
And at some point,
if you’re gonna 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.
You have to take a stand.
So tired of little —
weak, little teeny-boppers.
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 you, life
will sooner or later
bring you to your knees.
Big and bad,
arrogant and intellectual.
You’ll —
there’s some things
your money can’t buy,
your intellect can’t fix,
your friends can’t help.
You’ve gotta go to Jesus.
Lead me to the rock
that is higher than I.
I know where my help comes from.
It comes from the Lord.
[Applause]
Comes from the Lord.
You’re supposed to fly.
You’re supposed
to be going higher.
You’re supposed to be growing
in the Lord, not sitting
in a comfortable nest.
“Well, I got baptized
back in ’53, and back in ’73,
I gave a special offering,
and,” —
you’re in a nest
of religion.
The 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,
or are you just
gonna stay comfortable
the rest of your life?
Some of you young people
don’t ever take risks,
you say no to every challenge,
you’re not open to change.
You just got to —
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 they’re talking —
but you gotta get out
of your little lonely nest.
And yes, there will 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 are you dreaming like that?
Why are you risking like that?
You’re 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
than sit in the nest and die.”
Why sit we here ’til 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.
The eagle 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,
and she’s just waiting
to feel the wind.
It’s not by might.
It’s not by power.
Oh.
I feel that.
Oh.
Here we go.
And then,
she flies in circles.
May start out small,
but the thermal draft
gets in that circle,
and it starts —
every time she circles,
the circle gets bigger,
and it goes higher,
and gets bigger, and goes —
if you will learn
to wait on the Lord,
and seek after the wind —
in the upper room,
the Holy came like
a mighty, rushing wind.
And when you feel the Lord
leading you to do something,
you say, “Here I go.”
God said your circle
of influence
will get bigger and bigger
and bigger and bigger.
Not because you’re talented,
but because it’s not by might,
it’s not by power,
but the Spirit
is enlarging my territory,
my circle is getting
bigger and bigger,
and no 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,” —
listen to it again in Job 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,
blessed you all
that I can bless you,
once you settle,
it disturbs Me,” God says.
“You get My attention
with your lackadaisical,
spiritual attitude
towards Me.”
And He says,
“If you don’t want Me
to tear up your nest,
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 nest for rest
and refuge for a season,
but at some point,
I gotta 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 heaven’s vote
that you don’t need them
to fulfill your destiny
for the rest of your life.
[Applause]
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 is spelled R-I-S-K.
Risk.
We build our security,
we’ve even built
our little spiritual nest,
we’ve experienced
all that we ever planned
to get of God,
’cause I’m just happy
where I am.
I know that Holy Spirit
stuff is real,
and God bless Franklin Jentezen,
and all them over there.
But, 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.
Now, leave it alone.
And so, I just —
I’m just happy like I am.
That is, until your nest
gets busted up.
When your nest gets busted up,
you’re gonna need more
than you had yesterday.
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.
“I just thought
if I served the Lord,
everything,” —
God doesn’t owe you anything.
Gave His Son.
You owe Him everything.
[Applause]
So…
[Applause]
Who are you
gonna trust in?
Some of you think
you’re in a wonderful
little financial nest.
You’ve determined it.
Giving, you kinda do it,
but I don’t really need
the Lord’s help.
Well…
We need Him,
because we print paper,
God makes gold.
You better never forget,
if your nest is blessed
then you thank God for it.
You ought to be
the biggest praiser.
The biggest praiser
ought not to be the person
who’s about to lose everything
and they’re really coming
after God.
The biggest praiser
ought to be the person
who has the blessed nest.
You’re in a season
of blessed 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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I’ve done so much,
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There’s no way, Pastor
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He’s a good God,
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He does love you.
He will restore you.
As a matter of fact,
His promise is,
“I make all things new.”
So say, “Jesus, I surrender.
Come into my heart.
Wash me, cleanse me,
you died on the cross
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I am a sinner
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Wash me in me your
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