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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,

I’ve gone too far.

There’s no way, Pastor

that God would take somebody

like me.”

He’s a good God,

and He will forgive you.

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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and wrong I’ve ever done.

I am a sinner

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Wash me in me your

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