1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,600 Well, this morning I'd like us to take a closer, close look at trees and what we can learn 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:06,600 from them. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,880 You know, there's about 60,000 species of trees. 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:12,600 How many of you have a tree at home? 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:13,600 Oh, good. 6 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:14,600 All right. 7 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:15,600 Are trees important? 8 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,080 Yes, they're extremely important. 9 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:23,340 Do you know the age of the tree that you have at home? 10 00:00:23,340 --> 00:00:25,040 Can you talk to your tree? 11 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,400 No, you can talk to your tree. 12 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:28,400 You can. 13 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,320 You can talk to a tree. 14 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,680 Trees talk to us. 15 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:34,260 They communicate with us. 16 00:00:34,260 --> 00:00:39,440 They communicate with us in several ways that we may not even be aware of. 17 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,600 Now, here's one way you can figure out the age of a tree. 18 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,000 You can use a core, a tree core. 19 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,200 And I forgot to bring mine. 20 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,200 I have one. 21 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,120 Sometimes we use it for outdoor ed. 22 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:52,240 But we can actually core it. 23 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:57,200 We could core a hole into the tree and we could pick out the core and then we can actually 24 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,240 count the rings on the tree. 25 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:07,600 Another non-evasive way of trying to figure out what the age of a tree is, you can take 26 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:14,760 the circumference of the tree, okay, and then you divide it by pi, which is 3.14, and then 27 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:23,240 you times it by a factor determined by that specific species of tree. 28 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,320 So it gives you a pretty good indication of how old a tree is. 29 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:30,040 And a tree will probably appreciate it if you do that. 30 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,040 Interesting. 31 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,540 Some trees are very, very old. 32 00:01:33,540 --> 00:01:38,920 We have trees that are hundreds and even thousands of years old. 33 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,040 How many have been to Camp Colocqua? 34 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:42,040 Okay. 35 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:48,240 Now, Camp Colocqua, they had a tree called, what was the tree's name? 36 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,240 The old tree. 37 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,240 Do you remember, Darren? 38 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:52,240 No. 39 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,400 It was old Dan, or Dan. 40 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,040 Dan was in the name. 41 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,360 And it was 2,800 years old. 42 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,140 Can you imagine that? 43 00:02:02,140 --> 00:02:09,640 So if you want to be of old age, you have better luck being a tree than you do for us. 44 00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:13,640 Now, trees do a number of different things. 45 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:16,460 First of all, they can break down rock. 46 00:02:16,460 --> 00:02:17,460 They can break down rock. 47 00:02:17,460 --> 00:02:19,360 They can create soil. 48 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,940 Did you realize that? 49 00:02:20,940 --> 00:02:23,400 Trees are very, very powerful. 50 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,060 And they also take CO2 from the air. 51 00:02:27,060 --> 00:02:30,060 Do we want to take carbon dioxide from the air? 52 00:02:30,060 --> 00:02:31,060 Say yes. 53 00:02:31,060 --> 00:02:32,060 Yes. 54 00:02:32,060 --> 00:02:33,060 Yes, we do. 55 00:02:33,060 --> 00:02:34,060 Okay. 56 00:02:34,060 --> 00:02:35,060 From the air. 57 00:02:35,060 --> 00:02:37,540 And they replace it with oxygen. 58 00:02:37,540 --> 00:02:39,920 And we obviously need oxygen. 59 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:44,200 Now, plants and fungus work together. 60 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,640 And in fact, I've got something here I wanted to show you. 61 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:50,120 This is very interesting. 62 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:58,240 I have a microorganism that actually produces a flow of electrons. 63 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,240 And this is interesting. 64 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,240 And it's called a mudwad. 65 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:08,240 So we can actually, every now and then, you might be able to see this little LED light 66 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:09,240 flash. 67 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:10,240 Do you see it? 68 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:11,240 It just flashed. 69 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,240 It's a very, very small amount of electrical energy. 70 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:23,240 But that microorganism in the process of feeding, what microorganisms speak on, it creates an 71 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:24,240 electron charge. 72 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:25,240 And that little LED light will blink. 73 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:26,240 We'll see it. 74 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:27,240 Isn't that interesting? 75 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:28,240 Can you imagine? 76 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:29,240 Can we see microorganisms with our eyes? 77 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:40,240 No, we can't see microorganisms with our eyes. 78 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:47,520 Now, trees and microorganisms are, I don't have to use this now, right? 79 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:48,520 I can put this down. 80 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,520 This is going to be OK. 81 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:51,520 All right. 82 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:52,520 Thank you. 83 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:53,520 All right. 84 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:54,520 Good. 85 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:55,520 All right. 86 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,640 Now, trees and microorganisms have something in common. 87 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,640 In fact, we're talking about fungus. 88 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:09,320 Ordinarily, we don't want, necessarily, we don't want fungus in our bodies. 89 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,680 But the fungus, the fungus is in the soil. 90 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:13,680 Fungus is in the soil. 91 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,200 We have a lot of fungi in the soil. 92 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,760 The fungi picks up water. 93 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:25,080 And it also picks up nutrients from the soil, including phosphorus and nitrogen. 94 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:33,480 In return, the tree actually transfers to the fungi about 4% to 20% of their sugars 95 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:34,480 through photosynthesizing. 96 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:35,480 Isn't that amazing? 97 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,480 I mean, it really is. 98 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:44,280 You know, and what do we call that sometimes when we have something that benefits something 99 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,280 else? 100 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:46,280 What do we call that? 101 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:47,280 Yeah. 102 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:49,160 And that's interesting. 103 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:54,960 So the tree does have an association, OK, with the fungi. 104 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,360 And I've got a couple of slides here. 105 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:58,680 Oh, there we go. 106 00:04:58,680 --> 00:04:59,680 All right. 107 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:00,680 Here we go. 108 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:01,680 So let's look at the text again. 109 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,880 I have to come over here in order to do that. 110 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:05,880 Here we go. 111 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,120 So in verse 13, 31 and 32, the scripture that was read, the kingdom of heaven is like 112 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,840 a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in its field. 113 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:18,080 It's the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is the greatest of shrubs and 114 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:23,720 becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches. 115 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,840 So what is this about? 116 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:28,320 It's about the kingdom of God. 117 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:29,320 It's about the kingdom of God. 118 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,240 The kingdom of God started slowly, OK, but yet you know what it's going to do? 119 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,160 It's going to fill the entire earth. 120 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,040 And that's what it's all about, which is interesting. 121 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,840 Have you ever seen a mustard seed? 122 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:42,840 You never have. 123 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:45,080 How many of you have seen a mustard seed? 124 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,120 How many of you have eaten mustard? 125 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,120 OK. 126 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,120 All right. 127 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,120 Good. 128 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:56,160 We're going to talk about, are you going to talk about mustard in your programs? 129 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,320 But you have it on your counter, OK. 130 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,720 Well, what I would like to do, and I'd like to have a couple, let's see, can we have a 131 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,560 couple of our junior deacons that could help me pass something out? 132 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:06,560 OK. 133 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,600 What I have is I have a mustard seed for you. 134 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,440 Each one of you have a mustard seed, OK. 135 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:20,480 And so they have, if you'll give each person one of those for me. 136 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:21,760 No, you can just hold that. 137 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:22,760 There you go. 138 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:24,800 So he's going to give each one of you one of the, oh, here we go. 139 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:25,800 Yeah, come on up. 140 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:26,800 You can help him. 141 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,400 Just reach in and grab a handful, OK, and you can take one side and you can take the 142 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,220 other side, OK. 143 00:06:33,220 --> 00:06:42,480 But I have a little, a micro centrifugal cassette here and I have one mustard seed in it. 144 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,080 Now, you can open it. 145 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:45,240 That's fine. 146 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,880 But don't lose it. 147 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,360 It's very, very small. 148 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,140 It's very, very small. 149 00:06:50,140 --> 00:06:52,640 And it's a mustard seed. 150 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:53,640 And here's a mustard plant. 151 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:58,440 Now, a mustard plant can be a shrub, OK, can be a shrub and it can be something that you 152 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:04,160 would grow in your garden and you could eat as it sprouts and it grows. 153 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,080 And it can turn into a tree. 154 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,800 Can turn into a tree that's 20 feet high. 155 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:14,400 Some of them get 20 feet high and they're very, very broad, very, very big around. 156 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:24,360 And another thing that you can do is you can actually, hang on. 157 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:29,000 And I have some that I have started to sprout. 158 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,280 So you can sprout them. 159 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:31,940 You can eat the sprouts. 160 00:07:31,940 --> 00:07:35,400 You can eat the leaves, OK, and the sprouts. 161 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:41,040 And for the children that are here today, young people, I have one of these for you. 162 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,080 And it's two mustard seeds in there and they have started to sprout. 163 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,720 And so after the surface, you can come up and you can see some green leaves. 164 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,960 I know it's hard for you to see, but there's some little green leaves that are coming out 165 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:54,480 of that little shootage. 166 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,920 In fact, Carrie, she can have that one already. 167 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,880 She's already ready to go. 168 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,560 Mustard seed. 169 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:06,000 What do we know about the mustard seed? 170 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,120 God says something, but if we have a what? 171 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,680 Faith like a mustard seed. 172 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,200 So look at the dimensions. 173 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,900 Look at the physical properties of that mustard seed. 174 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:16,720 It's really, really small. 175 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:22,320 So if we have faith, that much faith like a mustard seed, then we have a lot of power, 176 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:23,320 don't we? 177 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:24,320 That's it. 178 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:25,880 Sometimes I think we forget about that. 179 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,880 And in Jeremiah 17, 8, it says, they will be like a tree planted by the waters that 180 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,440 sends out its shoots by the stream. 181 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,400 It does not fear when heat comes. 182 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,700 Its leaves are always green. 183 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:43,880 It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. 184 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:44,880 This is talking. 185 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:45,880 Oh, thank you very much. 186 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:47,280 Did you get one? 187 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:48,280 OK, good. 188 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:49,280 Very good. 189 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:50,280 Everybody got one? 190 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:51,280 OK, good. 191 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:52,280 All right. 192 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:53,280 Very good. 193 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:59,520 Now, this is talking about a person, OK, that is a Christian. 194 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,200 They rely on Jesus Christ. 195 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,200 They've given their hearts to him. 196 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:04,480 And this is what it is. 197 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:09,120 There will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the streams. 198 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,480 It does not fear when heat comes. 199 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,000 Its leaves are always green. 200 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,480 It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. 201 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:18,480 Is that you? 202 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:19,480 Is that me? 203 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:20,480 That should be you. 204 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:21,600 That should be me. 205 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:26,000 That's a very interesting thing that Jeremiah talks about. 206 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:32,120 There's nothing like watching a tree around water. 207 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,840 Trees need water, don't they? 208 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:34,840 You and I need water. 209 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,680 You know how much your body weight is water? 210 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:39,680 Do you want to know? 211 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:40,680 Say yes. 212 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:44,240 Let's say you weigh 100 pounds. 213 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,840 70%, approximately 70% of your body weight is water. 214 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,360 So you're mainly made of water. 215 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,520 And your brain is mostly made out of water, which is kind of interesting to me. 216 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:56,520 Interesting. 217 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,480 Now, does anybody recognize that tree? 218 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,040 I'm sorry that it's so small. 219 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:02,840 This tree has been cut down. 220 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:04,880 It's been cut down a few years ago. 221 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:13,680 I always like to go where this tree was on the property because it was so huge. 222 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:16,200 Anybody recognize that? 223 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,820 Y'all don't get out much. 224 00:10:18,820 --> 00:10:21,640 You don't recognize that much? 225 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:27,400 Have you ever gone to the UPS place down in Chattanooga? 226 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:32,240 It was on the front part of the UPS place. 227 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:33,800 And look how big that tree was. 228 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,320 I don't know why they had to cut it down. 229 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,360 I have no idea why they had to cut it down. 230 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,240 But I felt really, really ill, and it was gone. 231 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,240 It was gone. 232 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,880 Now, that's what we would call a mother tree. 233 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,960 A mother tree is exactly what mothers do. 234 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:51,160 What does a mother do? 235 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,720 A mother takes care of its children. 236 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:00,360 And mother trees take care of the saplings, and they take care of them in very special 237 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,360 ways. 238 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,480 Let's go on. 239 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,160 Now, who recognizes that tree? 240 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,680 We should have some hands up. 241 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:09,680 Can you see it? 242 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:10,680 You probably can't see it very clearly. 243 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:12,720 Oh, you recognize it? 244 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:13,720 Where is it? 245 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:14,720 Where is it? 246 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:15,720 I think it's down there. 247 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:20,640 I think it's up the mountain at the trail over there. 248 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:21,640 That's right. 249 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:22,960 It's down here in Ringo. 250 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,800 It's at the trail, the nature trail, isn't it? 251 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:26,800 That's interesting. 252 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,880 And it has a growth on the side of it. 253 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,280 I think it looks like maybe a monkey, a monkey's head. 254 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:33,280 Interesting. 255 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:34,280 That's a growth. 256 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:35,880 We call that a burl, a burl. 257 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:42,320 A burl can be caused by injury, where the cells of the tree just grow over it, and they 258 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,140 grow over it. 259 00:11:44,140 --> 00:11:48,680 It could be from other problems. 260 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:53,800 What people do with that is they can actually cut the burl off or cut it when its tree is 261 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:54,800 taken down. 262 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,280 They can make beautiful furniture out of it, because it has some very, very intricate, 263 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:03,800 very, very interesting designs in the grain of that wood. 264 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:09,440 Even something that's not natural the way it should be can be something of beauty. 265 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:10,440 That's interesting. 266 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:11,440 Very interesting. 267 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:16,840 Here's another huge burl at the bottom of that tree right here. 268 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,120 Some of these trees are in our area. 269 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,080 I took those pictures. 270 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:22,560 What about the root structure? 271 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:26,840 The root structure in plants are very interesting. 272 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,640 As far as trees go, they're all intertwined. 273 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:37,940 The roots can grow further than the canopy leaves, and they can be intertwined. 274 00:12:37,940 --> 00:12:43,040 This is where the fungi comes into place, which is interesting. 275 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:47,480 I wish I could see the screen as well as my notes, but I can't. 276 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:48,480 Come on down here. 277 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,320 Look at the root structure of that tree right there. 278 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,160 These are some of the trees that blew over in the wind. 279 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,000 Why would they blow over in the wind? 280 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,760 Well, they may have been weak to begin with. 281 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,920 The roots may have been decaying. 282 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,960 Because roots grab a hold of the soil and they grab a hold of the rock, and that's how 283 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:08,960 they hang on. 284 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:10,880 That's how they hang on. 285 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,480 Now, this is a butterfly. 286 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,600 We mentioned something about fungus in trees. 287 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:24,120 They have a semi... What's the word that I'm trying to say, Darren? 288 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:25,120 There you go. 289 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,120 That's the word. 290 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:33,080 Because they can also feed off of that, and then they can give back something as well. 291 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,080 Interesting. 292 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:36,440 How many of you have any of these at home? 293 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:37,440 They're mushrooms. 294 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,280 You know, in mushrooms, they just come up overnight. 295 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:41,960 Isn't that amazing? 296 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:43,600 Talk about growth. 297 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:44,600 Talk about growth. 298 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:51,960 Well, that's another part of the fungus, and that fungus is related to those... It's in 299 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:52,960 the tree roots. 300 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:54,400 It's in the tree roots. 301 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:55,400 Interesting. 302 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,680 These are some of the ones that I found on the little trail. 303 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:00,500 Now, some of them are edible. 304 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,920 How many of you have eaten some of the fungus that you found out? 305 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,520 Do we have to be careful? 306 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,240 We have to be really careful. 307 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:11,080 You've got to really know something about mushrooms and fungus. 308 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:15,320 You just can't eat a particular one, and it can make you sick. 309 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,120 It can actually make you dead. 310 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:18,320 We have to be careful. 311 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:27,440 I remember we were on a winter camping trip out at the old camp, Combe Gay camp, and we 312 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,000 found a shelf mushroom on the side of a tree. 313 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,840 I didn't know exactly which one it was, but the person that was in charge of that trip 314 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,200 said, oh, that's a sulfur polyporous. 315 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:41,720 It's a wonderful mushroom. 316 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,920 We cut it off of the side of the tree, which didn't hurt the tree. 317 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,280 We took it back to the camp. 318 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:52,880 We sauteed it, and then we just cooked it, and boy, it tasted just like chicken. 319 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,560 I mean, amazing, amazing, amazing. 320 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:57,880 Interesting. 321 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:59,160 Interesting designs. 322 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,680 Some of them are extremely colorful as well. 323 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,040 Now, in order for trees to exist, we have to have what? 324 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:06,920 We've got to have water. 325 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:08,040 Have to have water. 326 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:12,920 You and I have to have water in order to exist, and we need water. 327 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:13,960 What has God done? 328 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:19,600 He has provided us with what we call the water cycle, the water cycle. 329 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,700 Without the water cycle, we can't live. 330 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:26,760 Without the water cycle, we can't have life on planet Earth, by the way. 331 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,560 What drives the water cycle? 332 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:30,560 It's the sun. 333 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:31,560 The sun drives the water cycle. 334 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:32,920 Got to have the sun. 335 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:34,160 The sun heats up the Earth. 336 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:36,480 The sun heats up the water. 337 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:38,040 The water evaporates. 338 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,440 The water vapors go up into the atmosphere, go up into the air. 339 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,520 They collect and they make clouds. 340 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,920 Pretty soon, the cloud gets so heavy that it can't stay a flying anymore, and so we 341 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,400 have precipitation. 342 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:54,760 We have precipitation in the form of rain, of snow, of sleet, all of that. 343 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:58,240 All of that falls back to the Earth again. 344 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,480 The trees are important for rain. 345 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:01,840 Did you know that? 346 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:06,480 They give off a tremendous amount of water every day. 347 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,000 Tremendous amount of water every day. 348 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,320 Where does that water vapor go? 349 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,680 Goes up into the air, and it forms our clouds. 350 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:21,320 If we have a breeze and wind, that cloud can be transported over an area where there isn't 351 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,420 a lot of trees or greenery. 352 00:16:24,420 --> 00:16:26,000 And it can rain there. 353 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,760 So that's an amazing thing. 354 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:35,720 Now if we look at the cross section of a piece of wood, and here is one here. 355 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:42,120 Now the water goes up from the ground and it goes up all the way up into the canopy 356 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,080 or the leaves of the tree. 357 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:45,800 How does it do that? 358 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:51,520 Well, there's a couple of ways that God has provided for that to happen. 359 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,320 And water is a, what shall we say? 360 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,920 Water has a lot of properties. 361 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:01,360 We used to think that there was only about three properties of water, but now scientists 362 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:08,880 are telling us there are dozens of properties of water that we hadn't considered before. 363 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:14,120 What's amazing to me is when we start studying about God's creation, as we get into it deeper 364 00:17:14,120 --> 00:17:20,140 and deeper, we understand that it is more complex than we could ever imagine. 365 00:17:20,140 --> 00:17:22,320 You found that out probably too, right Darren? 366 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,120 It's just absolutely amazing. 367 00:17:25,120 --> 00:17:29,920 One of those properties of water is that it likes to stick to stuff. 368 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,360 Have you ever put your hand in water, you took it out and your hand's wet, or your clothes 369 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:37,600 in water, you come out and your clothes are wet. 370 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,720 Well that's called adhesion. 371 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,880 Water likes to stick to itself. 372 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,000 Then we have something that's cohesion. 373 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,600 Cohesion is the water molecules like to stick to each other. 374 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,400 Isn't that interesting? 375 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:53,080 You know, and as we think about that, there are some spiritual applications here I think. 376 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,340 What about you and I as Christians or members of this church? 377 00:17:57,340 --> 00:17:58,840 Should we stick to each other? 378 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:00,880 Yeah, we need to stick to each other. 379 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,420 That's why we're here today. 380 00:18:02,420 --> 00:18:03,720 We're worshiping together. 381 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,920 There's strength and there's power in that community. 382 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:13,840 What about sticking not only to each other, but also sticking to others, other things 383 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:14,840 by the way. 384 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,800 There's water in the ground, it sticks to these little tubes that come all the way up 385 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:20,800 the tree. 386 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,840 Some of these trees are hundreds of feet tall. 387 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:25,040 Let's see what we got. 388 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,520 I have something that relates to that. 389 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:28,520 Let's check this out. 390 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:29,520 Here we go. 391 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,520 I've got some little transfer pipettes. 392 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:40,760 Now in the laboratory we use transfer pipettes to transfer water from one place to another. 393 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:46,120 So I have three different sizes of transfer water, transfer pipettes. 394 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:48,640 Here's a large one, large in diameter. 395 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:55,040 And so we can actually put water in here and we can transfer that water from one place 396 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:56,040 to another. 397 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:01,600 So this is a large one, but trees don't have them this large. 398 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:02,600 Here's another one. 399 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,400 This one's a little smaller in diameter. 400 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,000 So it gets water from one place to another as well. 401 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,520 But trees have them a lot smaller than that, obviously. 402 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:12,520 Here's another one. 403 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,000 This is the smallest one that I have right here. 404 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,680 And where did our helpers go? 405 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,160 I got something to pass out to the kids here to remind you of this. 406 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:27,360 What about the diameter of the tubes that go ahead and feed the leaves from the ground 407 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:28,360 in a tree? 408 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:30,680 Well, they're very, very small. 409 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:36,080 And so what I've got right here, guys, is I have, you can give one of these, you may 410 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,560 have to, you can give one of these to each one of the kids, okay? 411 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,480 So they can get one of these transfer pipettes. 412 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,180 They're not made out of glass, by the way. 413 00:19:43,180 --> 00:19:47,000 So some of you are going to say, you know, that's probably not too safe. 414 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,440 But I don't think these are made out of glass. 415 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,440 Oh, hang on. 416 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,600 I think these are made out of glass. 417 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,420 Okay, then parents, be aware. 418 00:20:01,420 --> 00:20:02,640 They have something that's glass. 419 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,400 So you may want to take it away from them, okay, and save it for them. 420 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:07,400 But this is Pyrex. 421 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,880 I don't think Pyrex makes plastic. 422 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:11,440 Okay. 423 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,360 But what about these plants, these trees? 424 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:22,760 You know what the diameter of those tubes are that go up into the leaves? 425 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:34,560 It's 0.02 inches. 426 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:35,560 That's very, very small. 427 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,600 And some are even 0.008, okay? 428 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,280 And all of that goes up into the leaves. 429 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:48,440 Now with just the principles of water that I told you about, water could only go up about 430 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,040 three feet, okay? 431 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,920 Just about all the further water could go up. 432 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:59,800 So what happens is that God has provided with, she's getting a drink with it. 433 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:07,320 Yeah, these are sterile, by the way, because they were in a pack that said sterile. 434 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,320 But that's interesting. 435 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:12,320 Thank you for passing those out. 436 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,120 If you just put them back in that thing over here. 437 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:16,120 Okay. 438 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:18,600 And I forgot my train of thought here. 439 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,560 Oh, that's right. 440 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:25,360 Yeah, it can only go up three feet by looking at the properties of water that I just gave 441 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:26,360 you. 442 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:31,200 But God has also given something to the plants that's called transpiration. 443 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:36,200 And in transpiration, the water that's in our plants and the leaves, it doesn't stay 444 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:37,200 there. 445 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,920 It's actually wicked away. 446 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,640 It's pulled away by the sun, by evaporation. 447 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:48,960 And that gives the rest of the power, okay, for the water to go from the roots all the 448 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:54,120 way up to the canopy, to the leaves, which is a tremendous amount of force. 449 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,960 And God had planned all of that, which is, I think, is so amazing. 450 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,280 It's absolutely amazing. 451 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,960 But we've got to have water. 452 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,320 Without water, the trees can't exist. 453 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:10,040 Now the water is, you remember when Jesus met the woman at the well, the Samaria, in 454 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,040 Samaria? 455 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,800 And what did he ask the woman for? 456 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,800 He asked her for a drink, didn't he? 457 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:20,520 And he told her, he said, if you knew who I was speaking to you, you would ask for the 458 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,720 water of life. 459 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,160 He was giving her the idea of eternal life. 460 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,000 And Jesus can give us eternal life. 461 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 That is the water. 462 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,840 That's the water that you and I need. 463 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,600 We need that for ourselves. 464 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,280 Here's a little cross section of a tree slice. 465 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,840 And we see those little rings. 466 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,320 Every ring represents a year, right? 467 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,720 Every ring represents a year. 468 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,240 Sometimes the rings are further apart than others, because we may have a drought. 469 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:54,680 We may have times of the year or years where we don't have a lot of rain. 470 00:22:54,680 --> 00:23:00,000 If you happen to be in a tropical area, if you take the tree slice and look at it, you 471 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:07,560 don't see necessarily individual rings, because it doesn't have a fall and a summer and a 472 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,240 spring and a winter. 473 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:15,000 And so it's pretty much all, it looks like it's mostly all the same. 474 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,040 These are some trees and the tree roots that were near us. 475 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,960 I'm sorry that we don't have, it should be a little bit darker to see. 476 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,520 Here's a picture of a leaf. 477 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,960 Why are leaves colored green? 478 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:30,960 It's because of what? 479 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:31,960 Chlorophyll. 480 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:32,960 Chlorophyll. 481 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:33,960 It's chlorophyll. 482 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,040 And that's part of the photosynthesis. 483 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,040 So what does the tree do? 484 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:39,480 The tree gets sunlight, right? 485 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:40,880 The tree gets sunlight. 486 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,920 What does it do with that sunlight? 487 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,340 It converts it, doesn't it? 488 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:53,320 It converts it to what? 489 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:54,320 Some sugars, okay? 490 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,840 And the sugar goes down, it goes down into the roots, okay? 491 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,580 That's what the fungi like. 492 00:23:59,580 --> 00:24:01,920 The fungi likes the sugar, okay? 493 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,160 The starch, the sugars, okay? 494 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,240 And so that's good for it. 495 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,800 And the leaf also gives off carbon dioxide. 496 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,280 I'm sorry, gives off oxygen. 497 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,120 It's taking in carbon dioxide, which is amazing, amazing. 498 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:27,400 Now when it gets cooler and the tree loses the photosynthesis, okay, is very, very weak 499 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,320 and they're not getting what they need from the sun, then they turn colors, don't they? 500 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,680 Don't you love the colors, okay? 501 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,080 Those colors have been there all the time. 502 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,800 Those colors of the leaf have always been there, but sometimes we don't see them because 503 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:48,600 the green, the chlorophyll overpowers those other colors, but they're there. 504 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,200 Another interesting experiment that you can do is you can take a leaf and you can put 505 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:58,680 it in a baggie, a plastic bag, and then zip it up as tight as you can and just let it 506 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:03,760 sit for an hour or two and then go in and check on it. 507 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,280 And look at all the water vapor that's in there. 508 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,520 All that water is coming off of the leaf. 509 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,120 Oh, it's coming off of the leaf. 510 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:18,160 And that's proof that the leaves are, that's part of the transpiration and all of that 511 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,920 water is going back into our atmosphere. 512 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:27,220 And that was designed, that was a design, that was designed by God to make our atmosphere. 513 00:25:27,220 --> 00:25:33,280 There's another root, a boletus, a tree that fell over not too far from here. 514 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,400 Sorry, you can't see that. 515 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,120 You recognize that tree as well? 516 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:40,920 Yeah, where is it? 517 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,920 It's down here at the park, isn't it? 518 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:43,920 Yeah. 519 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,520 I wonder what makes trees go like that. 520 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:52,480 Well, some people think that some of them were marker trees, okay, that maybe that the 521 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:57,760 early settlers, okay, of this country and they actually trained them and bent them as 522 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:58,760 markers. 523 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,080 But that's interesting. 524 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,480 Think about the forces that are on that tree. 525 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:07,560 Every time I walk underneath there, I'm thinking, you know, one of these days this may come 526 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,000 down, okay? 527 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,480 But it's kind of an interesting way that they actually grow. 528 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,280 And some of these trees are extremely tall, up to 300 feet tall. 529 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,960 Can you imagine having the water coming down from the earth and going all the way up into 530 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:23,960 the canopy? 531 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:29,320 Wow, what a design, what a design God has made about these trees. 532 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,400 This is, yeah, it's Big Dan. 533 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,600 Big Dan is the tree at Camp Colaco. 534 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:36,600 Actually it's down. 535 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,560 I don't think it's up anymore, but they have a cross-section view. 536 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,520 At least they used to have a cross-section view of that. 537 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,860 Then they had points in history. 538 00:26:45,860 --> 00:26:50,080 What happened at this point of this tree's life and what happened here and what happened 539 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:51,080 there. 540 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,080 Interesting. 541 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,720 Now, what happens when we take and we cut down trees in the forest? 542 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:01,080 And usually what they do is they cut down, you know, the largest trees because they're 543 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,640 the most valuable for lumber and resources. 544 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:11,240 The problem is that the mother trees are networked to many, many, many other trees through that 545 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,880 fungi and through the root system. 546 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,000 And they help each other. 547 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,000 They really do. 548 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,760 They help each other. 549 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,380 They help each other to provide nourishment. 550 00:27:20,380 --> 00:27:24,560 If one tree is not getting, if maybe it's a sapling, it's a young tree, and it's not 551 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:30,600 getting enough sunshine, that means it can't go through the process of photosynthesis like 552 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:31,600 it should. 553 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,000 And a mother tree is going to share. 554 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,640 It's going to share her resources with that tree. 555 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,360 Now, isn't that amazing? 556 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:41,960 You and I share our resources with others. 557 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,200 We should. 558 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:49,160 God has placed all of that in nature, and the trees do a wonderful job with it. 559 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,740 And in fact, the foresters, they used to think that, you know, there should be a lot of space 560 00:27:53,740 --> 00:27:54,740 in between trees. 561 00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:56,560 You know, let's leave some space. 562 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,800 Let's leave some space so that they can have more sunlight. 563 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:00,800 Okay? 564 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,000 And, but that isn't true. 565 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,640 What they're finding today is that they need to, they need to actually plant trees that 566 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,680 are closer together. 567 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,780 And they're getting more biomass because of that. 568 00:28:12,780 --> 00:28:14,640 And the trees help each other. 569 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:20,240 If there's too much of a gap in between trees, then the sunlight, a lot of the sunlight gets 570 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,360 through, yes. 571 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:24,320 But what does it do to the forest floor? 572 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,320 It warms it up. 573 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,520 And the temperature of the forest floor needs to be stayed somewhat cool. 574 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,480 And so that needs that shade. 575 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,000 It needs that shade. 576 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,480 I think that's interesting. 577 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,480 Well, what do we do? 578 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:45,360 Should we, should we particularly care for our older members? 579 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,080 We're talking about mother trees, but now I'm talking about older members, okay, of 580 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,840 our church or older members of our society. 581 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,240 We ought to respect them. 582 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:55,240 Okay? 583 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,480 We can learn from them. 584 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,560 And what do they do? 585 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,200 Their responsibility is to nurture us. 586 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,320 And they can nurture us if we have what? 587 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,120 We have an association with them. 588 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,600 I think that's very interesting, very interesting. 589 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,560 And that's the end of those particular pictures. 590 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:18,840 Now what are you going to do with your mustard seed? 591 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,680 Are you going to try to plant it? 592 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:26,120 Actually you could eat it right now, although we're having potluck, you may not want to 593 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,480 do that. 594 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:36,440 You could, and I've got about maybe four or five of those that are in a little Petri dish 595 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,000 that the kids can have. 596 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,400 And if you want one, if there's enough, you can have it. 597 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,160 But all of those little shoots, all of those little shoots. 598 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:49,480 But I hope that maybe that you would think about faith, if we have the faith of a mustard 599 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:50,480 seed. 600 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,720 Don't only think about the mustard seed, but trees. 601 00:29:54,720 --> 00:30:03,600 Because trees remind us of a creator God, a creator God that's so much more, every time 602 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:11,080 we study more about our creator God, every time we study more about trees or plants, 603 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,480 we are just amazed. 604 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:23,200 Amazed at a creator, someone that could create such a plant that scientists still don't know 605 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,960 much about. 606 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,760 That's going to be fun to study in heaven, isn't it? 607 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,160 I mean I think it's amazing. 608 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:36,000 It all points us to a creator God that is so awesome. 609 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:42,320 And we can never imagine how awesome he really is. 610 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,520 Lord, thank you for your creation. 611 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:55,720 Thank you for your creative power, as we learn from school to school, as we learn from different 612 00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:02,480 professors the fact that we just don't really understand everything that there is to know. 613 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,000 And we thank that you've created the world. 614 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,840 You've created the trees in such a way that we can learn from them. 615 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:16,120 And that you want us to be like a tree, that we will not be removed, that we will stand 616 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:23,200 when the winds and the weather gets rough and when there's a drought and our leaves 617 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,360 will always bear fruit. 618 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:26,360 We thank you. 619 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,360 Be with us as we start a new week. 620 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,160 Be with us this week. 621 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,920 Shine your grace upon us. 622 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,920 We ask this thing in Jesus' name. 623 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:41,920 Amen.