The Sermon Ordinary Heroes Part II - The Sequel by David McGee
May 30, 2010
Ordinary Heroes Part II - The Sequel (30:57)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 91:1-16; Philippians 1:20
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Psalm 91:1-16
1) He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2) I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust."
3) For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, From the deadly pestilence.
4) He will cover you with his pinions, Under his wings you will take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler.
5) You will not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day;
6) Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7) A thousand shall fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it will not come near you.
8) You will only look with your eyes, And see the reward of the wicked.
9) For you, Yahweh, are my refuge! You have made the Most High your habitation.
10) No evil will happen to you, Neither shall any plague come near your tent.
11) For he will give his angels charge over you, To guard you in all your ways.
12) They will bear you up in their hands, So that you won‘t dash your foot against a stone.
13) You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
14) Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
15) He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
16) I will satisfy him with long life, And show him my salvation. Psalm 92 A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
Philippians 1:20
20) according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
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As done in your Bibles to Psalm ninety one and the title of my message today is the ordinary heroes part to the SQL so few weeks ago spoke about ordinary heroes and we found out that ordinary heroes is really had an oxymoron. It just doesn't go together that we often have this picture that a hero is someone who is extraordinary, but the challenge for us is that ordinary heroes are people such as ourselves that are about our tasks doing our task and are living our life in a in a way that habit is having influence and there's a way out, touching other people 's lives so becomes an extraordinary ordinary that we do. Being here today talking with someone being yourself. Talk about in Sunday school about how that our personalities that being a steward of our personality. Being a steward of who we are as a person is, yet we are responsible to God to look at who we are and develop this person and whether it's not. We got bigger stewardship is just that, which deals with timing, but is that which deals with the total person, personality time, talents, abilities, relationships, who we are is that as an individual that we are recognizing the value of who that is while our Psalm today that will looking at here is the ultimate shield belt being decoration than looking somewhat at our military and people were served in the Armed Forces Psalm ninety one. Here is a shield that we are in our relationship with God when God has offered to us in this industry so be thankful and grateful for every day is what the Solomon is is speaking to us. Also, some ninety two beginning in verse one oh one reads the entire Psalm, it is it is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O most high, to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night to the music of ten stringed leer and the melody of the heart for you, as Psalm ninety two. His analyses. Psalm ninety one and you were looking at me and saying while that is a different version is me. I will start over again. Psalm ninety one. Field dwells in the shelter and now this sounds more familiar to me. I'm reading that I'm thinking this is not what I study the Jerry data had a sorry I Psalm ninety one God of protection in the midst of danger he dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow of the Almighty yes I will send the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. Surely he will save you from the fowler 's snare from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers and under his wing. You will find refuge in his faithfulness will be your shield and Rampart. You will not fear the terror of night nor the arrow that flies by day nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness. Though the plague that destroys at midday a thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand to right-hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you make the most high your dwelling even the Lord, who is my refuge no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra. You'll travel with the great lion and the serpent, because he loves you, says the Lord, I will rescue him. I will protect him or he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me and I will answer him, I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honor him with long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation ordinary heroes ordinaries that which is to be expected in the normal order of things, events, and are a common quality. So when we think of ordinary is something that is normal. Normal order of things, hero, man or woman admired for their achievements noble qualities, one that shows great courage, so whenever we are looking at this we are saying normal order of things on achievements, normal order of things on noble quality. It seems like they yell again. It doesn't doesn't fare on normal quality of noble wallet in a normal event of moral noble quality and all are normal order of achievements we would think that achievements and noble qualities are not ordinary to see what the Christian and with what we've just discussed discussed here is that God is one who watches over us, God is one who takes care of us. God is one who provides cross and as we dwell in the shelter of the most high will rest under the I will likely that we are in the presence of God, and that is an extraordinary quality is that it is an is an extraordinary place. God has for his people. So how can we think that we are ordinary just ordinary people whenever we have the presence of God in the shelter of God. Therefore us that we have the promises of God, the touch our lives we are. We are looking at this as the has my herbal achievements of normal quality of being close to the creator of this universe. We have all of this in place so ordinary is that it's a normal order of things for us to be close to God that I this weekend is to be called decoration Day is called now Memorial Day at the time to remember and remember our veterans remember all the former and present members of the Armed Forces. One definition means a person who has laid aside personal freedoms and served in the Armed Forces. In order to ensure the liberty and innumerable rights that all Americans enjoy that freedom is something that costs many people great things of age of honoring our veterans. I was looking at this reading, and in this one stuck out to me it says on February twelfth nineteen seventy three, Americans watched and waited as news coverage total. The first plane land the Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines bringing our POWs home from North Vietnam. Captain Jeremiah Denton, the highest ranking soldier on the first flight from captivity was informed that he might be expected to speak for the POWs with him when he stepped off the plane, Denton walked slowly down the ramp. See the American flag. He saluted and said these memorable words, we are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our commander-in-chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America Jeremiah Denton spoke on behalf of his fellow POD POWs, not only on that day, but also during his imprisonment during a television interview on May seventeenth nineteen sixty six. He repeatedly blinked his eyes as well. The light for the camera were too bright for him when he was discovered that it was discovered that Jeremiah Denton had actually been blinking the message torture in Morse code for seven years and seven months Denton suffered for suffered severe mistreatment as a prisoner of war four years of his captivity were spent in solitary confinement at the time he was shot down in nineteen sixty five, Jeremiah Denton was a commander while a prisoner of war. He was promoted to the rank of captain in April nineteen seventy four, shortly after his release he was promoted to rear Admiral then, in nineteen eighty, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. We don't have to turn to our history books. The fine heroes. They are all around us and this past week as of this week or last Colorado is that had taken her fourth grade class to Washington DC and there on the wall in Washington DC for the Vietnam veterans is a MIA 's name is James crew and James crew is a member of his church and this pulpit presented by James and Patricia crew of his church and what he or I am thinking it will be forty two years in the past year, when all I think that calling it anyway. We go on the wall with Vietnam veterans memorial Ainsley usually try to be there. There's a story, while I understand about again, and a man taking his grand plan for the ball and basically in the story of the very brief picture bought what anything is going to love at the wall and he said he was, and on the wall as the story goes on. It is the name of the grandfather is an unit of angular rubbing and something we've always done in our fourth graders have always done twenty five games. Major James Allen Krill was from Windsor, Pennsylvania. We've always done in what I said last year and thought that next year, Kelly Miller, the Navy and went right and I think it's jungle and inviting. I don't know what is going at Microsoft. This year, and Joey 's grandpa is Jane Allen Karen, I know all year and so many new or how we were getting to only wanted to do something that don't for jelly and his family this year when we went to Vietnam as to what he so I started talking to mom, Diana and I think you know, really, my mom, Patricia Karen would be in going well so that on the way to do what we must. Must be the runways and I truly say with absolute friendly to listen to Patricia Karen talk about her life prior Vietnam when her high school sweetheart machine eighty two years in high school share information about how he went on to be one at all. Instead, to a military academy it just didn't happen. So we went to the effort United for life, what is downtown and went down there for two years when I got a phone call from Walling and Wally K in Iraq: military Academy event will gain in England in the military at the repeating that finally that I have had opportunity to place you at the Air Force Academy in you. Let me know by Sunday night, so she talked about how his old in the morning is to put in the afternoon to talk to do more. You see, as he reflected me like the kids are taught. She started to really feel and in the afternoon. She shared about how Randy and as you know what you need to. All I really like the way you think and he was a pirate and you know they can get married for eight years and married, and then one they get married in the wind. There is not all the neighbors. I haven't gone back twenty one yet bold, and one of the old one. One. You are okay and then as time went on, you know they are the norm Diana his daughter was eleven months old when he went to Vietnam and he was setting was shot down. He was shot down in nineteen sixty seven cell was forty three years he had been shot down when we're right there. The homonymy something was on November ten and yes, that Memorial Day has always do so because the altar thinking about shot down in the November eleven hundred and so no one really knew all the other talking. She taught and did an amazing job. He realized that your family that had an MI in connecting and then it was that he would be, but in reality there was went down, allowing the remains of one of the four high readiness to play with ever return an outline will will will later like nineteen eighty nine. They brought with Honeycutt with the name of the other gentlemen and support means are right together on the wall. He will be part of history, listening to their stories they had pictures they had an actual of playing that you are important informational but someone will do what we've been doing for so many years and is it really. I made an impression on me because I feel that you know it was something that she still felt that old job one of the pilot to pilot the always one of those silicon and military. He always wanted to marry her. All will and will you know and she's been. I always have and I still do today. She actually lives in the home and I think one strain and she had liked. He feels that he will have. When you hear his to another area with some other family members. She got out and she's living in that house yesterday. I see the baby on the mountain. We know where that is also as the trip went on. We had a great experience. We were good in every thing everybody got been deeply the one our our energy needs and feelings lay a car so we need to me when they read as legal as the little cheaper, but we got recommendations, and the like. When I is true and Miller had nothing to decay about their. I am in MIA they meet. We had the children right. Once I even printed yet as I write a personal message to anyone for any non- and we had a hundred students down, and that he is your father think of the remaining winning one and along the Vietnam veteran law is that) one spot that it was moving. And as their own while Patricia Carew talked about her- shared with anybody and anyone was listening as thankfully as I walked there, he probably got any. I think she's the me, so I is he is seventy and I love the hot day and he wore a meeting he had in a very patriotically draw and if we were walking over. She wanted to see the Korean Memorial and when anything. She looked at what the fact that I see. Many, many times that Vietnam veteran in the name on the wall and see what the Korea. I don't know everything there is a wall is also facing on the military soldiers with germline and keep me quiet voice she said, the first of everything. Thinking of you in a you and and she said, I think anything getting on base economy can nicely said I wanted to be in no twenty nine p.m. when I'm working out that I pray the way that opportunity and I see you have any say in the arms of water. I saw this in the blank here, and I don't even know why that is, unless I allow, but I think she felt the same law wherever and you will be in the article probably. But in reality they can. I something that will change after him, and everything we have is built upon the shoulders of those who gone before us and it is important for us to know that we have a heritage will the heritage that is the heritage of which people have been able to build upon for Boras in the last couple hundred years. Something whenever I travel to Israel and to when you when you when you look at the history. There, it's two thousand three thousand, almost four thousand years of history, but I guess is we think about our own lives and think about where we have come from. It's important for us to know that God has been with us and as we think of our military and think about those who have gone before us. It is so difficult to try and summarize them in so I thought of Abraham Lincoln 's Gettysburg address and if you've ever been to Gettysburg and three days over fifty four thousand men die and it is it is a sacred place, just as any battlefield is the sense that people have been willing to give their lives so that others might be free and sometimes we don't recognize her value. The great gifts that we have sometimes we take them for granted. We treat them as ordinary, but you know, our lives are extraordinary. We are ordinary heroes, because each of us have gifts and each of us have abilities each of us have sacrifices in our past in all what one bothers sometimes bothers me is the sense that no one are hospice program that an individual who died recently and his wife said yes. He survived seven invasion World War II seven invasions now and he's he's a hero. All that one even notice or go out of your way to seemingly pay attention to adjust a man with an illness until you learn the history and in our lives. God has a way of bringing our life purpose and whether people know our past for Nolte, extraordinary deeds that we may have done is not important. God keeps track of every gift that we have given every good thing that we have done and that he will be there to reward us for our faithfulness to him and what we have done for him will last an eternity, Abraham Lincoln says we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hollow this ground, hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little notes, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. They gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from your. It is these types of this variances that bring to our memory and brings wildlife not only what happens and in our history. But as we read in the Solomon Psalm ninety one. We have a spiritual history. Our spiritual heritage that is far richer in far greater than what we have in our physical history, Psalm ninety one verse one. To whom the promises made the ordinary promise for ordinary heroes is one that we bring ourselves into bring ourselves to in our life event wallet and he met it by its what happens is for those who want. This is called the ultimate shield the alternate shield that is therefore we as believers is or he who dwells or by an verse two. The ultimate shield is our confession, I will say that God is my refuge, God is my fortress, the ultimate promise of protection on the ultimate promise of deliverance verse three, he shall deliver me the ultimate promise of protection he shall cover you is true. His faithfulness shall be your shield, we find that his protection will be around us. The ultimate shield verses five and six is a promise of courage you will not be afraid, neither the terrorists terrorize the night terrors, nor the arrow, nor the pestilence nor the destruction the ultimate shield is our faith in God, and it surrounds us versus seven and eight is the promise of safety. The ultimate shield a thousand shall fall at your side. Our faith is secure that no matter what happens around us. We are safe and just as James crew went to Vietnam, knowing that he was safe. He went there knowing that he was safe and God in the arms of his father and he is still safe whether he died in the plane crash, or died as the PLA buildup it. We don't know we don't know what wheat. We know that he didn't come home, but we know that he was safe when he left that he is safe now, verses nine and ten, is a promise of security, the Lord is our refuge and strength. First, eleven, twelve, the ultimate shield the promise of our help, he will give his angels charge over you the ultimate shield the promise of victory tread upon the lion and the and the adder. The snake, the beasts of the phenol. Why am this is the fiercest of animals, the snake the stalker silent stalker. We will try to call them the ultimate Shield is the promise of honor verses fourteen and fifty fifteen. He has set his love upon me, you will call and he will answer, God will be with you in trouble. Deliver you, and on review, the ultimate Shield is that which God has given to us and that he will keep us no matter where we find ourselves in verse sixteen the ultimate Shield is the promise of life, with long life, God will give you and she all you his salvation went with the knowledge that salvation that we have with God is for eternity in the relationship we have with God is what we begin to build long today, a change that takes place inside of us that will last forever and I close with Philippians, chapter one verse twenty. It says my deep desire and hope is that I shall never failed in my duty, but that at all times, and especially right now. I shall be full of courage saw that with my whole being. I shall bring honor to Christ's whether I live or whether I go that was Paul's letter to the church at Philippi. This is the courage that is within our hearts, the courage that speaks of life, the courage that speaks of love, a courage that says I can give on the abundance of what I have. Knowing that God will provide for me and give me the strength of his life in the strength of his word. It will come to me by his spirit, and it will lift me up, it will only encourage me and God, who will take the ordinary and make it an ordinary hero, you and I living our life for Christ and Barry, what seems to be ordinary places, doing what seems to be ordinary tasks will have a difference, now and for eternity. God will not forget the good deeds that we have done and how many times we set here he learning years and this fall, but not that often do I look and read this little plaque that says, presented by James and Patricia crew only once in a while is drawn to my attention that every week ever since it was been dedicated. It's here having an impact on all who look and not really knowing who gave so it is with our lives ordinary, but yet extraordinary when we come to know what happens and what's behind your life is an extraordinary gift from God to those around you. You ordinary hero As done in your Bibles to Psalm ninety one and the title of my message today is the ordinary heroes part to the SQL so few weeks ago spoke about ordinary heroes and we found out that ordinary heroes is really had an oxymoron. It just doesn't go together that we often have this picture that a hero is someone who is extraordinary, but the challenge for us is that ordinary heroes are people such as ourselves that are about our tasks doing our task and are living our life in a in a way that habit is having influence and there's a way out, touching other people 's lives so becomes an extraordinary ordinary that we do. Being here today talking with someone being yourself. Talk about in Sunday school about how that our personalities that being a steward of our personality. Being a steward of who we are as a person is, yet we are responsible to God to look at who we are and develop this person and whether it's not. We got bigger stewardship is just that, which deals with timing, but is that which deals with the total person, personality time, talents, abilities, relationships, who we are is that as an individual that we are recognizing the value of who that is while our Psalm today that will looking at here is the ultimate shield belt being decoration than looking somewhat at our military and people were served in the Armed Forces Psalm ninety one. Here is a shield that we are in our relationship with God when God has offered to us in this industry so be thankful and grateful for every day is what the Solomon is is speaking to us. Also, some ninety two beginning in verse one oh one reads the entire Psalm, it is it is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O most high, to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night to the music of ten stringed leer and the melody of the heart for you, as Psalm ninety two. His analyses. Psalm ninety one and you were looking at me and saying while that is a different version is me. I will start over again. Psalm ninety one. Field dwells in the shelter and now this sounds more familiar to me. I'm reading that I'm thinking this is not what I study the Jerry data had a sorry I Psalm ninety one God of protection in the midst of danger he dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow of the Almighty yes I will send the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. Surely he will save you from the fowler 's snare from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers and under his wing. You will find refuge in his faithfulness will be your shield and Rampart. You will not fear the terror of night nor the arrow that flies by day nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness. Though the plague that destroys at midday a thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand to right-hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you make the most high your dwelling even the Lord, who is my refuge no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra. You'll travel with the great lion and the serpent, because he loves you, says the Lord, I will rescue him. I will protect him or he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me and I will answer him, I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honor him with long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation ordinary heroes ordinaries that which is to be expected in the normal order of things, events, and are a common quality. So when we think of ordinary is something that is normal. Normal order of things, hero, man or woman admired for their achievements noble qualities, one that shows great courage, so whenever we are looking at this we are saying normal order of things on achievements, normal order of things on noble quality. It seems like they yell again. It doesn't doesn't fare on normal quality of noble wallet in a normal event of moral noble quality and all are normal order of achievements we would think that achievements and noble qualities are not ordinary to see what the Christian and with what we've just discussed discussed here is that God is one who watches over us, God is one who takes care of us. God is one who provides cross and as we dwell in the shelter of the most high will rest under the I will likely that we are in the presence of God, and that is an extraordinary quality is that it is an is an extraordinary place. God has for his people. So how can we think that we are ordinary just ordinary people whenever we have the presence of God in the shelter of God. Therefore us that we have the promises of God, the touch our lives we are. We are looking at this as the has my herbal achievements of normal quality of being close to the creator of this universe. We have all of this in place so ordinary is that it's a normal order of things for us to be close to God that I this weekend is to be called decoration Day is called now Memorial Day at the time to remember and remember our veterans remember all the former and present members of the Armed Forces. One definition means a person who has laid aside personal freedoms and served in the Armed Forces. In order to ensure the liberty and innumerable rights that all Americans enjoy that freedom is something that costs many people great things of age of honoring our veterans. I was looking at this reading, and in this one stuck out to me it says on February twelfth nineteen seventy three, Americans watched and waited as news coverage total. The first plane land the Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines bringing our POWs home from North Vietnam. Captain Jeremiah Denton, the highest ranking soldier on the first flight from captivity was informed that he might be expected to speak for the POWs with him when he stepped off the plane, Denton walked slowly down the ramp. See the American flag. He saluted and said these memorable words, we are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our commander-in-chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America Jeremiah Denton spoke on behalf of his fellow POD POWs, not only on that day, but also during his imprisonment during a television interview on May seventeenth nineteen sixty six. He repeatedly blinked his eyes as well. The light for the camera were too bright for him when he was discovered that it was discovered that Jeremiah Denton had actually been blinking the message torture in Morse code for seven years and seven months Denton suffered for suffered severe mistreatment as a prisoner of war four years of his captivity were spent in solitary confinement at the time he was shot down in nineteen sixty five, Jeremiah Denton was a commander while a prisoner of war. He was promoted to the rank of captain in April nineteen seventy four, shortly after his release he was promoted to rear Admiral then, in nineteen eighty, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. We don't have to turn to our history books. The fine heroes. They are all around us and this past week as of this week or last Colorado is that had taken her fourth grade class to Washington DC and there on the wall in Washington DC for the Vietnam veterans is a MIA 's name is James crew and James crew is a member of his church and this pulpit presented by James and Patricia crew of his church and what he or I am thinking it will be forty two years in the past year, when all I think that calling it anyway. We go on the wall with Vietnam veterans memorial Ainsley usually try to be there. There's a story, while I understand about again, and a man taking his grand plan for the ball and basically in the story of the very brief picture bought what anything is going to love at the wall and he said he was, and on the wall as the story goes on. It is the name of the grandfather is an unit of angular rubbing and something we've always done in our fourth graders have always done twenty five games. Major James Allen Krill was from Windsor, Pennsylvania. We've always done in what I said last year and thought that next year, Kelly Miller, the Navy and went right and I think it's jungle and inviting. I don't know what is going at Microsoft. This year, and Joey 's grandpa is Jane Allen Karen, I know all year and so many new or how we were getting to only wanted to do something that don't for jelly and his family this year when we went to Vietnam as to what he so I started talking to mom, Diana and I think you know, really, my mom, Patricia Karen would be in going well so that on the way to do what we must. Must be the runways and I truly say with absolute friendly to listen to Patricia Karen talk about her life prior Vietnam when her high school sweetheart machine eighty two years in high school share information about how he went on to be one at all. Instead, to a military academy it just didn't happen. So we went to the effort United for life, what is downtown and went down there for two years when I got a phone call from Walling and Wally K in Iraq: military Academy event will gain in England in the military at the repeating that finally that I have had opportunity to place you at the Air Force Academy in you. Let me know by Sunday night, so she talked about how his old in the morning is to put in the afternoon to talk to do more. You see, as he reflected me like the kids are taught. She started to really feel and in the afternoon. She shared about how Randy and as you know what you need to. All I really like the way you think and he was a pirate and you know they can get married for eight years and married, and then one they get married in the wind. There is not all the neighbors. I haven't gone back twenty one yet bold, and one of the old one. One. You are okay and then as time went on, you know they are the norm Diana his daughter was eleven months old when he went to Vietnam and he was setting was shot down. He was shot down in nineteen sixty seven cell was forty three years he had been shot down when we're right there. The homonymy something was on November ten and yes, that Memorial Day has always do so because the altar thinking about shot down in the November eleven hundred and so no one really knew all the other talking. She taught and did an amazing job. He realized that your family that had an MI in connecting and then it was that he would be, but in reality there was went down, allowing the remains of one of the four high readiness to play with ever return an outline will will will later like nineteen eighty nine. They brought with Honeycutt with the name of the other gentlemen and support means are right together on the wall. He will be part of history, listening to their stories they had pictures they had an actual of playing that you are important informational but someone will do what we've been doing for so many years and is it really. I made an impression on me because I feel that you know it was something that she still felt that old job one of the pilot to pilot the always one of those silicon and military. He always wanted to marry her. All will and will you know and she's been. I always have and I still do today. She actually lives in the home and I think one strain and she had liked. He feels that he will have. When you hear his to another area with some other family members. She got out and she's living in that house yesterday. I see the baby on the mountain. We know where that is also as the trip went on. We had a great experience. We were good in every thing everybody got been deeply the one our our energy needs and feelings lay a car so we need to me when they read as legal as the little cheaper, but we got recommendations, and the like. When I is true and Miller had nothing to decay about their. I am in MIA they meet. We had the children right. Once I even printed yet as I write a personal message to anyone for any non- and we had a hundred students down, and that he is your father think of the remaining winning one and along the Vietnam veteran law is that) one spot that it was moving. And as their own while Patricia Carew talked about her- shared with anybody and anyone was listening as thankfully as I walked there, he probably got any. I think she's the me, so I is he is seventy and I love the hot day and he wore a meeting he had in a very patriotically draw and if we were walking over. She wanted to see the Korean Memorial and when anything. She looked at what the fact that I see. Many, many times that Vietnam veteran in the name on the wall and see what the Korea. I don't know everything there is a wall is also facing on the military soldiers with germline and keep me quiet voice she said, the first of everything. Thinking of you in a you and and she said, I think anything getting on base economy can nicely said I wanted to be in no twenty nine p.m. when I'm working out that I pray the way that opportunity and I see you have any say in the arms of water. I saw this in the blank here, and I don't even know why that is, unless I allow, but I think she felt the same law wherever and you will be in the article probably. But in reality they can. I something that will change after him, and everything we have is built upon the shoulders of those who gone before us and it is important for us to know that we have a heritage will the heritage that is the heritage of which people have been able to build upon for Boras in the last couple hundred years. Something whenever I travel to Israel and to when you when you when you look at the history. There, it's two thousand three thousand, almost four thousand years of history, but I guess is we think about our own lives and think about where we have come from. It's important for us to know that God has been with us and as we think of our military and think about those who have gone before us. It is so difficult to try and summarize them in so I thought of Abraham Lincoln 's Gettysburg address and if you've ever been to Gettysburg and three days over fifty four thousand men die and it is it is a sacred place, just as any battlefield is the sense that people have been willing to give their lives so that others might be free and sometimes we don't recognize her value. The great gifts that we have sometimes we take them for granted. We treat them as ordinary, but you know, our lives are extraordinary. We are ordinary heroes, because each of us have gifts and each of us have abilities each of us have sacrifices in our past in all what one bothers sometimes bothers me is the sense that no one are hospice program that an individual who died recently and his wife said yes. He survived seven invasion World War II seven invasions now and he's he's a hero. All that one even notice or go out of your way to seemingly pay attention to adjust a man with an illness until you learn the history and in our lives. God has a way of bringing our life purpose and whether people know our past for Nolte, extraordinary deeds that we may have done is not important. God keeps track of every gift that we have given every good thing that we have done and that he will be there to reward us for our faithfulness to him and what we have done for him will last an eternity, Abraham Lincoln says we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hollow this ground, hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little notes, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. They gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from your. It is these types of this variances that bring to our memory and brings wildlife not only what happens and in our history. But as we read in the Solomon Psalm ninety one. We have a spiritual history. Our spiritual heritage that is far richer in far greater than what we have in our physical history, Psalm ninety one verse one. To whom the promises made the ordinary promise for ordinary heroes is one that we bring ourselves into bring ourselves to in our life event wallet and he met it by its what happens is for those who want. This is called the ultimate shield the alternate shield that is therefore we as believers is or he who dwells or by an verse two. The ultimate shield is our confession, I will say that God is my refuge, God is my fortress, the ultimate promise of protection on the ultimate promise of deliverance verse three, he shall deliver me the ultimate promise of protection he shall cover you is true. His faithfulness shall be your shield, we find that his protection will be around us. The ultimate shield verses five and six is a promise of courage you will not be afraid, neither the terrorists terrorize the night terrors, nor the arrow, nor the pestilence nor the destruction the ultimate shield is our faith in God, and it surrounds us versus seven and eight is the promise of safety. The ultimate shield a thousand shall fall at your side. Our faith is secure that no matter what happens around us. We are safe and just as James crew went to Vietnam, knowing that he was safe. He went there knowing that he was safe and God in the arms of his father and he is still safe whether he died in the plane crash, or died as the PLA buildup it. We don't know we don't know what wheat. We know that he didn't come home, but we know that he was safe when he left that he is safe now, verses nine and ten, is a promise of security, the Lord is our refuge and strength. First, eleven, twelve, the ultimate shield the promise of our help, he will give his angels charge over you the ultimate shield the promise of victory tread upon the lion and the and the adder. The snake, the beasts of the phenol. Why am this is the fiercest of animals, the snake the stalker silent stalker. We will try to call them the ultimate Shield is the promise of honor verses fourteen and fifty fifteen. He has set his love upon me, you will call and he will answer, God will be with you in trouble. Deliver you, and on review, the ultimate Shield is that which God has given to us and that he will keep us no matter where we find ourselves in verse sixteen the ultimate Shield is the promise of life, with long life, God will give you and she all you his salvation went with the knowledge that salvation that we have with God is for eternity in the relationship we have with God is what we begin to build long today, a change that takes place inside of us that will last forever and I close with Philippians, chapter one verse twenty. It says my deep desire and hope is that I shall never failed in my duty, but that at all times, and especially right now. I shall be full of courage saw that with my whole being. I shall bring honor to Christ's whether I live or whether I go that was Paul's letter to the church at Philippi. This is the courage that is within our hearts, the courage that speaks of life, the courage that speaks of love, a courage that says I can give on the abundance of what I have. Knowing that God will provide for me and give me the strength of his life in the strength of his word. It will come to me by his spirit, and it will lift me up, it will only encourage me and God, who will take the ordinary and make it an ordinary hero, you and I living our life for Christ and Barry, what seems to be ordinary places, doing what seems to be ordinary tasks will have a difference, now and for eternity. God will not forget the good deeds that we have done and how many times we set here he learning years and this fall, but not that often do I look and read this little plaque that says, presented by James and Patricia crew only once in a while is drawn to my attention that every week ever since it was been dedicated. It's here having an impact on all who look and not really knowing who gave so it is with our lives ordinary, but yet extraordinary when we come to know what happens and what's behind your life is an extraordinary gift from God to those around you. You ordinary hero