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Hi there, I'm a vulture. Is that the same as a turkey buzzard? Yes it is. Well, welcome to NatureCoin at Mr. Turkey Buzzard. Thank you Uncle Bob. I've been watching your carefully while gliding in the sky. Is it true that you have powerful binoculars in your eyes? Absolutely, kid. I can zoom in on things way up close from a mile up in the sky. Your eyes must have special lenses then. Oh yeah, they do. My creator designed very special lenses in each eye that look like the lenses in a telescope or binocular. Poor that's interesting. Now, eagles and hawks have these same kind of eyes, don't they? Yeah, they do, Uncle Bob. Sure. Why do you need these special telescopic eyes? Well, I need to find my food from way up in the sky, see? Well, why Mr. Turkey Buzzard? Because that's the way my creator made me. He designed me to ride on the warm air currents that rise from the earth and look over the countryside from way up here and trying to find dead animals. You're just like a glider then.
I'm a glider, yeah. OK, so the creator gave you a big six foot wing span to catch the warm air currents rising from the earth and let you float around in the sky looking for food to eat. That's it, Uncle Bob. So naturally, my maker had to give me special eyes to see from way up in the sky. Well, just how well can you see from say a mile up? Very, very clearly, Uncle Bob, just like looking to prepare binoculars, everything comes in really close. Now, this sounds pretty technical because you don't see up close all the time. How does it work? My brain causes the lenses and my eyes to change location and make things zoom in very close. And then I can zoom out with the lenses so everything looks normal again. Yeah, Mr. Turkey Buzzard, you'd have to do that or you'd have difficulty landing in that old dead tree out in the field. Right. If I didn't change the lenses, it would be like you trying to walk around looking through a pair of binoculars all the time. Yeah, it's stumbling fall. Uncle Bob, as I glide around and around in a rising air
currents, I turn my binoculars on and start scanning the ground for food. OK, what food do you eat? Well, well, some people might not like this, Uncle Bob, but Turkey Buzzards eat dead critters, like rabbits, you know, on the roadside. OK, I know. Don't apologize, Mr. Turkey Buzzard. The dead animals have to be cleaned up by someone. But I wait a little long to clean them up. What do you mean? I do it after nobody else wants them or can stand the smell of them. Not just a second, Mr. Buzzard. Don't carry this too far. I don't want to offend anyone, Uncle Bob, but the food I eat is quite spoiled. Well, that's just a polite way of saying it's pretty bad. It's rotten, man. It's rotten. It doesn't smell. It stinks. And you're getting a little uncouth, Mr. Turkey Buzzard. I'm just telling it like it is. OK, OK. Let's look at it though in a scientific way, Buzz. How can you eat rotten meat? It's got to be full of poison sitting out there in the sun for four or five days. Yeah, it's full of poison. In fact, scientists say it has botulism in it,
and botulism is deadly to humans and most animals. You better believe it, but it must be deadly to you, isn't it? No, it isn't. Botulism isn't deadly to you. Why don't you die if there's botulism in the food? My creator has made me immune to it. You don't even get sick from it? No, to a turkey buzzard, there's no such thing as food poisoning. That means I'd have no trouble going to some of your restaurants. Hey, now you better watch it. Someone's going to sue you for sure. I'm sorry, Uncle Bob. I was just trying to tell the truth. But just stick to your scientific facts, Turkey Buzzard. Leave the restaurant business alone, OK? OK, well, what I was trying to say was this, my digestive system in my stomach. It can handle food that contains botulism. OK, what is there in your system that allows this botulism? Yeah. The juice I have is very, very strong. And it really kills the botulism, the food poisoning, before it kills me, see. OK, I see. Meanwhile, the spoiled food you eat nourishes you and makes you grow. Definitely. After I get rid of the poison in my food
through my powerful digestive juices, the food that remains is good for me. Jump and lizards. You really help our ecology by doing this then. Oh, yeah, yeah, I clean up the pollution, man. You're really a scavenger. Yeah, yeah, that's my place in life. And I'm not ashamed of it. And since my creator made me that way, man, he also makes it possible for me to eat poisonous food and not get sick. Isn't that just like the creator, though? If he gives you a job to do, and of course yours is to clean up the pollution in all the dead animals, then he gives you the ability to do it. That's some super plan. Yes, it is a plan, Uncle Bob, a very beautifully engineered one. So Buzz, really, the creator made that digestive juice in your stomach special. It's different than the digestive juice in other birds and animals. Yeah, that shows that he has a lot of originality. I'm the master designer's garbage truck. And I'm glad because without you, Mr. Turkey buzzard, our world would be a lot dirtier, messier, and smellier than it is. Thank you, Uncle Bob.
Some people think you find your food by its, you know, it's odor, it's foul smell. What do you have to say about that? No, the great bird lover, Mr. Audubon, proves that I find it with my powerful eyes like I told you a few minutes ago. Yeah, well tell me how Mr. Audubon proved this. Well, he had a large dead animal and he covered it with a canvas of where there were a lot of Turkey buzzards flying around. Okay, so what did you do? Nothing, nothing. We buzzards didn't even know it was there, even though it did smell. So Mr. Audubon proved that you don't find food by smell. You're right, you're right. What did he do next? He took the dead animal away and put a painting of a dead sheep in its place. A painting? What happened? We could see it was a sheep from way up in the sky, Uncle Bob. I mean, it was cut in pieces lying on the ground, so we saw it in, let it to have supper. But then you found out it was just a painting, it wasn't real. Yeah, man, but it looked so very real. Right. Well, we just flew away and discussed, but Mr. Audubon proved his point.
Right, that you discover food by your eyes, your special binocular sight. Right, Uncle Bob. Where do you make your home? In the top of a big tree, we crouch up there like chickens roosting on a perch. I've seen you a few times, kind of hunched over. Right, we leave our roost only when the ground has warmed up. Why isn't it, too? Why does the ground have to be warm before you fly out of your tree? Well, you see, after the sun warms the earth, Uncle Bob, the warm air rises in currents. OK, and you hit your ride on those rising air currents. Right, right, they take me up. I don't have to beat my wings much at all. So on cold rainy days, you probably don't fly too much. You're right. I stay perched in my tree looking around for food. OK, Mr. Vulture, you're really an unusual looking guy. I know, I know, Pat Turkey and Pat Buzzard. I'd never win any beauty contest. Oh, come now. Don't apologize. You're pretty to another turkey buzzard. Well, thanks, Uncle Bob. My feathers are kind of pretty. Blackish brown with sort of a greenish metallic gloss on them.
What do you think of my red head? It kind of looks like you were in a fight and got all of your hair pulled out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's the way I was built, Uncle Bob. And those ear flaps, warts, and wattles were all placed there for a reason. I'm sure they were Mr. Turkey buzzard. Hey, thanks so much for flying in today and sharing with us on our nature corner visit. It was all my privilege, Uncle Bob. And now I'd say I'd better get ready to lift off for another day hunting high in the sky, because it's starting to warm up now. OK, there he goes. Mr. TB, turkey buzzard, the vulture, quite a plan for it. And when you have a plan, you've got to have a planner. We call him the creator, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible talks quite a bit about repentance. But how does a real believer in Jesus Christ repent? What does it mean? Today's true story comes from first and second Corinthians as our adventure opens, the believers in Corinth
are having one of their heated debates. We're for Paul. We're for Paulus. We're for Paul. We're for Paulus. We're for Paul. We're for Paulus. We're for Paul. He's the best. No, we're for Paulus. He's the best. Paulus, you've got to laugh. You've got to laugh. We're for Paulus and Chesha's at Colin. What would the Apostle Paul think have he heard you arguing like this? What would a Paulus think? Yeah, that's right. We're for Paulus. We're for Paulus. We're for Paulus. He's the best. We're for Paulus. He's the best. Stop it. Chesha's at Colin. Chesha's at Colin. The rivalry among the believers in Corinth got worse. So the Holy Spirit directed the Apostle Paul to light the church on letters. People, it's a great time. You and your house. What old people? The Apostle Paul has written us a letter. Oh, no. Why didn't the Paulus write it? Oh, no. Brothers and sisters at Colin's, this has got to stop. I don't think you'll like what the Apostle Paul wrote.
And that goes for those of you who say you're for Paul too. What do you think he could be speaking? I don't know. Just let me read this letter from Paul. Brothers and sisters at Colin's, there is jealousy and strife among you. You're letting your old nature win. You're fleshly. Even though you are real believers, you're acting like unbelievers. I don't like that. That hurts my feelings. Yeah. I don't like it. That hurts. Listen, what else the Apostle says? Who is a Paulus? And who is Paul? They're just servants. Servants who told you how to be saved. I, Paul, planted the church at Corinth. A Paulus watered it. But God was causing it to grow. Paul goes on to say, the one who plants is not important. And the one who waters is not important. But God who causes the growth is the important one.
So Paul says, don't take up sides for the Paulus and me and have envy and strife and jealousy. It's not us that you're the before. You're the before God. He's the one who saved you. And he's the one who makes you grow. Shame on us all brothers and sisters. Yeah. He's right. Sure is. I'm sorry. Me too. I'm wrong. Yes, I am. It's one of the leaders of this debate. Not just you, Philip. It's Paul's words cut me like a knife. They bring sorrow to me. He tells it like it really is. Folks, look. You know, I was one of those who was rooting for a palace. But this letter, even I know now, this letter is from God. It is his word. Not Paul's word. Yes, that's right. That's it, that's it. Righto. God's word has brought sorrow into our lives.
Yes. His word has cut like a sharp, two-edged sword. And it's hurt us. And that's good. That's good. It is. It is good. It's good. And it was. Paul heard that his letter really did the job God wanted it to do. So he wrote them another one. Folks, look. Paul has written us another letter. Oh, hey, great. Read it to us. I'm here. Okay. Here, believers at Collins, I know that letter that I wrote you made you very sorrowful. It pained you. I'm not sorry at all. I don't regret that I wrote it to you. Some sense of humor he has. In fact, Paul says, I'm rejoicing that you were made sorrowful. I'm rejoicing that this letter pained you because your sorrow or your pain has produced repentance. Yes. Yes. Repentance. A change of mind. Right. A change of thinking.
Right. No, folks. When you change your thinking, soon you change your action. Praise God. Praise God. Amen. Just like the Lord said, as a man thinketh, so is he. So that's the true story from 1 Corinthians 3 and 2 Corinthians 7. Remember the correct order. First, God's word, the Bible, tells the truth about us, and it hurts. His word produces sorrow. Then, number 2, the sorrow produces repentance or a change in thinking. And number 3, after our thinking has been changed, then our actions change. Keep reading the Scriptures so God can deal with you. Yes, I've learned to depend upon His word.
Well, my good friend, I hope you have a time every day when you get into God's word. Before you read, talk to the Lord and say, Lord, show me something good from your word today. Show me something that maybe needs changing in my life. Look out. He's liable to. Well, friend, that'll do it for Storybook Room today. About next time. Okinokia. Uncle Bob Dylan Cheerio.
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