Did I Ask?

0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.479 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:23.079 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Hey, hey, hey, 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.280 if you want to hear the word of God, somebody's 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:41.240 saying the comments preach, preach, preach, saying, Bridge, Bridge. I 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.400 was glad when they said, unto me, let us go 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.519 to the House of the Lord. But then I couldn't 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.680 go to the house of the Lord. So the house 0:00:52.800 --> 0:01:00.760 of the Lord, pay to me. Here it comes church. Amen, 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.040 we bring you greetings, seasons greetings. Normally they say that 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:11.920 at Christmas, but God is good in every season. Amen. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.480 And today we thanked Him for providing for us, for 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.880 meeting our needs. Go ahead and let me know in 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.240 the chat what else he can do? What else can 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.920 he do? I wonder what else he can do? It's 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.680 just a question. It's just a question. What if I 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.679 told you that last week when I went home from preaching, 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:38.680 I had leftovers, And what if I told you that 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.600 it was fresh from the oven to the point where 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.320 God was speaking to me so strong after last Sunday 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:51.760 when I preached about when they found out, and He 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.080 was speaking to me so strong. I had to call 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.960 select members of our staff, or I had to call 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.680 all the staff who aren't saved yet, all the ones 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.760 who are under sanctified and need an extra dose of 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:12.160 Jesus Christ and Holly plus Holly, and I said, let's 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.720 get in here and get into this word. So I'm 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.359 going to share with you again from a scripture that 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.320 I made reference to. Should we replace this? Is this bad? 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.400 Should we change it out? Chris? While I'm changing the south, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.760 we'll change it for the pulpit or something. Just bring 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.280 me out the real pulpit. I'll preach a real sermon. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.959 Bring me a real pulpit. I don't need an unstable table. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.880 He prepares a table for me in the presence of 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:45.839 my enemies. The Lord is my pulpit. Oh, this would 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.480 be good. I was writing a remix of graves into 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.520 gardens early this morning. I woke up at four point 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.760 thirty and the Lord said, I searched the world and 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:01.240 it nearly killed me. How many you know? I searched 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.399 the world and it almost took you out, but God 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:09.080 had a plan to keep you in. That's the twenty 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.520 twenty graves into gardens. It nearly killed me, but it didn't. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.320 Somebody put in the chat, but it didn't. I am. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.359 It feels good to have you back regular pulpit. I've 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.200 been quarantine preaching on a table like I'm calm, you know, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.560 my heart, I'm a preacher and I want to preach 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.799 today from John chapter six. If you can stand where 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.760 you are, that'd be great right there in your living 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.360 room kitchen. I know many of our teams are starting 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.560 to meet together and watch parties. I'm going to rename 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.760 watch parties. I don't know what yet. I looked at 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.960 it a little bit this morning, Like I said, I've 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.240 been up a long time, and so I looked at 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.520 that as well, and waiting for this to happen, waiting 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.640 to preach it. I don't want to call it watch 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.520 anymore because I really don't want you to think of 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.760 it as spectator sport, because really, God, when he wants 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.960 to build the church before he gathers us, he will 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.480 scatter us. And I think part of what God is 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.920 doing right now is really teaching us to take church 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.760 to wherever we are, and we're going to see a 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:16.600 great expansion in this season and I believe that. But 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.600 for now we call him watch Parties. And I didn't 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.280 tell the staff that yet. They found out, you know, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.320 I haven't talked about when they found out. Well, they 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.560 found out just now like you did. So we're going 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.400 to rename it, but I don't know what yet. But 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.560 everybody worshiping today, whether you're just by yourself or you're 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.200 not by yourself. Even if you're by yourself, you're not 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.400 by yourself. And I want you to know that. And 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.679 it's a privilege to stand here today behind this sturdy 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:44.240 podium and preach God's unfailing word to you. John chapter six, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.400 verse five. This is the word of the Lord. When 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.880 Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.320 he said to Philip, where shall we buy bread for 0:04:54.520 --> 0:05:01.640 these people to eat? He asked this only to test him, 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.480 for he already had in mind what he was going 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.080 to do. Holy Spirit, give me discipline not to preach 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.120 on every syllable of this text. While I read it. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.120 I love it. And Philip answered him it would take 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.960 more than half a year's wages to buy enough bread 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:26.800 for each one to have a bite. Another of his disciples, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.280 Andrew Simon, Peter's brother, spoke up here, somebody shot here. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.240 Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.839 two small fish. But how far will they go among 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.320 so many? Jesus said, you want to find out. Have 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.880 the people sit down, sit down, Sit down, and you'll 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.560 find out. Sit down and you'll find out. There was 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.440 plenty of grass in that place. And they sat down. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.080 About five thousand men were there. Jesus then took the loaves, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.680 gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated a 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:09.640 little bitty bite. But they didn't get enough. I shouldn't 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.800 put these scriptures on the screen, so y'all wouldn't know 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.640 that I messed it up on purpose. It said, as 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.560 much as they wanted. And he did the same with 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.279 the fish. And when they had all had how much, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.160 When they had all had how much enough to eat, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.120 he said to his disciples, gather the pieces that are 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.960 left over. Let nothing be wasted. He's speaking that same 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.520 thing over your life. You know that God's not going 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.800 to let it be wasted. God's not gonna waste a season. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.400 God doesn't waste a second. No, no, no, it won't 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.560 be wasted. It won't be wasted right there in the chat. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.679 It won't be wasted. So they gathered them and filled 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:54.479 twelve baskets with the pieces of the five the five 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:59.360 barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. And 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.520 to get to my title, go back to verse six. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.840 He asked this only to test him, for he already 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.760 had in mind what he was going to do. And 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.680 the title of this message is, and you got to 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.960 say it like my kids say it. You're ready, did 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.680 I ask? Look at somebody next to you and say 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:22.640 did I ask? You may be seated. You may be seated, 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.320 or stay laying down if you're still in bed watching this. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.760 Either way, here we go. Hey, do me a favor. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.760 Would you do me a favor? Put something in the 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:35.680 chat for me? Or write it down with an inkpen. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.960 When you put this down, I'll explain it after. It 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:48.000 starts with a question. It starts with a question. What 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.480 starts with the question? Everything, whatever it is, it starts 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.240 with a question. So when people will ask me where 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.240 do you get your messages from? And I say, people 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.120 ask me, It's not like people ask me that much. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.200 I think maybe ten people have asked me that in 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.280 the last couple of years. You know, I see people 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.640 get on social media all the time. They're like, I 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.160 wanted to hop on here. A lot of y'all have 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.200 been asking. I'm like, a lot of y'all. You mean, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.560 like your sister, Like, who is a lot of y'all? 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:22.880 Do you ever wonder this stuff? Nobody's asking? That's what 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:30.560 I want to say. But anyway, nobody asked. Nobody asked. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.679 But let me tell you anyway. But since since you 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.880 didn't ask, where I get my sermons from? Usually is 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.400 it starts with a question. And I'm kind of multitasking 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.760 here because I've got all these campus pastors who came 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.600 over to helped me preach today, all these I think 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.240 of you as the soux chefs. You know, you got 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.560 the chef and the soux chef. I think I use 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.280 that correctly, And I thought that it'd be good to 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.439 tell you always start your message with a question, not answer, 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.840 because if we start, if we come to the text, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.439 if we come to the Bible, if we come to 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.959 God with an answer, we're coming from our mind. But 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.040 a good message doesn't come from your mind. It comes 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.600 from the spirit of God, and the spirit of God 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.439 is in you. And the message that I preached last week, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.360 the week before that, the weeks before that, any good 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.000 message I've ever preached, and I'm not saying they're all good, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.839 but if it's good, it's because I didn't start with 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:35.319 an answer. I started with a question. So like I 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.079 got to John six and I was telling Holly by 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:43.760 asking the question, where did the baskets come from? This 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.719 is what I do while you're out doing like a 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.679 real job. I think about stuff that the normal person 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.439 is way too busy to think about, but I have 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.880 to think about it. It said that they didn't have 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.880 enough for everybody to have a bite, but then they 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.800 had twelve baskets, and I was like, well, maybe these 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.480 were very very small baskets. Nope, the same word for 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.560 a basket that is used to talk about when they 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:11.280 lowered Paul down from a basket if Paul was skinny, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.199 it was one hundred and fifty pound basket capacity. So 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.520 I'm thinking, how did they at one moment not have 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.280 a bite and then at the end they had twelve 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.000 baskets And I never found out, But I moved on 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.640 to another question. I moved on to another question. Not 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.760 every question gets answered, you know, and I'll let you 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.280 know when I find out. I read some theories, but 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.000 I never really found an answer to that. What I 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.959 do think is a better question. And this is the 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.920 art of good living, right, asking a better question, Asking 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.840 a better question. Jesus is the answer for the world today. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.599 You ever heard that that might be just like a 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.720 Baptist chorus or something like that, above him, there's no other. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.800 Jesus is the way. But they said Jesus is the answer. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:04.040 Jesus asks three hundred and seven questions in the four Gospels. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.079 While we're rewriting songs, let's do it. Jesus is the 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:14.800 question we want answers. But we have a God who 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:22.040 would rather ask questions. And since God asked questions and 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.559 Jesus asked questions, I thought it'd be good for me 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.760 to be like him and ask a question. So the 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.440 second question I asked was, you know, the scripture says 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.040 they all had enough, They all ate as much as 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.079 they wanted. They went home with leftovers twelve basketballs. I 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.280 couln't figure out where the baskets came from, but I 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.640 did want to know when did it become enough in 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.679 a visual sense. I wanted to know when did it 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.320 become enough? And I thought, well, they put it in Jesus' hands. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.160 They beat up the boy, took his lunch. You always 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:59.079 thought the boy volunteered his lunch. There is no textual 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.719 evidence that he he was a willing participant in this miracle. A. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.880 I think the disciples got desperate. You know how you 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.839 do when you really need something from God and you 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.760 get desperate, and you're like, I'm normally not a lift 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.240 your hands kind of person, but I think I'll lift 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.760 them right about now. I need you Lord. I got questions, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.120 I got questions. I'm running out of money, and I'm 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.679 full of on questions. I'm running out of wisdom, and 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.839 I got a lot of questions. So I don't know 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.920 whether the boy offered it or not. I don't know 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.800 if the disciples asked. I don't know if they asked 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.079 them or if they just took it. But what I 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.160 do know is that that there was eventually found in 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.240 the crowd watch this five loaves, two fish, How many loaves? 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.480 Five loaves? What kind of loaves? Barley loaves? What's the 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.439 cheapest kind of bread? Barley? So the cheapest stuff produced 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.720 one of the greatest miracles. Give him praise that God 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:05.959 is a master chef. Hallelujah. Gordon Ramsey's got nothing on 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.200 my God. I wish I knew a more current chef, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:14.520 but that's all I got. So what I wanted to 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.719 know is when did it become enough? When did it 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.480 go from a bite? Like Philip said, it wouldn't even 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:21.800 be a bit, it wouldn't even a bite. How many 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.240 feel like that right now? Like it wouldn't even be 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.439 a bite? I mean I don't have enough time or 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.800 close to enough time, or even if I had more time, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.679 I don't have enough energy. And even if I had 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.319 more energy, I wouldn't know what to do with it 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.240 because I don't have enough wisdom to apply the energy 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:38.880 to the right places. So then that begs the question, 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.320 when did it go from bite to buffet? What happened 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.280 in between? This is what I do. This is what 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.920 I do. I ask a question, and that's the wrestling process. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.360 Right have you ever heard of when Jacob wrestled with 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.880 God in the Bible? Right? You know what? God gave him? 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:59.880 A question? What is your name? Starts with a question? 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.520 You know, the nation of Israel. That was Jacob's new name. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.120 You know, the twelve tribes came out of Jacob. When 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.040 he found out his name. He thought his name was Jacob, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:19.600 but God asked him a question, who are you really? 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:25.920 I know what people call you, but who are you really? 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.200 It starts with a question. And everything that you have 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.120 ever done in your life has started with the belief 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.200 that you had about who you were. Who am I? 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:41.040 It starts with a question can I keep going? So 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.520 I wondered when did it become enough? Because I'm wondering 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.040 in my own life? When will I be come enough? 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.080 Because I'm wondering in my own life, when will there's 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.320 going to be a magic Monday morning when I look 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.160 at my bank account and I'm like, oh, that's plenty. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:02.240 I know it's coming. I had like ten milestones that 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.680 were supposed to be that and they they're gone, And 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:05.960 so I know it's going to be the next one. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.600 It's gonna be the next one. It's gonna be the 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.280 next one. It's coming, next one, next one. SOI me enough, 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.640 it's gonna enough. I know I'm eventually going to get 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.400 enough compliments on my preaching. Wow, where I'm gonna know it. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.520 You know, I got this where I'm not gonna wake 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.400 up at four thirty going should I call it off? 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:27.120 Is it too late? Will it be too disappointing? When 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:33.400 did it become enough? Because I'm wondering that. I wondered 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.560 that at fourteen, I wondered that at fifteen, I wondered 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.840 that at forty when did it be coming up? I 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.440 was just asking the question and what got us last week? 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.960 If you didn't watch it, you can watch it. It 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.760 said that, oh, by the way, is free. I mean 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.160 somebody gave so you could experience it. But you can 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.480 go and get it. You can go and get it. 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:55.840 You can go and get it. You don't have to 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.680 buy it. You can go and get it. And it's 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.920 right there. And we found out that it didn't become 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.720 enough all at once. Yeah. In fact, y'all just bear 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.400 with Larry Brod. He's not going to be able to 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.400 handle himself when I show you this. It's just gonna 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.240 it's gonna be bad. It's gonna be bad. On warning 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.600 you you sit close to him if you want to, 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.880 it's gonna be dangerous over there. Verse thirteen says, So 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.440 they gathered the leftovers and filled twelve baskets. You got 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:28.080 thirteen up there with the pieces of You got the 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:33.960 verse for me, Yeah, the pieces of the five barley loaves. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:45.400 All five thousand men were fed, but the loaves never 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:50.200 got more than five. So look at it, Look at it, 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.440 Look at it. They gathered the twelve baskets. I don't 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.240 know where the baskets came from, but I know where 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.960 the miracle came from. It came from the five. It 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.320 came from the five. It comes from the five. Go 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.119 ahead and put that in the chat. It's gonna come 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.879 from the five. It's gonna come from the five. So 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.640 it never became more on the surface, it was never 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.280 enough to the naked eye. There was never a moment 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.240 where it became what it could be. But we learned 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.240 last week this is just review. Please be seated, Be seated, 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:34.359 Be seated. It became it became enough every time they 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.800 went back to the one who was enough. Every time 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.200 I go back to him, every time I lift my eyes, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.560 every time I praised him, every time I stepped his 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.000 word as a lamp onto my feet, every time I 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.800 go back. So it was never enough on the surface, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.440 but it kept coming. I wonder, is there anybody with 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.639 that testimony. It was never enough, but it kept coming. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.440 We may as well have church early. We can do this. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.520 It was never enough, but it kept coming. I wasn't 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.920 smart enough, but it kept coming. I wasn't good enough, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.879 but mercy kept coming. It wasn't enough, but it kept coming. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:24.280 Keep it coming, Jesus, keep it coming. Oh, keep it coming. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.080 How many have that testimony? It was never enough all 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.000 at once, but it kept coming. When I tried to 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.480 bite off more than I could chew, a choked. But 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.840 when I said, give me this day my daily bread, 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.760 it wasn't enough for tomorrow, but it kept coming. It 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:48.159 kept coming. Brett kept coming. Oh kept coming. Hollylujah. So 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:53.119 I kept coming. Peace kept coming, and peace by peace, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.280 he kept it coming. I'm not praising him because I 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.000 got it all. I'm praising him because he kept it coming. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:13.760 Whoa he kept it coming. When did it become enough? 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:20.760 In the process, they saw the provision. So it starts 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:25.560 with the question. That's how my message started. And then 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.679 so when I get in the question, that makes me wrestle, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.720 and when I wrestle with it, I get stronger. That's 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.280 why he asked three hundred and seven questions, and he 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:46.600 only directly answered eight. Jesus is the question. I know 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.879 you thought God's logo was an exclamation point. God said it. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:59.960 I believe it. But what about Eve? Did God really say? 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:07.280 Sin entered the world through a question? It starts with 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:12.960 a question, did God really say? It starts with a question? 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.560 Put it again in the chat. It starts with a question. 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.440 My marriage to the beautiful, illustrious Holly Ferdick, the first 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.240 lady of what I believe to be the greatest ministry 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.360 in the world today, with the greatest people God ever made. Oh, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.200 this message started with a question. My marriage started with 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.159 a question, and it wasn't will you marry me? Check 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.800 out this Christian pickup line. We were at a Christian college. 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.640 I said, do you want to join my summer ministry team. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.920 It was a leading question. I was headed somewhere with 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.440 my question because if I could get her on the 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:54.160 Joyful sound bus unloading JBL Eon speakers in Loris, South Carolina, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.520 I could get her to Charlotte and she would be 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:02.240 my wife and we would be marital. We would do 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.040 marital things and have marital union and have a mission 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.760 for Jesus Christ to start it with a question, the 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:13.720 question before the question. Try that on a I'm given 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.199 the single seminar right now. Some of you boys need 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:23.080 to ask, I mean directly ask. Put it like this. 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.320 Eric is in sales and he taught me this. He said, 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:26.720 don't ask you want to go out with me, say 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:33.320 coffee or dinner. Don't ask a yes or no. Ask 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.280 of this or that, coffee or dinner. What do you prefer? 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:41.200 Breakfast or dinner? Italian or you know. Forgive them an option, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.560 but don't let one of them be no. You want 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.200 to be on my ministry team. Try that. It worked 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:54.399 for me. It started with a question, because when I 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.200 asked y'all to come with me to start the church, 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:02.720 that started with a question too. Chunks and Amy, Chunks 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.680 and Amy Corbett the artist formerly known as James Brett 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:13.480 Corbett namey Lynn Moody, James Brett Corbett, Chunks and Amy. 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:18.000 But I just asked him at Golden Corral. In fact, 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.040 the only reason we were Golden Corral is because of 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:24.639 a question. I asked him, do you know a doctor? 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:30.440 I just moved to Shelby, Shelby, North Carolina. We'll talk 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.359 about this another time. You can ask me about that later. Shelby, 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.760 North Carolina, was a place where I met the whole 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:39.720 court team for our church. I didn't know why I 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:44.800 was there. While I was there, there were times we 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.080 really wondered. It wasn't a bad place. I love Shelby 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.440 because people watch us from Shelby. Don't even come take 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:51.600 us out of here. But I love Shelby. It was 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:53.880 great for me. I didn't know why I was there. 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:58.240 You don't know why sometimes you're there. Right now, I 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:01.760 know you are even figure out what this is about. 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:08.399 But I met Chunks and that's something. Now he's running 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:10.879 the ministry on a day to day basis so I 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.320 can preach God's work. And it started because I said, 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:14.680 do you know a doctor? And he gave me Chris 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.760 Dinning's phone number. I don't even remember what I was 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.240 sick with, but I just asked him for a doctor. 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:20.960 He was a physical therapist, and I thought, well, he 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.960 probably knows a doctor. Then he ended up at my 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:27.720 house eating fried rice, and here we are twenty campuses later. 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:31.760 I started. It started now, But then came the question, 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:33.480 you want to step out on faith and start the church. 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:35.840 And here's what's crazy. He didn't find out and he 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:37.520 didn't find out where we were going to start the 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:42.120 church until after they said yes. So the details came 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:47.720 after the yes was given. Should I stay there or 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:53.520 move on? The details came after the decision. The details 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:57.720 cat go to the land. I will show you. You 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.479 want another one than we were singing about it earlier, 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:03.840 dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. That's the 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:07.280 command right check out Ezekiel thirty seven three before you 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:10.520 go to bed tonight. It starts with a question, can 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:17.800 this is God? Can they live again? Can they? That's 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:22.160 God asking that? And Ezekiel said, I don't know, Lord, 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:29.800 but the question opened the door to resurrection. Come on, 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:32.680 I don't have the answer right now, and I don't 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:35.600 know what He's gonna do. That's why I like that song. 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:40.040 It says, is there anything that he can't do? Just 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.159 ask the man who was strong? Just ask the stuff. 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:45.840 I don't know, but he does, and I want to 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:53.080 find out by faith. It starts with a question, and 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:57.040 this might shock you, but not only this ministry, but 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:03.399 Jesus ministry started with question, Yes, what gospel did I 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:08.280 read to you from John? The first chapter of the 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.520 Book of John. You know, there's all kinds of symbolic things. 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:14.560 In John's Seven Signs, Jesus performed showing himself to be 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:16.000 the son of God that you may believe and have 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:18.840 life in his name, the seven I Am statements where 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:22.720 he disclosed the reality. He revealed the essence of his 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:26.920 nature in stages. Lesslie be overwhelmed all at once. He 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:30.800 shows us in stages. In the beginning, this is how 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:33.200 it starts. Was the Word, and the word was with God, 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:35.200 and the word was God. In the beginning was the 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.880 Word and the first read letters In the Gospel of John, 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:43.399 where Jesus actually speaks, recorded by the gospel writer, he 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:47.760 asks a question, and now I have a question about that. 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:53.960 What is the word doing asking a question? Think about it? 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:59.680 You use words. Jesus is the word. I'm not being 0:25:59.800 --> 0:26:03.760 d just to be cute. It's a great question. In 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:06.840 the beginning was the Word and the first words he speaks. 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:13.160 He asks Andrew and another disciple, what do you want? 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:17.680 The first thing the word says in human flesh. That's 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:21.280 recorded by John, isn't let there be? That's in Genesis 0:26:22.160 --> 0:26:26.280 in John the word became flesh and dwelt among us. 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:33.200 And the answer Jesus is the answer asked a question. 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:37.680 It starts with the whole Gospel of John, and then 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:39.960 it moves to revelation. You know, I am the Bread 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:42.200 of life, I am the Good Shepherd, I am the Door, 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:44.320 I am the Resurrection, I am the Way. But before 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:50.600 any of those statements, it starts with a question. I 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:55.280 wonder what you've been asking God lately? Because breakthrough starts 0:26:55.320 --> 0:27:01.080 with a question. The next level of a relationship with 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:05.080 God doesn't start with you knowing the answer, so stop 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:11.680 waiting for answers. It starts with a question. My kids 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:15.800 ask questions. My kids ask questions. Some of them are dumb. 0:27:16.840 --> 0:27:19.720 The one you asked the other day when Mama was 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:21.520 teaching you to boil eggs. I'm sorry to put you 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:23.840 on blast like this, but when you said, do I 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:26.680 crack it before I boil it? That's a dumb question. 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:29.960 He's fifteen years old. That's a dumb question. And I 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:33.000 take responsibility for him not knowing that. That's my bad. 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:38.320 But then they'll ask deep questions. My son asked questions. Elijah, 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:42.760 who's here right now. He asks questions that the staff 0:27:42.840 --> 0:27:45.400 doesn't even ask. He's asked me questions he's to asked 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:47.840 me questions when he was nine, ten years old, that 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:50.160 I'd go. I've never even had a grown, paid staff 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:54.399 member ask me that. That's amazing, you know, because I'm 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:58.680 not afraid to ask it. He just ask it. He 0:27:58.840 --> 0:28:00.919 just asked me to do stuff. He walked in one 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:02.960 night and he didn't ask me. Could we go to 0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:04.560 the movie? Well, he asked me, but he asked me 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:06.639 in the form of action. He brought me my shoes. 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:08.080 He wanted to go see a movie. It was nine 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:10.480 o'clock at night. This was years ago, and he brought 0:28:10.520 --> 0:28:14.200 me my shoes in my car keys. He asked me, 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:17.159 but he didn't open his mouth. He just brought me 0:28:17.280 --> 0:28:21.800 something and we saw the movie. Because kids aren't scared 0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:30.199 to ask. Kids aren't scared to ask. They'll ask you anything. 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:33.159 Abby saw a thing on the counter that said the 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:35.600 most powerful people in Charlotte or something like that. It 0:28:35.720 --> 0:28:38.480 was some list. It had on the list Pastor Stephen 0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:40.640 Verdick Elevation Church. She came to me with the list. 0:28:40.920 --> 0:28:43.680 She said, Daddy, this was years ago now, She said, Daddy, 0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:47.400 if you're the most fifth most powerful person in Charlotte, 0:28:48.600 --> 0:28:51.920 does that mean you can pull a tooth? If it's 0:28:51.960 --> 0:29:01.080 not even loose. What a great question, you know what 0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:06.280 I mean? Fai. It's like a child, not childish, but 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:08.120 child like. Where are the children of God? We can 0:29:08.160 --> 0:29:14.320 ask questions? Did I ask? Now? My kids say that 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:16.200 to each other all the time, just to cut each 0:29:16.240 --> 0:29:21.160 other off. Did I ask? Did I ask? Buddy? They 0:29:21.240 --> 0:29:24.640 are professional button pushers and that was their thing for 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:28.440 about six months. Abby came up to me and gave 0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:31.520 me this sermon title. She said, Daddy, this is last week. 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:33.520 She Saidaddy, when you were preaching today, I thought you 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:37.240 should have called that sermon. Did I ask? Because she 0:29:37.320 --> 0:29:41.920 heard where Jesus asked Philip, this is a nine year 0:29:41.960 --> 0:29:46.120 old girl. She said, you should have called it? Did 0:29:46.160 --> 0:29:48.800 I ask? I didn't even ask her what I should 0:29:48.800 --> 0:29:53.400 have called it. Sometimes God will give you something you 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:58.480 didn't even know to ask for. Watch this through somebody 0:29:58.760 --> 0:30:08.640 you didn't even thing to ask, through a little boy 0:30:09.880 --> 0:30:15.160 with a lunch. So I was thinking about the sermon, 0:30:15.200 --> 0:30:17.920 and I was wondering when did it become enough? And 0:30:18.080 --> 0:30:20.080 then I was wondering where did it come from? Like 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:22.520 we're all wondering where's it going to come from? And 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:26.400 I don't know where it's going to come from. I'm 0:30:26.440 --> 0:30:28.440 not sure where it's going to come from, right, And 0:30:28.880 --> 0:30:31.480 I want to revisit the scripture in detail from John six. 0:30:32.480 --> 0:30:37.720 It's really beautiful how it's written, where Jesus, the Word 0:30:37.800 --> 0:30:44.880 of God, asks Phillip a question, where shall we buy 0:30:44.960 --> 0:30:49.000 bread for these people to eat? And then I'm thankful 0:30:49.040 --> 0:30:52.040 for the little side note. He asked this only to 0:30:52.240 --> 0:30:55.560 test him, where he already knew what he was going 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:58.719 to do. Now, this is weird. You want the bonus thing. 0:31:00.240 --> 0:31:01.960 This is the cheer. This is not even the cherry. 0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:05.200 This is the stem on the cherry. When you get 0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:08.120 the other accounts in the Gospels, it says that the 0:31:09.280 --> 0:31:11.840 disciples came to Jesus and said they need to eat 0:31:12.040 --> 0:31:14.240 after he had taught all day. If you read that 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:16.640 verse the moment they started coming, and I'll back it 0:31:16.720 --> 0:31:18.680 up and show you in verse five the moment they 0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:22.200 started coming. In verse five, the moment he saw the crowd, 0:31:22.520 --> 0:31:25.880 he already knew what to feed them. And here's what's crazy. 0:31:26.360 --> 0:31:31.680 They never even asked for a meal. Because He's going 0:31:31.720 --> 0:31:34.640 to feed them, all right, but they never asked for it. 0:31:35.680 --> 0:31:38.160 I don't know who this is for. I honestly don't, 0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:40.720 and maybe you'll tell me in the comments. But God 0:31:40.840 --> 0:31:44.400 in this season is giving you what you didn't even 0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:47.840 know you needed to ask for. You know, if he 0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:51.920 sins three twenty, he is able to do immeasurably more 0:31:52.040 --> 0:31:55.840 than we ask or imagine. So God is doing some 0:31:56.000 --> 0:31:58.400 things in my life right now that I didn't even 0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:02.200 know what to ask. Here's the thing about me. I'm 0:32:02.240 --> 0:32:05.480 a sheep. I need a shepherd. I don't know what 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:10.240 to ask for, so he makes me lie down in 0:32:10.480 --> 0:32:14.200 green pastures. I don't want God to give me what 0:32:14.440 --> 0:32:17.440 I need. I want him to give me what he knows, 0:32:17.920 --> 0:32:21.120 because what I think I need and what he knows 0:32:21.280 --> 0:32:28.680 I need are two different things. Twenty seconds of praise 0:32:28.760 --> 0:32:31.800 that He's given you what you didn't know to ask for, 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:36.840 more than you ask or imagine, more than you thought 0:32:37.000 --> 0:32:41.840 to put on your prairie question. Eh, thank you Lord. 0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:45.480 It starts with a question. Jesus said, where are we 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:48.960 gonna get bread? Where we're gonna buy bread for all 0:32:49.080 --> 0:32:53.840 these people? I heard Philips say back, because Jesus was 0:32:53.920 --> 0:32:56.880 just testing him. Right. He doesn't ask questions for information. 0:32:57.040 --> 0:33:03.200 He asked questions for revelation, not so he can see something, 0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:10.000 But so you can see something? Should I sit down 0:33:10.120 --> 0:33:14.000 and finish this another time? Good? Because I haven't really 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:17.560 started yet. I'm so glad you said that. And so 0:33:18.320 --> 0:33:23.280 Philip answered him verse seven, And I thought, well, there's 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:32.600 the problem. Philip answered him. This whole thing is backwards. 0:33:35.640 --> 0:33:39.000 Philip answered a question that Jesus didn't even ask. What 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:45.360 did Jesus ask, where are we going to buy enough 0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:49.240 bread for these people to eat? What? Did Philip answer? 0:33:51.120 --> 0:33:55.479 How much it's going to cost? And I heard Jesus 0:33:55.680 --> 0:34:04.080 saying to Philip, did I ask? Did I ask? Did 0:34:04.200 --> 0:34:08.960 I ask if we can afford it? Did I ask 0:34:09.120 --> 0:34:14.280 an accounting question? I hear God saying to somebody today, 0:34:15.239 --> 0:34:19.840 Did I ask if you were able? Did I ask 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:25.040 if you've got what it takes? Did I ask if 0:34:25.120 --> 0:34:30.000 you know what comes next? Did I ask? Don't touch? 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:32.360 Three people will look at them and say, did I ask? 0:34:33.640 --> 0:34:38.160 Did I ask? So it's backwards as backwards as backwards. 0:34:38.520 --> 0:34:42.000 We're answering when we ought to be asking. We're answering 0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:45.200 when we ought to be asking. And that's why you 0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:47.520 learn so much more as a kid than you do 0:34:47.680 --> 0:34:54.200 now as a grown up. You stopped asking, you stopped 0:34:54.280 --> 0:35:03.280 asking and started assuming everything is wrong with this text? 0:35:04.680 --> 0:35:07.600 What was he testing him for to see if he 0:35:07.800 --> 0:35:11.800 knew enough to know that he didn't know enough to 0:35:11.920 --> 0:35:14.400 tell Jesus Jesus wasn't trying to test how much do 0:35:14.520 --> 0:35:17.640 we have? Jesus wasn't asking for a bank deposit. Jesus 0:35:17.760 --> 0:35:21.600 wasn't asking for a balance sheet. Jesuaid, where are we 0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:24.319 gonna get it? He wanted to see if Philip knew 0:35:24.360 --> 0:35:32.319 where to go, we might not be able to play 0:35:32.360 --> 0:35:34.880 this when this might be too good for the general public. 0:35:34.960 --> 0:35:37.320 I'm gonna have to charge a subscription fee for this sermon, 0:35:38.440 --> 0:35:40.480 because if you keep coming back to where you got 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:42.200 it from the first time, if you know where to go, 0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:44.319 if you know where to go, if you know where 0:35:44.360 --> 0:35:46.440 to go, if you know where to go, it will 0:35:46.600 --> 0:35:49.680 always be enough and you will never run out if 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:51.560 you know where to go. But if you don't know 0:35:51.680 --> 0:35:55.640 where to go, you will meet your needs in ways 0:35:55.719 --> 0:35:58.960 that will hurt you worse in the air. And I 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:03.320 think the best question, I think the best question for 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:06.839 us to ask is where am I gonna get it from? 0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:11.160 When we know the answer to that, And I'm gonna 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:12.800 I'm gonna break it down a little bit more so, 0:36:13.400 --> 0:36:17.520 like Jesus told the crowds, be seated in groups of fifty, 0:36:19.160 --> 0:36:22.640 about fifty people in the room, thousands online praise the Lord. 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:25.560 Let me know where you're watching from. By the way, 0:36:25.960 --> 0:36:28.400 our teams pray for you. They go through every comment. Now, 0:36:28.400 --> 0:36:30.359 if you don't like the video, your prayer won't get 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:33.120 answered anyway. So like the things, share it, subscribe, did 0:36:33.200 --> 0:36:34.920 the bell, and then put a comment, and we'll pray 0:36:35.000 --> 0:36:41.560 for you. But plenty of grass, green grass, Mark said, 0:36:41.680 --> 0:36:45.040 green grass, green pastors. He makes me. Now, there's a 0:36:45.080 --> 0:36:50.320 difference between a command and a question. And I always 0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:53.920 get frustrated when Holly ask the kids what they want 0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:57.879 to eat. I'm like, do not uh huh uh huh 0:36:59.200 --> 0:37:02.279 ask me what I want and feed them that I 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:10.920 bought the bread? Is that bad? I bought it? So 0:37:11.160 --> 0:37:13.920 I get mad. I'm like, don't ask them what they 0:37:14.160 --> 0:37:17.520 want to eat. You're not a short order shell. You're 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:22.680 the sexy woman of God, a fine young Christian, a 0:37:22.760 --> 0:37:27.680 fine young woman of God. She's so she so loves him. 0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:33.080 Though she'll ask them, she'll ask them. Jesus asked Philip. 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:39.479 He said he gave the test before the lesson. Yeah, 0:37:41.000 --> 0:37:45.719 that's not fair, that's backwards. He didn't show him who 0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:48.279 the bread of life was until after he tested him. 0:37:48.280 --> 0:37:53.759 That's not fair. But that's what makes great faith. You know, 0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:59.680 the test is the lesson. You're in a test right now. 0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:04.200 Not a test. Do you know enough? Not a test? 0:38:04.239 --> 0:38:07.279 Do you have enough? Not a test? Are you good enough? 0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:12.400 But do you know where to get it from? Thank you, Jesus, 0:38:13.320 --> 0:38:15.799 you are my bread. You are the bread of life. 0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:18.680 You are the bread that comes down from heaven. And 0:38:18.719 --> 0:38:22.000 if I keep coming back to you, I'll always have enough. 0:38:23.480 --> 0:38:34.279 But listen, the bread was going to come from the 0:38:34.360 --> 0:38:43.080 same place as the need. Who did they need to feed? 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:51.480 Where did they have to go to get it? I'll 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:54.200 fill in the blanks in case my socratic sermon isn't 0:38:54.280 --> 0:38:56.520 really working for you right now, I just don't want 0:38:56.520 --> 0:38:59.680 to leave this undone. They needed to feed the crowd, 0:39:00.920 --> 0:39:04.120 and the meal that became a miracle was in the 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:11.120 same crowd that they needed to feed. God is using 0:39:11.440 --> 0:39:17.279 every need in your life right now. Remember, the disciples 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:22.640 were hungry too, They needed to eat too. Jesus used 0:39:22.800 --> 0:39:27.319 the need that they didn't want to meet to meet 0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:33.400 the need that they had. So when I preach, I 0:39:33.480 --> 0:39:36.160 don't start with this question would the people want to hear? 0:39:37.080 --> 0:39:41.719 What a boring thing that would be. I'd be a 0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:45.879 boring sermon. I'll start with what I need to get 0:39:45.920 --> 0:39:49.560 through the next week, and I don't apologize for it. 0:39:51.000 --> 0:39:55.120 I'd feed myself first, and then out of that, let's 0:39:55.160 --> 0:39:58.640 all eat. You know, God feed me because I needed 0:39:58.719 --> 0:39:59.920 to come from you. If it doesn't come from you, 0:40:00.160 --> 0:40:02.560 it'll be just the dumb stuff that goes through my mind. 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:07.160 So I need bread from heaven. But the bread didn't 0:40:07.200 --> 0:40:10.800 come from heaven like the Mana did. That's the old testament. 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:15.840 The new mindset is that the meal that Jesus multiply 0:40:17.280 --> 0:40:21.120 was in the crowd that he wanted to feed. So 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:24.719 Jesus made the disciples, And here's what you've gotta do. 0:40:24.760 --> 0:40:27.120 I'm gonna get real practical. Now you've got to ask. 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:32.400 You've got to ask. When Jesus said how many, remember 0:40:32.560 --> 0:40:35.400 how many is different than how much? How many is plural? 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:37.839 Five loaves? Those five loaves, it was all in the five. 0:40:38.040 --> 0:40:39.800 It was all in the five. But the five was 0:40:39.840 --> 0:40:42.280 in the crowd with a little boy. Like my sermons 0:40:42.320 --> 0:40:44.840 title was an abbey coming to tell me goodnight. And 0:40:44.960 --> 0:40:47.319 if you don't ever pay attention and open yourself up, 0:40:47.600 --> 0:40:50.520 you will miss what God gets. You will miss the 0:40:50.680 --> 0:40:55.760 miracles because you didn't ask the question they had to ask. 0:40:57.040 --> 0:41:00.720 You're gonna have to ask, You're gonna have to ask. 0:41:01.239 --> 0:41:04.040 Give me James one five. James one five says that 0:41:04.160 --> 0:41:08.439 if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God. 0:41:10.960 --> 0:41:20.839 Ask ask ask, Oh, who my friend on Facebook? Who 0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:25.600 You're gonna ask? Ask God first? That's why it didn't work. 0:41:25.840 --> 0:41:28.800 It didn't work. Jesus didn't start the miracle when Philip 0:41:28.840 --> 0:41:31.319 said how much it was gonna cost? And nothing good 0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:33.960 is gonna flow through our life while we stay focused 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:38.319 on answering the question what do I lack? Oh, I'm 0:41:38.360 --> 0:41:42.120 good at listening all the things I lack, all the 0:41:42.200 --> 0:41:44.960 things I like. I can tell you everything I'm bad at. 0:41:45.320 --> 0:41:47.640 I can tell you every reason God shouldn't use me. 0:41:47.960 --> 0:41:50.320 I can tell you every dirty, blemish, fought and wrinkle. 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:53.279 When people say bad stuff about me, I think, well, 0:41:53.360 --> 0:41:54.879 you should call me. I give you a few more. 0:41:55.040 --> 0:41:57.080 You didn't even get to the real good stuff. I mean, 0:41:57.120 --> 0:41:59.160 they'll say you're this or that, I'm like you are 0:41:59.239 --> 0:42:02.880 in the PG. We could go PG. Thirteen, or we 0:42:03.000 --> 0:42:05.640 can make this thing terrible if you really want to know. 0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:12.040 It's not because I'm a hypocrite. I'm a human. I'm 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:16.040 not the bread. But I know where to get it. 0:42:17.640 --> 0:42:20.239 Do you know where to get it? Do you know 0:42:20.280 --> 0:42:24.320 where to get it? If any of you lacks wisdom, 0:42:24.400 --> 0:42:29.640 you should ask God and it'll be given to you. 0:42:32.000 --> 0:42:35.040 Now this is cool. Write this down on one side, 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:42.799 put bought on one side, put given. Jesus said, where 0:42:42.800 --> 0:42:45.800 are we gonna buy bread? The answer is we're not. 0:42:48.640 --> 0:42:55.759 It's gonna be given. It's gonna be given. It's gonna 0:42:55.800 --> 0:42:59.120 be given for what the law was powerless to do, 0:42:59.200 --> 0:43:00.920 and that it was weak in by the sinful nature. 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:03.959 God did by sending his own son the bread of life. 0:43:04.960 --> 0:43:08.080 It's gonna be given. Open your palms like this to heaven. 0:43:08.120 --> 0:43:11.120 It's gonna be given. The wisdom is gonna be given. 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:13.560 It's gonna be given. It's gonna be given. It's not 0:43:13.640 --> 0:43:17.480 gonna be earned, it's gonna be given. He's trying to 0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:21.560 shift them from a mentality that is like manna. It 0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:24.840 comes from somewhere else, to get them to see that 0:43:24.960 --> 0:43:31.040 the wisdom of God is given from within. It's gonna 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:34.640 be given. Stay with me, Are you with me? You're 0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:36.319 not gonna buy it, You're not gonna earn it, You're 0:43:36.360 --> 0:43:40.040 not gonna achieve it. You're gonna receive it. That's what 0:43:40.160 --> 0:43:44.680 opens your hands. Oh, I thought about open hands. I 0:43:44.760 --> 0:43:49.880 thought about five, five loaves. I thought about five. I 0:43:49.960 --> 0:43:52.239 thought about it's gonna come from the five. It's gonna 0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:54.480 come from the five. It's gonna come from the open hand, 0:43:54.680 --> 0:43:57.239 from God's hand to your hand. It's gonna come from 0:43:57.280 --> 0:43:59.600 the five. Do you hear me? Put it right there 0:43:59.680 --> 0:44:03.000 in the It's gonna come from the five. God's gonna 0:44:03.080 --> 0:44:05.839 give it to you. Are your hands open? Or are 0:44:05.920 --> 0:44:10.920 you so full of assumptions that you stopped asking? Somebody 0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:13.080 told me the other day They said, well, you need 0:44:13.160 --> 0:44:15.120 to pray about it. And I got mad because I 0:44:15.160 --> 0:44:17.600 thought that's a cliche. I've already prayed about it. And 0:44:17.719 --> 0:44:20.879 I got away, and God said, but did you think 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:22.800 about it? We said, you know, don't tell me to 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:24.759 pray about it. I already prayed about it. But did 0:44:24.800 --> 0:44:30.440 you did you pray about it? Or did you calculate it? 0:44:31.920 --> 0:44:36.640 Overthink it? Pepto bismol and wake up in the middle 0:44:36.680 --> 0:44:42.959 of the night with a stomach ache? Did I ask? 0:44:45.640 --> 0:44:51.040 Did I ask? Codf This is so embarrassing to say this, 0:44:52.160 --> 0:44:55.800 but yeah, yeah, I'll tell you. I'll tell you a 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:57.840 lot of times I work so hard on the sermon 0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:02.439 and I'm like, why isn't this coming together? Oh yeah, 0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:05.640 I didn't even ask God to help me with it. 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:12.680 Let me tell you something else. So when Abby said, 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:15.600 did I ask, it's your sermon title? I woke up 0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:18.600 the next morning, I said, God, will you just give 0:45:18.680 --> 0:45:20.960 me the sermon this week? I don't want to work 0:45:20.960 --> 0:45:25.279 as hard as I did last week. An hour later 0:45:25.360 --> 0:45:28.560 I had it. I'm not saying that I didn't study. 0:45:29.280 --> 0:45:36.960 It was already there. I just had to ask. If 0:45:37.080 --> 0:45:41.759 you knew what was in you, if you knew who 0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:48.160 was in you, you would ask. If you knew he 0:45:48.600 --> 0:45:52.759 was bred, you would never again let the devil keep 0:45:52.880 --> 0:45:55.920 you hungry or sell your birth right for a bowl 0:45:56.000 --> 0:45:59.920 of beans. You would stop going to places that can 0:46:00.200 --> 0:46:03.480 feel you and spending your wages on what doesn't satisfy. 0:46:03.760 --> 0:46:07.640 It comes from the five. It comes from his hand. 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:10.960 You hear me, it comes from his hand. And when 0:46:11.040 --> 0:46:14.480 I know that I opened my hands and I ask. 0:46:14.920 --> 0:46:18.239 See I didn't ask. I didn't ask. And it's not 0:46:18.400 --> 0:46:20.799 just a one time thing. When Jesus said whoever comes 0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:23.480 to me will never hunger again, he wasn't talking about 0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:28.360 who comes to me one time. The word the voice 0:46:28.600 --> 0:46:31.480 of the of the verb is is the middle voice, 0:46:31.760 --> 0:46:34.960 and it only speaks to present or imperfect. That means 0:46:35.040 --> 0:46:37.560 either you're coming right now, or you're gonna keep coming 0:46:38.800 --> 0:46:41.520 John six thirty. Look it up. When they came to him, 0:46:42.239 --> 0:46:46.080 they were fed when they came to him, keep coming, 0:46:47.600 --> 0:46:51.320 keep coming for wisdom. Did I ask? I mean, I 0:46:51.400 --> 0:46:53.000 got in the middle of my day and I'm like, 0:46:53.200 --> 0:46:56.880 oh man, I wish I did I ask? Did I 0:46:56.920 --> 0:46:59.360 ask God? Did I ask the people he put around me? 0:46:59.600 --> 0:47:02.440 I mean, in order for the miracle to happen, they 0:47:02.520 --> 0:47:05.880 had to walk through the crowd asking you know what, 0:47:06.280 --> 0:47:10.440 I might just have to humble myself and ask somebody 0:47:10.560 --> 0:47:18.560 to help. People can't read your mind, miss cleo. People 0:47:18.719 --> 0:47:21.880 can't flash back people outdated reference from the old preacher. 0:47:22.160 --> 0:47:25.399 People can't know that. People don't know what you need. 0:47:25.760 --> 0:47:31.040 You have to ask. When you ask, you activate. When 0:47:31.080 --> 0:47:35.319 you ask, you activate the same crowd that had to need. 0:47:35.600 --> 0:47:38.799 Was the same crowd that had the miracle, but they 0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:43.919 had to ask. Here's my question. Can I ask a question? 0:47:45.120 --> 0:47:47.359 How many people did they ask that said no before 0:47:47.400 --> 0:47:54.319 they found the five lows? You got anything? Remember last week? 0:47:54.360 --> 0:47:56.200 You got anything? You got anything, You got anything, you 0:47:56.280 --> 0:47:59.160 got anything. And I'm putting this point in because what 0:47:59.360 --> 0:48:04.560 keeps some of us from asking is our past rejection. Yeah, 0:48:08.160 --> 0:48:11.239 it can get so deep in you that you start 0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:14.360 assuming they they won't want to do that for me? 0:48:15.800 --> 0:48:23.200 Did you ask, oh, God, this is too much. It 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:25.160 is what I'm about to say is too much. I 0:48:25.320 --> 0:48:28.360 almost didn't ask you to come do this ministry, I 0:48:28.440 --> 0:48:33.960 asked him. He almost said no, true or false? True 0:48:34.000 --> 0:48:39.560 or false? Yeah, he'd probably be either a professional tennis 0:48:39.600 --> 0:48:43.960 player today or maybe he'd be stringing tennis racket somewhere 0:48:44.000 --> 0:48:45.920 on the side of the road, who knows, somewhere in between. 0:48:46.920 --> 0:48:49.920 I almost didn't even ask you. I remember telling them, 0:48:50.239 --> 0:48:52.000 I said, Chris and bethn't want to be here. They 0:48:52.040 --> 0:48:55.399 want to go to Nashville. Something d me say, ask 0:48:57.560 --> 0:49:04.560 ask ask me now now? Now. Now, it's not ask 0:49:05.120 --> 0:49:07.280 people for things that God can give you, but sometimes 0:49:07.320 --> 0:49:09.879 God will direct you to people to meet the need. 0:49:12.120 --> 0:49:15.080 Remember Jess didn't say where we're gonna feed these people, 0:49:15.080 --> 0:49:16.640 and folks said we don't have enough, And Jesus said, 0:49:16.920 --> 0:49:20.600 Manna come didn't come from Mana, It didn't even come 0:49:20.640 --> 0:49:25.239 from man It came from a boy. That means they 0:49:25.280 --> 0:49:27.200 had to go all the way through the crowd. You 0:49:27.239 --> 0:49:28.800 think the boy was in the front of the crowd. 0:49:29.600 --> 0:49:31.400 How's a little boy gonna get to the front of 0:49:31.440 --> 0:49:34.640 a crowd. He's not even in the cow. Hey, not 0:49:34.760 --> 0:49:37.280 even I have a ticket to Jesus, Riach and Crusader 0:49:39.560 --> 0:49:46.160 don't remember crowds. This is a BC before Corona kind 0:49:46.160 --> 0:49:48.520 of situation here, back when they used to have crowds 0:49:48.680 --> 0:49:50.800 going through the crowd. You got anything, you got anything, 0:49:50.880 --> 0:49:52.799 You got anything. Some people are lying, some people are 0:49:52.840 --> 0:49:54.640 telling the truth. Some people are already ate. Some people 0:49:54.640 --> 0:49:57.120 are and they're all hungry. You got anything, you got anything, 0:49:57.280 --> 0:49:59.440 you got anything. Here's what I want you to do. 0:50:00.000 --> 0:50:02.399 Please do this, Please do this, especially if you've had 0:50:02.400 --> 0:50:04.640 a root of bitterness or you have a root of rejection, 0:50:04.920 --> 0:50:07.000 and it's like somebody in your life told you know, 0:50:07.440 --> 0:50:09.880 or something in your life has been knows so many times. 0:50:10.239 --> 0:50:12.279 I want you to when you when you hear no, 0:50:12.400 --> 0:50:17.680 I want you to think next. When you hear no, 0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:21.600 I want you to think next. So if God didn't 0:50:21.680 --> 0:50:25.200 let me do that next, if God didn't want me 0:50:25.360 --> 0:50:27.960 to do that, what's next? Now? I have to do 0:50:28.080 --> 0:50:31.080 this as a matter of survival because sometimes people do 0:50:31.280 --> 0:50:33.160 not say they want to be a part of this ministry. 0:50:33.400 --> 0:50:36.000 But if I stop when they say no, I will 0:50:36.080 --> 0:50:38.759 miss the miracle that was in the thing. So so 0:50:38.840 --> 0:50:42.240 I want somebody, whoever this is, I want you to shout, 0:50:42.560 --> 0:50:46.080 at the top of your holy ghost lungs from your diaphragm, 0:50:46.440 --> 0:50:52.000 say next. I gotta get through this crowd. I gotta 0:50:52.040 --> 0:50:55.200 get through this confusion. I gotta get through this shame. 0:50:55.600 --> 0:50:58.080 I gotta get out of this slack. I gotta eat. 0:50:58.440 --> 0:51:05.920 I can't die. I gotta have green grasp. No means next, 0:51:12.239 --> 0:51:19.480 whoa no means next. So I don't want anybody to 0:51:19.560 --> 0:51:24.200 leave me. But if they do, it's not like I'm 0:51:24.280 --> 0:51:29.600 just treating people as disposable. But they ain't bread. They 0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:34.640 ain't bread nowhere the bread is. Are y'all awake to 0:51:34.760 --> 0:51:39.840 help me celebrate the bread that came from heaven, The 0:51:40.040 --> 0:51:45.840 bread that came from heaven. The bread that came from heaven. 0:51:46.239 --> 0:51:50.480 What you're gonna hate? The bread that cave from heaven 0:51:51.040 --> 0:51:55.600 is coming from the five It's coming from the hand 0:51:55.719 --> 0:52:07.839 of God. By every word, that problem of God. Who 0:52:09.960 --> 0:52:14.120 if they said no, I'll just look for the next well, 0:52:14.160 --> 0:52:16.600 that's cruel, Pastor Steve. I mean, I've be come on, man, 0:52:16.600 --> 0:52:19.400 I've been married almost twenty years. I'm not saying relationships 0:52:19.400 --> 0:52:24.239 are disposable. I'm just saying that you got to go 0:52:24.440 --> 0:52:29.840 back to the place where you know in God that 0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:41.040 Moses can only give you manna for so long. It's 0:52:41.120 --> 0:52:48.000 just a question. It's just a question where are we 0:52:48.080 --> 0:52:52.240 going to get it from. That's what Jesus ask Philip 0:52:52.280 --> 0:52:59.520 should have said, why are you asking me? That's what 0:52:59.600 --> 0:53:02.560 he should have said. The whole thing went off the 0:53:02.680 --> 0:53:05.480 track when you thought you knew the answer. The whole 0:53:05.600 --> 0:53:12.880 thing came undone when you assumed, did you ask he 0:53:12.920 --> 0:53:17.000 wouldn't want to write songs with us? Did you ask? Now? 0:53:17.080 --> 0:53:21.040 Some of y'all are two asking God knows you are. 0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:24.120 I've been the comments of YouTube talking about do y'all 0:53:24.120 --> 0:53:27.680 have a YouTube channel? You are on the YouTube channel? 0:53:28.440 --> 0:53:31.000 I'm serious. People will say this kind of stuff on you. 0:53:31.120 --> 0:53:35.080 It's crazy stuff. People will say on YouTube, where'd you 0:53:35.120 --> 0:53:39.520 get that shirt? Somebody put on YouTube comment they said, 0:53:41.040 --> 0:53:44.520 we played a throwback sermon from twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, 0:53:45.360 --> 0:53:49.479 one of those years. Back in the day. Flashback said 0:53:50.400 --> 0:53:52.399 back when I didn't have my beard, and they said, 0:53:52.680 --> 0:53:55.279 I like you so much better with a beard. You 0:53:55.360 --> 0:54:04.279 know what I wanted to respond, Did I ask? Did 0:54:04.320 --> 0:54:10.440 I ask? You don't have to ask God everything. Sometimes 0:54:10.520 --> 0:54:12.880 you're asking God for stuff that he already told you 0:54:13.480 --> 0:54:15.200 that he put people around you to give you. It 0:54:15.280 --> 0:54:18.000 didn't it came from heaven, but it came through people. 0:54:20.520 --> 0:54:22.920 That's why Holly was saying, hey, join in Egrop. She's 0:54:22.960 --> 0:54:29.759 trying to get you fed. Yeah. Yeah, So when you pray, 0:54:29.840 --> 0:54:33.520 God give me comfort. But you don't tell anybody you're lonely. 0:54:35.680 --> 0:54:44.440 And I mean telling real people, not platforms. Did you 0:54:44.520 --> 0:54:48.520 read between the lines. We don't ask questions. We just 0:54:48.600 --> 0:54:55.320 make comments. Now we make comments online comments, comments, comments, comments, comments, comments, 0:54:55.960 --> 0:54:59.640 But did you ask going on somebody's page and going, oh, well, 0:54:59.680 --> 0:55:03.160 there's the liberal conservative. Did you ever have a conversation 0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:05.279 with somebody different than you in the last three years? 0:55:06.719 --> 0:55:09.080 Did you ask why do you feel that way? Why 0:55:09.120 --> 0:55:10.600 do you think that way? What does that mean to you? 0:55:10.719 --> 0:55:14.160 How do you see it? And the God who asked 0:55:14.360 --> 0:55:24.080 questions wants to know. Did you ask? Andrew asked, and 0:55:24.200 --> 0:55:29.040 that's when the miracle started. Andrew asked, He didn't even 0:55:29.080 --> 0:55:32.560 ask with a lot of faith. James say, you ask 0:55:32.640 --> 0:55:35.200 in faith? Nothing wavered. Andrew asked in doubt, and he 0:55:35.280 --> 0:55:41.359 still got an answer. You can pray something as unspiritual 0:55:41.480 --> 0:55:50.600 as help or else, help or else? How many of 0:55:50.640 --> 0:55:52.840 y'all are a helper ouse season in this season of 0:55:52.880 --> 0:55:55.279 your life? Help or else? God, I can't make it. 0:55:56.480 --> 0:55:59.280 So go back to verse eight. Andrew, Oh yeah, remember 0:55:59.560 --> 0:56:02.120 the first question Jesus asked, what do you want? You 0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:06.279 know who asked it to Andrew? Y'all thought that was 0:56:06.320 --> 0:56:09.120 a trick question? Was I was just setting you up? 0:56:09.520 --> 0:56:11.479 He asked, Andrew, what do you want? The first question 0:56:11.680 --> 0:56:14.800 Jesus asked in John one was Andrew another disciple. Andrew 0:56:14.880 --> 0:56:17.080 brought Peter to Jesus. Every time we see Andrew in 0:56:17.160 --> 0:56:22.799 the scripture, he's bringing something to Jesus. Do you think 0:56:22.800 --> 0:56:26.720 you need to give something? You need to bring something 0:56:27.840 --> 0:56:32.480 so he can give something. This is the miracle. He said, 0:56:32.520 --> 0:56:34.880 here's a boy. I went through the crowd. I asked everybody. 0:56:35.880 --> 0:56:40.800 I asked nineteen nine and ninety nine people, and this 0:56:40.920 --> 0:56:47.080 boy right here, this boy right here. But how far 0:56:47.239 --> 0:56:52.160 will they go among so many? The next sentence, Jesus 0:56:52.239 --> 0:56:58.040 gives first ten a command sit down, now, I can 0:56:58.120 --> 0:57:06.239 do something now that you asked? Did you ask? Did 0:57:06.280 --> 0:57:09.920 you ask, like, really asked? I know, in a technical sense, 0:57:09.920 --> 0:57:11.440 we're like, oh, yeah, man, I asked God to help 0:57:11.480 --> 0:57:17.479 me all the time. Did you ask or did you tell? Yeah? 0:57:19.520 --> 0:57:23.480 A lot of what we call prayer is us telling 0:57:23.560 --> 0:57:29.120 God's stuff he already knows, or telling God what he 0:57:29.280 --> 0:57:37.040 needs to do. Did you ask? Did you ask, why 0:57:37.080 --> 0:57:38.720 do I have this thorn? Or did you just assume 0:57:38.760 --> 0:57:40.560 it came from the devil? It might have come from 0:57:40.600 --> 0:57:46.080 God to help you stay humble? Did you ask? Did 0:57:46.160 --> 0:57:48.920 you ask God what he's doing in the life of 0:57:48.960 --> 0:57:51.919 that person you lead, whether it's a kid or someone else. 0:57:52.000 --> 0:57:54.680 Did you ask or did you just assume that if 0:57:54.720 --> 0:57:56.520 God didn't do through them what you thought he should 0:57:56.560 --> 0:58:02.400 do through them, that he failed. Did you ask? Did 0:58:02.480 --> 0:58:03.880 you ask God what he put in you and what 0:58:03.960 --> 0:58:07.880 he wants from you? Or did you just assume that 0:58:07.920 --> 0:58:11.080 what everybody else thinks you should do is the agenda 0:58:11.160 --> 0:58:16.160 you have to follow. Did you ask? Andrew asked? He said, 0:58:16.920 --> 0:58:21.400 how far can it go? And then he found out 0:58:23.280 --> 0:58:27.360 it starts with a question. It starts with a question. 0:58:30.080 --> 0:58:33.480 The crowd didn't get it because they were still waiting 0:58:33.520 --> 0:58:37.120 for a messiah like Moses. You know, even after Jesus 0:58:37.160 --> 0:58:41.360 spent them. They got the meal, but they missed the message. 0:58:43.640 --> 0:58:45.760 Ninety eight percent of people who tune into a sermon 0:58:45.920 --> 0:58:53.440 like this get the meal, missed the message. But I 0:58:53.480 --> 0:58:56.400 don't want you to. The crowd said, are you going 0:58:56.440 --> 0:58:58.720 to give us Mana like Moses? I don't know if 0:58:58.760 --> 0:59:02.280 you remember Mana? And Bibe was like the original frosted flakes. 0:59:02.400 --> 0:59:07.080 Sorry bad Joe. Wow. That was a tough crowded here. 0:59:08.080 --> 0:59:10.200 But it would look like that. It was flaky and 0:59:10.280 --> 0:59:12.280 it would come down and they said, what is it? 0:59:13.520 --> 0:59:19.200 That's what they named it. What is it? Question? It 0:59:19.280 --> 0:59:24.600 starts with a question. What is it? They didn't know 0:59:24.680 --> 0:59:26.440 who he was. He said, I am the brother of Lfe, 0:59:27.560 --> 0:59:33.560 but they thought it would be what it was? What 0:59:33.800 --> 0:59:38.560 is it? Not? What was it? That's where the miracle is. 0:59:38.680 --> 0:59:43.120 What is it? What is it, what is it to 0:59:43.200 --> 0:59:44.800 be me in this season of my life? What is 0:59:44.840 --> 0:59:46.400 it God that you're speaking to me? What is it 0:59:46.520 --> 0:59:49.040 that you're calling me to do in this moment? Did 0:59:49.120 --> 0:59:52.800 I ask? Did I sit down this week and ask, like, 0:59:52.960 --> 1:00:00.400 what's important this week? Really important? Did I ask? You know, 1:00:02.200 --> 1:00:06.680 as long as we're the ones giving the answers, we're 1:00:06.720 --> 1:00:10.120 going to be pretty limited in what we can access 1:00:12.800 --> 1:00:18.720 questions create access. I was with somebody a while back 1:00:19.400 --> 1:00:22.440 and they said they wanted to meet with me and 1:00:22.720 --> 1:00:25.440 talk to me about ministry. Because they were not as 1:00:25.480 --> 1:00:31.600 far along, they never asked me a question. I couldn't 1:00:31.640 --> 1:00:35.600 figure that out because now I guess I know that 1:00:35.960 --> 1:00:38.520 I don't know much. So from the time I was sixteen, 1:00:38.840 --> 1:00:42.160 I was always asking questions, what do you do about this? 1:00:42.240 --> 1:00:43.600 And what do you do about that? And why about this? 1:00:43.720 --> 1:00:51.080 And why about that? No questions, no questions. Have you 1:00:51.120 --> 1:00:54.800 stopped asking God? Just start assuming, just start filling in 1:00:54.880 --> 1:00:58.040 the blanks. Stopped asking God? What else is in me? 1:00:59.000 --> 1:01:00.960 What else can you do? I know you could engraves 1:01:00.960 --> 1:01:02.920 into gardens and bones, and what else can you do? 1:01:04.720 --> 1:01:08.600 What else can you do? This is the disciples whole 1:01:08.640 --> 1:01:11.440 problem through the whole gospel. They were always telling, and 1:01:11.520 --> 1:01:18.480 they stopped asking, stopped asking, stopped asking. That's why. That's 1:01:18.520 --> 1:01:21.360 why you're frustrated. That's why you're stopped. That's why you're lonely. 1:01:21.560 --> 1:01:24.080 You stopped asking. Oh, I asked you, did you? Did 1:01:24.160 --> 1:01:28.600 you really? Or were you? Like the disciples say, they 1:01:28.680 --> 1:01:31.240 saw Jesus talking to a woman. You remember this, He said, 1:01:31.400 --> 1:01:33.439 give me a drink? He asked, can I have a drink? 1:01:34.000 --> 1:01:37.000 Here he is again asking somebody who he shouldn't even 1:01:37.040 --> 1:01:39.720 have been talking to, can I have a drink? Oh? 1:01:39.840 --> 1:01:43.080 This is an annoyed verse because in John four ten, 1:01:43.240 --> 1:01:46.280 you got it, John four ten, This is so good. 1:01:46.680 --> 1:01:49.160 I was running around my bathroom looking at John four 1:01:49.240 --> 1:01:52.400 ten on my phone. Jesus answered her, if you knew 1:01:53.720 --> 1:01:58.040 the gift of God and who it is that asks 1:01:58.120 --> 1:02:02.760 you for a drink, you would have asked him and 1:02:02.920 --> 1:02:08.840 he would have given you living water. I'm preaching for 1:02:08.960 --> 1:02:13.480 breakthrough today. I'm preaching for hungry people today. I'm preaching 1:02:13.560 --> 1:02:18.880 for somebody who's really, really, really needing something today. He said, 1:02:19.320 --> 1:02:23.840 if you knew ready, if you knew what was in you, 1:02:24.480 --> 1:02:27.480 if you knew what was in you, it would be 1:02:27.840 --> 1:02:33.600 living water and no matter what's happening around you. If 1:02:33.640 --> 1:02:37.600 you knew what was in you, and greater is he 1:02:38.440 --> 1:02:42.040 that is in me, that he that is in the world. 1:02:44.440 --> 1:02:49.280 If you knew what was in you, if you knew 1:02:49.320 --> 1:02:53.240 what was in you, you wouldn't kill yourself. If you 1:02:53.400 --> 1:02:57.840 knew what was in you, you wouldn't let pornography strangle 1:02:57.880 --> 1:03:00.120 the creative life out of you. If you knew what 1:03:00.320 --> 1:03:05.960 was in you, you wouldn't hide yourself behind false personas. 1:03:06.000 --> 1:03:14.840 If you knew who was in you. Everywhere the enemy 1:03:14.880 --> 1:03:18.280 has planted condemnation in your life, I want you to 1:03:18.360 --> 1:03:23.920 replace it with a question. That's the devil's language. Condemnation, 1:03:24.040 --> 1:03:30.120 that's the devil. That's not how God talks. God asks questions. 1:03:30.640 --> 1:03:35.160 The wisdom that comes from above whispers within. Like you 1:03:35.240 --> 1:03:39.240 said to Elijah in the cave, what are you doing here? 1:03:41.800 --> 1:03:44.320 God ask questions up close. He knows you like that. 1:03:45.840 --> 1:03:50.280 If you knew, you would ask Wait a minute, I thought. 1:03:50.320 --> 1:03:52.800 If you don't know, you asked no. No. If you 1:03:52.920 --> 1:03:57.280 knew who was in you, you stop listening to everything 1:03:57.360 --> 1:04:04.560 around you so much. If you know who told you 1:04:04.680 --> 1:04:07.720 that you were naked? Who told you that you were 1:04:07.800 --> 1:04:12.760 nothing who told you it wasn't enough If you knew 1:04:12.800 --> 1:04:15.160 who you were talking to when you talk to yourself, 1:04:18.160 --> 1:04:24.080 if you knew. Thank you, Lord, thank you for the 1:04:24.160 --> 1:04:28.160 ministry of the Holy Spirit. I don't think I've ever 1:04:28.280 --> 1:04:30.000 felt you more than I feel you right now. And 1:04:30.080 --> 1:04:31.840 I thank you because I need you. I need you, 1:04:31.960 --> 1:04:35.360 We need you. Somebody needs you. On the other and 1:04:35.480 --> 1:04:39.280 through their tears, they see now that the answer is 1:04:41.840 --> 1:04:46.760 not standing outside of them. The living water is within 1:04:46.920 --> 1:04:54.120 and the bread is right here. Thank you. So Jesus 1:04:54.160 --> 1:04:59.120 is in Moses. Okay, Jesus and Moses. God's not going 1:04:59.200 --> 1:05:00.360 to do it like he used to to do it, 1:05:03.080 --> 1:05:04.640 but if you ask, he'll show you what He's doing 1:05:04.720 --> 1:05:16.360 right now in this moment. Speaking of Moses, remember when 1:05:16.440 --> 1:05:18.120 God came to him and said, I want to use you. 1:05:20.480 --> 1:05:23.280 He had to set a whole nation for we don't 1:05:23.320 --> 1:05:27.400 have that responsibility. But God's speaking to us too, He's 1:05:27.440 --> 1:05:33.280 calling us to. Moses asked a question, who shall I 1:05:33.360 --> 1:05:37.400 say sent me? God said, I am you are what 1:05:37.960 --> 1:05:41.240 that's the question? How you get to spend the rest 1:05:41.280 --> 1:05:45.160 of your life finding out the answer? Thank you, Lord, 1:05:47.520 --> 1:05:51.480 I am You're going to find out all that He 1:05:51.680 --> 1:06:01.320 is through the things you go through. But Moses, Moses 1:06:01.360 --> 1:06:07.000 said something to the Lord in Exodus fourteen, and I'll 1:06:07.040 --> 1:06:09.280 show you this before I close, because the Lord gave 1:06:09.320 --> 1:06:10.920 it to me like an image, like an image, like 1:06:10.960 --> 1:06:15.040 an image. He said, if you knew what was in you, 1:06:17.240 --> 1:06:19.000 if you knew what was in you, you would ask 1:06:19.120 --> 1:06:21.840 for strength. You would ask, I'm in you. So you 1:06:21.880 --> 1:06:24.240 can ask I'm in you. You got to get it 1:06:24.320 --> 1:06:28.800 in you. You got to get it in you, Moses said, 1:06:29.800 --> 1:06:33.960 after a whole series of excuses, you know, God asked 1:06:34.040 --> 1:06:40.400 him a question. He said, what's that in your hand? Said? 1:06:40.440 --> 1:06:43.800 In your hand? Moses simply had a staff, But that 1:06:43.920 --> 1:06:49.040 wasn't all it was. It was an instrument to part waters, 1:06:50.000 --> 1:06:53.400 to turn rivers to blood. It was an instrument. It 1:06:53.480 --> 1:06:57.800 was an instrument. What's in your hand? It's coming from 1:06:57.840 --> 1:06:59.760 the five. It's coming from the five, It's coming from 1:06:59.760 --> 1:07:06.320 the fis. What's in your hand? Did you ask? Did 1:07:06.360 --> 1:07:09.560 you ask? Or do you just assume it's not enough? 1:07:10.640 --> 1:07:14.400 Did you ask? We get in trouble when we answer 1:07:14.920 --> 1:07:18.040 when we answer instead of asking. So God said, I 1:07:18.120 --> 1:07:20.640 chose you, Moses. And in Exodus four ten, this is 1:07:20.680 --> 1:07:23.520 the picture of the Lord gave me. And the Lord 1:07:23.600 --> 1:07:25.880 must really want somebody to get this message, because it's 1:07:25.920 --> 1:07:29.320 so heavy on me. I can barely move. But Moses said, 1:07:29.520 --> 1:07:32.640 pardon your servant, Lord, I have never been eloquent, not enough, 1:07:32.960 --> 1:07:35.320 neither in the past nor since you've spoken to your servant. 1:07:35.480 --> 1:07:38.320 I'm slow speech and tongue. Now everybody has something like that. 1:07:38.440 --> 1:07:40.840 They could say why you can't make it, and why 1:07:40.920 --> 1:07:43.840 there's not enough, and why eight months wages wouldn't be enough. 1:07:44.080 --> 1:07:46.960 Everybody has an inner Philip, and the inner Philip will 1:07:47.000 --> 1:07:49.280 jump to conclusions based on the evidence that you can 1:07:49.320 --> 1:07:52.200 see with your eyes. But watch what the Lord said 1:07:52.240 --> 1:07:58.200 in verse eleven. The Lord said, did I ask who 1:07:58.320 --> 1:08:03.640 gave human beings their mouth? Did I ask who makes them? Death? 1:08:03.680 --> 1:08:08.760 From you? Did I ask? You keep telling me what 1:08:08.880 --> 1:08:12.120 you're not? But I didn't ask you that. You keep 1:08:12.200 --> 1:08:15.320 telling me what you can But I didn't ask you that. 1:08:17.120 --> 1:08:20.200 So don't say I'm just single, don't say I'm just young, 1:08:20.560 --> 1:08:25.599 don't say I'm too old. Did I ask High Lord? 1:08:26.800 --> 1:08:36.280 I am enough? Is it not? I come here, boy, 1:08:36.360 --> 1:08:37.680 come here, come in come in course, come I come, 1:08:37.720 --> 1:08:39.160 I come nick, come in come, in come, in come, 1:08:39.160 --> 1:08:41.000 in come here, comeick come in, come, here, comeick me. 1:08:41.960 --> 1:08:45.040 I need to undred sixty dollars. I need to hundred 1:08:45.080 --> 1:08:46.840 sixty dollars. I need to hundred sixty dollars. I need 1:08:46.840 --> 1:08:52.720 to undred sixty dollars. Oh, you didn't think you had it. 1:08:53.760 --> 1:08:57.840 But right up before I came to preach, I handed 1:08:57.960 --> 1:09:02.920 him my wallet and I didn't tell him why. I said, 1:09:03.560 --> 1:09:06.519 just hold this for me until I'm done. And I'm 1:09:06.560 --> 1:09:09.720 about to be done, because when I get to the 1:09:09.920 --> 1:09:13.479 end of my message, I'm gonna put something in my boy, 1:09:14.880 --> 1:09:18.160 And when I ask you for it, the fact that 1:09:18.320 --> 1:09:22.960 I ask is the proof that you have it. If 1:09:23.040 --> 1:09:28.120 I ask you have it, If I ask, I gave it, 1:09:28.120 --> 1:09:32.600 it's in you. It's more than at all. Count that 1:09:32.840 --> 1:09:36.840 money over that balalet. What's in that wallet? What's in 1:09:37.000 --> 1:09:40.920 that wallet? I need you sixty But I will never 1:09:41.160 --> 1:09:45.280 ask you for what I didn't get you to forget with. 1:09:45.960 --> 1:09:49.160 And if you run out of that, I got credit too. 1:09:50.000 --> 1:09:53.799 Now I've said my credit score. I'm putting in a boid, 1:09:54.240 --> 1:09:57.839 I'm putting in your duggers. I put it in your spirit, 1:09:58.320 --> 1:10:00.960 I'll put it in a fastt I'm put it in 1:10:01.040 --> 1:10:04.479 a bag I'm put it in a weakness, I'm pull 1:10:04.520 --> 1:10:08.519 it in a blone. I yeh folow I have the 1:10:08.680 --> 1:10:17.360 Lord why you're not, But I am that this bones 1:10:17.520 --> 1:10:24.519 live again. They cast ny. Wow, these bones can live again. 1:10:25.840 --> 1:10:28.920 You can't make it. You do have what it takes. 1:10:30.280 --> 1:10:33.120 Christ is in you. I hope you received that message. 1:10:33.200 --> 1:10:35.920 Did you receive it? Thank you so much for your 1:10:35.960 --> 1:10:38.519 partnership in the gospel. I know you don't think of 1:10:38.600 --> 1:10:41.639 it this way, but when you give, it's like you preach. 1:10:41.840 --> 1:10:44.000 You know, those of you that invest in this ministry, 1:10:44.600 --> 1:10:47.599 we're up there doing it together, bringing Church to people. 1:10:48.040 --> 1:10:49.680 And I don't think the world has ever needed the 1:10:49.720 --> 1:10:52.680 Gospel of Jesus Christ any more than we do right now, 1:10:53.160 --> 1:10:55.760 the Bread of life for hungry souls. Thank you for 1:10:55.840 --> 1:10:59.559 being a part of this ministry. Don't forget to share 1:10:59.600 --> 1:11:01.840 this message with someone who you know needs it. You know, 1:11:01.960 --> 1:11:03.960 one of the best ways for God to feed you 1:11:04.479 --> 1:11:06.120 is for you to share what you have with others. 1:11:06.680 --> 1:11:09.960 So in the meantime, until I see you again, just 1:11:10.040 --> 1:11:12.320 make sure that you remember this Christ is in you 1:11:13.000 --> 1:11:14.680 and you are enough. We love you.