Navigating Not Enough

0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.000 Be sure to. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720 Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.440 I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:25.759 Remains standing, remain standing. Once you've hugged enough, put those 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:36.080 hands together, and welcome our EPAM all over the world. Hey, hey, everybody, 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.400 we're about to be We're about to be out on 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:46.440 the road this week. Elevation Knights Miami, Florida, Tampa, Florida, Knoxville, Tennessee, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:52.560 Atlanta Area, Birmingham. Then we're going to Texas. I'm gonna 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.720 get Tim Riggins, and then we're going over to Love 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.639 It and Dallas and Houston. Elevation Nights dot com. There 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.760 are some tickets and some locations. Don't buy it from 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:08.080 a scalper. Don't support that nonsense. But we really want 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.800 to see you there. We're expecting God to do great, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:16.280 amazing things. Clap your hands if you're expecting it right now. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.160 God is good. God is good. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.880 God is so good, so faithful. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.240 Well today, this message that. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.600 I have to share with you is one that everybody 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.800 in the room needs. So sometimes I'll say this message 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.560 is for somebody. I don't know who this is for, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.720 but today I know it's for all y'all. So look 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:51.640 at somebody and say you too, not the band. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:55.240 It's going to be good. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.440 I'm going to read from Matthew, chapter fifteen, verse twenty 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.400 nine through thirty eight, a familiar story with a twist, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.160 and not for the sake of being clever, but for 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.800 the sake of something that I believe God wants to 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.800 speak to you today in a fresh way, Matthew, chapter fifteen, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.760 verse twenty nine. And while you're turning there in your Bible, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.320 I let us know online where you're joining us from. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.919 We'd love to know your name and where you're joining 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.480 us from as well, right there in the comments, Matthew, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:32.000 chapter fifteen, verse twenty nine. Jesus left there and went 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.120 along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.760 a mountain side and sat down. Great crowds came to him, 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.680 bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, many others, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.359 and laid them at his feet, and he healed them. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.480 The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.639 The crippled made well, the lame walking, and the blind 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:57.080 see and they praised the God of Israel. Jesus called 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.680 his disciples to him and said, I have compassion. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:02.640 For these people. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.520 They have already been with me three days and have 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.720 nothing to eat. I do not want to send them 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:14.080 away hungry, or they may collapse on the way. His 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.799 disciples answered, where could we get enough bread in this 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.560 remote place to feed such a crowd. How many loaves 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:28.000 do you have, Jesus asked, seven, they replied, and a 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.119 few small fish. He told the crowd to sit down 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.120 on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and fish, 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.760 and when he had given thanks, he broke them and 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.400 gave them to the disciples, and they in turned to 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:45.600 the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward, the 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.960 disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:53.120 left over. Okay, verse thirty eight, let's read this one too. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:59.880 The number of those who ate was four thousand men, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:06.120 besides women and children. And I'm calling this message today 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:14.839 navigating not enough. We've all been there, we will all 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.599 be there at some point. So I can't think of 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:23.159 a more important class to teach today than navigating not enough. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.599 And let's just pray one more time for the Holy 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.000 spirit to guide us into truth. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.000 Lord, you said that. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.080 You would do that, that you would lead us and 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.799 guide us and remind us of the things that matter, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.360 and teach us the things that we need to know. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.600 Do that just now, for these people, for everybody who 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.000 will hear this message, is navigating something that. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:51.120 Is not enough. But you are more than enough. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.719 So bring us to that place in space and presence 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.560 of mind to see you as you are. We give 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.880 you praise in Jesus' name. Man, you may be seated. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.240 I made a list in my phone. I read it 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:42.040 to you. Time, money, sleep, energy, friends, confidence, opportunity, authority, freedom, flexibility, discipline, experience, joy, peace, wisdom. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.320 And I stopped there with fifteen because Matthew, fifteen, I 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.279 thought would be cool to do fifteen fifteen things that 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.280 I just said that someone in this room feels like 0:05:53.360 --> 0:06:09.320 they don't have enough of right now. Time, money, sleep, energy, friends, confidence, opportunity, authority, freedom, flexibility, discipline, experience, joy, peace, wisdom. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.120 Everyone will have to navigate an area of not enough 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.479 in your life in a way that comforts me to 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.000 know that for all the things that I don't feel 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.960 like I have enough of, there's some things you don't 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.960 have enough of with your needy self. Either kind of 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:31.839 evens the playing field. So don't be intimidated. Don't be intimidated. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:32.640 Not in here any way. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.719 The ground is level at the foot of the cross. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.720 We're all here because we need Jesus, and Jesus is complete. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:49.160 Jesus Christ is complete, fully, god fully man. At the 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:54.600 sound of that truth echoes back another truth that in 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.479 him I am complete, He is enough. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.160 I am enough. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:04.839 And yet there's no shortage of needs in this room. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.160 And everyone will have to pass through in different moments 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.800 of your life, different facets of this same. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.720 Neighborhood called not enough. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.640 And we have to talk about how to navigate that, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.320 because I have found that not only is the not 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:30.600 enough thing a battle that never goes away, but it 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.520 is a battle that never fully gets in balance. And 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.120 what I mean by that is when I read that 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.760 list of things, there have been seasons in my life 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.800 where I worked my way into enough of one of them, 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.520 only to find another one screaming, Hey, now that you 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.960 got enough money, you don't have any time. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:53.680 Yeah. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.720 I thought about this in the area of discipline. I 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.600 tried to be a disciplined person in my life. I need 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.840 that to stay on track. And yet I noticed the 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.200 times in my life where my discipline is really keyed in. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:13.760 Sometimes I get so rigid that I lose my empathy. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.600 And I'm doing really good with my disciplines, but I'm 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.000 mad at everybody else that they aren't as disciplined as me. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.240 Now I'm judging, So it's good. You know. I've got 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.200 my macros and my workouts and my Bible time. But 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.160 creates a whole other not enough over on this side, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.400 and I don't really want to stay in this too long. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.240 Just wanted to set up the idea of not enough. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.920 And I realized when I made the title navigating not enough, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.439 and God kind of led me to call this message 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.600 that that in that title navigating not enough, I am 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.920 the best one to teach this class because the two 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.640 biggest fears in my life are both in that title, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.120 not enough and navigating. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:08:59.920 I told you two weeks. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.320 Ago that I have no sense of direction, and I 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.400 still don't. There's been no supernatural miracle since then. And 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.240 the idea of this passage here, I looked at one 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:13.520 verse and I want to show it to you again 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.640 that the disciples said again a pretty familiar scripture that 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.240 I'm sharing with you today. But what they said to 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.040 Jesus when he said I want to feed all these 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.680 people I can get with because in verse thirty three, 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.839 they answered, where could we get enough bread in this 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.960 remote place to feed such a crowd? And we're going 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.480 to stay with that question for a moment because it's 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:41.240 very important. Where could we get enough bread in this 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.520 remote place to feed such a crowd? And here are 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.200 my two primary fears in life, all in one Bible verse. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.120 And the first one is the fear of running out, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.160 which runs deep for me. I don't know if there's 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.080 any scarcity mentality in your life, or some kind of 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.040 like efficit oriented way of thinking where you wake up 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.480 each day at zero. I don't know if you ever 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.440 do a little fire drills to try to figure out 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.000 how you could sell everything and live in, living in underground, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.280 live in a tent somewhere if it came to that. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.839 But the fear of running out, I can't tell you how. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.400 I can't explain. I cannot explain to you how important 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.719 it is that my phone is completely charged. Ninety three 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.400 percent is not one hundred percent. I cannot run out 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.559 of battery. What would I do. If the phone died, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.360 I would die. It's a fear that runs from everything 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.240 from iPhones to sermon material. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:33.600 A lot of times when I. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.920 Preached too long is because I was scared I'd get 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.880 up here and have nothing to say. So then I 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.000 went and messed around study too long and kept you 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:40.760 three hours. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:42.480 But my heart's in the right place. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.040 I don't want you to show up hungry and collapse 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.520 when you leave because I was watching the game instead. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.079 So I really really really relate to. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.360 This thing of where could we get enough, the fear 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.000 of running out, and then what makes it even. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.120 Worse put the scripture back up? 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.640 Where could we get enough bread in this remote place? 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:02.520 Did you notice that? 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.040 So now, not only do I not have enough, that's 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.000 my first fear in life, but I don't know where 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.360 I am, and I need to know where I am. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.319 And if I don't know where I am, I need 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.240 to be with somebody who knows where they are. And 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.720 that's where you're like, But the disciples had Jesus, so 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.240 it really didn't matter, because if you've got Jesus, you've 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:33.160 always got enough. And isn't it interesting how confidently you 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.960 say that about them? 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:36.520 Back then? 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.679 But if we followed you back into your neighborhood of 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:50.320 not enough. And you know, when you get a little older, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:52.760 you don't even really know if you can depend on 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.679 your body in the same way that you could. And 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:00.800 I know I'm not old or anything like that, still vital, 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.959 but yo, I pulled a muscle when I woke I 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.960 thought I pulled a muscle when I woke up this morning, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.960 and I was like, oh no. For about five minutes, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.480 I was like, who's going to preach? And the worst 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.440 part was I pulled it yawning, not lifting weights. I 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.080 wasn't doing yoga or anything. I just yawned in something 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.800 pop just to remind me, just to remind me. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.720 You know two extremes that we get into. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.480 I think when we look at what we don't have 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.800 and what we need, there is an extreme that we 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.760 go into, which is denial. You know, no, I'm good, 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.240 I'm good, I'm good until you completely crash. And then 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.720 the other one is despair, where you are so aware 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.520 of what you don't have that you don't realize what 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.640 you do have. And so, yes, the disciples have Jesus, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.359 and yes he has all knowledge, and yes he is omniscient. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.280 And he was, and is and will be all of 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.240 those things for you. But it does not change the 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:03.040 fact that they are in a remote place with limited resource. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.760 Now that's who I want to speak to today. You 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.680 are in a remote place with a limited resource. Either 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.800 of those is scary, just to be somewhere that is remote. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.000 I'm not talking about just physically. You know that. I'm 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.520 talking about emotional states that you've never experienced. I mentioned 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.560 stages of life that you've never experienced. It could even be, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.760 you know, beyond just the psychological. It could be just 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.600 beyond the chronological. It could be that you are dealing 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.280 with a series, a combination, or a sequence of things 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.240 that you've never experienced. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:41.440 Quite like this. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:48.960 Everybody say remote place, now say limited resource. So I 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.080 don't have enough, and I don't know where I am, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.800 and I don't know enough to get where I need 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.120 to go to get what I need. And I don't 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.480 know where I am and I don't have what I need. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.960 And those are my two biggest nightmares in life. So 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:08.600 I decided to preach about it. Navigating not enough. If 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.240 you were under the age of twenty, you will never 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:17.480 know the terror of navigating by map, not an app 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:22.280 called maps, not an interactive satellite guided device like. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:23.520 A map map. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.840 I went in the gas station yesterday and I was 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.600 gonna buy one to bring out here and unfold it 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.840 and like an icebreaker for the crowd and say, y'all, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.840 remember these, everybody who pulls a muscle when you yawn, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:41.320 y'all remember these. And I was gonna they didn't even 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.080 have a map at the gas station. What is the 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.480 world come to? I can't get a map at the 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:48.280 gas station. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.000 Elijah asked me before he went to college. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.720 He said, how did you used to do it? How 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.400 did you get anywhere? I said, son, it was traumatic. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.040 Your mom is great at directions, but she was better 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.000 than me. When we first moved to Charlotte, there was 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.120 the biggest city I'd. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:05.760 Ever lived in. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.760 And I would go have appointments with people all through 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.040 the highways and the byways and the mean streets of Weddington, Waxaw, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:18.040 Mint Hill, And I kid you not, there was not 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:18.800 a single. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.040 Meeting that I took that I would not end up 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:21.360 on the phone with Holly. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.320 And she would be at the house and I'd be 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.720 on the road and she would be guiding me. The 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:33.760 Holly spirit would be guiding me, and I don't know. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.120 We just celebrated twenty one years of marriage. I don't 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.880 know if we would have made it. Don't clap too quick. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.760 I don't know if we'd have made it at five, if 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.840 we would have kept having to go that way, because 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.880 you know, the thing about us communicating in this way 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:54.080 is she had never lived here either, so it all 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.880 sounds good while she's telling me what to do from 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:02.360 the house with the map from two years ago. It 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.760 changed everything. You know, people say I would have loved 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.320 to have been a disciple and followed Jesus. I wouldn't 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:13.920 back then. You wouldn't either. You know, you might have. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.320 You might eventually have loved it, but not in a moment. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.200 Because I want you to think about this. They're in 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.520 a remote place, they're they're healing people. Who knows how 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.640 long he's gonna keep doing this. It's been three days, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.560 and he doesn't seem tired yet because he's fully God. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:41.040 And now he pulls them to the side. And this 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.160 is verse twenty two, because it's all really well and 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.720 good as long as he's doing the work. But then 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.120 he called the disciples to him and said, I have 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.960 compassion for these people, they've already been with me. Now, 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.480 that phrase been with me in the original language of 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.960 the Bible doesn't just mean they hung out. It means 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.240 that they've been cleaving to me. They've been staying with me. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.080 They've been hanging with me. They've been pulling on me, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.760 they've been pressing towards me, they've been receiving from me. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.040 So touch somebody real quick and say stay with him. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:14.920 Stay with him. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.200 If you feel crippled in an area of your life, 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.359 if you feel lame in an area of your life, 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.680 if you feel blind in an area of your life, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.760 if you feel like you're mute in an area of 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.000 your life, I got some good guidance for you. Stay 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.560 with Jesus. Good things happen when you stay with him. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.960 Good things happen when you stay with him. And I 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.560 don't think it's a coincidence that they stayed three days. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.040 Read something in the Bible about three days. I'll just 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:49.439 think about that. It's really it's really wonderful to think about, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.680 how you know this thing we say, where God guides, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:58.000 he provides. Have you heard that one where God guides 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:58.720 he provides? 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.640 I fully attest to that. I fully believe in that. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:12.080 My life is a trophy of the grace of God, 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.399 that everywhere He has led me, he has provided for me. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.800 Where God guides, he provides. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.320 But the thing that that leaves out if you just 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.440 put it on a bumper sticker, that where God guides, 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.920 he provides, is that a lot of times we are 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:37.960 guessing about where he's guiding us. I know you don't 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.760 want to admit it, especially the men, because you don't 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.760 want to admit you're lost. You rather drive in circles 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:46.520 seven years. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.160 I'm not like that. I would call Holly. I would 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:52.280 call her in a heartbeat. I didn't. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.159 I had a girl who could read a map, and 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.720 I was determined to tap into her full resources. There's 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:00.840 no male ego on me. I don't want to be lost. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.440 I'm too scared for that. And you know, if you 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.960 get lost enough in your life, you will humble yourself 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.399 to the point where you say, well, I don't normally 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:12.840 like to ask for help. I don't like to admit 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.200 I've never done this before. I don't like to say 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:15.840 I was wrong. I don't like to ask somebody that 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.399 I need them to show me in this area of 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:23.359 my life. Sometimes we just aren't hungry enough yet, lost 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.159 enough yet. But there's somebody in this room and you 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.080 are and you are navigating and not enough in your 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:34.200 life in this season that has brought you to the precipice. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.280 Or although you have pressed in to Jesus, you are 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.560 in danger of collapsing on the way. That's what Jesus said. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:45.200 I don't want you to collapse along the way, and I've. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.920 Got good news for you. The Bible says that Jesus 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:56.040 has compassion. If God gave you a new car, would 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:56.760 you praise him for it? 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:03.919 Paid off nice one, fast one, sexy one? 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.240 Yeah, would you praise them for a new car? 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.160 If God paid off your house, would you praise them 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:17.159 for it? If God said, I'm giving you my compassion, 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.639 There'd be nothing greater you could praise him for than 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:29.679 the compassion of a Christ who is fully god Fully 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:34.200 God enough to meet all of your needs, Fully God. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.480 Enough to stop a storm, fully. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.439 God enough to heal somebody who couldn't walk, and they 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.240 go dancing out, Fully God enough that the one who 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.120 couldn't speak left shouting, Fully God enough to do all 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.320 of that, and fully man enough that, after all is 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.639 said and done, pull his disciples to the side and 0:20:55.680 --> 0:21:00.560 say I have compassion for what they lack. I don't 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.960 know if there's anybody in here who's in religious rehab. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.520 You grew up with a God who was waiting to 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.400 crush you underneath the weight of what you were not yet. 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.000 But we meet at Jesus in Matthew fifteen. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:21.399 Come on, get glad about it. Who has compassion for 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:26.399 what you lack? So the Lord is my shepherd. I 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:30.440 shall not want. That does not mean I will never lack, 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:34.520 but it means that in every area where I lack, 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.720 the Lord is faithful and loyal to me, that he 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.440 will never leave me in my lack and turn a 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.880 deaf ear to me when I call him. Let's praise God. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.640 Not for a car, not for a house. That's fine, 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:49.960 I got a car, I got a house. 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:52.679 But he has compassion. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:58.560 That he looks on my weakness with compassion, that he 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:04.040 looks on my lack with compassion. I don't know. I 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.800 just noticed that this week. I noticed that Jesus said, 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:12.600 I have compassion for these people Verse thirty two. And 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.560 the disciples answered the request that Jesus made about feeding 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.800 them with logic and calculation. You know, like men often do, 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.600 like men kind often does. Where can we get enough bread? 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.760 There's no door dash on my phone. We don't have 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.240 an app. You know, some people would say that Jesus 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.560 is better than a GPS, but I don't think he is, 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.719 because when you use a GPS. 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.080 You get to select the destination. 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:47.480 But when you follow Christ, he will get you where 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:53.000 you need to go. He'll get you there, turn by turn, 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:58.720 step by step. He'll do better than reroute you. He 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.440 will pick your big behind up and carry your dead weight, 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:11.160 if that's what it takes. But one thing about this savior. 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.960 Imagine a GPS that you didn't get to tell it 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:21.000 where you want to end up. That's Jesus. Peter's got 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:25.560 this boat right. They're going all around ministering to people, 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:32.680 and Peter's the one that's driving, okay, But the one 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.640 who is driving the boat doesn't get to decide where 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:39.879 it docks. I don't think you heard what I just said, 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:45.080 because I'm describing what a life of following Christ feels like. 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:49.560 Sometimes I'm driving this boat, I'm living this life. I'm 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.480 making decisions. I'm the one having to make these moves. 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:54.640 I'm the one having to show up for these things. 0:23:55.800 --> 0:24:01.160 But ultimately I don't get to decide where this boat docs. 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.879 Jesus does. God does neg that brings you. 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:10.840 Great comfort, or if you're control freak, it really starts 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:12.760 to mess with you, especially when you end up in 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:19.480 a remote place. And Jesus starts healing people and he 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.800 shows no signs of stopping, and he wants the people 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:25.600 to be fed, and he pulls the disciples to the 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:30.199 side and says, I have compassion for these people. And 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:33.440 the disciples answered verse thirty three, where could we get 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:38.040 enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd? 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:39.800 Now I need to slow this down and we can 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:43.800 study it. Go to verse thirty two again, Jesus said 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:50.679 I have compassion for these What did he say? I 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:55.440 have compassion for these people? What did Jesus call them? 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.720 Look at the disciples in verse thirty three. Where are 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:02.320 we going to get enough bread in this remote place 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:13.320 to feed such a It's all about how you see it. 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:17.399 The disciples see crowds. Jesus sees people. 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:24.479 How many times I've been getting ready to preach, and 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:26.800 it's like, I've done everything that you're supposed to do 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:28.760 that they taught me how to do. In that overpriced 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.640 education that they gave me out there in Lousville, Kentucky. 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:37.400 And I got a scripture, and I got four commentaries 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:40.040 that I read, and I got a research brief that 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:42.280 I hired somebody who's better at Greek than me to do, 0:25:42.359 --> 0:25:48.320 because hey, i have some deficiencies myself, and I've got 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:50.960 some stories that might be funny, and I've got some 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:56.720 one liners that might be repeatable, tweetable, exible. It's the 0:25:56.720 --> 0:26:04.600 most called now and then I realize that I have 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:12.679 everything that I need except to remember the needs of 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:18.560 the people that I'm preaching to. Now follow me. The 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:25.280 disciples are worried about bread. Why because Jesus has something 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:25.840 they don't have. 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:29.880 And it might surprise you what Jesus has that they don't. 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:30.600 He doesn't have. 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:32.639 Any bread either. They have seven loaves, he has zero. 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:36.520 So they actually have more of the physical product, if 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:40.840 I could put it that way, than he does. But 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:45.840 he says something. He says Verse thirty two. I have compassion, 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:54.040 And sometimes when we think we're lacking provision, what we're 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:55.680 really lacking is priorities. 0:26:58.600 --> 0:26:59.040 Follow me. 0:27:00.520 --> 0:27:02.840 Sometimes I don't see the situation. 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:06.800 Correctly, so I call it not enough but if I. 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:11.000 Would see it like Jesus sees it, it would instantly 0:27:11.080 --> 0:27:14.600 become more than enough for what He has called me 0:27:14.720 --> 0:27:19.960 to do. When I lose my perspective on God's priorities, 0:27:20.560 --> 0:27:24.679 I will always be running low on provision because it 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:27.159 will never be enough. 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:30.560 And this is why I would really encourage you to. 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:33.359 Put a limit on how much you compare yourself to 0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:37.240 other people. Some of the not enough that you feel 0:27:37.359 --> 0:27:40.320 is not because of an actual amount that you have 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:43.520 or don't have. It is because of the act of 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:47.560 comparing that you involve yourself in that would say, because 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:51.479 they have this, and because I have that, and because 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:54.560 they do that and because I do this. Do you 0:27:54.600 --> 0:27:59.159 see how you have replaced the compassion of Christ with 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:04.800 the comparison of man. And when you replace compassion with comparison, 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:08.800 when you step outside of your calling, whatever that may be, 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:12.159 when you step outside of what God has given you 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:14.480 in a sign you to do in your life, you 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:18.520 begin to see things as crowds, not people. You begin 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:21.480 to see life as a race to be run rather 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:25.320 than a journey to be enjoyed with Jesus. And sometimes 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:27.879 I'm gonna tell you this, Sometimes I've been praying to 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:31.120 God about not enough bread when what I really didn't 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:34.919 have enough of with sight to see what he sees, 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:41.479 how he sees it? Is this good to you. It's 0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:46.120 strengthen me because I realized that sometimes it's not the 0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:48.920 bread that I don't have, it's not the time that 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.720 I don't have. It's the way I'm spending the time 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:57.360 chasing the thing that God never called me to go after. Anyway, 0:29:00.640 --> 0:29:03.680 my time is a limited resource, my money is a 0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:06.720 limited resource. But if I never learned to put God 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:09.520 first in any of those areas, how can I come 0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:11.360 to Him about a need that he tried to meet 0:29:11.360 --> 0:29:17.560 through a priority that I refused to set. Now I'm 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:22.560 here to encourage you. I'm here to encourage you that 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:25.160 sometimes not enough is a fact. 0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:26.920 It is. 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:29.440 I met a lady last weekend. She came up to 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:32.080 me in tears. She said, I listen to your sermons. 0:29:32.360 --> 0:29:35.840 I love God, but I need a job, and we 0:29:35.960 --> 0:29:38.520 prayed on the spot. I didn't tell her, well, I'll 0:29:38.560 --> 0:29:40.280 go home and pray about whether God wants you to 0:29:40.320 --> 0:29:42.720 have a job. You need a job, you have a God. 0:29:42.960 --> 0:29:45.360 I pray that God would give you the greatest job. 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:47.320 I pray that he would open a door for you 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:49.320 right now before you get home today. I don't know 0:29:49.360 --> 0:29:53.520 if he will, but I prayed for that. 0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:54.000 She said. 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.000 I love how She said that, I love God, but 0:29:57.080 --> 0:30:00.960 I need a job. You do need God and a 0:30:01.040 --> 0:30:04.200 job for all of y'all. All I need is God 0:30:04.280 --> 0:30:05.440 thinks and a job. 0:30:08.000 --> 0:30:11.640 And a job. How many can testify at. 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:16.680 The light company, the power company. They don't really respect 0:30:16.680 --> 0:30:23.920 that holy ghost currency, do they? And she said, I 0:30:23.960 --> 0:30:25.240 love God, but I need a job. 0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:30.960 Sometimes. It's a fact when I said sleep. If you 0:30:31.120 --> 0:30:34.440 have a child under the age. 0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:41.160 Of seventy three seventy four, it's going to be some 0:30:41.200 --> 0:30:46.400 sleepless nights, right. But what you don't want to do 0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:50.520 is let one need feed another need feed another need, 0:30:51.440 --> 0:30:54.920 until you let a situation that is not enough turn 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:58.920 into an identity that you are not enough, and eventually 0:30:59.160 --> 0:31:02.480 start to believe that God is not enough and you 0:31:02.560 --> 0:31:08.640 die in a desert or a wilderness of want. You 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:11.520 don't have enough money, But if you don't trust God 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:14.720 with that and move forward in that, then you definitely 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:18.440 won't get enough sleep. And if you don't get enough sleep, 0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:21.680 you won't have enough energy. And if you don't have 0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:25.040 enough energy, you will not have enough opportunities. And if 0:31:25.040 --> 0:31:28.800 they come, you'll kill them. You'll yawn at them and 0:31:28.840 --> 0:31:31.840 pull a muscle. I'm gonna call back as many times. 0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:34.560 I'm gonna use what the devil meant for evil this morning, 0:31:34.560 --> 0:31:35.320 and I'm appreciate it. 0:31:37.000 --> 0:31:41.920 I've been afflicted, y'all. I don't have any friends. 0:31:41.960 --> 0:31:46.840 Well, if you let that become, if you let it 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:50.880 define you, and you begin to navigate according to what 0:31:50.920 --> 0:31:53.440 you don't have, Jesus said something interesting. 0:31:53.480 --> 0:31:56.280 He said, I have compassion. 0:31:58.280 --> 0:32:01.760 And when you tap into that, when you tap into 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:03.920 the compassion that Christ has for you and the compassion 0:32:03.960 --> 0:32:07.720 that He has for others, bread is no problem to God. 0:32:18.880 --> 0:32:26.120 And I was just thinking how different this passage would 0:32:26.160 --> 0:32:31.440 have been. You know, they fed four thousand people. Verse 0:32:31.480 --> 0:32:36.719 thirty eight says, and they started with seven loaves. And 0:32:36.760 --> 0:32:40.040 I think it's amazing that Jesus saw people and they 0:32:40.080 --> 0:32:42.680 saw a crowd. And it made me start to wonder 0:32:43.200 --> 0:32:47.720 when it said that they fed four thousand people, why 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:49.480 did we always say that it was the feeding of 0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:54.040 the five thousand? How many y'all heard the story that 0:32:54.080 --> 0:32:57.520 Jesus fed five thousand? Why don't we always call it 0:32:57.560 --> 0:33:00.120 that like, why don't we count the women and the 0:33:00.360 --> 0:33:03.680 children too? Well, they didn't at this time. That's how 0:33:03.680 --> 0:33:06.840 they did it at that time. And why do we 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:08.680 call it five thousand where it says four thousand here? 0:33:08.720 --> 0:33:10.000 How many of you were wondering that when I read it, 0:33:10.040 --> 0:33:10.800 you're like four thousand? 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:11.440 I thought it was five? 0:33:11.440 --> 0:33:14.080 What happened to the other thousand? You're not gonna believe 0:33:14.120 --> 0:33:14.960 this when I tell you. 0:33:16.880 --> 0:33:21.880 This is the second time Jesus did this, So now 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:28.440 you're really judging the disciples, because in Matthew fourteen there 0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:34.320 were five thousand people and five loaves of bread, and 0:33:34.440 --> 0:33:37.920 Jesus fed all of them, and there were twelve baskets 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:38.680 left over. 0:33:39.880 --> 0:33:44.040 A chapter later. I'm not talking about. 0:33:43.840 --> 0:33:46.960 That happened in Matthew three. That happened in Matthew fourteen. 0:33:48.320 --> 0:33:49.200 What chapter is this? 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:50.920 Okay? 0:33:50.960 --> 0:33:52.600 How many of y'all are good enough at math to 0:33:52.640 --> 0:33:56.480 say that's not that long, that's not that long, And 0:33:56.720 --> 0:33:58.400 how many of you are good enough at math to 0:33:58.400 --> 0:33:59.280 put this all together? 0:34:00.440 --> 0:34:04.040 They fed five thousand with five loaves. 0:34:05.080 --> 0:34:08.920 Now it's only four thousand and they've got seven loaves. 0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:14.960 This should be easy, this should be simple. It's just 0:34:15.080 --> 0:34:17.600 simple math. Holly came to me this week. She's like, 0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:19.680 you need to see this everyone. While she'll bring me 0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:23.239 like a trend or something like just something that's going 0:34:23.280 --> 0:34:24.680 on in pop culture, just to make sure I'm a 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:26.799 weird I can be kind of clueless. Sometimes she's like, 0:34:26.880 --> 0:34:28.719 you need to know a few things today. She'll tell 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:32.160 me about gas prices or wars or Taylor Swift attending 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:35.240 football games or things important things. 0:34:38.920 --> 0:34:41.480 And then she started showing me these was it. 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:45.040 TikTok or Instagram something called girl math? 0:34:47.239 --> 0:34:47.879 You've heard of this? 0:34:48.760 --> 0:34:52.880 I have to because Holly showed me girl Math. She 0:34:53.080 --> 0:34:55.720 was like, watch this clip. And it was a lady 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:59.239 saying okay, if this buy one, get one free, and 0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:02.359 I don't buy it, I basically lost money girl math. 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:04.080 It was like a hashtag. 0:35:05.520 --> 0:35:10.759 If I spent thirty eight dollars online at Sephora, and 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:13.360 but it's free shipping. If you go to forty dollars 0:35:13.440 --> 0:35:16.040 and I buy twenty dollars a mascara, so I qualified 0:35:16.080 --> 0:35:18.680 for free shipping. I basically saved money and got the 0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:23.360 mascara for free, girl Math. And I'm watching this like, 0:35:23.480 --> 0:35:26.239 why woman are you showing me this? This is triggering 0:35:26.280 --> 0:35:33.879 to me all kinds of stuff. Then had he goes, 0:35:34.080 --> 0:35:36.520 if I put the money on my Starbucks card six 0:35:36.560 --> 0:35:39.800 months ago and spend it is basically free because I 0:35:39.800 --> 0:35:40.880 already put the money. 0:35:40.680 --> 0:35:42.040 On the car. 0:35:42.680 --> 0:35:45.160 Girl math, and I'm like, well, let me teach you 0:35:45.200 --> 0:35:48.560 some dad math until you are paying rent in my 0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:54.839 house and buying food. Okay, anyway, And I don't really 0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:59.960 know anything about girl math, and I'll probably get you know, 0:36:00.160 --> 0:36:04.720 criticized or something. I'll get called a sexister, a misogynist, 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:09.960 or some toxic masculinity something. 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:12.120 Over this. 0:36:12.920 --> 0:36:16.920 But I've come to talk about girl math. I do 0:36:17.080 --> 0:36:25.320 know something, though, about God math, and that's the class 0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:29.800 I came to teach. Do you know anything about God math? 0:36:31.840 --> 0:36:37.000 This is not a trend? This is the truth. Can 0:36:37.040 --> 0:36:41.040 we talk about God math for a minute. Godmth is 0:36:41.080 --> 0:36:45.720 when you have seven loaves to start with and seven 0:36:45.840 --> 0:36:52.319 big basketfuls when you're done feeding a crowd. That's I 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:55.160 know something about God math. I don't know about this 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:58.479 girl math or man math, or boy math or dad 0:36:58.560 --> 0:37:02.600 math or mom math, but I know something about Do 0:37:02.680 --> 0:37:06.120 any of you know anything about God math in your life? 0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:11.120 Maybe not? Where everybody else walked away from you, but 0:37:11.320 --> 0:37:14.399 God stayed with you, and you found out that if 0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:19.160 it's just you and God that makes a majority, that's 0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:25.640 God math. I want to teach a class about God 0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:30.640 math because the Bible says that He fed four thousand 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:36.440 with seven loaves. Anytime you have something left over that 0:37:36.600 --> 0:37:41.240 is greater than what you started with, that's God math. 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:48.920 And they fed four thousand men besides women and children. 0:37:49.880 --> 0:37:54.040 Did you see that They didn't count the women, they 0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:59.920 didn't count the children. But God doesn't count like people count. 0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:06.240 And I'm glad he doesn't count like people counting. Because 0:38:06.239 --> 0:38:09.440 if we were doing my math and I'm standing at 0:38:09.440 --> 0:38:12.880 a red sea and all I have is a staff, 0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:17.480 then the sea is greater than the staff. But if 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:20.680 God put me in front of that sea and he 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:25.280 spoke a word over my purpose, then guess what happens. 0:38:25.800 --> 0:38:31.040 The staff becomes greater than the sea. That's God math. 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:34.920 If Moses were here, he would teach this class with me. 0:38:35.719 --> 0:38:39.560 Can Moses be my adjunk professor today? Come on, I 0:38:39.600 --> 0:38:43.600 need an assistant teacher, somebody who knows something about God math. 0:38:44.120 --> 0:38:47.120 Maybe we could call on David who had a nine 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:51.799 foot giant and a little tiny rock but in the 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.359 hands of one who is committed. 0:38:54.040 --> 0:38:58.640 And called and chosen and anointed and oiled and raised 0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:04.640 by God by faith in God, one little rock couldn't 0:39:04.680 --> 0:39:05.480 have been that big. 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:09.640 What about two inches around? Yeah, two inches around nine 0:39:09.680 --> 0:39:13.719 foot giant watch two inches versus nine feet. That's what 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:18.920 happens when you get God math in your situation. Or 0:39:18.960 --> 0:39:22.759 maybe we need to call on Joshua, who's standing in 0:39:22.800 --> 0:39:26.160 front of a twelve foot thick wall called the Wall 0:39:26.200 --> 0:39:29.600 of Jericho and all these. God is a trumpet to 0:39:29.680 --> 0:39:33.319 deal with a wall. Now, anytime you've got a trumpet 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:37.200 versus a twelve foot thick wall, you've got a problem, 0:39:37.560 --> 0:39:42.920 unless you've got a God who is greater than the problem. 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:48.880 One trumpet can collapse a twelve foot wall. That's God math. 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:53.200 That's not man's math. When you get in man's math, 0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:56.759 you start saying, they're bigger than us, they're stronger than us. 0:39:56.920 --> 0:39:59.440 It's greater than us. But when you know that he 0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:02.879 is four, are you who can be against you? Even 0:40:02.920 --> 0:40:05.799 if the whole host of the enemy's path rises up. 0:40:06.600 --> 0:40:07.120 I love it. 0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:10.480 There's this one story in the Old Testament. The prophet 0:40:10.520 --> 0:40:12.760 name Elisha can I preach for a minute. The prophet 0:40:12.800 --> 0:40:15.520 named Elisha sends a servant out to check in the morning. 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:18.399 The servant comes back and says, we're in trouble. There's 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:21.399 more of them than there are of us. Elisha said, 0:40:21.520 --> 0:40:25.120 he's not seeing this right. God is saying over somebody, 0:40:25.160 --> 0:40:28.600 you are not seeing this right. You're on the wrong app. 0:40:29.080 --> 0:40:32.160 You keep pulling up your map, you keep pulling up 0:40:32.239 --> 0:40:35.200 your calculator, you keep doing your math. 0:40:35.600 --> 0:40:37.120 But I got news for you. 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:46.440 Where God guides, he provides. Watch this. If it's God's map, 0:40:47.360 --> 0:40:51.120 it's God's math. So when you find yourself in a 0:40:51.200 --> 0:40:54.359 remote area and you don't know what to do, or 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:56.400 how to do it, or what to do it with. 0:40:56.920 --> 0:40:59.560 If I just came for three people, I wanted you 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:02.440 to know, Oh, then if you're wary, puts you. If 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:05.960 you're wary, puts you, if you're weary, puts you. Then 0:41:06.000 --> 0:41:14.520 you have what you need. If it's God's math, it's 0:41:14.600 --> 0:41:21.840 God's mad. So the prophet said, open his eyes that 0:41:21.920 --> 0:41:25.879 he may see that there are more with us than 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:30.160 with them. That's that God math. Yeah, all of us 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:33.080 who are bad at Man's math, let's get good at 0:41:33.320 --> 0:41:37.080 God's math. Man's math says there's nothing there but except a 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:40.120 cloud the size of a man's hand. God's math says, 0:41:40.160 --> 0:41:43.680 I hear the sound of the abundance of rain getting 0:41:43.719 --> 0:41:48.920 ready to swell in your life. Yeah, that's God's math. 0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:52.239 That's God's math. I want to have a class called 0:41:52.360 --> 0:41:54.719 God's Math, and we only need one. 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:56.719 Thing to show in the class. It's just one thing. 0:41:56.840 --> 0:41:58.239 If you want to write it down, you can write 0:41:58.239 --> 0:42:00.359 it down. We don't need a whole semester. We don't 0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:02.239 need a whole course. I don't even need but five 0:42:02.280 --> 0:42:07.719 more minutes. Show them what God's math looks like. That's 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:14.680 God's math. That's God's math. That's God's math. It's not 0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:19.040 a hashtag. It's a prophecy. It says that whatever I'm 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:23.359 going through is not greater than the God who knew 0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:29.279 I would be in this remote place with this limited resource. Yeah, 0:42:29.280 --> 0:42:31.760 but I only got six more months with my kids. 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:34.279 That's not enough. It is if you let God do 0:42:34.400 --> 0:42:38.000 the math, he could take six months and accomplish more 0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:39.520 than you could in six years. 0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:42.200 Come out of man's math, come out a. 0:42:42.120 --> 0:42:44.800 Little boy's math. Come out a girl's math. 0:42:44.640 --> 0:42:45.399 Women's math. 0:42:46.360 --> 0:42:50.520 I don't need man's math any longer because God knew 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:54.440 what I would need for this season. And I have 0:42:54.680 --> 0:42:58.239 never been in a situation that God called me to 0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:05.480 and felt like I was enough. That situation never enough 0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:12.800 is not a feeling. Enough is a place of faith 0:43:14.520 --> 0:43:21.480 that God is greater God, Math, God, Math, You're glad 0:43:21.520 --> 0:43:25.640 you came to the class today. Kiss your number two pencils. 0:43:26.719 --> 0:43:30.840 Make sure it's fully sharpened. I know life has you 0:43:30.880 --> 0:43:33.360 in a place right now where you never knew you'd be. 0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:34.520 The Disciples could relate. 0:43:35.800 --> 0:43:39.080 The interesting thing about this passage is they were no 0:43:39.160 --> 0:43:42.920 longer on the shores of Copernaum, where they had done 0:43:42.920 --> 0:43:48.120 all of their ministry. They were now in a gentile region, 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:52.800 having to feed people that were strangers to the Covenant 0:43:52.800 --> 0:43:56.799 that they belonged to. And Jesus said, I have compassion 0:43:57.440 --> 0:44:02.160 for these people. And that lets me know is that 0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:06.400 God saw my situation coming before I did, and He 0:44:06.480 --> 0:44:08.879 put in me what I need before I felt the 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:15.800 need arise. So if I say this to a crowd, 0:44:17.719 --> 0:44:22.200 then it has a very limited yield. But God sees 0:44:22.239 --> 0:44:28.960 people today who are navigating are not enough in your life? 0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:31.080 And you know that not enough so well that. 0:44:31.040 --> 0:44:39.720 It has almost become your name. It has almost become 0:44:40.600 --> 0:44:43.120 your name. For some of you, it is the shame 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:46.440 of the mistakes that you have made that is keeping 0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:53.000 you stuck in this season. And by man's math, we 0:44:53.040 --> 0:44:58.280 all fall short of the glory of God. But God's 0:44:58.320 --> 0:45:03.280 math says that his grace is greater. 0:45:04.239 --> 0:45:07.960 Shout greater, Shout greater, Shout greater. 0:45:09.200 --> 0:45:11.520 That's the one word I want in your spirit about 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:13.960 your God for whatever you're facing today. 0:45:14.719 --> 0:45:19.200 And as simple as it sounds, if the disciples had 0:45:19.280 --> 0:45:24.480 realized that God's plan was greater, they would have never 0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:25.919 asked the question. 0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:30.719 Where are we going to get enough? You don't have 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:34.160 to ask about bread when you're standing next to it. 0:45:43.560 --> 0:45:47.440 So let's get serious about this. Now you're navigating and 0:45:47.480 --> 0:45:49.200 not enough in your life. And part of the problem 0:45:49.239 --> 0:45:51.600 with that is that you tried before and it wasn't enough. 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:55.200 Tried to hold the marriage together but it wasn't enough. 0:45:56.280 --> 0:45:58.239 Tried to bring the kid back but it wasn't enough. 0:45:59.680 --> 0:46:03.920 Tried to start the business but it wasn't enough. Tried 0:46:03.920 --> 0:46:06.560 to bridge it through twenty twenty twenty twenty one in 0:46:06.640 --> 0:46:11.360 it wasn't enough. And now you think that you aren't enough. 0:46:12.280 --> 0:46:16.319 And by men's math, You're right. None is righteous, no, 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:17.400 not one. 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:20.440 But I love the compassion of Christ that we're celebrating 0:46:20.480 --> 0:46:22.319 in Matthew fifteen, For. 0:46:22.280 --> 0:46:25.680 The Bible says that he will leave the ninety nine 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:27.480 to find the one. 0:46:27.800 --> 0:46:31.279 From men's perspective, that doesn't make much sense to leave 0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:34.520 the greater for the lesser. One thing I love about 0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:38.120 God is that the one who starts out with the. 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:44.960 Least can end up with the most. After all, it's 0:46:45.000 --> 0:46:48.399 just simple math. It's simple math. 0:46:48.440 --> 0:46:53.120 When the disciples had five loaves, they fed five thousand, 0:46:53.680 --> 0:46:56.960 and they had twelve baskets left over. When they had 0:46:57.040 --> 0:47:00.600 seven loaves, they fed four thousand, and they only had 0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:03.400 seven basketfuls left over. Stay with me. This is important. 0:47:03.880 --> 0:47:06.160 This is the point I wanted to preach to. This 0:47:06.200 --> 0:47:08.320 is what I wanted you to leave with, about God's 0:47:08.360 --> 0:47:10.560 math and about them not enough that you're navigating in 0:47:10.600 --> 0:47:13.320 your life right now, about the weakness that God's strength 0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:16.120 has made perfect in, about the mistakes that you cannot 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:19.400 redeem in your own human effort. That's the sixth. That's 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:23.719 man's math. Seven is God's number. Seven is the number 0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:26.640 of completion. You are complete in Christ. You do not 0:47:26.719 --> 0:47:29.640 have a righteousness that comes from you. Your righteousness is 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:32.440 not your own. It is received. It is an inheritance. 0:47:32.680 --> 0:47:36.799 It was purchased by Jesus and given by God. It 0:47:36.880 --> 0:47:39.160 is shed abroad in your heart through the Holy Spirit. 0:47:39.480 --> 0:47:43.640 And isn't it interesting that when they only had five loaves, 0:47:44.239 --> 0:47:48.840 they ended up with twelve baskets. When they had seven loaves, 0:47:49.320 --> 0:47:52.080 they ended up with seven baskets. 0:47:52.120 --> 0:47:58.160 The miracle that started with the least ended with the most. 0:48:00.160 --> 0:48:02.000 I'll prophesy over your situation. 0:48:03.480 --> 0:48:06.400 I prophesy over everybody who didn't get a good education. 0:48:07.239 --> 0:48:09.800 I prophesy over everybody who didn't get a good start 0:48:09.800 --> 0:48:13.239 in life and was not shown what real love looked like. 0:48:13.880 --> 0:48:17.040 I prophesy over everybody who didn't have a guide to 0:48:17.120 --> 0:48:21.520 show you how to navigate this transitional period of your life. 0:48:21.640 --> 0:48:25.480 That in the hands of Jesus, what starts as the 0:48:25.600 --> 0:48:31.600 least ends as the most. That's God's math. And if 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:36.320 you feel weak today, that's a good starting place because 0:48:36.360 --> 0:48:40.320 from the starting place of your weakness comes a strength 0:48:40.360 --> 0:48:43.840 that is greater. I set a strength that is greater, 0:48:44.560 --> 0:48:47.920 and a power that is greater, and a grace that 0:48:48.120 --> 0:48:52.600 is greater. So you started with five, but you end 0:48:52.640 --> 0:48:57.399 with twelve. So you started cast down, what's your ending 0:48:57.520 --> 0:49:01.680 lifted up? So you started in a broken home. But 0:49:01.840 --> 0:49:07.040 you're going forward made whome because Christ asked and passion, 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:16.000 and He is more than enough for you. For you 0:49:18.360 --> 0:49:24.160 less bread to begin with, more basketst in with blessed 0:49:24.160 --> 0:49:27.200 he the poor in spirit. For theirs is the Kingdom 0:49:27.280 --> 0:49:32.839 of Heaven. If you've got needs, if you've got weakness, 0:49:34.160 --> 0:49:39.799 if you've got space, God can fella. And I love 0:49:39.840 --> 0:49:42.919 what James one to five taught me. He said, if 0:49:42.960 --> 0:49:49.520 any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask. 0:49:51.000 --> 0:49:55.279 God. Ask God. 0:49:56.480 --> 0:50:02.200 Whatever you lack ask He's able, ask him. 0:50:02.400 --> 0:50:03.480 Ask him God. 0:50:03.520 --> 0:50:05.480 I need somebody in my wife right now to help 0:50:05.520 --> 0:50:05.960 me through this. 0:50:06.120 --> 0:50:08.000 Ask him. 0:50:08.040 --> 0:50:11.120 But as you are asking Him for what you think 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:14.279 you need, make sure that you thank Him for what 0:50:14.320 --> 0:50:26.600 you already have. I want to sing an old song 0:50:26.640 --> 0:50:28.319 that I don't remember all the words to it. 0:50:28.320 --> 0:50:41.480 It was like wonderful grace of our madgeless grace, do 0:50:43.160 --> 0:50:44.680 good line right here. 0:50:47.560 --> 0:50:54.880 Yonder to Calvary's Mount Outport, there were. 0:50:54.280 --> 0:50:58.960 The blood of the them was spilled. 0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:01.480 Now this is the God there where the blood of 0:51:01.480 --> 0:51:05.240 the lamb was spilt, where one drop of his blood 0:51:06.400 --> 0:51:09.960 is greater than any sin you would ever commit. That's 0:51:10.080 --> 0:51:17.719 God Math, Man Math. You can keep the girl Math, 0:51:17.800 --> 0:51:20.399 you can keep the man Math. I want the God 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:27.000 math where one drop of his atoning blood, one mention. 0:51:26.960 --> 0:51:27.600 Of his name. 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:41.879 Look, there is flowing a crimson tide wider than snow. 0:51:42.320 --> 0:51:49.879 May you be today watch this grace Grace. 0:51:51.280 --> 0:52:11.120 God, grace that will part and cleanse. Rev. Chris, Grace, God's. 0:52:09.680 --> 0:52:19.400 Grace, grace that is grea than a pussy. 0:52:19.640 --> 0:52:32.960 Sing God like you got it. Pray, go, stab and 0:52:33.280 --> 0:52:35.880 pans big. 0:52:41.280 --> 0:52:43.720 God. 0:52:45.560 --> 0:52:47.160 Please say. 0:52:56.440 --> 0:52:59.600 God has a grace for your situation today. Stand to 0:52:59.600 --> 0:53:01.680 your feet, lift your hands to Heaven and receiving. 0:53:02.920 --> 0:53:09.960 Grace, Grace, God, Grace. 0:53:10.640 --> 0:53:14.560 Dad will pardon and clese. 0:53:15.719 --> 0:53:27.120 With claiming now is yours God. 0:53:26.480 --> 0:53:35.040 Grace, Heads bout, eyes closed. 0:53:35.040 --> 0:53:37.000 I want to invite somebody to receive the grace of 0:53:37.120 --> 0:53:39.839 Jesus Christ in your life today. This message was for you, 0:53:42.080 --> 0:53:44.200 a sinner in need of a savior. This message was 0:53:44.239 --> 0:53:47.759 for you, an orphan in need of a father. This 0:53:47.880 --> 0:53:52.600 message was for you, a backslider in need of a homecoming. 0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:53.799 This message is for you. 0:53:54.800 --> 0:53:56.879 He leaves the ninety nine and I don't know why 0:53:56.880 --> 0:54:01.640 he did it, but he found the one. He sees people, 0:54:01.719 --> 0:54:05.520 not crowds, and that grace is calling your name right now, 0:54:05.520 --> 0:54:06.120 and you know it. 0:54:07.000 --> 0:54:08.480 I'm going to lead you in a prayer right now. 0:54:08.360 --> 0:54:11.239 To receive the grace of God for those of you 0:54:11.280 --> 0:54:13.240 who are today ready to put your faith in Jesus 0:54:13.320 --> 0:54:17.640 Christ and receive his grace to cover your sin. I'm 0:54:17.640 --> 0:54:19.160 going to pray a line and then you pray it. 0:54:19.760 --> 0:54:22.239 It's not a magical prayer. It's an opportunity for you 0:54:22.280 --> 0:54:24.200 to do what the Bible says. To confess with your 0:54:24.200 --> 0:54:28.080 mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart 0:54:28.120 --> 0:54:29.760 that God raised him from the dead. 0:54:29.880 --> 0:54:34.319 You will be saved right now. Today is the day 0:54:34.360 --> 0:54:34.960 of salvation. 0:54:35.440 --> 0:54:36.720 Harden not your hearts. 0:54:36.960 --> 0:54:38.560 Today is the day of salvation. 0:54:40.040 --> 0:54:42.879 If you pray this from your heart, put your faith 0:54:42.920 --> 0:54:47.040 in Jesus Christ, you will be saved. Repeat after me, 0:54:47.120 --> 0:54:52.040 Heavenly Father, I am a sinner in need of a savior, 0:54:53.000 --> 0:54:57.440 and I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of. 0:54:57.400 --> 0:55:02.520 God and the Savior of the world. And today I 0:55:02.680 --> 0:55:04.359 make Jesus the. 0:55:04.280 --> 0:55:06.040 Lord of my life. 0:55:06.160 --> 0:55:06.879 I believe he. 0:55:06.880 --> 0:55:12.120 Died that I would be forgiven and rose again to 0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:17.480 give me life. I receive this new life. This is 0:55:18.280 --> 0:55:19.120 my new beginning. 0:55:19.760 --> 0:55:20.279 On the counter. 0:55:20.360 --> 0:55:22.279 Three shoot your hand up if you prayed that one 0:55:22.560 --> 0:55:25.239 two three, raise your hand right now, right now. 0:55:25.560 --> 0:55:28.520 God bless me. Blesse your hand right now. God bless 0:55:28.600 --> 0:55:32.600 me right now. God seize people. God seize people. God 0:55:32.640 --> 0:55:33.240 Seize people. 0:55:34.280 --> 0:55:36.880 Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 0:55:37.400 --> 0:55:40.000 make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 0:55:40.040 --> 0:55:42.640 get you all of these new messages as soon as 0:55:42.640 --> 0:55:45.440 they're available. 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