When They Found Out

0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:04.640 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.120 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.520 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.400 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:21.919 I bring you greetings from Valentine. It's not technically it's Charlotte, 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.200 but it's not anyway. I bring you greetings today. Wherever 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.840 you are in the world, we know that God is 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.080 going to speak to you for the season that you're in. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.400 He is going to supply every need that you have. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.159 I don't know what you need today, but God knows. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.080 Put it in the chat. God knows what I need. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:40.680 And some of the things you need you can't mention. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.080 You can't put those in the chat. That's all right. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.760 God knows those needs too. And sometimes you don't even 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.080 know you need it. In that rise, sometimes you don't 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.080 even know you need it, and then God just bypasses 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:54.880 what you think you need to give you what you 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.600 really need that you didn't know to ask for. Praise 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:02.560 the Lord. Well, can't you tell that I'm excited and full? Yeah, 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:08.920 I'm full. I'm full. I feel full. I feel full today. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.400 I want to share a message with you. You You can 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.000 be seated. I want to share a message with you 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.800 from a passage of scripture that God had me on 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:21.840 a path to study for quite a while. It took 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.800 me a while to find what he wanted to say 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:29.839 in this passage, but wow, when I saw it. Okay, 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:35.319 let's get to it. Are you ready? Okay? Are you ready? Yeah, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.120 you're ready. See the kids aren't running around. You've got 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.600 them on the kids YouTube channel and all that. You 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.920 got them locked in the basement, whatever doesn't matter. You 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.440 got them on Netflix, it doesn't matter. Just get rid 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.960 of them for a minute. Let's talk, all right, because 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.360 you need this. You need this, and you have to 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.120 feed yourself first or you won't have strength to feed others. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.680 So let's make sure before we started another week that 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.040 we really get what God wants us to have. This 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.960 is an important word. In Mark chapter six, the miracle 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.760 known as the Feeding of the five thousand is recorded. 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.799 It's not only recorded in Mark chapter six, but I'm 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.280 going to begin there. It's recorded in all four Gospels, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.680 each account giving us a different angle on who Jesus is. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.400 And what he does. How many know that as you 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.720 go through life, you see Jesus from different angles, you 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:31.200 see God from different angles, and it opens your understanding. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:36.200 The old hymn said, thou changest not, and he doesn't change. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.840 But the way we see him has to always expand. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.720 If we see him from the same point of view 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.400 that we saw him when we were thirteen, we're probably 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.240 missing something if we're thirty one. And in the process 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.920 of revealing himself to his disciples, Jesus was very responsible 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:57.280 not to give them too much at one time, and 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.760 that was part of his compassion too. He was more 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.320 than enough, but he never gave them more than they 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.400 could handle. As he ministered to them, he did so 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:13.000 strategically in stages. So when he showed them in John's Gospel, 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.720 for instance, which i'll reference a little bit later, who 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:20.240 he was through what we call the iam statements, it 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.919 was a continuation of the same thing that God began 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.040 to show Moses when he said I am that I am. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.880 It left a blank that Jesus would fill in, not 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.880 through just what he said, but what he showed and 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.560 what he did. Every time he demonstrated something, he declared 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.560 something and He did that so that we could not 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.720 only hear it, but so that we could own it 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.200 and know it and get it deep down inside of us. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.400 This particular miracle is connected with the first I Am 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.200 statement of Jesus that's in the Gospel of John, and 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:58.960 I want to read it to you from Mark, because 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.760 there's a phrase that really, really really got my attention 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.040 this week, and I want to see if you can 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:09.760 find it. It says in Mark, chapter six, verse twenty nine, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:14.000 will start with twenty nine. On hearing of this, John's 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.919 disciples came and took his body and laid it in 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:23.760 a tomb. The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:31.080 him all they had done and taught. Then everybody say, then, then, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:37.800 because so many people, everybody say, so many people were 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.680 coming and going that they did not even have a 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.640 chance to eat. He said to them, come with me 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:48.520 by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:55.000 So they went away by themselves in a boat to 0:04:55.080 --> 0:05:00.320 a solitary place with no Wi fi, to a place. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:07.880 But many who saw them leaving recognize them. You remember 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:09.960 when the kids were a little holly and we used 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.320 to wonder, do they have a radar that knows when 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.080 we lay down to take a nap so that they 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.240 can start screaming and wake up. Remember, it's like they 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.800 just knew and they would just start the moment we 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.520 were finally starting to rest, they would they would wake up. Thanks, guys, 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.440 that was fun. That's a stage of parenting you go through. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.040 And the hungry crowds are kind of like my kids, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.160 Like they just the moment that Jesus is moving away, 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.799 they're already their way. Have you ever had a problem 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.800 waiting for you and you weren't prepared for it when 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:42.159 you got there? Yeah? Did you notice that trouble doesn't 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:47.279 schedule an appointment when it comes? How many of you 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.080 bad things? Ask you? Is this a good time before 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.799 they happen? Are you feeling rested, because today we would 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.560 like to test your faith? No? No, no. The crowd 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:02.160 was what waiting when they found out Jesus was leaving 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.200 to get away. The crowd was waiting when they got there. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.000 And I don't know what's waiting for you this week, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.200 and neither do you. So you got to get this 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.320 word right now now. Don't need my stool today, move 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.400 this stool. You got to get this word right now, 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.240 right now, right now, right now, because you don't know 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.800 what's waiting this week. Now. I believe that's why you 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.440 tuned in, because God wants to give you a word 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.040 that'll last you all week, no matter what is waiting. Now. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.920 Watch this. Jesus was the word. And when he went 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.240 to the place where he was taking the disciples to 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:35.920 get alone, there was a crowd. When they went away, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.160 many who saw them recognize them and ran on foot 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.720 from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.680 And here's the part of the passage that you may 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.160 be more familiar with. When Jesus first thirty four landed 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.080 and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.839 because they were like sheep without a shepherd, so leaving 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:56.080 and teaching them many things. By this time it was late. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:05.240 How long did Jesus talk so long? This sermon was 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.080 so long? Watch how long it was. His disciples came 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.440 to him and said, these people are about to pass out, 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:18.040 and there's no Chick fil A, and so you need 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:22.559 to send them away because this is a remote place 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.880 and it's already very late. So send them away so 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.400 they can go to the surrounding cities or the surrounding 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:33.000 countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat. But 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.160 he answered, you give them something to eat. They said 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.040 to him that would take eight months of a man's wages. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.840 Are we to go and spend that that much on 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:49.240 bread and give it to them to eat? How many 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.720 loves do you have? He asked, go and see, thank 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:58.680 you Lord. When they found out, they said, five and 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:04.320 to fish. Then everybody say. Then Jesus directed them to 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.400 have all the people sit down in groups on the 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.920 green grass. So they sat down in groups of hundreds 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.840 and fifties, taking the five loaves and the two fish, 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.040 and looking up to heaven. He gave thanks and broke 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.080 the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples, and 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.760 they set them before the people. He also divided the 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.200 two fish among them. All they all ate and were satisfied. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:34.240 One version says they ate as much as they wanted. Yeah, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.400 And all the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.720 pieces of bread and fish. The number of the men 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.719 who ate was about five thousand. The title I want 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.880 to use comes from verse thirty eight, part be put 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.920 it back on the screen please. I want to talk 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:53.000 to you today about when they found out when they 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:59.800 found out. Are there any parents in the room today? 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.079 You got kids? Aaron Lj's got kids? How many to 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.720 anybody out anybody here? How many? Show me on your fingers? 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.000 How many you did? Five? Yeah, chunks did five. I 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.679 don't know what he's planning for the future, some adoption 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.280 in the works or something like that, Holly, if you 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.520 hold up anything other than three and you're yeah, okay. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.040 So I was talking to a couple on our staff 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.120 the other day who's having their first baby, and they 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.000 were so excited. And I know this sounds bad, but 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.200 I get excited for people when they're having their first kid, 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.720 and then after that whatever, you know, because once you 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.000 have once you have one, your life is already you know, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:44.280 just so. But when it's their first I get excited. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.560 And Holly always sends a gift to everybody on our 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.840 staff who has a baby. But they were so excited. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.080 I mean, they were so like first time parent excited. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.000 And I said, you guys are sure excited. And I'm 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.640 not one of these guys who says, get rid of 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.720 they're going to ruin your life, because kids are, you know, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.320 obviously the best thing that ever happened to me seventy 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.600 percent of time. And I said, y'all are so excited, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.679 and they said yeah, and we're going Monday to find 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:15.960 out what it is. And I thought, no, you're not. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.080 You're not gonna find out what it is Monday. I 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.600 know what you mean that you're gonna get some blue 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.600 or pink balloons. And by the way, since I'm in 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.680 my old man stage of ministry, now, these gender reveal parties, 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.640 we didn't do all that, So I mean, don't feel 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.559 any pressure if you don't have the money to shoot 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.000 a baby seal out of a cannon to show everybody 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.199 what people do. This is the crazy stuff I see. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.400 Our gender reveal party was call my mom in the 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:54.240 parking lot after the ultrasound. That was the gender reveal party. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.360 That's how happy we were to find out you were 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.160 a boy. It's a boy. That was it. And then 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:04.400 we went home and save money. But watch this, We're 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.439 gonna find out what it is. Just the way they 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:12.720 said it. It stuck with me because we often think 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:19.400 that we're gonna know exactly what it is. See, the 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.680 doctor has this thing that he can show you, or 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.480 she can show you. Maybe they can show you the gender, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.760 but you will not know what it is just based 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.959 on male or female. You will not know quote what 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.360 it is just based on There is no sonogram that 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.480 can show you how much love you are going to 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.080 have for this human being who is going to rip 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.679 your heart out of your chest and carry it around 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.920 with them through all of their decisions of life. There's 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.319 no way you can see that on a sonogram. There 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:00.160 is some stuff you can't see on your sonogram. We're 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.400 gonna find out what it is. I nodded. I was like, cool, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.320 it was great. You know. No, you're not. No, you're not. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:12.240 We often expect to see what it is before we 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:18.440 even bring it forth. We want to know what it is. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.760 And they found out it was a boy on Monday, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.240 but they didn't find out whether the boy's eyes were 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:29.760 blue on Monday. You find that out progressively, right, it's progressive. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.720 Being a parent is progressive. You find out, you go, oh, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.480 my kid's so quiet. I thought Graham was quiet for 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.080 the first five years of his life. I thought he 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.600 was quiet for the first five years of his life. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.000 He won't shut up. Now he turns thirteen this month. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.000 He won't shut up. He's making me take him to 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.600 Great Wolf Lodge for his birthday. That's torment that only 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.800 a loving parent would endure. And I'm doing it for 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:55.400 him because I love him. I didn't know how much 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.680 I would love him. On a sonogram, I didn't know 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.280 his personality just because I knew whether he was, you know, 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.840 blue or pink, or a boy or a girl. You 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.920 don't know what it is. And the challenge of life 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.679 is understanding that you don't really know what is inside 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.760 of you, what is inside of others, what is inside 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:19.240 of your gift. See, they can tell you the gender 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.640 of your kid with an ultrasound, but they can't tell 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.960 you the gifts life has to bring that for it. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:27.760 They can tell you what it is, they can tell 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.839 you what it is on a surface level, but they 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.439 can't tell you what's in it. See, that's gonna take time, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.840 that's gonna take maturity, that's gonna take I was a 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.719 punk rocker when I was fourteen. I'm a preacher when 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.640 I'm forty. My mom didn't know what I was until 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:47.200 I became it. Now, Jesus did not become anything. I'll 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.760 prove it. In the beginning was the word, and the 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.280 word was with God. And the word was God. Somebody 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:57.199 say he already was. He didn't become sufficient, he didn't 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.800 become the Word. He already was, but they didn't know 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.599 what he was until they walked with them enough to 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.160 see it in stages. And this is kind of the 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.480 first stage of that for the disciples, where he is 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.720 showing them I am the Bread of life. He already 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.360 was already was, but they didn't know it yet. He 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:26.840 already was already was. So you know how this passage 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.920 is like so familiar. How many sermons have you heard 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:35.240 about the feeding of the five thousand? If this is 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.240 the first time you've heard about it, you have never 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.680 been within five miles of a church. And that's fine too. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:48.360 How many sermons have you heard? I love y'all so much, 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:56.720 But how many sermons have you heard about the context? 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.920 See the first verse? I read a man named John. 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.520 This is not John who wrote the Gospel of John. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.360 This is John, the Baptist who got his head cut 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.800 off for confronting Harot and tell him you shouldn't sleep 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:13.840 with your your brother's wife. That John, the one who 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.800 ate locust and honey and prepared the way for Jesus. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.760 That John, the one who was born six months earlier. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.080 They didn't have gender reveal sonograms at that point. But 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.960 they didn't need a gender reveal because when the Angel 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.920 came to Zachariah in the temple, he said, you're gonna 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.920 have a boy, and you're gonna name him John. And 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.680 Zacharia says, it's not possible. I'm too old for that. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.920 And the moment you start telling God what's not in you, 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.520 the one who made you doesn't know what's in you, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.800 the Angel said, you're not gonna speak until the day 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.160 your baby's born. And that's what it was. And when 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.360 they gave the baby the name, the father spoke. He 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.400 said his name is John. They said, there's nobody in 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.600 your family called John. He said, I'm not going off 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.960 of external, I'm going off of internal. This is what 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.560 God told me. This is what God spoke right that John. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:10.640 When he died, his disciples buried him. He didn't have 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.280 many disciples left because he gave all of his disciples 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.400 to Jesus. He told all of his members to go 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.880 to another church, and they did. He said, I must 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:25.000 become less, he must become greater. When he found the Messiah, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.720 the one he had looked for he said, that's the 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.840 one he gave up what he thought was important once 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:35.720 he found what was really significant, that John, that John 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.880 who died at the hands of Herod's ego, who was beheaded, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.040 That John when he died. The Disciples brought the news 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:51.200 to Jesus, and Jesus wanted to get away when he 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.240 found out what had happened to John. He he withdrew 0:16:55.840 --> 0:17:00.000 when he found out right. But see, John and Jesus 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.399 had a special relationship because John knew who Jesus was 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:10.359 before they ever met physically. When Elizabeth was six months 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.480 pregnant and Mary found out she was pregnant, the first 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.520 thing she did was go find Elizabeth, her cousin, who 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.879 was also pregnant. And Elizabeth says, the weirdest thing. And 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.280 you only understand this if it's ever happened to you, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:23.960 and you don't have to be a woman to understand this. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.359 You can understand it on a spiritual level, she said. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.480 As soon as you got here, the baby that was 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:37.800 inside of me started dancing. My baby started walking on water, 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.159 My baby started doing the Tutsi slide. The moment I 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.240 heard your voice, my baby started dancing on the inside 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.959 of me. So it's crazy how sometimes you know things 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.119 before you should know them. Let me give you an 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.000 example of that. Some of you know right now that 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.000 God's hand is on your child, but you can't see 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.280 evidence of that yet. But you still know. And some 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.680 things can't be shown. They have to be known by 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:09.320 the spirit of God. Some things you know before you 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:15.560 can show. Like I know this sermon is gonna hit 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.320 your heart today, but you don't know that yet. But 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.280 God showed it to me, and I know what's in 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.560 me before I give it to you. That's very powerful, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.600 because if you wait on circumstances to validate God's voice, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.880 you might be waiting a long time. No no, no, 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.320 Faith says, I know it before you show it. I 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.000 know it on the inside before I see it on 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.680 the outside. And whoever this is for today, God has 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:48.160 shown you something that eyes cannot see, that ears cannot hurt, 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.359 that cannot enter in the heart of a man. But 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:54.320 you know it by the spirit of God. John knew 0:18:54.359 --> 0:19:01.160 who Jesus was while they were still both embryonic. This 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.000 might not be good to you, but it's good to 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.520 me because you've got to know that. You know that, 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.000 you know that, you know that God is with you. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.159 You've got to know that, you know that, you know that, 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.800 you know that He's spoken. You've got to know that 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.040 you know that, you know that, you know that what 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:17.840 He gave you is enough. So when you face a 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:22.040 circumstance that challenges your dependency and you find yourself in 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.119 a season of definite a deficiency, you will know definitely 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.199 that God is with you. Give him a praise if 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:36.359 you know he's good. Of course, none of the disciples 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.159 really knew what Jesus was carrying, not only the purpose 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.520 that he carried to die on the cross for their sins. 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.480 They didn't know that yet. They found that out later. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.400 They followed him as he performed miracles. But only he 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.560 really knew what he was carrying the burden of it. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.360 In fact, the Bible says something interesting. It says that 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.040 John's disciples came and told you Jesus that John was dead, 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.040 But it doesn't say that Jesus told the disciples. He 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:11.199 told them, let's go rest. He carried it alone. I 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.520 want to speak to somebody today who's carrying something alone. 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.879 Maybe you're the provider for your family, Maybe you're dealing 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:23.359 with something right now that isn't public material to carry 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:28.159 something alone. That's what I felt from Jesus, that he 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.640 was carrying something like Mary was carrying him. Now he's 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:36.399 carrying something, not only the news of John's death, but 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.560 also the potential of the ministry, because in the text 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.679 we read it said it was going really good with 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.920 the ministry of Jesus, but the ministry of John ended. 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.679 And that made me think about how you can be 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:53.320 getting good news in one ear and bad news in 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:58.159 the other, and learning how to balance. That is the 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:05.280 essence of faith. You carry on one hand, sometimes a 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.520 blessing that's so heavy you can barely carry it. You 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.879 carry with the other hand a doubt or a question, 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:16.520 and that balance is what keeps you walking straight. Jesus 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.600 goes away, the crowds find out they meet him there. Surprise, Jesus, 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:23.880 we want to be healed. Surprise, Jesus, we're interrupting your vacation. 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.960 This is like your in laws and everybody else you 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.480 don't want to see showing up on your vacation. Not 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.360 only that, but there's five thousand men and women and children, 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:37.400 and Jesus looked up and he saw them. He saw 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:43.159 he didn't see him as a crowd. He saw them 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:50.400 with compassion. That amazes me that God knows exactly what 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:55.119 you've been going through this week, because like to me, 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:59.119 I'm looking in one camera. God doesn't see a crowd 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.640 on the other side of the reads. He sees where 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.000 you're hungry, and he sees where you hurt. Do you 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:08.960 believe that? I don't know if you do. I think 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:10.840 a lot of people think that Jesus loves them like 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:16.000 it's a group insurance policy, like he just covers everybody 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.199 with his blood. No, No, that the power is that 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:23.200 he sees the one. We would talk about the five thousand, 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:25.919 but he would talk about the one and one at 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.240 a time. He healed everybody that needed healing. And then, 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:31.359 although you know the story, bear with my folly a 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:37.400 moment he says to them, we need to feed them. 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:44.720 And the disciples start calculating, how many of you are overpackers, overpackers, 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:51.719 overpackers of the world unite? How many suitcases does it 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:55.440 take us to get away for three days? Right? So 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.720 many suitcases? And it's not her, it's me. I'm worse 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:04.639 than her. Stereotyper okay is me? Now? The reason I 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:07.720 mentioned it is because it would have been one thing. 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.240 If Jesus would have told the disciples, we're gonna feed 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:14.920 these people before they got there. When did they find 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.159 out that he wanted to feed them after it was 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:22.840 too late to do anything about it? Have you ever 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:26.760 felt like that with God? If God, y'all are so 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:29.760 fake today, I don't know what's going on. Did you 0:23:29.800 --> 0:23:31.919 miss me so much that you can't forgot how to 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:34.680 respond to a sermon? Have you ever thought God, if 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:37.679 you would have told me that they were going to 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:42.480 leave me, I wouldn't have loved him so much. Now 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.240 it's too late for me not to love him. They're gone, 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.359 and they took my love with them. If you would 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:51.160 have told me it would be like this, I would 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:55.160 have made preparations. I would have packed sandwiches. We could 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:58.040 have hired a catering company. We could have got some 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:01.280 Jersey Mikes to go Bucks. We could have done this right. 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:07.560 Why didn't you tell me beforehand? They found out about 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:09.960 the need after it was too late to meet it. 0:24:11.480 --> 0:24:16.200 That's a fine time to find out. Why didn't God 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:18.440 tell all of us preachers that our churches weren't gonna 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:20.919 be able to have people at him for seventeen years 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:26.080 before we built all our buildings. I could have built 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:31.560 this thing for less money, a lot less money. Why 0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:35.280 didn't he tell me that? Why didn't he tell you? 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:38.760 That's your kid? Wasn't it a he's straight in their path? 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:41.840 Something being prepared? Why does the some searches go off road? 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:46.080 Why does some stuff just he he didn't why he 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:49.800 didn't tell them what he had in mind? But that 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:57.080 doesn't mean he didn't know it. Come on, you know 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:00.240 this about God by now? He said, I know all 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:06.880 the plans I have for you. Subtext you don't. This year, 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:09.360 the word of God over most of our lives has 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:16.000 been haha. That's him laughing at everything that we set 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:19.399 a schedule for. When we do our year in series 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:22.320 this year, I thought I might call it ha ha 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:25.879 ha ha ha ha. That's God laughing at everything that 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:28.000 we said we were going to do in twenty twenty. 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:32.280 And God says, I get the last laugh, don't you think? Now? 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:34.359 I'm just asking a question, what do you think the 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:38.200 personality of Jesus was? I think Jesus' personality was fully 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:40.800 God and fully man enough that when he asked Philip 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:42.960 in John's Gospel, what are we going to do to 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:45.400 feed all these people? Or rather, he asked him, where 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:48.120 are we going to buy enough bread? Everybody say enough, enough, enough, 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:51.159 enough enough. That's a big word right now in pop culture. 0:25:51.160 --> 0:25:53.480 It's a big word. Everybody's saying you are enough. But 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:56.359 the problem with saying that that you are enough on 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.320 that level is just because I say that you're enough, 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:04.480 doesn't you feel like you're enough? So Jesus first takes 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:06.960 Philip through this process. Okay, and this may be the 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:10.920 process you're going through. He addresses the fact that they 0:26:10.960 --> 0:26:13.960 cannot buy enough bread to meet the need that's in 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:18.119 front of them. Are you there right now? Okay, you 0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:23.639 can't buy enough. Philip starts calculating. Philip wants to be 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:28.400 the CFO. Philip wants to be the accountant. Philip wants 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:32.080 to plan it. He said, eight months wages, that's two 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:35.639 hundred denarii. That's a day laborer's wage. Would not be 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:42.600 enough for each person to have a bite a bite, 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:48.600 a bite if we took a half a year's wages. 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:53.399 Because he's calculating what he thinks they need for the 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:57.560 situation there in it and most of us are pretty 0:26:57.560 --> 0:27:02.000 good at that. How many of you. You know something 0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:04.880 that you need from God right now. Now, I want 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:06.800 to show you the verse in John because it's so 0:27:06.800 --> 0:27:10.080 so powerful. He said, if we bought there, it is 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:12.800 more than half a year's wages to buy enough bread 0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:15.119 for each one to have a bite. And then in 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:22.520 verse eight, yeah, another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:25.680 spoke up verse nine, here's a boy with five small 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:27.680 barley loaves and two small fish. But how far will 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:31.439 they go among so many? Now stay with me. This 0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:34.919 is where it gets good. I have a Fillip inside 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:38.240 of me, and I have an Andrew inside of me. 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:42.879 Maybe you'll want to find another church because I have 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:50.080 dual personalities. Philip is a calculator. Philip's job and this 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:52.360 way he does all the time. To me. He starts 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:55.280 counting all the stuff that I need that I don't 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:57.720 have yet. It's going to take this, and it's going 0:27:57.800 --> 0:27:59.320 to take that. And you don't have this staff membery, 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:00.480 and you don't have that person, and you don't have 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:01.800 that thing, you don't have that gift, you don't have 0:28:01.800 --> 0:28:03.239 that ability. You're not good at this, You're not good 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:06.440 at best. The devil started messing with me yesterday because 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:11.600 I can't play basketball. When has anybody ever needed me 0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:15.639 to play basketball? I was feeling good about myself one moment, 0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:18.000 and this is what I asked Graham. I said, when, 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:20.239 what was the point when you found out that your 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:23.439 dad was a bad athlete? He said, Dad, I don't know. 0:28:23.640 --> 0:28:25.679 For the long time I thought you were a beast. 0:28:26.280 --> 0:28:29.399 But he goes, you're pretty good at lifting weights like 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:33.000 a consolation prize. I said, but when was the moment 0:28:33.080 --> 0:28:36.000 that you knew see, because you don't know it all 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:40.160 at once. His revelation of his dad grew when he 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:45.520 was two, I was lebron. I was lebron when he 0:28:45.680 --> 0:28:48.560 was two. But he said, Dad, it took me I 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:53.280 realized how bad you sucked this sports in stages. It 0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:56.840 took me a while to realize how actually bad you 0:28:56.920 --> 0:28:59.840 were at anything with a ball. But he knows now 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:03.719 she didn't, but he found out. Hey, how many of 0:29:03.760 --> 0:29:06.680 you lived your life in fear that when are they 0:29:06.680 --> 0:29:08.800 gonna find out that I don't know what I'm doing? 0:29:09.840 --> 0:29:12.480 When are they gonna find out that I don't have 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:16.160 a clue. Some of you in your job right now, 0:29:16.320 --> 0:29:17.680 you wake up in the morning, you feel some in 0:29:17.680 --> 0:29:19.240 your stomach. What are you feeling? Is the day gonna 0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:22.040 be the day they're gonna find out? You're not stealing 0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:25.440 money or anything. You just feel like you're stealing intellectual 0:29:25.520 --> 0:29:27.240 space because of the fact that they think they know 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:32.000 more than you do. You feel like, isn't it crazy 0:29:32.000 --> 0:29:40.400 how they didn't find out untill they ran out? Why 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:45.000 would Jesus do them like that? Once they became empty? 0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:47.240 And I was studying the text because I was like, 0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:52.080 okay when they found out, and I was connecting that 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:54.920 in a couple of different ways following me. When they 0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:58.760 found out that John the Baptist had been killed, they moved. 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:02.160 They retre so that Jesus wouldn't be taken by forced 0:30:02.200 --> 0:30:03.920 as king because he didn't come for an earthly kingdom 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:06.440 and he's got work to do. When he went through, 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:08.840 they found out he was going to be there, and 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:13.200 we're waiting welcome Jesus. When the disciples found out that 0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:15.160 there wasn't much daylight left, they tried to send them 0:30:15.200 --> 0:30:18.040 away because there's not no door dash out here on 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:22.400 this mountain. And the Bible says something so powerful, go 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:26.080 back to March six thirty eight. I can't wait to 0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:31.960 show you this, Philip said, this is what we need. 0:30:34.640 --> 0:30:38.960 Jesus asked the question, how many loves do you have? 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:52.320 Go and see when they found out, when they found 0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:56.800 out what they already had, not when they figured out 0:30:56.840 --> 0:31:02.959 what they thought they needed. God doesn't need me to 0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:09.160 figure out how. He just needs me to find out what. 0:31:09.840 --> 0:31:12.000 Y'all better shout if you don't know what you're doing, 0:31:12.920 --> 0:31:16.440 because it is good news. Some of you have no 0:31:16.840 --> 0:31:21.640 idea how. They didn't either, But when they found out 0:31:21.840 --> 0:31:28.760 what was already there. Jesus did not become bred. He 0:31:28.880 --> 0:31:34.160 already was. He didn't become enough. He already was. You 0:31:34.240 --> 0:31:38.360 don't have to go get peace, it's already ours. You 0:31:38.440 --> 0:31:42.960 don't have to become righteous, you already are. You don't 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:47.040 have to find a reason to rejoice, You've already got 0:31:47.160 --> 0:31:52.040 one when you'll discover what God already put inside of you. 0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:57.480 So the moment of discovery is not the moment of deposit. 0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:03.160 It already was what it was. Nobody came with five 0:32:03.240 --> 0:32:05.960 loaves and two fish at that moment. It was there 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:09.360 the whole time, but it took them walking through the crowd. 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:11.400 You got anything, you got, anything, you got anything you got, 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:13.680 anything you got anything, you got anything, You got anything? 0:32:13.680 --> 0:32:15.640 You got anything? You got anything? How long are we 0:32:15.680 --> 0:32:17.920 gonna do this? Man? Nobody's got anything, and if they do, 0:32:17.920 --> 0:32:20.200 they're not offering you got anything? You got anything? So 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:22.120 time you got to walk around your life and take inventory. 0:32:22.640 --> 0:32:25.000 You got to walk around your own soul and take inventory. 0:32:25.400 --> 0:32:27.720 You could say, oh my soul, why are you discouraged? 0:32:27.720 --> 0:32:30.160 Why are you downcast? You got anything to praise? Before 0:32:30.160 --> 0:32:32.120 you got anything to prais before you got anything? You 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:34.560 got anything? You got anything? Somebody saying the chat, have 0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:36.400 you got anything? Have you got anything? Have you got anything? 0:32:36.400 --> 0:32:38.080 Have you got anything? Have you got anything? Have you 0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:40.760 got anything? Have you got anything? Because you've always got 0:32:40.800 --> 0:32:46.720 plenty of something? You know what's weird? Can I show 0:32:46.720 --> 0:32:50.040 you something that only Bible nerds appreciate? Only Mike Todd 0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:52.000 will love this point like this for me and you? 0:32:52.720 --> 0:32:56.800 Why did John say in John six there was plenty 0:32:56.840 --> 0:33:00.760 of grass in that place. That's stupid thing to put 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:04.200 in a story. Who cares about the grass? Can't eat grass? 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:08.800 Maybe he wanted us to see that you've always got 0:33:08.840 --> 0:33:16.760 plenty of something of something. You've always got plenty of 0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:22.160 something when you don't have a job, and you don't 0:33:22.160 --> 0:33:24.920 have plenty of money. Now you've got plenty of time. 0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:31.640 I was laughing so much when everybody who prayed for 0:33:31.720 --> 0:33:34.120 God to give them I just need Lord, I need 0:33:34.120 --> 0:33:36.000 more time with my family. And then God gave it 0:33:36.040 --> 0:33:41.720 to you. He gave you plenty. How many of your 0:33:41.840 --> 0:33:47.600 moms that are homeschooling are having plenty? So much so? 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:54.080 How much time? So so much? Grass? Green grass? Mark said, 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:57.120 green Grass, did you see that in the text? Green Grass? 0:33:57.480 --> 0:33:59.200 Why are you telling me that maybe you're trying to 0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:04.520 call me back to the twenty third sosng that the 0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:11.680 Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want He 0:34:11.800 --> 0:34:16.759 leads me besides still waters, he restoreth my soul. He 0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:22.960 leads me into green pastures. So God said, what is 0:34:23.120 --> 0:34:27.560 your pasture? What do you have? That was the question? Right? 0:34:27.800 --> 0:34:30.520 Is that in the text? What do you have? Go 0:34:30.560 --> 0:34:36.560 and see? And when they found out? I wonder is 0:34:36.560 --> 0:34:41.799 this going to be the day you find out? We 0:34:41.880 --> 0:34:46.719 don't find out usually all at once. I should tell 0:34:46.760 --> 0:34:51.400 you that we find out in fragments. You don't know 0:34:51.440 --> 0:34:54.399 why you're going through anything while you're going through it. Now, 0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:56.279 most of the time, even when you're succeeding. You don't 0:34:56.320 --> 0:34:59.560 really know you're succeeding while you're succeeding, because you're struggling 0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:07.200 while you succeeding. Well, that's true of everybody. I watch 0:35:07.239 --> 0:35:13.000 all these documentaries of classic albums. Fleetwood mac rumors good 0:35:13.120 --> 0:35:17.120 music like that, none of this current crap that you 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:20.280 kids are going around calling music. This is real music. Vinyl. 0:35:22.440 --> 0:35:24.880 They asked Mick Fleetwood, how did it feel when you 0:35:24.960 --> 0:35:28.040 were making rumors? He said, it was terrible. We were 0:35:28.080 --> 0:35:31.680 all breaking up and fighting, and we were high all 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:35.880 the time and coming down and high, coming high. He said, 0:35:36.280 --> 0:35:40.400 it wasn't. It wasn't until we heard all twelve tracks 0:35:41.680 --> 0:35:43.920 that we said this is a pretty good album. Is 0:35:43.960 --> 0:35:48.200 sold thirty million copies. How did it feel why you 0:35:48.239 --> 0:35:50.799 were writing the album? How did it feel while you 0:35:50.800 --> 0:36:00.560 were recording it. I'm raising world changers, changing world diapers. 0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:04.239 That doesn't feel You don't know what it is. You 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:08.640 don't know what changes as well. It's happening. I need 0:36:08.760 --> 0:36:11.480 do I need to give you another example? How many 0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:18.040 people am I preaching to right now? One, two, three, four, five, eight, seven, eight, 0:36:18.160 --> 0:36:19.839 nine ten, Raise your hand if I'm preaching to you, 0:36:20.360 --> 0:36:23.200 This is only if you have felt like you are 0:36:23.239 --> 0:36:27.680 not enough or you don't have enough. Okay, you do 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:32.520 understand that I'm preaching to way more people that I'm 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:36.560 pointing to. You do understand that God is doing way 0:36:36.600 --> 0:36:42.000 more in your life than you hold on. Who am 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:45.400 I preaching to right now? Put your name in the 0:36:45.560 --> 0:36:49.799 YouTube chat, your first name, middle initial, and last name, 0:36:50.160 --> 0:36:54.120 your government name in the chat right now. If I'm 0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:59.320 preaching to you, you see that I said it. Nothing happened. 0:37:00.840 --> 0:37:07.080 It's gonna take a minute. This can We're gonna find 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:10.719 out what it is Monday. It takes a while to 0:37:10.760 --> 0:37:15.399 find out. So so it takes a while between when 0:37:15.440 --> 0:37:19.160 you instill the values or when you believe the promise, 0:37:19.520 --> 0:37:21.319 or when you saw it now here it comes here, 0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:24.920 it comes right now now I'm seeing Check out the chat, Autumn. 0:37:25.000 --> 0:37:29.840 Check out how fast it's going. Autumn created YouTube. All right, Autumn. 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:32.719 Look at all these people I'm preaching to. Now, I 0:37:32.800 --> 0:37:36.800 saw who I thought I was preaching to, But I 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:45.160 found out later You're gonna find L. J. Mitchell be flat. 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:49.399 I'm preaching to more people that I can see. God 0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:53.200 is doing a great work within me. There is living 0:37:53.360 --> 0:37:57.160 water within me and I'm gonna go on so I 0:37:57.200 --> 0:38:01.240 can find out what's on the other side of this Dolly. 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:06.239 I got green grass, I got still waters, I got 0:38:06.239 --> 0:38:10.680 a supper blast along. Have you got anything? Have you 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:15.239 got anything? Have you got anything? Have you got any grass? 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:22.480 Have you got any loves? How many? How many? How many? 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:28.879 How many do you have? How many do you have? 0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:34.080 How many do you have? Put it in the chat? 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:39.719 How many do you have? Oh, that's not the message, 0:38:41.520 --> 0:38:48.560 that is not my sermon. Sit down, because that's what 0:38:48.680 --> 0:38:54.520 Jesus told the people to do. Sit down. How many 0:38:54.560 --> 0:38:58.680 do you have? They said five and two? They threw 0:38:58.719 --> 0:39:02.120 in the fishes an afterthought. I think that's really funny. 0:39:02.360 --> 0:39:06.880 I wonder if they were saving those for themselves. Who knows, 0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:12.000 but I know this. Mark wrote the gospel that Peter 0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:15.799 told him to write. John wrote the gospel that he 0:39:15.880 --> 0:39:21.319 saw with his own eyes. Thank you, Lord, y'all got 0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:26.080 a minute? Are you full? I struggle with portion control 0:39:26.120 --> 0:39:27.520 when it comes to preach the order of the go 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:31.799 I'm trying to preach these five hour sermons like Mike 0:39:31.840 --> 0:39:34.920 Todd preaches. Man, he's great, I'm going to six. Can 0:39:34.960 --> 0:39:38.160 I get a seven? Ain't crazy? Ain't crazy that the 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:41.960 children of Israel had to march six days before they 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:49.759 found out why they were marching. What's that about? You 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:53.080 know why, I said Pastor Mike Todd. He didn't become 0:39:53.120 --> 0:39:59.120 anointed when he got a great worldwide ministry. Just one 0:39:59.120 --> 0:40:01.160 of the greatest voices. He comes to see me. After 0:40:01.200 --> 0:40:05.319 his sabbatical. He came to see me unshaven. Yesterday, we 0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:07.640 came in the weight room. I said, let's work out. 0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:11.560 We did one exercise and talk the rest of the time. 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:19.200 That's right. We were strong in the Lord though. We 0:40:19.320 --> 0:40:23.919 worked out our salvation with fear and trembling preacher humor. 0:40:25.600 --> 0:40:32.239 He didn't become anointed when his platform grew. That's when 0:40:32.280 --> 0:40:44.360 they found out. Elijah didn't become talented when he started 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:48.000 making beats that was in him. Now I'm just finding out. 0:40:50.160 --> 0:40:53.799 I'm just finding out. I hadn't even found out yet. 0:40:54.840 --> 0:40:56.520 I don't even know what the three of you are 0:40:56.560 --> 0:41:01.600 going to do, change the world or destroy it. I 0:41:01.800 --> 0:41:05.279 want to find out. They'll ask them, you're going to 0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:07.520 be a preacher like you? They shut up. She's nine. 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:09.520 You're gonna be a preacher like you, Dad, And you 0:41:09.560 --> 0:41:12.400 can do a sonogram on my daughter to try to 0:41:12.400 --> 0:41:15.959 find out what's in her before it's had time to grow. 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:19.759 And you know, people think they don't love their wife 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:25.480 anymore because they stopped being curious, so they thought they 0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:28.200 needed another woman. But they didn't even find out what 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:34.400 they had in their own house. People might leave a 0:41:34.480 --> 0:41:38.520 church for that reason because they didn't find out what 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:47.120 was there. You will send something away and not even 0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:51.839 find out. Don't you want to find out? I do? Oh? 0:41:51.840 --> 0:41:54.560 Come on, man, I've wanted to quit many times on 0:41:54.680 --> 0:42:00.120 everything important God gave me. I want to quit every Monday. 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:03.040 But I just want to find out what God would do. 0:42:04.600 --> 0:42:07.480 I want to find out, don't you say it in 0:42:07.520 --> 0:42:09.600 the chat? I want to find out. I want to 0:42:09.600 --> 0:42:11.920 find out. I want to find out. I want to 0:42:11.920 --> 0:42:13.600 find out what God put in me. Mark Twain said 0:42:13.600 --> 0:42:15.440 there's two important days. The day you're born, in the 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:20.919 day you find out why, find out why. I want 0:42:20.920 --> 0:42:23.920 to find out why. I want to find out what 0:42:24.280 --> 0:42:26.120 comfort he's going to minister out of the comfort he 0:42:26.160 --> 0:42:28.279 comforted me with what the hell I went through. I 0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:30.400 didn't go through the fire to smell like smoke. I 0:42:30.440 --> 0:42:32.480 came through the fire to burn off what was finding 0:42:32.520 --> 0:42:34.480 me when I went in in the first place. I 0:42:34.520 --> 0:42:38.200 want to find out. I want to find out why 0:42:38.239 --> 0:42:41.160 you gave me this gift. I want to find out. 0:42:41.239 --> 0:42:45.279 Let's find out. Let's find out when we're going to 0:42:45.320 --> 0:42:47.640 open the church again. The church is already open. Well, 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:49.440 when are you gonna have the people back in there? 0:42:49.480 --> 0:42:51.520 I don't know. I'll tell you when I find out. 0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:55.920 I look like the governor to you? Does the governor 0:42:55.920 --> 0:42:59.000 wear a baggy corduroy short sleeve three quarter inch shirt 0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:01.760 on the No, I'm not on the When we'll find 0:43:01.760 --> 0:43:07.640 out together, we'll find out. I'm gonna find out. I 0:43:07.719 --> 0:43:09.879 have another point. But I got to stop there. Don't 0:43:09.960 --> 0:43:12.959 you want to find out? You want to go through 0:43:12.960 --> 0:43:15.600 everything you went through and then not even find out why? 0:43:16.840 --> 0:43:18.880 You want to come all this way through the valley 0:43:18.880 --> 0:43:21.719 and then turn around and die there. You don't want 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:25.640 to find out what God could do. You want to 0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:29.480 find out what it could be. When they found out 0:43:29.520 --> 0:43:34.080 what they had, the miracle began. Now I gotta say 0:43:34.120 --> 0:43:36.560 this right, because if I don't get this right, I'm 0:43:36.600 --> 0:43:39.080 gonna be so mad at myself. The way the Lord 0:43:39.360 --> 0:43:42.759 showed it to me, he said, because I thought that 0:43:42.840 --> 0:43:46.399 was the sermon, it's like cool when they found out 0:43:46.400 --> 0:43:48.920 what they had, and people need to find out what 0:43:48.920 --> 0:43:51.440 they already have. Okay, what gifts do you have? What 0:43:51.480 --> 0:43:53.000 talents do you have, What passions do you have? What 0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:54.680 resources do you have? What time do you have? Stop 0:43:54.680 --> 0:43:58.160 focusing on what you think you need. That's Philip eight 0:43:58.160 --> 0:44:00.680 months wages? What I did? I ask and ask you 0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:02.640 how many months wages? I just said, where are we 0:44:02.640 --> 0:44:08.160 going to get the bread? Go see what you already have? 0:44:10.360 --> 0:44:14.160 Five loaves, two fish. So I thought the miracle began 0:44:14.680 --> 0:44:17.840 when they found out what they already had. And God said, no, 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:22.439 that's not that's not it. That's not the message. He said, 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:27.120 that's when they found out how many they had, five 0:44:27.160 --> 0:44:30.080 and two You can count that they found out how 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:37.359 many by counting. Put John chapter six, verse nine back 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:43.560 up again. You ready? You're not full, are you? When 0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:45.719 Andrews said, here is a boy with five small barley 0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:48.000 loaves and too small fish. Barley is the cheapest grain, 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:53.239 and too small fish. When they found out what they 0:44:53.280 --> 0:45:01.200 already had how many, Andrescal question, how far will they 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:08.640 go among so many? You ready? They found out how 0:45:08.719 --> 0:45:14.319 many they had by counting, they didn't find out how 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:19.880 much it was until they put it in the hands 0:45:20.840 --> 0:45:30.719 of Jesus. You've been thinking how many. God wants to 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:35.680 show you how much? And there is a big difference. 0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:41.680 There is a big difference how many and how much? 0:45:42.680 --> 0:45:46.040 How many you can count that one, two, three, four, 0:45:46.239 --> 0:45:49.719 five and one two two, This is how many I have. 0:45:50.000 --> 0:45:52.520 This is what great I dropped out of school in. 0:45:52.840 --> 0:45:55.160 This is how many. You can count that down to 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:59.600 the scent in your bank account. You can count how many. 0:46:00.040 --> 0:46:03.440 But God doesn't want to show you how many. He 0:46:03.480 --> 0:46:07.840 wants to show you how much. And you don't find 0:46:07.880 --> 0:46:12.520 out how much by counting. You will not figure this 0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:17.000 out with a calculator. Watch this. They found out how 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:21.440 many by calculation. They had to find out how much 0:46:21.920 --> 0:46:26.640 by faith. And here's how I know. Here's how I know, 0:46:27.760 --> 0:46:30.960 because the Bible doesn't say that it all of a 0:46:31.000 --> 0:46:35.640 sudden became enough. It was five, and it was two, 0:46:36.640 --> 0:46:40.400 and it wasn't enough until they came back to Jesus 0:46:40.480 --> 0:46:44.960 to get more. It wasn't enough all it was. And 0:46:44.960 --> 0:46:46.480 see that's how we want it to be. God, I 0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:49.360 want enough. I gave me enough, enough enough. That's the 0:46:49.440 --> 0:46:52.200 problem with our concept of enough. We think that enough 0:46:52.239 --> 0:46:56.080 happens all at once, enough happens here you go, you ready, 0:46:56.440 --> 0:47:03.719 peace by peace, piece by peace. He did not give 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:07.440 them their next direction until they took inventory of what 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:10.840 they had right now. Why would God show you what 0:47:11.000 --> 0:47:14.239 to do next when you won't do what you have 0:47:14.480 --> 0:47:19.239 been called to do? Right now? What do you have? 0:47:19.840 --> 0:47:23.520 That's how many? What can it be? That's how much? 0:47:24.040 --> 0:47:26.680 And the only way to find that out is to 0:47:26.680 --> 0:47:32.399 put it in his hands. I'm not done yet. I'm 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:34.640 not done yet. I want to break this all the 0:47:34.680 --> 0:47:36.759 way down, just so you can't say when you get 0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:39.200 to heaven. Pastor Furdie didn't teach me about this. I 0:47:39.239 --> 0:47:42.320 went to elevation lodging, I subscribed to the YouTube channel. 0:47:42.360 --> 0:47:44.560 They never taught me this. Put them both on the screen. 0:47:44.920 --> 0:47:51.880 How many? How much? How many? How much? How many? 0:47:52.160 --> 0:47:56.480 Calculation five and two? You can count that how much? 0:47:57.320 --> 0:48:00.640 This is the beautiful thing. You still don't know the 0:48:00.680 --> 0:48:06.040 answer to this one yet. How many? This is all 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:08.440 the crap that you've got to worry about coming up 0:48:08.440 --> 0:48:11.480 this week? They knew how many people were in the crowd, 0:48:11.520 --> 0:48:16.879 about five thousand. How much. That's something that you can 0:48:16.960 --> 0:48:24.400 only find out in fragments. God shows you the purpose 0:48:24.480 --> 0:48:29.080 of your life in pieces. So he did not perform 0:48:29.200 --> 0:48:34.560 a miracle where it became enough all at once, and 0:48:34.600 --> 0:48:36.280 he's not going to do it in your life either. 0:48:37.760 --> 0:48:41.600 What He's going to do is to show you that 0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:48.120 every time you come back to him, he will have 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:56.760 what you need. For right now, I needed this word. 0:48:58.400 --> 0:49:03.040 I got a fillip inside me. Philip is really really 0:49:03.239 --> 0:49:08.040 prominent in my personality. He's always telling me how many 0:49:08.280 --> 0:49:11.319 I need, but he never tells me how much I have. 0:49:14.160 --> 0:49:18.160 God said he wanted to show you how much, how much? 0:49:20.040 --> 0:49:25.680 How much? How much? The only way for you to 0:49:25.719 --> 0:49:29.399 find out is to take it one piece at a time. 0:49:32.800 --> 0:49:34.799 I'm so sorry if I'm not getting this across the 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:38.360 right way. How God showed it to me was so beautiful. 0:49:38.719 --> 0:49:40.960 He said, you think it's going to become a buffet 0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:44.480 when I touch it. I'm not going to make it 0:49:44.520 --> 0:49:47.759 a buffet all at once, because I want you to 0:49:47.800 --> 0:49:52.960 come back to me. I'm not going to give you 0:49:53.000 --> 0:49:55.439 every answer. I'm not going to give you the five 0:49:55.520 --> 0:49:58.799 year plan. I'm not going to do it because if 0:49:58.800 --> 0:50:00.920 I turned it into a buffet, you would worship the 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:13.280 buffet bite by bite peace by peace, sufficient is today 0:50:14.120 --> 0:50:19.680 for its own trouble. Today has enough trouble. God didn't 0:50:19.719 --> 0:50:23.480 promise to give you enough for tomorrow. He said give 0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:28.000 us this day our daily bread. So it's enough for now. 0:50:28.920 --> 0:50:33.200 Thank you Lord. I got enough for now. Wait, I'm 0:50:33.200 --> 0:50:35.399 gonna need more later, but I got enough for now, 0:50:36.080 --> 0:50:38.920 and I want you to get this revelation. I am 0:50:39.719 --> 0:50:45.160 the bread of life. Did you get you? I am enough. 0:50:46.719 --> 0:50:51.960 I am so. He didn't say I will be. He 0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:54.960 didn't say I was. Do you remember when they were 0:50:55.000 --> 0:50:58.080 in the wilderness and they ate manna? How much did 0:50:58.080 --> 0:51:02.440 they get enough for it today? You know what happened? 0:51:02.440 --> 0:51:05.400 If they tried to save today's manna for tomorrow's hunger, 0:51:05.800 --> 0:51:09.000 it would get maggots in it. You got maggots in 0:51:09.040 --> 0:51:13.520 your mind from worrying about tomorrow. Oh my God, that's nasty. 0:51:14.239 --> 0:51:17.160 You got maggots in your mind because you're trying to 0:51:17.239 --> 0:51:22.840 save it for tomorrow. Enough enough, it's enough right now, 0:51:23.280 --> 0:51:27.520 it's enough for now. I have enough strength now for now. 0:51:28.239 --> 0:51:31.279 I have enough resource now for now. I'm not saying 0:51:31.320 --> 0:51:34.160 don't save money. I'm not saying don't plan ahead. But 0:51:34.200 --> 0:51:37.280 when you find yourself in a situation, and you didn't 0:51:37.320 --> 0:51:39.440 find out you were gonna be in it till you 0:51:39.480 --> 0:51:43.440 were in it. Trust this, He's enough for that. He 0:51:43.560 --> 0:51:46.600 will not become bread. He is bread. He will not 0:51:46.719 --> 0:51:49.200 become enough. You will not be enough when you get 0:51:49.200 --> 0:51:51.640 through this stage. You will not be enough at a 0:51:51.680 --> 0:51:53.680 time in the future. You are enough right now for 0:51:53.800 --> 0:51:56.320 right now. You are enough now. You are enough today 0:51:56.360 --> 0:51:59.399 for today. You are enough. Forty for forty, you are enough, 0:51:59.440 --> 0:52:02.080 thirty for three, you are enough, single for single, you 0:52:02.120 --> 0:52:04.920 are enough j ninety for ninety. You are enough. You 0:52:04.960 --> 0:52:09.320 are enough right now for right now. It's enough for now. 0:52:09.640 --> 0:52:13.040 I am the I'm gonna preach this all the way 0:52:13.120 --> 0:52:17.080 to Botswana. I'm gonna preach this the Bamburg. There is 0:52:17.080 --> 0:52:21.600 an annoying thing on this message today to tell you 0:52:22.000 --> 0:52:26.600 that you keep counting how many, but you don't know 0:52:26.640 --> 0:52:31.360 how much until you break it off piece by piece. 0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:37.279 I think it stayed five and two. I don't think 0:52:37.280 --> 0:52:39.680 it ever got more five than two now, one gospel 0:52:39.719 --> 0:52:41.520 writer said. And then it was seven, and then it 0:52:41.560 --> 0:52:48.759 was twelve, and then it was fifteen. That's because the 0:52:48.840 --> 0:52:53.280 real message has nothing to do with when they found 0:52:53.280 --> 0:53:03.600 out what he could doom message was, I am the 0:53:03.640 --> 0:53:08.120 bread of life. When they found out who he was, 0:53:10.000 --> 0:53:12.320 it would be enough for any situation they would ever face. 0:53:15.200 --> 0:53:18.399 When they found out, give me my title. When they 0:53:18.440 --> 0:53:22.279 found out, when they found out how many they had, 0:53:22.280 --> 0:53:28.719 the miracle began. But they found out how much every 0:53:28.719 --> 0:53:34.439 time they went back. You mean there's still more. It's 0:53:34.480 --> 0:53:42.000 not running out. What's going on. I made it through 0:53:42.040 --> 0:53:45.399 another day. Some of y'all that's too much. I made 0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:48.280 it through another hour. Some of y'all that's too much. 0:53:48.800 --> 0:53:50.920 I made it through another man. Do you know? I've 0:53:50.960 --> 0:53:52.959 had some times that were so violent in my life, 0:53:52.960 --> 0:53:54.840 some storms that raged so hard that I had to 0:53:54.840 --> 0:53:59.719 take it second by second because I didn't know if 0:53:59.760 --> 0:54:03.200 I was. But I found out I was enough all along, 0:54:03.239 --> 0:54:07.680 and he showed it to me in stages. I found 0:54:07.680 --> 0:54:12.520 out I was enough for now. Please don't ask me 0:54:13.200 --> 0:54:17.919 about tomorrow. I don't know yet. But he's enough for now, 0:54:19.200 --> 0:54:22.279 and you're enough for now, because he is the bread 0:54:22.320 --> 0:54:24.840 of life. Do you know he told the crowds, He said, 0:54:25.000 --> 0:54:27.919 you came to me because you ate something and had 0:54:27.920 --> 0:54:32.480 your fill. But unless you eat my flesh and drink 0:54:32.520 --> 0:54:34.600 my blood, you have no part in me what's he 0:54:34.680 --> 0:54:39.080 talking about? You got to get it in you. You've 0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:41.480 got to get it in you. How many that's what 0:54:41.560 --> 0:54:43.520 you have around you? Look at it again, look at it. 0:54:43.800 --> 0:54:47.320 How many that's what's around you? That's what you can count? 0:54:48.120 --> 0:54:50.440 How much? Look at it? Look at the thing on 0:54:50.440 --> 0:54:52.080 the screen. I put it up there for you. How 0:54:52.160 --> 0:54:56.839 much that's what's in you? That will never run dry? 0:54:57.080 --> 0:54:59.479 If you keep coming back to this, well, you'll thirst again. 0:54:59.680 --> 0:55:02.239 But if if you receive what I have, it'll always be. 0:55:02.320 --> 0:55:06.360 It'll always be, It'll always be enough. I will never 0:55:06.760 --> 0:55:11.000 run out of bread from heaven. I will never run out. 0:55:11.160 --> 0:55:14.040 Shout it. I'll never run out. I'll never run out 0:55:14.160 --> 0:55:17.799 because I know where the bread is. I know who 0:55:17.920 --> 0:55:21.200 my father. You think he's gonna feed a worm and 0:55:21.360 --> 0:55:29.000 let me die. I have a father. His name is 0:55:29.160 --> 0:55:39.799 I Am, and he is enough. Thank you Lord for 0:55:39.920 --> 0:55:44.200 everybody who needed this message, whether they knew they needed 0:55:44.239 --> 0:55:50.879 it or not. I needed it so much. How much 0:55:50.920 --> 0:55:56.680 did you need this so much? Because I got so 0:55:57.000 --> 0:56:03.480 many questions and I got so oh many needs, and 0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:08.600 eight months wages wouldn't feed them all. But you said 0:56:08.640 --> 0:56:13.920 you are the bread. They found out what you could do, 0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:18.080 and then they found out who you were, and that 0:56:18.160 --> 0:56:21.160 means you can do it again. So I speak it 0:56:21.160 --> 0:56:22.960 over the life of every person who needs to hear 0:56:22.960 --> 0:56:24.920 it today. I think you that your word will not 0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:26.799 return to your void, but accomplished that what you sent 0:56:26.880 --> 0:56:28.840 it to do. I thank you that you are the 0:56:28.880 --> 0:56:30.560 bread that came down from heaven, and you are not 0:56:30.719 --> 0:56:36.520 manna that disappears every day. But you and me are enough. 0:56:37.920 --> 0:56:43.680 My sufficiency, Christ, my all, in all peace, by peace. 0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:55.040 Great is thy faithfulness, Oh God, my father, this is 0:56:55.040 --> 0:56:59.360 a bad key for me. Can we go down? Great 0:56:59.480 --> 0:57:03.640 is that? Hans see. It's not how many notes you 0:57:03.680 --> 0:57:06.759 can hit, it is how much you mean them when 0:57:06.800 --> 0:57:10.560 you sing them. I'll sing it with one note. There 0:57:10.719 --> 0:57:14.440 is no shadow of turning with thee. There's there's truth 0:57:14.480 --> 0:57:20.560 in it. I only need one note. I only need one, 0:57:21.720 --> 0:57:25.280 So God's gonna supply for me. I felt the spirit 0:57:25.320 --> 0:57:29.640 on that I only need one. One is enough, trust me. 0:57:29.680 --> 0:57:36.920 One is enough. One is enough. When verse says I 0:57:38.120 --> 0:57:41.640 all I have needed, Thy hand has provided. I was 0:57:41.680 --> 0:57:44.800 just thinking about that. When they put it in his hands, 0:57:44.840 --> 0:57:48.560 they saw how much it was. Do you know I 0:57:48.560 --> 0:57:52.120 have John Mayer's guitar you've seen it, Israel, Holden gave 0:57:52.120 --> 0:57:55.880 it to me. What's up? Israel? I went to see 0:57:55.960 --> 0:57:59.360 John Mair play in concert. He had the same guitar. 0:58:00.480 --> 0:58:05.920 It sounded different in his hands, six strings like mine, 0:58:06.640 --> 0:58:12.960 same knobs, same color in his hands. Lift your hands, 0:58:12.960 --> 0:58:16.240 slift your hands, slift your hands in his hands. It's enough. 0:58:18.280 --> 0:58:23.880 It's enough, summer and winter and springtime and harvest thine own, 0:58:23.880 --> 0:58:28.280 dear presence, that you're into God. Strength for today. That's 0:58:28.320 --> 0:58:32.400 it right now. Strength for today, not ten years from now. 0:58:33.400 --> 0:58:38.400 Strength for today, not November. Strength for today, and bride 0:58:38.440 --> 0:58:43.560 hope for tomorrow. Blessings all mine? How much do you have? 0:58:43.720 --> 0:58:48.200 Blessings all mine? How many? How many blessings all mine? 0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:52.280 With ten thousand? Beside? Count them all? One two, three, four, five, six, 0:58:52.360 --> 0:58:58.760 ten thousand, ten thousand? How many miracles one two, three, four, five, six, seven, five, 0:58:59.160 --> 0:59:01.960 five and two than the number of completion? How many? 0:59:02.280 --> 0:59:07.520 How many? How many blessings are mine? With ten thousand? Besides? 0:59:07.520 --> 0:59:13.000 I can't even count them all? How many? Part in 0:59:13.160 --> 0:59:17.360 for sin? Bring me the bread? Part in for sin 0:59:18.120 --> 0:59:22.760 right now? Hurry, please part in for sin? You got 0:59:22.760 --> 0:59:27.200 the break? Come on, I know there's bread here somebody say, 0:59:27.280 --> 0:59:29.040 I know there's bread here. I know there's bread here. 0:59:29.320 --> 0:59:31.920 I know there's bread here. I'm waiting for it. I know. 0:59:32.840 --> 0:59:36.280 See he was ready to bring me the bread before 0:59:36.320 --> 0:59:38.960 you even knew I needed it. Come on, you need 0:59:38.960 --> 0:59:42.000 to glorify God. This is a holy spirit moment. Somebody 0:59:42.080 --> 0:59:46.720 is receiving the bread. Lord, speak the sustenance of your 0:59:46.760 --> 0:59:53.360 word right now, parton for sin? How many sins? How 0:59:53.400 --> 1:00:04.960 many sins? And a peace? How much peace? And a 1:00:05.040 --> 1:00:19.120 piece that endures? And a piece, a piece every time 1:00:19.160 --> 1:00:23.760 they came back, another piece, every time they came back, 1:00:24.880 --> 1:00:32.439 another piece, and a piece a piece. It doesn't look 1:00:32.560 --> 1:00:39.440 like much, but it endures. It's gonna last, it's not 1:00:39.440 --> 1:00:46.480 gonna run out. Just keep coming back Thine own dear presence. 1:00:47.120 --> 1:00:50.880 That's all I need. I found out he was bred. 1:00:52.760 --> 1:00:57.000 Everything I need is in his presence. God. I want 1:00:57.000 --> 1:00:59.800 this word to go deep in you. So the next 1:01:00.200 --> 1:01:04.200 you start thinking how many you can find out? How much? 1:01:07.560 --> 1:01:13.520 How much? The only way to find out is to 1:01:13.640 --> 1:01:20.040 keep coming back. How many miracles did the disciples see Jesus, 1:01:20.080 --> 1:01:23.440 do give them the wide shot please in the back. 1:01:23.520 --> 1:01:26.280 I want them to see this online. How many miracles 1:01:26.280 --> 1:01:30.200 did they see. When did they find out how much 1:01:30.240 --> 1:01:33.840 he loved them? It was when he gave his life 1:01:35.280 --> 1:01:39.880 for them, And when his body was broken like the bread, 1:01:40.080 --> 1:01:47.880 and when his blood was spilled, they realized they found 1:01:47.920 --> 1:01:55.280 out how much? How much does he love you? How 1:01:55.360 --> 1:02:01.200 much he showed you that already? Haven't you found out? 1:02:03.000 --> 1:02:07.160 Didn't he make a way? Wasn't he there when no 1:02:07.200 --> 1:02:12.600 one else was? Didn't he do what you didn't even 1:02:12.720 --> 1:02:17.720 know to ask him for the real miracle when they 1:02:17.800 --> 1:02:21.800 found out what they had? It was when they found 1:02:21.840 --> 1:02:27.440 out who he was. The bread of life is in 1:02:27.480 --> 1:02:31.080 your living room. The bread of life is in your kitchen. 1:02:32.480 --> 1:02:35.680 The bread of life is in the hospital. The bread 1:02:35.680 --> 1:02:37.680 of life is in the place of your greatest need. 1:02:38.760 --> 1:02:51.400 And peace by peace, moment by moment, day by day. Yes, Lord, 1:02:51.680 --> 1:02:54.160 I'll show you one more thing because he wants me 1:02:54.200 --> 1:03:03.160 to show you. Can I give you one more? How 1:03:03.200 --> 1:03:15.880 many that's plural? How much that's singular? You don't say grammatically? 1:03:17.200 --> 1:03:23.400 How many shoes you say? How many shoes you don't 1:03:23.440 --> 1:03:31.720 say grammatically? How much shoe you said, Jesus said, I 1:03:31.800 --> 1:03:40.200 Am the bread of life singular. Let me give you 1:03:40.240 --> 1:03:43.920 a minute think about first Corinthians ten seventeen. Put it 1:03:43.960 --> 1:03:47.480 on the screen. Please, I saw this. I saw this 1:03:47.480 --> 1:03:51.400 this morning. Because there is one loaf. We who are 1:03:51.440 --> 1:03:58.800 many are one body, for we all share in the 1:03:58.800 --> 1:04:04.240 one loaf. Let me tell you something today. I don't 1:04:04.240 --> 1:04:08.520 know your situation. I don't know who left you. I 1:04:08.520 --> 1:04:11.920 don't know what you need. God does one is enough. 1:04:13.560 --> 1:04:18.360 If you have him, you have enough. Just keep coming back, 1:04:19.720 --> 1:04:27.560 peace by peace, step by step, prayer by prayer, day 1:04:27.600 --> 1:04:35.320 by day. He is more than enough. Oh yeah, you're 1:04:35.400 --> 1:04:41.120 leaving with leftovers. Oh yeah, you know that party. Hey, 1:04:42.160 --> 1:04:45.439 their biggest problem when they got to the wilderness where 1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:49.080 we don't even have a bite. Their biggest problem after 1:04:49.200 --> 1:04:52.120 Jesus touched the bread buzz we don't have enough baskets. 1:04:52.920 --> 1:04:57.480 I am telling you, child of God, you're leaving with 1:04:57.560 --> 1:05:03.880 a different level problem. You got so much joy, I 1:05:03.920 --> 1:05:09.240 got so much pace. I got so much, so much, 1:05:10.040 --> 1:05:15.240 so much, How great a salvation, how firm a foundation, 1:05:16.200 --> 1:05:25.040 so much, so much. He loves you so much that 1:05:25.120 --> 1:05:30.200 he sent his son for God so loved the world 1:05:31.880 --> 1:05:33.880 that his body was broken on the cross. Right now, 1:05:33.880 --> 1:05:37.440 there's someone who needs to begin a relationship with Jesus 1:05:37.520 --> 1:05:40.560 Christ I'm by you in this moment to pray with me. 1:05:40.880 --> 1:05:44.680 There's only one loaf, there's only one name, there's only 1:05:44.720 --> 1:05:47.320 one way. It is by grace through faith that we 1:05:47.360 --> 1:05:50.200 are safe. And what if God sent me to preach 1:05:50.320 --> 1:05:56.800 this whole message for you. He sees the one and 1:05:56.840 --> 1:05:58.920 if there is one, that's enough for me to stop 1:05:59.000 --> 1:06:03.080 right now and give you this moment, because when you 1:06:03.120 --> 1:06:06.240 have come to the end of yourself, it is the 1:06:06.240 --> 1:06:11.479 beginning of grace. So right now, the scripture says that 1:06:11.960 --> 1:06:16.040 if you confess your sin, he is faithful and just, 1:06:17.320 --> 1:06:21.240 he will forgive your sin, cleanse you from all unrighteousness. 1:06:21.840 --> 1:06:24.160 That if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, 1:06:24.200 --> 1:06:25.920 and believe in your heart that God raised him from 1:06:25.920 --> 1:06:31.120 the dead, you will be saved. He is enough, He 1:06:31.240 --> 1:06:34.200 is your bread, he is your strength. He is the door. 1:06:34.760 --> 1:06:36.720 He is the Way, the truth, and the life. He 1:06:36.880 --> 1:06:39.800 is the resurrection. He's all of that, and he longs 1:06:39.800 --> 1:06:42.280 to come into your life. So bow your head and 1:06:42.320 --> 1:06:45.160 close your eyes. If you need to put your life 1:06:45.200 --> 1:06:46.960 in the hands of God today, I promise you it 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:48.600 can be so much more in his hands than it 1:06:48.640 --> 1:06:51.480 can in yours. And right now, this is your moment 1:06:51.520 --> 1:06:54.120 to turn it over to God. Remember, he can do 1:06:54.160 --> 1:06:57.400 a lot with broken pieces. It doesn't matter where you've 1:06:57.440 --> 1:07:00.240 been or what you've done. But right now, if you're 1:07:00.240 --> 1:07:03.040 ready to give your life to Jesus Christ, I want 1:07:03.080 --> 1:07:06.479 you to repeat this prayer after me out loud, Heavenly Father. 1:07:07.960 --> 1:07:12.480 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God 1:07:13.320 --> 1:07:18.000 and the savior of the world. Today, I make Jesus 1:07:18.840 --> 1:07:22.880 the lord of my life. I believe he died that 1:07:23.000 --> 1:07:28.200 I would be forgiven and rose again to give me life. 1:07:28.400 --> 1:07:33.320 I receive this new life. I am a child of 1:07:33.360 --> 1:07:38.080 God in Jesus name. If you just prayed that, I 1:07:38.120 --> 1:07:40.280 want you to put right now in the chat I 1:07:40.600 --> 1:07:47.200 just received Jesus. We're clapping, the angels are clapping. You 1:07:47.240 --> 1:07:51.320 know what the Bible says. There is rejoicing in heaven 1:07:52.200 --> 1:07:57.320 over one sinner. There are thousands right now who just 1:07:57.440 --> 1:07:59.960 came into the Kingdom of God. Come on, put it 1:07:59.920 --> 1:08:05.680 in the chat. I received Jesus. I received Jesus. I 1:08:05.720 --> 1:08:10.120 couldn't buy it, I couldn't earn it, but he did it, 1:08:11.040 --> 1:08:16.280 and he is enough. Come on, Let's give him thirty 1:08:16.320 --> 1:08:20.680 seconds of great praise. We see it. Let me know 1:08:20.760 --> 1:08:24.439 in the chat, how this word ministered to your soul. 1:08:25.120 --> 1:08:29.040 We love you, We're praying for you, We're here for you, 1:08:29.680 --> 1:08:35.439 and He is enough, and you are enough, and God's 1:08:35.560 --> 1:08:39.800 got to in his hands and he will never let 1:08:39.840 --> 1:08:46.160 you go. Get in praise if you believe it. Holly Loujah, 1:08:46.320 --> 1:08:55.080 I foul them, I found up? How foul up? Thank 1:08:55.120 --> 1:08:57.559 you for joining us. 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