1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these. 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: New sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 2: I hope you're blessed today. 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. How about that new song? Huh? 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 3: Anybody believe it in your heart? Somebody say God is 8 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 3: for me. Look at your neighbor on your left or right, 9 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 3: whoever's better looking, tell him, God is for me. 10 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: God is for me. 11 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 3: Come on, if you're grateful that God is for you, 12 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 3: let's give God. 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: The best, best, best best phrase. Oh come on, I 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: think you can do a little bit better than that. 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: Let's look up the name. 16 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: Thank you Lord. 17 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 3: Just while you're standing on, take a moment to our 18 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 3: pastor today. Man, what a gift that he is to 19 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:08,639 Speaker 3: all of us, and what a gift Pastor Stephen pastor 20 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 3: Holly are to us. I was singing about just this year, 21 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 3: it's always so hard to come up here, and I 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 3: feel like I have so much I could say, But 23 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 3: just in the last year, I was thinking about a song, 24 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 3: a sermon, and a conversation that God used Pastor Stephen 25 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 3: to just deeply impact my life. 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: Number one, more than abel. 27 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 3: Yo. I wish I'd have wrote that song. I just 28 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: I think about that. Can you imagine? And it just 29 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 3: changed my life, changed my life, just changed my life. 30 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 3: Last month we got together and Pastor Stephen took a 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 3: couple of hours to pour into preachers and I was 32 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: thinking about a talk that he did changed my life. 33 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 3: And then I'm thirty nine. I turned forty this year 34 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 3: and I'm a little bit depressed. Let me just keep 35 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 3: it real, psycholled Pastor and I said, I'm freaking out, 36 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 3: and he just walked me through it. And He's not 37 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 3: only that for me, I know he's that for all 38 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 3: of us. And I thank God for Pastor Stephen Ferdick. Pastor, 39 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 3: we love you, we honor you, we're praying for you. 40 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: Come on, let's show our appreciation. Amen. 41 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 3: All right, grab a seat because I'm gonna read a 42 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 3: lot of scripture and I don't want to keep you 43 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 3: standing all day. 44 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: Such a privilege. 45 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 3: I do bring greetings from Sin City, Las Vegas and Nevada. 46 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: But God is doing the work. 47 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 3: Anybody been, anybody been? Anybody come visit? What do y'all 48 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 3: do there? Like street evangelism? What do you do when 49 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 3: you come? Do you witness. Are you all the people 50 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 3: carrying the signs around the strip? Is that you preaching? Hey, 51 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 3: if you ever do come, please come visit us. We 52 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 3: kind of have a commitment with all of our friends 53 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 3: around the country. Number one, if you had a bad 54 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 3: weekend in Vegas, come to church, come to city like church. 55 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 3: We have a commitment. We will pray for you, we 56 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 3: will cast the devil out of you, we will anoint 57 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 3: you with oil, and we'll send you home like nothing happened. 58 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 3: You'll be like, man, it was great. It was a 59 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 3: great weekend. I ended with church. Praise God, hallelujah. 60 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: If you had a good weekend, bring your boy an offering. Amen. 61 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 3: Amen, all right, just amen, All right, We're here for you. 62 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 3: You be there for us. We just celebrated five years 63 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 3: as a church, and to God be the glory. We 64 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 3: have been so deeply impacted by elevation and just literally 65 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: sitting right over there at an event years ago. So 66 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: you're the anointed section right over here. If the rapture happens, 67 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 3: you go first. Okay, right over there. That really just 68 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 3: changed my life and we really are where we are today. 69 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 3: We're standing on the shoulders of this house and so 70 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 3: I'm very grateful. Let's go to Matthew, chapter twenty five. 71 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 3: I am a preacher, which means I yell it, I 72 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 3: don't tell it. And if y'all get quiet, you're gonna 73 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 3: make me insecure. 74 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: Okay. 75 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 3: I'm already wearing my mister Rogers card again. Up here, 76 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 3: I'm already feeling a little weird. Davite has my back. 77 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 3: He's got one on too. I love you, okay, but 78 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 3: so if you if you know, if you say a 79 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 3: couple of amens, you're not gonna make me uncomfortable. You're 80 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 3: gonna make me feel right at home, okay. Matthew, Chapter 81 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 3: twenty five, verse fourteen. I also want to just quickly 82 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 3: honor my friend Chunks Orbit, who means the world to me. 83 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 3: I love you, bro, Thank you for thank you for 84 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 3: your friendship. Matthew, twenty five, verse fourteen. The verse starts 85 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 3: with again, and the reason it says again is because 86 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 3: Jesus is telling us kingdom stories. He's telling us parables. 87 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: He's teaching us about the Kingdom of God. And so 88 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 3: he's been sharing different pictures, different stories, different ideas, different 89 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 3: parables about the Kingdom. And now he's going to share 90 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 3: another one forgive me. I have a six year old daughter. 91 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 3: He's dropping blues clues about the Kingdom of God. He's 92 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 3: showing us how the kingdom operates. This is important because 93 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 3: you are a part of the kingdom. You're a kingdom citizen. 94 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 3: Jesus preached the kingdom, but for most of us, we 95 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: kind of don't know how the kingdom operates. So we 96 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 3: have entered into this scene called the Kingdom of His 97 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 3: dear Son. But if you don't understand how the kingdom works, 98 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 3: you're going to be constantly frustrated by the king and 99 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 3: his kingdom. And so Jesus is teaching us how the 100 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 3: kingdom operates so that we can experience the Kingdom, which 101 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 3: is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. So again, 102 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 3: it will be like a man going on a journey 103 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 3: who called his servants and entrusted his well to them. 104 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 3: Twenty he gave five bags of gold to another, two 105 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 3: bags to another, one bag each according to his ability. 106 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 3: Then he went on his journey. And that's where he 107 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 3: is right now. He's on his journey. He's entrusted us 108 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 3: with gifts, talents, and abilities, and he wants to see 109 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 3: what we're gonna do with them. Then he went on 110 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 3: the journey. The man who would receive five bags of 111 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 3: gold went at once. He put his money to work 112 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 3: gained five more. Also, the one with two bags gained 113 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 3: two more. But the one who had received one bag 114 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 3: went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid 115 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 3: his master's money. After a long time, the master of 116 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 3: those servants returned and settled accounts. The man who would 117 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 3: receive five bags of gold brought the other five. Master, 118 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 3: you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I 119 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 3: have gained five more, And his master applied, well done, 120 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:00,559 Speaker 3: good and faith full servant. 121 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: How many want to hear that one day? Well done? 122 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 3: I want to hear well done. I don't want to 123 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 3: hear well you're done. 124 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: I ain't trying to hear that. I want to hear. 125 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 3: I want to hear well done. I'm gonna put you 126 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 3: in charge of many things. You were faithful with a 127 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 3: few things. I'm gonna put you in charge of many things. 128 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,239 Speaker 3: Come and share your master's happiness. Now, now, the same 129 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 3: exact thing would happened to the man with two bags 130 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 3: of gold. We're gonna skip out of verse twenty four. Now, 131 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 3: the one who had received one bag of gold. He 132 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 3: came and said, Master, I knew you were a hard man. Now, 133 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 3: time out, time out. You don't see that. When you 134 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 3: read the text, you do not see Jesus as a 135 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 3: hard man. You see him very kind, very trusting, very empowering. 136 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 3: I mean, he's passing out bags of gold. Come on, 137 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 3: somebody like, he's not a harsh man. He's not a 138 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 3: hard man. I don't know anybody passing out bags. 139 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: Of gold today. I mean, this is incredible. 140 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 3: But see, his view of God was gonna limit his potential. 141 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 3: This is why Tozer said that what you think about 142 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 3: when you think about God, it's the most important thing 143 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 3: about you, because your theology will dictate your purpose more 144 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 3: than anything else. So he accuses the Lord, I knew 145 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 3: you were a harsh man. I knew you were a 146 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 3: harsh man, a hard man harvesting were e've not sown, 147 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 3: gathering where you're not scattered seed. So I was afraid, 148 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 3: and I went and hid your gold in the ground. 149 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 3: See here's what belongs to you. And his master replied, 150 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 3: you wicked and lady, lazy servant, you knew that a 151 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 3: harvest where I have not sown, and gathered where I'm 152 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 3: not scattered seed. Well, then you could have at least 153 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 3: put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that 154 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 3: when I returned I could have received it back with interest. 155 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 3: So take the bag of gold from him and give 156 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 3: it to the one who has ten bags. For whoever 157 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 3: has will be given more. This is a mentality, It's 158 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 3: a spirit. It's a stronghold of I have something. It's 159 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 3: a good stronghold. I have something, and because as I have, 160 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 3: God will give me more. But whoever does not have again, 161 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 3: this is a stronghold. This is an idea. This is 162 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 3: a mentality. If you don't think you have anything, even 163 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 3: what you do have will be taken from them. I 164 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 3: want to talk from the idea today. Multiply multiply, and 165 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: I believe God wants to say a few things today. 166 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Can I get an amen? 167 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 3: High five? Two more people tell him? Multiply multiply. Thank you, guys, 168 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 3: thank you multiply. If I was to ask most believers 169 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 3: in the room, most believers in America, what was God's 170 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 3: first commandment to his first man, Adam, most of us 171 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 3: would think that God's first command to his first man 172 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 3: was do not eat the tree, but that isn't God's 173 00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 3: first command. God's first command actually was not no. 174 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: It was yes. 175 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 3: And you gotta understand that this is important because this 176 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 3: is how God begins his conversation and his relationship with mankind. 177 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 3: If God would have began with a no, that would 178 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 3: have been very harsh. But God actually begins his conversation 179 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 3: with a yes. Now, imagine for all the parents in 180 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 3: the house. I have a daughter, she's six years old. 181 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 3: If the nurses would have handed me that baby six 182 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 3: years ago, and I would have held little Goldie Ray 183 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 3: Chavis in my hands, and I would have just said, no, 184 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 3: I don't know what you got planned. I don't know 185 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 3: what you're trying to do. 186 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: Stop crying. You better get potty trained quick. No. 187 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 3: No, know those nurses are gonna take her as quickly 188 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 3: as they gave her. 189 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: No. 190 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 3: My first words to my baby were not no. They 191 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 3: were something like, girl, whatever you want? 192 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: Yes? Can. I tell you. 193 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 3: God's first word to his first man and his words 194 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 3: to you are the same. They are yes. And here 195 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 3: were his first words to his first man, and God 196 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 3: blessed them. That's how God started his conversation. God bless them, 197 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 3: and he said, be fruitful, multiply, subdue. This is all yours, Adam, 198 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 3: go for it. This was God's first word to his 199 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 3: first man. And if Adam would have been obeying God's 200 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 3: first command, he would have never been tempted with Satan's lie. 201 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: If Adam would have. 202 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 3: Been subduing and multiplying and working the garden. 203 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: When Eve would have said, hey, babe, come over here, 204 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: I want you. 205 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 3: To mean my new friend. His name's Louis. God bless 206 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 3: you if your name's Louis. But uh, he's this cute 207 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 3: little snake. He's been talking to me. If Adam would 208 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 3: have been walking in his purpose, if Adam would have 209 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 3: been walking in his blessing, and if Adam would have 210 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 3: been walking in God's yes. When Eve introduced Adam to Lucifer, 211 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 3: Adam would have said, can't out of my garden, because see, 212 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 3: we all have a garden. Aiden is simply a picture 213 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:14,319 Speaker 3: of our life. It's something to work, it's something to multiply, 214 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 3: it's something to grow, it's something to trust God with. 215 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,959 Speaker 3: Eden is your garden of opportunity, your place of possibility, 216 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 3: the place of multiplication. 217 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 1: And just like Adam and Eve had Eden, you. 218 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 3: Have a life that God is giving you opportunity because see, 219 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 3: Eden wasn't supposed to stay in the boundaries of those 220 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 3: four rivers. Eden was eventually supposed to cover the entire earth. 221 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 3: It was supposed to multiply, It was supposed to grow. 222 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: And your life is a garden. 223 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 3: And in your life there is the presence of God 224 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 3: and the presence of an enemy, the voice of God 225 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 3: and the voice of an accuser, opportunities and temptations, possibilities 226 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 3: and limitations. We all have a garden. Your marriage, friends, 227 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 3: is a garden. Your singleness where my single people at 228 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 3: can I just hear make a little bit of noise, 229 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 3: praise the Lord? Look around, see if anybody your singleness, 230 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 3: your purity is a garden. Your heart is a garden, 231 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 3: Your soul is a garden. Your your business is a garden. 232 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 3: Your future is a garden. It's something that God gives 233 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 3: you in a raw state that you can grow, that 234 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 3: you can multiply, that you can enlarge, that you can 235 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 3: fight for, that you can kick devils out of, that 236 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 3: you can invite God into. 237 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: We all have a garden. 238 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 3: It's not fully developed, but there is opportunity all around us. 239 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 3: God provided the garden the conditions for people to grow, something, 240 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 3: to work, something to till, something to harvest, something to multiply. 241 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 3: So here's a few things I want you to understand 242 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 3: about the text that we just read from Matthew twenty five, 243 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 3: and the first is this, God is a giver. 244 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 1: Can I get an? Okay? Amen? At the nine thirty 245 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: all right, all right, God's a giver. 246 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 3: If you want to know how God treats you and 247 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 3: what God does in your life, we got to go 248 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 3: back to the most famous passage of scripture in the Bible, 249 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 3: John three point sixteen. For God so loved the world 250 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 3: that he gave. This is how God's going to do 251 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 3: everything in your life. He loves you and he gives you. 252 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 3: He loves you and he gives you. He loves you 253 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 3: and he gives you. He loves you and he gives you. 254 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 3: He loves you and he gives to you. This is 255 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 3: what God does. And a lot of you are going, Yeah, 256 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 3: I think God loves me. I think I'm cool with that. 257 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 3: I've heard that scripture my whole life. Yeah, God loves me. 258 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: He has to. He is love. 259 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 3: So, yeah, he loves me. But God's never given me nothing. 260 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 3: God's blessed everyone around me. But God's never blessed me. 261 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 3: God's never given me anything. And if that's what you think, 262 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 3: that's what you'll receive. I'm just warming up. I know 263 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 3: where I'm at. 264 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: I'm not lost. 265 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 3: Because God's a God's a giver. God he gives to us. 266 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 3: But here's the issue. I've discovered the issue now in 267 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 3: twenty years of preaching and walking with Jesus for twenty 268 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 3: five years. 269 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: Here's the issue. 270 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 3: The issue is that the way that God gives anything 271 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 3: to us is not usually in the form that we 272 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 3: expect it. All right, we're talking about the kingdom, right, 273 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 3: We're talking about the Kingdom. Mark chapter four, verse twenty six. 274 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 3: God's Kingdom, Jesus said, God's Kingdom is like, oh, it's 275 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 3: like seed, Look how small that little thing is. 276 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: It's so unimpressive. That's the Kingdom. See. We think of 277 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: the Kingdom as huge, huge. 278 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 3: Massive, amazing, Oh my gosh. We think of the Kingdom 279 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 3: as Air Force one flying into town with black SUVs 280 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 3: and red carpets and dignitaries. And we think of the 281 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 3: Kingdom as Buckingham Palace. We think of the kingdom as big. 282 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 3: But the Kingdom never starts big. The Kingdom starts like seed. 283 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 3: We were in the back. I have my musical director 284 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 3: with me, l Eel. We were in the back and 285 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 3: there's a picture of Day one elevation and pastors on 286 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 3: the guitar leading worship with a shaved head, and I 287 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 3: looked at him. I said, that's how it started anyway. 288 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: I didn't know that. 289 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because we see this and we 290 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 3: call this the kingdom. But Day one was just as 291 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 3: much of a manifestation of the Kingdom as Day sixteen, 292 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 3: Year sixteen. But this looks a lot better. Church planters 293 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 3: like becoming and we're. 294 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: Like, well, what the these? But it don't start like 295 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: it starts like that. 296 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 3: So when we pray, we pray for this, but when 297 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 3: God answers, he answers with this. Sorry, and most of 298 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 3: us miss. 299 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: Out on what God is doing in. 300 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 3: Our life because He is answering in a form we 301 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 3: do not recognize. To stretch our faith, because if God 302 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 3: answered every prayer the way you prayed it, there would 303 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 3: be no faith required to receive it. Can I preach 304 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 3: a little bit right now and a lot of you 305 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 3: do you already have the ideal manifestation of the answer 306 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 3: to your prayer. And I'm just saying it's actually not 307 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 3: gonna start. 308 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: Like this, go start like this. Let me prove it 309 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: to you. 310 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 3: The children of Israel, they're out in the wilderness and 311 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 3: they're getting frustrated, and they come to Moses and they go, Moses, 312 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 3: we are sick and tired of this desert diet, this 313 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 3: stephen verdict keto, low carb, high protein. 314 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: We're sick of it. We want bread, and we want it. 315 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 3: No. Can I get an amen for bread in the 316 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 3: House of the Lord today? 317 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: Can I just get an amen? Thank you Jesus for bread. Amen. 318 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: This is body by bread. Amen. 319 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 3: It's a new workout routine, Body by bread. 320 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: Amen. This is why I'm good for your past or. 321 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 3: He eats the carbs, I mean, he eats the protein, 322 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 3: and I eat the carbs off of his plate. 323 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: Amen. 324 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 3: And we're just a good team like that. And so 325 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 3: so they're sicking. They're sick and tired of the they're 326 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 3: sick and tired of the of the protein. And they say, 327 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 3: we want bread, we want bread now. And Moses said, 328 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 3: y'all don't want bread. Breast bad for you. It's gonna 329 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 3: give you a wheat belly. You don't want bread. You 330 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 3: don't want all that gluten. The we want bread now. 331 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 3: So Moses says, I'm gonna go talk to God. So 332 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,439 Speaker 3: he goes up to God. He says, hey, God, they 333 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 3: want bread. I know, I know it's not good for him, 334 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 3: but they want bread. God said, man, it's really not 335 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 3: good for him, but all right, you tell them bread 336 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 3: in the morning. And the people rejoice just like we do. Right, 337 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 3: go to cheesecake factory. We're sitting there angry. We waited 338 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 3: two hours for a table, and we finally get that. 339 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 3: We finally get to that table, and sweet Sally brings 340 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 3: that brown bread and that white bread to the table 341 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 3: and we all go, Praise God forgive me for everything 342 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 3: I said before I got my bread. Now I'm a 343 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 3: Christian again. Praise God. It's come to elevation, Sally. And 344 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 3: so they rejoice. They're like, we're getting bread in the morning. 345 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: Turn up. Well the next morning they wake up. 346 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 3: Huh they they wake up and and and here's what 347 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 3: the scripture said. And the Israelites called the food. See, 348 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 3: I ain't call it bread. They went mana because it 349 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 3: because it was white, like y'all see that, because because 350 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 3: we pray for bread, Moses and and God gave us seat. 351 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 1: Well, say what mana? 352 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 3: Yep, Moses, we pray for bread, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 353 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 3: you pray for bread, mana, Moses, we were clear, right, 354 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 3: warm fresh bread? Yeah yeah yeah mana. Mana is not 355 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 3: an English word. Manna is a Hebrew phrase. And it's 356 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 3: a question. Manna means what is it? I don't know 357 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 3: if you're laughing because you think I'm kidding, but I 358 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 3: ain't kidding. What is we pray for bread? What is it? 359 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: We've been believing God? What is it? Lord? Didn't I 360 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: make my prayers clear? Mana? 361 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 3: Lord didn't I tell you what I was believing God 362 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 3: for in twenty twenty three? 363 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: What is it? It's seed? 364 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 3: Because God don't make bread. God gives seed. And then 365 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 3: they were to take that seed, bring it into their home, 366 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 3: meal it, work it, turn it into a flower, bake it, 367 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,479 Speaker 3: and then eat it. Because God says I don't give 368 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 3: fully formed answers. 369 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: I answer in seed form to activate your faith to 370 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: do something with it. And a lot of y'all right. 371 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 3: Now are staring at the answer to your prayer, going manna. 372 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: And some of y'all married the man of your dreams and. 373 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 3: Ladies, some of y'all looked at him last night while 374 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 3: he a snore at three am. 375 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:08,439 Speaker 1: And you win DA and some of you got your 376 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: dream job in Charlotte, and you're going, what is it? 377 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: Some of you thought you had life. I'll figure it out. 378 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 3: Now you're going, mana, Can I just tell you you're 379 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 3: in a man of moment. You're actually right in the 380 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 3: perfect will of God. You're actually right where you're supposed 381 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 3: to be. It's just not fully formed yet because God 382 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 3: has given it to you in seed form. But now 383 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 3: you're gonna have to work that seed. You're don't have 384 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 3: to do something with that seed because Jesus said I 385 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 3: don't make bread, I give seed. 386 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,360 Speaker 1: And now Jesus would come out in John. 387 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 3: Chapter six and say, I am the Mana that came 388 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 3: down from heaven. 389 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: And in the same way that Israel. 390 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 3: Did not recognize the bread and Israel did not recognize Jesus, 391 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 3: most believers in twenty twenty twenty three do not recognize 392 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 3: their own answer to their own prayer because God is 393 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 3: actually trying to stir up your faith. He's trying to 394 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 3: build your faith. He's trying to stretch your faith. And 395 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 3: I know you don't like this. But this is how 396 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 3: the Kingdom operates, and if you're not careful, you will 397 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 3: miss out on answers because you're looking for fully formed 398 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 3: manifestation and God's going I'm a I'm a seed giver. 399 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 3: I planted a church five years ago in a junior 400 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 3: high school cafeteria that smelled like fried chicken from nineteen 401 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 3: seventy two, which isn't good. And we didn't realize that 402 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 3: when we were doing all the set up in tear down, 403 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 3: we're doing pipe and drape and metal folding chair, all 404 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 3: this crazy that we're set up stages, all this, and 405 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 3: we were just so excited that we found a little 406 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 3: cafeteria that we didn't really realize that they had these 407 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 3: these big generator frigerators that were like industrials, super loud. 408 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 3: So we didn't hear it until I got up to 409 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 3: preach for the first time. And on the very first 410 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 3: time that I preach, I. 411 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: Got up and I go, hey, my name is Javon, 412 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 1: welcome to City Light Church. 413 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 3: Reach is a new church plant. And behind me, I 414 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 3: just hear this chorus of demons, and I look at 415 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 3: the front row and the whole front rows in panic. 416 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 3: Everyone's texting you you just see the sound guy muting 417 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 3: every ah, just freaking out. Everyone's tripping, and I'm going, 418 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 3: what is it? And I'm going God loves you and 419 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 3: has a wonderful plan for your life. Let's just close 420 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 3: our eyes and be still before the Lord. God doesn't shout, 421 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 3: God whispers. And I stood up on day one, February 422 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:47,680 Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, and I went, what is it? Five years later, 423 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 3: we've now seen over eleven thousand people come to Christ, 424 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,879 Speaker 3: and we're ministering the thousands of people every week. And 425 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 3: now I look back and I go, thank you God 426 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 3: for letting me start small so that I could appreciate 427 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 3: any fruit. 428 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 1: You decide to give me. 429 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 3: Can we give God some praise in the House of 430 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 3: the Lord. 431 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: I've learned that God. 432 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 3: Usually answers my prayers with ideas, instructions, and commands, not 433 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 3: one amen, just a couple of uncomfortable groans. O. 434 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: This to what I've learned. 435 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 3: I'm not an expert, but I've been preaching for twenty 436 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 3: years and now here's what I've learned. I've learned that 437 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 3: God usually answers my prayers with ideas, instructions, and command 438 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 3: not fully for miracles. I've had a couple. I love 439 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 3: when they happen. But here's what I've learned. Even when 440 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 3: God's given me a miracle, it's been connected to an idea, 441 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 3: an instruction, and a command. Now I'm not anti miracles. 442 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 3: I love me miracles. I believe God for miracles. I 443 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 3: need a couple right now, amen, But I need to 444 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 3: be open for the idea, the instruction, and the command. 445 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,679 Speaker 3: The Bible's full of if you will, I will, If 446 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 3: you will I will, If you will I will, If 447 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 3: you will I will, if you will, I will, And 448 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 3: a lot of us are asking God to do something, 449 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 3: and God's going, all right, I'm gonna give you a seed. 450 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,199 Speaker 1: Let's see what you do with it. 451 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 3: So now that we've established that, secondly, we must steward 452 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 3: whatever he trusts us with. I got a now steward 453 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 3: what he's entrusted me with. The man who would received 454 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 3: five bags of gold, he went out at once and 455 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 3: put his money to work. So I have to now 456 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 3: choose to do something with the seed God has given me. 457 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:57,840 Speaker 3: And this can be challenging because what I want now 458 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 3: and what I want most are usually on the other 459 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 3: side of the universe, especially when you're younger. Let me. 460 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: See, can I see thirty and younger? Thirty and younger? 461 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 3: All right, all y'all want now, But you got to 462 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 3: start making decisions off of what you want most, because 463 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 3: what you want now and what you want most, especially 464 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 3: when you're younger, are so far apart. As you get older, 465 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 3: they start getting a little closer together. But I got 466 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 3: a steward what God's given me. Thank you for trying. 467 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 3: That was a great clap. You don't have to tie today, 468 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 3: You're done. If you tie, will reimburse you. Because what 469 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 3: I want now is junk, but what I want most, 470 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 3: and I got to start making decisions off of what 471 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 3: I want most, off what I want now. And this 472 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 3: is good news for you because see, as believers in 473 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 3: the Lord Jesus, we get to make decisions based off 474 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 3: of hope and dreams and vision, not just off of desire. 475 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: See this, this is good. 476 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 3: You're not powerless to your desires because you get to 477 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 3: enter into a next level realm called vision, called faith, 478 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 3: called hope. 479 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: See. I got this little dog. 480 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 3: Named Bentley, and uh, if you put any kind of 481 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 3: food in front Bentley, he's gonna eat it because he's 482 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,080 Speaker 3: a dog. That's what dogs do. Dogs are animals. Dogs 483 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,679 Speaker 3: have no taste. You can put carrot in front of him, 484 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 3: he'll eat it. He put filet in front of him, 485 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 3: he'll eat it. You can put chocolate in front of you. 486 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 3: Got keeps chocolate away. Gotta teach our daughter. You can't 487 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 3: give him chocolate because he'll eat the chocolate. Whatever you 488 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 3: put in front of him, good or bad, he will 489 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 3: eat it because he's an animal. And before we fixed Bentley, 490 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 3: hope your kids are in kids shirts. 491 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: Amen. 492 00:28:55,320 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 3: Before we before we fixed him, he. 493 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: He iss saw at our entire home. I don't know 494 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: holse to say it. 495 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:07,479 Speaker 3: He It could be a knee, it could be a pillow, 496 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 3: it could be a couch, it could be a barbed 497 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 3: wire fence. It didn't matter. Homie was gonna get his 498 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 3: because he's a dog. But can I remind us believers 499 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 3: in Jesus, you're not an animal. You're made in the 500 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 3: image of God. You're made after the likeness of God. 501 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 3: You've been filled with the spirit of God. That means 502 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 3: you don't have to act out on instinct and desire 503 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 3: and lust alone, but you get to make decisions based 504 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 3: off of vision, based off of dreams, based off of 505 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 3: what you want most not off of what you want now. 506 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 3: But God gives us seed, and we've got a steward 507 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 3: that seed. So God and trusts us with a seed. 508 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 3: And here's what I've learned about seed that I if 509 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 3: I eat this seed, it dies, it's over, it's done, 510 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 3: no more potential gone. If I store this seed, it's dormant. 511 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 3: Now I can take this seed and I can put 512 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 3: it in my closet. I can put it in my pantry. 513 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 3: I can play Tiffany's new single twenty four hours a day. 514 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 3: I can plead the blood, annoint with oil, rebuke the 515 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 3: principalities and powers, put a prayer cloth over it, put 516 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 3: a prayer shawl over it. Amen, and I can command 517 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 3: this thing to bear fruit. But as long as I'm 518 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 3: storing it, it's dormant. But if I'll sew it, don't 519 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 3: get uncomfortable. I'm just talking about your money. I'm talking 520 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 3: about your life. Because most people are eating their seed 521 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 3: and storing their seed. But if you could ever learn 522 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 3: to sow your seed, now it becomes dynamic. 523 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: Now it becomes a line. 524 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 3: Now God can do something with your potential, do something 525 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 3: with your gifts, do something with your time, do something 526 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 3: with your talent, do something with your treasure. But most 527 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 3: of us are holding on to our potential. We are 528 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 3: hiding it, we are not using it. But God is saying, 529 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 3: if you could ever learn to sow your life, if 530 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,800 Speaker 3: you could ever learn to believe me, if you could 531 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 3: ever learn to take a step of. 532 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: Faith, and if you could ever sew that seed, it 533 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: becomes dynamic. And I'm not up here. 534 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 3: Today because I'm the most talented or the most gifted, 535 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 3: or because I come from the right family or the 536 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,959 Speaker 3: right pedigree. But I can tell you this, I am 537 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,880 Speaker 3: a sewer and I have chosen over the last two 538 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 3: decades of my life to give it away, give it 539 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 3: to the Kingdom, give it to the world, give it 540 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 3: away to God, give it away to whatever God calls 541 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 3: me to do. And I can tell you I'm not 542 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 3: the most gifted person. 543 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 1: To be up here. 544 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 3: I've sowed my way here. Any sowers in the house 545 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 3: believing for harvest, Come on, somebody, Oh, I wish you 546 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 3: would have some faith right now that everything you've done, 547 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 3: every prayer you've prayed, every seed you've sown, every tithe 548 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 3: you've given, every time you've served the House of God, 549 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 3: every love week, everything you've ever done for the next generation. 550 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 3: God sees it, he said, I see every tear, and 551 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 3: I put it in a bottle, and I will make 552 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 3: sure to pay you back good measure, Press down, shaken a. 553 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: Death, her and running all over. Come on. 554 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 3: If you're believing for some harvest makes some noise. Lastly, 555 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 3: sit down, you're scaring all the new people. Sit down, 556 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 3: Sit down. Lastly, Lastly, little becomes much. You've been faithful 557 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 3: in the little. 558 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna make you ruler over much. 559 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 3: And we don't like the But you got to learn 560 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 3: to be faithful in the little. Because if you never 561 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 3: learn to be faithful in the little, if God gave 562 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 3: you the much, the much would crush you because you 563 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 3: wouldn't have the capacity to sustain it. Some of y'all 564 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 3: praying to become a millionaire, but you still aren't on 565 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 3: time to work. 566 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: You gonna do with. 567 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 3: Millions, You're gonna hurt somebody with millions a dollar, you know, 568 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 3: hurt somebody. 569 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 1: You got to learn how to be faithful in the little. 570 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 1: You gotta learn to love the little. 571 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 3: Let me prove it to your Zacharichter four, verse ten, 572 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 3: Do not despise these small beginnings. Don't be ashamed of 573 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 3: your small beginnings. Don't despise it, don't roll your eyes 574 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,920 Speaker 3: at it, don't curse it, don't talk down to it, 575 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 3: don't shrug your shoulders at it, don't belittle it. Because 576 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 3: the Lord rejoices. And if God's rejoicing over the little, 577 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 3: I'm gonna rejoice over the little to see that the 578 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 3: work has begun. Don't make light of the little. Learn 579 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 3: to rejoice over the little seed. That was the man's problem. 580 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 3: He had one bag of gold, and he was comparing 581 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 3: his life to the man who had five bags. And 582 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 3: he could not see the opportunity that was in front 583 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,960 Speaker 3: of him because the seed looked small to him. The 584 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 3: bag of gold looks small to him. This looks really 585 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,399 Speaker 3: small to me. But there is so much potential in 586 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 3: this seed. So I can't see it like I see it. 587 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 3: I gotta see it like God sees it. I can't 588 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 3: judge my small place the way that I judge it, 589 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 3: or by the way culture judges it. But I got 590 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 3: to see it ow God sees it. Because you don't 591 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 3: need much with God to do something amazing. All you 592 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 3: need is a seed. All you oh, come on, so 593 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 3: all you need is a seed. You don't need a lot, 594 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 3: you don't need five bags of gold. You just need 595 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,839 Speaker 3: a feed, and you will see what God can do. 596 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 3: See because none of these men decided where. 597 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 1: They started, and neither do we. 598 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 3: You didn't choose your family, You didn't choose your background, 599 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 3: You didn't choose your family tree. You didn't choose your curses, 600 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 3: you didn't choose your struggles. 601 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: You didn't choose your last name. 602 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:24,600 Speaker 3: None of us choose where we start, and he didn't 603 00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:25,720 Speaker 3: choose where he started. 604 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:34,800 Speaker 1: But we do have a say in our future because 605 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: we have a seed. And all you need is a seed. 606 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 3: Because we see this little seed, but Jesus sees the 607 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:45,879 Speaker 3: potential in. 608 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 1: The seed. 609 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 3: Got a beautiful apple here. If we cut this open, 610 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 3: we're gonna find seeds in the apple. And here's the reality. 611 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 3: You can count the seeds an apple, but you cannot 612 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 3: count the apples in the seed, because in this one 613 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:19,959 Speaker 3: seed is an orchard, a garden and eden that can 614 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 3: grow and that can multiply. 615 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,319 Speaker 1: Don't you dare give up now? Don't you dare give up? 616 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,880 Speaker 1: In the small Don't you dare get. 617 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,560 Speaker 3: Discouraged trying to start that business, trying to rekindle the 618 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 3: love in your marriage, trying to get your family back, 619 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,840 Speaker 3: serving and loving the house of God. Listen, don't you 620 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,240 Speaker 3: dare quit in the small because there is an orchard 621 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 3: on the inside of you. If you will not quit, 622 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,799 Speaker 3: if you will not hide it, if you will do 623 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:53,719 Speaker 3: something with it. Do you remember there's a woman in 624 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 3: Second King's chapter four. She needs a miracle. Her husband's 625 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 3: died and left her with great debt, and so now 626 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,959 Speaker 3: the debtors have come and they're gonna collect not only 627 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 3: all of her possessions, but they're gonna collect her and 628 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,440 Speaker 3: her sons and take them away, sell them into slavery. 629 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 3: She needs a miracle. Anybody agree like? She needs a miracle, 630 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 3: like a real one. And she finds Elisha, her deceased 631 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:32,800 Speaker 3: husband's former boss, and she goes, you know he loved God, 632 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,600 Speaker 3: and you know he served you. Hook it up. I 633 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,840 Speaker 3: don't know exactly. I think that's in the Hebrew Amen, 634 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 3: I don't know. I think hook it ups in the 635 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 3: Hebrew language. She needed a miracle, and she asks for 636 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 3: a miracle. But look what Elisha says, kill me. 637 00:37:52,160 --> 00:38:00,719 Speaker 1: Tell me what do you have in your house? It 638 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,480 Speaker 1: don't matter. I need a miracle. No, what do you have? 639 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,400 Speaker 1: Who cares? I got to pay off my dinner? 640 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 3: No? 641 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,320 Speaker 1: But like, what do you got in the house, Elisha? 642 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: Nothing at all? 643 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 3: And I think at this moment, in my sanctified imagination, 644 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 3: I see a holy ghost stare down begin to happen 645 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,680 Speaker 3: between Elisha and this woman. And I think he went 646 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:36,960 Speaker 3: nothing nothing, oh, nothing, nothing nothing? Are you sure you 647 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:37,840 Speaker 3: don't have anything? 648 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:38,320 Speaker 4: Nothing? 649 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 1: And I think the longer it went, I think. 650 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,719 Speaker 3: She went, you know what, this joker came like, call 651 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 3: down fire, he can call bears out of nowhere to 652 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:46,840 Speaker 3: eat me. 653 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,880 Speaker 1: I better give him a better answer. 654 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:54,319 Speaker 3: Well, except I got this little flask of olive oil. 655 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:56,360 Speaker 1: You got something. 656 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,719 Speaker 3: Because Elisha knew that what she lost was painful, but 657 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,280 Speaker 3: what she had left was powerful. And what she lost 658 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,640 Speaker 3: was painful, but what she had left was prophetic, and 659 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 3: that God didn't need a lot to take care of 660 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,440 Speaker 3: her need. And God didn't need a lot to do 661 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,879 Speaker 3: the miracle. So he says, what do you got? She goes, 662 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,920 Speaker 3: I got this little that got st jar evolva, And 663 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,520 Speaker 3: Alessia said, that's all you need because you don't need enough. 664 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:31,640 Speaker 3: Listen to me, saints, you don't need enough. You don't 665 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 3: need to be talented enough, skilled enough. You don't need 666 00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,279 Speaker 3: to come from the right family, you don't need to 667 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,640 Speaker 3: have the right education, you don't need to pray enough. 668 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:45,319 Speaker 3: You're always gonna feel like you're not enough. And that's 669 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,919 Speaker 3: awesome because God doesn't want your enough. He wants your 670 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 3: little jar of oil. He wants your c Can I 671 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000 Speaker 3: can we have a little bit of church real quick? 672 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:04,360 Speaker 1: He does? And then need a lot to do a lot. 673 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,680 Speaker 1: And he said, go. 674 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:12,000 Speaker 4: Together vessels and start to pulling your oil and it 675 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:18,400 Speaker 4: you'll start to pour and it still start to sell. God, 676 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 4: will we will apply. You don't need a lot forgot 677 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:24,760 Speaker 4: to do a lot? 678 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,440 Speaker 1: Oh you need it's a seed. 679 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,919 Speaker 3: Oh I'm reminded of the little boy with a couple 680 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,120 Speaker 3: of pieces of fish and a couple of pieces of bread. 681 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 3: Stay standing and make me feel comfortable now like this 682 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 3: just a couple of pieces of bread, couple of pieces 683 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,840 Speaker 3: of fish, and and she says. 684 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 4: Hey, we got twenty thousand people to feed. 685 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,719 Speaker 1: And they did not have enough. 686 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,640 Speaker 3: But the silk boy goes, I got a little fish, 687 00:40:58,160 --> 00:40:59,880 Speaker 3: little fish meal from Long John Silver. 688 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:03,960 Speaker 1: Shout out to. 689 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,000 Speaker 3: Long John Silver's like, how are they open? There's never 690 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:11,399 Speaker 3: anyone in there is that not such a breaking bad 691 00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 3: kind of like. But y'all really sell them back there. 692 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:21,359 Speaker 3: But anyway, anyway, I digress, I digress. I don't watch 693 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,400 Speaker 3: breaking bad, Amen, I only watch the bashion of the 694 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:24,840 Speaker 3: Christ every morning. 695 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,439 Speaker 1: Amen. Praise the Lord, Hello, Lujah, Glory to God. What's 696 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:29,040 Speaker 1: breaking bad? 697 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:42,640 Speaker 3: Listen? It's not enough, but it's all I got. You guys, 698 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,440 Speaker 3: sing this song at your church. You y'all wrote this song. 699 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:53,279 Speaker 3: This says I'm not enough unless you come. Will you 700 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:53,719 Speaker 3: meet me? 701 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,279 Speaker 1: God? Will you meet me in my not enough? Will 702 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,000 Speaker 1: you meet me in my insife? And see? Will you? 703 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,759 Speaker 1: Because because I don't have enough to do this, and 704 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:05,719 Speaker 1: some of your parents. 705 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,440 Speaker 3: Are going, I don't know how to raise my teenagers 706 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,440 Speaker 3: in this generation, and I don't know how to run 707 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,120 Speaker 3: my business in this economy, and I don't know how 708 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:16,399 Speaker 3: to serve God in these times that we're in. And 709 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,280 Speaker 3: God is not asking for your enough because His strength 710 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 3: is not made perfect in your strength. His strength is 711 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,879 Speaker 3: made perfect in your weakness. And God don't want your 712 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,280 Speaker 3: strength because your strength is weakness to God. 713 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,680 Speaker 1: All God wants is for you to say, God, I 714 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,680 Speaker 1: know this ain't enough, But here's what I've got. 715 00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:40,080 Speaker 3: And when the boy gave Jesus the lunch, that lunch 716 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:45,200 Speaker 3: turned into a legacy, that meal turned into a miracle, 717 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:53,919 Speaker 3: that limitation turned into possibility. 718 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,320 Speaker 1: It's not enough, but it's all I God. 719 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,800 Speaker 3: And Jesus took it, and he blessed it, and he 720 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:05,600 Speaker 3: broke it. 721 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,040 Speaker 1: And then he didn't keep it. 722 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:14,320 Speaker 3: He gave it back to him JJ and said multiply. 723 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:23,400 Speaker 3: The multiplication didn't happen in Jesus' hands. The multiplication happens 724 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,480 Speaker 3: in our hands when we take what God has given 725 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:29,839 Speaker 3: us and we do something with it. Come on, use 726 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,759 Speaker 3: that gift, use that talent, use that ability, use that 727 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,080 Speaker 3: call that's on your life, use your destiny. 728 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:36,640 Speaker 1: Do something with it. 729 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,000 Speaker 3: And when you take it and you give it to God, 730 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:40,920 Speaker 3: God gives it back to you. 731 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,160 Speaker 1: Multiply. God gives it back to you. 732 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:43,640 Speaker 3: Bless. 733 00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,120 Speaker 1: God gives it back to you. Broken. God gives it 734 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:53,200 Speaker 1: back to you. He doesn't need your enough. 735 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,680 Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 736 00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,759 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 737 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,480 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 738 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,279 Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and 739 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,160 Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 740 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 741 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,120 Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 742 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,080 Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world. 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