WEBVTT - Multiply (Jabin Chavez) 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.840 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:13.720 New sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.640 I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.200 Good morning everybody. How about that new song? Huh? 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.720 Anybody believe it in your heart? Somebody say God is 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.280 for me. Look at your neighbor on your left or right, 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.280 whoever's better looking, tell him, God is for me. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:37.120 God is for me. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.040 Come on, if you're grateful that God is for you, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:43.040 let's give God. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:48.239 The best, best, best best phrase. Oh come on, I 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:49.720 think you can do a little bit better than that. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:51.040 Let's look up the name. 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:54.880 Thank you Lord. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.360 Just while you're standing on, take a moment to our 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:06.280 pastor today. Man, what a gift that he is to 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.639 all of us, and what a gift Pastor Stephen pastor 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.560 Holly are to us. I was singing about just this year, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.200 it's always so hard to come up here, and I 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.200 feel like I have so much I could say, But 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.160 just in the last year, I was thinking about a song, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:26.360 a sermon, and a conversation that God used Pastor Stephen 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.720 to just deeply impact my life. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.520 Number one, more than abel. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:39.640 Yo. I wish I'd have wrote that song. I just 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.600 I think about that. Can you imagine? And it just 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.720 changed my life, changed my life, just changed my life. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.960 Last month we got together and Pastor Stephen took a 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.040 couple of hours to pour into preachers and I was 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.040 thinking about a talk that he did changed my life. 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.360 And then I'm thirty nine. I turned forty this year 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.720 and I'm a little bit depressed. Let me just keep 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:09.200 it real, psycholled Pastor and I said, I'm freaking out, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:15.160 and he just walked me through it. And He's not 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.359 only that for me, I know he's that for all 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:22.400 of us. And I thank God for Pastor Stephen Ferdick. Pastor, 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.079 we love you, we honor you, we're praying for you. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:31.280 Come on, let's show our appreciation. Amen. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.760 All right, grab a seat because I'm gonna read a 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.120 lot of scripture and I don't want to keep you 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.320 standing all day. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:42.040 Such a privilege. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.960 I do bring greetings from Sin City, Las Vegas and Nevada. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:48.919 But God is doing the work. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.640 Anybody been, anybody been? Anybody come visit? What do y'all 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.840 do there? Like street evangelism? What do you do when 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:00.480 you come? Do you witness. Are you all the people 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:05.280 carrying the signs around the strip? Is that you preaching? Hey, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.200 if you ever do come, please come visit us. We 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.080 kind of have a commitment with all of our friends 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.040 around the country. Number one, if you had a bad 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:20.080 weekend in Vegas, come to church, come to city like church. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.440 We have a commitment. We will pray for you, we 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.680 will cast the devil out of you, we will anoint 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.840 you with oil, and we'll send you home like nothing happened. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:30.200 You'll be like, man, it was great. It was a 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.560 great weekend. I ended with church. Praise God, hallelujah. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:39.120 If you had a good weekend, bring your boy an offering. Amen. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.720 Amen, all right, just amen, All right, We're here for you. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.400 You be there for us. We just celebrated five years 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:54.480 as a church, and to God be the glory. We 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:59.120 have been so deeply impacted by elevation and just literally 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:03.320 sitting right over there at an event years ago. So 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.080 you're the anointed section right over here. If the rapture happens, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:11.880 you go first. Okay, right over there. That really just 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.200 changed my life and we really are where we are today. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.200 We're standing on the shoulders of this house and so 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:25.000 I'm very grateful. Let's go to Matthew, chapter twenty five. 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.280 I am a preacher, which means I yell it, I 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.200 don't tell it. And if y'all get quiet, you're gonna 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:34.000 make me insecure. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:34.440 Okay. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.000 I'm already wearing my mister Rogers card again. Up here, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.520 I'm already feeling a little weird. Davite has my back. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.560 He's got one on too. I love you, okay, but 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.600 so if you if you know, if you say a 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.880 couple of amens, you're not gonna make me uncomfortable. You're 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:52.760 gonna make me feel right at home, okay. Matthew, Chapter 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.760 twenty five, verse fourteen. I also want to just quickly 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:02.279 honor my friend Chunks Orbit, who means the world to me. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.640 I love you, bro, Thank you for thank you for 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:10.400 your friendship. Matthew, twenty five, verse fourteen. The verse starts 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.320 with again, and the reason it says again is because 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.839 Jesus is telling us kingdom stories. He's telling us parables. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.440 He's teaching us about the Kingdom of God. And so 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:27.000 he's been sharing different pictures, different stories, different ideas, different 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:28.839 parables about the Kingdom. And now he's going to share 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.240 another one forgive me. I have a six year old daughter. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.480 He's dropping blues clues about the Kingdom of God. He's 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.320 showing us how the kingdom operates. This is important because 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.400 you are a part of the kingdom. You're a kingdom citizen. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.680 Jesus preached the kingdom, but for most of us, we 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.760 kind of don't know how the kingdom operates. So we 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.560 have entered into this scene called the Kingdom of His 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.200 dear Son. But if you don't understand how the kingdom works, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.719 you're going to be constantly frustrated by the king and 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.280 his kingdom. And so Jesus is teaching us how the 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.360 kingdom operates so that we can experience the Kingdom, which 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.600 is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. So again, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.000 it will be like a man going on a journey 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.080 who called his servants and entrusted his well to them. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.320 Twenty he gave five bags of gold to another, two 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.400 bags to another, one bag each according to his ability. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.120 Then he went on his journey. And that's where he 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.040 is right now. He's on his journey. He's entrusted us 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.920 with gifts, talents, and abilities, and he wants to see 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.280 what we're gonna do with them. Then he went on 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.279 the journey. The man who would receive five bags of 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.120 gold went at once. He put his money to work 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.720 gained five more. Also, the one with two bags gained 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.560 two more. But the one who had received one bag 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.520 went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.960 his master's money. After a long time, the master of 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.880 those servants returned and settled accounts. The man who would 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.360 receive five bags of gold brought the other five. Master, 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.120 you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.280 have gained five more, And his master applied, well done, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:00.559 good and faith full servant. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.760 How many want to hear that one day? Well done? 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.080 I want to hear well done. I don't want to 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:10.640 hear well you're done. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.640 I ain't trying to hear that. I want to hear. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.040 I want to hear well done. I'm gonna put you 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.040 in charge of many things. You were faithful with a 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.680 few things. I'm gonna put you in charge of many things. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.239 Come and share your master's happiness. Now, now, the same 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.320 exact thing would happened to the man with two bags 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.560 of gold. We're gonna skip out of verse twenty four. Now, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.680 the one who had received one bag of gold. He 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.600 came and said, Master, I knew you were a hard man. Now, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.000 time out, time out. You don't see that. When you 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.280 read the text, you do not see Jesus as a 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:45.840 hard man. You see him very kind, very trusting, very empowering. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.800 I mean, he's passing out bags of gold. Come on, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.200 somebody like, he's not a harsh man. He's not a 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.760 hard man. I don't know anybody passing out bags. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.360 Of gold today. I mean, this is incredible. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.600 But see, his view of God was gonna limit his potential. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.080 This is why Tozer said that what you think about 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.360 when you think about God, it's the most important thing 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:13.320 about you, because your theology will dictate your purpose more 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.480 than anything else. So he accuses the Lord, I knew 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.880 you were a harsh man. I knew you were a 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.760 harsh man, a hard man harvesting were e've not sown, 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.960 gathering where you're not scattered seed. So I was afraid, 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.880 and I went and hid your gold in the ground. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.120 See here's what belongs to you. And his master replied, 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.600 you wicked and lady, lazy servant, you knew that a 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.440 harvest where I have not sown, and gathered where I'm 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.000 not scattered seed. Well, then you could have at least 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.720 put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.200 when I returned I could have received it back with interest. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.960 So take the bag of gold from him and give 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.959 it to the one who has ten bags. For whoever 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.880 has will be given more. This is a mentality, It's 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.040 a spirit. It's a stronghold of I have something. It's 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.520 a good stronghold. I have something, and because as I have, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.280 God will give me more. But whoever does not have again, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.439 this is a stronghold. This is an idea. This is 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.360 a mentality. If you don't think you have anything, even 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:16.840 what you do have will be taken from them. I 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:22.040 want to talk from the idea today. Multiply multiply, and 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.000 I believe God wants to say a few things today. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.840 In Jesus' name. Can I get an amen? 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.720 High five? Two more people tell him? Multiply multiply. Thank you, guys, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:39.960 thank you multiply. If I was to ask most believers 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.120 in the room, most believers in America, what was God's 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.920 first commandment to his first man, Adam, most of us 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.360 would think that God's first command to his first man 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:55.000 was do not eat the tree, but that isn't God's 0:09:55.040 --> 0:10:00.040 first command. God's first command actually was not no. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:00.960 It was yes. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.920 And you gotta understand that this is important because this 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.800 is how God begins his conversation and his relationship with mankind. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.040 If God would have began with a no, that would 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.520 have been very harsh. But God actually begins his conversation 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.880 with a yes. Now, imagine for all the parents in 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.800 the house. I have a daughter, she's six years old. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.760 If the nurses would have handed me that baby six 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.679 years ago, and I would have held little Goldie Ray 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.520 Chavis in my hands, and I would have just said, no, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.199 I don't know what you got planned. I don't know 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:33.040 what you're trying to do. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.200 Stop crying. You better get potty trained quick. No. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.959 No, know those nurses are gonna take her as quickly 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:40.960 as they gave her. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:41.280 No. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.520 My first words to my baby were not no. They 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.160 were something like, girl, whatever you want? 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.280 Yes? Can. I tell you. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.760 God's first word to his first man and his words 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.120 to you are the same. They are yes. And here 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.120 were his first words to his first man, and God 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:05.600 blessed them. That's how God started his conversation. God bless them, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:12.040 and he said, be fruitful, multiply, subdue. This is all yours, Adam, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.960 go for it. This was God's first word to his 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.160 first man. And if Adam would have been obeying God's 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:27.200 first command, he would have never been tempted with Satan's lie. 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:28.559 If Adam would have. 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.959 Been subduing and multiplying and working the garden. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.880 When Eve would have said, hey, babe, come over here, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:35.240 I want you. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:40.920 To mean my new friend. His name's Louis. God bless 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.240 you if your name's Louis. But uh, he's this cute 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.680 little snake. He's been talking to me. If Adam would 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.360 have been walking in his purpose, if Adam would have 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.480 been walking in his blessing, and if Adam would have 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:58.480 been walking in God's yes. When Eve introduced Adam to Lucifer, 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:04.319 Adam would have said, can't out of my garden, because see, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.760 we all have a garden. Aiden is simply a picture 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:14.319 of our life. It's something to work, it's something to multiply, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:20.120 it's something to grow, it's something to trust God with. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.959 Eden is your garden of opportunity, your place of possibility, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.360 the place of multiplication. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.839 And just like Adam and Eve had Eden, you. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.640 Have a life that God is giving you opportunity because see, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.720 Eden wasn't supposed to stay in the boundaries of those 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.840 four rivers. Eden was eventually supposed to cover the entire earth. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.120 It was supposed to multiply, It was supposed to grow. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.880 And your life is a garden. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.600 And in your life there is the presence of God 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.200 and the presence of an enemy, the voice of God 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:56.280 and the voice of an accuser, opportunities and temptations, possibilities 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:01.319 and limitations. We all have a garden. Your marriage, friends, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:06.920 is a garden. Your singleness where my single people at 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.560 can I just hear make a little bit of noise, 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:15.320 praise the Lord? Look around, see if anybody your singleness, 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.080 your purity is a garden. Your heart is a garden, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:23.800 Your soul is a garden. Your your business is a garden. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.880 Your future is a garden. It's something that God gives 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.280 you in a raw state that you can grow, that 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.280 you can multiply, that you can enlarge, that you can 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.079 fight for, that you can kick devils out of, that 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.040 you can invite God into. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.200 We all have a garden. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:46.920 It's not fully developed, but there is opportunity all around us. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:53.079 God provided the garden the conditions for people to grow, something, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:59.400 to work, something to till, something to harvest, something to multiply. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.880 So here's a few things I want you to understand 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.520 about the text that we just read from Matthew twenty five, 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.360 and the first is this, God is a giver. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.079 Can I get an? Okay? Amen? At the nine thirty 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:13.960 all right, all right, God's a giver. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.160 If you want to know how God treats you and 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.200 what God does in your life, we got to go 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.520 back to the most famous passage of scripture in the Bible, 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.920 John three point sixteen. For God so loved the world 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.360 that he gave. This is how God's going to do 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.200 everything in your life. He loves you and he gives you. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:32.400 He loves you and he gives you. He loves you 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:33.800 and he gives you. He loves you and he gives you. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.280 He loves you and he gives to you. This is 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.440 what God does. And a lot of you are going, Yeah, 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.920 I think God loves me. I think I'm cool with that. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.000 I've heard that scripture my whole life. Yeah, God loves me. 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:42.720 He has to. He is love. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:47.600 So, yeah, he loves me. But God's never given me nothing. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.360 God's blessed everyone around me. But God's never blessed me. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.240 God's never given me anything. And if that's what you think, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:05.040 that's what you'll receive. I'm just warming up. I know 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:05.560 where I'm at. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:06.560 I'm not lost. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:12.760 Because God's a God's a giver. God he gives to us. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.960 But here's the issue. I've discovered the issue now in 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.800 twenty years of preaching and walking with Jesus for twenty 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.320 five years. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.200 Here's the issue. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.240 The issue is that the way that God gives anything 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:29.120 to us is not usually in the form that we 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:36.080 expect it. All right, we're talking about the kingdom, right, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:40.920 We're talking about the Kingdom. Mark chapter four, verse twenty six. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:46.480 God's Kingdom, Jesus said, God's Kingdom is like, oh, it's 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:51.400 like seed, Look how small that little thing is. 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:58.400 It's so unimpressive. That's the Kingdom. See. We think of 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.440 the Kingdom as huge, huge. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.720 Massive, amazing, Oh my gosh. We think of the Kingdom 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:10.160 as Air Force one flying into town with black SUVs 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.640 and red carpets and dignitaries. And we think of the 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.600 Kingdom as Buckingham Palace. We think of the kingdom as big. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:20.840 But the Kingdom never starts big. The Kingdom starts like seed. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.920 We were in the back. I have my musical director 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.640 with me, l Eel. We were in the back and 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.400 there's a picture of Day one elevation and pastors on 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:35.840 the guitar leading worship with a shaved head, and I 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.880 looked at him. I said, that's how it started anyway. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:41.280 I didn't know that. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because we see this and we 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:50.320 call this the kingdom. But Day one was just as 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.960 much of a manifestation of the Kingdom as Day sixteen, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:00.680 Year sixteen. But this looks a lot better. Church planters 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:01.720 like becoming and we're. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:07.119 Like, well, what the these? But it don't start like 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.240 it starts like that. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:15.320 So when we pray, we pray for this, but when 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:27.240 God answers, he answers with this. Sorry, and most of 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:28.240 us miss. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.720 Out on what God is doing in. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.760 Our life because He is answering in a form we 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.080 do not recognize. To stretch our faith, because if God 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.600 answered every prayer the way you prayed it, there would 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:47.480 be no faith required to receive it. Can I preach 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.439 a little bit right now and a lot of you 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.760 do you already have the ideal manifestation of the answer 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.040 to your prayer. And I'm just saying it's actually not 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:57.720 gonna start. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.440 Like this, go start like this. Let me prove it 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:00.639 to you. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.080 The children of Israel, they're out in the wilderness and 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.800 they're getting frustrated, and they come to Moses and they go, Moses, 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.600 we are sick and tired of this desert diet, this 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:21.919 stephen verdict keto, low carb, high protein. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:27.439 We're sick of it. We want bread, and we want it. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.840 No. Can I get an amen for bread in the 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:33.080 House of the Lord today? 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:38.280 Can I just get an amen? Thank you Jesus for bread. Amen. 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:39.879 This is body by bread. Amen. 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:45.520 It's a new workout routine, Body by bread. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:49.000 Amen. This is why I'm good for your past or. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.520 He eats the carbs, I mean, he eats the protein, 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.119 and I eat the carbs off of his plate. 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:53.480 Amen. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.679 And we're just a good team like that. And so 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.720 so they're sicking. They're sick and tired of the they're 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.880 sick and tired of the of the protein. And they say, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.320 we want bread, we want bread now. And Moses said, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.600 y'all don't want bread. Breast bad for you. It's gonna 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.320 give you a wheat belly. You don't want bread. You 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.280 don't want all that gluten. The we want bread now. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:12.080 So Moses says, I'm gonna go talk to God. So 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:13.439 he goes up to God. He says, hey, God, they 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.080 want bread. I know, I know it's not good for him, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:17.520 but they want bread. God said, man, it's really not 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.480 good for him, but all right, you tell them bread 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:25.120 in the morning. And the people rejoice just like we do. Right, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.160 go to cheesecake factory. We're sitting there angry. We waited 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.040 two hours for a table, and we finally get that. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.639 We finally get to that table, and sweet Sally brings 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.280 that brown bread and that white bread to the table 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.760 and we all go, Praise God forgive me for everything 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:45.919 I said before I got my bread. Now I'm a 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:51.560 Christian again. Praise God. It's come to elevation, Sally. And 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.760 so they rejoice. They're like, we're getting bread in the morning. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.040 Turn up. Well the next morning they wake up. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:02.080 Huh they they wake up and and and here's what 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.960 the scripture said. And the Israelites called the food. See, 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:10.960 I ain't call it bread. They went mana because it 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:17.600 because it was white, like y'all see that, because because 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:22.320 we pray for bread, Moses and and God gave us seat. 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.400 Well, say what mana? 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.080 Yep, Moses, we pray for bread, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:36.960 you pray for bread, mana, Moses, we were clear, right, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:42.960 warm fresh bread? Yeah yeah yeah mana. Mana is not 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.680 an English word. Manna is a Hebrew phrase. And it's 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:54.080 a question. Manna means what is it? I don't know 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:55.920 if you're laughing because you think I'm kidding, but I 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:00.560 ain't kidding. What is we pray for bread? What is it? 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.920 We've been believing God? What is it? Lord? Didn't I 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.919 make my prayers clear? Mana? 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.120 Lord didn't I tell you what I was believing God 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.080 for in twenty twenty three? 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:19.600 What is it? It's seed? 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:29.119 Because God don't make bread. God gives seed. And then 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:31.480 they were to take that seed, bring it into their home, 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.159 meal it, work it, turn it into a flower, bake it, 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.479 and then eat it. Because God says I don't give 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:37.879 fully formed answers. 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:42.720 I answer in seed form to activate your faith to 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.000 do something with it. And a lot of y'all right. 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:50.520 Now are staring at the answer to your prayer, going manna. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.760 And some of y'all married the man of your dreams and. 0:21:57.760 --> 0:21:59.840 Ladies, some of y'all looked at him last night while 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:01.480 he a snore at three am. 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:08.439 And you win DA and some of you got your 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:10.760 dream job in Charlotte, and you're going, what is it? 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:14.520 Some of you thought you had life. I'll figure it out. 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:16.880 Now you're going, mana, Can I just tell you you're 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:20.399 in a man of moment. You're actually right in the 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.240 perfect will of God. You're actually right where you're supposed 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.040 to be. It's just not fully formed yet because God 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.040 has given it to you in seed form. But now 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:30.840 you're gonna have to work that seed. You're don't have 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:33.199 to do something with that seed because Jesus said I 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:34.960 don't make bread, I give seed. 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:37.360 And now Jesus would come out in John. 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:41.200 Chapter six and say, I am the Mana that came 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:41.960 down from heaven. 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:44.040 And in the same way that Israel. 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:48.159 Did not recognize the bread and Israel did not recognize Jesus, 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:52.240 most believers in twenty twenty twenty three do not recognize 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.919 their own answer to their own prayer because God is 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.679 actually trying to stir up your faith. He's trying to 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.879 build your faith. He's trying to stretch your faith. And 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:03.840 I know you don't like this. But this is how 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:07.400 the Kingdom operates, and if you're not careful, you will 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:11.040 miss out on answers because you're looking for fully formed 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:15.200 manifestation and God's going I'm a I'm a seed giver. 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:23.920 I planted a church five years ago in a junior 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:28.119 high school cafeteria that smelled like fried chicken from nineteen 0:23:28.160 --> 0:23:34.119