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 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: Be sure to. 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: I hope you're blessed today. 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 3: Remains standing, remain standing. Once you've hugged enough, put those 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 3: hands together, and welcome our EPAM all over the world. Hey, hey, everybody, 8 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 3: we're about to be We're about to be out on 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 3: the road this week. Elevation Knights Miami, Florida, Tampa, Florida, Knoxville, Tennessee, 10 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 3: Atlanta Area, Birmingham. Then we're going to Texas. I'm gonna 11 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 3: get Tim Riggins, and then we're going over to Love 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:59,639 Speaker 3: It and Dallas and Houston. Elevation Nights dot com. There 13 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 3: are some tickets and some locations. Don't buy it from 14 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 3: a scalper. Don't support that nonsense. But we really want 15 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 3: to see you there. We're expecting God to do great, 16 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 3: amazing things. Clap your hands if you're expecting it right now. 17 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: God is good. God is good. 18 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 3: God is so good, so faithful. 19 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: Well today, this message that. 20 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 3: I have to share with you is one that everybody 21 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 3: in the room needs. So sometimes I'll say this message 22 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 3: is for somebody. I don't know who this is for, 23 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 3: but today I know it's for all y'all. So look 24 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 3: at somebody and say you too, not the band. 25 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: It's going to be good. 26 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 3: I'm going to read from Matthew, chapter fifteen, verse twenty 27 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 3: nine through thirty eight, a familiar story with a twist, 28 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 3: and not for the sake of being clever, but for 29 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 3: the sake of something that I believe God wants to 30 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 3: speak to you today in a fresh way, Matthew, chapter fifteen, 31 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 3: verse twenty nine. And while you're turning there in your Bible, 32 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 3: I let us know online where you're joining us from. 33 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 3: We'd love to know your name and where you're joining 34 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 3: us from as well, right there in the comments, Matthew, 35 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 3: chapter fifteen, verse twenty nine. Jesus left there and went 36 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 3: along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on 37 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 3: a mountain side and sat down. Great crowds came to him, 38 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 3: bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, many others, 39 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 3: and laid them at his feet, and he healed them. 40 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 3: The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking. 41 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 3: The crippled made well, the lame walking, and the blind 42 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 3: see and they praised the God of Israel. Jesus called 43 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 3: his disciples to him and said, I have compassion. 44 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: For these people. 45 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 3: They have already been with me three days and have 46 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 3: nothing to eat. I do not want to send them 47 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 3: away hungry, or they may collapse on the way. His 48 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 3: disciples answered, where could we get enough bread in this 49 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 3: remote place to feed such a crowd. How many loaves 50 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 3: do you have, Jesus asked, seven, they replied, and a 51 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:32,119 Speaker 3: few small fish. He told the crowd to sit down 52 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 3: on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and fish, 53 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 3: and when he had given thanks, he broke them and 54 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 3: gave them to the disciples, and they in turned to 55 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 3: the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward, the 56 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 3: disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were 57 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 3: left over. Okay, verse thirty eight, let's read this one too. 58 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 3: The number of those who ate was four thousand men, 59 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 3: besides women and children. And I'm calling this message today 60 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:14,839 Speaker 3: navigating not enough. We've all been there, we will all 61 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 3: be there at some point. So I can't think of 62 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 3: a more important class to teach today than navigating not enough. 63 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 3: And let's just pray one more time for the Holy 64 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 3: spirit to guide us into truth. 65 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 1: Lord, you said that. 66 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 3: You would do that, that you would lead us and 67 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,799 Speaker 3: guide us and remind us of the things that matter, 68 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 3: and teach us the things that we need to know. 69 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 3: Do that just now, for these people, for everybody who 70 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 3: will hear this message, is navigating something that. 71 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: Is not enough. But you are more than enough. 72 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 3: So bring us to that place in space and presence 73 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 3: of mind to see you as you are. We give 74 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 3: you praise in Jesus' name. Man, you may be seated. 75 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 3: I made a list in my phone. I read it 76 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 3: to you. Time, money, sleep, energy, friends, confidence, opportunity, authority, freedom, flexibility, discipline, experience, joy, peace, wisdom. 77 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 3: And I stopped there with fifteen because Matthew, fifteen, I 78 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 3: thought would be cool to do fifteen fifteen things that 79 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 3: I just said that someone in this room feels like 80 00:05:53,360 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 3: they don't have enough of right now. Time, money, sleep, energy, friends, confidence, opportunity, authority, freedom, flexibility, discipline, experience, joy, peace, wisdom. 81 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 3: Everyone will have to navigate an area of not enough 82 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 3: in your life in a way that comforts me to 83 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: know that for all the things that I don't feel 84 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 3: like I have enough of, there's some things you don't 85 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 3: have enough of with your needy self. Either kind of 86 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 3: evens the playing field. So don't be intimidated. Don't be intimidated. 87 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: Not in here any way. 88 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 3: The ground is level at the foot of the cross. 89 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 3: We're all here because we need Jesus, and Jesus is complete. 90 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ is complete, fully, god fully man. At the 91 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 3: sound of that truth echoes back another truth that in 92 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 3: him I am complete, He is enough. 93 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: I am enough. 94 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 3: And yet there's no shortage of needs in this room. 95 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 3: And everyone will have to pass through in different moments 96 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 3: of your life, different facets of this same. 97 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: Neighborhood called not enough. 98 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 3: And we have to talk about how to navigate that, 99 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 3: because I have found that not only is the not 100 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 3: enough thing a battle that never goes away, but it 101 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 3: is a battle that never fully gets in balance. And 102 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,120 Speaker 3: what I mean by that is when I read that 103 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 3: list of things, there have been seasons in my life 104 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 3: where I worked my way into enough of one of them, 105 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 3: only to find another one screaming, Hey, now that you 106 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 3: got enough money, you don't have any time. 107 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: Yeah. 108 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: I thought about this in the area of discipline. I 109 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 3: tried to be a disciplined person in my life. I need 110 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 3: that to stay on track. And yet I noticed the 111 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 3: times in my life where my discipline is really keyed in. 112 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 3: Sometimes I get so rigid that I lose my empathy. 113 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 3: And I'm doing really good with my disciplines, but I'm 114 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 3: mad at everybody else that they aren't as disciplined as me. 115 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 3: Now I'm judging, So it's good. You know. I've got 116 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 3: my macros and my workouts and my Bible time. But 117 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 3: creates a whole other not enough over on this side, 118 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 3: and I don't really want to stay in this too long. 119 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 3: Just wanted to set up the idea of not enough. 120 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 3: And I realized when I made the title navigating not enough, 121 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 3: and God kind of led me to call this message 122 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 3: that that in that title navigating not enough, I am 123 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 3: the best one to teach this class because the two 124 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 3: biggest fears in my life are both in that title, 125 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 3: not enough and navigating. 126 00:08:58,840 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: I told you two weeks. 127 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 3: Ago that I have no sense of direction, and I 128 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 3: still don't. There's been no supernatural miracle since then. And 129 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 3: the idea of this passage here, I looked at one 130 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 3: verse and I want to show it to you again 131 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 3: that the disciples said again a pretty familiar scripture that 132 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 3: I'm sharing with you today. But what they said to 133 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 3: Jesus when he said I want to feed all these 134 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 3: people I can get with because in verse thirty three, 135 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 3: they answered, where could we get enough bread in this 136 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 3: remote place to feed such a crowd? And we're going 137 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 3: to stay with that question for a moment because it's 138 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 3: very important. Where could we get enough bread in this 139 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 3: remote place to feed such a crowd? And here are 140 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:49,200 Speaker 3: my two primary fears in life, all in one Bible verse. 141 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 3: And the first one is the fear of running out, 142 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 3: which runs deep for me. I don't know if there's 143 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 3: any scarcity mentality in your life, or some kind of 144 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 3: like efficit oriented way of thinking where you wake up 145 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 3: each day at zero. I don't know if you ever 146 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 3: do a little fire drills to try to figure out 147 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 3: how you could sell everything and live in, living in underground, 148 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 3: live in a tent somewhere if it came to that. 149 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,839 Speaker 3: But the fear of running out, I can't tell you how. 150 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 3: I can't explain. I cannot explain to you how important 151 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,719 Speaker 3: it is that my phone is completely charged. Ninety three 152 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 3: percent is not one hundred percent. I cannot run out 153 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 3: of battery. What would I do. If the phone died, 154 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 3: I would die. It's a fear that runs from everything 155 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 3: from iPhones to sermon material. 156 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: A lot of times when I. 157 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 3: Preached too long is because I was scared I'd get 158 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 3: up here and have nothing to say. So then I 159 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 3: went and messed around study too long and kept you 160 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 3: three hours. 161 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: But my heart's in the right place. 162 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 3: I don't want you to show up hungry and collapse 163 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 3: when you leave because I was watching the game instead. 164 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 1: So I really really really relate to. 165 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 3: This thing of where could we get enough, the fear 166 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 3: of running out, and then what makes it even. 167 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: Worse put the scripture back up? 168 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 3: Where could we get enough bread in this remote place? 169 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: Did you notice that? 170 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 3: So now, not only do I not have enough, that's 171 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 3: my first fear in life, but I don't know where 172 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 3: I am, and I need to know where I am. 173 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 3: And if I don't know where I am, I need 174 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 3: to be with somebody who knows where they are. And 175 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 3: that's where you're like, But the disciples had Jesus, so 176 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 3: it really didn't matter, because if you've got Jesus, you've 177 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 3: always got enough. And isn't it interesting how confidently you 178 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 3: say that about them? 179 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: Back then? 180 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 3: But if we followed you back into your neighborhood of 181 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 3: not enough. And you know, when you get a little older, 182 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 3: you don't even really know if you can depend on 183 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 3: your body in the same way that you could. And 184 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 3: I know I'm not old or anything like that, still vital, 185 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 3: but yo, I pulled a muscle when I woke I 186 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 3: thought I pulled a muscle when I woke up this morning, 187 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 3: and I was like, oh no. For about five minutes, 188 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 3: I was like, who's going to preach? And the worst 189 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 3: part was I pulled it yawning, not lifting weights. I 190 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 3: wasn't doing yoga or anything. I just yawned in something 191 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 3: pop just to remind me, just to remind me. 192 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: You know two extremes that we get into. 193 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 3: I think when we look at what we don't have 194 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 3: and what we need, there is an extreme that we 195 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 3: go into, which is denial. You know, no, I'm good, 196 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good until you completely crash. And then 197 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 3: the other one is despair, where you are so aware 198 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 3: of what you don't have that you don't realize what 199 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 3: you do have. And so, yes, the disciples have Jesus, 200 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,359 Speaker 3: and yes he has all knowledge, and yes he is omniscient. 201 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 3: And he was, and is and will be all of 202 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 3: those things for you. But it does not change the 203 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 3: fact that they are in a remote place with limited resource. 204 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 3: Now that's who I want to speak to today. You 205 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 3: are in a remote place with a limited resource. Either 206 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: of those is scary, just to be somewhere that is remote. 207 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 3: I'm not talking about just physically. You know that. I'm 208 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 3: talking about emotional states that you've never experienced. I mentioned 209 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 3: stages of life that you've never experienced. It could even be, 210 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 3: you know, beyond just the psychological. It could be just 211 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 3: beyond the chronological. It could be that you are dealing 212 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 3: with a series, a combination, or a sequence of things 213 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 3: that you've never experienced. 214 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: Quite like this. 215 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 3: Everybody say remote place, now say limited resource. So I 216 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 3: don't have enough, and I don't know where I am, 217 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 3: and I don't know enough to get where I need 218 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 3: to go to get what I need. And I don't 219 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 3: know where I am and I don't have what I need. 220 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 3: And those are my two biggest nightmares in life. So 221 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 3: I decided to preach about it. Navigating not enough. If 222 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 3: you were under the age of twenty, you will never 223 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 3: know the terror of navigating by map, not an app 224 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 3: called maps, not an interactive satellite guided device like. 225 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: A map map. 226 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 3: I went in the gas station yesterday and I was 227 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 3: gonna buy one to bring out here and unfold it 228 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 3: and like an icebreaker for the crowd and say, y'all, 229 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 3: remember these, everybody who pulls a muscle when you yawn, 230 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 3: y'all remember these. And I was gonna they didn't even 231 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 3: have a map at the gas station. What is the 232 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 3: world come to? I can't get a map at the 233 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 3: gas station. 234 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: Elijah asked me before he went to college. 235 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 3: He said, how did you used to do it? How 236 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 3: did you get anywhere? I said, son, it was traumatic. 237 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 3: Your mom is great at directions, but she was better 238 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 3: than me. When we first moved to Charlotte, there was 239 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 3: the biggest city I'd. 240 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: Ever lived in. 241 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 3: And I would go have appointments with people all through 242 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 3: the highways and the byways and the mean streets of Weddington, Waxaw, 243 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 3: Mint Hill, And I kid you not, there was not 244 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 3: a single. 245 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: Meeting that I took that I would not end up 246 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: on the phone with Holly. 247 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 3: And she would be at the house and I'd be 248 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 3: on the road and she would be guiding me. The 249 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 3: Holly spirit would be guiding me, and I don't know. 250 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 3: We just celebrated twenty one years of marriage. I don't 251 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 3: know if we would have made it. Don't clap too quick. 252 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 3: I don't know if we'd have made it at five, if 253 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,840 Speaker 3: we would have kept having to go that way, because 254 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 3: you know, the thing about us communicating in this way 255 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 3: is she had never lived here either, so it all 256 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 3: sounds good while she's telling me what to do from 257 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 3: the house with the map from two years ago. It 258 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 3: changed everything. You know, people say I would have loved 259 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 3: to have been a disciple and followed Jesus. I wouldn't 260 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 3: back then. You wouldn't either. You know, you might have. 261 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 3: You might eventually have loved it, but not in a moment. 262 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 3: Because I want you to think about this. They're in 263 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 3: a remote place, they're they're healing people. Who knows how 264 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 3: long he's gonna keep doing this. It's been three days, 265 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 3: and he doesn't seem tired yet because he's fully God. 266 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 3: And now he pulls them to the side. And this 267 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 3: is verse twenty two, because it's all really well and 268 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 3: good as long as he's doing the work. But then 269 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 3: he called the disciples to him and said, I have 270 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 3: compassion for these people, they've already been with me. Now, 271 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 3: that phrase been with me in the original language of 272 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 3: the Bible doesn't just mean they hung out. It means 273 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 3: that they've been cleaving to me. They've been staying with me. 274 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 3: They've been hanging with me. They've been pulling on me, 275 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 3: they've been pressing towards me, they've been receiving from me. 276 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 3: So touch somebody real quick and say stay with him. 277 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: Stay with him. 278 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 3: If you feel crippled in an area of your life, 279 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 3: if you feel lame in an area of your life, 280 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 3: if you feel blind in an area of your life, 281 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 3: if you feel like you're mute in an area of 282 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 3: your life, I got some good guidance for you. Stay 283 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 3: with Jesus. Good things happen when you stay with him. 284 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 3: Good things happen when you stay with him. And I 285 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 3: don't think it's a coincidence that they stayed three days. 286 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 3: Read something in the Bible about three days. I'll just 287 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 3: think about that. It's really it's really wonderful to think about, 288 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 3: how you know this thing we say, where God guides, 289 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 3: he provides. Have you heard that one where God guides 290 00:17:58,080 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 3: he provides? 291 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 1: I fully attest to that. I fully believe in that. 292 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 3: My life is a trophy of the grace of God, 293 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 3: that everywhere He has led me, he has provided for me. 294 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: Where God guides, he provides. 295 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 3: But the thing that that leaves out if you just 296 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 3: put it on a bumper sticker, that where God guides, 297 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 3: he provides, is that a lot of times we are 298 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 3: guessing about where he's guiding us. I know you don't 299 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 3: want to admit it, especially the men, because you don't 300 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 3: want to admit you're lost. You rather drive in circles 301 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 3: seven years. 302 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 1: I'm not like that. I would call Holly. I would 303 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: call her in a heartbeat. I didn't. 304 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 3: I had a girl who could read a map, and 305 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 3: I was determined to tap into her full resources. There's 306 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 3: no male ego on me. I don't want to be lost. 307 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 3: I'm too scared for that. And you know, if you 308 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 3: get lost enough in your life, you will humble yourself 309 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 3: to the point where you say, well, I don't normally 310 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 3: like to ask for help. I don't like to admit 311 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 3: I've never done this before. I don't like to say 312 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 3: I was wrong. I don't like to ask somebody that 313 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,399 Speaker 3: I need them to show me in this area of 314 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 3: my life. Sometimes we just aren't hungry enough yet, lost 315 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 3: enough yet. But there's somebody in this room and you 316 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 3: are and you are navigating and not enough in your 317 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 3: life in this season that has brought you to the precipice. 318 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 3: Or although you have pressed in to Jesus, you are 319 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 3: in danger of collapsing on the way. That's what Jesus said. 320 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 3: I don't want you to collapse along the way, and I've. 321 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 1: Got good news for you. The Bible says that Jesus 322 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: has compassion. If God gave you a new car, would 323 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: you praise him for it? 324 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 3: Paid off nice one, fast one, sexy one? 325 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, would you praise them for a new car? 326 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 3: If God paid off your house, would you praise them 327 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 3: for it? If God said, I'm giving you my compassion, 328 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 3: There'd be nothing greater you could praise him for than 329 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 3: the compassion of a Christ who is fully god Fully 330 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 3: God enough to meet all of your needs, Fully God. 331 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: Enough to stop a storm, fully. 332 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 3: God enough to heal somebody who couldn't walk, and they 333 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 3: go dancing out, Fully God enough that the one who 334 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 3: couldn't speak left shouting, Fully God enough to do all 335 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 3: of that, and fully man enough that, after all is 336 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 3: said and done, pull his disciples to the side and 337 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 3: say I have compassion for what they lack. I don't 338 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 3: know if there's anybody in here who's in religious rehab. 339 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 3: You grew up with a God who was waiting to 340 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 3: crush you underneath the weight of what you were not yet. 341 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: But we meet at Jesus in Matthew fifteen. 342 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 3: Come on, get glad about it. Who has compassion for 343 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 3: what you lack? So the Lord is my shepherd. I 344 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,440 Speaker 3: shall not want. That does not mean I will never lack, 345 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 3: but it means that in every area where I lack, 346 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 3: the Lord is faithful and loyal to me, that he 347 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 3: will never leave me in my lack and turn a 348 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 3: deaf ear to me when I call him. Let's praise God. 349 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 3: Not for a car, not for a house. That's fine, 350 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 3: I got a car, I got a house. 351 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 1: But he has compassion. 352 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 3: That he looks on my weakness with compassion, that he 353 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 3: looks on my lack with compassion. I don't know. I 354 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 3: just noticed that this week. I noticed that Jesus said, 355 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 3: I have compassion for these people Verse thirty two. And 356 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 3: the disciples answered the request that Jesus made about feeding 357 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 3: them with logic and calculation. You know, like men often do, 358 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 3: like men kind often does. Where can we get enough bread? 359 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 3: There's no door dash on my phone. We don't have 360 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 3: an app. You know, some people would say that Jesus 361 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 3: is better than a GPS, but I don't think he is, 362 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,719 Speaker 3: because when you use a GPS. 363 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: You get to select the destination. 364 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 3: But when you follow Christ, he will get you where 365 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 3: you need to go. He'll get you there, turn by turn, 366 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 3: step by step. He'll do better than reroute you. He 367 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 3: will pick your big behind up and carry your dead weight, 368 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 3: if that's what it takes. But one thing about this savior. 369 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 3: Imagine a GPS that you didn't get to tell it 370 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 3: where you want to end up. That's Jesus. Peter's got 371 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 3: this boat right. They're going all around ministering to people, 372 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 3: and Peter's the one that's driving, okay, But the one 373 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 3: who is driving the boat doesn't get to decide where 374 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 3: it docks. I don't think you heard what I just said, 375 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 3: because I'm describing what a life of following Christ feels like. 376 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm driving this boat, I'm living this life. I'm 377 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 3: making decisions. I'm the one having to make these moves. 378 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 3: I'm the one having to show up for these things. 379 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 3: But ultimately I don't get to decide where this boat docs. 380 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 1: Jesus does. God does neg that brings you. 381 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 3: Great comfort, or if you're control freak, it really starts 382 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 3: to mess with you, especially when you end up in 383 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 3: a remote place. And Jesus starts healing people and he 384 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 3: shows no signs of stopping, and he wants the people 385 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 3: to be fed, and he pulls the disciples to the 386 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:30,199 Speaker 3: side and says, I have compassion for these people. And 387 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 3: the disciples answered verse thirty three, where could we get 388 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 3: enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd? 389 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 3: Now I need to slow this down and we can 390 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 3: study it. Go to verse thirty two again, Jesus said 391 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:50,679 Speaker 3: I have compassion for these What did he say? I 392 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 3: have compassion for these people? What did Jesus call them? 393 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 3: Look at the disciples in verse thirty three. Where are 394 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 3: we going to get enough bread in this remote place 395 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 3: to feed such a It's all about how you see it. 396 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: The disciples see crowds. Jesus sees people. 397 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,479 Speaker 3: How many times I've been getting ready to preach, and 398 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 3: it's like, I've done everything that you're supposed to do 399 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 3: that they taught me how to do. In that overpriced 400 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,640 Speaker 3: education that they gave me out there in Lousville, Kentucky. 401 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 3: And I got a scripture, and I got four commentaries 402 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 3: that I read, and I got a research brief that 403 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 3: I hired somebody who's better at Greek than me to do, 404 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 3: because hey, i have some deficiencies myself, and I've got 405 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 3: some stories that might be funny, and I've got some 406 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 3: one liners that might be repeatable, tweetable, exible. It's the 407 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 3: most called now and then I realize that I have 408 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:12,679 Speaker 3: everything that I need except to remember the needs of 409 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 3: the people that I'm preaching to. Now follow me. The 410 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 3: disciples are worried about bread. Why because Jesus has something 411 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 3: they don't have. 412 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: And it might surprise you what Jesus has that they don't. 413 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: He doesn't have. 414 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 3: Any bread either. They have seven loaves, he has zero. 415 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 3: So they actually have more of the physical product, if 416 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 3: I could put it that way, than he does. But 417 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 3: he says something. He says Verse thirty two. I have compassion, 418 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 3: And sometimes when we think we're lacking provision, what we're 419 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 3: really lacking is priorities. 420 00:26:58,600 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: Follow me. 421 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 3: Sometimes I don't see the situation. 422 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: Correctly, so I call it not enough but if I. 423 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 3: Would see it like Jesus sees it, it would instantly 424 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 3: become more than enough for what He has called me 425 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 3: to do. When I lose my perspective on God's priorities, 426 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 3: I will always be running low on provision because it 427 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 3: will never be enough. 428 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: And this is why I would really encourage you to. 429 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 3: Put a limit on how much you compare yourself to 430 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 3: other people. Some of the not enough that you feel 431 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 3: is not because of an actual amount that you have 432 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 3: or don't have. It is because of the act of 433 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 3: comparing that you involve yourself in that would say, because 434 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,479 Speaker 3: they have this, and because I have that, and because 435 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 3: they do that and because I do this. Do you 436 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 3: see how you have replaced the compassion of Christ with 437 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 3: the comparison of man. And when you replace compassion with comparison, 438 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 3: when you step outside of your calling, whatever that may be, 439 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 3: when you step outside of what God has given you 440 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 3: in a sign you to do in your life, you 441 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 3: begin to see things as crowds, not people. You begin 442 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 3: to see life as a race to be run rather 443 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 3: than a journey to be enjoyed with Jesus. And sometimes 444 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,879 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you this, Sometimes I've been praying to 445 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,120 Speaker 3: God about not enough bread when what I really didn't 446 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 3: have enough of with sight to see what he sees, 447 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:41,479 Speaker 3: how he sees it? Is this good to you. It's 448 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 3: strengthen me because I realized that sometimes it's not the 449 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 3: bread that I don't have, it's not the time that 450 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 3: I don't have. It's the way I'm spending the time 451 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 3: chasing the thing that God never called me to go after. Anyway, 452 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 3: my time is a limited resource, my money is a 453 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 3: limited resource. But if I never learned to put God 454 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 3: first in any of those areas, how can I come 455 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 3: to Him about a need that he tried to meet 456 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 3: through a priority that I refused to set. Now I'm 457 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 3: here to encourage you. I'm here to encourage you that 458 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 3: sometimes not enough is a fact. 459 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: It is. 460 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 3: I met a lady last weekend. She came up to 461 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 3: me in tears. She said, I listen to your sermons. 462 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 3: I love God, but I need a job, and we 463 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 3: prayed on the spot. I didn't tell her, well, I'll 464 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 3: go home and pray about whether God wants you to 465 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 3: have a job. You need a job, you have a God. 466 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 3: I pray that God would give you the greatest job. 467 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 3: I pray that he would open a door for you 468 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 3: right now before you get home today. I don't know 469 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 3: if he will, but I prayed for that. 470 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: She said. 471 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 3: I love how She said that, I love God, but 472 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 3: I need a job. You do need God and a 473 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 3: job for all of y'all. All I need is God 474 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 3: thinks and a job. 475 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: And a job. How many can testify at. 476 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 3: The light company, the power company. They don't really respect 477 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 3: that holy ghost currency, do they? And she said, I 478 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 3: love God, but I need a job. 479 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: Sometimes. It's a fact when I said sleep. If you 480 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: have a child under the age. 481 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 3: Of seventy three seventy four, it's going to be some 482 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 3: sleepless nights, right. But what you don't want to do 483 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 3: is let one need feed another need feed another need, 484 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 3: until you let a situation that is not enough turn 485 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 3: into an identity that you are not enough, and eventually 486 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 3: start to believe that God is not enough and you 487 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 3: die in a desert or a wilderness of want. You 488 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 3: don't have enough money, But if you don't trust God 489 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 3: with that and move forward in that, then you definitely 490 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 3: won't get enough sleep. And if you don't get enough sleep, 491 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 3: you won't have enough energy. And if you don't have 492 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 3: enough energy, you will not have enough opportunities. And if 493 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 3: they come, you'll kill them. You'll yawn at them and 494 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 3: pull a muscle. I'm gonna call back as many times. 495 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 3: I'm gonna use what the devil meant for evil this morning, 496 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 3: and I'm appreciate it. 497 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: I've been afflicted, y'all. I don't have any friends. 498 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 4: Well, if you let that become, if you let it 499 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 4: define you, and you begin to navigate according to what 500 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 4: you don't have, Jesus said something interesting. 501 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: He said, I have compassion. 502 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 3: And when you tap into that, when you tap into 503 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 3: the compassion that Christ has for you and the compassion 504 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 3: that He has for others, bread is no problem to God. 505 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 3: And I was just thinking how different this passage would 506 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 3: have been. You know, they fed four thousand people. Verse 507 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:36,719 Speaker 3: thirty eight says, and they started with seven loaves. And 508 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 3: I think it's amazing that Jesus saw people and they 509 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 3: saw a crowd. And it made me start to wonder 510 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 3: when it said that they fed four thousand people, why 511 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,480 Speaker 3: did we always say that it was the feeding of 512 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 3: the five thousand? How many y'all heard the story that 513 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 3: Jesus fed five thousand? Why don't we always call it 514 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,120 Speaker 3: that like, why don't we count the women and the 515 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 3: children too? Well, they didn't at this time. That's how 516 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,840 Speaker 3: they did it at that time. And why do we 517 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 3: call it five thousand where it says four thousand here? 518 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: How many of you were wondering that when I read it, 519 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: you're like four thousand? 520 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 3: I thought it was five? 521 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: What happened to the other thousand? You're not gonna believe 522 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: this when I tell you. 523 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 3: This is the second time Jesus did this, So now 524 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:28,440 Speaker 3: you're really judging the disciples, because in Matthew fourteen there 525 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 3: were five thousand people and five loaves of bread, and 526 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 3: Jesus fed all of them, and there were twelve baskets 527 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 3: left over. 528 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: A chapter later. I'm not talking about. 529 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 3: That happened in Matthew three. That happened in Matthew fourteen. 530 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 3: What chapter is this? 531 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: Okay? 532 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 3: How many of y'all are good enough at math to 533 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 3: say that's not that long, that's not that long, And 534 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 3: how many of you are good enough at math to 535 00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 3: put this all together? 536 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: They fed five thousand with five loaves. 537 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 3: Now it's only four thousand and they've got seven loaves. 538 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 3: This should be easy, this should be simple. It's just 539 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 3: simple math. Holly came to me this week. She's like, 540 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 3: you need to see this everyone. While she'll bring me 541 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 3: like a trend or something like just something that's going 542 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 3: on in pop culture, just to make sure I'm a 543 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 3: weird I can be kind of clueless. Sometimes she's like, 544 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 3: you need to know a few things today. She'll tell 545 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 3: me about gas prices or wars or Taylor Swift attending 546 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,240 Speaker 3: football games or things important things. 547 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,480 Speaker 1: And then she started showing me these was it. 548 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 3: TikTok or Instagram something called girl math? 549 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:47,879 Speaker 1: You've heard of this? 550 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 3: I have to because Holly showed me girl Math. She 551 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,720 Speaker 3: was like, watch this clip. And it was a lady 552 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 3: saying okay, if this buy one, get one free, and 553 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,359 Speaker 3: I don't buy it, I basically lost money girl math. 554 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: It was like a hashtag. 555 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:10,759 Speaker 3: If I spent thirty eight dollars online at Sephora, and 556 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 3: but it's free shipping. If you go to forty dollars 557 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 3: and I buy twenty dollars a mascara, so I qualified 558 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 3: for free shipping. I basically saved money and got the 559 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:23,360 Speaker 3: mascara for free, girl Math. And I'm watching this like, 560 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 3: why woman are you showing me this? This is triggering 561 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:33,879 Speaker 3: to me all kinds of stuff. Then had he goes, 562 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 3: if I put the money on my Starbucks card six 563 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 3: months ago and spend it is basically free because I 564 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 3: already put the money. 565 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: On the car. 566 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,160 Speaker 3: Girl math, and I'm like, well, let me teach you 567 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 3: some dad math until you are paying rent in my 568 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:54,839 Speaker 3: house and buying food. Okay, anyway, And I don't really 569 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 3: know anything about girl math, and I'll probably get you know, 570 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 3: criticized or something. I'll get called a sexister, a misogynist, 571 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:09,960 Speaker 3: or some toxic masculinity something. 572 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 1: Over this. 573 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 3: But I've come to talk about girl math. I do 574 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 3: know something, though, about God math, and that's the class 575 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,800 Speaker 3: I came to teach. Do you know anything about God math? 576 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 3: This is not a trend? This is the truth. Can 577 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 3: we talk about God math for a minute. Godmth is 578 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,720 Speaker 3: when you have seven loaves to start with and seven 579 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 3: big basketfuls when you're done feeding a crowd. That's I 580 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 3: know something about God math. I don't know about this 581 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,479 Speaker 3: girl math or man math, or boy math or dad 582 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,600 Speaker 3: math or mom math, but I know something about Do 583 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 3: any of you know anything about God math in your life? 584 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 3: Maybe not? Where everybody else walked away from you, but 585 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,399 Speaker 3: God stayed with you, and you found out that if 586 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:19,160 Speaker 3: it's just you and God that makes a majority, that's 587 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 3: God math. I want to teach a class about God 588 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 3: math because the Bible says that He fed four thousand 589 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 3: with seven loaves. Anytime you have something left over that 590 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:41,240 Speaker 3: is greater than what you started with, that's God math. 591 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:48,920 Speaker 3: And they fed four thousand men besides women and children. 592 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 3: Did you see that They didn't count the women, they 593 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 3: didn't count the children. But God doesn't count like people count. 594 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:06,240 Speaker 3: And I'm glad he doesn't count like people counting. Because 595 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 3: if we were doing my math and I'm standing at 596 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 3: a red sea and all I have is a staff, 597 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,480 Speaker 3: then the sea is greater than the staff. But if 598 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,680 Speaker 3: God put me in front of that sea and he 599 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:25,280 Speaker 3: spoke a word over my purpose, then guess what happens. 600 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:31,040 Speaker 3: The staff becomes greater than the sea. That's God math. 601 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,920 Speaker 3: If Moses were here, he would teach this class with me. 602 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 3: Can Moses be my adjunk professor today? Come on, I 603 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:43,600 Speaker 3: need an assistant teacher, somebody who knows something about God math. 604 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,120 Speaker 3: Maybe we could call on David who had a nine 605 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:51,799 Speaker 3: foot giant and a little tiny rock but in the 606 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,359 Speaker 3: hands of one who is committed. 607 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:58,640 Speaker 5: And called and chosen and anointed and oiled and raised 608 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 5: by God by faith in God, one little rock couldn't 609 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:05,480 Speaker 5: have been that big. 610 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 3: What about two inches around? Yeah, two inches around nine 611 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 3: foot giant watch two inches versus nine feet. That's what 612 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 3: happens when you get God math in your situation. Or 613 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,759 Speaker 3: maybe we need to call on Joshua, who's standing in 614 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 3: front of a twelve foot thick wall called the Wall 615 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,600 Speaker 3: of Jericho and all these. God is a trumpet to 616 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,319 Speaker 3: deal with a wall. Now, anytime you've got a trumpet 617 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 3: versus a twelve foot thick wall, you've got a problem, 618 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 3: unless you've got a God who is greater than the problem. 619 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:48,880 Speaker 3: One trumpet can collapse a twelve foot wall. That's God math. 620 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:53,200 Speaker 3: That's not man's math. When you get in man's math, 621 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,759 Speaker 3: you start saying, they're bigger than us, they're stronger than us. 622 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,440 Speaker 3: It's greater than us. But when you know that he 623 00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,879 Speaker 3: is four, are you who can be against you? Even 624 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,799 Speaker 3: if the whole host of the enemy's path rises up. 625 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:07,120 Speaker 1: I love it. 626 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,480 Speaker 3: There's this one story in the Old Testament. The prophet 627 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,760 Speaker 3: name Elisha can I preach for a minute. The prophet 628 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,520 Speaker 3: named Elisha sends a servant out to check in the morning. 629 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,399 Speaker 3: The servant comes back and says, we're in trouble. There's 630 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,399 Speaker 3: more of them than there are of us. Elisha said, 631 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 3: he's not seeing this right. God is saying over somebody, 632 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 3: you are not seeing this right. You're on the wrong app. 633 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 3: You keep pulling up your map, you keep pulling up 634 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,200 Speaker 3: your calculator, you keep doing your math. 635 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,120 Speaker 1: But I got news for you. 636 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 3: Where God guides, he provides. Watch this. If it's God's map, 637 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:51,120 Speaker 3: it's God's math. So when you find yourself in a 638 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,359 Speaker 3: remote area and you don't know what to do, or 639 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 3: how to do it, or what to do it with. 640 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,560 Speaker 3: If I just came for three people, I wanted you 641 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,440 Speaker 3: to know, Oh, then if you're wary, puts you. If 642 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,960 Speaker 3: you're wary, puts you, if you're weary, puts you. Then 643 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 3: you have what you need. If it's God's math, it's 644 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:21,840 Speaker 3: God's mad. So the prophet said, open his eyes that 645 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,879 Speaker 3: he may see that there are more with us than 646 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,160 Speaker 3: with them. That's that God math. Yeah, all of us 647 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,080 Speaker 3: who are bad at Man's math, let's get good at 648 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,080 Speaker 3: God's math. Man's math says there's nothing there but except a 649 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,120 Speaker 3: cloud the size of a man's hand. God's math says, 650 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,680 Speaker 3: I hear the sound of the abundance of rain getting 651 00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:48,920 Speaker 3: ready to swell in your life. Yeah, that's God's math. 652 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,239 Speaker 3: That's God's math. I want to have a class called 653 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 3: God's Math, and we only need one. 654 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,719 Speaker 1: Thing to show in the class. It's just one thing. 655 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 3: If you want to write it down, you can write 656 00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,359 Speaker 3: it down. We don't need a whole semester. We don't 657 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,239 Speaker 3: need a whole course. I don't even need but five 658 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:07,719 Speaker 3: more minutes. Show them what God's math looks like. That's 659 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:14,680 Speaker 3: God's math. That's God's math. That's God's math. It's not 660 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 3: a hashtag. It's a prophecy. It says that whatever I'm 661 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,359 Speaker 3: going through is not greater than the God who knew 662 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:29,279 Speaker 3: I would be in this remote place with this limited resource. Yeah, 663 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,760 Speaker 3: but I only got six more months with my kids. 664 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,279 Speaker 3: That's not enough. It is if you let God do 665 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,000 Speaker 3: the math, he could take six months and accomplish more 666 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 3: than you could in six years. 667 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,200 Speaker 1: Come out of man's math, come out a. 668 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,800 Speaker 3: Little boy's math. Come out a girl's math. 669 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:45,399 Speaker 1: Women's math. 670 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,520 Speaker 3: I don't need man's math any longer because God knew 671 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,440 Speaker 3: what I would need for this season. And I have 672 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:58,239 Speaker 3: never been in a situation that God called me to 673 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:05,480 Speaker 3: and felt like I was enough. That situation never enough 674 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:12,800 Speaker 3: is not a feeling. Enough is a place of faith 675 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:21,480 Speaker 3: that God is greater God, Math, God, Math, You're glad 676 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,640 Speaker 3: you came to the class today. Kiss your number two pencils. 677 00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,840 Speaker 3: Make sure it's fully sharpened. I know life has you 678 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,360 Speaker 3: in a place right now where you never knew you'd be. 679 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,520 Speaker 1: The Disciples could relate. 680 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,080 Speaker 3: The interesting thing about this passage is they were no 681 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,920 Speaker 3: longer on the shores of Copernaum, where they had done 682 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:48,120 Speaker 3: all of their ministry. They were now in a gentile region, 683 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,800 Speaker 3: having to feed people that were strangers to the Covenant 684 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,799 Speaker 3: that they belonged to. And Jesus said, I have compassion 685 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:02,160 Speaker 3: for these people. And that lets me know is that 686 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:06,400 Speaker 3: God saw my situation coming before I did, and He 687 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,879 Speaker 3: put in me what I need before I felt the 688 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:15,800 Speaker 3: need arise. So if I say this to a crowd, 689 00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:22,200 Speaker 3: then it has a very limited yield. But God sees 690 00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 3: people today who are navigating are not enough in your life? 691 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,080 Speaker 3: And you know that not enough so well that. 692 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:39,720 Speaker 6: It has almost become your name. It has almost become 693 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,120 Speaker 6: your name. For some of you, it is the shame 694 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,440 Speaker 6: of the mistakes that you have made that is keeping 695 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:53,000 Speaker 6: you stuck in this season. And by man's math, we 696 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:58,280 Speaker 6: all fall short of the glory of God. But God's 697 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:03,280 Speaker 6: math says that his grace is greater. 698 00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,960 Speaker 1: Shout greater, Shout greater, Shout greater. 699 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,520 Speaker 3: That's the one word I want in your spirit about 700 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,960 Speaker 3: your God for whatever you're facing today. 701 00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:19,200 Speaker 7: And as simple as it sounds, if the disciples had 702 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:24,480 Speaker 7: realized that God's plan was greater, they would have never 703 00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:25,919 Speaker 7: asked the question. 704 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,719 Speaker 6: Where are we going to get enough? You don't have 705 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,160 Speaker 6: to ask about bread when you're standing next to it. 706 00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:47,440 Speaker 6: So let's get serious about this. Now you're navigating and 707 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,200 Speaker 6: not enough in your life. And part of the problem 708 00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,600 Speaker 6: with that is that you tried before and it wasn't enough. 709 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,200 Speaker 6: Tried to hold the marriage together but it wasn't enough. 710 00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,239 Speaker 6: Tried to bring the kid back but it wasn't enough. 711 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,920 Speaker 6: Tried to start the business but it wasn't enough. Tried 712 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,560 Speaker 6: to bridge it through twenty twenty twenty twenty one in 713 00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:11,360 Speaker 6: it wasn't enough. And now you think that you aren't enough. 714 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:16,319 Speaker 6: And by men's math, You're right. None is righteous, no, 715 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:17,400 Speaker 6: not one. 716 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,440 Speaker 3: But I love the compassion of Christ that we're celebrating 717 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,319 Speaker 3: in Matthew fifteen, For. 718 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,680 Speaker 1: The Bible says that he will leave the ninety nine 719 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,480 Speaker 1: to find the one. 720 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,279 Speaker 3: From men's perspective, that doesn't make much sense to leave 721 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,520 Speaker 3: the greater for the lesser. One thing I love about 722 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:38,120 Speaker 3: God is that the one who starts out with the. 723 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:44,960 Speaker 1: Least can end up with the most. After all, it's 724 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,399 Speaker 1: just simple math. It's simple math. 725 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:53,120 Speaker 3: When the disciples had five loaves, they fed five thousand, 726 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,960 Speaker 3: and they had twelve baskets left over. When they had 727 00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,600 Speaker 3: seven loaves, they fed four thousand, and they only had 728 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,400 Speaker 3: seven basketfuls left over. Stay with me. This is important. 729 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,160 Speaker 3: This is the point I wanted to preach to. This 730 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,320 Speaker 3: is what I wanted you to leave with, about God's 731 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,560 Speaker 3: math and about them not enough that you're navigating in 732 00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,320 Speaker 3: your life right now, about the weakness that God's strength 733 00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,120 Speaker 3: has made perfect in, about the mistakes that you cannot 734 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,400 Speaker 3: redeem in your own human effort. That's the sixth. That's 735 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,719 Speaker 3: man's math. Seven is God's number. Seven is the number 736 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,640 Speaker 3: of completion. You are complete in Christ. You do not 737 00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,640 Speaker 3: have a righteousness that comes from you. Your righteousness is 738 00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,440 Speaker 3: not your own. It is received. It is an inheritance. 739 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,799 Speaker 3: It was purchased by Jesus and given by God. It 740 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,160 Speaker 3: is shed abroad in your heart through the Holy Spirit. 741 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,640 Speaker 3: And isn't it interesting that when they only had five loaves, 742 00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:48,840 Speaker 3: they ended up with twelve baskets. When they had seven loaves, 743 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,080 Speaker 3: they ended up with seven baskets. 744 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:58,160 Speaker 1: The miracle that started with the least ended with the most. 745 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,000 Speaker 1: I'll prophesy over your situation. 746 00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,400 Speaker 3: I prophesy over everybody who didn't get a good education. 747 00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,800 Speaker 3: I prophesy over everybody who didn't get a good start 748 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,239 Speaker 3: in life and was not shown what real love looked like. 749 00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,040 Speaker 3: I prophesy over everybody who didn't have a guide to 750 00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:21,520 Speaker 3: show you how to navigate this transitional period of your life. 751 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,480 Speaker 3: That in the hands of Jesus, what starts as the 752 00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:31,600 Speaker 3: least ends as the most. That's God's math. And if 753 00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:36,320 Speaker 3: you feel weak today, that's a good starting place because 754 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:40,320 Speaker 3: from the starting place of your weakness comes a strength 755 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,840 Speaker 3: that is greater. I set a strength that is greater, 756 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,920 Speaker 3: and a power that is greater, and a grace that 757 00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,600 Speaker 3: is greater. So you started with five, but you end 758 00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:57,399 Speaker 3: with twelve. So you started cast down, what's your ending 759 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,680 Speaker 3: lifted up? So you started in a broken home. But 760 00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:07,040 Speaker 3: you're going forward made whome because Christ asked and passion, 761 00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:16,000 Speaker 3: and He is more than enough for you. For you 762 00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:24,160 Speaker 3: less bread to begin with, more basketst in with blessed 763 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,200 Speaker 3: he the poor in spirit. For theirs is the Kingdom 764 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:32,839 Speaker 3: of Heaven. If you've got needs, if you've got weakness, 765 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:39,799 Speaker 3: if you've got space, God can fella. And I love 766 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,919 Speaker 3: what James one to five taught me. He said, if 767 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:49,520 Speaker 3: any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask. 768 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:55,279 Speaker 1: God. Ask God. 769 00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:02,200 Speaker 3: Whatever you lack ask He's able, ask him. 770 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:03,480 Speaker 1: Ask him God. 771 00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:05,480 Speaker 3: I need somebody in my wife right now to help 772 00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:05,960 Speaker 3: me through this. 773 00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,000 Speaker 1: Ask him. 774 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,120 Speaker 3: But as you are asking Him for what you think 775 00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,279 Speaker 3: you need, make sure that you thank Him for what 776 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:26,600 Speaker 3: you already have. I want to sing an old song 777 00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,319 Speaker 3: that I don't remember all the words to it. 778 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:41,480 Speaker 1: It was like wonderful grace of our madgeless grace, do 779 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:44,680 Speaker 1: good line right here. 780 00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:54,880 Speaker 3: Yonder to Calvary's Mount Outport, there were. 781 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:58,960 Speaker 1: The blood of the them was spilled. 782 00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,480 Speaker 3: Now this is the God there where the blood of 783 00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,240 Speaker 3: the lamb was spilt, where one drop of his blood 784 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,960 Speaker 3: is greater than any sin you would ever commit. That's 785 00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:17,719 Speaker 3: God Math, Man Math. You can keep the girl Math, 786 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,399 Speaker 3: you can keep the man Math. I want the God 787 00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:27,000 Speaker 3: math where one drop of his atoning blood, one mention. 788 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:27,600 Speaker 1: Of his name. 789 00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:41,879 Speaker 3: Look, there is flowing a crimson tide wider than snow. 790 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:49,879 Speaker 1: May you be today watch this grace Grace. 791 00:51:51,280 --> 00:52:11,120 Speaker 8: God, grace that will part and cleanse. Rev. Chris, Grace, God's. 792 00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:19,400 Speaker 7: Grace, grace that is grea than a pussy. 793 00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:32,960 Speaker 1: Sing God like you got it. Pray, go, stab and 794 00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,880 Speaker 1: pans big. 795 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,720 Speaker 8: God. 796 00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,160 Speaker 1: Please say. 797 00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,600 Speaker 3: God has a grace for your situation today. Stand to 798 00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:01,680 Speaker 3: your feet, lift your hands to Heaven and receiving. 799 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:09,960 Speaker 8: Grace, Grace, God, Grace. 800 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,560 Speaker 1: Dad will pardon and clese. 801 00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:27,120 Speaker 3: With claiming now is yours God. 802 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:35,040 Speaker 1: Grace, Heads bout, eyes closed. 803 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:37,000 Speaker 3: I want to invite somebody to receive the grace of 804 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,839 Speaker 3: Jesus Christ in your life today. This message was for you, 805 00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:44,200 Speaker 3: a sinner in need of a savior. This message was 806 00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,759 Speaker 3: for you, an orphan in need of a father. This 807 00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:52,600 Speaker 3: message was for you, a backslider in need of a homecoming. 808 00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:53,799 Speaker 1: This message is for you. 809 00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:56,879 Speaker 3: He leaves the ninety nine and I don't know why 810 00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:01,640 Speaker 3: he did it, but he found the one. He sees people, 811 00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:05,520 Speaker 3: not crowds, and that grace is calling your name right now, 812 00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:06,120 Speaker 3: and you know it. 813 00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:08,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to lead you in a prayer right now. 814 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,239 Speaker 3: To receive the grace of God for those of you 815 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,240 Speaker 3: who are today ready to put your faith in Jesus 816 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,640 Speaker 3: Christ and receive his grace to cover your sin. I'm 817 00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,160 Speaker 3: going to pray a line and then you pray it. 818 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,239 Speaker 3: It's not a magical prayer. It's an opportunity for you 819 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,200 Speaker 3: to do what the Bible says. To confess with your 820 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:28,080 Speaker 3: mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart 821 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:29,760 Speaker 3: that God raised him from the dead. 822 00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:34,319 Speaker 1: You will be saved right now. Today is the day 823 00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:34,960 Speaker 1: of salvation. 824 00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:36,720 Speaker 3: Harden not your hearts. 825 00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:38,560 Speaker 1: Today is the day of salvation. 826 00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,879 Speaker 3: If you pray this from your heart, put your faith 827 00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:47,040 Speaker 3: in Jesus Christ, you will be saved. Repeat after me, 828 00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:52,040 Speaker 3: Heavenly Father, I am a sinner in need of a savior, 829 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:57,440 Speaker 3: and I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of. 830 00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:02,520 Speaker 1: God and the Savior of the world. And today I 831 00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:04,359 Speaker 1: make Jesus the. 832 00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,040 Speaker 3: Lord of my life. 833 00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:06,879 Speaker 1: I believe he. 834 00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:12,120 Speaker 3: Died that I would be forgiven and rose again to 835 00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:17,480 Speaker 3: give me life. I receive this new life. This is 836 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:19,120 Speaker 3: my new beginning. 837 00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:20,279 Speaker 1: On the counter. 838 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,279 Speaker 3: Three shoot your hand up if you prayed that one 839 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,239 Speaker 3: two three, raise your hand right now, right now. 840 00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,520 Speaker 1: God bless me. Blesse your hand right now. God bless 841 00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,600 Speaker 1: me right now. God seize people. God seize people. God 842 00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:33,240 Speaker 1: Seize people. 843 00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:36,880 Speaker 2: Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, 844 00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:40,000 Speaker 2: make sure to share it and subscribe so we can 845 00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,640 Speaker 2: get you all of these new messages as soon as 846 00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,440 Speaker 2: they're available. I also want to take a moment and 847 00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:47,320 Speaker 2: thank all of you who are a part of Elevation. 848 00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:51,160 Speaker 2: Whether you support us financially, or serve with us, or 849 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,279 Speaker 2: just share these messages, it's because of you that we're 850 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,239 Speaker 2: able to reach people all around the world. And if 851 00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:59,640 Speaker 2: you want more information on how to be a part 852 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:03,680 Speaker 2: of our click the link in the description. Thanks again 853 00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:06,680 Speaker 2: for listening. Make sure to leave a review, share the message, 854 00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:07,560 Speaker 2: and subscribe. 855 00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:08,480 Speaker 1: God bless you.