WEBVTT - Navigating Not Enough 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.280 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.360 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.000 Be sure to. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.720 Subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.440 I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:25.759 Remains standing, remain standing. Once you've hugged enough, put those 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:36.080 hands together, and welcome our EPAM all over the world. Hey, hey, everybody, 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:38.400 we're about to be We're about to be out on 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:46.440 the road this week. Elevation Knights Miami, Florida, Tampa, Florida, Knoxville, Tennessee, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:52.560 Atlanta Area, Birmingham. Then we're going to Texas. I'm gonna 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.720 get Tim Riggins, and then we're going over to Love 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.639 It and Dallas and Houston. Elevation Nights dot com. There 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.760 are some tickets and some locations. Don't buy it from 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:08.080 a scalper. Don't support that nonsense. But we really want 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.800 to see you there. We're expecting God to do great, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:16.280 amazing things. Clap your hands if you're expecting it right now. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.160 God is good. God is good. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.880 God is so good, so faithful. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.240 Well today, this message that. 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.600 I have to share with you is one that everybody 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.800 in the room needs. So sometimes I'll say this message 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.560 is for somebody. I don't know who this is for, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.720 but today I know it's for all y'all. So look 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:51.640 at somebody and say you too, not the band. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:55.240 It's going to be good. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.440 I'm going to read from Matthew, chapter fifteen, verse twenty 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.400 nine through thirty eight, a familiar story with a twist, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.160 and not for the sake of being clever, but for 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.800 the sake of something that I believe God wants to 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.800 speak to you today in a fresh way, Matthew, chapter fifteen, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.760 verse twenty nine. And while you're turning there in your Bible, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.320 I let us know online where you're joining us from. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.919 We'd love to know your name and where you're joining 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.480 us from as well, right there in the comments, Matthew, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:32.000 chapter fifteen, verse twenty nine. Jesus left there and went 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.120 along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.760 a mountain side and sat down. Great crowds came to him, 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.680 bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, many others, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.359 and laid them at his feet, and he healed them. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.480 The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.639 The crippled made well, the lame walking, and the blind 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:57.080 see and they praised the God of Israel. Jesus called 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.680 his disciples to him and said, I have compassion. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:02.640 For these people. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.520 They have already been with me three days and have 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.720 nothing to eat. I do not want to send them 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:14.080 away hungry, or they may collapse on the way. His 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.799 disciples answered, where could we get enough bread in this 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.560 remote place to feed such a crowd. How many loaves 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:28.000 do you have, Jesus asked, seven, they replied, and a 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.119 few small fish. He told the crowd to sit down 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.120 on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves and fish, 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.760 and when he had given thanks, he broke them and 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.400 gave them to the disciples, and they in turned to 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:45.600 the people. They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward, the 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.960 disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:53.120 left over. Okay, verse thirty eight, let's read this one too. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:59.880 The number of those who ate was four thousand men, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:06.120 besides women and children. And I'm calling this message today 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:14.839 navigating not enough. We've all been there, we will all 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.599 be there at some point. So I can't think of 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:23.159 a more important class to teach today than navigating not enough. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.599 And let's just pray one more time for the Holy 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.000 spirit to guide us into truth. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.000 Lord, you said that. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.080 You would do that, that you would lead us and 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.799 guide us and remind us of the things that matter, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.360 and teach us the things that we need to know. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.600 Do that just now, for these people, for everybody who 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.000 will hear this message, is navigating something that. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:51.120 Is not enough. But you are more than enough. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.719 So bring us to that place in space and presence 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.560 of mind to see you as you are. We give 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.880 you praise in Jesus' name. Man, you may be seated. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.240 I made a list in my phone. I read it 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:42.040 to you. Time, money, sleep, energy, friends, confidence, opportunity, authority, freedom, flexibility, discipline, experience, joy, peace, wisdom. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.320 And I stopped there with fifteen because Matthew, fifteen, I 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.279 thought would be cool to do fifteen fifteen things that 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.280 I just said that someone in this room feels like 0:05:53.360 --> 0:06:09.320 they don't have enough of right now. Time, money, sleep, energy, friends, confidence, opportunity, authority, freedom, flexibility, discipline, experience, joy, peace, wisdom. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.120 Everyone will have to navigate an area of not enough 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.479 in your life in a way that comforts me to 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.000 know that for all the things that I don't feel 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.960 like I have enough of, there's some things you don't 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.960 have enough of with your needy self. Either kind of 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:31.839 evens the playing field. So don't be intimidated. Don't be intimidated. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:32.640 Not in here any way. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.719 The ground is level at the foot of the cross. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.720 We're all here because we need Jesus, and Jesus is complete. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:49.160 Jesus Christ is complete, fully, god fully man. At the 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:54.600 sound of that truth echoes back another truth that in 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.479 him I am complete, He is enough. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.160 I am enough. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:04.839 And yet there's no shortage of needs in this room. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.160 And everyone will have to pass through in different moments 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.800 of your life, different facets of this same. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.720 Neighborhood called not enough. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.640 And we have to talk about how to navigate that, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.320 because I have found that not only is the not 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:30.600 enough thing a battle that never goes away, but it 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.520 is a battle that never fully gets in balance. And 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.120 what I mean by that is when I read that 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.760 list of things, there have been seasons in my life 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.800 where I worked my way into enough of one of them, 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.520 only to find another one screaming, Hey, now that you 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.960 got enough money, you don't have any time. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:53.680 Yeah. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.720 I thought about this in the area of discipline. I 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.600 tried to be a disciplined person in my life. I need 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.840 that to stay on track. And yet I noticed the 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.200 times in my life where my discipline is really keyed in. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:13.760 Sometimes I get so rigid that I lose my empathy. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.600 And I'm doing really good with my disciplines, but I'm 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.000 mad at everybody else that they aren't as disciplined as me. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.240 Now I'm judging, So it's good. You know. I've got 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.200 my macros and my workouts and my Bible time. But 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.160 creates a whole other not enough over on this side, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.400 and I don't really want to stay in this too long. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.240 Just wanted to set up the idea of not enough. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.920 And I realized when I made the title navigating not enough, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.439 and God kind of led me to call this message 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.600 that that in that title navigating not enough, I am 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.920 the best one to teach this class because the two 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.640 biggest fears in my life are both in that title, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.120 not enough and navigating. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:08:59.920 I told you two weeks. 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.320 Ago that I have no sense of direction, and I 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.400 still don't. There's been no supernatural miracle since then. And 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.240 the idea of this passage here, I looked at one 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:13.520 verse and I want to show it to you again 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.640 that the disciples said again a pretty familiar scripture that 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.240 I'm sharing with you today. But what they said to 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.040 Jesus when he said I want to feed all these 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.680 people I can get with because in verse thirty three, 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.839 they answered, where could we get enough bread in this 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.960 remote place to feed such a crowd? And we're going 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.480 to stay with that question for a moment because it's 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:41.240 very important. Where could we get enough bread in this 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.520 remote place to feed such a crowd? And here are 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.200 my two primary fears in life, all in one Bible verse. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.120 And the first one is the fear of running out, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.160 which runs deep for me. I don't know if there's 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.080 any scarcity mentality in your life, or some kind of 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.040 like efficit oriented way of thinking where you wake up 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.480 each day at zero. I don't know if you ever 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.440 do a little fire drills to try to figure out 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.000 how you could sell everything and live in, living in underground, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.280 live in a tent somewhere if it came to that. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.839 But the fear of running out, I can't tell you how. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.400 I can't explain. I cannot explain to you how important 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.719 it is that my phone is completely charged. Ninety three 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.400 percent is not one hundred percent. I cannot run out 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.559 of battery. What would I do. If the phone died, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.360 I would die. It's a fear that runs from everything 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.240 from iPhones to sermon material. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:33.600 A lot of times when I. 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.920 Preached too long is because I was scared I'd get 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.880 up here and have nothing to say. So then I 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.000 went and messed around study too long and kept you 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:40.760 three hours. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:42.480 But my heart's in the right place. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.040 I don't want you to show up hungry and collapse 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.520 when you leave because I was watching the game instead. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.079 So I really really really relate to. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.360 This thing of where could we get enough, the fear 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.000 of running out, and then what makes it even. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.120 Worse put the scripture back up? 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.640 Where could we get enough bread in this remote place? 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:02.520 Did you notice that? 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.040 So now, not only do I not have enough, that's 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.000 my first fear in life, but I don't know where 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.360 I am, and I need to know where I am. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:15.319 And if I don't know where I am, I need 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.240 to be with somebody who knows where they are. And 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.720 that's where you're like, But the disciples had Jesus, so 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.240 it really didn't matter, because if you've got Jesus, you've 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:33.160 always got enough. And isn't it interesting how confidently you 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.960 say that about them? 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:36.520 Back then? 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.679 But if we followed you back into your neighborhood of 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:50.320 not enough. And you know, when you get a little older, 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:52.760 you don't even really know if you can depend on 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.679 your body in the same way that you could. And 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:00.800 I know I'm not old or anything like that, still vital, 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.959 but yo, I pulled a muscle when I woke I 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.960 thought I pulled a muscle when I woke up this morning, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.960 and I was like, oh no. For about five minutes, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.480 I was like, who's going to preach? And the worst 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.440 part was I pulled it yawning, not lifting weights. I 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.080 wasn't doing yoga or anything. I just yawned in something 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.800 pop just to remind me, just to remind me. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.720 You know two extremes that we get into. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.480 I think when we look at what we don't have 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.800 and what we need, there is an extreme that we 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.760 go into, which is denial. You know, no, I'm good, 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.240 I'm good, I'm good until you completely crash. And then 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.720 the other one is despair, where you are so aware 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.520 of what you don't have that you don't realize what 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.640 you do have. And so, yes, the disciples have Jesus, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.359 and yes he has all knowledge, and yes he is omniscient. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.280 And he was, and is and will be all of 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.240 those things for you. But it does not change the 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:03.040 fact that they are in a remote place with limited resource. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.760 Now that's who I want to speak to today. You 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.680 are in a remote place with a limited resource. Either 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.800 of those is scary, just to be somewhere that is remote. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.000 I'm not talking about just physically. You know that. I'm 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.520 talking about emotional states that you've never experienced. I mentioned 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.560 stages of life that you've never experienced. It could even be, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.760 you know, beyond just the psychological. It could be just 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.600 beyond the chronological. It could be that you are dealing 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.280 with a series, a combination, or a sequence of things 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.240 that you've never experienced. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:41.440 Quite like this. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:48.960 Everybody say remote place, now say limited resource. So I 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.080 don't have enough, and I don't know where I am, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.800 and I don't know enough to get where I need 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.120 to go to get what I need. And I don't 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.480 know where I am and I don't have what I need. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.960 And those are my two biggest nightmares in life. So 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:08.600 I decided to preach about it. Navigating not enough. If 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.240 you were under the age of twenty, you will never 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:17.480 know the terror of navigating by map, not an app 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:22.280 called maps, not an interactive satellite guided device like. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:23.520 A map map. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.840 I went in the gas station yesterday and I was 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.600 gonna buy one to bring out here and unfold it 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.840 and like an icebreaker for the crowd and say, y'all, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.840 remember these, everybody who pulls a muscle when you yawn, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:41.320 y'all remember these. And I was gonna they didn't even 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.080 have a map at the gas station. What is the 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.480 world come to? I can't get a map at the 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:48.280 gas station. 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.000 Elijah asked me before he went to college. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:53.720 He said, how did you used to do it? How 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.400 did you get anywhere? I said, son, it was traumatic. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.040 Your mom is great at directions, but she was better 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.000 than me. When we first moved to Charlotte, there was 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.120 the biggest city I'd. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:05.760 Ever lived in. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.760 And I would go have appointments with people all through 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.040 the highways and the byways and the mean streets of Weddington, Waxaw, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:18.040 Mint Hill, And I kid you not, there was not 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:18.800 a single. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.040 Meeting that I took that I would not end up 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:21.360 on the phone with Holly. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.320 And she would be at the house and I'd be 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.720 on the road and she would be guiding me. The 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:33.760 Holly spirit would be guiding me, and I don't know. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.120 We just celebrated twenty one years of marriage. I don't 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.880 know if we would have made it. Don't clap too quick. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.760 I don't know if we'd have made it at five, if 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.840 we would have kept having to go that way, because 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.880 you know, the thing about us communicating in this way 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:54.080 is she had never lived here either, so it all 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.880 sounds good while she's telling me what to do from 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:02.360 the house with the map from two years ago. It 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.760 changed everything. You know, people say I would have loved 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.320 to have been a disciple and followed Jesus. I wouldn't 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:13.920 back then. You wouldn't either. You know, you might have. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.320 You might eventually have loved it, but not in a moment. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.200 Because I want you to think about this. They're in 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.520 a remote place, they're they're healing people. Who knows how 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.640 long he's gonna keep doing this. It's been three days, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.560 and he doesn't seem tired yet because he's fully God. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:41.040 And now he pulls them to the side. And this 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.160 is verse twenty two, because it's all really well and 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.720 good as long as he's doing the work. But then 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.120 he called the disciples to him and said, I have 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.960 compassion for these people, they've already been with me. Now, 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.480 that phrase been with me in the original language of 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.960 the Bible doesn't just mean they hung out. It means 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.240 that they've been cleaving to me. They've been staying with me. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.080 They've been hanging with me. They've been pulling on me, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.760 they've been pressing towards me, they've been receiving from me. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.040 So touch somebody real quick and say stay with him. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:14.920 Stay with him. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.200 If you feel crippled in an area of your life, 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.359 if you feel lame in an area of your life, 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.680 if you feel blind in an area of your life, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.760 if you feel like you're mute in an area of 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.000 your life, I got some good guidance for you. Stay 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.560 with Jesus. Good things happen when you stay with him. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.960 Good things happen when you stay with him. And I 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.560 don't think it's a coincidence that they stayed three days. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.040 Read something in the Bible about three days. I'll just 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:49.439 think about that. It's really it's really wonderful to think about, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.680 how you know this thing we say, where God guides, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:58.000 he provides. Have you heard that one where God guides 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:58.720 he provides? 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:05.640 I fully attest to that. I fully believe in that. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:12.080 My life is a trophy of the grace of God, 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.399 that everywhere He has led me, he has provided for me. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.800 Where God guides, he provides. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.320 But the thing that that leaves out if you just 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.440 put it on a bumper sticker, that where God guides, 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.920 he provides, is that a lot of times we are 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:37.960 guessing about where he's guiding us. I know you don't 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.760 want to admit it, especially the men, because you don't 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.760 want to admit you're lost. You rather drive in circles 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:46.520 seven years. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.160 I'm not like that. I would call Holly. I would 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:52.280 call her in a heartbeat. I didn't. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.159 I had a girl who could read a map, and 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.720 I was determined to tap into her full resources. There's 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:00.840 no male ego on me. I don't want to be lost. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.440 I'm too scared for that. And you know, if you 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.960 get lost enough in your life, you will humble yourself 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.399 to the point where you say, well, I don't normally 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:12.840 like to ask for help. I don't like to admit 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.200 I've never done this before. I don't like to say 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:15.840 I was wrong. I don't like to ask somebody that 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.399 I need them to show me in this area of 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:23.359 my life. Sometimes we just aren't hungry enough yet, lost 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.159 enough yet. But there's somebody in this room and you 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.080 are and you are navigating and not enough in your 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:34.200 life in this season that has brought you to the precipice. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.280 Or although you have pressed in to Jesus, you are 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.560 in danger of collapsing on the way. That's what Jesus said. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:45.200 I don't want you to collapse along the way, and I've. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.920 Got good news for you. The Bible says that Jesus 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:56.040 has compassion. If God gave you a new car, would 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:56.760 you praise him for it? 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:03.919 Paid off nice one, fast one, sexy one? 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.240 Yeah, would you praise them for a new car? 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.160 If God paid off your house, would you praise them 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:17.159 for it? If God said, I'm giving you my compassion, 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.639 There'd be nothing greater you could praise him for than 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:29.679 the compassion of a Christ who is fully god Fully 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:34.200 God enough to meet all of your needs, Fully God. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.480 Enough to stop a storm, fully. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.439 God enough to heal somebody who couldn't walk, and they 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.240 go dancing out, Fully God enough that the one who 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.120 couldn't speak left shouting, Fully God enough to do all 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.320 of that, and fully man enough that, after all is 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.639 said and done, pull his disciples to the side and 0:20:55.680 --> 0:21:00.560 say I have compassion for what they lack. I don't 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.960 know if there's anybody in here who's in religious rehab. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.520 You grew up with a God who was waiting to 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.400 crush you underneath the weight of what you were not yet. 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.000 But we meet at Jesus in Matthew fifteen. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:21.399 Come on, get glad about it. Who has compassion for 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:26.399 what you lack? So the Lord is my shepherd. I 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:30.440 shall not want. That does not mean I will never lack, 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:34.520 but it means that in every area where I lack, 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.720 the Lord is faithful and loyal to me, that he 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.440 will never leave me in my lack and turn a 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.880 deaf ear to me when I call him. Let's praise God. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.640 Not for a car, not for a house. That's fine, 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:49.960 I got a car, I got a house. 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:52.679 But he has compassion. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:58.560 That he looks on my weakness with compassion, that he 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:04.040 looks on my lack with compassion. I don't know. I 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.800 just noticed that this week. I noticed that Jesus said, 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:12.600 I have compassion for these people Verse thirty two. And 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.560 the disciples answered the request that Jesus made about feeding 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.800 them with logic and calculation. You know, like men often do, 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.600 like men kind often does. Where can we get enough bread? 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.760 There's no door dash on my phone. We don't have 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.240 an app. You know, some people would say that Jesus 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.560 is better than a GPS, but I don't think he is, 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.719 because when you use a GPS. 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.080 You get to select the destination. 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:47.480 But when you follow Christ, he will get you where 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:53.000 you need to go. He'll get you there, turn by turn, 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:58.720 step by step. He'll do better than reroute you. He 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.440 will pick your big behind up and carry your dead weight, 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:11.160 if that's what it takes. But one thing about this savior. 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.960 Imagine a GPS that you didn't get to tell it 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:21.000 where you want to end up. That's Jesus. Peter's got 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:25.560 this boat right. They're going all around ministering to people, 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:32.680 and Peter's the one that's driving, okay, But the one 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.640 who is driving the boat doesn't get to decide where 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:39.879 it docks. I don't think you heard what I just said, 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:45.080 because I'm describing what a life of following Christ feels like. 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:49.560 Sometimes I'm driving this boat, I'm living this life. I'm 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.480 making decisions. I'm the one having to make these moves. 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:54.640 I'm the one having to show up for these things. 0:23:55.800 --> 0:24:01.160 But ultimately I don't get to decide where this boat docs. 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.879 Jesus does. God does neg that brings you. 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:10.840 Great comfort, or if you're control freak, it really starts 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:12.760 to mess with you, especially when you end up in 0:24:12.800 --> 0:24:19.480 a remote place. And Jesus starts healing people and he 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.800 shows no signs of stopping, and he wants the people 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:25.600 to be fed, and he pulls the disciples to the 0:24:25.680 --> 0:24:30.199 side and says, I have compassion for these people. And 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:33.440 the disciples answered verse thirty three, where could we get 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:38.040 enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd? 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:39.800 Now I need to slow this down and we can 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:43.800 study it. Go to verse thirty two again, Jesus said 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:50.679 I have compassion for these What did he say? I 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:55.440 have compassion for these people? What did Jesus call them? 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.720 Look at the disciples in verse thirty three. Where are 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:02.320 we going to get enough bread in this remote place 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:13.320 to feed such a It's all about how you see it. 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:17.399 The disciples see crowds. Jesus sees people. 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:24.479 How many times I've been getting ready to preach, and 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:26.800 it's like, I've done everything that you're supposed to do 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:28.760 that they taught me how to do. In that overpriced 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:32.640 education that they gave me out there in Lousville, Kentucky. 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:37.400