WEBVTT - Take Your Notes On The Boat! 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.200 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.280 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.600 Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:13.680 new sermons every week. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:21.079 I hope you're blessed today. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:23.880 Somebody clap those hands. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:32.960 If you're blessed to be here today, If you feel 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:34.760 like the person that you're sitting next to is good 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.879 looking and full of the Holy Spirit, give God a 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:41.160 praise for your neighbor, for the person that God sovereignly see. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:41.919 Who do next to. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:45.440 Chandler? 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:51.080 Don't clap that hard standing next to Holly. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.840 This is week three of our series. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.880 I know that voice, touch your neighbors, say, I know 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.720 that voice. I got a lot of things talking to 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.640 me right now, a lot of fears talking to me, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.839 a lot of different voices trying to get in my head. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.600 But I know that voice, and I'm gonna make it 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.400 because I know that voice. And I'm gonna get through 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.520 this because I know that voice. And it has been 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.280 such just an eye opening last few weeks in the series. 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:24.880 If you guys want to bring the pad down just 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.559 a little bit, I'm going to read a scripture today 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.760 that may be familiar. Yeah, we're going to get into 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.520 the word now. Thank you to each and every one 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.600 of you that sewed into our love week this week 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.360 and made it so incredible and special. Thank you for 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.039 your giving, thank you for your time, thank you for 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.880 putting your heart into it. I know a lot of people, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.360 a lot of people are smiling bigger this week because 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.320 of you and such a privilege to be your pastor. Today, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.760 we want to welcome our efam all around the world 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.240 and share in this scripture. Let's go ahead and clap 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:02.680 our hands and thank God for them. Have so many 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.720 different countries that join us. Last week or I think 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.600 two weeks ago, there was a pastor here from India 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.400 and he gave me the shirt and he left it 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.880 for me, and so I wish I had written down 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.440 his name, but I will send him a thank you note. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:19.239 And right now I just want to thank you in 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.840 front of the whole world for the shirt. But Jesus 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.560 on it. I love Jesus, You love Jesus. Hey, I 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:29.200 love Jesus in this life. All right, let me get 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.520 organized here. We're going to be in Mark chapter four, 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:39.040 verse number thirty three through thirty one or forty one. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.239 That'd be weird. Wouldn't it, And we went backwards to 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:49.639 verse thirty one. All right, I'm excited. It's going to 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.200 sound like these two things I read you don't go together, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.799 But they really really do. And you'll see how they 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.200 go together when we're done. But look at Mark chapter 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:05.720 four verse the scripture says, with many similar parables, Jesus 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:10.239 spoke the word to them as much as they could understand, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.160 not as much as he could articulate, as much as 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.560 they could understand, not as much as he knew, as 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.040 much as they could understand, not as much as he had, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.040 as much as they could handle. And he spoke to 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:28.000 them as much as they could understand with parables. He 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.440 did not say anything to them without using a parable. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.080 But when he was alone with his own disciples he 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:40.080 explained everything. That day, when evening came, he said to 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.280 his disciples, let us go over to the other side. 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.400 Leaving the crowd behind. They took him along. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.920 Just as he was in the boat, there were also 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:55.680 other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.040 the waves broke over the boat, so that it was 0:03:59.120 --> 0:03:59.880 nearly swamp. 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:05.360 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.760 On a cushion, the disciples woke him and said to him, teacher, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:16.839 don't you care if we drown? He got up, rebuked 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.159 the wind and said to the waves quiet, be still. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:26.120 Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.680 He said to his disciples, why are you so afraid? 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.040 Do you still have no faith? And they were terrified 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.240 and asked each other, who is this? 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:44.799 Even the wind and the waves obey him. Let's clap 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.360 our hands and thank God for his word. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.359 Today. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:54.360 You may be seated. You may be seated. Now. Those 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.520 of you who are in a physical location, grab that 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.600 elevation pin that we gave you when you came in, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.919 and that worship guide that we gave you. And I 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.560 want you to write down the title of my message 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.479 today as we get started. If you're watching online, I 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.240 want you to put it in the comments. If you're 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.720 watching live, put it in the chat. And the title 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.160 of my message is this. Make sure you write this down. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:25.000 Take your notes on the boat. Take your notes on 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.119 the boat, put it in the chat. Please to comment section. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.680 Take your notes on the boat. I do notice that 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.880 some of you take those pins we give you every week, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.760 and I never see you write anything down that I 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:40.520 say when I'm preaching. By the way, a quick tip. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.080 If you're a server in a restaurant and I ever 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.520 sit down at your table and you slip me an 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:51.640 elevation pen, I will double your tip. I will do it, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.719 and I already tip good to begin with. So just 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.080 imagine what percentage range we're talking if you slip me 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:04.239 an elevation pen. No, it's good. It's good to take notes. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:05.719 But today I want to talk to you about take 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.440 your notes on the boat? Did you write that down 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:13.360 as the title? Take your Notes on the Boat. They're 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.520 putting it all over the comments on YouTube too. Okay, good, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.600 take your notes on the boat. Now, let me ask 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.160 you a question. Have you ever had this happen to you? 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:26.200 Have you ever watched a movie and then tried to 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.800 describe the movie to somebody that didn't see it, and 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.400 as you're describing it, you see a look in their 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:38.640 eyes that's just like, you know, this is not this 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.920 is not really this is not really going that good, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.400 And they say back to you like, I guess you 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.240 had to be there. I guess, yeah, you should go 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:48.920 see it. You should go see It's crazy. It's crazy. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:50.480 Have you ever have you ever done that before. Raise 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.560 your hand if you've done that before. Okay. Second question. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.280 Have you ever tried to tell a dream to somebody 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:01.120 that you had and you start trying to describe the dream, right, 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.599 And the more that you start trying to describe the dream, 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.359 the more that you fear that they might check you 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.520 into the middle institution because the dream in your mind 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.520 wasn't that crazy until you start say it out loud, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.800 you know, Like I tell Holly, I was preaching. I 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.680 was like preaching, but it was at elevation. But it 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.360 wasn't at elevation. It was like at a baseball field, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.040 but it was like I wasn't preaching on the field. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.520 I was preaching in the bathroom and I was holding 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.840 the microphone. But it wasn't microphone. It was a French fry. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.480 It was big French fride. It was like French fry. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.240 There was also a microphone. It trust me, it's crazy. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.160 And you kind of stopped, you just like, yeah, I ca'mscribe, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:38.600 all right. So have you ever heard a sermon and 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:43.480 when you went to try to tell somebody else how 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.680 the sermon spoke to you. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.880 You're like, man, I went to church. 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.960 It was great. It was amazing. It was, it was fire, 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:55.920 it was it was so good. He talked about like 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:57.720 stuff and it was good. 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.960 And it was really good. It was it was here here, 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:02.560 let me get. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.640 Out my notes. And then you start reading them your notes, 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.400 and that doesn't make it better, it just makes it worse. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:08.960 So then you send them the link and they never 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.520 watch it. But if they would watch it, they would 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.600 see that it was amazing. But see, there's a difference 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:20.720 between a description and an experience, and the reason is frustrating. 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.360 To try to tell somebody how. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.360 Good the odyssey is is because you had the experience 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.080 and you're trying to give them the description. But all 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.040 you can tell them is there's like storms and bad 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.120 stuff happens, and it's really good. It's trust me because 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.320 you had the experience, but they're just getting the description. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.520 In the dream, you had the experience, you were immersed 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:41.000 in it. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.120 It was realer then real. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.320 Your subconscious was telling you stuff that you conscious doesn't know, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.120 and you had the experience. But when you try to 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.880 move from experience to description, you can get lost in 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.479 translation and you start trying to tell somebody, man, I'm 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.160 really I'm really getting a lot out of the word 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.520 God is speaking and even just speaking to me about peace, 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.040 and you're like, yeah, what about peace? 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:05.200 I don't know. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.559 I can't really so you don't have anxiety anymore. Yeah, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:13.959 I still have anxiety, but but I got peace, So 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.000 you don't have that problem anymore. Yeah, I got the problem, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.200 but I got peace. And the more you kind of 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.920 explain it to them, the stranger it gets to them 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.400 because they're getting the description and you're having the experience 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.120 and the experiences. I've got the problem and the peace, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.280 the experiences. I've got the anxiety, and I've got the 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.320 Word of God walking me through it the experiences. My 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.559 life situation hasn't improved, but my loyalty to the Lord 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:51.960 is increasing day by day. There's a difference. In Mark 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.319 chapter four, we see a sharp distinction between the crowds 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.679 and the disciples. The crowds are getting a description of 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.760 the Kingdom of God and the disciples are having an experience. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.840 There is a difference, and I thought it'd be helpful 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.920 for us today to talk about what happens when you 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.440 hear the word of God, when you get a word 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.600 from God, because sometimes God gives you something that is very, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.600 very valuable, but it doesn't go deep enough to make 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.400 a difference in your life. I am concerned that God 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.960 is giving us more than enough instruction, but sometimes there 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:37.120 is too little implementation to make the word flesh in 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.800 your life. And sometimes it means that God will speak 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.960 something to you that is so powerful, so profound, and 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:49.360 so personal, and it doesn't get a chance to go deep. Now, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.760 when we say deep, we don't mean complicated, because some 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.720 of the deepest things that God will speak to you 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.040 will be some of the most easy to understand and 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.439 the most difficult to do, isn't it the truth. Sometimes 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.880 God will speak to you about forgiveness, and it's simple 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:11.840 to forgive, but it's deep. To forgive is hard, it's grueling, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.520 and you have to do it over and over again. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.480 But the choice is simple. I've got to let this go. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.000 I've got to let this go. Somebody say, I've got 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.959 to let this go. And so the problem. Sometimes when 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.000 God speaks to you about something like forgiveness or purity, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.920 or a discipline in your life, or something that He 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.440 wants to show you, it will sound so simple and 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.720 it won't go deep, and then it doesn't make the difference. Now, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:39.760 in Mark chapter four, verse thirty three, The Bible says 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.720 that Jesus would speak to the crowds with parables, and 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:47.080 then he would pull the disciples aside and explain everything 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.559 to them when he was alone with his own disciples. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.680 I want you to see the contrast, because my entire 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:58.080 message hangs on it today. He would declare to the crowds, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:02.840 he would give them an at a declaration, and then 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:07.520 he would pull the disciples aside for an explanation, and 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.560 in verse thirty four it says he was alone with 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:16.360 them to explain everything. How amazing would it be to 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.880 get an after school tutorial with Jesus about the Word 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.839 of God? After all, he is the word of God. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.560 How would you like to be able to ask the 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.040 word of God about the Word of God. That would 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.320 be an amazing class to sign up for. Well, the 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.960 disciples had Jesus preaching to them along with the crowd 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.080 and explaining to them alone what he said to the crowd, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.040 And I think is so important to note that he 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.960 would explain it to them when he was alone with them. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.400 Do you ever get alone with God about the words 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.160 that he gives you? I mentioned last week, how when 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.320 I prepare my sermons. I have different people in my 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.679 mind that I'm thinking of when I prepare. How many 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.200 of you that last week I talked about. I talked 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.600 about who's your jury when you're living your life? Who 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.400 are the people that you put in your mind when 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.960 you're making decisions? Are they going to approve? Are they 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:10.760 going to judge me? Are they going to think I 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.960 did a good job? And when I preach, I try 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.319 to put people in the seats like Mike Mitchell, try 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.680 to put people in the seats like cases. I try 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.000 to put people in the seats that I know so 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.760 I can minister to them. And one of the people 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.320 I mentioned is my best friend from childhood named Eric. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.080 And every week I preach. He's on the second row, 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.800 And every week before I preach, I put him in 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:33.920 the chair and I just picture him and I start 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.480 preaching to him, and I start preaching real good in 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.040 my mind. And I never say it as good out 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.920 loud as I said it in my mind. You should 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.280 hear the sermon in my head before I preach it. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.320 It's so good because I'm speaking so specifically. But you 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.320 know what, after I preach every week, and I wanted 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.560 to tell you this too. About three pm, my phone buzzes, 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.240 and I always know it's Eric, and I know that 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.040 every week at three pm, I'm going to get a 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.839 text message from him, and it's going to be long, 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.240 and it's going to tell me what God spoke to 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.800 him that day. He's been doing this for seven years 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:14.440 and he's never missed a Sunday. Never. Sometimes he was 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.280 thirty minutes late. When it gets to three thirty and 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.120 my phone isn't buzzing', I start having a panic attack, like, oh, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.600 that must have that must have been terrible today. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:28.040 Eric has He always texts me. But then. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.560 Every October for the last few years, he gave me 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:39.880 one of these. And this notebook is handwritten every single 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:45.360 text that he sent me that year, with every single 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.680 thing that God spoke to him through the sermon that 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.480 I preached, and he copies it in handwriting. And he 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.840 doesn't just say, here were your three points, because I 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.840 know those those were in my notes. These are his notes. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.480 And in his notes he says, when you said this, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:10.040 God said that you'd hear me when you said this 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:17.360 to them, God said this to me. Because there is 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:23.640 a difference between hearing and explanation and having a demonstration. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.840 There is a difference between hearing something described you see 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.280 and having something experienced in your life and what he's 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.040 saying every week. When he sends that text at three pm? 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:37.400 How does he send it at three pm? 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.240 The sermon doesn't even go up live till five. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.120 He hits record on the voice memo of his phone 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.720 and bootlegs my sermon because he can't wait till the 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.160 sermon goes up, and pulls up the transcript so that 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.360 he can go back through the notes that he missed 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.240 and listens to it, and then sits with his wife 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.680 and says, what did you hear from the sermon today? 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.120 I think God was trying to tell you this. I 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.400 don't know if he ever does that. Don't do that, 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.800 but this is what God said to me. This is 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.520 where it gets personal to me. Did you know that 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.280 God wants to say something to you personal? Yes, you, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.600 God wants to say something. 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:15.800 To you personal. Today. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.479 You threw the camera, you in India, You in Lafayette, Indiana, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.880 You on the fourth row in Valentine, you at Riverwalk, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.720 you in the hospital room, you driving in the car, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.080 you on the treadmill, you curling forty five pound dumbbells 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.320 in the gym. Listen to me trying not to lust 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:33.000 in the gym. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.320 God pass a word for you. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.840 And it can be personal and it can be powerful, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.240 but it cannot be either of those if you do 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.680 not process it. So just touch somebody, say take notes. 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.360 That's all I'm trying to say is take notes. When 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.480 God gives a word to you, write it down somewhere. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.680 Not just on a page, but in your heart. Put 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.080 it down somewhere. Don't just keep coming and getting words 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.920 that you never water. Don't just come into church and 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.440 hearing things and when they ask you about it Monday, what. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.359 Did the preacher say? You say, stuff, have something you 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.240 can pull out and say. I'll tell you what he said. 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.359 He told me that if I'll get alone with Jesus, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.399 Jesus will speak to me. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.119 He'll pull me aside. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.040 He'll tell me things about raising my kids that I 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:19.960 can't learn from a psychology book. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:21.240 He'll tell me things. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.359 About dealing with addiction that I can't even learn from counseling. 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.080 Jesus speaks to me. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.840 So he pulled them aside. See and he say, you 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.959 know that parable I share. Well, here's what it means. 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:44.280 So imagining that the disciples would take copious notes because 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.520 they knew when he's getting done sharing this very deep parable. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.800 Everybody say deep about the Kingdom of God is like 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.840 a mustard seed. They write that down, the Kingdom of 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.080 God is like a mustard seed. And then when they 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.840 would get him alone, see they pull them aside and 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.280 they say, hey, Jesus, imagine this like Peter. He's like, 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.040 I know what you mean by mustard seed, but I'm 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.960 not sure John knows what you meant. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:08.720 So why don't you break it down for John? 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.720 Because I wrote down this thing about the mustard seeds, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.199 So maybe you just go a little deeper on that, 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.320 and he take them a little deeper. He said, kingdom 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.199 having is like a mustard seed. It's like something that 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.560 starts small and then all the birds of the air 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.600 nest in its branches. So don't despise small starts in 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.480 your life, because something that looks so insignificant could end 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.080 up having a legacy. Don't despise five days of sobriety, 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.040 don't despise fifteen days of sobriety. Don't despise a decision 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.440 to read your Bible for five minutes a day because 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.880 it starts small, but it's significant. See, God doesn't judge 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.040 significance by size of the seed. He judges it by 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.760 depth of the word. And so some of the greatest 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.120 things God will do in your life. Don't diminish them 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.480 because they may look small, but it may be deep. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.200 He would just explain stuff like that, and they can't 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:59.160 write fast enough. Okay, okay. So then, Jesus, how about 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.320 that parable you because it said he taught many parables. 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.280 In fact, go all the way back up to the 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.680 beginning of Mark chapter four. I feel the Holy Spirit 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.800 in this place today. I'm excited about what God is 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:10.560 going to show us. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.400 It says again, Jesus began to teach. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.320 By the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:22.600 so large that he got into a boat and sat 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.840 in it out on the lake while all the people 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.800 were along the shore at the water's edge, and he 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:33.359 started talking them, talking to them, and they started I'm sure. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.199 I'm sure Matthew was taking notes because he is a 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.360 tax collector. He was a record keeper. So I mean, 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.840 Jesus says, the Kingdom of is like a man who 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:43.560 goes in scatter seat. He's like a farm who scatter seed, 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:44.720 and some of it fell on the path, and some 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.320 of it fell got eaten up by the birds, and 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:47.919 some of it got scorched by the sun, and some 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.359 of them got choked out by the thorns. But some 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.600 of it fell in good soil, and it produced thirty 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.520 sixty and one hundred fold in a good return, and 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.800 you can't ride fast enough. And then they get together 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.919 later talking about what did he say thirty sixty and 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.320 one hundred fold? No, I think he he said thirty forty. No, 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.520 he said thirty sixty in one hundred ffol, not thirty 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.440 forty in one hundred fold. He said thirty Okay, thirty 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.800 sixty one hundredfold. And then we're gonna ask him later, Jesus, 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.399 what do you mean about that thirty sixty and one hundredfold? 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.200 Sometimes when God is speaking to you, you don't even 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:15.960 have to know what it means to know that it 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:21.000 hits you deep. Isn't that true? Hadn't you ever just 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.800 had the Lord say something to you and you're like, ooh, 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.840 that's for me, What does it mean? I'll know? I'm 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.480 gonna ask him later. I'm gonna take this word Sunday 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.480 afternoon I'm gonna take this word Monday. I'm gonna take 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.199 this word Tuesday. I'm going to talk about it to people. 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:36.919 I'm gonna ask friends that I can trust who are 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.520 also walking with Jesus. I am going to take the 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.920 investment of God's word and see a return on it. 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.560 I have a question. How many of you have a 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:50.240 money manager that looks after your money somewhere where you 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.440 invest your money. Okay, here's the question. If your money 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.640 manager manage your money the way you manage the investment 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:06.160 of God's word, would you keep it? Because when God 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.640 gives you words, when God speaks to you, it's an investment. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.159 His voice is an investment. And so if God is 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.359 just speaking all this stuff, imagine imagine that God is 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:19.520 entrusting you with his word. And so God's given you 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:21.600 a word. God's given you something. God's giving you something. 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.399 Every time he speaks, he gives you something. And then 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.320 imagine if you went to your money manager and you're like, hey, 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.120 that money that I've been giving you the last couple 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.720 of years, what did you do with it? And it's like, 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.560 I don't know, I don't really really write it down 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:42.199 or anything. You didn't write it down, so lest we 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.960 get into a condemnation conversation about taking notes and minutes 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:47.960 are better than your notes. And I have more colors 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.360 of highlight or lemitate something. You can highlight your way 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:55.359 to hell. Because the people who knew the Bible the 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:59.520 best were the Pharisees, and they killed Jesus. So I 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.840 mean you can circle adjectives and nouns and verbs. That's grammar, 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:12.640