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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope

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Speaker 2: it gives you perspective to see God is moving.

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Speaker 1: In your life. Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: Well, take a seat. We're so glad you're here today.

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Speaker 2: We're continuing in the series Savage Jesus from the Gospel

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Speaker 2: of Mark. Believe me when I say that, I never

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Speaker 2: thought i'd say. This is the tenth installment of this series.

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Speaker 2: I usually preach short and sweet, but I got in

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Speaker 2: the Gospel of Mark and then I couldn't get out.

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Speaker 2: So today we'll be in Mark chapter six. I want

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Speaker 2: to introduce my scripture by way of a story. When

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Speaker 2: I wrote my first book, I had the privilege to

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Speaker 2: record the audio book myself, and they sent a very

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Speaker 2: professional recording engineer from the publishing company to record the book.

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Speaker 2: And he would stop me and correct me if I

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Speaker 2: made any mistakes, if I got a little too southern.

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Speaker 2: He was a Northern Pharisee and he judged my accent

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Speaker 2: and he'd say, it's little Twangie. Let's get it again,

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Speaker 2: or if I smacked my lips or mispronounced the word,

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Speaker 2: he'd back it up and make me catch it again.

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Speaker 1: And it was annoying, but.

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Speaker 2: I appreciated his professionalism. And because the publisher was the

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Speaker 2: largest publisher in the world. Now, not the publisher that

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Speaker 2: I wrote for. The publisher that I wrote for was

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Speaker 2: owned by a publisher who was owned by a publisher

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Speaker 2: that was the biggest publishing company in the world. This

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Speaker 2: guy worked for the big publisher and because of it,

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Speaker 2: he had worked with a lot of big names. And

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Speaker 2: this was my first book and my first time and

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Speaker 2: I kept having to take breaks and my mouth would

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Speaker 2: get dry, and so during one of those breaks, I

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Speaker 2: realized that this guy had worked with a lot of

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Speaker 2: famous people, and I asked him to tell me a

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Speaker 2: story to entertain me during my break. I said, tell

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Speaker 2: me about somebody you worked with that was difficult, And

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Speaker 2: he told me a story about a very well known

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Speaker 2: political figure. I don't know if the story is true,

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Speaker 2: a good story.

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Speaker 1: That's my motto. So I'm gonna tell the story.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to say the name, but it was

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Speaker 2: a famous political figure. Who was recording his memoir about

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Speaker 2: his life. That was after he had served his term

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Speaker 2: for eight years something like that in office.

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Speaker 1: Now I can tell you who it was.

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Speaker 2: But he said that when they were recording the memoir,

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Speaker 2: it was very long.

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Speaker 1: It was about a seven or eight hundred.

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Speaker 2: And so when they were recording the audiobook, they had

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Speaker 2: And at one particular point in the memoir, there was

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Speaker 2: notable figure's life related to offices of oval nature and

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Speaker 2: Telling me about it, he said, when they got to

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Speaker 2: Said uh, he stopped, and he was going to skip it,

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Speaker 2: and he stopped the recording and he said, I don't

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Speaker 2: this is significant. And that's my title for my message today.

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Speaker 2: For Today comes from Mark chapter six, something that marked

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Speaker 1: Mark six, verse forty five records.

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Speaker 2: When they saw him walking on the lake, they thought

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Speaker 2: Touch the neighbor you've been ignoring and say this is significant.

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Speaker 1: So if you've ever been around church at all, you've

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Speaker 1: heard this Bible story.

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Speaker 2: If you've ever been anywhere near a church, you've heard

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Speaker 2: about this Bible story. If you ever happened to drive

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Speaker 2: ever played on church softball team, you heard curse words

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Speaker 2: and this Bible story. It's a significant story because it

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Speaker 2: teaches us that Jesus Christ is lord of all creation. Theologically,

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Speaker 2: he is sovereign. He is sovereign. It's an epiphany story

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Speaker 2: in that it gives us a revelation of Jesus Christ

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Speaker 2: that is consistent with the revelation of Jesus Christ that

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Speaker 2: meeting with God. The disclosure at that point was I am.

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Speaker 2: Moses said, who are you? God said, I am.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting how God would spend the next several centuries

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Speaker 2: significant because a lot of times I assumed in my

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Speaker 2: God and he'll take your burdens away. Turn your life

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Speaker 2: Of times claims to faith are actually our efforts to

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Speaker 2: that God is not for you. Many times, the confirmation

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Speaker 2: the wind is against you. We're discovering this in our

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Speaker 2: study of the Gospel of Mark. We are learning that

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Speaker 2: resistance is often the greatest place for revelation. Would you

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Speaker 2: please take that elevation pin that cost about eleven or

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Speaker 2: and use it to sina check this week, write it down.

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Speaker 2: Resistance leads to revelation. Resistance leads to revelation. The wind

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Speaker 1: He sent them to beth Seda. They went to Bethseda.

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Speaker 2: I got it when it was Jonah, because the wind

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Speaker 2: was against Jonah because he wasn't going to Ninevah.

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Speaker 2: And I can't understand how God could be with me

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Speaker 3: On the right track. Here's why.

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Speaker 2: Here's why I'm gonna help somebody. You want to turn

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Speaker 1: The wind is against you.

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Speaker 2: So that you will know that it is the Lord's

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Speaker 2: If it were easy, you would think the wrong things.

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Speaker 2: If the wind wasn't against you, you wouldn't need the

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Speaker 3: Calm down, verdict.

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Speaker 2: This is just the introduction and so Jesus, savage Jesus.

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Speaker 1: The Jesus that's in the Bible, not the Jesus this.

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Speaker 2: On Pinterest, Savage Jesus, real life Jesus, Monday morning Jesus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got to go.

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Speaker 2: Then Jesus climbed into the boat. Peter said, don't tell

446
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 2: him what happened when I climbed out. Tell him what

447
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 2: happened when he climbed in.

448
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 1: That's so good.

449
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 2: I want to sit down and then stand up and

450
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,959
Speaker 2: run a lap around this Balentine.

451
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 1: Building all by myself.

452
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 2: It's not important what happened when Peter climbed out. It's

453
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 2: not important what happened when Peter stepped out. It's not

454
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 2: important what happened when they were straining all night, all

455
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 2: night long, they strained to get to Jesus. But the

456
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 2: wind didn't stop while they were straining. The wind did

457
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,679
Speaker 2: not die down because Peter came to Jesus. The wind

458
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 2: died down because Jesus came to Peter.

459
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: And that's the gospel.

460
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 2: Not that I came to God, not because I was

461
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 2: so good, not because I was so glorious, not because

462
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 2: I got my act together. No, I'm not praising him

463
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 2: because I got out of the boat.

464
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 3: I'm praising him because he.

465
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: Got in.

466
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 3: And the wind died down.

467
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: Now go ahead and worship him for eighteen seconds because

468
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 2: I got up because he got in.

469
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, who whoa, whoa.

470
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 2: I find somebody saying that is significant, Not that I

471
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 2: loved God, but that he loved me, and.

472
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 3: I'm in a storm right now, but the storm is

473
00:26:51,640 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 3: not significant because help is on the way.

474
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: It's the contrast of straining versus submission.

475
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 2: And he was showing them to do what he commanded

476
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: the wind to do. Submit, and they they were amazed

477
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 2: at this. They were amazed. They were amazed at the

478
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 2: wind did what he said. In fact, the wind did

479
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 2: what he didn't even have to tell it to do.

480
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: Let me appreciate to LJ for a minute.

481
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 2: He gets bored back here because he has to play

482
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 2: three times on the weekend. And I just want to

483
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 2: tell him this real QUI because I didn't mentioned in any.

484
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: Other of the worst experiences.

485
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 2: Last time Jesus calmed the storm, he said, peace be still.

486
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 2: So he calmed the storm with his words this time.

487
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 2: If you check the record, he didn't even say anything

488
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 2: to the storm. The storm stopped just because he sat

489
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 2: down in the boat with the disciples. That lets me

490
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 2: know that all I need is his presence. All I

491
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 2: need is his presence. I don't need proof that he

492
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 2: is with me. When he got in the boat, the

493
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: storm sat down. When he sat down, Why he is

494
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 2: the puppet, He is the Lord, He is the.

495
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 3: Great I am.

496
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: He is the bread.

497
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 2: Of life, and he sent them against the wind because

498
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 2: he needed a situation to reveal his sufficiency.

499
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: That's what he needed, and so the storm.

500
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 2: Served that purpose, just like the hungry crowd. Just like

501
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 2: the hungry crowd, because verse fifty two tells us why

502
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 2: they were amazed.

503
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: Look at somebody said, this is significant.

504
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 2: Come on, only about forty five percent of you did

505
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 2: what I told you to do.

506
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: Tell them this is significant.

507
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 2: They were amazed for they had not understood about the loaves.

508
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 5: Their hearts were hardened. What does bread have to do

509
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 5: with a boat.

510
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 2: And this is where we need to mention a significant miracle.

511
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 2: This miracle is so significant that Matthew, Mark Luke, and

512
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: John all put it in their memoir their audio book.

513
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 2: They put it in even though it wasn't a resurrection

514
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 2: or a healing. One day Jesus fed five thousand men,

515
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 2: the women, and the children, and he did it with

516
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: a little boy's lunch. I personally think Peter beat up

517
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: the little boy and took his lunch.

518
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: Only reason why I have kids.

519
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 2: I've never seen my kids voluntarily do anything sacrificial. So

520
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: in my mind, the little boy did not willingly offer

521
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 2: his lunch.

522
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: But you read the Bible. How you want to read

523
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: the Bible on your own time? Right now? I got

524
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: the microphone. Peter beat up the boy, took his lunch, brought.

525
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 2: It to Jesus. This is significant. This miracle is so

526
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 2: significant because Jesus, when he was feeding the crowd, he

527
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 2: was revealing himself as to Christ, and everybody ate and

528
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 2: they all got their.

529
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: Fill that day. Pointed out real quick.

530
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 2: While we have a moment because I don't know when

531
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 2: I'll get to see you again, somebody, you don't come

532
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 2: to church enough.

533
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: Just while we're here.

534
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 2: The miracle came from somebody who was not even included

535
00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 2: in the official count.

536
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: It was five thousand men, women, and children.

537
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: God's greatest miracles often come from what people consider insignificant sources.

538
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: That's why you can't let the world.

539
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 2: Ever define your significance, because the world celebrates all the

540
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: wrong stuff, all the wrong stuff. We find significance in status.

541
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 2: We find significance sometimes and we even call it our

542
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 2: significant other. Okay, but this is an announcement. You don't

543
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 2: need any other to be significant. I'm not against the term.

544
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 2: I'm not against the term, but you don't have to

545
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: be a Duchess of Sussex to be significant. No, not

546
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 2: to be significant in the eyes of God. If significance

547
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 2: was predicated on marital status, Jesus was insignificant. He was

548
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: never merit. Neither was Paul. But the world breaks all

549
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,959
Speaker 2: the wrong stuff and so we wait for it significance

550
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 2: to be assigned by something.

551
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 3: Outside of God.

552
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 2: But I am not significant because somebody recognized me as significant.

553
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 2: I am significant because of someone who died for me,

554
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 2: who created me, and who lives in me. This is significant,

555
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: real quick, real quick. I'm really proud of Elevation Worship.

556
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 2: They got nominated for a Billboard Award Christian Album Christian song,

557
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 2: Oh Come to the Altar, and I think that's really

558
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 2: cool and I think it's wonderful.

559
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: And I don't know if we'll win it or not.

560
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 2: Somebody said we probably won't win it this year, and

561
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 2: it's not a competition, but I'd love to beat Hillsong.

562
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: Don't put this online, edit this out, and one day

563
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 2: maybe we will. But I'm not waiting to see if

564
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 2: we win the award. Here's why I saw Oh Come

565
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: to the Altar when it was born. I remember when

566
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: we wrote it and imagined our church singing it, and

567
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: then I saw the church start to sing it, and

568
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 2: I saw people baptized while we were singing, Oh, Come

569
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 2: to the Altar. I saw people baptized while we were

570
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: singing The Father's arms are open wide. Forgiveness was bought

571
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: with the precious blood.

572
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: Of Jesus Christ.

573
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 2: So I don't need Billboard to tell me what baptism

574
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 2: already did. So if Chris Brown gets an award, that's wonderful.

575
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 2: But if Billboard didn't recognize, Oh, come to the Altar,

576
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 2: touch somebody say, it's still significant. And if people appreciate me,

577
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 2: that's wonderful. But if they never recognized me, I'm still significant.

578
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 2: There's a word for somebody.

579
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 3: If I got a date, great, If.

580
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 2: I don't, I'm still significant. If I did the job, wonderful.

581
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: If I don't, I'm still significant.

582
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 3: If you like me, good less hung it out, but

583
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 3: it not Pomps.

584
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm almost Dunn. This is significant.

585
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: This is significant because I saw Chris Brown in a

586
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 2: prison during Love Week. He wasn't a member, was there

587
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 2: voluntarily for the record. He was singing, and he finished

588
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 2: singing and we were leaving. IP preached he's saying, and

589
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 2: a prisoner came up to me and said, before you go,

590
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,959
Speaker 2: can you single come to the altar? That's the song

591
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 2: that got me through. And I hope he can get

592
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 2: a billboard. But I watched him single come to the

593
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 2: altar to one prisoner, and that was significant. This is

594
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 2: significant this season. It's hard to see the significance of

595
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: the season you're in. You see it better when you're

596
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 2: out of it. That's why it's hard to raise kids.

597
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 2: I love being a parent. I joke about it a lot.

598
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 2: Is actually my favorite thing that I do. I just

599
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: play around like as hard as really for me, it's

600
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 2: just super easy. I just I always know the wisdom

601
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:41,840
Speaker 2: and I'm always like watching my kids play all these sports.

602
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 2: It's kind of hard sometimes because now they've got so

603
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 2: much pressure on us as parents.

604
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: Maybe this is a suburban thing. I don't know.

605
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: You gotta be at every recital or your kid's gonna

606
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 2: end up in therapy as a serial killer. It's pressure.

607
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 2: I try to get out there. Sometimes there's running around

608
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: and is this significant? Is this significant? And then I

609
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 2: get I get caught up in insignificant things and I

610
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 2: missed significant things like the disciples almost missed the miracle

611
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: that day of the Feeding of the five thousand, the

612
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:16,760
Speaker 2: one that's in all four gospels.

613
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why they all included it, because.

614
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 2: They all almost missed it because they wanted to send

615
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 2: the crowds away.

616
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: I show you something real quick. This is this is Graham.

617
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 2: You got it in the back. I didn't use it

618
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 2: the other times, but yeah, this is Graham pinning a joker.

619
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 2: It was good. It was a little tournament that was

620
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 2: the championship match of the tournament.

621
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: It was on a Saturday.

622
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 2: Normally I'd be preaching that particular Saturday, I had somebody

623
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 2: else preaching for me. Look who he's looking at now.

624
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 2: Guess who he's looking at when he's I mean, he

625
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 2: just pinned him. The ref just slapped the mat and

626
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 2: he looks up like what. And I like it because

627
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 2: I like it because what he said to me when

628
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 2: he came back up. I said, isn't the cool how

629
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 2: I went and preaching today so I could watch you

630
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 2: in this tournament? And what if I had missed it?

631
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,959
Speaker 2: He said, well, if you had missed it, I probably

632
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 2: wouldn't have won it. And I was like, if you

633
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: never say anything, just never talk again until you go

634
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 2: to college. Let's end on that note.

635
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: The same thing.

636
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 2: You could take it down, although I'd be happy to

637
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 2: put it on Instagram for you Instagram.

638
00:37:54,440 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 6: Anyway, It's hard to know.

639
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't always get to see the gold medal.

640
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: They don't hand out a gold medal.

641
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 2: In fact, when it says that the disciples did not

642
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 2: understand about the loaves, they were amazed, because show the

643
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 2: verse again, verse fifty two.

644
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: This first got my attention.

645
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 2: Really, this is my whole message, because it says they

646
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: were amazed when he got in the boat and the

647
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 2: winds died because they had not understood about the loaves.

648
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: It just happened. It was the thing that happened right

649
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 1: before the storm. It had just happened.

650
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 2: It wasn't years later, and they forgot it had just happened.

651
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 2: You know how God provides for you, and then you

652
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: go into a different test and you forget the lesson

653
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 2: because it's a different test, and God provided.

654
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,879
Speaker 1: For you in a bigger way back there.

655
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 2: But now you're struggling with a little thing here and

656
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 2: you trip over an insignificant thing when God has already

657
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 2: done the most significant thing, which.

658
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: Is to save your soul.

659
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 2: They understood about the loaves on one level. Physically, they ate.

660
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 2: They understood about the loaves on one level. The crowds

661
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 2: were fed. But what they didn't understand is that Jesus

662
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 2: did not feed the multitudes so they could know what

663
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 2: he did. He fed the multitude so they could know

664
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 2: who he was. The lesson of the loaves is not

665
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 2: I am your burger, king your way right away. The

666
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 2: lesson of the loaves is not that you will never

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Speaker 2: be hungry, or you will never hurt, or you will

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Speaker 2: never wonder, or you will never doubt. The lesson of

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Speaker 2: the loaves is I am the bread of life.

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Speaker 1: I am. It is me.

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Speaker 2: It was me when you were hungry. It was me

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Speaker 2: when you were lonely. It was me when you were depressed.

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Speaker 2: It was me when you were anxious. It was me

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Speaker 2: on the mountaintop, it was me in the valley. The

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Speaker 2: Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want, I will

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Speaker 2: fear no evil.

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Speaker 1: He is with me in this moment. It's me.

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Speaker 3: It was me then, and it's me now. It was

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Speaker 3: me that got you through that.

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Speaker 1: It's me that will see you through this. And if

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Speaker 1: I am in the boat, the wind must submit.

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Speaker 2: To my word, I am with you. And they didn't

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Speaker 2: get it. They saw the miracle, they experienced the miracle.

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Speaker 2: They're the ones who handed out the bread to the people.

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Speaker 2: But you can experience a miracle and miss the significance.

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Speaker 1: So God saved you, But what did he save you for?

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Speaker 2: So you could spend the rest of your life carrying

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Speaker 2: the shame he died to take away and nail to hiss?

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Speaker 1: Is that what he saved you for?

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Speaker 2: God saved you, But what did he save you for

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Speaker 2: so you could live the rest of your life just

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Speaker 2: as selfish as you live the first part of your life,

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Speaker 2: but with a cross around your neck this time?

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Speaker 1: What did he save you for?

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Speaker 2: You can experience the miracle of salvation but miss the

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Speaker 2: significant something.

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Speaker 1: God didn't just save you from.

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Speaker 2: He saved you for a purpose, a mission, a calling.

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Speaker 2: And the miracle was not just that the people were fed.

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Speaker 2: The miracle was not just that they ate bread. The

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Speaker 2: miracle is not just what God does for you. The

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Speaker 2: miracle is that you see who He is. This is beautiful.

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Speaker 2: It is so beautiful that it bears repeating. It bears repeating,

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Speaker 2: and in Mark chapter eight, this miracle is so significant

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Speaker 2: it happens again. One way you can tell when something

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Speaker 2: is important is when.

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Speaker 1: It is repeated.

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Speaker 2: So the disciples find themselves in a situation that is

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Speaker 2: very similar. There's a big crowd and there's no food.

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Speaker 2: You know, like last time when you were worried and

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Speaker 2: upset and you didn't think you were gonna make it,

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Speaker 2: and you made it. And now here you are again,

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Speaker 2: and the wind's blown again, and you don't think you're

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Speaker 2: gonna make it. A spoiler alert, you will. That's the

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Speaker 2: lesson of the lows. That's the lesson of the I

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Speaker 2: didn't mean to ruin the movie for you, But at

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Speaker 2: the end of this thing, you're gonna be in bed, saydom,

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Speaker 2: because if he told you I'll meet you on the

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Speaker 2: other side, you don't die in the lake in the middle.

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Speaker 1: Of the nine.

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Speaker 3: Come on, cherch has he not shown you? Don't you

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Speaker 3: see it? Don't you hear it?

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Speaker 2: It's the same voice, the same God.

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Speaker 1: And so he feeds the crowd. In Mark chapter eight,

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Speaker 1: and the.

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Speaker 2: Bible says Mark eight fourteen, the disciples had forgotten to

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Speaker 2: bring bread. Stand up, it'll make me close, quicker, don't leave,

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Speaker 2: it'll make me angry. The disciples had forgotten to bring bread,

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Speaker 2: except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to.

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Speaker 2: Correct the scripture, but there were actually.

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Speaker 1: Two loaves in the boat. One of them was the

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Speaker 1: bread they could see.

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Speaker 2: Be careful, Jesus warned them, watch out for the yeast

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Speaker 2: of the Pharisees and that of Herod. He is warning

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Speaker 2: them against the seemingly insignificant compromises.

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Speaker 1: That corrode your faith.

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Speaker 2: Watch out, said, your words are significant, your habits are significant,

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Speaker 2: your friendships are significant. Watch out for that that yeast.

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Speaker 2: And when he said yeast, they thought about bread. And

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Speaker 2: they discussed this with one another and said, it.

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Speaker 1: Is because we have no bread. They still didn't get it.

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Speaker 2: They saw him do it, and they still didn't get

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Speaker 2: that he was it. They're still worried about provision. You're

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Speaker 2: still worried about bills. You're still worry We're still thinking

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Speaker 2: on the level of what we can see. Jesus, aware

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Speaker 2: of their discussion, asked them a question, why are you

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Speaker 2: talking about having no bread? Why are you worrying about

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Speaker 2: something that I've already worked out. Why are you doubting

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Speaker 2: something that you've already seen me do so many times before?

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Speaker 1: Do you still not see or understand?

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Speaker 2: Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail

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Speaker 2: to see? And ears but failed to hear? Do you

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Speaker 2: still hear Laurel when it's really Yanny?

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Speaker 1: And don't you remember.

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Speaker 2: When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand,

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Speaker 2: how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?

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Speaker 1: Twelve? They reply.

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Speaker 2: When I read that, I thought the significance of the

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Speaker 2: miracle is in the numbers. You know, five is the

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Speaker 2: number of grace in the Bible. It represents grace symbolic,

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Speaker 2: twelve disciples, twelve tribes, a number of government. So I

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Speaker 2: thought it was about the numbers. But then verse twenty

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Speaker 2: says when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand,

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Speaker 2: how many basketballs and pieces did you pick up? And

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Speaker 2: then I said, well, seven is the number of completion

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Speaker 2: and four thousand, really I can't really do anything with that.

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Speaker 2: They answered seven. He said, do you still not understand?

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Speaker 2: And then I read it again verse nineteen, Verse nineteen,

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Speaker 2: verse nineteen when I broke, And then I read verse

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Speaker 2: twenty when I broke, and I realized the significance of

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Speaker 2: the miracle is that the bread had to be broken

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Speaker 2: They wouldn't understand this really until he went to the cross.

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Speaker 2: They ate the bread, but they did not understand the

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Speaker 2: significance until he was crushed for our transgressions and bruised

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Speaker 2: for our iniquities, because the bread couldn't be given until

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Speaker 2: it was broken. When you were in a breaking season

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Speaker 2: of your life, and you are being broken of your

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Speaker 2: pride and your stubbornness, your opinions, and you're straining against

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Speaker 2: the wind, it is easy to begin to believe that

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Speaker 2: it is going to break you. But God will not

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Speaker 2: allow life to break you. That's his job. And when

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Speaker 2: you're in his hands, like the song said, prepare that

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Speaker 2: chorus of do it again, we're going to sing it.

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Speaker 2: I'm still in your hands. We're going to sing that,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to understand that. The lesson of the

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Speaker 2: loaves is not that everybody went home with a full belly.

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Speaker 1: The lesson of the loaves is this. The end of

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Speaker 1: your story is not that you are broken. The end

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Speaker 1: of the.

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Speaker 2: Story is the basket false. This story does not end

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Speaker 2: in brokenness. This story ends with leftovers.

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Speaker 1: I want to let you know today this is significant.

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Speaker 1: God is not done with you. That God is not

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Speaker 1: done with you.

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Speaker 2: I'm reaching this word for somebody who's been straining against

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Speaker 2: the wind.

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Speaker 1: Grace is coming to your pope.

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Speaker 2: The bread is in the Master's hands, and the bread

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Speaker 2: was only broken to be given. Lift your hands in

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Speaker 2: the presence of God, no one moving.

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Speaker 1: This is my.

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Speaker 2: Confidence that he is faithful, faithfulness.

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Speaker 1: I'm stealing you hands.

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Speaker 3: This is my conference.

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Speaker 1: You never.

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Speaker 3: You promised.

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Speaker 2: See its greed is your faithfulness, faithness. I'm sealing you.

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Speaker 2: This is my contents, you nevers.

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Speaker 3: You've drawn, missieus. It greed is your faith faith See,

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Speaker 3: this is my confidence.

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Speaker 1: Listen, here's what you do. You take what you learned

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Speaker 1: from the loaves, and you remember it in the storm.

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Speaker 1: You take the basketful.

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Speaker 2: From the last time that God provided for you, and

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Speaker 2: the next time the wind begins to rage in your life,

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Speaker 2: you remember that if Jesus is in this boat with me,

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Speaker 2: if I draw near to God, he will draw near

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Speaker 2: to me. And as we worship him as the Son

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Speaker 2: of God. Today the wind has to die down, anxiety

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Speaker 2: has to shut it fro out in the presence of God.

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Speaker 3: Because we know who he is and we've seen what

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Speaker 3: he's done. We have faithful what he's gonna do?

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Speaker 2: Does anybody believe He's with you in this season in time?

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Speaker 2: this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible.

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