WEBVTT - Expiration Date 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.479 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.240 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.000 I want to share with you from John chapter six, 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.959 verse forty eight through fifty. And if you want to 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.840 join me on the app that you have on your phone, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.720 or if you brought a physical copy of God's Word. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:32.880 If not, we'll just put it on the screen there 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.240 for you. I'll be sharing from the NIV nineteen eighty 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.080 four version. No, I'm serious, there's different ones, so you'll 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.720 see a few of the words are different. That was 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.040 not a joke, but they change it, they revise it, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.239 and so this may be a few words different than 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.320 what you're reading and what I normally preach from. But 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.760 listen to this Jesus. It says, I am the bread 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.520 of life. Your forefathers ate the man in the desert, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.760 yet they die. But here is the bread that comes 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:09.600 down from Heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.600 I like that so much when I read it I'm 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.560 gonna go back for seconds. Let's go back. Let's go back, 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.480 Let's read the whole thing again. That's what you came 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.920 for anyway, is the word of God. That thing came 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.480 alive to me last night I was preaching it. I 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.199 was talking to my pastor, Pastor Craig Rochelle, after church 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.080 on the porch. I started pacing all around the backyard 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.199 telling him how these verses just have been coming alive 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.120 for me. I was preaching to him on the phone. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.160 Whether he wanted to hear it or not. I think 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.320 he put me on speaker or mute or something like that. 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.160 When cut the grass, but it said, I am the 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.840 bread of life. Your forefathers ate the man in the desert, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.280 yet they die. But here is the bread. Somebody said, 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.960 here is the bread. Here is the bread that comes 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.600 down from Heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.440 I want to use just as a title today expiration date, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.480 and touch somebody next to you and say check the label. Amen, 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:10.880 you may be seated. It's so crazy how you can 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.520 think you really know somebody for years and then they 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.079 just do something that makes you question everything you thought 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.520 you knew about them. You sound like you're going through something, 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:31.000 are they sitting next to you? I mean, I can 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:36.840 tell you Holly's favorite movies, her favorite color, her favorite stores, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.480 her favorite brands within her favorite stores. I know a 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.760 lot of things about that woman. I know her favorite books, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.560 audio books. I know her favorite book club that she's 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.760 having this week, what she's reading for her book club 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:57.160 this week. But even sometimes in the context of a 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.280 marriage that you really think you know somebody, they would 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:07.280 just shock you. The other day, she horrified me because 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.120 I thought I knew her so well until I went 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.640 in the refrigerator and I pulled out some cheese. I 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.359 was just going to eat a few blocks of cheddar 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:23.240 from my low carb lifestyle, says for a snack, And 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.480 I looked at it and it said it was expired 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.079 three months ago. Fridge was so full, you know, But 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.160 I saw that, so as I'm going to throw it away, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.600 she stands in front of me and blocks me from 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.760 putting the cheese. She says, oh, oh, you gotta smell 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:49.960 it first, and I'm like, no, babe, I don't. It 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.640 says right here on the label it's expired. And she said, oh, 0:03:53.680 --> 0:04:04.200 I feed you expired food all the time, and she said, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:12.840 the expiration date is just a suggestion. I'm like the 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:18.599 devil is a lie o. Smell it. You know, you 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:23.400 think you know somebody, turns out they're poisoning you trying 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.760 to collect that life insurance. Want to see about that 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:36.800 term life insurance. But you know it really should be 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.720 in your relationship with God that you think you know him, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.200 you think you know what he's like, and just as 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.320 your life experiences accumulate, and just the ways that you 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.839 witness Him working in your life that you didn't expect 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.520 and that you didn't predict and that did not fit 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.080 your preconceived notions of what God was like eighteen years ago. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:01.920 He doesn't change, but the way that we see him 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:09.680 should and must. It must expand, it must. Y'all won't 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.680 like this word because you think it's like an atheist word. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:16.400 Evolve to include the parts of who He is that 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.520 we didn't know about in our arrogance and our pride, 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.839 because as we've become broken by the trials of life, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.440 it leaves spaces for God to get in. And he 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:27.479 couldn't get in when we were all sealed up type 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.360 by thinking we were perfect. But then when you live 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.279 a little while wave at me in the back. When 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.840 you live a little while, you get about to that 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.040 age where you start to say, well, I thought I 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.360 saw everything. I thought I knew who was a good 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.799 Christian and who wasn't I thought I knew. I thought, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.080 I thought I knew what God would always do and 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.719 what God was always like. But he was just always 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.480 surprising them. In the person of Jesus Christ, as he 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:57.599 walked the earth, he was showing them progressively who he was, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.520 and he wasn't changing to be something that he wasn't. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.880 They were just seeing what he had been all along. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.040 That required a sort of rewiring because if you go 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.240 off of what they thought in the Old Testament, they 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.560 saw a lot of wrath and vengeance because that was 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.080 the way that they saw God through that lens. But 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.760 as you track through the Redemptive history, the God of 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.520 the Bible is revealed as one who not only is 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.839 full of love and full of grace, but he is love. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.160 He is grace. See it doesn't say God has love. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:37.320 God is love. We beheld his glory, the glory as 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.000 of the only begotton of the Father, full of grace 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.960 and truth. He was always full of grace and truth. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.640 We just beheld it in the person of Christ. But 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.000 it's progressive. And there is a reason that God does 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.800 not show you everything all at once. It's called mercy. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.520 If he shows you the whole thing, you would die, 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.320 you would give up, you would quit, and you would 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:04.360 be so overwhelm. So because he is kind and because 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.279 he is wise, he progressively shows you himself, and he 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.840 progressively shows you his purpose for your life. So you 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.040 can't figure it out all at once. And if you 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:18.240 are a planner aka control freak, this will stress you out. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.120 It stressed the disciples out. He would not tell them everything. 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.480 They would show up to preach you. I'm a preach 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.320 a little bit. In fact, it's worse than that, okay, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.040 John chapter six, He's like, let's get away. John the 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.960 Baptist has just been beheaded. Things are going crazy. Let's 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:33.920 get away. He didn't tell him there'd be a crowd 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.840 waiting on the other side, not because he didn't know, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:37.720 but probably because he knew they wouldn't go with him 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.040 if they knew. So some things God does not show 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:41.880 you about what's waiting for you on the other side 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.560 because he knows you won't go if he tells you 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.160 what's there, so he'll get you there and then show 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.400 you the reason that he came to begin with. Well, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.960 he starts healing people right, he starts blessing, he starts teaching. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.480 It gets late the disciples. I know you've heard this 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.679 story before, even if you only went to church once. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.000 It's like Hall of Fame Bible story. Five thousand men, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.160 women and children, five loaves of bread, two fish, one 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.920 little boy who Peter beat up and took his lunch. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.320 I put that in as a it's a speculation. It's 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.480 a speculation just thinking about how that boy gave his lunch. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.600 I have kids. I've never seen them voluntarily give it 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.800 anything to the Lord and so or anybody. But but 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.240 there's there's this sense in which they they were, they 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.400 were they were gleaning what they could about the identity 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.440 of this Christ that they chose to follow by the 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.240 activities that they saw him do. And yet what what 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.480 God confusing was that a lot of times people would 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.200 get so caught up in what he did that they 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.640 would miss the point of who he was. So John 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.240 gives us seven statements in his Gospel alone that he 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.680 collects that start with the name of God that was 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.120 revealed to Moses at the Burning Bush. I am this 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.679 is the first one. I am the bread of life. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.560 And how many are grateful that the first thing that 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:11.959 Jesus wanted to be identified with was sustenance carbohydrates. How 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.720 many are grateful that the first thing he wanted you 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.440 to know is I am not only your provider. I 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:23.880 am your provision. If I'm just your provider, then you 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.920 need what comes from my hand. But if I am 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.800 your provision, you can trust my heart to know that, 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.480 even if it's not coming your way, everything you need 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.280 for life and godliness is in me. I am the 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.040 bread of life. I am the light of the world. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.079 If you can't see your next step, it's all right. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.760 I'll give you enough light for the next step that 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.880 I've called you to take, not the next fifteen hundred. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:54.160 It is a progressive revelation. I am the gate that 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.560 means you come in through me, you go out through me. 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.440 Church is not the gate. Other people are not the gate. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.760 They don't get to decide what your life becomes or 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.520 what it doesn't. I am the Gate. I am the 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.040 good Shepherd. I will lead you through the valley of 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.120 the shadow of death. It's just a shadow, because I 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.280 am the resurrection and the life. Even the things that 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.079 have died in your life are subject to resurrection. I 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.240 serve notice on dead bones. If the breath of God 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.000 hits the bones in the valley, they have to rise 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.720 up and live in the name of the Lord. I 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.720 am the vine, the true vine. There's imitators, there's substitutes, 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:37.079 but they can't sustain you. I am the bread of life. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.600 And in order to get them to see it, he 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.400 has to bring them all the way back to their experiences, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.960 and many of these experiences happen before they weerever around. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.840 And in order to get you to see that God 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.560 is your provider, I want to show you something from 0:10:55.600 --> 0:11:00.080 Exodus chapter sixteen that really speaks to me about and 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.040 how in some seasons of my life I feel like 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.959 the demand is greater than the supply. The disciples weren't 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.760 the first one that got put in a situation that 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.520 was too much for them. So I'm preaching to people 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.640 who are looking at too much in an area of 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.480 your life today. And I believe, if nothing other than 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.720 the device that is in your pocket, we are living 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:30.520 in a time of too much, too much information. They're 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.240 showing us now through studies on compassion fatigue, that by 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.160 knowing everything bad that happens in the world, we are 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.680 becoming unable to mobilize to do anything about the real 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.760 things that we can affect, because we are so overwhelmed 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:48.679 with too much, too much. The Disciples saw the crowds. 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.920 They said, it's getting late, Jesus. This is John chapter six, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.800 before he said I'm the Bread of life. This is 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.920 what led up to that statement. This is the story 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.079 behind the statement. He wasn't just saying something out of context. 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.439 He took the bred and multiplied it and everybody was fed. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.880 But before that happened, the disciples tendency was like the 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.199 same tendency we have when it's just too much, Send 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:13.840 them away, send them away. It's just too much. I 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:18.200 can't fix it all. It's too much. It's too much debt, financially, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.800 I don't even know where to start digging out of this. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.320 It's just it's just too much. It's too much, too 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.880 much on my schedule, it's too much. And then if 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.720 the if the spirit of too much stays on you 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:40.120 too long, it'll become the spirit of not enough. And 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.359 so then you start evaluating your potential on the basis 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.960 of your experiences and and what God is so good 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.920 at in moments like these in our lives. If you're 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.880 in a moment like that in your life, and I 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.840 know I certainly have been where where you start sending 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.960 opportunities away because you don't believe you have the reces 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.280 to meet the need, you can relate with this passage 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.080 and this statement, I am the bread of life. So 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.199 recently and I'm going to share with you exit of 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.520 sixteen in a minute. I didn't forget, but I started 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.720 noticing that I was turning down things that I believe 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.280 God wanted me to do, but it wasn't even because 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.760 I was too busy to do them. I started to 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.120 feel like I didn't have enough to give, and it 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.000 started scaring me that maybe I was going to get 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.240 out there to try to do it and I wouldn't 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.400 have what people expected me to have. So I started 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.160 to send stuff away that God was trying to bring 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.080 to me to multiply his provision and to use me, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.400 which is what I wanted. But when you stay in 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.640 the spirit of too much long enough, it becomes a 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.280 deep feeling of not enough. And I believe that I'm 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.240 looking at people today. I believe it's a cultural epidemic 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.599 that we have never been in a time where we 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.560 have felt more deprived and depleted and insufficient to face 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.680 life's challenges, because we are constantly exposed to the world's 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:13.240 entire need, all at once. So Jesus says, your fathers 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.240 ate Manna in the wilderness. Last week, I talked about 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.920 the wilderness, and I talked about finding your water in 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.760 dry places, that God will always put a rock where 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.200 water will come from, even in the driest, most difficult 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.520 seasons of your life. And how that when you're too 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:38.720 hungry or to thirsty, you become susceptible to substitutes, which 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.240 is why you can be tempted to turn stones into bread. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:47.440 The Wilderness passage, which Jesus demonstrated by overcoming temptation and 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.120 the nation of Israel succumbed to the temptation, is mentioned 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.240 in Exitus sixteen. Remember that they came through the Red Sea. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.320 They had been in Egypt for a long time, suffering 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.240 under slavery. They came through the Red Sea. They dwelt 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.040 in a place called the wilderness. That wasn't the name 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.160 of it. It was several stops along the way for 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.360 a little while after they left Egypt. Apparently they had 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.920 some snack packs, but at the point that the food 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.400 ran out, they were caught in an interesting situation, just 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.880 like the disciples in John six where we're in a 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.360 remote place and we don't have enough to do what 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.320 we need to do. And I want you to look 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.240 at the scripture because it's kind of a test that 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.480 some of you are dealing with right now, the do 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.440 you trust me now? Test. You get so many opportunities 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:40.440 in your life to trust God again, and every time 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.560 you trust him on a different level, in a different scenario, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.680 you see a different dimension of who He is and 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.440 what he can do. Now, look at this in Exodus 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:54.920 chapter sixteen, if I can ever find it, Yeah, here 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.200 it says the whole israre like community. Right there first 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.040 one the hole is your like community. Set out from 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.800 Elam and came to the hazard of Sin, which is 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.440 between Elim and Sinai on the fifteenth day of the 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.680 second month, after they had come out of Egypt, where 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.600 they had been for four hundred and thirty years. In Egypt, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.760 where they initially went to escape of famine, that was 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.920 in Canaan, but then in Egypt, the place where they 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.520 went to escape the famine became the place where they 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.720 were enslaved by Pharaoh. We dealt with that last week. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.640 Watched the message. It's free on YouTube and you have 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.560 no excuse not to watch it. Download the podcast, download 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.960 the app, and watch the message. But where it brings 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.520 us to is they're out of Egypt, but they're not 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.960 into Canaan. They are in a place where they need 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.240 God's provision, but they have not fully accessed the promise 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:47.080 of God. I call this the disappointment of deliverance. It's 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.960 when God brings you out of something, but not all 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.480 the way into anything either. It's when you raise your 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.960 hand to receive Christ and you still have issues with 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.920 your anger. It's when you believe God touched Darren worship 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.640 and you still have bursidis in your right knee when 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.440 you go home. It's when God makes you a promise 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.840 and speaks a word concerning your daughter and her attitude 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.560 gets worse on Tuesday than it was last Wednesday. It's 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.760 the disappointment of deliverance when He brings you out, brings 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.600 you through, brings you forward, but now they're in a 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.160 stuck place. Really to wonder what will we eat? And 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.720 they don't pass the test because instead of gratitude for 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.280 the grace of God that brought them this far, they 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:34.639 begin to grumble about what's ahead now list is in 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:40.800 Bible times. We don't deal with this anymore. You know, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:46.000 the Bible's outdated times have change. But they they came 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:51.159 out of Egypt. Watch this when the expiration date on 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:55.919 their season of suffering had reached the ears of heaven. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.600 Everything you go through in your life, everything that even 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.480 the enemy does in your life, anything you do to 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:10.480 yourself in your life, it can't go on forever. And 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.720 here's why it can't go on forever, because you are 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.159 not in charge of the calendar of events of the 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.360 purpose of God in the world. So even if the 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.119 devil is messing with you in your mind, even if 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.920 the devil is messing with you in your family, he 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:29.720 can't just mess with you for as long as he wants, 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.879 as much as he wants. God had to give the 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.600 devil permission to hurt job. He didn't just get to 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.479 do what he wanted to do for as long as 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.840 he wanted to do it. God said, now that's enough. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.320 Somebody shout that's enough. And when God saw his people 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.959 struggling in Egyptian slavery at a certain point, he said, 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.280 now that's enough. And when he spoke to Moses, he said, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.120 I've seen my people mistreated, and I see how their 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.800 backs are breaking with heavy labor, and I hear how 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.720 they're crying out to me, and that's enough, and I 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.760 came down to deliver my people and bring them out 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.880 of Egypt. Every season of suffering, every season of struggle, 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.200 has an expiration date. God is suffering. God is in charge. 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:25.040 The enemy doesn't run my life. So when that ended 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.680 and a month passed, they've come through the Red Sea. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.399 But now they need something to eat. And this is 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.760 why I thought Jesus brought it up to say, I 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.600 am the bread of life, just like I did it. 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.360 Then watch this just like I did it in that 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.520 period of time, just like I took care of you before, 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.760 just like you didn't know how before and I did somehow. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:58.640 I am just like I was, I am, and just 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.320 like I am, I will be. I haven't been giving 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.159 y'all any love this whole sermon, but this is for 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.639 this section, fifth row, this section. I am, I was, 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.439 I will be. I am I was. How you know 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.840 I am because I was? How do you know I 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.160 will be? Because I am? How you know I am 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:19.639 because I was. There is a testimony in your life 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.080 to the faithfulness of God that will enable you to 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:28.320 trust Him in this season, and you just get to 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.080 do it over and over again. If you trust God 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.359 with one test, you get to trust him with another. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:42.119 Algebra two is your reward for passing Algebra one. I 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.600 don't like that. You don't get to graduate. You just 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.920 get to trust him again. I will never forget what 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.760 Holly said to me when Elijah was born. She goes, Oh, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.760 you don't get to quit worrying about your kid after 0:20:55.800 --> 0:21:00.240 you have them, because you know we're rubbing oil her 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.639 stomach and feeding her avocados or whatever. We you know 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:08.400 everything prenatal. What to expect when you're expecting. By the way, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:15.360 that book sucks, I'm on my money back, but it 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:21.000 put an expectation on us. It is the disappointment of delivery. Oh, 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.760 I had the kid. Now I got to check on 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.320 them all through the body. I'm worried when they're crying, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.879 I'm worried when they're quiet. I'm worried. And now not 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.919 only do I get to trust the life of my 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:40.920 child to God when they're a toddler, because that's scary. 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.360 You run around the house protecting them from everything. You know, Well, 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.800 the first one, I mean we have three by the 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:52.520 third one figured out. But the first one, you know, 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:56.400 you're plugging electrical sockets with plastic things. Then you get 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.359 to trust God when they're a teenager, and I'll make 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:08.360 one of those plastic plugs for their friends. So now 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:15.480 it's like, hey, trust me now, trust me deeper, trust 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:19.879 me broader, trust me greater I am because I was 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.560 and I will be too. It's the kind of God 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.960 that I am. The bread of life. Here is the bread. 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:32.040 And I'm gonna show you two things that keep us 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.639 from trusting him. Now, two things that keep us from 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.040 trusting Now they're in the passage. It says in the desert, 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:44.040 the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. I wanted 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:46.280 it to say they were grateful to Moses and Erin 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.440 because of all the courage that it took to lead 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.800 us out of Egypt and stand before Pharaoh and last 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.399 through the duration of the ten plagues. But no, people. 0:22:55.480 --> 0:23:00.800 People tend to forget people tend to focus on what's missing, 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:06.439 and then they tend to have a selective memory. Because 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:08.959 sometimes what keeps you you want to take notes, this 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.679 is the only chance you have the whole sermon. What 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.119 keeps you from trusting God in the present is your 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:22.119 attachment to the past. It's like when you've been in 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.280 Egypt too long and you've been gone for a month 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.520 and you start remembering it different than it really was. 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:34.119 It's when it's a selective memory. I don't mean to 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:37.600 start any marital fights here, but sometimes even in a relationship, 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:40.440 it can be a selective memory of what I said 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:42.960 and what you said. Well, that's what's happening here. It's 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:46.119 a selective memory. It's like, watch this, what's what they 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.640 say in the desert? They grumbled verse three. The Israelite 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:51.480 said to them, if only we had died by the 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.040 Lord's hand in Egypt. Remember they were crying God to 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:58.000 take them out of Egypt. But now they're saying, would 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:02.080 have been better to die there? Because there is the 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:07.159 verse on the screen. Shout the word there there we 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:12.679 sat around pots of meat. Yeah, when they weren't beating 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:17.120 you with whips and working you twenty hours a day. Okay, 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.200 so fine. Egypt had a meal plan, but it was miserable. 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:33.919 But you forget that and you choose familiarity over freedom. 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:38.160 Wish we were back in Egypt, big old pots of protein, 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:45.520 the Golden Corral, meat section of Egypt, pots of meat, 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:55.560 all the food we wanted. A buffet seven talking about Egypt. Now, 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.920