Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation
Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope
Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to
Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.
Speaker 1: I bring you greetings from Valentine. It's not technically it's Charlotte,
Speaker 1: but it's not anyway. I bring you greetings today. Wherever
Speaker 1: you are in the world, we know that God is
Speaker 1: going to speak to you for the season that you're in.
Speaker 1: He is going to supply every need that you have.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you need today, but God knows.
Speaker 1: Put it in the chat. God knows what I need.
Speaker 1: And some of the things you need you can't mention.
Speaker 1: You can't put those in the chat. That's all right.
Speaker 1: God knows those needs too. And sometimes you don't even
Speaker 1: know you need it. In that rise, sometimes you don't
Speaker 1: even know you need it, and then God just bypasses
Speaker 1: what you think you need to give you what you
Speaker 1: really need that you didn't know to ask for. Praise
Speaker 1: the Lord. Well, can't you tell that I'm excited and full? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm full. I'm full. I feel full. I feel full today.
Speaker 1: I want to share a message with you. You You can
Speaker 1: be seated. I want to share a message with you
Speaker 1: from a passage of scripture that God had me on
Speaker 1: a path to study for quite a while. It took
Speaker 1: me a while to find what he wanted to say
Speaker 1: in this passage, but wow, when I saw it. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get to it. Are you ready? Okay? Are you ready? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're ready. See the kids aren't running around. You've got
Speaker 1: them on the kids YouTube channel and all that. You
Speaker 1: got them locked in the basement, whatever doesn't matter. You
Speaker 1: got them on Netflix, it doesn't matter. Just get rid
Speaker 1: of them for a minute. Let's talk, all right, because
Speaker 1: you need this. You need this, and you have to
Speaker 1: feed yourself first or you won't have strength to feed others.
Speaker 1: So let's make sure before we started another week that
Speaker 1: we really get what God wants us to have. This
Speaker 1: is an important word. In Mark chapter six, the miracle
Speaker 1: known as the Feeding of the five thousand is recorded.
Speaker 1: It's not only recorded in Mark chapter six, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to begin there. It's recorded in all four Gospels,
Speaker 1: each account giving us a different angle on who Jesus is.
Speaker 1: And what he does. How many know that as you
Speaker 1: go through life, you see Jesus from different angles, you
Speaker 1: see God from different angles, and it opens your understanding.
Speaker 1: The old hymn said, thou changest not, and he doesn't change.
Speaker 1: But the way we see him has to always expand.
Speaker 1: If we see him from the same point of view
Speaker 1: that we saw him when we were thirteen, we're probably
Speaker 1: missing something if we're thirty one. And in the process
Speaker 1: of revealing himself to his disciples, Jesus was very responsible
Speaker 1: not to give them too much at one time, and
Speaker 1: that was part of his compassion too. He was more
Speaker 1: than enough, but he never gave them more than they
Speaker 1: could handle. As he ministered to them, he did so
Speaker 1: strategically in stages. So when he showed them in John's Gospel,
Speaker 1: for instance, which i'll reference a little bit later, who
Speaker 1: he was through what we call the iam statements, it
Speaker 1: was a continuation of the same thing that God began
Speaker 1: to show Moses when he said I am that I am.
Speaker 1: It left a blank that Jesus would fill in, not
Speaker 1: through just what he said, but what he showed and
Speaker 1: what he did. Every time he demonstrated something, he declared
Speaker 1: something and He did that so that we could not
Speaker 1: only hear it, but so that we could own it
Speaker 1: and know it and get it deep down inside of us.
Speaker 1: This particular miracle is connected with the first I Am
Speaker 1: statement of Jesus that's in the Gospel of John, and
Speaker 1: I want to read it to you from Mark, because
Speaker 1: there's a phrase that really, really really got my attention
Speaker 1: this week, and I want to see if you can
Speaker 1: find it. It says in Mark, chapter six, verse twenty nine,
Speaker 1: will start with twenty nine. On hearing of this, John's
Speaker 1: disciples came and took his body and laid it in
Speaker 1: a tomb. The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to
Speaker 1: him all they had done and taught. Then everybody say, then, then,
Speaker 1: because so many people, everybody say, so many people were
Speaker 1: coming and going that they did not even have a
Speaker 1: chance to eat. He said to them, come with me
Speaker 1: by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.
Speaker 1: So they went away by themselves in a boat to
Speaker 1: a solitary place with no Wi fi, to a place.
Speaker 1: But many who saw them leaving recognize them. You remember
Speaker 1: when the kids were a little holly and we used
Speaker 1: to wonder, do they have a radar that knows when
Speaker 1: we lay down to take a nap so that they
Speaker 1: can start screaming and wake up. Remember, it's like they
Speaker 1: just knew and they would just start the moment we
Speaker 1: were finally starting to rest, they would they would wake up. Thanks, guys,
Speaker 1: that was fun. That's a stage of parenting you go through.
Speaker 1: And the hungry crowds are kind of like my kids,
Speaker 1: Like they just the moment that Jesus is moving away,
Speaker 1: they're already their way. Have you ever had a problem
Speaker 1: waiting for you and you weren't prepared for it when
Speaker 1: you got there? Yeah? Did you notice that trouble doesn't
Speaker 1: schedule an appointment when it comes? How many of you
Speaker 1: bad things? Ask you? Is this a good time before
Speaker 1: they happen? Are you feeling rested, because today we would
Speaker 1: like to test your faith? No? No, no. The crowd
Speaker 1: was what waiting when they found out Jesus was leaving
Speaker 1: to get away. The crowd was waiting when they got there.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what's waiting for you this week,
Speaker 1: and neither do you. So you got to get this
Speaker 1: word right now now. Don't need my stool today, move
Speaker 1: this stool. You got to get this word right now,
Speaker 1: right now, right now, right now, because you don't know
Speaker 1: what's waiting this week. Now. I believe that's why you
Speaker 1: tuned in, because God wants to give you a word
Speaker 1: that'll last you all week, no matter what is waiting. Now.
Speaker 1: Watch this. Jesus was the word. And when he went
Speaker 1: to the place where he was taking the disciples to
Speaker 1: get alone, there was a crowd. When they went away,
Speaker 1: many who saw them recognize them and ran on foot
Speaker 1: from all the towns and got there ahead of them.
Speaker 1: And here's the part of the passage that you may
Speaker 1: be more familiar with. When Jesus first thirty four landed
Speaker 1: and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them
Speaker 1: because they were like sheep without a shepherd, so leaving
Speaker 1: and teaching them many things. By this time it was late.
Speaker 1: How long did Jesus talk so long? This sermon was
Speaker 1: so long? Watch how long it was. His disciples came
Speaker 1: to him and said, these people are about to pass out,
Speaker 1: and there's no Chick fil A, and so you need
Speaker 1: to send them away because this is a remote place
Speaker 1: and it's already very late. So send them away so
Speaker 1: they can go to the surrounding cities or the surrounding
Speaker 1: countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat. But
Speaker 1: he answered, you give them something to eat. They said
Speaker 1: to him that would take eight months of a man's wages.
Speaker 1: Are we to go and spend that that much on
Speaker 1: bread and give it to them to eat? How many
Speaker 1: loves do you have? He asked, go and see, thank
Speaker 1: you Lord. When they found out, they said, five and
Speaker 1: to fish. Then everybody say. Then Jesus directed them to
Speaker 1: have all the people sit down in groups on the
Speaker 1: green grass. So they sat down in groups of hundreds
Speaker 1: and fifties, taking the five loaves and the two fish,
Speaker 1: and looking up to heaven. He gave thanks and broke
Speaker 1: the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples, and
Speaker 1: they set them before the people. He also divided the
Speaker 1: two fish among them. All they all ate and were satisfied.
Speaker 1: One version says they ate as much as they wanted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And all the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken
Speaker 1: pieces of bread and fish. The number of the men
Speaker 1: who ate was about five thousand. The title I want
Speaker 1: to use comes from verse thirty eight, part be put
Speaker 1: it back on the screen please. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you today about when they found out when they
Speaker 1: found out. Are there any parents in the room today?
Speaker 1: You got kids? Aaron Lj's got kids? How many to
Speaker 1: anybody out anybody here? How many? Show me on your fingers?
Speaker 1: How many you did? Five? Yeah, chunks did five. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he's planning for the future, some adoption
Speaker 1: in the works or something like that, Holly, if you
Speaker 1: hold up anything other than three and you're yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So I was talking to a couple on our staff
Speaker 1: the other day who's having their first baby, and they
Speaker 1: were so excited. And I know this sounds bad, but
Speaker 1: I get excited for people when they're having their first kid,
Speaker 1: and then after that whatever, you know, because once you
Speaker 1: have once you have one, your life is already you know,
Speaker 1: just so. But when it's their first I get excited.
Speaker 1: And Holly always sends a gift to everybody on our
Speaker 1: staff who has a baby. But they were so excited.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were so like first time parent excited.
Speaker 1: And I said, you guys are sure excited. And I'm
Speaker 1: not one of these guys who says, get rid of
Speaker 1: they're going to ruin your life, because kids are, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously the best thing that ever happened to me seventy
Speaker 1: percent of time. And I said, y'all are so excited,
Speaker 1: and they said yeah, and we're going Monday to find
Speaker 1: out what it is. And I thought, no, you're not.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna find out what it is Monday. I
Speaker 1: know what you mean that you're gonna get some blue
Speaker 1: or pink balloons. And by the way, since I'm in
Speaker 1: my old man stage of ministry, now, these gender reveal parties,
Speaker 1: we didn't do all that, So I mean, don't feel
Speaker 1: any pressure if you don't have the money to shoot
Speaker 1: a baby seal out of a cannon to show everybody
Speaker 1: what people do. This is the crazy stuff I see.
Speaker 1: Our gender reveal party was call my mom in the
Speaker 1: parking lot after the ultrasound. That was the gender reveal party.
Speaker 1: That's how happy we were to find out you were
Speaker 1: a boy. It's a boy. That was it. And then
Speaker 1: we went home and save money. But watch this, We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out what it is. Just the way they
Speaker 1: said it. It stuck with me because we often think
Speaker 1: that we're gonna know exactly what it is. See, the
Speaker 1: doctor has this thing that he can show you, or
Speaker 1: she can show you. Maybe they can show you the gender,
Speaker 1: but you will not know what it is just based
Speaker 1: on male or female. You will not know quote what
Speaker 1: it is just based on There is no sonogram that
Speaker 1: can show you how much love you are going to
Speaker 1: have for this human being who is going to rip
Speaker 1: your heart out of your chest and carry it around
Speaker 1: with them through all of their decisions of life. There's
Speaker 1: no way you can see that on a sonogram. There
Speaker 1: is some stuff you can't see on your sonogram. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out what it is. I nodded. I was like, cool,
Speaker 1: it was great. You know. No, you're not. No, you're not.
Speaker 1: We often expect to see what it is before we
Speaker 1: even bring it forth. We want to know what it is.
Speaker 1: And they found out it was a boy on Monday,
Speaker 1: but they didn't find out whether the boy's eyes were
Speaker 1: blue on Monday. You find that out progressively, right, it's progressive.
Speaker 1: Being a parent is progressive. You find out, you go, oh,
Speaker 1: my kid's so quiet. I thought Graham was quiet for
Speaker 1: the first five years of his life. I thought he
Speaker 1: was quiet for the first five years of his life.
Speaker 1: He won't shut up. Now he turns thirteen this month.
Speaker 1: He won't shut up. He's making me take him to
Speaker 1: Great Wolf Lodge for his birthday. That's torment that only
Speaker 1: a loving parent would endure. And I'm doing it for
Speaker 1: him because I love him. I didn't know how much
Speaker 1: I would love him. On a sonogram, I didn't know
Speaker 1: his personality just because I knew whether he was, you know,
Speaker 1: blue or pink, or a boy or a girl. You
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. And the challenge of life
Speaker 1: is understanding that you don't really know what is inside
Speaker 1: of you, what is inside of others, what is inside
Speaker 1: of your gift. See, they can tell you the gender
Speaker 1: of your kid with an ultrasound, but they can't tell
Speaker 1: you the gifts life has to bring that for it.
Speaker 1: They can tell you what it is, they can tell
Speaker 1: you what it is on a surface level, but they
Speaker 1: can't tell you what's in it. See, that's gonna take time,
Speaker 1: that's gonna take maturity, that's gonna take I was a
Speaker 1: punk rocker when I was fourteen. I'm a preacher when
Speaker 1: I'm forty. My mom didn't know what I was until
Speaker 1: I became it. Now, Jesus did not become anything. I'll
Speaker 1: prove it. In the beginning was the word, and the
Speaker 1: word was with God. And the word was God. Somebody
Speaker 1: say he already was. He didn't become sufficient, he didn't
Speaker 1: become the Word. He already was, but they didn't know
Speaker 1: what he was until they walked with them enough to
Speaker 1: see it in stages. And this is kind of the
Speaker 1: first stage of that for the disciples, where he is
Speaker 1: showing them I am the Bread of life. He already
Speaker 1: was already was, but they didn't know it yet. He
Speaker 1: already was already was. So you know how this passage
Speaker 1: is like so familiar. How many sermons have you heard
Speaker 1: about the feeding of the five thousand? If this is
Speaker 1: the first time you've heard about it, you have never
Speaker 1: been within five miles of a church. And that's fine too.
Speaker 1: How many sermons have you heard? I love y'all so much,
Speaker 1: But how many sermons have you heard about the context?
Speaker 1: See the first verse? I read a man named John.
Speaker 1: This is not John who wrote the Gospel of John.
Speaker 1: This is John, the Baptist who got his head cut
Speaker 1: off for confronting Harot and tell him you shouldn't sleep
Speaker 1: with your your brother's wife. That John, the one who
Speaker 1: ate locust and honey and prepared the way for Jesus.
Speaker 1: That John, the one who was born six months earlier.
Speaker 1: They didn't have gender reveal sonograms at that point. But
Speaker 1: they didn't need a gender reveal because when the Angel
Speaker 1: came to Zachariah in the temple, he said, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a boy, and you're gonna name him John. And
Speaker 1: Zacharia says, it's not possible. I'm too old for that.
Speaker 1: And the moment you start telling God what's not in you,
Speaker 1: the one who made you doesn't know what's in you,
Speaker 1: the Angel said, you're not gonna speak until the day
Speaker 1: your baby's born. And that's what it was. And when
Speaker 1: they gave the baby the name, the father spoke. He
Speaker 1: said his name is John. They said, there's nobody in
Speaker 1: your family called John. He said, I'm not going off
Speaker 1: of external, I'm going off of internal. This is what
Speaker 1: God told me. This is what God spoke right that John.
Speaker 1: When he died, his disciples buried him. He didn't have
Speaker 1: many disciples left because he gave all of his disciples
Speaker 1: to Jesus. He told all of his members to go
Speaker 1: to another church, and they did. He said, I must
Speaker 1: become less, he must become greater. When he found the Messiah,
Speaker 1: the one he had looked for he said, that's the
Speaker 1: one he gave up what he thought was important once
Speaker 1: he found what was really significant, that John, that John
Speaker 1: who died at the hands of Herod's ego, who was beheaded,
Speaker 1: That John when he died. The Disciples brought the news
Speaker 1: to Jesus, and Jesus wanted to get away when he
Speaker 1: found out what had happened to John. He he withdrew
Speaker 1: when he found out right. But see, John and Jesus
Speaker 1: had a special relationship because John knew who Jesus was
Speaker 1: before they ever met physically. When Elizabeth was six months
Speaker 1: pregnant and Mary found out she was pregnant, the first
Speaker 1: thing she did was go find Elizabeth, her cousin, who
Speaker 1: was also pregnant. And Elizabeth says, the weirdest thing. And
Speaker 1: you only understand this if it's ever happened to you,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to be a woman to understand this.
Speaker 1: You can understand it on a spiritual level, she said.
Speaker 1: As soon as you got here, the baby that was
Speaker 1: inside of me started dancing. My baby started walking on water,
Speaker 1: My baby started doing the Tutsi slide. The moment I
Speaker 1: heard your voice, my baby started dancing on the inside
Speaker 1: of me. So it's crazy how sometimes you know things
Speaker 1: before you should know them. Let me give you an
Speaker 1: example of that. Some of you know right now that
Speaker 1: God's hand is on your child, but you can't see
Speaker 1: evidence of that yet. But you still know. And some
Speaker 1: things can't be shown. They have to be known by
Speaker 1: the spirit of God. Some things you know before you
Speaker 1: can show. Like I know this sermon is gonna hit
Speaker 1: your heart today, but you don't know that yet. But
Speaker 1: God showed it to me, and I know what's in
Speaker 1: me before I give it to you. That's very powerful,
Speaker 1: because if you wait on circumstances to validate God's voice,
Speaker 1: you might be waiting a long time. No no, no,
Speaker 1: Faith says, I know it before you show it. I
Speaker 1: know it on the inside before I see it on
Speaker 1: the outside. And whoever this is for today, God has
Speaker 1: shown you something that eyes cannot see, that ears cannot hurt,
Speaker 1: that cannot enter in the heart of a man. But
Speaker 1: you know it by the spirit of God. John knew
Speaker 1: who Jesus was while they were still both embryonic. This
Speaker 1: might not be good to you, but it's good to
Speaker 1: me because you've got to know that. You know that,
Speaker 1: you know that, you know that God is with you.
Speaker 1: You've got to know that, you know that, you know that,
Speaker 1: you know that He's spoken. You've got to know that
Speaker 1: you know that, you know that, you know that what
Speaker 1: He gave you is enough. So when you face a
Speaker 1: circumstance that challenges your dependency and you find yourself in
Speaker 1: a season of definite a deficiency, you will know definitely
Speaker 1: that God is with you. Give him a praise if
Speaker 1: you know he's good. Of course, none of the disciples
Speaker 1: really knew what Jesus was carrying, not only the purpose
Speaker 1: that he carried to die on the cross for their sins.
Speaker 1: They didn't know that yet. They found that out later.
Speaker 1: They followed him as he performed miracles. But only he
Speaker 1: really knew what he was carrying the burden of it.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible says something interesting. It says that
Speaker 1: John's disciples came and told you Jesus that John was dead,
Speaker 1: But it doesn't say that Jesus told the disciples. He
Speaker 1: told them, let's go rest. He carried it alone. I
Speaker 1: want to speak to somebody today who's carrying something alone.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're the provider for your family, Maybe you're dealing
Speaker 1: with something right now that isn't public material to carry
Speaker 1: something alone. That's what I felt from Jesus, that he
Speaker 1: was carrying something like Mary was carrying him. Now he's
Speaker 1: carrying something, not only the news of John's death, but
Speaker 1: also the potential of the ministry, because in the text
Speaker 1: we read it said it was going really good with
Speaker 1: the ministry of Jesus, but the ministry of John ended.
Speaker 1: And that made me think about how you can be
Speaker 1: getting good news in one ear and bad news in
Speaker 1: the other, and learning how to balance. That is the
Speaker 1: essence of faith. You carry on one hand, sometimes a
Speaker 1: blessing that's so heavy you can barely carry it. You
Speaker 1: carry with the other hand a doubt or a question,
Speaker 1: and that balance is what keeps you walking straight. Jesus
Speaker 1: goes away, the crowds find out they meet him there. Surprise, Jesus,
Speaker 1: we want to be healed. Surprise, Jesus, we're interrupting your vacation.
Speaker 1: This is like your in laws and everybody else you
Speaker 1: don't want to see showing up on your vacation. Not
Speaker 1: only that, but there's five thousand men and women and children,
Speaker 1: and Jesus looked up and he saw them. He saw
Speaker 1: he didn't see him as a crowd. He saw them
Speaker 1: with compassion. That amazes me that God knows exactly what
Speaker 1: you've been going through this week, because like to me,
Speaker 1: I'm looking in one camera. God doesn't see a crowd
Speaker 1: on the other side of the reads. He sees where
Speaker 1: you're hungry, and he sees where you hurt. Do you
Speaker 1: believe that? I don't know if you do. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people think that Jesus loves them like
Speaker 1: it's a group insurance policy, like he just covers everybody
Speaker 1: with his blood. No, No, that the power is that
Speaker 1: he sees the one. We would talk about the five thousand,
Speaker 1: but he would talk about the one and one at
Speaker 1: a time. He healed everybody that needed healing. And then,
Speaker 1: although you know the story, bear with my folly a
Speaker 1: moment he says to them, we need to feed them.
Speaker 1: And the disciples start calculating, how many of you are overpackers, overpackers,
Speaker 1: overpackers of the world unite? How many suitcases does it
Speaker 1: take us to get away for three days? Right? So
Speaker 1: many suitcases? And it's not her, it's me. I'm worse
Speaker 1: than her. Stereotyper okay is me? Now? The reason I
Speaker 1: mentioned it is because it would have been one thing.
Speaker 1: If Jesus would have told the disciples, we're gonna feed
Speaker 1: these people before they got there. When did they find
Speaker 1: out that he wanted to feed them after it was
Speaker 1: too late to do anything about it? Have you ever
Speaker 1: felt like that with God? If God, y'all are so
Speaker 1: fake today, I don't know what's going on. Did you
Speaker 1: miss me so much that you can't forgot how to
Speaker 1: respond to a sermon? Have you ever thought God, if
Speaker 1: you would have told me that they were going to
Speaker 1: leave me, I wouldn't have loved him so much. Now
Speaker 1: it's too late for me not to love him. They're gone,
Speaker 1: and they took my love with them. If you would
Speaker 1: have told me it would be like this, I would
Speaker 1: have made preparations. I would have packed sandwiches. We could
Speaker 1: have hired a catering company. We could have got some
Speaker 1: Jersey Mikes to go Bucks. We could have done this right.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you tell me beforehand? They found out about
Speaker 1: the need after it was too late to meet it.
Speaker 1: That's a fine time to find out. Why didn't God
Speaker 1: tell all of us preachers that our churches weren't gonna
Speaker 1: be able to have people at him for seventeen years
Speaker 1: before we built all our buildings. I could have built
Speaker 1: this thing for less money, a lot less money. Why
Speaker 1: didn't he tell me that? Why didn't he tell you?
Speaker 1: That's your kid? Wasn't it a he's straight in their path?
Speaker 1: Something being prepared? Why does the some searches go off road?
Speaker 1: Why does some stuff just he he didn't why he
Speaker 1: didn't tell them what he had in mind? But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he didn't know it. Come on, you know
Speaker 1: this about God by now? He said, I know all
Speaker 1: the plans I have for you. Subtext you don't. This year,
Speaker 1: the word of God over most of our lives has
Speaker 1: been haha. That's him laughing at everything that we set
Speaker 1: a schedule for. When we do our year in series
Speaker 1: this year, I thought I might call it ha ha
Speaker 1: ha ha ha ha. That's God laughing at everything that
Speaker 1: we said we were going to do in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: And God says, I get the last laugh, don't you think? Now?
Speaker 1: I'm just asking a question, what do you think the
Speaker 1: personality of Jesus was? I think Jesus' personality was fully
Speaker 1: God and fully man enough that when he asked Philip
Speaker 1: in John's Gospel, what are we going to do to
Speaker 1: feed all these people? Or rather, he asked him, where
Speaker 1: are we going to buy enough bread? Everybody say enough, enough, enough,
Speaker 1: enough enough. That's a big word right now in pop culture.
Speaker 1: It's a big word. Everybody's saying you are enough. But
Speaker 1: the problem with saying that that you are enough on
Speaker 1: that level is just because I say that you're enough,
Speaker 1: doesn't you feel like you're enough? So Jesus first takes
Speaker 1: Philip through this process. Okay, and this may be the
Speaker 1: process you're going through. He addresses the fact that they
Speaker 1: cannot buy enough bread to meet the need that's in
Speaker 1: front of them. Are you there right now? Okay, you
Speaker 1: can't buy enough. Philip starts calculating. Philip wants to be
Speaker 1: the CFO. Philip wants to be the accountant. Philip wants
Speaker 1: to plan it. He said, eight months wages, that's two
Speaker 1: hundred denarii. That's a day laborer's wage. Would not be
Speaker 1: enough for each person to have a bite a bite,
Speaker 1: a bite if we took a half a year's wages.
Speaker 1: Because he's calculating what he thinks they need for the
Speaker 1: situation there in it and most of us are pretty
Speaker 1: good at that. How many of you. You know something
Speaker 1: that you need from God right now. Now, I want
Speaker 1: to show you the verse in John because it's so
Speaker 1: so powerful. He said, if we bought there, it is
Speaker 1: more than half a year's wages to buy enough bread
Speaker 1: for each one to have a bite. And then in
Speaker 1: verse eight, yeah, another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
Speaker 1: spoke up verse nine, here's a boy with five small
Speaker 1: barley loaves and two small fish. But how far will
Speaker 1: they go among so many? Now stay with me. This
Speaker 1: is where it gets good. I have a Fillip inside
Speaker 1: of me, and I have an Andrew inside of me.
Speaker 1: Maybe you'll want to find another church because I have
Speaker 1: dual personalities. Philip is a calculator. Philip's job and this
Speaker 1: way he does all the time. To me. He starts
Speaker 1: counting all the stuff that I need that I don't
Speaker 1: have yet. It's going to take this, and it's going
Speaker 1: to take that. And you don't have this staff membery,
Speaker 1: and you don't have that person, and you don't have
Speaker 1: that thing, you don't have that gift, you don't have
Speaker 1: that ability. You're not good at this, You're not good
Speaker 1: at best. The devil started messing with me yesterday because
Speaker 1: I can't play basketball. When has anybody ever needed me
Speaker 1: to play basketball? I was feeling good about myself one moment,
Speaker 1: and this is what I asked Graham. I said, when,
Speaker 1: what was the point when you found out that your
Speaker 1: dad was a bad athlete? He said, Dad, I don't know.
Speaker 1: For the long time I thought you were a beast.
Speaker 1: But he goes, you're pretty good at lifting weights like
Speaker 1: a consolation prize. I said, but when was the moment
Speaker 1: that you knew see, because you don't know it all
Speaker 1: at once. His revelation of his dad grew when he
Speaker 1: was two, I was lebron. I was lebron when he
Speaker 1: was two. But he said, Dad, it took me I
Speaker 1: realized how bad you sucked this sports in stages. It
Speaker 1: took me a while to realize how actually bad you
Speaker 1: were at anything with a ball. But he knows now
Speaker 1: she didn't, but he found out. Hey, how many of
Speaker 1: you lived your life in fear that when are they
Speaker 1: gonna find out that I don't know what I'm doing?
Speaker 1: When are they gonna find out that I don't have
Speaker 1: a clue. Some of you in your job right now,
Speaker 1: you wake up in the morning, you feel some in
Speaker 1: your stomach. What are you feeling? Is the day gonna
Speaker 1: be the day they're gonna find out? You're not stealing
Speaker 1: money or anything. You just feel like you're stealing intellectual
Speaker 1: space because of the fact that they think they know
Speaker 1: more than you do. You feel like, isn't it crazy
Speaker 1: how they didn't find out untill they ran out? Why
Speaker 1: would Jesus do them like that? Once they became empty?
Speaker 1: And I was studying the text because I was like,
Speaker 1: okay when they found out, and I was connecting that
Speaker 1: in a couple of different ways following me. When they
Speaker 1: found out that John the Baptist had been killed, they moved.
Speaker 1: They retre so that Jesus wouldn't be taken by forced
Speaker 1: as king because he didn't come for an earthly kingdom
Speaker 1: and he's got work to do. When he went through,
Speaker 1: they found out he was going to be there, and
Speaker 1: we're waiting welcome Jesus. When the disciples found out that
Speaker 1: there wasn't much daylight left, they tried to send them
Speaker 1: away because there's not no door dash out here on
Speaker 1: this mountain. And the Bible says something so powerful, go
Speaker 1: back to March six thirty eight. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: show you this, Philip said, this is what we need.
Speaker 1: Jesus asked the question, how many loves do you have?
Speaker 1: Go and see when they found out, when they found
Speaker 1: out what they already had, not when they figured out
Speaker 1: what they thought they needed. God doesn't need me to
Speaker 1: figure out how. He just needs me to find out what.
Speaker 1: Y'all better shout if you don't know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: because it is good news. Some of you have no
Speaker 1: idea how. They didn't either, But when they found out
Speaker 1: what was already there. Jesus did not become bred. He
Speaker 1: already was. He didn't become enough. He already was. You
Speaker 1: don't have to go get peace, it's already ours. You
Speaker 1: don't have to become righteous, you already are. You don't
Speaker 1: have to find a reason to rejoice, You've already got
Speaker 1: one when you'll discover what God already put inside of you.
Speaker 1: So the moment of discovery is not the moment of deposit.
Speaker 1: It already was what it was. Nobody came with five
Speaker 1: loaves and two fish at that moment. It was there
Speaker 1: the whole time, but it took them walking through the crowd.
Speaker 1: You got anything, you got, anything, you got anything you got,
Speaker 1: anything you got anything, you got anything, You got anything?
Speaker 1: You got anything? You got anything? How long are we
Speaker 1: gonna do this? Man? Nobody's got anything, and if they do,
Speaker 1: they're not offering you got anything? You got anything? So
Speaker 1: time you got to walk around your life and take inventory.
Speaker 1: You got to walk around your own soul and take inventory.
Speaker 1: You could say, oh my soul, why are you discouraged?
Speaker 1: Why are you downcast? You got anything to praise? Before
Speaker 1: you got anything to prais before you got anything? You
Speaker 1: got anything? You got anything? Somebody saying the chat, have
Speaker 1: you got anything? Have you got anything? Have you got anything?
Speaker 1: Have you got anything? Have you got anything? Have you
Speaker 1: got anything? Have you got anything? Because you've always got
Speaker 1: plenty of something? You know what's weird? Can I show
Speaker 1: you something that only Bible nerds appreciate? Only Mike Todd
Speaker 1: will love this point like this for me and you?
Speaker 1: Why did John say in John six there was plenty
Speaker 1: of grass in that place. That's stupid thing to put
Speaker 1: in a story. Who cares about the grass? Can't eat grass?
Speaker 1: Maybe he wanted us to see that you've always got
Speaker 1: plenty of something of something. You've always got plenty of
Speaker 1: something when you don't have a job, and you don't
Speaker 1: have plenty of money. Now you've got plenty of time.
Speaker 1: I was laughing so much when everybody who prayed for
Speaker 1: God to give them I just need Lord, I need
Speaker 1: more time with my family. And then God gave it
Speaker 1: to you. He gave you plenty. How many of your
Speaker 1: moms that are homeschooling are having plenty? So much so?
Speaker 1: How much time? So so much? Grass? Green grass? Mark said,
Speaker 1: green Grass, did you see that in the text? Green Grass?
Speaker 1: Why are you telling me that maybe you're trying to
Speaker 1: call me back to the twenty third sosng that the
Speaker 1: Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want He
Speaker 1: leads me besides still waters, he restoreth my soul. He
Speaker 1: leads me into green pastures. So God said, what is
Speaker 1: your pasture? What do you have? That was the question? Right?
Speaker 1: Is that in the text? What do you have? Go
Speaker 1: and see? And when they found out? I wonder is
Speaker 1: this going to be the day you find out? We
Speaker 1: don't find out usually all at once. I should tell
Speaker 1: you that we find out in fragments. You don't know
Speaker 1: why you're going through anything while you're going through it. Now,
Speaker 1: most of the time, even when you're succeeding. You don't
Speaker 1: really know you're succeeding while you're succeeding, because you're struggling
Speaker 1: while you succeeding. Well, that's true of everybody. I watch
Speaker 1: all these documentaries of classic albums. Fleetwood mac rumors good
Speaker 1: music like that, none of this current crap that you
Speaker 1: kids are going around calling music. This is real music. Vinyl.
Speaker 1: They asked Mick Fleetwood, how did it feel when you
Speaker 1: were making rumors? He said, it was terrible. We were
Speaker 1: all breaking up and fighting, and we were high all
Speaker 1: the time and coming down and high, coming high. He said,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't until we heard all twelve tracks
Speaker 1: that we said this is a pretty good album. Is
Speaker 1: sold thirty million copies. How did it feel why you
Speaker 1: were writing the album? How did it feel while you
Speaker 1: were recording it. I'm raising world changers, changing world diapers.
Speaker 1: That doesn't feel You don't know what it is. You
Speaker 1: don't know what changes as well. It's happening. I need
Speaker 1: do I need to give you another example? How many
Speaker 1: people am I preaching to right now? One, two, three, four, five, eight, seven, eight,
Speaker 1: nine ten, Raise your hand if I'm preaching to you,
Speaker 1: This is only if you have felt like you are
Speaker 1: not enough or you don't have enough. Okay, you do
Speaker 1: understand that I'm preaching to way more people that I'm
Speaker 1: pointing to. You do understand that God is doing way
Speaker 1: more in your life than you hold on. Who am
Speaker 1: I preaching to right now? Put your name in the
Speaker 1: YouTube chat, your first name, middle initial, and last name,
Speaker 1: your government name in the chat right now. If I'm
Speaker 1: preaching to you, you see that I said it. Nothing happened.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a minute. This can We're gonna find
Speaker 1: out what it is Monday. It takes a while to
Speaker 1: find out. So so it takes a while between when
Speaker 1: you instill the values or when you believe the promise,
Speaker 1: or when you saw it now here it comes here,
Speaker 1: it comes right now now I'm seeing Check out the chat, Autumn.
Speaker 1: Check out how fast it's going. Autumn created YouTube. All right, Autumn.
Speaker 1: Look at all these people I'm preaching to. Now, I
Speaker 1: saw who I thought I was preaching to, But I
Speaker 1: found out later You're gonna find L. J. Mitchell be flat.
Speaker 1: I'm preaching to more people that I can see. God
Speaker 1: is doing a great work within me. There is living
Speaker 1: water within me and I'm gonna go on so I
Speaker 1: can find out what's on the other side of this Dolly.
Speaker 1: I got green grass, I got still waters, I got
Speaker 1: a supper blast along. Have you got anything? Have you
Speaker 1: got anything? Have you got anything? Have you got any grass?
Speaker 1: Have you got any loves? How many? How many? How many?
Speaker 1: How many do you have? How many do you have?
Speaker 1: How many do you have? Put it in the chat?
Speaker 1: How many do you have? Oh, that's not the message,
Speaker 1: that is not my sermon. Sit down, because that's what
Speaker 1: Jesus told the people to do. Sit down. How many
Speaker 1: do you have? They said five and two? They threw
Speaker 1: in the fishes an afterthought. I think that's really funny.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they were saving those for themselves. Who knows,
Speaker 1: but I know this. Mark wrote the gospel that Peter
Speaker 1: told him to write. John wrote the gospel that he
Speaker 1: saw with his own eyes. Thank you, Lord, y'all got
Speaker 1: a minute? Are you full? I struggle with portion control
Speaker 1: when it comes to preach the order of the go
Speaker 1: I'm trying to preach these five hour sermons like Mike
Speaker 1: Todd preaches. Man, he's great, I'm going to six. Can
Speaker 1: I get a seven? Ain't crazy? Ain't crazy that the
Speaker 1: children of Israel had to march six days before they
Speaker 1: found out why they were marching. What's that about? You
Speaker 1: know why, I said Pastor Mike Todd. He didn't become
Speaker 1: anointed when he got a great worldwide ministry. Just one
Speaker 1: of the greatest voices. He comes to see me. After
Speaker 1: his sabbatical. He came to see me unshaven. Yesterday, we
Speaker 1: came in the weight room. I said, let's work out.
Speaker 1: We did one exercise and talk the rest of the time.
Speaker 1: That's right. We were strong in the Lord though. We
Speaker 1: worked out our salvation with fear and trembling preacher humor.
Speaker 1: He didn't become anointed when his platform grew. That's when
Speaker 1: they found out. Elijah didn't become talented when he started
Speaker 1: making beats that was in him. Now I'm just finding out.
Speaker 1: I'm just finding out. I hadn't even found out yet.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the three of you are
Speaker 1: going to do, change the world or destroy it. I
Speaker 1: want to find out. They'll ask them, you're going to
Speaker 1: be a preacher like you? They shut up. She's nine.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be a preacher like you, Dad, And you
Speaker 1: can do a sonogram on my daughter to try to
Speaker 1: find out what's in her before it's had time to grow.
Speaker 1: And you know, people think they don't love their wife
Speaker 1: anymore because they stopped being curious, so they thought they
Speaker 1: needed another woman. But they didn't even find out what
Speaker 1: they had in their own house. People might leave a
Speaker 1: church for that reason because they didn't find out what
Speaker 1: was there. You will send something away and not even
Speaker 1: find out. Don't you want to find out? I do? Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I've wanted to quit many times on
Speaker 1: everything important God gave me. I want to quit every Monday.
Speaker 1: But I just want to find out what God would do.
Speaker 1: I want to find out, don't you say it in
Speaker 1: the chat? I want to find out. I want to
Speaker 1: find out. I want to find out. I want to
Speaker 1: find out what God put in me. Mark Twain said
Speaker 1: there's two important days. The day you're born, in the
Speaker 1: day you find out why, find out why. I want
Speaker 1: to find out why. I want to find out what
Speaker 1: comfort he's going to minister out of the comfort he
Speaker 1: comforted me with what the hell I went through. I
Speaker 1: didn't go through the fire to smell like smoke. I
Speaker 1: came through the fire to burn off what was finding
Speaker 1: me when I went in in the first place. I
Speaker 1: want to find out. I want to find out why
Speaker 1: you gave me this gift. I want to find out.
Speaker 1: Let's find out. Let's find out when we're going to
Speaker 1: open the church again. The church is already open. Well,
Speaker 1: when are you gonna have the people back in there?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll tell you when I find out.
Speaker 1: I look like the governor to you? Does the governor
Speaker 1: wear a baggy corduroy short sleeve three quarter inch shirt
Speaker 1: on the No, I'm not on the When we'll find
Speaker 1: out together, we'll find out. I'm gonna find out. I
Speaker 1: have another point. But I got to stop there. Don't
Speaker 1: you want to find out? You want to go through
Speaker 1: everything you went through and then not even find out why?
Speaker 1: You want to come all this way through the valley
Speaker 1: and then turn around and die there. You don't want
Speaker 1: to find out what God could do. You want to
Speaker 1: find out what it could be. When they found out
Speaker 1: what they had, the miracle began. Now I gotta say
Speaker 1: this right, because if I don't get this right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be so mad at myself. The way the Lord
Speaker 1: showed it to me, he said, because I thought that
Speaker 1: was the sermon, it's like cool when they found out
Speaker 1: what they had, and people need to find out what
Speaker 1: they already have. Okay, what gifts do you have? What
Speaker 1: talents do you have, What passions do you have? What
Speaker 1: resources do you have? What time do you have? Stop
Speaker 1: focusing on what you think you need. That's Philip eight
Speaker 1: months wages? What I did? I ask and ask you
Speaker 1: how many months wages? I just said, where are we
Speaker 1: going to get the bread? Go see what you already have?
Speaker 1: Five loaves, two fish. So I thought the miracle began
Speaker 1: when they found out what they already had. And God said, no,
Speaker 1: that's not that's not it. That's not the message. He said,
Speaker 1: that's when they found out how many they had, five
Speaker 1: and two You can count that they found out how
Speaker 1: many by counting. Put John chapter six, verse nine back
Speaker 1: up again. You ready? You're not full, are you? When
Speaker 1: Andrews said, here is a boy with five small barley
Speaker 1: loaves and too small fish. Barley is the cheapest grain,
Speaker 1: and too small fish. When they found out what they
Speaker 1: already had how many, Andrescal question, how far will they
Speaker 1: go among so many? You ready? They found out how
Speaker 1: many they had by counting, they didn't find out how
Speaker 1: much it was until they put it in the hands
Speaker 1: of Jesus. You've been thinking how many. God wants to
Speaker 1: show you how much? And there is a big difference.
Speaker 1: There is a big difference how many and how much?
Speaker 1: How many you can count that one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five and one two two, This is how many I have.
Speaker 1: This is what great I dropped out of school in.
Speaker 1: This is how many. You can count that down to
Speaker 1: the scent in your bank account. You can count how many.
Speaker 1: But God doesn't want to show you how many. He
Speaker 1: wants to show you how much. And you don't find
Speaker 1: out how much by counting. You will not figure this
Speaker 1: out with a calculator. Watch this. They found out how
Speaker 1: many by calculation. They had to find out how much
Speaker 1: by faith. And here's how I know. Here's how I know,
Speaker 1: because the Bible doesn't say that it all of a
Speaker 1: sudden became enough. It was five, and it was two,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't enough until they came back to Jesus
Speaker 1: to get more. It wasn't enough all it was. And
Speaker 1: see that's how we want it to be. God, I
Speaker 1: want enough. I gave me enough, enough enough. That's the
Speaker 1: problem with our concept of enough. We think that enough
Speaker 1: happens all at once, enough happens here you go, you ready,
Speaker 1: peace by peace, piece by peace. He did not give
Speaker 1: them their next direction until they took inventory of what
Speaker 1: they had right now. Why would God show you what
Speaker 1: to do next when you won't do what you have
Speaker 1: been called to do? Right now? What do you have?
Speaker 1: That's how many? What can it be? That's how much?
Speaker 1: And the only way to find that out is to
Speaker 1: put it in his hands. I'm not done yet. I'm
Speaker 1: not done yet. I want to break this all the
Speaker 1: way down, just so you can't say when you get
Speaker 1: to heaven. Pastor Furdie didn't teach me about this. I
Speaker 1: went to elevation lodging, I subscribed to the YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: They never taught me this. Put them both on the screen.
Speaker 1: How many? How much? How many? How much? How many?
Speaker 1: Calculation five and two? You can count that how much?
Speaker 1: This is the beautiful thing. You still don't know the
Speaker 1: answer to this one yet. How many? This is all
Speaker 1: the crap that you've got to worry about coming up
Speaker 1: this week? They knew how many people were in the crowd,
Speaker 1: about five thousand. How much. That's something that you can
Speaker 1: only find out in fragments. God shows you the purpose
Speaker 1: of your life in pieces. So he did not perform
Speaker 1: a miracle where it became enough all at once, and
Speaker 1: he's not going to do it in your life either.
Speaker 1: What He's going to do is to show you that
Speaker 1: every time you come back to him, he will have
Speaker 1: what you need. For right now, I needed this word.
Speaker 1: I got a fillip inside me. Philip is really really
Speaker 1: prominent in my personality. He's always telling me how many
Speaker 1: I need, but he never tells me how much I have.
Speaker 1: God said he wanted to show you how much, how much?
Speaker 1: How much? How much? The only way for you to
Speaker 1: find out is to take it one piece at a time.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry if I'm not getting this across the
Speaker 1: right way. How God showed it to me was so beautiful.
Speaker 1: He said, you think it's going to become a buffet
Speaker 1: when I touch it. I'm not going to make it
Speaker 1: a buffet all at once, because I want you to
Speaker 1: come back to me. I'm not going to give you
Speaker 1: every answer. I'm not going to give you the five
Speaker 1: year plan. I'm not going to do it because if
Speaker 1: I turned it into a buffet, you would worship the
Speaker 1: buffet bite by bite peace by peace, sufficient is today
Speaker 1: for its own trouble. Today has enough trouble. God didn't
Speaker 1: promise to give you enough for tomorrow. He said give
Speaker 1: us this day our daily bread. So it's enough for now.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord. I got enough for now. Wait, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need more later, but I got enough for now,
Speaker 1: and I want you to get this revelation. I am
Speaker 1: the bread of life. Did you get you? I am enough.
Speaker 1: I am so. He didn't say I will be. He
Speaker 1: didn't say I was. Do you remember when they were
Speaker 1: in the wilderness and they ate manna? How much did
Speaker 1: they get enough for it today? You know what happened?
Speaker 1: If they tried to save today's manna for tomorrow's hunger,
Speaker 1: it would get maggots in it. You got maggots in
Speaker 1: your mind from worrying about tomorrow. Oh my God, that's nasty.
Speaker 1: You got maggots in your mind because you're trying to
Speaker 1: save it for tomorrow. Enough enough, it's enough right now,
Speaker 1: it's enough for now. I have enough strength now for now.
Speaker 1: I have enough resource now for now. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: don't save money. I'm not saying don't plan ahead. But
Speaker 1: when you find yourself in a situation, and you didn't
Speaker 1: find out you were gonna be in it till you
Speaker 1: were in it. Trust this, He's enough for that. He
Speaker 1: will not become bread. He is bread. He will not
Speaker 1: become enough. You will not be enough when you get
Speaker 1: through this stage. You will not be enough at a
Speaker 1: time in the future. You are enough right now for
Speaker 1: right now. You are enough now. You are enough today
Speaker 1: for today. You are enough. Forty for forty, you are enough,
Speaker 1: thirty for three, you are enough, single for single, you
Speaker 1: are enough j ninety for ninety. You are enough. You
Speaker 1: are enough right now for right now. It's enough for now.
Speaker 1: I am the I'm gonna preach this all the way
Speaker 1: to Botswana. I'm gonna preach this the Bamburg. There is
Speaker 1: an annoying thing on this message today to tell you
Speaker 1: that you keep counting how many, but you don't know
Speaker 1: how much until you break it off piece by piece.
Speaker 1: I think it stayed five and two. I don't think
Speaker 1: it ever got more five than two now, one gospel
Speaker 1: writer said. And then it was seven, and then it
Speaker 1: was twelve, and then it was fifteen. That's because the
Speaker 1: real message has nothing to do with when they found
Speaker 1: out what he could doom message was, I am the
Speaker 1: bread of life. When they found out who he was,
Speaker 1: it would be enough for any situation they would ever face.
Speaker 1: When they found out, give me my title. When they
Speaker 1: found out, when they found out how many they had,
Speaker 1: the miracle began. But they found out how much every
Speaker 1: time they went back. You mean there's still more. It's
Speaker 1: not running out. What's going on. I made it through
Speaker 1: another day. Some of y'all that's too much. I made
Speaker 1: it through another hour. Some of y'all that's too much.
Speaker 1: I made it through another man. Do you know? I've
Speaker 1: had some times that were so violent in my life,
Speaker 1: some storms that raged so hard that I had to
Speaker 1: take it second by second because I didn't know if
Speaker 1: I was. But I found out I was enough all along,
Speaker 1: and he showed it to me in stages. I found
Speaker 1: out I was enough for now. Please don't ask me
Speaker 1: about tomorrow. I don't know yet. But he's enough for now,
Speaker 1: and you're enough for now, because he is the bread
Speaker 1: of life. Do you know he told the crowds, He said,
Speaker 1: you came to me because you ate something and had
Speaker 1: your fill. But unless you eat my flesh and drink
Speaker 1: my blood, you have no part in me what's he
Speaker 1: talking about? You got to get it in you. You've
Speaker 1: got to get it in you. How many that's what
Speaker 1: you have around you? Look at it again, look at it.
Speaker 1: How many that's what's around you? That's what you can count?
Speaker 1: How much? Look at it? Look at the thing on
Speaker 1: the screen. I put it up there for you. How
Speaker 1: much that's what's in you? That will never run dry?
Speaker 1: If you keep coming back to this, well, you'll thirst again.
Speaker 1: But if if you receive what I have, it'll always be.
Speaker 1: It'll always be, It'll always be enough. I will never
Speaker 1: run out of bread from heaven. I will never run out.
Speaker 1: Shout it. I'll never run out. I'll never run out
Speaker 1: because I know where the bread is. I know who
Speaker 1: my father. You think he's gonna feed a worm and
Speaker 1: let me die. I have a father. His name is
Speaker 1: I Am, and he is enough. Thank you Lord for
Speaker 1: everybody who needed this message, whether they knew they needed
Speaker 1: it or not. I needed it so much. How much
Speaker 1: did you need this so much? Because I got so
Speaker 1: many questions and I got so oh many needs, and
Speaker 1: eight months wages wouldn't feed them all. But you said
Speaker 1: you are the bread. They found out what you could do,
Speaker 1: and then they found out who you were, and that
Speaker 1: means you can do it again. So I speak it
Speaker 1: over the life of every person who needs to hear
Speaker 1: it today. I think you that your word will not
Speaker 1: return to your void, but accomplished that what you sent
Speaker 1: it to do. I thank you that you are the
Speaker 1: bread that came down from heaven, and you are not
Speaker 1: manna that disappears every day. But you and me are enough.
Speaker 1: My sufficiency, Christ, my all, in all peace, by peace.
Speaker 1: Great is thy faithfulness, Oh God, my father, this is
Speaker 1: a bad key for me. Can we go down? Great
Speaker 1: is that? Hans see. It's not how many notes you
Speaker 1: can hit, it is how much you mean them when
Speaker 1: you sing them. I'll sing it with one note. There
Speaker 1: is no shadow of turning with thee. There's there's truth
Speaker 1: in it. I only need one note. I only need one,
Speaker 1: So God's gonna supply for me. I felt the spirit
Speaker 1: on that I only need one. One is enough, trust me.
Speaker 1: One is enough. One is enough. When verse says I
Speaker 1: all I have needed, Thy hand has provided. I was
Speaker 1: just thinking about that. When they put it in his hands,
Speaker 1: they saw how much it was. Do you know I
Speaker 1: have John Mayer's guitar you've seen it, Israel, Holden gave
Speaker 1: it to me. What's up? Israel? I went to see
Speaker 1: John Mair play in concert. He had the same guitar.
Speaker 1: It sounded different in his hands, six strings like mine,
Speaker 1: same knobs, same color in his hands. Lift your hands,
Speaker 1: slift your hands, slift your hands in his hands. It's enough.
Speaker 1: It's enough, summer and winter and springtime and harvest thine own,
Speaker 1: dear presence, that you're into God. Strength for today. That's
Speaker 1: it right now. Strength for today, not ten years from now.
Speaker 1: Strength for today, not November. Strength for today, and bride
Speaker 1: hope for tomorrow. Blessings all mine? How much do you have?
Speaker 1: Blessings all mine? How many? How many blessings all mine?
Speaker 1: With ten thousand? Beside? Count them all? One two, three, four, five, six,
Speaker 1: ten thousand, ten thousand? How many miracles one two, three, four, five, six, seven, five,
Speaker 1: five and two than the number of completion? How many?
Speaker 1: How many? How many blessings are mine? With ten thousand? Besides?
Speaker 1: I can't even count them all? How many? Part in
Speaker 1: for sin? Bring me the bread? Part in for sin
Speaker 1: right now? Hurry, please part in for sin? You got
Speaker 1: the break? Come on, I know there's bread here somebody say,
Speaker 1: I know there's bread here. I know there's bread here.
Speaker 1: I know there's bread here. I'm waiting for it. I know.
Speaker 1: See he was ready to bring me the bread before
Speaker 1: you even knew I needed it. Come on, you need
Speaker 1: to glorify God. This is a holy spirit moment. Somebody
Speaker 1: is receiving the bread. Lord, speak the sustenance of your
Speaker 1: word right now, parton for sin? How many sins? How
Speaker 1: many sins? And a peace? How much peace? And a
Speaker 1: piece that endures? And a piece, a piece every time
Speaker 1: they came back, another piece, every time they came back,
Speaker 1: another piece, and a piece a piece. It doesn't look
Speaker 1: like much, but it endures. It's gonna last, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna run out. Just keep coming back Thine own dear presence.
Speaker 1: That's all I need. I found out he was bred.
Speaker 1: Everything I need is in his presence. God. I want
Speaker 1: this word to go deep in you. So the next
Speaker 1: you start thinking how many you can find out? How much?
Speaker 1: How much? The only way to find out is to
Speaker 1: keep coming back. How many miracles did the disciples see Jesus,
Speaker 1: do give them the wide shot please in the back.
Speaker 1: I want them to see this online. How many miracles
Speaker 1: did they see. When did they find out how much
Speaker 1: he loved them? It was when he gave his life
Speaker 1: for them, And when his body was broken like the bread,
Speaker 1: and when his blood was spilled, they realized they found
Speaker 1: out how much? How much does he love you? How
Speaker 1: much he showed you that already? Haven't you found out?
Speaker 1: Didn't he make a way? Wasn't he there when no
Speaker 1: one else was? Didn't he do what you didn't even
Speaker 1: know to ask him for the real miracle when they
Speaker 1: found out what they had? It was when they found
Speaker 1: out who he was. The bread of life is in
Speaker 1: your living room. The bread of life is in your kitchen.
Speaker 1: The bread of life is in the hospital. The bread
Speaker 1: of life is in the place of your greatest need.
Speaker 1: And peace by peace, moment by moment, day by day. Yes, Lord,
Speaker 1: I'll show you one more thing because he wants me
Speaker 1: to show you. Can I give you one more? How
Speaker 1: many that's plural? How much that's singular? You don't say grammatically?
Speaker 1: How many shoes you say? How many shoes you don't
Speaker 1: say grammatically? How much shoe you said, Jesus said, I
Speaker 1: Am the bread of life singular. Let me give you
Speaker 1: a minute think about first Corinthians ten seventeen. Put it
Speaker 1: on the screen. Please, I saw this. I saw this
Speaker 1: this morning. Because there is one loaf. We who are
Speaker 1: many are one body, for we all share in the
Speaker 1: one loaf. Let me tell you something today. I don't
Speaker 1: know your situation. I don't know who left you. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you need. God does one is enough.
Speaker 1: If you have him, you have enough. Just keep coming back,
Speaker 1: peace by peace, step by step, prayer by prayer, day
Speaker 1: by day. He is more than enough. Oh yeah, you're
Speaker 1: leaving with leftovers. Oh yeah, you know that party. Hey,
Speaker 1: their biggest problem when they got to the wilderness where
Speaker 1: we don't even have a bite. Their biggest problem after
Speaker 1: Jesus touched the bread buzz we don't have enough baskets.
Speaker 1: I am telling you, child of God, you're leaving with
Speaker 1: a different level problem. You got so much joy, I
Speaker 1: got so much pace. I got so much, so much,
Speaker 1: so much, How great a salvation, how firm a foundation,
Speaker 1: so much, so much. He loves you so much that
Speaker 1: he sent his son for God so loved the world
Speaker 1: that his body was broken on the cross. Right now,
Speaker 1: there's someone who needs to begin a relationship with Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ I'm by you in this moment to pray with me.
Speaker 1: There's only one loaf, there's only one name, there's only
Speaker 1: one way. It is by grace through faith that we
Speaker 1: are safe. And what if God sent me to preach
Speaker 1: this whole message for you. He sees the one and
Speaker 1: if there is one, that's enough for me to stop
Speaker 1: right now and give you this moment, because when you
Speaker 1: have come to the end of yourself, it is the
Speaker 1: beginning of grace. So right now, the scripture says that
Speaker 1: if you confess your sin, he is faithful and just,
Speaker 1: he will forgive your sin, cleanse you from all unrighteousness.
Speaker 1: That if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord,
Speaker 1: and believe in your heart that God raised him from
Speaker 1: the dead, you will be saved. He is enough, He
Speaker 1: is your bread, he is your strength. He is the door.
Speaker 1: He is the Way, the truth, and the life. He
Speaker 1: is the resurrection. He's all of that, and he longs
Speaker 1: to come into your life. So bow your head and
Speaker 1: close your eyes. If you need to put your life
Speaker 1: in the hands of God today, I promise you it
Speaker 1: can be so much more in his hands than it
Speaker 1: can in yours. And right now, this is your moment
Speaker 1: to turn it over to God. Remember, he can do
Speaker 1: a lot with broken pieces. It doesn't matter where you've
Speaker 1: been or what you've done. But right now, if you're
Speaker 1: ready to give your life to Jesus Christ, I want
Speaker 1: you to repeat this prayer after me out loud, Heavenly Father.
Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God
Speaker 1: and the savior of the world. Today, I make Jesus
Speaker 1: the lord of my life. I believe he died that
Speaker 1: I would be forgiven and rose again to give me life.
Speaker 1: I receive this new life. I am a child of
Speaker 1: God in Jesus name. If you just prayed that, I
Speaker 1: want you to put right now in the chat I
Speaker 1: just received Jesus. We're clapping, the angels are clapping. You
Speaker 1: know what the Bible says. There is rejoicing in heaven
Speaker 1: over one sinner. There are thousands right now who just
Speaker 1: came into the Kingdom of God. Come on, put it
Speaker 1: in the chat. I received Jesus. I received Jesus. I
Speaker 1: couldn't buy it, I couldn't earn it, but he did it,
Speaker 1: and he is enough. Come on, Let's give him thirty
Speaker 1: seconds of great praise. We see it. Let me know
Speaker 1: in the chat, how this word ministered to your soul.
Speaker 1: We love you, We're praying for you, We're here for you,
Speaker 1: and He is enough, and you are enough, and God's
Speaker 1: got to in his hands and he will never let
Speaker 1: you go. Get in praise if you believe it. Holly Loujah,
Speaker 1: I foul them, I found up? How foul up? Thank
Speaker 1: you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you
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