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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: if you want to hear the word of God, somebody's

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Speaker 1: saying the comments preach, preach, preach, saying, Bridge, Bridge. I

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Speaker 1: was glad when they said, unto me, let us go

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Speaker 1: to the House of the Lord. But then I couldn't

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Speaker 1: go to the house of the Lord. So the house

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Speaker 1: of the Lord, pay to me. Here it comes church. Amen,

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Speaker 1: we bring you greetings, seasons greetings. Normally they say that

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Speaker 1: at Christmas, but God is good in every season. Amen.

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Speaker 1: And today we thanked Him for providing for us, for

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Speaker 1: meeting our needs. Go ahead and let me know in

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Speaker 1: the chat what else he can do? What else can

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Speaker 1: he do? I wonder what else he can do? It's

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Speaker 1: just a question. It's just a question. What if I

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Speaker 1: told you that last week when I went home from preaching,

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Speaker 1: I had leftovers, And what if I told you that

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Speaker 1: it was fresh from the oven to the point where

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Speaker 1: God was speaking to me so strong after last Sunday

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Speaker 1: when I preached about when they found out, and He

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Speaker 1: was speaking to me so strong. I had to call

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Speaker 1: select members of our staff, or I had to call

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Speaker 1: all the staff who aren't saved yet, all the ones

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Speaker 1: who are under sanctified and need an extra dose of

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and Holly plus Holly, and I said, let's

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Speaker 1: get in here and get into this word. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to share with you again from a scripture that

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Speaker 1: I made reference to. Should we replace this? Is this bad?

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Speaker 1: Should we change it out? Chris? While I'm changing the south,

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Speaker 1: we'll change it for the pulpit or something. Just bring

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Speaker 1: me out the real pulpit. I'll preach a real sermon.

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Speaker 1: Bring me a real pulpit. I don't need an unstable table.

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Speaker 1: He prepares a table for me in the presence of

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Speaker 1: my enemies. The Lord is my pulpit. Oh, this would

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Speaker 1: be good. I was writing a remix of graves into

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Speaker 1: gardens early this morning. I woke up at four point

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Speaker 1: thirty and the Lord said, I searched the world and

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Speaker 1: it nearly killed me. How many you know? I searched

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Speaker 1: the world and it almost took you out, but God

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Speaker 1: had a plan to keep you in. That's the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty graves into gardens. It nearly killed me, but it didn't.

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Speaker 1: Somebody put in the chat, but it didn't. I am.

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Speaker 1: It feels good to have you back regular pulpit. I've

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Speaker 1: been quarantine preaching on a table like I'm calm, you know,

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Speaker 1: my heart, I'm a preacher and I want to preach

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Speaker 1: today from John chapter six. If you can stand where

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Speaker 1: you are, that'd be great right there in your living

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Speaker 1: room kitchen. I know many of our teams are starting

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Speaker 1: to meet together and watch parties. I'm going to rename

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Speaker 1: watch parties. I don't know what yet. I looked at

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Speaker 1: it a little bit this morning, Like I said, I've

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Speaker 1: that as well, and waiting for this to happen, waiting

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Speaker 1: to preach it. I don't want to call it watch

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Speaker 1: anymore because I really don't want you to think of

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Speaker 1: it as spectator sport, because really, God, when he wants

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Speaker 1: to build the church before he gathers us, he will

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Speaker 1: scatter us. And I think part of what God is

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Speaker 1: doing right now is really teaching us to take church

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Speaker 1: great expansion in this season and I believe that. But

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Speaker 1: for now we call him watch Parties. And I didn't

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Speaker 1: tell the staff that yet. They found out, you know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't talked about when they found out. Well, they

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Speaker 1: everybody worshiping today, whether you're just by yourself or you're

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Speaker 1: not by yourself. Even if you're by yourself, you're not

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Speaker 1: by yourself. And I want you to know that. And

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Speaker 1: it's a privilege to stand here today behind this sturdy

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Speaker 1: podium and preach God's unfailing word to you. John chapter six,

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Speaker 1: verse five. This is the word of the Lord. When

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Speaker 1: on every syllable of this text. While I read it.

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Speaker 1: About five thousand men were there. Jesus then took the loaves,

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Speaker 1: little bitty bite. But they didn't get enough. I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: that I messed it up on purpose. It said, as

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Speaker 1: he said to his disciples, gather the pieces that are

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Speaker 1: left over. Let nothing be wasted. He's speaking that same

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Speaker 1: to let it be wasted. God's not gonna waste a season.

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Speaker 1: God doesn't waste a second. No, no, no, it won't

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Speaker 1: be wasted. It won't be wasted right there in the chat.

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Speaker 1: It won't be wasted. So they gathered them and filled

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Speaker 1: He asked this only to test him, for he already

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Speaker 1: the title of this message is, and you got to

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Speaker 1: say it like my kids say it. You're ready, did

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Speaker 1: I ask? Look at somebody next to you and say

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Speaker 1: did I ask? You may be seated. You may be seated,

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Speaker 1: or stay laying down if you're still in bed watching this.

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Speaker 1: Either way, here we go. Hey, do me a favor.

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Speaker 1: Would you do me a favor? Put something in the

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Speaker 1: When you put this down, I'll explain it after. It

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Speaker 1: starts with a question. It starts with a question. What

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Speaker 1: do you get your messages from? And I say, people

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Speaker 1: Do you ever wonder this stuff? Nobody's asking? That's what

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you anyway. But since since you

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Speaker 1: didn't ask, where I get my sermons from? Usually is

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Speaker 1: it starts with a question. And I'm kind of multitasking

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Speaker 1: here because I've got all these campus pastors who came

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Speaker 1: God with an answer, we're coming from our mind. But

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Speaker 1: is in you. And the message that I preached last week,

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Speaker 1: real job. I think about stuff that the normal person

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Speaker 1: were very very small baskets. Nope, the same word for

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Speaker 1: thought the boy volunteered his lunch. There is no textual

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Speaker 1: I think the disciples got desperate. You know how you

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Speaker 1: get desperate, and you're like, I'm normally not a lift

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Speaker 1: them right about now. I need you Lord. I got questions,

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Speaker 1: the crowd watch this five loaves, two fish, How many loaves?

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Speaker 1: Five loaves? What kind of loaves? Barley loaves? What's the

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Speaker 1: cheapest kind of bread? Barley? So the cheapest stuff produced

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Speaker 1: one of the greatest miracles. Give him praise that God

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Speaker 1: is a master chef. Hallelujah. Gordon Ramsey's got nothing on

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Speaker 1: ask questions. My kids ask questions. Some of them are dumb.

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Speaker 1: on blast like this, but when you said, do I

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Speaker 1: crack it before I boil it? That's a dumb question.

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Speaker 1: He's fifteen years old. That's a dumb question. And I

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Speaker 1: take responsibility for him not knowing that. That's my bad.

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Speaker 1: But then they'll ask deep questions. My son asked questions. Elijah,

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Speaker 1: who's here right now. He asks questions that the staff

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Speaker 1: doesn't even ask. He's asked me questions he's to asked

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Speaker 1: me questions when he was nine, ten years old, that

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Speaker 1: I'd go. I've never even had a grown, paid staff

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Speaker 1: member ask me that. That's amazing, you know, because I'm

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Speaker 1: not afraid to ask it. He just ask it. He

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Speaker 1: just asked me to do stuff. He walked in one

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Speaker 1: night and he didn't ask me. Could we go to

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Speaker 1: the movie? Well, he asked me, but he asked me

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Speaker 1: in the form of action. He brought me my shoes.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to go see a movie. It was nine

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Speaker 1: o'clock at night. This was years ago, and he brought

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Speaker 1: but he didn't open his mouth. He just brought me

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Speaker 1: something and we saw the movie. Because kids aren't scared

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Speaker 1: to ask. Kids aren't scared to ask. They'll ask you anything.

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Speaker 1: Abby saw a thing on the counter that said the

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Speaker 1: most powerful people in Charlotte or something like that. It

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Speaker 1: was some list. It had on the list Pastor Stephen

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Speaker 1: Verdick Elevation Church. She came to me with the list.

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Speaker 1: She said, Daddy, this was years ago now, She said, Daddy,

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Speaker 1: if you're the most fifth most powerful person in Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: does that mean you can pull a tooth? If it's

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Speaker 1: not even loose. What a great question, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Fai. It's like a child, not childish, but

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Speaker 1: child like. Where are the children of God? We can

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Speaker 1: ask questions? Did I ask? Now? My kids say that

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Speaker 1: other off. Did I ask? Did I ask? Buddy? They

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Speaker 1: are professional button pushers and that was their thing for

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Speaker 1: about six months. Abby came up to me and gave

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Speaker 1: me this sermon title. She said, Daddy, this is last week.

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Speaker 1: She Saidaddy, when you were preaching today, I thought you

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Speaker 1: should have called that sermon. Did I ask? Because she

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Speaker 1: heard where Jesus asked Philip, this is a nine year

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Speaker 1: old girl. She said, you should have called it? Did

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Speaker 1: I ask? I didn't even ask her what I should

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Speaker 1: have called it. Sometimes God will give you something you

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Speaker 1: didn't even know to ask for. Watch this through somebody

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Speaker 1: you didn't even thing to ask, through a little boy

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Speaker 1: with a lunch. So I was thinking about the sermon,

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Speaker 1: and I was wondering when did it become enough? And

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Speaker 1: then I was wondering where did it come from? Like

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Speaker 1: we're all wondering where's it going to come from? And

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Speaker 1: I don't know where it's going to come from. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure where it's going to come from, right, And

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Speaker 1: I want to revisit the scripture in detail from John six.

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Speaker 1: It's really beautiful how it's written, where Jesus, the Word

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Speaker 1: of God, asks Phillip a question, where shall we buy

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Speaker 1: bread for these people to eat? And then I'm thankful

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Speaker 1: for the little side note. He asked this only to

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Speaker 1: test him, where he already knew what he was going

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Speaker 1: to do. Now, this is weird. You want the bonus thing.

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Speaker 1: This is the cheer. This is not even the cherry.

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Speaker 1: This is the stem on the cherry. When you get

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Speaker 1: the other accounts in the Gospels, it says that the

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Speaker 1: disciples came to Jesus and said they need to eat

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Speaker 1: after he had taught all day. If you read that

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Speaker 1: verse the moment they started coming, and I'll back it

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Speaker 1: up and show you in verse five the moment they

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Speaker 1: started coming. In verse five, the moment he saw the crowd,

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Speaker 1: he already knew what to feed them. And here's what's crazy.

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Speaker 1: They never even asked for a meal. Because He's going

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Speaker 1: to feed them, all right, but they never asked for it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who this is for. I honestly don't,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you'll tell me in the comments. But God

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Speaker 1: in this season is giving you what you didn't even

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Speaker 1: know you needed to ask for. You know, if he

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Speaker 1: sins three twenty, he is able to do immeasurably more

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Speaker 1: than we ask or imagine. So God is doing some

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Speaker 1: things in my life right now that I didn't even

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Speaker 1: know what to ask. Here's the thing about me. I'm

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Speaker 1: a sheep. I need a shepherd. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: to ask for, so he makes me lie down in

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Speaker 1: green pastures. I don't want God to give me what

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Speaker 1: I need. I want him to give me what he knows,

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Speaker 1: because what I think I need and what he knows

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Speaker 1: I need are two different things. Twenty seconds of praise

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Speaker 1: that He's given you what you didn't know to ask for,

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Speaker 1: more than you ask or imagine, more than you thought

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Speaker 1: to put on your prairie question. Eh, thank you Lord.

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Speaker 1: It starts with a question. Jesus said, where are we

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Speaker 1: gonna get bread? Where we're gonna buy bread for all

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Speaker 1: these people? I heard Philips say back, because Jesus was

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Speaker 1: just testing him. Right. He doesn't ask questions for information.

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Speaker 1: He asked questions for revelation, not so he can see something,

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Speaker 1: But so you can see something? Should I sit down

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Speaker 1: and finish this another time? Good? Because I haven't really

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Speaker 1: started yet. I'm so glad you said that. And so

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Speaker 1: Philip answered him verse seven, And I thought, well, there's

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Speaker 1: the problem. Philip answered him. This whole thing is backwards.

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Speaker 1: Philip answered a question that Jesus didn't even ask. What

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Speaker 1: did Jesus ask, where are we going to buy enough

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Speaker 1: bread for these people to eat? What? Did Philip answer?

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Speaker 1: How much it's going to cost? And I heard Jesus

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Speaker 1: saying to Philip, did I ask? Did I ask? Did

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Speaker 1: I ask if we can afford it? Did I ask

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Speaker 1: an accounting question? I hear God saying to somebody today,

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Speaker 1: Did I ask if you were able? Did I ask

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Speaker 1: if you've got what it takes? Did I ask if

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Speaker 1: you know what comes next? Did I ask? Don't touch?

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Speaker 1: Three people will look at them and say, did I ask?

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Speaker 1: Did I ask? So it's backwards as backwards as backwards.

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Speaker 1: We're answering when we ought to be asking. We're answering

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Speaker 1: when we ought to be asking. And that's why you

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Speaker 1: learn so much more as a kid than you do

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Speaker 1: now as a grown up. You stopped asking, you stopped

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Speaker 1: asking and started assuming everything is wrong with this text?

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Speaker 1: What was he testing him for to see if he

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Speaker 1: knew enough to know that he didn't know enough to

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Speaker 1: tell Jesus Jesus wasn't trying to test how much do

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Speaker 1: we have? Jesus wasn't asking for a bank deposit. Jesus

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Speaker 1: wasn't asking for a balance sheet. Jesuaid, where are we

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Speaker 1: gonna get it? He wanted to see if Philip knew

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Speaker 1: where to go, we might not be able to play

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Speaker 1: this when this might be too good for the general public.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to charge a subscription fee for this sermon,

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Speaker 1: because if you keep coming back to where you got

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Speaker 1: it from the first time, if you know where to go,

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Speaker 1: if you know where to go, if you know where

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Speaker 1: to go, if you know where to go, it will

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Speaker 1: always be enough and you will never run out if

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Speaker 1: you know where to go. But if you don't know

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Speaker 1: where to go, you will meet your needs in ways

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Speaker 1: that will hurt you worse in the air. And I

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Speaker 1: think the best question, I think the best question for

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Speaker 1: us to ask is where am I gonna get it from?

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Speaker 1: When we know the answer to that, And I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna break it down a little bit more so,

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Speaker 1: like Jesus told the crowds, be seated in groups of fifty,

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Speaker 1: about fifty people in the room, thousands online praise the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Let me know where you're watching from. By the way,

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Speaker 1: our teams pray for you. They go through every comment. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you don't like the video, your prayer won't get

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Speaker 1: answered anyway. So like the things, share it, subscribe, did

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Speaker 1: the bell, and then put a comment, and we'll pray

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Speaker 1: for you. But plenty of grass, green grass, Mark said,

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Speaker 1: green grass, green pastors. He makes me. Now, there's a

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Speaker 1: difference between a command and a question. And I always

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Speaker 1: get frustrated when Holly ask the kids what they want

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Speaker 1: to eat. I'm like, do not uh huh uh huh

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Speaker 1: ask me what I want and feed them that I

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Speaker 1: bought the bread? Is that bad? I bought it? So

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Speaker 1: I get mad. I'm like, don't ask them what they

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Speaker 1: want to eat. You're not a short order shell. You're

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Speaker 1: the sexy woman of God, a fine young Christian, a

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Speaker 1: fine young woman of God. She's so she so loves him.

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Speaker 1: Though she'll ask them, she'll ask them. Jesus asked Philip.

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Speaker 1: He said he gave the test before the lesson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's not fair, that's backwards. He didn't show him who

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Speaker 1: the bread of life was until after he tested him.

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Speaker 1: That's not fair. But that's what makes great faith. You know,

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Speaker 1: the test is the lesson. You're in a test right now.

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Speaker 1: Not a test. Do you know enough? Not a test?

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Speaker 1: Do you have enough? Not a test? Are you good enough?

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Speaker 1: But do you know where to get it from? Thank you, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: you are my bread. You are the bread of life.

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Speaker 1: You are the bread that comes down from heaven. And

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Speaker 1: if I keep coming back to you, I'll always have enough.

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Speaker 1: But listen, the bread was going to come from the

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Speaker 1: same place as the need. Who did they need to feed?

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Speaker 1: Where did they have to go to get it? I'll

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Speaker 1: fill in the blanks in case my socratic sermon isn't

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Speaker 1: really working for you right now, I just don't want

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Speaker 1: to leave this undone. They needed to feed the crowd,

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Speaker 1: and the meal that became a miracle was in the

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Speaker 1: same crowd that they needed to feed. God is using

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Speaker 1: every need in your life right now. Remember, the disciples

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Speaker 1: were hungry too, They needed to eat too. Jesus used

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Speaker 1: the need that they didn't want to meet to meet

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Speaker 1: the need that they had. So when I preach, I

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Speaker 1: don't start with this question would the people want to hear?

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Speaker 1: What a boring thing that would be. I'd be a

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Speaker 1: boring sermon. I'll start with what I need to get

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Speaker 1: through the next week, and I don't apologize for it.

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Speaker 1: I'd feed myself first, and then out of that, let's

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Speaker 1: all eat. You know, God feed me because I needed

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Speaker 1: to come from you. If it doesn't come from you,

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Speaker 1: it'll be just the dumb stuff that goes through my mind.

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Speaker 1: So I need bread from heaven. But the bread didn't

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Speaker 1: come from heaven like the Mana did. That's the old testament.

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Speaker 1: The new mindset is that the meal that Jesus multiply

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Speaker 1: Jesus made the disciples, And here's what you've gotta do.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get real practical. Now you've got to ask.

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Speaker 1: You've got to ask. When Jesus said how many, remember

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Speaker 1: how many is different than how much? How many is plural?

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Speaker 1: Five loaves? Those five loaves, it was all in the five.

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Speaker 1: It was all in the five. But the five was

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Speaker 1: in the crowd with a little boy. Like my sermons

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Speaker 1: title was an abbey coming to tell me goodnight. And

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Speaker 1: if you don't ever pay attention and open yourself up,

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Speaker 1: you will miss what God gets. You will miss the

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Speaker 1: miracles because you didn't ask the question they had to ask.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to ask, You're gonna have to ask.

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Speaker 1: Give me James one five. James one five says that

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Speaker 1: if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God.

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Speaker 1: Ask ask ask, Oh, who my friend on Facebook? Who

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Speaker 1: You're gonna ask? Ask God first? That's why it didn't work.

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Speaker 1: It didn't work. Jesus didn't start the miracle when Philip

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Speaker 1: said how much it was gonna cost? And nothing good

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Speaker 1: is gonna flow through our life while we stay focused

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Speaker 1: on answering the question what do I lack? Oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: good at listening all the things I lack, all the

637
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: things I like. I can tell you everything I'm bad at.

638
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: I can tell you every reason God shouldn't use me.

639
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: I can tell you every dirty, blemish, fought and wrinkle.

640
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: When people say bad stuff about me, I think, well,

641
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: you should call me. I give you a few more.

642
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: You didn't even get to the real good stuff. I mean,

643
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: they'll say you're this or that, I'm like you are

644
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: in the PG. We could go PG. Thirteen, or we

645
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: can make this thing terrible if you really want to know.

646
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: It's not because I'm a hypocrite. I'm a human. I'm

647
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: not the bread. But I know where to get it.

648
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: Do you know where to get it? Do you know

649
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 1: where to get it? If any of you lacks wisdom,

650
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: you should ask God and it'll be given to you.

651
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: Now this is cool. Write this down on one side,

652
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: put bought on one side, put given. Jesus said, where

653
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: are we gonna buy bread? The answer is we're not.

654
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: It's gonna be given. It's gonna be given. It's gonna

655
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: be given for what the law was powerless to do,

656
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: and that it was weak in by the sinful nature.

657
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,959
Speaker 1: God did by sending his own son the bread of life.

658
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: It's gonna be given. Open your palms like this to heaven.

659
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: It's gonna be given. The wisdom is gonna be given.

660
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: It's gonna be given. It's gonna be given. It's not

661
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: gonna be earned, it's gonna be given. He's trying to

662
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: shift them from a mentality that is like manna. It

663
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: comes from somewhere else, to get them to see that

664
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: the wisdom of God is given from within. It's gonna

665
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: be given. Stay with me, Are you with me? You're

666
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: not gonna buy it, You're not gonna earn it, You're

667
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: not gonna achieve it. You're gonna receive it. That's what

668
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: opens your hands. Oh, I thought about open hands. I

669
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: thought about five, five loaves. I thought about five. I

670
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: thought about it's gonna come from the five. It's gonna

671
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: come from the five. It's gonna come from the open hand,

672
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: from God's hand to your hand. It's gonna come from

673
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: the five. Do you hear me? Put it right there

674
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: in the It's gonna come from the five. God's gonna

675
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 1: give it to you. Are your hands open? Or are

676
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: you so full of assumptions that you stopped asking? Somebody

677
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: told me the other day They said, well, you need

678
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: to pray about it. And I got mad because I

679
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: thought that's a cliche. I've already prayed about it. And

680
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 1: I got away, and God said, but did you think

681
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: about it? We said, you know, don't tell me to

682
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: pray about it. I already prayed about it. But did

683
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: you did you pray about it? Or did you calculate it?

684
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 1: Overthink it? Pepto bismol and wake up in the middle

685
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:42,959
Speaker 1: of the night with a stomach ache? Did I ask?

686
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: Did I ask? Codf This is so embarrassing to say this,

687
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, I'll tell you. I'll tell you a

688
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: lot of times I work so hard on the sermon

689
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:02,439
Speaker 1: and I'm like, why isn't this coming together? Oh yeah,

690
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: I didn't even ask God to help me with it.

691
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something else. So when Abby said,

692
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: did I ask, it's your sermon title? I woke up

693
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: the next morning, I said, God, will you just give

694
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: me the sermon this week? I don't want to work

695
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: as hard as I did last week. An hour later

696
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: I had it. I'm not saying that I didn't study.

697
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: It was already there. I just had to ask. If

698
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: you knew what was in you, if you knew who

699
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: was in you, you would ask. If you knew he

700
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: was bred, you would never again let the devil keep

701
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: you hungry or sell your birth right for a bowl

702
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: of beans. You would stop going to places that can

703
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: feel you and spending your wages on what doesn't satisfy.

704
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: It comes from the five. It comes from his hand.

705
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: You hear me, it comes from his hand. And when

706
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: I know that I opened my hands and I ask.

707
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: See I didn't ask. I didn't ask. And it's not

708
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: just a one time thing. When Jesus said whoever comes

709
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: to me will never hunger again, he wasn't talking about

710
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: who comes to me one time. The word the voice

711
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: of the of the verb is is the middle voice,

712
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: and it only speaks to present or imperfect. That means

713
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: either you're coming right now, or you're gonna keep coming

714
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: John six thirty. Look it up. When they came to him,

715
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: they were fed when they came to him, keep coming,

716
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: keep coming for wisdom. Did I ask? I mean, I

717
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: got in the middle of my day and I'm like,

718
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: oh man, I wish I did I ask? Did I

719
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: ask God? Did I ask the people he put around me?

720
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: I mean, in order for the miracle to happen, they

721
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: had to walk through the crowd asking you know what,

722
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: I might just have to humble myself and ask somebody

723
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: to help. People can't read your mind, miss cleo. People

724
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: can't flash back people outdated reference from the old preacher.

725
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,399
Speaker 1: People can't know that. People don't know what you need.

726
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: You have to ask. When you ask, you activate. When

727
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: you ask, you activate the same crowd that had to need.

728
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 1: Was the same crowd that had the miracle, but they

729
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:43,919
Speaker 1: had to ask. Here's my question. Can I ask a question?

730
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,359
Speaker 1: How many people did they ask that said no before

731
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: they found the five lows? You got anything? Remember last week?

732
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: You got anything? You got anything, You got anything, you

733
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: got anything. And I'm putting this point in because what

734
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: keeps some of us from asking is our past rejection. Yeah,

735
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: it can get so deep in you that you start

736
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 1: assuming they they won't want to do that for me?

737
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: Did you ask, oh, God, this is too much. It

738
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: is what I'm about to say is too much. I

739
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: almost didn't ask you to come do this ministry, I

740
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: asked him. He almost said no, true or false? True

741
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: or false? Yeah, he'd probably be either a professional tennis

742
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: player today or maybe he'd be stringing tennis racket somewhere

743
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: on the side of the road, who knows, somewhere in between.

744
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: I almost didn't even ask you. I remember telling them,

745
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: I said, Chris and bethn't want to be here. They

746
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,399
Speaker 1: want to go to Nashville. Something d me say, ask

747
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: ask ask me now now? Now. Now, it's not ask

748
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 1: people for things that God can give you, but sometimes

749
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 1: God will direct you to people to meet the need.

750
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: Remember Jess didn't say where we're gonna feed these people,

751
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: and folks said we don't have enough, And Jesus said,

752
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: Manna come didn't come from Mana, It didn't even come

753
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: from man It came from a boy. That means they

754
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: had to go all the way through the crowd. You

755
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:28,800
Speaker 1: think the boy was in the front of the crowd.

756
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: How's a little boy gonna get to the front of

757
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: a crowd. He's not even in the cow. Hey, not

758
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 1: even I have a ticket to Jesus, Riach and Crusader

759
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: don't remember crowds. This is a BC before Corona kind

760
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: of situation here, back when they used to have crowds

761
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: going through the crowd. You got anything, you got anything,

762
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 1: You got anything. Some people are lying, some people are

763
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: telling the truth. Some people are already ate. Some people

764
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: are and they're all hungry. You got anything, you got anything,

765
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: you got anything. Here's what I want you to do.

766
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,399
Speaker 1: Please do this, Please do this, especially if you've had

767
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: a root of bitterness or you have a root of rejection,

768
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: and it's like somebody in your life told you know,

769
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 1: or something in your life has been knows so many times.

770
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 1: I want you to when you when you hear no,

771
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: I want you to think next. When you hear no,

772
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: I want you to think next. So if God didn't

773
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: let me do that next, if God didn't want me

774
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: to do that, what's next? Now? I have to do

775
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: this as a matter of survival because sometimes people do

776
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: not say they want to be a part of this ministry.

777
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: But if I stop when they say no, I will

778
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: miss the miracle that was in the thing. So so

779
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 1: I want somebody, whoever this is, I want you to shout,

780
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: at the top of your holy ghost lungs from your diaphragm,

781
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: say next. I gotta get through this crowd. I gotta

782
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: get through this confusion. I gotta get through this shame.

783
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of this slack. I gotta eat.

784
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: I can't die. I gotta have green grasp. No means next,

785
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: whoa no means next. So I don't want anybody to

786
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: leave me. But if they do, it's not like I'm

787
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: just treating people as disposable. But they ain't bread. They

788
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: ain't bread nowhere the bread is. Are y'all awake to

789
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: help me celebrate the bread that came from heaven, The

790
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 1: bread that came from heaven. The bread that came from heaven.

791
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 1: What you're gonna hate? The bread that cave from heaven

792
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: is coming from the five It's coming from the hand

793
00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 1: of God. By every word, that problem of God. Who

794
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: if they said no, I'll just look for the next well,

795
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: that's cruel, Pastor Steve. I mean, I've be come on, man,

796
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 1: I've been married almost twenty years. I'm not saying relationships

797
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:24,239
Speaker 1: are disposable. I'm just saying that you got to go

798
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 1: back to the place where you know in God that

799
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: Moses can only give you manna for so long. It's

800
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: just a question. It's just a question where are we

801
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:52,240
Speaker 1: going to get it from. That's what Jesus ask Philip

802
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: should have said, why are you asking me? That's what

803
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: he should have said. The whole thing went off the

804
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: track when you thought you knew the answer. The whole

805
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 1: thing came undone when you assumed, did you ask he

806
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to write songs with us? Did you ask? Now?

807
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: Some of y'all are two asking God knows you are.

808
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: I've been the comments of YouTube talking about do y'all

809
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: have a YouTube channel? You are on the YouTube channel?

810
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm serious. People will say this kind of stuff on you.

811
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: It's crazy stuff. People will say on YouTube, where'd you

812
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: get that shirt? Somebody put on YouTube comment they said,

813
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: we played a throwback sermon from twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen,

814
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:49,479
Speaker 1: one of those years. Back in the day. Flashback said

815
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 1: back when I didn't have my beard, and they said,

816
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 1: I like you so much better with a beard. You

817
00:53:55,360 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: know what I wanted to respond, Did I ask? Did

818
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: I ask? You don't have to ask God everything. Sometimes

819
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: you're asking God for stuff that he already told you

820
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: that he put people around you to give you. It

821
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: didn't it came from heaven, but it came through people.

822
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: That's why Holly was saying, hey, join in Egrop. She's

823
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: trying to get you fed. Yeah. Yeah, So when you pray,

824
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: God give me comfort. But you don't tell anybody you're lonely.

825
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 1: And I mean telling real people, not platforms. Did you

826
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: read between the lines. We don't ask questions. We just

827
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 1: make comments. Now we make comments online comments, comments, comments, comments, comments, comments,

828
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: But did you ask going on somebody's page and going, oh, well,

829
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: there's the liberal conservative. Did you ever have a conversation

830
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 1: with somebody different than you in the last three years?

831
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: Did you ask why do you feel that way? Why

832
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: do you think that way? What does that mean to you?

833
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: How do you see it? And the God who asked

834
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: questions wants to know. Did you ask? Andrew asked, and

835
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: that's when the miracle started. Andrew asked, He didn't even

836
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: ask with a lot of faith. James say, you ask

837
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: in faith? Nothing wavered. Andrew asked in doubt, and he

838
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: still got an answer. You can pray something as unspiritual

839
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:50,600
Speaker 1: as help or else, help or else? How many of

840
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: y'all are a helper ouse season in this season of

841
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,279
Speaker 1: your life? Help or else? God, I can't make it.

842
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,280
Speaker 1: So go back to verse eight. Andrew, Oh yeah, remember

843
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: the first question Jesus asked, what do you want? You

844
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: know who asked it to Andrew? Y'all thought that was

845
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: a trick question? Was I was just setting you up?

846
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,479
Speaker 1: He asked, Andrew, what do you want? The first question

847
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 1: Jesus asked in John one was Andrew another disciple. Andrew

848
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 1: brought Peter to Jesus. Every time we see Andrew in

849
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: the scripture, he's bringing something to Jesus. Do you think

850
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,720
Speaker 1: you need to give something? You need to bring something

851
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: so he can give something. This is the miracle. He said,

852
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: here's a boy. I went through the crowd. I asked everybody.

853
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:40,800
Speaker 1: I asked nineteen nine and ninety nine people, and this

854
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: boy right here, this boy right here. But how far

855
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: will they go among so many? The next sentence, Jesus

856
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: gives first ten a command sit down, now, I can

857
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: do something now that you asked? Did you ask? Did

858
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: you ask, like, really asked? I know, in a technical sense,

859
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, yeah, man, I asked God to help

860
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:17,479
Speaker 1: me all the time. Did you ask or did you tell? Yeah?

861
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: A lot of what we call prayer is us telling

862
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: God's stuff he already knows, or telling God what he

863
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: needs to do. Did you ask? Did you ask, why

864
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: do I have this thorn? Or did you just assume

865
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: it came from the devil? It might have come from

866
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: God to help you stay humble? Did you ask? Did

867
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 1: you ask God what he's doing in the life of

868
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,919
Speaker 1: that person you lead, whether it's a kid or someone else.

869
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: Did you ask or did you just assume that if

870
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: God didn't do through them what you thought he should

871
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: do through them, that he failed. Did you ask? Did

872
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: you ask God what he put in you and what

873
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: he wants from you? Or did you just assume that

874
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: what everybody else thinks you should do is the agenda

875
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: you have to follow. Did you ask? Andrew asked? He said,

876
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: how far can it go? And then he found out

877
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 1: it starts with a question. It starts with a question.

878
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: The crowd didn't get it because they were still waiting

879
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 1: for a messiah like Moses. You know, even after Jesus

880
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: spent them. They got the meal, but they missed the message.

881
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: Ninety eight percent of people who tune into a sermon

882
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 1: like this get the meal, missed the message. But I

883
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: don't want you to. The crowd said, are you going

884
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: to give us Mana like Moses? I don't know if

885
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: you remember Mana? And Bibe was like the original frosted flakes.

886
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: Sorry bad Joe. Wow. That was a tough crowded here.

887
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: But it would look like that. It was flaky and

888
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: it would come down and they said, what is it?

889
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: That's what they named it. What is it? Question? It

890
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: starts with a question. What is it? They didn't know

891
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: who he was. He said, I am the brother of Lfe,

892
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: but they thought it would be what it was? What

893
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: is it? Not? What was it? That's where the miracle is.

894
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:43,120
Speaker 1: What is it? What is it, what is it to

895
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 1: be me in this season of my life? What is

896
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: it God that you're speaking to me? What is it

897
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: that you're calling me to do in this moment? Did

898
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: I ask? Did I sit down this week and ask, like,

899
00:59:52,960 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: what's important this week? Really important? Did I ask? You know,

900
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: as long as we're the ones giving the answers, we're

901
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: going to be pretty limited in what we can access

902
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: questions create access. I was with somebody a while back

903
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: and they said they wanted to meet with me and

904
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 1: talk to me about ministry. Because they were not as

905
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: far along, they never asked me a question. I couldn't

906
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: figure that out because now I guess I know that

907
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: I don't know much. So from the time I was sixteen,

908
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 1: I was always asking questions, what do you do about this?

909
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 1: And what do you do about that? And why about this?

910
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: And why about that? No questions, no questions. Have you

911
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: stopped asking God? Just start assuming, just start filling in

912
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: the blanks. Stopped asking God? What else is in me?

913
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: What else can you do? I know you could engraves

914
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: into gardens and bones, and what else can you do?

915
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: What else can you do? This is the disciples whole

916
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: problem through the whole gospel. They were always telling, and

917
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: they stopped asking, stopped asking, stopped asking. That's why. That's

918
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: why you're frustrated. That's why you're stopped. That's why you're lonely.

919
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: You stopped asking. Oh, I asked you, did you? Did

920
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 1: you really? Or were you? Like the disciples say, they

921
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,240
Speaker 1: saw Jesus talking to a woman. You remember this, He said,

922
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,439
Speaker 1: give me a drink? He asked, can I have a drink?

923
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 1: Here he is again asking somebody who he shouldn't even

924
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: have been talking to, can I have a drink? Oh?

925
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: This is an annoyed verse because in John four ten,

926
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: you got it, John four ten, This is so good.

927
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 1: I was running around my bathroom looking at John four

928
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: ten on my phone. Jesus answered her, if you knew

929
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: the gift of God and who it is that asks

930
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: you for a drink, you would have asked him and

931
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 1: he would have given you living water. I'm preaching for

932
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: breakthrough today. I'm preaching for hungry people today. I'm preaching

933
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 1: for somebody who's really, really, really needing something today. He said,

934
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: if you knew ready, if you knew what was in you,

935
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 1: if you knew what was in you, it would be

936
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: living water and no matter what's happening around you. If

937
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: you knew what was in you, and greater is he

938
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 1: that is in me, that he that is in the world.

939
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: If you knew what was in you, if you knew

940
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: what was in you, you wouldn't kill yourself. If you

941
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: knew what was in you, you wouldn't let pornography strangle

942
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 1: the creative life out of you. If you knew what

943
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: was in you, you wouldn't hide yourself behind false personas.

944
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: If you knew who was in you. Everywhere the enemy

945
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: has planted condemnation in your life, I want you to

946
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: replace it with a question. That's the devil's language. Condemnation,

947
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: that's the devil. That's not how God talks. God asks questions.

948
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:35,160
Speaker 1: The wisdom that comes from above whispers within. Like you

949
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: said to Elijah in the cave, what are you doing here?

950
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: God ask questions up close. He knows you like that.

951
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: If you knew, you would ask Wait a minute, I thought.

952
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 1: If you don't know, you asked no. No. If you

953
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 1: knew who was in you, you stop listening to everything

954
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: around you so much. If you know who told you

955
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: that you were naked? Who told you that you were

956
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: nothing who told you it wasn't enough If you knew

957
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: who you were talking to when you talk to yourself,

958
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: if you knew. Thank you, Lord, thank you for the

959
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 1: ministry of the Holy Spirit. I don't think I've ever

960
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 1: felt you more than I feel you right now. And

961
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 1: I thank you because I need you. I need you,

962
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: We need you. Somebody needs you. On the other and

963
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: through their tears, they see now that the answer is

964
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: not standing outside of them. The living water is within

965
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 1: and the bread is right here. Thank you. So Jesus

966
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: is in Moses. Okay, Jesus and Moses. God's not going

967
01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 1: to do it like he used to to do it,

968
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 1: but if you ask, he'll show you what He's doing

969
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: right now in this moment. Speaking of Moses, remember when

970
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: God came to him and said, I want to use you.

971
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: He had to set a whole nation for we don't

972
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: have that responsibility. But God's speaking to us too, He's

973
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: calling us to. Moses asked a question, who shall I

974
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: say sent me? God said, I am you are what

975
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 1: that's the question? How you get to spend the rest

976
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 1: of your life finding out the answer? Thank you, Lord,

977
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 1: I am You're going to find out all that He

978
01:05:51,680 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: is through the things you go through. But Moses, Moses

979
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: said something to the Lord in Exodus fourteen, and I'll

980
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 1: show you this before I close, because the Lord gave

981
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 1: it to me like an image, like an image, like

982
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: an image. He said, if you knew what was in you,

983
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:19,000
Speaker 1: if you knew what was in you, you would ask

984
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:21,840
Speaker 1: for strength. You would ask, I'm in you. So you

985
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: can ask I'm in you. You got to get it

986
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: in you. You got to get it in you, Moses said,

987
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 1: after a whole series of excuses, you know, God asked

988
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 1: him a question. He said, what's that in your hand? Said?

989
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 1: In your hand? Moses simply had a staff, But that

990
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 1: wasn't all it was. It was an instrument to part waters,

991
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: to turn rivers to blood. It was an instrument. It

992
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: was an instrument. What's in your hand? It's coming from

993
01:06:57,840 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: the five. It's coming from the five, It's coming from

994
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: the fis. What's in your hand? Did you ask? Did

995
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: you ask? Or do you just assume it's not enough?

996
01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:14,400
Speaker 1: Did you ask? We get in trouble when we answer

997
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: when we answer instead of asking. So God said, I

998
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: chose you, Moses. And in Exodus four ten, this is

999
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 1: the picture of the Lord gave me. And the Lord

1000
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 1: must really want somebody to get this message, because it's

1001
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 1: so heavy on me. I can barely move. But Moses said,

1002
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 1: pardon your servant, Lord, I have never been eloquent, not enough,

1003
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 1: neither in the past nor since you've spoken to your servant.

1004
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 1: I'm slow speech and tongue. Now everybody has something like that.

1005
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 1: They could say why you can't make it, and why

1006
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 1: there's not enough, and why eight months wages wouldn't be enough.

1007
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: Everybody has an inner Philip, and the inner Philip will

1008
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: jump to conclusions based on the evidence that you can

1009
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: see with your eyes. But watch what the Lord said

1010
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 1: in verse eleven. The Lord said, did I ask who

1011
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: gave human beings their mouth? Did I ask who makes them? Death?

1012
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 1: From you? Did I ask? You keep telling me what

1013
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 1: you're not? But I didn't ask you that. You keep

1014
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 1: telling me what you can But I didn't ask you that.

1015
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:20,200
Speaker 1: So don't say I'm just single, don't say I'm just young,

1016
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:25,599
Speaker 1: don't say I'm too old. Did I ask High Lord?

1017
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 1: I am enough? Is it not? I come here, boy,

1018
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:37,680
Speaker 1: come here, come in come in course, come I come,

1019
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: I come nick, come in come, in come, in come,

1020
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: in come here, comeick come in, come, here, comeick me.

1021
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 1: I need to undred sixty dollars. I need to hundred

1022
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 1: sixty dollars. I need to hundred sixty dollars. I need

1023
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 1: to undred sixty dollars. Oh, you didn't think you had it.

1024
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:57,840
Speaker 1: But right up before I came to preach, I handed

1025
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: him my wallet and I didn't tell him why. I said,

1026
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: just hold this for me until I'm done. And I'm

1027
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 1: about to be done, because when I get to the

1028
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 1: end of my message, I'm gonna put something in my boy,

1029
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 1: And when I ask you for it, the fact that

1030
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 1: I ask is the proof that you have it. If

1031
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: I ask you have it, If I ask, I gave it,

1032
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:32,600
Speaker 1: it's in you. It's more than at all. Count that

1033
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:36,840
Speaker 1: money over that balalet. What's in that wallet? What's in

1034
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: that wallet? I need you sixty But I will never

1035
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 1: ask you for what I didn't get you to forget with.

1036
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 1: And if you run out of that, I got credit too.

1037
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:53,799
Speaker 1: Now I've said my credit score. I'm putting in a boid,

1038
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:57,839
Speaker 1: I'm putting in your duggers. I put it in your spirit,

1039
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:00,960
Speaker 1: I'll put it in a fastt I'm put it in

1040
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: a bag I'm put it in a weakness, I'm pull

1041
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 1: it in a blone. I yeh folow I have the

1042
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: Lord why you're not, But I am that this bones

1043
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 1: live again. They cast ny. Wow, these bones can live again.

1044
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: You can't make it. You do have what it takes.

1045
01:10:30,280 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 1: Christ is in you. I hope you received that message.

1046
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: Did you receive it? Thank you so much for your

1047
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 1: partnership in the gospel. I know you don't think of

1048
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 1: it this way, but when you give, it's like you preach.

1049
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 1: You know, those of you that invest in this ministry,

1050
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,599
Speaker 1: we're up there doing it together, bringing Church to people.

1051
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:49,680
Speaker 1: And I don't think the world has ever needed the

1052
01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:52,680
Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ any more than we do right now,

1053
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,760
Speaker 1: the Bread of life for hungry souls. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: being a part of this ministry. Don't forget to share

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Speaker 1: this message with someone who you know needs it. You know,

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Speaker 1: one of the best ways for God to feed you

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Speaker 1: is for you to share what you have with others.

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Speaker 1: So in the meantime, until I see you again, just

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Speaker 1: make sure that you remember this Christ is in you

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Speaker 1: and you are enough. We love you.