WEBVTT - Did I Ask? 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.080 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.440 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:12.479 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:23.079 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Hey, hey, hey, 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.280 if you want to hear the word of God, somebody's 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:41.240 saying the comments preach, preach, preach, saying, Bridge, Bridge. I 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.400 was glad when they said, unto me, let us go 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.519 to the House of the Lord. But then I couldn't 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.680 go to the house of the Lord. So the house 0:00:52.800 --> 0:01:00.760 of the Lord, pay to me. Here it comes church. Amen, 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.040 we bring you greetings, seasons greetings. Normally they say that 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:11.920 at Christmas, but God is good in every season. Amen. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.480 And today we thanked Him for providing for us, for 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.880 meeting our needs. Go ahead and let me know in 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.240 the chat what else he can do? What else can 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.920 he do? I wonder what else he can do? It's 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.680 just a question. It's just a question. What if I 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.679 told you that last week when I went home from preaching, 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:38.680 I had leftovers, And what if I told you that 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.600 it was fresh from the oven to the point where 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.320 God was speaking to me so strong after last Sunday 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:51.760 when I preached about when they found out, and He 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.080 was speaking to me so strong. I had to call 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.960 select members of our staff, or I had to call 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.680 all the staff who aren't saved yet, all the ones 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.760 who are under sanctified and need an extra dose of 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:12.160 Jesus Christ and Holly plus Holly, and I said, let's 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.720 get in here and get into this word. So I'm 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.359 going to share with you again from a scripture that 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.320 I made reference to. Should we replace this? Is this bad? 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:27.400 Should we change it out? Chris? While I'm changing the south, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.760 we'll change it for the pulpit or something. Just bring 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.280 me out the real pulpit. I'll preach a real sermon. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.959 Bring me a real pulpit. I don't need an unstable table. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.880 He prepares a table for me in the presence of 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:45.839 my enemies. The Lord is my pulpit. Oh, this would 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.480 be good. I was writing a remix of graves into 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.520 gardens early this morning. I woke up at four point 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.760 thirty and the Lord said, I searched the world and 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:01.240 it nearly killed me. How many you know? I searched 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.399 the world and it almost took you out, but God 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:09.080 had a plan to keep you in. That's the twenty 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.520 twenty graves into gardens. It nearly killed me, but it didn't. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.320 Somebody put in the chat, but it didn't. I am. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.359 It feels good to have you back regular pulpit. I've 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:24.200 been quarantine preaching on a table like I'm calm, you know, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.560 my heart, I'm a preacher and I want to preach 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.799 today from John chapter six. If you can stand where 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.760 you are, that'd be great right there in your living 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.360 room kitchen. I know many of our teams are starting 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.560 to meet together and watch parties. I'm going to rename 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.760 watch parties. I don't know what yet. I looked at 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.960 it a little bit this morning, Like I said, I've 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.240 been up a long time, and so I looked at 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.520 that as well, and waiting for this to happen, waiting 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.640 to preach it. I don't want to call it watch 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.520 anymore because I really don't want you to think of 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:59.760 it as spectator sport, because really, God, when he wants 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.960 to build the church before he gathers us, he will 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.480 scatter us. And I think part of what God is 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.920 doing right now is really teaching us to take church 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.760 to wherever we are, and we're going to see a 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:16.600 great expansion in this season and I believe that. But 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.600 for now we call him watch Parties. And I didn't 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.280 tell the staff that yet. They found out, you know, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.320 I haven't talked about when they found out. Well, they 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.560 found out just now like you did. So we're going 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.400 to rename it, but I don't know what yet. But 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.560 everybody worshiping today, whether you're just by yourself or you're 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.200 not by yourself. Even if you're by yourself, you're not 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.400 by yourself. And I want you to know that. And 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.679 it's a privilege to stand here today behind this sturdy 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:44.240 podium and preach God's unfailing word to you. John chapter six, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.400 verse five. This is the word of the Lord. When 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.880 Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.320 he said to Philip, where shall we buy bread for 0:04:54.520 --> 0:05:01.640 these people to eat? He asked this only to test him, 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.480 for he already had in mind what he was going 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.080 to do. Holy Spirit, give me discipline not to preach 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.120 on every syllable of this text. While I read it. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.120 I love it. And Philip answered him it would take 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.960 more than half a year's wages to buy enough bread 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:26.800 for each one to have a bite. Another of his disciples, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.280 Andrew Simon, Peter's brother, spoke up here, somebody shot here. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.240 Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.839 two small fish. But how far will they go among 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:43.320 so many? Jesus said, you want to find out. Have 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.880 the people sit down, sit down, Sit down, and you'll 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.560 find out. Sit down and you'll find out. There was 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.440 plenty of grass in that place. And they sat down. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.080 About five thousand men were there. Jesus then took the loaves, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.680 gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated a 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:09.640 little bitty bite. But they didn't get enough. I shouldn't 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.800 put these scriptures on the screen, so y'all wouldn't know 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.640 that I messed it up on purpose. It said, as 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.560 much as they wanted. And he did the same with 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.279 the fish. And when they had all had how much, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.160 When they had all had how much enough to eat, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.120 he said to his disciples, gather the pieces that are 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.960 left over. Let nothing be wasted. He's speaking that same 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.520 thing over your life. You know that God's not going 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.800 to let it be wasted. God's not gonna waste a season. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.400 God doesn't waste a second. No, no, no, it won't 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.560 be wasted. It won't be wasted right there in the chat. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.679 It won't be wasted. So they gathered them and filled 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:54.479 twelve baskets with the pieces of the five the five 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:59.360 barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. And 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.520 to get to my title, go back to verse six. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.840 He asked this only to test him, for he already 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.760 had in mind what he was going to do. And 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.680 the title of this message is, and you got to 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.960 say it like my kids say it. You're ready, did 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.680 I ask? Look at somebody next to you and say 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:22.640 did I ask? You may be seated. You may be seated, 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.320 or stay laying down if you're still in bed watching this. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.760 Either way, here we go. Hey, do me a favor. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.760 Would you do me a favor? Put something in the 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:35.680 chat for me? Or write it down with an inkpen. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.960 When you put this down, I'll explain it after. It 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:48.000 starts with a question. It starts with a question. What 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.480 starts with the question? Everything, whatever it is, it starts 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.240 with a question. So when people will ask me where 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.240 do you get your messages from? And I say, people 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.120 ask me, It's not like people ask me that much. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.200 I think maybe ten people have asked me that in 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.280 the last couple of years. You know, I see people 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.640 get on social media all the time. They're like, I 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.160 wanted to hop on here. A lot of y'all have 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.200 been asking. I'm like, a lot of y'all. You mean, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.560 like your sister, Like, who is a lot of y'all? 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:22.880 Do you ever wonder this stuff? Nobody's asking? That's what 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:30.560 I want to say. But anyway, nobody asked. Nobody asked. 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.679 But let me tell you anyway. But since since you 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.880 didn't ask, where I get my sermons from? Usually is 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.400 it starts with a question. And I'm kind of multitasking 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.760 here because I've got all these campus pastors who came 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.600 over to helped me preach today, all these I think 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.240 of you as the soux chefs. You know, you got 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.560 the chef and the soux chef. I think I use 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.280 that correctly, And I thought that it'd be good to 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.439 tell you always start your message with a question, not answer, 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.840 because if we start, if we come to the text, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.439 if we come to the Bible, if we come to 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.959 God with an answer, we're coming from our mind. But 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.040 a good message doesn't come from your mind. It comes 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.600 from the spirit of God, and the spirit of God 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.439 is in you. And the message that I preached last week, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.360 the week before that, the weeks before that, any good 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.000 message I've ever preached, and I'm not saying they're all good, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.839 but if it's good, it's because I didn't start with 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:35.319 an answer. I started with a question. So like I 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.079 got to John six and I was telling Holly by 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:43.760 asking the question, where did the baskets come from? This 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.719 is what I do while you're out doing like a 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.679 real job. I think about stuff that the normal person 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.439 is way too busy to think about, but I have 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.880 to think about it. It said that they didn't have 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.880 enough for everybody to have a bite, but then they 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.800 had twelve baskets, and I was like, well, maybe these 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.480 were very very small baskets. Nope, the same word for 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.560 a basket that is used to talk about when they 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:11.280 lowered Paul down from a basket if Paul was skinny, 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.199 it was one hundred and fifty pound basket capacity. So 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.520 I'm thinking, how did they at one moment not have 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.280 a bite and then at the end they had twelve 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.000 baskets And I never found out, But I moved on 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.640 to another question. I moved on to another question. Not 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.760 every question gets answered, you know, and I'll let you 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.280 know when I find out. I read some theories, but 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.000 I never really found an answer to that. What I 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.959 do think is a better question. And this is the 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.920 art of good living, right, asking a better question, Asking 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:49.840 a better question. Jesus is the answer for the world today. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.599 You ever heard that that might be just like a 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.720 Baptist chorus or something like that, above him, there's no other. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.800 Jesus is the way. But they said Jesus is the answer. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:04.040 Jesus asks three hundred and seven questions in the four Gospels. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.079 While we're rewriting songs, let's do it. Jesus is the 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:14.800 question we want answers. But we have a God who 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:22.040 would rather ask questions. And since God asked questions and 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.559 Jesus asked questions, I thought it'd be good for me 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.760 to be like him and ask a question. So the 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.440 second question I asked was, you know, the scripture says 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.040 they all had enough, They all ate as much as 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.079 they wanted. They went home with leftovers twelve basketballs. I 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.280 couln't figure out where the baskets came from, but I 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.640 did want to know when did it become enough in 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.679 a visual sense. I wanted to know when did it 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.320 become enough? And I thought, well, they put it in Jesus' hands. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.160 They beat up the boy, took his lunch. You always 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:59.079 thought the boy volunteered his lunch. There is no textual 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.719 evidence that he he was a willing participant in this miracle. A. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.880 I think the disciples got desperate. You know how you 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.839 do when you really need something from God and you 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.760 get desperate, and you're like, I'm normally not a lift 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.240 your hands kind of person, but I think I'll lift 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.760 them right about now. I need you Lord. I got questions, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.120 I got questions. I'm running out of money, and I'm 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.679 full of on questions. I'm running out of wisdom, and 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.839 I got a lot of questions. So I don't know 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.920 whether the boy offered it or not. I don't know 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.800 if the disciples asked. I don't know if they asked 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.079 them or if they just took it. But what I 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.160 do know is that that there was eventually found in 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.240 the crowd watch this five loaves, two fish, How many loaves? 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.480 Five loaves? What kind of loaves? Barley loaves? What's the 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.439 cheapest kind of bread? Barley? So the cheapest stuff produced 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.720 one of the greatest miracles. Give him praise that God 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:05.959 is a master chef. Hallelujah. Gordon Ramsey's got nothing on 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.200 my God. I wish I knew a more current chef, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:14.520 but that's all I got. So what I wanted to 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.719 know is when did it become enough? When did it 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.480 go from a bite? Like Philip said, it wouldn't even 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:21.800 be a bit, it wouldn't even a bite. How many 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.240 feel like that right now? Like it wouldn't even be 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.439 a bite? I mean I don't have enough time or 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.800 close to enough time, or even if I had more time, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.679 I don't have enough energy. And even if I had 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.319 more energy, I wouldn't know what to do with it 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.240 because I don't have enough wisdom to apply the energy 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:38.880 to the right places. So then that begs the question, 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.320 when did it go from bite to buffet? What happened 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.280 in between? This is what I do. This is what 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.920 I do. I ask a question, and that's the wrestling process. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.360 Right have you ever heard of when Jacob wrestled with 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.880 God in the Bible? Right? You know what? God gave him? 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:59.880 A question? What is your name? Starts with a question? 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.520 You know, the nation of Israel. That was Jacob's new name. 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.120 You know, the twelve tribes came out of Jacob. When 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.040 he found out his name. He thought his name was Jacob, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:19.600 but God asked him a question, who are you really? 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:25.920 I know what people call you, but who are you really? 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.200 It starts with a question. And everything that you have 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.120 ever done in your life has started with the belief 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.200 that you had about who you were. Who am I? 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:41.040 It starts with a question can I keep going? So 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.520 I wondered when did it become enough? Because I'm wondering 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.040 in my own life? When will I be come enough? 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.080 Because I'm wondering in my own life, when will there's 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.320 going to be a magic Monday morning when I look 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.160 at my bank account and I'm like, oh, that's plenty. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:02.240 I know it's coming. I had like ten milestones that 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.680 were supposed to be that and they they're gone, And 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:05.960 so I know it's going to be the next one. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.600 It's gonna be the next one. It's gonna be the 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.280 next one. It's coming, next one, next one. SOI me enough, 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.640 it's gonna enough. I know I'm eventually going to get 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.400 enough compliments on my preaching. Wow, where I'm gonna know it. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.520 You know, I got this where I'm not gonna wake 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.400 up at four thirty going should I call it off? 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:27.120 Is it too late? Will it be too disappointing? When 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:33.400 did it become enough? Because I'm wondering that. I wondered 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.560 that at fourteen, I wondered that at fifteen, I wondered 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.840 that at forty when did it be coming up? I 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.440 was just asking the question and what got us last week? 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.960 If you didn't watch it, you can watch it. It 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.760 said that, oh, by the way, is free. I mean 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.160 somebody gave so you could experience it. But you can 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.480 go and get it. You can go and get it. 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:55.840 You can go and get it. You don't have to 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:57.680 buy it. You can go and get it. And it's 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.920 right there. And we found out that it didn't become 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.720 enough all at once. Yeah. In fact, y'all just bear 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.400 with Larry Brod. He's not going to be able to 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.400 handle himself when I show you this. It's just gonna 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.240 it's gonna be bad. It's gonna be bad. On warning 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.600 you you sit close to him if you want to, 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.880 it's gonna be dangerous over there. Verse thirteen says, So 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.440 they gathered the leftovers and filled twelve baskets. You got 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:28.080 thirteen up there with the pieces of You got the 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:33.960 verse for me, Yeah, the pieces of the five barley loaves. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:45.400 All five thousand men were fed, but the loaves never 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:50.200 got more than five. So look at it, Look at it, 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.440 Look at it. They gathered the twelve baskets. I don't 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.240 know where the baskets came from, but I know where 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:03.960 the miracle came from. It came from the five. It 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.320 came from the five. It comes from the five. Go 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.119 ahead and put that in the chat. It's gonna come 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.879 from the five. It's gonna come from the five. So 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.640 it never became more on the surface, it was never 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.280 enough to the naked eye. There was never a moment 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.240 where it became what it could be. But we learned 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.240 last week this is just review. Please be seated, Be seated, 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:34.359 Be seated. It became it became enough every time they 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.800 went back to the one who was enough. Every time 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.200 I go back to him, every time I lift my eyes, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.560 every time I praised him, every time I stepped his 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.000 word as a lamp onto my feet, every time I 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.800 go back. So it was never enough on the surface, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.440 but it kept coming. I wonder, is there anybody with 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.639 that testimony. It was never enough, but it kept coming. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.440 We may as well have church early. We can do this. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.520 It was never enough, but it kept coming. I wasn't 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.920 smart enough, but it kept coming. I wasn't good enough, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.879 but mercy kept coming. It wasn't enough, but it kept coming. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:24.280 Keep it coming, Jesus, keep it coming. Oh, keep it coming. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.080 How many have that testimony? It was never enough all 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.000 at once, but it kept coming. When I tried to 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.480 bite off more than I could chew, a choked. But 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.840 when I said, give me this day my daily bread, 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.760 it wasn't enough for tomorrow, but it kept coming. It 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:48.159 kept coming. Brett kept coming. Oh kept coming. Hollylujah. So 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:53.119 I kept coming. Peace kept coming, and peace by peace, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.280 he kept it coming. I'm not praising him because I 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.000 got it all. I'm praising him because he kept it coming. 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:13.760 Whoa he kept it coming. When did it become enough? 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:20.760 In the process, they saw the provision. So it starts 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:25.560 with the question. That's how my message started. And then 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.679 so when I get in the question, that makes me wrestle, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.720 and when I wrestle with it, I get stronger. That's 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.280 why he asked three hundred and seven questions, and he 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:46.600 only directly answered eight. Jesus is the question. I know 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.879 you thought God's logo was an exclamation point. God said it. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:59.960 I believe it. But what about Eve? Did God really say? 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:07.280 Sin entered the world through a question? It starts with 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:12.960 a question, did God really say? It starts with a question? 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.560 Put it again in the chat. It starts with a question. 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.440 My marriage to the beautiful, illustrious Holly Ferdick, the first 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.240 lady of what I believe to be the greatest ministry 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.360 in the world today, with the greatest people God ever made. Oh, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.200 this message started with a question. My marriage started with 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.159 a question, and it wasn't will you marry me? Check 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.800 out this Christian pickup line. We were at a Christian college. 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.640 I said, do you want to join my summer ministry team. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.920 It was a leading question. I was headed somewhere with 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.440 my question because if I could get her on the 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:54.160 Joyful sound bus unloading JBL Eon speakers in Loris, South Carolina, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.520 I could get her to Charlotte and she would be 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:02.240 my wife and we would be marital. We would do 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.040 marital things and have marital union and have a mission 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.760 for Jesus Christ to start it with a question, the 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:13.720 question before the question. Try that on a I'm given 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.199 the single seminar right now. Some of you boys need 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:23.080 to ask, I mean directly ask. Put it like this. 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.320 Eric is in sales and he taught me this. He said, 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:26.720 don't ask you want to go out with me, say 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:33.320 coffee or dinner. Don't ask a yes or no. Ask 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.280 of this or that, coffee or dinner. What do you prefer? 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:41.200 Breakfast or dinner? Italian or you know. Forgive them an option, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.560 but don't let one of them be no. You want 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.200 to be on my ministry team. Try that. It worked 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:54.399 for me. It started with a question, because when I 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.200 asked y'all to come with me to start the church, 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:02.720 that started with a question too. Chunks and Amy, Chunks 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.680 and Amy Corbett the artist formerly known as James Brett 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:13.480 Corbett namey Lynn Moody, James Brett Corbett, Chunks and Amy. 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:18.000 But I just asked him at Golden Corral. In fact, 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.040 the only reason we were Golden Corral is because of 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:24.639 a question. I asked him, do you know a doctor? 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:30.440 I just moved to Shelby, Shelby, North Carolina. We'll talk 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.359 about this another time. You can ask me about that later. Shelby, 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.760 North Carolina, was a place where I met the whole 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:39.720 court team for our church. I didn't know why I 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:44.800 was there. While I was there, there were times we 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.080 really wondered. It wasn't a bad place. I love Shelby 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.440 because people watch us from Shelby. Don't even come take 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:51.600 us out of here. But I love Shelby. It was 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:53.880 great for me. I didn't know why I was there. 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:58.240 You don't know why sometimes you're there. Right now, I 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:01.760 know you are even figure out what this is about. 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:08.399 But I met Chunks and that's something. Now he's running 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:10.879 the ministry on a day to day basis so I 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.320 can preach God's work. And it started because I said, 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:14.680 do you know a doctor? And he gave me Chris 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.760 Dinning's phone number. I don't even remember what I was 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.240 sick with, but I just asked him for a doctor. 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:20.960 He was a physical therapist, and I thought, well, he 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.960 probably knows a doctor. Then he ended up at my 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:27.720 house eating fried rice, and here we are twenty campuses later. 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:31.760 I started. It started now, But then came the question, 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:33.480 you want to step out on faith and start the church. 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:35.840 And here's what's crazy. He didn't find out and he 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:37.520 didn't find out where we were going to start the 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:42.120 church until after they said yes. So the details came 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:47.720 after the yes was given. Should I stay there or 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:53.520 move on? The details came after the decision. The details 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:57.720 cat go to the land. I will show you. You 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.479 want another one than we were singing about it earlier, 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:03.840 dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. That's the 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:07.280 command right check out Ezekiel thirty seven three before you 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:10.520 go to bed tonight. It starts with a question, can 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:17.800 this is God? Can they live again? Can they? That's 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:22.160 God asking that? And Ezekiel said, I don't know, Lord, 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:29.800 but the question opened the door to resurrection. Come on, 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:32.680 I don't have the answer right now, and I don't 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:35.600 know what He's gonna do. That's why I like that song. 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:40.040 It says, is there anything that he can't do? Just 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.159 ask the man who was strong? Just ask the stuff. 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:45.840 I don't know, but he does, and I want to 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:53.080 find out by faith. It starts with a question, and 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:57.040 this might shock you, but not only this ministry, but 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:03.399 Jesus ministry started with question, Yes, what gospel did I 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:08.280 read to you from John? The first chapter of the 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.520 Book of John. You know, there's all kinds of symbolic things. 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:14.560 In John's Seven Signs, Jesus performed showing himself to be 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:16.000 the son of God that you may believe and have 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:18.840 life in his name, the seven I Am statements where 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:22.720 he disclosed the reality. He revealed the essence of his 0:25:22.920 --> 0:25:26.920 nature in stages. Lesslie be overwhelmed all at once. He 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:30.800