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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Lunch With Jesus

July 11, 2025 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - Lunch With Jesus
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
#Jesus #Doubt #Faith #Faithfulness #TrustGod #RelationshipwithGod #Disciples #Mind #Prayer #SeekGod #KingdomofGod #Blessing

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Lunch With Jesus | July 11, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: haven't you ever
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  • Had a moment where you've had doubt in your mind?
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  • A crisis hits, unexpected problem comes and you freak out.
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  • You have a complete meltdown.
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  • Wait, has god not been faithful to you up to this point?
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  • Has he not met your needs?
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  • Has he not taken care of you?
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  • Somehow you have a case of spiritual amnesia,
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  • You forget everything and you think this is the end.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: how many of you like to eat?
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  • Raise your hand.
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  • Ah, nice, you're my people.
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  • You're a very gluttonous bunch i might add.
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  • How many of you don't really care much about food at all?
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  • It's food who cares about food? nobody is raising their hand.
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  • All right, so, hey, i love to eat and
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  • You can set a clock by my stomach.
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  • I don't have to look at my watch and say,
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  • "is it almost lunchtime?" my stomach tells me.
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  • About an hour out, 10 o'clock.
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  • I eat at 11 by the way, i'm an early eater.
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  • I eat dinner at 5 p.m.
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  • I eat breakfast early, early, my stomach says,
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  • "it's coming, it's coming. let's go," you know,
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  • And my favorite meal of the day is lunch,
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  • Followed by breakfast and dinner.
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  • But i love to eat. guess who else loved to eat?
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • When he walked this earth we always are reading
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  • In the gospels of him eating with his disciples.
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  • Because a meal back in those days
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  • Was sort of the main event of the day.
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  • You would relax, you would take time to enjoy the meal.
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  • They didn't have fast food back then.
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  • They didn't have, you know, mcdavid you need right through
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  • In your chariot, order a falafel, something like that.
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  • You know, no, they enjoyed a meal, it was a time to talk,
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  • It was a time to communicate.
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  • Even after jesus rose again from the dead,
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  • One of the first things he does is, he eats a piece of fish.
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  • He says, "here, give me a piece of fish to eat."
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  • He was waiting for the disciples by the sea of galilee
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  • With a fire going and he said, "bring some of the fish
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  • That you have caught."
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  • And he cooked it up for them and he said,
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  • "come and have breakfast."
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  • Eating a meal with jesus, how amazing would that be?
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  • And he even use this metaphor of eating to describe his desire to
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  • Have a relationship with us.
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  • He says in revelation 3:20,
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  • "behold, i stand at the door and i knock.
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  • If any man will hear my voice and open the door,
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  • I will come in and dine with him."
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  • King james says, "sup with him."
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  • Some translations say, "have fellowship with him."
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  • But the idea is, he wants to have a long,
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  • Leisurely meal with you, or to put it more directly,
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  • He wants a relationship with you.
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  • Well, this miracle that we're gonna look at is
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  • The only miracle found in all four gospels.
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  • It's a story of the feeding of the 5,000.
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  • So with that in mind, let's look at this very familiar
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  • And powerful story of the feeding of the 5,000.
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  • We're gonna read about 14 verses together,
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  • And i'm reading from the new living translation.
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  • John chapter 6 starting in verse 1.
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  • "after this, jesus crossed over to the far side of the sea of
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  • Galilee, (also known as the sea of tiberius.)
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  • A huge crowd kept following him wherever he went because they
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  • Saw the miraculous signs as he healed the sick.
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  • Then jesus climbed a hill, sat down
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  • With his disciples around him.
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  • It was nearly time for the jewish passover celebration.
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  • Jesus soon saw a huge crowd of people coming to look for him
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  • And turning to philip, he asked, 'where can we buy bread to feed
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  • All of these people?'"
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  • Verse 6, this is very important, you might underline it,
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  • "he was testing philip,
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  • For he already knew what he was going to do.
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  • Philip replied, 'even if we worked for months, we wouldn't
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  • Have enough money to feed them.'
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  • Then andrew, simon peter's brother, spoke, 'well, there
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  • Is a young boy here with five barley loaves and two fish.
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  • But what good is that with such a huge crowd?'
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  • Jesus said, 'tell everyone to sit down.'
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  • They all sat down on the grassy slopes.
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  • The men alone numbered about five thousand.
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  • Then jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to god and distributed
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  • Them to the people.
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  • Afterwards, he did the same with the fish.
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  • And they all ate as much as they wanted.
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  • After everyone was full, jesus told his disciples,
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  • 'now gather the leftover so nothing is wasted."
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  • So they picked up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with
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  • Scraps left by the people who had eaten
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  • From the five barley loaves.
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  • When the people saw this miraculous sign, they exclaimed,
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  • 'surely he is a prophet we have been expecting.'"
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • Here's something that is happening before us.
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  • Now, jesus, his ministry is building.
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  • Looking back chronologically,
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  • You could say he was sort of on a roll.
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  • His fame was growing, the crowds were growing.
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  • Everyone followed him everywhere to see what he would say
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  • Or do next, but why were they following him?
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  • The answer is clear.
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  • Verse 2 of john 6, "a huge crowd kept following him wherever
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  • He went because they saw his miraculous signs
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  • As he healed the sick."
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  • Unfortunately, they were not following him because they
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  • Understood this is the messiah, this is the savior, they were
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  • Following him because, "hey, he does amazing stuff,
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  • What's he gonna do next?"
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  • They were dazzled, they were entertained, but they were
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  • Missing the point.
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  • They were into the signs, but they weren't looking at where
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  • The signs were pointing.
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  • These things were written according to john 20
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  • That we might believe.
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  • So there was a purpose for these signs.
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  • You know, sometimes we want the benefits of the christian life,
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  • But we don't wanna make a commitment.
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  • We want the healings, we just don't want the healer.
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  • We want the benefits, but we don't want the cure.
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  • And jesus could have dismissed these people 'cause he knew
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  • What was going on in the human heart and mind.
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  • He could have said, "you know, you guys,
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  • You're just a bunch of thrill seekers.
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  • You're waiting for me to do my next trick in your estimation.
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  • You're not following me for the right reason.
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  • And besides, i know all y'all are gonna eventually turn on me.
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  • So i'm not gonna feed you today.
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  • In fact, i'm gonna eat in front of you."
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  • That's what i would've done.
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  • I would've pulled out an in-n-out burger.
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  • "where did you get that?"
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  • "it's from the future."
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  • "can we have one?"
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  • "no, it's mine 'cause you're gonna turn on me."
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  • No, but jesus.
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  • He cared about the people.
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  • In fact, we read that he had a heart of compassion toward them.
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  • So there are three primary characters that stand out
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  • In this story.
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  • Philip, andrew, and the little boy.
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  • We don't know his name but he's a big part of the story.
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  • Let's start with philip.
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  • Understand that every one of the disciples
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  • Had a distinct personality.
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  • Just like people you know, they were just like you.
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  • There was peter, brash, outspoken, dominated
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  • Conversations, said things when things shouldn't be said.
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  • You know someone like that?
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  • You invite them over, they're gonna dominate the whole
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  • Conversation.
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  • Nobody gets a word in edgewise or maybe you are that person.
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  • The problem is, when you are that person
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  • You usually don't know it.
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  • Someone else needs to tell you.
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  • So if they're that person, kinda nudge 'em and say,
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  • "that's you," right.
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  • So that was peter.
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  • But then there's james and john. these guys are fiery.
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  • You know, people that get all worked up.
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  • They love to argue, they love to debate.
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  • They're always worked up about something,
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  • That's james and john.
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  • They're worked up guys.
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  • They were passionate guys.
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  • You don't get the nicknames, sons of thunder for nothing.
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  • If they were alive today they'd probably be in an outlaw
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  • Motorcycle gang.
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  • And then there's philip.
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  • Now philip is more quiet, more perceptive, a deep thinker.
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  • And it is worth noting that jesus turns to philip with
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  • A question, his first test.
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  • And by the way, jesus never asked anyone else for advice
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  • Ever except on this occasion when he turns to philip
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  • And asks john 6:5, "turning to philip, he asked,
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  • 'where can we buy bread to feed all these people?'
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  • He was testing philip for he knew what he was going to do."
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  • Seems like a no brainer.
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  • Philip could have said, 'well, considering the fact that you've
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  • Already done all these amazing miracles, starting with turning
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  • Water into wine, i would think this is pretty easy for you.
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  • You could just speak the word and everyone would be fed."
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  • But instead, philip is perplexed and he says, "well, you know,
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  • Even if we worked for months we wouldn't have enough money
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  • To pay for the food to get to all of these people."
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  • I mean, despite two years at this point of walking personally
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  • With jesus and seeing him do miracle after miracle, philip
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  • Is like, "i don't, i don't know what to do with this."
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  • And you know, we can criticize philip
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  • But isn't that just like us?
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  • Haven't you ever had a moment
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  • Where you've had doubt in your mind?
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  • A crisis hits unexpected problem comes and you freak out.
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  • You have a complete meltdown.
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  • Wait, has god not been faithful to you up to this point?
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  • Has he not met your needs? has he not taken care of you?
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  • Somehow you have a case of spiritual amnesia,
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  • You forget everything and you think this is the end.
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  • Well that happens all the time.
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  • It happened to the disciples.
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  • They didn't simply see that god could do something
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  • In this set of circumstances.
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  • We often forget how faithful god has been.
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  • Here's the problem, we forget what we ought to remember
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  • And we remember what we ought to forget.
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  • I have a lot of useless information in my brain.
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  • I don't even know how some of it got there.
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  • I know the words to stupid songs going back 40 years.
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  • Some of them songs i wish i never knew.
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  • Going back to my childhood.
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  • ♪ one, eight, seven, seven cars for kids ♪
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  • Okay, that's just-- you've ever heard that song?
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  • Make them stop now.
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  • Children dressed in pink no more.
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  • Or other songs i remember really old jingles.
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  • I don't consciously remember.
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  • I will now memorize these lyrics but they're in there.
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  • And then i forget stuff i should remember.
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  • "oh wait, what was that verse again?
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  • How did that go again?"
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  • So we need to be reminded over and over of certain
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  • Spiritual truths 'cause sometimes we forget things
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  • That we've learned.
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  • Don't forget god's faithfulness to you.
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  • He's been faithful in the past, he'll be faithful in your
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  • Present, and he'll be faithful to you in your future as well.
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  • Now it's andrew's turn.
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  • Philip didn't do too well.
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  • If we were grading him i don't know what grade we would give
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  • Him, it wouldn't be very high, but andrew chimes in.
  • 00:11:40.131 --> 00:11:43.501
  • Interestingly, jesus doesn't ask andrew for his opinion
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  • But he has one nonetheless.
  • 00:11:47.772 --> 00:11:49.107
  • And andrew is a really interesting guy.
  • 00:11:49.107 --> 00:11:51.910
  • He was more of a behind the scenes person.
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  • He was a person who liked to connect people to jesus.
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  • His brother was simon peter.
  • 00:11:59.317 --> 00:12:01.619
  • That meant that he was overshadowed for his whole life
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  • Because peter dominated the conversation.
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  • Peter was the one that always sort of take control.
  • 00:12:08.093 --> 00:12:10.995
  • Andrew was kind of in the, you know, shadows a little bit.
  • 00:12:10.995 --> 00:12:14.833
  • But andrew had this great gift of pointing others to christ.
  • 00:12:14.833 --> 00:12:19.504
  • And in fact, it was andrew that
  • 00:12:19.504 --> 00:12:20.872
  • Brought his brother peter to jesus.
  • 00:12:20.872 --> 00:12:24.676
  • And here we have andrew showing up with a little boy
  • 00:12:24.676 --> 00:12:28.446
  • And he's really close to the answer but not quite.
  • 00:12:28.446 --> 00:12:30.915
  • Well, he says to jesus, "there is this little kid here.
  • 00:12:30.915 --> 00:12:34.252
  • He has five loaves of bread and two little fish."
  • 00:12:34.252 --> 00:12:39.057
  • But then he quickly says, "but what good is that
  • 00:12:39.057 --> 00:12:41.493
  • For such a huge crowd?"
  • 00:12:41.493 --> 00:12:43.094
  • That brings us to the little boy.
  • 00:12:43.094 --> 00:12:44.796
  • Who was this little dude anyway?
  • 00:12:44.796 --> 00:12:46.931
  • We don't know his name but what an amazing kid he is.
  • 00:12:46.931 --> 00:12:50.301
  • Here's all these adults perplexed by this problem
  • 00:12:50.301 --> 00:12:54.038
  • And here's a little kid that says, "well, i've got this.
  • 00:12:54.038 --> 00:12:59.010
  • If this could be of any help,
  • 00:12:59.010 --> 00:13:00.411
  • I'd like to offer it to you jesus."
  • 00:13:00.411 --> 00:13:02.714
  • So what do we know about this little boy?
  • 00:13:02.714 --> 00:13:04.482
  • We know he was poor.
  • 00:13:04.482 --> 00:13:06.918
  • And the reason we know that is barley bread
  • 00:13:06.918 --> 00:13:09.020
  • Was the cheapest of all bread.
  • 00:13:09.020 --> 00:13:11.990
  • And in fact, it was held in contempt.
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  • It was thought of as food for animals, not people, and he had
  • 00:13:14.526 --> 00:13:18.463
  • Two small fish.
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  • Not big fish, small fish.
  • 00:13:20.098 --> 00:13:22.133
  • It's like having crackers and stale crackers at that.
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  • Crackers and sardines.
  • 00:13:25.770 --> 00:13:28.339
  • Or maybe spam and wonder bread.
  • 00:13:28.339 --> 00:13:32.510
  • Now some people love spam, right?
  • 00:13:32.510 --> 00:13:35.914
  • In hawaii it's kind of a delicacy but spam, wonder bread,
  • 00:13:35.914 --> 00:13:40.318
  • Crackers and sardines, whatever you want to use
  • 00:13:40.318 --> 00:13:43.021
  • As an illustration, it wasn't a gourmet lunch.
  • 00:13:43.021 --> 00:13:47.392
  • It wasn't a lot.
  • 00:13:47.392 --> 00:13:48.960
  • But that little boy gave his lunch as poor
  • 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.362
  • As he was to jesus.
  • 00:13:51.362 --> 00:13:53.898
  • The lunch was as insignificant as it could be.
  • 00:13:53.898 --> 00:13:57.802
  • The little boy was as insignificant as he could be.
  • 00:13:57.802 --> 00:14:01.873
  • But here's the point of the story, that which was
  • 00:14:01.873 --> 00:14:05.476
  • Insufficient and insignificant became sufficient
  • 00:14:05.476 --> 00:14:09.981
  • And significant when placed in the hands of jesus.
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  • Let me say it again.
  • 00:14:13.852 --> 00:14:15.286
  • It's on the screen if you're taking notes.
  • 00:14:15.286 --> 00:14:16.754
  • "that which was insufficient from the hands
  • 00:14:16.754 --> 00:14:20.325
  • Of the insignificant became sufficient and significant when
  • 00:14:20.325 --> 00:14:24.762
  • Placed in the hands of jesus."
  • 00:14:24.762 --> 00:14:27.799
  • I think sometimes we feel like,
  • 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:29.434
  • "well, i don't have much to offer.
  • 00:14:29.434 --> 00:14:31.202
  • I'm not talented like that person over there.
  • 00:14:31.202 --> 00:14:33.638
  • I'm not gifted.
  • 00:14:33.638 --> 00:14:35.273
  • I have nothing to bring to the table."
  • 00:14:35.273 --> 00:14:37.442
  • You have more than you think, why?
  • 00:14:37.442 --> 00:14:39.878
  • Because god can do a lot with the little, okay.
  • 00:14:39.878 --> 00:14:43.681
  • So here's a guitar in the stage.
  • 00:14:43.681 --> 00:14:48.720
  • I could walk over, plug that guitar into the amp, turn it up
  • 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.456
  • All the way, and hit maybe five chords and you would say,
  • 00:14:51.456 --> 00:14:56.227
  • "that guitar is a piece of junk," why?
  • 00:14:56.227 --> 00:14:59.397
  • Because i really have no skills playing guitars.
  • 00:14:59.397 --> 00:15:02.634
  • But if i were to take that same guitar and place into the hands
  • 00:15:02.634 --> 00:15:05.270
  • Of eric clapton, is one of the greatest guitar players
  • 00:15:05.270 --> 00:15:08.239
  • Of all time.
  • 00:15:08.239 --> 00:15:09.641
  • If he did a few riffs on it, you would say, "i want that guitar."
  • 00:15:09.641 --> 00:15:14.078
  • In fact, if he signs it, it will be a collectible.
  • 00:15:14.078 --> 00:15:16.748
  • See, it's not about the guitar,
  • 00:15:16.748 --> 00:15:18.549
  • It's about who is playing the guitar.
  • 00:15:18.549 --> 00:15:21.286
  • And in the same way for us, it's not the magnitude of
  • 00:15:21.286 --> 00:15:24.589
  • The gift, it's into whose hands the gift is given.
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  • So you say, "lord, okay, here i am.
  • 00:15:28.826 --> 00:15:31.095
  • I don't have a lot to offer, but i do give it to you
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  • And i give it all to you.
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  • And i ask you to take what i've given
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  • And use it for your glory."
  • 00:15:38.703 --> 00:15:40.505
  • So i encourage you, bring your loaves and fish to jesus.
  • 00:15:40.505 --> 00:15:44.509
  • Bring your spam and wonder bread.
  • 00:15:44.509 --> 00:15:47.045
  • Bring your crackers and sardines and watch what god will do.
  • 00:15:47.045 --> 00:15:53.117
  • Greg: you know, there's some things only god can do
  • 00:15:57.221 --> 00:15:59.657
  • And some things only we can do.
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  • Let me explain.
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  • Only god can save a soul but sometimes
  • 00:16:02.961 --> 00:16:05.363
  • We try to do the soul saving for god.
  • 00:16:05.363 --> 00:16:08.032
  • I'll try a little pressure, a little manipulation,
  • 00:16:08.032 --> 00:16:10.768
  • I'll argue them into the kingdom of god.
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  • Don't do that because if they can be argued in they
  • 00:16:13.137 --> 00:16:16.074
  • Can effectively be argued out.
  • 00:16:16.074 --> 00:16:18.343
  • Only god can save a soul.
  • 00:16:18.343 --> 00:16:20.278
  • Don't try to do what only god can do,
  • 00:16:20.278 --> 00:16:22.647
  • But only you can do certain things.
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  • God can save a soul but only i can repent of my sins
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  • And believe in jesus christ.
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  • He won't force me to do that.
  • 00:16:31.456 --> 00:16:33.591
  • He'll tell me to do that but it's up to me to respond
  • 00:16:33.591 --> 00:16:36.361
  • To what his word says.
  • 00:16:36.361 --> 00:16:38.162
  • So let's not try to do what only god can do and neglect to do
  • 00:16:38.162 --> 00:16:42.300
  • What only we can do.
  • 00:16:42.300 --> 00:16:44.836
  • Something to think about.
  • 00:16:44.836 --> 00:16:46.371
  • Greg: so back to our story.
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  • Here are the people, they have a need.
  • 00:16:51.576 --> 00:16:54.212
  • And when you have a need, you need to call on the lord.
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  • Do you have a need right now?
  • 00:16:56.848 --> 00:16:58.316
  • Is there something in your life you need from god?
  • 00:16:58.316 --> 00:17:02.387
  • The bible says, "you have not because you ask not."
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  • Have you prayed about what you're facing?
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  • Don't worry about anything paul reminds us in philippians 4,
  • 00:17:08.926 --> 00:17:12.096
  • But pray about everything.
  • 00:17:12.096 --> 00:17:15.299
  • Jesus said, "ask and it shall be given; seek and you shall find;
  • 00:17:15.299 --> 00:17:19.103
  • Knock and the door shall be opened."
  • 00:17:19.103 --> 00:17:20.905
  • Pray about it and know this, god loves to answer your prayers.
  • 00:17:20.905 --> 00:17:26.110
  • I think sometimes we think god is kind of, you know,
  • 00:17:26.110 --> 00:17:28.813
  • Reluctant to answer our prayers.
  • 00:17:28.813 --> 00:17:31.182
  • "really, you again?
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  • Come on."
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  • Oh no.
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  • Jesus said, "fear not little flock for it is your father's
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  • Good pleasure to give you the kingdom."
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  • I love that.
  • 00:17:42.060 --> 00:17:43.394
  • It's his good pleasure.
  • 00:17:43.394 --> 00:17:45.096
  • He loves to give you these things.
  • 00:17:45.096 --> 00:17:46.697
  • He loves to bless you.
  • 00:17:46.697 --> 00:17:48.766
  • Heard a story about a very wise father whose son was
  • 00:17:48.766 --> 00:17:51.903
  • Going to leave for college and the father said,
  • 00:17:51.903 --> 00:17:54.672
  • "son, i'm gonna pay all of your bills for college.
  • 00:17:54.672 --> 00:17:57.675
  • I want you to just study hard and enjoy the process.
  • 00:17:57.675 --> 00:18:01.913
  • But i'm just gonna do this, every month i'll give you
  • 00:18:01.913 --> 00:18:05.249
  • Your check with this condition, you have to come home
  • 00:18:05.249 --> 00:18:08.753
  • In person and get your check.
  • 00:18:08.753 --> 00:18:10.822
  • I'm not gonna mail it to some address, you come home
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  • And i'll write you your check."
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  • That son came home every single month, right?
  • 00:18:15.393 --> 00:18:19.163
  • So god says to us, "i'm gonna provide for you, but i want you
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  • To keep coming to me for it."
  • 00:18:22.834 --> 00:18:25.069
  • God doesn't give us everything we want in one big lump sum.
  • 00:18:25.069 --> 00:18:28.906
  • "here's all of your blessings, all of your healings,
  • 00:18:28.906 --> 00:18:31.809
  • All of your provision, kaboom."
  • 00:18:31.809 --> 00:18:34.112
  • No, he says, "i want you to keep coming to me over
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  • And over again so you remember who gave it to you."
  • 00:18:37.081 --> 00:18:39.951
  • Remember in the lord's prayer, jesus taught us to pray.
  • 00:18:39.951 --> 00:18:43.554
  • "give us this day our daily bread."
  • 00:18:43.554 --> 00:18:46.858
  • So that's the principle here.
  • 00:18:46.858 --> 00:18:48.693
  • So mark gives us a little detail in his version of the feeding of
  • 00:18:48.693 --> 00:18:52.930
  • The 5,000 and he tells that jesus had the people sit down
  • 00:18:52.930 --> 00:18:57.368
  • In groups of 50 and a hundred.
  • 00:18:57.368 --> 00:18:59.470
  • So it was very organized.
  • 00:18:59.470 --> 00:19:01.472
  • And then mark describes it this way, "jesus took five loaves and
  • 00:19:01.472 --> 00:19:04.675
  • Two fish looked up to heaven, asked god's blessing on the
  • 00:19:04.675 --> 00:19:08.079
  • Food, breaking the loaves into pieces and kept giving the bread
  • 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:12.917
  • And fish to the disciples to give to the people."
  • 00:19:12.917 --> 00:19:16.654
  • It's not like jesus just extended his hand and there
  • 00:19:16.654 --> 00:19:19.590
  • Was a mountain of bread, bread.
  • 00:19:19.590 --> 00:19:22.860
  • Now here's a mountain of fish, fish.
  • 00:19:22.860 --> 00:19:26.030
  • No, he says, "just fill the baskets.
  • 00:19:26.030 --> 00:19:27.932
  • Distribute it." they'd go distribute it.
  • 00:19:27.932 --> 00:19:30.434
  • Come back. "oh, there's more?
  • 00:19:30.434 --> 00:19:32.236
  • Yeah, just keep giving it out." this is how he did it.
  • 00:19:32.236 --> 00:19:34.772
  • Listen to this, god gives you what you need when you need it.
  • 00:19:34.772 --> 00:19:40.144
  • Not necessarily before and never after, okay.
  • 00:19:40.144 --> 00:19:44.715
  • So sometimes you'll look at somebody going through
  • 00:19:44.715 --> 00:19:46.851
  • Some hardship.
  • 00:19:46.851 --> 00:19:48.319
  • You'll say, "man, i could never do what they're doing."
  • 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.721
  • Yeah, you could.
  • 00:19:50.721 --> 00:19:52.123
  • If god had you go through that hardship, he would
  • 00:19:52.123 --> 00:19:54.725
  • Give you the strength you need to deal with it.
  • 00:19:54.725 --> 00:19:57.695
  • He's giving you the strength you need to deal
  • 00:19:57.695 --> 00:20:00.031
  • With what you are facing right here, right now.
  • 00:20:00.031 --> 00:20:03.434
  • That's what he did for us.
  • 00:20:03.434 --> 00:20:05.469
  • So in the same way, we need to come to god and offer
  • 00:20:05.469 --> 00:20:09.273
  • What we have and let him multiply it.
  • 00:20:09.273 --> 00:20:14.011
  • Gifts from god don't come fully developed,
  • 00:20:14.011 --> 00:20:16.581
  • You have to start somewhere.
  • 00:20:16.581 --> 00:20:19.383
  • You know, you have to cultivate your gift.
  • 00:20:19.383 --> 00:20:21.719
  • If you're a musician, you practice,
  • 00:20:21.719 --> 00:20:23.621
  • If you're an artist, you practice.
  • 00:20:23.621 --> 00:20:25.957
  • Ever since i was a little kid, i always loved to draw.
  • 00:20:25.957 --> 00:20:29.327
  • And for me, my little cartoon world was a place for me to
  • 00:20:29.327 --> 00:20:33.965
  • Escape to when i was waiting for my mother to be done
  • 00:20:33.965 --> 00:20:38.236
  • In some smoke-filled bar.
  • 00:20:38.236 --> 00:20:41.105
  • And so you know, my mom was married and divorced seven times
  • 00:20:41.105 --> 00:20:44.475
  • And she had a lot of boyfriends in between.
  • 00:20:44.475 --> 00:20:47.144
  • So one day she brings home a man who says he's
  • 00:20:47.144 --> 00:20:51.215
  • An animator for disney.
  • 00:20:51.215 --> 00:20:53.451
  • I didn't believe him.
  • 00:20:53.451 --> 00:20:55.253
  • He says, "no, i'm an animator for disney."
  • 00:20:55.253 --> 00:20:57.321
  • And i said, "prove it."
  • 00:20:57.321 --> 00:20:59.257
  • He pulls out a pencil and he draws a perfect donald duck.
  • 00:20:59.257 --> 00:21:03.160
  • By the way, donald duck is very hard to draw.
  • 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:06.130
  • And i was, "whoa, wow."
  • 00:21:06.130 --> 00:21:08.666
  • And he said, "i'll tell you what greg, this is a magic pencil."
  • 00:21:08.666 --> 00:21:12.270
  • This is a true story.
  • 00:21:12.270 --> 00:21:14.338
  • "this is a magic pencil and if you place it under your pillow
  • 00:21:14.338 --> 00:21:18.109
  • When you wake up in the morning,
  • 00:21:18.109 --> 00:21:19.710
  • You will be able to draw just like me.
  • 00:21:19.710 --> 00:21:22.079
  • So go to bed now."
  • 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:25.349
  • Now as an adult, i look back on that and say,
  • 00:21:25.349 --> 00:21:27.551
  • "uh-uh, i know what that was all about."
  • 00:21:27.551 --> 00:21:31.255
  • But i believed him.
  • 00:21:31.255 --> 00:21:33.024
  • Sadly, i was 30.
  • 00:21:33.024 --> 00:21:37.094
  • Not really, i was 28.
  • 00:21:37.094 --> 00:21:38.863
  • But still, no, i was very, very little.
  • 00:21:38.863 --> 00:21:42.433
  • I put that pencil under my pillow,
  • 00:21:42.433 --> 00:21:44.535
  • I was so excited i could hardly sleep.
  • 00:21:44.535 --> 00:21:47.204
  • I woke up the next morning, grabbed the pencil,
  • 00:21:47.204 --> 00:21:49.607
  • Went over to a piece of paper, i'm gonna draw donald duck.
  • 00:21:49.607 --> 00:21:52.009
  • It was the same old me 'cause gifts don't come
  • 00:21:52.009 --> 00:21:55.579
  • Fully developed, you have to cultivate them.
  • 00:21:55.579 --> 00:21:58.783
  • That's why paul wrote in 2 timothy 1:6
  • 00:21:58.783 --> 00:22:01.619
  • "fan into flames the spiritual gift that god has given to you."
  • 00:22:01.619 --> 00:22:07.692
  • Now, without question, this became
  • 00:22:07.692 --> 00:22:10.227
  • The most popular miracle of jesus.
  • 00:22:10.227 --> 00:22:14.131
  • It's sort of like the people would say,
  • 00:22:14.131 --> 00:22:15.733
  • "hey, water into wine, that's good.
  • 00:22:15.733 --> 00:22:18.869
  • Restore restoration of sight, all these things,
  • 00:22:18.869 --> 00:22:21.739
  • They're all good but free lunch?
  • 00:22:21.739 --> 00:22:23.507
  • Now we're talking."
  • 00:22:23.507 --> 00:22:25.643
  • In fact, we like this so much.
  • 00:22:25.643 --> 00:22:28.312
  • We wanna make you our king.
  • 00:22:28.312 --> 00:22:30.014
  • Understand that jewish people are under
  • 00:22:30.014 --> 00:22:32.550
  • The control of the romans.
  • 00:22:32.550 --> 00:22:36.187
  • They believe jesus is a militant messiah, a political savior,
  • 00:22:36.187 --> 00:22:42.026
  • Someone that's gonna deliver them from the power
  • 00:22:42.026 --> 00:22:45.029
  • And tyranny of rome.
  • 00:22:45.029 --> 00:22:46.397
  • So they said, "we want you to be our king right now."
  • 00:22:46.397 --> 00:22:50.201
  • Look at john 6 verse 14, "when the people saw jesus
  • 00:22:50.201 --> 00:22:52.837
  • Do this miraculous sign, they exclaimed,
  • 00:22:52.837 --> 00:22:55.539
  • 'he's a prophet we have been expecting.'
  • 00:22:55.539 --> 00:22:58.209
  • And when jesus saw they were ready to force him
  • 00:22:58.209 --> 00:23:01.345
  • To be their king, he slipped away into the hills by himself."
  • 00:23:01.345 --> 00:23:06.484
  • Forced him to be their king.
  • 00:23:06.484 --> 00:23:09.620
  • The whole idea is laughable.
  • 00:23:09.620 --> 00:23:11.856
  • See, these people wanted to use god
  • 00:23:11.856 --> 00:23:14.658
  • Instead of being used by god.
  • 00:23:14.658 --> 00:23:18.095
  • They wanted god to do what they wanted him to do.
  • 00:23:18.095 --> 00:23:21.365
  • Listen, god wants to use us, but having said that,
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  • He will never be used.
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  • That's what they were doing. so let's wrap this up.
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  • What are some takeaway truths from this story?
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  • There will come times in our lives and we are utterly
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  • Overwhelmed by our problems, by our challenges,
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  • And by our hardships.
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  • We will not have the abilities or the resources to respond
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  • Things that are beyond your control,
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  • Tests that will come to you in life.
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  • These tests are given to determine if you're learning
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  • Anything as a christian.
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  • Why does god allow us to be tested?
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  • James 2 gives us the answer.
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  • When he says, "dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of
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  • Any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.
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  • For you know when your faith is tested, your endurance
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  • Has a chance to grow.
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  • So let it grow for when your endurance is fully developed,
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  • You'll be perfect and complete needing nothing."
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  • As i've said before, trials and tests in the life of the
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  • Christian are like god's gym.
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  • Your broken down to be built up.
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  • So when you go to a gym and you lift weights and you do
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  • Repetitions, and then you get stronger, and then you lift more
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  • Weight, and then you in time lift even more weight,
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  • You're building your muscle up by first tearing it down.
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  • The same is true in the tests of life.
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  • "why am i going through this?
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  • I don't see any reason for this."
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  • Don't you know god is making you stronger?
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  • "why do i go through these things?"
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  • So my endurance may grow.
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  • One translation, i believe it's a philip's translation of that
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  • Verse i just read from james 2 says, "when trials come
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  • Into your life, my brothers don't treat them as intruders,
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  • But friends."
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  • Could you think of the trial you're going through
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  • As a friend instead of an intruder?
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  • Could you think of the hardship you're facing
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  • As something that god can use?
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  • Like when that unexpected bill or expense comes and you wonder,
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  • How will i ever pay this?
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  • When you have that crisis with your spouse and you wonder,
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  • How will we ever get through this?
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  • When that perfect child of yours gets themselves
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  • Into trouble and you wonder, how will we resolve this?
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  • When a loved one dies unexpectedly and you wonder,
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  • How will i survive this?
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  • Know this, god is able to meet whatever comes your way
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  • Because god is able.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie, i've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin
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  • Because we've all broken his commandments.
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  • But the good news is that 2,000 years ago, god sent
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  • His son, jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin,
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  • And then to rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready
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  • To come into your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say," lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
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  • From this moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did, god in heaven
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  • Has heard you, and i wanna
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  • Send you a new testament to start reading.
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  • ♪ for god so loved the world that he gave us ♪
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  • ♪ his one and only son to save us ♪
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  • ♪ whoever believes in him will live forever ♪
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  • ♪ the power of hell forever defeated ♪
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  • ♪ now it is well i'm walking in freedom ♪♪
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