Joseph Prince - The Miracle You’ve Been Waiting For Starts Here

November 24, 2025 | 29:45

Learn how a thankful heart draws heaven’s grace into your everyday life.

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  • Joseph prince: the lord does not forget
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  • What you give to him.
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  • The bible says, "he that waters shall be watered also himself."
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  • "the generous soul shall be made fat."
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  • Another translation says, "shall be prosperous."
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  • In god's economy, when you give,
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  • It comes back to you much more, amen?
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  • Are you blessed?
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  • When you look at the vastness of the need,
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  • It can overwhelm you.
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  • But hey, stop looking at the vastness of the need.
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  • Stop looking at the littleness of what we have.
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  • And start looking to him, our inexhaustible supply, amen.
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  • The king of kings, the lord of lords,
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  • Our lord jesus.
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  • Male announcer: when the demands of life come one after another,
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  • What will raise us up?
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  • In today's message, joseph shows us
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  • How to look above the waves, fix our eyes on jesus,
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  • And find confidence, peace, and strength in the word.
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  • Wave after wave.
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  • When troubles start to rush in, never forget,
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  • We have the one who is above the storm.
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  • Jesus is in the boat with you,
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  • And he will send wave upon wave of grace to save you.
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  • In his book, "grace for today," joseph reminds us to look up
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  • And look to the lord
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  • For a fresh revelation of his grace daily.
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  • Just like fresh manna falling from heaven,
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  • You can chew on these bite-sized grace thoughts
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  • And life-giving truths
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  • To find the supply you need for the day,
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  • And now, here's pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: many years ago,
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  • On one of my first trips to israel,
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  • I felt the lord speak to me when i was on mount arbel.
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  • And mount arbel, you all can see
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  • When you're in the sea of galilee,
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  • When you're taking a boat ride,
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  • You can see mount arbel, the highest mountain, right?
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  • It has a very sharp edge, right?
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  • My son saw mount--justin saw mount arbel on a photo
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  • And he says that it looks
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  • Like a mouse bit off a cheese from the side.
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  • It does look like that, all right, it's bitten off.
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  • So there's the highest mountain there.
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  • And years ago, i felt the lord speak to me,
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  • And the lord says that is the place where he did
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  • The miracle of the loaves and fishes, okay?
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  • Not exactly right on the top mountain,
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  • But somewhere below the mount arbel.
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  • There's a plain down there
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  • And it's a deserted place or a solitary place.
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  • That's where it happened.
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  • In luke's account, luke says
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  • That this place is a deserted place
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  • Belonging to the city of-- called bethsaida.
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  • But bethsaida is on the other side.
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  • In fact, later on, after the miracle,
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  • Jesus went up the mountain to pray, mount arbel.
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  • He sent the disciples down to go to bethsaida, all right?
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  • To bethsaida.
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  • And how can they-- bethsaida there,
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  • And they go across from here.
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  • So the key is, i've learned to notice details in the bible.
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  • It says, "belonging to the city called bethsaida."
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  • So you can have a city down there,
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  • But this area belongs to you.
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  • This patch of field, you bought it or whatever,
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  • It belongs to you.
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  • So the miracle happened to the place belonging
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  • To the city called bethsaida.
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  • All right, keep that in mind, bethsaida.
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  • And this place belongs to bethsaida.
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  • You'll come back to this again.
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  • Okay, let's go back and, "then a great--" yeah, we read that.
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  • Verse 4: "now the passover, a feast of the jews, was near."
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  • Now, i'm going to tell you something about this.
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  • This story has a profound answer in the narration of it,
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  • In the teaching of it, for all the needs in your life.
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  • It teaches you how god supplies.
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  • I don't care whether it's financial need,
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  • Whether it is a marital need, whether it's a emotional need,
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  • Whether it's a parenting need,
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  • Whether it is a physical condition you have.
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  • God is going to show you how he supplies.
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  • He's going to teach you by showing you,
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  • First of all, the ways of the world
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  • And then his way of doing it.
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  • Are you ready for that?
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  • All right, it has a now word for you.
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  • You know why i say that so strongly about this miracle?
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  • Because this is the only miracle that's repeated four times
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  • In all the four gospels.
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  • All four gospels.
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  • Not all the miracles are repeated, okay?
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  • Some share a miracle
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  • That's not shared by others, amen?
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  • But this is one miracle that's shared
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  • By all the synoptic gospels and the gospel of john.
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  • All four share the same story.
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  • Now, if god mentions something once,
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  • It is significant.
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  • If god mentions something twice, it demands twice our attention.
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  • If god says something three times,
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  • The bible says, "a three-fold cord
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  • Is not quickly broken."
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  • But if god says it four times,
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  • It warrants our fullest attention.
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  • We should study it.
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  • Every nuance, every little word,
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  • Everything should be studied, amen.
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  • Because god is emphasizing it really strong to us, okay?
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  • Are you ready?
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  • I'm going to read the whole thing first.
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  • It doesn't take long because it's
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  • Just a few verses here.
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  • All right, i'm going to read from verse 4:
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  • "now the passover, feast of the jews, was near.
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  • Then jesus lifted up his eyes,
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  • And seeing a great multitude coming toward him,
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  • He said to philip,
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  • 'where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?'
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  • But this he said to test him,
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  • For he himself knew what he would do.
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  • Philip answered him,
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  • 'two hundred denarii worth of bread
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  • Is not sufficient for them,
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  • That every one of them may have a little.'
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  • One of his disciples, andrew, simon peter's brother,
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  • Said to him, 'there is a lad here,'"
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  • There is a youth here, there is a young boy here.
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  • Actually, the word "lad" here is referring to boys and girls.
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  • Young boys and girls.
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  • "'there is a lad here who has five barley loaves
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  • And two small fish,
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  • But what are they among so many?'
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  • Then jesus said, 'make the people sit down.'
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  • Now there was much grass in the place,"
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  • Because it was springtime.
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  • We read just now, passover is near.
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  • About march, april during that time.
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  • So there was much grass in that place.
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  • It's springtime and the passover is near.
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  • "so the men sat down, in number about five thousand."
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  • Five thousand men, okay?
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  • Counting women and children, you have more
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  • Than probably 15,000 or to 20,000.
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  • "and jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks
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  • He distributed them to the disciples,
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  • And the disciples to those sitting down;
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  • And likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.
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  • So when they were filled, he said to his disciples,
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  • 'gather up the fragments that remain,
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  • So that nothing is lost.'
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  • Therefore they gathered them up,
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  • And filled twelve baskets
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  • With the fragments of the five barley loaves
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  • Which were left over by those," i love the word "left over."
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  • "by those who had eaten."
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  • John puts out some things, all right?
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  • He didn't put in some things that others did
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  • And he put in some things that others did not
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  • Because each gospel is unique.
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  • Each gospel, you see, for example,
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  • John mentions the passover.
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  • Go back to that again.
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  • "now, the passover, a feast of the jews, was near."
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  • When this miracle happened,
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  • It was during the time of the passover.
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  • All the other writers did not mention the passover,
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  • The time was passover, why?
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  • Because in no other gospel do you find the word "lamb."
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  • All right, "then jesus lifted up his eyes,
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  • And seeing a great multitude coming towards him,
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  • He said to philip, 'where shall we buy bread,
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  • That these may eat?'"
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  • Do you think jesus think the answer is in buying?
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  • No, because the next line says,
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  • "this he said to test philip, for," i love this,
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  • "for he himself knew what he would do."
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  • Sometimes the lord comes to you and asks you a question.
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  • Just know this, "he himself knew what he would do."
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  • It's just a test, amen?
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  • There are times he tells me, "are you willing to do that?"
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  • I say, "lord, it will cost me my time--"
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  • But the lord said, "will you do that?"
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  • I said, "yes."
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  • So why test philip?
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  • Of all the 12 disciples, why did he test philip?
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  • Because this happened near
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  • To a city belonging to bethsaida.
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  • Nothing is hidden.
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  • And philip is from bethsaida.
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  • So the test will always happen at home.
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  • Home ground first.
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  • Your test will happen at home first.
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  • And i know, whatever i preach, it will happen at home first!
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  • My goodness.
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  • I'll say it more impressive, man.
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  • At home, your wife will tell you, "okay, darling,
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  • How about moving to the pulpit?" why?
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  • "because in the pulpit, you are--it's such a flow."
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  • No, she never said that to me.
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  • But it's true, it will always happen at home.
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  • So philip is a homeboy. he's from bethsaida.
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  • So he ask, "philip, since you know this place very well,
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  • From where shall we buy bread, that all these may eat?"
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  • Another thing you need to know about the gospel of john
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  • That doesn't happen in the other writers is this.
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  • When they share this account, only john mentioned names,
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  • Philip, andrew, and only john mentioned the lad.
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  • Do you know the other accounts of this miracle
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  • Did not mention the boy
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  • Who brought five loaves and two fish?
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  • They just say, "we have five loaves and two fish,"
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  • All of them, as if they got it themself.
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  • "we have five loaves and two fish."
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  • But john is the only-- john is a personal gospel.
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  • John mentions nicodemus
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  • That the other gospels don't mention.
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  • It's very personal.
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  • Nicodemus came to jesus by night, amen.
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  • And then the next chapter,
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  • Jesus met with a woman at the well.
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  • It's a very personal gospel.
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  • And here, you have andrew, you have philip.
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  • So he spoke to philip first, testing philip.
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  • "for he himself knew what he would do."
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  • Remember this, whenever the lord asks you a question,
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  • It's not because, by the way, just to let you know,
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  • This is the first place, the very first place,
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  • And the only place in the bible,
  • 00:10:26.001 --> 00:10:27.470
  • The lord asked anyone for advice.
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  • But yet, "he himself knew what he would do."
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  • Okay, drop down.
  • 00:10:35.311 --> 00:10:37.346
  • "philip answered him,
  • 00:10:37.346 --> 00:10:39.014
  • 'two hundred denarii worth of bread
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  • Is not sufficient for them,
  • 00:10:40.950 --> 00:10:42.284
  • That every one of them may have a little.'"
  • 00:10:42.284 --> 00:10:43.953
  • Now, 200 denarii.
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  • A dinar today-- is back to dinar.
  • 00:10:45.821 --> 00:10:47.523
  • Isn't it interesting?
  • 00:10:47.523 --> 00:10:48.858
  • In the book of revelation, it talks about a bushel of wheat
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  • Will sell for this amount of denarius.
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  • Now you go to the middle east, it's back to dinar, amen.
  • 00:10:53.629 --> 00:10:58.534
  • Shekels and dinar.
  • 00:10:58.534 --> 00:11:00.436
  • One dinar is one day's wage.
  • 00:11:00.436 --> 00:11:03.572
  • So 200 denarii is about two-thirds annual wage
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  • Of an average man, laboring man.
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  • It's more than 50%.
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  • Two hundred days of work.
  • 00:11:13.182 --> 00:11:14.850
  • So philip answered in the natural,
  • 00:11:14.850 --> 00:11:17.219
  • "two hundred denarii," a lot of money,
  • 00:11:17.219 --> 00:11:20.289
  • More than half a year's wage,
  • 00:11:20.289 --> 00:11:22.691
  • "is not sufficient to buy bread for them,
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  • That every one of them may have a little."
  • 00:11:25.928 --> 00:11:29.265
  • A little.
  • 00:11:29.265 --> 00:11:32.301
  • How can we speak these words, "a little,"
  • 00:11:32.301 --> 00:11:35.504
  • In the presence of the great i am?
  • 00:11:35.504 --> 00:11:39.175
  • We say a little based on what we see,
  • 00:11:39.175 --> 00:11:43.712
  • Not based on who we are talking to.
  • 00:11:43.712 --> 00:11:47.116
  • So philip's problem is the vastness of the need.
  • 00:11:47.116 --> 00:11:50.719
  • There--you know, he looked at it and said,
  • 00:11:50.719 --> 00:11:53.155
  • "it's not sufficient for them,
  • 00:11:53.155 --> 00:11:55.024
  • That everyone may take a little."
  • 00:11:55.024 --> 00:11:57.626
  • How can you say "a little" in the presence
  • 00:11:57.626 --> 00:11:59.428
  • Of the one who flung the stars in place, amen?
  • 00:11:59.428 --> 00:12:03.232
  • The one who spoke into nothing and something came into being.
  • 00:12:03.232 --> 00:12:07.469
  • How can we say
  • 00:12:07.469 --> 00:12:08.804
  • In the presence of the christ of god,
  • 00:12:08.804 --> 00:12:10.406
  • "everyone may take a little"?
  • 00:12:10.406 --> 00:12:14.710
  • He said this to test philip.
  • 00:12:14.710 --> 00:12:17.413
  • God has ways we do not know of.
  • 00:12:17.413 --> 00:12:21.817
  • We look at the vastness of the need
  • 00:12:21.817 --> 00:12:24.787
  • And internally, we give up.
  • 00:12:24.787 --> 00:12:28.123
  • We are looking at the vastness of the need.
  • 00:12:28.123 --> 00:12:29.859
  • Are you looking at the vastness of the need
  • 00:12:29.859 --> 00:12:31.794
  • Of your body for healing?
  • 00:12:31.794 --> 00:12:33.863
  • "well, i know this case,
  • 00:12:33.863 --> 00:12:35.197
  • This person had the same condition.
  • 00:12:35.197 --> 00:12:36.532
  • That guy, you know, i don't want to say what happened to him.
  • 00:12:36.532 --> 00:12:38.767
  • And i'm very worried because--"
  • 00:12:38.767 --> 00:12:40.102
  • You're looking at the vastness of the need,
  • 00:12:40.102 --> 00:12:42.304
  • The bigness of the problem.
  • 00:12:42.304 --> 00:12:44.440
  • You're not looking at jesus, okay?
  • 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:46.842
  • That's philip's problem.
  • 00:12:46.842 --> 00:12:48.577
  • Are you listening?
  • 00:12:48.577 --> 00:12:49.912
  • How can god reach this young generation?
  • 00:12:49.912 --> 00:12:52.214
  • How can god reach this pc generation?
  • 00:12:52.214 --> 00:12:56.352
  • This generation that doesn't know
  • 00:12:56.352 --> 00:12:58.721
  • What is right, what is wrong anymore?
  • 00:12:58.721 --> 00:13:00.823
  • This generation that want to have their own say
  • 00:13:00.823 --> 00:13:04.059
  • And not knowing that some rules don't change.
  • 00:13:04.059 --> 00:13:07.129
  • For as a rule, the law of gravity,
  • 00:13:07.129 --> 00:13:08.731
  • You can say, "phooey to the law of gravity, forget it!
  • 00:13:08.731 --> 00:13:10.933
  • I don't believe the law of gravity."
  • 00:13:10.933 --> 00:13:12.268
  • You don't believe in the law of gravity?
  • 00:13:12.268 --> 00:13:13.969
  • It doesn't change the law of gravity.
  • 00:13:13.969 --> 00:13:16.272
  • "he that have ears to hear, let him hear."
  • 00:13:16.272 --> 00:13:17.606
  • So we are saying the god that we serve,
  • 00:13:17.606 --> 00:13:21.644
  • The god that loves us, doesn't care
  • 00:13:21.644 --> 00:13:23.712
  • About how big the problem is.
  • 00:13:23.712 --> 00:13:26.348
  • He wanted philip to see.
  • 00:13:26.348 --> 00:13:28.017
  • "philip, where should we buy bread?"
  • 00:13:28.017 --> 00:13:29.585
  • It was a test question.
  • 00:13:29.585 --> 00:13:31.387
  • Philip responded, right?
  • 00:13:31.387 --> 00:13:33.822
  • "each one can only take a little."
  • 00:13:33.822 --> 00:13:35.491
  • Saying "a little" in the presence of jesus!
  • 00:13:35.491 --> 00:13:39.695
  • With god, a little becomes much.
  • 00:13:39.695 --> 00:13:45.234
  • God met moses at the burning bush.
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  • He had nothing.
  • 00:13:48.904 --> 00:13:50.239
  • He left his princely life, his office,
  • 00:13:50.239 --> 00:13:52.975
  • With all the royal regalia and all the benefits
  • 00:13:52.975 --> 00:13:55.377
  • And the trappings of egypt as royalty.
  • 00:13:55.377 --> 00:13:58.247
  • He left it all and became a shepherd
  • 00:13:58.247 --> 00:14:00.015
  • At the backside of the desert.
  • 00:14:00.015 --> 00:14:02.017
  • And when god appeared in the burning bush,
  • 00:14:02.017 --> 00:14:03.986
  • He knelt down before god, stammering.
  • 00:14:03.986 --> 00:14:05.955
  • And then god asked him this: "what is that in your hand?"
  • 00:14:05.955 --> 00:14:12.061
  • God never asks you for what you don't have.
  • 00:14:12.061 --> 00:14:14.730
  • God asks you for what you have.
  • 00:14:14.730 --> 00:14:16.699
  • "what is that in your hand?"
  • 00:14:16.699 --> 00:14:18.500
  • He says, "a rod, a shepherd's rod,
  • 00:14:18.500 --> 00:14:20.002
  • A simple shepherd's rod."
  • 00:14:20.002 --> 00:14:21.770
  • Well, that will do.
  • 00:14:21.770 --> 00:14:23.872
  • And with the shepherd's rod, when he raised it,
  • 00:14:23.872 --> 00:14:28.143
  • The red sea was opened.
  • 00:14:28.143 --> 00:14:29.979
  • When he touched the river nile, it became blood.
  • 00:14:29.979 --> 00:14:34.049
  • With the rod, when they were thirsty,
  • 00:14:34.049 --> 00:14:36.185
  • He hit the rock, and out of the flinty rock
  • 00:14:36.185 --> 00:14:38.620
  • Came rivers of living water for the people.
  • 00:14:38.620 --> 00:14:43.359
  • With that rod, when he picked it up,
  • 00:14:43.359 --> 00:14:45.561
  • It's no more the rod of moses.
  • 00:14:45.561 --> 00:14:46.962
  • It was the rod of god.
  • 00:14:46.962 --> 00:14:48.831
  • And thus is called from that time onwards,
  • 00:14:48.831 --> 00:14:50.966
  • The rod of god.
  • 00:14:50.966 --> 00:14:53.235
  • Are you listening? what do you have?
  • 00:14:53.235 --> 00:14:54.570
  • "i don't have much, pastor prince."
  • 00:14:54.570 --> 00:14:55.904
  • Just like the widow, when elijah came to her house,
  • 00:14:55.904 --> 00:14:58.874
  • She was actually being pursued by the creditors
  • 00:14:58.874 --> 00:15:01.710
  • At that point in time because her husband died,
  • 00:15:01.710 --> 00:15:03.479
  • Left behind a debt and she has two young boys
  • 00:15:03.479 --> 00:15:06.882
  • And the creditor is coming to collect, and she can't pay,
  • 00:15:06.882 --> 00:15:09.551
  • She cannot pay.
  • 00:15:09.551 --> 00:15:11.020
  • The creditor is coming to take her boys as slaves.
  • 00:15:11.020 --> 00:15:14.189
  • So she cried out to elijah the prophet
  • 00:15:14.189 --> 00:15:15.958
  • And says, "please help."
  • 00:15:15.958 --> 00:15:17.793
  • And elijah says, "what do you have in your house?
  • 00:15:17.793 --> 00:15:22.131
  • What do you have?"
  • 00:15:22.131 --> 00:15:23.465
  • Many of us, we look at it, you know, "i don't think
  • 00:15:23.465 --> 00:15:25.067
  • God wants this, so little, and i don't think god wants this."
  • 00:15:25.067 --> 00:15:27.036
  • We look at the boy with the five loaves and two fish.
  • 00:15:27.036 --> 00:15:29.905
  • What is this? what is this?
  • 00:15:29.905 --> 00:15:33.142
  • Look at the vastness of the need.
  • 00:15:33.142 --> 00:15:35.044
  • We despise what little we have.
  • 00:15:35.044 --> 00:15:38.213
  • We don't think god can do much with us.
  • 00:15:38.213 --> 00:15:40.582
  • Years and years ago, i was—
  • 00:15:40.582 --> 00:15:44.253
  • I shouldn't say years and years ago.
  • 00:15:44.253 --> 00:15:46.522
  • A few years ago, when i was in secondary school,
  • 00:15:46.522 --> 00:15:49.958
  • When i was in high school, i was a stammerer, a stutterer.
  • 00:15:49.958 --> 00:15:55.064
  • Not in elementary,
  • 00:15:55.064 --> 00:16:01.103
  • Is that what you call it, all right?
  • 00:16:01.103 --> 00:16:03.439
  • But in high school, i was a stammerer.
  • 00:16:03.439 --> 00:16:06.809
  • But i told the lord, "lord," you all heard my story, right?
  • 00:16:06.809 --> 00:16:10.546
  • How people would laugh and all my friends would laugh.
  • 00:16:10.546 --> 00:16:13.348
  • The girls especially would laugh.
  • 00:16:13.348 --> 00:16:14.683
  • Girls can be cruel, you know.
  • 00:16:14.683 --> 00:16:18.520
  • And you are at a sensitive age, you know,
  • 00:16:18.520 --> 00:16:20.589
  • You want to impress them and all that.
  • 00:16:20.589 --> 00:16:22.124
  • So i was so embarrassed.
  • 00:16:22.124 --> 00:16:23.459
  • I withdrew from my social contacts and all that.
  • 00:16:23.459 --> 00:16:27.296
  • I became quite reticent.
  • 00:16:27.296 --> 00:16:28.630
  • But then one day when i got to know the lord,
  • 00:16:28.630 --> 00:16:31.700
  • The lord said to me, "what do you have?"
  • 00:16:31.700 --> 00:16:33.435
  • I felt for the lord. i pitied the lord for having me.
  • 00:16:33.435 --> 00:16:38.006
  • He said, "what do you have?"
  • 00:16:38.006 --> 00:16:39.341
  • "my mouth.
  • 00:16:39.341 --> 00:16:40.676
  • Lord, just don't put me in public.
  • 00:16:40.676 --> 00:16:42.010
  • Don't--i will try to write songs for you or something like that."
  • 00:16:42.010 --> 00:16:44.680
  • And god says, "no, give me your mouth."
  • 00:16:44.680 --> 00:16:50.819
  • That's why, if you're wondering why my mouth is extra big,
  • 00:16:50.819 --> 00:16:53.755
  • That's the purpose.
  • 00:16:53.755 --> 00:16:55.090
  • Whatever you give, multiplies, you know that?
  • 00:16:55.090 --> 00:16:57.025
  • You know that?
  • 00:16:57.025 --> 00:16:59.595
  • Okay, so, "one of his disciples, andrew, simon--"
  • 00:16:59.595 --> 00:17:03.565
  • By the way, elijah
  • 00:17:03.565 --> 00:17:06.835
  • Asked her, "what do you have in the house?"
  • 00:17:06.835 --> 00:17:08.170
  • You know what she says?
  • 00:17:08.170 --> 00:17:09.505
  • "a little pot of oil. a little."
  • 00:17:09.505 --> 00:17:11.807
  • She said, "a little."
  • 00:17:11.807 --> 00:17:13.142
  • We always think, like the shunammite woman,
  • 00:17:13.142 --> 00:17:15.210
  • A small piece of cake.
  • 00:17:15.210 --> 00:17:17.579
  • You know, the way we talk, it shows with god,
  • 00:17:17.579 --> 00:17:20.749
  • The jar of oil, the jar of oil will not fail, amen.
  • 00:17:20.749 --> 00:17:24.953
  • The barrel of meal will not cease.
  • 00:17:24.953 --> 00:17:27.256
  • God deals with barrel and all that.
  • 00:17:27.256 --> 00:17:28.590
  • You know, ♪ fill my cup, lord ♪
  • 00:17:28.590 --> 00:17:30.659
  • ♪ i lift it up, lord ♪
  • 00:17:30.659 --> 00:17:32.628
  • It's a real hymn by the way.
  • 00:17:32.628 --> 00:17:34.229
  • ♪ come and quench this thirsting of my soul ♪
  • 00:17:34.229 --> 00:17:37.065
  • Then another guy from new creation church
  • 00:17:37.065 --> 00:17:38.834
  • Comes and he: ♪ fill my barrel, lord ♪
  • 00:17:38.834 --> 00:17:42.171
  • ♪ i fill it up, lord ♪ huh?
  • 00:17:42.171 --> 00:17:44.773
  • Big barrel. why ask god for a cup?
  • 00:17:44.773 --> 00:17:47.009
  • It's almost like, you know, we write songs like that.
  • 00:17:47.009 --> 00:17:50.179
  • Anyway, god never asks for what you don't have.
  • 00:17:50.179 --> 00:17:55.184
  • If you have, you know, a talent, a gift in something,
  • 00:17:55.184 --> 00:17:58.720
  • Give it to the lord, amen?
  • 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:00.656
  • So, "one of his disciples, andrew, simon peter's brother,
  • 00:18:02.224 --> 00:18:05.961
  • Said to him," said to jesus,
  • 00:18:05.961 --> 00:18:07.529
  • "'there is a lad here who has five barley loaves
  • 00:18:07.529 --> 00:18:09.898
  • And two small fish,'" two small fish.
  • 00:18:09.898 --> 00:18:12.201
  • Don't forget, there are two small fish.
  • 00:18:12.201 --> 00:18:14.436
  • There is, in this one verse, there are two diminutive terms.
  • 00:18:14.436 --> 00:18:18.073
  • One is the "lad."
  • 00:18:18.073 --> 00:18:19.575
  • The other one is "small."
  • 00:18:19.575 --> 00:18:21.610
  • Small boy, small fish, five loaves, okay?
  • 00:18:21.610 --> 00:18:26.381
  • "'there is a lad here who has five barley loaves
  • 00:18:26.381 --> 00:18:28.250
  • And two small fish,
  • 00:18:28.250 --> 00:18:29.585
  • But what are they among so many?'"
  • 00:18:29.585 --> 00:18:32.120
  • Now, what are they among so many?
  • 00:18:32.120 --> 00:18:34.923
  • So, philip's problem is the vastness of the need.
  • 00:18:34.923 --> 00:18:39.595
  • Andrew's problem is the littleness of the supply.
  • 00:18:39.595 --> 00:18:43.198
  • He look at the supply, he says, "what are they?
  • 00:18:43.198 --> 00:18:46.168
  • It's just five bread, pita bread, five loaves,
  • 00:18:46.168 --> 00:18:50.706
  • And two small fish."
  • 00:18:50.706 --> 00:18:52.774
  • He look at it and he says, "what are they among so many?"
  • 00:18:52.774 --> 00:18:56.211
  • So philip look at the people, right?
  • 00:18:56.211 --> 00:19:02.017
  • Andrew looked at what they--he had,
  • 00:19:02.017 --> 00:19:04.586
  • What they had, but then he says, "what are they among so many?"
  • 00:19:04.586 --> 00:19:09.391
  • So philip's problem is the vastness of the need.
  • 00:19:09.391 --> 00:19:12.261
  • Andrew's problem is the littleness of the supply.
  • 00:19:12.261 --> 00:19:15.530
  • Neither of them is looking at jesus.
  • 00:19:15.530 --> 00:19:18.533
  • "in our company nowadays, i don't know what is happening
  • 00:19:18.533 --> 00:19:20.269
  • But we are going down a little bit so we've got to
  • 00:19:20.269 --> 00:19:22.537
  • Make sure that this coming year and all that--"
  • 00:19:22.537 --> 00:19:24.439
  • Hey, bring jesus into the situation.
  • 00:19:24.439 --> 00:19:28.410
  • Whenever you serve the lord, whether it's strength,
  • 00:19:28.410 --> 00:19:30.279
  • Giving money, whatever it is, god always return back.
  • 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.782
  • Even the fisherman's boat, the whole night, the same lake,
  • 00:19:33.782 --> 00:19:39.087
  • The same place, found nothing, caught nothing.
  • 00:19:39.087 --> 00:19:42.024
  • They were washing their net to pass the time,
  • 00:19:42.024 --> 00:19:44.359
  • To maximize the time, whatever.
  • 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:45.694
  • Jesus stepped into the boat.
  • 00:19:45.694 --> 00:19:47.029
  • They allowed jesus to have the boat.
  • 00:19:47.029 --> 00:19:48.363
  • And after that, jesus gave them
  • 00:19:48.363 --> 00:19:50.065
  • A net-breaking, boat-sinking load of fish
  • 00:19:50.065 --> 00:19:52.000
  • In the same lake.
  • 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:53.335
  • When you give to jesus, things become different.
  • 00:19:53.335 --> 00:19:55.304
  • Give your mind, give yourself, give your body.
  • 00:19:55.304 --> 00:19:57.739
  • Once you realize that, you'll give him everything.
  • 00:19:57.739 --> 00:20:01.043
  • And whatever he asks of you to do,
  • 00:20:01.043 --> 00:20:02.711
  • Even money to sow, to give, your tithes,
  • 00:20:02.711 --> 00:20:05.414
  • Your offerings, it's never subtraction.
  • 00:20:05.414 --> 00:20:07.883
  • It's multiplication by subtraction.
  • 00:20:07.883 --> 00:20:10.819
  • It is increase by division.
  • 00:20:10.819 --> 00:20:12.754
  • Can i have a good amen, church? hallelujah.
  • 00:20:12.754 --> 00:20:14.656
  • Oh man, i've preached myself happy, hallelujah.
  • 00:20:14.656 --> 00:20:16.758
  • Let's bring this to the end. "as much as they wanted."
  • 00:20:16.758 --> 00:20:18.894
  • Don't forget that. "as much as they wanted."
  • 00:20:18.894 --> 00:20:21.430
  • I look at all of you and we all have
  • 00:20:21.430 --> 00:20:22.764
  • Different, different levels of satiation.
  • 00:20:22.764 --> 00:20:26.702
  • There are different levels of satiation.
  • 00:20:26.702 --> 00:20:28.770
  • Some people are satisfied with this.
  • 00:20:28.770 --> 00:20:30.105
  • It's what do you want?
  • 00:20:30.105 --> 00:20:31.506
  • The problem is not so much of the lord.
  • 00:20:31.506 --> 00:20:34.609
  • It is you, amen.
  • 00:20:34.609 --> 00:20:36.611
  • How much can you take? how much can you take?
  • 00:20:36.611 --> 00:20:39.348
  • How much can you take?
  • 00:20:39.348 --> 00:20:41.817
  • It's the story of joseph, our heavenly joseph,
  • 00:20:41.817 --> 00:20:44.186
  • When he saw his brothers.
  • 00:20:44.186 --> 00:20:45.520
  • This is what he said to the servant.
  • 00:20:45.520 --> 00:20:47.422
  • A named servant is the holy spirit,
  • 00:20:47.422 --> 00:20:48.924
  • A picture of the holy spirit, this is what he said.
  • 00:20:48.924 --> 00:20:50.759
  • "and he commanded the steward of his house,"
  • 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:52.494
  • A picture of the holy spirit,
  • 00:20:52.494 --> 00:20:53.829
  • "saying, 'fill the man's sacks,'"
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  • His brothers' sacks, "'with food,
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  • As much as they can carry.'"
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  • As much as they can carry.
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  • How much can you carry?
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  • I want to tell you one thing.
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  • The lord does not forget what you give to him.
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  • The bible says, "he that waters shall be watered also himself."
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  • "the generous soul shall be made fat."
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  • Another translation says, "shall be prosperous."
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  • In god's economy, when you give,
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  • It comes back to you much more, amen?
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  • Are you blessed?
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  • You learned some things here?
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  • Are you looking at the vastness of the need?
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  • Whether it's your body, your family,
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  • Your marital situation,
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  • Whether it is your-- even your emotional state,
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  • Or you're addicted to some prescription drugs.
  • 00:21:43.078 --> 00:21:46.181
  • No one knows about this, but you know you are addicted.
  • 00:21:46.181 --> 00:21:48.617
  • And one way out, whether it's alcohol,
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  • Whatever it is, is to acknowledge
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  • The need is beyond you.
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  • When you look at the vastness of the need,
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  • It can overwhelm you.
  • 00:21:56.691 --> 00:21:58.460
  • As leaders and pastors, we are so easily overwhelmed
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  • By the vastness of the need.
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  • But hey, stop looking at the vastness of the need.
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  • Stop looking at the littleness of what we have
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  • And start looking to him, our inexhaustible supply,
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  • Amen, the king of kings, the lord of lords,
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  • Our lord jesus.
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  • And don't forget, the reason all these things can flow,
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  • John tells us, is because the passover is near.
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  • The righteous outlet for a holy god,
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  • A thrice-holy god, to bless us with more than enough
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  • Is because his son will pay for all our sins.
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  • So today, if anyone tells you your sin
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  • Is holding the blessing back, all right, you know
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  • It's a doctrine that's not from god.
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  • It's not from god.
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  • Because he has just put jesus and the cross
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  • Out of the picture, amen.
  • 00:22:40.202 --> 00:22:42.003
  • Now, it's one thing to say that to an unbeliever.
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  • It's nothing to say that to a child of god.
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  • Your sins are forgiven because someone died.
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  • We feast on the roasted lamb.
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  • Roasted means he was
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  • Under the fires of god's judgment
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  • And we feast on him.
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  • That's food for us. i say that's food for us.
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  • And not only food for us, it's also supply.
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  • The supply is based on the passover was near.
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  • It's like the holy spirit remind them that god will supply
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  • All their needs, amen, church?
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  • Have you been blessed?
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  • Right after this.
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  • Announcer: and now, a closing word
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  • From pastor joseph prince.
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  • Joseph prince: this coming week, the lord bless you,
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  • You and your families, your loved ones.
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  • Some of you are going for holiday, the lord keep you.
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  • The lord protect you from every danger,
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  • From harm, from disease, from tragedy.
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  • The lord protect you from all evil.
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  • The lord make his face shine on you,
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  • Be gracious to you.
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  • And the lord lift up his countenance on you
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  • And grant to you and your loved ones
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  • His shalom, health, well-being, and peace
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  • In the name of the lord jesus christ.
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  • And all the people said, amen.
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  • God bless you.
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  • But through all the noise and the shaking,
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  • There is one who is still the same.
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  • In the chaos, he is still the calm.
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  • In the panic, he is still the promise.
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  • He is still jesus above it all.
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  • "those that there-- will be alive and remain
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  • Until the coming of the lord."
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