1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:19,120 Have your Bibles tonight being Mark chapter 6, Exodus 3 and a 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:23,760 few other places and I told Charlie while I go and I looked 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:25,160 around not a lot here. I said man. 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:26,080 I don't. I don't want. 9 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:30,120 To preach this tonight, I want to wait on wait till a Sunday to 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:35,840 preach it. Hey man, but they're always they 11 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,360 always touch me. So I try not to preach anything 12 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,080 to y'all that don't touch me. Hey man, I found when I do that 13 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,760 it's God does the work. I was at Miss Margie's the other 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,000 night talking to a lot of the families. 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,640 I've only been in church here a few times, but man, they were 16 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,240 just bragging on our church and what they felt when they were 17 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,520 here. And you know, I Sunday we didn't 18 00:00:57,520 --> 00:00:59,280 have church. I went to town, had to get some 19 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,560 feed and do some things there and and tended to animals and I 20 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,280 I didn't know so many people went that didn't come to church 21 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,960 worried about where I was at on Sunday. 22 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,040 They were like, y'all didn't have church. 23 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,960 I'm like, no, it's it was a little bit snowing the roads a 24 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:14,640 little bit bad, but I'm out feeding. 25 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,920 I get it. But I said it ain't just me that 26 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,160 has to come. There's some of y'all old that 27 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,280 folks that had to get here right, but anyway, they were. 28 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,000 There and I was like. It's hard not to say you've only 29 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,680 been there twice while If you're worried about it, come and see. 30 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,640 We're having it next Sunday, right? 31 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,560 But man, everywhere I'd go and I and I didn't even know these 32 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,120 folks so. We're pretty popular, huh? 33 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,320 It's a good thing they know we're supposed to be in church. 34 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,040 Hey, man, that's the way I, I try to live my life. 35 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,760 They know where I'm supposed to be and when I ain't there 36 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,640 somebody going correct me, right? 37 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,000 What a good way to live. But now this message it got a 38 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:50,920 hold. Of me and I. 39 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,640 I titled this message tonight. He would have passed them by. 40 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,920 I wonder how many times? Jesus has passed me. 41 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,840 By or passed you by and we didn't really realize. 42 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,120 It. It came in the form of a 43 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,360 blessing or something that we thought that he was going to do 44 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,440 different, but yet he was he could have passed them by. 45 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:13,920 Let's. Stand and read the word. 46 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,480 Tonight in Mark chapter 6 and verse 45, this setting of 47 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:26,160 Scripture finds Jesus having just fed 5000 people with with 48 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,280 five loaves of bread and two fish. 49 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,240 A great miracle. If you're a cook, you know 50 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,400 that's a great miracle. To have that much food. 51 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,480 And have baskets leftover and being able to feed that many. 52 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,400 So the disciples had just come off of a great miracle. 53 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,840 They had seen Jesus do something that was just unheard of to feed 54 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,200 that kind of multitude. But yet he was fixing to rock 55 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,240 their world again. Here in 45 people was scrambling 56 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,040 around. I'm sure there was talk going 57 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,040 on. If it would have been today, Fox 58 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,400 News would have been there with a mic trying to figure out how 59 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:06,000 this man. Fed 5000 people with five loaves 60 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,280 and two fish. So if I'm a disciple. 61 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,600 I'm thinking I would. Probably had a little faith 62 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:17,040 right now, right? But in 45, it says immediately 63 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,720 made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the 64 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:26,440 other side to beside her. They were traveling a Six Mile 65 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,360 journey when you study. It out and. 66 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:32,520 Jesus had stuck them out there in the boat and He knew there 67 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,920 was a storm going to be coming. But while He sent the multitude 68 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:41,520 away, He had sent them away and he departed to the mountain to 69 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,400 pray. Even in the midst of a miracle. 70 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,440 Right after the miracle, Jesus went to pray. 71 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,120 You might ought to make a note right there. 72 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,680 He didn't stop what he was doing because he hello had received a 73 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,920 miracle. He went and prayed because He 74 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,360 knew there was more miracles to come, right? 75 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,440 And he knew that God still had not accomplished what He was 76 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,920 trying to do in his life while He was up on this earth. 77 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,320 So He went to pray make a note there. 78 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,760 Now an evening came. The boat was in the middle of 79 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,519 the sea. This is a very familiar passage 80 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:20,079 of Scripture. And he was alone on the land. 81 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:27,880 And in verse 48 it says that he saw them straining at rowing. 82 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:33,920 If you have a new King James, he saw them straining at rowing. 83 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,120 That just jumped out. At me when I read. 84 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,880 That for the winds were against them. 85 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:44,360 Now, about the fourth hour of the night, 3:00 to 6:00 in the 86 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:48,720 morning, about the fourth watch, it says he came to them. 87 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,760 They were on the sea. The winds were blowing. 88 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,120 It was a bad turbulent time. If you were in the boat, they 89 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,840 were scared. And about 3:00 in the morning to 90 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:02,120 6:00 in the morning, Jesus went out walking on the sea. 91 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:05,200 But this really hit me when I read this. 92 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,720 So he's walking on the sea. His disciples are troubled right 93 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,640 there. And it says that he would have 94 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,680 passed them by. Can I say that again? 95 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,600 He would have passed them by. And when they saw him walking on 96 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,440 the sea, they supposed it was a ghost. 97 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:28,640 And they cried out, for they all saw him and were troubled. 98 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,480 But immediately he talked with them and he said to them, be of 99 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,160 good cheer. It is. 100 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:38,320 I do not be afraid. Father, we thank you for your 101 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,200 word once again. We pray for the anointing to 102 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,080 preach your word. And we pray that this scripture 103 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,160 would speak to us tonight and help us to realize where we at 104 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:52,080 and how many times that you try to move in our situation and we 105 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:56,520 simply let you pass us by. I pray that we get in our spirit 106 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,480 tonight. Father, we would not miss divine 107 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:02,480 appointments anymore. We would realize the hour of our 108 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,960 visitation when the Holy Spirit comes. 109 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:09,800 In Jesus name, say it with me in Jesus name, Amen. 110 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,880 He would have passed them by while they were straining and 111 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,240 rowing. It sounds kind of like life 112 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,080 today, doesn't it? We feel like many times while 113 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:25,400 rowing this gospel ship or the the career ship that we're 114 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,920 trying to arrive to a destination. 115 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,880 Many times we're straining at rowing. 116 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,800 Anybody feel like that in your Christian walk? 117 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,640 Sometimes you're rowing this ship, you're trying to live 118 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,760 right? You're trying to do all these 119 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:42,760 things and we get to we get to straining at rowing. 120 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:45,640 And while they were straining it, scripture tells us that 121 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:50,880 Jesus would have passed them by. Why would he have passed them 122 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,920 by? I believe that he was going to 123 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,520 just keep walking until someone recognized him. 124 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:03,320 And it says that they cried out. See, when they cried out he 125 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,680 would have just passed them by. But because they did cry out, it 126 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,000 wasn't because he didn't care. He was walking on what they were 127 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,560 afraid of. Whatever we're fearful of 128 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,760 tonight, He's already there. Amen. 129 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,640 He may not be there, they couldn't see him, but he was up 130 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,080 there praying on the mountain and he knew exactly where they 131 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:22,720 were. What? 132 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,360 What encouragement tonight to know that whatever you're 133 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,720 facing, God knows where you're at. 134 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,680 He knows what you're going through and He's up there 135 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,200 praying tonight for us. But we feel like this many times 136 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,280 because we don't cry out. It wasn't because he didn't 137 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,480 care. He was walking on what they were 138 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,760 afraid of and yes, as a child of God, many times we're fearful 139 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,800 and we're scared, but he's walking in the midst but yet 140 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,280 scripture says that he would have passed them by, but he 141 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,280 didn't because he heard their cry. 142 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,560 Thank God, our cries awake the Master, Amen. 143 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,480 Jesus wanted them to see his power. 144 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,600 He wanted to reveal that hey boy, look, I'm doing something 145 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,400 you never see nobody do. I'm walking on the, Can you 146 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,280 imagine the waves rolling, the Thunder popping, and Jesus is 147 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,280 just out out there walking and he's like, man, I just fed 5000 148 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,160 people and these guys don't even recognize me. 149 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,880 They're scared of me. I'm in their situation. 150 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,560 It's just another form that I'm taking on because they've never 151 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:25,840 seen it before. Hello. 152 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,320 Whatever you're going through, quit looking for the same Jesus 153 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:32,919 to show up because he can be whatever he has to be on that 154 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:35,080 particular day to meet your need. 155 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:37,480 Amen. And we're good at basing that 156 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,120 and basing our faith upon what we've seen Jesus do in 157 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,560 somebody's else's life, or even what we've read about him. 158 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,960 But the Word tells us that he longs to do exceedingly and 159 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,200 abundantly above all that this mind can think, ask, or imagine. 160 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,520 So when we step into that realm and we say, well, He's got to do 161 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,480 this today, but I just never seen him do it before. 162 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,000 Well, they had never seen him walk on water, but once they 163 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,160 recognized him for who it was, what did he say? 164 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,320 Because they cried out. He could have just kept going. 165 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,440 He could have just kept going. But we get in the realm, I've 166 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,480 cried out before. I've asked for that before, and 167 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,120 God didn't do it. So God can't operate in that 168 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,640 realm or that area of my life. We get stuck in that old game, 169 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,160 right? But it says he would have passed 170 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,040 them by, but He didn't because He heard their cry. 171 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,000 He wanted to reveal His power, but more than reveal what He was 172 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,280 doing at that time. He wanted His disciples to 173 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,200 recognize who He was and cry out to Him. 174 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,720 I believe more than just see him walking on the water, more than 175 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,040 just reading about what Jesus can do and and what he's already 176 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,080 done. Jesus was challenging his 177 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,400 disciples just as he's challenging us today to call on 178 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:56,680 him, showing that they needed him to take initiative, showing 179 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,280 him and and seeking his help that they was doing something 180 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,400 that we have to learn to do to see the power of God. 181 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,600 Amen. While we're straining and while 182 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,960 we're rowing, there's still some things that we have to that have 183 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:13,080 present in our life to see the power of God because many people 184 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,760 are not seeing or experiencing the power of God today. 185 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,400 He's always just to cry away. Have you ever found that it's me 186 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,640 that's too busy at rowing and straining at rowing that I'm 187 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,040 putting all these things in between me and God? 188 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,160 Oh, so why I can't do what God's called me to do or why God isn't 189 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,680 helping me do what he's called me to do? 190 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,480 Many have made it a habit to say, well, I'm just waiting on 191 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,040 God. I'm just waiting on God. 192 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,600 I've not found that to be true. I found that God's always 193 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,040 waiting on me. See, people that are about the 194 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,440 Father's business and are busy, God will give you something to 195 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,360 do and he will lay it out to where you're not waiting on Him 196 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,120 anymore. He's putting the ball in your 197 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,680 court and he's saying now you move. 198 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,760 He's waiting on you to cry out. ABBA Father in total surrender 199 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:03,200 is what he's waiting for. But many are like the disciples. 200 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,160 They're too focused on the problem, too busy at the 201 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:12,320 straining, too busy at rowing, focusing on the straining of how 202 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,960 hard it is to live, right? How hard it is to go to church. 203 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,720 When you get your eyes off the straining and the rowing and get 204 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,120 your eyes on the master that can calm the sea that's walking in 205 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,920 the midst of your storm that you failed to cry out ABBA father 206 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:30,640 today to and recognize him. He might stop and give you a 207 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,400 little power, right? Give the Lord praise. 208 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,040 How hard is it to make it in this world? 209 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,760 We focus on that. Yes, it can be hard, but if 210 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,840 you'll quit straining and rowing and realize that the wind and 211 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:49,920 the seas obey the God that we serve, keep rowing, keep trying, 212 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,040 keep moving, but don't forget to cry out. 213 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,040 What does cry out? Do what was Jesus really looking 214 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,280 for? Write this down #1 He was 215 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:03,600 looking for the same thing I believe He's looking for today. 216 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:09,080 Because we live in the greatest nation that has ever been, but 217 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:13,920 yet we are less dependent on God than we have ever been as His 218 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,600 children. In days of yesteryear there was 219 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,600 there was churches that that prayed for needs of the church 220 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,920 and actually prayed food in the cupboard or prayed food on the 221 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,680 table because they didn't know how the need was going to get 222 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:29,760 met. So they lived their life on a 223 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,000 daily basis. Say, man, I heard an old 224 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,720 preacher saying the other day, we didn't know what the doctor 225 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,960 was because even if we could find one, we couldn't afford to 226 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,800 go to 1. So he said we'd call a prayer 227 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,960 meeting and we'd lay hands and we'd begin to pray on the sick 228 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,200 and we'd begin to watch them recover because our total 229 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,640 dependence was up on him. I think there's a lot to that. 230 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,680 It says he would have passed them right by. 231 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,880 If we don't acknowledge him in the sickness and the things that 232 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,000 we go through in our life, He might just pass this right by. 233 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,600 He's looking for someone to cry out, but the enemy comes in and 234 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,720 says don't bother God with that. Don't cry out to God with that. 235 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,200 And we end up limiting God and we end up not putting our total 236 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,280 dependence up on Him every time. I pray, Father, where are you 237 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,680 taking us as a nation? Where are you taking us? 238 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:19,520 Where are you taking us in total dependence upon me? 239 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:24,960 I hear that God is total. Dependence up on God is a must 240 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,920 when you're straining and you're rowing through life if you don't 241 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,240 want him to pass you by. It says he would have passed 242 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,160 them by, but he saw their circumstance. 243 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,080 He knew that they were in trouble. 244 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,960 He knew that if something didn't happen, but he also knew that he 245 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,000 controlled the trouble. He controls the circumstance. 246 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,000 He controls how long the circumstance comes to stay and 247 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,320 when it goes. He controls that. 248 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,920 He doesn't need your help tonight controlling your 249 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,480 circumstance. He doesn't need us to tell him 250 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:59,120 how bad it is. He already knows and he's 251 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,920 already walking by. I believe that with all my heart 252 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,200 He sees today, but because of our lack of crying out, He 253 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,320 passes us by. In Luke 19 and 44, he was 254 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,600 looking upon Jerusalem and describing what would happen in 255 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:19,040 70 years later, and he said, because my people do not realize 256 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,000 the hour of their visitation, how many times do we miss the 257 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,800 visitation of the Heavenly Father? 258 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,680 Come on somebody, How many times does he pass us by? 259 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,440 God longs for our total dependence upon him and when we 260 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,960 cast all of our cares upon him because when we do something 261 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,920 happens in the spirit realm in Exodus chapter 3. 262 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,480 Let's look at this. God's chosen people, the 263 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,480 children of Israel. God knew that there was a 264 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,160 problem. He knew that they were they were 265 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:54,280 enforced slave labor and God was looking for a man. 266 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,040 Think about this. I want to read this chapter 3 267 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,600 and verse one. It says now Moses was tending 268 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,960 the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of the 269 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:09,320 of Midian, and he led. The flock in Exodus. 3 and 1, he 270 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:14,080 led the flock back to the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain 271 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,320 of God. And the Angel of the Lord 272 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,640 appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the Bush. 273 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:25,000 So he looked, and behold, the Bush was burning with fire, but 274 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,880 the Bush was not consumed. Great miracle, but we're too 275 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,360 busy at straining and rowing. Many times I'm telling. 276 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,120 The older I get, the more I focus on the little things and 277 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,880 the way that God's trying to tell me, and I find He's in 278 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,640 them, He's there, He's there. But look, think about Moses. 279 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,000 If if we seen a Bush and you drove to work today and the Bush 280 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,920 was burning and you come back by tomorrow, you just think, well, 281 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,040 somebody set the Bush afire. They planted a new Bush. 282 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,400 It didn't burn up. They're even making this Bush 283 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,600 now. It's a hybrid hominogical bread 284 00:15:57,600 --> 00:15:59,840 thing. It can burn without burning up. 285 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,600 It just fire won't burn. We would come up with something, 286 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,120 but see, Moses was in a place of hurt. 287 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,640 Because if you keep in mind what Moses had just done, he had 288 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,320 killed an Egyptian. He had murdered someone in 289 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,200 Egypt, and he was running and hiding out in the desert, and he 290 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,640 married Jethro's daughter and he was tending the flock. 291 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,160 But he was really hiding because he had murdered someone and they 292 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,960 knew about it and Pharaoh was looking for him, right? 293 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,720 But yet he noticed, hey, there's something different about this 294 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,320 Bush. It's not consumed. 295 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,280 And Moses said, look what he said, I will now turn aside and 296 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,280 see this great sight. Why this Bush burns and does not 297 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,960 burn up. Verse 4. 298 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,520 So when the Lord saw boy like this right here it goes right 299 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,640 with what I'm preaching tonight about the straining and the Roy. 300 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,680 But when God, when the Lord saw that, he turned aside to look, 301 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,880 when he just stopped and he said, I'm going to see what this 302 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,120 is about. When he stopped, it might not 303 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,319 have been about anything. I'm sure Moses wasn't feeling 304 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:09,400 too godly or too spiritual at the time, stuck out in the 305 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:14,240 desert, knowing that he could be the next to go on death row in 306 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,240 Egypt. But yet he stopped and he turned 307 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,680 aside. And when the Lord saw that he 308 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:24,000 looked, God called to him from the midst of the Bush. 309 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:29,960 Come on, somebody said Moses, Moses and he said here I am, 310 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,680 here I am. Then he said do not draw near. 311 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:37,600 He gives him a divine instruction right here. 312 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,360 That is very important. We sing the song about holy 313 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,160 ground. But I want to explain to you to 314 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,080 something tonight when you cast your total dependence upon God, 315 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,920 He did. Moses did not know why the Bush 316 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:51,880 didn't burn up. He didn't evaluate the 317 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,440 situation. He just said, I'm going to look, 318 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,360 I'm going to see what's happening here. 319 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,800 It may not even have been a spiritual thing. 320 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,600 Maybe it was pulling in him. I don't know. 321 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,840 I know I found that not everybody has that. 322 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,480 Can I just preach to you tonight? 323 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,680 Not everybody has that. When I lay down every night, 324 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,360 when I get up every morning, I thank God for whatever it is 325 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:16,800 that He's placed within me that a lot of people that I've hung 326 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,760 out in life don't feel they do that. 327 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:23,000 From the time I was a little bitty boy, I could hear a song 328 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,720 and something in me would have began to stir. 329 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,600 Amen. And Fast forward it to the 330 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,160 teenage years when I was doing things unpleasing to God. 331 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,120 I would hear that voice. I would always hear it and I 332 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:36,120 would stop and I would turn aside. 333 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:39,960 I mean, I thank God for that because a lot of people don't 334 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,200 even, they don't even have a clue when God is speaking to 335 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,920 them. But see, when he stopped, 336 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,440 something happened. And I'm going to give you the 337 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,480 key to this right here. It's total dependence upon God. 338 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,040 That's what it is. Every career I've ever had, from 339 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,640 the rodeo business to the drilling business to preaching 340 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,040 at a chart, everything's been total dependence upon God. 341 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,680 I did not know where the next was coming from. 342 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:06,920 It's been total dependence upon God. 343 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,760 And I've learned to look in the little places in life. 344 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,040 It's not in the big things. He said I'm the God of small 345 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,160 beginnings. Amen. 346 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,280 But he said, Moses, there's something you cannot do. 347 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:23,800 You cannot draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, 348 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:29,120 for the place where you stand is holy ground. 349 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,600 He said, I'm the God of your father's. 350 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,800 I'm the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob 351 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,000 and he said, Moses, the place you, you, you might, you need to 352 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,680 hide your face and he hid his face because he was afraid to 353 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,800 look upon him. So what happens we we talk about 354 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,880 what was the when Moses took his shoes off. 355 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,320 I preach this many years many different ways, but Moses 356 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,680 stopped and he turned aside to see this great sign. 357 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:01,920 He took time to recognize something out of the ordinary 358 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,280 and what God saw. He sees everything that he 359 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,280 turned aside to look. God called to him from the midst 360 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,200 of the Bush. How many today would pay 361 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,760 attention to a sign if God sent it? 362 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,280 Not many. They would be too busy at 363 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:20,360 straining and roaring in the things of the world, right to 364 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:24,360 catch what God was trying to say or pay any attention to it. 365 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,560 See, many don't depend totally upon God. 366 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:32,200 We depend upon the circumstance and yes, the circumstance will 367 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,480 always be there, but write this down. 368 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,160 We depend on the circumstance. Why is that? 369 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,440 Why don't we focus on the circumstance today? 370 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,480 People say, well, I'm not taking my shoes off. 371 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,360 That'd be with some people's first. 372 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:48,360 First, I'm not getting that dirt on my feet. 373 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:50,920 I can't stand that dirt on. Moses took them off. 374 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,320 But see what Moses didn't realize and what we don't 375 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,760 realize, It wasn't just the taking off of the sandals. 376 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,800 See, somewhere in this walk we have to go to total dependence 377 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,120 upon God. What He was saying is, Moses, 378 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:07,320 take your shoes off because there's a part of your flesh 379 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,960 that has to touch my holiness. And see when your flesh touches 380 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:16,680 His Holiness and you realize that your life will be changed 381 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,480 forever. But we depend on the 382 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,840 circumstance. Why? 383 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,440 Because it brings a reaction. We want a reaction, right? 384 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,760 We depend on the circumstance which brings a reaction instead 385 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,920 of depending on faith because see, people lose out on this 386 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,320 thing we call faith because what is faith is the substance of 387 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,880 what we're hoping for, but the evidence we cannot see, right? 388 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,320 So we we create a reaction from the circumstance and make 389 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,360 something just like the children of Israel did at the bottom of 390 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:51,280 the mountain when Moses was getting a divine revelation from 391 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,280 God. We create something we can see, 392 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,960 taste, touch or feel that that from the reaction instead of 393 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,880 depending on our faith. That's deep, but it's true 394 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,160 because see, when people go through sickness, when they go 395 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,480 through financial problems, when they go through marriage 396 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,720 problems, whatever it is, we got to find that we we know the 397 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,560 circumstance, but we it actually end up many people serving the 398 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,960 reaction. We really do. 399 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,120 It becomes our God instead of depending on faith because you 400 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:26,240 can't see faith. Faith has to be felt. 401 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,840 What we see from faith is the is when faith is manifested and we 402 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:34,760 have believed in God and we see the end of result of what we 403 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,560 were hoping for and see. That's kind of confusing too 404 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,520 because faith is a substance of things hoped for described in 405 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,280 Hebrews and evidence of what we cannot see. 406 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,840 But see, I found a lot of time in the midst of the faith battle 407 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,560 of keeping the faith. We don't actually see at the 408 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,160 end, if we kept the faith, we don't actually see what we was 409 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,040 hoping for. Anybody ever found that? 410 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,840 It didn't turn out, but it turned out OK. 411 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,840 It turned out the way God wanted to. 412 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:02,400 It just wasn't what I was hoping. 413 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,200 You can be all dignified and say, oh, my faith always turns 414 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,600 out what I'm hoping for. No, many times it doesn't, but 415 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,960 it's a substance of what we're hoping for. 416 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:15,360 But it's the evidence of what we cannot see, that God can see 417 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,000 because He's omnipotent and He's omnipresent. 418 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,080 Y'all getting all this? But we depend on the 419 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,040 circumstance, and yes, the circumstance always will be 420 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,680 there, but as Moses, we must stop. 421 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,480 We must turn aside and see this great thing that God is telling 422 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,240 us because it's at the times that we do totally depend upon 423 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:40,280 Him and forget about the straining and the rowing on 424 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,880 life's troubles. See, we will see God's purpose. 425 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,240 We will see God's will for our life. 426 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,720 So many never see God's purpose. So many never see God's will. 427 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,080 They say, well, I want to pray. I want God to fill me with the 428 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,320 Holy Spirit, For what? What are you going to do with 429 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,760 it? I found that God is not willing 430 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,800 to give even His children that He loves His wonders and great 431 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,000 gifts. If He knows that we're not going 432 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,120 to do nothing with it, that's powerful, but it's real. 433 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,200 If he knows somebody's coming to the altar that needs prayer and 434 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,880 and he's given you a gift and you withhold from that, what 435 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,880 happens? He's going to pass right by. 436 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,680 And you know what, it's not always a person standing there, 437 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,320 his fault that God didn't deliver him and God didn't touch 438 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:24,920 him. It was the faith that you could 439 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,520 have had to come and pray for him and see God's power work 440 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,680 right and place. They don't know how to place the 441 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,600 total dependence upon him. There's so many that come to the 442 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,320 altars. They have no think back at your 443 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,840 walk when you was young in life, when there was no part of your 444 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,960 flesh had ever touched God's holiness and you couldn't even 445 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,320 believe for a burning Bush that God not placed in your life. 446 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,040 Think about it, somebody had to believe for you, didn't they? 447 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,800 But the church has gotten really good and leaving people alone 448 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,000 and not believing for them and tell them what we should do and 449 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,480 how we should do it instead of going and doing it. 450 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,280 Amen. I may not always do it right, 451 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:02,640 but I'm going to go do something. 452 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,760 Hey, man, I'm going to do whatever God calls me to do 453 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,080 because it's at this time when we place total dependence upon 454 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,240 Him and forget about the straining and the rowing on 455 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,080 life's troubles. See, we will see it. 456 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,560 Moses had no reason to hear from God. 457 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,920 Maybe you're here tonight the way you've been praying and not 458 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,240 reading your Bible or whatever you're going through. 459 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,520 The enemy comes. I have no reason. 460 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,520 That God should bless me. I have no, Moses didn't either. 461 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,880 He was a murderer. He was a stutter, right? 462 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,320 He couldn't even believe that the great staff that God had 463 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,040 placed in his hand. He even had to tell him. 464 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:39,960 What's that in your hand, Moses? I don't know. 465 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,520 It's a step. Throw it down chapters later and 466 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,840 it becomes a snake. It parted the Red Sea. 467 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,520 It did all kinds of miracles and it was in his hand. 468 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,200 But until he until he came to total dependence upon God and 469 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,520 cast it down on the ground, nothing happened. 470 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,160 Moses had no reason to hear from God. 471 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,960 He was a murderer. He had a speech problem. 472 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,080 But what happened when His Holiness of God touched his 473 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,320 flesh? Things change. 474 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,360 I want you, Moses, to go and tell Pharaoh to let my people 475 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:14,400 go. Go home and read the rest of it. 476 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,280 What happens? Moses gives all kinds of 477 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,560 excuses. He said I'm a stutter, I'm this, 478 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,480 I'm that. But see now Moses was at a place 479 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,680 that he could see the power of God because he had placed his 480 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:34,080 dependence upon God. As I said, I found that God will 481 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,560 not give you that which you're not willing to use for His 482 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,120 glory. But when you choose dependence 483 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:44,440 upon God, you need to realize. Some things it's a God. 484 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,080 That's never failed. It's not hard. 485 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,640 It shouldn't be hard for us to place total dependence and trust 486 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,160 upon a God. That's never failed. 487 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,200 But when I place total dependence, why is this 488 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,640 important? Number one is cry out, right? 489 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:01,840 When you cry out, you're placing total dependence upon God. 490 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:03,800 I can't do it. I have a father that's the 491 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,520 highest, the highest course of worship there is. 492 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,160 Is saying my father like a kid saying dad or daddy. 493 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,680 It's the same deal saying cry out, say daddy, because that 494 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,280 throws dependence upon him. And when total dependence upon 495 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,200 God is released from us, what happens? 496 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,760 He releases power. He releases the power. 497 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,600 What we're really looking for is the power of God in our 498 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,720 situation, to stop the storm, right? 499 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,880 To calm the things in our life and the winds and rest from the 500 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,120 straining and from the roaring. He calms the fears and steps 501 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:41,200 into the boat with them. I think that's a lot of it. 502 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:44,600 They want we want God to calm the storm, but we really don't 503 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:45,800 want him getting in the boat with us. 504 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,800 Say man, he don't we don't want him to determine what course we 505 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,440 can take. Just calm the storm. 506 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,320 Stay out there. Just bless me. 507 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,280 Just just definitely not get sick. 508 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,880 Just do this. That's OK. 509 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,680 But don't get in the boat because see when he gets in the 510 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,240 boat. He's going to be close. 511 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:01,760 And there's going to be some change. 512 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,800 Take place he. Calms the fears and he steps 513 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,080 into the boat. What happened? 514 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:14,480 The winds and the storms ceased. Let's read the rest of that. 515 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,200 I think it's verse 50. One let's go back to Mark 6. 516 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,880 He said be of good cheer in verse 5051 be of good cheer in 517 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,160 his eye. He had to tell him who he was. 518 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,600 Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. 519 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,840 They went up into Then he went up. 520 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,560 It let me back up, Then he went up into the. 521 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,840 Boat to them. And the wind ceased, and they 522 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:46,120 were greatly amazed in themselves beyond measure and 523 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,600 marveled. I'm just wondering why they were 524 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,160 amazed. They thought God could feed 5000 525 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,640 with five loaves and two fish, but he couldn't calm the storm. 526 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,440 You know, that's the way we are. I was reading that today. 527 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,000 God spoke to us. That's the way my children. 528 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,480 Are today they they limit my miracles because. 529 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,680 They think I can do. This but this is a little too 530 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,800 big. They were amazed beyond measure. 531 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,960 You know, that's what that's what the God we serve wants to 532 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,800 do. He wants to amaze us beyond 533 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,320 measure when we cast our total dependence upon him for they had 534 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,200 not understood. See, they were still stuck in 535 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,960 the they were still stuck in what God did. 536 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:26,560 They were still talking about why? 537 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,720 Well, how did he do it? Can you imagine the talk of of 538 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,920 what they were doing? It says that they had not 539 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,400 understood about the loads. Had they just took it as a 540 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,720 miracle and went on, they might have recognized Jesus as he came 541 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,800 walking across the sea. But they did not understand 542 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,160 about the loads because their. Heart was hardened. 543 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,440 Why was their heart hardened? You ever wondered that? 544 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,760 Why was their heart hardened? Because they didn't. 545 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,760 They they believed in that somebody brought some food. 546 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,280 Maybe they professed that something else happened. 547 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,040 I don't know. Why was their heart hardened? 548 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,800 Anybody got any input there? Why would their heart be 549 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,040 hardened after seeing 5000 people? 550 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,000 Fed with two fish. Why? 551 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,640 Would their heart be hardened because they tried to dissect? 552 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,400 The miracle probably they tried to figure out how it happened 553 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,720 just like we. It doesn't matter. 554 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,560 Just cast total dependence upon him, cry out child of God number 555 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:23,440 one, place your dependence upon him and #3 is receive the power 556 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,560 we're promised in Acts chapter 2 and verse 8, Jesus said I'm not 557 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,040 going to be here any longer, but he said you. 558 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,400 Slap yourself on the chest. Say aye, you shall receive power 559 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,120 when the Holy Ghost has come upon you. 560 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,360 Isn't that powerful? But people don't receive the 561 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,960 Holy Ghost because they don't cry out. 562 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,920 They cry out. I'm a Sinner in need of a Savior 563 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,360 and the Holy Spirit. Comes in and many camp out. 564 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,080 Right there the rest of their life. 565 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,320 But I want to read a little bit farther and I'm going to close 566 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:59,280 in John 14. And chapter 15, I'll give you 567 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,400 time to get there. This ties right back into. 568 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,520 Exodus 3 What? Happened to Moses. 569 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,560 What did I say? Happened to Moses a while. 570 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,080 Ago when he took his sandals off. 571 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,760 Part of his fleshed touched holy ground. 572 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,800 It touched a holy God. The presence of God was so 573 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:22,120 strong that that day Moses flesh got changed, his fleshly heart 574 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,640 got changed, he'd become a servant of God. 575 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,080 And look what Jesus promised in John 14. 576 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:35,560 He says, If you love me. Keep my commandments. 577 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,000 You know that's so. Important. 578 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,520 But if you go preach that today in a lot of places, they'll say, 579 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,160 well, that's what the cross is for. 580 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,760 It's to forgive my failures and therefore I don't have to. 581 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,600 I can't. Keep all the commandments. 582 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,760 Could it be the same thing the disciples were doing over the 583 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,120 loaves of fish? Their heart was hardened because 584 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,640 they'd seen the miracle. The greatest. 585 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,880 Miracle in our lifetime. That we could ever experience is 586 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,120 the forgiveness of the blood that ran down the old rugged 587 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,280 cross. That's a great miracle, right? 588 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,960 But yet we still try to figure that out. 589 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,200 But Jesus takes it back. He says if you love me, keep my 590 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,280 commandments. Now why is that important? 591 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,120 Let's read verse 16. If you love me, keep my 592 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,480 commandments. That's why we preach holiness. 593 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,480 And he says when you do this, when you begin to keep right, 594 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,520 when you begin to cry, I can't keep them. 595 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,520 So that's why I cry out. That's why I place my dependence 596 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,200 upon Him because I can't keep them right. 597 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:38,480 And when I say that and I cry out and my total dependence is 598 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,280 up on God, I receive power from on high. 599 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,880 So my part is to make sure I keep the commandments because 600 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,560 when I do verse 16 is that one of the greatest things in the 601 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,680 word of God. Jesus tells us that if you love 602 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,520 me and keep my commandments, I'm going to pray the Father. 603 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,960 I'm going to pray for you. That's where we get the verse. 604 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,040 He's sitting at the right hand of God, make an intercession for 605 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,720 you and I tonight. He's praying in a way that we 606 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,080 could never pray. Amen. 607 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,880 And he said, and I will pray the Father and he will give you 608 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,280 another helper other than salvation. 609 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,360 I'm going to give you a helper that he may abide with you 610 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,400 forever, because when you keep my commandments, part of your 611 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:23,480 flesh becomes holy, that he may abide with you forever. 612 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,840 He's the spirit of truth. So if I'm not keeping the 613 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,800 commandments, I don't have the spirit of truth, right Whom? 614 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,000 The world, I love that right there the world cannot receive. 615 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,120 I'll never forget one night on a long ride, a boy asked me. 616 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,360 He said, how can I get what you got? 617 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,000 I said #1 I don't think you're willing to pay the price. 618 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,040 To get what I got. He looked at me and he said, 619 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,480 what's all happened at the cross? 620 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,800 I said, yeah, salvation happened at the cross. 621 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,760 But you're not asking for salvation. 622 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,200 You're asking how do you get what I got, how I walk around 623 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,120 all these rodeos without falling into temptation. 624 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,720 And I said, that's what you're asking, how am I happy when I'm 625 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,239 supposed to be sad? That's what you're asking. 626 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,639 I said, I'm not sure you're willing to pay the price. 627 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,960 Well, what price did you pay? I said, I let my flesh touch His 628 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,440 Holiness, say man, and I'll let him fill me with the helper and 629 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,760 the spirit of truth. And when I said, when that 630 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,000 happens, you will be different because let's face it, I know a 631 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,280 lot of Christians that ain't different. 632 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,520 They're same as the world. Why? 633 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,920 Because maybe they don't have Jesus interceding for them. 634 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:37,960 We fell into the deal. Well, he just, he, he's not a 635 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,719 respecter of persons. And that is true. 636 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,520 The Bible God is not a man that he should lie, but he is no 637 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,040 respecter of persons. But I all through this Bible, he 638 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,400 is a respecter of faith. If I have more faith in you, I'm 639 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,920 going to receive more than you, right? 640 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,639 If you have more faith in me, you're going to receive more 641 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:57,520 than me. And he says, I've given every 642 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,920 man a measure, everybody's got a measure. 643 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,800 But he says I long to fill him, to overfill him, because I'm 644 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,040 going to pray the Father. And he will give you another 645 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,040 helper, that he may abide with you forever. 646 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:14,280 The spirit of truth in the world cannot receive because it 647 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,560 neither sees him. Just like the disciples that 648 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:22,560 night on the troubled sea, they didn't recognize Jesus, but as 649 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,800 they begin to cry out, they begin to see Him. 650 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,600 It neither sees him nor knows him. 651 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,520 I like this part. But you know him, for he dwells 652 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,720 with you, and he will be in you. And I will not leave you as 653 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:38,000 orphans. I will come to you. 654 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,520 What a promise. I challenge you. 655 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,880 Cry out as you stand your feet. Cry out, child of God. 656 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,000 Maybe you can't cry out in the church. 657 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,480 That's OK. Find you somewhere to. 658 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,800 Cry out. Cry out. 659 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,560 Place your dependence upon him. Receive the power. 660 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,080 If there's anything we're lacking today is a chill as 661 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,840 children. Of God, it's power. 662 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:06,040 It's power, but he. Promised right there in Act 2, 663 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,720 he said. You shall receive power when the 664 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,280 Holy Spirit, but the problem is most the Church. 665 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,120 Thinks the Holy Spirit is salvation. 666 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,920 They've never been any deeper. Why? 667 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:23,000 Because they've never cried out. It's amazing to me. 668 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,320 How many Christians are scared to cry out? 669 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,680 I had a call this week from a guy goes to a different 670 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,040 denomination. Than we are. 671 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,520 We're not one. But he said I want to know. 672 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,400 He said I. Run the soundboard and I sit. 673 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,440 Back there week after week and I I see a man's wife. 674 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,760 That's dying of cancer and. He won't even go. 675 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,760 To the altar, he said. How does he do that? 676 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,400 Why? Can't he just get up and go down 677 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,600 there for prayer? For he said, I don't understand. 678 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,200 I said pride. He's never cried out. 679 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,560 He's never cried out. You know you. 680 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,120 Can die in your sin because simply because we never. 681 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:07,320 Cried out Isn't that powerful? Jesus would have passed. 682 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,840 Them by. He would have passed them by, 683 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,040 but they. Cried out. 684 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,600 Maybe you're out on the. Water tonight. 685 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:22,520 Maybe the storm is raging. I challenge you. 686 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,680 Don't let him pass you by. Thanks for listening to the 687 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,000 Cross Power Church podcast. May you know that true hope, 688 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,160 peace, and salvation can only be found in Jesus. 689 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:37,240 If you're near Campbell, TX, we would love for you to join us in 690 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,720 person. You can find service times at 691 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:41,320 crosspowerchurch.com.