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Hi and welcome to the Via Zion 
Sermon podcast. 

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We are a local church based here
in Chennai, India. 

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We are so glad you are with us 
and hope that this will 

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encourage, inspire and instill 
fresh faith in you. 

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We have started a series called 
The Kingdom Life based on the 

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life and teachings of Jesus from
the Gospel according to Mark. 

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We look at how we must live our 
lives on this earth as followers

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of Jesus in a way that is 
countercultural yet powerfully 

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impactful. 
As you listen in our hope is 

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that you will be motivated to 
live, love, lead and serve just 

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like Jesus High church. 
It's my joy to bring God's word 

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to you today. 
As you saw a sermon bumper. 

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We have a brand new series that 
we're kick starting today. 

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It's called Kingdom life, the 
Kingdom life. 

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And this has been on our hearts 
for a while because, you know, 

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while we've been talking about 
Jesus, we've been talking about 

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different aspects of who God is.
And, you know, we felt it was. 

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Rather abstract, but when you 
come to the Gospels, it's, you 

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know, it's just a life that is 
transformed. 

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And we really believe God is 
calling us as his church, as his

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people, as individuals to live 
out this Kingdom life very 

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intentionally because that is 
when we really can reach out to 

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others. 
That's when we can be on mission

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constantly when we understand 
what this Kingdom life is about.

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And so that's what stirred us up
to start this new series. 

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The the interesting thing, a few
interesting things about the 

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Kingdom when you're reading the 
gospels. 

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We've been focusing on Mark a 
lot as we've been preparing this

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series in the book of Mark, for 
example, it's so action-packed, 

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it's so dynamic. 
The Kingdom of God is one that 

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is advancing. 
It is one that is growing. 

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And and so there's something or 
the other is abuzz with activity

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and we want us to look at our 
the way we live. 

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We live. 
So, you know, all over the 

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place. 
KR take we thrive on being busy,

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but the Kingdom life is at this 
pace where you can still 

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accomplish so much for Jesus on 
the earth, in spite of all the 

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things we do. 
The Kingdom is actually 

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something that is invisible, but
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He talks at different points 
about how it's as real as a 

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mustard seed. 
It starts out small, it grows 

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big. 
It's it's like east that is 

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worked into a dough and it you 
know, it's so small, but it just

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probably it, you know, permeates
everything around them. 

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And that's what the Kingdom of 
God is like into. 

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And when you look at the real 
life world that we are all 

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living in. 
I love seeing how God's Kingdom 

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is advancing. 
You could talk to a school 

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teacher, you could talk to a 
business owner and how what they

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do, it could be a niche category
of work or impact that they 

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have. 
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Christ in their settings, how 
they minister to others, it's 

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very evident that the Kingdom of
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I was recently talking to one of
my maids and she was telling me 

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about a list of rituals that she
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getting married. 
And she was mentioning these 

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different rituals. 
And I was starting to zone out 

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after a point. 
And so she caught that 

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expression and she said, what, 
Ma, don't you don't you guys do 

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this? 
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don't, this is not something 
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And as I was sharing that with 
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do then? 
So I was just telling her about,

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you know, our wedding ceremonies
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her face because she said it's 
so easy to know your God is so 

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easy to to do things for this 
God is so easy. 

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And well, of course it's not 
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It was interesting to see how 
the Kingdom of God is so real 

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and the entry into it is just by
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It's it's a prayer of confession
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And then it's just by faith we 
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So non ritualistic traditions 
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It's just the simple truth of 
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And when you have those 
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how real this is, it's not a a 
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And the interesting thing thing 
is that like I said, we enter 

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this Kingdom by faith in Jesus, 
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stay stagnant as we do the 
Kingdom life as believers and 

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followers of Jesus. 
We're doing this Kingdom life on

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faith is never really stagnant, 
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He said that you need faith as 
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But the interesting thing is 
that mustard seed is in a stage 

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of growth. 
Everything that you start out 

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with keeps moving in a direction
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Progress and that's the power of
the Kingdom of God and I want to

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remind us that as much as we're 
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life, the king is all important.
He's our focal point. 

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Jesus is the. 
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periphery of. 
That is people, the Kingdom life

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is really about Jesus and 
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We cannot separate the two. 
A lot of times we're so caught 

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up in our own personal walk with
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But if the element of the world 
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it's a gospel that is not 
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It's a very half baked gospel. 
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we're going to keep looking at 
again and again is Jesus 

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himself. 
Jesus modeled the Kingdom life 

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and he also taught about it 
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So we're going to be looking at 
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We're going to be looking at his
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trying to understand better how 
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So as we begin today, we're 
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feeding the 5000 and then Jesus 
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A lot of similarities between 
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It's almost like a repeat. 
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5005 happens 1st and then 
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And it seems like the disciples 
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capable of. 
So I'm just going to quickly 

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read Mark chapter 6 verses 30 to
44 is just 14 verses, but it's 

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incredibly narrative. 
Mark especially is one of my 

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favorite writers because he just
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He doesn't wait, He doesn't give
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It's just, you know, facts, 
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So as we read this want you to 
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6 verse 30 onwards. 
The apostles returned to Jesus 

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and told him all that they had 
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And he said to them, Come away 
by yourselves to a desolate 

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place, and rest away. 
For many were coming and going, 

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and they had no leisure even to 
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And they went away on the boat 
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themselves. 
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recognize them, and they ran 
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towns, and got there ahead of 
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When he went ashore, he saw a 
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compassion on them, because they
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shepherd. 
And he began to teach them many 

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things. 
And when it grew late, his 

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disciples came to him and said, 
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the hour is now late, Send them 
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countryside and villages and buy
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But he answered them, You give 
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And they said to him, Shall we 
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bread and give it to them to 
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And he said to them, How many 
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Go and see. 
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said five and two fish. 
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sit down in groups on the green 
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So they sat down in groups by 
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five loaves and the two fish, he
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blessing, and broke the loaves, 
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to set before the people. 
And he divided the two fish 

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among the mall, and they all ate
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And they took up 12 baskets full
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the fish. 
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were 5000 men. 
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around 7000 to 8000 people were 
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gathered there. 5000 was just 
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They were women and children. 
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They come there just to hear 
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there in awe of what he's 
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hours on end. 
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Babies must have been crying, 
Children must have been a little

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cranky, adults must have been 
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It's a, it's a very interesting 
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And Jesus has been teaching and 
teaching and teaching until the 

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disciples realize they need to 
get some kind of nourishment. 

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I'm guessing the disciples 
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They must have been hungry and 
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But as we look at this, there 
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to draw out of it because I was 
very personally very intrigued 

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by some of the stuff the 
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it's exact kind of stuff I would
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When, when, you know, when I try
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solution to a potential problem 
brewing, These are the exact 

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kind of things I would say. 
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disciples, Jesus's attitude to 
really think and to do for those

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people really demonstrates to us
if you want to live the Kingdom 

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life, there are some things. 
That matter, that must matter to

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us. 
So there are four things I want 

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to leave with you that should 
matter to you if you are someone

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who wants to live the Kingdom 
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The first thing is I believe 
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If you and I want to do good, if
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this world, our motives matter, 
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people, our motives matter. 
I remember in Mark 8 verses one 

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to five, it talks about Jesus 
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I'm sorry, I said 7000 that was 
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We don't know the timeline 
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5000, then he fed the 4000, not 
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And in that Mark 8 verses one to
five is interesting because here

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Jesus preempts before even the 
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Jesus says, hey, can you give 
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They've been here for a long 
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they've had nothing to eat. 
If I send them away hungry to 

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their homes, they will faint on 
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And some of them have come from 
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I love that his motive in 
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love for them, pure compassion. 
When you look at Jesus's heart 

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for the people in the other 
narrative in Mark 6, it talks 

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about how he got off the boat. 
And mind you, Jesus has just 

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lost his cousin John the Baptist
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He's got news of that. 
The 12 that he sent out to 

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evangelize and and bring 
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them have returned. 
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activity. 
There's probably grief on his 

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mind and heart. 
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When they get away, they are 
confronted by a huge crowd that 

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is waiting for Jesus. 
And it says Jesus looks at them 

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with the greatest compassion 
because they looked like sheep 

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without a shepherd. 
If you and I have to live like 

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Jesus, model this Kingdom life, 
then we need to model that kind 

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of compassion. 
How many times I'm speaking 

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about myself right now when I've
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day, I really don't have the 
energy to counsel someone or to 

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sit with somebody to listen to 
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When you have kids who are 
waiting in the room for you to 

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sit with them for maybe homework
or this, it is sometimes 

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physically, because we're so 
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to stretch ourselves in 10 
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It's hard to respond in empathy 
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But here Jesus goes beyond his 
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He's tired. 
He is probably needing to just 

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talk to his disciples, encourage
them if any of them had a bad 

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experience or two on the road, 
and yet his plans are moved 

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upside down. 
How many of us actually respond 

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to people in a loving and 
compassionate way when our plans

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are turned upside down? 
How many of us are constantly 

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having our Kingdom radar on that
even at our lowest moments, that

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we're ready to minister to 
someone else out of love? 

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How many of us are ready to open
our home at the at the drop of a

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hat? 
To just welcome someone and I 

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was recently put to the test on 
this I was going to be speaking 

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at a conference and just before 
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conference called and asked AKA 
a bunch of us have landed here 

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from Hyderabad. 
Can we just come come home It's 

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7:00 in the morning mind you me 
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a walk when they call and say 
can we just come and be at your 

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home for a couple of hours. 
Our hotel room that we booked 

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online is terrible. 
We're looking for an alternate 

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They knew how to get to me. 
When you say there are a bunch 

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of the girls they need to 
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How could I say no? 
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had two sermons to prepare, one 
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church. 
My husband had another sermon to

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prepare. 
We had that was our sermon prep 

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day and we had some work to do 
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We had our day planned out and 
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And these are some things we ask
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We say, Lord, interrupt us to do
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it feels really inconvenient. 
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with myself and I was a bit 
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I was saying why we have so many
other things. 

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This is and it was like the Holy
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He had to slow me down. 
He had to speak into my spirit 

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and say I need you to do this so
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in a good place. 
I know you have to speak two 

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days later in the conference. 
I know you have to speak in 

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church. 
I know you have to take one of 

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your kids out. 
I know. 

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But will you still do this for 
me, for those nine children who 

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come home, Will you be the 
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And so eventually the kids came 
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Nine of them came over, we got 
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for a few hours. 
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But I really believe God was 
doing a heart check of mine for 

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someone who's so scheduled, 
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my, what I need to do next. 
God disrupted that. 

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I couldn't prepare my sermon 
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And that was OK. 
God said I cared more about how 

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you would open your home. 
How would you love these nine 

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kids who walked in rather than 
10 sermons that you prepare and 

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I really believe God is calling 
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different kind of motive. 
You know, it's so easy to do 

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things because they look good or
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he really comes and drills down 
to what is your motive? 

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What is your heart condition? 
What is your motivation. 

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Jesus is sole motivation in 
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prostitutes or the tax 
collectors was not so that he 

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gets a blue tick of so he gets 
more followers. 

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It was purely motivated out of 
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He was their Creator. 
He knew what had taken them off 

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track and He didn't look down on
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He just wanted to love them. 
He wanted them to feel sane. 

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What is our motivation for what 
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It talks about the power of the 
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It says the Word of God is 
living and active, sharper than 

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any double edged sword, piercing
to the division of soul and 

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spirit, of joints and marrow, 
discerning the thoughts and 

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intentions of the heart. 
If you are thinking you are 

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doing well, if you're doing 
everything with the right and 

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best of intentions, I would urge
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Many times I have done something
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when I sat. 
Down to do my, you know, 

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biblical meditation or I just 
sat down to do my quiet time 

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something the scripture will 
open it up to me and say what 

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you just did was OK, but your 
heart was not in the right 

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place. 
Your heart was not in it. 

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And it's so. 
Important that we know why we do

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what we do as Kingdom people. 
Almost. 

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You know every. 
Human on the world always does 

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something which is stinged with 
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You look at a little child, you 
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three-year old child when 
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They'll be eating something that
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off, out of a moment of 
generosity, they'll try to feed 

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it back to you. 
But it's always tinted with this

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need for something else, for 
mummy. 

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My kids still do that to me. 
They come and ask me, mom, what 

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can I do? 
How can I help you? 

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And the minute they say that, my
mom, Radha, goes up. 

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I said, OK, I want you to do 
something. 

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But why are you asking me? 
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PlayStation or to go out and 
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All of us, the best of us. 
There is nothing that we really 

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do which is 100% selfless. 
There's always a string attached

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to our self, our need for our 
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that we feel better about 
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Maybe we need to be receive a 
little validation because we 

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don't receive much of it. 
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God is calling us now as Kingdom
people to do what we do for the 

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right reasons. 
Are you having that hard 

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conversation because you need to
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abilities or will you have it 
solely to empower that person? 

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Will you give to that 
organization that needs help so 

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that your name goes on the 
plaque? 

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Or will you give so that it 
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people are blessed? 
Our motivation matters. 

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If love is our motivation, 
everything we do will have the 

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approval of God on it. 
Can He work with our 

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selfishness? 
Yes, you give. 

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I like that scripture where some
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those people are preaching in 
your name. 

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They're driving out demons. 
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If they're not against us? 
It's fine. 

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He's for us. 
And I really believe that He can

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work even with our selfishness. 
We do something for our sake. 

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He will use that to bring a 
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works on us. 
So I want to ask you, how many 

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times have you tried to step out
to do good, but you've always 

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had this question at the back of
your head. 

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What does this have for me? 
What is in it for me? 

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How will I afford this God? 
You're asking me to give for 

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that charity. 
You're asking me to do for these

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people, but I can barely make 
ends meet. 

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I so many times sound like those
disciples. 

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How will I feed those people? 
I don't have enough. 

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You're asking me to give these 
these nice things from my house 

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to them. 
I invested in them. 

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It's so important that we change
this to God. 

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What do you? 
Want me to do for you today? 

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How can I be a blessing to 
someone so that you are 

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glorified Lord, not me? 
How can I show your love to 

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someone today? 
That has to be how we shift 

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this, that we need to know that 
our motives matter if you want 

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to do good. 
The second thing, the thing that

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matters the most, is our 
surrender. 

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A surrender matters if we want 
the blessing. 

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You know many times I've shared 
this at church, that God's love 

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for us is unconditional, but His
blessings have a condition 

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attached to it. 
You look at the Old Testament, 

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you look at the book of 
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He reiterates how God says you 
obey me, you listen to my voice,

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you don't swerve to the right or
the left, then I will bless you.

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He says I will come at you. 
There is a condition to that 

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blessing. 
And I believe today, many of us 

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are not experiencing the fullest
of the blessings allocated to us

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because we are refusing to 
surrender certain things that 

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God has been saying, will you 
surrender? 

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It's so important that like that
little boy in the crowd who gave

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Jesus the five loaves and the 
two fish, that we are ready to 

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surrender what's in hand. 
This boy's story is told 

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thousands of years later. 
We always, if we're doing it in 

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Sunday school, we have a little 
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role model for the others. 
And we use him to enact what it 

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looked like to have something 
small in your lunch box. 

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Bring it to the disciples, say 
this is all I have. 

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He had to relinquish control of 
what he had in his hands. 

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Lot of times the we are like the
disciples, you know, the 

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disciples tell him it's going to
cost 200 dinari. 

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There must have been Matthew the
tax collector and Judas the 

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Money Box keeper who had this 
big discussion on how much it 

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would have paid, need they would
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feet of Jesus. 
What rationalisation have you 

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made before you served God, 
before you actually did 

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something? 
Maybe your service had, you 

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know, a condition attached to 
it. 

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Maybe there's some things that 
God is saying. 

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I want you to lay it down before
I can use it to bless someone 

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else. 
I know for a fact that yielding 

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and giving of myself is hard 
because we are wired to protect 

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ourselves, especially the more 
we get battered at the hands of 

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people and situations, we tend 
to take a step back and we're 

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saying, Lord, this is mine. 
I need to keep this safe. 

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Lord, I need to keep my marriage
safe. 

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Lord, I need to keep my children
safe. 

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Lord, I need to protect my 
career because there are others 

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who are like wolves out there. 
With good reason, but God is 

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saying when something is given 
into my hands it is the safest 

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it'll ever be. 
Think about it, those five loaf 

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and loafs and two fish. 
We're not safe in the disciples 

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hand because left up to their 
device. 

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So they would have just flung it
in some trash can and come up 

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with some other plan. 
But when it made its way to the 

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hands of Jesus, nothing was 
wasted. 

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I love that it says they 
collected 12 baskets full of 

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pieces. 
Nothing was wasted. 

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I'd like to think that little 
boy would have said, can I take 

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some home to my mum and dad? 
They packed my lunch so I'd like

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to give something back to them. 
I'd like to think that no one 

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went home hungry that day 
because that boy so rightly 

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surrendered it into the right 
hands. 

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Too many times we think if I 
surrender this to God, he'll 

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take away this thing from my 
life. 

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If I surrender my dreams to Him,
what happens? 

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Will my dreams be dashed? 
If I surrender my hopes to Him? 

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What if he completely transforms
it or he what makes me walk 

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through a furnace where it gets 
transformed? 

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The fears are many for the 
believer, but I want to ask you,

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what if the one thing that is 
stopping your blessing is the 

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fact that you are refusing to 
surrender something very pivotal

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in your life? 
I have asked myself this so much

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as I prepared this because there
are the tendencies we have to 

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hold on to things. 
We hold on to our spouse, we 

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hold on to our children. 
We hold on to our wealth. 

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We hold on to our careers, our 
passions, our projects, our 

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influence, our relationships. 
But God is saying, will you take

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that all and lay it at the 
altar? 

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Will you give it to me? 
Because when it's with me, I can

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do so much with it. 
And it's interesting because 

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something changes when what I 
hold the closest leaves my hands

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and goes into the hands of God. 
Something happens, something 

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changes. 
I love Ephesians 3 verse 20. 

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We had this as a theme for one 
year and in the Passion it talks

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about how God can do exceedingly
more or abundantly. 

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Then we can ask or think and 
it's said in that He will outdo 

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them all. 
But today I'm reading from the 

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Amplified and I want you to read
along with me. 

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It says now to him who is able 
to carry out His purpose and do 

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super abundantly. 
More than all that we dare ask 

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or think infinitely beyond our 
greatest prayers, hopes, or 

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dreams according to His power 
that is at work within us. 

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To Him be the glory in the 
Church and in Christ Jesus 

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throughout all generations, 
forever and ever. 

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I love that it says super 
abundantly when I give my hopes 

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to Him. 
Do all of us have hopes and 

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dreams? 
We do. 

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Do we have desires for our 
lives? 

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Yes. 
Do you desire a spouse? 

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Do you want a child? 
It's completely OK to desire 

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these things. 
It's not against God's will. 

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But will you surrender that to 
Him so that he can do what only 

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he can do and what he does with 
it? 

451
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:59,600
Remind you is super abundance. 
You prayed for X, He's liable to

452
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:04,880
give you 10X. 
It's amazing what God does when 

453
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,600
you surrender your life to him 
completely. 

454
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,840
No holds. 
But I'm not going to hold this 

455
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,920
part and say, Lord, you, you can
do whatever you want with that. 

456
00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,520
But this part, Lord, I, I like 
to keep it close to me. 

457
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,440
Too many of us are holding onto 
the very thing that He wants 

458
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,200
released in His hand. 
I'm reminded of a friend who 

459
00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,840
even before she got married, 
used to say I want to 1st adopt 

460
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,040
A child and then have my own. 
And you know, it's so beautiful 

461
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,200
that she kept to her word 
because as soon as she got 

462
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,240
married, she and her husband 
applied for adoption. 

463
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:37,920
Little did she know that she 
would take three years to 

464
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,960
actually conceive on her natural
means by her own self. 

465
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,200
She had a long, hard struggle 
with, you know, not getting 

466
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,240
pregnant. 
There was the weight that was 

467
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,640
hard, but so beautifully, so 
beautifully. 

468
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,320
God and his beautiful timing 
gave her her own child 1st. 

469
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,080
And within a few months she gets
notified from the adoption 

470
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,720
authorities that the next baby 
is waiting. 

471
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,360
And would you believe it, her 
baby and the adopted baby, which

472
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:08,920
is one month apart. 
So she brought them up as Irish 

473
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,360
twins. 
When I think about their story, 

474
00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:14,160
when I see pictures of them, my 
heart just warms because they 

475
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,160
make such a beautiful family. 
But more than that, I really 

476
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,960
believe the fact that my friend 
and her husband sacrificed, 

477
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,240
submitted their life to God was 
so evident. 

478
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:26,920
Was the wait hard? 
Yes. 

479
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,320
Did it seem interminable 
sometimes, yes. 

480
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,960
Was Was the loneliness real? 
Yes, all of that was, but the 

481
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:38,080
fact was the, the very, you 
know, the, the primary thing 

482
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,400
they did was to surrender 
themselves right at the 

483
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,440
beginning. 
I, I would have never dreamt of 

484
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,240
doing that, to be very honest. 
And I, I so admire that they 

485
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,600
surrendered their heart, their 
bodies to God and said, this is 

486
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,520
what we want, Lord, what do you 
want? 

487
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,280
And God and his beautiful timing
unveiled this lovely story for 

488
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,800
them. 
And what is it that today you 

489
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,680
and I need to surrender 
completely in order to receive a

490
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,720
blessing? 
Because it could be just right 

491
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,080
around the corner of our 
surrender. 

492
00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:11,840
So that's the second thing that 
matters. 

493
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,560
Submitting, surrendering matters
if you want to receive a 

494
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,600
blessing. 
The third thing is breaking 

495
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,880
matters if you want the 
breakthrough. 

496
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,200
What do I mean by that? 
It says Jesus took the bread, 

497
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,000
looked up to heaven, broke it, 
and then they gave it to 

498
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000
everyone and it filled 
everyone's stomach, right? 

499
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,320
There was a problem. 
No food, too expensive because 

500
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,920
the crowd was huge, distant 
place from other towns. 

501
00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,240
These were the problems. 
What was the breakthrough? 

502
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,640
Feeding everyone without 
spending a dinari, without 

503
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,120
having to travel. 
So you they saved time, they 

504
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:52,360
saved energy, they saved money. 
And yet the problem had a 

505
00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,320
solution, but the problem 
required that something had 

506
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,000
broken. 
The bread had to be broken in 

507
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,040
order for it to fill everyone 
up, right? 

508
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,920
It's very similar to what Jesus 
did at the Last Supper. 

509
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,080
Jesus took the bread, He took 
the wine, He took the bread and 

510
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,480
he broke it in his hand saying 
here, take, this is my broken 

511
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,880
body that was given for you. 
It preceded what he was going to

512
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,320
do at Calgary. 
And in order for Calgary to 

513
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,040
happen, Jesus's body had to be 
broken. 

514
00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:25,480
When his body was broken, the 
breakthrough came at the cross. 

515
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,120
The breakthrough came at the 
tomb. 

516
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,760
You see what I'm saying? 
Breaking is necessary for the 

517
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,680
breakthrough. 
And it's so important for me. 

518
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:35,960
I personally, when I was 
preparing this, I was like, 

519
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,160
Lord, this is so hard to preach 
because I personally know how 

520
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,880
painful breaking is. 
Breaking is no fun. 

521
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:47,320
Breaking is hard. 
It costs us something, but it's 

522
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,400
in that breaking. 
I really think that breaking is 

523
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:52,240
essential before the 
breakthrough because that's how 

524
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,960
much we realize we are broken, 
and that's when we value the 

525
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,920
breakthrough that much more. 
Picture this, if I had not If we

526
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:03,120
don't walk through the season of
brokenness, if we don't go 

527
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,880
through this time when our life 
just unravels around us and 

528
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,640
we're standing there with just, 
you know, shards of glass. 

529
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,680
When we are put back together, 
when God restores, when God 

530
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,840
recompenses, when God works on 
us and revives us again, we 

531
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,360
would not know just how messed 
up we were to begin with. 

532
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,360
We would not know how much of a 
miracle this break. 

533
00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:24,880
We would just take it, you know,
in our stride. 

534
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,560
Oh, yeah. 
You know, God blessed me. 

535
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,160
Yeah. 
I got back what I wanted. 

536
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,960
No. 
Until we go to that place of 

537
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,040
absolute, abject brokenness, 
we're not going to realize just 

538
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:35,760
how big a breakthrough we 
receive. 

539
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,920
It's very hard, as I said, for 
me to preach this, but I realize

540
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,400
that it's in the breaking. 
If you've been going through a 

541
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,880
hard season relationally, you 
know someone let you down, broke

542
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,760
up with you, or ended a 
marriage. 

543
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,800
I don't know what your season of
brokenness could involve, but it

544
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:56,640
is in that season of breaking 
that what is within us comes 

545
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,400
out. 
When we are broken, when we are 

546
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,000
slandered, when we are treated 
bad. 

547
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:05,120
If all that spews out of us is 
unforgiveness and hate, it's 

548
00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:07,120
pretty obvious why we need to go
through the breaking. 

549
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,520
If if you are finding that 
you're going through the season 

550
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,760
without a breakthrough and it's 
just feels like one thing after 

551
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,280
the other is getting broken, we 
need to realize that God is 

552
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,320
doing something intrinsically in
order to prepare us for the 

553
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,000
breakthrough. 
If I'm still broken, I won't be 

554
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,920
able to experience the joys of 
the breakthrough. 

555
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,840
So God break allows the breaking
and then starts to put me back, 

556
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,400
and that's when I see my 
breakthrough. 

557
00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:36,360
I love that in the Bible there's
so many. 

558
00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:40,640
In especially the Gospels, Jesus
talks a lot about the farmers. 

559
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,800
He talks a lot about architects 
and buildings. 

560
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,360
Why does he do that? 
Because in all of these, there's

561
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,200
an element of breaking that is 
required. 

562
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,560
Let me explain that. 
When he talks about a seed, a 

563
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,800
seed just looks so harmless, 
small and, you know, fragile. 

564
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,520
You put it in mud in, you know, 
fertile soil. 

565
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,280
You know that nothing seems to 
be happening for weeks on it, 

566
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,120
but if you study what is 
happening underground, 

567
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,040
miraculous things are happening 
in the hiddenness of that soil. 

568
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,600
The seed is absorbing by night 
and by days, absorbing waters, 

569
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,120
absorbing nutrients, and 
eventually from within the seed,

570
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,400
2 little growths outgrowth start
happening. 

571
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,640
One leads to the root system, 
one leads to the shoot system. 

572
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,320
But when they come out of the 
seed, it's painful for the seed 

573
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,200
because they have to push 
through layers of the seed coat,

574
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,440
which is quite hard. 
It's not an easy task. 

575
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,040
When they breakthrough, they 
rupture the seed and then they 

576
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,760
form something called the 
radical and the pumule, which 

577
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,160
eventually form the root and the
shoots, right? 

578
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,600
All of this is happening in 
hiddenness. 

579
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,400
Nobody sees what's happening. 
What you eventually see in a 

580
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,120
couple of weeks is that, you 
know, beautiful little sapling 

581
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,560
coming out of the ground. 
But what is happening prior to 

582
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,280
that is a whole lot of breaking.
Before you see the breakthrough 

583
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,440
from the soil. 
There's a lot of breaking 

584
00:29:55,440 --> 00:30:00,400
happening beneath the soil. 
When we look at at how farmers 

585
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,000
harvest their crops, it talks 
about threshing. 

586
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,680
You know what threshing is? 
Sometimes they beat the the crop

587
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,960
for threshing. 
Sometimes they lay the crops on 

588
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,040
the floor and they run these 
machines over it. 

589
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,360
Sometimes they're handheld 
machines or sometimes they're 

590
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,400
huge machines that they run the 
plants through. 

591
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,160
And what it does is literally 
iron, sharpening iron. 

592
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,920
It rubs over it by friction and 
releases the grain. 

593
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,120
What am I getting at? 
God uses the. 

594
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,640
Storms of life. 
God uses the pruning seasons 

595
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,280
when he is seeing we are 
fruitful, but he wants more 

596
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,040
fruitfulness. 
You feel like he's clipping your

597
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,800
buds, pruning. 
God talks about that in the book

598
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,200
of John. 
Jesus talks about it pruning, 

599
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,760
abiding in the vine, being 
pruned by the gardener himself. 

600
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,720
He talks about harvesting, 
threshing. 

601
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,240
All of these are metaphors for 
the breaking that is necessary 

602
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,640
before the breakthrough comes. 
This week I was reading we just 

603
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,520
celebrated our harvest festival 
on Sunday and I was so excited. 

604
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,920
I was expecting forgot to do so 
many things because the harvest 

605
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,680
is a season when you are reaping
the rewards of previous sowing 

606
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,520
seasons, right? 
But I was reading and this whole

607
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,520
week two of our three kids were 
sick. 

608
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,640
And so I was, it was like 
nursing them back-to-back over 2

609
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,880
weeks. 
During the harvest festival, our

610
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,480
oldest son was super sick and I 
one part of my mind was with him

611
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,480
the whole time. 
I couldn't enjoy myself as much 

612
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,800
because I knew one was very 
sick, the other was just 

613
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,200
starting to fall sick. 
So I was in this. 

614
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,200
Place of looking after these two
over these two weeks and this 

615
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,840
whole week my daughter didn't go
to school because she was so 

616
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,240
unwell. 
And so I was, you know, just 

617
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,560
mulling over why is it so hard. 
I thought to be on the harvest. 

618
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,560
I thought it was easier. 
And then I read this passage in 

619
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:43,400
Isaiah, which said just before 
the harvest, he prunes the 

620
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,640
plants, the farmer prunes the 
plants. 

621
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,080
I'm giving you a very abridged 
version of the verse. 

622
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,560
But when I read that, it made so
much sense. 

623
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,280
If the harvest is to come, 
there's a pruning before it. 

624
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,600
There is a breaking before it so
that we can better handle the 

625
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,680
breakthrough when it arrives, so
that we value the breakthrough 

626
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,200
that much more. 
Jesus talks about the wise and 

627
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,040
the foolish man, how they build 
their buildings. 

628
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,600
If not for the storm, The storm 
is dead is what makes you aware 

629
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,840
of the quality of the building. 
The foundations are below the 

630
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,400
soil. 
Nobody sees the foundation of 

631
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,280
your life. 
When the storm hits you, how you

632
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,520
emerge from it will determine 
what you were built of to begin 

633
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,480
with, and it doesn't matter if 
it reveals that you were broken 

634
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,800
to begin with. 
Our Jesus is more than 

635
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,440
sufficient, more than capable of
turning the most broken things 

636
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,680
into the most whole things that 
He's in the business of making 

637
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:43,840
things whole. 
So will I trust myself to Him to

638
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:48,320
break me as He chooses so that 
He can make me into what He has 

639
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,800
envisioned me to be? 
If you know that song, I don't 

640
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,800
know if you know it, but it was 
a chorus that we used to sing 

641
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,480
back in the day. 
It says break me, melt me, mold 

642
00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,200
me, fill me. 
And I remember even as a child 

643
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,920
refusing to sing those first 2 
words because I was so afraid of

644
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,440
what it would entail. 
And I can tell you as an adult, 

645
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:06,840
I'm still scared to say those 
words. 

646
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,840
Break me, melt me, mold me. 
I used to sing mold me. 

647
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,120
And then I found molding was 
also very hard because that's 

648
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,400
when you're in the master's 
hands. 

649
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,200
He's shaping you through 
situations. 

650
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,000
He's shaping you through your 
health battles. 

651
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,800
He's shaping you through people.
Will you say today confidently, 

652
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,640
God, I know that if you're 
breaking me, a breakthrough is 

653
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,520
coming and I will endure it for 
the time that you have, you 

654
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,560
know, kept set for me because I 
know that the breakthrough is 

655
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:33,760
coming. 
You want the breakthrough. 

656
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:38,800
The breaking matters. 
It's so important that we wait 

657
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,400
until that transformation 
happens because you know, I'm 

658
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,120
finding that breakthrough 
happens at that. 

659
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,840
It's like this juxtaposition of 
the time when you know, I'm 

660
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,400
being shaped and then I'm 
starting to look like Jesus and 

661
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:50,640
then the breakthrough comes. 
Sometimes. 

662
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,360
Sometimes breakthrough happens 
when I actually pull down all my

663
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,880
defenses before God and say you 
can do whatever you like. 

664
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,760
God, I'm good with it. 
I'll follow. 

665
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,080
Breakthrough sometimes come when
you comes when you tell him, 

666
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,720
I'll say yes to everything 
you're saying. 

667
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,400
You tell me to go here, I'll go.
You tell me to stay back at stay

668
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,239
obedience. 
Each of us will have a different

669
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,920
moment when our breakthrough 
happens, but will we endure the 

670
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,560
breaking? 
That's the question. 

671
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,159
The fourth thing that I believe 
matters if we're going to live 

672
00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,080
the Kingdom life is a spiritual 
sensitivity. 

673
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:27,000
If you want to know God more, 
you need to be more spiritually 

674
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,679
sensitive. 
What does that mean? 

675
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:34,199
I want us to look at Mark 645 to
52, which is what happens just 

676
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,320
after that afternoon of feeding 
the 5000. 

677
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,199
OK, 5000 of them have been fed, 
and then they all go back home. 

678
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,159
Jesus goes into the mountain to 
pray. 

679
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:46,360
He sends his disciples back out.
He says you take a boat, cross 

680
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,760
the lake, I'll meet you on the 
other side, right. 

681
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,960
And so when he had taken leave 
of them was 46, he went up on 

682
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,120
the mountain to pray. 
And when evening came, the boat 

683
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,320
was out on the sea and he was 
alone on the land. 

684
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,800
And he saw them, saw that they 
were making headway painfully, 

685
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,760
for the wind was against them. 
And about the fourth watch of 

686
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,400
the night he came to them 
walking on the sea. 

687
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,720
He meant to pass by them, but 
when they saw him walking on the

688
00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:12,400
sea, they thought he was a 
ghost, and cried out, for they 

689
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,720
all saw him and were terrified. 
But immediately he spoke to them

690
00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:18,520
and said, Take heart it is I do 
not be afraid. 

691
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,200
And he got into the boat with 
them, and the wind seized. 

692
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,040
And they were utterly astounded,
for they did not understand 

693
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,880
about the loaves, but their 
hearts were hardened. 

694
00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,880
And I just to always read this 
and go, What does this mean? 

695
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,760
Why is that part added? 
They did not understand about 

696
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,800
the loaves, but their hearts 
were hardened. 

697
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,800
I want to read one more passage,
which is the passage after Jesus

698
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,760
feeding the 4000. 
Now again, remember, he fed 

699
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,080
them. 
He sends them off, right? 

700
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,840
And now the 12 of them plus 
Jesus are getting on a boat and 

701
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,560
heading across the lake. 
Now this is the conversation 

702
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,800
that's happening now. 
They had forgotten to bring 

703
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,760
bread and they had only one loaf
with them in the boat. 

704
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,240
And he cautioned them, saying, 
watch out, beware of the leaven 

705
00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:04,200
of the Pharisees and the leaven 
of Herod. 

706
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,200
And they began discussing with 
one another the fact that they 

707
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,840
had no bread. 
And Jesus, aware of this, said 

708
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,560
to them, why are you discussing 
the fact that you have no bread?

709
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,200
Do you not yet perceive or 
understand? 

710
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,000
Are your hearts hardened? 
Having eyes do you not see, and 

711
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,120
having ears do you not hear? 
And do you not remember when I 

712
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:26,960
broke the five lows for the 
5000, how many baskets full of 

713
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,920
broken pieces did you take up? 
They said to him, 12. 

714
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,400
And the seven for the 4000, how 
many baskets full of broken 

715
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,240
pieces did you take up? 
And they said to him, 7 And he 

716
00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:40,400
said to them, do you not yet 
understand? 

717
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:44,600
Now, if you're going, I myself 
don't understand, that's 

718
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,640
completely OK because when you 
read it the first time, you're 

719
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,200
thinking, why is Jesus schooling
them at this level? 

720
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,280
I feel like my, when my son is 
being, you know, difficult to 

721
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,960
study maths, finding it hard to 
study math and I'm just, you 

722
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,600
know, driving him to, you know, 
I'm, I'm probably also shaming 

723
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,520
him a bit for not being bright 
and all of that. 

724
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,280
He sounds like that, like, do 
you not yet understand? 

725
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,880
Do you not perceive? 
Do you not have ears that here, 

726
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,920
you know, it's like very, he's a
big crude, but what is Jesus 

727
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,240
driving at? 
When you look at the previous 

728
00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:16,480
passage, he says they were 
astounded that he walked on 

729
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,400
water. 
They were looking at him like he

730
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:19,840
was a ghost. 
Of course he looked weird 

731
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,720
walking on the ocean beside 
them, but he got in. 

732
00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,840
The winds calmed. 
They were astounded, for they 

733
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,200
did not understand about the 
loaves. 

734
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,320
What should they have understood
about the loaves? 

735
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:35,200
I think primarily because bread 
and fish was such an ordinary 

736
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,360
thing in Galilee and Judea. 
It was just they always had 

737
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,320
fresh catch. 
Bread was always baked. 

738
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,160
It was a very ordinary, mundane 
thing. 

739
00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:45,240
On some level. 
Did it not resonate with them? 

740
00:37:45,240 --> 00:37:49,040
Did it not impact them? 
As to the magnitude of what 

741
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,920
Jesus had done, think about it. 
They had five loaves and two 

742
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,240
fishes. 
Like literally 5 triangles of 

743
00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:58,160
parotas and two fish. 2 long 
fish. 

744
00:37:58,360 --> 00:37:59,880
The fish. 
Couldn't have been so huge that 

745
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:01,240
they would have eaten it with 
ease. 

746
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,960
There was something so basic to 
them, and Jesus had done 

747
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:09,840
something so uncommon, so 
supernatural. 

748
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,720
And the thing about a 
supernatural, it starts without 

749
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:13,120
having something natural in 
hand. 

750
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,640
And when God touches it, the God
of the universe touches it. 

751
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,840
The God who breathed life into 
mankind, the God who created the

752
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,840
universe, the world's. 
When he touched that bread, 

753
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,120
something shifted. 
Something changed. 

754
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,480
He made something supernatural 
out of the natural and they 

755
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,200
missed it. 
So when he walked on water, they

756
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,680
were astounded when they 
shouldn't have been too shocked 

757
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,320
because this was a man who just 
fed 5000 people without missing 

758
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,920
a beat. 
This was the guy who said, what 

759
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,520
is in your hand? 
Give it to me, I'll work with 

760
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,040
it. 
This is who they were with. 

761
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,120
I love the second part where 
he's talking after the, you 

762
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,800
know, the feeding of the 4000. 
They have one loaf of bread. 

763
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,360
And I think about this in our 
family, we call bread insurance 

764
00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,480
because, you know, it's always 
there. 

765
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,520
So if you don't have something 
else, we'll manage with bread. 

766
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,480
So they had one loaf of bread 
and they're sitting with the 

767
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,160
bread multiplier, the miraculous
bread multiplier in the boat. 

768
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,440
What were they worried about? 
Why were they haggling over who 

769
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,520
you should have got bread when 
they had the guy who could have 

770
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,480
prayed over that one loaf and 
made it how much ever they 

771
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,880
needed? 
And so Jesus in the midst of 

772
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,600
this is trying to interject 
something deeper. 

773
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,840
He's trying to bring them to a 
deeper understanding. 

774
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,840
He's saying beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees. 

775
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,200
Pharisees and Herod. 
What was Jesus doing? 

776
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,600
Jesus was trying to draw a 
deeper truth, but these guys 

777
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,080
were still on the surface level.
They were like, we don't have 

778
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,520
bread. 
He's shouting at us, He's 

779
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,280
berating us. 
And then Jesus says, remember 

780
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,480
what happened with the bread? 
We fed these many guys. 

781
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,920
We had these much basket full. 
The basket fulls are also a 

782
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,360
reminder of what you just broke 
and distributed. 

783
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,760
If they didn't have the 
evidence, the basket fulls, 

784
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,360
there was no evidence that the 
miracle had happened. 

785
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,440
It's when you see these tons of,
you know, pieces left behind, 

786
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,600
you realize what you just 
experienced. 

787
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,920
And he's reminding them. 
He said, do you see what 

788
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,200
happened? 
Why are you so dumb in our 

789
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,920
today's language? 
Do you have ears? 

790
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,520
Did you miss seeing what you 
should have seen? 

791
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,920
You should have been in awe that
this gave rise to so much. 

792
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,160
You should have been in awe that
after this miraculous thing 

793
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,520
came, they were leftovers, the 
proof of what had just happened.

794
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:27,080
Did you not see? 
Did you not hear? 

795
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,560
Are your hearts hardened? 
Too many of us are reading the 

796
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,880
Word of God just as it is. 
We read it and we go. 

797
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,960
We forget. 
What we read is what the apostle

798
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,760
James wrote about. 
You just read it and you walk 

799
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:39,920
off. 
It's like seeing yourself in a 

800
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,200
mirror, not remembering. 
But God is calling us in this 

801
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,760
season we are in. 
We are the Church of the end 

802
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,920
times. 
The time for Jesus to return is 

803
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,160
here. 
We don't know when it's going to

804
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,760
be, but we live in the end 
times. 

805
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,280
We need to be reading the word 
for all that it's worth. 

806
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,000
We need to be going deep into 
it. 

807
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,680
We need to be sitting and 
meditating on saying, Lord, what

808
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,440
are you speaking to me? 
What must I do to bring your 

809
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,640
Kingdom down to earth? 
How can I, Lord, step into the 

810
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,240
calling that you have called me 
for? 

811
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,960
How can I, Lord, do more for you
from this passage? 

812
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:16,040
Call me, speak to me. 
They had missed the point. 

813
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,920
They had missed the point of 
what Jesus did. 

814
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,080
They missed the point of who he 
was. 

815
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,120
Had they seen this for what it 
really was, they would have been

816
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,040
like this guy is the Son of God.
He is sovereign. 

817
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,760
They knew all of that by lip 
service, but did they really 

818
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,240
know it? 
That's the question I love. 

819
00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:37,840
And Isaiah talks about how God 
through the prophet is saying, 

820
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,160
you know, go and say to these 
people, keep on hearing but do 

821
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,520
not understand, keep on seeing 
but do not perceive. 

822
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,200
Make the heart of these people 
dull and by their ears, and 

823
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,040
their ears heavy and blind their
eyes, lest they see with their 

824
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,640
eyes, hear with their ears, and 
understand with their hearts, 

825
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:57,400
and turn and be healed. 
How many of us are not receiving

826
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,160
our healing because our ears are
tuned to the wrong sources? 

827
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,120
How many of us are not receiving
our breakthrough because we are 

828
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,000
looking at the wrong things God 
is saying today? 

829
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:11,800
I will give you the discernment.
When we have Jesus in us, we 

830
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,520
have the Holy Spirit presiding 
within us. 

831
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,800
He gives us the mind of Christ. 
He will teach us how to be wise.

832
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,280
He will teach us how to be 
discerning. 

833
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,960
He will give us insight into the
things of God. 

834
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,720
You don't have to read the the 
newspapers and be dejected. 

835
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,360
You need to be reading the 
newspaper superimposed with the 

836
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,480
Bible so that you know what is 
happening is not unnatural. 

837
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,320
Should I be alarmed? 
Yes, but the alarm should move 

838
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,240
me to prayer. 
Should I be praying more prayers

839
00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:37,880
that are pivotal, that change 
things? 

840
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:42,760
Yes, I should, but it requires 
that I will be discerning of God

841
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,320
and His Kingdom. 
If I'm not discerning of the 

842
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,720
Kingdom of God, if I'm not 
discerning about the King and 

843
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:51,920
what He is accomplishing, I will
completely miss what I need to 

844
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,320
be seeing. 
If you were to look back on your

845
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,800
life, maybe you've been telling 
the story of how, you know what,

846
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,520
I haven't had a miracle in a 
long time. 

847
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,600
I've been just in this valley. 
I've been, I mean, I'm just 

848
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,640
doing my mundane. 
I don't have much happening. 

849
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,680
What if you were to look at it 
through the eyes of Jesus? 

850
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,560
What if you were to see how God 
has been working in you and be 

851
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,440
discerning of what he has been 
doing in you? 

852
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,360
My husband and I did this this 
morning. 

853
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,560
We both looked back on years 
that we consider a wilderness 

854
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,960
and we looked back at what God 
had done in US. 

855
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,920
And it's beautiful because it's 
like looking at a tapestry from 

856
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,760
behind and just looking at all 
the knots and saying, yuck, what

857
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:30,840
is this? 
This is not a piece of art. 

858
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,760
But when you turn it, you see 
the picture on the front and 

859
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,600
that's when you realise, Oh my 
goodness, this is what God was 

860
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,600
doing. 
This is what he was 

861
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,080
accomplishing in these years 
that I thought was a wilderness.

862
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,200
He was doing this. 
I want to ask you if you've been

863
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,440
looking at the story of your 
sickness and saying, I've been 

864
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,320
sick for so long. 
I don't know when my 

865
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:51,840
breakthrough is coming. 
I don't know if I'm going to 

866
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,960
receive my blessing. 
God is saying through this 

867
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,600
journey, what did you learn? 
You learnt to push back, you 

868
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,800
learnt to pray, you learnt to 
show empathy to others. 

869
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,240
Nothing is wasted. 
But for that I need to have 

870
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:06,280
discernment. 
It's so important because when 

871
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,600
Jesus was talking to them about 
the, he says beware of the 

872
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,720
leaven of the Pharisees and 
Herod. 

873
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:13,640
Why was that such a pivotal 
thing? 

874
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,880
Because it was going to be these
guys who got Jesus arrested soon

875
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,280
and it was going to be these 
guys who will persecute the 

876
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,920
disciples sooner or later. 
It was going to be the ruling 

877
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:23,960
council. 
It was going to be that, you 

878
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,360
know, all those guys in the 
synagogue. 

879
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,880
It was going to be people who 
were amongst the Pharisees and 

880
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,120
the Herodians and he, they were 
going to cause trouble. 

881
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,920
So Jesus was giving them a heads
up, saying beware of them. 

882
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,760
What was he actually meaning? 
The 11 of the Pharisees and 

883
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,720
Herodians was their teaching. 
It was the the teachings that 

884
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:43,400
they were doing. 
It was their nature. 

885
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,080
It was a character. 
He calls them hypocrites. 

886
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,600
He calls them whitewashed tombs.
You see, He called them the 

887
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,600
blind leading the blind. 
So he was basically saying, 

888
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,040
guys, I'm the truth, the way and
the life. 

889
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,720
I'm the one you follow. 
Those guys are teaching a 

890
00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:01,520
counterfeit gospel. 
It's not the truth. 

891
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,400
It's the, you know, taking the 
easy way to things. 

892
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:05,920
It's cutting corners for your 
benefits. 

893
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,640
That's what they were teaching. 
And he's saying beware of them 

894
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,280
for they're going to cause 
trouble for you soon. 

895
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,560
And if the 12 disciples, let's 
say 11 because Judas doesn't 

896
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,040
make it, if the 11 had not 
understood, because it says 

897
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,280
eventually, then they understood
what he was talking about, that 

898
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,560
he was talking about their 
hypocrisy, that he was talking 

899
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,040
about their teaching. 
But it's so important to 

900
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,040
understand that because they 
would have had that 

901
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,520
understanding. 
We need to be discerning of what

902
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,400
we are receiving from the from 
the Pharisees and from the 

903
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,240
Herodians. 
They would have been able to 

904
00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:39,440
handle them at pivotal times in 
the early churches growth. 

905
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,120
You remember the time when they 
were all dispersed because of 

906
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,120
persecution. 
And all these men didn't lose 

907
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,920
vision. 
They went to different cities, 

908
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,680
towns, went to other countries, 
The Saint Thomas came to India, 

909
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,520
they came to different places 
and carried out the Great 

910
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,280
Commission. 
Now, why did that happen? 

911
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,680
Because they had been discerning
at that moment when Jesus pushed

912
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,760
it into the head and said be 
careful. 

913
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,680
They knew who to be careful of. 
They knew that they had to stick

914
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,120
with what they had been taught 
by Jesus himself. 

915
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:12,000
And today, if you and I want to 
make it through the next two 3-4

916
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:13,480
decades, I don't know how old 
you are. 

917
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,840
Our kids are going to last for 
7080 years. 

918
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,960
It's so important that we 
operate with discernment. 

919
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:26,120
We have to be willing to have a 
spiritual sensitivity which 

920
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,960
reveals more about God to us. 
People will tell you in these 

921
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:33,120
times, God is not a God. 
He's just like anything else. 

922
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,360
God will tell you. 
People will tell you God is in 

923
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,280
the environment, He's in the 
atmosphere. 

924
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:38,720
God will. 
They'll tell you, you know, 

925
00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:41,520
every little thing is a God. 
They will convince you of how 

926
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,920
idolatry is better because it's 
something you can see. 

927
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:50,240
They'll forget that is by we 
walk by faith, not by sight. 

928
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,120
There will be many who tell you 
believe anything you want. 

929
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,960
All roads lead to God. 
That's not true. 

930
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,040
If Jesus said I'm the way, the 
truth and the life to the Father

931
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,720
you believe that. 
So it's so important for 

932
00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:05,440
spiritual sensitivity to be 
discerning to be insightful in 

933
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,960
order to know God more because 
they will present a counterfeit 

934
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,480
God to you. 
They will present a counterfeit 

935
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,960
Saviour to you. 
If you and your family, you and 

936
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,080
your household, you and your 
churches are not aware, we're 

937
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,480
not sensitive to the spiritual 
realities around you, you will 

938
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,240
not just know, you will know a 
false God. 

939
00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:25,360
You will not know the true God. 
And when someone else talks to 

940
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,280
you about that, you will get 
confused. 

941
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,200
You could go off track. 
You could be actually in a place

942
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:35,160
of denouncing your faith, 
denounce leaving your God and 

943
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,280
going behind something false. 
So it's so. 

944
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:38,960
Important. 
We live in a time of false 

945
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,280
teachers. 
We live in a time when the 

946
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:46,000
gospel has been twisted. 
To serve private purposes. 

947
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:49,120
But this is the absolute truth. 
The word of God is absolute. 

948
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:54,440
Jesus is the truth. 
And if your senses are dull and 

949
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,120
if you've closed yourself up to 
reading the word with the with 

950
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,040
the thirst for more, if you have
closed yourself up to off to the

951
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,360
audible voice of God and said, 
you know what that's for? 

952
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,040
You know, these people who 
probably get high now and then. 

953
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,680
I don't. 
I'm content with just reading 

954
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,920
and knowing the verses by heart 
and just living my life. 

955
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,520
God wants to speak to you for 
your situation. 

956
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:16,920
That's how he increases your 
discernment. 

957
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,520
That's how he increases your 
insight. 

958
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:24,040
If you want to know more about 
the king, you will need to 

959
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,800
increase your spiritual insight.
And it's so important that we 

960
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,560
like the like the disciples 
received that Intel from Jesus 

961
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:33,880
where he said beware of these 
guys. 

962
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,800
Beware of their teaching. 
It must have been what got them 

963
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,000
through persecution, got them 
through severe opposition. 

964
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:41,920
Today. 
What is God saying to you? 

965
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:45,200
Is he teaching you about certain
situations you're going to get 

966
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,280
into? 
As I was preparing for this, I 

967
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:53,800
was telling my husband that 
invariably after a harvest, 

968
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,480
there's more work to be done. 
It doesn't end there. 

969
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,000
We don't just, you know, become 
lethargic and just chill. 

970
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,040
There's more work to be done. 
There's new ground to be sown 

971
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,160
in. 
There are new giants to be 

972
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:06,520
fought. 
It doesn't end. 

973
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,160
This is what God has been 
repeatedly teaching me, that as 

974
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:13,240
much as you walk out for 
wilderness and you walk into a 

975
00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:15,280
promised land, there are new 
giants to face. 

976
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,240
There are new obstacles. 
The fight never ends. 

977
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,480
But with discernment, you will 
be able to navigate it. 

978
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:24,480
We need discernment. 
We need to be spiritually 

979
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:29,160
active, aware. 
I would urge you watch less of 

980
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,920
YouTube. 
Watch less of less of the 

981
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,000
Instagram dreams. 
Start reading the word of God 

982
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,800
more. 
Every question you would ever 

983
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,040
have is answered in that. 
Spend time with the audio Bible.

984
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,440
Just play it in when you're 
washing your dishes, when you're

985
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,400
jogging, whatever. 
Worship more. 

986
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,040
Spend time in his presence. 
It will heighten your spiritual 

987
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:53,200
awareness. 
It's so important because for 

988
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,000
some of us, we're walking 
through seasons of the 

989
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,000
repercussions of a lack of 
discernment. 

990
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:03,160
Maybe you're walking through 
heartbreak, heartache, heartburn

991
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,080
because of stress induced by 
certain situations of people. 

992
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,280
God is saying for the next 
season you can avoid that if you

993
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:13,560
walk within sight, if you have a
greater spiritual awareness. 

994
00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:15,440
We're just going to watch a 3 
minute clip. 

995
00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:18,760
And as you watch it, I want to 
put yourself in the disciples 

996
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,560
shoes and exceed what Jesus 
does. 

997
00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:23,800
And I want you to come out of 
that. 

998
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,960
As we finish watching that, I'm 
just going to, you know, pray 

999
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,200
for you. 
But as you watch it, could you 

1000
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:33,920
keep this in mind that the God 
who provided for them, who broke

1001
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,680
bread, who distributed 
thousands, is still the God who 

1002
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,720
provides for you and me? 
You're going through a crunch. 

1003
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,680
He's saying I still provide 
what's in your hand. 

1004
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:43,800
I'll teach you what to do with 
that. 

1005
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,960
I can break that bread. 
I can increase your oil supply 

1006
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,720
at home till you don't run dry. 
I'm still doing miracles. 

1007
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,160
But will you see it and not pass
it off as oh, it's too mundane 

1008
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,360
for me? 
I know I can buy bread on Swiggy

1009
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:57,920
if need be. 
This is not a big deal. 

1010
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,040
I need bigger things. 
What if you start looking for 

1011
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,920
him the natural first? 
Because it's in the natural. 

1012
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,480
He takes that when his hands 
come on it, He makes it 

1013
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,800
supernatural. 
So can we just watch this and 

1014
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:09,160
then I'm going to close with 
prayer? 

1015
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:14,320
This is wonderful bread de la 
macOS. 

1016
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,920
I know it's not enough. 
Oh, it's enough for me. 

1017
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:26,790
I can do a lot with this. 
Thank you, I said. 

1018
00:51:26,830 --> 00:51:30,990
Are you, Lord our God, King of 
the universe, who brings forth 

1019
00:51:31,070 --> 00:51:34,470
bread from the earth? 
But defines some bread. 

1020
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:52,320
Feed them. 
What has changed? 

1021
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,720
Are we organized the people into
groups of 50 and 100? 

1022
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,640
Gather up 12 baskets to 
distribute the loaves and fish? 

1023
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:08,320
Was I unclear? 
No. 

1024
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,160
This feels familiar. 
Maybe. 

1025
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:28,440
Let's go. 
Does anyone have a basket? 

1026
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,280
Please? 
Borrow a basket. 

1027
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:34,440
Come on. 
Feed them. 

1028
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:40,360
Yes. 
Anyone have a basket now? 

1029
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:42,760
You think so? 
There. 

1030
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,480
It's better than the tail. 
That's the last of it. 

1031
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:56,320
Yeah, that's the last of it. 
All right, Marcus, you can have 

1032
00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:19,050
your basket back. 
What? 

1033
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:36,840
Is your basketball? 
You see this? 

1034
00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:51,040
You see all this? 
Come on, 

1035
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:10,200
I've kept you here all this time
giving you spiritual food, but 

1036
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:14,160
you clearly need actual food 
now, so let's eat. 

1037
00:54:58,900 --> 00:55:02,500
Isn't that beautiful? 
Just to when I was watching it, 

1038
00:55:02,500 --> 00:55:04,700
I'm so visual. 
I realized that I love their 

1039
00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:09,420
expressions when they open these
baskets and it's full with bread

1040
00:55:09,420 --> 00:55:11,900
and fish. 
Like what an amazing moment. 

1041
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,600
What is the area of your 
greatest barrenness today? 

1042
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:17,840
Has it been your financial 
status? 

1043
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:21,040
Your relational status? 
Your parenting status? 

1044
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,320
Your career? 
Your studies? 

1045
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,320
What is it? 
Where is the area of greatest 

1046
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:30,280
emptiness? 
This God who met the disciples 

1047
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,440
and all of those people's needs 
can today do the same for you 

1048
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,040
and me. 
It just requires that I'm 

1049
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:38,880
prepared to be broken before my 
breakthrough. 

1050
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:44,600
It just requires. 
That before I'm blessed, there's

1051
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,440
something that has to happen. 
There's a process. 

1052
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:53,560
He breaks, but he blesses. 
He's a God who requires that we 

1053
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,000
are insightful, that we're 
sensitive to the matters of the 

1054
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:00,040
spiritual realm so that we know 
Him more because He desires to 

1055
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:01,840
know us. 
He already knows us, but He 

1056
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,200
desires us for us to know Him 
more and for Him to get closer 

1057
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:06,760
to us. 
But that requires that our 

1058
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,840
spiritual sensitivity increases.
It requires that we have a 

1059
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:12,440
breaking before the 
breakthrough. 

1060
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:16,880
It requires that we surrender 
everything before our blessing 

1061
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,320
follows. 
It requires that our motives are

1062
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,360
in a good place, our heart is in
a good place before we do good 

1063
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,840
for him. 
It's so important to remember 

1064
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,560
these things because too often 
our excuses stand primary, 

1065
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,000
tantamount. 
Everything comes around. 

1066
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,240
God, I can't do this. 
You're asking me to set up this 

1067
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:38,920
organization. 
I don't have the funds, I don't 

1068
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,880
have the know how, I don't have 
the people, but God is saying 

1069
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,080
will you trust me? 
What do you have in your hand? 

1070
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,680
Bring that to me. 
Maybe like the disciples you're 

1071
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,400
saying I have all my logic in 
place. 

1072
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:54,320
My calculations don't sit well. 
Jesus did say count the cost 

1073
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:57,360
before you follow me and that's 
why probably the disciples were 

1074
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,640
also saying this is the cost 200
denarii not possible. 

1075
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,640
I love that in feeding the 4000,
they say, Lord, this place is 

1076
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:07,240
bad and where are we going to 
get food? 

1077
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,520
And I'm reminded that the very 
same man they're talking to is 

1078
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:13,280
the one who in the wilderness 
was being tested for 40 days and

1079
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,520
the devil tested him saying, 
turn these stones into bread 

1080
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:18,040
because you're so hungry and 
tired. 

1081
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,840
And yet what did Jesus reply? 
He said it's not by bread alone 

1082
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,080
that man lives, but by the word 
that comes out of the Lord's 

1083
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:29,520
mouth. 
And today God understands our 

1084
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:31,080
questions. 
Our questions could be actually 

1085
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:35,400
quite valid, but he's saying, 
will you still engage with me to

1086
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,680
know what my plans are? 
Will you be sensitive enough to 

1087
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:41,960
what I'm doing so that you can 
partner with me and see the 

1088
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:45,520
Kingdom of God come? 
Will you step out in doing good 

1089
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:48,480
again and again, even when you 
have been bruised by people that

1090
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,160
you did good for in the past? 
Because he's saying this time 

1091
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,280
you are different. 
You have changed, you have 

1092
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,560
evolved, you have grown. 
I can work more with you. 

1093
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,120
Can I promise? 
That bad things won't happen. 

1094
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:03,760
I cannot, I cannot remember what
happened to Jesus, but I can 

1095
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,120
tell you that our lives, as 
short as they are, will have 

1096
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:09,200
greatest of impact when we're 
living the Kingdom life. 

1097
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:15,000
And so as we close, I want to 
ask you, have you been waiting 

1098
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,640
for a breakthrough? 
Have you been waiting for 

1099
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,000
something to change so that the 
landscape changes? 

1100
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:24,120
God is saying I will bring the 
breakthrough, but there will be 

1101
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,080
some breaking that has to be 
done before that. 

1102
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,480
Maybe you're saying my blessing 
is I feel like it's just there, 

1103
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:34,160
but I can't possess it. 
But maybe we need to look at 

1104
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,200
ourselves and say, Lord, is 
there something I'm withholding 

1105
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,680
from you without submitting it? 
Maybe I'm really trying to 

1106
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,920
control all these pieces and 
everything seems to be falling 

1107
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,040
out of my hands. 
God is saying, bring it to me in

1108
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:49,040
submission and surrender. 
Maybe you feel that you need to 

1109
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,680
step up in your insight, in your
discernment, because the truth 

1110
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,160
is what we see in the physical 
eyes is only so much. 

1111
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,920
There's more than meets the eye.
Things are happening around us 

1112
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,280
that we have no clue about. 
And I was reading this verse 

1113
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,680
from Deuteronomy, which says the
revealed things are our 

1114
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:07,680
responsibility. 
The things that are not revealed

1115
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,080
are God's responsibility. 
So there's a lot of stuff we 

1116
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,360
shouldn't dabble in that'll 
amount to occultism and all of 

1117
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:14,920
that. 
That is not for us to get into 

1118
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:16,160
God. 
What have you told me? 

1119
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:17,960
This is your word. 
I take you at your word. 

1120
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:19,560
You don't lie. 
You're not a man. 

1121
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,000
You keep to your word. 
You are faithful till the end. 

1122
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:28,280
If you said it, you will do it. 
If I can hold on to that, if I 

1123
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,800
have the discernment to see, God
is saying there's some more 

1124
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,000
coming, there's some more 
pressing, Endure it. 

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00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:35,840
The blessing is around the 
corner, the breakthrough is 

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00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:38,840
there, but you need to endure. 
If God is speaking that to you, 

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00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,280
you need discernment. 
Maybe your ears have been tuned 

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00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,520
to the wrong voices. 
Maybe your heart has become 

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00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,680
hardened because of the kind of 
battering you've experienced 

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00:59:47,680 --> 00:59:50,240
with life. 
But God is saying, I want to 

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00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:53,520
circumcise your heart. 
I want to cut off all those hard

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00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,760
edges so that it's supple in my 
hands. 

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00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:58,800
So I can speak to you as I would
a friend. 

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00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,640
But it comes down to will you be
ready? 

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01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,840
Will it matter enough to you? 
Because it all comes down to 

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01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,440
this. 
Does the Kingdom of God matter 

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01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,440
to you? 
Do you want to live a Kingdom 

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01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,320
life? 
If you did, this is essential. 

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01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,200
So as we pray, I want to ask 
first that you would commit 

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01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,960
yourself. 
To living the Kingdom life, it's

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01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,160
no point. 
If you've decided to live your 

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01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,200
own way, this will not make 
sense to you. 

1143
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,800
But if you want to live a life 
of blessing, of impact, of 

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01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:31,760
continuing growth, of blessing 
others, you know the way 

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01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:34,880
Abraham's blessing followed him 
when he said you know what? 

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01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:36,840
You're going to be a blessing 
and the whole world is going to 

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01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:37,720
be a blessing. 
Through you. 

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01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:41,280
If you want to live that kind of
life, you need to be committed 

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01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:45,600
to living the Kingdom way. 
So as we pray, can you just 

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01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:47,880
first ask God, can we just lift 
our hands and say, Lord, I 

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01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,840
commit. 
I commit to living this Kingdom 

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01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:53,040
life. 
I know it's not easy. 

1153
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,000
I know there's going to be hard 
days, but God, I pray you would 

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01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:00,640
give me the encouragement. 
I need the spiritual strength to

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01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:03,760
push through and receive what 
you have for me to lay hold of 

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01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:07,000
that prize you have for me. 
We thank you God for Jesus. 

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01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:10,640
We thank you Lord, that He has 
gone before as the author of our

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01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:12,080
faith, the finisher of our 
faith. 

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01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,080
We thank you that Lord, when we 
have no role models to look 

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01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:17,040
around outside, we can look to 
him. 

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01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,480
We thank you, Father, that you 
are going to bring breakthrough 

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01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:22,600
in many people's lives as they 
are watching this. 

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01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:26,320
I believe that God they're going
to open themselves up to you for

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01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:30,200
you to break mold and prepare 
them for their breakthrough. 

1165
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,760
I thank you for those who are 
waiting patiently for the 

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01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:36,040
blessing that you have promised.
Lord, wherever a surrender has 

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01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,920
to happen in Jesus name, they 
would surrender if it is their 

1168
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,280
family, Lord, if they have to 
surrender the upbringing they 

1169
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,640
have had, if they have to 
surrender the, the birth 

1170
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:49,200
family's traditions for you. 
If they have to, Lord, give up 

1171
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,080
on something that is holding 
them back that they would do it 

1172
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,320
so willingly. 
And I know God, you are not a 

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01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:56,640
debtor. 
I know that You would come 

1174
01:01:56,640 --> 01:02:00,360
through for them, Lord. 
I pray for those who are 

1175
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,400
struggling with their condition 
of their heart. 

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01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,560
Lord, they want to do good, but 
their heart is not in a good 

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01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,160
place. 
I pray right now that they would

1178
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,960
invite You in to consecrate 
their hearts and set them apart 

1179
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:14,680
for the great things they are 
marked out to do of earth. 

1180
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,960
I pray right now for every 
believer who is watching this. 

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01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:23,320
I pray Jesus that they would 
step up in their spiritual 

1182
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,240
awareness, God, that their eyes 
will be opened, their ears will 

1183
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:30,520
be opened, hearts will be 
softened so that they will know 

1184
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:33,960
what they must know of what you 
are doing, of how you mean good 

1185
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:38,400
for them, of how you love them. 
I pray that you would continue 

1186
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:42,160
to move in our midst, help us 
and be with us. 

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01:02:42,160 --> 01:02:45,320
Lord, in Jesus name I pray, 
Amen, Amen. 

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01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,160
I would really encourage you to 
go back home. 

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01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,480
If you are at home, you can 
continue to read it at home. 

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01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:55,720
But if you can meditate on these
two chapters, it's Mark chapter 

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01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,640
6 and Mark chapter 8. 
Just read it through as a 

1192
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:01,760
narrative to understand the 
progression of how Jesus did 

1193
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,080
this. 
And you can even watch the rest 

1194
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:05,920
of the chosen clip. 
There's a larger clip that you 

1195
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:08,360
can watch, or you can watch it 
on Netflix or wherever. 

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01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:14,040
Watch it just to be amazed at 
what God did then and what God 

1197
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,280
still does. 
He has not changed. 

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01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:18,600
So if you need a miracle, this 
is the man you need to go to. 

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01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:20,920
This is the God you need to go 
to is Jesus himself. 

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01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:26,760
He is still working for his 
Kingdom to be established on 

1201
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,520
earth, which means it'll happen 
through US ordinary individuals.

1202
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:33,200
So don't discount the ordinary 
natural parts of your life 

1203
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,520
because that's where the 
supernatural permeate and come 

1204
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:38,240
through and impact so many 
people. 

1205
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:40,480
So God bless you. 
Have an amazing week. 

1206
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:43,560
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1207
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:47,400
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01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:51,720
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01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:58,600
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01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:12,680
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