1 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 Can I ask you to turn your Bibles to Luke Chapter 9? 2 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,280 Luke Chapter 9? We're going to be reading verses 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:22,480 27 to 43 this morning. Luke Chapter 9, verse 27 to 43. 4 00:00:30,450 --> 00:00:34,850 Sorry, 37 to 43. I gave you guys 10 extra verses. 5 00:00:34,850 --> 00:00:37,130 You're going to be like we were covering that last week, 6 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,840 starting verse 37. The next day, when they came 7 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,000 down from the mountain, a large crowd met him. 8 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,320 Just then a man from the crowd cried out. 9 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,320 Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he's my only child. 10 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,960 A spirit seizes him. Suddenly he shrieks and it 11 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:02,960 throws him into convulsions until he foams at the mouth, 12 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,480 severely bruising them, and it's scarcely ever leaves him. 13 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,040 I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't. 14 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,640 Jesus replied. You unbelieving and perverse 15 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:21,080 generation, how long will I be with you and put up with you? 16 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,960 Bring your son here. And as the boy was still 17 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:28,440 approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into 18 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,360 severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean 19 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:38,120 spirit, healed the boy and gave him back to his Father, and they 20 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,480 were all astonished at the greatness of God. 21 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:50,120 You've probably heard these 3 words or read them on AT shirt 22 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,160 or a hoodie somewhere. You are enough. 23 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,080 It's a phrase that grew in popularity really beginning in 24 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:04,240 the early to mid 2000s with the self help guru Brené Brown. 25 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,720 And then as we got into the 20 tens, gained a lot of traction 26 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:12,960 through social media influencers on Instagram and TikTok. 27 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,080 And so today you can buy a whole bunch of you are enough merch. 28 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:23,040 You can buy hoodies, buy key chains, you can buy T-shirts. 29 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,600 You can even buy the item that I'm about to have put up behind 30 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,760 me if you would like a crocheted rose in a pot holding a little 31 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:37,360 sign with the first saying saying you are enough. 32 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,280 Actually, it's not. This is not very Dutch of me. 33 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,720 That's not a rose, that's a Tulip. 34 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:47,960 That's a Tulip. And I understand the sentiment 35 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,680 behind those 3 words. It's, it's something that 36 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:58,600 resonates with a whole group of people and, and A and a culture 37 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:05,240 in a time where we feel exhausted from trying to measure 38 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,400 up to other people's definitions of what enough is. 39 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,080 We're just living in a time where we've always had 40 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:19,360 comparison going on, but we've never always had comparison in 41 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:24,600 our hand 24 hours a day looking into the lives of other people, 42 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:29,280 looking at standards that are set for us in the area of, of 43 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:35,120 beauty, of strength, of success, of accomplishment, and just 44 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:41,160 being like, I can't do that. That's not me. 45 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:50,200 And lots of us, I think, just feel an overall sense underlying 46 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,480 a whole bunch of stuff of inadequacy. 47 00:03:54,280 --> 00:04:01,320 We just don't measure up. We, we, we want to, we, we, we 48 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:07,680 crave somebody to tell us that we are enough because we think 49 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,400 that being enough is what would give us value. 50 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:17,600 The question, though, isn't whether we understand why the 51 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,279 statement is out there. The question is, is that 52 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:26,960 statement true? Are you and I really enough? 53 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:33,720 And I can just say for me, man, there's a whole bunch of areas 54 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,760 in my life, things that I have come to discover over the course 55 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:42,120 of my life, sometimes the really hard way where I'm just not 56 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:45,280 enough. If you're looking for somebody 57 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:51,880 to pick a suit and a tie and match those things together, I 58 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,440 am not enough. You did not want the color blind 59 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,600 guy picking that. In fact, you don't even want the 60 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,080 color blind guy to be the guy who's telling you if there's a 61 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:00,720 stop sign coming up, right, Amanda? 62 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,120 She just shook her head no, Just so you know, or trying to 63 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,920 explain a movie character to your kids because you told them 64 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,880 that was the blue guy and they're like that, that guy's 65 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,640 purple, right? I just, I'm not enough in the 66 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,120 area of color. I'm not enough. 67 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,440 If you're the guy, if you want a guy who's going to fix your car 68 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,040 and check your oil, I'm not him. That's not me. 69 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,040 If you want a person to organize your paperwork, you can talk to 70 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:28,880 Jolene. She will tell you I'm not the 71 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:35,280 person. I am not enough, as I found out 72 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,320 over and over again, to fix somebody's marriage or to fix 73 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:44,080 your kid or to fix your finances. 74 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:50,200 And I can't even fix myself. Every Sunday I stand up here or 75 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,920 stand in Brant or Kitchener at our Arabic site and I preach 76 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,520 and, and I know this reality. I'm not enough. 77 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,600 The things that God has asked me to bring before you and to 78 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,120 communicate, I am not capable of getting through to you. 79 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,840 I'm not enough, and neither are you. 80 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:21,640 And no matter how many times you repeat that phrase to yourself, 81 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:25,840 it doesn't change the reality that you and I are not enough. 82 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,080 That was the problem in the passage today. 83 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,280 For almost all the characters in this story, they weren't enough. 84 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:40,560 There was a Father who wasn't enough. 85 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,680 There were a group of disciples who weren't enough. 86 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:51,040 There's religious leaders in Matthew's record of this story 87 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,360 who were also present there. And Jesus makes it very clear to 88 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:58,200 them they're not enough. So let's let's start by looking 89 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:03,040 at some of these characters who just put to bed the lie that 90 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,480 we're enough. Let's start with the dad. 91 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:11,080 This, this guy, he is dealing with one of the hardest things 92 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,880 that any parent ever has to deal with. 93 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:20,240 He is dealing and coming face to face with this reality that he's 94 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,280 not enough, that he can't fix his kid. 95 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,880 I, I can't imagine what this guy is going through. 96 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:34,640 Can't imagine the pain and the anguish and the frustration that 97 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:40,440 he has encountered seeing his only son ravaged by this evil 98 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,960 demonic power. This power that that Luke tells 99 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,640 us is causing him to foam at the mouth and throw him into 100 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,560 convulsions that is bruising his body. 101 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,360 Matthew 17 gives us some additional information about 102 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,200 what has happened to this young man. 103 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,520 The the Father told Jesus in this in Matthew's recording that 104 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:08,240 he often falls into the fire and he often falls into the water or 105 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,440 into pools of water where he's a danger of drowning. 106 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,160 If someone doesn't yank him out, he's being burned and he's being 107 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,640 drowned. Mark tells us in his account 108 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:23,440 that this man had had been made unable to speak, couldn't 109 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:28,240 communicate. And Mark says it's been going on 110 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,200 since childhood. So we talk about this. 111 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,080 This boy, he's not a boy. He's a young man. 112 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,520 And there's been an extended period. 113 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,640 We don't know how long that this has been going on in his life. 114 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,919 And the father has had to watch it and he's been powerless to 115 00:08:43,919 --> 00:08:46,640 fix it. And I'm just going to tell you, 116 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,200 maybe you're a new parent. When you're a parent for any 117 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,520 period of time, you come to a realization, usually when your 118 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,160 kids start to get into later double digits, that there's just 119 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,840 things that you can't protect your kids from that you can't 120 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,120 fix in your kids. It's the scariest thing. 121 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:13,280 I, I, I remember really clearly going to Maya's kindergarten 122 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:18,160 orientation and, and be in there and watch and she's going to be 123 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,960 put into this class. It was it was either late May or 124 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,080 early June. And and while she's there, I'm 125 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,360 kind of, we're just supposed to be in there observing. 126 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,240 Maya probably doesn't remember this. 127 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,800 There were two little girls who started to treat her cruelly. 128 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,520 And while the teacher wasn't looking, I sobbed up to those 129 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:42,280 two little girls. And I said, if I ever find out 130 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,720 that you have been mean to my child, there is no place you 131 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:54,400 will be able to hide. No, I probably shouldn't have 132 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:58,600 done that. And if those girls happen to 133 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,480 hear this along the way, I'm sorry for that. 134 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,600 But there's something in us as parents that we just fiercely 135 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,920 want to be able to protect and and put bubble wrap around our 136 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:15,880 kids, right? And yet eventually, the cruelty 137 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,600 and the evil in this world ends up affecting all of our kids. 138 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,600 See, mom and Dad, you're not enough. 139 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,480 You won't be able to fix everything that your kids come 140 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,320 up against. You won't be able to protect 141 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,400 them from everything in this world. 142 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,600 This is contrast, right? This is intentional contrast by 143 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,920 Luke of last week and this week. Last week. 144 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:49,480 We are up on the mountain in glory and nobody wants to leave. 145 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,960 This week we're down in the valley and we are confronted 146 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,200 with the reality of the brokenness and evil of this 147 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,040 world. And I'm just going to tell you 148 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,160 because some of you still think in your head, you can protect 149 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,520 your kids. You can bubble wrap if you just 150 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,360 get them out far enough. It's OK if you just build that 151 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,120 bubble big enough. Guess what? 152 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:21,240 The problem is sin doesn't just live outside the bubble, it 153 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,960 lives in the bubble. See, sin isn't an out there 154 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:29,200 problem for us, it's an in here problem for us. 155 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:34,440 I assume nobody here taught their child how to bite and hit 156 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,400 Like you didn't start practicing that with your kids, right? 157 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,440 First we're going to practice please and thank yous, and next 158 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,360 week we're going to work on bitings and hits. 159 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:47,120 Nobody does that. You didn't have to teach your 160 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,720 kid how to to lie and and deceive you. 161 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,760 You didn't have to teach them. Nobody has ever had to teach a 1 162 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:01,040 1/2, a 2 1/2, a three and a half, a 20 and a half, a 30 and 163 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:05,360 a half, a 50 1/2 year old. How to be selfish comes 164 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:11,200 naturally to us, see, on our own, we're not enough to fix 165 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:16,560 what's broken. The disciples, they're in this 166 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:17,760 story. And guess what? 167 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:23,960 They're very clearly not enough. It's this very humbling moment, 168 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,920 an incredibly humbling moment in this passage, especially if you 169 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,000 remember where we started in Luke 9, as we started into this. 170 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,600 Remember Luke 91? We get this, this picture. 171 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,120 Jesus is bringing all the disciples and they've been 172 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:38,760 walking with him. They've been learning from him. 173 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,320 Now Jesus is going to send them out. 174 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,600 And so in Luke 9/1, he summons the 12 and it says he gave them 175 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:51,680 power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases. 176 00:12:54,400 --> 00:13:00,720 And yet here they are with this demonic evil power and they are 177 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:06,080 powerless. They had come to a point where 178 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,880 they thought that they could do it on their own. 179 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,680 They thought that the power didn't just rest in them, it 180 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:18,680 came from them. They had enough when they were 181 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:21,920 out and casting out demons and going out from town to town, 182 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:23,320 they had enough. Until they didn't. 183 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,520 Because it didn't work this time. 184 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:31,240 What does the dad say? The father says, hey, I I knew I 185 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,960 couldn't do it, so I came and I begged your disciples to drive 186 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:35,720 it out. And guess what? 187 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,400 They couldn't. So many times in the Christian 188 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:45,200 life, man, I have gotten to a place where I thought, you know, 189 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,640 I've been doing this long enough, I've been at this long 190 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:49,640 enough, I've got enough experience. 191 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:55,120 I got this, I got this. And that's almost immediately 192 00:13:55,120 --> 00:14:00,920 when I fall flat on my face, when I go into a situation and 193 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:07,960 I'm relying on my experience, on my gifting, on my ability, on my 194 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:12,040 force of will, when my thought process just starts going, you 195 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:16,240 know, if I could just if I could just talk to that person, we 196 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,360 could just sit down. I could convince them I could 197 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,960 fix this. And time and time again, I find 198 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,480 out when I get into that spot, I'm not enough. 199 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:29,200 What about the religious leaders? 200 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,120 Mark 9 talks about some religious leaders being there. 201 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,040 Mark 9/14, it says when they came to the disciples, when they 202 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:38,040 came down from the Mount of Transfiguration, they saw a 203 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,840 large crowd around them and the scribes were disputing with 204 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,800 them, that is the other disciples who were left behind. 205 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,640 And so there's this dispute and debate going on between the 206 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,920 religious leaders, the scribes and the disciples. 207 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,520 And, and in the context of what's going on here and what is 208 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:00,720 happening in the broader story of the Gospels, what's happening 209 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:04,760 is that they are sitting there and they're shaking their finger 210 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,680 at the disciples. They're saying, see, these guys 211 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,000 are a fraud because they follow a fraud Messiah. 212 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,400 They, they can't do this. And so they're seizing on this 213 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,800 moment, looking at Jesus followers who are failing to 214 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,600 discredit the one they're following. 215 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:27,400 Still happens today, right? Because their issue was they 216 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,640 were looking for a very different Messiah. 217 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:34,040 They didn't like this Messiah. They wanted a Messiah who was 218 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:39,160 going to come to praise them as the holy, religious, righteous 219 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,520 leaders. They they were waiting for a 220 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,720 Messiah. And they believe the Messiah 221 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,800 would come when they had been righteous enough to force his 222 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,280 hand, when they had made the nation righteous enough. 223 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:59,120 Then then Jesus would come and owe them, and he would do all 224 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,280 that needed to be done to rescue them from the Romans. 225 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:07,800 They wanted a Messiah who came and recognized that they were 226 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,320 enough, that they deserved his salvation. 227 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:18,240 And Jesus responds and says, you unbelieving and perverse 228 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:26,080 generation, all their striving, all their efforts, all their 229 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,640 religiosity wasn't enough to impress Jesus. 230 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:33,640 We want to believe that we're enough. 231 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:39,240 I want to believe I'm enough. We want to believe that on our 232 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,360 own we are sufficient to measure up. 233 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,960 We want to believe that we can validate ourselves, that we can 234 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:53,880 justify ourselves, to use a religious, a Christian term. 235 00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,320 But it's a lie. It's a comforting lie, but it's 236 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,800 still a lie. And it's a lie that we know deep 237 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,560 down as a lie. And So what do we do? 238 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:12,319 What do we do? Where does that leave us? 239 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:20,800 Is it just our then the lot to know that we can't measure up, 240 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,720 that sooner or later we come up against our stuff that that just 241 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,400 we're going to fall flat on our face on, but we just keep on 242 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,280 pushing and striving and trying and trying harder and trying 243 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:34,600 harder anyhow? Or do we come to a point where 244 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,400 we resign ourselves that this is all a failure, just throw our 245 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,960 hands up in the air and kind of give up? 246 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:48,480 If we're not enough, then what are we supposed to do? 247 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:56,280 The answer is we go to the same person that this Father goes to. 248 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:01,200 When we're not enough, we go to the one who is not only enough, 249 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,600 he's more than enough. Jesus is more than enough. 250 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,760 You know, he said that the Father says, teacher, I beg you, 251 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:19,240 would you come look at my son? And then in verse 42, we see 252 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,920 that as the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked 253 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,120 him down and threw him into severe convulsions. 254 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:28,840 But where? Where the disciples had not been 255 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,440 enough and where the Father was not enough to protect and to fix 256 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,160 what was broken in this child, Jesus rebuked the unclean 257 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,000 spirit, healed the boy, gave him back to the Father. 258 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:45,760 He did it all. Jesus fixes the problem that 259 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,280 everybody else was powerless to solve. 260 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:54,000 And and I would argue to you that actually the very thing 261 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,680 that kept the disciples from being able to do what they 262 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:01,080 should have been able to do was thinking that it was them who 263 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:09,080 could do it. Mark 928 and 29 says this. 264 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,800 After he had gone into the house, his disciples asked him 265 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,280 privately, why couldn't we drive it out? 266 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,960 He told them, this type can come out by nothing but prayer. 267 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:31,640 See, the power that they needed to accomplish this came by 268 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,120 prayer. It came from God. 269 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,640 The power that they had been using before had been granted to 270 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,840 them by Jesus, but somewhere along the line they had started 271 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,160 to think that the power belonged to them and they they could kind 272 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,760 of just do it on their own. Maybe that was enough. 273 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:53,840 And how often do we do that, right? 274 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:00,160 If you're a follower of Jesus, to start as a follower of Jesus 275 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,520 is to come to this point of recognition of total dependency. 276 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:11,440 To to recognize it is literally the cry that sets us free and 277 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,600 gets us to the point where we can receive Christ as Savior is 278 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,840 the cry of saying I'm not enough, Jesus, I'm not enough. 279 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:24,000 If we have to come to that point of dependency to recognize my 280 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,440 righteous religious activities, my goodness, my morality is 281 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:33,360 simply not enough. But Jesus, you are enough. 282 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,720 Your death on the cross was enough and more than enough to 283 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:43,720 cover over all my sins. It is only by believing in the 284 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,880 power of Jesus to save on the cross and through his 285 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,960 resurrection that we can be saved. 286 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,320 Romans 10/8 and 9:00. We're going to put it up on the 287 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,880 screen for you. Paul says this is the message of 288 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:03,520 faith that we proclaim. If you confess, if you believe, 289 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,480 if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, that that 290 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,840 Jesus is the Messiah, he's the God, He's the only one who can 291 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:16,360 save and rescue you, and you believe in your heart that God 292 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:20,080 was the one who raised him up from the dead, then you will be 293 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,840 saved. Nothing about you doing anything 294 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,080 in that other than just receiving and recognizing what 295 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,800 Jesus did. It's crying out, Jesus, I'm not 296 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,600 enough, but you're more than enough. 297 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,200 And so the whole whack load of us in this room have come to 298 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,440 that point, watching online, you're there, you've believed 299 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,840 that you started into this life of following Jesus saying I'm 300 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,880 not enough. And then Jesus gives us the 301 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,080 Spirit, just like he gave power to the disciples, He gives the 302 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:57,280 Spirit, the Holy Spirit to all of us as his disciples to 303 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,640 empower us and to guide us and to gift us and to make us new. 304 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,920 And after a while of doing this, sooner or later, most of us come 305 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,880 to a point where we start to live, act and believe as if we 306 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,800 are doing the work. And the Spirit is maybe given a 307 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,800 little nudge and help here and there. 308 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,440 I'm going to throw a picture up on the screen. 309 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,080 Some of you will be familiar with this little contraption. 310 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,400 It's called a trailer bike. And and it's something you put 311 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,320 on the back of your bike as you've got a kid who's starting 312 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,160 to learn how to ride a bike and doesn't go in kind of those 313 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,320 little tent trailers on the back anymore. 314 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,120 And you get a kid and they they get to kind of pedal along on 315 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:45,720 the back. They get to participate in the 316 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,600 ride. But guess what? 317 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:56,600 If the adult who's on the front stops pedaling that bike, there 318 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,080 is not enough power in the rear to keep the bike going. 319 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,800 If the adult stops pedaling, the power is gone. 320 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:12,200 In the Christian life, if the Spirit isn't doing the work, the 321 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,920 power is gone. You might deceive yourself into 322 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,680 thinking you're doing the work and you're doing the pedaling. 323 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,760 You don't do SWAT. You're just like the kid on the 324 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,840 back of the bike. You get to participate. 325 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,680 It's glorious, it's awesome. You get to go along for the ride 326 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:33,440 and you should keep those feet pedaling, but you're not doing 327 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,560 the work. The number one indicator that 328 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:42,480 you've fallen into the trap of forgetting that it's Jesus who's 329 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,360 doing the work. It's the Holy Spirit who's doing 330 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:45,400 the work. You know what the number one 331 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,880 indicator is? Our lives begin to be marked 332 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,360 more by doing than by praying. Soon as your life begins to be 333 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:58,440 marked more by doing things for God, then by crying out to God 334 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,760 to help Him do the things you can't do, you're in trouble. 335 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,000 See, when we understand that God is doing the work and inviting 336 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,280 us into it, and that nothing ultimately gets done without Him 337 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:16,880 doing the work that needs to get done, prayer moves from our last 338 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:21,560 resort in life to our first response in situations. 339 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:28,360 So let me ask you a few questions in your life right 340 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:32,680 now. Are you spending more time 341 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:41,080 trying to fix your friends, fix your kids, fix your spouse? 342 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:51,120 Then you are praying for them is your solution to the to the sin 343 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:55,280 that you're struggling with it is your solution more about 344 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:03,080 trying harder or inviting the Holy Spirit in more in those 345 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:10,680 moments of temptation? Are you trying to overcome the 346 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,400 struggle that we all come up with it sometimes? 347 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,800 This struggle that we started talking about, about this 348 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,560 struggle with self doubt and self worth. 349 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:26,080 By looking inside yourself or looking to others to validate 350 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,880 your value and your worth, or by looking to God's word and seeing 351 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,240 men, you are fearfully and wonderfully made. 352 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,360 The God of the universe loves you so much He sent his Son to 353 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:41,520 die for you. I just need you to know we start 354 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,000 off by saying you are not enough. 355 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:47,000 That does not mean that you are not incredibly, incredibly 356 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,680 valuable. You have unbelievable value, but 357 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,040 you just are not going to recognize that value by 358 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,240 validating yourself or seeking validation from others. 359 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:03,200 Now here's some good news. The good news in all this is 360 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,480 when we believe that we are not enough, but that Jesus is 361 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,680 enough. It's enough. 362 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,920 It's enough. The solution to the problems 363 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,680 that we all face in in making our way through this fallen and 364 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:23,200 broken world is not to believe harder in ourselves. 365 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,680 It's to ask God to help us believe more in Him. 366 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,600 Again, let me take you to Mark's account of this story. 367 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,720 It's one of my absolute favorite prayers in all of scripture that 368 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,800 comes out of this story. See Mark records it this way. 369 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,200 The Father came to Jesus and he said, listen, if you can do 370 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:50,080 anything, if you could just do anything, have compassion on us 371 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,880 and help us. Jesus said to him, if you can, 372 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,320 everything is possible for the one who believes. 373 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,040 Let me unpack that First. Let me unpack Jesus statement 374 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,400 saying if you would really believe in me, if you would 375 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:13,680 really know me, you would trust me to be enough and trust that I 376 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,000 am always enough. Because belief in Jesus is 377 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,400 always enough to fix anything and everything. 378 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,880 And here's what I mean by that. Why is that? 379 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:32,040 Because if you believe in Jesus, one day you will be with Jesus 380 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,760 when he fixes everything and anything. 381 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,960 See that is the absolute promise. 382 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,040 Jesus is going to fix it all. Romans 10/9 says if you confess 383 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,920 with your mouth, Jesus is the Lord, believe in your heart, God 384 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,240 raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 385 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,720 And we think of that as some disembodied salvation taken up 386 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:54,160 into into clouds and woo woo playing harps and stuff. 387 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,480 That's not it. Jesus came to rescue and redeem 388 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:02,000 everything, a new heaven, a new earth, all creation to set right 389 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,840 all that was broken and wrong. He didn't like design physical 390 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,320 matter by accident. It was the point for you to be a 391 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:14,160 physical embodied being. And His plan is to renew and 392 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,720 restore all things to the way it was meant to be. 393 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:25,920 And so that means someday, fully, completely forever, you 394 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,560 will be healed. I don't know whether it's going 395 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:32,080 to happen this side of glory or the next, but I have zero 396 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:37,280 question that it will happen. You will be set free of of 397 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,920 temptation and sin. You may struggle your entire 398 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,280 life, but I'm telling you, there's a day coming where 399 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:44,480 you're not going to struggle anymore. 400 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,560 You will enjoy the fullness of the world without evil, without 401 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,400 injustice, without pain, without heartache, without loss, just as 402 00:28:54,400 --> 00:29:00,800 God made it to be. If you believe Jesus, that's all 403 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:06,040 it requires. But this is where it gets really 404 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,280 good. We all have moments where we 405 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,200 struggle to believe what we believe, right? 406 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,840 Probably today you'll have a moment where, like the thing 407 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:20,440 that you say you believe up here is not somehow reaching here. 408 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,400 It's not being lived out in the way that you live. 409 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,280 What do we do in those moments where I believe, but I'm not 410 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:34,840 sure that I believe. We ask God to help be enough for 411 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:40,960 us, even in our unbelief. Immediately upon Jesus saying 412 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,440 what he said to this man, if I can do anything, you just just 413 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,240 believe. Immediately the father of the 414 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,440 boy cried out. I do believe. 415 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:55,800 Help me in my unbelief. What a prayer, man. 416 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,320 That is a prayer that so many of us need to pray so often. 417 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,200 I believe. Help me in my unbelief. 418 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,240 Help me in those areas, Lord. Where? 419 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:08,160 Where? Yeah. 420 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:12,080 If I was given the test and the exam, I know the right thing to 421 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,720 say. I know the right answer to give. 422 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,520 But I'm not sure I want to believe it, but I'm not sure 423 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,960 that I really believe that you can fix what's broken in this 424 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,600 situation. I just want to tell you, your 425 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,120 family is not beyond Jesus's ability to save. 426 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:38,480 Your situation is not so far gone that Jesus can't do 427 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,240 anything about it. It's beyond his ability. 428 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:48,520 If you believe in Jesus, one day all that is broken and all that 429 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,560 breaks our hearts. And I don't know how this all 430 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,400 works. I just believe Jesus is going to 431 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,600 make it right. Evil is defeated, sin is 432 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,840 destroyed, the power of darkness and death is forever expelled. 433 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:09,960 That's the way the story ends with Jesus the Father didn't 434 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:15,200 come with perfect faith. He came with desperate faith. 435 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:21,920 And he prayed the really the most feeble prayer that anybody 436 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,800 could pray. I believe but I don't really 437 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,680 believe helped me in my own belief that's it feels so feeble 438 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,920 and yet cried out to God with true humility and true 439 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,600 desperation. It is more powerful than 440 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,160 anything that you can do in your own strength and flesh. 441 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,320 Only when we we we get to the point where we're fully honest 442 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,400 about our weakness are we ready to actually see Jesus working 443 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,480 strength. Theo Moody said this. 444 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,880 He said God sends no one away empty except those who are full 445 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:01,000 of themselves. See, some of you think what 446 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,080 disqualifies you from coming to Jesus is your weakness. 447 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:11,080 But weakness is exactly what qualifies you to come. 448 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,840 The only people that Jesus can't help are the people who think 449 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:24,360 they don't need Jesus's help. So stop trying to be enough and 450 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,640 start trusting that Jesus is enough for you. 451 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,160 Just as we come to a close here and begin to wrap this up, I 452 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,920 want to give you some time this morning. 453 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,800 Just reflect on what God is saying to you through this 454 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,440 message, through this story, through this encounter. 455 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,480 What is the Holy Spirit been pushing on you? 456 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,560 1st I just say if you've never cried out that cry of desperate 457 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:57,040 prayer for salvation to Jesus did to say Jesus, I know deep 458 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,600 down I am not enough. I'm not sufficient. 459 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,480 I can't do this. I haven't earned your love and 460 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,560 your salvation. You just cry out to him and you 461 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,080 say but you, you died because you love me. 462 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:14,520 You forgive my sins. I want to follow you then let 463 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:20,320 today be that day and know that it is true. 464 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,840 The words of Romans 10/9 and 10 right? 465 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,480 If we confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe 466 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,040 in our heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be 467 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,960 saved. But then for those of you who 468 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,000 who Yeah, you're there. You know that salvation reality 469 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,920 to be true. Are there areas where you have 470 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,400 been trying and instead this morning, maybe you need to try 471 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:54,560 praying, Maybe it's in that area of trying to fix your marriage. 472 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,240 I, I truly, honestly, I tell couples that I meet with all the 473 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,160 time. I believe that one of the 474 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,320 reasons that Amanda and I are together today, that I love that 475 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:09,280 woman more than I loved her the day we first met or the day we 476 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:15,840 said I do on on the stage in the church where we got married. 477 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:21,440 I believe it's because my wife is way smarter than me and she 478 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,320 was the one who came to recognition about a little while 479 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,280 into our marriage, but longer than I wish it would have taken, 480 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,400 where she realized that we were never going to change one 481 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,600 another. No amount of nagging, no amount 482 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,960 of complaining, no amount of fighting, bickering, arguing, 483 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:44,159 passive aggressive behavior, no amount of self help books, 484 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:47,120 marriage books was going to ultimately change the other 485 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,360 person. What was going to change the 486 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,080 other person was believing that Jesus could change the other 487 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:57,720 person and go in and, and, and taking the thing that was 488 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,560 bothering us or the thing that was a struggle in our marriage 489 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,480 and coming to them and putting it before them. 490 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,040 But then putting it before the Lord and saying if this is me, 491 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,560 change me. And if this is them, change 492 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,520 them. And Lord, if you don't change 493 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,400 anybody, then give me the patience to be able to live with 494 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:17,960 this until you do. Or can you trust not just your 495 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,400 marriage, but your kids to a God who loves them more than even 496 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,640 you love them? Maybe your prayer today needs to 497 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,200 be Lord, I believe that you love them more than me. 498 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:32,720 Help me in my unbelief. I know how hard it is to believe 499 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:34,240 that somebody could love your kids more than you. 500 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:39,680 God loves your kids more than you love your kids, and He can 501 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:48,680 do for them what you can't. Maybe today, maybe you need to 502 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:54,520 just ask God to give you the faith to believe the prayers 503 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,480 that you've been offering before him, that quite honestly, you've 504 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,560 started to struggle to believe God. 505 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:08,320 Maybe your prayer is just this God, I have believed in you for 506 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:15,360 blank. But if I'm honest, I haven't 507 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,640 really. I know there's a disconnect 508 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,160 here. Help me in my unbelief. 509 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,920 Help me really, truly believe that you could do something 510 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:31,560 about this there. There might not be anybody in 511 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:37,440 all of church history who got used in a greater way for 512 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,520 greater purposes to build this church than the Apostle Paul. 513 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:52,280 In 2nd Corinthians 12, Paul talks about a a, a gift that God 514 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:57,040 had given to him that felt like anything but a gift was the gift 515 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:02,840 of weakness. The he said he had this thorn in 516 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,480 the flesh. We're never told what it was, 517 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,360 whether it was spiritual or physical. 518 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,760 He had this thing that he said was from Satan. 519 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:15,640 It was just it he kept on bashing his head against it was 520 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:22,840 it was keeping him from being enough and he was crying out for 521 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:29,200 it to be removed. He cried out fervently, and 522 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,080 ultimately the Lord says this to him. 523 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:39,280 He says My grace is sufficient for you because my power is made 524 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:44,680 perfect in your weakness. And this was Paul's response. 525 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:51,720 Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my 526 00:37:51,720 --> 00:37:56,280 weakness so that Christ's power can reside in me. 527 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,880 So I take pleasure in my weakness, insults, hardships, 528 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,720 persecution, and in difficulties for the sake of Christ. 529 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:10,680 For when I am weak, that's when I'm strong. 530 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,680 Paul thanked God for the constant reminder that he was 531 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:20,600 not enough, because it was a constant reminder and a constant 532 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,560 call to the One who is enough. Without it, he even says 533 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,520 himself, he would have grown arrogant. 534 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,760 He would have grown boastful. He would have believed that he 535 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,400 was doing this all in his own strength, that he was pedaling 536 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:38,040 that bike forward. But because he knew his weakness 537 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:43,240 and he knew how desperate his need was, he grew to know how 538 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:48,520 big his God was. Would that be true for all of 539 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,120 us? Let me pray over you. 540 00:38:56,720 --> 00:39:02,560 God, we would love if we got to be known and shaped by our 541 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:07,480 power. We would love to be those who 542 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:15,200 are seen as glorious and strong. Thank you for this reminder. 543 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:20,200 It's just not true. Every single one of us. 544 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,800 We're weak. None of us in this room are 545 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,760 enough. We're not enough in the 546 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,960 struggles we face. We're not enough in the sins we 547 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,640 combat. We're not enough in the 548 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:40,520 relationships we're in. We're not enough to fix 549 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,240 ourselves. So how would we ever fix 550 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:46,160 somebody else? But Jesus, you're more than 551 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:52,320 enough, Holy Spirit. You are more than enough in US 552 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,680 and through us to do what we could never do on our own. 553 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,880 And God, I know that in this place, even in my own heart, 554 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,600 there are areas where I believe, but I struggle to believe. 555 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,280 I struggle to believe that you're enough. 556 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,760 Help me in my own belief, be enough. 557 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,160 In Jesus name, Amen.