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Welcome To The River. 
City Church podcast and a 

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message by our lead. 
Pastor Jason Powers our prayer 

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is that this message would 
Inspire and encourage you, build

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your faith. 
And point you to the 

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life-changing love of Jesus, may
you enjoy the goodness of God as

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you follow him today, we're 
going to jump into the messenger

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second, but we begin with our 
confession and we put our 

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confession aside for a few 
weeks. 

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So if you have come since the 
beginning of the year, you may 

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not have heard our confession 
yet, and we're going to it. 

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And that's, that's it. 
That's okay. 

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The reason we step back from 
this because we wanted to make 

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sure that we're not just kind of
skipping through it, right, that

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we're not just kind of saying 
it, but that we understand what 

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we're talking about, right? 
And so, for the first three 

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weeks, when we saw God's design,
his order for creation, and then

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the fall, and then how he begins
to bring us back, it gives us an

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understanding of exactly what it
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When we confess and our 
confession has churches that 

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we're badly broken Yes, you are 
Grace and peace to you. 

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We began this Redemption Journey
that's going to lead us to 

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Eastern. 
We saw last week of Jesus came 

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and really begin talking about 
the kingdom. 

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The Kingdom of Heaven, the 
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Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. 
And what was saw in the kingdom,

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was Jesus coming to reinstitute?
The order of the Garden of Eden,

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we saw in the garden, right? 
That God created everything in 

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order and he placed mankind 
there to work it and he said 

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that was Mankind's vote. 
Haitian our work, our role in 

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this creation, was to take God's
goodness and His glory and 

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reflected into creation by 
multiplication to make sure that

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the Earth was full of the glory 
of God that everywhere you look,

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you said, oh my gosh, this is 
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Look at all of the order. 
Look at how things Bloom when 

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they're supposed to how there's 
things that are healthy in the 

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whole earth is created, but we 
sin and we said, yeah, we'd 

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rather not have you or we like 
to have your stuff if we could 

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have your stuff without you, 
Jesus, that would be Great. 

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And the father was like, you 
chose and so we walked out into 

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the middle of the story, and 
until we come to Jesus, we find 

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Jesus beginning to put the story
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And when you go back to the 
garden and you see this Kingdom 

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that Jesus called us into its 
all about peace, right? 

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Like we saw this Adam and Eve 
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garden. 
There was peace. 

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And we saw the animals came to 
them and they named them and 

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Adam and Eve were naked. 
And they weren't in it, they 

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weren't ashamed. 
And so they walked around and 

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they were content. 
They had enough, they And what 

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they needed and that's what God 
created, that's his design, 

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that's his ordered, that's what 
he wants to call us into. 

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He wanted to call us into a life
of fruitfulness. 

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You know the thing is Adam was 
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and so when Adam was placed in 
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blooming. 
Adam didn't have to go. 

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How am I going to get the grass 
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He walked into a garden and said
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His only job was to take what 
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expand it and spread it based on
what was there on, what God had 

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provided and I was Community God
and Adam and Eve enjoying the 

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garden enjoying creation and 
enjoying each other. 

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And the thing is that 
description resonates with most 

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of us, right? 
Like when we think about 

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fruitfulness, like don't you 
think, wouldn't you love the 

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idea of going to work and just 
having your job in your when you

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come on every day? 
You just go. 

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Oh my gosh. 
It's like I did ten minutes of 

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hard-working. 
Got hours worth of fruit of 

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that. 
Wouldn't you just love to Come 

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home and just go seems like 
every single thing that I touch 

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is beautiful, wouldn't that be 
wonderful wouldn't be wonderful 

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to look at people in the eyes 
and know that the deepest parts 

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of yourself are not only known 
but accepted and that you are 

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loved in spite of, who are the 
people will look at you and just

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assume the best. 
Even if it's contrary to kind of

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what they see, and they just go.
Hey, I believe that in you. 

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I believe there's something in 
you that God wants to get out. 

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Wouldn't your world be better? 
Wouldn't we like that? 

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When we love it, if all of the 
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we just knew we're going to be 
it's going to be okay, right. 

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So we want all these things and 
I think it's fair to say the 

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reason we want these things is 
because whatever it is that 

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we're trying isn't producing 
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And that was Genesis 3. 
That was the curse or The God 

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says you're going to do the same
things that you've done and the 

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garden. 
You're going to live together. 

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You're going to have 
relationships with their not 

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going to be fulfilling like they
were Were absent God's presence.

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You're going to still have work,
but it's going to be toil in the

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ground is gonna produce thorns 
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And that's what it's going to be
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And so, our methods, our way of 
life doesn't produce what it is 

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that we're looking for. 
And so we searched and we 

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searched and we searched 
different ways, right? 

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We just say, well, I'm going to 
double down on this fruitfulness

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part, right? 
So I'm just go, I really want to

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see us, so I'm gonna go to work.
I'm gonna work hard, I'm gonna 

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get it, get it, get it. 
So we start to see our work grow

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and grow, and grow, and build 
were building this thing in our 

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hearts, get attached to it. 
And we look around her, kids are

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off the reservation and our 
families are Our part because 

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we're focusing so much of our 
attention here and then we go, 

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oh my gosh, I can't abandon my 
kids and so we go and we focus 

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on our marriage. 
We focus on her kids and we try 

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to make peace. 
And then we see, oh well, the 

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bottom line comes and we look 
and we just go his there ever 

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enough? 
This is the problem of scarcity,

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by the way, see when mankind 
walked out of the garden and out

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of the presence of God, what 
they left behind was the god who

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created all things, the God who 
said, let there be and there 

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was. 
And so when Jesus Shows up and 

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starts talking about repent. 
He says, repent because the 

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Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, he
confronts us with this 

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invitation, right? 
And he just says, Hey, follow me

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and I'll show you the Kingdom. 
So the question that the 

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disciples face, it's really the 
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The question that we face today 
is, do you really believe that 

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the things that Jesus Promised 
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Do you really believe that the 
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, it

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is in our time and in our space 
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Kingdom of Heaven is just some 
nice neat ideas, some good 

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things that Jesus said there 
really mean when we die we're 

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going to sit on a cloud and play
a harp. 

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Because Jesus Took the kingdom 
of heaven with utmost 

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seriousness, and he calls the 
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Everywhere. 
You See, Jesus going. 

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And every time you see Jesus 
saying, the Kingdom of Heaven is

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at hand, you find him touching 
somebody and healing them. 

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You find him feeding somebody 
who is hungry, you find him 

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comforting, and encouraging 
someone who is sick or lost or 

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lonely. 
And so, every time that Jesus 

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talked about the kingdom, he 
spoke in terms of or he spoke 

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and then he acted. 
And so we're going to see one of

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those actions today. 
And we kind of alluded at it, 

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eluded to it last week, we're 
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today. 
And I'm going to try to hurry, 

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right? 
And hit and hit some of these 

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things. 
You're like, yeah, but you're 

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not gonna and you're probably 
right, but we'll do our best, 

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right? 
So this idea of the Kingdom, 

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right? 
Of Jesus, trying to get his 

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disciples, not just to 
understand intellectually, the 

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idea that the kingdom is at 
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it to physically Express those 
Kingdom realities. 

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And what I would say to us is, 
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Jesus, this is the same 
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Us. 
And if you're here, and you're 

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not a follower of Jesus, like, 
somebody just drugged you here 

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and you're like, they said, they
would buy me lunch. 

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Well, let me just tell you. 
If they're in a buy, you lunch, 

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you made a good choice. 
I'm glad that you're here, 

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right? 
And that's all we need. 

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But while you're here, you may, 
you know, learn something as 

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well, right? 
And so, this is the idea that 

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Jesus wants us to, really 
believe that the kingdom is a 

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real thing. 
And it's really at hand, and 

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it's really present, and it's 
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So, let's see the shape that 
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We started Mark chapter 6, in 
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If you look before this, Jesus 
had sent them out about the 

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King, right? 
And he said, Hey listen, I want 

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you to go heal diseases. 
Okay? 

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So listen when he says he'll 
diseases, who does that impact, 

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right? 
I'm going to say a word is going

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to be the answer to everything 
so you can repeat in your son, 

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really smart. 
The reason Jesus wanted to heal 

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diseases was because of people. 
Why did Jesus want to feed 

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hungry people because hungry 
people are people. 

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People is a thing, right? 
Why did Jesus tell to heal the 

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disease of the people because he
wanted to elevate the condition 

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of what people see. 
It's really about People see, 

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Jesus is about the people, so 
let's see what happens. 

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Now, verse 30, the apostles 
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Then they told him all that they
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says to me, Come Away by 
yourselves to a desolate place 

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and rest a while for many were 
coming and going and they had no

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leisure even to eat some. 
This message, this passage in 

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Mark, chapter 6 is about a lot 
of things it's about provision. 

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It's about miracles, it's about 
multiplication. 

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It's about disciples and it's 
about all of that. 

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But among all of the other 
things, the one thing the aspect

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of this die, I'm that I want to 
dial in on today is that Jesus 

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invites his disciples to rest. 
To rest. 

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Now I want to ask you. 
What does that mean to you? 

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Some of you may believe that 
Jesus really isn't interested in

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that arrest. 
Jesus Took a cross for you and 

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by God, you'll serve him until 
you're done and if you die along

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the way, well at least he took a
cross for you, right? 

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We get it. 
We do so much like spiritual 

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exercise and engine. 
We just go and just tired. 

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So the question is, when was the
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And I don't mean inactive, 
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Because Stillness isn't 
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Friday is Fridays, are my 
Sabbath now, I know if I sit 

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down on Friday and I spend all 
day Going through Tick-Tock. 

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Now my my muscles may be at rest
but is my heart in my soul going

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to be at rest. 
I'm gonna go to bed that night 

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and I'm going to feel just as 
bedraggled and beat up and weary

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and my soul as I was when I went
to bed because it's not always 

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just about Stillness. 
How about this? 

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And this will be foreign to some
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But some of you know what it's 
like to spend all day on the 

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couch because the fear and the 
anxiety in your heart is so 

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compelling and deep and Rich 
that you can't get up. 

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You're afraid of outside the 
door and so, you know, that's 

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not rest. 
If you look at the outside of 

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it, it looks like you're just 
sitting down, you're sitting but

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you know, it's not rest in your 
soul, but also it's the reality 

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is sometimes activity is 
actually restful. 

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I used to coach my daughter's 
softball team and let me just 

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tell you, it was a lot of work, 
lots of practices, and games, 

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and four nights a week and do 
all that stuff. 

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It was one of the most rested 
and restful seasons of my life, 

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because it was all the things 
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I love softball of the baseball 
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So softball coaching. 
Softball was busy, but it was 

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restful every time I go play 
golf. 

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Now, I come back and I had to 
take a nap and I've eat a big 

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lunch and I feel rested in my 
soul. 

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Because of activity because 
acting and doing things makes me

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feel at rest. 
So then the question becomes if 

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it's not just Stillness and if 
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Then what is rest? 
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That Jesus called his disciples 
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the picture of rest? 
Look like to you, maybe it looks

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like that. 
Yeah, you know it's so restful 

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about that all the people are 
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That's what I look like. 
My rest is actually more like 

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this. 
That's the one we're going to go

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a little less grainy and hazy. 
Probably higher resolution but 

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you know, you go on places and 
you always see these pictures 

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right there. 
Like, would you live here for a 

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year with? 
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Wireless internet for a million 
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I was like I'll give you a 
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there for a year with no 
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Is that what rest looks like to 
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Because here's the deal if 
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Then we're kind of in trouble, 
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Because most of the time we 
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feel overwhelmed and burned on a
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I can't just get to that beach 
because we live in Texas on that

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beach is not in Texas. 
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right. 
But right, if that's all the 

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rest is the most Us are settled 
in for a lifetime of weariness 

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because we can't always get 
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disciples to rest, right? 
And here we go, verse 32. 

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What does it say? 
And they went away in the boat 

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to a desolate place by 
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You're like, thank you, Jesus. 
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can just sit there and you have 
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tell stories. 
Be one, it'll be fun right verse

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33. 
Now many saw them going and 

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recognized and they ran their on
foot from all the towns and they

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got there. 
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So you can imagine, they're on 
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I'm gonna have my tie Jesus and 
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read my book. 
I'm going to start a fire and 

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I'm gonna do all that, and then 
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And at the end of the story, we 
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which means there may have been,
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Hi everybody. 
So, the question is, when you're

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expecting a rest, when you feel 
like you've been called away, to

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get some rest with Jesus and his
people and 20,000 people, Are 

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staring you in the eyeballs. 
Needing something from you. 

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Do you feel rested? 
Because it may not be 20,000. 

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People wanting Sermon from you, 
but it may be three kids needing

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to be different places every 
night of every week for the rest

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of your life, it seems a right? 
I mean, that's where we are 

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right now. 
What do we what do we do, right?

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Like Lord, how do I rest when 
I've got high school baseball in

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middle school, cheer, and 
high-end and middle school plays

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and, and and Lord, I want to do 
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Like, how do we find rest in the
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And we see this, I'm always 
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see the Disciples. 
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And and, you know, the crowds 
are coming first and see like 

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what does Jesus do, okay? 
Because this is important, when 

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we read the scriptures and you 
see Jesus, we're not Jesus in 

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the scripture, right? 
Like you can't. 

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Look at just go ahead and look 
how I resonate with that, right,

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where the disciples, right? 
So, let's first, let's see what 

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Jesus. 
Now, again, Jesus is a busy guy 

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to write. 
Jesus is doing Ministry and all 

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this stuff. 
And here we come verse 33. 

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Now many verse 34. 
When he, when Jesus went ashore,

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he saw a great crowd and he had 
compassion, On them for a 

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reason, right? 
Because they were like sheep 

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without a shepherd and he began 
to teach them many things. 

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I just want to say right now 
that some of you think when you 

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get busy and you get worn out 
and your heart gets empty and 

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you feel like you're out of 
energy, some of you think that 

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what Jesus is saying to you, is 
what's wrong with you? 

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Why don't you have more What 
happened to the energy? 

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I gave you last week and what I 
want to say is when you are 

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searching and you are seeking 
and you are like a shepherd and 

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you are wandering around and you
go I don't know what's coming or

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going or where I'm at and you 
look up what I want to know is 

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when Jesus looks on your 
condition and your situation and

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your lost and helpless and 
searching what Jesus feels for 

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you, it's compassion. 
That's so important because if 

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you think that Jesus is angry 
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you'll miss it. 
You'll never find the rest that 

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you seek, you will always be 
working and trying and going and

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getting their right. 
But Jesus feels compassion now 

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what are the disciples do verse 
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And when it grew late, his 
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said, this is a decibel desolate
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So send them away to go into the
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Villages and buy themselves 
something to eat now. 

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It's real nice. 
Yeah, let him go get something 

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to eat but You can hear behind 
their voice. 

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We want rest, I'm tired of 
working. 

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I'm tired of all the people 
neat. 

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You got to preach a sermon. 
Glad your ministry is going so 

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good. 
Jesus, send them away because 

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you talk to us about rest. 
Now the question that I want to 

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say is why was Jesus able to 
respond differently 

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instinctively differently than 
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If you'll notice this there's 
not this sense of Jesus stand 

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about going. 
Oh my gosh what should I do what

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it says is that Showed up, he 
gets off the boat and he just 

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instinctively and naturally has 
compassion for them. 

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And what did the disciples 
naturally and instinctively have

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disdain? 
Send them away? 

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Because we often I think see 
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it comes to busyness, right? 
If my kids coach would just not 

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call practices all the time kids
coaches in the room, by the way,

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which is always a fun thing. 
Right today, I write if they 

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were just not schedule so much 
salt, then I would be at rest 

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here, right? 
And maybe it's not about the 

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coach, maybe it's about 
something else, right? 

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Here's the good. 
Here's a good news in this, 

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right? 
Comes from a question, can there

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be rest in chaos? 
Can there be peace in busyness? 

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Because if Jesus only calls us 
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will spend most of our lives 
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And that's just not the picture 
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that's not the invitation that 
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people. 
And so we find are these two 

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instinctive responses and the 
word for an Did response is 

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habit. 
You know habits, right? 

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Addictions are habits right. 
Talk about what's a, what's a 

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habit, right. 
Smoking is a habit chewing your 

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nails. 
I'm a nail biter and they'll 

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sure it's gross but it's a 
habit. 

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I don't want to do it. 
I just find myself that I have 

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done it, right? 
And we think about those things.

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Those are some habits that we 
have, right? 

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And your mom may be thinking 
about a habit that you have. 

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But listen, all kinds of things 
can be habits. 

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Anything that comes up. 
Instinctively is a habit. 

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Did you know anger can be a 
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You ever just go suddenly I'm 
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Like, why can a nine-year-old 
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Send me over the moon, right? 
Like because anger is a habit, 

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fear can be a habit and what 
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intentionally, right? 
What is he doing? 

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He's confronting his disciples 
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Scarcity says there's too much 
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Resource, right? 
So Jesus has compassion, the 

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disciples have a freak out. 
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what does Jesus do when 
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When we look around the world, 
and we look around the room, and

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we look around our life and we 
say, there's not enough, there's

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not enough money, there's not 
enough hope. 

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There's not enough goodness, 
there's not enough, right? 

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There's not enough in this 
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What does Jesus do? 
Does Jesus step back and 

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especially in this idea of rest,
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Because we're running and we're 
going and we're striving for all

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these things. 
We love Jesus. 

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I want all the things that you 
want, how get beer, I don't want

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peace, and fruit and community, 
and all that who were just 

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running, we're going. 
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invitation and His call to rest.
Is it a big joke? 

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Did he just do Polly? 
Hey guys, come follow get some 

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rest with me so that they could 
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his slaves. 
The resounding answer has to be.

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No Jesus doesn't give in to the 
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because he knows because he 
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The reality is the Kingdom, 
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So, what does Jesus do, verse 37
are like, Jesus, send them away.

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There's too much Reese. 
There's too much need. 

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There's not enough resource. 
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Jesus says You give them 
something to eat. 

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Hey, you go feed 20,000 people. 
See, this is what Jesus does. 

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He does this start, can you 
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You look around. 
You're like I like I'm hungry 

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Jesus. 
You said, if I follow you we 

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would get away and then you 
leave me do like a Ministry 

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rally and I'm hungry, and 
they're hungry, and Jesus like, 

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well you give him something. 
Now, let me just real quick, 

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pause and and make sure that 
we're making all these 

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connections to the big picture 
in the big story. 

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Right? 
What did God tell Adam and Eve 

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to do in the garden to be 
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And what he said right like 
Maintain the order of the 

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garden. 
Now, here's a question and the 

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Garden of Eden was there, ever 
anybody or anything hungry in 

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the Garden of Eden? 
Was there anyone like where the 

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deer are like? 
Hey, we're gonna have to split 

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this apple because there's not 
enough apples in the Garden of 

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Eden, right? 
No, there was plenty of 

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everything. 
So, here's the deal, we can say 

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that a hungry crowd is the 
antithesis of the kingdom of 

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God, isn't it, right? 
So what did Jesus do to his 

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disciples fellas? 
You've got a vocation. 

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You better get after it and so 
this I think this very well may 

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be the thing that keeps us from 
truly and actually feeling, and 

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being rested and our lives. 
Are you ready? 

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Nope. 
Because I know, as I was writing

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this all week long, as I think 
I'm missing this Jesus, because 

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it doesn't make sense. 
And what I meant when I said it 

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doesn't make sense is Lord. 
I can't comprehend in this 

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little brain, how all of that 
works because what it sounds 

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like is it sounds like 
counterintuitive, right? 

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But Jesus called his disciples 
to rest and I don't think Jesus 

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saw the boat companies. 
Like, oh my gosh. 

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Now what now, what am I going to
do? 

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How are we going to go ahead? 
And I don't think Jesus like, 

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hey, I'm so sorry guys, man, I 
didn't know what I'm sorry, but 

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we'll go rest now, right? 
Right? 

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With Jesus said, as you give 
them something to eat. 

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And so when Jesus, Faces weary 
and tired disciples like you 

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maybe Jesus engages them in the 
deep. 

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Rest of Kingdom work and you're 
like those are opposites rest 

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and work. 
Now let me just say I ask real 

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quick and just say that we have 
that Paradigm, right? 

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And we believe it rest and work 
are opposite. 

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Here's the deal. 
If that were true wouldn't we 

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all be more rested? 
If we knew what actually made 

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rest, wouldn't we be more 
rested? 

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And so, what Jesus does when 
faced with weary disciples is, 

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he reminds them of what they 
were created for. 

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He reminds them of their 
vocation and he points their 

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eyes, and he goes. 
Listen, hungry people is not a 

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problem that we in the kingdom 
are supposed to are supposed to 

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have. 
We're supposed to meet that 

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need. 
And so, you disciples, as 

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citizens of that Kingdom, you 
should go fix that. 

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You fix it, right? 
And so, What happened is they 

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were tired? 
They were fatigued. 

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If you go back before Matthew 
6:33, Jesus sends them out by 

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himself. 
And now he comes back and 

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they're still hungry people. 
They're still lost people. 

448
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,000
They're still hungry hurting 
people, right? 

449
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,900
And Jesus calls them to rest and
then he stands with them and he 

450
00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:32,700
walks. 
And so, here's a new and a 

451
00:22:32,708 --> 00:22:35,500
different, I hope. 
And I think a better definition 

452
00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:40,800
of rest rest is the habit of 
being with Jesus in a chaotic 

453
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:45,900
world. 
We don't get to just live our 

454
00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:49,900
lives on the beach. 
And listen, I would say that, 

455
00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:52,300
even if you could, every once in
a while, you talk to somebody 

456
00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:53,900
who's retiring, right? 
And you just ask them about, hey

457
00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:55,300
what are you going to do when 
you retire and what do they do? 

458
00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:56,700
They sell him to go. 
Sit on a beach somewhere. 

459
00:22:56,700 --> 00:22:58,800
I'm going to do nothing. 
The reality is that usually 

460
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,600
doesn't last very long. 
Do you know why? 

461
00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:04,200
Because we were created for 
purpose. 

462
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,300
We were created for a vocation. 
So what I hear someone who says 

463
00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:09,300
I'm just going to go sit on the 
beach for months what I think 

464
00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:11,400
is. 
That's a person who's tired. 

465
00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:13,900
That's a person who is 
exhausted. 

466
00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:17,200
That's a person who has been 
working and not seeing fruit and

467
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,900
peace and Immunity and life into
their world, right? 

468
00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:25,800
And so the thing that the matter
of rest for us is not as much 

469
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,400
what we're doing as who we're 
doing it with. 

470
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,600
Now, the reality of that is if 
we start focusing, not just on 

471
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,100
what we're doing, but on who 
we're doing it with immediately 

472
00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:41,300
will realize, there are some 
things that will stop doing 

473
00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:43,600
right, I'll stop controlling 
people. 

474
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,900
Stop manipulating people will 
stop having voice will stop 

475
00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:48,000
dividing, right? 
But what happens is we don't 

476
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,800
have to Kiss on those things so 
much. 

477
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,700
They just become habits they 
become Instinct. 

478
00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:56,100
And so, what we're going to do 
real quick, I'm going to try to 

479
00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:59,300
blow through this and show. 
What I want to in show is some 

480
00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:03,800
habitual responses that Jesus 
had in this series, that allowed

481
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,200
him to overcome scarcity, right?
Some habitual responses that 

482
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,800
Jesus had and how those habits 
how we can practice those and 

483
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,900
build this. 
Because this is Lent, right? 

484
00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:16,300
And Lynn is a season, right? 
Where we're giving things up and

485
00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:19,300
we're trying new stuff. 
So what is Don't mean for our 

486
00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:21,100
spiritual formation. 
Alright, so here we go. 

487
00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:23,500
We're going to start in the 
second half of verse 37 and 

488
00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:25,100
we're just going to pick up what
I think. 

489
00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:28,000
Think, think some things that 
Jesus just did that are 

490
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,000
instructive for us. 
Okay, Mark 6:37. 

491
00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:37,400
Second part of 37 says this. 
And they said, well, should we 

492
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,200
go buy 200? 
Denarius worth of bread and give

493
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,400
them to eat. 
A Denarius was about a day's 

494
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,900
wages, right? 
So you can see them just going. 

495
00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:48,600
If we had nine months worth of 
wages, here, we couldn't Feed. 

496
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,200
All these people, this isn't 
like, hey, I've got two pizzas 

497
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,900
and 12 youth and there's no way 
they're going to. 

498
00:24:54,908 --> 00:24:56,400
They're going to eat all of 
this, right? 

499
00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:01,100
This is like a ridiculous 
overwhelming amount of need and 

500
00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:05,000
as of yet zero provision and 
Jesus is like, oh yeah, I just 

501
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,100
go have just feed them. 
Oh yeah, they're hungry. 

502
00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,500
You just feed him, right. 
He said, should we go do this? 

503
00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:12,500
And Jesus said, or how many do 
you have? 

504
00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:20,800
Not 20,000. 
If they all had enough, maybe 

505
00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:22,800
fool right now. 
They wouldn't eat rice like. 

506
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,500
So how much do you have? 
And when they found out they 

507
00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:30,200
said five Five Loaves and two 
fish. 

508
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,000
Now I know what you're thinking.
You're like thing in love, like 

509
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,500
I little baguette, right? 
I've seen French bread light, 

510
00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:36,500
it's long and 8 feet long. 
You're right. 

511
00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:39,000
If we get a couple sailfish, 
maybe we can feed them. 

512
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:44,300
All right, false. 
Sardines and like crackers 

513
00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:45,900
barley loaves, they would have 
fit in your hand. 

514
00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:49,500
It's a little boys lunch. 
It's a little boys lunch. 

515
00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:51,200
Would you like well, hey, 20,000
people there. 

516
00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:54,100
What do you have, right? 
And so this is an example of 

517
00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:56,200
scarcity, right? 
When you look and just go, 

518
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,600
there's too much month at the 
end of the money, right? 

519
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,200
When you go, there's not enough 
self confidence in me to stand 

520
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,700
up and to do the right thing. 
There's not enough discipline in

521
00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:09,000
me to get up and go to church. 
There's not enough courage in me

522
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000
to make my kids. 
Do what I want to do, there's 

523
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,000
just Just not enough, there's 
this habit that we practice of 

524
00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:17,500
scarcity, right? 
And so the disciples habit and 

525
00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:19,900
so what is Jesus do? 
He says will you give them 

526
00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:21,600
something right? 
And so here's the thing that I 

527
00:26:21,608 --> 00:26:23,800
just want to tell you, right? 
When you go, like we said, 

528
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,100
right? 
When you go to the Garden of 

529
00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,800
Eden, there's no scarcity, 
there's no sense of the deer 

530
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,300
fighting over the last a corner,
anything like that. 

531
00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:34,200
And what we find Jesus doing is 
Jesus is living in that world in

532
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,900
this moment. 
Because what Jesus knows is that

533
00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:40,000
Kingdom. 
Abundance is experienced in 

534
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,200
habitual. 
Generosity. 

535
00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:46,300
Listen, did you know that the 
secret to not being afraid of 

536
00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:53,200
not having enough is to give 
your like Pastor that's dumb. 

537
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:55,900
I know, right? 
The here's the thing I would 

538
00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:59,800
just say talk to me when your 
way produces the kind of rest 

539
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,800
that I want to see. 
Right? 

540
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,100
What we have is these ideas that
if I do it my way, then it will 

541
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:10,500
lead to what one? 
And what Jesus says is if you 

542
00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:13,100
want to know that you've got 
enough start giving it away. 

543
00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:16,100
See the problem is we practice 
scarcity. 

544
00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:18,900
And so we believe it every time 
we start to run out, what do we 

545
00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:21,500
do? 
Well I got kit, othrys mine, 

546
00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:24,000
stop mine, find out, right? 
That's the decide, right? 

547
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,600
Send them away. 
Jesus. 

548
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,500
And she's like, you've got 
something that you eat, right? 

549
00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:30,100
And so we hide. 
And we hoard, right? 

550
00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:33,100
Then we practice. 
And Jesus like what have you 

551
00:27:33,100 --> 00:27:38,000
just practiced abundance? 
You know, we're so we're moving 

552
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:43,300
into fried Village and we are 
surrounded by restaurants and 

553
00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:45,200
and all that. 
Do you know what their greatest 

554
00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:51,000
fear of Us coming is guesses 
We're gonna take all the parking

555
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,900
space. 
Do you know why that's a worry 

556
00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:54,200
for them particularly 
restaurants? 

557
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,600
Because church people, you know 
what though? 

558
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:58,700
I was a waiter for a while. 
Do you know what? 

559
00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:03,900
The Worst Album everybody says 
it Sunday, lunch is the worst is

560
00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:05,100
the worst, right? 
You know why? 

561
00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:07,800
Because Christians will come in,
they'll be meet Christians, 

562
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,900
right? 
Will be mean to the waiters and 

563
00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:14,700
the leave them a track. 
Hey, we're not gonna do that. 

564
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,300
When we show up, here's the 
deal. 

565
00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:19,200
You want to practice general? 
What it would you like to 

566
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,100
overcome scarcity? 
Right. 

567
00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:24,500
Like you like to have that idea.
Here's a practice become a 30%. 

568
00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:27,500
Tipper /. 
Just because go well, they're 

569
00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:30,900
terrible service. 
Hey, you're not Jesus. 

570
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,300
You're not the judge of their 
wait, staff ability, and you 

571
00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:36,500
don't have any idea what's going
on in their life. 

572
00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:39,700
You don't give them 30 percent 
because they have somehow earned

573
00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:43,000
it, you give 30% because you're 
a child of the king and you have

574
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,600
the ability to be so full of 
grace and peace in this world 

575
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,900
that it absolutely overflows. 
I would love to have every 

576
00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:57,000
stinkin Sunday a line of people 
with Food on their shirt, in 

577
00:28:57,008 --> 00:28:59,900
their apron on to just go. 
Hey, I gotta find out what's 

578
00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:02,400
going on over here because your 
people come in, and they're 

579
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,200
friendly and they're nice and 
they're kind, and I'm rich now 

580
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,600
because of y'all. 
Yeah, right. 

581
00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:10,100
Yeah. 
You know what? 

582
00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:12,800
Because you know what happens, 
then, people start going, they 

583
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,100
talk about this Jesus, who's a 
giver and then they do it. 

584
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,200
What's going on? 
See what happens is, generosity 

585
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,800
disciplines, the fear of 
scarcity out of us. 

586
00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:24,800
Now listen I'm not saying 
anybody's gotta go give a 

587
00:29:24,808 --> 00:29:27,500
million dollars. 
What I'm saying is who did Jesus

588
00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,400
celebrate their gift in the 
scripture? 

589
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:33,600
One woman who gave two pennies 
and Jesus stops everybody in 

590
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,300
their tracks is like, look at 
that. 

591
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,400
I'm not telling you got to give 
as much as me or as much as 

592
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,100
anybody else. 
What I'm saying is, are you 

593
00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:42,300
positioned towards though, in? 
Are you positioned in the world 

594
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,300
as a giver because listen, the 
kingdom, if you're at now, 

595
00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:49,400
listen, if you're not a follower
of Jesus, you're on your own, 

596
00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:52,200
good luck, right? 
Because this is what we've all 

597
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,300
experienced, right? 
But the idea that Jesus says, 

598
00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:58,300
is, if you'll follow me, 
Following him means, living like

599
00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,900
the kingdom is real. 
If you will live like him, and 

600
00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:04,100
if you will follow him in faith,
what you'll see is. 

601
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:11,000
Hey, it just never runs out. 
The only way to believe that is 

602
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,200
to practice it, so be it Tipper,
be a giver be at either give to 

603
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,500
the church, right? 
And here's the thing, I promise 

604
00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:19,600
you, if you're new here you 
haven't heard me. 

605
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:23,500
Give this school yet. 
I don't look at who gives, I 

606
00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:26,300
don't know whether you give a 
penny or a million dollars at 

607
00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:28,000
all and I don't want to know. 
Do you know why? 

608
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:31,100
Because you're not giving to me,
you're getting to Jesus and I 

609
00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:33,800
don't ever want to be able to 
manipulate you and I don't, I 

610
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,500
don't ever want to have to worry
whether something comes up and 

611
00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:38,900
I'm going to say, Say you know, 
I don't want to say something to

612
00:30:38,900 --> 00:30:41,300
them because they give a lot of 
money and I don't do we don't do

613
00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:42,500
that here. 
It's Jesus. 

614
00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:44,300
We have one Giver at River City 
Church. 

615
00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:47,900
His name is Yahweh and boy, is 
he generous now? 

616
00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:50,600
He'll put a lot of it in your 
pockets and the reason that 

617
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,700
he'll do that is because he 
wants you to know. 

618
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,000
If you give it away I'll put it 
back. 

619
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,300
So practice, that's what lent is
for. 

620
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,200
Jesus had a habit of just being 
generous of just giving things 

621
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,300
away when he found someone who 
had need, right? 

622
00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:07,400
So what I want you to do for 
Linens to give up scarcity? 

623
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,200
Give up the fear of not having 
enough. 

624
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,500
And the only way to do it is to 
discipline and to practice it, 

625
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:18,700
second verse 39, then he 
commanded them all to sit down 

626
00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:22,400
in groups on the green grass. 
So they sat down in groups by 

627
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,000
hundreds and fifties. 
Okay, so there's 20,000 people 

628
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,200
right? 
And sit them down by hundreds 

629
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,200
and fifties real quick. 
Let me just say this. 

630
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,500
This is not the most efficient 
way to do this, you know, the 

631
00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:36,500
best way to feed 20,000 people 
line up, right? 

632
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:37,800
Sarah out. 
Headed out. 

633
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,200
Good He's done, right? 
Right. 

634
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,500
But guess what? 
Jesus is not nearly as concerned

635
00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,600
with efficiency as we are, you 
know, what happens? 

636
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,500
When you sit 50 to 100 people 
down in a circle on the grass, 

637
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:49,000
and you start to feed them, they
start going, my name is Jason 

638
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,200
and I'm a pastor at River City 
Church. 

639
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,400
Who are you? 
What do you do? 

640
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,000
And what that is called is 
community. 

641
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,500
Right. 
And then what he does is he 

642
00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:59,300
tells his disciples, it gives 
them you. 

643
00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:02,100
Give them these Loaves and these
fish and he starts sending them 

644
00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:04,000
out, and he starts telling to do
it that I read that, right? 

645
00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:07,600
So he set him down and he says 
that, and what happens when like

646
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,900
Jesus is the host, right? 
Like he's hosting on these 

647
00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:12,500
people and he gives it to his 
disciples and I start going out.

648
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,000
What those disciples and Jesus 
are doing is they're practicing 

649
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,500
a very important spiritual 
discipline called Hospitality. 

650
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,300
You see it everywhere that Jesus
goes, Jesus is in a home 

651
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,700
comforting. 
People bringing people in Jesus,

652
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,800
loved Hospitality. 
Because what hospitality is, it 

653
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,900
is a friendly reception of Our 
Guest Hospitality. 

654
00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:35,800
Looks at people and says, I see 
that you're weary, put your feet

655
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,400
up. 
Now, here's the thing, here's 

656
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,000
what's great about this and this
is why this is so instructive to

657
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,300
us when the disciples Peter and 
Andrew James and John, all the 

658
00:32:43,308 --> 00:32:46,000
people that are sitting in 
groups, right 50s and 100's 

659
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,600
here, when he saw every one of 
those people coming over the 

660
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,100
hill, what did he say to them? 
What was their response to them?

661
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:57,400
They're the problem. 
Jesus, get rid of them and 

662
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,100
within a few minutes, Jesus is 
actually going to do you serve 

663
00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:05,300
them, they're not the problem. 
Peter, the problem is that you 

664
00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:08,100
live in the world. 
Like there's scarcity, like 

665
00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:10,600
there's goodness or like, 
there's not enough goodness to 

666
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,500
go around. 
And so what happens now is, 

667
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:15,800
Peter is taking this and the 
same guy that was a that was an 

668
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,100
affront to Peter's rest just a 
second ago. 

669
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,600
Peter gives it to him. 
Now now is Five Loaves and two 

670
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:22,500
fish. 
So he's like well, at least I 

671
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:23,900
don't have to do that again, 
right? 

672
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:25,700
Then he goes. 
Back and Jesus just hands him 

673
00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:26,900
more and we'll have all of a 
sudden. 

674
00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:29,400
He's like, I got to feed all of 
these people and Jesus is like 

675
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,800
that's what the practice of 
hospitality does. 

676
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,100
And you know, what Hospitality 
does it destroys your enemies? 

677
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,600
You know how I'm making them 
friends might make them family 

678
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:45,300
and by making them people to 
you, people with needs people 

679
00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:48,200
with once, and guess what people
with needs are just like me. 

680
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,700
If I can identify a person's 
need then they have nothing in 

681
00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:55,100
common with me. 
Whatever else may be, right? 

682
00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:57,100
We have nothing in common but 
Jesus said, I want you to 

683
00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:59,800
identify with them and identify 
with their need. 

684
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,600
What happens is practicing 
Hospitality helps us grow in 

685
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,100
love. 
Have you ever read these 

686
00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:06,400
commands of Jesus? 
Right. 

687
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,800
Love your neighbor as yourself. 
You're like that's so hard. 

688
00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:13,699
Maybe you're like me, you've 
read that and you're like, I 

689
00:34:13,699 --> 00:34:16,000
don't want to do that. 
Jesus. 

690
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,400
Do you know who my neighbors 
are? 

691
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:19,699
Unfortunately, neighbors aren't 
in this room right now. 

692
00:34:19,699 --> 00:34:22,900
So that's a good thing, right? 
But but that's what we practice,

693
00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:24,100
right? 
And what happens is? 

694
00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:28,800
Yeah, Peter you start to go. 
Hey, that's not guys, not what I

695
00:34:28,808 --> 00:34:31,500
thought. 
That's not how I thought it was 

696
00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:33,400
going to go. 
So what do we do for Lent? 

697
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,500
How does lint impact us this? 
Well for Lent what you could do 

698
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,100
is, if you say this is the 
thing, right? 

699
00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:40,400
You just go, and here's what 
this looks like you have 

700
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,100
enemies. 
He's right people who make you 

701
00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:44,300
uncomfortable nervous, people, 
who when you watch the news you 

702
00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:47,500
go, oh they're the problem that 
person is the problem, right? 

703
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,000
Well, guess what? 
What happens is Hospitality 

704
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,300
practice, it helps us grow in 
love, right? 

705
00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:55,100
So what you can do for Lent is 
you can give up three to four 

706
00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:59,800
nights a month per month to have
a couple things. 

707
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,900
Number one, have a small group 
in your house five or six people

708
00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:05,200
in your house and just show them
hospitai. 

709
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,800
Listen, my wife, how I believe, 
she has a spiritual gift of 

710
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,600
hospitality. 
When you just walk into the 

711
00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:12,200
house, it just like It smells 
good, right? 

712
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,700
I'm like how we have teenagers. 
How does this happen right? 

713
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,000
It's clean. 
All this right. 

714
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,200
She has a spiritual gift. 
You may not have the spiritual 

715
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,600
gift but you can make your home 
a place where people love to 

716
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,900
come or maybe you just go. 
No, I'm not cleaning my house 

717
00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:25,400
for people. 
I get it. 

718
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,200
You can go to somebody else's 
house and make them feel 

719
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,400
comfortable and feel welcome by 
attending to them by listening 

720
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,900
to them by making them feel safe
and hurt. 

721
00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:37,200
And here's the thing we already 
do that a lot with people who 

722
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:42,900
are just like us bless you. 
So So the the thing to do in 

723
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:46,100
this right for Lynn is we give 
up that and we invite people who

724
00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:49,600
are very different from us and 
with a hospitable heart we begin

725
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,300
to understand them. 
The Republicans inviting the 

726
00:35:53,300 --> 00:35:57,000
Democrats over for dinner and 
not talking about tax policy, 

727
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,400
but talking about children and 
love and the mission and the 

728
00:36:00,408 --> 00:36:02,800
ministry of the kingdom and you 
begin to understand them. 

729
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,000
Or if you're Democrat having a 
republican over or having a gay 

730
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000
person, and listening to them, 
and talking to them and praying 

731
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,600
with them and not having an 
agenda, Other than to love 

732
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,700
people where they're at and you 
don't have to, you know, like 

733
00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:18,700
just just love them, and you 
have to go to bed with like, oh,

734
00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,100
I'm War, right? 
Did Jesus lecture all these 

735
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:22,600
people? 
Like the reason you don't have 

736
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,100
enough food is because you're 
full of sin. 

737
00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:25,900
He's like, hey, they're all 
Sinners. 

738
00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:28,200
Peter just like you and Judas is
over there, right? 

739
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,600
Judas you go give them fish. 
I all of that. 

740
00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:35,500
And Jesus seems to be okay. 
It's his disciples who aren't 

741
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,300
Jesus had a habit of 
hospitality. 

742
00:36:38,300 --> 00:36:41,200
When people showed up, he made 
them feel welcome and he made 

743
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,900
them feel good, right? 
So we go down to verse 41, and 

744
00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:47,500
taking the Five Loaves and two 
fish. 

745
00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,600
He looked up to heaven and he 
said a blessing and he broke the

746
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,200
Loaves and he gave them 
disciples to set before the 

747
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,300
people and he decided, and he 
divided the two fish, among them

748
00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:00,100
all, and they all ate and we're 
satisfied. 

749
00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:04,500
So I have this character trait 
I'm not proud of it, it's 

750
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:09,300
cynicism. 
And I'm cynical. 

751
00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:11,600
Because when I grew up, I 
thought it was cool. 

752
00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:14,200
Right? 
Like I watched the much James 

753
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,400
Dean movies, and I just wanted 
to, I just wanted to be like 

754
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,100
that. 
And so I imagine my cynical self

755
00:37:18,100 --> 00:37:20,600
is Jesus raised these Five 
Loaves and two fishes. 

756
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,200
And he holds the entire meal in 
his hands, right? 

757
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,800
And hold them up to heaven, and 
he just goes father, God, thank 

758
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,800
you for your abundance. 
Father, thank you that you have 

759
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,200
provided this. 
If I was Andrew I would be 

760
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,800
looking at Peter going. 
Did you hear what he just said? 

761
00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:40,000
You're like Jesus definitely 
about to eat that and run, 

762
00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:42,400
right? 
Listen, if he goes that way, you

763
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,000
get him right because I'm 
cynical because I look at it, I 

764
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,100
just never enough, the need is 
so great. 

765
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,400
Jesus, you come on, you crazy 
man. 

766
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,300
You feed four people. 
Hey, make me first. 

767
00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:55,300
Geez, me first write that. 
You're crazy, right? 

768
00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:59,400
Because I'm cynical, right? 
But what's crazy is Jesus isn't 

769
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,200
cynical. 
Maybe you're cynical. 

770
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,400
I was reading an article in 
Psychology today. 

771
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:11,100
Cynicism is often the first 
visible sign of burnout. 

772
00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:18,100
People who lose the ability to 
see positive people, who lose 

773
00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:20,900
the ability to see good and to 
see potential in to see 

774
00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:23,700
possibility. 
And instead they just see the 

775
00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:25,900
failure in the shortcoming in 
the weakness of everything. 

776
00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:27,700
Let me just say, I say there's a
lot of love that I can. 

777
00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:30,200
Muster criticism is a cheap 
gift. 

778
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,500
See the holes in a plan and not 
be able to offer Solutions or 

779
00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:36,000
cheap. 
Everybody has that gift. 

780
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,700
You don't have to practice it or
or exercise it, right? 

781
00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:41,300
But what Jesus did was practice 
gratitude. 

782
00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:44,700
My cynicism is a habit and it's 
a habit that keeps me from 

783
00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:47,800
fruitfulness often but Jesus 
practice the discipline of 

784
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,400
gratitude and gratitude 
overwhelms, cynicism because it 

785
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,100
recognizes God's goodness. 
Now, here's the deal. 

786
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,800
You know what you can look at 
Jesus before he passes out the 

787
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,800
fish and just go, that's stupid 
Jesus. 

788
00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:01,200
But here's the deal. 
How about we wait to the end to 

789
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,700
just Judge. 
Because what we're told is that 

790
00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:05,700
everybody had enough? 
Everybody had plenty and this is

791
00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:07,700
the thing. 
Here's the thing, it doesn't 

792
00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:11,400
matter what you don't have, 
you're not responsible for what 

793
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,900
you don't have. 
Jesus didn't tell his disciples,

794
00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:17,300
give them what you don't have. 
He said, what do you have? 

795
00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:20,500
And they took it and they gave 
it to him and it was enough. 

796
00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,800
Here's what I want to tell you. 
Your house is enough. 

797
00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:27,300
It may not be the biggest one on
the Block. 

798
00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:31,400
Listen, you may not even have a 
new floor, your carpet, me 

799
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,200
smell. 
You may have holes in the walls,

800
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,200
but I can just tell you. 
Jesus doesn't care. 

801
00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:39,200
And if you love your kids, your 
kids don't care. 

802
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,200
And if you invite me over to 
dinner and you cook me something

803
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:43,800
good. 
And you show Hospitality. 

804
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,200
I don't care either. 
Your house is enough. 

805
00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:53,600
Your car is enough. 
We have enough if we have Jesus 

806
00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:58,000
and practicing gratitude doesn't
mean ignoring reality, it means 

807
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,700
sing both as reality. 
What it means is seeing that the

808
00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:04,800
kingdom is real, and in the 
Kingdom, Jesus assures that 

809
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,300
everybody has everything. 
So, start a gratitude journal, 

810
00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:11,200
what? 
I'm trying to do and I'm suck at

811
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:12,700
this. 
God, I'm so bad. 

812
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,100
It's try to give up sarcasm. 
It's going great. 

813
00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:28,400
My wife helps me, ha ha. 
She reminds me, I need help. 

814
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,600
I truly, I need help. 
She's loving. 

815
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:31,700
She just asked me. 
She goes. 

816
00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:34,200
Was that sarcasm? 
I was like, well, if you have to

817
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:39,200
ask it's not very good sarcasm, 
so I don't, I don't know, but 

818
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,600
truly give it up. 
And the question is, did I 

819
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,000
really mean what I just said? 
Did I really mean that it's 

820
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,200
going great? 
Because if not, I'm terrible at 

821
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,000
giving it up. 
But you know what? 

822
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,400
Even in the midst of that, I 
find the kingdom because my 

823
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,800
failures don't Define me. 
My failure doesn't have a last 

824
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,000
word. 
I'm terrible at not being 

825
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,800
cynical but I hope I'm better 
tomorrow and I hope a little 

826
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,800
better the day after that and I 
hope that ultimately. 

827
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,600
And finally some day Jesus will 
make me the kind of person who's

828
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,800
able to have gratitude even when
I'm holding up some ridiculously

829
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:12,300
impoverished, reflection of 
provision for Jesus to multiply 

830
00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:16,200
and fill the Earth with, that's 
the kingdom and that's the 

831
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,900
garden. 
And so Jesus is grateful and 

832
00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:20,800
thankful and verse 43. 
And they took up twelve. 

833
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,500
Baskets full of broken pieces 
and of the fish and those who 

834
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:25,900
ate the lows were 5,000. 
So when they pick them up and 

835
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:27,100
they walked away, you know what 
that means? 

836
00:41:27,100 --> 00:41:30,100
You know what? 
They ate tomorrow bread and 

837
00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:35,100
fish, my family hates leftovers.
Right. 

838
00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:37,000
What's the word I did that last 
night? 

839
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,600
I don't think the disciples were
saying that right? 

840
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,400
I think they had a different 
provision. 

841
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,600
They just saw something 
different and listen, here's the

842
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,900
thing. 
The discipline of simplicity he 

843
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:50,700
is powerful to discipline of 
just saying, I don't need more, 

844
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,300
I need less, I can do with 
fewer, I can do that and what 

845
00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:58,300
happens is Simplicity starves 
boredom because what boredom 

846
00:41:58,300 --> 00:42:00,400
does that looks around? 
And says, I've tried all of that

847
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,200
and none of that is good for me.
I don't need any of that, right?

848
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,500
And what Simplicity says is, 
I'll have that every day. 

849
00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:08,400
Guess what? 
Listen, the sun comes up in the 

850
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,100
East every single day, and you 
know what, the Lord says. 

851
00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:17,900
Every day I can make that new 
You know what, most beautiful 

852
00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:20,300
things about innocence, that 
drives me crazy as a parent 

853
00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:23,300
because I'm Not Innocent do it 
again. 

854
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,800
You ever had a kid tell you to 
do it again until you wanted to 

855
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:32,200
be dead. 
I get it. 

856
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:38,100
But man, I look at the fact that
the sun's been coming up the 

857
00:42:38,108 --> 00:42:41,300
same way everyday, for all of 
history and Jesus hasn't gotten 

858
00:42:41,300 --> 00:42:43,400
bored yet. 
What if the beauty of Jesus is 

859
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,300
innocence, is that he's willing 
to look at it and go do it 

860
00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:49,400
again. 
And so every morning when you 

861
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,800
wake up, he's equally fresh to 
see you. 

862
00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:55,500
He's equally excited to welcome 
you into the day to go. 

863
00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:58,400
Wait till you see what I've got 
for you. 

864
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,100
And so this process of 
simplifying is a big deal. 

865
00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:03,000
I'm about to get in your 
business or you ready? 

866
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,800
If it's in a storage unit, you 
don't need it. 

867
00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:12,600
Sell it and give it to charity, 
but Juniors. 

868
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,300
Tennis shoes are in there. 
I know he's not, he's too big 

869
00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,800
for him now. 
Give them to someone else. 

870
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,400
Who may need them? 
Give them to a poor family who 

871
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,800
can't have nice Nike kicks for 
their kids. 

872
00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,300
Give your stuff away to a 
charity. 

873
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:29,700
Have a garage sale and sell 
everything. 

874
00:43:29,700 --> 00:43:31,100
Give it a charity. 
How about this? 

875
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,100
Don't go to a restaurant during 
Lent. 

876
00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:38,100
How about for Simplicity. 
We just say we will spend our 

877
00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:41,400
money on groceries, and that is 
it. 

878
00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:43,400
We will fight. 
We will go for a walk. 

879
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,700
Remember, when we were in covid,
and we couldn't do anything, and

880
00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:49,400
we were all stuck at home and we
watched All of Netflix, right? 

881
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,200
And so what do we do? 
We walked around the 

882
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,500
neighborhood. 
Right? 

883
00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:58,300
And we just did things together.
I'm going to stay in your 

884
00:43:58,300 --> 00:44:00,200
business since I'm already here 
just for a little bit. 

885
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,200
You know what my concern about 
our culture of idolizing and 

886
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,000
worshipping our children is, I 
mean we worship them like we 

887
00:44:06,008 --> 00:44:08,100
just send them to every Sports 
thing and every everything that 

888
00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:10,700
we cancel their, you know, you 
know what gets lost and all of 

889
00:44:10,700 --> 00:44:13,900
that family. 
You stopped sitting down to 

890
00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:15,700
dinner and you stop watching TV 
together. 

891
00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:18,400
You stop going places together 
and you start getting your life.

892
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,800
You start getting your moments 
on car rides. 

893
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:24,600
And if you have more than two 
kids, Divided car ride. 

894
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,500
So Mom can be there and dad can 
be there. 

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What if we just stopped doing 
that? 

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And what if we said you get one 
League, you get one time, you 

897
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get one practice and will go and
we will support you and then 

898
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we're going to sit down and 
we're going to have dinner 

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together. 
We're going to talk about your 

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day and we're going to do 
homework together and we're 

901
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going to simplify our lives and 
we're going to do fewer things 

902
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so that we can do them all I 
believe. 

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When we do that, we better 
position ourselves to see him as

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he is. 
Right? 

905
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So Jesus called his disciples to
rest and then he put them to 

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work, and you're like, that 
sounds about, right? 

907
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But listen, Matthew chapter 11, 
Jesus standing up in, this is 

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his invitation to you, and me, 
and Peter, and James, and John. 

909
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And whoever will listen, come to
me, all you who labor and are 

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heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. 

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You don't have to go somewhere 
else for rest. 

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And in fact, what I would say is
there is nowhere else that has 

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rest. 
He says take my yoke upon you 

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which means that there will be 
effort and energy involved. 

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We will move there will be 
activity, which is good because 

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you were created for that. 
You were given a purpose, you 

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were created to walk in this 
life. 

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But the thing about a yoke is 
Jesus is the big Ox, Jesus is 

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the strong Ox. 
We just get to go as Jesus puts 

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his world in creation and his 
Creation in order and we get to 

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see all of it. 
He says, for I am Gentle and 

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lowly in heart and you will find
rest for your souls. 

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The secret is in gentleness and 
lowliness, not filling our life.

924
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And our days, with all of the 
things that we want, the 

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trusting him to bring it and he 
says, for my yoke is easy and my

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burden is light, lent is about 
discovering Resurrection Life by

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surrendering Fallen habits. 
So what do we do, you want the 

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kingdom? 
Do you want to see the kind of 

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provision and multiplication 
that Jesus did on a beach that 

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day for 20,000 people? 
People practice choose two of 

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these habits and practice them. 
You know what practice means? 

932
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When you practice them, that 
means that you're going to be 

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terrible at them. 
That means you're going to try 

934
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it. 
And you're going to fail, 

935
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cynicism sarcasm. 
You're going to try it, right? 

936
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But that's the whole idea. 
It's not in our strength. 

937
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We can't do it. 
So, when you fail, you look at 

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Jesus and, you know, here I am 
again, Lord unable to do what 

939
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you ask me to do in my own 
strength, and the Lord will look

940
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at you with a smile and, with 
compassion and he'll go. 

941
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I know. 
Let's get It me and you and you 

942
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know what he'll do you give him 
something to eat? 

943
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Laura, the world's terrible. 
Listen that world that votes 

944
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,500
different Youth and sees 
different from you. 

945
00:46:58,500 --> 00:47:00,400
That loves different things from
you that thinks that you're 

946
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:05,500
their enemy, they're hungry too.
They just don't know where to 

947
00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:08,800
go. 
But when we beat people up for 

948
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,800
their hunger or we judge them 
and we stay away from them from 

949
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:16,100
their hunger, we miss Jesus 
command, you give them something

950
00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:18,500
to eat. 
So Jesus, I pray that you would 

951
00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:24,200
make us able to rest in you. 
But I prayed that we wouldn't 

952
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:29,100
see our vocation and your 
kingdom as enemies of that rest.

953
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,100
So Jesus, give us the courage 
and the discipline to practice 

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these this week to practice 
something. 

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And I pray that as we do, we 
would feel your grace. 

956
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,400
We would feel your joy in your 
pleasure and I pray that we 

957
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:44,200
would see the Kingdom. 
So, father, we love you, and we 

958
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:45,700
thank you. 
And we ask all of these things 

959
00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:47,600
in your name, and for your 
glory. 

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Amen. 
Thank you for joining us today. 

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00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:53,500
River City Church is all about 
experiencing and expressing 

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00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:55,400
God's love in our lives and 
community. 

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And we hope that you've been 
able to experience that today as

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00:47:59,000 --> 00:47:59,900
grateful. 
As I am. 

965
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That you've spent this time, 
listening. 

966
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,400
This morning, this podcast is no
substitute for full 

967
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,400
participation in a local church.
I love it when River City people

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listen to other pastors, but it 
is those who show up week after 

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00:48:11,700 --> 00:48:14,600
week Faithfully, giving their 
support and time and resources, 

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that make all of this possible. 
If we can help you get connected

971
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:21,500
to a local church, pray for you 
or support you in any way. 

972
00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:24,200
Click the link in the 
description, and let us know if 

973
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,000
you'd like to financially 
support the ministry. 

974
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,100
River City. 
Click the give link on our 

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00:48:28,100 --> 00:48:31,200
website in the description. 
Don't forget to subscribe and 

976
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:33,100
Don't forget to share this with 
your friends. 

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00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,100
Thanks so much for listening. 
May the Lord bless, and keep you

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in all Grace and peace. 
Don't forget to share this with 

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your friends. 
Thanks so much for listening. 

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May the Lord bless, and keep you
in all Grace and peace.